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Lima COP-20: Is the world finally ready to embrace emission reductions?
LIMA, Peru, December 1, 2014 (AMG) — The 20th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP) and the 10th session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties (CMP) to the Kyoto Protocol will be held from December 1 to 12 in Lima, Peru.
Why this matters: The litmus test of success in Lima, according to Christina Figueres, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, would be a "clear draft of the universal climate agreement, a shared determination by all to deliver significant national contributions to build a low carbon resilient future, initial capitalisation of the Green Climate Fund, and the mobilisation of a broad coalition of actors turning potential into reality on the ground, without delay."
See also: Understanding climate change in the Caribbean context
Member nations hope to lay the groundwork for a legally binding agreement to be finalized in Paris in 2015.
Reason for optimism: Unlike recent conferences, an aura of optimism surrounds the Lima gathering, predicated on pledges by the United States and China to curb emissions starting in 2020.
The European Union also pledged to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent from 1990 levels by 2030. These actions are necessary to keep global warming below 2 degrees Celsius – the maximum temperature increase which science suggests would avert critical climate change events – but it requires all states to band together to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
See also: What CARICOM leaders pushed for at the UN Climate Summit
Small island states in particular face the dangers of rapidly rising sea levels. The Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS), which includes many Caribbean nations, met earlier this month to discuss the priorities at Lima. The AOSIS ministers argue that limiting warming is not only dependent on long-term reductions, but also on a focus on clean energy policies and near-term emissions reductions. The ministers released a statement calling on "top emitters and the world to ensure this rare opportunity is not lost."
Jamaica's climate change minister echoed the urgency for a global agreement, stressing that small islands are dependent on coastal zones for tourism revenue. Indeed, to better protect their valuable coastlines, small island states are hoping for an agreement that limits warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, but are willing to accept the 2 degree mark.
Paris ambitions: With a goal of an international agreement in Paris next year, the Lima conference will try to lay the groundwork. It should clarify what countries need to include in Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs), which will be put forth in the first quarter of 2015.
Countries will also discuss how to maintain and increase cooperation on climate change action by all parties. Building on the current momentum around the world is imperative to limiting future warming and providing methods for institutional incorporation of climate and energy policy. The next two weeks will be a litmus test of whether the world is finally ready to embrace emissions reductions.
Alison Singer
Alison Singer has been writing about environmental issues for years, and has a particular interest in climate change. She lives in Washington, D.C., where she works for the US Government and writes for a variety of organizations.
December 1, 2014 December 1, 2014 Written by Alison Singer
Riverton Dump ideal for waste-to-energy investment in Jamaica
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Landscape painter Gabriel Salazar has long been inspired by the lush fields of citrus and palms surrounding Donna. As a boy, with the help of his father's American employer, Salazar immigrated to this Rio Grande Valley town from a small community near Monterrey, Mexico. Salazar honed his artwork as a teen, and his drawings soon captivated a gallery owner from Austin, who in the 1970s recruited him to the capital city to work in art restoration. After about seven years away, the beauty of Donna called Salazar back. It's a beauty that has endured through change: Part of a Mexican land grant established in 1834, the sleepy farming community became a modern gateway to Mexico in 2010 with the opening of an eight-lane international bridge. Happy in his hometown, the 73-year-old Salazar paints every day and says he continues to be amazed by the fertile Rio Grande Valley—its rich colors and light, palms and orchards.
The Donna Chisholm Trail Festival, every February at Altas Palmas Park, with music, a 5K, carnival, and barbecue cookoff.


The Canon 70D was released last evening. I looked at the spec list and it seems to be a step forward in Canon's sensor technology. The Canon 70D release is a preview of what's to come in the higher end models, so even if this is a consumer camera, professionals watch to see what the camera is all about. The biggest feature of the APS-C 20.2 megapixel camera is the new auto focus. From the video below, it shows making real time focus adjustments by a touch of the screen. With Wi-Fi being a feature on the 70D, you can control the camera via smartphone. This makes it very intriguing for videographers. I would like to see some real time tests of the autofocus on moving subjects as well as stills, but this seems to be a big step forward for Canon.
Being a landscape photographer, this camera doesn't do much for me. If the autofocus is much improved (which it seems it is) over previous versions, I can see the wildlife, bird, and sport photographers taking notice. The autofocus for wildlife photography is what caught my eye.
Coming it at $1199.00 for the body only option, seems reasonable, as it rivals the 7D in terms of features, but it seems the 7D would be more rugged and durable. You can Pre-Order your 70D Here.
Check out the video below for the Canon preview of the 70D.


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If you�ve been using two-step verification on your Apple ID up to this point, you need to turn it off before setting up two-factor authentication. To do that, sign in to your Apple account on the Apple ID �... With 3 iPhones, 2 laptops, 2 iPads, and a couple Apple TVs all under the same Apple ID, I absolutely despise the lack of control over that token display. And, to boot, it doesn�t seem to be working properly.
If you are concerned about the security of your account, turn on Two-Factor Authentication for your Apple ID. Refer this complete guide to enable it from your Mac and iPhone. Refer this complete guide to enable it from your Mac and iPhone.... With 3 iPhones, 2 laptops, 2 iPads, and a couple Apple TVs all under the same Apple ID, I absolutely despise the lack of control over that token display. And, to boot, it doesn�t seem to be working properly.
We don�t share an Apple ID, and never have, so we have to choose one ID to use for the login on our Apple TVs. We use my account and I share my 1Password entry for it to him. But when he went to set up the Apple TV, he didn�t get the passcode sent to him for two-factor authentication.


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Magnetic and orientational behavior of nickel hydroxide nanoplatelets ionically stabilized in a liquid matrix is studied. Under an applied field the platelets orient their faces normal to its direction. For characterization of the individual behavior of dispersed and non-interacting particles three techniques are used: SAXS, SQUID and magneto-optics. Analysis reveals that nickel hydroxide in a platelet phase is paramagnetic with a pronounced anisotropy of the intrinsic susceptibility, the major component of which (in the direction normal to platelet face) exceeds the minor one by about 25%.


Today, parents face a multitude of modern day challenges in raising happy, well and resilient young people. Whilst there is a great deal of information available, this can often be confusing and overwhelming for parents looking for guidance.
SchoolTV addresses this as a new online resource designed to empower you as parents with credible and sound information with realistic, practical ongoing support strategies. Click SchoolTV.ME to access the site.
St Jude's values parental involvement and participation.
There are many opportunities for parental involvement in the school. Parental involvement enhances learning experiences for the children and builds the sense of community at the school, reinforcing the relationship between teachers, parents and students. Each parent is valued for his/her gifts, talents and skills.
Parents are encouraged to support the social and fundraising acivities of the Community Council.
Parents can join the Community Council or become involved in planning special events such as the school fete.
Assisting within the classroom through reading, writing, art and craft, music, dance, library, information technology, sport and the gross motor skills program (for Kindergarten and Year 1).
Helping to change readers for those children on the reading program.
Assisting with coaching/managing the school netball teams and a range of other school sports programs and teams.
Helping out with school sports carnivals through out the year and joining children on school excursions.
Term 1 – organise a class contact list.
Organise at least one social function per term but this can coincide with other social functions organised by the school.
Welcome new families and farewell leaving families.
Help the children celebrate your class teacher's birthday.


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Centa Corporation Authorized By Germanischer Lloyd For In House Testing
Centa Corporation Authorized By Germanischer Lloyd For In-House Testing
CENTA recently announced that have been granted the authority to carry out acceptance testing and final stamping of those couplings that have previously been classified as approved types. These tests must be performed in accordance with the "Alternative Product Certification," a modular certification system developed by Germanischer Lloyd (GL). The approval becomes valid by their joint signatures on the appropriate product certificate.
CENTA is one of the leading manufacturers of flexible drive components worldwide and has been supplying couplings for marine applications for more than 20 years. In 1990, the company's quality management system was first approved by DIN ISO 9001. All subsequent audits were passed successfully, and recently the classification society Det Norske Veritas (DNV) attested that the coupling manufacturer supports a higher-than-average quality management system.
Several international classification societies, such as the Det Norske Veritas (DNV), Nippon Kaiji Kyokai (NKK), and the Maritime Register of Shipping (MRS), have granted CENTA the authority to use their approval stamp on its series couplings. CENTA has a stock of approximately 65 approved types. In 2007, roughly 2,000 certifications by several classification societies were carried out on CENTA's premises. In the future, CENTA will be the first manufacturer worldwide to be granted approval by Germanischer Lloyd (GL) to perform acceptance tests on its own flexible couplings up to 100 Nm.
Germanischer Lloyd (GL), one of 10 internationally recognized classification societies, has developed technology and quality standards for more than 140 years–standards that ensure the safety of more than 6,500 ships all over the world. "We have maintained close cooperation with several classification societies for more than 20 years", says Gerhard Kirschey, founder of CENTA Antriebe Kirschey GmbH. "We continually strive to improve the quality of our products and processes. Approval by Germanischer Lloyd for carrying out acceptance testing of our couplings on our own, in-house, indicates that our quality management system is on the right track", Kirschey explains. "We are very proud of this sign of confidence and confirmation of our efforts, which are supported by our employees' high commitment level." CENTA couplings and drives are designed to meet the latest technical demands and requirements. A wide range of innovations has made the 40-year-old company one of the world's leading manufacturers of flexible couplings and drive shafts for industry and marine applications.
For more information: www.centa.info
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Invited lecture at the Statistics workshop at the Department of Linguistics of the University of Konstanz, Germany. Three-day workshop organized by Anna Czypionka and Bettina Braun. April 5-7, 2017.
Jacolien van Rij: Analyzing VWP data using GAMMs. One-day workshop at the University of Leeds, March 22, 2016. Organized by Cécile De Cat.
Jacolien van Rij: GAMM tutorial. Nonlinear regression for analyzing EEG and eye-tracking data. Four-day course at the University of Potsdam, August 25-28, 2015. Organized by Clare Patterson (Potsdam Research Institute for Multilingualism) & Natalie Boll-Avetisyan (Department of Linguistics).
Jacolien van Rij & Juhani Järvikivi: Exploring the Visual World Eye-Tracking Paradigm: Introduction and Data Collection & Analyzing the Time Course of Eyetracking Data. CCP Spring Training in Experimental Psycholinguistics (STEP @CCP 2015), Edmonton, Canada, May 19-23, 2015.
Harald Baayen & Jacolien van Rij: Regression modeling for linguistic and psycholinguistic data. University of Tübingen, Germany, Summer Semester 2015.
Jacolien van Rij & Juhani Järvikivi: Exploring the Visual World Eye-Tracking Paradigm: From Data Collection to Statistical Analysis. CCP Spring Training in Experimental Psycholinguistics (STEP @CCP 2014), Edmonton, Canada, May 4-8, 2014.
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Feds Admit NSA Spying Violated 4th Amendment
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Released letter late Friday to avoid media scrutiny
In a rare admission that has gone almost completely unreported, the Director of National Intelligence has admitted that the National Security Agency violated the US constitution and abused its power by spying on American citizens and monitoring their communications.
The admission was made in a letter to Senator Ron Wyden, released late on Friday, seemingly in an attempt to bury the story and avoid a media frenzy. Spencer Ackerman at Wired reports:
The head of the U.S. government's vast spying apparatus has conceded that recent surveillance efforts on at least one occasion violated the Constitutional prohibitions on unlawful search and seizure.
The admission comes in a letter from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence declassifying statements that a top U.S. Senator wished to make public in order to call attention to the government's 2008 expansion of its key surveillance law.
The letter, embedded below, contains two key admissions, described by Wyden:
It is also true that on at least one occasion the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court held that some collection carried out pursuant to the Section 702 minimization procedures used by the government was unreasonable under the Fourth Amendment.
I believe that the government's implementation of Section 702 of FISA has sometimes circumvented the spirit of the law, and on at least one occasion the FISA Court has reached this same conclusion.
Ackerman notes that "Minimization" refers to how long the government may retain the surveillance data it collects.
Following the publication of the letter, Wyden released a statement saying "I applaud the DNI for agreeing that transparency should prevail in this situation… I believe that protections for Americans' privacy need to be strengthened, and I believe that the FISA Court's rulings help illustrate why this is necessary. I look forward to debating this issue on the Senate floor."
Following the admission, the Electronic Privacy Information Center reports:
The Senate Judiciary Committee has approved a bill that would established new safeguards for the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Amendments Act. The Act provides for court approval of 'programs of surveillance' that allow for the collection of communications of US citizens. The bill, sponsored by Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT), would renew the Act but also establish new reporting requirements to improve government accountability.
The full letter from the DNI follows: 2012-07-20-OLA-Ltr-to-Senator-Wyden-ref-Declassification-Request
Last month The DNI refused to provide details on the NSA's clandestine domestic spying program, suggesting that to do so would violate the privacy of Americans.
Senators Wyden and Senator Mark Udall of the intelligence oversight committee had repeatedly asked the NSA to divulge how many innocent Americans have had their communications monitored under the expanded Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, counterterrorism powers put into place four years ago.
The expansion of powers in 2008 eliminated the need for the NSA to have probable cause to intercept any American's phone calls, text messages or emails. Wired acquired a letter (PDF) from the Inspector General of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which noted that "NSA leadership agreed that an IG review of the sort suggested would further violate the privacy of U.S. persons."
The letter, written by I. Charles McCullough, also claimed that the NSA, which has as many employees as the FBI and the CIA combined, does not have the man power to collate and reveal such details, and that to attempt to do so would jeopardize the program.
"I defer to [the NSA inspector general's] conclusion that obtaining such an estimate was beyond the capacity of his office and dedicating sufficient additional resources would likely impede the NSA's mission," McCullough wrote.
Last year, the NSA tacitly admitted that it has an active domestic spying program when the general counsel testified to a Senate hearing, overseen by Wyden and Udall, that he believes the agency has the authority to track Americans via cell phones.
"There are certain circumstances where that authority may exist," said Matthew Olsen the Director of The National Counterterrorism Center.
Wyden and Udall have been pressing the NSA for some time to reveal whether or not the agency is collecting sensitive data on Americans such as cell site data, which would allow for tracking the location of anyone using a cell phone in the US. Along with Congressman Jason Chaffetz (R., Utah), Wyden introduced a joint bill last year that would force any government agency to secure a search warrant and show probable cause before tracking the location of any American.
Wyden has consistently expressed concern that the law relating to surveillance is unclear, and is being "secretly interpreted by the executive branch."
As a candidate for president in 2008, Barack Obama promised to revisit and revise the rules of FISA to protect Americans' rights, after he had voted for the bill as a Senator. However, as president, Obama has continued where president Bush left off in calling for extending the legislation and even actively preventing any judicial oversight of the wiretapping program.
The FISA provision, introduced in 2008, was merely a confirmation of activity that government spy agencies, including the NSA, have been engaging in for years.
The ACLU recently released an infographic (below) detailing how the NSA's warrantless wiretapping program has grown in gargantuan proportions and now intercepts 1.7 billion US electronic communications every single day. Those communications will soon all be funneled through the top secret $2 billion spy center in the Utah desert, which the NSA has refused to provide Congress with details of.
While the government says that the official targets of this expanding surveillance dragnet are "terrorists," we now have an admission that snoops are using these powers to go after Americans exercising their constitutional rights. —————————————————————- Steve Watson is the London based writer and editor for Alex Jones' Infowars.com, and Prisonplanet.com. He has a Masters Degree in International Relations from the School of Politics at The University of Nottingham in England.


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Armando Bacot's dominant career day powers UNC to break losing streak against Virginia
CHAPEL HILL — As he assessed the wrecking ball damage North Carolina teammate Armando Bacot delivered Saturday, guard Caleb Love recalled a pregame conversation during which the power forward mentioned his struggles to solve Virginia's dogged defense through the years.
"He told me before the game he never played well against Virginia," Love said, remembering the moment, "and I said get that out your head, because it's a new game and it's a new year."
Was it ever on this afternoon, with Bacot's dominance driving North Carolina's thorough 74-58 defeat of the Cavaliers in Atlantic Coast Conference basketball at the Smith Center, while placing him among an exclusive group of big men in league and school history.
The junior Bacot piled up career highs of 29 points and 22 rebounds, the power-packed breakthrough he had sought, particularly as a native of Richmond, Va., and the Tar Heels finally snapped their Virginia hex — with authority. North Carolina had lost seven straight meetings between these teams, and hadn't beaten the Cavaliers since February 2017.
"I knew he had a good game," Tar Heels first-year coach Hubert Davis said, "but when I saw the stat sheet, I was like, 'Oh my gosh.' … To be able to do it against a Virginia team that is very physical and tries to double team you every time you put the ball on the floor on the block, that's the best performance I've seen (from) anybody against Virginia that I can remember."
Bacot became the first player to produce a double-double of 20 points and 20 rebounds against a Virginia team coached Tony Bennett, who's in his 13th season. Wake Forest all-time great Tim Duncan had been the last to reach the 20-20 plateau against Virginia, doing so in 1997, when the ACC still was a nine-team conference.
"He certainly had his way," Bennett said of Bacot, only the second North Carolina player ever to collect 20-plus rebounds here at the Smith Center, joining former star Sean May, now a Tar Heels assistant coach, in the history of this 36-year-old building. Bacot's 20-20 double-double marked the first at North Carolina in five seasons, since Brice Johnson's monster 39-point, 23-rebound game at Florida State in January 2016.
"It's been like seven games in a row they've beaten us and we really wanted to win this game," Bacot said, referring to the losing skid to Virginia. "When we play with energy, we can be a great team. It doesn't really matter who we play. We've just got to play with energy."
Brady Manek supplied 19 points, mostly on 5-for-9 shooting from 3-point range, to go along with five rebounds and five assists. Manek's soft stroke outside provided a complement to Bacot's strength down low, as North Carolina built a lead that grew to a 25-point margin, turning the continued absences of starting forward Dawson Garcia (concussion) and reserve guard Kerwin Walton (COVID-19 protocols) into non-factors.
Caleb Love added 16 points and five assists for the host Tar Heels (11-4 overall, 3-1 ACC), who bounced back in a big way from the frustration suffered three nights prior at Notre Dame, a defeat Bacot called "just flat-out an embarrassing loss" while deeming the effort to unacceptable.
"Coming off the tough loss on Wednesday I was really upset," Bacot said, "and I said in this New Year, 2022, I would make sure I would be as energized and give my all out there every game. But me being a leader, I had to do a better job of just preparing everybody to match my energy and Coach's energy, too. Today we came out and did that."
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Love hit four 3-pointers. North Carolina connected on 11 makes beyond the 3-point arc, one shy of a matching the team's season-best output from downtown. The Tar Heels had 19 assists on their 28 field goals, and improved to 8-0 at home this season.
Reece Beekman (13 points), Armaan Franklin (12 points) and Jayden Gardner (10 points) topped the scoring for visiting Virginia (9-6, 3-2), which arrived having won back-to-back road games in the ACC, but couldn't keep up with Bacot and the Tar Heels.
"We were getting them to space out more, and we got open shots," Love said. "Really, it was 'Mondo' down low and Brady stretching the floor out, so they couldn't really guard any of us."
Here are more takeaways from Saturday in Chapel Hill:
Armando Bacot guesses wrong
Bacot said he told the sophomore guard duo of Love and RJ Davis "we need y'all to be huge this game," figuring his touches in the post would be suffocated by Virginia's pack-line defense and the double teams the Cavaliers typically send at opposing big men.
Bacot had participated in three North Carolina losses to Virginia, low-scoring slogs for the Tar Heels during which he had 11, eight and seven points, and didn't take more than eight shots from the field in any of the games.
Then, his tour de force happened Saturday, aided by Manek's shooting from the perimeter that created increased spacing in the paint. Bacot finished 12-for-18 from the field. He went for 12 points and eight rebounds during the first half, and 17 points and 14 rebounds in the second half.
"I really didn't know what it was going to be," he said. "I told my teammates I could be the best screener or whatever, but I just was going to go out there and play hard and do my best to help us win. I'd be lying to you if I said I would expect to play this good this game, but it was great."
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Brady Manek has been here before
Manek, the Oklahoma graduate transfer, is experiencing his first taste of ACC league play this season. But Saturday didn't mark his first time playing against Bennett, point guard Kihei Clark and Virginia's deliberate style.
In the 2019 NCAA Tournament, Manek was a sophomore on the ninth-seeded Oklahoma team that lost to No. 1 seed Virginia in a Round of 32 matchup. Manek started for the Sooners that night and contributed 13 points and five rebounds, as Virginia won 63-51 on the way to claiming the national championship.
"It was very similar to what I was expecting," he said of Saturday's game. "They like to play offense really long and they like to be back on defense and just play really sound. The thing we really focused on was just trying to push the game a little more than what they wanted. You get that lead on them, and it'd be hard for them to come back from that at the pace they play. So whether it was their defense or offense, we just really wanted to push it."
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Tar Heels can 'catch their breath'
North Carolina's victory against Virginia capped a busy stretch of three games in seven days for the Tar Heels, who won at Boston College and lost at Notre Dame prior to Saturday. Hubert Davis said Sunday would be the team's first day off from basketball activities in more than a week.
"It's been like nine days straight where the guys haven't had a day off," he said, "we're either practicing or we're playing at 1 o'clock in Boston or 9 p.m. in South Bend (Ind.). And so it's a much needed rest for them, to be able to catch their breath and get their bodies right."
North Carolina has a six-day break between games before Georgia Tech visits Chapel Hill next weekend for a Saturday night matchup.
Adam Smith is a sports reporter for the Burlington Times-News and USA TODAY Network. You can reach him by email at asmith@thetimesnews.com or @adam_smithTN on Twitter.
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CHISINAU, May 22 (RIA Novosti) - Moldova's Communist Party on Friday nominated the country's ambassador to Russia, Andrei Neguta, as its new presidential candidate, with a vote in parliament scheduled for May 28.
The application was officially submitted to a special parliamentary commission earlier in the day.
Andrei Neguta, born in Moldova in 1952, is married and has two sons. He earlier served as a Communist lawmaker in the Moldovan parliament and as Moldova's envoy to the Council of Europe. In December 2008 he was appointed the country's ambassador to Russia.
Prime Minister Zinaida Greceanii had been put forward again for next Thursday's second vote, having fallen one short of the 61 votes needed to get elected president in the first ballot on Wednesday. The 41 opposition members in the 101-seat parliament walked out of the chamber, boycotting the vote.
If the second vote fails, parliament must be dissolved and new parliamentary elections held.
The opposition, represented in parliament by the Liberal Party, the Liberal-Democratic Party and the Our Moldova alliance, has repeatedly stated its refusal to cooperate with the Communists inside or outside of parliament.
The Communists' victory in the April 5 parliamentary elections, which saw them gain 49.48% of the vote, sparked protests that turned violent in the capital, Chisinau.
Protests originally led by the opposition spiraled out of control when some 10,000 rioters broke into the presidential residence and parliament. Several hundred protesters and police were injured in the violence.
A number of opposition parties claimed major violations during the voting, alleging that some 400,000 people had been unlawfully registered to vote. However, observers from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe gave their overall endorsement to the polls.


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Ive just recieved word that Tickle is pulling off of ALL INCENTIVE SITES. So any minute they may be down so you guys might want to get your Tickle offers in quick for the site and the raffle. This is not just on my network. It will be on EVERY site.
EDIT CHECK THE BOTTOM OF THE THREAD FOR AN UPDATE.
I also heard when it does go down (probably from tonight to this week) it souldnt stay down. We are negotiating a price and rate to get as soon as possible. It still may be down from a week to a month, to forever (.
Yea, finish the tickles tonight! Tonight may be the last..
I take it TSJ's statement about giving tickles a share in your site is false?
Are you sure about this? I've heard that it's only with certain publishers.
Yeah, it is only certain publishers at this exact moment.
Gotcha. I'm sure YFG and other sites with tickle made a nice chuck of change in this panic.
Just updating, if you need to get an offer done now would be the time if you plan to use Tickle, just precautionary.
Also, I got an update. They told 3 OUT OF THE 4 main publishers are losing tickle. Im with the one that still has it. They told me it still may go down at any time.
You mean mine arent working?
We will be adding more offers right now.
Is there anything else I can do in the raffle for the TV to take the place of this? True?
Your offers look so naked without those tickles. ( R.I.P. Tickle.
Also, im adidng offers as we speak.
We got 3 tickle test back. We didnt get them at the rates they were before so they will be HALF credit.
I don't see them, on laptops at least. But that's good news.
Thats because I didnt add them yet P .
They were being frauded so badly. Im even suprised they came back at a half credit rate.
That means basically they're paying you half (roughly) of what they did before?
hmm, that will be a tough sell if they are still the same price. glad i have more offers to do though now!
We are still adding more.
Tickle goes down at midinight.


More than 80 representatives from Area 3 attended the Global Grants workshop sponsored by District 3860. RCC President Stephen Chian took part as one of the subject matter experts. He shared his experience and know-how on how clubs can navigate the process for getting their projects funded through grants that are available through Rotary.


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Duck, Duck, Duck, Lose: The Flames Haunted History at the Honda Center
Heads, Carolina, Tails, California,
Somewhere greener, somewhere warmer,
Up in the mountains, down by the ocean,
Where? It don't matter, as long as we're goin',
Somewhere together. I've got a quarter,
Heads, Carolina, Tails, California.
The decision of where to go may not matter to country singer Jo Dee Messina. But if the Calgary Flames had a choice, I'm certain they'd put the coin back in their pocket and gladly head east to take their chances with the Carolina Hurricanes instead.
But alas, being the half-mountain/half-prairie town that we are, Calgary obviously finds itself residing in the Pacific Division and with that comes a couple mandatory trips each year to sunny California to visit NHL heavyweights: Anaheim Ducks, San Jose Sharks and Los Angeles Kings.
All three have become harrowing buildings for NHL teams to visit but in particular, the Flames have a haunted history at the Honda Center in Anaheim that would make the house in Amityville Horror look like a McDonald's Playland.
The Skinny on 'The Streak'
Note: Story has been updated to include the 3-2 loss on Nov. 25, 2014.
There are several different ways to represent how bad Calgary's fortunes have been in Anaheim and you'll hear them all in the next 36 hours. However you choose to dissect it, the losing woes go back to when they weren't just Ducks, they were Mighty Ducks.
"19 losses in a row" - It's cold, it's harsh, but it's accurate. Since Calgary last won a regular season game in Anaheim over 10 years ago -- a 5-1 victory on Jan. 19, 2004, Anaheim has won 18 straight home games versus the Flames so that can only mean Calgary has lost 18 straight on the road.
"Winless in their last 19 (0-14-5)" - This is the politically correct way to say it. "Winless" confirms the Flames didn't win but in the misleading world that is the glass-half-full skewed NHL standings, losses in overtime or a shootout aren't treated the same as other losses and get their very own column.
"One win in their last 29 (1-18-10)" - This extends Calgary's stretch of futility in Anaheim back to last century. Beginning with Anaheim's 5-1 win on Mar. 28, 1999, the Ducks have lost just once to the Flames in the last 28 regular season games on home ice. This stretch, which dates back further than the arrival of the shootout, includes three ties, four overtime losses and three shootout losses.
But, What About the Playoffs?
One thing that's always puzzled me yet is also the same in other sports is why playoff games -- despite their heightened importance, are rarely factored in when talking about team streaks, player streaks, player totals, etc. It's just the way it is.
Thus, you might forget that Calgary's actual last win in Anaheim was more recent than 11 seasons ago as previously mentioned. Instead, it came on Apr. 25, 2006, a 5-2 victory for the Flames in game three of the opening round Western Conference playoff series, which gave Calgary a 2-1 series lead. That was the year the Flames were seemingly destined to play Edmonton in round two in a revival of the Battle of Alberta, but then were shut out 3-0 in game seven at the Saddledome.
If you were to take that playoff series into consideration, which subsequently included Anaheim wins over the Flames in game four and game six at the Honda Center, the above stated numbers become a little different.
18 losses in a row
Two wins in their last 32
No wins in 19, one in 29. It sure sounds pretty horrifying. It gives you the sense it's been complete domination by the Ducks but if you scratch below the surface, you'll see that the games have been a lot closer than you think.
Here are some interesting facts about the streak (regular season version only):
Nine of the last 11 visits have either ended in a shootout (3), overtime (2) or been one-goal games (4)
In seven of the last 10 games, Calgary has outshot the Ducks including a 34-29 edge in the first meeting on Nov. 25 this year, which ended up a 3-2 loss
Nine of the 17 losses during the 1-18-10 stretch have been by one goal
Over the duration of the streak, here are five of the most notable losses:
Mar. 2, 2012 - Leland Irving made 35 saves but he couldn't stop Ryan Getzlaf, who scores on a set-up from Corey Perry with 46 seconds left in the game to win it 3-2.
Feb. 6, 2012 - The 3-2 loss was decided in a shootout that lasted eight rounds. Perry and Olli Jokinen were the lone goal scorers after three shooters. Then Getzlaf and Jarome Iginla both missed. Then Bobby Ryan and Blair Jones both scored. Shooting seventh, Cam Fowler and TJ Brodie both were unsuccessful. As shooter No. 8, Niklas Hagman beat Miikka Kiprusoff to put the pressure on Calgary and Mikael Backlund was stopped by Jonas Hiller to finish it.
Mar. 20, 2011 - Flames led 4-3 late in the game but with Rene Bourque in the penalty box for interference, Teemu Selanne's power play goal tied it at 17:59 and Perry scored in overtime to give Anaheim a 5-4 win.
Jan. 17, 2010 - Calgary took a 4-3 lead to the third period but unanswered goals by Perry and Ryan on Curtis McElhinney gave the Ducks a 5-4 victory, despite being outshot 37-26.
Apr. 4, 2004 - In the game that started this 18-game funk, Calgary led 1-0 into the third but ended up falling 2-1 when Martin Skoula and Sergei Fedorov scored less than two minutes apart halfway through the final period.
Funk Fun Facts
Maybe "fun" isn't the most appropriate word but here is some trivia that accompanies this Anaheim-Calgary season series -- the games in Anaheim in particular.
113 players have been a part of the current 19-game losing streak for Calgary. This includes assistant GM Craig Conroy (7 games) and assistant coach Martin Gelinas (1). Other blasts from the past include Denis Gauthier (1), Rhett Warrener (2), Bryan Marchment (2), Chris Simon (2) and Jason Wiemer (1).
12 goaltenders have appeared over these last 19 games -- Reto Berra, Brian Boucher, Jonas Hiller, Irving, Curtis Joseph, Henrik Karlsson, Kiprusoff, Joey MacDonald, McElhinney, Jamie McLennan, Karri Ramo and Roman Turek.
That one regular season win this century (Jan. 19, 2004) came with Iginla (ankle) and Kiprusoff (knee) both injured. The makeshift line-up that night included Lynn Loyns, Josh Green and Krzysztof Oliwa. The winning goalie was Turek (36 saves) and the goal scorers were Chris Clark, Gelinas, Green, Toni Lydman and Oleg Saprykin.
The losing streak has all come in the same building. It was originally called the Arrowhead Pond and became the Honda Center beginning in 2006-07.
It was in that same 2006-07 season that they became the Anaheim Ducks after being known previously as the somewhat ridiculous Mighty Ducks of Anaheim.
In that 5-2 playoff win in 2006, Kiprusoff was the winning goalie (27 saves). Scoring for Calgary was Kristian Huselius, Chuck Kobasew, Daymond Langkow, Darren McCarty and Robyn Regehr.
Flames Current Roster - Baggage or No Baggage
Baggage - Games (losses) in Anaheim as a member of the Flames:
13 - Mark Giordano
10 - Curtis Glencross
6 - Lance Bouma, Brodie
5 - Matt Stajan, Backlund,
4 - Jiri Hudler
3 - Dennis Wideman, Joe Colborne, Kris Russell
2 - Sean Monahan, Ladislav Smid
1 - Ramo, David Jones, Paul Byron, Johnny Gaudreau, Josh Jooris, Jonas Hiller, Deryk Engelland, Brandon Bollig
No Baggage - Has never played a game in Anaheim
Joni Ortio
Tyler Wotherspoon
Bringing that Winning Feeling
While there is nobody still with the Flames from that 2006 playoffs team (or the 2003-04 regular season), there are a few players that have at least tasted victory in Anaheim in their previous stops.
Jonas Hiller leads the way, obviously. The Former Ducks goaltender has a 92-51-10 regular season record at the Honda Center with a 2.48 goals-against average, .919 save percentage and 14 shutouts.
Other players that have won in Anaheim with their previous teams:
4 wins - Hudler, Russell
3 wins - Smid
1 win - Engelland (in which he scored a goal), Bollig, Wideman, Jones
Exorcising the Ghosts of Seasons Past
Calgary is playing like a brand new team this year. This is a fearless, invigorated group, who are achieving things no one thought possible and are either beating or giving tough teams a real stiff test. In particular, the Flames are riding the goaltending of Honda Center virgin Joni Ortio.
It would be a good time to shed this mental baggage with the Flames likely to play a lot of meaningful games with their division-rival in the coming years, maybe even another spring best-of-seven match-up at some point.
Two Ways To Look at "It's Not Sustainable" - The analytics experts are out in full force these days. In their cross-hairs is the explanation-defying Calgary Flames, the should-be Connor McDavid contenders, who instead are contending for first place in the Western Conference. I explain that Calgary can't keep up it's current pace, but nor does it need to.
Flames Hockey Talk - The archive of my guest appearance on SiriusXM NHL Network Radio on November 19 when I joined Jim 'Boomer' Gordon and we talked about the Flames fast start and discussed that popular question: Is it sustainable?
Wrong Side of the Tracks, Right Side of the Standings - If the 2014-15 NHL season was an 80s movie, the Flames with Byron, Bouma and Jooris would be cast as the poor kids, up against the rich kids in Eberle, Hall and Nugent-Hopkins. So far, the poor kids are dating the gorgeous cheerleader.
Sweet 16: Sixteen Reasons for Flames Fans To Smile - Sixteen games into the season and the Calgary Flames are the talk of the NHL and so they should be with an improbable 9-5-2 record. Here are 16 reasons for Flames fans to enjoy this season's early success.
Flames on a Roll: Buckle Up, Hang on Tight and Enjoy the Ride - Calgary is playing exciting, competitive and winning hockey. As a fan, isn't that what you signed up for? My examination of the Flames fast start includes reason for optimism, but mixed with realism.
How about that game where Getzlaf pulled the puck out of the net with his hand and it was somehow a no-goal? Or was that in Calgary?
Curse of Teemu more than anything hopefully. Guy's stats must be insane vs the Flames over his career.
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Maniac: A Disassociated Look at Sci-Fi Movie Culture
By Travis Coltrain
Tags: Cary Joji Fukunaga, Emma Stone, iowa city, Jonah Hill, krui, krui radio, KRUI Radio Album Review, Maniac, netflix, Review, uiowa, university of iowa
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"Maniac" is a ten episode mini-series out on Netflix. It comes with a pretty loaded team from Emma Stone and Jonah Hill to the director, Cary Joji Fukunaga who lead the first season of "True Detective".
Despite this, I couldn't say I left the series satisfied at all. Before going into those reasons I want to break the series down a bit.
"Maniac" takes place in a seemingly alternate present, based off stereotypical tropes of 80's sci-fi movies. A world with AI's that are are old bulky computers alongside cord telephones. The world is very capitalistic, it features a service
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called, "Add Buddy" who comes to you and gives you a variety of jobs to choose from. They range from a fill in husband for widows to drug trials.
The story focuses in on Annie Landsberg (Stone) and Owen Milgrim (Hill), two people who have signed up and joined a drug trial for their own reasons. While Stone's character fell flat, the same wasn't true for Hill. Whenever I see Hill perform I can't help but think funny man, after all I grew up laughing at his roles. Hearing he was playing a serious role I wasn't quite sure if he'd be up for it.
Jonah Hill absolutely saved the show from falling completely on its back. He gave the show a great foundation to build off of. Both Owen and Annie were pretty basic characters and at times their motives were unclear and slightly unbelievable. Despite this, Hill displayed such an unconventional yet mesmerizing performance you couldn't help but go along with whatever he did.
The show itself really tried to make you do that the whole time. On the surface the show seems to be completely serious, however it is not…at all. This is an issue though, you need to suspend your disbelief for a lot of events. Being a Sci-Fi show I already came in with little belief in the 'norm'. That wasn't necessarily the issue though.
Some moments were just badly written. For example, at a certain point a man goes blind for no reason. They say it is a psychotic break, but it just seemed like a cheap explanation.
I found similar moments throughout the whole series.
I don't wait to paint such a bleak picture for Manic because at a lot of moments it really was enjoyable. It had a lot of really funny moments, I just couldn't always get behind the serious ones.
Now a good point to say is that might be the exact point of the series. They might have tried to make a ridiculous show that is slightly making fun of old Sci-fi, 5th element-esque movies. If that was the point, they could have succeeded a lot more had the show focused in on that more.
However, considering the creator is Patrick Somerville I don't think that's the case.
Overall, if it weren't for Jonah Hill and his superb acting I don't know if I would have even finished the series, let alone review it. This show is a must watch simply because of Hill. This breakout role for him is one of a long line, Jonah hill is not longer just the funny man. The amount of different roles he plays in this movie showcase his wide variety of skills as an actor.
"Maniac" a 7 out of 10 movie that relies on the acting of one man to keep it from falling into bad show territory.
Travis Coltrain
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Diesel exhaust is more carcinogenic than cigarette smoke, but isn't regulated like smoking. Rather, our tax system encourages more diesel use in our cities. So where's the 'Quit' campaign against dirty diesel?
The air shimmers with fumes. Even standing next to Paul Overton in his front yard in Yarraville, we have to shout to hear each other over the truck traffic through this inner-city Melbourne suburb.
"When I'm hanging out the washing in the yard," he yells, "we see the plumes come over the top of the fence from the diesel exhaust."
Paul has lived here with his family for nearly 20 years, and reckons truck numbers have increased "exponentially" over the last decade. About 7,000 now pass his gate every day.
"I have multiple myeloma", he says. "It's a terminal form of cancer. Whether that's environmental or hereditary...they don't know what causes it."
A few blocks away, John Westbury – a founder of the Yarraville Residents Traffic Group – is standing on his street corner amid a similar din of roaring engines and swirling exhaust. John and his group want research to reveal the full extent and causes of pollution-related health problems in their community.
"Up the road there," he points, "there's eight houses, and out of those, 10 people have died of cancer in the last 15 years."
While it's difficult to pinpoint the cause of cancers without long-term studies, there's plenty of medical and biological evidence that diesel exhaust is one of them.
"Diesel is considered to be a carcinogen," says Dr Lyn Denison, Principal Scientist on Air Quality at the Victorian Environment Protection Authority. Acute myeloid leukaemia (cancer of the bone marrow), for example, is linked to benzene, a component of diesel exhaust.
In many suburbs around Australia, massive levels of diesel truck traffic and associated air pollution motivate citizens' groups to campaign for solutions. (Pic: Yarraville Residents Traffic Group).
After their monitoring in Yarraville found unacceptably high pollution and noise levels in 2001 and 2002, the Victorian EPA undertook a "community health perceptions study" of residents.
Residents were asked to complete survey forms about symptoms related to particle pollution, such as wheezing, productive cough, irritated eyes, runny nose, asthma, and aggravated heart problems, as well as emotional and mental health problems, but not cancer.
The results indicated residents believe their general health was poorer than the Australian average. "The study was limited because of the size of the sample population," acknowledges Dr Denison.
"But I don't think the differences [between polluted and less polluted areas] can be dismissed."
Research overseas shows that people exposed to diesel exhaust at high levels in enclosed spaces for long periods of time – such as truck drivers, railway workers, and miners – face up to 30 per cent increased risk of lung cancers, even after the effects of smoking are taken into account.
In 2002, the US Environmental Protection Agency concluded that diesel exhaust is a "likely human carcinogen", and a "chronic respiratory hazard to humans...it is reasonable to presume that the hazard extends to environmental exposure levels".
Most state regulatory bodies in Australia accept there is no safe level of exposure to diesel exhaust. As well as cancer, other health hazards are respiratory illnesses and heart disease [see box below].
An estimated 3 million Australians live and work near busy arterial roads, exposed to high levels of exhaust on a daily basis. Not surprisingly, for the past decade or more, opinion polls have shown air quality is our nation's 'number one' environmental concern.
There are two things about diesel exhaust that affect our health: one is the particles and their size; the other is what the particles are made of. Particles are made whenever something is burned – whether wood, petrol, tobacco, gas or diesel. Diesel is popular for fuel economy, but the size, number and composition of the particles in its exhaust make it more toxic than other fuels.
The high hazard zone for health is considered to be 150 metres either side of busy roads – particularly within 50 metres. Depending on the number of vehicles trailing plumes of particles in their wake, levels here can be two, three, up to 10 times higher than the usual city background – which is already unhealthily high.
How deeply particles can penetrate our bodies depends on their size. The most hazardous sizes are known as PM10 – Particulate Matter with diameters at or below 10 micrometres (10-thousandths of a millimetre – by comparison, the average width of human hair is 80 micrometres). All fine particles fall within this category, and 75 per cent of PM10 comes from diesel exhaust.
Of even greater concern are the smallest subsets of this size range. Particles of diameter 2.5 micrometres or less (PM2.5) are smaller than our red blood cells and many bacteria. Unlike the larger fine particles, which are more likely to be caught in the nose or upper airways, these are carried deep into our lungs.
But it's the infinitesimal ultrafines and nanoparticles – 1 micrometre and smaller – that are suspected to be the hidden killers. Up to 99 per cent of particles are in the ultrafine size range. At 0.05 micrometres across – smaller than many viruses and able to waft through a surgical mask – nanoparticles can even squeeze through capillaries in the lung walls to enter the bloodstream.
Nanoparticles are created by sulphur in the diesel, an impurity that can be removed at the refinery. Reducing sulphur content to 5 parts per million (ppm) or lower eliminates nanoparticles. Particle traps and catalytic converters can then be used on exhaust pipes to remove even more ultrafine particles. Reducing sulphur from 500 ppm to 50 ppm also cuts sulphur dioxide emissions by 90 per cent.
Until this year, sulphur levels in Australian diesel were at 1,300 ppm, even 5,000 ppm in some cases. We now have a national standard of 500 ppm, still dirty by world standards. Even Delhi, the Indian capital notorious for air pollution, introduced cleaner diesel standards before Australia. The next target is 50 ppm, but this is not to be introduced until 2006. BP is the first company to start selling 'ultra-low sulphur' 50 ppm diesel in Australia. Meanwhile European countries use diesel with 5 ppm, and even 0 ppm sulphur.
Natural sources like volcanic eruptions produce dust with similar size fractions, but it doesn't have the same health effects. So what's in the particles that makes them so dangerous?
Diesel exhaust is a chemical cocktail of at least 450 different compounds, in poisonous gases like nitrogen oxides. The particles are coated in a mixture of toxic contaminants like arsenic, benzene, dioxins, toluene, formaldehyde, and heavy metals – even 3-nitrobenzanthrone and 1,8-dinitropyrene, the two most carcinogenic chemicals ever discovered.
Polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are a group of more than 100 different chemicals found in all vehicle exhausts, such as the carcinogenic benzo[a]pyrene. Due to different chemical processes that attach oxides of nitrogen to PAHs, diesel exhausts are more toxic than petrol.
The particles act as a microscopic delivery system to carry these toxic payloads inside the body, and deep into the lungs. Because the particles can be retained in the body for long periods, our exposure to their chemical hitchhikers is greatly increased.
Government agencies in Australia measure particle pollution by weighing the mass of particles in a given volume of air (in micrograms per cubic metre). Unfortunately, this tells us nothing about the number of the deadly ultrafines and nanoparticles, which hardly weigh anything.
Ultrafine particles can account for up to 90 per cent of the number of particles, says the US Environmental Protection Agency, but only 1 per cent of the mass. Associate Professor Lidia Morawska, from the International Laboratory for Air Quality and Health at the Queensland University of Technology, points out that as engine technologies get better at removing the larger fine particles, there is very little mass left to measure in the remaining ultrafines.
"Therefore in a very short time, a measurement of the total mass emission will have very little point. We are moving more and more to the need to measure particles emitted in terms of their number," she warns.
Although there are now national standards for reporting PM10 and PM2.5, these are advisory standards for monitoring, rather than mandatory laws to reduce particle loads.
The bad news is that pollution hazards are causing preventable diseases, right now. A lack of Australian research to protect public health, and a disconnection between evidence effective policy, is a "major national deficiency", according to the Clean Air Society.
The good news is not great either. While new engines, alternative fuels, and cleaner diesel are all starting to make inroads, pollution problems are likely to get worse before they get better. In Melbourne by 2005, for example, pollution levels from motor vehicles are expected to rise by about 20 per cent, mainly due to more diesel vehicles in the fleet.
In 1999, the Australian Government made a range of promises to reduce the environmental and health impacts of diesel use. But instead of a program to actively encourage clean fuels and rapidly phase out dirty fuels, diesel subsidies were expanded. For the first time, heavy trucks that travel into cities were granted discount diesel.
Federal Parliament has now established the Energy Grants Scheme, originally intended to encourage conversion to cleaner fuels. However, the scheme will pay around $3 billion in tax rebates to diesel users each year, and "simply maintains the status quo", says Senator Lyn Allison, energy spokesperson for the Australian Democrats.
From 2008, the Government has also decided to tax 'alternative' fuels such as gas (LPG, LNG and CNG), ethanol and biodiesel, so they cost the same as petrol and diesel. Senator Allison says this is a mistake that will "pull the rug out" from industries struggling to promote cleaner fuels, and ensure that dirtier fuels continue to dominate.
In competing with petrol and diesel, cleaner fuels are already handicapped. A recent study from the Institute of Sustainable Futures, Sydney, identifies almost $9 billion worth of fossil fuel subsidies from governments in 2001–2002, mostly to support the consumption of petroleum products for road transport.
For the people of Yarraville, struggling to live with a rising tide of truck traffic and diesel exhaust, better air quality seems a distant prospect. And they're not alone – many suburbs in every state are blighted by blackspots.
The story is the same whether you're in Albury, dodging 3,500 semis a day on the Hume Highway through the city's centre; near the exhaust stacks from the M5 East Motorway or just about any major road in Sydney; or living in the Brisbane airshed in rapidly growing south-east Queensland.
As air quality worsens, medical experts like Professor Michael Abramson at Monash University are unsettled as the action needed is bogged down by "competing pressures".
"Personally I don't consider that the petroleum and motor vehicle industry, and the industry associated with diesel vehicles, have always played as constructive a role in the debate as they possibly could," he says.
The health of urban Australians is being exhausted by diesel and transport pollution. The danger will persist until industry leaders, vested interests, and policy makers take decisive action in the public interest – and we take more personal responsibility for our transport choices.


Randy sets a pretty high bar. In the current economic climate, it seems pretty audacious to aim for that. Wouldn't it be far safer to simply hunker down and look out for number 1? Collaboration, of the knd Randy talks about, requires a degree of vulnerability that "…is your business culturally ready?" only hints at. But here's the thing, we're already vulnerable. The question is how to respond to that insight.
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Has school become too hostile for boys?
When I was a kid I remember building huge guns out of legos. Me and my friends would fake shoot each other with them – That was kindergarten. I remember in the third grade drawing pictures of war. Not real war but fake cartoon wars that me and my friends would draw and compare with one another – this actually got us into art and comic books, which led to reading (as I was not interested in books at that age). If I had done any of that today, I would be suspended or expelled. This article brings up a a great point – zero tolerance policies do not make sense in many cases. Boys play fake 'war' by nature. They need to burn that energy they have in class and on the playground.
Apple sells 2x as many iPads as iMacs to schools – Is this a good thing?
While I think it is great that schools are adopting new technology I have to wonder, did schools jump the gun here? I know that some schools are definitely using the iPad for some really cool things and I love to see innovation. However, I wonder, and this really only applies to schools who bought iPads to replace computers, do all of these schools have enough computers for each student already? I ask because you can purchase a PC for the same price as the iPad (there is no educational discount on iPads so they are $500 for schools). If a school does not have a computer for each student, I would question their purchase of iPads for each student (if that is what they did because just purchasing some iPads is not what I am talking about here in this post). Computers are significantly more powerful than iPads and can do much more. I only recommend that my students by a computer first and if they have more money, then get the iPad. Do not just get the iPad and expect it to replace their laptop. So while I like mobile/tablet technology and think it does have a place in education, I would question anyone who is using that technology to replace computers because it does not and I do know that some schools are replacing computers with iPads which I believe is not a good way to use this technology.


Weekly: Use a vacuum for bare floors.
Monthly: Clean with a recommended cleaner.
Every 3-5 Years: Recoat your floors.
When life gets untidy, you need a flooring that's simple to clean. With children around, sometimes it can feel as though floors are a magnet for just about everything.
If you have wood floors, you should be confident that they are reasonably easy to clean and maintain. Appropriate upkeep is necessary to keep wood floors looking gorgeous and also performing well for years to come.
Proper hardwood maintenance will boost the efficiency of the floor, extend its life, and ultimately, will undoubtedly safeguard your investment. Maintaining your hardwood floors doesn't have to be a struggle. In fact, with the right tools and information, wood floors can be one of the easiest types of floors to keep clean.
Routine cleaning for wood floors involves sweeping, dry mopping, or using a vacuum that is designed to be gentle on wood floors.
Clean up spills immediately with a dry or slightly wet cloth. Don't use wet mops or heavy steam mops, which will harm the coating as well as the wood itself over time. It's best to use a cleaner made exclusively for the finish on the flooring, which is something your floor covering specialist can give or suggest to you when the task is completed.
Over time, when your wood floorings will begin to look a little dull, but they can be restored via recoating. This includes using a new layer of wood floor coating. Make sure to choose the best coating for the specific type of wood you have.
Now that you have the essential tips, here's exactly what you need to know about maintaining your wood floors, so they stay beautiful. Here's a basic wood maintenance schedule.
This prevents dirt from building up and getting worn into the fibers of the wood/coating. Use a soft sweeper for this to avoid scratching your floors.
Every week, you want to vacuum your wood floors to take care of everything you missed while sweeping. If the idea of bringing out the big vacuum every week seems daunting, you may want to check out a good robot vacuum for wood floors. These can be set on a weekly schedule and run autonomously. To see our picks for the best overall vacuums for wood floors, click here. If you also have carpet, to learn more about the best vacuums for hardwood and carpet, click here.
Once a month you should clean your floors with a wood floor cleaner. Make sure to select the type of cleaner that is best for the type of flooring you have in your home.
If you're in this for the long haul, plan on recoating your wood floors every couple of years. The timeframe for this depends on how much traffic your floors get, and how beat up they look.
Sand and refinish. Once every ten years, your wood floors are going to need an overhaul. Plan to sand and refinish your wood floors once a decade to ensure they stay looking new for years to come.
Thanks a lot for the tips. Got the idea on how to easily clean my hardwood floor. Great post.


The Political Studies Association (PSA) is committed to supporting the next generation of political scientists through its Early Career Network (ECN). The PSA ECN exists to represent the interests of postgraduate students, postdoctoral researchers and early career academics within the PSA. It opens a space that specifically addresses the interests and needs of postgraduates and early career researchers in an independent, peer-based environment, while still getting support and guidance from the Executive Committee of the PSA when required.
You can be a member of the PSA's ECN from when you started a doctoral degree until three years after the completion of a doctoral viva.
How can I join the Early Career Network?
Only £20 a year Membership - It's full PSA membership, at a reduced price.
All postgraduates and early career academics can join the Political Studies Association at a reduced rate, which includes Early Career Network Membership. Click here to join.
Who runs the Early Career Network?
The ECN's membership has doubled over the past two years. Our over 600 ECN members are at the heart of the ECN activities. The ECN is run by a committee consisting of early career scholars, headed by a Chair who serves as a member of the PSA Executive Committee. The committee is always looking for ideas from you, the current and future members, about how the ECN can help you make the most of your early career experience. You can read more about the committee here.
What kind of Early Career Network activities can I get involved in?
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COLUMBIA — There is a deep source of discord in South Carolina's running backs room. The dispute is football-related, and the battle lines have been drawn clearly, but differently, by the players.
Mon Denson insists he's the best Madden video game player in the group.
"I'm going to have to say me," Ty'Son Williams said.
That's about the only disagreement, though, among the Gamecocks' quartet of junior running backs. As for who starts for South Carolina every Saturday, they insist it's not a big deal to them. They save their acrimony for playful arguments over NFL video games.
"All of us have the ability to start," Rico Dowdle said.
Dowdle has started six of this year's seven games and led the team with 140 yards on 14 carries last week. He has rushed for 491 yards on 97 carries this year. Williams is next with 289 yards on 59 carries, followed by A.J. Turner, who has 131 yards on 21 carries. Denson, who has played in only three games due to a hamstring injury, has 66 yards on 16 carries.
The four room together on road trips, and Denson and Dowdle are roommates in Columbia.
Until the conversation turns to their favorite off-field activity.
"We most of the time just sit at the house and play Madden," Denson said.
Williams won the starting job last week and has started four games in his career. Turner has started 10 games this year, while Denson still is looking for his first career start. Together, they are averaging 5.1 yards per carry this season.
Dowdle is expected to start Saturday when the Gamecocks (4-3 overall, 3-3 SEC) take on Ole Miss (5-3, 1-3) in Oxford, Miss. South Carolina is 12th in the SEC in rushing with 163.7 yards per game on the ground.


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Q: OutOfMemoryError in JMeter In JMeter I am getting this error.
jmeter.JMeter: Uncaught exception:  java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space

Please let me know how to resolve.

A: Increase the JMeter heap memory

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*Within your explorer find where you installed JMeter

*Open up the bin directory.

*Find the JMeter.bat file and open it with a text editor

*Find the following set HEAP

You can set this HEAP value to whatever you like, in this example I've said allocate 2 GB of memory from the start and throughout the test run: set HEAP=-Xms2048m -Xmx2048m

A: Have you considered adding another load generator?   Even if you get to 80% of your pool you are going to have testbed influences on your result set.  This, by the way, is tool independent.
Recommended best course is at least three load gens.  Two for primary load and one for a control set of a single business process of each type.   If all degrade together then you know with high certainty that you have a common issue, app degradation.  If your primary degrade but not your control then you have overloaded generators.   It's best you catch them rather than using bad data to make a decision on scalability that could result in chasing engineering ghosts in your code.

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Angola remained the second largest source of crude oil for India, after Nigeria, in the Sub-Saharan Africa. GAIL and other Indian companies had shown interest in imports of LNG from Angola. The principal items of Indian exports are tractors and transport vehicles, agricultural machinery and implements, food and meat products, pharmaceuticals and cosmetics, Tea, Rice (Basmati), Spirits & Beverages, finished leather; paper/wood products etc.
Government of India extended a line of credit of US$ 40 million to Government of Angola for CFM Railway Rehabilitation Project, the first Government–to-Government initiative between the two countries and Rail India Technical and Economic Consultancy Services (RITES) Limited which started implementation of the project in 2005 handed over the project to Angolan Minister of Transport on August 28, 2007.
EXIM Bank of India extended three credit lines of US$ 5, 10 and 13 million for agricultural equipment and Indian tractors. These LoC's have been utilized by Angola. Two additional lines of credits of amounts US$ 30 and 15 million to construct a cotton spinning and ginning plant and an Industrial park was approved by EXIM bank in 2010. These projects are underway. Further, in June 2012, EXIM Bank of India extended a Line of Credit of US$ 23 million to the Government of Angola for supply of tractors, implements and related spares.
The State Bank of India which opened its Representative Office in Luanda in April 2005 also extended a commercial line of credit of US$ 5 million for supply of tractors from India.
As a goodwill gesture, Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India gifted 5 ambulances manufactured by M/s Mahindra & Mahindra to the Government of Angola which were handed over on December 6, 2005 to Mr. Andre Luis Brandao, then Minister of Transport in the presence of Dr. Sebastiao Sapuilo Veloso, then Minister of Health, on August 28, 2006.
Ministry of External Affairs under the Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation (ITEC) programme extends several training slots to Angola in various fields rangings from English language to Audit & Accounts.


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Q: Conducting common-attribute dissolution ONLY on adjacent features using QGIS I am working in QGIS. I have a shapefile of city parcels, which I am trying to dissolve where parcels have matching owners AND are touching. "Owner" is an attribute field.
How can I accomplish this?


Q: Sadhguru, if you are scared of something, how to overcome that? Like, personally, I am scared of supernatural things and ghosts.
Sadhguru: So you are essentially scared of something that you have never seen! What this means is that one very important basic faculty of being human is going out of control. Compared to other creatures, a human being has a very vivid sense of memory. We can remember every aspect of what happened yesterday. Because of this memory, we are able to understand how to handle today. This is what we are calling knowledge or information. What we understood, grasped, or experienced yesterday is today's knowledge.
This vivid sense of memory and an extraordinary sense of imagination are two aspects of the mind that set us apart from an earthworm, a grasshopper and every other creature. But these are two aspects that most human beings are suffering.
People suffer what happened ten years ago, and they already suffer what may happen the day after tomorrow. Or essentially, they are suffering something which does not exist. They are suffering their memory and their imagination. These are the two faculties which make us human you are suffering the evolutionary process.
So, all that is happening is that you are suffering your imagination. You are just watching a horror movie. Why not enjoy it? The problem is, it is badly directed. Your memory and imagination are out of control. The drama is just going on by itself.
People say, "This is human nature." This is not human nature. This is the nature of people who have not taken charge of human nature. If you knew how to manage your psychological drama, you would have made yourself blissful, not fearful. This is the essence of my work – to bring some sense to the drama so that you become the director of your drama.


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With bare bones, forensic artist reconstructs face of skeleton believed to be Smith Price
By Selene San Felice
A facial reconstruction of a skeleton found in 1981 while building townhouses for an urban renewal project in Annapolis. The skeleton belonged to a man in his 50s, who could have been the founder of Asbury United Methodist Church. (Courtesy of Janice Hayes-William / HANDOUT) (Courtesy photo)
A detective, a historian and an archaeologist have transformed an 1800s-era skeleton into a smoldering pipe smoker.
For almost 30 years, the skeleton — a man in his 50s buried with a preteen skeleton — sat in the archives of the Jefferson Patterson Park museum in Calvert County after being dug up during an urban renewal project to build townhouses in Annapolis.
Historian Janice Hayes-Williams suspects the man's skeleton belongs to Smith Price, a freed slave who founded the first African American church in Anne Arundel County in 1803 that is now Asbury United Methodist Church.
The case is personal for Hayes-Williams. She had been trying for decades to find the bones before discovering them in Calvert County. In July, she wrapped the skeletons herself and led the ceremony to have them repatriated to Anne Arundel County.
Since the facial reconstruction was released Wednesday, she feels closer to the case than ever.
"When Eve sent me (the reconstruction), I was honestly afraid to look at it. It took me about an hour," Hayes-Williams said.
"When I saw him, it was just mesmerizing. He was looking at me like 'Hey, chick. You're the one who brought me back.' I can't stop looking at him now ... I'm mesmerized by how handsome he is, as well."
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Julie Schablitsky, chief archaeologist for the Maryland State Highway Administration, was surprised the reconstruction was possible. When she opened the box containing the bones, Schablitsky said she was relieved to see part of the cranium and facial bone.
Most facial bones are destroyed in the burial process with the pressure of a casket and the earth pushing down on a body, Schablitsky said.
"If you don't have the facial bones, you have nothing," Schablitsky said. "Sometimes it's really challenging because you can go to a cemetery with 100 people and sometimes their faces never survive."
After being buried for centuries before builders sliced through the man's grave, somehow his face stayed intact.
Once Schablitsky put the facial bones back together with glue and wax, Baltimore detective and forensic artist Eve Grant began her work revealing what the man looked like when he was alive.
"A lot of the face was missing, but I had literally the bare bones of what I needed," Grant said.
Grant took photos of the skull with her cell phone and blew them up to life-size proportions. Then, she used Photoshop to make a clear layer over the photograph and drew on top of the bone using a stylus.
"Everything is based on the aperture ... It's kind of like playing connect the dots," Grant said. "You line everything up. When things aren't right, you feel it. They're off."
New 'virtual trail' documents more than 370 years of black history in Anne Arundel County »
The reconstruction took about a month, including figuring out how the man would have been dressed.
Grant depicted the man with a pipe in his mouth in accordance with spaces in his teeth that show where he regularly held a clay pipe. It's shown in the exact angle of how he smoked and held it, Grant said.
The reconstruction isn't perfect, Schablitsky said. Details like scars or the way the man held his facial expressions can't be determined, and there's no way to know how he wore his hair, but this is as close as people in the current day may ever get to seeing him, she said.
Schablitsky had Grant draw the man in a collared shirt and waistcoat with the style matching his era down to the button design.
"We could tell that based on his bones he was a laborer, someone who did manual work," Schablitsky said. "We didn't want to dress him up too fancy, but we wanted to give him something that reflected his work or his trade."
Everyday archaeology uncovers broken bits of 19th-century Annapolis »
They know what the man looks like now but still don't know who he is. Schablitsky sent DNA samples from the skeleton to be tested at a lab in Florida, where it is still undetermined if there is enough DNA to match him with living descendants.
The bones will return to Annapolis from Schablitsky's lab on Nov. 1 to be interred at St. Anne's cemetery with relatives of Smith Price. The remittance ceremony coincides with Maryland Emancipation Day and All Saints' Day.
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"For me, this is so personal, so deep. I've been with this man since the beginning," Hayes-Williams said. "This history is telling itself. ... It's a resurgence of African American history."


Smudges all over your gadget's touchscreen? Maybe the fingerprint trail for the latest, must-have game you are addicted to lies on your screen? Regularly cleaning your cell phone, tablet, MP3 player's touchscreen, or any other touch screen device is essential for its upkeep and longevity. Learn how to wipe away those smudges with ease and how to avoid doing things your touchscreen would not appreciate.
The cost of such cloth varies. For cloth recommended by companies for their products, the price can be considerably higher simply because of the recommendation. Look around for a good deal on such cloth or substitute with a cheaper but still effective microfiber cloth.
Give the screen a once over by brushing it with the microfiber in small circles. This will remove the majority of simple imperfections.
Read the instructions accompanying the cloth you're using. Some of them need to be made slightly damp before use. If this is the case, skip this step and follow the cloth's instructions instead.
If dampening a cloth, it is best to use distilled water or a cleaner specifically designed for cleaning touch screens.
Brush again with the microfiber cloth to finish off. Don't over-rub though! And if there is any dampness left, just leave it to air dry.
Do not put too much pressure on the screen when cleaning it.
Wash the microfiber cloth. To wash the microfiber cloth, soak it in warm, soapy water. The warm water serves to open the fibers and release the grime that may have gathered. Scrub the cloth lightly while soaking it (not too hard or you will damage the cloth). After soaking, avoid squeezing out any excess water, let the cloth out to air dry. If you're in a hurry, you may want to blow dry it. Do not wash any screens with the cloth until dry (or lightly damp) to the touch.
I can't use a microfiber cloth because I don't have any and my mom already went to the store, so what's another technique I can use without having to go to the store?
If you do not have a microfiber cloth and the cleaning can't wait, a cotton cloth or corner of a shirt will do.
Could a microfiber cloth damage the screen?
No, microfibre cloths are designed to not leave marks or scratches on surfaces such as glass or plastic.
Can I use lens cleaner?
Yes, you may. It should work just fine.
I clean my touch screen with water and a microfiber cloth. Is this OK?
Yes, just make sure you don't use too much water.
My partner has sneezed all over the touch screen on my computer. How do I clean it off?
Use a makeup remover wipe but make sure you make it dry by squeezing it and then just wipe. Screen cleaner can be used with a tissue. Dispose of all wipes/tissues used and wash your hands to remove germs.
What kind of substances can I use on a cloth to clean my iPhone screen?
You can use a small amount of alcohol or hand sanitizer gel.
Will alcohol damage a touch screen?
No, it will not damage the screen.
Can I use IPA spray for my phone?
Yes, spray a little on a cloth and then gently wipe down the screen. Never spray anything directly onto the screen.
I cleaned my phone surface with water instead of alcohol gel, and now I can't swipe anything or tap on anything. How do I fix this?
Buy a screen replacement on Amazon (don't worry -- they're very cheap). Then find a tutorial on YouTube for your phone type. Clean any water up if it isn't dry already.
I am told never to use paper towels in some videos, and I read/see to use them in others. Which is correct?
If you are trying to clean dust off, use a glasses wipe. If you are trying to get finger marks and grime off, you may use a paper towel to scrub off and use a glasses wipe to dry.
How do you fix a damaged DS screen?
Microfiber is stuck on my screen and bubbles up. It looks bad, what can I do?
What should I do besides clean a second hand iPod I bought?
Can I clean my phone, which is not waterproof with blue alcohol?
Is it true that you can douse a cloth with mentholated spirit to clean a screen if the phone is freezing?
Make sure your device is off before you start cleaning the screen.
If you want to further protect you device you can buy a scratch guard, also known as a screen guard. It is a layer of film that protects the screen from the scratches that occur from everyday use.
Keep the touchscreen cleaning cloth in good, clean condition. Wash regularly to remove buildup of grime from the screen.
Isopropyl alcohol is best for cleaning screens, either TV's computers or mobile phones.Leaves no trace or marks. This can be bought from any chemist. It is what they use when shipping new computers.
Never use the spit and rub cleaning method. It will only create grime on your screen that you will have to clean later.
Don't press too hard on the screen when cleaning or you might damage the display.
Never use anything containing ammonia to clean the touchscreen with unless the manufacturer has specifically stated a product. Ammonia can damage the screen.
Avoid using anything that is abrasive when cleaning a touchscreen.
Never use paper towels or tissue paper. They contain wood fibers that will scratch any plastic surface. You may not see the scratches the first time, but over time your screen will look like you used very fine steel wool to clean it which will leaving it looking dull and somewhat fuzzy.
Avoid spraying liquid or water direct on the screen; there is a risk of liquid leaking into the device and damaging it. Instead, always spray the liquid onto the microfiber, squeeze to remove any excess liquid, and then wipe.
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2011.01.31: The central IPv4 pool is gone.
2010.06.29: T-Mobile is pushing IPv6. Hard.
2008.11.20: .edu gets IPv6 glue!
2008.11.11: What's the matter with Kansas?
2008.07.13: C'mon, Apple. Give me IPv6 on the iPhone.
2008.03.11: Wither the IPv6 internet? I think not.
2007.12.24: ICANN and IPv6 "leadership"
2007.12.20: He didn't even know he was using IPv6!
2007.11.30: My first IPv6 problem!


This Paper Plate Bird Craft using Torn Crepe Paper Strengthen fine motor skills with tearing paper for a cute spring craft for kids.
Birds and animals are a child's favorite topic. There are so many ways to learn about them: from colorful crafts to books to interesting videos. I believe kids grasp even complex details when they are intertwined with fun and play.
This colorful Bird Craft is a great lesson for those times when you need a quiet art activity. Tearing and gluing small bits of paper may seem like a potentially frustrating activity for a 7-year-old, but every time I do this craft with kids, I'm always surprised with the deliberate nature in which the kids apply their "feathers".
If you have been following my work, you'd know by now that paper plates have more uses than one. Set your imagination free with these fabulous paper plate craft ideas.
Practice – Scissor Cutting Skills, Pincer Grip to tear & glue, Composition & Texture Art.
Cut the paper plate in half. We used an 8-inch normal paper plate. If you are using a bigger paper plate, remember to cut out bigger crepe paper scraps.
Tear up the crepe paper (use as many different colored papers as possible) into tiny bits using a child-safe scissor or your hand and paste them on the paper plate using a glue stick. Start from one end layering paper as you move forward. TIP – Apply glue on the paper plate instead of on the paper scraps. Will help with kids who hate sticky fingers.
Using a scissor, trim along all the edges.
Ask kids to measure crepe ribbons as long as the bird. Teaches them about non-standard length and measurement. Now, staple together the bunch of crepe ribbons (again use a variety for a more colorful effect); this will form the tail feathers..
For the beak, cut the foam paper into a triangle. Stick it in place. Now, stick the googly eyes. Finally, secure the tail to the other end of the body.
Fasten the bird to a tree twig with the help of a scotch tape.
Your beautiful parakeet is ready to chirp and tweet!
Looking for more such fun ideas for your little one? Do check out the ultimate list of 100 craft ideas for toddlers and preschoolers.
Paper Plate Bird Craft using Torn Crepe Paper is looking very nice.
i like the bird craft. Especial the tail. So colourful.. Never thought the octopus to be so creative.


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Could the Galaxy A7 (2017) be getting its Android Pie update soon?
There was little hope for the Galaxy A7 (2017) Android Pie update. That's because this device has already received two major OS updates since it was launched with Marshmallow out of the box. It got Android 7.0 Nougat in 2017 and Android 8.0 Oreo in 2018. That should have been it but there's something which might give some hope to Galaxy A7 (2017) owners.
The Wi-Fi Alliance has certified a Galaxy A7 (2017) running Android 9.0 Pie. It's out of the ordinary since this doesn't happen for phones that have received the two major OS updates that they're entitled to. Could it really be getting a third major update?
Galaxy A7 (2017) certified with Android 9.0 Pie
Certifications from the Wi-FI Alliance are normally a good indication of impending updates. They usually surface a couple of weeks before the update itself is rolled out. This should, at least in theory, mean that the Galaxy A7 (2017) bearing model number SM-A720F will be getting Android 9 Pie soon.
There may be more here than meets the eye. Some of you might remember that a similar certification was spotted for the Galaxy S7 two months ago. The listing was later amended but for a hot minute, it seemed like the Wi-Fi Alliance had certified a Galaxy S7 with Android 9 Pie. We all know that there's a slim chance of that device getting a third major update despite the fact that it's a former flagship.
There was a logical explanation for that listing which hinted at an internal mixup. The Galaxy S7 with model number SM-G930F was listed with Android Pie and soon retracted. The SM-G390F, the model number for the Galaxy XCover 4, later surfaced with Pie merely hours after the Galaxy S7 certification was retracted. This suggested that there had perhaps been an oversight which had been addressed.
The same can't be said for this Galaxy A7 (2017) certification. There's no obvious contender here with which the model number has been mixed up. So either this is more than just a typo or there really is an official Android Pie build for this device. I'm sure those who own this device will be keeping their fingers crossed for the latter.
We'll keep an eye out just in case and will update if there's more evidence about the Galaxy A7 (2017) Android Pie update, no matter how unlikely it seems.
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