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With next year's calendar currently set a marathon 22-races, Ross Brawn has revealed Mercedes could rotate their staff. There are concerns about how next season's calendar could impact team personnel as the calendar will go beyond the 20 races that many have put down as the maximum. However, it is not just the grands prix as there is also pre-season testing to take into account as well as four in-season outings. "I think 22 races will definitely be the point at which we start rotating," Brawn told Sky Sports F1. "It's not just 22 races; there's four tests as well and the pre-season tests start four weeks earlier than they have previously. "We're testing in January and going through racing until the end of November, so it is pretty heavy." The Mercedes team boss believes NASCAR is good example of this as with 36 races - many taking place one week after the other - the teams often rotate personnel. "We're looking at strengthening the team so we can start rotation. I think there are other motorsports that do that like NASCAR, so it's feasible," he said. "It's mainly mechanics and garage technicians and so on, so you're talking about half a dozen or eight people. "The challenge is always the performance, particularly with pit stops. It's something we've focused on this year, to have some rotation at pit stops, so that if someone is ill or can't make a race for some reason, then we know we have a good performance in the crew. "We always make sure there are all sorts of people we can substitute. They're 'on the bench' ready to come off." However, Brawn concedes that some of the higher level personnel will have to deal with all 22 races. "I think at the engineering level it will be quite difficult. I think where we intend to focus there is to give the guys more support in the factory so they can have time off when they get back," he said.

Forgot about this, too! After I’d done the black and white Krackle pages, I began to think the flaming symbols could be interpreted as some sort of arcane knowledge thrown to us by the gods. I was sitting on my deck on a warm summer night when I thought how the symbols, in color, might make interesting big canvases. As this thought crossed my mind, I kid you not, a shooting star trailing bright green fire went right across the sky! This particular piece wasn’t meant to be a finished painting but a smaller mule to help me solve technical problems. The hardest part was laying down the little circles that make up the Krackle so they were nicely round. By thinning acrylic with India ink I was able to do it with quarter inch circles. But the larger, inch wide circles I needed for the final piece never came out right. Also, the tediousness of the technique lost the spontaneity that makes the Kirby Krackle really work2 comments

As discussed in the new white paper, Turning customer data into marketing fuel, there is a new game that virtually all marketers must eventually embrace if they’re going to be successful. Analytics was once just the province of a few direct marketers and market researchers, but now the entire field of marketing is being transformed by this capability. Whether the focus is consumer or industrial marketing, and whether the customer channel involves a sales call, contact with a call center, a Web click, or an e-mail, marketing is becoming increasingly analytical. There is no longer any excuse for not knowing whether your advertising or your promotions are working. It is possible to test and analyze any campaign or any change in how you go to market with analytics. This is, of course, a major change in culture for many marketers. It’s probably safe to say that many people who chose marketing as a career did not do so because they loved data and statistics. Therefore, many marketers will need considerable retraining and reorientation for this new world. It isn’t that the old creative and intuitive capabilities will go away, but they will have to be supplemented by a new set of analytical skills. Of course the best marketers will continue to be those that have an intuitive and empathetic understanding of customers, but that cannot be the only perspective. It must be complemented by empirical, quantitative analyses of the behaviors customers actually exhibit and the impact of marketing activities on those behaviors. It is an exciting time for the field, and one in which careers and reputations of marketers will be rebuilt or newly established. In other words, it’s a great time to be in marketing, but only if you embrace analytics. Download the white paper: Turning customer data into analytical marketing fuel

Aug. 26, 2004 BOULDER -- Days and nights when the air temperature dips below freezing will become increasingly less common by the late 21st century across much of the world, according to a modeling study by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). The reduction in 24-hour periods with freezes (frost days) is projected to be most dramatic across the western parts of North America and Europe. In a paper published in the August 20 online edition of Climate Dynamics, NCAR scientists Gerald Meehl, Claudia Tebaldi, and Doug Nychka examine the factors that have led to a reduction in frost days in many areas over the last 50 years. The authors then use the Parallel Climate Model, developed by NCAR and the U.S. Department of Energy, to simulate day-to-day temperature changes across the globe for the years 2080 to 2099. NCAR's primary sponsor, the National Science Foundation, and the DOE funded the study, with additional support from NCAR's Weather and Climate Impact Assessment Initiative. Over the last half-century, many weather stations across the western United States reported a decrease of 10 or more frost days per year, mostly the result of warmer conditions in springtime. Little change in frost-day frequency has been reported across the upper Midwest and Northeast. Until now, most modeling studies of future climate change have focused on average temperatures rather than day-to-day variations, says Meehl. “For many years, a lot of the models didn’t even have diurnal [24-hour] cycles,” Meehl says. With increased computer power and more complex software, scientists can now simulate and study changes in potential day-to-day weather events far into the future. This study is the first to examine trends in frost days using a global climate model. Meehl and colleagues found the frost-day trends over the last 50 years intensifying during the next century. Nearly all of the United States and Canada show losses in frost days in 2080-2099 compared to 1961-1990. “In general, there is a gradient from west to east across the continent, with greater decreases in frost days in the western regions,” says Meehl. The biggest decrease is from the Great Plains westward, where the model produces more than 20 fewer frost days in a typical year by 2080-2099. More than 40 fewer frost days per year are projected along and near the Pacific coast from Washington State north into British Columbia. The factors at work The cause of this pattern, according to the authors, is a shift in atmospheric circulation. * In northwestern North America, low-level winds are projected to blow more frequently from the Pacific, bringing relatively mild air during the winter. * Eastern North America is projected to receive more wintertime flow of cold Canadian air. This partially cancels out the decrease in frost days that results from overall climate warming. * A similar pattern produces greater reductions in frost days across western and northern Europe than over northeast Asia. Although the model warms polar regions the most (as measured by average daily minimum temperatures), these areas do not show the largest decrease in frost days. The difference is in part because winter nights are so cold at high latitudes that even a century of warming fails to bring the averages above freezing. Changes in soil moisture and cloud cover can also affect overnight low temperatures. However, the changes in atmospheric pressure and circulation were the dominant factors in producing the frost-day reductions for all locations the authors studied. Implications for agriculture Frost days are obviously related to the growing season, but a reduction in frost days does not necessarily mean a longer season for crops. For example, the average dates for the first and last freeze might not change even if there are fewer intervening freezes. The authors compared the 2080–2099 model results to 1961-1990 data for one common measure of the growing season: the number of days between the first six-day spring stretch with average daily temperatures above 41°F and the first six-day autumn period with averages below 41°F. Although the length of the growing season increases in all regions examined, the authors found only a weak statistical relationship between this result and the changes in frost days. “This tells us that other factors, in addition to frost days, contribute to the length of the growing season,” says Meehl. The NCAR team plans to examine growing seasons in more detail in a future study. The frost-day study, as well as a related effort examining heat waves, was produced in preparation for the next assessment by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which is expected in 2007. Other social bookmarking and sharing tools: Note: Materials may be edited for content and length. For further information, please contact the source cited above. Note: If no author is given, the source is cited instead.

NOTICE OF ELECTION 2012 REGULAR GENERAL ELECTION NOTICE OF ELECTION 2012 REGULAR GENERAL ELECTION I, Robert P. Pero, County Clerk-Auditor of Carbon County, State of Utah, in accordance with Utah Code Section 20A-5-101 do hereby give notice of offices for which candidates are to be elected and ballot propositions qualified for the ballot as of this date at the upcoming General Election to be held on Tuesday, November 6, 2012. President and Vice-President for a four (4) year term. U. S. Senate. One Senator for a six (6) year term. U. S. House of Representatives. One Representative for a two (2) year term in the Third U. S. Congressional District consisting of Carbon, Emery, Grand, Salt Lake, San Juan, Utah, and Wasatch Counties. State Executive. Each of the following positions will be elected for a four (4) year term: (2) Lieutenant Governor (3) Attorney General (4) State Auditor (5) State Treasurer State Senate. One member for a four (4) year term from District Twenty-Seven (27) located in Carbon, Emery, Grand, San Juan, Utah, and State House of Representatives. One member of the Utah House of Representatives for a two (2) year term from State House District Number Sixty-Nine to include all of Carbon County. Local Board of Education. One (1) member for a four (4) year term from each of the following local school districts: District No. 1; District No. 2; and District No. 3. District No. 1 to include Scofield, Pleasant Valley, East Helper, West Helper, and Spring Glen. District No. 2 to include Fairgrounds, South County, Carbonville, Westwood, and Miller Creek Special. District No. 3 to include Indian Hills, East Price, South Price, and Central Price. Court of Appeals. There will be an unopposed retention election for one (1) Court of Appeals Judge, provided that the incumbent whose term is expiring files during the filing period. One (1) County Commissioner for a term of four (4) years. As of the date of this notice, the Lieutenant Governor is not aware of any ballot propositions to be posted on the 2012 general MASTER BALLOT POSITION LIST, RANDOM SELECTION, PROCEDURES In accordance with Utah Code Section 20A-6-305, Utah Lieutenant Governor Greg Bell hereby establishes the Master Ballot Position List, establishes written procedures for election officials to use the Master Ballot Position List, establishes written procedures for the Lieutenant Governor in conducting the randomization in a fair manner, and provides a record of the random selection process used. Master Ballot Position List. Written procedures for election officials to use the master ballot position list. In accordance with Utah Code Section 20A-6-305, election officers shall use the master ballot position list for the current year and the next year (2012-2013) to determine the order in which to list candidates on the ballot for any election held during To determine the order in which to list candidates on the ballot, the election officer shall apply the randomized alphabet using: the candidate's surname; for candidates with a surname that has the same spelling, the candidate's given name; the surname of the president and the surname of the governor for an election for the offices of president and vice president and governor and lieutenant governor; if the ballot provides for a ticket or a straight party ticket, the name of the registered political party. This does not apply to an election for an office for which only one candidate is listed on the ballot or a judicial retention election under Section 20A-12-201. Written procedures for the Lieutenant Governor in conducting the randomization in a fair manner and record of the random selection process used. In accordance with Utah Code Section 20A-6-305, the Lieutenant Governor's Office conducted the randomization process by utilizing the randomization function in Microsoft Excel. The randomization was done in the presence of multiple witnesses, each of who was affiliated with a different political party. 2012 FILING FEES U. S. Senate $1,305.00 U. S. House of Representatives $435.00 Lieutenant Governor $509.20 Attorney General $509.20 State Treasurer $509.20 State Auditor $509.20 Utah Senator $29.20 Utah House of Representatives $14.60 County Commissioner $251.28 Local Board of Education $25.00 All dates for filing for these offices are to begin on Friday, March 9, 2012 and ends at 5:00 p.m., Thursday, March 15, 2012 at the office of the Carbon County Clerk, Courthouse Building, 120 East Main, Price Utah. All National, State, and Local offices are required to file at the office of the Lieutenant Governor, State Capitol Building, Salt Lake City Utah, on the same dates or in the County Clerk's office in their county of residence. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Carbon County, State of Utah at Price, Utah, this 10th day of s/ ROBERT P. PERO CARBON COUNTY CLERK-AUDITOR Published in the Sun Advocate February 14, 2012. These legal notices, along with those from other fine Utah newspapers, can be viewed at www.utahlegals.com

Fall Carnival comes to Spreckels The Spreckels and Buena Vista PTO will sponsor their annual fall carnival, farmer's market and community barbeque on Saturday, September 28, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. The events will offer game booths, a cake walk, a dunk tank, a variety of foods, and fun for all ages. The event will take place at the Buena Vista Middle School in the Las Palmas community. Tarpy's Roadhouse names new bar manager Tarpy's Roadhouse at 2999 Highway 68, Monterey, has announced Colleen Balzano as its new bar manager. Following 10 years in the restaurant industry, Balzano moved to Monterey, where the Tarpy's is excited to welcome her as its new bar manager. 1st Capital names interim CFO 1st Capital Bank has announced its Chief Financial Officer, Jayme C. Fields, resigned effective Sept. 9. Fields served as its Chief Financial Officer since its inception in 2006. The Bank also announced Marilyn Goode has been appointed as its Interim Chief Financial Officer effective with the departure of Fields. Goode has been an executive officer at the Bank since 2007, most recently serving as Chief Administrative Officer. She will be assisted in managing the bank's accounting, treasury, reporting, and tax related functions by Debra DeCius, who was recently appointed as Controller. H. Irene Shippee has been hired as the bank's Senior Vice President and Operations Administrator. Shippee will assume Goode's prior responsibilities in regards to managing branch offices, deposit operations, cash management, and electronic banking functions. The recruiting for a permanent CFO has commenced in light of Goode's planned retirement sometime during 2014. Credit union changes name, open to all Monterey County Employee Credit Union has changed its name to all U.S. Credit Union. It will offer a wider spectrum of financial services, technological innovations and products and with the name change, membership benefits are open to everyone. Water board punts key decision to Sept. 24 The State Water Resources Control Board delayed a decision on agricultural runoff regulations until September 24. The board met Wednesday in Sacramento to consider a draft Ag Waiver that regulates the quality of water running off of agricultural fields. Farmers in the Salinas Valley have voiced a number of concerns with the draft order, including at the board hearing Wednesday. The Board potentially faces a hard deadline of Oct. 1 for making a decision. The growers' concerns all revolve around details of regulations governing the level of nitrate that would be allowed to run off their fields, according to a Monterey County Farm Bureau alert. ALBA to host Family Farm Day The Agriculture and Land-Based Training Association will host its annual Family Farm Day from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Oct. 5, at 1700 Old Stage Road. The community is invited to visit the organic farm to harvest and purchase fresh seasonable vegetables, berries and flowers while learning about sustainable agricultural practices. There will be bilingual hay ride tours through the farm. Guests will be able to purchase freshly harvested foods, enjoy tomato tasting, taste preserves from Green Gold Organic Farms, and a bee-keeping demonstration with honey for sale. Children's activities include pumpkin decorating, hay rides, mural painting, and a bounce house. Visitors are encouraged to bring cash and re-usable bags for produce purchases. ALBA is at 1700 Old Stage Road south of Salinas. Heading south on Highway 101 turn left on Potter Road, then right on Old Stage Road. Turn right at the ALBA sign and follow the signs into the farm. ALBA is a nonprofit helping beginning farmers to own and operate farms. Information: 831-758-1469 or visit www.albafarmers.org. Local realtor receives top honors Angela Savage, owner of Steinbeck Real Estate, announced today Yolanda Pulido has achieved the Top Listing Agent recognition for Steinbeck Real Estate, Inc. among all residential sales associates thus far in 2013. Pulido began her career with Steinbeck Real Estate as a realtor in 1989. Her bilingual Spanish-English skills are an asset to her business and community. Yolanda enjoys volunteering at her church and her community with her husband, Ruben, and their three adult children in music ministry. She is a former teacher and facilitator for gifted and talented education. She has a bachelor of science degree in health science and a Lifetime Education Teaching Credential. "I'm very honored to earn the top producer recognition and its further proof of my commitment to serving the needs of local home buyers and sellers," Pulido said. Established in 1988, Steinbeck Real Estate is a locally owned and family operated real estate company operating in Monterey, Santa Cruz, and San Benito Counties. Agents buy and sell properties of varying price levels and specialize in short sales and bank owned properties. For more information on Steinbeck Real Estate visit SteinbeckRealEstate.com or call 831-417-1000. Monterey County Sheriff's Log Sept. 9, 2:04 p.m. The victim who lives on San Benancio Road reported approximately $2000 was fraudulently removed from her checking account. Sept. 11, 9 a.m. Las Palmas victim reported unknown suspect(s) stole a large amount of jewelry from her residence. Sept. 11, 6:56 p.m. Reporter on Laureles Grade reported info and wanted firearms stored for safekeeping. Sept. 12, 8:32 a.m. Spreckels resident reported a possible violation of a custody order. Sept. 12, 11:10 a.m. Ivan Stubbs, 53, of 105 San Benancio Road, Salinas, was shot Thursday with a semi-automatic firearm when he attempted to burglarize the home of Bruce Robertson, 1269 Sylvan Road, Monterey. Stubbs allegedly entered the residence via a rear sliding door. He was flown to a trauma center in the Bay Area. As of Sept.13, no arrests have been made in the case. Sept. 12, 9:17 p.m. A Monterey resident reported that someone walked on the freshly varnished floor in his home, damaging the surface. The home owner was worried it might be related to an earlier residential burglary that resulted in a shooting in a nearby house. After investigating, an electrical contractor admitted that he inadvertently walked on the floor causing the damage. The homeowner requested no further action.

Hurricane Dean is gone. It left behind a trail of damage across the Caribbean and Mexico -- for a thorough rundown see here -- including several billion dollars in damage to Jamaica and 11 killed in Haiti. Amazingly, no deaths are reported from the Yucatan (though 10 are reported after the storm made its second landfall near Veracruz). We have to give Mexico a tremendous round of applause for its amazing preparedness. Fascinatingly, though, Dean left behind a different kind of wake as well: A cold wake at the surface of the ocean that it passed over. See here for before-and-after images comparing Caribbean sea surface temperatures on August 17 versus August 22; or see below for a still more pronounced wake on August 23, one that extends all the way into the Bay of Campeche and Gulf of Mexico. What's going on here? Essentially, powerful hurricanes drive warm ocean surface water downward and mix cooler deep water upwards. So when a storm like Dean goes by, you tend to see a cold anomaly at the surface of the ocean to the right of the storm track. [Why the right, you ask? It's because the right front quadrant of a northern hemisphere hurricane is its most powerful area -- that's where winds have the added speed of the storm's forward motion behind them.] In the case of Dean, the wake may even have been less pronounced than otherwise due to the lack of open ocean in the Caribbean. For a truly dramatic wake, look at what Supertyphoon Sepat did last week -- and please note that these images come from a truly wonderful resource, Remote Sensing Systems: The, er, cool thing about hurricane wakes is that some scientists think that they're critical to the redistribution of ocean heat in the direction of the planet's poles. We can see the cold wake at the surface; but there's also a warm anomaly below the surface. In order to restore equilibrium, then, the oceans presumably have to redistribute that additional sub-surface heat pole-ward in the direction of regions where waters are cooler. What's more, that added heat, transported through the oceans, may be enough to have a significant effect on the climate. That's especially so if hurricanes intensify and so drive more warm water down into the ocean depths -- more heat could then get transported to the poles, leading to a disproportionate warming of the higher latitudes in relation to the equatorial ones. Enter your city or zip code to get your local temperature and air quality and find local green food and recycling resources near you.

The LAB is an experimental laboratory dedicated to RED MAGIC, the magic of passion, seduction and love. Our scientists from LAB5 have perfected a formula in order to increase your passion : Elixirs for love, to renew affection or faithfulness… So many incantations, like a hymn to love. In order to fully live this Unique and Sensorial Experience, The Five recommends its Honesty Bar. The concept : drink as you wish and inform reception about your consumptions thanks to the sheet we provided you at check in. First of all, your sense of smell, captivated by one of the 5 fragrances that you may choose to use in your room. Then your sense of touch, attracted by the presence of noble and genuine materials - carpets, velvets, ceramic stoneware and Chinese lacquer… The Five Hotel’s design has a cosy feeling. Over to your sense of taste - impressed by a wonderful crusty breakfast of Viennese bread and buns, washed down with tea or coffee from the Mariage Frères brand with its unique flavours. Now your sight, as you look at the fibre optics light used within the designer decoration to give every single room a psychedelic appearance. Luminous glass desks, star- studded ceilings, light sculptures all create magic brightness. Your hearing will be the fifth sense touched by the FIVE Hotel .This will be a deeply restful experience, thanks to the quietness of the area and the hotel’s double-glazed windows.

Permafrost is soil that has remained below 0C (32F) for more than two years. It occurs in regions where the summer warmth fails to penetrate the ground sufficiently to thaw the soil. These conditions prevail in high-latitude or high-mountain areas that cover roughly a quarter of the Earth's land surface – including Alaska, Canada and Siberia. The thickness of permafrost ranges from a few metres to many hundreds of metres, depending on the local climate. Due to climate change, soil temperatures are rising. This can be seen in long-term borehole measurements from different permafrost zones, which show a significant warming trend during the past 30 years. The permafrost layer is thinned by warming, and disappears entirely if the warming is sufficiently great and sustained. In the near term, thawing permafrost can cause serious local problems – such as damaging or buildings and other infrastructure – but the larger concern around permafrost thaw relates to greenhouse gas emissions. Permafrost soils are extremely rich in organic carbon. According to one estimate they contain about 1700 billion tonnes of it – about twice the total amount of carbon currently in the atmosphere. When the soil remains deep-frozen, the carbon is largely inert, but when the permafrost thaws, the decomposition of organic matter through microbial activity increases sharply – with the consequence that large amounts of carbon will eventually get respired into the atmosphere as CO2 and (to a lesser extent) methane. This is an example of a positive feedback loop, because the greenhouse gases released by the thawing permafrost will exacerbate the warming, leading to more permafrost thawing, more warming, and so on. One recent study estimated that about one-tenth of the permafrost carbon pool might get released by 2100 under a scenario with strong future warming – equivalent to around twenty years of man-made CO2 emissions at current rates. More still would be released over subsequent centuries, and the process would not be readily reversible. The ultimate climate change FAQ This editorial is free to reproduce under Creative Commons This post by The Guardian is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 2.0 UK: England & Wales License. Based on a work at guardian.co.uk

Guy Garvey - whose band, Elbow, were shortlisted for the Mercury prize for a second time this week - is a classic example of a northern musician who has retained humble roots while having an impact at the top of pop. His band are not commercially huge, although they have sold almost 1 million albums in an 18-year career and their fourth, The Seldom Seen Kid, recently went top-five. However, they have received critical acclaim and an almost unparalleled respect among peers including U2, REM, Blur and Massive Attack. Coldplay's Chris Martin penned their smash Fix You after listening to Elbow's song Grace Under Pressure. But Garvey, one of seven siblings born into a working-class family in Bury, Greater Manchester, has never become complacent or driven by commercial success. When Velvet Underground legend John Cale selected Elbow's Switching Off among his desert island discs Garvey declared it "probably the greatest moment" of his life. His triumphs have been achieved despite personal and professional setbacks. A birdwatcher who loves to glimpse falcons soaring over Manchester's sprawl, he strives to find beauty amid the bleak. Onstage, Garvey is a mournful, emotional performer in songs and a wisecracking, self-effacing character between them. He once led a Glastonbury audience to sing, "We still believe in love, so fuck you". He is undoubtedly a sensitive soul. "When he performs he's always asking, 'Is everybody OK?'" says Pete Jobson of Manchester band I Am Kloot, who has known "Garv" for 15 years. "He's genuinely concerned. He realises the emotional weight of what he is singing about so he'll lighten it up with a joke. He can tell stories all night but he has real reason for what he does. He's on the side of the good: community, family values. He sings about what he needs to sing about. It's courageous, heart-on-your-sleeve stuff." Garvey has said his responsibility is to tackle the bigger issues ignored by contemporary music, and the staples of this were established early in his life, when he shaped his intellect devouring the books which lined the family chimney breast, from encyclopedias to the social realism of Alan Sillitoe's novels. His trade unionist father, a Mirror Group proofreader, brought home both the Mirror and the Telegraph, and Garvey's eldest sister Gina remembers lively discussions about politics and conversations which shifted from humorous to dark. Garvey's stagecraft began around the dinner table, which his mother compared to playing the Glasgow Empire. "We'd entertain each other," says Gina. "I can remember Guy enjoying the limelight and we shouted 'Boring!' It was a bit cruel but now whenever he talks about his lyrics it's, 'Keep it tight, interesting, minimal.'" Garvey was bullied at school for having what his sister describes as "ears like open car doors". After an operation to pin them back, his classmates chorused: "Holding back the ears." Garvey laughed it off, but Gina, a counsellor, suggests such incidents explain his sensitivity. She says their parents' divorce when Garvey was 13 further fed the introspection and observational skills which Garvey brought to Elbow as a 16-year-old student at Bury College. Long before the band's 2001 Mercury-shortlisted Asleep in the Back - which describes lives coloured by heroin and abuse - Pete Jobson remembers how Garvey would sit in pubs, with a notebook, watching people. In recent years, he has found chinks of light whatever the prevailing gloom. He found new love after the collapse of a relationship with DJ Edith Bowman. This year's Mercury contender The Seldom Seen Kid followed a period in which the band's collective joy at fatherhood was shattered by the death of close musician friend Bryan Glancy, aged 39. Comparing the album's lyrics to "a beautiful lyrical gravestone", Gina describes her brother as a man who strives to be appreciated as he appreciates others. Whether Elbow triumph at the Mercury or not, Garvey is unlikely to change. "He's said Elbow will never split up," says long-time manager Phil Campbell. "He's a rock to a lot of people in Manchester. He sees the good in everybody. He's never talked about wanting to be a millionaire. He lives to make the music he wants to make." Born Bury, Greater Manchester, 1974 Career In early 90s, while at sixth form college in Bury, formed Elbow with Mark and Craig Potter, Pete Turner, and Richard Jupp. Released a series of independent EPs: Noisebox, Newborn, and Any Day Now. First album, Asleep in the Back, out on V2 Records in 2001 and earned nominations for Mercury prize and best new band at the Brits. After two more albums, signed to Fiction records for this year's Mercury-nominated The Seldom Seen Kid. Extracurricular activities Garvey has performed with I Am Kloot (whose debut album he produced), Richard Hawley and Frank Black among others. Presents a radio show on BBC 6Music, and helps run independent label Skinny Dog records.

Last night was a hugely significant occasion all in the Tunbridge Wells Ordinariate group. Why? Because we entered S. Augustine’s church as one thing but left as something else entirely- members of the universal Catholic church in full communion with 1.4 billion people and the Holy Father himself. It was a night of great blessing and joy charged with emotion and love. The service began with the great hymn ‘One Church, One Faith, One Lord’ which set the tone for all that would follow. The focus was on the unity of the whole church – something which those entering the Ordinariate believe they are passionately involved in. We travel deeper into the heart of the church blazing a trail which we pray others will follow. ‘That all may be one’. The moment of reception and anointing was particularly beautiful. Seeing so many people enter into communion with Rome was really very powerful. I wonder – was this the largest group conversion since the time of the Reformation itself? And even so it is not quite finished yet! We have another family of five to be received as soon as possible (dad is away in Europe with a work commitment), three housebound people who will be received in the coming weeks also and one wonderful teenage lad who is currently away on a school trip. At this point we will number 72. The offertory hymn was ‘the church’s one foundation’ and it was very humbling to be asked to administer the chalice alongside our other soon-to-be-ordinariate priest Nicholas Leviseur. ‘Sweet sacrament divine’ was our post communion hymn and we finished, in honour of Our Lady of Walsingham, with the joyous hymn ‘Ye who own the faith of Jesus’. After Mass I came forward with the children to lead the singing of the Angelus. We sang before the new image of Our Lady of Walsingham unveiled for the first time last night and picked up from Walsingham after a long drive on Monday. She will remain with our local group from this point on that we may be united with our Patron. Photographs of the occasion can be viewed here. Huge thanks to James Bradley who was present to take photographs- quite an effort given that he was also present at the Westminster Chrism mass and at Allen Hall earlier in the day. Thanks also to Fr. Peter Stoddard who welcomed us at S. Augustines and to Fr. Behruz who assisted with the service and has cared for us so well at S. Anselms. And finally thanks to the members of the Ordinariate themselves and to those family and friends who supported us. What a wonderful occasion as together we continue to move forwards in faith. So how does it feel to be in full communion with the Catholic church universal? Great! It is like being coloured in having been in black and white for many years- a strange analogy but it makes sense to me. Nothing new has been added to my knowledge or beliefs but everything is much fuller and it is so good to be in a church that can unite around one altar and proclaim a common creed. There is much work ahead for our group locally but now we are building safe on the rock of S. Peter.

Throughout its full range of weights, Sentinel’s design employs strategies that help it flourish in sizes both large and small. Slab serifs often have a specific size at which they look their best. Typefaces that shine in display sizes can look awkward when set smaller, if their designs are too rigidly geometric, or their spacing too doctrinaire. Yet typefaces designed for text often look peculiar when enlarged, once they begin to reveal the accommodations needed to help them work at small sizes. Sentinel is that rare slab serif that feels natural in both sizes. Like other Antiques, its moderate contrast helps complex characters adapt to a broad range of weights, and allows letters like a and g to maintain their traditional forms. Modulating the weight of strokes as they approach one another helps give every letter a sharply defined edge, making characters crisp at large sizes and clear at small ones. And Sentinel’s thinner horizontal strokes allow more space into the interiors of letters, helping make text settings appear larger than they actually are.

Historically, a major goal of my research program has been to reveal the cellular and molecular basis of antibody formation and the development of memory B cells. Somatic hypermutation plays a critical role in these processes by altering the sequences of antibody variable (V) genes while B cells respond to foreign immunogen in germinal centers. Selection pressures normally favor the continued participation of rare B cell clones expressing mutant receptor antibodies that bind immunogen with improved affinity. As such, the memory B cell repertoire is normally established. More recently, my laboratory has taken an interest in elucidating the etiology of autoantibody formation in systemic autoimmune diseases such as lupus (SLE). Although it plays a decisive role in acquired immunity, SHM is a potentially dangerous process and one that we suspect is critical for the generation of such pathological autoantibodies. Conventional wisdom holds that newly minted B cells emerging from the bone marrow with an autoreactive receptor sometimes escape the self-tolerance mechanisms that normally censor the repertoire and that following activation by self-antigen, such B cells acquire somatic mutations that may improve the affinity with which their receptor antibodies bind self-antigen. Alternatively, SHM may be playing a much more decisive role by actually creating autoreactive B cell clones de novo from nonautoreactive antecedents. Our studies to date support the latter of these two alternatives. As such, we are building a new model to examine self-tolerance in B cells and their escape from self-tolerance at the post-mutational, germinal center stage of activation. In order to participate in autoimmune response, B cells must receive help from ab T cells. But the origin and antigenic specificity of this help are unknown. One possibility we are exploring is that somatic hypermutation creates new T cell epitopes within the B cell receptor that enable the autoreactive B cell to obtain T cell help. This is plausible because B cells not only process and present peptides from foreign immunogen in the context of class II MHC, they also process and present peptides derived from their receptor antibody. We refer to this idea as the “receptor presentation” hypothesis. We are looking at this from two perspectives. On the one hand, we are testing the idea that receptor presentation ultimately provides the major avenue of help to pathological autoreactive B cells. On the other, we are determining how receptor presentation is normally precluded under physiological circumstances. We assume that specialized tolerance mechanisms must normally regulate this avenue of help, otherwise autoimmunity would be the rule not the exception. To test our ideas, we have developed transgenic lines of mice that carry B cells expressing mutant antibody molecules with defined T cell epitopes and corresponding transgenic lines that carry corresponding ab T cells that react to these epitopes. In a final project, we have developed a unique transgenic model in which B cells express a dual-reactive receptor that binds a self-antigen (ssDNA) with low affinity and a defined hapten called p-azophenylarsonate (Ars). The dual specificity of this receptor enables us to examine the behavior of these Ars/A1 B cells in immune responses to Ars when it is conjugated to a foreign protein (Ars-carrier). We have discovered that anergic Ars/A1 B cells strongly inhibit the immune response of normal B cells to Ars and to the foreign carrier protein. In view of the fact that the wildtype repertoire of B cells contains a substantial fraction of anergic B cells that bind nuclear antigens with low affinity protein, we propose that anergic B cells play a regulatory role in the immune system by inducing tolerance in T cells that are specific for nuclear antigens. Experiments are underway to test this basic idea.

Longwood University is a four-year public, liberal-arts university located in Farmville, Virginia, United States. It was founded in 1839 and became a university on July 1, 2002. It currently has an undergraduate enrollment of about 4,080 and a total enrollment of 4,800. Longwood offers over 100 majors and minors in three colleges: the Cook-Cole College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Business and Economics, and the College of Education and Human Services. The university is consistently ranked in the top ten public, masters-level universities in the South by U.S. News and World Report. In 2005 it was recognized by USA Today as among 20 schools in the country that promote and foster student success. The Longwood Theatre program is accredited by the National Association of Schools of Theatre. The Longwood Music Department is fully accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music. The Longwood faculty includes Dr. James William Jordan, who was recognized as State Teacher of the Year in 1992 by the Virginia General Assembly. An anthropologist, he founded the Longwood Archeology Field School in 1980. He has led archeological studies in central Virginia to study the cultures of its earliest inhabitants, as well as studies of nineteenth century sites, including plantations, cemeteries and historic buildings. In 1995 he was selected as the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Professor of the Year. On March 23rd, 2013, W. Taylor Reveley IV was chosen as Longwood's president by a unanimous vote of the Board of Visitors. He began his term June 1st, 2013, succeeding interim president Marge Connelly. Reveley's father, W. Taylor Reveley III, is the president of the College of William & Mary, and his grandfather was president of Hampden-Sydney College. The Cook-Cole College of Arts and Sciences offers many programs. Two signature programs are the MBAdvantage Program, in which students receive a bachelor's degree in a field in Arts or Science and an MBA in about five years, and the Liberal Studies program. The Liberal Studies major is designed specifically for students' seeking certification to teach with an Elementary, Middle, or Special Education Endorsement. With careful scheduling and attention to the requirements for admission to the teacher preparation program, a student can complete all degree and program requirements in four years. Liberal studies majors take courses in English, Mathematics, Natural Sciences, and Social Sciences. They also take 40 credits of education courses from the department of Education and Special Education. The Teacher Preparation Program is administered through the Office of Professional Services. The College of Business and Economics at Longwood University, under the leadership of Dr. Paul Barrett, is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, the highest accrediting agency for business schools worldwide. Students can earn either a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, or a Bachelor of Science in Economics, with B.S.B.A. concentrations including Accounting, Finance, Management, Marketing, Real Estate, Economics, and Information Systems and Security and Bachelor's of Science in Economics concentrations including Business Economics, International Economics and General Economics. In addition, the College of Business and Economics offers a minor in Cyber Security through the Longwood Center for Cyber Security, and operates a Logistics Center as a research partner with the Commonwealth Center for Advanced Logistics Systems. Founded on March 5, 1839, as the Farmville Female Seminary Association, Longwood University is one of the oldest institutions of higher learning in the United States and is one of the oldest public institutions of higher education for women in the United States. The Farmville Female College was incorporated in 1860 as the increasing prosperity of the seminary led the stockholders to expand it into a college. Longwood is the third oldest public institution of higher learning in Virginia, after the College of William and Mary and the University of Virginia. On April 7, 1884, the state of Virginia acquired the property of the Farmville Female College, and in October of the same year the Normal School opened with 110 students enrolled, making it the first state institution of higher learning for women in Virginia. The Normal School expanded its curriculum over the years and progressed through a succession of names. It became the State Normal School for Women in 1914, the State Teachers College at Farmville in 1924, and Longwood College in 1949. The school is named after the historic Longwood House. In 1954, graduate programs were authorized. Longwood became fully coeducational in June 1976. On April 24, 2001, a main university building, Ruffner Hall, caught on fire and burned down despite the efforts of multiple local fire departments including the Farmville fire department. It was in the middle of a renovation and was subsequently rebuilt. Ruffner Hall, built in 1839 as the "College Building", evolved through several stages of construction and expansion from 1839 to 1907. For decades the sprawling Ruffner, whose image appears on the university's logo and seal, was the main administration building, with administrative offices on the first floor and student housing on the upper two floors. After students vacated the building by the early 1970s, dorm rooms were converted to office and classroom space. The former library, Lancaster Hall, was renovated and reopened in 1996 as the main administration building. Ruffner was then used primarily for classrooms and faculty offices before being closed in 1999 for renovation. Governor Mark Warner officially signed legislation changing Longwood's designation to university on April 24, 2002, the one-year anniversary of the fire that destroyed Ruffner Hall. Longwood's main campus comprises approximately 154 acres (0.62 km2) near downtown Farmville, Virginia. The architecture of the campus ranges from its more historic “north core” to its more contemporary southern end – organized along a central promenade, Brock Commons. The older part of campus stretches along High Street from French dormitory to Grainger Hall. These six red-brick Jeffersonian buildings: French (currently being renovated to serve as the future home of the Informational Technology department), Tabb (athletics), South Ruffner Residence Hall, Grainger, Ruffner, and Blackwell Halls date from the 1830s to the 1920s, are joined by a covered colonnade, and bear the university’s signature red roofs. At the center of this complex is Longwood’s main building, Ruffner Hall. The College of Arts and Sciences and recently[when?] the university’s athletic offices, are located along this section of campus. To the western end of the north core is the administration building, Lancaster, as well as Jarman Auditorium and the Chichester Science Center, which was completed in 2007. Adjacent to the campus' central pedestrian walk, Brock Commons, are the College of Business and Economics in Hiner Building, Cunningham Residence Hall, the Dorrill Dining Hall, and the Lankford Student Union. At the south end of campus are the library, music and arts buildings, and the Hull Education Center. In September 2009, Longwood completed, a new Communications and Theater building features a 75 seat flexible black box theater, 100 seat studio theater, multi-function classrooms, costume lab, rehearsal studio, traditional drafting lab, and a computer design lab. The Health and Fitness Center opened on August 28, 2007. The 80,000-square-foot (7,400 m2) facility features an indoor track, basketball and racquetball courts, a climbing wall, work-out rooms, juice bar, and the latest weight, exercise, and training equipment. Across Main Street, a new retail/student housing complex consisting of four four-story buildings arranged in a pedestrian mall-type setting, called "Longwood Landings", was completed in the fall of 2006. This complex includes the university's bookstore. A satellite area known as Lancer Park sits north of the main campus just across Route 460 and includes several athletic fields, athletic facilities and residential apartments. New vehicular and pedestrian bridges access Lancer Park. The Longwood University Lancers athletics program fully transitioned into a NCAA Division I in 2007, after competing as an independent since the 2004-2005 season. It continued competing as an independent until affiliation with the Big South Conference in 2012. The men's sports include baseball, basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, and tennis. Women's sports offered include basketball, cross country, field hockey, golf, lacrosse, soccer, softball, and tennis. The program has produced a number of professional athletes, most notably Jerome Kersey (NBA), Michael Tucker (MLB), and Tina Barrett (LPGA), all of whom were part of the school's inaugural Athletics Hall of Fame Class in 2006. Longwood also has many club sports, including rugby, baseball, football, men's lacrosse, roller hockey, golf, and others. The Men's Rugby Team took 3rd place in USA Rugby's Division 3 National Tournament in 2007, and again in 2009. In 2011 Men's Rugby won the National Championship. The 2010-2011 season ended with the Lancers ranked #1 in the nation for Division III schools. They beat Occidental College (CA) in the National Championship by the score of 36-27 on May 1st in Virginia Beach, VA. The National Championship is the school's first. The club baseball team in their second year of competition made it to the Division II club baseball world series in Johnstown, PA. They went 2-2 and finished 4th. Longwood University's Princeton Review "Quality of Life Rating", at 68 on a scale of 60 to 99, is the lowest among Virginia's rated public colleges and universities. Additionally, Longwood has the second lowest freshman retention rate (79%) of all participating public colleges and universities in Virginia. Longwood has been voted one of the greenest campuses in the Southeast by Blue Ridge Outdoors Magazine. Longwood has several annual traditions, such as the Oktoberfest and Spring Weekend concerts. Oktoberfest is usually held on the first weekend in October, while Spring Weekend typically occurs on the third weekend in April. Concerts run by the student radio station WMLU are held on the final two days of both Spring Weekend and Oktoberfest. Artists such as The Ramones, Peter Himmelman, Lovell Sisters, Air Miami, Matthew Sweet, Lois Maffeo, Brenda Kahn, Something Corporate, Yellowcard, Carbon Leaf, Cartel, Dierks Bentley, Chuck Wicks, Taylor Swift, Andrew W.K., Regina Spektor, James Otto, Justin Moore, Streetlight Manifesto, Shiny Toy Guns, Josh Kelley, Flogging Molly, Story of the Year, The Fray, Matt Nathanson, Baby Bash, 311, Phunk Junkeez, The Bloodhound Gang, 2 Skinnee J's,and Shwayze have performed in the past. Throughout the rest of the year weekend events are sponsored by the student activities board, Lancer Productions. Past acts have included comedians Elvira Kurt, Stephen Lynch, Loni Love, Jimmy Fallon, Carrot Top, and Jon Stewart. Popular at Longwood is its secret society, CHI, represented by the Greek letter X. CHI was founded on October 15, 1900. Members are secretly "tapped" and are revealed only at the conclusion of their senior year during the annual CHI Burning, a large bonfire held on campus to commend members of the Longwood community for their selfless acts. CHI at times leave "CHI droppings" on campus, and it is considered very rare for somebody to find one. Pieces of CHI are not meant to leave campus, and are to be passed down before one graduates, per tradition. Another secret society at Longwood is Princeps, which was founded on seven principles of leadership. Members are selected during their undergraduate career. The group recognizes and honors citizens of the Longwood community who are exceptional leaders. Joan of Arc Unique among public American universities is Longwood’s adoption of a patron saint. Saint Joan of Arc is said to both protect and inspire Longwood students. The University’s two prized depictions of Joan are Jeanne d’Arc, — known affectionately as “Joanie on the Stony" — an 1870 plaster statue created by French sculptor Henri-Michel-Antoine Chapu, and Anna Hyatt Huntington's 1915 bronze Joan of Arc equestrian statue, nicknamed “Joanie on the Pony.” Rituals and myths dealing with the two statues abound. Joanie on the Stony, for example, heralds the occasion of every CHI walk with a pair of mysteriously appearing blue and white carnations. Joanie on the Stony is also said to bring good luck for tests to students who touch her clasped hands on their way to class. Joanie on the Pony, however, with her knight's armor and sword, acts as Longwood’s protector. On the night of the Great Fire of 2001, Joanie turned bright red upon her horse from the intense heat of the flames. Although the fire spread west-ward, engulfing Grainger Hall along with Ruffner, the connected student dorms past Joanie to the east remained untouched — the fire stopped directly before her. In October 2009, Joanie on the Pony was vandalized. After being restored, she was placed in Ruffner Hall in April 2010. The Dos Passos Prize The English department at Longwood University awards the annual John Dos Passos Prize For Literature, founded in 1980. Notable past recipients include Graham Greene, Tom Wolfe, Shelby Foote, Paule Marshall, Ernest J. Gaines, E. Annie Proulx, and Richard Powers.

Scott Walker Victory Signals Tough Road Ahead for Barack Obama, Democrats The outcome of the recall election means Republicans will only intensify focus on Wisconsin June 6, 2012 Scott Walker was projected to win, but not win this big. His 7-point victory (53 percent to 46 percent) in Wisconsin's recall election last night suggests a serious challenge for President Barack Obama and the Democrats come November. This is a big triumph for Walker, the Republicans, and Romney. And they know it. Romney has every reason to crow as he did on Twitter last night—"Tonight's results will echo beyond the borders of Wisconsin," he tweeted. Winning by 7 points and defying the early rounds of exit polls that showed it was tied or plus-4 is a clear improvement from 2010 for the Republicans. It is an unquestioned victory and will most certainly embolden Republicans going forward to do collective bargaining reform. The Wisconsin result is also a major setback for the Democrats and labor. As Tom Barrett said in his concession speech, the Democrats must "remain engaged," but there is no doubt that last night's result poses a serious challenge to them going forward in Wisconsin and on the national stage. Although he has remained quiet, the results from last night are a clear warning to President Obama, both for the national results and for the state of Wisconsin. It is clear now that the initial wave of the exit poll showing Obama with an 11-point lead is almost certainly an exaggeration. Indeed, the weighted numbers showed his margin coming down to 7 points. In that the exit poll for the gubernatorial race underestimated Walker's margin of victory between 5 and 9 points, so too, I would suggest, there was a similar exaggeration in the presidential race. If we then assume, for the sake of argument, that the exit polls similarly exaggerated Obama's lead over Romney, Obama's initial 11-point lead that the exit polls showed would drop to between 2 and 6 points. This would then put Obama's actual lead in Wisconsin in line with the Real Clear Politics average of about 5 for Wisconsin. Extrapolating nationally from these trends, it is probably a safe conclusion to say that, if anything, the Wisconsin election demonstrates that the national vote between Romney and Obama is very close to the statistical tie many of the polls are now showing. The race remains wide open. So what are the operative conclusions from last night's election? The Republican Party will be emboldened. Labor and the Democrats will recognize that they need to redouble their efforts to remain competitive in November. The Democrats need more than a ground game—they need a message. A message they don't have as of yet. Finally, with Scott Walker having vastly outspent Tom Barrett and the Democrats, the power of Republican super PAC money in November cannot be overestimated. Expect the Republicans to contest Wisconsin vigorously now and in the fall.

Re: I changed my account name but... "Keech" <[email protected]> wrote in message > Ok so i JUST got a vista. TODAY. > We had the guy at circut city install software so he made a normal account > without a password, with the name Richard. > i went and changed the name to Keech, admin with password. > vista logon says it thinks its keech, but the folder itself is name > and when i see advanced settings for user account the name Richard is back > it interfeers with omnipass and lots of other programs. > can anyone help? All you have done by changing the account name is just that - you have changed the externally visible login and display name for the account object. Everything behind that account such as folder names and registry information remains as was when it was first created. The ideal solution would be to create a new account and then install the relevant software under that account (obviously if you want to use the same name then first rename the current account to something else)

Family Camping Information Family Camping areas are non reservable and available on a "first-come first-serve basis". Camping Season is April 1 thru November 3 at the park locations on the right side menu. Reservations are not accepted. - Select a Vacant Campsite - One vehicle per campsite - Second vehicle must obtain a separate park entrance sticker from the Park Entrance Booth and park in parking lot. - Set-Up your campsite first - Self-register and record your campsite number on the envelope located in the top of the self-registration lock box. View registration envelope w/County Annual Sticker: $12.00/unit/night Amenities include - (Sorry, no electric or hookups): Pit Toilets nearby Group Camping Reservations Reservations for 2014 begin Thursday, January 2, 2014, for the April thru November camping season. Reservations and overnight fees apply to each designated camping area. If a permit is cancelled for any reason, the reservation fee and one overnight fee, per night, will be forfeited. To make a reservation: (Please have the following information ready.) - Park and desired date(s). - Site(s) desired. - Alternate dates. - Name, address, group name if any, phone number, number of people in group, and number of anticipated units. - Tax exempt number, if applicable. - Make a Reservation Request - Reservation fees are due at time of booking. No exceptions. - Credit Card (MasterCard, Visa and American Express accepted.) Please have card number and expiration date available. - Reservation fee applies to each designated camping area. If a reservation is cancelled for any reason, the reservation fee and one overnight fee, per night, will be forfeited. - No refunds are given due to weather conditions unless the park or facilities are officially closed due to severe, life-threatening weather. Camping Rules for Family and Groups: Seven (7) night maximum stay. - Checkout time is 3:00 P.M. daily. - Quiet time is 10:00 P.M. to sunrise. (Please be considerate of your neighbors and keep the noise to a minimum - at all times.) - Campers under 18 years of age must be with a parent or guardian. - Maximum length of trailers - 20 ft. - Alcohol is not permitted. - No hook ups available. Due to the recent discovery of the Emerald Ash Borer in Wisconsin, Waukesha County is no longer allowing campers to transport firewood into the campgrounds. The Emerald Ash Borer is considered a major economic threat to Wisconsin’s Ash Trees, and spreads easily via firewood. All of Waukesha County's parks with campgrounds sell firewood, and we are requiring campers to buy their firewood from the park where they will be staying. Thank you for your cooperation. Camping set-up info

September 20, 2013 Construction Update FM-CO97(118)—55-97, PCC Inlay Project on County Road D51, Luton Paving. Letting date: February 19, 2013. Project cost: $1,776,669. Contractor: Cedar Valley Corporation. All project work is complete. The road opened to traffic on Friday, September 6th. L-B09(2)—73-97, Corrugated Metal Pipe Replacement of existing bridge on Lenox Avenue, Letting date: June 5, 2013. Bid price: $66,744.00. Contractor: L. A. Carlson Contracting. The Board awarded the project on June 4th. We are waiting for the contractor to return signed contracts, insurance, and bonding for board approval. Summer 2013 construction is anticipated. L-B(X9)—73-97, 280th Street Bridge east of Taylor Avenue: Replacement of failed greenwood structure and bridge with a new twin 8’x8’ reinforced concrete box culvert. Letting date:September 24, 2013. Final plans are completed and the project is being let at the Board of Supervisors meeting on September 24th. It is our hope to have the bridge replaced in mid-November, prior to winter. County Maintenance Activities: Work continued this week in District 5 where maintenance staff are upgrading Allison Avenue north of 235th Street and 225th Street west of the Sioux City limits. These roads are being improved to serve as haul roads for the CF Industries building project. The roads will be treated with dust palliative next week.

Redwood City is approximately 20 miles south of San Francisco, 10 miles north of Palo Alto, has two major highways on either side of the city (101 and 280), and access to the Cal Train and a number of busses. If you buy a home in Redwood City, you will be in the county seat. Redwood City has approximately 75,108 citizens, and is the... Show all » Redwood City is approximately 20 miles south of San Francisco, 10 miles north of Palo Alto, has two major highways on either side of the city (101 and 280), and access to the Cal Train and a number of busses. If you buy a home in Redwood City, you will be in the county seat. Redwood City has approximately 75,108 citizens, and is the third most populous city in San Mateo County. Housing in Redwood City is very diverse, as is its population. There is a mix of condominiums, two bedroom homes, three bedroom homes; there are homes of all sizes, big and small. The lot sizes have stayed relatively the same, but the bigger homes make them appear smaller. Overall, people in Redwood City take a lot of pride in their homes and the lawns are well manicured, community is valued, and crime is low. There are numerous strip malls with grocery stores, restaurants, and clothing stores. The downtown is quaint and has coffee shops, cafes, a movie theater, and many art galleries. The schools of Redwood City are known for their academics and diverse student bodies. The three high schools of Redwood City, Menlo Atherton, Sequoia, and Woodside, boast a 95% graduation rate, and 82% of those graduates go on to pursue higher education. Good schools, diverse community, easy access to the surrounding beauty of the Bay Area, and proximity to Silicon Valley and San Francisco contribute to Redwood City's understandable popularity and booming real estate market. Real estate in Redwood City is ideal for families, singles, and senior citizens alike. In February 2010, the average home sales price for a single family home or condo in Redwood City was $660,317. While this data is collected from the MLS and deemed reliable, it is not guaranteed. « Show less Copyright 1999-2013 and Patent Pending, ZipRealty, Inc. All rights reserved. Follow Us On The information being provided by MLSListings Inc. is for the consumer's personal, non-commercial use and may not be used for any purpose other than to identify prospective properties consumer may be interested in purchasing. Any information relating to real estate for sale referenced on this web site comes from the Internet Data Exchange (IDX) program of the MLSListings Inc.. ZipRealty, Inc. is not a Multiple Listing Service (MLS), nor does it offer MLS access. This website is a service of ZipRealty, Inc., a broker participant of MLSListings Inc.. This web site may reference real estate listing(s) held by a brokerage firm other than the broker and/or agent who owns this web site. Listings marked with an icon are provided courtesy of the MLSListings Inc., Internet Data Exchange Database. The accuracy of all information, regardless of source, including but not limited to open house information, square footages and lot sizes, is deemed reliable but not guaranteed and should be personally verified through personal inspection by and/or with the appropriate professionals. The data contained herein is copyrighted by MLSListings Inc. and is protected by all applicable copyright laws. Any unauthorized dissemination of this information is in violation of copyright laws and is strictly prohibited. Copyright 2013 MLSListings Inc.. All rights reserved. Data last updated: Friday, December 6, 2013 at 7:22 AM

Every spring a powerful impulse takes possession of Berliners. As the sun warms the city, and trees burst into leaf, every man and woman deserts their state-of-the-art kitchen and heads to the park to grill meat. Take last Saturday evening for example. Mrs. Cat and I marinated some chicken, tossed together a Greek salad and pulled out of the fridge a few bottles of Paulaner Hefeweizen. We packed them into a picnic basket and – with our eight-year-old son Maus in tow -- set off for our local park. We’ve been to the park hundreds of times of course: to go sledging in winter, to launch fireworks at Silvester, to collect elderflower blossoms for cordial in May. I walk the dog there almost every lunchtime. Plus whenever I complete a chapter of my Berlin travel book I reward myself with twenty minutes sitting on the grass in the sun. Last Saturday evening the park was packed, as usual: lovers wrapped in blankets, families playing badminton, boys kicking footballs, dotty grannies trying to find their way back to the nearby retirement home, drunks shouting directions from the periphery. Our park is especially popular with Berlin’s Thai community who descend in their hundreds to gossip, gamble and cook up great vats of green and red curry. Atop cooler boxes they set up makeshift stalls to sell crunchy prawn cakes, spicy pork skewers and delicious papaya salads. But this time there was a difference. Beyond the ranks of smoking grills, a group of twentysomethings had hauled stacks of column speakers, a mixing deck and a portable generator into the park. As we spread out our blanket and lit the BBQ, the kids cranked up the volume and started to dance. The music electrified the evening, turning it into a festival. Toddlers, middle-aged mothers and those disorientated, grinning grannies soon started to shimmy and shake. Lovers moved with the beat. Even the footballers and drunks were energised, launching balls and slurred lyrics over the dancers’ heads. Our neighbourhood park isn’t unique in Berlin. In the warm weather every green space in the city becomes an excuse to celebrate life. Great clouds of aromatic smoke rise from grilling lamb chops and köfte meatballs in Schloßpark Bellevue. On Sunday mornings Friedrichshain’s Volkspark is invaded by young and ravenous boppers, many of whom haven’t yet made it home after a night at the clubs. Tempelhof may be closed to air traffic but it’s open to the general public who stroll, cycle and fly kites along the old runways. At the Mauerpark in Prenzlauer Berg, Sunday means karaoke. Two years ago Irish expat Joe Hatchiban set up a beach chair, umbrella and speakers then plugged in his karaoke set. In time his small, local gathering has morphed into a major outdoor event with up to 2,000 people gathering around the Bear Pit and belting out their favourite hits. Three Sundays ago one young man actually dropped to his knee and – to the gentle melody of Lady GaGa’s Bad Romance -- proposed to his partner. Every city has its parks, picnics and public events, of course, so what is it that makes Berlin special? To me it’s the absence of competitiveness or social exclusion. In these public places people don’t crank up their radios to drown out their neighbours’ CD players, or try to out do each other with Duchy organic sausages or posh champagne. In a way – and the old devils of the SED will be pleased to hear this confession – there’s a healthy sense of proletarian equality among Berliners. For the most part Wilmersdorf’s widows, Berghain’s dancers, Schöneberg’s Shar Pei owners, Kreuzberg’s köfte grillers, Herta’s footballers, even the capital’s drunks are happy to let each other be themselves, to let them indulge their private passions. Last weekend in our local park there were no public proposals of marriage to a techno beat but, knowing Berlin, it will only be a matter of time – and the dotty grannies will be delighted. Donnerstag, 26. Mai 2011 (Seite 1 von 1, insgesamt 1 Einträge)

August 6, 2012 in Uncategorized Meet Miss. Philippa “Phil” Raschker, 65 years old from Meriatta, Georgia. In 2004, Phil became the oldest female finalists in the history of the prestigious James E. Sullivan Award, which recognizes America’s best Amateur Athlete. The other 2004 finalists for the award were Diana Taurasi, Apolo Ohno, LeBran James and the winner Michael Phelps. In 23 years as a Masters and Senior Track & Field athlete, competing in practically every event possible, Phil Raschker set and unbelievable 105 American Age group records and 45 world records. Along the way she pioneered the women’s polevault, clearing an age group world record of 11 feet one inch at the age of 42 and set standard in the heptathlon that most men her age cannot attain. With all of this, she still had time to assist and instruct her fellow competitors, many of whom will tell you that were it not for Phil’s encouragement they would no longer be competing. She is perhaps the most decorated female athlete in the history of senior track & field. Most of us believe that an Olympian must be young and perfectly built, but there are another set of Olympians that are winning records of their own. The NSGA, Nation Senior Games Association, is a non-profit member of the United States Olympic Committee dedicated to motivating senior men and women to lead a healthy lifestyle through the senior games movement. These 50 years old and older athletes compete in Archery, Badminton, Basketball, Bowling, Cycling, Golf, Horseshoes, Pickleball, Race Walk, Racquetball, Road Race, Shuffleboard, Softball, Swimming, Table Tennis, Tennis, Track & Field, Triathlon, and Volleyball. Age of Champions is the award-winning documentary following five competitors who sprint, leap, and swim for gold at the National Senior Olympics. You’ll meet a 100 year-old tennis champion, 86 year-old pole vaulter, and rough-and-tumble basketball grandmothers as they discover the power of the human spirit and triumph over the limitations of age. The National Senior Games Association and the Greater Cleveland Sports Commission are excited to host the 2013 Summer National Senior Games in Cleveland, Ohio! Cleveland is a world-class city that will greet the Summer National Senior Games with open arms and a commitment to making this a great and memorable event for all. The medal-contending competitions are free for spectators with the majority to take place in Cleveland’s vibrant Downtown at our state-of-the-art facilities that include Cleveland Public Hall, Cleveland State University, Case Western Reserve University, Victory Park Ohio and the beautiful shores of Lake Erie.

J/A+A/430/223 Parameters of cool companions of sdB stars (Lisker+, 2005) Hot subdwarfs from the ESO Supernova Ia Progenitor Survey. I. Atmospheric parameters and cool companions of sdB stars. Lisker T., Heber U., Napiwotzki R., Christlieb N., Han Z., Homeier D., Reimers D. <Astron. Astrophys., 430, 223-243 (2005)> =2005A&A...430..223L ADC_Keywords: Binaries, spectroscopic ; Stars, subdwarf ; Stars, atmospheres Keywords: binaries: spectroscopic - stars: abundances - stars: atmospheres - stars: fundamental parameters - stars: horizontal-branch - subdwarfs Abstract: We present the analysis of a high-resolution, high-quality sample of optical spectra for 76 subdwarf B (sdB) stars from the ESO Supernova Ia Progenitor Survey (SPY, Napiwotzki et al., 2001A&A...367..973N). Effective temperature, surface gravity, and photospheric helium abundance are determined simultaneously by fitting the profiles of hydrogen and helium lines using synthetic spectra calculated from LTE and NLTE model atmospheres. We perform a detailed comparison of our measurements with theoretical calculations, both for single star evolution and for binary population synthesis models of close binary evolution. Description: Observations were obtained at the ESO Very Large Telescope with UT2 (Kueyen) equipped with the UV-Visual Echelle Spectrograph. File Summary: FileName Lrecl Records Explanations ReadMe 80 . This file table1.dat 98 76 Results of our spectral analysis. See also: J/A+A/442/1023 : 17 bright subdwarf B stars radial velocity (Edelmann+, 2005) J/ApJ/613/200 : Hubble Higher z Supernova Search, HHZSS (Strolger+, 2004) III/235 : Spectroscopically Identified White Dwarfs (McCook+, 2003) Byte-by-byte Description of file: table1.dat Bytes Format Units Label Explanations 1- 14 A14 --- Name Object name 16 A1 --- n_Name [M] M: sdB stars misclassified in the McCook & Sion (1999, Cat. III/235) catalog of white dwarfs 18- 22 I5 K Teff ? Effective temperature (1) 23 A1 --- n_Teff [a] a: given value is an upper limit due to the presence of a cool companion. 25- 28 F4.2 [cm/s2] logg ? Surface gravity (1) 29 A1 --- n_logg [b] b: given value is a lower limit due to the presence of a cool companion. 31- 32 A2 --- l_logY [≤] Limit flag on logY (1) 33- 37 F5.2 --- logY ? Helium abundance log(N(He)/N(H)) 38 A1 --- n_logY [b] b: given value is a lower limit due to the presence of a cool companion. 40- 44 F5.2 --- logLedd ? Luminosity in Eddington luminosity units 46- 49 F4.2 [solLum] logL ? Luminosity in solar luminosity units (2) 51- 54 F4.2 mag VMAG ? Absolute V magnitude 56- 58 F3.1 kpc Dist ? Distance 60- 61 I2 h RAh Right ascension (J2000) 63- 64 I2 min RAm Right ascension (J2000) 66- 70 F5.2 s RAs Right ascension (J2000) 72 A1 --- DE- Declination sign (J2000) 73- 74 I2 deg DEd Declination (J2000) 76- 77 I2 arcmin DEm Declination (J2000) 79- 82 F4.1 arcsec DEs Declination (J2000) 84- 88 F5.2 mag Bmag Apparent B, V or y magnitude 89 A1 --- n_Bmag [Vy] V: Johnson V magnitude or y: Stroemgren y magnitude in Bmag 91- 98 A8 --- Notes Notes (3) Note (1): Teff, logg and logY are mean values from two or more exposures, if possible. Note (2): Luminosity in units of solar luminosity is calculated by assuming MsdB=0.5 Note (3): Notes as follows: 1 = stars for which there was only one useful exposure. 2 = a cool companion shows Mg I in the spectrum, and possibly additional features. 3 = the presence of a companion was deduced solely from a flux contribution at Hα. Atmospheric parameters have been determined from Balmer and helium lines in the blue part of the spectrum. Unlike for the stars with earlier type companions, the contribution of the companion in this spectral region is irrelevant, and the parameters can be regarded as reliable (for details see Sect. 5.1). 4 = single-lined objects showing peculiar Hα profiles. 5 = independently classified as sdB by Altmann et al., 2004A&A...414..181A. 6 = central star of the planetary nebula PN G 125.9-47.0 7 = central star of the planetary nebula PN G 211.9+22.6 8 = also in the Palomar-Green survey (PG, Green et al., 1996, Cat. II/207) 9 = also in the Edinburgh-Cape survey (EC, Stobie et al., 1987, in Second Conference on Faint Blue Stars IAU Coll., 95, 493) 10 = also in the Montreal-Cambridge-Tololo survey (MCT, Demers et al., 1987, in Second Conference on Faint Blue Stars IAU Coll., 95, 497) 11 = In Table 1 of alt04, V magnitudes of this star and HE 2156-1732 have to be interchanged (M. Altmann, priv. comm.). History: From electronic version of the journal (End) Patricia Vannier [CDS] 30-Jun-2006 |The document above follows the rules of the Standard Description for Astronomical Catalogues.From this documentation it is possible to generate f77 program to load files into arrays or line by line|

- About CEI - Support CEI Energy Policy: What Should our Carbon Footprint Be? Tuesday, April 15, 2008 7:30 am – 9:15 am America's Future Foundation will hold its monthly roundtable "Energy Policy, What Should Our Carbon Footprint Be?" on April 15th. All across the United States technology is lowering the carbon footprint of the energy consuming products we use every day, such as cars, phones, and computers. Despite the savings, the Department of Energy predicts that fossil fuels will remain a primary source of energy consumption well into the future. Certain critics complain that fossil fuel consumption is a leading cause of climate change, and each person has a duty to limit their carbon footprint for the environment. Should we take an active role in limiting our personal carbon footprint? Will technological improvements eventually reduce our carbon footrprint for us? As the rest of the developing world consumes more oil, gas, and coal, does the U.S. have any moral obligation to risk falling behind economically in order to have a smaller carbon footprint? Joining us for this discussion will be William Yateman, Energy Policy analyst at the Competitive Enterprise Institute; Andy Weismann, an energy expert for FTI Economic Consulting with over 30 years experience in the energy industry; Ben Lieberman, senior plicy analyst at the Heritage Foundation; and Dr. Foster Wade, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals Management at the Department of The event will take place at the Fund for American Studies, 1706 New Hampshire Avenue, NW, near Dupont Circle. Drinks at 6:30; Roundtable begins at 7:00. Roundtables are free for members, $5 for non-members. So join today! Please RSVP to Cindy Cerquitella at

February 02, 2005 Multifactor productivity—measured as output per unit of combined labor and capital inputs— increased 2.0 percent in the private nonfarm business sector in 2002. This was the fastest rate of growth since 1992. Output increased 1.8 percent in 2002, and the growth of combined units of capital and labor inputs declined 0.1 percent. In comparison, in 2001, multifactor productivity showed no growth as output and combined inputs both rose 0.5 percent. Multifactor productivity is designed to measure the joint influences on economic growth of technological change, efficiency improvements, returns to scale, reallocation of resources, and other factors. Multifactor productivity, therefore, differs from the labor productivity (output per hour) measures that are published quarterly by BLS since it requires information on capital services and other data that are not available on a quarterly basis. These data are a product of the BLS Multifactor Productivity program. Data are subject to revision. Additional information is available in "Multifactor Productivity Trends, 2002" (PDF) (TXT), news release USDL 05-114. Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Editor's Desk, Biggest rise in multifactor productivity since 1992 on the Internet at http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2005/jan/wk5/art03.htm (visited December 08, 2013). This edition of Spotlight on Statistics examines labor productivity trends from 2000 through 2010 for selected industries and sectors within the nonfarm business sector of the U.S. economy. Read more »

David L. Post David L. Post was born in New York City and holds degrees from the University of Chicago, the New School for Social Research and Brandeis University. He started musical training early, studying 'cello with Samuel Reiner and Charles Forbes and composition with Charles Whittenberg and later with Ralph Shapey at the University of Chicago. He pursued further study with Larry Bell and Lukas Foss. For several years, he was a participant in the Chamber Music Conference and Composers Forum of the East at Bennington College. He is a consultant and contributing music editor for Dover Publications and is also a practicing clinical psychologist. Recent honors have included several ASCAP awards and a First Prize in the New England Reed Trio Composition Competition. His music has received wide exposure on WGBH radio in Boston and WNYC in New York City and his Fourth String Quartet was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in music. His orchestral and chamber works have been played and recorded by international organizations including the Czech Radio Symphony orchestra, the Moravian Philharmonic and Salem Philharmonic, among others. Writing in Fanfare magazine, William Zagorski termed his English Horn Concerto "...a tonal and unabashedly lyrical concerto, resulting in a piece that is able to stand beside Richard Strauss's and Ralph Vaughan Williams's essays for oboe and orchestra." Zagorski termed his First Quartet "a fine work--rigorously constructed and free of gratuitous effects. Here he takes the listener into the realm of intensely human communication." He has received numerous commissions from many groups and individuals, including the Aiolos Collective, an international group of wind players, the Terezin Music Foundation, and the Martinu Quartet, which premiered his Second String Quartet at the Prague Contemporary Music Festival in April 2002. That work, as well as several others has been championed and recorded by the Boston Symphony Orchestra's Hawthorne Quartet on the Naxos label. His Variations and Fugue on a Bach-Busoni Chorale was premiered to critical acclaim by noted pianist Simone Dinnerstein in March 2007 at the Philadelphia Bach Festival. His Piano Quintet was premiered by Ms. Dinnerstein and the Hawthorne String Quartet in March, 2008. Recently, his Fantasia on a Virtual Chorale was premiered in its string orchestra version by members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. David Post's scores are published by Editions Bim, Switzerland and MMB Music, St. Louis, MO. Naxos Records, MMC Recordings, Turquoise Bee Productions and West Virginia University Sound Recordings, Inc. produce his commercial CDs. His first novel, Nothing to See Here was published in 2007. Fantasy for Piano Solo (1991) Variations and Fugue on a Bach-Busoni Chorale (2004) Piano Sonata (2010) String Quartet No. 1 (1992) String Quartet No. 2 (2001) String Quartet No. 3 (2003) String Quartet No. 4, Three Photographs of Abelardo Morell (2005) Fantasia on a Virtual Chorale for String Quartet (2003) Woodwind Quintet (1993) Aria for Oboe & String Quartet (1994) Divertimento for Oboe, Clarinet and Bassoon (1995) Soundbites for Nine Double Reed Instruments (2001) Duo for Viola & Violoncello (2002) Piano Quintet (2007) Violin Sonata (2008) Concertino a Cinque for Clarinet & String Quartet (2010) Tarantella for Flute and Piano (2011) Vocal & Choral Ars Poetica for a cappella Chorus (2003) Two Songs for Voice & Piano (1993) Psalm 103 for SATB Chorus, Organ and Two Trumpets ad lib (1996) Symphony No. 1 (1995) Symphony No. 2 for String Orchestra (2007) Symphony No. 3 (in progress) Concerto for English Horn & Orchestra (1999) Fantasia on a Virtual Chorale for String Orchestra (2003) Epilogues for String Orchestra (2012) Baby's Breath (score for the short film, 2004) Scores & Sheet Music: Editions Bim, Switzerland MMB Music, Inc., St. Louis, MO MMC Recordings, Ltd.

By >DigInfo TV Japan Display develops paper-like low-power color LCD which can display video Japan Display has developed a paper-like low-power color reflective LCD, which can display video. “Ordinary liquid crystal displays have a backlight, and produce the picture by using a liquid crystal shutter. But this panel doesn’t have a backlight. It reflects light from above, and the liquid crystal shutter is used to produce a monochrome image. At the same time, color filters are used, to give a color picture.” “This display has what’s called a Light Control Layer. When the display simply reflects light as usual, it looks metallic, like a mirror. When we add this layer, the display collects light to some extent, in the direction of the user’s eyes, making it look similar to paper. But the light returns efficiently in the direction of the eyes. By developing this layer, we’ve achieved good color, which couldn’t be done with ordinary digital paper. This display can show video, so we think it’ll lead to new solutions and applications.” Japan Display has developed two versions. The first is highly reflective, with a reflection rate of 40%, and 5% coverage of the NTSC color gamut. The second has high color purity with 36% coverage of the NTSC color gamut, but its reflection rate is 28%, making it slightly dimmer. Both types have a contrast ratio of 30:1, and power consumption of 3 mW when showing still pictures. “This display is a reflective type, but as it uses liquid crystal, it has electric circuits built in. The circuits can retain signals. This feature is called Memory in Pixels. With a still picture, once the data has been written, it can be retained, so power consumption is extremely low.” “Here, we’re presenting two displays, a conventional version and a type with high color gamut. For the conventional version, the technology has already been proven, so we can mass-produce this right away if customers require it. The type with high color gamut still has a few issues which we need to overcome. But we would like to discuss this type with customers when the technical issues are sorted out.” This Video is provided to you by DigInfo.tv, AkihabaraNews Official Partner.

2012 Good Sam Roadside Assistance 500 |Race 30 of 36 in the 2012 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season| |Date||October 7, 2012| |Location||Talladega Superspeedway, Talladega, Alabama, United States| |Course||Permanent racing facility 2.66 mi (4.3 km) |Distance||188 laps, 500 mi (804.672 km)| |Weather||Temperatures reaching up to 62.1 °F (16.7 °C); wind speeds up to 11.1 miles per hour (17.9 km/h)| |Driver||Kasey Kahne||Hendrick Motorsports| |Most laps led| |Driver||Jamie McMurray||Earnhardt Ganassi Racing| |Television in the United States| |Announcers||Allen Bestwick, Dale Jarrett and Andy Petree| The 2012 Good Sam Roadside Assistance 500 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race held on October 7, 2012 at Talladega Superspeedway in Talladega, Alabama, United States. Contested over 188 laps on the 2.66-mile (4.3 km) asphalt tri-oval, it was the thirtieth race of the 2012 Sprint Cup Series season, as well as the fourth race in the ten-race Chase for the Sprint Cup, which ends the season. Matt Kenseth of Roush Fenway Racing won the race, his second of the season, and snapped a twenty-nine race winless streak extending back to the Daytona 500; while Jeff Gordon finished second and Kyle Busch finished third. The Big One hit the field on the final lap, collecting 25 cars in turn four, with Tony Stewart flying in the air after being tagged by Michael Waltrip. The track, Talladega Superspeedway, is one of six superspeedways to hold NASCAR races, the others being Daytona International Speedway, Auto Club Speedway, Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Pocono Raceway and Michigan International Speedway. The standard track at the speedway is a four-turn superspeedway that is 2.66 miles (4.28 km) long. The track's turns are banked at thirty-three degrees, while the front stretch, the location of the finish line, is banked at 16.5 degrees. The back stretch has a two-degree banking. Talladega Superspeedway can seat up to 143,231 people. Before the race, Brad Keselowski led the Drivers' Championship with 2,142 points, and Jimmie Johnson stood in second with 2,137 points. Denny Hamlin followed in third with 2,126 points, nine points ahead of Clint Bowyer and sixteen ahead of Tony Stewart in fourth and fifth. Kasey Kahne with 2,110 was seven points ahead of Dale Earnhardt, Jr., as Martin Truex, Jr. with 2,100 points, was four points ahead of Kevin Harvick, and six in front of Jeff Gordon. Greg Biffle and Matt Kenseth was eleventh and twelfth with 2,091 and 2,070 points, respectively. In the Manufacturers' Championship, Chevrolet was leading with 197 points, twenty-five points ahead of Toyota. Ford, with 138 points, was seven points ahead of Dodge in the battle for third. Clint Bowyer is the race's defending champion after winning the event in 2011. To begin pre-race ceremonies, Billy Irvin, a volunteer with Alabama Raceway Ministries and director of ministry relations with FAITH Radio in Montgomery, Alabama, delivered the invocation. Then, singer Raelynn performed the National anthem. At 2:11 PM, actor Kevin James gave the command to start engines. At the drop of the green flag, Kasey Kahne led, and continued to lead for the first ten laps. On lap 11, Trevor Bayne took the lead with drafting help from Clint Bowyer. Three laps later, Dale Earnhardt, Jr. claimed the lead. Earnhardt, Jr. led for two laps before being passed by Kyle Busch. On lap 17, the first caution came out for a three car crash in turn 4 that eliminated Carl Edwards and Cole Whitt from contention, and also gave some heavy damage to Joey Logano. Kyle Busch continued to lead the field when the green flag waved on lap 22. Two laps later, Matt Kenseth passed Busch to lead. Kenseth led for ten laps, before Earnhardt, Jr. passed him. On lap 35, Denny Hamlin reported a loose rearview mirror in his car. Earnhardt, Jr. led for seven laps before being repassed by Kenseth on lap 41. One lap later, Kenseth got loose off of Greg Biffle's bumper, and he went from 1st to 31st place in a matter of seconds, while Earnhardt, Jr. received the lead. On lap 50, Casey Mears received the lead. A lap later, Mears was passed by Jeff Burton, who led for two laps before Bayne received the lead. By lap 58, Mears had re-received the lead. From lap 60 to lap 62, the field was cycled through green-flag pit stops. Earnhardt, Jr, Bayne, Kyle Busch, and others received speeding penalties. These penalties ultimately resulted in Earnhardt, Jr. and Busch being trapped a lap down for a significant chunk of the mid-portion of the race. On lap 64, Jimmie Johnson took the lead. On lap 73, Jeff Gordon passed Johnson with drafting help from Kenseth. By lap 83, Jamie McMurray had taken the lead. On lap 90, Kurt Busch, in his last start for Phoenix Racing, received the lead. Five laps later, Kenseth took the lead. He led for two laps before Busch repassed him. Two laps after that, the second caution of the race waved when Kasey Kahne ran out of fuel, and simultaneously, Busch was spun out on the back straightaway by Jamie McMurray. Although the car took damage from hitting the inside wall, Busch was able to refire the engine, after the emergency crews had already reached him. A medical bag that was sitting on top of the car was subsequently thrown from the back decklid. NASCAR parked Busch for pulling away and trying to drive back to the garage despite the fact that his car was shedding debris. On the restart at lap 104, Marcos Ambrose was the leader, but was passed during the next lap by Kenseth. On lap 121, Kyle Busch got onto the tail end of the lead lap, being pushed by Mears. On lap 127, Greg Biffle assumed the lead for one lap before being repassed by Kenseth. Four laps after that, Biffle pushed McMurray into the lead. Busch was shuffled back during this green flag run. On lap 139, the third caution flag of the race was waved for debris. Earnhardt, Jr. got back on the lead lap and Kyle Busch returned to the lead lap with a free pass. At the restart on lap 143, Casey Mears was leading again. Laps later, Biffle passed him. On lap 151, McMurray received the lead. A lap later, Biffle repassed him. On lap 155, Kevin Harvick gave McMurray a shove to reclaim the lead for two laps. On lap 168, Harvick became the leader. He led for three laps before Mears assumed the lead. On lap 173, the lead returned to McMurray. On lap 182, Kenseth claimed the lead, and the fourth caution came out as McMurray spun out in the tri-oval off of Harvick's bumper. Under the caution, 11 drivers did not pit, so Clint Bowyer led the field at the restart on lap 187. Coming to the white flag, Tony Stewart claimed the lead as Kenseth made a charge on the outside down the back straightaway. Entering turn three, Kenseth was leading the high lane and much of the field was bunched up behind him and Stewart. In turn four, Michael Waltrip received a bump from Casey Mears and made a move on the inside of Stewart. As Stewart tried to block, he was turned sideways by Waltrips car and spun into the pack. Waltrip just clipped Kevin Harvick's car and then hit the outside wall, collecting 25 cars in all. Stewart's car went airborne and was upside down on top of several cars, including Kasey Kahne, Clint Bowyer, and Paul Menard. Kenseth was the only one in front of the crash and he made it to the finish line to win the race followed by Jeff Gordon and Kyle Busch, who got through by going down to the apron. Greg Biffle and Ryan Newman also avoided the crash by slowing down and weaving through. Dale Earnhardt, Jr. was found to have had sustained a concussion after the accident (possibly already sustained or aggravated after a crash in a tire test at Kansas in late August) and missed the next two races. Note: Cars that finished the final lap, despite being involved in the crash, are scored as having completed all 189 laps. Standings after the race - "2012 NASCAR Sprint Cup Schedule". ESPN. Retrieved October 6, 2012. - Brown, Brian (October 3, 2012). "The Good Sam 500". Rotoworld.com. NBC Sports. Retrieved October 6, 2012. - "2012 Good Sam Roadside Assistance 500 weather information". The Old Farmers' Almanac. Archived from the original on 2013-07-13. Retrieved 2013-06-24. - "Matt Kenseth avoids 25-car pileup to win at Talladega - ESPN". ESPN. 2012-10-09. Retrieved 2012-11-06. - "NASCAR Race Tracks". NASCAR. Retrieved October 6, 2012. - "NASCAR Tracks — The Talladega Superspeedway". Talladega Superspeedway. Retrieved October 6, 2012. - "Talladega". NASCAR. 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So, none of you have heard of me probably (okay, most definitely not), but I'm starting up a Podcast. I'm an aspiring fiction writer myself, and after having so many rejection letters piled up along with one acceptance (although the anthology it went out in never came out because the publisher of the antho went down), I've decided to open up a fiction market, and it's going to be a podcast. Why podcasting? Well, for a couple of reasons. Firstly, I love the sound of my own voice, but there are more precedents for doing it (probably not, but humor me). I originally found out about Podcasting when I was browsing on Ralan.com looking for some fiction markets when I came across Escape Pod. Podcasting? What the hell is podcasting? I decided to check it out. The first three episodes of escape pod were up by then. I downloaded my podcatcher and began listening. I was hooked. I moved from the weekly adventures of Escape Pod onto Podcast novels. I started with Scott Sigler's "Earthcore" then moved on to "The Pocket and the Pendant". Needless to say, I love the idea. I loved the idea of old time radio dramas, and this only brought back pleasant memories. Back to the subject at hand, I'm starting a Podcast fiction market. I think there are too few of them, and hopefully I can help remedy that. Not to infringe on Escape Pod's hold of the short fiction market (Actually, they pretty much own it, so it's my plus for not having to compete with them on their level), this podcast, titled "The Great Beyond" is going to be serializing fiction. I love longer fiction in the order of ten thousand to twenty thousand words, so that's what I'll be narrating (Once I get this podcast established, I will hope for guest readers, but that's in the pretty far future). I know that two or more heads are better than one, so I have a couple of other people editing the podcast along with me and I have every bit of trust in their editing skills. Other than that though, this podcast is my own creation and I'm the main funder of it. I will be paying the authors who contribute, and hopefully I can follow in Escape Pod's success. So, why am I mentioning it here? Well, I know that there are a lot of wannabe writers on the forums here. The Great Beyond is slated to have it's episode by the second or third week of May, and I would like to invite any authors to contribute their longer fiction to it. All the details for the submission process are on Ralan.com under the "Paying Markets" sidebar link and under the listing "The Great Beyond". We've been getting good submissions, but we can always use more. Secondly, I think I'm going to be keeping a building/editing progress in this forum for the website and the podcast, if Mr. Eley won't mind that is? So, to any wannabe writers out there, send in your longer fiction! And to Mr. Eley, keep up the good work. Editor at The Great Beyond Podcast

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I like writers. That's no secret. I like publishing their stories on this little blog, helping my clients bring their books into the world, protecting them from getting taken advantage of, and giving unagented/unpublished writers advice. Writers are my people. Which is why it makes me sad that there's a civil war happening in publishing right now when it should be the time we're all celebrating together. Author Chuck Wendig just posted about this very topic, and even though I may not add a different opinion than his, self-publishing "ego," as Chuck puts it, is still a subject I think needs discussing. (By the way, if you aren't reading Chuck's blog, Terrible Minds, then what are you doing with your life?) The continued "us vs. them" mentality with self-publishing makes me, for lack of a better word, disappointed. Self-publishing, 15 years ago, was by and large made up of people who just wanted to see their manuscript bound in book-form to give to their family and friends. Not exactly the stuff long-lasting careers are made of., but that's OK because they weren't looking for that anyway. They didn't know they could look for that in self-publishing. At least not until about five years ago. After the digital wave hit, there were not only more outlets to get your work out to readers, but the opportunities for self-promotion increased too. Now, self-publishing really can be the way toward a career in writing, albeit a modest one. Most self-published writers still think of self-publishing as the "alternative" to traditional publishing and not as its own viable option. When I attend conferences, the number of people with self-published books in their hands is staggering. They tell me they got tired of waiting, so they "went ahead and self-published," as if going ahead with the decision wasn't a big deal that could impact their future career as an author. Further, they ask me "what I can do for them," while handing me their books, not realizing they've already chosen a path that doesn't include me. And writers, there's nothing wrong with not using an agent. You can self-publish! It's OK! The time is perfect for self-published books to be taken seriously. The only thing holding them back is you. It's true, there is still a stigma. And here's why: The number of writers self-publishing out of impatience outweighs the number of writers who self-pub because they're making it a career. Which means the overall quality of work being produced through self-publishing is too low to have credibility. There are so many self-published authors who've spent just as much time researching and planning as they would have if they chose the traditional route. They treat self-publishing with respect and don't just see it as a way to avoid the "shackles" of traditional publishing. To the self-published authors who are doing it right, thank you. You give me hope that publishing's civil war will soon come to an end. Because the thing is, most of the traditional publishing world has moved on and we've stopped thinking about you. We'd rather focus on ourselves. Frankly, we think you should go and do your thing if that's what you want to do. More power to you. This town is big enough for the two of us. We promise. The self-pub vs. traditional pub war reminds me of the pre-2003 Yankees/Red Sox "rivalry." I use the term in air quotes because, let's face it, before 2003 the rivalry was pretty one-sided. Before they "got good," the Red Sox felt the need to prove they weren't just equal to, but better, than the Yankees. The Yankees had the power and the money and the World Series rings that the Red Sox thought they deserved. So Red Sox Nation had their "Yankees Sucks" chants and relished in anti-Yankee sentiment and convinced themselves that despite their team's many losses, they were better. Meanwhile, during this pre-2003 era, the Yankees would pat the heads of the little kids throwing rocks at them before riding off in their fancy cars with their supermodel girlfriends. Then came 2003. It was like a switch was flipped and people started paying closer attention to them. Even more significantly, then came 2004 - when the Red Sox finally beat the Yankees in the playoffs. This, I'd wager, meant more to them than winning the actual World Series. Since then, the Red Sox and Yankees rivalry has been meaningful for both sides. No, the Yankees didn't suddenly decide to humor them. It's because the Red Sox pulled together a team that the Yankees could no longer ignore. They got good and they started winning and before the Yankees knew it, they were real competition. And honestly, it's been way more fun ever since. As a Yankee fan, it pains me to say this, but self-published authors need to be more like the Red Sox if they want to be taken seriously. Right now, self-published authors are the pre-2003 Red Sox - an emerging force that has what it takes to be a bona fide equal - but unless they get it together and make the impatient, the bitter, and the amateurs the minority, they'll never make it to 2004. So, self-publishing community, for being called "self," you're not very autonomous. If you want to convince traditional publishing you're its equal, stop drawing comparisons and start recognizing yourselves as your own entity. Self-publishing is not an offshoot of traditional publishing, and it's not a gateway to traditional publishing. You're something new. We traditional folks won't be mad, hurt, or think you're foolish if you choose to self-publish. Like I said before, we're not even thinking of you at all. Go write an awesome book, take your trade seriously, and treat self-publishing the way you would any other career path. AND STOP CALLING YOURSELVES INDIE. You're not that either. Using "indie" interchangeably with "self" only confuses people who want to self-publish and pisses off actual independent publishers. There is a clear difference between publishing with a small press ("indie") and using a vendor ("self"). Misusing/stealing pre-existing terms doesn't give you credibility; it makes you look unprofessional. If you feel the need to run away from a label just because it has a stigma, ask yourself why the stigma exists and how you can make a difference. The Red Sox didn't start calling themselves the Pinstriped Sox to hide from their losses. Instead, they embraced their history of being a losing team. They changed their stigma from the inside by working together, and if self-publishing can do the same, I bet it'll be way more fun.

Skip to Main Content Your organization might have access to this article on the publisher's site. To check, click on this link:http://dx.doi.org/+10.1063/1.3481030 We propose a carbon nanotube oscillator that is composed of a cantilever inner tube and a short outer tube. When the inner tube vibrates, the centrifugal force and the van der Waals force drive the outer tube to oscillate along the inner tube, which means that the oscillator can simultaneously output two frequencies. The operation frequencies of the oscillator may be tunable in a wide range (from tens of gigahertz to more than 100 GHz) by controlling the initial conditions. The combination of tunability and high-frequency operation makes the oscillators promising for a variety of scientific and technological applications. A continuum model is presented to study the frequency properties of the oscillator. The model is validated by the molecular dynamics simulations.

Final Update for Colockum Tarps and Mile Post 10 Fires Incident: Colockum Tarps Wildfire THIS IS THE FINAL UPDATE FOR THE MILE POST 10 AND COLOCKUM TARPS FIRES Incident Commander Mike Barnett and all the members of Washington Interagency Incident Management Team #1 would like to express their thanks to the communities who were impacted by these fires for their support during the suppression. Colockum Tarps Fire: Over the next several days, smaller organization will patrol the fire perimeter and complete rehabilitation of areas impacted by fire suppression actions. This rehabilitation will include repairing lines created by dozers and fences cut by firefighters to gain access to the fire. All fire lines within the perimeter will be rehabilitated while lines constructed as the fire control and contingency lines will remain in place until the fall. These control lines will be modified to disperse water and reduce the potential for erosion. This organization will consists of 6 engines, 2 dozers, 2 water tenders and approximately 30 personnel. The fire remains at 98% contained and 80,184 acres. Pockets of fuel well within the fire perimeter will continue to burn. Smoke will be visible until fall rains. Local fire managers have a plan in place for continual monitoring and will take suppression action if the need arises. Mile Post 10: The fire is 100% contained. The final acreage is 5,445 acres, the change in acreage reflects more accurate mapping. Yesterday was the final operational shift for many of the Mile Post 10 fire personnel. Local resources will continue to patrol the Mile Post 10 Fire. Fire Information: Rivercom will be available to provide current fire information for the Mile Post 10 Fire; they can be reached at (509)663-9911. Information for Colockum Tarps, call the Department of Natural Resources Southeast Region office at (509) 925-8510 during regular business hours. For information from Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, please call (509) 575-2740. Road Closures: Due to the flooding, the Malaga-Alcoa Highway was closed at Mile Post 12 but is open to local traffic. The upper Naneum Ridge Road is closed from Four Corners east to the Colockum Ridge Road. Fire officials request that the public stay out of the fire area during rehabilitation to ensure safety. Fire Prevention: With continued hot and dry conditions, firefighters count on the public to help reduce risk during wildfire season. When residents of a fire prone community clear brush, trees and other flammable materials away from their homes, it helps keep residents and firefighters safe. More information on how to create a defensible space around your home can be found at www.firewise.org. Cooperating Agencies: Washington State Department of Natural Resources, Bureau of Land Management, Chelan County Fire District #1, Washington State Patrol

When I write, I often discover things in the process of writing. That was the case with Lake. She showed up on the page as this gun-toting, blond bombshell of a female werewolf who treated her firearms like pets (or possibly very deadly teddy bears). This is a re-enactment of what happened next. HEAD JEN: Oh, she’s going to be so much fun! But why don’t she and her dad live with the rest of the pack? Did something traumatic happen? Is there a rift there? When did they leave? Why did they leave? JEN: *write write write* SHE CALLS HER GUN MATILDA. *write write write* SHE CALLS HER GUN MATILDA, AND SHE HUSTLES POOL. WHAT ELSE MATTERS? HEAD JEN: She’s female. And a werewolf. And I have already established that in this world, female werewolves are always half of a set of twins. WHERE IS HER TWIN? JEN: Nope! No twin here! Only weapons! HEAD JEN: Oh. Oh. Lake, you poor baby! You used to have a twin brother. And now you don’t. He died, didn’t he? When you were kids? And you never, ever let anyone see how much that still tears you up inside. I WILL LOVE YOU FOREVER. And that is pretty much how that decision was made. It didn’t really feel like a decision so much as a discovery. It was a discovery that felt right, though. I liked that Bryn’s pack (especially the four initial members) were all defined in part by being outsiders when they were part of Callum’s pack. Chase was newly turned and not-quite-as-human as most of the Weres. Devon did not fit with the pack’s ideas about what a pure-blooded, destined-to-be-alpha male should be. Bryn was human. And Lake was a young female without a twin, in a world where that is seen as unnatural. The biggest loss of her life… and it can never, ever be private. Also, she really likes to blow stuff up.

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Have you heard this term before -- “Auftragstaktik?” It sure is fun to say. Give it a try -- it is a mouthful! While you may not know the word (unless, of course, you are a student of German Army tactics), you are no doubt familiar with the concept. At least you should be. Auftragstaktik is the German expression for “mission-oriented command.” It relies upon decentralized leadership and is the basis for decision-making at the lowest possible level, where the knowledge of the situation is always best. Auftragstaktik requires a leader’s belief in a subordinate's ability to creatively solve problems without always having to approve every decision or explicitly direct each step. Key elements of this approach to leadership include: -- Mutual trust among teammates based on each person's intimate personal knowledge of the capabilities of the others. -- Repetitive training to reinforce confidence in the decision making capabilities of each other. -- A willingness to act on the part of all leaders and...all followers. -- Simple, sound fundamentals (policies, procedures, etc.). -- Regular use of mission orders. Key to this empowering approach to leadership is the use of these mission orders. If it is creative solutions that we seek, then we need to unleash people to join in the problem solving process. Leaders must avoid telling everyone how to address every assigned task. We don't always have to be the "smartest person in the room!" Using mission orders, leaders focus on defining the problem to be solved and the parameters or criteria that they want in a solution. Focus on the why and the what – empower others to determine the how. Taking the mission order approach for even the simplest tasks will develop the muscle density necessary for application to more challenging problems. That's the repetitive training piece. Empowering people to make decisions, trusting that they will do the right thing, accepting some failure in order to learn and grow -- that's the rest of this German Army leadership philosophy. Lest we think this is some secret tactic that died with the Wehrmacht back in WWII, know that the US Army definitely embraces this leadership philosophy of Auftragstaktik. It is the basis for decentralized decision making. It is also what makes success possible with many sports teams, businesses, government agencies, and non-profits groups. So let's give it a more common English term. Let's call it...Leader Business.

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Lists Home | Date Index | The use of HTTP URIs in a number of contexts is important to XML work in general, and the nature of HTTP URIs is important to particular aspects of XML processing, notably namespaces and RDDL, so it seems worth exploring how these things actually work. RFC 2616 defines the HTTP 1.1 protocol and also the http scheme for >3.2.2 http URL >The "http" scheme is used to locate network resources via the HTTP >protocol. This section defines the scheme-specific syntax and >semantics for http URLs. >http_URL = "http:" "//" host [ ":" port ] [ abs_path [ "?" query ]] > If the port is empty or not given, port 80 is assumed. The semantics >are that the identified resource is located at the server listening >for TCP connections on that port of that host, and the Request-URI >for the resource is abs_path (section 5.1.2).... Although this defines the scheme in the now-unfashionable (so 1999) terminology of URLs, it both conforms to common expectations about what something that starts "http://" is for and defines what a resource does. A resource identified by a URI using the http scheme is not merely something that is (or isn't); instead, it is something "listening for This notion of resource as listener makes it very easy to discuss HTTP resources in the abstract, without concern for what the listener might say in response. http://www.cnn.com is the web site for CNN, whatever the news of the day might be or the ownership of the station, http://dilbert.com is an eternal fount of truth, etc. There's a listener identified by those URIs, perhaps even a distributed listener, and it works quite nicely. This level of abstraction, however useful, is a far cry from using HTTP URIs to identify resources which are not in fact HTTP listeners, which seems to be a more recent trend since the publication of RFC 2616. Being able to discuss HTTP URIs as abstract identifiers for listening resources is very different from being able to use HTTP URIs as abstract identifiers for arbitrary subjects. Another set of related issues arises because many of the specifications that incorporate URIs don't incorporate just URIs themselves. Rather, they incorporate URI references, a more fully-featured toolkit that includes both relative addressing and fragment identifiers. Those features are both defined in a different specification, RFC 2396, which is not HTTP-specific. The appropriate use of relative addressing has been previously discussed as it applies to namespaces, and the conclusion reached seems pretty simple: use relative addressing only for information that needs to change depending on context, and don't use it as a shortcut for information that should remain stable. Having concluded that namespace identifiers should remain stable, the XML Plenary deprecated the use of relative URI references in namespace identifiers. Fragment identifiers are a very different set of problems. Although fragment identifiers (anything after a #, perhaps including nothing after a pound) are defined generally by RFC 2396, the interpretation of fragment identifiers is left to client processing and is dependent on the media type of the information returned by the resource to the client, as defined in Section 4.1: >When a URI reference is used to perform a retrieval action on the >identified resource, the optional fragment identifier, separated from >the URI by a crosshatch ("#") character, consists of additional >reference information to be interpreted by the user agent after the >retrieval action has been successfully completed.... >The semantics of a fragment identifier is a property of the data >resulting from a retrieval action, regardless of the type of URI used >in the reference. Therefore, the format and interpretation of >fragment identifiers is dependent on the media type [RFC2046] of the >retrieval result. The character restrictions described in Section 2 >for URI also apply to the fragment in a URI-reference. Individual >media types may define additional restrictions or structure within the >fragment for specifying different types of "partial views" that can be >identified within that media type. >A fragment identifier is only meaningful when a URI reference is >intended for retrieval and the result of that retrieval is a document >for which the identified fragment is consistently defined. URI references clearly demand a tighter coupling between the identifier and the type of the thing identified. With HTTP, is entirely possible and perhaps even more and more likely (thanks to XML-based kits like Cocoon and AxKit) that requests to the same URI will produce substantially different "data resulting from a retrieval result" depending on contexts which are not specified in the URI reference itself. (XHTML, for instance, has a lot of linking elements with separate type attributes for optional identification of the MIME While it might be nice for multiple formats to have common fragment identifiers, the difficulties are fairly obvious once you examine the diversity of types the Web supports, from HTML to plain text to graphics to audio and video. To single out a particular (and very useful) case, SVG defines the svgView() fragment identifier scheme, as in: The complications that have slowed progress on XPointer are worth consideration as well, as is the scheme-based approach the XPointer WG appears to have settled on, with its (I think necessary) options for diversity of implementation. The value of fragment identifiers in ordinary linking situations where the type of "data resulting from a retrieval result" is constrained through mechanisms beyond the URI reference itself is pretty obvious, I think. Pointing to particular locations within documents is frequent and useful, and a pointer system is necessary for effective use of The value of fragment identifiers in situations where the type of "data resulting from a retrieval result" is not constrained is far less clear. Namespaces in XML, for example, provides no information whatsoever beyond a URI reference. Many other uses of URI references similarly provide only the URI reference and no further context. As many of these specifications appear to have lost sight of the notion that, for example, an http-schemed URI reference involves a listening resource which returns a variety of types of data. While the use of URI reference syntax for string identifiers may seem acceptable to URI proponents who have long since abandoned a notion of resources as active beings participating in conversations, this use has little if anything to do with the practice defined for URI references generally and http URIs particularly by RFCs 2396 and 2616. It may be a stretch to describe URIs and URI references beginning with "http" as contracts which bring expectations for performance, but there are clearly both formal and informal descriptions of those expectations. Within those expectations, http URIs and URI references function very well. When pressed beyond those expectations into a world of arbitrary identification, http URIs and URI references create confusion rather than reduce it. For those of us in XML-land, this has a few implications: 1) It's not clear what namespaces containing fragment identifiers (even if they aren't http) are about; it may make more sense to use URIs, and if http URIs, put a RDDL document there whose fragment identifiers 2) Pretending that the URI in a namespace identifier identifies the namespace rather than a listening (for http) resource is foolish; it may make more sense to redescribe namespaces in a context which offers namespaces-as-affiliation-with-a-URI than as namespaces-as-a-URI. 3) In other contexts where URI references are used, providing additional constraining information regarding the expected type of "data resulting from a retrieval result" should be provided either in the specification or explicitly in the document, as XHTML does with type attributes. This will help to ensure that fragment identifiers are interpreted in an appropriate context. XLink notably fails to do this, leaving content-type identification to further URI interpretation rather than MIME type identification. 4) If you provide an identifier which looks like it points to a listener which provides responses (like an http URI or URI reference), make sure there's actually a listener. That listener can then provide representations describing the affiliation between itself and your use of the identifier. 5) Seriously consider specifying URIs rather than URI references, even in contexts where 'just HTTP' is in use, unless you actually need and are prepared to deal with the additional features/consequences of URI I'm not entirely sure why some people prefer Platonic Forms to the practices defined in the specifications, but the specifications seem to offer enough abstraction to be useful without the ever-expanding complications that appear as HTTP identifiers are separated from their - http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt (June 1999) - http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt (August 1998) - http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xml-uri/2000Sep/0083.html - http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/linking.html#SVGFragmentIdentifiers Simon St.Laurent - SSL is my TLA http://simonstl.com may be my URI http://monasticxml.org may be my ascetic URI urn:oid:220.127.116.11.4.1.6320 is another possibility altogether

In 1994 I was diagnosed with celiac disease, which led me to create Celiac.com in 1995. I created this site for a single purpose: To help as many people as possible with celiac disease get diagnosed so they can begin to live happy, healthy gluten-free lives. Celiac.com was the first site on the Internet dedicated solely to celiac disease, and since then it has become an invaluable resource to people worldwide who seek information about celiac disease and the gluten-free diet. In 1998 I created The Gluten-Free Mall, Your Special Diet Superstore! which was also another Internet first—it was the first gluten-free food site to offer a shopping cart-style interface, and the ability for people to order gluten-free products manufactured by many different companies at a single Web site. I am also co-author of the book Cereal Killers, and founder and publisher of Journal of Gluten Sensitivity. This recipe comes to us from Linda Sowry. Makes one pie crust: 1 ¼ cups gluten-free all purpose flour ¼ teaspoon salt 1/3 cup shortening 3 to 4 Tablespoons cold water In a mixing bowl stir together flour and salt. Cut in shortening till pieces are the size of small peas. Sprinkle 1 Tablespoon of the water over part of the mixture; gently toss with a fork. Push to side of bowl. Repeat till all is moistened. Form dough into a ball. On a lightly floured surface, flatten dough with hands. Roll dough from center to edges, forming a circle about 12 inches in diameter. (Then they talk about rolling it and setting it into the pie plate. Im going to jump in and say this is where we flatten the ball out in your hands and set in pie plate. I use the small end of the tart roller thing from Pampered Chef to roll it up the sides and around. Put a damp plastic wrap over it to make it smooth out more easily. You just need to get it up the sides, you wont have extra for a fancy edge.) Do not prick pastry. Bake as directed in individual recipes.

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Iran’s deputy foreign minister for Asia and Oceania says the country’s stance in negotiations with six major world powers (P5+1) has become stronger after holding the 16th Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit in Tehran. Abbas Araqchi noted on Saturday that that the Western countries and the P5+1 are waiting for the economic sanctions to work on Iran and this is a great misunderstanding on their side because no matter how long they wait, sanctions will not be successful and Iran will become even stronger. “The passage of time is on our side and makes the Islamic Republic stronger; therefore, they [P5+1 member states] can wait as long as they want. We are in no hurry,” he added. Araqchi stated that Iran is serious about its nuclear energy program and believes that all sides should respect one another’s red lines. “We say that every side has its own red lines. Let’s respect each other’s red lines. We say that our rights should be recognized according to the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and international rules,” Araqchi said. The Iranian diplomat noted that it is possible for Iran and the P5+1 -- the US, Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China -- to reach an agreement, but the P5+1 are not cooperating and offer unrealistic and illogical suggestions which shows lack of political determination among its six members. The United States, Israel and some of their allies have repeatedly accused Iran of pursuing non-civilian objectives in its nuclear energy program. Iran rejects the allegations, arguing that as a signatory to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency it is entitled to develop and acquire nuclear technology for peaceful purposes. On August 30, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon asserted Iran's right to use nuclear energy for peaceful objectives, expressing hope that Tehran and the P5+1 would hold positive talks in the future.

Looking for something to do in Southern California? If you love books, you'll love the LA Times Festival of Books, set for April 26-27 on the UCLA campus. The event, billed as the country's largest celebration of the written word, anticipates 140,000 attendees, 450+ authors, 300+ exhibitors, 900+ volunteers, 100+ author panels, six outdoor stages and two children’s areas. Hours are 10am-6pm Saturday, 10am-5pm Sunday; admission is free, parking is $8. Yiddishkayt LA has announced that it will return for its second year. Yiddishkayt's Booth 603 will have "an amazing assortment of books covering the rich world of Yiddish. We're bringing books in Yiddish, books about Yiddish, and books for kinderlekh, for kids. Fill your shelves at home with plays, novels, history and humor from the best Yiddish book store in L.A. (well, at least in April)!" They are also looking for volunteers for the event. Interested readers may email [email protected].

Re: xmosaic experience Marc Andreessen ([email protected]) Thu, 25 Feb 93 19:14:31 -0800 Bill Janssen writes: > I finally looked at the X11R5 server source, and you're absolutely > right, the server is not allocating more than a screen-size of pixmap > for any one window, even a very big one. Most of that time I was > looking at must have been spent parsing (but then why did `ps' show it > in the server?). Because the Widget uses XTextExtents to figure out how big text chunks are (which makes sense, since they could be in any font). Like I say, this should be faster in 0.9, since it won't have to do so much parsing, since I will be handling plaintext documents correctly, since annotation links will be handled separately from the document text itself. I think.

Gregorio del Pilar (1875 - 1899) Gregorio del Pilar was born in Bulakan, Bulakan on November 14, 1875. The Hero of Tirad Pass was the son of Don Fernando H. del Pilar and Felipa Sempio. He studied under the tutelage of Maestro Monico. He also studied at the school of Pedro Serrano Laktaw. He went to Ateneo de Manila University after finishing his secondary education where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree. Gregorio came from a wealthy family but his eyes were opened from the injustices aroud him. Added to this were the nationalistic books and newspapers sent to him by his cousin Marcelo. He was only 19 years old when he joined the Katipunan. He became a leader of the rebellion despite his young age because of his exceptional ability and bravery. Soon, he was promoted to colonel status. At age 22, he was already a brigadier general. Gregorio and his men made an assault in the town of Bulakan to get rid of the Americans. They followed it with an attack in Quingwa (now Plaridel). They were able to win over the Americans notwithstanding their small number. The most colorful part of his life took place in Tirad Pass. Tirad Pass was the passageway to Aguinaldo's hideout. Gregorio's group was assigned to defend it. He showed his fearless character. In spite of handful followers, only 60 men. They defended Tirad Pass against the Americans contingent composed of more than 400 soldiers. A Filipino traitor showed the way to the location of the young general. The Americans gunned him down to his death. The date was December 2, 1899. |< Prev||Next >|

Last week, I told you a bit about my first confirmed Joynes/Joines ancestor, Leonard. Today, I will tell you about my 4th great-grandfather, Leonard’s son, Daniel. Daniel Joynes was born in Baltimore, Maryland in September 1810. He, too, was a sailmaker like his father, and raised his family in East Baltimore on N. Eden Street, most likely in one of those long, skinny row houses. Daniel had 4 children with his first wife, the former Sarah “Sally” Foos. Sally’s paternal grandfather was born in Germany, so we have a tad of German blood in our mix. On Sally’s mother’s side, we can find our way back to some of the original colonists in Maryland as stated in my last post. Daniel and Sally had three sons and a daughter: Oliver Norris, Daniel, Sarah Jane and Elijah Peter. All of the sons fought for the North in the Civil War. Oliver, my 3rd great-grandfather, was the oldest of the children, born in Baltimore on 18 January 1834. More on his family next week. Only daughter, Sarah Jane, was born about 1838 in Baltimore and married a man named David C. Wible on 27 Mar 1853. Nothing more is known of her or her family at this time. Son, Daniel, was also born in Baltimore on 10 July 1840, and married first, Anna Rokes, in Baltimore in 1860. When Daniel married again, he stated on his marriage application that he was a widower. Nothing more is known of this first marriage. His married second wife, Margaret Catherine “Marie” Steinkamp on 22 July 1867 in Baltimore. Sometime after 1870, Daniel and his family headed out West and eventually planted themselves in Iowa where they raised their 7 children: Anna, John, Emma, Marie, Henry, George and Daniel, Jr. Many of Daniel, Sr.’s descendants still live in the Des Moines, Iowa area. Youngest son, Elijah, was born in April 1846. When he was just 16 years old and working at a broom factory on Calvert Street in Baltimore, became a drummer boy in the 5th Maryland Regiment in January, 1862. He was discharged in October, following a bout of typhoid fever, and received a disability pension. Somehow he made it to Texas where he died. His obituary stated that he died in 1867, at age 21, in Lampasas, Texas, from wounds he received there. Daniel and Sally didn’t marry until June 22, 1848. Their marriage was delayed for many years due to the fact that it was so difficult for Sally to obtain a divorce from her first husband, James Stansbury. So, Oliver, was born fourteen years before his parents married. Sally died in September 1850 and two years later, in 1852, Daniel married Mrs. Margaret Brannaman Oler and had 4 more children from that union: Margaret “Maggie”, Mary Elizabeth, Leonard and Frederick “Fred.” Margaret “Maggie” was born in Baltimore about 1854. She married Manuel Morejon, a native Cuban, on 26 May 1873 in Baltimore. The couple had two children: Francisco and Julia. Family legend says that Manuel spoke seven languages and had the title of Marquis. Mary Elizabeth was born in December 1850 in Baltimore. She married Eugene Margary, a native of Puerto Rico. They also had two children: Eugene, Jr. and Leonard Daniel. After Eugene, Sr. died, Mary remarried a second time to John Meldick. They had one child together: Viola. Leonard Joynes was born in Dec 1858 in Baltimore. He was married to Ida V. Rodgers on 3 Nov 1880 in Baltimore. Out of this union came two children: William Daniel and Carroll Eugene. Leonard was a Baltimore City policeman. Frederick “Fred” was born in Baltimore in February 1860. He married Isabelle Everest in Baltimore on 28 April 1881. There were three children born: Mary, Eleanor and Elmer Edgar. It wasn’t long until sailing ships were being replaced by faster steam ships, and Daniel’s craft as a sailmaker was beginning to slowly fade away. He turned to awning making to continue to make a living to support his family. After his son, Elijah, died, Daniel fought a long court battle to try and acquire Elijah’s pension. He finally won and received $12 per month. Daniel died in Baltimore on 16 May 1890. Obituary from Baltimore Sun Paper, May 19, 1890 – JOINES-On Friday morning, May 16, DANIEL JOINES, in the 80th year of his age. His funeral will take place on this (Monday) afternoon, at four o’clock, from his late residence, No. 402 North Eden street. You can find the family group sheets of Daniel’s two families below. The file is in PDF file format, so make sure you have Adobe Acrobat Reader. If not, you can download it here for free.