On 9 April 2008, at 2325 Eastern Standard Time, a Fairchild Industries Inc. SA227-AC (Metro III) aircraft, registered VH-OZA, departed Sydney Airport, New South Wales on a freight charter flight to Brisbane, Queensland with one pilot on board. The aircraft was subsequently observed on radar to be turning right, contrary to air traffic control instructions to turn left to an easterly heading. The pilot reported that he had a 'slight technical fault' and no other transmissions were heard from the pilot.
Recorded radar data showed the aircraft turning right and then left, followed by a descent and climb, a second right turn and a second descent before radar returns were lost when the aircraft was at an altitude of 3,740 ft above mean sea level and descending at over 10,000 ft/min. Air traffic control initiated search actions and search vessels later recovered a small amount of aircraft wreckage floating in the ocean, south of the last recorded radar position. The pilot was presumed to be fatally injured and the aircraft was destroyed.
Both of the aircraft's on-board flight recorders were subsequently recovered from the ocean floor. They contained data from a number of previous flights, but not for the accident flight. There was no evidence of a midair breakup of the aircraft.
The investigation determined that it was highly likely that the pilot took off without alternating current electrical power supplied to the aircraft's primary flight instruments, including the pilot's artificial horizon and both flight recorders. It is most likely that the lack of a primary attitude reference during the night takeoff led to pilot spatial disorientation and subsequent loss of control of the aircraft.
A significant safety issue was identified in respect of the aircraft operator's training and checking of its pilots. As a result of audits conducted following the accident, the Civil Aviation Safety Authority imposed a number of conditions on the operator's air operator's certificate that were reportedly actioned by the operator.
Download Flight data recorder (FDR), popularly referred to as the "black box"
On 9 April 2008, a Fairchild Industries Metro III aircraft departing Sydney, NSW was observed on radar to be turning contrary to air traffic control instructions. The pilot reported that he had a '…slight technical fault…'. Recorded radar data showed the aircraft then completed a turn to the left before turning back to the right and disappearing from radar at an altitude of 3,900 ft. Searchers later discovered a small amount of aircraft wreckage floating in the ocean, south of the last recorded radar position. The pilot was fatally injured and the aircraft was destroyed.
On 9 April 2008, a Fairchild Industries Metro III aircraft departing Sydney, NSW was observed on radar to be turning contrary to air traffic control instructions. The pilot reported that he had a '...slight technical fault...'. Recorded radar data showed the aircraft then completed a turn to the left before turning back to the right and disappearing from radar at an altitude of 3,900 ft. Searchers later discovered a small amount of aircraft wreckage floating in the ocean, south of the last recorded radar position. The pilot was fatally injured and the aircraft was destroyed.
The pilot's Metro III endorsement training was not conducted in accordance with the operator's approved training and checking manual , with the result that the pilot's competence and ultimately, safety of the operation could not be assured.


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At the time, 1982 seemed like a solid but unremarkable year for pop music. But it turns out to have been pretty much the best of the decade, with funk and R & B leading the pack. The main story was Michael Jackson's Thriller, the biggest-selling record of the 80s - Thriller singles like "Billie Jean" ruled the charts well into 1983. Prince, meanwhile, came up with his first mega-platinum album: 1999. And 70s funk and soul artists like George Clinton, Chaka Khan, and Patrice Rushen were still making worthwhile records.
And if rock 'n' roll was in a holding pattern, at least it was productive. The year's best rock records were by relatively new, New Wave-grounded acts like the Jam, XTC, Squeeze, the dB's, and the revamped, 1980s King Crimson. Utopia still got nowhere, despite their use of tuneful New Wave packaging. Most of the rest was just as workmanlike, including efforts by 60s veterans like Crosby, Stills & Nash, Marvin Gaye, Joni Mitchell, Richard and Linda Thompson, Pete Townshend, and Steve Winwood - and Stevie Wonder slipped four fine new tracks onto a greatest-hits compilation.
On the down side, most of the major New Wave acts either didn't put out a record, like U2, or flopped with second-rate efforts - Blondie's was a total embarassment. Australian lightweights Men At Work sold a ton of records while real New Wave acts scrambled to imitate their sax-laden sound. The Clash put out a successful album that was pretty much the last hurrah for the original punk bands. Shallow, synth-reliant MTV stars like Duran Duran and Culture Club were starting to were starting to crop up, heralding pop music's artistic crisis in the mid-80s; but pedestrian American rockers like J Geils and John Cougar and were still popular. And established acts made some mistakes as well. Paul McCartney had a huge critical and commercial hit with a record that in reality verged on MOR. Roberta Flack and Dionne Warwick were floundering. Rick James was just about finished artistically, if not commercially, and Prince spin-offs like the Time and Vanity 6 were a let-down despite the master's successes. C'est la vie... (JA)

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There is some confusion over whether this pool has ever erupted as a geyser. There are records of eruptions from "Belgian Geyser" that date from the 1930s, but the records may refer to a nearby feature now known as Crystal Spring. The footprint-shaped Belgian Pool does not erupt but features attractive colors that vary from blue in the hot vent to green, yellow and orange.
The pool was named for a tourist from Belgium who was killed in 1929 after falling into the pool. Enthralled by an eruption of Grand Geyser, the unfortunate man apparently wasn't watching where he was stepping.


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Red Sox Pitcher Left Two Playoff Tickets For Presidential Debate Superstar Ken Bone
He's the one with the perfect game
Penn Collins
Citizens on both sides of the politicial aisle found themselves with little to cheer for at Sunday night's cutthroat presidential debate. But as the eveningdrew to a close, a mustachioed, cardigan-ed bright spot emerged in the form of undecided voter Ken Bone. Bone asked a question on energy to the candidates, but it was his temperament and appearance, as stark contrast to what viewers had been witnessing, that brought Mr. Bone legions of fans instantly.
Apparently, one such fan was Joe Kelly, a reliever for the Boston Red Sox.
Kelly took to Twitter to speak out in favor of America's new sweetheart.
Then, in an effort to distinguish himself from the thousands of other Americans paying lip service to Ken Bone, Joe Kelly offered up a litlte something extra.
It's unclear still if Bone attended, though it seems unlikely given his packed schedule Monday morning with media outlets clamoring to score time with Internet sensation. If we are to presume Bone didn't attend game 3, perhaps his absence served as the death knell for the Red Sox, who dropped the game 4-3 against Cleveland and, in doing so, lost the series as well.
It might be premature to blame Bone for his abesnce from the game, however. You'd think if Kelly was a little more resolute in seeing that these tickets got into Ken Bone's hands that he would have actually mentioned his Twitter name, @kenbone18.
Now, Joe Kelly will have the entire offseason to reflect on the extra steps he could have taken to get Ken Bone to cheer on his Red Sox.


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Kill Time () is a 2016 romance suspense crime film directed by Fruit Chan. A Chinese-Hong Kong co-production, the film was released on February 14, 2016 in China by Wuzhou Film Distribution and Wanda Pictures and is scheduled for release in Hong Kong on March 10, 2016.

Plot

Cast
Angelababy
Ethan Juan
Zhang Juck
Rayza
Hao Lei
Huang Jue
Yin Zhusheng
Pan Hong
Kou Zhenhai
Lam Suet
Song Ning

Reception
The film has grossed  in China.

References

Chinese romance films
Hong Kong romance films
Chinese suspense films
Films directed by Fruit Chan
2010s romance films
2010s crime films
Wuzhou Film Distribution films
Wanda Pictures films
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In the Los Angeles Unified School District only 44% of low-income students will graduate from high school. Of those that do complete high school in LAUSD, only one in five will have met the curriculum requirements to qualify for admission to a four-year public university in California. There are so many factors that play into creating these statistics, but the sad reality is that low-income students, those that stand to gain the most from higher education, are not being presented with adequate resources to even qualify for the next level.
These statistics have pushed some teachers at Johnnie L. Cochran, Jr. Middle School to work even harder to ensure student success. This year, a group of teachers focused on three high-achieving students and made it their mission for them to beat these odds and succeed in high school and beyond. Heven, Joel, and Fransisco have worked relentlessly to overcome many obstacles placed before them. After a year of hard work, each of these students received full-ride scholarships to some of the most elite private schools in Los Angeles. In the fall of 2008, they will be starting their freshmen years at Brentwood School, Harvard-Westlake, and Crossroads school, respectively.
Our mission is for these students to be able to make the most of their high school experiences. Additional funding is needed for these students to succeed. Funds are necessary for textbooks, school supplies, lunch money, field trips, extracurricular activities, and school social events. As the Independent School Support Systems (ISSS) we hope to raise money to provide for these students, selected students currently applying to elite high schools and future students so they can achieve and take full advantage of all opportunities provided to them.
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In light of these needs we hope to create a long term program that allows students to gain admission into elite private prep schools and to guarantee their success throughout their High School experience.
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Does big snowpack mean it's time for a new reservoir?
By Amy Joi O'Donoghue @amyjoi16
Published: April 22, 2011 6:00 pm Updated: April 23, 2011 12:29 a.m.
Mike Terry, Deseret News
Sytems operators for the Jordan Valley Water Conservancy District, Steve Schmidt, Jason Newren and Greg Mark at one of nearly two dozen injection wells operated by the district as part of its Aquifer Storage and Recovery program. Friday, April 22, 2011.
SALT LAKE CITY — With April precipitation at this point registering 254 percent of normal and a snowpack still left to melt, it doesn't seem like Utah is doing much to boost its standing as the second driest state in the country.
All that water has to come out of the mountains in the months to come, but is there a way to capture it for future use to boost Utah's water supplies?
Yes and no.
Utah's 26 dams and reservoirs do a pretty good job, but a lot of the "excess" water along the Wasatch Front eventually finds its way via streams and rivers to the Great Salt Lake.
Some would argue that beyond what is necessary to sustain the viability of lake-supporting industries, such as the duck clubs and the bird refuges, it seems like a waste.
Eric Millis, deputy director of the state Division of Water Resources, said it is tempting to think that in a year like this, it would be wise to have another reservoir in place to increase the Wasatch Front's water supplies for now and into the future.
But, that's not how water development works.
"We do not build reservoirs for high water years like this," Millis said. "There was some thinking done about that issue in the 1980s" because of all the flooding that hit the state in the fall of 1982 and in 1983.
"The idea is that it would help mitigate all the flooding of the Great Salt Lake."
But because there doesn't seem to be an "average" that exists for Utah when it comes to the amount of snowpack or precipitation in any given year, Millis said water development is designed around "past history" and what would be economical and reasonable.
There's really no suitable place in Salt Lake County or even Utah County to put a reservoir, Milles said, and most reservoirs grow out of locally-driven efforts such as the construction of the M & S Reservoir near Whiterocks on tribal lands in the Uintah Basin.
The state is pushing for a new reservoir — decades down the road — to augment water supplies in the northern part of the state.
Millis said the so-called Washakie Reservoir, or something like it, would take water off the Bear River in Box Elder County to serve Cache, Box Elder, Weber, Davis and Morgan counties, as well as Salt Lake County.
The idea is to pipe the water to recipients farther south of the dam to meet anticipated population growth.
Another project on the table is the development of the Lake Powell Pipeline, which would bring 86,000 acre feet of water from Lake Powell into Kane, Washington and Iron counties.
That too, is years off, having just begun the environmental review process. Millis said construction could begin by 2016, and it would be 2020 before the pipeline is operational.
Reservoirs, too, are not without their share of environmental controversy, criticized for damaging natural waterways and swallowing critical landscapes. Since the mid-'90s, the Sierra Club and other groups have led an effort to drain Lake Powell — filled with Colorado River water — and reveal the submerged Glen Canyon.
Dams take years to build and are prohibitively expensive, aside from the environmental objections they bring.
"The challenge of course is building any surface reservoir nowadays," said Richard Bay, general manager of the Jordan Valley Water Conservancy District. "In light of that, there are very innovative approaches that can be pursued."
One alternative method of storing water — runoff in this case — is the district's Aquifer Storage and Recovery System.
Runoff from the Duchesne and Weber rivers dumps into the Provo River and is captured by the district to be injected into deep wells that reach underground depths as far as 1,000 feet.
First tested as part of an experimental project from 1990 to 1994, the current system was built in 2000 and includes 18 injection wells that take water otherwise destined for the Great Salt Lake.
The water is first treated and then injected underground into what amounts to a natural, slow moving reservoir. Bay said tests show that unaided by man's technology, the water would take 40 to 50 years to migrate to the Jordan River.
This way, however, the water is slowly injected underground during spring runoff and remains pristine, drinking-quality water when it is drawn for use during peak demand months such as July or August.
The storage capacity is 7,000 acre feet.
Bay said such systems are not very common, and while they have expensive operating costs, the savings comes with added capacity during the summer. One website says only about 95 systems are operating in the United States, and the technology remains relatively new.
The advantage, though, is the alternative such a system offers for discretely storing quality drinking water that is readily available to customers during times of high demand.
"It's environmentally friendly and a cost-effective option," Bay said.
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Роберт «Бинго» Смит (; родился 26 февраля 1946 года, Мемфис, штат Теннесси, США) — американский профессиональный баскетболист.

Карьера игрока
Играл на позиции лёгкого форварда и атакующего защитника. Учился в Университете Талсы, в 1969 году был выбран на драфте НБА под 6-м номером командой «Сан-Диего Рокетс». Позже выступал за команды «Кливленд Кавальерс» и «Сан-Диего Клипперс». Всего в НБА провёл 11 сезонов. В 1969 году признавался баскетболистом года среди студентов конференции Missouri Valley. За ним в «Кавальерс» закреплён номер 7. Всего за карьеру в НБА сыграл 865 игр, в которых набрал 10 882 очка (в среднем 12,6 за игру), сделал 3630 подборов, 1734 передачи, 431 перехват и 167 блокшотов.

Ссылки
 Статистика на сайте Basketball-Reference.com
 Статистика на сайте NBA.com

Баскетболисты США
Игроки «Сан-Диего Рокетс»
Игроки «Кливленд Кавальерс»
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Carriera
Nella sua lunga carriera ha vestito perlopiù la maglia dell'Alleghe, dal 1978 al 1991 e poi nuovamente negli ultimi anni di carriera, tra il 1998 ed il 2000. Nel mezzo, ha disputato una stagione e mezza al Fassa, due e mezza al CourmAosta tre al Feltre e una con l'Alta Badia.

Ha vestito a lungo anche la maglia azzurra, e con la nazionale italiana ha preso parte alla spedizione olimpica di  e a sette edizioni dei mondiali, tra gruppo B e gruppo C.

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The Los Angeles Times: The Clintons' old attack dogs have a profitable new role, and sometimes it makes the campaign nervous
"Hugely problematic" and illegal is how Brendan Fischer, associate counsel for the Campaign Legal Center, described the arrangement Brock has brokered with Clinton's campaign. The group has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission.
"A billionaire can't come in and say, 'I'm going to pick up the salary of the campaign manager.'" Fischer said. "If Clinton had kept her opposition research team in-house, a donor couldn't have said, 'I'm going to pay for all the salaries of the researchers.'"


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Q: Assign names of subfolders to corresponding images in an array I have a root directory with many subfolders, each of them contains images. I want to load all of them to an array and assign to each image its subfolder name. Now I know how to load all images to an array of shape e.g. (10 000, 512, 512, 3), which means 10 000 images of the size 512x512 with 3 channels. After assigning the subfolder names I'd like to have a similar array, but I could say about each of the 10 000 images from which subfolder it is.
I'm trying to use os.walk. I know how to access all subfolders names and also image names, but I can't figure out how to put them together to one array.
import os
from scipy.misc import imread

images = []
for root, dirs, files in os.walk('.'):
    for name in dirs:
        print(name)

    for file in files:
        img = imread(os.path.join(root, file), mode='RGB')
        if img is not None:
            images.append(img)

(Also it'd be great if the array didn't contain full strings of subfolder names, but just numbers (of classes/subfolders). I'm not sure if this can be done during this loading process or it'd be done after all images are loaded.)

A: How about something like this?
import glob
import os
from scipy.misc import imread

images = {}

for file in glob.glob("./**/*.png", recursive=True):
    cwd = os.path.basename(os.path.dirname(file))
    img = imread(os.path.abspath(file), mode='RGB')
    if img is not None:
        if cwd not in images.keys():
            images[cwd] = {}
            images[cwd][file] = img
        else:
            images[cwd][file] = img

for key in images.keys():
    print("{:10s}{}".format(key, list(images[key].keys())))

Here's an example directory structure:
.
├── f_one
│   └── one.png
├── f_two
│   ├── f_nested
│   │   └── nest.png
│   ├── three.png
│   └── two.png
├── out.txt
└── test.py

3 directories, 6 files

and here's the output: (I didn't include the image data since the arrays are quite large)
f_two     ['./f_two/three.png', './f_two/two.png']
f_nested  ['./f_two/f_nested/nest.png']
f_one     ['./f_one/one.png']

if you just use print(images) instead of the last loop you'll get something like this:
{'f_two': {'./f_two/three.png': array([[[255, 255, 255],
        [255, 255, 255],
        [255, 255, 255],
        ...,

Some things to note about this solution:
Using dictionaries means keys have to be unique. If you have any folders with the same name, the last one to be read will be the only one present in the dict. The same goes for duplicate file names within the same directory. If you have non-unique directory or file names, try a different data structure or make sure keys are unique by using absolute paths.

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Update Chelper dependency to support Competitive companion extension.
JHelper is plugin for writing contests in C++. You may inline code from your own prewritten library so that you can submit only used code. Besides, it allows to test on tests you've added. it's planned that you'll be able to parse a problem/contest and have all samples tests automatically added.
Plugin is completely free. IDE price is 89$/year, but it's free for students, have 30-days free trial and often you can use EAP(smth like beta)-versions for free.
Some explanations how to use that on wiki. Fell free to ask what is unclear.
Please post bugs and feature requests here or in bug tracker.
Implement something and create pull request.
It's still possible to make it multilingual (I mean add another programming languages). I am open to discuss that.
Thanks Egor for idea with his Chelper and abra for some code review.
is there any documentation to know how to use it, please.
Seems to be working now without any fix from me.
I was testing and I got a problem, can you help me ?
Did you create output configuration? See wiki for more details.
Hello Alex, Thanks for making such a tool, and I am trying to set it up to use with CLion. I am having trouble setting up the plugin to generate the code. I have tried following the instructions on the wiki but unfortunately I do not fully understand them I think. I get the following error: Task file not found: Seems your task is in inconsistent state If you could provide any help it would be very much appreciated. Thanks again for the time you spent making this tool!
Well, you need to create files that are in those boxes and add them in CMakeLists to appropriate configurations.
Awesome thank you so much for quick response and help! I downloaded the repository and imported it as a new project and everything works now! Have been using java for all my contests so far with Chelper, but can't wait to now to get better at c++ and use it in contest too with your plugin. Again many thanks for your work!
Also, just one more quick question if you don't mind. In Chelper there is archive button for tasks that one is done with. What is the best way of replicating that workflow in JHelper? Does one just create a folder and then drag the Task.cpp file and Task.task file there when you are done with problem? Thanks!
Right, makes sense. Just out of curiosity how much work was it to get the plugin to the current state in terms of hours? At some point I would be interested in trying myself to port JHelper/CHelper to PyCharm for use with Python. I imagine it is a decent amount of work to get everything functional, yes?
But I believe it will be easier to port my code to python then Java code to C++.
Added parsers from CHelper(currently only parser from IDE, not from Chrome) including CodeForces.
For those who use other browsers (Firefox?): it should be quite easy to write similar extension. Almost no logic is required.
Can this be integrated with sublime too?
Could you please give me some hints about how can I add a problem / contest, how to solve the problem (coding, testing and submitting) with JHelpr in Clion?
I've study your wiki, but I need more obvious details!
To add new task you need either use "Add Task" (manually add name and tests) action or Parse contest action (parse tests from Online judge). To make them available you should either add them on toolbar/menu or enable shortcuts for them.
1. Does Topcoder work with this?
2. What is the usual workflow? For every problem(or contest I parse), it tries to make it TaskA, so should I delete my TaskA every-time.
3. I keep getting many "IllegalArgumentException: childPath should be inside a parentPath", though nothing breaks.
4. Where to write stress-test code(like brute-force program and tester/generator)?
5. In GCJ contest, if I select multi-tests with number of tests known, how to get test case number?
6. Where to write pre-processing code, common to all test cases.
Usually I just delete all tasks between contests. I'm going to do some sort of archivation, but it haven't been done yet.
Could you post stack trace and say when it happens?
Unfortunately there's currently no convenient way to do that. I'm open to your ideas.
The first way is preferable because it will be called for each test (I mean for each test consisting of several test cases).
5. See 6, you should have testNumber var status either filled by ctor or static var.
This error is on the left side.
Other side has this error for every 5 seconds.
I think I have sth wrong with run/debug configuration. Can you check it? Thanks. Let me know if you need any other details.
Released support for local regex input type. Tested only on MacOS, should probably work on Linux.
I've added several fixes, it seems to work now.
Is there any way to disable the auto comment system?
Recently when my programs print a lot or the testcase input is large, the program often terminates prematurely (but with exit code 0), only in the CLion (2017.2) run field, not in the Debug terminal... Did anyone else encounter this problem?
Help Post, Why my solution was getting WA? Problem My Solution. Why WA Plz Help me. To Find Out Plz.
Unfortunately last versions of CLion is not (yet) supported. The last supported version is 2017.2 Which version do you use?
ok...thank you. I'm using the latest version 2018.1.3...About when would we get the latest version support?
does it support clion 2017.2.3 ?
is there any crome extensions for parse task?? i found chelper parse task crome extensions but it's not working for jhelper.
installation don'e successfully, thanks for your great plugin. is there anyway to save tasks by folders ? each oj has its own folder. or task names become -> "ojName+taskName". can i do any of that?
is there anyway to use scanf, and printf instead of in, out ?
No ( at least no easy way ). Note that when you are testing, it's actually a stringstream. Just add sync_with_stdio(false) and cin.tie (nullptr) and forget about scanf as scary tail.
i wrote a small math library in mymath.h and when i used some function i found all the functions written in output file(main.cpp). is there any way to just include the function i called ?
There's setting that allow to remove unused code, but it doesn't work well, so I don't recommend it.
You may place them in different headers and then only files you included will be added.
yes i see eliminate code and reformat code, what does each one do exactly ?
The first one is trying to eliminate unused code, but it has problems (code can become incorrect). The other is reformatting your code according to coding style configured in IDE (basically the same as clicking ctrl+alt+L.
the problems with eliminate unused code -> are they because a certain way of coding that i may avoid while i write my code ??
Anyway if you want, you may try it, but be ready to turn it off when you get CE. Probability of having other problems (like getting wrong answer) is rather low.
so the general tip here is no templates, yeah!
Well, I don't think "not using templates like std::vector with custom types" is better tip than "not using option to eliminate code" but you may choose what fits you best.
i have a lib that has func1, func2, func3, and i called only func3, but for some reasons that i don't know, i found that func1 and func3 are included in main.cpp but func2 aren't included although there is no call of func1 in func3.
My code is pretty straightforward. It just finds all the functions that are unused in generated file according to what CLion reports. So, the most probable problem is that CLion shows some pace where it's used. You may try "find usages" IDE function in generated file to check place where it thinks it's used (because it should use the same mechanism).
this is find usages in output file for bpow https://imgur.com/rAGJAyf usages only are in library and output and no usages in tasks folder !!
i think i figured the problem.
all recursive functions are included even if i didn't use them, and non recursive functions are removed.
I'm ready to review your PR.
Added some tips&tricks on configuring templates according to your needs.
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One of the most highly anticipated Marvel shows could finally get an air date soon. Netflix has announced its lineup for April just a week after the premiere of "Iron Fist" and there is a huge possibility that "The Defenders" will be announced in the next month. What will happen when Danny Rand meets Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Daredevil in July?
Netflix is bound to add several new movies and shows in April, as per The Mary Sue. However, the streaming giant will also be losing some beloved classics including "Firefly" as well as all seven seasons of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer". However, it is also interesting to note that a film that shares the same title as "The Defenders" will be removed from the Netflix lineup. Could this mean that the network is preparing for the upcoming premiere of the Marvel series?
The Jet Li film "The Defender" will be removed from the Netflix lineup on April 30. This has led to speculations that the streaming giant is getting ready to announce Marvel's "The Defenders" air date by May. After all, filming has officially wrapped for the series earlier this month, as per MCU Exchange. Hopefully, the highly anticipated show will premiere by July and finally solve some of the most mind-boggling mysteries on the Netflix Marvel universe.
CeleBeat has previously reported on the possibility that "The Defenders" will tackle that mystery from "Daredevil" Season 2, where Matt Murdock and Elektra Natchios discovered a large hole. In addition to that, Sigourney Weaver's Alexandra might be closely connected to one of the Defenders. The series will feature Charlie Cox as Daredevil, Mike Colter as Luke Cage, Finn Jones as Iron Fist and Krysten Ritter as Jessica Jones. It is believed that the show will premiere on Netflix this summer.
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Islamic State Commander Threatening to Invade Russia Dead: Chechen Leader
18:34 13.11.2014(updated 18:59 13.11.2014)
Head of Russia's Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov stated that Tarkhan Batarishvili, also known as Omar al-Shishani, one of IS commanders, was killed.
MOSCOW, November 13 (Sputnik) - A national of Chechen origin from the post-Soviet republic of Georgia, considered to be a senior commander of the Islamic State (IS), has been killed, the head of Russia's Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov wrote in his Instagram account Thursday.
'The enemy of Islam Tarkhan Batarishvili, who called himself Omar al-Shishani, was killed. This will happen to everyone who dares to threaten Russia and the Chechen people,' Kadyrov wrote.
Batarishvili, known under the nom de guerre Omar Shishani [Omar the Chechen], reportedly left the Georgian army after the 2008 conflict with Russia. According to the US Department of Treasury, he resurfaced in Syria in 2012 and became a senior IS commander the following year. The jihadist has appeared in several photos and videos released by the group in 2014.
In October, Bloomberg reported that al-Shishani threatened to invade Russia while calling his father in Georgia. 'Don't worry, dad, I'll come home and show the Russians. I have many thousands following me now and I'll get more. We'll have our revenge against Russia,' he was quoted as saying by his father.
In September, the IS published a video threatening Russia and President Vladimir Putin due to his 'close ties' with Syrian President Bashar Assad. The jihadists on the footage also vowed to 'liberate' Chechnya and the Caucasus.
In response, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov threatened to kill any terrorists who voice threats against Russia.


Portable production devices - the future?
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Portable production devices – are they the future?
Are portable production devices the future? It's closer to reality than you'd imagine. With the consistent move of technology become smaller and smaller, companies are attempting to make tech gadgets handheld and more appealing.
Operating at the size of a credit card, Teenage Engineering has released a series of "Pocket Operators" that can fully produce synth-laden sound design with complete percussion tracks.
Is it possible that something this small can efficiently create layered tracks? Reviews have shown that the miniature, DIY devices actually produce a harmonious sound.
On the portable production device full track requires the usage of all three different operating systems. There's a drum apparatus (PO-12 Rhythm), a sub-bass synth (PO-14 Sub), and a melody maker (PO-16 Factory), with each individually costing $59. They all come equipped with an abundance of multi-purpose buttons, and allow you to loop and record melodic ditties, suiting the needs of a bedroom DJ or a music hobbyist. Each unit also displays the tempo and mode at which you are recording, and provides a jaunty animation when you playback your current piece. While the quality may sound a tad 8-bit, you can export the audio to more primitive audio editors such as GarageBand to clean up the mixing. For the musically non-inclined, all three units come preset with 16 samples, so you can start fooling around the moment you get your hands on them. This definitely comes in handy, as you can mess with each individual knob and figure out the different effects whilst tinkering with the 16-step sequencer.
Despite the fact that the sound quality is not of the highest, these portable production devices are for sure worth their moderate price. Sound design has never been so simple, and you can easily produce a full-blown track on these handheld devices within hours.


Last year, I created the Rock Solid Ranking, a dynamic stock ranking list that shows a value for each dividend stock I follow. I've worked on calculations that consider several metrics in order to find the best companies among all those on the stock market. This list is particularly useful when the stock market is becoming highly valued (not overvalued yet in my opinion).
In order for you to understand why I've decided to use the above mentioned metrics instead of others I'm providing you with this complete explanation of how I came up with this ranking.
If a company can't keep up its high ranking, it means its losing pace with one or more important metrics in our model. The more it loses ranking, the closer it is to joining the sell list. On the other hand, a company that improves its scores quarter after quarter definitely earns the buy mention as it shows it's going towards the right direction. The Rock Solid Ranking goal is to provide an instant valuation of a stock according to our dividend growth investing model.
I'm not going to disclose our calculation methods here but I'll tell you which metrics we follow. This can help you build your own investing model. Total score of a company could technically reach 100% if it was perfect on all attributes. The score can also be negative as we give penalties for negative growth numbers.
In my opinion, if you don't sell, you can't make money. If you can't make money, you can't pay dividends. If you can't increase your sales, you can't increase your profits and you can't increase your dividend. This is why revenue growth is so important. The best way to measure if a company is making more money is by looking at its revenue growth.
More weight is given to the 5 yr and penalties (negative score) are attributed to companies that show negative revenue growth. You can't hope to increase your dividend consistently if your revenues decrease.
Showing strong revenues is important, but it doesn't guarantee you will get strong dividend payouts. Profits drive amounts to be paid through dividends. If you look at a company like Amazon (AMZN); revenues are huge but profit is thin. Therefore, they can't hope to pay a dividend at this point in time (especially when your P/E is 574!).
In order to make sure we don't give a high score to a company that recently restructured its costs or sold an important asset to boost its profits, we also consider 1yr and 5yr Earnings Per Share (EPS) growth.
Earnings and revenue growth combined together weigh a lot in our model. Both metrics combined together is the key for a sustainable business model. This is why so much weight (40%) is attributed to these 4 metrics.
The 1 year dividend growth shows the company's willingness (or capacity) to increase its dividend over a short period of time. The 5 year dividend growth confirms this willingness/capacity to keep increasing payments to shareholders.
Then, the dividend payout ratio is also very important to us. We penalize companies paying over 120% of their earnings. We didn't select 100% as we must always take into consideration that the payout is in $ and the profit is an accounting term (including amortization for example). This is why it's important to give some room for high dividend payout ratio companies. We also give a smaller weight to companies with very low payout ratio (0-20%). This shows the company would rather keep its money in its bank account instead of sharing the wealth with stockholders.
Finally, the dividend yield is also a debated topic. Some investors are looking at 5%+ dividend yield (I keep receiving tons of emails telling me I look for low yield dividend stocks). Some others (like me!) prefer sound businesses with dividend stocks around 3%. In the past four years, I've noticed that stocks paying over 4% often show shakier metrics than stocks with a lower yield. Dividend metrics combined together represent 40% of our ranking calculation.
Here again, a high debt to equity ratio is penalized by negative points.
Finally, the price you pay for a stock is also important. I'm the first one to pay a relatively high price for a great company. Still, if I can find a company that is relatively similar but traded at a cheaper price than another, I will definitely take a look at it.


» Message to Obama: We are NOT Subjects!
"An elective despotism was not the government we fought for; but one which should not only be founded on free principles, but in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among several bodies of magistry, as that no one could transcend their legal limits, without being effectually checked and restrained by others." James Madison, Federalist 48.


Last summer, while I was waiting to get my hands on James Gunn's latest novel, Transformation, I decided to fill in one of my few gaps in reading his fiction, so I took this one off the shelf.
It turns out it has some unexpected similarities to Gunn's Transcendental trilogy and interesting on its own.
Review: Gift From the Stars, James Gunn, 2005.
As explained in Gunn's preface as well as the introduction by Gregory Benford, this novel is part of a feedback loop with SETI research as well as Carl Sagan's Contact.
Sagan was a great admirer of Gunn's The Listeners, a set of novelletes turned into a novel which depicts the decades long quest for a signal from an alien intelligence and the effects of receiving one on humanity. Gunn took his ideas from SETI researcher Frank Drake as well as Sagan, and Benford says Gunn's novel, in turn, influenced the paradigms of SETI efforts.
Sagan's Contact was a response to Gunn's novel, and Gunn started this novel, another one of his characteristic fix-ups of several shorter works, in response to the movie adaptation of Sagan's novel. Specifically, Gunn didn't find the end alien message or its purpose credible.
The result is an upping of scale from section to section. Benford says it puts him in mind of A. E. van Vogt's famous method of writing 800 word scenes and then introducing a new wrinkle into the narrative. While that led, according to Benford, "gathering incoherence" in van Vogt, it leads to "expanding vistas" in this novel.
I've talked about the first, "The Giftie", before in my review of Human Voices. It introduces our hero and heroine, Adrian Mast and Frances Farmstead.
Adrian's a would-be astronaut, would-be because his eye-hand coordination is bad. He's settled into the life of a single man pursuing a career as a consultant in aerospace engineering. He passes the time reading, including ufology books, cynical amusements for his skeptic mind, yet he keeps hoping for "the one text the book gods had intended for him".
So one day he finds himself in one of his usual haunts, the Book Nook owned and run by Frances. (Now that I think of it, the names are mildly symbolic: "Mast" as in ship as in voyage and travel and "Farmstead" as in farm as in stationary.) On the table, he finds a curious book: Gift from the Stars. It's full of diagrams and pictures, but, unlike the usual ufo and ancient astronaut dreck, they are not of Mayan inscriptions and Nazca lines or pyramids. They look like modern blueprints like Adrian sees every day.
And, examining the book at home, Adrian is more and more convinced those drawings may not show a "too pat …. science-fiction gadget". They may really show how to build an interstellar spaceship powered by antimatter – and how to produce that antimatter using solar power. Furthermore, there is the hint that this information is from an alien source.
Adrian goes back to the bookstore to talk to Frances and find more information on the book's publisher and author.
What then follows is a something of a thriller plot as the two track down the author and publisher while evading pursuit.
It's conducted with a surprisingly light touch since Gunn is not normally associated with humor. A lot of that comes from Frances, a character Gunn was originally going to dispense with after the novel's first section, but he grew too fond of her. She's spent a lot of time reading all kinds of books including spy thrillers and crime novels and constantly mentions how their circumstances resemble plot clichés and comes up with inventive (if not always successful) ways to get out of trouble and to advance their quest. Gunn may have the usual chapter epigraphs he's fond of, but there are also plenty of references to movies and Damon Knight's "To Serve Man".
The first section ends with them discovering the book's author, Peter Cavendish, now incarcerated in a mental hospital as a schizophrenic, and the government body who has been suppressing Cavendish's discovery.
The rest of the book will have Frances and Adrian battling Earth's bureaucracy and go from Earth to orbit around a dead world with alien ruins and discovering the purpose of that message.
Any Gunn fan will want to read this one. Since it's only 154 pages, it's not much of a time investment for others, particularly those interested in SETI. To my mind, it could have been shortened even more by cutting or revising "The Rabbit Hole" chapter. I'm not sure that surrealistic section where cause and effect are reversed when a starship goes through a wormhole was strictly necessary though an alien wormhole network is a crucial plot feature.
And, while the novel's end is in good faith and a serious philosophical statement, it's an idea I've come across before and dismiss as "cheap spirituality" in its attempt to find purpose in a godless universe.
For me, the novel's interest is in unexpectedly discovering it was a thematic dress rehearsal for Gunn's Transcendental trilogy. It's almost as if, after this novel, he decided to cast his ideas in a more space-operaish vein, add lots of physical violence, and expand the scale from a human centered story to story involving all the galaxy's sentient life.
Stylistically, this novel is also full of scenes with questions and multiple arguments and hypothesis put forth by characters as in the opening of the trilogy, Transcendental.
There are literary quotes in both works, though more prevalently used here. In the first two Transcendental books, they are thrown out by the Pedia, a computer, without attribution.
There are similar enabling technologies.
Both works feature a wormhole network built by aliens.
In addition to a questing narrative into the vastness of space in pursuit of alien technology and knowledge, there are manipulating, behind the scene computers. Here that's the Peter Cavendish simulation in the computer built from alien technology. In the Transcendental books, it's the computer intelligences manipulating alien and human alike in the Galactic Federation and on Earth.
The Earth of the "Pow'r" chapter seems a lot like the Earth of Transgalactic: managed by bureaucrats determined not to let new technology disrupt the social order. Here the character appropriately named Makepeace belongs to the de facto ruling body of Earth, the Energy Board. Its African leader disingenuously tells Jessica (the novel's other main character introduced in this section), Adrian, and Frances that he is stopping the secret construction of an interstellar ship not as a police action but as an administrative action to counter disruptions in the power supply. In the trilogy, Transcendence is the disruptive technology which worries the Galactic Council. Here it's star travel.
In the Transcendental books, the scale of technological disruption is shifted. The Galactic Council's various members, including humanity, fear the disruption of transcendence, and that danger is acknowledged at the end of this story when even more alien knowledge is discovered. The motive for suppressing star travel is the same for the U.S. government in "The Giftie".
There is also a plot element of quest manipulated by outsiders. Cavendish secretly locks in the course for the Ad Astra. Asha, as the Prophet of Transcendence, sets the course for the ship in Transcendental.
Both this novel and Transcendental raise questions about the relationship of the aliens guarding technological secrets to the discoverers of that knowledge. That was the spiders in Transcendental. Here it is the Engimas whose seemingly dead world is discovered at the end of the novel.
Here, we learn that (supposedly – this is a novel of tentative knowledge and the value of proceeding in the face of doubt) the Shadows gave the Enigmas interstellar travel and wormholes, and the Engimas broadcast that knowledge to Earth .
As of the second Transcendental Machine book, Transgalactic, it's still not clear if the Spiders built the Transcendental Machine and have degenerated or if another group built it to be destroyed by the Spiders.
Both this novel and Transgalactic feature a covert group not willing to bow to Earth bureaucracy. Here it is the group building a starship.
Interestingly, the place of AI is greatly heightened in Transgalactic from here. This novel just has Cavendish as the sole machine intelligence, and he's treated more like a recreation of a human personality. AIs are major places, the equivalent of the various sentient races of the Galactic Council, in Transgalactic.
This novel has one novel element not in the Transcendental trilogy. The Shadows are aliens of dark matter and exist in the dark matter universe. They can only interact with the Enigmas indirectly.
The purpose of transcendence in the Transcendental Machine books is not as specific as the push by the Shadows to expand animate life in the universe. Where the divergent paths life seeded by aliens can take in this novel are barely mentioned, the different ways intelligence can evolve is a major feature of the Transcendental books.


How hot can CDs get before being damaged?
The CD in my disc drive became very warm after a movie was played. Can the disc actually catch on fire inside the CD player, or is this temperature nothing to worry about?
*CD/DVD media is like a sandwich, 2 clear, plastic disks, recordable layer, and adhesive adjoining them.
The answer is, don't worry. If you were foolish enough to load a severely distorted or a very heavily damaged or dirty disk, or maybe if the computer was in a factory getting all kinds of abrasive dirt into the drive, I guess things could get hot but you'd notice other problems (like it not playing your movie!) long before the heat was an issue.
Secondly, the laser diodes in some writable DVDs are capable of generating quite intense heat. They are powerful enough to ignite things if they are removed from the drive and focussed on a flammable material for a few seconds (don't even think about trying it, even a reflected beam could cause severe eyesight damage). Having said that the heat is not a problem within an operating drive. The full power is only used for writing not reading, the temperature necessary for the chemical phase change of one bit of data is over 500C but only for less than 0.00000004 seconds and the heated area is around one tenth the width of a human hair.
You have some good answers so all I will add is that I have had CD's that feel very warm and they were fine. When they test these discs they put them under extreme heat to see how they hold up.
As Bruce points out, they are not particularly flammable and would need to get extraordinarily hot to catch fire, and will in fact melt before they burn (which will cause them to jam your drive). However, it is odd that your CDs get so warm as to raise concern. The friction of the air against the surface should not cause them to warm up much, and the laser (regardless of the debatable points raised by others) is both weak and lights up only one tiny point at a time, so the only explanation for the discs getting this warm is that other components in the drive/PC are getting even hotter and some of the dispersed heat is warming up the CD. So personally, I'd be more worried about the drive than about the CDs.
Between the friction being made from the disc spinning and the drive getting warm from spinning the disc, cd's and dvd's will get warm. Unless for some reason the laser gets a very large surge of power and produces high heat for a very long period of time, then fires will not happen. The laser does not produce enough heat to really be that noticeable. I would only worry if the disc and drive starts to smoke and is too hot to touch, which is extremely unlikely.
Sorry, but the laser will not cause the dvd/cd drive to get hot. It is no different than a laser pointer; it will not get hot. Air friction from the disc spinning produces a little heat, but most of the heat is from the moving parts of the drive spinning very fast and bad air circulation within the drive. The poor air circulation is the worst part of the cd/dvd drive for computers as it traps the heat.
With normal use, an optical disc should never come close to reaching the temperatures required to start a fire. You pretty much need to toss it in a fire, put it on a stove, etc in order to do it. Most players will only get the temp barely over 100 degrees F which is not even close to what is required to cause it to burn.


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Campus Reform | Prof calls conservative students a 'racist mob'
Prof calls conservative students a 'racist mob'
Kyle Hooten | Minnesota Campus Correspondent
A controversial Florida Gulf Coast University professor who drew national media attention for his "white racism" course recently gave a lecture equating conservative students to Nazis.
Professor Ted Thornhill delivered the comments during a March 14 guest appearance at Minnesota's St. Olaf College, his former employer, where he called the institution "a violent place for people of color."
He proceeded to invite white students in the audience who felt that students of color were lying about claims of racial oppression to raise their hands, expressing surprise when no students did so because he had observed that "far right groups like Turning Point and Campus Reform and libertarians are represented in the room."
[RELATED: Florida prof insists 'White Racism' course 'not anti-white']
Thornhill then explained that he has more respect for the KKK than the aforementioned groups because it is more "honest" about its white supremacist beliefs.
"America is a racist country…this is a racist society, that's unarguable," he added, displaying a PowerPoint of the "central characters in the on-campus white racist mob" and labeling Campus Reform, The College Fix, Turning Point USA, the College Republicans, and Students for Liberty among them.
"You can't be capitulating to these folks, they use evil and insidious strategies and don't have facts, don't use logic…you can immediately spot em…folks of color get it," he stated, saying such organizations "feed into Fox."
Thornhill later set his sights on specific individuals from these organizations, including Campus Reform's Cabot Phillips and Turning Point USA's Charlie Kirk, whose attire he called the "uniform of white supremacy."
This is how "you can immediately spot them," he declared, suggesting that members of the so-called "racist far right" wear certain colors to signify ideology.
[RELATED: Prof claims 'there is no such thing as black racism']
"I just wanna say something to y'all. Because of y'all I was able to go on CNN…when I write the book I'm going to dedicate it to them," he later commented, signaling out conservative media in the room.
"I attack white men and women, I'm equal opportunity...white people if you want to be a good ally, be quiet and know your place," he later remarked, saying there are "material consequences for challenging white people's authority" and so "we need to make sure they get some consequences."
He then switched his focus to the "different manifestations of blackness," calling one group "salient" and the other not.
The "salient" group included individuals like himself and Malcolm X, while "confused folks of color," such as Clarence Thomas and Ben Carson, were attacked as "liars."
"I don't think you can play the middle, they're all liars," he said, asserting that white people "use these [confused people of color] for racial cover."
"They [colleges] prefer blacks that aren't racially salient so they can be sprinkled around for the benefit of white people," he added. "I don't make s--- up…I'm honest, mostly anyway, if anything."
[RELATED: Alumni implore Trinity College to cut ties with radical prof]
Thornhill's lecture concluded with a student thanking all attendees, "even the Hitler-youth, even though they look a little different."
One conservative student in attendance at the lecture, who wishes to remain anonymous, told Campus Reform before entering that they were "just going to keep an open mind on this one," but after the lecture condemned Thornhill's "misguided hatred" and noted that it would be "harder to retain an open mind after this."
A spokesperson for St. Olaf told Campus Reform that the school "strives to ensure that diverse viewpoints are expressed on our campus because we believe that providing people with the opportunity to challenge their beliefs, and examine the facts that form those beliefs, is healthy and needed," noting that many groups on campus invite speakers with a wide variety of perspectives.
"The presence of a speaker on campus does not mean that St. Olaf endorses and/or shares their opinions," the spokesperson added, but added that the school does "expect that they [invited speakers] will engage in a respectful exchange of ideas."
Attendees at Thornhill's lecture were forbidden from making audio or video recordings of the event, and St. Olaf told Campus Reform that it is not aware of any recordings made by organizers.
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Kyle Hooten
Minnesota Campus Correspondent


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Montanini, B., Blaudez, D., Jeandroz, S., Sanders, D., Chalot, M. (2007) Phylogenetic and functional analysis of the cation diffusion facilitator family: improved signature and prediction of substrate specificity. BMC Genomics, in press.
Zancani, M., Skiera, L.A., Sanders, D. (2007) Roles of basic residues and salt-bridge interaction in a vacuolar H+-pumping pyrophosphatase (AVP1) from Arabidopsis thaliana. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1768, 311-316.
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Cerana, M., Bonza, M.C., Harris, R., Sanders, D., De Michelis, M.I. (2006) Abscisic acid stimulates the expression of two isoforms of plasma membrane Ca2+-ATPase in Arabidopsis thaliana seedlings. Plant Biol. 8, 572-578.
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Peiter, E., Maathuis, F.J.M., Mills, L.N., Knight, H., Pelloux, J., Hetherington, A.M., and Sanders, D. (2005) The vacuolar Ca2+-activated channel TPC1 regulates germination and stomatal movement. Nature 434, 404-408.
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Obrdlik, P., El-Bakkoury, M., Hamacher, T., Cappellaro, C., Vilarino, C., Fleischer, C., Ellerbrok, H., Kamuzinzi, R., Ledent, V., Blaudez, D., Sanders, D., Revuelta, JL., Boles, E., Andre, B., Frommer, WB. (2004) K+ channel interactions detected by a genetic system optimized for systematic studies of membrane protein interactions. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 101, 12242-12247.
Blaudez, D., Kohler, A., Martin, F., Sanders, D., Chalot, M. (2003) Poplar metal tolerance protein 1 confers zinc tolerance and is an oligomeric vacuolar zinc transporter with an essential leucine zipper motif. Plant Cell 15, 2911-2928.
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Talke, I.N., Blaudez, D., Maathuis, F.J.M., Sanders, D. (2003) CNGCs: prime targets of plant cyclic nucleotide signalling? Trends in Plant Science 8, 286-293.
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Elphick, C.H., Sanders, D., Maathuis, F.J.M. (2001) Critical role of divalent cations and Na+ efflux in Arabidopsis thaliana salt tolerance. Plant Cell and Environment 24, 733-740.
Navazio, L., Mariani, P., Sanders, D. (2001) Mobilization of Ca2+ by cyclic ADP-ribose from the endoplasmic reticulum of cauliflower florets. Plant Physiology 125, 2129-2138.
Sunkar, R., Kaplan, B., Bouche, N., Arazi, T., Dolev, D., Talke, I.N., Maathuis, F.J.M., Sanders, D., Bouchez, D., Fromm, H. (2000) Expression of a truncated tobacco NtCBP4 channel in transgenic plants and disruption of the homologous Arabidopsis CNGC1 gene confer Pb2+ tolerance. Plant Journal 24, 533-542.
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Laketic-Ljubojevic, I., Suva, L.J., Maathuis, F.J.M., Sanders, D., Skerry, T.M. (1999) Functional characterization of N-methyl-D-aspartic acid-gated channels in bone cells. Bone 25, 631-637.
Bewell, M.A., Maathuis, F.J.M., Allen, G.J., Sanders, D. (1999) Calcium-induced calcium release mediated by a voltage-activated cation channel in vacuolar vesicles from red beet. FEBS Letters 458 41-44.
Maathuis, F.J.M., Sanders, D. (1999) Plasma membrane transport in context - making sense out of complexity. Current Oinion in Plant Biology 2, 236-243.
Amtmann, A., Jelitto, T.C., Sanders, D. (1999) K+-Selective inward-rectifying channels and apoplastic pH in barley roots. Plant Physiology 120, 331-338.
Sanders, D., Brownlee, C., Harper, J.F. (1999) Communicating with calcium. Plant Cell 11, 691-706.
Amtmann, A., Sanders, D. (1999) Mechanisms of Na+ uptake by plant cells. Advances in Botanical Research Incorporating Advances in Plant Pathology 29, 75-112.
Roberts, S.K., Fischer, M., Dixon, G.K., Sanders, D. (1999) Divalent cation block of inward currents and low-afinity K+ uptake in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Journal of Bacteriology 181, 291-297.
Leckie, C.P., McAinsh, M.R., Allen, G.J., Sanders, D., Hetherington, A.M. (1998)	Abscisic acid-induced stomatal closure mediated by cyclic ADP-ribose. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences if the United states of America 95, 15837-15842.
Maathuis, F.J.M., May, S.T., Graham, N.S., Bowen, H.C., Jelitto, T.C., Trimmer, P., Bennett, M.J., Sanders, D., White, P.J. (1998) Cell marking in Arabidopsis thaliana and its application to patch-clamp studies. Plant Journal 15, 843-851.
Johannes, E., Crofts, A., Sanders, D. (1998) Control of Cl- efflux in Chara corallina by cytosolic pH, free Ca2+, and phosphorylation indicates a role of plasma membrane anion channels in cytosolic pH regulation. Plant Physiology 118, 173-181.
Darley, C.P., Skiera, L.A., Northrop, F., Sanders, D., Davies, J.M. (1998) Tonoplast inorganic pyrophosphatase in Vicia faba guard cells. Planta 206, 272-277.
Brauer, M., Zhong, W.J., Jelitto, T., Schobert, C., Sanders, D., Komor, E. (1998) Free calcium ion concentration in the sieve-tube sap of Ricinus communis L. seedlings. Planta 206, 103-107.
Very, A.A., Robinson, M.F., Mansfield, T.A., Sanders, D. (1998) Guard cell cation channels are involved in Na+-induced stomatal closure in a halophyte. Plant Journal 14, 509-521.
Allen, G.J., Sanders, D., Gradmann, D. (1998) Calcium-potassium selectivity: kinetic analysis of current-voltage relationships of the open, slowly activating channel in the vacuolar membrane of Vicia faba guard-cells. Planta 204, 528-541.
Allen, G.J., Amtmann, A., Sanders, D. (1998) Calcium-dependent and calcium-independent K+ mobilization channels in Vicia faba guard cell vacuoles. Journal of Experimental Botany 49, 305-318.
Roberts, S.K., Dixon, G.K., Dunbar, S.J., Sanders, D. (1997) Laser ablation of the cell wall and localized patch clamping of the plasma membrane in the filamentous fungus Aspergillus: characterization of an anion-selective efflux channel. New Phytologist 137, 579-585.
Fischer, M., Schnell, N., Chattaway, J., Davies, P., Dixon, G., Sanders, D. (1997) The Saccharomyces cerevisiae CCH1 gene is involved in calcium influx and mating. FEBS Letters 419, 259-262.
Maathuis, F.J.M., Sanders, D., Gradmann, D. (1997) Kinetics of high-affinity K+ uptake in plants, derived from K+-induced changes in current-voltage relationships - A modelling approach to the analysis of carrier-mediated transport. Planta 203, 229-236.
Robinson, M.F., Very, A.A., Sanders, D., Mansfield, T.A. (1997) How can stomata contribute to salt tolerance?. Annals of Botany 80, 387-393.
Zhou, J.J., Theodoulou, F., Sauer, N., Sanders, D., Miller, A.J. (1997) A kinetic model with ordered cytoplasmic dissociation for SUC1, an Arabidopsis H+/sucrose cotransporter expressed in Xenopus oocytes. Journal of Membrane Biology 159, 113-125.
Maathuis, J.M., Ichida, A.M., Sanders, D., Schroeder, J.I. (1997) Roles of higher plant K+ channels. Plant Physiology 114, 1141-1149.
Muir, S.R., Sanders, D. (1997) Inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate-sensitive Ca2+ release across nonvacuolar membranes in cauliflower. Plant Physiology 114, 1511-1521.
Allen, G.J., Sanders, D. (1997) Vacuolar ion channels of higher plants. Advances in Botanical Research Incorporating Advances in Plant Pathology 25, 217-252.
Amtmann, A., Sanders, D. (1997) A unified procedure for the correction of liquid junction potentials in patch clamp experiments on endo- and plasma membranes. Journal of Experimental Botany 48, 361-364.
Maathuis, F.J.M., Sanders, D. (1997) Regulation of K+ absorption in plant root cells by external K+: Interplay of different plasma membrane K+ transporters.Journal of Experimental Botany 48, 451-458.
Amtmann, A., Laurie, S., Leigh, R., Sanders, D. (1997) Multiple inward channels provide flexibility in Na+/K+ discrimination at the plasma membrane of barley suspension culture cells. Journal of Experimental Botany 48, 481-497.
Muir, S.R., Bewell, M.A., Sanders, D., Allen, G.J. (1997) Ligand-gated Ca2+ channels and Ca2+ signalling in higher plants. Journal of Experimental Botany 48, 589-597.
Johannes, E., Ermolayeva, E., Sanders, D. Red light-induced membrane potential transients in the moss Physcomitrella patens: Ion channel interaction in phytochrome signalling. Journal of Experimental Botany 48, 599-608.
Maathuis, F.J.M., Taylor, A.R., Assmann, S.M., Sanders, D. (1997) Seal-promoting solutions and pipette perfusion for patch clamping plant cells. Plant Journal 11, 891-896.
Giffard, C.J., Dodd, H.M., Horn, N., Ladha, S., Mackie, A.R., Parr, A., Gasson, M.J., Sanders, D. (1997) Structure-function relations of variant and fragment nisins studied with model membrane systems. Biochemistry 36, 3802-3810.
Sanders, D., Allen, G.J., Ermolayeva, E., Johannes, E. (1997) Ion channels and calcium-based signalling in plants. European Journal of Cell Biology 72, 52-52.
Ermolayeva, E., Sanders, D., Johannes, E. Ionic mechanism and role of phytochrome-mediated membrane depolarisation in caulonemal side branch initial formation in the moss Physcomitrella patens. Planta 201, 109-118.
Davies, J.M., Darley, C.P., Sanders, D. (1997) Energetics of the plasma membrane pyrophosphatase. Trends in Plant Science 2, 9-10.
Allen, G.J., Sanders, D. (1996) Control of ionic currents in guard cell vacuoles by cytosolic and luminal calcium Source. Plant Journal 10, 1055-1069.
Maathuis, F.J.M., Verlin, D., Smith, F.A., Sanders, D., Fernandez, J.A., Walker, N.A. (1996) The physiological relevance of Na+-coupled K+-transport. Plant Physiology 112, 1609-1616.
Muir, S.R., Sanders, D. (1996) Pharmacology of Ca2+ release from red beet microsomes suggests the presence of ryanodine receptor homologs in higher plants. FEBS Letters 395, 39-42.
Maathuis, F.J.M., Sanders, D. (1996) Characterization of csi52, a Cs+ resistant mutant of Arabidopsis thaliana altered in K+ transport. Plant Journal 10, 579-589.
Walker, N.A., Sanders, D., Maathuis, F.J.M. (1996) High-affinity potassium uptake in plants. Science 273, 977-978.
Ermolayeva, E., Hohmeyer, H., Johannes, E., Sanders, D. (1996) Calcium-dependent membrane depolarisation activated by phytochrome in the moss Physcomitrella patens. Planta 199, 352-358.
Martin, I., Ruysschaert, J.M., Sanders, D., Giffard, C.J. (1996) Interaction of the lantibiotic nisin with membranes revealed by fluorescence quenching of an introduced tryptophan. European Journal of Biochemistry 239, 156-164.
McAinsh, M.R., Allen, G.J., Hetherington, A.M., Sanders, D. (1996) The role of cyclic-ADP-ribose in stomatal guard cells. Plant Physiology 111, 692-692.
Giffard, C.J., Ladha, S., Mackie, A.R., Clark, D.C., Sanders, D. (1996) Interaction of nisin with planar lipid bilayers monitored by fluorescence recovery after photobleaching. Journal of Membrane Biology 151, 293-300.
Davies, J.M., Sanders, D., Gradmann, D. (1996) Reaction kinetics of the vacuolar H+-pumping ATPase in Beta vulgaris. Journal of Membrane Biology 150, 231-241.
Maathuis, F.J.M., Sanders, D. (1996) Mechanisms of potassium absorption by higher plant roots. Physiologia Plantarum 96, 158-168.
Hunt, L.E., Sanders, D. (1996) The kinetics of N-ethylmaleimide inhibition of a vacuolar H+-ATPase and determination of nucleotide dissociation constants. Plant Physiology 110, 97-103.
Maathuis, F.J.M., Sanders, D. (1995) Patch-clamping plant cells. Methods in Cell Biology 49, 293-302.
Sanders, D., Muir, S.R., Allen, G.J. (1995) Ligand- and voltage-gated calcium release channels at the vacuolar membrane. Biochemical Society Transactions 23, 856-861.
Maathuis F.J.M., Sanders, D. (1995) Contrasting roles in ion-transport of 2 K+-channel types in root-cells of Arabidopsis thaliana.	Planta 197, 456-464.
Darley, CP., Davies, J.M., Sanders, D. (1995) Chill-induced changes in the activity and abundance of the vacuolar proton-pumping pyrophosphatase from mung bean hypocotyls. Plant Physiology 109, 659-665.
Allen, G.J., Sanders, D. (1995) Calcineurin, a type 2B protein phosphatase, modulates the Ca2+-permeable slow vacuolar ion-channel of stomatal guard-cells. Plant Cell 7, 1473-1483.
Ermolayeva, E., Sanders, D. (1995) Mechanism of pyrithione-induced membrane depolarisation in Neurospora crassa. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 61, 3385-3390.
Johannes, E., Sanders, D. (1995) Lumenal calcium modulates unitary conductance and gating of a plant vacuolar calcium-release channel. Journal of Membrane Biology 146, 211-224.
Johannes, E., Sanders, D. (1995) The voltage-gated Ca2+ release channel in the vacuolar membrane of sugar-beet resides in 2 activity states. FEBS Letters 365, 1-6.
Davies, J.M., Sanders, D. (1995) ATP, pH and Mg2+ modulate a cation current in Beta vulgaris vacuoles - a possible shunt conductance for the vacuolar H+-ATPase. Journal of Membrane Biology 145, 75-86.
Allen, G.J., Muir, S.R., Sanders, D. (1995) Release of Ca2+ from individual plant vacuoles by both Insp(3) and cyclic ADP-ribose. Science 268, 735-737.
Calvert, C.M., Sanders, D. (1995) Inositol triphosphate-dependent and triphosphate-independent Ca2+ mobilization pathways at the vacuolar membrane of Candida albicans. Journal of Biological Chemistry 270, 7272-7280.


Did you ever wonder what happens to all those wonderful used soaps that are left at a bed and breakfast? Innkeepers take great care to seek out a nice scent, design a package (often touting their private label) and proudly display them. Some offer a plastic sandwich bag so that guests may take their leftover soap home. But most folks leave them behind, often hardly used and still sporting the inn logo that is carved into the soap.
Years ago, we donated our used soap to some missionary organization, but they ruled that the soaps were unsanitary and discontinued the practice. And so, over the years, thousands of our soaps from The Artist's Inn were thrown out.
Last year we heard about the Clean the World program. We now had a new place to send our soaps....and we could either mail them or save them for a Bed and Breakast conference to be held in Lancaster County. That conference was last week, and I hauled in 17 lbs of soap from our inn. There would have been more, but throwing away soap is a hard habit to break! (Finding a place to store them until the conference was a challenge too.) I'm guessing I finally got with the program in August of last year.
At the conference, there was a competition sponsored by the generous folks at the Hummingbird Inn in VA, offering $100 to the innkeeper that brought in the most soap. My good friend, Ruth, from Flowers and Thyme B&B won – she saved 81 lbs! YAY Ruth! All together the innkeepers at our conference brought in over 300 lbs. of soap.
Still more amazing is the company that processes the used soap, Clean the World.
We're proud to be a small part of such a great program.
I read about their two methods of processing the used soap. This seems like a very good project and it's nice that you persevered in saving soap for them.
I think this is wonderful. Thank you so much for writing about this program. I am going to spread the word.


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I regret that we didn't keep in better touch.
I would be psyched to have one as a pet.
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He did not mind dancing alone.
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Life goes on, and so do you.
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I thought he was going to eat me.
The people in his world could be nuts.
It's growing darker, the deeper she goes.
I have perfect vision now.
She had married him for his money.
Come on, you want to live forever or something?
Well, they're not doing anything.
What shall we discuss today?
She said that her mother's name was Florence.
He did not try to imagine the lives inside.


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Pumpkins are everywhere this time of year, so it's no surprise that it's National Pumpkin Month. This month, enjoy some delicious pumpkin recipes. They're not only delicious but good for you too.
Here at the Mindful Living Network, we love pumpkins and pumpkin recipes. This fall, use fresh pumpkin and bake pumpkin bread, cookies, or maybe a great pumpkin pie.
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