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Thread: SOTD: Monday, March 11th, 2013
Have I told you about the scent of jasmine? Have I spoken about the smell of the sea? The earth is scented. And I perfume myself to enhance what I am. That's why I can not wear a perfume that bothers me. Perfuming is an instinctive wisdom. And like all art, it requires some knowledge of yourself..."
Clarice Lispector ( 1920-1977) - Perfumes da Terra / Earth Perfumes
Musc ravageur
N.B. my SOTE yesterday was interlude man, i'm currently smelling it more intensely than musc ravageur. Interlude remained strong on my shirt's collar.
Creed Millesime Imperial
Byblos Bamboo.
Encre Noire!
~Current Favorites
2Man|Sequoia|GIT|Egoiste|Encre Noire|Philosykos
By Kilian - Pure Oud (cautionary note: do not blind buy this one!)
Vintage Bel Ami by Hermes. Making its climb toward my Top 10.
SotD - 360 Degrees Red for Men by Perry Ellis
Allure Homme by Chanel
Green Irish Tweed
Boss Pure
My bottle is almost empty
Fille en Aiguilles by Serge Lutens
"When you become comfortable with uncertainty. infinite possibilities open up in your life"
-- Eckhart Tolle
Coeur de Vetiver Sacre by L'Artisan Parfumeur
Current Top 5
1. Creed Aventus
2. A*Men Pure Malt
3. L'instant Extreme
4. Nasomatto Duro
5. CDG - Kyoto
SotE - Trumper Sandalwood.
Kenzo Power Cologne
For Sale:Gucci Pour Homme II , Amouage Attar,Lubin Idole http://www.basenotes.net/threads/313...dwide-Shipping
F. Malle - Carnal Flower
Lorenzo Villoresi Acqua di Colonia
SotE - A*Men Pure Leather by Thierry Mugler (from a sample)
Guerlain Eau du Coq.
Original Vetiver by Creed
SotD: Dior Homme
SotE: YSL M7


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Back in September, some jerk threw a banana at Philadelphia's Wayne Simmonds during a shootout attempt. A week later, Ontario police charged 26-year-old Chris Moorhouse of London, Ontario with "engaging in a prohibited activity under the provincial trespassing act." The charge carried a possible fine of up to $2,000. Today, the banana hammer fell and Moorhouse was fined $200.
Moorhouse's lawyer, Faisal Joseph, has said his client didn't know hurling bananas at black athletes could be seen as hateful.
That's awkward. Next time, Moorhouse will think twice before engaging in a prohibited activity under the provincial trespassing act.


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Panera Bread just announced that all the soups sold in its restaurants have been redeveloped by chefs to meet "clean" standards as part of its commitment to sell only clean foods in its stores by the end of 2016. So what does that mean anyway?
Eating "clean" is simply about eating the healthiest foods available in their most natural state — which means eating foods free of artificial colors, sweeteners or preservatives. Clean eating also means cutting out refined grains and sugars. For example, Panera has swapped out its use of regular old bleached flour for unbleached wheat flour to make its recipes cleaner.
More: 10 Stealthy clean eating tips to use the next time you entertain
And while clean eating might not be your big concern at the moment, once you start to take a closer look, you might decide eating even a little cleaner might be worth the effort.
Panera has identified a list of ingredients it calls the No No List, which reads more like the back of a shampoo bottle than a list of ingredients, including everything from sodium lauryl sulfate to parabens. They're hardly the kinds of chemicals you would expect in your lunch. And once you read the Panera No No List of ingredients, you might start wondering what strange chemicals are lurking in your other restaurant faves.
More: 10 Subtle ways clean eating will change your life
Here are a few of the ingredients Panera is ditching in favor of natural alternatives:
But eating cleaner isn't necessarily simple. Those strange-sounding chemicals make food delicious. In fact, it reportedly took Panera chefs 60 attempts until they were able to perfect the chain's No. 1-selling soup, broccoli cheddar, which alone accounts for one-third of all the restaurant's soup sales. It says the result is a soup that tastes even better than the original.
More: What is clean eating and recipes to get you started
"I want to create soups that our guests will love," Dan Kish, Panera Bread's head chef, says. "And equally important, I want them to understand and feel confident in the ingredients that go into those soups. We've long been advocates of transparency — providing full ingredient information online — and with these new recipes, we have even more to be proud of today."
The effort might just be worth it for Panera's bottom line. By making its menu "clean," it suggests that every other restaurant's offerings are "dirty," something no one finds appealing. So besides being good for your body, the new, clean menu might be just what the doctor ordered to boost Panera's sales.
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Let me preface this by saying that I've always thought it appropriate that, when the economy and such is in a better place, that the NHL should expand back into Canada. Quebec and Winnipeg should be at the toppermost of those lists, since they've already experienced the pain of having a franchise yanked from them. After all, cities such as Denver and Atlanta have gotten second cracks at teams after losing their first ones.
But there's something that strikes me as quite unpleasant about a team's fanbase wanting to snatch a team away from a city where it's established and has fans. Believe it or not, Phoenix has a fanbase. Nashville's got a pretty damn dedicated fanbase. Pittsburgh, back in the pre-Sid lean years were a very well established team with fans who would have been crushed had the team moved. Atlanta fits into this. People trying to make a grab at the Thrashers are ignoring the facts (duh) and acting ·inappropriately vased on a valid emotion. It comes off as abrasive and more than a bit entitled.
You'll get this again. Just not for a while, and not at Atlanta's expense.
Of course, hockey as Canada's game – that concept – is built around an entitlement that is understandable. It's justifiable. They adore the sport, but that adoration does not make them more "worthy" of a team than anywhere else that can cultivate an interest in it. Bettman's expansion has cultivated interest in hockey in places that just ten or fifteen years ago would have been unheard of. Players drafted from Georgia? Guys from Texas and California in the World Juniors? Madness! Madness, I say! But true nonetheless. If you love your sport, why wouldn't you want to see it being played in non-traditional markets? Why wouldn't you want more people realizing that hockey is the greatest thing since sliced bread?
The only team that got a franchise at the "expense" of a Canadian city that is located in a non-traditional market are the Phoenix Coyotes, and while the calls to move back to Winnipeg are expected and understandable, at the same time, you have to look at why Winnipeg and Quebec City both lost their franchises. The Jets and Nordiques had to move due to a lack of business support, poor and small arenas, few fans attending the games, and in Quebec City's case being biased in favor of Francophones. It's easy to say that won't happen again, and that those cities have learned from their mistakes. I'm sure that they have, and they'd support a new franchise just as well if not better than Sunbelt markets. That's not the issue though – the issue is forcibly moving a franchise from it's city to another. Bettman would never do that because it would prove that he failed in his expansion ideas. The concept of thinking that you're more entitled to a team than that team's fans is just wrong. It's rude, it's classist, and quite frankly, it's jingoistic.·
Canada's entitled to more hockey teams. In fact, they should have them. But they shouldn't have other teams in markets that they have deemed "unworthy" of the great sport of hockey. Isn't everyone worthy of watching the games? Give teams like Atlanta time to get on track. When the team started here, they sold out constantly and had a huge fanbase and many season ticket holders. Now, with just around 6600 season ticket holders, it looks like no one cares. People do care, but they're waiting for a winning product to come back. The team sold out numemrous times in 2006-2007, and the two playoff games at Philips Arena were a great atmosphere. That can happen again. It happened in Chicago, and it'll probably happen on Long Island once the Islanders win again.
Showing up en masse to a hockey game to show Bettman how much you want another city's team isn't going to get you one. It'll just get you animosity, contempt, and a ton of irritation – which will make games fun when the Thrashers road trip to Quebec in ten years. You'll get your team – just not ours.


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Alma and Rosalie Talbott
Does anyone have information on either Alma Talbott, born July 29, 1889. She married Jack Churchill. Or on Rosalie Talbott, born May 19, 1892. She married ? Tattersfill. They were born in Ky and moved to either NY &/or Calf. They were the children of Charles Clarence Talbott and Anna Mary Talbott. My dad, James Carl Talbott, was their brother.
I never knew either aunt and know very little about them. However, I think Alma has some connection to the Dunn family in NY.
Thanks, Jude Talbott


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Music Vault has spent the past two years remastering more than 13,000 concert videos, and if that's still not amazing enough, they've decided they want to share them with you on YouTube. Yes, you get to spend sleepless nights watching some serious footage that spans the last five decades, with fantastic performances by a wide array of artists, spanning classic rock and soul such as Bob Dylan, the Grateful Dead and James Brown, alongside indie artists like St. Vincent and Deer Tick.
If you feel you are too spoilt for choice as the case may very well be, Music Vault has made several playlists, including "Best of the Vault". "Face-Melting Guitar Solos" and "Legends of Fillmore East". Music Vault content editor Bill Antonucci hopes the videos will give younger fans a taste of what it was like to see some classic bands while older fans can relive concerts they attended.
"Fans can expect a front-row seat to some of the greatest rock & roll performances of all time: Bruce Springsteen on the Darkness Tour in 1978, The Who at Tanglewood in 1970, The Allman Brothers at the Fillmore East in 1970," he tells Rolling Stone. "These are legendary musicians captured at the peak of their powers."
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- Volume controls of the Turtle Beach headsets work well between audio chat and game sounds
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- Wireless chat
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- Ideal for Xbox
- Amplified stereo sound
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Tissue-engineered biodegradable membranes for subretinal transplantation
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Objective: Replacement of degenerated RPE cells as a therapeutic modality for AMD requires that the transplanted cells reconstitute the normal subretinal anatomy. Since transplantation of cell suspensions has not resulted in functional improvement, we hypothesize that it will be necessary to transplant cells cultured on a substratum permissive for monolayer formation with correct polarity, thus allowing communication between transplanted cells and the exposed photoreceptors. The biodegradable substrate serves as a temporary Bruch's membrane prosthesis until the transplanted cells re-assemble their native Bruch's membrane. Here we compared in vitro growth characteristics of RPE and IPE cells and in vivo biocompatibility of potential biomaterials.
Methods: ARPE-19, primary bovine RPE and IPE cells cultured on ultrathin (7μm) equine collagen type I membranes, human amniotic membranes, silk membranes and polylactic acid (PLA) electrospun nanofibers were analyzed for growth, viability and morphology. Membranes were examined for surface characteristics and permeability. Biocompatibility of these biomaterials was evaluated by subconjunctival transplantation in rabbits.
Results: Pigment epithelial cells formed monolayers on all membranes, but viability was best on collagen type I followed by amniotic membranes, polylactic nanofibers and silk membranes. Subconjunctival transplantation revealed excellent biocompatibility for the collagen and amniotic membranes. Collagen membranes show most approximate the surface morphological characteristics of Bruch's membrane.
Conclusions: Regarding the investigated substrates, collagen type I membranes are best suited as a support for pigment cells intended to be transplanted subretinally, since they support cell growth, viability and do not elicit any inflammatory reaction when transplanted subconjunctivally in rabbits.


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Every day in Britain, ordinary, caring people are accused of crimes under the Animal Welfare Act. Many end up losing their pets, their reputations and a lot of money. Maybe even their homes.
They are usually prosecuted by the RSPCA, but it could be by their local authorities and Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA).
If you are prosecuted you need specialist help from a lawyer who is an expert in animal welfare law and the methods of the RSPCA. Why?
Punishments are serious. Including seizure, possible destruction of your pets, up to six months in prison, a lifetime disqualification from keeping animals.
You may have to pay the RSPCA's costs. Unlike most criminal prosecutions, lose to the RSPCA and you may be required to pay their specialist solicitors and barristers – usually a minimum of £10,000.
Boarding fees. If your animals are seized, in the 6 to 12 months waiting for your case to come to court, YOU must pay for your own animals' boarding fees with the RSPCA. For a dog, this is around £20 per day, every day. Boarding costs are often even higher than legal costs.
You could lose your home. With costs so high, if you lose your case under the Animal Welfare Act your home is at risk.
You need a specialist lawyer:
Animal welfare defence is an area of law that few solicitors and barristers understand. The RSPCA, however, employs specialists solely to prosecute people like you. Animal welfare law is not normally covered in legal text books and there is no case law, so most solicitors have little idea of how to mount a succesful defence against RSPCA prosecution.
You need a solicitor who is as expert in your defence as DEFRA or the RSPCA are in your prosecution. An animal defence law specialist who:
knows the case law
understands how veterinary science interacts with the law
is able to question the experts the prosecution uses
is able to instruct your own expert witnesses.
Although the RSPCA wear police-style uniforms they have no more right to enter your property than any other private individual. Check the
Your Rights page before answering any questions and email or call Nigel Weller on 01273 487123
May 2013, Norwich Crown Court:
Nigel Weller & Co secures acquittal and return of red-backed shrikes seized by RSPCA.
Our client Ted Easter told Cage and Aviary Birds newspaper: "My solicitor did a splendid job of making the court aware of the issues in the legislation.
He was excellent at showing that I'm just a man who loves his hobby. He showed my human side."
Nigel Weller quoted in Sunday Telegraph RSPCA exposé:
June 30 2013
Nigel Weller has been extensively quoted in a searing exposé of the RSPCA's brutal prosecutions of the young and the vulnerable.
Read the full article:
The RSPCA Made Us Feel Like Criminals
Read Nigel Weller's blog post
Derby Magistrates Court:
Successful defence by Nigel Weller & Co, but RSPCA publicity forces couple to move abroad.
Mr & Mrs Dean Webb, a couple whose hobby was showing cats were raided by the RSPCA, and all the cats were seized.
After a 12-day trial, at the Derby Magistrates Court before District Judge Andrew Davison, the couple were acquitted of 9 charges contrary to sections 4 & 9 of the Animal Welfare Act 2006.
See Nigel's blog post on the case, here.
Nigel Weller wins costs and thanks from Devon OAP
September 2013
The RSPCA was left with a £10,000 legal bill after a judge attacked its decision to prosecute a loving pet owner
Read the full article:
Read our client's letter.
Are you being prosecuted by the RSPCA under section 8 for "animal fighting"?
The RSPCA are increasingly using legislation that was intended to stop dog fighting, to prevent country people from traditional activities aimed to control pests.
Nigel Weller & Co are experts at fighting these prosecutions. Call us now on 01273 487123.
See our article on the subject in this month's Countryman's Weekly magazine, out 2 March 2016.


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From Regulation to Virtue: A Critique of Ethical Formalism in Research Organizations
Atkinson, Timothy N., Butler, Jesse W., Journal of Research Administration
The research compliance system, both fiscal and non-fiscal, has some noticeable flaws that should be addressed, particularly with regard to excessive emphasis of and reliance upon formal regulations in research administration. Research administrators in the compliance field sometimes practice a form of "ethical formalism" in which rules and regulations outweigh other approaches to promoting ethical behavior in the research environment (Bell & Wray-Bliss, 2009). The tendency toward regulatory rigor evolved through government mandate and laws that were created in response to watershed events in ethical history, such as the infamous study of syphilis at Tuskegee. Research administrators had no choice but to enact compliance-oriented practices as the penalties for non-compliance with the federal regulations and mandates are severe. Through the force of law, ethical formalism, or a more extreme form of ethical compliance, became a necessity, and eventually an organizational myth in the pursuit of organizational survival, professional legitimacy, and control. Ethical formalism is the accepted and legitimized practice of absolute ethics in research administration, propelled by ethical saga, controlled by law, rules, policies, and, unfortunately, fear.
In this article, we argue that ethical formalism is not an optimal perspective alone, and that the organizational culture was formed by laws and rules outside the organizations' control, thereby failing to generate the adaptive guidance needed for the flourishing dynamic research environments. The analysis continues by offering some solutions for how the ethical formalistic perspective can be augmented through positive organizational practices and virtuous action (Cameron, Dutton & Quinn, 2003), and finally by creating organizational actors who stand as moral exemplars (Zagzebski, 2010) or leader-mentors (Cheatham, 2010; Gabriel, 2010) who bridge the gap between researchers, organizational leaders, and the regulations.
It is important to clarify that ethical formalism, as understood and analyzed here, has become the preferred approach to the guidance of ethical behavior within organizations. It is distinct from formal ethical theories intended to establish a foundation for ethics itself, such as the formal deontological ethics formulated by Kant as a universal basis for the moral imperatives required of rational agents in general. The issues we address pertain to how ethical conduct is implemented and maintained within and through organizations, rather than the origins of ethical normativity itself. The critique offered is an analysis of the shortcomings in relying upon formal authoritative rules and regulations as the sole source of behavior guidance among research administrators. This extreme ethical formalism should be augmented by the positive promotion of virtuous and responsible agent-based conduct through mentorship and moral exemplarism, irrespective of whatever particular theory or account informs the determination of what one ought or ought not to do.
To be clear, the proposal is not to remove or replace formal rules and regulations, but rather to recognize their limitations and the need for further positive processes towards effective ethical thought and action within research organizations. It is also important to clarify that the following argument is not a critique of research administrators as a professional group who practice compliance administration. On the contrary, both anecdotal and empirical evidence suggests research administrators are a vital professional group who strongly contribute to integrity in the research environment, but whose actions are constrained by political structures in their own organizations so that consistent application of law, policy, or perspective becomes difficult to achieve (Atkinson & Gilleland, 2007; Atkinson, Gilleland & Pearson, 2007). Control is truly a myth as some actors will defy the law or be ignorant of the law regardless of the pressure to comply. …


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Parents in the Auburndale School District have the option of sending their children to school on Thursday after a threat was reported, according to sheriff's and district officials.
Wood County Sheriff's Sgt. John Hiller told Newsline 9 officers investigated a threat that a student may be bringing a gun to the high school. However, that threat was proven to be unfounded, Hiller said.
Still, the Auburndale School District is telling parents they have the option of sending their children to school on Thursday. Auburndale School Board vice president Wayne Meyer said any absences on Thursday will not be counted against students if parents choose not to send them. He told Newsline 9 this applies to both schools in the district.
Sgt. Hiller said sheriff's officers will patrol the area around the school Thursday for extra presence, but there will be no checkpoints at school.
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Viruses 2013, 5(3), 824-833; doi:10.3390/v5030824
Fragment Merger: An Online Tool to Merge Overlapping Long Sequence Fragments
Hepatitis Virus Diversity Research Programme (HVDRP), Department of Internal Medicine, School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, 2050 Johannesburg, South Africa
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Received: 16 January 2013 / Revised: 26 February 2013 / Accepted: 26 February 2013 / Published: 12 March 2013
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AbstractWhile PCR amplicons extend to a few thousand bases, the length of sequences from direct Sanger sequencing is limited to 500–800 nucleotides. Therefore, several fragments may be required to cover an amplicon, a gene or an entire genome. These fragments are typically sequenced in an overlapping fashion and assembled by manually sliding and aligning the sequences visually. This is time-consuming, repetitive and error-prone, and further complicated by circular genomes. An online tool merging two to twelve long overlapping sequence fragments was developed. Either chromatograms or FASTA files are submitted to the tool, which trims poor quality ends of chromatograms according to user-specified parameters. Fragments are assembled into a single sequence by repeatedly calling the EMBOSS merger tool in a consecutive manner. Output includes the number of trimmed nucleotides, details of each merge, and an optional alignment to a reference sequence. The final merge sequence is displayed and can be downloaded in FASTA format. All output files can be downloaded as a ZIP archive. This tool allows for easy and automated assembly of overlapping sequences and is aimed at researchers without specialist computer skills. The tool is genome- and organism-agnostic and has been developed using hepatitis B virus sequence data. View Full-Text
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Could Ants Teach the Biofuel Industry a Thing or Two?
In the lobby of the Microbial Sciences building at the University of Wisconsin, leafcutter ants in a display colony hike back and forth. Improbably large leaf fragments wobble on their backs as the ants ferry them between a dwindling pile of oak leaves and a garden of fungus studded with leaves in assorted states of decay.
Made up of a single species of fungus and a handful of bacterial strains, the fungus garden breaks down the ants' leafy harvest through an efficient natural process. It's a process that researchers believe could be a model for producing biofuel in a more sustainable way.
As we transition away from petroleum dependence, ethanol-based biofuel has risen to the forefront as one of the most accessible sources of renewable energy. It's produced by fermenting plant sugars, which are strung together into long chains called polysaccharides. Before the fermentation process can begin, these chains have to be snipped apart, a process that varies in difficulty depending on the type of plant being used.
Polysaccharide chains found in corn kernels -- the primary biofuel crop in the U.S. -- are relatively simple to break up. But corn depletes the soil and guzzles water and fertilizer, and using it for fuel siphons calories from the food supply to gas tanks.
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On the other hand, perennial grasses and agricultural "waste" like cornstalks offer a biofuel source that has a lighter impact on the environment. But these woodier fibers -- referred to as "cellulosic" biomass -- are a tangle of robust polysaccharides that are trickier to deconstruct. Further complicating this problem, the molecular structure of plant biomass isn't uniform. What breaks down the polysaccharides near the surface of a cornstalk or blade of grass might not work at all on those buried more deeply.
But finding efficient ways to extract energy from plants and other forms of biomass is not a new problem. In fact, it's a problem that Earth's plant eaters solved millions of years ago. And according to University of Wisconsin researcher Frank Aylward, if you're looking for a model system, you can't do better than leafcutter ants.
They may not have the imposing mien of herbivores like giraffes or elephants, but in Central and South America, leafcutter ants dominate, munching through more of the region's foliage than any other organism.
But the ants can't digest leaves by themselves -- they have to rely on the garden's microbes. "We sort of think of the fungus gardens as being an external gut," Aylward explains. The garden digests biomass and reconstitutes its molecules in little nutrient packets holding a cocktail of carbohydrates, lipids, and proteins.
"The ants are essentially doing what we want to do with biofuel," says Aylward. "They're taking all of this recalcitrant plant biomass that's full of all of these really complicated polymers and they're degrading it and converting it into energy." The transformation from leafy greens to energy source is mediated by hundreds of enzymes produced by the fungus garden's microbes. If these enzymes chow down so efficiently on the leaves of Central America, Aylward and his coworkers wondered, could they be just as effective at breaking apart the sugars of cellulosic biomass in an industrial setting?
One model for a commercial biofuel process patterned after the fungus garden could entail splicing the genetic codes for the garden's most effective enzymes into other microbes, prompting them to churn out biomass-digesting proteins.
But first, scientists needed to identify which enzymes the garden uses to digest leaves for the ants and which microbial residents produce them. By sequencing the genomes of the fungus and bacteria and comparing that data to the garden's enzyme soup, Aylward and his coworkers were able to identify a fungus called Leucoagaricus gongylophorus as the garden's biomass-degrading workhorse.
They also found that the fungus calibrates its enzyme cocktail for different stages of leaf decay. The biomass profile changes at each level in the garden -- the freshest leaves sit near the top and the mostly decomposed waste material at the bottom. And Aylward found that the garden's enzymes changed, too. That insight could provide the biofuel industry with some clues about which enzymes might excel early in the polysaccharide-decomposition process and which ones to apply later on.
Incidentally, this division of labor also reveals which enzymes the garden deploys together at each level. This is a huge boon to anyone designing industrial applications, since enzymes tend to work much better in specific combinations -- and the garden has had 50 million years of symbiosis with the ants to find the most efficient combinations.
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Aylward has already been approached by companies interested in synthesizing some of the garden's enzymes and using them in biofuel production.
"It's difficult to think that we can actually find a process that improves on nature," Aylward points out, "so it probably makes sense to learn from it."


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Two poisoned by carbon monoxide add to storm's toll
Two men add to storm's Texas toll
They were found in a mobile home on southwest side, poisoned by carbon monoxide
Published 5:30 am, Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Two men found inside a southwest Houston mobile home are among 14 in the area whose deaths have been linked to Hurricane Ike, Harris County medical examiners said.
The Galveston County Medical Examiner's Office, also responsible for investigations in Fort Bend, Matagorda, Brazoria, Colorado, and Wharton counties, has reported five Ike-related deaths.
Seventeen deaths in Texas have been blamed on Hurricane Ike, bringing the storm's death toll to 48 nationwide, the Associated Press reported.
Francisco Garcia, 20 and German Rojas, 32, were discovered about 2:30 p.m. Monday when a relative came to check on them in their trailer in a mobile home park along the 14100 block of Del Papa, Houston police said.
Both men died from carbon monoxide poisoning from a gas-powered generator found in the kitchen, authorities said.
'Very dangerous practice'Authorities said three other Ike-related deaths in Harris County also are attributed to generators in confined spaces producing toxic levels of the odorless, tasteless gas.
"It's a very dangerous practice," said Assistant Chief Omero Longoria, of the Houston Fire Department. "Anytime you use a generator, it should be stored well outside the home."
Joshua Aguirre, 4, was the youngest Harris County victim of generator-caused carbon monoxide poisoning during Hurricane Ike.
Because of power outages caused by Hurricane Ike, Joshua's family on Saturday set a generator inside their home in the 1100 block of Cresline before going to sleep, police said.
Joshua's father, who was at work that day, later asked a relative to check on his family. The child was pronounced dead at the scene. His stepmother and three siblings were taken to Memorial Hermann Hospital for treatment. On Tuesday, their conditions weren't known.
An 18-year-old man died Saturday at a Houston hospital after he was found next to a generator inside a smoke-filled room at his Harris County home. Later that day, a Houston man, 54, died while sitting in a chair near a gas generator inside a closed garage, officials said.
"Why would you put any gasoline-powered equipment in your home?" Longoria said. "Those generators run for hours at a time."
Two women, 58 and 53, died Saturday and Sunday in house fires in Tomball and Houston. Evidence at the scene indicated both may have been started by multiple candles used to provide light during power outages, officials said.
In Montgomery County, three people were killed by falling tree limbs, officials said.
On Friday, a 10-year-old boy died after he was hit by a tree limb that was being cut down in preparation for the approaching hurricane.
A 59-year-old man on Monday was fatally struck by a branch while cutting down trees in his yard following Ike.
A Harris County man, 61, also died Monday when he fell from a 20-foot ladder while clearing debris from his home, officials said.
Elizabeth G. Garza, 39, was asleep in her west Montgomery County home on Red Fox Road about 8 a.m. Saturday when a tree fell through her home, killing her.


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Graham Taylor Calls For Your Support
A message from Graham Taylor which really needs no further comment other than... donate! Other sites, please feel free to spread the word and that goes for all the fans as well, be great to get this as well supported as possible.
At long last I am doing something worthwhile!!
I am one of approximately 300 people who are going to cycle from London to Paris in an attempt to raise in excess of £500,000 for The Royal British Legion. Starting at Greenwich Park on Thursday September 2nd we all hope to be celebrating when finishing at the Arc de Triomphe on Sunday September 5th.
Obviously I am now looking for as many sponsors as possible, and hopefully this is where you come in!
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The Royal British Legion is the nation`s leading Armed Forces charity providing care and support to all members of the British Armed Forces past and present and their families. It is also the national Custodian of Remembrance and safeguards the Military Covenant between the nation and its Armed Forces. It is of course best known for the annual Poppy Appeal and its emblem the red poppy.
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Computers, Kids, Homework, and Vacations
My girls will head off to college in 2015 and 2017. They are in the 10th and 8th grade of our our local public high school and middle school. We are already getting glossy university brochures in the mail (I guess from my older daughter's PSAT scores).
My girls will head off to college in 2015 and 2017. They are in the 10th and 8th grade of our our local public high school and middle school. We are already getting glossy university brochures in the mail (I guess from my older daughter's PSAT scores).
The point is that these kids, my kids, will be showing up soon at your institution of higher learning.
So I pay attention to how these girls operate at the place where education and technology intersect.
This morning I'm informed the girls that computers are not an option for our upcoming February vacation. Where we are going there is no safe place to store a laptop (or iPad), and no affordable Internet connection.
This was troubling news to my 10th and 8th grader.
They raised the following objections:
- "We have homework over vacation".
- "We have project due soon after we return".
- "Our projects involve other group members".
- "If we don't get our work done over vacation we will be swamped when we return".
- "All of our work is on the computer".
- "All of our work is on the Internet".
- "Printing stuff out won't work".
- "All of our work requires online collaboration via Google Docs, Prezi, Edmodo, and StudyBlue."
- "We use the online textbooks with videos".
- "We use Khan Academy and YouTube videos".
- "We need our computers and a Web connection for school - this is not about our friends or anything social".
In short, both girls argued quite forcefully that they need to do school work over vacation, and that they need their laptops and an Internet connection to do so.
I told these girls that neither I, nor their mother, plans to work over vacation.
That we never work over vacation. That vacation means not working. That their parents are looking forward to not having access to computers, iPads, smart phones or the Internet.
This information seemed to have very little impact on these girls.
Are we creating a K-20 education system that is completely dependent on technology?
Are we creating learners that need technology to learn?
Are we creating the next wave of workaholics? People addicted to constant technology and web access?
Do we need to offer college classes on how to go on vacation?
In the end the geography of our February vacation will determine the behavior of this high school and this middle school student.
They will be forced to live without their laptops and without their Web 2.0 learning tools for the week.
They will have to manage their teachers expectations and group members expectations, plan ahead, and scramble to finish all their work.
I can't think of a more important educational experience.
Do your kids bring their technology with them on vacations to keep up with their schoolwork?
Have you experimented with a "no technology" vacation?
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Astrology and Stardom
Thirty-two year-old actor/screenplay writer Jack Nicholson attends the premiere of Easy Rider at the Cannes Film Festival. The film was shot fourteen months earlier, with Nicholson assuming the role of George Hanson at the last minute, after actor Rip Torn left the set following a scuffle with director/co-star Dennis Hopper. At the premiere, when Nicholson's face comes on screen, the audience instantly recognizes that he has just become a star.
Transiting Saturn is conjunct Nicholson's natal Sun in Taurus, signifying his character Hanson's murder in the movie, a sacrifice made on the road to its Mardi Gras climax. Transiting Mars is retrograde in Sagittarius, resonating with natal Mars retrograde in Sagittarius, reflecting the emergence of a new Hollywood iconoclast.


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August 31, 2009
Columbia developing 3rd 'Bad Boys' flick
Novelist Peter Craig has been hired to write a third installment in the "Bad Boys' action-comedy film franchise, The Hollywood Reporter said.
Columbia Pictures intends to reunite the first two movies' director Michael Bay, producer Jerry Bruckheimer and actors Will Smith and Martin Lawrence for the third project, although no deals have been made yet, the entertainment industry trade newspaper said.
Bad Boys,the first of the two movies, in which Smith and Lawrence play Miami detectives, was released in 1995.
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Raiders quarterback Terrelle Pryor said he is planning to visit throwing guru (and former major league pitching coach) Tom House again during the bye week in Week 7. The two worked out in the offseason and Pryor credits House for a lot of his improved throwing mechanics.
Pryor then told reporters how he had learned from the mistake of former Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow, who had his mechanics cleaned up in sessions with House the previous offseason.
"(House) said he was ready to go, Tebow was throwing the ball great and wasn't missing anything," Pryor said. "Then Tebow went to camp and he reverted back to himself. Because the bullets were flying."
Pryor wanted to make sure he didn't go back to his bad habits — namely bad footwork, not bringing his elbow up and not opening up his upper body — when he left House and returned for the Raiders' offseason workouts.
"That's main the thing," Pryor said. "How hard are you working at your craft to make sure in your mind that it stays there? That was my key, the only thing I was worried about. When people are rushing me, I didn't want to go back to the old thing …
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I am also of European decent, and my ancestors colonized north America generations ago. However, my colonizing ancestors brought with them European diseases that wiped out 90% of the native American population, whereas the colonizing ancestors of my Zimbabwean friends were held in check by African diseases. Which meant that even though their ancestors established a government in a foreign land (just like in North America), they never became the majority population. (Okay, so I know it's not actually that simple and is certainly quite ugly, but the comparison is interesting.)
Our Zimbabwean friends, like us from America, bear no responsibility for their ancestors' choices, and yet reap the consequences, whether good or bad. Unfortunately, Zimbabwe has now been ruled by a tyrant for almost 4 decades, and the country that used to be called "the breadbasket of Africa" has had a complete economic collapse. So our friends, descended from ancestors much like our own, are left with citizenship from a country that they dearly love, but has nothing left to offer them. Their children have no hope of attending university or finding jobs in their own country. They are, in many ways, exiles. How differently their story of colonialism has ended.
We celebrated the 4th of July yesterday at a friend's house who threw a big bash and invited people of any nationality. It felt normal, though, to celebrate America's independence with non-Americans, since that's what America has always been about. And even though the United States still has deep-seated problems with racism and immigration, it has still been the most open country in the world to outsiders. Every year, even though only several students in HOPAC's graduating class are American, the majority of our students attend university in the States. America consistently seeks after international students and offers them the best scholarships--hands down. I've sat in the U.S. embassy in Tanzania and listened to visa interviews. Everyone wants to go to America. And a lot of the time, America says yes.
It was a fabulous party, but I felt sad yesterday, did you? These days, it's hard to know what's in store for our country. Could we be heading in the same direction as Zimbabwe? Living overseas has often increased my frustration with America, but also my appreciation. It's never been perfect, but we sure have a whole lot more than most of the world--in opportunity, freedom, and possessions. I am apprehensive for America's future. But for now, I'm still thankful for that blue passport.
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News that a major company plans to invest more than £2m into creating two town centre pubs has been greeted by mixed reactions.
The Mercury revealed last week that JD Wetherspoon will take over the Mercury office in Sheep Market, Stamford, and the former Royal British Legion building in High Street, Oakham.
The chain, which has more than 800 pubs, said it planned to invest £1m into each venture.
Planning applications have yet to be submitted but already the plans have received a mixed reaction.
On Friday, an online petition was set up against the plans for Stamford, stating "We don't need or want a Wetherspoons in our town" and as of yesterday, the petition had 169 signatures.
On Twitter, @Lizzie_B_ said: "Maybe would suit Oakham, but not Stamford."
@ElleStationery described the Stamford plan as "bad news" and @martinpilarski added: "Why on earth does Stamford need a Wetherspoon?"
But president of Stamford Chamber of Trade and Commerce Tim Lee said people should wait for the planning application to be submitted.
He said: "In principle we don't object to any business, particularly when they are moving into what would be an unoccupied unit.
"Wetherspoon might be a national chain but that is not a reason to object and in fact, we welcome competition."
The news of the Royal British Legion building in Oakham, which has been closed since 2008, being transformed was welcomed by Oakham Town Partnership chairman Alf Dewis, who is also mayor.
He said: "My concern with the British Legion building is that it has looked derelict for some time and I would look forward to any developer that can come forward and take on the building."
And Tony Davis, who owns The Grainstore Brewery in Station Approach, Oakham, said: "It doesn't faze me at all. We have supplied Wetherspoons for years and they are good customers.
"It just means the pubs on that side of town will have to set their stall out because there will be a concentration of pubs in that area. It will also be nice to brighten the town up."
The building was used by the Oakham branch of the legion for 60 years. It closed after plans by a national management group to take it over fell through.
The Mercury and the archive trust are looking for alternative premises in Stamford. Its lease expires in May.


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CINCINNATI (AP) — Kroger Co. (KR) on Thursday reported fiscal third-quarter profit of $391 million.
On a per-share basis, the Cincinnati-based company said it had profit of 41 cents.
The results missed Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of 11 analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 42 cents per share.
The supermarket chain posted revenue of $26.56 billion in the period, surpassing Street forecasts. Six analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $26.25 billion.
Kroger expects full-year earnings in the range of $2.10 to $2.15 per share.
Kroger shares have fallen 23 percent since the beginning of the year, while the Standard & Poor's 500 index has climbed nearly 8 percent. The stock has fallen 14 percent in the last 12 months.
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Perched on a Rockridge corner, the Toast wine bar always had a welcoming vibe. Now it's Toast Kitchen + Bar, thanks to a major expansion into the space next door and a new menu that showcases eclectic wines, handcrafted cocktails and some very tasty seasonal fare.
The biggest challenge of the evening was just deciding where we wanted to sit. Festooned with red market umbrellas, the front patio is a perfect spot for people-watching — and soft, woolly throws are tucked here and there to keep the sipping-noshing crowd comfortable when the temperature drops. But the atmospheric bar and dining room are equally alluring, with their marquee-style signs, and the retro Edison light bulbs hanging from the ceiling in scores of glass wine bottles, lending Hogwarts-style illumination to the dark space.
The recycled wine bottle theme fits nicely with a wine bar. The water glasses (which I covet) are made from wine bottles as well. The wine list itself is a finely curated affair, filled with grapes you don't exactly run into every day — hondarribi zuri, for example, and aglianico. The cocktails ($10.50) are tempting, too, with a mix of seasonal, ever-changing creations and classics. The Toast twist on a classic Vesper mixes Hangar One vodka, Botanivore gin and Cocchi Americano, for example, while a pale pink Nothing to Get Hung About, for example, offers a fresh, fizzy mix of strawberry-infused vodka, lemon and cava.
One could happily spend an entire evening sipping and sampling all the little finger foods — a white bean spread ($5.50), for example, or apple brandy-spiked chicken liver pate ($4) — designed by executive chef Rebecca Boice, the longtime sous chef from San Francisco's Zuni. We started with the fried chickpeas ($4), a crisp, addictive little snack dusted with za'atar and a last-minute squeeze of lemon to amp up the flavors.
The menu, which features organic, local produce and sustainably raised meats and seafood, changes constantly, but we very much hope the spicy carrot soup ($8) is still there the next time we go back. It was wonderful. Spiked with fresh lime, the vivid puree got its spice from crunchy little bites of jalapeño and red onion. It was beautifully balanced in both flavor and texture.
We couldn't decide between the three small plates, so we did the logical thing. We had them all. You should, too. Vegetarians will swoon over the fresh butter beans ($9) with fried capers and chili oil, but the dish is savory enough to satisfy any omnivore. Ditto for the deep-fried Oregon chanterelles, eggplant and green beans ($12.50), which were given the tempura treatment and served with a cashew and miso dip. We don't even like eggplant and we loved this. The meatballs ($12.50) made from Marin Sun pork and served with a tomato sauce and pecorino, were tasty, too.
There are several main course options as well, including a Bodega Bay albacore ($19), grilled chicken with sweet potato croutons ($19) and the brown sugar-brined pork shoulder steak ($19) that we ordered. The pork was a thin steak, not the substantial piece of meat we were expecting, but it was cooked nicely and served with a flavorful vegetable ragout. It just didn't knock our socks off, like the other dishes did. It's hard to say whether that was the dish's fault or because there are only so many times you can be rendered sockless during a single meal. (The wait staff — an ebullient and charming crew that subs in and out seamlessly — is probably used to the sock thing by now.)
Toast's desserts ($7.50) change with the season as well. On this particular evening, the options included an olive oil cake with raspberries, a puddinglike lemon posset and a boca negra with caramel sauce and whipped cream. Our server described the latter as a flourless chocolate cake, although the more apt description is a sliver of the deepest, darkest, chocolatiest flourless chocolate cake imaginable — all the chocolate in the world crammed into one small, intense wedge. The fluffy, freshly whipped cream was quite perfect with it, but what we really wanted was a big glass of cold milk.
It was a sweet ending to a memorable meal.
WHERE: 5900 College Ave., Oakland
CONTACT: 510-658-5900, www.toastoakland.com
HOURS: Noon to 10 p.m. Sundays through Wednesdays; until 11 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays
CUISINE: Seasonal California
VEGETARIAN: Several options, including most of the small plates and a penne dish ($17) with roasted peppers and fresh ricotta
BEVERAGES: Craft cocktails; eclectic wines by the taste, glass or bottle; and house-made soda
RESERVATIONS: Accepted via OpenTable; patio is for walk-in guests only
NOISE LEVEL: Medium
PARKING: Street parking
KIDS: No children's menu, but the staff can make mac and cheese or grilled cheese sandwiches for young diners.
PLUSES: Fresh, creative, seasonal dishes plus an eclectic wine list that lets you taste your way through some unusual grapes, such as hondarribi zuri
DATE OPENED: Opened as a wine bar in 2011; major expansion and menu overhaul in June
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Tonights show looks strange, the whole family sleeps in one room? what is this some new trend? Kids in the shower with mom yeeck!
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Tonights show looks strange, the whole family sleeps in one room? what is this some new trend? Kids in the shower with mom yeeck!
Tonights show was FULLARIOUS!!The blond mom wouldnt let the little boy put his pencil near his face!!!That poor child couldn't use a butter knife to cut his steak!!! That woman was out of it!!!
Favorite quote of the show has to be..: "If you wanna kiss my daughter...you have to kiss ME first!"
Poor poor girls!!
And then she goes out on the date with the girl and makes the boy use hand sanitizer? or was that an outtake?
I still can't understand why they lived in the RV. What was the purpose of that? I guess if you cram everyone into a small space it's less likely you'll lose one of them or allow germs to get on them. What were these people planning to do when those older girls get to college age? Maybe they hadn't thought that far ahead.
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I wanna know how they made so many kids with everyone sleeping in the same room?! No one ever asks...
I was wondering the same thing.
I'm amazed that no one in that family has rebelled yet.
As much as I believe that mom's should be around, if I was a kid I would rather be in the home of the mom who wasn't there rather than the home of the mom who wouldn't let me breathe.
She started crying because no one made the eight year old lunch. The kid can't make himself a sandwich?
I'm wondering if she thought that the kids would never leave home and stay with her forever, since she wasn't teaching them how to be self-sufficient. In fact, her type of behaviour sends messages to her kids that 1. I don't trust you. 2. You're incompetent. 3. You don't have a brain. 4. Everybody in the world is bad and the only person you can trust is me.
As for the other mom, she learned from the experience and looks like she's doing better in being there with her kids.
The girls were home schooled, so the mom probably won't even let them go to college. This type of mom probably has the mentality that women don't need to go to college, because they should stay at home and bear children and take care of their men. :ohnoQuote:
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...another thing, did it bother anyone else that she was taking down license plates and looking up people's information???!
I was another one watching who was perplexed as to exactly when/how they had sex in order to produce all those chitlins. :ohno
The license plate, info searches that she did constantly is a tad excessive. I most definitely can see being careful and making sure there isn't a rapist living in the RV next to ya... but it seemed that she does it almost like..for fun. :shrug I mean.. they're soooo damned paranoid about who is RVing around them, but they fail to realize that they have a fully functioning HOME to go to. :wallbang Needless paranoia, GO HOME NIMWITS. No need to be the resident RoboCop if ya don't hafta. Geez.
Also, if I remember correctly, she DID say something to the affect of "what a real mother does".. or something like that when she was reading the rule changes. I was even offended by what she was saying. How dare she say that in someone else's home, to her HUSBAND and CHILDREN even.


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Pitcher was making final bid to win rotation spot
GOODYEAR, Ariz. -- Robbie Ross appears to have cemented his case for a spot in the Rangers' rotation. For Indians starter Josh Tomlin, he may have to wait at least another day to know where he stands in the race for Cleveland's final starting job.
In a 5-0 Cactus League victory for Texas, Ross continued his solid spring showing for a Rangers squad that has been hit with a rash of injuries this spring. The left-hander cruised through seven innings against the Indians, keeping them off the scoreboard and racking up eight strikeouts against three walks.View Full Game Coverage
"He's still out there. He is one of five," Texas manager Ron Washington said. "He's done nothing to change that. He has been doing everything. That was some of the best stuff I've seem from him pitching as long as I've been watching him pitching. What he has done is outstanding. You can't ask anything more than what he has done."
Cleveland put the leadoff man aboard in both the first and second innings, but Ross settled in and quickly recorded three outs in each case. In the fourth inning, the lefty issued consecutive walks to Jason Kipnis and Carlos Santana, but then retired the next two batters to escape unscathed.
Ross now has a 1.27 ERA with 13 strikeouts and four walks in 20 1/3 Cactus League innings.
"I just tried to go out and do the best I could," Ross said of his spring. "It ended up pretty good. I had a bunch of guys making plays behind me."
Tomlin, who is up against Carlos Carrasco for the final opening in Cleveland's rotation, was charged with four runs on seven hits in 6 1/3 innings of work. The right-hander struck out five, giving him 19 strikeouts and four walks in 20 1/3 Cactus League innings this spring for the Tribe.
"I felt pretty good. I made a couple mistakes," Tomlin said. "That first inning kind of got away from me a little bit, but after that I kind of settled back in and I was able to locate some pitches and move the ball around, and get some outs."
Texas opened the afternoon with two straight singles against Tomlin, who later surrendered a two-run single to Adrian Beltre with one out. On the play, Beltre ran a few too many steps beyond first base, allowing Indians second baseman Kipnis to tag him out after a swift relay.
Tomlin proceeded to keep the Rangers quiet until the sixth inning.
With two outs, Tomlin issued a free pass to Mitch Moreland. Texas center fielder Michael Choice followed by drilling a 2-1 offering over the wall in left field on a low line drive. The two-run home run -- Choice's fourth shot of the spring -- pushed the Rangers to a 4-0 advantage.
"It was just a hanging curveball," Tomlin said of the pitch to Choice. "I kind of backed it up a little bit and the guy put a good swing on it and hit it out.
Indians manager Terry Francona felt Tomlin tired as the outing wore on.
"As with the rest of them, I thought as he got a little stretched out, I think he got a little fatigued," Francona said. "I think that's part of the program. The first inning, you've got a hit-and-run on the second hitter of the game and we make a throw that we probably shouldn't have. Those are the two runs that scored. After that, he settled down and pitched really well."
After the game, Francona said he planned on meeting with general manager Chris Antonetti to go over the team's final rotation and bullpen decisions. Cleveland will likely announce its moves Wednesday morning. Whether Tomlin makes the Opening Day rotation or not, Francona was impressed with he right-hander's showing this spring.
"I think he's as professional and hard-working and good teammate as you're ever going to find," Francona said. "That will never change. It'll probably only get better, if possible."
Up next for Indians: Justin Masterson, who is slated to make his third straight Opening Day start when the Indians open the season against the A's on Monday, will take the mound against the Brewers on Wednesday. The big sinkerballer will be opposed by Yovani Gallardo in a 4:05 p.m. ET Cactus League tile at Goodyear Ballpark. The game will be available on an exclusive webcast on Indians.com.
Jordan Bastian is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Major League Bastian, and follow him on Twitter @MLBastian.


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Due to all the competition in the e-commerce industry these days, the innovations are an integral part of the business success. If you have a better customer satisfaction rating, it will be equivalent to more sales for an enterprise. Check out the top e-commerce innovations for the year 2016 that made a lot of difference in the industry.
1. Drone Delivery
Of course, when customers order from your store, it is important they will be able to get their goods the soonest possible time. The top trending innovation that has gained a lot of popularity is the drone delivery. It makes the delivery of the products fast and efficient. We have to wait for a little time, but we can surely expect that soon enough, same day delivery will be rampant as well as the same hour delivery of goods.
2. Droid Delivery
It is another delivery option, but this time it's a land based. The droid delivery is quickly getting the attention of consumers and businesses alike. Why not? There is a two-way radio which will let the seller and the buyer communicate, and there is also a GPS locating system installed on the droid from the point of origin up to the customer's doorstep.
3. Augmented Reality Technology
The dilemma of the people who are shopping online is that they might get some goods that have the wrong size. With the help of the virtual reality products, it makes things easier for the buyers to be able to check the whole closet of what the store is trying to sell. It is also beneficial to make sure that they have the right sizes of clothes or shoes.
The latest technological innovations made a significant impact on the e-commerce industry. It makes the stores generate more sales in an efficient manner.


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I like the idea... and I am more than sure that a bursting potato won't dammage anything... (if you wear safety glasses)
larda will probably build a 10X mix hybride out of genetically modified spud
Children are the future
unless we stop them now
or make a steel shell for the spud lolz
Aussie spudders unite!!
to be honest, i can't envisage a spud exploding unless it was little more than the skin left, spuds are pretty tough vegetables you know
I say go for it. Even if it doesn't advance the technology, throwbacks are always nice.
Plus, it's unique. How often do we honestly get to see unique ideas around here lately? I'd love to see it done, even if I'm not a fan of minis. For an even more metaphorical, artsy meaning, fire PVC bullets from it. That would be a hoot.
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This promises to be entertaining, and for me it is a nice way to make my first combustion, though i doubt i will bother doingt it before the due date i want to finish my first pneumatic first.
"Did you ever stop to think that out of the seven deadly sins envy is the only one which doesn't give the sinner even momentary pleasure"-George Will
Go for it.
Yes, it is kind of silly but so what? No sillier than using a tennis ball can as the chamber.
If done properly it won't explode. (Lots of dumbass posts on the possibility of it exploding). The peak pressure in the chamber is really only dependent on the ammo's mass, diameter and friction. If those values are low enough then it won't explode since the chamber pressure won't get high enough.
You might consder using the spud as the chamber, barrel and ammo. Cut a plug out'a the spud inject fuel, reinsert plug as the ammo. No barrel at all.
Pin electrodes might work, easy enough to test if the spud is to conductive. If the sud is too conductive then you might be able to get away with only insulating one of the two electrodes. If the pins are firmly attached to their wires then you don't really have to worry about the pins becoming projectiles, the wires will stop'm.
Watch who you call dumbass...
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Well the good thing is, if it does fail, how much damage can a chunk of potato possibly cause if you're wearing eye protection?
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For heavens sake why does not one jsut make a spud pipe bomb, i think i should, just to check(i have made real pipe bombs so a spud wont hurt me after all i am not using explosives). I will tell you in a min what happens, using gasoline as a fuel.
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It's been exactly five years since I was given the honor of writing restaurant reviews for this fine paper. In that time, I've been to what I estimate is about 300 restaurants. I'm not going to start rattling of my favorites, because, well, I and your other humble Forkers already do that with our weekly "10 Great", yearly Best Ofs, and other lists.
In the time that The Retreat was in business, rock-star-by-night, sushi-chef-by-day Cody Requejo produced Japanese food worthy of Iron Chef while his buddy Dave Mau put out BBQ lunches and whatever else he thought was tasty that day. But when The Spa went belly up, so did The Retreat. These days Requejo is reportedly working for Bear Flag Fish Company while Dave Mau still does his Dinners with Dave events at Memphis at the Santora.
Being the darling of Chowhounds and serving great Mexican seafood wasn't enough to save Mariscos Puerta Esperanza. It was situated in a strip mall as most things in Orange are, but in a particularly bad location that wasn't street facing and was notoriously buried from view. The best dish was pescado zarandeado robalo–a whole striped bass, gutted, butterflied and splayed open, the width of an atlas, imprisoned inside a metal rack, placed above a grill, and flipped over and over with a technique that suggested a beach-bonfire cookout.
3. Blanca.
Blanca was one of the restaurants caught up in the ill-fated, ambitious mess of the Mor Project (read here for the full sordid story on what happened). Chef Nicholas Weber and his amazing crudo creations were the casualty. It was one of the first and so far the only restaurant in OC that focused on the Italian version of sashimi, which included one that had thin-as-a-filament wafers of crispy Serrano ham, spicy Espelette pepper sauce, gazpacho vinaigrette and parsley sprouts topping bite-sized slices of raw fish.
2. May Garden.
Known to most as an old school chow-mein and sweet-and-sour chicken joint, Chef Eric Shin quietly prepared faithfully authentic Taiwanese dishes on a secret menu to those who knew to ask for it. May Garden has now been replaced with a Chinese vegetarian restaurant, but I'm still looking for a worthy substitute to his "Queen's chicken", which was served cold, bone-in, with its floppy skin jellied and meat tasting of the sweet and alcoholic marinade that permeates down to the bone.
Hidden Kitchen was just a temporary experiment by four friends (none with much restaurant experience) at operating an eatery for two nights a week at the Rooster Cafe. It was, for all intents and purposes, one of OC's first pop-ups. But since all the principals had day jobs (two were medical doctors) plans for a more permanent restaurant never materialized. But I still remember the moist, pan-roasted Atlantic cod they served me as it sat on a bright, chunky tomato sauce with white wine, chile, pine nuts, currants and olives. There was sincerity in each bite as if it were also an ingredient.


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Reg reader crafts 3-axis GoPro 'Stubilizer' for skull-mounted cameras
'Vertical learning curve' for CAD and 3D printing novice Stuart Smith
How hard could it really be?
El Reg: What CAD software did you finally settle on?
Stuart: SolidWorks, the evaluation version, but the final design tweaks will be done by a freelance CAD professional (via his existing licence, so all above board) to make it fit for injection moulding.
I think if it wasn't for my need to end up with something that can be injection moulded, I could have chosen something else. However, it seemed sensible to go with an industry standard modelling tool which had built-in support for moulding and plastics.
It's certainly not an area where free stuff excels, so you're left with the big boys - and they all charge a fecking fortune for licences.
El Reg: What have been the challenges?
CAD has been the big one. But tackling the 3D printer went hand-in-hand with that. I think without it I'd have been stuffed. I've lost count of the number of times I've been happy with the design, printed it out and then found it was total bollocks for some reason or other.
El Reg: Is there any other way you could have done your prototyping?
Stuart: I could have tried to whittle parts out of wood by hand or trying to mould polymorph by hand. It's only been after holding it in my hands, trying it on a helmet, for example, that you get a feel for what works and what doesn't.
An alternative to printing your own stuff is to send the designs off. I've currently got orders in with a couple of online 3D printing firms, but it's still expensive at £60 per Stubilizer, and turn-around is around 10 days.
There's also CNC, but that's pretty much what every existing Chinese cobbled-together gimbal design uses - flat CNCed parts of carbon fibre/aluminium. And that leaves you with all the problems I'm trying to solve, like exposed wires and a Heath Robinson look.
El Reg: You're evidently on the right track, as the above vid of an early prototype shows. What's on the agenda now before you start rattling the tin for funds?
Stuart: I've got to iron out a few technical issues with the latest design. It just doesn't work as well as I'd like, and I don't want to take it to Kickstarter until I'm 100 per cent sure that I can fulfil on promises I make.
El Reg: Fair enough. How much are you looking to raise?
Stuart: £50k. That's what I need for injection moulding, part orders, assembly in bulk, warehousing, and a stable base for future production. I don't intend to take any personal profit from that, nor am I paying myself a wage or taking any of those funds for my expenses so far. It will all be invested in the company.
However, I can't afford to lose any more time, so I'm moving forward on the assumption that I can raise the cash. I've already probably spent £3k+ on the printer and parts, so what the hell - in for a penny, in for thousands of pounds.
El Reg: Vital question: How much will the finished Stubilizer be?
Stuart: I'll be pricing the initial Kickstarter run at £299 each including battery and charger, so I need around 167 or so people to pony up.
El Reg: Sounds like you're on your way. I was going to ask you to apologise for the truly terrible "Stubilizer" pun, but it appears you have linguistic support from an Oz outfit also involved in vital stabilisation work.
Stuart: Yeah, I found that link too! No idea why they called it that though unless it's for the same reason.
El Reg: The name must come from "stubby", as our Australian cousins call beer bottles. Evidently their device is doing vital work Downunder maintaining a stable beverage.
And speaking of beer, I note in one of your snaps you use a webcam so you can monitor print progress from the boozer.
Right, that's running, let's hit the pub
Stuart: Well, these things take hours to finish. What's a man to do? ®
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Yesterday before the game, I referred to Johan Santana's start last night as both critical and pivotal.
If Johan went out there and stymied the Dodgers with a gem of a performance, then it was imperative for the front office to add a proven and effective reliever for the bullpen, a possible upgrade at catcher, and a right-handed bat with power who could play corner outfield.
However, if Santana failed to produce at minimum a quality start, then the Mets chances to compete for a wild card would be dealt a critical blow.
Unfortunately for both the Mets and us, Santana was painfully awful, and it seems as though fate has delivered a strong and sobering message that any chance for the Mets to make the post season in 2012 could be doomed.
None of this is set in stone of course, but I just don't see how we can go forward without the same Johan Santana we had for the first two months of this season.
We can't win this thing with just R.A. Dickey and Jonathan Niese as the only two reliable pitchers in the rotation. The Mets were already handed a tremendous hit when they lost Dillon Gee for the season. Gee may have only been our number five starter, but he was one of the best and he always kept the Mets in games and gave them a chance to win. In 13 of his 17 starts, Gee allowed 3 runs or less. With Santana now essentially lost to in terms of going from staff ace to only God know what, we now have only two reliable options. How can we make a run with that?
In Friday night's 7-6 loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers, the 33-year-old Santana gave up six earned runs on seven hits in three innings. He has now given up 19 earned runs in his last three starts (12.2 IP, 13.50 ERA), and became just the third pitcher in franchise history to give up six or more earned runs in three consecutive starts. What started out as a rags to riches season for Santana is now in tatters.
After the game a somber Terry Collins mulled his options which could include a trip to the day diabled list.
"He came out of the All-Star break, he had eight days of rest, pitched on the ninth day. He just hasn't responded. So we're gonna go in here and discuss some options and see what we come up with tomorrow," Collins said.
"Obviously, when you talk about options, those things will all be brought up. Do you want to skip him one start? If you put him on the DL, you're talking two starts. All those things are gonna be talked about."
Santana says he feels OK but that confidence and swagger we've come to expect from him is now gone.
"I don't feel my best right now, but at the same time, I'm not trying to find excuses. I'm just not executing my pitches. I'm not commanding my fastball," Santana said.
The left-hander now finds himself at a tipping point with a 6-7 record and a 3.98 ERA.
A few days ago I posted on his deteriorating effectiveness since tossing his career-high 134-pitch no-hitter on June 1. Back then we dreamed of a potential Cy Young season for Santana, but how quickly the tables have turned on us.
Without our ace, our chances for winning one of those wild card spots could be doomed for good.
Barring a miracle that sees prospect Matt Harvey come up and deliver a Gooden-esque debut, I just don't see a way forward. It would take a herculean effort by Harvey and the fact is that he's simply not that good, and on top of that he may not even be ready. It was one thing to want Harvey to come up and replace our number five starter, but replacing our ace? No way, no how.
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Mohannad Al-Khatib [aka Psycho-Designs] is a passionate 3D and Digital Artist and a recent graduate of the Computation Arts programme at Concordia University. Interested in complex character design and storytelling, he has worked at the Hexagram Concordia Research Institute as a 3D and VFX artist and teacher on various game related projects, such as: Skins, Fabulous, Otsi, TimeTraveller, PlayPr, and Victorinator. He is also an active member of Obx Labs, AbTeC, TAG, and CCGD.
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Artist CurrentThe Artist on the Vicotinator iPhone game, and the 3D artist for an unannounced iPhone/iPad game.
Guest Lecturer CurrentGive guest lectures annually for 3D and sculpture, and game design classes.
3D artist and Research Associate at Obx Lab CurrentLead the second iteration of Otsi: Produce 3D assists [creatures and props] for games and Machinimas. Teaching Aboriginal teens Modeling and Level design in UDK assists for their games. VFX artist on the TimeTraveller mechinema.
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3D artist at HexagramModeling and texturing props and creatures for a game.
Character ArtistThe production of a Soldier for the game Planet2. which included: Concept development, modeling, sculpting, texturing, rigging, producing test animations, and integrating into the engine.
ZBrush Instructor at Concordia UniversityOrganizing and giving hands on tutorials using ZBrush.
Video artist for the Linkin Park North American tour of 2008Production of videos and loops to be displayed/projected around the band as they play live
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Fortunately for parents who have children on the autism disorder spectrum, the Capital Region has many resources. Here are just some of them:
On Facebook: you'll find a community of local families sharing experiences, resources and information. Just search for ACT (Autism Communication Time).
The Autism Society of the Greater Capital Region, New York: is located at 101 State St., Schenectady, and serves as a resource for families trying to navigate the world of autism spectrum disorders. The group offers support meetings for parents, informational seminars and fun family outings. Visit www.albanyautism.org or call 355-2191 for more information. The society serves the Capital Region and beyond.
The Center for Autism and Related Disabilities (CARD) at the University at Albany: offers parent education seminars, conferences and family events. It's also a research hub. Visit the website for more information.
Parent To Parent of New York State: is a training and information resource for parents and professionals who work with children with all ranges of special needs. Its "support parents" program matches families who have children with similar needs so that parents can connect with other parents who have "been there." Visit http://parenttoparentnys.org/offices/Capital-District or call 381-4350 for more information.
Friday Knights: is a program at The College of Saint Rose that allows children in kindergarten through 12th grade who are on the autism disorder spectrum to work on social skills through fun activities. Students at Saint Rose serve as activity leaders. Parent meetings that include educational opportunities are held at the same time. Social skills learning groups are also available for children in grades 1 through 12. Contact 337-4914 for more information.
The 2nd Annual Autism Awareness Informational Fair & Carnival at Skidmore College: will be held from noon to 3 p.m. April 21. The fair, presented by Saratoga Bridges, The Parent Network of the Capital Region, Skidmore College's psychology department and Wilcenski & Pleat, PLLC, will include information on recreational programs, camps, apps, school programs from pre-kindergarten to college and therapeutic programs. There also will be carnival games and a bounce house. The event will be held in Skidmore's intramural gymnasium.


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Fresh details have emerged about plans to combat problems caused by high winds near the Bridgewater Place skyscraper in Leeds.
As previously reported by the Yorkshire Evening Post, Bridgewater Place's owner is pushing ahead with work on a scheme designed to ease the dangerous 'wind tunnel' effect that can grip the area around the 32-storey building during stormy conditions.
Councillors will be given an update on the progress of the scheme at a meeting being held next Thursday. And a city council report compiled for the meeting provides the clearest indication to date of the form the safety measures will take. It says the emerging design comprises the following components:
A number of four-metre-deep barriers set at least six metres above Water Lane, which runs next to Bridgewater Place;
A series of vertical screens, which would be positioned on the north western corner of the building, varying in height between 12 and 18 metres;
A glass canopy running along the full length of Bridgewater Place's northern elevation to Water Lane;
Another vertical screen at the southern end of the tower, close to the Grove pub.
Bridgewater Place's owner has also revealed that it will be holding a public consultation on the safety plans.
Nick Sinfield, from CPPI Bridgewater Place Limited Partnership, said: "The technology behind the proposals has taken many years to develop and we believe that it is the right scheme to help alleviate the winds surrounding Bridgewater Place."
Edward Slaney, from Sowerby Bridge, was crushed to death by a truck that was blown off its wheels close to the skyscraper in 2011.
Roads around Bridgewater Place were closed during severe weather last month.
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The Live Updates page at Poker News looks superb and very similar to that of other online leaders reporting for WSOP and the like.I for one am grateful for the coverage and look forward to enjoying it forthwith.Great to see.
The Live Updates page at Poker News looks superb and very similar to that of other online leaders reporting for WSOP and the like.I for one am grateful for the coverage and look forward to enjoying it forthwith.Great to see.
When are you getting your butt over here Gofor?
When you accept that I can out drink you and when you have a cease fire with Bugsy.
In my current state of health, my dog could outdrink me. Ceasefire with Bugsy happened long ago, where have you been, hiding under a rock? LOLGet yer @ss over here you lazy South Australian!
Tam.I am one of the few who can accpet that I am outclassed in these events.Fiscal factors also prevent any two week visit to your lovely homeland.I will be following progress of all PNW'ers closley from afar.Enjoy Tam and others.
Very nice work PokerNetwork/PokerNews. I too look forward to being kept well informed over the next 2 weeks.
I am fiscally and mentally challenged and won't be playing anything myself this year...I will however make Bugs buy me a drink and send a toast to you ! I may even become the official gossip columnist reporting the unreportable. ( If only these items of interest were not usually centered around my own appalling behaviour, it might result in something others would be interested in reading hahahaha!)
HOW COOL TAM !!Just like L.A Confidential....( on the Que TEE !! ) I love it !!!No names....just stuff like :" Who was the Brisbane player who was scheduled to play in today's event, but was last seen strangling an airline employee.....find out, only at TAM CONFIDENTIAL " !!!!!
Exactly what I was thinking! Ok Done!Tam is on the Lamb......or something.See anything bizarre? Hear any fab rumours worth reporting?!! - Contact Tam Confidential on the message details at the bottom of this post!
Is it just me or is the Live Updates page going haywire?It seems to regress back - new info is posted then it's gone. There was comment about gaz getting knocked out which isn't there now. The report says blinds up to 3rd level now it just says 2.