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This recipe is from Bill's Open Kitchen by Bill Granger. Some of my favorite brunch memories are from his Darlinghurst cafe and I haven't eaten there in over 10 years.
Bacon is simply delicious. Bill's technique is easy and most of the fat drips out during cooking to insure that nice crispy finish.
Preheat oven to 400. Roll each slice of bacon around two fingertips to create a floret. Stand each on a baking sheet. If your bacon keeps unfurling, just skewer each with a toothpick to keep roll in place. Bake for 20-25 minutes. Cooking time will vary, depending on thickness of bacon slices. Personal preference should come into play as well- keep on cooking until it is just the way you like it. Easy and good!
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I admit it, I have a problem. I am a fan of fast networking products and often feel uneasy if what I have isn't the latest and greatest. That hasn't changed at all, despite the fact that over the years, I have realized that the latest and greatest is generally way more than I need.
The truth of the matter is, for most homes (and even certain types of small offices), all you need is a stable Wireless-N Wi-Fi router. This is because the main purpose of the router is often just to share the Internet connection and some network resources, such as printers and documents. Since the Internet speed generally caps at much lower amount than Wireless-N's speed, it won't get faster if you upgrade the router to the latest and greatest. On top of that, the majority of wireless hardware clients, such as tablets, smartphones, laptops, support Wireless-N (802.11n) or the slower Wireless-G (802.11g) standards. Since the speed of a network connection is determined by the slowest speed of any party involved, a lot of time having a superfast router doesn't help with the speed of the local LAN, either.
That said, if you just want a simple home network to share the Internet and data files, the following routers will more than get the job done. The best part is that none of them costs you more than $80.
At the current price of just around $40, the D-Link DIR-605L is worth every penny.
This is a tiny simple, single-band router that D-Link used to introduce its Cloud feature that allows users to control their home network via mobile apps. And this feature, which is very cool, is just part of how cool the DIR-605L is. In my testing, it proved to be one of the best router of its physical size, offering stable Wi-Fi signal, good range, and very decent data rates.
The Belkin N+ is the oldest router on this list. First released in late 2008, it is still one of the best single-band Wireless-N routers on the market thanks to its great performance, extra-long range and ease of use. Belkin has since released many other more advanced routers, but so far, the N+ is its best.
If you're just looking for a single-band Wi-Fi network that offers great range and performance for a large home, currently at less than $60, the N+ will do that job well.
The Linksys E2500 is a true dual-band router that offers up to 300Mbps on both 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz frequency bands at the same time, effectively making it an N600 router (more ontypes of routers can be found here.) And it's one of the most affordable one, currently costing just around $80 or less then $50 (refurbished).
In addition to the friendly pricing, the Linksys E2500 offered very good performance in my testing, and it comes with desktop software that makes setting it up and managing the home network a no-brainer for home users.
The TP-Link Nano Router is not for everyone. For one it comes with just one Ethernet port that works as either a LAN or a WAN port. And secondly, it supports a single-stream of Wireless-N to offer the cap speed of just 150Mbps. It makes a great router for mobile users, especially those who need to share an Internet connection in a hotel room. In addition to working as a router, this mini device can also work as an access point, a media bridge, or a range extender. At just around $20, you can't go wrong with it.
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The Division of Diabetes Translation (DDT) is a part of the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). DDT translates diabetes research into daily practice to understand the impact of the disease, influence health outcomes, and improve access to quality health care. Activities include implementing the National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP) aimed to reduce the burden of diabetes and pre-diabetes by facilitating the adoption of proven approaches to prevent or delay the onset of diabetes and its complications.
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The National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP) is a federally sponsored initiative, involving public and private partners. NDEP's goal is to reduce the morbidity and mortality associated with diabetes and its complications by improving the treatment and outcomes for people with diabetes, promoting early diagnosis, and ultimately, preventing the onset of diabetes. The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are jointly sponsoring the development of the program.
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The National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse (NDIC) is an information dissemination service of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK). The NIDDK is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which is part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
NDIC was established in 1978 to increase knowledge and understanding about diabetes among patients, health care professionals, and the general public. To carry out this mission, NDIC works closely with NIDDK's Diabetes Research and Training Centers; the National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP); professional, patient, and voluntary associations; Government agencies; and State health departments to identify and respond to informational needs about diabetes and its management.
The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) conducts and supports research on many of the most serious diseases affecting public health. The Institute supports much of the clinical research on the diseases of internal medicine and related subspecialty fields, as well as many basic science disciplines. The Institute's Division of Intramural Research encompasses the broad spectrum of metabolic diseases such as diabetes, obesity, inborn errors of metabolism, endocrine disorders, mineral metabolism, digestive and liver diseases, nutrition, urology and renal disease, and hematology. Basic research studies include biochemistry, biophysics, nutrition, pathology, histochemistry, bioorganic chemistry, physical chemistry, chemical and molecular biology, and pharmacology. NIDDK extramural research is organized into 4 divisions: Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolic Diseases; Digestive Diseases and Nutrition; Kidney, Urologic, and Hematologic Diseases; and Extramural Activities.
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The American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association (AARDA) is the only national nonprofit health agency dedicated to bringing a national focus to autoimmunity, the major cause of serious chronic diseases. AARDA is dedicated to the eradication of autoimmune diseases and the alleviation of suffering and the socioeconomic impact of autoimmunity through fostering and facilitating collaboration in the areas of education, public awareness, research, and patient services in an effective, ethical and efficient manner. AARDA provides patients with information and referrals through its national toll-free patient information line, 1-800-598-4668. AARDA also provides information on its Web site, www.aarda.org.
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The American Diabetes Association (ADA), formed in 1940, was created to fight diabetes through education and research. Local chapters and affiliates use volunteers to organize educational and screening programs and to conduct fundraising activities to support research aimed at care, control, and cure of diabetes. The Association supports research into the nature and cause of diabetes, more effective means of treatment, factors leading to complications, and prevention and cure of diabetes. Salary support is provided to promising young researchers, and research grants provide scientists with equipment, supplies, and technical assistance for the study of diabetes. Research symposia and scientific sessions are conducted annually. Five professional journals keep the medical and scientific communities up to date in their respective fields. Patient educational programs are conducted by the State and metropolitan affiliates. The ADA also cooperates with governmental organizations at all levels and encourages governmental legislation and programs directed at people with diabetes. There are 40 affiliate organizations and over 800 local chapters.
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Established in 1898, Joslin Diabetes Center is an internationally recognized institution that treats adults and children with diabetes, conducts diabetes research, educates patients and teaches professional personnel, and maintains summer camps for diabetic children.
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The mission of JDRF is to find a cure for diabetes and its complications through the support of research. JDRF, with chapters from coast to coast and affiliates around the world, gives more money to diabetes research than any other non-profit, non-governmental health agency in the world.
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Our diners enjoy the most beautiful sunset every night. Piper's menu emphasizes farm to plate ingredients that are of the highest quality.
If you have sensitivities to food, we have a separate Gluten Free Menu, and Dairy Free Menu. Piper has been serving the Holland area for almost 30 years. We receive great reviews over and over again, which you can read on Yelp, Facebook, Google Local, FindMeGlutenFree, FourSquare, and TripAdvisor.
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Jacob and the Angels
We must never forget that the host of heaven fights for the people of God in their war against the principalities and powers who enslave the human race (Eph. 6:12). In accordance with the Lord's sovereign will, they ...Read More
Jacob's Transformation
John Calvin wrote that those who think faith is exempt from fear have had no real experience of living by faith. After all, God nowhere promises that we will not suffer or become afraid in this life. What He does ...Read More
Jacob's Gift
Jacob's attempt to buy off his brother shows how little he trusted God to keep him safe as he returned to the Promised Land. He goes too far in trying to make amends with Esau, unconsciously showing a willingness ...Read More
Wrestling with the Lord
Jesus shows how we are to wrestle with God. In Gethsemane, our Savior thrice confessed His dread at His Father's wrath, asking Him each time to let the cup of suffering pass. But each time this request was accompanied ...Read More
A Wrestling People
The weight of today's passage lies in the fact that Jacob wrestled with God. Note, however, that Jacob could sustain the struggle only because of the Lord's grace to Him. Matthew Henry comments on today's passage: "We ...Read More
The Touch of the Lord
Augustine reminds us that "the touch of the Lord is the hand of the Lord, chastising and giving life" (Works of St. Augustine, 31:223). Too many Christians today run after the abundant, life-giving touch of God without being willing ...Read More
From Jacob to Israel
When God sends trials our way, He is not working against us. He also delivers us from the travails He permits (Pss. 18:2; 74; 79; 1 Cor. 10:13). Calvin writes that "inasmuch as he supplies us with more ...Read More
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Told ESPN's John Barr on Friday, January 28, 2011 that he took about 1000 pain killers per month, during his playing days as a result of the numerous injuries and broken bones he suffered.
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Attention Day Trippers: The Brighton Azalea Garden is the place to take Mom on Mothers Day. And, if Mom likes a picnic you can do so on the picnic grounds below Brighton Dam but just don't make Mom clean up!
History of the area: Triadelphia (Brighton Dam) and Rocky Gorge (T. Howard Duckett Dam) Reservoirs are surrounded by 6,000 acres of wooded property that comprise the WSSC portion of the Patuxent Watershed. Both properties store a combined surface area of 1,600 acres which is used as drinking water by WSSC customers in Prince George's and Montgomerty County. Brighton Dam is located at 2 Brighton Dam Road, Brookeville, Maryland 20833; and T. Howard Duckett Dam is located at 7400 Brooklyn Bridge Road, Laurel, Maryland 20707.
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When the bell rings on June 1, the teaching and learning does not stop. NISD offers an array of Summer School opportunities as a way to catch up in your studies, learn something new, or try to get ahead.
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Robotics and 3D printers. Instruments and mobile devices. Northside schools are finding unique ways to engage students in learning and an annual event allows students and teachers to share the successes from their campuses.
The third in our video series highlighting our District Educators of the Year in recognition of Teacher Appreciation Month are our high school level winners.
Seniors at Construction Careers Academy have taken on the biggest challenge of their high school careers - designing and building five tiny homes on custom trailers. Now that the transformation is complete, the public is invited to tour the tiny homes at a Community Showcase before they are sold.
Northside Story Fest will be held from 1 to 5 p.m. on Saturday, May 20 at Stinson Middle School, 13200 Skyhawk.
More than 400 NISD string students will have the opportunity of a lifetime when they learn from and perform with Haydn Vitera, former member of the Grammy-winning Asleep at the Wheel as part of an Artist Residency program, "Electrify Your Strings (EYS)."
More than 525 employees are being honored this week for almost 11,500 years of service to Northside ISD at the annual Recognition and Retirement Celebration.
Levitating off the ground with hovercraft rides. Interacting with hissing cockroaches and prickly sticks. Learning to maneuver giant robots. Viewing the stars in a mobile planetarium. Those are just a few of the more than 30 science, technology, engineering, and math (or STEM) activities at the inaugural Jay Science and Engineering Academy STEM Fest.
Sixth, seventh and eighth grade choir students from 18 middle schools will sing and dance together for the tenth annual "Together We Sing" performance, being held at 7 p.m., Saturday, May 13 at the Northside Sports Gym.
Teachers deserve to be appreciated every day, but May is the month when we focus on recognizing their many contributions. The Video of the Week features our middle school educators of the year.
We all remember teachers who inspired us at one time or another. Teacher Appreciation Week is dedicated to remembering and honoring all educators.
Northside ISD is projecting more than 2,400 students to register in Pre-Kindergarten, a program for four-year-old children offered in 69 elementary schools for next year. Registration is underway at neighborhood schools during normal school hours.
Between preparing healthy food, adhering to strict nutrition standards, navigating student food allergies, and offering service with a smile, Child Nutrition Department employees have a lot on their plate. Their effort is being honored throughout Northside during Child Nutrition Employee Appreciation Week, May 1-5.
University Health System is offering a convenient way for parents to stay up-to-date with their child's immunizations. They will dispatch a mobile clinic to 12 NISD campuses in May.
Now is the perfect time to empty medicine cabinets, bedside tables, and kitchen drawers of unwanted, unused, and expired prescription drugs as the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) holds its annual National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day on Saturday, April 29.
Last night, Trustees discussed and took action on several items: approved 210 additional campus staff to accommodate growth and the opening of the Harlan HS and Kallison ES; approved the official calendar for the 2018-2019 school year; named "Grosenbacher area" elementary school after Dr. Linda Mora; and appointed campus administrators including three principals.
The Stevens High School Police Explorers program is in its first year of being a school organization and they are making great strides in preparing students for a future career. The after school program is teaching students real life police skills with on-hands training.
Despite cloudy skies, the 21st Texas Solar Race Car Event went on with battery-powered assistance on April 22 at Gustafson Stadium.
Two Warren HS students witnessed state government firsthand by testifying before the Texas Senate Veteran Affairs and Border Security Committee on a "Student to Soldier" bill. The students were in Austin testifying on SB 1152, a bill drafted by Warren HS Assistant Principal Venissia Villarreal in conjunction with Senator Jose Menendez, which would allow students to choose the Career Readiness path by enlisting in the military.
Northside ISD recognized hundreds of campus volunteers and business partners who donate their time and energy to enrich the education of thousands of NISD students.
Original artwork from hundreds of elementary, middle, and high school students will be showcased at Northside's annual ArtFest on April 21 and 22 at the Northside Sports Gym at 8400 Loop 1604 W.
Marshall High School senior Elijah Garza never wanted to be part of anything in high school, but a friend convinced him to try out for the Navy JROTC precision air rifle team. "It changed my outlook on high school," Garza says.
The school is still under construction but the principal has been appointed, the furniture is being ordered, the teachers are being hired, and Principal Billy Navin is getting ready to welcome hundreds of students on the first day of school.
A new program is being offered at Brandeis High School this year that will equip students with the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to be active and successful learners both in high school and in college.
You know it is almost Fiesta time when groups start showing off their medals (or shoes!) and NISD schools have quite a few medals available for purchase this year.


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iPod: e- and guidebooks
When I travelled to Goa recently, I felt the urge to carry my fairly bulky Lonely Planet India guidebook. Short of ripping out the section on Goa (there's an idea), I had no option. I also happen to own a bunch of Outlook Traveller guides. Which are printed on art paper, and are really, really heavy (d-uh!). So what to do?
Compulsive-obsessive behaviour ensured that I'd done loads of research about the place. I had in fact, copy-pasted a 39 K text file (I kid you not) which history, places to see, places to eat etc. The question was how to carry this info. That is when I found this site.
If you don't want to read his fairly long version, here's what you do. Go to this site (http://tinyurl.com/6uebo) and upload your text file. Also type in a name (if you type in book, the split file will be book-
After a moment's delay, you'll get a link to download a zip file. This file will have a whole bunch of serialised text files which contain xml/xhtml (I'm not a techie) that link up to each other in sequence.
Copy all the files into your iPod's notes folder (I think you're supposed to exit iTunes before you use your iPod as a hard disk) and you're done. While travelling, now you can access your full guide book without any weight penalty.
In actual use, I found this quite handy and perhaps the only irritant is having to scroll backwards to exit the guidebook. As in, if you're on page 40 of the guidebook, you will have go backwards (all the way to page 1) to exit it. Music will play in the background, but you can't adjust volume etc while reading. Since the backlight remains on while you read and the hard disk spins up when you change pages, the iPod does consume a bit more battery than usual when you're reading.
This process also allows you to store ebooks on your iPod for reading. Same advantages and pitfalls apply.
I found that mycitymate.com offers free guidebooks for many European cities.


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The Rails Rumble is an annual programming competition where teams of up to four people will have 48 hours to build an innovative web application in Ruby on Rails. Once the build portion of the competition is over, a two-phase judging process selects the winning entries in several categories. In the first judging phase, a selected panel of experts reviews all qualifying applications to determine the top tier. Once they're finished and the top applications identified, the public judging period begins. The categories of winners include: Grand Prize, Second Prize, Third Prize, Solo, Appearance and User Interface, Originality and Innovation, Usefulness, and Completeness. Thanks to Nick Plante, Darcy Laycock, Erin Shine, and Jeff Rafter who organized this year's event.
Completeness Prize
The 2009 Rails Rumble Completeness Prize goes to the Hurl application, developed by Chris Wanstrath and Leah Culver.
Chris, what does the Hurl application actually do?
Hurl makes HTTP requests. It's like a Web-based version of Curl. The cool part is you can share requests with other people -- it's a great way to, say, document an API and give people examples to play with.
What tools did you use to build it?
I use Emacs and Safari while Leah uses Coda and Firefox. The app itself is built in Ruby using Sinatra for the web part and Redis for the data storage.
Yes, we didn't use Rails. But the rules say any Rack-based framework is allowed so we chose the best tool for the job.
Other than that we used simplejson to format the json, xmllint to format the xml, Pygments to do the syntax highlighting, and Curb to make the requests.
What was the hard part in building Hurl?
The UI. We knew what we wanted the app to do but not how we wanted it to do it. We spent a lot of time fiddling with the UI and various workflows.
Making a screencast helped a lot because we were able to add in things we thought were missing as we tried to explain the application to someone. It helped us fill in some missing pieces.
What would you have done different?
Redis is an amazing piece of technology, but it's not great for running popular sites on VPSes with a tiny amount of RAM. We need to (sadly) move the backend to something that is disk bound rather than memory bound -- we have much more disk than memory on our Linode slice.
Where do you go with Hurl from here?
We need to rewrite the data storage but other than that we're going to keep it as-is. We plan to open source the app in the near future so anyone can run their own version of Hurl.
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Yeah. I am always quoting things from Twilight and no one knows what I'm talking about. It's so funny.haha Yeah, my boyfriend once made the mistake of asking me "What are you reading?" and then "Oh. What's that about?"
Now, having not read the books himself and not being a big reader either, he pretty much knows anything and everything there is to know about Twilight. haha I relate everything to Twilight all the time, and he has gotten used to it. He has seen the trailers a million times, and he knows he will be seeing the movie with me a million times while I freak out like a silly girl. lol
What amazes me the most is that I know so many people who have never heard of the books! I'm like, "Where have you been for the past like year?!" I mentioned something about Twilight to someone and they said, "What's that?" I gave them a shocked look and they responded by saying, "I don't play video games."


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Are you planning to spend the coming holiday by doing what have been delayed the whole year, catching the rarest or biggest fish with your fishing pals? Selecting the best spot or site to do fishing is indeed important, but it is not the only one that you should consider. The best fishing spot or site will be useless or even disappointing, without the hardy fly rods fishing gear in your hand to cacth your fish. Try to check your old fishing gear that you keep in the closet and waits for you to use to catch the most beautiful fish. If you think the gear is now too old and will not accommodate your need in the coming fishing season, it is the best time for you to buy not only the new ones but also the greatest one.
When you check fishing store in your neighborhood, you might be surprised with the gear's price. The best fishing gear will indeed cost you greatly, but it will be worth the performance that you can do later when you face even the hardest catch. Even though the price of sage fly rods and other gears might be able to beat you, it does not mean that you cannot afford it with less expense.
Shopping online will be your best decision in getting every fishing gear that you need, starting from sage one, fly reel, kits, reels, leaders, storage cases, lines, waders, tying tools, tippet, outerwear, boots, flies, tying bags, and many more. And unlike those offered in local fishing stores, you might get the best offering in online stores. They do not only provide the best quality of fishing gear but also those with the best price. With such offering, it is not anymore impossible for you to get the best gear without wasting so much money as it is in local stores. All you need to do later is to show off your best fishing ability to your pals!


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Depending on your wattage the 250 Series can be equipped with a 120V 60Hz Magnetic NPF, 120V 60Hz Electronic NPF, 120/277V 50/60Hz Electronic HPF, or LED 120V 50/60Hz Electronic HPF ballast. This fixture is wall mountable only and is certified for damp locations. Lamps are included unless ordered with the no lamp (NL) option.
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By Don Berwick, M.D., Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
We have been given a great opportunity – under the historic Affordable Care Act – to create the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation.
The ultimate goal of the Innovation Center is to explore new approaches to the way we pay for and deliver care to patients so that we have better results both in terms of the quality of care and the affordability of coverage. Congress has charged this new CMS Center with identifying, testing and ultimately spreading new ways of delivering care and new ways of paying for care.
This is an enormous, challenging and exciting opportunity. But, we cannot do it alone. The Innovation Center will work with a diverse group of stakeholders including patient advocates, hospitals, doctors, consumers, employers, states, and other federal agencies to get the best ideas and put them to work.
We want to work with you to better understand your needs.
Introducing the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation
The Innovation Center is different from what CMS has done before. The Innovation Center will rigorously and rapidly assess the progress of its programs and work with caregivers, insurers, and employers to replicate successful innovations in communities across the country.
The initial work of the Center will focus on three areas:
- Better Care for People: Improving care for patients in hospitals, nursing homes, and doctors' offices, and developing ways to make care safer, more patient-centered, more efficient, more effective, more timely, and more equitable.
- Coordinating Care to Improve Health Outcomes for Patients: Developing new models that make it easier for doctors and nurses and other caregivers to work together to care for a patient.
- Community Care Models: Exploring steps to improve public health and make communities healthier and stronger by fighting the epidemics of obesity, smoking, and heart disease.
Introducing innovations.cms.gov
Along with the Innovation Center, CMS is introducing a new Web site today – innovations.cms.gov. This website will:
- Enable anyone who wants to help to join us on this endeavor.
- Broadly share knowledge.
- Work with integrated, interdisciplinary teams from all sectors and all backgrounds.
The Web site is the first step toward building a platform for collaboration and information sharing as we develop new care and payment models. Over the upcoming months, we will build out the capabilities of this site, so please check back frequently, subscribe to our blog, or subscribe to receive email updates.
None of this will be easy. Government cannot and should not do this alone. That's why we are working with leaders in the private sector to come up with the best answers to the problems that face us all.
We hope that you will join us, too. What I ask for is your partnership and your input. I would like to help forge an unprecedented level of shared aim, shared vision, and synergy in action among the public and private stewards and leaders of health care.
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Leonardo da Vinci doesn't just battle his inner devils in the latest episode of "Da Vinci's Demons." He takes on Vlad the Impaler.
Yes, that Vlad—Dracula.
No wonder the episode, debuting at 8 p.m. CT May 17 on Starz, is called "The Devil." The Turk (Alexander Siddig) visits Leo (Tom Riley) to offer a clue about the Book of Leaves. Leo is inspired—or tricked of drugged or something—into rounding up Zoroaster (Gregg Chillin) and Nico (Eros Vlahos) and heading to Wallachia, where they encounter Vlad Dracula in all his morose glory.
"It's very dark. It's very different and it's very fun," Chillin said of the episode. "We shot that sort of toward the end of a long shoot and we were all a bit tired and a bit haggard."
Chillin met Paul Rhys, who plays Vlad, during the car ride to set. But the British actor admitted to not really remembering it. "I was probably still asleep, with it being about half four in the morning," he said, laughing.
They didn't meet again until the scene you see in the video clip above, when Vlad invites the three friends into his grand dining hall.
"I was genuinely looking at Tom and Eros thinking, 'Wow, this guy is creepy,'" Chillin said. "Seeing him in character was great."
Coincidentally, Rhys played Leonardo da Vinci in the Tom Fontana-written European series "Borgia: Faith and Fear." (Not to be confused with Showtime's "The Borgias.") And he played the campire Ivan in the original British "Being Human," in which Chillin played the ghost-making landlord Owen.
Rhys "gives an extraordinary performance" in "The Devil," Chillin said. "That whole episode was really fun. I'm looking forward to seeing that one out of all of them, actually.
"It was creepy. It's really creepy. Really, really creepy."
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A little more sonic
- Vibrating toothbrush that looks like a sonic screwdriver
- Includes batteries and a spare brush head
- Officially licensed Doctor Who collectible
Captain Jack Harkness: Who looks at a screwdriver and thinks, "Ooh, this could be a little more sonic"?
The Doctor: What, you've never been bored?
You'd think that if you had the ability to travel all of time and space, you wouldn't get bored. But if you think about it, we have tiny computers in our pockets, a vast internet to explore, and giant aluminum birds that can fly us all over the world and we still get bored from time to time. Boredom is what triggers creativity... or at least harebrained schemes.
The Doctor's boredom resulted in this Sonic Screwdriver Toothbrush. It's a little more sonic than your average toothbrush (but not as sonic as one of those fancy-schmancy toothbrushes). This vibrating toothbrush will clean your pearly whites after you dirty them eating a whole box of Jammy Dodgers. There's even a spare brush head so you can share your toothbrush with a friend!
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- Recommended ages: 3 - adult
- Vibrating toothbrush that looks like the 11th Doctor's sonic screwdriver
- Includes a spare brush head
- Officially licensed Doctor Who collectible
- Batteries: 1 AA (included)
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Early this week, the Dolphins claimed a cornerback off of waivers to help shore up their ailing group at the position.
On Wednesday, they made another move at the position. Chris Owens was claimed off of waivers from the Browns, joining the recently acquired Jalil Brown on the cornerback depth chart while Justin Rogers, signed after washing out in Buffalo and Houston, was erased from it.
Owens will be reunited with Brent Grimes in Miami. The two men spent the last four years together as members of the Falcons secondary. They went different directions during the offseason, with Owens landing in Cleveland for 13 games and 22 tackles.
Grimes is battling a groin injury and Nolan Carroll hurt his knee against the Patriots last week, although both of them have been able to practice in a limited fashion this week. Safety Chris Clemons and cornerback Jamar Taylor joined them as limited participants, making the need for healthy bodies in the Miami secondary all the more pressing.
Whoever is able to make it to the field on Sunday probably won't have to deal with Bills wide receiver Stevie Johnson. He's unlikely to play after going to California to be with his family following the death of his mother.


text: Artist: Common f/ Marsha Ambrosius, Bilal Album: The Smirnoff Signature Mix Series Song: The Light '08 (It's Love) Typed by: email@example.com [Common - Intro] Shout outs to J Dilla Just Blaze... It's love...Common... [Common - Verse 1ne] I never knew a love, love, a love like this It's sorta like the love that's played in tennis Limitless, when intimate friends express it I talked to the Most, and I know he blessed it The cadence of destiny, patience, and ecstacy we can be fresh on the, cover of Ebony But this is somethin special we ain't tryna exploit wit a couple a actresses, now I'm in the tabloids Like bad boys, real love moves in silence About out bih'ness, family bih'ness stay private Don't sweat the small stuff girl, cause we both giants I looked into your eye's and I see divine vibrance The way that Prince, Minnie Rip' and Joni Mitch' described it A beautiful package, what's even better is inside it Alive with the feelings that I'm feelin' with you Forever became real, but even realer with you - it's love [Chorus: Marsha Ambrosius] It's love, it's love everytime I think about your smile Anytime I need you by my side, you were there for me 'cause you are THE LIGHT, that shiiiiines and I want the world to see, that you are THE LIGHT that shines, you are my life Loooove... [Common - Verse 2wo] It's important we communicate and watch this relationship illuminate the world Black pearl in you is a lover and friend Picture how your name will sound with the last name Lynn Put a prayer in the air, that it never'll end and if so, when we come back, it'll be better again I will be by your side through the smile & laughs, The child we have, even when the clouds is bad I know your heart had been broken by a love that pass and when you're not lookin, that's when love can grab Sometimes you gotta ask, "Are we movin too fast?" Ain't no limit to a love, that's given from above Mean fish, collard greens, corn bread, you be rockin it Similar values, though in many ways we opposite Attracted to your 'uh', and the way that you be poppin it Brighten my life reminded me to stay positive - it's love [Chorus] [Common - Verse 3hree] It's kinda fresh you listen to more than hip-hop Pop, rock, and Green Day, respectin what the King say For me to give a ring, hey, only a queen may Invites to loved ones, imagine a dream day Walkin down the aisles sayin vows, us eternal. Til thus do us, for now we stay fertile Chicka-uh, chicka-uh, chicka-chicka-ta uh Let's keep creatin baby, what we makin' is love [Bridge: Bilal] Love is like a melody Looked into her eyes and see A night that shines as bright as day All my troubles drift away, The liiiiight, the liiiight, the liiiight (Looked into her eyes and see) The liiiiiight, the liiiiight, the liii-hiii-hi-hiiiiight [Chorus] {Marsha Ambrosius harmonizes as "Once again, it's the light!" is scratched} [Just Blaze] You have somebody...don't be embarrassed, don't be afraid Put 'em close, let 'em know.. You might not get another chance, trust! (There is a liiiight, that shiiiines...ooooooh whoooooo-whoooa...)


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You can find results and/or testimonials from my clients admitted to to the Stanford Classes of 2016 (2 in Round 1), 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, and 2010 here. My full Stanford results prior to the Class of 2014 can be found here. My clients admitted to Stanford GSB have come from China, India, Latin America, Japan, South Korea, and the United States and have had extremely diverse professional and educational backgrounds. The advice I provide below is based on that experience.
Stanford GSB MBA admission interviews, while so hard to get, are not necessarily hard interviews because (1) most of the questions are relatively predictable, (2) the overall style of the interview is typically conversational, and (3) time constraints are either minimal or non-existent. This is interview about fit as typically determined by an alumni "gatekeeper." Interviews with admissions or other Stanford staff do happen as well, but this is relatively rare. Chances are good that this gatekeeper might be in your industry or in some manner have a complementary background for assessing you. For example, if you might be perceived as lacking a particularly important attribute (professional experience in the field related to your goals or English skills for example), don't surprised if the alumni is someone who is in a good position to judge this. While I imagine in some places with few alumni, a high level of complementary assessment (e.g., Mc Kinsey applicant interviewed by Boston Consulting Group alumnus) would be less likely, I can say that it is the rule rather the exception if you reside in a location with numerous Stanford alumni.
Interacting with the interviewer
You can typically expect a lively exchange and hopefully a good conversation. If your interview is scheduled for late on a workday or on a weekend or outside of the interviewer's office, whatever you do, don't make any plans for it to end on time as Stanford interviews are well known for going long.
Reported interview length for interviews is official 45 minutes, but can go on for longer than that. It usually consists of 30-40 minutes of questions from the alumni followed by 5-15 minutes of question to the alum, but often the interviews go longer, an hour or more is not uncommon. In my own experience with clients, I would say that if the interview goes for an hour or more, that is a good sign, but a 45 minute interview is not necessarily a bad sign. Interviews that last 75 minutes to 120 minutes are not uncommon.
Whoever you interview with, they are likely to be quite friendly and the style of the interview is conversational. Stanford alumni are provided with very clear guidelines for how to conduct interviews. The alumnus will be provided with a list of questions, which they utilize. The extent to which the alumnus does this appears to be highly variable. You may get more of an informal conversation with the occasional behavioral question or you might get something consists of many of the standard interview questions mentioned below.
Just because your interviewer is friendly, it does not mean that you are doing well. Don't assume a friendly interviewer is not actually a super critical one. Alumni are the gatekeepers and Stanford can afford to reject anyone. Take nothing for granted.
Preparing for the interview
Given the mix of standard interview questions and behavioral questions, I do suggest you prepare extensively for both kinds of questions. For my detailed suggestions on overall interview preparation, please see:
-MBA Application Interview Strategy
Further Comments on MBA Admissions Interviews
-General Characteristics of Admissions Officers, Students, and Alumni Interviewers -Recovering from a bad answer during an MBA admissions interview -10 Ways to Blow an MBA Admissions Interview
- Tell me about your background/walk me through your resume.
- Tell me a bit about yourself
- What extracurricular activity are you most proud of?
- What did you take away from your undergraduate experience?
- What do you like to do outside of work?
- Tell about a time you streamlined operations/made things more efficient? What did you do? How did you measure its success?
- What metrics did you use?
- Tell me about your international experience.
- What is your favorite place you've traveled?
- What is your company's strategy? Is it succeeding?
- Tell me about a specific time when you realized you needed an MBA.
- Why a Stanford MBA?
- Why do you need an MBA?
- Why now?
- Why Stanford?
- How would you decide between schools if you got into multiple MBA programs?
- What will you bring that is unique to the program?
- How will you contribute to Stanford?
- What are your short-term goals? Long-term goals?
- Where else have you applied? How have those worked out?
- Explain how you are ready for academic rigor.
- Tell me about a time you faced an obstacle and what did you do about it?
- Tell me about a time you faced an ethical situation.
- Tell me about a time you had your beliefs challenged.
- Tell me about a time you had to stand your ground and how did you do it?
- Tell me about a time your values were challenged and you had to consult your moral compass?
- Tell me about someone difficult to work with that was in a position above you and what you learned from it.
- Tell me about a time when others have pointed out a weakness of yours.
- Tell me about the most valuable piece of feedback you've ever received. How did it change your relationship with that individual? Why was it important?
- What is a valuable piece of feedback you have received?
- Tell me about a time things didn't go according to plan and you failed? What did you learn from it?
- What did you learn from a failure?
- Tell me about an individual or group failure.
- Tell me about a time when you failed. What did you learn from that event and how have you implemented what you learned from that failure?
- How do you deal with failure?
- Name a book that you've read recently that was not for work. We then discussed that book.
- What is your favorite book that is not work related?
- What are your 3 favorite books?
- Tell me about what inspires you.
- Is there anything you've done merely out of passion?
- If money were not an issue, what cause would you pursue most vigorously?
- Tell me about a time you wanted to give up but found the motivation to keep going?
- What is your greatest accomplishment?
- Tell me about a time you had to make a trade-off between two equally attractive opportunities?
- Tell me about a time you worked with a difficult team member or manager.
- Tell me about an individual or group failure.
- Tell me about a team experience.
- Have you ever led a team?
- Tell me about a time when you had to lead a team of individuals. What did you learn about yourself? What did you learn about leadership?
- Tell me about a leadership experience.
- Tell me about a time you knew you were an effective leader and how did you know?
- What is your leadership style? Give me an example of how you've led that way.
- When have you led peers and how?
- Tell me about a time when a leader fell short and you had to step up and lead.
- Tell me about a time when you've been challenged as a leader and what you learned from it.
-and my more recent post, When to start MBA interview practice? How to prepare?
The above posts are my general remarks on MBA admissions interview strategy and apply here. For answering behavioral questions, please see MIT Sloan MBA Interviews, which will teach you how to be a STAR (if you don't know what I am talking about, read the post for sure).
Typical Questions
My colleague, H. Steven Green, has put the following together by reviewing interview reports of Stanford University GSB interviews found at accepted.com and clearadmit.com.
Demonstrate Fit
You need to be able to explain in-depth why you should be admitted to Stanford, what you can contribute, and what you want to learn. Be willing to openly discuss what soft and hard skills you need to improve/acquire. Show yourself to be open, dynamic, change oriented, and a highly motivated person because the alum will be.
Prepare good questions
Since there is supposed to be time for you to ask questions to the alum, you need to give some significant thought to formulating those. Consider what year the alum graduated and any other background information if you can determine that through Linkedin or other sources of information. Develop four or more questions to ask.
For more about my interview services, please see here.
-Adam Markus
I am a graduate admissions consultant who works with clients worldwide. If you would like to arrange an initial consultation, please complete my intake form. Please don't email me any essays, other admissions consultant's intake forms, your life story, or any long email asking for a written profile assessment. The only profiles I assess are those with people who I offer initial consultations to. Please note that initial consultations are not offered when I have reached full capacity or when I determine that I am not a good fit with an applicant.


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Happy Geese allows young children and children with ASD, ADHD and other special needs to learn classic board games, one step at a time.
In Happy Geese we have taken two of the most popular board games and have analyzed all the main challenges that they include. We have then created a highly simplified version of each game and added a simple mechanism that allows you, the parent or educator, to gradually introduce each feature of the game when your child is ready for it.
The Game of the Goose: a traditional and highly popular board game, but with a variety of challenges.
In Happy Geese, you will be able to choose between boards with shapes of increasing difficulty and add challenges one at a time: dice with colors, shapes, letters and numbers, jumps between geese, bridges between cells, final cell configuration. We have even included visual aids to help see what the next move should be.
Find out more about The Game of the Goose >
Snakes & Ladders is another hugely popular classic board game, played by families all around the world.
In our version of Snakes & Ladders, you will be able to choose between boards with shapes of increasing difficulty. You can then combine these with a wide variety of options: cells with colors, shapes or letters, a variety of dices, snakes and ladders.
Find out more about Snakes & Ladders >
Besides being fun to play with the whole family, our games have been designed to offer specific educational benefits:
Many details have been thought through and included in Happy Geese to help the whole family to have fun whilst learning a variety of new skills.
It seems like the launch of Happy Geese was only yesterday and we are already receiving many great testimonials from our users. We are thrilled about them and want to share a few here:
Happy Geese is a multi-game platform and our aim is to offer a whole range of board games over time.
We are approachable and hope that you will tell us what is missing and what we can improve in our games. Please get in touch and let us know what games you want us to include.


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For the beef:
- 1 pound flank steak
- 1/2 cup red wine vinegar
- 1 lime, zested and juiced
- 1/4 cup chopped cilantro leaves
- 1 tablespoon hot sauce
- 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon fresh ground black pepper
For the sauce:
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 2 chipotle chiles in adobo (canned), chopped
- 1 tablespoon adobo sauce (from chipotle can)
- 1 1/2 cups heavy cream
- 1 cup processed grated Cheddar
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- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil, plus more if needed for steak
- 1 red bell pepper, cut into strips
- 4 hoagie rolls
- 1 avocado, pitted and flesh sliced 1/4-inch thick
- 1 cup cilantro leaves
Place flank steak, red wine vinegar, zest lime juice, cilantro, hot sauce, Worcestershire, salt and ground black pepper in a large plastic bag. Marinate for 1 hour in the refrigerator. Remove flank steak and pat dry. Place in freezer for 1 hour.
Meanwhile, prepare the sauce: Melt butter over medium heat-high heat in a sauce pot. Add flour, chipotle and adobo sauce, stir to combine. Add heavy cream slowly, stirring well with each addition to incorporate. Add cheese and stir until melted. Keep over low heat while finishing sandwich.
Remove flank steak from freezer and slice on the bias against the grain into 1/4-inch thick pieces. Heat 1 tablespoon of oil in a cast iron griddle or skillet, and saute the red peppers until they blacken around the edges, and soften, about 8 minutes. Remove from griddle and turn heat to medium-high, add more oil if necessary and sear steak in batches, about 2 minutes.
To assemble the sandwiches: Cut bread loaves in half, leaving 1 side attached. Layer on avocado slices, top with flank steak, red pepper, and cilantro. Drizzle with chipotle cheese sauce and serve immediately.


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"Sex Pigs" Campaign Creates Space for Sexually Adventurous Australian Men to Talk About HIV Risk
An Interview With Kathy Triffitt
My name is Kathy Triffitt, from Positive Life New South Wales, Sydney. The poster is "Sex Pigs: A Rough Guide to Dirty Sex -- A New Approach to HIV Prevention."
Tell us a little bit about your poster. Does it describe a program, or a study that you are doing?
I work in social marketing and education, and we're funded by New South Wales Health. I received a directive to develop a prevention campaign for guys who have been described as being into sexually adventurous sex -- group sex, fisting, drugs, and so on. Because we're an organization geared toward HIV-positive people, what we're doing here is we're speaking to HIV-positive guys who choose to use risk-reduction strategies (other than condoms) with guys they know or assume to be HIV positive.
Kathy Triffitt
We had to develop messages around sexual health, safe sex, STI [sexually transmitted infection] testing and HIV prevention that speak to HIV-positive guys, but that also speak to HIV-negative guys and people that move in and out of the sex pig culture, some of whom are HIV negative.
Can you describe the sex pig culture? Is it just in Australia?
No, no. It's a subculture all over the world, really. The biggest difficulty we have had in Australia is actually describing the culture. Because people tend to move in and out of the culture -- it's there when people need it. As we said here, it's the whole thing about how you define the culture. What language do you use, and what imagery?
The way that I work is that whatever campaign I'm asked to do, I will work with the people we're trying to speak to. In this case, we did discussion groups, community forums, interviews, etc., [with people involved in sex pig culture,] and asked questions about how they define their culture and what language we should be using.
I particularly like this one here, where guys talk about "keeping it real" -- using everyday language and imagery. So this particular narrative here, from Dmitri [see poster]: "We need to be involved in describing what it means for us. It's good to talk about sex pigs, because it acknowledges sex drive and opens up discussions on social boundaries, drugs, moral codes and assumptions made about HIV status. Talking about sex pigs demystifies and destigmatizes what we do."
HIV prevention for "sex pigs": Sex Pigs: A Rough Guide to Dirty Sex (PDF)
We wanted to get people who identify as sex pigs involved in campaign development, to lead the way we use the language and imagery in the campaign. With the photo session, even though I gave them a brief description, the imagery is about reproducing ways of relating to and learning about the culture. Community members participated in the photography session and shaped the images and the use of language. It's about tapping into community norms, ethics and values. That's a philosophy we use in all of our work.
What sorts of messages do you use?
The messages are about sexual health. It's more serious for an HIV-positive guy to get syphilis, for example -- it progresses a lot faster. So there's a message there around testing for STIs. There are messages there around changing gloves and condoms when you're moving from partner to partner -- from ass to ass, if you want to be graphic. Because there's not only syphilis, but there's also sexually transmitted hep C [hepatitis C], which is really starting to emerge as an area that we need to be looking at. Actually, just before I left Australia, I finished a draft focusing on sexually transmitted hep C for this particular group.
These are the campaign objectives [see box]: There are strategies for preventing HIV transmission, which include promoting the use of condoms with partners of unknown or different HIV serostatus.
Lots of guys get together and the choice may be not to use condoms between pos [HIV-positive] guys. But when they're in a group sex situation, there might be HIV-negative guys that come into it, and assumptions are made about serostatus.
The campaign also acknowledges the role of the Internet in negotiating sex and building confidence around discussing HIV status -- obviously, issues around disclosure are very difficult for pos guys. The campaign also aims to increase awareness around PEP [post-exposure prophylaxis], and of the hep C transmission risk around fisting.
How do you get the message out about the program and get people involved? Do you do outreach? Do you go to sex clubs and put out literature?
Yes. The resources -- in particular the booklet, which has limited distribution -- are distributed throughout "sex-on-premises" venues. Three of the community forums that we ran, "Sex Pigs I and II" and "Hot Fuck," were actually run in a place in Sydney called Manacle, which is where these guys hang out, and we got huge attendance. So that's kind of getting out the message and spreading awareness around the campaign.
Of course, we advertised the campaign on the Internet. We have Gaydar, as well, so we had banners on Gaydar, Manhunt and other community media. We have two major community newspapers in Sydney: the Sydney Star Observer and SX, where we also advertised. Positive Life has its own magazine called Talkabout, where we obviously promote our campaigns.
It's really important for campaigns like this to be multilayered. While resources are important, I think it's important to create spaces for men to be able to talk about sex and the risks that they take. I have found that with some of the interviews that I've done, guys talk about how it's important to be able to get together and talk about sex, and risk-taking, because people are judged around risk-taking.
One guy who participated in the campaign said that if we had a safe place in which to talk about risk-taking, maybe there'd be more understanding, therefore, that may contribute in some way to less risk-taking.
It's really interesting. We do create a lot of spaces for guys, and in particular HIV-positive guys, to come together and talk about these things. But we also have found -- because gay men move in and out of the same social and sexual spaces -- that our campaigns really do speak to both HIV-positive and HIV-negative gay men, or MSM [men who have sex with men].
Does your organization have a Web site?
We do have a Web site. It's www.positivelife.org.au. We also do a whole range of campaigns. So look at our Web site, because we've done work with living longer with HIV, STIs, serodiscordant relationships. There's a whole range.
Great. Thank you so much, Kathy.
- Triffitt K. Sex pigs: A rough guide to dirty sex -- a new approach to prevention. In: Program and abstracts of the XVII International AIDS Conference; August 3-8, 2008; Mexico City, Mexico. Abstract THPE0347.


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Nuclear fusion, the process that powers the sun, requires a tremendous amount of heat and pressure to force two particles with positive charges close enough for the strong nuclear force to bind them together. As that fusion takes place, a great deal of energy is released. The challenge for those of us here on earth who view fusion as a potential clean energy source is to figure out how to create the heat and pressure needed in a way that's efficient enough that the resulting fusion releases more energy than we put in.
Most of these efforts, such as the long running ITER project, have involved large scale equipment designed to create environments similar to the sun. But a handful of researchers have focused on creating a hot, high pressure micro-environment within an apparatus that can operate near room temperature. Following the Pons and Fleischmann cold fusion fiasco, such research is now generally termed "desktop fusion", in order to distinguish it from its less credible relative. Most desktop fusion efforts use the same heavy isotope of hydrogen, deuteurium, as are used in the large scale reactors. Scientists just use various tricks to create a limited environment in which fusion is more probable.
A big success in this field came last year when UCLA researchers reported a new method for getting reasonably efficient desktop fusion. In simple terms, the researchers immobilized some deuteurium based on its affinity to a metal surface. Next up, they took advantage of what's called a "pyroelectric crystal". These crystals, when heated, build up a large charge difference. When such a crystal was placed in a container of deuteurium gas, the charge on the crystal stripped the electron off of deuteurium atoms and accelerated them towards the deuteurium coated metal. Once they got there, the speed was enough to cause the accelerated particles to fuse with the immobilized ones.
Although successful, the amount of energy required to run the system still outweighed that produced by the fusion. The authors, however, noted, "Although the reported fusion is not useful in the power-producing sense, we anticipate that the system will find application as a simple palm-sized neutron generator." So the power of the sun in your hand is still a long way off, but you may at least get access to some of its output from a palm-sized device. Neutrons have a number of potential uses, including radiation treatment of cancers and sterilization of equipment or food, so the commercialization of this technique holds promise. In a recent paper in Physical Review Letters, researchers took another step in that direction. In addition to confirming the UCLA team's results, the researchers improved the efficiency of the device by targeting two of the pyroelectric crystals at each other, an arrangement that seems designed to create head-on collisions between the deuteurium atoms. Although this new device still won't power a flying Delorean, its small size and high neutron output may place fusion in your doctor's office long before it gets anywhere as an energy source.


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Writing Documentation
- 1 Writing and Translating Docbook Documentation for the PKP
- 1.1 Resources
- 1.2 Working with Documentation the Easy Way
- 1.3 Working with Documentation the Complete Way
- 1.4 Common DocBook Elements You Should be Using
- 1.5 Setting up the Tools you need to work with DocBook
Writing and Translating Docbook Documentation for the PKP
Official PKP documentation is written in DocBook XML. DocBook XML is easy to write in and maintain, and allows us to quickly create HTML and PDF versions of our documentation from a single source file. Many XML Editors support DocBook, and two in particular (XXE and Oxygen XML) include WYSIWYG-like editing features that make editing and translating documents easier for those who don't know XML.
This page will introduce DocBook briefly, and describe how we use it and the associated stylesheets to create documentation. It also describes how these documents may be easily translated and contributed back to PKP.
Writings, books on DocBook
XML Editors
- Exhaustive list on the DocBook wiki
- XXE: Multi-platform XML Editor. This Editor supports DocBook, and will provide a WYSIWYG interface. The personal edition is free, but the program itself is not Open Source.
- Oxygen XML: Multi-platform XML Editor. This Editor supports DocBook, and will provide a WYSIWYG interface. It is not Free/Open Source. There is a 30-day trial available.
Source and Transformation Files
(Note that many XML Editors include a validation function.)
Other Interesting Stuff
- 'Writing "Learning PHP 5" -- an article by David Sklar; he talks about writing his book using DocBook Lite and XEmacs, with some neat keybindings.
- Getting Productive with XMLMind -- an article by O'Reilly on how they use XXE to edit their documents.
- a good intro into the whats and whys of DocBook
Working with Documentation the Easy Way
If you are only interested in translating or copyediting one of our already-existing documents, and are not worried about transforming the document into HTML or PDF, you are only a few steps away from doing so:
1. Download and install an XML Editor. I'd recommend one with an authoring/WYSIWYG option, such as XXE or Oxygen XML.
2. Download the most recent XML source file (and optionally, figures) from our Github repository, or request them by sending an email to email@example.com. For example, if you want to work on the OJS Userguide, download the source XML file and images (optional) from the following URL: http://github.com/pkp/docs/tree/master/ojs/userguide/.
- Note: You can use Git to download the full document repository if you want. Instructions are here.
3. Open the document with your XML editor, switch to the authoring view, and edit away! You don't have to worry too much about the XML in the background, although it's a good idea to validate the document every once in a while. By stepping through the document systematically, you can edit and even translate the whole document one paragraph at a time, just as if it were a word processing document.
4. (Optional) Add/Update any images to reflect textual changes. If you have added content to the document, you may also want to add new figures: images, screenshots, etc. These should go into a Figures folder, and should either be linked to within the document, or should be referenced within the document for us to link to.
- If you are translating a large document such as the Userguide, be aware that it may include many, many screenshots, which are most likely in English. Replacing them with screenshots specific to your language may be very time consuming. You should evaluate whether it is better to have text only translated in a timely fashion, or whether a complete, images-included translation is worthwhile.
- To properly scale in PDF, all images must be saved with a resolution of 100 dpi, and shouldn't be wider than 6 inches.
5. Send your completed changes to PKP. Files can be sent to firstname.lastname@example.com. If you are sending us a translation, we will host the translation on our site in HTML and PDF for others to benefit from, and will acknowledge your contribution online as well. If you are sending us a copyedited document, we will merge your changes into our source document; provide the updated HTML and PDF files online; and acknowledge your contribution online.
Working with Documentation the Complete Way
Follow these instructions if you want to do more involved XML editing, and also manage the transformation from XML to HTML and/or PDF yourself.
1. To convert an XML file to HTML, you need an XSLT processor such as Xalan or xsltproc installed on your system. xsltproc is available on many *nix systems, and its use will be described in this document. More XSLT processors are described here.
Converting an XML file into PDF is actually a two-step process: you first need to convert the file into a Formatting Object (FO) file, using an XSLT processor; and then convert the FO file into PDF using a Formatting Objects processor, such as fop. Fop is used in this document.
2. If you want to manage the transformation of the source XML file into HTML and/or PDF yourself, you will need to download the DocBook stylesheet library and optionally, our most recent custom stylesheets.
- The file pkp.xsl is a custom XML->XHTML stylesheet, which will add a custom header and other information to the HTML output. It must be placed within the extracted DocBook stylesheet library, within the xhtml/ directory.
- The file pkpfo.xsl is a custom XML->FO stylesheet, which is needed as part of the PDF creation process, and which will result in a PKP-styled PDF document. It needs to go in the fo/ directory.
3. You also need to download a number of files common to all PKP documents. These header and footer images; a css stylesheet for HTML output; and organization logos. They can be found bundled together in the common/ directory in the Git repository.
When transforming, proper document structure is important! The XSLT files expect the common/ directory to be at the same level as the document directory itself (eg. at the same level as userguide/). So if you want to transform a document that includes a number of figures, and want to include the common/ files, your directory structure would look like so:
documents/ -- common/ -- baronness_logo.git -- cc.png -- docstyle.css -- logo_list.png -- pkplogo.png -- userguide/ -- figures/ -- figure1.png -- figure2.png -- ... -- userguide.xml
4. Once you have edited the document, you can use your XSLT processor to transform the XML file into HTML. If you have an FO processor, you can also transform the XML to FO and then PDF.
If you have xsltproc installed, you can run the following command from the command line to convert the XML file to a set of HTML files. The command specifies an output type and file ("index.html"); specifies the stylesheet to be used to transform the XML file (in this example, the custom pkp.xsl file that can be downloaded as per step 2 above); and specifies the source XML document to be transformed. This example assumes that you are within the directory that the XML file resides in, and will create a number of chunked HTML files within that directory.
xsltproc --output index.html /path/to/docbook/xhtml/pkp.xsl userguide.xml
To create a PDF file, you must first transform the XML file into an FO file; and then transform that file to PDF. If you are using xsltproc and FOP, you can do so with the following two commands. The FO and PDF files will be created in the directory from which you run the commands; it's assumed that you are running these commands from the directory that the XML file resides in:
xsltpro --output userguide.fo /path/to/docbook/fo/pkpfo.xsl userguide.xml /path/to/fop userguide.fo userguide.pdf
Common DocBook Elements You Should be Using
You might find that you need to add some elements to the document you are editing. You can probably do this using the WYSIWYG/Author interface provided by the XML editor you are using; you can also use the following elements in the raw XML. You can find a list of all elements for DocBook 5.0 here.
Inline Elements
- Use <filename>/plugins/importExport/native/native.dtd</filename> when you are referring to file names and locations.
- Use <command>php importExport.php</command> when you reference commands.
- Use <guibutton>User Home</guibutton> for referencing user input such as links, buttons, etc..
- Use <element xl:href="http://pkp.sfu.ca">Public Knowledge Project</element> to hyperlink to an external page. "element" can be any inline element. You can also use "link" as a generic elementu.
- Use <element linkend="sectionId">link text</element> for linking within the document itself. "element" can be any inline element. You can also use "link" as a generic element.
Block Elements
Block elements come into play when you have paragraph-level blocks of text that need to be identified and formatted differently than a normal paragraph, for example lists, examples, tips, and so on.
- For code examples, listings, etc.:
<example> <title>Example Code Snippet</title> <programlisting>/multiple lines of code/</programlisting> </example>
for large, multiline code blocks. You can also use <informalexample> and omit the title information.
- For Tips:
<tip> <para>this is a tip</para> </tip>
- For Warnings
<warning> <para>this is a warning</para> </warning>
- For Notes
<note> <para>this is a note</para> </note>
- For non-numbered lists:
<itemizedlist> <listitem> <para>Item one</para> </listitem> <listitem> <para>Item two</para> </listitem> <listitem> <para>Item three</para> </listitem> </itemizedList>
- For ordered lists:
<orderedlist> <listitem> <para>Item one</para> </listitem> <listitem> <para>Item two</para> </listitem> <listitem> <para>Item three</para> </listitem> </itemizedList>
Setting up the Tools you need to work with DocBook
DocBook XSL: The Complete Guide has a very good chapter on setting up all the tools you'll need to transform DocBook XML into HTML and PDF. You can download OS/platform-specific packages here, or at a minimum you can make sure you have the following installed:
- DocBook DTD (you can always point to an online DTD, of course)
- DocBook XSL Stylesheets
- XSLT Processor (to transform to HTML and FO)
- XSL-FO Processor (to transform from FO to PDF)
Installing this stuff on Ubuntu
You can transform XML files into HTML and PDF in Ubuntu/Debian using xsltproc for HTML and FO, and FOP for FO->PDF. The following instructions will assume you are using the same tools in the same general environment.
To install the first three items in Ubuntu, install the following packages through apt-get or Synaptic: docbook-xml (installs the DTD), docbook-xsl (the stylesheets), xsltproc (the tool to transform to HTML and FO). Ubuntu installs the stylesheets to /usr/share/xml/docbook/stylesheet/nwalsh/. You can put them anywhere you want because you'll just be pointing to particular ones with xsltproc, but I'll reference that location below. You can also download them separately if you're not running Ubuntu from here.
You can't use Synaptic or apt-get to install FOP on Ubuntu, but the DocBook XSL guide has a page on installing it here. I had some minor difficulty in getting it to work, but if memory serves that was a Java problem that got fixed by paying attention to the guide.
Installing this stuff on Mac OS X
Rough notes on moving my environment from Ubuntu to OS X:
- For the stylesheets: Download the docbook xsl stylesheets from Sourceforge; install them somewhere reasonable (I extracted the tar file to /Users/jmacgreg/docbook). You'll have to remember this path later.
- For the XSLT Processor: Use xsltproc -- this should already be on your machine and available from the terminal.
- For the XSL-FO Processor: Install macports. With macports, install fop:
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Students to Aid Hurricane Relief Effortby Howard W. Hewitt • September 5, 2005 Share:
Wabash College students will turn their attention to helping victims of Hurricane Katrina this week.
Senior Josh Owens, who coordinates weekly Chapel talks, has announced plans to have Dr. Steven Morillo speak at Thursday morning's Chapel. Morillo is a New Orleans native. He will be speaking about the hurricane's impact what people can do to help out the area.
"I think this will bring the news on the television home to us here in Crawfordsville, using Chapel for one of its intended purposes," Owens said. "We are going to be taking donations at Chapel that will be sent along with whatever else can be raised this week to the hurricane relief fund."
Owens is trying to rally other campus organizations to the cause and placing signs around campus promoting Morillo's 11:10 a.m. talk. He is hoping to generate a larger-than-usual turnout considering the circumstances.
Collections are also being accepted through the Dean's office in Center Hall.
"If anyone has ideas as to how they or others can help unify this effort, send me an e-mail," Owens asked. "Please encourage members of your group, living unit, or work place to attend this week."


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