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January 13, 2014 –Today's "model" aircraft are different from what many of us remember from our childhood. Back then, model aircraft were built for collections or display and a daring few even flew them for fun. Today, they can have wingspans approaching 20 feet and run on multiple small jet engines. A new dimension to model aircraft flying is the advent of inexpensive, ready-to-fly toy or model unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) that almost anyone can purchase and fly. The technology used to control these small UAS has advanced so significantly that many are controlled by applications on smartphones or tablets.
So it makes perfect sense for the FAA's UAS Integration Office and the Academy for Model Aeronautics—the national body for model aviation for 77 years – to work together toward ensuring modelers fly their model aircraft/UAS without any risk to manned aircraft or to people and property on the ground.
On January 12, Jim Williams, head of the UAS Integration Office, and Academy of Model Aeronautics president Bob Brown signed an agreement formalizing a relationship between the FAA and AMA during the latter group's annual expo in Ontario, Calif. The FAA believes AMA's detailed safety procedures promote safe model operations and serve as an excellent resource for AMA members and other non-member model aircraft enthusiasts alike.
Under the agreement, AMA will serve as a focal point for the aero-modelling community, the hobby industry and the FAA to communicate relevant and timely safety information. The group will establish and maintain a comprehensive safety program for its members, including guidelines for emerging technologies such as model UAS. The group also agreed to foster a "positive and cooperative environment" with modelers toward the FAA and any applicable regulations.
For its part, the FAA will review and advise on the AMA safety program, using the UAS Integration Office to address any mutual issues or concerns. The agency also will educate FAA field employees about the latest aero-modelling technologies and operating standards to foster a reciprocal cooperative attitude toward the AMA.
The FAA-AMA pact is important because the 2012 FAA Reauthorization contained language specific to model aircraft. Congress mandated that the FAA cannot regulate model aircraft operated according to community-based standards developed by a national organization – a designation that AMA satisfies. Both the FAA and the aircraft modelers' group believe jointly working to ensure continued safe operation of model aircraft will comply with the congressional directive.
In a broader sense, model aircraft safety is a concern for everyone, regardless of where they fly, whether they are a traditional radio-controlled aircraft or a UAS. As Jim Williams noted in his remarks to the group, "Safe model UAS operations will help to ensure that this industry continues to grow and bring the joy of recreational or hobby flying to more people than ever before."


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First of all I'm a complete noob in Flash.
I'm sorry for that, but I'm eager to learn!
(I have Adobe Flash CS4 installed)
The File
This is the file I have troubles with:
What do I want to do?Code:http://rapidshare.com/files/205250285/22336_In.rar
I downloaded a pre-made flash intro, and all I have to do is change the text of it, but I can't find out how!
What did I try?
I'll try to explain what I did, but it's hard to explain.
When I ctrl+enter my movie, I see as first sentence in my flash intro "Creative Expression".
I want to change that to another word.
When I go to my library, I find a lot of "sprites", and one of them has different layers in a timeline. Including the text layer I guess, because when I hide this layer, the text does not show up anymore in edit-mode. When I watch in edit-mode all the text in this layer, all the text are words "Text".
BUT when I ctrl+enter, I see other words, like "Creative Expression" as text.
In the library I can also see "sprites" in the library with as content the looks of the text "Creative Expression".
But instead of "Creative Expression, the word in the "sprite" is just "Text".
So what did I do:
I changed the word "Text" to my word and ctrl+enter'ed but I still see "Creative Expression".
BUT in edit-mode I see the correct text (my text)
When I save, and export, I still see the words "Creative Expression", eventhough I changed it to my word.
What do I have to do? What do I do wrong?
I hope to read a reply that will solve this question.
I already thank you!
- microwave007

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Oral Direct Factor Xa Inhibitor Rivaroxaban in Patients With Acute Symptomatic Pulmonary Embolism - The EINSTEIN PE Study
|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: NCT00439777
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : February 26, 2007
Results First Posted : January 24, 2013
Last Update Posted : February 27, 2014
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|First Submitted Date ICMJE
|February 23, 2007
|First Posted Date ICMJE
|February 26, 2007
|Results First Submitted Date ICMJE
|November 22, 2012
|Results First Posted Date ICMJE
|January 24, 2013
|Last Update Posted Date
|February 27, 2014
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|March 2007
|Actual Primary Completion Date
|September 2011 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Current Primary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Percentage of Participants With Symptomatic Recurrent Venous Thromboembolism [VTE] (i.e. the Composite of Recurrent Deep Vein Thrombosis [DVT] or Fatal or Non-fatal Pulmonary Embolism [PE]) Until the Intended End of Study Treatment [ Time Frame: 3-, 6-, or 12-month study treatment period ]
All events were adjudicated and confirmed by a central independent adjudication committee blinded to treatment. Events were assessed based on either compression ultrasound (for DVT), venography (for DVT), spiral computed tomography (CT) scanning (for PE), pulmonary angiography (for PE), ventilation/perfusion lung scan (for PE), lung scintigraphy (for PE), autopsy (for fatal PE) or unexplained death for which DVT/PE could not be ruled out (for fatal PE), and/or case summaries.
|Original Primary Outcome Measures ICMJE
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|Change History
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|Current Other Pre-specified Outcome Measures
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|Brief Title ICMJE
|Oral Direct Factor Xa Inhibitor Rivaroxaban in Patients With Acute Symptomatic Pulmonary Embolism - The EINSTEIN PE Study
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|Oral Direct Factor Xa Inhibitor Rivaroxaban in Patients With Acute Symptomatic Deep-Vein Thrombosis or Pulmonary Embolism
|Brief Summary
|This is a multicenter, randomized, open-label, assessor-blind, event-driven, non-inferiority program for efficacy with a study treatment duration of 3, 6 or 12 months in patients with confirmed acute symptomatic pulmonary embolism (PE) with or without symptomatic Deep-Vein Thrombosis (DVT) (Einstein-PE).
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|Within the US 'Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development, L.L.C.' is sponsor.
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|Phase 3
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|Allocation: Randomized
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|Pulmonary Embolism
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|December 2011
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|Andorra, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Korea, Republic of, Latvia, Lithuania, Malaysia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Puerto Rico, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States
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|Argentina, Peru, Portugal, Slovakia
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General portal changes
- Fixed the bug with the display of the logo at the authorization and white labeling pages;
Fixed the link to the support for the Latvian language.
- Single Sign-on
- Fixed the Invalid ssoConfig error which occurred when the link to the IdP contained the question mark '?', e.g.: IdP Single Sign-On Endpoint URL: https://accounts.google.com/o/saml2/idp?idpid=777777;
- Fixed the Invalid authentication token error which prevented from adding a user to the portal using the AD FS, in case the + or - characters were present when sending the encrypted data.


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Airbus A319-100
Size isn't everything
The Airbus A319 is the smallest member of the A320 family in service with Lufthansa, measuring 33.8 meters from nose to tail. That's 3.8 meters shorter than the basic A320 model. But all the aircraft in this family have a lot of features in common. This means that pilots need only one license qualifying them to fly all of them. The design similarities cut maintenance costs too. And passengers appreciate the feeling of spaciousness when they enter the cabin after boarding any member of the A320 family.
* September 2016; ** with max. number of bookings; *** Configuration may vary


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Luca Dusty Pink 4 seat velvet sofa
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The Luca sofa is crafted using luxurious Italian velvet, made from 100% cotton, creating a truly comfortable and stylish product. With a seat depth of 65cm and three matching decorative cushions, this sofa is one you can really sink into and curl up on. Want a deeper seat? Go grande with a seat depth 80cm. This style is incredibly versatile and will compliment both contemporary and traditional spaces. The seat cushion consists of a cold foam core, wrapped in a mixture of cut polythene foam mixed with silicone ball fibers for ultimate comfort and long lasting quality. Removable covers make dry cleaning easy.
Sold exclusively in the UK by Att Pynta.
We are here to help! For more information on this product or to visit our London showroom to see the Luca sofa, email us on email@example.com. Appointments only.
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The Swedish designer Amelia Widell launched the brand MeliMeli after struggling to find the perfect sofa with a reasonable price tag. After working in the interior design field for 10 years she was able to create a range of furniture that fuses style, comfort and quality. Find out more about Amelia here
WIDTH: 260 cm
DEPTH: 100 cm
SEAT DEPTH: 65 cm
HEIGHT: 70 cm
SEAT HEIGHT: 40 cm
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Velvet is a soft and luxurious fabric. With proper care, it is a material that can last a lifetime! As velvet is sensitive to liquids, we strongly advise against cleaning the fabric with water or using a damp cloth. The back cushion and seat pad have removable covers which can be dry cleaned to remove stains. Keep your sofa looking its best by plumping the seat and back padding regularly, remove dust by hoovering with a soft brush. Dry clean only.
We only use 100% cotton velvet from Italy in our furniture range. Rub count 100,000. Cotton velvet is the most durable type of velvet and only consists of natural fibre and therefore healthier to have around the home. Velvet is delicate and can mark and change over time, this is part of the charm and characteristics of the material.
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The campus of Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and Penn State College of Medicine will conduct an emergency preparedness exercise in its main building from 10:30 a.m. to noon Tuesday, Nov. 26. The exercise is not expected to affect normal operations of the Medical Center, College of Medicine or related Penn State Hershey facilities.
As part of the exercise, alert systems such as the PSUTXT text-messaging system may be tested to help ensure functionality in a true emergency. Any test messages will be sent only to those who have valid PSUTXT accounts and have elected to receive "Hershey Alerts."
Those who do not subscribe to the PSUTXT system to receive Hershey alerts should consider doing so prior to Nov. 28, as the exercise will be a good opportunity to ensure a subscription is activated. To subscribe to PSUTXT, visit http://psutxt.psu.edu/ online and complete the subscription process. Be sure to select "Hershey Alerts" from the subscription options.


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Up to 105 dB of SNR, 24-bit stereo CODEC with PDM to PWM transmodulator DAC and embedded regulator
Altera Quartus II Software v13.0 Enables World's Fastest FPGA Designs
Delivers Industry's Highest Performance Designs in Half the Time Compared to Previous Release
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- May 6, 2013 -- Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) today announced the release of its Quartus® II software version 13.0, which delivers the highest levels of FPGA and SoC performance and designer productivity. Users targeting 28 nm FPGAs and SoCs will experience on average a 25 percent reduction in compile times. The most difficult-to-close designs targeting high-end 28 nm Stratix® V FPGAs will see compilation times slashed by 50 percent on average compared to the previous software release. Quartus II software v13.0 enables designs targeting Stratix V FPGAs to achieve the fastest Fmax of any FPGA in the industry with a two speed-grade advantage over the nearest competitor.
The release also includes enhancements to the development suite's high-level C-based, system-/IP-based, and model-based design flows:
- SDK for OpenCL opens the world of massively-parallel FPGA-based accelerators to software programmers without FPGA experience. The OpenCL parallel programming model delivers the fastest path from code-to-hardware implementation. Software programmers targeting FPGAs achieve higher performance at significantly lower power compared to alternative hardware architectures. See today's press release for more information on the SDK for OpenCL and for more information on Altera's newly announced Preferred Board Partner Program for OpenCL.
- Qsys system integration tool provides expanded support for ARM®-based Cyclone® V SoCs. Now Qsys can generate industry-standard AMBA® AHB and APB bus interfaces in the FPGA fabric. Further, these interfaces comply with ARM's TrustZone® requirements, allowing customers to partition an entire SoC-FPGA-based system between a secure world for critical system resources and a non-secure world for everything else.
- DSP Builder design tool enables system developers to effectively implement high-performance fixed- and floating-point algorithms into their DSP designs. New features include additional math.h functions with enhanced precision and rounding parameterization, parameterizable FFT blocks for fixed- and floating-point FFTs, more efficient folding capability and improved resource sharing.
For additional information about the features offered in Quartus II software v13.0, visit Altera's What's New in Quartus II Software web page.
Pricing and Availability
Both the Subscription Edition and the free Web Edition of Quartus II software v13.0 are now available for download. Altera's software subscription program makes it easy to obtain Altera design software by consolidating software products and maintenance charges into one annual subscription payment. Subscribers receive Quartus II software, the ModelSim®-Altera Starter edition, and a full license to the IP Base Suite, which includes Altera's most popular IP (DSP and memory) cores. The annual software subscription is $2,995 for a node-locked PC license and is available for purchase at Altera's eStore. The Altera SDK for OpenCL is currently available as a separate download on Altera's website. The annual software subscription for the SDK for OpenCL is $995 for a node-locked PC license.
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What's in a name?
By giving tumors their right names, scientists gain power over them
Robert Dorit http://www.americanscientist.org/template/AssetDetail/assetid/54776?&print=yes
Pity taxonomy. When it is not being mistaken for the craft of making dead things look alive, the science of naming things seems, in this age of scientific razzle-dazzle, hopelessly old-fashioned.
And yet the act of naming is, in many ways, the fundamental task of our intellect. The world, as William James suggested, appears "a blooming, buzzing confusion." As scientists, our ability to parse that confusionto group objects into meaningful categories and give those categories namesis both the prerequisite to and the culmination of our understanding of the world. The way we name things, however, inevitably affects how we perceive those things.
Nowhere is the importance of naming more obvious than in the ways we describe breast cancer, a disease that evokes faint anxiety every time its name is uttered. Descriptions of this disease go back 3,000 years; over the past 30 years, it has become one of the most intensively studied diseases, not to mention the focus of promotional and educational campaigns. Yet despite this long history and our relentless scrutiny, we are not yet sure what "breast cancer" is, or even whether it is a single disease. The more we learn of this condition and its underlying mechanisms, the more complex and multifaceted this disease appears: We are making progress in our understanding of this disease, but sometimes the very name impedes us.
Identity Crisis
So what makes breast cancer "breast cancer"? Part of the answer surely is, to borrow the realtor's mantra, location, location, location. Breast cancer describes tumors that, in both men and women, occur in breast tissue. But is that enough to give all tumors of the breast the same name? Their occurrence in the same part of the body may indeed reflect a deeper underlying similarity, a lifelong and irreversible identity shaped by the neighborhood in which the tumor cells grew up. But location could instead be a superficial similarityan address that groups together unrelated conditions and obscures connections to tumors in other parts of the body. And the riddle deepens.
The progenitor cell of a breast tumor may have once been a well-defined cell in the lining of a milk duct. At that point, the progenitor cell would have been keenly aware of its location in space, of its age, of its identity and responsibilities as a duct cell. But cells that begin to grow uncontrollably, as they do in a tumor, lose their bearings, shun their roots and even appear to move back in time, undoing the process of differentiation that made them what they are. A pathologist scrutinizing cells from a biopsy looks for those cells that have lost their way, that have forgotten what they are. So what are we to call these tumor cells that are in the breast but no longer of the breast?
Perhaps the answer consists in not being fooled by looks, but instead in attending to some prominent feature of cellular behavior. Yet behavior, too, may be misleading. Much of the biology and epidemiology of breast cancer can be understood by focusing on the interaction between breast tumors and a single circulating hormone: estrogen. Estrogen is a powerful message for cells, prompting those who heed it to divide. The increased risk of breast cancer associated with obesity in post-menopausal women reflects the ability of fat tissue to produce estrogen, increasing a woman's lifetime exposure to estrogen. The protective effect of early childbearing and extended breastfeeding on breast cancer risk stems from the suppression of ovulation and the consequent reduction in lifetime estrogen exposure. Even one of the best bits of recent news in this field, the eight percent decline in breast cancer incidence seen in the United States in 2003, is connected to the decline in hormone-replacement therapy (which includes estrogen) as a treatment for menopausal symptoms. Given all of this, surely estrogen sensitivity is the hallmark of breast cancer, the one empirical feature that unites all breast tumors?
Surprisingly, no. A third of breast tumors turn out to be deaf to estrogen, having lost the ability to make and position estrogen receptors (ERs) on the surfaces of their cells. These ER-negative tumors may not be able to hear the command of estrogen to divide, but unfortunately they miss the meaning of declining estrogen levels: stop dividing. As a result, these tumors are more dangerous than their attuned counterpartsfaster spreading, harder to treat, more likely to recur. Based on functional criteria, ER-negative tumors may well deserve their own separate name. By the same token, many ovarian tumors are keenly sensitive to levels of circulating estrogen, accounting for the frequent co-occurrence of ovarian and breast tumors in certain patient populations. Do all estrogen-responsive tumors deserve their own label too, regardless of what piece of human real estate they despoil?
Molecular Choir
In the end, our ability to name diseases properly may depend on our getting to know them better, or on looking beneath surface appearances for deeper understanding. Virtually every human cell carries within it the entire human genome, 30,000 different instructions for the manufacture of 100,000 proteins. At any point in space and time, some instructions must be sung out loud, others left silent. The identity, location and function of every cell in our body depend on the correct interpretation and interplay of those musical fragments. At this scale, healthy cell behavior depends on a well-rehearsed and synchronized molecular chorus. Conversely, every genetic disease reflects a rogue element in the choir, a disturbance in the careful interpretation of biological information. Cancer is no exception.
We have known for a century that cancer must involve a deep disturbance in the mechanisms that regulate cell growth, cell division and cell identity. But until recently, we were not in a position to ask intimate questions of the 30,000 molecular singers on the cellular stage: Who is singing off-key? Who is coming in too soon or too late? Now, thanks to technology developed in conjunction with the Human Genome Project, we can look at what each gene is doing in the cell at any point in time. More precisely, we can look at how loudly each of the 30,000 genetic instructions is being sung at any point in time. With this technology, we can also ask the question we have been hinting at from the outset: Are all breast cancers the same and hence deserving of the same name?
At the genomic scale, every breast cancer examined shows a large subset of genes being read differently than they would be in normal breast cells. Some genes are read too loudly ("overexpressed"), others too quietly ("underexpressed"), and it is the noise of these undisciplined molecular voices that results in breast tumors. But are all breast tumors reading the same, albeit incorrect, score? The answer is an unequivocal no, which perhaps should not surprise us. A condition that is characterized by a malfunction of the delicate processes that regulate cell growth and division is not likely to result from the same, single cause in every case.
The tragic reality of our lives is that there will always be many more ways of screwing things up than there will be of getting them right, and this axiom holds true of biological systems as well. Breast cancer turns out to be a heterogeneous collection of molecular miscues. Hidden beneath the apparent similarity of all breast cancers lie many corrupt musical scores. What once seemed to us a single illness with a similar set of underlying causes has been transformed into multiple discordant conditions. Choruses of genes that carry the tune in normal cells blare in certain breast tumors but only whisper in others. What seemed simple suddenly appears hopelessly complicated.
Variations and a Theme
Yet hopelessly complicated is not the same as chaotic. As more and more breast tumors are scrutinized at this level of detail, new patterns have emerged. Our worst fearthat every tumor would be unique, precluding an overall understanding of breast tumorshas not been realized. There are ways of grouping breast tumors based on the study of their molecular voices, and the resulting number of tumor classes, in the range of 5 to 10, has remained manageable. But what is most important is not that each class of breast cancer deserves its own name. What matters is that these detailed portraits of breast tumors have profound implications for diagnosis and treatment. These categories provide starting points for the development of specific therapies tailored to newly revealed types of "breast cancer." These classes respond differently to chemotherapy and to radiation. They have different probabilities of recurrence, remission and metastasis. Distinguishing them is hardly hair-splitting; these differences matter to all involved.
We are witnessing a radical shift in our approach to illness: away from symptoms and toward diagnoses based on cause and mechanism. For many complex diseases, the perception of one monolithic condition with a single name based on symptoms will likely give way to more nuanced, mechanism-based nomenclatures. What we call an illness is not just a matter of semantics. Everythingdiagnosis, treatment, research, funding and ultimately prevention and curerides on getting the name right.
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In a recent BBH Labs post (Wind Tunnel Marketing, The Sequel: On the Need for Divergent Insight) that talked about the need for divergent thinking and stimulus in approaching problem solving (& creative ideation), Chaz Wigley, the Chairman of BBH in Asia Pacific, mentioned how the CIA's (I've always wanted to link to the CIA) Problem Definition Checklist provoked precisely this kind of approach; rounded, many-faceted, flexible.
These questions are known as "context-free questions" and are designed "to encourage agents to look at a challenge from many different angles. Using Phoenix is like holding your challenge in your hand. You can turn it, look at it from underneath, see it from one view, hold it up to another position, imagine solutions, and really be in control of it" (see the excellent, if chewy, paper on Exploring Exploratory Testing, for more here).
We now have from Chaz not only the list of questions the CIA use to define problems, but also (thanks to Iqbal Mohammed) the follow-up list they use to develop the plan. Which seems kind of important too.
My personal favourite question in the problem definition list is the somewhat open-ended: 'what isn't the problem?'.
Why is it necessary to solve the problem?
What benefits will you receive by solving the problem?
What is the unknown?
What is it you don't yet understand?
What is the information you have?
What isn't the problem?
Is the information sufficient? Or is it insufficient? Or redundant? Or contradictory?
Should you draw a diagram of the problem? A figure?
Where are the boundaries of the problem?
Can you separate the various parts of the problem? Can you write them down? What are the relationships of the parts of the problem? What are the constants of the problem?
Have you seen this problem before?
Have you seen this problem in a slightly different form? Do you know a related problem?
Try to think of a familiar problem having the same or a similar unknown
Suppose you find a problem related to yours that has already been solved. Can you use it? Can you use its method?
Can you restate your problem? How many different ways can you restate it? More general? More specific? Can the rules be changed?
What are the best, worst and most probable cases you can imagine?
Can you solve the whole problem? Part of the problem?
What would you like the resolution to be? Can you picture it?
How much of the unknown can you determine?
Can you derive something useful from the information you have?
Have you used all the information?
Have you taken into account all essential notions in the problem?
Can you separate the steps in the problem-solving process? Can you determine the correctness of each step?
What creative thinking techniques can you use to generate ideas? How many different techniques?
Can you see the result? How many different kinds of results can you see?
How many different ways have you tried to solve the problem?
What have others done?
Can you intuit the solution? Can you check the result?
What should be done? How should it be done?
Where should it be done?
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Cue bombchickabowbow porn music. Turn the lights down. It's time to get busy. In other words, it's ON.
And as I go south, it's suddenly, screechingly OFF. Like nine kinds of OFF.
I was sorta hoping that your body would be a wonderland. Instead, it's a toxic waste dump up in there. Are you hoarding food or insulating for a hard winter?
Check your nooks and crannies, people. Smelly belly button crud is a definite downer, and will probably ensure that I'm not going to be traveling down your yummy trail.
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Tuesday, July 19, 2011
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The next generation of actors, dancers, musicians and artists will take the stage Saturday at Youth ArtsFest 2012 during the Arts Center of Coastal Carolina's annual showcase of local kid talent.
The stage will be turned over to the youngsters from noon till 4 p.m. The festival will include variety show-style performances, mini-art workshops and a youth art exhibition.
"A good portion of our Youth ArtsFest audience is parents and grandparents who love to come and see their kids grow as budding performers and artists," said Arts Center president and CEO Kathleen Bateson. "But this is a great event for the entire community, because these young performers are really talented."
Performing groups from Red Cedar, Bluffton and Pritchardville Elementary schools, as well as the Bluffton School of Dance, are among the groups scheduled to perform.
The festival is free and open to the public. Food and beverages will be available for purchase. For information, call 843-686-3945, Ext. 233.


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Annual Fund Exceeds Goal
POSTED ON: July 18, 2012
Giving to the Annual Fund rose 41 percent for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2012. "At $3.1 million, we have exceeded the $2.5 million goal," announced Derek Wittner, Vice President for Alumni Affairs and Development. The Cooper Union received a total $9.7 million in fiscal 2012, including the Annual Fund gifts.
"We are truly fostering a culture of philanthropy, and we are grateful to the alumni, parents, students and friends who have given so generously," said President Jamshed Bharucha. "I particularly want to thank the Development team, including our new Annual Fund Director Joseph McDonald, as well as the Board of Trustees and volunteers, on their success in increasing participation so significantly."
The alumni participation rate rose 3 points to 25 percent, an increase of 15 percent over the previous year, generating $2.2 million of the $3.1 million total.
The parent participation rate rose 7 points to 36 percent, an increase of 24 percent over the previous year, generating $360,000.
The student participation rate was 69 percent with more than 90 percent of the senior class taking part. Dollars were up dramatically by 360 percent to $25,600.
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MovingPictureHire necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 77 diseños de 27 diseñadores freelance.
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Moving Picture Hire provides effective solutions for smooth camera moves for your production. Lightweight and affordable equipment that is quick and simple to set up and will give your film BAFTA and EMMY class shots.
Our equipment has been used on the likes of BBC's 'Planet Earth' and the upcoming sequel 'Human Planet' and over 20 more films and big TV series. Be sure to look out for our equipment in the 'making-of's - and in the future, your logo could also been featured on these world class, world famous hits.
The company has been founded by award winning cameraman Gavin Thurston (http://www.gavinthurston.com) and is run by him and his family.
Professionals aged 20+ in the film and TV industry.
Everything below is just a guide! If you've got an idea in your head - just submit it! None of the points below are 'rules'. Be creative and have fun.
We want a logo with 'MPH' on / integrated, as well as 'Moving Picture Hire Ltd' below or to the side.
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- Get ideas and see our equipment at http://www.movingpicturehire.com (PLEASE NOTE THE WEBSITE IS OLD AND WE DON'T LIKE THE DESIGN! THANKS!)
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Thanks in advance for submissions - I will give feedback on them all!
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Syrian rebels have seized a convoy of U.N. peacekeepers near the Golan Heights and say they will hold them captive until President Bashar al-Assad's forces pull back from a rebel-held village which has seen heavy recent fighting.
The capture was announced in rebel videos posted on the Internet and confirmed on Wednesday by the United Nations in New York, which said about 20 peacekeepers had been detained.
The seizure is the most direct threat to U.N. personnel in the nearly two-year-old uprising against Assad and Human Rights Watch said it was investigating the same brigade for past executions.
It came on the day that Britain said it would increase aid to the opposition forces and the Arab League gave a green light to member states to arm the rebels.
The regional Arab body also invited the opposition Syrian coalition to take Syria's seat at a League meeting in Doha later this month. Syria was suspended in November 2011 in response to its crackdown on protests which since spiralled into civil war.
The peacekeepers of the UNDOF mission have been monitoring a ceasefire line between Syria and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, captured by the Jewish state in a 1967 war, for nearly four decades.
Israel has warned that it will not "stand idle" as Syria's civil war spills over into the Golan region.
The United Nations in New York said its peacekeepers had been detained by around 30 fighters in the Golan Heights.
"The U.N. observers were on a regular supply mission and were stopped near Observation Post 58, which had sustained damage and was evacuated this past weekend following heavy combat in close proximity at Al Jamla," it said, referring to a village which saw fierce confrontations on Sunday.
It did not say the nationality of the observers but the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group which is in contact with the rebel brigade said they were Filipino.
In one rebel video, a young man saying he was from the "Martyrs of Yarmouk" brigade stood surrounded by several rebel fighters with assault rifles in front of a two white armoured vehicles and a truck with "UN" markings.
"The command of the Martyrs of Yarmouk…is holding forces of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force until the withdrawal of forces of the regime of Bashar al-Assad from the outskirts of the village of Jamla," the man, who was wearing civilian clothes, said.
At least five people could be seen sitting in the vehicles wearing U.N. light blue helmets and bulletproof vests.
"If no withdrawal is made within 24 hours we will treat them as prisoners," he said, accusing them of collaborating with Assad's forces to push the rebels out of Jamla.
Nearly two years since the uprising started, rebels are distrustful of a United Nations that they say has failed to support their cause.
Earlier on Wednesday the United Nations said the number of refugees who have fled Syria had reached 1 million, part of an accelerating exodus from a conflict which is approaching its second anniversary with no prospect of an end to the bloodshed.
British Foreign Secretary William Hague, pledging support for Assad's opponents, said the civil war had reached catastrophic proportions and that international efforts to stem the violence had been an abject failure.
Senior U.S. and Russian diplomats will discuss the conflict at a meeting in London on Thursday, Russia said, the latest in a series of meetings aimed at seeking an end to the bloodshed.
But Hague said the chances of getting an immediate political solution to the crisis were slim and that diplomacy was taking too long. However, he played down the prospect of direct Western military intervention.
"If a political solution to the crisis in Syria is not found and the conflict continues, we and the rest of the European Union will have to be ready to move further, and we should not rule out any option for saving lives," he said.
A Syrian rebel leader sought to persuade European governments to lift an arms embargo for the rebels, saying any weapons provided would be accounted for and possibly returned.
Brigadier Selim Idris said in Brussels that Syrian rebels recorded the arms they received.
"The weapons are registered on lists with numbers on each weapon. We distribute those weapons. And we know precisely who has received them," he told a news conference.
At a registration centre for Syrians in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, a 19-year-old mother of two registered on Wednesday as the millionth refugee to flee her country.
"The situation is very bad for us. We can't find work," said the teenage mother, wearing a green headscarf and holding her daughter as she spoke to reporters.
"I live with 20 people in one room. We can't find any other house as it is too expensive. We want to return to Syria. We wish for the crisis to be resolved."
Syrians started trickling out of the country 23 months ago when Assad's forces shot at pro-democracy protests inspired by Arab revolts elsewhere.
The uprising has since turned into an increasingly sectarian struggle between armed rebels and government soldiers and militias. An estimated 70,000 people have been killed.
Around half the refugees are children, most of them aged under 11, and the numbers leaving are mounting every week, the United Nations refugee agency said in statement.
"With a million people in flight, millions more displaced internally, and thousands of people continuing to cross the border every day, Syria is spiralling towards full-scale disaster," U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres said in a statement.
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One girl's twistedly fantastic interpretation of what the hell is really going on in those tribes.
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Jay: Alvin, Simon, Jay
I've sat up late at night and prayed. I've done the self punishment whipping thing that the creepy monk did in The Da Vinci Code, but nothing, I tell you, nothing will keep away the Christians. They're everywhere! Invading our political races and, most importantly, our reality TV shows. Blurgh.
This brings us to 25 year old model Jay Byars. He's traveled the globe convincing perfectly happy indigenous peoples to believe in a God they've never heard of. He fancies that Bear Grylls because, hey, he's a Christian! He thinks he's most like Rupert and hates you if you have bad breath. A true Christian would keep a tin of Altoids in his pocket and hand them out selflessly to those afflicted with halitosis, but nooooo. Jay hates you fishmouth. And don't you dare try to text him more than necessary because he'll tell God on you and then sit smugly with a Bible in his lap. Roll that beautiful bean footage...
Shhh. Don't speak, precious. We don't need words. We also don't need those shorts. Here, let me take those for you. I said, "SHUT UP!" Seriously, until I get Dr. Greg to do a vocal chord rejuvenation on you and shake loose all these chipmunks following us around, mum's the word. Silence is next to godliness you know.
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- SouthernFebruary 12, 2012 at 1:44 PM
Another beautiful Southerner, albeit with a Jesse James voice, but some things we can overlook.ReplyDelete
why am i positive that somewhere in south carolina there is another man, cletis the slack jawed yokel, with the voice of antonio banderas; the result of a freaky science experiment gone terribly wrong.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 26, 2012 at 4:37 AM
What a positive outlook ...Thanks for sharing your storyReplyDelete
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Captain Becker, how do pilots navigate around the apron?
How do pilots navigate around the apron at an airport?
Just like the approach and departure charts for every airport, there are also special maps showing all the taxiways, runways, terminals and hangars for the cockpit crew to follow on the ground. There could be up to ten or more of these maps for a major airport. Before setting off, the crew goes through the route to the runway and compares it with the air traffic controller's instructions. This also happens prior to landing: the pilots discuss how they will leave the runway and get to the terminal.
Who has right of way on the apron?
At a large airport, the apron or tower controller determines which aircraft have to wait at runway junctions. Officially, vehicles coming from the right take precedence, but the controller can suspend this. As a rule, planes always go before all other vehicles, such as trucks or buses.
What is the purpose of the follow-me cars that you see on television?
At the gate, an electronic system shows the pilots exactly where they have to stop so that the gangways can be pushed up against the aircraft. If the plane is parked at a remote position, the follow-me vehicle will drive ahead and a marshaller will indicate where to park. The follow-me cars are always on stand-by to assist the pilots.
Do you always have to use maps, even if you are familiar with the airport?
Safety first! Even if you know your home airport like the back of your hand, a pilot always has to obey the signs and follow a map. Taxiing on instinct can be dangerous.


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I'm trying to figure a way for our small team to collaborate on to-do lists on projects and otherwise. We have tried Basecamp and a bunch of similar 'project management'/'collaboration' apps, but they seem to overkill for simple todo list sharing and management. We like Remember The Milk, but it is good only for individual lists.
Any ideas on a free/cheap alternative that's simple and just powerful enough to keep a small team of designers/developers productive?


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Mentor Graphics Donation of SystemVerilog Assertion (SVA) Version of Open Verification Library Accepted by Accellera
WILSONVILLE, Ore. March 30, 2005 - Mentor Graphics Corporation (Nasdaq: MENT) today announced that it has donated and received acceptance of its SystemVerilog Assertion (SVA) version of the Open Verification Library (OVL) to Accellera, the organization for electronic design industry standards. Mentor Graphics 0-In verification business unit developed the industry's first and most widely used assertion library for functional verification and is the leading supplier of assertion-based verification (ABV) tools. The donated library is designed for use with multiple verification technologies including simulation, formal verification and emulation.
"Accellera is pleased to receive this SVA donation from Mentor Graphics. Mentor's strong commitment and leadership in standards, combined with their expertise in assertions, will be invaluable to the committee going forward," stated Bryan Bullis, chairman of the OVL committee of Accellera. "This donation provides the foundation for a high quality, standards-based assertion library solution to improve the verification productivity of all design teams. The Accellera committee, combined with Mentor's commitment to work within the technical committees, will help accelerate the adoption of SystemVerilog and ABV."
The Accellera OVL committee also approved the creation of a new subcommittee for the OVL-SVA library, to be chaired by Mentor. This subcommittee will be responsible for delivering an Accellera standard library and maintain and enhance the OVL-SVA library over time.
"Assertion-based verification is rapidly becoming the standard verification methodology for many teams working on System-on-Chip (SoC) and ASIC designs," said Robert Hum, vice president and general manager Mentor Graphics Design Verification and Test division. "With Mentor Graphics' strong commitment to industry standards, it was natural for us to kick-start the standardization with a donation of an assertion library written with SystemVerilog Assertion that is consistent and compatible with the existing OVL."
About Accellera
Accellera provides design standards for quick availability and use in the electronics industry. The organization and its members cooperatively deliver much-needed EDA standards that lower the cost of designing commercial IC and EDA products. As a result of Accellera's partnership with the IEEE, Accellera standards are provided to the IEEE standards body for formalization and ongoing change control. For more information about Accellera, please visit: www.accellera.org.
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|STS096-357-003 (30 May 1999) --- Astronaut Tamara E. Jernigan, backdropped against terrain some 173 nautical miles beneath Discovery, totes part of a Russian-built crane, called Strela (a Russian word meaning "arrow"). Jernigan's feet are anchored on a mobile foot restraint connected to the shuttle's remote manipulator system (RMS). Astronauts Jernigan and Daniel T. Barry eventually spent over seven hours on the space walk.
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I have to argue a point with what I am sure is a well-meaning columnist who believes in the sanctity of family and thinks that more often than not children should be with their parents. I do as well…up to a point. What is this all about you wonder? Well, an article I read on CNN by Ruben Navarrette Jr. called "Taking Obese Child from Mom is Wrong."
Is it really? Is it really wrong to say that to a mother whose child is morbidly obese, weighing more than 200 pounds at 8 years old? Well, according to Ruben it is, because he feels that the child protective agency (CPS) overstepped their bounds. They should have done some other form of intervention besides placing the kid in foster care.
But, Ruben and all who may be reading, there is a problem with what that line of thought. He admitted in his article that the state gave this "mom" a full year to get her ass in gear to start feeding her kid with some sense. They gave her the tools such as pediatric input on what and how to feed her child appropriately and instead of following the guidelines SHE MADE THE CHOICE to continue his 4,000 calorie a day junky, eat what you damn well please, garbage can lifestyle.
How the hell is this not abuse? It tells me that she didn't care enough for the life of her child when the doctors and everyone else informed her of the life threatening issues that were imminent if she failed to help him. And she did just that, FAILED to help him by choosing to continue allowing him this garbage in system she created.
No one would have a problem if this mom were consistently feeding her kid a meager sustenance of 400 calories a day and doctors called CPS and alerted them that a kid was being starved and that health concerns were imminent. But CPS was called when in this case when the "mom" took her son to the emergency room with trouble breathing. That should have told the dingbat that he had some serious issues coming down the road. Wouldn't Ruben and everyone else say that the mom was neglectful for not allowing her child to eat healthy?
So, why is it okay for this fool to abuse food just as the starvation mom abuses food, to harm her child? Whether you starve them or stuff them, you are doing something with food that has dire medical consequences for the child, all of which are bad with some being particularly life threatening. We are not talking about a case of a couple snack cakes here and there or a cookie before dinner. We are all guilty of that or something similar. Hell, we are talking about a lady who allowed her kid to eat 4,000 calories of food in a day.
Does anyone know what it takes to eat 4,000 calories a day? Most athletes don't eat that much, save for the swimmer Michael Phelps. And look how he exercises. She was negligent just as much as the starvation mom. She needed her kid taken so that he may have a chance at health. And she still has a chance to get herself together enough to learn the proper way to feed children, herself and her family.
Let's stop looking the other way on things like this. He would be up in arms if the story wasn't about the boy being taken for obesity, but being the youngest kid to die of a heart attack due to obesity. No one would say, it was no one's fault that an 8 year old died due to his cholesterol filled arteries. We all would be beside ourselves with disgust as we all should be now. And allowing anyone to blame it on ignorance is just plain ignorant. There comes a point in time when all of us know that eating ten big macs a week just isn't a good thing. Consuming two boxes of cereal every morning is ridiculous.
So Ruben's attempt at sympathy for a stupid mother isn't going to fly in my book. Just as sympathy for a stupid mother who didn't realize that reusing dirty diapers was a bio-hazard that would cause flaming diaper rash, or the stupid mother who didn't think that playing video games instead of feeding her kids was a big problem, would be unthinkable. So should sympathy for this unfit, unhealthy, unthinkably dumb mother.


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By Teachers, For Teachers
Just because you're showing a movie before the end of term doesn't mean you are abandoning learning.
Here are a few ways to get the most educational value out of holiday favorites.
Use Rudolph to create a lesson about being different and special. Have students write down what makes them special (either adjectives for younger students or essays for older students) and share in group. Rudolph is a great tie in to teaching tolerance and anti-bullying messages.
Buddy becomes an author, so why can't they? Students can try to write holiday-inspired stories.
For social studies, Elf demonstrates the culture clash that can take place between people from different homelands. Buddy only knows the life of an elf, with their rules and their clothes and their main professions. When he comes to America, he struggles to fit in. When have your students traveled somewhere where they felt out of place?
A Science-lovers dream. He uses all kind of simple machines and scientific principles to outsmart the bad guys, including using the conductivity of the door handle to burn their hands, a pendulum to propel paint cans and gravity, gravity, gravity.
There's also a geography connection because the family is in Paris. Where is Paris? How far is it from their home? What are ways the mom can take to travel there?
Scrooge loves his money. What a great tie in to counting and even economic principals? Why do some people have lots of money and some people have very little?
The three ghosts also demonstrate the concept of past, present and future tense in a concrete way.
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Most students know the general storyline for their favorite holiday shows. Watching holiday favorites in another language can help to bridge the gap for beginning language learners.
Share your favorite movies to share in class and how you work them into the curriculum in the comments section!


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|Biosequences .. Software .. Molbio soft .. Network News .. FTP
MARIAMMA MAMMEN 52 Thorncliffe Park Drive, Apt. 308 Toronto, Ontario M4H 1K5 e-mail: bcgeorge at interlog.com ____________________________________________________________________________ ________ Career Interest: Research and Development in Plant Biochemistry and Plant Molecular Biology Education: Ph.D. Department of Plant Sciences, Madurai Kamaraj University, India. Submitted October 1994 Awarded Nov. 1996 Thesis Title: Stress Tolerance in Photosynthetic Systems; Its Biology and Mechanisms. Advisor : Dr. A. Gnanam Master of Science in Bio-Chemistry Apr. 1988, University of Madras, India. Bachelor of Science in Bio-Chemistry Apr. 1986, University of Madras, India. Special Training: Demonstrated and Conducted experiments in Plant Molecular Biology as a team member for the Short term training course on Structure, Function and Molecular Biology of Chloroplasts, organized by the School of Biological Sciences, Madurai Kamaraj University, India in May 1991. Participated in the short course on Methods in Plant Molecular Biology, organized by International centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, New Delhi, India in Aug. 1989. Fellowship Awards: Senior Research Fellowship awarded by University Grants Commission, India, Mar. 1993- Feb. 1995 Junior Research Fellowship awarded by University Grants Commission, India, Mar. 1990- Feb. 1993 Junior Research Fellowship awarded by USDA for the PL480 Phase II project, Nov. 1988- Feb. 1990 Technical Skills: Isolation and Purification of total DNA and chloroplast DNA from plants, isolation of plasmid DNA, agarose gel electrophoresis, restriction analysis, Radioactive labeling of DNA, Southern Hybridization analysis, Isolation and Purification of plant proteins, SDS - Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, invitro translation, Western Blot analysis, Isolation of total RNA from plants, purification of mRNA, oligodT cellulose column chromatography, alkaline and formaldehyde gel electrophoresis, isolation of intact chloroplast, Sucrose and Percoll density gradient centrifugation, gel filtration, invitro protein synthesis, cell culture, transformation of plants using A.tumefaciens and invitro propagation of plants. Publications : 1. Mariamma M, Muthukumar B, Veluthambi K. and Gnanam A. (1997) Effects of high temperature stress on the expression of low molecular weight heat proteins in rice leaves. J.Plant Physiol. 151:763-765. 2. Mariamma M, Muthukumar B. and Gnanam A. (1997) Thermotolerance and effect of heat shock on the stability of the ATPase enzyme in rice. J.Plant Physiol. 150:739-742 3. Muthukumar B, Mariamma M, Veluthambi K. and Gnanam A. (1996) Genetic transformation of cotyledon explants of cowpea (Vigna unguiculata Walp) using A. tumefaciens. Plant Cell Reports 15(12) : 980-985. 4. Muthukumar B, Mariamma M, and Gnanam A. (1995) Regeneration of plants from primary leaves of cowpea. PCTOC 42(2) : 153-155. 5. Gnanam A, Muthukumar B, Mariamma M and Veluthambi K (1995) Genetic transformation of cowpea by A. tumefaciens using cotyledons as explants, Vol.III Proceedings of the Xth International Photosynthesis Congress (FRANCE) 24-25. 6. Muthukumar B, Mariamma M and Gnanam A. (1996) Agrobacterium mediated transformation and regeneration of transgenic plants from epicotyl explants of cowpea. Manuscript submitted. 7. Muthukumar B, Mariamma M, Gnanam A. (1999) Regeneration of plants from nodal explants of cowpea. Manuscript submitted. Research Work: Elevated soil temperature constitute a major limitation to successful crop production of tropical plants such as rice, which is an important crop. The objective of this study was to characterize the heat shock response in rice leaves concentrating on the expression of heat shock genes at the level of translation in particular. Characterization of the heat shock response in rice leaves under various conditions was followed. Rapid decline in cell viability and loss in the plasma membrane activity were observed in rice leaves subjected to rapid heat shock. In contrast, rice leaves pretreated at a mild heat shock induced tolerance to survive better at higher temperature and the activity of the plasma membrane also was not much affected. The HSP enriched fraction from rice was found to be very effective in protecting the plasma membrane from the direct effects of heat . The stability of the plasma membrane bound Mg2+ - K+ ATPase in rice was found to be proportional to the amount of post-ribosomal HSP fraction added. Gradual exposure to a high temperature elicited a comparatively better response than the application of a sudden heat shock and heat shock proteins were found to be synthesized even at a very high temperature of 45°C after a preincubation at a slightly lower temperature of 42.5°C which was not possible upon a sudden heat shock. The decline in the synthesis of HSPs in rice leaves was not co-ordinate. Low molecular weight HSPs and their mRNAs were more stable and have a higher half life than that in the high molecularweight range. Antibiotic studies indicated that the HSPs in rice are synthesized on cytoplasmic ribosomes and not in the organelles and heavy metals like Arsenite and Cadmium were found to mimic the heat shock response in rice leaves. Etiolated rice leaves also synthesized HSPs in a temperature dependent manner as in green leaves. Homologous genes and their transcripts to pea and soybean low molecular weight HSPs were identified in rice by Southern and Northern analysis. Cross reaction of rice HSPs were observed with pea low molecular weight antibodies on Western analysis. Homologues to pea Class I Low molecular weight HSP and the pea chloroplast localized low molecular weight HSP were identified in rice leaves. Additional Research Interest: Regeneration and Transformation studies in legumes. Helped in the establishment of regeneration protocols for regeneration of cowpea, rice and peanut from different explants and in the successful transformation of cowpea and peanut.


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It is subjected to sudden rotations of small degrees whenever the vehicle accelerates, decelerates, banks or rides a bump. The swing arm system is however prone to environmental ingress which rusts the metal spacer, needs frequent bush replacement and causes stiff movement of the swing arm when the shocks are loaded.
The manufacturing and assembly is also tricky as it calls to ensure good concentricity between mating parts. Also there is a problem of axial floating which causes some wear on the parts with bushing solutions which is commonly used in most of motorcycles of older generation.


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South Korean electronics giant to invest 25 trillion won
SUWON, South Korea – One of the world's largest electronics conglomerates has put aside $22 billion (25 trillion won) to spend on artificial intelligence over the coming three years.
The announcement hit the wires on Wednesday.
Samsung Electronics, South Korea's biggest company and a multi-national that has spread its wings across the globe has set out an ambitious three year business plan which will see a much broader investment in AI, and expansion into other businesses.
The strategy comes in the wake of the release of the company's Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong from prison, where he served a little less than a year.
Samsung plans on expanding its AI research sector, with the recruitment of another 1,000 research personnel. Samsung now operates 5 AI Global Centers, three of which opened in May – in Cambridge in the UK, Toronto (Canada) and Moscow (Russia). The first AI center opened in Silicon Valley in November last year, and the second in Seoul, the South Korean capital in January this year.
"Samsung expects innovations powered by AI technology will drive the industry's transformation, while the next-generation 5G telecommunications technology will create new opportunities in autonomous driving, the Internet of Things (IoT) and robotics," the Suwon, South Korea-headquartered company said in a statement issued on Wednesday.
"Samsung has seen strong growth from both its contract manufacturing and biosimilar businesses. It will continue to invest heavily in the businesses, including developing and manufacturing biosimilars," the statement added.
Aside from the $22 billion Samsung said it had budgeted to spend another $139 billion on research and development and capex.
The company said it intends creating an additional 20,000 jobs over the next 3 years, taking the total new jobs company-wide to 40,000.
The flow-on effect in other industries and business will mean an additional 700,000 for the South Korean economy, the company said,


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Microsoft and Yahoo are still negotiating. Price talk is said to be in the "mid-$30s range". Given that two days ago the bid/ask was $33-$37, this likely means $34-$35. The New York Times says the odds of reaching a deal are still no better than 50-50.
*UPDATE: The WSJ confirmed our earlier assumption: Microsoft has been silent because Microsoft and Yahoo are now negotiating seriously about consummating a friendly deal. Microsoft has raised its bid "by several dollars."
According to the WSJ, a "deal was not imminent and the people familiar with the matter said an agreement was not likely on Friday. The people cautioned that the talks could fail to produce an accord."
The NYT adds that Microsoft has increased its price by "several dollars". Yahoo's stock, which has been climbing all day, has now spiked.
EARLIER: Some folks seem to be under the impression that Microsoft (MSFT) is having trouble making up its mind about what to do about Yahoo (YHOO) and that that's why we haven't heard anything.
The silence suggests that two companies are negotiating furiously behind the scenes. The fact that CNBC's David Faber was able to report this morning that we won't hear anything until the weekend (if then) suggests that the companies have found–or are close to finding–common ground.
In fact, the longer the silence lasts, the more likely we are to get a deal. The companies are very close–$33 and $37, per the Journal–so a deal seems likely even without serious negotiations. But at this point, if there were any true deal-killers on either side, Microsoft already would have walked (or gone hostile or whatever).
See Also: Now Microsoft "Leaning Hostile" (But Doesn't Reject $35-$37 Price)
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Derek Mears, your current "Jason Voorhees", joins the cast of Robert Rodriguez's "Predators". Which makes sense, because he's just about the most terrifying human being I've ever seen. In real life that is, not so much in "Friday the 13th".
Paramount is Throwing 10 parties to celebrate this weekend's success of "Paranormal Activity". Find out how you can attend at the link.
Check out these early images from John Carpenter's big screen return "The Ward".
Scott Derrickson, director of "The Exorcism of Emily Rose", has signed on to direct the supernatural thriller "The Living".
Follow me on this one. A script that's been floating around called "Nightcrawlers", has officially gotten a director in Mike Mitchell. It also has a new name... "Monster Squad". Apparently the horror/comedy is being turned into a psuedo/not really remake of Fred Dekker's 80's classic. Here's more info.


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LITTLE ROCK — Personal information about persons seeking or holding a concealed-carry handgun permit in Arkansas would be shielded from the public under legislation filed Monday.
Also filed was a bill that would reduce the grocery tax from 1 1/2 cents to one-eighth of a cent per dollar spent, and a proposed constitutional amendment that would require a supermajority vote of the Legislature to increase the state sales tax.
Senate Bill 131 by Sen. Bruce Holland, R-Greenwood, would exempt the names and zip codes of applicants for, or past and current holders of, a concealed-carry handgun permit from disclosure under the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act.
"I've received some feed back from constituents who didn't want that to happen in Arkansas like it happened in New York recently," Holland told a reporter Monday.
He was referring an incident in which a suburban New York newspaper published the names and addresses of concealed-carry permit holders in two New York counties after the school shootings in Newtown, Conn.
Legislation similar to Holland's have been filed in Montana and elsewhere since the incident.
The bill would establish a legislative policy that release of such records to the general public would be an unwarranted invasion of privacy and would threaten the safety and property of the persons identified.
The measure would become effective immediately upon the governor's signature, if Beebe neither approved nor vetoed it or when a gubernatorial veto is overridden by the last chamber of the Legislature that votes to void a gubernatorial veto.
Tom Larimer, president of the Arkansas Press Association, said he was not surprised that such a measure would surface in light of the nationwide debate on gun issues.
"We went through this a couple of sessions ago and I thought we had pretty well ironed this out. We compromised by leaving the names and zip codes accessible," Larimer said.
Addresses, phone numbers, "commonsense" things that should be left out anyway were not included, "but there needs to be some sort of accountability … to determine who's got (gun permits) and the number of them," he said. "At first blush, I'd say we'll be up there speaking against this bill."
Also Monday, Sen. Jason Rapert, R-Conway, filed SB 135, which would reduce the sales tax on groceries from 1 1/2 cents to one-eighth of a cent per dollar spent. Gov. Mike Beebe, mentioned the tax cut in his state-of-the-state address and supports Rapert's bill. Rep. Darrin Williams, R-Little Rock, will be lead sponsor.
"This is an opportunity where we can come together and do something that we feel is in the best interest of the people of Arkansas," Rapert said.
The reduction would be triggered when certain budget obligations, including desegregation payments to three Pulaski County school districts and payments on certain bonds, decline by at least $35 million for six consecutive months.
Rapert also filed Senate Joint Resolution 4, the proposed Taxpayer Protection Amendment.
Raising the sales tax requires only a simple majority. Rapert's proposal raise the requirement to a three-fourths vote of both chambers of the Legislature — 75 votes in the 100-member House and 28 votes in the 35-member Senate.
The change would make the sales tax increase vote requirement the same as for all other major taxes in effect prior to enactment of the sales tax in 1934, including personal and corporate income taxes, motor fuel and diesel taxes, tobacco taxes, the severance tax and beer tax.
"Every other tax increase requires a three-quarters vote of the House and Senate and I believe that the tax that affects the most people in Arkansas ought to have that same standard," Rapert said.
SJR 4 would not affect the method for approval of city and county sales taxes.
Approval by the Legislature would put the proposed constitutional amendment on the November 2014 general election ballot. If approved by voters, it would go into effect Jan. 1, 2015.


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|Files installation instructions
If you don't know how to install and use our creation.. no problem! Here you can find the complete instructions!
Installing custom content
There are several ways to install custom content in The Sims 2, it depends on the kind of files you download. Sims2pack files, like Sims, lots and often walls and floors, are self-installing and you just need to double-click in order to install them. But let's see what to do with different files types.
What to do with .zip or .rar files, that is, .package files
If you download custom content for The Sims 2 in .package format, the installation procedure is very simple.
WARNING: .package files for The Sims 2 cannot be used in The Sims 3 and vice-versa. They're different formats and are uncompatible.
.Package files must be installed in the Downloads folder, within the saves folder in your Documents. Usually, this folder doesn't exist. If you don't have it, follow these instructions on how to create it.
What to do with .sims2pack files
.Sims2Pack is a file extension that identifies files usable with The Sims 2, usually for custom content to add in the game. You can recognize it from its icon or reading the final part of the file name, that is the .Sims2Pack format. If you can't see your files' extensions, you can easily enable them reading these instructions.
It's the game's native format to read custom content. Usually, files extracted from the game are in this format, so we mean files exported with proper tools and not modified by third parties, like Sims, lots and often walls, floors and terrains.
There are different ways to install these files, the simplest one is double-clicking.
I don't have the Downloads folder. What can I do?
It's normal. As written in the glossary, the Downloads folder does not exist when you install the game.
Enabling custom content in the game
If once you've followed the above procedure, you still can't see the custom content, try to check if your custom content is enabled. You can see it in the Options panel in the game, in a window like the one below. If the option is set to Off, change it and restart the game.
My downloads don't show up. What can I do?
How to see a file's extension
If you can't see your files' extension, such as .rar, .package, .sims2pack, try to follow these steps:
Scroll down in the window until you see the option called Hide extensions for known file types, then uncheck it.
Now in the folder you have to change the display options like the picture below:
By choosing Details, the content of the Downloads folder will appear like this:
In the Type column you have Package Files, and you can see the .package extension even in the Name column. These files don't have a proper icon, and if you double-click on it, you'll get something like this:
This is normal. Don't worry, you don't have to open .package files, just put them in your Downloads folder. The game will read them autonomously.
Make sure to have the _EnableColorOptionGMND.package file, it's the file that shows you have the CEP installed. It must be placed in this folder (Downloads), NOT in subfolders.
If you have SimPE installed, you'll see your files like in the pictures below, that is, associated with SimPE. It will allow you to open them, which is not necessary for them to show up in the game.
GLOSSARY. Terms used
Is Winrar a pay utility? What happens when the demo expires? Should I install both Winrar and Winzip?
Both Winzip and Winrar are shareware softwares. This means you'll have a trial period after which their functions may be limited or may not work anymore or also, they may need more clicks to work. Most of the sharewares stop working or have less features.
Winzip can be downloaded here: http://www.winzip.com/downwz.htm (click on Dowload Evaluation)
Winrar can be downloade here: http://www.rarlab.com/download.htm
With Winzip or Winrar, none of the above will happen. Once your trial period expires, they'll keep working but you'll get a warning box asking if you want to purchase the program or proceed. Click on Proceed and the program will work just fine. That's what appears after your free trial month expires:
They're not harmful programs, don't mess with your computer and are useful to reduce your file size, archive or unarchive them. You don't need to buy them.
Winzip only handles the zip format, while Winrar handles zip, rar, cab, tar, jar, iso, ace, 7z, gz and many others. For this reason, if you download Winrar, needed for our files, you won't need Winzip. Winrar can open zip files, but Winzip can't open rar files.