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NEW YORK (AP) — There's an odd believability you find inside "Outlander" that somehow makes it feel true-to-life.
Never mind that it's a rip-roaring fantasy. Claire, a lovely British Army nurse on a second honeymoon in Scotland, is mysteriously swept from 1945 back to 1743, plopped into a strange and alien existence, including marriage to a dashing Scottish warrior, even as she struggles to return to "modern" times and the husband she left behind.
Premiering on the Starz network on Saturday at 9 p.m. EDT, "Outlander" is adapted from Diana Gabaldon's wildly popular novels. Shot in Scotland, the series is lush and beautiful, and as genre-bending as its source material as it straddles romance, science fiction, history and adventure.
"I've always done period shows," said "Outlander" executive producer Ronald D. Moore, a sci-fi maestro celebrated for his futuristic "Battlestar Galactica," ''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" and "Star Trek: The Next Generation."
"I like working in worlds that don't exist, and creating things that take you outside of your day-to-day reality. So the process of putting together a show that takes place in the 18th century is really not different from a show that takes place in the future: You're still creating everything from scratch."
Moore knows he's facing a hurdle snagging viewers who aren't already hooked on the "Outlander" books. In particular, he's got to win over guys, who may not instantly see the appeal of a romance-laden saga with a woman at its center.
"Perceptions are hard to fight," he said. "This is the exact opposite challenge that we had on 'Battlestar Galactica' on the Syfy channel: How do you get a woman to even look at this program? But once they did, women bought in, and loved it. Now we have the opposite challenge: Look, 'Outlander' isn't chick-lit or a romance novel! This is really an adventure story. So, you try to get men to sample it in the same way."
"I wasn't aware when I got the job," said Irish actress Caitriona Balfe, who stars as Claire, during an interview in New York alongside Scottish-born Sam Heughan ("A Princess for Christmas"), who plays the warrior, Jamie, and like Balfe knew nothing of the "Outlander" craze.
"But I had a funny moment when I went to my local bookstore in L.A. to buy a copy," Balfe recalled. "When I was paying for it, the clerk said, 'You know, they're making a TV series out of that. Ronald D. Moore is going to executive produce it. I wrote my thesis about him in college.' I thought, 'Ahhh, this is a good omen!'"
"I thought we would cast Claire first, and that Jamie would be the hardest part to cast," said Moore. "But Jamie was the first character cast in the entire piece. It happened so early it scared us, but once we saw Sam's tape, we said, 'Let's just grab him while we can.' And then it took forever to find Claire. We needed someone intelligent, funny, empathetic, capable; an actress who could sustain viewers' interest week after week.
"Then Caitriona sent her tape in, and word roared around the office: 'Yeah, that's it!' She was cast just days before she had to go to work!"
"There's a cockroach!" hooted Heughan, interrupting himself as he pointed to a baseboard of the otherwise immaculate Associated Press conference room. With that, Balfe let out a yelp, followed by apologies for overreacting as the roach was swiftly removed.
"She's GREAT with horses," Heughan laughed.
"I'm even fine with mice and rats," said Balfe, who recalled when she used to live in roach-infested New York. "I was pretty lucky. I never had a cockroach in five years in Brooklyn. But I was staying at my friend's place in Manhattan one night while he was out of town. There was a cockroach in the bathroom and I couldn't even bring myself to go in there. I woke up at six the next morning and had to run out to the closest coffee shop just to pee."
After a week in the U.S. for publicity and Comic-Con, it's back for a few more weeks' shooting in Scotland. There, the "Outlander" troupe has been able to toil in a bubble since last September, largely shielded from the hubbub greeting the show.
"This year has flown by," said Heughan. "Our feet haven't touched the ground."
"When the show premieres," Balfe said, "we'll be back in Glasgow. We miss it."
Starz' 'Outlander' brings novels to life vibrantly
NEW YORK (AP) — There's an odd believability you find inside "Outlander" that somehow makes it feel true-to-life.


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Smuggling of Migrants: Establishment and Operation of a Coordination and Analysis Unit (CAU) for East Asia & the Pacific
1. Project Code and Sector
|No. and Title:
|Smuggling of Migrants: Establishment and Operation of a Coordination and Analysis Unit (CAU) for East Asia & the Pacific
|Status/Starting Date:
|Quarter II / 2009
|Link to UNODC Medium Term Strategy:
|Result area 2.1 - Threat and risk analysis
|4 years
|Link to Regional Programme outcomes:
|Pillar 1. Rule of Law: Illicit Trafficking, Outcome 1.5: Smuggling of Migrants (SOM) identified and effectively acted upon
|Executing Agency:
|UNODC Regional Centre for East Asia and the Pacific (RCEAP)
2. Situation Analysis - "The Why"
In East Asia and the Pacific, migration has shaped the very nature of societies. Descendants of indentured labourers now constitute integral components of the population throughout several countries in the region. Migrants have been a particularly important element in forming the economic, social and political landscape of Southeast Asia. In recent years, migration within Southeast Asia in particular has been fuelled by differences in wealth and levels of economic development both within and across the countries of the region. With the Asian Highway network nearly completed and the ASEAN region moving towards economic integration, labour migration is expected to further increase.
Criminal groups are generating profits from transporting and facilitating the illegal entry of migrants into destination countries . Immigration policies in destination countries are becoming more restrictive and border monitoring is becoming more sophisticated. In response, migrants are becoming more dependent on migrant smugglers to facilitate their movement. This has resulted in the diversificiation of the migrant smuggling industry, which now offers a range of services at various costs. Migrants who pay the lower spectum of the scale bear greater risks of danger and harm. The irregular status of such smuggled migrants often results in further harm, violence or exploitation once they have arrived at their final destination.
A challenge for governments across the regions is determining the extent of the problem and the characteristics of the organised crime groups involved. While information exists on regular and irregular migration, there is a lack of specific data on SOM. Currently, no common approaches exist to collecting information on the processes of SOM.
While the use of traditional means of data collection for SOM presents some challenges because these activities are by nature secretive and illicit. They are also increasingly controlled by organised crime syndicates. Overall, there is no existing baseline for assessing the current situation, analysing trends or developing strategic responses to SOM in the region.
Government counterparts of participating countries, including law enforcement, immigration and border officials, are the target groups for the Project Activities. Policy makers and those who determine strategic operational priorites will also benefit from an improved quality and quantity of information concerning SOM available at the National level. The ultimate beneficiaries of the Project Activities will be smuggled migrants.
3. Project description - "The What"
The project will cover East Asia and the Pacific. The specific module herewith described will initially focus on Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam.
The project staff will be based at the UNODC Regional Centre for East Asia and the Pacific, in Bangkok (Thailand).
To identify and effectively act against SOM activities in East Asia and the Pacific.
Outcome, outputs and indicative Activities
Outcome 1: Systems to generate, manage, analyse, report and use migrant smuggling information established and operational (Regional Programme Output 1.5.1).
Output 1.1: Agreement to support the SOM CAU by initial participating countries concluded.
Indicative activities include:
• drafting of regional SOM background paper and SOM CAU specifications proposal; and
• regional meeting convened in partnership with ASEAN.
Output 1.2: Publication of a regional annotated bibliography.Output 1.3: Publication of a standardised data collection model.
Output 1.4: National assessments conducted to identify SOM information and gaps and capacities to generate SOM data.
Output 1.5: National workplans established detailing actors, activities and indicators to address information and capacity gaps.
Output 1.6: Training on SOM and related data generation, collection and management delivered to appropriate target groups.
Output 1.7: Guidelines for access to and dissemination of SOM CAU information developed and implemented.
Output 1.8: SOM database established and national information contributions commenced.
Output 1.9: Research studies to fill SOM data and information gaps conducted.
Output 1.10: Annual regional analytical report compiled and disseminated.
Ouput 1.11: Review and expansion of SOM database by participating countries.
Output 1.12: SOM information and analysis used as input for national and regional responses to SOM.
4. Project implementation - "The How"
The duration of the Project is four years. The Project, including administrative financial management which will be conducted by UNODC through the RCEAP. The Project will also be executed in cooperation with the UNODC Country Offices of Lao PDR, Myanmar and Vietnam and other Project Offices, as needed. The Project Coordinator will work under the overall supervision of the UNODC Representative of the RCEAP with substantive guidance provided by the Senior International Law Enforcement Adviser. Project support is to be provided by the South East Asia and the Pacific Unit of UNODC HQ, with technical backstopping by UNODC's Anti-Human Trafficking and Migrant Smuggling Unit (Division of Operations) and Organised Crime and Criminal Justice Section (Division for Treaty Affairs), as appropriate.

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Hello Inter kid, greetings and welcome to the Narutopedia! Thanks for your edit to the Minato Namikaze page.
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♪♫ Hey I just met you, and this is crazyyyy, but here's my talkpageee send me a message maybe? :D lool
I'd be happy to help you with anything you need, just ask so I can be specific. But first thing you need to know is how to sign your posts. You do that by putting ~~~~ after the messages you leave on any kind of talkpage or using the signature button at the top of the editing window. So you get something like this→ --Cerez365™(talk) 11:03, July 12, 2012 (UTC)
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Umm i know i'm not the one you asked, but omni hasn't been that active for the past couple of days so i thought i'd answer you're questions. Firstly, Chat hasn't been put on this wiki for a reason, this is not a social networking site, it's an encyclopedia of the naruto series, theonly real socializing on this wiki is on talkpages but that's normaly just debating over the edits to the article. I think theres a Forum, where the admins and other users debated over adding chat and they decided aainst it, it was quite a few months ago so it probably not easy to find now. Secondly, the raikages speed really hasn't been specified, it's just known that he's on equal or greater terms of speed than the fourth hokage Minato Namikaze, meaning he's scary fast. Also which Raikage do you mean, cause there are four of them now and only three are known thus far, i assumed you mean't the current one A. I remember seeing you on the superpower wiki too.188.8.131.52 (talk) 08:41, July 17, 2012 (UTC) yomiko-chan
Also i little tip, when someone leaves a message on you're page and you respond to the message on their talkpage, you wright RE: and then the name of the message and highlight the title then click on the level 2 headline button thats on the tool bar at the top of the page marked by a black uppercase A.126.96.36.199 (talk) 08:57, July 17, 2012 (UTC) yomiko-chan
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http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Narutopedia:Image_policy and http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Narutopedia:Userpage_policy, good read--Elveonora (talk) 01:26, November 11, 2012 (UTC)
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Hotels & Accommodation
Your guide to the best hotels in Penang, from budget hostels to boutique accommodation and luxury resorts
Best backpacker hostels
Ryokan Chic Hostel
Their rates of their bunk beds per night are admittedly at a flashpacker price point (because they are) but their overall friendly, upbeat service makes up for it. Casual socialising happens almost naturally at their common area where guests can enjoy movies on the telly and surf away on Ryokan's readily available iPads with free Wi-Fi.
Queen's Hostel
Founded by Zoe Tam and Rachel Koay who are travallers themselves, Queen's offers budget-friendly lodging strictly for ladies - snagging the title as the local's first female-friendly hostel. The hostel features mixed couples rooms (open to female guests with male friends) and upstairs, a canopy-covered dorm with comfortable mattresses to rest your weary heads. Beauty essentials from hair straighteners to OPI nail lacquers and full-length mirrors are also available to make you feel all-pretty before stepping out. To satiate your midnight hunger pangs without braving the darkened streets and corners, rummage their lobby basket for mineral water, instant noodles and snacks.
Syok at Chulia
Relatively new, Syok is a non-expensive stay and a hang out joint rolled into one. The Syok lounge and bar only caters to hostel guests, so crowd control is not a worry. If you prefer to spend the rest of the day indoors, sit in for one of their two theatre nights each week that screens classic movies on its 50" HDTV. Cold beers and soft fizzies are all within reach from the bar or enjoy their complimentary coffee and tea served all day long.
Street Art House
Inspired by the island's love for street art, this aptly-named homestay comprises seven rooms that are divided into Lebuh Armenian and Lorong Lumut. Every room comes in varying art themes from 90s cartoons (think, Tom & Jerry) to a water lily mural. Its eco-friendly aesthetics such as the chandelier designed from biscuit tins and chairs made out of plastic carton boxes will be well appreciated by tree-huggers.
Reggae Penang
Originally a colonial era shophouse, Reggae caters to only foreign backpackers. Down the road from Reggae Hostel is the hip and loud Reggae Mansion Bar. If a quieter spot is much preferred without compromising the partying vibe, guests can hang out at their upstairs bar from 3pm until past midnight. Light music conquers the earlier half of the day while 10.30pm onwards is reserved for jazz and R&B playlists. It's not the best stay for light sleepers but music lovers will treat the late night jamming like a lullaby.


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Opinion: Yes, We Scan
Editorial page editor Paul Gigot on the political reaction to the disclosure of the National Security Agency's surveillance programs. Photos: Getty Images
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
... the Republicans wrote in a ... range of motivations ... the people who made these disclosures for her outside of the democratic will ... when you are subverting the power of government debt that's a fundamentally dangerous to democracy ... good afternoon and welcome to Opinion Journal I'm Mary Kissel ... that was Edward Snowden Beat Blues Alan employee he who leaked information about the National Security Agency's anti terror efforts ... editorial page editor Paul GBO here Paul ... he was little on the screen is a whistleblower I hesitate to label in that way because I missed some evidence of grade wrongdoing here ... well I didn't heed whistleblower is depends on how you define the term I guess I don't what I fancy so far is that he has not disclosed any abuse of the program of the pack among you could argue the most significant abuses his leak ... the program ... um the heated Geely to the existence of a ... ok ... and that is a violation of this post ... has a public official who will accept a security class ... ah but I see no other evidence he's provided ... that this is ... that this is actually ... for the program itself ... within the parameters of the second of law has been in the U K that the program itself is collecting and many data so it's not going to programs that have been exposed to programs of phone records and negative one is Mehta data which is basically data about the witches phone numbers to and from like the so-called mission of the call that sort of thing that is ... the one that that's very broad ... and as pattern detection is looking for ... the deal in a haystack ... try to find out ... who is calling for example ... Pfizer which is odd the would be times where bomber if you look ... and you are trying to prevent ... that attack ... which the in the end was unsuccessful ... by pure accident ... you're looking you would look to see what was fine Oceanside talking to ... if you have a number of that to the tothe you to be a terrorist affiliated number ... he saw Summly popped up on the sale of another number ... okay let's look into that ... I wrote in the second row right Prism program which is more which doesn't go into content but that the president of the NSA say starred in foreigners ... in foreign communications that happen to go to American switching networks ... I don't think anyone saying that these programs are illegal ECB loud alarm off the ... table my studies I will say it makes sense that it's unconstitutional ok I can I don't divide that if you look of the ... semester says Merrill in nineteen seventy nine decision for example ... the Supreme Court clearly said that there's no expectation of privacy despite dialing a phone number in Michael Casey The former industry ten hundred piece on its roof delving into those constitutional arguments today tonight ... but what the argument that this is over abroad that ... he and the ... vastness of the state collection summing we as American citizens should be warned I actually don't think ... I mean you look in and if you sell it includes billions in phone costs yes it's pass ... but again it is in the ... desert for example intrude on your person ... it does include in your entry in your privacy ... to know which number you die ... he wanted to listen to the new phone met conversation with somebody that's an intrusion and that requires a very another court order ... and a very specific up of approval ... for talking about your Ghana's pattern detection with are trying to prevent an attack ... so I would argue that this kind of ... use of data ... bill was very broad ... is actually less of an intrusion than the kind that you would have to have if you didn't do ... it but what what are the checks on this and what were told that there's the Pfizer court and ... we had lightning Feinstein intensifies that ... I don't think you know it as was the court does exist the Pfizer court effect okay I ... mean do you think that that's enough democratic accountability ... well ... I it's the accountability that the democratic process has arrived at that and of course you have congressional ... supervision through the accountability through the oversight does the right word through the ... intelligence committees and I'm in quite a number of senators ... he also had the culpability of the reauthorization of the bill ... approval for this in December when you have the Pfizer court which has certain judges which of these secret ... but it does have to be on the prices sees in the so-called minimization procedures and how ... if they do grab for example a deatails Latin America ... how did they dispose of it in a way that doesn't jeopardize that person's that Americans' privacy so ... is there enough accountability ... in my view there is absolutely as people wanna have a public debate about this that's fine but the people that keep keep keep keep this in mind ... you the two presidents ... were brother different ideology ... George Bush and and Brock Obama both of whom who look at this program ... both of them said you know what ... it actually and Dallas keeps America say ... and is worth ... the whatever trade offs you have so ... I'd I do believe whatever debate about the health care is fine by me ... but I think in the end most Americans would conclude ... it served its purpose


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Not long after the problems between Richie Incognito and Jonathan Martin surfaced it became obvious neither player had a future with the Dolphins.
The Dolphins wanted to divest from Incognito and had no intention of bringing him back. That was reported in this space early on during the scandal.
Soon, it also became clear Martin's future could not possibly be with the Dolphins, either. Players in the locker room were divided on him only in that some didn't care if he returned while others saw him as something of a quitter or worse and wanted no part of him on the team again.
No one actively campaigned for bringing him back. No one.
And it was reported in this space that Martin indeed would not be brought back but rather he'd be either traded or perhaps released. That was confirmed by Dolphins owner Stephen Ross a couple of weeks ago when he was asked if either of the two players would play for Miami again.
"I don't believe so," he said.
But now this ...
NFL Network insider Ian Rapoport said on Wednesday night's Total Access that Martin may return to play for the Dolphins.
"As far as Jonathan Martin's future, I am told he does in fact want to play in 2014; he is excited about it and I am also told that his people have been in contact with the Dolphins on some level over the past couple weeks," RapSheet said.
"At the beginning of this, we all thought that there was no chance Jonathan Martin would return to the Dolphins because of the atmosphere. Now that the atmosphere has changed, I am told it is not outside the realm of possibility that Martin does return to the Dolphins when it's all said and done."
Pardon me while my mind explodes.
Composing myself ....
Still gathering ....
Alright, let's attempt to analyze this. First, with respect to Rapoport and his outstanding reporting, I don't believe Martin will ever play for the Dolphins again.
There has been a change in general manager but no change in atmosphere. Sure the next gathering of Dolphins players in a locker room will not include Incognito. Indeed, four-fifths of the offensive line might be gone next season.
But Mike Pouncey is still around. Brian Hartline is still around. Ryan Tannehill is still around. Players that were bothered, if not wholly angered by how Martin and his camp conducted his departure from the team and then slimed the team afterward are on the team. That has not changed.
Secondly, how stupid would the Dolphins have to be let Martin back in that locker room? The message they would be sending is if you are having personal troubles and you quit on us, even in the middle of a season and without any explanation to coaches or staff, we'll be fine with letting you come back when you are ready.
I am not doubting the reporting here. I am doubting the agenda of the source, however. It's simple: The Dolphins have zero leverage in trying to trade Martin. The entire NFL knows they want to do that. Ross let that slip and then tried to take it back during his press conference (Ross doing Ross) but that's not how it works. It was transparent that Miami wants to go in another direction.
So how does one rehabilitate that?
By saying, through sources or back channels, that Martin might return. By reaching out to Martin and letting him believe he has a future in Miami. By selling the idea that you, the Dolphins, may not necessarily trade this really good, really valuable left tackle after all.
There are only two small problems with this:
It is not likely to work unless you sell it really hard -- as in having general manager Dennis Hickey actually saying on the record the Dolphins might keep Martin and then actually letting him join the team for whatever work players will gather for in the early offseason. (Yeah, that would really help team chemistry and bonding.)
Secondly, you would have to be really dumb to keep this wound open and festering rather than simply cutting out the infected area and saving the rest of your body.


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It's another sign of dystopia. There is actually a line of children's bulletproof vests made in colorful colors, and fitted out with school-ready backpacks that can stop rounds from a machine gun.
In his factory in Bogota, Miguel Caballero makes bullet-proof vests attached to bullet-proof backpacks which he has tested with machine guns and handguns to show they can withstand a barrage of bullets.
Mr Caballero said that following the December 14 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, his company received a surge in customer interest in this kind of item.
"We started getting e-mails from customers asking for protective clothing because they were afraid to take their kids to school," said Mr Caballero on the factory floor where his company's clothing is made.
Caballero has set up a special site just for kids' bulletproof fashions. He's already furnished the British royal family with protective puffers — why not children in the U.S. too?


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Below you can find all the scoop on NBC's new and returning shows from the Television Critics Association fall TV previews.
James Spader reinvents himself as shaved-headed mystery man on NBC's The Blacklist
Michael J. Fox on returning to TV full-time: "I just thought: Why can't I?""
NBC on Sochi Olympics and Russia's anti-gay climate: "We'll address it"
Will & Grace paved the way for Sean Hayes' new comedy Sean Saves the World
NBC comes off flat year, announces Hillary Clinton miniseries starring Diane Lane
Welcome to the Family draws inspiration from famous families
Glee's Mike O'Malley: Cory Monteith was the "real-life quarterback of that set"


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"The Forbidden Kingdom," the first-ever pairing of Jackie Chan and Jet Li, is a fantasy-oriented "The Karate Kid" in Wonderland. DVD release is packed with features that take viewers deep inside the kung fu rabbit hole.
Modern teenager Jason (Michael Angarano) is a Shaw Brothers fanatic who comes into possession of a legendary spear that transports him to an ancient kingdom straight out of old Hong Kong films. Mentored in the ways of kung fu by the Silent Monk (Li) and Lu Yan (Chan), Jason embarks on a quest to return the spear to its proper master, and in doing so free the imprisoned Monkey King.
Director Rob Minkoff ("Stuart Little," "The Lion King") describes the film as "a kung fu dream team," and was heavily involved with the DVD package, providing commentary not just on the feature, but deleted scenes and pre-vis sequences. Featurettes focus on the pic's female co-stars, the China-based shoot and the film's roots in ancient mythology. Blooper reel deviates from Jackie Chan tradition by focusing on flubbed dialogue, rather than failed stunts, but entertains nonetheless.
The most interesting aspect of the package is the digital copy of the film for portable video players, which might prove to be a valuable strategy down the line as these devices become more popular.
Film straddles an awkward line between family-appropriate flick and adults-oriented martial arts epic, and high production values don't make up for other on-screen deficits: Li and Chan's comedic chemistry lacks the same sparks as their martial arts duels, and Angarano's wide-eyed charm makes him a believable fish-out-of-water, but a not-so-believable kung fu master.
Yet, Woo-Ping Yuen's fight choreography is top notch and package makes for a compelling release.


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May 14, 2009
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Julie Palakovich Carr, Public Policy Associate
Robert Gropp, Ph.D., Director of Public Policy
American Institute of Biological Sciences
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United States Senate
The American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) encourages Congress to provide the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Office of Research and Development (ORD) with at least $700 million for fiscal year (FY) 2010. Within this amount, we encourage you to provide at least $190 million for human health and ecosystem research. This funding level would help restore past funding cuts and make an important investment in our nation's environmental sciences research enterprise.
AIBS is a nonprofit scientific association dedicated to advancing biological research and education for the welfare of society. Founded in 1947 as a part of the National Academy of Sciences, AIBS became an independent, member-governed organization in the 1950's. AIBS is sustained by a robust membership of some 5,000 biologists and nearly 200 professional societies and scientific organizations; the combined individual membership of the latter exceeds 250,000.
As EPA's scientific division, ORD supports valuable extramural and intramural research that is used to understand, prevent, and mitigate environmental problems facing the United States. ORD research informs decisions made by public health and safety managers, resource managers, businesses, and other stakeholders concerned with climate change, air and water pollution, land management and restoration, and environmental contaminants. In short, ORD provides the scientific basis upon which EPA monitoring and enforcement programs are built.
Unfortunately, a lack of investment in EPA science in recent years has hindered ORD's ability to fully meet its mission. Funding for research programs at EPA peaked in FY 2004, when ORD was funded at $646.5 million. Since then, the budget has declined by over $100 million. These budget cuts have come at the expense of the research needed by EPA to address emerging environmental challenges.
Within ORD, research on human health and ecosystems has also been negatively affected by a shrinking budget. These programs have collectively suffered a 15% decline in their budgets since FY 2004. Restoration of funding to at least the FY 2004 levels, as adjusted for inflation, would be an important first step to meeting our nation's environmental science research needs.
The Ecosystem Services Research (ESR) program is one of the important areas within ORD that would benefit from increased funding. The ESR is responsible for enhancing, protecting, and restoring ecosystem services, such as clean air and water, rich soil for food and crop production, pollination, and flood control. Research conducted by the Ecosystem Services Research program provides scientific data, methods, models, and tools needed by state and local resource managers to account for the cost and benefits of using and preserving ecosystem services.
Another key program affected by the declining human health and ecosystem research budget is the Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Graduate Fellowship. This program supports graduate students pursuing an advanced degree in environmental science. Since the program's inception in 1995, EPA has awarded STAR Fellowships to 1,500 promising scientists who have gone on to pursue careers as scientists and educators. This fellowship contributes to the role of the United States as a world leader in scientific discovery and innovation. Despite the program's success, the STAR Graduate Fellowship has lost approximately 35% of its funding in real dollars between FY 2004 and FY 2008. Even with repeated restorations of funding by Congress, the number of STAR Fellowships awarded each year has been drastically reduced, down from 124 fellowships in 2004 to 32 fellowships in 2008. The President's budget request of $10.9 million for the program will restore funding to the FY 2005 level and provide 131 new fellowships.
Revitalization of ecosystem research has also been a concern of the EPA Science Advisory Board. Over the past several years, the EPA Science Advisory Board has made multiple requests to then-EPA Administrator Stephen L. Johnson for increased funding for ecological research. In a letter dated May 2008, Dr. M. Granger Morgan, Chair of the EPA Science Advisory Board, expressed grave concerns about the agency's funding declines. He stated his concern about not being able to adequately address future problems due to current underinvestment of emerging scientific needs. Dr. Morgan stated that we "run the risk of incurring much larger future costs because we do not understand the subtle intricacies of these risks and hence could blunder into difficulties ... from which it may be much more expensive to recover." Clearly, the EPA Science Advisory Board feels that the current funding levels are jeopardizing the agency's ability to fulfill its missions down the road.
We urge Congress to consider the Board's concerns and provide EPA with at least $700 million for ORD for fiscal year 2010 and at least $190 million for human health and ecosystem research. Providing these amounts to ORD will restore them to FY 2004 levels and begin to provide the resources needed to address a backlog of research needs.
Thank you for your thoughtful consideration of this request and for your past support of EPA science programs.
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Carson City, NV…The Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles has approved Google's license application to test autonomous vehicles on Nevada public roads. It is the first license issued in the United States under new laws and regulations that put Nevada at the forefront of autonomous vehicle development.
After drive testing demonstrations along freeways, state highways and neighborhoods both in Carson City and the busy Las Vegas Strip, the department's Autonomous Review Committee met to review Google's safety plans, employee training, system functions and accident reporting mechanisms. The committee approved the application and is now creating the state's first autonomous testing business license and license plates for the international company. The license plates displayed on the test vehicle will have a red background and feature an infinity symbol on the left side.
"I felt using the infinity symbol was the best way to represent the 'car of the future.'" Department Director Bruce Breslow said. "The unique red plate will be easily recognized by the public and law enforcement and will be used only for licensed autonomous test vehicles. When there comes a time that vehicle manufactures market autonomous vehicles to the public, that infinity symbol will appear on a green license plate.
Google was the first company to file an application with the department to test their autonomous system. Other auto manufacturers have indicated their desire to test and develop autonomous technology in Nevada in the future.


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Want an amazingly delicious bite size dessert that is a crowd pleaser….
these Gingerbread Cheesecake Bites are a true winner!
Gingerbread Cheesecake Bites
We woke to 39 degrees, it's much colder than the 95 degree days we had a week ago.
It's a hot tea and cookie type of day.
With the smell of gingerbread in the oven, I think I need to start writing my Christmas list….
Have you written your list yet?Do you
Do you have a running list that starts on Jan 1st and you just keep adding to it all year long?Do you just jot down a few things it would be nice to have? Do you rely on someone selecting the perfect gift with no list at all, or do you know exactly what you'd like to receive?
Do you just jot down a few things it would be nice to have?Do you rely on someone selecting the perfect gift with no list at all, or do you know exactly what you'd like to receive?
Do you rely on someone selecting the perfect gift with no list at all, or do you know exactly what you'd like to receive?
or do you know exactly what you'd like to receive?
Just imagine the Christmas Carols playing in the background and the aroma of gingerbread baking in the oven.
Nothing says happiness at this time of year more than great baked goods, no matter what's on your list.
To help you get in the baking mood, I created these quick and easy cheesecake filled gingerbread cookies.
In just a few simple steps your kitchen will smell like the Holidays too.
Begin with a 30 oz. roll of Pillsbury Gingerbread Cookie Dough or USE MY GINGERBREAD COOKIE RECIPE if you want it all to be homemade or you can't find the Pillsbury dough.
Roll 2 teaspoons of gingerbread dough into balls and place them into a mini cupcake/muffin pan with paper liners.
Make a well or indentation in each ball to fill the cookies.
To create the indentations in the cookie dough, place the end of a mini rolling pin or back of a measuring teaspoon dipped in flour and press into the dough.
Beat cream cheese, powdered sugar and vanilla to create the cream cheese filling.
Place filling into a piping bag, cut off the edge and fill each with a teaspoon or so of cheesecake mixture.
Do not over fill the dough, when the cookie bakes it will rise. Take a look at the photos above and the final photos to see the difference.
See the dough puffs up!
Bake at 350 degrees for 9 minutes, or until the cookie part comes out with a nearly clean toothpick, they will continue to bake a bit when the pan is out of the oven cooling down.
*****Substituting the gingerbread cookie dough has been a problem for many who couldn't find the Pillsbury Dough, some gingerbread cookie doughs are soft and then when they are baked the filling absorbs into the dough as it bakes.
CLICK HERE for the GINGERBREAD COOKIE RECIPE I use when the Pillsbury gingerbread dough is not available or I want the whole recipe to be homemade.
These were baked with my gingerbread cookie recipe. But don't forget to put the paper liners in the pans. I tried them without liners and they were hard to get out of the pan.
- 1 (30 oz) package Pillsbury Gingerbread Cookie Dough (refrigerated section)
- 4 oz cream cheese (room temperature)
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- Roll two teaspoons of cookie dough into a ball for each cookie. Place balls of dough into paper liners mini cupcake/muffin pan. Make a well/indentation into each ball of dough with a flour dipped mini rolling pin or the back of a measurement teaspoon.
- Beat room temperature cream cheese with powdered sugar. Stir in vanilla. Place filling into a piping bag, cut off the edge of the bag. Place one teaspoon or so of filling into each area of cookie dough.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 9 minutes or until cookie tested with toothpick comes out almost clean.
- Don't overfill the cookies with filling as they will rise when baked.
- Let cool before removing from cupcake pan.
The cookie dough is firm.
If you use another cookie dough and it is on the soft side, add ½-1 cup flour. The cookie dough should be on the FIRM side so the filling does not get absorbed by the cookie dough as they are baking.
***update*** there is a bit of rise and fall when baking the gingerbread pre-made cookie dough. Add 1/4 cup flour to the cookie mixture and the dough will be a little firmer and will bake up with less puff, then there will be less collapsing of the dough when cooling. The gingerbread cookie and filling can be refrigerated to get them back to a cool temperature before baking and that too will help if the filling is melting or the cookie dough is rising too much. You can also bake the cookie cups empty and add the cheesecake filling when the cookie cups are cooled.
Take a look at this, make these Cookies all with ONE dough.
If you like PUMPKIN then you will LOVE these Pumpkin Spice Bites
I was compensated for this recipe from Pillsbury, all opinions are my own.


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Pink Makeup Look For Valentine's Day
How to Pull Off a Rosy Makeup Look à la Gemma Arterton
It's almost Valentine's Day, which means it's also the perfect time to play around with pink and red makeup, and Gemma Arterton has already taken her love-hued palette out for a spin. At the premiere of her new movie, Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters, Gemma went for a rosy flush on her cheeks, eyes, and lips. The feminine look paired with soft curls is perfect for a romantic night out.
To get an equally flattering look, try cream blushes and shadows, which give you a more dewy, ethereal finish. Start by working Tarte Airblush in Shimmering Poppy ($25) onto the apples of your cheeks and then sweep Lancôme Color Design Infinité in Everlasting Rose ($25) onto your eyelids. For added flair, dab a touch of the Tarte blush into the center of your eyes. For your lips, pick a semimatte color like Clarins Rouge Eclat Lipstick in Rose Ruby ($26). The three colors will work together to create a flawlessly flushed palette, perfect for anytime you're in a romantic mood.


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Grails Runtime Logging Plugin
compile "org.grails.plugins:runtime-logging:0.4"
Allows you to change the logging characteristics (e.g. Level) for common parts of a Grails application at runtime without the need to restart.
Runtime Logging (log4j) PluginThis plugin allows you to easily control log4j logging at runtime, using a simple GUI interface, without the need to restart your application.NOTE: This is still an alpha release, and should be treated as such. Specifically, beware of releasing it into production as-is, because there is currently no authentication/protection around the function. But see the "Authentication" section below.Plugin features:
- Simple GUI interface for controlling log4j settings
- Dynamically change log4j settings without need to restart
- Separately control common parts of the application such as Controllers, Services, SQL etc.
- Uses intuitive names like "SQL", "Services", "Controllers" (rather than class names) to make it easier for newbies.
- Displays the equivalent closure to add to Config.groovy to get the same effect permanently
SetupInstall by adding a dependency in BuildConfig.groovy (be sure to update the version to the latest):
After install test it by going to this page:
plugins { … compile ':runtime-logging:0.4' }
Try setting "SQL" to "DEBUG" and click Submit. All SQL statements should now be logged. You will also see some "Groovy Equivalent" code - copy/paste this into Config.groovy to achieve the same effect permanently.
AuthenticationThe plugin comes with no authentication or security out-of-the-box. Do not use it in production as-is because anyone could switch on logging to maximum and eat all your disk space and probably crash the server.You should use a security plugin, either Spring Security Core or Shiro. If you're using Spring Security Core the approach is different depending on which authentication approach you're using. If you have Requestmap instances in the database, add a new one, e.g.
If you're using annotations, add the rule to the
new RequestMap(url: '/runtimelogging/**', configAttribute: 'ROLE_ADMIN').save()
staticRules property in Config.groovy, e.g.
And if you're using the "interceptUrlMap" approach, add a rule to that map in Config.groovy:
grails.plugins.springsecurity.controllerAnnotations.staticRules = [ '/runtimelogging/**': ['ROLE_ADMIN'] ]
Using a filter for security isn't a good idea, but it is an option. If you want to use this approach you could use code similar to this:
grails.plugins.springsecurity.interceptUrlMap = [ … '/runtimelogging/**': ['ROLE_ADMIN'] ]
class MyFilters { def filters = { authFilter(controller:"runtimeLogging",action:"*") { before = { // Define your own isAllowed() logic if (!isAllowed()) { render "You Are Not Authorised" return false } return true } } } }
Future plans
- Add authentication
- Add configuration to allow user-controlled categories
- Add environment-specific config so function can be enabled/disabled for production
Release Notes
- v.0.3: Changes submitted by Brad Whitaker add dynamic selectors to allow more granular control of each Controller/Domain/Service present in the application.
- v.0.4: Updated to work with Grails 1.3 and 2.0.


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I have come to the conclusion that we no longer need to convince Ron Paul supporters to come over to the dark side in order to beat 0beyme. Between 0beyme beating himself (he'll have low voter turnout) and the addition of Ryan to the GOP ticket (VP picks do matter this time) we're going to have a Reaganesque landslide. They are now irrelevant. They can go ahead and write-in Ron Paul or vote for Gary Johnson. They can spend the next 8 years knowing their vote made absolutely no difference... again. They will prove once again that they can't punish the GOP.
There, I feel better already knowing I no longer need to argue with them. Now I can focus on taking back the GOP from the elitists and taking back the USA from the communists. Don't you feel better now, too? :)
Now get off your butt on Nov 6th and vote Romney/Ryan!
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Lives of Mentally Ill, Police Collide
Law-enforcement professionals and mental-health advocates believe they are seeing an increase in fatal encounters between police and the mentally ill.
HILLIARD, Ohio—It was near the intersection of Fishinger and Smiley that Tony LaRosa's life careened into Billy Lane's mental illness.
A police dispatcher had sent Officer LaRosa to what seemed like a routine accident call. When he arrived, Mr. Lane, 25 years old, was outside his wrecked SUV, bloodied, holding a butcher's knife and threatening passersby. Mr. Lane advanced relentlessly on the police officer, who shot him four times. Mr. Lane died on the spot.
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Mount Yale Climber's Log
hhsilleck - Jan 10, 2004 6:58 pmRoute Climbed: SW ridge Date Climbed: June 2002
Fun, standard Sawatch 14er. Good first 14er.
Jim Clarke - Sep 25, 2003 10:34 amRoute Climbed: Southwest Slopes Route Date Climbed: September 24, 2003
Climbed Yale via Southwest Slopes Route under perfect fall conditions with the Aspens at their peak. Bluebird skies, little wind, no crowds, three hours to the summit. Fun scramble if you stay on the highest point/ridge to the top from the saddle. Nice peak hike.
big_g - Sep 12, 2003 9:53 pm Date Climbed: Sep 12, 2003Route Climbed: SW Ridge from Denny Creek Date Climbed: 12 Sep 2003
Summer to winter in a couple hours. I certainly didn't have the right gloves for this foray into the mountains. The wind was fierce! Just enough snow that the 2 people ahead of me turned back between 13,500-14,000 ft, but it is melting fast. Made this summit although I cancelled the rest of my trip.
dp - Aug 20, 2003 9:48 pmRoute Climbed: SW via Denny Creek trailhead Date Climbed: July 22,2002
My first summit in the Collegiate Peaks. Terrific climb, took the harder scramble to the summit to the left of the false summit(great fun, but did not exactly impress myself with my routefinding skills!). Very impressive false summit.
rob_runkle - Jul 30, 2003 7:14 pmRoute Climbed: Dennys Creek Trailhead Date Climbed: July 24, 2003
Great hike! Great class 3 potential at the top, along the ridge.
ben - Jul 21, 2003 6:44 pmRoute Climbed: ? Date Climbed: Nav 2001
winter conditions, fun climb! We got lost on the way down in some heavy weather, so it turned into a long hike.
Helga - Jul 19, 2003 6:20 pmRoute Climbed: Denny Creek Trailhead Date Climbed: 7.19.03
Used the dispersed camping area across from the Avalanche parking lot and took on trail at Denny Creek at 6:30. Clear sky, beautiful day all the way to the summit which took me long 4 and 1/2 hrs to reach. Upper portion of the trail below the Boulderfield was steeper than anticipated and I would not consider this mountain one of the easier Fourteeners at all. Shorter to hike yes, but not easier! Grand view of Mt.Princeton to the South from the summit ; Mt.Columbia/Mt.Harvard and Three Apostles to the North among others obviously. Gorgeous views of even Pikes Peak in the distance. Descended at 12:30 and got hit by hail above timberline, then heavy rainfall all the way to the bottom. Several people up there from out of State with no gear at all. DON"T DO THAT!! Going up into a black cloudy sky.....waiting for the clouds to go away....DON"T DO THAT! Overall a great hike. Poles very helpful for this hike but a burden in the Boulderfield. I didn't mind the rain once in the trees. It felt good and cooled me off. Great day to be on Mt.Yale!
jrf - Jun 16, 2003 7:05 amRoute Climbed: From Denny Creek Date Climbed: June 14, 2003
This was my first fourteener this year. Absolutely beautiful day. No bad weather at all. Not a lot of snow left either.
Kane - May 27, 2003 7:44 pmRoute Climbed: Southwest Slopes Date Climbed: 1996
Yale was O.K. It was easy. I remember being on the summit and wishing that I would have come up from the east ridge and the Avalanche Gulch TH. It look more scenic then the standard route. It definately looked to have less people as well. because of the paved road to the TH, you get a lot of people as well.
Diggler - Apr 7, 2003 5:25 pmRoute Climbed: Denny Creek/Delaney Gulch Date Climbed: summer '97
Went up with my buddy Z on a 2-day tour-de-force that also included Mt. Princeton. On the way up there was sunshine mixed with rain, while it started raining & storming by the time we got above timberline. We managed to make it up, however, & had a good time.
Colonelpyat - Feb 28, 2003 3:22 amRoute Climbed: Denny Creek Date Climbed: September 17, 2002
My father and I climbed this one and had the whole mountain to ourselves. Fall colors were at their peak and there was a light dusting of snow on the ground. A nice day.
Grant - Jan 17, 2003 10:35 amRoute Climbed: Denny Creek TH Date Climbed: June 23, 2001
I made it to the trailhead at 7:30. I knew that this would be a steep hike because it was only 3 ½ miles to the summit. The trail went up right at the beginning for only a couple hundred feet or so. Then it flattened out and the trail followed Denny Creek. After about ¾ mile of steady slopes was the first uphill part of the hike. It was 800 feet of vertical in about a half mile. There were numerous switchbacks and the trail led me out of the timber to the tundra. The trail let up a bit but it was still quite a hike. Looking ahead I could see about a half mile in front of me a steep trail that lead up to the saddle. Once at the steep part it was full of switchbacks and I made my way up. This was the toughest part of the day. Once at the saddle it was another 600' to the summit although not as hard as the trail up to the saddle. It was steep and was nothing but a boulder field.
I only spent about five minutes on the summit and the main reason for that was that I went on a Wednesday and I only saw six people all day. I knew that there was only one person behind me. So I didn't want to be out there all alone. On the way down I saw a Red Columbine and from what I understand they are uncommon in our state.
I believe it was a good hike. It had its more difficult parts but I just took my time and made it.
mtnhiker13 - Dec 27, 2002 8:21 amRoute Climbed: Denny's Gulch Date Climbed: Summer 1993
I don't remember too much about this mountain except that I must not have been in very good shape as it seemed like the last mile took forever. I do remember the very nice views from the top and the astonishment that I actually made it. Since I grew up right next to Yale University - I was happy to summit it's mountain namesake.
steve simmons - Dec 10, 2002 3:56 pmRoute Climbed: eastern ridge Date Climbed: August 23, 2002
Summated around noon during the 2002 nolans '14 endurance event. Beautiful and fun climb.
GOD bless! Praise JESUS!!!
climberkjp - Oct 22, 2002 11:50 amRoute Climbed: Denny Creek Date Climbed: May 2002
Climbed with wife - Alexis, roommate - Andy, and cousin - Tad (his first 14er, and perhaps his last)
Beautiful snowy conditions on top. A fun early season climb.
rmjwinters - Oct 6, 2002 2:29 pmRoute Climbed: North Slopes Date Climbed: August 4 2001
In a shroud of clouds we made the summit. Up and back in 6 hours. It was cold and windy for an August morning.
odysseus - Aug 14, 2002 1:27 pmRoute Climbed: Denny Creek TH Date Climbed: Aug. 6, 2002
This one will DEFINITELY test your legs! A rock mass near the top must be gotten around (or over) before the summit can be reached. Great views in all directions from the top. The 3rd of 6 fourteeners my partner and I bagged over 6 days.
ctruscot - Jul 3, 2002 8:41 amRoute Climbed: Denny Creek I think Date Climbed: summer 1995
This was my first Colorado 14er - I recall bad altitude headache :)
wayneaflick - Jun 25, 2002 6:22 pmRoute Climbed: Denny Creek Trail Date Climbed: July 11, 1996
This was a long time ago. I remember that the trail was great but the long scree climb above the tundra was kinda hard. The summit has the biggest rocks I've ever seen. Good thing too, it snowed like hell while I was on the summit and the rocks came in handy for getting out of the weather. The snow lasted about 20 minutes. I down climbed in bright sunny weather, oh well, this IS Colorado.
EL Mwucko - Jun 21, 2002 9:20 amRoute Climbed: Standard Swiss Family Robinson route. Date Climbed: 1987?
Good god! I remember that one! The climb up seemed longer and tougher than it should have been. On the trip down, the weather beat the daylights out of us. We didn't even have time to get our raingear on.
After fleeing the weather (common practice), we had stopped under some trees. I was pulling my raingear out of my pack when I heard Betsy say "Look at that!" Just then, the whole side of the mountain gave way in a horrendous mudslide.
I felt a hand grab my shoulder, yanking me upwards. It was not the first time, nor would it be the last.
And I still remember Aaron's words:
And boogie we did. As we approached a gulley, one by one, we slipped and slid straight down a rut, right into the mud (reminiscent of the scene in Romancing the Stone).
I'll never forget the looks on the faces of the locals as we dragged into the Dinner Bell Cafe at Johnson's Corner. We were covered from head to toe in mud, drenched, and tired. We must have been a sight! A woman at the cash register looked up, and did a triple-take in shock and terror.
It's funny how the worst experiences make the best stories.


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Titanic Sails Into Westchester Broadway Theatre!Published: Tuesday, January 28, 2014 11:00 am By: William Reynolds Source: White Plains Daily Voice
ELMSFORD, N.Y. -- More than a century after its ill-fated maiden voyage, the Titanic, continues to fascinate us. Titanic runs through Sunday, Feb. 23 at Westchester Broadway Theatre in White Plains, and Director Don Stephenson's show is a good one.
The original Broadway production made its debut in April of 1997, and garnered five Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Best Orchestrations and Best Scenic Design.
Stephenson was in the original Broadway cast, and lamented the fact that the show, as brilliant as it was, could not reach a wider audience, with a road tour. The large cast and lavish sets were trimmed, and production costs slashed. This re-tweeking is what is now, on the Elmsford stage. The show also features a unique menu based on The Titanic (see the attached PDF).
A listing of the first class passengers included American multi-millionaire John Jacob Astor IV, the R.H. Macy department store owner Isador Strauss, industrialist Benjamin Guggenheim and Major Archibald Butt, who was the aide and confidante of former President Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft, the then-incumbent occupant of the White House.
Audience members meet Edgar and Alice Beane. A small hardware store owner from the Midwest. Alice sneaks every chance to cross the invisible line that separates their 2nd class accommodations from those in 1st class. Alice's all-consuming quest is to rub elbows and mingle with the creme de la creme of society.
Among those huddled together in 3rd class, we find a young Irish woman, Kate, who hopes to find a man who will accept her and her unborn child, in America.
We also meet the "godfather"of the Titanic, J. Bruce Ismay, the Chairman of the White Star Line, who has nothing to lose, but everything to gain, as the ship disembarks. Throughout the first act, we see Ismay pressuring Captain Edward J. Smith, to accelerate the ship's speed. The seasoned seaman quietly dismisses his misgivings about doing so, but, ultimately acquiesces to Ismay's wishes.
In a far off corner of the ship, we see Harold Bride, the radioman and telegrapher, hunched over his tiny desk, from which he learns of the impending danger, lurking in the muddy North Atlantic seas. Iceberg - Dead Ahead!
The iceberg splits the ocean liner in half. With it, more than 1,500 of the 2,200 passengers are lost. The survivors, wrapped in blankets, greet the audience, in the finale. Through their words and music, they bring together all the hopes and dreams that had set sail from Southampton, England on that early April morn.
The ensemble cast is magnificent. They ably wear two, three or more hats, throughout the show. Musical director Ian Weinberger astutely weaves his magic in bringing to life, the mighty ship and its passengers.
Choreographer Liza Genaro briskly moves the story along with precision and artistry. Costume Designers Derek Lockwood and Ryan Moller vividly recapture the fashions of the day, by attiring the passengers in a way that defines their station in life. Stephenson has nurtured and brought forth a stand-out production, for which we are most grateful.
The story of the Titanic holds very special meaning to this reviewer, who was privileged to know a local woman, whose family, were originally, set to be passengers on the ill-fated ship. Fortunately, her father postponed the trip.
The only fault of the musical is its omission of a hymn, Nearer My God to Thee, that was sung by the passengers and crew, in the ship's final moments.
Other than that, I urge everyone to book passage on Titanic: The Musical. Tickets may be obtained by contacting the WBT at (914)-592-2222 or visiting its website.


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Seriously, guys... AFAIUnderstood, one of the reasons for HTS and CS split was to prevent a quality forum from skiddies & cie, because HTS was obviously a flytrap. But then, why making a clone of CS here ??? The same thing will happen again, a few people coming for learning and many people coming for skidding, then in 2 or 3 years mature users will ask for a split, and the same thing will happen again and again ???
Remove the Security/General Discussion/Philosophy sections, let that to CS people, keep only the challenge forums. When an interested user asks for more, just PM him CS' link. In this way neither CS nor HTS will have to deal with skiddies. HTS will play the role of a filter, without being submerged by MSN account hacking demands (see this one, only a few hours after the forum is up !), and all good-willing people will form a united community (sounds like a hippy dream...).
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Posted by Alisa on Wednesday, March 17, 2010
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Breezy Point Couple Overwhelmed As Volunteers Unveil New Home
" A couple whoseBreezy Point home was completely destroyed inSuperstorm Sandy got the surprise of a lifetime from a group of volunteers.
Led by the Virginia-based "Operation Blessing International," hundreds of volunteers rebuilt Bert and Jeanne Metz's home.
The volunteers worked tirelessly to help the Queens couple get back on their feet.
As CBS 2′s Dana Tyler reported, the Metzes were led, eyes closed, to a giant blue tarp for the big reveal.
They burst into tears as their newly renovated home was revealed and much-needed cheers filled their Breezy Point neighborhood, Tyler reported."
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- Breezy Point Couple Overwhelmed As Volunteers Unveil New Home (newyork.cbslocal.com)
- Overwhelmed in Newtown|Tax assessor responsible for truckloads of gifts (rep-am.com)
- Hackers for Charity (boingboing.net)


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From Openmoko
CDMA Version
Currently there is no such version planned.
The reason is simple:
Openmoko is about free phones.
We are currently not aware of any carrier using CDMA and supplying R-UIM (smardcards, similar to SIM cards in GSM networks).
Every phone needs to be provisioned by the carrier itself.
Most CDMA phones do not even have a R-UIM slot it seems.
Thus a CDMA Version is currently not feasible.
This page is to suggest the possibility of a CDMA version of the OpenMoko and see if there would be any interest in accomplishing this:
Leave your nickname here if you are interested in a CDMA version.
- dyous87 -- CDMA support for carriers such as Verizon wireless is all I would need to get this phone. If this comes out I would get it without having to think twice.
- SteveoSupremo -- I am willing and able to do hardware design. And if FIC wants it I will sign a NDA.
- Ryuch 06:48, 26 October 2007 (CEST)


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Application: Prefabricated Systems
How Modular Data Centers Mitigate Colocation Provider Construction Risks
In the fast-moving data center business, the formula for colocation providers' on-going success consists of providing customers compute infrastructure that is quickly deployed, scalable and...
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The colocation market is growing rapidly, with 451 Research predicting 7% CAGR in operational square footage globally through 2020. Clearly the opportunity is large for providers that can keep...
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Hear from experts on the latest solutions & technology for your data center. Learn about three phase UPSs, cooling, lithium Ion batteries, containment, prefabricated & preconfigured solutions, low vo
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The HP TouchPad, the Michael Myers-like tablet that just won't die, just popped up on Woot for a pretty cheapish $220. Two benji's and a jacksonw will score you the 32GB version. That's a little more expensive than it was during the great firesale of 2011 but with webOS becoming open source, maybe there's value in it!
In all truthfulness, paying $220 for a 32GB 10-inch tablet that's as good as the TouchPad isn't a terribly bad deal. The Kindle Fire is $200 for only 8GB and 7-inches and the PlayBook is... haha the PlayBook. Anyway! If you're feenin' to touch a big tablet screen, go press that yellow button. [Woot via SlashGear]


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There were a couple of things that stood out for me while thumbing through the book:
1. During the course of pre-production, they nabbed the illustrious Dave Dale, aka Big Deal, to do an in-house workshop on drawing cartoony cars. There are a couple of his examples in the book, and boy, did it bring me back to the good ol' days of reading CARtoons magazine! They went to the right guy, that's for sure.
2. There was a spread on stickers and decals for Filmore, the hippie Volkswagen bus voiced by George Carlin, and amongst the 60's-themed sayings and logos, there was one that stood out for me:
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By Bob Greene, CNN Contributor
(CNN) — Over the years, it seems that just about every format imaginable has been used for debates between presidential candidates.
Lecterns. Chairs. No chairs. Tables. No tables. Open stages to walk around on.
Moderators working solo, like Jim Lehrer at this year's first presidential debate and Martha Raddatz at the vice presidential debate. Moderators with panels of reporters. Questions submitted by the audience. Questions submitted by viewers at home. Town halls, like the one that will be moderated by CNN's Candy Crowley on Tuesday.
Yet, 52 years after the first televised presidential debate, there still often seems something stilted and dry about some of them (but not all: witness last week's high-energy vice presidential debate between Joe Biden and Paul Ryan). Frequently, though, the staffs of the people running for the presidency negotiate the ground rules so fussily that the debates can at times feel like some sort of candidates' cotillion.
So what if, for one debate some year, it was agreed to try the one format that has not been tested?
The debate would still be 90 minutes in prime evening time. The proceedings would still be telecast live on all the networks. There would still be an audience in the auditorium.
But there would be no moderator, and no panel of questioners. There would be no subject matter agreed to in advance.
There would be no rules.
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At the top of the hour, the two candidates would come out onto the stage. There wouldn't even need to be an announcer making an introduction.
And then. …
It would be up to them.
They would have 90 minutes to talk to the audience, and to each other. To argue, and try to persuade, with no referee.
It just might be fascinating. Their staffs, as campaign staffs will do, would have prepared them and would have come up with tactics for each of them to take over the debate. And you can bet that the two candidates would fall back on those rehearsed tactics. For about 15 minutes.
But then they would realize that, with 75 or so minutes left, they had better figure out a way to talk about things with each other, and with the nation.
It would be like when people get stuck in an elevator together: They talk because they have to. They may feel that they have nothing in common, but now they're here. In the elevator suspended between floors, there's no one but the two of them.
Surprising things can be said and learned. There's no blueprint. No script.
If a presidential debate of this sort were to be attempted, the audience in the auditorium, and at home, might find out some things about the candidates they would never discern in a tightly formatted, moderated debate, or in a standard-issue stump speech. And the candidates might find out a few things about each other — maybe even find some unanticipated common ground. Funny things can happen in an elevator that isn't going anywhere.
Some of what unfolds might have little to do with the specific words that are spoken. Is one of the candidates overbearing and selfish in how he uses the time — does he refuse to let his opponent get a word in? That would be a good thing for the voters to know. Is one of the candidates lighthearted and easygoing as he deals with the empty minutes in the company of the person he is running against? That would be instructive to see. Who's the leader? Who heats up? Who is unflappable?
There are, after all, occasions when presidents meet one-on-one with powerful foreign leaders, with no one to guide the conversation. This might be a good approximation of that — presidential candidates unplugged, on their own, with no escape hatch.
(Or the debate might instead turn out to be an approximation of a pro-wrestling cage match, in suits and ties instead of trunks.)
Of course, once candidates took part in one debate with this format, they and their staffs would undoubtedly devise a way to screw it up for the next time, to make it bland and suck all the life out of it. But for one night — that first night it was tried — it just might make for great, riveting viewing.
Or — let's be candid — it might turn out to be an utter flop, like the announcerless National Football League telecast that took place in 1980, when NBC Sports, as an experiment, put on a regular-season game between the New York Jets and Miami Dolphins with no announcers or commentators — just the sights and sounds of the action. The post-game consensus was that it wasn't such a splendid idea at all.
But two candidates, stuck in the presidential-debate elevator, depending on their own wits, intelligence and deeply held beliefs to carry the night? With just the two of them to figure it all out, and the entire nation watching?
There is at least a chance that it could develop into one of the most spontaneous and illuminating evenings of politics ever televised.
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The scramble for teachers is driving many states and school districts to get creative and ditch their old routines. Backed by solid data and the most current research available, the NEA Resource Guide for Recruiting and Retaining Quality Teachers captures the best practices nationwide for attracting more new teachers and keeping experienced teachers in the classroom.
In addition, the number of male teachers has declined steadily over the past two decades and the Association has ideas for increasing their recruitment.
The stakes are high: inspiring a diverse student body to achieve, encouraging parental involvement, and retaining qualified teachers, minority and majority, male and female.
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Co-creator Ashton Kutcher sets into motion elaborate pranks aimed at Hollywood stars and other celebs. Among the bigwigs who have been `punk'd' are Frankie Muniz (the show's very first victim), Katie Holmes, Nick Lachey, Halle Berry, Justin Timberlake, Serena Williams, Zach Braff, Andy Roddick, Beyonce and Hugh Jackman. Kutcher hosted the programme from its 2003 beginning to its supposed end in 2007, but five years later `Punk'd' returned with a different celebrity host each week, including Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus, Bam Margera and Dax Shepard, who take the pranks to a whole new level. The fresher episodes also give viewers an inside look at how the elaborate pranks are set up.
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The Rides debut, Can't Get Enough, was inspired by Super Session, a 1968 blues album that featured Stephen Stills and Mike Bloomfield on guitar.
Stills says it more strongly: "I'm making records for 180-gram vinyl. I'm not making records for the bullshit iTunes, file stealing, [Napster founder] Sean Parker end of the music business. I agree with Neil [Young] that people are being cheated."
The guitarists performed on an array of vintage axes, mostly Fenders. Like Shepherd, Stills is a Strat man. "Kenny Ray's muse is Stevie Ray Vaughan as much as mine is Jimi Hendrix," he notes. "Hendrix brought me to the Stratocaster in the '70s. It didn't become obvious that that was the voice I could get out of it until I figured out what mics and amps to use. I still have my old Buffalo Springfield black Gibson Les Paul, but it's so heavy that after five or six shows I have to go to the chiropractor. The Strat is lighter, and I've found a way to get it to make noises I like."
Shepherd played a trio of late-'50s and early-'60s Strats, while Stills relied on two from 1954. "I like them because I can play them," says Stills. "I like the older, thinner frets shaved down, rather than the big, fat Gibson type frets that you dig into. You get a lot of the sound by digging in with your left hand."
They also assembled an amazing collection of vintage amps. "All my amps are Fender tweeds, and they're so old, they have hair growing on them," Stills deadpans. "I've had roadies who wanted to cover them in varnish, but that ruins the sound. It's great old pieces of pine. Not plywood, not fiberboard—pine. The speaker moves the whole box. I've got a Bassman, a Deluxe, and a Twin, and I use a combination of the three."
Shepherd's amplifiers included a tweed '58 Fender Bassman, a blackface '64 Fender Vibroverb, and several amps modded by amp guru Howard Dumble. "I brought in all the amps that Dumble has built for me," says Shepherd. "I had a '65 Fender Bandmaster head he converted to an Ultra Phonix, a'57 tweed Deluxe that he calls the Tweedle-Dee Deluxe, and a Bassman reissue that he basically gutted and replaced with his own handwired circuit. He calls it the Slidewinder."
For the band's upcoming tour, though, Stills says he plans to bring a very special non-Fender amp: "I'm breaking out an old Marshall 100-watt head. Jimi Hendrix and I both picked out about five each. I have three of them left. I think two grew feet over the years thanks to various roadies who thought, 'He's got so much shit, he'll never miss them.'"
While Stills and Shepherd have built busy solo careers, neither considers the Rides a mere side project. "We've already begun writing for the next record," Shepherd confides. "We all feel confident that this will continue moving forward. I hope we get into the studio at the end of this year or the beginning of next. We've all made it clear to one another that this is a priority and not a one-off vanity project. This is something we all want to see through to the finish."
"I've had a great time working with Kenny Wayne," adds Stills. "We'll probably write three more songs in the rehearsals for the tour. It's so much fun. It's easy. It's fast—it never takes more than three takes. It's just bare-bones, old-school, two-inch-tape rock 'n' roll."


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AMD took the wraps off its new "Puma" laptop platform at Computex today, demonstrating a multipronged product the company hopes will win it ground against Intel's Centrino. AMD's mobile market share has long been a weak spot for the company, even in the days when Athlon 64 and Opteron were stealing design wins out from under Intel's Netburst-based processors.
Puma is the first laptop platform AMD has released since it bought ATI, and the combined companies are betting that the emerging synergy between their respective product lines will entice buyers in ways current Intel products cannot match. Santa Clara won't be the only force to overcome; AMD will also have to draw attention to its new Puma-based products at a time when small notebook and "netbook" designs based on Nano, Atom, and Tegra are soaking up the headlines.
Puma's brains
The Turion X2 Ultra processor (codenamed Griffin, pictured below) at the heart of Puma is a tweaked version of AMD's earlier Turion X2. Both chips are built on a 65nm SOI process, but the new X2 Ultra offers double the L2 cache (1MB per core, up from 512K), supports HyperTransport 3.0 for a total of 14.4GBps of bandwidth (up from 6.4GBps), and incorporates several power-saving features that originally debuted on Barcelona. Northbridge, CPU 0, and CPU 1 voltage can be adjusted separately, and the CPU's HT 3.0 interface can be dynamically reduced from 16 lanes to eight—or even powered off altogether.
AMD also claims that the Turion X2 Ultra's memory controller is better optimized for mobile use, and that the chip sports an improved data prefetch mechanism. While Griffin does incorporate certain power-management aspects of Barcelona design, however, the processor architecture itself is derived from K8, as we discussed in our in-depth feature on Puma.
A chipset for Puma
As for Puma's chipset, the RS780M, it's based on AMD's well-regarded 780G and incorporates many of the features of that design. ATI's newer SB700 provides southbridge functionality, while the chipset's integrated graphics are built around ATI's Radeon HD 3200. AMD claims that its HD 3200 is a superior solution to anything Intel is currently shipping, and that seems to be a safe bet; there's a huge performance gap between AMD's 780G and Intel's G33/G35 chipsets.
The RS780M also supports the Hybrid Crossfire functionality built into its desktop cousin; customers who opt for an RS780M-based notebook will have the option of adding a second GPU and running the two together. Unlike the current iteration of 780G, RS780M will be capable of switching the discrete GPU off on-the-fly via a feature AMD refers to as PowerXpress. High-end users/gamers interested in ATI-powered mobile solutions should also keep an eye out for ATI's Mobility Radeon HD 3800 GPUs, as these parts offer a substantial performance boost over the current Mobility Radeon 3600 series.
Taking the GPU out of the notebook
Speaking of high-end graphics, AMD has one further trick up its sleeve. For most of the past two decades, the visual quality and capability of any given laptop has been constrained by any number of factors, including weight, cost, power consumption, available screen size, and fundamental limitations on display quality. Many of these factors are finally being addressed, but a consumer who wants to balance an occasional need for a high-powered graphics solution against a general desire for long battery life may still have trouble finding a notebook that meets both needs. Technologies like PowerXpress are a partial solution to this problem, but why not go a step further, and eliminate the need for a discrete GPU within the laptop case itself?
AMD plans to take a shot at liberating the discrete GPU from the notebook form factor with its ATI External Graphics Platform, for XGP. As the name implies, XGP is a full-featured graphics card that would sit outside the notebook in its own, separate, enclosure. The XGP would connect to the laptop via a PCIe 2.0 x8 external connector (4.0GB/s of bidirectional bandwidth). All of the XGP's cooling requirements would be handled by the enclosure; power would presumably be provided by the external PCIe 2.0 linkage. The RS780M chipset is already designed to take advantage of this feature, but notebook OEMs will have to build the appropriate connectors into their designs, while ATI and its partners offer the equivalent external modules.
Puma is a major initiative from AMD, and a comprehensive refresh of the company's mobile product line, but AMD has a long struggle ahead of it when it comes to building on its low mobile market share. Intel has long held the high ground in this area, and AMD's previous attempts to dislodge the company have proven largely ineffective. Furthermore, the market isn't exactly focused at the moment on the >12" laptops Turion is aimed at. Atom, Nano, and the 7-10" devices they power are currently the hot topic, and Turion is not designed to fit within this space.
How much of a problem this turns out to be depends on how popular these new netbook/MID products become. Standard notebook form factors will continue to dominate sales in the near future, especially in the enterprise, but the netbook market could prove problematic for AMD to the extent that such devices begin to eat into mainstream notebook sales. At the moment, AMD lacks an equivalent product to Intel's Atom or VIA's Nano. Sunnyvale could, of course, develop its own architecture from scratch (or attempt to adapt current IP to the market's requirements), but any such effort will take time. For now, Puma is impressive, but AMD will have to stay on top of the development of the netbook market very carefully, or risk missing out.


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So LA is looming. Approaching Quickly. On the Horizon. Around the corner.
GAH! I can't believe it. Seriously. Really, that fast? I've never had this feeling either, but oh wait, I have not one but TWO races quickly approaching, because oh yea, Oakland is the weekend after. When did I think this was a good idea? Meh! Since there is impending rain for LA (let's not even think about that, I'm already beyond freaked out), we have opted to save the tutus and tiger apparel for Oakland the following weekend and are going for the Green this weekend! We will be sporting green shirts and black capris, and Tara and I realized that this is perfect since it's Saint Patrick's Day! Tutus in the rain would just be a little much. :/
This past weekend, I should have ran but I didn't. FAIL of life. I'm going to run tonight after work so that is something I'm looking forward too and hopefully it will erase the bad 5 miler I had last week.
Shea and I also had a little night out this weekend, hence why I didn't run. :/ BUT, it was one of the most fun nights I've had in a while! I usually am way to tired from work, or have a long run or something else to do that I rarely go out, but this weekend I was pretty darn fun! For some reason we thought it would be great to get duck whistles at Ralphs and we wore them everywhere. I thought B was going to kill me.
Man! It was a lot of fun! Hurting the next day was um…. pretty rough! Not as rough as next weekend will be I'm sure. I'm seriously just trying not to think of the impending rain. What have you done in a race with rain. I think I could do a 5K in the rain, but a full…. Um…. I'm just not thinking about it!


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What if the websites we choose to frequent weren't merely websites, but nations that reflect our homes and ideals? The comic War imagines a world where website membership equals citizenship, and the reddit aliens "liberate" Diggers from their oligarchy.
The first installment of War, created by ncomment, appeared online this past April. It imagined the social bookmarking site Digg as a city, one built on participatory democracy. But as power users gain more power within the city of Digg, unrest sparks among its citizenry, and some of the users discuss reforms. But before they can effect any changes, they are invaded by aliens from rival social network reddit.
The second installment just went up, and envisions the city of Digg under reddit occupation, as well as giving us a peek at the neighboring nations of Mixx and Twitter. A number of other websites are namechecked as well, and if you pay attention, you might notice a familiar logo:
Chances are, we'll have to wait a few months for the exciting conclusion of War. Will the Diggers reclaim their territory? Will the reddit forces convince the occupied diggers to give up memespeak? And what do TechCrunch bars actually taste like?
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Contactors are essentially switches that can be controlled remotely. They can be designed to operate at voltages similar to the control devices that control their state or they can be designed to operate at voltages similar to the loads that they control.
Contactors have features that distinguish it from a standard relay. In most cases, a contactor is designed specifically with high current usage in mind. Other differentiators to relays are as follows:
- Most contactors are designed to be used in the normally open position. Relays can typically be used in two configurations; normally open or normally closed. There are variations to this but this is typically the norm.
- Contactors are typically larger than a relay in physical size. Small contactors are typically around the size of a person's hand. Contactors can get much larger than that and are sometimes large enough to require heavy equipment to move from place to place and install.
- Due to the operating conditions in which contactors are used, there are vastly different considerations that go into their manufacture than go into the manufacture of their smaller cousins, relays. Most contactors have some sort of an arc suppression system included in their design that greatly increases their lifespan.
What is meant by normal state configuration of a contactor?
The normal configuration of a contactor describes the disposition of the contacts when current is not applied to them. Most contactors are normally open, meaning that they close in the presence of current. There are variations, but this configuration is one of the defining characteristics of contactors and one of the things that separates them from standard relays.
Contactor uses
Contactors are typically used for very heavy duty industrial scale applications and their ratings systems is designed to reflect this. They come in different classifications under IEC 60947-4-1. These classifications are expressed as AC numbers, from AC-1 to AC-4. Other classification systems are also used.
The applications of contactors include starting motors, providing control over furnaces, controlling the speed of very large motors and other large-scale applications.