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The U.S. State Department has decided that "party til you puke" may not be the best message for the embattled Gulf state of Bahrain.
U.S. rock musician Andrew W.K., a self-proclaimed "king of partying," said on his website that the State Department and the U.S. Embassy in Bahrain had invited him as a "cultural ambassador" to visit elementary schools, a university and music venues.
The State Department on Monday said someone in Bahrain had approached the embassy about possible co-sponsorship of the trip but U.S. diplomats had second thoughts after reviewing W.K's catalog, which includes songs such as "Party Til You Puke," "Girls Own Juice" and "Party Hard."
"That was initially approved and then when more senior management at the embassy took a look at this, the conclusion was that this was not an appropriate use of U.S. government funds," State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said on Monday in response to a question.
"The conclusion was when they looked at the body of his work that we didn't need to be part of this invitation," Nuland said. "There may have been some preliminary conversations with him but he is not going to be going to Bahrain on the U.S. government's dime."
The rocker's website announcement was updated with a red banner headline reading "Canceled by the U.S. State Dept."
Bahrain, a close U.S. ally in the culturally conservative Middle East, has been rocked by political unrest following last year's government crackdown on pro-democracy protests.
The State Department regularly sponsors artistic and sports groups on trips to promote cultural ties. The U.S. Embassy in Bahrain last month sponsored a hip hop program with visiting U.S. dancers and artists, according to its website.
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Aug. 22, 2011 -- An experimental drug that has been shown to be effective in treating ovarian cancer in patients with BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene mutations also appears to work in some patients without the mutations.
The drug olaparib is one of several experimental treatments that block the activity of the protein PARP, which, like BRCA, is involved in DNA repair.
In earlier trials, PARP inhibitors have been shown to promote tumor cell death in breast and ovarian cancer patients with BRCA mutations by preventing the cells from repairing their DNA.
But the new study is the first to suggest the drugs may prove effective in a broader group of patients with non-inherited cancers who have few treatment options, lead researcher Karen Gelmon, MD, of Vancouver, Canada's BC Cancer Agency tells WebMD.
Olaparib Effective in Non-BRCA Tumors
The study included 65 ovarian cancer patients and 26 breast cancer patients with highly aggressive, advanced forms of the diseases.
Prior to entering the study, the patients had been treated with an average of three different chemotherapy regimens, and some had received as many as 10 different treatments.
Some of the patients carried the BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations while others did not.
All of the patients were treated with 400 milligrams of olaparib twice a day for a month between July 2008 and September 2009. Side effects were described as well tolerated and included fatigue, nausea, vomiting, and decreased appetite.
Ovarian cancer patients who took part in the trial had high-grade serous tumors, which share similar traits to tumors in women with BRCA mutations.
After taking the experimental drug for four weeks, 41% of the ovarian cancer patients with BRCA mutations and 24% of those without a mutation showed substantial shrinkage in the size of their tumors.
No Activity in Triple-Negative Breast Cancers
Responses were not seen in breast cancer patients with triple-negative tumors -- tumors that do not respond to hormonal treatments or those targeting HER2 receptors.
While the response in these breast cancer patients was disappointing, the response in the ovarian cancer patients suggests that the drug may have a role in the treatment of patients without BRCA mutations, oncologist Melinda Telli, MD, tells WebMD.
Telli is an assistant professor of medicine in the division of medical oncology at Stanford University in Stanford, Calif.
"We thought this class of drugs might have a larger role to play, and this is the first study to confirm that this might be the case," she says.
The study was published online and will appear in the September issue of The Lancet Oncology. Drug manufacturer AstraZeneca, which hopes to market the drug pending FDA approval, funded the research.
Earlier this year, another PARP inhibitor, Sanofi-Aventis' iniparib, failed to extend overall survival in a study involving women with advanced, triple-negative breast cancer when added to a standard chemotherapy regimen.
Telli says PARP inhibitors may still prove useful for the treatment of this type of highly aggressive, hard-to-treat cancer.
"There is a lot more to this story and a lot more research to be done," she says.

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Russia admits Syrian Government is losing territorial control
The situation in Syria is aggravating for the local Government. An official from the Russian Government has said for the first time that opposition forces might defeat Syrian government. The opposition is gaining legitimacy after more than 100 countries signed a declaration yesterday in Morocco to give it a political lift. The United States formally recognises the opposite party as "the legitimate representative" of the people in that country.
North Korea launches rocket ignoring UN Security Council
The UN Security Council has condemned North Korea for launching what they consider to be a long-range missile, while Pyongyang states that it was a satellite. The Council is going to have a meeting next Wednesday to consider an "appropriate response" to the threat.
In the meantime, the US has considered the action as "a highly provocative act that threatens regional security." In a statement released last Friday, they announced their intention was to send warships to the Asian country.
The Eurozone agrees rules towards banking union
Economy and finance ministers have reached an agreement today on rules for supervising Eurozone banking. The biggest banks of the Union will be under the direct oversight of the European Central Bank.
The supervision will be made over the biggest banks, with assets over 30,000 millions or the 20% of the GDP. The main obstacle has been a disagreement over power distribution in terms of the supervisor. Germany wants to leave out regional banks, while France and Spain have asked the supervisor for an inspection of every bank, without exception.
Putin wants Russian couples to have at least 3 children
The Russian president Vladimir Putin called on Russians to have at least three children each. He added that he wants people who own luxury goods to pay higher taxes.
After the end of the Soviet Union, the standard of living decreased due to a growth in the mortality rate and a substantial reduction of births. "In order for Russia to be a strong and sovereign country, there must be more of us and we must be better in morality, in our competences, our work and our creativity", the Russian leader said.
Oregon mall gunman identified
The Clackamas County Sheriff's Office have identified Jacob Tyler Roberts as the gunman who shot two people before killing himself in Oregon last Tuesday. According to Oregon law enforcement, he opened fire on a crowded Portland shopping mall and was shooting victims at random.
Roberts was armed with a stolen AR-15 semi-automatic rifle when he opened fire. Two victims were fatally shot, identified as Cindy Yuille, 54 and Steven Forsyth, 45. A third victim, 15 year-old Kristina Shevchenko, is still in serious condition at the Oregon Health and Science university Hospital, in Portland.
First Pope tweet in eight languages
The Pope has tweeted for the first time in eight languages in his eight Twitter accounts. "Dear friends," he wrote, "I am pleased to get in touch with you through Twitter. Thank you for your generous response. I bless all of you from my heart."
He delivered it from a tablet computer at the end of a general audience in the Vatican, with a group of young people gathered round him and after an official announced: "And now the Pope will tweet!". He has already reached over one million Twitter followers.
No progress in fiscal cliff talks
Large differences remain between congressional Republicans and the White House to avert the "fiscal cliff" of steep tax hikes and budget cuts. House Speaker John Boehner called on President Barack Obama to produce a new offer. "I was born with a glass half full. I remain the most optimistic person in this town. But we've got some serious differences," Boehner has told reporters at a news conference.
Worldwide Geminid meteor shower tonight
The annual meteor shower will reach its peak later tonight and into the early hours of Friday morning. The meteors will appear to radiate from a point near the star Castor, in the constellation Gemini. The skies will thus be free of the moon's glare, allowing viewers in rural areas to see perhaps 100 or more meteors per hour, experts say.


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There's something about this colour combo that just screams "SUMMER!" to me.
Orange & turquoise... the colours of afternoon sunshine, orange popcicles, open water, & clear sky.
The perfect colour combo for a cheery summer layout featuring my son.
This is one of my favourite layouts of late. And because I used papers from a single line it made co-ordinating the patterns a breeze (like a summer breeze). ;)
I used my Cricut & a couple circle punches to get all the different circle sizes.
Usually I do my journalling by hand. Mostly because it's faster for me. This time, I was trying to get out of my normal scrapping routine, so I typed up my journalling in plain old Times New Roman
(way faster than searching for the "perfect" font for what would turn into hours),
making sure I double spaced the sentences.
I printed it out onto white cardstock, trimmed it into strips, & adhered to fit in with the circle pattern.
Supplies Used:
- Patterned paper - My Mind's Eye Fine & Dandy line
- Corrugated letters - Jillibean Soup
- Small letter stickers - Basic Grey
- Felt stars - Pebbles
- Flair Badge - American Crafts
- White cardstock - Bazzill Basics
- Font - Times New Roman
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WASHINGTON - After four crowded hearings with more than a dozen witnesses, most of what Congress has to say about the hotly contested Delta-Northwest merger has been said.
Now, the experts say, comes the real test: the Justice Department's antitrust review.
"We have to lock the doors and pull down the blinds and make a decision based on economic theory," said aviation expert Darryl Jenkins, who has studied Northwest's flying strategy for years.
The consensus among industry analysts -- even those who oppose the merger -- is that the Justice Department is unlikely to block the proposed union on antitrust grounds, no matter how much Congress rattles its rhetorical sabers about lost jobs and service.
With few overlapping routes, sky-high fuel prices, and low-cost and foreign airlines nibbling at their tails, No. 6-ranked Northwest and No. 3 Delta have never been in a more competitive environment than they're in now, some experts say.
"This is as clean a merger as you're going to see," Jenkins said.
While the newly merged Atlanta-based Delta would become the world's biggest airline, its share of the U.S. domestic market would be 19 percent, still just a tick below that of No. 1 Southwest Airlines.
But that doesn't mean it's widely agreed that the Delta-Northwest merger will be beneficial to the traveling public, which most analysts say is the first question that government regulators must answer.
One school of thought is that the whole point of a merger is to give the new consolidated airline more pricing power over customers.
"These mergers are explicitly designed to screw consumers," said Hubert Horan, a former Northwest executive who testified Wednesday before a House aviation panel including Rep. Jim Oberstar, D-Minn., a merger opponent.
Oberstar, addressing the companies' two top executives, made clear that he sees the merger's impact as "reduced competition, limited consumer choice and higher fares."
But the opposing camp sees no other hope for a pair of leading air carriers in an industry that has lost close to $30 billion since 2001. "The industry will have to restructure one way or the other," said Ray Neidl, an analyst with Calyon Securities, an industry research firm. "Either through the relatively organized regulatory oversight of mergers, or in the more risky and disorganized guise of bankruptcy."
'Will not lessen competition'
That's also been the argument of the airlines' chief executive officers, Richard Anderson of Delta and Doug Steenland of Northwest, who faced off with Oberstar Wednesday in the last of the four scheduled congressional hearings.
"This merger will not lessen competition," said Steenland, arguing that consumers will also benefit from the projected $1 billion in annual cost savings.
Anderson reminded lawmakers that nine air carriers have ceased operations or gone into bankruptcy this year, "directly as a result of fuel prices."
Oberstar, Congress' leading expert on aviation, opposes the merger largely on his belief that it will have a "cascading" effect of "defensive" mergers by other top airlines. United Airlines and US Airways already are reported to be in talks. What that would mean, Oberstar fears, is a domestic industry contracting not just from six major airlines to five (after Delta buys Northwest), but to four (if United and US Airways join, as well).
Many observers say that's a valid concern, but it's unclear whether it's something the Justice Department can consider in its review, which began in late April when Northwest and Delta first brought their merger proposal to Congress.
"Ordinarily, the department isn't going to look into its crystal ball and say, 'I wonder what the next merger is going to be?'" said Richard Duncan, a Faegre & Benson lawyer in Minneapolis who specializes in antitrust and trade regulation. "What [it] would look at is what's the effect of this merger on market concentration."
But with two potential airline mergers to review simultaneously, Duncan added, "this is kind of uncharted territory."
Looking at current trends
The Justice Department's mandate is enforcement of the Clayton Act, which prohibits business transactions that may "substantially ... lessen competition, or tend to create a monopoly."
The view of some antitrust lawyers is that this opens the door to some analysis of the current trends in airline consolidation. "There's no doubt that past, present and future are all likely to be considered," said Larry Scarborough, an expert in antitrust law in the Phoenix office of Bryan Cave. But if the Delta-Northwest merger otherwise passes antitrust muster, Scarborough said government regulators hardly can challenge the deal in court on the grounds that other airlines might follow suit.
"It's all about the effect of the merger before them," he said.
On that score, Delta and Northwest's best argument is that they fly head-to-head on only 12 of more than 800 domestic nonstop routes. Among the overlaps are flights from the Twin Cities to Salt Lake City and Cincinnati, affecting a combined 75,000 passengers, according to congressional researchers.
Steenland told Congress that most of those routes "enjoy substantial competition from other carriers."
But applying the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index, a leading measure of market concentration, the anticompetitive effects in those regional markets "are off the charts," said Kevin Mitchell, chairman of the Business Travel Coalition.
Some believe that those routes will attract low-cost carriers, which have grown in reach in the past decade even as so-called legacy airlines have shrunk domestically. Patrick Murphy, a former U.S. Transportation Department official, has testified that no-frills discounters now serve markets that account for 75 percent of all U.S. air passengers. "The U.S. domestic airline industry is more competitive than at any time in history," he said.
The broader question at Justice will be whether the Delta-Northwest pairing reduces consumer choice not just in markets here and there, but across the nation. "The missing piece," Duncan said, "is whatever happened to the idea that we're supposed to be fostering not just a network in the Northwest versus one in the Southeast, but rather that these guys are supposed to compete across the network?"
In the end, many analysts speculate that the Delta-Northwest merger is really a bet on expanded international operations, which are more profitable than domestic routes.
But if domestic air travelers still have reason to worry about rising airfares, the prospect of one or two more mergers in the coming months also raises the question of declining service.
"If six systems is not giving us very good service," said University of Houston law professor Darren Bush, "will four likely improve the situation?"
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Benjamin Franklin was certainly one of the most gifted and resourceful of our country's Founding Fathers
Jerusalem Mill Village is offering perhaps the next best thing to a meet-and-greet with the real Ben in the upcoming "Benjamin Franklin as interpreted by David Fisher". On three separate dates, Fisher will bring Benjamin Franklin to life in the first person at the historic village. Fischer, as Franklin, tells Franklin's story, relates the history of his times, and gives the listener a glimpse of the personality and humor of this great man. Fisher will be doing two programs and will cover the following aspects of Franklin's life:
"The Constitutional Convention" (approximately 25 minutes) covers the events leading up to the call for convention, Dr. Franklin's involvement in the writing of the Constitution, and the major issues debated during the convention. "Scientist and Inventor" (approximately 45 minutes) takes an in-depth look at Dr. Franklin's more well-known inventions and experiments, beginning with his childhood through his final days. Time permitting, a brief question-and-answer session will be held after the presentation.
"Benjamin Franklin" is scheduled for Sept. 1, Oct. 6 and Nov. 3 from 1 p.m . to4 p.m. and is recommended for ages 10 to adult. The program takes place at McCourtney's Store at the Historic Jerusalem Mill Village, 2813 Jerusalem Road, in Kingsville.
Also, a "Kid's Crafts — Make and Take" program is now offered at the villagefor children ages 5 to 12. The craft sessions take place on the 2nd Sunday of each month at McCourtney's Store from 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. (if supplies last). On Sept. 8, kids can make a Bookworm Book marker, on Nov. 10, they can make a Thankful Turkey and on Dec. 8, they will make a Candy Cane Christmas Mouse. For information about any of the events, call 410-877-3560 or 410-877-0080.
Attention nature lovers! Marshy Point Nature Center. located at 7130 Marshy Point Road and sponsored by Baltimore County Department of Recreation & Parks, is seeking volunteers interested in learning about nature who will then teach children about nature. The staff of the center will teach you about the environment around Marshy Point. Training includes where to guide the school children, plant and animal identification and techniques to share more and teach less. We want you to help us nurture the sense of wonder that all children have. Each day features new subjects and new techniques for enjoying the great outdoors. Please note breakfast, snacks and coffee are provided during training. New guides pay a tuition fee of $5 to cover all material and handouts. Training is scheduled for Sept 4, 5, and 6 (Wednesday Thursday and Friday) from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The agenda is as follows: Sept 4 – Project Wild, Aquatic; Sept 5 – butterflies at Marshy Point and on Sept 6 – Canoeing the Dundee. Kirk Dreier, director of Marshy Point Nature Center, says, "We encourage anyone interested to register as soon as possible and we look forward to meeting you!" If you'd like to train to be a field/trail guide and want to get more information, please call 410-887-2817.
A free fall concert, sponsored by the Perry Hall Rec Council with the support of the Perry Hall Improvement Association and Woman's Club of Perry Hall, takes place on Sunday, Sept. 15. The Baltimore Symphonic Band, under the direction of Chris Wolfe, will perform "Peter and the Wolf" for all ages at 7 p.m. in the Perry Hall High School Auditorium, 4601 Ebenezer Road in Perry Hall. Don't miss out! For information, call 410-256-1766.
Don't forget to stop by the Avenue at White Marsh for the White Marsh farmers' market, open every Friday through October from 10 a.m .to 1 p.m. Also, make plans to attend the annual Bel Air Corvette Club car show on Saturday, Sept 21.
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Today's the day! All My Children and One Life to Live made their online debuts before the sun came up in most viewers' households this morning, premiering on Hulu and iTunes at 5 a.m./ET.
5 things to expect from the new All My Children
If you haven't had a chance to watch the 30-minute episodes (or if you just can't get enough of them), you can check them out below.
What do you think of the revamped versions? Are they different from the soaps you remember watching on TV? And will you continue to watch them online? Let us know in the comments!
One Life to Live: Answers to 8 burning questions about the online reboot
New episodes of All My Children and One Life to Live will be available on Hulu and iTunes Mondays through Thursdays beginning at 5 a.m./ET. A weekly recap episode will launch on Fridays at 5 a.m./ET.


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.htaccess Files how to deal with them :D
.htaccess file it might look a weird extension or file if you are not a web developer and you deal with Apache servers.
In several web servers (most commonly Apache), .htaccess (hypertext access) is the default name of directory-level configuration files. A .htaccess file is placed in a particular directory, and the directives in the .htaccess file apply to that directory, and all subdirectories thereof. It provides the ability to customize configuration for requests to the particular directory. The file name starts with a dot because dot-files are by convention hidden files on Unix-like operating systems. A subset of Apache's .htaccess syntax is also supported by other web servers, such as Sun Java System Web Server and Zeus Web Server.
Common usage
Authorization, authentication.htaccess files are often used to specify the security restrictions for the particular directory, hence the filename "access." The .htaccess file is often accompanied by an .htpasswd file which stores valid usernames and their passwords.
Customized error responsesChanging the page that is shown when a server-side error occurs, for example HTTP 404 Not Found.
Rewriting URLsServers often use .htaccess to rewrite "ugly" URLs to shorter and prettier ones.
Cache Control.htaccess files allow a server to control User agent caching used by web browsers to reduce bandwidth usage, server load, and perceived lag.
When (not) to use .htaccess files
In general, you should never use .htaccess files unless you don't have access to the main server configuration file. There is, for example, a prevailing misconception that user authentication should always be done in .htaccess files. This is simply not the case. You can put user authentication configurations in the main server configuration, and this is, in fact, the preferred way to do things.
.htaccess files should be used in a case where the content providers need to make configuration changes to the server on a per-directory basis, but do not have root access on the server system. In the event that the server administrator is not willing to make frequent configuration changes, it might be desirable to permit individual users to make these changes in .htaccess files for themselves. This is particularly true, for example, in cases where ISPs are hosting multiple user sites on a single machine, and want their users to be able to alter their configuration.
However, in general, use of .htaccess files should be avoided when possible. Any configuration that you would consider putting in a .htaccess file, can just as effectively be made in a <Directory> section in your main server configuration file.
There are two main reasons to avoid the use of .htaccess files.
The first of these is performance. When AllowOverride is set to allow the use of .htaccess files, Apache will look in every directory for .htaccess files. Thus, permitting .htaccess files causes a performance hit, whether or not you actually even use them! Also, the .htaccess file is loaded every time a document is requested.
Further note that Apache must look for .htaccess files in all higher-level directories, in order to have a full complement of directives that it must apply. (See section on how directives are applied.) Thus, if a file is requested out of a directory /www/htdocs/example, Apache must look for the following files:
/.htaccessAnd so, for each file access out of that directory, there are 4 additional file-system accesses, even if none of those files are present. (Note that this would only be the case if .htaccess files were enabled for /, which is not usually the case.)
The second consideration is one of security. You are permitting users to modify server configuration, which may result in changes over which you have no control. Carefully consider whether you want to give your users this privilege.
Note that it is completely equivalent to put a .htaccess file in a directory /www/htdocs/example containing a directive, and to put that same directive in a Directory section <Directory /www/htdocs/example> in your main server configuration:
.htaccess file in /www/htdocs/example:
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<Directory /www/htdocs/example>However, putting this configuration in your server configuration file will result in less of a performance hit, as the configuration is loaded once when Apache starts, rather than every time a file is requested.
The use of .htaccess files can be disabled completely by setting the AllowOverride directive to "none"
AllowOverride None
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After successfully putting a scale model TARDIS (with lights!) on top of a building at MIT, the CalTech pranksters behind the caper took their show on the road. In this video, they reveal how they set up the giant structure on top of a UC Berkeley building (it's hard to tell for sure, but I think it's LeConte Hall or maybe Birge?). I hope this encourages more geek pranks at my beloved alma mater.
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News that "Rush Hour" and "X-Men" filmmaker Brett Ratner has been tapped to co-produce the Academy Awards is enough to inspire wisecracks (Will Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker co-host and crash onto the Kodak Theatre stage? Will Rebecca Romijn show up in blue body paint as Mystique to hand out the Special Effects award?).
The news, more importantly, also inspires some hope: Enlisting Ratner is a bold move, one that could help widen the show's appeal and shake it back into relevancy.
But if the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science wants to be really daring – and guarantee a crowd – it should make Ricky Gervais the host and be sure to give Harry Potter his due.
As we saw with this year's lackluster effort, picking youthful hosts is no guarantee of an innovative broadcast or of drawing a younger audience, as the 4-million-viewer dip in the ratings suggested. James Franco's lethargic slog through the show and Anne Hathaway's overdone perkiness didn't exactly make for Chan/Tucker-like chemistry.
We expect Ratner will quicken the pace so that we're at least still reasonably awake when the awards everyone cares are announced as midnight looms. "I am the worst ADD filmmaker around so I guarantee it's gonna kick in," the filmmaker told The Wall Street Journal.
Keeping the show bouncing along is important. But strength of the host and the nominees are the keys as to whether the next morning we're gushing over, say, "The Return of the King" or still groaning over Franco in drag as Marilyn Monroe.
We'll humbly suggest casting a wide net for new hosts: Neil Patrick Harris, quick on his feet, literally and otherwise, has done a great job with Emmy and Grammy telecasts, even if some might mistakenly think he's not a big enough name for the worldwide broadcast. Jimmy Fallon proved surprisingly strong in his recent Emmys turn, infusing the program with quick humor and a talent for musical parody honed on his late-night talk show. Few possess the wit and combination TV-and-movie chops as his former "Saturday Night Live" cast mate, Tina Fey. Conan O'Brien, Steve Carell and Stephen Colbert would bring different, winning comic sensibilities to the gig. Perhaps Ratner might consider turning to one or both of the stars of his upcoming flick, "Tower Heist": Eddie Murphy and Ben Stiller.
Our top choice – one we're sadly guessing will never cut it with the Academy – is Gervais, who infuriated Hollywood by skewering all celebrities in sight (and in hiding) at the Golden Globes earlier this year. Gervais' unabashed irreverence – he called Bruce Willis "Ashton Kutcher's dad" – is a crowd pleaser for all but the crowd at the Kodak.
That speaks to the disconnect between Oscar and the public – the show should be for the entertainment of the TV audience, not for the glory of the red-carpet-ready set. Putting on a good program also entails giving viewers an emotional investment in the outcome – which means getting more high-quality box-office hits in the awards mix. You could guarantee a strong young audience with well-deserved major category nominations for "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part II," which is shaping up as the most successful – and perhaps the best – film of the year.
Oscar's virtual snub of the Potter franchise (no wins and no nominations in major categories) is a slap at a generation that grew up on the films over the last decade. It also is emblematic of the kind of snobbery that a host like Gervais would target from the podium.
Ratner, a popcorn-movie machine, clearly is no snob. That he took on the job and that it's news in August, six months before the show, is a testament to the enduring power of Oscar. The Academy's job, after recruiting Ratner, should be to sign off on an equally bold hosting choice and provide a mix of nominees with appeal far beyond the art house crowd. Ratner's challenge is to use the next six months wisely to make the Oscars the rush-hour-paced spectacle movie fans deserve.
Hester is founding director of the award-winning, multi-media NYCity News Service at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He is the former City Editor of the New York Daily News, where he started as a reporter in 1992.


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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency adopted diesel emissions standards to drastically reduce the sulfur content of diesel fuel and improve air quality. It is also our commitment to offer our customers the best in clean-burning fuel.
Available at all Murphy USA diesel locations, ultra-low-sulfur diesel (ULSD) is a cleaner diesel fuel that has a maximum sulfur content of 15 parts per million (ppm). We have been proudly offering this product at our stations since 2008.
Biodiesel is a cleaner-burning diesel fuel made from natural, renewable sources. As part of our commitment to renewable fuels, we are currently testing this product in a number of locations and hope to expand its usage as it becomes readily available.
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Winterized diesel is specially formulated to provide extra starting power in cold weather and guaranteed not to freeze in temperatures as low as -20°F. You can find this great fuel product at our northern locations October 1–March 31.
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The orange beauty here is one of the crash test cars that Tesla will send into a wall at some future date to judge the car's impact worthiness. It's also an indication of what's next from the electric car company.
Manufactured in the company's brand spankin' new Fremont, Calif. facility (well, recently acquired from GM/Toyota and reformatted anyway), the Model S is Tesla's take on the all-electric sedan.
GigaOM, form whence this orange picture came, recently had a tour of this relatively new facility and used that coveted opportunity to snap a bunch of photos. There are more! Check them out, and if you're a real electric gearhead, prepare to drool and assume an envious stance. [GigaOM]


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I understand that the relative distances to the planets had been calculated using various methods since ancient times, and, in particular, that the assumptions of the Copernican model of the Solar System allow one to easily establish the relative distances, $d$ (in AU), from the Sun to the inferior planets, Mercury and Venus, from their (easily measured) greatest elongations, $\varepsilon$ and simple trigonometry:
Hoever it is not clear to me what methods Copernicus or his contemporaries used to determine the relative distances to the superior planets. My texts say only that these were found by "slightly different geometrical methods" (p.44) or that "the analysis for a superior planet is more involved" (p.37).
What methods were those?


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Are you reading Gone Girl with us as part of our first ever Jezebel book club? (All the cool people are doing it! Like Anderson Cooper!)
If so, this is just a friendly reminder that you have until next Friday to finish. I am dying to tell you all what I think about Nick and Amy and murder and trying to plan scavenger hunts for your significant other. (Spoiler alert: their mutual frustration re: esoteric clues resonated with me.) Can't wait!


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The 3D craze continues to find its way into the cell phone market. Sharp has today announced plans to launch a smartphone that features both the 3D screen (pictured) and the 3D camera the company unveiled earlier this year. While this doesn't come as much of a surprise, a Sharp representative today stressed the phone will be available by year end – globally.
Commanding a market share of about 25%, Sharp leads the cell phone industry in its home market of Japan but has been rather cautious in selling phones internationally in the past years. In the smartphone segment, the company has (even in Japan) not much to offer (provided you don't see those Japanese "super feature phones" as smartphones).
There are no details yet regarding pricing, specs, exact launch dates and target markets.
But to recap, the 3D parallax barrier display Sharp showed in April doesn't require glasses to view 3D images and is actually a touchscreen (3.4 inches) made for the Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo's next portable console.
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Canastota to hold 'meet the candidates' tonight at Robert's Street School
CANASTOTA>> The Canastota PTA will hold a public forum at 7 p.m. for all of this year's board of education candidates.
Each candidate will recieve three minutes to speak on the topic of what they pla to accomplish as a member of the board of education. Tehy will also take written questions from the audience.
The event will be moderated by the League of Women Voters. After the forum, candidates will have a chnace to meet with members of the Canastota Community.
Incumbents Michael Buda, Donald Campanaro, Marian Cerio and Douglas Gustin will be running against Robert Burbank, Loran Crosby, Peter Palamara Jr. and Donna Whitbeck for the four board of education seats.


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Phiaton gave us a nice surprise last year with its anything-but-ordinary MS 400 Moderna Series headphones. This full-size set features an eye-catching red and black design with uniquely patterned earcups and plenty of extras in the box.
The company's flagship earbuds, the PS 200 Earphones, are no different. Like their bigger sibling, Phiaton's littlest headphones feature stylish touches, a slick carrying case, and solid sound quality, but potential consumers might have trouble swallowing the $249 price tag from a relative unknown in the headphone market.
Read the Phiaton PS 200 Primal Series Earphones review.


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Are there any howto guides that show the basic aspects of using SO? It would be nice to have something to link to when telling a user to stop creating new questions whenever their original question is closed as "not a real question", and to edit the original one instead.
There are other simple howtos that could be useful, such as:
- Tagging as homework, and giving efforts so far
- How not to use a title "CODE PLS!!!!!"
- Asking on an alternative SE site
- Commenting instead of posting a new answer
- Accepting an answer
Even something as simple as a standard screenshot with the various componented (link / button / text boxes) numbered could be extremely useful.
Related to this, what about completely new users who don't see the notifications of new comments? Perhaps it could be possible for a mod to trigger a template email to them?


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F. Scott Fitzgerald's handwritten ledger online
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- An intriguing peek into the daily scribbles and life of author F. Scott Fitzgerald is now available online, just weeks before the opening of the movie "The Great Gatsby."
Researchers from the University of South Carolina's Thomas Cooper Library put a digital version of the famed author's handwritten financial ledger on their website last week, making it available for the first time for all readers, students and scholars.
"This is a record of everything Fitzgerald wrote, and what he did with it, in his own hand," said Elizabeth Sudduth, director of the Ernest F. Hollings Library and Rare Books Collection.
During a recent visit to the library's below-ground rare-book vault, Sudduth took the original 200-page book out of its clamshell protective cover. The ledger's yellowed pages -- with Fitzgerald's elegant, measured cursive strokes -- are a throwback to life before computer spreadsheets. The ledger shows Fitzgerald's tally of earnings from his works, the most famous of which is the novel "The Great Gatsby." The ledger lists his many short stories, books, and adaptations for stage and screen.
With the May 10 release of a new "Gatsby" movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Sudduth says library officials expect an upswing in interest in its Fitzgerald collection. The ledger will be on display at the library for about a month starting May 6, Sudduth said.
The library's Fitzgerald collection is considered the world's most comprehensive, with more than 3,000 publications, manuscripts, letters, book editions, screenplays and memorabilia. It also includes Fitzgerald's walking stick, briefcase and an engraved silver flask his wife gave him in 1918.
Some parts of the collection already are online. With the ledger's move to the website and the timing of the movie, Sudduth said, officials hope to call more attention to the collection.
In the ledger, Fitzgerald lists in carefully laid out columns his various pieces of writing, the location they were printed, and the income they produced. Fitzgerald's comments are sprinkled throughout. One describes the year 1919 -- when his first novel was accepted for publication and Zelda Sayre agreed to marry him, as -- "The most important year of life. Every emotion and my life work decided. Miserable and ecstatic but a great success."
By the time Fitzgerald started the ledger, Sudduth said, "he probably knew what he was doing. He left a space for his remarks, and then the final disposition."
With a laugh, she noted: "We know he didn't spell very well. And his arithmetic wasn't much better,"
But the overall document, she said, "shows that he was far more on top of his affairs than people thought," given a reputation in later life as a heavy drinker.
"He was keeping a record of his work for the future," Suddeth said. "He kept it, he updated it."
For the past 30 years, researchers have had to rely on a limited print facsimile of the ledger, which didn't catch the varied inks and scripts in Fitzgerald's hand.
Park Bucker, a USC associate English professor, said he's excited to discuss the new ledger with his students.
"It may be a unique artifact among American authors," Bucker said. "This is going to be an amazing thing for students to pore over and dip into. He created his own database. We do it on computers now, but he did it for himself,"
Bucker also said students are fascinated by seeing something a well-known author penned in his own hand.
"Students always remark how much they love his handwriting," he said. "They think his handwriting is just beautiful, and handwriting isn't valued today."
Bucker pointed out that the ledger shows Fitzgerald made most of his income from short stories and that he was able to earn a living from his literary work. "It was the rarest of things, an author who made a living," Bucker said.
In 1925, the ledger shows Fitzgerald earned less than $2,000 for the "Gatsby" book -- the same amount he received for a single short story published in The Saturday Evening Post.
In later years, Fitzgerald added more earnings from "The Great Gatsby." He sold the foreign motion picture rights for $16,666, as noted in the ledger. In another section, he lists about $5,000 in earnings from "Gatsby" when it ran as a play in New York, Chicago and elsewhere.
USC Professor Matthew Bruccoli began to acquire items for the Fitzgerald collection in the 1950s. He received some, including the ledger, from the author's only child, daughter Frances Scott Fitzgerald, also known as Scottie. Bruccoli wanted the collection to be used as a teaching and research tool, and he gave it to the university in 1994.
Bruccoli has since died, but the collection has continued to grow. It is now is valued at more than $4 million, Sudduth said.
The ledger online:
Susanne M. Schafer can be reached on Twitter at http://twitter.com/susannemarieap


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The core of a terrorism trial must be held in secret so that justice can be done, the Court of Appeal has ruled.
Three judges found the course was justified in the "exceptional" case of Erol Incedal and Mounir Rarmoul-Bouhadjar, who are to face charges at the Old Bailey on June 16.
Lord Justice Gross, sitting with Mr Justice Simon and Mr Justice Burnett, said: "The rule of law is a priceless asset of our country and a foundation of our constitution. One aspect of the rule of law - both a hallmark and a safeguard - is open justice, which includes criminal trials being held in public and the publication of the names of defendants.
"Open justice is both a fundamental principle of the common law and a means of ensuring public confidence in our legal system; exceptions are rare and must be justified on the facts.
"Any such exceptions must be necessary and proportionate. No more than the minimum departure from open justice will be countenanced."
He said that c onsiderations of national security, which was itself a national interest of the first importance and the raison d'etre of the security and intelligence agencies, would not by themselves justify a departure from the principle of open justice.
"Open justice must, however, give way to the yet more fundamental principle that the paramount object of the court is to do justice; accordingly, where there is a serious possibility that an insistence on open justice in the national security context would frustrate the administration of justice, for example, by deterring the Crown from prosecuting a case where it otherwise should do so, a departure from open justice may be justified."
He added: "This case is exceptional. We are persuaded on the evidence before us that there is a significant risk - at the very least a serious possibility - that the administration of justice would be frustrated were the trial to be conducted in open court; for what appears to be good reason on the material we have seen the Crown might be deterred from continuing with the prosecution."
The judges were ruling on a challenge by media organisations against an "unprecedented" decision by Mr Justice Nicol that the trial should take place entirely in private with the identity of both defendants withheld and a permanent prohibition on reporting what took place during it and their identities.
They concluded that, while " as a matter of necessity", the core of the trial must be heard in camera, the swearing-in of the jury, the reading of the charges, part of the judge's introductory remarks, at least part of the prosecution opening, the verdicts and - if applicable - any sentencing would be in public.
And, they said they were not persuaded that there was a risk to the administration of justice warranting the anonymisation of the defendants, who were previously known only as AB and CD,
Lord Justice Gross said: "We express grave concern as to the cumulative effects of holding a criminal trial in camera and anonymising the defendants.
"We find it difficult to conceive of a situation where both departures from open justice will be justified. Suffice to say, we are not persuaded of any such justification in the present case."
He added that one issue canvassed before Mr Justice Nicol was whether a small number of "accredited journalists" might be invited to attend the bulk of the trial - subject to being excluded when a small number of matters were discussed - on terms which compelled confidentiality until review at the conclusion of the trial and any further order.
"The judge was not persuaded, essentially on grounds of practicality. We respectfully disagree. The arrangements can be agreed or can be dealt with in our order, if need be, following further brief argument.
"Any breach would obviously carry the likelihood of severe sanctions and, as has been observed on previous occasions, reliance must be placed on the responsibility of the media."
A spokesman for the Attorney General said later: "The principle of open justice is key to the British legal system and trials will always be held in public unless there are very strong reasons for doing otherwise.
"The measures applied for by the CPS in this case were, they believed, justified in order for the trial to proceed and for the defendants to hear the evidence against them while protecting national security.
"We are pleased that the court recognised the strength of some of these arguments, and that the case can go ahead. The CPS has indicated it accepts the judgment of the court, and will tailor its approach to the prosecution accordingly."
Incedal is charged with an offence contrary to section 5, Terrorism Act 2006 (preparation of terrorist acts) and an offence contrary to section 58, Terrorism Act 2000 (collection of information).
Rarmoul-Bouhadjar is charged with an offence contrary to section 58, Terrorism Act 2000 (collection of information) and an offence contrary to section 4, Identity Documents Act 2010 (possession of false identity documents etc with improper intention).
Isabella Sankey, director of policy for Liberty, said: "The judges are clear that open justice is a priceless foundation of our system and faced with a blacked-out trial we now have a few vital chinks of light.
"But their wholesale deference to vague and secret ministerial 'national security' claims is worrying. Shutting the door on the core of a criminal trial is a dangerous departure from our democratic tradition."
Sadiq Khan MP, Labour's shadow justice secretary, said: "I welcome the Court of Appeal judgment which has confirmed that the cloak of secrecy of the scale proposed is not acceptable. There may be exceptional circumstances that warrant parts of cases being held in secret, but to do so for an entire case would have been unprecedented.
"The Court of Appeal had all the facts of this particular case at their disposal and have ordered that parts of it could and should be held in the open. This judgment is a victory for the precious open and transparent nature of our justice system and public confidence will be enhanced as a result."
Incedal and Rarmoul-Bouhadjar, both 26 and from London, later appeared at the Old Bailey via video-link from Belmarsh prison.
The pair, sitting together in matching maroon T-shirts, spoke only to confirm their names at the start of the hearing.
The next hearing is expected to take place on Monday.


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Use the metadata schema form
A metadata schema describes the layout of the Properties page and the metadata properties displayed for assets that use the particular schema. The schema that you apply to an asset determines the metadata fields that appear on its Properties page.
The Properties page for each asset includes default metadata properties depending upon the MIME type of the asset. Administrators can use the Metadata Schema Editor to modify existing schemas or add custom metadata schemas. AEM Assets Brand Portal provides default forms for assets of various MIME types. However, you can also add custom forms for such assets.
Add a metadata schema form
To create a new metadata schema form, do the following:
- From the AEM toolbar at the top, click the Adobe logo to access administrative tools.
- From the administrative tools panel, click Metadata Schemas .
- On the Metadata Schema Forms page, click Create .
- In the Create Schema Form dialog box, specify the title of the Schema form, and then click Create to complete the form creation process.
Edit a metadata schema form
You can edit a newly added or existing metadata schema form. The metadata schema form contains content derived from its parent, including tabs and form items within tabs. You can map or configure these form items to a field within a metadata node.
You can add new tabs or form items to the metadata schema form. The derived tabs and form items (from the parent) are in the locked state. You cannot alter them at the child level.
To edit a metadata schema form, do the following:
- From the AEM toolbar at the top, click the Adobe logo to access administrative tools.
- From the administrative tools panel, click Metadata Schemas .
- From the Metadata Schema Forms page, select a schema form to edit its properties, for example, collection .Unedited templates display a lock symbol before them. If you customize any of the templates, the Lock symbol before the template disappears.
- From the toolbar at the top, click Edit .The Metadata Schema Editor page opens with the Basic tab open on the left and the Build Form tab open on the right.
- In the Metadata Schema Editor page, customize the Properties page of the asset by dragging one or more components from a list of component types in the Build Form tab to the Basic tab.
- To configure a component, select it and modify its properties in the Settings tab.
Components in the Build Form tab
The Build Form tab lists items that you can use in your schema form. The Settings tab provides the attributes of each item that you select in the Build Form tab. The following table lists the form items available in the Build Form tab:
Component Name
Section Header
Add a section heading for a list of common components.
Single Line Text
Add a single line text property. It is stored as a string.
Multi ValueText
Add a multi-value text property. It is stored as a string array.
Add a number component.
Add a date component.
Add a dropdown list.
Standard Tags
Add a tag. Note: Administrators might need to change the path value, for example, /etc/tags/mac/<tenant_id>/<custom_tag_namespace> , if they publish the metadata schema form from AEM, where the path does not include tenant information, for example, /etc/tags/<custom_tag_namespace> .
Smart Tags
Auto-detected tags if you have purchased and configured the AEM smart tags add-on.
Hidden Field
Add a hidden field. It is sent as a POST parameter when the asset is saved.
Asset Referenced By
Add this component to view list of assets referenced by the asset.
Asset Referencing
Add to display a list of assets that reference the asset.
Asset Rating
Average rating of an asset added from AEM Assets before it is published to Brand Portal.
Contextual Metadata
Add to control the display of other metadata tabs in the Properties page of assets.
Do not use Product References , as it is not functional.
Edit the metadata component
To edit the properties of a metadata component on the form, click the component and edit its properties in the Settings tab.
- Field Label : The name of the metadata property that is displayed on the asset's Properties page.
- Map to Property : The value of this property provides the relative path/name to the asset node where it is saved in the CRX repository. It starts with " ./ " because indicating that the path is under the asset's node.
The following are the valid values for this property:
-- ./jcr:content/metadata/dc:title : Stores the value at the asset's metadata node as the property `dc:title`.
-- ./jcr:created : Displays the jcr property at the asset's node. If you configure these properties on view properties, we recommend that you mark them as Disable Edit, because they are protected. Otherwise, the error "Asset(s) failed to modify" occurs when you save the asset's properties.
- Placeholder : Use this property to provide the user any relevant information regarding the metadata property.
- Required : Use this property to mark a metadata property as mandatory on the Properties page.
- Disable Edit : Use this property to make a metadata property uneditable on the Properties page.
- Show Empty Field In Read Only : Mark this property to display a metadata property on the Properties page even if it has no value. By default, when a metadata property has no value, it is not be listed on the Properties page.
- Description : Use this property to add a short description for the metadata component.
- Delete icon : Click this icon to delete a component from the schema form.
All the metadata fields are read-only in the metadata editor form of an asset. Since metadata of the asset must be edited in AEM Assets before an asset is published to Brand Portal.
Add or delete a tab in the schema form
The default schema form includes the Basic and Advanced tabs. The schema editor lets you add or delete a tab.
- To add a new tab on a schema form, click + . By default, the new tab has the name "Unnamed-1". You can modify the name from the Settings tab.
- To delete a tab, click x . Click Save to save the changes.
Apply a metadata schema to a folder
Brand Portal allows you to customize and control the metadata schema so that the Properties page of an asset displays only the specific information you choose to reveal. To control the metadata displayed in the Properties page, remove the required metadata from the metadata schema form and apply it to the specific folder.
To apply a metadata schema form to a folder, do the following:
- From the AEM toolbar at the top, click the Adobe logo to access administrative tools.
- From the administrative tools panel, click Metadata Schemas .
- From the Metadata Schema Forms page, select the schema form that you want to apply to an asset, for example, clothing .
- From the toolbar at the top, click Apply to Folder(s) .
- From the Select Folder(s) page, navigate to the folder to which you want to apply the clothing metadata schema, for example, Gloves .
- Click Apply to apply the metadata schema form to the folder.The metadata available in the clothing metadata schema form is applied to the Gloves folder and visible in the Properties page of the folder.
If you apply a schema that includes nested schemas to a folder containing video files, metadata properties for the video files may not render properly. To ensure the metadata properties render correctly, remove the nested schemas and apply only the parent schema to the folder.
Delete a metadata schema form
Brand Portal lets you delete custom schema forms only. It does not let you delete the default schema forms/templates. However, you can delete any custom changes in these forms.
To delete a form, select a form and click the Delete icon.
After you delete the custom changes made to a default form, the Lock symbol reappears before the form name on the Metadata Schema interface to indicate that the form is reverted to its default state.
Schema forms for MIME TYPES
Adding new forms for MIME types
In addition to the default forms, you can add custom forms for assets of various MIME types, or create a new form under an appropriate form type. For example, to add a new template for the image/png subtype, create the form under the "image" forms. The title for the schema form is the subtype name. In this case, the title is "png".
Using an existing schema template for various MIME types
You can use an existing template for a different MIME type. For example, use the image/jpeg form for assets of MIME type image/png .
In this case, create a new node at `/etc/dam/metadataeditor/mimetypemappings` in the CRX repository. Specify a name for the node and define the following properties:
String #
- exposedmimetype : Name of the existing form to be mapped
- mimetypes : List of MIME types that use the form defined in the exposedmimetype attribute
Brand Portal maps the following MIME types and schema forms:
Schema Form
MIME types
Multipart/Related; type=application/x-ImageSet
Multipart/Related; type=application/x-SpinSet
Multipart/Related; type=application/x-MixedMediaSet
video/avi, video/msvideo, video/x-msvideo
The following is a list of default metadata properties:
- jcr:content/metadata/cq:tags
- jcr:content/metadata/dc:format
- jcr:content/metadata/dam:status
- jcr:content/metadata/videoCodec
- jcr:content/metadata/audioCodec
- jcr:content/metadata/dc:title
- jcr:content/metadata/dc:description
- jcr:content/metadata/xmpMM:InstanceID
- jcr:content/metadata/xmpMM:DocumentID
- jcr:content/metadata/dam:sha1
- jcr:content/metadata/dam:solutionContext
- jcr:content/metadata/videoBitrate
- jcr:content/metadata/audioBitrate
- jcr:content/usages/usedBy
- jcr:content/jcr:lastModified
- jcr:content/metadata/prism:expirationDate
- jcr:content/onTime
- jcr:content/offTime
- jcr:content/metadata/dam:size
- jcr:content/metadata/tiff:ImageWidth
- jcr:content/metadata/tiff:ImageLength


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Bethel was expected to have 3G service in December of the last year. The date was then moved to February, and now scheduled for mid to late April.
GCI tells KYUK that all of the permits are complete to build the 80-foot tower near Ptarmigan road. The company completed some additional environmental and historical federal paperwork and will start construction soon.
David Morris is a spokesperson for GCI. He says other towers are ready to go. But you need a complete system to allow phones to work all around town.
"If you don't have it designed right you will go off air and have to reboot your phone and everything else like that," Morris said. "So what we're trying to get is so you can travel from one area of Bethel to another and it will be a seamless communication experience."
Once the tower is up, there will be a little more testing before launching the data service.
"There's probably going to be a bit more grooming to take place, but the essential thing is to get the tower in place," said Morris.
Ten nearby villages are set to receive upgrades to 3G this summer.


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Structure and reactivity of solvated transition metal ions and complexes
- Within this thesis a series of molecular species has been studied, with focus on hydrogen bonded species and on (solvated) transition metal complexes. Experimental techniques such as FT-ICR-MS and IRMPD were combined with ab initio calculations for the determination of structure and reactivity of the aforementioned types of systems. On the basis of high level electronic structure calculations of neutral water clusters (H2O)n with n = 17-21 a transitional size regime has been determined, where a structural stabilization between all-surface and interior configurations alternates with the addition or removal of a single water molecule. Electronic structure calculations suggested that for n = 17 and 19 the interior configuration would be energetically more stable than the all-surface one. The gas phase infrared spectrum of the singly hydrated ammonium ion, NH4+(H2O), had previously been recorded by photodissociation spectroscopy of mass selected ions and interpreted by means of ab initio calculations. The present work provides additional information on the shape of the potential energy curves of NH4+(H2O) along the N-H distance on MP2/aug-cc-pVDZ level of theory yielding an anharmonic potential shape. Calculation of potential energy curves of the O-H mode of the intramolecular hydrogen bond of various dicarboxylic acids (oxalic to adipic acid) revealed that the shapes of the potentials directly correlate to the size of the system and the resulting ring strain The shape of the potential is also influenced by the charge of the system. Calculation of anharmonic frequencies based on the VPT2 approach lead to reasonable results in all systems with narrow potentials. IRMPD spectra of complexes in the gas phase have been recorded for a series of cationic vanadium oxide complexes when reacted with acetonitrile, methanol and ethanol. The experimental spectra are compared to calculated absorption spectra. The systematic DFT study identifies potential candidates for reductive nitrile coupling in cationic transition metal acetonitrile complexes. On the basis of the calculations, the formation of metallacyclic structures in group 3 through 7 complexes can be ruled out. Solvation of the transition metal cation by five acetonitrile ligands leads to a reductive nitrile coupling reaction in three types of complexes, namely those containing either niobium, tantalum or tungsten.
- Struktur und Reaktivität solvatisierter Übergangsmetallionen und -komplexe
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The BTR-152 (also known as BTR-140) was a non-amphibious Soviet wheeled armored personnel carrier (BTR stands for Bronetransporter (ÁÒÐ, Áðîíåòðàíñïîðòåð, literally "armoured transporter").
The vehicle entered active service with the Soviet Army on 24 March 1950 and was first publicly shown during a parade in Moscow in 1951. It was phased out as an APC between the late 1960s and early 1970s and was replaced by the BTR-60. It remained in service with the Soviet Army and later post-soviet Russian Army until 1993 in a variety of roles, including command vehicles, mobile radio stations and ambulances. It was also exported to many Third World countries where some still remain in service.
BTR-152 first saw combat use during Hungarian Revolution of 1956. They were later used during the Six Day War in 1967. Dozens of Egyptian and Syrian BTR-152 APCs were captured by the Israeli Army. They were also used in combat during the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 by the Soviet Army and other Warsaw Pact armies. They also were used in a number of local conflicts like the ones in Africa.
BTR-152K (1959) - Received armored roof with three big hatches on top of it of which two were opening to the right over the troop compartment, internal tires pressure regulation system and filtering/ventilating system. The weight of the vehicle has increased, the crew went down from 2+18 to 2+13.


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The U.S. cattle herd may be starting to regain numbers lost to the devastating drought that has gripped the Southwest for the past three years and shows some evidence of continuing.
Market reports indicate that cattlemen are buying more heifers to rebuild the beef herd, says Derrell S. Peel, Oklahoma State University Extension livestock marketing specialist. He cites one specific market demonstrating this shift.
"The October 24, 2013, auction summary for Valentine, Nebraska, is the most current example of breeding versus feeder demand for heifers," Peel said. "The summary shows several sets of four-weight to six-weight heifers selling as replacements. Several lots sold on a per hundredweight basis but denoted as replacements, and several lots sold on a per head basis, bringing even higher prices.
"For example, med/large number 1 heifers ranging from 521 to 567 pounds, sold from $169.27 hundredweight to $173.60 as feeder heifers but sold at $185 hundredweight as replacements or by the head for $1,197.75, which is equivalent to $227.28 per hundredweight and $1,274.38, the same as $225.95 hundredweight."
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By contrast, Peel said, steers ranging from 519 to 574 pounds sold from $192.24 to $205.76 per hundredweight. Forty-five percent of the heifers sold in this sale sold as replacements, he said.
"I expect to see more of this range of heifer values, if not this fall, certainly next spring as long as forage conditions look promising," he said.
A partial check of auction reports from around the country for the last week indicated at least 10 markets where replacement heifers are noted in the feeder heifer auction summaries, Peel said. Most of these reports are in Nebraska and South Dakota but in several other states as well. Heifers denoted as replacements are bringing significantly higher prices than feeder heifers of the same weight and class.
Replacement heifers are priced with small discounts to comparable steers or even higher prices in a few instances, he said. Based on Oklahoma City auction prices, 525-pound heifers have been discounted to steers an average of 11.6 percent over the period 2008-2012. So far in 2013, the discount has averaged a little more at 12.8 percent in several specific cases. Last week, the replacement heifers were discounted only 2 percent to 4 percent from comparable steers, with some examples of heifers priced higher than steers, he said.
The delayed October cattle on feed report, due now October 31, is expected to show a greater decrease in heifers on feed, which dropped sharply in the last half of 2012 then increased in the first half of 2013. Decreasing heifer slaughter is expected for the remainder of this year, Peel said.
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sorry, I can not resist posting about it... if you have been to Japan at least once (or Koraku, Los Angeles Downtown), you had noticed the fake wax food samples at restaurants, right?
And, also have you noticed that Japanese LOVE to decorate their cell phones? Although you can even see those bling-bling phone in the US lately, I still think it's ridiculous.
Then I found these iPhone cases, awesome mixture of Japanese culture /food and craftsmanship. Japanese are beyond ridiculous. They always like "over-the-top" or you could say, Japanese are "keeping it real".
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The Senate has reached a budget deal. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Wednesday announced a bipartisan agreement on a budget that would boost federal spending by $400 billion or more over two years. Bloomberg reports that the increased spending would be partially offset by cuts to mandatory spending programs, according to the Republican summary.
The deal, if it can overcome opposition from both conservatives and liberals in the House, would avert a government shutdown on Friday by funding the government through March 23. That would provide time for lawmakers to flesh out legislation for the longer-term spending framework. The deal would also end — at least for a while — the prolonged congressional cycle of fiscal standoffs and short-term spending patches.
"After months of legislative logjams, this budget deal is a genuine breakthrough," Schumer said on the Senate floor. "After months of fiscal brinkmanship, this budget deal is the first real sprout of bipartisanship and it should break the long cycle of spending crises that have snarled this Congress and hampered our middle class."
The deal announced by McConnell and Schumer would:
- Defense: Increase defense spending over current law by $80 billion in fiscal 2018 and $85 billion in fiscal 2019, pleasing defense hawks who have called for increased funding and stability in the military budget.
- Non-defense: Increase non-defense spending by $63 billion this year and $68 billion in fiscal 2019, including $20 billion for infrastructure, $6 billion to fight the opioid epidemic and fund mental health programs, $5.8 billion for the Child Care Development Block Grant program, $4 billion for the VA and $2 billion for the NIH.
- Disaster relief: Provide between $80 billion and $90 billion for hurricane and wildfire disaster relief.
- CHIP: Extend the reauthorization of the Children's Health Insurance Program to 10 years and provide funding for community health centers.
- Medicare: Repeal the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB), a Medicare cost-cutting group created by the Affordable Care Act.
- Debt ceiling: Suspend the debt ceiling, reportedly for one year.
- Immigration: Leave divisive immigration issues, including the fate of hundreds of thousands of "dreamers," unaddressed, a potential sticking point for many House Democrats.
But House conservatives are objecting to the spending increases, and Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi set a record with a marathon speech — seven hours and counting — demanding that Republicans hold votes on legislation to protect immigrant "dreamers."
The bottom line: The House, which passed a stopgap spending bill Tuesday, could still reject this deal, unleashing a chaotic scramble to keep the government running, but with midterm elections looming, enough lawmakers from both sides are likely to line up behind the deal and end the prospect of further shutdown drama.


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What's Andy Naselli's favorite illustration of the Arminian view of human depravity (and it's integral relationship to the concept of prevenient grace)?
The Princess Bride, of course!
Andy cites this as the crucial part of the exchange:
"Well it just so happens that your friend here is only mostly dead. There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. . . . Now mostly dead is slightly alive. All dead—well, with all dead, there's only usually one thing that you can do."
"What's that?"
"Go through his clothes and look for loose change."
If you're not reading Andy's blog, you really should.
Leadership Book Interview: Unfashionable
Ed Stetzer interviews Tullian Tchvidjian about his book, Unfashionable. Here's the intro:
Tullian Tchividjian's new book, Unfashionable boldly addresses the issue of what it means to be the church in the world, while refusing to be of it. This is a theologically driven book that calls the church to "contextualize without compromise." Tullian's is a voice of reasoned, biblical sanity when many who are having this discussion are talking past one another with unhelpful and exaggerated rhetoric. I spoke with Tullian recently and asked him to talk to us about this new book.
Read the whole interview at Ed Stetzer's blog.
He Stinketh: Thoughts on Rob Bell's Velvet Elvis
Nick Carter posted a short, but enjoyable review of Rob Bell's Velvet Elvis:
…would I recommend this book to others? To be honest, probably not. So, is Nick just jumping on the bandwagon with all the other staunch traditionalists and defenders of orthodox doctrine? I hope not, but I have to ask… what's so wrong with orthodoxy? If you've read with interest Velvet Elvis and came away with a sentiment of disgust for the "old" way of the reformers and for the guard dogs of doctrine in conservative academia today–then you've proven my point. That being the likely reaction of readers is precisely why I would not recommend this book.
Read the rest at TrueVictories.com
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Here are a few of this week's notable posts:
The Persevering Prophet: Fruit What makes a ministry fruitful?
Book Review: Just Do Something Reviewing Kevin DeYoung's latest book on discerning God's will and decision-making
Made in the Image of God: Holiness How humanity images God in the pursuit of holiness
Music Review: Rain City Hymnal Reviewing Re:Sound's first full-length release, Rain City Hymnal


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For many of you, it's that time of year again. It's the season to complete your budgets. So, what's the deal with budgets? Is all this budgeting activity worthwhile or not? I honestly don't know. Perhaps the most accurate answer is, maybe.
I can understand the need for budgeting more than the need for a budget. In a nutshell, a budget is often just a plan that focuses on money coming in and going out of a business. If so, that's not enough. I agree with Eisenhower who said, "In preparing for battle I have always found plans are useless, but planning is indispensable." Like Ike, I think the thinking related to putting together a budget is more valuable than the actual budget.
A budget can also be thought of as a strategy. With regard to that, we can draw on the wisdom of Mike Tyson who when asked about his boxing opponents' strategies said, "They all have a strategy, until they get hit." Considering the volatility of the current economy, you might want to pay attention to Mike.
Let's talk about the budgeting process from a leadership point of view. When you see the end result of all this budgeting activity, what kind of questions should you think of, or what kind of budgeting pitfalls should you try to avoid?
For example, is the budget focused on the right things? Often budgets present only hopeful totals in terms of revenues and expenses. For example, your sales group may budget $1 million, $10 million or $100 million in sales for the next year. Those may be great revenue goals for your business. However, keep in mind that you cannot do a goal. I'll bet Eisenhower would like to know more about the various thought processes that supported the sales goal. For example, what is your budget for total number of sales calls to produce the sales revenue total? What is your budget for successful calls and what is your budget for "dry holes?" In other words, only budgeting the total dollars is not enough.
Other questions: If financial incentives are tied closely to the budgets, what is the potential for manipulation in favor of individual incentive payouts, but detrimental to overall company profits? Will budget pressures pit one department against another, or encourage them to work together for the benefit of the company and clients? Do budgets allow for present spending that has the potential to penalize current results, but improve future results (such as investing in equipment that will pay off handsomely in the future)? Will the budgets allow you to hire a superior performer if they unexpectedly become available?
That brings up an important overall point with regard to budgets. Does your budgeting process encourage managers to use the phrase, "It's not in the budget" as an excuse for not seriously considering the ideas of people who have a legitimate reason for requesting budget exceptions?
I'm not really for or against budgets. I just encourage you to think about them carefully.
Chris Crouch is CEO of DME Training and Consulting and author of several books on improving productivity. Contact him through www.dmetraining.com.
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