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New Zealand exported record amounts of dairy produce in the quarter to December, which drove the balance on goods and services to its highest surplus, Statistics New Zealand (SNZ) balance of payments manager Jason Attewell said.
The deficit for the quarter to December stood at $800 million, having dropped by $1.7 billion from the previous quarter to September, while the annual current account deficit also fell.
For the year to December, the deficit was $7.5 billion, or 3.4% of gross domestic product (GDP), while for the year to September it stood at $8.9 billion, or 4.1% of GDP.
SNZ said the seasonally adjusted balance on goods and services turned to a $1.8 billion surplus, the highest since the series began in 1987 and a $1.9 billion turnaround from the September quarter deficit, which was driven by the $1.4 billion increase in exports of goods, led by dairy.
ASB economist Christina Leung said the surge in dairy exports reflected the strong rebound in milk production in the previous quarter.
''While there has been some easing in global dairy prices in recent auctions, overall global demand remains strong. We expect the continued high level of dairy exports, reflecting both strong volumes and high prices, will drive a continued improvement in the current account over much of 2014,'' Ms Leung said.
SNZ said while there was the rise in goods exports, led by dairy, that was offset by an increase in New Zealand's investment income deficit as foreign-owned companies here earned their highest profits in four years, mostly due to higher profits in the corporate sector during the quarter to December.
Ms Leung said the investment income deficit was slightly higher than expected, at $2.6 billion, reflecting increased outflows on higher income earned from foreign investment in New Zealand.
''We expect further deterioration in the income balance over 2014 as the acceleration in New Zealand economic growth drives continued improvement in the profitability of New Zealand companies, which in turn will mean increased income outflows,'' she said.
ANZ chief economist Cameron Bagrie said the New Zealand dollar trade-weighted index was around post-float highs, commodity prices had peaked, domestic interest rates were rising and New Zealand's economic expansion looked domestic-demand-centric.
''Preventing a blowout in our external deficits will require the export sector to extract greater efficiencies, and ongoing [import] consumption restraint,'' Mr Bagrie said.

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Home to the Country Music Hall of Fame, Nashville, TN is widely recognized as the world capital of country music. Surely no one would argue with that… right? Well, given our findings when we set out to determine where America's real Sin City was—it wasn't Las Vegas—we thought it would be fun to let other cities in the great state of Tennessee vie for the country music crown by pitting them against one another based on criteria that really matters: the content (read: lyrics) of actual country music.
We'll get to the process we used in a moment, but first we have some news that is sure to strike a sad minor chord with Nashville's residents: It was only No. 9 on the list. Topping the charts at No. 1 was your new country capital of Tennessee—Chattanooga. Here's the full list:
1. Chattanooga
2. Knoxville
3. Maryville
4. Cookeville
5. Jackson
6. Oak Ridge
7. Cleveland
8. Franklin
9. Nashville
10. Columbia
How in tarnation did we arrive at that? You'll have to join us for a spell and keep on reading as we lay it all out below.
How We Did It
We've been doing our Big Deal Lists here on the Movoto Real Estate blog for a while now, but we've never done one like this before. Since the focus of this ranking was so deeply rooted in a genre of music, we figured that we'd let the songs themselves decide which criteria we'd score each city on.
That means we had to figure out what the music was trying to say. So, we took the lyrics of the top 10 country songs from the past five years (2008 through 2012) and created a word cloud from them, where the most frequently used words (out of about 15,000 total) were the largest. We couldn't base criteria on very common words like "we" and "you," so we grabbed the 10 most used nouns and adjectives from the cloud instead.
We then had to attach criteria to each word. This was a lot of fun, but also not exactly easy. For some, we went quite literal; for others, we tried to stick with what the lyricists probably meant by their words. The 10 words and associated criteria we ended up with were:
- Love (marriage rate)
- Girl (percentage of female residents < 14 years old)
- Man (percentage of male residents > 18 years old)
- Baby (people per bar)
- Crazy (people per psychiatrist)
- God (people per religious organization)
- Home (people per home)
- Heart (people per cardiologist)
- Honey (percentage of married households)
- Southern (how far south the city is)
We know what you're thinking: We're crazy (the fifth most-used word!). We'd just like to point out that we are the Lighter Side of Real Estate, and we do use Saturday Night Science. In other words, while we can be serious, we still like to have fun—so we hope that's what you get from this ranking.
Speaking of ranking, a little about how we did that. Essentially, we surveyed the 25 most populous cities in Tennessee based on the criteria above, then ranked them from 25 to 1 with a lower number being better. Then we averaged out their scores over all 10 criteria to get a final Big Deal Score—the lower it was, the better, as well.
Everything we did was based on the city's borders, so metropolitan areas weren't considered. Medical and retail data came from Yelp, while demographic data was taken from the U.S. Census (2010) and American Community Survey (2005-2010).
With that opening measure done, let's get to the chorus of this song—why we picked our criteria.
Marriage Rate ("Love")We figured that there are few more cut-and-dry ways to say you love someone than to marry them—something that more people are thankfully getting to do across the country. So, we decided to look at the marriage rates for the 25 cities we surveyed.
Clarksville, TN came in first, with a marriage rate of 10.9 per year per 1,000 residents. Jackson, TN was second at 8.5 and Maryville, TN was third at 8.3.
Percentage of Young Women ("Girl")
We went literal with this one. Sure, when country crooners call their special gal "girl," it's a term of affection, but the lyrics we went through were also being sung by women talking about things that'd happened when they were young. So, we decided to look at the percentage of female residents under the age of 14 in each city.
Spring Hill, TN has a population of girls of 14.43 percent. In second place is La Vergne, TN at 13.09 percent and third is Brentwood, TN at 12.09 percent.
Percentage of Men ("Man")
Another literal pick, but actually an even easier one to make. Male country singers really like to call themselves "man" a lot. So, we went with the percentage of male residents over the age of 18—men.
Cookeville, TN is the most statistically manly of Tennessee's biggest cities with an adult male population of 40.29 percent. Johnson City, TN (ahem) is second at 38.42 percent and Knoxville, TN is third at 38.25 percent.
People Per Bar ("Baby")Now, we could have gone literal with this one, too, but we're pretty sure all the times country singers call someone "baby," they don't mean "infant"—at least we hope not. So, we thought about it and decided that the place someone is most likely to be called "baby" is at a bar. Y'know, like "hey, baby, can I buy you a beer?" Thus we looked at the number of people to bars in each city.
Knoxville, TN has the most with one bar for every 2,033 residents. Nashville, TN is second with one for every 2,507 and Cookeville, TN is third with one for every 3,382 people.
People Per Psychiatrist ("Crazy")
We were pretty surprised by how many times the word "crazy" is used in country songs. We figured that with all these people being driven crazy by others, or doing crazy things, they should probably seek some professional psychological help. So we found out how many people per psychiatrist there are in each city. The lower, the better—and the less time you'll spend in the waiting room.
Knoxville, TN has one psychiatrist for every 1,789 people who live there. Second on the list is Columbia, TN with one for every 2,312 people, and third with one per every 2,747 residents is Maryville, TN.
People Per Religious Organization ("God")
Country singers aren't shy about mentioning the Almighty in their songs, and we figured that this was a pretty straightforward criterion to look at. To rank the cities by this word, we found how many people each has per religious organization or place of worship.
Knoxville, TN was out front again with one for every 42 residents (religion is pretty popular in Tennessee, we found). Cookeville, TN is a very close second with one per every 43, while Chattanooga, TN ranked third with one for every 52.
People Per Cardiologist ("Heart")We feel for the people in country songs from the past few years—and beyond. These folks are always pouring their hearts into things, getting their hearts broken, feeling their heartbeats… basically, there's a lot of heart stuff going on. Who better to handle that sort of thing than a cardiologist?
Johnson City, TN has the most heart docs per capita with one for every 1,070 residents. Franklin, TN placed second with one per every 1,358 folks and Jackson, TN was third with one for every 1,762 people.
Total Number of Homes ("Home")
This one was about as literal as they get. When a country artist sings about home, they're talking about… a home. It was up to us to find how many homes (we're talking anywhere someone could live, and thus call home) there are in each city per capita.
Knoxville, TN is the most home-y, with one for every 1.96 people. Kingsport, TN ranks second with one place to live for every 2.05 residents, while Chattanooga, TN came in third with one for every 2.08 people.
Percentage of Married Households ("Honey")
From literal we hit the opposite end of the spectrum with the word "honey." We thought about figuring out how many beehives or honey producers there are in each city, but we wanted to challenge ourselves a bit by getting philosophical. Just who is likely to use a pet name like "honey" with their loved one? Married folks. So, we looked up what percentage of households in each city are comprised of married couples.
Brentwood, TN placed first with 82.4 percent of all households being occupied by married couples. Collierville, TN came in second at 73.6 percent and Germantown, TN was third at 72.1 percent.
Southern Latitude ("Southern")
We went around on this final criterion. Would we try to somehow measure overall "Southern-ness?" Find out how many Southern food places there are in each city? Nah, we decided that being Southern was all about being… southern. As in latitude-wise on a map. So we looked up each city's longitude and the lower, the better.
Collierville, TN at 35.0419 north latitude is the southernmost of the 25 cities we looked at. Next is Chattanooga, TN at 35.0456 north latitude, followed by Germantown, TN at 35.0867 north latitude.
End of the Line (Dance)
If you're a big country music fan looking to settle down somewhere that embodies your favorite genre of tunes, look no further than Chattanooga, TN. Nashville may claim to embody country, but if you ask us they're just whistlin' Dixie.
For the full ranking of the top 25 cities, check out the chart below.


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In response to an enormous outcry from Jewish groups and individuals as well as from staff members within the publishing house itself, St. Martin's Press has decided not to publish Holocaust revisionist David Irving's biography of Nazi Joseph Goebbels.
Irving, a British citizen who was formally denounced by England's House of Commons as an apologist for Hitler in 1989, has vowed to circulate his book, "Goebbels: Mastermind of the Third Reich," on the Internet.
Goebbels, Hitler's minister of propaganda, was one of the central architects of the Nazis' "Final Solution" to destroy the Jews.
The decision to withdraw the book, which was scheduled to be published in May, came after St. Martin's received about 25 phone calls and several letters about the Irving book, according to company spokesman John Murphy.
Irving has appeared as a guest lecturer at the annual conference of the Institute for Historical Review, a group which denies the magnitude of the Holocaust.
The Anti-Defamation League and the American Jewish Committee were among those who wrote to the publisher. "Surely you must know that Mr. Irving is a well- known Holocaust denier and an apologist for the Nazi regime," wrote ADL National Director Abraham Foxman, in a letter dated March 22.
"A pseudo-scholar, he has no academic credentials as a historian and his writings on Hitler, Nazis and the Holocaust have been consistently shown to be replete with errors, oversights, poor research and fantasy."
St. Martin's officials initially responded to the critics by comparing efforts to stop Irving's book from being published to Nazi and fascist censorship.
"At first hearing the policy and tactics of certain callers — researching an author's background for reasons to blacklist his foreground — seemed characteristic of Goebbels himself, of Joseph McCarthy, and of every quasi- totalitarian extremity in politics, religion and ethnic bigotry," Thomas McCormack, chairman and editorial director of St. Martin's Press, said in a statement announcing cancellation of the book.
The calls, however, prompted St. Martin's to investigate Irving's credentials and associations and to call what Murphy described as an "unprecedented" staff meeting in which a majority of staffers made it clear that the book should be withdrawn.
After McCormack personally read the 700-page book, and checked out Holocaust denial sites on the Internet, including a David Irving "home page" on the World Wide Web, he decided to cancel publication. "St. Martin's made a mistake, and there is no worse way to compound a mistake than by not admitting it and not correcting it if you can," said McCormack in his statement issued April 3.
In announcing the cancellation, McCormack was widely quoted as saying, "My whole family is Jewish." McCormack's wife and two children are Jewish, and he considers himself Jewish "for all intents and purposes" though he has not formally converted, said Murphy, the publishing house spokesman.
The publisher's initial response "was offensive and off the wall," Foxman said of the ADL. "They were defending Irving without knowing the facts."
After the cancellation, he said: "Good judgment is better late than never."
Irving's book was slammed in a pre-publication review in the trade journal Publishers Weekly. Saying the book contained the "language of camouflaged admiration," the review termed it "repellent," and said there was "an agenda to Irving's documentation."
St. Martin's Press is not the first company to treat Irving as a credible expert, said Kenneth Stern, a specialist on anti-Semitism and extremism at the American Jewish Committee. Irving is invited to speak on radio programs occasionally, and in 1992, the Sunday Times of London hired him to translate Goebbels' diaries, Stern said.
"Sometimes people aren't aware of what he's about and will treat him as a historian rather than someone falsifying history for an anti-Semitic agenda," said Stern. "David Irving has gotten a free ride for a long time."


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CommonJS is a grassroots campaign to quickly produce standards and a standard library for JavaScript. Our man on the inside reports on JSConf Europe, where the effort to produce interoperable JavaScript embeddings was evident.
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Is this leading us to being able to write software in JavaScript and compile them as desktop applications?
WTF would you ever, ever want to do that? JavaScript is the worst language in the entire world, it's inclusion in Navigator was down only to it's tiny footprint.
If you must for some reason use a scripting language, why not Lua? At least it's not a gimpy single-threaded foreach-lacking load of old cobblers like JavaScript.
I used to think the same, but after being forced to use JS, and actually learning it, I've seen that it can be extremaly useful. The same quirky things that make developers go balistic when they have to write JS, can give one a great dev tool
Happy to hear that for you, but I've spent quite a while in JavaScript and it still wants to make me drill through my own eyes every time I (for example) mistype a property name so it silently adds a property to the object and assigns a value to it, or want to enumerate through an array, forget to use whatever band-aids are in vogue this week, type for each() and get a listing of the object's properties and methods.
Yes yes it being essentially a bunch of linked hashtables lets you do really wacky things, but in pure meat-and-potatoes terms it's utter balls to actually dev in.
Javascript has very decent support for closures, enabling you to actually write your own foreach method, much like the jQuery guys have done. «$.each({'foo':'bar','baz':'qux'}, function(key,value){alert(value);});» is only slightly longer than an ideal each method. Sure, one should have been shipped with the default language, but that is a small oversight.
I used to think JavaScript was a horrible language, but with closures, a weird but powerful and extensible object system and some very useful libraries (jQuery, underscore, and more) popping up, it's not actually half bad.
Sure, some of the warts, like global-by-default variables, lack of namespaces and the weird "a hash is an object" thing are pretty big problems, but most of these issues can be worked around and the rest can be fixed in a future standards version.
But these are freaking huge language issues -- it's a huge regression to "work around" lack of namespaces and weird "a hash is an object" ideas. If js was the best we had, I'd be on board, but it's not. After knowing python and being forced to learn js in the last year, I get the repeated very strong feeling that python is js done right.
Anyhow, I sincerely hope that they come up with a coherent module system. The whole point of programming is to stand on the shoulders of giants via code re-use and js seems to go out it's way to make that difficult.
I'd be even happier to see js die in a fire, but I suppose that's not likely.
The oversights of the language are by far outweighed by the beauty of the simple designs such as the lexical scoping and the data structure. You only hate JS because you don't know how to use it - definitely true in my case, after I learned how to go about it properly it's been a breeze.
This may be common knowledge by now, but in case you missed it, Douglas Crockford has written and said a lot of well-founded and objective things about the pros and cons of JavaScript.
A couple of minutes into the video below, he also mentions the fact that many of us tend to treat JavaScript different from other languages in the sense that we, for some reason, "don't bother to learn it, just fumble around with it, and think we should be able to fake it".
"JavaScript -The World's Most Misunderstood Programming Language"
"JavaScript - The Good Parts":
Yes. One of JavaScript's biggest issues is that with so many simple and quick how-to it is very difficult to find advanced examples.
What's so weird about "a hash is an object"? Isn't that basically the same approach that python and lua use? If you take an intro cs course in scheme, one of the early things you will do (at least we did when I took such a class), is build objects using associative arrays, closures, and first class functions. That's all js is doing. Nothing particularly weird about it, unless I misunderstand the complaint. Associative arrays is the natural way to think about objects in a dynamic language.
Again, I know how it works, it's not beautiful, it's just weird, closures are nice but outweighed by lack of variable scoping inside functions, being able to build a class (really a sugered hashtable, like everything in JS is a sugered hashtable) by specifying a lump of data in brackets is fairly nice but outweighed by the idiocy that adding a property and accessing a property are the same freaking mechanism. Would it have killed them to implement something like:
Fred!age=3; // this adds an age property to fred if it doesn't exist
Fred.age=3; // this just accesses it, throwing an error if age doesn't already exist.
This and scoping variables inside blocks would really drop the amount of bugs that JavaScript creates just by it's wacky nature, and going "but..but...closures!" doesn't cut it any more considering every modern langauge, including even Visual freaking Basic now has closures.
I've been into node.js for the past few weeks. I like it because it has a small enough memory footprint to fit on my cheap hosting service, which I can't do with the Rhino based frameworks. The bigger deal is that it's obsession with perf/synchronicity means that comet support is trivial. Links:
People trying to get 100k connections on their machine - best result so far is ~23k with 10kB/connection of memory (which is important and very good).
Nodejs is genuinely exciting another intro
The scoping variables inside blocks is handled by "use strict".
For the Fred case,
Object.seal(Fred); Fred.age=3;//throws error if age is not defined. It's part of the ES5 spec and not implemented, but I expect implementations within a few months. The nice thing about SSJS is that you can use stuff as soon as your engine supports it.
See, this is how we end up with Bad Things (tm) in the computing world.
Someone had a problem that needs quick fixing (client side scripting in a browser)
Someone throws something together over the weekend to meet the basic requirement that is due Monday. It's not good, it's not elegant, it makes no sense, but it kinda works. Screw it, stick it in the shipping product.
Than for some unknown reason, people refuse to kill it and replace it with something good. Instead the pump out patches, fixes, workaraound, minor updates, more workarounds, ect all in a vain effort to try and make it good. What they are missing is that it started of as crap, it's still crap, just LET IT DIE.
Javascript is a perfect example of this. It's garbage. There are other simple to use, logical, fully featured scripting languages out there. But instead of killing the bad idea and putting a good idea in it's place, people latch on to the bad idea and insist on spending countless hours trying to make the idea not suck.
They should do a study on this phenomenon.
Sorry, I know how to use it and it still sucks compared to Python or Ruby. It has exactly one good feature: excellent closure support. That allows you to do some clever things (node.js is quite impressive), and work around some of the obvious deficiencies like lack of namespaces, but it can't fix the idiotic misfeatures like default global scope, "optional" semicolons, and useless typeof and for..in constructs.
I used to lament this myself but having seen this approach win again and again in practice I tend to think there's something to it actually.
Warts? Check.
Support for closures? Check.
Weird object system? Check, but alternatives available.
Powerful libraries? Check.
Global-by-default variables? Check, but fixed with pragmas.
Lack of namespaces? Used to be...
"hash is an object"? The common case, check.
Work around in a future standard version? Check!
Wait, you're not talking about Perl?
Just a quick question to all of the various naysayers against JavaScript and the other generally angry people, how many of you actually use it on a daily/regular basis and would consider yourself at least proficient? I am not talking about using a library to toggle elements, but real bareknuckle JavaScript? Can you understand and explain what this does: http://ejohn.org/apps/learn/#2
Say what you want about JavaScript, but lets look at the facts here:
- JavaScript is and will continue to remain the widest deployed and used functional language. Period.
- In it's 10+ years of existence, JavaScript has been more battle tested and hardened in every implementation than any other other language if for no other reason than it absolutely has to be. It has access to more terminals, personal information, and private data THAN ANY OTHER LANGUAGE EVER. It is pretty amazing when you really look at the full scope of knowledge that JavaScript either directly manipulates or could manipulate.
- JavaScript is blindingly fast in contrast to other interpreted languages http://shootout.alioth.debian....t=all&lang=all&box=1 It was built from the start for speed, albeit sometimes at the sacrifice of "traditional" language beauty. Couple this with the fact that most "JavaScript" developers inherently think about programming in evented fashion (think Twisted, EventMachine, Erlang, etc.) and the future looks mighty shiny - see Ryan's presentation for the quick tour .
- JavaScript is readable by every developer, regardless of their background and at least comprehensible to the "masses". Never underestimate the value of this, some would say its the main value of a language like Ruby - it can be read/understood easily.
Those are facts, not opinions. Most of the sentiment expressed in the comments is that of traditional FUD, I contend that it is time to put the past behind us and see the technology for what it is now.
Haha. Well played.
I forgot to mention "fanatic devotion by its users." Check!
I have no doubt that in five or ten years they might be able to beat JS into something half as easy and powerful to use as a real scripting language like Ruby or Python, but why the hell would you want to. The whole thing feels like an ugly hack. I can't ever see a use case for choosing JS over Ruby/Python for a non-web script.
You also forgot to mention "Religiously hated by trolls" Check!
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JavaScript will probably continue to have a bad reputation for years, simply because most of the JS written is absolutely dreadful. But that shouldn't be an indictment of the language itself.
Haha, true!
You could almost replace every instance here of "javascript" with "Perl" and it would be almost the same discussion...
voodootikigod has a valuable point about the breadth of industry support for, and investment in JavaScript.
One of the frustrating things about the scripting language world is the amount of flame warring over differences that are ultimately pretty marginal. (And unlike vi versus emacs, it does matter.) The "mine is better than yours" types tend to overlook the forest from the trees, the advantages which come from having a 'common' glue language.
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I don't know if I know js or not (many people here seem to be saying that hating js is equivalent to not knowing js):
How many Echo's get called in the second loop?
I'd say any language who's basic iterator over an array doesn't work reliably is pretty broken.
Assuming that JS *should* work as a strongly-typed, anal-retentive language is *not* knowing JS. That's just getting mad at something because it's not what you're used to.
Could JS have been designed otherwise? Sure. Is there a need for another c++? No. Does JS come with bugs? Sure does, like every single programming language known to man. Unfortunately for JS, everyone has to have an opinion about it - worse still, 'everyone' means geeks so the flame wars run deep.
Apologies if I stepped on peoples toes by suggesting that hating JS stems from not knowing it - that's obviously not true. What is true is that a lot of *do* hate JS because they have no idea how it *should* be used - and a lot of these stop hating it when they find out how to do things in JS (such as using prototype inheritance, closures, classes, etc).
Very misleading: Windows Script(Scripting) Host uses not only VBScript but JScript by default and can be customized with other scripting languages.
So, it's been widely available for almost a decade outside the browser.
"...a server-side JavaScript platform built on Google's lightening-fast V8 engine..."
It's "lightning", not "lightening".
"It can be hard to know whether an API will block, which makes it impossible to reliably write non-blocking code."
If you find yourself facing this decision, your API design is fundamentally flawed. The responsibility of invoking something async vs sync should never lie with the method. It should lie with the caller. Ofcourse, implementing that requires a deep understanding of software engineering; implementing that as an independent project-irrelevant library requires even deeper understanding. Which probably explains why there is '0' software that actually implements sync/async handling that way.
Coming to JavaScript, I find myself repeating my old stance over and over again; un-necessary and pointless, and defies all logic. I just don't see the point in neglecting all the wonderful, friendly and powerful, not to mention far more elegant, already-mature languages; and then picking up an XYZ language and deciding to invest all the energy to make it better.
One would have thought that given the problem of a crippled language at browser-end, the logic would have dictated that we need a better language. How does one conclude that using a better language means improving this one - even if it takes 10 years vs a simple decision to add support for other language - which in all likelihood, would have been a simple perhaps 6 months effort by any browser developer. And with that, let the developer community dictate which language wins out.
But no! As someone above mentioned, they decide to throw loads and loads of money on it to 'improve' it. Has this logic so totally escaped the browser developers? Even the popularity of Flash - a proprietary format - has not somehow managed to hint at the 'need' to have a better language at the client side?
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Three, just like you'd expect.
The array has 3 items before you prototype the map method into it, and 3 items *after* you prototype the map method into it. Nothing changes that.
Why? What were you expecting to see?
In a browser? Three (well, three console.log calls):
In your Windows example? Who knows, it depends on how badly their implementation is broken.
To be more specific, it depends if the implementation decorates functions added to the list with dontenum. Some do, some don't.
This seems to make JavaScript features like this unusable to me if one of the most widely used interpreters in the world doesn't support stuff like this, but then I live in a reality rather than a fantasy world where JS is standardised and people voluntarily code in it.
If it's not designed to help correctness (or at least avoid hindering it) it has no business being promoted as a language people should code in. This is why we don't program in assembly anymore.
ActionScript is basically JavaScript hooked into a Flash player.
I'm hoping we have a strongly-typed language standard that gets compiled down into whatever JavaScript a useragent supports. Something like a client-side C# would be excellent.


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Nicely done. Looks like an oil painting. Good job
Reminds me of home. Love it
Your work is a special treat to see. It's always so good! 5 ♥s
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What a beautiful drawing! 5h's
Beautiful. I love the pastel effect.
fantastic impression, really amazing! 5/5
Excelenta pictura!
It DOES look like a beautiful painting. Excellent.


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There is no pill, but there is a medicated cream called Hydroquinone. It lightens skin permanatly. Please speak to your dermatologist if you want to use it.
I told you that I've used that before. What about L-Glutiane? I think I spelled it right.
I'm sorry I didnt see that in your "allready tried" section.
L-Glutamine is an amino acid used by your body to make protien. It has been used for building muscle, increasing mental function, and wound recovery. There are absolutely zero studies showing any effect on skin color. I'm sorry to say that it will most likely have no effect.
I know that hydroquinone is the standard of care in this regaurd.


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World of Warcraft Subscription Price Rise
In a forum post two days ago - and still no sign of a blog post about it - Blizzard revealed that the price for UK subscribers to World of Warcraft is going up.
The new price for recurring subscriptions will be £9.99 for 30 days, £28.17 for 90 days, and £52.14 for 180 days. The suggested retail price of the 60-day prepaid time card will be £20.99.
Currently; 30 days is £8.99, 90-days is £25.17, 180-days is £46.14 and Amazon currently sells 60-day prepaid cards for £17.99.
The reason for this £1 increase per month is "in light of local and regional market conditions". Currently the 30-day subscription cost in North America is $14.99 - which today works out as £8.96.
However, they have some good news:
As a thank you for current World of Warcraft subscribers, we guarantee that players with recurring (auto-renewing) subscriptions at the time of the price change will retain their current price for two years, as long as they remain in the same recurring subscription without interruption.
The price change is due to happen when the new expansion - Warlords of Draenor - is released in November. Users will be emailed a reminder sometime in September about the price increase, so they can lock in the cheaper price.


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Afternoon Book Club
Thursday, November 21, 2013 - 1:00pm - 2:00pm ~ Kimberly Public Library
The Afternoon Book Club will be discussing In the President's Service: Behind the Scenes with Agents in the Line of Fire and the Presidents They Protect by Ronald Kessler. Today the Secret Service is in charge of protecting the President, the Vice-President, former Presidents, world leaders, big events, and even the Pope. Author Ronald Kessler then leads the reader not only through the growth, both in size and responsibility, of the United States Secret Service, but he also brings to light almost limitless Presidential peccadilloes, character traits, and faults that are almost beyond an average citizens imagination.


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Paul Ryan and Congress's Budget Divide
On March 12, in what has become a rite of spring, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin unveiled his latest Republican budget. It barely differs from his earlier ones. Ryan wants to cut spending by $4.6 trillion over the next 10 years, enact deep cuts to Medicare and Medicaid, repeal the Affordable Care Act, and drop income tax rates to 10 percent and 25 percent. The budget's two novelties are: It balances in 10 years instead of 25, and it does so by maintaining Obamacare's $716 billion in cuts to Medicare providers and the $624 billion in tax increases from the Jan. 2 fiscal cliff deal—both of which most Republicans vehemently opposed.
The next afternoon, Senate Budget Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray of Washington rolled out the Democrats' alternative. It includes only $975 billion in spending cuts and an additional $975 billion in new tax revenue gained through closing loopholes. Her plan protects Medicare and expands Medicaid to cover more low-income Americans. "It's a very distinct contrast," says Idaho Senator Mike Crapo, a Republican on the Senate Budget Committee. "It's discouraging that we are continuing the age-old debate over whether to tax and spend or whether to put into place the kinds of spending restraints that will get us on a pathway to a balanced budget and the kind of tax reforms that will create a pro-growth economy."
What's notable about these dueling budgets is the gulf between them. Members of both parties pointed out Ryan's budget ignores that Americans soundly rejected its central ideas in the last presidential election. Ryan characterized his latest offer as "an invitation" to Democrats to negotiate through standard congressional channels, rather than strike another 11th-hour deal. "We want to revive the budget process," he said, "so that at the end of the day we have a vehicle to get something done."
Ryan will get his wish. The House and Senate have begun marking up their budgets—for Senate Democrats, the first they've produced since 2009. And despite the criticism, it's not entirely true that Ryan emerged from the election unchastened. His new budget adopts a slightly softer tone. The section predicting a debt crisis invokes the "Impact on the Individual," noting the number of police officers fired when Stockton, Calif., defaulted on its debt. There's a limit to how far Ryan can go without angering conservatives to his right, who are frustrated that he kept President Obama's tax increase and did not pursue deeper entitlement cuts.
Budget talks can be loosely divided into three categories: things no one plans to negotiate, things only one side wants to negotiate, and things both sides want to negotiate but are afraid to. Both parties consider Social Security off-limits: Democrats want more stimulus; Republicans want to restore funding for military programs squeezed by automatic spending cuts. But even though both sides have spent three years warily considering ending or capping tax deductions, neither has committed to touching the major ones: for mortgage interest, retirement savings, and medical insurance premiums. Ryan's budget doesn't rule that out; it simply defers to the House Ways and Means Committee, which will eventually produce something. "We can't go from crisis to crisis," says Republican Representative Frank Wolf of Virginia. "There's an element of fatigue."
Even so, it's hard to find anyone who believes that these competing budgets will be resolved in the way civics textbooks describe: passing through their respective chambers, having their differences ironed out in a conference committee, and ultimately being signed into law by the president. Republicans have succeeded in forcing Democrats to produce a budget and restoring "regular order" in Congress. But substantively, the two sides appear no closer to agreeing than before. "Ultimately," Obama told ABC News, "it may be that the differences are just too wide."
That's the working assumption in both parties. "To some extent, these budgets are a sideshow," says John Lawrence, former chief of staff to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. "They won't ultimately govern the outcome of the substantive issues, which will get resolved elsewhere—the appropriations process, the continuing resolution, and the debt ceiling." In other words, the era of governing-by-crisis may not be over. And in the end, a backroom deal may still trump dreams of something as reassuringly mundane as a budget process.
— With assistance by James Rowley, and Roxana Tiron
The bottom line: Democrats and Republicans have both introduced budget plans for 2013, setting up the possibility for the first real negotiation in four years.


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- adj.太陽的,日光的
- 你的資助太要緊了。
- Your financial help is sorely needed.
- 太陽系儀太陽系的機械模型
- A mechanical model of the solar system.
- 僅10年前,它還被視作夕陽產業,即將被清潔的天然氣以及太陽能等可再生資源替代;如今,它卻重新獲得了能源公司、政客、甚至民眾的廣泛支持。
- Seen only 10 years ago as a sunset industry about to be supplanted by clean-burning gas and renewable sources such as solar it has enjoyed a wide revival in support from energy companies politicians and even the public.
- 因為吉姆是個天文學家,所以很容易的計算出日蝕。
- Jim calculates a solar eclipse easily because he is an astronomer.
- (天文學)關於太陽系起源的星雲假說。
- ( Astronomy) the nebular hypothesis of the origin of the solar system.
- 包括以木屑製造電力、利用地底熱能發電的地熱的生質能源等再生能源資源發展,都因金融危機而趨緩,但這些效應對一度快速成長的風能和太陽能影響更深遠。
- Renewable energy sources like biomass which involves making electricity from wood chips and geothermal which harnesses underground heat for power have also been slowed by the financial crisis but the effects have been more pronounced on once fastgrowing wind and solar.
- 在日食遠征原則島嶼附近的非洲西海岸率領由著名的英國天文學家亞瑟愛丁頓立場星級周圍黑暗的太陽能磁片觀察。
- During a solar eclipse expedition to principe island near the west coast of africa led by the renowned british astronomer arthur eddington positions of stars around the darkened solar disk were observed.
- 作為一種取之不盡的清潔能源太陽能的開發利用正引起人類從未有過的極大關注。
- As an unexhausted clean energy the utility and development of solar energy is paid more attention by people.
- 蜓座黑暗星雲是太陽系附近其中一個最活躍的恒星誕生區。
- The chamaeleon dark cloud is one of the most active star formation sites near our solar system.
- 1919年,亞瑟•艾丁頓通過在日全食時測量太陽邊緣處的星光對這個預言進行了驗證。
- In1919 sir arthur eddington tested this prediction during a solar eclipse by measuring starlight bending around the sun.
- 1968年9月22日日食的3。2釐米波段圓偏振觀測
- Observation of circular polarization at3.2cm wavelength of the solar eclipse of september221968.
- 1980年2月16日日食射電觀測大氣折射的計算及其即時改正
- The calculation and real time correction of the atmospheric refraction during the radio observation of the solar eclipse on1980feb.16
- 1987年9月23日全國日環食射電多波段觀測選題
- Multi-frequency radio observations of the solar annular eclipse of september231987
- 1989年1月14日耀斑和縱向電流的關係
- The relation between solar flare and.longitudinal current density on jan.141989
- 1995年,全國農村開發與推廣省柴節煤灶、沼氣、太陽能、風能、地熱和小水電等技術,形成了年新增和節約8000萬噸標準煤的能力,其中建成農用沼氣池569萬戶,推廣省柴節煤灶1。7億戶。
- In1995fuel-saving stoves methane solar wind and geothermal energy sources and small hydropower stations began to develop and were popularized in rural areas throughout the country.in this way annually80-million tons of standard coal equivalent can be saved and additionally produced.methane-generating pits for agricultural use were dug to benefit5.69million households and fuel-saving stoves were in use in170-million households.


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monDAY'S HIGHLIGHTS
Ducks 5, Jets 4: Stephane Robidas scored 16 seconds into overtime, and Anaheim staged the biggest comeback in team history by rallying from four goals down to beat Winnipeg. Andrew Cogliano and Luca Sbisa assisted on Robidas' fifth goal of the season. Anaheim outscored the Jets 3-0 in the third period.
Wild 3, Kings 2: Matt Moulson and Mikko Koivu scored 62 seconds apart in the third period for Minnesota, which snapped Los Angeles' six-game winning streak.
Devils 6, Panthers 3: Travis Zajac scored the first of his career-best three goals just 12 seconds in, and New Jersey held on for a wild victory.
Senators 2, Hurricanes 1: Ales Hemsky scored the only goal of the shootout for Ottawa.
Avalanche: The Avalanche will be without leading scorer Matt Duchene for about four weeks after he hurt his left knee over the weekend. He likely will miss the first round of the postseason.
Sabres: Ted Nolan is staying on as the head coach beyond this season after signing a three-year contract extension.


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AT&T joined the long list of companies laying off workers, announcing on Thursday that it would eliminate 12,000 jobs, or roughly 4 percent of its workforce.
The company cited economic pressures and a changing business mix as the reasons behind the cuts.
AT&T also said it plans to reduce its 2009 capital expenditures from 2008 levels. The company said it would issue more specific financial guidance in January, when it announces its fourth-quarter results.
It did say, however, that as a result of the layoffs, it would take a charge of approximately $600 million in the fourth quarter of 2008 to pay severance to affected employees.
The cuts will begin in December and continue throughout 2009, AT&T said in a release.
The company said it is continuing to add positions in wireless, video, and broadband units to meet customer demand.


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AZ Says The Firm Reunion 80 Percent Likely
Back during her July 2010 show at NYC's B.B. King's Club, Foxy Brown brought out former members of rap supergroup The Firm — AZ and Cormega — and announced that the group was officially back together. While her cohorts echoed the statement during the show, AZ recently backed up her claims, though hinted that Dr. Dre, one of the original members of the team, wasn't necessarily on board.
"It's a possibility, talks is in the works," AZ told The Hip Hop Chronicle UK. "Everybody's spoken to each other. I'll say like 80 percent of us spoke about the project, so we need 20 more percent back on board." AZ insinuated that he, Nas, Foxy and Cormega were ready to put in work on The Firm's long-awaited revival, but that even if Dr. Dre isn't on board, the show might still go on. "With or without him, it still might happen," he said.
The Firm, which originally consisted of Nas, Foxy, AZ and Nature, replaced the latter emcee with 'Mega before the release of their debut offering 'The Firm: The Album.' Dr. Dre handled the majority of the production on the 1997 release, which spawned the singles 'Firm Biz' and 'Phone Tap' and debuted at No. 1 in its first week.


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SOUTHFIELD, Mich. — Marley's Mellow Mood is introducing a new low-calorie option to consumers in July.
Marley's Mellow Mood Lite: Half Lemonade, Half Tea is sourced from such ingredients as chamomile, valerian root, lemon balm, hops, passionflower and melatonin. Each 8-oz. serving of the beverage is 40 calories, according to the company.
"Consumers have been asking for additional unique flavors and a low-calorie product since we launched last year, and our new Marley's Mellow Mood Lite: Half Lemonade, Half Tea is the perfect choice to help you relax and 'feel alright' this summer," Marley Beverage chief marketing officer Paul Fuegner said.
Marley's Mellow Mood beverages retail for approximately $1.79 per bottle/can.


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Procurement transformation in India's police force
Today the role of police forces has increased beyond the mere physical protection of the citizenry. They are expected to rapidly upgrade and modernize themselves, while remaining within their resource constraints. These developments have placed the public procurement framework of the police forces into limelight.
This study proposes a four-pronged framework to assess the various police procurement reform initiatives in India and around the world in the fields of
- Policy & Regulations
- Processes
- Technology
- Capacity Building
The paper analyses the various statistics and key performance indicators (KPIs) collected by agencies such as Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPR&D), Ministry of Finance (MoF), Planning Commission, etc. and other agencies.
According to industry estimates the Indian security industry will grow to USD 16 billion by 2018. The Indian market is growing at 35% as against the global figure of 7%. India's share in the global expenditure for security is 3.6%. In India, the government account for about 30% of the sectoral spend.
According to industry estimates the Indian security industry will grow to USD 16 billion by 2018.
Measures to improve current procurement network
Based on an analysis of the current status of procurement reforms and initiatives of various state police forces and drawing parallels from developments in those in other countries, this paper proposes several practical and sustainable measures that can be adopted to improve the current procurement framework in police forces in India. Some of the measures proposed include:
- Preparation of comprehensive Police Manuals and other guidance documents to cover the policies and procedures for police procurement
- Long term planning of procurement needs by Police Forces
- Deriving synergies and cost reduction in procurement process by collaborating with other divisions as well as other police forces for procurement
- Automation of the end-to-end procurement process, including demand estimation, tendering, contract management, as well as monitoring and reporting
- Capacity building and training of police personnel on the existing as well as emerging modes of police procurement
Police forces in India: an overview
Types of police forces in India
In India, police is a state subject, and therefore, the State Governments are primarily responsible for prevention, registration, detection and investigation of crime as well as for prosecution of perpetrators within their jurisdiction. The State/UT police include different types of police forces, as illustrated in the figure below.
Types of police forces in India
- Metropolitan police - responsible for maintaining order within the city
- State armed police – responsible for controlling crowd and maintaining order in emergency situations
- Traffic police - responsible for maintaining discipline on the roads and enforcing rules for movement of vehicles
- Marine police - responsible for guarding India's coastline


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Do you want us to add Wagn to the Bitnami library? You can vote for it on our wishlist.
Wagn is a semantic wiki that can be managed collaboratively. The content is managed by 'cards' that can be stacked in various combinations based on rules and settings, thus rendering them reusable. It's amazing for newbies, so much more easier than mediawiki to manage and to use.


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Win4Lin makes it much easier to move into Linux without worries about replacement office suite software, or other practical consumer-oriented programs. Windows administration is also simplified under the new hybrid operating system. One could use programs such as tar' or cpio' to make a backup of the Windows directory. If Windows were to act erratically (unlikely as it may seem), or some software were to become corrupted, the Windows directory could be removed and reinstalled - all in few keystrokes.
One of Linux's greatest strengths in a networked environment is its remote management capabilities. Using Win4Lin, many of these same strengths could be extended to the Windows environment. Several Windows machines, for instance, could be set up instantaneously across a network (with a licence for each machine, naturally!). And, if there were problems with any given installation, the problem could be addressed across the network.
Win4Lin runs on top of Linux, so memory allocation and clean up is handled by Linux. Win4Lin can be used to limit or increase the level of physical or virtual memory to which Windows has access, thereby solving many problems encountered by Windows users with high-volume memory swapping once physical memory is depleted.
Moreover, since Win4Lin acts as a layer between the software and hardware levels of a PC, the stability of Windows is increased greatly. So, if a General Protection Fault occurs, Win4Lin simply reboots Windows - a sub-second recovery! In fact, since Windows runs in a virtual environment, it need never be rebooted.


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| History | Biological Sketch | Current Monitoring and Response | PSP Database | Future Direction |
Information About Red Tide file size 1MB
Red Tide, PSP, toxic phytoplankton; whatever name is given them from a list of over sixty marine biotoxins, they spell trouble wherever they occur. Throughout history, they have made their presence known in every ocean and sea on the planet. In ancient Egypt, the historical note of "and all the waters were turned to blood" was testament to the early blooms of marine algaes. In the 1600's, early explorers noted that the native tribes of the St. Lawrence River basin had definite "taboos" toward eating shellfish during certain seasons. However, in New England, and more specifically Massachusetts, red tide was relatively unknown until 1972. During the fall of that year, Hurricane Carrie passed through the Gulf of Maine at a snail's pace during a massive toxic algal bloom in the Bay of Fundy. The counter-clockwise winds intensified the traditional water current patterns and deposited red tide dinoflagellates known as Alexandrium tamarense, along the Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts coasts. Thus was ushered in the "modern era" of red tide for the Bay State.
Biological Sketch
Alexandrium is a single-celled dinoflagellate 30 to 40 microns in size. In most cases, reproduction is asexual during optimum conditions. During periods of stress or nutrient deficiencies, reproduction reverts to sexual. Binary cellular fission occurs at the rate of about once a day. During nonvegetative periods, the phytoplankton will encapsulate into a cyst stage that settles into the benthic substrate where it can comfortably overwinter or remain dormant for several years before becoming resuspended and ready for germination. Normally, even blooms large enough to cause toxicity problems do not exhibit the "red" coloration. However, during the early seventies in Massachusetts, at least one massive bloom was indeed observed as "red tide". Large blooms have also been known to be luminescent. Nutrients include nitrogen, phosphorous and fresh water while limiting factors, other than nutrients and favorable media, include zooplanktonic grazing, algaecides and less than optimal water temperatures. Motility is accomplished by a flagellum with vertical migration to the pycnocline during the night or periods of nutrient deficiencies in the upper strata of the water column.
Current Monitoring and Response Program
The Division of Marine Fisheries initiates its annual coastline-wide toxin monitoring program in early April and continues on a weekly basis until November. These dates have been the traditional limits due to the general seasonality of Alexandrium, but may be extended if toxin remains at significant levels beyond the projected end-date.
The annual initiation of sampling is dependent upon several factors: elevated toxin results from the state of Maine, and/or the historical seasonality of Alexandrium planktonic blooms. The Maine results are used due to the coriolis effect causing a north-to-south infusion of the toxic dinoflagellates being carried by overlying freshwater lenses from their large rivers.
Shellfish samples, predominantly the blue mussel, Mytilus edulis, are collected on a weekly basis from 16 primary stations (4 north shore and 12 south shore). Mussels are used as the shellfish of choice because they're considered the best sentinel species for the PSP toxin, i.e., they have the capacity to uptake and release toxins of ambient dinoflagellates in close temporal relationship to the actual duration of Alexandrium blooms. Other species, e.g., the surf clam Spisula solidissima are collected at selected locations and usually on a secondary basis. These animals, unlike Mytilus, have a tendency to retain toxins in tissue well beyond the initial effects of the passing bloom thus eliminating them as effective temporal indicators and causing the closures on their being fished to be extended far beyond other species.
If significant elevations of toxins are noted in primary site samples, more are then collected immediately from the original sites exhibiting abnormal levels and from peripheral secondary sites. At these secondary sites (total of 47 throughout the Commonwealth), different species are collected to monitor the toxin uptake and release differences and to effectively control the fishing for these species during an event.
Response To Elevated Toxin Levels
As biotoxin levels rise above 50ug/100g of shellfish tissue, sampling is conducted more frequently at affected primary sites and extended into selected secondary sites. When levels equal or exceed 80ug/100g, the area is closed (see HARVESTING CONTROL... below) and sampling continues until 3 consecutive samples result in levels of less than 80ug. In many instances one or more species may exhibit significant reductions in toxins while others in the same growing area retain unacceptable levels. Sampling and closures reflect these levels and will be maintained until such time as the restricted species is toxin free. Therefor, the harvesting of one species may be allowed in an area while that of another is not.
Harvesting Controls During Toxic Events
As noted above, 80ug is the trigger point at which areas are "officially" reclassified to PROHIBITED and notices of closures are generated and mailed. Immediately upon notification by the lab of elevated levels, phone calls are made to the shellfish constables and/or other officials of towns effected. A computerized E-mail notice is sent to state personnel responsible for monitoring PSP events throughout the state and to the Environmental Police. Written notices containing exact area descriptions and the species effected are composed and mailed immediately following the phone and E-mail communications. Every week following the first event, an E-mail informational notice is continued to select state agencies informing them of the ongoing status of the toxin events.
When toxin levels fall below 80ug for three consecutive samples, written notices reclassifying the effected areas are prepared and mailed. Phone communications are also made to the towns to ensure a rapid re-opening of shellfish growing areas:
Other Monitoring Technologies
Other indicators of possible toxic events or the portent thereof are also used. During the past two years, the Division has been working closely with scientists from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. If results of their water sampling research indicated elevated numbers of cells (dinoflagellates) proximal to shellfish growing areas or their computerized satellite surveillance indicated extensive freshwater influences that may represent a viable medium for the introduction or in situ growth of Alexandrium, sampling in those areas was considered.
In keeping with this cooperative spirit, anytime the Division's sampling indicated elevated levels in a given area, the Woods Hole team was notified. In response, they collected water samples from the area and examined them to compute actual numbers of Alexandrium. In the future when sufficient concomitant data is available, it may be possible to more closely determine the relationship of biotoxin levels in shellfish and the densities of dinoflagellates in the area.
PSP Database
As one may imagine, the number of samples and subsequent results collected since 1972 would be relatively extensive--and it is. To date, more than 16,000 recorded results have been compiled and stored in a relational database maintained by the Division. Such diverse information as collection date, species, town, site, bioassay results, etc. make up the record format and represents an array that affords Division personnel and fellow-scientists the opportunity to analyze toxin events over a period of more than 22 years.
Species specific observances, geographical occurrences, monitoring, and other analysis is now possible using the database. Although there is a great reticence to use the current database information predictively, with a broadening of data collection during sampling and further collaboration with other scientists in the field, general forecasting of events may become possible.
Currently, the data is being reviewed to establish a historical perspective of toxin occurrences over the past 22 years. This study will highlight elevated events and their geographic frequencies. Future study considerations may be directed toward a treatise on the economic impact on selected towns and species specific fisheries. Collaborative efforts will possibly merge the Division's PSP database with meteorological and hydrographical data collected over a long period of time by Woods Hole researchers.
Future Direction
The scope and direction of the Division's biotoxin monitoring program will slightly change during the upcoming season. Plankton sampling stations in the Buzzard's Bay area and possibly on Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket islands may be established to determine possible planktonic blooms in areas not traditionally having toxic shellfish. To determine temporal and spatial extents of biotoxins in deeper fishing areas, we will be continuing the "vessel of opportunity" program where samples will be collected by these vessel in generally assigned locations.
Other biotoxins are also being considered for monitoring, i.e., domoic acid; Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning (ASP), and Diarrhetic Shellfish Poisoning (DSP). Because the causative agent of ASP, the diatom Nitzcshia pungens f. multiseries occurs primarily in the late fall and winter and the dinoflagellate responsible for DSP is peculiar to warmer seas and seasons, the biotoxin monitoring program would have to be extended to year-round and totally state-wide. Unfortunately, budget and manpower constraints negate an extension of the program into these two areas during this years monitoring. Future monitoring, however, may be mandated by the FDA.
As alluded to above, the Division, in conjunction with the Federal Food and Drug Administration, will be instituting a plankton sampling program throughout the state using volunteers from the general community and colleges. This effort will focus on sampling for the PSP species Alexandrium on a regular basis (probably weekly) at sites where shellfish samples are currently being sampled for toxin and at other locations which may experience varying levels of planktonic bloom activity. Each volunteer is trained in the identification of the organism and is issued a Swift field microscope and sampling nets and containers. This information is then coordinated with the overall biotoxin monitoring program in order to maintain a more multi-faceted perspective.
For further information on the Division's monitoring program, contact Mike Hickey


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The Pacific island nation of Tuvalu has declared a state of emergency due to a severe shortage of fresh water in the capital Funafuti, as well as a number of outer islands.
Tuvalu is one of the smallest countries in the world, with less than 11,000 people living on its low-lying coral atolls. Nearly half live on Funafuti.
The Associated Press said a New Zealand Air Force Hercules plane had been dispatched to Tuvalu, to deliver water supplies and two desalination units.
A team of Red Cross workers was also on board.
New Zealand's Foreign Minister, Murray McCully, said that two senior ministry officials had traveled to Tuvalu, and would remain there to assess the country's needs.
New Zealand will be working with partners and other donors to consider the best medium-to-long-term response options.
The Tuvalu Red Cross said water supplies in some parts of the country would run out on Tuesday, reported the BBC.
But residents have been warned against drinking water from wells. Secretary General Tataua Pefe told Radio Australia that some animals had recently died "and we think it's because of subterranean water".
Pefe said it had not rained properly in Tuvalu for more than six months, with the drought is forecast to continue until December.
Lack of rain in Tuvalu is being blamed on the La Nina weather phenomena, with the BBC reporting it is one of the world's countries most likely to be affected by climate change.


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Changes to the Dassault Falcon 7X, now in flight test, could increase its range to as much as 6,000 nm at Mach 0.80, Dassault Aviation said today. The current guaranteed range of the 7X is 5,700 nm, but Dassault is currently evaluating several range-boosting enhancements, including Dassault-designed winglets. The company also disclosed the next derivative of the popular Falcon 2000, the 2000DX, which will replace the 2000 starting with the delivery of S/N 232 at the end of next year. Like the Falcon 900DX announced at NBAA last year that replaced the 900C, the 2000DX will replace the 2000. Based on the design of the 2000EX, which has a range of 3,800 nm, the 2000DX with its 3,250-range (250 more than the Falcon 2000) is targeted for customers who operate shorter-range trips but want the comfort and performance of a large-cabin airplane. It will also feature an EASy cockpit. First flight is planned for June 2007, with certification and first deliveries expected by the end of 2008.
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The BLACKCAPS have the chance to level the series when the second Test against South Africa commences in Cape Town.
Hamish Marshall will sit out the game at Sahara Park after receiving rib injuries and resulting breathing difficulties during the second innings of the defeat at Centurion.
The State Northern Knight will relinquish his opening position, with Michael Papps likely to step in alongside State Canterbury Wizards colleague Peter Fulton.
"It's a loss for us but it's also an opportunity for one of our other batsmen to perform on what looks like a good surface," coach John Bracewell said.
"Hamish won't be available for the match, his ribs just haven't improved enough."
Shane Bond has returned home after failing to recover from the knee injury which kept him out of the first Test.
The pace bowler will also miss out on his winter move to English county Gloucestershire after being prescribed a six-week break from cricket.
Michael Mason arrived in Cape Town last week as cover and will now be considered to start at Newlands.
Nathan Astle is likely to play after his knee injury cleared, but James Franklin faced another test on his before the match.
The hosts have dropped Herschelle Gibbs and Garnett Kruger, with Hashim Amla likely to replace the batsman.
Amla, 23, scored 893 runs at 55.81 for his SuperSport Trophy side Nashua Dolphins. He will bat at number three, with Boeta Dippenaar moving to opener to partner captain Graeme Smith.
All-rounder Andrew Hall and pace bowler Andre Nel will look to challenge youngster Dale Steyn for a place in the Proteas' team, despite the tyro's impressive display in Centurion.
The South Africa v BLACKCAPS second Test begins at Sahara Park, Newlands at 8pm NZT (10am local time).
South Africa: Graeme Smith (captain), Jacques Kallis (vice-captain), Boeta Dippenaar, Ashwell Prince, AB de Villiers, Mark Boucher, Shaun Pollock, Nicky Boje, Andre Nel, Makhaya Ntini, Dale Steyn, Andrew Hall, Jacques Rudolph, Hashim Amla.
BLACKCAPS (from): Stephen Fleming (captain), Daniel Vettori (vice captain), Nathan Astle, Peter Fulton, James Franklin, Brendon McCullum, Chris Martin, Kyle Mills, Jacob Oram, Michael Papps, Jeetan Patel, Scott Styris.
- Live scoring and reports on all three of the BLACKCAPS' Test matches in South Africa will be available on www.BLACKCAPS.co.nz.


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Syndicate single-player preview – corporate hell
GameCentral goes hands-on with what is already one of 2012's most controversial first person shooters – not because of its violence towards virtual citizens but to a beloved classic.
Everyone involved in Syndicate knew exactly what the fan response was going to be as soon as it was announced. We've conducted an interview with both EA and developer Starbreeze Studios, but we're not allowed to run it, or our preview of the co-op mode, until next week. We can tell you now though that we received no good answer for why the game has only been officially announced four months before it's going to be released.
Our theory is that EA were worried about a prolonged hate campaign by fans of the Amiga original and wanted to wait until the game could speak for itself. Certainly the developer seems convinced that once people see and play it they won't care about the old game, only that the new one looks intriguingly different to the shooter norm. After having played it we can agree that it certainly does.
For those that don't remember the original it was a top down isometric game, where you controlled a squad of four cyborgs much like a modern day real-time strategy game (you can see it at the beginning of the trailer below). But the new Syndicate is nothing like that, as it's a first person shooter and you only control one character.
The setting is exactly the same as before though: a Blade Runner-inspired future where corporations, not politicians, are in charge and ordinary civilians are treated as near worthless chattel. Everyone has a chip built into their head in this dystopian future and as a corporate-designed cyborg you're able to access them and pervert their use in various ultra violent ways.
The mission we play through is an early one and involves you and a colleague landing at a rival corporation's skyscraper in an attempt to download the information from a top executive's chip. One of the macabre appeals of the original was your ability to gun down (or ideally flamethrower) crowds of innocent civilians with no penalty whatsoever.
With today's graphics that's a rather more chilling prospect and it's not clear whether it'll be possible in this game. The callous disregard for life is illustrated in other ways though, as your ally calmly shoots a couple of security guards, and a hapless worker, in the head – while chatting along to you and instructing you to 'have fun' as the two of you part ways.
Whether or not your character carries on in this way throughout the game isn't clear but for this mission at least he's all business. His first encounter involves two guards roughing up a prisoner in an interrogation room. What's going on isn't clear but you're able to 'breach' one of the guard's chips and use a Suicide ability to force him to take his own life.
He takes out the prisoner first though, and then it's only down to you to smash through the glass and continue through to your main objective. It turns out that the breach command is an all-round hacking ability that can be used as much to activate machinery as to hijack people's brains. The next room features a lot of sci-fi looking equipment and furniture, which an incoming squad of guards are using for cover – but by breaching a nearby computer you're able to retract them and make your life a lot easier.
Your breaching ability is powered by adrenaline, so you do have to get hands-on as much as possible, especially as the more powerful abilities have quite a long cooling down period. Apart from Suicide the other two in the demo are Backfire, which works on enemy's guns, and the more powerful Persuade.
The latter can be used to turn both machines and people into temporary allies, although taking control of a ceiling turret proves to be a lot more useful than a reckless, fleshy guard. Although both do make good distractions, if nothing else.
Finding the exec doesnât prove difficult and before he can commit suicide you're able to stick a very painful looking device into his ear and get at his head chip. That done itâs a straight run back to the waiting dropship.
By this point though the response to your incursion has become more co-ordinated, but handily you wander past a scientist testing out a new Gauss Gun. Once retrieved this allows you to fire round corners, by locking onto a target and simply pressing fire from wherever you are. This is useful either when you or enemies are in cover, but is also used to solve a simple puzzle where you need to open a door by shooting its lock from over the top of a wall.
This achieved the mission ends, as you reunite with your partner and take on some nasty flying droids – which thankfully can also be persuaded to your side.
Since it was an early level there wasn't much evidence of Starbreeze's unconventional storytelling (they did The Chronicles Of Riddick and The Darkness) but the demo still showed a lot of promise. Even with the nods to the original it clearly has little to do with the old game, but we're not sure that really matters.
EA were never going to make a new top down tactical game, or anything like it, but this rebooted Syndicate does seem to be an unusual and inventive first person shooter. That's a rare enough achievement that we at least are willing to forgive almost liberty.
Formats: Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PCPublisher: Electronic ArtsDeveloper: Starbreeze StudiosRelease Date: 24th February 2012
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How to remove a 22 year old indented scar on my forehead? I have this scar from a bicycle accident on my forehead since i was 6 years old, and everytime people look at my face, my scar was first thing they always notice, I'm from Philippines, can you please advise me whats the best treatment for my scar? Thank you very much.
Long Indented Old Scar on Forehead. What Do You Recommend? (photo)
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Long indented scar of forehead
1.Plastic surgery revision by a capable plastic surgeon followed by fractional laser treatments if needed. this the simplest and most straight forward option.
2. Injectable filler combined with fractional lasers. If you chose that option you may need to have repeated filler treatments.
3. Injections with stem cell enriched fat. Conservative first treatment with about 20% overcorrection. Additional fat grafting may be required depending on the initial fat graft take. This will give correction of the volume loss and improvement of the scar and skin quality.
Good Luck.
Forehead scar revision with z plasty
Scar revision with z plasty and layered closure can help improve the scar on your forehead. I would perform this procedure under local anesthesia.
Learn more: http://www.surgery90210.com/cosmetic-dermatology/38/scar-revision.aspx
Forehead Scar
Facial scars are most noticeable for a few reasons: 1) color and 2) texture and 3) depth. Scars never fully go away technically, but they can be improved in appearance so that they are minimally noticeable. If the color is different, that attracts attention. If the scar is raised (like a keloid) or depressed, that again attracts attention. The least noticeable scars are the ones that are pencil thin and light or skin color. There are also special creams that are used to improve any facial scars that are only available through a specialist.
From the photo you posted, your scar is noticeable because it is wide, depressed, and slightly different in color from the surrounding skin. It appears that revising this scar would be a great option to minimize the visibility of this. Please consult with a board certified specialist in the face to help you achieve the results you desire.
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June 12, 2010 — HBO on Demand is now airing the television show 'Robert Klein: Unfair and Unbalanced,' an irreverent stand-up performance by comedian Robert Klein accompanied by the Henry Mancini Institute Orchestra from the UM Frost School of Music. Filmed at the Amaturo Theater at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort. Lauderdale, Florida, Robert Klein skewers both sides of the aisle and provides humorous commentary on aging, marriage, and pop culture, interspersed with original songs accompanied by the multi-faceted Henry Mancini Institute Orchestra.
'Unfair and Unbalanced' Credits:
Robert Klein; writer and executive producer;
Rory Rosegarten, executive producer;
Bob Stein, producer and music director
Linda Mendoza, director
Scott Flavin, resident conductor, Henry Mancini Institute Orchestra at Frost School of Music
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Nike's new Engineered Mesh material continues its break through onto the sneaker scene as it makes another appearance on a classic runner. This time its the Air Max 97 which Nike Sportswear is bringing back in retro form next year. But this particular version we have on hand features the new EM material in a tonal Metallic Silver shade. For the most part, this edition stays true to the original (the difference being the Engineered Mesh) down to the minimal hits of Varsity Red on the Swoosh. Click through to get a full look at these AM 97's and look for them NSW retailers in January. Images: atmos
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Fall Season Furnace Maintenance Tips
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Furnace Maintenance Tips for the Fall season!
Tis the season the colder weather approaches us. It's time to turn off your central air conditioner, clean your duct system from all the summer allergens, and finally, to turn on the furnace. First off, it's a good idea if you live in an area that is prone to snow fall to have an air conditioner cover for you unit to protect it from the winter elements. Another great idea is to consider having your duct system cleaned, especially if you haven't had it done in a long time. I will post some tips on that in my next blog as it's an important subject all on its own. The last thing is to check your furnace, as it's what will keep you warm and comfortable during this cold season coming upon us.
There are a number of reasons for being proactive with your furnace, it improves your homes energy efficiency and also prevents any future problems that may occur in a time when you need your furnace the most.
OK so here we go a few Furnace Maintenance tips to get you ready for the winter season:
- Make sure your drain pan under the cooling coil mounted in the furnace plenum is draining well, and cleaned.
- to ensure that you have no debris preventing your warm air from flowing through your house as best as possible.
- Check the overall appearance of your heating system: is it positioned straight and level, do you see any rust or corrosion on the interior or exterior of the unit? Any strange noises coming from the system?
- Check your carbon monoxide alarm, change the batteries, test it to see it is working properly this is a vital step that most people ignore. Please do not ignore this step!
- Call your local heating and cooling company to have your furnace looked at. Furnace maintenance and cleaning by a professional ensures that everything will get looked at. If you live in Southern Ontario A1 Air Conditioning & Heating offers a great high value service!
- Check your thermostat; make sure it is working properly. Test it by turning on the furnace using the thermostat; if it doesn't work you will need to have it recalibrated.
I am leaving out the steps that are taken by a licensed trained professional should do, because of safety reasons. I do not want someone going ahead and getting electrocuted or blow up their house. It has nothing to do with sales but just trying to be proactively safe.
Practice these steps and you can at least do you best to prevent costly breakdowns or even replacing a new unit. Good Luck, and please post question if you are unsure of something before doing it! Safety first.
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3 life skills grandparents can (and should) instill and encourage
Grandparents matter. As a site coordinator for the local Children's Literacy Center and in my own personal experience, I continually see ways grandparents make a difference—for harried parents, for folks who interact with the grandchildren now and in the future, and, most importantly, for the grandchildren themselves.
Specifically, I consider grandparents prime influencers who can and should take advantage of the endless opportunities to instill and encourage, among other things, these three very important life skills:
READING: As coordinator of a program that requires participating students to spend 15 minutes a day reading to or with an adult, of course I'm going to say that grandparents can help their grandchildren read. But I'm not talking just about kids with reading challenges. And I'm not talking just about sharing a book together now and then. I mean that always and in all ways, grandparents should stress the importance—and the enjoyment—of reading. It's possibly THE most important life skill a child can and should master. Every chance you get, read to him or her, or have the child read to you. Read books, comics, websites, the newspaper, magazines, recipes, road signs, maps and more. Long-distance grandparents can share books on Skype and through online services such as Readeo, Story Time For Me and others. Give books, magazines, graphic novels, how-to guides as gifts, and request the same when asked what you want for Mother's Day, Christmas, birthdays. Have reading materials on hand, as well as in hand.
Lessons are always reinforced by modeling, so model the life of a reader. Grandchildren will remember such things as seeing Grandma reading craft instructions and the daily news—online or in print—and Grandpa poring over maps, manuals, cookbooks. Model, model, model! It's the simplest, most subtle way of effectively instilling a desired behavior.
MANNERS: Politeness goes beyond "please" and "thank you" and table manners, although those are indeed biggies. But manners include things like punctuality, thank you notes, and RSVPing—one way or the other—when requested. How best to encourage such behavior? Again, by modeling such behavior. Be on time, send thank you notes, and RSVP when invited to a grandchild's function, even if an RSVP wasn't specifically requested. Point out the importance—and benefits—of being on time, whenever you have been, whenever possible. Send thank you notes to grandchildren when they give you ANYthing. Every.Single.Time. Those cards will be cherished as much as the lesson. And never fail to RSVP, even if it feels silly. Calling a grandchild to say "Hey, I just wanted to RSVP to your program (or party or recital or game)" makes it clear how easy, appreciated, and downright awesome the whole RSVP thing can be.
SPEAKING: Everyone likely agrees that kids should read and be polite. But I also think kids should be capable participants in discussions...or at least capable of speaking for themselves when spoken to. One of my pet peeves is kids who cannot (or will not) respond when adults say "hello" to them or offer little beyond a perfunctory glance and a reluctantly mumbled "hi." Toddlers are toddlers; I understand. But they should know from an early age that when an adult friend or family member speaks to them, the polite thing (see above) is to respond. By the time a kid is a teen, there's absolutely no excuse for not responding.
When my girls were teens, a few of their friends thought nothing of never acknowledging parents in the room—even when I spoke directly to them with something as simple as "Hey, how are you?" Gah! I currently have students who when asked what they've been reading or what their favorite part of a story was, Mom or Dad (and sometimes even Grandma) will tell me that little Junior loved this or that. No, I want to hear Junior tell me. Just let kids talk. The more they do it, the better at it they'll be come. Even the shy kids. Honest.
Grandparents can encourage grandchildren to comfortably and appropriately speak up by allowing them to place their own orders with restaurant servers or speak to librarians and cashiers themselves, and by not allowing grandchildren to slip in and out of a room without politely saying "hello" or otherwise acknowledging adults who are present, be they friends or family. Most importantly, grandparents can and should have discussions with their grandchildren about nearly anything of interest to the child, teaching grandkids what enjoyable conversing looks like, feels like.
Fortunately grandparents—in most cases—are not responsible for the day-to-day tasks and challenges of raising their grandchildren. But with myriad opportunities to instill and encourage important life skills, grandparents can certainly have an impact on some of those challenges and be the difference that helps their grandchildren succeed.
Today's question:
Which of the three life skills above do you recall being encouraged by one or both of your grandparents?


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Positions on penny pinching
However, some marketers are looking at the gloom and doom as a new way to reinvent their signature products or brand positioning. A fantastic example comes from Fortune magazine's coverage of J Crew's CEO Mickey Drexler pointing out to designers that in tough times, people buy sensible, lasting style.
Other marketers are using the penny-pinching to offer small, affordable perks to their buyer base. While a shopper may not invest in a deluxe cable package, spending $10 a month to rent videos could still fill a TV watcher's entertainment void. What is your company doing to reposition itself during the time that consumers are watching their wallets?


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Passings: Alyce L. (Robinson) Falge
On Sunday, January 13, 2013, at the young age of 92, Alyce L. (Robinson) Falge left on her last trip.
She was born May 15th, 1920 in Booneville, CA.?She will be remembered as a great mom, sister, grandma, and best friend.?She was always there when needed and helped all.?She was a Boy Scout and Blue Bird leader while she lived and raised her children in Willits and Santa Rosa.?She loved a great adventure like traveling to Oakland for school, where she learned piano and became an avid lover of music, to going to Hawaii with a friend.?She was raised in Spy Rock when the railroads were still going north with her father's help.?This had to be the reason why she loved to travel so much.?They later moved to Willits where she graduated from Willits High School in 1938.
She will be missed very much by her daughter, Toni (Vic) Nelsen; sons, Mike (Sherry) Falge and Pat Falge; sister, Helen McPhillips; sister-in-law, Tilda Robinson; granddaughters, Zepher Wagenet, Holly (Dexter) Roberson, Heather Falge, Caity Falge, Michelle Sutton, Linda (Scott) Rice; adopted family, Debbie, Richard, and Macaela Stenback; many nieces and nephews, great-nieces and nephews and great-great nieces and nephews, great-grandchildren, cousins and friends.
Alyce is preceded in death by her parents, Clarence A. Robinson and Clara Blanche Stevens, her?husband Albert Patrick Falge, and daughter-in-law, Magdolna "Magie" Falge.
Memorial services will be held at 1:30 PM, Sunday, January 20, 2013 at Chapel of the Lakes, 1625 N. High St., Lakeport.
A pot luck gathering will follow at the Witter Springs Ranch located at 3205 Old Witter Springs Rd., Witter Springs, CA.?
Please come and share your stories about Alyce with all.
The family prefers donations be made to the American Cancer Society, American Heart Association, or the Macular Degeneration research Program of the American Health Assistance Foundation.
For further information please call Chapel of the Lakes at 263-0357 or 994-5611 or visit www.chapelofthelakes.com