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Distressed Designation and County Economic Status Classification System, FY 2007 – FY 2014
The Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) uses an index-based county economic classification system to identify and monitor the economic status of Appalachian counties. The system involves the creation of a national index of county economic status through a comparison of each county's averages for three economic indicators—three-year average unemployment rate, per capita market income, and poverty rate—with national averages. The resulting values are summed and averaged to create a composite index value for each county. Each county in the nation is then ranked, based on its composite index value, with higher values indicating higher levels of distress.
County Economic Levels
Each Appalachian county is classified into one of five economic status designations, based on its position in the national ranking.
ARC County Economic Status Designation by National Index Value Rank
County Economic Indicators
Three–Year Average Unemployment Rate
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Per Capita Market Income
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Poverty Rate
Note: Five-year poverty estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey were first used in the fiscal year 2012 county economic status designations. The decennial census no longer produces poverty data. A five-year estimate provides the most reliable and comparable data for all U.S. counties, particularly those with small populations. A new five-year poverty estimate will be incorporated into the county designations each fiscal year.
Source for Fiscal Years 2012–2014: U.S. Department of Commerce, Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. http://www.census.gov/acs/www/
Source for Fiscal Years 2007–2011: U.S. Department of Commerce, Census Bureau, Census of Population and Housing 2000 Summary File 3. http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty
Time Series
ARC computes new county economic levels each fiscal year based on the most current data available at the beginning of the calendar year of computation. The time series used for each economic indicator and fiscal year is listed in the table below.


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Back in the August '13 issue of Super Chevy, we followed the build of a TCI 4L80E transmission that would ultimately end up under our AMD '67 Chevelle long-term project car. After rebuilding the 402 big-block (Sept., Oct., Nov., Dec. '13, and Jan. '14) we got the car buttoned back up and bolted to our chassis dyno for some baseline runs and tuning, before hitting the dragstrip. After two runs on our Dynojet, a big puddle of ATF spelled an end to our baseline testing, due to a massive fracture in the car's existing (non-original) Powerglide case.
So, skipping our drag test, we went straight into installing our 4L80E. A brief recap, the 4L80E heavy duty overdrive trans first debuted in 1991, as a replacement for the TH400 in HD applications that needed an overdrive gear for better fuel economy. It combined several of the existing parts from the rock solid TH400, and quickly proved to be a beast capable of handling high horsepower and extreme duty in a variety of applications. Today, it is the first choice for those wanting an OD trans that will take high torque, high horsepower, and plenty of abuse without puking its guts out.
Parts List
|4L80E – part no. 271150
|Deep Pan – part no. 278000
|10-inch billet cover converter 3000 stall – part no. 242948
|Flexplate 168 tooth – part no. 399273
|Trans cooler – part no. 824104
|Trans Mount – part no. 952500
|Break In ATF – part no. 15900
|4L80E Filter Kit – part no. 278500
|TCI Synthetic ATF – part no. 950655
|Dipstick – part no. 743805
|4L60E/4L80E Remote TPS w/bracket – part no. 377400
|EZ-TCU Trans Controller – part no. 302820
|Speedo Control Unit – part no. 377300
|5/8 Speedo Cable – part no. 377301
|Carb Adapter Bracket for Holley – part no. 376705
|TV Cable Corrector for Holley – part no. 376715
|Output Sensor (Autozone) – part no. SU1138
Follow along as we get this bad boy installed in our '67.

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Story highlights
- Genealogists and history hunters use census records to solve family mysteries
- Florida woman used 1940 Census to find great-grandfather's second wife
- Records offer snapshots into lives of past inhabitants of homes
Finding a long-lost uncle's name on a census form or discovering that Grandpa identified himself as a mural painter: It's the stuff genealogists and history hunters live for.
It also creates the kind of enthusiasm that endures weeks after the release of a major trove of information like the 1940 census. The National Archives' 1940 Census website crashed on April 4, the day the records were publicly released after a mandatory 72-year waiting period. Ancestry.com, which began rolling out the data on the same day, experienced a 175% traffic spike that day.
Two weeks later, those in the "family history space" are still digging deep into the records, with new discoveries being made each day, said Megan Smolenyak, family history adviser at Archives.com.
"The census is about as comprehensive as it gets when it comes to historic primary sources," she said. "The deeper you dig, the more answers you unlock. But, you also run into more puzzles."
Even among people who don't spend their free time poking around the family tree, 1940 census records offer bits of intrigue and curiosity from a bygone era: a time when homes cost $2,000 and indoor plumbing was still a luxury; when "shoe shanker" was a common occupation and people had names like Beguis. Celebrity watchers can also dig up information about stars born before World War II and find out who Betty White lived with and how much income her parents brought in.
Such a time, however, is not long forgotten. With people now living longer than ever, the records represent a unique instance in which some of those counted in the 1940 census are still alive, said Dan Jones, vice president of global content for genealogical website Ancestry.com.
"Being on the cusp between nostalgia and history is something that inspires people," he said.
This census in particular asked questions about past and current employment and participation in social welfare programs to gauge the effects of the New Deal, he said.
"The focus on economic drivers and socioeconomic factors give us insight into the living standards, lifestyles and circumstances of people as recently as our parents," Jones said.
For many, the records fill in blanks or serve as additional reference points for Mom and Dad's stories.
"On the surface, some of this information seems boring. But to a genealogist piecing together a family history, the 1940 census is priceless," said Lee Atwell-King, a stay-at-home mother who counts genealogy among her hobbies. "It helps fill in a period of time that is lost to the memory of my parents because they were so young, and to my grandparents because they are all deceased. There really is no other way to get the information now."
From the records, she learned that her maternal great-grandparents were living in Eveleth, Minnesota, when a census enumerator came to their home in 1940, much to her surprise. She thought they had moved to Milwaukee by that time, where her grandmother lived by then. She was also surprised to learn that her great-grandfather no longer worked in a mine, his job in the 1930 census, but for the health department.
Sharon Harris' search led to the truth about where her grandfather met his second wife. She knew that her grandfather was once married to a woman named Elsie, but she didn't know how they met. By finding his name listed under a boarding house, she discovered that he'd married the owner's daughter.
The records also hold interest to people abroad whose ancestors lived in the United States. Dannie Brown of Nova Scotia, Canada, never met his father's brothers and knew very little about them. The three boys were born in New Brunswick and emigrated with their parents to the United States before 1920, which Brown knows from having found them in the 1920 census. He also knew his grandparents eventually divorced, but he didn't know when.
From the 1940 census, he learned that one of his uncles owned a barbershop and another worked "shanking" in a shoe factory. He also learned that by 1940, his grandparents had divorced, narrowing down the time frame of their separation, he said.
"I knew that the Archives would be a significant resource because I have so many relatives who lived/are living in the U.S. and the previous information that I had was very minimal," he said in an e-mail. "I knew that the 1940 census would help me to 'fill in some more blanks' and make the story more complete; and it has."
Right now, searching the records is not as easy as tapping in a name and pressing "enter," but even that is changing. Most history hunters currently need an address or street names to narrow their search. Soon, they'll be able to search by name on Ancestry.com and other genealogical websites.
Then, they can browse images of census forms from a specific geographic area, or "enumeration district," to find what they're looking for.
But sites like Ancestry.com are working on making the records searchable by name on a state-by-state basis, a plan two years in the works, said Dan Jones, vice president of global content. Archives.com is working on a similar volunteer effort in collaboration with four other organizations.
Users can already search records from Nevada and Delaware (the two least populous states at the time) by name on Ancestry.com. Soon, they'll be able to explore images of census forms with the help of interactive fields that explain what the columns mean and provide transcriptions of the sometimes blurry handwriting.
The site is also offering access to the records free of charge until 2013, Jones said.
"We're trying to bridge the gap," he said. "Those of us in the family history space forget that looking at a census return with 25 columns and 6 rows is daunting for people who haven't spent a lot of time in genealogy."
For those not looking for a particular person, the records can also reveal a great deal about the history of your home. Jeffrey Landers found out that eight people once rented his one-bedroom shotgun home in the Atlanta neighborhood of Reynoldstown, he said. The head of the house, 25-year-old Lucius Davenport, made $624 in 52 weeks as a truck driver for a lumber company; his wife, Pauline, earned $78.00 in 26 weeks working in a private home. In addition to their two children, they shared the home with Pauline's sister and her son and two others listed as brothers.
"That is 8 people by my count in a 1-bedroom house without indoor plumbing. CRAZY," Landers said in an e-mail.
"What did they do to have privacy? Where did they store things? Did they have things to store? Did the kids go to school? Where?" he continued.
"They were black but Cabbagetown was white. ... Was there a pocket of poor African Americans in the neighborhood? How did they interact? So many questions."
Jannet Walsh of Murdock, Minnesota, lives in the same home her late father and grandparents were in when the family was surveyed for the 1940 census. Poring over the form with her relatives' names prompted Walsh to seek out her last living relative from that era and ask her what life was like back then.
"I just keep on wanting to know more," said Walsh, who submitted information about her family to CNN iReport. "It opens up a conversation between the generations and makes you want to stroll down memory lane while they're still here with us."


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This week marks the official launch of our new expanded blog site, with lots of great goodies still to come. Now that we're all fancy schmancy, we will no longer be posting any updates to the old wordpress domain site (yes, this one). Gravetells.wordpress.com is officially retired. Go ahead and finish this article then head over to the new site, because all the fun is now over THERE, on gravetells.com!
We have a lot of exciting things planned for this inaugural celebration month, so if you aren't yet a subscriber (or if you are a current subscriber to this wordpress.com domain), go here to get all our updates in your email or RSS reader. And don't forget FaceBook and Twitter! As for the blog, not only do we have two fantastic new Contributors, we have over a dozen book reviews for you, many of them ARCs (Advanced Reader Copies), so you can get the scoop before the book even hits the stands. Still craving more? We've also got author interviews, Q&As, guest blogger appearances, and exciting new contests in the works.
That said, GT is still being polished, so some of the review pages may not look as pretty as they did on the old site. Don't worry – we're working as fast as we can to get everything cleaned up to fit the new theme. We're also posting all our reviews on the major bookseller and review sites, so all this is going to take a few months, but shouldn't detract from the overall experience. Just so you know what's going in in case you see anything funky. =) Feel free to contact me if you come across any links that no longer work or that lead back to the old site instead of this one.
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Bill Clinton knows a lot of stuff. He was a Rhodes Scholar, after all, which either means that he can walk all over any of the sacred, manicured grass patches at Oxford, or simply that he's sharp dude. So, go ahead — let him be your magic eight ball for America's democratic process. Magic eight ball Bill Clinton, is Hillary going to take the White House by storm in 2016?
"[I have] no earthly idea."
Hmm, okay. That's fine — 2016 is a long way away...what can you tell us about how Hillary feels, right now, about a possible run?
She's tired. She works really hard. She wants to take some time off, kind of regroup, write a book. I just think it's a decision she'll have to make. But whatever she does I'm for her first, last, and always.
Clinton's Meet the Press insights into his wife's political future may have been less than remarkable (no shit Hillary Clinton is tired — you'd think she was chasing Carmen San Diego around the world with the way she travels). Michelle Obama, however, more than made up for Clinton's dearth of juicy detail when she described the budding friendship between Barack Obama and Bill Clinton as a "bromance" on Access Hollywood. If that word make you picture the two men tandem cycling through the park while they enjoy ice cream cones and maybe toasting each other later with a couple glasses of B&B (get it??) on the rocks, then you have excellent reading comprehension skills. Bravo to you.
Will Hillary Run Again? No Idea, Bill Clinton Says [WSJ]
Michelle: A 'bromance' between husband, Clinto [USA Today]


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If that's really the case, you have all the sympathy I can give. I mean that sincerely.
Feng Shin wrote:I don't have anything to be afraid of..
Xia Kyoto wrote:comittment (so scared I'd prefer not to spell it right)
Sun Fin wrote:I never thought I'd be scared of this but the deeper I've got in to my relationship the more I've had some short lived urges of 'escape while you still can!' Honestly it's a natural thing. I think if you really like the person you'll find reasons to shake off those fears!
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Collaboration Trumps Competition for Developers of Water Risk and Stewardship Toolsby and -
This post is part of a series on World Water Week, an annual event designed to draw attention to and discuss global water issues. Read more posts in this series.
This piece was co-authored by Anne-Leonore Boffi, Program Officer with the WBCSD, and Ruth Mathews, Executive Director of the Water Footprint Network.
The unsustainable use of water and the risks it creates is on the minds of many of the thousands of water experts from the corporate, NGO, and government worlds who convened in Stockholm this week for World Water Week. As companies increasingly view water as not just an environmental issue, but a complex driver of very real risks to their businesses, the appetite for better information on how to manage these risks and become good water stewards has grown substantially. In fact, many organizations have put tremendous effort into developing tools and methodologies and compiling the best publicly available water information so that companies can manage their water use in sustainable, efficient, and equitable ways.
This week in Stockholm, teams from the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), World Resources Institute (WRI), and Water Footprint Network (WFN) convened a seminar called "Towards Sustainability: Harmonising Water Tools for Better Water Governance". The event focused on providing an overview of each tool and highlighting areas requiring better harmonization and coordination efforts to help drive companies towards better management and stewardship of water resources. The seminar also included Ceres, DEG (a German development finance institution), World Wildlife Fund (WWF), and the UN CEO Water Mandate. The goal of the seminar was to explain how our organizations are striving to provide companies with a clear, easy-to- understand, and compatible set of water management tools—not a variety of competing efforts, but rather an organized and coordinated front.
Existing Efforts
The groups meeting in Stockholm worked to coordinate the water risk and stewardship tools they have already created, including:
WRI's Aqueduct: A tool which creates customizable global and basin-specific maps of water risk today and projections for the future
WBCSD's Global Water Tool: A free and easy-to-use tool for companies and organizations to map their water use and assess risks relative to their global operations and supply chains.
GEMI's Local Water Tool: This can be used in conjunction with the Global Water Tool to create step-by-step guides for investigating water risks, impacts, and management plans at specific sites or facilities facing significant water risks.
WFN's Water Footprint Assessment Tool: A free online web application assisting users in water footprint quantification, sustainability assessment, and response formulation based on the Global Water Footprint Standard.
WWF and DEG's Water Risk Filter: A risk-metric tool designed to help companies and investors ask the right questions about water, assess risks, and understand what to do in response.
Ceres' Aqua Gauge: A tool which enables investors and companies to assess, score, and compare water management practices.
- CEO Water Mandate's Corporate Water Risk Disclosure Guidelines: A set of guidelines designed to help advance a common approach to corporate water disclosure that addresses the complexity of water resources in a comprehensive yet concise, practical manner.
This past year has been a year of innovation. These tools and others created by participants at the seminar—many of which were released this year—already represent significant progress towards supporting better water stewardship by companies. Although the tools and initiatives have different objectives, WBCSD, WRI, and WFN share a common vision of moving both companies and the public sector towards managing water at a watershed level in ways that are sustainable, efficient, and equitable.
Conclusions from Stockholm
Our seminar in Stockholm was an exciting opportunity to collect feedback and make plans on how to best advance our existing work on water risk and stewardship. Some of the key points raised during the conversation include:
Companies are not waiting for complete or perfect information to take action–they are keen to work with their operations and their suppliers to reduce strain on water resources and water risk before it impacts them.
There is still a need to find a better way to translate environmental risks into financial arguments that will help engage CFOs and other corporate managers.
Different tools can help corporations answer different questions about their water management. A next step for our organizations is to clearly communicate which tools are best suited to answering which questions.
Although different tools all have their own role to play, there is a need for a common language of definitions, concepts, and indicators between tools.
Looking Ahead
There's a growing awareness of the business impacts of water scarcity, poor water quality, and water use competition. The next step is to continue to communicate where each tool is best suited for water management, identify and fill any existing gaps in their functionality, and combine efforts wherever possible. By doing so, we hope to achieve our ultimate vision: to drive more sustainable and equitable water resource management across sectors.
Watch a recording of the World Water Week seminar, courtesy of 2Degrees.


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Blackboard for Evacuation Open Workshop
Okay, So I know that is last minute and all, but in light of the University suspending classes on Friday, I am going to be going over this topic this afternoon, Thurs the 28th, at 2:30 – 3:30 pm in the LI Classroom. Hope to see you there.
With Gustav spinning toward the gulf, are you suddenly regreting not attending any of the Library's Blackboard workshops over the last few weeks? Well, in the spirit of everyone deserving a second chance, we have set up an additional training session in the Library's LI classroom on Friday afternoon from 1:30 until 5:00 pm. So please feel free to drop by any time in that window, and we can get you up to speed on the basics of the system, and how to make the best of a hiatus for you and your students.


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Hello all, I have just finished uploading the 1st half of my first brikwar (documented, anyway) unfortunately, I did this a while ago, so my recollection of events/ continuity is based on uploading order. So anyway, My first brikwar!
Captions over the pics.
Already we are off to a great start, as I don't even have Overwatch pics! Anyhow, welcome to the town (that is actually it's real name.) The town has recently been ravadged by a civil war, between the horrifically mismatched rebels, and the horribly mismatched loyalists. Scattered throughout the town are the forgotten machines of war, dead combatants, and maybe even treasure! (The battle started as a treasure hunt, actually. It was abandoned in favor of more... pressing matters.)
From the former loyalists, a band of semi coherent survivors created a militia, which is led by a daemon cultist (in the grey cloak). In the background, you see Mary Sue, loose cannon cop on edge, out to stop Plinkett, and save her girlfriend (Located in Plinkett's new, tan, creepy house!) Further back, you can see the generic grey building, a militia armory/ conviniance store run by two Ex-Cons, who also hate each other.You can also see some space knights coming in from by the shop.
A close up of the store, and a monkey knight minigun gunboat.
Another view of the militia, this time by a ruined house. You can also see a mysterious stone baby T-rex inside a white crate. A great mystery that will never be explained. You can also see a drunken Britanian ambassador,practicing his pole dancing. His presence is also unexplained. You can also see all of Plinkett's creepy house.
And the madman himself, Harry Plinkett! In a white cap (didn't have a good looking hat for him, sadly.) Packing a Tommy gun, a can of Raid, and his walking stick, he's ready for anything!
And some proto-space Celts! While they have had a huge change of appearance by now, as more bits have become available and my tastes in color scheme changed (Because how many black-armored armies do we need?) Led by Goldhat Mcriflehorns (figure it out! ) The space Celts have come for treasure and domination!
This plan does not work, however, for the Space knights, on a holy crusade of conquest, they are led by a shadowy, not yet deployed, leader.
Also, Here is a Manacled super villain (No realation, Brag!) Who was experimenting A new gatling wheel... thing. Then things went to hell, and some ungentlemanly rebel put a bullet through the sophisticated scientist's skull.
After the formation of the Militia, the rebels where kicked out, and they became demon hobos, led by a Pharaoh of old.
Suddenly, movement! The Calts spread out. The chainsaw glaive dude attempts to move, and falls over.
An attempt at dynamic photography, the Celt take sevral shots at... something. Another one mans a truck, and start going towards the enemies.
Mashing several buttons, to no avail, the space knight breaks out of his gunboat.
Sucess! He makes headway to the store, and asks the owner for some Ordanance. "Hand it over, you sons of whores, or I will flay you, and everyone you ever knew!"
Something tells me he isn'tvery popular with the damsel crowd. Anyway, The monkey knight gets a new grenade launcher for his troubles!
The Cyborg knight and Cosmoknight ship out, alongside the randomsaurus artillery.
Close up of the randomsaurus.
Mary Sue begins an incantation...
And summons a shark!
Sorry, A Flying shark.
Which promptly steals the Hovercraft's minigun!
And she heads off to get revenge on Plinkett! Using his sith powers, he force jumps to meet Mary Sue in epic midair combat!
And by that, I mean they flub their rolls, and plummet embarrassingly onto the ground below.
This is why we can't have nice things! The magic minigun shark is down! Mr. magic minigun shark, I am a better person for having met you.
Embaressed by fail-induced shark death, Plinkett deposits Mary Sue in his basement.
And Plinkett takes the minigun for his own!
Elsewhere, The Pharaoh king of the Hobos calls his minion to his side. "Today, we shall retake what is rightfully ours! Those piss-ants will regret opposing me, Alden the 3rd!"
"Why do you have me here, then, sir?" "because you have failed me, and will pay for it!" "What?!?" "Really, I have no qualms with you, I just always wanted to try..."
"This!" "Holy Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii..."
"iiiiiiiiiiiittttttt" With a satisfying crunch, A militia man is down!
Wanting to gat as far away from Alden as possible, The heroic feat also makes the hobos move faster!
"Hold off, sir Shitstain! If anyone kills this guy, it's gonna be me!" "Holy Shit!" The other Con chases the Monkey knight back to the hovercraft.
"Hey, I had the situation well in hand." "Not how I saw it." "I'll Keeeeeellll youuu!!!"
Get up and fight like a man, !
Oh crap...
Unfortunately, he doesen't get destroyed yet. Due to lack of pictures, and a pissed off other player, the hovercraft regrows its minigun (??? )
Turning his sights to a hobo in an incredibly blurry pic, a Celt opens fire upon him!
And blows the bastard's head clean off!
And it lands somewhere here.
And, in true hit and run fashion, the Celts pile into the truck.
Meanwhile, inside Plinkett's basement, Mary Sue and her Friend find a treasure map. "Quick, grab onto my map!"
Plinkett does not like what he sees! Force jumping again, he brings out the big guns, in the form of a can of raid!
Plinkett unleashes a torrent of bug spray, taking out Mary Stu's girlfriend!
She's taking it fairly well, don't you think?
A Militia goon rushes into the ruins, and finds a bag of a mysterious, silvery, ground up substance. Doing the only sensible thing, he takes it all in! He begins to lurch over, and becomes a PCP Zombie!
Undeterred by drug induced zombies, Alden constucts a landing platform. How? Magic!
He then constructs a... flying... Thing.
Remember the shopkeepers? me neither. But anyhow, the one on the ground doesn't take too well to an imminent beat-down, and tosses his ax!
Which does a whole lot of nothing. It lands behind the counter, And the other Convict take the time to practice his air humps.
He then proceeds to take a dynamite stick and a jackhammer for some ill-thought out revenge!
Suddenly, the heavens part, and from the sky come the grand master of the space knight crusade!
The Space Celts disembark, And sneery face equips a high explosive weapon or 2
In an effort to find some treasure, the Celt leader checks the T-rex, and yes, it really is just a stone decoration! The real magic is in the box it was in! As a defense mechanism, the drunken Britainian's hat becomes... A Raggamoffyn! Yes, the Raggamoffyn, the D&D monster that is a flying pile of laundry. The elder gods had a *Ahem* strange sense of humor.
The horror!!! The Horror!
Then, the PCP Zombie eats Mary Sue, who is so perfect, it changes the PCP into a zombie virus that can affect already dead people!
Get your collective minds out of the gutter! She's just being devoured alive!
The Con finds a stick of dynamite.
And explodes it (sadly off sccreen) taking out some of the wall.
Several new PCP zombies arise, And a militia blade master rushes in to deal with them!
"Here, take this sword. Promise me you'll run real fast with it, alright?"
Needless to say, a critical success was had!
While he managed to behead one ODing foe, the blademaster Is soon turned as well.
Alden mounts his flying thing, and heads off for conquest!
Plinkett wisely ducks and covers, and the flying thing parks on his house
The dead continue to rise.
One of the convicts will not stand for this! Taking his trusty treasure chest, He preapares to heave and...
Oh, look, TNT, wonder what will...
Called it.
"Hello, Plinkett, I believe I was here to see you about something..." "was it that I gave the new star trek a good review?' "No, I think it was how I was going to kill you, and take control of the undead!"
And, on that cliffhanger, I'll upload more next year !
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This is the fourth menu for knwalter's group, Lets Go to The Store. This is a list of recipes and groceries for a whole week (7 dinner-time meals), with...
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The government is recommending a suite of reforms to make it easier for the poor to get cheap phone service—and some of the proposals will eventually be extended to broadband. The most high profile of these suggestions urges the Federal Communications Commission to encourage automatic enrollment in the agency's Lifeline and Link-Up programs, activated when low-income families apply for other benefits, such as food stamps.
"I believe the Commission should address low-income consumers' ability to use their Lifeline discounts for services or packages that include voice and broadband," added Commissioner Mignon Clyburn on Friday, "as recommended in the National Broadband Plan, as soon as possible."
Part of the FCC's Universal Service Fund (USF), Lifeline provides a small discount on phone services to low income subscribers. (It goes no higher than $10 a month.) Link-Up America subsidizes the initial installation fee on a landline or wireless phone account to the tune of $30, at most. The assistance varies depending on where the applying household lives.
The recommendations for broader eligibility come from the Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service, which, as the name suggests, includes state and FCC officials. The proposals also include raising the household eligibility for Lifeline from 135 percent of the federal poverty level to 150 percent, and setting up a national database of recipients to avoid duplication of services or fraud.
It's clear that these deliberations will not only shape current Lifeline and Link-Up programs; they'll also inform the FCC's efforts to transition the USF from phone to broadband service. The Joint Board's statement reiterated that "it is appropriate for the Universal Service Fund to support networks that provide broadband service, in addition to voice service."
So did Board Commissioner John D. Burke. "The NBP makes clear that broadband is becoming a vital service for consumers in this country," Burke concurred. "For this reason, there is little real doubt that broadband will be included as an eligible service under the Fund."
But concerns about unforeseen costs came from his colleague, Larry Landis. "Thus far we have not fully identified the source of additional funding needed if Lifeline subscribership increases substantially," Landis warned.


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The Oui story stretches back more than half a century. Back then, during the economic optimism of the early fifties, Munich started to blossom into a metropolis. Admittedly, Paula Gottesdiener did not have long dresses on her mind when she started to make children's clothes in her small studio in Schwabing, a district in Munich. But she did lay the foundation for a thriving family business.
Paula and her husband first made clothes under the label "LaGotte". The name "LaGotte" is made up of letters taken from their name. Both came to Germany after the Second World War and built their company from scratch. They were guided by what they and many other people didn't have - pretty and functional clothes for children. In the sixties, Nathan, Paula's and Mendel's son, discovered the world of women's clothing.
Nathan and his wife Yael shifted the focus of the company to young fashion for women by launching the "Miss Lagotte" brand. Running the company in the second generation, Nathan started to focus on very high-quality women's fashion beside the existing collection. The company changed its name to Oui in the mid-seventies. Say yes to life. A positive attitude to life condensed in 3 letters. In the era of platform shoes and flares, they had the slogan "die junge Masche aus München" ("young knit from Munich"). This clearly showed where home was. But Oui was now available worldwide, as in the meantime, Nathan and his wife Yael had turned the company into a successful international entity.
Then in 1998 the time was ripe for the third generation to take the helm. Maya, Nathan's and Yael's daughter, assumed control of the progressive design collection SET. Her brother, Daniel Gottesdiener, became responsible for Oui and global sourcing. And Alon Junger, her husband, was in charge of sales and marketing for the entire Oui group.
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Some recent Chicago Tribune poll results appear to indicate that support for raising the minimum wage in the state's largest city may be enough to increase voter turnout for a nonbinding November ballot referendum.
The poll found that 84 percent of registered Chicago voters support a city task force recommendation to increase the minimum wage to $13 per hour over the next three years. According to the poll, 78 percent of whites and 92 percent of African-Americans and even 71 percent of Chicagoans making over $100,000 a year back the plan.
Democrats have been hoping to use the statewide nonbinding referendum to raise the minimum wage to $10 an hour as a tool to help spur turnout in what is rapidly developing into a big Republican year. And with numbers like the Tribune's backing a much higher minimum wage, it does seem likely that the issue can be effective, particularly among African-Americans. Support above 70-80 percent is generally seen as having a ballot impact. Get above 90 and it's sure to drive votes. Then again, the comparatively "stingy" state ballot proposal, when compared to the Chicago proposal, might garner lesser enthusiasm.
Proponents are hoping to use the issue to convince 400,000 people to sign "pledge cards" stating they will definitely vote this November. So far, they've collected 70,000 cards, which they will use to track the signatories through Election day.
The bigger question, though, is what Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan does with all the money he's been raising to push the ballot initiative. Madigan, who is also the state Democratic Party chairman, has been traveling the country to raise cash. Everybody who chipped in to recall Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker in 2012 is being paid a visit. Labor unions alone spent over $20 million on that race, and Madigan is telling those labor leaders that they can spend the money now to defeat the anti-union Bruce Rauner, or spend the money later to fight Rauner after he's elected.
The Republicans are attempting to convince themselves that Madigan will spend that cash on his hottest state legislative races instead of in Chicago and south suburban Cook County, where it would do the most good for the statewide ticket because of high numbers of African-Americans. Democrats have often complained in the past that "coordinated campaign" money has been redirected to Madigan's legislative races, and they're not sure what he'll do this year.
Most are fairly certain that Madigan won't have his candidates run away from the top of the ticket. The Speaker tried that in 1994, during a huge Republican wave. Late in the game, photos of Republican Gov. Jim Edgar started appearing in Democratic legislative mailers. But that backfired in a major way. It just helped Edgar win by a larger margin, which swept away Madigan's candidates. Madigan has to do whatever he can to boost Gov. Pat Quinn's prospects within his districts, and that means lots of voter registration and get out the vote activities. And none of those all important districts are in Chicago or south suburban Cook County.
But it won't be easy. I've seen some private polling results recently that show Quinn doing even worse than expected in suburban counties where Madigan has some other tough races. My own polling has shown Bruce Rauner doing quite well in suburban Cook County, which has trended Democratic over the years and will be the scene of several hotly contested Illinois House races.
And, the other day, a top Democratic strategist derided the Quinn campaign's attempt to convince Illinoisans that the job and economic situation is starting to turn around as "stupid."
"They're telling voters not to believe their own lying eyes," he complained. Focus groups, he said, are finding that voters "are so mad at the state of things that it insults their intelligence to tell them things are changing, especially in the downstate communities."
The Democrat had knowledge of one particular downstate congressional focus group which found people were "openly hostile to Quinn – like punch him if he was in the room at the time hostile." Madigan has one Tier One contest in that congressional district and another adjacent to the district.
So, keep an eye on Chicago and south suburban Cook "get out the vote" efforts. It's Gov. Quinn's best hope right now and a likely drain on Madigan's resources. If he spends lots of cash there, Quinn just might make this thing a close one.
Rich Miller also publishes Capitol Fax, a daily political newsletter, and CapitolFax.com.


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To learn how to set up the game, see what to do in what game mode or learn what each thingy on the HUD is, more detailed information, then please visit this topic:
World of Warplanes Game Manual by CrashTailspin
Basic controls:
For controls I recommend to either use the keyboard/mouse or the keyboard/joystick controls. The joystick will give you the most realistic feel, however, I believe it is harder to master then the mouse, because you need to train your arm to do tiny movements, and that will take some time. The mouse will also be difficult in the beginning, but you should pick that up faster, since you are most likely used to precision movement from other games.
The mouse has a little advantage as I write this, because you can easily look around your aircraft holding the right mouse button. Some joysticks do have a HAT button ontop of the stick, but this type of view is still limited compared to mouse(I hardly ever use the HAT, u can also use the NUMpad keys).
For keyboard/mouse control you will need to use the mouse for up, down, roll right and roll left. And the keyboard A and D buttons to do the YAW (turn left and right with your tail). The joystick should have all of this implanted.
For both: The W button will enable WEP (short engine boost, with a cooldown). The S button will
If you find yourself in a dive, and the ground is coming near, using the S button may save your life. (note: shut down engine is no put on the \ button by default)
If you wish, you can relocate any control to one of your random joystick buttons. The WEP should already have a default button set.
What does this button do???
Space bar, left mouse button, joystick trigger: Fire! ofc
T: select target
TAB: change target
Numpad + and -: zoom in and out on radar
- and =: decrease and increase engine power
\ : Shutdown engine
W: Boost engine (WEP)
S: Reduce speed
E: Flaps
(CrashTailspin): go fly, you'll find out
(CrashTailspin): wing flaps effectively reduce your flying speed, and lower stall speed
(CrashTailspin): just hold whatever button down you've binded for flaps, and watch them lower
(CrashTailspin): however, firing with flaps down is....buggy
(CrashTailspin): wing flaps effectively reduce your flying speed, and lower stall speed
(CrashTailspin): just hold whatever button down you've binded for flaps, and watch them lower
(CrashTailspin): however, firing with flaps down is....buggy
C: Level off aircraft
i: invert vertical axis, (change up and down control)
Q: rear view
Left Alt: show players
M: show map
X: change between radar and mini map
1 to 4: enable/disable weapons
R: launch unguided rockets (IL-2 and IL-40 only) / Drop bombs (bombs not yet implanted)
F: enter and go out of sniper mode
Mouse scroll wheel: zoom in and out, enter sniper mode when zoomed in enough
Z: push to talk (enable it in settings first, under volume)
Left Alt: Show players
F7 and F8: decrease and increase volume
F2 to F7: spam messages, same as in WOT
F1: help page
Left and right Crtl: Show cursor (We can now ping the mini map (not the radar, change between them using X ))
Team chat: Hit Enter, type something, hit Enter again
General chat: Hit Enter, type something, hit Enter+Ctrl
And the best for last, the most important button when in a dogfight (after the fire button):
Left shift: Lock camera to target. This is my favorite button, when you have a target locked, and this button is pressed. The camera will follow the targeted enemy. When using this, you will find out that flying just got a little harder, practice this as much as you can. I think it is the best way to follow your enemy when you are both circling around each other.
Okay since we have all of this covered we can now go to the flying part.
At the beginning of the match all aircraft are spawned so that you fly towards each other (with a little angle). This will most likely result into a headon fight. Try to avoid this, even little skilled players will just knock each other out, either by shooting each other to death, or crashing into each other. (note: you can also crash into a destroyed aircraft). And that is a quick but not very fun way to end your match.
(note: do not try to do a headon fight with a enemy that has superior firepower to you (like the German heavy fighters or the Russian ground attack aircraft))
Once your past the initial clash, find yourself a nice target and lock on to him. Use the left control button to follow his or her moments (go back to normal mode for better aiming) and use either WEP, / or S to get behind him. Your own creativity will come in play here, as in how you get behind your enemy. I suggest that when you die you spectate experienced players to learn their movements.
Whatever happens, if a enemy is on your tail, going straight up is a bad idea. You then show him your whole body while slowing down, and he will be thankful.
To shake a enemy, you can try asking a team mate to shoot him of your tail, or lead him over the base turret. You can also use the sun, it will make you invisible for him, and if your lucky you can surprise him.
If your aircraft is more agile, you can try making a quick dive, and pull up at the last second. If he takes bate, he might crash. Or try flying low, hugging mountains or buildings. Try to lead him to your team mates.
Gun range:
Different gun calibers, different gun range. The big boys shoot up to at least 800meters, while the tier 1's barely hit stuff at 400meters. Keep this in the back of your mind, ammo is precious.
Rockets, are unguided, and go boom at about 800meters, or when they hit a target. Rockets have a nice splash radius, so u do not necessarily need to hit to kill.
Some things that might be handy, and that can be changed in the battle settings:
-You can change the target camera to a rear view camera
-You can set the altimeter from barometric to radar. (radar will show you your actual distance from the objects/ground below you. While barometric calculates your height from sea level)
-You can change the damage panel from bottom middle to bottom left
-You can change if you want radar or mini map is shown in the beginning of the match, the radar will give you information if a enemy aircraft is at the same altitude as you. If he is not, the arrow will be smaller.
Aiming/camera sensitivity:
In the last update devs added camera sensitivity. Though the cross-air is more exact at pointing where do bullets fly to, I personal am not a fan of this, it is confusing because the green circle is also moving with it.
To change it back to the way it was, got to settings and set camera sensitivity to 0
In the last update devs added camera sensitivity. Though the cross-air is more exact at pointing where do bullets fly to, I personal am not a fan of this, it is confusing because the green circle is also moving with it.
To change it back to the way it was, got to settings and set camera sensitivity to 0
Please respect and follow the NDA that all of you signed!
I will return with more, if any of you would like to ad anything to this topic please reply and i will put it in if i find it suitable.
See you in the sky's of WoWP


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No. 5 San Diego State rallies to edge Boise State
- San Diego State beat Boise State%2C 67-65
- Xavier Thames scored 23 points for the Aztecs
- The Aztecs rallied from a 14-point deficit with 13%3A37 to play
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — With his fifth-ranked team trailing by two points in the final seconds, San Diego State coach Steve Fisher was all but certain senior point guard Xavier Thames was going to take the final shot for the Aztecs on Wednesday night.
But Thames surprised his coach — and most of the 9,602 in attendance — when he whipped a pass to Dwayne Polee II, who drained a 3-pointer with 4 seconds left to give the Aztecs an improbable come-from-behind 67-65 victory that extended their winning streak to 19 games.
"It was like the Red Sea parted," Polee said. "I wasn't surprised. X is a real unselfish player, and if there was one person open, he was going to find them."
Thames finished with 23 points for San Diego State (20-1, 9-0 Mountain West), but it was his steal at midcourt in the final minute and his second assist of the game that saved the Aztecs, who trailed by 14 points in the second half.
"What can you say about Xavier Thames?" Fisher asked. "You can't tell me that he's not playing as well as anyone in America right now."
Thames said he was very close to taking a shot that would have tied the score. But at the very last second, he changed his mind.
"I had a pretty decent look, but I saw DP out of the corner of my eye," Thames said. "I was going to shoot a floater but (Ryan) Watkins was going to contest it. Then I saw (Anthony) Drmic sink down. It was on the tip of my fingers (to shoot). It was pretty close."
Close is the typical result when the Aztecs and Broncos (15-8, 5-5) play. The past six meetings between the schools have been decided by six or fewer points. San Diego State eliminated Boise State from the past two conference tournaments and won 69-66 last month in San Diego.
"They're a good matchup for us, and we're a good matchup for them," Thames said. "We know we're always going to get a great game for them."
Mikey Thompson led the Broncos with 16 points and Thomas Bropleh and Derrick Marks both added 15.
"I just feel awful for these guys right now," Boise State coach Leon Rice said. "They are giving everything they have. We just haven't finished."
Boise State led the final 18 minutes of the first half and the first 15 of the second before a scoring drought allowed the Aztecs to rally. After Bropleh banked in a 3-pointer to give the Broncos a 57-43 lead with 13:37 to play, Boise State only made one field goal in the next 11 minutes and the lead disappeared when Thames scored his seventh consecutive point to give his team a 61-59 lead with 4 minutes to play.
Boise State finally got on track, getting two free throws and a layup from Thompson and a basket from Marks to retake the lead at 65-62. Thames made a steal in the final minute and hit two free throws after being fouled, and after Marks missed a jumper, the Aztecs were in position for the biggest play of the game.
"That was a tough, gutty character-type game for us," Fisher said. "We stayed with it and found a way to win."
Thames said there was some motivation to keep the winning streak going. With its meteoric rise to No. 5 in the poll, the Aztecs expect to get every team's best shot the rest of the way.
"We talked at halftime about that," he said. "We said, 'You know they are going to rush the court if they win.' We didn't want that to happen."
Josh Davis had 10 points for San Diego State, which won despite turning the ball over 15 times and allowing Boise State to shoot 51 percent from the field and make eight 3-pointer.
"They just kept hitting shot after shot," said Polee, who finished with nine points and was 1 for 1 on 3-point attempts. "Everything they threw up was going in. We just had to buckle up."
The win was the 10th straight win away from home for San Diego State and its ninth straight conference win.


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MONTREAL - Eddie Izzard has often joked about superheroes in his stand-up routine, but lately, the comedian's resumé is starting to read more and more like that of a caped freedom fighter. Having recently become the first non-native speaker to complete a comedy tour of France in French, he's currently working on his German and is planning to pick up Spanish, Russian and Arabic as well. He ran 43 marathons in 51 days to support Sport Relief, and he's planning to run for mayor of London in 2020.
"It's kind of a full life," he agrees. "But you have one life, so you might as well live it."
No one could argue that Izzard's doing anything but. The Yemeni-born, British-dwelling performer, who has been referred to by John Cleese as the Lost Python, is currently on what he calls "the biggest comedy world tour ever." Kicking off in Austria in March, he's performed from Belgrade to St. Petersburg over the last months, as well as the 20,000-capacity 02 Stadium in London. But the two weren't as different as you might think.
"Audiences in Belgrade and Bucharest were very fast, very quick to react," Izzard says. "In Russia they probably have less English, but they had great reactions — I had to slow down maybe a little bit. Berlin was huge, Istanbul was great, Vienna, too."
But that's just the tip of the iceberg as far as Izzard's international impact is concerned. Earlier this month, as a UNICEF ambassador, he visited a Syrian refugee camp in Iraq. He is involved in and outspoken about human rights, and to him, that's just a part of the larger philosophy that encompasses both his humanitarian work and his day job.
"If I go to a place where people are living in tents, and they have very little, there's a logic that could say that you have to live in a tent. I'd like everyone not to live in tents. I'd like everyone in the world to have security in their country, and enough disposable cash so that they can come watch a gig, and start a business, and go on holiday, and make a comment about their government. I'd like there to be a democratic government in Syria, and I'd like to play Damascus one day, in Arabic or English."
Of course, there's humanitarian work, and then there's giving it all up to become mayor of London. Is he afraid of losing his stride as a comic and actor if he goes into politics?
"I have to do this. There are right-wingers who keep coming, who have extreme ideas, who are hating people, who are going from casual racism to full-blown racism and I disagree with that. I have this energy, and I feel I have to do this."
We may have to get our Izzard fix while we can. Eddie Izzard is hosting the United Nations of Comedy gala as part of Just for Laughs on Thursday, July 25, with special guest Gad Elmaleh (see story below), one of France's shining comedic stars. Izzard also hopes to do an impromptu show in French at the festival.
"We keep crossing borders," he says. "This is going to be beautiful."
Eddie Izzard hosts the Just for Laughs United Nations of Comedy gala, Thursday at 10 p.m. at Salle Wilfrid Pelletier of Place des Arts. For tickets and more information, visit hahaha.com.


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The number of technical appliances customized for skin care to brighten and tighten the skin is endless. The question is how to determine which of the devices, that are typically quite expensive, are nothing but empty promises and which ones are truly effective? First of all, let's have a brief look at the ultrasound principles without going to deep into the scientific or physical details.
Ultrasound can simply be defined as an oscillation of air with a high number of cycles per second. The unit for the amount of oscillations per second is called "hertz" (Hz). One oscillation equals one hertz. As per definition, ultrasound is a particular kind of sound which is physically divided into four sections:
- Infrasound, sometimes referred to as low-frequency sound, is sound that is lower in frequency than 16 Hz or cycles per second.
- Sound, humans normally hear sound frequencies between approximately 16 up to 20,000 cycles per second. (16 Hz to 20,000 Hz)
- Ultrasound, is an oscillating sound pressure wave with a frequency greater than the upper limit of the human hearing range. Ultrasound devices operate with frequencies from 20,000 cycles per second up to 5,000,000. (20,000 to 5,000,000 Hz)
- Hypersound, covers the range higher than 5,000,000 cycles per second. ( > 5,000,000 Hz)
Ultrasound is a mechanical wave, which requires a medium to travel. More accurately, it is a series of elastic pressure waves propagating through a medium. (like tones). The requirement for the transmission of the ultrasound is a convenient medium (travel molecule) of which the consistency depends on the frequency and the rendered power of the ultrasonic device. Also, the target, e.g. viewing, displaying, sterilizing, healing etc., is taken into consideration. A moderate power of the ultrasound (for humans preferably less than 0.5 Watt) is also important, because ultrasound may generate heat which is not only painful but also dangerous.
Physically ultrasound diffuses in gas or liquids in form of longitudinal waves and in solids as transverse waves. When longitudinal waves meet solids they are transformed into transverse waves. Ultrasound waves diffuse at a different pace in different mediums, depending on the degree of hardness. In soft substances the pace is slower (1,500 m/s) than in hard substances (4,000 m/s). .
How is the skin structured?
To better understand how our skin is effected, which also has an overall impact on our health and wellbeing, let's have a deeper look into the structure of skin and tissue.
The human skin consists of three different functional main layers:
The human skin consists of three different functional main layers:
A. Epidermis
B. Dermis
C. Subcutis
In these layers you find among others…
- Hair follicles
- Sebaceous
- Sweat glands
As our largest and most visible organ, covering nearly 1.5 to 2m² and making up almost a sixth of our body weight, skin condition can also have a significant impact on our body temperature, energy store, sense impression and protection from environmental influences like fungal skin infection, bacteria or UV rays.
The outermost layer, the epidermis, protects us from environmental influences. Over most parts of the body, the thickness of the epidermis is only about 0.1 mm in total, though it is considerably thinner in the face (0.02mm) and considerably thicker (between 1 and 5mm) on the soles of the feet. The epidermis consists of 5 sub-layers of keratinocyte cells which are belted by desmosomes. Desmosomes are cell structures inside the cell membrane which build a close discoidal connection between two cells. These are mainly present in cells with an intensive mechanical stress and they do improve the mechanical structure. (Protection from shearing force)
The epidermal cells spread on five layers:
- Horny layer (or stratum corneum)
- Clear layer (stratum lucidium)
- Granular layer (stratum granulosum)
- Prickle layer (or stratum spinosum)
- Basal layer (or stratum basale)
The prickle layer and the basal layer consist of living cells which provide support for the upper three layers where dead cells are regularly shed.
Dermis (or corium)
The dermis forms a strict barrier to the epidermis, whereas the junction to the subcutis is more fluid. The dermis consists of three functional parts:
- Stratum papillare
- Basale membrane
- Basale cells
- Epidermis
The upper layer (or stratum papillare) forms a defined, wave-like border with the epidermis. The wave-like structure (bumps) increases the contact area to the epidermis. This provides an optimum nutrient supply to the lower epithelial layer of the epidermis (basale cells) thru the blood vessels in the stratum papillare. The papillares are honeycombed with delicate blood vessels, these capillaries nourish the epidermis and dermis. The papillares increase their contact area between both layers and ensure the tremendous tear strength of the skin.
The papillares are also home to the lymph vessels. Here the liquid (lymph) is collected which is produced by the emersion of blood plasma from the blood vessels. When the capillary pressure goes up the lymph goes up as well. This liquid is collected in the lymph system and will be brought back thru the lymph nodes into the blood system. The lymph system is branched the same way as the blood system. In this area an adapted ultrasound works the best way.
In the free connective tissue various other blood and other cells exist. Between the cells there is an empty space called "interstitium". This space is filled with jelly-like liquid, called intercellular substance. The "jelly" in the cells can swing. This is very important as many cells in that "interstitium" belong to the immune system. An adapted ultrasound used in this area supports the immune system the best way.
Subcutis (or hypodermis)
The innermost layer of our skin stores energy while padding and insulating the body. It is mainly composed of:
• Fat cells (adipocytes): clumped together in cushion-like groups.
• Special collagen fibres (called tissue septa or boundaries): loose and spongy connective tissues that hold the fat cells together.
• Blood vessels.
The subcutis pads and insulates the body and is home to fat cells, collagen fibres and blood vessels. The nutrient supply for the skin starts from the lower layer (subcutis) up to the top (dermis, epidermis). Now you can imagine how important it is that ultrasound can work all the way down in the lower skin layers.
Practical Experiences with Emmi-Skin
In the following, people tell their individual results with Emmi-skin. Emmi-skin is the only device that achieves 100% effectiveness for the skin and in the tissue by using a homogenized focusing transmission of the ultrasound and through the position of the ultrasound generator. On the one hand, the frequency of the ultrasound is optimized for a caring usage on the skin to provide a healthy and good looking skin. On the other hand, it serves as a therapeutically care for the skin and tissue.
User testimonials
- Applicable for all skin types without any side effects
- Handling without any movement and rubbing, ideal as well for a very sensitive skin
- Cleansing effect not only for the skin but also the pores
- After using Emmi-skin the first time, as the pores are cleaned out, the breathing area of the skin already starts increasing substantially. It leaves you with a good feeling.
- As result of cleaning the pores, they close up from the bottom to the top which results in a smooth, clean and soft skin
- Gentle and motionless removing of dry skin scales after the first usage without using a "sandpaper-like" peeling crème.
- Does not only effect the skin but also lower tissue (inflammation)
- Alleviates pigmented moles on face and hands
- Supports blood flow of the skin – no pale, unhealthy skin anymore
- Suitable for upper and lower eyelid – helps against dark circles under the eyes
- Naturally tightens the skin of neck and décolleté
- Reduces upper lip crinkles
- Supports blood flow in the lips and makes them look fuller and nice - without any Botox!
- Stimulates the cell division and formation of new collagen fibers
- Moderates age marks and pigmented moles on the back of your hands
- Supports blood flow in the skin of your cheeks and forehead, chin and neck with the collagen crème
- Sunburn cures faster with the Emmi-skin Collagencream and Emmi-skin Ultrasound!
- Reduces blackheads and acne
- Reduces muscles tension
- Eliminates callused skin
IMPORTANT:: Use Emmi-skin for skin care with ultrasound motionless and without any pressure. No stress for the skin not even in sensitive areas.
How is Emmi-skin making a difference?
Emmi-skin Ultrasound works with max. 72 million air oscillations per minute and it effects amongst other things.
- Improvement of the pH-value
- Stimulation and normalization of the metabolic processes
- Stimulation of the collagen synthesis
- Support of the lymph drainage
- Reinforcement of blood flow
- Elimination of bacteria in the skin layers
With the first usage the pores are cleaned and, as result of that, the breathing area of the skin is substantially increased. In a short period of time the pores close up from the bottom to the top which results in a smooth, soft skin. Old skin scales are removed without abrasion and rubbing.
Skin crinkles are being reduced or disappear. The ultrasound affects all layers of the skin including the lowest one and eliminates bacteria. The stimulation and normalization of metabolic processes and the support of the blood flow in the skin lead to a healthy, natural looking skin and skin color.
Dark circles and bags under the eyes are being reduced or disappear completely (age-dependent). Eye lids are tightened. A better blood flow in the lips makes them look fuller and more brilliant.


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Bug Gardening
|Bug Grooming / Bug Triage /
|Most projects have a backlog of bugs that need to be periodically "gardened." Sometimes there are even old bugs that may have already been fixed that just haven't been closed in the system. This module familiarizes students with bug grooming (/bug triage) techniques, *and* helps the community by doing some of that work.
|Prerequisite Knowledge
|Students should be familiar with how bug trackers work -- see [Bug Tracker Activity].
|Learning Objectives
|Student should be able to review a bug to see if it still is relevant *and* student should be able to explain the importance of "bug grooming"
Bug Gardening (or Grooming or Triage) is the process by which projects:
- confirm new bugs that have been submitted
- gather more information about the bug when necessary
- prioritize confirmed bugs
- review bugs to ensure that they are being worked on
- retire old bugs
This activity, however, is focused on retiring bugs that are no longer relevant (#5), primarily because that is more clear-cut than full-fledged bug triage.
If the project you're working with has a guide for how to triage bugs, the students should read that first. Here are three examples of Bug Triage Guides:
- Gluster Bug Triage Guidelines and their accompanying Lifecycle of a Bug
- Bug Management - How to Triage (MediaWiki)
- Gnome Bug Triage Guide
The student should be familiar with how to use the bug tracker (see Bug Tracker Activity) for the project.
Though all bugs need to be triaged (see examples of Bug Triage Guides), this activity is focused on culling bugs that are no longer relevant, primarily because that is more clear-cut than full-fledged bug triage.
This activity is best performed in groups of two or three students, who can work together to:
- identify a "suspect" bug in the bug tracker, and
- test the bug to see if it still exists.
Identifying the "suspect" bugs will be easier if you have information from the project about their bug lifecycle or which bugs they would prefer your students focus on. However, even in the absence of that information, there are some other clues that can be used to identify bugs that may no longer exist.
One thing to look at is the version number of the software that the bug was reported against (versus the one that's current now). If the bug is for a version that's several releases out of date, there's a good likelihood that the issue may have been fixed (or may have just become irrelevant) in the meantime.
Another possible hint is the date on the bug: bugs that were reported years ago may have been fixed and are probably worth looking at first.
Once the student teams have identified a bug to work on, they should try to verify the bug status.
At that point,
- If the bug is no longer relevant, your students can take one of several courses of action, depending on how well-established your/their relationship with the project is:
- If they have established a good working relationship with a project and have permissions to do so, they can close the bug (this is something a more advanced student might do)
- They can add a comment to the bug with their notes with the suggestion to close. This is more appropriate for students with less project experience.
- If the student can not tell if a bug is still relevant -- that's ok. At that point they can:
- Move on and try another bug, or
- Ask for more information from the bug reporter or the person assigned to the bug. This can be a valuable because it exposes students to more of the project ecosystem.
At the end of the exercise, the student teams should have a list of bugs that they investigated and the outcomes. In the ideal case, they will have been able to close a bug or two, but even if they haven't you should still receive a report out. I suggest the following as a sample format (I've filled two lines as examples):
|Bug Number
|Short Description
|URL for Bug
|Actions Taken
|Bug 302338
|Machine Explodes on Disk Insertion
|Bug submitted against version 2 of product, which was EOL'd in 2003
|Left comment suggesting that bug be closed
|Bug 42984
|Funny Noises
|Bug submitted in 2010, patched in release 2 (2011)
|Closed bug.
How will the activity be graded?
How will learning will be measured?
Include sample assessment questions/rubrics.
If you're working with a specific open source project:
- ask the project (via IRC or mailing list) if there are a particular set of bugs that your students should focus on. For example, in the Gluster project I noted above, if a bug is tagged POST it means that an initial patch for a bug has been put into the Gerrit code review tool. If there is a very old bug that's marked POST, there's a decent likelihood that the patch has been incorporated into the project and the bug wasn't closed for whatever reason. If your students can verify this and close the bug, that's valuable.
- let the project know that your students will be doing this -- an influx of activity on a bug tracker can be overwhelming if unexpected
Other projects may have similar set-ups that are worth asking about.
Variation If you're working with a specific open source project and you have a block of time at least 1.5 hours long, you may want to run a bug sprint. You may be able to find a time when the regular "bug wrangler(s)" from the project can join you (via IRC or Google Hangout) and offer your students "live" assistance with triaging bugs.
Additional Information:
|Knowledge Area/Knowledge Unit
|Software Development Fundamentals//Software Verification and Validation
|Defect tracking
|Level of Difficulty
|Medium (requires some understanding of the intended functionality of the software, ability to use bug tracking software, and critical thinking skills)
|Estimated Time to Completion
|How long should it take for the student to complete the activity?
|Student needs access to the project's bug tracker, internet access. If your students will be making changes, they will also need to join the IRC channel or mailing list where bugs are discussed (the bug triage info should mention this), and if they are going to be making changes, they will need a login to the bug tracker.
|Gina Likins
|This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License
Suggestions for the Open Source Project:
Your community should have specific expectations around [support] that are published [somewhere]. For example, if your code will only work on Fedora versions newer than 19, then specify that.
If there are a set of bugs that it would be more helpful to have someone verify, then marking those in some way would help the instructor.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License


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Whole Life: The Key to Unlocking your Retirement
Over the years, you have been taught that your retirement nest egg has a large 'DO NOT TOUCH' sign attached to it until retirement. Even at retirement, people hesitate to spend their nest egg for fear of running out of money.
So what happens if you remove that sign and crack that egg open?
Plenty of retirees have done just that and are fully enjoying the benefits of their hard-earned money. After spending years saving and accumulating assets, many people find themselves budgeting more in retirement than in their working years, often spending only the gain on their savings to avoid spending principal.
So how are the people who are enjoying their assets in retirement doing it?
There are pre-conceived notions that the best way to prepare for retirement is to invest heavily, max out your 401(k), and rely on Social Security and — if you're lucky — a pension. However, there is an additional step to achieving an enjoyable and secure retirement. It involves whole life insurance, used in a way you've probably never thought of before.
Unfortunately, many people believe that once their kids are grown, they should drop their life insurance policy to save and invest the money they were spending on premiums. But the loss of their life insurance death benefit from their balance sheet may have a significant impact on their ability to access other assets in retirement.
What they do not realize is that they are losing much more than just the death benefit associated with the life insurance policy; they are losing the freedom to live their retirement life to the fullest. Rather than looking at whole life as a cost, it is important to see it as an asset with a promise.
The examples below show what cumulative retirement assets might look like after a 30-year period. If you do not have a life insurance policy in place, you may look to spend little or no principal to avoid running out of money. However, when you do have life insurance, you are able to spend both the principal AND interest, while having a guaranteed legacy for your family in place, provided by the guaranteed death benefit of whole life insurance.
*This hypothetical example is based on a male, age 35, who retires at age 65 and lives until age 85 with a rate of return of 6% in a 35% tax bracket. The hypothetical example does not represent the performance of any particular financial product or security.
Rather than looking at whole life as a cost, it is important to see it as an asset with a promise.
A New Perception, A New Promise
With whole life in place during your retirement, you no longer have to keep your money locked away and are able to enjoy your wealth without restraint. It sits behind all of your other assets, always there with the promise that it will pay a benefit at your death. Without having the concerns of legacy planning, you can access your other assets more freely – both the principal and its earnings.
The bottom line: A retirement that includes whole life insurance is better than one that does not.
By integrating whole life into your overall retirement strategy, you are given the unique combination of having the freedom to spend your retirement assets how and when you want while putting in place a secure legacy plan for your loved ones. Being able to maintain your accustomed lifestyle into your retirement years and even increase your post-retirement income without worry is the ultimate goal.
The Living Balance Sheet® and the Living Balance Sheet® Logo are registered service marks of The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America (Guardian), New York, NY. © Copyright 2005-2015, The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America. Pub6948 2015-4742 Exp. 4/17


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That "damn cute" Mark Sherman is now a 56 year old attorney in Jerusalem.
He is also the son of Phiip Sherman, a past president of the Museum, uncle of your former intern Abby Lyon, and my brother.
It's really a very small world!
Why am I not surprised? That's Jewish Baltimore for you–a very small world. DW
Mark Sherman is very much around and living in Jerusalem, a very successful lawyer with his wonderful wife Joni, an executive with JnJ in Israel and his 4 lovely children. His friends will tell you however that he's not as cute as he used to be. His friends also thank you for this – it will be used against him at every opportunity! No apologies necessary.
Dr. Weiner,
Greetings from Jerusalem. I forgive you and the truth is, not as cute anymore, but I do have four beuatiful Sabras!
Thanks for being a good sport, Mark. I hope you don't get teased too much by your "friends."


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Fireballs and bright meteors are small-sized NEOs, typically centimetres to metres in diameter, that collide with the Earth but are sufficiently small to burn out almost completely in the atmosphere, leaving long bright trails. Some of the original material can survive the entry phase and reach the ground as meteorites. The study of meteors and meteorites can give important clues on the small-size distribution of the NEO population and the composition of asteroids and comets.
If you see a fireball, please report it using the International Meteor Organisation fireball report form:
The SSA-NEO Fireball Information System is currently in preparation: once completed it will provide a comprehensive entry point to relevant information (time, location, brightness, images, videos, etc.) on observed fireballs and meteors. All events observed since 1 January 2010 having visual magnitude brighter than -10 will be included.
For the time being please refer to the following sites:
IAU Meteor Data Center
ESA Research and Science Support Department Meteor Research Group
International Meteor Organization: Fireball observations
NASA's All Sky Fireball Network
A fireball over The Netherlands on 13 October 2009
Credits: Robert Mikaelyan


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Benedict intends to live 'hidden from the world'
VATICAN CITY (RNS) Addressing church leaders for one of the last times of his papacy, Pope Benedict XVI said Thursday (Feb. 14) that he intends to live "hidden from the world" after he retires on Feb. 28.
But news that his closest aide will assist his successor raised the issue whether Benedict will continue to exert influence on the papacy even in retirement.
The Vatican's top spokesman said Archbishop Georg Gaenswein, the pope's former personal secretary, will remain in his current role as head of the papal household after the election of Benedict's successor. He will live by Benedict's side in a small convent within the Vatican walls.
Benedict appointed Gaenswein Prefect of the Papal Household, a role that entails setting up the pope's agenda and meetings, on Dec. 7, when arguably he had already decided to retire. L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican's semiofficial newspaper, reported on Monday that the decision to step down had been made after Benedict's March 2012 trip to Mexico and Cuba.
The Rev. Federico Lombardi, the head of the Vatican press office, said Gaenswein will leave the Vatican with Benedict on Feb. 28, when the pope's resignation becomes effective at 8 p.m.
Benedict and his secretary, together with four lay religious women who served in the papal apartment during his eight years as pope, will remain in the papal villa in Castel Gandolfo, outside Rome, as cardinals from all over the world gather to elect a new pope.
According to church law, the conclave to elect Benedict's successor should begin 15 to 20 days after the end of the previous pontificate.
Lombardi dismissed questions over Gaenswein's role and its possible influence on the next pope. "It's a very practical position, having to do with the pope's appointments," he said. "It is not involved in matters of governance."
On Thursday, the 85-year old pontiff said he would remain "hidden from the world" after retirement, confirming his Monday resignation announcement that spoke of "a life dedicated to prayer."
In a 45-minute unscripted speech to Rome's priests, the pope recalled his time at the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) as a young theologian charged with assisting cardinals who were debating far-reaching reforms on issues such as religious freedom, ecumenism and liturgy.
The speech allowed Benedict to return to one of the key themes of his eight-year pontificate, stressing that the council's reforms shouldn't be seen as a break within the church's millennia-long tradition.
He blamed the media for framing the discussion and the results of the council into "the categories of politics."
"This council of the media was accessible to everyone, and it created many problems. It created many miseries ... seminaries closed, convents closed, the liturgy banalized," he said. "The real Council had great difficult being realized, because the virtual Council was more powerful."


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This game is infectious fun! It is easy to learn, fast moving and looks great. No science knowledge is needed to play.
You must evolve, adapt, and outsmart to build the mightiest micro-organisms. Use your resources to add powerful organelles, infect opponents with Viruses and harness Chain reactions to achieve big victor!
Age 10+