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We Could Have Real-Live Mammoths in 2015
A Japanese scientist says he can clone a real, actual woolly mammoth sometime within the next "four or five years." Did they not ever release Jurassic Park in Japan, or what?
Because, uh, seriously, we all know how this ends: The mammoths use their special frog DNA to become hermaphroditic, and then they breed, and then they murder us all, with their tusks. But apparently, no one told Dr. Akira Iritani of Kyoto University about this! Because he's feeling pretty good about this whole thing:
"The success rate in the cloning of cattle was poor until recently but now stands at about 30 per cent," he said. "I think we have a reasonable chance of success and a healthy mammoth could be born in four or five years."
Why's he so optimistic? The last attempts at cloning mammoths were unsuccessful because the existing mammoth cells were too messed up by the millions of years of freezing cold. But a new technique that's been used to clone a mouse from frozen tissue could theoretically provide a way to clone a mammoth—using an African elephant as a surrogate mother.
Iritani is traveling to Siberia this summer to try and find his very own mammoth to work with, and says we're looking at a two-year wait before an elephant can be impregnated, and then two years of a typical elephant pregnancy. Which means you can mark 2015 in your calendar as "The Year Mammoths Killed All Of Us."

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Obama paid tribute at a Veterans Day ceremony at Arlington Memorial Cemetery to "the heroes over the generations who have served this country of ours with distinction." He said the wreath he laid earlier at Tomb of the Unknowns was intended to "remember every service member who has ever worn our nation's uniform."
In a speech at the Memorial Amphitheater, he said America will never forget the sacrifice made by its veterans and their families. "No ceremony or parade, no hug or handshake is enough to truly honor that service," the president said, adding that the country must commit every day "to serving you as well as you've served us."
He spoke of the Sept. 11 generation, "who stepped forward when the Towers fell, and in the years since have stepped into history, writing one of the greatest chapters in military service our country has ever known. You've toppled a dictator and battled an insurgency in Iraq. You pushed back the Taliban and decimated al-Qaida in Afghanistan. You delivered justice to Osama bin-Laden."
Obama also said this was the first Veterans Day in a decade with no American troops fighting and dying in Iraq, and that a decade of war in Afghanistan is coming to a close.
Over the next few years, he said, more than 1 million service members will make the transition to civilian life. "As they come home, it falls to us, their fellow citizens, to be there for them and their families, not just now but always."
Later, the president and his wife, first lady Michelle Obama, and Vice President Biden and his wife, Jill, greeted families in the cemetery's Section 60, home to graves of service members killed in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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The Vanguard Class SSBN (Ship Submersible Ballistic Nuclear) provides the United Kingdom's strategic nuclear deterrent. The first Vanguard class submarine was launched in 1993 carrying Trident II D5 missiles and is now the cornerstone of our Defence policy and significantly contributes to the Alliance's deterrent forces.The SSBN Fact File
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|15,980 tons dived
|149.9 m
|12.8 m
|12 m
|16 missile tubes capable of firing Trident D5 missiles 4 torpedo tubes capable of firing Spearfish Torpedoes
|Sonars including Bow, Flank, Active Intercept and Towed Arrays Attack and Search Periscopes Collision avoidance radar Electronic warfare equipment
Trident D5 Missiles
A credible nuclear deterrent depends upon the ability to threaten an assured and effective response to aggression. The Trident II D5 missile has a range of over 4,000 nautical miles and an accuracy, which can be measured in metres. Each missile is technically capable of delivering up to 12 warheads, enabling a number of different targets to be engaged, and each Vanguard class submarine has 16 missile tubes. The missile is ejected from the submarine by high-pressure gas and only when it reaches the surface does the rocket system actually fire.
Spearfish Torpedo
Weighing in around two tonnes, this is one of the world's most advanced homing torpedoes, effective against surface and underwater targets. Spearfish has an impressive accelerating attack speed combined with considerable operational range and is the mainstay of Vanguard's conventional arsenal.
Ballistic missile submarines must at all times have a robust and reliable link with their chain of command on the mainland. A comprehensive network of communications installations connects Britain's nuclear fleet with the Commander-in Chief at Northwood, the Secretary of State for Defence in London and the Prime Minister in order to authorise the use of nuclear weapons and keep them under firm political control.
Tactical Weapon System and Submarine Command System
The tactical weapon system is used to "fight the boat" and has three functions: to avoid detection; provide self-protection, and to enable effective communications.
The Submarine Command System (SMCS) is the "brain" of the tactical weapon system, controlling and co-ordinating its constituent parts. It receives information from the various sensors, analyses the data presents it to the ship's Commanding Officer in a format, which enables him to make informed tactical decisions. Once this is done, the command system provides the means with which to "fight," including the preparation, launch and guidance of tactical weapons.
Pressurised Water Reactor (PWR)
The driving force behind the Trident submarine is the latest design in pressurised water reactor. In simple terms, this is a collection of uranium fuel elements that produce huge amounts of energy to power the vessel (a ton of fissionable material releases the energy equivalent to 2.5 million tons of coal). The entire process takes place inside a heavily shielded reactor compartment, which completely protects the crew from radiation. Water coolant travels round the reactor and is heated by the nuclear fuel elements and on into the steam generator, in the steam generator the heat of the coolant is used to convert water into steam, which is used to power the main turbine engines. From there a system of clutches, gearing and propulsion transmits the power to the sea. Steam is also used to drive turbo-generators, which supply the submarine with electricity. Because of the large amount of energy stored in the uranium fuel elements Vanguard class submarines can travel great distances and for many years without refuelling.
Life at Sea
Cruising for weeks on end through the depths of the North Atlantic may seem a daunting prospect to most people but in truth Britain's modern ballistic missile submarines are well suited to these long-range patrols, both in terms of size and facilities. The messes in Vanguard are comfortable and well appointed, fulfilling the role of dining room, lecture hall, lounge, games area and venue for church services. The food on board is good and there is plenty of it.
The routine of working, eating and sleeping is broken up by the many forms of recreational activity. These range from watching newly released films to participating in an assortment of games and quizzes, sometimes even a variety show. Alternatively crew members may prefer just to relax and do some reading, whilst a few may opt to use their boat's well-stocked library to study for a degree.
One of the highlights of the week is the "familygram", when members of the crew receive short messages from family and friends back home. Unfortunately these greetings cannot be returned, as this would reveal the submarine's position. A deterrent patrol owes its success to total secrecy and the submarine has to remain completely hidden from the outside world.


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A Day in the Life with IRONMAN's Fastest Couple
by Kevin Mackinnon. Photos: Nils Nilsen.
Mirinda Carfrae has never finished off the podium in Kona. Her first race here, also her IRONMAN debut, netted her a second place finish. The following year, she added her name to an exclusive list of IRONMAN world champions. Her fiance Tim O'Donnell's results are also impressive: He won the ITU Long Distance Championship in 2009, has taken nine 70.3 titles and, after deciding to forgo an attempt to make the 2012 US Olympic team, leapt to IRONMAN racing with a close runner-up finish in Texas in 2011. After having to drop out of his first race here in Kona due to sickness, the former Special Ops Naval Officer came in eighth last year, following up with his first full-distance win in Brazil.
After meeting at IRONMAN 70.3 St. Croix four years ago, the two are getting married this December near their home in Boulder, Colorado. Planning a wedding while gearing up for the most important race of the year is no easy feat, but the two have arrived on the island looking extremely fit and ready to contend for the title this Sunday.
Wedding plans have been on hold for the last training block leading up to Saturday's race—a critical time for any athlete, but even more important when you're a pre-race favorite. Despite a slow start to the year, Carfrae has steadily improved over the last few months thanks to a close runner-up finish in Racine followed by a win at IRONMAN 70.3 Muskoka. In June the 32-year-old returned to her old coach, Siri Lindley, joining the powerhouse group that includes five Kona qualifiers. Carfrae's teammates include last year's champion, Leanda Cave, super-swimmer Amanda Stevens, Rebekah Keat and former Kona runner-up Yvonne van Vlerken.
Today we watched Lindley put the group through the paces for a swim workout. Next on the agenda was food. O'Donnell's nutrition choices are somewhat limited thanks to the gluten sensitivity he discovered after this race two years ago. He's been gluten-free ever since and the results have reinforced his decision, which meant he had to opt for a burger without a bun. As proof of just how hard the two have been training (and how much more filling the bun is around those burgers), a post-lunch milkshake was on the agenda before heading back to their condo to hang out in front of the television for a short break before their end-of-day massages.
Balance is the name of the game in this couple's world. Both are consummate professionals, always ready to do an interview and ready to do what it takes for their sponsors. They're both obviously willing to train hard, putting in the long hours it takes to become a world champion. They manage all that while also maintaining a laid-back demeanor that helps put them among the sport's most popular professionals.


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The New Jerusalem
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On Friday's CBS This Morning, Bill Plante refreshingly spotlighted how firearms are used to protect the lives of ordinary Americans. Plante noted how the National Rifle Association "Tweeted a story...about Melinda Herman, a Georgia woman who shot an intruder in self-defense as she waited with her two children in a closet....She fired at the man multiple times with a .38 caliber handgun."
The two other Big Three morning shows failed to mention this story during their coverage of the current gun control debate. ABC's GMA actually minimized the air time they devoted to the issue. News anchor Dan Harris gave just one news brief to the next meeting of Vice President Joe Biden's gun violence task force:
DAN HARRIS: Vice President Biden will be talking about gun violence today with executives from the video game industry. This comes after a day of a seemingly unsuccessful meeting with the National Rifle Association. NRA executives left the White House and declared Biden's task force is – quote, "talking about feel-good measures that won't stop gun violence but would violate the Second Amendment."
NBC's Today did bring on NRA President David Keene, but anchor Matt Lauer wondered if his organization's influence was on the wane after the Connecticut mass shooting: "People talk about the power of the NRA. They look at it almost, you know, in monumental terms. Do you think in the wake of these shootings that power has been eroded at all, Mr. Keene?"
CBS anchor Charlie Rose introduced Plante's report by hyping how "the National Rifle Association is furious with the White House this morning. NRA officials met with Vice President Joe Biden's gun control task force yesterday, and they say no one wanted to listen to them."
The veteran correspondent then noted that the "task force, until now, has been hearing from people who want more gun controls. And yesterday, it reached out to gun owners and to the National Rifle Association...The head of the [NRA] described his group's meeting with Vice President Biden as disappointing, saying that most of the talk focused on restricting the rights of legal gun owners."
Plante's reporting on Melissa Herman's act of self-defense against a burglar came later in the segment:
UNIDENTIFIED MAN 1 (from 9-1-1 call): Just remember everything that I showed you – everything that I taught you, all right?
BILL PLANTE: In an effort to counter the backlash from Newtown, the NRA Tweeted a story this week about Melinda Herman, a Georgia woman who shot an intruder in self-defense as she waited with her two children in a closet. Her husband coached her on the phone.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN 1: If he opens that door, you shoot – you shoot him, you understand?
PLANTE: She fired at the man multiple times with a .38 caliber handgun.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN 1: Shoot him again! Shoot him!
PLANTE: The intruder was not hospitalized. The woman and her two children were not harmed. The NRA accuses the White House of targeting people like the Hermans. The group says it will now turn to Congress to fight every item of the President's agenda.
Though the CBS correspondent earlier pointed out how Biden's "task force, until now, has been hearing from people who want more gun controls" and how the Vice President "said there's growing consensus from his meetings to require universal background checks and ban high-capacity magazine clips", he failed to mention that the major players in the administration on this issue – President Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder, and Biden himself – all have staunch pro-gun control records.
Plante's Friday segment is a vast improvement from his December 19, 2012 report on CBS This Morning. The journalist aired three straight soundbites from liberals/gun control supporters, versus only one from a conservative/Republican.
[Update, Friday, 5:50 pm Eastern: The full transcript of Bill Plante's report from Friday's CBS This Morning is available at MRC.org.]


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|CO2 emissions
|119 g/km
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|3 years
|Standard paintwork guarantee
|3 years
Performance & economy
|Fuel consumption (urban)
|54.3 mpg
|Fuel consumption (extra urban)
|68.9 mpg
|Fuel consumption (combined)
|62.8 mpg
|0 - 60 mph
|7.9 seconds
|Top speed
|145 mph
|Engine power
|184 bhp
|Engine torque
|280.29 lbs/ft
|1464 mm
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|2968 mm
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|70 litres
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|Interior Trim, Black, High-Gloss
|17in Light Alloy V - Spoke Style 236 with Run - Flat Tyres and Locking Wheel Bolts
|12V Power Sockets - One in Front Centre Console - One in Rear Centre Console
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|Outside Temperature Display
|Exterior Mirrors - Aspheric, Heated, with Electric Adjustment
|Rear - View Mirror, Automatically Dimming
|Non-Metallic Paint
|On - Board Computer (OBC)
|Windscreen Washer Jets, Heated
|Windows - Heat - Insulated, Tinted All Round
|Headlight Wash
|Heated Rear Windscreen
|Body Colour Bumpers
|BMW Professional Radio with Single CD Player (with MP3 Playback Capability), AUX, USB Audio Interface
|Electric Windows - Front and Rear, with Open/Close Fingertip Control, Anti - Trap Facility and Comfort Closing Function All Round
|Floor Mats, Velour
|Front and Rear Armrest, Centre with Storage Compartments
|Bluetooth Hands - Free Facility
|Centre Console
|Multi - Function Steering Wheel
|Upholstery - Dakota Leather
|First Aid Kit and Warning Triangle
|Keyless Starting of Engine Ignition - Start/Stop Button
|Air Conditioning, Automatic with Two - Zone Control
|Cup Holders, 1 x Front and 2 x Rear
|Rain Sensor
|Leather Steering Wheel
|6.5in Colour Display Screen
|Seat Heating - Front
|DAB Digital Radio
|Navigation System - BMW Business Advanced
|Cruise Control with Brake Function and Speed Limiting Function
|Steering Column with Manual Reach and Rake Adjustment
|Standard Seats - Front, Part - Electric Adjustment
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|Front Passenger Airbag with Deactivation
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|Automatic Headlight Activation
|Electric Power Steering (EPS) with Servotronic
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|Anti - Lock Braking System (ABS)
|Xenon Headlights
|Central Door Locking - Remote Control
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Postdoctoral Fellows
Postdoctoral fellows are found in all five research divisions at the Hutch. Contact the faculty member with whom you would like to work directly. Stipends for postdoctoral fellows at the Hutch should be at or above the NIH pay scale. The Hutch is committed to providing similar health care packages to each postdoctoral fellow regardless of how you are funded.
Funding for Postdocs
Stipends to support graduate students and postdoctoral fellows come from a variety of sources, including:
- Biobehavioral Cancer Prevention and Control Training Program
- Chromosome Metabolism and Cancer Training Grant
- Interdisciplinary Training in Cancer Research
- See Office of Sponsored Research Fellowships for more postdoctoral funding options.
Postdoctoral Resources
Members of the Student/Postdoc Advisory Committee (SPAC) have put together a collection of resources including a survival handbook.
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All Hutch-based trainess (postdoctoral researchers, clinical fellows, and graduate students) must complete requirements during their tenure at the center. For details about the training see the Research Ethics Education Program Web site.


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After two politically treacherous days, Mitt Romney is trying to right-side his campaign by focusing on something President Obama said 14 years ago.
The Republican presidential candidate has been battered by news coverage dissecting his assertion, caught on video, that "47 percent" of Americans feel entitled to government assistance. Now his aides think they've stumbled upon a way to change the subject.
In a 1998 audio clip that surfaced online Tuesday afternoon, Obama is heard speaking at a conference at Loyola University in Chicago, where he suggested that society needed to come up with a plan to "structure government systems that pool resources and hence facilitate some redistribution, because I actually believe in redistribution, at least at a certain level, to make sure that everybody's got a shot."
Romney pounced on those comments, which Obama made when he was an Illinois state senator, at an Atlanta fundraiser on Wednesday. Obama's speech, Romney said, indicated support for a European-style system that would never work in the United States.
"I know there are some who believe that if you simply take from some and give to others then we'll all be better off. It's known as redistribution," Romney told the crowd. "It's never been a characteristic of America.
"This idea of redistribution follows from the idea that if you have a business, you didn't build it — someone else did that," Romney said, hearkening back to Obama's "you didn't build that" line from a speech he made in July pointing out that small businesses have relied on some government support.
Late Wednesday, Romney appeared to back off his comments about the "47 percent," telling Spanish-language network Univision, "My campaign is about the 100 percent in America and I'm concerned about them. I'm concerned that over the past four years life has become harder for Americans."
Romney brought up Obama's 1998 speech in an interview with Fox News Channel on Tuesday and in a USA Today op-ed published Wednesday, all part of a new strategy to raise doubts about Obama's economic theories, draw attention away from Romney's criticism of Americans who don't pay income tax and perhaps add the word "redistribution" to the list of well-worn right-wing attack lines, including "Are you better off?" and "Drill, baby, drill."
White House press secretary Jay Carney called the newest GOP assault a sign of a "desperate" campaign that is having a "very bad week."
"The charge based on this 14-year-old video sounds very familiar to one that was tried and failed in 2008," Carney said Wednesday. In 1998, "then-Senator Obama was making an argument for a more efficient, more effective government, specifically citing city government agencies that he did not think were working effectively. He believed then and believes now that there are steps we can take to promote opportunity and ensure that all Americans have a fair shot if they work hard."
The shift in campaign tactics comes just days after aides said Romney would begin offering details of his five-point economic plan, as voters become more attentive to the campaign and after polling data suggested they're eager to learn more about Romney's policy positions.
But in a memo to reporters Wednesday, Romney campaign manager Matt Rhoades said the campaign will focus instead on the rivals' "starkly different visions" for the nation. "Mitt Romney's vision for America is an opportunity society, where free people and free enterprise thrive and success is admired and emulated, not attacked," Rhoades said in the memo. "President Obama's vision for America is a government-centered society, where government grows bigger and more active, occupying more of our everyday lives."
On the campaign trail Wednesday, Romney's running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan (Wis.), even slipped a new attack line into his standard stump speech.
"He's going to try and distract and divide this country to win by default," Ryan said during an event in Danville, Va. "You know, President Obama said that he believes in redistribution. Mitt Romney and I are not running to redistribute the wealth. Mitt Romney and I are running to help Americans create wealth."
On Capitol Hill, Romney supporters aimed at Obama.
Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.), one of Romney's most prominent surrogates, said Obama's 1998 remarks give "more insight into what he views government's role as."
"This is a president who believes the government's job is to pick winners and losers in the economy," Rubio told reporters Wednesday.
Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (S.C.) suggested that Romney should campaign more aggressively in key swing states, particularly Virginia.
"If we win Virginia and one of Ohio and Florida, we're going to win this thing," Graham said. "So, if I were Mitt Romney, no person in Virginia could go very long without meeting me."
Democrats appeared buoyed on Wednesday. Obama's campaign manager, Jim Messina, met behind closed doors with Senate Democrats for their weekly caucus lunch, a gathering that participants described as upbeat.
Sen. Richard J. Durbin (Ill.) said Messina told senators that he expects the race to remain close, but he also described polling data from key swing states that appeared to be solidifying for the president.
"What impressed me, as much as anything, was the pace of volunteers, calls, voter registration is dramatically larger than it was four years ago," Durbin said of the data.
In another sign of renewed Democratic optimism, House Minority Whip Steny H. Hoyer (Md.) suggested Wednesday that Romney's dismissal of nearly half of the American electorate could work to sway key House and Senate races.
"I think what's happening is that the American people, particularly the middle class in America, are getting a clearer and clearer picture that the Democratic Party is on their side and the Republican Party is not," Hoyer said.
That possibility was causing concern among some GOP candidates, who were direct in seeking to distance themselves from Romney's video comments.
Sen. Dean Heller, locked in a tight race for reelection against Democratic Rep. Shelley Berkley in Nevada, became the third GOP Senate candidate to take issue with Romney's remarks, telling reporters Wednesday that he has a "very different view of the world" when it comes to competing for the votes of those who do not pay income tax or who receive government assistance.
And Mark Meadows, a Republican running for an open House seat in the Asheville, N.C., area, said voters in his district don't fit Romney's description at the fundraiser.
"I'm concerned about all 750,000 people," Meadows said at a televised forum Tuesday night. "I am here to represent the people of this district."
Felicia Sonmez and David Nakamura contributed to this report.


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Aurora in the News
Aurora Casket Ranked Highest in Service Again
October 23, 2012 – AURORA, Indiana – Aurora Casket Company, the largest privately-owned supplier in funeral service, once again received top marks for Service in the annual Casket Survey conducted by the Funeral Service Insider.
"Funeral professionals are in the service business themselves. They tell us that service is the most important factor in determining how they choose suppliers, so we continue to invest in improving the world-class service we are known for. The results of this study reveal that Aurora products and services continue to lead the industry," said Michael Quinn, President and CEO of Aurora.
Aurora operates five manufacturing facilities in the United States and Canada with more than 60 distribution centers located throughout the country, serving thousands of funeral homes.
"To be ranked number one in service speaks volumes for our entire team, from sales and customer service, to manufacturing and logistics. Everyone at Aurora is focused on our customers," Quinn added.
Gathered from more than 100 subscribers to the newsletter, Funeral Service Insider's annual casket survey covers topics such as consumer expectations and attitudes, cremation, and supplier rankings. Kates-Boylston also publishes American Funeral Director, American Cemetery and Funeral Service Extra, all dedicated to providing the latest industry news to funeral and cemetery professionals.
About Aurora
Aurora Casket is the largest privately-owned funeral service supplier in America. Founded in 1890, the company operates five manufacturing facilities in the U.S. and Canada, and provides a full range of burial, cremation, memorial and technology products to funeral home clients. For more information, visit www.auroraadvantage.com.


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|2009-09-26, 02:51
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I'm on a boat!!!
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: California
just looking for opinions, i figured this was the most appropriate thread, if not a mod can tell me where it should go. I thought the scene in ep 7 was really cute so i made an avatar of it. my first one was a bit dull so i went back and redid it sharpened up and brighter.. there are 2 lvls i wound up with and i cant decide which is better. The first is sharp X1 the second is sharp X2.. i think X2 pops a bit more but i think it shows some artifacts and makes the lines around her eyes a bit exaggerated. Its kinda hard to tell for me though because my eyes are kinda screwed up from a drug i was on for a long time, so wondering what you guys think, which looks better, is X2 to enhanced?
or sharpX2?
for now i think i'll just use X1
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Hi guys. Ive just finished the amazing Spice and Wolf, miss it already
Bit of a lurker on here, aint logged in since 2007.
Im not to good on photoshop but i had a go
Edit* Top and bottom part spose to be translucent Was when i saved it. Can anyone make top+bottom bit translucent?
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Ushio... omochikaeri!!!
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Location: North Carolina, US
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May I please have this sig? Thanks!
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Some kind of fading or smoothening effects to the borders would be nice as well as my nickname "Kyuu9sha" to the sigs and "QQ" for the avatar.
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Hi guys, i just saw something that really moved me.
Amazingly beautifull.
It's from the opening of Spice and Wolf 2.
00:56 - 01:00 (starts half a second into 00:56)
They are dancing in a room with leaves falling outside the window, any chance it could be made into an avatar or a gif for a small signature?
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CHERRY POINT � More than 40 years ago, Jack Metrock took his last ride in an EA-6A Intruder as he headed back from Vietnam.
CHERRY POINT � More than 40 years ago, Jack Metrock took his last ride in an EA-6A Intruder as he headed back from Vietnam.
The 69-year-old retired Marine got another flight, of sorts, recently when he took a ride in an EA-6B Prowler simulator at his old home base at Cherry Point air station.
Metrock was an electronic countermeasures officer with Marine Composite Reconnaissance Squadron 1 and had been trained at Cherry Point at VMCJ-2. His training then and the training today�s pilots receive is worlds apart, he said.
�There is just no comparison,� Metrock said after piloting a simulator flight from Cherry Point. �We didn�t have any simulators. We had just a stock A-6 cockpit, and we just learned the switches. This is something.�
Metrock said technicians would remove units from the cockpit and teach pilots the operations.
�They would take the boxes out and put them on a workbench and teach you how to use it,� he said.
Part of the job of an ECMO was to detect and identify the unique sound of a particular type of radar.
�We used our ears,� Metrock said. �We listened to the spectrum. You had to pass a test to where you could identify them.�
While today�s simulators create the various radar signatures for the ECMO, in the 1960s Metrock�s training included listening for the real thing.
�We actually had to take an airplane and fly it down to Cuba and get Fidel (Castro) to fire up his radar to see what we were going to experience in Southeast Asia,� he said. �He had the same radars and missile systems that we would be facing in Vietnam. We had to get close enough to push the subject so the subject would fire his radars up and play with us.�
The EA-6A had a pilot and an ECMO, but the EA-6B has a pilot and three ECMOs.
Metrock had a chance to sit in the back seat where the 3 and 4 positions are in the EA-6B training simulator but wasn�t able to see the unit turned on because it is classified.
�I wish I could see what the ECMOs are seeing, but I understand,� he said.
He was able to �fly� the EA-6B in the simulator though, taking off from Cherry Point, heading out over the Atlantic and experiencing conditions of a thunderstorm. He then returned to the base and was able to land the jet on his third approach.
�I was impressed. I was blown away by the actual realness of the event,� he said. �I tell you what: This would have made life a whole lot easier.�
Ricky Johnson, a former EA-6B pilot who is now a CUBIC Corp. contractor who instructs Marine pilots on the EA-6B, said the simulator can create the environment for airfields around the world.
�You name it, we can take them there,� Johnson said.
He said any type of emergency can be created in the simulator, with the pilots and ECMOs benefitting from the pressure they receive in training.
�They come out sweating like you wouldn�t believe. It�s just like the real thing,� Johnson said.
All of it impressed Metrock.
�This is like Star Trek to me,� he said. �It�s state-of-the-art.�
Metrock is a member of the Marine Corps Aviation Reconnaissance Association, an organization of active-duty and retired Marines from the electronic warfare community.
�We�re looking for new members,� he said. �One of our missions is to support Marine Corps electronic warfare.�
For more information on the Marine Corps Aviation Reconnaissance Association, go online to the organization website at www.mcara.us.


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Location: Alaska
Established: February 26, 1917
Size: 6,075,029 acres
On any summer day in Denali, Alaska's most well known national park, hundreds of people see sights that will stay with them the rest of their lives. Perhaps a golden eagle will soar off the cliffs at Polychrome Pass, or 20 Dall's sheep will rest on a green shoulder of Primrose Ridge, or a grizzly will ramble over the tundra at Sable Pass. Maybe a caribou will pause on a ridgetop, silhouetted by the warm light of day's end, or a loon will call across Wonder Lake, or clouds will part to reveal the great massif of Denali, 20,320 feet high, the roof of North America.
The drama is always there. To see it, all you need to do is travel the 92-mile park road. The farther you go, the more you'll see, for the subarctic landscape will open up as big as the sky and the animals will move through it with wild, ancient poetry.
Other North American parks have their wildlife, but none has animals so visible or diverse as Denali. And other parks have their mountains, but none with a stature so stunning, a summit so towering as Denali.
Denali's visitors have increased almost 200 percent in 30 years. Accommodating them without eroding the park's wilderness has been a struggle. A bus system that permits maximum wildlife viewing while holding down traffic has been designed. Campgrounds are modest and unobtrusive. And the wilderness areas have strict overnight camping ceilings to prevent overcrowding and damage to the flora and fauna. Unless you plan ahead by using the park's easy-to-use reservation system, you may have to wait a day or two to get your preferred campsite or bus reservation.
Did You Know?
Inspired by the beauty of the Toklat River, naturalist Charles Sheldon spent nine years lobbying for legislation to create the park—the first national park in Alaska. Originally established in 1917 with the name Mount McKinley, 63 years later it would be renamed Denali or "the High One," the native Athabaskan name for the majestic peak. That same year, the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA) enlarged the boundaries by four million acres (almost two million hectares), regrouping the land into Denali National Park and Preserve.
Copy for this series includes excerpts from the National Geographic Guide to the National Parks of the United States, Seventh Edition, 2012, and the National Parks articles featured in "Cutting Loose" in National Geographic Traveler.


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Coach Bill Taylor expected Chastain to finish somewhere in the top five. Chastain covered the 8-K course at the Sperling Sports Complex in DeLand, Fla., in a time of 25:49, four seconds behind the third place finisher.
Chastain earned All A-Sun First Team honors for the second year in a row with the finish.
"Ryan ran great, though the heat and humidity were hard on him," said Taylor. "He pushed through and ran very tough.
"Fourth might be the highest A-Sun finish ever for a Lipscomb man or woman. It was definitely the best ever for the men. He's also the first ever two time A-Sun runner in Lipscomb men's cross country history."
Taylor stressed that the weather conditions were a challenge.
"The heat and humidity were very tough, especially during the men's race," said Taylor. "I was told 95 percent humidity was expected. I believe the temperature was in the 80s."
East Tennessee's Ken Rotich was the winner of the race with a time of 25:31.
The Bisons finished sixth as a team. Kennesaw State won the men's division for the second year in a row.
"I'm disappointed with the men's finish," said Taylor. Both teams are very young. We lose one senior on each. Losing Ryan will be a huge void we need to fill next year with the men, either from within, by bringing new guys in, or hopefully both. The ASun conference gets tougher and deeper every year. It has become a very exciting and competitive meet." Taylor knows that Chastain is going to be difficult to replace next season.
"Both teams are very young," said Taylor. "We lose one senior on each.
"Losing Ryan will be a huge void we need to fill next year with the men, either from within, by bringing new guys in, or hopefully both."
Freshman Tim Muller finished in 25th place in the field of 79 runners. His time was 27:13. Close behind in 28th place was freshman Isaiah Greer with a time of 27:26.
"Tim looked amazing until the last mile when he died," said Taylor. "At least he left it all out there though.
"Isaiah Greer also ran an amazing race. It was his best race of the year."
Freshman Jeff Musick was 38th (27:51) and junior Jared Carlson was 39th (27:52).
Freshman Ashton Fisher finished in 45th in a time of 28:34. Freshman Mike Yang was 49th with a time of 28:45.
Sophomore Benton Reed was 63rd with a time of 30:47. Hunter Hethcoat crossed the line in 67th place with a time of 31:10.
"Jeff Musick had a solid race," said Taylor. "Other guys were overwhelmed and ran very poorly.
"It surprised me. I think maybe having so many underclassmen on the conference roster caught up with us."


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Parent Trigger Shifts the Balance
The nation's third invoking of a Parent Trigger, in Los Angeles, disproves the charges of many critics of the 2010 California law.
The nation's third invoking of a Parent Trigger, in Los Angeles, disproves the charges of many critics of the 2010 California law. Based on the first two attempts of parents to require their children's failing schools be converted to charter schools, critics declared the Parent Trigger a mistake.
Pulling the Parent Trigger is "incredibly divisive and disruptive to the communities and schools involved," said American Federation for Teachers President Randi Weingarten. "Too much disruption and not enough improvement will validate critics' claims that the reform movement is more interested in destruction than creation," wrote Time magazine columnist Andrew Rotherham. Parent Trigger laws are "divisive and unsuccessful," wrote Rita Solnet, founder of the union-funded Parents Across America.
Here's what's divisive and unsuccessful: having no way to force change at your child's failing public school. That's what parents at Los Angeles' 24th Street Elementary found. For three years, parents held protests, collected signatures asking for a new principal, and moved their kids to a neighboring charter school. Yet the K-5 elementary school still has a dismal record: Two-thirds of its students can't read or do math at grade level, and it's been that way for six years. Kids who can't read can't do much else, as verbal ability is the No. 1 predictor of college success, future earnings, and even interpersonal communication. Few kids ever overcome big early learning gaps, so the elementary years are crucial.
Thanks to California's Parent Trigger law, parents now have power to force change. Earlier this month, 68 percent of parents whose children attend 24th Street Elementary submitted a petition to their school district. They want to negotiate with the district to give their children's school stronger leadership, better academics, safer and cleaner facilities and higher expectations. And if that doesn't work out, they will have it converted into a charter school, thank you.
The most striking thing here is the lack of division and hostility. In accepting the parents' petition, Los Angeles Superintendent John Deasy greeted them in Spanish and pledged to work to meet their needs. Notice how people start paying respect when they're negotiating with other people who have power.
That's what Parent Trigger laws give parents: power. A Parent Trigger stops school bureaucrats from slotting kids into schools without concern for fit or quality, and it forces administrators to address parents' concerns. In short, parents move from pawns to kings – and that's good for the kids because their parents are the ones who care the most about them and know them best.
Something Parent Trigger critics failed to acknowledge about its first two instances is that the division and hostility were largely incited by teachers unions and bureaucrats, not parents. The real controversy over the Parent Trigger comes from those who stand to lose power because of it. In both the previous cases, the school board stonewalled parents, and the teachers union affiliates sued parents. Because of these parents' low incomes and social disadvantages, suing them is an extremely potent form of intimidation.
In Adelanto, in San Bernardino County, the Wall Street Journal revealed, teachers union officials went door-to-door to confront parents who had signed Parent Trigger petitions, insinuating they could be deported if they didn't rescind their signatures.
This third Parent Trigger already demonstrates giving parents power doesn't have to incite social discord. Giving a free pass to those who want to protect the status quo is no solution for bad schools.
[First published at the Orange County Register.]


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We Can Learn Some Things About Collaboration From Duke's Coach K
Duke University Basketball Coach, Mike Krzyzewski, Coach K to his fans, is arguably the most successful college basketball coach of all time. Under his leadership, his teams have won numerous national championships along with recording a win percentage that is the envy of any team, regardless of sport. In little more than a decade he managed to build a mighty record of success.
However, during the 1994-1995 season he left after twelve games to have back surgery. Quite surprisingly, his beloved Blue Devils fell flat without him. Recognizing that his team wasn't able to continue without him, upon his return, Coach K knew he needed to change the way he led his team. He analyzed the network talent that was his coaching organization and introduced changes that ensured that he wasn't the failure point. And it worked: in the past 17 years, Duke has never had a repeat of the failure of the 1994-1995 season.
While you and I won't ever be in Coach K's position as an iconic basketball coach, we can learn from his model for transforming the leadership of our organization and improving collaboration. I am one of a few Experience Strategists here at Cisco focused on delivering those experience strategies. It is our mission to ensure the brand experience, from customer to employee is great. And, part of making sure the experience is great for everyone involves making sure that the organizational structure is fail proof.
Over the last fourteen years, my team has been focused on collaboration work practices and the development of technology solutions that help enable the natural behavior that we all have innately. Our purpose is to naturally enable and connect human beings. Our own organizations within Cisco have helped further that development, including our adoption of our enterprise social software, Cisco WebEx Social. One approach we and other companies find to be very valuable throughout this process is Organizational Network Analysis (ONA).
ONA provides a view into the inner workings of an organization. The beauty of this analysis is that it provides a clear and tangible visual representation of how an organization communicates. Instead of the traditional hierarchical organization chart, it provides a view into the individual relationships of the members of an organization. It also provides actionable insight into the roles each member play in the team or organization. The relationships we internalize but can't articulate easily between people are represented graphically, where each participant in the study is represented as a node, and their relationship to other people are represented as lines.
Figure 1: Organizational structure chart comparison
In this graphical representation, Rob Cross, a professor who consults with businesses on how to apply social network analysis ideas to critical business issues for actionable insights and bottom-line results, shows us a team's formal structural organization chart (on left), and then the ONA derived informal structure (on right). Based on the ONA structure, you can infer all sorts of things on how the team operates. The SVP, Jones, is not actively involved in the team, but the individual contributor Cole is a major hub. If Cole left, the team would be severely impacted, while if someone like Stock left it would not be felt nearly as pervasively across the team. You can imagine what Coach K's informal structure looked like when he left for back surgery; he was Cole in the above graphic. When he left his organization's connections were severed and fell apart.
Imagine how this kind of informal ONA structure would benefit your organization. These are some of the benefits I found to be most useful as a team leader and in our work as an experience design team:
- Identifying people that behave as change agents
- Identifying people who connect the organization together
- Assessing the communication health of an organization
- Assessing the impact of a person leaving a given team
- Assessing potential organization modifications
- Comparing the nature of high and low performing organizations
- Identifying where collaboration happens, or doesn't
- Assessing leaders' effectiveness
Figure 2: ONA Showing Degree of Influence
Figure 2: This measure provides us with insight into who has strong relationships with the largest number of members within the network. It can then be broken down further to see what type of influence these individuals may have. There are two measures of degree: In-degree, which indicates which members of the team sot after and are highly respected in the network, and Out-degree, which often indicates those team members who are more influential in the network.
Are you planning to make a change within your organization, or looking into how to help your teams work better together? Think about how ONA can help. For example, ONA can help identify the change agents, known as catalysts, in an organization. This allows you to target training and communications to these select few, maximizing your influence while minimizing the level of effort.
Our team found the insights and ability to scale ONA extremely helpful and based on this successful internal application of ONA, our Cisco Advanced Services team provides ONA as a services offering to our customers.
While we don't have Coach K. here at Cisco we do have a good win percentage. If you want to learn more, here are a few references on ONA from leading industry researchers that we've found helpful:
- CNN's article The Hidden Workplace provides a simple overview and business context.
- Rob Cross's Introduction to Organizational Network Analysis
- Robert Hanneman and Mark Riddle's free downloadable textbook Introduction to Social Network Methods
- Kate Ehrlich and Inga Carboni's Inside Social Network Analysis
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Chema Ballarin
Michael, thanks for the article, wasn't aware of the concept of ONA and thanks to this post I'll be reading and learning more about it.
Being a solutions advisor, I think we often don't dedicate enough attention to the context that surrounds the technology or products we think will improve the way a company communicates and collaborates and go straight into design and implementation. ONA does address two of the three pillars of a good collaboration solution: people and processes (guess what the third one is 🙂 )


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Welcome to evaDimensions
True financial intelligence for management and investment decisions
What is EVA?
EVA, or economic value added, is a special way to measure profit that is better than all others. It measures "economic profit" as opposed to accounting profit. It is measured after deducting the full '"opportunity" cost of all the capital invested in business assets. It doesn't measure profit until all investors, shareholders included, have earned a minimum return for bearing risk. EVA, in short, turns the balance sheet into another charge to earnings, just like cost of goods sold.
As a result, managers aiming to increase EVA naturally look for ways to purge capital from non-productive assets and activities. They turn working capital faster and speed asset turns. They exit losers earlier, sell assets worth more to others, and outsource to more capable suppliers. They invest capital sparingly and imaginatively to meet business goals and only with the conviction they can earn above the cost. There is true accountability for capital. But also, and this is key, they aggressively invest in all growth that adds value by earning above the cost of capital. With EVA, managers aren't hung up on milking margins and returns from profitable lines that should grow faster. The point is, EVA gives all the right insights into making decision tradeoffs, and it replaces a whole bunch of conventional metrics -- from sales and earnings growth to ROI and margin, even cash flow -- with a simple focus on increasing economic profit.
EVA is also typically measured after correcting other accounting distortions. For example, leased assets are treated as if owned, innovation and brand spending are written off over time instead of expensed, and restructuring costs are considered to be investments that add to balance sheet capital. The result: EVA encourages managers to make better, more economically rational decisions instead of letting accounting rules cloud their business judgment. They don't cut R&D just to make a near term earnings goal, and they restructure whenever it is economic to do so.
Here is EVA's most important property: the present value of a forecast for EVA is always identical to the net present value of the projected cash flows – because EVA sets aside the profit that must be earned to recover the capital that has been or will be invested. If EVA is zero, NPV is zero, and if EVA is positive then a positive "franchise value" is created. In practice, this means that CFOs can use EVA with all the confidence they would attach to discounted cash flow, for they yield the same answer for a given plan or projection. But more than that, it means CFOs (and securities analysts) should dispense with discounted cash flow analysis, and instead value all projects, plans and acquisitions by projecting and discounting EVA. Not only is this simpler and more consistent, but EVA can be used both as a measure of value and a measure of performance, where cash flow cannot. EVA is also analytically superior. It renders more reliable and more penetrating insights than any other financial analysis framework because of a recent breakthrough by EVA Dimensions.
EVA Momentum –
the ultimate measure of profitability performance
EVA Momentum is a "second generation" enhancement of the framework and is the heart of a major advance in value-based management. It is the change in EVA divided by prior period sales – essentially an EVA growth rate, scaled to the size of the company. Up to now, EVA has been a money measure of economic profit. EVA Momentum for the first time turns EVA into a complete ratio-based framework that is making it more understandable, more informative, and far more effective as a management tool and valuation metric than ever before.
EVA Momentum is the only performance ratio in business where bigger is better, because the greater it is, the greater is the growth in economic profit and in a firm's per share present value. EVA Momentum is thus the best statistic for CFOs to use in judging the quality and value of forward plans.
EVA Momentum also is also the only performance ratio that does not count the same asset over and over or same liability time and again. It is based on change, on progress, on performance at the margin. A turnaround company making a negative EVA less negative registers positive Momentum. A profitable EVA business whose EVA is moving sideways or slipping shows no or negative Momentum. That makes it the ideal metric for CFOs to use in fairly comparing the performance and allocating resources across disparate operating units, and for securities analysts to use in ranking companies in an industry to identify the star performers and the laggards. EVA Momentum also is the metric used for the first and only rankings of corporations on the basis of profitability performance, rankings that have been featured in Fortune and Corporate Board Member and in continuing coverage on Forbes.com.
The EVA Momentum diagnostic framework
Besides furnishing the best overall performance statistic, EVA Momentum sits atop a diagnostic framework that makes value-based analysis easier and more insightful than ever before. Like ROI, EVA Momentum is a function of income efficiency and balance sheet asset management. It can be traced to and directly linked with fundamental financial indicators, like gross margin, working capital days, plant turns, and so forth, although in the case of EVA Momentum all the drivers, both income and asset, are expressed on a common percent of sales scale. But what is really better than ROI, EVA Momentum includes the added value that can come from profitable growth -- from adding sales at a positive EVA-to-Sales profit margin -- or value lost from growth at negative EVA margins, which are performance attributes that the "DuPont ROI formula" totally misses. Simply put, like EVA itself, and unlike any other ratio measure, EVA Momentum measures all the ways that performance can be improved and wealth created in any business. But better than EVA, it de-constructs step-by-step to familiar ratio indicators, which makes it an ideal tool to help managers understand EVA and find ways to improve it, and securities analysts to detect and model a firm's true intrinsic value.


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MANIWAKI, Qc – Police say they have arrested two teenagers and are looking for a possible third suspect after two seniors were kidnapped at gunpoint and driven more than an hour from their home in Quebec.
Quebec provincial police Sgt. Claude Denis says a 70-year-old woman and 65-year-old man were taken Friday from their home near Maniwaki and driven to a barn in L'Isle-aux-Allumettes, about 150 kilometres southwest.
He says the suspects fled and the couple managed to escape early Saturday morning. The pair then flagged a passing driver who came to their aid.
Denis says a 16-year-old Ottawa boy was arrested shortly afterward in nearby Pembroke, Ont., while a 17-year-old boy later surrendered to police in Quebec.
He says the two boys are set to appear in court Monday, and investigators are trying to determine whether a third person was involved.
He says it's unclear whether the suspects used a real gun or a fake.
It's alleged the teens also stole the couple's vehicle, which was recovered Saturday in Pembroke.
Denis says the couple was taken to hospital with minor injuries and shock.


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Miss SweetS joined our family on July 10th around 1:30 in the morning. She weighed 9 lbs 6 oz. (she beat the other children out by almost a whole pound!) My only baby to come in the middle of the night, but what a blessing! Sweet E, Little E, and Special K slept through the whole thing. Big T was the secondary birthing coach. He would time my contractions and hold my hand when Beloved had to step away for a minute. He also kept a sharp eye out for the midwife. It was so cute to watch him. He was like a first time father. ;-) It was so sweet.
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All the children are in love with SweetS. Every morning they all pile into bed with me and fight over who gets to hold her first. She has stolen everyone's heart. I should also add that the girls won! There was a great debate in our home on which gender would win out. Looks like the girls are dominating the house! That's okay. Little E has enough energy to equal about 3 boys. :-)
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|Beautiful Baby Girl
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As long as my camera doesn't die on me I hope to be sharing lots of pictures. It's soccer season after all. And can you believe that Special K will be 3 next month?! Goes by way to fast.
Blessings to all!


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One reason Android phones have become popular is the choice they offer: Want a big screen? There's a phone for you. Want cheap? There's one for you, too.
New phones from Sony and LG continue that trend. Although I personally find their distinctive features unnecessary, consumers looking for those specific attributes will welcome them.
Sony's Xperia Z1s is a waterproof phone with a high-megapixel camera, while LG's G Flex has a curved screen that offers a better fit for phone calls.
Xperia Z1s, Sony
($528, contract-free, through T-Mobile US only.)
The 5-inch Z1s stands out in two ways: It's waterproof, meaning you can dunk it in water up to 4.5 feet deep for a half-hour. And the camera's 20.7-megapixel resolution is higher than that of most phones, which means sharper photos when blown up or printed.
Sony also packs the phone with several camera apps that can be useful — when they work.
The waterproofing should give you some comfort using the phone in the rain or taking a selfie in the pool, as long as you keep the ports covered with the attached plastic seals.
Just don't expect extensive operations underwater, as the touch screen doesn't work when wet. You can continue video and music you already have going, but you can't start new ones. Same with voice calls. Sound quality through the external speaker suffers.
Fortunately, you can use headphones. Sony's water-resistant Xperia Z phone last summer had a headphone jack that needed to stay covered. There's no need to cover that in the Z1s, so you're protected even when you use headphones. Your headphones might not survive, though.
The Z1s also fixes a shortcoming with the Z. You can set the volume button to trigger the camera shutter for shots while snorkeling. The Z's touch-only shutter has to stay dry.
The camera's Social Live app lets you stream 10-minute video clips live on Facebook. You can choose who can view them, though it doesn't recognize groups you have curated on Facebook, such as "close friends" or "family." If you're willing to click on names one by one, or share with everyone, it's a fun tool for weddings and other shareable moments.
Another app, called Info-eye, gives you more information about a book, wine bottle or landmark after you snap a photo of it.
Results were mixed.
The Z1s catches up to Apple's iPhone 5S in two ways: You can snap up to 10 shots per second in a burst mode, and you can see how an Instagram-like special effect will look before you snap the shot.
There's also a Timeshift Burst app that lets you snap even more shots — 61 in two seconds. It's easy to pick the best shots by scrolling through the images like a flipbook, but the app limits you to two seconds.
There's probably a lot more I haven't discovered yet. The phone hides many of the features in the various settings. Until I started playing with the controls, for instance, the camera was snapping at just 8.3 megapixels.
G Flex, LG Electronics
(Price not yet announced, available soon through ATT, Sprint and T-Mobile.)
The 6-inch G Flex is much like a bigger version of LG's 5.2-inch G2 phone from last summer. The power button and volume controls are on the back, which LG says will be easier to access and result in fewer dropped phones.
Where the G Flex differs: The screen has a slight curve inward from top to bottom, giving it a better fit around your head when making calls. It feels a bit like those old flip phones. However, I don't make many calls to begin with, and I haven't noticed much difference in call quality or comfort.
LG hasn't announced U.S. pricing yet, but the phone goes for more than $900 in South Korea. Part of that high price goes toward the display's size: The G Flex is even larger than Samsung's 5.7-inch Galaxy Note 3 and HTC's 5.9-inch One Max.
I tested a Korean version of the G Flex ahead of its U.S. release. Text and images on the curved screen look odd. Square photos on Instagram aren't so square, for instance. The distortion is more pronounced when the phone is held sideways, with the curve from left to right.
The G Flex is for people who want to show friends they have something new and are willing to pay. Otherwise, wait for further advancements from LG and Samsung.


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Longtime Hearst publisher Valerie Salembier, currently senior vice president, publisher and chief revenue officer of Town & Country, is stepping down on Dec. 31, she told Media Ink.
"At the end of the year, I'll be leaving the media world," she said. "My new start-up will be me."
Salembier will open a small, five-person shop called The Salembier Group on Jan. 1.
At Hearst, she was publisher of Esquire from 1996 until 2003 and then Harper's Bazaar for seven years. She's been at T&C since May 2011.
"I've always done start-ups or turnarounds," said Salembier.
She said she will leave Hearst with Town & Country's ad revenue up 10 percent from a year ago.
The Hearst veteran also plans to pursue a project that she started 20 years ago but put aside: a novel about a woman executive running a big urban tabloid.
She won't have to reach too far into her imagination for source material. Earlier in her career, she was publisher of The Post during the Peter Kalikow era. (Some dubbed her "Salarie Valembier" for reportedly pulling in a $400,000-a-year salary.)
Salembier also served as publisher of Family Circle, when it was a part of a women's magazine group once owned by The New York Times Co.
She is a longtime friend and ally of former Hearst Magazines president Cathie Black, going back to their days at Ms. magazine and when they both served as executives who helped launch USA Today for Gannett in 1983, criss-crossing the country together.
When Salembier followed Black to Hearst in the mid-1990s, she was used as a troubleshooter on some of the company's struggling titles, often after Black had axed a longtime executive.
There were some who had expected to see Salembier exit shortly after Black stepped away as president of the group in mid-2010 and then left the company entirely in November 2010 to take an ill-fated appointment as Chancellor of New York City schools for Mayor Mike Bloomberg.
Instead, Salembier stayed on board for another two years under Black's successor, current Hearst Magazines President David Carey.
In her new firm, which will be located at Madison Avenue and 57th Street, Salembier said she will be working with an undisclosed designer to "relaunch his brand."
Salembier will also step up her work on two charities, New York Police Foundation, a not-for-profit that works on behalf of the NYPD, and the Anti-Counterfeiting Initiative, which she started while publisher of Harper's Bazaar. Its aim is to crack down on fake designer handbags, shoes and clothing.
Michael Clinton, president of sales and marketing at Hearst, said of her departure, "We started talking about it earlier this summer. There's no announcement of a replacement yet — but I expect a lot of people to put their hands up."
For sale
Manhattan Media, a large weekly newspaper chain in Manhattan, is on the block. Owner Isis Ventures, headed by Richard Burns, is in serious talks with two potential suitors.
Burns said all parts of the company were profitable and that it plans to hang onto the Latin Trade Group and Dan's Papers in the Hamptons.
The properties combined have revenues of about $35 million.
Assets for sale include Avenue magazine and a chain of Manhattan weeklies including City & State, Our Town, West Side Spirit and Chelsea Clinton News. They have revenue of about $12 million.
News that the Manhattan Media was for sale was first broken by Crain's New York website.
Blame Kroger
The Source Interlink, a magazine publisher and distribution company, has put in some deep pay cuts for the part of its company involved in distributing to retail outlets.
Only about 600 of the company's 6,000 employees will be affected. The moves include a 10 percent pay cut to all officers of the company and a 5 percent pay cut to all other employees.
Insiders got the word last week.
The cuts come after the company lost the distribution contract to get magazines into the Kroger grocery chain — believed to be the second biggest customer for the distribution business, behind Barnes & Noble.
The business went to the Jim Pattison News Group, headed by Canadian Jimmy Pattison.
In addition to the distribution business, the company is a big publisher of special interest magazines, including Motor Trend.
Many of the magazines are titles that the company picked up when it vastly overpaid for the consumer magazine division of Primedia, the media company that was being busted up by Henry Kravis in 2007.
The company shed over $1 billion of its $1.9 billion debt load when it went through a pre-packaged bankruptcy in 2009. The company at the time was controlled by investor Ron Burkle's Yucaipa Cos., which he lost to lenders during the proceedings.
In recent weeks, the Source Interlink has been negotiating for new long-term debt agreement with principal banker JPMorgan.


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Eight Hope students have received Dean's Science Division Research Awards to conduct research at the college this summer.
Eight Hope students have received Dean's Science Division Research Awards to conduct research at the college this summer.
The students who were honored with the awards are Joseph Adamson, Lien Brusselmans, Matthew Eiles, Nicholas Hubley, Erica Jansen, Leah LaBarge, Hsaing Lin and Andreana Rosnik.
Presented by the division of natural and applied sciences, the awards provide stipends to conduct summer research at the college collaboratively with members of the faculty for 10 weeks. A recipient was named for each department within the division.
Considerations for the $3,900 awards include interest in science, promise of research and scientific accomplishment, academic standing and departmental endorsement. The recipients are also eligible for a subsidy for summer housing on campus.
The eight competitively selected recipients are among more than 160 students conducting research at the college this summer supported from endowed funds at the college as well as through external grants received by Hope and individual faculty members. The students include Hope students, students from other colleges and universities, and high school students; area high school teachers are also among the researchers. A total of 42 Hope faculty in the natural and applied sciences division are engaged in research this summer.
° Joseph Adamson is a sophomore from Battle Creek and conducting research in mathematics. He is working with Dr. Brian Yurk, assistant professor of mathematics, on the research project "Insect Development in a Changing Climate."
° Lien Brusselmans is a senior from Plainwell and conducting research in nursing. She is working with Dr. Susan Dunn, associate professor of nursing and chairperson of the department, on the research project "Exercise, Hopelessness and Depression in Heart Disease."
° Matthew Eiles is a junior from Beaverton, Ore., and conducting research in physics. He is working with Dr. Peter Gonthier, professor of physics, on the research project "Radio and High-Energy Nonthermal Emission from Neutron Stars."
° Nicholas Hubley is a sophomore from Fox River Grove, Ill., and conducting research in engineering. He is working with Dr. Michael Misovich, associate professor of engineering, on the research project "Chemical Property Modeling."
° Erica Jansen is a senior from Auburn, Ind., and conducting research in biology. She is working with Dr. K. Gregory Murray, professor of biology, on the research project "Ecological Patterns to Guide Antimicrobial Bioprospecting."
° Leah LaBarge is a junior from Hudsonville and conducting research in the geological and environmental sciences. She is working with Dr. Edward Hansen, professor of geology and environmental science, and Dr. Brian Yurk, assistant professor of mathematics, on the research project "Modeling Plant Population Dynamics in Sand Dunes."
° Hasing Lin is a sophomore from Shanghai, China, and conducting research in computer science. He is working with Dr. Charles Cusack, assistant professor of computer science, on the research project "Human Computing Games for Graph Problems."
° Andreana Rosnick is a junior from ShelbyTownship and conducting research in chemistry. She is working with Dr. William Polik, who is the Edward and Elizabeth Hofma Professor of Chemistry, on the research project "Computational Chemistry of Highly Energetic Molecules."


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Forget the candidates. Pennsylvania voters who won't be required to show photo ID at the polls during the May 21 primary came out the real winners last week.
Forget the candidates. Pennsylvania voters who won't be required to show photo ID at the polls during the May 21 primary came out the real winners last week.
That's because lawyers on both sides of a constitutional challenge to the state's notorious Voter Identification Law agreed that the ill-conceived statute would not be enforced as voters pick nominees for judicial and municipal offices.
"At this point we just don't see the (need) to litigate the issue," Senior Deputy Attorney General Patrick Cawley told the Associated Press.
That's putting the cart well before the horse. The litigation, let alone the statute, shouldn't exist in the first place.
The law's Republican authors were never able to prove that the problem the statute was intended to prevent — voter impersonation — existed at the pandemic levels needed to justify the potential disenfranchisement of tens of thousands of voters who just happened to be Democrats.
House Majority Leader Mike Turzai, R-Allegheny, exposed the naked political motivations behind the law when he admitted last June before a gathering of state Republicans that it would "allow" former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney to win the state.
Turzai's televised remarks, which were played on an endless loop on cable news shows, had the unintended consequence of energizing Democrats lulled into a false sense of security by President Barack Obama's poll numbers in the state.
And as a Commonwealth Court case so amply demonstrated last year, state officials bungled implementation of the law from start to finish.
Among the flaws exposed in Judge Robert E. Simpson's courtroom was the shoddy training for front-line PennDOT employees charged with issuing acceptable identification. More than one witness testified to the difficulty of obtaining ID from the agency's motor-licensing centers.
It was also shown that state officials would be unable to get proper ID into the hands of voters who needed it in time for last November's general election.
So as voters head into the polls in May, the status quo that existed during last November's election will prevail: They will be asked to show photo identification, but will not be barred from voting if they do not have it.
It's a ridiculous charade that one hopes will end with a judge's finding that the law should be consigned to the dustbin of history.
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