Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC), also known as disseminated intravascular coagulopathy or less commonly as consumptive coagulopathy, is a pathological process characterized by the widespread activation of the clotting cascade that results in the formation of blood clots in the small blood vessels throughout the body. This leads to compromise of tissue blood flow and can ultimately lead to multiple organ damage. In addition, as the coagulation process consumes clotting factors and platelets, normal clotting is disrupted and severe bleeding can occur from various sites. DIC does not occur by itself but only as a complicating factor from another underlying condition, usually in those with a critical illness. The combination of widespread loss of tissue blood flow and simultaneous bleeding leads to an increased risk of death in addition to that posed by the underlying disease. DIC can be overt and severe in some cases, but milder and insidious in others. The diagnosis of DIC depends on the findings of characteristic laboratory tests and clinical background. Treatment is mainly geared towards the underlying condition. Signs and symptoms In DIC, the underlying cause usually leads to symptoms and signs, and DIC is discovered on laboratory testing. The onset of DIC can be sudden, as in endotoxic shock or amniotic fluid embolism, or it may be insidious and chronic, as in cancer. DIC can lead to multiorgan failure and widespread bleeding. Causes DIC can occur in the following conditions: Solid tumors and blood cancers (particularly acute promyelocytic leukemia) Obstetric complications: abruptio placentae, pre-eclampsia or eclampsia, amniotic fluid embolism, retained intrauterine fetal demise, septic abortion ,post partum haemorrhage Massive tissue injury: severe trauma, burns, hyperthermia, rhabdomyolysis, extensive surgery Sepsis or severe infection of any kind (infections by nearly all microorganisms can cause DIC, though bacterial infections are the most common): bacterial (Gram-negative and Gram-positive sepsis), viral, fungal, or protozoan infections Transfusion reactions (i.e., ABO incompatibility haemolytic reactions) Severe allergic or toxic reactions (i.e. snake or viper venom) Giant haemangiomas (Kasabach-Merritt syndrome) Large aortic aneurysms Liver disease, HELLP syndrome, thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura/Haemolytic uremic syndrome, and malignant hypertension may mimic DIC but do not occur via the same pathways.
Pathophysiology Under homeostatic conditions, the body is maintained in a finely tuned balance of coagulation and fibrinolysis. The activation of the coagulation cascade yields thrombin that converts fibrinogen to fibrin; the stable fibrin clot being the final product of haemostasis. The fibrinolytic system then functions to break down fibrinogen and fibrin. Activation of the fibrinolytic system generates plasmin (in the presence of thrombin), which is responsible for the lysis of fibrin clots. The breakdown of fibrinogen and fibrin results in polypeptides called fibrin degradation products (FDPs) or fibrin split products (FSPs). In a state of homeostasis, the presence of plasmin is critical, as it is the central proteolytic enzyme of coagulation and is also necessary for the breakdown of clots, or fibrinolysis. In DIC, the processes of coagulation and fibrinolysis are dysregulated, and the result is widespread clotting with resultant bleeding. Regardless of the triggering event of DIC, once initiated, the pathophysiology of DIC is similar in all conditions. One critical mediator of DIC is the release of a transmembrane glycoprotein called tissue factor (TF). TF is present on the surface of many cell types (including endothelial cells, macrophages, and monocytes) and is not normally in contact with the general circulation, but is exposed to the circulation after vascular damage. For example, TF is released in response to exposure to cytokines (particularly interleukin 1), tumor necrosis factor, and endotoxin.This plays a major role in the development of DIC in septic conditions. TF is also abundant in tissues of the lungs, brain, and placenta. This helps to explain why DIC readily develops in patients with extensive trauma. Upon exposure to blood and platelets, TF binds with activated factor VIIa (normally present in trace amounts in the blood), forming the extrinsic tenase complex. This complex further activates factor IX and X to IXa and Xa, respectively, leading to the common coagulation pathway and the subsequent formation of thrombin and fibrin. The release of endotoxin is the mechanism by which Gram-negative sepsis provokes DIC. In acute promyelocytic leukemia, treatment causes the destruction of leukemic granulocyte precursors, resulting in the release of large amounts of proteolytic enzymes from their storage granules, causing microvascular damage. Other malignancies may enhance the expression of various oncogenes that result in the release of TF and plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1), which prevents fibrinolysis. Excess circulating thrombin results from the excess activation of the coagulation cascade. The excess thrombin cleaves fibrinogen, which ultimately leaves behind multiple fibrin clots in the circulation. These excess clots trap platelets to become larger clots, which leads to microvascular and macrovascular thrombosis. This lodging of clots in the microcirculation, in the large vessels, and in the organs is what leads to the ischemia, impaired organ perfusion, and end-organ damage that occurs with DIC. Coagulation inhibitors are also consumed in this process. Decreased inhibitor levels will permit more clotting so that a positive feedback loop develops in which increased clotting leads to more clotting. At the same time, thrombocytopenia occurs and this has been attributed to the entrapment and consumption of platelets. Clotting factors are consumed in the development of multiple clots, which contributes to the bleeding seen with DIC. Simultaneously, excess circulating thrombin assists in the conversion of plasminogen to plasmin, resulting in fibrinolysis. The breakdown of clots results in an excess of FDPs, which have powerful anticoagulant properties, contributing to hemorrhage. The excess plasmin also activates the complement and kinin systems. Activation of these systems leads to many of the clinical symptoms that patients experiencing DIC exhibit, such as shock, hypotension, and increased vascular permeability. The acute form of DIC is considered an extreme expression of the intravascular coagulation process with a complete breakdown of the normal homeostatic boundaries. DIC is associated with a poor prognosis and a high mortality rate. There has been a recent challenge however to the basic assumptions and interpretations of the pathophysiology of DIC. A study of sepsis and DIC in animal models has shown that a highly expressed receptor on the surface of hepatocytes, termed the Ashwell-Morell receptor, is responsible for thrombocytopenia in bacteremia and sepsis due to Streptococcus pneumoniae (SPN) and possibly other pathogens. The thrombocytopenia observed in SPN sepsis was not due to increased consumption of coagulation factors such as platelets, but instead was the result of this receptor's activity enabling hepatocytes to ingest and rapidly clear platelets from circulation. By removing pro-thrombotic components before they participate in the coagulopathy of DIC, the Ashwell-Morell receptor lessens the severity of DIC, reducing thrombosis and tissue necrosis, and promoting survival. The hemorrhage observed in DIC and among some tissues lacking this receptor may thereby be secondary to increased thrombosis with loss of the mechanical vascular barrier. This discovery has possible significant clinical implications in devising new approaches to reducing the morbidity and mortality of DIC. Diagnosis The diagnosis of DIC is not made on a single laboratory value, but rather the constellation of laboratory markers and a consistent history of an illness known to cause DIC. Laboratory markers consistent with DIC include: Characteristic history (this is important because severe liver disease can essentially have the same laboratory findings as DIC) Prolongation of the prothrombin time (PT) and the activated partial thromboplastin time (aPTT) reflect the underlying consumption and impaired synthesis of the coagulation cascade. Fibrinogen level has initially thought to be useful in the diagnosis of DIC but because it is an acute phase reactant, it will be elevated due to the underlying inflammatory condition. Therefore, a normal (or even elevated) level can occur in over 57% of cases. A low level, however, is more consistent with the consumptive process of DIC. A rapidly declining platelet count High levels of fibrin degradation products, including D-dimer, are found owing to the intense fibrinolytic activity stimulated by the presence of fibrin in the circulation. The peripheral blood smear may show fragmented red blood cells (known as schistocytes) due to shear stress from thrombi. However, this finding is neither sensitive nor specific for DIC A diagnostic algorithm has been proposed by the International Society of Thrombosis and Haemostasis. This algorithm appears to be 91% sensitive and 97% specific for the diagnosis of overt DIC. A score of 5 or higher is compatible with DIC and it is recommended that the score is repeated daily, while a score below 5 is suggestive but not affirmative for DIC and it is recommended that it is repeated only occasionally:It has been recommended that a scoring system be used in the diagnosis and management of DIC in terms of improving outcome. Presence of an underlying disorder known to be associated with DIC (no=0, yes=2) Global coagulation results Platelet count (>100k = 0, <100 = 1, <50 = 2) Fibrin degradation products such as D-Dimer (no increase = 0, moderate increase = 2, strong increase = 3) Prolonged prothrombin time (<3 sec = 0, >3 sec = 1, >6 sec = 2) Fibrinogen level (> 1.0g/L = 0; < 1.0g/L = 1) Treatment Treatment of DIC is centered around treating the underlying condition. Transfusions of platelets or fresh frozen plasma can be considered in cases of significant bleeding, or those with a planned invasive procedure. The target goal of such transfusion depends on the clinical situation. Cryoprecipitate can be considered in those with a low fibrinogen level. Treatment of thrombosis with anticoagulants such as heparin is rarely used due to the risk of bleeding. Recombinant human activated protein C was previously recommended in those with severe sepsis and DIC, but drotrecogin alfa has been shown to confer no benefit and was withdrawn from the market in 2011. Recombinant factor VII has been proposed as a "last resort" in those with severe hemorrhage due to obstetric or other causes, but conclusions about its use are still insufficient. Prognosis Prognosis varies depending on the underlying disorder, and the extent of the intravascular thrombosis (clotting). The prognosis for those with DIC, regardless of cause, is often grim: Between 10% and 50% of patients will die.DIC with sepsis (infection) has a significantly higher rate of death than DIC associated with trauma. Epidemiology DIC is observed in approximately 1% of academic hospital admissions. DIC occurs at higher rates in patients with bacterial sepsis (83%),severe trauma (31%), and cancer (6.8%).


Having intently monitored the public pandemonium regarding the recent residential electricity billing snafu, but also wanting to avoid meaningless political posturing, there nevertheless are two issues of concern to me regarding this dilemma on which your feedback would be appreciated.
First, while I believe I have a basic understanding of some of the problems that have been inherent in billing cycles and the lack of physical meter readings, could you please advise me of the underlying cause as to why so many have reported estimated billings of such egregiously elevated amounts? It simply seems to me, as a non-expert in this field, that there has yet been put forth an easily understandable cause by First Energy/Potomac Edison as to why some of these estimated billings have been elevated much more than a prudent person can fathom. Can you shed further light on this conundrum?
Secondly and in regard to the actual reading of the meters, would it be prudent and possible for both your company and the consumers to initiate a more expanded voluntary consumer meter reading program, wherein consumers could be given more encouragement, regularly could self-report their meter readings, and perhaps even be given a discounted electric rate for their participation?
Footnote: Although there currently is a place on electric bills wherein customers are instructed how to make their own meter readings, there is no financial incentive for them to do so.
On May 16th, James "Doc" Warner traveled across the Potomac River, to speak to the Berkeley County Republican Club at the Holiday Inn in Martinsburg, West Virginia.
He shared some of his insights and experiences, including being shot down while flying a mission during the Vietnam War.
As a Prisoner of War (POW) with John McCain, Doc recounted some of his personal trials and tribulations, and how they persuaded him to disavow atheism and become a man of faith.
He then related other experiences and insights, including his successful participation in arguing a case, based on the principles of the 10th Amendment to our United States Constitution, before the United States Supreme Court.
Meeting participants were spellbound as Doc wove his own personal tapestry of how his life's journey taught him about faith, Constitutional rights, and our God given liberties.
On behalf of the Contractors Association of West Virginia, I want to commend you for your work in this year's legislative session.
We especially appreciate your willingness to give me and our members the opportunity to share our thoughts and concerns on legislation affecting the construction industry in West Virginia.
You can be proud of the investment you have made to provide a brighter future for West Virginia.
Thank you ever so much for the comment you posted moments ago, under the comment section at the bottom of this entry.
It is true that I am passionate about my faith and also our freedom, and I will do my best to try to be the person you believe that I am.


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Samsung Galaxy S9 Video Camera May Be 4x Faster Than iPhone X
Samsung Galaxy S9 video with 1,000 frame-per-second, may be four times faster than iPhone X
We have always seen that Apple and Samsung try to outdo each other with their new flagships. Recently, Apple launched its premium smartphone 'iPhone X' on September 12 in Cupertino to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the first ever iPhone. While people are still talking about Apple's iPhone X, Samsung has decided not to be left behind and make its presence felt too.
According to a report by Korean publication ETNews, Samsung has reportedly developed a high speed new image sensor that can capture photos at an incredible 1,000 frames per second (fps) with 4x slow motion video capability. On the other hand, Apple's iPhone X is able to take 240 frames per second based on full HD resolution.
The 4x slo-mo capture by Samsung is similar to how Sony created for its incredible Xperia XZ1 and XZ Premium smartphones. However, the company may use slightly different technology for the sensor to avoid infringement of Sony patent, the site said. For instance, Samsung's design is a little different from Sony's (which also uses a three-layer chip) in that the memory is bonded to the rear surface of an existing two-layer sensor design rather than fitted in between the image sensor and logic components.
The new image sensor camera is planned for Samsung's upcoming Galaxy S9 line and the company will start the mass production of the three-layered image sensor as early as November 17th. This layered three-structure design of the sensor is made into a layered structure by connecting a system semiconductor (logic chip) that is in charge of calculations and DRAM chip that can temporarily store data through TSV (Through Silicon Via) technology. After the pilot operation, the company will start mass producing it in December.
Currently, we are unsure if all these rumors and speculations are accurate. With Samsung not expected to announce the Galaxy S9 atleast till the start of 2018, we are likely to come across many more leaks about the device in the near future. However, on the other hand, if Samsung manages to fit the slow-mo camera into the Galaxy S9, it is expected to beat the Galaxy S8, Galaxy Note 8, iPhone X and maybe the current top end Sony phones too.
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Perfect: that's some claim. Yet Philips is so confident about what its latest image processing system can do that it's called Perfect Pixel HD.
And the superlatives don't shop there: Perfect Pixel HD contains elements dubbed Perfect Colour, Perfect Contrast, and Perfect Natural Motion.
How modest. But, does all this talk of perfection inevitably set the Perfect Pixel HD-sporting Philips 32PFL9603D up for a fall?
All this so-called Perfect technology is at least housed in a suitably attractive home.
This 32-incher's combination of a gloss black bezel, silver trim, rounded corners, distinctive translucent 'shroud' curving forward around the TV's edges from its rear and the latest Philips Ambilight Spectra technology is simply a joy to behold.
The design isn't just pretty, either – it's also functional. The translucent shroud helps the sound from the built-in speakers on the TV's sides focus forward at the viewer, while the 'stereo', LED-based Ambilight system is proven to make long-term viewing more relaxing. Plus, it's a perfect after-dinner conversation starter!
Connectivity is as easy on the eye as the TV's bodywork, thanks to the inclusion of four v1.3 HDMI inputs, a USB port able to play MP3s, .alb slideshows, JPEGs, and MPEG1/2 videos, and even a DLNA Ethernet port for adding the TV to your home PC network. We're sure such multimedia talents will one day be commonplace, but right now they're still rarer than a Premier League manager who's safe in his job.
Maybe the TV will start to slide a little with its screen specifications? Quite the opposite – the boasted 55,000:1 contrast ratio and full HD pixel count are both outstanding discoveries on a 32in LCD TV.
Throwing our Blu-ray test movie of There Will Be Blood at this 32-incher, we settled down to some simply sensational hi-def action.
Pictures look astonishingly detailed, textured and sharp during the movie's outdoor desert sequences. Pictures are so good that this TV single-handedly destroys the argument that HD makes little difference on a screen as small as 32in.
What's more, the latest Perfect Pixel HD system has the wherewithal to make standard defi nition images look amazingly detailed too – almost 'pseudo HD', in fact. It also achieves this without generating anywhere near as much 'shiny' edge noise and grain as previous Philips processing engines have. Superb stuff.
The 32PFL9603D's sharpness is further enhanced by some excellent motion handling, which leaves the frenetic action as Daniel Plainview's men scramble to 'tame' an exploding oil derrick in looking free from judder and blur.
The sort of motion clarity we're talking about becomes particularly remarkable if you call in the HD Natural Motion component of the Perfect Pixel HD engine.
This interpolates new, extra frames of image data based on assessment of how best to join together the 'real' image frames in the source signal – and its effect on the fluidity and clarity of film sources is mesmerising. So much so that when you watch an 'ordinary' TV, you are acutely aware of the judder and blurring that more than likely characterises its motion handling.
We've not actually been big fans of Philips' Natural Motion tech in the past, finding its effects unnatural and its side effects hard to tolerate. But here, the huge amounts of extra power Philips has provided for its image processors, together with new improvements to its processing algorithms, have finally succeeded in making the feature something to behold.
Colours are blisteringly intense, even by LCD standards. But crucially they're also extremely natural, leaving us drooling at the prospect of Philips' upcoming 9703 models, with their wide colour gamut panels.
Colours as good as those of the Philips 32PFL9603 wouldn't happen without good black levels.
In fact, once again the 32PFL9603D is in class-leading form in this critical department, achieving blacks that suffer only minor grey clouding, and plenty of shadow detail in dark areas, as is evident in the movie's opening mining scenes.
The only negative thing we have to say about the Philips 32PFL9603D is that the TV demands attention to get the best out of it. Some of the processing settings that work really well with for movies, for instance, can cause artifacting issues with sport. And setting some of the picture processing elements any higher than their 'low' settings – especially HD Natural Motion – can sometimes cause pictures to start looking a little bit processed.
But if you commit to revisiting the TV's settings on a regular, source-dependent basis, the rewards will be absolutely huge.


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Евгений Александрович Янес (род. 3 апреля 1957, Краснодар, РСФСР, СССР) — советский прыгун на батуте, Заслуженный мастер спорта СССР (1977). Первый советский чемпион мира.

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Родился в станице Пашковской, ныне микрорайон города Краснодара. Тренировался у В. Ф. Дубко.

В 1975 году стал кандидатом в сборную СССР.

На чемпионате 1976 года в паре с другим спортсменом из станицы Пашковской (ныне микрорайон Краснодара) Евгением Яковенко принесли СССР первую золотую медаль в этом виде спорта. В индивидуальных упражнениях разделил (единственный случай на чемпионатах мира) золото с французом Ришаром Тисоном.

На следующем чемпионате мира снова выиграл золото в индивидуалке и в синхронных прыжках (в паре с Яковенко).

Десять раз становился чемпионом СССР и 13 раз брал Кубок СССР.

После окончания карьеры перешёл на тренерскую работу. Является старшим тренером по прыжкам на батуте СКВО.

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During the coming months, we'll be highlighting our fighters in training for the upcoming Rumble in the Rockies in Denver on June 14th. They've committed to four months of fundraising and training in preparation to get in the ring and literally fight for a cure. Whether their mom is battling, their father has passed or their friend has put up a victory against the disease – they've all got a story to tell and they've all got a reason to fight. Below you'll hear from Danny Maggard, fighting out of the Bodies by Perseverance.
I manage merchandising & licensing for the world's premier kickboxing league, GLORY Kickboxing.
Not at all. It looks like fun!
Through my work I'm always dealing with fighters, coaches, and trainers. I admire their commitment to a cause and see this as a great opportunity to give back while pushing my own boundaries.
I've had multiple people in my life affected by cancer. The energy and total dedication required to fight back is daunting, and I'm inspired by how deep a person can dig to pull through and survive. Getting hit in the face a lot is the least I can do to raise money for a cure.
My brother and friends are all really pumped. My mother is terrified.
Be sure to check out his fundraising page here and wish him luck! Best of luck, Danny!


The direct conversion of sunlight into electricity using photovoltaics is becoming an increasingly important technology for renewable energy generation as a replacement for fossil fuels, with applications from large-scale generation to roof-top solar panels and even mobile phones. But photovoltaics still accounts for only a marginal fraction of global energy supply. One of the main reasons for this is the relatively high cost of the base material — silicon — used in the most common type of solar cell.
Silicon is a popular medium for solar energy conversion because of its high conversion efficiency, but the growing demand for its use in photovoltaic cells is causing a shortage in the supply of the high-quality silicon required for solar cell applications. Producing the silicon and fabricating the solar cells also requires highly controlled clean rooms for semiconducting processing, which adds to the total manufacturing cost. In addition, there are increased market demands for large-area, light-weight, flexible energy sources for portable electronics and remote-area power. "A low-cost, flexible alternative or complement to silicon is critical for the future of photovoltaic technology," says Jie Zhang, photovoltaics program manager and senior scientist at the Synthesis & Integration group of the A*STAR Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE).
Materials researchers are making every endeavor to devise photovoltaic systems that can ease this reliance on silicon. At the IMRE, researchers are developing organic semiconductors, which could potentially replace silicon in solar cells, as part of their printable electronics program. Printable electronics involves the use of polymer-based semiconductor molecules, which can be easily dissolved in solvent like an ink and printed as circuits on flexible films without the need for expensive clean-room facilities. A significant advantage of printable electronics is that the technology is compatible with existing industrial printing techniques. The technology makes it possible to explore applications requiring extreme flexibility, such as flexible displays and electronic paper.
The majority of photovoltaic cells are based on crystalline silicon, which is the most expensive form of silicon to produce. A second generation of solar cells based on much cheaper thin-film amorphous silicon on glass or metal is now becoming commercially available in the form of display backlights and similar applications. Photovoltaic cells based on organic molecules are regarded as the third generation of this technology, and the approach is attracting attention because of the possibilities of mechanical flexibility and solution processability. Organic solar cells are also attractive because they are suitable for indoor use — unlike silicon-based devices organics can generate power under the low light conditions of indoor environments. The practical application of organics in photovoltaic cells, however, has been limited due to the poor conversion efficiency of the known organic compounds for natural light. "We want to develop organic photovoltaic materials that are as efficient as possible at absorbing photons of sunlight," says Zhikuan Chen, group head and senior scientist of the IMRE's Synthesis & Integration group. Chen is responsible for developing high-performance semiconducting polymers.
Polythiophene derivatives are the organic materials most widely studied for photovoltaics, and some reports have shown that these materials have high charge mobility, which is an important parameter of photovoltaic cell performance. However, researchers have found it difficult to achieve high conversion efficiency and high charge mobility at the same time.
In their most recent study, Chen's team combined thiophene with benzothiadiazole to form a copolymer with a narrow energy bandgap suitable for the absorption of sunlight. A field-effect transistor based on this polymer achieved charge mobility comparable to that of commercially available polymer-based field-effect transistors. At the same time, the device achieved a conversion efficiency of 6.26%, one of the best results for a polymer. "We are now working on new light-harvesting polymers and new electron-transporting materials to improve the conversion efficiency to 10%," says Chen. At that level of efficiency, the mass-production of organic photovoltaic cells would become viable.
The ability to print or deposit organic and inorganic molecules over large areas also opens up a range of new applications for large-area organic photovoltaics, printed electronics and functional films. A*STAR scientists and engineers are now working to resolve a number of manufacturing process challenges as part of a 'scale-up' project conducted by the Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology (SIMTech). The scale-up project is led by the team of Albert Lu, a senior scientist and program manager for the Large-Area Processing Programme at SIMTech.
Lu and his colleagues are pursuing disruptive technology platforms for roll-to-roll manufacturing of organic and inorganic printable functional materials. This process could be used for the mass-production of both thick- and thin-film devices including sensors, batteries and photovoltaics. The researchers are looking in particular at how 'ink' molecules can be deposited with high precision on flexible substrates of up to 1 meter in width. They are also investigating processes for patterning, embossing and laminating functional films as well as techniques for web inspection and web mechatronics. Unlike conventional electronic circuit fabrication, which requires the batch processing of wafers, large-area processing systems involve a continuous printing-press-like manufacturing process. "Roll-to-roll processing poses very different challenges to those of conventional semiconducting processing but is expected to open a new era of printed electronics and functional films," says Lu.
SIMTech is currently establishing a pilot production system capable of processing large-area printed electronics and functional films of up to 1 meter in web width. Lu says SIMTech is also collaborating closely with the print and media industry in Singapore to capture rapidly emerging market opportunities and leverage high-speed manufacturing technologies such as inkjet printing, screen printing and flexographic printing.
Organic materials are promising for photovoltaics, says Lu, but they will not be able to completely replace silicon. In fact, research into more effective use of silicon is still very much alive. At the A*STAR Institute of Microelectronics, Navab Singh, a principal investigator of the Nano Electronics & Photonics Program, is making microelectronic tweaks to enhance silicon's utility in photovoltaics.
Classic silicon-based solar cells are made of two layers of different types of silicon — n-type (electron-rich) and p-type (hole-rich) — that are brought into contact to form an electronic junction. Electrical current is generated when light reaching the silicon releases free electron and hole pairs within a short distance from the junction interface. Due to reflection and the absorption of light at locations away from the junction, the number of electron–hole pairs participating in power generation is relatively low in the classic structure. To address these shortcomings, Singh and his fellow researchers are attempting to implant hundreds of nano-sized, silicon-based photovoltaic pillars on the silicon surface. "When you make nanoscale patterns on the top surface, it not only reduces reflection, but it can also increase the absorption of light inside a very thin silicon layer so that all the carriers can be generated close to the junction." says Singh. "This process also reduces the cost of materials." Singh says his team's nanopillar technology requires only a 2 micrometer-thick layer, compared to the 300 micrometer-thick layers needed in previous designs.
Using this nanopillar technology, Singh and his colleagues recently demonstrated the highest current density so far achieved for nanostructured silicon-based solar cells. They are also looking into other ways to further improve performance. One of the issues under active discussion is how to design the photovoltaic devices so as to make full use of solar energy, such as designing multiple junctions with various silicon alloy materials and designing structures favoring multiple electron–hole pair generation. Compatibility with existing semiconductor manufacturing processes is also a key design parameter. "We are taking advantage of existing technology to make things more exciting," says Singh.


A Quality Cottage for four in Garlieston, Wigtownshire.
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The single story two bedroomed cottage sleeping 4 offers quality accommodation in an historic mid 1800's cottage.
The Garden is great for barbecues in the summer.
The dining room has pleasant views of the garden.
The living room has a sofa and comfortable leather reclyining chairs, wood burning stove, plus a large flat screen TV and DVD player.
The modern kitchen, with dishwasher and automatic washing machine, has everything you need.
The living room opens into a spacious sunny conservatory (There is one step down to the conservatory).
The master bedroom with a double bed. This room has views of the garden.
The bathroom has a bath with a shower over it, W.C. and basin.
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The cottage has full central heating as well as the open fire, making it ideal for holidays in all seasons.
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There are a ton of familiar Marvel faces to encounter on the Disney Magic.
Brand-new to the Disney vacation experience, Black Panther joined the collection of Super Heroes aboard the Disney Magic for Marvel Day at Sea.
When he's not showing off his mastery of unarmed combat skills during an epic battle at sea, Black Panther is inspiring young guests with his superhuman strength and intellect.
The mischievous Loki also made his debut to the Disney vacation experience during Marvel Day at Sea. He may even charm you like only the God of Mischief can. That is, when he isn't resenting the shadow of his half-brother, Thor.
Even Spider-Man needs to relax after showing off his super strength and agility, and of course there's no better place to do that than a Disney cruise.
Or Captain America embodying honor, integrity, courage and trustworthiness.
Black Panther and Spider-Man are two of the Marvel heroes you are guaranteed a time to meet and take photographs with during the cruise. Before you even step onboard, you have the chance to reserve time with these characters and more under the My Disney Cruise section of www.disneycruise.com.
Marvel Day at Sea returns to the Disney Magic in January on select sailings from Miami through April. If you're joining the fun, be sure to share photos of your heroic encounters with #MarvelDayatSea.


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Mikhailovsky Ballet – Cinderella – St. Petersburg
By Graham Watts on October 8, 2017 in Reviews · 0 Comments
Anastasia Soboleva and Victor Lebedev in Cinderella.
© Stas Levshin. (Click image for larger version)
Mikhailovsky Ballet
St. Petersburg, Mikhailovsky Theatre
www.mikhailovsky.ru
Although Sergei Prokofiev's Cinderella must rank (alongside his Romeo and Juliet) amongst the most melodious and fanciful of all 20th Century ballet scores, I must confess that the ballet itself has never counted amongst my favourites. Many productions have attempted to win me over with memorable creativity in choreography by Ashton (of course), Ratmansky, Wheeldon, Hampson, Bintley, Corder, Bourne (to be welcomed back, this winter) and Nixon (to name but a few). I've even seen a Cinderella danced at the end of Cromer Pier by Vienna Festival Ballet (choreography by Peter Mallek) with the added charm of an angry North Sea thrashing around the theatre!
Although each production of Cinderella has brought something new or innovative to this timeless fairy tale, they all miss out in some other aspect: perhaps, the balance between pantomime comedy and evil in the stepmother (and, even the stepsisters) is sometimes skewed too far one way, or the other; or, the descriptive advantages bestowed in Prokofiev's music are not appropriately captured in the movement. In particular, most productions fail the child-friendly test. How many times have I sat in close proximity to frustrated parents and irritable children who have come to see something akin to Disney and not found the magic to match those aspirations?
It seems appropriate that I've travelled to Russia to find a Cinderella interpreter of movement and spectacle to match up to the genius of Prokofiev's music. Or, to be more precise, I have found two such heroes. The first, it must be said, was the very first: Rostislav Zakharov choreographed the original ballet in which the legendary Galina Ulanova performed the title role and for which Prokofiev's score was first employed. The composer started Cinderella, in 1940, and continued to work on it, alongside his opera, describing Tolstoy's War and Peace, through the difficult war years; eventually bringing it to premiere on 21st November 1945, as a three-act ballet, at the Bolshoi Theatre, in Moscow.
Mikhailovsky Ballet in Cinderella.
© Nikolay Krusser. (Click image for larger version)
The integration of ballet theatre and the fifty musical numbers that comprise Prokofiev's score was obviously a seamless join, back in 1945. One common fault across subsequent productions – beginning with Ashton's 1948 choreography for Margot Fonteyn and Sadler's Wells Ballet – has been to rush the Prince's hunt for the foot that fits the slipper. It sometimes feels that he has just nipped out of the Palace's back door and walked straight into Cinderella's parlour. Whereas, Prokofiev gives five musical numbers (a tenth of the ballet) to the Prince's "galops"; representing his travels around the world, to the Orient and back, to find that mysterious girl. Zakharov choreographed exotic scenes to match that music, creating a wonderful element of the ballet that has become so often rushed or largely omitted.
The Zakharov choreography was performed, regularly, for more than 20 years, finally petering out in the early 70s. Step forward, my second hero in the person of Mikhail Messerer, officially the Ballet Master in Chief at the beautiful gem that is the Mikhailovsky Theatre, its burnt-yellow façade sitting proudly on one side of St Petersburg's Arts Square.
Messerer is also the master-reviver of out-of-stock ballets from the Soviet era. Having previously worked his magic with Vakhtang Chabukiani's Laurencia (dating from 1939) and then Vasily Vainonen's The Flames of Paris (1932), he has now turned his wand to recreate Zakharov's original Cinderella. Messerer has the advantage of being steeped in the knowledge of a great ballet dynasty and also the personal experience of having experienced performances of Zakharov's Cinderella as a member of the Bolshoi ensemble.
Before getting too carried away with history, let me say that the real success of this Cinderella is as much to do with its fresh new look, as it is with the authenticity of an historic revival. Messerer may have brought Zakharov's steps back to life but he has packaged them in an altogether modern production. Digital technology played a part in Messerer's previous ballet reincarnations but, here, it is a dominant theme. His special trick has been to dress up this recreation of a 70-year-old ballet, complete with all its Soviet-style vagaries of a Swan Lake pastiche, in a thoroughly modern production for the digital age.
Victor Lebedev in Cinderella.
Such technology can often be either cheesy or childish but the 3D realism of the video content by Show Consulting Studio and Gleb Filshtinsky was so superb that it conned the audience into believing that the digital imagery was physically real. A clock that appears to be painted onto the frontcloth suddenly starts to move and tick; at one point on his journey to find Cinderella, the Prince (Victor Lebedev) appears to jeté through a graphic archway; and the opening montage on a full-screen, filling the proscenium, imitating a long camera tracking shot, through a clutch of trees and out into the garden of Cinderella's home, could have come from an Orson Welles film!
Messerer's team has recreated Zakharov's global quest for the Prince to find Cinderella (Anastasia Soboleva), with a neat reference in the digital content to the imagery of the opening credits from Game of Thrones and, in doing so, they have expanded the narrative end game to create three evenly-paced, evenly-timed, equally-satisfying acts, which address perhaps the most common fault of all productions of Cinderella (first act, often too long; final act, usually too short).
The visual spectacle and holistic narrative in this new-old, Messerer-Zakharov production was well-matched by a peerless performance by the Mikhailovsky orchestra, conducted by Pavel Sorokin; lovingly caressing Prokofiev's jubilant score. And, there was great dancing throughout the cast. My first encounter with Lebedev and Soboleva was two years' ago, in Ashton's La Fille mal gardée, in this same theatre. They were two young dancers in their very early 20s, not long out of school; talented, for sure, but coltish and demure with much still to achieve in their maturation as dancers. Now, they are both the real deal, having gained considerable maturity, under Messerer's tutelage, since I last saw them. Lebedev has become an exciting, virile dancer, spinning ferociously and jumping high with notable ballon, but also a handsome danseur noble. Soboleva brings both vulnerability and authority to her Cinderella, a charismatic characterisation that is etched onto a very fine ballerina's skills set. They are partners in life, as well as on stage, which adds palpable realism to their romance; and their radiant pas de deux completely absorbed my attention.
Amongst the supporting dancers, I picked out a very Russian performance, as the Winter Fairy, from a New Zealander! Alicia Read came to the Mikhailovsky by way of David Makhateli's Grand Auditions, from where she was spotted and signed-up by Messerer, in 2016. Three dancers bearing the name of Ekaterina also impressed: Borchenko as a radiant, elegant Fairy (Godmother); and Odarenko and Belovodskaya as the more mad-than-bad stepsisters (certainly, not ugly, nor in travesty). Ksenia Rusina was a very good, truly bad, stepmother.
In true Soviet style, this Cinderella contained the unusual, athletic antics of a court jester (Roman Volkov) and a trio of national dances, from the Orient, from Spain (of course) and a mazurka that one supposes hailed from Hungary. These eccentricities made it seem, at times, as if renegades from Swan Lake or The Sleeping Beauty had found their way into the wrong ballet.
However, nothing detracted from an all-around triumph for this genius at making ballet reconstructions that are fit for the modern age. The phrase "new-old" is often used to describe such recreations but no-one achieves such fresh originality out of old material in quite the same way as Mikhail Messerer.
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Mikhailovsky Ballet – The Flames of Paris – St. Petersburg


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Businesses in metro New Orleans expect to lose millions on Super Bowl Sunday
Lack of interest in game, 'NOLA no call' hurting sales
Updated: 5:30 PM CST Feb 1, 2019
Jennifer Crockett
Reporter/Anchor
WEBVTT THIS WEEKEND. JENNIFER: THIS RESTAURANT IN METAIRIE SAYS SUPER BOWL SUNDAY IS TYPICALLY HUGE FOR THEIR CATERING BUSINESS. SO FAR, WORLD DELI DOES NOT HAVE A SINGLE ORDER ON THE BOOKS FOR THIS SUNDAY. FANS FEEL CHEATED AND ARE NOT IN THE MOOD TO CELEBRATE STILL. >> I'M A BIG SAINTS FAN. I'M NOT CELEBRATING THE SUPER BOWL. JENNIFER: FANS IN NEW ORLEANS HAVE LOST THEIR APPETITE FOR THE SUPER BOWL THIS YEAR AFTER THE NOW INFAMOUS NOLA NO CALL ENDED THE SAINTS SEASON. >> WE GOT ROBBED. JENNIFER: IT'S HITTING LOCAL RESTAURANTS, BARS, CATERING COMPANIES, AND GROCERY STORES HARD. >> NORMALLY, THIS TIME OF YEAR, WE HAVE A MASS PRODUCTION OF CATERING, FROM THE CHICKEN TENDERS TO THE JAMBALAYA, THE RED BEANS, BAKED BEANS, RIBS. THIS YEAR, WE HAVE SEEN A VERY BIG DROP. >> USUALLY, WE HAVE TO COME IN ON SUNDAYS. WE HAVE SO MANY CATERING ORDERS. THIS YEAR, WE DO NOT HAVE ONE ORDER FOR SUPER BOWL SUNDAY. JENNIFER: THEY ESTIMATE THE CITY AND BUSINESSES IN THE METRO WILL LOSE A COMBINED $22 MILLION IN THE SUPER BOWL SLUMP THIS WEEKEND. >> WE WILL PROBABLY DO HALF OF WHAT WE DO IF THE SAINTS WERE INVOLVED. JENNIFER: THIS STORE IN METAIRIE IS BANKING ON BOYCOTT BOWL TO GET THEM BACK IN BUSINESS SUNDAY. >> WE ARE YOUR BOYCOTT BOWL HEADQUARTERS. STILL CELEBRATE TH SAINTS. WE WILL BE IN BLACK AND GOLD SUNDAY
As Atlanta prepares to host the 2019 Super Bowl, businesses in metro New Orleans said they are bracing for a serious slump in Super Bowl sales. World Deli owner Wendy Vance said her restaurant and catering company in Metairie has not taken a single order for a Super Bowl party after the controversial "NOLA no call" ended the Saints season on the verge of a chance at the championship."We usually have a whole lot of business," Vance said. "The year the Saints went to the Super Bowl it was like New Years Eve, we had so much catering. So it affects it a lot. We have not one single order for the Super Bowl. Not one."At Walk On's Bistreaux and Bar in New Orleans, General Manager Marshall Hahn expects his sales to drop by about 50 percent on Sunday. The restaurant is trying to attract a different crowd of football fans on Sunday – those who actually want to watch the championship game."We've done a fairly good job of being able to sell it," Hahn said. "We've got a lot of out-of-towners coming, so I think we are going to do OK, but the overall excitement is just not the same."Dorignac's grocery store in Metairie said postseason shopping was so busy, it looked liked Christmas in their store. But since the Saints lost the NFC championship, co-owner Nicole Dorignac said their sales have fallen by 20 percent. She is hoping that Boycott Bowl, an alternative to typical football parties, will lift fans' spirits and their sales out of the Super Bowl slump."We will be in black and gold on Sunday," Dorignac said. "We hope that those who are boycotting will still come and shop."Boycott Bowl will take place on Fulton Street from 12 p.m. to 10 p.m. The event's Facebook page describes it as "a music festival that celebrates our culture and benefits New Orleans musicians, chefs, bartenders and the entire service industry rather than the NFL. It will provide us an opportunity to do something to celebrate our team, our city and our fans that we were wrongfully denied on January 20." The lineup includes New Orleans performers Choppa, Shamarr Allen and The Underdogs, Partners N Crime, The Big EZ Band and Flow Tribe. The promotors said proceeds raised will go to the NORD Foundation, which supports the New Orleans Recreation Development Commission.
As Atlanta prepares to host the 2019 Super Bowl, businesses in metro New Orleans said they are bracing for a serious slump in Super Bowl sales. World Deli owner Wendy Vance said her restaurant and catering company in Metairie has not taken a single order for a Super Bowl party after the controversial "NOLA no call" ended the Saints season on the verge of a chance at the championship.
"We usually have a whole lot of business," Vance said. "The year the Saints went to the Super Bowl it was like New Years Eve, we had so much catering. So it affects it a lot. We have not one single order for the Super Bowl. Not one."
At Walk On's Bistreaux and Bar in New Orleans, General Manager Marshall Hahn expects his sales to drop by about 50 percent on Sunday. The restaurant is trying to attract a different crowd of football fans on Sunday – those who actually want to watch the championship game.
"We've done a fairly good job of being able to sell it," Hahn said. "We've got a lot of out-of-towners coming, so I think we are going to do OK, but the overall excitement is just not the same."
Dorignac's grocery store in Metairie said postseason shopping was so busy, it looked liked Christmas in their store. But since the Saints lost the NFC championship, co-owner Nicole Dorignac said their sales have fallen by 20 percent. She is hoping that Boycott Bowl, an alternative to typical football parties, will lift fans' spirits and their sales out of the Super Bowl slump.
"We will be in black and gold on Sunday," Dorignac said. "We hope that those who are boycotting will still come and shop."
Boycott Bowl will take place on Fulton Street from 12 p.m. to 10 p.m.
The event's Facebook page describes it as "a music festival that celebrates our culture and benefits New Orleans musicians, chefs, bartenders and the entire service industry rather than the NFL. It will provide us an opportunity to do something to celebrate our team, our city and our fans that we were wrongfully denied on January 20."
The lineup includes New Orleans performers Choppa, Shamarr Allen and The Underdogs, Partners N Crime, The Big EZ Band and Flow Tribe. The promotors said proceeds raised will go to the NORD Foundation, which supports the New Orleans Recreation Development Commission.


The Orange County Sheriff's Office has released body cam video of the shooting that occurred on February 13 at the Citra Apartments in Windermere. The suspect, Laforest Duron Gray Jr, was publicly live streaming the shooting to his followers on Instagram. Several media outlets began showing clips of the Instagram video, which now can also be shown with the perspective from the Sheriff's Deputies point of view.
The body cam footage shows the intense and dramatic moments right before the shooting. The video is replayed three times, slowing the video down in the second and third replays. During the slow-motion videos the gun drawn and fired by Gray is clearly visible.
WARNING: THIS VIDEO IS UNCENSORED! IT INCLUDES EXPLICIT LANGUAGE AND GUNFIRE.
Our community is extremely grateful for the deputies who first responded to this situation and the massive response from the Sheriff's Office.


Officers investigated Theft in the 100 blk N. Plum.
Officers took a Harassment by Phone report in the 800 blk N. Olive.
Officers investigated Criminal Threat in the 1700 blk E. 16th.
Officers investigated Theft in the 2000 blk E. 16th.
Jane A. Wu, AF, Wichita, was arrested on a Jackson County Bench Warrant for Giving Worthless Check.
Jeremy L. Harris, 44, Arkansas City, was arrested and charged with Arson and False Request for Emergency Service.
Allyson S. Krenek, 38, was arrested and charged with Domestic Battery and Criminal Damage to Property.


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Martyn Crucefix has won numerous prizes including a major Eric Gregory award and a Hawthornden Fellowship. He has published seven collections of poetry including Hurt (Enitharmon, 2010): "an exceptional ear . . . superbly intelligent . . . urgent, heartfelt, controlled and masterful." (Kathryn Maris, Poetry London). His translation of Rilke's Duino Elegies (Enitharmon, 2006) was shortlisted for the Popescu Prize for European Poetry Translation and hailed as "unlikely to be bettered for very many years" (Magma). His translation of Rilke's The Sonnets to Orpheus appeared from Enitharmon in 2012. Recent original collections include The Time We Turned (Shearsman, 2014), A Hatfield Mass (Worple Press, 2014) and Daodejing - a new version in English will be published in 2016.
"The important thing is getting people to think." So said one member of our eclectic and talented Words & Ears audience last night - and there was certainly much to think about, from Linda Saunders' eloquent musings on what it is to listen (to America, in a phone call; to the stone in a sculptor's workshop; to the silence beyond sound), to Martyn Crucefix's theme that 'language is inadequate', and that the message of profound oneness inherent in Daodejing - for which he has just produced a new version in English - begins to be lost as soon as language starts to define it. There were some interesting touching points between the two poets' readings - and not only that both have been published by Worple Press - Martyn's thoughts on 'the uncarved block of wood' finding echoes in Linda's uncarved block of stone, and the implied listening of Martyn's Reclining Figure - Angles mirroring the hearing and mis-hearing weaving its way through Linda's new collection, A Touch on the Remote.
Both poets, and our excellent open-mic readers, took us on journeys across the continents and to the desert fringes of early-onset Alzheimer's. And, giving us plenty more to think about was the neat juxtaposition of Martyn's assertion that 'Real power is female, it rises from beneath' with Jinny Fisher's poem about the alarmingly overt gender stereotyping imprinted - literally - on our little ones via words and slogans on their clothing (and thanks, Rachael - great double act!).
Huge thanks to all who contributed - their words, and their ears. I'm told (often - thank you) how excellent Words & Ears is - it is you who make it so.


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NYU College of Dentistry's Saturday Academy aims to diversify dentistry
7/11/2019 7 p.m.
The field of dentistry has historically lacked diversity. According to the American Dental Education Association, in 2016, only 15.2 percent of those applying to dental schools nationwide were underrepresented minorities, including Black and Hispanic applicants.
Bessie B. Stringfield, intrepid motorcyclist and storyteller
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Gertrude Hadley Jeannette, a theater maven, was 103 when she died in 2018. Mainly remembered for founding the Hadley Players, she distinguished herself earlier when she learned to drive and became the first woman in New York City to obtain ...
Brooklyn High School of the Arts Graduation 2019
Brooklyn's Grand Prospect Hall was the beautiful venue for the 2019 graduating class of the Brooklyn High School of the Arts Monday, June 24.
East Harlem Asthma Center of Excellence families graduate asthma management program
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The East Harlem Asthma Center of Excellence buzzed with excitement as families gathered to participate in the graduation ceremony post completion of a breathing exercises and other self-management tools training program
Minisink celebrates a legacy of service
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For those who are Harlem natives, the name Minisink carries memories of fellowship and excellence. Over the years, youth have been empowered and educated in leadership and volunteerism through the various program offerings of the Minisink legacy.
Our young grads steppin' up!
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As we all know, June is a very important month for lots of parents and family members with us acknowledging our wonderful graduates who have worked so hard this year. But let's not forget about the "little" people—our young children ...
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Cheyney University came out of the weekend with a pair of victories, reporting the likelihood both of a balanced budget and announcing that the newly signed state budget includes almost $4 million in scholarships for Cheyney students.
Girls for gender equality
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New York City's City Council and Mayor Bill de Blasio have secured $857,000 in permanent funding each year to fund seven Title IX coordinators.
Josephine Harreld Love, pianist and devoted arts advocate
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A generation has gone by since Josephine Love's Your Heritage House was among Detroit's most prominent cultural sites.
Bronx graduates honored with community BBQ
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A new report finds that school disciplinary actions that disproportionately target Black and Latinx youth are feeding the school to prison pipeline.
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My N900 can do that, but i'm struggling to find a micro usb to usb cable like the one in the video. Is that cable made by nokia ?
Midas84, 01 Jun 2010WOW! Was considering waiting for the new MeeGo device but after seeing this small but awesome ... morethis feature will most likely be on the MeeGo Flagship. It doesn't make any sense not to include it.
WOW! Was considering waiting for the new MeeGo device but after seeing this small but awesome feature I think I may just have to buy the N8!!!
With USB OTG the possibilities are endless!!!
It's funny when people keep on saying symbian is way behind. It comes from people who doesn't know how to use it and from people who uses other OS. If you ask them in what area it is way behind they'll be struggling for words and usually comes up with customization and eye candy. You idiots don't know how to use symbian, you don't even know how to get certificate and sign applications and you haven't heard spb mobile shell. I can put 15 shortcuts/widgets in each of the 5 homescreen pages in my symbian s60v3. Every software becomes old eventually that's why every manufacturer updates it. So did nokia with symbian^3 and then symbian^4 and so on. It's like saying playstation 1 is way behind nintendo wii while ps3 is available. Just because you don't know how to fully utilize it's potential doesn't make it a bad OS. It's developing. I like this open source symbian. And with USB OTG the possibilities are limitless. I can't imagine what the ifans will say had USB OTG been available in the iphone.
to get the knowledge that home screen of N8 can be modified.
to all nokia hater,you see that symbian home screen can be modified and look cool,how can you tell symbian is dead and ugly ????
1 more reason to buy to this LOADED to its TEETH mobile phone.
and those of u who r fighting over which has best UI, which has best apps.... just tell me who makes the most reliable, sturdy handsets for over a decade now. N O K I A ! ! ! !
u dont want ur 600$ handset to go for repairs in just 2yrs, do u?
A new face of N8!
Some of you are sounding like spoiled children.
Every phone has its advantages and disadvantage, why can't you like different features from different manufacturers?
Remember one fact, those phones shown in videos are still prototypes. A mature device is yet to come.
how useful is this really. it looks more like a commercial.
[deleted post]In my opinion,any videos that show which NEW MODEL works,using is juz showing before it released into market.
I means any model before they released..they must let people know how the device for use.
Important thing is the device in the video is a device not yet to released,just a primary device,is for first attempt.
I think it will works great when release on market.
Can you guys tell me why Symbian^3 is behind? What can the iPhone OS, Android or Windows Phone 7 do that Symbian can't? Better question would be, what can Symbian^3 do that iPhone OS, Android or Windows Phone 7 can't?
P.S. It's a BETA, meaning it will have bugs. Every phone/OS goes through this.


This post was originally published on the Target Pulse Blog. Enjoy!
"Oh my goodness," I thought to myself as I stared at the dauntingly full z-rack of bathing suits in the fitting room. I was tasked with completing the re-shop at the start of the day and was utterly overwhelmed. "All right, you can do this" I said to myself, pushing the rack onto the floor. Forty minutes and an empty z-rack later I walked back to the fitting room, proud of myself and my quick work, only to find another full z-rack waiting for me.
After three z-racks, I began to realize that the work load would never be truly "done." Finished, over, box-checked does not actually exist with re-shop. How could these team members deal with this phenomenon? What must it be like to know that fully completing a task is an impossibility? When I finally got home after that first Saturday on duty I came to the conclusion that z-racks and re-shop are a lot like life.
Bear with me here. I promise this is going somewhere and has deep meaning. In life, we are on the quest to better ourselves, our relationships, our work, etc. Yet, despite our best efforts we will constantly be evolving and as great as we may be, we can always get better.
This is an idea and reality that I have struggled with for as long as I can remember. I am the type of person who makes to-do lists and adds tasks I've already done just so I can check them off. As a problem solver and one who drives for results, my mentality has always been that I can break any goal into action steps and once those are complete I can consider myself successful. Working with those z-racks were an "ah ha" moment, though. I came to understand that not only can't we be done, but it is ok that we are never finished. The moment you stop developing is actually the moment that you have failed.
Of course, having this epiphany is all well and good. I now comprehend one of life's mysteries! But this does not actually do me any good until I can accept it. Through interning at Target I have learned that it is not enough to solicit feedback or focus on your opportunities or build meaningful relationships unless you are able and willing to accept the situation you are in and look to leverage your strengths.
Since I now know (and you know too, because you are reading this) that in life we will be on a continuous path of improvement and that is both natural and ok, we must make the conscious effort to accept and embrace this. Through challenging ourselves and our ideas (shout out to my mentor for always helping me to do this!) we are taking the necessary steps to move closer to our ideal selves. We will never be complete (and that would be boring anyway. I mean, what would you even do with yourself if you checked off all of the boxes?), but we will always be moving forward, one z-rack at a time.


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In this #ShelfMastery video I take inventory of my books and catalog my library in an effort to discover how many books I own and how many are still unread.
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I was disgnosed with Triple Negative breast cancer on March the 12th 2014. You can follow my journey on the blog posts below, which aren't always up to date. Or by using this category link which will show all posts from recent to the beginning in that order.
Breast cancer post #5: Bald is beautiful?
Breast cancer post #6: One week to chemo!
Breast cancer post #15: Good thanks!


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Director Martin Scorsese
Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Michelle Williams, Ben Kingsley, Ted Levine, Patricia Clarkson, Jackie Earle Haley
Release 19 FEB (US) 12 MAR (UK) Certificate 15
Shutter Island, the latest from director Martin Scorsese, is far from perfect, but it is an excellent showcase for a master filmmaker who is still working at the top of his game, despite being in the twilight of his career.
The film's shortcomings lie primarily with the script, which is a bit hackneyed and predictable, and contains a third act twist that requires more than a little suspension of disbelief. In lesser hands, this script would undoubtedly result in a complete disaster. Thankfully, Scorsese and his�excellent cast, led by Leonardo DiCaprio, manage to transcend the problems inherent in the screenplay, and have delivered a moody, atmospheric thriller that is both engaging and unsettling.
DiCaprio plays Teddy Daniels, a U.S. Marshall haunted by the deaths of his wife and children, and plagued by horrifying dreams. Along with his new partner Chuck (Mark Ruffalo), Teddy is dispatched to locate a prisoner who escaped from the insane asylum located on the remote Shutter Island. Once they arrive, the marshalls are introduced to Dr Cawley (Ben Kingsley), the administrator of the facility, who employs some rather unorthodox psychological techniques on his patients.
[gallery]Teddy and his partner immediately set about investigating the disappearance of a young female inmate named Rachel Solando, but their efforts are constantly thwarted by the hospital staff and the inmates. Teddy and his partner soon uncover several dark secrets that Dr Cawley would rather stay hidden.� At the same time, Teddy's dreams grow worse, and he can feel himself descending into madness with every moment he remains on the island. Teddy eventually makes his way to the ominous lighthouse that dominates the island, where he learns that nothing is as it seems, and he may be hiding some secrets of his own.
Shutter Island owes a huge debt to Alfred Hitchcock, and it feels more in line with a film like Vertigo than with the thrillers of the modern era. It is largely an exercise in style over substance, often eschewing narrative cohesion in favour of creating an oppressive mood or presenting some amazing visuals.
Indeed, Shutter Island is simply one of the best looking films in recent memory, and the cinematography really deserves to be singled out for special recognition, because it is truly marvellous.�The entire film exists in a grey haze, broken only by the vibrant and colourful dream sequences, all of which are hauntingly beautiful.
Adding to the oppressive atmosphere is an outstanding score, which sets the tone right from the bat. Scorsese has always been a master at incorporating music in his films, and Shutter Island is no exception. The music often dominates the film, without ever becoming overbearing or annoying. It is unsettling; a cacophony of dissonant chords and pounding tones, it serves to keep the viewer out of sorts. The film goes to great lengths to keep the audience on edge at all times, and the score is a driving factor in maintaining the disconcerting mood.
Additionally, the editing is quite often incongruous and abrupt, with several continuity errors throughout, but they feel totally intentional and purposeful. As with everything else in the movie, the editing serves to add to the feeling of madness. It is a small stroke of genius on Scorsese's part, and is a touch that really helps to elevate the film above the sort of shop-worn pulp nature of the script.
The cast is uniformly excellent, but they all take a back seat to DiCaprio. This is his movie, and he dominates every scene, delivering a performance that should dispel any lingering doubts about his talent. However, Mark Ruffalo does superlative work in a somewhat underwritten role. He gives it his all, despite being woefully underutilized, and it's a shame when he disappears for long stretches in the second act.
Nevertheless, Ruffalo more than proves his worth in a small role that won't get anywhere near the recognition it deserves. The rest of the cast is fine, with creepy supporting turns by Ben Kingsley and Max Von Sydow, but it is Ted Levine's Warden who absolutely steals the show, doing more in one scene than a lot of actors manage to do in entire movies.
Unfortunately, the movie drags a little, but it still manages to maintain the viewer's interest thanks to DiCaprio's bravura performance. Once the third act twist rears its ugly head, it threatens to squander all the goodwill that has been built up thus far.�Some viewers may be turned off by it, but those who are able to roll with it will be rewarded with a fairly satisfying ending that leaves just the right amount of ambiguity.
While Shutter Island is far from Scorsese's best picture, and the film is somewhat hampered by a totally predictable and completely unbelievable third act twist, the style and direction combine to create a film that manages to fall just on the right side of greatness.� It is well worth the time of those who are willing and able to suitably suspend their sense of disbelief.
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Feb. 6 Immigrant Rights Protest in Danbury, CT
The Hell that is Haiti Webinar
Join us for a special Socialist Action webinar on the latest developments in Haiti. Featuring prominent activists in the Haitian community. Thursday, September 23 at
Biden Continues Trump's Policies on Refugees
By Barry Sheppard July 6, 2021 Despite promises made during his election campaign, Biden in office is continuing Trump's policies on refugees fleeing the horrific
Chicago Police Murdered Adam Toledo
By Cristobal Cavazos Thirteen-year old Adam Toledo was shot to death in the Mexican working class neighborhood of Little Village, among the most poverty stricken


I am concerned that my 12-year-old daughter isn't getting enough calcium. How much does she need, and how do I figure out how much she is getting in her diet?
You are smart to be concerned that your daughter may not be getting enough calcium to do her bones good. While we mistakenly think of osteoporosis as Granny's problem, prevention actually begins in the grandchild years.
According to the NIH consensus report on osteoporosis building strong bones early in life is perhaps the most important determinant of lifelong bone health. While you have until about age 30 to build bone, it's estimated that between 40 and 60 percent of your bone mass is accumulated during adolescence — and let's face it: Those with the highest peak bone mass have the greatest advantage for protection against the inevitable bone loss that naturally occurs with age.
While a balanced, healthy diet is important in the development of healthy bones, adequate calcium is tops on the list as the most important nutrient when it comes to striving for peak bone mass. Vitamin D is also an important player, helping the body absorb calcium.
And now for the bad news: While those youngsters, ages 9 to 17 years, need 1,300 milligrams of calcium daily, it's estimated that only about 25 percent of boys and only a dismal 10 percent of girls in this age group are actually meeting their needs. So much for achieving peak bone mass.
The easiest way to get this amount of dietary calcium is to consume about four servings from the dairy group daily. Calcium-fortified foods, such as juices, are another way to add some calcium strength to the diet. Fruits and veggies will provide a smattering.
Should Young Females Take Calcium Supplements?


I am soooooo sorry for my absence....I was taking advantage of my pretty much 2 week vacation....and it was awesome!!
I didn't do too hot with taking pics....but I did take a picture of every single one of my mom's Christmas trees.....all 19 of them...yes, 19.
Guest room 3 tree, upstairs bathroom tree...and I just noticed that I don't have either of the 2 Christmas trees!!
Yep, the woman is awesome when it comes to Christmas decorations!
This is only the tree section of the decor....the entire house is pretty much re-decorated for the season...and I LOVE it!!
There is so much that when they were house hunting they had to make sure the house had enough and preferably walk-in storage...it's awesome!
I also snagged a pic of the welcome/Christmas gift I got for Daddy...well it's really for Momma too...but anyway...check out all their goodies!
....along with another one from my MIL! I am so spoiled with Coach!
I got a circut machine!! I see lots of crafty things in my future!!! YAY!!!
An AMAZING new knife set!!
I cut a potato....and it was like budder! SWEEEEEEEEEET!
Pretty much identical to the one we had, but cleaner without the little fuzz balls and a fun new design...I just love the crispness of white!
I got tons of other fabulous little goodies...too much to be honest! :) My parents Santa loves me!
He also got a record player, some clothes, more UT stuff, some hunting stuff, and lots of other goodies.
The pups got lots of chew toys, treats, and bones....see Mr. Man with the biggest bone he has ever had!
And of course Baby B got some goodies too! A bib and a burp cloth made by Great Grandma and a Sleep Sheep...it is so soft and plays heartbeat, rain, and a few others. And it is soooo soft! :) And a few gift cards that we can shop with very soon!
So all and all we had one of the best Christmases ever! It was the last one for me in Mississippi, which is bitter sweet....Mississippi was the place I called home the longest (I lived in 6 states before it) and so many of my very dear friends are still there...but now Mom and Dad are living 15 minutes from me!!! YAY!! And it was also the last one as just the 2 of us...next year will be here in Nashville with a little 6 month old!!! EEEKK!!!
I hope you all had an absolutely FABULOUS holiday and are having an even better New Year!
Looks like you had a fabulous vacation. I am so impressed with all of those trees! 19 wow!!! All gorgeous.
LOoks like you had a wonderful christmas! I am loving your trees!
19 trees?! daaaaang! haha that's awesome! you did walk away with some goodies! Glad you had a good Christmas!
looks like you had a great holiday! love those necklaces!
I haven't seen you wear the quatrefoil necklace yet. LOVE it! oh Carla and her decorations! God love her!


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Tag Archives: Phoenix project
The Quiet Revolution in Space
National security critically depends on space, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)is focused today on creating the capabilities needed to help make that environment a real-time operational domain, DARPA Director Dr. Arati Prabhakar…
"The questions we ask ourselves at DARPA about the space domain … is what would it take to make the space domain robust for everything that we need militarily and for intelligence, and what would it take to make space a real-time operational domain, which it's not at all today," the director said, noting that many other nation-states now are active in orbit and space is a domain where conflict is becoming a real possibility.
Through a national security lens, she added, nothing needed from an intelligence or military perspective can be done effectively without access to space. Something as simple as navigation completely depends on GPS in nearly every part of the world and in every operating regime.
In an era of declining budgets and adversaries' evolving capabilities, quick, affordable and routine access to space is increasingly critical for national and economic security. Today's satellite launch systems require scheduling years in advance for a limited inventory of available slots and launches often cost hundreds of millions of dollars each. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency created its Experimental Spaceplane, or XS-1, program to help overcome these challenges and reduce the time to get capabilities to space. DARPA artist-concept graphics "Because of the demands on launch, from the day you know you have to put an asset on orbit to the time you can plan on a launch today is still unacceptably long," Prabhakar said.
Commercial capabilities will help, she added, "but if in a time of war we imagine if we could go to space not in a month or next week but tomorrow, think about how that would completely change the calculus for an adversary that's thinking about [using an antisatellite] weapon to take out one of our satellites
"With that ambition in mind, DARPA is now starting Phase 2 of its Experimental Spaceplane, or XS-1."It's a reusable first stage that's designed to be able to put 3,000 or 5,000 pounds into low earth orbit … at a very low cost point — a few million dollars — but very significantly the objective on the DARPA program is by the end of the program to fly that spacecraft 10 times in 10 days," Prabhakar said, "something that's inconceivable with any of the spacecraft we have today."
A second piece of the puzzle is what can be done in orbit, she added, referring to low earth orbit, or LEO, an orbit around Earth whose altitude is between 99 and 1,200 miles.
"We're doing some amazing work with geo[synchronous]-robotics and rethinking [geostationary Earth orbit]-architectures once you have an asset that would allow you to extend the life or do inspection or simple repairs at GEO, which is something you can't do today. GEO [geostationary orbit]is a stable region of space 22,370 miles from Earth. And because GEO is a stable environment for machines — but hostile for people because of high radiation levels — DARPA thinks the key technology there is space robotics. DARPA's Phoenix program seeks to enable GEO robotics servicing and asset life extension while developing new satellite architectures to reduce the cost of space-based systems.
The program's goal is to develop and demonstrate technologies that make it possible to inspect and robotically service cooperative space systems in GEO and to validate new satellite assembly architectures. Phoenix has validated the concept that new satellites could be built on orbit by physically aggregating "satlets" in space, according to DARPA.
Satlets are small independent modules that can attach together to create a new low-cost, modular satellite architecture, DARPA says. Satlets incorporate essential satellite functionality — power supplies, movement controls, sensors and others — and share data, power and thermal management capabilities. DARPA now is working to validate the technical concept of satlets in LEO [Low earth orbit an orbit around Earth whose altitude is between 99 and 1,200 miles.]
Excerpts from Cheryl Pellerin Director: DARPA Space Projects Critical to Shifting Trajectories , US DOD News, Nov. 22, 2016
This entry was posted in covert action, Espionage, Space, War and tagged anti-satellite weapons, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), fractionated satellites, microsatellites, militarization of space, Phoenix project, robotics in space, satellites surveillance, satellites war, satlets, space domain, spaceplane (XS-1), spy satellites on November 23, 2016 by Stoa.
How to Unambiguously Identify Zooming Satellites
U.S. military observers can have trouble identifying satellites whizzing overheard in Earth's crowded space lanes. A new Pentagon effort aims to find the unique visual signatures of individual satellites for quick identification, regardless of whether such satellites belong to friend or foe. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency hopes such signatures — remotely seen from ground or space sensors — could even help identify different satellites made by the same manufacturer. But it's not easy. Satellites' orbits may often change between overhead passes, and it's getting more difficult to spot individual satellites in a space becoming more crowded with vehicles, satellites and pieces of leftover space junk.
The DARPA solicitation for an innovative solution from small business, issued April 27, noted, "Some objects are frequently lost, and sometimes serendipitously reacquired without recognition of its previous catalog existence, unless manpower-intensive analysis intervenes."Any effort to reliably track "active payloads and tumbling objects" and the like would focus on finding each satellite's physical or "operational" signatures (perhaps signals or movements unique to a certain satellite). Timeliness and speed would be crucial for helping military observers quickly identify satellites that had gone missing and possibly reappeared.
The technology needed here likely would involve some sort of software algorithms that can do automated identification based on satellite signatures. Once such software is created, DARPA envisions passing the testing along to the Joint Space Operations Center, the U.S. military's center for coordinating space forces and directing space power to support global operations. DARPA's focus on satellites also includes the recently launched "SeeMe" effort to deploy dozens of cheap satellites that can provide overhead battlefield surveillance for the U.S. military. The Pentagon afency also has the ongoing "Phoenix" project to try to cannibalize dead satellites and use the parts for new "Frankenstein" satellites.
Military wants to know: Whose satellites are those?, MSNBC.com, May, 3, 2012
See also http://www.dodsbir.net/sitis/display_topic.asp?Bookmark=42609
This entry was posted in covert action, Espionage, Markets, Space, War and tagged DARPA, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Department of Defense, DOD, Espionage, ground sensors, Phoenix project, satellites, SeeMe project, space sensors, space weapons on May 9, 2012 by Stoa.


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SolarCity Raises $345 Million Amid Tesla Buyout Controversy
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Chris White Tech Reporter
July 19, 2016 11:23 AM ET
SolarCity announced Monday the company managed to raise $345 million, even as its business model comes under scrutiny following news of a possible merger with electric vehicle maker Tesla Motors.
The money, financed by four firms in June and July, will go toward covering the cost associated with upkeep on new infrastructure and solar panel installation
SolarCity also added $110 million and new lenders to its credit accounts, which stands at $760 million. The new lenders and added debt could potentially allow the company to expand its renewable energy credit line to accept hedge fund facilities in hopes of drawing more capital from the accounts.
The additional funding comes on the heels of rough stretch for SolarCity, as the company continues to get flack over a proposed merger with Tesla.
Techno-wonder boy Elon Musk proposed fusing Tesla and the solar panel company in June, both of which are headed by Musk, prompting critics to wonder if such a move is even ethical.
Critics and shareholders of Tesla argue the fusion has all the earmarks of being a family affair.
Musk's cousin, Lyndon Rive, is SolarCity's chief executive officer – Rive, who told reporters he would also be recusing himself from the "decision-making process," said the offer represented a value of between $26.50 and $28.50 a share. "Ultimately, the shareholders will decide," he added.
Kimbal Musk, Elon Musk's brother, a director on the Tesla Motors Board of Directors, has yet to recuse himself from the voting process, despite the long history he and his brother have building Internet-based companies.
CtW Investor Group, which holds 200,000 shares of Tesla, said in June that the market's "hostile reaction" to the SolarCity deal was due in part to the realization that that Donald Kendall, chief executive of investment management firm Kenmont, is the only person on the SolarCity board without deep-rooted ties to Musk.
"This is particularly questionable when six out of our seven board members have ties to SolarCity," a CtW letter to Tesla noted. "This raises a serious question about whose interests the board is serving — the stockholders of Tesla or the stockholders of SolarCity."
The solar panel industry is heavily subsidized, with companies like SolarCity and its competitors benefitting from 30 percent federal tax credit for home solar panels.
States like Florida currently ban the outright purchase of solar panels — instead, customers must lease the panels from utility companies and sell any excess energy back to the utilities at higher than market rates, causing energy prices to pitch upward for utility customers without solar panels.
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Business Finance Management
The First 90 Days, Updated and Expanded: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter (HB)
Author(s): Michael D. Watkins
The world's most trusted guide for leaders in transitionTransitions are a critical time for leaders. In fact, most agree that moving into a new role is the biggest challenge a manager will face. While transitions offer a chance to start fresh and make needed changes in an organization, they also place leaders in a position of acute vulnerability. Missteps made during the crucial first three months in a new role can jeopardize or even derail your success.In this updated and expanded version of the international bestseller The First 90 Days, Michael D. Watkins offers proven strategies for conquering the challenges of transitions-no matter where you are in your career. Watkins, a noted expert on leadership transitions and adviser to senior leaders in all types of organizations, also addresses today's increasingly demanding professional landscape, where managers face not only more frequent transitions but also steeper expectations once they step into their new jobs.By walking you through every aspect of the transition scenario, Watkins identifies the most common pitfalls new leaders encounter and provides the tools and strategies you need to avoid them. You'll learn how to secure critical early wins, an important first step in establishing yourself in your new role. Each chapter also includes checklists, practical tools, and self-assessments to help you assimilate key lessons and apply them to your own situation.Whether you're starting a new job, being promoted from within, embarking on an overseas assignment, or being tapped as CEO, how you manage your transition will determine whether you succeed or fail. Use this book as your trusted guide.
"In his seminal book "The First 90 Days", Michael Watkins advises that, as a leader in the first 90 days of a new leadership role, you should promote yourself, accelerate your learning, match your strategy to the situation, and create coalitions." -- FastCompany.com
Dr. Michael D. Watkins is the world's leading expert on accelerating transitions. He is author of the international bestseller "The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at all Levels," which "The Economist" recognized as "the on-boarding bible." Watkins is the Chairman of Genesis Advisers, an executive on-boarding and transition acceleration company located in Massachusetts.
Publisher : Harvard Business Review Press
Imprint : Harvard Business Review Press
Availability date : June 2013
Edition : Revised edition
Author : Michael D. Watkins


Today the US Government decided that the free market wasn't cutting it where credit cards are concerned.
Apparently we are so stupid we now need a Credit Card Holder's Bill of Rights.
Now the bill heads to conference where the minor differences will be worked out, passed again and then sent to the President for signature.
Because of the new rules being imposed credit card companies are less likely to approve credit card applications, less likely to raise credit limits, and less likely to give away incentives to join or spend money on their credit cards.
Why should people like me, who pay off their credit card every month, suffer because the rest of America chooses to be financially stupid?
but when I do, I always notice the teaser commercials for this new show called "Glee"
to me, the canon commercial music reminds me of the closing scene in "Lady in the Water"
Mt Scopus had historically been used as a launching pad for attacks on Jerusalem.
Jewish tradition of some sort? Who knows?
By the way, could the girl with the microphone get any closer to the Pope?
Do we really need to hear how the Pope chews?
In honor of the pope's arrival, they named a hybrid strain of wheat after him "Benedictus XVI"
i wonder if the shovels were blessed by the pope? holy shovels?
Does this make Benedict XVI the first Green Pope?
i especially like books that are set in Vatican City with story lines involving Popes...like Dan Brown's books.
Pope Benedict XVI (L) extends his hand to Jordanian Prince Ghazi bin Mohammed, King Abdullah II's cousin and advisor on religious affairs, at the end of their speeches at King Hussein bin Talal Mosque in Amman on May 09, 2009. Pope Benedict XVI condemned the "ideological manipulation of religion" in a speech to Muslim leaders in Jordan, as he pressed inter-faith reconciliation on the second day of a Holy Land tour. Religion should be a force for unity not division, the pontiff told his audience, which included Christian prelates, gathered in the mosque.
Pope Benedict XVI stands beside "The Staff of Moses" during his visit to Mountain Nebo on May 9, 2009, 40 kilometers southwest of Amman, Jordan. Pope Benedict XVI called for reconciliation between Christians and Jews during a visit in Jordan, where in the biblical tradition God showed Moses the Promised Land. Pope Benedict XVI is on his first trip to the middle east, which will also include the West Bank and Israel.
On our way out to visit Jerusalem we took a cab from Madaba, Jordan to the border with Jerusalem. The only way to get there was to drive through the desert mountains. One of those mountains we passed was Mt. Nebo. Unfortunately we were not able to stop and visit the church as it was closed. But the big spiral cross was very visible.
Jordan's Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad bin Talal speaks to Pope Benedict XVI (L) during his visit to the King Hussein Bin Talal mosque in Amman May 9, 2009. Pope Benedict retraced the steps of Moses on Saturday, visiting the mountain where the Bible says the ancient prophet glimpsed the Promised Land before dying, and preached that religion helps man search for truth.
Faithful Christians cheer for Pope Benedict XVI, right in car, as he passes in the streets of Madaba, some 40 kms (24 miles) southwest of Amman, on Sunday May 9, 2009. Pope Benedict began a week long tour in the Middle East on Friday that will include Jordan and Israel, and the Palestinian territories. In his first visit as pope to an Arab country, Benedict will meet with Muslim religious leaders at Amman's largest mosque.
as pontiff to an Arab state, and stressed that religious freedom is a fundamental human right.
Pope Benedict XVI (L), accompanied by Jordan's King Abdullah (R), Jordan's Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad bin Talal (2nd R) and Rustom Mkhjian, director of the Baptism site (3rd R) visits Bethany Beyond the Jordan, on the east bank of the Jordan River May 10, 2009. Pope Benedict on Sunday visited the site believed to be where Jesus was baptised as he wraps up his visit to Jordan and prepares to leave for Israel to start the most delicate part of his first Middle East trip.


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Ectopsocus briggsi is een soort van Psocoptera uit de familie Ectopsocidae die voorkomt in Groot-Brittannië en Ierland. Het is bruin-oranje van kleur.

Kenmerken
Ectopsocus briggsi heeft een lengte van 1,5 tot 2 mm. Deze stofluis heeft opvallende donkere vlekken op de voorvleugels. De mannetjes hebben altijd vleugels die langer zijn dan het achterlijf (macropteer), maar de vrouwtjes komen voor in zowel lange als kortvleugelige (brachyptere) vormen.

Verspreiding
Ectopsocus briggsi komt voor in Europa, Amerika, Zud-Afrika, Australie, Nieuw-Nieuw-Zeeland en sommige Aziatische landen.

Stofluizen