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Using speed of ageing and "microlives" to communicate the effects of lifetime habits and environment
It may be the season to eat, drink and be merry, but each day of over-indulging can take several hours off your life, according to a Christmas article published on bmj.com today.
Activities like smoking, having a couple of drinks, eating red meat and watching television anytime of year can each knock at least 30 minutes off your life expectancy for every day you indulge. In contrast, each day of sticking to just one alcoholic drink, eating plenty of fruit and vegetables, and exercising can be expected to add up to two hours to your life.
Professor David Spiegelhalter, a statistician at the University of Cambridge, wanted to find a simple way of communicating the impact of our behaviours on expected length of life.
He suggests using the concept of ageing faster or slower, by expressing the daily effect of lifestyle habits as "microlives" (half hours of life expectancy). A half hour of adult life expectancy can be termed a microlife as it is loosely equivalent to one millionth of life after age 35, he explains.
Using data from population studies he calculates that, averaged over a lifetime habit, a microlife can be "lost" from smoking two cigarettes, being 5 kg overweight, having a second or third alcoholic drink of the day, watching two hours of television, or eating a burger.
On the other hand, microlives can be "gained" by sticking to just one alcoholic drink a day, eating fresh fruit and vegetables, exercising, and taking statins.
Demographic factors can also be expressed in microlives. For example, being female rather than male (a gain of 4 microlives a day), being Swedish rather than Russian (a gain of 21 a day for men), and living in 2010 rather than 1910 (a gain of 15 a day).
This form of communication allows a general, non-academic audience to make rough, but fair comparisons between the sizes of chronic risks, and is based on a metaphor of "speed of ageing," which has been effective in encouraging cessation of smoking, says Professor Spiegelhalter. "So each day of smoking 20 cigarettes (10 microlives) is as if you are rushing towards your death at 29 hours rather than 24."
He points to several limitations and stresses that these assessments are very approximate and based on numerous assumptions. However, he says they "bring long term effects into the present and help counter temporal discounting, in which future events are considered of diminishing importance."
In spite of the limitations, he concludes that "a reasonable idea of the comparative absolute risks associated with chronic exposures can be vividly communicated in terms of the speed at which one is living one's life."
He adds: "Of course, evaluation studies would be needed to quantify any effect on behaviour, but one does not need a study to conclude that people do not generally like the idea of getting older faster."


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I am officially back in school! I could not be more excited about the coming year. I have ogled the Institute for Integrative Nutrition for years and years, but it never seemed feasible time-wise. But this is a big year for me... I turned 40. And, well, I am tired of the post-baby weight that's lingering. I'm tired of being tired. I feel ready to make some changes. I *know* what I should be eating and doing, but for some reason, I lack the framework to really make it stick. And so, it is with great excitement (and some trepidation) that I have returned to school to better understand the nitty gritty aspects of nutrition and diet, as well as the holistic nature of wellness. I hope to come out of this year feeling better and more balanced myself, with a framework to make it sustainable. And looser jeans would be nice too.
lasagna, a veggie-version of my go-to enchiladas, a big thing of my favorite turkey chili and Sunday's veg taco filling. Admittedly, I also have a stash of Amy's frozen pizzas. As I cooked on Sunday (veg taco night) and Monday ("redemption salad" a.k.a. my fav Asian-inspired salad), I also prepped extra amounts of the basic ingredients, so meal prep the remainder of the week can be quick and easy. I've written about this prep ahead concept before. Trust me, it's so worth it. Fruits and veggies are prepped in the fridge, so packing lunches is a breeze and the pre-dinner snacking platter can be assembled with minimal effort. Here's the scoop on some of the ingredients in my fridge as of Monday evening, and what they may become:
- turkey that I'd roasted and frozen >> turkey sandwiches; go into a soup or stir-fry; top a salad; or as-is as a simple meat protein
- edamame >> quick snack/lunchbox side as-is or edamame hummus
- honeydew melon >> quick snack, lunchbox side, smoothie ingredient or side at any meal
- more of the veg taco filling >> quick lunch as a taco salad or filling for veggie quessadillas
- shredded cabbage >> salad or stir-fry ingredient
- tomatoes >> salad, sandwich, scrambled egg or frittata ingredient
- shredded carrots >> quick snack/lunchbox side or salad/stir-fry ingredient
- snow peas >> quick snack/lunchbox side or salad/stir-fry ingredient
- bell peppers, washed and cut into spears >> quick snack/lunchbox side, quessadilla or stir-fry ingredient, add to scrambled eggs or a frittata
- leftover Asian dressing >> marinade for chicken
- cooked quinoa >> quinoa salad or added to black bean cakes in lieu of breadcrumbs
- very ripe avocados >> guac or salad ingredient

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Tdelesio necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 88 diseños de 13 diseñadores freelance.
I am an application developer and not much of a graphics artists. I have run makeyourpicks.info for several years now and am finally ready to invest in a design. I believe the first step to a good design is a good logo.
My target audience is for US based residents that like sports (in particular Americain football). The target audience is anywhere from 18 to 60 and is mostly male.
The logo should be sleak and look very fresh. I want to incorporate the name makeyourpicks or makeurpicks (i own both domains). The logo itself doesn't need to be all text and can be a graphic with a text overlay or just the name at the bottom of the logo. Sports should be the main theme but I don't want anyone sport targeted specifically. If its a great logo that doesn't incorporate the name and/or sports submit it anyway...a great logo is a great logo. The colors are wide open. You can look at the site to get an idea of what I have but keep in mind that the logo is a start to the redesign and the site layout will follow what color the logo has. Here is the website:
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Raslund Academy consists of large, beautiful and bright rooms with a modern decor. Raslund Academy is situated in the middle of nature and can accommodate up to 80 people. Just a few kilometers outside of Skanderborg, you can reach this wonderful place that could host your next event.
Teaching and meeting rooms
Raslund Academy is the perfect place for hosting conferences and retreats. Given the idyllic and undisturbed location you will find peace away from the stresses of everyday life, so you can concentrate on the essentials. You have the opportunity to use both the indoor and outdoor activities.
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Raslund Academys wonderful and cosy rooms are also perfect for a family event with many participants. Here the surroundings will make your celebration even more special. From the room there is access to the terrace and the beautiful park-look-a-like garden.
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During a special meeting Wednesday, the Governing Board of the North Central Ohio Educational Service Center passed a resolution to suspend two charter schools in Columbus indefinitely.
During a special meeting Wednesday, the Governing Board of the North Central Ohio Educational Service Center passed a resolution to suspend two charter schools in Columbus indefinitely.
The resolution passed with an unanimous vote.
The schools, Talented Tenth Leadership Academy for Boys and the Talented Tenth Leadership Academy for Girls, were forced to shut down earlier this month by State Superintendent Richard Ross.
The school for boys, located in the King Arts Complex on Mount Vernon Avenue, and the girls' school, located at the Trinity Baptist Church on St. Clair Avenue, were closed for health and safety reasons following several visits from Ohio Department of Education employees. The Talented Tenth schools aimed to serve at-risk middle-school students.
The schools opened Sept. 25. The school founder and superintendent, Andre Tucker, said they were not even given a chance to work through their issues.
NCOESC is the sponsor for the schools. The center is the sponsor for 21 community schools in Ohio. According to the release provided by ODE, the educational service center has attempted to open 16 community schools, including six schools that either failed to open or have been shuttered within a few weeks of opening.
"The sponsor of these two schools failed to provide the proper oversight and make sure the schools were upholding their commitment to provide a safe environment for students to be educated," Ross said in a release from ODE.
"They did not ensure the safety of the students, they did not adequately feed the students, they did not accurately track the students and they were not educating the students well," the release stated. "It is unacceptable and intolerable that a sponsor and school would do such a poor job. It is an educational travesty."
NCOESC Superintendent Jim Lahoski had been asked to meet with Ross to discuss the issue. Lahoski said the meeting was truthful and they were on the same page.
"We look forward to continue to work with ODE," Lahoski said.
Lahoski said in an interview with The Columbus Dispatch, "We have been down to that school, I can't tell you how many times. So we've been monitoring it. We've expressed concerns all along to our legal counsel that we need to keep our eye on it. We want to be a good sponsor; in doing so, we're going to do what's right."
Several emails and phone calls had been made to the schools, Lahoski said.
According to the resolution, the schools had their operations suspended on the grounds of 10 issues, including noncompliance with health and safety standards established by law for school buildings; failure to enroll at least 25 students; failure to properly educate students; failure to provide adequate food service to students; failure to adequately supervise students; altercations between staff members and employees and other tenants of the leased premises; failure to ensure students were taught by licensed teachers; lack of adequate instructional materials; and lack of funds.
According to Tucker, the schools had enrolled 65 students between the schools. He said the account of the students had not been reported to the state by the ESC.
In a response to the ESC, Tucker said that on the first day of school, 41 boys were enrolled and 32 girls were enrolled.
Lahoski said the numbers that the ESC had to report to the state were significantly different. He said that from the numbers, one of the schools does not qualify to open.
Tucker had also reported that several times, the girls had been locked out of the building for several hours and had to have class at the public library and at the boys' school due to issues with the landlord.
Tucker said he remains employed with the schools and said he plans to file a motion to continue to operate the schools through the Franklin County Courts.
"Because they have had a hand in the issues with the schools, (NCOESC) has decide to close the school. At the end of the day, these are inner-city, at-risk kids whom the staff work with everyday and they had not seen one," Tucker said. "Over 70 parents are outraged and heartbroken that their children have been displaced because of lies and false information."
The next step for the NCOESC is to let the board of the two schools know they had been notified about the indefinite suspension and to further action through the appropriate NCOESC resolutions, Lahoski said.


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The latest high-level talks on ending a diplomatic deadlock between the U.S. and Pakistan ended in failure on Friday over Pakistani demands for an unconditional apology from the Obama administration for an airstrike. The White House, angered by the recent spectacular Taliban attacks in Afghanistan, refuses to apologize.
The Obama administration's special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, Marc Grossman, left the Pakistani capital Friday night with no agreement after two days of discussions aimed at patching up the damage caused by the U.S. airstrikes last November that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers on the Afghanistan border.
Both sides insist that they are now ready to make up and restore an uneasy alliance that at its best offers support for U.S. efforts in Afghanistan as well as the battle against some extremist groups operating from Pakistan. The administration had been seriously debating whether to say "I'm sorry" to the Pakistanis' satisfaction — until April 15, when multiple, simultaneous attacks struck Kabul and other Afghan cities.
''What changed was the 15th of April," said a senior administration official.
U.S. military and intelligence officials concluded the attacks came at the direction of a group working from a base in North Waziristan in Pakistan's tribal belt: the Haqqani network, an association of border criminals and smugglers that has mounted lethal attacks on foreign forces in Afghanistan. That confirmed longstanding U.S. mistrust about Pakistani intentions — a poison that infects nearly every other aspect of the strained relationship. That swung the raging debate on whether President Barack Obama or another senior American should go beyond the expression of regret that the administration had already given, and apologize.
The negotiations are complicated by a complex web of interlocking demands from both sides. Without the apology, Pakistani officials say they cannot reopen NATO supply routes into Afghanistan that have been closed since November.
The Americans, in turn, are withholding between $1.18 billion and $3 billion of promised military aid — the exact figure depending on which side is speaking.
The continuing deadlock does not bode well for Pakistan's attendance at a NATO meeting in Chicago in three weeks, assuming it is even invited. The administration has been eager to cast the event as a regional security summit meeting, and Pakistan's absence would be embarrassing.
Administration officials acknowledged Friday that the stalemate would not be resolved quickly. "This is the beginning of the re-engagement conversation," Victoria Nuland, the State Department spokeswoman, said in Washington. "We're going to have to work through these issues, and it's going to take some time."
The two countries at least are relieved to have started talking. A series of visits and discussions in recent weeks included a meeting between Obama and Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on the sidelines of a nuclear summit meeting in Seoul, South Korea, last month. Since the Pakistani parliament completed a review of relations with the United States, Americans have repeatedly vowed to respect the will of Pakistan's lawmakers, even though they demanded an end to U.S. drone strikes, which the U.S. sees as crucial in fighting militants hiding in Pakistan's border areas.
Aside from the apparently intractable issues of drones and the apology, the two countries focused on four specific areas of potential cooperation: counterterrorism, the NATO supply lines, military aid payments and the Taliban peace process.
Yet there was an undeniable sense of wariness, driven by the pressures of domestic politics, with Obama facing re-election this year and Pakistan due for elections in the coming months. Pakistanis' rage has been rising since a shooting in Lahore in January 2011 that involved a CIA employee and fueled common fantasies about being overrun by rogue spies. The U.S. operation to kill Osama bin Laden a few months later was taken as a stunning breach of Pakistan's sovereignty.
A U.S. apology is also problematic given Republican pressures weighing on Obama and the hostility of a Congress with little patience for Pakistan. "The politics of election year in both countries are slowing down the resolution of admittedly vexed issues in an environment of persistent mistrust," said Maleeha Lodhi, a former Pakistani ambassador to Washington.
The Haqqani network has re-emerged as a focal American issue, particularly after the April 15 attacks. The next day, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told Pakistan's foreign minister, Hina Rabbani Khar, that "there has to be a concerted effort by the Pakistanis with the Afghans, with the others of us, against extremists of all kinds."
U.S. officials refused Friday to say whether there were any links between Pakistan's main spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate, or ISI, and the Haqqani network's latest attacks. One said the intelligence on the issue was "constantly evolving." Others in Washington say they have not yet found any such ties.
New details about the attacks have emerged in the past two weeks, according to Afghan and U.S. officials.
While it is possible that some fighters were smuggled into Afghanistan over time and in small numbers, and that some weapons and ammunition were pre-staged, many may have been brought in from Pakistan only a day or two before the attacks, said a senior American military officer in Afghanistan.
''Our initial assessment is they probably moved them in a last moment to avoid detection," said the officer, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the continuing inquiry.
Officials have also identified a possible intelligence gap. Ethnic infighting at the top of Afghanistan's intelligence agency, the National Directorate of Security, may have resulted in key people failing to pass on information that could have helped derail the attacks.
At this week's meetings in Islamabad, new ideas were gently sounded out.
A senior Pakistani official said his country was offering a "wide menu of counterterrorism options" in a bid to at least slow down the rate of drone strikes. Pakistan has also offered to send F-16 fighter jets to strike Taliban and Qaeda targets in the tribal belt.
U.S. officials have said that if Pakistan would not or could not strike insurgents in places like Miram Shah, the capital of North Waziristan, then the drone attacks would have to continue. With Pakistan refusing at least publicly to condone the strikes, the two sides seem at an impasse.
''The policy of the government is very, very clear," Pakistan's foreign secretary, Jalil Abbas Jilani, said Thursday. "We consider drones as illegal, counterproductive and, accordingly, unacceptable."
Another Pakistani official, however, conceded, "Privately, we know they are unlikely to stop."
The reopening of NATO supply lines is important for the U.S. military to support troops currently in Afghanistan, but also to help withdraw tons of weapons and materiel out as a major drawdown approaches in 2014. But, the senior Obama administration official added, Pakistan's support for the NATO lines was about politics as much as logistics. "Our NATO partners see them as increasingly problematic, not as a partner," he said. "If they don't restore this, those feelings will become intensified over time."


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Charging during off-peak hours
Charging during off-peak hours
It's an advertised feature in Model S that is not available yet. Owners on Time of Use metering are not happy :(
Actually, I have had a Nissan Leaf for 19 months and I exclusively use Time of Use Metering. I LOVE it. I live in San Diego, CA and I have a separate meter for my EV. I always plug my Leaf in when I come home and I know that it will never charge between noon and midnight (only because I programmed the Time of Use 'program' to work that way). So if I come home at say 3 p.m. and plug in my EV it will not begin charging until midnight, when the rates drop significantly. When I wake up the next morning it is fully charged.
Specifically, the rate from midnight to 5 a.m. is ~7 cents/Kwh ('Super Off Peak' as the electric company calls it) vs. something like 35 cents/Kwh from noon to midnight ('Peak' time). From 5 a.m. until noon the cost is ~15 cents/Kwh.
My point is for me it is perfect because I don't need to charge during the highest demand time (Peak) times and with a Tesla it would be even better because I would only charge during Super Off Peak time because during those five hours (midnight to 5 a.m.) I could more than 'top off' the batteries.
With the Leaf I originally only allowed the Time of Use to charge during Super Off Peak time but given the limited range of the Leaf (60 miles for me) I have been charging in the morning (~15 cents/Kwh) for the last six months. I don't use a lot of charge during this time frame, but sometimes if I come home around 10:00 a.m. and have driven say 15 miles that morning, I can fill it back up before noon (when I have programmed the charger to never charge).
When I calculate my MPGe I get around 160. My usage over the last 19 months has been that I have averaged almost exactly 1,000 miles per month and my electric bill is about $28 per month. Like I said, with the Time of Use program I participate in I was given a separate electric meter for just my EV.
Participating in the Time of Use program certainly impacts when I charge my car (which is exactly what the electric company wants).
I know I save money with this program and with a Tesla it would be even more ideal because 100% of my charging would occur during Super Off Peak time.
He meant that TOU metered owners are not happy because its not yet workable with the MS. They will become happy, like you, when the app appears.


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ZTE Corporation recently launched the entry-level ZTE Kis smartphone. This handset will be exclusively available for the Virgin mobile subscribers in the UK. The ZTE Kis runs on the old Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) Operating System. It is the manufacturer's second smartphone for Virgin Mobile customers after the Windows Phone powered ZTE Tania. As usual, you can access more than 600,000 amazing games and useful apps from the Google Play Store.
Wu Sa, Director of Mobile Device Operations at ZTE UK, said:
"The launch of the ZTE Kis is a further demonstration of our commitment to building the ZTE brand in Europe and the UK across a number of price points and operating systems, which will continue with new devices throughout the remainder of 2012 and in 2013. It is also an example of our commitment to providing our customers with quality devices at affordable prices under the vibrant ZTE brand proposition."
Zte Kis features a 3.5 inch touchscreen display, sporting a resolution of 480 x 320 pixels resolution, 800 Mhz processor, Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) Operating System, 3.2 megapixel auto-focus camera with 2x digital zoom, 3.5 mm headset jack, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi 801.11 b/g/n, 3G Connectivity, GPS, WAP 2.0, 512MB ROM, 256MB RAM, MicroSD card slot, 32 GB expandable memory, 2 GB MicroSD card bundled and a 1600 mAh battery.
ZTE Kis comes with a price-tag of just £49.99 on Pay As You Go (PAYG). Virgin Mobile also offers 1 GB of free data per month for 12 months. This handset will compete with the recently launched Motorola Motosmart in the UK.


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The Tiobe Programming Community Index is a gauge that has long tracked the rise and fall of programming languages. First developed during the mid-1990s, the index relies on various data sources to gauge the popularity of languages; that is, the extent to which they're used (but not how much they're liked). The primary sources of information are the top six search engines. The process of how the raw data is converted into rankings is explained in considerable detail on the index's definition page. Suffice it to say that the index is carefully crafted to track the emergence, adoption, and eventual decline of every major and most minor languages (from ABAP to Z shell). Languages have to be Turing-complete, so interlopers that appear in surveys by non-programmers — XML, HTML, and the like — don't pollute Tiobe's findings.
Over the years, the index has been both praised and vilified. The latter by language adherents who are unhappy over the decline of their favorite idiom. Like many writers who've referred to the index, I've been castigated in the past for using it to support the fact that, let's say, Perl is in an inexorable descent (so is Java, but let me not get ahead of myself). Whether you like the results or not, you can't help but be impressed by the care with which the index is compiled. Moreover, having graphs showing 10 years of language adoption is a tremendous research resource.
In January of each year, the Tiobe site provides a recap of the previous year and compares languages using five-year mileposts. All of the data points reveal interesting, if sometimes inexplicable, results.
Looking over the ten-year chart, several patterns emerge immediately. The steady decline of Java is real. Ten years ago, it made up nearly 27% of mentions; since then, it's dropped to 18%. What is less clear is the state of JVM languages as a whole. But we can make a good guess that even if the main JVM languages (Groovy, Scala, and Clojure — JRuby and Jython are broken out separately from their parent languages, alas) were added back in to Java's numbers, the total would still see a decline. Like most readers, I would expect this to be the case, and I expect most of the emigrants migrated to Ruby and Python. We'll see in a moment if this theory is supported.
Java's decline, however, has not knocked it from the top position. It now enjoys a thin lead over C, followed (after a substantial gap) by C++ and PHP. These last two languages have been exchanging positions for a long time. While they've both declined somewhat during the last year, it's too early to tell whether or not that's a trend.
Next is Python, which I'll discuss in a moment. Then comes C#, which has been gaining steadily and finally passed Visual Basic as the .NET language of choice in 2010. Visual Basic has seen perhaps the most precipitous decline of any of the top ten languages — its popularity has dropped by half over the last three years. Most developers in the Microsoft universe would probably have intuited this change, but now there are unmistakably clear numbers to support this. Visual Basic's drop in favor of C#, I believe, is a function of VB being asked to do more than grind out CRUD apps, which were its bread and butter. The more complex the app, the more C# is the .NET language of choice. (Not to be overlooked in this regard is Microsoft's excellent stewardship of the language, which makes this shift possible.) I expect this trend will continue and Visual Basic will move increasingly to the end of the .NET stable where the old plow horses are quartered.
Now comes the interesting part. Python surged hugely this last year — more than any other language. It just beat out Objective-C for greatest increase in adoption in 2010. (Objective-C's jump is likely attributable to the popularity of the iPad, which came out last year.) It's hard to find any specific reason for Python's surge, but I suspect it's the result of continued broad adoption and Google's enthusiastic backing. What is surprising is that several factors might have argued against a break-out year for Python: Two incompatible versions of the language and the uncertain fate of the Unladen Swallow project. The folks at Tiobe speculate that one cause of its newfound popularity might be that it is becoming the teaching language of choice in college courses.
I'm not convinced. I suspect part of the new adoption comes from Perl programmers who are throwing in the towel. Perl fell again last year and the slope of its collapse is holding steady. In mid-2005, the language received 10.5% of mentions; by end of 2010, this number had dropped to 2% – 3%. I expect this trend will continue, as I strongly doubt that many new green field projects would today choose Perl as the principal development language. The causes of Perl's descent into what will soon be meaninglessness are many, but I believe Python is the principal reason. Python is better at doing what Perl does, and it's an easier language to learn.
The final entrant in the top 10 is Ruby, which — surprise, surprise — declined year over year. I don't have any insight into this save to wonder whether the Ruby on Rails (RoR) jubilation has passed into a period of more sober assessment of technology. While RoR is easy to use for erecting new sites quickly, if you need to move out of the basic RoR model, things become more difficult. Moreover, RoR has not broken out of its principal playing field of SMBs, which is what it probably needed to do to continue putting up big growth numbers. This may well change with the increased traction of JRuby, which I believe is how Ruby will end up getting into many data centers where the JVM is already established. If Ruby gains ground this year, it will almost certainly be due to JRuby.
Possibly the biggest surprise in the index was that JavaScript fell out of the top 10. I confess I am baffled by this. JavaScript is the defining language of Web apps. Moreover, I keep seeing perverse instances of Atwood's law (named after über-blogger Jeff Atwood): "Any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript." Moreover, JavaScript, like Python, has strong corporate backers who've worked hard to optimize execution engines and distribute the language widely (for example, it's now the default language of the Java JSR-223 scripting engine).
The real benefit of the Tiobe index comes from looking at trends rather than fluctuations, and making decisions accordingly when starting new projects. Java, C, C++, PHP, C#, and Python are languages that are widely used and will have plenty of support in the years to come. For all other languages, things are less clear.


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The top panel isn't flat, but rather curved making the CUC seem taller than it is. Within the case you'll find plenty of space for standard configurations, but it might be a bit small for some chunkier CPU coolers.
Unfortunately, our Prolimatech Armageddon CPU cooler wasn't quite a great fit – as you can see from the picture below.
You will have to make sure that the CPU cooler's width doesn't exceed the upper edge of your motherboard by more than 1cm if you're planning on this case. We ended up using CoolerMaster's passive Hyper Z600, which fit like a glove leaving about 1cm between the top panel fans and the CPU cooler.
Graphics cards, on the other hand, are covered just fine and the case will take HD 5970-sized cards with ease.
CUC will take five 5.25'' optical devices and, as you can see from the picture below, Cooltek used toolless mechanisms.
The case has five drive bays. The bays are universal meaning they'll take 3.5'' or 2.5'' devices.
The bays seem frail and are pretty light, but we must admit they're quite functional. They're easily taken out and are stable when in place.
The entire HDD bay cage can be easily dismounted – a simple tug will do. As you can see from the picture, it reveals the front panel fan.
The fan on the front panel is a 14cm blue LED fan. It's connected to the control board via a special connector but the fan's RPM can't be controlled, which is the case with the rest of the fans as well. The control panel is used to independently turn the fans on or off.
Seven expansion slots feature a tool free locking mechanism which we must admit comes in pretty handy. If, however, you like the old fashioned methods, you can dismount the locking mechanism.
The thumbscrews holding the side panels unfortunately won't fit here because they're wider.
Once the metal slot caps are removed they can't be put back. However, the company says that retail cases will actually have replaceable caps.
Rubber seals are always a welcome touch although we're more used to seeing them shipped with PSUs; not that we're complaining, of course. As you can see from the picture below, CUC comes with preinstalled seals.
The bottom panel has room for one optional 14cm/12cm fan.
There's plenty of holes and room for cable management. The task of arranging the forests of cabling won't be a problem in tthe CUC because Cooltek provided cable straps on quite a few spots. Some much more expensive cases don't feature this and we'd very much like to see other manufacturers following suit – it doesn't even cost that much but it makes a difference.
The PU socket hole is pretty large and you shouldn't have much trouble mounting large CPU cooling backplates.


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AUBURN HILLS, Mich. (AP) — Rookie Andre Drummond had 16 points and seven rebounds, and the Detroit Pistons returned from Europe with a 103-88 victory over the Boston Celtics on Sunday night.
The Pistons lost to the New York Knicks in London on Thursday, but they didn't look particularly weary in their first game back. Detroit blew an 18-point second-quarter lead before pulling away again in the second half. Boston never led.
Drummond went 5 of 6 from the field, repeatedly slipping free for dunks. He also made 6 of 8 free throws after entering the game shooting 39 percent from the line.
Kevin Garnett scored 16 points for Boston, and Rajon Rondo had eight points, 15 assists, nine rebounds and nine turnovers.
The Celtics wiped out an 18-point second-quarter lead before the first half even ended, but Detroit lead 52-48 after scoring the last four points before the break.
It was a one-point game in the third before Brandon Knight and Tayshaun Prince made 3-pointers for the Pistons to make it 61-54.
Detroit led 70-58 before an 8-0 run by Boston. Drummond snapped that with a one-handed dunk on an alley-oop from fellow big man Greg Monroe. It was 81-71 after three.
Drummond's dunk on an alley-oop from Bynum made it 89-73, and Boston's earlier strategy — fouling Drummond to put him on the line — had already been foiled by the rookie's rare free throw accuracy.
Monroe, Knight and Will Bynum scored 15 points apiece for Detroit. Courtney Lee had 16 for Boston, and Jeff Green added 15.


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- Vanity by Style
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Ads on smartphones growing, but marketers still learning mobile medium – chicagotribune.com.
Ads on smartphones are so small that an irritating problem has emerged: "fat finger" syndrome. The ailment is caused by accidentally clicking on a banner ad as your finger scrolls through a mobile website or app.
Google, a big seller of mobile ads, has come up with a makeshift cure: If your finger merely slides on the outer border of an ad, the search giant will prompt you to verify whether you meant to click on it.
The blip says a lot about the state of mobile advertising. Advertisers are spending more money on mobile marketing, but the tracking and measurement tools are still immature. Smaller screens also are challenging marketers to come up with creative and innovative ways to reach consumers without annoying them with tiny banner ads.
So far, the powerful promise of mobile, offering the opportunity to pop relevant deals onscreen at the moment consumers are in the time and place to spend, has gone largely unrealized. Technology companies like Google Inc., marketers and advertising firms have tested advances such as geolocation, but adoption has been limited.
"Mobile advertising is in a really weird place right now," said Melissa Parrish, a senior analyst at Forrester Research, the technology research firm. "Is it online paid advertising made little? That's the way it's largely been approached. But in 2013, I hope (advertisers) start to move beyond that thinking. Mobile is special."
The highest concentration of smartphone users is the 25 to 34 age group, one of the most coveted demographics for advertisers. Overall, 45 percent of American adults have a smartphone, according to the Pew Research Center.
The rapid penetration of smartphones — Apple introduced the iPhone just five years ago — has created a new medium that marketers have scrambled to learn. One research firm estimates that in 2012 mobile ad spending will nearly triple what was spent last year, topping $4 billion. Despite the explosive growth, businesses are devoting a relatively small piece of their total advertising dollars to mobile ads — 2.4 percent this year, according to eMarketer, which tracks display, search and messaged-based ads.
But eMarketer predicts mobile will grow 77 percent next year and reach an 11 percent share of total U.S. ad spending by 2016, overtaking radio and newspapers and making up more than one-third of all digital advertising.
"Mobile has seemingly always been in test mode," said Kurt Unkel, president of the VivaKi Nerve Center, a research and development arm within the Publicis Groupe, a French advertising firm. "But there does seem to be momentum based on volume and key companies focused on mobile."
Those companies include the tech giants familiar to everyone: Google and Facebook. A lot of the growth this year in mobile advertising has been fueled by Facebook, which reported $152 million in mobile ad revenues in the third quarter after starting from scratch this year. It generated 14 percent of its total advertising revenue from mobile.
Facebook is just beginning to tap the potential in mobile. The social network says 60 percent of its active users log in on phones.
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Google, parent of Motorola Mobility, is the largest player in mobile ads because of its dominance in the $2 billion mobile search market. The company says it's on track to generate $8 billion a year from mobile ads and apps and media sold through its Google Play store.
A big challenge for publishers and other ad sellers is that advertisers pay less for ads on mobile devices than for online ads on desktops. There are several reasons. There is more supply of mobile ad space than there are buyers. And it is harder to track whether people make a purchase after they see a mobile ad.
But smartphones offer marketers something that desktops don't: the ability to target users on the go. Advertisers are trying to figure out what consumers want when they are on the train, walking down the street or sitting in a coffee shop — and squeeze it into a small screen.
Deerfield-based Walgreen Co. has used mobile ads to encourage consumers to download its smartphone application for refilling prescriptions and editing and ordering photos. The drugstore chain also is targeting special offers to its mobile customers. On Black Friday, for example, Walgreen plugged in a digital "scratch off" game into its mobile app that provided discounts for Starbucks coffee products.
The goals of the app are to increase customer engagement and drive consumers into stores, said Tim McCauley, senior director of mobile commerce at Walgreen.
The app, while it brings a lot of utility to Walgreen customers, also serves as an ad for the retailer, said Unkel of VivaKi.
"Apps are becoming the brand experience for consumers," Unkel said. "To me, that's the most compelling thing in mobile as it relates to advertising."
Also gaining traction in mobile advertising are targeting consumers by location to take advantage of GPS features on mobile devices. Foursquare, a mobile check-in app, has begun selling ads to merchants to provide loyal customers with coupons or updates about new products. The next big thing in location-based ads is matching place with consumer behavior so people receive relevant coupons or daily deals.
"Mobile is presenting new marketing opportunities that never existed before," said Greg Stuart, chief executive of the Mobile Marketing Association. "Consumers have changed, and marketers have to catch up."


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Elisa Chan to challenge Donna Campbell in Texas Senate District 25
Two months after stirring national controversy by condemning homosexuality, Councilwoman Elisa Chan has decided to leave the council to run for the Texas Senate in 2014, challenging District 25 state Sen. Donna Campbell in the March GOP primary.
Chan, 47, is taking on a first-term incumbent from New Braunfels who has strong backing among tea party members and some Republicans. Without attacking Campbell, Chan contends her council service prepares her well for the Legislature, and she hopes to survive the withering criticism generated by her opposition to the city's new nondiscrimination ordinance.
"I know a lot of people in this community agree with me; so I don't foresee any problem, but I would never know until I go out there," Chan said Friday.
"With my qualifications, my experience, my conservative views, what can I do to make the biggest positive impact to the community? I think this is a good opportunity for me," she said.
Speculation about a Chan candidacy wafted across Central Texas since summer, with some pundits saying she was seeking a graceful exit from her embattled city role. Chan drew national attention in August when the Express-News reported her secretly recorded, anti-gay comments. Yet, the controversy also flushed out Chan supporters who backed her free speech rights and opposition to the ordinance.
Long dominated by the GOP, District 25 covers Kendall and Comal counties and parts of Bexar, Hays, Guadalupe and Travis counties. The northern part of Bexar County comprises nearly half of the district's voters.
The candidate filing period is Nov. 9-Dec. 9, and under state and city election laws, Chan can remain on council until she files as a candidate. She indicated she would resign before the filing period, but said she hasn't decided on a date.
Depending on when she steps down, Chan could be on the council when it takes up a CPS Energy rate increase request slated for Nov. 7.
City Clerk Leticia Vacek said once Chan resigns, City Council would appoint an interim replacement who would serve until an election in May. The winner of that election would serve out Chan's unexpired term ending in May 2015, Vacek said.
Reflecting on her council service, Chan said "I have always advocated for small government and actually suggested many different measures to cut costs but also to cut wasteful spending.... The voters would appreciate that, especially in these very uncertain economic times," she said, adding that she's undaunted by the specter of serving multiple counties with myriad issues.
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"I believe the council experience prepares me well. Just like council, you have to understand different neighborhoods. They have different issues, and they have different ways of approaching things," she said.
Calling the primary race a "short sprint," Chan indicated she'll wage a positive campaign. "I will be running for the position, not running against Sen. Campbell. I have good respect for her. We have different skill sets. The voters will be the ones to decide who would be more suitable, more qualified for that position."
Chan, who's getting a late start on fundraising compared to Campbell, said "I will certainly get enough financial support to run a good and professional campaign."
Represented by a Fort Worth political consultant, Chan disclosed her intentions in a statement outlining her aspirations — and her concerns about federal policies affecting Texas.
The Taiwan-born president of Unintech Consulting Engineers describes herself as "a steadfast foe of tax increases and a fierce opponent of wasteful government spending ... Our state and our families face serious threats over the next four years," Chan said.
"Our energy industry is under attack by the Obama administration, the Obama economic policy has stalled job creation and prosperity, gradually destroying the middle class — the heart of our nation. And Obamacare is a threat to our national economic health and our individual health itself," she said.
"Misguided policies pushed from Washington are steadily degrading our quality of education, our family values and even our ability to defend ourselves from violent criminals. We must have a strong and effective voice to counter those forces and push the frontiers of freedom forward," she added.
Chan's announcement acknowledged clashes with Mayor Julián Castro, stating "she has not shied away from opposing his spending programs and liberal social agenda." Chan allies said she considered, but eventually ruled out, a run against Castro in 2015.
Chan has represented District 9 on the North Side since 2009, winning in repeated landslides. The businesswoman was eligible to run for one more term in District 9 in 2015.
Also running for the GOP nomination in District 25 is San Antonio businessman Mike Novak. Democrat Dan Boone of Canyon Lake, plans to run for his party's nomination. The final showdown would be in November 2014.
Campbell captured the seat in 2012 after upsetting former Sen. Jeff Wentworth, R-San Antonio, in the 2012 primary. She won the general election with 66 percent of the vote.
In a post-redistricting drawing early this year, Campbell drew a two-year term rather than the usual four-year term; so she's already fighting to retain her seat. In recent weeks she has been trotting out long lists of supporters around the district, most recently touting her backing from four top officials in Hays County.
Campbell's campaign had no immediate comment on Chan's entry into the race.
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|Perry L. Christensen
Two former Carbon residents have been named for induction into the Athletic Hall of Fame at the CEU Founder's Day dinner scheduled for March 27. Perry L. Christensen and Don Larsen will share honors with Pam Dupin-Bryant.
Perry L. Christensen, who now resides in Logan, started his career in athletics on the fields and turf of Carbon County. He attended Carbon High School from 1962 to 1964, where he participated in football, basketball and track. He then enrolled at CEU where he played football. He served in the U. S. Navy from 1966 to 1970 and is a Vietnam veteran. Upon return from military service he enrolled at Utah State University where he earned a bachelor's degree ('74) and master's degree ('85).
Christensen's career as a football coach started at Logan Jr. High where he was head coach for three years and had a 15 win – 5 loss record. In 1978 he moved to Logan High School as assistant football coach and defensive coordinator and that was the year Logan High was undefeated with 12 wins and the State Championship to their credit. The next year (1979) Christensen was named head coach and held that position for the next 20 years. During those years his teams had a 117/82 win loss record. They won eight region championships and participated in the Ssate playoffs in 18 of 20 years.
In 1999 he moved to Sky View High School where he is currently serving as head football coach. During his five years at Sky View the team has participated in the state playoffs for two years. Christensen has coached five, 1st team quarter backs; 28, 1st team All State players and two MVP's of the state of Utah. He also has coached two NFL players and 24 division 1 NCAA players.
Christensen is not only an outstanding football coach but also has received kudos from his peers when serving as president of the Utah Football Coaches Association and has been recognized for his professional skill as Utah 3-A Football Coach of the Year in both 1988 and 1989. Perry is married to Ginger Barboglio Christensen and has three children.
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Don B. Larsen grew up in Price and now resides in Spanish Fork.
Larsen chose a career in health care administration and is currently CEO of AmeriPath, Utah. Larsen attended Carbon High in 1964-66 where he played on the baseball team all three years. His freshman year he played third base, then shortstop and pitcher as a junior and senior. He led the team in hitting and home runs in his senior year. He was named to the All-State team in his senior year. Larsen also played basketball at Carbon High for all three years and was named to the All-State second team when a senior.
At CEU (1966-68) he played baseball under the tutelage of Curt Jenson and led the team in batting average and home runs in l968. He then attended Southern Utah University on a baseball scholarship where he played shortstop and led the team as a senior in fielding percentage. He received All-Conference in his senior year. After graduating he played on many championship softball teams, first in Las Vegas, Nev. and then in Price, when he returned as hospital administrator.
While living in Price he learned to play racquetball at CEU's BDAC and was involved in the first tournaments organized. For several years he won almost all of the individual "A" player tournaments and also won tournaments held in Vernal, Grand Junction, Colo.; Nashville, Tenn.; and was ranked as the the nubmer three player in his age bracket in Utah.
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A major gift from The Herbert H. and Grace A. Dow Foundation of Midland in support of science education has provided Hope College with extra cause to celebrate during national Undergraduate Research Week.
The foundation has awarded the college $1 million to create an endowment to provide ongoing support for students conducting collaborative research with members of the faculty in biochemistry, chemistry and molecular biology.
Hope College President Dr. James Bultman announced the gift on Monday, April 11, while welcoming audience members to the opening of the college's six-day celebration of undergraduate research week. The event was a keynote address in the DeWitt Center main theatre by Dr. Nancy Hensel, executive officer of the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR). Bultman noted that the award continues a history of support by the Dow Foundation that extends more than three decades and has had a major, lasting impact on the college.
"We are so very grateful for the continuing partnership between Hope College and the Herbert H. and Grace A. Dow Foundation. The gifts of the foundation to the college have been transformational," he said. "This most recent endowed gift will help to perpetuate one of Hope's primary distinctives, namely, collaborative undergraduate student/faculty research."
When the endowment has matured fully, four students each year will be selected as "Dow Scholars," receiving a stipend and additional support to conduct research with a faculty member full-time during 10 weeks for two summers and part time during the intervening school year. Dr. Moses Lee, who is dean for the natural and applied sciences and a professor of chemistry at Hope, noted that the awards will be specific to the student recipients and not the research groups; thus, the students will be bringing their own support to whatever project they join.
"Our goal is to attract the best and brightest students to Hope College, and when they're here to provide them with the best education in the nation in biochemistry, chemistry and molecular biology," Lee said. "The Dow Scholars program will recognize students of exceptional ability, and will guarantee them the opportunity to become fully engaged in Hope's nationally respected undergraduate research program."
"By working with their faculty mentors in conducting cutting-edge research, the Dow Scholars - like all of the students involved in research at Hope - will be gaining first-hand experience with how to do science that will serve them exceedingly well as they pursue their careers after Hope," Lee said.
The first group of Dow Scholars will be selected for the summer of 2012, with another group added the next year so that there will eventually be eight in the program at any given time.
The students will be participants in what Lee noted is the largest of such programs at an undergraduate college in the country. The summer program regularly hosts some 170 students, including not only students from Hope but also students from other colleges and universities and from area high schools. Hope has received recognition in a variety of ways through the years for its model of teaching and learning through collaborative faculty-student research.
As one recent indication of the high regard in which Hope's program is held, CUR selected Lee, joined by faculty colleagues from across campus, to present a national webinar on Tuesday, April 12, scheduled in conjunction with the national week, to help educators across the country to better take the same approach. Among other honors, Hope holds five awards through the National Science Foundation's "Research Experiences for Undergraduates" program, in biology, chemistry, computer science, mathematics and physics, more than any other liberal arts college in the country.
The Dow Foundation's gift provides key support as the college seeks to build endowment for the research program. Traditionally, Lee noted, much of the support for the summer research program has come from external competitive grants, often federal, won by faculty, a source that is always uncertain, particularly in challenging economic times. The secure funding provided through endowment, he said, will help assure that the college can accommodate the increasing number of students interested in conducting research.
The Herbert H. and Grace A. Dow Foundation was established by Grace A. Dow in 1936 in memory of her husband, Herbert H. Dow, founder of The Dow Chemical Company, who died in 1930. The foundation, the fifth largest in the state, seeks to improve the educational, religious, economic and cultural lives of Michigan's people.
The college's Herbert H. and Grace A. Dow Health and Physical Education Center, which opened in 1978, is named in honor of a leadership gift from the foundation. Other major gifts from the foundation have included funding for endowment in 1982 and for additional construction projects including the Van Wylen Library, which opened in 1988; the renovation of Van Zoeren Hall in the early 1990s; and the A. Paul Schaap Science Center, which opened in 2003.


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Me and my friend Peter from the Norwegian reprap community ( reprap.no and bitraf.no ) decided to build ourselves some new printers. It'll be his first, and my third one in complete, working condition.
We chose to build the Mendel90 Sturdy variant, since it have a lot of good press. I need a production machine to replace my wobbly oversized prusa, and since it'll be Peters first he chose the same, as troubleshooting and setup will be much easier we build two equal machines.
Here follows some pictures Peter took, with some short descriptions.
|That's me, utilizing the kitchen table.
|Sticky vinyl is highly recommended.
|Cheap ~€50 pillar drill did the job well.
|Make sure you mount the brackets on the correct side of the panels.
|Loosely screwed together. We forgot washers though.
|Squaring up the front.
|It comes together fast!
|A rare(?) shot from the back side of the Menlde90. Notice the sides aren't mirrored in size.
|Unfortunately the x end motor bracket broke when pushing in the LM10UU.
|We plan to make a drawer or filament holder under the printer.
- Sticky vinyl is great.
- Being two when drilling and assembling makes it much, much easier.
- MDF isn't that great to work with, some of the screws tore through the material and spun freely.
- Paint before you assemble. We don't dare to pull this one apart to do so now.
- I do think I would prefer using 18mm sheets, the 12mm seems barely stiff enough.
- The holes in the sheets doesn't have to be that perfect, there's good room to compensate in the parts.
- There are a whole bunch of 4-6mm holes all over the place for cabling. We chose to ditch them and rather drill a few 8mm holes when we decide where we want the electronics.
- I should have configured and exported new STL files to fit my nozzle size and layer height.
- Some of the parts doesn't behave very well in PLA.
- The x carriage can't fit a gregstruder (the motor crashes in the sheet). Moving the holes in the carriage 5mm to the front will do the trick.
That's it for now. Building RepRaps is fun!


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Here is a video game soldier, rifle in hands, taking cover. A helicopter explodes behind him. The word "intense" might describe this scene from the TV commercial for the new shooter Spec Ops: The Line, but "unique"?
The unsolicited point here is not to beat up on IGN, whose quote may well suit the sandstorm-filled Spec Ops, but to observe a common issue with video games and the people who try to sell them to us: if you want us to believe something is unique, show us something that is unique. Exploding helicopters don't qualify.
Watch the rest of the commercial and judge for yourself how well this pitch works. The game will be out at the end of the month for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360.


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George Roy Hill's THE WORLD OF HENRY ORIENT (1964) and Don Coscarelli's KENNY & COMPANY (1976) showed the world that movies about kids didn't need to be stupid. Or pandering. Or maudlin. They just needed to be genuine. And fun. They needed to capture what it feels like to be twelve-years-old -- every moment a jumping-off point for something bigger, filled with discovery and unstoppable invincibility.
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Whether you're 78 or 11, whether you've watched it four-hundred-and-fifty-two times or you're seeing it for the first time, THE GOONIES never changes. It never degrades. It remains a smart, thrilling volcano of adventure that makes the world a better place. It also has ghost pirates. (Joe Ziemba)


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MUTEKPREVIEW038 - Memento Mori
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Music from Zumone (Steve Richman) and Quirk (Dan Driscoll), inspired by the "Memento Mori" performance @ MUTEK 2013. It contains a lot of original unreleased music from these performers that compliments the piece.
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An encyclopedic, time-lapse exploration of more than 100,000 photographs captured over the course of a lifetime, memento mori plays out as a polyphonic and visually pulsating meditation on (im)mortality and the fleeting nature of human memory. This awe-inspiring, extrasensory photomontage melds fragmented image snippets according to various experiences, with subjects and dreams in constant flux, while the prescient soundtrack layers atop rhythmic compositions and a slew of spectral archival recordings (shortwave radio broadcasts, indigenous folk music and Marshall McLuhan lectures among them). Acclaimed Toronto multimedia artist Dan Browne, who promotes an interdisciplinary approach to cinema, won the Jury Prize for Best Canadian Work at WNDX Festival of Moving Image 2012, for memento mori. Electronic musician and sound designer Dan Driscoll (a.k.a. aria/quirk), as well as dub producer/DJ Steve Richman (a.k.a. zum one/zum1), join Browne for the world premiere, live, AV performance of memento mori.


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Hurricane Sandy wheeled toward land as forecasters feared Monday, raking cities along the Northeast corridor with rain and wind gusts, flooding shore towns, washing away a section of the Atlantic City Boardwalk, and threatening to cripple Wall Street and New York City's subway system with a huge surge of corrosive seawater.
Hurricane Sandy wheeled toward land as forecasters feared Monday, raking cities along the Northeast corridor with rain and wind gusts, flooding shore towns, washing away a section of the Atlantic City Boardwalk, and threatening to cripple Wall Street and New York City's subway system with a huge surge of corrosive seawater.
By midday, the storm was picking up speed and was expected to blow ashore in New Jersey early in the evening, hours sooner than previously expected. Forecasters warned it would combine with two other weather systems — a wintry storm from the west and cold air rushing in from the Arctic — to create an epic superstorm.
From Washington to Boston, subways, buses, trains and schools were shut down and more than 7,000 flights grounded across the region of 50 million people. The New York Stock Exchange was closed. And hundreds of thousands of people were under orders to move to higher ground to await the storm's fury.
President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney suspended their campaigning with just over a week to go before Election Day.
At the White House, the president made a direct appeal to those in harm's way: "Please listen to what your state and local officials are saying. When they tell you to evacuate, you need to evacuate. Don't delay, don't pause, don't question the instructions that are being given, because this is a powerful storm."
Authorities warned that New York City and Long Island could get the worst of the storm surge: an 11-foot onslaught of seawater that could swamp lower Manhattan, flood the subways and cripple the underground network of electrical and communications lines that are vital to the nation's financial capital.
Because of Sandy's vast reach, with tropical storm-force winds extending almost 500 miles from its center, other major cities across the Northeast — Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia and Boston — also prepared to for the worst.
"The days ahead are going to be very difficult," Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley said. "There will be people who die and are killed in this storm."
Sheila Gladden evacuated her home in Philadelphia's flood-prone Eastwick neighborhood and headed to a hotel.
"I'm not going through this again," said Gladden, who had 5 1/2 feet of water in her home after Hurricane Floyd in 1999.
By early afternoon, the storm was 110 miles southeast of Atlantic City, its winds at 90 mph. It had speeded up to 28 mph and had begun the turn toward the coast that forecasters had feared.
As the storm closed in, it washed away an old section of the world-famous Atlantic City Boardwalk and left most of the city's emptied-out streets under water. All 12 casinos in the city were closed, and some 30,000 people were under orders to evacuate.
"When I think about how much water is already in the streets, and how much more is going to come with high tide tonight, this is going to be devastating. I think this is going to be a really bad situation tonight," said Bob McDevitt, president of the main Atlantic City casino workers union.
New Gov. Chris Christie, addressing those who were told to evacuate the state's barrier islands, said in his usual blunt way: "This is not a time to be a show-off. This is not a time to be stupid. This is the time to save yourself and your family."
In New York City, where 375,000 people were warned to evacuate, authorities moved to close the Holland Tunnel, which connects New York and New Jersey, and a tunnel between Manhattan and Brooklyn. Street grates above the subway were boarded up, but officials worried that seawater would seep in and damage the electrical switches.
In the morning, water was already splashing over the seawalls at the southern tip of Manhattan and had matched the levels seen during Hurricane Irene in August 2011. Still, people were out jogging, walking their dogs and even taking children out in strollers amid gusts of wind.
"We're high up enough, so I'm not worried about flooding," said Mark Vial, who was pushing his 2-year-old daughter, Maziyar, in a stroller outside their building, where they live on the 15th floor. "There's plenty of food. We'll be OK."
Water was already a foot deep on the streets of Lindenhurst, N.Y., along the southern edge of Long Island, and the canals around the island's Great South Bay were bulging two hours before high tide.
The major American stock exchanges closed for the day, the first unplanned shutdown since the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001. Wall Street expected to remain closed on Tuesday. The United Nations canceled all meetings at its New York headquarters.
New York called off school on both Monday and Tuesday for the city's 1.1 million students, and the more than 5 million people who depend on its transit network every day were left without a way to get around.
Sandy, a Category 1 hurricane, was blamed for 69 deaths in the Caribbean before it began traveling northward, parallel to the Eastern Seaboard. Forecasters said the combined Frankenstorm could bring close to a foot of rain in places, a potentially lethal storm surge of 4 to 11 feet, and punishing winds that could cause widespread power outages that last for days. Up to 3 feet of snow was forecast for the West Virginia mountains.
About 90 miles off Cape Hatteras, N.C., the Coast Guard rescued 14 crew members by helicopter from the HMS Bounty, a replica 18th-century sailing ship that sank in the storm. The Coast Guard searched for two other crew members. The ship was built for the 1962 Marlon Brando film "Mutiny on the Bounty."
The rescued had donned survival suits and life jackets and boarded two lifeboats after the ship began taking on water. They were plucked from 18-foot seas just before sunrise.
O'Malley, the Maryland governor, said a fishing pier in the beach resort of Ocean City, not far from a popular boardwalk and amusement park, was "half-gone." The area had been ordered evacuated on Sunday.
Craig Fugate, chief of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said FEMA teams were deployed from North Carolina to Maine and as far inland as West Virginia, bringing generators and basic supplies that will be needed in the storm's aftermath.
"I have not been around long enough to see a hurricane forecast with a snow advisory in it," Fugate told NBC's "Today" show.
Breed reported from Raleigh, N.C.; Contributing to this report were AP Science Writer Seth Borenstein in Washington; Katie Zezima in Atlantic City, N.J.; David Porter in Pompton Lakes, N.J.; Wayne Parry in Point Pleasant Beach, N.J.; and David Dishneau in Delaware.


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Emus and Ostriches Vs. Weasel Ball [VIDEO]
Ever wondered who would win in a fight between a couple of emus and few ostriches and a weasel ball? Me either. But, I am glad I now know. Watch this hilarious reaction video of these large birds trying to figure out what exactly is happening with that weird thing rolling around them.
Get ready to giggle your little heart out. These guys are too funny to watch running around with this weasel ball whipping and whirling around them.


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Lisa Su, AMD's Senior Vice President and General Manager of Global Business Units, told Reuters at the Consumer Electronics show in Las Vegas that veteran engineers who for years have specialized in designing PC chips based on Intel's "x86" architecture are warming to new ways of doing things.
Su joined AMD as part of a new management team hired by CEO Rory Read, who came from PC maker Lenovo in 2011 promising to make the chipmaker more efficient.
She previously worked on embedded chips at Freescale Semiconductor and IBM, and she has been described on Wall Street and in Silicon Valley as one of AMD's most promising executives.
Su said her lack of experience in PCs, the source of 80 percent of AMD's business, has been an asset in developing new strategy.
"I'm a big believer in using the best IP for a given application. It's because I'm not a long-time AMDer," Su said.
"There is a mentality that if you're a long time AMDer that we're x86, we know what we're doing and it's just about building better x86 devices," she said. "Much of the transition over the past year is that now we're a system-on-a-hip company. That's the future and we'll deliver the best technology for our growth markets."
A system on a chip, or SoC, is a chip that integrates several features found in a computer into a single piece of silicon.
Like top chipmaker Intel, Sunnyvale, California-based AMD was caught flat-footed in recent years with the emergence and fast growth of mobile devices, which led to an unexpected slump in the PC industry.
But while Intel has deep pockets to fund research on new products to catch up, AMD faces declining cash flows and a more modest balance sheet.
One of Silicon Valley's oldest chipmakers, AMD has laid off engineers and some analysts are concerned it may not find new markets for its chips in time to reverse a declining cash reserve.
"We spent a couple of months in the summer as the PC market was taking its very tumultuous reset as a team thinking, what do we want to be when we grow up? It was very much an introspective period of time," Su said.
The result was AMD's plan to double down on new markets like communications, servers and digital signs, and Su is seen as a key executive to lead that transition.
In October, Read told analysts on a conference call he had underestimated the speed of change in the PC industry and said AMD would move quickly to focus on selling chips for communications, industrial and gaming applications.
AMD recently announced it has licensed technology from Britain's ARM Holdings and will use it to build low-power chips for servers.
Su said AMD's relationship would grow over time.
(Reporting By Noel Randewich; Editing by Bernard Orr)


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PRINCETON, N.J., Nov. 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Omthera Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a privately held specialty pharmaceuticals company, today announced an invitation to attend the presentation of data from its Phase 3 clinical studies. The presentation will be held on November 5, 2012 at 7:30 a.m. pst in the Bernards Room at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel, 506 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles. Participants are also invited to attend the presentation via a live webcast available through the "What's New" section at www.Omthera.com. The webcast will be available for replay following the presentation.
The Phase 3 EVOLVE (EpanoVa fOr Lowering Very High triglyceridEs) trial was a 12 week, multi-center, randomized, double-blind, study of 399 patients, evaluating the efficacy and safety of three doses of Epanova in patients with fasting triglyceride levels of at least 500 mg/dL but less than 2000 mg/dL. Patients were randomized into four dosing groups: Epanova 2g/day; Epanova 3g/day; Epanova 4g/day; and control (olive oil 4 g/day). The primary endpoint of the trial was the percentage change in triglyceride level from baseline to week 12 and the secondary endpoint was the reduction in Non-HDL-C.
The Phase 3 ESPRIT (Epanova combined with a Statin in Patients with HypertRiglycerIdemia to Reduce Non-HDL CholesTerol) trial was a six-week, randomized, double-blind, parallel group study of 647 patients to assess the efficacy and safety of add-on Epanova to statin therapy in patients with persistent hypertriglyceridemia and high risk for cardiovascular disease. Patients were randomized into three dosing groups; Epanova 2g/day; Epanova 4g/day; and control (olive oil 4 g/day). The primary objective of the study was to evaluate the efficacy of adding Epanova (2g or 4g daily) to statin monotherapy for lowering Non-HDL-C. Secondary objectives are to evaluate the safety of the Epanova and statin combination therapies, and to evaluate the effects of the combination therapies on TG and other lipids and lipoproteins.
About Epanova™Epanova is a patent protected, novel, ultra-pure mixture of the free fatty acid forms of eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA). Omthera has developed a substantial body of data on Epanova, which points to an improved and more predictable bioavailability as compared to the ethyl ester form found in prescription Omega-3 products currently available. Triglyceride lowering with Epanova was previously observed in two large, placebo-controlled, randomized, double-blind, Phase III studies involving 748 Crohn's disease patients with normal triglyceride levels for >/= 52 weeks, approximately 400 of which were treated with Epanova for remission of disease. In all studies performed to date, Epanova has demonstrated a very good safety and tolerability profile.
About HypertriglyceridemiaHypertriglyceridemia refers to a condition in which patients have high blood levels of triglycerides and is associated with increased risk of heart disease. It is one component of a range of lipid disorders collectively referred to as dyslipidemia. The overall dyslipidemia population in the U.S. is believed to be in excess of 100 million, with approximately 40 million of those diagnosed with hypertriglyceridemia (triglycerides greater than 200mg/dL) and an estimated 4 million with very high triglyceride levels (triglycerides greater than 500mg/dL). Very high triglycerides are associated with an increased risk of pancreatitis. Regulatory approval for the treatment of very high triglycerides is based on a significant reduction in the serum triglyceride levels.
About Omthera Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Founded in 2008, Omthera Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a privately held, specialty pharmaceutical company focusing its efforts on the clinical development of new therapies for dyslipidemia. Led by a team of experts with exceptional experience in developing new therapies for lipid disorders, Omthera is dedicated to developing innovative therapies for the millions of patients who have elevated triglyceride levels and increased risk of cardiovascular disease. Omthera holds worldwide rights to Epanova under a license from Chrysalis Pharma AG, a privately held Swiss company that is the owner of the product. For more information, please visit www.omthera.com Omthera Contact: Omthera Media Relations:Christian Schade
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Best on an Empty Stomach: The Goriest Pop Culture Moments of 2012 — VIDEO
Sometimes the pop culture moments that stick with you the most are the ones where people have sharp, deadly things stuck in them. Things like machetes, uranium-tipped bullets, grey wolf teeth, or, better yet, zombie teeth. No matter how you account for it, gore strikes a nerve—figuratively for movie, TV, and videogame audiences, sometimes all too literally for the unfortunate souls onscreen. 2012 featured some of the grisliest scenes we've witnessed in a while, and much of it came from one source: The Walking Dead. But only one moment from AMC's zombie splatterfest made our list of the Top 7 Goriest Moments of 2012. And to illuminate all our picks, we've embedded videos of the moments in question. Note: Hollywood.com is not responsible for the ejected contents of your stomach should you have just recently eaten. Also, MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD. Consider yourself warned.
7. Looper: "The Rainmaker"
I'm still not certain why Looper needed not just an evil child subplot, but an evil child with telekinetic powers subplot. However, director Rian Johnson's choice of adding a little supernatural dread to his time-travel saga reaches a crimson crescendo when Emily Blunt's toddler goes all Carrie on a hitman who enters his Mommy's house. It's with this shower of blood that we know that the tyke is actually "The Rainmaker," the future kingpin whom Bruce Willis has journeyed back in time to kill.
6. The Grey: Wolf Gore
There's plenty of wolf-on-human bloodshed in Joe Carnahan's punishing wilderness survival tale. But it's a moment of human-on-wolf violence that may sting the most. In retribution for the deaths of several of their comrades because of the beasts, one of the survivors of an airplane crash in the Alaskan tundra beheads a wolf. The following video shows the immediate aftermath, with the wolf's head being flung around like a grisly trophy.
5. Mass Effect 3: Cerberus Splatter
Like The Walking Dead, Mass Effect 3 features so much bloodshed that you quickly become desensitized to it. The following video of a particularly explosive head-shot is not so much a moment of gore par excellence as one of gore per normal in Mass Effect 3, if slightly more watermelon-splat messy than usual. Uranium-tipped bullets are the only kind of ammo to pack.
4. The Walking Dead: Hershel, There's "Only One Way to Keep You Alive!"
The one moment in The Walking Dead that hit the hardest was not just another zombie kill. Nothing will ever top Season 2's "Zombie in the Well" for pure gross-out. Sometimes the harm inflicted upon the living carries greater impact. Witness the way Rick violently hacked off Hershel's leg with a machete to stop him from turning into a walker after he received a bite in his calf. THWACK! For a show with as much viscera as The Walking Dead it's rarely been more visceral than this.
3. Cabin in the Woods: Pandora's Warehouse
Giant anacondas, poltergeists, mad scientists, babydoll-masked killers, and one hungry merman, are just a few of the many night-terror inducing inmates of a subterranean bogeyman prison. Then they escape…
2. Prometheus: Self-Administered C-Section
The most impressive (and harrowing) scene by far in Prometheus built upon all the womb imagery Ridley Scott had already given us 33 years ago in Alien. But rather than a tentacled menace bursting out of Noomi Rapace's chest, she underwent an actual, if abnormally rapid, pregnancy. When she realized, however, that she carried an alien fetus in her uterus that would eat its way through her body, she hopped in a self-contained surgical pod that had previously been calibrated only for male use (implicit commentary on what may still be the egregious under-recognition of women's healthcare needs in the future?) and performed a C-Section on herself. Watching lasers slice through her stomach is pretty gruesome. As always, though, the best horror is that which is based on real fears. Even if you're not carrying a cannibalistic alien fetus, C-Sections are scary stuff.
1. Skyfall: Silva's Jaw
Probably Silva's most hauntingly memorable scene. At least after his initial homoerotic introduction to Bond, that is. Sometimes the aftermath of the grisly event can be worse, and more evocative, than the event itself. When the cyberterrorist pulls out his jaw to show M the effects of the MI6 cyanide capsule with which he tried in vain to kill himself, our imaginations do a far better job of considering how painful that must have been than anything else director Sam Mendes could have shown onscreen.
Think we got these right? What other gory scenes would you nominate from 2012?
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Infiniti FX37 Expert Review
The 2013 Infiniti FX37 has a very sophisticated look, with a rounded front and smooth transition to the top and sides. It is also well powered for an SUV. This car is available in two trim levels, a basic level and the Limited Edition. Surprisingly, the Limited Edition offers very few features that the base level cars do not have, aside from some exterior and interior color choices.
The only major change to the FX for 2013 is the replacement of its 3.5 V-6 with a 3.7L. A Limited Edition model is now offered exclusively with a Moonlight White exterior and Graphite interior color scheme. Iridium Blue exterior paint is available on all other models. The Moving Object Detection feature is added to the available Around View Monitor.
The high tech body of the FX37 is a mix of galvanized steel, aluminum, and composite. The base models are available in eight clearcoat monotone paint choices, ranging from white to grey to black, with Iridium Blue thrown in for a little color, while the Limited Edition is only available in Moonlight White. Body side moldings are black and the grille is chrome. Windows are deep tinted for added privacy and protection from the sun. A sunroof also comes standard. A sunshade thankfully comes standard for when the sunroof is not in use, so the greenhouse effect can be prevented. A lip spoiler adds a touch of style, as do the aluminum wheels. The wheels come paired with all-season tires, suitable for driving on most roads in most weather conditions.
Dual zone automatic air conditioning comes standard in the front, for the comfort of the driver and front passenger. An air filter keeps the air fresh and underseat ducts help the air circulate through to the back. Front seats are bucket seats and the rear seat is a 60-40 bench. Both front seats are eight-way power adjustable and come heated. The driver's seat even comes with luxurious lumbar support. Cooled front seats are available as well for the base models. Unfortunately, a heated rear seat is not available. All seats come upholstered in leather.
The 2013 Infiniti FX37 comes with an AM/FM/CD player. This system can play MP3s and auxiliary audio, with the option of DVD-audio compatibility. Bluetooth compatibility comes standard. Music plays through eleven brand speakers and can be controlled through buttons on the steering wheel. Voice control is available as well for the base models, for added convenience.
A navigation system is available and comes with one LCD screen and a voice activation feature. This is one of the few features that the Limited Edition has that the base models do not. The Infiniti Hard Drive Navigation system is integrated with a CD/DVD player and has streaming audio through Bluetooth. It also has a color touch-screen display, XM NavTraffic with real-time traffic information, XM NavWeather with real-time weather, and Zagat Survey- a restaurant guide. An entertainment system is also available for all models and comes with two LCD screens for the rear. A programmable garage door opener comes standard, for help with automatic garage doors. A digital display shows the exterior temperature, to keep the driver informed.
A cargo net is available to help manage small items in the rear cargo space. This small SUV has up to 62 cubic feet of cargo room.
The 2013 Infiniti FX37 comes with driver and front passenger frontal impact airbags, seat mounted driver and passenger side impact airbags, and side curtain airbags in the first and second rows. Airbags come with an occupant sensor. Anti-lock brakes and driveline traction control help the driver stay in control of the vehicle at all times. Brake assist is equipped and parking assist comes standard. Unfortunately, a blind spot sensor is not available, although an Around View Monitor w/Front and Rear Sonar System is available as an option. An electronic stability system increases vehicle stability during cornering and other difficult maneuvers. Distance Control Assist, Intelligent Brake Assist with Forward Collision Warning, and Lane Departure Warning with Lane Departure Prevention are some other available safety options.
Remote keyless entry comes in the form of a key fob and comes with a panic alarm that can be used to deter theft. Ignition disable is another feature that can be used to deter theft. Unfortunately, remote start is not available for this vehicle. The FX37 gives the driver the standard fuel, tire pressure, and service interval warnings.
The 2013 Infiniti FX37 comes with a 3.7-liter, 325 horsepower, V-6 engine which produces 267 lb-ft of torque. This engine is rated at 16-17/22-24 mpg city/highway and comes paired with a seven-speed automatic transmission with overdrive and auto-manual. The base model is available as a rear-wheel-drive or all-wheel-drive vehicle. The Limited is only available as an all-wheel-drive vehicle. Cruise control comes standard, with adaptive cruise control also available on the base models. The adaptive cruise control uses laser or radar technology to maintain a safe distance behind another vehicle, braking or accelerating to keep this distance; a feature that could come in handy on busy highways.
The front suspension is double independent and comes supported by an anti-roll bar, coil springs, and gas-pressurized shocks. The rear suspension is multi-link and comes supported by an anti-roll bar, coil springs, and gas-pressurized shocks. This suspension and support combination allows for a responsive drive and handling that performs well under even when quick or tight maneuvering is required. It also allows for a smooth ride for the passengers.


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The most ancient and highly reliable method for preserving food is drying. Since before recorded history people have dried herbs, meats, fruits and vegetables to store them for use at a later date. Historians have even credited the ability to store foods in this way with allowing the first advances toward civilization. In the drying section we will give you all the info you need to dry food - including, dehydrating, smoking, sun-drying, air-drying and baking.
There is a new and popular way to preserve food that has just caught on in the last decade or so. Vac Sealing is a method whereby food is put inside a heavy plastic wrap and all the air removed; then it is sealed. There are many advantages to this technique, and you will want to learn more about it.
Another ancient method of preservation (especially popular in the extreme Northern Latitudes) is freezing. In this section we will tell you everything you need to know about freezing foods including, blanching and packaging. We will also include some pointers that might be helpful for freezing fruits, vegetables and meats.
If you are looking for information of becoming a Master Food Preserver we may be able to point you in the right direction. We have also started a Preserve Food FAQ page to help answer your questions. If you have any need to contact us directly or would like to suggest a recipe, use our online contact form. We will do our best to answer your mail within a reasonable time-frame.
Preserving food is a great way to stretch your budget, help the environment and live a healthier life all at the same time. Thanks for visiting our site, we hope that you will come back often to rediscover the magic of preserving food.
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Grow your neuron as long as possible by clicking on protein targets.
You can only click on protein targets within your circle of influence but you need to be quick as it decreases over time.
Oh one more thing...beware of the rival red neurons that compete with you for available protein targets. Click on the special pink, green, yellow and blue protein targets for a range of power ups.
'Axon' uses real features of neuron development in the foetal brain. You can find out more by clicking on The Science link from the main menu of the game.
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