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Create the best Electronic Design applications with the latest development kits from RS. Choose from our range of products from Microcontrollers, DSP, Power Management and Programmable Logic kits.
Microcontrollers are everywhere, from children's toys and your TV remote control to your motorcar and implantable medical devices. There is no escaping the wide variety of microcontrollers out there and the myriad of applications they can inhabit and the effects that they have on our lives.
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The Internet of Things (also referred to as IoT), is the increasing use of cheap and easy to program hardware to add internet and other types of connectivity to everyday objects.
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In today's world we are interacting with wireless technology more than ever, whether at home in the office or at the workshop, it's never far away. Contactless payment, wireless internet access and GPS are the everyday applications we associate with wireless communications.


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Arizona Cardinals deny they're close to hiring Andy Reid
PHOENIX -- The Arizona Cardinals continued their search Tuesday for a new coach and general manager, but apparently not at the place reported by several news outlets.
Multiple reports had the Cardinals close to hiring former Philadelphia Eagles coach Andy Reid, with an official announcement likely to come at the end of the week.
The Cardinals denied that and said they plan to proceed as team President Michael Bidwill outlined Monday. Reid, who could be reunited with former Eagles quarterback Kevin Kolb, is a candidate, but no interview has been scheduled.
Reid first will interview tonight with the Kansas Chiefs, who fired Romeo Crennel on Monday, according to a person informed of the interview who spoke to USA TODAY Sports and requested anonymity because because the Chiefs haven't confirmed the meeting.
Cardinals defensive coordinator Ray Horton interviewed with Bidwill on Tuesday and was expected to meet with representatives from the Cleveland Browns and Buffalo Bills soon.
Bidwill has an interview scheduled this weekend in Denver with Broncos offensive coordinator Mike McCoy.
Bidwill fired coach Ken Whisenhunt and General Manager Rod Graves on Monday and is conducting simultaneous searches for their replacements.
The Cardinals have other coaching candidates in mind, but those names have not become public. One could be Oregon coach Chip Kelly, who is in the Valley preparing his team for the Fiesta Bowl.
Bidwill and Steve Keim, the Cardinals vice president of player personnel, attended Oregon's practice Tuesday, to scout players.
Keim is a leading candidate for the general manager's job. He also is interviewing with the San Diego Chargers, and the Jacksonville Jaguars have expressed interest in interviewing him to be their general manager.
The Bills were scheduled to interview Whisenhunt in Arizona on Tuesday night.
Kent Somers writes sports for azcentral.com, a Gannett property

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(AP) — President Barack Obama is pushing Congress to authorize $200 million a year for research into clean energy technologies that can wean automobiles off oil.
Obama proposed the idea of an energy security trust last month in his State of the Union address, but he was putting a price tag on the idea during a trip Friday to the Argonne National Laboratory outside Chicago — $2 billion over 10 years. The White House said the research would be paid for with revenue from federal oil and gas leases on offshore drilling and would not add to the deficit.
The money would fund research on "breakthrough" technologies such as batteries for electric cars and biofuels made from switch grass or other materials. Researchers also would look to improve use of natural gas as a fuel for cars and trucks.
Obama got a firsthand look at some of the cutting-edge vehicle research in a tour of an Argonne's lab, including a room that can go to extreme temperatures to test the impact on fuel efficiency. He talked to engineers working on electric car batteries and on an engine that runs on diesel and gasoline to reduce fuel costs.
"We want to keep on funding them," the president said as he looked at the engine, developed with public and private funding from Chrysler. "That's what I'm trying to tell Congress."
The proposal is modeled after a plan submitted by a group of business executives and former military leaders who are committed to reducing U.S. oil dependence. The group, called Securing America's Future Energy or SAFE, is headed by FedEx Corp. Chairman and CEO Frederick W. Smith and retired Marine Corps Gen. P.X. Kelley. The nonpartisan group says its goal is to "break oil's stranglehold on the transportation sector" through alternatives such as electric cars and heavy-duty trucks fueled by natural gas, but it had proposed a much larger $500 million annual investment.
Creation of the trust would require congressional approval at a time of partisan divide over energy issues. Republicans have pushed to expand oil and gas drilling on federal land and water, while Obama and many Democrats have worked to boost renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power.
Obama tried to appeal to both parties by pitching the trust plan not just as an environmental issue but as a job-creation plan that would help the United States remain a technology leader.
"If a nonpartisan coalition of CEOs and retired generals and admirals can get behind this idea, then so can we," Obama said in his State of the Union address. "Let's take their advice and free our families and businesses from the painful spikes in gas prices we've put up with for far too long."
There were signs agreement may be possible. Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski has called it "an idea I may agree with."
Murkowski, senior Republican on the Senate Energy Committee, did not fully endorse the plan, which is similar to one she has proposed to use revenue from drilling for oil and natural gas on public lands that previously were off-limits to energy production to pay for research on new energy technologies.
White House officials said the president's proposal would not require expansion of drilling to federal lands or water where it is now prohibited. Instead, they are counting on increased production from existing sites, along with efficiencies from an administration plan to streamline drilling permits. The government collects more than $6 billion a year in royalties from production on federal lands and waters.
A spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner said Obama needs to expand drilling to get his support.
"For this proposal to even be plausible, oil and gas leasing on federal land would need to increase dramatically," the spokesman, Brendan Buck, said. "Unfortunately, this administration has consistently slowed, delayed and blocked American energy production."
Obama's push for the energy trust came as the Environmental Protection Agency released a new report Friday indicating that fuel economy standards rose last year by 1.4 miles per gallon — the largest annual increase since EPA started keeping track. The agency said the improvement was due to better availability of high-performing cars and more options for consumers.
The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers suggested that rather than encouraging research on fuel-efficient cars, the government should focus on making diverse fuels more available and improving transportation infrastructure.
A spokesman for the SAFE group welcomed Obama's plan, even though it does not call for expanded drilling. The group released a plan in December to use revenues from expanded offshore drilling and increased production in Alaska in areas where it is now blocked.
"At the end of the day, we still think it's a proposal that can have bipartisan support and that can help reduce oil dependence," SAFE spokesman Brad Goehner said Friday.
Argonne is one of the Energy Department's largest national laboratories for scientific and engineering research, staffed by more than 1,250 scientists and engineers. White House officials said it was chosen as the site of the president's speech because of its tradition of research into vehicle technologies.


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While in Photography we are often fighting the lack of light, sometimes there can also be too much light... One of the remedies for the latter one, is using a "neutral density filter" (ND). While these dark filters are used to reduce the amount of light entering the lens, a side effect allows us to make the exposure time longer. Needless to say that a good sturdy tripod is a must under these conditions.
On some of these filters, one can select a given amount of darkness by turning the front filter element; even though these Vari-ND filters are often more pricey, they allow for much more flexibility.
While setting up for some night photography near Dubai Marina, I wanted to start by photographing some of the rocks on a nearby beach. Even though the sun had just set, normal exposure without the filter, was still giving me less than half a second of exposure time using a small aperture of f16. This would have been not sufficient to blur the water.
Adding a Vari-ND filter, it reduced the light by 5 stops of light (EV) and therefore increased the exposure time to the needed 20s. Perfect for the silky look of the water I was after...
Image details:
FujiFilm Sexy1 (X-E1) with the 18-55 lens
ISO 200, 43mm, f11, 20s
RAW development in Lightroom 4.4. RC
Nik ColorEfex for contrast and colour fine-tuning
To continue on the subject of landscape photography, I'm presently spending a week in Alentejo, Portugal. Expect some more landscape images in the coming weeks.
Till then,
remember, "Water is the driving force in nature" - Leonardo da Vinci


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Translated by Yocheved Klausner
We continue walking through the half-ruined some entirely ruined streets of the old city. We stop by the house no. 28 on Oslanovicze Street.
This house was the place where the kitchen for hungry children in the ghetto had been. The kitchen was founded and operated by the children themselves. The story of the kitchen is told by Avraham Halber, his wife Hanke Apel and the sole survivor among the workers in the kitchen, Lusia Gorstein:
The hunger in the ghetto had reached everyone. Masses of people, adults and children alike, swollen and weak, would ramble in the streets from garbage can to garbage can, looking among the waste for something to alleviate their hunger. But soon a group of resourceful children came up with a plan to help their unfortunate sisters and brothers. They decided to open a kitchen and prepare every day some hot food for the children.
The group had a meeting and chose a managing committee: Chanale Eisenberg, (Efraim Tzelnik's granddaughter), Lilia and Salek Yablon (Yissachar Yablon's children), Lusia Gorstein (daughter of David and Ida Gorstein of the entire group she alone survived), Dina'chke Tchibotzka (Shlomo's daughter), Ida Friedman, Marisha and Koba Levin (Yoel'ke Levin's children) and Feigele Yablon (Yosef's daughter).
A delegation of the children's committee approached the Judenrat, presented their plan and asked for help. The Judenrat gave the children a sum of money, with which the children managed to open the kitchen.
In order to be able to maintain the kitchen, the children sought help from different sources: they asked for regular donations from the Jews in the ghetto who could afford it; pairs of children would go through the streets and alleys of the ghetto and sell various artifacts; they collected food and clothes; in the garden of the house they organized various performances; in the courtyard they held sales; all this produced income that was used to buy food.
Almost all the children in the ghetto were drawn into this important work. Children who still had enough to eat at home would share their meals with those who had not. Many children would not touch their food at home before their parents donated a certain sum of money for the children's kitchen committee.
A group of women decided to join the children in their holy work. They helped obtain products a very difficult task at that time and worked in the kitchen as well. Among the women were Ida Gorstein, Bronca Yablon, Andje Levin and others. Some people made important material contributions. Among them were Mr. Parness, a refugee from Germany who lived at the time in the Siedlce ghetto and Mr. Ganzwohl, a Siedlce convert to Christianity who, seeing the terrible tragedy that befell the Jews, repented and returned to Judaism, and devoted himself to helping needy Jews and especially hungry children.
The children's committee worked according to a rigorous plan and followed all the rules of an organized corporation. The management and the secretary properly registered all needy children and distributed food according to plan.
With time, the committee and the kitchen expanded and developed into a central institution in the ghetto, whose aim was to give help to all needy. In those ill-fated days, cold, hunger, poverty and epidemics raged in the ghetto. From alleys, from crowded little houses, from cellars and attics, a stream of hundreds of poorly clad and swollen children would move at midday toward the house on 28 Oslanovicze Street. For many of them the little food they received there was their only meal of the day. Some of them shared the food with their parents, who would wait in a side alley, sit on the ground and silently have their daily meal.
This holy work of the school children, helping their sisters and brothers lasted a very long time in the locked up ghetto. It was savagely interrupted on 9 Elul 5702 [22 August 1942], when the children and their parents were driven by the Germans, the Ukrainians and the other child-murderers to the Umschlag-Platz and from there to the gas chambers of Treblinka.
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Translated by Yocheved Klausner
Various labor camps existed in our town and around it: small ones, where only few people worked, and larger ones, which would employ up to several hundred workers.
The most popular camps were:
|Reckman for railroad equipment
|about 200 workers
|Kissgrube stone and gravel excavation
| 150
|Construction works
| 100
|Army equipment camp
| 100
|Ralnitche Syndicate
| 30
|Glass works
| 60
|Waste collecting station
| 59
|Wolf & Goebel concrete works, roads
| 150
|Railroad inspection & various railroad works
| 150
|Air force works
| 100
|General collection center and several smaller enterprises
In some of these places, the German supervisors took their workers from the smaller ghetto, arranged for them living quarters in the local barracks and gave them their meals in a common kitchen.
The living conditions in the camps varied, according to the whims of the camp leaders and their wild and sadistic moods.
The general system and the overall goal was, however, the same everywhere: to extract from the Jewish slaves maximum work with minimum food and rest; to exploit their strength as fast as possible, that they would collapse as quickly as possible. This was the wish of the leader, the Führer, the initiator of the new order, and all the little führers of the camps were dedicated to helping realize the big plan. In some of the camps the plan was carried out slowly and gradually, step by step, while in others swiftly and brutally.
He bloodiest and most cruel of the labor camps in town, where hundreds of Jews from the small ghetto were tortured and killed, was the Reckman firm.
The central offices of the firm were in Berlin. The company's main business was building railroads and other transport means for the army, as well as dispatching ammunition transports to the East. Several hundred Jews worked in the Siedlce branch.
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The special tactics of the company leaders concerning the Jews was to torment them through work and hunger until they died. Working without end, without a break, day and night, without food, without rest, along with cruel and continuous beating, the Jews would lay the rails, cut stones, carry heavy loads and unload the wagons. People became swollen and collapsed on the spot when their strength gave way. The dying would be pulled out of the way and finished off one by one, and in their place another person would be assigned right away, and then another and then another. There were enough Jews around too many, in fact. And, when all the Jews of this region would die, they will bring Jews from countries where there still existed some, for all of them must be used and their lives sacrificed for the new happy order that the Nazis would bestow on the world.
Yudel Ruzhowikwiatt, who had worked at Reckman's for some time, tells that the chief murderer, Reckman himself, would often boast that every morning before breakfast he must kill at least one Jew, otherwise he could not swallow his breakfast.
The healthiest and strongest person was not able to bear for more than several weeks the terrible conditions of hunger, hard work and beating that were commonplace in the Reckman camp. This was not a labor camp it was a death camp. No wonder that nobody wanted to work there. Thus every morning the messengers from the camp would enter the little ghetto and the terrible hunt began. Every person they put their hands on, even women and old people, knew that their horrible death sentence had been signed.
As a result of these tactics to wear down people through hunger, hard work and beatings daily the streets of Siedlce would witness groups of pale and emaciated Jews, in rags, pushing little carts full of other Jews, their faces pale green or yellow like wax, some of them swollen, with very weak signs of life; behind the procession would walk the German watchmen. The Jews in the carts were the workers that the Reckman Company sent back to the ghetto the tormented and dying Jews that they could not use any longer. They were done, and not needed.
As soon as the cart loaded with the living skeletons would enter the ghetto it was overturned as if it were a load of stones or sand. The wretched bodies would fall out and remain on the ground, unable to move.
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The poor tormented Jews, who had pulled the cart and unloaded the dying people, were led by the watchmen back to Reckman's, to pay with their last drops of blood, until it was their own turn to be carted away by other unfortunate Jews, back to the ghetto. The only creatures that would pay any attention to the still living skeletons were the swarms of flies and worms.
It would happen sometimes, that one of the ghetto residents would furtively give one of the dying persons a piece of bread or a drop of water; seldom would the dying have enough strength left to extend his hand to receive it. It was too late for any help most of them died the same day.
Leibl Mandelbaum, who worked in this Reckman hell-camp, told his story:
I worked at digging up and cutting stones. The German supervisor would constantly push the workers, not giving them even a moment's rest. The portion of food we received all day was 80 grams of bread and a bowl of soup mostly plain water in which we would sometimes find a piece of rotten cabbage or some other vegetable. When I tried to take a few minutes' rest, the supervisor hit me with the shovel over my back so hard, that the shovel broke. I could not move, and Reckman himself, who witnessed the scene, permitted me to rest for one hour, after which I was driven back to work.
Mandelbaum ran away from the camp and went to the little ghetto. He was caught by a policeman and sent back to the Reckman camp and punished by 25 whippings. Several days later he ran off again, was caught and again punished by beating. Feeling that he was so weak that he would soon collapse anyway, he decided to risk everything and escaped for the third time this time with success. Finally he got rid of the Reckman Company.
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Would You Pay $162 a Year for All the Music You Can Eat?
That's the offer, sort of, being made by something called Datz Music Lounge.
The details, from MusicWeek (via Coolfer): You give the company 100 British pounds, and for the next year you can download all the music you want. And because you're downloading the files in the unencrypted MP3 format, they are yours to keep, and yours to do whatever you want with: Play them on any Apple (AAPL) iPod or iPhone, make copies, burn them to CDs, etc.
Are there catches? Of course: The offer is only available to U.K. residents, who have to use a special USB dongle to make the Datz software work, and it only works on PCs running Microsoft's (MSFT) Windows, for now. Most crucially, the company only has music from two of the big four music labels–EMI and Warner Music Group (WMG)–and it doesn't even have all of those companies' new releases, but a "wide selection of new music released in 2009."
But play along, for just a minute. Say Datz does end up striking deals with Sony (SNE) and Universal Music Group (and the other big indies), and does end up getting most of the majors' catalogs. And say Datz is still able to keep the price point about the same: Something in the $15 a month range for unlimited music to own. Could that work, from both a consumer and industry perspective?
Yes. It could.
That's around the same price point as music subscription services offered by RealNetworks' (RNWK) Rhapsody and Napster's (NAPS)/Best Buy's (BBY) Napster.com. The big difference: Those services only give you access to music, not ownership. And while I'm not hung up on owning music as long as I can get what I want when I want, I'm in the minority on this one.
But if you could hang on to your music–and not have to worry about what format you're using, since MP3s will work on all formats–then that seems like a compelling offer. The thought of shelling out $162 in advance will likely give people pause, but presumably Datz could figure out a way to extract the payments, à la the mobile carriers, over a one-year period.
Meanwhile, $162 a year is much, much more than most people were ever spending on CDs, even during the format's boom years. And those, obviously, are long gone. Today the industry would be pleased if the average consumer spent $20 a year on music, no matter what format it's in.
And yes, we know what many of you are going to say: Why pay for music at all when I can steal whatever I want? Or the faux-sophisticated alternate version: Music should be free! Because it can be replicated for no marginal cost!
Well, can't argue with that–unless you're in favor of compensating people who create intellectual property for their work. And I'm one of those old-fashioned types who still thinks that's a good idea. Hope Datz can pull this off.


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Judges maintain strike, unsatisfied with Morsi's 'clarification'
[Al Ahram] Egypt's Judges' Club denounce the president's office recalcitrance on his Constitutional Declaration and assert they will continue escalating their strike and work to press for the executive to retract his decree.
In a statement released on Tuesday the Judges' Club assert they are struggling to preserve the judicial branch's independence.
President Mohamed Morsi tried to placate senior members of the judiciary in a meeting on Sunday over the Constitutional Declaration he surprised everyone with on Thursday, which protects the Islamist-led Constituent Assembly and lower house of Parliament from dissolution and makes presidential decrees the final word - even untouchable by the judicary.
In a statement the president's office released after the meeting, they stressed that the Constitutional Declaration will remain unchanged and that the president expressed his respect for the independence of the judiciary. Morsi also offered a clarification that only "sovereign" decrees are not challengable by the judicial system.
...back at the bake sale, Umberto's Mom's cannoli were a big hit...
many courts in several governorates have continued their strike for the third day, demanding the decree be retracted.
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- Nine medical associations each listed common medical procedures you don't need
- Amitai Etzioni: Patients too intimidated to question doctors about procedures
- Etzioni: Doctors order tests anyway; for money, out of habit or fear of lawsuits
- Beware of doctors dismissing your research, he says. Stand up and demand answers
If you are reluctant to challenge your physician on a certain procedure or medicine, you are hardly alone. Focus groups show that many patients feel intimidated by their doctors. They're reluctant to take an active role in discussing their care because they're afraid that the doctor will see them as "difficult."
Recently, nine medical associations each took the unusual step of listing five medical procedures commonly used in their fields that patients don't need, amounting to 45 tests or procedures. The associations report some of them might actually be harmful. Eight medical associations have signed on to release additional lists in the fall.
An annual EKG is an example of one test you can do without, unless family history or symptoms suggest otherwise. Some procedures, such as repeated abdominal CT scans without a significant change in the patient's condition, subject patients to a relatively high dose of radiation and can increase their cancer risk.
It is not the government or the courts that issued these lists; the physicians' own professional associations decreed that these procedures usually should be avoided. But many doctors perform them anyway. There are many reasons for this: One is that doctors are often paid a fee for each procedure, and it doesn't take much creativity to convince themselves the patient needs the intervention.
Another reason doctors I interviewed told me is that the medical associations' recommendations have no legal standing. These doctors said they can be sued for not screening properly if their patient has a heart attack or some other untoward event. And sheer inertia is also a powerful factor in preventing reform; the test is performed because "this is what we have been doing for years."
On these and on scores of other medical matters, you cannot be a passive bystander. You need to keep an eye on what is ordered to be done to you and why.
Form your own judgments, disregard those doctors who pooh-pooh the Internet. If you can find somewhere to park your general misgivings about the big, bad federal government, you will find that it runs excellent web pages where you can find very reliable information about what ails you, as well as information about possible treatments. For instance, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health provide extensive resources.
And if you can let go of the notion that the private sector is the best way to get what you need, you will find that nonprofit organizations provide very sound guidance, for instance, the Mayo Clinic and the Cleveland Clinic. It's true there are dubious medical sites on the Internet, and you do best by following the same guidelines that serve well in the financial world: If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is. If anybody tells you that you can lose 30 pounds easily if you buy their junk, let alone cure your cancer with apricot pits and coffee enemas in a few easy visits, click off and move on.
Behavioral economics has shown that people are more swayed by anecdotes than by statistics. Parents will think the risks of vaccination are much higher after reading testimonials from parents whose children had negative reactions, in spite of having seen statistical information that says the risks are low.
You need to pay more attention to people who say it with figures. When I read in the New England Journal of Medicine that a procedure I was to undergo had a 10% risk of "esophageal injury with ulceration," I forced myself to pay more attention to this statistic than to the tale of a friend who had the same procedure and did well.
I am sorry to say that I know quite a few people who agreed to undergo major surgery upon their doctor's recommendation without investigating their options. Some of those surgeries went awfully wrong. But they would not dream of buying a lawn mower, let alone a car, in this way.
If you keep in mind what can and often does go wrong, you are likely to find the inner strength to ask questions, even if you have to apologize for not saluting the doctor and doing what you are told. And if you have to pay from your pocket for a second opinion, it's worth it.
I have been an inquisitive patient, which is one reason I am hitting 83. I refused to undergo more surgeries than I have and, politely, left some doctors who were too eager to conduct a lot of tests that seemed to me hard to justify. I am not saying it is easy; just that it is vital.
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|Moste Potente Potions
|Publication information
- "She stalked away between the lofty shelves and returned several minutes later carrying a large and moldy-looking book."
- —A description of the book.[src]
Moste Potente Potions was a book by Phineas Bourne[1] that gave instructions on how to brew advanced potions.
Moste Potente Potions contained recipes for many dangerous, controversial, and arcane potions, which required advanced skill in potion-making to brew. Gruesome illustrations showed the effects of such potions. The Hogwarts Library accordingly kept its copy of this book in the Restricted Section.
Two potions known to be included in the book were Polyjuice Potion and Laxative Potion. It may have also contained information on slow-acting venoms, but this is uncertain.
In 1992, Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, and Ron Weasley planned to sneak into the Slytherin common room in order to investigate the mystery of Slytherin's Heir, and needed to make Polyjuice Potion so they could disguise themselves as Slytherin students.
Hermione obtained a permission slip to check Moste Potente Potions out of the Restricted Section from Gilderoy Lockhart, claiming that the book contained information on slow-acting venoms that she thought might help her understand what Lockhart had written on this subject in Gadding with Ghouls.
Hermione then spent one month brewing the Polyjuice Potion in Moaning Myrtle's lavatory, using ingredients stolen from Professor Snape's stores.
Behind the scenesEdit
- In the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets the book was found in the regular section of the library.
- Also in the book, there is a picture (Figure VII) of a woman with a grotesquely large spider on her head, almost worn like an ornament. Whether or not this is an effect of a potion is unknown. It is possible that it is the side-effect of accidentally imbibing a Polyjuice Potion contaminated by spider hairs, similar as to when Hermione was partially transfigured into a cat when her Polyjuice Potion was contaminated with cat hair.
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (First appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1[2]
- Pottermore
Notes and referencesEdit
- ↑ See this image.


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Here are the top Illinois stories coming today from GateHouse News Service. Stories are available at http://ghns.ghnewsroom.com
*Please check this Web site in the evening for changes to story lineup, including breaking news.
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National Editor Jean Hodges, (630) 348-3350, email@example.com
TV/RADIO: SPRINGFIELD -- Among the items Gov. Rod Blagojevich cut from the state budget last week were $1.5 million for public radio and television statewide, and $1 million for the Illinois Channel, which carries CSPAN-like programming of state government and Supreme Court events, along with other public interest offerings. Attempting to find out what the cuts mean to those organizations. Heupel/evening/Illinois
PARK DISTRICT BUDGET WOES: Springfield Park District worried that governor has cut museum funding from off-track betting receipts. Locals get about $95,000 annually from this source, which is used to help support botanical gardens, carillon and zoo. Reynolds/Springfield/evening/Illinois
CANINE RESCUE: Animal group donating rescue equipment so firefighters can resuscitate dogs and cats. Reynolds/Springfield/evening/Illinois
TEXT MESSAGING. Bradley University has introduced text messaging as a way to alert students to an emergency on campus. To get the alerts, students and staff have to register to be a part of the system. Western Illinois is also considering a new alert systems that would deliver phone calls to students and staff and possibly text messages. Universities are generally looking for new ways to alert students after the Virginia Tech tragedy — everyone remembers the e-mail alerts that sat unread in inboxes. Efforting comment from a student who signed up for the Bradley alerts. JELLICK/Peoria/evening/Illinois
WHERE'S GREAT LAKES? Some residents of the Burlington, Iowa, area have been making the nearly 100-mile trip to the airport in Peoria since the Southeast Iowa Regional Airport lost its only commercial air service in March. Service to St. Louis returns Oct. 7, but airport manager Sharon Leeper is concerned about the return of passengers. Airports in Springfield, Decatur, Marion and Quincy are in the same dilemma nearly six months after the communities lost St. Louis service that traditionally had been one of the busiest connections from central and southern Illinois. Landis/Springfield/evening/Illinois
MIKE NADEL: From Cubs/Brewers. ETA 10:30/Mike Nadel
JANE MILLER MOTORSPORT COLUMN. Weekly racing column. Peoria/evening/Sports
GOT JUICE? For the first time, Illinois sophomore quarterback Juice Williams' father sits in the stands to watch his son play college football, when Illinois opens the season against Missouri on Saturday. Stanley Williams missed last season serving one year in prison. While growing up, Juice leaned his older brother, Rashaad Haynes, who served as a surrogate father. SUPINIE. Art from Springfield State Journal-Register.
LADEWSKI COLUMN: Topic TBA. Southtown/evening/Illinois Sports
CUBS: Hosting Milwaukee, 7:05 p.m. VORVA/Southtown/evening/Illinois Sports
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BRITT: Toon on the sex scandal surrounding U.S. Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho. On wire now/Cartoons
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Sleep Disturbances Associated With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
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Today, average young adults report sleeping about seven to seven and one-half hours each night. Compare this to sleep patterns in 1910, before the electric lightbulb, the average person slept nine hours each night. This means that today's population sleeps one to two hours less than people did early in the century (Webb and Agnew, 1975).
Because of the advent of the lightbulb, people sleep 500 hours less each year than they used to. Unfortunately, our current "sleep diet" is significantly less than evolution intended. Most other primates (e.g., apes and monkeys) have a 24-hour sleep and activity cycle that is similar to that of humans who live in cultures where the siesta is still practiced. These animals have a long sleep at night, and a shorter sleep in the midafternoon, with a daily sleep total of about 10 hours. Humans seem to naturally need about the same amount of sleep. For instance, when the pressure of work, alarm clocks, social schedules and advanced technology is removed, people tend to sleep longer. Thus, in many less industrialized societies, the total daily sleep time is still around nine to 10 hours as it is for people when they are on unstructured holidays (Coren, 1996a).
Confirmation of these natural sleep durations comes from Palinkas, Suedfeld and Steel (1995). These researchers spent a summer above the arctic circle where there is continuous light 24 hours a day. All watches, clocks and other timekeeping devices were removed, and only the station's computers tracked the times that the team went to sleep and awakened. Individual researchers did their work, and chose when to sleep or wake according to their "body time." At the end of the experiment, they found that their overall average sleep daily time was 10.3 hours. Every member of the team showed an increase in sleep time, with the shortest logging in at 8.8 hours a day, and the longest almost 12 hours a day. This study, like many others, seems to suggest that our biological need for sleep might be closer to the 10 hours per day that is typical of monkeys and apes living in the wild, than the 7 to 7.5 hours typical of humans in today's high-tech, clock-driven lifestyle.
Psychological researchers have tended to minimize the effects of sleep insufficiency, acknowledging that society may be getting too little sleep, but treating the effects of this sleep deprivation as nothing more significant than an inconvenience which makes people feel a bit tired now and then.
This view is incorrect. Recent research suggests that each day with insufficient sleep increases our sleep debt and, when this sleep debt becomes large enough, noticeable problems appear (Coren, 1996a). These sleep-debt-related problems are most predictable at certain times of the day. This is because the efficiency of our physical and mental functions show cyclic increases and decreases in the form of circadian rhythms. While our major sleep/wakefulness rhythm has a cycle length of roughly 24 hours, there are shorter cycles as well, with the most important of these being a secondary sleep/wakefulness cycle that is around 12 hours.
Because of these cycles, the pressure to fall asleep is greatest in the morning, between 1 and 4 a.m. In addition there is a less pronounced, but still noticeable, increase in sleepiness 12 hours later, between 1 and 4 p.m. It is this afternoon low point that makes you feel sleepy after lunch, not the meal that you may have just eaten. It probably also was the original reason for the afternoon nap or siesta.
People who are operating with a sleep debt are less efficient, and this inefficiency is most noticeable when the circadian cycle is at its lowest ebb. Among the common consequences of a large sleep debt are attentional lapses, reduced short-term memory capacity, impaired judgment and the occurrence of "microsleeps."
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There is nothing more valuable than what most people call their "free time." Nothing can radically improve your life more than your other 8 hours. This blog is about life and money. It's about how to radically increase your happiness and make more money by using your other 8 hours. But what are the "other 8 hours" anyway? The answer is more than you think.
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Charles Louis von Nordeck, a jazz guitarist who led a quartet and was later a wine salesman, died of cancer Dec. 25 at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. He was 66 and lived in Stoneleigh.
Born in Baltimore, he was the son of Royden Blaine von Nordeck, a Martin Marietta engineer, and Elizabeth Mary Bell, a homemaker. He grew up in Gardenville and attended City College from 1960 to 1963, when he earned his General Educational Development certificate.
Mr. von Nordeck joined the Air Force and became an airplane mechanic. He was stationed in the Philippines, where he worked on planes flying missions in Vietnam.
He then used his GI Bill of Rights benefits to study music at what is now Towson University. He studied with Walt Namuth, a guitarist who played with Buddy Rich.
"He began playing guitar, keyboard and saxophone when he was 15," said his brother, Royden von Nordeck Jr. of Edgewood. "He was attracted to Fells Point in its early days."
He formed a group, the Charlie von Nordeck Quartet, and played at Fells Point's Bertha's, Cat's Eye, Dead End Saloon and John Stevens Ltd. on Friday and Saturday nights. Friends said he played the rock that patrons liked but with tinges of blues and jazz.
In later years, he appeared at the Cafe Troia in Towson.
"People loved him," said Lisa Troia-Martin, an owner of the business. "His music was smooth, but it had a lot of energy to it."
He also immersed himself in jazz recordings, initially at the old D&H Distributing on Russell Street, where he worked. He became the manager of the Record and Tape Collectors shop on Cold Spring Lane, after living from 1975 to 1977 in San Francisco, where he was manager of the jazz department at Tower Records.
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He supplied radio stations with promotional materials and got to know jazz program hosts throughout the country.
"He loved jazz, and he knew the good from the bad," said WYPR program director Andy Bienstock, a friend. "He had a real passion and he loved presenting the things he was passionate about. You could talk to him about music. And he was a great reader of noir mystery books."
Mr. Bienstock recalled that one night he played a track on the radio and remarked that the selection was a favorite of Harry Bosch.
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As sales of compact discs fell, he changed careers.
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Nelson Carey, co-owner of Belvedere Square's Grand Cru, recalled him as "an incredibly talented jazz guitarist and fellow wine aficionado."
Mr. Carey said he went from being one of his entertainers — Mr. von Nordeck performed at his bar — to one of his suppliers. "Wine with him began as a hobby, and he turned it into a career," Mr. Carey said.
Mr. von Nordeck's wife, the former Anne Therese Rich, an Institute of Notre Dame art teacher, said he was a self-taught wine collector. "He was sophisticated and was a gentleman," she said. "He was also a great cook. His cooking was like his jazz. He loved to improvise with disparate elements."
She said her husband read widely and his collection of crime noir filled several bookcases.
A private memorial service will be held Saturday in Towson.
In addition to his wife of 35 years and his brother, he is survived by a daughter, Marianne von Nordeck of Richmond, Va.


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It seems the only decent competitor for EA SPORTS' Madden franchise has been their own NCAA college football franchise; ever since 2K Games bowed out, it's been a one-horse race. That's why when NaturalMotion and 505 Games decided to bring us a brand new, revolutionary take on the beloved sport, we got a little giddy.
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It is generally accepted that some 2% of sow pregnancies end in abortion. In these cases, an investigation must be carried out to identify causing agents that could span anything from environmental factors such as heat stress to nutritional ones such as toxins. In autumn, there may be a natural increase in the abortion rate due to daylight fading, though this ought to remain sporadic. This can be fairly well counteracted by shrewd management of lamps regarding both time and intensity. In some cases, abortions result from consumption of drinking water contaminated by yeasts or other bacteria. In other cases they result from too little water intake during early gestation.
If the abortion outbreak is dramatic and affects a wide number of sows in the herd then it is likely that an infectious disease is entering in the herd (see table) without any specific timing and the sows have often fever and there are other signs from the disease in sows, aborted fetuses and newborn piglets. Characteristic is PRRS abortion occurring mainly during last gestation period.
In large farms a rise in the abortion rate may be more difficult to witness, though evidence may come from a drop in feed intake and weight along with vulvar discharge.
Mycotoxins may also be a causing agent. Aflatoxins, deoxynivalenol, fumonisins, zearalenone (ZEN) and ergot alkaloids can all play a significant role in fertility problems and abortions. Pregnant sows' consumption of feed with high levels of ZEN, especially during early gestation, can lead to smaller litters and mummification. Between days 7 and 10 of pregnancy are the most critical ones with a high rate of embryonic death. Moreover, if the feed contains low to medium amounts of ZEN during the whole gestation, this will result in smaller fetuses and large variations in the weight of piglets of the same litter. Furthermore, ZEN can also lead to stillbirth and neonatal mortality and in the worst case it can even lead to the death of the entire litter. There evidence that ZEN intoxication is link to splay legs.
Decrease of feed intake and sometimes feed refusal have a self-limiting effect in mycotoxicosis.


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Get rid of the blues and recharge with a new hobby
Get rid of the blues and recharge with a new hobby
By Aimee Lyons, Guest Blogger
Hobbies including everything from cardio classes to crocheting can increase people's sense of mental well being and boost brain health. Such activities have additional advantages for people in addiction recovery who might be searching for productive ways to spend their time. And, whether your primary goal is socializing or sweating, experts agree hobbies help reduce stress while increasing your sense of satisfaction.
Need help picking a pastime? Consider taking a community college class to experiment with something you've always found interesting but never taken the time to try. Or, search the events calendar at your local library to find a sewing circle or sci-fi book club to join. Meanwhile, here are a few suggestions to get your search started.
Explore Art
Art therapy has been used to treat substance use disorders since the 1950s and has several documented benefits including providing people an outlet for communication and reducing resistance to alcohol treatment programs. But art doesn't have to be created in a structured setting to be therapeutic. Research shows that activities including painting, sculpting, drawing, and photography can lower stress levels and leave people feeling more mentally focused, according to an article published by Be Brain Fit. In fact, amateur artists might find themselves so engrossed in an endeavor that they achieve a state of flow, a meditative-like mindset that temporarily pushes aside everything except what they're working on at the moment — a plus for anyone in today's age of information overload.
Create Connections With Your Food
Growing your own food is a great way to get more in touch with what you put in your body. Gardening is also a fruitful form of outdoor exercise. And, if you don't have a space of your own to sow seeds, consider community gardens, which are sprouting up all over the country. Investing some sweat equity at one could reap rewards including new friends and, of course, fresh fruits and vegetables.
Gardening could also inspire many to move to the next link in the food chain. Once you've harvested the results of your hard work, why not whip up something new and interesting with the fresh-picked produce? Doing your own cooking is an excellent recipe for improving your health.
Try Tai Chi and Yoga
Many recovering addicts find yoga and tai chi particularly helpful for bringing their minds and bodies into balance. Sessions are as meditative as they are physical because they encourage practitioners to focus their minds on their movements. Plus, both forms of exercise are easily adaptable depending on an individual's fitness level and can be practiced almost anywhere with little or no equipment.
An article on the Rewire Me website recommends volunteering as a healthy habit to adopt during recovery. Helping others will boost your sense of empathy — and empowerment — by giving you an outlet to make a positive difference in the world. If logistics prevent you from volunteering in person, consider ways you can use the time and resources you have. For instance, there are virtual volunteer activities that connect people with worthy causes nationwide. You could craft handmade blankets for homeless people in Dallas or review scholarship applications for a nonprofit educational foundation, just to name a few.
No matter what activities you enjoy, hobbies can help decrease stress and improve your mental and physical well-being. So whether you spend your free time painting portraits or striking yoga poses, these pleasant pursuits will help keep you happier, healthier, and focused on the future.
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Praça do Comércio
Situated near the Tagus river, Praça do Comércio, known as Palace Square (Terreiro do Paço),is one of the most majestic squares of Lisbon and was once the main maritime entrance to Lisbon. The name Palace Square is clearly a reference to the Palace that was located here for 400 years, until the 1755 earthquake that almost completely destroyed it. Also seen in the foreground is the Statue of King José I.


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Getting crafty (and cheap) for Valentine's Day
So, not ready to splash out for Valentine's Day or looking for unique (and cheap) ideas for yourself and the kiddos? Well, you're in luck. While I'm not a creative genius – I know people who are and they have some brilliant ideas to share with you this year.
To take care of those pesky kiddy card exchanges – let me present Valentine's Day card printables! Ta-dah!
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A replica of Michelangelo's Renaissance masterpiece sculpture David at a public park in Okuizumo, Shimane prefecture, western Japan, in a photo taken by a local official on Aug. 28, 2012.
Agence France-Presse reports — A replica of Michelangelo's Renaissance sculpture David that was erected suddenly last summer is unnerving residents of a Japanese town, with some calling for the naked masterpiece to be given underwear.
The 16 foot tall marble statue was donated by a businessman who hails from the area around Okuizumo.
"It is the first time we have had anything like this in our town. Perhaps people were perplexed," town official Yoji Morinaga said.
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This guide introduces the Christchurch City Council philosophy – one that encourages people to work with natural features and processes in the landscape. Management of a waterway or wetland frequently includes its restoration and protection. Drainage is integrated with all other 'values' (ecology, landscape, recreation, heritage and culture) to form the foundation of a philosophy that is multi-disciplinary and sustainable.
The guide is currently out of print but can be viewed at the Christchurch City Libraries. We have provided a scanned copy below which may be downloaded.
It is made up of two parts and covers:
How to use the Guide [PDF, 1.4 MB]
Enquiries to the Senior Surface Water Planner or Drainage Engineer by contacting us in the Assets and Network Planning Team - phone: (03) 9418999.
The following rainfall intensity data for Christchurch is to be included in the updated Waterways, Wetlands and Drainage Guide. An allowance of 16 percent should be made for climate change Review of the Frequency of High Rainfall in Christchurch [PDF, 1 MB]
Natural Asset Management Strategy [PDF, 31 MB]
The values-based approach is also underpinned by the Resource Management Act (RMA), which sets out the principles for sustainably managing waterways and wetlands. These principles are given effect by the policies and rules of the Christchurch City Plan.
The RMA and the City Plan require that a wide range of impacts, benefits and community interests be considered when contemplating a treatment option for a waterway or wetland. It is therefore essential to involve and gain the support of local communities and takata whenua. A values-based approach ensures that all parties involved have opportunities to participate.
When the different values have been explored and the appropriate parties consulted, a vision can be developed. A vision may be small or large in scale; simple or complex to implement. Every site offers ample scope for flair and imagination. Wherever you see a vision realised that is based on all the values, you see sustainable management at its most creative.


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Apple has returned to public beta testing of its Mac operating system after a 14-year absence, just as rival Microsoft has begun backing away from the practice.
On Monday, Apple said that it would expand a small public beta program that launched in April to include OS X Yosemite, the visually-revamped upgrade expected to release this fall. Previously, only registered developers -- admittedly a low bar, as Apple lets anyone with $99 become one -- have been able to obtain Apple pre-release software.
"We're doing something a little unusual as well this summer. We're doing a public beta program," said Craig Federighi, who leads OS X and iOS development, near the end of his introduction of Yosemite at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference.
The peculiarity of Apple's move can be gauged by time that's passed since it last let the general public see its operating system in the raw: In 2000, Apple offered a "Public Beta," or PB, of what was then code named "Kodiak," which ultimately shipped as OS X 10.0, better known as "Cheetah." Apple charged customers $29.95 for the privilege, somewhat understandable because in those pre-broadband days Apple fulfilled the orders with a CD. Apple's refusal to beta test its software has not gone unnoticed. At regular intervals, usually right after the launch of a new edition of OS X, users who report problems will chastise Apple for not having widely tested the software before its release, assuming that if only Apple had, those bugs would have been found and fixed.
Microsoft knows better: Historically it has run extensive public beta tests of Windows, giving the public much longer looks than the five months Apple intends with Yosemite, and putting the OS into the hands of many more people than will Apple, which has limited the beta to one million participants. And still bugs make it through to the final Windows.
Yet betas are valuable, argued Wes Miller, an analyst with Directions on Microsoft who once worked at the Redmond, Wash. company as a program manager in the Windows Core OS team.
"Because we were dealing with 'white box' PCs that could have hardware or software from all over the place, bad antivirus, and more, betas -- and especially install fairs -- were useful to gauge real world experiences of what was, and was not working correctly, early," Miller recounted in an email reply to questions. "I saw them as an invaluable cycle of the development process."
In general, betas serve three purposes, said Miller: feedback on what new features are or are not working as intended, feedback on what once worked but now broken, and evangelization. "One can argue about the order of those in importance," he said.
Unlike Apple, Microsoft has a tradition of long, large beta tests.
For Windows 8, Microsoft kicked off the first preview in mid-September 2011 and offered two additional builds before releasing the software in October 2012, testing for 13 months. One million copies of the March 2012 Windows 8 Consumer Preview were downloaded in its first 24 hours of availability, according to Microsoft.
The cycle before that, Microsoft shipped Windows 7 nine months after it kicked off the first beta in January 2009. Although Microsoft had initially set a limit of 2.5 million participants, it scratched that after a botched start and eventually extended availability long enough to make some wonder if there had been as much interest as the company claimed.
Windows Vista had a deceptively short public beta test of just six months, but that was masked by years of rocky, even suspended, development that overran one deadline after another. Five million copies of the May 2006 Windows Vista public beta were downloaded, Microsoft said at the time.
But since Windows 8's launch, Microsoft has been retreating from its historical practices. Last year's Windows 8.1 was publicly tested for just four months, and the follow-up, Windows 8.1 Update, released in April, was not tested at all. A rumored second Windows 8.1 update is to ship this fall, again likely without a beta, while reports have pegged the next major iteration -- whether labeled "Windows 9" or not -- to April 2015. Even if Microsoft announced today that it was about to kick off public beta testing, it would have less time for outside evaluation than it gave Windows 8.
The change hasn't escaped Miller. "I think that Microsoft today looks at [betas] and sees something that a) Doesn't jibe well with the idea of agile development cycles and b) Doesn't provide enough feedback to justify the time/financial cost," he said.
"Agile development" was Miller's nod to the faster tempo that Microsoft's promised -- and delivered -- for its software, Windows included.
Meanwhile, Apple, as it often does, has tacked in the opposite direction by instituting beta testing, a remarkable move for a company that prides itself on secrecy.
Miller thought he knew why. "It feels more like a PR exercise, although some bugs will surely be found," Miller said, citing his "evangelization" rationale for beta testing. "I think given the UI changes Apple is making, the scale of which we haven't seen since 2000, that a beta is important to both discover issues, but also to give users an opportunity to kick tires and possibly affect the direction of the product in the limited window of time available."
Apple risks little by taking the public into its Yosemite confidence, even if features leak, as they inevitably will, the program's legal muzzling notwithstanding. While there may be some risk to the edition's reputation if people pan it or the one-million quota is never reached, and the latter becomes public, there is little direct financial risk. Like OS X Mavericks last year, Yosemite will be free for the taking by Mac owners.
Any harm to Mac sales by a Yosemite flop -- on the level of, say, Windows Vista -- would be found out in any case, so withholding the OS from customers until it ships would only delay by a short time an eventual fall-off. But the public relations benefit to Apple could end up being considerable if Yosemite gets a thumbs up from the hardcore customers who will bother with the beta. In fact, the decision could well be Machiavellian: Apple may expect a steady stream of leaks that will feed the maw of Apple websites and bloggers through the summer and into the fall.
Mac owners can sign up for the Yosemite beta program on Apple's website. An AppleID is required and the Mac must be running OS X Mavericks.
Gregg Keizer covers Microsoft, security issues, Apple, Web browsers and general technology breaking news for Computerworld. Follow Gregg on Twitter at @gkeizer, on Google+ or subscribe to Gregg's RSS feed. His email address is [email protected].
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Personal and biographical files, subject files, lecture notes, addresses, articles of Prof. C. Roger Myers, professor of psychology. Also includes research materials and manuscript of "History of Academic Psychology in Canada", compiled by Mary Wright and C. Roger Myers (1939-1980); and files related to Myers' oral history project of Canadian psychologists on behalf of the Canadian Psychological Association.
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