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MOHNTON, Pa. - Notes from round 2 qualifying in Pro Stock Bike at the 17th annual Pep Boys NHRA Nationals presented by Greased Lightning listing lane, rider name, elapsed time/top speed this round, position in order following run, best prior elapsed time/speed, and position in order prior to run:
Left Lane: Steve Johnson Runs 7.387/175.14, Now #9; No Prior Run
Right Lane: Chris Reuter Runs 7.456/181.50, Now #15; Best prior run: 8.546/108.00, Was #24
2:13 PM Johnson did not get a time in round one of qualifying so he gets to go in the first pair of round two. Temperatures are in the 80s and there is bright sunlight. The bump time at the start of round two is 7.483.
Left Lane: Bruce Dickson Runs 8.177/158.80, Now #26; No Prior Run
Right Lane: Don DeTurck Runs 7.861/168.07, Now #25; Best prior run: 7.898/165.62, Was #25
Dixon took out the 330-foot reflector the first time out. This time out, Dixon went left toward the wall and had to work hard to keep from hitting it. DeTurck smoked his engine at 1,000 feet.
Left Lane: Matt Hines Runs 7.278/182.48, Now #5; Best prior run: 7.691/142.57, Was #23
Right Lane: Reggie Cole Runs 7.512/180.96, Now #20; Best prior run: 7.758/172.08, Was #24
Left Lane: Dennis Mirante Runs 7.645/171.82, Now #24; Best prior run: 7.617/176.97, Was #23
Right Lane: Neil Jacobs Runs 7.519/179.64, Now #21; Best prior run: 7.672/142.12, Was #24
Weather permitting, Mirante and Jacobs will get two more chances to qualify tomorrow.
Left Lane: Connie Cohen Runs 7.523/172.52, Now #23; Best prior run: 7.530/167.59, Was #23
Right Lane: Geno Scali Runs 7.346/185.61, Now #9; Best prior run: 7.524/144.41, Was #22
Cohen fought her way down the track and will have to wait until tomorrow to try again to make the field.
Left Lane: Bill Vose Runs 7.366/176.40, Now #10; Best prior run: 7.473/179.56, Was #19
Right Lane: Ron Ayers Runs 7.425/180.74, Now #17; Best prior run: 7.483/176.01, Was #20
Left Lane: Brian DeLong Runs 7.526/176.24, Now #19; Best prior run: 7.452/181.79, Was #18
Right Lane: Thomas Miceli Runs 7.361/184.07, Now #10; Best prior run: 7.465/176.35, Was #20
DeLong is still on the outside after this run.
Left Lane: Sam Hurwitz Runs 7.437/182.43, Now #16; Best prior run: 7.391/186.30, Was #16
Right Lane: Rob Short Runs 7.450/186.15, Now #17; Best prior run: 7.401/180.62, Was #17
Hurwitz came into this round sitting on the bubble. After this round, he is still sitting there and Short is still just outside the field looking in.
Left Lane: Paul Gast Runs 7.478/160.25, Now #15; Best prior run: 7.387/181.35, Was #15
Right Lane: Greg Underdahl Runs 7.379/186.15, Now #12; Best prior run: 7.369/181.45, Was #12
Neither rider ran quicker than their round one times and neither changed places in the qualifying order.
Left Lane: Mike Berry Runs 7.321/182.38, Now #8; Best prior run: 7.384/187.76, Was #14
Right Lane: Craig Treble Runs 7.301/186.46, Now #6; Best prior run: 7.315/186.38, Was #7
Berry came into the round in the 14th qualifying position and moved into eighth with this run.
Left Lane: Reggie Showers Runs 7.290/182.75, Now #6; Best prior run: 7.324/188.60, Was #9
Right Lane: Joe DeSantis Runs 7.355/180.52, Now #8; Best prior run: 7.310/181.06, Was #7
Showers had a nice run to better his round one time of 7.324 seconds.
Left Lane: GT Tonglet Runs 7.285/181.57, Now #4; Best prior run: 7.265/188.75, Was #4
Right Lane: Shawn Gann No Time, Now #3; Best prior run: 7.260/184.35, Was #3
Gann broke during his burnout and left oil from the water box to the starting line. He did not make a run. Tonglet did not improve his round one time.
Left Lane: Angelle Savoie Runs 7.208/181.76, Now #1; Best prior run: 7.244/188.36, Was #1
Right Lane: Antron Brown Runs 7.445/170.54, Now #2; Best prior run: 7.251/180.14, Was #2
Savoie and Brown entered this round one and two. Savoie bettered her round one time by 36 thousandths of second.


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To celebrate the release of their long-awaited new studio album Blood Of The Nations, Germany's ACCEPT are proud to announce a 24-hour News Marathon on August 19th in celebration of the album's European release date on August 20th.
The marathon will take place on the official ACCEPT website and all accompanying Social Networking sites (Facebook, Twitter and MySpace) for 24 hours straight. Fans will gain access to exclusive ACCEPT news from all over the world, see personal video messages from the band members, take part in a variety of raffles and giveaways, and much, much more.
The ACCEPT News Marathon will begin at 12 midnight PACIFIC / 2 a.m. CENTRAL / 3 a.m. EASTERN. Up-to-the-minute news on ACCEPT will be posted and updated every hour all day long. Fans are encouraged to be a part of this historic event!
Blood Of The Nations was recorded at Backstage Studio in Derbyshire, England with acclaimed British producer Andy Sneap (Exodus, Arch Enemy, Megadeth). The track listing for the album — which marks the recording debut of the band's latest addition, ex-TT QUICK vocalist Mark Tornillo — is as follows:
01. Beat The Bastards
02. Teutonic Terror
03. The Abyss
04. Blood Of The Nations
05. Shades Of Death
06. Locked And Loaded
07. Time Machine (Bonus Track)
08. Kill The Pain
09. Rollin' Thunder
10. Pandemic
11. New World Comin'
12. No Shelter
13. Bucketful Of Hate
Blood Of The Nations will be released in Japan on September 4th and in the North America on September 19th. Nuclear Blast USA's Webshop is now taking pre-orders for the exclusive mail-order digi-pak edition, which features the bonus track "Time Machine." The pre-order bundle includes an ACCEPT "Teutonic Terror" t-shirt and can be ordered here.
ACCEPT's 2010 line-up includes Wolf Hoffmann on guitar, Peter Baltes on bass, Stefan Schwarzmann on drums, Herman Frank on guitar and Mark Tornillo on vocals.
Visit ACCEPT online at www.ACCEPTWORLDWIDE.com, www.myspace.com/accepttheband, and www.facebook.com/accepttheband.

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Moonlight Medicine: Onset (Jen Haeger) - Paperback
As both a veterinarian and an M.D, Dr. Evelyn Eisenhart is a unique woman. Unfortunately, her abilities attract the attention of a young, handsome werewolf named David who is desperate to find a cure for his affliction, and he ends up bringing the world of the Wolfkin straight to her front door. David sees Evelyn as his savior, but others of his kind see her as a threat to their existence and David as a dangerous stray. When David realizes what he has done, he must protect Evelyn from their murderous intentions, and Evelyn is swept up into a bizarre world of assassination attempts, insane werewolves, and pack politics. Can David and Evelyn find a way out of their deadly situation? And if so, will Evelyn's life ever be the same again?


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Tuesday, June 23, 2009
MANHATTAN -- The words to "Itsy Bitsy Spider" tell a simple story about an arachnid and a spout, but simply recalling the lines could initiate an unintentional attitude.
That's the focus of research by Kansas State University's Eduardo Alvarado, sophomore in pre-law, Overland Park, who is looking at the behaviors elicited from the musical lyrics of common songs.
Alvarado is working with Donald Saucier, associate professor of psychology at K-State, through K-State's Developing Scholars Program, which pairs underrepresented students with faculty mentors to work on research projects.
Alvarado is studying the effects priming can have on behavior by looking at the positive and negative responses stimulated from music lyrics from a variety of song categories, including patriotic and Christmas songs. Priming, he said, is when someone is exposed to a certain environment and their subconscious is activated, and then they tend to act in accordance with that environment without deliberate intent. Priming can manipulate behavior; if someone witnesses violent behavior, they would likely behave more violently.
"One of the key implications is that behaviors may be malleable in the sense that many individuals have the capacity for similar reactions in social situations," Saucier said. "Relatively small-scale primes may activate certain reactions, and these may be pro-social or anti-social depending on the context."
Alvarado said the researchers wanted to see if certain musical lyrics activated a pro-social response, which is a positive feeling like empathy, or an anti-social response, which is a negative feeling like aggression. Participants from K-State's spring general psychology courses participated in the initial project for class credit. The participants had to complete a survey and do a lyrics exercise. For the lyrics exercise, participants had to fill in missing lyrics for different songs.
The songs involved in the study were patriotic songs, such as "The Star-Spangled Banner"; secular Christmas songs, such as "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"; religious Christmas songs, such as "O Holy Night"; and neutral songs, such as "Itsy Bitsy Spider."
Participants filled out a survey that asked questions about their religion and their attitudes toward other cultures and diversity. Half of the participants were asked to complete the survey before the lyric exercise, and the other half completed the survey after the exercise.
Alvarado said the researchers assume people act similarly to primes, and they looked overall at the surveys to see if there was a change in the responses before and after completing the lyrics exercise. They wanted to see if the songs created a pro-social or an anti-social response. He said the preliminary findings showed that the patriotic songs had a negative effect on the participants, as shown through their responses to the survey's questions about other cultures and diversity. The patriotic songs made the participants close-minded and prejudiced.
"Once they were in a patriotic point of view, they were less empathetic," Alvarado said. "They didn't put themselves in other people's perspective."
Though songs like "Itsy Bitsy Spider" and "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" were meant to be neutral primes, the researchers found that they stimulated a pro-social response.
"You wouldn't think that those songs were going to put people in a certain mind frame, but they do activate a certain attitude," Alvarado said. "We found it made people more accepting and more empathetic. The reason for this we think is because we used to listen to these songs when we were little and they kind of activate childhood happiness."
Saucier said follow-up research will focus on using stronger and more salient primes to influence pro-social and anti-social behavior. Jessica McManus, graduate student in psychology, has been collaborating on the project.
Alvarado said he has learned that being involved in research is a full-time commitment, but he wants to continue learning more through his projects.
"At first I was nervous, but I knew it was a really good opportunity," Alvarado said. "A lot of people don't know they can participate in research as an undergraduate."
Alvarado said he likes, through K-State's Developing Scholars Program, learning about research projects other students are involved in. He plans to go to law school and thinks his research experience will help him understand how people think and react to different situations.
Alvarado is from Mexico City and moved to Overland Park when he was 11 years old. He is bilingual, speaking English and Spanish, and is learning Italian. A 2008 graduate of Shawnee Mission North High School, he is the son of Eduardo Alvarado and Lisa Lopez.


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Skyline Exhibits Demos New WindScape® Air-Powered Displays at Exhibitor2014 Show
EAGAN, MN, USA, February 14, 2014 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Skyline Exhibits is showcasing the latest in their trade show booth ideas at Exhibitor2014 with a live demonstration of the company's new WindScape® display line. WindScape® displays are available in 46 standard shapes, from a backwall to a table top display.
Skyline Exhibits is known for coming up with innovative trade show ideas and the launch of their new inflatable trade show exhibiting system, WindScape®, is further proof of that. The exhibit designer and manufacturer will have WindScape® Exhibit System front and center at Exhibitor2014, the industry's largest trade show event in the United States, with live demos throughout the convention and several chances to win free prizes.
Exhibitor2014 takes place March 17-19 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas, NV. Skyline will demo WindScape® Exhibit System at their booth, #1423, all three days.
"The biggest reason people come to Exhibitor2014 is to see new products and WindScape® is like nothing they've ever seen before. This will be an opportunity to see the system in action, touch it, feel it and kick the wheels, so to speak. Seeing is believing and seeing WindScape® in action will make it clear just how superior the product is to more traditional displays," said Mike Thimmesch Director of Customer Engagement at Skyline Exhibits (www.skyline.com).
Skyline is running two different giveaways during the show. A "Guess the Inflation Time" contest gives participants a chance to win one of five WindScape® displays: four table top displays and one curved 10-foot backwall. To win, participants must provide the closest guess as to the amount of time it takes to inflate a custom WindScape® exhibit component, which is an 82-foot long element that wraps around the entire booth.
It's a little easier to walk away with a prize from Skyline's second giveaway - a KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON t-shirt. T-shirts will be given away to anyone who stops by Booth #1423 to watch a WindScape® demonstration.
"We believe WindScape® is the easiest, lightest, and quickest trade show display ever. It helps exhibitors 'keep calm' because it makes exhibiting easier. And it's one that they can 'carry on' because an entire 10-foot display fits inside an overhead bin-sized suitcase. To promote that Keep Calm and Carry On attitude, we're giving away free 'KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON' T-shirts to anyone who stops by our booth to watch a demo," said Thimmesch.
Skyline plans to demo several different shapes and sizes of WindScape® exhibits including: 10 foot and 20 foot displays, a table top display, a tower, a hanging sign, and a conference room. To view the demo schedule visit: http://www.skylinetradeshowtips.com/see-a-demo-of-the-amazing-skyline-windscape-exhibit-system-at-exhibitor2014-and-get-a-cool-t-shirt/.
WindScape® is a lightweight and compact inflatable exhibit system. With the touch of a button, displays inflate on their own to a rigid structure that is strong enough to handle the rigors of exhibiting. WindScape® is already an award-winning concept, having won a Silver Event Marketing Design Award. To learn more about WindScape® visit Skyline Exhibits at http://www.skyline.com.
For more trade show booth ideas and trade show tips head on over to the Skyline trade show tips blog at http://www.skylinetradeshowtips.com.
About Skyline Exhibits: Skyline Exhibits is North America's leading brand of exhibit systems. Known for high-quality products and services, cost-saving portability, innovative functionality, creative design and exhibitor education, Skyline has nearly 100 Design Centers in North America and representation in over 30 countries. The company manufactures a broad range of products for trade shows and events – from banner stands and pop-up trade show displays to large custom modular exhibits. With over 20 integrated exhibit systems, state-of-the-art production of large-format graphics and options for exhibit rental and services, Skyline provides exhibit solutions for virtually any size or budget.
Press Release courtesy of Online PR Media: http://bit.ly/1eVCcqC
Michael Thimmesch
Director of Customer Engagement
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Or maybe I just don't have the patience for movies without songs any more...
Anyways, let's hit news!
* Dhanush's Bollywood debut set for June!
* Older actresses and younger actors in 2013!
The pair I'm looking forward to?
Madhuri Dixit (45) and Arshad Warsi (44)
Film: Dedh Ishqiya
Madhuri will replace Vidya Balan (who starred in the first part) in Abhishek Chaubey's sequel to his 2010 hit, Ishqiya. Until a few days ago, Kangna Ranaut was also supposed to star in the Vishal Bhardwaj production, but she backed out citing date issues.
* Do Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola and Gangs of Wasseypur signal a renewed interest in the countryside or are they exploiting rural stereotypes for those of us overseas and in the big metros?
What inspired Bhardwaj to narrate rural stories?
"I love Indian folk music and villages. People from there are more interesting than the urban people. So, I really like to have those characters in my films. I grew up in a small town of Meerut (in Uttar Pradesh) and so mostly my movies reflect experiences of my childhood. While making movies I go back to my past and draw experiences from that," he was quoted as saying recently.
Here's another story about how Imran Khan's character is doing everybody a favor by returning to his village and dressing just like them, even though he has a fancy degree.
"See, living in a village like Mandola, one would stereotype them as typical village folks, but I have shown both my characters as well-educated individuals. Matru has studied law from a reputed university and though he has the option to take up a job in a big city, he chooses to return to his village. He dresses like the other villagers, speaks in Haryanvi and becomes one of them. He dares to take a stand against the oppressors rather than accepting it as a way of life."
So... apparently, this is most certainly NOT going to be the film for me. If there are two things I hate it's a) whimsy and b) magical rural characters who are just so much more "authentic" than us city folk. Also c) Imran Khan's "acting."
* No Entry Mein Entry is happening.
* Irrfan Khan takes his head out of his ass long enough to rant about Indian film awards.
"There are awards in other countries which are very important, and which change your position. Forget about any of that happening in our country!" he said.
* He's joined by Chetan Bhagat who talks about jokes.
In the current environment, a lot of people find the 'balaatkar' joke in 3 Idiots to be in extremely bad taste.
I would like to clarify that this scene was not in the book. I had not written it. Having said that, I will still defend that joke. Life is brutal and humour should be seen in the right context. A caricature on a terrorist in peaceful times may be funny but when a 26/11 happens, it is not funny any more. What happened in Delhi was bad, but we should not jump to generalisation. Good taste and bad are always in retrospect. Balaatkar and rape are used in different contexts. We often say, 'Oh I got raped in office today', meaning I had a bad day at work. But that does not seem so funny any more.
Who "often" says that? Certainly no woman nor anybody who respects them...
* Finally, a piece of bad news for anybody who (like me) enjoys a Bollywood shit show - the Nargis-Uday wedding isn't happening. (YET! I'm fully campaigning for Narday? Urgis?)
Song trailer for "Maria Pitache" from the Tamil version (aka the version worth watching because it won't have Neil "Pee Face" Nitin Mukesh in it) of David!
VIKRAM!!! Look at him go!
Song trailer for "Elay Keechan" from Mani Ratnam's Kadal - another film guaranteed to be better than the inevitable Hindi remake. Possibly because this doesn't star Abhishek Bachchan. (OH BOOM! Can you tell I'm over the sinus infection I've been fighting off the last couple of weeks? LOL!)
Prabudeva dancing about the joys of cricket!


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Peg Kehret
By: Nicole S.
Illinois, Age 9
Peg`s family Art (her brother) and her parents Beth and Bob Shulze, were very nice.Her hometown was Austin,Texas. She was born in 1937 and is now 67 years old. She is very nice,kind, generous, and hard working. When she was 12 she caught the disease Polio and defeated it when she was 13.She`d have to get hot packs and therapy sessions(stretches). Her goals in the hospital were to defeat Polio and to return to her house. Her obstacles were that there was no cure for Polio and that she was paralyzed. She learned to walk again after a couple years. When her roomate was 16 she died from her disease. The people who had Polio from long ago are now getting pains from the horrible disease they had long ago.


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US anti-drug laws essentially set a maximum price of zero on drugs. Economically speaking, would it be more effective to legalize drugs and let the market control things?
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Economics cannot truly answer this question because this is a normative issue. It is an issue based on values rather than on economic principles.
Legalizing drugs would, according to economics, make for a more efficient market in drugs. However, one likely impact of this would be to actually decrease the cost of drugs. There would, for example, no longer be a premium paid to dealers who have to run the risk of going to prison or of being killed in gang wars. Economically speaking, this is a good thing in that the same product would be available at a lower price.
However, this is an area that really goes outside of economics. Economic thinking cannot decide which products are good or bad. It can only talk about how best to make those products cheaper and of higher quality. So legalization would help the market for drugs become more efficient, but we still have to ask whether we want the market for drugs to be efficient or if we want it not to exist at all.
My question was not exactly about and open market for drugs in which market itself could regulate it. Or the impact in the price of drugs. but in a market which such as illegal substance would be regulated by the government. And how could positively or negatively impact government spending. And of course besides the fact of the moral issue. This actually help for class discussion.


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McClain: Kubiak, Texans face early pivotal game
Commentary: Kubiak, Texans face early pivotal game
Coach, team need recovery plan for Ravens
Published 5:00 am, Tuesday, September 9, 2008
The Baltimore game is the most important in Gary Kubiak's three seasons as the Texans' head coach. Indeed, it may be the most important game in franchise history.
Sunday's home opener at Reliant Stadium also is the most important of Matt Schaub's two seasons as the starting quarterback.
Let's start with Kubiak.
One characteristic of a good coach — not to mention a good staff — is the team's ability to bounce back from a defeat. And when his team is destroyed on both sides of the ball as the Texans were at Pittsburgh, his job the next week becomes even tougher.
Kubiak said after the game that his evaluation would begin in the mirror. In other words, what did he do that contributed to the humiliating performance? What, if anything, could he have done differently?
More important, what can he do to make sure there's not a repeat against Baltimore?
One thing's for sure about Kubiak: He doesn't have the kind of gargantuan ego that makes him believe his way is the only way. He'll consult with his assistant coaches and rely heavily on advice from those with the most experience like Ray Rhodes and Alex Gibbs, who have a combined seven Super Bowl rings.
Kubiak is the last word, of course, and he knows how important it is to beat the Ravens. He understands the pressure his team will be under playing in front of its loyal fans, who, not surprisingly, are growing impatient at the possibility of a seventh consecutive season without a winning record.
Trouble lurking ahead
Losing to rookie quarterback Joe Flacco and beginning 0-2 with consecutive games at Tennessee and Jacksonville before returning home to host Indianapolis could be the start of something disastrous.
Considering how the Texans were dominated on both sides of the ball at Pittsburgh, the Ravens would seem to be the worst team they could play in their next game.
The Ravens rely heavily on a physical running game to take the pressure off Flacco. And, like the Steelers, they play a 3-4 scheme that features humongous linemen like 6-4, 345-pound Haloti Ngata, big linebackers who can run and a talented, experienced secondary that includes cornerbacks Chris McAlister and Samari Rolle and safety Ed Reed.
Even though the Ravens finished 5-11 last season, they still ranked sixth in defense, including second against the run. This week, at least, it seems that's not the kind of defense Schaub should be playing against.
Schaub had the worst game of his brief career against the Steelers. It didn't help that the Texans couldn't block or run, but he compounded the problem by making some terrible decisions that hurt his team.
Shorter drops needed
Counting Schaub's poor start in his last preseason performance at Dallas in which his passes were off target under a relentless pass rush, he has started poorly in two games in a row. Sunday is the ideal time for Schaub to recover and restore the fans' faith in him.
The offense is predicated on quick passes to receivers who have the size and strength to break tackles. That means the quarterback has to get rid of the ball fast and be accurate.
It makes sense that if the offensive linemen are getting pushed back into Schaub's facemask that he should take a shorter drop and fling it. Or use the shotgun. But Schaub isn't comfortable in the shotgun. Only Seattle used it less last season than the Texans.
One thing that's impressive about Sage Rosenfels is that he excels at taking the short drop, making quick decisions and getting rid of the ball in a hurry. And he's accurate, too.
And speaking of Rosenfels, if the Texans lose to the Ravens and Schaub doesn't play well again, this franchise is going to have its first big-time quarterback controversy.
Which, of course, will make Kubiak's job even more difficult.
That's why Sunday's game is so important. The Texans need to go to bed angry and get up angrier, show some backbone and refuse to be pushed around Reliant Stadium like they were at Heinz Field.
If they don't, well, it'll be time to sound the trumpet. For Taps, not Charge.


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Many thanks for today's Crap Things guest blog to the lovely Catherine Mack of www.ethicaltraveller.co.uk and co-editor of www.greentraveller.co.uk
I had been in Kenya for three days, on a once-in-a-lifetime trip to write about The Travel Foundation's work with the Maasai. During 2007, Maasai village elders had come together with The Foundation to put a stop to the exploitation which had been going on for decades, whereby money was being charged to tourists to visit their villages, but the driver guides who drove the visitors there, passed none of it on to the villagers themselves. The only money the Maasai made was from selling a few bits of beadwork here and there.
One year after The Travel Foundation started to help the Maasai gain confidence to take on the driver guides, and the many tourist lodges which had been turning a blind eye to the unethical practice, tourism was starting to become an important source of income for the Maasai at last. I was honoured to be invited to their 'AGM', with five villages, men women and children, gathered together under an acacia tree in the middle of the bush, to celebrate what they had achieved.
The total amounted to $43,000 from tours alone, an 800 per cent increase in just a year. The applause and cheers must have been heard all the way to the Serengeti. The men held hands and smiled proudly and the women translated to their excited children. Already, Enkereri village had extended its school, paying two teachers' salaries.
That evening I returned to my lodge, Olonana, which had been very proactive in supporting the new change in practice. Some of the visitors were less on the ball, however. I was joined at the bar by an elderly English couple.
They, like most guests, gathered round to compare notes on the day's game sightings. "See anything good today then?" was the man's opening gambit. When I explained that I had spent the day with the Maasai, I could see that I wasn't going to get very far, as he interrupted quickly, "Uggh, we tried that last year, didn't we dear?" he directed at his silent wife. "Aren't their lives disgusting? And such greedy people. One of them lent my wife a blanket to keep warm when we did 'the tour'. They'll try anything to get your money."
I begged to differ, but he wouldn't hear of it. He waved his hand dismissing any further discussion, walking away with a smile, shouting: "All I can say is, it is God's blessing to be born an Englishman."
Choose your battles, I thought, as I went out for air and a much needed nicotine fix. Looking up the hill, I could just about see the lights from the nearby Maasai village fires. The people who lived just up that hill had travelled such great distances and have such dignified wisdom, I thought. And yet, so many of their visitors have a much longer way to go until they gain even half of their knowledge and civility.
For more information on the work of The Travel Foundation, still ongoing in Kenya, see www.thetravelfoundation.org.uk


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The hit nighttime soap, Revenge continues to astonish and captivate its millions of viewers. And, hot on the heels of its renewal pick-up by ABC for a second season, the series kicks into high gear tonight with its second to last episode of season one!
In the episode titled, "Grief": A painful loss forges a stronger bond between Emily and Jack, Victoria forms a new alliance that could seal Conrad's fate, and Charlotte sets out on a vendetta of her own with Declan as her target! Dont miss it tonight, Wednesday May 16 10PMEST/PST.
Now after the jump watch the preview for tonight's episode! And what do you think will happen after taking a sneak peek at this trailer? Let us know! We can't wait for the season ending cliffhanger in next week's season finale!


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Man admits to killing landlord over chess dispute
An Italian man has admitted to killing his Irish landlord over a disagreement during a chess game.
In court Monday, Saverio Bellante, 34, admitted to stabbing and mutilating the body of Tom O'Gorman, 39, late Saturday or early Sunday morning, the Independent newspaper reported.
Police said they were called to a north Dublin home at 1:50 a.m. Sunday and discovered O'Gorman's body.
The Independent said the crime scene was so gruesome, officers are expected to need counselling.
The U.K. Sun reported Bellante allegedly ripped out one of O'Gorman's lungs and tried to eat it. A police source told the paper when officers entered the home, "it was like walking through the gates of hell."
The Associated Press report said Bellante told police he had tried to eat O'Gorman's heart.
Bellante, who is originally from Sicily, represented himself in court.
While in custody Monday, police said Bellante stated, "I am guilty."


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Like many of you out there, a variation of the hashbrown casserole has become one of my go-to dishes for entertaining.
When the weather gets consistently nice enough to plan some outdoor gatherings at our house, Hubby Bryan and I will undoubt-edly serve our standard sidedish: a combination of frozen hashbrowns, cream of mushroom soup, sour cream, cheese, green onion and chopped red bell pepper. I call it Confettti Potatoes — because of the bright flecks of color. It's easy to make to feed a crowd, and by using a disposable foil pan, can be cooked right on the grill.
But even when it's just the two of us, I often reach for a bag of hashbrowns for an easy accompaniment.
Such was the case on Sunday night, although this time I came up with what had to be the easiest cheesy hashbrown dish ever, thanks to the hashbrowns found in the refrigerator case — not the freezer case — of the grocery store. The O'Brien variety comes with peppers and onions already combined with the potatoes, so no need for chopping.
Cheesy Hashbrowns O'Brien
In a large bowl, combine one 20-ounce package refrigerated O'Brien-style hashbrowns, one can condensed cheddar cheese soup, ½ cup sour cream or plain yogurt and ½ cup shredded cheese of choice. (I used up some odds and ends that included grated Swiss and cheddar.)
Spoon mixture into a greased casserole dish or foil pan. Bake at 350 degrees for about 45 minutes, until bubbly in the middle and brown around the edges.


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Mentally disabled man wins execution stay in Florida
A convicted murderer who has spent 34 years on death row won a last minute stay of execution, as judges agreed to consider whether he was mentally competent.
John Ferguson, who says he is the "Prince of God" and had been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, had been scheduled to be executed by lethal injection in Florida at 2200 GMT Tuesday night.
But his defense lawyers asked for time — and won it — to prepare a new appeal based on Ferguson's mental state.
"A man who genuinely believes he is the 'Prince of God' with special powers from the sun, that he cannot be killed, and that he will return to Earth after execution to save America from a communist plot clearly has no 'rational understanding' of his execution and the effect of it," one of his lawyers, Chris Handman said.
Ferguson was convicted of killing eight people in 1977 and 1978.
A federal appeals court granted an emergency stay Tuesday night. The state of Florida immediately appealed to the Supreme Court, which upheld the stay, according to a court document seen by AFP.
The defense now has until Monday to present its new case — and the state has until November 5 to respond — on arguments regarding Ferguson's mental competency.
The under-the-wire decisions reversed earlier rulings, in which the appeals court overturned a lower court's stay of execution, and the Supreme Court refused to take up the matter.
Florida's Supreme Court had previously determined that the 64-year-old Ferguson was competent to be executed, and the state said in a filing to the Supreme Court that the inmate had perhaps "exaggerated" some of his symptoms.
The new appeals court ruling says defense lawyers must now show whether the Florida Supreme Court unreasonably affirmed Ferguson was mentally competent.
Among other pieces of evidence, the attorneys must show he has a documented history of paranoid schizophrenia and that Ferguson is not in fact exaggerating his symptoms.
His lawyers say he was subjected to repeated abuse as a child — beatings by his alcoholic father, his mother and her boyfriends once his parents split up.
Florida Governor Rick Scott appointed a commission of three psychiatrists who examined Ferguson and unanimously found him competent to be executed.
But psychiatrists and lawyers had asked the Supreme Court to grant Ferguson a reprieve.


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Low flow toilets generally use less than two gallons per flush, compared to water-guzzling older models which can use five to seven gallons per flush. Over a year, that's a savings of around 7,000 gallons which can save you $50 to $100 annually (and $2,000 over the life of the toilet).
In the past, these toilets didn't really perform well enough for most people to trust them in their homes, but like any other technology they have improved considerably and are a great option for most.
Although there is an initial cost involved in replacing toilets, they will pay for themselves over time, in addition to conserving water. Toto is a popular brand, but you'll have a number of options available to you at your hardware store or via your plumber. In some areas of the country, there are rebates available for WaterSense labeled toilets (those approved by the EPA) which can bring down your out-of-pocket costs and improve your payout. Also, athough low flow toilets toilets don't currently fall into this category, it's always a great idea to see if tax incentives will help you pay for "green" home improvements.
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Even if Chris Kreider flies skates-first into Jonathan Quick accidentally on purpose and Dustin Brown steals Mark Messier's last bag of Lay's, the 2014 Stanley Cup Final
should be less hateful than the last time Gary Bettman's favourite teams faced off in the playoffs.
Rewind 33 springs ago to April 9, 1981.
With the New York Rangers and Los Angeles Kings facing off in the second game of their second (and most recent) playoff tilt — a preliminary best-of-five set — a good ol' fashioned donnybrook broke out following a nasty sucker punch.
With the Rangers leading both the series and the game 1-0, the Kings tried to get at Ron Duguay and his majestic locks. A scrum formed in the L.A. zone.
With referee Bryan Lewis holding Kings tough nut Rick Chartraw, New York defenceman and general badass Barry Beck suckered Chartraw with a hard left, knocking the L.A. player on his "fanny" and bloodying his gorgeous yellow-and-purple sweater.
Beck (1,016 career penalty minutes in 615 games) was given five for fighting, more penalties were dished out, and the Kings took advantage, coming back to lead 2-1 as the first-period buzzer sounded.
With L.A.'s Dave Taylor hanging around New York's zone past the buzzer, some Blueshirts took exception.
Cue the mayhem:
Hall of Famer Marcel Dionne squared off with punchy Ed "Boxcar" Hospodar. And future NHL general managers Jim Rutherford (L.A.) and Don Maloney (New York) both got into the jersey-yanking action.
Rangers enforcer Nick Fotiu was serving an eight-game suspension for hopping into the stands in response to beer-throwing fans in Detroit. Watching from the stands, Fotiu snatched and slammed a Kings fan into the glass; Kings goalie Paul Pageau and security needed to calm Fotiu down. All the while, the organist played on.
In total, more than 200 minutes in penalties were handed out, 142 of them to the visiting Rangers. Hospodar himself racked up 39.
The Rangers would lose the game 5-4 in overtime, but finished off the Kings in a pair of high-scoring, even-tempered affairs back at Madison Square Garden.
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Looking for an alternative name for "homeschool mom"
I welcome anyone's creative responses. :)
Kids: Matthew (Freshman in college, never homeschooled), Jeremy (7th grade & homeschooled for 2 years), and Abby who is in 5th grade & homeschooled for 1 1/2 years.
On my Facebook I have me down as a Learning Coach. I refer to myself as a Domestic Goddess as well.
I am a Home Schooling, Vaccinating, Non spanking, Nightmare Cuddling, Dessert Giving, Bedtime Kissing, Book Reading, Stay at Home Mom. I believe in the benefit of organized after school activities and nosy, involved parents. I believe in spoiling my children. I believe that I have seen the village and I do not want it anywhere near my children. Now for the controversial stuff: we have traditional gender roles, we're Catholic, I'm Libertarian, he's Republican, we're both conservative, and we own guns (now there's no need to ask, lol). Aimee
I love some of the choices that you have been given....best of all Zookeeper.
I don't like homeschool mom either...it gets me funny looks from people. Kind of like, oh, you are one of those "homeschool" people. I prefer to say that I am a Life Coach. Not only does it sound impressive but it opens up the doors to talk about what I do without actually saying the word "homeschool".


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The pushy mum who dressed her toddler as a prostititute for the reality TV show Toddlers and Tiaras has hit back at her critics.
Wendy Dickey said her three-year-old daughter Paisley's "Pretty Woman" outfit, complete with thigh-high black boots, mini dress and blonde wig, wasn't sexy, but "comical".
She was speaking out ahead of the start of the new series of Toddlers and Tiaras, which begins tonight on the TLC channel.
The show has always attracted controversy, but critics have been particularly vitriolic towards Wendy.
The outfit was not sexy, it was tacky and hideous. It was comical. Nothing more than a costume," she told ABC's Good Morning America.
She said she'd found the online attacks on her very difficult to deal with.
"The worst thing, you know, is that people could come on there anonymously and they were saying anything and everything," she said.
But despite the condemnation, she went ahead and dressed Paisley in a raunchy leather biker outfit and as Lady Gaga for the new series.
All the negative publicity may turn out to be the best thing that ever happened to the mum from Georgia, U.S. Television bosses are said to be negotiating with the mum and daughter to give Paisley her very own reality TV show.
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Alicia Keys Ascendant; iPod Nation
Aired February 11, 2005 - 20:00 ET
PAULA ZAHN, CNN ANCHOR: And good evening, everybody. Thanks so much for joining us tonight. Glad to have you with us. Tonight, just two nights before the Grammys, we are all about the music. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) ZAHN (voice-over): She's smart. She's beautiful. She's breaking all the rules. And what's more, the music industry loves her for it. My conversation with Grammy nominee Alicia Keys. And there's one sold every two seconds. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We go to the gym and everyone has them on their arms. ZAHN: A little machine that's about much more than just music is turning an entire culture on its head. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The entire Mac thing is kind of a cult. Tonight, the iPod nation. (END VIDEOTAPE) ZAHN: And we begin tonight with the Grammy Awards. The stars will be out in full force on Sunday night in Los Angeles, along with the usual glitz and glamour. But this weekend, something will be different. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) ZAHN (voice-over): For the first time in a long time, the music industry has something to celebrate on its biggest night. After dropping for three years, album sales are finally looking up. And with sales of online downloads also rising, the industry's biggest stars are shining a little brighter. Chances are you'll see a lot of them in the first few minutes of the Grammys. The opening number will be a medley. But instead of a duet like last year's between Prince and Beyonce, this year, the show opener will have five groups of artists. Who said less is more? The Grammy Award may be music's most coveted prize, but the trophies usually play second fiddle to the night's entertainment, among the highly anticipated, the first public performance by newlyweds Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez. J.Lo usually makes a pretty big impression at the Grammys. Despite a flood of competition, the Grammys are still the king of all music award shows. Just being nominated, let alone winning, can help make or break a career. Queen Latifah will host the program. And if last year is any indication, about 20 million people will watch it. And if they like what they hear, they just might decide to buy a few million albums. Certainly, that is what the music industry hopes. This year, 27-year-old rapper Kanye West, by his own admission, dominated the nomination. KANYE WEST, MUSICIAN: My name up until Sunday is no longer Kanye. It's the face, the face of the Grammys. ZAHN: He's up for 10 awards, including album of the year. Sadly, one of the night's biggest potential winners isn't here to enjoy it. The late great Ray Charles was nominated for seven Grammy Awards. He died this past June. Singer Alicia Keys could also be a big winner. She's nominated for eight awards this year. (END VIDEOTAPE) ZAHN: And among those nominations, song and album of the year. Alicia Keys is something rare in music these days. She has managed to appeal to both hip-hop and country fans. And sales of her music get a big share of the credit for reviving the record industry. Keys burst on to the scene in 2001. Her smoky voice and virtuoso piano playing have been winning over fans ever since then. And I recently sat down with Alicia here in her native New York. And tonight, her story in our "PEOPLE IN THE NEWS" profile. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) ZAHN (voice-over): She may be just 24, but Alicia Keys writes, sings and play the piano with the sure touch of a veteran. Four years ago, she stunned the music industry with her debut album, "Songs in A Minor" and the hit single "Fallen." The album sold five million copies and won five Grammys, a rare achievement for a debut effort. (on camera): How have you dealt with this process of becoming an overnight sensation? ALICIA KEYS, MUSICIAN: Well, I think the main thing is that it definitely didn't happen overnight. So, for me, personally, that helps me a lot. The way the I dealt with just everything that was happening simultaneously I felt like, in effect, was really just keeping people that I loved and trusted and cared about around me. ZAHN (voice-over): Most of all, her Italian-born mom, who raised Alicia on her own. They lived in a one-bedroom apartment in the rough-and-tumble neighborhood of Hell's Kitchen in Manhattan. TERRI AUGELLO, MOTHER OF ALICIA KEYS: It was cozy. Every couple of years, Alicia used to tell me where she wanted to sleep, so we would make her bedroom accordingly. Sometimes, she had the bedroom. Sometimes, I did. ZAHN: Mom was an actress. And by the time Alicia was in kindergarten, she, too, felt the lure of the limelight. AUGELLO: They were doing "Cats." And I didn't know until I came to see the show that she was singing "Memories." And she was only 4. It was quite extraordinary. ZAHN: Mother and daughter shared a passion for music. KEYS: That was probably our best times for like on Sundays. I would climb up on the little stool and there were these shelves of records. And I would go through it and see Thelonious Monk and Miles Davis and just all kinds of old jazz records. ZAHN (on camera): You tap into classical music. KEYS: Definitely. ZAHN: Rap, just about anything you hear. KEYS: Definitely. I feel blessed from where I grew up, because it was a very diverse neighborhood. You could walk down the street and you could hear salsa. You could her merengue. You could hear Biggie Smalls. You could hear Mozart. No one has to be a certain way. You can be yourself. And I love that about New York. ZAHN (voice-over): And before her 10th birthday, Alicia found the key to her future. KEYS: A friend of my mother's was moving somewhere else. And she had a piano and she couldn't take it. And she said, if you can move it out of this apartment, you can have it. And then, for my first time, I had this brown upright player piano. ERIKA ROSE, CHILDHOOD FRIEND: Something about, it's magnetic. It draws her in. And no matter where we are, if she sees a piano, she goes directly to it. And she will just start playing, no matter what time of night it is. KEYS: I did have a really great piano teacher. She was really about helping us to discover the things we loved about the piano, as well as of course the discipline that comes with studying. You have to -- there's no way around that. ZAHN: Music teacher Aziza Miller would shape the young Alicia's trademark sound. AZIZA MILLER, MUSIC TEACHER: I started a jazz improvisation class, vocal, that met after school. And you know how a lot of children, after school, are you kidding? I want to get out of here. But, again, her ambition and her drive and her love for the music, if you had to meet after school, she's there. KEYS: Ms. Aziza really showed me the beauty of harmonies. And that was the first experience I had watching an individual really develop a song and make it sound the way they wanted it to and arrange it. ZAHN: Alicia started performing at a community club in Harlem, where the man who's now her manager spotted her. JEFF ROBINSON, MANAGER: She sang a song on stage. I'm like, OK, she's got a little twang to her, a little swagger. And then she sat down at the piano and started playing songs that she had written. And this girl's like 13, 14 years old, and she's already singing songs about the state of the world and what have you. And I was like, wow. ZAHN: Intelligent and mature beyond her years, Alicia Keys was soon in great demand. At just 16, she was offered a scholarship to Columbia University and a $1 million deal by Columbia Records. She accepted both, but soon found out she couldn't cope. KEYS: Everything was just upside down. It was all turned around. And I tried to make my classes late, so that I could do my homework in the morning and I would be at the studio all night. And it was just a wreck. AUGELLO: I know she was sitting on the couch one day after class. And I knew that she had -- she had -- she had taken a leave. It broke my heart. ZAHN: For a while, it seemed leaving college was the wrong move, as Columbia Records tried to make a teen pop star out of her, and she resisted. KEYS: I was very depressed and very sad, because I felt like I was trying to do all these things. And I had this vision of what I could do and who I could be in my head, but it just wasn't coming into reality. ZAHN: When we continue Alicia's story, how meeting a music legend gave her new inspiration and the experience in Africa that changed her forever. (END VIDEOTAPE) (COMMERCIAL BREAK) ZAHN: Now that the countdown to the Grammys is on, with eight nominations, this weekend, Alicia Keys stands to enhance her blossoming reputation at what will be the 47th Grammy Awards. But five years ago, she was in a battle with her record label and her future seemed bleak. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) ZAHN (voice-over): At the age of 17, Alicia Keys was resisting network executives' attempts to mold her into the Mariah Carey. In desperation, her manager reached out to other record companies and set up a meeting with industry veteran Clive Davis. KEYS: I first walked in and he had all these pictures of all these artists that he worked with, and Whitney Houston, Bruce Springsteen and Santana. And he really understood music and he really cared about it. CLIVE DAVIS, CHAIRMAN, BMG NORTH AMERICA: When you hear her voice, when you study the lyrics of her material, it's what I call a no-brainer. You just know that you're in the presence of somebody who could become an all-time great. ZAHN: Newly energized, Alicia went back into the studio and, in the summer of 2001, reemerged with "Songs in A Minor." Soon, there was a real buzz about the girl who could play Tupac, '70s soul, and 18th century sonatas. JOE LEVY, "ROLLING STONE": She could write and she could play the piano. And she couldn't just play the piano. She didn't just love Stevie Wonder. She knew her Chopin. ZAHN: "Songs in A Minor" appealed both to kids hooked on hip-hop and moms who liked country. LEVY: Alicia Keys is making music that looks 20 years, 30 years behind. It's trying to lead us into the future by saying, hey, we're coming here on the shoulders of giants. (on camera): What is the trademark of the Alicia Keys sound? KEYS: I would like people to be able to relate to it and identify with it and understand it and feel like it's their own. ZAHN (voice-over): And plenty of people identified with "Songs in A Minor." UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The Grammy goes to Alicia Keys. ZAHN: Five Grammys and recognition of long years of teamwork. KEYS: Whoa. Whoa. ZAHN: The success of "Songs in A Minor" opened up the world for the 20-year-old, but also in ways she never expected. KEYS: I went to South Africa right after my first tour. And I really met a lot of kids who were raising themselves and who were dealing with living with AIDS, who were raising their younger brothers and sisters, 4 and 5 and 6 years old. And they were only 14. I came home and I just didn't feel like the same person anymore. ZAHN: She became and remains a fund-raiser and advocate for AIDS sufferers in Africa, organizing benefits and doing TV spots. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, AD) KEYS: There is a way for you to help. (END VIDEO CLIP) ZAHN: Despite the demands of touring and huge expectations for her follow-up album, Alicia Keys likes to keep a low profile. KEYS: A perfect day for me would be able to come home, get a great rest at night in my bed, put on my little slippers and mess around the house. ZAHN: And keep her private life private, whatever the rumors. The Gossip columns have linked her with several stars, most recently Usher, because of their hit duet. KEYS: It was kind of funny, actually. They would tell that we would go places we had never been; we had been doing things we never did. ZAHN: The title of her second album, "The Diary of Alicia Keys," was not accidental. KEYS: I have kept a book of words since I was 9 years old, all the way up until now. I still write, you know? It's been my voice. It's my way to really express what I feel, the way that I can tell my secrets. ZAHN (on camera): Do you hear music all the time? KEYS: Definitely. Sometimes, I'm like -- it has to just be quiet. It has to be quiet for a minute. So I'll just shut everything off. And, suddenly, I do start hearing all types of rhythms and sounds and chords or songs. ZAHN (voice-over): Like her debut, "The Diary of Alicia Keys" has won praise from fans and critics alike. MIMI VALDES, "VIBE": I think, when she did the first album, she sort of stumbled on to her style and was still trying to figure it out. With the second album, she nailed it. ZAHN (on camera): And I know you think that there's another chapter ahead for you, where your songs will become more political. KEYS: I just want those songs to be able to really talk about what's going on in the world, beyond our own little boxes of whatever. ZAHN: So you want to be provocative? KEYS: Yes. I love that word. (END VIDEOTAPE) ZAHN: And I think she knows how to nail provocative. Alicia Keys is slated to star in a movie to be produced by Halle Berry, the real-life story of a piano prodigy who had to battle racism. And her first book of poetry is now out. And she's already working on her third album. A couple of other Grammy notes. Tomorrow on "PEOPLE IN THE NEWS," we'll profile both Shania Twain and LL Cool J, both of whom are up for some big awards. So, you an Alicia Keys fan by now? Well, stick around. We're going to save you a trip to the music store. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It's small and has a lot of music. STEPHANIE HULL, THE BREARLEY SCHOOL: We would love to use it more for the history department. (END VIDEO CLIP) ZAHN: The history department? Well, these days, they're mixing apples and just about everything else. The iPod nation straight ahead. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) BROWN: Well, gizmos don't often change the world, but we're witnessing a mini-revolution with one right now. Apple's iPod music player came out in 2001. And now those sleek little boxes with white headphones are just about everywhere. One prediction, that 23 million of you will have been sold -- or will own one by the end of the year. But it's not just about music, as Tom Foreman explains. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) TOM FOREMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): To grab hold of the hottest selling computer gadget on the planet, you must move fast. A polished beautiful and some would say downright sexy iPod is sold every two seconds. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's sleek. It's modern. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It's small and has a lot of music. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And I'm really used to using it. GREG JOSWIAK, VICE PRESIDENT, IPOD MARKETING: We have sold now over 10 million iPods. Hard to walk down any street now and not see white headphones coming out of people's ears. FOREMAN: On the surface, this darling of the tech world is simply a hyper-charged music machine, a portable computer hard drive capable of recording and playing 10,000 songs, 21 days of nonstop music. (on camera): The problem is, unless you're a radio station, you don't own that much music. So, the rapidly expanding cult of Pod is coming up with all sorts of ideas about what to do with that extra space. FOREMAN: At the Brearley School in New York, students study foreign languages on iPods. Now they can hear any time how they sound compared to a native speaker of French or Chinese. HALLEH BALCH, STUDENT: And that helps us with like hearing other people speak and hearing how we're supposed to be pronouncing things. HULL: We would love to use it more for the history department. There are quite a few applications in the sciences. I can see this expanding to many other departments in the coming year. FOREMAN: The applications go on. Kathryn Cornelius is an artist buying an iPod with photo storing capabilities. KATHRYN CORNELIUS, ARTIST: Easy for me to have my portfolio on that while I'm -- who knows who I could run into and show my work to. FOREMAN: And Internet sites such as Podcastalley.com, you can find hundreds of audio shows recorded by amateur Podcasters to be downloaded and listened to on iPods, music shows, movie reviews. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I picked it up on DVD the other day. And I just cannot get this film out of my head, so I watched it again today. FOREMAN: And the first Podcasting hit, "The Dawn and Drew Show," the often risque talk of a real couple in Wisconsin. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: "The Dawn and Drew Show." UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: So, Chrissy (ph), we want to talk to you about what it was like to be in jail, all right? FOREMAN: All this has spurred the creation of 400 accessories for the little iPod, who compels his followers to buy, buy, buy. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I enjoy every single feature. I never have a problem with it. FOREMAN: Critics complain that the rechargeable battery must be replaced by a technician. Competitors say their mock Pods offer better sound quality. But everyone watching the tech business knows little Pod sets the pace. SETH JAYSON, MOTLEY FOOL: Basically, if you want to compete with Apple on this thing now, you have got to have an iPod knockoff. You can't do something much different. So it's changed the world that way. FOREMAN: In 1956's "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," space aliens took over people's bodies and minds using giant seed pods. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, "INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS") UNIDENTIFIED ACTRESS: Where do they come from? UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: I don't know. (END VIDEO CLIP) FOREMAN: The victims looked the same as they always did. They were just different. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, "INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS") UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: They're here already! Jonesy (ph)! (END VIDEO CLIP) FOREMAN: And so it is with modern Pod people. You may not know it, but they are among us. They are everywhere. And their numbers are growing. (END VIDEOTAPE) ZAHN: Oh, man, Tom Foreman really has me frightened now. Thanks to the success of the iPod, the price of Apple computer stock has nearly quadrupled in the last year. And today, the company announced a stock split. Coming up in a minute, we are going to leave behind the world of iPods and stock splits for a place you can only get in if you're dead or on your way to fix a fax machine. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) ZAHN: Today the U.S. brushed off North Korea's demand for one- on-one talks. The north has announced it has nuclear weapons, another example of the in-your-face brinkmanship it practices everywhere but especially right on its border with South Korea. Martin Savidge shows us more. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) MARTIN SAVIDGE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): South Korean soldiers prepare for battle in the DMZ. It is a fight where the only weapon is a pair of eyes and the only thing shot is a glance. Soldiers who serve on the southern side are hand-picked to be imposing. The minimum height for Americans is six feet. South Koreans must be at least 5'8 inches. That's two inches taller than average in their country. South Korean guards stand in a martial arts stance their bodies only half exposed to the north, making them less of a target. Across the way, the North Korean soldiers are said to be the best fed in a nation that has suffered years of famine. But a number of them still look gaunt and drawn. They often stand sideways, facing each other. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The reason for that is if one of those soldiers decides he wants to defect, the other soldier's duty is to shoot that soldier and prevent him from defecting. SAVIDGE: Tensions rise during official meetings on the DMZ as more guards come out. North Korean soldiers occupy a nearby building which American soldiers have called the monkey house, referring to how the guards inside peek out. U.S. officers suspect the building houses heavy weapons which are outlawed under DMZ rules. Looking for possible violations of the armistice is a favorite pastime of both sides here. Cameras sprout almost everywhere adding eyes that never blink. The weather may change, but not the dangerous game. American soldiers bring their own level of psychological warfare. Unlike the South Koreans they prefer not to wear sunglasses to hide their eyes, they don't wear rain coats in the rain or winter coats in the snow believing that projects weakness. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's almost a demonstration of your mental and physical toughness always out here. SAVIDGE: Whether the American tactic earns North Korean respect isn't clear. But U.S. soldiers believe they have earned something else. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'd say they hate us. You can see it in their eyes when they look at us. SAVIDGE: At Pam Moon Jang (ph) if looks could kill the body count on both sides would be high. Crossing the military border dividing North and South Korea is rarely advisable, mainly because you could get shot. But on Conference Row at Pam Moon Jang over three days we watched three ways it can be done. First, you could be dead, as was the case of a North Korean swept down a rain swollen river, his body ending up in the south. The pallbearers never crossed the line. Instead, only the casket makes the journey, passing from southern into northern hands. The second way is to be a tourist. Building T2 is used as a neutral meeting place between North Korea, South Korea and the United States. The border runs right through the middle of it. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Over there is North Korea and right now I'm here in South Korea side. SAVIDGE: With just a few steps, visitors can rightfully earn the boast, they were in the North. North Korea has its own tours and both sides share the same room just never at the same time. To make sure there is no conflict, South Korean guards first inspect the room before their tours go in. The North Korean entry door must be locked from the inside. One guard braces himself against the wall while hanging onto the second, who throws the lock. This is done to prevent North Korean guards from trying to grab a South Korean guard. Now if you think that was interesting, wait until you see what happens next. The third and most unusual way to cross the border: the repair job. Last year, to improve communications between the two, North Korea was given a fax machine. Prior to that, the only way they could talk was over this old Russian field phone. But every now and then the fax machine needs to be serviced. That's what has U.S. soldiers doing the unthinkable, stepping over the line into North Korea. If not for the seriousness of the situation, it might sound like a joke. How many men does it take to fix a North Korean fax machine? Five. One to repair it, another to translate and three to guard. Several minutes later, the fax is fixed and the Americans step back. In the DMZ, life is sort of a new twist of an old saying. When it comes to crossing the line, the only thing certain are death and faxes. (END VIDEOTAPE) ZAHN: Martin Savidge reporting. He filed that back in 2003. Now, instead of going toe-to-toe over North Korea's nukes, the White House wants to re-open talks with both Koreas and their neighbors, China, Russia and Japan. No matter whose side they're on, all soldiers have one thing in common and not just on Valentine's Day, love letters home with a difference, coming up next. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) ZAHN: Pencil and paper, laptops and e-mail. The tools may change but the sentiments never do. Courtesy of our Alex Quade, an early Valentine from the front lines. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) ALEX QUADE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): August, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. Marine Major Tim Parker's last minutes with his family. He's about to deploy to Iraq leaving behind his wife and eight children. Yes, eight. Tim plans to write home every day. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's important for my family to know what I'm doing over there and why we're over there, that I'm not just abandoning them back here for a seven-month vacation. QUADE: Letters he hopes will help them understand. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I don't think some of the young ones have a realization of how long seven months is. QUADE: Tim's wife, Joan. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The letters are going to be good. He can gear them to child-friendly letters and let us know what he's doing when he's away and we're going to be doing the same thing. QUADE: 8-year-old Timmy looked forward to them. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So I don't feel alone and I know he's going to come back soon. QUADE: The letters will explain why he's gone. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I think it's important that they know later on why we made this sacrifice. QUADE: October, near the front lines of Fallujah, Tim is keeping his promise. A quick e-mail to wife, Joan. Then, his daily letter to the kids. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: My family, I know it's tough for me to be away, there's so much to do in the house and your lives and now your mom has to do it all without me. As tough as this deployment has been and will be, I want to tell you all a story about something we did that will hopefully make you understand why I have to be gone. The other day it was discovered a young girl the same age as Katie had been shot in the foot. When it was brought to our attention, we coordinated to have her operated on and save her foot. She's recovering here right now on the base. If we were not here she might have lost her foot. I miss you all. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I miss you. I love you all. Help your mom out as much as I can and I'll be home as soon as I can, love Dad. Did you like that letter? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes. QUADE: Their letters tell him what he's missing. T. PARKER: My son is playing his first season of football, my oldest son. And I'm missing that. I'm not there to go to the practices with him and see his first game. And you know, that's tough. My daughter, my oldest daughter is doing band. And you know, sharing, being a family. QUADE: E-mail photos mark the holidays away from home, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas. They write of baking cookies. He writes of his makeshift Christmas tree. Holiday barbecue, roasting marshmallows. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: To know what they're going through is important to me. QUADE: Fourteen-year-old daughter, Katie. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It's important to me to get letters from him. QUADE: New Year's. After dealing with January election in Iraq, Tim gets an urgent e-mail from Katie. She wants to get her ear pierced again. "I really want just one hole," she writes, "two if you let me and I mean it. It would only be on my ear and not on my lip or eyebrow. Please, I really want another hole in my ear." Dad's answer, no. A light moment during deployment. T. PARKER: Obviously, everything is bermed up here for our safety. QUADE: Tim doesn't write about everything. T. PARKER: Some of the stuff we do over here is dangerous. I don't see any need to overly worry them about things that have already happened and I'm fine about. QUADE: February. Six months have passed. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: This is actually, this is all e-mails. I get at least one a day from him, usually, unless he's, you know, out in the field. QUADE: Joan e-mails a Valentine about caring for their eight children alone. "It's the nature of living in a big family and one of my biggest heartaches right now with you gone," she writes, "giving them equal time and attention, assuring them all that they are loved." UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Let's play the quiet game. You sit up here, and we see who can be quiet the longest, OK? QUADE: Tim writes back, "My love, you are more than I could have ever hoped for as a bride, mother of our children, best friend and partner for life. Having eight children is no ride. Being married to a Marine makes it tougher." Joan replies, "We'll be glad to have you home. We all will." The letter writing has kept this family close, despite the distance. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You can hold these. T. PARKER: It's been very important. I mean, you know, lets them know why I'm here, why I'm investing this time away from them. Lets them know, you know, what we're doing is important. More than that, you know, it still makes me feel part of the family, and I think it makes my wife and kids, you know, still know I'm part of the family. It's, you know, it's kind of like an umbilical card back to them. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: And there's a letter from daddy. T. PARKER: I'm thinking of them and I love them and I'll be home as soon as I can be. (END VIDEOTAPE) ZAHN: That was Alex Quade sharing that remarkable family story. Major Tim Parker should be back from Iraq sometime this spring. It's the bewitching hour. We're just about 15 minutes away or so from Larry King. He's coming up shortly. What do you have cooking up for us tonight, Larry? LARRY KING, HOST, "LARRY KING LIVE": Bewitching? ZAHN: Yes. It's the bewitching hour, you know that last quarter hour when we're moving closer and closer to the top of your hour. You changed your color scheme tonight. Off the lavender, back into the red. KING: I thought bewitching was midnight. ZAHN: Well, we refer to it as the top of your hour. KING: Why quibble. I'm so happy to be bewitched by you. ZAHN: Well, thank you. KING: You're welcome. Anyway, remember Gary Condit? Sure you do. Congressman Gary Condit lost his bid for reelection. His daughter Katie and his son Chad will be with us tonight. There's a major lawsuit going on. He is suing the famed author and columnist, Dominick Dunne. We not only have the Condit children on. We, as well, have portions of the depositions of both Mr. Dunne and former Congressman Condit. You'll be seeing segment of that in quite an hour ahead at 9 p.m. Eastern. It should be extraordinary. ZAHN: It should be pretty tense at points of that hour, too. KING: You're not kidding and it's bewitching. ZAHN: It will be, at the top of the hour. Thanks, Larry. Have a good show. KING: Bye, Paula. ZAHN: You know what you're going to miss this week? The opening of Christo's Gates this weekend, 23 miles of those great orange posts and orange blowing in the wind here in New York. KING: Where are they going to be? ZAHN: All over Central Park. It's going to be phenomenal. We'll show you on Monday what it looks like when they finally unfurl the fabric. KING: Thanks, doll. Have a good weekend. ZAHN: You, too. Have a good show. Obsessing over political scandals is nothing new. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) MALKA KORNBLATT, WATERGATE BUFF: I ate, slept and lived Watergate. (END VIDEO CLIP) ZAHN: No wonder they call her the Watergate grandma. We'll meet her in just a minute. Maybe she knows who Deep Throat is. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) ZAHN: For almost 30 years now, we've all wondered about the identity of Deep Throat, that mysterious, anonymous source in the Watergate scandal. Now, with Deep Throat reportedly near death, we may soon find out. But maybe no one wants to know more than the woman you're about to meet. Here's Judy Woodruff. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) JUDY WOODRUFF, HOST, "INSIDE POLITICS": Malka Kornblatt, your typical Florida grandmother. Well, sort of. KORNBLATT: I ate, slept and lived Watergate. WOODRUFF: Spring, 1972, divorced, living in St. Louis, raising four sons, teaching at the university. Then, in June, five men broke into the Watergate Hotel and Malka Kornblatt life changed forever. KORNBLATT: I said to myself, "Aha, Richard Nixon is guilty." And I began collecting everything I could three days after the break- in. WOODRUFF: She devoured the newspapers. KORNBLATT: It was like living in a novel. A mystery story. That every day one little piece of information unfolded after another. WOODRUFF: But it was a lonely obsession. KORNBLATT: I had nobody to talk to. I mean, I knew of nobody else in all of St. Louis that, you know, was following it the way I was. WOODRUFF: Until July of 1973, when the whole world was watching. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What did the president know and when did he know it? WOODRUFF: The next summer. KORNBLATT: The House Judiciary Committee was going to begin the impeachment hearings, and I just picked up and left and went to Washington D.C. I went to the Howard Johnson's, across the street from the Watergate, and I -- I asked if I could have the burglars' room. I watched the events happening on the television there, right from -- I had the feeling, I am right here where it all happened. I did something perhaps I shouldn't have done; I kept the key. WOODRUFF (on camera): To room 723, Watergate. KORNBLATT: To the burglar's room. WOODRUFF (voice-over): She headed for Capitol Hill, and she scored her prize possession. What is it? Let's take a little trip. To the bank vault. KORNBLATT: Oh, wow. WOODRUFF: Where Malka keeps her most valuable items: transcripts of the Watergate hearings, signed she says, by every single member of the congressional committees. KORNBLATT: To track down 38 congressmen and seven senators, one person, I don't know how I did it. WOODRUFF: Back at home, Malka reflects on her Watergate heroes: among them the reporters who broke the story wide open. KORNBLATT: Both Woodward and Bernstein had tremendous, tremendous courage to do that. You know, it's like, you know, you're looking up to God and you're saying, "God, you're wrong and I'm going to show you." These two young men. WOODRUFF: Another hero, the secret source, a man who one recent report says may now be at death's door. KORNBLATT: There was lies and lies and lies and lies. And in the middle of all those lies, there was somebody who cared about the truth. And that was Deep Throat. WOODRUFF: Who is he, she's wondered, pouring over old obituaries, ruling out the dead. KORNBLATT: Fred Larue. So he can't be -- he can't be Deep Throat. WOODRUFF: Her pick? KORNBLATT: Henry Kissinger had a reason to be Deep Throat, because Richard Nixon treated him so badly in the administration and overrode him on all kinds of issues. WOODRUFF: She calls him the last piece of the puzzle. But enough is enough. KORNBLATT: I don't think they should wait until he's actually dead. I think that would be wrong. I think they should do it now, I think they should say who Deep Throat is right now, so we can all say, thank you. (END VIDEOTAPE) ZAHN: I guess you'd all have to agree, a grandma with a very unusual mission. Now, Woodward and Bernstein have repeatedly said they will reveal Deep Throat's name but only after he dies. When we come back, the late night comics tackle Valentine's Day. Don't forgot everybody, Monday. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) ZAHN: A reminder, Valentine's Day on Monday, your last reminder. Your job this weekend will be much easier: getting ready. If you haven't yet, here is some advice from Conan O'Brien. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) CONAN O'BRIEN, HOST, "LATE NIGHT WITH CONAN O'BRIEN": A lot of guys like to propose on Valentine's Day. They choose Valentine's Day to propose. One popular way of doing this is to hide an engagement ring in the bottom of a champagne glass and let their girlfriend find it. That's one of the ways to do it. Here's a tip. While it's important to be creative about where you hide the ring, there are some places you should definitely avoid. All right. We're going to tell you a few, such as avoid putting the ring in a litter box, just not a good idea. Or a jet engine, probably not the way to go. Or the worst idea, inside your other girlfriend's mouth. It's just not something someone wants to see. It's not good. All right. Now here's another tip for all you guys out there. Guys, don't feel bad if you can't afford the same kind of gifts wealthy celebrities give their wives or girlfriends. All right? You're just not going to be able to compete with wealthy celebrities. For example, last Valentine's Day, George Clooney gave her girlfriend a caviar toilet. Unbelievable. Wow! Audience not amused, just horrified. Shaquille O'Neal served his girlfriend breakfast on the actual Mona Lisa. It's pretty amazing. And Microsoft chairman Bill Gates gave his wife the people of Japan. Just a strange -- it made her happy. (END VIDEO CLIP) ZAHN: OK. I got engaged on Valentine's Day and none of that stuff happened, for the record. At the top of our show, we told you a lot about Alicia Keys. She is nominated for eight Grammys, including the coveted song of the year award. But before we go, we want to let you know about the other songs nominated in that category. Here's a look. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) (MUSIC) (END VIDEO CLIP) ZAHN: Great crop of songs this year. That's one thing to look ahead to on Sunday night, the Grammys. But if you're traveling to New York this weekend, you may want to check out Christo Gates. This is going to be an amazing thing for all of us to experience. Twenty- three miles of gates. And what you're not seeing right now are pieces of orange fabric that will unfurl from some 5,000 gates. 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The James Bond films used to be about saving the world. Now they are a sales pitch, writes Guy Trebay.
If you happen to be looking for a product spokesman, how about a skirt-chasing spy in his 80s who drinks too much, has an unfortunate taste for cashmere turtlenecks and glib one-liners and who clung to his fear of the communist menace long after the Berlin Wall came tumbling down?
The man in question is, of course, James Bond, who made his fictional debut almost 50 years ago, his first big-screen appearance in the 1960s and who, through miracles of both public appetite and celluloid, has remained not only perpetually suave and virile, but among the world's most bulletproof brands.
The most recent marketing test of Bond's potency comes in the form of the latest instalment in the franchise, Die Another Day, MGM studio's 20th vehicle built around a fictional character who by rights should be residing in a retirement village in Oxfordshire, but instead is considered by makers of consumer products to be sexier than ever.
"James Bond is always about solving world crises and having great cars," Jan Valentic says. He is vice-president for global marketing at Ford, one of at least 20 companies promoting their brands in the film. According to Variety, Ford paid $63 million to replace BMW as the franchise's official vehicle supplier, with Bond driving its $460,000 Aston Martin Vanquish.
Meanwhile, Halle Berry, who plays the Jinx, the latest in a long line of sultry Bond female characters - either heroines, antagonists or both - is behind the wheel of what the car company calls her character's "icon vehicle", a Thunderbird whose coral colour is set to match her bathing suit. (The car will later be sold as a limited edition.)
Bond, says Valentic, "is a master of world intrigue". Not coincidentally, he is also a connoisseur of the "latest and greatest assorted wonderments of the world". Product placement is nothing new, of course, but, as the boundaries of what is known in the entertainment business as "brand integrated content" push outward, the wonderments associated with the Bond character have come to include watches, soft drinks, credit cards, mobile phones, electric shavers and snowmobiles.
Pierce Brosnan, who is playing Bond for the fourth time, will be wearing an Omega wrist watch, for instance. The clear liquid in his shaken, not stirred, martinis will be Finlandia, replacing Smirnoff, for decades the spy's brand. The carrier conspicuously transporting 007 in its first-class cabin will be British Airways. That company's investment may help explain the obligatory, plot-dragging shot of a jet in midair. There is more. The Scottish clothing company Ballantyne will provide turtleneck sweaters for Brosnan and other characters. And Brioni Roman Style, perhaps best known as the suitmakers to the late "Dapper Don", John Gotti, has spent $600,000 to kit Brosnan out in custom-made clothes. "The image never ages," says Umberto Angeloni, the chairman of Brioni, which has dressed Bond in his past four cinematic outings. "What you are dressing is an icon. He is a symbol of eternal youth and the ideal connoisseur."
Fictitious connoisseurship does not come cheap. When Die Another Day opens in the United States later this month, the movie will be accompanied by a $240 million campaign of sponsored advertising, sweepstakes, promotions and product tie-ins for more than 20 brands. Eleven companies have budgeted a total of more than $200 million on TV advertisements promoting their products in Die Another Day, a figure that approaches the $220 million that MGM asserts was the cost of the entire film - although some film industry insiders estimate the cost at closer to $260 million.
If the tie-ins are not all for products that smack of the elegance and savoir faire associated with a man whose suits are hand-stitched and whose .44 magnums are custom-tooled, few have been heard to complain. With Best Buy, Circuit City, Ski-Doo, Vodafone and 7 Up all linked to the film, it seems less than surprising to learn that EON, the company behind the series, is an acronym for Everything or Nothing. It may be that the frenetic cross-platform sellout for Die Another Day will stretch the power of a cinematic icon past its sustainable limits. "If a consumer does not see a product as an integral or enhancing part of a film, the film seems like a shill [a dupe]," says Mark Dowley, the chairman of Interpublic Sports & Entertainment Group, a division of the global advertising agency network IPG. "And that can do damage to both brands."
Yet some suggest that James Bond is by now less a figure of fiction conjured from Ian Fleming's imagination than a consumerist phantasm, a glittering screen on which it is possible to project almost anything. Mass-market products such as 7 Up may not be as "integral" to the character of Bond as were Tom Cruise's Oakley sunglasses in Mission: Impossible II. But, as Ford's Valentic suggests, this is a trivial detail. "Everything is about how quickly you can drive as many people as possible to the theatre," he says. "If we collectively drive throngs of people to the movie to actually see our products in action, everybody succeeds."
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Former Watford striker Moses Ashikodi has been offered a short term rolling contract at Div 2 promotion hopefuls Shrewsbury Town after being sent packing from Vicarage Road.
Ashikodi, who never really settled into life at WD18 (ok, we concede he also had a couple of horrific injuries), will be hoping to find the same form in the league`s bottom tier that saw him complete a successful loan spell at Bradford a few seasons back - before breaking his leg.
Speaking about the arrival of Moses, Shrews boss Paul Simpson said "Looking at him I thought he was just that bit different to the strikers that we already have here - he`s someone who has a bit of pace about them…".
The former Millwall and Rangers youngster got the chance to kickstart his career after impressing in a stiffs run out against Sheffield United.
Simpson added "I decided that it was a bit of a no brainer to get him in…he did well - it was more about the way he went about things, the positions he got into".
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Operational analytics has become a mandatory competence for modern business. As big data moves from hype to value, as the market demands ever faster and more accurate responses to opportunities and threats, operational analytics is becoming the foundational technology for near realtime decision making and action taking.
In this webinar transcript, Barry Devlin will discuss the business value and technological foundations of operational analytics in a manner that is accessible to the business-savvy IT professional and the computer-aware business manager. The evolution of the concept, bridging business needs and technology capabilities, is outlined. The business drivers for immediate, detail-level decisions and actions are provided; and the broad value shown in sample implementations.
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A female student who took an interest on Amata and likes to tease him, much to Mikono's displeasure. In the first episode, she state that the unification with just girls are boring and wants to try doing it with boys, resulting with MIX and Suomi scolding and lecturing her on how it is impure. Her power is the ability to shoot an Energy Blast shaped like a hand, shown when teaching Amata Sora the basics of piloting Aquarion Evol on it's debut. She has a fear of supernatural things, like ghosts, and tries to hide it behind a scowl, leading her to grab Amata and shouting "Don't leave me" which caused misunderstanding, she also seems to have developed feelings for him proven when she bought a picture of Amata.
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The 5 best erotic scenes 2010 helped make a good year in movies even better. Some of the top stars in Hollywood got in on the act when it came to creating erotic scenes. When you look at the list of movies from 2010 to add to your movie collection don't forget the movies with the 5 best erotic scenes of 2010.
"Sex And The City 2" (2010). Erotic scenes are expected in any of the "Sex And The City" television shows or movies. But the one of the 5 best erotic scenes 2010 appears at the end of the sequel to the popular first "Sex And The City" (2008) movie. When Samantha (Kim Cattrall) finally gets her man at the end of the movie in a wild beach erotic scene, we get to see what all of the talk is about.
"The Town" (2010). The thing that makes the erotic scene in "The Town" (2010) one of the 5 best erotic scenes 2010 is the perfect way in which the sexual tension between bank robber Doug MacRay (Ben Affleck) and and bank teller Claire Keesey (Rebecca Hall) is built up. When they finally do get together it is one of the hottest love scenes of 2010.
"Machete" (2010). A Robert Rodriguez directed movie always has a bit of everything. In "Machete" (2010), the her Machete (Danny Trejo) gets to have a hot love scene with the immigration officer Sartana Rivera (Jessica Alba) sent to stop him. But Rivera is no match for the charisma of "Machete," and the resulting love scene is one of the 5 best erotic scenes 2010.
"Machete" (2010). The movie "Machete" (2010) makes the list of the 5 best erotic scenes 2010 for a second time with the kind of an erotic scene you do not see in many mainstream movies. April Booth (Lindsay Lohan) and her mother June Booth (Alicia Marek) decide to make a nasty movie in their pool starring the two of them together with Machete (Danny Trejo). It is the kind of stuff that keeps the fellas coming back to Robert Rodriguez movies.
"The Losers" (2010). "The Losers" (2010) has it all. It has explosions, espionage, government cover-ups and one of the 5 best erotic scenes 2010. When Loser leader Clay (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and the under-handed Aisha (Zoe Saldana) get together, there is plenty of fireworks to keep the movie going.


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