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Nick and Vanessa Lachey have (another) one on the way!
The couple, already parents to Camden John, 22 months, are expecting their second child — a daughter, Nick announced via Twitter Tuesday.
"Can't think of a better way to celebrate 3 years of marriage to my beautiful Vanessa than this," the singer wrote, sharing a photo of Camden running on the beach around a heart in the sand that reads, "It's a girl."
While the pair decided to wait until their firstborn was older, it was only a matter of time before the VH1 host, 40, and his wife, 33, expanded their brood.
"We're incredibly blessed," Lachey told PEOPLE in November, calling parenthood "the most amazing experience you could ever go through."
And it looks like the doting dad's dream of a daughter is coming true.
"I do want a girl. I think there's something emotional about having a daughter that I definitely want to experience," he told PEOPLE in February.
"Maybe I'll get one more boy under my belt first. I'll need some help to keep her in line, so a couple of brothers couldn't hurt."
— Jeff Nelson


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* dvb-apps package direct download available in [http://www.linuxtv.org/download/dvb/linuxtv-dvb-apps-1.1.1.tar.bz2 tar.bz2] or [http://www.linuxtv.org/download/dvb/linuxtv-dvb-apps-1.1.1.tar.gz tar.gz] format
[http://www.linuxtv.org/download/dvb/linuxtv-dvb-apps-1.1.1.tar.bz2 tar.bz2] or [http://www.linuxtv.org/download/dvb/linuxtv-dvb-apps-1.1.1.tar.gz tar.gz] format
* Also see [[First steps with a DVB device]] for some usage examples of some of these tools.
* Also see [[First steps with a DVB device]] for some usage examples of some of these tools.
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The LinuxTV dvb-apps package contains some Linux DVB API applications and a set of utilities that both the developer and end user alike will find quite useful. Specifically, the utilities are geared towards the initial setup, testing, and operation of a DVB device, whether it be of the sofware decoding (aka budget) or hardware decoding (aka premium or full featured) class.
Unfortunately, an element of confusion with the package is introduced by the fact that not all Linux distributions ('distro's') refer to it by the "dvb-apps" name. The Debian package name, for example, is dvb-utils. Additionally, you may sometimes also see it called dvbtools.... though dvbtools is/was itself the name of another set of utilities seperate from the LinuxTV project (see here).
List of utilities within 'dvb-apps'
The README file in the top level of the package gives a brief description of the package's contents, but in general, some of the items of interest that you will find are in the:
/test directory
- diseqc: Sends various diseqc sequences on a SAT frontend.
- set22k: Legacy tone switching for SAT frontends.
- setvoltage: Legacy voltage switching for SAT frontends.
- setpid: Set video and audio PIDs in the demux (only for hardware MPEG decoder)
- video: tiny video watching application
- test_sections: Hex dump of section data from stream.
- test_sec_ne: Like test_sections, but also test Not-Equal filter mode.
- test_pes: Hex dump of PES data from stream.
- test_tt: Demonstrate teletext decoding from PES data.
- test_av: Test audio and video MPEG decoder API.
- test_vevent: Test VIDEO_GET_EVENT and poll() for video events
- test_stc: Test DMX_GET_STC.
- test_stillimage: Display single iframes as stillimages
- test_dvr: Record a partial transport stream of selected PIDs to a file or a full stream if supported by the hardware
/util directory
- loadkeys: a utility to setup IR control keymaps using /proc/av7110_ir interface
- dvbdate
- dvbnet
- dvbtraffic
- scan, scandvb or dvbscan: utility to generate channel lists for the currently tuned frequency.
- azap, czap, szap, tzap: tuning utility for DVB.
- dvb-apps package direct download available in tar.bz2 or tar.gz format
- Also see First steps with a DVB device for some usage examples of some of these tools.


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This is an issue of Ours, a fortnightly journal which was produced by the Jews' Free School. This handwritten copy dates from 1886 and includes humorous and satirical essays, sketches, songs, and a chess column.
The school was founded in 1732 and expanded throughout the 19th century as the Jewish population of East London grew. By 1900, it was known as the largest school in the world. It was closely linked with the Rothschild family, who provided both economic support and leadership.
The school played a key role in anglicising the young immigrants of the East End.
It encouraged its pupils to identify with their new country, its traditions and history. Hebrew and religious studies were part of the curriculum, but speaking Yiddish was strongly discouraged. Children were not to forget that they were Jews – but they were now English Jews.


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High Cholesterol After Treatment
Dear OncoLink "Ask The Experts,"
Can Chemo and, or Radiation cause a hike in your Cholesterol? On one of my blood test it was 553... Now on meds.
Christine Hill-Kayser, MD, Assistant Chief Resident in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, responds:
Some chemotherapy drugs can indeed cause increase in cholesterol levels, as can hormonal agents. Radiation to certain areas of the body (the liver, for example) could theoretically cause this as well, although this is much less common. In addition to cancer treatments causing increased cholesterol, some cancer treatments may also increase other cardiovascular risk factors, such as atherosclerosis (plaque formation) and/or cardiomyopathy. For this reason, attention to your cardiovascular health is particularly important. We recommend regular screening for hypertension and high cholesterol, with appropriate treatment as you are already receiving. In addition, regular exercise and low-fat, low-cholesterol diet are also important. We also recommend reporting any concerning symptoms, such as chest pain, shortness of breath, or leg swelling, to your healthcare provider immediately.
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Big 12 Football Television Selection InformationUnder the new agreement executed in the fall of 2012, ABC/ESPN and FOX have the right to distribute games on various platforms including ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, FOX, FS1, FOX Sports Net and FOX College Sports.
The two networks have developed a "draft" order for selection of games with ABC/ESPN continuing to have the majority of primary selections during the course of the season...up to 19 overall selections. FOX will have a limited number of priority selections and then televise all games beyond the 19 ABC/ESPN picks. For example, ABC could utilize "draft" picks to select games first, second and third on a specific date, or, FOX could "draft" to pick second and third on a specific date. Each institution has the right to retain one game for distribution on its' own platform (e.g. Longhorn Network, Sooner Sports Network powered by FOX Sports, K-StateHD.tv, etc.).
Games for the first three weeks of the season and special date games (e.g. Labor Day Sunday, Thursday nights) must be selected by June 1. The remaining games will be selected on 12 days notice, except that four times per year the television partners may utilize a six-day selection progress.


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This article originally appeared on TomDispatch.
The Prequel:
In my childhood, I played endlessly with toy soldiers–a crew of cowboys and bluecoats to defeat the Indians and win the West; a bag or two of tiny olive-green plastic Marines to storm the beaches of Iwo Jima. Alternately, I grabbed my toy six-guns, or simply picked up a suitable stick in the park, and with friends replayed scenes from the movies of World War II, my father's war. It was second nature to do so. No instruction was necessary. After all, a script involving a heady version of American triumphalism was already firmly in place not just in popular culture but in the ether, as it had been long before my grandfather made it to this land in steerage in the 1890s.
My sunny fantasies of war play were intimately connected to the wars Americans had actually fought by an elaborate mythology of American goodness and ultimate victory. If my father tended to be silent about the war he had taken part in, it made no difference. I already knew what he had done. I had seen it at the movies, in comic books and sooner or later in shows like Victory at Sea on that new entertainment medium, television.
And when, in the 1960s, countless demonstrators from my generation went into opposition to a brutal American war in Vietnam, they did so still garbed in cast-off "Good War" paraphernalia–secondhand Army jackets and bombardier coats–or they formed themselves into "tribes" and turned goodness and victory over to the former enemies in their childhood war stories. They transformed the V for Victory into a peace sign and made themselves into beings recognizable from thousands of westerns. They wore the Pancho Villa mustache, sombrero and serape, or the Native American headband and moccasins. They painted their faces and grew long hair in the manner of the formerly "savage" foe, and smoked the peace (now, hash) pipe.
American mytho-history, even when turned upside down, was deeply embedded in their lives. How could they have known that they would be its undertakers, that their six-shooters would become eBayable relics?
You can bet on one thing today: in those streets, fields, parks, or rooms, children in significant numbers are not playing GI versus Sunni insurgent, or Special Op soldier versus Taliban fighter; and if those kids are wielding toy guns, they're not replicas from the current arsenal, but flashingly neon weaponry from some fantasy future.
As it happens, GI Joe–then dubbed a "real American hero"–proved to be my introduction to this new world of child's war play. I had, of course, grown up years too early for the original GI Joe (b. 1964), but one spring in the mid-1980s, during his second heyday, I paid a journalistic visit to the Toy Fair, a yearly industry bash for toy-store buyers held in New York City.


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Stuttgart is probably the only city in the world that has two major auto museums, but the collections at Porsche and Mercedes-Benz really exceed the "museum" definition. These places are more akin to shrines, tributes to vehicles that have transcended their status as mere modes of transportation.
So, when it comes to Porsche and Mercedes-Benz, plus BMW, Audi and Volkswagen, it's almost as if there was no choice but to give these marques the full tribute treatment. There are only a few places in the world - Italy, England and Japan - where cars have such venerated status, and the auto museums in Germany are consistent with that level of devotion.
Porsche opened its new museum in 2009, just across the intersection from the factory gates. The museum welcomes about 400,000 visitors per year, and it is one of the biggest tourist attractions in Stuttgart.
The collection is arranged chronologically, starting with early cars such as the 1956 550A Spyder and proceeding through sports racers/ prototypes such as the 904 and 908, and on to an entire section devoted to the 917. The 911 is, of course, the most prominent vehicle, featured throughout the collection in various racing and street-legal guises, as part of its long, colourful career.
Chronology also determines the layout of the collection at the Mercedes-Benz Museum, which is housed in an ultra modern building within the sprawling M-B factory grounds. Visitors ride an elevator to the top of the collection, nine floors up, and work their way down through the decades to newer and newer vehicles. M-B is the only company that gets to say its very first cars are also the world's first automobiles, so, in that sense, this is the most historic of all the museums.
That history is all explained in the opening displays on the top floor, which gives centre stage to a huffing and puffing single-cylinder internal-combustion motor based on the original 1883 design. Nearby are the first "horseless carriage" applications of derivatives from that motor.
It's a long way from that to an SLK or Lewis Hamilton's McLaren Mercedes F1 race car, but the museum presents the 120-year journey in a very comprehensive and logical way.
The new BMW Welt building provides space for themes related to mobility and technology. These include interactive exhibits on BMW development and production, and the Welt is also the venue for social events, live broadcasts and product presentations. And the Welt is also used for the personal delivery of about 15,000 new cars per year to customers who come to BMW.
The BMW Museum itself is nestled next to the iconic "four-cylinder building," a cluster of four circular towers that mimic a square-four motor layout, with very tall strokes. The museum assembles examples of the entire history of BMW, including 120 exhibits from more than nine decades of manufacturing.
Under the Vollkswagen umbrella is Audi, and these two historic Teutonic makers share corporate roots with the iconic, non-German brands Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, Skoda and SEAT.
They each have their place in the Autostadt, a complex of yet more mega-modern structures, dedicated to various automotive functions. In this automotive "theme park," there is for instance a multimedia display on car design software; attractions that focus on key models such as the VW Beetle; an exhibit on the advantages/disadvantages of different types of fuels and an off-road test track.
Buyers can also pick up their new pre-ordered VW at the Autostadt, and get it delivered from one of the two tall glass silos in which some of the cars are stored. There is even a mini track where kids can drive small electric cars modelled on Beetles.


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Posted by Bella on May 16, 2003
In Reply to: Murphy's Law inaction! posted by James Briggs on May 16, 2003
: : : : : : : I know what it means - if anything can go wrong it will, it's Murphy's Law. But why Murphy? Who was Murphy? Where & when did this come from?
: : : : : According to the website below, he was 'Capt. Edward A. Murphy, an engineer working on [US] Air Force Project MX981, (a project) designed to see how much sudden deceleration a person can stand in a crash,' in 1949.
: : : : : http://www.edwards.af.mil/history/docs_html/tidbits/murphy's_law.html
: : : : The post came up twice - a perfect example of Murphy's Law in action!
: : : I think it's more likely a perfect example of pressing the Submit button twice.
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: : :: Yeah OK, I have to wear the operator error thing, but if this Edward A Murphy worked on how much deceleration a person can stand in a crash, are we to assume that his experiments ended in disaster? Hence the term 'Murphy's Law'?
: In the UK, although we know of 'Murphy's Law', the preverse things in life are reckoned to be ruled by 'Sod's Law' - much the same thing!
On Yahoo, enter "Murphy's Law" and the 4th(?) choice given will say "Murphy's Law was Invented Here".
"Here" is Edwards Air Force Base in California where Captain Murphy was an engineer working on a deceleration project who, discovering a miswired something-or-other, cursed the technician responsible and said "If there is a way to do it wrong, he'll find it". Someone who kept track of such sayings wrote it down, and Murphy's Law was born.


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Kangaroo Care is the act of placing a baby clad only in a diaper between the breasts of the mother or father and a towel on the baby's back. The baby is held upright on the chest. This is also called skin-to-skin care and can be started immediately after birth. Kangaroo Care can also be started immediately after birth and can be continued throughout infancy.
Kangaroo care has shown benefits in all infants, from the preterm to the post-term including:
Temperature is a crucial factor in infants, as they are too young to adequately maintain their own temperature. The parent's chest acts as a personal space heater for the infant. The mother's chest can adjust temperatures at amazing speeds to accommodate the infant. The mother's breast has the ability to get warmer or cooler depending on the current temperature of the infant. If her body determines that the baby is too cold, the breasts can warm. The breasts warm but never exceed the ideal temperature for the baby.
This also works with more than one baby at a time. Women can have one infant on each breast, and each breast can be a different temperature depending on each baby's individual need. Men should also be encouraged to provide Kangaroo Care for the reasons listed below, although they do not have the ability to regulate the baby's temperature.
The parent's familiar breathing pattern and heart rate stimulate the baby to have similar breathing patterns and heart rates. This leads to decreased apnea and oxygen requirements, decreased bradycardia, and a regular heart rate.
Quicker weight gain is another benefit of Kangaroo Care, which may lead to shorter hospital stays for premature infants.
Intimacy and attachment between parent and infant are fostered in Kangaroo Care. The baby is in a position where she can spend lots of time in eye contact with the parent providing the care.
The positioning of Kangaroo Care also facilitates breastfeeding, as the proximity of the breasts trigger the babies' biologic feeding mechanisms and the baby may self-latch onto the breast and begin feeding.
Other benefits of Kangaroo Care that have been observed include:
Kangaroo Care is a relatively recent discovery in the field of medicine. Many institutions have not instituted a Kangaroo Care policy, but are aware of the idea and concept of Kangaroo Care. You should talk to your main healthcare provider about Kangaroo Care if you want to use it as a part of your routine.
Some advocates of Kangaroo Care can be doulas or midwives. Both are responsible for being up-to-date with new information that can be passed on to patients, and are a valuable source of information for any woman interested in Kangaroo Care.
In the United States, hospital rules and physicians' and midwives' labor and delivery practices vary greatly. It is the doula's responsibility to support the mother and her partner during labor and delivery, and to cooperate with the established practices of the hospital.
As a result of observations and study of the positive immediate and long-term benefits of early mother/infant skin to skin contact, an increasing number of hospitals and birthing facilities' midwives and physicians now provide an opportunity for the baby to crawl and self-attach to the mother's breast. The doula can help the parents communicate their desire for kangaroo care to their healthcare provider.
With early skin to skin contact, the doula has added responsibilities to be supportive. During the labor she will explain to the mother and her partner what will probably happen and how the baby will behave. The doula will assist the hospital staff with the safe and warm placement of the baby on the mother. When the mother needs attention for her own needs, either the nurse or the doula will wrap and transfer the baby to the father. The doula will provide encouragement and suggestions to the mother and her partner.
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Unpublished Images from 2008 season
by Andy Wright
Although it's hard to estimate, I'd say somewhere around 90% of the photos I shoot never get to see the light of day. Of course a great deal of those are not of publishing caliber, but every year there's a decent selection of images that for some reason just fall between the cracks. With all the work and risk to bodily injury that goes into getting a shot it can be heartbreaking to see even one A grade shot go unused. But such is just part of the game and always will be. This year I decided to be pro-active with my frustration and put together a gallery of images of the ones that got away. These are all shots from the 2008 season that I feel could easily hang with any of the shots I had that were lucky enough to find their way to print during this
volume run. -Andy Wright
***Check out extended captions of all the photos below the gallery***
Jordan Mendenhall – Edina, Minnesota
This was the first trip of my season, a 4 or 5 day urban mission to Minnesota, which typically has snow this time of year. To get this bench to stay in place we had to overcome many hurdles. The best solution was the obvious one, pour water all over the stands the night before and freeze it to the cement.
Jordan Mendenhall – Minneapolis, Minnesota
One of my favorite shots from the whole year, shot in early December on a bitterly cold day in the Minneapolis suburbs. It got even colder when after the session we figured out that Jon Kooley had lost the
keys to the rental car! Joe Sexton had a f/s board shot run from this in an early issue in the year. Even though it was shot from the front, low and wide, it had enough similarity to hinder this shot's chances of getting run.
Bjorn Leines – Salt Lake City, Utah Although Bjorn's typically not knows for getting his jib on, he likes to stay busy while waiting for the mountains to fill with snow around Salt Lake. This was early in the season and I was experimenting with some new lighting techniques to get his reflection in the marble.
Erik Christensen – Salt Lake City, Utah
I called this shot the Christmas method because, well, you might have guessed it was shot on Christmas Day. If you look close you can see that EC is wearing a Santa hat. The bust factor is always high in Salt Lake due to the high number of film crews that are out on any given day when there's snow in the city. Some spots are such a bust, like this one that you have to wait for a big holiday when you know there will be no one around to kick you out. We had a sweet 2 or 3 hour session before security showed up.
Laura Hadar – Salt Lake City, Utah
I used to go this water park when I was a kid and at some point over the years it became abandoned. Laura hit me up to come shoot it a few times last season. This particular day was bitter sweet. We got an amazing photo together, but a few jumps after this shot she landed a little weird and ended her season with a blown out knee.
Darrell Mathes – Salt Lake City, Utah
Wow! That's all I can say when I was putting together this gallery and realized this shot didn't run. Gap out to f/s board, a new trick and old familiar place. If I went back there tomorrow it would be hard to fight the temptation to shoot this same angle again. There will be a few shots in this gallery that hurt, this is most definitely one of
Jeremy Jones – Salt Lake City, Utah
This was a new spot in Salt Lake, one of many that we found this season. It had been a few years since the snow had been so good close to home, and in the meantime a lot of riders developed a new eye for looking at terrain. Flat bar 5-0 transfer into the stairs.
Darrell Mathes – Ogden, Utah
Not to sound like a broken record, but one of my favorites from theyear and a possibly of my career. (I love being dramatic in case you can't tell). So no bitterness on this shot not getting used because a shot of equal caliber ran on the cover of JP Walker in the November
issue. Such is the breaks, and a lot tougher one for Darrell than me.
Darrell Mathes Ogden, Utah I owe this shot 100% to Darrell, not just for the snowboarding, but he actually climbed this tree and found this angle when I was at a lossfor one. He's slowly acquiring camera gear himself and it's probably just a matter of time before he takes me out.
Jeremy Jones – Ogden, Utah
Seth Huot jumped this gap with Jeremy and had a photo ran in the Photo Annual. There was only one shot that was gonna get used and Seth's number got called. Making me choose between the two shots is like asking a parent to pick their favorite child. What makes one shot get picked o over another is mind boggling. Jeremy may done a harder trick (b/s 180) but Seth had better colors (yellow shirt, red base). These things matter.
Jeremy Jones – Ogden, Utah
Whenever a single image can tell the story of what is going on, I know I've done my job. Yes, there will always be a time and place for a sequence, but those are a few and far between in my book, especially since a trick rarely gets done without a video camera(s) present. Jeremy came up with a variation on the wall ride this past year in which he basically 450's out. Sure you might not get the full amount of rotation from this shot, but it's fairly clear that he's winding up for a spin and using the wall as his launching point. Let the imagination fill in the missing frames.
JP Walker – Ogden, Utah
I always thought this shot of JP looked like he was snowboarding on a space station or something science fiction-y. For every extra foot he'd would stay on the flat bar, it would be an extra 5-10 feet of drop. Epic light, good style, consequence, A-list rider, never been
shot location: sometimes this job is not easy, but when a shot does run, it more than erases the frustration from the ones like this that got away.
Seth Huot – Ogden, Utah
I think a frontside boardslide is quite possibly the most aesthetically looking moves you can do on a snowboard. I've shot a lot of these over there years, and this one ranks right up there as the most perfect. oh, that and the fact that Seth has to pop out over corner of the ledge and pole in landing makes for one of those shots i would have really like to have seen run.
Desiree Melancon – Salt Lake City, UT
Although this looks a lot like the rail garden, it's acutally not. And even though this a rare photo of girl putting in a backside lip, you'd think it would have run, but it did not. Red gloves make the shot for me.
Jeremy Jones – Tahoe Backcountry
This road gap was in the shade, I brought the flash out, waded through hip deep snow to set it. Jeremy Jones mid backside 7. Hate to say it, but I feel like people only want to see shots of this guy in streets when in reality he can hold his own in a kicker session.
JP Walker – Tahoe Backcountry
JP Walker boning out a backside 7 tailgrab in a frozen moment that reminds me of an old photo of Terje from back in the day. JP had a shot in his interview of a backside 1080 tailgrab, so there was little chance of this getting used. If that wasn't enough, just around the corner from this jump was a smaller road gap that he had shot pole-jamming over in the same interview. This shot was as good as dead at that point.
Jusso Lavisto – Salt Lake City, UT
I was doing a photo shoot for Ride one evening with Darrell Mathes and Jusso showed up toward the end and wanted to get in on the session. He'd never tried wall rides before and within a few tries, he was turning them over the top into backside lipslides. It was really impressive, not to mention photogenic. 2 years ago this would have been a cover during the wallride craze. Now it's in the garbage bin.
Iikka Backstrom – Cooke City, MT
Incredible backside slash basically on a cliff and he pulls out in time to jump the bottom 15 footer. This is basically snowboarding to me.
Chris Grenier – Ogden Utah
This rail might as well be located inside Ft. Knox with the amount of bust factor it is. As always happens we had this thing set up and ready to go when someone comes out yelling and screaming about liability and that they are calling the cops. Most of these people cannot be reasoned with, once someone is convinced you could possibly sue them, there is no rational thinking left in the mind. We faked like we were going to leave to put them at ease and then Grenier ran up and squeezed into two tries before we heard sirens in the distance. He got this on the second attempt but had a weird arm-wave or something in the landing so never used the shot in the Grenade movie.
Chris Grenier – Ogden, Utah
Thought this one could have been a cover as well, but because Grendy went and did the exact same move on a similar setup for a nova scotia story with Serfas, my photo got the shaft. Great.
Louie Vito – Northstar
I'll be the first to admit I don't shoot me much pipe, nor am I all that great at it. Average at best. Thank god for louie's stellar alley frontside and my photoshop toning skills.
Devun Walsh – Chugach Mountains, Alaska
Shooting from inside the heli can be really hit and miss, but when it comes together, it's like no other. This natural windlip of Devun is just classic to me.
Jussi Oksanen – Chugach Mountains, Alaska
Setting sun, glacier background, wicked style, snow trail, and one of the best jumpers of all time. Throw in a good vibrations feeling with the lens flare and I thought for sure I had all the ingredients for a wall paper full page. Apparently you can't win them all.
Wille Yli Luoma – Chugach Mountains, Alaska
About an half hour before this shot was taken, I was taken on first ride by an avalanche. This whole face actually slide right after this turn as well. It was just one of those days in Alaska where we got away with one. 9 lives minus a few.


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Jake Kasdan directs this 2011 comedy about a gold-digging, foul-mouthed junior high teacher by the name of Elizabeth (Cameron Diaz) whose waiting for the day that she can marry her sugar daddy and drop her day job. Plans change slightly, however, when Elizabeth is dumped, and she soon sets her sights on the young and attractive substitute teacher (played by Justin Timberlake) that's dating her colleague (Lucy Punch).
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October 6, 2006
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NOAA is seeking public comment on the draft management plans and proposed regulations for the Cordell Bank, Gulf of the Farallones, and Monterey Bay national marine sanctuaries, as well as a joint draft environmental impact statement. The plans are the result of several years of study, planning, and extensive public input.
"The draft management plans for these three of California's four national marine sanctuaries were developed with extensive community involvement and we welcome further public review and comment," said William J. Douros, National Marine Sanctuary Program west coast regional director. "The new management plans chart a forward-looking course for protecting the rich marine ecosystems of the sanctuaries while continuing to allow for compatible, sustainable human uses."
The draft plans, a major revision of the sanctuaries' original management plans, focus on key issues affecting the sanctuaries including ecosystem protection, wildlife disturbance, vessel traffic, water quality, introduced species and coastal development. They also address important sanctuary programs such as public awareness and education, conservation science, enforcement, and maritime heritage. The draft environmental impact statement analyzes the potential environmental and economic impacts from modified and new regulations in the three sanctuaries, as well as impacts from a range of regulatory alternatives. Proposed changes to regulations are intended to clarify and strengthen protections for marine habitats, sensitive species, water quality and submerged cultural and historic resources.
One substantive boundary change is proposed as part of the joint management plan review. NOAA is proposing to add a 585-square nautical mile area around the Davidson Seamount to Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary in order to protect the large assemblages of cold water corals and rare sponges.
Periodic management plan review is required by Congress for each of the 13 national marine sanctuaries to ensure that they continue to conserve, protect and enhance their nationally significant living and cultural resources while allowing compatible commercial and recreational activities.
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The three sanctuaries, part of the National Marine Sanctuary system, are located adjacent to one another along the shores of northern and central California and share many of the same resources and issues. Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary encompasses 526 square miles of open ocean off Point Reyes, north of San Francisco. Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary, at 1,255 square miles, is located west of the San Francisco Bay area. Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary stretches along 276 miles of the central coast and encompasses 5,328 square miles of coastal and ocean waters.
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During Nelson Mandela's memorial service today (Dec. 10), at the FNB stadium in Johannesburg, South Africa, President Barack Obama was snapped taking a selfie with Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron and Denmark's Prime Minister Helle Thorning.
First Lady Michelle Obama wasn't included in the flick after she reportedly switched seats with her Presidentual hubby. Still, the cameras caught her facial expressions on a wider lens. Once Twitter caught wind of the sitch, folks quickly let their creativity fly, filling in the thought bubble for M.O. above. Check out the funniest characters above.


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Blake Lively and her husband Ryan Reynolds keep super low profiles as they make their way through LAX Airport on Thursday (November 28) in Los Angeles.
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Connection Between Cleft Lip and Cleft Palate
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Cleft lip and cleft palate are both birth defects of the mouth. The combination of cleft lip and cleft palate is one of the most common birth defects. Although research continues on specific causes of cleft lip and cleft palate, they may result from sporadic or inherited genetic mutations or from certain maternal environmental exposures (for example, from smoking) during pregnancy.
Both of these birth defects form early in fetal development and can occur independently of each other (isolated) or in combination.
Cleft lip is one or more splits (clefts) in the upper lip. Cleft lip can range from a small indentation in the lip to a split in the lip that may extend up into one or both nostrils. Cleft lip develops in about the sixth to eighth week of gestation, when structures in the upper jaw do not fuse properly and the upper lip does not completely merge. Sometimes the nasal cavity, palate, and upper teeth are also affected.
Cleft palate is an opening in the roof of the mouth that develops when the bones and tissues do not completely join during fetal growth, sometime between the seventh and twelfth weeks of gestation. The severity and type of cleft palate vary according to where the cleft occurs on the palate and whether all the layers of the palate are affected. A mild form of cleft palate may not be visible because tissue covers the cleft. A complete cleft palate involves all layers of tissue of the soft palate, extends to and includes the hard palate, and may continue to the lip and nose. Sometimes problems linked with cleft palate also include deformities of the nasal cavities and/or the partition separating them (septum).
Cleft lip, whether isolated or occurring with cleft palate, is more common in males; isolated cleft palate occurs more often in females. Cleft palate-with or without cleft lip-is sometimes linked with other health conditions, such as fetal alcohol syndrome or chromosomal syndromes like trisomy 13 and 18.
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Online commerce is no longer just for consumer products, but also for direct and indirect goods and services. As a result, new demands are placed on classic customer relationship management (CRM) applications. While most have successfully automated customer-facing interactions (such as order capture, configuration, pricing, and order query), they still rely on external systems to process subsequent steps (such as invoicing, fulfillment, and pick-pack-ship), which are completed in a back-office enterprise resource planning (ERP) application. This leads to disjointed business processes and multiple user interfaces, each executing well within the native application (CRM or ERP), and requiring the creation of point-to-point and proprietary integrations and cumbersome custom user interfaces that are difficult to extend and maintain.
In this article, we focus on interactions between CRM order management (CRM OM) components, such as pricing, booking, invoicing, approvals, and product and customer master data. We also demonstrate how to streamline interactions and flexibly manage customer-driven change through a service-oriented architecture (SOA) and business process approach that utilize standards-based products, such as Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) and enterprise service bus (ESB).
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CRM OM is a mission-critical application that helps increase revenue by turning each customer interaction into an opportunity to sell a solution based on customer needs. CRM OM applications also help nontechnical business users consistently define and enforce selling policies across all customer interaction channels.
Quote-to-cash is a common but complex business process that includes a number of steps: identification and verification of the customer, creating quotes and capturing orders, verifying credit, checking for existing contracts, ensuring inventory and status, determining and providing a quote to the customer, generating an order, provisioning, shipping, invoicing, and applying the payment. As explained in Figure 1, quote-to-cash spans several systems, including CRM, ERP, and supply chain management; involves a number of roles, including call center agents, shipping clerks, order process analysts, and managers; may take minutes or days to complete; and requires oversight by highly trained individuals.
These complex processes - such as selling policies, consistent enforcement, multichannel platform support, and order capture - typically require multiple application touch points and make customer-facing commerce applications one of the most complex to build and maintain.
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A few years ago, one of Lebanon's giddier periodicals, suitably titled Prestige, published as its cover story an interview with a Lebanese celebrity. The photograph adorning the front of the magazine was that of a blue-suited, cleanshaven man in his mid-40s, radiating the serene gravitas expected of a government minister, which is what he was. The magazine was distributed to the inner sanctums of Lebanon's vanity fair. The response was a collective nod of approval. One could almost overlook that the object of this attention was someone who had, in an earlier incarnation, ordered a militia under his command into the Palestinian camps of Sabra and Shatila, where they boisterously dispatched an estimated 1,000 civilians, give or take a few score.
In the past weeks the man in the photograph, Elias Hobeika, one of the more fascinating of Lebanon's former warlords, has had to contend with a decidedly more hostile publication. His disgruntled onetime bodyguard, Robert Maroun Hatem, alias Cobra, has produced a book recounting Hobeika's purported crimes and misdeeds, during the civil war (which began in 1975 and ended in 1990) and afterward. But his is more than a tell-all undertaking: Once the leading figure in the Christian Lebanese Forces militia, Hobeika, thanks to an alliance with Syria, was rewarded at war's end with a succession of ministerial portfolios, until the formation of a new government last December. That is why Hatem not only hits out at a prop of the postwar establishment, he implicitly questions the foundations on which Lebanon's postwar contract rests–a contract that has openly accepted former militia leaders as members of the political and financial establishment while prescribing absolution with regard to their wartime activities.
The book, From Israel to Damascus: The Painful Road of Blood, Betrayal and Deception, has been banned by the Lebanese authorities. However, what they appear to have forbidden, not very successfully, is a book that few have actually seen. Rather, Hatem's tome has circulated almost exclusively in photocopied versions. The book is available on the Internet (at www.israeltodamascus.com) and in the United States, and can be purchased from Amazon for the robust fee of $42.99, deliverable in one to two weeks. The publisher, Pride International Publications, appears to be bringing out the book as a one-shot arrangement. The book is unedited and written in appalling English, a curious choice of languagein itself, and the photographs are placed any which way. From Israel to Damascus is a desktop machete job. However, from the reactions on the Amazon Web site–the book ranks 305th in sales–it appears to be making its way to Lebanese readers.
Hatem has a score to settle with Hobeika, though in the book it is not made clear why. When men of their temperament quarrel, the motive is usually money. Cobra is reserved when recording his baser motives, but he does admit that, not long ago, he threatened to expose an insurance scam of Hobeika's, only to accept a payoff to keep quiet. Fear of retribution is, apparently, what persuaded him to leave Lebanon, and he is reportedly now residing in France. A more interesting question is, Who is behind the book? One theory prevails, and is relatively easily deduced from an examination of the text. Of this, however, more later.


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CLU Undergraduate Commencement set
By Gazette Staff Writer — Monday, May 5th, 2014
Single mom who began classes 19 years ago to speak
Holly Roepke
THOUSAND OAKS, CA - California Lutheran University will hold its 2014 Undergraduate Commencement Ceremony at 10 a.m. Saturday, May 17.
About 800 students are eligible to participate in the ceremony in William Rolland Stadium.
Holly Roepke, an organizational leadership major from Thousand Oaks, will speak on behalf of the Bachelor's Degree for Professionals program students. She began attending CLU in 1995 as a traditional undergraduate. She set records and earned numerous honors as a Regals soccer player, but had trouble finding her place academically while working several part-time jobs. With only a semester of classes remaining, she left CLU after the death of her faculty mentor. In 2011, she returned in the Professionals program. This time, she was the single mom of a 6-year-old son and was teaching physical education and coaching full-time. She struggled to schedule classes around her job, find childcare, buy books and groceries, and keep going after being laid off, but she succeeded with support from others.
Ryan Glatt, who decided to study exercise science after seeing how physical therapy helped his late mother, will speak on behalf of his fellow traditional undergraduate students. Participating in the Semester at Sea program gave the Simi Valley resident a global perspective and a desire to change the world for the better. He launched a club and organized a student service trip to provide aid in Haiti and tended bees in CLU's sustainable education garden. He received a grant last summer to research childhood obesity by assessing lifestyle factors associated with toddler activity levels and has worked as a personal trainer. He develops educational programs for Agua Inc., a water filtration company that uses plant-based biotechnology, and will conduct fieldwork in Gambia for the company after graduation.
Music professor Wyant Morton, director of choral activities at CLU, will receive an Honorary Alumni Award. The Thousand Oaks resident joined the faculty in 1992 and chaired the Music Department for 15 years. He launched the university's New Music Concert series in 2003 and founded Areté Vocal Ensemble, a CLU-based group of professional artists that focuses on new and unconventional works, in 2009. He has conducted the CLU Choir in performances at the Lincoln Center and in England, Italy, Norway and Sweden. He has received several awards at CLU including Professor of the Year in 2001 and the President's Award for Teaching Excellence in 2009.
Primo Custodio, a vice president for NBC Universal, will give the keynote address. The Chatsworth resident, who earned a bachelor's degree in business management in 1999 and an MBA in management and organizational behavior in 2007 from CLU, serves on the School of Management's Advisory Council. Since 2001, he has overseen human resources for NBC Universal's studio operations, which includes post-production media services, engineering and technology, stages and back lot operations, facilities and finance. Custodio has managed the human resources team through six significant mergers and acquisitions.
Tickets are required for admission. For more information, call the Office of Academic Affairs at 805-493-3364.


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Asian-Flavored Baby Back Ribs
Source: Steven Raichlen for the National Pork Board; photo courtesy of Snake River Farms
BBQ and Asian trends blend into one finger-lickin' plate of ribs. Chef Raichlen, author of The Barbecue Bible (Workman Publishing, 2008) first marinates tender baby back pork ribs in a spicy sweet mixture highlighted by the Southeast Asian flavors of seeded Thai chilies, lemongrass and fish sauce. Then he grills the ribs until the meat falls off the bone.
4 stalks lemongrass, chopped (white part and some pale green)
4 cloves garlic, crushed
2 shallots, finely chopped
1 (2-in.) piece gingerroot, grated (about 2 1/2 tbsp.)
2 Thai chiles (or 4 to 5 jalapeños), seeded and thinly sliced
1 cup fresh cilantro, chopped
3 tbsp. sugar
2 tsp. ground coriander
1 tsp. ground black pepper
1/3 cup vegetable oil
1/4 cup soy sauce
3 tbsp. fish sauce
3 tbsp. lemon juice
2 racks baby back pork ribs (about 4 lb.)
- In med. bowl, stir together all ingredients except ribs for marinade.
- Place ribs in heavy, resealable plastic bag; pour in marinade. Seal bag and refrigerate 4 to 6 hr. Turn ribs two or three times while marinating.
- Prepare an indirect med. fire in grill with a drip pan in center. For a gas grill, heat grill to med. and turn off any burners directly below where the food will go. (With the lid closed, the indirect heat method serves as an oven, circulating heat evenly throughout.)
- Remove ribs from marinade; discard marinade. Place rack of ribs on grill over drip pan, away from heat. Cover grill and grill ribs for 1 1/2 hr., until meat is very tender.
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Criticizing the Liberals...
One of the comments on a recent post begged me to criticize the Liberals for once. Well, just this weekend I already blogged that I couldn'te vote for the Liberals no matter what. And, that's true. I don't see the huge need to criticize them - their corruption is well known. Not much I can add to that.
I'm much more interested in a conservative alternative. I want a conservative government for Canada. But, I want a conservative government that would respect the dignit of gay couples. A conservative government that is not afraid of speaking directly to the gay community. A conservative government that is not afraid of political correctness and can speak out to many of the issues I have talked about in this blog (see my post on the 7 issues the Conservatives won't touch).
Many people have suggested that I vote or join the NDP. Sorry, I hate socialism. I want lower taxes, a smaller Federal government, an end to bilingualism as we know it, equal parenting for divorced couples, a sane policy on aboriginals, an end to coddling Quebec, a return to the merit principle for hiring in the Government, a end to hate-crime legislation combined with more support for free speech, an end to supply management, etc.
Fortunately, the Conservative party has a big tent! But, I will keep pushing for support for the diginity for gay couples. It's an important issue for me...and I hope for you.


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Defense systems that depend on the commercial electric grid are vulnerable to electromagnetic pulse attacks and solar storms that could seriously damage the nation's infrastructure, experts from the Homeland Security and Defense departments told a House Homeland Security subcommittee.
The likelihood and the effects of such an event have been the subject of debate, and legislation that would require defenses against them is stalled in the House.
Major military weapons systems and nuclear assets are hardened against EMP events, but "DOD is heavily dependent on the commercial electric grid," Michael Aimone, director of DOD Business Enterprise Integration, told the subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection and Security Technologies.
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Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.), who testified as a witness at the Sept. 12 hearing, said Russia and several other countries are developing an offensive EMP capability, but there is little protection against such attacks on the commercial grid. He called for installing hardware protection for the most critical elements.
"The major vulnerability we have right now is damage to our major transformers," which could put parts of the national grid out of operation for years, Franks said. Operational procedures cannot provide timely response, he added, but equipment called neutral phase blockers could provide cost-effective and automatic protection from surges that could cause damage.
Current regulations do not require this protection, however, and industry has been slow to adopt it, although Chris Beck, president of the Electric Infrastructure Security Council, said there are no significant technical or financial barriers to deploying it.
Electromagnetic pulse is an electrical disruption that can be caused by high-altitude nuclear explosions or naturally by solar activities such as flares. Studies by the congressionally established EMP Commission and by Oak Ridge National Laboratory have concluded that in a worst-case scenario a serious event could leave large portions of the nation's power grid out of service for four to 10 years by causing physical damage to transformers and other equipment. Communications systems and individual electrical devices also could be at risk.
The likelihood of such an event has been questioned, however. The North American Electric Reliability Corp., which is charged with creating mandatory reliability standards for the U.S. bulk power distribution industry, believes it is more likely that there would be little physical damage and resulting problems would last only days.
Beck blamed the lack of preparedness on industry inertia and lack of awareness.
Current processes for creating industry standards are inadequate to address such threats to national security, said Joseph McClelland, director of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's Office of Electric Reliability. NERC writes the standards, and FERC can only approve or reject them.
"The procedures used by NERC are appropriate for developing and approving routine reliability standards," McClelland said. "However, it can be an impediment when measures or actions need to be taken to address threats to national security quickly and in a manner that protects against the disclosure of security-sensitive information."
The SHIELD Act (H.R. 668), introduced last year by Franks, would enable FERC to establish reliability standards for the bulk power system to protect against EMP attacks. No action has been taken on the bill.
DOD currently relies on on-site and mobile back-up generators to protect against disruptions from outages in the commercial grid, and also is developing next-generation microgrids to enable local generation and storage of power on bases.
This could not only protect against outages but enable better local energy supplies and the balancing of supply and demand. DOD's Aimone said microgrid demonstration projects currently are under way at 29 Palms Marine Corps base in California and at Fort Bliss, Texas.
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Why is the emp threat under reported by the media? I get the impression that our government does not want the public to know how serious this is and does not want us to know they are doing nothing about it. I guess if an emp happens and it is as bad as many experts say it will be the survivors duty to find out where our leaders are hiding, haul them out and string them up for being guilty of the greatest act of selfishness and negligence in the history of the world.
The most effective NEMP weapons are smaller than big nukes. They can be launched from freighters - like container ships using mid range missiles. It only takes one about 250 miles up to take out most of the computers that control everything. Anything connected to wires is susceptible to EMP. SCADAs, transformers, chips, etc. Then you sink the ship so that theres no evidence. The explosion would be too high up to leave trace elements. If this was done by a clandestine operation - exactly who do we go after? We'd have some ideas but without any real proof our friends Russia and China wouldn't support us taking anyone out with whatever we have left working. Granted we'd have plenty available but the damage would be done and it would be years before we bounced back. If we ever did.
Casualties would be horrific due to disease, starvation, dehydration, crime, and suicide. We do not have the systems in place to live like they did in the 17-1800s and we have 100 times the population if not more. We definitely need to invest the money in our infrastructure to protect our electricity which is the lifeblood this country runs on.
Fortunately, not too many countries can air burst a nuke over the US. And we'd see it and retaliate with the mutually assured destruction policy of the cold war. Sure, we should prepare, but I'm really not too concerned. There much easier ways to attack us.
As stated, this has been a known vulnerability for a very long time. Although EMPs and coronal ejections get the attention, there are less massive ways to accomplish this on a small scale. The technology has existed, and been used, since at least the 80's. I'm not sure how easy it would be for a terrorist use but given how much technology has grown, it wouldn't surprise me if things have been scaled down to a more portable level.
This threat has been known since early in the Cold War days. EMP blasts are the real threat from nuclear bombs.
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