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A New View of an Icon
The Eagle Nebula as never seen before. In 1995, the Hubble Space Telescope's 'Pillars of Creation' image of the Eagle Nebula became one of the most iconic images of the 20th century. Now, two of ESA's orbiting observatories have shed new light on this enigmatic star-forming region.
The Eagle Nebula is 6500 light-years away in the constellation of Serpens. It contains a young hot star cluster, NGC6611, visible with modest back-garden telescopes, that is sculpting and illuminating the surrounding gas and dust, resulting in a huge hollowed-out cavity and pillars, each several light-years long.
The Hubble image hinted at new stars being born within the pillars, deeply inside small clumps known as 'evaporating gaseous globules' or EGGs. Owing to obscuring dust, Hubble's visible light picture was unable to see inside and prove that young stars were indeed forming.
The ESA Herschel Space Observatory's new image shows the pillars and the wide field of gas and dust around them. Captured in far-infrared wavelengths, the image allows astronomers to see inside the pillars and structures in the region.
In parallel, a new multi-energy X-ray image from ESA's XMM-Newton telescope shows those hot young stars responsible for carving the pillars.
Combining the new space data with near-infrared images from the European Southern Observatory's (ESO's) Very Large Telescope at Paranal, Chile, and visible-light data from its Max Planck Gesellschaft 2.2m diameter telescope at La Silla, Chile, we see this iconic region of the sky in a uniquely beautiful and revealing way.
In visible wavelengths, the nebula shines mainly due to reflected starlight and hot gas filling the giant cavity, covering the surfaces of the pillars and other dusty structures.
Multi wavelength video of the Eagle Nebula
At near-infrared wavelengths, the dust becomes almost transparent and the pillars practically vanish.
In far-infrared, Herschel detects this cold dust and the pillars reappear, this time glowing in their own light.
Intricate tendrils of dust and gas are seen to shine, giving astronomers clues about how it interacts with strong ultraviolet light from the hot stars seen by XMM-Newton.
In 2001, Very Large Telescope near-infrared images had shown only a small minority of the EGGs were likely to contain stars being born.
However, Herschel's image makes it possible to search for young stars over a much wider region and thus come to a much fuller understanding of the creative and destructive forces inside the Eagle Nebula.
Earlier mid-infrared images from ESA's Infrared Space Observatory and NASA's Spitzer, and the new XMM-Newton data, have led astronomers to suspect that one of the massive, hot stars in NGC6611 may have exploded in a supernova 6000 years ago, emitting a shockwave that destroyed the pillars.
However, because of the distance of the Eagle Nebula, we won't see this happen for several hundred years yet.
Powerful ground-based telescopes continue to provide astonishing views of our Universe, but images in far-infrared, mid-infrared and X-ray wavelengths are impossible to obtain owing to the absorbing effects of Earth's atmosphere.
Space-based observatories such as ESA's Herschel and XMM-Newton help to peel back that veil and see the full beauty of the Universe across the electromagnetic spectrum.
With regions like the Eagle Nebula, combining all of these observations helps astronomers to understand the complex yet amazing lifecycle of stars.


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Actors are feted for their ability to step into the shoes of others and portray their physical mannerisms and emotional traits. However, there are some actors who for one reason or another find themselves simply reprising the same role time after time.
Welcome to the world of that not-so-rare Hollywood creature: the typecast actor.
Being typecast is often viewed in a derogatory fashion. However, we often forget that behind all the razzmatazz, Hollywood is a big business with the success of films being judged as much by return on investment as on artistic merit. If you hit pay dirt then, with an actor playing a particular role, why wouldn't you exploit that by having them play similar roles time after time?
After all, what could be more trendy in Hollywood than recycling, other than Botox and reality TV, of course.
With all that in mind, let's take a look at five of the most typecast actors in Hollywood history.
No. 5: Christopher Lee
Sir Christopher Lee is an instantly recognizable English actor whose filmography dates back 60 years. So does his typecasting.
Lee's big breakthrough came with the Hammer horror films that saw him play a series of gruesome supernatural baddies, such as Frankenstein's Monster, Dracula, and The Mummy. More recently, he sent shivers down the backs of a younger generation with his portrayal of the evil wizard Saruman in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy.
And when Lee landed a role in a galaxy far, far away, did he get the chance to play the hero Jedi knight? Not a chance. He played the evil Count Dooku, a sith lord so evil he not only tries to feed a young Darth Vader to wild space animals but also nearly kicks Yoda's green behind too.
Lee's stature (he's 6-feet-5-inches tall) and his gravelly voice marked him out as a natural to play film villains, a type of pigeon holing all too common within the film industry.
It's also been noted that English actors quite often get cast as baddies in American films -- maybe it's payback for all those years of colonial rule? Or maybe it's the bad teeth?!
No. 4: Bruce Campbell
Bruce Campbell may not qualify as an A-list celebrity, but the square-jawed actor became a cult star due to his lead roles in the Sam Raimi-directed "Evil Dead" trilogy.
These films saw him play Ash, a bone-headed S-Mart employee who's reluctantly thrust into the role of shotgun-toting hero in a battle against supernatural evil.
Campbell's face, and especially his supersized chin, looks as though he jumped off the pages of a superhero cartoon, and his looks have driven his typecasting. Indeed, Campbell has even released an autobiography entitled "If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor," which shows he's healthily aware of his status as typecast actor.
These days he can be seen playing ex-CIA agent "Sam" on USA Network's "Burn Notice," but Campbell still gets his kicks as a B-movie actor, appearing in seemingly every made-for-TV, low-budget movie SyFy creates. He also managed to poke fun of those roles -- in the process reinforcing them -- by playing a slightly-fictionalized version of himself in his directorial debut, "My Name Is Bruce."
No. 3: Jim Carrey
The ability to make people laugh is gold dust in the film industry, but it is a trick that not all actors can pull off.
With Jim Carrey, though, you sense that his on-screen funny-man persona is really just an extension of his off-screen funny-man personality.
Carrey's ability to make people laugh is based on a combination of physical comedy (including his renowned face elasticity) and high-octane, often immature, wisecracking. His portrayal of dumb but lovable characters such as "Dumb and Dumber's" Lloyd Christmas can sometimes be cringe-worthy, but you can't help but laugh.
While he's tried to break away from this persona, even earning awards for more dramatic turns in "Man in the Moon" and "The Truman Show," he mostly repeats his tried-and-true formula in films such as "Ace Ventura: Pet Detective," "Bruce Almighty" and "Liar Liar," and we can expect plenty more laughs in the years to come.
No. 2: John Wayne
Another actor who was indelibly typecast (though it's doubtful he really minded) was the Duke himself, John Wayne.
Whether a cowboy or a soldier, you could rely on Wayne being the All-American hero who would ride into town and save the day. Along the way, he'd find time to get the pretty woman, whoop up on the bad guy, down a whiskey, and drawl out some classic line.
Wayne shows that just because you're typecast, doesn't mean you can't act. While some might say his range was limited, for example he could conceivably play a hard-nosed baddie but probably not a sensitive intellectual, he still brought the quality, even earning an Oscar for "True Grit."
Once he'd been associated with several All-American hero successes, there was no way that the film studios were going to change their formula. After all, pilgrim, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
No. 1: Hugh Grant
Now, let's imagine that you need a foppishly attractive English actor for your film. In the words of Ghostbusters, who you gonna call? Well, it's just got to be Hugh Grant, with his mane of lovely hair and his permanently-flustered persona.
Grant's defining moment came in "Four Weddings and a Funeral" where he played the charming but faux-pas prone Charles, who embarks upon a flirtation with an assertive American beauty (played by Andie MacDowell).
Once having found a role that worked for him, Grant seems to have decided to seek out that role the rest of his career, or at least shoe-horn that personality into whatever movie is providing his paycheck for the time being.
He's gone on to perfect this role in films such as "Bridget Jones's Diary," "Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason," "Notting Hill" and "Sense and Sensibility," never once having to learn a new accent or change his hairstyle.
Nice work if you can get it but method actor, he is not!

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File Crawler, File Fetcher and File Extractor worker are used for importing files from a file system. For a big picture and the worker's interaction have a look at the Importing Concept.
File Crawler
The File Crawler crawls files from a root folder and the subdirectories below.
The File Crawler worker is usually the first worker in a workflow and the job is started in runOnce mode.
- Worker name: fileCrawler
- Parameters:
- dataSource: (req.) value for attribute _source, needed e.g. by the delta service
- rootFolder: (req.) crawl starting point
- filters (opt.) filters with conditions to in- or exclude files and folders from import
- maxFileSize: maximum file size, files that are bigger are filtered out
- maxFolderDepth: starting from the root folder, this is the maximum depth to crawl into subdirectories. (Hint: Folder structures in compounds are not taken into account here)
- followSymbolicLinks: whether to follow symbolic links to files/folders or not
- filePatterns: regex patterns for filtering crawled files on the basis of their file name
- include: if include patterns are specified, at least one of them must match the file name. If no include patterns are specified, this is handled as if all file names are included.
- exclude: if at least one exclude pattern matches the file name, the crawled file is filtered out
- folderPatterns: regex patterns for filtering crawled folders and files on the basis of their complete folder path. (Hint: Contrary to the file patterns a folder pattern must match the complete path, it doesn't work if it just matches the folder name!)
- include: Only relevant for crawled files: If include patterns are specified, at least one of them must match the file path. If no include patterns are specified, this is handled as if all file paths are included.
- exclude: Only relevant for crawled folders: If at least one exclude pattern matches the folder name, the folder (and its subdirectories) will not be imported.
- mapping (req.) specifies how to map file properties to record attributes
- filePath (opt.) mapping attribute for the complete file path (Hint: required for standard import workflow because File Fetcher and File Extractor worker need this, see below)
- fileFolder (opt.) mapping attribute for the file folder (complete path without file name)
- fileName (opt.) mapping attribute for the file name
- fileExtension (opt.) mapping attribute for the file extension
- fileSize (opt.) mapping attribute for the file size (in bytes)
- fileLastModified (opt.) mapping attribute for the file's last modified date
- parameters to control size of output bulks, see below for details
- maxFilesPerBulk (opt.) maximum number of files in one bulk. (default: 1000)
- minFilesPerBulk (opt.) minimum number of files in one bulk. (default: 0)
- directoriesPerBulk (opt.) number of directories written to one bulk for follow-up crawl tasks. (default: 1)
- Task generator: runOnceTrigger
- Input slots:
- directoriesToCrawl
- Output slots:
- directoriesToCrawl
- filesToCrawl
The File Crawler starts crawling in the rootFolder. It produces one record for each subdirectory in the bucket connected to directoriesToCrawl and one record per file in the bucket connected to filesToCrawl. The bucket in slot directoriesToCrawl should be connected to the input slot of the File Crawler so that the subdirectories are crawled in followup tasks. The resulting records do not yet contain the file content but only metadata attributes configured in the mapping.
The directory and file records are collected in bulks, whose size can be configured via the parameters maxFilesPerBulk, minFilesPerBulk and directoriesPerBulk:
- maxFilesPerBulk has the same effect in any of the following cases:
- not configured: a new filesToCrawl bulk is started each 1000 files.
- configured: a new filesToCrawl bulk is started when the configured value is reached.
- On top level (root folder), each file of the folder is written to the filesToCrawl bulks and each subdirectory record goes to a separate directoriesToCrawl bulk. Parameters minFilesPerBulk and directoriesPerBulk are not considered (-> distribution for immediate scale up).
- In follow-up tasks the handling is:
- minFilesPerBulk
- not configured: only files in the crawled directory are added to filesToCrawl bulks, all subdirectories are written to directoriesToCrawl bulks.
- configured: when minFilesPerBulk is not reached with all files of the current folder, we step into the immediate subfolder(s) to reach the configured minimum size. If min size is reached, all remaining files of the current subfolder are also written to filesToCrawl bulk(s). Remaining subfolders of the current folder and subfolders of already crawled subfolders are written to directoriesToCrawl bulks.
- directoriesPerBulk
- not configured: each sub-directory that is not read directly will be written to a seperate directoriesToCrawl bulk
- configured: the given number of sub-directories will be written to the same directoriesToCrawl bulk before a new one is started.
- minFilesPerBulk
Please note that both parameters must be >= 0 and also that minFilesPerBulk must be < maxFilesPerBulk. Otherwise your job will fail.
The attribute _source is set from the task parameter dataSource which has no further meaning currently, but it is needed by the delta service.
If the runnning CompoundExtractor service identifies an object as a extractable compound, it is marked with attribute _isCompound set to true.
- Dependency: CompoundExtractor service
File Fetcher
For each input record, reads the file referenced in attribute filePath and adds the content as attachment fileContent.
- Worker name: fileFetcher
- Parameters:
- mapping (req.) needed to get the file path and to add the fetched file content
- filePath (req.) to read the attribute that contains the file path
- fileContent (req.) attachment name where the file content is written to
- mapping (req.) needed to get the file path and to add the fetched file content
- Input slots:
- filesToFetch
- Output slots:
- files
File Extractor Worker
Used for extracting compounds (zip, tgz, etc.) in file crawling.
- Worker name: fileExtractor
- Parameters:
- filters (opt., see File Crawler)
- maxFileSize: (opt., see File Crawler)
- filePatterns: (opt., see File Crawler)
- include: (opt., see File Crawler)
- exclude: (opt., see File Crawler)
- folderPatterns: (opt., see File Crawler)
- include: (opt., see File Crawler)
- exclude: (opt.) The behaviour is slightly different here to that of the File Crawler: If an exclude pattern matches the folder path of an extracted file, then the file is filtered out. But according to the pattern, files from subdirectories may be imported!
- mapping (req.)
- filePath (req., see File Crawler): needed to get the file path of the compound file to extract
- fileFolder (opt., see File Crawler)
- fileName (opt., see File Crawler)
- fileExtension (opt., see File Crawler)
- fileSize (opt., see File Crawler)
- fileLastModified (opt., see File Crawler)
- fileContent (req., see File Fetcher)
- filters (opt., see File Crawler)
- Input slots:
- compounds
- Output slots:
- files
For each input record, an input stream to the described file is created and fed into the CompoundExtractor service to extract the compound elements. If an element is a compound itself, it is also extracted. If it is not a compound, a new record is created. The produced records are converted to look like records produced by the file crawler resp. fetcher, with the attributes and attachment set that are specified in the mapping configuration. Additionally, the following attributes are set:
- _deltaHash: computed as by the FileCrawler worker
- _compoundRecordId: record ID of top-level compound this element was extracted from
- _isCompound: set to true for elements that are compounds themselves.
- _compoundPath: sequence of filePath attribute values of the compound objects needed to navigate to the compound element.
- Dependency: CompoundExtractor service
Sample file crawl job
Job definition that imports all files from root folder "workspace-SMILA", pushing the imported records to job "indexUpdateJob". The following files/folders are filtered out:
- files ending with ".class"
- files starting with "."
- folder(-path)s ending with ".svn"
{ "name":"crawlFileJob", "workflow":"fileCrawling", "parameters":{ "tempStore":"temp", "dataSource":"files", "rootFolder":"/workspace-SMILA", "jobToPushTo":"indexUpdateJob", "mapping":{ "fileContent":"Content", "filePath":"Path", "fileName":"FileName", "fileExtension":"FileExtension" }, "filters":{ "filePatterns":{ "exclude":["\\..*", ".*\\.class"] }, "folderPatterns":{ "exclude":[".*\\.svn"] } } } }


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SAN JOSE, CA /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The market for micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) —which includes products such as automobile airbag systems, display systems, and inkjet cartridges—totaled $48 billion in 2005 and is expected to top $95 billion by 2010, according to Global MEMS/Microsystems Markets and Opportunities, a comprehensive new market research report from SEMI.
The MEMS devices at the heart of these systems totaled $5.3 billion in 2005 and are projected to grow to $9.9 billion by 2010, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 13%, fueled by increasing use in consumer electronics. MEMS devices are defined as die-level components of first-level packaging and include pressure sensors, accelerometers, gyroscopes, microphones, digital mirror displays, and micro fluidic devices. The materials and equipment used to manufacture MEMS devices topped $1 billion in 2005, with MEMS materials forecasted to grow at CAGR of 15%, while MEMS equipment is forecasted to grow at a CAGR of 6% through 2010. Materials demand is driven by substrates, making up over 70% of the market, packaging coatings, and increasing use of chemical mechanical planarization. While MEMS manufacturing continues to be dominated by used semiconductor equipment, there is a migration to 200 mm lines and select new tools, including etch and bonding for certain MEMS applications.
Global Markets and Forecasts for MEMS Devices, Materials, and Equipment
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The report details current and future MEMS device applications and technology trends, and provides in-depth information and forecasts for the global MEMS materials, equipment, devices, and systems markets. Additional report findings will be provided during a SEMI Member Webcast on October 23, 2006, at 10:00 am pacific time, featuring Jean-Christophe Eloy, founder and general manager of Yole Development. To register for the Webcast, visit the company's Web site.
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I woke up early yesterday morning. Reached for my phone, checked the site, saw the news that Wind Waker was being remade for the Wii U, laughed, thought it was a dream then went back to sleep. It's only a couple of hours later, when I woke up again and noticed it was still there, that I realized the news was true.
by Luke Plunkett
I think i'll trust Nintendo and going off the graphics it looks awesome.
I've finished Windwaker 4 times Since I bought it , One of which was mid 2012. Regardless I am still really happy to be playing an overhauled version , which hopefully has more than Just graphics to refresh the overall experience.
I have the original Collectors Edition Windwaker from Day which has Ocarina/Masterquest on it. But that didn't stop me from buying Ocarina 3D and putting 124 hours into that and the same Applies to Windwaker reborn.
@Kaibatsu - You serious ? It looks 10 times nicer than the original Windwaker , and people still complain , lol. If you don't like it stick to the old Windwaker.
Ocarina 3D looks much better than the original Ocarina and no doubt this will be a similar upgrade.
I am a bit worried about the graphics. I hope they don't try to do anything fancy and mess them up.
so far im loving the graphics. Cant wait to see how some of the temples look like, just thinking about how the temple in dragonroost island will look like makes me drool
I would like to see some gamepad implementation to navigation at sea, especially if we could easily adjust the wind direction from there without having to constantly pull out the baton
Gorgeous game to begin with and a lovely adventure, but one that was incredibly easy to the point of being disappointing and even insulting. The bird boss you fight for example is so stupidly easy it makes you wonder if they had 4 year olds in mind, and one on one encounters too just aren't challenging in any way. Skyward Sword improves this aspect and I hope they have this in mind for WW
An adorable game though and a great shame when it came to end- too few dungeons being the the other issue despite the 4 in Majoras's Mask feeling just right. In fact it would be great to see those dungeons that never came to be that were on the disc in some form
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Under the tutelage of Junior Professor Dr Simon Ebbinghaus, researchers from Bochum have demonstrated that the water surrounding the dissolved substances inside the cell plays a crucial role with regard to protein stability, which has frequently been neglected in the past. The researchers have published the results of their study, gained by means of simple model systems and thermodynamic analyses, in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS). The results have been obtained following a collaboration under the umbrella of the Excellence Cluster RESOLV. The researchers were, moreover, presented with a Hot Topic Poster Award at this year's Bunsentagung in Hamburg.
Proteins' work environment more viscous than egg white
Proteins are among the most important and most-studied biomolecules in biochemical research. They fulfil structure-relevant tasks and are the cells' molecular machines: catalysing chemical reactions, transporting metabolic products and identifying metabolites. Consequently, deficiencies of protein function often result in severe disorders, e.g. Huntington's and Alzheimer's disease. The proteins' natural work environment inside the cell is a highly crowded solution (more viscous and more highly concentrated than egg white), consisting of various macromolecules as well as small organic and inorganic substances. In order to study protein function using modern analytical methods, researchers often purify proteins in vitro and study them in diluted aqueous solution. However, it often cannot be precisely ascertained to what extent the experimental results reflect the actual function within the cellular environment.
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Theory: in narrow spaces, proteins "tuck in their elbows"
A method frequently used for predicting the effect a densely-packed cellular environment has on proteins is the so-called excluded volume theory. It can be best explained using the example of an everyday phenomenon. In a crowded lift or on a crowded train, everybody attempts to avoid direct contact with their neighbours and to assume as compact a posture as possible (e.g. by tucking in their arms). According to the excluded volume theory, the principle of mutual repulsion can be applied to proteins in a densely-packed cellular environment. They assume a compact structure. As a rule, their biologically active status is at the same time their most compact status, which is why the excluded volume theory predicts a stabilisation of the biologically active status.
The study demonstrates that there are more factors at work than just mutual repulsion
Deploying various solvent additives, such as biomacromolecules, sugars and salts, the RUB researchers have imitated various cellular conditions and analysed the way they affect the model protein ubiquitin. They demonstrated that the proteins' behaviour is affected by more than just mutual repulsion between protein and solvent additive. In thermodynamic studies, different stabilisation and destabilisation mechanisms were discovered. Contrary to the expected so-called entropic stabilisation - based on the excluded volume effect - the researchers observed a so-called enthalpic stabilisation of ubiquitin in the presence of macromolecules, sugars and salts. Enthalpic stabilisation is directly correlated to the strengthening of the chemical bonds in the biologically active status and cannot be explained away with the protein's more compact shape being purely volume-based.
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The researchers attribute the enthalpic stabilisation phenomenon to a water-mediated process: protein and solvent additive do not interact directly, but following a modification of the water properties of the solvent additives' hydration water, the hydrogen bridge bonds in the protein's biologically active status are optimised. The project was financed by the Returnee Programme of the Ministry for Innovation, Science and Research of North Rhine-Westphalia, the Excellence Cluster RESOLV and the Chemical Industry Association (Verband der Chemischen Industrie e.V., VCI).


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The budget shutdown that wounded the Republican brand last week also inflicted pain on the GOP in Florida: The party lost a seat held for decades by Republicans, and Gov. Rick Scott was hit with a hurdle to his reelection strategy.
The governor has spent the last six months distancing himself from his February decision to embrace taking $51 billion from the federal government to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, and the disastrous enrollment rollout appeared to help Republicans keep the issue from returning in the next legislative session.
That might have been easy if Republican Bill Gunter had won last Tuesday's House District 36 race. Instead, the Pasco County seat was won by Amanda Murphy, a Democrat and political newcomer with impeccable timing.
The governor stayed away from the race, as polls showed his popularity in the district was painfully low. But, while special elections are rarely bellwethers in Florida, the results suggest that among a significant slice of the electorate — especially independents — support for the Affordable Care Act can be a winning message. That's a troubling sign for Scott, who remains strongly opposed to Obamacare, though he supports taking the federal money.
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The Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) issued a proposed rule and a related class exemption on Tuesday designed to make it easier for Chapter 7 bankruptcy trustees to distribute assets from bankrupt companies' retirement plans. The proposal would allow such trustees to use EBSA's existing Abandoned Plan Program to terminate, wind up and distribute benefits from such plans.
The existing Abandoned Plan Program provides streamlined termination and distribution procedures for abandoned individual account plans, including 401(k) plans, under which benefits may be distributed in a manner that can substantially reduce fees charged to participants' accounts for, among other things, annual reporting, legal compliance and other administrative services, including termination costs.
EBSA explained in a release announcing the proposed rule that "by making this streamlined process available to Chapter 7 bankruptcy trustees, the time and resources required to 'wind up' a bankrupt company's retirement plan can be significantly reduced. As a result, plan participants likely will see fewer administrative and termination fees charged to their accounts and should have access to their money sooner."
Phyllis Borzi (right), assistant secretary of labor for EBSA, said in the release that the proposed rule is designed "to help workers and retirees of bankrupt companies gain access to their retirement money sooner. Far too often, the retired workers of these companies are unable to obtain their hard-earned retirement savings in a timely way."
The legal status of a former employer, she continued, "should not impede retirees' access to their own funds, especially at the very time they need them most. The proposed rule would extend the department's current Abandoned Plan Program to these retirement plans, and enable Chapter 7 bankruptcy trustees to more quickly and efficiently distribute retirement benefits to participants. The rule also would reduce the possibility of participants' accounts being eroded by excessive and unnecessary fees."
EBSA explains that under amendments in 2005 to federal bankruptcy law, if a company in liquidation administered an individual account retirement plan, the company's Chapter 7 bankruptcy trustee must perform those functions. The Abandoned Plan Program, established in 2006, "provides specific guidance on when a plan may be considered abandoned, who may make that determination, and exactly how to terminate the affairs of the plan and make benefit distributions.The program also limits potential fiduciary liability of financial institutions that step in to terminate and wind up plans that have been abandoned by their sponsors," EBSA says.


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So we know the true Siamese Algae Eater is the Crossocheilus siamensis which is often confused with the Flying Fox (Epalzeorhynchus kallopterus) and not so similar Chinese algae Eater (Gyrinocheilus aymonieri) as well as a fish known as the False Siamese Algae Eater (Garra cambodgiensis) which prefers fish food to algae.
Often they are found in the fish store in a tank labeled Algae Eaters which then house an array of fish that all look like a true Siamese Algae Eater.
Lots of shops mislabel these fish so Siamese algae eaters can also often be found under Flying Fox as well as other names.
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Algae Eater, Thai flying fox, Siamese flying fox, colorful flying fox, Epalzeorhynchos sp, trunk barb, Chinese catfish as well as an array of wonderful other names.
The only real gem for planted tanks is the Crossocheilus siamensis as this is the one that WILL eat brush algae (red algae) unlike most other fish . All others also rather eat fish food and will not touch any algae.
So how do we tell them apart from a false Siamese algae Eater? Well the rule so far has been that the fins should be be all clear and the black horizontal line goes all the way to the tip of the tail. Sounds pretty easy but it seems one of those things so many get wrong including publications (Baensch Atlas has a picture of a fake SAE instead of a true SAE in the book) and the internet has an array of wrong images listed under Siamese Algae Eater.
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The latest episode of Deep State stupidity is shining bright. It's a perfect example of how the pursuit of security actually makes you less secure!
The NSA's spyware is now holding hundreds of thousands of computers the world over hostage. The captured media at first didn't cover this - instead they continue to pursue Julian Assange, who warned us, and they use "The Russians are coming" fake narrative to cripple the Executive Branch because he is the one the people elected to drain the swamp. The people want the Deep State drained!
The attacks of 911 were used as an excuse to create new "security" laws that deprive people of their freedoms; it was used to massively increase the size and depth of the Deep State, including the creation of "Homeland Security;" it was used to invade countries that didn't play along with our Oligarch's central banking scam; it was used to justify spying on the world, including our own people; and it was used to turn Americans into the greatest debtors the world has ever seen.
Does that make us more secure? I think not. I think quite the opposite.
In fact, bankrupting one's self in the name of security is plain old stupid. So is spying on foreign diplomats and then not expecting that to be the standard of the world.
Now we have spyware that was created by the NSA wreaking havoc all over the globe. Imagine - we spent trillions to spy on the world and now our own spy tools, that we paid for, are being turned against us. Our own agencies work tirelessly to find vulnerabilities to exploit. Instead of reporting and fixing the weaknesses, our Deep State losses control which is exactly the karma we should expect.
Freedom and security are inseparable. Pursue freedom and you will have security at very little cost. Pursue security and you will have neither!
Americans and the world need to wake up to how we're being manipulated. Here's the chain of events:
- The primary check and balance of the Constitution was usurped by central bankers who bought off Congress and got the illegal Federal Reserve Act passed in the year 1913.
- The central bankers, our Oligarch masters, then created money from nothing and used it to buy for themselves all three branches of our government. They also created wars and used the "solutions" to those wars to create global control mechanisms in the U.N., IMF, World Bank, and BIS. They skim productivity and assets from the entire world in this fashion. All politicians and judges work for them, they cannot get elected without their "money."
- The Oligarchs own the military industrial complex, the Deep State agencies, the media, pharma, giant "food" companies, our universities, everything... and use them to control us.
In the old days when they weren't getting their way, they would simply crash the markets until they got what they wanted.
Today they simply use the tools at their disposal to spin narratives to cover their covert manipulations.
Total capture.
As the world wakes up and realizes how their freedom has been captured, then it will once again be up to the people to claim the freedom that has been lost. That day is approaching faster than anyone imagines.
The very same Oligarchs who run the world now will use the coming upheaval to simply create another system of control with them in charge. For humanity's sake, we must not allow that to happen again. We must install a proper rule-of-law, one that promotes freedom knowing that true security always follows freedom.
Our pursuit of security is costing us dear. Nothing, however, will be fixed until we reclaim our Constitutional duty to have our representatives "coin money and regulate the value thereof." That is the root of our sovereignty, and the key to our freedom that we ceded in the year 1913.
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TLDR: findById() does not work after different dataset is loaded into store.
Given the following situation:
(1) Create a datastore and set an arbitrary filter upon instatiation
(2) load() a dataset through a json-proxy
(3) retrieve arbitrary record via store.findById() -> returns the correct record
(4) change the url-parameters of the corresponding proxy to fetch a slightly different dataset
(5) load() the "different" dataset
(6) store.findById() does not return the correct record in the new dataset. Instead, it returns the corresponding record from the previous dataset.
I investigated the issue and found that store.findById() works on either the actual dataset or a snapshot (this.data vs. this.snapshot in the source). The second load() command (see 5) probably does not correctly reset the snapshot of data.


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The new Google Maps Embed API has been released into the wild. This is intended to make it easier for web-centric developers to place and embed Google Maps into web pages as they are in the process of designing them.
Developers might consider this option as a means of giving users (or you may prefer the term "customers" if it is a commercially aligned application) a means of ascertaining their geographic position while using an application.
Product Managers for Google Maps APIs Ben Greenwood and Ken Hoetmer explain that this is a more sophisticated offering (with the ability to create multiple maps in a single website if needed) than Google's previous opening to embed Google Maps for free — a development we saw back in 2013.
Google Maps Embed API provides developers with an option to generate HTML snippets that embed Google Maps into their own web service.
"Using the API to take control of your embedded maps, you can now effortlessly customize the location and appearance of the map with a handful of simple URL parameters," said Greenwood and Hoetmer.
Over the coming weeks Google promises to update existing "classic" Google Maps embeds to the new format so that our experiences are as consistent as possible.
Starting now, the Maps/Earth APIs Terms of Service will apply to all updated embedded Google Maps. The Google Maps Embed API is free and the new API also includes the same on-map ad experience we introduced to embedded maps in November.


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It's hard to choose which part of Guijo Suites in Makati City, Philippines makes it an ideal choice for leisure and business guests — its comfortable, stylish lodgings or the enviable location. But one thing is certain: guests here enjoy luxury that comes at budget-friendly rates.
Located in a quiet alley of a suburban neighborhood, the hotel boasts elegantly designed suites that bring about unrivaled comfort and relaxation. The ambience is subtle and calming, a welcome contrast to the excitement of Makati City. The exquisite accommodations are paired with facilities and services like free Wi-Fi Internet access and the Lobby Restobar to ensure a convenient stay.
All these generous offerings are complemented by the hotel's eco-friendly practices, such as the use of power-efficient lights and implementation of energy-saving solutions for air-conditioning. Things like these guarantee that the means of presenting comforts to our visitors do no harm to our environment. At Guijo Suites, you'll surely find an entirely different world you'll love to come home to after a long day of business dealings, shopping, and sightseeing.
Upon settling down in the guestroom, visitors will find themselves in an exclusive space that is ideal for restful pleasure. All accommodations are elegantly styled and fitted with plush bedding and select amenities, such as air-conditioning, flat-screen LED TV with cable channels, mini-bar, coffee- and tea-maker, and safety deposit box for guests' valuables. The rooms also use a keycard access system to ensure the security of all guests anytime they are out of the hotel premises. Details.
Beyond a pleasant retreat in a vibrant city, our services and facilities offer guests conveniences that exceed expectations. Daily housekeeping services from a polite and unobtrusive staff keeps everything order so guests can come back to perfectly clean rooms. A PABX phone also comes in handy for corporate travelers who need to work during their stay. And because the safety of guests is one of Guijo Suites' top priorities, the hotel is equipped with CCTV units for a 24-hour security. Details


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Contains the manuscripts and research of David G. Rempel, primarily on the topic of Mennonite life in pre-Revolutionary Russia. This collection includes the manuscripts of Rempel's brother Johann (John) Gerhard Rempel, which have been translated by Rempel. As well as books, articles, manuscripts, diaries and other writing on the topic of Mennonites in Russia, and more widely, which was collected by Rempel for research purposes. In addition, the collection contains a large amount of Rempel's correspondence with family, friends, scholars and researchers on the topic of Mennonite history.
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Continuing low interest rates remain the primary concern of nearly half of the chief financial officers at North American life insurance companies, according to a new report.
Professional services firm Towers Watson (NYSE, NASDAQ: TW), New York, released this finding in a summary of results from a survey of North American chief financial officers. Thirty CFOs, 19% of the 162 CFOs invited, participated in the research, titled, "Life Insurance CFO Survey: Low Interest Rate Environment."
The respondents are primarily from large and midsize life insurance companies in North America; 67% of responding companies have assets of $5 billion or more, and 20% are multinationals.
The research reveals that low interest rates are the primary business concern of 45% of the survey respondents. The CFOs say that a prolonged low interest rate environment is the "greatest threat" to their companies.
Additionally, 87% of CFOs believe the likelihood of a major disruption to the economy in the next 12 to 18 months is 50% or greater. More than a quarter of respondents (27%) say the likelihood is 75%; and 7% believe the likelihood of a major disruption is almost certain.
More than two-thirds (68%) of CFOs say they expect a three- to five-year period of low interest rates, followed by a gradual increase, the report finds. When asked to consider their organization's interest rate risk exposure, CFOs' metrics of greatest concern were their levels of statutory capital (63%), followed by their level of statutory earnings (53%).
"Life insurers are adversely affected by low interest rates, in part because of lower returns on their investments and previous guarantees promised to their policyholders," says John Fenton, a senior life insurance consultant at Towers Watson. "In addition, the low interest rate environment makes some of their products—such as traditional fixed universal life and annuities—very unattractive in the marketplace."
To counteract the low interest rates, more than half (57%) of CFOs say their company has established risk tolerance limits for interest rate risk. But 43% have not done so, and more than 40% of CFOs with established rate risk tolerance limits indicate they have breached them.
"This raises serious questions about how these companies are dealing with interest rate risk management," says Karen Wells, senior investment consultant at Towers Watson. "Most companies have a critical need to revisit their interest rate risk strategy in light of the current economic environment."
The survey finds that CFOs have increased the cost of insurance rates for interest-sensitive products to better manage their interest rate risk. Forty-three percent of respondents say that, based on future expectations, the language of their policy forms allows them to change cost of insurance (COI) rates under the universal life products they sell based on investment earnings, while 50% say they can change COI rates for variations in mortality alone.
In the past five years, just over a third of respondents have increased COI rates, expense loads or both on at least some part of their life block, the report adds.
Nearly all respondents (96%) say they have reduced their minimum guarantee on fixed-account products. More than half (56%) have adjusted premium rates, reduced living benefit guarantees or adjusted fees on annuity products (56%). Or they have ceased or significantly curtailed sales of some products (54%). One-quarter have exited product segments, and another 13% plan to do so in the next six months, the survey finds.
Despite their unfavorable near-term outlook on the economy, CFOs are more optimistic about improvements in their financial results.
Seventy-one percent of respondents expect increases in new life and annuity premiums of 4% or more in the first quarter of 2012, compared to the same period in 2011.
More than 80% expect GAAP net revenue to grow by 4% or more in the first quarter, compared to the same period in 2011.
When compared to expectations from Towers Watson's last CFO survey, this represents a notable increase in optimism: When asked about expectations for the third quarter of 2011, only 43% predicted increases in new life and annuity premiums of 4% or more. And just 50% anticipated a GAAP net revenue increase of 4% or more.
Adding to the sense of optimism, 50% of respondents predict GAAP net income will increase by 4% or more compared to the first quarter of last year, the survey reveals.


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Do we really need another vampire movie? If it's a ridiculous AbFab-style comedy from the director of Clueless, then maybe yes. Check out Alicia Silverstone and Krysten Ritter as two beautiful vamps... who were turned by vampire queen Sigourney Weaver.
Sadly, there are no pics of Weaver in this set, but the shots of Silverstone and Ritter do make this look like a fun outing — and I'm loving the 80s style, with the lacy gloves and prom dresses. Plus the bit where Silverstone is wearing a Queensryche t-shirt and sweat pants, accompanied by a man with a fang T-shirt. Does this film have a lot of flashbacks, or just a lot of fashion victimhood? Either way, we're kind of excited to see Silverstone reunited with director Amy Heckerling. We interviewed Ritter about the film a while back.
Also in the film: Marilu Henner as a vampire who gets reawakened to her true nature, vampires Dan Stevens and Justin Kirk... and Malcolm McDowell, as Vlad the Impaler. No, really. Check out some more pics below.
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- Good news: Janet W. lent me her advance review copy of the new Julia Spencer-Fleming, One Was a Soldier, aka "Book #7" in the Miller's Kill series.
- Bad news: I have to send it back.
- Good news: It's awesome!
- Bad news: I told you: I have to send it back. Otherwise, I'd happily reread the entire thing. At least once more...
- Good news: It's worth the years (literally) of waiting Miller's Kill fans have endured.
- Bad news: The ending will make you crazy desperate for "Book #8."
The trouble is, not everyone wants to read these books, or even try them. Some people are put off by the suggestion of adultery, because Russ is married when he and Clare first meet. I can't see it myself, but then I've been in Russ's situation. I was married when I fell in love with Ross. I still love my ex-husband and we're dear friends. As luck would have it, Henry and I didn't want to be married anymore right about the time that Ross and I wanted to get married. Worked out just fine for all three of us. Events work out a little differently in the Miller's Kill mysteries, but if adultery is the issue that's stopping you, please know that the entire subject is handled with great care and credibility.
A bigger issue seems to be religion. Some people are uncomfortable with Clare's profession as an Episcopal priest. I don't know what to say to that. I'm not religious and I love these books. That might reassure other non-religious readers, but it's not like there are neat cubby-holes with Dyno labels that read: Christian/Protestant, Christian/Catholic, Christian/non-church-going, Mormon, Jewish & observant, Jewish-as-a-cultural-matter, and so forth. If there were, I could maybe speak for my fellow Lapsed Episcopalians.
Instead the question of who we are in the realm of religion is like that color chart where each precise spot has its own hex code.
My spot on the Color Chart of Religion? Well, I was baptized and confirmed Episcopalian because my mother's parents were British & my dad didn't care where he went as long as he could sing in the choir. I was the youngest, though, and with my father and brothers in the choir and my mother leaving for church at 7 a.m. on Sunday mornings, I fell through the cracks. I wasn't required to wake up super early to go with my mother. (Plus, early service at St. George's Church in Schenectady meant no music. What's the point of going if there's no music?) And I couldn't go alone to the later service that did have the choral music, so no church for me. No church attendance means no habit or ritual to refer back to in times of stress.
For what it's worth, I'm not precisely convinced there's a God the way modern religions explain it. I'm more of a mystic: I believe there's magic in the Universe, but I also know (as an article of faith) that humans have no chance of knowing what that magic is. Is it spooky action at a distance, a cool and inexplicable phenomenon in quantum physics? Is it a Supreme Being? Or is it something so "other" that we'll never come close to comprehending it? I'm comfortable knowing I'll never know. I'm also comfortable (most of the time) with other people being certain that they do know.
That's got to be a spot on the Color Chart of Religion, right? Whatever that spot is called -- that's me. Clare occupies a completely different spot on the chart, and Russ a spot rather closer to mine. (There's a wonderful moment in One Was a Soldier when someone asks if, as a result of his relationship with Clare, Russ was going to become an Episcopalian and the reply is, "I think he's going to stay Law-Enforcementarian.") But because my background includes a lot of stuff about the Episcopal church -- my uncle was an Episcopal priest, my mother was active in the church up to her death, and one year I had the Bishop of Maine living in the apartment next to mine -- the bits in Spencer-Fleming's books that deal with the Episcopal liturgy, the rites, the vestments, and the business of keeping a church alive and vibrant all seem familiar. If anything, they make me nostalgic for something I never actually had.
They almost make me want to go to church. Not for religious reasons, but for that sense of community, the spectacle and elegance of a church service, and a connection with someone as graceful as Clare is. (I suspect a lot of people who read Spencer-Fleming's books secretly wish they could join St. Alban's.)
What these books don't do is offend my sense that my world is neither explained nor "fixed" by a belief in God. But again, that may be the result of my precise spot on the Color Chart. So, can I tell anyone, "Don't worry, you won't be offended/disturbed/upset/angered by the fact that a protagonist is an Episcopal priest"? No. Because I don't know how anyone else's spot on the Color Chart is going to affect them as they read these books.
All I can say is: Spencer-Fleming's Miller's Kill books move me to tears, make me believe in the power of the written word, and give me hope. They've changed my life.
Which rather sounds like the effect religion can have...
My spot on the Color Chart of Religion? I'm a Miller's Killite.


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If you understand what your client is ultimately wanting to achieving, you will see (much of) the scope creep before they do.
When you start thinking that you're smarter than your client, and that you can know what they want before they do, you're on very dangerous ground. You may be right much of the time, but when you're wrong you can find yourself down a deep hole.
If you do not really understand what they ultimately want out of the project, then you don't know whether they really understand what they want.
You avoid this trap by showing your client working software at frequent intervals, and by asking "Is this right? Is this what you meant?", letting them clarify, change their minds, let you know about new requirements, or smile and nod. You both gain understanding and trust incrementally.
Scott Ambler has a talk titled Are You Agile, or Are You Fragile that touches on this problem.
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