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All the chatter on the message boards during the outage slowly got around to the subject of switching to Linux; there is no way such a thing could ever happen to Linux users. This is not what Microsoft wants to read, especially on its own forums. The Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) plan became a genuine disadvantage over the weekend when the server that verified users went down and began to disable operating systems around the world.
A hacker attack on the WGA servers could shut down literally millions of machines whose users stupidly subscribed to this supposed “advantage,” which does little more than look for pirated copies of the OS. If this WGA were designed right in the first place, the computers that found the server inoperative when they checked in to it should have internal code that validates their OS until the server comes back up. Maybe it is too hard for Microsoft’s 20,000 coders to manage this sort of thing. Too logical.
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It is a battery that looks like a piece of paper and can be bent or twisted, trimmed with scissors or molded into any shape needed. While the battery is only a prototype a few inches (centimeters) square right now, U.S. researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute who developed it have high hopes for it in electronics and other fields that need smaller, lighter power sources. The battery uses paper infused with an electrolyte and carbon nanotubes that are embedded in the paper. The carbon nanotubes form the electrodes, the paper is the separator and the electrolyte allows the current to flow.

Some students were working on methods to dissolve paper and cast it into membranes for use in dialysis machines. Meanwhile, other students in RPI’s materials science department were trying to make carbon nanotube composites using polymers. The two groups got together and realized they could use paper instead of polymers and combine the two projects. Then came another group of students, also at RPI, who said the project — a thin sheet black on one side and white on the other — looked like an electrical device. And over a period of about 18 months, the groups developed the projects, into a battery, a capacitor and a combination of the two.

This collaborative effort involved the Rensselaer departments of Materials Science and Engineering, Chemical and Biological Engineering, the Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies, and the Rensselaer Nanotechnology Center.

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So-called ‘second generation’ biofuels – made from lignocellulosic feedstocks like straw, grasses and wood – have long been touted as the successor to today’s grain ethanol, but until now the technology has been considered too expensive to compete. However, recent increases in grain prices mean that production costs are now similar for grain ethanol and second generation biofuels, according to an open access paper [http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/114801267/PDFSTART] published in the first edition of Biofuels, Bioproducts & Biorefining – a scientific journal launched to explore the emerging bioeconomy.

The switch to second generation biofuels based on biochemical and thermochemical conversion processes will reduce competition with grain for food and feed, and allow the utilization of materials like straw which would otherwise go to waste. The biorefineries will also be able to use dedicated lignocellulosic energy crops: short-rotation trees like poplar, eucalyptus or willow, and grass species such as miscanthus, switchgrass or sudan grass, which can be grown on land less suitable for farming than traditional row crops.

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The typical Western diet may be more than just hazardous to the health of patients treated for colon cancer. New research suggests it may be deadly. Former patients in the study who ate the most red and processed meats, refined grains, fats, and sugars were about three times as likely to die or have their cancers recur as patients who ate these foods the least.

While there is no shortage of evidence linking the so-called Western diet to an increased risk for developing colon cancer, the study is among the first to examine the impact of such a diet on survival among patients treated for the disease.

The findings must be confirmed, but Dana-Farber Cancer Center oncologist Jeffrey Meyerhardt, MD, a researcher on the team, says they cannot be ignored by colon cancer patients or their physicians. The study appears in the Aug. 15 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

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“Come, follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will make you fishers of men.” — Matthew 4:19 & Mark 1:17

The Washington Career Fellowship is being organized to serve as a comprehensive net. Ours is a program of attraction; conducted as an objective lure for the broadest possible yield. Accordingly, and for purposes of Spiritual instruction, this way of thinking extends the Fishers of Men parable to include what every fisher should know about attracting fish. As this is so very important, I have included a brief treatment on how such a program of attraction works when we are operating in the natural world. And I am praying that our Promised Helper will show you how this knowledge can be applied to things Spiritual.

The earliest treatise on fly fishing is that of Aelian. In his seventeen volumes of Natural History, probably written about 200 A.D., Aelian mixes personal observation with fact, legend and fancy drawn from earlier authors. On the finer points of fishing, he had this to say:

These flies seek their food over the river, but do not escape the observation of the fish swimming below. When then the fish observes a fly on the surface, it swims quietly up, afraid to stir the water above, lest it should scare away its prey; then coming up by its shadow, it opens its mouth gently and gulps down the fly, like a wolf carrying off a sheep from the fold or an eagle a goose from the farmyard; having done this it goes below the rippling water.
Now though the fishermen know this, they do not use these flies at all for bait for fish; for if a man’s hand touch them, they lose their natural colour, their wings wither, and they become unfit food for the fish. For this reason they have nothing to do with them, hating them for their bad character; but they have planned a snare for the fish, and get the better of them by their fisherman’s craft.
They fasten red (crimson red) wool around a hook, and fix onto the wool two feathers which grow under a cock’s wattles, and which in colour are like wax. Their rod is six feet long, and their line is the same length. Then they throw their snare, and the fish, attracted and maddened by the colour, comes straight at it, thinking from the pretty sight to gain a dainty mouthful . . .

While we recognize that there is a certain allure to all things flashy, in our community of fish there is also a profound need for augmenting the offerings of a secular world. For implicit to the concept of secularism is a lack of balance and symmetry. In contrast to the incomplete and immature world view of a secularist society, the real world consists of things, meanings and values. These components of total reality give rise to the primary intellectual disciplines of science, philosophy and religion.

Our approach is holistic. Our task is to develop a program of attraction that will strike the best balance between what is naturally appealing and spiritually edifying. The most effective lure will not be overtly religious if our mission is to reach a person that does not necessarily perceive the value. People have a need for outings that are not budget busters. They crave opportunities for socialization that are non-threatening. Everyone can improve their quality of life by adding some fun.

The Creator, Controller and Upholder of all things is certainly mindful of the great incentives for living. Our aim is to help augment and enhance the spiritual aspects of living and, through our fellowship, to address these most basic human needs in a way that is consistent with and inspired by the teachings of Jesus.

– Written by Robert H. Kalk on 8/14/2007 for the Washington Career Fellowship

??? . . . .What is a Gambit?

Calculated Move: A maneuver, stratagem, or ploy, especially one used at an initial stage. Any scheme by which one seeks to gain an advantage. Gambit is well established in the general sense of “maneuver” and in the related sense of “a remark intended to open a conversation,” which usually carries no implication of sacrifice.

Talking Points: A remark made to open or redirect a conversation. Talk intended to start a conversation or make a telling point thereby securing an advantage for the speaker.

Chess: A chess move early in the game in which the player sacrifices minor pieces in order to obtain an advantageous position. A chess opening in which a player risks one or more pieces. Applied to chess openings in Spain in 1561 by Ruy Lopez, who traced it to the Italian word, but the form in Spanish was generally gambito which led to French gambit, which has influenced the English spelling of the word. Broader sense of “opening move meant to gain advantage” is first recorded in Eng. 1855.
There are three general methods in which a gambit can help a player’s position. For a gambit to be sound it will typically have some degree of at least two of the following:
* Gain of Time: the player accepting the gambit must take time to procure the sacrificed material and possibly must use more time to reorganize his pieces after the material is taken.
* Generation of differential activity: Often a player accepting a gambit will decentralize his pieces or pawns and his poorly placed pieces will allow the gambiteer to place his own pieces and pawns on squares that may otherwise have been inaccessible. In addition, bishops and rooks can become more active simply because the loss of pawns often gives rise to open files and diagonals. Former world champion Mikhail Tal, one of the most extraordinary attacking players of the 20th century, once said that he had sacrificed a pawn just because “it was in his way.”
* Generation of positional weaknesses: Finally, accepting a gambit may lead to a compromised pawn structure, holes or other positional deficiencies.

Etymology: Ultimately from Spanish gambito, from Italian gambetto, act of tripping someone up in wrestling, from gamba, leg, from Old Italian; see gambol. Italian gambetto, literally, act of tripping someone, from gamba leg, from Late Latin gamba, camba, from Greek kampE bend; probably akin to Gothic hamfs maimed, Lithuanian kampas corner. [Origin: 1650–60; < F < Sp gambito or It gambetto (akin to OF gambet, jambet), equiv. to gamb(a) leg + -etta -et]

First the lions attack the little buffalo. Then the crocodile tries to take the buffalo away from the lions. Then all the big buffalo come back to rescue their little buffalo buddy. It’s good to know there’s strength in numbers and that family comes through, eventually.

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