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3 Bottom IO port control
How to control the board's input and output!
IO in the computer refers to Input/Output, namely Input and Output, referred to as IO port.
- IO ports are different, some are larger, and in general, there are tags near them for users to understand. For example, the bottom of this board is distributed on goldfinger in the order of 0/1/2/3V/GND (most computers start from 0).
- If you attach the gold finger to the base, other smaller blue and white line pins can be used as well, which was specifically noted in the introduction of the hardware in chapter 1. You can forget to check the BPI:bit hardware.
- In this module of microbit, the interface of the board is defined as pinN object, where N represents the value of the interface, so the no. 0 interface is also called pin0 object. If you find this is not easy to use later, you can redefine your favorite Pin name by import machine Pin.
Shy board
We want to touch the pin of the board and make it respond accordingly, and it looks like a shy little girl.
code as below:
from microbit import * while True: if pin1.is_touched(): display.show(Image.HAPPY) else: display.show(Image.SAD)
At this time, you need a hand to touch the pin of tag 1, you can see the board from sad to happy, if you release it, it will change the expression, is angry?
The procedure is explained as follows:
- On "pin1. Is_touched ()" repeatedly run to determine whether or not the pin is touched. (principle is ADC sampling)
- It runs and returns True, which shows a smiley face, otherwise it always shows a bitter face, so it will feel sad when you don't touch it. (and so on! What kind of shyness is this!!!! )
The running effect is as follows:
It should be noted that since we have static electricity in our body (hands), it may be electrocuted and cause its expression to twitch sometimes.
lamp ON or OFF
When we first started, we had already learned how to control the changes of LED lights on the board, but it was all done by others. So today we will have a try. How did others do it?
For this purpose, I have prepared the following common Led lights, and you will find that they are of different lengths. This is to distinguish their positive and negative poles. The positive pole is the long end, so the negative pole is the short end.
Tip: the purpose of distinguishing the positive and negative poles is to hope that when you are wiring, the element (LED) positive pole is connected to the power positive pole (+), and the element (LED) negative pole is connected to the power negative pole
Let's start with the first step, which is to turn on the ordinary light, that is, directly connect it (LED) to the power supply, then directly connect the big guy to the board of 3V and GND, 3V refers to the positive pole of the power supply (3V), GND refers to the negative level of the power supply, also known as the ground.
This lights up a light (pay attention to the positive and negative), but the light is not controllable, it will only light up, not out.
I wanted to take another lamp to connect it for comparison, but I found a problem that the other lights were too short, so I changed the following. I used our headlight to control, and it can be seen that the lamp will not be on at this time.
So let's control its on and off by the following code, you can see in the picture I used pin2 pin to control.
from microbit import * pin2.write_digital(1)
Now I use the Pycharm + Mpfshell plug-in to run this code.
You can see it lights up, so that means we can control the light, is that consistent with the initial tutorial?


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AnAge entry for Heterocephalus glaber
Classification (HAGRID: 03275)
- Taxonomy
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Rodentia
Family: Bathyergidae
Genus: Heterocephalus
- Species
- Heterocephalus glaber
- Common name
- Naked mole-rat
- Synonyms
- Heterocephalus ansorgei, Heterocephalus dunni, Heterocephalus phillipsi, Heterocephalus progrediens, Heterocephalus scortecci, Heterocephalus stygius
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 31 years (captivity)
- Source
- Rochelle Buffenstein, pers. comm.
- Sample size
- Large
- Data quality
- High
- Observations
These bizarre underground animals from the Horn of Africa live in cooperative colonies, a protected and thermally buffered environment. Their body temperature is relatively low and they appear to be cold-intolerant. They are one of the longest-lived rodents and are extremely resistant to cancer [0689]. Record longevity belongs to one specimen caught in the wild in 1980 that lived over 30 years in captivity until it died in 2010, making it at least 31 years of age when it died (Rochelle Buffenstein, pers. comm.). In the wild, breeders have been known to live up to 17 years but non-breeders do not commonly live more than 2 or 3 years (Stan Braude, pers. comm.).
Unlike other mammals, they appear to maintain good health for most of their lifespan and do not exhibit the typical age-associated increase in mortality [0756]. Older animals can be less active but very few age-related changes have been described [0981].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 228 days
- Male sexual maturity
- Gestation
- 70 days
- Weaning
- 36 days
- Litter size
- 7 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 3.5
- Inter-litter interval
- 81 days
- Weight at birth
- 2 g
- Weight at weaning
- 11 g
- Adult weight
- 35 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- 0.0046 days-1 (from Gompertz function)
- Maximum longevity residual
- 368%
- Typical body temperature
- 305ºK or 32.1ºC or 89.8ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- Body mass
- 35.3 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.003626 W/g
- [0966] Edrey et al. (2012), Sustained high levels of neuregulin-1 in the longest-lived rodents; a key determinant of rodent longevity (PubMed)
- [0926] Yu et al. (2011), RNA sequencing reveals differential expression of mitochondrial and oxidation reduction genes in the long-lived naked mole-rat when compared to mice (PubMed)
- [0894] Kim et al. (2011), Genome sequencing reveals insights into physiology and longevity of the naked mole rat (PubMed)
- [0925] Edrey et al. (2011), Endocrine function and neurobiology of the longest-living rodent, the naked mole-rat (PubMed)
- [0981] Wolf and Austad (2010), Introduction: Lifespans and Pathologies Present at Death in Laboratory Animals
- [0867] Seluanov et al. (2009), Hypersensitivity to contact inhibition provides a clue to cancer resistance of naked mole-rat (PubMed)
- [0913] Perez et al. (2009), Protein stability and resistance to oxidative stress are determinants of longevity in the longest-living rodent, the naked mole-rat (PubMed)
- [0978] Jones et al. (2009), PanTHERIA: a species-level database of life history, ecology, and geography of extant and recently extinct mammals
- [0756] Buffenstein (2008), Negligible senescence in the longest living rodent, the naked mole-rat: insights from a successfully aging species (PubMed)
- [0947] Mitchell et al. (2007), Membrane phospholipid composition may contribute to exceptional longevity of the naked mole-rat (Heterocephalus glaber): a comparative study using shotgun lipidomics (PubMed)
- [0783] Csiszar et al. (2007), Vascular aging in the longest-living rodent, the naked mole rat (PubMed)
- [0776] Seluanov et al. (2007), Telomerase activity coevolves with body mass not lifespan (PubMed)
- [0786] Andziak and Buffenstein (2006), Disparate patterns of age-related changes in lipid peroxidation in long-lived naked mole-rats and shorter-lived mice (PubMed)
- [0754] Labinskyy et al. (2006), Comparison of endothelial function, O2-* and H2O2 production, and vascular oxidative stress resistance between the longest-living rodent, the naked mole rat, and mice (PubMed)
- [0755] Andziak et al. (2006), High oxidative damage levels in the longest-living rodent, the naked mole-rat (PubMed)
- [0689] Buffenstein (2005), The naked mole-rat: a new long-living model for human aging research (PubMed)
- [0603] Andziak et al. (2005), Antioxidants do not explain the disparate longevity between mice and the longest-living rodent, the naked mole-rat (PubMed)
- [0715] Lorenzini et al. (2005), Cellular replicative capacity correlates primarily with species body mass not longevity (PubMed)
- [0481] Austad (2005), Diverse aging rates in metazoans: targets for functional genomics (PubMed)
- [0036] Savage et al. (2004), The predominance of quarter-power scaling in biology
- [0420] White and Seymour (2003), Mammalian basal metabolic rate is proportional to body mass2/3 (PubMed)
- [0005] Buffenstein and Jarvis (2002), The naked mole rat--a new record for the oldest living rodent (PubMed)
- [0184] O'Connor et al. (2002), Prolonged longevity in naked mole-rats: age-related changes in metabolism, body composition and gastrointestinal function (PubMed)
- [0434] Ronald Nowak (1999), Walker's Mammals of the World
- [0455] Virginia Hayssen et al. (1993), Asdell's Patterns of Mammalian Reproduction: A Compendium of Species-Specific Data
- [0050] Paul Sherman et al. (1991), The Biology of the Naked Mole-Rat
- [0731] Zullinger et al. (1984), Fitting sigmoid equations to mammalian growth curves
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account
- Encyclopaedia of Life
- Search EOL
- NCBI Taxonomy
- Entrez
- Search all databases
- Ageing Literature
- Search Google Scholar or Search PubMed
- Images
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Pleasurists #69
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- Tantus Hoss by Sammi
Hoss is enormous. Humongous. Gigantic. Bigger than big. He makes Randy look like a beginner's toy (and Randy most definitely is not).
Editor's Note: This is a seriously impressive review because, among other things, Hoss is a seriously impressive toy. I thought it a fitting EP for an impressive edition both in number (69) and in review count (80).
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On to the reviews…
- Fun Factory Bubbles by Jessie Beth
- Fun Factory Bubbles by Sarahbear
- Fun Factory Bubbles by Dani Darling
- Fun Factory Bubbles by Sexorcism
- Fun Factory Bubbles by PrettyPowerTools
- Sqweel by FunseXXXtoys Chick
- Bcurious by Sammi
- MiVibe Necklace by HotMoviesForHer Sex Toy Crew
- Better Sex Synergy Pleasure System by Epiphora
- Eroscillator 2 vs. Synergy Pleasure System by PrettyPowerTools
- Handbag Hercules Pocket Rocket by Mistress Kay
- Remote Controlled Egg by Jessie Beth
- Hitachi Magic Wand Executive Pack by Joanna Cake
- Kissa by Muffyspingulove
- Aqua Rabbit by Jessie Beth
- Harmonia by Kristi
- Heart's Desire Teaser by Dani Darling
- Little Su Tulip by Red
- CyberGlass Swirl Micro Mini by la petite
- Aqua Rabbit by Jessie Beth
- Calla Lily by Luvasaurus
- My Pet Vibrator by Kynky Kytty
- Jollies Jollet by Amber from Scarlet's Letter
- Jollies Jollet by Epiphora
- Tantus Rascal O2 by Sarahbear
- LELO Ella by Scintillectual
- Tantus G-Force by Ginger Leigh
- Tantus G-Force by Saraid
- Vixen Vixskin vs. Tantus O2 by Carrie Ann
- Goldfrau by Red
- Don Wands Pleasure Wand by la petite
Anal Toys
- Tantus B-Bomb by Scarlet Lotus St. Syr
- GoodVibes Sidekick 1 by True Pleasures
- Assberry by Curvaceous Dee
- Assberry by LivingFire
- Crystal Delights by PrettyPowerTools
Toys for Cocks
- Vibrating support plus extended head exciter by Laurel
- Succu Dry Fleshlight by Epiphora
- Succu Dry Fleshlight by The Masturbator
- Chocolate Party Hats by PrettyPowerTools
Lube, Massage Oil, Bath Stuff, & etc.
- Bswish Bwarm Massage Candle by Mistress Kay
- System JO Warming Massage Glide by Rayne
- Intimate Organics Discover by Carrie Ann
- Wet Together Ultimate Pleasure Gels by Mina
- Incoqnito Lambskin Collar by True Pleasures
- Incoqnito Lambskin Collar by Pretty Power Tools
- Aslan Silicone Ballgag by Amber from DivergentDance
- Crave Wrist Restraints by Sammi
- Hog Tie and Cuff Set by Mistress Kay
- Sportsheets Under the Bed Restraints by Dani Darling
- Sportsheets Under the Bed Restraints by EffinSara
- Silicone Bit Gag by Alpine Subdreams
- Leather Slut Impression Paddle by Alpine Subdreams
- HappyTails Elk Leather Flogger by ThePinkPoppet
- Door Jam Cuff Set by BDGuy
Adult Books
Adult Movies & Porn
- Billy Castro Does the Mission by Epiphora
- Corruption by Mistress Kay
- Fluid: Women Redefining Sexuality by Garnet Joyce
- Sex: How to Do Everything by The Duchess
- Deep Throat by J.D. Bauchery
- Jenny & Marie's Award Show Fiasco by FrzKey
- Beef Jerky – 420 Stroker by The Porn Librarian
- True Fucking Love by J.D. Bauchery
- Panty Flash Teacher by FrzKey
- Schoolgirl Costume by Akame
- Red Satin and Lace Bustier by Juliettia
- Schoolgirl Costume by Angel deSanguine
- Eden Fantasys Toy Pouch by Carrie Ann
- Toi Tissue Bocks by Carrie Ann
- Original Toi Bocks by Carrie Ann
- Spareparts Joque Harness Large by Sarahbear
- Cleopatra Clit Clip Review by Dani Darling
- Tools of the Trade Kit by Jessie Beth
- Smartballs Teneo Uno by PrettyPowerTools
- Liberator Fascinator Throe by Sarahbear
- Pleasure Me Purse by Dani Darling
- Go Girl by PrettyPowerTools


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This recipe is originally from Ina Garten's book, Barefoot Contessa at Home. I have never been disappointed by one of Ina's recipes that involved baking. I have always admired her simplistic approach to food. I changed the recipe by making the main flavor of the cake vanilla, instead of lemon, and lowered the fat content by using nonfat Greek yogurt. To highlight the vanilla flavor, I used one vanilla bean, and pure vanilla extract. The cake turned out very moist with a strong vanilla flavor. When I was done with the vanilla bean pod I used, I popped it into a jar of granulated sugar so I could have vanilla sugar for another day.
I am also submitting this recipe for this week's BSI : vanilla! Rules for BSI can be found here.


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The fastest and least expensive way of getting a lush, green lawn is to hydroseed. Hydroseeding was once used solely for commercial purposes--especially by road crews on the sides of highways. Now homeowners can hire a contractor to spread the seed mixture for the quick establishment of a beautiful lawn. Hydroseed is a mixture of water, glue, fertilizer, seed and green wood fiber mulch. Once it dries, the mulch helps the seeds grow fast because it protects them. You will have a fantastic-looking yard in two weeks, versus six to eight weeks for traditional grass seed.
Clear the planting area of debris, weeds and stones. Hydroseed needs direct contact with soil to become established. Till the top 4 to 6 inches to loosen the soil.
Figure out the acidity or alkalinity of the soil with a pH test kit (available at a nursery or planting center). Follow the kit's instructions for gathering a sample.
Make acidic soil more alkaline because grass grows best in a neutral environment. To boost the pH by one point, apply hydrated lime to the local soil. The rule of thumb is to add 4 oz. per square yard of sand, 8 oz. for loamy soil, 12 oz. for clay and 25 oz. for peat soil, according to the Garden Helper, an online gardening resource.
Increase acidity if you're dealing with alkaline soil. Lower the pH by 1 by adding 1.2 oz. of ground rock sulfur per square yard of sand. For all other soil varieties, add 3.6 oz. per square yard. Combine the substance into the local soil well.
Hire a hydroseeding contractor to come and spray the grass seed mixture in your yard. They should also lay down a starter fertilizer containing a lot of phosphorus. This will get the roots to start growing.
Water the hydroseeded area twice daily to help it become established. Keep it moist because seeds will die if they dry out.
Mow the lawn when the grass reaches 3 inches in height. Cut it no shorter than 2 inches to promote growth and thickness.
Fertilize the grass after it has had 1 month to grow. For the greenest lawn, use a food that is high in nitrogen. Follow the application instructions on the label.
Things You Will Need
- Rake
- Rototiller
- pH test kit
- Ground sulfur
- Hydrated lime
- Hydroseed
- Water
- Stay off the hydroseed mulch mat while it is becoming established.
- If dealing with very acidic soil, do not try to correct it all at once. Take several weeks to gradually increase the pH.
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Theophilus Evans
Theophilus Evans (February 1693 – 11 September 1767) was a Welsh clergyman and historian.
Evans' father was from Pen-y-wenallt and he was christened in the church in Llandygwydd in Cardiganshire in 1693.[1]
Evans served curacies in Brecknockshire and incumbencies in both counties. He is best known for his work Drych y Prif Oesoedd (Mirror of the Early Centuries) (1716; revised ed. 1740) where with some literary talent but with an absence of critical method (mixing history with legend) he endeavours to justify the independent origins of British Christianity.[2] Evans was supported by Sackville Gwynne, the squire of Glanbrân. In 1727, Evans became the private chaplain of Marmaduke Gwynne, Sackville's heir, but they eventually parted because of Gwynne's support for Howell Harris and the Methodist cause.[3]
- Drych y Prif Oesoedd (1716)
- A History of Modern Enthusiasm (1752)
- Theophilus Evans: Drych y Prif Oesoedd (ed. Garfield H.Hughes, 1961)
- ^ Theophilus Evans, Welsh Biography Online, retrieved 26 September 2013
- ^ Welsh Biography Online
- ^ Marmaduke Gwynne (1691-1769) A Methodist Squire Archived 13 May 2013 at the Wayback Machine, llgc.org.uk
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Sun bears are listed as Vulnerable in IUCN Redlist
Text and Photos by Naziah binti Muntil
Becoming an intern at BSBCC was one of the best experiences I've ever had. Before this, I only had a greater exposure on small animals (cats and dogs) and ruminant; less on wildlife animals. By having an internship here, it's a great opportunity for me to open my eyes and expose myself to become more familiar how wildlife field is like.
2 weeks into the internship, the other interns and I were given the opportunity to join the Bear Care Unit. I helped the team to prepare the foods for the sun bears thus I was able to learn about their foods (what they eat and what foods that cannot be given to them). I also enjoyed joining outside feeding which we fed the sun bears in the pen.
One of the interesting parts throughout my internship here is doing enrichment for the sun bear. By doing this, it helps sun bear to perform its natural behaviour and designed the surrounding to mimic sun bear's natural environment.
Lastly, I would like to thank Mr Wong Siew Te, Thye Lim, Lin May, and all the bear keepers due to their generosity and time and the knowledge and experiences you all shared with me will be useful as I continue my college career and start the next stage of my life. BSBCC is a place that I will always look back at as the beginning of my inspiration to work with wildlife species and be more active in conservation.
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Wednesday, 20 October 2010
Changing Joys
There's always time for 'things I love' in life - my friend has compiled a book of simple pleasures for me, which I read with my morning porridge every day - and now is no different!
So here is my List of Things I Love Now That I Didn't Love As Much (If At All) Before.
1. Weekends - easy place to start, but oh my, the weekends are amazing! Two days without a thought for the essay/reading I should be doing; two long days (and three evenings) of stuff, simple stuff, like lying in bed or oiling the bikes or sitting in the garden on a kitchen chair, or hanging the washing outside. Immense pleasure!
2. Comfort Eating - my eating has changed a lot. Meals have become the social landmarks of my day, my outlet for creativity and, in some ways, a task and a burden. Since we are cooking for two we can now create things that I've never bothered with in the past - my baking output has increased dangerously, for example! - and we have a freezer, so anything is possible! I've also found that I'm thinking so much less about what I eat, and more about what I want from a meal - do I want comfort, energy, baked bean goodness, lazy food....? Somehow piling loads of cheese on my pasta is no longer worth thinking about - of course I want cheese, I've been at work all day!
3. People - people can make or break your day, can't they? The bearded man who smiled at me on the train yesterday has no idea how much he lifted my spirits, and the prudish man in the too-big suit on the 6:54 to Leeds makes me cringe every morning with his rudeness.
4. Radio 4 news - I listen intently. And the shipping forecast, and the stockmarkets, and the coastal reports. Radio 4 is full of things I never knew I didn't know!
5. Sitting - I live in a house with a couch for the first time in 3 years, and it is better than I ever knew. Sitting, snuggling, drinking tea. Wrapping up in a blanket and pondering the world, watching films, sneakily eating pasta from a bowl when Daniel is out at badminton. Couches are so useful!
6. Slippers - during our first weekend of living together, Daniel and I went to M&S and bought a pair of snuggly slippers each. I've been a slipper-wearer for my whole life, but for some reason I stopped while at University, and this had to change! I got myself some squishy purple ones with fluffy insides, and there is no way to describe the joy I feel when I slip my feet into them in an evening. It's as if my feet are the plug, the slippers are the socket, and when connected they light up a bright neon sign that reads 'I'm home!!'.
7. Clothes - clothes have taken on a whole new meaning! I have to wear proper work clothes, and I love it! I feel as if I'm playing fancy dress every morning as I pull on my tailored trousers and button up my shirt, but likewise I feel as if I'm becoming myself again in the evenings when I change. It's getting more and more difficult to dress at the weekends; I seem to have forgotten how to wear normal clothes, or at least how to dress as myself, and not as a generic woman in jeans and a hoodie (which is also fine, but not as fun). To remedy this I will be purchasing some woolies at the weekend once I receive my first pay cheque!!
8. Saturday lunch - on Saturday I can have anything I want for lunch. I don't have to plan, I don't have to make it the night before; it can be warm or cold, it can be as complicated or as simple as I wish. Marmite on toast features heavily in my weekends - oh how I miss a Marmitey lunch!
9. My accent - for the first time ever I am less Northern than everybody else around me when I speak. I work in a corner of West Yorkshire where, somehow, everyone speaks with a strong Bradford accent, and my Southernified way of speaking is becoming more of a pleasure every day. Not that I have a problem with the Yorkshire accent, of course, or any other; being generic can be quite fun sometimes, though!
10. Cycling gloves - Daniel bought me some amazing cycling gloves. My hands are ragged and sore but at least they stay warm. Good gloves have taken on a new meaning now I leave the house in the small hours.
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Lovely to hear about all these changes - and so glad that you are enjoying it so much. The world is full of people moaning about work and how it ruins their life, it's honestly just so nice to read about someone who is happy with their job and all the little impacts it has on the rest of their life.ReplyDelete
Ahh, the slipper-buying expedition is very sweet! And yep, radio 4 is the bomb.. i love love love the shipping forecast!
- Anonymous22 October 2010 at 01:04
I love this list! and I love a northern accent. My man's family all come from Ribchester so I'm more familiar with the Lancashire rather than Yorkshire tone but gosh I love it!ReplyDelete
I love a northern accent too - although mine has nearly all gone these days (it's from t'other side o'Penines anyway). Himself still has a pretty strong West Yorks accent which I love - we spend hours comparing the differences between Lancashire and Yorkshire slang!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous23 October 2010 at 12:08
I too am a new radio 4 listener and despite feeling a bit like my mother when I listen to it (it's always been her radio station of choice) I am loving it! I'm learning so much about so many things!ReplyDelete


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Dear Friends,
This is a reminder about the opportunities this month to make deep and permanent change by allowing things that are already showing signs of disintegrating to really fall apart and go into the void and out of existence. If you feel despairing about this process it is only natural as the mind cannot conceive of the creativity that lies just beyond. It only knows to focus on what is being "lost" or "being failed".
We are headed towards an eclipse and full moon on Thursday (update to follow) and it would be a great time to just simply observe in your life what is shifting around. Often your intentions of raising the quality of your life will show up by removing that which you have putting up with. So don't be surprised if something you own gives up the ghost forcing you to replace it with a new and better model. Remember the mantra for this time "where one door closes another opens". And when all else fails, give it over to spirit. Don't take things personally and watch your projections by not taking things out on others.


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Top Items:
Josh Lederman / The Hill:
Romney, Santorum rip into one another at pivotal GOP debate — MESA, Ariz. — Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum ripped into one another at Wednesday night's GOP presidential debate in their last joint appearance before a chain of make-or-break contests. — Romney was helped out in his attacks …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice, ABCNEWS, Politico, The Huffington Post and CNN
Tony Campbell / The Moderate Voice: Ron Paul Is A Fake... because He is
Jayce Henderson / ABCNEWS: The Note's Must-Reads for Thursday, February 23, 2012
Dylan Byers / Politico: Republican candidates confront the press
Newt Gingrich / CNN: Romney, Santorum go after each other in debate
Sara Murray / Washington Wire:
Recap: The CNN Republican Presidential Debate in Arizona — In what could be the final Republican debate, Mitt Romney delivered a sharp performance that could help his odds as he faces closer-than-anticipated contests in Arizona and Michigan on Tuesday. … For Rick Santorum, the debate could hurt his front-runner status.
Discussion: Reuters, No More Mister Nice Blog, 2012.talkingpointsmemo.com and PJ Media
Stephen Green / PJ Media: Drunkblogging the Last (?) GOP Debate of 2012
Byron York / Campaign 2012:
Team Santorum: U.S. is with Rick on devil belief — MESA, Ariz. — Some of Rick Santorum's advisers are frustrated and angry that reporters are focusing more on their candidate's statements about Satan than on his positions on the issues. Here in Arizona Tuesday, Santorum faced repeated questioning …
Maggie Haberman / Politico: Santorum steps into new debate role
Meenal Vamburkar / Mediaite: Santorum Aide To Reporters: 'Why Is Mormonism Off Limits?'
Dan McLaughlin / RedState: David Waldman of Daily Kos: Know-Nothing Bigot
Katrina Trinko / National Review: Santorum Adviser: 'Why is Mormonism Off Limits?'
Alex Pappas / The Daily Caller: Santorum aide: 'Why is Mormonism off limits?'
David A. Graham / The Atlantic Online: Does Santorum Really Want to Make a Stand on Mormonism?
Ross Douthat / Campaign Stops: Can Santorum Win in November?
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Obama ties Romney with Arizona — Arizona is a great microcosm of how Barack Obama's reelection prospects have improved over the last 3 months. When we polled there in November his approval numbers were atrocious and his prospects for winning the state in the general election didn't look very good.
Discussion: CNN, Guardian, HotAirPundit, Taegan Goddard's …, Washington Wire, Ballot Box and detroitnews.com
Richard Adams / Guardian: CNN Arizona Republican debate - as it happened
Peter Nicholas / Washington Wire: Poll: Is Romney's Electability Argument Fading?
Jonathan Easley / Ballot Box: Poll: Obama catches GOP field in Arizona
Chuck Stokes / WXYZ-TV:
EXCLUSIVE POLL: Santorum leads Romney in close Michigan Republican Presidential Primary race — (WXYZ) - The red hot Republican presidential race in Michigan is now a virtual dead heat between Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney. — In an exclusive WXYZ/Detroit Free Press poll conducted by EPIC MRA …
Discussion: Washington Post
Aaron Blake / Washington Post: Arizona Republican debate: Winners and losers
New York Times:
Romney, Seeking Traction, Duels With Santorum — MESA, Ariz. — Mitt Romney challenged Rick Santorum's credentials as a fiscal conservative in a fiercely combative debate on Wednesday, trying to redefine Mr. Santorum as part of the problem in Washington and regain his footing in the fight for the Republican presidential nomination.
Discussion: Bloomberg, NPR, The Daily Beast, The Moderate Voice, The Caucus, Prairie Weather, CNN, The Page and Newsy
Eyder Peralta / NPR: Santorum Spends Debate Fighting Off Attacks From Romney, Paul
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice: Live Blogging of CNN's Republican Presidential Debate in Arizona (UPDATED)
Katharine Q. Seelye / The Caucus: Santorum Sees 'Evil Forces' Confronting America
Paul Steinhauser / CNN: Lots at stake in first GOP debate in nearly a month
Mark Halperin / The Page: Takes from the Mesa Debate
Roger Simon / Politico:
Will GOP perp walk lead to White House?
Will GOP perp walk lead to White House?
Discussion: Connecting.the.Dots and CNN
Robert Stein / Connecting.the.Dots: GOP Debate Dog That Didn't Bark
Rick Perry / CNN: Perry: GOP race could lead to brokered GOP convention
Ginger Gibson / Politico:
Newt Gingrich is winner for 1 night
Newt Gingrich is winner for 1 night
Discussion: The Page
Mark Halperin / The Page: Keep Calm And Carry On
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Live-Blogging The Mesa Debate
Live-Blogging The Mesa Debate
Discussion: Political Mojo and Balloon Juice
DougJarvus Green-Ellis / Balloon Juice: There's got to be a morning after
CBS News:
Santorum "homophobic," former senator says
Santorum "homophobic," former senator says
Discussion: Firedoglake, The Huffington Post and The Page
Mark Halperin / The Page: Simpson: Santo "Rigid and Homophobic"
Polls indicate Romney on the rise in Arizona
Polls indicate Romney on the rise in Arizona
Discussion: Campaign 2012, Politico, ABCNEWS, Weasel Zippers, The Hill and Hot Air
Philip Klein / Campaign 2012: Santorum stumbles in Arizona debate
Alexander Burns / Politico: Republican debate: Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum get personal in Arizona
Matthew Negrin / ABCNEWS: Frontrunner Envy? Mitt Romney Claws at Rick Santorum in Debate
Tina Korbe / Hot Air: Poll: Romney on the rise in Arizona?
Tina Korbe / Hot Air:
What I'd love to see at tonight's debate: Ashes
What I'd love to see at tonight's debate: Ashes
Discussion: Slate and Townhall.com
Anna Weaver / Slate: Ash Wednesday Do's and Don'ts
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
BREAKING: Bush Appointee Finds DOMA Unconstitutional — Moments ago, Judge Jeffery White of the District Court for the Northern District of California ruled that the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) violates the Constitution's equal protection clause in a case brought by Karen Golinski.
Discussion: Advocate, San Diego Gay and Lesbian and Human Rights Campaign
Diane Anderson-Minshall / Advocate: Judge Finds DOMA Unconstitutional
Ken Williams / San Diego Gay and Lesbian: BREAKING NEWS: DOMA ruled unconstitutional in California case
Brian Moulton / Human Rights Campaign: Another Federal Court Finds DOMA Unconstitutional
Chris Geidner / Poliglot:
BREAKING: DOMA's Federal Definition of Marriage Unconstitutional, Judge Rules in Golinski Case — Today, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California issued its order finding that Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act — the federal definition of marriage …
Eric W. Dolan / The Raw Story: Judge rules Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional
David Badash / The New Civil Rights Movement: Federal Court Finds DOMA Unconstitutional Again, Boehner Spent Your Tax Dollars To Defend It
Ari Ezra Waldman / Towleroad News #gay: Federal Court Says DOMA Unconstitutional: Analysis of the Ruling
Suzan / Women Born Transsexual: DOMA's Federal Definition of Marriage Unconstitutional, Judge Rules in Golinski Case
Ted Johnson / Wilshire & Washington: Another Front in the Battle Over Same Sex Marriage: Court Strikes Down Part of DOMA
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Another court finds Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional
Another court finds Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional
Andy Towle / Towleroad News #gay: Federal Court Rules DOMA Unconstitutional
Irin Carmon / Salon:
A pro-choice win in Virginia, assisted by "Saturday Night Live" — The Virginia governor backs off a forced-ultrasound bill in the face of pro-choice — and pop culture — outrage — Something incredible just happened. Faced with a growing national outcry against a bill forcing an ultrasound …
Discussion: Truthdig
Anita Kumar / Washington Post:
Virginia House amends abortion bill to say no woman will have to undergo involuntary internal ultrasound
Virginia House amends abortion bill to say no woman will have to undergo involuntary internal ultrasound
Discussion: DownWithTyranny!, Guardian, The New Civil Rights Movement, The New Republic, The Maddow Blog and Gawker
KenInNy / DownWithTyranny!: Being a rising right-wing pol means finding that line between the merely preposterous and the too-preposterous
Karen McVeigh / Guardian: Virginia governor Bob McDonnell in U-turn over controversial abortion bill
David Badash / The New Civil Rights Movement: Abortion: Virginia Governor Backpedals On Transvaginal Ultrasound Bill
Alec MacGillis / The New Republic: Bob McDonnell Probes Veep Prospects For A Heartbeat
Laura Conaway / The Maddow Blog: Virginia Governor McDonnell backs away from transvaginal ultrasound bill
Emma Carmichael / Gawker: VA Governor Opposes Bill Requiring Dildonic Ultrasounds Before Abortions
Alexander Burns / Politico:
McDonnell comes out against invasive ultrasound mandate (UPDATED)
McDonnell comes out against invasive ultrasound mandate (UPDATED)
Discussion: Feministing, Richmond Times-Dispatch, Hullabaloo, Washington Post and Taylor Marsh
Digby / Hullabaloo: Virginia Governor withdraws the probe, but remains dedicated to using wombs as a political playing field
Donovan Slack / Politico:
No shovel for Obama — It was a rather odd sight: as an array of museum officials, including former first lady Laura Bush, took up shovels at the groundbreaking for the first national museum dedicated exclusively to African-American history and culture, the nation's first black president sat watching, no shovel in hand.
Discussion: Weasel Zippers, The Huffington Post and The Hill
ZIP / Weasel Zippers: Obama Attends Groundbreaking For Smithsonian African American Museum . . . Only One Not Given A Shovel...
Haley Barbour Tells ABC News, 'Somebody Else Might Get In" — Could the battle for the Republican nomination go all the way to the Republican convention in August? Could we see an entirely new candidate getting into the race? — One long-time Republican leader tells ABC News the answer to both questions is yes.
Discussion: Campaign 2012, Hot Air, Weekly Standard and HotAirPundit
Conn Carroll / Campaign 2012: Morning Examiner: Santorum takes one for the team
Allahpundit / Hot Air: Open thread: The last debate
Nikki Finke / Deadline.com/hollywood:
SACHA BARON COHEN BANNED FROM OSCARS: EXCLUSIVE — BREAKING... EXCLUSIVE: The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has pulled actor Sacha Baron Cohen's tickets from the 84th Academy Awards. This means he is banned from attending the Oscars even though he is an Academy member …
Discussion: Sky Dancing, Mediaite, Atlas Shrugs and ThinkProgress
Minkoff Minx / Sky Dancing: Late night news reads: Open thread...
Frances Martel / Mediaite: Oscar Organizers Deny They Banned Sacha Baron Cohen From Doing Anything 'Entertaining'
Pamela Geller / Atlas Shrugs: It's Oscar Time in Naziwood
Alyssa Rosenberg / ThinkProgress: Sacha Baron Cohen Has Been Banned from the Oscars
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"Moreover, you scorned our people, and compared the Albanese to sheep, and according to your custom think of us with insults. Nor have you shown yourself to have any knowledge of my race. Our elders were Epirotes, where this Pirro came from, whose force could scarcely support the Romans. This Pirro, who Taranto and many other places of Italy held back with armies. I do not have to speak for the Epiroti. They are very much stronger men than your Tarantini, a species of wet men who are born only to fish. If you want to say that Albania is part of Macedonia I would concede that a lot more of our ancestors were nobles who went as far as India under Alexander the Great and defeated all those peoples with incredible difficulty. From those men come these who you called sheep. But the nature of things is not changed. Why do your men run away in the faces of sheep?"
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Sovereign wealth and public pension funds grabbed a series of
headlines in 2014 as they bought up expensive properties in
developed markets. Prime office properties in so-called gateway
cities like London, New York and Paris attracted the lion's
share of sovereign funds' capital, accounting for $13.8 billion
of the $23 billion they spent on global real estate, according
to Sovereign Wealth Center data. Of the major business
centers, funds favored London, which received $4 billion
in investments in 2014. In the U.S., however, sovereign funds
looked beyond New York, the traditional favorite, and targeted
other major cities including Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco
and Washington, D.C. In the U.S. capital alone sovereign wealth
funds bought four office buildings for a total of $733
One of the biggest real estate stories of 2014 involved
Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), the arm of the
central bank that oversees the world's largest sovereign fund,
Norway's $880 billion Government Pension Fund Global. NBIM
announced that it would allocate 1 percent of its total assets
- over $8.5 billion per annum - to core real estate in
developed markets between 2014 and 2016. NBIM fell short of its
mark in 2014, deploying only $5.4 billion, as more competition
for prime commercial assets, often from Asian pension funds and
insurers, drove yields down and prices up.
Last year marked a turning point for sovereign wealth funds
investments in other asset classes. Known largely as
conservative investors, they started to embrace riskier
strategies, including direct investments in privately owned
technology and biotech companies. This developing trend had
major repercussions in real estate too. Funds allocated more of
their capital to logistics properties, for instance, as the
boom in online shopping drove demand for delivery hubs in
developed and emerging markets alike. Among the most active
funds in this subsector were the $589 billion Abu Dhabi
Investment Authority (ADIA) and Norway's GPFG. The two funds
formed separate partnerships with San Francisco-based logistics
juggernaut Prologis. ADIA teamed up with Prologis in China and
NBIM in the U.S.
Gingko Tree Investment, a unit of China's State
Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE), on the other hand,
targeted the more traditional retail sector, investing in two
U.K. shopping centers, located in Leicester and Bristol.
Overall, sovereign wealth fund foreign direct investments in
logistics, retail and industrial properties - primarily in
Europe and Asia - totaled $3.2 billion in 2014.
In some other prime property hotspots, such as Melbourne and
Sydney, a rush to buy real assets pushed up prices and some of
the more opportunistic sovereign investors, such as GIC, with
an estimated $315 billion in assets under management, decided
to divest. In November 2014, the Singaporean sovereign fund
sold an office tower at 175 Liverpool St. in central Sydney for
A$390 million ($337.4 million); it also put its Australian
industrial and logistics real estate portfolio on the market
for A$900 million. One of the first sovereign wealth funds to
enter the Australian real estate market, GIC now looks to be
taking advantage of high valuations and shifting its attention
to other economies in the region where entry prices are
One of the countries GIC is targeting is Japan. Like other
government investors, GIC has been attracted by several
factors, including cheap mortgages, strong yields and a
strengthening economy. GIC's bullish stance on Japan was
illustrated in August 2014, when it paid ¥170
billion ($1.6 billion) for the Pacific Century Place office
building in central Tokyo - this was the biggest property deal
in the country since the financial crisis.
Other sovereign investors are flocking to Japanese real
estate. In 2013 the Abu Dhabi Investment Council (ADIC) had
been part of a consortium that bought the Shiba Park office
tower in Tokyo for ¥117 billion ($1.2 billion) in
2013, and in 2014 it committed a further $150 million to its
joint venture with Australia's Goodman Group, which owns a
portfolio of logistics properties including in Tokyo, Nagoya
and Osaka. Qatar Investment Authority (QIA), with an estimated
$304 billion in assets under management, made an even more
unusual investment in Japanese real estate. In January 2014 the
fund backed Singapore-based real estate investor Orange Grove
Capital Management's ¥23 billion ($110 million)
purchase of 17 branches of the Round One Corp., a chain of
neon-lit bowling alleys and karaoke booths.
Overall, QIA spent most on real estate in 2014, allocating
$6.2 billion across 14 deals. NBIM followed, buying 13 assets
worth $5.6 billion. GIC made the largest number of investments;
we recorded 21 purchases worth a total $4.1 billion. These
figures underscore the Singaporean fund's desire to diversify
its property portfolio: GIC often invests in emerging markets
where prices are generally lower than in developed ones.
All in all, sovereign wealth funds spent $23 billion on
property in 2014 - but with Norway yet to unleash its full
spending power on global real estate, we expect that number to
rise sharply in the coming years.
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My first fantasy draft is this Sunday. I'm in three leagues for sure this year but may end up with a fourth or a fifth. That's how it usually works out.
And when I say draft on Sunday, I actually mean auction. Silent bid auction, actually.
That league — called The Gnational Football League — is pretty unique. It's a year-round league; by that I mean, like the NFL, this league requires you to be on your fantasy toes even in the spring and summer. There's the traditional season that runs from September to December, but after that, there's a spring-time period of free agency where you can drop players from your roster (oh, and did I mention that our rosters are 38 players deep, each of whom has a different salary toward a $100 cap and varying lengths of contract years?), make claims on other team's players whose contracts are up and then, in turn, decide to retain and keep players who have been bid upon by other owners, and then find out how your roster has been effected when the dust has settled.
And that's just in the spring. Come May, we have an actual draft — five rounds, order determined by season finish — but for rookies only. (I have a co-owner; our South Austin Purple Llamas picked up Mike Williams, Evan Engram, Curtis Samuel, Solomon Thomas and Jonathan Allen.) The rookie draft is always after the NFL draft.
Then there's offseason waivers in July. Drop any dead weight you want from your roster, pick up others'. And then, usually way too early, we have our August draft, er, silent bid auction.
Sound like too much? It probably is. But it's different, and I like the building-the-franchise aspect to that league, and so here I am, prepping for my Sunday draft.
That GFL league format is one of several leagues I've been a part of (or still am a part of) that have incorporated little tweaks. This is the time of year where you and your friends or co-workers are starting to talk about getting a league together, or your established league I shaking off cobwebs and getting organized again.
I typically play in four or five leagues a year. Multiply that by the years that I've been playing (which, for me, started in 1990 or 1991) and I've seen my share of leagues, formats, alternate rules and setups.
If you're looking to add a twist, large or small, to your league, consider these:
A keeper league. In Year 1, every player we drafted was randomly assigned a contract of 1-4 years. We were allowed to keep two players every year, as long as they still had contract years remaining. I liked the randomness of it, and every year's draft still had a good amount of big names available.
For those who just can't win. I've been trying to talk friends into this idea for years, but have gotten few takers — a Losers League where you actually WANT to lose, not win, your weekly matchup. You still have to draft legitimate starters at the same positions you would in a normal league (though, in this league, Terrance Williams is way more valuable than Dez Bryant), but every week it's the lower-scoring team that moves up in the standings. Is that weird? I don't know. Sounds like it would be fun to try.
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New week, new name. In one league I'm in, we've had a long-standing rule where each week's highest-scoring team gets to rename the week's lowest-scoring team — just for one week, though. And this is the one irreverent league I'm in, so the renamed teams can become instant (and fairly un-publishable) classics.
In that same league, for a year or two the practice was that the high-scoring team would work up a league poll with four options for a lowest-scoring team's rename, and we'd all vote on our favorite.
About those defensive players … More about drafting individual defensive players in that year-round league. We have roster spots for defensive linemen, linebackers and defensive backs. Each week we start two linemen, two 'backers and two DBs, plus two defensive flex spots. And yes, they score points.
Drawing for divisions. Our work league has 12 teams in three divisions. Every three years, we have division realignments, by random draw. The thought was that doing it the old way (random draw for divisions each year, on draft day) was hindering us from forming any divisional rivalries. We're entering Year 3 in our league, so at next year's draft we'll go through a realignment draw.
Or, just go division-less. Another league I'm in has gotten rid of divisions altogether. Our standings are a straight 1-through-12 format based on records. The top six teams make the playoffs; the bottom six don't.
Auction drafts. My league with co-workers is an auction draft, with a $50 salary cap in a two-keeper, three-year contract format. It's 12 teams. Danny Davis (our commish) and Cedric Golden handle the majority of auctioneer duties, and Kirk Bohls is notorious for throwing anyone — be it Jay Ajayi or Jay Cutler — out there "for a dime." The bidding format combined with the roster/salary cap management is, for me, fun.
That league, by the way, is called The Office Football League and my partner and I are the reigning three-time league champions. Hence, the name of this weekly fantasy piece.
This year's auction draft will be Labor Day Sunday, a league tradition.
You vs. Everyone. We never did this, but considered one year changing the weekly matchup format so that your team's score is compared to the other nine or 11 team's scores in the league, and you'd come up with a weekly W-L total based off those comparative matchups. Maybe you'd go 6-3 one week, 4-5 the next, 7-2 the next.
Paying for pickups. A league that a friend runs charges $10 per transaction — and allows transactions to be made on a first-come, first-served basis, even if that means someone's making a claim during a game on Sunday. I played in that league one year. The transaction kitty at the end of the year was ridiculous.
Last year, according to my friend, his league had 218 transactions. You do the math.
The winners' pool. On draft day, start an Undefeated pool for anyone who wants to participate. Last one standing without a loss wins the side pot.
Merging two leagues. If you know someone who runs another league, why not try merging them — kind of, anyway. In our newsroom we have two big leagues — our Office Football League and their Republic of Texas league. So we tried out a pilot program last year; our respective league championship games were both held in Week 16, so we arranged a Week 17 cross-league exhibition match between our champ (our own McFartney & Lemon) and theirs, assistant metro editor Tom Labinski's Nixon Creeps.
We turned this exhibition into a two-week matchup. We took our existing Week 16 scores, then submitted a starting lineup for Week 17 and added those to our Week 16 scores. The two league's scoring systems are similar though not exact, but we accepted that and moved on. For example, our two teams both had Kirk Cousins as our quarterback — he scored 13 points for me, but 15.4 for him. There also was a lineup issue in that our league has one more starting spot than they do. Still, it was close enough.
Heading into Week 16, he held a 150.35 to 141 lead. I out-pointed him 84 to 64.7 in Week 17 and thus my McFartney & Lemons prevailed, 225 to 215.05.
We're going to talk more about this at our league's annual preseason owners meeting to talk about the league and rule change proposals, which we'll vote on later. Among this year's list of possibilities:
1. A "super pot," which squirrels away a fraction of each team's league fees (our league costs $125 to play, so we're talking $10 or $15 per team each year) that slide into a side pot that then gets included into every third season's regular winner's pot. So every three years, our league champion wins a pot that's swelled to double or triple in size. The thought here, besides just adding a wrinkle, is to promote owners from staying in the league since they're literally invested into that three-year plan.
2. That undefeated pool idea, from above.
3. Adopting that two-league merger idea. For us, the matchup of our two champions would be merely for fun and bragging rights.
4. Adopting an "inactive fee" that basically fines an owner for failing to submit a starting lineup or submitting one that has a player that's injured, inactive or on bye.
5. Altering our rule that penalizes 1 point for missed field goals by not penalizing any points for a missed field goal that's from 46 yards or longer.
6. And, a recurring rule change that traditionally comes up just short of becoming official every year. Right now, our league allows up to two keepers but the rules state those two players can't be of the same position. This goes back to the 2000s when one of our owners lucked into getting LaDainian Tomlinson in the draft as a rookie as well as taking Larry Johnson as Priest Holmes' backup. The Bayou Ballers won back-to-back titles protecting those two running backs, and then the two-position rule was adopted.
So, have fun setting up your league. And if you're open to spicing things up, go for it.


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