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One of the best tracks by Autechre, remixed by Plaid. Taken from the Warp 10 + 3 Compilation. Headphones highly recommended. Enjoy… » Autechre on Wikipedia… » Plaid on Wikipedia… » Warp 10 + 3 Compilation on Discogs… » Article about Autechre in Sound On Sound Magazine…
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20th anniversary: Warp is creating the definitive Warp Album. According to the announcement the box set called Warp20 will include: The 192 catalogue book: artwork of every Warp release from 1989 to August 2009 Warp20 (Chosen) 2 x CD: Ten songs chosen by followers on Warp20.net, ten songs chosen by Steve Beckett (Warp co-founder) Warp20 […]


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1. 开始交换信息。克林德勒建议:"关键是要做到充分了解你的目标行业,这样,在与业内人士沟通时,你就能参与到讨论中,而不是寻求帮助。"
2. 管理潜在的信息源。克林德勒指出,销售精英非常细心地记录与潜在消费者的每次对话,求职者应该以他们为榜样。
3. 少说多听。倾听得越认真,就越能发现机遇,"所以,当一种趋势转变为职位空缺时,你就会知道如何抓住机遇,"克林德勒表示。
4. 乐于做某个特定领域的"热心肠"。现在,许多领域的销售精英像顾问一样,具有解决问题的经验,而不仅仅是推销产品或服务。克林德勒建议求职者也应该做到这一点。
Dear Annie: I'm hoping you can clear something up for me. I've been looking for a job in project management for the past several months, after taking "early retirement" as an alternative to getting laid off, although I can't afford to retire yet.
I keep hearing that I should be contacting everyone I've known in my career to ask if they know of any openings, since the best available jobs (especially management positions) aren't advertised anywhere. So I've been doing that, but it's getting to the point where people aren't returning my phone calls or answering my Tweets anymore, and I feel like I'm wearing out my welcome. Do you or your readers have any suggestions on where to go from here? — Outside Looking In
Dear Outside: No doubt about it, in this economy, plenty of well-connected people have come down with an ailment you might call networking fatigue.
"If you contact someone in your network and that person seems not to want to talk to you, then it's the wrong person," says Jonathan Kreindler. "He or she is probably hearing from too many job seekers, and they're all after the exact same information about current job openings."
Kreindler, who is a co-founder of FreshTransition, a company that offers online career-management tools, contends that the way to get past that bottleneck is to start thinking long-term, by positioning yourself to take advantage of opportunities that don't exist yet. This may sound impossible but, Kreindler notes, it's the way top salespeople beat out the competition and win new customers.
"Successful salespeople have a knack for spotting future opportunities," he says. "They develop leads by building relationships gradually over time." For job hunters, this approach makes sense for a couple of reasons.
First, "companies are like living organisms. Things change constantly. People retire or quit and new projects get launched, so new opportunities are always on the horizon," says Kreindler. "By putting yourself ahead of the curve, you find out about them in advance rather than after the fact."
And second, taking a long-term approach helps avoid the situation you describe, an increasingly common one these days, where "you run the risk of wearing out your network," Kreindler says, adding: "Once you've asked about current openings and there aren't any, the conversation is over. Not only that, but you've defined the equation so that, the next time you contact that person, they already know what it's about and, if they can't help you, there's no dialogue."
By contrast, cultivating your network the way top salespeople do is far more likely to lead to the kind of continuing connections that result in getting hired. Four tips from Kreindler on how to do it:
1. Start an exchange of information. "The key is to know your target industry so well that, when you communicate with people in it, you're participating in a discussion, not asking for a favor," Kreindler suggests.
"Offering information, or asking someone's views on an industry issue, rather than requesting help, sets up a completely different dynamic" -- one that may make people more willing to take your phone calls.
2. Manage your pipeline of prospects. Kreindler notes that top salespeople are meticulous about keeping track of every conversation with a potential customer, and job seekers should follow their lead.
"Keep detailed records of everyone you've spoken with, when, and what you talked about," he says. "Then, when you see something relevant in the trade press or an industry blog, send it along and continue the conversation."
3. Listen twice as much as you talk. The more carefully you listen, the better able you'll be to recognize opportunities on the horizon, "so you'll know how to position yourself to take advantage when a trend becomes a job opening," says Kreindler.
4. Be the "go-to" person on a particular subject. In many industries now, top salespeople act like consultants, bringing problem-solving expertise rather than just pushing a product or service, and Kreindler advises job seekers to do likewise.
One way is to set aside a bit of time each week to answer questions in the Q & A section of LinkedIn (LNKD), which "offers a tremendous opportunity to connect with people who are struggling with an issue you have worked on in the past," Kreindler says. "When you answer a question, include your contact information and a brief 'elevator pitch' about your background." You never know who might see it and decide they need you.
Kreindler is the first to admit that this all adds up to a lot of work. "It's not easy, and it takes patience," he says. But, he adds, "Salespeople often get the sale because they are trusted and have built their credibility over time, not because they hit prospects over the head with a sales pitch. To succeed now, job seekers need to adopt the same mindset."
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Chicken Kashmir
Add Cumin, Coriander, Cayenne Pepper, salt and onion to the frying pan and cook gently for 2 minutes. Stir in the yoghurt and water and bring gently to the boil. Pour over the chicken pieces. Cover and cook in the oven for 30 minutes.
Meanwhile, drain the tinned peaches, discard the syrup and rinse the fruit with cold water. Alternatively, skin, stone and slice the fresh peaches if using. Scatter most of the peach slices over the partially cooked chicken and reserve the remainder for decoration.
Return the chicken to the oven and cook, covered, for a further 30 minutes. Drain off the cooking liquid into a saucepan and add the Garam Masala. Bring to the boil, stirring.
Transfer the chicken to a serving dish and pour the sauce over. Decorate with peach slices. Serve this fruity Indian curry with boiled rice.
Pre-heat the oven to 200°C, 400°F, Gas Mark 6.
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We are always looking for ways to cut the costs of what we spend on food.
To cut down the cost of your meal you need to be prepared to put in a little more effort. You can still make amazing meals just with flour and water with a few odds and ends, some imagination and a few extra minutes. Flour with milk, water or eggs mixed in different ways makes a variety of interesting dishes that you can't go and buy off the shelves of your local supermarket.
There are a lot of recipes for saving money on food, but you can really come up with some creative ideas of yourself. Do you grow your own veggies and herbs? Think about it – you can make some awesome soups for the whole family.
The power of flour can make some amazing breads. This is nothing new and people have been baking fab breads for years and as time has passed things have just become better. We are not talking about a slice of white with butter folks – you can make your own pitas, stuffed focaccias and ciabattas with really good things like cherry tomatoes, olives and pesto – yum!
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Above: Another of the great ways to save money on food - gnocchi - just flour, eggs and potato - dress it up in a fancy sauce, and you have another great meal!
Caramelized Onion Tart
This is a really great tart. If you want to upgrade the recipe you can roast some shallots in the oven, but I think onion marmalade tastes great.
- 1x onion marmalade recipe
- Olive oil
- 3 eggs
- 1.2 cup milk
- ½ cup grated cheese
- Salt and black pepper
- 250g Flour, cut into small blocks
- 115g Butter
- Pinch salt
- 4 Tbsp chilled water
- 100g rice (for blind baking)
For the Pastry
- Sift the flour and salt into a mixing bowl
- Add the butter and rub into the flour with your fingertips
- The mixture should look like fine breadcrumbs
- Sprinkle the water over until the dough comes together
- Wrap in plastic wrap and leave in the fridge for 30 minutes
For the Filling
- Preheat the oven to 180°c
- Lightly grease a tart tin
- Roll out the pastry and line the tart tin
- Prick the pastry case and line with foil and rice and blind bake for 20 minutes
- Remove the foil and the beans and spoon in the onions
- Mix the eggs with the milk
- Add the cheese and season to taste
- Pour the mixture over the onions and bake for 30 minutes or until set
Serve warm
Serves 6
Tagliatelle with spinach
You can even go cheaper and fresher by making your own pasta, it takes a little time, but you will find that the flavors are awesome.
- 1x Bechamel recipe (see at the bottom)
- Olive oil
- 500g tagliatelle
- 1 bunch spinach, chopped
- 3 cloves garlic, chopped
- Salt and pepper
- Bring a pot of salted water to the boil
- Add some olive oil to a pan and fry the garlic
- Add the spinach until it wilts
- Heat the white sauce and mix with the spinach
- When the water is boiling add the pasta according to packet instructions
- When the pasta is ready drain it and mix everything together.
- Season with salt and pepper
Serves 4
Egg Fried Rice
This is a sort of Asian dish which can be served with stir-fried vegetables
- 400g cooked white rice
- 1 Tbsp sunflower oil
- 5 spring onions, finely chopped
- 3 cloves of garlic, finely sliced
- 2 eggs, beaten
- 50g peas
- 2 tsp soy sauce
- Heat the oil in a wok or a solid based frying pan
- Fry the spring onions and garlic for half a minute
- Add the rice and stir-fry for two minutes
- Add the soy sauce
- Make a well in the middle and pour in the eggs, scramble them around for half a minute and then mix together with the rice.
These are really good for any meal and leftovers are excellent with cinnamon and a squeeze of lemon juice. You can make them ahead of time and just warm them up. These are more crepes than American style pancakes.
- 200ml milk
- 100ml flour
- Pinch salt
- 1 tsp caster sugar
- 1 Tbsp oil
- 1 egg
- Mix some of the milk with the flour, sugar and salt to make a paste and then whisk in the rest of the milk gradually.
- Add the eggs and the oil.
- If you are making a lot of pancakes just double up the quantities a couple of times. For the filling you can use a ham and basil pesto mixed with white sauce. Creamed spinach and feta is also a good one.
Makes 10 pancakes
Hake with Basil Marinade
Here you can use any fish that suits your budget. It is the sauce that really makes it. This is where growing herbs in your garden will help because it will keep the costs down, and you know what you are putting in your food at the same time.
- Basil
- Olives
- Garlic
- Olive Oil
- Hake
- Mash up the basil
- Add the olive oil
- Stone olives, break up and add to basil oil
- Add salt and pepper
- Pour this over the fish and bake in the oven at 180 for 10 minutes
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As an alternative, try baking this in a bag. Use aliminum foil for this. Simply fold the edges over, so that you have a little pocket, and pop your fish in there. Add in a drop of wine, seasoning and a bit of stock. Leave this in the oven for about 15 mintues, and make sure the rest of the food has been cooked, like potato wedges or mash.
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Recommendations for Revision of Seismic Damping Values in Regulatory Guide 1.61 (NUREG/CR-6919)
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Manuscript Completed: September 2006
Date Published: November 2006
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H.L. Graves, NRC Program Manager
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This report provides recommendations developed by Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) for revision of the damping values in U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Regulatory Guide 1.61, "Damping Values for the Seismic Design of Nuclear Power Plants," Rev. 0, issued October 1973. The recommendations included herein are based on the results of various damping studies, as well as NRC licensing actions related to the resolution of damping issues. Recommendations of the NRC Damping Task Force, and additional work performed by BNL to address staff questions have been incorporated into the final recommendations.
The recommendations in this document considered recently published guidance on damping for seismic analysis included in ASCE Standard 43-05, "Seismic Design Criteria For Structures, Systems, and Components in Nuclear Facilities" and ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code, Section III, Division 1, Non-Mandatory Appendix N, "Dynamic Analysis Methods", 2004 Edition.


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This image, taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, shows the colorful "last hurrah" of a star like our Sun. The star is ending its life by casting off its outer layers of gas, which formed a cocoon around the star's remaining core. Ultraviolet light from the dying star makes the material glow. The burned-out star, called a white dwarf, is the white dot in the center. Our Sun will eventually burn out and shroud itself with stellar debris, but not for another 5 billion years. The image was taken Feb. 6, 2007 with Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2. The colors correspond to material expelled by the star. Blue corresponds to helium; blue-green to oxygen; and red to nitrogen and hydrogen. Learn more at HubbleSite's NewsCenter.
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Black AIDS Institute releases report on the AIDS crisis among black gay men
Today, the Black AIDS Institute released its latest report, Back of the Line: The State of AIDS Among Black Gay Men in America. The landmark report highlights alarming data that show disproportionately high rates of HIV infections and deaths from AIDS among Black MSM, why the disparities persist and are growing worse, and the urgent need for local and national leadership to immediately address the devastating health crisis.
"Black MSM continue to be first in line when it comes to need, but remain at the back of the line when it comes to assistance," said Phill Wilson, Founder and Executive Director of the Black AIDS Institute. "This report not only highlights the gaps and why they still exist after 30 years, but it also provides a blueprint for how to close the gaps and move those most at risk up to the front."
Black MSM account for 1 in 500 Americans, but represent nearly 1 in 4 new HIV infections. Black MSM are also significantly less likely to be alive three years after being diagnosed with AIDS than are white or Latino MSM. By the age of 25, Black gay men have a 1 in 4 chance of becoming infected with HIV.
The AIDS crisis among Black MSM is far from over and not even close to being under control.
"Current policies do not adequately address the unique needs of Black MSM in America. Local and national leaders must remain vigilant in the fight against AIDS, especially in the Black community, which continues to carry the heaviest burden," said Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA). "Unless we change the way we do business, we cannot reverse the epidemic. No one should be forced to the back of the line."
The report provides a plan to address the AIDS crisis facing Black MSM, which involves action at every level. Recommendations include: increasing access to vital services such as HIV testing, treatment and prevention services; reducing sexually transmitted diseases; introducing pre-exposure prophylaxis; building sustainable community infrastructure; and implementing a national plan to reduce the vulnerability of Black MSM. The report also calls on national leaders to make the fight against AIDS among Black MSM a central priority.
The Black AIDS Institute also ranked 25 cities to determine which address the HIV-related needs of Black MSM most effectively, and which do not. Among the best are Washington, DC; New York, NY; and Los Angeles, CA. Gary, IN tops the worst city list followed by Memphis, TN and Richmond, VA.
The report is the latest in a series by the Black AIDS Institute on the state of AIDS in Black America. It is being released a week prior to the International AIDS Society conference in Washington, DC, a landmark event for the global AIDS community. Although the conference theme is "Turning the Tide Together," America will not turn any tide if it does not immediately address the crisis facing Black MSM.
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Foundations: A Beginner's Guide
Like Goerig, teachers across the country are capitalizing on the growing number of programs that award grants to teachers. Today, according to the best estimates, private foundations and companies contribute well over $200 million annually to precollegiate education.
Most of that money goes to school districts or organizations, including, in some cases, local education funds. But a fair number of these foundations make grants to teachers--either directly or through the school--for a variety of purposes, ranging from individual study and research to special projects. Your chances with most foundations will probably be greater if you work with other teachers and your principal or superintendent to seek project support (e.g., an innovative program in team teaching).
Getting foundations or corporations to part with their money is not easy; it takes good ideas, hard work, and time. But if you're successful, it's well worth it. Here are some hints that should increase the odds in your favor.
1. Have a clear idea of what you want. Whatever kind of grant you are seeking--for travel, study, equipment, or a project--you will have to make your case in writing.
In clear and concise prose, describe your need and explain why it deserves to be funded and why you think the particular donor you are approaching should fund it.
People who give money away are likely to have huge stacks of proposals to read, so try to state your case in a two-page, typed letter. If it must be longer, begin with a summary. Include a budget or description of how the grant will be spent.
Whenever possible, obtain a copy of the donor's guidelines in advance.
2. Do your homework. You need to identify potential donors, find out what they support, and make sure that your need falls within their guidelines. In general, foundations do not make grants for religious or political purposes, construction, publications and periodicals, endowment, or scholarships. Most foundations also state that they make "no grants to individuals,'' but if you apply through your school (or a tax-exempt organization) a grant can be made to the institution that will administer the grant for your project. In short, pay more attention to a foundation's past gifts than to its stated restrictions, which are not always absolute.
There are more than 15,000 private foundations and thousands of corporate donors. Some give nationally for a variety of activities. Others limit their support to a region. Special-purpose foundations restrict their grants to a particular field, such as medicine or the arts. Community foundations administer a variety of endowments and trusts, usually within a metropolitan area. And corporate foundations are set up by businesses, often to support their interests. The relatively few foundations that are realistic targets for you are likely to be within your home state or region, so that is where to start.
The Foundation Center has the most current and comprehensive sources of information on fund-raising and grant making. It operates libraries in San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Cleveland, and New York and maintains collections in 170 libraries across the country--at least one in each state. For the location of collections in your state, call (800) 424-9836. In addition, a nearby college or university may be willing to let you use its directories. You might even look under "Foundations'' in the Yellow Pages.
3. A personal visit can help. Although often hard to arrange, an appointment gives you a chance to answer questions in person, elaborate on parts of your proposal, and convey your enthusiasm. Moreover, a foundation official is more likely to read your proposal thoroughly and think about it if he or she is scheduled to discuss it with you in person.
4. Cast a broad net, and don't give up too easily. It's all right to send your proposal simultaneously to more than one donor. Foundations often take months to review and respond to a request. If you're successful with one before the others respond, simply let them know you received a grant.
Many successful novelists tell how their bestseller was rejected by a dozen publishing houses before it was accepted. Grant seekers frequently have that same experience. So keep trying until you've covered all likely donors. And if you strike out, wait six months or a year and start again. Foundations have been known to say "no'' several times and then say "yes.'' Changes in staff, mission, program, priorities, and giving guidelines can make your rejected proposal of last year a winner next year.
5. If you succeed, follow up. Donors like to know that a grant achieved its stated purpose. Let the foundation know how important its support was in accomplishing your objectives. That's the courteous thing to do; it's also the smart thing to do. Getting a second grant from a foundation is almost always easier than getting the first.
The sampling of community, regional, and national foundations listed on the following two pages represent a few of the more active in supporting precollegiate education. Most national and regional corporations make some charitable gifts; the best approach to them is usually through the branch office or plant nearest to you. R.W.
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Located in a repurposed farm house deep in the heart of the Nechi Valley, this museum features a collection of over 2,100 items are on display here and include tools used by the 'bokka' porters who carried goods along the Salt Trail. These bokka were mostly peasant farmers of the Nechi Valley who made a living during the winter months by carrying large heavy packs loaded with salt and other goods bound for markets in Matsumoto.
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The Economy of Character
Novels, Market Culture, and the Business of Inner Meaning
Although the story of this shift is usually told in terms of the "rise of the individual," Deidre Shauna Lynch proposes an ingenious alternative interpretation. Elaborating a "pragmatics of character," Lynch shows how readers used transactions with characters to accommodate themselves to newly commercialized social relations. Searching for the inner meanings of characters allowed readers both to plumb their own inwardness and to distinguish themselves from others. In a culture of mass consumption, argues Lynch, possessing a belief in the inexpressible interior life of a character rendered one's property truly private.
Ranging from Defoe and Smollett to Burney and Austen, Lynch's account will interest students of the novel, literary historians, and anyone concerned with the inner workings of consumer culture and the history of emotions.
Introduction: Recognizing Characters
Pt. 1: The Economies of Characteristic Writing
1: Fleshing Out Characters
2: Fictions of Social Circulation, 1742-1782
Pt. 2: Inside Stories
3: "Round" Characters and Romantic-Period Reading Relations
4: Agoraphobia and Interiority in Frances Burney's Fiction
5: Jane Austen and the Social Machine
Conclusion: The Real Thing and the "Work" of Literature in Nineteenth-Century Culture
Modern Language Association: MLA Prize for a First Book
Literature and Literary Criticism: General Criticism and Critical Theory
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Denosumab: Antiresorptive agent reduces fracture risk
The monoclonal antibody denosumab demonstrates potent antiresorptive effect in the treatment of osteoporosis, conferring benefit for fracture risk and averting bone loss in select oncological situations. The drug must be used without interruption to prevent a rebound effect, according to Dr Tai-Pang Ip, a consultant endocrinologist from Hong Kong who spoke at AFOS 2017 held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Findings from multiple trials in postmenopausal women with low bone mineral density (BMD) or osteoporosis showed potent suppression of bone turnover by denosumab, with 2‒3 years of treatment yielding sustained increases in BMD, decreases in bone resorption markers, and reductions in the risk of vertebral, nonvertebral, and hip fractures. [J Bone Miner Res 2007;22:1832-1841; N Engl J Med 2009; 361:756-765]
Significant reductions in wrist fracture risk were also noted, with denosumab increasing areal and volumetric BMD, bone mineral content, and polar moment of inertia in radius cortical and trabecular bone in a subgroup of patients with femoral neck BMD T-score ≤–2.5. [Menopause 2013;20:130-137]
In a head-to-head trial vs alendronate, switching to denosumab resulted in superior increases in BMD at the total hip, lumbar spine, trochanter, femoral neck, and distal one-third radius — independent of the duration of prior alendronate use compared with continued alendronate use. [J Bone Miner Res 2009;24:153–161, 2010;25:72-81]
Furthermore, significantly more patients were more adherent, compliant, and persistent with subcutaneous injections of denosumab 60 mg every 6 months, reporting increased treatment preference and satisfaction, than with once-weekly oral alendronate tablets. [Osteoporos Int 2010;21;837-846]
FDA-approved antiresorptive drug
In 2010, the US Food and Drug Administration approved denosumab for the treatment of postmenopausal osteoporosis based on 3-year data from the landmark phase III trial FREEDOM. Additionally, the drug is approved for use in cancer patients at high risk of fracture, particularly men receiving androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) for nonmetastatic prostate cancer and women receiving adjuvant aromatase inhibitor therapy for breast cancer. [N Engl J Med 2009; 361:756–765]
The Osteoporosis Society of Hong Kong recommends the use of denosumab as a first-line treatment for postmenopausal osteoporosis, osteoporotic males on ADT, and high-risk females on aromatase inhibitor.
Ip noted that the drug is specifically indicated in patients who have contraindications to oral bisphosphonate therapy, cannot tolerate oral or intravenous bisphosphonate, have renal impairment (up to stage IV chronic kidney disease), those with poor adherence to oral drugs, on polypharmacy, and have suboptimal BMD response to other antiresorptive agents.
"Osteoporosis, being a chronic disease, logically requires long-term medical treatment," he said, adding that 10-year data from the open-label extension study of the FREEDOM trial support the use of denosumab in the long-term management of postmenopausal osteoporosis.
In the extension study, treatment for up to 10 years yielded continual increase in BMD at both the lumbar spine and total hip—notably without a plateauing effect. The yearly incidence of new vertebral and nonvertebral fractures remained low, with rates similar to those observed in the denosumab group during the first 3 years of the FREEDOM study and lower than those projected for a virtual long-term placebo cohort. [Lancet Diabetes Endocrinol 2017;5:513-523]
Rebound bone loss upon discontinuation
As a soluble RANK ligand inhibitor, denosumab inhibits the differentiation, function, and survival of osteoclasts, Ip said, emphasizing that the drug does not incorporate into the bone matrix. As such, the effects of the drug are fully reversible once it has been eliminated and osteoclast regeneration has occurred. [Expert Opin Biol Ther 2006;6:1041–1050]
Ip noted that the notion of a drug holiday with denosumab is considered inappropriate, unlike bisphosphonates, which can be stopped after 5 years of treatment.
A previous study has reported that the effects of 24-month denosumab treatment on BMD and bone turnover markers are reversible upon discontinuation. Treatment cessation appeared to cause a rapid rebound in bone turnover markers to values above baseline within 3–6 months, with values approaching baseline by 2 years. [J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2011;96:972–980]
"The effect on bone protection will be lost rapidly once denosumab is discontinued," Ip explained. However, it is unclear whether the rebound in bone turnover would result in an excessive increase in fracture risk.
While a recent study reported nine cases of severe rebound-associated vertebral fractures, occurring 9‒16 months following the last denosumab dose, none of the studies in the clinical trial programme was designed to appropriately examine differences in fracture rates after treatment discontinuation, Ip pointed out.
Given that the implications for fracture risk are not well characterized, Ip called for additional research to clarify whether there is a real excess fracture risk, to establish the clinical profile of patients at risk for rebound vertebral fractures, and to determine the appropriate treatment regimens after denosumab discontinuation.


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Keen to start your conservation career? One of the most important skills any conservationist can have in their professional toolkit is the ability to conduct surveys of natural habitats. That's because scientific conservation research is vital to the success of most conservation projects. Any conservation team highly values someone with data collection skills.
Our Conservation and Scientific Research online course, which is offered in partnership with the University of Richmond and UNC Charlotte, will show you how surveys are tied to conservation/management objectives, species identification, environmental impacts, survey planning, survey logistics, and health and safety in the field.
The course material is based on GVI's more than two decades of experience conducting conservation research in remote locations around the world in close collaboration with local organisations. In fact, because we want all our conservation interns to know how to conduct scientific conservation research, this course is included in the program fee of all our conservation internship abroad programs.
Skills you'll acquire
After completing this course you'll be able to:
- identify the connection between monitoring and conservation objectives
- identify species targeted for monitoring during a survey
- recognise the different techniques for surveying a natural habitat
- analyse the strengths and weaknesses of different surveying techniques
- plan how to lead a survey of any natural environment
- recognise the importance of collaborating with local partners
- manage risk during a survey conducted in a remote location.
Is this course for you?
This course is for anyone interested in increasing their ability to make a meaningful contribution to conservation projects. This could be a high school, college or graduate student interested in pursuing a career in conservation, a mid-career corporate professional looking to make a career switch to conservation or even a retired senior who is interested in conservation citizen science initiatives.
Course Curriculum
Learn what the term "target species" means in the context of conservation research surveys. Understand why certain species are targeted for monitoring, including the role they play in a specific ecosystem and the current or former threats to the survival of the species. Find out how to identify these species while on a survey including their behaviour, what kinds of sounds they make and what they look like during different stages of their life, times of the year and other changing factors.
Find out why it's important to partner with local organisations to achieve conservation objectives. Use GVI conservation projects as a case study to learn about how international organisations and volunteers can collaborate with local organisations, communities and individuals.
Learn how to plan and lead a survey. This includes preparing a brief with instructions on which species will be targeted, how surveying equipment will be used and which safety procedures should be followed. It also includes providing a debrief after the survey listing key achievements and noting any problems that might need to be addressed for future surveys.
Conservation research is often carried out in remote locations. This is why health and safety procedures are so important. You'll learn how to set up health and safety protocols for surveys and how to use Emergency Action Plans (EAPs). Topics covered include: first aid requirements for a survey, how to ensure reliable transport and the importance of establishing meeting points.


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- Jonny Ensall
- 22 March 2010
The Bongo Club, Edinburgh, Sun Mar 14 2010
Things have gone well for Mr Tet (aka Kieran Hebden) this decade. Having started out as an acoustic guitar-loving 'folktronica' talent, he's progressed through mix albums and collaborations to end up somewhere more grounded on latest album, There Is Love In You; a progressive, drawn-out meander through deep house beats and vocal samples that takes a satisfyingly back-to-basics dance approach.
As such, the golden boy of British electronica has no trouble pulling in punters, and this kill-for-a-ticket event at The Bongo Club was packed out with devotees. The nuanced techno of Pantha Du Prince was the added draw, yet the Rough Trade and Dial label artist made little impact on the night. He seemed disconnected from the (admittedly lovely) music throughout a short set spent fiddling with knobs to almost imperceptible effect.
It takes something special to create an electronic show where, above the baffling array of blinking equipment laid out on stage, there's a real sense of innovation and individuality rising through the music. And this is what Hebden achieved. Concentrating mostly on expanding the There Is Love In You tracks, his impeccable beats rose and fell, cut through each other, warped and bleeped in constantly developing variations for a good hour-and-a-half of superb adventuring. The throbbing insistency of 'Love Cry' tipped the swaying audience over the edge into full euphoria as the huge beat and pastiched 90s vocal sample dropped into the small venue. A little trip back to second album Rounds via his finishing coda of 'Spirit Fingers' was a welcome reminder of former, more organic-sounding brilliance, but the rest of the set felt like a woozy clubber's beautiful dream of endless, overlapping great nights out, summing up the influences and vision of someone who deeply loves his dance. It was majestic stuff; much more than a man in a t-shirt behind a computer, and enough to leave the enchanted crowd calling after Hebden for more.


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My Reward Box Subscription Review + Coupon – September 2016
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Laurie's January Cure: My First Week — January Cure Diaries
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When I told my parents that I was doing Apartment Therapy's January Cure , they suggested I move my project to their basement — where the dark truth behind my seemingly organized New York City apartment lives. In this large, suburban storage room, relics of my college student/single girl in New York/newly married woman life are preserved with the stratigraphic precision of an archaeological site. Every two feet into the storage room represents a year back in time. If you walk ten feet into the room, for example, you can see the year I met my husband; this place marks the appearance of a retired decor that would be at home in any charming bachelor pad/brothel. More


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The Library Board serves in an advisory capacity to the City Commission and works in conjunction with the Library director and staff. The Library Board is appointed by the City Commission and is comprised of seven members who may serve two consecutive three-year terms. The Board represents all regions of the City with at least one member representing rural Randall County.
If you are interested in serving on the Library Board, complete an online application by October 31st. The meetings are held quarterly on the third Wednesday of February, May, August and November at 4pm. The public is welcome to attend all meetings.
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Richards Kibbe & Orbe LLP partner James Q. Walker recently addressed social media issues affecting fund managers in an online interview featured on Financier Worldwide.com. Mr. Walker discussed key compliance considerations and privacy law constraints in connection with fund managers' use of social media, and addressed emergence of social media as a tool for hedge fund managers, the legal risks associated with social media use and the relevant regulatory rules and guidance documents.
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Hart will miss world championships, final World Cup while recovering
Downhill world champion Danny Hart will not attend the year's biggest races in order to recover from shoulder surgery
Reigning downhill world champion Danny Hart will not attend the 2012 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships and the final 2012 UCI Downhill World Cup in order to recover from shoulder surgery.
Hart dislocated his shoulder after the Air DH event at Crankworx Les Deux Alpes and tore ligaments in his left shoulder.
He got surgery immediately following the accident and is recovering well.
His work in physical therapy hasn't recovered his full range of motion yet and he is going to sit out the important races. Hart will return to the World Cup racing circuit in 2013.


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Given the importance of cyber security, here is a quick update on all the research activities that SWIFT Institute is carrying out on this topic
The SWIFT Institute aims to support and enhance the financial services community by engaging some of the brightest researchers to offer scientifically proven insights into problems currently facing our industry.
Given the importance of cyber security, here is a quick update on all the research activities that SWIFT Institute is carrying out on this topic:
Research Grants
The SWIFT Institute has recently awarded three research grants:
- Taxonomy / Trends / State of the Art Defensive Measures and Evolution of Threats – awarded to James Lewis and William Carter
- The Insider Cashout Typology: Sharing Threat Indicators of Cyber Fraud via Intelligence Information Reports - awarded to Beth Petrie and Casey Evans
- Taxonomy / Model / How Organisations Can Develop Cyber Resilience Capabilities - awarded to Richard Benham and Jason Ferdinand
These grants will be discussed in further detail at a special event in London on 30 March 2017 at the East Wintergarden in Canary Wharf, London. Save the Date!
SWIFT Institute Student Challenge 2017
Following the success of the inaugural SWIFT Institute Student Challenge which focused on the UK and the topic of remittances, the 2017 Challenge will focus on university students in Canada, and the topic is 'Making Banking Channels more Secure against Cyber Threats'.
Other Research
Of course, Cyber is not the only threat happening to our industry as it is being nudged and pushed by the exploding world of technological advances. With this in our sights, the SWIFT Institute has underway one new research project and two new calls for proposals:
- Research on the Strategic implications of open APIs in banking, is led by Dr. Markos Zachariadis and Pinar Ozcan and has the support of RBS. It will assess the implications of open APIs for banks and the potential benefits for them and their customers. This research will be available in Q1 2017.
We are currently searching for new research proposals on the following two areas:
- The first is on "Comparing China Fintech to the West: How two markets are taking different approaches to changing the future of finance" calling for a comparative study of the development of Fintech in China versus the development of Fintech in the West. This will take a detailed look at the historical context of fintech in China and the west and then seek to develop a deeper understanding of the future trends and their implications for fintech globally.
- The second is on "What should global transaction banking look like in 2030?" calls for research on the optimal structure for global transaction banking of the future. Banks believe that refining or replacing the correspondent banking model is important, and that technology (although not necessarily blockchain) could help provide at least part of the solution. This research will aim to provide a vision of what global transaction banking might look like in 2030 and beyond.
Further research papers to be published in 2017:
- Competition and Innovation in Payments: Does regulation aimed at encouraging competition and innovation conflict with requirements for KYC, AML, etc.? by Prof. Milind Saythe, Paula Chadderton and Geoff Nicoll of Canberra University
- Transatlantic Extraterritoriality and the Regulation of Derivatives: Conflict and Challenge for the Financial Services Industry What Practical Solutions Can Be Found? By Prof Stuart Weinstein of Coventry Law School
- Governance of Competition and Innovation in Payment Services by Prof Jane K Winn of University of Washington School of Law
New areas the SWIFT Institute is looking to explore in 2017 include financial crime. Here we are considering two avenues. First, looking at data privacy and the need to share data between the public and private sectors. Second, looking at new opportunities for financial crime in machine learning and artificial intelligence.
To stay informed, sign up for updates at swiftinstitute.org


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When your net worth is USD 1.37 billion, you're not exactly struggling to afford a plane ticket. But for Chinese billionaire Liu Yiqian, that's not enough. He wants his whole family to fly free, in first class, anywhere in the world, for the rest of his life. And he's done that by buying a painting.
Liu was the winning bidder for Amedeo Modigliani's "Reclining Nude" at a Christie's auction this month — offering $170.4 million — and when the sale closes he'll be putting it on his American Express card. But it's not just any Amex card. Liu has an American Express Centurion Card, aka the "black card". Amex issues it by invitation only and it has no official credit limit. It also earns points.
In theory, it's possible to put a ($170 million purchase) on an American Express card," said American Express spokeswoman Elizabeth Crosta. "It is based on our relationship with that individual card member and these decisions are made on a case-by-case basis, based on our knowledge of their spending patterns."
It's a common tactic, says Bill Majcher, a former financial crimes investigator for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police who is now based in Hong Kong working as an investment banker. "One simple little black AmEx card or one credit card, you never know what somebody's limits are," he said. "And some people have unlimited amounts based on their wealth and ability to pay."
Using a baseline of one point per dollar, Liu will earn 170,400,000 Membership Reward points for buying the painting. There's also the matter of taxes and Christie's fees adding to the final transaction. According to Zach Honig, editor-in-chief of travel rewards site The PointsGuy.com, flying free for Liu and his family for the rest of his life should not be a problem.
One conversion calculates that he could fly 3,000 times between the U.S. and Europe in the first class suites offered by SQ (estimated cost: $17,800 round trip), if he converted his points to SQ's FFP.
Gives a whole new meaning to Never Leave Home Without It.


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Produced by Scott Newman & Marc Santo
Camera by Rainer Evans
Edited by Kyle Gilman
Introduction by Marc Santo
Interview by Scott Newman
Brooklyn-based photographer Fred Cray has gone through significant lengths to fully explore himself. For his self-portrait series, he's set himself on fire, eaten dirt and covered himself with tar. "In the beginning," explains Fred, "I was expressing the young man's angst and needed to express the rage I was feeling towards war. I have a literary background and based a lot of these portraits on a character from a Marquez novel, but at this point, my work has become less about these motifs and moreabout the ability to transcend myself."
As an artist, Fred obsessively wanders the boroughs of New York City, exploring the back streets and lesser-known margins of the map in search of meaningful frames as they appear at that moment. Combine these photographs with his found imagery and distorted, multiple exposed frames shot from his computer screen, and the end result is a dreamy, ambiguous scene of the multi-layered world around him.
Fred's work has been exhibited by a prestigious array of galleries and museums that include White Columns, The New Museum, The Brooklyn Museum The New Orleans Museum of Art and The George Eastman House. He is a graduate of Yale's MFA program and is represented by the Janet Borden Gallery in SoHo.
Scott Newman: Some of your photographs incorporate layers of images and text that seem strategically printed on the page. To us, they represent less of a captured scene and more of a longer story that takes place over time. Where does this style come from?
FRED CRAY: My background is in painting and literature. I'm always trying to convey a sense of ambiguity. I tell stories with my photographs, but they aren't always true. I think a lot of photography is capturing what exists at that moment and I think it's fascinating to see different layers of time at once. I used to travel a lot, and in Rome I saw 1500 years of different architecture in the same place. I'm looking for things that have a story that both me and the viewer can relate to. It's then up to the viewer to add the element of what actually happened for the photograph to get to that point. I hope that when people view the photograph, they feel they've shot that photograph, which then adds ambiguity to the story. The text is generic and could be interpreted as the thoughts of the viewer or the thoughts of the photographer.
Scott: So the end result is a collage of images and text that are easily identifiable, translatable and generic enough for anyone to relate to.
FRED: The multiple exposures with text could definitely be called collage, but I just call them multiple exposures. They're really about thinking and the attempt to make sense of the chaotic images we collect in our head. We're flooded with images constantly, but how we put them together so they make sense is always an interesting challenge.
Scott: Would you say a lot of the inspiration comes from your surroundings in New York?
FRED: New York has an amazing amount of cultural institutions that are very inspirational. People are always trying new things with art and not always succeeding. Places like the Met or MoMA show amazingly successful and extremely potent artwork but if they were totally perfect it wouldn't be that inspirational. It's great when things are two thirds right and one third wrong.
Scott: When shooting in New York, what are you looking for and how do you go about finding it?
FRED: I like photographing Brooklyn. I'm attracted to street chaos and grit, which there's less and less of in Manhattan. The street action in Brooklyn is incredible. People just walk around in different clothes there. I go to Brighton Beach a lot and walk home, which is a six-mile walk, and I'll go through Russian neighborhoods, Caribbean neighborhoods and all sorts of different ethnic neighborhoods. There's still a slight time warp aspect. Whatever it is I'm looking for can be found there.
Scott: The commercialization of Manhattan is a common complaint. Do you think it's become harder to work here?
FRED: What I think about New York doesn't matter. I think New York is a place about commerce and change. People come here to re-make themselves. They come here to make money. They come here because it's anonymous in certain ways. They don't have to have a past and people can come here to start all over. I think people will always do that here. The city has changed a lot. The rough edges have been polished. The street interactions one used to have here have changed dramatically. I remember walking by this guy breaking in to a car on the Lower East Side, which you wouldn't necessarily see anymore. It was broad daylight and he said to me, "Look, I don't bother you when you're working. Leave me alone." Things like that seem to have vanished. The stoop life has changed; the new buildings have less character. We can all say we miss this and that about the old days but really New York is about change. I have to keep reminding myself of that and look for what's happening now. That's always one of the challenges–to remind myself to keep looking for what I see changing and not harp on what it used to be.


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Feet Puns of the World Unite – Divisional Playoff Weekend
Some loose, disconnected thoughts on each of the weekend's NFL playoff games.
Pittsburgh Steelers over Baltimore Ravens
I'm glad I got home late on Saturday and missed the first half of this one, since it looked ugly. The main clip I saw of the first half was this bizzare fumble where everybody thought the ball was dead until somebody picked it up and ran it into the end zone. Shades of that Monday night game from a few years ago, where somebody (A Packer, I think) made a similar play – he was down, but nobody touched him, so he got up and ran the ball for a score or something and now, in every practice, coaches drill touching into players head with a variety of hot irons, backwards messages and a lot of screaming.
And when I tuned in, the Steelers were down big. It wasn't a total surprise (thank god for The Score's mobile phone app, which kept me somewhat in touch with the game). On the whole, it seemed like the Steelers brought both sides of their game to the table: their offensive line was not good early on, and while they did improve later, I still feel iffy about them and especially in their protection of Roethlisberger, who was getting nailed harder than even he'd find appropriate on a first date.
It wasn't an especially convincing win, I thought, but the Steelers came out in the end. Yes, there was a tremendous comeback by the Steelers, but there was a big collapse by the Ravens offence. Their lead was built on turnovers and making the most of what they were given and they blew it by playing just okay. Flacco is taking, and will continue to take, a lot of grief, but I'm not completely holding him to blame – he was under a lot of defensive pressure on Saturday and did deliver some tight passes: one to TJ Houshmandzadeh and another to Anquan Boldin, both of which were dropped – Boldin's cost them a touchdown and Housh's killed a fourth-quarter rally. There was a punt-return touchdown, called back on a penalty and eventually turned into a field goal.
You know how in Techmo Bowl, turnovers seem to even out? If you get a fumble early, it's almost certain you'll fumble or get picked off later? I know it sounds Simmons-y, but that's what I was thinking when Flacco fumbled in the third. I think that example held up throughout the game. The Steelers played odd in the first half and the Ravens looked odder in the second. Part of me wonders if it was the ball – the Ravens had a hard time hanging onto it – or if it had something to do with a blood-thirsty crowd, but I can't find any real answers so I want to fall back on cliche: Pittsburgh wanted it more or something. I guess it comes down to something like this: Baltimore played better than they were in the first, worse than they are in the second and, combined, finished as the team everybody thought they were – defensively talented but with question marks on offence. The Steelers were the same; the first half went all wrong, the second all right and they look great for the comeback win, even if it wasn't really all their fault.
Green Bay Packers over Atlanta Falcons
The must crushing thing about this game came right before halftime, when Tramon Williams ran an interception all the way for a score as the clock expired – and, most interestingly to me, right before the Packers would get the ball back on a kickoff. When that happens to me in Madden or Techmo or whatever, it's always a huge boost – it's all the psychological gain of a safety and more points on the board, too. I don't think I called the game right then and there, but I started seeing it on Twitter and, looking back, they were right.
I'm not sure what this loss means to Matt "Ice" Ryan. In two playoff games, he's underwhelmed, but that's way too small a sample size to judge him as a heir apparent to Dan Marino or whatever. Marino was a singular talent who was saddled on some poor teams (and had the misfortune to play at the same time as Joe Montana, who had much better teams around him) for the bulk of his career; Ryan seems like an above-average QB who's still young enough to make mistakes. It's fun and it's easy to draw a line connecting him to other QBs throughout history who never won much, but it's disingenuous: he's barely been in the league long enough to make playoff appearances.
As for the Packers, they looked amazing. Both their offence and defence were clicking as they rolled through the Falcons. I've been saying for a while they're a lot better than people give them credit for – they lead the NFC in SRS, as I recall. I was thinking about that this morning when listening to a Simmons podcast, where him and noted NFL expert Adam Carolla used how close the Packers/Eagles game was to boost the Falcons – their logic was something like "Well, Green Bay nearly lost to Philadelphia and the Eagles are out of the playoffs, so that means the Packers are nearly out of the playoffs also," which is fine except for the parts which don't make sense (most of it). Green Bay is good, Philadelphia was nearly as good and both, I'd wager, were better than the Falcons.
Chicago Bears over Seattle Seahawks
A long while ago, I wrote a really long story on the Arizona Cardinals and the dangerous effects of hype. It was right before that Super Bowl where they came out of nowhere and put together a great run to the Super Bowl, mostly thanks to Kurt Warner lobbing touchdown passes to Larry Fitzgerald (which indirectly led to my favorite Slate article of all time).Essentially, it was about how everybody was buying into the team because it was a feel-good story and they possessed that rare sports element – momentum. They demolished teams in the playoffs, especially Carolina, and then tested the Steelers in the Super Bowl, but fell short of actually winning.
Anyway, the Seahawks began reminding me of them on Friday, when hype surrounding them began to hit critical mass – I think it was when Ron Jaworski said the Bears lead the NFL in negative-yardage-plays – and I started feeling iffy about picking them. It's nice to call an upset, sure, but to ride that bandwagon? Yeah, I got ahead of myself.
The Seahawks played like they have all season on Sunday, which is to say not especially good. Their defence was lackluster, their offence sputtered like my first car and I don't think anybody should have been surprised a 7-9 team lost to a team good enough to get a bye week. Chicago did look impressive, but I still don't trust them – they've improved throughout the season, but I still feel like they haven't been tested by a really good team yet. The Packers will be that test, but I'll save that breakdown for another day…
NY Jets over New England Patriots
Forget Seattle over New Orleans, this is the upset of the playoffs. The Patriots were good this year and, if I'm remembering my advanced stats right, went into the postseason more highly rated than any of their previous seasons – including that one which finished 16-0. Brady was lights out, throwing everywhere to everybody (especially Branch, but also Welker) and they steamrolled teams.
But their defence? Well, it had problems. Third-most passing yards allowed, for one. It's let teams hang in this season – Buffalo stands out in my mind – but was just good enough for their offence to make a few big plays here and there and push the game out of reach. So, on one side of the ball – Jets offence/Pats defence – I can't profess to be totally surprised. But the other end – where the Jets stymied the Patriots offence – that was really cool.
Brady finished with a decent game – two scored and nearly 300 yards – but he had to throw the ball 45 times to get those numbers. Their running game was held to about 100 yards and neither running back really stood out, I thought. The Jets kept pressure on Brady and while he threw a lot, and had time to throw, just the idea of throwing that many passes makes me nervous. Aaron Rodgers, Jay Cutler and Roethlisberger all threw less times, but threw more efficiently: more yards, more scores and wins in all the games. Hasselbeck threw as much as Brady in his loss, too.
I don't know if there's an exact number I can point to, but I think there's gotta be some kind of margin where it's dangerous. First off, there's the whole incomplete-passes-stop-the-clock angle, but there's also the idea that it's taxing on the entire team to run routes all day. For each of those passes Brady threw, he had two (at least) recievers running full tilt into the backfield. That's gotta add up over time, doesn't it?
Anyway, based on how well the Jets looked, they've gotta be seriously looked at to get past the Steelers. They've shown they can shut down explosive offenses (two thus far), but haven't done much against a tremendous defence – but the Steelers defence looked shaky, too. I'll probably address this in further detail when I do my picks in a couple days.
One final thought: Enough with the Rex Ryan feet jokes already. They're played out and really, isn't it kind of cute that he likes his wife that much? I'd much rather have to deal with him than a player who sexually assaults women.


text: The real life Bad News Bears getting narrative feature… Multiple outlets are reporting that 'Fast and Furious' helmer Justin Lin has acquired the narrative remake rights to the documentary 'The Battered Bastards of Baseball.' The documentary, which premiered to overwhelmingly reviews at this year's Sundance Film Festival, follows professional baseball player-turned Hollywood veteran Bing Russell who in 1973 created the only independent baseball team in America at the time, the Portland Mavericks. The year after Bing started his beloved Mavericks, the team shattered minor league attendance record, and he was named Class A Baseball Executive of the Year, unprecedented for the owner of an independent team. However, in 1977 the unkempt castoffs were forced out of Portland after the Pacific Coast League reclaimed the territory and gave it back to the MLB-affiliated Beavers. Maverick players included Jim Bouton, Jason Tatar, Robbie Robinson, Ken Medlock, and Bing's son, 'Escape From LA' star Kurt, who narrates the documentary. THR adds that actor-turned-director Todd Field ('The Creed of Violence,' 'Little Children') is on board to write and direct the narrative. The Oscar-nominated filmmaker was the Mavericks' wide-eyed 13-year-old batboy.


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Professor Looks Forward to Being a Student in Summer 2012
Political science Assistant Professor Nancy Wadsworth has studied the intersections of religion, culture and race, and recently has become familiar with the work of Hent de Vries, an expert on the topic of political theologies. In summer 2012, Wadsworth will have the opportunity to study directly from de Vries as a participant in the Cornell University School of Criticism and Theory Program, held June 17-July 27, 2012.
AHSS faculty members are among the best trained artists and scholars in the nation, often looked to as experts in their fields of study. The summer months offer many the opportunities to step away from the front of the classroom and continue their lifelong passion for learning as students. Wadsworth is being sponsored by the AHSS dean's office to attend the School of Criticism and Theory program based on her application, which cited her interest in attending a de Vries seminar. She will receive an AHSS grant to cover full tuition as well as partial housing and transportation costs.
"Nancy wrote a very complete and compelling application to attend this program, and her timing vis a vis her research was perfect. I am thrilled that AHSS can support Nancy with her research goals through this experience and wish her the very best," said Eleanor McNees, AHSS associate dean.
Wadsworth, whose primary areas of concentration are race, religion, political thought, American political culture, and reconciliation politics, is looking forward to "studying with a scholar whose work intersects with a number of my own interests," she said.
"Hent de Vries is a master scholar on the way religious frameworks think about politics, and vice versa," she added. "He also does work on the topic of forgiveness in political and social life, which has been a recent area of interest for me. His seminar should bring these interests together and should be very stimulating!"
According to its website, the School of Criticism and Theory (SCT) is devoted to intensive intellectual inquiry and the vigorous exchange of ideas. Every summer, SCT assembles a faculty consisting of some of the most influential and original thinkers in the humanities and social sciences, resulting in multi-layered dialogue among both faculty and participants.
"I hope to come away feeling intellectually re-stimulated and armed with some ideas for new directions in my scholarship, particularly in the area of religion and social change, or perhaps forgiveness in political contexts," said Wadsworth. "I think I'm most looking forward to the chance to being a student for six weeks, just reading, learning and participating in discussion without having to be 'in charge'."
Wadsworth has a PhD from the New School for Social Research in New York, N.Y., and has taught at DU since 2004. Her undergraduate courses include American Political Thought, which this year was set in the context of the questions recently raised by the Occupy Wall Street and Tea Party movements, and Forgiveness, Politics, and Film, "a personally transformative course in which students really get to think about conflict, in and beyond their own lives, in new ways," she said.
Outside of the classroom, Wadsworth is finishing a solo-authored book, Ambivalent Miracles: Evangelicals and the Politics of Racial Healing (University of Virginia Press, Forthcoming), and is co-editor of Faith and Race in American Political Life (University of Virginia Press 2012) with political scientist Robin Jacobson of Bucknell University.
Wadsworth has been interviewed by the Associated Press and CNN for stories related to the 2012 presidential election.


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Current Version:
Linux Kernel - 3.80
If this file does not exist, only the name server on the local machine will be queried; the domain name is determined from the hostname and the domain search path is constructed from the domain name.
The different configuration options are:
- nameserver Name server IP address
- Internet address of a name server that the resolver should query, either an IPv4 address (in dot notation), or an IPv6 address in colon (and possibly dot) notation as per RFC 2373. Up to MAXNS (currently 3, see <resolv.h>) name servers may be listed, one per keyword. If there are multiple servers, the resolver library queries them in the order listed. If no nameserver entries are present, the default is to use the name server on the local machine. (The algorithm used is to try a name server, and if the query times out, try the next, until out of name servers, then repeat trying all the name servers until a maximum number of retries are made.)
- domain Local domain name.
- Most queries for names within this domain can use short names relative to the local domain. If set to aq.aq, the root domain is considered. If no domain entry is present, the domain is determined from the local hostname returned by gethostname(2); the domain part is taken to be everything after the first aq.aq. Finally, if the hostname does not contain a domain part, the root domain is assumed.
- search Search list for host-name lookup.
- The search list is normally determined from the local domain name; by default, it contains only the local domain name. This may be changed by listing the desired domain search path following the search keyword with spaces or tabs separating the names. Resolver queries having fewer than ndots dots (default is 1) in them will be attempted using each component of the search path in turn until a match is found. For environments with multiple subdomains please read options ndots:n below to avoid man-in-the-middle attacks and unnecessary traffic for the root-dns-servers. Note that this process may be slow and will generate a lot of network traffic if the servers for the listed domains are not local, and that queries will time out if no server is available for one of the domains.
- The search list is currently limited to six domains with a total of 256 characters.
- sortlist
This option allows addresses returned by
to be sorted.
A sortlist is specified by IP-address-netmask pairs.
The netmask is
optional and defaults to the natural netmask of the net.
The IP address
and optional network pairs are separated by slashes.
Up to 10 pairs may
be specified.
Here is an example:
sortlist 18.104.22.168/255.255.240.0 220.127.116.11
- options
Options allows certain internal resolver variables to be modified.
The syntax is
- options option ...
where option is one of the following:
- debug
- sets RES_DEBUG in _res.options (effective only if glibc was built with debug support; see resolver(3)).
- ndots:n
- sets a threshold for the number of dots which must appear in a name given to res_query(3) (see resolver(3)) before an initial absolute query will be made. The default for n is 1, meaning that if there are any dots in a name, the name will be tried first as an absolute name before any search list elements are appended to it. The value for this option is silently capped to 15.
- timeout:n
- sets the amount of time the resolver will wait for a response from a remote name server before retrying the query via a different name server. Measured in seconds, the default is RES_TIMEOUT (currently 5, see <resolv.h>). The value for this option is silently capped to 30.
- attempts:n
- sets the number of times the resolver will send a query to its name servers before giving up and returning an error to the calling application. The default is RES_DFLRETRY (currently 2, see <resolv.h>). The value for this option is silently capped to 5.
- rotate
- sets RES_ROTATE in _res.options, which causes round-robin selection of name servers from among those listed. This has the effect of spreading the query load among all listed servers, rather than having all clients try the first listed server first every time.
- no-check-names
- sets RES_NOCHECKNAME in _res.options, which disables the modern BIND checking of incoming hostnames and mail names for invalid characters such as underscore (_), non-ASCII, or control characters.
- inet6
- sets RES_USE_INET6 in _res.options. This has the effect of trying a AAAA query before an A query inside the gethostbyname(3) function, and of mapping IPv4 responses in IPv6 "tunneled form" if no AAAA records are found but an A record set exists.
- ip6-bytestring (since glibc 2.3.4)
- sets RES_USE_BSTRING in _res.options. This causes reverse IPv6 lookups to be made using the bit-label format described in RFC 2673; if this option is not set, then nibble format is used.
- ip6-dotint/no-ip6-dotint (since glibc 2.3.4)
- Clear/set RES_NOIP6DOTINT in _res.options. When this option is clear (ip6-dotint), reverse IPv6 lookups are made in the (deprecated) ip6.int zone; when this option is set (no-ip6-dotint), reverse IPv6 lookups are made in the ip6.arpa zone by default. This option is set by default.
- edns0 (since glibc 2.6)
- sets RES_USE_EDNSO in _res.options. This enables support for the DNS extensions described in RFC 2671.
- single-request (since glibc 2.10)
- sets RES_SNGLKUP in _res.options. By default, glibc performs IPv4 and IPv6 lookups in parallel since version 2.9. Some appliance DNS servers cannot handle these queries properly and make the requests time out. This option disables the behavior and makes glibc perform the IPv6 and IPv4 requests sequentially (at the cost of some slowdown of the resolving process).
- single-request-reopen (since glibc 2.9)
- The resolver uses the same socket for the A and AAAA requests. Some hardware mistakenly sends back only one reply. When that happens the client system will sit and wait for the second reply. Turning this option on changes this behavior so that if two requests from the same port are not handled correctly it will close the socket and open a new one before sending the second request.
- no-tld-query (since glibc 2.14)
- sets RES_NOTLDQUERY in _res.options. This option causes res_nsearch() to not attempt to resolve an unqualified name as if it were a top level domain (TLD). This option can cause problems if the site has ``localhost'' as a TLD rather than having localhost on one or more elements of the search list. This option has no effect if neither RES_DEFNAMES or RES_DNSRCH is set.
The domain and search keywords are mutually exclusive. If more than one instance of these keywords is present, the last instance wins.
The search keyword of a system's resolv.conf file can be overridden on a per-process basis by setting the environment variable LOCALDOMAIN to a space-separated list of search domains.
The options keyword of a system's resolv.conf file can be amended on a per-process basis by setting the environment variable RES_OPTIONS to a space-separated list of resolver options as explained above under options.
The keyword and value must appear on a single line, and the keyword (e.g., nameserver) must start the line. The value follows the keyword, separated by white space.
Lines that contain a semicolon (;) or hash character (#) in the first column are treated as comments.
See Also
Name Server Operations Guide for BIND
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Ladies and gentlmen, its time once again for a Snackbar Podcast. And par for the course is your take, which we read over the online air waves. What is the topic you ask? Well its two fold, and this could be our best podcast to date.
We are talking about Violence in Gaming again and we will be breaking down and giving our take on Mr. Thompson's appearence on Attack of the Show. Its all the buzz over the internet (see it [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkHtgRxBfKA]here[/url]). We want to know specifically what about the argument you would have done differently. Did Adam Sessler come off badly as many have said, is Jack a cunning fox, or a fanatic? This is what we want to know.
Secondly since we are talking about Violence In Gaming we want to know what you have to say on the topic as general. Now new rule as far as forum responses go so Pretz and I dont freak out trying to read the books you post. What you want us to read put in brackets. Now debate and discourse as you will, however place what you want us to READ on the podcast in brackets. Example: [Pic, Pretz, I think yadda yadda]


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The area control genre—troops, creatures, or cubes seeking majorities on a map—is a cramped and crowded one. Though well-regarded titles like Cry Havoc, Inis, and Star Wars: Rebellion all arrived in 2016, the calendar keeps turning and the plastic miniatures keep coming. This time, though, they're positively enormous.
In Assault of the Giants, a horde of titans descend upon Faerûn, the prominent continent featured in the Dungeons & Dragons Forgotten Realms setting. This Andrew Parks design takes a conflict-oriented thematic chassis and bolts a smooth Euro-style engine to its frame. The game is a hybrid of schools, delivering carnage and tremendous 5" plastic miniatures to satisfy your eyes as well as your brain. The fact that it plays in a cool 25 minutes per player is just wax on the hood.
Taking on the roles of giant clans in the wake of a societal sundering, you are vying to ascend to the oversized throne. This is accomplished in game through amassing Ordning points in an effort to please Annam the All-Father. As a concept, it's a bit like Game of Thrones... if everyone was leading an army cloned from the lifeblood of The Hound.
Managing your actions well lies at the heart of Assault of the Giants. Each player has a hand of nine cards that offer abilities such as movement, combat, and plundering. As a giant, the people inhabiting the land are yours to use and abuse. You can pillage their resources, you can rip spells from the earth, or you can even flood the continent with the blood of your giant-kin foes.
On each turn, you play one of these nine cards from your hand to perform one of those aforementioned abilities. The cards remain on the table and won't return to your hand until you eventually play the Rest action. The longer you take to play particular cards, the more powerful they grow; each card receives a boost in potency based on how many total cards you have already played to the table. Your recruit ability might at first offer just five points to muster up some tall brutes, but if you play it as your fourth card, you get nine points instead. A turn or two in and the gears start turning as strategy and clever play emerge.
What's particularly intriguing is that the game's tempo is in your hands. Since each action only appears a single time in your deck, if you want to attack again, you need to toss down that Rest card. Do you rest often so that you can play a smaller set of abilities more frequently? Or do you try to maximize plays, squeezing efficiencies out of every possible action before burning a turn to rest and reset? When you tie the strategic considerations into the board state and swirling environmental factors at work, it's a wonderful system.
But who wants to Rest in a game titled Assault of the Giants? Lukcily, in this game, even kicking up your feet and cracking a cold one is exciting. In addition to picking up your cards, Resting lets you control the three neutral human giantslayers who are skipping about the board. They can battle and harass your foes, poking a sharp sword into even the most ferocious of titans.
A smooth core mechanic will only get you so far, of course. What really brings the proverbial Hill Giants to the yard is the game's glorious asymmetry. Taking a page out of the fantastic Cthulhu Wars playbook, Assault of the Giants strongly diversifies its cast. Each faction boasts different units, different action cards, and a unique narrative. That's right—this is a game with a story.
Each clan attempts to exert influence through its own path. The Ice Giants want to freeze the countryside, the Hill Giants want to amass piles of food for their leader to gorge on, and the Stone Giants think this is all a terrible nightmare from which they can awake only by crushing human civilization. You accomplish these endeavors by meeting the requirements listed on your faction event cards. Some giants will have multiple narrative beats to work through while others will find their path straighter. You'll pull off fantastic, world-shaking maneuvers that actually feed into the board situation. (Wait until you see the Fire Giants forge their dragon-slaying golem, Vonindod, for the first time.)