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NWSB Insider and Washington Husky blogger Brandon Choate brings us his week 11 preview between the Washington Huskies and Utah Utes. Utah is coming off of a thrashing of Washington State while the Huskies just earned their first road victory in 7 attempts. Keith Price will need to step up as the Utah run defense is tough. Price will need to hit star TE Austin Seferian-Jenkins and Kasen Williams in order to make some big plays.
Utah Utes vs. Beavers: Love 'em & hate 'em style
NWSB Insider and Oregon State Beavers football blogger Jon Irwin breaks down the Utah vs. OSU week 8 matchup. The defense saves the day, as OSU forces turnover after turnover, moving to 6-0 on the season. Meanwhile, the offense struggled everywhere, from quarterback Cody Vaz to the offensive line. ST's mention. While the defense won the game, it would have been a lot harder without Keith Kostol.
Week 8 College football preview: Utah vs. Oregon St. Matchup
NWSB Insider and Oregon State blogger Jonathan Irwin reports on this week's football matchup against the Utah Utes in NCAA football week 8 action. Both teams' quarterbacks are coming off their first career starts. Cody Vaz for the Beavers, and true freshman Travis Wilson for the Utes. Look for Jordan Poyer and Rashaad Reynolds to have no problems shutting the Utes WR's down.


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24/7 Mid-Atlantic Extends Network Connectivity to Expedient Data Centers' Baltimore Location
April 15, 2013 by FindMyHost News
Web Hosting Services – Baltimore, MD – 24/7 Mid-Atlantic Network, LLC, one of the fastest growing regionally-owned and operated fiber optic network service providers on the east coast, announces that it has entered into an agreement with Expedient Data Centers, one of the nation's premier data center providers, to establish a new presence in their Baltimore Data Center, located in the city's popular Tide Point business complex.
This agreement, which signifies a new relationship between the two organizations, highlights the continued growth that both companies are experiencing. The agreement adds significant value to both companies' product offerings. 24/7 is commonly referred to as a "carrier's carrier" in that it provides access and connectivity to a number of the nation's leading telecommunications carriers through its fiber footprint and carrier-neutral colocation facility located at the 111 Market Place carrier hotel in downtown Baltimore.
"We are thrilled to be a part of Expedient's Tide Point Data Center, providing diversity into a location that is increasingly important to many enterprise organizations," said Christopher Morris, President and COO of 24/7. "Both 24/7 and Expedient share in the belief that our customers deserve access to the highest-quality solutions and service providers. This agreement epitomizes that shared value."
Expedient's Baltimore facility, in the rapidly growing area of Tide Point, is 22,000 square feet with fully redundant internal network infrastructure, fully redundant high availability network, 24x7x365 on-site monitoring, and on-site engineers providing 24x7x365 support. This facility is one of eight data centers located across the Midwest and the east coast. "We are proud that our clients often view Expedient as an extension of their internal IT department and we take that responsibility seriously. Providing quality Carriers like 24/7, fiber access into our Enterprise Data Centers are key ways that we are able to provide resilient and redundant solutions for our customers", said Curtis DePass Regional Vice President for Expedient.
24/7's extensive and robust fiber-optic network in the Greater Baltimore and Washington, DC areas, including Ashburn, Virginia and the state of Delaware, provides unique high-availability routes that connect to its colocation facility in Baltimore that hosts many of the industry's leading carriers. 24/7 provides metro dark fiber, managed private networks, last mile transport, wireless backhaul, and the aforementioned carrier-neutral colocation facility.
About 24/7 Mid-Atlantic Network, LLC (www.247MidAtlantic.com)
24/7 Mid-Atlantic Network is a high-capacity transport and fiber network provider serving the Baltimore, Washington, D.C. metro, Northern Virginia, and Delmarva Peninsula areas. The company designs, constructs, and manages custom, fiber networks to carriers, service providers, enterprise, and government organizations throughout the region. 24/7 offers a wide variety of network configurations including ringed, point-to-point, point-to-multipoint, and mesh topologies. 24/7 Mid-Atlantic Network's core objective is to provide high quality network solutions to a variety of major data and telecommunication carriers through a carrier-neutral colocation facility. For more information, visit 247MidAtlantic.com or follow 24/7 on Twitter @247MidAtlantic.
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This rustic tart has the look of a mediteranean pizza. The crust is a wonderful cornmeal-crunchy dough, rolled into a thin circle and drawn up in pleats and rufles over the filling, caramalised onions and a blend of cheeses topped with sliced garden tomatoes, red and juicy. Because of the cornmeal in the dough, the crust will stay crisp enough for this galette to be served either warm or at room temperature. It will travel, so think of it when you're headed off on a picnic or want to bring friends a lovely something to have with drinks.
For this recipe you'll need..
1/4 recipe Galette Dough, chilled
1/2 cup Ementaler Cheese, shredded
1/2 cup Mozzarella, shredded
Few basil leaves, fresh or frozen
1 or 2 firm but ripe plum tomatoes, cut into 1/4-inch-thick slices
1 Onion, medium sized, cut into slices, lengthwise
1 tbsp Olive oil
1 Egg
1 tbsp Milk
Here you start Position a rack in the lower third of the ovan and preheat the oven to 200 deg C. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
Put the dough on a lightly floured surface and roll in into an 9-inch circle. Since the dough is soft,you'll need to lift it now and then and toss some flour under it and over the top. Roll the dough up around your rolling pin and unroll onto the prepared baking sheet.
Making the filling Put the onions and olive oil in a skillet over medium heat. Add a pinch of salt and keep stirring till the onions turn translucent and soft. Set aside and let cool.
Toss the cheeses and basil together in a small bowl and set aside.
Spread the onions on the rolled-out dough, leaving an inch order. Place the tomatoes in concentric circles, one slice slightly overlapping the last, on top of the onions.
Scatter the cheeses and basil mixture over the tomatoes.
Fold the uncovered border of dough up over the filling, allowing the dough to pleat as you lift it up and work your way around the galette. (Because you're folding a wide edge of dough over a smaller part of the circle, it will pleat naturally- just go with it.) Combine the egg and a tbsp of milk together. Brush on top of the pleated galette.
Baking the galette Bake the galette for 35 to 40 minutes, or until the pastry is golden and crisp and the cheese is bubbly. Transfer the baking sheet to a cooling rack and let the galette rest on the sheet for 10 miutes. Servve warm or at room temperature, garnish with fresh basil leaves.
Storing The galette can be kept at room temperatute for several hours, but it is best served the day it is made.
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Onion-Tomato-Cheese Galette
Posted by Ramya Kiran at 1:30 PM
Labels: Baking, cheese, French cuisine, Pies and Tarts
4 comments:
- Vij said...
WOw galette looks so yummy! nice step-by-step clicks! good one!
- January 27, 2009 at 2:36 PM
- Ramya Kiran said...
Vij, Thank you :)
- January 28, 2009 at 2:00 PM
- Hayley said...
Your pictures are stunning, as always. I can't wait to try this one out, Thanks for sharing!
- January 28, 2009 at 7:21 PM
- Kevin said...
That galette look really good!
- January 30, 2009 at 6:32 PM
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Method | market research, member networking |
Website | http://www.caba.org |
The Continental Automated Buildings Association (CABA) is a not-for-profit industry association dedicated to the advancement of intelligent home and intelligent building technologies in North America.
The organization is supported by an international membership of nearly 400 companies involved in the design, manufacture, installation and retailing of products relating to home automation and building automation. Public organizations, including utilities and government are also members.
CABA's mandate includes providing its members with networking and market research opportunities. CABA also encourages the development of industry standards and protocols, and leads cross-industry initiatives.
The organization was founded in 1988 as the Canadian Automated Buildings Association. The founding members included Bell Canada, Bell-Northern Research, Ontario Hydro, Hydro-Québec, Consumers Gas, Canadian Home Builders' Association, the Electrical and Electronic Manufacturers Association of Canada, Industry Canada, Minto Developments Inc. and the National Research Council of Canada.[1]
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New pension scheme for govt staff
It will be applicable to employees who joined the service on or after April 1, 2006
The State government, on Wednesday, launched the employees contribution-based pension scheme for the State government employees, who joined the service on or after April 1, 2006.
Those joined the service before April 1, 2006 were getting monthly pension after retirement. The State government, while implementing recommendations of the fifth pay commission, decided to introduce the new pension system.
As per the new project the monthly contribution from employees will be 10 per cent of basic pay and dearness allowance. The government will contribute the equal amount to the employees' account. The contributions will be deposited with the pension fund. On superannuation the employees will have to purchase an annuity investing about 40 per cent of their total pension sum. Based on the annuity, employees and their dependents get pension.
The new scheme would be operational from February this year. Rayalu said each employee would be free to invest his savings in the market. Yeddyurappa said the similar scheme had been in effect for employees of the Union government since April 1, 2004.
The Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority of the Centre had appointed SBI Pension Fund, UTI Retirement Solutions and LIC Pension Fund - the three pension fund managers for the scheme. National Securities Depository Limited is the central record keeping agency in the scheme. Visit - www.pfrda.org.in and www.npscra.nsdl.co.in


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84th Annual Academy Award Nominations & Winners
The 84th Annual Acedmany Awards are given out for the excellence of cinematography during the year of 2011. Here are the Oscar nominations and the winners from each category.
Winners are marked in bold.
Best Picture
The ArtistThe Descendants
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
The Help
Midnight In Paris
The Trees of Life
War Horse
Actor in a Leading Role
Demián Bichir - A Better LifeGeorge Clooney - The Descendants
Jean Dujardin - The Artist
Gary Oldman - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Brad Pitt - Moneyball
Actor in a Supporting Role
Kenneth Branagh - My Week With MarilynJonah Hill - Moneyball
Nick Nolte - Warrior
Christopher Plummer - Beginners
Max von Sydow - Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Actress in a Leading Role
Glenn Close - Albert NobbsViola Davis - The Help
Rooney Mara - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Meryl Streep - The Iron Lady
Michelle Williams - My Week with Marilyn
Actress in a Supporting Role
Bérénice Bejo - The ArtistJessica Chastain - The Help
Melissa McCarthy - Bridesmaids
Janet McTeer - Albert Nobbs
Octavia Spencer - The Help
Animated Feature Film
A Cat in ParisChico & Rita
Kung Fu Panda 2
Puss In Boots
Art Direction
The ArtistHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
Midnight in Paris
War Horse
The ArtistThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
The Tree of Life
War Horse
Costume Design
AnonymousThe Artist
Jane Eyre
Michel Hazanavicius, The ArtistAlexander Payne, The Descendants
Martin Scorsese, Hugo
Woody Allen, Midnight in Paris
Terrence Malick, The Tree of Life
Documentary Feature
Hell and Back AgainIf a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front
Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
Documentary Short Subject
The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights MovementGod is the Bigger Elvis
Incident in New Baghdad
Saving Face
The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom
Film Editing
The ArtistThe Descendants
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Foreign Language Film
A Separation - IranBullhead - Belgium
Footnote - Israel
In Darkness - Poland
Monsieur Lazhar - Canada
Albert NobbsHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
The Iron Lady
Music (Original Score)
The Adventures of TintinThe Artist
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
War Horse
Music (Original Song)
Man or Muppet - The MuppetsReal in Rio - Rio
Short Film (Animated)
Dimanche/SundayThe Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore
La Luna
A Morning Stroll
Wild Life
Short Film (Live Action)
The Shore
Time Freak
Tuba Atlantic
Sound Editing
DriveThe Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
War Horse
Sound Mixing
The Girl with the Dragon TattooHugo
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
War Horse
Visual Effects
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Par 2Hugo
Real Steel
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
The DescendantsHugo
The Ides of March
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Writing (Original Screenplay)
The ArtistBridesmaids
Margin Call
Midnight In Paris
A Separation
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Today I learned how to post a pattern image and a link to the pattern website on my blog! This is remedial blogging" for everyone else, but for me, it's a giant leap forward. Instructions for this on the Google blogger website are easy to understand. You have to understand that I made it almost all the way through college before computers were available mainstream. I remember writing a term paper on an ancient Mac and printing it out on dot matrix paper!
Anyway, here's what I'm working on right now: Simplicity 2599:
I found a lovely sky-blue lightweight poly "jacquard" with a caramel/brown cheetah print. As soon as I learn how to post photos - next on my list! - I'll post a photo. I'm waffling between Views A and F. I probably don't need extra ruffles on the bust area, but they're so pretty. I'll probably go with F, but omit the bow. That looks tough to wear under a jacket. And, I'm pretty sure I'll add waist darts to give the body some shape. From the pictures on Pattern Review, this looks like a very boxy top. More later as I get going. Thanks for reading!
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Hi, I found your blog through the signup for Faye's Over the Top challenge. I'm thinking of signing up for that, too. And I'm also a returning sewer, just started sewing again in the fall. The internet and blogging make it so much easier these days to stay motivated and keep learning new sewing techniques, don't you think?
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GIBBONS, MARGARET "MARILYN" Henderson, NV
Age 86, formerly of Grand Blanc, passed away Tuesday, August 13, 2013 in Nevada. Funeral Mass will be celebrated 10:00 AM Wednesday, August 21, 2013 at Holy Family Catholic Church, 11803 S. Saginaw St., Grand Blanc. Fr. Jonathan Perrotta celebrant. Interment will follow at Woodlawn Cemetery, Detroit. Visitation will be Tuesday 6-8 PM at Hill Funeral Home, 11723 S. Saginaw St. Grand Blanc. Memorial contributions may be made to , Greater Michigan Chapter or Holy Family Catholic Church. Marilyn was born May 25, 1927 in Detroit, MI, the daughter of the late Russell R. and Minnie (Thompson) Rees. She was a graduate of Royal Oak High School and attended Sullins College, Virginia. Marilyn married Leo Gibbons September 15, 1957 in Birmingham, MI and then resided in Saginaw. Marilyn and Leo moved to Grand Blanc in 1964, where they raised their family and were members of Holy Family Catholic Church. She was also involved with St. Joseph / Genesys Hospital Auxiliary, American Legion Auxiliary and Senior Citizens of Grand Blanc. Surviving are her three sons, James Gibbons (Melissa) of The Woodlands, TX, John Gibbons (Cara) of Henderson, NV, Joseph Gibbons of Tampa, FL; seven grandchildren, Wesley, Jacob, Meghan, Elizabeth, Sarah, Justin and Haley Gibbons; sister-in-law, Mary Margaret Rosati; and several nieces and nephews. She was also preceded in death by her husband, Leo, in 1985; brother, Robert Rees, in 2012. Online condolences may be shared at
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From the Amour Spotlight collection, this series has been re-energised with a fresh floral print. Designed with two-section cups with floral print on the lower cup and stretch lace detail on the upper cup for a fantastic shape, overall comfort and fit. Complete with lace trim to the front of the straps, leading to a floral print on the back of the straps, the bra is finished with an extra padded soft feel hook and eye for added comfort.
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Of course, unlike other cheerful colours, pink is somewhat charged with meaning because of its associations with stereotyped femininity. So I was not entirely surprised to receive an email from a reader eager to discuss my new handlebar tape. She was disappointed that, while my choice in bicycle colours and accessories had hitherto been "the antithesis of girly," now here I was reinforcing the industry stereotype of women wanting pink on their bikes.
Ultimately, I think that pink is a more versatile colour than we give it credit for, particularly in the context of cycling. It is really all about presentation. I will probably not keep the pink bar tape on this bike in the long run, simply because it overshadows the elaborate lugwork that really deserves the starring role here. But for now I quite like it, stereotyped or not.


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Freeman by Leonard Pitts Jr.
Freeman is a love story--sweeping, generous, brutal, compassionate, patient--about the feelings people were determined to honor, despite the enormous constraints of the times. It is this aspect of the book that should ensure it a strong, vocal, core audience of African-American women, who will help propel its likely critical acclaim to a wider audience. At the same time, this book addresses several themes that are still hotly debated today, some 145 years after the official end of the Civil War.
Listen to the author discuss the book here:
Freeman, the new novel by Leonard Pitts, Jr., takes place in the first few months following the Confederate surrender and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Upon learning of Lee's surrender, Sam--a runaway slave who once worked for the Union Army--decides to leave his safe haven in Philadelphia and set out on foot to return to the war-torn South. What compels him on this almost-suicidal course is the desire to find his wife, the mother of his only child, whom he and their son left behind 15 years earlier on the Mississippi farm to which they all "belonged."
At the same time, Sam's wife, Tilda, is being forced to walk at gunpoint with her owner and two of his other slaves from the charred remains of his Mississippi farm into Arkansas, in search of an undefined place that would still respect his entitlements as slave owner and Confederate officer.
The book's third main character, Prudence, is a fearless, headstrong white woman of means who leaves her Boston home for Buford, Mississippi, to start a school for the former bondsmen, and thus honor her father's dying wish.
Like Cold Mountain, Freeman illuminates the times and places it describes from a fresh perspective, with stunning results. It has the potential to become a classic addition to the literature dealing with this period. Few other novels so powerfully capture the pathos and possibility of the era particularly as it reflects the ordeal of the black slaves grappling with the promise--and the terror--of their new status as free men and women.
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Sergey Gavrilets has a new open-access paper in PNAS, which is getting a great deal of media attention in places like Nature (links below). The paper is entitled, "War, space, and the evolution of Old World complex societies."
Significance: How did human societies evolve from small groups, integrated by face-to-face cooperation, to huge anonymous societies of today? Why is there so much variation in the ability of different human populations to construct viable states? We developed a model that uses cultural evolution mechanisms to predict where and when the largest-scale complex societies should have arisen in human history. The model was simulated within a realistic landscape of the Afroeurasian landmass, and its predictions were tested against real data. Overall, the model did an excellent job predicting empirical patterns. Our results suggest a possible explanation as to why a long history of statehood is positively correlated with political stability, institutional quality, and income per capita.
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For those planning to visit Miami, I can already tell you that this city is a lot more historical and folkorical than you may think. Just outside my hotel is a small plaque marking the site where, in 1933, an assassin's bullet intended for Franklin D. Roosevelt missed its target and struck Chicago mayor Anton J. Cermak. Falling to the ground mortally wounded, Cermak uttered the immortal words, "I'm glad it was me instead of you." Really. Think how different U.S. history might have been.
Just a few yards away is a statue of the late Claude D. Pepper, looking heroically nerdy, just as he did in real life and just as he was. The simple inscription reads, "Champion of the poor and disadvantaged." It's not to be missed.
Across the water is the Royal Caribbean cruise line dock, flanked by ENORMOUS floating hotels. They're actually grotesque. Further across the bay is Miami Beach. Been there, done that. Fuggedaboutit.
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Happy birthday karen :) xXx
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Thank you Guys... Its the first time I've been able to check out the blog today... I had a great day... Mum and Dad took me to the Marlowe Theatre to see a new musical comedy thats going around... it was really hilarious... I would tell you what its called only I don't know whos listening....
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I'm glad you had a good birthday. What was the play called then? How rude could it be?
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Magnetic fields get reconnected in turbulent plasma too, Cluster reveals
Using measurements of the four ESA Cluster satellites, a study published this week in Nature Physics shows pioneering experimental evidence of magnetic reconnection also in turbulent 'plasma' around Earth.
Magnetic reconnection – a phenomenon by which magnetic fields lines get interconnected and reconfigure themselves - is a universal process in space that plays a key role in various astrophysical phenomena such as star formation, solar explosions or the entry of solar material within the Earth's environment. Reconnection has been observed at large-scale boundaries between different plasma environments such as the boundary between Earth and interplanetary space. Plasma is a gas composed of charged particles.
An irregular behaviour of particle flows and magnetic fields causes plasma turbulence within which many small-scale boundaries can form, where reconnection has been predicted via modelling. However, thanks to Cluster this was the first time that this could be directly observed, opening up new perspectives to help us better understand the behaviour of turbulent plasma.
Our first line of defence against the incessant flow of solar particles, the Earth's magnetic field deflects most of this material around the Earth's magnetosphere. This is marked by a boundary layer called the magnetopause. As for any other planet which has a planetary magnetic field (for example Jupiter and Saturn), solar wind is decelerated from supersonic to subsonic speeds by a shock wave (called the 'bow shock') located in front of the magnetopause. The region between the bow shock and the magnetopause is called the magnetosheath.
One of the most turbulent environments in the near-Earth space, the terrestrial magnetosheath is an accessible laboratory to study in-situ turbulence, unlike the solar atmosphere or accretion disks. Characterising the properties of the magnetic turbulence in this region is of prime importance to understand its role in fundamental processes such as energy dissipation and particle acceleration.
Observing reconnection at small-scale boundaries in space requires simultaneous measurements by at least four spacecraft flying in close formation. With an inter-spacecraft distance of only 100 kilometres, on 27 March 2002 the four Cluster satellites observed reconnection within a very thin current 'sheet' embedded in the turbulent plasma with a typical size of about 100 kilometres.
A challenge for the instruments onboard, the observations show that the turbulent plasma is accelerated and heated during the reconnection process. This newly observed type of small-scale reconnection seems also to be associated with the acceleration of particles to energies much higher than their average which could explain, in part, the creation of high energy particles by the Sun.
To quote Alessandro Retinò, lead author of this study and PhD student at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala, Sweden, "we found reconnection in one single current sheet, so that in such an environment of irregular magnetic fields one may think that reconnection is sporadic, but this is not the case. For this particular magnetosheath crossing, a very large number of other thin current sheets was found where reconnection is very likely to occur, a subject currently under investigation by our team."
This discovery of reconnection in turbulent plasma has significant implications for the study of laboratory and astrophysical plasmas, where both turbulence and reconnection develop and thus where turbulent reconnection is very likely to occur. Possible applications range from the dissipation of magnetic energy in fusion devices on Earth to the understanding of the acceleration of high energy particles in solar explosions called solar flares.
"Magnetic reconnection, turbulence and shocks are three fundamental ingredients of the plasma Universe," says Philippe Escoubet Cluster and Double Star project scientist at ESA. "The detailed understanding of these key processes and their associated multi-scale physics is a challenge for the future of space physics. One of the lessons learned from Cluster is the need for new space missions equipped with instruments of higher sensitivity and better time resolution together with a larger number of satellites."
Note for editors
These findings, by A. Retinò, D. Sundkvist, A. Vaivads, F. Mozer, M. André and C. J. Owen, appeared in the article "In situ evidence of magnetic reconnection in turbulent plasma", published in Nature Physics on 25 March 2007 (doi:10.1038/nphys574).
For more information
Alessandro Retinò, Swedish Institute of Space Physics and Department of Astronomy and Space Physics
Email: alessandro.retino @ irfu.se
Philippe Escoubet, ESA Cluster and Double Star Project Scientist
Email: philippe.escoubet @ esa.int
- Cluster overview
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Cluster_overview2 - Double Star overview
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Double_Star_overview2 - SOHO overview
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/SOHO_overview2 - Solar Orbiter
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Solar_Orbiter - Space weather
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Cluster/Space_weather2 - Cluster opens a new window on 'magnetic reconnection' in the near-Earth space
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Cluster/Cluster_opens_a_new_window_on_magnetic_reconnection_in_the_near-Earth_space - Cluster – new insights into the electric circuits of polar lights
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Cluster/Cluster_new_insights_into_the_electric_circuits_of_polar_lights - Magnetic whirlpools feed Earth's magnetosphere
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Cluster/Magnetic_whirlpools_feed_Earth_s_magnetosphere - Details of solar particles penetrating the Earth's environment revealed
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Cluster/Details_of_solar_particles_penetrating_the_Earth_s_environment_revealed - ESA's Cluster mission establishes why Earth's aurorae shine
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Cluster/ESA_s_Cluster_mission_establishes_why_Earth_s_aurorae_shine - Cluster hits the magnetic bull's-eye
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Cluster/Cluster_hits_the_magnetic_bull_s-eye - ESA's Cluster flies through Earth's electrical switch
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Cluster/ESA_s_Cluster_flies_through_Earth_s_electrical_switch - Cluster makes an effervescent discovery
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Cluster/Cluster_makes_an_effervescent_discovery - From 'macro' to 'micro' – turbulence seen by Cluster


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On the heels of one NBA general manager telling ESPN The Magazine that his franchise will lose games on purpose to increase the chances of improving their draft position, Charlotte Bobcats owner Michael Jordan scoffed at the suggestion Friday.
"I don't believe in that," Jordan told the Associated Press before the Bobcats evened their record at 1-1 with a 90-84 victory over Cleveland in their home opener. "That's not something that we would do."
Jordan pointed out that NBA teams are assured of landing a franchise player with a lottery draft pick. The 2014 draft class includes what many believe will be future stars in 6-foot-8 forwards Andrew Wiggins of Kansas and Jabari Parker of Duke, 6-4 point guard Marcus Smart of Oklahoma State and 6-9 forward Julius Randle of Kentucky.
"It's not guaranteed [the player] you are going to get is going to be that star anyway," said Jordan, the Bobcats' majority owner the last three seasons. "I did read that certain teams are thinking about doing it. But I'm not one of them. So let's alleviate that conversation."
Then again, the Bobcats have annually been among the worst teams in the NBA. Charlotte was 21-61 last season and has a record of 62-168 for the last three seasons.
"We're focused on what we're trying to do," Jordan said. "I think the direction we're moving is positive.… It is baby steps. Every now and again you have a hiccup. But I must admit that we're headed in the right direction and I'm very happy with that."
Jordan said he understands criticism of his leadership as he tries to rebuild the club, which continued last off-season with the acquisition of veteran center Al Jefferson.
"You set certain standards as a player that transcend whatever you do," Jordan said. "It goes where you go. You will be wearing that around your neck so that when people see the name they expect the results.
"It's somewhat unfair but it is what it is. I don't let it define me."
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If you've ever wondered what the "lifestyle" of a Porsche driver looks like, look no further than Porsche Design's latest fashion catalog. Twenty-three glossy pages of sleek leather jackets, modern business blazers, and retro-futuristic day-to-evening wear attempt to define what Porsche drivers look like, what they wear, and what they do in their free time. Porsche is selling more than just a vehicle—Porsche is selling a lifestyle.
Lifestyle branding is one of several strategies that auto companies are currently using to expand their consumer base. Businesses are no longer limiting themselves to one category of goods or services; companies recognize the benefits in tapping into markets that are not normally their own. Brand extension licensing, where a company sticks its trademark onto a new product line, is one of the most effective marketing strategies an already-successful brand can utilize. Take a look at what else your customers spend money on, and make it. Porsche drivers already spend money on high-end apparel by other retailers; now they can spend that money on Porsche-brand apparel instead.
Cobranding is another opportunity for companies to tap into the devoted consumer base of another, benefit from that brand's popularity, and consequently expand their reach. This Spring, Chrysler teamed up with cutting-edge designer John Varvatos to introduce a limited-edition model of their classic sedan. This cobranding venture is beneficial to both parties: Chrysler gains a modern edge from having attached itself to Varvatos, and Varvatos has made his name more accessible and recognizable to Chrysler drivers. Cobranding in the auto industry certainly isn't new—Ford has an Eddie Bauer-edition Explorer and Fiat had a Gucci-edition 500—but every venture presents a multitude of complicated legal issues.
These deals necessarily involve the licensing of trademarks and/or copyrights for use with a product, service, or promotion. A manufacturer will look to use a popular logo, graphic, or brand in order to promote their product, or a popular brand will allow their trademarks to be licensed onto a new product in order to reach more consumers. Often, consumers are not even aware that the product they are purchasing is the result of a licensing agreement.
Brand extension occurs when the brand's trademarks and copyrights are licensed for use on products that are not typically manufactured, marketed, or distributed by the brand. This form of licensing allows a brand to begin marketing a new type of product without many of the costs or risks associated with doing so. Developing, manufacturing, and distributing a new product line is an expensive and time-consuming endeavor—licensing allows a brand to enjoy the benefits of the new product line without dealing with the headache of actually creating it.
Cobranding is the practice of combining two or more brand names or trademarks to be used on one product. When John Varvatos and Chrysler join forces, they have to clearly delineate which brand will have creative controls and approval, which brand will be responsible for promotions and marketing, and how each trademark will be licensed. Businesses seeking to engage in a co-branding venture should determine ahead of time the nature of the relationship between the parties, so that any obligation to perform for the venture is clearly established. Cobranding agreements should also explicitly state how much each brand is responsible for marketing, promotional expenditures and obligations, and most importantly, how each brand will profit.
Brand extension can be incredible beneficial, but companies should be selective when associating their intellectual property with other products. A successful licensing agreement will exist between a brand and a product that is related to the interests of the brand's existing consumer base. Licensing a trademark onto an unrelated product or a product of significantly lesser quality will dilute the strength of the brand and confuse customers. Successful cobranding requires similar selectivity—combining brands that have radically dissimilar messages, qualities, and reputations will probably just hurt both.
Keeping a brand relevant and profitable in the current economy requires creative business strategies. Lifestyle branding and cobranding ventures can be an effective means of attracting new customers while engaging existing customers.
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Research Evaluating an Investigational Medication for Erectile Dysfunction - Diabetic ED (REVIVE-D) (REVIVE-D)
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First received: December 15, 2008
Last updated: August 10, 2012
Last verified: August 2012
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This study is being conducted to compare the safety and efficacy of 2 doses of avanafil to placebo in diabetic men with mild to severe erectile dysfunction.
Condition | Intervention | Phase |
Erectile Dysfunction |
Drug: placebo Drug: avanafil |
Phase 3 |
Study Type: | Interventional |
Study Design: | Allocation: Randomized Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Investigator) Primary Purpose: Treatment |
Official Title: | A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Evaluation of the Safety and Efficacy of Avanafil (TA-1790) in the Treatment of Erectile Dysfunction in Diabetic Men |
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Primary Outcome Measures:
- Change in Percentage of Sexual Attempts in Which Subjects Were Able to Maintain an Erection of Sufficient Duration to Have Successful Intercourse [ Time Frame: Baseline, 12-weeks ]Data presented as mean change from baseline in the percentage of Yes responses to Sexual Encounter Profile (SEP) diary question 3 "Did your erection last long enough for you to have successful intercourse?"
- Change in Percentage of Sexual Attempts in Which Subjects Were Able to Insert the Penis Into the Partner's Vagina [ Time Frame: Baseline, 12 Weeks ]Data presented as mean change from baseline in the percentage of Yes responses to Sexual Encounter Profile (SEP) diary question 2 "Were you able to insert your penis into your partner's vagina?"
- Change in International Index of Erectile Function - Erectile Function Domain (IIEF-EF) Score [ Time Frame: Baseline, End of Treatment (up to 12 weeks) ]Questionnaire assesses subject's evaluation of erectile function over the previous 4-week period. Total score from questions 1-5 & 15 ranges from 1 to 30. A higher score indicates better erectile function.
Enrollment: | 390 |
Study Start Date: | December 2008 |
Study Completion Date: | February 2010 |
Primary Completion Date: | February 2010 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) |
Arms | Assigned Interventions |
Placebo Comparator: placebo |
Drug: placebo
30 minutes orally prior to initiation of sexual activity
Experimental: avanafil 100 mg |
Drug: avanafil
30 minutes orally prior to initiation of sexual activity
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Experimental: avanafil 200 mg |
Drug: avanafil
30 minutes orally prior to initiation of sexual activity
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Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years and older (Adult, Senior) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | Male |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- Male subjects, age ≥ 18 years;
- Minimum 6 month history of mild to severe erectile dysfunction;
- Have documented diabetes (type 1 or type 2);
- Subject is in a monogamous, heterosexual relationship for at least 3 months;
- Subject agrees to make at least 4 attempts at intercourse per month;
- Subject is willing and able to provide informed consent.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Allergy or hypersensitivity to PDE5 inhibitors;
- History of dose-limiting AEs during therapy with a PDE5 inhibitor or hx of consistent treatment failure with other PDE5 inhibitors for therapy of ED;
- Current or expected use of organic nitrates at any time during the study;
- Previous or current antiandrogen therapy;
- Use of prescription or over-the-counter drugs known to inhibit the activity of CYP3A4 at any time during the study;
- Androgen replacement therapy that has not been stable for at least 3 month;
- Initiation or change in dose of any alpha-blocker within 14 days prior to randomization;
- ED as a result of spinal cord injury or radical prostatectomy;
- Untreated hypogonadism or low serum total testosterone
- History of or predisposition to priapism;
- Any penile implant;
- Elevated PSA, other evidence of prostate cancer, or previous radical prostatectomy;
- History of any malignancy (except basal cell carcinoma or squamous cell carcinoma of the skin successfully treated by curative excision);
- Uncontrolled diabetes;
- Uncontrolled hypertension;
- Hypotension;
- Orthostatic hypotension;
- Significant cardiovascular disease;
- Abnormal ECG;
- Hepatic or renal impairment;
- Positive STD screen;
- Clinically evident penile lesions, abrasions, or anatomical deformities;
- Urinary tract or bladder infection;
- Use of any treatment for erectile dysfunction other than study drug at any time during the study;
- Participation in another investigational study within 30 days of screening or at any time during this study;
- Previous participation in any other investigational study of avanafil;
- History or current drug, alcohol, or substance abuse;
- Any history of bipolar disorder or psychosis, greater than one lifetime episode of major depression, current depression of moderate or greater severity or antidepressant use that has not been stable for at least 3 months;
- Partners who are < 18 years of age, who are nursing, who are known to be pregnant at screening, who wish to become pregnant during the study period, who have any gynecologic problems or major medical conditions that would limit participation in sexual intercourse;
- Evidence of any other condition by history, physical examination, or laboratory studies that, in the opinion of the investigator, would contraindicate the administration of study medication, affect compliance, interfere with study evaluations, limit study participation, contraindicate sexual activity, or confound the interpretation of study results.
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VIVUS, Inc.
Principal Investigator: | Irwin Goldstein, MD | San Diego Sexual Medicine |
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ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on March 29, 2017
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
Responsible Party: | VIVUS, Inc. |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00809471 History of Changes |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
Study First Received: | December 15, 2008 |
Results First Received: | May 25, 2012 |
Last Updated: | August 10, 2012 |
Keywords provided by VIVUS, Inc.:
ED Erectile Dysfunction Dysfunction Diabetic Erectile |
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Erectile Dysfunction Sexual Dysfunction, Physiological Genital Diseases, Male Sexual Dysfunctions, Psychological Mental Disorders |
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I didn't deny if they happened or not. You don't usually see that many penalties on special teams is what I'm driving at. Most of that stuff is let go.
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We did once last year: Refs sold themselves out to GB last year against us and they win by 3. Rodgers was a hot merchandising commodity last year. Then we come in the playoffs and completely decimate them with the refs still on their side. So you better hope you don't get us in the playoffs at any point... Other than that, good luck for the rest of the season. Slaughter some Eagles for us on the way, would you?
Relax man. We can all play the blame game. If the redskins didn't make so many turnover mistakes in NY, they would've won. So feel proud. Such a ******ed argument.
Just man up and admit you lost a damn game. I'm a redskins fan and can admit when they lose. I came in peace saying both sides had bad calls, and people are just ******bags and then talk **** about every other fanbase in the NFL.
I wont say it was biased, it wasn't. But alot of poor calls all around.
If the Queen had balls she'd be the King. Notice how i didn't use anything that didn't happen in my post. The skins played their best ball (as was stated) the Giants made mistakes. Skins best ball+Giants Mistakes=1 point victory for the Skins. now tell me, how is that flawed logic?
The holding penalties were legit on us. Beatty is usually due for one or two a game anyway so I'm prepared to accept that. I just find it harder and harder these days to find balanced officiating across the board in the NFL even if it doesn't involve the Giants. I'll admit that we could of capitalized past the zebras and didn't take advantage of some opportunities but I don't think you can honestly say this wasn't a little one-sided with the penalties.


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Rosenborg BK's Roar Strand says Valencia CF "should not be looking forward" to visiting Trondheim with the Norwegian club hoping to give them "a real scare".
Famous victories
The 37-year-old Rosenborg captain has been on the winning side against Spanish opposition several times at the Lerkendal Stadium, memorably scoring the opening goal in a 2-0 victory against Real Madrid CF in the 1997/98 UEFA Champions League – when Madrid went on to win the competition. "Valencia should not be looking forward to this game. We plan to give them a real scare," said Strand, who has also claimed the scalps of RC Deportivo La Coruña and Athletic Club Bilbao.
No peace
Valencia are on a decent run in the Primera División, occupying third place having beaten Deportivo 4-2 away this weekend, yet Strand is sure Rosenborg have the ability to unsettle their guests. "Of course Valencia are a very good side – they have brilliant individuals but at the same time play strongly as a unit," he said. "It will be very difficult but we don't intend to give them time to do their patient passing in their own half. We will work extremely hard together and will not give them any peace."
'More attack-minded'
Rosenborg sit bottom of Group B with one point from two games, but all is not lost. Midfielder Strand, though, is adamant that they must improve on the form shown in the 2-0 home defeat by FC Schalke 04 on Matchday 2 if they are to trouble Valencia. "It was very disappointing to lose to Schalke but we really think we can do better this time," he said. "We will be aggressive from the word 'go' and more attack-minded than in the last match."
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Sigmund Freud was an Austrian psychologist who tried to define life in completely sexual terms. Friedan says that the basic ideas expressed in Freudian psychology—which emphasized freedom from a repressive morality—support women's attempts at emancipation. However, Friedan says that Freud's specific theories about women, which were equal parts chivalry and condescension, and which were largely a product of his observations of the repressed Victorian era in which he lived, helped to reinforce the repression of modern women. Freud called women's yearning for equality penis envy, a term that was seized upon by promoters of the feminine mystique. Friedan notes that the type of concrete scientific thinking that provided the basis for Freud's theories has since been replaced by a more complex system of scientific thought. Nevertheless, while many of Freud's theories were reinterpreted in this new light, Friedan says that the promoters of...
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Mitt Romney formally accepted the Republican presidential nomination at the party's national convention in Tampa, Florida. "What America needs is jobs," said Romney. "Lots of jobs." John Boehner suggested that Romney would be helped by low turnout among Hispanic and African American voters; Romney's campaign held a party for top fundraisers aboard Cracker Bay, a yacht flying the flag of the Cayman Islands; and two conventioneers were ejected for heckling a black camerawoman. "This," they said, tossing peanuts at her, "is how we feed animals." Vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan was criticized for making false claims in his convention speech, notably about the timing of a GM plant closure in his hometown of Janesville, Wisconsin, and for exaggerating his finishing time in the 1990 Grandma's Marathon in Duluth, Minnesota. In the Tampa "free-speech zone," Vermin Supreme, candidate for the Absurd Party, wore a boot on his head and mediated a confrontation between anarchists and Westboro Baptist Church protesters. Surprise guest speaker Clint Eastwood addressed delegates for 12 minutes, during which he carried on an imagined dialogue with an empty chair he identified as President Obama. "What do you want me to tell Mr. Romney?" asked Eastwood of the chair. "He can't do that to himself. . . . You're getting as bad as Biden."[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] Twenty-two pilot whales beached themselves on the Florida coast.[9] Millions of gallons of raw Tijuana sewage spilled into the Pacific Ocean.[10] Hal David, lyricist of "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head" and "What the World Needs Now Is Love," died at the age of 91.[11] As Hurricane Isaac struck Louisiana, New Orleanians celebrated the Southern Decadence Festival.[12]
In Syria, which saw its deadliest week since the revolt to overthrow Bashar al-Assad began last spring, the rebel Brigade of Free Syrians launched operation Northern Volcano.[13][14] It was reported that Mexican federal police officers had deliberately chased down and shot two CIA agents in Tres Marías.[15] In Afghanistan, where American special forces suspended training of new recruits to the Afghan Local Police until all 16,000 of the militia's members could be rescreened for terrorist ties, a suicide attacker bombed a compound that contained a provincial governor's office and a police and army headquarters, while another blew up a fuel tanker on the road separating the compound from a U.S. Army base. "I fell down on the ground," said a witness, "and everything around me was destroyed."[16][17] A 550-pound World War II–era bomb was detonated in central Munich, creating a massive fireball, shattering windows, and setting nearby rooftops ablaze. "The fuse was a real bastard," said bomb-disposal expert Andreas Heil.[18][19] The owner of Hitler menswear in the Indian city of Ahmedabad insisted that his shop's name, whose 'i' tittle is a swastika, was the nickname of his business partner's strict grandfather. "It was only recently," he said, "that we read about Hitler on the Internet."[20][21] Berliners attacked one another with vegetables on a city bridge; revelers in Buñol, Spain, threw 120 tons of tomatoes at each other; and Iran and North Korea agreed to exchange students and share laboratories.[22][23][24] Yosemite National Park warned 1,700 summer visitors that they may have been exposed to hantavirus from infected deer mice at its Curry Village campsite.[25] Thieves stole an eleven-ton elderberry crop in Deutsch Jahrndorf, Austria, and millions of dollars' worth of maple syrup from a warehouse in Saint-Louis-de-Blandford, Quebec. "We still have enough maple syrup," said a representative of Quebec producers, who provide three-quarters of the world's supply. "There will be no shortage."[26][27][28]
The International Paralympic Committee defended its decision not to perform doping tests on all competitors at the 2012 Summer Paralympic Games in London, where South African runner Oscar Pistorius, who was allowed to race in this year's Summer Olympic Games after challenging a ban on carbon-fiber legs, lost the 200-meter final to a rival he accused of running on unfairly long blades. "Athletes," he said, "can make themselves unbelievably high."[29][30] A sports official was stabbed to death in Düsseldorf by a wayward javelin.[31] A bus tourist in Iceland joined a search party for herself.[32] Fire crews winched a heifer named Sparkle out of a tree growing along a ravine in Sheriff Park, England.[33] France opened a murder investigation into the death of Yasser Arafat; Sun Myung Moon, founder of the Unification Church, died in Seoul; and a Buddhist group in Thailand announced that the celestial reincarnation of former Apple CEO Steve Jobs was residing in a glass palace above Apple's headquarters in California, where he sleeps in a hoverbed and is served day and night by aides.[34][35][36] A man who had dressed himself in a "Ghillie" military sniper-cover suit in order to provoke a Bigfoot sighting was run over on a Montana highway and died.[37] Police shut down the Burnside Bridge in Portland, Oregon, and detained a group of beard enthusiasts, dressed in camouflage and carrying an assault rifle, who were en route to a "Beards for Breasts" cancer-awareness calendar photo shoot. "We didn't mean to shake up the community," said one beard model. "Just going to save boobs, you know?"[38]
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Firm Performance and Selection in an emerging Economy: Micro Evidence from Slovenia
We investigate the determinants of firm survival and growth (employment and sales), in the context of transition from plan to market, using firm data from Slovenia spanning from 1994 to 1998 and OLS and Heckman selection models. Firm and industry pre-transition conditions including size, ownership, financial constraints, trade and market structure are used to understand what firms best performed in the Slovenian transition. Small, private, exporting and capital intensive firms grew the fastest. Large firms with positive profits and higher sunk costs were more likely to survive compare to firms with harder financial constraints, high costs or trading abroad.
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Mollom is an intelligent content moderation web service. By monitoring content activity on all sites in the Mollom network, Mollom is in a unique position to determine if a post is potentially spam; not only based on the posted content, but also on the past activity and reputation of the poster. In short, Mollom handles incoming posts intelligently, in much the same way a human moderator decides what posts are acceptable. Therefore, Mollom enables you to allow anonymous users to post comments and other content on your site.
How it works
Machine learning. Mollom uses sophisticated machine learning techniques to block spam and malicious content automatically. Mollom uses a reputation-based system that keeps a continually evolving archive of user profiles to immediately discern an individual's propensity to submit spam. This applies to everything from user registration forms to blog entries.
Protection against profanity. Using text analytics, Mollom is able to detect harmful content such as profanity and other spam-related content. And Mollom adds language support, stopping unwanted content in 75 languages.
Centralized CAPTCHA service. Mollom provides a centralized CAPTCHA service that stop known spammers. Approved users are not required to solve a CAPTCHA.
The CAPTCHA is invoked for three specific use cases:
- Upon user registration, when no content can be classified
- When Mollom is unable to classify a user
- When a site owner using Mollom opts for more privacy, and Mollom isn't allowed to audit all content
Mollom audits the content quality by defining it across three dimensions:
Spam, Ham, and Unsure:
- Ham is considered positive content and automatically published.
- Spam is negative content and automatically blocked.
- Unsure is anything in between. Mollom does not recognize the user, and they're shown CAPTCHA's, and the customer gets to decide if content is automatically published, blocked, or sent for manual moderation.
Mollom is currently used by more than 60,000 sites, including Sony, Adobe, LinuxJournal, Warner Bros Records, NBC, and others. Mollom has an average efficiency rate of 99.98% - which means that only 2 in 10,000 spam messages are not routinely caught by Mollom's filters. Since Mollom began operating, it has prevented over 8 billion spam posts from littering the web. Get the latest statistics at the Mollom scorecard.
Mollom was developed by Dries Buytaert, the founder and project lead of Drupal, and Benjamin Schrauwen and is currently actively maintained by Acquia.
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- Contact Mollom Support for issues pertaining to the Mollom service.
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- Use the issue queue for bug reports and feature requests pertaining to the Drupal module.
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ESSE TV is your video resource for all things ESSE. From River Cottage Recipes to TV adverts, maintenance videos and everything in between – you'll find it all here. Once you've chosen the clip you'd like to see, just click it to play.
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Don't Show Your Kids This 'Despicable Me 2' Trailer or Else...
Seriously, unless you want to start watching Despicable Me on a loop once again, don't show your kids this trailer.
Despicable Me was one of the surprise hits of 2010. Sure, animated kids' movies tend to always do well, but those also tend to come from established studios like Disney, Pixar or DreamWorks. Despicable Me was the first film from Illumination Entertainment, a company founded by ex-20th Century Fox Animation president Chris Meledandri, and it was a big enough hit ($540 million across the globe) that the fledgling studio was able to forge an exclusive financing and distribution deal with Universal. The pair went on to make Hop and The Lorax, but now they're going back to the super-villain comedy well for both Despicable Me 2 (July 3, 2013) and its spin-off film, Minions (December 19, 2014).
There have been a few teasers for the former film already, but the newest gives us an actual picture of the story, which involves Steve Carell's Gru being recruited by the Anti-Villain League in an effort to stop an even bigger global threat. We don't get to see that last bit in the trailer, but we do know he'll be voiced by Al Pacino once we do.
The first film is a pretty charming mixture of a story adults can get interested in and a host of silly characters that kids eat up. And as the parent of a young boy, I can certainly attest that those squishy little minions draw laughs out of kids like bugs to a bug zapper. It's diabolical how effective the style and tone is for young ones, and that's precisely why this sequel may actually end up being one of the highest-grossing films of the year.
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Tuesday, December 18, 2012 - The cast members of Jersey Shore dine at Katsuya after their appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live. It looks like Snooki, Deena and JWoww had a little pow-wow at the Hollywood hot-spot with Real Housewife of Beverly Hills Kyle Richards and BFF Faye Resnick. Pauly D says, "I'm just exploring my options" when asked if he's going to jump ship from MTV to E!.
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Mapping International Languages
As a fundamentally political map, the present attempt selects languages not on the basis of their number of speakers, but rather on that of their official status. Only international languages are selected, defined here as languages with an official status in at least three internationally recognized sovereign states, with at least 100,000 inhabitants, provided that it is the sole official language in at least one of those states. As a result, a number of international languages are not depicted. Swahili, for example, has official status in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, but all three also use English. Italian has official standing in Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, and the Vatican, but the latter two states have too few inhabitants to merit inclusion. Several languages occupy an ambiguous position vis a vis such criteria. Mandarin Chinese (Putonghua), for example, is mapped because it has official status in China, Taiwan, and Singapore, and is the sole national language in the former two countries. But Taiwan is by no means a fully internationally recognized state, making the inclusion of Mandarin a problematic gesture. Serbian occupies a similar position, as it has official status in Serbia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, and the incompletely recognized state of Kosovo—yet it is not mapped. Serbian is ignored, however, because its international standing is minimal; not only is Kosovo's sovereignty disputed (most vehemently by Serbia), but Bosnia and Herzegovina barely functions as an actual state despite its international recognition.
Another problem concerns the mapping of states with more than one official language on the list of "international languages." There are more of these states than one might think. In three countries, three of these languages have official status: Belgium (French, Dutch, and German), Equatorial Guinea (Spanish, Portuguese, and French), and Singapore (English, Mandarin Chinese, and Malay). In such cases, I have tried to map the most commonly used language, although such a determination is often no easy manner. For Djibouti, for example, I picked French over Arabic, as French is used more extensively in the country's educational system, whereas for Chad I picked Arabic over French, because Chadian Arabic is widely used as the country's lingua franca. I selected English over French in Vanuatu because the main spoken language of the islands, Bislama, is an English-based Creole. I welcome readers' corrections if I have erred in any of these selections.
The map uses color intensity to try to convey the international significance of these languages. English is thus in the darkest shade, reflecting the fact that it has official standing in more countries than any other language. Arabic, French, and Spanish are depicted with a somewhat lighter hue, and Portuguese lighter still. The lightest color is used for Dutch (depicting the Netherlands, Belgium, and Suriname), which barely makes the list.
The data on which the map is based are derived from the Wikipedia table posted here. I should also note that countries are not divided: Puerto Rico, a U.S. dependency, is thus mapped as English speaking despite the fact that Spanish is the more widely spoken official language on the island.
It is of note that most countries use one of these eleven international languages at an official level. The main areas of exception are eastern and northern Europe, Central Asia, and mainland Southeast Asia.
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The China Post news reporter Wednesday, June 20, 2012, 12:27 am TWN |
The annual joint college entrance examination for high school graduates will be postponed for no more than two days in case any one of the city or county governments announce suspension of work for reasons such as typhoons, flooding or earthquakes.
Professor Mu Tzung-tsann, director of the College Entrance Examination Center (CEEC), announced the contingency plan yesterday. The measure will be implemented starting this year given that Taiwan is prone to the natural disasters that can often cause uncontrollable disruptions for work, public administrative activities and transport services. Many parents of students have voiced concern about the possible serious impact on the examination by recalcitrant weather conditions. This year's college entrance examination for high school graduates in Taiwan and offshore islands is scheduled for July 1-3. A total of 75,935 graduating students have registered to take the series of tests that will be used to designate their proper universities and colleges. To ensure fairness, all of the students will take the examinations at a total of 1,875 test sites in 61 districts simultaneously. Mu said the decision concerning postponement of the tests will be made and announced no less than three hours from the time of the first test depending on the latest weather conditions and possible impact. This means that any decision for postponement has to be made and announced by 5:40 a.m. Such a decision will be made public immediately through channels like mass media, Internet, and text messages to students who have provided their mobile phone numbers, said Mu. Except for around 3,000 students, all of the students provided their mobile numbers in the registration forms for the exam. The potential postponement of the examination would be no more than two days, he said. It is impossible to make a long or indefinite delay because too many people, including teachers, supervisors and examinees in so many places will be affected by postponement, he explained. Students at certain test sites disrupted by natural disasters will be allowed to take "make-up" exams even when the local-level governments make no decision to close public offices, he added. Mu said members of the CEEC would next week discuss possible contingency plans to cope with disruptions when one or more local governments make the decision to keep public offices open but suspend activities at schools.
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