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Nintendo just launched the 3DS, a handheld game device with a 3-D screen. But you don't need to spend $249 for 3-D gaming on the go: $35 will do. That's the price of an attachment Hasbro is selling that adds depth to the screen of an iPhone or iPod Touch.
Unfortunately, the Hasbro My3D isn't a slim pair of glasses. It looks more like a weird set of toy binoculars. You snap the Apple device into a holder on one end and look through the other.
It's a fun diversion aimed mostly at kids. It can wow grown-ups too, but I'm not sure anyone will use this much in the long run. It's hardly $35 worth of plastic, but it might be $35 worth of entertainment.
The roots of the My3D go way back: it's basically a slight update of the stereoscope, which was first demonstrated in 1851. This two-lens device delighted Victorians with still 3-D photos of landscapes. The View-Master is another later-day successor to the stereoscope.
The View-Master, of course, never worked with applications and movies, but the My3D does. It's used with specially written apps like as "Sharks," which immerses users in a shark-filled underwater scene, and "Sector 17," an outer-space shooter. These are all free to download for now from the iTunes Store, though Hasbro does plan to start charging for some of them later this spring. Until June, the viewers are only available from Target stores.
To start, I downloaded a free app called My3Dpresents, which serves as a sort of introduction. The app includes trailers for My3D games and six current and upcoming 3-D movies, including "Kung Fu Panda 2," "Megamind" and "Smurf'd." (However, Hasbro Inc. hasn't promised that full 3-D movies will be available.)
To reach the iPhone's touch screen, you insert your thumbs into two holes at the bottom of the My3D. But many of the games also use the phone's motion sensor. I played a simple little game called "Bubble Bolt," which has you tilting the iPhone to guide a goldfish inside a bubble through increasingly complex obstacle courses and into a pond waiting at the end. To my co-workers, this must have been a sight — I was looking into a pair of binoculars with no lenses while bobbing and tilting my head to control something only I could see. In "Sector 17," attacking spaceships can come from any angle, so I had to twist and turn on my swivel chair to look up, down and behind me.
This aspect of the game was perhaps even more engaging than the apparent depth of the screen, which I had some trouble perceiving. Like many people, my 3-D vision isn't perfect because of an eye condition, but I had an easier time enjoying the My3D than a 3-D movie in a theater.
On my iPhone 3GS, the images were a bit pixelated. That's because the My3D presents two side-by-side images on the screen, one for each eye. This halves the apparent resolution of the screen. The iPhone 4 and the latest version of the iPod Touch have higher-resolution displays, so the image in the My3D stays crisp and clear — clearer, in fact, than that on the Nintendo 3DS screen in 3-D mode.
That said, the two devices are in different leagues and neither serves to replace the other. The Nintendo 3DS, which went on sale in the U.S. last month, has a 3-D camera and comes with controls for far more complex games than the My3D can play. None of the My3D games held my admittedly short attention span for very long, but I'd be curious to see what else developers will come up with. Later this summer, Nintendo plans to start streaming Netflix content to the 3DS.
Sprint, AT&T and others are planning to sell smartphones with 3DS-style screens soon, so Hasbro's My3D might be a short-lived novelty.
Until then, though, it's worth a shot, especially if you don't mind looking a little comical peering into a plastic viewfinder navigating 3-D worlds visible only to you. For subway rides and dentist offices, it's probably best to stick to "Angry Birds" and other 2-D games.


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Hmmmm The Twilight Guild, should I or shouldn't I join? Hmmmm. Of course I do! Hey guys *waves* I know some of ya'll on here, nice to know there are fellow stargazers out there!
I wasn't able to see the blue moon but I did see the moon night before last, soo gorgeous! Happy Birthday again Edana!

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More than just about any other institution, hospitals and clinics have to deal with the unexpected. People with the most unusual characteristics and problems drop in all the time. But electronic records, being formal documentation, like regularity. The clash between diversity and computerization explodes into view when a transgender or gender-queer person walks in.
I have written about the strains that transgender people put on an EHR earlier as part of my family's encounter with the medical system. Recently I got a chance to talk with a leader who has taken some of the necessary steps to fix systems: Scott MacDonald, MD, working in the health system of University of California at Davis.
A thrust to improve UC Davis's handling of LGBT clients preceded Dr. MacDonald's arrival. A group of staff and clinicians interested in providing better care to LGBT people decided to take steps to address the needs in that area. The institution made an ethical commitment to reducing disparities in care. The group recognized that the information in the record was deficient–they often didn't even know who identified as LGBT.
The first step in this information gathering is training health providers to ask for the information in ways that are sensitive to patients' feelings, and to become comfortable with it. The next step is deciding what to do with that information, and the third is figuring out how to store it in a structured way.
As MacDonald says, "The first priority is to train providers to understand why this data collection is important, explaining that they cannot care for a person whose life situation they don't understand. Research (especially for reducing disparities) is a close second priority. An electronic means to capture the data needs to be created along with these efforts. Once the data is available in a formal, structured way, we can encourage and train clinicians to ask the pertinent questions and respond to the information sensitively."
When MacDonald joined the organization, he brought technical expertise with working on disparities in ethnicity and language. He started two surveys: one of the patient population and another of the staff.
The patient survey showed that for the most part, patients were glad to be asked about their sexual orientation (which is different from sexual behavior, although related). They were particularly open to the question if their primary care provider was the one holding the discussion. Naturally, some expressed privacy concerns and wondered who might have access to the information once it was recorded.
Health care providers also showed a willingness to learn more about LGBT issues and be listed in the UC Davis registry as an LGBT-welcoming provider. Over time, without an explicit mandate from leadership, the information collected on the sexual preference of patients increased. UC Davis also provided resources for training in LGBT issues via a web site.
Before starting, UC Davis interviewed the clients of a local clinic specializing in gender issues, in order to flesh out their understanding of patient needs and sensitivities.
Now we get to the heart of the IT issues. Any record system used by a health care institution needs at least the following to handle transgender and gender non-conforming patients:
A way to list their preferred name and gender, along with the name and gender that appear on their insurance cards and other official documents. Transitions can take years, and patients often have insurance with the old name and gender long after they have made the determination to be known in a new way. Gender can also be a fluid and evolving concept for some patients.
Ways to record the factors that affect gender, such as what surgeries they have had for gender dysphoria and what hormones they are taking. Someone who identifies as male may still need to have a regular Pap smear. A male-to-female transgender person may have a very different normal range on a blood test from someone born female (cis-female).
UC Davis had licensed an Epic EHR, but at that time Epic had only a few suggestions to offer. For instance, they suggested adding a special flag for transgender patients, but this would be too limited a way of handling the range of gender issues encountered, and would not provide adequate clinical information. UC Davis thus launched into a series of customizations, which Epic in turn compiled into an implementation guide that has been used by other customers.
The goal at UC Davis was to make it easy for patients to enter data at in the privacy of their homes through Epic's patient portal. The interviews at the partner clinic had showed that many were comfortable providing information this way that many were comfortable providing information this way. Besides asking for assigned sex at birth, click-buttons in the portal's web page offer common choices for current gender identity and sexual orientation. The patient could also enter free-text comments if the predefined choices didn't capture their identity.
The same information could be entered by clinicians as well. People viewing the record could not tell whether the gender information was entered by a clinician or directly by the patient (although on the back-end, the system preserves the provenance of the information). MacDonald said that the source of the information was ultimately the patient, so it doesn't really matter who entered it.
What's important is that the gender-related information, formerly stuffed into free-form text somewhere in the record, was now stored in a structured format. This allows UC Davis to fulfill its mandate to track how it is addressing disparities in care. In the future, such information may also feed into clinical decision support tools.
The gender information is not displayed prominently, but is available to all staff who have access to patient records and seek it our for purposes of patientcare. It is protected by the usual information security measures in place at UC Davis. The information is of greatest use to the primary care provider, but is also used by in-patient nurses and special departments dealing with transgender issues.
The patient's preferred name was easier to handle. Epic already allows records to distinguish between the official name–used for legal and insurance purposes–and the preferred name. The record offers several descriptors that explain what the preferred name is, such as a nickname or alias. To this list of descriptors, UC Davis added an option applicable to transgender patients.
The remaining missing information is the status of a patient during and after transition. A record can't yet record birth sex in a separate field from gender identity. It can capture sex as cis-male or trans-man, but that doesn't gracefully account for the combinatorics of birth sex, gender identity, legal sex, and so on. Transition-specific surgeries and hormone therapy can be captured as a part of surgical history and the medication list, but there is no standard way to record organ inventory. Those things are still listed in free-form text.
However, Epic is looking at ways to adapt its software at the deep level to show this diversity of status. This is something all vendors need to do, because more and more people of all ages are identifying as transgender or non-conformaing as the public gets used to the idea that this kind of identity is within the range of normal. The needs of the population are complex and urgent, so the faster we fix the records, the better will be the care we provide.


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Villa Hills considering outsourcing police department
The Villa Hills Police Department is considering outsourcing police officers in order to save money.
A crowd of residents gathered at an elementary school gym on Wednesday night to discuss the idea, even though officials said there isn't even a proposal on the table yet.
"We are all blessed with a police department, in Mayor Martin's own words, that has served us well. I say let's keep it," one resident said.
"Give Mayor Mike Martin and the new council the chance to prove they can handle this situation and are not the idiots that a few of you think they are," another resident said.
Mayor Mike Martin said he believed he should at least consider outsourcing as an option to save money.
"It became obvious that discussions should take place to see what would be in the best interest of our city: maintaining status quo, merging our police department with another city and/or entity, or contracting another city or entity for services?" Martin said.
Martin said the seven-member department cost the city almost $1 million last year to operate and he wants to see if there is a more affordable option that does not compromise safety.


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Dubbed "Woodstock for Capitalists," Saturday's annual meeting of Berkshire Hathaway shareholders revolves around Warren Buffett, the company's chairman and CEO and a billionaire investor. Here's a rundown of what happened at the day-long event in Omaha, Nebraska:
Berkshire's board knows who it would pick as CEO if Buffett died tonight, but the top candidates could change over time, Buffett said. He has no plans to retire.
He spends plenty of time thinking about the future of his company after he is gone, he said. He told shareholders Saturday that he's confident that the conglomerate will continue to thrive.
The leaders of Berkshire's roughly 80 subsidiaries and all the operating companies would reject a leader that tried to change the way the company works, he said.
Buffett leads Berkshire with a tiny staff of roughly two dozen at its headquarters, and he largely lets the CEOs of all Berkshire's subsidiaries make all the operating decisions.
Warren Buffett has pledged to eventually give away all of the Berkshire Hathaway stock that made him one of the world's richest men, but he doesn't want to spoil his children.
At Saturday's Berkshire shareholder meeting, an estate planning lawyer asked Buffett for advice on how his clients should determine how much is too much to leave their children.
Buffett says the size of an inheritance probably isn't the most important factor in determining what kind of people children grow up to be.
"I think more kids are ruined by the behaviour of their parents than by their inheritance," Buffett said.
The 82-year-old Buffett says he has been getting more generous as he ages, so every time he revises his will these days he tends to leave more to his children.
And Buffett says he lets his kids read his will each time it's changed.
Berkshire Hathaway shareholders again rejected a proposal to require the company's utilities to set goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Berkshire owns several utilities through its MidAmerican Energy Holdings subsidiary.
Backers of the measure urged Berkshire officials to take a leading role in reducing utility dependence on coal.
Berkshire CEO Buffett and the board oppose the idea of setting goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions because it remains unclear how those emissions will be regulated.
Buffett and the board control 39 per cent of the voting power. The proposal gained only 57,569 votes. Berkshire said 598,162 votes were cast against the measure.
Shareholders rejected a similar measure in 2011.
Before facing questions from a crowd of more than 30,000, the 82-year-old Buffett toured the meeting's 200,000-square-foot exhibit hall. A pack of security guards created a buffer around the "Oracle of Omaha" as he visited displays that sold Berkshire's See's Candy, explained BNSF railroad's virtues and highlighted some of the company's other 80-plus subsidiaries.
At the See's booth, Buffett got a lesson in making hand-dipped bonbons. Then See's manufacturing manager Steve Powell got Buffett to autograph his white uniform coat, demonstrating that employees are nearly as excited about meeting Buffett as shareholders.
"He was right there. Why not? It's Mr. Buffett," said Powell, explaining why he asked for the autograph. "He's wonderful."
Powell said he'll probably frame the coat and display it at work when he returns to California.
Dozens of Utah coal miners picketed outside the doors of the annual meeting in downtown Omaha.
The protesters are members of United Mine Workers of America who work at Deer Creek mine near Huntington, Utah. The mine is run by a subsidiary of Berkshire's MidAmerican Energy Holdings Co.
The union's contract expired in January. The company and union are negotiating, but disagree on health care coverage and safety checks. The protesters hope to influence Buffett.
Bernie Morris of Price, Utah, stood in the rain with others Saturday to hand out flyers. The 67-year-old Morris said he's worked for the coal mine for 28 years. He feared that he and his wife won't be able to afford the monthly health insurance premium the company wants to charge miners and retirees.
Berkshire shareholders should expect decent returns on the newspapers the company has bought in recent years, Buffett said. But he doesn't expect the papers to generate enough profits to make much difference to Berkshire.
Berkshire has paid cheap enough prices for the newspapers that Buffett expects them to deliver 10 per cent returns every year, but he also expects their earnings will keep declining.
Berkshire has acquired 28 daily newspapers over the past two years.
Berkshire Vice Chairman Charlie Munger pointed out that Buffett made an exception to his usual investing habits for newspapers because he likes them.
Buffett again poked fun at himself in the humorous movie that begins the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting.
A cartoon version of Dancing With the Stars opened the hour-long movie.
Buffett and Munger served as judges on the dance show as representatives of different Berkshire companies competed.
In the end, Buffett and Munger won the competition themselves with their version of "Gangnam Style" dancing.
In a live-action video later, Buffett tried to pull strings to win a part in Arnold Schwarzenegger's new Terminator movie.
But Schwarzenegger, who once relied on Buffett's financial advice as California's governor, decided that Munger would make a much scarier villain.


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Well Randy this was lots of fun.
I learned some new skills getting here. I used my blog to make the word cloud. After trying a few different looks I settled on the half and half in the summer colors. I hit print and sent the page to MS OneNote. then I saved the image as a jpeg in Windows Gallery. I was then able to crop the image.


text: Knee Arthroscopy Knee problems can often be diagnosed and treated with a technique called arthroscopy. This type of surgery is done using an instrument called an arthroscope (scope). Only a few small incisions are needed for this surgery. The procedure can be used to diagnose a knee problem. In many cases, treatment can also be done using arthroscopy. The Arthroscope The scope allows the doctor to look directly into the knee joint. The scope contains a pathway for fluids. It also contains coated glass fibers that beam an intense, cool light into the knee joint. A camera is attached to the scope as well. It provides clear images of most areas in your knee joint. The doctor views these images on a monitor. Preparing for the Procedure Have lab tests as advised. Do not eat or drink anything for 10 hours before the procedure. Once you arrive for surgery, you may be given an IV line in your arm or hand. This provides fluids and medications. To keep you free of pain during the surgery, you'll receive medication called anesthesia. You may have: General anesthesia. This puts you into a state like deep sleep during the surgery. Regional anesthesia. This numbs the body from the waist down. Local anesthesia. This numbs just the knee. In addition to regional or local, you may receive sedation. This medication makes you relaxed and sleepy during the surgery. The Procedure A few small incisions (portals) are made in your knee. The scope is inserted through one of the portals. Sterile fluid is put into the knee joint. This makes it easier to see and work inside your joint. Using the scope, the doctor confirms the type and degree of knee damage. If possible, the problem is treated at this time. This is done using surgical tools put through the other portals. When the surgery is complete, all tools are removed. The incisions are closed with sutures, staples, surgical glue, or strips of surgical tape. Risks and Possible Complications of Arthroscopy All surgeries have risks. The risks of arthroscopy include: Bleeding Infection Blood clots Swelling and stiffness of the knee Continuing knee problems


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Nissan's Juke is strange. The compact crossover has strange styling, it's a strange size, and it uses a strange—among its competitive set—turbocharged engine and torque-vectoring all-wheel-drive system. In fact, it is so strange, that we sort of like it. Automotive uniqueness is getting harder and harder to come by in today's segmented, conformist industry. So imagine our surprise when Nissan released a mini video series in Japan that plays up, you guessed it, the Juke's strangeness; utilizing some of Hollywood's best-known conformists, Star Wars' Storm Troopers.
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The videos consist mostly of a group of Storm Troopers, who were sent to Earth (Japan, specifically) to report on a disturbance in the force. They are instructed by a holographic Darth Vader to act like robots, but amusingly, the Troopers find that even many of the humans they encounter act a lot like robots. A few of the clips feature a bright red Juke with a white racing stripe, which seemingly comes out of nowhere to catch the Troopers by surprise, eliciting longing (at least that's what it looks like—the Troopers' eyes are, of course, hidden behind their helmets) stares and a strange flash of red light. By the final video in the series, a few of the Troopers dare to be different—we won't give away how—which clearly is a plot development Nissan wants buyers to see. The lesson? It's good to be different. And in the Juke's case, we'd say different is pretty darn good. You can watch the Japanese videos below. Now, can we have the Juke R, please?


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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — An Argentine judge embargoed Chevron Corp.'s assets in Argentina to carry out an Ecuadorean court order that awarded $19 billion to plaintiffs in an environmental damage lawsuit in the Amazon, a lawyer said Wednesday.
Judge Adrian Elcuj Miranda ordered the freezing of Chevron's assets in Argentina as plaintiffs try to collect the judgment won in Ecuador last year, Argentine lawyer Enrique Bruchou told reporters in a conference call.
The order states that all the cash flows from sales and bank deposits be frozen until the $19 billion is collected, Bruchou said. The order applies to 100 percent of Chevron's capital stock in Argentina, 100 percent of its dividends and its entire minority stake in Oleoductos del Valle. It also includes 40 percent of any current or future money that Chevron Argentina holds as well as 40 percent of all its crude sales.
Bruchou said the decision in the largest environmental suit in the world should send a strong message to foreign investors that they must apply the same environmental standards wherever they do business. Similar lawsuits have been filed this year in Canada and Brazil.
"We're making history in the preservation of the environment," Bruchou said.
"This is a ruling that sets an example. What we're telling the world is that in Latin America we want to demand that whoever comes to exploit does it following the same health an environmental standards as they do in their countries of origin," he said.
Chevron officials said the company knew of neither a filing by the plaintiffs nor an order from a court in Argentina. They also said Chevron's operations in Argentina had nothing to do with the case in Ecuador.
"The plaintiffs' lawyers have no legal right to embargo subsidiary assets in Argentina and should not be allowed to disrupt Argentina's pursuit of its important energy resources," said James Craig, a Chevron spokesman for Latin America and Africa. "The Ecuador judgment is a product of bribery, fraud, and it is illegitimate."
Chevron has refused to pay the sum stemming from waste water pollution and oil industry waste, saying that fraud marked the trial and that Texaco Petroleum Co. mitigated the environmental damage long before 2001, when it became a Chevron subsidiary.
Ecuador's highest court has upheld the ruling, while the plaintiffs have accused Chevron of dirty tricks designed to subvert the lower-court ruling.
The plaintiffs say Texaco, and now Chevron, remain responsible for environmental contamination and illnesses resulting from the operations of an oil consortium from 1972 to 1990 in Ecuador's rainforest.
"We're really pleased with the start of the embargo on Chevron's assets in a country outside of Ecuador," said Pablo Fajardo, a lawyer for the Ecuadorean plaintiffs in the case told the Associated Press.
"The fact that an Argentine judge has decided to accept the embargo order shows that the ruling by the Ecuadorean court can be enforced and today Chevron is forced to pay up to the last cent its debt owed to the Amazon."
The plaintiffs will begin a suit in Colombia in the coming days and are also preparing legal actions in Asia, Europe and elsewhere, Fajardo said.
"Environmental crime will not go without punishment and we're going to chase them anywhere in the world," he said.
Chevron argues that a 1998 agreement Texaco signed with Ecuador after a $40 million cleanup absolves it of liability and that Ecuador's state-run oil company is responsible for much of the pollution in the oil patch Texaco quit more than two decades ago.
Chevron is a major player in Argentina producing about 26,000 barrels of crude and 4 million cubic feet of natural gas daily, the plaintiffs have said.
The company is also key for the South American country's future energy needs, especially after it agreed to work with the state-run YPF energy company to develop shale reserves that could be the third-largest in the world.


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Every teacher strives to find new ways to pique and keep students' interest throughout the school year.
We believe that comic books can be one of many resources in this quest.
In this case we are highlighting a few Esquire Comics from the Cold War era.
The imagery can be quite graphic at times, so prescreening is always essential before passing something out.
We have included an assignment that is classroom ready to be used during a Cold War unit.
For more Cold War resources check out our:
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I'm Rena Maguire. I'm almost an archaeologist, as I'm a third year undergraduate in QUB Belfast. My day of archaeology started at 6am. Not usual for an undergraduate, but I like to get a head-start on things by getting out for a few miles cycle on the bike to clear the cobwebs away and keep fit. That's after coffee and giving morning kissies to my nutty hamsters Mo, Flo and Tim. They're my surrogate dogs, and I daren't ignore them! Today I've got a meeting with my supervisor, Dr Dirk Brandherm, with regards to research for my dissertation. He's the metal expert par excellence. This is the start of my third year in QUB Belfast, doing my Archaeology degree, and this summer is all about research and breaking some new ground on my chosen topic.
Archaeology isn't all research – it can be pretty strenuous on excavations, and I'm off on excavation in July, to Flag Fen, Cambridgeshire. It'll be my first Bronze Age site, which I'm incredibly excited by. I clocked up a fair few excavations last year – Dunluce was my field school in June 2011, then I was off to an island off the coast of Norway, excavating a Hanseatic kontor, or trading post. This was followed by an Early Christian rath at Ballyaghagan. It seems that whatever digs I've been on there's been television cameras there, so even if you haven't seen my face, my backside has been on most UK TV stations! I love the constant challenges each landscape throws up, so am very thrilled at getting wetland experience at Flag Fen. It's also one of the eras I'm interested in specialising in. Win/ win situation!
I came into academia from working in the entertainments industry, as a mature student, and I love the work. I really couldn't imagine doing anything else now. Last week I was in Armagh, handling 2200 year old horse harness and drawing it as part of my dissertation. This week I was down in the beautiful National Museum of Ireland, in Dublin, cross-referencing data going back as far as the 1830s. The archives are heaven, the staff incredibly helpful in every way – I love the old fashioned courtesy and grace which exists in this profession.
If you're a book lover, you'd also love the poring through glorious sepia coloured envelopes, smelling sweetly as only old paper in archives can, with fabulously drawn and recorded artefacts. There is an elegance to this kind of research – I get lost in thought among them very easily. To date I've found a lot of information which hasn't been in the public domain, which hopefully will read well after its added to my thesis!
I walk over to university in the rain, and get soaked, but I'm pretty happy. I miss Queens when I'm not there regularly, miss the fun, the people and the stimulus. If you aren't familiar with Queens University Belfast, let me tell you what a really terrific place it is to study archaeology. It was always my first choice as a university, not just because I live here but because it has produced so many great archaeologists. It may be a centre of excellence, but it's got a great sense of belonging and community.
I've been compiling a listing of the horse harness pieces of the Irish Iron Age which I'm doing my dissertation on, and having to devise a methodology for its presentation. This has been a most difficult things for me, as I'm very much the kind of person who goes into a situation and makes up a methodology depending on the circumstances of that moment. My supervisor keeps me on my toes and won't let me away with being as sloppy as my past employment would accept. Order and quantifiable scientific analysis make for good archaeology – things I need to learn!
The thing I love about archaeology is that no two days are ever the same. Today, I'm presenting the results of the past two weeks of intense research work. In a couple of weeks time, I'll be in workboots and vizi-vest, on a fenland in East Anglia. I'll alternate between computer skills, artwork, hauling spoil buckets about, calculating carbon 14 rates of decay, sorting artefacts out – or like today, learning from Dirk how metal repairs were carried out in the Iron Age depending on the substance the actual artefact is made of. I'm going to see if I can purloin the loan of a piece of harness to get it X-rayed, and analyse how the pieces were actually made. You work hard as a QUB Undergrad ( well, you do if you want to do this thing right). I wont tell lies and say it's an easy course to do, but the lecturers work ten times harder to pull everything good out of you, and make you into a consummate professional.
I would like to go into the academic side of archaeology, but I also love the digging – you have no idea what's waiting in the soil. It's like Christmas – with added mud! At Dunluce last year, on the very last day of the dig, I found a rapier, which had been buried under a ruined building from the 1641 Rebellion . God knows what its story is, but that element of humanity and pathos is just one reason why I'm in love with all the processes of this job.
So, after I finished exasperating my supervisor about my lack of forethought on categorising artefacts ( filing is not my strong point!), and I resolve to do better next time, I head to a chip shop to grab some lunch. They're playing a song that somehow always seems to pop up every time there's some good archaeology about to go down – Nicki Minaj's Superbass. The song makes me think of all last summers early starts, dressing by the first light of dawn to arrive at excavations; it makes me think of plane rides, and coach rides, and smiling to myself as the sun rises on ancient landscapes, not knowing what the day is going to bring. 'My heart goes boom-da-boom da boom like super bass'…. yes, actually,it does, when I think of the honour of working with the history of humanity, and learning how to recreate it all again in the present day This work makes me a very happy girl indeed. I'm still only learning, but I know I want to take this to PhD and excel at what I'm interested in .We get to do the best job on the planet, in my opinion, so I'm more than happy to make every day a day of archaeology!


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While I'm sincere in my warm wishes, I want everyone to keep in mind what the world faces and how we are all being played.
Beginning about the time the markets closed yesterday and into the evening and now morning, the currency markets have been going haywire. Large moves, first down in the dollar, and now up are occurring. The Japanese Yen is strengthening rapidly and broke through key support. In the Middle East, Dubai in the U.A.E. (one of the world's richest oil nations), is looking like they are defaulting on some of the debt behind their bright and new people-less cities. Greece has banks that are in trouble, while at the same time Japan is finally having a confidence crisis over their debt.
And here in the good ol' U.S.A., our politicians blow smoke up our skirts about the economy while the banksters rob us blind and take over control of what used to be our free markets. While the markets are open, they gun their positions and when the markets are closed to normal people like you, this is the type of action that occurs in the futures:
Yes, we have a lot to be thankful for. We also have a lot of cleaning up to do. Enjoy the holiday, but keep focused on what's coming and what we are going to do about it. Everyone has a role to play, your help and support is going to be needed. In concert with others I have developed a plan that I think is going to work and is going to get traction as it will get the people behind us, it will get the states behind us, and it should even get most of the banks behind us (okay, maybe not the central banks, lol).
IT'S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT MORE RISKLESS (or maybe NOT!)
PS - By the looks of the poll results on gold backing, I have quite a bit of education still to do. Please buy the film and learn about the history of the gold standard. Wanting control over the QUANTITY of money is indeed nobel, but gold is not the way to do it:
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Philadelphia Phillies – Awards: Wins Champs.
During the organization's 127-year existence as a member of the National League, seven starters who had wore the Phillies' uniform has won the most games in seventeen seasons.
The first Phil to lead the league in wins would be Hall of Famer Grover Cleveland Alexander, who would do so in his rookie season of 1911, winning 28 games. The next Phil to lead the NL in wins would be Tom Seaton, who, in 1913, would lead the league with 27 wins. Alexander would then become the leader in wins for the next four seasons with 27 wins in 1914, 31 wins in 1915, as he help lead the Phils to their first National League pennant, as he performed the first of his two straight triple crown (Wins/ERA/Ks) pitching season as a Phil, 33 wins in 1916, as he performed his second triple crown season, while setting the Phils record for most wins in a season, and 30 wins in 1917. The third Phil to lead the league in victories would be Jumbo Elliott, who did so in a tie for first with Bill Hallahan of the St. Louis Cardinals and Heinie Meine of the Pittsburgh Pirates, who all had 19 wins in 1931. The fourth Phil pitcher to lead the NL in wins would be Hall of Famer Robin Roberts, who would lead the league with 28 victories in 1952, then would be tied for the lead in 1953 with fellow Hall of Famer Warren Spahn of the Milwaukee Braves with 23 wins, then lead the league by himself in both 1954 and 1955 with 23 wins in both years. The fifth Phil starter to lead the NL would be Hall of Famer Steve Carlton, who first lead the NL in his pitching triple crown season of 1972, as he lead the NL with 27 wins, followed by 1977 with 23 victories, then 24 in 1980, as he helped lead the Phils to their first World Series Championship, and finally 1982, when he won 23 starts. The sixth Phil pitcher to lead the league would follow in 1983, as John Denny would lead the league with 19 wins, as he help lead the Phils to their fourth NL pennant. It would be twenty-seven years before the seventh, and presently last, Phil starter would lead the NL in wins, when Roy Halladay led the National League in wins with 21 in 2010.
Of the seven Phils to lead the National League in victories, three of them were Hall of Famers (Grover Cleveland Alexander, Robin Roberts and Steve Carlton), with all three of them doing it multiple times. Alexander did it the most, as he won the title five times, with two of them as he won the pitching equivalent of the triple crown, followed by Robin Roberts and Steve Carlton, who have both won the title four times, with Carlton also performing the pitching triple crown. The other four have won it only once. Two of the Phils were tied for the lead in wins when they won the title, Jumbo Elliott in a three-way tie in 1931, and Roberts, when he was tied with Warren Spahn in 1953. Alexander had the most wins, when he won the title with 33 wins in 1916, which is still a team record, while Elliott and John Denny won the title with the least wins as the two recorded only 19 wins in 1931 and 1983, respectively. Phils' pitchers have led the NL sixteen times in the 20th Century and have, so far, only done it once in the 21st Century.
Who might be the next Phil starter to lead the NL in victories? It could be any of their four major starters, as three of them (Halladay, Roy Oswalt and Cliff Lee) have all already lead either league in wins.


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Two short, one long. Georg Rack gets its form by a simple construction of slender, wooden poles – inspired by a warm mix of Nordic sensuality and Japanese minimalism.
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About the designer / Chris Liljenberg Halstrøm
With a Swedish mother and Danish father Chris Liljenberg Halstrøm shows her Nordic roots in her designs through a minimalistic approach and strong combinations of materials like wood, leather and wool. Function is her starting point and dictates the idiom of her beautiful designs. Chris is a curious and investigative woman. And it is in the investigation that she finds her biggest inspiration – an investigation of all possible angles of a design that draws her and broadens her perspective on the design process. Besides this, she is deeply fascinated by traditional Japanese architecture and design which focuses on the core function of the design.


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A proud peacock isn't deadly. They can chase you and peck you. But they aren't deadly. Pride however is one of the deadly sins. So a peacock can be deadly with too much pride. Deadly to himself. And that goes for humans too...
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Coaches did not vote on a single regional player of the year this year, instead allowing the two league' top players share the regional award.
Myers averaged 17.96 points per game, but as with the rest of the year, he was the most dominating player under the glass in the region, grabbing well over 220 rebounds and blocking close to 100 shots. He also had a high number of assists for a post-player.
Junior guard Austin Evans, who hit 32 3-pointers this year while averaging 8.23 points per game, was a first-team all-region honoree.
Evans was also third on the team in rebounds with 67 behind the team's two tallest players, James Herrick and Myers. He also had 24 assists and 13 steals.
Evans was joined on the All-Sierra League first team by point guard Michael Nolting, who led the team in assists and steals on the year while averaging 6.3 points per game.
Herrick, a 6-10 junior who seemed to hit his stride at about the mid-season point, was a second-team all-league honoree. He averaged 5.9 points per game while coming up with 106 rebounds and 29 blocks.
First-year varsity player Pat Johnson and senior veteran Joe Syammach were each all-league honorable mentions.
Johnson was the Tigers' top outside shooter, hitting 35 3-pointers, while Syammach was among the top sixth-men in the region, averaging 5.57 points per game off the bench to go with 24 steals and 31 assists.
On the girls' side, Diana Regalado was a first-team all-region and all-league honoree for Douglas after scoring 237 points to lead the team this season.
McKenna Kynett and Corryne Millett were both second-team all-leaguers after scoring 158 and 154 points respectively. The two players tied for the team lead in 3-pointers with five each.
Senior forward Desiree Cage, the team's second-leading scorer at 170 points, was an honorable mention.


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George Cybenko, Dorothy and Walter Gramm Professor of Engineering Sciences, recently received a new award honoring outstanding mentoring of graduate students by faculty advisors. Nominations for the award, presented by Dartmouth's Graduate Student Council and Office of Graduate Studies, came from two of the highest authorities on mentoring — Cybenko's students.
"He motivates via high expectations instead of pedantic correction or humiliation. He brings out the best in us and knows how to make us push ourselves as far as possible," says doctoral candidate Glenn Nofsinger.
"He is much more than an advisor," says doctoral candidate Annarita Giani. "He leads his students with a sincere interest in their success, not only professionally but in all of life."
"This is a great honor," says Cybenko, an expert on information systems, "because it comes from my students."
—Annelise Hansen
The National Academy of Engineers (N.A.E.) "Frontiers of Engineering Symposium" annually exposes 100 of the country's brightest young engineers to ideas outside their specialties. Professor Laura Ray presented one of those ideas — solar-powered robots for scientific exploration in Antarctica — at this year's symposium, held in Irvine, California, in September. She illustrated the discussion with a prototype designed and built by a team of her ENGS 190: "Engineering Design and Methodology" students.
The Acoustical Society of America presented its Best Student Paper Award to M.S. candidate Alexander Streeter Th'04 at its annual meeting in New York City in May. The paper described a portable headset for the hearing impaired that uses an active-noise-reduction (ANR) algorithm to provide real-time attenuation over a broad spectrum of noise sources. Streeter modified an ANR headset by replacing the simple analog feeder control with a digital system combining feedforward and feedback elements. Streeter designed the feedback circuitry; David Cartes Th'01 designed the feedforward element. The project was part of ENGG 291 [now ENGS 290]: "Engineering Design and Methodology."
G. Ayorkor Mills-Tetty '01, Th'03 is one of 35 young engineers selected for a Tau Beta Pi graduate fellowship for 2004-2005. A doctoral student at Carnegie Melon University, she is studying sustainability and robotics technology. The Ghana native says her ultimate goal is to help developing countries "join the ranks of the producers and developers, not just consumers, of technology."
ENGS 190/ENGG 290 students Jonathan den Hartog '03, Spencer Boice, and Scott Wisniewski '03 won the 2004 American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Student Safety Design Contest with their paper, "Helicopter Blade Emergency Detachment System." The system uses an explosive to detach the helicopter blades. The team will travel to this year's ASME International Congress and Exposition in Anaheim, California to accept the award.
The Chronicle of Higher Education quoted Professor Edmond S. Cooley in a recent article about colleges switching to Internet-based telephones: "You don't get a bunch of middle-aged IT directors to use it. You get a bunch of 17- to 18-year-olds."
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GLENDALE, Ariz., March 13 (UPI) -- Andrei Kostitsyn scored the only goal in a shootout Monday and the Nashville Predators began a road trip with a 5-4 win over Phoenix.
Kostitsyn, the Preds' first shooter in the tiebreaker, came in on Coyotes goalie Mike Smith with a series of fakes before sliding the puck between his legs for a score.
Nashville's Pekka Rinne made stops on Ray Whitney, and Radim Vrbata and Mikkel Boedker hit the post on the Coyotes' final shootout try, ensuring a victory for playoff-bound Nashville as it embarked on a stretch of four road games over seven days.
Martin Erat scored and added two assists while Mike Fisher, Francis Bouillon and Craig Smith each scored a goal for Nashville.
Rinne turned aside 31-of-34 shots to earn the victory.
Daymond Langkow, Oliver Ekman-Larsson and Raffi Torres each provided a goal and a helper for the Coyotes, who hold the seventh playoff seed in the Western Conference.
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Photos and text by Joel Nyquist.
A new tent wasn't in my budget, but my old dome needed an upgrade. Check out these five simple accessories that let me pimp out my tent without breaking the bank. I tested them on my Kelty Gunnison 2, REI Cirque ASL, and Integral Designs SilTunnel for two months in Shenandoah, VA, and in Colorado at the Great Sand Dunes and atop St. Mary's Glacier.


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Obama adviser says no climate change law this year
President Barack Obama's top energy adviser said Friday there is no way Congress will be able to pass a bill on climate change this year.
"That's not going to happen," said the adviser, Carol Browner.
Browner made the statement at a conference organized by The Atlantic magazine, just days after Senate Democrats introduced a major bill on climate change. In a video posted on the magazine's Web site, Browner was asked about the prospects of enacting climate legislation by the time negotiations on a global climate treaty begin in December in Copenhagen.
"Obviously, we'd like to be through the process, but that's not going to happen," Browner said. "I think we would all agree the likelihood you would have a bill signed by the president on comprehensive energy by the time we go early in December is not likely."
Senate Democrats unveiled a bill Wednesday that aims to cut greenhouse gasses by 20 percent by 2020. The House passed a bill in June that calls for a 17 percent emission cut by 2020.
The Senate bill includes an economy-wide cap-and-trade system that would require power plants, industrial facilities and refineries to cut carbon dioxide and other climate-changing pollution. While there would be an overall emission cap, polluters would be able to purchase emission allowances to limit reductions. The bill, however, does not lay out how emission allowances would be distributed, a contentious issue left for resolving later.
Climate change is competing with several other big issues for the attention of lawmakers. Among the issues: overhauling the nation's health care system and imposing new financial regulations on Wall Street.
Browner said the U.S. could still take a leading role at the Copenhagen talks, even without a new climate law.
"We will go to Copenhagen and manage with whatever we have," she said.
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Dr.-Ing. Michael Fübi (CEO TÜV Rheinland) takes over presidency.
Joint Dinner Debate on Automated Driving and Road Safety on November 19, 2018 in Brussels
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