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The set of 10 beautifully crafted science fiction designs were created to be printed on the 2014-2015 line of Endeavor snowboards. Named the 'Guerilla Series' -- which seems very fitting -- these menacingly faced warriors are a collaborative effort between graphic designers and illustrators Gabz (Grzegorz Domaradzki) and Kx2 (Krzysztof Domaradzki).
The minimalist and simple warrior illustration series would look amazing if framed and artistically put on any empty wallspace to give any room a bad ass vibe -- that if you're not a snowboarder.
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A colonoscopy is the insertion of a long flexible tube, about the thickness of a finger. It is inserted into the rectum and into the large bowel (colon) and allows the doctor to carefully examine the lining of the colon. Abnormalities suspected by x-ray can be confirmed and studied in detail. Abnormalities which are too small to be seen on x-ray may be identified.
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What is a polypectomy?
During the colonoscopy, a polyp may be found. Polyps are abnormal growths of tissue which vary in size from a tiny dot to several inches. If your doctor feels that removal of the polyp is necessary, he will pass a wire loop (snare) through the scope and remove the polyp from the bowel wall by means of an electric current. You should feel no pain during removal of the polyp. Polyps are usually removed because they can cause rectal bleeding or may contain cancer. Although the majority of polyps are benign (non-cancerous), a small percentage may contain an area of cancer in them or may develop into cancer. Removal of colonic polyps, therefore, is an important means of prevention and cure of colon cancer.
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Colonoscopy is a valuable tool for the diagnosis and treatment of many diseases of the large bowel. Abnormalities suspected by X-ray can be confirmed and studied in detail. The cause of symptoms such as rectal bleeding or change of bowel habits may be found by colonoscopy. It is also useful for diagnosis and follow-up of patients with inflammatory bowel disease.
Colonoscopy's greatest impact is probably in its contribution to the control of colon cancer by polyp removal. Before colonoscopy became available, major abdominal surgery was the only way to remove colonic polyps to see if they were cancerous. Most polyps can now be removed easily and safely without surgery.
Periodic colonoscopy is a valuable test for follow-up of patients with previous polyps or colon cancer, and as a screening tool for people at risk of colon cancer.
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#JusticeForNick: Graduating Architecture Student Robbed and Stabbed 18 times in Taguig
The future can never look so bright for college students, especially when one is only a few steps away from the goal of graduating.
However one looks at it, life is precious and it must be held dear. Unfortunately for this student, his was taken away by a mad man.
Nick Oniot, a graduating BS Architecture student of Adamson University was mercilessly robbed and stabbed to his death in the streets of Taguig City last Friday, October 14.
Hours after he was murdered, what happened to Oniot went viral on Facebook after a Facebook user posted a set of photos with a caption narrating the terrible fate that has fallen on Oniot which happened in Martinez St. Barangay Central Signal Village where he was stabbed 18 times by two suspects who were unidentified then.
Yesterday, the suspects of this heinous crime was arrested after a self-proclaimed suspect went to the police and even had the thickness of face to smile about it.
The gay person then led the police to the house of a Marvin Bernardo who was one of the two suspects.
Social media was flooded with the hashtag #JusticeForNick, as many netizens were saddened and angered by the news.
Many of them have changed their profile pictures on Facebook to a black photo to show support for the family.
Meanwhile, the United Architects of the Philippines Students Auxillary-Adamson University, where the student is a 3rd Year Batch Representative, posted a short, emotional message on Facebook saying,
"You have so much potential in you. Nick Russel Oniot, you still have a lot to offer. No one is ready for what had happened. Let's pray that justice will be served." [source]


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A spacious dining room requires large whereas small sleek dining sets can be easily accommodated in smaller dining areas. For regular family meals, a four to six-seater table is appropriate for most living arrangements. However, for large family get-togethers or for entertaining guests, you may need extra dining space - this is where larger extendables come in which can accommodate 8 to 10 diners happily. Dining tables with removable leaves are a popular choice in a large number of modern homes. These tables can be adjusted accordingly to accommodated diners during special events. In a dining set, the table and chairs are selected to match each other. However, if you are buying chairs and tables separately, make sure that the design, color and materials of the chairs complement the table and are at an optimal dining height.
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Here I will give a short piece of code on how to use slope lighting to retrieve a extremely accurate approximation of the lighting value of a vertex. This example will create a value from 0-1, since most terrain engines today are in OpenGL, and lighting is done within that range.
If you want to check out my first implementation of slope lighting, check out my terrain engine Heylow, which was mostly inspired by Halo, by Bungie Software.
Slope lighting simply takes the difference between two vertices (height-wise) and determines a lighting value. If you think about it, it's simple, fast, and even the most elite coder would overlook something this simple. To determine which vertices you are working with, simply run through them all, and at each one simply subtract the vertex's height from the closest vertex that is on the side closer to the sun. So lets say your imaginary sun is casting light in the direction of (1, 1). You could define that in a 2D vector for simplicity's sake. Then just use map_shade[x][y] = 1 - (map_height[x-sun_dir.x][y-sun_dir.y] - map_height[x][y]). Simple. The only problem is the sun's angle can only change at 45 degree increments, but the avid game player doesn't sit down and analyze the direction of the sun every minute, so it's not a problem.
Here's a piece of code that runs through a grid layout of a heightmap (square) of MAX_SIZE width and length, and lights it.
//the good stuff
#define MAP_SIZE 128 //your map size
#define LIGHT_SOFTNESS 25 //makes lighting more transitive, smooth, and less abrupt
#define MAX_BRIGHT 0.8 //maximum brightness
#define MIN_BRIGHT 0.2 //minimal brightness (hillsides are never pitch black during the day)
float map_height[MAP_SIZE][MAP_SIZE], map_shade[MAP_SIZE][MAP_SIZE];
//lighting, could be placed immediately after map loading/generation, etc.
// any elite coder could put this where he wanted.
for(y = 0; y < MAP_SIZE; y++)
for(x = 0; x < MAP_SIZE; x++)
map_shade[x][y] = 1 - (map_height[x-1][y-1] - map_height[x][y]) / LIGHT_SOFTNESS;
if(map_shade[x][y] > MAX_BRIGHT)
map_shade[x][y] = MAX_BRIGHT;
if(map_shade[x][y] < MIN_BRIGHT)
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Jeff Dukes and his research group seek to address environmental challenges through ecological research and outreach. Their research currently focuses on three themes: understanding how ecosystems respond to climate and atmospheric change, understanding and minimizing the impacts of invasive species on ecosystems, and exploring the ecological consequences of switching our energy supply from fossil fuels to biofuels. Dukes has a particular interest in understanding how changes in climate and the atmosphere will affect the success and impact of invasive species.
Dukes directs the Boston-Area Climate Experiment (BACE), which characterizes ecosystem responses to gradients of climate change. Will the processes and properties of communities and ecosystems respond linearly to changes in temperature, or are there important threshold temperatures that could be reached? To what extent does an ecosystem's response to warming depend on precipitation patterns? The BACE tests these questions in a New England old-field ecosystem. Researchers are measuring responses of several variables, including growth of wildflowers, grasses, and tree seedlings.
Dukes also leads the INTERFACE research coordination network, which brings together experimentalists and modelers from around the world to advance global environmental change research. The network seeks to facilitate the incorporation of realistic biological responses into Earth system models (ESMs), and the design of field experiments and computer simulations that are best suited to improving the performance of ESMs.
Dukes's past research has shown that some terrestrial ecosystems may slow climate change less than previously assumed, that some biodiversity losses may affect the success and impact of invasive species, that about 100 tons of ancient plant matter were required to produce a gallon of gasoline, and that replacing fossil fuels with modern plant matter would demand more than a quarter of all plant growth on land.
Dukes has appointments in the Departments of Forestry and Natural Resources and Biological Sciences at Purdue, and an adjunct appointment in the Department of Biology at the University of Massachusetts Boston. More information and PDF files of Dukes's publications are available here. Prospective students should contact Prof. Dukes by email after reading the information available here.
Research Group - Ecology of Natural Systems, Forest Biology
Facilities - Forest Ecology, Soils, and Silviculture Lab, Greenhouses, John S. Wright Center
Related Centers - Center for the Environment, Purdue Climate Change Research Center, Purdue Interdisciplinary Center for Ecological Sustainability
Dukes Lab Sites - The Boston-Area Climate Experiment, Dukes Lab
(2017) AAAS Public Engagement Fellow, Leshner Leadership Institute. American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Salazar, A., Sulman, B. N., & Dukes, J. S. (2018). Microbial dormancy promotes microbial biomass and respiration across pulses of drying-wetting stress. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, (116), 237-244.
Rogers, A., Medlyn, B. E., Dukes, J. S., Bonan, G., Caemmerer, S., Dietze, M. C., . . . Others (2017). A roadmap for improving the representation of photosynthesis in Earth system models. New Phytologist, 213(1), 22--42.
Smith, N. G., Lombardozzi, D., Tawfik, A., Bonan, G., & Dukes, J. S. (2017). Biophysical consequences of photosynthetic temperature acclimation for climate. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 9(1), 536--547.
Smith, N. G., & Dukes, J. S. (2017). LCE: leaf carbon exchange data set for tropical, temperate, and boreal species of North and Central America. Ecology, 98(11), 2978--2978.
Salazar-Villegas, A., Blagodatskaya, E., & Dukes, J. S. (2016). Changes in the size of the active microbial pool explain short-term soil respiratory responses to temperature and moisture. Frontiers Media SA, 7. Retrieved from http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2016.00524/full
Ward, S., And 23 others, including, & Dukes, J. (2014). Agricultural Weed Research: A Critique and Two Proposals. Weed Science, 64, 672-678.
Vicca, S., And 47 others, including, & Dukes, J. (2014). Can current moisture responses predict soil CO2 efflux under altered precipitation regimes? A synthesis of manipulation experiments. Biogeosciences, 11, 2991-3013.
Bahn, M., Reichstein, M., Dukes, J., Smith, M., & McDowell, N. (2014). Climate-biosphere interactions in a more extreme world. New Phytologist, 202, 356-359.
Dukes, J., Rogers, A., & Medlyn, B. (2014). Improving representation of photosynthesis in Earth System Models. New Phytologist, 204, 14-Dec.
IbàÐez, I., Diez, J., Miller, L., Olden, J., Sorte, C., Blumenthal, D., . . . Lawler, J. (2014). Integrated Assessment of Biological Invasions. Ecological Applications, 24, 25-37.
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Facebook Timeline Cover – Vintage StorePromote your Business on Facebook with this Vintage Store Covers. Ready for Vintage and Retro Fashion Business. Stand out from the competition with a Professional Look.
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The rear sliding door on my minivan has been continual headaches! I purchased the vehicle used and the passenger door started opening while I was driving. When I stopped to get gasoline one night, a passenger got out and the door fell off! I took it to the dealership for repair. Then, the driver's side started opening while the van was in motion, driving. That was a few months after the other door had fallen off. Back to the driver's side door, which happened one night while I was on a busy highway. When it independently opened, I pulled over to the shoulder and the door fell off while trying to close it. I went back to the dealership and got that door repaired. Now, the passenger side door has started independently opening again while I'm driving and the dealership will have to repair it too. This is a very dangerous situation because I usually have kids in the van with me. Do you know if there is any permanent way to fix these doors so this will stop happening?
Hello. Check back with the dealer on this, escalating if necessary with Saturn Customer Service. There are service bulletins: GM TECHNICAL SERVICE BULLETIN # 07-08-64-007 AND BULLETIN # 07-08-64-007A which provide dealer instructions for verifying proper alignment and sensor condition to avoid unintended opening or closing of the door.
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Want to look like Sam Flynn or Tony Stark while riding your motorcycle? Look no further than these replica suits.
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552 sq km (212 sq miles).
Northern Tanzania, between Arusha and Mount Kilimanjaro.
Getting to:
A 45 minute drive from Arusha or one hour from Kilimanjaro International Airport.
Things to do:
Forest walks, Picnicking, Canoe safaris, Mountain climbing and hiking, Bird and animal watching, Monkey trekking.
Best time to visit:
It is best to climb Mt Meru between June and February, although it tends to rain in November. Best views of Kilimanjaro are between December and February.


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Following an investigation of avian flu cases in Vietnam, the World Health Organization yesterday said it found no evidence that the virus had mutated in ways that would make it more easily transmitted among humans.
So far, scientists have documented just one case of the virus spreading from human to human - a chain of transmission among a family in Thailand. But many have warned that a simple genetic change could enable the virus to spread more efficiently among humans, touching off a pandemic that could put millions of people at risk worldwide.
At the request of the Vietnamese health ministry, the WHO dispatched an international team of experts to that nation last week to see if the agency should issue a heightened pandemic alert. After reviewing laboratory evidence and case studies, the team said it found no grounds for that.
"While these first results are reassuring, further retesting of clinical specimens will continue over the next few weeks to provide the most reliable possible foundation for risk assessment," the agency said yesterday in a prepared statement.
Vietnam has reported the largest number of human fatalities to avian flu in the region. Yesterday, the country reported its 39th case, bringing the total in Southeast Asia to 55.
The victim was a 72-year-old man from Hanoi who died Tuesday after being admitted to Bach May Hospital six days earlier, said a hospital spokesman.
Another 12 people have died in Thailand and four in Cambodia.
Meanwhile, Vietnam said Wednesday it would begin in August to vaccinate poultry against bird flu. The vaccinations will begin at commercial poultry installations and smaller family farms in two provinces, one in the north and the other in the south along the Mekong Delta, the Associated Press reported.
Vaccinations will then be expanded to another 40 high-risk provinces over the next two years. An initial 20 million doses will be imported from the Netherlands and China.


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I got a lovely mention in a blog yesterday. Nicolette writes a great blog called 'Archie and the Rug', and unveiled her Independent Gift Guide featuring many great independent designers and makers, including a mention for me!
I think you should bob over and take a look at some interesting finds that might just hit the spot for someone special this Christmas!
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Mear, Los Angeles' greatest artist is having a solo show entitled "Mearasma" at the 01 Gallery in Downtown Los Angeles. I first saw Mear's work on a canvas at the original 01 Gallery on Melrose and La Brea. I was blown away. Based on Mear's painting displayed at 01 Gallery's soft opening earlier this year, we are in a real treat!
530 South Hewitt Street
Barker Block - Suite 141
Los Angeles, CA 90013 (Directions)
OPENING RECEPTION: Saturday October 11, 2008, 7-10PM
SHOW RUNS: October 11 - December 11
Press release from 01 Gallery:
Mear One, who is among the most prominent artists in the world (and not just the grafitti world) today, with numerous successful shows under his belt in galleries (his last two solo shows were in Paris, France and Portland, Oregon) and museums (he was in a major three person show at the Orlando Museum in Florida with Andy Warhol and Keith Haring a few years back, for example), is coming back to the gallery he started out in fifteen years ago, the legendary Zero One Gallery.
From his first appearance in one of the gallery's infamous "Best of the West" shows, where he arrived with his painting an hour into the opening reception wearing paint splattered clothes directly from a job spraypainting the outside of a store in the valley, got up a ladder to put up his phenomenal artpiece, and witnessed his dealer sell it within an hour to the major collecting team of Stuart and Judy Spence, he became an artist to watch. The very next month the Spences were photographed with that painting for the annual edition of Art & Auction featuring the 200 biggest collectors in the world. From that point, Mear One's career got off to a flying start and he hasn't looked back since.
Many solo and group shows followed at the Zero One Gallery where Mear One and the gallery owner, John Pochna, forged one of the closest artist-dealer relationships since Vincent and Theo, or Jasper and Leo.
This latest 01 show at their posh new downtown location in the Arts District features an exhilarating explosion of paintings, drawings and prints along with a new state-of-the-art high-def DVD that shows Mear One creating(painting is too narrow a term to describe the way he works) many of the paintings on display in this exhibition. Mear's genius is that he compels us to feel. And, that is a marvelous thing.
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Calvin Johnson is the best wide receiver in the NFL today, of that there can be absolutely no argument. Ever since entering the National Football League in 2007, the Detroit Lions star leads receivers in average yards per game with a whopping 88.3 per contest.
But Johnson has been injured for most of the season, and as we all expected, Matthew Stafford and the rest of Lions offense has suffered hugely with the giant #81 sitting on the sidelines.
And even when Megatron has managed to get out on the field this year, head coach Jim Caldwell has used him more as a decoy, taking the attention of the defense away from lesser receivers such as Golden Tate and Corey Fuller.
Serious Doubt
And with the Lions in London this week, Johnson is in a race against time to be fit for the game against the Atlanta Falcons at Wembley stadium. And at the moment it is looking like one race that the fleet-footed Johnson won't be winning.
Johnson is currently listed as questionable to play on Sunday, but he hasn't been able to train fully all week with a high ankle strain that has kept him limited in practice this week at the team's temporary base in Bagshot, at a 5 star hotel just outside London.
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Risky Decision
And Johnson is keeping his cards close to his chest, knowing the potential for the injury to get worse if he pushes too far.
"You want to push it, I want to push it, but we're trying to be smart about it. It's getting better and better but you don't want to get to that point where we get a setback."
Johnson did however note that he had starting running again as well as turning and cutting on the ankle. But, when we saw him on the practice field running drills he was very limited and didn't break into a full sprint once, running at about 30% of his capability when catching balls.
If Megatron plays he won't be fully healthy, but an injured Calvin Johnson is still good enough to make big plays when it matters.


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CBP was formed in 2015 by the merger of the Section of Cell and Developmental Biology and the Section of Molecular Integrative Physiology. Our section consists of 11 research units focusing on the molecular and cellular bases of human diseases and genetic disorders as well as physiological adaptations in response to environmental challenges. You can read more about our research here. The members of the section disseminate their knowledge through collaborations with the industry and university hospitals, publications and contribution to a variety of courses, ranging from cell biology and physiology over medical sciences to advanced molecular disciplines. Read more about our courses here.
Research at CBP
Our area of interest reach from genome research, structure and function of cells, membrane transport, metabolism and cellular signaling over physical activity to the development and organization of cells into tissues and tissues into organs in health and disease. CBP enjoys strong collaborations with other UCPH departments in natural and health sciences. Read more
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Rodrigo Terpins was a student at the University of Sail Hilaire; he was here for four years and graduated with a degree in Business management. He would then begin his career in management at Lojas Marisa; here he would work for sixteen years and was able to rise to the position of president during the said time, he later stepped out in 2007 to focus on his own company. The following year in 2008, Rodrigo Terpins ventured into business and started his own company T5 Participacoes. Rodrigo was able to grow the company and turn it into a successful business, and he was hence able to maintain an executive role which gave him time to focus on his rallying career. He had begun rallying in the past few years, and he and his brother Michel Terpins had begun The Bull Sertoes rally team that they were now fully focused on growing and turning it into one of the biggest rally teams in Brazil. Checkout agenciaoglobo for more details.
The ultimate dream would be taking part in all the coming editions of the Sertoes rally. This need to focus had also seen Michel Terpins dedicate more time to his rallying career and he was also more on the executive teams of his businesses. Michel Terpins had also been the chairman of the Cross country championship. You can visit comunique-se to know more.
This was a position that he had been elected to by the members of the cross country and they were counting on him to grow cross country to a new level. The team had been able to focus and juggle in all their roles but had not yet been able to bring a development partner who would oversee the development of the official team's car. As they were working towards this they struck a chord will MEM developers. MEM has been known to develop quite the reliable racing cars and especially in the two-wheel category. The focus now shifted for the Bull Sertoes rally team to MEM, and within a short time, the T-Rex had been developed. In its trademark orange colors the T-Rex has taken the team through numerous championships and has proved a worthy partnership.
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They had it sitting on the floor propped up in the case (collecting dust ... lots of it). A tiny sign stood before it begging "Please don't touch!" and since I can't bring myself to flagrantly subvert whichever authority posted it, I asked the owner to help me move it to the front counter for a closer inspection.
I immediately noticed that there was no "1" or "!" and that there was a little tag sitting on the front for a typewriter shop in Alhambra (for you Non-Californians- that's out near Los Angeles). I had no idea how old the tag was but it looked pretty crisp so I took as a sign that the previous owner had it cleaned or restored in recent years. Of course, I had done my share of research but, to be honest, I probably would have settled for any (working) mechanical typewriter. All the bells and whistles work (really, there's an adorable little bell that chimes at the end of every line).
I knew that if I bought one online I ran the risk of it being damaged in shipping and here, sitting before me was a beautiful model that was working like a dream. I couldn't pass it up.
Now for the case ....
I managed to get a large portion of the rust off the case handle. But there is still the resounding question of how to fix the back hinge(s).
The box is quite stubborn and no matter how much I beg and plead it to remain attached, it refuses. Of course, this is not a HUGE deal. I did, after all, buy it for the typewriter (not the case) but if I can find a way to get it working- why not try?
One side looks like it works - there is a top and bottom hinge (one on either side of the two box components- top and base) as well as a third piece which is screwed in and sits on top of a spring (presumably the part that keeps the top and bottom clicked in place).
As you can see above, one side of the lid has both pieces (the hinge part and the extra piece on a spring).
Unfortunately, the other side of the lid (though it still has the original spring in place) is missing this extra little piece (and of course the screw to connect it).
Here's a view of it from the inside ...


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20. This young migratory worker mother who traveled 35 miles to pick peas for $2.25 a day. She lived in a camp with her two children and husband.
19. This Japanese-American grandmother waiting to be moved to an internment camp during World War II.
18. These 10 small boys who worked in a cotton mill in North Carolina in 1908.
17. This young girl at that same mill staring out a window. She had already worked there more than a year.
16. This worker helping build the frame of the Empire State Building in the 1930s.
15. This young boy working in a canning factory in East Maine in 1911. He got paid five cents per box of cans and produced five boxes each day.
14. These unemployed men attending a meeting of the Workers Alliance Council during the Great Depression in West Virginia.
13. These women at a Florida vocational school learning how to do work to support the war effort in the 1940s.
12. This young girl who worked in fields in Massachusetts in the early 1900s carrying raspberries.
11. This woman rebuilding an airplane engine. The 20-year-old woman had a private pilot's license and had made cross-country flights.
10. This 87-year-old Georgia man who had 11 sons that served during World War I.
9. These nurses at an American Red Cross parade in Alabama during World War I.
8. This young drummer boy who was a member of the United States infantry during the Civil War.
7. These two young servicemen that celebrated Thanksgiving in New York City during World War I.
6. These two women holding a banner for women's suffrage in Washington D.C. in 1918.
5. These two women working at a U.S. Steel mill in Gary, Ind. during World War II.
4. This wounded Civil War soldier resting in a deserted war camp.
3. This elderly man who worked in a silk factory during the Great Depression, but after injury was unable to work and had to make a living sewing in his home.
2. These Japanese-Americans at an internment camp in Utah celebrating New Year's in 1944.
1. This wounded World War II veteran with his son after returning home from the war.
All photos via the National Archives.


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How well do organizations govern their use of information technology? What resources are needed to help improve the effectiveness of that governance?
Every organization, large or small, needs to address these and related matters. Always have had to, and always will have to – but not always done effectively, sometimes not addressed at all.
Answering questions like these is the special interest of Mark Toomey, Managing Director of Infonomics, who help organizations ensure that their current and future use of IT is effective, efficient and acceptable.
Mark has written a book Waltzing with the Elephant which "explores, in plain language, the need for organisations to effectively govern their use of information technology. Building from the notion that governance of information technology is integral to governing the organisation, Waltzing with the Elephant explains how business leaders can engage on their terms, in their language, and exert effective control through a comprehensive, fully integrated system for governance and management that parallels the systems used to govern other assets and resources."
Please refer to my December 2008 article Corporate governance of IT - Critical for all organizations, large or small and listen to the associated podcast (linked on the final page of the article).
While the podcast was carried out some 18 months ago, the matters discussed are not in any way out of date. They are of perennial concern to anybody involved in IT, from the organization's governing board, through IT management and supervisors, right down to the "coal front" of programmers and administrators. People at all levels have a greater or lesser degree of involvement. Ignorance is no excuse!
Infonomics publishes a monthly newsletter that you owe it to yourself to subscribe to. These newsletters will bring you up to date with what's been happening on the governance and compliance side of IT since 2008, such as developments on the ISO/IEC 38500 international standard front:
Good corporate governance is as much about behaviour as it is about process, and ISO/IEC 38500 provides clear advice about behaviour, through six key principles for good governance of IT.
ISO/IEC 38500 provides the essential key to helping organisations ensure that they do have effective direction and control of their IT, because it provides the context in which to understand that Corporate Governance of IT has to address both demand for, and supply of IT.
In the Infonomics newsletter April 2010 edition Mark refers to the two questions raised at the start of this blog post. These questions were at the core of an international survey on governance and management of information technology conducted by Infonomics during February and March 2010.
For example, the survey results point to considerable gaps in the ability of boards to provide appropriate oversight of IT, compounded by corresponding weakness in executive management's capability to set appropriate direction, control and monitor the IT agenda.
This is all extremely important stuff! So I heartily recommend that you enrol for the monthly Infonomics newsletter and keep yourself aware of the latest developments in the IT governance/compliance field.


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You already probably know about green energy. You may do a few things, and think that is enough, or you may not have done anything related to green energy since it became such a popular idea. Whatever your experience with green energy, here are some great suggestions to make sure that you can use green energy, at least a little bit.
Check out all the different resources your community has available for energy. Check how much these utilities cost and any tax breaks or laws before making a decision. It can benefit you to use natural gas instead of electricity, for example.
Go green on your coffee break by bringing your own cup. If you usually order a Tall Latte at Starbucks, bring a tall re-usable coffee mug with you. Every time you ask your favorite coffee shop to mix your drink in your own cup, you are helping to green your environment.
When you have a solar energy system installed, ensure that the batteries that hold the power are situated in close proximity to the cells. This will prevent power from being lost in the cable. It will also minimize the possibility of a cable shading out the cells and lowering their generation capability.
To help you improve the green energy efficiency of your home, consider installing solar panels in your home. Solar panels are a good source of renewable energy and can be installed at a relatively low cost. In addition, you will reduce your reliance on fossil fuels and other forms of unsustainable energy.
Try insulating your pipes to decrease the chances of them freezing and to cut the costs for hot water. Another added benefit is that the government will reimburse you up to 30 percent for using highly efficient insulation in your home. Contact local utility companies to find out your state laws.
If you can not afford to get new windows that are more energy efficient, be sure to invest in some good shades. During the summer months, cover the windows during the day to keep the sun out. In the winter months, leave the window covers open to let the sun heat up the rooms; close them at night though to help keep the cold out.
Appliances can be a big, unnecessary energy drain. Find out how much energy each of your appliances are using. Work to replace those larger appliances that are inefficient and outdated, and unplug the smaller ones – like computers and television sets – when they are not in use. Setting all appliances on a timer switch is another way to ensure that you don't waste energy.
If specific areas of your home feel cold or drafty, then chances are they are not properly sealed or insulated. These deficiencies can greatly increase the cost of heating or cooling your home and are often an easy fix. Seal any holes you identify and get a price estimate for adding insulation to thin walls.
Use solar water heaters as a great alternative to heating water with electricity. They use the sun's energy to heat water for use in your home or business. The ideal location for a solar water heating system is a south-facing roof that is not shaded. Current technologies allow the system to blend in with your roof so as not to detract from your home.
Make use of the natural sunlight for great green energy savings. Install solar tubes in your home which take the light from outdoors and bring it inside so you do not need to use lamps and other lighting sources as often. These are relatively inexpensive and are great for increasing the value of your home.
Make sure that your air vents aren't blocked in some way. Blocked air vents can lead to increased energy usage due to the fact that you will turn up the cooling in your home because you don't feel the air coming out. Thoroughly inspect them to ensure nothing is blocking the air. If there is, you'll be surprised at the difference once you eliminate the problem.
Use the power of the sun to help you heat your home. By installing large windows or glass patio doors on the south side of your home, you can catch the morning sun. This free energy will heat your room for a few hours each morning and cut down on heating costs.
In order to ensure your air filter is working correctly, you should regularly clean or replace it one time a month. If air filters are not working properly, you will end up using more energy to compensate. Cleaning and replacing it can help to eliminate this problem so that you can save energy and money.
Now that you've read a little about how to use green energy, you should have a few ideas in your head to make your home more green. Use the ideas in this article to get you started, and to give you concrete actions you can take today to make sure you are living green.


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It covers an area of 3000 square meters with ISO 9001 certifacation.We specialize in providing CNC turning,CNC milling,CNC machining,Laser cutting,CNC Bending,Casting,Welding,finish such as powder coating and assembly services for small or large volume lot sizes for a variety of markets.
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Reform the Louisiana Juvenile Justice System to one that rehabilitates our youth and reduces the number of incarcerated youth following the evidenced-based Missouri Model which "seeks to narrow the pipeline of youth entering the system" and keep parents at the center of their children's treatment.
Objective 1: Reduce the number of non-violent youth in secure-care by 50/2017
Objective 2: Ensure Act 1225 is being fully implemented
Advocacy Initiative is designed to help parents navigate the juvenile justice system before they are incarcerated by pushing for quality representation and/or alternatives to detention, and after they are incarcerated by ensuring children receive rehabilitation treatment, parents are kept at the center of that treatment and children receive the necessary reentry plans.
Support Groups provide the safe space necessary for families to hear from other parents who are going through the same situation and provide peer-to-peer support to each other.
Meeting of the Minds/Story Circles is designed to provide a space for FFLIC family members to develop equitable solutions by sharing stories with uninformed community members about how well-intentioned but ineffective and oppressive laws affect their communities.
Rearing Court-Involved Youth is designed to work with juvenile court and FINS to help parents struggling to raise children who are court-involved. This project has a three-pronged approach providing parents with individualized training, support and mentoring as a means to help parents keep children out of prison and at home.
Act 1225 Initiative: After passing the Juvenile Justice Reform Act of 2003 and closing the country's most notorious prison the Tallulah Correctional Center for Youth, the Office of Juvenile Justice continues to struggle to transform our juvenile prison system to a rehabilitative model based on best practices and the Missouri Model. As a primary mover of this reform, FFLIC continues to fight for full implementation of Act 1225.
Alternatives to Detention Initiative: Knowing that it is more cost effective and that public safety will be achieved when children receive services in their community, FFLIC works to ensure that quality, evidence-based services are developed and utilized in the community and detention centers.
Transfer Initiative: In Louisiana 17-year olds can be automatically transferred to the adult system and children as young as 14 can be transferred. FFLIC is working to shed light on this injustice in hopes of bringing change to our laws and keeping children from entering the adult system before the age of 18 or 21 by supporting the Campaign for Youth Justice – Youth Justice Awareness Month (YJAM) annually in October with our 5k walk/run for justice.


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Nearly every cell in a person's body has the same DNA. Most of DNA is located in cell nucleus. We can say this DNA is like a stepladder and it can be as long as 1,80m but it can fold itself so tight it can be stored in a small space with micro dimensions.
Lets see how we can see this DNA without any microscopy help.
We need:
- 2 bowls, one of them must be transparent,
- a knife,
- a onion,
- dish detergent,
- salt,
- water,
- 2 spoons,
- alcohol.
- Peel the onion;
- Cut the onion, into small pieces, to the bowl;
- Add some dish detergent, enough to cover it;
- Add the salt (1/2 tablespoon);
- Finally add the water (2 tablespoons);
- Mix, careful, we don't want it to form bubbles;
- Wait 20 min;
- Mix again;
- Separate the liquid layer from the rest, the DNA is on the liquid, reject the rest.
- Add alcohol to the liquid, slowly, we want the alcohol to form a second layer above the liquid, try to make the alcohol run down the bowl wall.
- Don't mix the layers;
- Wait another 20 min.
You can see small white strands; some of them may look like small clusters.
DNA precipitates when mixed with alcohol; this means it's not soluble in this reagent. This causes the DNA to clump together when there is a lot of it. And, usually, cells contain a lot of it!
Salt- Helps DNA to precipitate
Cold water- Helps to maintain DNA intact. If we use hot water cellular enzymes can destroy the DNA strand.
Et voilá!
Genetic in your kitchen!


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I look around this afternoon/morning and realize: I'm not in heaven.
You're not in heaven.
How do we know?
…..we still feel pain.
…..we still have worries and concerns.
…..we still experience the effects of sin and imperfection.
In heaven, there is supposed to be no pain….only happiness.
In heaven, there is supposed to be no worries…..only contentment.
In heaven, there is supposed to be no sin….only the perfect love of God.
At least this is what we're told
….and this is hope we embrace.
Today, our attention is drawn to heaven.
Jesus ascends into the firmament, into the sky,
but it's more than this….
Jesus returns to the place from which he came: heaven.
He left heaven, in obedience to the Father,
left the place of perfection
…. came to this place of sin.
He wasn't going on vacation.
He wasn't running away from responsibilities.
He was on a mission:
to save what was lost;
to free all of creation from death and darkness;
to defeat the forces of evil;
to save and redeem the children of this world.
With this mission accomplished
his time on earth has come to pass.
And now he returns to his rightful place
alongside the Father
where he reigns forever.
Jesus is now home….in heaven—where ever that is:
up there, over there, out there, somewhere.
I can only imagine….
as the disciples watch him take his leave…
the pleading in their hearts:
"don't go, don't leave us again, take us with you."
They lost Jesus once in death….
they despaired as they saw their future hanging on the cross.
But then they found him again
or should I say…..he found them again.
And miracle of miracles, he was alive.
Now he was doing it again: leaving them.
Like the last time…..this departure takes them by surprise.
They had little time to say their goodbyes.
They had little time to exchange parting gifts.
They had little time to even think about what was happening.
I can only imagine….
the disciples were like deer in headlights:
caught off guard and unable to do anything but let things happen.
After he was gone,
and they continued on without him
and things didn't go back to the way they were….
then their reflections and thoughts
would start chewing on the event.
This wasn't applesauce or vegetable broth.
This was meat.
It had to be chewed for a long time before it could be swallowed
and then it would take a long time to digest.
"What are we going to do without you?
How will we survive? How will we manage?
Why can't we go with you?
Who will take your place?
No answers….just questions.
One day they might be answered…..
when Jesus returns as he promised….
when His kingdom finally reigns supreme….
when the history of the world gives way
and crosses the threshold of time into eternity.
For the time being
we can only do what people have done
since the time of Cain and Abel: we can imagine…..heaven.
But we now have what they didn't have:
the stories of someone who's been there: Jesus Christ.
There's an old Japanese saying:
"If you want to know what lies ahead on the road you are traveling….
ask someone coming from the opposite direction."
Jesus came from heaven
and today we celebrate his return to heaven.
And as we celebrate his presence among us, we ask him: "what's heaven like?"
And we recall, we remember, we remind ourselves
the things Jesus said about heaven ….revealed to us about heaven:
"I am going to prepare a place for you….
so that where I am, you also may be."
Jesus makes known his heart's desire:
"I want you to be with me in heaven."
Now before we get too far ahead of ourselves,
there is an unspoken element regarding this divine desire:
"I want you to be with me in heaven….at the proper time."
If Jesus' wanted us to be in heaven from the beginning of our existence
he would have seen to it that we were created as angels.
There is yet another unspoken element of Jesus' desire:
"I want you to be with me in heaven…..
but I first want you to dwell on earth."
But why? Knowing as he does
that this is the realm of sin
that earthly existence is flawed and imperfect
that earthly existence entails pain and suffering….
why? Why would he want this?
No answers….just questions.
But we do know, now that Jesus is in heaven
he isn't baking cakes or knitting a sweater.
He isn't watching re-runs on TV or trying to learn how to play the harp.
He's praying for us. Watching over us.
He is still very interested and concerned about what happens on this earth.
From heaven he continues to shepherd us,
calling out to us by name, drawing us close to him;
guiding us, sheltering us, tending to our wounds.
He wants to make sure we stay together, not wander away on our own.
And he's waiting for us to join him forever.
He is preparing a place for us in heaven
and inspires us to choose him as the way to get there.
Until that day, when we are united with him forever, what do we do?
We live as "cosmic amphibians".
Say what?
We live as "cosmic amphibians".
What is an amphibian….?
a living organism classified somewhere between a fish and a reptile.
Amphibians, in their larval stage, in their childhood and adolescence
have gills…..and live in water.
As adults, amphibians breath air.
Frogs and toads are amphibians;
In the military, an amphibious vehicle
is one that can operate on water or on land.
And the "cosmos" the cosmos is the universe….all of creation.
All of space with its stars and planets and galaxies and black holes
Until that day when our questions about life in heaven are answered….
we live as "cosmic amphibians".
We live with one foot on earth and one foot in heaven.
We go about our daily lives on earth….this is the water.
But we don't keep our gills forever.
In and through spiritual development our gills become lungs.
And in order to live, in order to survive,
we must take the time to stick our head up out of the earthly waters
and take a deep breath of God's heavenly grace.
We do this by taking into ourselves…
into our minds and our hearts
anything and everything to do with
He who came down from heaven: Jesus Christ.
We do this by gathering for Eucharist.
Go ahead. Especially if you haven't done it in a while. Take a deep breath.
Not too quickly…..I don't want you to pass out.
Take a long, measured, deep breath.
Imagine the air you are pulling in through your nose, the air filling your lungs
is the very grace of God….the life-giving Spirit of God,
the heavenly presence of God.
Imagine this sacred presence filling your entire body….
from the tippy-top of your head,
to the ends of your fingers, to the tips of your toes.
Imagine the presence of God as the sweet smell of Spring flowers
and you are drawing this wonderful smell deep into yourself….and it's becoming part of you.
Breath it in…..
and imagine…
being in heaven.
Maybe not now….not immediately….but some day. Dwelling with God forever.
The Ascension of the Lord


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Market Warriors; Antiquing in New Milford, CT
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- Market Warriors
- Program
- Antiquing in New Milford, CT
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Premiered July 16, 2012 NOTE: Fred Willard was replaced by Mark Walberg as series off camera host after episode 101.
Market Warriors is a series in which expert antiques "pickers" embark on a nationwide treasure hunt, scouring flea markets for vintage valuables and selling their finds at auction with an eye toward maximizing profit. These pickers aren't your amateur-weekend-flea-market hobbyists-they are pros, here to compete against each other in a competition that takes us on a cross-country adventure. In each episode, four pickers travel to different market locations across the country to purchase certain items with a set amount of money. We will learn not only about different objects and their history; we'll see the competitors apply their knowledge and skills to real financial transactions. Using individual interviews we will get to know our pickers and learn about what they bought and why. We then will discover the current value of the objects as only the marketplace can determine. The sale of our pickers' items takes place at an auction on a different day, in a different location. Before the auction, we will hear our auction house experts appraise each of these items and their estimates won't always jibe with the dollar value our pickers have attached to these objects. All four competitors will watch the auctioneer take charge of the bidding and the picker whose objects make the highest total profit at auction is the winner of that episode.
Scoreboard: Who's been the big winner this season?
1st: Kevin Bruneau with 10 wins 2nd: Bob Richter with 4 wins 3rd: Miller Gaffney with 3 wins 4th: John Bruno with 2 wins 5th: Bene Raia with 1 win Series release date: 07/16/2012
- Program Description
This week on MARKET WARRIORS, pickers Miller, John, Bob and Kevin head to New Milford, Connecticut, home to Elephant Trunk Country Flea Market, a weekly sale that starts at the crack of dawn and where the pickers are challenged to find something metal. Off screen host Mark L. Walberg comments on the wide array of items found, from a vintage toy truck to a coffee grinder. Pickers find themselves up against closing time as they scour the market to find items before the dealers pack up. Some notable finds include a pyrography chair and a slant front desk. In the Shop 'Til You Stop round, pickers Bob and John duke it out to determine who has first dibs on an antique butter churn. This week's items are sent to Ken Farmer's Auctions in Radford, Virginia, where the pickers find themselves neck-and-neck until the end.
Auction House: Ken Farmer Auctions & Appraisals, Radford, VA Shopping Location: Elephant's Trunk Country Flea Market, New Milford, CT
Winner: John Bruno
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- Antiques and Collectibles
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- Bemko, Marsha (Series Producer)
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App deployment is different from app development. App deployment is depends on how administrator is going to install the app. App deployment can be done in
- Web Scope
- Tenant Scope
For both deployments we need App Catalogue in functioning. Apps are currently coming from two main sources as From Organization and From SharePoint Store
Web Scope installation
This is what we generally do. Here we are navigating to desired web (assume the web is http://www.sharepoint.com/sites/myweb) and click the setting button and launch Add an app
Then you can either browse and install app from office store or organization store.
in this approach app is installing as a sub web under current web. and data will be scoped to the particular web we installed. The web site which actually holds app data and functionality is called App Web (sub web) and The web site we installed the app is called as Host Web (current web).
For an example assume installing MyApp under myweb. In this scenario /sites/myweb becomes a Host Web for myApp and installing MyApp provisioning a sub web (/sites/myweb/MyApp) that becomes a App Web for particular MyApp. installing MyApp under sub site; sites/myweb/myweb2 resulting; sites/myweb/myweb2 been a Host web for particular MyApp instance and /myweb/myweb2/Myapp as a App Web for that MyApp instance.
Tenant Scope Installation
This installation is different from web scope installation. here we are installing app in App catalogue site and then it becomes Host web for that application.
First you need to navigate to your app catalogue site collection and perform app installation in that site.
Then select and installed the app. after that go to Site Contents and open the callout menu for that app. You can see Deployment Menu.
If you click on that you can see following tenant deployment options.
- Site Collections
- Managed Paths
- Site Templates
Site Collections : here you can specify which site collections you need to deploy. You can enter multiple sets of site collections. Thus app will be automatically provisioned under all webs inside that site collection.
Managed Paths: This will provision the app in webs under that manage path.
Site Templates: This will provision the app for webs that inherits from mentioned template.


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Onigiri is rice shaped with your hands. It can
be really simple, a ball of rice. The version I've seen
most often is an equilateral triangle with
a strip of nori on one flat end. They can have fillings
in the center, or have other stuff mixed in with the
How you make onigiri: cook some sticky
rice. Let it cool to the point that it won't burn
your hands, but it's still warm. Wet your hands, then
grab some rice and form it into a shape with your hands.
Traditional shapes include triangles and flattened spheres,
but anything you like is fair. If you're making larger
onigiri or adding fillings, you can make the process
easier by covering one hand with plastic wrap, dishing
the rice and filling onto that, then wrapping the plastic
around the rice and shaping the onigiri inside the plastic
wrap. You can also buy rice
presses that will shape it for you. If you like nori, then
wrap the rice ball with a strip or encase it, or
make pretty patterns on the surface with bits of nori.
Some people get fancy and make little nori faces
or designs on their onigiri. I usually don't bother
with such frivolity, but I have been known to make rice
ball eyeballs by sticking nori pupils on top. (I imagine
this would be a hit for kids' lunches right around Halloween.)
Nori can get chewy if it's left on the rice ball
for any length of time. Some people, me included, like
it that way. If you don't, you can store the nori
separately from the rice and assemble it at lunchtime.
Fillings - You can
either make a hole in the center and stuff filling in,
then cover it again before you squeeze the onigiri into its
final shape, or mix something in with the rice
so it'll be all throughout the onigiri. If you put in
a center
filling, squeeze the rice ball well around it and possibly
wrap the whole thing in nori, or it might fall apart
when you eat it.
Fillings/mixes I've used:
Onigiri - You can grill onigiri to give it a
crispy, nonsticky crust. It sounds weird, but it's actually
pretty appealing. First, make your onigiri. It should
have flat sides, as opposed to being a round ball, for
ease of grilling. Lightly grease a frying pan, heat
it to medium, then set the onigiri down on it and let
it grill for a few minutes, until the rice on the bottom
is very lightly browned. Turn it over and brown the
other side in the same way. If your onigiri have more
sides than this - wide flat edges on a triangular onigiri,
for example - you can grill those. (I don't usually
bother.) Now turn the heat down to low, brush the top
with soy sauce, and turn it over to fry the sauce-y
side. Brush the other side with soy sauce and, after
a few minutes, turn the onigiri over to grill the second
soy side for another few minutes. Again, if you want
to grill the edges, go ahead. What you will end up with
is an onigiri with a flat, crunchy, soy-infused crust
that won't fall apart or stick to your fingers. Nori,
seen in the photo, is optional.
You can make yaki onigiri with fried
rice too. It's best to use
fried rice in which the non-rice elements are cut into
very little bits, otherwise they will compromise the
onigiri's structural integrity and may cause it to fall
apart in the pan. Aside from that, the process is just
the same as making regular yaki onigiri, except you
need to heat the rice up so it'll stick together, and
you skip the soy sauce, as fried rice is already seasoned.


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Not long ago, I came across an article on cracked.com, that made fun of scientists for believing in really wacky, non-sciency ideas. Dr. Francis Crick (of Watson and Crick, the "discoverers" of the structure of DNA) apparently believed in panspermia. The author of the article, who completely misunderstands the idea behind panspermia and extraterrestrial origins of life, pokes fun at Crick for being as crazy as a scientologist. Well, I'm here to challenge him.
Panspermia is not that crazy an idea. Let me first summarize the arguments of Wickramasinghe and Trevors. These guys first state that any paradigm shifting idea in science receives a lot of push-back from the scientific community, but the very process of challenging existing ideas is what science is all about. The prevailing concept is that of a terrestrial "primordial soup" as the origin of life on Earth. This idea states that all of the organic molecules that are life's chemical building blocks were originally formed entirely in terrestrial clouds through UV radiation from the sun and electrical discharges from lightening. This has been replicated in laboratory work. But what's lacking from this idea is how did life arise from the soup of organic compounds? How did this system of amino acids and sugars develop into a self-replicating living cell? Even without answering that, the primordial soup concept has achieved paradigm status, and is the predominant idea most people have on the origins of life on Earth. This idea was challenged in the early 1900s, by Svante Arrhenius, who posited that bacterial spores containing genetic information could have been lifted off other planets and been propelled through space to Earth. This idea was unpopular because it was untestable, because he basically said that the movement of extraterrestrial cells to Earth at the present time would be too small to be detected. So the primordial soup idea remained as the favoured paradigm.
In the 1950s, the consensus among astronomers was that the dark irregular patches in the Milky Way were the result of ice particles. But Wickramasinghe challenged this idea in the 1960s, showing that these "dust" particles were actually made of carbon, which is, of course, the signature element of life. In characterizing this dust, he received a lot of criticism from both astronomers and biologists because this was a hugely paradigm-shifting idea. In the 1980s, Wickramasinghe and his co-author Hoyle estimated that the random assembly of the simple amino acids and sugars in the primordial soup into even the simplest of self-replicating microbes involved probabilities so incredibly, infinitesimally small that they would not reasonably be thought to have happened in the context of the primordial soup in that amount of time. Instead, they have posited a hypothesis that microbial life arrived on Earth around 4 billion years ago, which coincides with the an epoch of intense bombardment of the developing Earth. This isn't so hard to imagine when we think about the discoveries of extremophilic microbes that can fit into every conceivable environment, no matter how inhospitable they might appear.
For example, waterbears (Tardigrades):
Then there's the Cyanobacteria:
These guys made the news last year for surviving over 550 days in space. These little blue-green guys photosynthesize, just like plants do. They hitched a ride on the outside of the International Space Station for 553 days, and survived! In the cold vacuum of space. If you're interested in learning more about Cyanobacteria, click here.
Other types of microbes have been taken into space and survived. That's a pretty big deal! So is it really that crazy to think that life on Earth might have originated in space? The only way we'll ever be able to find out for sure if the origin of life on Earth is extraterrestrial is to find life out there, or traces of life, that has the same genetic code as terrestrial life. All terrestrial life has the same genetic code, so this would be the best way to prove the idea of panspermia. Of course, there would be huge implications for human psychology, even health, and our concepts of evolution, star formation, and even genetic engineering. Now all we have to do is find extraterrestrial life!


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Dear Reader,
Can you put a price on a dream, even though you do not know how it ends?
I have been offered a really, really nice consulting position. It is well paid, it is interesting and I already know three employees so it would be easy to feel at home. However, it involves a lot of traveling. I am fine with travel. I actually like to sit on a plane and work. So what is stoping my from leaving my current situation and start a new career?
In short, it is my desire to become a patent agent or a patent attorney. I have gone through the roundabout several times, making pros & cons lists, discussions with my wife, asking friends and family. But it always just boils down to this single fact, I think I will enjoy working in the law profession (and of course working locally).
Think is a big and a powerful word and we do not give it much credit.
For example, we say "I think that I am right" in the meaning of I am not sure that I am right. It is like we do not trust ourselves enough to only go with our own thoughts. I think a lot, seriously a whole lot. I am a intuitive thinker according to the tests. This ability is my strength and makes me good at what I am. However, I do no fully trust it.
Basketball players need to have trust in their ability. Standup comedians need to believe in their strengths. Heck, everyone needs to believe in their ability to excel. So do thinkers. We need to substitute the meaning of think in your head with I know, instead of I am not sure. We need to trust our guts more, trust our instincts and take the decisions that WE think are the right ones.
We are not always going to be right but basketball players do not always make a basket.
Have a good one.


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FBI: "Maybe it's a virus"
"It's the damndest thing," said FBI forensics specialist Agent Will Phillips. "A really lot of people who get shot with guns, and have bullets from the guns hit their bodies, and go inside their bodies, die. And we just don't know why. We've seen it thousands and thousands and thousands of times—and we just cannot figure it out."
Phillips said that in each case being investigated the victims began to bleed, stopped breathing, their hearts stopped beating, their brains ceased functioning, and they died, "pretty much around the time they get shot. Usually after. Well, always after." But, he said, they cannot determine why the strange symptoms occurred.
He also said that in every case involving gunshot victims who later die of unknown, mysterious causes, heartbroken family members and friends are left behind.
"There are a lot of really sad, really confused, really angry people out there. They've lost children, brothers, sisters, wives, husbands, friends—and they want answers. They want to know how they died. And we want to know, too. We can't get those people back, but maybe if we knew how they died we could prevent deaths like this from happening again in the furture. Unfortunately we just don't know how they died. We're thinking maybe it's a virus or something."
Phillips said they would keep searching for the answer, "no matter how long it takes."
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Pak Caucus US Congresswoman tables 'lift emergency in Pak' bill in House of RepresentativesNovember 14th, 2007 - 10:22 am ICT by admin
Lee, who is also member of the Congressional House Committees on the Judiciary, Homeland Security, and Foreign Affairs, said, "My resolution calls for the House of Representatives to express its opposition to the declaration of emergency by President General Pervez Musharraf."
"It calls for a return to constitutional order and urges the Pakistani Government to hold its elections in January 2008 as originally scheduled," the Daily Times quoted her, as saying.
Expressing her concern about the safety of the people of Pakistan, Supreme Court officials, and members of the judicial courts including Pakistani lawyers, Lee said they continue to clash with government officials in ongoing protests in the region.
"My bill calls for the immediate restoration of Pakistan's independent judiciary, including the reinstatement of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, the end of the practice of arbitrary arrest and detention, and allowing lawyers access to those detained. It also calls for Musharraf to lift restrictions on the nation's media and news outlets," she said.
Calling the Bush Administration to make aid to Pakistan conditional, she said, "We must send a clear message to the world that the United States remains committed to upholding human rights around the globe."
She said as co-chair of the Congressional Pakistan Caucus, "I recognise Pakistan as a great ally against the war on terror."
She, however, said that the recent political upheaval combined with the constraints of the emergency has greatly hampered its effectiveness in fighting against "terrorism that is the real enemy of Pakistan."
"It is critical to understand that political instability in Pakistan greatly affects our national security in the US. This is why the US needs to get involved and should immediately dispatch a special envoy for the sake of the Pakistani people and the global community," she added.(ANI)
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