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"Estimating the effect of using cool coatings on energy loads and thermal comfort in residential buildings in various climatic conditions." Energy and Buildings 39.11 (2007) 1167-1174..
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"Evolution of cool roof standards in the United States." Advances in Building Energy Research 2.1 (2008) 1-32. LBNL-736E..
Examples of cooler reflective streets for urban heat-island mitigation : portland cement concrete and chip seals. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 2003. LBNL-49283..
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Certification allows KMS to commence shipments of elements rolled at expanded facility for customers in near future
Koch Membrane Systems, Inc., (KMS) announced that it has received NSF Intl. certification for its new reverse osmosis and nanofiltration element construction operation located in Wilmington, Mass. NSF Intl., a not-for-profit, non-governmental organization, provides product certification, education and risk management for public health and safety.
This certification allows KMS to commence shipments of elements rolled at its expanded Wilmington facility to customers in the near future.
The company said its rolling operation is just a small part of a new production line designed to take advantage of several recent advances in membrane technology developed by KMS researchers. The system's automated membrane caster and coater will produce the current Fluid Systems family of high rejection brackish and seawater membranes, KMS' selective rejection line of softening and color removal nanofiltration products and KMS' dairy RO and NF products. The equipment will be used to produce membranes and finished rolled elements across the sizes offered by KMS, including the company's line of MegaMagnum products.
The entire membrane production line is expected to be in full operation shortly and will more than double KMS' current RO and NF production capacity, the company said. It is expected that more than 100 new positions will be created at the Massachusetts facility once the line is at full production.

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Alyssa Miller
|Cheyenne, Wyo. (Central HS)
2014 Track and Field: Finished first in the distance medley relay with a time of 12:16.58 at the Emory Crossplex Invitational… Ran a season best 200m with a time of 30.00 at the SIU Invitational… Also ran a season best in the 400m and 800m with times of 1:07.46 and 2:39.21 respectively… Placed fifth in the distance medley relay in 13:03.06 at the TSU Invite... Recorded personal bests in the 100 meters (14.76), 200 meters (29.19), and the 400 meters (1:05.46)… Placed 15th in the 4x400-meter relay at the Shamrock Invitational (4:08.63).
2013 Track and Field: Locked in a time of 12:55.23s in the distance medley relay at the Samford Multi and Invitational for a sixth-place finish... Recorded a seventh-place finish in the 800m finishing in 2:28.37s... Also finished seventh at the Margaret Simmons Invitational with her time of 2:27.47s in the 800m.
2012 Track and Field: Competed in the distance medley relay and 800m during the indoor season... Finished the DMR with a time of 12:50.33s at the Tennessee State Invitational to capture a second-place victory... Snagged 10th at the Niswonger Foundation Invitational in the 800m closing in a time of 2:29.49s.
2012 Cross Country: Competed in one race… Placed 59th at the Belmont Opener in 16:57.30…
2011 Track and Field: Finished fourth in the 800m run (2:20.67s) at the TSU Invitational... Set personal-bests in the 800m run (2:19.08s) and the mile run (5:12.48s) at the A-Sun Indoor Championships, finishing sixth in both events... Set a personal-best in the 1500m run at the Spring Break Invitational (4:51.35s).
2010 Cross Country: Competed for the Lady Bisons in four races... Earned a top-20 in the silver race at the Louisville Invitational, finishing the 5K in 19:57... Set a personal-best in the 5K the following week at the Evansville Invitational, finishing 22nd with a 19:17.73 run.
Prep: Competed for Rick Bishop at Cheyenne Central High School… Team was state champions on the indoor track in 2007, '08 and '09, as well as outdoor state champions in 2008… All-State from 2007-10, in the 800m run (twice), 1600m run (three times) and 3200m run (three times)… Earned school record in the 200m freestyle and the Colorado State Swimming and Diving competition… Member of the National Honor Society.
Personal: Daughter of Mark and Brenda Miller… Father was on the swim team for four years at the University of Wyoming… Has one sister, Mariah… Will major in pre-medicine or pre-optometry.


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From the time it was written, the aria "Largo al factotum" from Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia has been performed and ornamented in many different ways. The present study is an inventory and analysis of ornaments sung in 33 recordings from 1900 to 2011 and the major differences that they exhibit one from another. The singers in this study are baritones with international careers, who have performed the role of Figaro either at the Metropolitan Opera (New York) or at La Scala (Milan). The study identifies and tracks some of the changes in the ornamentation of the aria by noting …
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Welcome to Advanced Placement.
The Advanced Placement (AP) Program is a voluntary program that offers students an opportunity to take one or more college-level courses while still in high school. AP isn't just for top students or those headed for college. AP offers something for everyone. Students can choose from a whole host of courses and exams in 22 subject areas, including art, computer science, geography, government and politics, music theory, world languages, and more. For inquisitive students, AP touches on a universe of knowledge that might otherwise remain unexplored in high school. Each course is a unique learning experience in which students explore subjects from a variety of perspectives—including their own.
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Please help us look after the chickens over the holidays.
All you need to do is select a date/dates you can help and register your details. A reminder email will be sent to you before your chosen date.
Here are some brief instructions for the day:
* Check the level of food in the silver food container with the pedal. Ensure it is at least half full. (Food can be found in one of the metal bins).
* Clean out the water trough and containers with a brush and refill using the watering can and water from the vegie garden tap.
* collect all poo from around the nesting boxes and scoop out any dirty sawdust from the boxes. Use pooper scoopers and white bucket. When the bucket is full empty into one of the black compost bins located against the fence line just past the vegie garden.
* Put clean sawdust into the nesting boxes and in the cubby.
* Refill the shell grit container located next to the food container (shell grit can be found in the other metal bin)
* Collect the eggs and take them home to enjoy!
More thorough instructions can be found on the Valkstone webpage http://www.valkstoneps.vic.edu.au/


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Are Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez Trying to Make Each Other Jealous? [PHOTO]by Mandi Salerno | PopCrush
More drama on the Jelena front!
It's no secret that Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez are finished, once again. The 'Believe' star has been posting photo after photo of himself looking very friendly with fitness model Yovanna Ventura.
But don't worry, Selena fans; your girl is powering through! A source told E! News that the pop star is happy and "trying to move on with her life and focus on her."
Sel has also been super active on social media recently, sharing photos of herself having fun with friends and enjoying the single life. One eyebrow-raising pic is of her posing with her own model friend, Tanz Watson. In the snapshot, she's seen with her arm around Tanz while blowing him a kiss.
Hold up hold up got my homie @selenagomez pic.twitter.com/pkcmmq4MXh
— Tanz Watson (@TanzWatson) July 10, 2014
It almost feels like fans are caught in a battle of make-the-ex-jealous between Selena and Justin's Instagrams. According to E!'s source, that's exactly what's happening: "They are kids. Of course they might try to do that."
Oh boy! Hopefully this madness comes to an end soon.
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It is nice to see that they are paying attention. I believe though that the important quick fix remains the implementation of the biochar protocol to both increase soil carbon and general nutrient retention.
It is good to see the attention been also paid to supporting the hydrological cycle.
The combination can restore soil vitality everywhere and through back dry lands to at least historical reaches.
is particularly promising
in these terms. Australia
In the meantime, paying attention to natural cycles should be a given and imitated as much as possible while also been careful to take the right lessons from it all.
Natural Sequence Farming.
by Staff Writers
Improving land management and farming practices in
Natural Sequence Farming is a descriptor used when sustainable agriculture mimics the once highly efficient functions of the Australian landscape. NSF pioneer Peter Andrews of Denman in New South Wales and coordinator of the NSF movement, Duane Norris of Hardy's Bay,
explain how NSF techniques
could re-couple environmental carbon
and water cycles not only to improve farming yields but to avoid soil erosion
and reduce carbon dioxide emissions. New South Wales
Agricultural practices such as clearing, burning, plowing, draining, and irrigation, have become commonplace across the Australian continent, as they have elsewhere.
Their effect on the organic carbon content of soil has led to a decline in soil quality across farmland on the continent with levels currently a tenth of what they were 200 years ago prior to the major European settling of Australia.
Andrews and Norris point out that this has had implications for atmospheric carbon dioxide levels and will continue to impact on global warming if farming practices are not modified.
"Soils hold twice as much carbon as the atmosphere, and three times as much as vegetation," the team explains, "But carbon in soil exposed by common agricultural practices leads to the oxidation of the carbon and the release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere."
Estimates suggest that soils that once contained carbon matter 4,000 to 10,000 years old, are now holding carbon that is a mere two years old because poor management of livestock grazing leaves soil de-vegetated and in an oxidizing state.
Plants extract carbon from carbon dioxide in the air by photosynthesis, the team says. This carbon is critical to soil health and plant fertility, but it is lost when a ploughed paddock is left bare with no plant cover. More carbon is released when grassland and trees are cleared.
However, when vegetation is allowed to break down, even if it is weedy cover, the carbon content of the soil is raised and growing conditions improve.
But plants also have another critical function - relevant to both soil fertility and to climate stabilization. This is the atmospheric cooling that takes place through the evaporation of moisture from leaves, as it rises to form rain clouds, and then falls again restoring of the small water cycle to a local area. In this respect, hands-on NSF research in
converges with cutting
edge scientific research elsewhere. Australia
The team adds that careful water management, planting, and mulch farming all work together in NSF practices so remediating eroded land. NSF techniques have been developed to restore ecosystems by re-coupling the carbon and water cycles and could overcome the calamitous decline in soil carbon content caused by oxidation, soil erosion and loss to the sea because of fast-running water flows and floods.
There are four guidelines for Natural Sequence Farming:
+ First, restoring fertility held by nutrients and organic matter to improve the biological function of soils.
+ Second, reinstating the hydrological balance to increase groundwater storage in the floodplain aquifer, increasing freshwater recharge and hence reducing saline groundwater discharge.
+ The third principle is to re-establish natural vegetation succession through pioneer species to promote the healthy growth of native plant communities. The fourth guideline is to understand the hydrological and biogeochemical processes that drive the natural landscape system, which will allow their management to restore ecological function.
The researchers recognize that Australians cannot turn the clock back 100,000 years to recreate the forested continent of mega fauna and sediment-carrying flood plains that existed before humans arrived.


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I think Mandy Moore looks adorable here promoting her new Disney movie Tangled. Her sweet Paule Ka LBD only needs two strong accessories–fabulous red satin heels and a multi-strand pearl and diamond necklace (that I'm assuming is vintage). Some people might look at this necklace and think 'old', but Mandy did it just right. Her not-too-perfect topknot is just the right hair for her age, and she wisely stays minimal on the makeup and other jewelry.
Think pearls and crystals can't be hip? Check out my favorites below, and think about pairing them with your own short 'n' sweet black cocktail dress and killer heels!
SWAROVSKI Crystal necklace by Daniel Swarovski.
MONET Vintage Modernist Enamel and Pearl Pendant Necklace
Vintage Faux Pearl Opera Necklace


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Volt and Amp Meters for UV-Curing Systems
Miltec UV
October 31, 2005
You can improve process control and quickly fix problems by consistently monitoring the voltage and amperage of your UV lamps. When these meters need to be replaced, Miltec offers retrofit volt and amp meters to existing UV-curing systems. Also available is a voltage sensing board kit, which automatically monitors lamp voltage and allows the system to operate only when the lamp voltage is in its proper operating range. Miltec UV, 146 Log Canoe Cir., Stevensville, MD 21666, 410-604-2900, fax: 410-604-2906, e-mail: email@example.com, Web: www.miltec.com.
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HOUSTON – After the Dynamo's 2-1 home loss to Toronto FC on Saturday night, head coach Dominic Kinnear spoke as frankly as he could about his team's 2010 season.
"The season's over," Kinnear said. "The way we're playing, we are not going to do it. It's sad to say it, but it is a reality."
Houston failed to hold on to a halftime lead for the first time all season. Two second-half Dwayne De Rosario goals all but completely extinguished any hope of the Dynamo making the playoffs.
The loss, Houston's 13th of the season, puts them second-from-last overall in the standings and 13 points from the eight and final playoff berth with six games remaining.
The Dynamo players could certainly sense their boss' anger and frustration.
"Whenever we lose, it doesn't feel good — but tonight was a big hit," midfielder Danny Cruz said. "[Kinnear] is furious with the loss, which he should be as we didn't play up to par."
For Kinnear, Saturday's defeat was just another example of what's been wrong with his side all season.
"I don't know if it's a [lack of] killer instinct — it's [more] about defending properly," Kinnear said. "What's our record? 6-13-5 — there you go. It says it all. I think we're the second- or the worst-defending team in the league. I think that says the story of where we are at."
As for the game, it devolved into a tale of two halves. In the first half, Houston dominated possession and had nine corners and forced six saves. In the second, two Toronto free kicks punished Houston's inability to get a second goal and their lackadaisical performance late in the match.
Kinnear warned his players at halftime that Toronto would come out firing, given their season, too, was on the line. Despite the coach's tough talk, the players still came out flat though were at a loss to explain why.
"We were a completely different team in the first half than the second," Cruz said. "I don't know [why], and that is the worst part about it."
As for Houston's playoff chances, De Rosario likely slammed the door shut on whatever slim hope there may have been of a late Dynamo surge into the playoff picture.
"Even if we win our last six, there's no guarantee that we get in," Dynamo 'keeper Pat Onstad said. "The way we're playing conceding goals at this stage in the season, it's pretty clear for us to win six in a row is probably mission impossible."
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Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Ham in Hay
Posted by Beccy at 10:48 a.m.
Labels: recipe
23 comments:
- Yvonne said...
Wow am so impressed that you went to so much trouble! Don't think I've ever had ham in the hay...glad you got that information from the embassy in time.
- 1:15 p.m.
- Asha said...
In Hay?! Never heard of that before. We cook desserts wrapped with Banana leaves, turn out good. Sorry it didn't turn out well, but still can use Ham in Sandwiches!:)
- 1:40 p.m.
looks good, beccy. not too fatty for enidd, she fears...
- 2:58 p.m.
- Unknown said...
Looks good Beccy, you should google Ray Mears!
- 4:00 p.m.
- ChrisB said...
I bet no one else will have tackled the project by trying out a traditional dish. It's quite fascinating to see ham being cooked in that way!
- 4:23 p.m.
- Dea said...
I'm with Enidd, no such thing as too much pork fat! ;-) Great idea Beccy - must have been fun for Mollie too! All the things I have to look forward to! ;-)
- 4:44 p.m.
- Beckie said...
Ham in Hay...? I would be worried some animal had rolled in the hay, but that is coming from someone that picks up dirty money in parking lots for fun. :)
It looks like she had fun with the project!
- 6:06 p.m.
How fun to try it, even if it didn't turn out great! :)
And hope your bum is feeling better!
- 6:17 p.m.
Wow - how interesting. I've never heard of something like that before. Too bad it was salty.
- 6:22 p.m.
- Carla said...
Never heard of cooking anything in hay. Wow, that's interesting. Too bad it wasn't to your liking.
- 6:31 p.m.
- Sam said...
Nice to see you blog it since you told me it would make a really, boring blog piece when I asked if Molly would guest blog it for me.
- 6:35 p.m.
- thefoodsnob said...
It's pretty cool that she's getting so involved in her school work she wants to make something like that at home.
Hey (get it, ha!) at least you tried!
- 7:10 p.m.
Interesting. Did you eat the hay too, as a side veggie or something? One way to get your fiber.
- 8:02 p.m.
- Rachel (Crazy-Is) said...
I love ham. I've never heard of it cooked that way, but it looks good!
- 8:18 p.m.
- Debbie said...
In REAL hay? At first I thought you meant pretend hay like hash brown or chips or something. Cooked in real hay. Facinating.
- 9:03 p.m.
- Barbara said...
Gosh Beccy that is really adventurous. I wouldn't know where to even go to buy hay.
- 11:22 p.m.
- Unknown said...
You guys are so brave. It sounds interesing. Looks like Mollie's having fun. :)
- 1:19 a.m.
- Emma in Canada said...
Wow. Never would have thunk it. I'll never look at a haybale the same way!
- 4:29 a.m.
- Pamela said...
There are some very nice smelling "hay" crops around here. I suppose it isn't much different than an herb flavoring.
- 7:05 a.m.
- frannie said...
sounds interesting! Y'all are really getting into this project!
- 7:22 p.m.
That is really cool. I think that would be a very interesting dish. It wasn't the ham's fault it was too salty. I don't eat ham, but I could try it with smoked turkey.
- 4:58 a.m.
- my4kids said...
I never would have thought of cooking ham in hay. Sounds interesting though.
- 6:56 a.m.
- Steffi said...
It looks really good!I love your pics!
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The human brain volume has been shrinking over the past 20 000 years or so, after millions years of increase in volume. Not just the brain size, but the brain size relatively to body size as well. We are lacking a tennis-ball sized piece of our earlier brain (and it might even be God-shaped).
Brain is expensive in many ways: energy consumption, birth complications and locomotion impairment for females, lower survival of head impacts i'd guess. The damn thing along with supporting structures is heavy and awkwardly located, etc.
And the big brain can only be advantageous if it improves reproduction substantially, with larger brained individuals being sufficiently more successful at surviving and reproducing than smaller brained individuals, as to negate the above-mentioned cost.
That must have been the case through the evolution up to a couple tens thousands years ago, to produce the big brains that we have. It is clear to see that in past 20 000 years, the environment in which humans live has undergone very significant change due to emergence of societies; the new environment may not be pushing us as hard [in the direction of intelligence], at least on the individual level. [and may have been pushing us too hard for smaller brains, thanks Nornagest for making that point]
We were evolving ability to think, until it got just about to the point of being barely able - with great difficulty and many falls - to think useful thoughts. If we were species that were evolving flight, we'd be the species that could just barely fly, and recently flew over a river, entering new land. In the new land, everything is different. And our wings were shrinking at very rapid rate.
The important question is - Did we lose any functionality since then? Are we dumber? Are we less sane in some way? (The palaeolithic humans did not seem to do any really insane religious stuff)
The notion that our brains just got more efficient and 'therefore' could shrink in size appears very shaky to me. This 'therefore' comes from fallacy of anthropomorphizing the evolution. Evolution doesn't work to a goal of optimizing some sub-unit in the organism while preserving specifications, in the way that a team on an engineering project would.
The optimization could as well instead make brain even larger, if said improvement made larger brain pay off more. One would have to show that some improvement in brain efficiency has actually decreased advantage of big brains over small brains, to explain the smaller brains with them being more optimized.
The evolution optimizes the whole organism, not the brain, and there's very many of other factors that have changed at that specific time that may as well have decreased selection pressure towards intelligence or increased the costs.
In my opinion the sensible default hypothesis should be that we had a decrease in some functionality, and likely are still declining.
My best guess is that it is the capacity to invent solutions on spot and think by ourselves, that we are losing. Before emergence of societies, the technological progress was severely limited by information loss. Any smart individual could massively improve fitness of the relevant genes by (re)inventing some basic, but extremely effective techniques, which he'd teach mostly to genetically related individuals. The technique would easy become lost, creating again an opportunity for intelligence to succeed - reinventing it.
Even very simple invention requires massive search in the vast space of possibilities. Precisely the kind of task that one would expect to benefit from larger raw computational power.
Some clarification with regards to the need for innovation. In the long run, it is not enough to just do what you're taught. Teaching is a lossy process. You need to improve upon what was taught to you a little to make the tool as good as your ancestor made - you need minor innovation to merely preserve the tools - a little more innovation and you'll improve over time, a little less and you'll lose it over time. The little children have to figure out everything from a few clues; they don't download some braindump of the wisest elder to be able to speak, they essentially figure out an alien language - a very difficult task.


text: When we filmed our 420 episode of Pot Psychology with Street Carnage's Gavin McInnes, we went all out to get in the right state of mind for the special event. Actually, we sorta went overboard. By the end of the night I puked, Rich was ready to hide in my bedroom, and Gavin had a paranoid delusion that Betty the intern thought he was gonna rape her. But in between all that, we managed to film nearly four hours of rambling nonsense that was just too good to confine to one episode, so this week's Pot Psych is part 2 of that epic night, in which we answer questions about hummers, midgets, and the dangers of senior citizens masturbating. Got a burning question? Send it to firstname.lastname@example.com with "Pot Psychology" in the subject line. (Please keep them short; they're verrrry hard to read when stoned.)


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By Teachers, For Teachers
While "education" and "reform" may have become dirty words, you can reform your classroom into a sparkling, spic-and-span wonderland with a little spring cleaning.
Spring cleaning can encompass many things, including:
Cleaning Classroom Space
Get Students Involved
You didn't make the mess in your classroom yourself, so why should you be the only one cleaning? Enlist your students with updated classroom jobs.
The easiest way to do this might be to beef up classroom jobs for the week and take the few minutes before lunch, recess or end of day to tackle those small chores. With 30 hands at work, your classroom will be clean-as-new in no time.
Make Spring Cleaning Fun
Let's take a note from Mary Poppins on this one and sing our spring cleaning away. Crank up the tunes, make it a sing along or make it a game/competition in the classroom. In the end, everyone will win.
Make a day of it and try to interject some learning elements.
Tackle the File Cabinets / Piles of Paper Work
Step 1: Get through your backed up grading.
Jennifer Scoggin shares her tips on tackling grading without making yourself crazy with Assessment: Trimming the Data Fat.
Step 2: Purge Your File Cabinets
Divide the essential papers into some organized fashion. Once you've got those main necessary categories, file them where they belong or toss 'em in the trash. The feel of a clean desk will bring you peace of mind.
Sidenote: Spicing up your files with colored file folders or super cute file folders make the whole experience a little more fun.
Super-organized teacher Charity Preston shared her tips for getting your teacher file cabinets in order.
Welcome Spring to the Classroom
Classroom/School Garden
Even if it's just planting seeds in a Dixie cup garden, it'll be fun to plan something and watch it grow. If you can get the school involved, planting an outdoor garden as a school with each class/grade taking a section could be a great way to beautify the school.
Spring-themed Classroom Decorations
For younger students, everyone makes and decorates construction paper flowers (bonus, put their photos in the middle of the flower for a super-personalized bulletin board).
This is also a time to ensure that you're making the most of your learning space. Are you walls filled with stagnant posters with no educational value? Try posting quotes,
You can also relief the stress clutter creates by trying some feng shui concepts in your classroom organization.
Spring into Lesson Planning
Rather than fighting your students' spring fever, embrace the nice weather and sunshine in your lessons.
Try some seasonally-themed lessons, whether you're
Search Plant/Flower/Spring Lesson Ideas
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Most scientific writing and discourse is really bad. Like, REALLY bad. How can we make it better? There are some obvious simple rules, like avoiding passive voice, avoiding acronyms, and avoiding jargon.
I wanted to add another few items to the list, this time in the form of words that typically signify weak writing (and sometimes weak thinking). Mostly, these are either ambiguous, overused, or pointless meta-content just used to mask a lack of real content. Here they are, along with my reasons for disliking them:
Novel. Ugh, I absolutely hate this word. It's just so overused in scientific discourse, and it's taken on this subtext relating to how interesting a piece of work is. Easily avoided. Like "Our analysis revealed novel transcript variants." Just say "new transcript variants".
Insight. One of the best examples of contentless meta-content. If any abstract says the word insight, nine times out of ten it's to hide a complete lack of insight. For example: "Our RNA-seq analysis led to many novel insights." Wait, so there are insights? If so, what are these insights? If those insights were so insightful, I'm pretty sure someone would actually spell them out. More than likely, we're talking about "novel transcript variants" here.
Landscape. Example of a super imprecise word. What does this mean anyway? Do you mean an arrangement of shrubbery? Or do you mean genome-wide? In which case, say genome-wide. Usually, using the word landscape is an attempt to evoke some images like these:
Now exactly what do these images mean? Speaking of which…
Epigenetic. Used as a placeholder for "I have no idea what's going on here, but it's probably not genetic". Or even just "I have no idea what's going on here whatsoever". Or chromatin modifications. Or all of this at once. Which is too bad, because it actually is a useful word with an interesting meaning.
Paradigm. Need I say more?
Robust. Use of the word robust is robust to perturbations in the actual intended meaning upon invoking robustness. :)
Impact. As in "impact factor". The thing that bugs me about this word is that its broad current usage really derives from the Thomson/Reuters calculation of Impact Factor for journal "importance". People now use it as a surrogate for importance, but it's always sort of filtered through the lens of impact factor, as though impact factor is the measure of whether a piece of work is important. So twisted has our discourse become that I've even heard the word impactful thrown about, like "that work was impactful". It's a word, but a weird one. If something is influential, then say influential. If it's important, then say important. If an asteroid hits the moon, that's impact.
These words are everywhere in science, providing muddied and contentless messages wherever they are found. For instance, I'm sure you've seen some variant of this talk title before: "Novel insights into the epigenetic landscape: changing the paradigm of gene regulation."
To which I would say: "Wow, that sounds impactful."
[Updated to include Paradigm, forgot that one.]
[Updated 12/13: forgot Robust, how could I?]


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CRESTVIEW � Members of the First Baptist Church of Crestview continued their annual tradition of providing a Christmas store for the residents of the Crestview Manor.
CRESTVIEW � Members of the First Baptist Church of Crestview continued their annual tradition of providing a Christmas store for the residents of the Crestview Manor.
"They have blessed us tremendously and made our hearts smile," said resident Vicki Ripley.
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Ripley was one of nearly 40 residents in the assisted living facility who picked out free presents for family members and friends who visit during the holidays.
"We have been doing this since 1985, the year the manor opened," Ida Faye Powell, the event organizer, said. "This is just a way for us to give to the residents, who don't have the money to buy gifts or get out and buy the gifts...for family members or friends."
The store featured gift items for men, women and children. From toys to jewelry items and tool sets, each resident was able to pick out at least four items to give to visiting family members.
Church members donated many of the items in the store, along with money saved in the church's budget, Powell said.
The women's ministry of the church headed the event with assistance from youth in the Acteens group, who wrapped each gift in Christmas wrapping paper and delivered the gifts to the residents' rooms.
After volunteering with the store on behalf of the church in the past, current resident Neta Roberts is now on the receiving end.
'It feels fine, not as good as being the giver, but I love it," she said. "I hope they always have this going on, because some are not as fortunate as others."
The facility's activities director, Susan Josey, agreed.
"It's a wonderful, wonderful thing that they are doing," she said. "Without this, residents would not be able to give presents to their friends and family."
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Medical tourism is a huge market, and it's attracting plenty of interest. Americans — often those uninsured — are flying thousands of miles to exotic locations for medical treatments, lured by lower costs and quality care.
Though most countries boast a number of their own medical specialties, there are eight countries Americans are going to most, says Renee-Marie Stephano, president of the Medical Tourism Association, in West Palm Beach, Fla. In no particular order, here are the 8 Most Popular Medical Tourism Destinations.
(Check out Top 10 Cheapest States for Long-Term Care Costs: 2013 at ThinkAdvisor.)
1. Mexico
Americans often head south of the border for a couple obvious reasons: It's cost-effective, and it's close.
"Some American patients who are driven by cost will choose to go to Mexico," Stephano says. "There tends to be lower market value for certain medical procedures."
Patients Beyond Borders, a consumer resource on medical tourism, says "Monterrey boasts four first-rate American-accredited hospitals offering bariatrics and weight-management programs at 40 percent to 60 percent savings."
Each year more than 50,000 Americans cross into Mexico just for dental work.
(Photo: Chichen Itza in Yucatán, Mexico. Credit, Juan Gnecco/freedigitalphotos.net)
2. India
Forget the Taj Mahal, a number of Americans want to instead visit a surgeon when they head to India. Consumers can expect to see a savings between 65 percent and 90 percent if they make the trek there, says Patients Beyond Borders.
Consider this: A bypass surgery with heart valve replacement can run $75,000-$140,000 in the United States, but will cost just $9,500 in India, according to the Indian Medical Travel Association. "Amongst all global medical tourism destinations, India undoubtedly offers the best to the world in terms of quality, cost and care," the organization says.
(Photo: The Taj Mahal. By Arvind Balaraman/freedigitalphotos.net.)
3. Thailand
Which treatments do Americans go to Thailand for? "Everything," says Patients Beyond Borders.
"Thailand boasts world-renown Bumrungrad International, the granddaddy of international hospitals and Asia's first American-accredited facility, with 225 U.S. board certified physicians and surgeons. BI welcomes 400,000 international patients annually from 120 countries, including 25,000 American patients each year. Thailand's also known for meticulous cosmetic surgery, including gender reassignment."
(Photo: The Huay Mae Kamin Waterfall in Kanchanaburi, Thailand. freedigitalphotos.net)
4. Germany
Germany has marketed itself as a top medical tourism destination — and Americans are embracing it.
According to the German National Tourist Board, about 77,000 foreign patients were treated in the country in 2010, spending 930 million euros, or $1.24 billion. They came mostly from other European countries, Russia, Gulf states or the United States.
Germany has a "high level of expertise" in health care and treatments, Stephano says, boasting advanced medical technology, high standards, safety and quick treatment.
(Photo: Heidelberg, Germany. freedigitalphotos.net)
5. Brazil
Brazil boasts quality care patients are interested in, Stephano says.
And one big interest is cosmetic surgery, according to Patients Beyond Borders. Savings for treatments are generally between 20 percent to 30 percent, the organization says.
Another bonus? Brazil isn't so far away, Stephano says.
"If there's similar quality care in Singapore or Brazil, [patients] may choose to go to Brazil, because it's closer," Stephano says.
(Photo: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. freedigitalphotos.net)
6. Singapore
Singapore often attracts Americans looking at "a higher level of expertise in care," Stephano says.
That's because, according to the World Health Organization, Singapore ranks sixth in health care worldwide (compared to the United States' 36th ranking). The country is well-known for its cancer treatment and care.
(Photo: Skyscrapers in Singapore at night. freedigitalphotos.net)
7. Costa Rica
Costa Rica has often been synonymous with medical tourism, especially for Americans.
Its proximity gives it an advantage over Asian and South American destinations. Plus, Patients Beyond Borders estimates that patients might save 40 percent to 65 percent for certain procedures.
It's popular for dental care, orthopedics, spine, cardiology, cosmetic and weight-loss surgery.
(Photo: visitcostarica.com)
8. Colombia
Colombia is another country where medical tourism is booming, Stephano says. That's thanks to its international recognition for specialized care and state-of-the-art facilities.
It's known for oncology, cardiology, neurology and orthopedics treatment. And like Brazil, this Latin American country is a popular spot for cosmetic surgery.
(Photo: Colombian Pesos. By David Castillo Dominici, freedigitalphotos.net)
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Level 42, The Chifley Tower, 2 Chifley Square, Sydney NSW 2000http://www.forty-one.com.au
The view from Forty One Restaurant is always breathtaking and the meal today was beautifully cooked and tasty to match. I'm pretty sure it's the same dish they cooked last year and the size thankfully quite generous too. Complimentary bread, a glass of wine and coffee was included and their special dessert option was an extra $12 which finished off the meal nicely.
The service was much better this year for my table, being more attentive and friendlier thanI've experienced in previous years. And I always say their restrooms have the best view in Sydney and nowhere else really comes close.
Slow cooked Tasmanian ocean trout, crushed sweet green peas with grated peccorino, prosciutto, lemon, basil and mint $35
Coconut & Vanilla Panna Cotta, Pineapple Sorbet ($12 extra with GFM08 Let's Do Lunch)
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Trump Administration Wants to Block 'Startup Visas'July 11, 2017 11:09
The Trump administration is planning to rescind an Obama-era program that would allow foreign entrepreneurs who launch startup companies in the U.S. to live in the country. The program will allow the non-U.S. citizens who had launched companies that has won $100,000 in government grants or received $250,000 as venture capital investment can stay in the U.S. for a renewable 30-month term. Finalized in the last days of the Obama administration, was set to take effect July 17.
The Trump administration has announced that it would delay the program until next March as the Department of Homeland Security launches an additional review of the so-called "startup visa." A notice that the department issued indicates that in the interim the administration will propose rescinding the program.
"Big mistake," Steve Case, founder of America Online and now chief executive officer of the Revolution LLC investment fund, said in a Twitter statement. "Immigrant entrepreneurs are job makers, not job takers."
"At a time when countries around the world are doing all they can to attract and retain talented individuals to come to their shores to build and grow innovative companies, the Trump Administration is signaling its intent to do the exact opposite," Bobby Franklin, president and CEO of the trade group said.
"There is little benefit to losing any more ground in attracting entrepreneurs and their investments," the senators, which include Arizona's John McCain and Jeff Flake, Utah's Orrin Hatch, and Jerry Moran of Kansas, said in the letter.
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To renew or to replace? That's a question Fayette village council members must answer in the next two months.
County auditor Nancy Yackee told council Thursday that two levies are expiring. Council members have until Dec. 23 to pass a resolution that would place the two issues on the May ballot.
The 2.9 mill general operating levy was approved by voters in the 1960s and set at the current 2.9 level in 1978, according to Board of Elections director Brett Kolb. The 2.0 mill parks and recreation levy was established in 1978.
With one exception, council members have always chosen to seek five-year renewals of the levy at the original value rather than ask for a replacement levy that would update the levy to match existing property values.
The general operating levy brings in about $19,600 in revenue to the village, Yackee said. If it were to be replaced, revenue would jump to almost $44,000.
The park levy brings in more cash even though the millage amount is smaller than the operating levy. That's because voters approved a replacement levy in 1998 which increased the value.
The park levy brings in about $22,100, Yackee said, but would increase to $30,310 through another replacement.
Yackee provided council members with examples of what the changes would mean to taxpayers.
The owner of a $50,000 home pays about $14.50 a year for the operating levy and $19.27 for parks. By replacing both levies, the same homeowner would pay about $44.40 and $30.60, for a total increase of $41 annually, or about 80 cents a week.
Yackee assisted Fayette fiscal officer Lisa Zuver and administrator Tom Spiess in examining the village's finances to help plan next year's budget.
She emphasized the importance of the two levies by suggesting that if they failed to obtain voter approval in May, council would have a second chance for approval in November, 2008.
If voters approved a replacement levy, Yackee said the village would not see an immediate increase in revenue.
"If you do a replacement," she said, "the first time you'll see it is February 2009 with the real estate taxes."


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Runners lace up shoes for Maine Marathon
Races began at 7:45 a.m.
Maine Marathon runners took their marks at 7:45 a.m. Sunday.
Runners have the option of running the full 26.2 miles, relay, or half-marathon. According to the event website, there are 3,500 runners taking part.
This is the race's 21st year. It is a Boston Marathon qualifying race. All proceeds from the race benefit STRIVE, an organization that serves young adults with disabilities.
A 27-year-old Massachusetts man has set a course record in winning Sunday's Maine Marathon.
Dan Vassallo of Peabody, Mass., won the 26.2-mile race 2 hours, 21 minutes, 12 seconds. It broke the previous record of 2:26:54, set by Vassallo in 2007.
He said the cool weather helped his time.
Vassallo said, "Regardless of the condition, I think someone was going to take down my record today, it just depended on how much it was going to go down by and who was going to get it so."
Robert Gomez of Saco came in second in 2:24:48, and Moninda Marube of Auburn placed third in 2:30:38.
Twenty-three-year-old Eliza Tibbits of Old Town was the fastest woman, finishing in 3:03:50. Katy Agule of Brighton, Mass., was second in 3:04:44.
Tibbits said, "Oh, it was great, i just moved back to Maine so it is nice to come back and win as a Maine resident."
For the race, about 100 Maine National Guard members and other military personnel marched the entire marathon course in full uniform and combat boots while carrying 30-pound military backpacks in honor of service members who have been killed in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
News 8 Meteorologist Mallory Brooke competed in the half marathon.
On Saturday, children laced up their shoes for the Maine Marathon Kids' Mile.


text: Here is a Leopard picture that I wanted to share with all of you... This monster Leopard was taken by an American client with PH Richard Bell-Cross of Prohunt Zambia during the 2004 hunting season in Zambia. From PH Richard Bell-Cross: "In July 2004 hunting with American client we were lucky enough to shoot the new Zambia record Leopard. We shot it off a Zebra bait about 30 minutes before dark after building a blind that afternoon about 60 yards from the bait. It measured well over 8 ft in length and the skull was over 17 inches!" Number One Leopard taken in Zambia (refers to the ranking of the animal within Zambia, not in SCI) at that time with L 10 2/16 x W 6 0/16 inches of skull. Share with all of us your Leopard pictures in this thread!


text: News Beach volleyball 25/05/2013 Men's Corrientes Grand Slam quarterfinals confirmed Corrientes, Argentina, May 25, 2013—With clear skies and a sumptuous sun shining overhead, the men's competition second round Saturday morning has set the field for this afternoon's quarterfinals at the $440,000 FIVB Corrientes Grand Slam double-gender tournament. Before the men's quarters, the women will play their quarterfinals before ending the day with their semis and medal matches. On Sunday, the men's semifinals and medal matches for the men's competition will be held. The event being held for the first time in Corrientes and is being played at the purpose-built site that is located on the sands of Arazati Beach – Costanera Sur.Advancing to meet in this afternoon's men's quarterfinals will be Germany's Sebastian Dollinger/Stefan Windscheif vs. Latvia's Aleksandrs Samoilovs/Janis Smedins, Brazil's Vitor Felipe/Evandro Goncalves playing compatriots Bruno Schmidt/Pedro Salgado, Italy's Paolo Nicolai/Daniele Lupo vs. Poland's Mariusz Prudel/Grzegorz Fijalek and Brazil's Ricardo Santos/Alvaro Filho meeting USA's Jake Gibb/Casey Patterson.The lighted stadium court has been built to seat 7,500 spectators. The women's semifinals and medal matches will be held later today and tonight. Play will start at 2:30 p.m. local time on Sunday for the men's final four matches.Displaying the intensity of the competition and the quality of the teams, four of the eight second-round elimination matches needed three sets to determine the winner. Starting at 9 a.m., the first four matches saw Germany's Dollinger/Windscheif defeat Czech Republic's surprising 32-seeded Robert Kufa/Jan Hadrava, 21-12, 21-17 in 32 minutes, Latvia's Samoilovs/J. Smedins topped Austria's Clemens Doppler/Alexander Horst, 21-18, 29-27 in 47 minutes, Brazil's Felipe/Goncalves held on to defeat Netherlands' Daan Spijkers/Christiaan Varenhorst, 16-21, 21-18, 15-10 in 50 minutes and Brazil's Schmidt/Salgado held off Switzerland's Philip Gabathuler/Jonas Weingart, 21-18, 26-24 in 44 minutes.In the second half of the round's matches, Italy's Nicolai/Lupo came from behind to defeat Germany's Jonathan Erdmann/Kay Matysik, 17-21, 21-16, 16-14 in 52 minutes, Poland's Mariusz/Fijalek also had to come back to finally overcome Netherlands' Alexander Brouwer/Robert Meeuwsen, 18-21, 21-16, 15-7 in 50 minutes, Brazil's Ricardo/Filho held off Italian brothers Paolo Ingrosso/Matteo Ingrosso, 21-18, 21-19 in 44 minutes and USA's Gibb/Patterson battled hard to get by Brazil's Alison Cerutti/Emanuel Rego, 24-22, 16-21, 15-12 in 54 minutes.The losers in the second round of elimination will leave Corrientes with official ninth-place finishes at the FIVB Corrientes Grand Slam.In the quarterfinal matchups this afternoon, Germany's Dollinger/Windscheif has a 1-0 series lead over Latvia's Samoilovs/Smedins as the Latvians are a new team this year. While practicing together back home, the two Brazilian teams have never met as Felipe/Goncalves are a new team of 22-year olds.In the third of the quarters, Poland's Prudel/Fijalek has a 2-1 series lead over Italy's Nicolai/Lupo with the Polish team winning the most recent match on May 3 in Shanghai. The final quarterfinal will be another first-time meeting between two teams with a veteran player and a new partner. Brazil's Filho is 22 and Ricardo is 38 while USA's Gibb is 37 and Patterson 33 has played mostly domestically in the USA. Both teams have played just three FIVB World Tour events together while Ricardo has been in 190 career tournaments, Filho just six total and Gibb has 73 on his resume and Patterson 12 career international events.USA's Gibb/Patterson/Patterson, who won the season's first FIVB Grand Slam in Shanghai earlier this month, broke open a very tight match against Brazil's Alison/Emanuel who were playing in just their first tournament of the season as Alison has been sidelined with a finger injury.Gibb, who defeated Brazil's talented Alison/Emanuel twice last season on the way to winning the 2013 FIVB World Tour season championship with his former teammate Sean Rosenthal, said after the win over Brazil, "Alison and Emanuel are a great team and just to play against them is an honor. The difference for us in this match was my new teammate. Casey played great. He gave me great sets when the passes weren't always thag good. He makes the game much easier for me with his great hand-setting."The gold medal teams in each gender in the FIVB Corrientes Grand Slam will each split $33,000, the silver $22,000, the bronze $16,500 and fourth place $12,900. The women's medal matches will be held on today and the men's medal matches on Sunday. The FIVB Corrientes Grand Slam will be the 286th FIVB men's event since the FIVB began play in 1989 and the 248th FIVB women's tournament since they started in 1992. Print this Page News {{item.LocalShortDate}} {{item.Title}} All the News


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Dear Reader: Do you think you are related to the individuals listed in this post? Please drop me a note! I love hearing from cousins and others researching my family!
After my Surname Saturday post this weekend about my WILD roots, I did some more digging and found gravesite photos and information for Fridolin Wild, his wife and her parents in San Antonio's City Cemetery. I'm really excited about these finds, as they provide a lot of information. The records on the Find A Grave web site link to children and siblings as well. I was sure to leave a thank-you note for the photographer.
24. Fridolin Wild
50. Julius Hoyer (Lina's father)
51. Sophie Hoyer (Lina's mother)
The latter two are especially rich in information about where the Hoyer's came from in Europe. I realize that this all needs to be verified through other records, but I'm excited by this find nonetheless. I'm beginning to think a trip to San Antonio someday is in order.


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ZABUL PROVINCE, Afghanistan -- Despite the U.S. military spending more than $65 billion over the past six years fighting roadside bombs, officials at the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization predict attacks with the devices in Afghanistan will top 16,000 for the second straight year.
JIEDDO, as the organization is known, was formed in 2006 in response to mounting casualties from insurgent bombs in Iraq. Former U.S. Central Command chief John P. Abizaid had called for a "Manhattan Project-like" effort to defeat the devices, referring to the U.S. effort during World War II to develop the first atomic bomb.
But instead of IED attacks falling -- there were just 3,014 in Afghanistan in 2007 -- the 2012 number is expected to equal or slightly exceed the 16,689 reported there last year, even though there are now 33,000 fewer U.S. troops deployed in the country.
The reason? The Taliban doesn't seem to have any shortage of cheap bomb-making materials, according to Al Sweetser, JIEDDO operations research systems analysis division chief.
A typical Taliban bomb contains little or no metal and is victim-operated, for example, by a soldier who steps on a spring or snags a trip wire. It might contain explosives derived from ammonium nitrate fertilizer or potassium chloride, used in match factories, he said.
While JIEDDO has been unable to cut down on the number of insurgent attacks, it has been able to successfully reduce the "effective attack rate" -- the percentage of IEDs that cause casualties.
Reports posted on the iCasualties website on Thursday showed 124 foreign troops killed by improvised bombs in Afghanistan so far in 2012, down from 368 there in 2010.
That's been achieved by spending $45 billion on armored vehicles and more than $20 billion on training for troops, acquiring high-tech bomb detectors and surveillance gear and using CSI-style investigation techniques to break up the insurgent networks that make and emplace the bombs.
Few would dispute the value of saving lives, but experts have begun to question the wisdom of paying so much money to battle a weapon that costs the enemy next to nothing.
"We have to figure out how to alter the investment ratio," security researcher Peter Singer wrote in a recent article posted on the Brookings Institute website. "This is not just a budgeting issue. It is unsustainable to keep throwing billions of dollars to fight a technology that costs the other side tens of dollars. We need not silver-bullet solutions but ones that are cheap and scalable."
The main way U.S. forces are trying to influence the number of attacks is by cutting supply chains and blocking the acquisition of precursors that enable insurgents to stage attacks, Sweetser said in a phone interview.
Those efforts include trying to get manufacturers to add neutralizing chemicals to fertilizer, the base ingredient for most of the Taliban's homemade bombs.
The amount of homemade explosives -- most made from ammonium nitrate fertilizer -- discovered by security forces in Afghanistan is up 66 percent on what was being found at this time last year, Sweetser said.
"In the last 90 days, we have confiscated 118 tons of HME," he said, adding that 10 pounds of explosives are commonly used in a Taliban bomb targeting troops on foot patrols. "One hundred and eighteen tons is a tremendous capability for the insurgents to stage IED attacks."
Yet, try as they might, U.S. military commanders haven't been able to cut the rate of attacks.
"In June this year, we had the most (attacks with) IEDs of any month we have ever had in Afghanistan," Sweetser said.
And there's growing evidence that the danger of roadside bombs won't go away, even after the U.S. campaign in Afghanistan ends.
"Whoever you talk to would agree that IEDs are an enduring threat and it is something we will need the capacity to counter wherever U.S. forces are expected to perform missions," he said.
JIEDDO reports that, in August alone, 262 devices exploded in countries outside Iraq and Afghanistan, including attacks in Africa, Russia, Turkey and Mexico that killed 347 and wounded 694.
"The IED has proved to be a cheap, relatively easy-to-use tool against both civilians and advanced militaries," Singer said. "And so it will continue to be copied. The IED is not disappearing; rather it is proliferating."
Future efforts to counter improvised bombs need to focus on things that will work in all kinds of environments, including urban battle zones. They also need to take account of technological advances that could see terrorists attack with robotic bombs or even devices attached to remote-controlled aircraft, he said.
David Johnson, of the Center for Advanced Defense Studies in Washington, said the threat of roadside bombs is increasing because they're effective.
"It works at a strategic level against us," he said. "They (America's adversaries) know we are really worried about one or a few people being blown up by a landmine and they think that will drive us out and, from the evidence, it appears to be so."
Afghan forces operating in southern Afghanistan this summer still required extensive support from foreign troops to counter improvised bombs, complicating hopes that Afghans will take over the bulk of the fight against the Taliban.
Sweetser said it's unclear what JIEDDO's role will be, if any, after U.S. combat troops leave Afghanistan.
"We are expecting JIEDDO will remain with our current mission through 2014," he said. "How the counter-IED support will be provided and what organization will be doing that (in the long term), we don't know at this point."
The U.S. Explosive Ordnance Disposal soldiers supporting the Afghans now are using gear and techniques provided by JIEDDO, but many don't know much about the organization.
Sgt. B-Wesley Sanders, 25, of Corpus Christi, Texas, is working in Zabul province with the 630th Ordnance Company out of Fort Riley, Kansas. During three months in Panjwai district in Kandahar province earlier in the summer, his unit encountered 13 bombs, he said.
The 630th soldiers get a lot of information about improvised bombs and some nifty equipment, such as backpacks that jam remote-controlled devices, Sanders said. But he doesn't know where it comes from.
"I've never heard, 'This is a JIEDDO piece of equipment,'" he said.
Likewise, Sanders said, he doesn't know if the information that he and other troops collect on the battlefield ends up at JIEDDO.
However, Sgt. 1st Class Winston McElrea, 33, of Seattle, who is on his fourth tour of Afghanistan dealing with roadside bombs, said he greatly appreciates the job JIEDDO's doing.
"A lot of the rapid fielding (equipment sent to combat zones by JIEDDO) has definitely been helpful," he said. "The handheld detectors for sweeping routes when dismounted have helped us find a lot of things that we wouldn't have found otherwise."
JIEDDO provides more than physical equipment.
"It is not just something in your hand," said McElrea, who regularly checks JIEDDO's websites for updates on the latest counter-IED tactics. "It is passing information around."
For example, intelligence assistance provided by JIEDDO to track down insurgents has also been invaluable, he said.
Johnson said the end of combat in Afghanistan could see JIEDDO retained as a slush fund for the military service branches to access funds for counter-IED efforts or its functions might be absorbed by other organizations.
Whatever is decided, the U.S. should cut how much it spends battling improvised bombs, he said.
"We should absolutely not be spending that much money," he said of JIEDDO's multibillion-dollar budget.
There might also be more cost-effective ways to operate in areas where there's a threat from roadside bombs, such as avoiding the use of soldiers to gather information when local nationals could do the job and not providing insurgents with easily identifiable targets by driving distinctive vehicles on regular, predictable routes, Johnson said.
However, it does not appear that the improvised explosive device can be defeated at the tactical level, he said.
"The most effective way to deal with the problem of roadside bombs is by addressing the grievances that lead people to emplace the devices," he said.


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I've been trying to understand the significance of this beast from an initiatory perspective
as I know it's more profound and alluded to in literature but not specifically mentioned much in regards
to a more direct correspondence. So far I see that it represents the unconscious mind, but that's very vague.
I mean, so far my instincts point towards Yesod and Netzach as corresponding but I could be way off the mark.
Also, I've read both negative interpretations and interpretations that allude to the white whale as a grail of sorts.
Anyway, I'm just looking for some opinions on what the significance is other than a vague explanation maybe something more elaborate?


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Rhizome seeks a focused, responsible and mature candidate for a part-time internship. Responsibilities include assisting with the daily administrative upkeep of the organization, research and production support of the Rhizome website, coordination of organizational projects, correspondence with artists, members, and press, and management of various social media platforms. Interns must be familiar with contemporary art and savvy with the web and new technologies.
The position is 8 - 16 hours per week and can be worked from home or at the Rhizome office, which is located at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in downtown Manhattan. The intern will report to the Senior Editor and Associate Director. Candidates must be based in New York and must be able to commit to 3 months. This position is unpaid, but academic credit may be arranged.
QUALIFICATIONS: Candidates must be well versed with social media and the online environment. A keen interest in online marketing is a must. Education or advanced experience beyond the undergraduate level is highly desirable. The candidate should have strong writing and analytical skills. Knowledge of Microsoft Office software is required and basic experience with graphics and video editing programs, like Photoshop and Final Cut, is preferred.
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New Releases Summer 2002 (2002-07-07)KSC Glock 26 Full Auto
Expected in the coming months, KSC will release a full auto capable version of its popular Glock 26. With operation similar to the larger Glock 18C, the Glock 26 can shoot in both semi and full auto mode. Pictured with an optional high capacity long magazine, this would make the Glock 26 the smallest full auto machine pistol on the market.
KSC STI Hawk 4.3
We have never been big advocates of KSC's STI lineup, though in part that is because of the sheer superiority of WA's similar Colt-framed Infinity lineup. KSC's new Hawk 4.3 promises hard-kick technology and boasts performance. We can't wait to see!
Western Arms ParaOrdnance 14-45 Compact Carry
No surprise to anyone, WA is releasing a shorter Compact Carry version of its successful ParaOrdnance P14-45. Scheduled for release on July 15, 2002 in Japan, we are scheduled to receive our first batch soon after so watch our website for postings of this hot little pocket piece.
Maruzen Walther PPK 2002 Version
A popular yet mediocre performing model, Maruzen's Walther PPK has always attracted Bond lovers who did not mind giving up power and kick for the PPK's style. Maruzen has now promised a new 2002 version that boasts a 140% increase in power.
The conversion kit for making your APS2 look like a Barrett has been released on the market. Unlike the real Barrett, this kit keeps the APS2 a manual cocking rifle so we question how successful this kit will really be.


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The 1st Princess to former Miss South Africa Adè van Heerden, has been crowned the new Miss South Africa in light of Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters' recent win at the Miss Universe Pageant.
"I know that I have big shoes to fill but am thrilled and humbled to wear the Miss South Africa crown," said Van Heerden.
"Previous Miss South Africas have already welcomed me into the sisterhood with open arms, and I realise that I now have the responsibility of continuing the Miss South Africa legacy. A legacy that leads women of all cultures, spreads love and unite South Africans."
Boipelo Mabe, who was crowned second princess at Sun City earlier this year, will now take over the position as first princess.
During her Miss South Africa reign, Van Heerden would like to continue to focus on mental health issues, particularly amongst young women.
"I would like to concentrate on a range of mental health issues – from depression and eating disorders to anxiety and how to build confidence. One of the side effects of social media platforms is that girls have become incredibly critical of themselves and they often feel unworthy. I would like to use social media as a platform to address this."
"The role of Miss South Africa is ever evolving and women in our generation are stepping into important leadership positions on all fronts. I believe that I am representative of the 'new and upcoming' generation of women in our country. We are smart, assertive and informed, but also empathetic and caring. This reflects in my calling as a doctor in the military – I'm not afraid to stand my ground on a physical or emotional level. I hope to lead as dynamically and as open mindedly as I live my life."
Earlier this month, Van Heerden placed in the Top 10 at the Miss World pageant where she competed as Miss World South Africa. This was a first for South Africa where a princess was placed in the final 10. She was also announced winner of Beauty with a Purpose along with four other contestants.
"Having only three weeks to prepare for Miss World and placing in the Top 10 as well as winning the Beauty with a Purpose project were achievements beyond my wildest dreams," said the 26-year-old medical doctor and lieutenant at 2 Military Hospital in Cape Town.
"What I will carry with me forever is the immense pride I felt in being able to represent South Africa. I am delighted that I will be able to continue doing so as Miss South Africa."
The new Miss South Africa 2018 will be crowned in May next year, providing Van Heerden with a six-month reign. The Miss South Africa Pageant is a proud collaboration between Sun International and Cell C.


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Abstract: In overlapping-generations economies with perfect financial markets and lumpsum taxation, restrictions on the government budget deficits do not limit the set of achievable allocations. For economies in which tax instruments are distortionary and limited in number, deficits are irrelevant only in the unrealistic case in which the number of tax instruments is large relative to the number of policy goals. In particular, if the government can use only anonymous consumption taxes, then achieving the prescribed deficits without changing the equilibrium allocation will typically be impossible when the number of consumers exceeds the number of commodities. A similar result holds if consumer credit is (exogenously) restricted. Surprisingly, in this case, distortionary taxes may be more likely than lump-sum taxes to lead to the irrelevance of government deficits. Journal of Economic Literature Classification Numbers: D51, D91, E32. Keywords: Balanced Budget, Balanced-Budget Amendment, Burden of the Public Debt, Comparative Statics, Consumption Taxes, Credit Restrictions, Distortionary Taxes, Economic Policy, Government Budget Deficit, Maastricht Treaty, Optimal Taxation, Overlapping Generations. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7542
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I would like to ask is there a way to convert Blenders Lamps (Area/Spot) from power level to Watts or Luminance, (Candles) I do have an image where I'm trying to make a spot lamp on the back of a house (night time View).
But cant seam to get the effects right, I do understand that external rendering programs can pick some of this up but if i don't get it right in the first place any external render software wont fix a total mess to start with
I made a lamp type hood and used Area lamp due to the diffuse effect and estimated the power for cast soft displacement of light over the scene
Please advise any help is welcome Pic of part of the scene http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthr ... ng-Shadows
Render with blender render so-far.
Thank you for time to read this and any advice you can pass on
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I don't know where the guy got it, but he says that energy level is in Watts. http://www.blender.org/forum/viewtopic. ... ython+lamp
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In the remote and secluded canyons of Malibu high near the Santa Monica Mountains, the stage was set and provided a stunning backdrop for an event that has personal meaning for well-renowned plastic surgeon to the stars, Dr. Frank Ryan. His non-profit organization that he founded, the Bony Pony Ranch Foundation, hosted a fun-filled western round up filled with live music, tasty barbeque, relaxing spa treatments, exotic petting zoos and many more activities for all ages on the infamous Bony Pony Ranch.
As one entered the ranch, various areas of interest were stretched out in a bazaar-like style. Areas of interest range from a general store that sold various pieces of merchandise such as cowboy hats, plush animals, t-shirts and tank tops all embossed with the Bony Pony Ranch logo to an exotic petting zoo with goats, ostriches, a South American iguana, pony rides, a California condor and alpacas.
This event would not be complete without a celebrity photo opportunity. Instead of your usual red carpet, the Bony Pony Ranch rolled out the hay and the cactus and provided cowboy hats and memorabilia for the celebrities to wear.
And if that wasn't enough excitement for one day, fashion designer Lisa Kline provided a stimulating fashion show with summer appropriate inspired clothing. With hair done by the Kevin Josephson Salon to cowboy boots provided by Boot Star and choreography provided by James Campbell Productions, the Lisa Kline fashion show provided an unexpected and energetic jolt for the afternoon's event as models stomped the runway with music by DJ Kane.
Overall, the Bony Pony Ranch Foundation succeeded in making sure that everyone had a fun-filled day amidst the scorching heat all for charity and support. For more information on Dr. Frank Ryan, his Bony Pony Ranch Foundation and to make a donation, visit their website at (http://www.bonyponyranch.com).
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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — It was topsy-turvy day in the Southeastern Conference with Top-25 teams Texas A&M, Georgia, LSU, Florida and South Carolina suffering losses that damaged their hopes of winning a league championship.
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — It was topsy-turvy day in the Southeastern Conference with Top-25 teams Texas A&M, Georgia, LSU, Florida and South Carolina suffering losses that damaged their hopes of winning a league championship.
Alabama made sure there was no tumble at the top in Tuscaloosa.
The top-ranked Crimson Tide continued its dominance against Arkansas with another 52-0 win in front of an announced crowd of 101,821 in Bryant-Denny Stadium. Alabama won its seventh straight in the series in familiar fashion, leaning on a stifling defense that shut out Arkansas for the second straight season and an offense that enjoyed plenty of big plays against the undermanned Razorbacks.
The loss sent Arkansas (3-5, 0-4 limping into its off week with a five-game losing streak, including consecutive losses to South Carolina and Alabama by a combined score of 104-7. The five-game skid is Arkansas' longest since former coach Danny Ford's final season in 1997 and the Razorbacks also fell to 0-4 in conference play for the first time since 2005.
"Obviously, this is getting a little old," Arkansas coach Bret Bielema said. "Nothing that we did out there (Saturday) can give us any indication that the things we need to do are just that far away or that close … I mean, it's a long way to go."
It wasn't what Arkansas imagined when it came to Tuscaloosa, planning to regain respect after suffering the 52-7 loss to South Carolina last week. But Alabama wasted no time in routing the Razorbacks again.
Alabama took the opening kickoff and marched 68 yards on 12 plays, capping the drive with a 4-yard touchdown pass from quarterback AJ McCarron to fullback Jalston Fowler. The Crimson Tide scored four times in the first half, including 46- and 1-yard touchdown runs by speedy running back Kenyan Drake.
Drake's 46-yard touchdown included two missed tackles that turned a lost-yardage play into one of the biggest highlights of the game. But the missed tackles on the play weren't isolated. A rash of them frustrated Bielema once again.
"We just can't have one missed tackle turn into a touchdown," Bielema said. "That happened on three different occasions today. Obviously there's a fundamental breakdown there that has to be corrected."
Said safety Alan Turner: "We know we made a lot of mistakes."
Arkansas, meanwhile, went three-plays-and-out on its first possession and quarterback Brandon Allen threw an interception on the second series.
Even when the Razorbacks put together a positive drive it ended in frustration Saturday night. Arkansas place kicker Zach Hocker had a 41-yard field goal attempt blocked with the Razorbacks trailing 21-0 in the second quarter.
Alabama followed the special teams mistake with a five-play, 72-yard drive late in the half. McCarron capped the drive with a 30-yard touchdown pass to receiver Amari Cooper, helping the Crimson Tide take a 28-0 lead to the locker room.
"There's a reason why they're No. 1," Arkansas running back Jonathan Williams said.
It didn't get any better for Arkansas after the break.
Receiver Keon Hatcher fumbled on the opening kickoff, which was the second of Arkansas' three turnovers on the night. Alabama recovered and quickly scored on McCarron's 17-yard touchdown pass to tight end O.J. Howard.
The lead eventually ballooned to 42-0 in the third quarter on running back T.J. Yeldon's 24-yard touchdown run before Alabama coach Nick Saban pulled McCarron and most of Alabama's starters. Still, Alabama tacked on 10 more points including backup running back Derrick Henry's 80-yard touchdown run with 59 seconds left.
McCarron finished 15-of-21 for 180 yards with three touchdowns Saturday, while Drake finished with 104 yards and Yeldon with 88. Alabama had 532 yards.
Allen finished 7-of-25 for 91 yards with two interceptions, struggling to lead an offense that finished with 256 yards. Arkansas has been held scoreless for seven straight quarters dating back to its opening-drive score against the Gamecocks.
"As an offense we didn't do a whole lot," Allen said. "We didn't help our ourselves out. We didn't help our defense out. We didn't help anybody on our team."
Alabama — which has not allowed a touchdown in its four home games this season — has scored 111 unanswered points in the Arkansas series dating back to the 2011 season. The Razorbacks' last points against the Crimson Tide came on former quarterback Tyler Wilson's 19-yard touchdown pass to receiver Cobi Hamilton in the third quarter of the 38-14 loss here.
"It's getting very old for us," Allen said. "We're tired of losing. There's not a single person on this team that's coming into every game thinking we're losing."
It's a far cry from Bielema's bravado during a Razorback club meeting in the offseason, saying he didn't come to Arkansas to play Alabama, he came to beat the Tide.
That goal remains the same, but his first chance showed how far apart the programs are as Alabama continues to chase its fourth national title in the past five seasons. Meanwhile, Bielema's first taste of SEC play has been forgettable with Arkansas outscored 179-50 in losses to Texas A&M, Florida, South Carolina and Alabama.
The only silver lining? Arkansas finally has an off week after eight straight games.
The Razorbacks will try to regroup in the next two weeks before returning to the field against Auburn, which knocked off Texas A&M on Saturday, 45-41, to improve to 6-1.
"I was always taught tough times don't last, tough people do," Arkansas defensive end Chris Smith said. "This has been a tough stretch, playing very good teams. But it's all up to us. We've got this bye week to fix mistakes and get ready for Auburn."
Bielema said the extra time will be critical for the Razorbacks, who must win three of their final four game to become bowl eligible. He said Arkansas will spend the two weeks taking a look at every aspect of a program that has been overwhelmed in SEC play.
"What we have to do as coaches is begin to move forward with guys that are going to execute what we're asking them to do," Bielema said. "If a guy repeatedly puts the ball on the ground, if we're dropping passes, we've just got to move on. It's to the point where you have to understand where we're going.
"The guys that survive this, the guys that move forward with us will be rewarded. I don't know if it's going to come in the next game or if it's going to come a month from now or a year from now. But it's going to take a little bit of leap of faith."