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PGA Tour Prize Money
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A PGA (Professional Golf Association) Tour event is a golf tournament in which prize money is awarded to the best players. The tournament is broken into four rounds of 18 holes apiece. All players are eligible to play the first two rounds. Only those with the best scores from those 36 holes ``make the first cut" to play the final two rounds and qualify for prize money. Players with the best 72-hole aggregate scores (the lowest scores) earn prize money.
You must write a program to determine how the total prize money (called the tournament ``purse") is to be allocated for a tournament. Specifications are as follows.
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- All players will play at least two 18-hole rounds (36 holes in all) unless they are disqualified for some reason.
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- Any player who is disqualified stops playing at the time of the disqualification. Players who are disqualified during the first two rounds are ineligible to make the cut. Players who are disqualified during either of the last two rounds are ineligible to win prize money.
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- At the end of the first two rounds, the field of players is cut to the 70 players with the lowest 36-hole scores plus ties. So if 10 players are tied for 70th place, then 79 players make the 36-hole cut. Players who do not make the 36-hole cut are eliminated from the playing field and do not win any prize money.
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- The players who do make the 36-hole cut play an additional 36 holes (two 18-hole rounds) and are paid a percentage of the total prize money depending on their 72-hole aggregate score. The lower the score, the more prize money a player wins.
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- Players are paid percentages of the the tournament purse according to their final standings. For example, if the tournament purse were $1,000,000 and the winner's share were 18%, the winner would earn $180,000.
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- There will be only one winner of this tournament. (In an actual golf tournament, when there is a tie for the low 72-hole score, there is be a play-off among the tied players. We will ignore that situation.)
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- There may be a tie for any or all of the positions between 2 and 70. If there is a tie among n players for position k, the money designated for positions k through n + k - 1 is pooled and allocated equally among the tied players. For example, using the sample data given later, if there were a tie for second place between two golfers, they would each win $88,000 [(10.8% + 6.8%)/2 = 8.8% * $1,000,000]. If there were a three-way tie, all three golfers would get $74,666.66 [(10.8% + 6.8% + 4.8%)/3 = 7.4666% * $1,000,000]. The extra penny is ignored.
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- If disqualification reduces the field to less than 70 players, the money for the last and any other places not covered is not allocated. For example, if exactly 70 players make the cut but three of them are disqualified, then the tournament simply pays 67 places.
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- Amateur golfers may play in professional tournaments but can win no money. Any prize money ``won" by an amateur is allocated to the next lower position. For example, if an amateur has placed third in a tournament, then third place money goes to the fourth place finisher, and fourth place money goes to the fifth place finisher, etc.
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- Only the low 70 non-amateur places and ties earn prize money. For example, if 75 players make the 36-hole cut, it is possible for 5 of them not to earn prize money, assuming none of the players making the cut are amateurs.
The input contains multiple tournaments. There's line with number of players attending the tournament (always less than 145) and then follow two segments of data of the tournament. Zero players denotes end of input file. The amount of the tournament purse and the percentages for all the 70 places are stored in the first segment of the input file. This segment contains exactly 71 lines, which are formatted as follows.
Line 1: Total value of the purse Line 2: Percentage of the purse designated for first place Line 3: Percentage of the purse designated for second place ... Line71: Percentage of the purse designated for 70th place
The purse is given to two decimal places. All percentages are given to four decimal places. Assume the percentages are correct and sum to 100%. No tournament has purse bigger than $40 millions. A partial sample of the first segment of the input file is shown below.
1000000.00 18.0000 10.8000 6.8000 4.8000 ... 0.2020 0.2000
The second segment contains the players' names and their respective scores for the four rounds. The format of each line is as follows.
Characters 1-20: Player name Character 21: Single space Characters 22-24: Round 1 score (first 18 holes) Character 25: Single space Characters 26-28: Round 2 score (second 18 holes) Character 29: Single space Characters 30-32: Round 3 score (third 18 holes) Character 33: Single space Characters 34-36: Round 4 score (fourth 18 holes)
Any player who has an asterisk `*' as the last non-space character in name column is an amateur. All players who are not disqualified will have four 18-hole scores listed. (Even though in an actual tournament, players who do not make the cut do not get to play the last two rounds of the tournament, for the purposes of this program all players who are not disqualified will have four 18-hole scores listed.) A player who is disqualified during a round will have a score on that round shown as `DQ'. That player will have no additional scores for the tournament. Assume that at least 70 players will make the 36-hole cut.
Sample lines from the second segment of the input file are as follows.
Output from this program consists of names of all players who made the 36-hole cut, their finish positions (with the letter ``T" after the numeric value representing the finish position if there is a tie for that position , write the players with tie in the order they were in input set ), scores for each round, total scores, and the amounts of money won. Disqualified players are listed at the bottom with scores of DQ placed in the ``TOTAL" column; those disqualified should be written in the order they appeared in input set. No player who failed to make the 36-hole cut is listed in the output. Each column of output should be formatted and labelled appropriately. The dollar amounts should be correct to two decimal places. Note that Money Won column is right aligned, and that amateure golfers as well as disqualified ones have that column filled with spaces until the right edge of table. At the end of table write empty line to separate distinct tournaments. Sample output is shown below: Note: The ruler is written here only for your convenience, don't write it in output of your program.
1 2 3 4 5 6 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345 Player Name Place RD1 RD2 RD3 RD4 TOTAL Money Won ----------------------------------------------------------------- WALLY WEDGE 1 70 70 70 70 280 180000.00 TOMMY TWO IRON 2T 71 72 72 72 287 88000.00 HENRY HACKER 2T 77 70 70 70 287 88000.00 NORMAN NIBLICK* 4T 72 72 72 72 288 BEN BIRDIE 4T 70 74 72 72 288 48000.00 ... LEE THREE WINES 70 99 99 99 99 396 2000.00 JIMMY ABLE 69 73 80 DQ EDDIE EAGLE 71 71 DQ


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2 p.m. Needing roughly 90 minutes to reach a decision, a jury convicted Mark Norwood of capital murder on Friday in Travis County criminal court.
Norwood was sentenced to life in the 1988 slaying of Debra Baker.
Prosecutors presented DNA evidence over the 10-day trial that tied two pubic hairs found at Baker's home to Norwood, a known burglar in North Austin in the late 1980s.
This is the second murder conviction for Norwood, who is serving a life sentence for killing Christine Morton in 1986. Prosecutors were allowed to present testimony about Morton's death in Baker's trial and showed that Norwood had stolen a handgun from Morton's home.
Norwood's two life sentences will run consecutively.
1:40 p.m. After about 90 minutes of deliberation, the jury has reached a verdict in Mark Norwood's murder trial.
Follow along here for the outcome.
Noon: The jury is now deliberating over lunch after hearing closing arguments in Mark Norwood's murder trial.
Prosecutors focused their presentation on their key piece of evidence — two pubic hairs collected at the home of victim Debra Baker.
A DNA analyst testified the odds a male pubic hair found in Baker's bed does not belong to Norwood are 1 in 377.2 billion. Another pubic hair, found on a blue towel in Baker's bathroom, also likely belongs to Norwood, who is not among the 98.9 percent of the North American population whose identity could be ruled out.
Additionally, Norwood's DNA linked him to another murder, of Christine Morton, through a bloody bandana found near that murder scene. Norwood is serving a life sentence for the murder of Morton, who, like Baker, was a brunette in her early 30s who died from a blow to the head with a blunt object. The murders occurred in the late 1980s in North Austin.
Prosecutor Katie Sweeten argued advances in DNA science have caught up to Norwood 28 years after Baker's 1988 death.
"The evidence he left was always there," Sweeten said. "We just didn't have the technology to see it."
Prosecutor Gary Cobb told the jury, "the wheels of justice grind slowly, but finally."
Norwood's defense argued the jury should consider "thousands" of possibilities for why Norwood's DNA made its way to Baker's home.
"No expert can testify how these hairs got there," William Browning said.
Sweeten said Browning's explanation for the presence of hairs at the scene is "insulting."
9 a.m. A verdict could come down Friday in Mark Norwood's murder trial.
Prosecutors will call a single rebuttal witness in the morning before resting its case. Then, both sides will proceed with closing arguments. Those are expected to take roughly 75 minutes.
Norwood is facing a life sentence for the 1988 slaying of Debra Baker.
On Thursday, Norwood's defense argued there could be "thousands of innocuous reasons" why two hairs linked to Norwood through DNA ended up at Baker's home.
Prosecutors said that argument is unreasonable.

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The RAAKonteur #31 – Facebook having a whale of a time, Measuring Twitter value & more
Facebook launches new commenting system
People are saying this could be a game changer. Facebook's new commenting system still keeps the capability of sending your comment to the Newsfeed, but if a friend comments on that inside Facebook, the friend's comment goes back to the site on which the comment was made. Another new feature is the ability to float comments by friends to the top.
There is another reason media owners might be persuaded to go for this button. Because it requires real (or Page) identities, abusive comments will be severely reduced. Check the link above for an implementation on Techcrunch.
Facebook Pages an option for deep integration after all?
Just last week we dissed Facebook Pages as an option for deep integration of functionality. But, argues Econsultancy, the introduction of iFrames gives us much more functionality to play with and opens up exciting possibilities.
In essence, the move to iframes means full CSS, Javascript and standardised HTML can now be used when creating and editing pages, giving many businesses the opportunity to directly import their existing websites into Facebook.
Whether more capabilities will solve Pages' poor usage remains to be seen. We are still fans of the taking-Facebook-to-you model, rather than you going to Facebook.
UNIQLO launches Facebook-powered lookbooks
Like UNIQLO did. Contagious Magazine reports that the Japanese fashion brand has tapped into the taking-Facebook-to-you model to build Uniqlolooks.
…a website and global communication platform run on Facebook that enables people all over the world to share their UNIQLO style.
We predict a significant uplift in traffic from Facebook to UNIQLO, similar to what the Huffington Post and Spotify experienced when they followed this model.
Facebook having a whale of a time, buys Beluga
RWW had a good article on Facebook's buying of the mobile group messaging app Beluga:
Beluga launched less than six months ago, started by ex-Googlers Lucy Zhang, Ben Davenport and John Perlow. If you haven't yet used Beluga, it's a simple app for communicating with multiple people at once. You create a "pod" (Beluga's name for a group) of people and each time one of you sends a message, everyone else gets it. It's a bunch of custom-created group chat rooms. In these "pods", you can not only share text but also pictures and locations. And not everyone even needs to have a smartphone, as the app accounts for your feature-phoned friends by sending them SMS instead of in-app content.
SXSW is coming
Some reckon Beluga will be the standout service at this years SXSW festival. The annual knees-up is the place where Twitter came good and Foursquare was launched.
Another service that is looking to break through obscurity at SXSW is Hashable. This app allows you to easily keep track of people you have met through Twitter hashtags. While it has some interesting new interaction features, we are not convinced that it has strong enough utility value on its own.
Interested in SXSW? Quora has good lists of non US start ups going to SXSW, interesting panels, hotels and parties.
Social Eyes launches
Another service that harnesses the power of Facebook's social graph has launched. But SocialEyes does it using video. Writes GigaOm:
The service, which will live as its own site and as a Facebook application, allows users to carry on multiple chats throughout the day and lets people tap Facebook's social graph for conversations. Users can pop in and out of individual chats or combine them together in group sessions called scrums. Users can also join or start their own private groups among friends or participate in public groups based around hobbies and interests.
The NYTimes are excited too:
Users can leave the windows open so the friends can see and hear one another even when they're not chatting. They can mute or pause certain conversations if they don't want their friend to see or hear them, but it can be a little creepy, especially if someone forgets that a chat is still going on.
Facebook Like = Share = Like
Facebook is apparently killing the Share button, but integrating its functionality into the Like button. So when a user 'Likes', it will pop up a dialog giving them an option to enter some text that will accompany their Like into their Friend's Newsfeeds.
This will probably cause higher engagement, but it might also discourage people to Like, now that they can easier comprehend what their Like will do.
Measuring the value of Twitter
Econsultancy has an in-depth post on how they measure the value of Twitter. Here is just one excerpt with regards to their Econsultancy Twitterfeed account:
Further analysis shows that 'Twitterfeed' referrals have a higher average order value than both 'Twitter.com' (which can be defined as non-'Twitterfeed' links on Twitter.com) and also – perhaps surprisingly – customers referred via natural search. This backs up my hunch that customers who have clicked on our Twitterfeed links are far more highly engaged than those who visit via 'Twitter.com' (ditto search). And also that it pays to engage, as the theory goes.
Facebook Places bigger than Foursquare?
Robin Wilson seems to have gotten the inside track on UK Facebook data. They told him the following numbers:
That would probably make Facebook Places much larger than Foursquare in the UK (Foursquare claims 6.5 million registered users worldwide.) A note of caution however, as this Tweet indicates: Foursquare seems to still outstrip Facebook for actual checkins.
PeerSquare and the serendipity platform
We knew it was a good idea, but when we launched PeerSquare last week we had no idea it would be so well received. Om Malik's GigaOm linked to it in an article titled The Race to Build a PageRank for the Social Web Continues.
Techcrunch also covered PeerSquare in How smart is your startup incubator? Check in on PeerSquare and find out.
We think there are two main reasons why PeerSquare is a good idea. It allows you to see who at a venue has authority. But on a more basic level, because of Peerindex's topics, it gives a fuller picture of who the people are. As it happens Google's Eric Schmidt gave a fascinating speech at the Mobile World Congress. In this video at 9:10 he makes the following point:
"We are used to the phone as a communications platform, and increasingly so as a data / browsing platform and computational device, which everyone is excited about now, but what about the phone as a serendipity platform? What about your phone helping you learn new things and meet new people you would not otherwise. That is the future…"
Sorry to labour a point – but mobilise your ass
In the same video Schmidt makes a startling admission (5:48). Every ambitious target they have set for the adoption of mobile technology has been exceeded. Last year he predicted that within two years smart phones will outsell PCs. But that came to pass – on a quarterly basis – in mid February! The changes that are happening are so fast he says, that many people do not appreciate how profound these changes are. Developers now think mobile first, because this is where scale is.
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A useful aspect of a DOMDocument object is that it can serve as the container for any hierarchical XML structure. This allows you to load any valid XML construct into a DOMDocument object. Coincidentally, ADO has an XML persistence constant that enables any recordset to persist in an XML stream.
ADO (ActiveX Data Objects) is a data access technology that is installed with Microsoft Data Access Components, and it's covered in detail in Chapter 20.
To use the procedure demonstrated here, you will need to first set a reference to Microsoft ActiveX Data Access 2.6 Library (any later version is also valid).
To help demonstrate this, open the Programming XML.xlsm file, found in the XMLSampleFiles folder in this chapter's download page at www.wrox.com. In this file, you will find the following procedure. This procedure loads an Excel range (in this case range A1:D43) into an ADO recordset, and then saves the recordset into the DOMDocument object, which is then output to an XML file:
Sub Convert_Excel_Data_to_XML()
Dim oMyconnection As Connection Dim oMyrecordset As Recordset Dim oMyXML As DOMDocument Dim oMyWorkbook As String
Set oMyconnection = New Connection Set oMyrecordset = New Recordset Set oMyXML = New DOMDocument
'Identify the workbook you are referencing oMyWorkbook = Application.ThisWorkbook.FullName
'Open connection to the workbook oMyconnection.Open "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;" & _ "Data Source=" & oMyWorkbook & ";" & _ "Extended Properties=excel 8.0;" & _ "Persist Security Info=False"
'Load the selected range into the recordset oMyrecordset.Open "Select * from [Sheet1$A1:D43]", oMyconnection, adOpenStatic
'Load the recordset into the DOM Document oMyrecordset.Save oMyXML, adPersistXML
'Save DOM Document to an xml file oMyXML.Save (ThisWorkbook.Path & "\Output.xml")
'Clean up oMyrecordset.Close Set oMyconnection = Nothing Set oMyrecordset = Nothing Set oMyXML = Nothing
Once the procedure is run, you will find the output XML file in the same directory as the Programming XML.xlsm file. When you open the output XML documents, you will notice that it does not look like the ones you have experienced here so far. This is because ADO produces attribute-based XML. An attribute-based XML document is almost exclusively made up of attribute nodes and is self-describing—they contain metadata that describes both the structure of the recordset and the data inside the recordset.
An XML file generated by ADO typically contains one root element and two child nodes: Schema and Data. The Schema node contains information about the recordset structure: field names, data type, field length, position, and so on. The Data node contains the actual data. Although attribute-based documents are difficult for humans to read, they are well formed and pose no problem for Excel.
When mapping an ADO-produced XML document, the XML Source pane will look similar to Figure 12-10. Remember to map the Data node to your spreadsheet.
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On Oct. 1, a Pakistan anti-terrorism court sentenced to death Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri, the bodyguard who shot and killed Salman Taseer, Governor of Punjab, early this year.
Qadri was handed two death sentences on two counts of murder and terrorism by Judge Parvez Ali Shah during in-camera proceedings at Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi, state-run PTV reported.
Qadri had contended that he killed Taseer as he was a 'murtad' or apostate and had allegedly committed blasphemy by seeking changes in the blasphemy law.
Governor Taseer had called Pakistan's draconian blasphemy law "a black law." In November 2010 a Punjab court sentenced Asia Bibi, a Christian woman, to death allegedly for using blasphemous remarks against the Prophet Muhammad. Taseer visited Bibi in jail and championed her cause, saying that the controversial law had been misused. He had also backed a bill in the country's parliament introduced by Sherry Rehman, a female MP, to amend the law to remove the death penalty for blasphemy charges.
Questions had remained as to whether justice would be sought for Taseer's murder and rule of law upheld in a country known little if any government capacity to maintain rule of law.
The country's mood regarding the murder and the atmosphere around the blasphemy law were demonstrated when, following the assassination, not a single cleric was willing to lead Taseer's funeral prayers, dozens of lawyers showered roses on Qadri when he was first brought to court, and thousands of people demonstrated in his defense while most of the country's politicians could not openly condemn the murder.
Furthermore, Qadri's trial was held up for several weeks, as no prosecutor was willing to take on the case. During initial court appearances, Qadri was championed by lawyers and madrassa students who haled him as a "hero".
Qadri's family went so far as to say that they were very happy that he had carried out the assassination.
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Qadri had confessed to killing Taseer shortly after the crime. He subsequently confessed to the crime on two more occasions -- when a magistrate recorded his confessional statement and when he was given a questionnaire by the anti-terrorism court judge.
By finding Qadri guilty, the anti-terrorism courts have indicated that there is still hope for rule of law and justice in Pakistan, however slight that hope may be.
This is just a small step, however. Religious and ideological extremism remain powerful forces in Pakistan, gaining followers as well as funds and weapons.
An indication the state of extremism in Pakistan: as news of the death sentence broke, dozens of Qadri's supporters shouted outside the jail, "We will not let you down! We will free you! We will die for you!"
In August, Governor Taseer's son, Shahbaz Taseer, was kidnapped in the upscale Gulberg area of Lahore. No one has claimed responsibility for the abduction, but Taseer's family was threatened several times by the extremists.
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The architects' design for the training academy at Cobham in Surrey has provided an inspirational environment for players at every level, that successfully integrates into the green-belt landscape. The campus style building features a curved roof, which drops down to ground level at either end and has a natural living surface to help it blend into the rural surroundings.
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On the north and south elevations, the top mullions and pressure plates of the curtain walling were specially curved to follow the dramatic roof line. The system was finished in metallic silver, and glazed in clear solar control glass with fritted panels to conceal the building's structure and services whilst maintaining a continuous glazed façade. Externally, the horizontal aerofoil caps to the curtain wall were silver, with contrasting black vertical profiles.
The glazing is shielded from solar gain by a series of vertical brise soleil 'fins' that are clad in brass panels, which will weather naturally over time. Concealed top hung vents were inserted into the façades to provide natural ventilation where required.
GXi sliding aluminium doors were also installed, opening onto the balconies from the managers' suites and two larger sets provide access onto the players' terrace.
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Late Pa Benedict Odiase compose Nigeria current National Anthem "Arise O Compatriots" in May 1978 .Pa Benedict Odiase was born and raised in 1935 in the now defunct Bendel State (now split between present-day Edo State and Delta State.He then retired in 1992 as a Deputy Commissioner of Police after being the Director of Music with Nigeria Police Band.Arise, O Compatriots" replaced "Nigeria, We Hail Thee". The lyrics are a combination of words and phrases taken from five of the best entries in a national contest.Pa Benedict Odiase died from a short illness on June 12, 2013, at the age of 79.
Pa Benedict Odiase (1934 – June 12, 2013)
The National Anthem of Nigeria
Lyrics in English
- Arise, O compatriots
- Nigeria's call obey
- To serve our fatherland
- With love and strength and faith
- The labour of our heroes past
- Shall never be in vain
- To serve with heart and might
- One nation bound in freedom
- Peace and unity.
Lyrics in Yoruba
- Dide eyin ara .
- Wa je-pe Nigeria,
- ka fife sin-ilewa
- pelu okun ati igbagbo
- Ki ise awon akoni wa ko ma se ja sa-san,
- ka sin tokan-tara
- ile tominira wa,
- alafia so-dokan
- Yaku 'yan Nijeriya ku farka;
- Ku amsa kiran Nijeriya;
- Domin mu taimaki kasarmu ta haihuwa;
- Don aiki ga kasata cikin soyayya da rikon gaskiya;
- Domin gudumawar da shuwagabaninmu 'yan kishin kasa suka bada;
- kada ta zama a banza;
- Muyi aiki da zuciya daya da girmamawa a gareta;
- Domin ta kasance kasa daya mai yanci ga kowa tare da hadin kai da zaman lafiya
Lyrics in Igbo
- Kulienu umunem,
- Nigeria na akpo oku zaa ya,
- Ife ala nna anyi
- Jide ihunnaya, ike na okwukwe,
- Olu ndi nna anyi luru na ngbe garaaga,
- Ogaghi abu ihe efu,
- Ife ala nna anyi, jide obi sirike na ike,
- Otu obodo juputara na nwere onwe, udo na idi na otu.
- The National Pledge
- I pledge to Nigeria my country
To be faithful, loyal and honest
To serve Nigeria with all my strength
To defend her unity, and uphold her honour and glory
So help me God.


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Claudia Donovan (Allison Scagliotti) is smart as a whip, sassy, and the youngest member of the Warehouse 13 team. If she's not searching for artifacts or chasing down bad guys, then this punk rock chick enjoys rocking out on her guitar and hacking into various computer fortresses.
Flint Lockwood
Flint Lockwood is an inventor who just wants to prove himself to everyone in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. Unfortunately no one really understands his inventions or find them useful – that is until he develops the FLDSMDFR. But with his track record of failed inventions, it's not long before it starts raining oversized mutated foods.
Dr. Nefario
Dr. Nefario is Gru's gadget man. He's the evil mastermind behind inventions such as the Freeze Ray and Big Blaster Cannon but only a true genius could come up with the Fart Gun and Boogie Bots.
Doc Brown
Dr. Emmett Lathrop "Doc" Brown, Ph.D., played by Christopher Lloyd, is best friends with Marty McFly in the Back to the Future series. Brilliant but absentminded, he invents a time machine using a DeLorean, a flux capacitor, and plutonium stolen from Libyan terrorists. Great Scott!
Steve Jobs
As Steve Jobs changed the face of computing with the Macintosh, iMac, iPod, iPhone, and iPad, his outfit always remained the same. Presented here are the exact same brands that filled the closet of the late, great Apple CEO.
Dr. Horrible
Dr. Horrible is an aspiring supervillain who ends each day by reflecting on his personal blog while cheesy synth music plays overhead. Remember to address him properly, because he "didn't spend 6 years getting a PhD in Horribleness to be called mister."


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What is a wall mounted dehumidifier?
There are several types of applications that call for the installation of a wall mounted dehumidifier. The following describes various scenarios whereby an IW25 dehumidifier can be permanently installed on different types of walls including masonry or CMU block. While the IW25 dehumidifier was originally engineered for multifamily housing, its flexibility of design and unique …Read More


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Collectors gather all sorts of things for entertainment--coins, stamps, dolls, toys. Today, however, our culture is very different, and many people have trouble understanding collections and those who collect. This article will put forth several reasons why people might collect dolls.
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Many people collect dolls that are antiques. Dolls are some of the most beautiful antiques that are available to antique collectors today, with dates of manufacture ranging from about 1800 through the early 1900s. They are also very accessible antiques--they can be collected with a minimum amount of room, unlike antique furniture. They tug at the heartstrings more than, say, antique books or antique tools. Many antique dolls as old as the mid-1800s, such as china dolls, can be collected quite inexpensively. Dolls also fit in beautifully with collections of antique toys, trains, Christmas, 19th-century paper ephemera, and sewing items.
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Some collectors of dolls love history; the historic place dolls hold in our culture can be appealing in this regard, from Barbie in the 1960s to the manufacture of bisque dolls in France and Germany in the 1800s. These types of doll collectors often will collect the dolls of one time period or of one manufacturer that they have studied and researched.
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Sometimes, it is a love of fashion that brings collectors to doll collecting. Through dolls, you can collect the history of fashion, either through buying dolls costumed with clothing from many eras, or buying dolls from those eras and places (there is a difference--you can have a Barbie doll dressed in a Victorian outfit, or you can have a doll from the Victorian era dressed in an outfit from that time period.
Collecting dolls that reflect fashion certainly is easier and easier on space; full-size 19th Century outfits can be quite bulky--hoop skirt, overskirt, underclothes, shoes, hat, purse, gloves...storage space for one human-sized outfit can fit a small collection of dolls! Also, dolls make perfect tiny models/mannequins for dolls, and there is something charming about fashion writ small.
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Sewing and Costuming
Costuming can encompass anything from fanciful fairy and literary costumes to pedestrian baby doll or children's play outfits on a doll. Many people who come to dolls through costuming interests like to sew. There are a plethora of sewing patterns available for dolls of all types, including American Girls, Barbie dolls, vintage, dolls, antique dolls--nearly any type of doll that has been manufactured in some quantity. It is also fun to find and collect scale-appropriate materials, buttons, trims, and other items sized right to costume and sew for small dolls.Continue to 5 of 12 below.
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The greatest number of collectors come to collecting through their childhood dolls--often, nostalgia for or a love of the dolls they spent their childhood with. Some become a fervent collector when trying to find and replace the lost Barbie dolls of their childhood (by the 1980s, expensive collector items...who knew?). You can often identify the age of a doll collector of vintage dolls by just walking into the room where they house their collection.
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Many collectors of Christmas antiques and ornaments also collect dolls. Seeing the cross-over appeal is easy--dolls make beautiful displays under or next to Christmas trees.
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Theraputic Value
Dolls can often soothe a psychological need or an emotional void. Sometimes, the loss of a child or the inability to have a child or retirement from a career dealing with children can lead to doll collecting. After all, dolls are representations of people. You can often see a therapeutic value or connection with collectors of baby dolls of all types.
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Dolls can be used to make visual statements and can be used to decorate homes. A single dramatic doll may be a focal point in a home, or an entire room might be decorated with dolls to evoke days gone by. A fashion designer might decorate a room with dolls that show off their designs, or with dolls that serve as creative inspirations. Dolls also make great, potentially useful, decor in sewing rooms.Continue to 9 of 12 below.
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Family Members
Collectors sometimes inherit the beginning of their collections from a mother or grandmother. There can be no intention to start collecting themselves; they attempt to sell a collection, learn a bit about the dolls, get fascinated, and next thing you know, are adding to the collection instead of selling it.
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Celebrity Worship
Finally, dolls intersect greatly with today's culture of celebrity worship. Many of the best-selling dolls are celebrity dolls, created in the likeness of popular celebrities--singers, actresses, dancers, and even reality TV stars. If a person absolutely loves a particular celebrity and there is a doll of that celebrity available, a new doll collector may be born!


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by Sebastian Wöber | 22nd August 2014
3 days ago Sony announced the new Sony Alpha 5100 mirrorless camera that has made some headlines on the film blogs as it brings the powerful new XAVC S codec as well as 1080p at 60 frames per second.
At cinema5D we already had this new camera in our test labs today and we have some interesting things to share. We tested dynamic range, rolling shutter and observed sharpness and aliasing.
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Camera manufacturer Pentax (now Ricoh Imaging) has been rather quiet in terms of video functionality on their DSLR's. With the new Pentax K-3 that brings a lot of innovation to the stills side the movie recording side has received some promising improvements as well. cinema5D took the Pentax K-3 for a spin and has some insights on its video capabilities.
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The following webinars will be available for the whole day during the PD15 event on Saturday 30th May:
Visual Content for Authors with Jo Linsdell
Selling kidlit the Dr. Suess way: "There is no one alive who is youer than you" with Tara Lazar
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Creating Social Media Content that Works with Rivka Kawano
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How Reviews Help Build Your Author Brand with Brandy Potter
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why we don't cook with barley more ~
Per Nana:
This recipe brings back memories of Hubby and I when
we were newly married. When I was growing up, my mother did
the cooking in our house and being young, I had more important
things to do than learn to cook. Six months into the marriage,
I was really sorry that I did not pay attention.
But, way back then, we knew it all......
In any event, I bought a box of barley, and prepared it according
to the instructions. Not only did the barley spill over onto everything
while cooking, we had so much barley we ate it for a week.
(Back then, we didn't throw food out)
It was many years before I considered cooking barley, but
I have since learned a few important things about cooking
rice and other grains. That said, I have actually prepared a
wonderful beef barley soup that turned out quite well.
This recipe was good, a bit al dente, but I think it could use a little
bit of a kick for flavor. I plan to use the leftovers in chicken broth
to soften it more, and to add cooked chicken for a nice
old fashion chicken barley soup.
All in all, this was a nice recipe and I can't wait to see how
the rest of the Doristas enjoyed this one.Per Tricia:
Once again Nana hooked me up with some ingredients.
I included a shot of the barley box to show how well loved it
looks after making back and forth across the yards. And with the
success of this dish it may be getting more play.
This was a very simple recipe and with the exception of my not
usually having barley in the house- the rest of the items were
standard fare. The prep time was minimal and most of the cooking time
was spent with little to no interaction from the cook. My kind of recipe :)
My husband liked it and was very surprised at how "sweet" he thought it was.
I didn't find it too sweet but did like lemon zest influence.
It really made the dish, in my opinion, and I would not necessarily have
added lemon to a barley dish unless Dorie told me to. Good thing she did.
The boys liked it and agreed they really liked the lemon flavor, but were
otherwise a bit lukewarm. They can't all make it out of the ballpark.
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Great style starts from the top down. Meaning, you should pay as much attention to the selection of your sunglasses as you would your suit - right down to the fit and shade of the lens.
Under the unforgiving Aussie sun, your average pair of sunnies as as much a safety necessity as they are a statement of aesthetics. While knowing that you're getting the appropriate amount of UV protection is important, it's equally imperative to find a pair that actually suits your sense of style.
A colourful view
One of the biggest trends to hit the shelf this season has been the reintroduction of coloured lenses reminiscent of the '70s.
Gucci in particular has been going strong on this look, teaming them with oversized frames that look deliberately disproportionate.
Amber, blue and even pink are the shades to keep a literal eye on.
Solid framework
For a period there, it was all about the metal – lightweight and streamlined. But this summer, heavier looking acetate has worked its way to the forefront of designs.
Yves Saint Laurent's signature black frames are a good starting point - there's a good reason why the French designer favoured this style and that's because it suits every occasion and face-shape.
A more streamlined version released by the Kingsman + Cutler and Gross collaboration is ideal for those who want something less dramatic but with all the same sartorial impact.
Take to the skies
To say the aviator has come back in style does this classic shape a disservice - it never goes out of style.
But this summer, brands such as Prada and Ermenegildo Zegna have stamped their own take on the design by tweaking the proportions.
Alternatively, if you're a purist, invest in a pair of Persols – an icon so good Steve McQueen swore by them.
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This Mullan Suva Industrial Pendant Light is designed and manufactured in Ireland.
With this alluring pendant light the key is simplicity.
This industrial copper pendant light looks fantastic when lit with an edison filament bulb giving of a warm glow which is also suitable for use with a dimmer control.
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Our range of hand made lights varies from vintage luminaires to timeless classics. Simple and elegant, they will immediately harmonise with your interior scheme and highlight your chosen area of focus. Each piece is individually hand crafted in Ireland, every piece being hand finished and painted, making each piece individual and unique.


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We will depart the Bay Area in the morning and drive to Las Vegas. Along the way, you will see dramatic changes in sceneries from coastal ranges to Central Valley and then to Mojave desert. We will drive through fertile farmland, see the largest windmill farm in California and pass by Edward Air Force Base where the space shuttles used to land on several occasions and where the sound barrier was broken fro the first time in history. We will reach Las Vegas in the evening and check into the hotel upon arrival. Tonight will be to your leisure. Immerse yourself in the castle themed resort right in the middle of the Las Vegas Strip or head down the Strip and visit many other world famous themed hotels.
Hotel: Excalibur Hotel and Casino or similar
The Grand Canyon offers one of the most spectacular examples of erosion not found anywhere in the world. Canyon National Park is a designated World Heritage Site and is unmatched in the incomparable vistas that it offers to visitors on the rim. You will be dwarfed by the size of the Grand Canyon measuring 277 miles long, 10 miles wide and 1 mile deep. Continue to Horse Shoe Bend where Colorado River makes a 270 degree turn. A short walk to edge and the view is awesome, spectacular and jaw dropping.
Hotel: Quality Inn or similar
Depart in the morning and visit Lake Powell, a reservoir on the Colorado River, straddling the border between Utah and Arizona. It is the second largest man-made reservoir in the United States behind Lake Mead, storing 24,322,000 acre feet (30 km³) of water when full. We will continue to visit Antelope Canyon ( Optional Tour). The canyon is know as a slot canyon in which rainwater, especially during monsoon season, runs into the extensive basin above the slot canyon sections, as the water rushes into the narrow passageways, over time the passageways are eroded away, making the corridors deeper and into what you would experience today. We will travel back to Las Vegas in the evening. After tour drop off at Excalibur Hotel.
Hotel: Excalibur Hotel and Casino or similar
In the morning, depart Las Vegas towards San Francisco. We will travel by the world's largest solar power plant with 340,000 solar panels planted into the vast sea of sand. While crossing the Mojave Desert, you will see Edwards Air Force Base at the distance, where the sound barrier was broken for the first time in history and where US space shuttles landed on several occasions. Looking up at the sky, you might perhaps catch a glimpse of U.S. newest aircraft on training mission. Then you will pass by California's largest windmill farm on Tehachapi Mountain. In the afternoon, you will learn about California agriculture that produces more than half of nation's total of fruits, vegetables and nuts while travelling through the fertile Central Valley. Arrive in the Bay Area in the evening.
– You can self dismiss at Las Vegas today, hotel check out time is 11 am.
– For tour passengers who would like to have a transfer service from Las Vegas to Los Angeles, service fee is $35 per person.
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|Angel Feet Reflexology (Oakland)
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|Tectonic Architects & Builders (Cupertino)
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* 3rd person, 4th person or child must share with the 1st & 2nd travelers in the same room (2 double beds). Extra beds, extra items and services (such as extra toiletries and towels) will not be provided.
* Hotels limit occupancy based on local or state fire codes, no more than 4 people to occupy a hotel room, regardless of the ages of the occupants.
* All hotel room are NON-SMOKING, any violations are fined $300.00 ~ $500.00
* Child fare: for children 2 years of age and above, occupying the same room with 2 adults.
* Children under 2 years old will be charged $25 per day for mandatory General Liability Insurance.
* To ensure the safety of children, anyone that is under 8 years of age/ Less 60 lbs must have a car seat. (Car seat is available for rent for $25 a day—-must make reservation ahead of time).
*To ensure smooth operation of our tours, Lassen Tours reserves the right to change the order in which tours are conducted.
Antelope Canyon No Cancellation Policy: Due to no cancellation policy enforced by Antelope Canyon, no refunds are allowed even passengers cancel the entire trip or no show on the day of departure.
Blockout dates : ( No Arrival in Las Vegas) Jan 4, 2020 – Jan 10, 2020
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* Hotel
* Meals
* Gratuities
* Optional Tours(Mandatory Purchase from Lassen)
* Antelope Canyon – Adult $78, Child (7-11) $68, Child (under 6 years old) $42
* Horseshoe Bend/Grand Canyon South/Lake Powell – $35 per person
Optional Tours (CASH PAYMENT ONLY) :
* Lake Powell Cruise – Adult $48, Child (2-12) $35
* I-Max at Grand Canyon South – $13 per person
* South Rim Grand Canyon Helicopter Ride – $230 per person


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Dimplex industrial heating devices enable you to work in your workshop, garage or even outdoors without having to worry about the effects of the cold. Whether you choose a permanently installed or a temporarily installed industrial fan heater, your workshop or construction site will quickly heat up to operating temperature. Infrared industrial heaters are a good alternative way of providing heat for individual work places, since they only heat up surfaces and solid bodies that come into contact with the radiated heat. This means that they do not produce hot air, but rather heat directly where heat is required.


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Foodborne illnesses afflicts 4.2 million people each year in the United States, resulting in approximately 1,600 deaths and costing an estimated 9.2 billion dollars. Two foodborne pathogens that are often associated with poultry meat include Salmonella and Campylobacter jejuni.
Salmonella was found to be the one of the enteric pathogens with higher mortality rates followed by C. jejuni and E. coli 0157:H7 according to a Food Protection Report (1998).
Campylobacter is the leading cause of diarrhea affecting between 2 and 8 million individuals each year resulting in approximately 800 deaths. More alarming is the increased frequency with which antibiotic resistant campylobacter has been isolated.
Because immunocompromised people are the primary recipients of antibiotic therapy to treat campylobacteriosis, antibiotic resistant campylobacter represents an emerging food safety issue.
The CDC estimated that of the 40 million patients hospitalized each year in the United States, approximately 13,300 die annually from infections caused by antibiotic resistant strains of bacteria.
The number of deaths related to non-treatable infections is increasing each year. Therefore, the emergence of antibiotic resistant bacteria represents an enormous health threat.
The emergence of antibiotic resistant organisms is generally thought to stem from the broad use of antibiotics in human and veterinary medicine. Repeated exposure to antibiotics can lead to the selective emergence of antibiotic resistance that may be acquired or evolved.
In a recent report, it has been estimated that 80 percent of farm animal diets including swine, cattle and poultry are being supplemented with subtherapeutic levels of antibiotics to enhance growth.
According to the CDC, nineteen classes of antibiotics are approved for use in animals to promote growth rates and production. Of these antibiotics, six are important in the treatment of human illnesses. This represents a significant health risk because animal foods are thought to represent a transfer mechanism for the resistant bacteria to humans.
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