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- Reverse Fountain Cytoplasmic Streaming in Rhizopus Oryzae
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The prevalence of chronic illness among children in the United States is on the rise (CDC, 2014). Having a child with a chronic illness can be a substantial source of stress for a couple, including physical, emotional, and financial demands of caregiving as well as difficult decision-making regarding the child's health (Mayo Clinic, 2015). Coping with such stressors can have a negative effect on the couple's well-being, and, if not managed within the relationship, can lead to increased negative outcomes for both partners. Partners can, however, learn to cope with stress by engaging in the coping process together with dyadic …
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PASS is pleased to announce three new board members for the 2012/2013 term in what was a record-setting elections season. Adam Jorgensen of Pragmatic Works Consulting, Denise McInerney of Intuit, and Rob Farley of LobsterPot Solutions and a current International Advisor to the board were the top vote-getters in a competitive race for three open seats on the PASS Board of Directors.
A record 1,951 community members across 66 countries voted in the 2-week election, casting a total of 5,043 votes. That's 867 more voters and 2,247 more votes than in 2010, and more than three times the number of voters who participated in 2009 (576). And for those who may think the election is decided in the first 2 days, 904 votes were cast in the first 2 days of voting and 832 in the last 2 days.
Detailed results:
1. Adam Jorgensen – 1,026
2. Denise McInerney – 990
3. Rob Farley – 958
4. Sri Sridharan – 781
5. Kendal Van Dyke – 762
6. Geoff Hiten – 526
Newly elected board members will officially begin serving their term on January 1, 2012.
Follow the PASS elections Twitter action here live and contribute to the discussion by using the #passvotes hashtag. Thanks for getting involved!
3 seats are open for the 2011 Board elections. They are for 2-year terms.
2 mid-term vacancies are coming up in January. These are NOT up for election. They can remain unfilled, but if they are filled, it will be by Board vote as per the bylaws.
1 vote can make a difference. Vote!
The PASS Nomination Committee is responsible for overseeing the Board of Directors general election from start to finish.
The NomCom for 2011 is:
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http://mmajunkie.com It took all of about two seconds for Rob McCullough (19-7 MMA, 0-0 DREAM) to agree to fight Shinya Aoki (28-5 MMA, 12-2 DREAM).
Is he being set up as cannon fodder for the DREAM champion? Probably. You'd be hard pressed to find a clearer style versus style matchup on paper, or one that favors Aoki if the action hits the mat.
McCullough can grapple, but he's a striker at heart. So why do it?
Sure, it's a payday. But there are plenty of those on the regional circuit, where an ex-champion can make a decent living and skirt the bigger challenges.
McCullough probably would have given up a long time ago with that mindset.
"If you're a competitor, and that's why you get into fighting, you want to do this because you want to be the best," he told MMAjunkie.com Radio (www.mmajunkie.com) about his upcoming fight with Aoki, which takes place at "DREAM.17: World Bantamweight GP."
"It's not a matter of just going up against a bunch of guys who say, 'Oh yeah, I fight. I'm doing it for the weekend.' You want to fight the best of the best. It's not about fighting guys here and there. It's about becoming the best, striving to be the best, and fighting the best so you can leave a legacy."
"DREAM.17: World Bantamweight GP" is set for Sept. 24 at Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan. Although no broadcast plans have been announced, negotiations are underway between DREAM and U.S. television partner HDNet for a possible live or tape-delayed broadcast.
There's few sports where fortune changes faster than MMA, and the fight is a colossal opportunity for the former WEC champ McCullough. He's struggled to regain the momentum of his early career in the now-shuttered promotion, and despite Aoki's somewhat faded star, it's a win that could lead to bigger bookings.
"You smash that guy, and it gives you some relevancy in the top 10, so I'm just going to get in there and mix it up with this guy," he said. "[Expletive], it's a win-win no matter what."
And though he could hardly be expected to find a training partner with Aoki's skill on the mat, getting a long and lanky grappler to don grappling pants and chase him around the ring wasn't as trying as he expected.
"Honestly, it wasn't too bad because I've got a great camp of guys, and they're pretty good with mixing in that kind of stuff," he said. "Having a guy do rubber guard stuff and footlocks, it's been an interesting camp, to say the least."
There's no doubt what McCullough plans to do, though he wouldn't say whether he planned to simply run from Aoki or fight his way out of sticky situations. Whatever the strategy, it will all be in support of the striking combinations he's used to concuss opponents far less skilled in standup.
McCullough still gives the Japanese fighter props, though. You can't argue with a guy who's mangled limbs inside the ring, and will likely to the same to him.
"I'm honored to fight the guy," McCullough said. "The guy's a legend, and I can't wait to get in there and punch him in the face."
If he manages to win and put a deep notch in his belt, all the better. But McCullough isn't looking past his current challenge. His been doing this for too long to make that mistake.
He wouldn't be a true fighter if he didn't take his job seriously.
"At this point, I'm just glad I can pay the bills and feed my family with getting in there and mixing it up," McCullough said. "To wake up in the morning and go to the gym and do something I love to do … it's a blessing."
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Masereka said the demand for African grey parrots is very high in the world market where a parrot can go for up to 2,000 US dollars." We are releasing these parrots into wilderness after a six months quarantine period at the Uganda Wildlife Education Centre (UWEC) during which their health and behaviour were constantly monitored," Masereka added.
The release of the parrots was preceded by intensive preparatory work which included research on the sustainability of the national park, and training people who will handle the birds and organizing field inspection of all site.
According to Masereka, the African grey parrot can have up to 1,000 vocabularies. On being let free, most parrots and many flew out in pair, just like couples.
UWEC received 272 African Grey Parrots (AGP) from UWA after the birds were confiscated from illegal captors. The first batch of 132 parrots was confiscated while in transit at Mpondwe custom's border post in Kasese District on 11 January 2011.
The second confiscation of 140 parrots was obtained from Kawuku, Entebbe, Wakiso District on 22nd January 2011. These parrots were confiscated from a holding ground of an approved licensee for Wildlife Use right Class D. The owner claims that the parrots were trapped from Kalangala Islands on Lake Victoria within Uganda a claim that could not be verified due to lack of supporting documents.
Following completion of the quarantine period, UWEC had been stuck with the Parrots. In March, UWEC made consultation with lead conservation stakeholders to determine the fate of the birds. The report recommended that the parrots are released in one of the national parks providing the most ideal factors for successful post release survival.


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This is a repost from the old ERV. A retrotransposed ERV :P
Its Halloween time, and we just got a BRAND NEW FRANKENSTEIN ERV! To prime you all for that post, heres a repost on an OLD FRANKENSTEIN ERV!
Remember, ERVs are junk. These are not zombie viruses. Scientists are not taking totally functional but silenced DNA or totally functional
specially created by The Designer but coopted by evolution and doing stuff with it. There are ERV families-- take all the ones that are related and still have a gag or a env, figure out what their common ancestor looks like, and then do experiments with the resulting protein mashed together with a virus we know how to work with (pseudoviruses/dummy viruses). Bits and pieces of viruses smashed together to make a functional thing. Frankenstein. :-D
When they arent blubbering about 'junk DNA', science journalists predictably go all atwitter when something new or weird happens in the HIV research world. Im not impressed with pop-science HIV articles, but I do like writing posts on the science behind the articles so you all can say "Hey, I heard about that!" and talk about the real research with your friends (everyone incessantly talks about viruses with their friends... right? ... right? hehehe!)
And this is the case with a new finding that you all might have heard: Defense Against Ancient Virus Opened Door to HIV
*sigh* Okay, so get the basics from that article, forget the drama and the problems with equating PtERVs (a gamma retrovirus) becoming endogenous to HIV (a lentiretrovirus) becoming endogenous-- Lets strip the pop-science article down to the basics:
- A component of our innate immunity against retroviruses is a protein called TRIM5a.
- A big difference between humans and our closest relative is our lack of PtERV1 in our genome.
- The evolution of TRIM5a in humans played a part in our resistance to PtERV1, but this same evolution has hindered our ability to fight off HIV.
Now lets flesh this out into a proper analysis of Kaiser et als experiments and findings, and why they did what they did.
When we finally got the chimpanzee and human genomes sequenced, the first thing we did was compare them to one another. A significant finding was that chimpanzees had a class of ERVs not found in humans:
"The larger family (PtERV1) is more homogeneous and has over 200 copies. Whereas older ERVs, like HERV-K, are primarily represented by solo LTRs resulting from LTR-LTR recombination, more than half of the PtERV1 copies are still full length, probably reflecting the young age of the elements. PtERV1-like elements are present in the rhesus monkey, olive baboon and African great apes but not in human, orang-utan or gibbon, suggesting separate germline invasions in these species."
So PtERV1 is a 'young' ERV family, no big whoop. Humans have their HERVs, chimpanzees have their PtERV1s, right? The strange part: exogenous PtERV1 was active when humans and chimpanzees (and gorillas) were still living in the same areas. Why the hell did they get infected with it (and not just infected-- got endogenous insertions), and we were left unscathed?
Like I said before, TRIM5a is part of the innate immune system. It binds to the capsid structure of invading retroviruses and carries them to the proteasome-- the cellular garbage disposal. Well, we already knew that TRIM5a proteins are different between primates. Chimpanzees have one kind, we have another, orangutans have another, etc. And, we already knew that our TRIM5a is a worthless 'defense' against HIV, whereas some other (not all other) primates TRIM5a can help keep HIV infection in check. So they thought a neat experiment would be to see if our TRIM5a played a part in keeping us PtERV1-free.
Minor problem: exogenous PtERVs are extinct. How can you test how well our TRIM5a works against a virus if the virus doesnt exist anymore?
Why by making a Frankenstein virus, of course!
Deniers, take note-- they did not create a zombie virus. They did not bring an ERV back to life. They took parts of an extinct virus, combined them with parts of an alive virus, and created a Frankenstein. Oh they call them 'chimeras', but you know they called it 'Frankenstein' in the lab. You know they did.
They had to make a Frankenstein monster, rather than a zombie, because the +200 PtERV1s have been mutating away from their initial sequence for a few million years. Theyre junk (OMG SHE SAID JUNK!). But, since you have +200 copies to work with, and really youre only interested in the capsid gene (the gene that interacts with TRIM5a), you can reconstruct the original PtERV capsid gene by making a consensus sequence. You can then cut/paste the capsid gene into an 'alive' virus in place of its own capsid, and voila! A PtERV1 brought back to life! Kinda!
They then tested their FrankensteinPtERV against lots of primates' TRIM5a to see if any of them inhibited FrankensteinPtERV reproduction, and lo-and-behold, humans could do it. Our gorilla, orangutan, gibbon, baboon, and African Green Monkey cousins couldnt do it.
But their TRIM5a are great at resisting systemic HIV infection.
So the researchers decided to mutated our TRIM5a to make it more like our cousins, and it lost some of its ability to restrict FrankensteinPtERV, but gained some ability to restrict HIV.
This is one of those horrible, ungodly scenarios that Creationists fear-- a mutation having a benefit in one dimension of a fitness landscape, and having a handicap in another. In this particular case, they never found a mutation that could provide resistance to both retroviruses.
But wait! Theres more!
You know how this whole thing started with researchers looking at why chimpanzees got germ-line infections with PtERVs, but humans didnt? Turns out chimpanzees TRIM5a can inhibit FrankensteinPtERV almost just as well as ours can.
So while TRIM5a plays a part in our susceptibility to viral infection, it is NOT the only factor.
Carl Zimmer at The Loom has a great article on this topic too!
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Sooo....if I combine fragments of mammoth DNA with elephant DNA, and produce living offspring, what is the proper nomenclature? It is obviously not a zombie (those cannot function in sub-zero temperatures) and elephants move too fast and are too clever to be associated with the "F" word.
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Since the´Mericans celebrate Halloween soon, maybe I should ask which species that would be suitable for hybridizing velociraptor DNA. Scratch that, what about Creodont DNA? They were more recent, so there should be more intact remains, and they were big MFs suitable for eating non-arboreal primates. Or what about hybridizing titanothropes and hedgehogs, resulting in "Spiney Norman"?
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I am Robert, the very new owner of #5450, and I have had her for less than 2 weeks now I just wanted introduce myself to everyone, and find a group of friends that shares my passion.
I am a 39 yr old male. Married with children, and also a new home owner.
#5450 now lives in my Garage, has had 2 previous owners who loved her very much, and is nearly show room quality (for her cosmetics).
Previous owner put 500 miles on her and the original owner put on the other 31,000. It has had its general matinence done but nothing more than that. I was told that she was mechanically perfect as well but I have found a few things out since then.
After replacing all the Struts the doors open very slow but do open all the way.
replaced both window switches
replacing defroster switch
Replaced fuel accumulator
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Need driver side door latch adjustment as the car locks me out of the driver side
Driver window is off track a bit, but nothing my elbow hasn't been fixing
Automatic transmission not shifting. Shift computer needs to be replaced
Some kind of leak under the transition area
Oil Leak from the Lamp plug?
And I'm sure I will find some more
So, I figured there was a group of experience to draw from before I headed down to Huntington beach. I would love to do as much of this myself. So, if any of you out there love to work on these cars please hit me up and say hello.
I see you all have an even this weekend in San Jose. I would love to attend but from what I'm told, and how the Delorean looks, it has never seen the rain before. plus I have no idea how to wash the thing! Stainless steel cleaner and a rag right?
Anyways I'm really looking forward to meeting you all. If it does not rain this weekend I'll take the drive Down to San Jose.
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The Moretown Development Review Board (DRB) gave Moretown Landfill manager Tom Badowski until September 20 to submit more detailed data on a proposal to add a fourth landfill cell last week.
On Thursday, September 6, the DRB held a public hearing regarding the proposed expansion of the town's landfill.
The hearing was the second in a series of meetings that will take place before Interstate Waste Services can construct a fourth trash cell that will extend Moretown Landfill's life by 12 to 16 years. Currently, the site has only enough space to remain in operation until this March.
The landfill's expansion "is a significant development," DRB chair John Riley said at the hearing. "It raises a lot of issues and obviously that's why a lot of people are here tonight," he said, addressing the dozen or so Moretown residents in attendance.
Interstate Waste Services has already submitted an application for an Act 250 land development permit as well as an application for a variance from the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources to construct a fourth trash cell. The company is also seeking a state permit to downgrade the status of the groundwater beneath the landfill from potable to nonpotable.
According to Riley, the purpose of last Thursday's meeting was to identify potential effects of the landfill's expansion, so that the board can begin to develop a schedule to address the issues.
Of the homeowners at the hearing, many were concerned about the effects of the landfill on their groundwater supply. "Is it a guarantee that the landfill is not going to contaminate our well?" one resident asked, and another added that studies have already indicated levels of arsenic in the water under the current landfill site.
Other issues of public concern include the landfill's effect on air pollution (dust and odors), traffic patterns and the properties of the waste itself (what is it? where does it come from?).
"What we're missing is some historical narrative perspective," Riley said, explaining the need for a comprehensive record of the construction and conditions of the landfill's current cells and how the proposed fourth cell "fits into that context."
The DRB has granted Moretown Landfill general manager Tom Badowski until Thursday, September 20, to submit this narrative. "I can probably get it done before then," Badowski said, indicating his willingness to comply with the request, and the board discussed the option of publishing the narrative online, so that it's easily accessible for the general public.
In the end, despite agreeing that Interstate Waste Service's application for expansion—as it stands currently—is largely incomplete, the board withstood pleas from residents to reject the company's application entirely and instead agreed to move forward with the approval process, provided that Badowski can amend the application to include more detailed plans and research.
The next hearing, which will draw upon these amended plans and discuss what Riley calls the "big picture," as well as groundwater issues, is scheduled for Thursday, September 20, at 6:30 p.m. in the Moretown temporary town offices located next to the landfill on Route 2.
The following Thursday, September 27, the DRB will hold a site visit that will meet at 4:30 p.m. in the same location. The site visit "will be very helpful to the board," Riley said, as it will allow them to better visualize and thereby comprehend the effects of the landfill on nearby property owners. "I think it's really going to take a while to walk around and get a sense of what [the landfill] is proposing," he said.
While many nearby property owners are opposed to the landfill's expansion, many who live further away from the site support the landfill, as it generates considerable revenue for the town.
In 2011, Moretown received $532,000 in tipping fees from the host agreement it maintains with Interstate Waste Services. Of that money, it used $277,000 to lower taxes and put the remaining $255,000 in the town's Capital Reserve Fund and Capital Savings Reserve Fund.
If the landfill ceased to operate, the town would lose out on over $500,000 annually. But if the expansion project is ultimately approved, there's still the question of time. Depending on when it can begin construction, the company might not have time to finish the fourth cell before March, when the landfill is slated to reach capacity. If this happens, the town will lose out on money for every month afterwards that it takes to complete construction and get the landfill up and running again.
According to Badowski, construction will take about 60 to 90 days, but harsh winter weather conditions could prolong the project. "That's always the big question," Badowski said, "but right now, we're just focusing on the permitting process."


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Winless Giants hope to fix porous pass rush
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. >> If the New York Giants are going to turn things around, they better find a pass rush.
The defensive line played a huge role in their run to a Super Bowl title two years ago. It slipped a little last season as New York missed the playoffs and it's been almost non-existent in the 0-2 start this year.
In losses to Dallas and Denver, the Giants recorded two sacks and just eight quarterback hits. That's well below the standard for a team that considers at least 10 quarterback hits to be the bottom of the ladder.
While Dallas' Tony Romo and Denver's Peyton Manning have two of the quickest releases in the game, the rush needs to improve against Cam Newton and the Carolina Panthers (0-2) on Sunday — or else.
"That's the game plan," defensive end Mathias Kiwanuka said Thursday. "Obviously, the production from us has not been what we wanted it to be and we are determined to get that changed."
Kiwanuka said the lack of production has not been from a lack of effort. The quick releases by Romo and Manning have prevented sacks. The Giants have had a couple of chances only to see the quarterback escape, and opponents have also been throwing shorter passes.
Manning and Romo completed 66 passes for 551 yards, an average of 8.34 yards. Still, the bottom line is New York ranks No. 29 in sacks per pass play.
The biggest concern is defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul. The fourth-year pro is the line's catalyst, but he's gotten off to a slow start after having back surgery in June to repair a disk problem.
Pierre-Paul played in first two games and has one of the two sacks. However, it's obvious he is still getting back into shape. Where he used to make quarterbacks duck every play, the pressure isn't there now. One option might be to use explosive rookie Damontre Moore in passing situations.
"I feel like I'm close," Pierre-Paul said. "There have been times I have gotten to the quarterback. It was like a second too late. Like I said, I'm getting there. I'm getting my step up in a game. It takes time, but that's no excuse. I'm out there and I have to do whatever it takes to win. Right now I'm not doing a good job."
Panthers coach Ron Rivera scoffed at the idea that Pierre-Paul wasn't up to speed, saying he is still a dynamic player who has to be accounted for every play.
"When you game plan for a player, it's going to be hard for that guy to make his normal plays, like he has in the past, and that's what's happening," Rivera said. "People are paying him a lot of respect."
The Giants also can't go into the game expecting to rush Newton every play. DeAngelo Williams has rushed for 171 yards, a 4.4 yard average, in helping Carolina post the league's sixth-best rushing attack early in the season. Newton also is a threat to take off running is the line goes not contain him.
"We have to stop the run first," defensive end Justin Tuck said. "Teams who give up sacks are put in situations to give up sacks. This is a run-first offense. They have a great scheme, a great running back and you know that with the quarterback, when you stop him he can move, so for us, coming into this game, we can't allow ourselves to start thinking that this team has this and that sack-wise. Let's stop the run."
The Giants did that in the first half against the Broncos. Once that changed, Denver scored at will.
NOTES: CB Corey Webster did not practice Thursday because of a hip injury. He was not available to discuss his injury. With the Giants playing a lot of nickel formations, Jayron Hosley or Aaron Ross would be next up. ... With former Giants LB Chase Blackburn on the Panthers, special teams coach Tom Quinn might have to change some coverage and return calls to keep him honest. Blackburn was one of the Giants' top specialty players. ... LB Spencer Paysinger has taken over the job of making the defensive calls. Blackburn did it last year.


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Project GG
What does demographics tell us about library users in the next five years? What are the implications for libraries?
Project Plan – GG
• A guide of resources for libraries to understand demographic trends that will affect their libraries in the next five years. The guide will include resources to help libraries to identify behaviors that will enable them to effectively manage these predicted changes. We will use D.C. as a model for how institutions can use this information.
• The primary customers for this project are libraries. However, the information presented is also pertinent to all information professionals.
• The deliverables for the customer is the resource guides that we will create in the form of handouts that we will have at our poster presentation. The poster presentation will be about how we found this information and will show how we applied what we learned to the D.C. area in particular. Both the resource guide and poster will include an introductory statement about why this project is important. We would also like to create a card for our group with a link to the project and our email addresses.
• The guide will include: a justification, a list of demographic resources, a list of coping behaviors, and a bibliography. The poster will demonstrate our learning process and an application of our project findings to D.C. Criteria that a customer will use for determining satisfaction will likely include: quality of information, currency, ease of use, and relevance.
Team Roles
1) Update the wiki/blog with team progress each month: Evangela
2) Keep in touch with the mentor and ALA contact: Wendy
3) Head the poster project: Rebecca and Yan
4) Write up the findings: Rachel
5) Monitor work of the team to make sure that each member contributes and completes assignments: Sarah
Current Assignments
Rebecca will look at US demographic data. Rachel will look at behaviors. Wendy is looking at local demographic data. Evangela will look at state demographic data. Sarah will do statement for project, and also organizational behaviors with Rachel. Yan will do literature review. We plan to communicate through the wiki, which Evangela plans to update weekly. We would like to have all information gathered and sent to Rachel by May 25th, and she will have all typed up and sent out June 1st. We should be working in Googledocs to assist with sharing. We will meet together by conference call or LiveMeeting in the week of Feb 26th.
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- Rubin, Rachel
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- Rawson, Wendy
- Oates, Evangela
- Han, Yan
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(Pocket-lint) - With Windows 8 being the talk of the town (in some quarters), we're not surprised to see a Windows 8 tablet or two from Samsung. But this isn't a just a tablet, it's a Smart PC.
And what's a Smart PC? Well, it's a bit like an Asus Transformer, or very like the Asus Vivo Tab, launched today at IFA 2012 in Berlin.
It uses a detachable keyboard to bring a more traditional Qwerty computing experience to a tablet, while keeping things as portable as you might want a Windows 8 tablet to be. The keyboard dock is nice however, and although the Asus Vivo Tab feels a little more premium, you can't argue with having a choice.
The 11.6-inch display has multi-touch support which works naturally with Windows 8. Not content with keyboard and touch, the S Pen control method - like the Note 10.1 and just announced Note 2 - is also thrown in for good measure, bringing a little variety to your input options.
There are two variants of the Ativ Smart PC. The standard Ativ Smart PC is 9.9mm thick and uses an Atom processor; the Ativ Smart PC Pro is larger at 11.9mm thanks to its more powerful i5 processor. It's difficult to judge the difference in performance between the two with so little time to test them.
Design-wise, the Ativ is packed tight with connections. The keyboard forms the base of things, with two USB 2.0 ports, one 3.0 capable port on the tablet itself. There is also mini HDMI and microSD support.
It certainly feels right, with a decent keyboard experience, but only time will tell if the smaller form factor with Windows 8 really works and if Samsung can challenge Asus with its alternative Vivo Tabs.


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On July 8th, 2014, the government of Colombia declared the Fluvial Star of Inirida as a Ramsar site. This long awaited outcome concluded when a small Presidential Commission travelled to Inirida, Guainía, in the frontier region with Venezuela, and recognized the conservation value of this mosaic of forests and savannahs, and network of rivers, and wetlands. This international conservation designation protects places renowned for their biological diversity and their freshwater ecosystem richness. This declaration restricts the types of land uses to those that will ensure the maintenance of the ecological dynamics thus restricting large scale mining and agro-industry.
The Fluvial Star of Inirida is the 6th Ramsar Site in Colombia and the first in the Orinoco Basin- Amazon Biome. The overall area covers 253,000 hectares and is home to more than 900 plants species, 400 birds (60% of bird species found in the Orinoco of Colombia), 470 fish (50% of fish species found in the Orinoco River Basin), 200 mammals, and 40 amphibians. It conserves an important freshwater area in the frontier region with Venezuela, a transition zone between the Orinoco and Amazon, conserving the confluence of four different river systems, three (Atabapo, Guaviare and Inirida Rivers) that flow into the Orinoco, the third most important river in the world in terms of water volume. It is a spectacular landscape dotted by tepuys and the varied colors of the different rivers systems.
The declaration process took nearly ten years given the mining potential in this region. President Juan Manuel Santos publically affirmed in his declaration speech that protecting the environment was a priority for the country and that his government could not fail in that purpose. Furthermore he acknowledged that even though his government has conceived mining as one of the engines for development, there were places due to their biological and cultural value where mining should not take place. The President committed to the stewardship of this important region for present and future generations.
These declarations are important since a year a go the government established a one-year mining ban for those places that were under the process of being declared protected area. Though the Fluvial Star of Inirida is now under protection, other wetlands, marine ecosystems and tropical dry forests are yet to be protected. The Fluvial Star of Inirida establishes a benchmark to begin to rethink the development model based on conservation. The Governor of Inirida highlighted the opportunity to develop a tourism based economy building on this new conservation area.
Since 2007, WWF has been working with local authorities, the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development, local communities and the Ramsar Secretariat to realize this designation. The President recognized WWF´s efforts and contribution to this effort.
With this decision Inírida becomes the new Ramsar conservation star. This is a significant achievement for both Colombia and the world and a clear statement to support conservation as an option to support economic and social development.
About Ramsar
The Convention on Wetlands of International Importance, known as the Ramsar Convention after the Iranian city of Ramsar where the treaty was adopted in 1971, is an intergovernmental treaty whose mission is "the conservation and wise use of all wetlands through local and national actions and international cooperation, as a contribution towards achieving sustainable development throughout the world." At the centre of the Ramsar philosophy is the "wise use" concept, defined as maintaining ecological attributes through the implementation of ecosystem approaches, within the context of sustainable development. The Convention applies a broad definition of wetlands to include lakes and rivers, swamps and marshes, wet grasslands and peatlands, oases, estuaries, deltas and tidal flats, near-shore marine areas, mangroves and coral reefs, and human-made sites such as fish ponds, rice paddies, reservoirs, and salt pans. Colombia became a signatory to the Ramsar convention in 1998 and has previously declared 5 sites, Magdalena River Estuary- Wetlands of Santa Marta (1998), La Cocha Lake (2001), Baudo River Delta (2004), Chingaza Lakes Complex (2008), and Otun Lake and Wetlands Complex (2008).


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Monitor Google Cloud services and their effects on your workloads.
Modern IT runs on numbers
A comprehensive, metrics-driven approach is now a baseline objective for most IT ops teams. Many businesses now measure IT on service availability and performance. But for IT teams that depend on cloud services, it can be hard to get solid data on services that are provided by an outside cloud provider. If there is a problem, where is it? With your stack or with the service provider? Transparent SLIs help you monitor Google Cloud services and their effects on your workloads, so you can get the complete picture.
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To help IT understand the performance of all your services components, Google provides detailed API level metrics for over 130 Google Cloud services. These metrics show you the error counts and latency for your applications' requests to each Google service. This lets you see correlations and side effects between your applications and the services they depend on, helping to speed root-cause analysis and time to resolution.
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SLIs go far beyond traditional notions of "service health." You can see the specific interactions between services and correlate those to environmental data. This allows you to cross tab service metrics by a variety of attributes such as location of the service, credential of the app calling the service, version and response code to help you explore relationships and determine causes and effects.
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- If all calls to a service are failing for one user but not any other, chances are there is something wrong with that account that you can easily fix yourself.
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I think Rose doesn't have as much of a problem with Bella since she told her her story in Eclipse, certainly not in BD. But no, I don't think she would have a problem with him not having a problem with Bella, because she knows that Emmett is a very open, loving person and easily accepts everyone, so she would know that he was going to accept Bella and wouldn't think badly of it. And even if she did, I think she loves him too much to actually say anything to him about it. That's what I think anyway.E&BForever wrote:Does it bother Rosalie that Emmett doesn't seem to have a problem with Bella?


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The Fundamentals: How To Begin Measuring Maintenance Effectiveness Part I
EP Editorial Staff | May 1, 2009
Going somewhere with your maintenance efforts? The journey can be much easier for you and more value-added for your operations with the right KPIs to help guide you.
I always thought the admonition that "you can't get there from here" was a meaningless phrase—something old-timers used to say when they were trying to be funny. But as I began to write this article about developing a simple set of metrics to help you track your maintenance effectiveness, this venerable chestnut sprang to mind. That's because, for many maintenance organizations, it's quite a prophetic statement.
You truly can't get there from here if you don't know where you are now … where you're going … how far it is from here to there … the route you want to take … how fast you are going … how fast you are capable of traveling … who is driving … how skilled the driver is … and how others who made the trip from here to there have fared.
Many metrics deal in some way with process or machine failure. Therefore, before we can have a meaningful discussion about developing metrics, we need to take a moment to create a workable definition for the concept of failure. A good way to define failure is by looking at its opposite. A machine that does what we want it to do when we want it to do it is not in failure mode. Any other condition can be considered failure to one degree or another. If you think this definition is too simple, look at some of the following scenarios.
To develop KPIs, you must first gather timely, meaningful, honest, consistent and relevant data on your maintenance performance, then statistically analyze your data to mark your progress.
Say we have a machine that is supposed to start at 8:00 a.m. and run for 10 hours while producing 100 widgets per hour with no more than one defect per hour for any reason. If the machine won't start until 8:30, it is in failure mode. If it produces 16 rejects during the course of the day, it is in failure mode. If it has to be shut down twice for adjustments, it is in failure mode. If it must be shut down an hour early because it has a gearbox running hot, it is in failure mode. If it is capable of producing 100 parts per hour, but only 90 parts per hour were produced, it is in failure mode.
There are two things you should have picked up from the foregoing example. First, the concept of failure is directly related to your expectations. Second, if you lower your expectations to the level of your current reality, you are fooling yourself.
If you are not satisfied with your current maintenance reality, you can change the scenario by beginning to manage by metrics, or Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). A KPI is simply a standard measurement of some aspect of your process that is used for comparison purposes—either with similar measurements made over time in your own plant, or against industry standards or other benchmarks.
Gathering and analyzing the right data
To develop KPIs, you must first gather timely, meaningful, honest, consistent and relevant data on your maintenance performance, then statistically analyze your data to mark your progress. Because these factors are so important to the development of meaningful metrics, we will briefly examine each of them.
Timely Data. Regardless of whether it is generated by electronic means or gathered by hand, the data that you collect for analysis must be timely. The reason for this is that the closer the information is to what is happening in real time, the closer you are to looking at your actual maintenance reality. There is limited value in knowing that your process was running at a 79% uptime level 30 days ago, particularly if that is the most recent data you have.
For any metric to have meaning, it must be compared with something. Accordingly, there is more value in being able to compare a 79% uptime 30 days ago with an 84% uptime yesterday—although even this comparison is still extremely limited in its use as a management tool. Why?
Simply put, this comparison shows that on one day the process ran at 84% uptime, and on a different day it ran at 79%. And that's all it shows. You don't know why it ran the way it did on either day. Was it chance? Was it machine failure? Was it a maintenance issue? Did an operator push the wrong button? You don't know what either of these numbers means in comparison to your own process or to others similar to it. You can't even say for sure that your uptimes are trending upward. You need more data.
Meaningful Data. To begin managing by metrics, you must be sure that the data you collect is meaningful to your process. Meaningful data by definition will be that which pertains to and is a part of your process.
Suppose, for example, you have a machine center that is part of a single-line process in your plant, and that a bearing locks up for lack of lubrication. The data from this episode has meaning to you. It tells you something about your process that you need to know.
Now suppose a meteor falls out of the sky onto that same machine center during a production run. Even if you experience a substantial amount of production loss in the meteor strike's aftermath, any data you may generate from this occurrence is not meaningful to your maintenance effort. The episode was not preventable, was not a part of or a result of your process and cannot reasonably be engineered out of your process. This is an extreme example of the randomness of chance, of course, but if you look closely at the data you are gathering, you may find a few meteor strikes in your own plant.
Honest Data. It would seem to go without saying that honesty in data collection is a must—and from my observations in the field, most maintenance organizations make at least some effort to be objective in the data-gathering process. That is laudable, because if the data is tainted in any way, there will be no value to the resulting metrics. Consequently, any maintenance decisions based upon said information will have little or no effect on your process if you are lucky, and may actually impede your maintenance process if you are not.
You can only do what you can do. If you have limited resources for data collection, you can't afford to waste them by collecting data on issues that are outside of your control.
The biggest deterrent to accurate data is human involvement in the data-gathering process. Even now in the new millennium, most data is derived from operator or maintenance input. If the organization has an environment in which trust has flourished, employee error, poor judgment or just bad luck is more likely to be reported for what it was. In a punitive environment, though, even honest employees may subconsciously attempt to report the data in such a way as to shift management's gaze away from them. As a result, any decisions made about the cause of a failure could be wrong.
Consistent Data. The importance of consistency in data collection cannot be overstated. The methodology used must not change from one collection to the next, since any added variables to the process will skew the measurement and corrupt the results.
A large amount of data is now collected and compiled by the PLCs and computers that control the manufacturing processes. Provided the sensors and probes are in proper calibration, this automatic collection of data can eliminate many of the variables and other sources of collection error that are inherent in human data collection. If most of your data collection is still in the realm of employees, some of the human sources of variables that must be considered include training, personnel change, process contamination, fatigue, recording error and work ethic.
Relevant Data. At first glance, relevant data may seem to be the same as meaningful data, but they are different. Meaningful data can lack relevance. This concept harkens back to the old joke about how does one eat an elephant? The answer is that an elephant is eaten one bite at a time. Similarly, when you are first beginning to manage by metrics, the scope of your efforts may be limited. You can only do what you can do. If you have limited resources for data collection, you can't afford to waste them by collecting data on issues that are outside of your control.
Coming up
Now that we have reviewed some of the issues surrounding data collection and analysis, we can move forward to the next step of the process, which is to look at some of the more common metrics, what they mean, and how to calculate them. In future installments of this quarterly Fundamentals section (starting with the August issue) we'll explore a number of KPIs, including: Production Uptime Percentage, Mean Time Between Failure, Mean Time To Repair, Overall Equipment Efficiency, Planned and Scheduled Work Completion Rate, Maintenance Overtime, Storeroom Service Level, Preventive Maintenance Hours as a Percentage of Total Work, Predictive Maintenance Hours as a Percentage of Total Work and Emergency Repairs as a Percentage of Total Work. Moreover, we'll discuss their significance to your type of operations. Stay tuned. MT
Ray Atkins, CPMM, CMRP, is a veteran maintenance professional with 14 years experience in the lumber industry. He is based in Rome, GA, where he spent the last five years as maintenance superintendent at Temple-Inland's Rome Lumber facility. He can be reached via e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com or through his Website, www.raymondlatkins.com


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The miraculous thing about Geraldo is that he manages to sound less reasonable every time he talks about this issue. Starting with the platitudes about living in the "shadows" and having one's "hopes crushed," continuing through to the obligatory smears of right-wing talk radio ("extremist") and ICE ("terrorized by the law"), and finally concluding with an embarrassing, transparent filibuster when Brian Kilmeade asks why we can't secure the border first, he does his side no favors. If you haven't watched Byron Dorgan's speech yet, it's a must as a complement to this. American workers exist not at all in Geraldo's conception of this issue; for him it's about no more and no less than compassion for illegals (read: Latinos), just like for big business it's about no more and no less than quasi-slave wages. Watch Dorgan and ask yourself, per Geraldo, who's really being "opportunistic" here. As for his super-keen idea about making illegals earn citizenship through military service, if you think John Kerry and Charlie Rangel are shrill now when they talk about an army of the poor and uneducated, wait until this plan gets off the ground. Imagine the pride we'd feel in our armed forces knowing we've filled the ranks by exploiting foreigners' economic hardships.
Keep an eye out at the beginning too for his assertion that the collapse of the "grand bargain" proves political compromise is dead. WaPo made the same point last night; it's a way for amnesty proponents to excuse the bill's failure on grounds other than its own (non-)merits. But not to worry: Senator Tantrum is vowing that it's not dead. Can the same be said for his political career? Read the quote from the South Carolinian here and wonder.
Update: Slublog thinks it's worth spotlighting Tancredo's shot at McCain from the WashTimes link:
"John McCain has always prided himself as a man who marches to the beat of a different drummer," Mr. Tancredo told The Times yesterday. "How depressing to learn that the drummer is Ted Kennedy."


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Wishing trees have become a popular feature of event decor for baby showers and weddings. Have you ever wondered where the tradition of wishing trees came from? Some say that it is a Dutch tradition, but we have seen many styles of wishing trees from various cultures for many different reasons aside from weddings. For example, we found that as part of a Lam Tsuen tradition, Wish-makers write their wishes on red paper "josses," which are offerings dedicated to Chinese deities.
No matter where the tradition comes from, it is a beautiful sight to see a tree filled with thoughts and well-wishes dedicated to your new life as husband and wife! With so many fun ways to decorate and make it your own, a wishing tree can be a great focal point for your event. A word of advice is to leave instructions for your guests, so that they know that you would like them to write on the cards and hang it on the tree.
Whether you are using manzanita branches, or a living tree you should be able to find relatively inexpensive ways to decorate it. Although if you plan to use crystals, you may want to opt to rent the strings of crystals rather than buying them yourself (they can get pricey!)
We found these photos inspiring!
Manzanita Branches can be painted to match your decor, and you can use them as centerpieces as well.
Many Decor & Event Staging vendors will have wishing trees available to rent, but if you would like to make one yourself here is what you will need. Most of the materials can be found at your local craft store, or for large amounts of manzanita branches check out this website: Blooms and Branches. They also have moss, curly willow, votive candles, vases, birch branches & centerpiece kits.
– Large manzanita branch or several small branches, which can be painted to match your decor. If you are having a more natural style theme, you won't need to paint the branches because they are a nice deep red color on their own.
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Prince Edward School is the oldest boys high school in Harare and the second oldest in Zimbabwe. The school is known for producing top notch academic and sporting personalities, and is by far the most reputable government school in the country.
The role of head boy therefore is a prestigious one. Harare News caught up with the recently appointed head boy to find out what the student body can expect for 2015.
Greetings Mr Head-boy! Can you please briefly identify yourself for our readers?
My name is Nixon Margolis, I am in form 6 and I was appointed Head-boy in October last year (2014).
Are you happy with the pass rate at this school of late? Why and why not?
It's not pleasing at the moment, but there is great potential for improvement, everybody just needs to work harder.
Corporal punishment was recently ruled against in Zimbabwe. What is your own view of the practice?
It wasn't a good corrective measure.
Then what is the better way?
I will give a scenario, sometime last year a student came to school drunk and started causing problems. As Head-boy, I took him to the Headmaster, his parents were called, had a meeting with them and the guy was suspended for a while. This brings both the school authorities and the parents together in trying to solve deviant behaviours rather than just caning.
How do you deal with bullying at school?
Though in my tenure as Head-boy I haven't encountered it yet, I will not tolerate that and such acts are not necessary after all. I was once a victim of it during my early years it is not good.
Tell us about the relationship between students and teachers at this school.
It is a mixed thing, students hate some teachers and love others, and this is at their own peril. I encourage them to look at the bigger picture because teachers are there to shape our future. No sane teacher would want to ruin his students.
Which subjects are you taking?
History, Literature and Geography.
How would you describe your academic performance?
I am above average.
How do you balance your studies and your demanding work as a leader?
I rarely miss a lesson. Whenever I am not in class, I make sure I get someone who is not a prefect and whom I trust to give me a brief summary of the lesson and also get his notes so that I catch up.
As a link between teachers and students, how do you avoid being one-sided?
I always put myself into both their shoes, know what they want and then strike a balance.
How can one excel in both academics and extra-curricular activities?
Try to maintain equilibrium between the two. However, students must be inclined towards academics because at the end of it all without the certificate you will go nowhere.
How are sports taken up at PE? Are they compulsory or optional?
Both, one just have to be in one of the three; sports, cultural and music. I am in all, that is I do athletics, drama, and I am in the school choir as well.
How many prefects do you lead?
About 30 and we conduct meetings twice every week to deliberate on a number of issues as leaders.
One of your duties is conflict resolution. How do you do it?
Pay attention, get what is being disputed, analyse and decide.
What do you want to do after school?
I want to be a lawyer and also invest in the properties sector.
What else do you want to tell us?
Every year the Head-boy has a theme mine this year is 'Take all, leave nothing.'
Put 100% in everything that you do be it sports or academics so that at the end of it you excel.
may this young man's life rest in peace. what a tragedy
Rest in Peace Nixon
What happened to this young boy…..lots of condolence messages but how did his life come to an end ….so young
rest in peace
"Take all, leave nothing"
Didn't really know him… but Rest In Peace <3
May his soul rest in peace.
rest well champ. youll forever be missed..
Rest in peace bro.I didnt know you but you have made me realise that life is all about putting 100% effort I will always remember you for that
Nixon, your death was such a shock, even though you were personally unknown to me. As a parent of a child the same age as you, I felt a deep sense of sorrow; what a loss. May your parents and PE find peace at such a trying time. MYDSRIP
God has taken One of his angels again. Rest in peace dear Nick.
You've shown the rest of us that with the little time we have on this earth ,we've got the chance to make a difference on so many lives.
Go well and be where you belong bro. #ripnick#takeallleavenothing
take all and leave zero…..may ur perfect soul rest in eternal peace….go well n God bless yur family
go well Nick Margolis…go well..
"Take all " leave nothing. True words of inspiration, We will miss you Nick , always in our hearts, Rest in peace
Resonated very well with the motto: "Tot Facienda Parum Factum" ("So little done, So little time left")
rest in peace you were a true icon and a friend.
"Tot Facienda Parum Factum" – Brother!
With a very heavy heart, I watched a war cry from the PE students. I was so saddened about such a young and potential man passing on. Go well son, I don't know you but as a parent I was so hurt. You fought a good fight son, you were loved and are in a better place. You have been promoted to glory.
Congolences to the Margolis family. Mwari achakunyaradzai Asi ronda racho hari pere.
Go well son and may your dearest soul rest in perfect peace.
may his soul rest in peace……….gone bt nt forgotten
the sharp knife of a short life. i didn't know you personally or well but you were such an inspiration to my brother. may the Dear lord give your parents peace and go on home.rest in peace
go well NIXON may your dearest soul rest in eternal peace thanks bro you changed my life PE will never forget you TAKE ALL LEAVE NOTHING the theme you gave us was the best theme ever thanks bro MAY THE LORD BRING PEACE TO THE MARGOLIS AND PE FAMILY AT A TIME LIKE THIS
Nick again i say rest in peace.i love u
tx a year nw
u greatly missed nick may your dear soul rest in peace
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On Chris Shiflett's blog, there's a post that looks a an issue that's been brought up on the New York PHP mailing list concerning two variables in the $_SERVER superglobal - SERVER_NAME and HTTP_POST.
The question initially was "arean't these the same thing?" Chris answers:
There were several informative replies within the first few minutes, but there's more to this question than most people realize. In fact, I'm reminded of a blog entry from Zeev last year, where he warns against $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'].
Zeev suggests that SERVER_NAME is pulled from the Host header from the remote user. Chris reminds us, also, of some disagreements with this view Zeev presented, namely from Rasmus. Chris then gives an example script to illustrate hos things area really handled - the variables use the given values when they're present in the request, but they still do default back to the ServerName when absent (so only in certain circumstances).


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Before you start stocking you liquor cabinet with kosher for Passover wines, get rid of what you have with this great recipe for mulled wine. Mulled wine is wine that is heated with sugar and spices, and often citrus fruit. Instead of throwing out your leftover wine from last night's dinner party, consider trying this simple and tasty recipe. (Courtesy of Justine Sterling.)
Recipe Ingredients
1 Bottle of dark red wine like a Cabernet Sauvignon or a Syrah
4 Dashes of Orange Bitters (or Aromatic Bitters like Angostura)
8 Cloves
1 Cinnamon stick
1/2 Cup of honey
Pinch of nutmeg
Pinch of allspice
4-6 Orange peels *optional
Place the cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg and allspice in a piece of cheese cloth and tie into a bundle. Pour the wine and honey into a large pot. Add the spices and bitters. Bring to a simmer and let cook for fifteen minutes. Ladle into mugs or glasses, garnish with an optional orange peel. Serves 4-6.