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Celebrity Measurements - World-of-Newave.info http://answers.world-of-newave.info/celebrity-measurements.htm Latest news and articles about Celebrity Measurements en-us Copyright (c)2004-2008.§/Newave SARL. All rights reserved. webmaster@world-of-newave.com (Webmaster) Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:56:38 GMT Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:56:38 GMT Newave Lisa XML Engine v1.0 - http://www.world-of-newave.info/about.htm 60 http://www.world-of-newave.info/images/wi8831.gif World-of-Newave.info - Knowledge and Informational Database http://www.world-of-newave.info/ 88 31 {KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT > ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS} - Importance of Mounting in Ultrasound http://articles.world-of-newave.info/reference/knowledge-management/knowledge-creation/problem-solving/root-cause-analysis/importance-of-mounting-in-ultrasound-20080840323.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/reference/knowledge-management/knowledge-creation/problem-solving/root-cause-analysis/importance-of-mounting-in-ultrasound-20080840323.htm Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:06:51 GMT Posted at MaintenanceForums.com Why is sensor mounting not critical (i.e. the use of magnets and contact probes) for ultrasound (high-frequency measurement) when it is so important for vibration measurements? Read replies and post your own comments Maintenancetalk.Com Importance of Mounting in Ultrasound ^{{new window}} Maintenancetalk.Com - Posted at MaintenanceForums.com Why is sensor mounting not critical (i.e. the use of magnets and contact probes) for ultrasound (high-frequency measurement) when it is so important for vibration measurements? Read replies and post your own comments

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]]> Reference > Knowledge Management > Knowledge Creation > Problem Solving > Root Cause Analysis {LITERATURE > CYBERPUNK} - Virtual actor looks eerily lifelike http://articles.world-of-newave.info/arts/literature/genres/cyberpunk/virtual-actor-looks-eerily-lifelike-20080829627.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/arts/literature/genres/cyberpunk/virtual-actor-looks-eerily-lifelike-20080829627.htm Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:53:28 GMT The person in this video looks real, but she isn't. She's a digital replica of the actress Emily O'Brien created by Image Metrics and Paul Debevec at the University of Southern California's Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT). They demonstrated the high-definition animated face at this month's SIGGRAPH 2008 conference. From the press release: ICT employed its high-resolution face scanning process to capture O'Brien in 35 facial poses directed by Image Metrics. This newest process from the ICT Graphics Lab places the actor inside a sphere of LED lights, illuminating the talent with a set of polarized spherical gradient illumination patterns while a pair of high-resolution digital cameras takes around 15 photographs in under three seconds. These patterns allow the shine of the skin to be photographed independently from the main skin tone so that precise colors and characteristics can be calculated at hundreds of measurements per square millimeter. The resulting CG models provide unprecedented detail of natural facial expressions - down to skin pores and fine wrinkles - with perfectly aligned shading information that allows photo-real faces to be rendered under any illumination and viewpoint with standard rendering packages. The Emily Project video, Image Metrics press release (Thanks, Tara McGinley!) Previously on BB: ? Computational photography... Boingboing.Net Virtual actor looks eerily lifelike ^{{new window}} Www.Boingboing.Net - The person in this video looks real, but she isn't. She's a digital replica of the actress Emily O'Brien created by Image Metrics and Paul Debevec at the University of Southern California's Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT). They demonstrated the high-definition animated face at this month's SIGGRAPH 2008 conference. From the press release: ICT employed its high-resolution face scanning process to capture O'Brien in 35 facial poses directed by Image Metrics. This newest process from the ICT Graphics Lab places the actor inside a sphere of LED lights, illuminating the talent with a set of polarized spherical gradient illumination patterns while a pair of high-resolution digital cameras takes around 15 photographs in under three seconds. These patterns allow the shine of the skin to be photographed independently from the main skin tone so that precise colors and characteristics can be calculated at hundreds of measurements per square millimeter. The resulting CG models provide unprecedented detail of natural facial expressions - down to skin pores and fine wrinkles - with perfectly aligned shading information that allows photo-real faces to be rendered under any illumination and viewpoint with standard rendering packages. The Emily Project video, Image Metrics press release (Thanks, Tara McGinley!) Previously on BB: ? Computational photography...

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]]> Arts > Literature > Genres > Cyberpunk {NEWS > BREAKING NEWS} - How the Soviets Drilled the Deepest Hole in the World http://articles.world-of-newave.info/news/breaking-news/how-the-soviets-drilled-the-deepest-hole-in-the-world-20080829133.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/news/breaking-news/how-the-soviets-drilled-the-deepest-hole-in-the-world-20080829133.htm Mon, 25 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT : In the Cold War '60s, as the space race heated up, another race began: to the center of the earth. Well, perhaps the Soviets and Americans couldn't drill quite that deep, but they could try to get to the so-called Moho, more formally the Mohorovicic Discontinuity, the theorized but much-disputed boundary between the mostly solid crust and the magma-filled mantle. After the launch of an American drilling program to reach the boundary, the Russians joined the race to drill the deepest hole in the world. "Between 1960 and 1962, the combination of economic interest and national pride during the Space Race period inspired scientists of the Soviet Union to plan drilling a "Russian Mohole" whose objective was to reach the Mohorovicic Discontinuity before the American drilling program," Dean Dunn writing in the book, Science of the Earth. The original goal was soon subsumed by the desire to learn more about how valuable ores formed, so the hopes of the Russian effort eventually landed in the middle-of-nowhere mining region, Pachenga. There, the Soviets drilled the deepest hole in the history of the world, more than 7 miles deep. At the Kola Institute, pictured, the Russians drilled for more than 15 years to reach a crust depth of 40,226 feet, a record that's never been broken. But however successful the mission was as an exploration, the geological findings from the site remain murky and obscured by the way they emanated out of the fading Soviet scientific machine. Stanford geologist and drilling expert, Mark Zoback, said that the Kola borehole was "an anomaly" even within the rather grandiose field of superdeep drilling projects. Photo: Kola Institute: The process for drilling a borehole is conceptually simple. A rotary drill bit, like this one, is placed into a shaft. When it reaches the bottom, a powerful motor destroys the bottom of the hole and the hole grows deeper. Fluids are circulated into and out of the hole to cool the drill and maintain the stability of the borehole. When a bit is worn out, it's swapped out. Though the basics are well-known, superdeep drilling is a difficult enterprise. The Soviets encountered a host of technical problems drilling so deep into the earth's surface. Foremost is the high heat that deep in the crust. The Kola engineers, working with limited resources, came up with cooling processes and dozens of special bits that could work at temperatures of over 600 degrees Fahrenheit. Photo: Kola Institute: The Soviet drilling program began in the early '60s and continued all the way through the slow dissolution of the USSR. But the geopolitical circumstances of the day have kept much of the work shrouded in mystery. Despite the publication of a now out-of-print and hard-to-obtain book, The Superdeep Well of the Kola Peninsula, edited by Yevgeny Kozlovsky, a Soviet minister of geology, little of the project's data has ever made it out of Russia. Photo: Kola Institute: The workers of Kola, like those pictured here with a piece of the drill, also had to live in the remote region. In fact, a sort of company town sprung up around the superdeep hole. As described in the Kozlovsky-edited tome: "Sanitary facilities and shower rooms, a first-aid station, a canteen to cater for staff day and night, a meeting hall and rooms for preventative medical aid provide normal living conditions for the operating personnel of the rig." Photo: Kola Institute: Here we see the Kola Institute's technological control room. The computers you see were the hub for data coming up from miles below. As computer technology advanced and the drilling became more complex, the Soviets began to monitor dozens of data points ranging from simple depth measures to a variety of measures for how hard the drill was working. Photo: Kola Institute: While drilling programs were being conducted across the globe -- notably in Germany -- the Soviet team created their own custom tools, like these alloy drill pipes. Because they were literally boring to unseen depths, the method they usually employed was trial and error. That goes a long way toward explaining how unusually long the project took. Still, Kozlovksy bragged, "The complex scientific-technological experiment of the Kola superdeep drilling was accomplished solely by Soviet technology and technique." Photo: Kola Institute: The deep drilling programs were part of a concerted effort by some geologists to get funding for the large-scale facilities, like Kola's Byzantine machinery, that were delivering such spectacular results for astronomers. As recorded in the book, Super-Deep Continental Drilling and Deep Geophysical Sounding, Karl Fuchs made the space analogy explicit in his opening remarks to a conference on Kola and superdeep drilling. "Earth science have [sic] a telescope: deep drilling and deep geophysical probing!" Fuchs said. "Are we dedicated enough to use this telescope to go beyond our present limitations, to reach for new frontiers of the earth sciences." Photo: Kola Institute: Kola's engineers could swap out drill bits depending on the type of rocks they were trying to move through. They describe a dozen types of core heads such as the KC-212.7/60 TKZ-NU, which "is designed for low rpm drilling in hard rock interbedded with extremely hard rocks." Most of the bits had four roller-cones, like this one, while some had six. Photo: Kola Institute: Even though drilling deeper became impossible, the Kola well remains open and structurally intact. Rocks from the hole -- known as cores -- are even still stored at the institute. Instruments still take seismic and other measurements, but state resources have ebbed away from the institute to other geologists who have helped build Russia's oil and gas production. The country now produces about 9.7 million barrels of oil a day, up from 6.1 million back in 1998. Photo: Kola Institute: The Kola borehole produced a wealth of seismic measurements, cores from deep within the Earth, and intriguing results that there might be liquid water in the depths of the earth. Yet for all the effort and years of drilling, modern American and European geologists don't often reference or use Kola data, preferring the more tightly regulated information generated by Germany's KTB deep-coring program. Findings from Kola were just never systematically presented enough for Western scientists. It raises the question: Why put all that effort in to ultimately produce little of value to global science? Zoback, the Stanford geologist, said Kola's goals weren't as defined as those of some other projects, perhaps because the project was more about the triumph of just doing than about a particular scientific objective. "You have to acknowledge the fact that it may have been the sense of discovery, the idea that they might discover something [that drove them]," he said. Or maybe, as the old minister of geology, Kozlovsky, explained in the introduction to the book on Kola, perhaps geology was just a Russian thing. "The Soviet Union has always been more consistent in carrying out large-scale studies of the structure and regularities of the evolution of the continental crust than other countries," he wrote. "This is a deeply rooted tradition in our country, and it is still very much alive." Photo: Kola Institute Wired.Com How the Soviets Drilled the Deepest Hole in the World ^{{new window}} Www.Wired.Com - : In the Cold War '60s, as the space race heated up, another race began: to the center of the earth. Well, perhaps the Soviets and Americans couldn't drill quite that deep, but they could try to get to the so-called Moho, more formally the Mohorovicic Discontinuity, the theorized but much-disputed boundary between the mostly solid crust and the magma-filled mantle. After the launch of an American drilling program to reach the boundary, the Russians joined the race to drill the deepest hole in the world. "Between 1960 and 1962, the combination of economic interest and national pride during the Space Race period inspired scientists of the Soviet Union to plan drilling a "Russian Mohole" whose objective was to reach the Mohorovicic Discontinuity before the American drilling program," Dean Dunn writing in the book, Science of the Earth. The original goal was soon subsumed by the desire to learn more about how valuable ores formed, so the hopes of the Russian effort eventually landed in the middle-of-nowhere mining region, Pachenga. There, the Soviets drilled the deepest hole in the history of the world, more than 7 miles deep. At the Kola Institute, pictured, the Russians drilled for more than 15 years to reach a crust depth of 40,226 feet, a record that's never been broken. But however successful the mission was as an exploration, the geological findings from the site remain murky and obscured by the way they emanated out of the fading Soviet scientific machine. Stanford geologist and drilling expert, Mark Zoback, said that the Kola borehole was "an anomaly" even within the rather grandiose field of superdeep drilling projects. Photo: Kola Institute: The process for drilling a borehole is conceptually simple. A rotary drill bit, like this one, is placed into a shaft. When it reaches the bottom, a powerful motor destroys the bottom of the hole and the hole grows deeper. Fluids are circulated into and out of the hole to cool the drill and maintain the stability of the borehole. When a bit is worn out, it's swapped out. Though the basics are well-known, superdeep drilling is a difficult enterprise. The Soviets encountered a host of technical problems drilling so deep into the earth's surface. Foremost is the high heat that deep in the crust. The Kola engineers, working with limited resources, came up with cooling processes and dozens of special bits that could work at temperatures of over 600 degrees Fahrenheit. Photo: Kola Institute: The Soviet drilling program began in the early '60s and continued all the way through the slow dissolution of the USSR. But the geopolitical circumstances of the day have kept much of the work shrouded in mystery. Despite the publication of a now out-of-print and hard-to-obtain book, The Superdeep Well of the Kola Peninsula, edited by Yevgeny Kozlovsky, a Soviet minister of geology, little of the project's data has ever made it out of Russia. Photo: Kola Institute: The workers of Kola, like those pictured here with a piece of the drill, also had to live in the remote region. In fact, a sort of company town sprung up around the superdeep hole. As described in the Kozlovsky-edited tome: "Sanitary facilities and shower rooms, a first-aid station, a canteen to cater for staff day and night, a meeting hall and rooms for preventative medical aid provide normal living conditions for the operating personnel of the rig." Photo: Kola Institute: Here we see the Kola Institute's technological control room. The computers you see were the hub for data coming up from miles below. As computer technology advanced and the drilling became more complex, the Soviets began to monitor dozens of data points ranging from simple depth measures to a variety of measures for how hard the drill was working. Photo: Kola Institute: While drilling programs were being conducted across the globe -- notably in Germany -- the Soviet team created their own custom tools, like these alloy drill pipes. Because they were literally boring to unseen depths, the method they usually employed was trial and error. That goes a long way toward explaining how unusually long the project took. Still, Kozlovksy bragged, "The complex scientific-technological experiment of the Kola superdeep drilling was accomplished solely by Soviet technology and technique." Photo: Kola Institute: The deep drilling programs were part of a concerted effort by some geologists to get funding for the large-scale facilities, like Kola's Byzantine machinery, that were delivering such spectacular results for astronomers. As recorded in the book, Super-Deep Continental Drilling and Deep Geophysical Sounding, Karl Fuchs made the space analogy explicit in his opening remarks to a conference on Kola and superdeep drilling. "Earth science have [sic] a telescope: deep drilling and deep geophysical probing!" Fuchs said. "Are we dedicated enough to use this telescope to go beyond our present limitations, to reach for new frontiers of the earth sciences." Photo: Kola Institute: Kola's engineers could swap out drill bits depending on the type of rocks they were trying to move through. They describe a dozen types of core heads such as the KC-212.7/60 TKZ-NU, which "is designed for low rpm drilling in hard rock interbedded with extremely hard rocks." Most of the bits had four roller-cones, like this one, while some had six. Photo: Kola Institute: Even though drilling deeper became impossible, the Kola well remains open and structurally intact. Rocks from the hole -- known as cores -- are even still stored at the institute. Instruments still take seismic and other measurements, but state resources have ebbed away from the institute to other geologists who have helped build Russia's oil and gas production. The country now produces about 9.7 million barrels of oil a day, up from 6.1 million back in 1998. Photo: Kola Institute: The Kola borehole produced a wealth of seismic measurements, cores from deep within the Earth, and intriguing results that there might be liquid water in the depths of the earth. Yet for all the effort and years of drilling, modern American and European geologists don't often reference or use Kola data, preferring the more tightly regulated information generated by Germany's KTB deep-coring program. Findings from Kola were just never systematically presented enough for Western scientists. It raises the question: Why put all that effort in to ultimately produce little of value to global science? Zoback, the Stanford geologist, said Kola's goals weren't as defined as those of some other projects, perhaps because the project was more about the triumph of just doing than about a particular scientific objective. "You have to acknowledge the fact that it may have been the sense of discovery, the idea that they might discover something [that drove them]," he said. Or maybe, as the old minister of geology, Kozlovsky, explained in the introduction to the book on Kola, perhaps geology was just a Russian thing. "The Soviet Union has always been more consistent in carrying out large-scale studies of the structure and regularities of the evolution of the continental crust than other countries," he wrote. "This is a deeply rooted tradition in our country, and it is still very much alive." Photo: Kola Institute

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]]> News > Breaking News {SCIENCE > NEWS} - Ship emissions: sizing up a big problem http://articles.world-of-newave.info/science/news/ship-emissions-sizing-up-a-big-problem-20080885422.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/science/news/ship-emissions-sizing-up-a-big-problem-20080885422.htm Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:51:10 GMT Those who go down to the sea in ships ? or go to see them in port ? may soon be able to breathe easier. Scientists have made the first measurements of ship emissions involving particles less than a millionth of a meter in size. They say it?s an important step in establishing and monitoring [...] Features.Csmonitor.Com Ship emissions: sizing up a big problem ^{{new window}} Features.Csmonitor.Com - Those who go down to the sea in ships ? or go to see them in port ? may soon be able to breathe easier. Scientists have made the first measurements of ship emissions involving particles less than a millionth of a meter in size. They say it?s an important step in establishing and monitoring [...]

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]]> Science > News {NORTH AMERICA > RENTALS} - September sublet! Sunny room in north Oakland Craftsman. (oakland north / temescal) $650 1bd http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/san-francisco-bay-area/business-and-economy/real-estate/rentals/september-sublet-sunny-room-in-north-oakland-craftsman-20080823314.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/san-francisco-bay-area/business-and-economy/real-estate/rentals/september-sublet-sunny-room-in-north-oakland-craftsman-20080823314.htm Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:40:15 GMT Hello, We have a lovely room for sublet in our comfy North Oakland/ Berkeley line Craftsman house. It is on a corner lot, so there is tons of sunlight. The living room has beautiful hardwood floors & a generous sized built in that is currently full of dishes, games & craft supplies. The large kitchen was recently remodeled & is fully stocked with new appliances & a vast array of cookware. The bathroom has a giant clawfoot tub, & a tile floor. We have outdoor areas on three sides of the house, the back has some lounge chairs, a medium sized container garden, a grill & a table with benches. It is great for hanging out & having bbq's. The house equi-distant to Ashby, MacArthur & Rockridge BART stations, the closest cross street is Shattuck. The bedroom for sublet is 11 x 12 & carpeted. There is one large west facing window, so there is lots of evening light. The closet is the largest in the house & not included in the measurements. We would like to sublet just for September, but depending on your situation October may be an option. Room is $650 plus utilities, usually around $60 per month (for Pg&e, water, & high-speed internet, no cable, no house phone). Refundable deposit is negotiable. While being a true Domestic God is not necessary, we ask that you be a functional and fun addition to our household! Be employed! Be respectful & used to sharing space and on the cleaner end of the spectrum! (One of us works from home and sometimes has clients in and out.) Current housemates: *Chilean college student/ Muralist / DJ/ Interior Designer. Lover of Hip Hop and music in general. *Nanny/Healing arts practitioner (Reiki & Flower Essences). Lover of kitchen experimenting and slow summer days. Answers to questions we have received so far: *Queer friendly. *Sorry, no more pets we have one cat. *One person only is preferred. *Tons of street parking. *420 fine, please no hard drugs. Drop me a line about yourself if this sounds like a good match & we will set something up! Thanks! Also, please include heading in the ad, because we have one other room up for a longer time period. Keywords: temporary, sublet, university, bike, BART, yard, garden, hardwood, older home, vintage, neighborhood, college student, professional, east bay, se habla espanol Sfbay.Craigslist.Org September sublet! Sunny room in north Oakland Craftsman. (oakland north / temescal) $650 1bd ^{{new window}} Sfbay.Craigslist.Org - Hello, We have a lovely room for sublet in our comfy North Oakland/ Berkeley line Craftsman house. It is on a corner lot, so there is tons of sunlight. The living room has beautiful hardwood floors & a generous sized built in that is currently full of dishes, games & craft supplies. The large kitchen was recently remodeled & is fully stocked with new appliances & a vast array of cookware. The bathroom has a giant clawfoot tub, & a tile floor. We have outdoor areas on three sides of the house, the back has some lounge chairs, a medium sized container garden, a grill & a table with benches. It is great for hanging out & having bbq's. The house equi-distant to Ashby, MacArthur & Rockridge BART stations, the closest cross street is Shattuck. The bedroom for sublet is 11 x 12 & carpeted. There is one large west facing window, so there is lots of evening light. The closet is the largest in the house & not included in the measurements. We would like to sublet just for September, but depending on your situation October may be an option. Room is $650 plus utilities, usually around $60 per month (for Pg&e, water, & high-speed internet, no cable, no house phone). Refundable deposit is negotiable. While being a true Domestic God is not necessary, we ask that you be a functional and fun addition to our household! Be employed! Be respectful & used to sharing space and on the cleaner end of the spectrum! (One of us works from home and sometimes has clients in and out.) Current housemates: *Chilean college student/ Muralist / DJ/ Interior Designer. Lover of Hip Hop and music in general. *Nanny/Healing arts practitioner (Reiki & Flower Essences). Lover of kitchen experimenting and slow summer days. Answers to questions we have received so far: *Queer friendly. *Sorry, no more pets we have one cat. *One person only is preferred. *Tons of street parking. *420 fine, please no hard drugs. Drop me a line about yourself if this sounds like a good match & we will set something up! Thanks! Also, please include heading in the ad, because we have one other room up for a longer time period. Keywords: temporary, sublet, university, bike, BART, yard, garden, hardwood, older home, vintage, neighborhood, college student, professional, east bay, se habla espanol

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]]> Regional > North America > United States > California > Metro Areas > San Francisco Bay Area > Business and Economy > Real Estate > Rentals {SCIENCE} - Milky Way keeps tight grip on its neighbour http://articles.world-of-newave.info/science/milky-way-keeps-tight-grip-on-its-neighbour-20080872724.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/science/milky-way-keeps-tight-grip-on-its-neighbour-20080872724.htm Sat, 16 Aug 2008 10:00:00 GMT The Large Magellanic Cloud is not breaking free of the Milky Way's cluster of galaxies after all, according to the latest measurements on our galaxy Space.Newscientist.Com Milky Way keeps tight grip on its neighbour ^{{new window}} Space.Newscientist.Com - The Large Magellanic Cloud is not breaking free of the Milky Way's cluster of galaxies after all, according to the latest measurements on our galaxy

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]]> Science {NORTH AMERICA > RENTALS} - 2 bedrooms for sublet Sept 1-Jan 1 in North Oakland Craftsman (north Oakland/ south Berkeley line) $1100 2bd http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/san-francisco-bay-area/business-and-economy/real-estate/rentals/2-bedrooms-for-sublet-sept-1-jan-1-in-north-oakland-20080865113.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/san-francisco-bay-area/business-and-economy/real-estate/rentals/2-bedrooms-for-sublet-sept-1-jan-1-in-north-oakland-20080865113.htm Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:27:54 GMT Hello, We have 2 lovely rooms for sublet in our comfy North Oakland/south Berkeley line Craftsman house. The House: Is on a corner lot, so there is tons of sunlight. The living room has beautiful hardwood floors & a generous sized built-in that is currently full of dishes, games & craft supplies. The large kitchen was recently remodeled & is fully stocked with new appliances & a vast array of cookware. The bathroom has a giant clawfoot tub, & a tile floor. We have outdoor areas on three sides of the house, the back has some lounge chairs, a medium sized container garden, a grill & a table with benches. It is great for hanging out & having bbq's. The house equi-distant to Ashby, MacArthur & Rockridge BART stations, the closest cross street is Shattuck. While being a true Domestic God is not necessary, we ask that you be a functional and fun addition to our household! Be employed! Be respectful & used to sharing space. Preferably you are on the cleaner end of the spectrum! (One of us works from home and sometimes has clients in and out.) Current Housemates: *Chilean college student/ Muralist / DJ/ Interior Designer. Lover of Hip Hop and music in general. *Nanny/Healing arts practitioner (Reiki & Flower Essences). Lover of kitchen experimenting and slow summer days. The Rooms: *One of the bedrooms for sublet is 11 x 12 & carpeted. There is one large west facing window, so there is lots of evening light. The closet is the largest in the house & not included in the measurements. *The 2nd room is larger, with a generous closet. I still need to get the measurements. This room is carpeted as well (only the bedrooms, the rest of the house is not carpeted). There are 2 large windows facing west & has tons of evening light. These rooms are opposite one another in a short hallway, with the shared bathroom in between. This set up seems ideal for a couple where both people want their own space, or an artist who needs more space for suplies/ art equipment, a professional that needs office space, etc. Rent on both rooms is $1,100 + utilities. (Singularly they are $550 & $580, but we are knocking off $40 to have them sublet together) Usual cost for monthly Utilities (if divided by 4): * $12 for water * $10 for internet * $30-75 for Pg&e depending on the month, cheaper in summer, more in winter (space heaters rack the bill up...) Answers to questions we have received so far: *Queer friendly. *Sorry, no more pets we have one cat. *Tons of street parking. *420 fine, please no hard drugs. *There is a dishwasher. The washing machine is broken now, hopefully it will get fixed soon though. Drop me a line about yourself if this sounds like a good match & we will set something up! Thanks! Sfbay.Craigslist.Org 2 bedrooms for sublet Sept 1-Jan 1 in North Oakland Craftsman (north Oakland/ south Berkeley line) $1100 2bd ^{{new window}} Sfbay.Craigslist.Org - Hello, We have 2 lovely rooms for sublet in our comfy North Oakland/south Berkeley line Craftsman house. The House: Is on a corner lot, so there is tons of sunlight. The living room has beautiful hardwood floors & a generous sized built-in that is currently full of dishes, games & craft supplies. The large kitchen was recently remodeled & is fully stocked with new appliances & a vast array of cookware. The bathroom has a giant clawfoot tub, & a tile floor. We have outdoor areas on three sides of the house, the back has some lounge chairs, a medium sized container garden, a grill & a table with benches. It is great for hanging out & having bbq's. The house equi-distant to Ashby, MacArthur & Rockridge BART stations, the closest cross street is Shattuck. While being a true Domestic God is not necessary, we ask that you be a functional and fun addition to our household! Be employed! Be respectful & used to sharing space. Preferably you are on the cleaner end of the spectrum! (One of us works from home and sometimes has clients in and out.) Current Housemates: *Chilean college student/ Muralist / DJ/ Interior Designer. Lover of Hip Hop and music in general. *Nanny/Healing arts practitioner (Reiki & Flower Essences). Lover of kitchen experimenting and slow summer days. The Rooms: *One of the bedrooms for sublet is 11 x 12 & carpeted. There is one large west facing window, so there is lots of evening light. The closet is the largest in the house & not included in the measurements. *The 2nd room is larger, with a generous closet. I still need to get the measurements. This room is carpeted as well (only the bedrooms, the rest of the house is not carpeted). There are 2 large windows facing west & has tons of evening light. These rooms are opposite one another in a short hallway, with the shared bathroom in between. This set up seems ideal for a couple where both people want their own space, or an artist who needs more space for suplies/ art equipment, a professional that needs office space, etc. Rent on both rooms is $1,100 + utilities. (Singularly they are $550 & $580, but we are knocking off $40 to have them sublet together) Usual cost for monthly Utilities (if divided by 4): * $12 for water * $10 for internet * $30-75 for Pg&e depending on the month, cheaper in summer, more in winter (space heaters rack the bill up...) Answers to questions we have received so far: *Queer friendly. *Sorry, no more pets we have one cat. *Tons of street parking. *420 fine, please no hard drugs. *There is a dishwasher. The washing machine is broken now, hopefully it will get fixed soon though. Drop me a line about yourself if this sounds like a good match & we will set something up! Thanks!

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]]> Regional > North America > United States > California > Metro Areas > San Francisco Bay Area > Business and Economy > Real Estate > Rentals {NORTH AMERICA > RENTALS} - Includes utilities as well as cable and wireless (sunnyvale) $720 http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/san-francisco-bay-area/business-and-economy/real-estate/rentals/includes-utilities-as-well-as-cable-and-wireless-20080827916.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/san-francisco-bay-area/business-and-economy/real-estate/rentals/includes-utilities-as-well-as-cable-and-wireless-20080827916.htm Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:22:16 GMT Yoou would live with two cool professionals (me being one of them) in a spacious 1500 SF 3 br/2 ba apt right in smack prime location, location, did I mention location? We have a good size deck. Holds two of Mark's bikes, and mine. Lots of plants to make the home feel homey. 5 min from downtown Mtn View, downtown Sunnyvale, 85, 101, 237, El Camino, and well, everything you need to live in this great place. Did I mention location? Safeway is about a mile away. 15 walk there if you are brave enough to venture past the El Camino. Just kidding. Mark and I are looking for a 3rd roommate. Your room has a spacious full wall to wall closet space. The measurements are 11x11, fits a queen size bed with good amount of room to spare. You will also have half of the hall closet (very spacious as well) and to top it all off, you would get your own assigned parking spot. So when you are coming home late at night, rest assured you will have parking! You would share the spacious bathroom with Mark. The bathroom has it's own separate tube/shower. The living room is huge, as I mentioned the entire apt is 1500sf. The common area is 21 x 15 feet. Mark is googlemeister, and he's 33 I think? He's at work most of the time...I guess if I worked there, I'd be there most of the time too, mainly for the cool fun environment the work offers. He's quiet and keeps mainly to himself. He doesn't cook, why would he considering he gets fed for free. I work for a local broker. I'm the younger one, 32, female. I'm hardly at home as well, between work, gym, and friend and family I don't have time for much else either. I like to cook (when I have time). Enjoy poker nights when I have time (hoping you enjoy it as well. I drink on occasion if there are get togethers at home (rare). I do have ocassional friends come over (in search of a free home cooked meal) and massages - which I do on the side) The apt complex has a good size heated pool, with built in 2 bbq pits. 4 washers/dryers in the complex. The office manager Sarah rocks! I can't say for most managers in a complex. There's also a common apt area which you can have parties at and there's a sauna there as well, with one treadmill, and elliptical. You: Male or female we don't care either way. We just would like you to be cool, considerate, friendly, pays bills on time, looking for long term commitment (staying within the apt that is) and in the same boat we are. We don't care if you smoke (outside), ocassional 420 is fine with me (Mark hasn't said anything - thank goodness) clean in the common areas. Would like you to be easy going like us, employed, and well, looking for the same thing we are! :-) We don't care if you have significant others staying on ocassion - I mean, if we're living in a home, and we want guests to stay over, we gotta be comfortable in our own home right? I can't believe ads that say no overnight guests - what are we, living with our parents all over again except paying rent? We're mature adults here, we just ask you do unto others how you want done unto you! Hoping to meet you and that you can: 1) move in by Sept 1, 2) pass a credit check and provide $35 to the landlord for the procedure and 3) pay $720 to the landlord prior to moving in and a security deposit of a mere $200 to the roommate moving out. 4) likes poker nights? - not required but don't mind that I have them? 5) lastly, well...gosh darn it, you just want to live with us! :-) our current roommate is moving out cause she wants to have a dog, unfortunately the apt complex won't allow dogs, and well, I don't think it's fair to make the dog cooped up in the house all day with no yard to play in. Oh yeah, about furniture. Mark has two couches right now, but if you're set in your furniture, he's willing to toss his out! We will have a 25" tv, but if you have an entertainment center, we're more than happy to upgrade to your stuff! Thanks for reading. Wish you luck in your search - but hoping you'd check out our apt to see if we match! Sfbay.Craigslist.Org Includes utilities as well as cable and wireless (sunnyvale) $720 ^{{new window}} Sfbay.Craigslist.Org - Yoou would live with two cool professionals (me being one of them) in a spacious 1500 SF 3 br/2 ba apt right in smack prime location, location, did I mention location? We have a good size deck. Holds two of Mark's bikes, and mine. Lots of plants to make the home feel homey. 5 min from downtown Mtn View, downtown Sunnyvale, 85, 101, 237, El Camino, and well, everything you need to live in this great place. Did I mention location? Safeway is about a mile away. 15 walk there if you are brave enough to venture past the El Camino. Just kidding. Mark and I are looking for a 3rd roommate. Your room has a spacious full wall to wall closet space. The measurements are 11x11, fits a queen size bed with good amount of room to spare. You will also have half of the hall closet (very spacious as well) and to top it all off, you would get your own assigned parking spot. So when you are coming home late at night, rest assured you will have parking! You would share the spacious bathroom with Mark. The bathroom has it's own separate tube/shower. The living room is huge, as I mentioned the entire apt is 1500sf. The common area is 21 x 15 feet. Mark is googlemeister, and he's 33 I think? He's at work most of the time...I guess if I worked there, I'd be there most of the time too, mainly for the cool fun environment the work offers. He's quiet and keeps mainly to himself. He doesn't cook, why would he considering he gets fed for free. I work for a local broker. I'm the younger one, 32, female. I'm hardly at home as well, between work, gym, and friend and family I don't have time for much else either. I like to cook (when I have time). Enjoy poker nights when I have time (hoping you enjoy it as well. I drink on occasion if there are get togethers at home (rare). I do have ocassional friends come over (in search of a free home cooked meal) and massages - which I do on the side) The apt complex has a good size heated pool, with built in 2 bbq pits. 4 washers/dryers in the complex. The office manager Sarah rocks! I can't say for most managers in a complex. There's also a common apt area which you can have parties at and there's a sauna there as well, with one treadmill, and elliptical. You: Male or female we don't care either way. We just would like you to be cool, considerate, friendly, pays bills on time, looking for long term commitment (staying within the apt that is) and in the same boat we are. We don't care if you smoke (outside), ocassional 420 is fine with me (Mark hasn't said anything - thank goodness) clean in the common areas. Would like you to be easy going like us, employed, and well, looking for the same thing we are! :-) We don't care if you have significant others staying on ocassion - I mean, if we're living in a home, and we want guests to stay over, we gotta be comfortable in our own home right? I can't believe ads that say no overnight guests - what are we, living with our parents all over again except paying rent? We're mature adults here, we just ask you do unto others how you want done unto you! Hoping to meet you and that you can: 1) move in by Sept 1, 2) pass a credit check and provide $35 to the landlord for the procedure and 3) pay $720 to the landlord prior to moving in and a security deposit of a mere $200 to the roommate moving out. 4) likes poker nights? - not required but don't mind that I have them? 5) lastly, well...gosh darn it, you just want to live with us! :-) our current roommate is moving out cause she wants to have a dog, unfortunately the apt complex won't allow dogs, and well, I don't think it's fair to make the dog cooped up in the house all day with no yard to play in. Oh yeah, about furniture. Mark has two couches right now, but if you're set in your furniture, he's willing to toss his out! We will have a 25" tv, but if you have an entertainment center, we're more than happy to upgrade to your stuff! Thanks for reading. Wish you luck in your search - but hoping you'd check out our apt to see if we match!

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]]> Regional > North America > United States > California > Metro Areas > San Francisco Bay Area > Business and Economy > Real Estate > Rentals {SCIENCE} - Satellites help explain Greenland ice loss mystery http://articles.world-of-newave.info/science/satellites-help-explain-greenland-ice-loss-mystery-2008082968.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/science/satellites-help-explain-greenland-ice-loss-mystery-2008082968.htm Sat, 09 Aug 2008 12:45:00 GMT A combination of satellite measurements shows that most of the island's ice is lost through many smaller glaciers, not two larger ones Environment.Newscientist.Com Satellites help explain Greenland ice loss mystery ^{{new window}} Environment.Newscientist.Com - A combination of satellite measurements shows that most of the island's ice is lost through many smaller glaciers, not two larger ones

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]]> Science {NEWS > BREAKING NEWS} - Doing Something About the Weather, Financially at Least http://articles.world-of-newave.info/news/breaking-news/doing-something-about-the-weather-financially-2008083573.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/news/breaking-news/doing-something-about-the-weather-financially-2008083573.htm Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:10:00 GMT News from Portfolio.com Also on Portfolio Good Show by Time Warner, but AOL Drags Money Talks on This iPhone Can Ben Stiller Cap Off Paramount's Summer? Subscribe to Portfolio magazine In past years, Pete Fisch used to cross his fingers, hoping it wouldn't rain during the annual golf tournament he manages in North Carolina. In 2005, it poured, costing the tournament tens of thousands of dollars in reduced ticket and concession sales. In 2006, the rain gods held off?and then last year, Fisch simply sat back and let come what may. That's because a new online service called WeatherBill enabled him to purchase a contract that paid off in case of heavy rain?hedging away his exposure to the weather. As it turned out, it did rain heavily last year. Fisch's tournament received a payout of close to $15,000 from WeatherBill. "We still took a loss of around $25,000 to $35,000, but it's better than the $50,000 we would have lost," Fisch says. As businesses contemplate losing massive amounts of money from events like droughts and hurricanes, WeatherBill hopes to carve out a market in the growing field of weather-related risk-management products, offering what are essentially weather futures contracts to companies with an internet-era twist. The contracts pay off automatically without any kind of claims process based on objective weather measurements like the inches of rain a given area receives. The company is the brainchild of David Friedberg, who had previously been the business product manager for Google's AdWords and a founding member of the company's corporate-development group, where he led the search giant's acquisitions of companies like Picasa, Urchin Software, and dMarc. Friedberg left Google to launch WeatherBill in 2006. The potential market for weather coverage is huge, since as much as 70 percent of American businesses are impacted by weather in some way. While the risks for companies like agricultural firms are obvious, businesses from movie theaters?which see ticket sales slump on sunny days?to transportation companies and clothing manufacturers are affected by the weather. It's estimated that $2 trillion to $3 trillion of the United States' nearly $14 trillion G.D.P. is weather-sensitive. Businesses have long bought insurance against weather-related damages; more recently, they have been able to buy weather futures contracts on exchanges like the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, but the offerings are largely linked to temperature and are unwieldy and expensive for smaller companies. WeatherBill takes a different approach, borrowing from AdWords' sophisticated, real-time auction engine for pricing keywords. Just as AdWords integrates the latest market changes on a continuous basis, the WeatherBill pricing engine correlates up-to-the-minute weather forecasts with trend data to assess a company's overall risk. Then it spits out a price based on all those factors, with all of this happening in a tenth of a second, and contracts can be purchased right up to the last minute since the latest weather information automatically gets incorporated into the pricing engine. "For weather coverage to be useful, you have to customize it," Friedberg says. "It's not like car insurance?you're a male between 20 and 40 in San Francisco, here's your price for car insurance." The end result is that more types of weather contracts are available and more businesses can afford it. When Fisch's golf tournament bought its rain contract in 2007, the cost was just under $1,000, according to Fisch. Like a typical insurance business model, WeatherBill's strategy is to sell against enough weather eventualities so that the events will essentially balance each other out. Insuring a soybean grower in Iowa against drought might be a money loser, for instance. But if the soybean grower is offset by the state's car washes, which do big business in dry weather, the risk is diversified. Not every customer has a precise counterpart, but a large mix of customers creates a diversified portfolio that, in turn, can bring down prices. "Our business has all sides of risk?we've got customers wanting rain, drought, heat waves, frost, no frost. We even have people who want hurricanes," says Friedberg. Since last year's launch, Friedberg says WeatherBill has signed policies with hundreds of customers, hedged hundreds of millions of dollars of risk, and brought in revenue "in the millions." A major deal was struck with Priceline recently, allowing the travel company to insure its users against rain on their vacations for no extra cost. (Priceline will refund the cost of a customer's trip if it rains heavily on more than half the days of their trip.) And the United States Tennis Association has announced it's buying a weather contract to hedge against weather-related losses at this year's U.S. Open, although it hasn't released details. The Commodities Futures Trading Commission, which regulates weather derivatives, currently limits WeatherBill's customers to accredited investors with a minimum net worth of $1 million as a way of limiting the influence of speculators. But Friedberg hopes to persuade the C.F.T.C. to change that requirement soon and eventually offer policies directly to individuals wishing to protect weddings, travel plans, and other events. As with businesses, premiums would shrink as more customers are integrated into the algorithm and the risk is balanced out. And Friedberg says that global warming and the volatile weather of the last few years set the right conditions for his business. "Citrus farmers will call us and say, 'We had four frost events last year. It was nuts. My crop was diminished by 15 to 20 percent,'" Friedberg says. "A lot of ski resorts were shut for much of 2006 and 2007 in the Northeast because it was really warm. They called us the next year. Our customers are definitely aware of climate change and its impact." Wired.Com Doing Something About the Weather, Financially at Least ^{{new window}} Www.Wired.Com - News from Portfolio.com Also on Portfolio Good Show by Time Warner, but AOL Drags Money Talks on This iPhone Can Ben Stiller Cap Off Paramount's Summer? Subscribe to Portfolio magazine In past years, Pete Fisch used to cross his fingers, hoping it wouldn't rain during the annual golf tournament he manages in North Carolina. In 2005, it poured, costing the tournament tens of thousands of dollars in reduced ticket and concession sales. In 2006, the rain gods held off?and then last year, Fisch simply sat back and let come what may. That's because a new online service called WeatherBill enabled him to purchase a contract that paid off in case of heavy rain?hedging away his exposure to the weather. As it turned out, it did rain heavily last year. Fisch's tournament received a payout of close to $15,000 from WeatherBill. "We still took a loss of around $25,000 to $35,000, but it's better than the $50,000 we would have lost," Fisch says. As businesses contemplate losing massive amounts of money from events like droughts and hurricanes, WeatherBill hopes to carve out a market in the growing field of weather-related risk-management products, offering what are essentially weather futures contracts to companies with an internet-era twist. The contracts pay off automatically without any kind of claims process based on objective weather measurements like the inches of rain a given area receives. The company is the brainchild of David Friedberg, who had previously been the business product manager for Google's AdWords and a founding member of the company's corporate-development group, where he led the search giant's acquisitions of companies like Picasa, Urchin Software, and dMarc. Friedberg left Google to launch WeatherBill in 2006. The potential market for weather coverage is huge, since as much as 70 percent of American businesses are impacted by weather in some way. While the risks for companies like agricultural firms are obvious, businesses from movie theaters?which see ticket sales slump on sunny days?to transportation companies and clothing manufacturers are affected by the weather. It's estimated that $2 trillion to $3 trillion of the United States' nearly $14 trillion G.D.P. is weather-sensitive. Businesses have long bought insurance against weather-related damages; more recently, they have been able to buy weather futures contracts on exchanges like the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, but the offerings are largely linked to temperature and are unwieldy and expensive for smaller companies. WeatherBill takes a different approach, borrowing from AdWords' sophisticated, real-time auction engine for pricing keywords. Just as AdWords integrates the latest market changes on a continuous basis, the WeatherBill pricing engine correlates up-to-the-minute weather forecasts with trend data to assess a company's overall risk. Then it spits out a price based on all those factors, with all of this happening in a tenth of a second, and contracts can be purchased right up to the last minute since the latest weather information automatically gets incorporated into the pricing engine. "For weather coverage to be useful, you have to customize it," Friedberg says. "It's not like car insurance?you're a male between 20 and 40 in San Francisco, here's your price for car insurance." The end result is that more types of weather contracts are available and more businesses can afford it. When Fisch's golf tournament bought its rain contract in 2007, the cost was just under $1,000, according to Fisch. Like a typical insurance business model, WeatherBill's strategy is to sell against enough weather eventualities so that the events will essentially balance each other out. Insuring a soybean grower in Iowa against drought might be a money loser, for instance. But if the soybean grower is offset by the state's car washes, which do big business in dry weather, the risk is diversified. Not every customer has a precise counterpart, but a large mix of customers creates a diversified portfolio that, in turn, can bring down prices. "Our business has all sides of risk?we've got customers wanting rain, drought, heat waves, frost, no frost. We even have people who want hurricanes," says Friedberg. Since last year's launch, Friedberg says WeatherBill has signed policies with hundreds of customers, hedged hundreds of millions of dollars of risk, and brought in revenue "in the millions." A major deal was struck with Priceline recently, allowing the travel company to insure its users against rain on their vacations for no extra cost. (Priceline will refund the cost of a customer's trip if it rains heavily on more than half the days of their trip.) And the United States Tennis Association has announced it's buying a weather contract to hedge against weather-related losses at this year's U.S. Open, although it hasn't released details. The Commodities Futures Trading Commission, which regulates weather derivatives, currently limits WeatherBill's customers to accredited investors with a minimum net worth of $1 million as a way of limiting the influence of speculators. But Friedberg hopes to persuade the C.F.T.C. to change that requirement soon and eventually offer policies directly to individuals wishing to protect weddings, travel plans, and other events. As with businesses, premiums would shrink as more customers are integrated into the algorithm and the risk is balanced out. And Friedberg says that global warming and the volatile weather of the last few years set the right conditions for his business. "Citrus farmers will call us and say, 'We had four frost events last year. It was nuts. My crop was diminished by 15 to 20 percent,'" Friedberg says. "A lot of ski resorts were shut for much of 2006 and 2007 in the Northeast because it was really warm. They called us the next year. Our customers are definitely aware of climate change and its impact."

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