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App-writing "Hackathon" begins Saturday at UB
About 125 students from four area colleges are expected to take part in a 24-hour "hackathon" this weekend at the University at Buffalo.
Teams of programmers, code writers and others fluent in the latest technology will compete to develop new computer software applications in the event, which begins at noon Saturday.
Beginning at 2 p.m. Sunday, the competitors will show off their work to a team of judges, who will award $2,000 in prizes to the best ideas as rated on usefulness, creativity, the elegance of their design and their technical difficulty, according to the university.
Students from UB, St. Bonaventure University, the Rochester Institute of
Technology and SUNY Buffalo State will take part in the "hackathon," which was organized by UB's chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery. UB sophomore Nick DiRienzo, a computer science and engineering major, is the lead organizer.
The judges include representatives from companies such as Synacor, SendGrid, InfoTech Niagara, Bloomberg, and Dow Jones, DiRienzo said.
The event will take place in Barbara and Jack Davis Hall on the UB North Campus. Visit www.ubhacking.com for more information.
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EL PASO, TX --A West Texas county has modified its employee health plan by changing the language in the policy to remove references to gay couples and domestic partners in order to make it "legally defensible."
The new language talks about a "plus one" program, set to begin next year, in which employees can include another adult in the plan, as long as certain requirements are met.
El Paso County Judge Veronica Escobar told The Associated Press on Tuesday the change was made to avoid future lawsuits.
The county was sued after Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott issued a nonbinding opinion in May saying the Texas Constitution doesn't permit a legal status for domestic partnerships or allow for public benefits based on it.
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After struggling for years to remake itself, Dell Inc. has announced it will be taken private in a deal valued at about $24.4 billion.
Under the terms of the agreement, the Round Rock, Texas, company will be acquired by Dell founder and Chief Executive Michael S. Dell and global technology investment firm Silver Lake.
Microsoft Corp. will invest $2 billion in the deal, a move the Redmond, Wash., company said it was undertaking to help support "the long-term success of the entire PC ecosystem."
Dell -- which has fallen behind competitors including Hewlett-Packard Co. -- announced the deal early Tuesday. It is the biggest leveraged buyout since the recession.


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Intrauterine Levonorgestrel and Observation or Observation Alone in Preventing Atypical Endometrial Hyperplasia and Endometrial Cancer in Women With Hereditary Non-Polyposis Colorectal Cancer or Lynch Syndrome
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00566644
Recruitment Status : Terminated (Withdrawn due to poor accrual)
First Posted : December 3, 2007
Last Update Posted : July 10, 2013
- Study Details
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- No Results Posted
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- How to Read a Study Record
RATIONALE: The use of intrauterine levonorgestrel may prevent atypical endometrial hyperplasia and endometrial cancer in women with hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer or Lynch syndrome. It is not yet known whether intrauterine levonorgestrel and observation are more effective than observation alone in preventing atypical endometrial hyperplasia and endometrial cancer in women with hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer or Lynch syndrome.
PURPOSE: This randomized phase III trial is studying intrauterine levonorgestrel and observation to see how well they work compared with observation alone in preventing atypical endometrial hyperplasia and endometrial cancer in women with hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer or Lynch syndrome.
|Condition or disease
|Endometrial Cancer Hereditary Non-polyposis Colon Cancer (hmsh2, hmlh1, hpms1, hpms2)
|Device: levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine system Other: questionnaire administration Procedure: observation
|Phase 3
- To determine if treatment with intrauterine levonorgestrel (using the Mirena® intrauterine system [IUS]) reduces the incidence of atypical endometrial hyperplasia (AEH) and endometrial cancer in women with hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer or Lynch syndrome.
- Determine the age-related incidence of AEH and endometrial cancer in these patients.
- Determine the sensitivity and specificity of transvaginal sonography and endometrial biopsy in detecting AEH and endometrial cancer.
- Determine the premalignant pathway to carcinoma.
- Determine if the Mirena® IUS reduces the rate of therapeutic hysterectomy for AEH or endometrial cancer.
- Determine the psychological benefits or adverse effects from the use of the Mirena® IUS.
- Determine the satisfaction and compliance with screening.
- Determine the extent of adverse effects of the Mirena® IUS and observation.
- Determine the molecular changes associated with pre-malignant changes in the endometrium of these patients, and possibly the utility of tests on cervical mucus samples in diagnosing endometrial cancer.
OUTLINE: This is a multicenter study. Patients are stratified by center and menopausal status. Patients are randomized to 1 of 2 arms.
- Arm I: Patients undergo insertion of the Mirena® intrauterine device containing levonorgestrel. The device is scheduled to remain in place for 4 years. Patients also undergo observation comprising an assessment of menstrual history, transvaginal scanning (TVS), and endometrial biopsy (or hysteroscopy) at baseline and then annually for 4 years.
- Arm II: Patients undergo observation comprising an assessment of menstrual history, TVS, and endometrial biopsy (or hysteroscopy) at baseline and then annually for 4 years.
Patients complete a personal health and lifestyle questionnaire, the Life Events Scale, and the Profile of Mood States (POMS) questionnaires at baseline and periodically during study.
Peer Reviewed and Funded or Endorsed by Cancer Research UK
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Estimated Enrollment :
|600 participants
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|Prevention of Endometrial Tumors (POET)
|Study Start Date :
|July 2007
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|October 2008
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|August 2009
- Rate of atypical endometrial hyperplasia or endometrial cancer during the active follow-up period of the study
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|35 Years to 65 Years (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
- Proven to carry a pathogenic germline mutation in a DNA mismatch repair gene causing Lynch syndrome (hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer) (usually MSH2, MLH1, or MSH6)
Meets both of the following criteria:
Has a family history of Lynch syndrome according to the following Amsterdam or modified Amsterdam criteria:
- Three relatives with a Lynch syndrome-related cancer (colorectal, small bowel, endometrial, ovarian, urothelial, or hepatobiliary)
- One is a first-degree relative of the other two
- Two generations affected
- One relative diagnosed before age of 50
- Personal history of colorectal cancer (i.e., a large, villous, or severely dysplastic colorectal adenoma) before the age of 40 OR history of small bowel, hepatobiliary, or urothelial cancer AND has an affected family member with an abnormal tumor immunohistochemistry staining for Lynch syndrome
No active genital malignancy, breast carcinoma, or other estrogen dependent tumor
- History of genital malignancy, breast carcinoma, or other estrogen dependent tumor allowed at the discretion of the investigator
- Must have an intact uterus and not planning to undergo a prophylactic hysterectomy
- Not pregnant
- Not planning to become pregnant within the next 3 years
- No abortion resulting in infection within the past 3 months
- No pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) within the past 6 months or recurrent PID
No clinically significant submucous myomas requiring treatment
- Small subserous or intramural myomas, clinically assessed as insignificant allowed
- No known hypersensitivity to the constituents of the Mirena® IUS
- No unresolved abnormal cervical smear and/or current cervical dysplasia
- No trophoblastic disease with elevated hCG levels
- No liver tumor or other acute or severe liver disease
- No clinically significant condition or laboratory result that might, in the opinion of the investigator, compromise patient safety, interfere with evaluations, or prevent completion of the study
- No other active malignancy
- No history of stroke or myocardial infarction
- No history of bacterial endocarditis or severe pelvic infection after any prosthetic valve replacement or in patients with an anatomical lesion of the heart
- No other concurrent use of intrauterine devices
- No concurrent therapy for cancer
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00566644
|United Kingdom
|Basildon University Hospital
|Basildon, England, United Kingdom, SS16 5NL
|City Hospital - Birmingham
|Birmingham, England, United Kingdom, B18 7QH
|Addenbrooke's Hospital
|Cambridge, England, United Kingdom, CB2 2QQ
|Cheltenham General Hospital
|Cheltenham, England, United Kingdom, GL53 7AN
|Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital
|Exeter, England, United Kingdom, EX2 5DW
|Queen Elizabeth Hospital
|Gateshead-Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom, NE9 6SX
|Leeds Cancer Centre at St. James's University Hospital
|Leeds, England, United Kingdom, LS9 7TF
|Liverpool Women's Hospital
|Liverpool, England, United Kingdom, LV8 7SS
|Guy's Hospital
|London, England, United Kingdom, SE1 9RT
|Chelsea Westminster Hospital
|London, England, United Kingdom, SW10 9NH
|St. Georges, University of London
|London, England, United Kingdom, SW17 ORE
|Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital
|London, England, United Kingdom, WC1E 6DH
|St. Mary's Hospital
|Manchester, England, United Kingdom, M13 0JH
|Royal Marsden - Surrey
|Sutton, England, United Kingdom, SM2 5PT
|Great Western Hospital
|Swindon, England, United Kingdom, SN3 6BB
|Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
|Westcliff-On-Sea, England, United Kingdom, SS0 0RY
|Belfast City Hospital Trust Incorporating Belvoir Park Hospital
|Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, BT8 8JR
|Aberdeen Royal Infirmary
|Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom, AB25 2ZN
|Ysbyty Gwynedd
|Bangor, Wales, United Kingdom, LL57 2PW
|University Hospital of Wales
|Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom, CF14 4XW
|Principal Investigator:
|Shirley Hodgson, MD
|St George's, University of London
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00566644 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
CDR0000575423 ( Registry Identifier: PDQ (Physician Data Query) )
EudraCT 2006-001815-30
|First Posted:
|December 3, 2007 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|July 10, 2013
|Last Verified:
|October 2008
Keywords provided by National Cancer Institute (NCI):
endometrial cancer
hereditary non-polyposis colon cancer (hMSH2, hMLH1, hPMS1, hPMS2)
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Colonic Neoplasms
Endometrial Neoplasms
Endometrial Hyperplasia
Colorectal Neoplasms, Hereditary Nonpolyposis
Colorectal Neoplasms
Intestinal Neoplasms
Gastrointestinal Neoplasms
Digestive System Neoplasms
Neoplasms by Site
Digestive System Diseases
Gastrointestinal Diseases
Colonic Diseases
Intestinal Diseases
Uterine Neoplasms
Genital Neoplasms, Female
Urogenital Neoplasms
Uterine Diseases
Genital Diseases, Female
Neoplastic Syndromes, Hereditary
Genetic Diseases, Inborn
DNA Repair-Deficiency Disorders
Metabolic Diseases
Contraceptive Agents, Female
Contraceptive Agents
Reproductive Control Agents
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Contraceptives, Oral, Synthetic
Contraceptives, Oral


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Being fair isn't always fair.
Treating everyone the same is rarely fair or what's best for them. This is a topic that new leaders, and sometimes very mature leaders, often struggle with. I speak from experience. I still struggle with this topic from time to time. Earlier in my leadership I typically tried much to hard to be 'fair' which led to situations where I was trying to treat everyone on team in the same way. Eventually I learned that treating everyone the same isn't actually fair and it's rarely what is best for the person you're trying to be fair to in the first place.
People are different and have different needs.
Newsflash: People are different. We have different needs. We offer different skills. We develop in different ways. We all knows this and in an abstract manner I think we all get the notion that treating everyone on our team (if for example you manage a team) exactly the same way isn't fair. But still, and I'm not sure why, it's incredibly common for people to manage their teams under a management style which tries to treat everyone the same way. I'm not sure why this us. I still struggle with this myself from time to time although I've been better in recent months once I finally came to believe that treating everyone the same in an attempt to be fair was in fact not what was best for the people on teams that I am trying to lead a serve.
What about favoritism?
Favoritism often has a negative connation in a management environment. It sounds one step away from cronyism. Newsflash: Some people on your team will be more gifted on your team than others. Some people are more likely to get that promotion or key assignment than others. Grooming the rising stars and managing the expectations of others is one skill that I think separates mediocre supervisors from gifted managers and developers of people and teams. Doing this the wrong way can destroy relationships and teams. Doing it the right way builds people up and creates a healthy and trusting team work environment.
Why is treating people differently, but fairly, hard?
I'm not sure but here's my theory. Treating people in an identical manner is much more difficult than understanding the individualized needs of your team. Being different but fair is a heck of a lot harder than simply treating everyone the same and it takes much more time as a manager and leader. I don't have an easy answer for that problem but I'm convinced that one path leads to mediocre teams while the other path leads to extraordinary teams. Choose your path.


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Antonio Brown Says He Will Pay JuJu Smith-Schuster's Fine For Vicious Hit
The Bengals-Steelers game on Monday night was a heated match, with some big hits, and multiple players suffering serious injuries. The biggest injury was Steelers linebacker Ryan Shazier, who was carted off the field during the first quarter with a back injury. The hit that sent him to the hospital set the tone for the game and in the 4th quarter Steelers receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster got some revenge with a vicious block to the helmet of Vontaze Burfict, leaving him with a concussion.
After Smith-Schuster laid him out, he stood over him and taunted him. He was flagged for unsportsmanlike conduct and taunting on the play, and is expected to get at least a fine for the helmet-to-helmet hit.
Following the game, when Smith-Schuster was speaking to the media, he apologized for hit. But, in the background Antonio Brown could be heard yelling "Karma"
As JuJu Smith-Schuster describes his block on Vontaze Burfict, Antonio Brown keeps yelling 'Karma.' pic.twitter.com/rX6COmuxoE— Jeremy Fowler (@JFowlerESPN) December 5, 2017
He then can he be heard saying 'Touchdown Brown' will pay any fine that JuJu gets for the hit.
As JuJu Smith-Schuster talked about his block on Vontaze Burfict, Antonio Brown kept yelling 'KARMA' in Smith-Schuster's direction. Said 'Touchdown Brown' will pay his fine.— Jeremy Fowler (@JFowlerESPN) December 5, 2017
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Nine punts, three interceptions, one fumble and a field goal were how the Bulldogs' drives ended on Saturday as the offense continued to struggle moving the ball.
Nine punts, three interceptions, one fumble and a field goal were how the Bulldogs' drives ended on Saturday as the offense continued to struggle moving the ball.
The Falcons however were able to put the ball in the end zone five times, giving them the 34-3 victory over Mac.
The game started very good for McPherson as they intercepted Friends University on their opening drive but the inability to get any kind of offense going thwarted that and any other drives of the Bulldogs.
The lone possession that produced points for MC came late in the second quarter. Jordan Hoffman found Tremon Robinson for a 52-yard connection then a 15-yard facemask penalty by Friends brought the ball to the 23 of the Falcons.
With halftime closing in, place kicker Mike Phillips, knocked in his eighth field goal of the year, tying the McPherson College school record for most field goals in a season.
Following the score, the Bulldogs headed into the locker room down 21-3.
In the second half, MC continued to have a difficulty getting the offense going as they had multiple three-and-outs along with an interception and lost fumble.
Friends put up a touchdown in both the third and fourth quarters, giving them the 34-3 victory.
The ground game was not working well for McPherson as they netted -13 total yards, with -45 being credited to Hoffman on his five sacks. Hoffman completed 11-of-26 for 95 yards and three interceptions.
Gerald Hardridge took the ball five times and gained 24 yards.
Robinson snagged two balls for 90 yards while Hardridge had a pair himself for 41.
Defensively, Dominique Henderson had a heck of a game with 15 total stops including 12 solo tackles and 2.5 for a loss.
Safety Trea Lott and Grant Narcisse each tallied seven tackles for McPherson. Chris Ellison and Cole Long teamed up to take down Friends' quarterback for MC's lone sack. Long also had a fumble recovery on the day.
Trenton Forrester, Phillip Wilson and David Anderson each recorded an interception in the loss.
McPherson stays on the road for their next competition, as they travel to Leavenworth to face the 3-3 University of Saint Mary Spires.
Saint Mary is coming off a 63-17 road loss to No. 8 Ottawa Saturday night.
Kickoff Saturday is scheduled for 6 p.m. under the lights at the stadium of Leavenworth High School.


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Oh, by the way, Junior is leading NASCAR's points standings.
Under normal circumstances, that'd be a big deal. And on Easter weekend, it may even be an opportunity for some to invite indignation (righteous and otherwise) by equating racing's most famous son with something holier than horsepower and handlin'.
But frankly, and amazingly, Dale Earnhardt Jr. is atop the standings and nobody seems to be talking about it. Largely because this has been a two-week stretch filled with the type of stuff that really drove Big Bill's numbered sedans from dirt to asphalt to the super highways of modern Sportsville.
(Quick aside: NASCAR's incredible run of good fortune slowed in recent years, which explains why, at a time when even the casual fans are paying attention, we get the rare off-week.)
Anyway, where to start? How about with the obvious and most visible: Denny versus Joey versus Tony versus his one-man crusade to rid the racing world of blocking – well, except at tracks where he deems it a necessary evil.
Like that first stalk of Mexican Petunia that pokes through in the garden, it seemed rather harmless when Denny Hamlin publicly tweaked a former teammate – Joey Logano – for what Hamlin considered a lack of smarts during the recently completed Daytona 500. But it wasn't long before the invasive back-and-forth spread to the track. And oh, how much fun it was.
Well, right up until we realized that, for whatever reason, even with all we know about Murphy's Law and worst-case scenarios and the life-saving qualities of the SAFER Barrier, there is exposed concrete at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, Calif.
It's all fun and games until someone is stretchered to the chopper and air-lifted to a nearby hospital. Which leads us to Tony Stewart, who, even before he knew about Hamlin's pending helicopter trip, went after Logano for blatantly blocking to protect track position.
Tony went after Joey physically, which is entertaining because we suspect that someday, maybe someday, someone might actually land a punch in one of these things, and we want to be watching when it happens. OK, if it happens. Then Tony went after Joey verbally, taking some very personal shots that loudly signaled the long-awaited return of "Anthony," Tony's evil twin who once resided around the nearest turn but now only shows up occasionally.
Great stuff. Which leads us to Hamlin's empty seat inside the No. 11 Toyota owned by Joe Gibbs. Like any old football coach, Gibbs reached out for a seasoned veteran to fill the void. And it seemed like a great fit – Mark Martin fills in for Hamlin, and Brian Vickers, already getting part-time duty during Martin's off-weeks with the No. 55 car, gets a few more races while Martin helps Gibbs.
Oops. Did we forget that professional auto racing is fueled by corporate interests, and that corporations interested in racing are highly interested in who wears their colors and represents them in the ever-present promotional campaigns? Aaron's, the company that funds the No. 55 team and therefore provides for Martin's paycheck, found it all so interesting – and not in a good way.
If you're paying Mark Martin to wear Aaron's logos and appear in Aaron's ads, you should probably assume you'll be asked to sign off on such a thing before you see Mark Martin jump inside a race car emblazoned with Fed Ex signage.
Which brings us back around to Denny Hamlin, whose new headlines definitely took the focus off those immediately preceding them. Remember a few weeks back when Hamlin was actually fined by the sport's governing body for relatively mild criticism of the new generation of race car?
Given the obvious PR backlash that would follow that publicly announced fine, you have to wonder why they didn't handle it in time-honored fashion: Tell Denny to stay on board with the positive Gen 6 spin, then reinforce the directive by keeping his car in the inspection garage a while (and, of course, a couple of inopportune speeding penalties as he enters or exits the pits).
But no, NASCAR is thoroughly owning the Hamlin fine. Chairman Brian France defended it in a get-together with media last week. He seemed to suggest it's OK for NASCAR to control the Gen 6 message because NASCAR is so lenient with other criticisms from drivers and teams.
"There is one line that we are not going to tolerate and that's going to be criticizing the quality of the racing product in any way, form or fashion," said France, who, up until the last lap at Fontana, must've felt a bit like Nero.
And that's really the biggest news of the past week. The traditional sports-entertainment entities (NFL, NBA, MLB, etc.) generally draw the line at participants suggesting the officiating is horrible or even borderline crooked. NASCAR, long familiar with charges that it manipulates competition and doles out punishment with timely yellow flags and black flags, seems OK with those suggestions.
Heaven forbid, however, you take a small sample of lackluster races and insinuate the new car is a work in progress. But hey, they've been in business a long time and they don't fly coach. They don't even fly commercial. They must know something about business models.
Who knows, they might prove successful in controlling the message. If only they could've controlled the scheduling of fate. If they could, you can safely assume an off-week wouldn't have followed all that fun at Fontana.
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An off-week NASCAR didn't need
Oh, by the way, Junior is leading NASCAR's points standings.


text: GS writes: The new Tomb Raider game is quite different from the past entry of the series: the game requires a lot of skill to survive the harsh environments of the island and the tricky puzzles found in the temple. While the game is not overly difficult, there are some elements new to the series that players need to know if they want to play the game right and enjoy the game to the fullest. Tomb Raider clearly stresses out the survival aspect of the new Lara Croft adventure and we'll be going over some basic tips to guide you in the wilderness of the jungle and survive all the dangers. Most of these tips will help you in reading the environment better, as well as improving your combat skills. As already stated, Tomb Raider requires quite a bit of skill during all moments of the game so knowing everything about your basic actions can make you go a long way. After we're done with the basics of the game, we will be delving deeper withing the game, also covering in details all the skills that Lara can learn during the course of the game: managing these skills is fundamental in surviving the huge jungle and conquering the game.


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Patents of Charles Goodyear
Charles Goodyear is best known for a single patent, US 3633, Improvements in India-Rubber Fabrics Vulcanization of Rubber . The story of Goodyear and his 1839 discovery of vulcanization, a method to increase the strength and resiliency of rubber, has been told in several well researched accounts. What has not been accomplished is a compilation of the complete patents of Goodyear. Although many books and articles discuss the patents of Charles Goodyear, up to this point there was no single comprehensive and accurate list of his patents including all the information needed to retrieve the original documents from the issuing patenting organizations. Librarians of the Rubber Division, ACS and the University of Akron, using both print and online resources were able to compile a complete list of Goodyear's patents issued in the 19th Century.
|Patent Number
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|Jan 07, 1855
|Improvement of the improvements made on August 4, 1852: Improvements in the production of boots and shoes made out of rubber.
|Jan 07, 1855
|Improvements of the making of boots and shoes made of rubber from August 4, 1852: Rubber Boots and shoes are now elastically padded and contain air pockets to increase the comfortableness of walking, ventilation of feet, and an increased durability of the soles.
|Apr 15, 1854
|Invention and improvement of rubber and similar rubber materials including gutta-percha by using mechanical and chemical processes to clean the rubber and similar materials more safely and more completely than previously.
|Aug 04, 1852
|Improvement in the production of rubber shoes and boots.
|Mar 25, 1853
|Improvement in the use of the rubber and gutta-percha, isolated or combined with other substances, for production of all types of more or less hard, flexible and elastic objects.


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Guy Teaches Grandma What 'MILF' Means During Awkward Game of Scrabble
Spending time with grandma is a wonderful way for family to stay connected and appreciate our heritage. And then there's this.
While playing a rousing game of Scrabble with his grandmother, this guy decided to bust out the word 'MILF,' which led to a NSFW vocabulary lesson we pray we never have to offer to our grandmother.


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First half thoughts on the Bears-Lions
David Haugh: Is there a more complete and dangerous wide receiver in the NFL than Calvin Johnson?
Andre Johnson of the Texans is close. Randy Moss of the Patriots obviously used to dominate in the same fashion in his prime. So did Terrell Owens back before he was known best for the way he played, not talked.
But if you had to ask one NFL wide receiver to go up and make a big catch, it would be hard to find an option more dependable than Johnson.
Without him, the Lions aren't tied at 21 with the Bears at the half of Sunday's entertaining game at Soldier Field. Without Johnson, the Lions never would have jolted the confidence of the Bears defense with a 45-yard reception on Detroit's first offensive play. Without Johnson, the Lions are as threatening as rain on a cloudless day.
The Lions obviously have targeted Bears cornerback Zack Bowman as the weak link. Bowman got beaten deep by Johnson on the first play, was fooled on reverse and flagged for defensive holding. His day will get better because, well, it cannot get much worse.
Rookie quarterback Matthew Stafford has obvious skills and has been more effective than erratic, but has missed some open receivers. A drop in the end zone by fellow rookie tight end Brandon Pettigrew didn't help. But Stafford was forced into making a rookie goof when he threw an interception into Tommie Harris' hands, and the Lions don't have a margin for error wide enough to survive those mistakes.
The Lions have hung tough, as expected, and look improved. The 98-yard drive before halftime was impressive.
Luckily for the Bears, their offense has been even better. This week the ground game showed up early too with Matt Forte finally breaking a 61-yard run. Jay Cutler has thrown the ball with typical authority and been in command, except for one play when he allowed the ball to be knocked from his hands. On Cutler's 5-yard TD run, he went airborne and Bears fans everywhere held their breath.
But Cutler got up, showing he can take a hit and bounce back to top form. Now the Bears defense has to show it can too.
Dan Pompei: The Lions have outplayed the Bears in the first half. The score could be worse than 21 all. The Bears need to play a lot better to win this game.
Everything that could have gone wrong for the Bears did on the Lions' opening drive. First, the Lions went right after inexperienced Zack Bowman with arguably the most gifted wide receiver in football. The result was a 54-yard completion by Calvin Johnson. Then, Al Afalava lined up in the neutral zone on a Jason Hanson field goal attempt. That's a four-point mistake. Finally, the officials blew a call, penalizing Alex Brown for a facemask when he never got near Kevin Smith's facemask. The penalty gave the Lions 10 yards and a first down.
Good to see the piano off Matt Forte's back. Or was it a monkey?
Jay Cutler needs to learn how to slide. His 5-yard touchdown, jumping over hits from William James and Julian Peterson and helicoptering down, was a thing of beauty. But it wouldn't have been so beautiful if he had separated his shoulder.
Nick Roach is ballin' again today.
It became apparent during the Lions' second touchdown drive that the Bears needed to adjust their coverage and keep two safeties back. The Lions are attacking with the pass, and the Bears need to defend the pass first until further notice. The Bears cannot leave Zack Bowman alone with Calvin Johnson.
Nice 24-yard punt return by Devin Hester. But I'd still like to see him go more north and south on those returns.
Give Mark Anderson credit for Tommie Harris' interception. Anderson made it happen with pressure on Stafford.
Lovie Smith made his gutsiest call of the year when he decided to take three points off the board and go for it on fourth and 1 after a Detroit off-sides call. Cutler and Greg Olsen made it a great call with a touchdown pass.
Brad Maynard may be doing the best punting of his life.
Vaughn McClure: Losing Devin Hester to a shoulder injury might hurt the Bears in the long run if the injury is serious. Hester has started to develop as a great threat at receiver and showed a flash of his old punt-return form on his only first-half return, taking one back 24 yards.
With Hester out, that means more reps for Rashied Davis at receiver. Earl Bennet has replaced Hester on punt returns.
Here's what else came out of the first half:
The Bears defense needs to tighten up. Lovie Smith's crew is allowing way too many big plays through the air and on the ground. Neither Charles Tillman nor Zack Bowman can keep up with elite receiver Calvin Johnson. Even quarterback Matthew Stafford is beating the Bears with his legs. The Lions almost compiled 300 yards of offense in the first half which is an embarrassment for the Bears defense.
Speaking of Stafford, the rookie is legit. Save for a couple of overthrows, he's shown why he was the No. 1 overall pick. Stafford marched the Lions 98 yards right before halftime. He's squeezing balls in tight spots. To put it simply, he's good.
The Bears running game got going ... sort of. Matt Forte broke loose up the middle on a 61-yard run, the longest of his career. But Forte has just 10 yards on his other four carries. And the Bears continue to rely on Jay Cutler's passing in short-yardage and goal-line situations.
And as for Cutler, he showed some guts early in the game. On his 5-yard touchdown run, Cutler had no regard for his body and took off for the end zone from about 2 yards out. Cutler twirled in the air and fell in for the touchdown then jumped right up like he never felt a thing.


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Recipe adapted from Amy Beh's CB recipe on Kuali, it tasted lots better the next day, with its unique aroma that is pretty close to store-bought Chicken Biscuit.
300g plain flour sifted
1 tsp baking powder
¼ tsp baking soda
½ tsp salt
½ tbsp pounded garlic
2 pieces nam yee (red fermented bean curd)
1 large egg, lightly beaten
30g maltose
40g sesame seeds
100g candied winter melon, minced
¼ tsp ground pepper
½ tsp five-spice powder
¼ tsp cinnamon powder
30g cooking oil
- Preheat oven at 160ºC. Grease baking trays lightly or line with with parchment paper.
- Combine all the ingredients in a large mixing bowl, mix well to form soft dough.
- Divide dough into small balls then roll out each ball in between two sheets of parchment paper.
- Transfer rolled dough onto prepared trays and bake in preheated oven for 8-10 minutes or until golden brown and crispy.
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download the data from sap and automate the report and share to all recipient.
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I have 4 excel macros running on windows 7 that need to be rebuilt so they will run correctly on windows 10 system. Issues to be resolved: 1) auto run the Excel tasks every 3 hrs (using Windows Task Scheduler - or other app(?) if Task Scheduler is not stable) 2) avoid memory leaks 3) ensure that data imported from source CSV's is fully loaded before
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I have a report in Excel with 4 different Graphs p/sheet and those graphs are taking the information from the same file with all the data by day included in the same sheet. I need to have a button that says "Weekly" and move all the information of the graphs from Daily to Weekly, of curse summarizing and combining the daily data into weekly data. another
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I need someone to design a macro that will copy and paste a range of cells to other sheets based on the values of certain cells. You will see the list of requirements on the "Main" sheet
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click each link and indicate in column 'i' with an 'x' if link is leads to photo. If error occurs and link cannot be followed then leave column 'i' blank. Link is in column 'h' EXAMPLE in file: row numbers 228,645 & 228,644
create a simple excel macro that looks up a stock ticker online and place a current price value in an adjacent cell. to have a refresh button on the excel sheet that allows for multiple refresh of multiple cells with one click.
We will provide a set of input files in a folder. Each of the input files need to be read from the folder and based on logic, needs to be converted into another format (excel sheets)
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We use the following macro for gathering information from invoices on spreadsheets and compiling them into a larger database type spreadsheet. The Macro has been working fine for years but has stopped working in our last update (running office 365). Macro gets stuck on this Err5 With Application ChDrive (Left([login to view URL], 1)) Hopefully
Attached is a spreadsheet that has readings from the new data site. Every site can have up to 3 sensors (identified by a sensor #) connected to a base (identified by a base #). I need a blank spreadsheet where the user can input the following: Input: Base #, Sensor # (or all sensors connected to that base), Date (single date). The spreadsheet would generat...
Volkswagen has a site, https://www.volkswagen-car-net.com. Here I can log in and turn on my car heating/air-conditioning. I would like to automate this task so I execute it from Eventghost webserver.
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Q. With all of the excitement surrounding the Texans getting into the playoffs, I notice some people are getting a Texans logo tattoo. Does the tattoo artist need to be licensed by the Texans to do this? Can the tattoo parlor be sued?
Football scrimmages begin Friday
Teams from across Southeast Texas braving the heat since Aug. 3 will finally get to face someone with a different helmet and jersey Friday, Aug. 14, when teams can begin scrimmaging.
The Texans' late season collapse has many of their fans questioning the productivity of their quarterback, Matt Schaub. While The Texans quarterback had 5 interceptions in 6 games (including the playoffs) since the team's Dec. 10 shellacking at the hands of the New England Patriots, he had only 3 total touchdowns. Compare that number to opposing quarterback Tom Brady who had 4 touchdowns in the Dec.
While we harbor no disrespect for the Wall Street Journal who called us "that scrappy little paper from Southeast Texas," we prefer to think of ourselves as simple seekers of the truth. We're of the opinion that headlines and sound bites never tell the whole story. Our readers demand all the facts, facets and flavors of every story or event. And, they expect to be informed, educated and stirred to action.
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a) Understanding realities - I dont getrobertk wrote:Ok, so earlier when you mentioned about vipassana techniques, you meant the way Sujin Boriharnwanaket teaches? You accept that Suppabuddha was enlightened while listening to the Buddha, who he happened to come across (due to past kamma) while he was out looking for food, but he wasn't a) understanding realities..OR b) he did something that was unnatural or C) he had a special different method ?legolas wrote:As in the Sujin Boriharnwanaket "method."tiltbillings wrote:One example might be the technique of "no technique", where "developing understanding of realities" au natural looks to the abhidhamma for its validation.
b) Doing something unnatural - I dont understand
c) Ditto
The Buddha gave a progressive teaching to Suppabuddha who gave full attention to the words of the Buddha. Suppabuddha's mind contemplated the benefit of virtue/generosity -the bliss of heaven - the danger of sensual desire - the bliss of renunciation, resulting in Suppabuddha's mind acquiring samadhi at which point the Buddha gave the teaching of the four noble truths - which Suppabuddha due to his mind being joyful & happy along with his body being calmed/tranquilised was able to penetrate.


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Monday, March 7, 2016
The colon and rectum form the large bowel or large intestine, which is an organ that is part of the digestive system (also called the digestive tract). The digestive system is the group of organs that allow us to eat and to use the food we eat to fuel our bodies.
The colon and rectum play a very important role in how our bodies use the food we eat. Here is how food travels through the body:
1. Food begins in the mouth where it is chewed by the teeth into smaller pieces. The salivary glands release juices to help, and the tongue and saliva turn the food into even smaller pieces that will fit into the esophagus. The esophagus is a 10-inch-long tube that connects to the stomach. Muscles in the esophagus move food into the stomach.
2. In the stomach, gastric juices - protein substances called enzymes - break down the food into smaller bits. The stomach has powerful muscles that churn up the food until it's a creamy liquid. This material moves into the small bowel.
3. In the small bowel (22 feet long), the food particles get even smaller. More juices from the pancreas, liver and gallbladder mix together in the small bowel. Here is where all the important vitamins and nutrients in food move through the blood vessels that are in the lining of the small bowel. The blood takes the nutrients to other organs in the body. The nutrients are used to help repair cells and tissue.
4. What is left over, which is mostly liquid, then moves into the colon (5 feet long). The water is absorbed in the colon. Bacteria in the colon break down the remaining material. Then the colon moves the leftover material into the rectum.
5. The rectum is like a storage-holder for this waste. Muscles in the rectum move the waste, called stool, out of the body through the anus.
Healthy eating is good for your overall health, but having a low-calorie, high-fiber diet that includes many fruits and vegetables is important to a healthy colon and rectum. A healthy colon and rectum will rid your body of the leftovers it no longer needs. Your stool is filled with bacteria, so it is important to pass this out of your body. If your colon or rectum aren't working the way they should, you will experience problems such as bloating, gas and pain.
March is National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, founded by the Cancer Research and Prevention Foundation. Colorectal cancer is preventable, and is easy to treat and often curable when detected early. Talk with your health care professional about colorectal cancer today.
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Eleven men, sun-dried and weary but relaxed as peacocks, roost on a steel beam seemingly miles above Manhattan. Captured in the 1932 photo "Lunch Atop a Skyscraper," they evoke masculine bravery and foolhardiness, the Babel-esque ambitions and lax work regulations of a bygone era, and the hazards of attaining the American dream.
Director Seán Ó Cualáin's PBS-like documentary "Men at Lunch" strays far from the glamour and slickness associated with 30 Rockefeller Plaza, the building those ironworkers helped construct. Through an earnest narration by Fionnula Flanagan and slow zooms into the photograph, the film investigates several questions surrounding the image: its authenticity, its appeal and the identities of its creator and subjects.
If the fact-finding missions prove largely inconclusive, the documentary at least enjoys the benefit of Ó Cualáin's bold reframing of the photograph as a record of Irish immigration. The picture's bookends — the elfin smoker and the scowler holding a whiskey bottle — are traced back to an Emerald Isle county.
Yet it's not the documentary's human stories that fascinate but history itself. In Depression-era New York, construction casualties amounted to one dead laborer for every 10 floors. So common were occupational fatalities, "we do not die; we are killed," became the ironworkers' motto. Regrettably, "Men at Lunch" obsesses over disappearing ghosts instead of the records we already have and the history we should know.


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Airborne (UK - DVD R2)
Mark Hamill strikes back as an air traffic controller who's plane is acting strange.
A storm is on the way. Atlantic Flight 686 takes off. It's passengers: A mixed bag, including soldiers, gangsters and a man transporting an ancient vase. On the ground, a flight controller watches as the last flight before his retirement disappears off of the radar. What is happening on that plane? Who knows but it's messy.
Airborne is a low budget horror that feels like a Scooby Doo episode with a 15 certificate as opposed to the Twilight Zone homage vibe it's going for. It's filled with British TV cast from Hollyoaks (Gemma Atkinson), Eastenders (Raji James & Billy Murray) and This is England (Andrew Shim). There's Alan Ford doing his full on Snatch aggressive boss thing. Then there's Julian Glover, who sits patiently at the back until the plot needs revealing in a really on again off again accent. Oh, and Mark Hamill is the air traffic controller, set for retirement.
The set up here feels contrived from the get go, given the spooky atmosphere and the "What's in the crate" moment as it's loaded onto the plane but the premise of a late night flight dotted with strangers is sound enough to hold a viewers interest for the most part. Of course once the madness kicks in the whole thing stops being quite as fun. Cast members do silly things, spewing silly dialogue and the growth of aggresive overreactions become a mixture of less and less believable curve balls.
The acting is never great but it just gets more and more ropey as the blood start to flow and characters lose their minds. The officers takings control of the flight control room are particularly bad and those moments before a character is killed off are always laughable. Some of the cast are having fun with it, Gemma Atkinson showed way more in joke acting smarts than I would ever have given her credit for and Mark Hamill knows exactly what his part is here and he plays it well. Unfortunately none of it gels together all that successfully and the whole film ends up being laughably bad. Not totally awful bad as there's a certain glint of something likable here but given the cast, you'd expect a final product to be more than a low budget film that just about rises above the crowd of straight to DVD silliness.
Digitally shot, the image has a clean look to it and the low budget is hidden well within the small cast on a late night plane plot. The budget is also disguised with some fairly good shots of the plane in flight which are usually the elements that let something small like this down. They are by no means perfect but they don't all look like animatics as is sometimes the case with small movies like this. There's also a handful of shots that are well lit and way more filmic than this sort of thing usually serves up. Skin tones are rosy and warm and the entire look of the film has a creamy colouring to it. Edges are sharp with good enough detail for standard definition but deep blacks suffer offering up murky dark blues for the most part.
The opening scene has News reports dot around all the speakers speakers, front and rear. The suspenseful score begins in the fronts but as things get more intense they slowly build and reach out to the rears. There's the odd spike within the more shocking parts of very generic score but it's pretty basic for the most part.
Dialogue is consistently clear and ranges between whispers and stronger deliveries. The sounds of the plane in distress also sit fairly well within the mix but can't think of a single time that it ever felt real. Somehow the sound effects feel independent to the visuals and it doesn't matter how much of an angle you put the camera at, if the sound effects feel disconnected the scene still feels fake.
Only the trailer here sadly. I wanted more. I wanted to know how they got the cast. That alone was worth a featurette.
I can't think of a film I've seen recently that had such a mixed bag of actors in it. It's like director Dominic Burns hand picked faces from tons of different genres and plonked them in his movie without ever really taking advantage of what he had. Airborne is sort of silly fun really. Inoffensive enough but utterly forgettable. The disc is bare bones and pretty basic video and audio wise, so this one is probably only worth a rental with a group of very drunk friends.
Review by Marcus Doidge
Suitable only for persons of 15 years and over
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Release Date: 30th July 2012
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Single side, dual layer
RCE: No
Video: PAL
Aspect: 1.85:1
Anamorphic: Yes
Colour: Yes
Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 English, Dolby Stereo 2.0 English
Subtitles: None
Extras: Trailer
Easter Egg: No
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Director: Dominic Burns
Cast: Mark Hamill, Craig Conway, Billy Murray, Sebastian Street, Simon Phillips, Julian Glover, Gemma Atkinson, Alan Ford,
Genre: Horror and Mystery
Length: 77 minutes
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Precious Metals' Life Cycle Nears an End
The life cycle of precious metals is now in the final stage: denial.
Well, the good news is that a recovery bounce should be near. But if technical analysis, market sentiment, and the stages theory are correct, then a bounce is all it will be, followed by years of lower prices and dormancy.
I really do hate to be a mega-bear or mega-bull on anything long term, but this year, the charts have painted a clear picture for precious metals, and I want to share what I see. Take a look at the chart below, which shows a typical investment life cycle using the four stage theory (described below).
The Four Stages Theory
Classic economic theory separates the economic cycle into four distinct stages: accumulation, markup, distribution, and decline. A stock or index is no different, and goes through the following cycle:
- Stage 1 - Accumulation: After a period of decline, a stock consolidates at a contracted price range as buyers step into the market and fight for control over the exhausted sellers. Price action is neutral as sellers exit their positions and buyers begin to accumulate.
- Stage 2 - Markup: Upon gaining control of price movement, buyers overwhelm sellers and a stock enters a period of higher highs and higher lows. A bull market begins and the path of least resistance is the one that takes the stock higher. Traders should aggressively trade the long side, taking advantage of any pullbacks or dips in stock price.
- Stage 3 - Distribution: After a prolonged increase in share price, the buyers now become exhausted and the sellers again move in. This period of consolidation and distribution produces neutral price action and precedes a decline in stock price.
- Stage 4 - Decline: When the lows of Stage 3 are breached, a stock enters a decline as sellers overwhelm buyers. A pattern of lower highs and lower lows emerges as a stock enters a bear market. A well-positioned trader would be aggressively trading the short side, taking advantage of the often quick decline in share price.
Gold Price Weekly Chart – Stages Overlaid
Silver Price Weekly Chart – Stages Overlaid
Gold Mining Stocks – Monthly Chart
This chart is a longer-term picture, shown by using the monthly chart. I wanted to show the 2008 panic selling washout bottom in miners, which I think is about to happen again. While physical gold and silver are in a bear market -- and should be for a long time -- gold mining stocks will likely find support and possibly have a strong rally in the coming months.
Many gold stocks pay high dividends and are wanted by large institutions and funds. The lower the prices, the higher the yield, making them more attractive. So I figure gold miners will bottom before physical metals do. A bounce is nearing, but at this point, selling pressure and momentum continue to plague the entire precious metals sector.
Precious Metals Investing Conclusion
In short, I feel with quantitative easing (QE) likely to be trimmed back later this year, and with economic numbers slowly improving along with solid corporate earnings, the need or panic to buy gold or silver is diminishing around the globe.
While there are still major issues and concerns internationally, they do not seem to be having any effect on precious metals this year. Long-terms trends, like those shown in the weekly and monthly charts above, tend to lead news/growth/lack of growth by several months. So lower precious metals prices may be telling us something very positive.
The precious metals sector is likely to put in a strong bounce this summer, but after that, sellers will likely regain control to pull prices even lower.
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The area's first baby of 2013 arrived just minutes after the clock struck midnight when Ella Chang was born Tuesday at 12:20 a.m. at Lawrence Hospital Center in Bronxville.
The healthy baby girl, who weighed in at 6 pounds and 14 ounces, was born to Bronxville residents Elizabeth Spadaccini and Eric Chang.
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KATONAH, N.Y. – A day after an arbitrator upheld all-star Alex "A-Rod" Rodriguez's suspension for the entire 2014 season, Yankees Manager Joe Girardi said that he wished steroids and human growth hormone (HGH) were never invented during an appearance at The Harvey School's Walker Center for the Arts in Katonah.
Making his first public comments on the situation since the arbitrator's decision, the Yankee player-turned-skipper told The Daily Voice Sunday that everyone wants closure to the situation. But, with Rodriguez's lawyer expected to challenge the ruling Monday, Girardi, a resident of Purchase, said he isn't counting his star third baseman out just yet.
"I don't necessarily think that it's over," he said. "My job is to handle the players that I have, and until I'm told I don't have someone for sure, then I'll worry about it."
Major League Baseball suspended Rodriguez in August for 211 games for violating its policy on performance enhancing drugs. Independent arbitrator, Fredric Horowitz, reduced that to 162 games.
Girardi's appearance at The Harvey School is part of an ongoing series that began in November with Regis Philbin. Art Garfunkel will appear March 14 for the next installment. Sunday, more than 100 packed the private school for a meet and greet, followed by a question and answer moderated by Rye resident and 13-time Emmy Award winning sports broadcaster, Jimmy Roberts.
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Jimmy is a catcher in the majors division of the Bedford Hills-Katonah Little League. His younger brother, Tommy, also plays in the league.
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Not to end the evening on a sour note, the Chicago native that many attendees at Harvey called "down-to-earth" showed his comedic chops.
"But I know that I never took 'em. I did it the right way," he said. "And if you don't believe me, look at my numbers. I averaged two homers a year. So if I were taking them, I was really bad at it."
If A-Rod misses the 2014 season, the Yankees will save about $24 million, opening some space for a potential deal with Japanese pitching sensation Mashiro Tanaka. Girardi told Roberts he hopes Tanaka comes to New York. The club has already acquired Carlos Beltran, Jacoby Ellsbury and Brian McCann this offseason.
Kelly Johnson, Edwardo Nunez and recent acquisition Scott Sizemore will all be part of a "platoon" approach to covering third base if Rodriguez's suspension holds, Girardi said.
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Meeting Notes 2010 01 12
- 1 Crew
- 2 Rollcall
- 3 Preflight Checklist
- 4 Agenda Items
- 4.1 Announcements
- 4.1.1 Introduction and Names
- 4.1.2 What Noisebridge is about
- 4.1.3 Treasurer's Report
- 4.1.4 Very brief primer on Noisebridge consensus process
- 4.1.5 Membership binder
- 4.1.6 What's Going On at Noisebridge
- 4.1.7 Mail Call
- 4.1.8 Project Updates
- 4.2 Discussion items
- 4.2.1 Randomized Logo
- 4.2.2 How do we want to handle the NB logo on the wiki?
- 4.2.3 Noisebridge and Wikileaks - 501(c)(3) Fiscal Sponsorship
- 4.2.4 Bay Area Community Exchange needing space
- 4.1 Announcements
Moderator: Matt/Kelly
Note-Taker: User:Thatha
Attendee Count: 21 + 1 (remotely)
Officers: N/A
Preflight Checklist[edit]
- Please set your cell phones to vibrate.
- Go get the membership binder.
Agenda Items[edit]
Introduction and Names[edit]
- Mira -- makes new kinds of money.
- Ian -- generally inquisitive geek
What Noisebridge is about[edit]
Noisebridge is undefinable. Newbies have to ask around?
Treasurer's Report[edit]
- If you made a donation in 2009 and want a receipt for tax purposes, send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com with your full name, mailing address, the item or amount donated (and if money, the method), and the date of the donation.
Amount in bank: $15k
There are 5 members who are three or more months late. Separate from them:
- Number of members in good standing: 77
- Number of members late for December: 11
- Number of members late for January: 65
If all late dues were paid in full, at $40 each, we would have $4,880.
Very brief primer on Noisebridge consensus process[edit]
There is a consensus process... Only do something if all members are comfortable with it.
Membership binder[edit]
Ozzy's introduction: "He likes making shit. He likes being around people who make shit. He also likes unmaking stuff." Ozzy shall become a member. Nobody disagrees.
People who join Noisebridge are either idiots or really brave.
What's Going On at Noisebridge[edit]
- If you bought something and then gave it to Noisebridge (for a project, or 'cause you're awesome) it might be a donation in kind. Talk to the treasurer.
One short sentence about each of the following:
Mail Call[edit]
Check the table and cork-board near the north stairwell door for new mail from other hacker spaces and exhackpats around the world.
- Circuit Hacking Mondays (7PM, 2169): It's still going on even when people don't publish on the list.
- Python Mondays (6:30 PM, 2169): Python hasn't happened for a long time. It didn't happen yesterday and tt wasn't posted. Somebody was here who was skilled enough to facilitate the Python class but didn't happen. Should we change the Wiki to indicate it's not a regular event? Nya, we should be more consistent.
- Project Euler now on Tuesdays at 7:00 p.m: It's a project for solving mathematical problems using computational problems. Didn't happen today because the person who leads it wasn't around. Attendance is down (hearsay). Should it continue? Somebody should ping Seth (Zeth?).
- SCoW craft group - Wednesdays at 7PM: If you want to do something of crafts or sewing thing, show up on Wednesdays and people will help you. A week from tomorrow there's a large event happenning.
- GameDevelopment - Wednesdays at 8PM, back from Berlin and 2010 class is in session
- Shop Friday still plans to come back when the shop is done: cleaning and organizing the shop. Pretty close to being there. Just a general space for people to build stuff or get information on how to build stuff with workshops. This Friday there will be a C&C workshop. One of the things that there was a discussion about putting LED lighting fixtures in the space. If anybody is interested in that talk to John.
- Sensebridge and the EEG group - Sundays at afternoonish (1-2ish) - come to try brain scanning. The EEG meeting has been actually metting regularly and doing stuff and we got data from (?). Next thing to do is share data so people can crunch it. Another potential donation: somebody wants to donate a 10-channel EEG machine form the 80s. If it works at all, we will use it. If not, we will take it apart. Mailing list announcement to come. There was a wearable workshop and the hardware is awesome. Conductive threads! Tiny little widgets! Thy're trying to make a heartrate monitor.
- Spacebridge - Sundays at 5PM planning meeting this Sunday to decide on payload budget on. Longterm goal: put something into orbit. Colonize the high atmosphere. Have regularly scheduled baloon launches. Short-term goal: take something up there and down safely. Use Adruino, Android, gliders. We're approximately meeting on Sundays. Deadline for first launch: early February 2010. Where will we launch from? Lots of ideas. There's size limits for payloads but everyone interested should discuss afterwards.
- Knots Go and Locks - Sundays 3PM: awesome games. They go great together.
Project Updates[edit]
CNC Mill workshop on Friday CNC_Mill_Workshop: He's gonna do a workshop at 6pm. Focus on making circuit boards.
2169 Mission[edit]
- help needed for work on the bathroom. talk to scott about getting the pipe laid for the bathroom/darkroom. The sewer pipe is done for the bathroom. Anyone who wants to learn about the wonderful and complex world of plumbing, should talk to scott.
- Some folks were talking about making a wind generator for some of the lights.
- Darkroom: ventilation. coordinating with scott about the bahtroom. the ventilation for the darkroom and the restroom will be completely seperate because there should be no cross-contamination and it's hard to gurantee it otherwise.
Noisebridge now has server power available. To find out more about the server access, ask Dr. Jesus. We have machines. we have so many machines. they have more computers than we know what to make. there is a big stack in redwood city. if you need a server, or if you know of a non-profit that needs servers, let Dr. Jesus know.
26C3 debrief[edit]
Due to kernel upgrades, projector can't be driven. But we got cool visual effects. Soon, soon. In the long traition of demos <X> will give a short description. About 20 folks from Noisebridge went to Berlin to attend 26C3 (Chaos Communicatoin Congress). There were 3k~4k people in a conference center hacking madly for 4 days straight. It was intense, cool, and awesome. Many talks--including a number that made the frontpage of NYT. If <X>'s computer hasn't crashed we'd see a cool video. It's also on pony.
This weekend or next weekend there will be a discussion about it.
Talk after the formal meeting about a way to manage the checking out of cameras and other equipment. Someone donated a DV camera, silently. There's also a computer donated.
Discussion items[edit]
Randomized Logo[edit]
Shall we randomize the logo displayed on the Noisebridge Wiki (our primary website) rather than continuing in the general theme of the readily identifiable logo we've been using to date?
- At least two people disagree. On the mailing list, somebody posted an explanation of why the current code isn't a good randomizing function. Harmless but unfortunate code. The logo appeared on the glassdoors downstairs, but we don't rent these glassdoors--don't do stuff like that without talking to the landlord. The logo that appeared was the Weather underground + keyboard logo. Ask the landlord for the logo that's already there.
Significant dissent voice for the randomized logo.
The discussion hasn't coalesced around a set of things we can consent on. The original idea of Noisebridge wasn't that we will have this sign that we will stand for. The logo was uploaded in 2007. The logo was never consented on. Obviously we do have a logo. 10K hanging out around the world. We don't have to have a logo if we don't want to. We can have more than one logo. Other groups have more than one logo (such as C3). "Let a 1000 logos bloom".
What's the process for putting up logos we like, and what's the process for putting logos we don't like.
What about having a consensus process for logos? Put 'em in a pool, similar to membership process.
Some people were offended by a logo because of similarity to other groups. Furthermore, the new logo was done without any kind of consensus. Some people have special permissions and the might use it to do something other people didn't consent with.
General discussions about consensus in re privileged operations (logo changing, sysop privileges, et cetera).
Stick with the same logo we had a week ago (the logo we've had for a while). Allow people to make new logos and if they become popular people can consent. However, the discussion was created because of the new logo. People can make whatever edit they want to. At a later point somebody can open up a discussion about changing the logos.
Allowing multiple logos all the time could be a drama-engine.
It's interesting that we're having the same kind of themes whenever we have the do-cracy/consent-cracy debate.
Made an offer for a one-year registration of an anonymous space that could be used as a playground
If so:
How do we want to handle the NB logo on the wiki?[edit]
Notes from mailing list discussion
Randomizer function[edit]
- Need better randomizer function
Possible wiki configurations:[edit]
- Status quo (orig black and red circuit-like logo on all pages)
- Randomizer from pool on all pages
- Randomizer from pool on all internal pages, orig logo on index
- Some other variant of mixed logos, may require someone committing to code up the implementation
Possible pool handling[edit]
- Public
- Public upload somewhere, added to pool by ops
- Public upload somewhere, some other approval method
Noisebridge and Wikileaks - 501(c)(3) Fiscal Sponsorship[edit]
Wikileaks has very little presence in the United States. If they were to be able to take donations as a charitable organization, they would be able to generate a great deal more in donations from US donors.
The benefit to Noisebridge would be financial, as well as supporting a good cause. It is customary in these relationships that the sponsoring organization keep 10% of all donations. This would be a contractual arrangement which we would need our lawyers to draw up.
It is common arrangement in the art community that organizations that have a charitable designation "sponsor" organizations that are either too small or unable to manage the issues themselves. The Oakland Opera is a fiscal sponsor for NIMBY, SOMArts is a fiscal sponsor for the Flaming Lotus Girls. NIMBY is an interesting case, as they've faced all sorts of persecution, yet the Oakland Opera has seen none of it.
Without making any commitments, does it seem like this is something the membership thinks would be a good idea to pursue with our lawyers?
Pending lawyers' approval, why not? Should use a tax lawyer. General discussion about associating with another organization. A lot of general support. No immediate or loud objections. Would this add a lot of work to the treasurer? Should another position be created, or outsource? we've contacted a lawyer from the EFF and are awaiting response
Bay Area Community Exchange needing space[edit]
We don't typically approve events one-by-one unless there's an actual issue. A member needs to sponsor the meetings to use the space. Although it's not a rule, it's the precedent.
Noisebridge could benefit by getting Timebanks credit in exchange for using the space.
Not great idea to come on Tuesday nights.
More deets on how to have events in Noisebridge without having it blow up in your face will be given in person.
Mira has expressed interest in using one of the classrooms for meetings (usually also on Tuesdays, so we can all hang out after our respective meetings and learn more about each other) of the bay area community exchange http://www.bace.org & has mentioned perhaps Noisebridge might want to create an account with http://www.timebanks.org to see about making improvements to noisebridge & we can help others with whatever sorts of geeky projects they might be interested in (as we already do :).


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