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Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ20
The 4-megapixel Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ10 offers a host of professional features at an affordable price. It includes a 12x optical zoom with image stabilization, full manual controls (with a manual focus ring), a hot shoe accessory connector, and movie mode with audio. This Lumix model (the DMC-FZ10S) has a silver body; the DMC-FZ10K has a black body.
Optics and Resolution
With its 4-megapixel CCD sensor, you can capture up to a 2304 x 1728 pixel image for prints up to 11 x 17 inches. It also has 1600 x 1200, 1280 x 960, and 640 x 480 pixel resolution settings (and 1920 x 1080 for display on HDTV wide screen TVs with a 16:9 aspect ratio).
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The Leica DC Vario-Elmarit lens features an F2.8 brightness throughout the entire 12x zoom range, which is equivalent to a 35-420mm zoom lens on a conventional 35mm film camera. (The DMC-FZ10 also has a 3x digital zoom.) Its precision lens, extraordinary telephoto features and no-lag processing speed enable this camera to capture every detail of distant or quick-moving subjects with superb brightness and clarity. The Lumix DMC-FZ10 image stabilization system uses gyroscopes within the camera to sense camera shake and shift the lens elements to compensate for the movement–thus enabling you to shoot at a slower shutter speed.
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Movie Mode
In addition to taking still photos, the DMC-FZ10 can also record 320 x 240 movie clips at either 30 or 10 frames per second (fps) with audio. Your video length is limited only by the size of your memory card. The included 16 MB card can hold 25 seconds of 30 fps video.
More Features
In addition to the variety of convenient automatic controls, the DMC-FZ10 has full manual controls for exposure, focusing, and white balance. Manual exposure capability gives you complete freedom for capturing images according to your preferences, including intentional overexposure or underexposure. The manual focus ring provided on the lens barrel, like traditional camera lenses, allows you to focus on the particular part of your subject according to your preference. Advanced histogram functions on the DMC-FZ10, like a digital light meter, provide a graphic representation of the luminance level of the pixels composing an image for more precise exposure control for quality photos.
Incredibly responsive, the DMC-FZ10 captures consecutive shots nearly as quickly as a motor-driven film camera. As soon as the camera's CCD captures the image signal, Panasonic's multi-tasking Venus Engine LSI simultaneously displays images on the LCD while writing data to the memory card, significantly reducing lag time between shots. To capture sudden events as they unfold, Panasonic's exclusive Mega Burst recording feature enables consecutive rapid-fire shooting, capturing 4 frames per second with undiminished quality from frame to frame.
Other features include:
- 2-inch LCD display with 130,000-pixel resolution
- Flash modes: Auto, Red-Eye Auto, On, Red-Eye On, Red-Eye Slow Sync
- Focus modes: Auto Focus System, Manual Focus, Normal/Macro (Dial), Spot AF On/Off (Spot Mode), Continuous AF On/Off
- Audio recording with images up to 5 seconds
As an added bonus, Panasonic includes a lens hood, which comes in handy when you're shooting outdoors. The lens hood is threaded for 72 mm filters, as well.
|Designed for action shots, Panasonic's Mega Burst imaging captures up to eight full-resolution shots in two seconds.
Storage and Transfer
Images are stored on either Secure Digital (SD) or MultiMediaCard (MMC) memory cards. A 16 MB SD card is included with the DMC-FZ10. At the 2304 x 1728 pixel setting, the 16 MB card can hold 8 images at Fine Quality mode or 16 at Standard Quality mode.
Images can be downloaded to either a Mac or PC via USB 1.1 connectivity, which means the camera can be connected to any USB-based Windows Me/2000/XP and Mac OS 8.6 or later computer without installing any software.
Power and Size
The camera is powered by a rechargeable lithium-ion battery (included). It measures 3.4 x 5.5 x 4.2 inches and weighs 19.4 ounces (550 grams).
What's In The Box
This package includes the Lumix DMC-FZ10S (silver) digital camera, 16 MB Secure Digital memory card, rechargeable lithium-ion battery (CGA-S002A), AC adapter/battery charger, lens hood, lens cap, neck strap, USB and A/V cables, and 139-page printed manual. It also includes the following software:
- ArcSoft PhotoBase–Transfer images from an SD Memory Card to a PC that "footnotes" and display them in a list
- ArcSoft PhotoImpression–Adjust colors and process images to create calendars, cards, etc.
- ArcSoft Panorama Maker–Merge separate photos to create a single image
- ArcSoft PhotoPrinter Pro–Select numerous photos to print together as one group
- SD Viewer for DSC–Makes it easy to check image data on an SD Memory Card. Use it to create slide shows and save them on an SD Memory Card (For Windows)


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acetoacetic acid[ah-se″to-ah-se´tik]
one of the ketone bodies formed in the body in metabolism of certain substances, particularly in the liver in the combustion of fats. It is present in the body in increased amounts in abnormal conditions such as uncontrolled diabetes mellitus and starvation.
β-ketobutyric acid/β-ke·to·bu·tyr·ic ac·id/ (-bu-tēr´ik) acetoacetic acid.
beta-ketobutyric acid
See acetoacetic acid.
the second letter of the Greek alphabet, B or β; used to denote the second position in a chemical classification system. Often used in names of chemical compounds to distinguish one of two or more isomers or to indicate the position of substituent atoms or groups in certain compounds. Also used to distinguish types of radioactive decay; brain rhythms or waves; adrenergic receptors; secretory cells of the various organs of the body that stain with basic dyes, such as the beta cells of the pancreas; and the type of hemolysis induced by bacteria that results in a zone of complete hemolysis when grown on blood agar, except for staphylococci.
beta adrenergic
see adrenergic.
beta-adrenergic receptors,
β-adrenergic receptors specific sites on effector cells that respond to epinephrine. There are two types: β1-receptors, found in the heart and small intestine, and β2-receptors, found in the bronchi, blood vessels and uterus.
beta agonists
see adrenergic.
beta barrels
a form of secondary structure of a polypeptide in which β strands of amino acids are wound into a super secondary structure; usually interconnected by α helical regions of the polypeptide on the outside of the molecule.
a drug that blocks the action of epinephrine at beta-adrenergic receptors on cells of effector organs. There are two types of these receptors: β1-receptors in the myocardium and β2-receptors in the bronchial and vascular smooth muscles. The principal effects of beta-adrenergic stimulation are increased heart rate and contractility, vasodilation of the arterioles that supply the skeletal muscles, and relaxation of bronchial muscles.
beta brain waves
those having a frequency of more than 10 hertz (pulsations per second); seen during wakefulness. See also electroencephalography.
beta-carboline indoleamine alkaloid
poisoning causes a nervous syndrome of hyper- or hypomotility, muscle tremor, flexed paresis of fore- or hindlimbs, hypermetria, walking backwards, convulsions. A plant poison found in Peganum, Tribulus, Kallstroemia spp.
beta carbon
carbon-3 of a molecule or the carbon atom two on from the function group of a molecule, the carbon(s) of which are not included in the lettering.
hormone secreted by central nervous system, hypothalamus, gastrointestinal tract. See also endorphin.
beta fibrillosis
see amyloidosis.
beta-folded domains
compact, locally folded region of tertiary structure containing the β-sheets or β-turns.
beta hemolysin
is a sphingomyelinase and is produced by staphylococci. It produces partial hemolysis of sheep and cattle erythrocytes. It appears to have little pathogenic effect. See also beta hemolysis.
beta-hydroxy-beta-methylglutaryl coenzyme A
1. intermediate in the formation of ketones.
2. key starting compound in the synthesis of cholesterol.
salt of the major circulating ketone body in animals, formed from the reduction of acetoacetic acid.
beta-hydroxybutyrate dehydrogenase
mitochondrial enzyme catalyzing the NADH-linked-reduction of acetoacetate to β-hydroxybutyrate.
beta-ketobutyric acid
beta particle
an electron emitted from a nucleus.
beta radiation
see radiation injury, radiotherapy.
beta sheet (β-sheet)
a common structural feature of many proteins in which the single polypeptide chain is folded back and forth upon itself with each folded section running in an opposite direction to its nearest neighbors. The folded sections are held together by hydrogen bonds and the arrangement which occurs, particularly in the core of proteins, confers great stability on the molecule.
beta subunit
second-named chain (or subunit) occurring in the functional organization of macromolecules, usually proteins, containing two or more chains.

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Hybrid vehicle rebates produce scant environmental benefits, high cost: study
Despite major costs to taxpayers in the U.S. and Canada, government programs that offer rebates to hybrid vehicle buyers are failing to produce environmental benefits, a new UBC study says.
The study finds that hybrid sales have come largely at the expense of small, relatively fuel-efficient, conventional cars, rather than large SUVs, trucks and vans, which produce substantially greater carbon emissions.
"If the intention of rebate programs is to replace gas guzzlers with hybrids, they are failing," says Ambarish Chandra, a professor at UBC's Sauder School of Business and study co-author. He says large vehicle sales have risen steadily since the introduction of hybrid rebates.
"People are choosing hybrids over similarly priced small- and medium-sized conventional cars, which are not far behind hybrids for fuel efficiency and emissions," says Chandra. "The reductions in carbon emissions are therefore not great."
The study also finds that the majority of consumers who purchase hybrids were not motivated to do so by government rebates, says Chandra, whose co-authors include Sumeet Gulati, assistant professor in UBC's Dept. of Food and Resource Economics, and Milind Kandlikar of UBC's Liu Institute for Global Issues and Institute of Asian Research.
"Our estimates indicate that two-thirds of people who buy hybrids were going to buy them anyway," says Chandra. "So for the majority, rebates are not changing behaviour - they are subsidizing planned purchases."
According to the study, the inefficiency of rebate programs rises disproportionately when governments increase rebate levels. "When B.C.'s rebate jumped from $1,000 to $2,000 in 2005, the actual cost of reducing carbon emissions more than doubled," he says, noting that Ontario recently increased its rebate to a maximum of $10,000 per hybrid vehicle.
The study finds that Canadian provinces that offer rebates have spent an average of $195 per tonne of carbon saved or, equivalently, $0.43 for every litre of gasoline that a vehicle consumes over its 15 year average life expectancy.
Chandra says that governments could garner greater environmental benefits by purchasing carbon offsets (currently priced between $3 and $40 per tonne on carbon markets) or investing in green jobs and technologies.
While hybrid rebates help governments to appear environmentally progressive, Chandra suggests that some programs may serve as de facto "bailouts" for the North American auto industry.
"The criteria for Ontario's recent rebate increase seem designed to benefit domestic manufacturers, especially General Motors," Chandra says. "The biggest rebates will be given to purchasers of the Chevy Volt, rather than other hybrids like the Toyota Prius."
Hybrid rebate programs are currently offered by the governments of the U.S. and 13 states, including Washington, Oregon, Illinois and Colorado, and five Canadian provinces, including B.C., Ontario, Quebec, PEI and Manitoba. The Canadian government offered hybrid rebates during 2007-2008.
Researchers used Canadian vehicle sales data over a 17-year period from 1989 to 2006. Results are believed to extend to the U.S. market, given the similarities between auto industries, in terms of vehicle buying patterns, pricing structures and car models.
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PENSACOLA, Fla. - One final jobs report before Election Day and the big storm threatening the East Coast loom large as President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney head into the final full week of campaigning in a race polls show is extraordinarily close.
Democrats claim math is on the president's side. Republicans insist Romney's got the momentum.
"We're seeing more and more enthusiasm, and more and more support," a confident Romney says in messages to supporters, arguing that his performances in the three presidential debates has reinvigorated his campaign and created a national movement.
Obama is banking on his get-out-the-vote efforts in the most competitive states. He's also making personal appeals as he encourages Americans to stick with him for a second term. During a whirlwind tour last week through some of the most pivotal states, he said, "After all these years, you know me. You know I mean what I say."
In pursuit of the 270 electoral votes for victory, each nominee is starting to make his closing arguments. The goal is to win over the narrow slice of undecided, independent voters, moderates and women in particular, and to persuade supporters to vote on Nov. 6, if not earlier in the many states where voting is under way. Roughly one-third of the electorate will have voted before Election Day.
The question now is whether the momentum Romney picked up after the debates is growing and can overcome the president's strong voter-identification and early voting efforts in the tightest states.
The campaigns are scrambling to tweak schedules, shift manpower and pump millions of more dollars into TV ads in the nine states that will determine the outcome. Deep-pocketed outside groups are paying for direct mail, automated phone calls and other get-out-the-vote efforts.
Total campaign spending has exceeded $2 billion, making this presidential race the most expensive in the history of electoral politics.
But there's a risk that all those commercials, phone calls and mailings have caused many people to tune out.
"I'm so sick of those commercials," said Cora Blakey, a retiree who stood in long lines with about 13,000 people to see Obama last week at an outdoor park in Las Vegas. "Everybody's bashing everybody. When they come on, I turn the channel."
Any number of factors still could shift the race.
A massive weather system bearing down on the East Coast threatens to complicate the final days of campaigning and early voting across at least four pivotal states -New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio and Virginia.
With each man claiming to be best able to revive the struggling economy, the latest jobs report due Friday from the Labor Department will shine an 11th-hour spotlight on the country's health four days before most people vote. Last week, the most recent snapshot of economic growth showed the U.S. recovery remains tepid.
At Romney's Boston base and Obama's Chicago headquarters, aides are focused on the factors they can control. That means how and where their candidate spends his time and money in the nine states that will decide the outcome - Colorado, Florida, Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Wisconsin and Virginia.
Both sides acknowledge that Obama has a larger campaign organization on the ground in most states, and that Democrats have an edge in the push to get supporters to the polls early in many of the most competitive states.
Obama advisers insist he is leading or tied in all nine of those states, though strategists in both parties say North Carolina has shifted toward Romney in recent days. Romney aides insist that state-based polling underestimates the former Massachusetts governor's popularity with independents.
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Despite the heavy focus on turnout, Obama's campaign says it is still working to persuade undecided voters and soft Romney supporters to back the president. That's why Obama is focusing much of his travel in the campaign's final stretch on swing areas of competitive states, including Green Bay, Wis., Orlando and Denver. Romney is focused on Ohio, Florida and Wisconsin and expects to travel to New Hampshire on Tuesday.
Obama aides say they expect the demographics of the electorate to look similar to the 2008 election, with slight increases in black and Hispanic voters. They attribute that both to natural population growth and the campaign's efforts to boost minority voter registration.
While Romney and Obama are deadlocked in national polls, there were signs that the burst of momentum Romney got from the debates had waned in Ohio, Virginia and elsewhere. Because Obama starts with more states and votes solidly in his expected win column, Romney's team has fewer ways to reach the 270 electoral votes.
Seeking to create more options and influence voters in neighboring states, Romney has made modest television advertising investments in Minnesota and Maine, competing in states that haven't supported a Republican in at least two decades.
Ohio and Wisconsin, where Democrats have an edge, have emerged as linchpins to his strategy.
Democratic strategists say that Romney's opposition to the auto bailout that resurrected the American auto industry continues to hurt him across the industrial Midwest. Obama seized on Romney's position during last week's third and final debate, a moment Democrats say helped reverse the Republican candidate's momentum among working class white voters, an important constituency in blue-collar Ohio.
"To his credit, Romney got himself back into the race. But it's not enough," said Tad Devine, a Democratic strategist and senior adviser to 2000 and 2004 presidential nominees Al Gore and John Kerry.
Still, Romney was greeted by large enthusiastic crowds in the thousands in Ohio, Iowa and Florida in recent days, a sign Republican pollsters and strategists attributed to higher intensity of support from his campaign's base.
Romney aides suggest that swing-state polls overestimate Obama's support. Obama aides dismiss polls showing Obama losing support among women.
"It's going to be a tight race right to the end," said Romney senior strategist Eric Fehrnstrom. "But we're riding a wave and it hasn't hit the beach yet."
Both sides agree this race will be won at the margins.
That explains why Obama's campaign has been working hard to undercut Romney's support among women by citing links between Romney and an Indiana Senate candidate, Richard Mourdock, who drew fire for saying that pregnancies resulting from rape are "something God intended."
Romney aides said he disagreed with the comment but Romney himself refused to condemn the remark or call on Mourdock to remove TV ads the GOP presidential nominee had filmed for him.
The renewed attention on abortion came just as polls showed Romney having narrowed Obama's advantage with women. Now Democratic pollsters say they see evidence that Romney may be losing those gains among women, especially in Virginia and Colorado.
Not that he's ceding ground.
"These are tough times for middle-income Americans," Romney said Friday night in North Canton, Ohio. "How many single moms these days are scrimping and saving so they can put a good meal on the table at the end of the day for their kids?"


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Lock your lover up tight with this fantasy bondage set! Strap on sets of adjustable ankle and wrist cuffs – they're strong enough to pull against, but soft on skin. Each comes off easily with the tug of a Velcro strip! And your partner will love moaning around the breathable, bite-able gag! Includes comfortable positioning pillow, feather 'tickler' and blindfold!
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If you're a bondage beginner or you want to help introduce your partner to all the excitement, the Purple Pleasure Bondage Kit is a great choice. Every piece has a touch of light purple color that gives the bondage set a level of 'lightness' – where black with heavy buckles can be seriously intimidating, this bondage set is friendly and approachable, the perfect kit for when a little joking and teasing go hand in hand with kinky fun!
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Autumn abounds; sepia tendrills creep through trees and hedgerows. The dichroic blur of a dragonfly glances across river surface as I fill the basket with damsons, wild carrot heads twisting themselves into forlorn curls along the muddy track. The countryside is contemplating the onset of winter. Serves 4.
4 Duck breasts, skin on
Chinese five spice powder
200g Damsons
A small piece of fresh root ginger, grated
1/2 Red onion, thinly sliced
4Tbsp Caster sugar
A splash of rosehip vinegar
The zest and juice of 1 orange
1 Star anise
Groundnut oil
1 Gently soften the ginger, onion and orange zest in a small pan while you de-stone the damsons. Stir in the fruit, sugar, star anise, orange juice and vinegar, then cook for a further 10 minutes (if your damsons are a touch astringent you may have to add a little extra sugar along the way). Leave to cool.
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Since we arrived in Paris, my husband Lulu and I have taken the opportunity to have romantic getaways in Europe and leave baby Aria with my parents. My parents are thrilled to get to have time alone with their granddaughter, and thankfully, so is Aria. As the crazy mom that I am, I've left a long list of instructions for my mom to ensure the happy well-being of my baby girl, and that includes what she eats. Ever since Aria started eating solid food, I've managed to feed her only homemade baby food. I use the term baby food loosely, since I only feed Aria food that I would also eat.
I've taught Maman one of Aria's favorite soups: roasted bell pepper soup. It's a healthy blend of lentils, brown rice and roasted bell peppers. When Lulu and I came home, there was still some soup left, so we all ate it as a first course. I garnished it with sweet basil and a drizzle of balsamic reduction. It's fantastic!
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For most, the name of this dish evokes dreams of animated rodents scurrying around a Parisian restaurant kitchen. In reality though, ratatouille is a French stewed vegetable dish from the seaside city of Nice. I make my version with zucchini (courgette in French), eggplant (aubergine), olives, capers, bell peppers, mushrooms and tomatoes. With the exception of the tomatoes, everything is fresh. I prefer canned tomatoes in this dish because they tend to be sweeter (especially during the winter season).
Given the abundance of fresh vegetables, this dish would be perfect for the summer. In fact, I make it often when the vegetables in my garden ripen. I also like it in the winter though, because it's excellent comfort food. The flavor of the veggies marries wonderfully with the herbs and spices. My family always ends up fighting over the "broth" at the bottom of the bowl.
Ratatouille can be eaten with just about anything. Crusty bread and rice are common options, but my personal favorite delivery device is a savory crêpe. However it makes it to your mouth though, you'll be happy it did!
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Edamame and Celery Salad with Roasted Peppers
I'm getting ready for our anniversary trip, so I haven't had a lot of time to cook. My aunt from Vietnam just came for a visit. She happens to be a vegetarian as well. I met her seven years ago when she came to visit my family in Paris. I remembered that she loves edamame, or baby soybeans boiled in salt water.
I decided to make a nice salad for her that incorporated edamame. I added roasted red bell pepper, perlini mozzarella and celery, along with Beluga lentils for color. I made a dressing with garlic, sherry vinegar, Dijon mustard and walnut oil.
The salad has a really nice contrast of flavors, colors and textures. If you've never tried edamame before, this is a great way to get acquainted with this tasty ingredient.
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Vegetarian Tortilla Soup Recipe
I had 5 tortillas left-over from the burritos we made over the weekend that were going stale, so I decided to make a large pot of tortilla soup. I use the tortillas as a thickening agent in the soup, and also as a garnish on top of the dish. To the tortillas I added tomatoes and tomato paste for a little tartness, jalapeños for a little heat, and some kidney beans and soy chorizo for protein.
The spices give the soup an earthy flavor and the Cotija cheese and sour cream that I top each serving with are very soothing for the taste-buds.
Tortilla soup is a really hearty dish that's the perfect cure for the dreary weather we've been having here as of late.
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Vegetarian Orzo Pasta Salad
Orzo is a rice shaped pasta that is very convenient for making salads. Just dice all the vegetables the same size as the orzo grains, add a vinaigrette, and you're all set. If you need meat in your meal, diced smoked turkey is a healthy and tasty option.
The reason I made this is that Lulu's family organized a fun picnic for Memorial weekend in Big Basin. It was a pot luck, and I volunteered to make the veggie dish. The orzo pasta salad is easy to make and easy to transport, which are both important considerations when you're planning a picnic. Just drizzle the vinaigrette when you're ready to eat. Make it for your next family picnic or barbecue; it's guaranteed to be a hit!
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I'm on a bit of a vanilla kick lately, if you couldn't tell. Vanilla Bean Cupcakes. Vanilla Bean Ice Cream. It's a flavor that's so classic and simple, one that every baker should have in their arsenal. Yet, finding the perfect recipe is so difficult. I struck gold with the cupcakes, and with 3 egg yolks hanging around begging to be used, I thought I'd break in copy of The Perfect Scoop, by David Lebovitz, and give ice cream a shot too.
I wasn't holding out much hope for this ice cream, but even after all the potential disasters, it came out great! Unlike most of the ice creams I've made in the past, it's smooth and creamy, not at all grainy or icy in texture. And it's perfectly vanilla flavored. Not bland and not too overpowering. Drizzle some chocolate sauce or caramel over top. Serve it up with a piece of pie. Eat it straight out of the container. I'm definitely making this one again! Hurry up, warmer weather!
Vanilla Bean Ice Cream
Adapted from The Perfect Scoop
Makes 1 pint
½ cup whole milk
¼ cup plus 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
1 cup heavy cream
Pinch of salt
½ vanilla bean, split in half lengthwise
3 large egg yolks
½ teaspoon vanilla extract
1. Warm the milk, sugar, ½ cup heavy cream, and salt in a medium saucepan. Scrape the seeds of vanilla bean into milk and add bean as well. Cover, remove from heat, and let steep at room temperature for 30 minutes.
2. Pour remaining half cup cream into a large bowl and set a fine mesh strainer over top. In a separate medium bowl, whisk together egg yolks. Slowly pour warm milk mixture into the egg yolks, whisking constantly to combine, then scrape the mixture back into the saucepan.
3. Stir mixture constantly over medium heat with a heatproof spatula, scraping the bottom as you stir, until the mixture thickens and coats the spatula. (It should leave a clear trail that doesn't flow back together when you run your finger across the spatula.) Remove from heat and pour the custard through the fine mesh strainer into the bowl with the cream. Stir to combine. Put the vanilla bean into the mixture as well, add the vanilla extract, and stir until cool over an ice bath.
4. Once cooled to room temperature, cover with plastic wrap, pressing down onto the surface of the custard to keep a skin from forming, and chill in the refrigerator for at least 2 hours, up to overnight.
5. When ready to churn, remove vanilla bean, then freeze mixture in your ice cream maker according to manufacturer's directions.


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Have you ever wondered why most people don't compare cheap car insurance quotes? Some people chose their insurance companies by asking family or friends for their company's name. Other chose their insurance by going with the highly advertised names they heard on TV or the radio. But when asked if they ever compare car insurance quotes, many individuals just give you a weird look like you asked them something strange or ridiculous.
Many have been with their insurance brokers for so long they've become close friends. Others will tell you they never speak to the same broker twice because the company is so large they don't get personal service anymore. It's come to the point where receiving a letter or bill in the mail is the only correspondence we get from our insurance companies. Think about it folks, when was the last time you received a call or letter from your insurance broker letting you know that your rates were going to be lowered because you've been driving well this year? OK, stop laughing I was just trying to make a point.
Nowadays, anyone can go online and compare cheap car insurance quotes before deciding on which company to buy insurance from. It's no longer necessary to pay the same rates every year without any chance of having your rates lowered. Why do insurance companies raise our rates the first chance they get? My insurance was raised after having a 10 year clean record because I was involved in an auto accident that was proven to be the other guys fault. It was explained to me that my rates went up because I was now considered to be a high risk. Well, I immediately asked where my discount was for my past 10 years of safe driving. You guessed right; the phone went quiet and I was put on hold to speak with a supervisor. After that experience, I found out that many online services would offer me a number of different rates from various insurance companies making it much easier and faster for me to make my decision for buying insurance for my car.
It's time for all of us to wise up and decide to compare cheap car insurance quotes from other companies. Getting the best rates is now a choice we can make by educating ourselves on which companies are offering the lowest rates in our area for the year and specific model car we drive. Don't be fooled into thinking that dealing with large national insurance companies will get you automatic discounts and the lowest rates because they have so many customers.


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Drug Abuse Aspects of HIV/AIDS (R03)
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Drug Abuse Aspects of HIV/AIDS (R03): This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) issued by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), National Institutes of Health (NIH), encourages Small Grant Program (R03) applications to examine the drug abuse aspects of HIV/AIDS, including research on drug-related risk behaviors, addiction and HIV disease, and drug use/HIV-related co-morbidities and consequences. Applications are needed to identify and predict changes in the epidemiology of HIV/AIDS among injection and non-injection drug users and among their sexual partners; to develop and test interventions for primary and secondary HIV prevention, including drug treatment interventions; to improve HIV testing, counseling, and treatment services for those living with HIV/AIDS; and to address basic mechanisms involved in HIV infection and AIDS pathogenesis in the context of drug abuse and addiction.
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CULLOWHEE, N.C. – The Tennessee Tech soccer team found itself in the middle of a defensive battle Sunday afternoon, playing Western Carolina to a stalemate for 77 minutes before the Catamounts nabbed a late goal to take the win.
Both teams struggled to put up shots in the first half, with WCU edging the Golden Eagles 3-2, including a 2-0 nothing advantage in the shots-on-goal department. Freshman goalkeeper Jordan Brown managed two saves in the first half, the most impressive one coming off a Catamount penalty kick in the 15th minute.
Tech attempted eight first-half corner kicks, but was unable to translate any of them into shots-on-goal thanks to a strong defensive effort by Western Carolina. WCU attempted five corners of its own, however the team was also unable to turn it into an offensive attack.
The Golden Eagles came out strong defensively to start the second half, but the Catamounts halftime adjustments proved to be just good enough as they snuck in a goal off a corner kick in the 77th minute. WCU managed a last-minute save off an Amanda Koch shot attempt to hold off Tech and earn its third win of the season.
Brown finished with four saves for the Golden Eagles, giving her 50 on the season and putting her among the top goalkeepers in the Ohio Valley Conference.
Five players for Tech recorded a full 90 minutes of action, including junior defender Katie Phillips, who joins Brown as the only Tech players to have played every minute this season. Joining Brown and Phillips with 90 minutes of play were fellow juniors Taylor Hicks and Ellie Iaciofano and seniors Kerri Reid and Julie Thompson.
The Golden Eagles will return to play for their final non-OVC match-up on Monday, Sept. 17 when they travel to Nashville, Tenn. for a 7 p.m. CT tilt against Lipscomb.
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STORRS, Conn. | For hundreds of hours, Ebenezer Otu-Nyarko has been studying "pok-cluck-cluck," "cluck-bawk-bawk" and "cluck-cluck-cluck."
It might earn him an advanced degree.
Otu-Nyarko, a doctoral candidate at the University of Connecticut, has focused his research inside the university's poultry barn, where microphones hang from the ceiling and every cluck, bawk and pok is recorded. He and professor Michael Darre are trying to understand the language of chickens.
"This is not 'Let's translate chicken to English,' " Darre said. "We are trying to find out their language and what their vocalizations mean."
Research shows chickens have about 24 vocalizations.
There's a purpose behind this research with great implications for the welfare of America's chickens. The ultimate goal is to create a "black box" of chicken linguistics that would monitor chatter in the hen house.
The researchers also say their work could help settle the dispute between animal-rights supporters and large-scale animal farmers over housing chickens in small cages.
In courtrooms, state legislatures and corporate boardrooms nationwide, the Humane Society of the United States is fighting to ban "battery cages," small enclosures that don't let the chicken stand or flap its wings.
The society was a major sponsor of California's Proposition 2 ballot measure, approved by a landslide in November 2008, which will ban small hen cages at California egg farms by 2015.
A similar fight may come to Ohio, where the farming lobby is on the defensive against a threat by the Humane Society to bring a ballot initiative on animal welfare.
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FINRA Arbitration Statistics – December 2010
FINRA recently released its arbitration statistics for the month/year ended December 2010.
For the year, there were 20% fewer cases filed (5,680 v. 7,137 in 2009) and there were 6,241 cases closed (a 37% increase over 2009). Of these cases, 22% were resolved by arbitration hearing, 52% were resolved by direct settlement between the parties, 10% were resolved through mediation, and 16% of cases were either withdrawn or resolved through "other" method.
Results for investors also improved in 2010, as 47% cases that were decided by an arbitration panel resulted in an award of damages to the customer. This reflects a 2% increase over the results in 2009, and a 10% increase compared to arbitration claims decided by arbitration panels in 2007 — the worst year, for investors, in arbitration claims over the past six years.
The overall turnaround time for cases closed during the year also increased to 12.7 months (from 11.5 months in 2009). For cases that are resolved after an arbitration hearing, the turnaround time increased to 15 months (from 14 months in 2009).
The most common claims in arbitration were: (1) Breach of Fiduciary Duty; (2) Negligence; (3) Fraud/Misrepresentation; (4) Failure to Supervise; and, (5) Breach of Contract. The most common type of securities involved in arbitration claims were mutual funds and common stocks.
The Kueser Law Firm represents investors in securities arbitration. If you feel that your investments have been mismanaged, please contact the firm to discuss your rights.
New Leveraged ETFs Hit The Market — Investors Beware
Leveraged ETFs have recently returned to the news as Direxion announced the release of two new funds. As reported on Marketwatch.com, one of these new funds seeks to obtain returns equal to 300% of the two-year Treasury yield, while the other fund seeks to obtain returns equal to 300% of the inverse return of the two-year Treasury yield (in other words, when the Treasury yield declines, the investor profits).
Despite the repeated warnings issued by FINRA and the SEC as to the tremendous risk presented by leveraged ETFs, it appears that these fund families are forging "full steam ahead." The announcement from Direxion comes only weeks after its rival, ProShares, released eight additional leveraged ETFs. Four of the new ProShares funds seek to obtain returns equal to 300% of the daily return of the Nasdaq 100, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Standard & Poors 400 Index, and the Russell 2000 Index. The other four funds seek returns equal to 300% of the inverse daily return of these same indices (again, investors in these funds profit when the value of the respective index declines).
Leveraged ETFs invest their shareholders' money in futures and/or derivatives in order to multiply the daily return of an index. Some leveraged ETFs seek a return that is 200% or even 300% of the daily performance of the index. Inverse ETFs work in much the same way, except that these funds seek a return that is equal to 100%, 200%, or even 300% of the opposite of the daily performance of the index. With these funds, an investor actually profits when the index declines in value. Typical leveraged ETFs and inverse ETFs reset each day and therefore, over periods longer than one day, their performance can vary considerably from the index.
Leveraged ETFs may be appropriate investments for professional asset managers and highly sophisticated investors; however, in this author's opinion, leveraged ETFs are inappropriate for the vast majority of individual investors. Given the level of volatility in the stock markets in recent times, leveraged ETFs expose investors to tremendous potential for loss in a short period of time. Furthermore, in various instances in the retail setting, leveraged ETFs have been sold to investors without full disclosures related to these risks.
The Kueser Law Firm represents investors who have lost money in leveraged ETFs. If you are concerned that your investments have been mismanaged, contact us to learn more about your rights.
Leveraged and Inverse ETFs May Not Be Suitable For All Investors
ProFunds Group, one of the largest issuers of leveraged and inverse ETFs recently issued a warning that some of its leveraged and inverse ETFs may not be suitable for all investors. In the prospectus dated October 1, 2009, the company repeatedly states:
The Fund is different from most exchangetraded funds in that it seeks leveraged returns and only on a daily basis. The Fund also is riskier than similarly benchmarked exchange-traded funds that do not use leverage. Accordingly, the Fund may not be suitable for all investors and should be used only by knowledgeable investors who understand the potential consequences of seeking daily leveraged investment results. Shareholders should actively monitor their investments.
(See, e.g., prospectus at pp. 49, 54, 59, 64, 69, 74, 79.)
While additional disclosures are an improvement, this disclosure is still somewhat vague. It is similar to telling someone that an investment is suitable for them if they are seeking growth of their investment. Who isn't seeking growth of their investments? I have never heard anyone say "I am looking for an investment that will cause me to lose money."
In addition, many investors who are sold leveraged ETFs such as these never receive a copy of the prospectus. If an investor does not receive the prospectus, the disclosure does not protect them (however, it could protect the fund company from liability).
Leveraged ETFs invest their shareholders' money in futures and/or derivatives in order to multiply the daily return of an index. Some leveraged ETFs seek a return that is 200% or even 300% of the daily performance of the index. Inverse ETFs work in much the same way, except that these funds seek a return that is equal to 100%, 200%, or even 300% of the opposite of the daily performance of the index. With these funds, an investor actually profits when the index declines in value. Typical leveraged ETFs and inverse ETFs reset each day and therefore, over periods longer than one day, their performance can vary considerably from the index. In addition to ProFunds, the most popular leveraged ETFs and inverse ETFs are managed by Rydex and Direxion.
FINRA has already declared that leveraged ETFs are typically unsuitable for retail investors. Therefore, the announcement by ProFunds is not a revelation. If your stockbroker or financial advisor has sold you any leveraged ETFs or inverse ETFs, or purchased any leveraged ETFs or inverse ETFs in your accounts, you may be entitled to recover any losses on these investments. The Kueser Law Firm represents investors who were sold leveraged ETFs and inverse ETFs. If you are concerned that your investments have been mismanaged, contact us to learn more about your rights.
Colorado Division of Securities Charges Stifel Nicolaus with Fraudulent Sales of Auction Rate Securities
On October 1, 2009, Colorado Securities Commissioner Fred Joseph announced that the Securities Division had filed a complaint against Stifel, Nicolaus & Company. According to the Division's news release, the complaint alleges:
Stifel Nicolaus falsely represented auction rate securities as liquid, short-term investments to Colorado investors without discussing the risks. These representations gave investors a false sense of security that the investments would always be liquid when auction rate securities, in fact, faced significant, inherent liquidity risks.
A copy of the Notice of Charges is available in pdf format here.
Auction rate securities, which are also referred to as auction rate preferred shares, ARS, ARPS, and MARS, to name a few, have been at the epicenter of regulatory investigations across the country. Auction rate securities are long-term (or perpetual) investments that traded in periodic "auctions." They are designed to allow companies, mutual funds, municipalities, and other organizations to borrow money for a long-term period while paying short-term rates of interest, which were reset during the periodic auctions. It was in these auctions that investors who held the securities could also sell their holdings if they needed to have access to cash. Because these auctions occurred on a relatively frequent basis (i.e., weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly), investors had the ability to sell their positions and obtain cash in a relatively short period of time.
For years, Wall Street firms sold auction rate securities as short-term, cash equivalent investments that paid marginally higher rates of interest as compared to other short-term investments. What these firms did not tell their customers was that the liquidity of the auction rate securities markets was entirely dependent on the ability and willingness of these same firms to participate in the auctions — in other words, these firms had to be willing and able to purchase the securities that were not purchased by the other auction market participants. In most cases, these firms were purchasing more securities than the other market participants. The firms (and their representatives) did not disclose these critical facts, but rather, only disclosed that the interest rates paid on the securities was reset at the auctions. In addition, these firms generally failed to inform investors that they would not be able to access their invested capital if the auctions froze.
In 2007, these Wall Street firms came under massive liquidity problems. As a result, these firms made a decision to cease participation in the auction rate markets, leaving investors across the country with illiquid investments that typically paid short-term rates of interest. In some cases, the auction rate securities paid no interest for months at a time. Therefore, investors were left holding a bag of illiquid long-term securities that paid little, if any interest.
Several class actions have been filed across the country on behalf of auction rate securities investors. In addition, numerous securities arbitration claims have been filed by investors. Some of these cases, as well as action by state regulators, has resulted in redemption of some investors' auction rate securities. However, many investors remain stuck with these illiquid investments.
If you own auction rate securities that have not been redeemed, you may want to contact an attorney to discuss your rights. The Kueser Law Firm is a boutique legal practice that focuses its practice on protecting the rights of investors and recovering investment losses for companies and individuals. You may contact us by completing the form to the right, or by visiting our website.
Obama Administration Continues Push for Regulatory Reform
"A nation that forgets its past is doomed to repeat it." — Winston Churchill
On Wednesday, September 23, 2009, several major media outlets published articles discussing the Obama administration's continued efforts to enact enhanced regulatory reform over the financial markets.
Given what has occurred over the past two years, enhanced regulation is absolutely necessary. As Paul Krugman noted in a New York Times Op-Ed article: "In the grim period that followed Lehman [Brothers'] failure, it seemed inconceivable that bankers would, just a few months later, be going right back to the practices that brought the world's financial system to the edge of collapse." However, that is exactly what is happening. While the rest of America continues to struggle with job losses, foreclosures, and the effect that the downturn had on their investment portfolios, Wall Street is again promoting the very investments that caused the problem — and business appears to be good.
For example, in a recent article on Bloomberg.com, Abigail Moses and Shannon D. Harrington stated that "A year after the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., credit-default swaps have lost their stigma for disaster and are contributing to the growing confidence in the credit markets." Have we already forgotten Lehman Brothers and AIG and the problems that CDS created? It appears that we have. In a recent article, Greg Burns of the Chicago Tribune noted that credit default swap reform has "fizzled."
The only reason that all this appears to have been forgotten is due to the recent "recovery" in the stock market. As Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner stated yesterday in his remarks before Congress:
Make no mistake, the flaws in our financial system and regulatory framework that allowed this crisis to occur, and in many ways helped cause it, are still in place . . . . We may disagree over details over how to best fix those flaws, but that cannot mean we do not act.
It seems to me that the Treasury Secretary is someone we should be listening to, and not Wall Street or others with a similar agenda. Let us not forget our past.
JP Morgan Returns More Than $28 Million to Missouri Auction Rate Securities Investors
On September 21, 2009, Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan announced that her office had finalized a consent order with JP Morgan Chase & Co. related to the firm's marketing and sale of auction rate securities (ARS) to Missouri investors.
According to the press release, Missouri investors will receive more than $28 million. In addition, JP Morgan will pay $86,000 to the Missouri Investor Education and Protection Fund, which is used to educate Missourians about potential investment fraud and other fraudulent schemes.
JP Morgan, like many of the other investment firms across the country marketed auction rate securities as "safe," "liquid," and "same as cash," when, in fact, the investments were subject to the willingness of many of the same firms to provide the necessary liquidity to sustain the auction rate securities market. As these firms' liquidity began to diminish in late 2007 and early 2008, they became unable to support the market with the necessary liquidity. As a result, in mid-February 2008, the auctions failed and investors were stuck holding long-term and perpetual investments that paid short-term interest rates.
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Senior point guards are supposed to step up in the closing minutes of a big game and that is exactly what Lipscomb's Trey Williams did.
Williams hit a pair of 3-pointers in the final 2:32 of the game to keep the Bisons close. He gave them their first lead of the second half at 65-64 after hitting a pair of free throws with 1:11 left on the clock as the Bisons came back to beat Evansville 67-64 Monday night at Allen Arena.
"Right now, we have a mindset that we can win close games because we have won two of them back-to-back," Lipscomb Coach Scott Sanderson said. "That is a hard thing to develop sometimes to make plays down the stretch and win a close game."
Sanderson, who had been discouraged by a couple of floor mistakes by Williams at around the eight-minute mark of the second half, told the senior he had to step up in the final couple of minutes.
"Late in the game someone had to step up," Williams said. "It is not really pressure but a challenge. It was a challenge for him to give me that opportunity to take that role on and take that position. I like when Coach Sanderson challenges me. It makes me more competitive and makes me want to respond."
The Bisons are 2-0. Evansville lost its season opener. The two teams face each other again Dec. 16 at Evansville.
It is the first 2-0 season start for the Bisons in the NCAA era under Sanderson since the 1999-2000 season, the first as part of the transition from the NAIA.
The Bisons held Evansville, from the Missouri Valley Conference, scoreless for the final two minutes of the game.
"This was a huge win for our program," Sanderson said. "The Missouri Valley Conference is going to send four teams to the NCAA Tournament again this season. Evansville is going to win a lot of games."
Evansville's went in at halftime with a 35-34 lead. They came out in the second half and built a nine-point advantage at 50-41 with 10:41 left to play.
Williams scored 20 points, a career high, besting his previous high of 13 points last season in the Atlantic Sun Tournament semi-finals against Gardner-Webb.
Junior forward Eddie Ard led the Bisons with a game-high 21 points. He grabbed rebound on Evansville's end of the court and was fouled by Matt Webster with four seconds left to play. Ard hit both shots to ice the game.
Also in double figures for the Bisons were sophomore center Thomas Pfaff and senior guard Brian Fisk with 10 points each.
The Bisons lost the rebounding battle by one with Evansville leading 36-35. Ard pulled down a game high eight boards.
"Eddie stepped up big time," Sanderson said. "Thomas Pfaff was terrific off of the bench."
Despite putting four players in double figures the Bisons hit only 38.6 percent for the game while holding Evansville to 38.5 percent from the field. In the second half the Bisons were 9-of-26 from the field for 34.6 percent. Evansville hit 8-of-28 attempts for a 28.6 percent rate.
"We still haven't shot the ball well," Sanderson said. "We keep winning because of defense. We were down by five with a minute to go against Tusculum and we were down three with two minutes to go against Evansville.
"We are a good shooting team. We just haven't shot the ball particularly well. Defense is going to win games for you. If we can get some shots to start dropping for us we could really be playing well."
Jason Holsinger led Evansville with 15 points. Matt Webster added 13.
The Bisons have little time to relax. They are taking Tuesday off before flying to Missouri Thursday night. Sunday afternoon the Bisons are on the road at South Carolina.


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(Medical Xpress)—An outbreak of fungal meningitis recently resulted in one of the worst public health disasters in recent U.S. history. Thirty-two people died and more than 400 became ill after the New England Compounding Center distributed contaminated vials of injectable steroids.
Public health officials are clamoring for stricter regulation of so-called compounding pharmacies, which until now have flown under the radar of the Food and Drug Administration. Of major health concern in cases like this is the nature of the infections themselves. Hiding behind the blood-brain barrier, or BBB, a concept every first-year biology or psychology student is familiar with, these infections escape direct contact with most medications and require patients to endure long and sometimes unsuccessful treatment with antibiotics.
Steven Regen, University Distinguished Professor of chemistry, is working at the forefront of efforts to treat fungal meningitis that hides behind that barrier. Regen conducts research in the field of membranes and drug delivery with Vaclav Janout, senior research scientist, and Celine Bienvenu, postdoctoral research associate, both in the department of chemistry. With funding from the National Institutes of Health, they are seeking to develop a new class of drugs that can pierce the BBB and provide effective treatment for fungal meningitis and a host of other diseases in the brain.
A new paradigm for drug transport
"In a broader context," said Regen, "if we have any luck with our approach it could establish a new paradigm for the transport of many other drugs into the central nervous system."
The BBB consists of tightly packed endothelial cells that separate circulating blood from cerebrospinal fluid in the central nervous system. One of the greatest challenges facing medicinal chemistry is the search for drugs that can be transported across that barrier. Many classes of drugs with the potential for treating brain diseases (fungal and bacterial infections, malignant tumors, neurodegenerative diseases, etc.) have minimal effectiveness because of their limited ability to cross the BBB.
One example is amphotericin B (AmB), an antibiotic currently used to treat fungal meningitis. Because AmB does not readily cross the BBB, and because it is highly toxic, its overall effectiveness is limited.
Regen's team has been asked by NIH to create a new class of AmB agents based on what Regen calls molecular umbrellas. These structures are a novel class of amphiphiles, or chemical compounds whose exteriors are both hydrophobic and hydrophilic and thus ideal for crossing hydrophobic membranes like the BBB.
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What makes molecular umbrellas valuable, says Regen, is that they may be able to carry biologically active agents across the BBB in ways that have not previously been possible.
The innovative aspects of this research lie entirely with the unique conformational and transport properties associated with molecular umbrellas. In essence, molecular umbrellas are molecules composed of two or more walls attached to a central scaffold. When immersed in an aqueous environment, a molecular umbrella favors a conformation in which the hydrophobic faces point towards one another, to shield themselves from water.
Conversely, when immersed in a lipophilic environment, the molecular umbrella favors a conformation in which the hydrophilic faces point toward each other and the lipophilic faces point outward. In this case, the hydrophilic faces now become shielded from the external environment. Regen's team calls such behavior "molecular amphomorphism."
Regen's team will test the potential of molecular umbrellas that are chemically attached to AmB to kill fungal cells in cell culture and in animal models. These animal studies will be carried out by Professor John Perfect, a collaborator at Duke University School of Medicine, who is an expert in fungal infections. If, as expected, one or more of the molecular umbrella-AmB combinations prove more effective than simple AmB, there could be good reasons to explore other molecular umbrella-drug combinations for a variety of diseases, possibly even brain tumors.
At a more fundamental level, the research challenges the current dogma that drug transport is limited by molecular size and lipophilicity. In published work, Regen and his team have shown that very large and hydrophilic molecular umbrellas can enter live cells in cell culture experiments. They have also shown that they can cross model membranes that mimic cell membranes.
As they test new compounds, the researchers will learn whether the antibiotic supply in the brain speeds or slows depending on the size and structure of their molecular umbrellas.
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Slipstream wrote:Any idea of the most wides bowled in ODIs. I know of one current player who has 327.
Cricinfo didn't attribute wides to a bowler until about April 1994. Akram played 356 ODIs and must have over 600.
I've heard Michael Holding say more than once that he never bowled a wide or a no-ball in a one-day international.
Is that true, and does he hold the record if it is? asked Liam Clayton from Australia
Michael Holding sent down 5473 deliveries in one-day internationals, and he's right that none of them was a wide or a no-ball. His long-time team-mate Joel Garner bowled 5330 deliveries without a wide (or a no-ball), and Lance Cairns 4021. Without wishing to play down Holding's feat, we should probably recognise that the calling of wides has become much more rigorous over the years since his heyday. Mohammad Hafeez has so far sent down 7076 deliveries in ODIs without a no-ball (but 85 wides), while Ravi Shastri bowled 6613 without a no-ball (but one wide). In Tests, the West Indian offspinner Lance Gibbs bowled 27,115 balls in 79 matches, without a single wide or no-ball. Richard Hadlee sent down 21,918 deliveries without conceding a wide, but did have 22 no-balls, while Derek Underwood (21,862 balls in 86 Tests) and Garry Sobers (21,599 in 93) never bowled a wide or a no-ball. (It's just possible that some of these players delivered no-balls which were scored from, which would not have counted against them at the time so might have escaped notice; the practice of debiting no-balls and wides against the bowlers' analyses started in the early 1980s.)


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The Third Side of Conflict is Peace
The secret to peace—within your family or the Middle East—could be as simple as taking a walk.
We're all one family, says mediator and author William Ury, and all of the planet's more than 15,000 "tribes" are somehow in touch with one another. Just like many families, the world is rife with conflict. In an age where almost anyone can find a gun and weapons of mass destruction are within reach, how do we reconcile our differences? It starts, argues Ury, with listening.
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Today wicd can't connect to my wpa2 protected network, I haven't changed anything on my network setup and connecting manually with wpa_supplicant and dhcpcd works just fine. The only possible culprits I can blame are bison and dnsutils which got updated yesterday.
Using wicd's curses interface I can see that as soon as it associates it scans for networks again and the connection goes down, wicd then starts to associate again and the loop restarts.
Is anyone seeing this and/or does anyone know what the problem is, so it can be fixed or worked around?
Marking as solved.
Deleting /etc/wicd/manager-settings.conf seems to have solved the problem for me, I suppose this was a case of stale configuration options since I've been using wicd for quite some time.
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Think I have the same here. I unchecked the "ping for checking association" or what it's called, in wicd and together with kernel 3.4.1 from testing it got a little better (ath5k). But it's not alright by far.
Funny, I'm using kernel 3.4.2 from testing and my card also uses ath5k, but it was working just fine yesterday and I did not update the kernel.
Seems that wicd AND ath5k is acting up. It gets difficult to tell where the real problem lies. And I'm not keen on testing Networkmanager - way too many deps. But Trilby posted this;
Which seems promising.
Try this: stop wicd, delete (or move/rename) /etc/wicd/manager-settings.conf then restart wicd again.
I've rebooted a few times already and wicd seems to be behaving now, I'm inclined to call this a case of stale configuration file. If it works for you too I guess I'll mark this as solved.
Finally came around to really trying out netcfg and net-auto-wireless. Together with qtwifimon from the AUR, they seem to replace wicd and be more stable. qtwifimon had some deps but it works really well with my openbox/fbpanel setup. I had QT installed anyway.
I was too lazy to try anything else once I got wicd working again. I have already tested it at another location and it seems to be working well again, but I'll keep netcfg, net-auto-wireless and qtwifimon in mind just in case wicd starts acting up again.
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I recently switched from wicd to the wifi script in my sig. It's *fast* and reliable. It does not start automatically at boot/login, but even when wicd starts at boot I found myself waiting for it to connect after my WM was up. I'd often open up wicd-curses just to make sure it was trying to connect. In contrast, I can bring up a terminal start my wifi script and be connected in no time.
Perhaps others will find it useful too.
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So in honor of tonight's Vice Presidential Debate, I try to find out as much information for each candidate that will be featured in the debate tonight.
After going to my researching source, google.com, I found nothing on Joe Biden at all. I found our more about his platforms and beliefs, but nothing on if he works out or not. I found out that his wife, Jill, works out by jogging 3-5 miles a a day weekly.
Sarah Palin on the other hand has become some sort of insta-celebrity overnight, with all aspects of her life being scrutinized, and for good reason, including her exercise routine. This allowed me much more information on her. I mean, if I have five kids, you are darn right I want to look like that!
The Wall Street Journal wrote an article on her fitness which she said started at a young age from her her parents being marathoners and high school track and cross-country coaches. Her husband, Todd, also an athlete have made fitness a family thing. Palin says, "Conventional running is my sanity," Before giving birth to her son in April, Palin was running 7 to 10 miles almost every day but when pregnant, she switched to aerobics classes at her gym.
In the summer, when it's always light, she'll sometimes run as late as midnight. In the dead of winter, when it's dark, she sneaks in an afternoon run, or else grudgingly runs on the treadmill at home or at the gym in the evening.
As for her workout gear she is running in 20-below temperatures so she wear layers of fleece and always a good outdoor waterproof trail shoe. She currently is running in Nike Air Structure Triax. She also says she always wears sunglasses on her run, "My kids tell me to put them on so I don't freak people out when they see me with a goofy hairdo and no makeup."
For post workout food she says nothing, she just drinks water.
She ran in Humpy's Marathon and finished in a time of 3:59:36. The Wall Street Journal Article where I got my information can be found here.
So this entry wasn't meant to sway any one's opinion either way, but just to take a look at the fitness information, or lack of information of the two who will be debating tonight. Now onto other random things :)
For all of you that live in the CA, AZ, or NV states, you are lucky. You are lucky because somewhere in your state there is my new store, Fresh and Easy.
I am obsessed because it's like Trader Joes but not so hippy like (not that there's anything wrong with that) but it's modern and neat and has a great selection of food as well. There is one on my way home from work and the other day I picked up basil tomato sauce, tortellini, garlic bread and a bottle of wine for ten bucks and fed myself and my boyfriend. It was really good as well. I would advise you to check out their website, Fresh and Easy, and look in your daily throw away mail because they also have 5 dollars off coupons if you spend twenty dollars or more. They have a great selection of food, produce and meats and cheeses, and also have great prices.
Good luck to everyone racing this weekend. I'll be going at it next weekend. My goal isn't a time, but just to complete my first 1/2 Marathon. Crazy that it's finally here. This weekend I'm off to Palm Springs to celebrate my birthday. :)


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"That's someone shooting Tiny Tim for his PS3"
Of Christmas, the wise Ebenezer Scrooge cynically but rather sensibly wondered, "What was Christmas but a time for running into debt and getting one year older without getting even one hour richer?" That was 1843 and not even the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come could foresee the horrorshow to come in which people would trample minimum wage employees to death and unleash thick clouds of acrid pepper spray into the weeping faces of innocent babes in the effort to procure a Tickle Me Elmo, Furbie or whatever mass-produced crap has in any given year temporarily excited the mindless, collective consumerist impulse. Happy birthday, Christkind!
The crappy Christmas Carol-free zone!
Christmas Carols too have been given a bad wrap, sullied by their association with joyless, joint-zapping visits to the mall. For those working in retail, imagine how much worse it is. The fact that the same roughly eight or so songs mercilessly begin mannheim steamrolling anyone that ventures outdoors around mid-September is enough to justify anyone feeling like the Grinch. However, having avoided malls and shopping centers altogether this Yuletide, and running my own store (Brightwell - shameless plug) have allowed me to hear Christmas music in a new and holy light. I decided in this newly-awakened joy/mania to attempt to come up with my Top 10 Christmas Carols.


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Thanksgiving was awesome! We spent it with the Nield Family. It was the 'on' year and my sister Lacey hosted it at her house. We had so much wonderful food and had a great time hanging out. I didn't get very many pictures but here are a few to enjoy. We missed Elder Nield! He was with us in spirit and we will soon be able to have him home with us.
My pretty sister Lacey modeling one of her pies. Hope every one had a special Thanksgiving day. I have much to be thankful for and need to remember daily all of the blessing that I have been given. Love to all!


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August is government show month
We've got a busy month planned – we're visiting three shows in August to share how our video conferencing technology can create a stronger, more efficient and greener America. With the Administration's interest in cutting expenses and operating more effectively, government agencies are looking for ways to increase productivity and become more environmentally-friendly at manageable costs, while continuing to meet constituent needs.
Our first show started yesterday. We are at Booth #518 at the GSA Networx Conference in Chicago through August 13. We are showing how high-definition video conferencing and mobile video products and services can increase collaboration and allow cooperation between government employees regardless of the distance between them.
From August 18-20, we will be at Booth #539 at Army LandWarNet in Ft. Lauderdale. We will be sharing how video conferencing can reduce the need to travel and enable face-to-face, real-time collaboration from the battlefield to Command and Control centers across the globe.
In late August, we head to Air Force Information Technology 2009 (AFITC) in Montgomery, Alabama. We will be at Booth # 314 from August 24-27. This year's theme is The Warfighter's Edge in Battlespace, and the show will focus on how advanced technology deployed by the Air Force gives our nation's warfighters an unprecedented advantage over our adversaries. We look forward to showcasing how video conferencing can give our military a vital technological edge by allowing for face-to-face communication on the move, keeping them in contact with commanders wherever they may be.
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text: No kill switch on Awesome 21 February 2014 david Blog Most years I buy a Dilbert calendar for my desk. For some reason, I've kept the title page for the 2014 calendar: It's now heading towards the end of February and I've still kept it. I don't really know why, but it keeps making me smile. So I thought that I'd post it here, enjoy.