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Standing in a concourse at Comerica Park during the seventh-inning stretch, wearing his Detroit Tigers windbreaker and hat, Walt Thompson seemed to speak for every fan on opening day.
You look forward to it all season, and when you get here again, you smell the hot dogs cooking, and its the best thing in the world, he said Thursday.
With a nod to the past and a glimpse at the future, baseball returned across America. Under sunny skies, too, with nary a snowflake in sight.
It really was Opening Day III. Oakland and Seattle officially started the season last week in Tokyo, and the Miami Marlins debuted their splashy new park Wednesday night against the World Series champion St. Louis Cardinals.
In Cleveland, it almost felt like a doubleheader. The Toronto Blue Jays beat the Indians 7-4 in 16 innings, making it the longest opener in major league history.
Six more games were on tap, and new Boston manager Bobby Valentine was eager to get going.
Its opening day, and theres only one opening day. Its a very special day. Its the start of something new, he said.
Looked that way at Petco Park in San Diego, where the Padres hosted the Los Angeles Dodgers. Thats where Magic Johnson, part of the group thats buying the Dodgers, sat with outgoing owner Frank McCourt and chatted away.
There was plenty of pomp elsewhere plus top performances by Justin Verlander, Roy Halladay and other aces.
At Citi Field, the New York Mets began the afternoon by paying tribute to late Hall of Fame catcher Gary Carter.
At Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati, Pete Rose and Joe Morgan stood together.
And at Wrigley Field, the Cubs crowd howled when comedian Bill Murray ran around the bases, slid across home plate and then bounced the ceremonial first pitch. After that, the real arms amped up.
Stephen Strasburg pitched seven dominant innings, and the Washington Nationals, with more than usual high hopes on opening day, beat Chicago 2-1.
Weve been champing at the bit to get out there, said Ian Desmond, who singled home the go-ahead run in the ninth inning.
Verlander looked every bit the AL MVP and Cy Young winner as he blanked the Boston Red Sox for eight innings. Even after Detroit closer Jose Valverde blew a save for the first time in more than a year, the Tigers wound up with a win in the bottom of the ninth.
Johan Santana also began in style. The two-time Cy Young winner missed last season while recovering from shoulder surgery but looked sharp in helping pitch the New York Mets past Atlanta 1-0.
Same tight score in Pittsburgh, where Halladay led the Philadelphia Phillies past the Pirates.
Most everywhere, runs were hard to come by.
Long way to go, but its good to get that first one under your belt and have it be a good one, Verlander said.
Celebrating their 50th anniversary, the Mets looked to their past. Hall of Famer Ralph Kiner, 89, and an announcer for the team since their expansion season, read the starting lineup from a podium at the plate.
There was a moment of silence for Carter, who died in February at 57 from a brain tumor. His wife and three children tossed out first pitches, and the Mets will sport patches on their sleeves this season to honor him.
Its an honor to wear his number today, Mets manager Terry Collins said.
Umpires remembered their own by wearing patches in tribute to the late Marty Springstead and Harry Wendelstedt.
At Rangers Ballpark, Texas unveiled a life-size bronze statue of the fan who died last year after falling over an outfield railing. It shows 39-year-old firefighter Shannon Stone and his young boy.
Stone took his 6-year-old son, Cooper, to the game with hopes of catching a ball. Cooper and Rangers President Nolan Ryan said it depicted the happy times families have at games.
In Cincinnati, the Reds threw their annual parade former third baseman Aaron Boone was the grand marshal and got started against the Marlins under sunny skies and 60 degrees and brisk winds.
That was quite a turnaround for the Marlins. It was 79 degrees for the first pitch when they lost at home to St. Louis 4-1 on Wednesday night. The team took a postgame flight and arrived at their hotel in Cincinnati at 3 a.m. not much time to sleep before the 4 p.m. opener.
I wish we could have stayed home, Marlins manager Ozzie Guillen said. But they made that special schedule for us to play there.
AP Sports Writers Noah Trister, Tom Withers, Joe Kay, Mike Fitzpatrick, Howie Rumberg and Andrew Seligman, AP writer Angela K. Brown and AP freelance writer Scott Held contributed to this report.


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Three points: Brazil left broken
BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil -- Three thoughts on a record-breaking night as Brazil were humiliated by a rampant Germany side on the march towards the World Cup final.
1. An eternal embarrassment
After so many goals, there was only one description: Minerazo.
This was not as painfully dramatic as the 1950 loss to Uruguay -- forever remembered as the Maracanazo -- but that was only because it was possibly worse: It was so humiliatingly excruciating.
The details of Germany's 7-1 win -- and the sheer numbers alone are searing -- remain difficult to register. It revealed so much that the first boos were not heard until the 44th minute, long after the fifth goal had been scored. It was as if that was how long it took for the utter shock to wear off, to realise just how bad this was.
The dimensions to this defeat were as plentiful as Germany's goals. Given the history, the context, the politics, this may well be the most stunning World Cup match of all time.
It is extremely difficult to think of a result or event that compares in football history as a whole.
After a World Cup that Brazil had waited two generations for, they have now suffered a defeat that will take generations to forget.
The circumstances are almost cruel. The scale of the defeat certainly was. The competition Brazil have dominated and won more than any other country has also left them with their two most painful defeats.
They are of the type of defeats that very few victories can erode, that almost nothing can rectify.
Brazil now has so much to consider.
On their team bus for the World Cup, the message read: "Brace Yourself -- The Sixth is Coming." That took on dark tones. The game itself took on a scarcely believable gloom.
There was no sixth trophy. There was only a 7-1 defeat. Read it. It remains shocking. Brazil will never want to look at it again.
2. Brazil was finally found out
As stunning as this event was, the elements were not that surprising. The signs were there. As their campaign went on, it did not seem as if they were building up to anything special. Instead, it felt like they were just about keeping it together, that they were set to crumble.
In virtually all of their games, they came perilously close to the edge. Chile were inches away from knocking them out, while a frantic physicality was needed to eliminate Colombia.
The very fact it came to that in the quarterfinal, however, revealed so much about this team. They never had the quality to win this World Cup.
By the end, too, the loss of their single world-class attacker in Neymar felt irrelevant. He couldn't have prevented this. There was always the danger of it happening, that they would unravel against a better side.
Yet it's still difficult not to think the hysterical reaction fed into the historic nature of this humiliation. The frenzy the entire country worked itself into saw the equal but opposite reaction on this pitch. Once the deeper problems were exposed, it all gave way.
Brazil are not this bad. They are not 7-1 bad. This was about something else.
This semifinal as an event was certainly something else.
3. Germany's champion credentials
Then there was Germany. What a statement. The story is all about Brazil's collapse, but they were the driving force -- in so many ways. It was not just about the implosion of the hosts. Germany imposed that upon them.
Sure, Brazil's awful defensive problems were the direct cause of that tone-setting first goal, as Thomas Muller plundered the ball into the net from close in.
Thereafter, though, the Germans brutally expanded the gap between the sides.
You only had to look at the interchange for the fourth goal, the emphatic finishes of the third and seventh, as Toni Kroos hammered in one and Andre Schurrle powered in the next.
Before all that, there was Miroslav Klose's second. What a situation in which to break a legendary Brazilian's record. Ronaldo was forced to congratulate the forward for his 16th goal on national television, adding insult to injury.
The only question is whether such a ridiculously handsome win is actually healthy for Germany, whether they could have benefited from a bigger challenge, whether this will blunt them.
After a semifinal against the most successful nation in World Cup history, that seems an astonishing thing to say.
This was just an astonishing event.
Miguel Delaney covers the Premier League and Champions League for ESPN FC. Twitter: @MiguelDelaney.


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A new study has shown that a compound called sulforaphane, from brassica vegetables like broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, and kale, may protect arteries from disease by boosting a natural defense mechanism. (Arteriosclerosis Thrombosis and Vascular Biology, Sept 2009, "Activation of Nrf2 in Endothelial Cells Protects Arteries From Exhibiting a Pro-inflammatory State", M. Zakkar, et al.)
Sulforaphane ia a compound most widely associated with broccoli. Highest levels of sulforaphane are found in commercially available broccoli sprouts, but are also present in all brassica vegetables. In this recently published research, sulforaphane as an individual molecule (not from a whole food), was shown to activate a protein called Nrf2 in arteries. While the protein is normally present and active in the inner lining of arteries, in areas of arteries that are susceptible to disease, i.e., the bends and branches of arteries, the researchers found that Nrf2 is inactive, which may explain why those areas are sights for inflammation, an early stage in the development of heart disease such as atherosclerosis.Both cell studies and animal studies showed that sulforaphane could reduce inflammation at these high risk areas by turning on the activity of the Nrf2 protein. The researchers next steps are to test whether eating a vegetable such as broccoli (or kale or other brassicas) will have the same protective effect for both prevention and reducing progression in already diseased arteries.
Cruciferous vegetables, like kale, broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage and Brussels sprouts, contain high levels of the active plant chemicals called glucosinolates (see one of my previous blog postings about glucosinolates). The glucosinlates are metabolized in our body into another group of molecules called isothiocyanates, which are known to be powerful anti-carcinogens. The main isothiocyanate from broccoli is sulforaphane.
Considerable previous research regarding the potential benefits of broccoli and sulforaphane have focused on the anti-cancer effects. Epidemiological (population data) and animal studies have shown that diets high in cruciferous vegetables result in fewer instances of certain cancers, especially lung, colon, breast, ovarian and bladder cancer.
This study clearly adds to growing research that including kale and other brassica vegetables in the diet on a frequent, even daily, basis may have multiple health benefits, however, the portion size needed to experience these benefits will likely be much larger than just nibbling around the edges of the decorative kale on your plate once in a while!
As a tip, in addition to all the other brassica vegetables I grow or purchase, I do enjoy eating broccoli sprouts by adding them in salads. I also use them in place of lettuce in sandwiches or wraps especially during the winter if I cannot find lettuce to purchase grown by our local farmers in their hoop houses, which permit nearly year-round production of fresh greens even as far north as Michigan. (Note: I highly recommend obtaining all the various healthful molecules available in our food (many of which have not yet been studied) instead of purchasing a bottle of just one molecule as a dietary supplement.)
Last night I made a stir-fry dish using three different types of brassica vegetables: red cabbage, baby bok choy, and yellow cauliflower. It was beautiful and tasty. I finished it for lunch today. I think that easy recipe might be called the Brassica Tri-fecta Stir-fry! I'll post that recipe and a photo separately.
Where kale is more than decoration on my plate!
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Environment groups have condemned changes to Queensland's land clearing laws.
But the move has been welcomed by farmers.
Land clearing was one of Queensland's foremost environmental issues, and previous governments imposed many restrictions.
The Newman Government says they went too far.
Tonight it is set to repeal regrowth regulations and letting farmers self-assess many clearing activities.
They will also exempt so-called high-value agriculture from land-clearing bans.
Less paperwork
Charles Burke from Agforce says farmers will welcome the changes, because they will reduce paperwork.
"This is simply a freeing-up of administration and making the red tape less costly and burdensome for us," he said.
But Nick Heath from the World Wildlife Fund says they will let land clearing recommence.
There will be substantial new clearing, but clearing in areas we can't afford to lose.
Labor MP Jo-Ann Miller was quick to evoke memories of the divisive debate over tree clearing.
"The Newman Government will be back on its D9s, back on its big machinery, ripping the guts out of Queensland," she said.
But Natural Resources Minister Andrew Cripps says the changes do not allow broad-scale clearing.
"This bill does not return us to those days where vegetation clearing was compulsory," he said.
The Government has also moved amendments to let cattle graze in some national parks.
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Credit Union Front Line newsletter recently asked Carla Schrinner, implementation manager and senior master trainer for CUNA's Creating Member Loyalty™ program, to share a few secrets of member service success.
Here are her thoughts, based on her 22 years of helping credit unions incorporate a member loyalty emphasis into their sales and service culture.
What's your best advice when it comes to sales and service?
Every time you interact with a member—whether it's by phone, face-to-face, or online—is an opportunity to learn something about that member and to leverage it.
Members don't visit your branches for checking accounts, loans, or CDs. They have underlying needs or concerns they must address.
Your job is to figure out what's driving each member's need and to help them meet it. When you can do that, you move from merely order-taking to really becoming a trusted financial partner.
What's the most common "Aha!" topic you come across in your CU training sessions?
The role of the manager in determining the success or failure of your sales and service efforts.
Managers must do so many activities, in their branches and departments, that don't support sales or service. Managers can't plan for sales, observe and coach staff around their sales or service behaviors, or keep an eye on results when they're mired in operational duties or still meeting with members.
Credit unions must do a better job of assessing the role of the managers, and ensuring organizational support for making sales and service a priority.
Please share an example of how a simple change in approach can make a big difference in sales and service success?
It's about leveraging what you learn. To illustrate the point, I routinely ask senior teams and managers a simple question: "What happens in your credit union when a member comes in or calls to change his or her address?"
Generally, they answer with the detailed specifics behind their process for handling these requests—from asking for identification, to sending out letters of confirmation to the old address, to how change forms are completed and imaged.
Then I say, "Great! What happens next?" and I wait. Slowly, the light bulb flickers, and some will say "nothing happens." They realize that while staff in these situations did their jobs operationally, they missed a huge opportunity to learn about each member's underlying situation.
We then discuss what might be going on in the member's life that's causing an address change, what he or she might need from the credit union, and the fact that the credit union has significant follow-up activities to get done!
One credit union shared that it initiated follow-up on only two weeks of address changes and came away with two mortgages and seven home equity lines of credit, and saved three members from leaving the credit union altogether. Not bad!
How have sales and service changed in CUs during the past several years?
In the past, credit unions tried to drive sales and service performance and results through training or operations. Credit unions that are successful today understand that sales and service must be an organizational initiative. All areas of the organization play roles and must be working in concert to support and drive sales and service.
Efforts will fail and results will suffer if:
What significant sales and service changes do you see on the horizon?
For the near future, credit unions know they can't grow and survive operating in a purely reactive mode—waiting for members to come to them. Credit unions have to embrace and execute a strategic relationship development strategy—which requires data mining; sales planning; and outbound, proactive contact with members.
It has to be more than the "dialing for dollars" approach that, unfortunately, some credit unions are using with limited success. The strategy must include emphasis on getting better at serving members remotely, as well.
Relationships can be established and built in an online forum—it simply takes the right systems, talent, and focus to get it right and get results.
What is CUs' biggest "sales advantage"?
Staff. Get the right people on board—with the right skills, talent, knowledge, coaching, and strategy—and the sky's the limit.
Are CUs really all that different from banks when it comes to sales and service?
Not so much. Banks are aggressive in their approaches with customers and their expectations from staff.
Credit unions are carefully adopting some of those same techniques to fit their approach and still maintain their member-focused appeal.
Please explain how creating member loyalty is different from "sales."
Loyal members are an outcome of well-defined and executed strategies for service and sales. Creating loyal members takes the actions of every employee, every day, to deliver on the best member experience possible.
If the credit union does it well, it can build strong, lifelong relationships that bring value to members and the credit union.
Contact Carla Schrinner at 608-231-4236 or at email@example.com.
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Press-Brake Bending--Methods and Challenges
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Characteristics that define press-brake capabilities include pressure or tonnage, working length, distance to the backgauge, work height and stroke. The speed at which the upper beam operates usually ranges from 1 to 15 mm/sec.
Increasingly, press brakes feature multi-axis computer-controlled backgauges, and, to make adjustments during the bending process, mechanical and optical sensors. These sensors measure bending angle during the bend cycle and transmit data real-time to machine controls, which in turn adjust process parameters.
Ultimately, press-brake bending is a combination involving the geometry of the top tool (with the punch angle and punch-tip radius the most important parameters), the geometry of the bottom tool (the width of the V opening, the V angle and the bending radii of the V opening in particular), and the pressing force and speed of the press brake.
Types of Bending
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Wiping—When wiping, the sheet again clamps between
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Bending Variations
In bending, a distinction can be made between four variations: air bending, bottoming, coining and three-point bending. Characteristic of these: The sheet is pressed by a top tool into the opening of the bottom tool (Fig. 3). As a result, sheetmetal on each side of the bend is lifted, causing
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Air Bending—With air bending, the top tool presses a sheet into the V opening in the bottom tool to a predetermined depth, but without touching the bottom of the tool (Fig. 4). This is a type of three-point bending, where only the bending radii of the top and bottom tools contact with the sheet. The punch radius of the top tool and the V angle of the bottom tool need not be the same. In some cases, a square opening replaces the V opening in the bottom tool—especially given today's adjustable bottom tools. The combination of top and bottom tools, therefore, can be applied universally, meaning that with a single combination, various products and profile shapes can be produced simply by adjusting the press-stroke depth. In other words, with a single combination of tools, multiple materials and thicknesses can be bent in a range of bend angles. This makes air bending a highly flexible technique.
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One limitation of air bending: It is less precise than processes where sheet fully maintains contact with tooling. The stroke depth must maintain high accuracy, and variations in sheet thickness and local wear on the top and bottom tools can result in unacceptable deviations. Variations in material properties also affect the resulting bend angle due to springback. To achieve maximum angle accuracy with air bending, a value is applied to the width of the V opening, ranging from 6S (six times material thickness) for sheets to 3 mm thick to 12S for sheets more than 10 mm thick. A rule of thumb: V=8S.
Air bending boasts angle accuracy of approximately ±0.5 deg. Unlike with bottoming and coining, bend radius is not determined by tool shape, but depends on material elasticity (Fig. 4). Normally, the bend radius resides between 1S and 2S. Based on its flexibility and relatively low tonnage requirements, fabricators are moving more toward air bending as the preferred forming technique. The disadvantages of this technique related to quality are remedied by taking special measures—angle-measuring systems, clamps and crowning systems that are adjustable along the x and y axes, and wear-resistant tools.
Bottoming—Bottoming, a variation of air bending, presses the sheet against the slopes of the V opening in the bottom tool (Fig. 5), with air between the sheet and the bottom of the V opening. In this case, the punch radius and the V-opening angle are
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For larger bend radii, bottoming requires tonnage roughly the same as for air bending for larger bend radii. Smaller radii require force as much as five times greater when bottoming. This brings the advantage of greater accuracy. The resulting bend angle is wholly determined by the tool, with the exception of springback, for which a correction can be made. Note that bottoming results in less springback than when employing air bending. Theoretically, angle accuracies with bottoming approach ±0.25 deg. But because control and adjustment possibilities on press brakes have increased considerably, even on less-expensive machines, air bending increasingly is preferred to bottoming.
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Coining—With coining, the top tool crushes sheet into the opening of the bottom tool, down to the bottom of the V opening (Fig. 6). Coining requires many times the bend force of air bending and bottoming—normally, five to 10 times higher tonnage, and
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Three-Point Bending—A relatively new bending technique, three-point bending is considered by some to be a special variation of air bending. This technique employs a special die where its bottom tool can be precisely adjusted in height via a servo motor. The sheet bends over the bend radii of the die until it touches bottom, with the bend angle decreasing as the depth of the die bottom increases. The bottom height of the die, as already indicated, can be determined very precisely (±0.01 mm), with corrections made between the ram and the upper tool using a hydraulic cushion to compensate for deviations in sheet thickness. As a result, the process can achieve bend angles with precision of less than 0.25 deg. Advantages of three-point bending include high flexibility combined with high bending precision. Obstacles include high costs and a limited range of available tools. As a result, this technique, for the time being, is limited to highly demanding niche markets where the additional costs are outweighed by the stated advantages.
Difficulties in Press-Brake Bending
Anisotropy. Sheet material itself, its properties and especially the variations in these properties, can influence the press-brake-bending process. Sheetmetal, produced on large rolling mills, undergoes hot or cold rolling to reach final thickness: hot rolling typically for thicker sheet and cold rolling for thinner sheets due to the high loss of heat and difficulty in maintaining constant temperature in thin material. Also, cold rolling better controls thickness tolerances and causes hardening of the surface layer.
Rolling stretches the crystal structure, causing material to acquire different mechanical properties across its length than across its width. In other words, the material becomes anisotropic, and this affects the subsequent processing. During bending, this can lead to variations in the bend angle. Apart from this anisotropic nature, unavoidable variations occur in material properties as a result of minute differences in material composition and rolling conditions. This also results in variations in stress/ strain curves, not only between different batches of sheet materials, but even within a single batch.
Springback. Springback is the phenomenon by which sheet rebounds on either side of the bend after the bending tool has been removed. Why? In the center of the sheet—not exactly the geometrical center, but close to it—resides a zone with low stress in which, even under large bend forces, only elastic deformation occurs. This part of the sheet's cross-section, therefore, wants to return to its original shape after bend force is lifted. The extent to which springback occurs depends on the nature of the sheet material: The stiffer the material, the greater the springback. Soft materials exhibit springback limited to no more than 0.5 deg., and steel to 1 deg., but springback in stainless steel can amount to as much as 3 deg.
Bend angle also is a determining factor. The smaller the relative effect on the elastic area in the neutral zone, the smaller the springback. This is the case with small bend angles and small bend radii (meaning a sharp tool). For example, a steel sheet 0.8 mm thick bent with a bend radius of 1S exhibits springback of 0.5 to 1 deg. The same sheet bent with a bending radius of 77S results in springback of as much as 30 deg., according to Steve Benson in his book, Press Brake Technology: A Guide to Precision Sheet Metal (published by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers). With a leg length of 100 mm, each degree of deviation will mean that the end of the sheet will have a spatial deviation of 1.7 mm. For post-processing, such as robotic welding, a deviation of this size will soon exceed acceptable tolerance limits. In practice, it is relatively easy to correct for springback when bending a sheet, providing that influential parameters are known. For calculating springback for cold-rolled steel, a formula offered by Benson is D = R / (2.1 x S) where R is the radius of the angle in mm and S is the sheet thickness in mm. Using this formula, a steel sheet 0.8 mm thick, and given a bend radius of 20 mm and a bend angle of 90 deg., has a springback value of 11.9 deg. To calculate springback for other materials, Benson uses a correction factor (0.5 for copper, 0.75 for hot-rolled steel and 2.0 for stainless steel).
Keep in mind that under certain air-bending conditions, negative springback can occur, particularly when employing dull tools in combination with a large punch angle as deformations then can occur in the sheet between the punch and die surface. When coining, given high pressing pressure and a sharp top tool, this tool can press into the sheet past the neutral zone. In that case, the plastic phase is achieved everywhere and springback is reduced to virtually zero.
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Information for this article excerpted from the Press Brake Productivity Guide, published by Wila USA, Hanover, MD. Tel. 888/696-9452; http://www.wilausa.com/.
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Khost university student builds military tank model
KHOST CITY (Pajhwok): A university student in southeastern Khost province has designed a small military model tank. The student has urged the government to provide him technical tools and other resources.
The innovator, Rashidullah, a resident of Hassanzai village in Ismailkhel-Mandozai district, is a third year student of literature at the Sheikh Zayed University in Khost City, the provincial capital.
In an exclusive chat with Pajhwok Afghan News, Rashidullah said he built the small tank using plastic, a metal frame, dynamos, tyres of a small bicycle and other things.
"It is a military or police tank and is one meter long and nearly half a meter wide," the student said, claiming he could make more innovations if he was assisted.
Though a literature student, Rashidullah, who has passion for technical work, said: "I have installed two dynamos in this machine that is also moved by electricity. A machinegun fixed atop the tank adds to its beauty."
The student said he had been in love with technical works in military area since long, but his poverty restricted him to concentrate.
Rashidullah said before making his tank, he abandoned making a helicopter because he needed some parts that were expensive.
"It took a month to make the tank. I would go to the city to bring mechanic parts after saving some money," said the student, who offered his contribution to innovations in the military sphere.
Rashidullah, who has not yet shared his work with a government department, said if the government gave him a chance, he would be able to build on his skill.
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Today, 40Tech is pleased to present a guest post by Lisa from USDirect.Com.
Facebook started with a few simple ideas, mainly serving as a way to stay connected with friends. In the early stages, it was a used solely by Harvard students and then gradually became available to other college students throughout the country, eventually going worldwide. When Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook, he didn't realize the billion dollar force it would create. Let's take a look at the differences in Facebook then and now.
The Beginning of Facebook
In the beginning of Facebook, there were very few features. There were no status updates, messages, photo albums, or even the platform to create a News Feed. At that time, everyone could provide and access only basic information. It was only a simple tool to be used by some people for some virtual social interaction. However, Zuckerberg achieved instant success when he launched thefacebook.com, with over 600 students instantly joining the first day and almost 1,000 joined the following day.
Original Facebook accounts had to be from a Harvard.edu email address and user names were verified.
What it did have:
- Friends and Friend Request options, something that increased the underlying value of Facebook.
- The Invitations feature was also available but the user had to input the email addresses as there was no Import Contact option.
- A basic profile option, which only permitted uploading a single photo.
- User data lists, including gender, birthdate, favorite music and books, about me, dorm info, phone numbers, and course information.
- Search option – find users by name, courses, class year, etc.
- Privacy restrictions
- A friend graph, which was later removed
Facebook as we Know it Now
Facebook went viral, as net folks like to say. It spread like wildfire. Facebook became a public forum and social media communication tool, no longer used only by college students. Facebook became a platform for sharing an array of content for millions of people.
Because of the rising popularity in the News Feed function, people became concerned with controlling who sees their content. In 2009, Zuckerberg worked to build a better privacy model that applied to news feeds, photos and videos, and all aspects of a profile. Facebook's settings have made it easier for users to hide information and now require users to gain permission before allowing a connection. They are also able to moderate and punish spammers.
The popularity of Facebook and relevance it has in our culture inspired the 2010 film, "The Social Network," starring Jesse Eisenberg and Justin Timberlake.
The User is in Control
In 2010, Facebook launched community pages. It also started various other ways to provide users social and personalized experiences on foreign sites they used. The rest is in your hands. You can now chat with your friends, group your conversations, and communication via Facebook is easier.They say the only thing that is constant is change and this is truly applicable to Facebook.
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Thursday, September 6, Charlotte, North Carolina will host an impressive group of musicians playing on the last day of the Democratic National Convention. Luminaries from across genres will take the stage before President Barack Obama speaks tonight, including Mary J. Blige, the Foo Fighters, James Taylor, Marc Anthony and North Carolina's own Delta Rae.
It's not their first step on to the national stage — the group have played Jay Leno and NPR and been featured in Rolling Stone. But it's the biggest live audience to date that the group have performed for.
The group is composed of siblings Ian, Eric and Brittany Hölljes along with their friends Elizabeth Hopkins, Mike McKee and Grant Emerson. In the style of Fleetwood Mac, all the Hölljes and Hopkins take turns singing lead vocals.
"We've been singing together for a long time so it's very gratifying to be sharing the stage with people who we know well and who have been there from the get-go for us. As musicians, it's cool," Brittany told CBS Local.
Their breakthrough single, "Bottom of the River," is an old-fashioned foot-stomper full of spooky vibes and the kind of acoustic melodies that bands like Mumford & Sons and the Avett Brothers have primed us to love.
"I think people want something earthy and organic because it's in part a reaction to how overexposed the rest of the world feels," Ian says. "There's so much stuff out there that feels cheap, that feels manufactured or like it's not very authentic. I think it lends people wanting to come back to something that feels raw and emotional and real."
The band wasn't always in North Carolina, but the Hölljes grew up there and Delta Rae united there as a group to make it their home base in part, Ian says, because "It's where all the ghosts are."
"North Carolina is where my mom grew up and where my parents met and it holds a lot of history for my family," Brittany elaborates.
Performing at the DNC isn't the first foray into political territory for Delta Rae. When North Carolina were debating, and ultimately passed, amendment one which prohibited same-sex marriage, the band wrote a song in favor of marriage equality called "Chain On Love."
"It was a really unpopular thing when my mom was fighting, was working for the citizen's coalition and fighting for gay rights," says Ian. "People would leave death threats on the car and…at some point you start realizing there's a real meanness, a sickness, an evil about this stuff and it really deserves to be stood up against. I think that was very potent for me, that was very galvanizing with wanting to be a band that says something."
"The song 'Chain On Love' which is the one song that I think explicitly expresses a belief that we have that influences politics…and can be polarizing, it wasn't a question though to perform that," continues Brittany. "That song is something that we all felt and it had to come out."
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My lawn mower has a malfunctioning self-propeller. Replacement of the part or lawn mower is currently No. 748 on my priority list, so I tolerate the inconvenience and the challenges of starting it each time.
My brother decided that I needed a lawn mowing tutorial given the various defects of the mower and my own strength limitations.
"Put your foot on the mower pan for leverage, reach down for the pull cord, and let it rip," he explained. "Don't be a wimp about it. Then, engage your core and move that thing!"
|Lora Bray is research librarian at CUNA.
I followed his advice. The mower roared to life. "Let's run over some rocks and branches on purpose so you'll know how that surprise feels," he shouted to me.
So he threw rocks and branches in my path. The mower and I forged ahead, and I successfully finished the job, confronting these obstacles while concentrating on core strength.
Are you self-propelled in your credit union's daily operations? Are you successfully engaged with core products and service offerings? Does meeting basic member needs strengthen your relationships with members, and even lead them to use additional services?
Consider your "core engagement" as you review this week's research findings.
Is the grass greener over there?
"Private student lenders are stepping up their game to compete directly with government loans," says BloombergBusinessweek in "Private Student Loans are Becoming More Competitive."
"Now private lenders are introducing loans fixed at nearly the same rates as some federal products, seeking to nab a bigger piece of the student loan market as outstanding debts balloon to more than $1 trillion."
How does your student loan portfolio compete?
Are you fit for the future? See "Is Your Company Fit for Growth?" This strategy + business article says you can determine this and stay relevant in the marketplace by answering three questions:
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Consider these social media lessons available from a study by the IBM Center for the Business of Government. "Working the Network: A Manager's Guide for Using Twitter in Government" outlines strategies for effective use and monitoring of Twitter. It's a tool that you can use effectively to involve large numbers of citizens, the study points out, "and create conversations with an engaged, networked public. The outcome of these conversations can be new insights and even innovations in the public sector, in response to suggestions on how to make government more effective."
More news on effective connections is found in "Leading Through Connections: Insights from the Global IBM CEO Study." "In speaking face-to-face with 1,709 CEOs, general managers, and senior public sector leaders around the globe, leaders confirmed that our new connected era is changing how people engage." Findings focus on how CEOs respond to these connections, and center on empowered employees, engaged customers, and innovations developed through partnerships.
Could simply asking consumers to try your offerings work to your advantage? That's what "Life Insurance Providers Could Benefit by Increasing Outreach and Education," a Deloitte survey reveals.
"A prime reason many uninsured individuals don't have insurance coverage is that no carrier has invited them to purchase their products…Even insured individuals who are open to buying additional coverage often say that they have not been solicited by carriers," the survey says.
"Even current buyers didn't overwhelmingly recognize many of the financial needs life insurance can fulfill, such as a source of cash in retirement, a way to save money for financial emergencies or to help finance a child's education," said Deloitte's Sam Friedman.
Are your members aware of the breadth and depth of core services you provide?
Get off the riding mower?
"Walkability" is the focus of "Walk This Way: The Economic Promise of Walkable Places in Metropolitan Washington, D.C." by Brookings. A sampling of Washington, D.C. neighborhoods shows the economic benefits for areas that attract pedestrians. Residents that live in walkable areas boast lower transportation costs and higher transit access, despite higher housing costs. "Lenders should find cause to integrate walkability into their underwriting standards…The Great Recession highlighted the need to change the prevailing real estate development paradigm, particularly in housing. High-risk financial products and practices, "teaser" underwriting terms, steadily low-interest rates, and speculation in housing were some of the most significant contributors to the housing bubble and burst…"
Can you walk that way with your lending practices?
Finally, along with discoveries of walkable neighborhoods, there's this news: The INRIX Traffic Scorecard reports a 30% drop in traffic across the U.S. Seventy of 100 of the most populated American cities report decreased traffic congestions last year, "…where lack of employment combined with high fuel prices is keeping Americans off the roads." The survey also provides not only insight about traffic patterns but also the economy, as municipalities with big drops in traffic also had gas prices exceeding the national average, and cities with higher growth of employment reported bigger increases in traffic congestion.
My lawn looks just fine, and I'm realizing the cardiovascular and strength-training benefits by focusing on my core each time I mow.
As Wendy's founder Dave Thomas said about the restaurant business, "It all comes back to the basics. Serve customers the best-tasting food at a good value in a clean, comfortable restaurant, and they'll keep coming back."
LORA BRAY is a research librarian in CUNA's business-to-business publishing department.


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Internal Training System by Master Yang
Xue Dian (薛颠 in Chinese) (1887-1953), another name was Xue Guoxing, was from Tianjin. He learned Xing Yi from a few masters. Eventually he made his own practice, people called it as Dragon style Xing Yi.He created another style based on Xing Yi, named Xiang Xing Shu (animal form). After Li Cunyi passed away, he became the Director of Tianjin Martial Art Association.
He practiced Xing Yi in a very profound level that many people who had met him in person would say that he was a genius in Xing Yi school.
He died early since he was executed by involving illegal cult at that time. It is too bad that his style had not been known by many people although it was one of the best systems in Xing Yi style.
He wrote 3 books which were published around 1930s. One is about Xing Yi, one is about Xiang Xing Shu, the system he created based on Xing Yi, and another one is Point Pressure.
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After more than a decade with Electronic Arts, Maxis co-founder is Will Wright is leaving the publisher to lead his own company devoted to developing entertainment IPs for—amongst other things—movies, television, games, and toys. However, the departure isn't acrimonious in the least; in fact EA is helping Wright with his latest venture.
The new company, Stupid Fun Club, will actually feature both Wright and EA as principle shareholders owning equal amounts of the new startup. "The entertainment industry is moving rapidly into an era of revolutionary change," Wright commented in the official announcement, "Stupid Fun Club will explore new possibilities that are emerging from this sublime chaos and create new forms of entertainment on a variety of platforms."
While some see Wright's departure from directly making games as nothing but a bad thing for Electronic Arts, it sounds like the two are still going to maintain a close working relationship. "In my twelve years at EA," Wright explained, "I've had the pleasure to work alongside some of the brightest and most talented game developers in the industry and I look forward to working with them again in the near future." Based on that comment, it sounds like EA is going to try to keep on creating quality games with original IPs; if Stupid Fun Club is behind some of these ideas, we can only hope so.


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- Channel 22 - While I wouldn't call waking up at 4:30am enjoyable, it was fun to chauffeur Co-Conference Chair Pauline Cusson to the local Springfield NBC affiliate to be interviewed by Channel 22 morning news anchor Rich Tettemer. Rich transformed my view of news anchors for the better. He was approachable, polite and thoughtful. He followed-up with me later by sending a link to the interview online. That level of attention to detail was unexpected from a tv news person. And Pauline was a real trooper for agreeing to do the interview!
- Seeing Friends - One of the best things about a conference is having the time to hang with friends, old and new. I got to see many of my friends from around New England and actually had the time to stop and talk. And meeting many of my Facebook friends for the first time was a real treat too, some came from as far away as Florida and Wyoming.
- The Keynote Banquet Talks - I always debate whether to go to the banquets or not. This year I am very happy that I did. Paul Milner and John Philip Colletta both gave interesting and entertaining talks. It was also a lot of fun meeting new people at the table. At the Saturday night banquet I actually ended up sitting at a table with the father of one of my highschool classmates. What a coincidence!
- The Ancestors Roadshow - I volunteered as a consultant at the Ancestors Roadshow which provides the opportunity for conference attendees to get some professional help with their research challenges. My consultation appointments were particularly fun because two of the groups were my Facebook friends and the last one was a graduate from the Boston University Certificate Program. It is wonderful talking through research problems and trying to guide researchers in the right direction. I hope that I was able to help those folks get farther in their research.
- An Unexpected Surprise - For the very last talk of the conference I had planned on going to a particular talk. But then I realized it was in the other building and I didn't want to walk all the way over there. So I re-assessed my options and decided to go to a talk on First Generation Immigrants by Margaret Sullivan. I'm so glad I did. Margaret's talk was absolutely terrific. It was full of creative genealogy, research challenges in Irish immigration all the while tied together with funny or poignant stories. It was a real delight.
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Numbers that matter: Big Ten needs better prime-time play, exposure
It's no secret the Big Ten is playing catch-up with the Southeastern Conference.
As for catching up, it's now a matter of both "how" and "when." The Big Ten must reevaluate its approach to night games in order to counteract the new. If not, then the Big Ten could lose even more ground.
Consider this. In the history of the Big Ten, there have only been two night conference games that featured two top-10 teams. No. 3 Penn State and No. 9 Ohio State squared off in 2008, and No. 7 Wisconsin hosted No. 8 Nebraska in 2011. The SEC, meanwhile, had three prime-time top-10 showdowns of that variety last season.
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The Big Ten is clearly behind when it comes to prime-time football. The new mission needs to be getting more conference matchups between two ranked teams under the lights. The Big Ten has had five such matchups since 2009. The SEC had six last season.
The Big Ten has four night conference games scheduled for prime time in 2013, but only one (Wisconsin at Ohio State) is a division game. The other three (Penn State at Ohio State, Ohio State at Northwestern, Michigan at Penn State) are decent-at-best matchups.
That's why the conference needs to revitalize it's nighttime formula -- and fast. Here are five stats and five quick fixes:
That's the combined record of Purdue, Indiana, Illinois, Northwestern, Iowa and Minnesota in night home games against ranked Big Ten teams since 1986. That includes a 1-16 record against ranked Ohio State and Michigan teams.
Stop fishing for upsets against the Buckeyes and Wolverines. Northwestern has the lone prime-time victory of those schools -- an upset against No. 5 Ohio State in 2004 -- and those highlights will be replayed in earnest when the Buckeyes travel to Evanston, Ill., on Oct. 5. Don't bank on an upset, however.
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Wisconsin, Nebraska and Penn State own that combined record in night home games against ranked Ohio State and Michigan teams.
The schools have the atmosphere and track record at night. Use them as much as possible.
Wisconsin didn't have a home night conference game at Camp Randall Stadium last year, and it won't have one in 2013. That's a mistake. The Badgers are 3-2 in home night games against ranked Ohio State and Michigan teams. That includes wins against the Buckeyes when they were No. 1 in 2010 and No. 3 in 2003, respectively.
Nebraska is 42-5 in home night games, including a 3-0 record against Big Ten schools since joining the conference in 2011. Those wins were against No. 20 Michigan, Wisconsin and Ohio State. Nebraska's night home games this season are against Wyoming and Southern Mississippi. That's also a mistake.
Penn State is 2-3 against Ohio State and Michigan in night home games. The Nittany Lions are saddled by NCAA sanctions, but the Oct. 12 prime-time matchup with the Wolverines still should be a good one.
The number of prime-time Big Ten home games Ohio State and Michigan have played in school history. The Buckeyes are 3-1, including wins over Wisconsin and Nebraska the past two seasons. The Wolverines pulled off a thrilling comeback in the school's first ever night game against Notre Dame in 2011.
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Give Ohio State and Michigan one or even two home night conference games every year, especially when the league schedule stretches to nine games in 2016. The rest of the Big Ten might not like it, but the flagship schools must fly at night. The scene in Columbus or Ann Arbor under the lights rivals that of any SEC school.
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Michigan State's record in night home games since Mark Dantonio took over in 2007. That includes three fantastic finishes. The Spartans lost to No. 7 Iowa on a last-second touchdown in 2009, but Michigan State beat Notre Dame on a fake field goal ("Little Giants") in 2010 and Wisconsin on a Hail Mary in 2011.
Get the Spartans, a team shut out of primetime conference play in 2013, more involved, especially against the Wolverines and Buckeyes. Michigan State has never hosted a home prime-time game against either school. There are some concerns about fan behavior -- especially with a night game between the rival Wolverines and Spartans -- but that's never stopped anybody in the SEC.
The number of night games played in November in the Big Ten because of conference rules.
Get rid of this rule effective immediately, and be flexible with late-season rivalry matchups. Michigan State-Michigan, Nebraska-Wisconsin or, dare say, Michigan-Ohio State, would work in prime time in November. Alabama-LSU is college football's best ticket, and it's been played at night in November each of the last two seasons.
It's time for the Big Ten to catch up.


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This message was sent by our campaigner Dima Litvinov who is on-board the Arctic Sunrise in the Pechora Sea…
"Root out the black shame from your heart, calmly and indifferently, I covered my ears with my hands" A. AkhamtovaAnna Akhamtova is a famous Russian poet, and the name of the ship we were stopping today.
After a rather quiet and calm weekend we decided to pay Gazprom another visit again this morning. Here is a quick drawing of how the platform is organized in its day-to-day life: half of the work force does not sleep on board. They live on a chartered passenger ship, the Anna Akhmatova, which is anchored near the Prirazlomnaya. Every morning at around 5AM this ship heaves anchor and backs up to the platform, where its tied up by mooring lines. A sleepy mass of morning-grumpy welders, fitters marches on board for a day of work. In the evening this process is reversed and they all go back to their "home".
At around 3.30 this morning, two boats from the Arctic Sunrise went to the Anna Akhmatova. One of them, carrying four activists including our Executive Director Kumi Naidoo, chained to the ship's anchor line, effectively making it unable to move. It took them a while but pretty soon the platform realized what happened and what it meant. At first they were a bit blasé and the Anna tried to move her anchor: they tried raising the anchor a bit (boat gets a bit vertical, activists stay in) and they then tried to lower it a bit (the boat gets filled with water, the activists stay in). To no avail. After a while the Prirazlomnaya's first officer ordered its stand-by vessels and Anna Akhmatova to turn on the water hoses and use them on our people. However Kumi's idea to rig up the banner ("Minimum ice--maximum risk") as a water shield gave the folks a bit of protection, so they just stayed on. The time was ticking and it began to dawn on the first officer that they may be late with the 5 AM shift change, unless the Greenpeace's boat could be removed from the anchor chain. His reaction ? Calling the nearby coast guard ship asking them to help out. Unfortunately for him, the coast guard's reply was that they had "no orders to intervene." The shock must have been quite hard for the first officer. At this point the shift change is already late. He is forced to report to the management in Moscow and informs Anna Akhmatova and the two stand-by vessels that he is ordered to use ANY MEANS at their disposal to continue operations. Obviously: Gazprom is in a hurry to drill. The Prirazlomnaya's chief officer attempts to talk to us: "come on guys, you made your point, you have already got your media coverage, why don't you leave now" Unfortunately for him, the answer is pretty obvious: this is not about PR. It's about stopping the destruction of the planet! The time is ticking. Another scheduled shift to come from Akhmatova is set for 12.00. Meanwhile the workers on board the Akhmatova seem to be making bets on how long we last. The chief officer make a decision: he orders to the stand-by ships to train their fire monitors -- this is water cannons on the deck, pressurized to over 20 BARS, capable of sending a stream of water over the top of the platform - directly onto our boats. The activists get washed out of the RIB and thrown together into the 9 degree water some distance away. The activists are picked up the anchor chain is heaved and our boat is cut off from it. At this point half of the work day of Prirazlomnaya has been interrupted. But the day is not finished! As the Anna Akhmatova finally starts moving towards the rig, we deployed the total of 4 boats and get behind her, getting ready to interfere again... And the indeed, the ship stopped... again.
As Anna Akhamtova wrote it : "Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free."
Nick has worked with Greenpeace for more than 10 years and is now Head of Digital at Greenpeace NZ.


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Christmas celebrations started centuries ago, and still people following the tradition and having loads of fun during the Christmas holidays. Today, people celebrate this festival in a very profligate way and decorate their houses with beautiful flowers, garlands, lights, and so on. But, the Christmas is one of the festivals that even in century back in Victorian days, which is around 100 years ago.
People used to decorate their houses with beautiful ornaments, and they used to make extravagant feasting arrangements for the entire town. Singing songs was one of the activities that everyone used to enjoy the most. The other fascinating activity is exchanging gifts with others and all these traditions we are still following even today.
You can find your favorite Christmas books and music on our website, including John Gossman, Joy to the World written by Cynthia Hart, and Priscilla Dunhill, for an update on Victorian Yuletide customs. If you are looking for a reflective holiday, then get these books from our website, and make your Christmas the most traditional holiday.
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Victorian revitalized the centuries-old tradition of singing carols to celebrate the season that includes new existence to the 400-year-old song The First Noel. People use to go door-to-door singing for neighbors and friends. Back then, people use to enjoy singing carols at home and they use to decorate their houses with candles and worship services in local churches. You can find all these centuries-old music on our website, so visit our website for more information.


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Who Is Chucking Kids out of the DC Voucher Liferaft?
As I blogged yesterday, Congressional Democrats have incorporated language into the 2009 omnibus spending bill that would spell the beginning of the end of the DC voucher program.
According to Capitol Hill sources, the new language apparently flowed from the pen of Senator Dick Durbin (D — IL) . But if so, Durbin is not alone in looking to end the program. The DC Examiner is reporting today that House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey has urged DC Public Schools chancellor Michelle Rhee to prepare for the return of voucher students to DCPS.
How will they — and everyone who votes for this bill — justify their decision to the kids whose dreams they aim to destroy?


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Sometimes I laugh at our GPS. This past weekend we went camping and wanted ice cream. It took us to someones home in Bethel. While I was tempted to stop and see if they had any - I didn't think they would appreciate it.
Well last week after attending Homearama in West Chester we were starving and I wanted pizza. I remembered how fantastic Brunos was and wanted to go back. Well my GPS apparently wasn't a fan because try as we might - it couldn't get us there. I hate that you have to enter a city! Oh well - we ended up near Yankee and I knew there was a pizza joint there - so Raymond's Pizza was our choice!
Pepperoni, Sausage, Mushroom, Onion, Green Peppers). The small was plenty after the bread and we actually had a couple pieces left over. It was really good. The sauce was good and we both enjoyed the pizza very much. Although not as good as Bruno's - we were not disappointed!
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Daily Mail breaks iPhone 4 recall scoop
Twatted by Twitter
The Daily Mail yesterday reported Apple may recall the iPhone 4. It based the story on "confirmation" from a Steve Jobs Twitter account clearly marked as a spoof.
While Twitter account 'ceoSteveJobs' has over one million followers, reporter Richard Ashmore overlooked a vital piece of information prominently displayed in the account profile: "Of course this is a parody account."
The spoof Steve had Tweeted "We may have to recall the iPhone. This, I did not expect."
The paper has since removed the article without explanation.
The gaffe was spotted by NextWeb and the Media Blog, among others.
Pity the poor papers.
When they're not mining Twitter for non-news, they're reprinting Wikipedia entries as fact. When Ronnie Hazlehurst died all but a couple of newspapers and TV channels relayed a bizarre factoid that he'd come out of retirement to record a hit record with S Club 7 – a fact inserted by a prankster. Among the professionals who fell for it were The Guardian, BBC News, the Times and the Independent.
And business guru and WiReD magazine editor-in-chief Chris Anderson showed how its done: large chunks of his book Free were lifted from Wikipedia, blogs, corporate websites and other published sources. ®
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Luca wrote:
The horrific events in Manchester were discussed on Chatterbox and elsewhere and from what I've read there has been massive support. What an amazing show of support by the people of Manchester. My nephew is a student there and I'm going to go and visit soon I hope.
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