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Also staff took care of furniture very well.
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I want to open by saying I have had a bad history with using movers. I've had them break things, steal things, and generally be unhelpful. I was wary when looking for movers again; it's taken me years to come back around.
I read a bunch of reviews and AM movers had some best ratings. What really stood out to me what how much people RAVED about their movers.; they posted pictures, and even remembered all their names!
I was moving from Dallas to Houston, and I was doing my research from Nashville. It was a bit stressful as the deadline approached, but AM was extremely up front and immediately sent me a flat rate quote. I tried to contact them to go over what I actually needed moved (they quoted me for a one bedroom apartment, but I was moving out of just one room in a house), and they were sending three movers which I thought might be too much (I didn't want to waste their time/resources). Due to the deadline and not being able to reach anyone to talk about the flat rate, I went ahead and accepted the quote online. Someone quickly got in touch and we set the date in stone.
The day arrived and three guys pulled up to my driveway with a massive truck. Johnny, Tyson, and Frank were the BEST! They were extremely polite and found a way to call me ma'am in almost every exchange. Tyson was especially a big sweetheart.
From the time they arrived to the time they left, only 40 minutes passed – these guys work fast! They wrapped all my furniture up carefully and loaded it onto the truck efficiently. They went on their merry way to Houston where they met my roommate and unpacked my things. Even my roommate loved these guys! They were courteous and took direction easily when she gave them direction.
Just a small break down of how payment works. Most moving companies will take a deposit up front in order to set a date. AM didn't do that. It almost made me nervous and I called multiple times to ensure they were still coming. They were very good about reassuring me, and routinely calling leading up to the time/date to reaffirm that they were coming. After they load your things into the truck, they take the first half of what was agreed, then charge the second half once they unload at the destination. AM was great about making an exception for me and charging my same card in Houston at the end (without me being there). There were no hidden fees, or surcharges – the flat rate was for real! They also included the cash tip I gave them on the invoice so now I can get reimbursed from my work, yay!
Overall I am EXTREMELY glad I chose AM. All my stuff arrived safely and undamaged. They were quick, made it to Houston right on time, and remained consistently positive. I was paranoid/anxious and these guys came through, exceeding my expectations. I am so incredibly thankful for this company and urge you to try them too! You won't regret it!
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My fiancé and I are making an 800-mile move up towards Chicago for my new job…obviously stressed out like you wouldn't believe. Our original long-distance-movers moving company backed out a day before the move! Can you believe that!? Reliable Moving company helped ease our heavy burden, scrambling around and dispatching a crew on Tuesday–then sending them out the next morning on Wednesday. Wow, is right!
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Chicagoland, IL
I was very pleased with the local move Reliable Moving Company provided. They arrived early, in a marked vehicle and labeled t-shirts, introduced themselves and moved things quickly and efficiently. One piece of feedback — I added a plastic wrap to my mattress and box spring. I noticed as they were packing it up that the plastic cover was falling off. It arrived without the plastic on it at all and I wish they would have taped it. Other than that, I was pleased with the service and pricing.
Las Vegas, NV
Reliable moving company sent a fantastic patient team! The movers were professional, and pleasant to work with. There were a couple of areas that we weren't as prepared as we should have been and they were incredibly patient and helpful. Good experience!
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Gave me a 1-5pm window for them to show up. 5pm rolls around and I had to call them to get an update. They wouldn't be showing up at all and couldn't reschedule until the next week. Called another moving company that was able to give me a 7-9am (2hr) window on Easter Sunday for the same price. So that's pretty cut and dry. Kinda glad they didn't show up. Their main phone number I called was answered by a woman driving in her call who had me wait while she pulled over. The other company had a professional office staff… and hold music.
Dallas, TX
I have the best movers ever!!! The guy what i think is military but i forgot the name (leader), henry and Chris make my move to easy !!! They have control to everything!! To quick and best mover skills to wrap my furniture!!!!
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North Dallas, Dallas, TX
Even though the movers did a good job relatively. Our table & lamp shade were completely broken. The movers has assured us that is going to be a reimbursement. Unfortunately the owner ( manager) totally dismissed it .he didn't take responsibility for the damage after weeks of sending pics back & forth. He didn't even try to ask his employees to investigate the situation, he just ignored it. Their big truck needed a jump in the middle of move & my husband had to take them to get a jumper. We paid them good money & tips . The manager doesn't know how to keep their customers happy. I never use their services again. I don't recommend this company to anyone .
Plano, TX
Very unhelpful. We had our move scheduled for over a month on Saturday at 9 am, and I confirmed the move the week prior. On the day of the move, they did not arrive at the scheduled time. They arranged for another moving company that was not available until 2pm. They did not provide help with compensating us for lost time.
Fitchburg, WI
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UH astronomer to share major astronomy prizeUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
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University of Hawai'i astronomer John L. Tonry is a member of a research team that has won the $500,000 Gruber Cosmology Prize for the discovery that the expansion of the Universe is accelerating.
Two teams of astronomers, one led by Brian Schmidt (Australian National University) and the other led by Saul Perlmutter (University of California, Berkeley), set out to look for evidence that the expansion of the Universe was slowing down as a result of gravitational forces between the galaxies. To everyone's surprise, both teams discovered that the expansion of the Universe is apparently accelerating, and that the Universe will expand forever.
The force that is causing the Universe to expand at an ever-increasing rate has been dubbed "dark energy," but its nature is another great mystery.
Dr. Tonry's particular contribution was the 1997 discovery of crucial supernovae explosions in distant galaxies using the Canada-France-Hawai'i Telescope on Mauna Kea. He explains, "It was the CFHT data coupled with data from the Keck Observatory and the Hubble Space Telescope that were the key to identifying the accelerating Universe."
Institute for Astronomy Director Rolf Kudritzki added, "The University can be very proud of being associated with this prize. Dr. Tonry is an enormously accomplished researcher, and I am delighted that his contributions are being recognized in this way."
The Gruber Cosmology Prize honors a leading cosmologist, astronomer, astrophysicist or scientific philosopher for theoretical, analytical or conceptual discoveries leading to fundamental advances in the field. The teams will receive the prize at a ceremony at the University of Cambridge on September 7.
See http://gruberprizes.org/GruberPrizes/Cosmology_PressRelease.php?awardid=42 for more information.
About the Institute for Astronomy
The Institute for Astronomy at the University of Hawaii conducts research into galaxies, cosmology, stars, planets, and the sun. Its faculty and staff are also involved in astronomy education, deep space missions, and in the development and management of the observatories on Haleakala and Mauna Kea.
For more information, visit: http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/info/press-releases/Gruber-07-07.html

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Steve Jobs' Legacy
Steve Jobs' legacy is one of continually, relentlessly building beautiful, useful things that anyone could use and love to use.
Because of his efforts, the tools that I use every day are the best possible tools. Celebrities can't buy a substantively better computer than the one I use every day. Heads of State can't own a better smartphone than than the one I use every day. That egalitarianism of technology is a wonderful legacy. It may have been the case without Steve Jobs' hand in it, but what he also brought was a craftsman's perspective. He didn't want to build adequate things. He wanted to build beautiful things.
I hope he continues to be an inspiration, because we'll not see his like for a long time.


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STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich. – Sterling Heights emergency personnel found two people dead Friday afternoon at a house on Delvin Drive.
The emergency personnel were responding to the home for a welfare check.
The victims are both men in their 70s. They may be brothers, police said. One was found upstairs and the other downstairs. They had no visible signs of injury. An air test showed the home was safe.
Police said there is no sign of a break-in at the home. The neighbor grew suspicious after not seeing anyone for a week.
"I called the police because I was concerned," said Richard Hample, who lives next door. "I noticed a foul smell, you know, in the yard out here."
The causes of the deaths are not known at this time. Autopsies will be performed on Saturday.
"Just wish maybe I could have done more," said Hample. "But then you know if you don't see your neighbor for a week does that mean, you know, something's wrong?"
Police are investigating.
Stay with ClickOnDetroit.com and Local 4 for more information as it becomes available.


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Kershaw County Wills on www.southcarolinapioneers.netKershaw County was originally part of Camden District, and was formed in 1791 from Claremont, Lancaster, Fairfield and Richland Counties. It was named for Joseph Kershaw (1727-1791). The county seat is Camden. Camden was first settled in about 1732 by the English who'd settled first in Charleston. Camden was occupied by the Revolutionary War from June of 1780 to May of 1781.
South Carolina Wills and Estate Records Available to Members of South Carolina Pioneers
Map of Plantations in Lower Kershaw County
Index to Kershaw County Will Book A (1770-1826)
Index to Kershaw County Will Book N1 (1776-1833)
Index to Kershaw County Unrecorded Wills (1789-1816)
Index to Kershaw County Will Book A1 (1781-1820)
Index to Kershaw County Will Book C
Index to Kershaw County Will Book D (1803)
Transcripts of Kershaw County Will Book AI (1781-1820)
Testators: James Archer, Ebenezer Bagwell, Humphrey Barnett, Samuel Boykin, William Clemmons, William Collins, Thomas Dixon, Charles Ghent, Joseph Kershaw, Daniel Kirkland, Derret Long, William Norris, Lemuel Perry, Sterling Pettaway, James Pickett, John Platt, John Williams, Drury Wyche and William Wyly.Transcripts of Kershaw County Will Book D (1803): only 4 wills
Testators: Catharine Rhodes, Ann Roach, Anthony Seals and Dillard Spradley.Transcripts of Kershaw County Unrecorded Deeds (1789-1816)
Testators: William Beckham, Nicholas Bishop, Elizabeth Bracey, George Brown, Jonathan Bunckley, N. Center, Lewis Collins, James Crawford, Henry Croft, Edward Davis, Richard Davis, Isaac Dubose, Mary Egleton, Barwell Evans, William Forgueson, Alexander Goodall, Benjamin Haile and William Luyten.
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TSLA offers more stock!, Guides down on Model S deliveries and revenue! Stock plunges!
TSLA offers more stock!, Guides down on Model S deliveries and revenue! Stock plunges!
Not in the least bit. Another welcome buying opportunity! :-)
The free electricity costs TM nothing except the station charging h/w, which Elon has stated is now cheap due to economies of scale -- there are only a few hundred SC stations to deal with, a small blip on the 000s of chargers that will be sold.
Solar City generates the power, and profits from FIT on the excess over grid power used to charge cars. So it makes sure it installs lots of extra capacity. Can't lose.
Tesla stock is going to go up and down until it gets too expensive for mere mortals to purchase. Until then enjoy the ride.
haha your headline reads like an old-timey radio announcer or newspaper headline.
Musk may have said that they wouldn't need any more capital in the past, but I thought in recent months he has been mentioning that that option is on the table, and that they may do it, though it wouldn't be due to a dire necessity.
I agree these are volatile times for Tesla with much to deliver on & I desperately want Elon to pull this off. It is a tad disconcerting though that we're this far into 2012 and the promise of 5k production of Model S now gets watered down after such a strong defense until recently. Yeah stock -up & down - to be expected. The real center of activity though is what happens in Freemont.
the timing is bad, all eyes are on production and Musk rolls out charging stations. I like the concept, very likely these charging stations are putting power back into the grid as we speak. this is like the early days of amazon saying they are building out their network and will not be profitable yet. this answers many questions for the future of electric cars, but suck in the short term.
Stocks been going up and down like this for a year now. Remember when it was almost $40 a share? Then what $22 now 28ish. Stock is stock up and down is why we trade it. If it was flat no one would invest.
I had really hoped for the 5000 cars this year but only because I am 3270 and my current car is falling apart faster than I can piece it back together. Now I have to hope it can make it thru a winter.
I'm actually kind of glad. I was wondering if they would be so ahead of schedule that I'd have to defer. Now it appears as if I won't have to.
I'm no stock analyst, but what tesla is trying to achieve is nothing short of revolutionary. The i.c.e. paradigm has been in place for over a century. Building a new car with no supporting infrastructure is nothing short of daunting. I'm a physician with some exposure to the drug approval process (and their attendant stock swings); drugs fail all the time for myriad reasons, that is nothing compared to what tesla and elon musk are attempting. Frankly I think that producing 3k quality cars by the end of 2012 is a great achievement. I have test driven both the performance and the standard s, they are ground-breaking awesome cars. The fact that the market doesn't get it is the only thing not surprising about it. I eagerly await delivery of mine, res# 2348 in the NYC area.
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Hi Bernie. Since you drove both standard and performance Model S, do you mind commenting on whether standard seems fast and fun to drive once you know what the performance model can do?
A bit OT in this thread, doncha think?
Not so sure the market doesn't "get it"; IPO opening was $17, if you recall! As you say, if a production rate sufficient to hit the 20K+ target for 2013 is reached by late 2012, the market will be suitably impressed.
Standard seemed almost same to me, very fast and fun. Performance is almost "over the top" fast, like a Maserati or 12 cyl bentley (which I got to demo once). I sprung for performance for potential resale value.
I hope so. Seems like the next 6 mos are critical.
So Elon keeps saying!


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Rating: According to my 9 year old 5 stars Difficulty of Recipe: 2 stars
Review: It was so easy to whip up a batch of these! And I could tell that they were perfectly moist and looked delish. Will give proper review after my cruise!
2 2/3 cups flour
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
2 cups packed brown sugar
1 cup butter, room temperature
2 eggs, at room temperature
1 Tbsp vanilla
Cinnamon topping:
2 Tbsp white sugar
2 tsp ground cinnamon
1. In a mixing bowl, combine flour, baking powder and salt set aside.
2. Combine the butter, eggs, brown sugar, and vanilla. I used my mixer and it worked great!
3. Add in the dry ingredients. (Flour, baking powder, and salt.)
4. Spread in a greased 9×13 dish. The batter will be thick almost like a cookie mixture.
5. Combine the cinnamon topping ingredients and sprinkle over the top.
6. Bake at 350 degrees for 25-30 minutes or until top springs back when pressed.
Recipe from Pearls, Handcuffs, and Happy Hour


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Muster Rolls - Valuable Resources for Family Historians
|Scottish Muster Roll
The Oxford Dictionary defines a Muster Roll as: noun,
1. an official list of officers and men in a military unit or ships company
2. an inventory, a roster
Muster Rolls are a valuable source of information for family historians. Although mainly military or shipping inventories, by nature, there are also other surviving musters such as those of police officers and significantly, for anyone with criminal ancestors, there are surviving musters of Australian Convicts. What is particularly of interest to family historians is that Muster Rolls or inventories, extend across all classes of people and often include information about the lives and political attitudes of commoners, information which might not be easily found in any other source. Because of the nature of the military system, especially in Britain, Muster Rolls can provide excellent insight into the standing an ancestor in his community, this being accounted for by the amount or number of weapons he possessed. Whether your ancestor was a member of the militia, a gentry family member or a commoner, Muster Rolls and regimental histories are a 'must check' source of information for every family historian. For the purpose of this blog post, it is my intention to concentrate on on early militia Muster Rolls, with particular reference to Britain and America. Shipping and Convict Muster Rolls as sources for family historians is a considerably significant topic and deserving of an independent post.
The concept of muster rolls, or inventories, dates back to feudal times. The feudal system required the Lords of the Manors to each keep their own army, which could be called upon whenever needed for defence purposes. For accounting purposes, a general muster was called annually to record all able bodied men between the ages of 16 and 60, who were eligible for military duty. An inventory was also taken of the number and value of the weapons each man individually possessed. Muster rolls also sometimes recorded occupations as well as the name of the Lord of each Manor, and the value of their lands.
The notion of obligation to military service, (although not actual muster rolls), can be traced back even further to the Anglo-Saxon times when it was a commonly accepted tradition that all males of able body were liable to be called upon to serve as either officers of the law, the posse comitatus, or in military service known as the fyrd. This was the common law system of obligation to military service which later led to the practice of calling musters of men and keeping muster rolls.
|Anglo-Saxon Fyrd c. 400-878 AD
After the breakdown of the Feudal system, a similar arrangement of accounting was continued, for the keeping account of men liable for military service. During the Tudor and Stuart dynasties in England, (1485-1649), musters were called periodically, in order for the King to assess the numbers of men in the local militia and as such, the number of men ready to fight in the militia, and when required, to form a larger defence force. Within Counties, each parish was responsible for assessing each household to record its weapons, horses, armour and financial status. Military training was rarely provided for the local militia and realistically, they could not be relied upon for defence outside their own county. Early muster rolls recorded names, sometimes occupations as well as arms, although some later inventories listed numbers of men without individual names.
In 1757 an Act was passed in England which decreed that participation in local militia would no longer be on a voluntary basis. In every parish, constables were empowered, to annually record the names of all men between the ages of 18 and 50 for the purpose of a ballot system. This ballot was to be used from which to conscript men for military service. Members of Peerage, clergymen, teachers and apprentices were excluded from the new forms of Militia Musters, known as Militia Ballot Lists. These lists provided names and infirmaries. Subsequent Militia Muster Rolls were compiled between 1758 and 1802, which recorded names, occupations and infirmaries. Lists from the period 1802-1806, added descriptions of persons ( e.g. servant, lodger) and number of children over the age of 14 and the 1806-1831 muster lists expanded the information about each man to include his age.
No centrally organised army existed in England until the 17th century. Until then the system of annually mustering men to register for the militia persisted and any form of military force was fairly disorganised. Subsequent reforms created the style of regimental structure of defence forces, which has persisted to this day. Military forces have continued the tradition of keeping inventories of members of the defence forces. Although no longer known as muster rolls, military records, or inventories of people enlisted in defence forces, are extremely useful sources of information for family historians.
The system of mustering has bequeathed us numerous valuable records. Although some did not survive, many surviving records can be found in local county archives and offices, or in national archives and museums. Genealogy websites such as www.ancestry.com and www.findmypast.com have made Muster Rolls available for searching. Even if there is no record of our own ancestor in a Muster Roll, these inventories are a source of exceptional and fascinating local background information with regard to our ancestors' lives. Perhaps their greatest value lies in the fact that records pertaining to the common classes in early times were uncommon. Because Muster Rolls were inventories which included every man over the age of 16, in every community, they are often the only source of information available to us about early ancestors who were commoners.
Muster Rolls are not limited to England of course, and Muster Rolls exist for other countries. I am not intending to provide a list of Muster Rolls in this blog post. My intention is to provide an outline of the valuable contribution Muster Rolls can make towards family history research. An online search of local or national archives and family history group websites will give you some indication of what Muster Rolls are available to you to search.
|Some results from a National Archives UK search for Muster Rolls.
Local Historical and Family History Groups often provide links to Muster Rolls and may even hold records on microfiche or microfilm. Some historical groups, such as the St Keverne Local History Society, have published Muster Rolls on line for their local region. If your ancestors originated in Cornwall, you might find the Muster Roll - St Keverne Cornwall 1569 of interest. You could discover that your ancestor, Nycholas ROYE owned a 'sling and bag' , whilst John Nychlys was well armed with a 'bill and 12 arrows'. [bill hook, pictured below centre]
|Medieval 'bill' or bill hook' centre.
|Muster Roll, St Keverne Cornwall 1569
Searching Muster Rolls can be useful for indicating how early the surnames you are researching existed in a particular County. For example, should you be researching the surname JENKINS from Wareham in the County of Dorset, you might try searching the Dorset, England, Militia Lists, 1757-1860. Finding Henry Jenkins residing in Kingston, Rowborrow, Wareham in 1759, on a militia list or muster roll, could very well be the earliest reference you discover for the surname Jenkins in the exact area of Dorset you are researching. At the very least, you will know that the surname JENKINS existed in Wareham, Dorset as far back to at least 1759, which would be a compelling clue for further research. The Dorset Muster Rolls are newly available on www.ancestry.com. There are Muster Rolls which date even further back for other Counties of England, such as the Militia Musters for Northumberland, 1538. Perhaps the earliest known Muster Roll dating back to December 1215, has been in the possession of the British Museum since 1927. This Muster Roll is a single parchment sheet upon which is listed the names of 47 royal household knights. Much research has been conducted in an effort to accurately determine the reason for, and exact date of this Muster Roll. Most of the names appear to be of French origin and include names such as William de Bosco, Godfrey of Crowcombe, Hugh de Boves, (who was known to be one of King John's mercenaries), and Walter le Buck. If you have ancestors who accompanied William the Conqueror to England, you might find this document to be of special interest. [ www. eastanglia.academia.edu/The_earliest_English_muster_roll_18_19 ]
Scotland has a long history of recruited military forces - Fencibles, Militia and Volunteers who were much utilized during the Jacobite Uprisings, between the 1690's and 1746. Scottish auxiliary forces were also disposed during the Seven Years War and the American War of Independence. The Olive Tree Genealogy Blog [ www.olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/ ] has excellent links to Loyalist and British Muster Rolls for British Regiments serving in America. I have discovered one Scottish ancestor serving in the 15th Regiment of Foot, America, 1763, Muster Roll. http://olivetreegenealogy.com/loy/muster/15reg.shtml . This Blog has links to numerous Muster Rolls which are searchable and with persons listed under name, rank and regiment, it is well worth a look.
From muster rolls compiled by the Hanoverian army following the Battle of Culloden in 1746 in Scotland, a most unique, fully indexed historical record has survived which lists every Scottish regiment which took part in the battle. I found our MacDonalds of Clanranald, listed in this extremely significant record, in Christian Aikman's book, "No Quarter Given: The Muster Roll of Prince Charles Edward Stuart's Army, 1745-1746". A family anecdote boasting of this MacDonald ancestor, breaking down the doors of Carlisle Castle, might even have a touch of truth in it, having certain evidence that he took part in the battle. Muster rolls which have survived for Scottish family history research can be found on the national Archives of Scotland website http://www.nas.gov.uk/ .
|Painting of the Battle of Culloden.
Muster rolls are of particular importance as census substitutes, especially for research in Ireland where many records have been destroyed. In the early 17th century, the British, devised a scheme to settle colonists in Ulster. During what became known as The Ulster Plantation, landed estates were required to muster tenants to defend the land from threats from the native Irish. Lists were drawn up recording the number of men on the estates who bore arms. Later inventories included the names of all men able to fight. The most complete Muster Roll is the 1630 Muster Roll for each of the Ulster counties. These are available for the Ulster counties of Armagh, Cavan, Tyrone, Donegal, Monaghan and Londonderry. Because many of these Muster Rolls have survived, the names of the original planters are known. This is especially important for family history research in Northern Ireland since by 1622, more than 4000 Scottish people alone had migrated to these counties, outnumbering the numbers of planters from England.
|Map of the Ulster Plantation.
In my own Northern Irish family research I have searched the Muster Roll of the City of Londonderry, 1630 to determine whether the surnames of my ancestors were on this list. One of my ancestors who was a planter from Scotland, Robert SHAW is listed as bearing a sword and musket. Some of my other Northern Irish surnames appear on later Muster Rolls, including THOMPSON.
|Some names on the 1630 Muster Roll of Londonderry.
There are Muster Rolls which have survived from the early chapter of the plantation scheme, between 1603 and 1633. These Rolls contain many names from the Ulster Plantation Counties and can be found alphabetically indexed from a number of sources including the following excellent website - Ulster Plantation, http://www.ulsternationalist.freeservers.com/custom2.html . For more historical information about the Plantation of Ulster, there are many excellent websites on the internet as well as books published on this topic.
Muster Rolls can be extremely informative records for family historians. Muster Rolls not only record names of ancestors who served officially in the military but importantly they are evidence of ordinary folk who were eligible to be called to military service. Muster Rolls embraced all classes of society - officers from the upper classes as well as soldiers and common people from the poor. Early Muster Rolls pre date census records and can provide information and details about individual ancestors as well as their family circumstances and status within a community. Musters are unique census like historical records which are great value to genealogists and which may provide information not found from any other source.


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by Michael Caruso
David Hayes will conduct the Philadelphia Singers in a concert entitled "Bach and MacMillan" Saturday, April 16, 8 p.m., in the Episcopal Church of the Holy Trinity on Rittenhouse Square in center city. The program features Bach's only extant cantata for Palm Sunday, Cantata No. 182: "King of Heaven Be Welcomed," and James MacMillan's "Seven Last Word from the Cross."
Several local vocalists are members of the Philadelphia Singers, America's first all-profession chorus. They include Sandra Carney of Manayunk, Colin Dill of Manayunk, Kenneth Garner of East Falls, Alyson Harvey of West Mt. Airy (a professional member of the choir at the Episcopal Church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields in Chestnut Hill), Justin Hopkins of West Mt. Airy and Jennifer Smith of Germantown.
Speaking of the MacMillan work, Hayes said, "Although it's new to us, it was composed in 1994." The Singers joined the Philadelphia Orchestra for the 2002 American premiere of the Scottish composer's "Quickening."
Hayes explained that the text for "Seven Last Words" is drawn from all four of the New Testament Gospels. The choir will be accompanied by a string ensemble. That fact pointed Hayes in the direction of his choice of the Bach as a companion for the MacMillan.
"Our concert takes place the day before the start of Holy Week," he pointed out, "and within a week of Good Friday, so I was looking for a work by Bach that would be liturgically suitable. Cantata No. 182 is the only extant cantata by Bach intended to be sung on Palm Sunday, and it's scored for strings and flute, which makes it a perfect match for the MacMillan."
Tickets are priced from $22 to $42. More information at 215-751-9494 or www.philadelphiasingers.org.
Under the aegis of the Kimmel Center's Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Pennsylvania Ballet collaborated this past weekend for the first time in their respective histories. Rossen Milanov conducted both ensembles in three performances of Igor Stravinsky's neo-classical masterpiece, "Pulcinella." Saturday night's audience, which packed Verizon Hall, roared its approval — and everyone involved more than deserved the full-throated ovation the rendition received.
In the years prior to the outbreak of World War I in August of 1914, Stravinsky shook up the classical music world with his three ballet scores composed for Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. The first was "The Firebird," and it magisterially combined the Slavic glitter of Stravinsky's principal teacher, Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov, with the sensuality of the French Impressionists Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel. The second, "Petrushka," was more "Russian" in tone and color. Then came "The Rite of Spring," perhaps the greatest score ever composed in the 20th century (and so far in the 21st as well) and most assuredly one of the most savage pieces of symphonic music ever written down. The work and its choreography caused a riot at its 1913 Paris premiere, as police had to be called in to break up the fighting between pro- and con- members of the audience.
West Mt. Airy's Roy Kaiser, the Pennsylvania Ballet's artistic director since 1995, wisely commissioned Finland's Jorma Elo to fashion a new choreography for the company's first collaboration with the Philadelphia Orchestra, and it proved to be a miracle of classical clarity of line paired with contemporary rhythmic panache. The dance's muscular gestures mirrored and enhanced the music's edgy angularity, energetically linking dancers with each other rather than pairing them romantically. All 10 of the company's dancers performed beautifully, but some were especially praiseworthy: James Idhe for the sheer perfection of his linear projection and Martha Chamberlain and Francis Veyette for their vibrant pas de deux.
Best of all was the chance to see these wonderful dancers performing with a truly magnificent orchestra under the baton of a conductor who seemed to understand not just the superficial glitter of the score but its underlying intellectual invention, as well.
The Pennsylvania Ballet will present "Building on Balanchine" at the Merriam Theater on South Broad Street, April 14-17. Visit www.paballet.org for ticket information


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The queen's tribute to Princess Diana came only after Britain's royal family had been widely criticized for its absence from London, where mourners gathered in the streets and left as many as a million bouquets and other tributes at the gates of the royal palaces. This was, ultimately, a speech that had to be given. To my mind, the speech has to be evaluated while considering "What if she hadn't said this?" While it didn't satisfy all listeners, it filled communications gaps and gave voice to a collective mourning unlike any the world had seen at that point.
The first plan was to submit it to the networks as a taped address--something that had become customary for the queen, whose last live television address took place in 1959. The stakes were much higher in 1997. This time, hundreds of millions of people watched this speech around the world, simultaneously, as it was happening. Here's what speakers can learn from this short but powerful speech:
- It responds to questions in the air: The three-minute speech explains what the royal family was doing, ensconced at its Balmoral palace, but also answers with her presence the question the headlines were screaming: "Where is our queen?"
- It trades control for connection: In giving up the control of a taped speech, which could be redone, the queen gained the immediacy and connection that can be had with live television. It's powerful and something a recorded speech can't accomplish.
- The setting reinforces reality: Behind the queen, you can see the thousands of people gathered outside the palace, a moving backdrop of the audience she was trying to reach. That gives the scripted remarks yet more immediacy.
- She talked to the audience in person, first: Following a longstanding custom, the queen and other members of the royal family were in the square in front of the palace, shaking hands with the mourners and talking with them, one-on-one--just as you might do before a formal speech or presentation. That, too, helped to forge a stronger connection with the television audience and gave her the chance to hear directly what people were thinking and saying before she spoke to the nation.
- It included the personal perspective: By speaking not just as a monarch but as a grandmother, and sharing family details that would ordinarily remain private, this speech fulfilled a challenge it had to meet: Making the queen seem, again, like one of the people. .
After this famous tribute to Diana, the queen altered her televised annual Christmas address, making it longer and more personal, a change "from the stuffy tones of broadcasts past." Here's video of the tribute, wrapped in a news broadcast. What do you think of it?
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by Tom Utescher
At the start of the basketball season, the Springside Lions challenged themselves by taking on two of the best teams in the Washington D.C. area. The result was a pair of losses, but those early confrontations apparently toughened up the local hoopsters for the contests lay ahead, because Springside has now recorded five wins in a row.
The two latest victories were a 53-13 romp in the Lions' Girls Inter-Ac League opener at Baldwin on Thursday, and a 44-30 home court win over Burlington, New Jersey's Life Center Academy two days later.
First, Springside engaged in a productive six-period scrimmage with a visiting pride of "Lions" – the ones from Cardinal O'Hara High School. The Tuesday afternoon work-out between the two feline franchises was a pretty even match, and a good tune-up for Springside against a longtime Catholic League power. It was a relatively late date for a scrimmage, but O'Hara had already scheduled official games up to the limit specified by the PIAA.
Springside's league opener on Thursday was not the subject of much fanfare, as expectations of a lopsided session were quickly borne out in a 26-1 first quarter. At the interlude it was 37-1 and the Lions sleepwalked through the second half against the woebegone Bears.
Junior forward Elana Roadcloud registered a game-high 12 points along with eight rebounds, five assists and three steals. The winners received 11 points from another 11th-grader, forward Sydni Epps, nine from senior point guard Shea Crotty, and eight from junior power forward Michelle Boggs.
Junior Aly Markey and sophomore Gianna Pownall (both guards) put up four points apiece, with freshman center Erin Garner adding three and senior guard Brenna Coll contributing a deuce. Baldwin senior Sloan Warren, who's headed to the University of Virginia to play lacrosse, scored all but two of the Bears' points in the game.
For Saturday's more competitive non-league match-up, neither the Lions nor the visiting Life Center Warriors were at full strength. Springside's Coll was sidelined with a relatively minor ankle injury, and just 26 seconds into the game the Lions' only other upperclassman, Crotty, collapsed to the floor beyond the baseline after trying to prevent a fast break bucket by the visitors. She was helped off the court, appearing to have suffered a severe injury to her left knee.
Life Center was missing one of its two 6'3" post players, Sandra Udobi, a member of the Nigerian junior national team. The other skyscraper, senior Nicole Maticka, would score a game-high 16 points during the contest. Just a day earlier, she had signed a scholarship agreement to play Division I basketball at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark.
The Warriors' diverse line-up also featured two players from Slovakia, six-foot juniors Noema Bradnanska and Sara Janackova, who scored eight and two points, respectively, in the Springside game. Four points from junior guard Elizabeth Harrison rounded out the scoring for Life Center.
After Springside's Crotty (a native of New Zealand) was injured in the opening minute, the reins of the offense were handed over to junior Alexis Giovinazzo, whose main sport is softball.
"We have all the confidence in the world in Alexis," said head coach Brian Morris, "and we weren't surprised to see her step in there and handle the ball the way she did."
Giovinazzo also hit two early jumpers for the hosts, leveling the score at 4-4 after the Warriors went ahead at the outset. Life Center's first field goal was a three-pointer by Maticka, who also displayed a soft touch in the paint as she led her team out to an 11-9 lead at the quarter.
The Lions' Epps opened the second period with a mid-range jumper and then assisted Garner on a transition lay-up. Epps proceeded to steal the ball back and score again, affording Springside a 15-11 edge. Life Center caught up at 19-all, but lay-ups by Garner and Epps put their squad back up by four entering the final minute of the half. A baseline drive by Maticka made it a two-point affair at the intermission, with the count 23-21.
In the third round, Springside dialed up the defense and outscored its guests, 11-2.
Praising Roadcloud and others for their efforts in curtailing the Warriors' offense, Coach Morris explained, "At halftime we talked about defensive intensity and that we had to do a better job off cutting off the baseline, which is where number 10 [Maticka] liked to drive."
A persistent shortcoming for Springside was the team's free-throw shooting; the Lions were just five-for-14 in the first half, and six-for 18 overall.
On the other end of the floor, the Springside defense limited Maticka to just two points in the second half. In the second minute of the fourth quarter, Life Center's Bradnanska and Springside's Garner each picked up a fourth personal foul, but both remained in the game.
In fact, Garner (six rebounds) would score six of her 11 total points in the final frame, while Boggs (seven rebounds) registered seven of her team-high 12 points in the second half. Epps finished with a team-high nine rebounds and with 10 points. She was followed in the scoring column by Giovinazzo and Roadcloud, with four points apiece, and Pownall, with three.
"We're a work in progress," Morris remarked, "but all the kids are working hard and that's paying off."


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|Better show the power of AT!
|2 September 2013 10:53
Hello AT team,
I will soon use AT for the new UI project in Amadeus. I discovered the AT site today and would like to give my feedback.
First, congratulation for the awesome work you did, AT seems very promising and already provides an incredibly number of very useful features. The documentation is very good and allow any developer to be familiar with the techno quite quickly. This is the way to go to create a successfull open source tech, well done.
But there is for me a big problem which is right now stoping you from spreading AT: The online demos sucks... Seriously, they are really crap .
As a developer, this is one of the first thing I check. I don't even start to read the doc and discover all the feature if I don't like the online demo. We want to build awesome web app and if the demo is showing something nice and powerfull, we know we'll be able to achieve our goal (at least we believe). For instance, I started to use Symfony because of their 2 minutes Drag and drop video 6 years ago: I was totally amazed how simple it was and believed the other features would be as great as this one.
And why are you calling it "Guides", took me a bit before finding it . I think you should put a big link on the main page : "Try our live demos!"
Anyway, thank you for your work and long live to AT.
(This post was last modified: 2 September 2013 10:54 by mth.vidal.)
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|2 September 2013 12:09
Thank you for your feedback mth.vidal!
We had started this forum to collect feedback from different sets of users and to lend a helping hand during initial phase.
We are working hard to make the supporting documents as appealing as possible to a new user. We in AT, believe that genuine feedback form a new user is always helpful for our team to make the documentation/demos/guides etc. more meaningful and easier.
I request you to spend some more time on the samples/supporting documents provided (We are still working to move many more samples to ariatemplates.com. Might be you can expect a better set of samples in a month or so) and add some more suggestions to improve our "online demos", so that next time when a new user will visit he/she will find it more helpful .
FYI..we have noted down your points mentioned in this thread.
The only question you may regret is the one you never asked!
(This post was last modified: 2 September 2013 12:10 by susanta.behera.)
|2 September 2013 13:02
Salut Mathieu and welcome to AT!
You're right about our lack of "sexy" samples or simply appealing documentation. This is a feedback we get quite often and that we'll try to address in the coming months.
As Susant' explained, we're including more and more samples to the site but still haven't got the time to come up with a nice "Getting Started".
If you have specific things you'd like to see illustrated or ideas for such samples, please let us know!
|2 September 2013 13:33
Well for instance,
the excel sample is great for me, but you should enhance it with dynamic column size, paging, new spreadsheet creation, sorting and other cool features. But most important, make it sexy as good as the website.
I like http://flexigrid.info/ for instance.


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Let $S\subset\mathbb{P}^g$ be a smooth polarized K3 surface of genus $g$. I am interested in the existence of certain cuspidal curves in the linear system. We know a general hyperplane section $H\cap S$ is smooth, and to have a nodal singularity is a codimension 1 condition (Let's say the dual variety of $S$ is a divisor in $(\mathbb{P}^g)^{\lor}$). However, I am interested in the question of having a hyperplane section of multiple cuspidal singularities. The main case is when $g=8$ and I need a hyperplane of at least $3$ cusps. I could not find a proof or disproof for myself. Any input is very helpful. Thanks!
I guess I should add that I only want the existence for some K3 surfaces.


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Bit by bit, decorate it, arrange the details, find the ingredients, imagine it, choose it, get advice on it, shape it into a work without spectators, one which exists only for oneself, just for the shortest little moment of life.
Michel Foucault, describing the pleasure of preparing oneself for suicide.
The Italian cheerleader for Hamas, Vittorio Arrigoni, has died at the hands of the Islamic terrorism that he venerated throughout his life. The fellow traveler journeyed to the Gaza Strip to prostrate himself before his secular deity, Hamas, and to assist its venture of perpetrating genocide against Israelis. Islamic terrorists, who call themselves "Salafists," showed their gratitude to Arrigoni by kidnapping, mercilessly beating, and executing him.
This episode was, of course, all part of an expected script: even though the media and our higher literary culture never discuss the reasons, the historical record reveals one undeniable fact: like thousands of political pilgrims before him, Vittorio Arrigoni went to Gaza to die. Indeed, consciously or unconsciously, in their unquenchable quest for sacrificing human life on the altar of their utopian ideals, fellow travelers always lust for death, and if not the death of others, then of their own.
It is no coincidence that a short while before "Salafists" killed Arrigoni, Juliano Mer-Khasin, a cheerleader of terrorism in Israel who, like Arrigoni, dedicated his life to praising the Palestinian death cult and working for the annihilation of Israel, was murdered by Islamic terrorists in Jenin. It is no coincidence that Rachel Corrie, the infamous enabler of the International Solidarity Movement, a group that disrupts anti-terrorism activities of the Israel Defense Forces, committed suicide in protecting Hamas terrorists by throwing herself in front of an Israeli bulldozer. And it is no coincidence that female leftist "peace" activists are routinely raped, brutalized, and enslaved by the Arabs of Judea and Samaria that they come to aid and glorify in their Jew-hating odyssey against Israel. And don't hold your breath, by the way, waiting for leftist feminists to protest this phenomenon; they are faithfully following in the footsteps of American fellow traveler Anna Louise Strong and the Stalinist German writer Bertolt Brecht, two typical leftist believers who were completely undisturbed by the arrests and deaths of their friends in the Stalinist purgeshaving never even inquired about them after their disappearance.


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Once upon a time, libraries just loaned books. They they started to let patrons check out records, tapes and DVDs. Now in an increasingly digital world, at least one library is attempting to stay relevant by loaning out iPads.
The L.E. Phillips Memorial Library in Eau Claire, Wis. announced it will allow patrons to check out an iPad for up to a week to partake of a preloaded tablet with more than 1,000 digital books, 10 audiobooks and various links and applications, according to the library's website. From the site:
The goal of the iPad lending program is to provide library customers with opportunities to gain familiarity and comfort with new technology that allows them to make use of alternative methods of enjoying the written and spoken word and to more fully explore the Internet and its vast resources.
While AllThingsD seemed to indicate this was all an ad for Apple, it's more about the changing face of libraries.
"There's been a profound shift in how people consume information," Robert Berring, a law professor who specializes in the publishing industry at the Berkeley School of Law, told Press:Here. "My undergrads don't read in paper form anymore. (If I assign a book) they ask if they can get it on Kindle. . . . It's going to kill libraries."
The only option is for brick-and-mortar libraries to change their focus from bookshelves to gateways to digital technology, said Daniel E. Atkins, a professor of information and computer science at the University of Michigan. "They have been predicting the demise of public libraries now for two decades," he told Press:Here. "I think that libraries have shifted from places that own things to places that provide access to things."
The iPad lending is symbolic of this -- giving access to a tablet computer that people would not have otherwise. And if Android wants to compete seriously with Apple, it should start donating its Chromebooks to libraries immediately.


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CNN's Anderson Cooper and his camera crew were attacked and repeatedly punched by pro-government forces near Tahrir Square in Cairo today. [Updated with video]
"My team were set upon by the crowd," Cooper said on CNN this morning via telephone from the safety of a hotel balcony. "There was no rhyme or reason to it—it was just people looking for a fight, looking to make a point, and punching us." According to a Twitter post from George Hale, the English editor of the Ma'an news agency, who cited a CNN "manager," Cooper was punched "10 times in the head."
But he seems OK! Cooper told CNN that the crowd tried to take his crew's camera; we'll see if there's video. Cooper was caught up in what appears to be rapidly escalating violence today as pro-Mubarak forces have taken to the streets to quell protests.
CNN has aired the video of the encounter, above, which consists of a lot of jostling and audio of Cooper saying, "Hey! Hey!" Below is video of Cooper recounting the attack—"suddenly a young man would come up, look at you, and punch you in the face." The thugs were trying to break or steal his crew's camera, but Cooper had been using a handheld Flip camera to film, which they didn't notice.
Source: Gawker.com
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text: 'Havet' – Swedish for 'sea or waves' is an intricately-detailed, hand-chiselled cabinet created by designers Karl-Johan Hjerling and Karin Wallenbeck for a Stockholm-based brand specialising in carpentry, Snickeriet. Developed in pine wood, each of the richly-textured cabinets is unique due to the traditional carving technique employed in its production process. (more…)


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Boba Fett has been featured in at least 66 comics to date. Coming up August 25, 2010, will be the latest tale.
DarkHorse.com recently published "A touching father and clone moment." The comic is called Star Wars: Blood Ties -- A Tale of Jango and Boba Fett #1.
Here begins a multigenerational tale of honor and redemption, starring two of the heaviest hitters in the Star Wars galaxy -- the father-and-clone team of Jango and Boba Fett!
Shortly before the start of the Clone Wars, Count Dooku sends Jango Fett on a mission that will affect the course of Boba Fett's life some twenty years later. But for now, neither of them knows what the future holds in store, and besides, they have their schedule filled dodging monsters and fighting bad guys! It's Jango Fett and Boba Fett together in a series featuring fully painted art by Purge artist Chris Scalf!


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Research by a number of St. Bonaventure University students has been accepted for the 17th Annual Penn-York Conference for Undergraduates that will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 5, on campus.
Undergraduate college students in any field of study were invited to submit their research for presentation, particularly those in the behavioral and social sciences; biological, computational and physical sciences; health-related and applied sciences; and the humanities. In addition to St. Bonaventure, students from Pitt-Bradford, Hilbert College, Alfred University, Houghton College, and Pitt-Titusville will be participating.
The following are St. Bonaventure students who will give oral presentations and the titles of their projects:
Poster presentations detailing research by the following St. Bonaventure students and faculty will be presented:
About the University: The nation's first Franciscan university, we believe in the goodness of every person and in the ability of every person to do extraordinary things. St. Bonaventure University cultivates graduates who are confident and creative communicators, collaborative leaders and team members, and innovative problem solvers who are respectful of themselves, others, and the diverse world around them. Named the #6 best college value in the North by U.S. News and World Report, we are establishing pathways to internships, graduate schools and careers in the context of our renowned liberal arts tradition.
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Has the Spider-Man reboot found its leading ladies? The Hobbit isn't waiting for an official green light to start casting. Sigourney Weaver is cautiously optimistic about Ghostbusters 3. Cloverfield 2 could still happen! JMS is rewriting Underworld 4. Spoiler rampage!
Spider-Man Reboot:
A new report claims Alice in Wonderland star Mia Wasikowska and Zombieland and Easy A's Emma Stone are working with director Marc Webb in a series of readings and tests. The two are reportedly in line for the film's two main female leads, which the report speculates are Gwen Stacy and Mary Jane Parker. One could do the obvious thing and assume the blonde Wasikowska would play Gwen and the brunette/redheaded Stone would play Mary Jane, but of course the exact opposite was true in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man movies, so who really knows? It's also unclear how this fits in with earlier reports that Mary Jane wouldn't be in the film - or, more precisely, wouldn't be the love interest, which I suppose does leave some wiggle room - or where this leaves the earlier short list of potential actresses from a few weeks back. [Hollywood Insider]
The Hobbit:
Casting calls are going out for the movie, and apparently New Zealand personnel are treating a green light as an inevitability at this point. They're currently looking for stand-ins for the main cast that can be used for scaling purposes - very tall actors to play the humans from the hobbit perspective, and very short actors to play the hobbits and dwarves from the human perspective. So if you're 4' to 5'2" or taller than 6'8" and currently in New Zealand... [Market Saw]
Captain America:
Here's a video showing more of Manchester's transformation into 1940s New York, complete with explosion:
And here are some photos. There are a ton more great photos at the link. [Captain America Filming in Manchester; thanks again to Doug Fisher for the great tip!]
Cloverfield 2:
Director Matt Reeves says he, producer J.J. Abrams, and writer Drew Goddard all want to make the sequel, but their schedules are all very busy and they don't know when they will be able to get around to it. He says they have a bunch of ideas, but really the important thing is they find a way to do it that feels as fresh and innovative as the original. And he says he'd like to direct the sequel, but he'd also be OK with handing it over, depending on what form it takes. [IGN]
Ghostbusters 3:
When asked about the movie, Sigourney Weaver basically said that she loved working with that cast and would enjoy doing so again, and she believes the movies still resonate with kids today. So as long as there's a great script, she would be up for it, but it doesn't read as though she's at all anxious to make another sequel. [Moviefone]
Underworld 4:
Kate Beckinsale has reportedly officially signed on for the next Underworld installment. [ShockTillYouDrop]
The movie is reportedly moving along nicely, and they've brought in a science fiction heavyweight to punch up the script - J. Michael Straczynski is rewriting John Hlavin's original draft. The movie is still looking for a director, as well as an actress to play Selene's daughter. [IGN]
Transformers 3:
Here are a few photos from Detroit's Central Station. Check out the link from more photos, a video and some additional context. [TFLAMB]
John Noble explained why he thinks Walternate is really a good guy:
"Walternate is a good man. He's saving his world. If our world was disintegrating, we'd want someone to step up; that's truly what Walternate does. He's cold and manipulative and wounded, so all those things when you first meet him make you think he's a hard man. But he has reason to be. Someone stole his son, for goodness sake. I'd be furious. I have some affection for Walternate, even though he's not a crowd favorite."
A casting call for episode nine has gone out looking for what may well be the world's most ordinary man:
[THE GENTLEMAN] 35-45 years old... He's somewhat plain, but also knows how to wear a suit well. Not too handsome and not too weird. He's calm and methodical.
The Walking Dead:
Here are a few more awesome character posters: [SpoilerTV]
Doctor Who:
Suranne Jones has been cast as Idris in Neil Gaiman's episode. Jones is probably best known from her work on Coronation Street, although Doctor Who fans might recognize her from her role as the evil Mona Lisa in the last series of The Sarah Jane Adventures. [What's On TV]
Speaking of Idris, those quotes we reported on yesterday were indeed the real deal from Doctor Who Magazine. Thanks to Joe and Chris at the Eleventh Hour podcast and Chris Clarke for emailing in to confirm. I guess Steven Moffat really is even crazier than I thought. I am very much OK with this.
The Event:
An important character from the premiere will reportedly be murdered, and someone is lying about who he or she is. Although that last bit is probably true about everyone in the show, provided it runs long enough. [The Ausiello Files]
Regarding Lisa, the woman Dean spent an entire year with between seasons five and six, executive producer Sera Gamble gave this rather grim prognosis:
We're not killing off Lisa...immediately.
[SFX Magazine via SpoilerTV]
Here are a bunch of photos from episode three, "The Third Man": [ShockTillYouDrop]
Stargate Universe:
Lou Diamond Phillips says he's still technically a "recurring guest star", but he will be much more present this season than the last. He also explains where his character stands:
I think the writers have done an incredible job of maintaining a core of integrity to Telford. His mission from the start and even through season two quite honestly is very, very specific. And that is to be the hero and save thse people to get them home. And whether that's self (aggrandizement) or not, he still feels very, very committed to this mission. I think that he feels very frustrated that he was not able to perform the duty that he was called to perform...I think we get to see him operate a little differently once the brainwashing has been taken away."
Here's an interview with executive producer Brian Petersen in which he discusses the season premiere "Lazarus": [OCSK]
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Executive producer Kelly Souders made this cryptic statement when asked about the show's final shot:
Everyone expects it will be Clark in the costume. I will say we know the final shot!
[SFX Magazine via SpoilerTV]
In another interview with Souders, it's confirmed we see Darkseid in the season premiere, though only in CGI. Some Chloe flashbacks were cut from the opener, but they will be used later on in what Souders says is a very organic way. And she says Oliver is going to meet a "very interesting character." [TV Guide]
Here's a first look at Michael Shanks's return as Hawkman: [TV Guide]
And here's one more promo that may or may not be different from the other six or so we've shown (honestly, we lose track after a while): [SpoilerTV]
Additional reporting by Mary Ratliff and Charlie Jane Anders.


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Parasitic Infection in America
There's no use denying it, reports of parasitic infection have been appearing more frequently, and in places you might not expect. Some estimates place the infection rate at 90% in the US alone. Another estimates shows that as many as 50% of preschool children are infected with pinworm.
Parasitic Infection in America
There's no use denying it, reports of parasitic infection have been appearing more frequently, and in places you might not expect. Some estimates place the infection rate at 90% in the US alone. Another estimates shows that as many as 50% of preschool children are infected with pinworm. With symptoms like; chronic Fatigue, irregular digestion, and irritated bowels, many people will go through they life never suspecting that a parasitic infection is causing their symptoms. This is a major risk to the health of Americans, one which is still under the radar.
Why would Americans worry about parasites? Parasites are found in every economic climate, though they are more prevalent poorer countries. Literally every facet of our survival deal with parasites, such as in our food and drinking water. There are 150,000 different kinds of parasites, and there are even fewer laboratories that do broad spectrum tests. Parasites are often discovered in surgery, during operation on a failed organ. Not only does this shock surgeons, but I'm certain it shocks patients as well.
Are you at risk? You may not believe your in the risk group. Well, you're wrong. Do you eat food? Drink Water? (which I'm going to guess you do) you are at risk for parasitic infection!
Roundworm from pets: Most cats and dogs have a roundworm infection. By sleeping with your pet, you greatly increase the chance of getting a parasitic infection from them!
Raw fish: Many parasites can be found in raw fish. Among them, the Anisakis roundworm. This worm can cause fatal organ damage if left untreated. Due to the lack of FDA inspectors, only 10% of fish is inspected. Even still, you cannot tell if a fish is infected just by looking it at. Many can only be viewed on the microscopic level. There no way to tell if fish you'r eating is safe. Cooking a fish thoroughly can help insure any parasites within the fish are killed.
Tap water: There have been many cases of parasitic infections spreading from contaminated tap water. Many hundreds of people have died from this. Many more people continued on, never knowing the sometimes fatal damage being done to them.
Food: Many foods you eat come from other countries, and there is no way to insure your food is not contaminated without giving it a good wash with soap. However, even if you buy local, that doesn't mean the food is parasite free.
Common parasites found in human intestines:
Pork Tape Worm (Taenia Solium): Infections come from eating raw or under cooked pork Larvae grow in the body, causing cysts which can occur in the brain, leading to seizure and death.
Round Worms: According to "The WHO" one billion people are infected with round worms. Growing over 14″ long, and laying 200,000 eggs each day, these worms can cause intestinal blockages. Symptoms include rashes, stomach pain, asthma, eye pain and more, often depending on what part of the body houses the infection.
Pin Worms: An infection commonly found in children. The CDC states in some countries the infection rate is as high as 61%. Children can often get pin worms from playing dirt. Usually there are no symptoms but itching of the anus. Children are at high risk for parasitic infections.
Giardia Parasite: Giardia is the most common intestinal parasites in people. Contaminated water, food, or soil. Symptoms may include fatigue, diarrhea, stomach cramps, nausea, and chills.
Whip Worms: Infecting more then 500 million people, this worm can lay over 10.000 eggs per day. The eggs are often found in dry goods such as grains, beans, and rice. This worm causes blood loss that will lead to anemia.
Hookworms: A microscopic worm that sucks your blood through your intestinal wall. Damage to the intestinal wall causes blood loss, leading to anemia. This worm has been known to get into the heart, causing a fatal infection. Animal feces often carry hookworms. There are few symptoms that accompany this infection, and are often not experienced until there is damage to the heart or intestines.
The best parasite cleanse: Dr. Omar Amin's parasite cleanse; "Freedom, Cleanse, Restore" can be found here


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Maine's high court upholds conviction for yoga instructor's bat attack on sleeping husband
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) � Maine's highest court has upheld the conviction of a Maine yoga instructor who's serving a 16-year sentence for beating her husband with a softball bat and staging it to look like a home invasion.
In a unanimous decision, the Maine Supreme Judicial Court on Tuesday rejected Linda Dolloff's claims that the prosecutor misrepresented facts and expressed personal opinions and the judge erred in allowing certain statements and evidence during her 2010 trial.
The 51-year-old Dolloff was convicted of attempted murder, elevated aggravated assault and other charges for attacking her husband in 2009 while he slept at their Standish home and then shooting herself in the stomach to make it look like she'd also been the victim of an attack. The couple was going through a divorce at the time.


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Is Something Getting the Best of You?
Point guard Deron Williams doing his best not to let frustration get the best of him
It is said that winning can mask all pains. Losing does just the opposite. It exposes all weaknesses, and the Nets have some glaring ones. As the season drags on, the losses keep coming. The team has now dropped 8 of their first 10, sporting the 28th worst offense in basketball (87 PPG), shooting under 40 percent from the field.
Needless to say, the team is frustrated, especially point guard Deron Williams. "D-Will," as they call him, understands the team faces an uphill battle to overcome a brutal schedule and multitude of injuries, and it's no secret to him that his team is not one overwhelmingly talented. Despite the difficult start to the season, Williams is attempting to prove that he is a leader on the court by turning his frustration into something positive, an attitude the Nets need out of their leader if they want to start winning.
Deron has been critical of himself as well as the team. He's upset with his turnover ratio, sitting at a league-lead 4.6 per game, as well as his meager 34 percent shooting percentage from both in the paint and beyond the arc.
Williams, like head coach Avery Johnson, is trying to weave out the positives in a season filled with subpar performances, but has not feared being critical of the team's overall play. He sarcastically praised their 40+ shooting percentage after Monday's game, one of the few facetious comments Deron has made over the past couple weeks about his struggling team and his own play.
While it may look like a season of profuse turnovers and snarky remarks, Williams is not trying to create that image for himself on and off the court. After a self-evaluation, Deron realized his body language "was bad the last couple of games," dating back to Saturday night's loss to the Heat. The star point guard isn't pleased with himself either, declaring that he needs to do a "better job" of leading his guys. He won't allow his teammates to see him "visibly frustrated since his leadership is especially important for a team consisting of some new rookie and veteran faces. He admitted that he was informed of his poor body language by those within the organization, but claimed he recognized that he was not carrying himself as a team leader before he was approached about the matter.
Williams has been hanging his head on the court, but not because he has given up hope on his squad. He sees correctable mistakes and missed opportunities, unfulfilled potential that could be achieved with a few days of practice, something this team literally hasn't had the time to do. D-Will says the team's timing is off, they're lacking execution, and he is "expecting people to be in certain places and they're not," problems that are typically resolved during practices. It's no coincidence the team played their best game last week against Toronto following a full day of practice.
A combination of bad play along with a lack of practice time has been the greatest of pet peeves for New Jersey's superstar point guard. But as the team leader, Deron Williams realizes he is the constant, the one factor that needs to stay composed during the harshest of conditions. While it could be construed Williams is giving up on his squad, it's the farthest thing from the truth. He is desperately searching for a solution to the wave of problems that keep crashing on this team, and he's trying to not let himself get in the way of his own leadership and success on the court.


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Whether you're hauling equipment and materials or maneuvering through terrain where trucks and cars can't go, a utility vehicle is available to fit your needs. Models of utility vehicles range from light vehicles to heavy-duty machines that can carry larger payloads and handle rough terrain. The following utility vehicles offer a variety of payload sizes and various options and accessories. If you need more information about these utility vehicles, use the circle numbers provided at the end of each product description.
Columbia's Expediter is now available in a 4-wheel version. The EX21-F provides users with a 168-inch outside turning circle. By raising the rear portion of the body by 2 inches, Columbia has tried to eliminate the potential for the unit to bottom out. Other features for the Expediter are front wheel guards, integrated front bumper and chamfered corners. An automotive-style steering wheel is available. The front body design assists in preventing mud and water from splashing on the operator. This product also includes a reverse warning alarm, console-mounted safety directional key switch, brake light and horn.
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Cub Cadet's 6 × 4 Big Country utility vehicle is powered by a 20-hp Honda V-twin OHV engine. Its 6-wheel, fully independent suspension provides maximum traction over rough terrain. Big Country models offer standard differential lock to provide traction for hauling or towing through various conditions. New innovations include brush guard, open fender well to limit mud clogging in the tires and a removable hood that allows you to get at the battery while the brush guard is in place. Comfort features, such as cup holders, a glove box and an under-the-seat storage box are included. The adjustable seat offers more legroom while the 12-volt outlet can keep cell phones charged while out on the job.
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John Deere introduces the Gator Compact Series utility vehicles. The Gator CS and the Gator CX can turn in tight places, fit in narrow spaces and be transported in the bed of a pickup truck. The cargo box features a high-density polyethylene construction and holds up to 400 pounds with a 5-cubic-foot storage capacity. The tailgate can be opened or removed for easier cleaning or to carry longer items. Both models are equipped with air-cooled, single-cylinder, 4-cycle Kawasaki gasoline engines. These utility vehicles offer dual internal wet disk brakes and a variable speed drive that allows forward speeds of up to 15 mpg with no shifting.
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The MULE 550 is Kawasaki's smallest utility vehicle, but it shares design features with its larger MULE 3000-series siblings, including a bench seat, automotive-type controls, a tilting cargo bed and accessories. This utility vehicle is powered by a durable 286cc single-cylinder, air-cooled, 4-cycle industrial engine. An 882-pound vehicle load capacity allows it to carry more than 350 pounds in the tilting cargo bed and it can tow up to 900 pounds with an optional Kawasaki tow hitch. This utility vehicle has extra-large front mud flaps to provide splash protection for those sitting on the two-person bench seat.
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Kimball Products, Inc. introduces the J-93 Hauler, a 4-wheeled utility vehicle with three-speed transmission. A Briggs and Stratton 16-hp V-twin engine is coupled to the transmission through an automatic belt drive torque converter, offering speeds in any of the three speed ranges. Standard features include dual rear hydraulic drum brakes, parking brake, ½ yard dump box with 1,000-pound capacity and a leaf spring front suspension. This utility vehicle's top speed is 25 mph and it has a two-person bench seat.
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Kubota introduces its first utility vehicle, the RTV900. It is available in four configurations with a wide variety of accessories for every working condition. Combining Kubota diesel engineering technology and a Kubota transmission, this utility vehicle offers power, strength and stability, with operator and passenger comforts. The RTV900 has Kubota's hydrostatic transmission and hydraulic power steering. The transmission has a braking feature that never allows the vehicle to enter a free-wheel status when traveling downhill. Three-range shifting provides low, mid and high operational speeds. More than 25 accessories make this product suited for many tasks.
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Land Pride's Treker light utility vehicles come with either 2- or 4-wheeled traction and are designed to carry two passengers. They have an automotive steering wheel with rack-and-pinion steering. These products have 4-wheeled independent suspension, McPherson struts, large diameter hi-flotation tires and high center-frame ground clearances for flexibility. The Trekers are powered by 20-hp Honda engines. A four-post accessory bar provides protection against low-hanging limbs and provides a mounting system for optional windshields, canopy tops and weather enclosures. The four-post accessory bar also provides a mounting base for optional cargo racks and accessories.
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Polaris Industries introduces the Professional Series UTV 1500, a utility task vehicle has an 18-hp V-twin 4-cycle engine, heavy-duty transmission and lower gearing. The UTV 1500 can carry a payload of up to 1,250 pounds and tow 1,000 pounds. Foot-activated, 4-wheel hydraulic disc brakes enable quick stopping, even under a heavy load. Standard features include an audible reverse alarm, an ergonomically designed dash that includes a glove box and an additional storage compartment, a trailer hitch receiver and a 360-watt alternator. This utility vehicle has seating available for three.
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Redexim Charterhouse introduces the Antonio Carraro TigreCar GST 7700 utility vehicle. The TigreCar is a short wheelbase, 4-wheel-drive unit that has a 64-hp turbo diesel engine, rear 540 PTO and patented ACTIO suspension. This vehicle also offers a three-way dumping box with a 4,000-pound maximum payload.
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Toro introduces its first electric product, the Toro Workman electric utility vehicle. This product has a peak motor current of 500 amps and exhibits hill-climbing capability under all load conditions. A fuel gauge shows the operator how much battery power remains, and when the batteries do become low, the unit limits top speed and acceleration to alert the operator to drive the vehicle to a charging location. Safety features include a plug detector that stops the unit from operating when plugged in for recharging. The run-away protection indicator applies the brake and beeps if the unit ever rolls down a hill without the operator depressing the accelerator. It also includes a supervisor switch that controls the maximum speed employees can drive the vehicle.
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Glittering Sydney launch for Samsung S4
The sails of one of the world's most iconic buildings, the Sydney Opera House, were lit up with images shot by ordinary Australians Tuesday for the glitzy "blue-carpet" launch of Samsung's new phone.
Samsung announced that Australia would be among the first countries to get the new Galaxy S4, which goes on sale globally this weekend in the latest high-tech salvo of its smartphone battle with Apple.
It will cost Aus$899 (US$920) and orders will open on Wednesday with full sales to begin in Sydney and Melbourne on Saturday.
The cutting-edge touchscreen device, which boasts an array of technological advances including eye-motion sensors that will pause a video when the user looks away, was unveiled last month at New York's Radio City Music Hall.
Samsung is touring the device in 11 cities worldwide including Sydney in a series of glamorous events aimed at ratcheting up hype ahead of this weekend's sale, with costumed performers lining a blue carpet into the Opera House.
Yoon Seung-Ro, Australian managing director of the South Korean consumer electronics giant, said Samsung was particularly proud to launch its latest gadget at the Opera House under a new tie-up with the world-famous venue.
"Samsung was the number one selling smartphone brand globally in 2012 and we continue to be the number one growing smartphone brand in the world," Yoon told the Sydney launch event, describing the brand's "incredible success" in Australia.
"This is the new benchmark in terms of innovation in smartphones," he added of the S4.
Samsung ran a contest among customers ahead of the Sydney event asking them to submit their photos for projection onto the Opera House sails, with hundreds of images selected to be screened over a six-hour window.
The world's largest technology firm by revenue hopes the S4 will cement its dominance in the lucrative smartphone market, where it is the top maker worldwide with a 29 percent share and locked in a fierce battle with Apple.
In Australia, Android devices—where Samsung is the major player—outsell Apple 58 percent to 36 percent, though Apple has cornered the tablet market with a 77 percent market share to Samsung's seven percent, according to the government's communications regulator.
So intense is their rivalry Apple took Samsung to court in Australia in 2011 accusing it of patent infringements with its touchscreen technology, part of a broader global tussle in the US$100 billion tablet and smartphone market.
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How difficult will the public pension problem be to solve?
Put it this way: the most sensible policy proposal on the subject is so complicated that no one understands what it will do.
That proposal came in the form of an initiative by Ted Costa, best known as the original proponent of the 2003 recall of Gov. Gray Davis.
Costa's proposal gets the big things right. It argues for preserving defined benefit -- that is, pensions -- instead of replacing them with less secure 401k accounts, as others on the right propose.
Costa also argues for extending the benefits of public pensions to private workers as well -- a progressive policy that will expand retirement security and end the "pension envy" that is one reason for the backlash against public pensions.
No other proposal -- from left or right -- includes these important things. But Costa's proposal is unworkable for two reasons:
First, it's too complicated, with so many provisions and strangely written rules that the Legislative Analyst's Office, which was required to assess it, threw up its hands.
"This complex measure has many provisions that are unclear.... Complicating our efforts to provide a fiscal estimate are the significant legal challenges that would face various provisions of this measure, including, but not limited to, likely claims that the measure would impair pension and other contracts with current and past public employees. Given all of these uncertainties, we are informing you that, in our opinion, a reasonable estimate of the net impact of this proposed initiative cannot be prepared..."
Second, and even worse, Costa's proposal took the form of an initiative. Making policy by initiative is a scary prospect in California -- because once voters do something by initiative, it's very hard to fix errors.
Of course, hoping for legislation in this area is to hope in vain. Gov. Brown is supposed to come forward soon with major changes.
But Democrats seem unwilling to tackle the problems of pensions -- from the lack of retirement security for most workers to the massive unfunded obligations of public pensions -- because their supporters in the labor movement want to protect the status quo.
So we're stuck. Pension reform should come from the legislature, which won't reform pensions. And the best idea for fixing pensions comes via initiative, which won't work as a method of reform.
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GRAPHISOFT Breaks Down BIM Transition So You Can "Get There Faster"
BOSTON, January 30, 2012 – GRAPHISOFT, the global leader in Building Information Modeling (BIM) software, demystifies critical areas of the BIM process to help architects in the selection of their BIM tools.
From the company that brought you – Construction Computing Magazine's 2011 BIM Product of the Year ARCHICAD 15 – the "Get There Faster with ARCHICAD" whitepaper examines five critical areas to explore before making your final BIM software selection. This paper was written with the sole purpose of providing accurate, reliable information about critical issues related to BIM and what ARCHICAD with advanced technology such as the GRAPHISOFT BIM Server(tm) provide as an answer to address these issues. We want to teach and educate in an effort to help architects make informed technology decisions.
The whitepaper shares expertise and experience from six design leaders as they describe how ARCHICAD:
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This document highlights what makes ARCHICAD BIM different than other BIM solutions. Find out why ARCHICAD, developed by architects for architects, is the most workable solution for today's AEC professionals.
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This evening at 7 p.m. at Smith Commons, join WABA staff and bike-friendly fellows for a festive celebration (RSVP on Facebook here). There will be drink and appetizer specials, a raffle, and sweet seasonal tunes. Smith Commons is located at 1245 H St. NE, and you can park your bike (bring a u-lock!) in the neighboring parking lot.
There's a $5 suggested donation for WABA members. If you're not a member, become one for the year for the discounted price of $25. You can sign up here or register at the door.
Need a ride over to Smith Commons? The Assembly will be leading a group there, beginning at 6 p.m. at BicycleSpace at 1019 7th Street NW.
If you're not insofar convinced of the merits of partying with people who like bikes, let would've-been State Department cultural ambassador Andrew W.K. talk to you about it.
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Macro Drive Review by RCUK
"The Lezyne Macro Drive is the bigger, brighter brother of the Micro Drive.
The body is a longer version of the neat, CNC machined aluminium cylinder we first encountered on the aforesaid Micro Drive. Further similarities include the Maximum Optical Reflection (MOR) lens, intended to produce a beam that is wide, smooth, and bright, an LED, and a button mounted on top of the cylinder that changes colour to indicate the remaining charge."


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Servers with multiple processor cores, NewSQL, cloud computing, and advanced analytics have put a spotlight on extensible database architecture. It has long been possible to use a plugin to add functionality to a database, such as a new type, just as we can use add-ins to extend a Web browser. But today we see plugins gaining traction for a variety of purposes. If you are building a new database management system (DBMS) or simply want to write better database applications, you should be aware of the extensible architecture of operating systems and database managers.
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To undertake a study of kernels, microkernels, and database architecture, a good departure point is found in some features of modern processors.
Processor Operating Modes
Processors have long supported multiple operating modes to segregate system services and application code at execution time. The purpose of these designs was to afford a level of protection for the routines that comprised the system software. The idea is that you don't want faulty application code to overwrite a part of memory that's used by the operating system (OS); overwriting memory or data can cause a crash.
The venerable IBM System 360 mainframe of the 1960s was a processor that offered a separation between System State and User State. The former was intended for code that executed to provide OS services when a program executed a supervisor call (SVC). The latter was how applications normally operated.
IBM OS/360 was designed during an era of expensive main memory, when machines with 512K of memory were the top of the line. To keep the operating system to a manageable size, IBM developed an extensible OS architecture. It supported the execution of Transient SVCs: small (2K) special-purpose modules that executed in a transient program area of memory.
The popular PDP 11 series minicomputer offered multiple processor modes (Supervisor, User, and Kernel mode); it also offered separate memory spaces for instructions and data. The Intel Xeon processor (in fact, all Intel processors since the 386) also has three processor modes. A program can operate in Real Mode, Protected Mode, or SMM Mode. These processor architectures enable us to write programs that change from one mode to another for critical operations, such as invoking an interrupt service routine that executes in kernel mode. A mode transition goes hand-in-hand with a context switch that preserves and restores the state of the CPU. Table 1 shows a breakdown of processor modes.
|Processor Modes (Operating States)
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|Intel Xeon
|Real, Protected, SMM
Table 1.
Memory-managed computers and multiple processor modes added the term "context switch" to the programming lexicon. In a protected memory environment, "context" refers to a virtual address space containing executable code. Various activities, such as invoking a kernel mode function or preempting a task, will initiate a context switch for the purpose of storing state information for the old executing task and retrieving state information for the new code.
The context switch has been integral to modern systems and is essential for multitasking operations. With today's processors and operating systems, the term takes on a broader meaning. You can have register, task, thread, or process context switches. Some processors now provide hardware support for context switching by providing a data segment for task state information.


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CYP27A1(redirected from cholestanetriol 26-monooxygenase)
CYP27A1A gene on chromosome 2q33-qter that encodes a member of the cytochrome P450 superfamily of enzymes, which catalyse reactions involved in drug metabolism and synthesis of cholesterol, steroids and other lipids. CYP27A1 is a mitochondrial protein that oxidises cholesterol intermediates as part of the bile-synthesis pathway. It catalyses the first step in the oxidation of the side chain of sterol intermediates and has a vitamin D3-25-hydroxylase activity. Because the conversion of cholesterol to bile acids is the major route for eliminating cholesterol from the body, CYP27A1 is important for cholesterol homeostasis.
Molecular pathology
CYP27A1 mutations cause cerebrotendinous xanthomatosis.