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For more than two decades, BÉABA has made thoughtfully designed products to promote the healthiest eating habits in children. Developed by a design team in France, the Babycook baby food maker continues to set the standard for fresh, homemade meals for babies and toddlers. This Babycook model features a narrower footprint for easy storage, as well as one-handed operation to help make mom or dad a multitasking pro in the kitchen.
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Suteki Tantei Labyrinth is one of these series where there's one thing you absolutely mustn't do: take it seriously. Once in a while, a series appears that doesn't really care about making sense. Still, even though Suteki Tantei Labyrinth may not have the most exciting plot, it does deliver quality entertainment.
I think the best way to understand this is to look at the two most prominent staff-members for this series: Hiroshi Watanabe for the direction, and Natsuko Takahashi for the series composition. Natsuko Takahashi is basically a very experienced and talented scriptwriter, who worked on many different series like Jigoku Shoujo, Moyashimon, Full Metal Alchemist, Gankutsuou, Popolocrois, and those are just the best among her repertoire. She made sure that each character in this series has a motivation, and is well-fleshed out. There are no loose ends left behind, and the screenplay itself is quite impressive.
Then there's Hiroshi Watanabe, who is in my opinion the strangest director out there. He directed epics as the Law of Ueki, Orphen and was the one who proposed the concept for Jigoku Shoujo, and yet he is also the mastermind behind flops as the final parts of Star Ocean Ex, and the abominable Shining Tears X Wind. This guy really has a strange idea of what is good, and that strangeness is exactly what makes this series so enjoyable.
Enjoyable, but far-fetched. The first half of the series basically consists out of random mysteries that our main character has to solve. They range from enjoyable to absolutely ridiculous. One particular villain goes through the trouble of spiking the body of his victim on the tip of a huge radio-mast, and the extreme focuses on tea become rather jarring after a while. Thankfully, the second half removes any traces of murder-mysteries, and instead it starts developing the characters and turns into a really entertaining family-drama, full of cheesy plot-twists that just have to entertain.
This series is basically what you'd get if a series is at some parts incredibly good, while at others incredibly bad. The storytelling is quite impressive, and it definitely succeeds in keeping the rather… flawed story interesting throughout the run of 25 episodes. The characters are also enjoyable to watch, especially in the second half, and some of the drama can be surprisingly good. Still, you'll get the most enjoyment out of this series if you like a good dose of cheese once in a while.

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I discount the existence of "nuclear" bombs as a fear-mongering "Sword of Damocles"-type illusion that has now successfully kept billions of people living in fear of nuclear annihilation for 65 years. This is based on the improbability behind the science of the explosive device and the alleged mechanism that powered it, as well as the obviously forged videos and the high propaganda value behind the idea, since the firebombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki served to kick off the fake "cold war" and the fabricated "arms race", which featured both the US and Russia pocketing billions in their taxpayers' money for the manufacturing of these fake "nukes" and, some years later, for the "disarming" of same fake "nukes".
Piper 4 Nov 28 2009, 11:43 PM wrote:antipodean 4 Nov 28 2009, 11:27 PM wrote: Having personally met the family of a geoligist, who was one of 4 that later worked within the fallout zone, all of whom later died of cancers contracted there.
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Hi antipodean,
I do not doubt some powerful explosives were tested, some of which could have even contained radioactive materials (aka "dirty bombs"), but it would be a false assumption that only "nuclear" explosions can cause mushroom clouds, so those tests need not have been anything other than large incendiary devices.
While I do have doubts as to the real causes of cancer being known, the point is that what I discount is the "nuclear" aspect of said bombs, the science behind them and the great fears of annihilation these ideas bring up in people, as opposed to normal explosives.
Note that I am referring to nuclear bombs here, as I do believe that nuclear reactors probably exist since they are based on a completely different technology, which is that of radioactive materials heating up water -> creating steam -> spinning turbines -> generating electricity.
- Have you ever wondered why no rogue group of terrorists or any nation other than the most powerful have been able to build their own atomic bombs if it was possible to build them with technology from 65 years ago? Are their scientists and researchers that dumb? Are they missing some magic ingredient that is only available to chartered members of the elite "nuclear club"? Perhaps that ingredient is the power of their media to back up their lies?
hoi.polloi 4 Dec 3 2009, 11:57 AM wrote: I heard that all the nuclear bomb footage passed through some editing studio embroiled in the "Laurel Canyon scene" ... is this true?
If so, it would be darn strange that Kubrick is implicated in both the Apollo moon hoax AND the scene in Doctor Strangelove at the end, when - (sorry for spoilers if you haven't seen the movie) - every bomb footage ever made seems to go off at once as a conclusion.
brianv @ Dec 4 2009, 01:40 AM wrote: Fat-Man looks a little "LEM", if you ask me!!
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What every girl needs!
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sometimes even momma's need some chandie love;-)ReplyDelete
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wish you could come and "fix" my bedroom also.. :)
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I so want one in my little girls room one day! Love the bed idea! It would do wonders for my kids room, since they share a room these days. Can't wait to see the finished room!ReplyDelete
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Treaty Like It's 1999: Connecting the Dots on Trade
Although it seems they fell out of fashion after the 1999 WTO protests, trade agreements are still being drafted. Every few months, urged by chambers of commerce and under cover of darkness, legislators ink up new pacts to make it easier for goods to flow and workers to be shed.
Last year, the US Korea Free Trade Agreement was passed. This year, making the Korea deal look piddly, the Trans-Pacific Partnership is expanding. The TPP began in 2006 as a hardcore trade agreement between the most trade-dependent countries around the Pacific: Chile, New Zealand and Singapore. Brunei joined the negotiations near their conclusion, rounding out the "Pacific 4." Their zeal to reduce tariffs, harmonize standards, and prevent subsidies goes far beyond the ambitions of the World Trade Organization. And now six other countries want in: the U.S., Australia, Japan, Malaysia, Peru, and Vietnam.
In part, the reason that news about trade agreements doesn't hit front pages is because, er, it's news about trade agreements. Not the stuff of which editors' dreams are made. But just because the agreements don't make the front pages doesn't mean that people haven't heard the news. There have been protests against the TPP across the Asia-Pacific region. And at the protests, people are connecting the dots. Like here in Okinawa, Japan.
This month, I visited a rally commemorating the 40th anniversary of this small Pacific island being transferred from the U.S. to Japan. Although Japan runs the prefecture, there's a rather large U.S. base still here. And there were plenty of people ready to make the connection between an oppressive base and an oppressive trade agreement.
Okina Gaja is a 22-year-old representative from JA (Japan Agricultural Cooperatives, the national association of agricultural cooperatives). He doesn't like the Trans-Pacific Partnership because farmers will be hit to the tune of $20 billion in rice alone [ref in Japanese]. What he really wants is some autonomy in setting the agenda of the island on which he lives. The TPP will prevent that. And the U.S. base will too. "I want the U.S. base out of Okinawa because without that, Okinawan economic independence is impossible," he said.
If Gaja and the farmers he works with are to win their autonomy, they'll have to defeat some of Japan's most powerful interests. The country's export industry is very excited by the TPP, and it's worth understanding precisely why their enthusiasm has nothing to do with trade tariffs.
Remember that according to the economics textbooks, free trade agreements reduce the tariffs, the border taxes, that countries charge one another, thus making everyone better off. The tax that Japanese cars pay on entering the U.S. is 2.5 percent. Getting rid of the tariff will do little to address the Japanese car industry's bigger problem: the exchange rate.
The Yen has appreciated against the dollar by 50 percent in the past five years, which makes Japanese cars that much more expensive in the U.S. But what the TPP does do is make social protections, the kinds that workers like but bosses would rather snip away, less tenable. It'll be easier under the TPP for companies to challenge environmental and health safeguards, and financial regulations, among many other protections they'll be able to shrug.
The bone of contention for the U.S. car industry is the thicket of fiddly and difficult domestic regulations that mean most foreign cars are not allowed to be sold here. The TPP will make the economic roads in Japan safer for U.S. companies to sell their SUVs, thus making the actual roads in Japan more dangerous.
The Tricks of the Trade Deals
Three new agreements are predicted to kill jobs and solidify corporate power. It's our turn to have a say in how we trade.
Hirofumi Ochiai is a 43-year-old bus driver with the Odakyu company's Bus Workers Union. He experienced firsthand the force of neoliberal economic policies under the Prime Ministership of Junichiro Koizumi in the early 2000s, when bus subsidies for rural transport networks were cut and workers' conditions deteriorated. The result: On the most lucrative inter-city bus routes, fares fell. But crashes went up, and services deteriorated on routes that mattered, but weren't profitable.
So Ochiai came on the march with his fellow drivers to help join the dots.
Ochiai has an incredibly articulate analysis. Deregulation, he says, is always organized by the privileged. Workers always lose, and the rich always win. It's the same with war. Workers become soldiers while the privileged stay where they are. So, in solidarity with the workers inside the U.S. bases on Okinawa, he's outside asking that they be freed to fight their fights back home in the U.S., and so that he can fight the same fight here in Japan.
Raj Patel offers a stunning defense of democracy and a how-to guide for social justice activists of the next century.
A protest at the World Bank supported El Salvador's attempts to put human rights above corporate rights.
We usually think of the demand for local, organic foods as coming from the North. But in southern Mexico, the growing localist movement is a strategy for survival.


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Delhi Bus Rape Survivor Improves but Not out of Danger
The victim of an assault on a private bus in Delhi is slowly getting better. But she's still battling for her life, doctors who are treating her said in a press conference on Thursday.
The young woman was admitted at Delhi's Safdarjung Hospital with serious injuries on Monday morning, after she was allegedly beaten up and raped by several men in a moving bus. Her condition is still critical, but doctors are hopeful she's on her way to recovery.
"She is alert, conscious and, really, I would say she is a brave girl," said B.D. Athani, one of the doctors, who described her condition as "stable."
She remains in intensive care but her vital parameters are normal, he said. The woman, whose name has not be released, is able to communicate but not to speak, since she is on a ventilator. She underwent two abdominal surgeries so far: one when she was first admitted and another Wednesday.
But she's not out of danger yet. There is evidence of gangrene and doctors said there is "an impending danger of infection." That is their biggest worry.
This latest, horrific crime sparked widespread outrage in India, with politicians promising to take steps to make public spaces safer for women. The focus has been on law enforcement, with the home ministry vowing to roll out more police cars on patrol in Delhi and to encourage courts to fast-track this particular case.
Four men have been arrested in relation to the attack on the woman.
Some have argued that punishments for those found guilty of rape should be tougher, with some politicians and student activists calling for the death penalty. Others disagree, saying that that tougher punishment is not the answer, and that what needs to change is the fundamental attitude to women in the country. A strong patriarchal culture, they say, prevents women from being treated as equals.
With 572 cases recorded last year, Delhi is the city with the highest incidence of rape in India.
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Firebolts, Lightnings and an XB-RR: Buells in Bakersfield
2007 Buell Model Line-up Press Launch
Adding to my list of horrible geographic locations-you might recall I have dissed Phoenix and Alabama-is Bakersfield, CA. It is dusty, hot, polluted and in general a pretty grim place.
However, it does have the saving grace of being in between Buttonwillow Raceway Park, a sweet, three-mile sports car track 150 miles from LA, and highway 155, a twisty, beautifully-paved road that carries a motorcycle and rider from the grimy, overheated cesspool below to the cooler, cleaner mountains that rise above the California Central Valley.
So I won't fault Buell American Motorcycles too much for choosing Bakersfield as the site of their 2007 Model Lineup press launch.
Let's get this out of the way, to weed out readers who just want to know what's new with Buell this year; new tires. That's about it. Buell is ending their long relationship with Dunlop and has a new bride, sexy Italian tire maker Pirelli. Is this change important enough to write an entire feature article about? Maybe not. However, to spice things up, Buell brought a pair of their XB-RR racebikes and allowed the motley collection of journalists ride them at Buttonwillow. There are a couple of other changes to the Ulysses as well. Interested? After a complimentary hotel breakfast during which I suffered the indignities of consuming smoked salmon without bagels or even a trace of cream cheese, we gathered in a conference room for a tech briefing, which was probably remarkably similar to the prior year's tech briefing.
Said briefing contained much interesting and pertinent information about what makes a Buell a Buell and why that is good. A room full of journalists gave out a slightly-disappointed "hmm" when company founder Erik Buell told us that 2007 is "a year of refinement." However, the only thing that is really changing is the brand of tires, the seat on the Ulysses, and some bold new graphics.Pirelli's people were up next to tell us about the tires on the Buells. Most of the product line will receive special version of the mass-market Pirelli Diablo tire. Designed for aggressive street riding and track days, the Diablo uses Pirelli's patented 0-degree steel belt and rayon carcass.
This gives the tire a lighter, more neutral feel, keeping the contact patch a consistent size for more neutral, confident handling. Icing on the big rubber cake is that the Buells will use "T"-spec Diablos, which use less rubber and a lighter bead to reduce weight and rotational mass. The front is 10 ounces lighter than a standard Diablo, and the rear weighs in at a more than a pound less.
"A more aggressive, enduro-like tread pattern for better wet and dirt performance." The Ulysses and City X will now both get the Scorpion Synch, a tire designed for Supermoto use in Europe. It has a more aggressive, enduro-like tread pattern for better wet and dirt performance. We loved these tires on the City X last year, and there is no reason to believe they won't work well on the Ulysses, too. Of all the models, the Ulysses gets the most re-vamping. Buell's product planners and engineers listened to feedback from customers, internet chatrooms (they'll learn) and even from half-witted magazine editors to make a few changes. For 2007, the Ulysses gets a re-designed seat that is not only lower and narrower at the front, but also uses "pressure mapping"--where a piece of pressure-sensitive material is placed under many different asses--to develop a truly comfortable touring seat. A gel seat is now offered for extra comfort, and for NBA centers, the original 2006 seat as well.
In addition to the new seat, the Ulysses gets a new triple-rate fork spring to firm up the front end. There's also some new accessories, like a Buell-branded Garmin GPS system, a higher windscreen, hard luggage (a top case and side cases), and camouflage bodywork for some triple-digit duck hunting.
The rest of the line up gets new colors, like Cherry Bomb Red Translucid and Midnight black. There are new colors for the wheels and Thunderbolt windscreens, and the "tank" graphics are new as well. That "tank" is actually the airbox lid, and it has been re-vamped across the line as well. Enough about spec sheets; it is time to ride the bikes. It's already up to 88 degrees at 10 in the morning as we leave the air-conditioned womb of our hotel and walk over to the 2007 Buells. The new translucid colors and giant Buell emblems look great in the bright sunlight, and I pick a Ulysses to start the day on; there's going to be some straight-line droning before we get on the two-lane twisty road to Lake Isabella, and I want to test the new seat.
The bike is still absurdly tall for 5'6" editors, but not as bad as last year. I can get one foot down, anyway, and the bike is so easy to ride I'm out on the road with little difficulty, sliding the back tire and popping teeny wheelies as I follow the rest of the pack to the freeway. Out on the road, the Buell displays the same smooth ride, good handling manners and great comfort we reported in our 2005 Sport Touring test. The long-travel suspension takes some getting used to, although the new triple-rate springs minimize the see-saw effect bikes with long-travel suspension tend to have during aggressive riding. The motor is perfect for fast, flowing roads, and it feels like it would be plenty strong even two-up with luggage.
I have a brief opportunity to ride the big orange bike on a winding dirt road up to a photo location, and I follow photographer Tom Riles as he performs Unnatural Acts with his hapless rental car (never, ever buy a rental car, as Tom really gets around). In the dirt, the Ulysses feels heavy and large for a small, novice dirt biker, but still has surprising grip and nimbleness. Cruising up the hill, I am alarmed when the bike jumps over a couple of hidden bumps, but relieved when it comes down in one solid piece, without the chassis becoming upset. In deeper dirt I notice the same unsteady feel the Triumph Tiger shares, but I think this can be overcome by not being me and riding faster. However, more expert dirt riders will want cleated footpegs, to help keep their feet on the pegs, and slightly higher bars for when they are standing on those grippier pegs. The tires, although offering more grip than tires like this reasonably should in the dirt, are still a far cry from knobbies. However, the Ulysses is not really intended as a dirt bike; rather, it is for gently exploring dirt roads so Buell-mounted tourists aren't restricted from the 35 percent of US roads that are still, even in this day and age, unpaved, according to Buell.
|"The Supermoto-esque seating position on the Lightnings is the way to go for street riding."
I've had limited experience on Buells up to now, having only evaluated the XB9SX city cross in our in our Value Middleweights comparison test and the Ulysses in the Sport Touring comparo last year. So naturally, I was wondering, like many of you might be wondering, which Buell is best? Is the tucked-in seating position of the Firebolt series better for hustling the bike through a series of turns? Will the torque of the 1200cc motor overcome the extra 700 RPM the smaller 985 motor offers?
I can answer one question definitely; the Supermoto-esque seating position on the Lightnings is the way to go for street riding. Your head is up to see through the curves, your back is comfortable, and most importantly, the footpegs feel much more rational than the high and forward pegs on the Firebolts. On the street, ground clearance shouldn't be an issue (and the peg feelers come off it is for you, although I think you need therapy more than ground clearance if that is the case) and the legroom means you can ride much further and longer than a Firebolt-mounted rider can.
On the street, the bigger motor makes more sense for the majority of riders, although those used to Japanese fours (and Italian twins) might prefer the fizzier revving of the XB9. It gives you a bit of over-rev that keeps you from shifting too much if you are really going for it. The City X is just as much fun as I remembered, with nimble handling and a comfortable seat with more leg room. But that big 1200 motor is great, with a deep, rumbling vibration that is never intrusive, thanks to Buell's Uniplanar mounting system, and heaps, waves, mounds of torque available at around 3,000 RPM. On both motors, power is good but not great; the last XB9 we tested made 72 HP at the back wheel and the last XB12 made 87. It's enough to get sent to jail and enough to have more than a good time.
The bikes are far from perfect, even if you don't mind double-digit horsepower. Fuel injection is good enough for me but not as perfect as you would expect from other factories. I heard popping and pinging from the exhaust and cylinder head, and power delivery is kind of flat and slow, even if redline is reached all-too-soon. The gearboxes are still clunky, requiring plenty of clutch and smooth throttle to counteract the imperfect fuel injection and abrupt engine braking. Hey, you want torque, you got torque. Having a flounder-flat torque "curve" has its price. However, the XB's chassis and brakes make for a solid platform to enjoy the ride from, just like last year and the year before that. What is new--Pirelli tires across the line-up-- adds to the whole experience.
One thing that made all of us at MO take notice of the City X was the Pirelli tires, and they complement the other models just as well. They are light, turn progressively and evenly, and grip well too, giving you lots of confidence in sandy, greasy or gravel-strewn corners. That lightness is at the expense of tire life, but I don't think replacing the lighter "T" spec tires with standard issue Diablos will damp your fun too much. The mix of bikes made for one of the most satisfying days of riding I've had for a while. This could be because highway 155 is beautiful: winding, well-paved and almost free of cars on a weekday.
"Buells have always had an unmistakable feel to them that reflects their designer's desire to make motorcycles that are fun and satisfying to ride on any kind of road." Buells have always had an unmistakable feel to them that reflects their designer's desire to make motorcycles that are fun and satisfying to ride on any kind of road, and Harley's cash infusion has polished the rough edges enough so you're not worried about straying too far from home or agonized by uncomfortable ergonomics. There may be better sportbikes for the street, but I always think of Buells first. A 200-mile day of riding comes to a close. We go to bed after more meat, Scotch and a trip to the go-kart track courtesy of Harley-Davidson. The next morning we arisehome his Gospel. It's all stuff we've heard before, although I find a few items interesting.
bright and early to shovel down some more rubbery scrambled eggs and bagel-less lox to attend yet another tech briefing before the track day. The Man himself gives the talk, to further pound
First, a Buell sportbike has about half the parts of a Japanese 600cc or liter machine. This allows Buell to make and purchase higher-quality components while still keeping the price reasonable. Also, fewer parts means they can use more precision machining, meaning less slop and a tighter feel, even on older bikes.
Belt drive is also a cool thing more manufacturers should jump on, in my opinion. Belts offer less unsprung mass, cleaner, quieter operation, and eliminate maintenance. I have severe chain-a-phobia; I loathe cleaning and lubing chains, and I am hopeless at aligning axles. Sure, tell me all about your string and laser pointers or shaman rituals you claim are so easy to do to align your chain, but when Erik tells me about a system that goes 100,000 miles without wearing out or being adjusted, I am sold.
A belt also loses the same amount of power to friction as a clean, new chain, but is more efficient than a dirty, misadjusted one. And how many of you out there right now have perfectly clean, adjusted and lubricated chains? Not me. To top it all off, Erik said a belt is "a quarter the weight of a chain". All of these benefits are "better for the customer", so even if it costs a lot more money (which eats into what must be an already slim profit margin for a small-volume manufacturer) it's still "the right thing to do."
The physics of Erik's Zero Torsional Load (ZTL) system of his lightweight wheels and brakes bear mentioning as well. The front wheel, tire and rotor of a 2007 Ulysses are a full 10 pounds lighter than the front hoop assembly on a BMW R1200GS. This translates to all kinds of advantages with names like "turn inertia" and "spin inertia" with complex formulae that make me dizzy to look at. Still, you don't need to be Stephen Hawking to understand the advantages of less unsprung mass. Finally, where is it written that the gas tank has to be up here and the exhaust pipe has to be out there?
As far as I can tell, gas tanks are behind the steering stem above the motor because that's where it made sense to put them on the first motorcycles, which were bicycles with motors clipped to them. However, technology and time marches on, and Erik thinks "it's stupid to have the tank up here". It raises the bike's center of gravity and takes away valuable airbox space (some of you may remember the awful breadbox-sized thing sticking off the side of older Buell models). Why not put the gas in the frame? And the oil in the swingarm? And while we're at it, tuck that exhaust way under the bike.
Placing it up high under the seat or sticking out to one side looks cool, but it does detract from handling. And to vindicate Mr. Buell, observe how other manufacturers-like Yamaha and Suzuki-have followed suit in recent years.
A squeaking chorus of glee arose from the assembled journalists when we were told we would get to ride the factory-prepped XB-RR racebike. The announcement was even enough to mask our disappointment to find that the only big change for the rest of the line was new tires. Designed for Formula Extreme competition, it's basically a much-enhanced XB12R designed for use by privateers. The engine is a modified XB12 Thunderstorm motor. The stock bore of 88.9 mm is hogged out to 103.6, and stroke is decreased to 79.4 mm to create a higher-revving motor displacing 1,339 cc, near the class limit of 1350 cc. Compression goes to 12.5:1 from the stock 10:1, fed by bigger (than my freakin' head!) 62mm throttle bodies. Air and small birds are funneled into the giant airbox through a ram-air system. This is good for 150 HP measured at the crank, and tuners can use the included Windows-based fuel injection programming software to make the motor run perfectly or order Cialis from Canadian pharmacies.
Chassis changes are similarly straight forward. The stock XB chassis is modified simply by welding Ulysses sideplates onto the frame (to increase fuel capacity to 4.4 gallons) and the addition of a new swingarm with billet axle adjustment plates for the chain final drive conversion. Suspension is by Ohlins; a 43mm fork in front and a linkage-less shock in the rear. There is still only one perimeter-mounted brake disc on the all-magnesium wheel, but it uses an eight-piston caliper with four pads. Grab-ola!
"The entire package is wrapped up in wind-tunnel designed bodywork reminiscent of the old Harley-Davidson roadracers from the early 70's."
It weighs in at 362 pounds (the minimum allowable weight is 350), about 30 less than the stock bike. About 50 will be built this season for pre-approved racers, mostly Buell and Harley-Davidson dealerships with existing racing teams. Pricing will be $30,995.
Production was delayed by some glitches early in the season that have been corrected. The main issue was a "weak gear pitch", which caused a failure at Daytona. This problem has been corrected by using an off-the-shelf gearset, although it delayed production. Also, moving the timing rotor to the other side of the crank created a "resonant wave", according to Erik, that caused other problems. With a few other little fixes, Erik has declared the XB-RR ready for battle; will it be strong enough to make an impact on the world of club and national road racing?


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Model 105 was a landmark product - not just for KEF, but also for the loudspeaker industry as a whole. Physical form followed acoustical function in this radical looking system that set new standards for tonal accuracy and precise stereo imaging. Such was its performance and reputation that in its revised form it remained in production until 1987.
Continuing the lineage of KEF's high-end loudspeakers that started with the K1 Monitor, Model 105 was a three-way system of modular design, allowing the enclosure of each unit to be optimised for its respective frequency operating range. The result was a smooth and continuous dispersion pattern that gave superior imaging not only in the central position, but over a wide listening area.
The bass section comprised a 12 inch bextrene coned bass driver, housed in a 70 litre closed box enclosure, fed by a filter section that included a novel topology to convert the bass roll-off to a third order characteristic, allowing a low –3dB cut-off frequency but with useful attenuation of the subsonic frequencies typical of the analogue sources at the time. The B110 midrange and T52 high frequency drivers were housed in a separate, heavily damped, enclosure, which could be directed towards the listening position independently of the bass section.
The acoustic response was precisely tailored for a neutral tonal balance, assisted by the adoption of the newly derived Linkwitz-Riley fourth order crossover alignment, and to minimize the risk of driver damage due to amplifier clipping, an indicator light could be set to trigger at specific peak power levels.
Specification: Model 105
System type: Three-way, floor standing
Enclosure type: Closed box
Size: 965 x 415 x 455 mm (38 x 16.3 x 17.9 inches)
Weight: 36kg (80 lb)
Input Impedance: 8 ohms
Rated maximum power: 200W programme
Amplifier Requirements: 40-200 watts per channel into 8 ohms
Frequency response: 38-22,000Hz +/-2dB at 2m on measuring axis
Sensitivity: 86dB at 1m for 1W, anechoic conditions
Crossover Frequencies: 400, 2500Hz
Maximum output: 107dB on programme peaks under typical listening conditions
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Klinefelter syndrome is a genetic disorder that affects males.
Normally, males have one X and one Y chromosome; males with Klinefelter
syndrome have at least two X chromosomes and, in rare cases, as many as three
or four.
Symptoms, when present, vary from one male to another depending on
the number of extra X chromosomes and how many cells in the body are affected.
Symptoms may include a lack of fully developed secondary male sexual
characteristics—such as the growth of the testicles and penis, deeper voice,
and body hair—by adulthood. These men usually cannot father children (are
infertile). Other symptoms may include delayed speech development, poor verbal
skills, below-average intelligence, or emotional and behavioral problems. Males
with more than one extra X chromosome generally have more severe
Klinefelter syndrome usually goes undiagnosed until the preteen
years (around ages 11 to 12), when males often begin puberty. In some males,
Klinefelter syndrome is never diagnosed and does not cause problems.
The main treatment for Klinefelter syndrome is hormone replacement
therapy to increase testosterone. Other treatments vary depending on the
symptoms and may include educational support for language and learning
difficulties and counseling or social skills training for behavior
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January 17, 2013
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John Pope, MD - Pediatrics & Stephen LaFranchi, MD - Pediatrics, Pediatric Endocrinology
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Snapseed app review/
Snapseed app review - by Nik Software
If you don't already use Nik Software - and you should, because it is amazing! - then the technology behind this amazing app will be new to you. If you already use any of the Nik products, this app will immediately feel familiar to you. Nik uses a very cool thing called a "control point" which you can insert anywhere into a photo and which allows you to make changes just within that area - it's very cool. Now, thanks to Snapseed you can do the same thing on your iPhone!! Feel free to read more here: http://www.snapseed.com/
The first thing to know is that this app costs about $5.00. Now I know that seems like a lot - and in some ways, it is - but if you are serious about your iPhoneography it is well worth it. Believe me, once you use it and get familiar with all the capabilities, it will very likely be the only app you use! That alone saves you a lot of money, right?
Here's the first screen you come to when you open the app. First thing to do is to click the "Open" box at the top left, and it will allow you to select your image source: Camera (wherein it will take you to your camera so you can snap a shot) or Photo Library (your existing images). In this review, I am choosing an existing image I took of a little waterfall, so I tap on Photo Library, choose the shot, and it brings it into the app.
You see the small boxes at the bottom of the screen? Automatic, Selective Focus, Tune Image...etc? (By the way, there are more which you can swipe across to including Crop, Black & White, Grunge, Drama, and Frames, to name a few.)
Ok, that's where we are going next. I usually start by tapping on Tune Image. Doing so will full screen the image, and you are ready to edit.
There are 5 main controls you can use on this edit screen: Brightness, Ambiance, Contrast, Saturation, and White Balance. Here's the trick: you swipe up and down to switch between them, and then swipe left or right to decrease or increase the effect of that control. Make sense?
Swipe up and down: change between controls
Swipe left: decrease the effect
Swipe right: increase the effect
Here's what it looks like:
The number in the box below Ambiance indicates how much of a decrease or increase you have applied to it. Note that the image will adjust immediately as you make the changes.
Onve you have made all the changes you want to make here - across all 5 areas like Ambiance, Contrast, etc - you simply tap on the arrow on the bottom right. That will give you a quick "Processing" message as it applies your changes, and then it will deposit you and your updated photo back on the main edit screen.
If you do not like what you have, and want to start over, just click the left arrow and it takes you back to the main edit screen and drops all your changes.
Here is the image so far, after I have made adjustments to Ambiance, Contrast, Saturation, and now working on White Balance:
Here is where I tap the right-facing arrow at the bottom, and it saves my changes and takes me back to the main edit screen (or home screen, if you prefer).
Now you have a choice: continue on and make additional adjustments, or save the photo to your library and/or share it. If you decide you are done with the photo and want to either save it to your library or share it, just click the arrow in the upper right corner. It will present you with this screen:
I always save to Photo Library. If they had a Google+ button I would choose that!
Here's the final result:
Ok, so that is a quick, practical review of this amazing app. There is a WHOLE LOT MORE you can do with the app, though with this photo I chose not to enhance it any further.
But as an added little bonus, I thought it would be fun to share some additional screenshots, illustrating some of the extra features you can utilize on this app.
Below is a screen shot of how you can use the Selective Adjust feature (utilizing the Control Points I mentioned earlier). First, tap on Selective Adjust and it will go full screen on you, except for a small portion at the bottom. Tap on the + sign on the bottom, and it will initiate a Control Point, then tap on the image where you want the Control Point to go. In this case, I tapped on the bottom of this small waterfall.
You can see the blue circle - that is the size of the Control Point. You can pinch and swipe to adjust the size.
Then the fun begins. You can move your finger up and down to choose between Brightness, Contrast, and Saturation. Then you swipe left to decrease the effect, or right to increase it. Simple!
See screenshot below:
All other settings operate in a very similar manner. Just swipe up and down to make choices, and left and right to alter the intensity of the effects.
Here's the Black & White settings page - lots of Styles to choose from!
Here's the Grunge setting - again, lots of choices!
Here's a view of the Vintage options page...
In summary, I would give this app my highest recommendation. It is incredible. Yes, it costs $5.00 but really instead of buying a lot of $0.99 apps, just get this one and you are done!
Thanks for checking this out, and feel free to let me know your thoughts in the comments section!


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Dr. Clayborne Carson and Dr. Andrea McEvoy Spero of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Institute discuss the newly curated collection of MLK speeches, A Time to Break Silence.
Join Laura Tavares, Senior Program Associate, and Dan Sigward, Researcher and Curriculum Writer, as they discuss teaching with the ebook, Give Bigotry No Sanction.
During this webinar Dr. Sybil Hampton, Central High School class of 1962, joins course facilitator Caroline Berz to answer course participant questions about the era of integration at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Veteran administrators share their best ideas for shaping school culture using a wide variety of strategies.
In this webinar, Pulitzer prize-winning author Sonia Nazario joins our Los Angeles office director Marti Tippens Murphy to discuss Enrique's Journey and the new young adult version of the book.
This webinar reviews how our core case study of the Holocaust aligns with Common Core standards.
Explore Canada's restrictive immigration policies during the years 1933-1948.
Dans le cadre de ce webinaire, nous déterminerons les balises nécessaires pour engager une discussion rigoureuse, nuancée et inclusive sur les enjeux épineux de notre temps.
In this one-hour webinar, Jan Darsa, Director of the Center for Jewish Education at Facing History, and Shira Deener, Senior Program Associate, introduce the resource Sacred Texts, Modern Questions, and model lesson ideas using the publication.
Emily Bazelon discusses her book Sticks and Stones: Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy with Meredith Gavrin, program director of New Haven Academy and author of the Sticks and Stones study guide.
Jeff McGuire, Executive Director of the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police, speaks about the rising rates of Antisemitic hate crimes in Ontario and the ways that police units across Ontario are responding.
Holocaust survivor, writer, psychoanalyst and scholar Dr. Anna Ornstein joins senior program associate of Jewish Education Shira Deener and Jan Darsa, director of the Facing History Center forJewish Education, for a one-hour webinar.


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President Barack Obama will huddle with congressional leaders at the White House on Wednesday evening to try find a way out of the first government shutdown in 17 years.
House Speaker John Boehner, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell accepted Obama's invitation to a 5:30 p.m. meeting, a White House official said. Obama and Democratic leaders have been adamant that they won't negotiate over Republican demands to use the shutdown—and a looming debt ceiling increase—to defund or delay the new health care reform law. But Boehner spokesman Brendan Buck said he hopes the meeting signals a softening of that stance.
"We're pleased the president finally recognizes that his refusal to negotiate is indefensible," Boehner spokesman Brendan Buck said. "It's unclear why we'd be having this meeting if it's not meant to be a start to serious talks between the two parties."
But White House Press Secretary Jay Carney deflated that possibility when he said Wednesday afternoon that Obama isn't coming to the table to negotiate, but rather just to meet. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew will brief lawmakers on the risks of not raising the debt ceiling when the country's reaches its borrowing limit later this month, Carney said.
McConnell spokesman Don Stewart said that, "frankly, we're a little confused as to the purpose of this meeting."
The government has been in partial shutdown since Tuesday morning.


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IGO search
IGO/NGO custom search engines
Welcome to the IGO/NGO custom search engine project.
The project was started by David Oldenkamp, International Documents Librarian at Indiana University. The IGO search is done with GoogleCSE. The list of urls for the search came from the Northwestern University IGO site. For questions, comments, suggestions or to submit an IGO to add to the search, email David or James Jacobs, International Documents Librarian at Stanford University.
What it is: Using Google Co-op, fed 392 base URLs of IGOs into the search engine. The growing spreadsheet of urls can be found here. When the search engine is used by a patron, the terms are searched across all of the websites, so if you have the core url: http://www.un.org/ in the database, the search engine will search all of the websites that share the core http://www.un.org/ URL. Here's the direct URL for the IGO Search Engine.
We've expanded the project to include a Nongovernmental Organization (NGO) custom search engine. Here's the spreadsheet of NGOs. Thanks to David Oldenkamp and Barbara Celone for their work on the NGO search engine. Sites were chosen based on their consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and also collated from University of Minnesota Human Rights Library, and Duke University Libraries' NGO Research Guide.
Here's the direct URL for the NGO Search Engine.
Adding IGO search to HTML pages
If you want to include the IGO Search (Google) to your webpage, then feel free to copy and paste this code into your webpage:
<!-- Google CSE Search Box Begins --> <form id="searchbox_006748068166572874491:55ez0c3j3ey" action="http://www.google.com/cse"> <input type="hidden" name="cx" value="006748068166572874491:55ez0c3j3ey" /> <input name="q" type="text" size="40" /> <input type="submit" name="sa" value="Search" /> <input type="hidden" name="cof" value="FORID:0" /> </form> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.google.com/coop/cse/brand?form=searchbox_006748068166572 874491:55ez0c3j3ey"></script> <!-- Google CSE Search Box Ends -->
Adding NGO search to an HTML page
<!-- Google CSE Search Box Begins --> <form action="http://" id="searchbox_012681683249965267634:q4g16p05-ao"> <input type="hidden" name="cx" value="012681683249965267634:q4g16p05-ao" /> <input type="hidden" name="cof" value="FORID:11" /> <input type="text" name="q" size="25" /> <input type="submit" name="sa" value="Search" /> </form> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.google.com/coop/cse/brand?form=searchbox_012681683249965267634%3Aq4g16p05-ao&lang=en"></script> <!-- Google CSE Search Box Ends -->
Examples of Other Google Co-op Searches
- "Government Watchers" search engine searches "about 55 sites whose focus could be loosely categorized as 'Government Watchers'"


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Hello girls! I'm new to this community. I'm looking for advice and support. I'm 28 years old, married, have no children. My husband and I have been in TTC for almost 6 years already. We had 5 cycles of IVF and all unsuccessful. Each failure was unbearable. It was getting worse each other time... I feel myself miserable. My husband comforts me all the time and I appreciate his support. But I feel so ashamed I can't give him children. We've been together since college. All this time we were dreaming and planning to have big happy family. But all these years we had only sadness, failed ttc and loss of money. We work so hard! Andy(my husband) comes home late at night, because he needs to earn as much as he can on each try of IVF... We are so tired of all these. I understand some couples try much longer and spend much more...But I think it's enough IVF tries for us.
We discussed our situation and came to the conclusion that childless life is not for us. So there is only one thing left. It's surrogacy. But here we have one more problem - prices. Costs for surrogacy in USA are huge! $100 000 for the procedure is prohibitive price for us. Speaking about India, it has been closed for foreigners recently. Mexico? After reading some reviews we doubt to go there. Greece? Yes, prices are lower, but not that much. $80 000 is a lot... We'll need money for our baby in future. Giving all money for the procedure and then have no ability to maintain our child is not a good choice. Furthermore we'll probably need to take a loan to pay such price. All money we had were spent for IVF attempts. So there are Russia and Ukraine left... Their prices are lower, which is good. But still I have some doubts...I want to talk with somebody, who've had surrogacy in those countries. Is here anybody who experienced this procedure there? Any advice?


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Click on images outlined in blue for additional information and for larger pictures, which take longer to download. Photographs by George P. Landow, July 1966 and October 2000. [You may use these images without prior permission for any scholarly or educational purpose as long as you (1) credit the photographer and (2) link your document to this URL in a web document or cite the Victorian Web in a print one.]
The cathedral in summer sunshine and . . .
Flooded in autumn and spring.
More of Ruskin's Venice
- The Palazzo Ducale, Venice
- The Scuola de San Rocco
- On the Grand Canal
- Leaving the Grand Canal
- On the way to Venice from the mainland
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Why Jobs Makes a Difference
In 2010, Investment Advisor magazine celebrated its 30th anniversary. In May of that year, in the issue wherein we normally announce the IA25, we included Steve Jobs as one of the 30 most influential people in and around the advisor universe, such as cover "boy" John Bogle (below) over the prior 30 years. With the death on Oct. 5, 2011, of Jobs—cofounder of Apple and the marketing and design genius behind the Macintosh, the iPhone and iPad—we thought it appropriate to share the reasons why he was included in that list of notables, and why his influence has and will be felt not merely by consumers but by advisors for years to come.
At the time we acknowledged that "the average advisor does not use a Macintosh at work, and Blackberries are far more common in advisor cellphone holsters than iPhones" (though that is one area that is changing). But we also wrote that "independent advisors couldn't exist without the user interface approach that Apple's Steve Jobs popularized, and his company's commitment to making personal computers that could easily be used by non-technical folks."
We invite you to scroll through the following slides to hear from Investment Advisor Group contributors and staff over the years on the why and the how of Jobs' influence in advisors' lives and the current and future economy.
The iPad's Growing Influence
As recently as late September, Investment Advisor Managing Editor Danielle Andrus reported on how announcements of new applications from Advisor Software and Pacific Life highlight mobile technology's increasing influence on the way advisors do business.
For example, Advisor Software's new app, goalGetter, allows consumers to drag icons representing financial goals like buying a house and paying for college or retirement onto a savings timeline. GoalGetter computes the affordability of the goal based on a user's savings and annual growth rate, and determines how much the user would need to set aside each month.
Consumers can then email the findings to their spouse or advisor to create a more detailed plan.
More prosaically, perhaps, but just as telling, Pacific Life's Retirement Solutions Division launched an iPad app for its sales team.
Using the Tools Available: Putnam
Pacific Life's wholesalers aren't the only ones using iPad apps. In announcing in April its new Fund Visualizer website for advisors, and which received a major update in September, Putnam Investments' Brian Kelley said that all of Putnam's salespeople are now equipped with iPads.
Kelley suggested that the use of mobile technology at Putnam has been spurred by CEO Bob Reynolds, who in an earlier interview pointed to an iPad and said, bluntly, "That's the future."
Alexei Bayer: Finding the Next Google
In his December 2007 column for Research magazine, Alexei Bayer (below) recalled his arrival at Columbia University's school of engineering in the mid-1970s. One student explained why he was transferring to medicine, Bayer recalls. "'Technological progress is pretty much over," he explained to me. 'Most of the obvious things have already been invented.' That was probably the misstatement of the century, coming as it did when Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak were welding together the world's first personal computer.
Over the next three decades, the technological revolution wreaked dramatic changes in society, … The financial services industry was probably the most profoundly affected by the new technologies, in a variety of ways ranging from how we save and invest to what we invest in."
Bayer concluded: "One lesson from the technology revolution is that it doesn't produce products to fill existing needs. On the contrary, many new products generated demand by altering behavior, starting with the personal computer."
Apple as Paradigm for the Future
In June 2008, Research magazine celebrated its 30th anniversary with a look ahead at the next 30 years. Author Shoshanna Zuboff asked "How Will the Industry Transform Itself?" and suggested that we stood at "a classic turning point in the history of capitalism, when changing social values and needs outrun the pace of institutional change."
To address that mismatch, Zuboff called for a new "enterprise logic, which she defined as a "commercial framework that links producers and consumers together according to an entirely new pattern." Henry Ford accomplished that new enterprise logic with mass production.
"One of the most stunning recent examples of this kind of breakthrough," she wrote, "came from Steve Jobs and his team at Apple. Between 1999 and 2003, sales of recorded music fell 25 percent as people shifted to peer-to-peer networks like Napster and Kazaa" downloading music for free.
"But instead of seeing a nation of criminal mass consumers, Jobs perceived a new kind of individual with unique desires. He launched the twin lifeboats of the iPod in 2001 and iTunes in 2003 which bypassed the old mass consumption industry structures and reunited music with each listener. Apple's expedition into I-space was rewarded with loyalty and cash as the iPod became the Model T of a new age of individualized consumption."
Dan Skiles: A Mac in Your Firm's Future?
"For a majority of advisors," wrote Investment Advisor's technology coach Dan Skiles (below) of Shareholders Service Group in July 2011, "personal computers and a Microsoft Windows-based environment is the technology backbone for their office. In fact, just several years ago you would have had to search high and low to find advisors who deployed Apple products in their office.
"Today, we see many advisors using iPhones, and now iPads are becoming more common, even though this device has been available for less than 18 months. Is it now time for you to think about purchasing Macs for your office as well? I certainly wouldn't call this a cutting-edge technology decision, because there is a growing group of advisors using Macs, but nonetheless it is not a simple decision. As with most technology decisions, it primarily depends on the specific needs of your firm to determine if this is a good idea."
Tablets as a Differentiator
Investment Advisor's October 2011 cover story tells the story of Trust Company of America, an upstart custodian with a TAMP heritage that is making waves partly through the use, wrote IA Editor-in-Chief John Sullivan, of a "cutting-edge push into tablet technology." TCA President and CEO Frank Maiorano credits Chief Information Officer Dennis Noto with matching the functionality of the company's legacy technology with a modernized "user experience and functionality."
"He does a tremendous amount of homework and research," Maiorano says of Noto in the article. "We're not trying to be an Apple shop, but he is an Apple fan. The fact that the technology we're releasing doesn't have to have a user's manual, needs only three screens to achieve any needed function and the client experience looks exactly like the experience the advisor sees."
That in itself is a clear expression of Steve Jobs' legacy, and of the high bar he has set when it comes to technology. Technology not only has to perform functions well and quickly, but the user—the human using that tool—must be able to intuitively work with the machine.


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The Commission presents new trade policy measures in order to achieve the growth and employment targets of the Europe 2020 strategy. The Commission is especially keen on the increased opening of foreign markets for services, investments and public procurement. Moreover, the future EU trade policy is support "green growth" and "climate change objectives" in principle.
In its Communication, the Commission proposes measures intended to contribute to more flexible labour markets, job creation, workers' qualification and the improvement of working conditions.
The Commission's considerations regarding employment policy are based on an EU headline target adopted under the strategy "Europe 2020" [COM(2010) 2020] whose aim it is to achieve an employment rate of 75% by 2020. In order to reach this target, the Commission is shifting its focus from a merely reactive to an anticipatory policy approach, as is already evident in the Single Market Act [COM(2010) 608] and the Flagship Initiative on the Innovation Union [COM(2010) 546], as well as an "Integrated Industrial Policy for the Globalisation Era" [COM(2010 614)].
The Commission wishes to revive the single market with the Single Market Act, incorporating it into the economic strategy "Europe 2020" for sustainable growth and increased employment. The Commission has made 50 proposals, both legislative and non-legislative, which are to be adopted by 2012. The idea is that by "completing, deepening and making full use of the single market" an annual potential growth of 4% of the GDP over the next ten years can be achieved.
Forgoing "major spending programmes" and focussing on the establishment of efficient framework conditions is reasonable from an ordoliberal standpoint. However, they should apply equally to all companies. Therefore, the Commission should forgo sector-specific measures; they bear the potential for competitive distortion.
According to the Commission, "major societal challenges" (e.g. climate change, energy scarcity and demographic change) can only be overcome through research and innovation. To this end, the Commission intends to improve the framework conditions for research and innovation and to coordinate innovations effectively. In addition to the establishment of a "European Research Area", it propagates (pre-commercial) public procurement to promote innovations. In order to tackle "grand challenges", "European Innovation Partnerships" are to be initiated.


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NEW YORK - November 17, 2010 - Syfy's hit original series Eureka has added to its growing list of guest stars for the second half of the show's 4th season. Wallace Shawn (Toy Story features, Gossip Girl), Dave Foley (NewsRadio, Kids in the Hall) and Aaron Douglas (Battlestar Galactica) join previously announced guest stars Wil Wheaton, Felicia Day, Ming-Na, and Stan Lee. Season 4.5 of Eureka will air on Syfy in 2011 (return date TBA).
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Eureka seems like any other cozy, Pacific Northwest town, but is actually a secret community of geniuses assembled by the government to conduct top-secret research. What they've unwittingly created is a place where anything imaginable can happen� and does. Eureka stars Colin Ferguson, Salli Richardson-Whitfield, Joe Morton, Erica Cerra, Neil Grayston, Niall Matter, and features Jordon Hinson. Co-creator Jaime Paglia and Bruce Miller are Executive Producers and the series is produced by Universal Cable Productions.
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Dr. Grumpy: "Then can I have yours?"