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The CEO of Bitcoin exchanger BitInstant has been arrested and charged with money laundering over allegations that he and another man sold more than $1 million in Bitcoins to buyers and sellers of drugs on the underground drug site Silk Road.
Charlie Shrem, 24, who ran BitInstant out of New York, is charged, along with Robert Faiella, with conspiracy to commit money laundering and operating an unlicensed money transmitting business, according to the complaint (.pdf), filed in the Southern District of New York. The charges come three months after the underground drug emporium was shuttered by law enforcement and its alleged founder, Ross Ulbricht, arrested.
Shrem, who was also compliance officer for BitInstant, was arrested on Sunday at New York's JFK airport, while Faiella was arrested today in Florida. In addition to the other counts, Shrem was charged with failing to file suspicious activity reports in accordance with a federal anti-money laundering law for the transactions that he allegedly helped Faiella facilitate through BitInstant.
Shrem, a well-known figure in the Bitcoin community, is also the co-owner of a bar in New York called EVR, that takes Bitcoin payments and is co-chairman of the Bitcoin Foundation, which promotes Bitcoin as a currency.
Shrem is also known for having engraved the private key for one of his Bitcoin stashes on a ring that his jeweler father made.
According to court documents, from December 2011 until October 2013 when Silk Road was seized by federal agents, Faiella, 52, operated a Bitcoin exchange on the Silk Road site that allowed drug buyers and sellers to anonymously exchange cash for Bitcoins – the only currency used on the Silk Road site to buy drugs and other paraphernalia marketed through the site.
Faiella, operating under the user name BTCking, allegedly obtained Bitcoins through BitInstant, then sold them at a profit to Silk Road users.
Authorities assert that Shrem knew about Faiella's activities and even personally processed his orders, giving Faiella a discount on high-volume trades of Bitcoins that he purchased for Silk Road buyers. Shrem also availed himself of Silk Road's drug services, according to court documents, though he is not charged with buying drugs.
In late 2012 when BitInstant stopped accepting cash payments for Bitcoins, Faiella halted his own exchange business on the Silk Road site, but resumed it in April 2013, continuing to exchange tens of thousands of Bitcoins a week for Silk Road users until the site was closed.
In the meantime, BitInstant closed in July 2013, citing plans to revamp the business, but never re-opened.
Even as Bitcoin is making its way into mainstream use – with prominent venture capitalists and even U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke endorsing it in theory – Bitcoin remains controversial and a focus of law enforcement interest because of its popularity among criminals who prize its anonymity and ease-of-use for illegal transactions.
Authorities gathered evidence for the case against Shrem and Faiella in part by obtaining access, via a search warrant, to email accounts that Shrem used for BitInstant. In March 2013, authorities also gained access to the email account used by a company that processed the cash payments for BitInstant.
The cash processor isn't identified in the complaint against Shrem and Faiella, but it's believed to be Tcash Ads, Inc, which was charged last March with operating an unlicensed money services business.
To purchase Bitcoins for use on Silk Road, Faiella submitted orders to BitInstant specifying the number of Bitcoins he wanted to purchase and provided an email address. A third company, which handled the cash transactions, replied with an email instructing where to deposit the cash. The latter included a handling fee attached to it that was designed to help the company identify each transaction to the proper purchaser.
For example, one handling fee might be .32 cents, another would be .45 cents. Customers would be told to pay $200.32 or $200.45, with no customer being given the same handling fee on the same day so that the company could deposit the Bitcoins into the proper anonymous account.
Customers would then deposit the cash in person at the specified local bank, directing the money to a bank account owned by the cash-processing firm. Once the cash deposit was verified, the Bitcoins were transferred to the customer's Bitcoin account of choice.
In email accounts for the cash processing firm, authorities found about 3,000 transactions that they believe belonged to Faiella. All of them involved correspondence with safe-mail accounts they believe were used by him, including firstname.lastname@example.com.
Faiella promised in an advertisement for his service that Bitcoins would be deposited so fast that they would likely be in the buyer's Bitcoin account before they returned from the bank.
According to BitInstant's web site, its customers were limited to depositing $1,000 in cash a day.
The company informed customers on its web site that "[W]e are simply not allowed by law to handle extremely large amounts of money for a single user without conducting a lot of background checks and having paperwork on file. VERY large transactions would even require us to file notices for the use of law enforcement in tracking money laundering or other criminal activity . . . "
Despite these caveats, authorities say that Faeilla violated the terms of service by exceeding the daily limit, and Shrem failed to file any reports of suspicious activity.
Shrem and Faiella began doing business directly in December 2011, when Shrem contacted Faiella about an order he had submitted, court documents show. One of the deposits for Bitcoin had been made with a check instead of cash. When Shrem contacted Faiella and realized he was responsible for a number of orders BitInstant was receiving and further realized Faeilla was reselling Bitcoins on Silk Road, he sent Faeilla an email banning him from using BitInstant, and copied the cash processor on the email.
Faiella, concerned that BitInstant planned to keep $4,000 he had already deposited to purchase Bitcoins, threatened to contact the feds to report BitInstant. Shrem wrote back threatening to report Faiella for operating an unlicensed money exchange on Silk Road.
But authorities say Shrem then contacted Faiella privately and instructed him in how he could continue to use BitInstant surreptitiously. Although Faiella's email address was banned from being used to conduct transactions at BitInstant, Shrem told him to simply use a different email address to secretly bypass the ban.

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Abbreviation for Bruton tyrosine kinase.
BTKA gene on chromosome Xq21.33-q22 that encodes a protein which plays a central role in B-cell development, differentiation and signalling. Binding of antigens to the B-cell antigen receptor (BCR) triggers signalling that leads to B-cell activation.
Molecular pathology
Defects of BTK cause X-linked agammaglobulinaemia (OMIM:300755), as well as X-linked hypogammaglobulinaemia and isolated growth hormone deficiency (OMIM:307200).
Bruton's agammaglobulinemia tyrosine kinase (Btk)
An enzyme vital for the maturation of B cells.
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The Masonry Gallery extension is a grid based gallery which adapts to the screen size dynamically. The gallery supports images with different sizes and aspect ratios. Basically, Masonry optimizes the use of space inside the web page by reducing any unnecessary gaps.
Masonry Gallery can be used in responsive layouts (with breakpoints) or inside a layout grid for full width/flexible layouts.
Breakpoints can be added to adjust the column count for different screen sizes. Clicking on one of the images will trigger a lightbox slideshow.
Another cool feature is the ability to control the position and size of the caption for each image individually. This make it possible to position each caption in a way that works best for each image.
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Sometimes the best meals are really a result of some improvisation and unexpectedness. Take these pumpkins, for instance. Here I thought I was well and truly done with pumpkin recipes for this season, but when I came across some irresistibly cute pumpkins at my local farmer's markets I just couldn't resist getting some. Now I have some five kilos of pumpkin to use up. I think I might just have to cook and purée some of it and stack in the freezer for later use.
I'm so glad I did end up getting those pumpkins, as this dish is certainly one of my favourite ways to use them. This certainly is the simplest of meals to prepare, but then again, often those are the tastiest and the most satisfying as well. I love the combination of textures and flavours in this dish - the pan fried pumpkin holds it shape and has a bit of a bite to it, and the crunchy nutty seeds and the softness of the egg all complement each other perfectly.
Pumpkin with pepitas and egg
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400g pumpkin, cut up in small cubes
1 sprig fresh rosemary, leaves picked
1 tablespoon olive oil
pinch of salt
1/4 cup pepitas, toasted
2 free-range eggs, hard boiled
1. Heat one tablespoon of olive oil in a medium sized frying pan. Add the rosemary and the cubed pumpkin and cook until the pumpkin is just tender, but holding its shape. You can add some water (a tablespoon or two) on to the pan if it looks like the pumpkin is starting to burn. Season with a pinch of salt and place on a large platter.
2. Toast the pepitas on a dry frying pan until crispy. Be careful not to let them burn.
3. Peel the hard-boiled eggs and grate them with a medium or fine grater.
4. Sprinkle the pepitas on top the pumpkin and finish the dish off with the grated eggs. Serve immediately.


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Full Steam Ahead: Reflections on the Impact of the First Steamboat on the Ohio River, 1811–2011, recently released by the IHS Press, celebrates the epic voyage of the steamboat New Orleans, which departed Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in October 1811. Onboard were Captain Nicholas Roosevelt, his crew, and his pregnant wife, their toddler, and a young maid. The New Orleans steamed to Louisville, Kentucky, and then back up to Cincinnati, Ohio, astounding the passengers it had taken onboard—for it was the first steamboat capable of traveling upriver as well as down.
The New Orleans's voyage ushered in commerce, hastened immigration, and engendered town building within the Ohio–Mississippi River basin, transforming it from a raw frontier to an economic and social powerhouse.
Edited by Rita Kohn and published with the generous support of the Rivers Institue at Hanover College, Full Steam Ahead is a book of essays on the development of steamboats, Ohio River cities, and river transportation. Written for the general reader by individuals who have been engaged in a variety of river occupations, it is part of a larger project to explore ways the voyage of the New Orleans impacted the United States.
Kohn served as coordinator of the National Endowment for the Humanities-Six States Humanities Councils award-winning Always A River: The Ohio River and the American Experience (1986-1992). She is editor for the University Press of Kentucky Ohio River Series; her books have been published by Indiana University Press, Scarecrow, McFarland, Garland, and Children's presses, among others. She is senior writer for NUVO Newsweekly.
The paperback book costs $19.95 and is available from the IHS History Market.


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I spend a significant amount of time talking and working with advisors of various sorts and most of them have a decent working knowledge of the retirement income literature and have a good sense of what the advantages and disadvantages of the various approaches are. In short, they generally know what ought to be done in most situations.
Yet they struggle with recalcitrant clients and prospects and how to handle them. For example, their clients and prospects resist annuitized floors. They don't delay Social Security.
From a practical standpoint, this problem is made worse because there is almost always a competitor who is willing to say (for example) that a 7% withdrawal rate is no problem or that the prospective retirees don't really have to work longer and wait to retire or that an assumed retirement portfolio return of 9% is no big deal.
In a more perfect world, good advisors would simply tell the truth as they understand it and leave these clients, prospects and those who take advantage of them to their own devices. And I frequently tell advisors just that. But that is asking a tremendous amount from a business standpoint, especially in the current economy. Indeed, advisors sometimes tell me that I don't offer "real world" thinking.
The long-range answer to this type of problem ought surely to be more professional barriers to entry, more educational requirements and a better regulatory system—in short, better advisors. But unless and until that goal is brought to fruition, I have been wondering what suggestions I could offer to caring and competent advisors struggling both for business and to remain ethical in the current environment, to help with their recalcitrant clients and prospects when they face this type of situation.
So I asked for help from some of the best people I know who deal regularly with this type of problem.
Michael Kitces, financial planner and director of research for Pinnacle Advisory Group, headquartered in Columbia, Md., emphasized that too often the planner is trying to foist the planner's desires, goals and strategies onto the clients, without really hearing and listening to the client's concerns. We may be pushing a guaranteed income approach when the client fully understands the risks yet reasonably chooses a more probabilistic approach to providing retirement income. Therefore, we should listen more and better as a matter of routine practice.
As Mr. Kitces puts it, we "need to get out of our own heads and jargon and really listen to what clients want and to put the issues into terms and context they can understand (and if we find it doesn't resonate with them, realize it might actually be our problem, not their problem)."
Even so, the perceived client problem is often real. Dana Anspach, founder of Sensible Money, in Scottsdale, Ariz., makes the important point that a unit of consumption today makes me far happier than a unit of consumption 20 years from now and happier still if I fear that I will not be around in 20 years to enjoy it. Thus I may not only be failing to listen carefully to clients; I may be making too much of the problem too.
That possibility was reinforced by Meir Statman, the Glenn Klimek Professor of Finance at the Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University, who wondered if perhaps the recalcitrant prospects have other resources unknown to the advisor. Even so, while many studies support the idea that advisors often are given less than the full picture of their financial situation by clients, portfolio failures happen often enough that I highly doubt that "other money" is routinely at the root of the problem.
However, Professor Statman and Wade Pfau, who is about to join the faculty of the American College as a professor of retirement income in its new Ph.D. program in Financial Services and Retirement Planning, both noted the possibility that investors intuitively recognize that they are (and are willing to be) pretty good at modulating their spending by circumstances as the need arises and to do so well before they run out of money.
Trying to impose or even recommend strict limits on people who already have demonstrated reasonable self-control and the ability to consider the future is difficult business. Indeed, consistent with the active listening proposed by Mr. Kitces, having substantial assets is itself good evidence that they possess such qualities and we should perhaps give more respect and credence to their views even when they disagree with our own.
Sometimes it helps simply to address the issues head-on. Mr. Kitces has had success by providing clients with materials that reveal that the competitor's statements are false. For example, he routinely pulls out a chart he uses for safe withdrawal rate presentations and draws a line at 7% or 9% or 6% or whatever the clients say they heard), and "the number of times where the bars don't reach the line make it crystal clear it's a dangerous strategy." For him, the most difficult situations are those where client greed is at the forefront of the alleged concern.
"A lot of people are desperate for return, and are willing to fool themselves regardless of facts and data to believe that the next guy really can get them 7%/10%/12% 'guaranteed and safe' returns."
The greed problem highlights the issue of dealing with client emotions generally. The Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Zweig pointed me to research by Ellen Peters and Paul Slovic showing that in order to make people understand the implications of the research and supporting data, we need to give the arithmetic an emotional charge.
Thus instead of simply showing them the numerical consequences of a 7% withdrawal rate, we should "use some red ink, legends or other visual elements to load the results with aversive emotion," as Mr. Zweig put it. Of course, he added that our own recommendations will elicit responses too and we need to be prepared to depict them as well.
As Mr. Zweig emphasized, we are all social animals. It is natural and inevitable for most people to measure their success and status against their peers, and advisors are people, too. Yet the advisor who loses business to the competitor proposing an unrealistic approach and envies him "has already lost the battle. [Warren] Buffett likes to say that companies get the shareholders they deserve. Ultimately, every advisor has to be reconciled to the perennial truth that you get the clients you deserve."
Surely the best advisors will need to listen more carefully, to provide excellent advice and recommendations based upon the most thoughtful research, and to make their points in a way that resonates with clients both intellectually and emotionally. That's far easier said than done, of course. Long-term financial and retirement planning is difficult business. As Ms. Anspach sagely added, "It is hard to plan for something when you don't want it to happen." Indeed it is.
Bob Seawright is chief investment and information officer for Madison Avenue Securities in San Diego.


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Spider-Man Noir is far and away the most unique of the experiences. Set in 1930, this universe has an obvious noir feel to it. Most notable is that Spider-Man Noir needs to attack from the shadows, ala Batman in Arkham Asylum. Head to head battles will get Spidey killed quickly, so quick attacks from the darkness are the order of the day. More than any of the other modes, the feel of the world and combat style breaks up the game drastically and provides a stealth option as a welcome change.
Another strong point of Shattered Dimensions are the boss battles. Many of the stages play as an extended chase sequence throughout the level in pursuit of a famous Spider-Man villain who is in possession of a piece of the tablet. The boss battles are much more interesting than your standard beatem up fare and have a grand scope to them. Its not God of War, but to be fair, what is? The battles are varied in the manner in which to attack the boss and creative in the set and level design. The developers obviously put a great deal of effort into making the entire experience a good one and the boss battles are a place where that really shines.
The cel-shaded graphics work well for the comic book vibe and present a great visual style. Each of the different dimensions is represented by adding its own flavor to the world, with Spider-Man Noir and Spider-Man 2099 being the most varied. In particular, I found the noir world to be such a drastic change in both setting and gameplay that I especially looked forward to playing those levels, despite the frustrations of not being able to fight enemies head-on.
Completing the hat trick, along with gameplay and graphics, is superb voice acting. Each of the Spider-Man versions have their own unique voice actor, with none other than Neil Patrick Harris voicing the Amazing Spider-Man, Christopher Barnes voicing Spider-Man Noir (Barnes voices Spider-Man in the 1994 Fox animated series), Dan Gilvezan as Spider-Man 2099 (Gilvezan voiced Spidey in 1980s cartoon), and Josh Keaton as Ultimate Spider-Man (Keaton currently voices the cartoon running on the CW network). Needless to say, the cast is full of familiar voices. In addition, the dialogue is genuinely funny and full of good quips, an essential part of the character. All four versions manage to feel unique due to their respective voice actors, yet similar in personality despite their different circumstances.
For those looking for a multiplayer experience, thats the biggest letdown, as Shattered Dimensions doesnt offer multiplayer support. If no multiplayer is a deal breaker, youre going to miss out on what is the best Spider-Man game Ive played. An all star voice acting cast, varied combat and stealth, a fun story, great graphics, and challenges built into an extensive skill tree system gives Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions a lot of replayability. For comic book fans, this one is a no brainer. But for those that arent traditionally a fan of these games, this may be worth checking out anyway. It may change your mind.
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Guidance for the Description of Animal Research in Scientific Publications (2011)Institute for Laboratory Animal Research
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The publication of research articles involving animal studies, central to many disciplines in science and biomedicine, should include adequate and specific information to enable other researchers to interpret, evaluate, and reproduce a reported study. Considerable variation in the amount of information required by scientific publications and reported by authors undermines this basic scientific need; insufficient information does not facilitate systematic reviews of animal studies and may result in the unnecessary use of animals, funding, and other resources in failed efforts to interpret and reproduce study results.
To address these concerns, the National Research Council's Institute for Laboratory Animal Research (ILAR) appointed a committee of experts to provide guidance for journal editors, authors, and reviewers, who have a role to play in promoting the publication of adequate descriptions. This report includes clear explanations, examples, and supporting references for the effective reporting of all major components of animal research, including aspects of animal care and use that can affect research outcomes. The report includes sections on aquatic species.
Key Messages
- Journal editors have a role to play in promoting effective and ethical animal research by publishing sufficient information to enable readers to effectively interpret and evaluate research findings and advance scientific understanding.
- The ability to interpret, evaluate, and reproduce laboratory animal research and testing is a reasonable minimum standard for assessing effective reporting in research articles. Journal editors can substantially contribute to the achievement of this standard by articulating clear policies and criteria for their authors and reviewers.
- Lack of sufficient experimental procedural detail about animal studies in the research literature has both scientific and ethical implications. Inadequate information (1) limits the ability to confirm and build on research findings and to perform systematic reviews, (2) can lead to unnecessary use of animals in studies that fail to reproduce the reported result, and (3) may mask problems in the quality of the design and conduct of animal studies.
- The foregoing impacts may give rise to questions about experimental methods and the overall quality of the studies and thus erode support for the utility—and necessity—of laboratory animal research for informing human health treatments.
- Useful journal policies will define requirements for accurate descriptions of the research animal as an experimental test system, the critical elements of the research animal environment, and animal care and use practices that can affect research results.
- To encourage detailed reporting of animal studies, journal editors may consider providing links on their websites to this report and/or other resources and checklists; publishing procedural details and data, after review, in an online appendix or database; accepting articles that cite previous peer-reviewed publications that convey appropriate details and provide specific descriptions only of changes relevant to the newly reported experiment.


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You've been directed here after trying to visit myTBI.com.
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Public speaking: two words which can chill the blood of otherwise brave and enterprising people.
But however you feel about standing up in front of a group and talking, the ability to do so in a cogent, informative and persuasive way is a skill of huge value in your career. That's exactly why more and more employers ask applicants to give a short PowerPoint presentation as part of their recruitment process.
And if the whole thing makes you cringe, the good news is that it's natural to be nervous before giving a presentation. Your audience will be aware of that, and they won't be expecting Simon Singh (he already has a job). And once you understand the basic principles, you won't go too far wrong. So what are the golden rules?
Have a clear structure
Make sure your presentation has a beginning, a middle and an end. The beginning should introduce the subject of the presentation clearly, and the end should drive home your conclusions.
Keep it simple
In a job interview, there may well be non-specialists in the subject of your presentation, so be wary of technical language, and gloss any acronyms. Also, don't overcrowd your slides. More than 30 words per slide is too much, so go back and edit your ideas.
Master the technology
Make sure any glitches are ironed out with a thorough practice run. Spelling or grammatical errors are also taboo.
Stay on time
If they ask for a 15-minute presentation, make sure your presentation lasts no longer. Your aim should be to leave them wanting more.
Keep it personal
They want to feel you are talking to them, so look them in the eye, use friendly, relaxed body language, and whatever you do, don't read out a script.
Use humour, but not too much
The odd quip is great, but bear in mind that they're looking for an informative presentation, not stand-up comedy. Don't make jokes against yourself. Comments like "sorry if this is boring!" or "are you still awake at the back?" are unprofessional and embarrassing.
Pace yourself
Your audience may well have a question-and-answer session, or indeed a whole interview planned for after the presentation, so make sure you have some energy in reserve.
End on a high note
Don't just fade away. Even a slide saying "Thank you" is better than nothing.
These are simple rules, but the art of presentations is hard to master. So practice, practice, practice – in front of a friend if possible – and each presentation you give will be better than the last.
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In November 2009, the US Department of Energy (DOE) awarded a $45 million grant to back the Clemson University Restoration Institute's proposal to invest $98 million in a wind turbine drive train test facility for 5-15MW machines. The remaining $53 million investment comes from non-wind industry players, including two private citizens, who put up $500,000 and $25,000.
"It's a public facility open to all customers, without alignment to any turbine manufacturer," says Peter Hull, spokesman for Clemson University.
Cener's role is as adviser on the technical advisory board, together with the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). The board includes turbine manufacturers including Vestas, Gamesa, Siemens, Nordex, Repower, Suzlon and GE Energy.
"Our job is to validate the test facility's design," explains Pablo Ayesa, one of the two Cener technicians on the 12-member board. The other is Gurutz Urzelai manager of Cener's Laboratorio de Ensayo de Aerogeneradores.
Both will draw on Lea's experience of building and validating its own large facility. Even so, the dimensions of the Clemson site are a challenge. The 15MW test rig will bear weights of up to 300 tonnes. "That's more than a fully loaded Boeing 787 aircraft," points out Hull.
Reflecting the scale of the equipment involved, the facility will occupy a former navy storage building of 7,643 square metres on the edge of Charleston Harbour.
For the first five years of operation, the only shareholders will be the university and DOE. Until then, the main private financer, German construction and engineering firm Renk AG, will act as non-shareholding partner, though benefitting from contracts to build and supply the new centre.


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We have two strong reasons to argue that Einstein\'s theory of general relativity may be incomplete. First, given that it cannot be expressed within a consistent quantum field theory there is reason to expect higher energy corrections. Second, the observation that we are undergoing a current epoch of accelerated expansion might indicate that our understanding of gravity breaks down at the largest scales.
A generic result of modified gravity is the creation of a new degree of freedom within the gravitational sector. This new degree of freedom then generically connects local physics to cosmological dynamics.
I will present the results of studying two modified theories of gravity emphasizing how they bridge the gap between local and cosmological physics. First I will discuss work I have done on f(R) modified gravity theories, delineating under what conditions these theories deviate strongly from general relativity. Using these results I will talk about some recent work on attempting to detect a characteristic signature of these theories from gravitational lensing. Second I will discuss recent results on ways we may test Chern-Simons gravity (a result of the low energy effective string action) in the Solar System. Chern-Simons gravity has been identified as a candidate for leptogenesis as well as a source for circularly polarized gravitational-waves from inflation.
As I will discuss, constraints to Chern-Simons gravity may improve in the near future with further observations of double pulsar systems.


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Ginevra, daughter of the King of Scotland, is betrothed to Ariodante. Polinesso, a jealous rival of Ariodante, wins the confidence of Ginevra's friend Dalinda. With Dalinda's unwitting help, Polinesso tricks Ariodante into thinking that Ginevra is his (Polinesso's) lover.
The King, hearing of Ginevra's alleged infidelity, disowns her, while Ariodante is reported dead by suicide. Polinesso then sends his agents to kill Dalinda, as the only witness to his plot. But Ariodante (whose suicide attempt was foiled), having met Dalinda while wandering in the woods, drives off the would-be assassins.
Polinesso, seeking to win the King's favour, now offers to defend the honour of Ginevra in a tournament. In the combat, he is mortally wounded by Ariodante's vengeful brother Lurcanio. Ariodante, having learned about Polinesso's plot from Dalinda, now appears and offers himself as Ginevra's champion. The dying Polinesso confesses his guilt and Ginevra is pardoned by the King.


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Queen Victoria tweets!
Charlotte Frost, a great friend to Two Teens in the Time of Austen ever since the publication of her excellent biography Sir William Knighton: The Strange Career of a Regency Physician, has alerted readers to the most wonderful news any "subject" could hear about in a Jubilee year: The Royal Archives have digitalized Queen Victoria's journals!
**Access the journals via their homepage: Queen Victoria's Journals**
What do you get when you visit? "In total 141 volumes of her journal survive, numbering 43,765 pages. They have never before been published in their entirety and have hitherto only been accessible to scholars by appointment…"
Here is Victoria's sketch of the singer Mademoiselle Grisi, 1834.
Sketches have their own search & see page – and just looking at all of this young girl's work, over the years, gives a genuine thrill for those of us studying "naive" art in the 19th century. Her children's portraits are sheer delight.
Marina Warner has written about Queen Victoria Sketching, and included comments about early lessons with Richard Westall, RA.
I LOVE that you even have choices to see Victoria's "originals", or later transcriptions and typescripts.
So why have I headed this blog post "Queen Victoria tweets"? In a statement, the Palace announced not only this digitization project, but also two other "projects":
- Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee Scrapbook
- "Over the Diamond Jubilee period, the Twitter account @QueenVictoriaRI will tweet selected excerpts from Queen Victoria's Journals, illustrated by links to photographs, paintings and original documents. This account will run from 24th May until 7th June"
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NOTE OF LIMITED-TIME OFFER: except in the UK, access to Queen Victoria's journals have an expiry date! Visit before July 1st… Those that giveth, also taketh away.
UPDATED: hurrah – but hurry: access has been extended to 31 July 2012 due to "the very positive response".


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or "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIFile.remove]"
It seems that Fx 20 changed the way permissions are applied when creating new directories. I am researching the problem but until I find a permanent solution you need to set the permissions manually.
Windows 7 (other Windows versions may differ slightly)
- Using Windows Explorer, navigate to your FEBE backup destination folder (as listed in FEBE Options > Where to backup > Backup destination directory).
- Right-click on the folder name and select Properties > Security. Under Group or usernames you should have at least four entries. The first one should be "Everyone".
- Highlite that item and make sure "Full control" is checked. If not, click "Edit" and change it so it is checked. You may want to do this for each user (just in case).
Ubuntu and other *nix users (including Apple)
- Open a shell prompt
- cd to your backup destination folder (as listed in FEBE Options > Where to backup > Backup destination directory).
- chmod 777 on that directory and any containing sub-directories. You may need to chmod the parent folder also.
This is something that should have to be done only once. If the problem continues, please let me know.
One quick way to ignore the problem is to set FEBE Options > Where to backup > Maximum backup directories to keep to zero. If you need the space later, you can just manually delete the older backup directories.


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The right-wing Family Research Council — which uses its advocacy muscle to try to block comprehensive sexual health programs in public schools — is now going a step further, suggesting the young Americans who have premarital sex should be punished because they don't deserve the right to engage in sexual intercourse.
According to senior FRC fellow Pat Fagan, the Supreme Court's "first assault on marriage" was a 1972 case that overturned a state law banning unmarried people from purchasing birth control. Fagan claims that court decision effectively sanctioned premarital sex, "brushing aside thousands and thousands of years of wisdom, tradition, [and] culture." Appearing on a radio show with Tony Perkins, the head of the organization, Fagan asserted that "society never gave young people that right," and instead has an obligation to stop, punish, and shame that type of sexual behavior:
FAGAN: The court decided that single people have the right to contraceptives. What's that got to do with marriage? Everything, because what the Supreme Court essentially said is single people have the right to engage in sexual intercourse. Well, societies have always forbidden that, there were laws against it. [...]In fact, a full 80 percent of unmarried evangelical Christians report that they are having sex. Despite the emphasis on abstinence within the evangelical community — a misguided approach to sexuality that typically shames young adults about their bodies, ignores the existence of the LGBT community, and fails to equip adolescents with the resources they need to effectively manage their sexual health — it's clear that premarital sex is the norm, not something that threatens the very fabric of modern society.
It's not the contraception, everybody thinks it's about contraception, but what this court case said was young people have the right to engage in sex outside of marriage. Society never gave young people that right, functioning societies don't do that, they stop it, they punish it, they corral people, they shame people, they do whatever. The institution for the expression of sexuality is marriage and all societies always shepherded young people there, what the Supreme Court said was forget that shepherding, you can't block that, that's not to be done.
And ignoring the reality that teens are having sex has had serious consequences across the country. The states that push ineffective abstinence-only health classes have higher rates of teen pregnancy, higher rates of STDs, and higher concentrations of HIV infections. Even the evangelical community itself has started to realize that denying teens sexual health resources isn't working, and has begun to move in the direction of supporting contraception and sex education.
The United States' teen birth rate has actually recently plunged to a record low — but that wouldn't be the case if Fagan had his way and unmarried Americans were denied access to birth control. According to the Guttmacher Institute, that decline in unintended teen pregnancies is "almost exclusively" the result of more young people using contraception.
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Imhotep's Guide To Black Events Jan 30 - Feb 5
Imhotep Gary Byrd | 1/31/2014, 12:48 p.m.
Greetings! As we move into our GBE Black History/African Heritage Month with the extra cold winter season, the 2014 Grammy Awards turned up the heat this past weekend in a star-studded broadcast that featured Jay Z, Beyoncé, Stevie Wonder, Pharrell Williams and many more.
The National Black Touring Circuit's 2014 Black History Month Play Festival will host poetic, musical and theatrical performances in Harlem that will celebrate acclaimed poet Amiri Baraka, legendary singer Billie Holiday, the Great Divas of Gospel and Ossie Davis' renowned play "The People of Clarendon County" from Feb. 7 to March 2.
"Dr. Du Bois and Miss Ovington," written by Clare Coss and presented by the New Federal Theatre in association with the Castillo Theatre, is playing now through Feb.16, Thursdays-Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and Saturdays-Sundays at 2 p.m. The Castillo Theatre is located at 543 W. 42 St. For more information, call 212-941-1234 or visit www.castillo.org.
"The Kitchen," a thrilling drama presented by the H.A.D.L.E.Y. Players in association with Voza Rivers' New Heritage Theatre Group, is now playing at the Poet's Den, 309 E. 108th St. in East Harlem. For more information and tickets, call 646-502-6562 or visit hadleyplayers.org.
"Bob Marley's Three Little Birds," a jammin' musical featuring the timeless music and lyrics of Marley and based on the children's book by his daughter Cedella, will be running from Feb.7-Feb. 23 at the New Victory Theater, located at 229 W. 42nd St. For tickets and information, visit newvictory.org.
"Motown: The Musical," with book by Berry Gordy Jr. and featuring Felicia Boswell as Diana Ross, Tony nominee Charl Brown as Smokey Robinson and Brandon Dixon as Berry Gordy, is now playing at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, 205 W. 46th St. (between Eighth Avenue and Broadway). For tickets, visit ticketmaster.com or motownthemusical.com.
"After Midnight" celebrates the glamour and exuberance of Harlem's Golden Age, with the timeless songs of Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway and Harold Arlen woven around the prose of Langston Hughes. The production stars Grammy Award winner Fantasia and Emmy Award nominee Dulé Hill ("The West Wing"). The music was selected by the Jazz at Lincoln Center All-Stars.
"Platanos, Collard Greens & Callaloo"—that's right, "Callaloo!" This remix brings Caribbean flava in the house. Now playing at Baruch Performing Arts Center, 55 Lexington Ave. (enter on 25th Street between Lexington and Third avenues). For tickets, call TheaterMania at 212-352-3101, visit theatermania.com or visit plantanosandcollardgreens.com.
"Friday Night in Harlem," an event saluting gospel and swing jazz, will take place at the Apollo Theater on Friday, Jan. 31 at 7 p.m.The event will also celebrate the 2014 N.Y./N.J. Super Bowl and Black History Month and will pay tribute to jazz legend Duke Ellington with featured performances by the Manhattan School of Music Swing Jazz Orchestra and jazz masters Cecil Bridgewater and Arturo O' Farrill.
The tribute will also feature award-winning vocalist Regina Belle, Lalah Hathaway and an all-star band that will include the brilliant jazz musicians Alex Bugnon, Victor Bailey and Lenny White. The Whitney Houston Award will be presented to legend Valerie Simpson, who will be joined onstage by Harlem's First Corinthian Baptist Church Mass Choir. For tickets and information, call 800-745-3000 or visit www.ticketmaster.com.


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With two of three keynotes (Strategy Keynote and Technical Keynote) accomplished and nearly the first day of general sessions accomplished, there are a few early observations that can be made regarding JavaOne 2012.
It feels like I've read more blog posts on JavaOne this year than in the previous two years. There seems to be a lot of early enthusiasm and that may be explainable to the high note that JavaOne 2011 ended on.Prevalence of Twitter and Tweets
I have Twitter up with JavaOne as the search criteria and am seeing tens or even hundreds of Tweets coming across during any single JavaOne presentation, some about the very presentation I am attending at that time! Twitter seems as popular as ever at this year's edition of JavaOne.
As in the 2010 and 2011 editions of JavaOne, Wifi continues to be poor at JavaOne. This is a little surprising given the number of Tweets and blogs, but some people are probably using their own mobile devices' 3G or 4G capabilities for this. I have once again been happy to have my Verizon Broadband to use for blogging-on-the-fly. UPDATE: A good point made since I originally wrote this post is that the spotty Wifi makes it difficult to see one's schedule without printed schedules.The Year of REST
Multiple tweets have alluded to this being a big year for presentations on REST.iOS Conspiracy?
I had not noticed, but Noah White (@noah_white) has tweeted, "Interesting that all the JavaFX2 iOS related sessions today were cancelled." Hmmm.Emphasis on Community Involvement
We haven't even had the Community Keynote yet (that's Thursday morning), but I have heard numerous requests for community and developer feedback in the Strategy Keynote, in the Technical Keynote, and in other presentations. It is clear that the teams working on Java's future (such as JDK 8, Project Lambda, NetBeans, etc.) want feedback from the community and the developers on what is working, what is not working, and what would be helpful.Three More Days to Go!
I've only attended the keynotes and all of the sessions I attended today were in the Hilton. I'm looking forward to diversifying my session topics a little more the rest of this week and probably seeing the outdoors a little more as I hopefully travel a little more between buildings. I'm hoping to learn a lot more again tomorrow as I'm going to attend some sessions on topics with which I have very little familiarity.The photograph in this post was taken in Muir Woods National Monument shortly before the beginning of JavaOne 2012.


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An English Research Paper Tests Your Language Skills
An English research paper needless to say, is an important part of academic essay writing. Almost all students who study in this language, that is, if their mode of communication is in English, right from school level have written essays in this language. The basic English essays for the primary level will comprise of writing an essay on my best friend or my favourite book or my favourite animal and other similar topics. However as one moves from the primary level to the middle level and then onto the high school classes, thewriting topics will change accordingly. In the higher classes the instructor will give him to write different kinds of essays on various literary topics studied in the class. He may be asked write a critical essay on some famous drama or novel, or an analytical essay on some poem or any other literary work.


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Every year Codemaster's F1 games get better. If F1 2010 was the spark that started it all, then 2011 was definitely the vroom after the ignition. But with F1 2012 have we finally got moving? Or are we still doomed to a stall and an 8th place finish? The short answer is no. This is without doubt the finest in the series.
Likening it to the our first experiences with the iPhone 5, the first encounter feels like meeting an old friend. The difference is that he has been on a diet and come back faster, fitter and sharper than ever.
F1 2012 does so many little things to improve upon the gameplay of the last title that, at first glance, it's hard to notice. A few races in, and you start to realise just how complex and finely tuned the handling engine of the game has become. Take things all the way to the end of a season and it feels there might have just been a moment when you experienced what it was like to really drive an F1 car.
Of course even getting to this point requires you to master the fairly fiendish difficulty of F1 2012. We found ourselves gradually turning off more and more driver aids as things went on, each time the play getting more rewarding, yet harder, at the same time.
Codmasters has introduced a new driver introduction, which you have to play through before you can start your career. It gives you a good idea of what is required to drive cars in the game and stops you from being thrust into competition too head on - literally.
Once through, though, F1 2012 is the most finely tuned Formula One game we have ever played. Everything from the KERS and DRS systems to the pit stops, random tyre blow-outs and little changes in handling when you run a back wheel off the track, feels well put together.
F1 2012 is now unpredictable. Your pit stop might go wrong, your tyres might pack in, you can even, in theory, run out of fuel, depending on your strategy. It makes for much more eventful races, both for you and other computer players. The increased mechanical dangers and changes that mistakes, such as running off the track, bring to handling make it is easier to lose and gain places.
We found ourselves doing a lot more overtaking. This became especially rewarding when you successfully pull-off a difficult manoeuvre, because now the risks involved are so much greater.
The AI also seems a lot more wise to some of your more brash moves and will get out the way. On the flip side we witnessed some seriously impressive overtakes and not once did any race feel like it was particularly on rails.
Weather looks as impressive as ever and the rain makes for some very tough racing. The new tracks are also a nice touch, and it felt quite special racing Circuit of the Americas before the real drivers did it for real.
Single player
Normally we would put together a story section here to discuss what sort of tale is to be told in a game. Problem is that there isn't really one in F1 2012, short of your playing out your own F1 season.
Instead let's have a look at the modes on offer while you're not connected to the internet. There is a grand prix mode which lets you do either single races or create a series of races in which to compete. You can choose whether to do practice, qualifying and a race or just to go straight for racing.
Then there is a career mode, which is basically you exploring the driving life of your character. Starting off at the smaller teams, you work your way to the bigger teams, like Ferrari and McLaren.
Gone is the team trailer found in F1 2011 - which we think is a shame, because we really liked it. Instead is a much simpler UI where you can access things such as email, calendar and standings. Once you do start a race, there is a bit more to choose from in terms of car customisation. Quick set-up options as well as tyre strategy and even challenges against your team mate are all selected in the garage before a race.
Then there is champions mode, which is a first for the series and rather fun. It pits the top six drivers in the world right now against each other. Think of it a bit like a boss fight at the end of a game. So you take on Kimi Raikkonen at Spa for example, where you know he is best. All other racers are on old tyres but you are on fresh ones. Problem is, you need to overtake the whole pack to beat Kimi.
Things like this definitely add a bit of fun to what can be quite a sim-heavy game. They also show what can be done with the driving mechanics when you race on the absolute edge and make for a very rewarding victory if you pull them off.
Finally there is something called "season challenge", which basically asks you to win before a season is over by dominating every single race.
Another decent overhaul has been given to the game's multiplayer. There are now both split-screen and online elements. The former is incredibly entertaining if you are up against someone of a similar skill level and it reminded us what fun can be had playing friends in the same room rather than in a lonely online environment.
When you do hit the internet though, things are much better. While we didn't get a huge chance to play many people online - because the game isn't out yet - we at least got an idea. There were 16 human players and another eight AI racers in order to make up the full 24. Naturally, the issue of everyone crashing like mad is still there, but Codemasters' ghost system stops total idiots from ruining others' races, and it works well.
This is definitely the best F1 game Codemasters has put together. In fact, its probably the best F1 game we have ever played. There is a lot to get stuck in to and more than enough to satisfy even the most hardcore of F1 fans.
It might not have the triple-A polish of some of the racing franchise gargantuas, but then F1 is not as easy to market. If you want a challenging, reward, accurate and innovative racing experience, then F1 2012 is without doubt the game to go for.


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The thaw in relations between Lindsay Lohan and her big-mouthed papa seems to be over.
Hours after word came out that Michael Lohan will appear on "Celebrity Rehab" for anger management, his comeback-minded daughter said she wishes he would keep a lower profile. The pair have fought for years, but in recent months had been seen together.
"I am sorry that my father has continually chosen to speak publicly about our relationship, my mother, my siblings, and my professional team," Lindsay Lohan told Radaronline. "I am working through my recovery day-by-day and find his public media bouts unnecessary and damaging."
U.S. & World
Lindsay Lohan is due in court next Thursday to answer to charges she stole a $5,000 necklace days after checking out of court-ordered rehab. Michael Lohan has been outspoken about trying to bring his broken family together and get his 24-year-old daughter back on track. But given his history or recording and then leaking phone conversations and showing up uninvited at functions involving his daughter, the actress seems to be dreading his next foray into the D-list limelight.
Lohan remains on probation for a 2007 drunken driving case. She was sent to rehab by a Beverly Hills judge after she violated probation for a DUI and tested positive for alcohol. The actress, who also starred in "The Parent Trap" and "Freaky Friday," was first busted May 26, 2007, when she drove a Mercedes-Benz into a hedge along Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles.Two months later, she was arrested again in Santa Monica on suspicion of DUI and possession of cocaine.
She agreed to plead no contest and was sentenced to a day in jail and three years' probation. That term was extended by a year for not completing alcohol-education classes on schedule.
In July, she missed a required probation hearing before Beverly Hills Superior Court Judge Marsha Revel, saying her passport was stolen while she was at the Cannes Film Festival, and the judge sentenced her to 90 days in jail. She spent 13 days behind bars before being released again. As part of her sentence, she was ordered to rehab.
Selected Reading: Radaronline, IMDb, Celebrity Rehab.


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|An EU Armada off the coast of Gibraltar?
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Breaking news:
BREXIT THREAT: Spain will 'take control of Gibraltar as soon as Britain leaves EU'
SPANISH officials have sent a chilling warning to Britain after claiming they will take Gibraltar the day after Britain potentially exits the European Union.
The country's Foreign Minister said his country will poach the British outpost "the very next day" but the comments have been condemned in the UK.
The big question is now, whether there will be an EU Armada off the coast of Gibraltar to secure the expected Spanish conquest of Gibraltar after Brexit? Members of the club are required to give a helping hand, should there be a need. We certainly live in exciting times ....


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Discover some of the best food around when you try any of these local restaurants in Dubuque! We asked members of the TAG team in the Dubuque office what some of their favorite places to grab a bite are. Check them out and let us know what you think!
Web developer, Andrew Haas, is a big fan of Lot One.
"You can find a great craft beer selection and the best tacos in town at Lot One."
This laid back watering hole has pub style food and a fantastic, casual atmosphere. And the Reubens are amazing—actually, everything's great!
If you're looking for a great breakfast place, check out Lot One's Sunday Funday menu. Every Sunday they're cooking up some of the best omelets and pancakes in the area! There's something on the menu for everyone at Lot One.
We can't start our day without our morning coffee. For Kathleen Herber, Vice President of the Tri-State market, that means making a trip to Rubix.
"Rubix has great coffee, welcoming staff and a great atmosphere. You can't beat it!"
The key to the excellent coffee is their locally grown coffee beans. The menu also includes delicious food and fantastic organic juices as well. You haven't lived until you've tried their bacon chicken mac and cheese flatbread. If you're looking for quick, delicious and diverse offerings, Rubix is your place!
We love L.May Eatery for the creative options, atmosphere and cocktails! From brick oven fired pizzas to amazing entrées that are changed seasonally, you literally can't go wrong here! Better yet, they use locally grown ingredients and they have THE best sangria and martinis around. And the appetizer menu is fantastic, hands down best bruschetta in town!
You literally just can't go wrong at L. May!
The Copper Kettle is a great place to relax with friends and family and enjoy great food and craft beers. The easygoing, lively bar & grill is a great spot for sports fans too, with multiple TVs. The service at Copper Kettle is fantastic and unparalleled.
From fresh salads and burgers to scotch eggs and white truffle parmesan fries, the eclectic menu is full of unique items. And if you haven't tried the scotch egg yet, you should!
TAG CEO, Mike Vondran has been going to the Copper Kettle since he was a child.
"It's fun to go back and have a flood of great memories every time. Besides, the food and service is outstanding."
If you haven't already, stop into the Copper Kettle, L. May Eatery, Rubix or Lot One for some of the best food around—you won't regret it! These aren't the only places that we love to frequent, but they're some of our favorites. Is there a Dubuque restaurant we should be talking about? Let us know! Join our conversation on Facebook!


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I'm slowly beginning to structure my calendar for 2010. Here the month of January is going out and I have only just begun. I have been thinking about it a while, but haven't acted upon it. I guess I just don't feel the need to become crazy about it, as I usually do. Running has become something that I do everyday, something that I am, a part of me.
When I first began running I would make sure I had a race on the calendar each month so that I would make sure that I would get out to train. I was afraid that if I didn't have a race, I wouldn't run. This proved true many times!
I love that running is now a part of me. I didn't know this would happen. It is no longer a struggle, something that I have to schedule..it just is. How wonderful.
I'm going to run the MDRA Grand Prix this year. I've always wanted to, but in the beginning it was way too much for me, too many miles, too many races and too far out of my comfort zone. Well, it isn't any more. It will be fun and I am looking forward to it. Now it is actually less than I have been racing in the recent years and I am putting it on my calendar.
I was originally planning on a few 100s. I was thinking about Zumbro, Big Horn and Leadville were my top three. Well, they aren't panning out so well. Big Horn falls during Grandmas which I am running and Leadville is scheduled during a wedding that I will be a part of. Zumbro has a few conflicts as well so I'm not holding my breath..
Amazingly I'm not uptight about it. So I won't be running what I had been thinking about..no biggie. What? Did I say that? I did and I'm fine with it.
I'd like to run the Gnarly Bandit Series, but alas, Kettle 100 is during Tyler's graduation. That's why I normally run FANS. Not this year. I'm not going to be running a race during my son's graduation weekend.
This is another reason why the MDRA Grand Prix is a go this year!
Something I am most excited about this year is the weekend of May 20-22. I have made all of my reservations for car/hotel/flight to Chicago on the 20 to watch Mary compete in her 4th Bodybuilding show in Rockford IL. Mary was 205 pounds in 2005. She joined Leanness Lifestyle and lost the fat, grew muscle and competed and WON her first show in 2006 at 50 years old, second show in 2007, third in 2008 and will be competing in 2010 for the forth time. Elizabeth will be competing in Figure for the 1st time. I'm so excited. I have been wanting to meet up with the group for five years and am finally making it a priority. This weekend falls within the Superior Spring Races, Opening Fishing and Memorial Weekend so I haven't made it. I am this time. I'll meet Coach David Greenwalt, who I've been a client of, and all of the wonderful people at Leanness Lifestyle who I've know online for so long and now will finally meet in person. I can't wait.
I'm getting into the best shape of my life. Lean and strong. I have 16 weeks before I meet these athletes in person and you can bet I am going to have a few workout sessions at the gym with them..I will be strong as I can be. I have a feeling this weekend in May will push me out of my comfort zone and allow me to spend the next few months afterward getting ready for my own show later in the year. We'll see. I know myself pretty well and can see where this is headed, I want it.
Here is my 2010 schedule as it stands of today. It may change, I may be able to throw in a few ultras, we'll see.
JAN 1 Polar Dash 10K
JAN 23 Securian Half Frozen Marathon
FEB 7 Frigid 5k
MAR 28 Human Race 8k
APR 24 Get In Gear 10k
MAY 8 New Prague Half Marathon
JUN 19 Grandma's Marathon
JULY 3 Afton 50K
JUL 24 Boston Scientific Heart of Summer 5k NEW
AUG 1 Hennepin Lake 10k
AUG 28 Rochester Holiday Inn Half Marathon
SEP 6 Victory 10k
SEP 12 City of Lakes 25k
OCT 3 Twin Cities Marathon
Sunday, January 31, 2010
2010 Calendar
Labels: Leanness Lifestyle, Muscle, Race Schedule
3 comments:
- SteveQ said...
The roads will make a nice new challenge for you. Many of those races fill fast, so get your entries in early.
BTW, the word verification is "SWEAT" How appropriate!
- Danni said...
Hey, you could come be part of the first ever Swan Crest 100 in beautiful NW Montana :-)
It's the last weekend of July. It will be awesome.
- mj said...
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MIDDLEBURG, Fla. – A 14-year-old boy from Palatka died Tuesday after falling 50 feet from a tree.
Clay County deputies said Blake Bryant was working with acquaintances for the John Wilkes Tree Service at 10:15 a.m. Tuesday at a home in the 4200 block of Scenic Drive in Middleburg.
Bryant (pictured, right) climbed a tree on the property and was cutting off a section of the tree with a chain saw when he accidentally cut through his safety harnesses and fell to the dirt ground below, deputies said.
Bryant was flown from a landing zone at Omega Park off County Road 218 to UF Health Jacksonville, where he pronounced dead at 12:10 p.m. Efforts were made at the hospital to save his life, but the internal injuries caused by the fall proved to be fatal, deputies said.
The teen's family has been notified.
Officials from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the Department of Labor were notified by the Clay County Sheriff's Office, and they sent officials to the scene to conduct their own investigations.
Clay County detectives were told the teen was assisting on this one project but does not normally work for the company. The teen's parents with friend with the tree service's owner.
Jerry Brown lives next door to where the accident happened and says he saw Blake Bryant working up on this tall tree helping take it down. He thought that Bryant was around 18-years-old, but was shocked to find out he was only 14 .
"OSHA was telling me he's 14 years old. Are you kidding me? I've got twin boys in the army, and he's only 14 years old, I think if you're going to get trained to do a job you better damn well get trained to do it right," Brown said.
Even though investigators with the Clay County Sheriff's Office say Bryant accidentally cut through his safety harness with his chainsaw and fell, Brown isn't so sure. He says it appears the way the tree fell it snapped the safety harness.
"I got a cup of coffee and by the time I come back the kid's laying on the ground, blood everywhere. Arm's snapped," he said. "He got up on his knees. He was delusional. He died at the hospital."
Now questions will be asked of the employer John Wilkes Tree Service of Palatka. Wilkes' wife did not want to go on camera but said that her husband is "devastated" and that Blake "doesnt' work for Johnny" it was that "Johnny pretty much took him under his wing," he "wanted to make sure he didn't wind up on the street"
Neighbors say Bryant lived in a mobile home with his uncle. They say everyone's in shock and saddened by the boy's death.
"Unfortunately it's very sad. He's a boy. Hate the way that it happened. What do you do?" Belinda VandeVander said.
The investigation is ongoing.


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From The Ground Up
Glasgow AAU Wrestling Trains Tomorrow's Grapplers
Glasgow AAU wrestling is back on the mat for another year with coach Jory Casterline leading some feisty newcomers and veteran youngsters who look learn and sharpen their wrestling skills in a town rich with wrestling tradition.
The program takes kids as young as 4 all the way up to high school ages although Casterline says that the high school aged kids won't usually participate until the bigger tournaments later in the season.
Casterline says the turnout every year for the AAU program isn't a surprise to him.
"That's a testament to wrestling in our community," Casterline said. "We're seeing some lineage come through now. To start seeing those names come back through [the program] that's huge."
Casterline is adamant when he speaks about how the techniques learned on the mat can translate to any other sport.
"Your wrestling stance, is your basketball stance, your baseball stance and your football stance," Casterline said. "Everything you do in wrestling will prepare you for any sport."
The program raises its own funds for its wrestlers to participate in tournaments and even has its own bus to travel to tournaments out of town.
The fundraising the club relies on evolves around two events that take place annually.
The first event is a raffle in which tickets are sold to members of the community to win prizes provided by local businesses.
"The local businesses help us out tremendously," Casterline said. "We couldn't do it without the support of the local businesses."
The second event is just as important and has its own cult following. The spaghetti feed and pie auction.
Casterline said that the date for this year's feed hasn't been set yet, but says the turnout is always big.
"The people that show up to that function are the parents and members of the community that have supported us for years," Casterline said.
Casterline explained that in past events, the pie auction will see pies going for as much as a couple hundred dollars.
All for a good cause.
Casterline was born and raised in Glasgow and is entering his fifth year as coach of the AAU program.
Before coming back to Glasgow, he spent time in the Billings area coaching at Shepherd/Laurel.
Besides coaching for the AAU program here in Glasgow, Casterline is also the Greco Roman chairman for the state of Montana and an AAU board member for Montana as well
"Once you're involved in wrestling, you tend to give back," Casterline said.
With a huge variety of ages and learning levels in his program, Casterline says that the values he expects each individual wrestler to learn while on his mat remain the same.
"I want each kid to learn the importance of accountability and hard work," Casterline said. "This isn't a glamorous sport and these kids come down here and work their butts off."
Even with the final day of signups taking place this past Monday, Casterline will never turn away a kid who wants to learn to wrestle.
"A kid moves to town and he wants to wrestle, I don't tell him 'you have to come next year'," Casterline said. "I'll bring a kid in right away. That's how you build a program."
The AAU program meets three times a week on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays at East Side School. Wrestlers in the third grade and younger practice from 5:30-6:30 p.m. and wrestlers in the fourth grade and above practice from 6:30-8 p.m.
For more information on what is required to sign your kid up, contact Jory Casterline at 228-8341 or stop by East Side School on one of the practice nights.


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WASHINGTON, DC — During the current economic recession, spending in many areas of the fitness industry remains on hold, but not necessarily for the military. In an effort to update aging facilities across most branches of the military and improve the quality of life for soldiers, the U.S. government has been investing substantial amounts of money into facility construction and sustainment.
"For the fourth year in a row, the fiscal year (FY) 2010 funding provided by Congress represented a significant increase from historical funding levels. In 2010, over $2.7 billion in funding will provide facilities that address long-standing requirements at our bases and stations," Carlton Kent, sergeant major of the Marine Corps, testified on April 14 before a House Subcommittee on Military Construction, Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies.
Kent said his branch's FY2011 budget request includes $2.8 billion to support Marines by upgrading facilities, including quality of life buildings, such as fitness centers.
What prompted the government to update these military facilities? Prolonged wars and tours of duty have made soldier quality of life issues important for retention. And having physically fit troops is essential to any mission, says Lisa Sexauer, fitness, sports and deployed forces commander, Navy Installations Command Fleet and Family Readiness.
"Fitness is a high visibility program area, and each of the services makes it mission essential," she says.
In 2009, the Department of Defense (DOD) and the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) allocated additional funds to support fitness center and sports center renovation projects, says Sexauer, adding that the Navy received $20.5 million for such projects.
"OSD is hoping again to invest some in the future," Sexauer says. "They funnel funds to services and did studies to show the fitness infrastructure needs work."
A few years ago, OSD developed a funding model to determine how much money was needed to sustain military facilities, Kent told the subcommittee.
"This model continues to be refined and strengthened," he testified. "Since inception of the model, and because of the funding standards put in place by OSD, we have done very well in programming and execution of sustainment."
Such initiatives enabled the Air Force to fund 44 fitness center projects totaling $447 million over the past 10 years. Those projects included add-ons to existing centers and replacing old and undersized facilities, Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force James Roy told the Congressional subcommittee.
In addition to modernizing fitness facilities, the military also is updating its thinking about fitness programming and equipment. Duty roles for soldiers today are different now compared to those performed even a generation ago, says Pat Paul, government sales manager at Star Trac, Irvine, CA.
"Warfare is different than it was 20 years ago," he says. "They're getting individuals more prepared for real life situations in combat. They've got individuals that can bench press but not carry a body. The activities are different. Their missions are a lot different."
Paul notes that this change in thinking is apparent in the military's equipment purchases, which are trending more toward functional training equipment, such as kettlebells and pull-up bars, than traditional treadmills and strength equipment.
Paul also says that fitness equipment manufacturers are hiring and training more sales reps to reach the government and education markets, based on future growth potential.
Military representatives say it's hard to predict what's ahead in the 2011 budget, however.
"Quite frankly, we do not know what guidance we're going to receive about the FY11 budget in general, much less how it will impact individual program areas," says William Bradner, deputy public affairs officer for the Army's Family and MWR Command (FMWRC). "Fortunately, FMWRC has recently upgraded all its fitness equipment through an enterprise buy program… but we haven't even begun to submit business cases and proposed budgets for the next year."
Sexauer also is cautious about predicting future budget allocations.
"Right now, we're not even able to predict if the Navy will continue to spend on fitness," she says. "I think cutbacks are being felt everywhere, and we are no exception. The Navy is going to feel the pinch in the coming year, and we're going to have to accommodate a shrinking budget."
So whether military spending will continue at current levels for fitness-related programs and facilities remains to be seen. But the military is increasingly aware of the effects the obesity epidemic has on the fitness levels of its new recruits, so a continued focus on physical training will only improve soldiers' abilities to perform their duties.


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Nokia Siemens Networks has pointed out close similarities between its marketing material and Huawei's.
"Rarely does a competitor turn out to be your biggest fan. But that's the only conclusion that can be drawn from the ringing endorsement of how we market our consulting by Chinese company Huawei," says a Nokia Siemens Networks blog post.
The post compares headlines, text, layout, themes and phrases from Huawei's 2012 brochure on telecom consulting services, "Achieving Business Success" (PDF), which looks an awful lot like Nokia Siemens Networks' 2011 brochure "Achieving your business objectives" (PDF).
Nokia Siemens Networks thinks it has caught Huawei out.
"Of course it's not the first time our enthusiastic competitors have paid us the ultimate compliment," the post says. "It was November 2011 that a rather familiar slide popped up in a Huawei presentation, (we think it's been seen a few times) using copyrighted content generated in our Smart Labs in Finland," the blog adds, referring to a slide featuring signalling traffic generated by Angry Birds.
A Huawei spokesman told The Register the company was "aware of the matter and it was being looked into internally." ®


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Checking In On… the WACPosted by Brian Goodman on February 2nd, 2012
Kevin McCarthy of Parsing The WAC and Sam Wasson of bleedCrimson.net are the RTC correspondents for the WAC. You can follow Sam on Twitter @AgsBleedCrimson.
Reader's Take
Looking Back
- Last Week's Action: Nevada stayed perfect, sweeping their Las Cruces/Ruston road trip, and sits comfortably atop the WAC standings with a two-game lead over second place New Mexico State. There's a three-way logjam in third behind the Aggies as Idaho, Hawai'i and Utah State all sit at 4-3 while surprising LA Tech is 3-4. Fresno State and San Jose State bring up the rear as the Bulldogs and Spartans both went winless last week in league play.
- Busting Brackets: Nevada and New Mexico State were pegged for two of the 13 televised BracketBuster games. The Wolf Pack will travel to take on Iona while the Aggies will host Drake on February 18.
Power Rankings
- Nevada (18-3, 7-0): The Wolf Pack head into the second half of conference play unblemished as they manhandled New Mexico State in Las Cruces in a bit of a shocker. The 68-60 final doesn't necessarily reflect the point disparity present for the majority of the game. Nevada led this one by double-digits throughout, but a late run by New Mexico State cut the lead to just five before the Wolf Pack hung on for the eight-point win. Then perhaps suffering a little bit of a letdown, the Wolf Pack escaped by a deuce in Ruston as they were pushed to the brink by the Bulldogs in escaping with a 65-63 victory. The Wolf Pack's bench delivered just two points in the win over LA Tech, a season low for any team in the WAC in terms of bench production this season. Pre-conference assessment (Why they won't win the WAC): Lack of depth. Mid-conference assessment:Thus far, their bench production (or lack thereof) has not hurt them, though they won't go through the second half unscathed if their bench has a repeat performance of their game against LA Tech.
- New Mexico State (16-7, 5-2): The big showdown was a big letdown for New Mexico State as another flat start in a big game cost the Aggies. Head coach Marvin Menzies was at loss in the postgame presser, stating, "I just don't have a good feeling about how we are playing that first half," Menzies said. "We have to come out with better execution, especially after timeouts. It's frustrating." The Aggies were pushed by Fresno State two nights later, but came away with the victory, 60-56. Pre-conference assessment (Why they won't win the WAC): The three-point line. Mid-conference assessment: Entering conference play the Aggies were sixth in three-point shooting percentage and last in three-point percentage defense. In the Aggies' two losses, they shot just 5-15 (33.3 percent) and 5-22 (22.7 percent) from distance and allowed Hawai'i and Nevada to shoot 9-17 (52.9 percent) and 7-17 (41.1 percent) respectively from three. Though their three-point defense has been fairly very good in their five conference wins, their shooting in the seven conference games is a league-low 28 percent. Read the rest of this entry »


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Glendale Community CollegeHome Menu
FAQs for Credit ESL Students
The Top 10 Most Frequently Asked Questions by ESL Students
Is the Credit ESL Placement Exam required?
Yes, a Placement Exam is required by the State of California. This exam is two and half hours in length and will determine your assessment scores in the areas of Grammar, Reading, Spelling, and Listening & Speaking. For more information, visit the Assessment/Placement Center or see your Academic Counselor.
Can I avoid taking the Placement Exam by using my transcripts or Assessment scores from another school?
No, a GCC Placement Exam is required for all students wishing to enter our program because each school is different.
What if I don't agree with the results of my placement examination?
Since the test is usually accurate in its diagnosis, your test results should place you at the right level. However, if you still disagree with the test results, you may request a challenge exam from the Assessment Center, Sierra Vista Building, 3rd Floor, Room 365, or call (818) 240-1000 extension 5329.
Which classes should I take?
After you have completed your Placement Exam, make an appointment with your counselor. If you are an F-1 Visa student, please see your International student advisor. If your native language is not English and you are not an F-1 Visa student, you may get help from EOPS.
What classes does the Credit ESL Division offer?
You may find all ESL classes offered under the Class Schedule booklet heading, "Credit English As A Second Language". You can pick up a copy at the information desk at the entrance of the Administration Building
What is the sequence of Credit ESL classes?
The first step in registering for an ESL class is completing an on-line application for admission as a Credit student. After you receive your student ID number (the waiting period is about 10 days), you may make an appointment to take the ESL Placement Exam. The placement exam will determine which ESL classes you are eligible for. At that point, you may register for classes online. When completing the online registration process, make sure you proceed to complete steps two and three and print a copy of your completed registration for your records. Please make sure that you pay any outstanding fees as you may be dropped for non-payment.
(You may complete a Financial Aid packet. Information for AB 540 Students.)
What if I am moving from Noncredit to Credit ESL?
If you were a Noncredit ESL student and you are moving to the Credit ESL Program, you must take the Credit ESL Placement exam AND complete an on-line application for the Credit Program.
Should I take a Listening/Speaking class?
If you are placed in a listening/speaking class through the ESL Placement Exam, it is strongly recommended that you take that class. Each listening/speaking class offers different learning tools such as note taking skills to help you become better equipped to participate in college-wide classes.
What if I fail a class two times and need to repeat it?
If you fail a class two times (receive a grade of D or F), you will need permission to repeat this class, and you will lose priority registration for that course. You will need to have a form signed by the Division Chair. You may be asked to successfully complete one course lower than the course you failed before permission to repeat the class is granted.
Where can I go for tutoring help?
There are ESL Instructors available for one-on-one tutoring in the ESL/Language Lab, SV 226, ext. 5398 during most open lab hours.


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The experts say it's inevitable that the Seattle area will be hit with another tsunami similar to the one from 1,000 years ago. Here's a computer-generated video of what a tsunami hitting Seattle would look like:
(video courtesy of NOAA's Center for Tsunami Research)
The animation assumes a magnitude 7.3 quake on the Seattle Fault.
Here are similar projections, based on a 9.1 quake, for Long Beach, Ocean Shores, and Bellingham, all modeled on a quake similar in size to what Japan experienced last week. (These are very big files; give them plenty of time to load. Smaller, less-detailed versions are at the NOAA link above.)