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Beach volleyball: UVA installs two new courts near Lawn
Been by UVA's Snyder Tennis Center lately? There are two new courts in the making, but they aren't tennis courts. They're volleyball courts, of the sand variety. And the coach of the women's volleyball team thinks they'll propel his program to new heights–- even when his ladies aren't leaping for a spike.
"We're big proponents of sand volleyball because of all the positive effects it will have on indoor athletes," says Head Coach Lee Maes. "It gives the varsity team a chance to cross-train."
But there's another reason for the courts, located along busy University Avenue: visibility. UVA's been fielding a team in the Olympic sport of indoor volleyball since 1979, but Coach Maes says that not everybody seems to know that.
So last spring, this coach, who was hired in 2008, received a marketing report from some students in UVA's undergraduate business school. A hitherto underutilized corner of Nameless Field was chosen, and after some "generous donations" including $40,000 just for the sand (a blend called "the Fort Myers mix"), the courts should be ready for play by this weekend, says Coach Maes. He says that lighting, audio, a scoreboard, and even an outdoor shower will be installed during the coming weeks.
"We want the community–- the students and faculty–- to use it," says Coach Maes. "If you build it, they will come." Meanwhile, his team, which suffered a losing season last year, has started the fall season with a bang by winning all three of its season-opening games–- with three more slated for this weekend in Charlottesville. All home games are played in nearby Memorial Gym on Emmet Street, the historic mid-20th century headquarters of the men's basketball team.
Left unsaid (and unasked) is what the UVA players will wear while frolicking in the sand within sight of cars and pedestrians. ESPN reports that the lithe figures and bikinis worn by female beach volleyball players have made the sport one of Olympic television's most popular spectacles. The UVA coach seems more interested in filling up Mem Gym, which has a capacity just under 1,000.
"Our goal," says Coach Maes, "is to sell out every volleyball match, and that starts with awareness."
–12:04pm update: story clarified to show that UVA fields an indoor volleyball team
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prainva... so it was donated and someone wrote the donation off their TAXES which means the govenment paid 40 cents on the dollar which means we still paid 16000 dollars for SAND.
Facts are such TIDY things sometimes.
By the way all of the rest of the "private" money is donated too.
Nobody rides for free.
The volleyball coach needs to go back to where he came from or some place else. We don't need him that's for sure!
A great use of education money, which is suppose to be short?
I remember going to volleyball games at Mem Gym in the 80s when Deb Tyson was coach. Havent been recently though.
Its a great sport, but like some of the other non-revenue and women's sports doesnt draw a lot of attention and coverage.
Also, this quote:
"ââ?¬Å?We're big proponents of sand volleyball because of all the positive effects it will have on indoor athletes," says Head coach Lee Maes. ââ?¬Å?It gives the varsity team a chance to cross-train."
But there's another reason for the courts, located along busy University Avenue: visibility. UVA's been fielding a team in this Olympic sport since 1979, but Coach Maes says that not everybody seems to know that."
makes it sounds as though U.Va. has had fielded a team in beach volleyball, which is also an Olympic sport, since 1979.
Not mud bowl but sand bowl- this looks like fun, wondering if "the community" could mean more than just UVA. And yes, I know a few spectators that will be lined up to watch more than just the ball.
@Yes, Be patient, you may get that for which you wish.
40.000 bucks just for sand... sounds like good govenment spending at its finest....
Perhaps they could have just pulled some from the beaches the county closed this week to save 20,000.
This article is useless without one of Hawes's trademark slideshows of bikini beauties.
Very old timer, READ THE ARTICLE. The $40k for the sand was DONATED (i.e., private) money. But don't let that get in the way of the the knee-jerk point you were trying to make.
Facts are such untidy things, aren't they?
Did y'all not see the words "generous donations"? What makes anyone think this is "government spending" or "education money"?
Well I guess the term "pound sand" can have a gps location on grounds.
When I was in school I used to work out in the basement of Mem Gym after class, and then run around the indoor minitrack they have above the basketball courts. Usually the volleyball team would be in their practicing at the same time...quite the scenery/motivation to help you keep running.
If the state needs to raise my taxes to make up for the 16000 dollars they gave to the guy who donated the sand how is that not my money?
My complaint is not the vollyball court, I like boobs as much as the next guy....
I just know that if a private compnany wanted to get it done they would have the entire job done for 16k.
Including the outdoor shower....
Times are tough and still they keep spending money and are now looking for the right to set tuition so they can spend more.
Where will it end?
Remember UVA gets HALF its income from PROFIT from the hospital.
So when you have your gall bladder removed you can at least be glad that some kid was able to have designer sand to play vollyball on(or puke in) because of your misfortune.
Very old timer,
You are so full of s--- your eyes are brown.
The money is NOT coming from taxes, tuition, or hospital profits. It was given to the University. Now, there may be a tax deduction involved somehow, but something tells me that people who can afford to give away $40K will probably find a way to shelter those assets anyway.
So, in your humble opinion, if the volleyball coach wanted to build a sand volleyball court, just how should he go about doing it? Isn't raising the money yourself the MOST responsible way of doing it?
I think you were just primed to take a potshot at the big ol' fatcat U, and you were going to do it, come hell or high water -- whether or not the facts supported your inclination.
It is not your money. You don't have a right to it.
Dear Chris
Did you even READ the article.. they brought up girls in bikinis.
and its only a sandbox till a local stray cat finds it.....
Should I replace the word coed with "spoiled lttle rich girls whos fathers would cringe if they knew what they did last night"?
Why are there always "generous donors" for sports arenas and sport facilities but not for the arts at UVa?
Beach Volleyball? What a ridiculous place we live in. Did someone in funding allocation get a major bump on the head?
Well as long as it will produce "all the positive effects it will have on indoor athletes" then I guess we should be forever thankful that not a penny is being wasted frivolously during this economic great depression.
Next-up: Two million dollar grant to study the effects of skin cancer on indoor athletes in thongs.
The town's stay cats will see the sand volleyball court as a litter box.
If Volleyball is getting private donations, they should be forced to share them with the wrestling program. A few years back, Wrestling received a large donation but were force to share it with Volleyball.
Can't the wrestlers wrestle in the sand? They'd be like gladiators.
you are correct. Beach wrestling is now an Olympic Sport. If you have never been to a match, they are definitely gladiators.
That's not exactly near the Lawn. It's near the Lawn insofar as it's still on Grounds but it's really near Memorial Gym or the libraries or even the Cavalier Inn.
I haven't been up there in a while but there used to be sand lot volleyball courts adjacent to a basketball court next to the new dorms on Alderman Rd. across from Slaughter Rec. They may be gone with the new construction on dorms.
Are the "generous donations" going to pay for the upkeep of this litterbox?
Or is that money going to come from panhandling coeds in bikinis holding up signs that say "will bounce for sand"
And the 40k was just for the sand... I would like to see what the entire project cost and who really paid for it.
Does anyone say "coed" anymore?
Are you actually attempting to take a moral high road on expenditures while being so completely and ridiculously sexist?
Also, clearly "sandbox" not "litterbox," sheesh.
Winter, naked beach volleyball..............can't wait! NCAA Div I here we come!
Loosing season? You're fired! No, let's try it outside in the sand...
Your reply shows me that I completely mis-read your initial post. You are obviously a fair-minded person of deep thought.
We'll see if the team improves. So far during the last 2 years the team has done worse than the previous coach's team.
cuz the arts are gay


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The Nikkor 50mm f/1.2s has the fastest lens speed among ALL manual focus lenses in the Nikkor lens family.It was the fastest standard MF lens among the FOUR 50mm Nikkor lenses, 50mm f/1.4s, 50mm f/1.8s and Series-E 50mm f/1.8s. It replaced the long serving Ai-Nikkor 55mm f/1.2 standard lens which was introduced way back in 1976.
It debuted in 1981 with a native AI-S coupling, allowing it to be used freely with all available exposure modes such as program AE and shutter priority AE found in many subsequent Nikon body offerings introduced over the years. This high speed standard Nikkor is famed for its exceptional definition and superior neutral colour rendition. Many features were revised to improve its handling and characteristics over it's predecessor, including more compact and lighter which garnered immediate acceptance. The transition from Ai to AI-S coupling was not entirely tuned for the Nikon F3, but as a core system camera during this period, it signified an important milestone in the evolution of the Nikon/Nikkor development process, where automation and MF optical excellence were simply at their very best.
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The Nikon F3was the third generation of the professional class Nikon F-series 35mm SLR camera model. Introduced in 1980, it was the successor to the original Nikon F of 1959, and the hugely successful Nikon F2 of the '70, where both the earlier models were commanding a distinctive supremacy in the professional users' market. When the F3 was first announced, the heavy automation in the camera sent cold shivers down the spine of most purist photographers. As one can still recall, the price of a discontinued fully mechanical Nikon F2AS had a retail price higher than that of a new automatic Nikon F3 during those early days of its introduction, which was Nikon's way of saying 'move on', to the photographic community !
With the creative mind of a famous Italian industrial designer, Giorgetto Giugiaro , the replacement model for the Nikon F2 has been given a fresh modern look and feel. The vertical red lining near the hand grip is now a distinctive hallmark of any modern Nikon camera, and over the years the "red line" has evolved into many forms and designs on the plethora of Nikon models that has followed.
One can now instantly recognize the unique "Nikon flavour" of all subsequent body offerings, originally adopted in the Nikon F3, making it the first camera body to depart from conventional oriental design.
<<<--- Nikon F3P Press Professional SLR Camera with MD-4 Motor Drive Unit and special DE-5 Prism Finder; due to the basic modular camera body design that enables many possibilities, it was one of the many variant Nikon F3 models produced over the years for speical applications.
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The Nikon F3AF, with its dedicated AF optics and removable AF-prism, that can also serve as an electronic range finder to provide visual focusing indication when fitted on any F3 camera (except F3P, F3H and F3 Limited where all came with a non standard DE-5 prism), moved the ball distinctively further down the evolutionary trail. The Nikon F3 series has the most variant models among all single digit professional F models. Strangely, unlike many other competing professional SLR cameras of the time, the feature that contributed to its popularity was its bare basic simple exposure mode of aperture priority AE while maintaining full manual exposure control. Most professionals never got around to turning the shutter speed dial to 'A' and used the F3 in manual mode 100% of the time. The F3 was never intended to be "the greatest thing since sliced bread", instead it was designed to shine in functionality - its strength being realized over time. Soon photographers started to appreciate the level of versatility and hence what a great camera it truly was. I think most of the credit has to be given to its creator, while I personally believe the Company had shown a lot of courage in deciding the specifications, by turning their top of the line reference professional SLR model toward full-automation (well, almost..because the F3 has a mechanical backup shutter even if the batteries failed and with a superior MD-4 Motor Drive that supports its power management). This was an important feature during the early '80, the market was still very much dominated by traditional mechanical battery free manual cameras and users. Competition was keen from rivalling brands where we saw the likes of the Canon New F-1 and Pentax LX that debuted after the Nikon F3 (and other great SLR bodies such as Contax RTS II or even the Olympuses). All of these benefited directly as well as indirectly by the decision of Nikon to stamp a mark of excellence, and thus confidence, on the electronic SLR camera for real life professional usage.
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Strangely, despite most of the rivalling labels offering richer feature sets in comparison to the F3, the F3's status was never truly challenged, even after 20 plus years of product cycle. The Nikon F3 was, and still is, very much in demand. It was the only Nikon professional F series (single digit) model that co-existed with, and survived beyond, the successor professional model Nikon F4, which was intended to replace it.
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Maryland closes ACC regular season play this week with a pair of home games, including Tuesday's contest at 8 p.m. against Virginia Tech on the ACC Network.
Watch: ACCN – Tim Brant (Play-by-Play), Cory Alexander (Analyst)
Listen: Terrapin Sports Radio Network – Johnny Holliday (Play-by-Play), Chris Knoche (Analyst), Walt Williams(Sideline); Sirius 119, XM 192
• The Terps have won four consecutive meetings over the Hokies, and hold a 31-10 all-time advantage in a series that dates back to 1925-26. Maryland is 5-2 at home in ACC play against Virginia Tech since the Hokies joined the conference in 2004-05.
• Junior Dez Wells scored 19 points and sophomore Seth Allen posted 16 points and seven assists as the Terrapins defeated Virginia Tech, 80-60, earlier this season on Feb. 1. Maryland used a 14-2 second half run to open a 17-point lead and seal the game.
• Clemson outlasted Maryland in a double overtime affair, 77-73, Sunday in the Terps' final ACC trip to Littlejohn Coliseum. Seth Allen (45) and Dez Wells (44) notched career-highs in minutes played in the game. It was Maryland's first double overtime game since Feb. 1, 2012 at Miami, and 15th in program history.
• Seth Allen led the Terps with a 20-point effort at Clemson, becoming the first player on the team to notch at least 20 points in back-to-back games this season. Dez Wells was the last Terrapin to accomplish the feat, scoring 21 and 30 points against Wake Forest and Duke, respectively, in the 2013 ACC Tournament.
• Maryland snagged 63 rebounds in the double overtime effort at Clemson Sunday — the most by the Terrapins ever in an ACC contest. It was the sixth-most rebounds in a single game in program history, and most since the Terps tallied 64 against North Texas on Dec. 23, 1998.
Clemson Outlasts Terps in Double OT
Sophomore Seth Allen scored 20 points and Evan Smotrycz added 19 as Clemson took down Maryland 77-73 in double overtime at Littlejohn Coliseum Sunday.
Allen's final basket gave the Terrapins a 71-70 lead with 1:27 to go. K.J. McDaniels then drove the lane and found a teammate open in the right corner for a 3-point basket. Smotrycz had 19 points off four 3-pointers for Maryland.
The Tigers seemed to wrap it up on Hall's 3-pointer with 19.2 seconds left in the first overtime for a 63-59 lead. But officials reviewed the shot, found his feet were on the line and changed it to a two-point goal and a 62-59 lead. That's when Smotrycz hit his fourth 3-pointer with 7.6 seconds to go and sent the game to double overtime.
Scouting Virginia Tech
The Hokies have struggled this season, accumulating a 2-14 mark in the ACC (9-19 overall). Virginia Tech has just one victory in its last 15 contests, defeating Miami on Feb. 15.They most recently lost to North Carolina by four points on March 1.
Virginia Tech is a strong rebounding team, ranking second in the conference in defensive rebounds (26.3/g). The Hokies struggle to cause turnovers, however, averaging just 3.4 steals per game.
Jarell Eddie leads the Hokies in both points (13.4/g) and rebounds (5.4/g), including an 18-point performance against the Tar Heels Saturday. Devin Wilson is second in the ACC with 4.7 assists per game, while Joey van Zegeren is fourth in blocks (50).
Maryland has defeated the Hokies in four consecutive meetings, and hold a 31-10 advantage in the all-times series.
Last Time
Maryland came away with a 20-point road victory against Virginia Tech, 80-60, earlier this season on Feb. 1. It was the Terrapins' fourth straight win over the Hokies.
The Terrapins shot 51.8 percent from the floor, as Maryland pulled away at the end of the first half on consecutive 3-pointers by Seth Allen and Jake Layman. A 14-2 second half Maryland run put the game out of reach for the Hokies.
Dez Wells led the Terps with 19 points on 6-of-9 shooting, while Allen added 16 points and seven assists.
Milestones, Feats, etc…
– Nick Faust and Dez Wells will both be playing there 100th career games Tuesday against Virginia Tech. Wells played 32 of those games at Xavier, before transferring to Maryland after his freshman season.
– It will also be the 100th game at Maryland for head coach Mark Turgeon.
– Maryland snagged a season-high 63 rebounds at Clemson Sunday, the most in an ACC game ever for the program. The mark ranks sixth in Maryland history, and is the most since the Terps had 64 against North Texas on Dec. 23, 1998.
– Seth Allen followed a 22-point performance against No. 4 Syracuse with 20 points at Clemson Sunday, becoming the first Terp to record at least 20 points in back-to-back games since Dez Wells last season. Wells posted 21 points against Wake Forest and 30 versus Duke on back-to-back days in the 2013 ACC Tournament.
Maryland Closes ACC Reg. Season Play Sunday
The Maryland men's basketball team will play its final regular season game in ACC history Sunday against No. 5 Virginia as it makes its transition into the Big Ten Conference next season.
Maryland will honor the night in a number of ways at it looks back on its time in the ACC, including a wide array of activities and giveaways. The first 12,000 fans in attendance will receive a commemorative ACC timeline poster featuring a collection of the most memorable Terrapin moments in the conference.
Pregame activities include an autograph session with past Maryland greats, photo opportunities with ACC trophies and an interactive wall that fans can sign their favorite ACC memories on.
Big Ten Announces 2014-15 Home/Away Opponents
Maryland's home and away opponents for its inaugural men's basketball season in the Big Ten Conference were announced Feb. 28.
The Terps have home dates against five teams that qualified for the NCAA Tournament in 2013: Indiana, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota and Wisconsin. Maryland will also host Nebraska, Northwestern, Penn State and Rutgers.
Maryland will play five home-and-home series, featuring Indiana, Michigan State, Nebraska, Penn State and Rutgers. It will also face Illinois, Iowa, Ohio State and Purdue on the road.


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Edward Snowden will kick off LibrePlanet 2016 in Cambridge, Massachusetts
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, USA -- Tuesday, January 26th, 2016 -- The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced that the opening keynote for LibrePlanet 2016: Fork the System, will be a conversation with National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Edward Snowden and American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Technologist Daniel Kahn Gillmor.
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2015 was the Free Software Foundation's (FSF) thirtieth year defending and advancing computer users' rights. The free software community has sustained the Foundation throughout these decades and been deeply involved in our work.
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Libreboot T400 laptop now FSF-certified to respect your freedom
BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Friday, December 11, 2015 -- The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today awarded Respects Your Freedom (RYF) certification to the Libreboot T400 laptop as sold by Minifree. The RYF certification mark means that the product meets the FSF's standards in regard to users' freedom, control over the product, and privacy.
Library of Congress issues limited exemptions to DMCA anti-circumvention provisions but leaves users without full control over their own computing
On October 27th, 2015, the Library of Congress published its list of exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), denying many of the proposed exemptions and modifying or limiting others. Because of this, users of a wide variety of software and devices, such as ebook readers and video game consoles, still do not have the right to control their own computing. Even for the areas where the exemptions permit users some additional control, they do not permit sharing of methods for obtaining it, and last only three years.
GNU ethical criteria for code repositories emphasize privacy, freedom, and copyleft
BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Friday, October 16th, 2015 -- Today the Free Software Foundation and the GNU Project announced the first version of criteria for evaluating services that host free software source code repositories for distribution and collaborative development. Developed with the leadership of Richard Stallman and GNU volunteers, the criteria provide a framework for code repositories to ensure that they respect their users in a manner consonant with the values of the free software movement, and for users to hold these crucial institutions accountable.
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The FSF's statement on Windows 10
BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Thursday, July 30, 2015 -- The Free Software Foundation urges everyone to reject Windows 10 and join us in the world of free software. Like all proprietary software, Windows 10 puts those that use it under the thumb of its owner. Free software like the GNU/Linux operating system treats users as equals and gives them control over their digital lives.
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BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Friday, July 24, 2015 -- Today the Free Software Foundation (FSF) announced an open invitation to its thirtieth birthday party, to be held in Boston on the evening of Saturday, October 3rd. The party will feature an address by FSF founder and president Richard Stallman. It represents the culmination of an outstanding thirtieth anniversary year, including the biggest LibrePlanet conference ever and an article about GNU in the New Yorker.
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Sébastien Jodogne, Reglue are Free Software Award winners
BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Saturday, March 21, 2015 -- Free Software Foundation executive director John Sullivan announced the winners of the FSF's annual Free Software Awards at a ceremony on Saturday, March 21st, held during the LibrePlanet 2015 conference at MIT, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Two awards were given: the Award for the Advancement of Free Software and the Award for Projects of Social Benefit.


text: The Okeechobee County School Board and Superintendent Kenworthy presented a Certificate of Appreciate to members of the Okeechobee Elks Lodge. The Elks presented "B is for Buckaroo" books to all second grade students earlier this year. Students reading and completing the AR test received additional recognition from the Elks. Thank you Elks for supporting education and the children in Okeechobee County Schools.


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VANCOUVER, B.C — It took until the final minute of stoppage time, but Eric Hassli put an end to his horrific 17-game MLS goalless streak to give the Vancouver Whitecaps a 2-1 win over the San Jose Earthquakes in front of 19,271 fans at BC Place on Saturday.
A goal each from Chris Wondolowski and Gershon Koffie rounded out the scoring and appeared to be all she wrote, before Hassli's decisive strike in the game's final breath.
During an open first half in which the visitors controlled the pace of play with 55.4 percent possession, it didn't take long for San Jose to open the scoring through Wondolowski, as the poacher found himself unmarked in the area 15 minutes in.
Marvin Chavez found the red-hot striker lurking at the far post and put it on a platter for the 29-year-old to head home. Vancouver goalkeeper Joe Cannon scrambled across but could only push the ball into the side netting to the chagrin of the on looking Southsiders just feet away.
The Whitecaps had an answer shortly before halftime, as Koffie used his noggin to level the score from a free kick generated by Omar Salgado down the left side. Camilo stepped up to take the set piece, whipping in a ball which the Ghanaian met well, beating Busch down the middle in the 41st minute.
Buoyed by his first-half goal, Koffie in the 48th minute powered a low shot from the edge of the area, but Busch did well to get down to save and hold the 20-year-old's effort.
In the 75th minute, Whitecaps head coach Martin Rennie was irate after the linesman flagged for offside, apparently deeming substitute Hassli, who was in an offside position, was involved in the play. Referee Chris Penso ran over to speak with Rennie, chiding the Scotsman and appearing to give him a final warning.
Yet the game's decisive moment was to come in the fourth minute of stoppage time, as Hassli found himself alone on the left edge of the area and powered a low strike which Busch managed to get a hand on, before squeaking through and rebounding off the post and finding the back of the net.
Following the win, Vancouver improve to 5-2-2, while San Jose fall to 7-2-1.
OPTA Chalkboard: Vancouver seal comeback win
The Whitecaps prepare for a May 9 night match at BC Place against NASL side FC Edmonton in the second leg of their Canadian Championship semifinal, which they currently lead on aggregate 2-0.
The Earthquakes play their next match on May 13, as they host Chivas USA at Buck Shaw Stadium in MLS action.


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The Field Level features 360-degree, walk-around circulation around the ballpark with expansive field views and ample standing room. The Promenade Level features a split-deck design providing uninterrupted views into the ballpark from the circulation and concession areas.


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Homological computations in electromagnetic modeling
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The users of modern design software for electrical appliances can accidentally attempt an analysis of ill-posed design problems, ones with no sensible solution. It is tedious to track down such mistakes manually, but certain topological objects, the homology groups, provide systematic procedures for detection of such mistakes. However, the procedures are not necessarily practical if the time consumed in computation of the homology groups is excessive. This thesis analyzes the electromagnetic modeling problems and different methods to compute homology groups for the models. A strong emphasis is placed on the computational complexity. The spatial model for electromagnetics, differentiable manifold with boundary, is introduced and some machinery is constructed to define its integer-coefficient homology groups. Their computation is expressed in terms of standard computational problems of Abelian group theory. The problems involve integer matrix computations, where large intermediate results may emerge and require attention in complexity analysis. The problems admit polynomial-time solution, but some of the polynomials are of unacceptably high degree. Particularly, the computation is known to consume considerable time if the homology groups have torsion subgroups, and this possibility in electromagnetic models is investigated in detail. Also, homologies over different coefficient groups are introduced as alternatives and their connection with integer-coefficient homology is characterized. Numerical computation typically requires tessellations of electromagnetic models into elements --- up to millions, even if the model is homologically rather simple. This is an unnecessary burden for the group theoretic solution schemes, and various methods are introduced to simplify the tessellations into a modest fraction of the original and thus reduce the overall computational complexity. Unfortunately, the methods do not admit rigorous performance bounds, but remain heuristics, leaving the rigorous upper bound for overall complexity very pessimistic: the overall time hardly ever attains the bound in any practical design problem.
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The San Francisco Civic Center and United Nations Plaza were evacuated Saturday due to a six-hour standoff with an armed man, who it turned out was carrying an airsoft gun, police said.
The man, who surrendered peacefully around 6 p.m., was initially reported to be carrying a semi-automatic handgun that he did not fire, according to police spokesman Carlos Manfredi. The man had threatened to "use the gun on officers and on himself," Manfredi said.
Fire officials later clarified that the man was carrying an airsoft or replica gun.
The man, who Manfredi said is a San Francisco resident in his 40s, called 911 after 12 p.m. and reported that he had a weapon and was standing in the center of the plaza. Police were "assuming" the gun is "loaded," Manfredi said.
Police evacuated people in a two-block radius and secured the perimeter, Manfredi said, but initial attempts to talk to the man were not successful so officers "took a step back."
Crisis hostage negotiators were then called in and the SWAT team was also on scene, according to Manfredi. Negotiators were seeking a "good dialogue" with the man so they could better understand "what's going on," he said.
"As long as we have time to talk to this person, we have hope," Manfredi said.
Police believed the man may be suicidal because of some of the things he said, like wanting "to end his life" and "take out other people," Manfredi said.
"We don't want that to happen," he said.
The surrounding roads were blocked to traffic, and pedestrians and motorists were sked to avoid the area. The Federal Aviation Administration also instated temporary flight restrictions for two nautical miles around the Civic Center to ensure the safety of all involved.
Police did not believe the standoff is terror-related, said Manfredi, who could not comment on whether the man is lucid or under the influence of any drugs.


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Dez Bryant explains his early exit from Cowboys-Packers game
Dez Bryant was under fire after the wide receiver decided to make an early exit from Sunday's Cowboys-Packers game.
The Packers, who trailed 26-3 at the half, stormed back to score 34 second-half points and steal the game away from the Cowboys.
TUCKER: Romo finds a way to make the wrong play
After Tony Romo threw the last of his two second-half interceptions, cameras followed Bryant as he stormed into the locker room with 1:21 remaining on the clock.
Dez Bryant doesn't do post-game handshakes. pic.twitter.com/6OBBfiNV4q
— BuzzFeed Sports (@BuzzFeedSports) December 16, 2013
Bryant later explained his decision via Twitter.
I walked back to the locker room because I was emotional...it had nothing to do with my teammates we had it... We fought and didn't finish
— Dez Bryant (@DezBryant) December 16, 2013
The fiery-tempered wide receiver has long been mired in controversy surrounding his immaturity and sportsmanship.
MORE: Iyer on Romo | NFC East mess | Playoff picture
In Week 8, Bryant appeared to throw a tantrum on the Cowboys sideline that had Tony Romo, DeMarcus Ware and Jason Witten involved.
Now it's time for a two-game test for the Cowboys' biggest playmaker and the resolve of Tony Romo after his latest failure in key moments.
Beat Washington and Philadelphia to finish the season, and Dallas (7-7) ends a three-year playoff drought. Lose to the free-falling Redskins on Sunday, and the Cowboys might be eliminated before they even play their final game.
All this after they had a near-certain victory in hand against the Packers that would have pulled them even with the Eagles atop the NFC East and given them a chance to wrap up a playoff berth at Washington.
"The trend's not going to continue because we're going to do what we need to do," Bryant said Monday in a mostly empty locker room at the team's training facility. "This whole group in this locker room, we believe and we're going to keep working."
Bryant was waiting for reporters so he could tell them that leaving with time still on the clock "was absolutely not right."
That was essentially the message in his conversation with coach Jason Garrett, who said his star receiver wasn't disciplined.
"It's difficult for everybody when things don't go well and he needs to understand how to handle that," Garrett said. "I think he'll handle that better in the future. He was very apologetic to me and was concerned about the situation."
Bryant's latest sideline moment didn't face as much scrutiny Monday as Romo's decision to check out of a running play before throwing an interception that gave Green Bay another chance down 36-31 with less than 3 minutes to go.
The Cowboys were in position to force the Packers to go most of the field in less than 2 minutes even if they didn't get a first down. Instead, Matt Flynn took over for Green Bay at midfield and led a scoring drive.
Another interception from Romo completed the collapse.
The latest left tight end Jason Witten with nothing much to say beyond "words can't really describe it" after the game.
"If you have the right kind of guys on your team, you handle the inevitable adversities of the season better than if you don't," Garrett said. "If you put emotion into something, passion into something and it doesn't work out, sometimes that's hard to swallow. But again, you have to regroup."
The challenge for Bryant might be the biggest.
"I know for me it's very, very, very hard to swallow," said Bryant, who had 153 yards and a touchdown that put Dallas up 12 midway through the fourth quarter.
"That kind of stuff leaves scars. It brings pain. I know that's what it brought to me."
The Associated Press contributed to this report.


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Roelofs, Berend (17th century)
Berend Roelofs (Rulfs), was called from Sluys (Oudesluis) in De Zijp, Dutch province of North Holland, to the Hamburg-Altona Mennonite congregation in 1650 to serve as pastor. But on 30 November 1659, he resigned his pastorate. He "spoke against baptism, communion, and the office of preaching with contempt, so that great sorrow arose in the congregation and offense outside" (Roosen). With his entire family he united with the Quakers (see Society of Friends), who were propagandizing in Hamburg. When this group was expelled from Hamburg, on 24 June 1660, Roelofs and his family went to Alkmaar, his native town. Here or in Oudesluis an ancestor of Roelofs' had at the turn of the century, influenced by a debate between the Reformed and the Mennonites, left the Reformed Church to unite with the Mennonites, giving up his position as sexton in the Reformed Church, because he considered the Mennonite views more Scriptural, and had become a Mennonite preacher.
Cate, Steven Blaupot ten. Geschiedenis der Doopsgezinden in Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht en Gelderland, 2 vols. Amsterdam: P.N. van Kampen, 1847: v. I, 194.
Doopsgezinde Bijdragen (1909): 43.
Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. Mennonitisches Lexikon, 4 vols. Frankfurt & Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe: Schneider, 1913-1967: v. III, 527.
Roosen, B. C. Geschichte der Mennoniten-Gemeinde zu Hamburg und Altona I. Hamburg, 1886: 44 f.
Schijn, Hermann. Uitvoeriger Verhandeling van de Geschiedenisse der Mennoniten. Amsterdam, Kornelis de Wit, 1744: v. II, 649, 650.
Zijpp, N. van der. Geschiedenis der Doopsgezinden in Nederland. Arnhem, 1952: 138.
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Crous, Ernst. "Roelofs, Berend (17th century)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1959. Web. 3 Jul 2020. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Roelofs,_Berend_(17th_century)&oldid=146184.
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Crous, Ernst. (1959). Roelofs, Berend (17th century). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 3 July 2020, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Roelofs,_Berend_(17th_century)&oldid=146184.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 4, p. 350. All rights reserved.
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WHITTIER, Calif. -- Octuplet mother Nadya Suleman made a frantic, emotional call to 911 last year, when she thought she'd lost one of her children.
Police on Wednesday released a recording of the call from Oct. 27, in which Suleman is wild with fear and repeatedly tells the operator she's going to kill herself.
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The operator, hearing children in the background, chides Suleman, telling her to keep herself under control for the children's sake.
Suleman said she hadn't seen her 5-year-old son, Joshua Jacob, for an hour and she feared the boy had been kidnapped.
She repeatedly asks the operator, "Where's my son?" before being able to provide an address or information.
Suleman gave birth to octuplets Jan. 26, and also has six other children, ages 2 to 7.
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She tells the story of how it happened: "After the Grey Cup party at BC Place my husband and family went to the Keg in Yaletown with our newborn Baby Aiden. About a dozen BC Lions players showed up with the Grey Cup. It was there that I met Brent Johnson (97 Defensive End). Brent took an interest in Aiden and told us about his newborn son. It turns out that our babies are born on the same day (Nov. 5). I chuckled to myself as I realized they beat us to the hospital. When I got to St. Paul's hospital they diverted us to Burnaby hospital. I understand that Brent missed the playoff game against Edmonton that day and we also were not able to go to the game even though we had already bought tickets. We discussed our experiences as new parents and of course swamped stories about sleep or lack of sleep with a newborn. Brent let us take this photo of Baby Aiden in the Grey Cup. I wanted to share this story as we were surprised that we had so much in common. What a small world. 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Globa: Accelerating technologies will create a global state by 2050
January 19, 2011 by Hugo de Garis
This essay argues that the exponential rate of technical progress will create within 40 years an Internet that is a trillion times faster than today's, a global media, a global education system, a global language, and a globally homogenized culture, thus establishing the prerequisites for the creation of a global democratic state, "Globa," and ridding the world of war, the arms trade, ignorance, and poverty. Whether Globa can cope with the rise of massively intelligent machines occurring at about the same time is far less certain.
Most readers will have heard of the phenomenon called "Moore's Law" (i.e., the trend that the number of transistors that can be crammed onto a chip keeps doubling every 18 months). Less well known is the phenomenon I label "BRAD" (Bit Rate Annual Doubling), i.e., the speed of the Internet keeps doubling every 12 months. [Both of these are examples of Ray Kurzweil's law of accelerating returns. - Ed.]
The physicists say that there is effectively no theoretical limit to how tiny a substrate can be that is used to convey information, so we can expect the Internet speed to keep doubling for many decades. This means that in 30 years, the Internet will be a billion (230) times faster than it is today (2011). In 40 years, it will be a trillion (240) times faster.
What could one do with such fantastic speeds? One obvious answer is that 3D images could be transmitted that would appear to our eyes as real and as vivid as the objects we see by the light of the sun. It would also mean that everyone on the planet could receive the media of the whole world, i.e., "everyone gets everything." The 3D life-size images transmitted would be so real that they would generate the same emotional impact on the viewer as a normal face-to-face contact in the same room. This will have a huge impact on people's minds and attitudes.
The "Global Language Snowball Effect"
Imagine you are a very young primary school child in the 2020s and you are watching your "vid" (i.e., your 3D video player) in your living room. You notice that about 60% of the programs and the content of the world media you are receiving on your vid is in the world's 1st or 2nd most spoken language, i.e., English. You therefore decide to master this language so that you can understand what most of the world is saying.
Now imagine you are the minister of telecommunications in your little country and you have to decide which languages you will use for the content you will send up to the global Internet satellite system. You note that already 60% of the world Internet content is in English, so you choose to send up your country's content in your country's language, and in English, as well as perhaps several other languages.
A few years later, the percentage has moved up to 70%. Eventually, all countries will be sending up their content in at least two languages — their own, and English. A snowball/saturation effect has arisen (i.e., the greater is the proportion of people on the earth who watch a given language, the greater is the number of countries that transmit in that language, and the greater the percentage of content on the global media that is in a given language, the higher the proportion of people who decide to learn and listen to that language), causing English to become the global language.
English today is far and away the planet's most spoken 1st or 2nd language. It will certainly not be Chinese, since the world will utterly reject China's incredibly clumsy and stupid writing system. China is the only country in the world (as far as I know) that does not use an alphabet in its writing. Instead of having to learn an alphabet of some two dozen symbols, the Chinese have to learn thousands of symbols to write their language.
Global Politics
The rise of a global language will have a huge impact on the world. Ideas will be able to flow far more readily across the planet. Billions of people will be influenced by the "best" ideas that the planet has to offer. People's minds will be influenced powerfully, so that today's nationalist mentalities will be gradually transformed into tomorrow's globist mentalities. People will be able to compare their own local customs with those of other cultures and reject their own if they feel that other countries customs are superior to their own. People will become more "multi" (i.e., multi-cultured) than "mono" (i.e., mono-cultured).
Multis will increasingly look down on monos as inferior beings (rather like city-slickers towards country-bumpkins), seeing the monos as limited as individuals by the limitations of the single culture that programs them. Today's governments will no longer be able to brainwash their citizens into the ideologies of their nationalist leaders. Global education systems ("globiversities") will be established, to educate the poor people of the world. Internet satellites will be able to beam down education programs at all levels, from kindergarten to PhD level research seminars on all topics.
Global Satellite Learning ("GSL") will rid the world of its last dictatorships (a process called "dedictation"), as billions of poor people catch on to the idea that they can pull themselves out of poverty by buying a small cheap vid (legally or on the black market) and educating themselves using the programs beamed down by the Internet satellites, the "edsats" (education satellites). As billions do this and become "middle class," they will demand a say in their political systems, leading within 40 years (at the rate the world is democratizing — two countries per year) to a totally democratic world.
Since democratic countries do not go to war against each other (their voting populations do not allow it), the world will be far more peaceful. The 20th century's diabolical trade in arms can be banished, and so can war. With over a trillion dollars a year freed up from arms spending in the world, this money can be rechanneled into humanitarian pursuits.
Global Cultural Homogenization
With a global language and all countries being democracies, the stage is set for global cultural homogenization. A billion-fold faster Internet will not be the only factor leading to global cultural homogenization. There are many other factors pushing humanity into a "globist mentality", e.g., high-speed train networks across countries and continents, space planes that can carry a thousand people from New York to Beijing in a few hours, and greater wealth, which will mean far greater numbers of people becoming international tourists, visiting the beauty spots they can see on their vids in vivid 3D.
Also, a larger global economy will stimulate global trade, the creation of ever more economic and political blocs such as the EU (European Union), SAU (South American Union), AU (African Union), etc. will mean ever more international business people will be traveling to do business and to inspect progress in their various projects, etc. All these influences and more will make the creation of a global cultural homogenization more probable.
When the whole planet can watch the media of the whole world, in a global language, the minds of the world's citizens will be made "globist," not "nationalist." Political leaders of countries whose policies are considered by the majority of the world's citizens to be harmful or stupid will feel enormous moral pressure against them.
World opinion will be overpowering. If the citizens of a given country learn that 95% of other countries are opposed to their country's policies, that will force them to think twice about the wisdom of their own leaders' judgments. That in turn will make their leaders think twice too. All the world's leaders will become sensitive to global opinion.
As the best ideas and customs spread across the planet, and billions of people adopt the same set of ideas (i.e., cultural homogenization), the stage is set for the creation of a global state. This will obviously be an incremental process.
Building Globa, the Global State
There are many routes to the creation of a global state, e.g., the expansion of the EU (European Union) route, the expansion of powers of the U.N. (United Nations) route, the merging of economic/political blocs route, etc. As the size of the economic/political blocs keeps increasing, smaller blocs need to become larger to stay competitive.
For example, in the case of the U.S., if it does not do what the smaller European nations have been doing for half a century, i.e., ceding sovereignty and merging into a much larger whole, then the U.S. will "not be a player" in the 21st century, because it will not be a member of the "billion club," whose members include China, India, the EU, etc. The US will need to merge with the 30+ countries of the Americas and/or form an "Atlantic Union" with the EU to stay economically competitive and powerful. As blocs merge with other blocs, eventually there will be a single bloc the size of the planet.
There will be many forces that will be opposed to the creation of a global state, e.g., nationalism, national sovereignty, cultural differences, the clash of ideologies, religious differences, charity begins at home attitudes, cultural inertia, cultural alienation, etc. To overcome these formidable barriers that kept nations and mentalities apart in the 20th century, the "Globists," i.e., those people in favor of "Globism," the creation of "Globa," the global state, will need to organize and spread their Globist ideology.
Since the creation of a global democratic state has such huge advantages compared to today's sovereign nation state system, where each state is always spending large amounts of money preparing for the next war, the Globists will be able to muster powerful arguments in their favor. The Globists will need to organize at a local level, at a regional level, a national level, at a continental level, and eventually at a global level. They will need their symbols, their logos, their flag, their ideology, their anthem, their political programs, etc., and will then need to proselytize the world.
Globists could be active in researching and setting up the globiversities, the GSL (Global Satellite Learning), designing cheap smuggle-able vids for the world's poor, pouring scorn on the nationalists (e.g., jeering at national anthems, etc.), making their presence felt all around the globe, pushing towards a grand vision: creation of a global state, riddance of war, banning the arms trade, scrapping nuclear weapons, education of the world's population, and removal of world poverty.
These are magnificent goals and are readily achievable with the technologies that are coming in the next few decades. These technologies will soon make what was earlier seen as "globaloney" into Globa.
Globa's Agenda
Once a global state ("Globa") has been established, it will have its work cut out for it. The first thing it will have to do is set up a slew of new institutions, most of which will be analogous to national institutions as we know them today, e.g., create a global constitution, a global president, a global parliament, global political parties, global laws, a global civil service, global police, a global court, a global military, globiversities, global taxation, global wealth distribution, global resource management, global trade unions, global incomes policy, a global currency unit (the "Globo"), global health insurance, etc.
Once the establishment of these institutions is well en route, Globa would then need to tackle the planet's major problems, e.g. it would need to create a globist ethics and globist propaganda, to undertake global nuclear disarmament, ban the global arms trade, meet the global environmental challenges, eliminate global poverty, establish a global taxation policy, as well as a global incomes and raw materials policy, global education, global population migration, foster greater global happiness rather than economic wealth, etc.
Globa and the Artilect
The above has argued that a global state "Globa" could be established by about the middle of the 21st century. This would be a wonderful thing if it can be achieved. However there is a gathering storm on the horizon, which will be playing itself out over the same time frame, namely the rise of the artilect (artificial intellect, i.e., a godlike massively intelligent machine) with intellectual capacities trillions of trillions of times above the human level.
The rise of the artilect will probably divide humanity bitterly into two major human groups: the "Cosmists" (who want to be "god (i.e., artilect) builders," a form of science-based quasi-religion) and the "Terrans" (who are bitterly opposed to building artilects, through fear that the artilects may one day decide humans are such inferior pests and wipe them out). There is a third group, the "Cyborgists" (who want to add artilectual components to their own brains and become artilect gods themselves).
Since the computational capacity of nanoteched matter is so great (e.g., a grain of sugar with each atom switching in femtoseconds could outperform a human brain by a factor of trillions), the Terrans will lump the Cyborgists into the same ideological camp as the Cosmists (since a cyborg would be indistinguishable from an artilect in artilectual capacities). Since the Terrans will have a limited time window of opportunity within which to oppose the Cosmists/Cyborgists, before the cyborgs and artilects come into being and are then smarter than the Terrans, the Terrans will not be able to wait for too long.
The Terrans will have to "first strike" the Cosmists/Cyborgists/cyborgs/artilects before it is too late. The Terrans will be using 21st century weapons that will enable the scale of mass killing to rise from the tens of millions of people of the major wars of the 20th century, to the billions of people of a major 21st century war. The Cosmists/Cyborgists will anticipate this first strike by the Terrans and be prepared for it, also using 21st century weapons.
Thus Globa will have to face its greatest challenge: can it cope with the rise of Cosmism and Cyborgism? Will Globa be able to cope with the passions generated by two murderously opposed, very powerful ideologies (Cosmism and Terranism)? Opinion polls already show that the "species dominance issue" (i.e., whether humanity should build godlike artilects this century or not) divides humanity about evenly. Many individuals are ambivalent about the magnificence of building artilect gods, and horrified at the prospect of a "gigadeath" "artilect war."
It is not at all obvious that a unified global state would be strong enough to withstand the divisive passions of the "species dominance debate" that will heat up in the coming decades and may explode into a "global civil war" killing billions of people, with 21st century weapons, in the greatest war humanity has ever known, because the stakes have never been so high: the survival of the human species. 20th century wars were largely "nationalist wars." A major 21st century war would be a "species dominance war."
The above essay is a summary of the ideas in the author's second book, Multis and Monos : What the Multicultured Can Teach the Monocultured: Towards the Creation of a Global State. The ideas above concerning the rise of the artilect are taken largely from the author's first book, The Artilect War: Cosmists vs. Terrans: A Bitter Controversy Concerning Whether Humanity Should Build Godlike Massively Intelligent Machines. Both books are available at amazon.com


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One of Apple's Chinese suppliers, Pegatron, has been accused of polluting the environment with toxic water and gas.
The company, responding to environmental complaints, has replaced older equipment and said it would subject the machines to regular maintenance, according to DigiTimes and AppleInsider. Apple was named in the complaints asked to remedy the situation, but didn't do so until the report was about to go public, reports said.
Apple publishes an annual report of its suppliers, the latest called the Apple Supplier Responsibility 2011 Progress Report, saying:
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Apple is committed to driving the highest standards of social responsibility throughout our supply base. We require that our suppliers provide safe working conditions, treat workers with dignity and respect, and use environmentally responsible manufacturing processes wherever Apple products are made.
So, if we are to believe Apple, they would work quickly and tirelessly not to have their suppliers be gross polluters, right? Well, according to Apple's own report, more than half of its suppliers didn't handle or store hazardous chemicals correctly and half operated without necessary government permits, the Guardian reported. The National Resources Defense Council called on Apple earlier this month to rectify environmental problems.
The reality is that making iPhones and iPads causes a lot of pollution, but if Apple is going to tell the world its suppliers are "environmentally responsible," the company should at least enforce those standards.


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Someone with authority can move this post to the general forum. What is it with this forum? You can't post pics in the general forum? So how am I meant to ask general questions, with explanatory pics attached? It's crazy.
So here's a question in the wrong sub-forum, with a pic attached. When I select Fuchs's army the region below Hannover (I think it's Padderbon) becomes highlighted red. Why? See pic below. Any help much appreciated. Thanks.


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No one likes a faker, especially when one's health, money and good time are on the line. That's why Pfizer Inc., manufacturer of Viagra, has begun a pilot RFID tagging program on its popular erectile-dysfunction drug in an effort to prevent counterfeit doses from entering its supply chain in the U.S.
Pharmaceutical counterfeiting is a far more complex endeavor than just swapping in little blue placebos.
Some counterfeiters sell sugar pills as bona fides, but they also hustle drugs containing lower levels of the actual active ingredients, or with different active ingredients altogether. Sometimes legitimate, but expired, drugs are repackaged and sold to unwitting wholesalers.
And thanks to the convoluted supply chains throughout the pharmaceutical industrymedicines can pass through several wholesalers and distributors before making it to their final destination in a hospital or pharmacyit is becoming increasingly difficult for retailers to be sure they have the drugs they think they have.
The World Health Organization estimates that pharmaceutical counterfeiting is a $32 billion-per-year business, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration claims that fake or substandard medicines account for more than 10 percent of yearly pharmaceutical sales worldwide.
According to Tom Kubic, executive director of the Pharmaceutical Security Institute, Viagra's popularity, price tag and market sizeabout $10 per pill adding up to $1.6 billion in worldwide sales in 2005has aroused the interest of counterfeiters and regulators alike.
While the FDA has not mandated that pharmaceutical manufacturers begin deploying RFID on their products, companies such as Pfizer and Purdue Pharma LLP are taking steps toward better authentication technology in their supply chains in anticipation of stricter rules down the road.
Peggy Staver, director of trade product integrity at Pfizer, says that the FDA's interest in the growing problem of counterfeiting makes the U.S. a good proving ground for adoption of RFID technology.
"While the U.S. supply chain is still relatively safe from counterfeiters [compared to other countries], adopting RFID is most feasible in a highly regulated environment where the exchange of information is married to the secure transfer of the products," Staversays.
So in November 2005, Pfizer began rolling out RFID tagging on all bottlesboth the 100-count and 30-count bottles that are shipped to pharmacies and hospitalsas well as on cases and pallets of Viagra sold in the U.S.
Each RFID tag has a unique Electronic Product Code number written into it, which allows distributors, wholesalers and retailers to verify that the bottle, and the drugs within, were shipped by Pfizer. The EPC reveals no information beyond its authenticity as a Pfizer product; the technology is still young, and very few members of Pfizer's supply chain have the equipment required to scan and read the tags, says Staver.
Programs such as Pfizer's are only the beginning. "This is going to be the year of the pilot," says Eric Newmark, a health industry analyst at IDC, "and pharma is going to surpass other industries with RFID because of the patient-safety issues involved."
The eventual goal is to be able to provide an electronic pedigree on products as they move through the supply chain, so retailers will be able to tell where the drugs have been and how they have been handled. And though Newmark estimates that it will take at least five years before RFID is widely implemented across the industry, the adoption of the technology will allow for greater accountability within the distribution chain, which could have an effect on pricing.
For now, with the Pfizer project in its infancy, it's hard to predict results. Staver says that Pfizer won't have an idea of the effectiveness of this $5 million venture until the second or third quarter this year.
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I just used some high temp spray paint from Lowes. It is usually called grill paint I believe. It takes a lickin and keeps on tickin!
Yep, i got a can from Lowes for 8 bucks I think. rated up to 2000 degrees. I did have to do a coat, cure it, then do another coat and cure again though.
If you don't mind me asking, what are the dimensions? I have planned a very similar design myself for use with keggles, but room to grow to half barrell batches in the future. Looks like you have plenty of room with your keggles. Looks great!


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Conservation and Environment in Ecuador: Monthly Updates
Conservation in Ecuador – Monthly Updates: October – November 2014
Giant Tortoise Breeding Center
At the giant tortoise breeding centre on San Cristobal Island, highly aggressive plant species such as Mora (Rubbus nuvius), guava (Psidium guajava L.) and Supirrosa (Lantana camera) have been controlled. This was carried out in the areas where giant tortoises nest. It is important to keep this specific area free of introduced plants to make it easier to locate the nests and collect eggs, and there will be more room for the endemic plants to flourish which grow in this protected area. We also fed the tortoises and cleaned the pools they drink water from as well as the platforms they feed on. We also marked numbers on the young ones so that we can better monitor and control the population. To help with their diet, we are working in the forest area of the Galapagos National Park (GNP) in order to control mulberry plants and have been planting OTOY (Xanthosoma sagittifolium), which is a plant that is part of their diet. We are making sure that we will have enough food for them for next year, and are growing food which is safe for them.
Galapagos National Park Nursery
We are working in the GNP nursery where officials are collecting seeds of native plants in the forest, and collecting endemic seedlings such as Miconia (Miconia robinsoniana). We are preparing the substrate to fill bags where we will place the seeds and collected seedling, and begin performing reforestation in areas affected by the introduced plants mentioned above. 1200 Miconia seedlings were collected and are growing in the nursery, waiting to be reforested in the area around Junco Lagoon.
Galapagos Petrel (Pterodroma pheaopygia)
At the top of San Cristobal Island, at a height of 450 meters, we have been carrying out activities to control rats (Rattus rattus) which are affecting the population of the Galapagos Petrel, an endemic species that is endangered by the presence of this rodent, other species such as cats, and introduced plants which block their nesting area. We conducted surveys at different nesting sites and prepared poisoned food to eliminate the ground dwelling animals in order to help the bird population increase satisfactorily.
El Progreso Nursery
We continue to grow endemic, native plants to be reforested in urban areas and to be planted in the grounds of various schools. We collected seeds in the arid and coastal areas of the island and have carried out reforestation with Red Mangroves (Rhizophora mangle) on the beaches near the town to promote conservation and send a message to the community about how we can help the environment.
Research: Monitoring Sea Lions and Iguanas and Bird Watching.
We performed different monitoring tasks to obtain more data about the populations of sea lions (Zalophus wollebaeki), marine iguanas (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) and endemic birds that exist on the beaches near the port, as well as to gather information about human activities as the populations of these animals are endangered by the presence of humans and introduced animals. It is important to perform these activities to understand the dynamics of these populations in order to see if they are growing or shrinking. We are creating a database of the various populations of birds we encounter in different places to find out the size of each species. The data is very important since it reveals information that can help us to take corrective action and decisions to help conserve the island's endemic species.
We are helping the GNP with various coastal cleanups in strategically demarcated areas. These areas have high concentrations of oceanic garbage and are also the places where we find populations of endemic fauna. We are creating a database so that we can study how much trash is found on the island. We are aiming to help the conservation of the island's fragile ecosystems and promote the conservation of the natural resources we have here.
Objectives Achieved
The health of the giant tortoises is good in their nesting areas, and introduced plants have been monitored.
We planted 500 OTOY plants to have enough food for next year, and prepared 500 holes which are ready for the planting of OTOY seedlings in the coming weeks.
We have gathered seeds and seedlings to germinate and perform reforestation.
We have cleaned beaches and removed debris that may affect endemic animals.
We have reforested areas that had introduced plants with native ones.
We have gathered data about different populations of endangered endemic animals.
Until next time…
Jonathan Guillen
Conservation Manager, Ecuador


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Xiongfong Chen wrote: > > Hi, > > I spend over one month to write a DNA analysis program called DNAClub, > which have a varity of functions like Find Sequence, Find ORF, remove > vector sequence, reverse, reverse complement, translation, RE Map, PCR > primer selection, Oilgo evluation etc. > > I believe it will help people who don't have big program like DNAStar, > or you can do some DNA work at home. > > I gonna to release it to all the Mol-bio guys, if you like it, please > give me input about this program. > xc11 at cornell.edu OK, I have put this program on my website, http://18.104.22.168, please download and test.


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Hey Fam.
Interesting thing. This just came to me…Acts 17:20 "You are bringing some strange ideas to our ears, we want to know what they mean."
So, I want people to understand that true spirituality from my experience is not anti-religion and for that matter it is not anti-Christian. Hell. Since I have embarked upon this journey I have practiced more Christian tenets than I ever wanted to and you know the reason why? Because the true tenets or laws of Christianity aren't Christian, they are Ancient Egyptian! (Actually they are older than that but, that's another story).
People get this confused I think because they are so mesmerized by the Kamitic mental science. All of these scholars have come out saying that the Western religions are derived from the Kamitic religion. Then when life puts them in a situation where they have to practice what they preach like "oneness" or forgive ("not forget") but forgive, they say, "Oh. That's teaching from the enemy". They think that Jesus created this whole thing about forgiveness…umm. If you read the Story of Osar (Asar, Ausar, Osiris), Oset (Aset, Auset, Isis) was the first one that taught about forgiveness, she had to forgive Set for all of the evil that he had done. Forgiveness by the way is a Kamitic concept and principle based upon Maa, which is Kamitic/Kemetic for balance, law, order, justice and righteousness. Jesus simply broke it down in terms that the people he was talking to could understand, but he didn't invent this concept and principle. Did the Kamitic people invent it? Probably not, remember their ancestors were from the south. The point is who cares who invented it. What's important is that we understand it and implement it to improve our lives.
You see, the problem with principles like these is that no one explained why you are supposed to forgive. Many of us are still screwed up by the Civil Rights Movement and can't believe that our folks didn't strike back when the dogs, fire hydrant, spit and all sorts of other things were done to them. I can still hear it, "Couldn't have been me." Right?
Well, I can't explain it because it is something you have to experience…that is true spirituality. It can't be theorized. When all you do is think about it, all you are doing is intellectualizing it and not applying it, which doesn't go far.
This is what I mean by throwing out the baby and the bathwater. If you accept that the origins of the Western religion comes from Kamit/Kemet, then Kamitic/Kemetic spirituality is all about getting the FULL PICTURE, the whole message straight from the horse's mouth sort of speak. When you have confusion, setbacks, etc. it is because from the Kamitic perspective, you only got one side of the picture, one piece of the pie, one eye (which is why Hru had to flee in the Story of Osar) because Set gouged his eye out. This is illustrated on the maa aankh as being in the red or the RED LANDS, which is TASETT, the land of confusion, conflict and chaos ruled by Set. You have to focus on getting out of the a chaotic, war state because you're at the Ra moment.
The full picture comes from traveling to the other side, to the fertile lands below, the mysterious land of our ancestors, the spiritual realm within our being, the beautiful BLACK LANDS OF KAMTA. It requires that you become receptive and you move to the Amun Ra moment. Oh come and go with me, it is so peaceful :).
You know, I had the hardest time trying to make things work for me spiritually because I threw out everything. It wasn't until I dragged myself to this realization (like Hru) that things began to change and I was reborn. It wasn't until I was reminded that the whole purpose of me embarking upon this journey was to learn how the Kamitic/Kemetic people used the same Holy Ghost that Christians talked about to build their society.
An example of what I mean by practicing Kamitic or shall we say pre-Christian tenets, I once upon a time had to bite a hole in my tongue, suck in my gut and swallow that pride in the face of my enemy, and after I did it. Surprisingly, he donated some money to me and my cause, about a $150 worth. Now, some can call it magic, others can call it a miracle; I call it the Power of God or Rau at work because I didn't pick and choose what principles I would follow. What would you call it?
For more info check out:
What about Jesus & Kamitic/Kemetic Spirituality?, Why other people's faiths don't work for us? , Message from the Spirit through the WIZ
For a complete discourse and in-depth analysis see:
MAA AANKH: Finding God the Afro-American Way, by Honoring the Ancestors and Guardian Spirits.


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Former NFL lineman drops 100 lbs., runs marathon in under four hours
Former Pittsburgh Steelers and Arizona Cardinals linebacker Alan Faneca has found his calling in retirement -- running a marathon.
After speaking to some of his former Steel City teammates, Faneca decided to register for the New Orleans Rock & Roll Marathon and began training intensively.
Faneca weighed in at 320 lbs. during his playing days, but started cutting back once he stopped playing football. He slimmed down to a more manageable 215 lbs simply by being more mindful of the calories he was consuming.
Props to Alan Faneca for losing weight, finishing a marathon, etc. but he looks about 65 years old now... pic.twitter.com/QagqWVXa0C— Jeremy Dorn (@jamblinman) February 5, 2014\
"For athletes, when you stop [playing] you have to realize you can't keep eating the things you were eating because you're not doing the things you were doing," he said.
He trained by going on timed runs, less concerned about the ground he was covering than he was about crossing the finish line in under four hours.
The training paid off.
Faneca crossed the finish line in New Orleans this past Sunday in 3:56:17 to the cheers of his family.
"They made the signs and everything," he said.
He celebrated his success with a victory beer.
[via Runners World]