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I've decided to close down My keeper shelf so this will be my final post. I started blogging three years ago with no clue about the time investment needed to keep a blog up and running and have fallen in and out of love with blogging more times than I can remember. I decided a few weeks ago I would stop blogging and since then have felt completely relieved so I know it's the right decision for me.
I want to say a giant thank you to everyone who has visited My keeper shelf, left a comment, read my reviews and entered my competitions and I want to also thank everyone who has been a guest reviewer for me especially Rebecca who's reviews have always been amazing.
I'm looking forward to reading the 5 bazillion books I have on my bookshelf and maybe re-reading a few of my old favourites as well as spending more time with my amazing daughters Kate and Erin playing Monopoly and doing more Family Tree Research (yes I am a complete geek!).


text: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 MedPAC Releases Medicare Health Data The most costly Medicare beneficiaries tend to include those who have multiple chronic conditions, those using inpatient hospital services, those who are dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid, and those who are in the last year of life, says a recently released report by the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC). MedPAC's June 2011 Data Book contains information on national health care and Medicare spending as well as Medicare beneficiary demographics, dual-eligible beneficiaries, quality of care in the Medicare program, and Medicare beneficiary and other payer liability. The Data Book also examines provider settings and presents data on Medicare spending, beneficiaries' access to care in the setting (measured by the number of beneficiaries using the service, number of providers, volume of services, or length of stay, or through direct surveys) and the sector's Medicare profit margins, if applicable. In addition, it covers the Medicare Advantage program and prescription drug coverage for Medicare beneficiaries, including Part D. Comments None of this info seems particularly new or illuminating. With this recently released report, you would think that APTA should have a strenghtened case for the work that we do (and the need to be compensated for it)in "out patient" settings. We clearly are part of, and have always been a cost saver to the system. So why did we have to incur the MPPR this year and why are "we" always part of the conversation when payment reduction to providers is discussed and determined? The PAC of APTA needs to use this data to strengthen our position in the health care system, as clinicians, and stop talking to us about how to add "cash paying" services to our practices. We are clinicians, after all! Posted by James Cardone on 8/2/2011 4:38 PM

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Jack,Its unlikely that any print is going to come close to what you see on the monitor for a number of reasons. You can get about 90% of the way there if you're skilled with softproofing though.
Please define how you feel one becomes "skilled with softproofing".
PS: Posted this in Computer section and probably should have placed it here as I received no responses.Jack-------------I've been reading posts on the topic of "best monitor" for the last couple of hours.My question:What monitor will provide the best image that closely matches the print?Here is the Given of what I currently have to work with:X-rite Pulse DPT 20 and DPT95 monitor calibrator.Colorburst RIP and building my own profiles.Some color work but mostly B&W landscape images.Currently using two of the Dell 2405FPW monitors - one for image and one for menus - just can't get these to come close to the printed image.Epson StylusPro 4800 printer using Silver Rag paper.From reading the posts, looks like Eizo CG241W and the NEC LCD2690WQXi2 or the 3090WQXi are favorites.But I'm not reading where folks are actually pushing any monitor to give them "Print Accurate" results.In short, I'm tired of wasting paper and ink trying to get a print that comes close to my image on the screen.Size of display is not really the issue for me - 24", 26" or 30" is fine. Far more important is matching print.Suggestions appreciated.Thanks,Jack
Jack,When you softproof your photos you need adjust the softproofed version to get it as close as possible to your original. It takes some practice but with time and patience you'll be able to get very good results. By the way, have you seen the Camera to Print tutorial?
No I have not - assume you are speaking about the LL downloadable tutorial From Camera to Print?
I have several books on the topic, including George DeWolfe's Digital Photography Fine Print Workshop.jb
Correct, Michael & Jeff demonstrate how to softproof and do adjustments. Basically, you use curves, hue & saturations layers in Photoshop.I haven't read that book, so I can't comment.
My real problem is that the monitors I have, Dell, do not have the dynamic range or ability to darken the image to the extend that is required to reflect what the printer is capable of doing.
I don't have any experience with the NECs but I've had several other high end graphic monitors in the past and in my experience I like the Eizo CG monitors best. We have several CG241Ws and find them extremely accurate when calibrated. We use the same exact x-rite calibration tools that you have and the accuracy is more than 90%; at this time we really don't have many print rejections due to calibration issues. The exception is xrite's monitor calibration software, not really that great. Eizo's come with their own software but for other monitors I highly recommend ColorEyes, if used properly you'll see a major improvement in your monitor profile.I'm assuming that you know how to soft proof in PS and print with correct profiles, so I wont go there. The notion that you can push any monitor to give "Print Accurate" results is a false one imo, specially if you're using wider than sRGB gamut profiles like Adobe RGB or Profoto, etc., most monitors simply can't handle these color spaces and many aren't designed for accuracy and photographic work, it definitely is worth investing in a quality monitor. There's another issue with many none Eizo monitors that I've noticed is that they don't remain calibrated for long, many of the so called better ones that we owned, were good for up to a week at the most and then drifted so regular calibration was a necessity, but our Eizos seem to be fine for at least 45 days and often longer.davidwww.pbase.com/ddk
How much difference is there between the ColorEyes and the Xrite calibration software? I have an Eizo CG211 and both calibration packages. I've been using the Eizo software because I thought it would be optimized for the CG211's LUT.


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Inbox Zero for Life
".@krarick's email system works. He should blog about it"
— @daneharrigan
Do This
Use the Gmail web UI with shortcut keys.
Mute. Heavily. The
mshortcut key is your friend.
Triage. Your one and only goal for processing your inbox is to make it empty. Not to actually do anything productive, because processing email is inherently anti-productive. Don't fool yourself into thinking you're doing work here. Just get it over with as quickly as possible. For each message in your inbox, quickly choose one of these things:
- Mute the conversation. (Press
- Read (or skim) it and archive. (Press
- If it requires action and it'll take you less than 30 seconds, DIFN and archive the message. (Press
- If it requires action and it would take you 30 seconds or more, star and archive it immediately. (Press
- It is permitted to begin replying to a message and then realize it'll take longer than you thought. In that case you should defer the rest of your reply. (Press
If it takes you more than, say, three seconds to decide which thing to do, star and archive. (Press
You can get rid of a hundred threads this way in five minutes. Now your inbox is empty. You're welcome. You still have a to-do list, and it is not empty.
- Mute the conversation. (Press
Check starred items. Press
s. Open this folder regularly.
gs. It's your new home. Learn to love it.
gs. If there were a way to make this folder the one you see first when you log in, I would tell you to do that.
Process your inbox again!
gi. Later, at some time in the future, when you feel emotionally centered. Maybe after you've completed something from your starred items and you're feeling good about yourself.
gi. Certainly not while you're in the middle of doing something useful. But don't just "check" your inbox, process it. If you've gone to the trouble of opening it up, you might as well rip through those messages (there are only like two of them now since it was empty before) and get it empty again.
Survey the universe.
gi. It's easy to bounce between these two folders.
gi. You know, get an overview of what's going on. Expect to have 0–4 items in each of these folders most of the time. Tending toward the 0 side. Not too bad, eh?
Pick one thing from your starred items and do that thing.
When you've finished, unstar it. (Press
u to go back to the starred items list and
s to unstar it. The gesture to remember is
That's it, really. Looks like a lot of rules, now that I've typed them all out, but it's not so bad. Just remember, triage.
Do Not
- Do not mark as unread. To-do items are hereby banned from your inbox. Also, you don't need that this-item-is-unread-and-the-font-is-bold visual treatment to distinguish to-do items from other mail. A star is sufficient. Your to-do list, the starred items folder, is such a tranquil place now. Namaste. (Exception: you're looking at a message and legitimately don't have time to read it because you must abort processing mail. Mark it as unread and leave it in the inbox with all the other messages you actually haven't read.)
- Do not use priority inbox. Turn it off; you don't need it any more. Classic inbox all the way. Those little yellow "important" markers? Turn those off too. They're nothing but a distraction.
- Do not use push notifications for incoming mail on your phone. You really don't want to be interrupted, distracted by incoming mail while you're doing actual work. You decide when to process your inbox.
Frequently Anticipated Questions
Keith, why are you blogging about methods for email productivity?
I'm not a fan of heavy process. GTD makes me squirm. I'm more of a DIFN kind of guy. But email is a problem. I get a lot of it. Some of you probably get more. Ignoring the problem didn't work. Simply D-ing IFN isn't good enough when I have more than one thing to do. And the instinctive, thoughtless mark-as-read-and-leave-in-the-inbox-as-my-todo-list had become a quagmire. I had an ever-growing inbox and an ever-sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach. And one day I snapped, and decided to do something about it. One word appeared in my head, unbidden, fully-formed, as if from the head of Zeus: triage. Everything here is an outgrowth of that seed.
Isn't it bad to use email as a to-do list?
We all do it. Stop feeling guilty about that. Embrace it.
Doesn't this just move your to-do list to another place? How does it actually help?
Out of sight, out of mind. Just seeing all the crap you have to do increases cognitive burden. Seeing more crap you may or may not have to do but which is simply mixed in with the crap you actually have to do pushes cognitive burden over the edge. That's the key: your inbox mixes to-do items with legitimately unread mail, while starred items gives you a much quieter, tractable to-do list.
Another useful, subtle property about keeping to-do items out of your inbox: it's totally obvious when you're done triaging. You simply run out of mail. There's no "oh I think I got to all the new mail here, everything that's left is stuff I've seen before". No need to discern.
How can I avoid falling into the trap of spending too much time on certain inbox messages?
Remember, triage. Getting to inbox zero means outpacing the inflow of mail, and that means quick decision-making. You're a battlefield medic deciding which limbs to save and which to amputate; time is not on your side.
What if I already use stars for something else?
Then maybe this system isn't for you. Low friction is crucial to making this work. Anything that takes more than one or two keystrokes to use is too hard to use consistently. Yes, you could use a "todo" label, even from the keyboard. But typing
gltodo⏎ (or even
glt⏎) to view it is too slow. Latency kills. Star is
s, one keystroke.
Luckily for me, I never used to use stars for anything. I had one or two messages starred randomly for no good reason. Those are gone now. We're going to make good, heavy use of stars here. Let no starry emotional baggage get in the way; we're completely commandeering your stars.
Why can't I just mark-as-unread in my inbox?
Actual to-do items get lost in the noise. Mark-as-unread makes it take more effort than necessary to reason whether a given email is something you've looked at and decided to put off or something you actually haven't seen before. This makes the task of processing email itself a nice candidate for putting off, since it takes so long.
Take back the "unread" state. Mark as unread only those messages you really haven't read. Now it means what it says.
Should I use a multi-inbox feature to see starred items and inbox items side-by-side in one view?
No. It's a good thing that the starred items are on a separate screen from the inbox. The combined view of both at once is an anti-pattern. You're either processing inbox mail or doing work, not both. Focus.
How does my smartphone fit into this?
I don't know about you, but I hate typing on my phone. Hate. It. Short text messages are ok, but typing an email doesn't work. "I feel that my thoughts are being forced out through a straw." So I never do real work on my phone or even send replies. But triage, on the other hand… triage is easy and fast. Recent incarnations of the Gmail iOS app are quite decent, and, crucially, contain a mute button (sadly lacking in the otherwise-excellent Sparrow). Phone triage is an effective way to stay on top of your inbox, especially when your coworkers are as maddeningly productive as mine.
"Stay on top of" my inbox? Really? That sounds awful.
Believe me, it's easy, but let me clarify: do not worry about staying on top of your inbox. Just process mail whenever you want, every 5 minutes, every 5 hours, whatever. Don't worry about unread email piling up. 5, 10, 20, more unread messages? No sweat. Processing them is easy. You can (and should) do it on your terms.
How do I compose a new message without being distracted by my inbox and feeling compelled to process it?
A tip from @rwdaigle:
I've been keeping my default view on Gmail the drafts (or some other easily accessible but usually empty folder) so I can switch to Gmail to do basic composing/searching without being hit in the face with new messages. Works pretty well once you get in the habit of switching to the empty folder as an "I'm done for now" kind of gesture at the end of your processing sessions.
The shortcut sequence to switch to the drafts folder is
Also remember: it's okay to leave unread email in your inbox. You always decide when to process it.
But System X already does this! Nothing new here.
That's not a question, but I'll answer it anyway. First, the other systems I've seen certainly share some characteristics and use some of the same psychological tricks, but they've all felt really complicated to me. I don't want to have to learn a hundred rules about how to organize my note cards into projects and tasks with colors and categories and… yuck. So this system is as simple as I could make it. Most of the rules are about getting rid of stuff. (Though, looking over that list above, I still wish I could make it shorter.) And it doesn't require any special tools, just the Gmail web UI. Second, I'm sure there are lots of productivity systems out there I've never heard of, so maybe there're already some systems out there just as good as this one. Good for them.
So, does all this work? I didn't know when I started out, but figured it was worth a shot at least. My biggest worry was that I'd just move the problem to another place: instead of an ever-growing inbox I'd have an ever-growing starred items folder. But a curious thing happened. My heavy inbox burden shrank a bit after the first processing session. And it just kept shrinking. My new starred items burden feels qualitatively different. Staring at a bold to-do-list inbox makes it all too easy to throw up your hands and close the browser. After all, even if you were to pick one of those emails and take care of it, it'd probably be replaced with 3 more, like a hydra, by the time you returned to your inbox. The ground is constantly shifting under you. On the other hand, your starred items folder only ever contains things that you put there. You can look at it, pick one thing to do, do that thing, and look again: there is now one fewer thing! You and you alone decide when to process incoming mail and star new messages. This might seem like an academic distinction, but let me tell you, it feels worlds apart, and I actually manage to knock off my starred items at a regular pace. They don't pile up.
Now, getting to inbox zero is no longer some Herculean achievement, no longer worthy of announcing to the world. After a few weeks doing this stuff I didn't just get there, I've stayed at inbox zero virtually the entire time. And it feels pretty easy to maintain that way. I expect no inbox creep in my future. Inbox zero for life!


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Dealing with others: your optimism
As awkward as you may find it to engage others in your healing process, those around you may be just as out of practice at being embraced. It may be difficult for them to figure out how best to demonstrate their care and concern toward you. In fact, their inherent compassion may not be conveyed in the way they intend or in the fashion that you would prefer. It's challenging to reconcile the new aspects of your relationship, so it's important to consider the reasons why this adjustment period is difficult. Here's reason #1 (taken from my book, Despite Lupus) that we, as Lupites, might find it hard to see eye to eye with those around us:
1) Your optimism may be misinterpreted
To begin with, you may feel that your friends and family don't willingly share your optimistic attitude. You interpret their hesitancy to back your "full steam ahead" attitude as skepticism. Don't they think you can kick this thing? Are they doubtful of your ability, your strength and your willingness to fight for what you want? You detect their concerned reluctance and immediately get defensive. Why can't they see that you're attempting to rise above, rather than wallow in the pain? You refuse to be like so many others stricken with illness: the complainers and the hypochondriacs. You will not become one of those people, but your loved ones' apprehensions are making it more difficult for you to do so. They keep haranguing you to slow down, call the doctor, or let the laundry go. What they don't understand is that their suggestions sound more like criticism than encouragement. Their admonishments take on a condescending tone, making you fully aware of the lack of trust they have in you. Every time they say, "Don't overdo," it feels like a slap in the face, a direct attack on your ability to manage your own life and health. Instead of empowering you to make a good, healthful decision, their implications squash any sense of empowerment or support you might have hoped to glean from them.
"To assume that people have within themselves the capacity to decide what is best for them is a vote of confidence."
Thus, you need to teach them to express their concern without infuriating you even more. You must show them how it feels when they attempt to "help" because they may not know the damage they are causing. Explain the negative effect their words have on you and suggest ways they can express their concern that are more encouraging to you. Remember, their advice to take it easy is justified; you're simply asking them to finesse the delivery of their message so that you're not too offended to listen.


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Mark your calendars! In 2013, SOE Live will return to Las Vegas from August 1-4.
While we'll still be among the glitter and glitz of Las Vegas, we are moving to a new venue! SOE Live will take place at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino.
Our favorite Dwarven Overlord, Linda "Brasse" Carlson, has prepared a blog highlighting what she loves about SOE Live and what she's looking forward to this year. You can read all about it here!
For more information and updates, check out www.soe.com/soelive and make sure you're following @SonyOnline on Twitter. Registration for the event will be opening in Spring.
We can't wait to see you in Vegas!


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What is your relationship with Database Marketing?Emilie Jan 26, 2012 11:48 AM
Community managers, I need your help.
We are currently in discussions with our Database Marketing (DM) group about communication preferences. I have been repeatedly told that our customers (mainly engineers and scientists) are confused and do not understand the difference between emails in their inbox coming from National Instruments direct marketing and our external community. Thus, we are trying to better coordinate when we push announcements and updates from our external community with the communication strategy we've defined for our marketable contact databases.
But I get the impression that our DM team still doesn't "get" community/social. I don't think they understand that mostly everything emailed from NI Community is determined by communication settings made by the customer (e.g. updates when documents/discussions are updated). The fundamental difference between emails that they get from NI Community and NI DM is that the customer CHOOSES how and when he/she will get emails. So for us (the community team) to submit/conform to communication messages and scheduling defined by the DM team seems counterintuitive to me. If anything, they should be coordinating around email activity from the community platform (e.g. if a customer has received 3 updates in 2 days that someone has commented on their document AND assuming our customers confuse these emails with what comes from our marketing house, we probably should not send a scheduled email featuring our latest marketing message in that same week).
I'm still not convinced that our customers are "confused" about the difference in the first place. But ultimately, I suppose we could do a better job of educating them about the difference.
So I suppose I'd really like to hear from you, community managers. What is your relationship like with your direct marketing teams? Have you had similar discussions? How integrated are you? Do you modify communication schedules based on community behaviors? I've heard Eloqua has a Jive App on the market. Does anyone use this tool and has it helped them link community behaviors with their marketable customer databases?
Have you had to educate your customers on the distinction between emails from your external community platform and your corporate marketing departments?
Any thoughts are appreciated, thanks!


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I'm currently embarking on a new research project that has grown out of recent work on the legacy of Chernobyl and its ruins, particularly the abandoned town of Pripyat, which I visited in October 2007 and which has subsequently formed the subject of many talks and articles. Here's a summary of the project I envisage…
Perhaps more than any other Soviet ruin, Pripyat – the ghost town near Chernobyl abandoned after the accident in 1986 – has come to embody, for the capitalist West, all the failures of state socialism in comparison with the successes of the former: a total lack of transparency; technological ineptitude; and a callous indifference to the human and environmental consequences of industrial and social exploitation. Yet, in recent years, Pripyat has been commandeered by that same West in the service of postmodern culture: as a backdrop for fantasy computer games such as Call of Pripyat (2009) and as a site of horror in the film Chernobyl Diaries (2012). What does this shift tell us about the legacy of urban ruins like Pripyat, both for the West and for those who were directly affected by their ruination? Has the collapse of communism really resulted in the uncontested rule of global capitalism, or are there still spaces that might provide alternatives to this hegemony?
This research proposes to address these questions by focusing on the wider significance of urban ruins in an age of global capitalism. It will concentrate on case studies of four pairings of socialist/capitalist sites of urban ruin that resulted from different destructive forces: ethnic conflict (Agdam, Azerbaijan and Varosha, Cyprus); technological failure (Fukushima, Japan and Pripyat, Ukraine); deferred utopianism (Keelung, Taiwan and the Oil Rocks near Baku, Azerbaijan); economic decline/surplus (Detroit and contemporary empty cities in China, for example Ordos). Relating an experiential awareness of these urban ruins with a concurrent host of fictional counterparts in visual culture (particularly in film), this research will interrogate the relationship between the real and the imagined in terms of how large-urban ruins are perceived, both from the perspective of those who were directly affected by such ruination and from those who seek to re-appropriate these ruins in other contexts, whether in post-state socialist or capitalist contexts.
The result will be to create a dialogue between state socialist, capitalist urban ruins and the wider (global), culturally-prescient theme of the imagination of disaster. If urban ruins have been commandeered by some, others – particular those who were directly affected by their abandonment – still view them as a kind of representation void: petrified places that speak only of loss, of a helplessness in the face of overwhelming forces defying comprehension. In the grip of our own apocalyptic imaginings – brought on by the prospect of unsustainable urban growth, unmanageable environmental threats, increasingly extreme social segregation, and wars and terrorists that deliberately target urban areas – if we are to represent the death of cities, what can we learn from urban sites that have already died? This research will use its analysis of state socialist and capitalist urban ruins to open up an emancipatory space that, following Slavoj Žižek, accepts the universal inevitability of ruin in order to break its ideological grasp and thus to suggest liberating alternatives.


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Helm's Deep (chapter)
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Helm's Deep is the seventh chapter of the third book in The Two Towers.
On the second day of their journey, a messenger who tells them that Saruman has almost won meets the group. Gandalf leaves them with the excuse of having an errand to run. When they reach Helm's Deep, the battle is fierce and the Orcs seem to be winning. Suddenly, Théoden and his men ride up from behind, trapping the Orcs. Gandalf appears with a contingent of reinforcements. The Orcs flee into the forest, but the Ents capture them and the battle is over as quickly as it began.


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Welcome to The Baron's Corner
The Grapefruit League calendar says it is Sunday, March 19. The Phillies have a 56-mile trip south to play the Reds in Sarasota.
The office at Bright House Networks Field is quiet. Folks back in the Philly office won't be calling because it is Sunday. Emails even seem to take a holiday on Sundays.
Carpenter Field is a different story. Phillies minor leaguers are spread on four different fields this afternoon. There's a triple-A game on the Richie Ashburn Field, a Double-A game on the Mike Schmidt Field, a game against a college team on the Robin Roberts Field and a group of young minor leaguers working on fundamentals on the Steve Carlton Field.
The weather for the day is typical of the entire spring: sunshine, blue skies and a rare cloud or two.
The Triple-A game has a different flavor today because lefty Cole Hamels is going to throw three innings. He's been slowed by back problems and the program of getting him back on the field in a regular rotation is a methodical process.
GM Pat Gillick chose a walk to Carpenter Field rather than a car ride with Dallas Green to Sarasota. Nothing personal, Dallas. Pat wanted to see Hamels pitch. He was perched behind home plate on the rooftop level. In three innings, Hamels allowed 3 hits, 1 run, 1 earned run, 0 walks and 2 strikeouts.
After a 1-2-3 second inning, Dickie Noles walked by: "You can see why this guy is special. He stands out." Someone responded, "Just like you when you were younger?" "I wasn't even close," laughed Dickie.
Assistant GM Mike Arbuckle was also on the roof standing at the top of stairway that is midway between two fields. On his right, Hamels was pitching and on his left, Gio Gonzalez, the prospect acquired in the Jim Thome deal with the White Sox, was hurling in a Double-A game. Hamels' performance: "Most impressive was his command. For someone who hasn't pitched in a while, he was around the plate and worked his pitches to spots," said Arbuckle.
Also playing in the same game for five innings was Alex Gonzalez. The free agent infielder signed by Gillick this offseason was spending his third minor league game in left field. The Phillies are in need of a fifth outfielder and the brass wants to see if Gonzalez can play out there. He had a run-scoring double in two at-bats and caught the only fly ball hit his way.
"It is a different feel out there," said Gonzalez. "Getting a read on the balls is the biggest adjustment from playing the infield." Gonzalez will continue to shag fly balls during batting practice. More minor league games or the outfield in a Grapefruit League game or two will be pondered.
Meanwhile next door at Bright House Networks Field, one Major Leaguer was still at work following a short morning workout. Veteran Mike Lieberthal took extra batting practice in the enclosed left field batting cage hitting off a tee under the watchful eyes of Scranton/Wilkes-Barre coach Sal Rende. Later, "Lieby" donned catching gear and spent time catching bullets from a pitching machine. The guy's caught 1,079 games and he's still polishing his skills.
Rusty Kennedy / AP
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Geez, the last time I saw a Baron's Corner, I was sending it to the typesetter at the Shenandoah Evening Herald to have it set.
Time flies, eh Larry?
Babe C.
Welcome aboard Larry, I always love to hear more about the Phillies. If you could please email me at email@example.com I have some questions that you might be able to answer for me being in PR. Hope to hear from you soon
Welcome to the "phlogoshere" Mr. Shenk. I hope you enjoy it as much as we do.
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Time to refocus efforts to meet facility needs
The Moose Lake school building bond issue went down by 492 votes. After many discussions and community meetings on the bond, I believe that the main issue we have is the tax impact.
A goal for the coming year will be to increase our effort to decrease the tax impact to our citizens. We will be working hard at the capitol to let people know about the inequity in what our citizens have to pay. We will also continue to try to develop our land on Hwy 73 to increase our tax base. Finally, we will re-evaluate our options with regards to this facility.
My hope is that people who voted no will work with us to make the changes necessary for an equitable taxation of our citizens. This could mean giving constructive input on future committees or providing support at the capitol to change how we get taxed. Our facility needs did not go away with the defeat of the bond. We will still need to find fiscally sound ways to deal with our aging infrastructure.
I wanted to address an issue that I believe there was a misconception on. People ask "Why did you let the school get run down?" The answer is that we did not let the building get run down. It is in good shape for the age that it is. It is just getting to the age where in the near future we will need to address major infrastructure issues. Examples are: wiring, plumbing, roofing, sidewalk, and ventilation. To improve safety, we would need to redo the front of the high school to make one entrance into the building. These are all big-ticket items that we would need to go to the public to help pay for. We have and we will continue to fix up the building as needed.
We appreciate the efforts of all people who helped with this building bond. If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost. We need to take what we learned in this bond and see if we can use it to refocus our efforts to meet our facility needs. We will continue to listen to the community and find solutions that will produce growth in our school and community.


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This section provides a variety of materials, from quick references to complete courses, all designed to help our members improve leadership skills and deliver a quality program. Many of the courses can be taken online. A log-in is required however anyone may create a user account and view the courses. Registered members of the BSA may provide their member numbers (as part of the user profile) to receive credit.
Youth Protection training is designed to help you keep our youth safe from abuse. You will learn the Boy Scouts of America's Youth Protection Guidelines, signs of abuse, and how to report suspected abuse. After each section of material, you will answer questions about that section's topic. Completion is noted automatically in the BSA training records database if the module is experienced online.
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Intended to be taken by pack, troop, team, and crew leaders, as well as unit commissioners and chartered organization representatives immediately following the acceptance of their new role.
This Is Scouting provides an overview of the Scouting organization, including history, values, programs, Youth Protection, community involvement, and training. The module consists of six video sections, each followed by a brief quiz. Estimated time to complete: 50 minutes.
Need to know what are the requirements to be trained for your unit leadership role? This sheet explains the training requirements for all unit-level leaders.
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The syllabus below is used by trainers presenting the standalone Scoutmaster and assistant Scoutmaster specifics course. The course is intended to provide troop leadership with the information and tools they need to lead successful Boy Scout troops. A DVD with presentation support is available from Scoutstuff.org or your local council. Scoutmasters and assistants who complete this training, Introduction to Outdoor Leader Skills, and Youth Protection training are considered "trained."
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Providing knowledge, program ideas, skills, and fun resources is the purpose behind the Roundtable Planning Guides for Boy Scout and Cub Scout leaders. Using this guide along with local resources, roundtable commissioners can enable and motivate unit leaders to deliver an outstanding program to their Scout troops. The guide is designed to allow program topics to be used in the order best suited for your district.
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Troop Leadership Training, No. 34306A, has been rolled out to replace the Scoutmaster Junior Leader Training Kit.
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The Kodiak Challenge is designed to be an adventure that pushes the boundaries of every participant - one that will encourage you to try new things that may be out of your comfort zone. It is an experience—but one that has its underpinnings in the application of the leadership skills they learned in the Introduction to Leadership Skills for Troops or Crews, NYLT, and/or NAYLE. It is, as is all of Scouting, an adventure with a purpose
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This is the first part of the three-part train-the-trainer continuum (T3, or T-Cubed) in the Boy Scouts of America. The course introduces teaching techniques and skills to new Scout trainers but is also designed to help all Scouters, regardless of their experience, present effective training. Intended for both youth and adult trainers, the course will help those who might have trained for other organizations learn the BSA's training techniques, and it will help freshen up the skills of current BSA trainers.
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While the Trainer's EDGE is a required train-the-trainer course for Wood Badge and NYLT staffs, it is also for other trainers wishing to enhance their training and presentation skills.
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This new guide outlines the basic responsibilities for volunteer leader training committees and the methods of BSA volunteer training. To be sure that information is up-to-date, the guide does not include the forms and other resources that are more easily available, and more current, via Scouting.org. The training pages of Scouting.org will help you find the current resources, forms, and courses available—as well as the latest in BSA training.
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Welcome to MOTOR's 60 Greatest Performance Cars of all time.
The list first appeared in our June 2014 issue as part of our 60th Anniversary celebrations. What better way to celebrate 60 years of testing performance cars than to name the best we've ever driven?
Now, given the last was compiled almost 12 months ago there are some obvious cars missing. At the time, we hadn't driven the incredible LaFerrari or the sublime 458 Speciale, and we hadn't yet sampled the excellent 991 GT3.
Bar a few recent models, however, it's a list that's unlikely to significantly change, now or into the future, as these 60 cars represent the pinnacle of performance motoring. That said, if we've missed your favourite, please let us know in the comments below. Enjoy.
30. Hennessey Venom GT
How could the world's fastest car not make our top 60? Many scoffed (including us, if we're honest) when pictures and details of the Venom GT first broke four years ago, but US tuner John Hennessey has more than backed up his boast, the car recently clocking over 435km/h. Even more eye-opening is the fact, by all accounts, the Venom's ride, handling and steering are just as impressive as its acceleration.
29. Mazda MX-5
From the fastest car on the list to possibly the slowest. But if any car is able to punch above its weight, ti's the MX-5. Any and all are a pleasure to drive, but we've gone with the non-power assisted, 1.6-litre original. You won't get anywhere quickly but, hey, the journey is the reward, man. Peace.
Germany's A9X Torana, the 3.0CSL was a homologation special built to dominate the European Touring Car Championship; which it did convincingly, the winged 'Batmobiles' winning five years straight from 1975-'79. Think of it as BMW's first M-car and you'll understand its significance.
27. Honda Integra Type R
Anyone who thinks front-drive is boring needs to steer a Type R. Okay, so Honda's hardcore Integra only really made sense when you were thrashing the beejeezus out of it, but boy did it reward you in spades when you made the effort, with every single element finely honed and full of feel.
26. Ford GT
If you're going to re-interpret arguably the greatest car you've ever built, you'd better make sure you get it right. Thankfully Ford did, producing an intoxicating blend of good ol' brute force (that 410kW/675Nm supercharged V8) and surprising sophistication. Is it better than the equivalent Ferrari? Irrelevant. It is its own wonderful thing.
25. Porsche Cayman R
If corners are your thing, you'll find no better partner than the Porsche Cayman R. To be honest, the current Cayman S is just as sweet, but it's hard not to be seduced by the hardcore focus of the previous-gen Cayman R. If only it had the engine from a 911 GT3, it'd be a lot higher up.
24. Honda NSX-R
The NSX's 14-year lifespan gave Honda's engineers plenty of time to hone it to the nth degree, and their efforts culminated in the second-gen NSX-R in 2002. Its headline numbers are nothing special, but a Nurburgring lap time of 7min56sec (same as a 996 GT3) provides some hint as to its ability.
23. Lamborghini Gallardo LP550-2
This or the Audi R8 V10 Plus? Given the two cars' similarities there was only room for one, and in the end the Italian got the nod. Why? Well, as awesome as the R8 is, we all agreed that if the keys to both were laid before us, it'd be the Lambo that would be barking into life, the combination of over 400kW, rear-wheel drive and an open-gated six-speed manual impossible to resist.
22. Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX
Yes, it has the interior ambience of a tupperware container and all the design flair of an Adidas tracksuit, but no other car can extract grip from a surface like an Evo. No matter how ambitious the entry speed or outrageous the oversteer angle, the Evo's clever electronic diffs always provide hope that the situation can be saved, making the driver look a hero in the process.
21. Porsche Carrera GT
The product of a stillborn Le Mans program, at launch the Carrera GT's tricky handling famously made even Walter Röhrl sweat. Now, thanks to
a decade's worth of advancement in tyre technology, the Carrera GT is rightly regarded as one of Stuttgart's greatest creations, with a fearsome V10 howl that would have you hunting tunnels all night long.\


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Twins Shut Mauer Down For Rest Of Season
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota Twins are shutting down All-Star catcher Joe Mauer for the rest of the season while he recovers from a concussion.
The Twins made the decision on Monday before starting the final seven-game homestand of the season. General manager Terry Ryan and Mauer both say that the former AL MVP is making progress. But they don't want to take any unnecessary risks with the Twins far out of contention in the AL Central.
Mauer hasn't played since Aug. 19. He was injured while catching when he took a foul tip off of his mask.
Mauer says he is disappointed that he won't be able to finish the season on the field. But he says he still plans on playing catcher as his primary position.


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Setting up a Scala development environment based on Emacs, SBT & Ensime
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In this post, I will quickly show how to get a productive Scala development environment by using Emacs as an editor, with Scala mode and Ensime as extensions, and SBT as a build tool.
The following assumes that you are running a Linux with emacs already installed and a minimal knowledge on them.
1. Installing Scala
Start by downloading the latest Scala distribution from this page. I usually opt for the tar gz version which I then extract in some directory.


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Source: Yankees, Pettitte close in on deal
NEW YORK (AP) -- Andy Pettitte and the New York Yankees are nearing agreement on a one-year contract in the range of $10 million to $12 million, a person familiar with the negotiations said Tuesday.
The person spoke on condition of anonymity because talks are ongoing.
Pettitte, who turns 41 in June, retired after the 2010 season and then decided to come back this year and signed a contract guaranteeing $2.5 million.
He went 5-4 with a 2.87 ERA in 12 starts, missing nearly three months with a broken left leg after he was hit by a liner drive off the bat of Cleveland's Casey Kotchman broke his left fibula on June 27.
He would join CC Sabathia, Hiroki Kuroda, Phil Hughes and Ivan Nova in the Yankees' projected starting rotation, with David Phelps also a possibility.
New York also is negotiating on a deal with closer Mariano Rivera, who turns 43 on Thursday. The career saves leader was limited to nine games this year after tearing the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee while tracking down a fly ball during batting practice in Kansas City on May 3.


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Chicken By-Product Meal, Corn Meal, Ground Whole Grain Sorghum, Ground Whole Grain Barley, Chicken, Fish Meal (source of fish oil), Natural Chicken Flavor, Dried Beet Pulp (sugar removed), Chicken Fat (preserved with Mixed Tocopherols, a source of vitamin E, and Citric Acid), Dried Egg Product, Brewers Dried Yeast, Salt, Sodium Hexametaphosphate, Fructooligosaccharides, Potassium Chloride, Calcium Carbonate, Choline Chloride, Borage Seed Oil (preserved with Propyl Gallate), Flax Meal, Marigold Extract (source of Lutein), DL-Methionine, Ferrous Sulfate, Glucosamine Hydrochloride, Chondroitin Sulfate, Zinc Oxide, Niacin, Manganese Sulfate, Copper Sulfate, Beta-carotene, L-carnitine, Manganous Oxide, Folic Acid, Ascorbic Acid, Biotin, Rosemary Extract, Vitamin A Acetate, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (source of Vitamin B6), Calcium Pantothenate, Vitamin E Supplement, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Riboflavin Supplement (source of Vitamin B2), Thiamine Mononitrate (source of Vitamin B1), Inositol, Potassium Iodide, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Cobalt Carbonate.
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Insufficient meat content, by-products, low quality grains and other controversial filler.
The first ingredient is by-products. It is impossible to ascertain the quality of by-products and these are usually products that are of such low quality as to be rejected for use in the human food chain, or else are those parts that have so little value that they cannot be used elsewhere in either the human or pet food industries. The AAFCO definition of chicken by-product meal is a meal consisting of the ground, rendered, clean parts of the carcass of slaughtered chicken, such as necks, feet, undeveloped eggs and intestines, exclusive of feathers, except in such amounts as might occur unavoidable in good processing practice.
The next three ingredients are all grains. Corn is a problematic grain that is difficult for dogs to digest and thought to be the cause of a great many allergy and yeast infection problems. We prefer not to see this used in dog food, yet it is the primary grain in this food. We prefer not to see this used in dog food. Sorghum is a carbohydrate source low in digestibility. We consider it primarily filler. Barley is a decent quality grain.
5th on the list is a named meat product, but since this is chicken inclusive of its water content (about 80%) and this ingredient will weigh only about 20% of its wet weight once water is removed (as it must be to make kibble) it is unlikely that this is the true first ingredient in the food and would be more accurately placed much further down the ingredient list. Fish meal, 6th on the ingredient list, is the sole quality named meat meal ingredient in the food. This is too low to make up an appreciable portion of the food. We note that the manufacturer does not claim to use ethoxyquin-free sources (ethoxyquin is a chemical preservative commonly added to fish destined for meal, and is believed to be carcinogenic).
Beet pulp is further filler and a controversial ingredient it is a by-product, being dried residue from sugar beets which has been cleaned and extracted in the process of manufacturing sugar. It is a controversial ingredient in dog food, claimed by some manufacturers to be a good source of fibre, and derided by others as an ingredient added to slow down the transition of rancid animal fats and causing stress to kidney and liver in the process. We note that beet pulp is an ingredient that commonly causes problems for dogs, including allergies and ear infections, and prefer not to see it used in dog food. There are less controversial products around if additional fibre is required.
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Tuesday, August 16, 2011
The future of the Hal Spacejock series
Until now.
I just re-acquired the worldwide rights to my Hal Spacejock novels. Kindle editions will be available as soon as Amazon finishes processing the upload (24-48 hours?), and I've signed with Lightning Source to offer trade paperbacks via their UK and US printing facilities.
The printed editions will probably take a month or two, but expect to see them before October. I'm very excited about this, as you can imagine.
I realise POD printing isn't the same as books in shops, but I've set the UK price to GBP7.99 and the US price to $11.95, which I believe is reasonable for 350-380 page 5.25" x 8" trade paperbacks. (Correct me in the comments if I'm wrong.)
The ebooks will be 3.99 or 4.99, depending. I know there's a lot of noise about .99c ebooks, and I may occasionally drop the price over 24 hours as a special, but I think $4 or $5 is a reasonable price for an 80,000 word professionally-edited novel.
Simon Haynes is the author of the Hal Spacejock and Hal Junior series (Amazon / Smashwords / other formats)
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- Greg said...
The prices you suggest are reasonable.
There is no reason you won't get your POD books in the shops. With a little effort you can definitely pull it off. I have my first novel on the shelves of some of my favourite bookstores. Printed through CreateSpace but with their EDC you also get services from Ingram.
Sometimes, they are also printing with Lightning Source. I chose CreateSpace because the startup costs were much less, the book price could be lower and the support and ease with which you get started is phenomenal.
the quality of the end product has exceeded my expectations. It sits next to Tom Clancy and Jeffery Deaver in one Swiss shop and looks every bit as good.
Good luck with going POD.
Greg (avid user of yWriter).
- Simon Haynes said...
Thanks Greg! I don't think I've held an LSI book in my hands before, but I've heard good things.
- Greg said...
I am unsure of whether these ones came from LSI or CreateSpace's own facility but rumour has it they are indistinguishable.
See the quality in the photos on this post. http://www.gregscowen.com/books/the-spanish-helmet-orell-fussli-display/
I don't know how anyone could pick it out as POD.
I hope you feel the same when yours arrive.
BTW, am planning a post at www.onemanbookteam about yWriter. Just as soon as I get 5 minutes. But very keen to support your software. I would never have finished my first book without it.
- Mary O. Paddock said...
Very reasonable prices for all. Check Smashwords if you get a chance. I'm still investigating them, but Zoe Winters, author of "Smart Self-Publishing: Becoming an Indie Author" (the go-to source, in my opinion), highly recommends them.
.99 is for those of us who are still looking to break into the market--though we're encouraged to move up fast and not under price. You've already got a readership that will probably expand now that the US market is open to you.
- Simon Haynes said...
Smashwords is a definite. It won't be straight away because they require a DOC file and that's one thing my process doesn't produce. I'd have to export to RTF, manually set up the chapter titles etc, then save out to doc.
- Greg said...
I removed my book from Smashwords after 2 months.
Sales could never even pretend to touch Kindle, you have to edit yet another version when you find an error, and you re in company of a LOT of really trashy writing.
In the end, just to get on Apple and Nook, it wasn't worth it for me.
I trialled at 0.99 for a week. Went straight back up to $2.99 and will never do it again.
You don't have to sell cheap to establish yourself, Mary. Selling too cheap also gives the potential customer a reason to believe they aren't getting a quality product.
I was nervous about selling at $2.99 at first but apparently my first two months sales were very good. Granted, I haven't made any top lists just yet.
For me, $2.99 really is the sweet spot. 70% commission with Kindle, not looking like cheap trash, and still a impulse buy. Heck, I mostly make more on those sales than on paperbacks.
- Wordsmiff said...
Good luck with it Simon - the rest of the world DESERVES Hal, Clunk and Navicom!
- Lara Morgan said...
let's hope you smash it out of the park in the sales dept. And also, no I don't think 4 or 5 $$ is too much to ask. I don't believe in the 99c model after all we need to be getting people to understand how much effort goes into producing a book, regardless of the output mode.
- Simon Haynes said...
I chose 3.99 for the first book, but will probably list the rest for 4.99
Let's be honest ... how many professionally-published comedy science fiction series are out there? It's not exactly a competitive sub-genre.
Once all 4 are up, I'll run occasional 24-hour sales at 99c. That's something authors can do in five minutes and publishers have to plan for weeks or months.
- Simon Haynes said...
Wordsmiff - I'm still trying to work out WHAT the rest of the world has done to deserve Hal & Clunk...


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First internet-built student satellite ready for launch
ESA PR 39-2005. SSETI Express, a low Earth orbit spacecraft designed and built by European university students under the supervision of ESA's Education Department, is to be launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome on a Russian Cosmos 3M launcher on 27 September in the morning.
On that occasion, ESA will be organising a launch event at Space Expo, the public visitors' centre close to ESA/ESTEC at Noordwijk in the Netherlands. A live televised transmission of the launch will bring images from Plesetsk and Space Expo to broadcasters and the general public across Europe. Specialists will be on hand for explanations and interviews, while schoolchildren will be invited to attend several activity workshops to express their views and enthusiasm for space.
The tentative programme for the day is as follows:
06:30 Guests and schoolchildren welcomed
07:00 Breakfast and general mission presentation
08:00 Children's activities begin
08:15 Live transmission from Plesetsk
08:52 Lift-off
09:00 End of live transmission
Interviews and continuation of children's activities
11:00 End of event
Some ESA centres will open their doors to media representatives for the launch of SSETI (see attached registration form). The ESA TV live broadcast will also be shown at several universities and research centres throughout Europe, where SSETI students will gather to follow the event (see Background Note for Editors).
Media representatives wishing to follow the event at Space Expo, or the rebroadcast transmission at the ESA establishments, are requested to fill in the attached registration form and to fax it back to the place of their choice.
For more information on SSETI Express please contact:
Philippe Willekens
Administrator for Education Projects
ESA Education Department
Tel: +33 1 53 69 73 88 (ESA-Paris) or +31 71 56 56 354 (ESA-ESTEC)
Mobile: +33 6 80 17 49 40
Fax: +33 1 53 69 76 01
For more information on the launch event at Space Expo please contact:
Rosita Suenson
ESA Communication Office at ESTEC
Tel: + 31 71 565 3009
Fax: + 31 71 565 5728
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Background Note for Editors:
SSETI Express (SSETI stands for Student Space Exploration and Technology Initiative) is a small spacecraft, similar in size and shape to a washing machine (approx. 60x60x90 cm). Weighing about 62 kg, it has a payload of 24 kg. Onboard the student-built spacecraft will be three pico-satellites, extremely small satellites that weigh around 1 kg each. These will be deployed once SSETI Express is in orbit, marking a first not only for the students but also for the space sector. In addition to acting as a test bed for many designs, including a cold-gas attitude control system, SSETI Express will take pictures of the Earth and function as a radio transponder.
The SSETI Express satellite was designed and built mainly by students under the supervision of ESA's Education Department. The principal sub-systems (power control unit, UHF unit for communications, onboard computer to control the satellite, attitude control system, propulsion system and camera) were developed at various European universities. The challenge has been for the 23 university groups, spread across Europe and from very different backgrounds, to work together via the internet to jointly build the satellite. ESA has provided support, drawing up the specifications, harmonising efforts, supervising construction and testing, and organising the launch.
ESA's Test Centre at Noordwijk (the Netherlands) made its facilities and experts available to SSETI Express for thorough testing. The satellite underwent electromagnetic compatibility testing in a special chamber. SSETI Express was then mounted on a shaker table and subjected to vibration and shocks representative of those it will experience during launch. The harsh environment of space - vacuum, extreme thermal conditions, etc. - was simulated in one of the vacuum chambers at ESTEC.
System-level functional testing was also conducted at ESA's technical centre, ESTEC. A ground segment simulator adjacent to the spacecraft was connected via a laptop computer and the internet to the mission control computer in Denmark. A further internet connection enabled the satellite operations team in Poland to control SSETI Express during testing, while communicating with staff at ESTEC via internet-based messaging.
SSETI Express has taken just 18 months to progress from kick-off to flight readiness review, which probably makes it the fastest spacecraft design and construction project ever, hence the name "Express". By using donated materials, equipment and expertise - from ESA, universities and industry - total hardware expenditure by ESA's Education Department has been kept below €100 000.
The Student Space Exploration and Technology Initiative (SSETI), which has provided the framework for the SSETI Express mission, was set up by ESA's Education Department in 2000 to involve European students in real space missions. The initiative aims to give students practical experience and encourage them to work in the fields of space technology and science, thereby helping to prepare talented experts for the future.
Since its creation, SSETI has developed a network of students, educational institutions and organisations to facilitate work on various spacecraft projects. More than 400 European students have made an active, long-term contribution to this initiative, either as part of their degree or in their spare time. In addition, many hundreds more have been involved with or inspired by SSETI.
SSETI students are currently working on three main projects:
- SSETI Express
- SSETI ESEO, the European Student Earth Orbiter, a 120 kg spacecraft designed for Ariane 5 and scheduled for launch in 2008
SSETI ESMO, the European Student Moon Orbiter, scheduled for launch in 2010-12. It will conduct experiments both on its way to the Moon and once lunar orbit is achieved.
Follow the SSETI Express launch live
The ESA TV launch transmission on 27 September will be available as a free-to-air digital broadcast on the Astra 1 G satellite at 19.2 degrees East:
Transponder: 1.108
Reception frequency:12551.50 MHz (MCPC, ESA-Astra Multivision service)
Polarisation: Vertical
Symbolrate: 22 Msymb/s
See also http://television.esa.int/photos/Astra.pdf
The launch can also be followed at these locations:
AIV -London -Cristina Rodriguez Trobajo - email@example.com - Tel: +44(0)796.959.5340
AOCS +STRU - Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Portugal, Antonio Melro (STRU) - email@example.com Mobile : +351.93.386.2934 - Office : +351.22.508.21.64
COMM - Wroclaw, Poland - Dominik Guzda - email@example.com- Tel: +48.601.679.205
ESMO ADCS - Narvik, Norway - Antonsen Joran - email@example.com - Tel: +47.915.69.896
PROP - University of Stuttgart, Germany - Nils Harmsen - email@example.com - Tel: +49.163.795.2878
MECH - Euro Space Center - Jean-Marcel Thomas (Euro Space Center) - JF Vandenrijt (MECH team) - firstname.lastname@example.com - firstname.lastname@example.com - Tel: JF Vandenrijt +32(0)4220.127.116.11
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Despite playing a key role in advancing climate change hysteria, the United Kingdom's National Weather Service, known as the Met Office, quietly released a report last week conceding that so-called "global warming" actually stopped more than 15 years ago. The startling admission shows once again that United Nations theories and climate models are wildly inaccurate at best, experts say, meaning multi-trillion dollar schemes to deal with alleged human-caused "climate change" are at the very least severely misguided.
According to the latest UK Met Office report, first reported by the Daily Mail, there has been no noticeable increase in global temperatures since early 1997. The alleged warming trend supposedly observed from 1980 to 1996 was about as long as the current "plateau" period, the paper reported. Prior to that, climate scientists admit, global temperatures had been stable or dropping for decades, a fact that prompted previous generations of climate alarmists to sound the alarm about the supposed dangers of man-made "global cooling."
"Climate models are very complex, but they are imperfect and incomplete. Natural variability [the impact of factors such as long-term temperature cycles in the oceans and the output of the sun] has been shown over the past two decades to have a magnitude that dominates the greenhouse warming effect," Georgia Tech climate science department chief Professor Judith Curry told the Daily Mail. "It is becoming increasingly apparent that our attribution of warming since 1980 and future projections of climate change needs to consider natural internal variability as a factor of fundamental importance."
The Met Office temperature data report is known as Hadcrut 4 because it is compiled by the Met Office's Hadley Center and the now-disgraced Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia — the institution at the center of the infamous ClimateGate scandal that exposed so-called "climate scientists" fudging numbers, covering up contradictory data, conspiring to attack dissenting experts, and unlawfully trying to evade freedom of information requests. Unsurprisingly, the CRU's discredited boss, Phil Jones, downplayed the significance of the latest findings.
Despite having claimed in 2009 that if there were no warming for 15 years it would be time for climate alarmists to "get worried," Jones now says 15 years is not a long enough span to draw any conclusions. At least 20 years will be needed before the climate hysteria can be reconsidered, the controversial climate activist — he styles himself a scientist despite his unabashed activism — told the Daily Mail, adding that the ongoing lack of global warming "could go on for a while." He apparently still thinks this decade will be warmer than the last, though he admitted that the wild climate models predicting doom were based on multiple uncertainties.
"We don't fully understand how to input things like changes in the oceans, and because we don't fully understand it you could say that natural variability is now working to suppress the warming," Jones admitted to the paper, apparently acknowledging what skeptical climate scientists have been attempting to convey for years. "We don't know what natural variability is doing."
Also in 2009, meanwhile, the alarmist Met Office predicted that three of the next five years would set new world records for warming. Now that the data has proven the wildly alarmist prediction false, however, a spokesperson for the agency had no comment on it. Still, the Met Office, like Jones — both depending largely on taxpayer funding that will dry up if and when climate hysteria disappears — also tried to downplay the latest data. "Choosing a starting or end point on short-term scales can be very misleading," a Met Office spokesperson said. "Climate change can only be detected from multi-decadal timescales due to the inherent variability in the climate system."
The Hadcrut 4 information comes from thousands of monitoring points around the world, including more than a few spots that have been criticized for being too close to artificially warm urban areas. Still, the latest report totally contradicts alarmist forecasts about surging temperature increases that have served to justify massive expenditures of taxpayer money around the world. For experts, it is only more evidence that making global decisions on the basis of bogus climate models is a bad idea.
"The IPCC expresses great certainty in the results of the models — which is completely unfounded. A number of natural climate cycles are excluded, even though these cycles produce significant changes in temperatures," Executive Vice President Ken Haapala with the Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) told The New American earlier this year. "The ultimate test of models is their ability to predict the future. As measured by satellites, there has been no global warming for over a decade, which the models failed to predict. The divergence between measured temperatures and predictions is increasing."
More than a dozen climate experts, including professors at the most prestigious universities in the world and scientists who worked with the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), also told The New American in recent months that the global warming models were deeply flawed at best. The latest report from the Met Office — virtually ignored by the world media despite the press's tendency to trumpet even the most absurd climate scaremongering — confirms those suspicions yet again.
The spectacular implosion of the alleged "science" behind now-discredited global warming theories in recent years has led many experts and scientists to distance themselves from the hysteria. However, some apparently oblivious politicians, even in the United States, where the public has largely become hostile to the alarmism and proposed "solutions," continue to insist that taxpayers must fund ever more expensive and grandiose schemes to stop "climate change."
"By the way, yes, my plan will reduce the carbon pollution that is eating our planet because climate change is not a hoax," President Obama said at a campaign rally last week, absurdly portraying the essential gas CO2 exhaled by humans and consumed by plants as a "pollutant" in need of regulation. "More droughts and hurricanes and wildfires, that's not a joke. That's a threat to our children's future, and we can do something about it."
Critics say that even if the debunked climate models were accurate and human-caused carbon dioxide emissions — a tiny fraction of the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere — were contributing seriously to global warming, the half-baked, multi-trillion-dollar efforts to stop it would still be absurd. More likely, however, is that the increasingly embattled global warming scam is an attempt to help foist global governance on the planet while extracting even more wealth from the people of the world, opponents of the alarmism tell The New American.
Whether the latest Met Office report will eventually be covered by the world press remains unclear. What has become certain, though, is that supposed climate "scientists" and models predicting imminent doom were wrong yet again. Spending even more trillions on ineffective "solutions" to deal with a dubious alleged problem that may not even exist, then, would be not just a total waste of resources, but a dangerous proposition that could see the out-of-control UN handed even more power. Experts say it is time to return to reality and put the climate scam to rest once and for all.
Related articles:
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Global-warming Alarmism Dying a Slow Death
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The Real Agenda Behind UN "Sustainability" Unmasked
Global Warming and the Arctic Economy
The Link Between Eugenics & Global Warming Hype
UN Coverup of "Climate Refugees" Scandal Fails
Lord Monckton Blasts UN Global Agenda; Expresses Optimism
Climategate 2: More E-mails Leaked Ahead of UN Summit
Global Climate Warming Stopped 15 Years Ago, UK Met Office AdmitsWritten by Alex Newman
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Despite playing a key role in advancing climate change hysteria, the United Kingdom's National Weather Service, known as the Met Office, quietly released a report last week conceding that so-called "global warming" actually stopped more than 15 years ago. The startling admission shows once again that United Nations theories and climate models are wildly inaccurate at best, experts say, meaning multi-trillion dollar schemes to deal with alleged human-caused "climate change" are at the very least severely misguided.


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Armed Robbers Break Into Bahamas Home of Iron Maiden's Steve Harris
Iron Maiden bassist Steve Harris splits his time between Los Angeles and the Bahamas, and a house on his Cable Beach property was recently broken into by armed robbers. The incident happened in the early morning hours of Nov. 29, when a group of men sawed through chains on the front gate of a home on the property that was being used as an office and storage facility.
According to the property manager Charles Beall, there were flat screen TVs, appliances and other electronics inside the building. "They assaulted our caretaker, Philip Pierre, assaulted him, put a knife on his throat, and left him in a pool of blood wrapped in duct tape," Beall tells Tribune 242. "They stole more than $8,000 worth of stuff, whatever they could carry."
Pierre has been an employee on the property for 43 years. Beall says when employees of his company heard about the attack they were furious, and for three days helped canvas the island searching for the perpetrators.
"When we found out who these guys were, we met with police and the head of the criminal investigation division at Cable Beach police station," Beall says. "They did an outstanding job, he gave me three of the best officers and they arrested one guy on Tuesday and on Thursday, four of us went and caught someone who confessed that he had a role in the beating and theft. We went into a building near his home and with police found much of the stolen goods."
About $5,000 of the stolen goods have been recovered. No charges have been filed yet as police continue to look for another suspect. It's not known if Harris was in the Bahamas when the robbery occurred and Beall says Harris would not want to comment on the incident. In addition, there is no update yet on the condition of Philip Pierre, the injured caretaker.


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Image via WikipediaI have been liberal with my complaints about Apple's poor responsiveness to iPhone issues raised through social media. It seems as if they aren't listening.
I'm pretty sure they must be - they just don't go in for all that messy responding stuff. Shame.
But, that said, when you run out of patience in waiting for a response via social media and take up an issue with the applecare team, it may take a number of calls and emails, a little time and effort, but the guys at the other end of the phone do make you feel like they are on YOUR side. Which is nice.
I won't bore you with how we ended up with Apple agreeing to send me a nice pink shuffle ( I reckon my four-year-old daughter is ready for her first ipod, she certainly thinks she is) and a very fetching Ted Baker leather case for my iphone, but they did - and they have.
And they've followed up to make sure they have arrived.
And now I'm feeling all warm about Apple again - particularly as the shuffle has worked so brilliantly with my pc this evening as I stack it up with High School Musical tracks... (I wish my iphone worked as well with my pc!)
So, thank you apple. But really this is a thank you to a human being, who by their human interactions has given me a new faith in apple. Thank you Sean Granville.
Roughly £70 worth of goods and a quality customer service experience has turned me from someone who may well never have bought another Apple product ever to someone who is likely to carry on cluttering their home with apple prods ad infinitum. Not just me, but now my daughter too.
You cannot place too high a value on human interaction!


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Girls Season 3 Episode 7 recap
Girls, can you stop getting me to like you? That was not supposed to be my thing, okay? Remember back in the day, when you were trite and I was crotchety? This was your best episode ever, okay? Is that condescending of me?
Girls wastes no time this week pointing out that it owes a debt – that it's happy to pay, to overextend the metaphor – to Sex And The City, which only had a few episodes in the Hamptons, really, but felt like it was there every episode. Girls is now having a party mocking its own first-season self while simultaneously making the episodes and the characters ever more real, in a way it seems like they weren't brave enough to do before.
The inversion of Hannah and Marnie has maybe been the most successful thing Girls has done yet. Hannah realizing, bit by bit, that she can have the life she wants despite being less put together than Marnie has been a really beautiful evolution, but it pales in comparison to Marnie not getting everything she wants. She really does everything right. The opening of the show was all Marie Antoinette or Pride & Prejudice – if she just has all the right physical trappings around she will finally be able to get what she wants, because that's what life is based on, right? Doing it "right"?
In a way, I thought that Elijah wound up being a bit like a Marnie himself. Having the older, smart boyfriend (Danny Strong is eventually going to become Johnathan and rule us all, right?) and the crazy bikini-in-the-street-wearing friends to socialize with, he has all the trappings. But he's not happy, and when someone points it out, he needs to fix it right that minute and then fix the fixing that makes Danny Strong think he needs to book. That breakup, of course, will occur on another series called "Elijah loves Johnathan" in an alternate universe where the WB is still on and thriving.
What is it about being in your 20s that makes you spoil for these kinds of naked, laid-bare fights, to call out everyone's issues once you've begun to figure out your own? I remember this from back then, the idea that getting everything out would make things more "clean". It's a way to tidy up, too, I guess – to have Shoshanna, who was nothing less than a prophet tonight, point out that she knows how they talk about her; to have Hannah and Marnie "fix" things that will never be fixed, let alone on an afternoon when one is wearing only a bikini. Marnie has gone from being an A-type to an actual Patrick Bateman, and when her dalliance with Ray is inevitably revealed, she's going to have all kinds of bordering-on-offensive justification for why she did it. I can only hope that this episode's Shoshanna will be the one who's there to call her on all her sh*t.
My only issue is that this thing that's so true, where everyone starts slinging their sh-t and getting in things they've been meaning to say for years, is that it highlights yet again how much Jessa does not fit with this crew. Jessa loves this sh*t. Jessa lives for this sh*t. We saw as much when she was setting the world on fire at rehab (which I assume we're going to come back to later, since if Hannah had called her bluff she would have drunk that cocktail no problem) but she doesn't have one thing to say to her erstwhile girlfriends? Come on. Really?
Jessa does not belong in this group of girls and would be sick of them. She'd tell Hannah that her friends were ridiculous and that she'd see her when she was back from her latest misadventure, which is what the show truthfully chose to do with her last season. I know Dunham and Jemima Kirke are friends and I even like their onscreen chemistry, but this is not the right move for the Jessa character as we've known her – she's being kept in their circle more or less against her will - and she's just uninteresting as a result.
Incidentally, I think Lena Dunham is getting smarter and smarter at playing her audience. Knowing that this episode is one of the season's strongest, and that you might wind up talking about it well into next year's TCAs, that is the episode in which she chooses to wear the most remarked-upon thing she can. You think that bathing suit was an accident? There are a million situations and scenes where she could have worn something ridiculous or revealing for the sake of Hannah's character. Here, she got to do that AND to make sure you never forget the sight of that green bikini. You can't talk about the show without acknowledging that the star and the creator has a body you're not allowed to ignore.


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I am not really looking for new cologne…
Can I say that I am quietly rooting against Bartolo
Colon? Sorry, but I just don't want to
see the 5th spot in the starting rotation go to such a high
risk. I would never fool myself into
believing that a few good spring starts will lead to a replication of Colon's
2005 Cy Young year with the Los Angeles Angels.
My personal preference is for the 4th and 5th
spots to go to Ivan Nova and Freddy Garcia, respectively. It's not outside of the realm of possibility
that both Colon and Garcia head north with the Yankees when camp breaks, but I
hope that it means Garcia is in the rotation and Colon is bumping shoulders
with Sergio Mitre in long relief.
Noah K. Murray/The Star Ledger
I am not looking for Garcia to be a full season option. I'd really like to see one of the Killer B's
(Andrew Brackman, Dellin Betances and Manuel Banuelos) step up at some point in
the season and prove they belong in the majors now. My favorite among the group is Brackman if
for no other reason that his age (25) and the fact that he'd have the maturity
to handle New York. My absolute favorite
among the group is Banuelos but I don't want to see the Yankees rush him too
NY Daily News
Although the Yankees rotation looks questionable at this
point, there is definitely the potential that the staff will be among the
league's best as the season progresses.
Either the Yankees will reach out at the trading deadline or one of the
Killer B's takes it to the next level, but the end result will be a much closer
gap between the Red Sox rotation and the Yankees.
I am very pleased that Eric Chavez has done well so far in
camp. I am very hopeful that he, along
with Eduardo Nunez, nail down the infield bench roles for the team. I like what Jorge Vazquez has done, but
unfortunately, there just doesn't appear to the room on the roster (barring
injury). It will be interesting to see
what Brian Cashman does with the excess talent (notably Vazquez and catcher
Francisco Cervelli…once the latter recovers from the foot fracture). Both have proven they are major league ready,
but if Chavez and Jesus Montero make the team, there won't be any room for
Cervelli or Vazquez.
Congratulations to former Dodgers assistant GM Kim Ng for
her new role with Major League Baseball (Senior Vice President for Baseball
Operations). She'll report to former
Yankees and Dodgers manager Joe Torre. I've
read the news reports that Kim took the job with the hopes it will help propel
her to an eventual GM job. I have had
great respect for Kim since her days with the Yankees, and I am hopeful that
she does become the first woman GM in baseball.
Northwest Asian Weekly
I can't help it but I am definitely pulling for the Los
Angeles Dodgers this year as my favorite NL team. Go Donnie Baseball!
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Laparoscopic Occlusion of Uterine Vessels Compared to Uterine Fibroid Embolization for Treatment of Uterine Fibroids
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00277680
Recruitment Status : Unknown
Verified January 2006 by Oslo University Hospital.
Recruitment status was: Active, not recruiting
First Posted : January 16, 2006
Last Update Posted : July 6, 2011
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|Condition or disease
|Uterine Fibroids
|Procedure: Laparoscopic bilateral occlusion of uterine artery Procedure: Radiological embolization (UFE)
|Not Applicable
Uterine fibroid embolization (UFE)has become an alternative to hysterectomy for women with symptoms of uterine fibroids.Follow up studies of this new method have reported relief of menstrual bleeding by 85-90 % of the patients six to twelve months after treatment.Other studies have suggested laparoscopic bilateral occlusion of uterine arteries as an equal effective alternative, but to our knowledge there is no randomized studies published.
Patients recruitment : Women with symptoms of uterine fibroids referred to the clinic,who express a desire to avoid hysterectomy.
Study hypothesis: Laparoscopic occlusion of uterine vessels and UFE have equal effect on bleeding symptoms.
Gynecological examination, ultrasonography and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are performed preoperatively and after 1,3 and 6 months. Clinical follow up is planned after 1,3,6,12,24,36 and 60 months.A validated bleeding chard, Pictorial Blood Assessment Chart(PBAC)is filled in by the participants during the last menstruation period before treatment and before each control. A standardized questionnaire to assess the bleeding amount,pressure symptoms, pain, adverse events, other complains and patients satisfaction is also used.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Enrollment :
|60 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|A Randomized Trial Comparing Laparoscopic Bilateral Occlusion of Uterine Vessels to Uterine Fibroid Embolization for the Treatment of Symptomatic Uterine Fibroids
|Study Start Date :
|December 2000
|Study Completion Date :
|April 2010
- Reduction of menstrual bleeding six months after treatment measured by PBAC
- Patient assessment of symptom reduction including menorrhagia and bulk symptoms
- postoperative pain
- recovering time
- complications
- failures
- recurrence
- secondary interventions
- Reduction in fibroids and uterus size measured by ultrasonography and MRI
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|30 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Menorrhagia and/or bulk symptoms associated with uterine fibroids
Exclusion Criteria:
- Malignancy
- Current or planned pregnancy
- Small submucous fibroids suitable for hysteroscopic resection
- Postmenopausal women
- Suspected or known adenomyosis
- Uterus size exceeding the umbilical level
- Contraindications against laparoscopic surgery
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00277680
|Ullevål University Hospital
|Oslo, Norway, 0407
|Study Director:
|Olav Istre, MD,PhD
|Ullevål University Hospital, Dept.of Obstetrics and Gynecology
|Principal Investigator:
|Kirsten Hald, MD
|Ullevål University Hospital, Dept of Obstetrics and Gynecology
|Study Chair:
|Nils-Einar Kløw, MD,PhD
|Ullevaal University Hospital
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|First Posted:
|January 16, 2006 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|July 6, 2011
|Last Verified:
|January 2006
uterine fibroids
Neoplasms, Muscle Tissue
Neoplasms, Connective and Soft Tissue
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Neoplasms, Connective Tissue
Connective Tissue Diseases


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