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Global Economic Crisis: The USA, An Insolvent and Ungovernable Country
by Global Europe Anticipation Bulletin (GEAB)
Global Research
December 17, 2011
As announced in previous GEABs, in this issue our team presents its anticipations on the changes in the United States for the period 2012-2016. This country, the epicentre of the global systemic crisis and pillar of the international system since 1945, will go through a particularly tragic in its history during these five years. Already insolvent it will become ungovernable bringing about, for Americans and those who depend on the United States violent and destructive economic, financial, monetary, geopolitical and social shocks. If the United States today is already very different from the "super-power" of 2006, the year the first GEAB was published, announcing the global systemic crisis and the end of the all-powerful US, the changes we anticipate for the 2012-2016 period are even more important, and will radically transform the country's institutional system, its social fabric and its economic and financial weight.
At the same time, every December, we evaluate our anticipations for the year just ended. This exercise, too rarely practiced by the think tanks, experts and media (1) is a tool enabling our subscribers (2) as well as our researchers to verify that our work retains a high added-value and and is in direct contact with reality. This year our score improved slightly and LEAP/E2020 attained an 82% success rate in its anticipations for 2011.
In addition we also detail our recommendations on foreign currencies, gold, stock exchanges and the consequences of the United Kingdom's marginalization within the EU (3) on the Pound, Gilts and UK debt and we set out some advice on developments of the American institutional system (4).
In this public communiqué we have chosen to present an excerpt from our anticipation on the changes in the United States for the 2012-2016 period.
But before addressing the American case, we wish to review the situation in Europe (5).
From the non-dislocation of Euroland to the dislocation of the United Kingdom
As anticipated by our team, the EU summit in Brussels on 7 and 8 December last has led to two key events:
. the further integration of Euroland with an acceleration and strengthening of budgetary and financial integration and the initiation of a fiscal integration (6). The Eurozone governments, led by Germany, have confirmed their willingness to go right through to the end of this process, unlike all the Anglo-Saxon and Eurosceptic discussions which, for the last two years, predicted that Germany would abandon the Euro. At the same time, they have refused to follow the path of the Fed and the Bank of England by refraining from running the printing press (Quantitative Easing) as long as budgetary discipline is not achieved within Euroland (7). The clear failure of QE in the US as in the UK (8) confirms the relevance of this choice which will allow the issue of Eurobonds at the end of 2012 (9).
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The category of range widgets includes the ubiquitous scrollbar widget and the less common "scale" widget. Though these two types of widgets are generally used for different purposes, they are quite similar in function and implementation. All range widgets share a set of common graphic elements, each of which has its own X window and receives events. They all contain a "trough" and a "slider" (what is sometimes called a "thumbwheel" in other GUI environments). Dragging the slider with the pointer moves it back and forth within the trough, while clicking in the trough advances the slider towards the location of the click, either completely, or by a designated amount, depending on which mouse button is used.
As mentioned in Chapter 7, Adjustments above, all range widgets are associated with an Adjustment object, from which they calculate the length of the slider and its position within the trough. When the user manipulates the slider, the range widget will change the value of the adjustment.
These are your standard, run-of-the-mill scrollbars. These should be used only for scrolling some other widget, such as a list, a text box, or a viewport (and it's generally easier to use the scrolled window widget in most cases). For other purposes, you should use scale widgets, as they are friendlier and more featureful.
There are separate types for horizontal and vertical scrollbars. There really isn't much to say about these. You create them with the following methods:
and that's about it. The adjustment argument can either be a reference to an existing Adjustment (see Chapter 7, Adjustments), or nothing, in which case one will be created for you. Specifying nothing might be useful in the case, where you wish to pass the newly-created adjustment to the constructor function of some other widget which will configure it for you, such as a text widget.

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The time is the future. People are living in an era after a nuclear holocaust. Groups of people, the survivors, have formed communities. And in these communities, they persecute everything and everyone that deviates from the "norm." If they find a person with an extra toe or finger, or an animal with an extra leg, that individual is thrown out of the community into the Fringes. But why, you may ask. Well, these people, religious fundamentalists actually, have their "rules."
'And God greated man in His own image. And God decreed that man should have one body, one head, two arms and two legs: that each arm should be joined in two places and end in one hand: that each hand should have four fingers and one thumb: that each finger should bear a flat finger-nail...'Then we meet David, a child who is the novel's hero. David questions his community's ideals. Who among them can really say that these deviations are not God's will? And it doesn't help that his father is the community's leader, a man so uncompromising that he would be willing to sacrifice his child if that child is showing any deviation. When David befriends a girl who has 12 toes, his father shows no mercy. After the girl and her mother is thrown into the Fringes, his father gives him several lashes on his back.
And so on until:
'Then God created woman, also, and in the same image, but with these differences, according to her nature: her voice should be of higher pitch than man's: she should grow no beard: she should have two breasts...' [p. 11]
But deviations don't always manifest in the physical, as David finds out. For as you see, David is telepathic; he can communicate with a few other children who also have the same ability. When one of David's adult guardians find this out, he tells David to keep it a secret; it is, after all, also a deviation. But secrets have a way of coming out, especially within a small community.
Two telepathic sisters are kidnapped and tortured, forced to reveal the names of other children who share their ability. David flees with his younger sister Petra and another girl named Rosalind. They have nowhere to go but the Fringes. And in the Fringes, they find out that what they have may actually be the norm in other societies.
The Chrysalids is one suspenseful science fiction novel. Think X-Men without the cheesy costumes. Now add a dash of philosophical thought on the nature of individual differences and you have one thought-provoking novel. It's gritty in the way of story lines involving paranoia, fear of the unknown and different, and religious madness are. It's a story that asks questions, which I feel are still relevant today.
Who would've thought that a sci-fi novel published in the 1955 would have groundbreaking ideas. No wonder that the 1950s was called the golden age of science fiction. It was the time when Ray Bradbury wrote Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles. It was when classic science fiction movies came out -- The Day the Earth Stood Still, It Came from Outer Space, The Fly, Invaders from Mars, and The Incredible Shrinking Man, just to name a few. Let's face it, novelists and film makers have been going back to this period for inspiration.
I'm glad I was able to find this book. I've been looking for The Chrysalids for the longest time ever, say, for 5 years, I think. But let me tell you, Wyndham's novel is definitely worth the long wait.
Read this book if:
- You love classic science fiction.
- You've always wanted to be a mutant.
- You have no fear of the unknown.


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When we first moved into the rental where we now live in the centre of the newer part of Tarifa, just outside the old city walls, we did what I imagine many couples do when they've been handed the keys but before they've moved any boxes – we cleaned the place from top to bottom. It didn't look dirty but there is something about going over a new home with bleach and polish, and preparing to add your own dirt, that seems to make it yours. As a woman washes a man out of her hair, so we washed the old tenants away and started afresh. An additional incentive was the smell of cat that pervaded the place.
In the garden, same. It appeared to be some kind of feline colony with all the smells and deposits that that entails. I dug it up and planted aromatics, put down chicken wire and chased off anything with four legs for months, hissing and contorting my face in an effort to convince the neighborhood cat population that it wasn't worth bothering with our garden anymore. I really went to town, procuring a pump action water gun and sprinkling the place with coffee grounds and lemon peel, as well as the more aggressive chilli powder.
The previous tenant, it became apparent from numerous conversations with the landlord, had made a refuge of the garden for the local strays, feeding them there, and in the house I bet; several of them would come boldly up to the window as if expecting to get in. I cursed her. More


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So just out out curiosity, I went and had look at exactly how many overclockers are winning awards, specifically Gold Cup awards at HWBOT using our motherboards. Let's just say the results were pretty damn impressive. In 2012, which of course isn't quite over yet, exactly 962 1st place ranking hardware submissions – i.e. Gold Cup awards - on HWBOT.org were made by from people using GIGABYTE motherboards. That's not a total submissions number, nope. That's just Gold Cup submissions! Unbelievable!
Here's the permalink so you can check it out for yourself: http://url.hwbot.org/VBtJJK
Gold Cups are awarded at HWBOT when a submission beats an existing highest score on a particular piece of hardware and a particular benchmark. Gold Cups are also league-agnostic, so Pros, enthusiasts and amateurs compete side by side.
As we move into 2013, we are seriously considering having monthly prize draws for these Gold Cup submissions that use GIGABYTE motherboards. I reckon it'd be a great way to give recognition to the hundreds of overclockers who might not be contenders for the heavyweight world records, but nonetheless, deserve recognition for their efforts. If you have any opinions on this, feel free to chime in below with comments.
Image source – Tony McCoy…. real Gold Cup legend in his own right. Not sure he can overclock hardware too well though.


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Now wait a cotton pickin' moment! When we discussed class vs role I said that although using class was a technically sufficient solution, I thought it unwise because class is used for different things, and people would complain; better to leave class for the mess it is and start with a clean sheet. Now someone has complained (Tim Berners-Lee no less), and *you* are reraising the issue, not me. So we could elect to tweak the solution we have now (although one of the reasons for using class (microformats uses it) now disappears because microformats uses class with unprefixed values) or we could reevaluate the solution to see if it was such a good idea in the first place. Either way we should be aware of the choices open to us. Sometimes when you take a wrong turning, it is easier to retrace your steps than hack through the bush to get where you wanted to go. Before you start hacking you should at least consider which you think will be quicker in the long run. Steven On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:36:18 +0100, Ben Adida <email@example.com> wrote: > I don't want to shut down discussion, but as Chair I have to make an > important point: the CLASS vs. ROLE decision is one that we already made > as a group, with many discussions and many telecons. If we want to make > progress, we need to have some deference for decisions already made > unless there is a very good reason to overturn them. So far, I'm not > seeing a good reason to overturn a decision, only a reason to bound it > (triple bloat). > > Right now, the discussion is headed in the direction of "let's put > everything back on the table." We have to be extremely wary of this > approach. It means we have to put a hold on the Primer yet again. It > means any question raised sends us back to the drawing board when a > small fix might do the trick. > > After we agreed on CLASS, I spent hours correcting this issue with other > groups (who saw my use of ROLE in an earlier Primer draft). Changing it > back would be a huge cost again. We must realize that such a change > would bear a huge cost, and for what benefit? > > To address specific points: > >> So, Using class with semantic meaning, this overload the current use >> of @class. > > It's actually not overloading: Mark has explained very well how CLASS > was meant for semantics [1], and then CSS used that as a hook for style. > CLASS is not about style, though it can be used for style. > >> So, if we use on a single page also more dialects we can have: >> >> ... class="mystile first-dialect second-dialect" ... >> >> and this is not clear also for humans and create more confusion also >> for machines. > > If we go with namespaced classes, it actually looks quite clear to me. > Seems like a matter of taste on this front. > >> It's a good idea use only "namespaced" class but if we can use a >> specific @attribute for semantic layes, this should be the best >> choice. > > New attributes should be used sparingly. HTML already has attributes and > elements that provide semantics: LINK, META, REL, REV, and CLASS. > Inventing some new attributes is causing us great pain with folks who > don't like HTML extensibility. At the very least, we should be minimal > in our approach and consider each new attribute carefully. > > -Ben > > [1] > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf/2006Dec/0018Received on Thursday, 15 February 2007 10:08:54 UTC
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Tuesday April 10, 2012 4:56 pm
Ask Andru: How can I make my iPad louder?
In today's Ask Andru column, we get a question about an issue with the iPad that we've actually experienced ourselves for years. Ever since the release of the original iPad, it's been painfully obvious that the speaker on the Apple tablet isn't exactly up to snuff. It's fine if you're somewhere quiet, but go somewhere that has any ambient noise, and all of a sudden it's a challenge to enjoy any audio-based entertainment. So, on to the submitted question:
I love my new iPad, but I wish it were louder. It seems that everything about the new iPad is high-quality, with the exception of the speaker! Is there any way I can get more volume out of this thing?
I hear you! As I said earlier, the low volume issue has been around since the very first iPad. When the iPad 2 was released, the speaker grille was larger, and many assumed that this meant that the device would be louder. Unfortunately, despite the visual cue, the iPad 2 suffered from the same issue, and the new third-generation model (see our new iPad review) seems to have the exact same speaker as its predecessor. Luckily, there are a few things you can do to alleviate the frustration.
There are a couple of things you can do. First, if you're willing to jailbreak your iPad, you can download Volume Booster 4.0 from Cydia. This is an app that lets you tweak the maximum volume that your iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch can output. However, jailbreaking is for advanced users. If that's not you, there's still hope.
There are a few accessories out there that can make it easier to hear your iPad, like this one called Volume. It snaps onto the iPad, over the speaker, and redirects the sound so that it comes straight towards you. If that sounds like it wouldn't work, you can actually test it with your hand. Play a song or video on your iPad, and cup your hand around the back of the speaker, leaving an open space between the bottom of the iPad and your palm. You'll notice an immediate difference (and hey, that solution is free!)
You can also pick up a portable Bluetooth speaker, which the iPad can send its audio feed to, but that's another gadget to carry. If you're at home, you can use the $99 Apple TV, which has AirPlay built-in. You can send audio and video to it, and use the speakers on your television or home theater system in this scenario. Oh, and don't forget about headphones as another option.
Of course, these are all add-on solutions, and none of them change the fact that the new iPad speaker isn't the best, due to the thinness of the device. Let's just hope that by the time the 2013 iPad model comes around, that Apple's figured out how to squeeze a bit more volume out of it!
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SAMPE 2013 Long Beach preview
The Society's annual convention comes home to the West Coast and homes in on future possibilities for advanced composite material and process engineering.
#cuttingtools #autoclave #boeing
In 2013, the annual Conference and Exhibition of the Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering (SAMPE, Covina, Calif.) returns to its long-time anchor show site in Long Beach, Calif. Set for the Long Beach Convention Center, May 6-9, SAMPE's U.S. show is expected to attract as many as 5,000 U.S. and international attendees, representing an unprecedented range of disciplines in the advanced materials and processes arena. SAMPE predicts that, this year, more than 400 exhibitors (see the list of exhibitors, as of April 1, below) will be on hand (more than 340 had confirmed booth space as HPC went to press), bringing with them the latest in new products, processes and services aimed at manufacturers who use advanced composite materials.
SAMPE also has assembled an extensive list of conference presenters — more than 300 — whose papers cover a broad spectrum of composites subject matter in 10 concurrent tracks, focusing on the latest applications and market developments (see "SAMPE 2013 at a glance" at the end of this artile or by clicking on its title under "Editor's Picks"). Among the many top efforts, the following are the brightest highlights.
Featured Content
Keynoters look ahead
Keynote speaker Dr. John Tracy, chief technology officer and senior VP, Engineering, Operations & Technology at The Boeing Co. (Seattle, Wash.), will present "Beyond the 787: Developing the Future of Materials and Processes That Shape Aerospace" on May 7. He will survey the aviation materials that have enabled current aircraft technology and will offer perspectives on forthcoming technology advances in structures and materials that will enable the next generation of innovations.
On May 8 Heinz Voggenreiter, director, Institute of Materials Research at the Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR, the German Aerospace Center, Cologne, Germany), in an as-yet untitled speech, will call the advanced materials community to defragment its approach to R&D. Voggenreiter hopes to encourage researchers to "crosslink" their efforts for more efficient and less cost-intensive product development.
Progressive panel discussions
SAMPE panel organizers are taking seriously their panel title, "Global Composites." SAMPE's Global Forum on May 7 will examine how technology research, development, and innovation are done in the leading laboratories and composites centers of excellence around the world. An experimental "Live-Blog In" will hyperconnect remote participants on six continents. The panel discussion will be blogged in real time, and questions for the panelists will be gathered online. Panel moderators Charles Rowe, technical director, ATI/SCRA (Columbus, S.C.), and Lennie Poveromo, director of technology development, Northrop Grumman (West Falls Church, Va.), will be joined by an international group of panelists including Takashi Ishikawa (Nagoya University and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Tokyo, Japan), Ted Brezina (Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre, U.K.), Remko Akkerman (University of Twente, The Netherlands), Murray L. Scott (CRC for Advanced Composite Structures, Port Melbourne, Australia) and Richard Degenhardt (DLR).
On May 9, moderator John Russell of the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio) and panelists Matt Scharch, also of AFRL; Jon Schuck of the Army Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md.); Mick Maher of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA, Arlington, Va.); and Neil Graf of the Office of Naval Research (Arlington, Va.) will discuss the "Manufacturing Challenges Facing the DoD." This ITAR-restricted session will consider the ongoing investments within the panelists' services and agencies and their forecasts for future U.S. Department of Defense composites manufacturing needs in both new and fielded military platforms.
SAMPE Fellow awardees
SAMPE will honor the 2013 class of SAMPE Fellows for their distinguished, lifelong contributions in the fields of materials and processes the evening of May 6 at a special Fellows Banquet at the Renaissance Hotel, two blocks from the convention center.
Since the Fellows program's inception in 1982, only 134 advanced materials experts have been so designated. The 2013 SAMPE Fellows are William Avery, Ph.D, a Boeing associate technical fellow, Boeing Advanced Structures Technology (Seattle, Wash.); Kenji Iizuka (posthumous award), the late president and owner of Iizuka Technosystems Inc. (Kyoto, Japan); Max L. Lake, president, Applied Sciences Inc. (Cedarville, Ohio); James K. Sutter, Ph.D, organic/polymer chemist, NASA Glenn Research Center (Cleveland, Ohio); and Shanying Zeng, Ph.D, Boeing technical fellow, Boeing Research and Technology (Seattle, Wash.).
For more information about the SAMPE Fellows Banquet or the SAMPE 2013 Conference and Exhibition, contact Michelle Tubb, Tel.: (626) 331-0616 x603; E-mail: email@example.com; Web site: www.sampe.org.
SAMPE 2013 Exhibitors List
3A Composites/Baltek Airex I31
3M Aerospace K13
A&P Technology M19
A.B. Carter Inc. F33
ABARIS Training Resources Inc. N13
Accudyne Engineering & Equipment Co. L27
Accutek Testing Laboratory K31
Across USA Inc. O42
Adesso Advanced Materials Wuxi Co. Ltd. R53
Aditya Birla Chemicals (Thailand) Ltd. – Epoxy Div. H41
Advanced Ceramics Manufacturing Q31
Advanced Composite Products and Technology Inc. (ACPT Inc.) I37
Advanced Composites Inc. Q30
Advanced Integration Technology K42
Agilent Technologies R40
AIP Aerospace LLC N15
Air Products and Chemicals J34
Airtech International Inc. L11
Aldila Composite Materials I43
Alpha Technologies/AVPRO R30
Altair Engineering R39
AlzChem LLC/AlzChem AG P42
American Autoclave Co. S23
American GFM Corp. I21
AMS Corehog R46
ANF Technology Ltd. O53
Apex Machine Tool Co. D45
Applied Aerospace Structures Corp. J40
Aramicore Composite Co. Ltd. D44
Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) S26
Arkema Inc. G27
ASC Process Systems L43
Assembly Guidance Systems Inc. O15
Associated Industries Inc. L26
Automated Dynamics O32
Axiom Materials Inc. R43
Barrday Composite Solutions H31
Benecor Inc. F28
BigC Dino-Lite Scopes R47
BJB Enterprises Inc. O47
Bloomer Plastics Inc. F41
Bondtech Corp. F30
Bostik Inc. O46
Breton SpA M30
Brighton Technologies Group Inc. Q50
BriskHeat Corp. O40
Burnham Composite Structures Inc. O11
BYK USA Inc. F50
C.A. Litzler Co. Inc. I18
C.R. Onsrud Inc. Q43
Callaway Carbon C43
Carestream NDT S8
Carl Zeiss Microscopy LLC Q4
CASS Polymers of Michigan Inc. E39
CCP Composites US LLC S29
Century Design Inc. G30
CGTech K40
Changzhou Sunlight Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. G31
China Hangzhou Mingda Glass Fibre Co. Ltd. G57
Chomarat North America LLC J30
Cincinnati Testing Laboratories P10
Clear Carbon and Components Inc. P53
Click Bond Inc. J23
CMS North America Inc. H27
CNC Technics Pvt. Ltd. 46
Cobham I42
Cold Jet P52
Composiflex Inc. N53
Composite Fabrics of America F43
Composite Polymer Design S38
Composites One I26
CompositesWorld/High-Performance Composites & Composites Technology S28
CompuDAS K55
Conax Technologies M54
Conductive Composites Co. R12
Controx Neuhauser F38
Cool Clean Technologies N46
Cooper-Atkins Corp. E41
Cornerstone Research Group Inc. G21
CPS Technologies Corp. R41
CTS Composites Inc. O36
Cygnet USA G33
Cytec Industries Inc. I11
Daicel (USA) Inc. H55
Dantec Dynamics Inc. H30
Dassault Systèmes E38
David H. Sutherland & Co. L35
DCM Clean-Air Products Inc. Q47
De-Comp Composites Inc D32 & D34
Dedienne Multiplasturgy Group F34
Delsen Testing Laboratories, Inc. J19
DelStar Technologies Inc. L31
DeltaTRAK Inc. H40
Despatch Industries M43
Dexmet Corporation P16
DIAB Sales Inc. N36
Diversified Machine Systems D43
DowAksa Carbon Fiber Q18
DPSS Lasers Inc. N60
Duna USA H59
Dunstone Company Inc. M22
DuPont Protection Technologies S19
E.V. Roberts L21
Eastman Machine Co. N27
EEONYX Corp. E36
Elantas PDG Inc. P31
Electroimpact Inc. M56
Element Materials Technology N43
ESI Group D47
Euro-Composites Corp. I27
Evonik K47
EXAKT Technologies Inc. O38
Exelis M13
ExOne P56
Exova OCM P19
e-Xstream Engineering LLC G42
Fabric Development P11
Ferry Industries Inc. G47
Fiber Dynamics Inc. F49
Fiberforge Corp. F22
Fiberlay C40
Fiber-Line Inc. G45
Fibrtec Inc. H53
Firehole Composites L32
FlackTek Inc. L30
Flight Safety International M39
Freeman Manufacturing & Supply Co. H21
Geiss LLC Q11
General Dynamics Armament and Technical Products J42
General Plastics Manufacturing Co. O12
Genesis Systems Group I47
German Advanced Composites Inc. M57
GFMI Aerospace and Defense F40
GKN Aerospace M26
Global Silicones Inc. N37
Globe Machine Manufacturing Co. I40
Gordon Composites Inc. S22
Graco Supply & Integrated Services J35
Granta Design E30
Grieve Industrial Ovens & Furnaces/International Thermal Systems S32
Gunnar USA Inc. K37
Hainan Zhongxin Chemical Co. Ltd. R10
Hall Composites E40
Harper International N39
Harvest Technologies Inc. Q39
Hawkeye International M1
HEATCON Composite Systems L20
Helman Tensioners Inc. L47
Henkel Corp. J13
Hexcel Corp. O5
Hi-Performance Products Inc. F46
Hirose Paper Mfg. Co. Ltd. North American Office H28
Hisco S12
HITCO Carbon Composites Inc. C38
Hollingsworth & Vose Co. S16
Horn Company K43
HOS-Technik GmbH K29
Huntsman Advanced Materials N4
HyperSizer - Collier Research R13
Hysitron D36
IKONICS Micro-Machining Solutions L40
Imperium Inc. H19
IMR Test Labs F32
InChem Corp. Q22
Innovative Composite Engineering (ICE) P5
InnoVoc Solutions S22
INOAC USA Inc. D39
Instron A44
Integrated Technologies Inc. – INTEC M38
Intertek Q51
IST - Industrial Summit Technology Corp. O37
Janicki Industries Inc. L39
JB Martin Ltd. P38
JEC Group P35
Jensen Industries Inc. R35
JPS Composite Materials I14
K.R. Anderson Inc. S20
KAMAN Composites – Vermont J21
Kaneka North America LLC L33
KNF FLEXPAK Corp. G40
KSE GmbH - Keilmann Group F29
LAP Laser LLC G34
Laser Projection Technologies Inc. (LPT) B46
Laser Technology Inc. M20
LEWCO Inc. S44
Lingol Corp. R60
Lintech International H43
LMT Onsrud LP P12
LT Machines Ltd. R34
Lucas Industries S27
Luna Q41
M.C. Gill Corp. Q15
Magellan Aerospace K59
Magestic Systems Inc. D48
Magnolia Advanced Materials Inc. N32
Magnum Venus Plastech M33
Mahr Metering Systems Corp. P47
Marathon Heater Inc. Q16
Marietta Nondestructive Testing Inc. J36
Matec Instrument Companies Inc. L28
Materials Sciences Corp. N33
Matrix Composites Inc. R21
Maverick Corp. O27
MB Superabrasives E47
McClean Anderson N21
McGill AirPressure LLC Q21
McLube Div. of McGee Industries Inc. P44
Melco Steel Inc. F39
Microtek Laboratories I54
Middleton Research I32
Miki Sangyo USA Inc. M36
Miller-Stephenson Chemical O43
MISTRAS Group Inc. R22
Mitsubishi Plastics Composites America Inc. D40
Mokon H47
Myers Engineering Inc. L53
Nabertherm G56
Nammo Composite Solutions P17
NanoSperse LLC O27
National Aerospace Supply S4
National Diamond Laboratory E31
NDT Solutions Inc. I57
NDT Systems Inc. H32
NEi Software S31
NETZSCH Instruments North America LLC E45
Newport Adhesives and Composites Inc. P34
NExT (Niles Expanded Technologies) Q33
Niles NanoFabrix LLC Q35
Nippon Graphite Fiber O14
North Coast, The Companies of O21
NUCAP Industries Inc. I52
NuSil Technology H12
OEM Press Systems Inc. I58
Olympus P21
Optitex USA S48
Owens Corning Composite Solutions BusinessC49
Oxeon Inc.R16
Pacific Coast Composites Q46
Paragon D&E K38
Park Electrochemical Corp. P43
Patz Materials & Technologies P13
PCM Innovation M53
Pinette Emidecau Industries S17
Plascore, Inc. H42
Plasma Technology Inc. E43
Plastic Metals Technologies Inc. R8
Plataine Ltd. N57
Polystrand Inc. S22
PPG Industries Semco Packaging & Application Systems S34
PQ Ovens L42
Precision Measurements & Instruments Corp. I22
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It sounds like the plot from a sci-fi movie, but it's likely that the woolly mammoth could be roaming the Earth in five years if scientists' cloning efforts go according to plan.
Using tissue from a frozen mammoth carcass in a Russian labratory, Japanese researchers hope to use new advances in cloning technology to recreate the big-tusked, pre-historic beast that has been extinct for 10,000 years.
"Preparations to realize this goal have been made," Prof. Akira Iritani, leader of the team of scientists on the project, told Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun.
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The goal is to recover the nucleus of a mammoth cell and insert it into an elephant egg from which the nucleus has been removed.
The embryo would then be placed in an elephant's womb as scientists cross their fingers and hope a healthy woolly mammoth comes out.
If everything works out as planned, Iritani said that a mammoth would be born in five to six years.
"If a cloned embryo can be created, we need to discuss, before transplanting it into the womb, how to breed [the mammoth] and whether to display it to the public," Iritani said. "After the mammoth is born, we'll examine its ecology and genes to study why the species became extinct and other factors."
In the past, recovering nuclei from frozen tissue was difficult because cold temperatures had damaged the DNA. But new technique based on the work by Teruhiko Wakyama of the Riken Center for Developmental biology looks promising.
"Now that the technical problems have been overcome, all we need is a good sample of soft tissue from a frozen mammoth," Wakayama told the London's Daily Telegraph.
Scientists continue to debate whether the woolly mammoth's fall was due to climate change at the end of the Ice Age or human hunters. Last Demeber, researchers also pitted delayed weaning of their young because of long dark winters in the arctic circle, according to MSNBC.
The project has also brought in two American elephant researchers.
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If you watched the Super Bowl you probably saw the strange BlackBerry commercial. Although I didn't know what to expect, what I saw was a bit strange. It turns out BlackBerry did that by design. CNET talked to BlackBerry Chief Marketing Officer Frank Boulben who said the commercial was purposely done that way.
We wanted to do something that breaks the conventions of the category," he said. "If you do a traditional commercial at the Super Bowl, it will fall flat."
So you show a guy with a BlackBerry that catches fire, grows elephant legs, explodes into colorful smoke, and turns a truck into a bunch of ducks? What do you think? Was the commercial effective, or just strange?


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Relativity has always been explained to me (in books I've read, etc) as a superset of newton's laws - that is; it encapsulates all of Newton's mechanics in addition to other effects (observer effect, time dilation, space-time geometry, etc).
I can kind of imagine 2 of Newton's 3 laws of motion to be incapsulated within Einstein's Special Relativity, but the one about "for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction", I'm struggling to find a place for that within Special Relativity.
Does this sit outside Special Relativity's explanatory power or is it inferred within somehow?


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BREAKING: The president knew the truth about Benghazi
BREAKING: The president knew the truth about Benghazi
By Jennifer Rubin, Published: NOVEMBER 16, 5:18 PM ET
In a blockbuster report, John Solomon, the former Associated Press and Post reporter, has ferreted out the presidents daily brief that informed him within 72 hours of the Sept. 11 attack that the Benghazi attack was a jihadist operation.
Citing officials directly familiar with the information, Solomon writes in the Washington Guardian that Obama and other administration officials were told that that the attack was likely carried out by local militia and other armed extremists sympathetic to al-Qaida in the region.
He adds:
The details from the CIA and Pentagon assessments of the killing of Ambassador Chris [Stevens] were far more specific, more detailed and more current than the unclassified talking points that UN Ambassador Susan Rice and other officials used five days after the attack to suggest to Americans that an unruly mob angry over an anti-Islamic video was to blame, officials said.
Most of the details affirming al-Qaida links were edited or excluded from the unclassified talking points used by Rice in appearances on news programs the weekend after the attack, officials confirmed Friday. Multiple agencies were involved in excising information, doing so because it revealed sources and methods, dealt with classified intercepts or involved information that was not yet fully confirmed, the officials said.
Solomon cautions that there were bits of evidence pointing to a spontaneous attack but, as Eli Lake of the Daily Beast and others have reported, he writes: Among the early evidence cited in the briefings to the president and other senior officials were intercepts showing some of the participants were known members or supporters of Ansar al-Sharia the al-Qaida-sympathizing militia in Libya and the AQIM, which is a direct affiliate of al-Qaida in northern Africa, the officials said.
How could the president and his senior staff then have allowed (or rather, sent) Rice to go out to tell an entirely different tale to the American people on Sept. 16 on five TV shows?
This report indicates that the president certainly knew that Benghazi wasnt a rogue movie review gone bad. He had information that plainly spelled out what was later confirmed by additional intelligence. If this information was too confidential to share with the public, at the very least the president and others should not have mislead voters.
This is a full-blown scandal, and in light of this information, the press corpss slothful indifference to uncovering the truth at Wednesdays news conference with Obama is all the more shocking. It is time for the president to come clean. The scandal has now enveloped the Oval Office and will define his second term, if not resolved satisfactorily.
The irony of this is that Rice may well have been used as a patsy, unaware that she was sent out to spin a misleading tale. My colleague Dana Milbank recounts Rices long-standing inability to get along with others and to be circumspect in her pronouncements:
Its true that, in her much-criticized TV performance, she was reciting talking points given to her by the intelligence agencies. But thats the trouble. Rice stuck with her points even though they had been contradicted by the president of the Libyan National Assembly, who, on CBSs Face the Nation just before Rice, said there was no doubt that the attack on Americans in Benghazi was preplanned. Rice rebutted the Libyan official, arguing falsely, it turned out that there was no evidence of such planning. . . . Obama can do better at State than Susan Rice.
Frankly the same could be said of many national security positions at this point. The American people made their choice in November on the president, but it now appears they were duped regarding the real facts concerning Benghazi. What are we going to do about that?
So now the new conspiracy theory since Rice is off the hook because Patreaus and other intel people confirmed they gave her the talking points because they didn't want to tip off anybody is that the POTUS should have tipped off the terrorists?
I am so confused
Of course he knew. duh.
Who would it "tip off"?
Obama knew, and lied.
Regardless of party, we lost the ability to have fair debate on this matter. And that is a tremendous, tremendous shame.
O'Bama told the UN the same story. Afraid to tip off other countries too?
You're kidding me right? The dig about your liberal media keeping you in the dark about this is so true.
With what Petraeus said yesterday and this report above, this absolutely had nothing to do with a video that many in his administration tried to pull off on the American people for almost 2 weeks. There is much more to this before, during, and after the event that shows much incompetence from this administration.
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SYSTEMA Switch Device Usage Guide (2007-06-04)SYSTEMA Switch Device Usage Guide
1. Process of development
The SYSTEMA Switch Device was developed for the Complete Custom approximately 6 years ago. In an OEM TM Switch, the Cut-Off Lever acts as a block to aid the switch and extracts the single cycle needed to enable the Semi-Auto function from what is normally a Constant Cycling system. From a cost standpoint this simple switch design is quite remarkable; however from the custom perspective this item lacks durability when high loads and high current is taken into consideration. Back then the Complete Custom consisted of the M155 Spring, All Helical Torque-Up Spur Gear Set, 12V / 2400mAh Battery; which was considered High-Spec at that time. In particular, the battery that was used had a capacity that was much greater than standard in Semi-Auto fire (as stated earlier regarding the weakness of the switch) sparks on the terminal caused frequent melting and subsequent failure. To solve this dilemma we developed the SYSTEMA Switch Device. With this extremely simple design our FET was able to control the flow of current down to 1/1000 of the batteries full capability, which made it able to utilize high capacity batteries.
2. Version
The evolution of the Switch Device has been inherited with the Systema Personal Training Weapons. The principal objective of the PTW design was to accomplish the discharge mechanism of semi-automatic fire via Electronic Control; which was our FET Switch Circuit. Furthermore, for the PTW the problem of dealing with an even smaller space through the use of a micro switch was tackled. It is through the switch device that completely satisfies the condition of a low current control circuit. There are three versions for the PTW series as well as three versions (I~III) for the SYSTEMA type for a total of Six Types of the Switch Device. Thus this point I would like to explain ourmainstream types of the SYSTEMA Switch Device Version II and Version III currently used most frequently.
3. Electric Current Circuit
Prior to explaining points of caution we would like to give a basic explanation. The Switch Device is aSwitch Circuit utilizing an FET.
When a strong spring, large-capacity battery and a high torque motor (that consumes a large amount ofelectricity) are put together it is obvious that a very large amount of electric current cycles through the AEG.
In order for this large amount of Electric Current to be controlled, an FET with a lot of capacity is needed.
However, it goes without saying that the safest way to maintain this system is to not have the load itself moret han necessary. In order to lighten the burden going through the FET we would like to list the elements that have control over that factor.
Defined more specifically as the Main Spring (the Tappet Plate Spring also has a great influence inLoad). However tension (of the spring) does not singly define load. First please confirm whether thespring is set straight and is not bent. Particularly in a high tensioned spring there is a tendency where thespring will want to bend. In the event that the spring is bentit causes an unusual amount of resistancebetween the piston and the spring thus not only decreasing the muzzle velocity but also resulting in ahigher than normal amount of current usage.
After choosing the spring, always select a gear set that can easily handle that amount of torque. If the selection is done incorrectly the rise in the electric current will damage the Device. As a safety marginal ways remember to select a slower ratio Gear Set.
Our Magnum Motor has a unique characteristic of both high level of Torque while at the same time use alow level of Electric Current. Although it is noted as a Torque Type motor if the voltage is the same asthe Turbo Version Motor we can claim that it possesses the ability to cycle much faster than any othercompany?s motor. Please give our motor a try with a High Rate Spring.
Although it may not be regarded as very important, however the following points are matters that would require attention at the time of assembly.
Please confirm as while doing the procedures.
If the setting is not done correctly, the Motor will not be set in the correct position, furthermore anunnecessary amount of electricity is used and in the worst case the motor as well as the fuse will blowout. Please refer to the TM Assembly and Disassembly guide while taking care in these procedures.
Depending on the situation, the Motor Cord insulation could be damaged easily. When this insulation film is damaged a short will occur which will cause a large amount of current toflow through the circuit. Attention is necessary in handling without putting too much reliance in the fuse.
4. Word of Caution: Be wary of overconfidence
As stated above, the possibility of the AEG opens up with the Switch Device;however it is not to say thatthere are no problems with the item. Firstly, what should be controlled is the current necessary to cycle, as itshould never exceed the permissible capacity of the FET to prevent premature failure (of the FET). Furthermore, the symptom of damage would be that even when the trigger is released the cycling does notstop. The particular weak point in the Switch Device is that the circuit board itself requires an amount of thepower supply. Once the Device is damaged, until the Battery is disconnected the AEG will continue todischarge; it goes without saying that the a high risk of danger is prevalent.
To prevent such an occurrence from happening we would like to introduce a few guidelines. As stated earlierwe set up our FET with a substantial safety margin, however there are situations that surpass that value.
Examples of causes are listed as below.
In a battery with a low capacity the AEG makes the attempt to supplement functionality by increasing thecurrent discharge. On that occasion the electric discharge amount spikes beyond the prescribed level thusdamaging the Device. When this situation is repeated, thus continuing to place a high load, heat isproduced thus worsening the situation. Similarly to a real firearm, a heated barrel with continual use is aproblem. Firing over 1000 rounds in continuation with an M150 Spring is asking for trouble. It is ourbusiness to constantly strive to lift limitations, however in certain situations we are not able defy the lawsof physics.
5. Regarding our Future Developments
As mentioned above, AEG tuning today is based heavily on how efficiently one can improve on the electriccomponents, this has been a very important goal in our development. We can say that the problem is to find abalance between the discharge ability based on the Spring tension, Output Efficiency from the Motor (and it?scorresponding slowdown mechanism), and the source of the Kinetic Energy which is the Battery and it?selectric discharge characteristics. Conversely, presently we were able to confirm the potential limits. Forexample, with what is considered to be the standard in Mecha Box design TM?s box is designed to handle ourHelical Gear Set which has the greatest slowdown gear ratio (to accommodate very high torque); beyond thatwould be physically impossible. In addition, the motor output is also very close to its limits.
The use of a magnet that surpasses the magnetic force fromwhat we adopted in our motor (Neodymium) would have physical limits that would lower many expectations. It is these barriers that we face that giveusthe challenge. The higher the goals and the harder the challenge we are inspired to develop even betterproducts. I am convinced that you will see the fruit of our results in the near future.
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The Philippines continue to struggle with the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan.
Hundreds are confirmed dead and the death toll in just one city is expected to reach 10,000. Thousands are missing, especially in areas that are inaccessible to the outside world.
But some locals have been able to get into some of the hardest hit areas. Kevin Vacca and his wife live on Cebu Island. They've been working as missionaries in the Philippines for the last 14 years. The two were among the first to arrive at a disaster area on the northern tip of Cebu.
"Some areas, there's no house standing," said Kevin Vacca. "The only thing you see [are] mattresses hanging in trees, couches out in the field where houses used to be [and] thousands of clothes just hanging on broken branches of trees. People have lost everything."
He helped clear the road, so relief supplies could get in — including about 500 pounds of rice that he was carrying. The problem, he said, is the lack of clean water.
"Most of these small towns have these little bottle water filtration family businesses. Those that have a generator are making water for people to drink. But there's no water for toilets. There's no water for hygiene. It's only water to drink, but we're thankful for that," he added.
Cirilo Cena lives in Lapu Lapu City, near a hard hit region of the Philippines. He works for a US-based company, providing online technical support. Cena said that even though he and his parents have lost the roofs of their homes, and he hasn't been able to track down a sibling, he's returned to his job — working online answering complaints from his company's American customers.
"I can't really think straight. I just came from a super typhoon. I'm not even sure if my [online] answers were right during that day. I felt like 'Wow, these people are so concerned about these emails, and they don't know that the person answering them just survived a major catashrope,'" he said.
Asked why he continued to work during the disaster, Cena said, "I have to do my best and secure my job. I have to answer these people's problems, though they're very small problems about their website. I need to make sure I still have a job."
For some survivors, fear has turned to desperation. Survivors are looting from neighbors and from shops, said Jojo Malig, Deputy News Editor at ABS-CBN News in Manila.
"They're driven by desperation. They have lost everything. They have lost their houses. They lost their belongings and aid does not reach them," he said. "The roads are closed. The airport has just reopened. And efforts are underway, but I hope [they] reach them in time."
The Philippines is vulnerable to tropical storms because it sits along the typhoon belt. In the last decade, the country has lived through eight major natural disasters, including an earthquake, landslides and a cyclone. Filipinos, Malig said, have "bounced back every time disaster hits. But many lessons have to be learned.
"Efforts were made to bring people to safer ground, but some people died inside evacuation centers, and perhaps [the] government needs to assess emergency procedures. There ought to be a more comprehensive program in regard to preparing and evacuating people out of harm's way," he said.


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PhuketThe pearl of the Andaman, Phuket fits whatever bucket you want filled. If you seek glorious beaches (the best in Thailand), then this large island is heaven with sand. If you prefer incredible sea kayak tours, great snorkeling, or deep sea diving, then you've found your dream spot. Crave a drive along harrowing cliffs or perhaps a jungle safari? You've come to the right place. Phuket hotels are filled with those who prefer the fine dining, luxury spas, and spiritual retreats of the island's west coast as well as those whose tastes swing toward the sin city town Patong. Though the 2004 tsunami had a devastating effect, the past decade or so has been one of rejuvenation for Phuket. The island is driven not only by an indomitable spirit but also by a breathtaking beauty that neither overdevelopment nor package tours can seem to dent. Below find a list of our selection of boutique and luxury Phuket hotels.
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Snuggled in an ancient valley on Phuket's western edge, The Naka is a discreet tropical hideout, with glass-built villas offering endless panoramas of the sparkling Andaman Sea.
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In the past when I have plugged in external hard-drives they would always show up on the desktop. I'm not sure if it is because of a software update or the drive itself but it's no longer showing up.
The drive is working because if I go to Finder I can access the drive.
How can I change the settings so that drives show up on the desktop when they are plugged in?
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MONDAY, Nov. 5, 2012 (HealthDay News) -- A hoped-for effect of fish oil supplements in preventing an irregular heartbeat that often follows heart surgery did not materialize in a major new trial.
Fish oil capsules with omega-3 fatty acids given in the days before and after surgery failed to stop the post-op onset of atrial fibrillation, a heart arrhythmia that can raise patients' odds for stroke.
The international trial of more than 1,500 patients "is important to provide a definitive answer that [fish oil] does not reduce atrial fibrillation in that setting," said study lead author Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian, an associate professor of medicine at the Harvard School of Public Health, in Boston.
His team presented the findings Monday in Los Angeles at the annual meeting of the American Heart Association. They are also being published simultaneously online Nov. 5 in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
The omega-3 fatty acids found in fish oil have become popular supplements due to their supposed beneficial effect on health. According to preventive cardiologist Dr. Suzanne Steinbaum at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City, the omega-3 in fish oil has also "been associated with anti-arrhythmic effects," helping to keep the heart's rhythm regular.
"About one in three patients do have atrial fibrillation after undergoing cardiac surgery, which often results in long hospital stays," Steinbaum noted, so it was reasonable to wonder if giving patients short-term doses of fish oil might reduce their risk.
In the new study, Mozaffarian and colleagues recruited 1,516 cardiac surgery patients, average age 64, from the United States, Italy and Argentina. For between three to five days prior to their scheduled heart surgeries, the patients got either fish oil capsules or an inactive placebo, and were also given double the amount of the capsules after their surgeries -- until post-surgery hospital discharge or 10 days, whichever came first.
The fish oil seemed to have no effect on whether or not the patient developed atrial fibrillation after the surgery, the team reported. Speaking at an AHA press briefing, study co-author Dr. Roberto Marchioli stressed that this doesn't mean that omega-3 fatty acids don't help the heart more generally.
"In this setting, omega-3 fatty acids may simply not have enough power to be effective in preventing arrhythmias," said Marchioli, a cardiologist at the Consorzio Mario Negri Sud in Santa Maria Imbaro, Italy.
Another cardiologist agreed that fish oil may have its limits.
"The medical literature is becoming more suggestive that omega-3 supplements may be a somewhat helpful, safe and additive health strategy in general terms but not a definite cardio-protective treatment," said Dr. David Friedman, chief of heart failure services at North Shore-LIJ's Plainview Hospital in Plainview, N.Y.
Mozaffarian did note one silver lining from the study for patients, however.
"Fish oil is safe in this setting -- there was no evidence for increased bleeding, in fact there was a decrease in bleeding," he said. That's important, because "many surgeons now recommend that patients stop their fish oil before cardiac surgery," Mozaffarian pointed out. "This is by far the largest trial of fish oil in cardiac surgery, so our data suggests that it's safe to use your fish oil in cardiac surgery."
Mozaffarian also said that whatever power fish oil might have in influencing outcomes for very sick heart patients may be obscured by the fact that most of these patients are also taking multiple medicines, clouding the results of any short-term study.
Over the longer term, and for healthier people, omega-3s probably do have some heart-healthy benefit, Mozaffarian said.
"If you put together all of the observational studies and all of the trials, I think there's evidence that some fish or fish oil intake compared to none reduces death from heart disease," he said.
More information
Find out more about atrial fibrillation at the U.S. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.


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|Vaseline Healthy White Complete 10 Lightening & Anti Aging Lotion Review
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My Take:
Vaseline moisturizing creams are my love already, so I was excited to try this new version of Vaseline Healthy White Complete 10 Lightening & Anti Aging Lotion. I am an addict to this lotion's fragrance, especially this new lotion's moisturizing power is very good. It moisturize the skin very well and keep it soft and supple. This lotion absorbed by the skin easily and hydrates the skin for long time.
Coming to their 10 skin benefits claim:
1. Visible Skin Lightening - False, It won't removes the old stubborn Tan and it just brightens the skin when we apply.
2. Even-Tone Restoration- 60 % True, it even out and tones the skin a bit by regular use.
3. UVA&UVB Protection- Since there is no SPF still I believe it protects skin from sun rays.
4. Dark Mark Reduction - Yes it is true, my hand's dark marks got reduced.
5. Radiance Boost - Not sure, I didn't see any miracle radiance.
6. Skin Feels Firm & Tight- Yes whenever I apply this lotion I feel my hands looks younger.
7. Visibly reduces Fine Lines- Not Sure, I don't have fine lines but I hope this lotion helps to reduce fine lines.
8. Helps Skin Renewal- Yes, It will help skin renewal as it hydrates and moisturize skin very well.
9. Intense Moisturization- Yes, 100% True
10.Deep Nourishment - Yes it nourishes the skin well by regular use.
The cute Paper bag I received:
My Likes with Vaseline Healthy White Complete 10 Lightening & Anti Aging Lotion:
- Affordable and easily available.
- Good moisturizing lotion.
- Awesome floral fragrance.
- Hydrates the skin very well.
- Keeps the skin soft and supple.
- Easily absorbed by the skin.
- Travel friendly package.
- Brightens the skin.
- Reduces the dark spots by regular use.
- Goodness of Vitamin B3 and AHA helps to tone up the skin.
- I cannot say it is helping in tan removal.
Hope my review is helpful for you all,
Thanks and do share your thoughts,
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NATO in 2020: Secretary General sets out his vision
Seeking the right balance between Allies is the key to the continued success of NATO for 2020 and beyond. This can only be achieved by focusing on shared purpose, responsibility and leadership between European and North American Allies.
This is the vision for NATO 2020 that NATO's Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen presented at the seventh annual Brussels Forum of the German Marshall Fund on 23 March 2012.
Addressing more than 200 of the most influential North American and European political, corporate and intellectual leaders, Mr. Rasmussen reaffirmed NATO's undiminished relevance to world security: 'it has played a major role in guaranteeing peace in the Euro-Atlantic area for over sixty years' he recalled, 'and as our mission for Libya showed, our Alliance remains an essential source of stability in an unpredictable world. NATO is the indispensable Alliance'.
NATO is based upon a shared purpose that needs to be preserved in challenging times, despite the financial crisis and declining defence budgets. 'Every cut today will have consequences for our security tomorrow. And for what we are able to do as an Alliance ', Anders Fogh Rasmussen stressed.
Spending defence money in a smarter way, through prioritisation, specialisation and cooperation, focusing 'not just on what we cut, but on what we keep' is the backbone to the shared responsibility concept. By building on past and current operational experiences and skills, the Connected Forces Initiative will also help consolidate Allies and Partners' high interoperability level. 'In Afghanistan, American, European and partner nations have developed an outstanding ability to operate alongside each other', the Secretary General pointed out, stressing, ' We need to keep those gains'. Looking back at operations in Kosovo, Afghanistan and for Libya, he expressed confidence in Europe and North America's ability to share leadership: 'This shows how different Allies can lead dif f erent operations. And that is why I am confident that European nations can share the leadership role within the Atlantic community'.
That task can only be successful if anchored strongly in the unique security partnership network that NATO has been developing over the last years: ' By working together with our partners, we enhance our own security. We enhance the security of their regions, And of the security of the world we live in'.
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Thank you Roadster Owners
alanwwebb | 21. Mai 2013
The Model S is getting all the buzz these days, but here's another thought to make Roadster owners happy. After three years with a Roadster Sport and a month with Model S P85, I can assure you that you still drive the most fun Tesla -- faster, tighter handling, more steering feedback -- a thrilling sports car, instead of a very good, smooth, large sedan.
DarrellH | 22. Mai 2013
I completely agree JaneW. We love both of our Teslas but my daily driver is the Roadster. Definitely a great sports car!


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Nintendo has just revealed upcoming title Fire Emblem: New Mystery of the Emblem ~ The Light And Shadow Of A Hero. The game does not have a release date and no word on a Western release — it does have a trailer! So, look forward to an updated Fire Emblem title.
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Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Wacky Reference Wednesdays, No. 46
I've always liked toys, so finding a legitimate excuse to buy some is not difficult for me. They really are quite useful, though (so I tell myself). This panel and detail is from Mythos: X-Men, page 14, in which Magneto attacks a military base. Who knew gun casings were magnetic?
Also of note is my consummate ability to ignore the giant hand in each picture.
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It seens like it´s time for me to go back to childhood and buy a few too, hehehe...ReplyDelete
Nice panel!
Great use of reference! Loved the earlier SketchUp post (among others) as well.ReplyDelete
Inspiring work, man . . .
Paolo, thanks for posting the "Wacky Reference Wednesday" focused on this painting which I'm enjoying in person now since I received it a week before.ReplyDelete
I feel very lucky and proud to be its new owner since it's an awesome work of art. I can't stop to be amazed at your mastery with lightning and mood. If you add this a very fluid and dinamic storytelling and the use of "Wacky" reference, it looks like the comic comes to life, and the characters get flesh and bones.
Till I find some time to scan the HUGE piece and assemble the six pieces, I already scanned the cover of Iliad #7. Any of you interested to enjoy a jumbo image of it, you'll find it here:
I just hope that I could capture the beauty of the piece.
I posted a clearer image:ReplyDelete
I'm so glad you like the piece. Thanks for the kind words... and thanks for the post on your blog.
At last I could scan the painting! You'll find a large image here: http://tinyurl.com/daagejReplyDelete
I also included it in the section focused on you in my CAF gallery:
Since it's so large as a DPS, I had to scan it in six parts and assemble it. I tried my best to capture the originals colors, but this is all I could get. I hope this is enough for others fans to get the idea.
BTW, thanks for the signed print!
Thanks again, Ferran. Now you know why I don't paint at that size anymore... they look nice, but they're difficult to scan.ReplyDelete
Did you scan them by yourself?! I thought you shipped them to Marvel or maybe you asked a pro to do it!ReplyDelete
I'm not surprised that you painted Hulk on 8,5' x 12' sheets! ;-)
Ha! Marvel has scanned a very limited number of my pages. When they did, I tried to take them in myself and wait while they scanned. Otherwise, they seem to get damaged.ReplyDelete
They're good when it comes to regular artwork, but they have a tougher time with painted work, especially at weird sizes. I guess I like causing trouble.


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THL Map Catalog User Manual
Contributor(s): Steven Weinberger, Quentin Devers, David Germano.
THL uses a powerful system called "Geonetworks" developed by the United Nations and as deployed by the University of Virginia Library. It is specifically created to catalog spatial resources in exceptionally detailed fashion, and we are using it as essentially a map database for maps we have created, digitized, or know about (but don't have digital versions we can provide).
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- Title: the name on the map itself. When the map does not have a name, THL map catalogers assign one.
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- Type: the type of map, such as scanned paper map, custom-made digital map, or interactive map.
- THL ID: this is the id of the map in the THL map database.
- View all maps: to view a list of all the maps in the catalog, leave the search box empty and click the Search button.
- Search by title: enter one or more words or phrases to search for in the title of the map.
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Real Housewives of New Jersey star Caroline Manzo continues to promote her new book "Let Me Tell You Something..". Tonight she headed out to NYC to attend a fan book signing at the C. Wonder store, dressed in an outfit from C. Wonder. Caroline shared, "I definitely have dressed the part of 'author' in my fabulous C. Wonder outfit, but I certainly feel like one with all my gracious and loving readers!"
Along with the fans there for autographs, someone brought adorable cupcakes with mini book covers. You can see them in the gallery. What can I say? I'm a sucker for sweets. Caroline Tweeted, "Look at the adorable cupcakes @Gtowncupcake made 4 my book signing @cwonderstores! They r miniature book covers + CWonder logo – delicious!"
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My Landlord Locked Me Out: What Can I Do?
Authored By: Northwest Justice Project
Read this if you rent an apartment or house and your landlord changed the locks so that you cannot get into your place and you had no plans to move. #6316EN
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- Should I read this?
- Can my landlord legally lock me out?
- Can my landlord shut off my utilities?
- Can the landlord take my things and keep them to get me to pay rent?
- What does it mean to "abandon" the place?
- The landlord got a Writ of Restitution against me. What if I cannot get my stuff out of the apartment before my deadline?
- While I was out, my landlord took my things. He will not give them back. What can I do?
- Can the landlord sell my things?
Should I read this?
Yes, if all these are true:
You rent an apartment or house.
Your landlord changed the locks so you cannot get into your place.
You had no plans to move.
You should also get legal advice right away. If you are low-income, see contact info at the end.
Can my landlord legally lock me out?
Only if one of these is true:
It looks like you have abandoned the unit. See below.
A sheriff has executed a Writ of Restitution to evict you. See below.
The landlord cannot:
change locks
add new locks
keep you from entering the unit in any other way
This is true even if you are behind in rent, utilities, or other fees. RCW 59.18.290 .
*Call the clerk of your local Superior Court. Make sure the landlord did not file an eviction against you. If the landlord did, and you believe the landlord did not serve you, get legal help right away.
If the landlord locks you out, you can take the landlord to court. If you show the lockout was illegal, the court should order the landlord to pay you damages plus court costs. How to I Sue in Small Claims Court? has info that may help, depending on how much your claim is.
*You cannot file a Small Claims case to get a court order allowing you back into the place. You must file something different. See a lawyer.
Can my landlord shut off my utilities?
Only to make repairs. The landlord cannot shut off your utilities because you are behind in rent or to make you move. RCW 59.18.300.
*If your utilities are in the landlord's name, it is illegal for the landlord to stop paying the bills in order to get the service cut off.
You can take your landlord to court if the landlord shuts off your utilities. If you win, the judge can award you up to $100 for each day the utilities were off.
Can the landlord take my things and keep them to get me to pay rent?
No. The landlord can only take your property if you "abandon" the unit or the sheriff has executed a Writ of Restitution. There are rules about whether a landlord must store your belongings or dispose of or sell them.
What does it mean to "abandon" the place?
It means both these are true:
You stopped paying the rent.
You acted like you have moved out. Examples: You moved all your things out. You stopped sleeping there.
*It is illegal for the landlord to put in the lease that the landlord can take your property.
The landlord got a Writ of Restitution against me. What if I cannot get my stuff out of the apartment before my deadline?
The landlord under the sheriff's supervision may move your stuff out if you are not there. You can deliver a written request to the landlord for storage of your stuff no more than three days after you get the writ of restitution. Then your landlord must store your things. The landlord may also have to store your stuff if the landlord knows you have a disability that keeps you from asking the landlord to store your things.
*You generally must pay moving and storage costs to get your property back.
If you object to storage, your landlord cannot store your stuff. The landlord will usually put it on the sidewalk or parking strip. If they do not store it, your landlord and the sheriff do not have to protect your stuff from theft, weather, or other damage.
While I was out, my landlord took my things. He will not give them back. What can I do?
Write the landlord. If true, put in your letter that you
Have not abandoned the place.
Do not intend to abandon the place.
Keep a copy of the letter for your own records.
Make sure you can prove the delivery of your letter. Examples:
Take along a witness who is not a household member.
Send the letter by certified mail return receipt requested and regular mail.
If you do not get your things back after sending the letter, call the police. If you send a written demand for your things, the landlord must return them.
*The landlord can condition returning your things on you paying reasonable moving and storage costs only if the landlord legally removed your things in the first place.
You can also go to court to force the landlord to give you back your things. The judge can award you up to $500 for each day the landlord kept your things, up to $5,000.
Can the landlord sell my things?
Only if:
You abandoned your rental unit and left your things behind.
You have been evicted pursuant to a Writ of Restitution and did not give your landlord a written request to store your things. (If you objected to the landlord storing your belongings, the landlord must place your things on the nearest public property);
If the value of your stuff is more than $250, the landlord must send written notice to your last known address 30 days before the sale (RCW 59.18.312(3)). If the stuff is worth less than $250, s/he must send written notice to your last known address seven days before the sale (RCW 59.18.312(3)).
The landlord cannot condition the return of your things on the payment of rent or other anything else you may owe (except for costs of storage and moving of your belongings to storage). If the landlord earns more from the sale than you owe, s/he must hold that money for you for one year from the date of sale. You can claim the money during that time.
If the landlord sells your things, s/he may apply any money s/he makes from the sale to any rent or other costs you owe.
*If your stuff is worth two hundred fifty dollars or less, the landlord may sell or get rid of all of it except for personal papers, family pictures, and keepsakes, after only seven days' notice to you.
This publication provides general information concerning your rights and responsibilities. It is not intended as a substitute for specific legal advice.
This information is current as of April 2018.
© 2018 Northwest Justice Project — 1-888-201-1014.
(Permission for copying and distribution granted to the Alliance for Equal Justice and to individuals
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Strawberries are in season – red, ripe and delicious! You no longer have to buy the tasteless ones from far away lands.
Strawberries are very low in Saturated Fat, Cholesterol and Sodium. They are also a good source of Folate and Potassium, and a very good source of Dietary Fiber, Vitamin C and Manganese. A large portion of the calories in this food come from natural sugar, but they have less than 50 calories a serving (about 1 cup). So if you pick your own, you have all ready burned off the calories. I look at it as the good in the strawberry heavily out ways the sugar content. So eat up before they go out of season and you have to resort to tasteless ones.
I have been picking strawberries for the last several years with my little one. It has been and annual event for our family. We pick several times throughout the season and pick a few gallons each time. I simply wash the ones we are not going to eat within the next week. Dry the berries on a large towel and place them on cookie sheets with the caps removed (the green tops). I place them in the freezer until they are frozen and then quickly place them in gallon size freezer bags and return to the freezer. We eat them throughout the year in smoothies, on ice cream and on cereal.
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- A new outbreak of a SARS-like virus has recently infected dozens of people in the Middle East, and experts are concerned that it could become a wider epidemic. According to recent World Health Organization numbers, half of the people with the virus have died and some fear this new strain of illness could spread rapidly from person to person.
The lethal virus is just one topic of discussion slated for the American Society for Virology's 32nd annual meeting at Penn State's University Park campus. More than 1,200 leading microbiology and virus experts will take part in the five-day conference from July 20-24.
"Emergence of new viruses such as the new SARS-like virus has garnered much interest and media coverage, and this has enhanced public knowledge and awareness of the threat posed by these potential pathogens," said Anthony Schmitt, an associate professor of molecular virology at Penn State and co-chair of the conference.
SARS, short for severe acute respiratory syndrome, came to worldwide prominence in 2002 and 2003 after an outbreak saw 8,273 cases and 775 deaths reported in 37 countries, according to the World Health Organization. The virus spreads quickly among humans and other animals, causing a potentially fatal form of pneumonia. The SARS-like coronavirus infecting parts of the Middle East today is reminiscent of SARS in its ability to spread quickly and attack the respiratory system.
The annual meeting contains sessions on multiple aspects of virology. Leading experts from all over the country will attend to take part in workshops, poster sessions and special education presentations, along with various social events.
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