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But the English language does, and it's in Oxford.
Bonus points for those getting the puns.
Technically, Oxford's lexicographic philosophy is more descriptivist than prescriptivist. Their stated intent is to document, record and communicate the language they find through actual usage. Thus, Oxford, while the gold standard of English lexicography (more so British usage than American, but it's pretty strong in either case) is not to be confused with an "ANSI standard." It's an entirely different thing, a better analogy might be the SIbley Guide.
Their stated intent is to document, record and communicate the language they find through actual usage.
i don't think them fucken bastards really wanna do shit like that.
The O.E.D. [oed.com] is intended to be descriptive, not prescriptive.
The English language, sadly, is not standardised, which is why we have differences like "kerb" and "curb", "lorry" and "truck", "lift" and "elevator", and so on, and so forth.
French, on the other hand, has L'Académie française, an institute that actually does define a standard French language. Québec also has their own OQLF (who will have none of that bastard English in their French, merci beaucoups) and they
Not counting, of course, the veggie roll... whose predominant ingredients include cucumber, carrots, rice, and other non-fish products.
And on a related aside, Fish roe is absolutely disgusting. Every time I eat sushi with fish roe it's like i'm chewing on dozens of tiny eyeballs. It's enough to make me want to gag.
Sushi, and other words, are defined by how people use them. And in the US that means rice and raw fish wrapped in seaweed for 99% of the population.
Sure, thank you for bolstering my point. The title asks if the sushi is hazardous, but the story is only about the fish, not the rice or seaweed (etc)... (I'm tired and feeling a bit picky.)
Slack language is a cause and/or result of slack thinking. For example, single TV episodes advertised as "all new" or the Dodge Ram commercial that states the truck is
If we're being completely pedantic, then you should read the title again.
Is That Sushi Hazardous To Your Health?
Here "that" refers to a particular piece of sushi. Reading the summary and then the article, one finds that "that sushi" refers to "sushi containing 'tuna'". Raw fish on its own is sashimi. Raw fish on rice is sushi. If the raw fish in either case is poisonous, then the entire thing will be hazardous to your health.
Or, do you somehow think that the rice is going to save you?
"The title asks if the sushi is hazardous, but the story is only about the fish"
The story is not even that: is a non-story. Eating a mislabelled piece of raw fish might produce disease. Well, yeah...
I think the point of the story isn't that eating mislabelled raw fish might cause disease but that a lot of raw fish is mislabelled.
Slack language is a cause and/or result of slack thinking. For example, single TV episodes advertised as "all new" or the Dodge Ram commercial that states the truck is "all brawn, all brain" - sigh.
What about ManBearPig? In the episode he was described as "half man, half bear, and half pig". So he's 1.5 individuals!
And I definitely agree about the slack thinking. There is nothing quite like a disciplined mind that serves you well with efficient and effective action. Minds become that way by not yielding so easily to the temptation to cut corners and exhibit laziness and it starts with the tiny insignificant things first. Think of all the native English speakers who cannot correctly use words like "loose"/"lose" or "they're"/"there"/"their". It shows that they still struggle with basic usage of their native language, the sorts of issues that they should have worked out back in elementary school. It's noteworthy that foreigners who learn English as a second (or third) langauge tend not to make these mistakes.
Having said that, I'll add that It's okay to have a hard time with something. Not everyone is a great writer or a good speaker and we all have something we're not very good at doing. What's not okay is when an excuse is made for it. The original mistake is just a simple error, like spilling the milk or working an equation incorrectly and getting the wrong answer. It doesn't make you a moron and it doesn't make you a bad person. It's the kind of error that anyone could potentially make because they're human.
The excuse, on the other hand, is cowardly in a sense. It attempts to justify or dismiss something that is clearly incorrect, and all of this to avoid the process of saying "ah-hah, I made a mistake there. Now I know what to do differently in the future." I suspect that they think they are showing weakness or acting "inferior" if for even one moment they say "hey, you're correct; you are right and I had that wrong." The obsession over preventing the perception of inferiority at all costs, including the cost of accuracy, is why I call this cowardly. Nowhere in this can you find the security of knowing that you are who and what you are, whether or not anyone else thinks so.
By and large, people who make those grammatical mistakes are full of excuses. It's the reason why they keep making the same mistakes and their writing does not gradually improve with usage over time the same way that other skills would. You would expect a blacksmith to make a higher-quality knife after 20 years of experience than anything he made when he first started out. So why do native English speakers fail to correctly apply rules of grammar that they should have learned and mastered as children?
The blacksmith has a boss who expects a certain level of job performance, and if he is not internally motivated by an appreciation of his craft then this external motivation will spur him to improve his work. The average Slashdotter who reads and posts for leisure has no external motivation. The only reason why he'd try to get things right is because he values excellence. When you value excellence, you don't see yourself as a static person who scrapes by on the path of least resistance. You see yourself as a dynamic, growing individual who gradually learns more and becomes better at everything you do, whether or not anyone is looking, whether or not anyone is impressed, and whether or not you would have been penalized for a lesser effort. It's an internal thing. The reason to become a better speaker and a better writer is simple: you speak and write on a daily basis, so your life (and quite possibly others) is enriched by being able to do these things well. It's also hard to really enjoy doing something when you struggle to achieve even basic competency.
The antithesis of this is a form of laziness with perhaps some elements of apathy. In that case, you're not really convinced that it's worth doing at all because yo
Think of all the native English speakers who cannot correctly use words like "loose"/"lose" or "they're"/"there"/"their". It shows that they still struggle with basic usage of their native language, the sorts of issues that they should have worked out back in elementary school. It's noteworthy that foreigners who learn English as a second (or third) langauge tend not to make these mistakes.
You are correct, at least as far as written language. If you were to talk to someone who just confused "lose" with "l
Also, most forms of electronic communications generally foster bad habits and promote general laziness.
Hogwash. E-mail no more promotes lazy writing than the Pony Express did in the 19th century.
The problem, once again, lies not in our stars but in ourselves. We have become more permissive in our acceptance of a butchered language. If you want people to write better, you need to openly ridicule their efforts when they demonstrate their abject ignorance.
Our society is far too kind to the moron, and it is
Most good Japanese restaraunts have the difference between Sushi and Sashimi on page 1 of their menu, and more Americans than you think know the difference.
Sushi, and other words, are defined by how people use them. And in the US that means rice and raw fish wrapped in seaweed for 99% of the population. Then english language, unlike C, does not have an ansi standard. It's all fluid.
You flurbing pizzats and your fempy ticrans. Can't even warrup a mekci bommits.
Raw fish hazardous to your health? Go figure!
Because that's just what any employer wants to hear, more details about their employees' bowel movements!
Though I have to wonder, you do know about the existence of camera's, don't you? A picture says more than a thousand Greek words...
Because that's just what any employer wants to hear, more details about their employees' bowel movements!
I've found there are two magic words, that when said together, sequentially, cause the listener to not care any further why you are going to not make it in to the office today.
Word 1: Explosive
Word 2: Diarrhea
Eating sushi is almost as disgusting as eating raw fish!
Cavemen discovered that cooking meat was a good idea some millennia ago and we've been doing it since then, but some people never got the memo because they were on an island or something.
PLoS ONE, if you didn't know, is a public-access scientific journal publishing enterprise. No more use/abuse of scientists as creator of content AND reviewers of content (who both do this for free) and then only releasing the articles for profit, for the next 100 years. I am thoroughly disgusted by this business model which takes the work of us scientists, gives nothing back and then profits from it. Fuck that.
PLoS ONE, I wish you luck. Please do crush the Natures, Sciences and Elseviers of this world. Pretty please.
PLoS ONE, if you didn't know, is a public-access scientific journal publishing enterprise. No more use/abuse of scientists as creator of content AND reviewers of content (who both do this for free) and then only releasing the articles for profit, for the next 100 years. I am thoroughly disgusted by this business model which takes the work of us scientists, gives nothing back and then profits from it. Fuck that.
Thanks for pointing that out. Maybe you can submit a story about them [plosone.org]? It's certainly News for
When they add social sciences to their stable of publications, I'll be submitting to them exclusively and encouraging my students to do the same. I hate what the publishers are doing to my field. (And you haters can shut up; my work is as rigorous as it is possible to be when investigating something as amorphous as language and human behavior.)
PLoS charges scientists to get published. A big part of what caused the economic collapse is that rating agencies started to hand out AAA ratings to securities that didn't deserve them, and they did this because the issuers of these securities were paying the rating agencies. This PLoS ONE's business model is the same thing. PLoS ONE receives more money when it publishes more articles.
Doesn't this just scream CONFLICT OF INTEREST to anyone else?
Please, I'll take Science and Nature any day.
Maybe it's just me but I don't eat the tuna anyway.. if I want tuna I'll go buy some John West.
Salmon on the other hand....
Same. In terms of fish in general, I almost exclusively eat salmon.
Raw tuna's pretty fab actually and definitely worth a sample, but I wouldn't be surprised if you're not getting it in your local sushi. Raw tuna, raw or smoked salmon and eel are where I jump to on a sushi menu. It should be a deep red colour like red wine, not can brown.
Salmon for me too. But the tuna I get at sushi houses around here (US Pacific Northwest) is real tuna. I think I would catch it if they swapped it on me, unless it's a badly made spicy tuna roll, only taste the burn then.
I live in a native fishing village, I doubt that they could swap the salmon on me with any success. The biggest day of the year here is the First Salmon Ceremony.
Yuck, can can you possibly compare tuna sashimi with canned tuna? I hate that canned crap but tuna sashimi is heaven. Especially a piece of nicely marbled toro.
Aquaculture still doesn't solve it. You still have to catch all the fish you need to feed the Tuna.
Humans should stop eating meat altogether, but if people can't manage that then at least stop eating top level carnivores.
...then at least stop eating top level carnivores.
Not to worry, I don't eat humans on Atkins.
Or perhaps we should go for IVM (in-vitro meat)?
I bet that the first commercial use for IVM will be feeding tuna, and other carnivorous livestock. That will fund the technology until it's ready for actually eating. As a bonus, we could clone rare (or maybe even extinct) species, and eat them too!
It would be nice to see DECENT aquaculture come to fruition.
Yikes, aquaculture is hard enough to do with fresh water fish. You want to do it with salt water fish? Good luck...
It's one thing to have a salt water aquarium, at a zoo or for a hobby (read: slavery). But aquaculture involves raising fish at incredibly high densities in order to be profitable. These high densities mean that the slightest little change - in dissolved O2, pH, temperature, nitrites, ammonia, etc will kill your fish. Now you want to add salinity which not only has to be kept within limits but corrodes your pumps, pipes and valves, increasing the chances of breakdowns?
No thanks! Have fun!
PS: Fish die really really quietly, and they love to do it in large quantities. I know whereof I speak, I promise...
As it happens, saltwater aquaculture is widely practiced from Norway to Chile. It basically involves putting a cage out in the sea and growing fish in it.
Of course, there are lots of reasons not to encourage most fish-farming like the fact that it requires huge amounts of wild fish to be caught, mulched and processed to be fed back to the "desirable" fish species that is being farmed. That is, fish farming uses more fish than it creates, thereby exacerbating the chronic overfishing problems that plague the seas.
That is, fish farming uses more fish than it creates
That's true of any form of agriculture. Biological systems are not 100% efficient. Crops will leach nitrogen out of the soil, requiring fallow, legumes or fertilizer. It gets even worse when you consider that at harvest time, you remove the crop and carry off all that nitrogen. Cows, pigs and chickens are even less efficient. They eat inefficient grass and digest it in an inefficient manner, so that you need a lot of grass to keep one
It's a self correcting problem.
Once we really do have too many humans for the food supply those humans will go to war over food and kill large numbers of each other. And then we don't have too many humans anymore.
But fell free to kill yourself for the good of humanity if you really think you and your offspring (and their offspring) are going to petri dish the earth.
In many Western countries, the health authorities specify that fish served raw must be frozen first to kill certain types of parasite, so what you get in the middle of the country probably doesn't differ much from what you get on the coast.
Similar to chicken.
Storage and handling regulations mandate a range of temperatures, but the bottom of that range is below freezing, a fact you can be sure the producers are happy to take advantage of. The result is that most of the "fresh" chicken sold at your local sto
I currently live in an inland city, hundreds of kilometers from the the nearest ocean. This is why I refuse to eat sushi at the restaurants here since the fish will not be very fresh.
I remember reading this years ago:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/08/nyregion/08SUSH.html?pagewanted=all [nytimes.com]
Food and Drug Administration regulations stipulate that fish to be eaten raw ? whether as sushi, sashimi, seviche, or tartare ? must be frozen first, to kill parasites. "I would desperately hope that all the sushi we eat is frozen," said George Hoskin, a director of the agency's Office of Seafood. Tuna, a deep-sea fish with exceptionally clean flesh, is the only exception to the rule.
It seems once a year, someone re-discovers the amazing fact that uncooked fish should not be served fresh.
When you make your sandwich, it doesn't matter much if your uncooked meat slices (most luncheon meat is "cooked" by injecting it with salt and spices) are a little thick or wide. You just try to get roughly the right total amount and balance it off with veggies.
When you make sushi, if you don't get juust the right size, the texture is all wrong. Something that should be sublime and delicious becomes a disgusting gag inducer. Even the taste seems different. Inexperienced or American* sushi chefs can easily make that mistake, and home chefs all the moreso. (*"American" cuisine being of the "it's not the highest quality, so lets give them more of it" bent more often than it ought)
And then there's Fugu, which is extra difficult because a little bit of toxin is part of the experience.
I don't know how "sushi chef" compares to "executive chef" in terms of preparation difficulty, but it's definitely way above "sandwich artist" on the scale of difficulty.
If only there were an ocean closer to New York. It would be even better if that ocean had tuna of its own. Best of all would be if the tuna there was one of the most delicious [nationalgeographic.com] varieties around, such that it was the most used tuna [wikipedia.org] for sushi/sashimi. Wow...one can dream.
I'm more interested in hearing what kinds of places serve the bad sushi, so I can avoid those.
I will not be avoiding sushi.
I've already bought into the fact I'm eating raw fish.
NOW they tell me. I just ate some tuna sushi for lunch today.
I, for one, welcome my new parasitic overlords.
I, for one, welcome my new parasitic overlords.
Although in your case, "innerlords" may be more accurate. Or in a few hours, "underlords".
The chances that the fish you eat in sushi is an endangered species in a sushi bar is roughly the same as if you go to any other seafood restaurant. There are a lot of fish in the sea (no shit sherlock) - assume that 0.01% of fish are endangered. Now imagine dragging a net behind your boat. In theory at most 0.01% of all fish in your net will be endangered. Let's look at this more closely: Endangered fish are likely to exist in much smaller quantities, so while there might be 500 tuna per square mile of ocean, there might only be 1 of super-endangered-deliciousfish. Secondly, super-endangered-deliciousfish (SEDF) may only exist in the Bahamas, while the fisherman may be trawling off the coast of Georgia for Tuna, where Tuna are known to be abundant. Your likelyhood of catching a SEDF is highly unlikely.
In any case the fish is dumped in the boat's hold on ice, and then sorted out when they get back to port. Fish are already partially ready for consumption at this point. It's not like fisherman go out in the forest and hunt individual endangered fish with rifles where they can see them. Making most any argument about endangered fish in a commercial fishing situation is completely retarded. The only argument for this is situations where opportunistic overfishing occurs in specific areas like when salmon swim upriver to lay their eggs, and this is already highly regulated.
Also this article came out almost a year ago in the NYT this is old news(!)
Not exactly true. Fish schools are specifically targeted by trawlers, found by sonar and fished out. There is not much by-catch in these nets contrary to indiscriminate trawling or using longlines or gill nets. Bluefin Tuna, for example is only found in the Mediterranean and the chance of catching a endangered species that lives in the Arctic is zero. Of course Bluefin is already endangered and there lies the crux of the problem: We generally overexploit all fish stocks and should declare large areas of the oceans at no-fishing zones to recover fish populations and become sustainable in the long run.
Back to good old American Hamburgers. At least nobody ever got sick or died eating those, right?
Or in other words: People do stuff with food that might be harmful. There is no reason to take out Sushi in particular.
I just sat down at the computer for dinner with my spicy tuna roll and this is the top story on the Front page. Thank you Slashdot, for ruining my appetite yet again.
endangered (thus rare) fish randomly ends up in your dish?
This is exactly why i don't trust the cheaper sushi places in Texas...Yes i said Sushi and Texas in the same sentence.
Being born and raised in Hawaii, you are fed almost anything and everything out of the ocean, cooked or raw. Once example is Ahi Poke. Raw tuna marinated. It is freaking delicious! Ask any local in Hawaii and that food is as staple as corn in the midwest. Seafood can be caught/bought fresh daily in Hawaii. So even the cheaper sushi places in Hawaii have awesome sushi that doesn't get you sick. I never got sick once eating sushi in Hawaii. The fish you see on the menu is the fish you eat on your plate, no substitutions (except for maybe a few imitation crab items). And the prices are also cheaper since the fish is caught locally.
Here in Texas, you need to go to a fine-dining seafood restaurant to get the same quality sushi as a regular mom and pop sushi restaurant in Hawaii. ($35 2-roll sushi plate in Texas vs $15 sushi PLATTER in Hawaii). The finer dining establishments in Texas have their fish flown in overnight frozen and prepare it the same day it arrives, it never sits after the fish is delivered. It is setup and prepped for the days meals once it arrives in the morning. I've had the unfortunate privilege of eating at a cheaper sushi place years ago when I first moved to Texas; this was my first sushi experience in Texas. Never again will I ever eat at another cheap sushi establishment here. The sushi was dry, tasted like crap, and even looked cheap. It was a bad experience for me that night when i got home. Now I just stick to the higher price and eat sushi ad finer dining sushi restaurants and go home with a settled stomach and a smile on my face, rather than sit on the porcelain throne all night.
The fish contains indigestible fats; as such, it has about the same effect as eating large amounts of Olestra: it's laxative and leads to oily "leakage".
"The US FDA has warned consumers about potential mislabeling of oilfish [same thing applies to Escolar], but has concluded that any laxative side effects that occur are uncomfortable at worst and pose no health risk."
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IMPACT (In-situ Measurements of Particles and CME Transient)
Dear God, an acronym inside another acronym! I think the space geeks have beat us computer geeks yet again.
Just wait 'til they come up with something like GNW's Not WINE.
And apparently XINU Is Not Unix, either.
But "The TTP Project" is, of course, the best.
And apparently XINU Is Not Unix, either.
Of course not, Evil Galactic Overlords always use Windows.
Man, if that was true they would NEED a hero to MAKE the Death Ray work.
He sad 'recursive', not 'accursed'.
[ I played with HURD some years back: there are compelling reasons to stick with Linux or any working, open source kernel. ]
It's acronyms all the way down...
Technically, it's an abbreviation inside of an acronym. Acronyms are words formed from abbreviations, and so are a subset of abbreviations.
Simple rule: If it's generally pronounced as a word, it is an acronym. If the letters are generally spelled out, it's not an acronym.
When you abbreviate all the words in a phrase to their first letters and combine them into something that isn't a word, I think the term for it is 'initialism'
When you abbreviate all the words in a phrase to their first letters and combine them into something that isn't a word, I think the term for it is 'initialism'
I thought the word was "Elitism". Or maybe just "malarkey".
Simple rule: If it's generally pronounced as a word, it is an acronym. If the letters are generally spelled out, it's not an acronym.
Well, I guess you've lost the battle on that front, since TLA [wikipedia.org] is used by an awful lot of people.
I think to most people by now (grammar nazi's notwithstanding) no longer really differentiate based on if you pronounce it or not. (Oh, sure, it's not technically correct in a grammatical sense -- but, who is nowadays?
Can't think of something that uses GTK or I'd continue the fun!
Last chance for gas, 20,000,000,000 km. We have lotto tickets and cold beer!
I wonder if they found any more plutoids [newscientist.com] out there... Poor Pluto! [mathiaspedersen.com]
Pfft, Pluto's doing fine, it's got a whole category named after it now! All it needs is a leaked sex tape and it'll be the Verne Troyer [stuff.co.nz] of the Milky Way.
We have lotto tickets and cold beer!
But you need a towel. A towel will insulate the beer for a few minutes. You want cold beer, but not beer at -273C.
And a towel will absorb your tears when you discover that you lost the intergalactic lottery. Again.
But you need a towel. A towel will insulate the beer for a few minutes. You want cold beer, but not beer at -273C.
Insulate it from what? Heat loss from conduction and convection is not much of an issue in the local environment, and radiation certainly takes longer than a few minutes. Besides, a towel won't help you keep your beer liquid.
The sound of one hand clapping.
I can actually clap with one hand, learned the trick while figuring out how to pack a can of skoal. It's hell on your knuckles, though.
The sound of one hand clapping
Don't make me slap you.
Also from TFA "The termination shock is the region of the heliosphere where the supersonic solar wind slows to subsonic speed"
Last I checked wasn't sonic speed something only relative to earth? Wouldn't that make this point completly arbitrary in a cosmic sense?
This was covered in the Slashdot post a while back about Voyager 2 crossing the termination shock. It boils down to the fact that the plasma from the solar wind does conduct waves, although due to the density of the particles and the nature of a plasma, the waves are much faster than the speed of sound through earth's atmosphere. So sonic speed does have a point (and related phenomena in this context. See this article [space.irfu.se], or google "super sonic speed heliopause".
Not the sound the Solar system makes as it travels through the galaxy, but the sound of this article going over my head.
So this boundry is what exactly? The limit to which the solar winds reach out from the Sun and the interaction that they have when they hit the expansive nothing out there?
It, grasshopper, is the sound of one star clapping.
That, my good sir, is sheer (comedic) genius. You could be the next George Carlin (that's pronounced, "dead comedian").
In our neighbourhood it's a a lot less dense [berkeley.edu] than average.
Even taking the average of about 1 hydrogen atom per cc, if you had a tube 1 cm in diameter that stretched from here to Alpha Centauri, the total mass inside the tube would be 3e-12 grams.
So yes theres stuff out there, but it wouldn't ruffle your hair if you put the convertible top down on your spaceship.
if you had a tube 1 cm in diameter that stretched from here to Alpha Centauri
Interesting. Let 'Big Oil' know when you get that to 60cm.
You have nebula and lots of (hundreds of billions?) stars
Ah yes, the approximation of the universe if Carl Sagan had been British.
Yep. The slashdot summary was like listening to the techno-babble
between Abby and McGee on NCIS... lots of cool words strung together,
but I didn't understand any of it...
Wait a second, if within the solar system the solar winds are more powerful than the galactic winds, wouldn't they also be more damaging?
I would imagine it depends on the composition of the winds and the relative strengths. In the case of strengths, that will fall off with the square of the distance. The distances are very large, but so are both the individual sources and the number of those sources. However, it is likely the composition that is the key. The winds are comprised of cha
I'm sure it's possible, but pointless. Decades ago, astronomers mapped proper motion and showed that all the stars were streaming away from a single point in the constellation Hercules. Presumably, that's where we're headed.
Makes you think, doesn't it? Everyone is getting the hell out of there and we're headed straight for it. Someone ought to do something about this...
Makes you think, doesn't it? Everyone is getting the hell out of there and we're headed straight for it. Someone ought to do something about this...
Why? I'm sure with them getting the hell away it's a buyer's market, we could triple or quadruple the size of our solar system, buy a few more planets, maybe even add another star to really brighten things up.
[...]assuming that the average of these would be zero IF the Sun had no velocity except that required for its orbit
around Galactic center. The average isn't, so the Sun has an extra velocity component, which is just the negative of this average. It turns out to be around 16.5 km/sec diagonally inward and slightly upward from its rotation.
It must be funny getting lost in your neighborhood and asking you for directions.
Have a look at this:
"Ah, so *that's* what an invisible frontier looks like!"
of the universes invisible frontier ; )
I wanna see!
.. that invisible unicorns are pink.
TFA: The termination shock is the region of the heliosphere where the supersonic solar wind slows to subsonic speed as it merges with the interstellar medium.
Okay boys and girls. Quick, grab your calculator and calculate the speed of sound in space...
c = (k p / Ï)^1/2
Put in the numbers and get your answer. The speed of sound in space works out to around 300 m/s in these parts.
Or were you under the impression that sound isn't transmitted in space? Sound we can hear isn't, but the ambient gas in space certainly does transmit disturbances, and will let you know if something passing through it exceeds the speed of sound by forming a shock wave.
So what's this about passing gas? There's a shockwave, and thereby a sound?
Okay boys and girls. Quick, grab your calculator and calculate the speed of sound in space...
c = (k p / Ï)^1/2
OK, next question, calculate the speed of light in the dark.
(hint: will be easier with an LED calculator than an LCD one)
Wait a second, so the speed of sound in space is the same as the speed of sound in our air?
Yup. Only if someone were around he'd need ears 10 km across to hear it.
Put in the numbers and get your answer
Yeah.. you know that would help a bunch if you'd mentioned what your variables represent. I can't even find the same equation on wikipedia [wikipedia.org] so I have no idea what your equation is supposed to do.
Ah, sorry. I didn't think anyone would actually want to work it out. The equation is the same as the equation for the speed of sound in an ideal gas here. [wikipedia.org]
The speed of sound equals the square root of the adiabatic index times the pressure over the density. I think the variables were the same as the wikipedia formula except that Slashdot screwed up the greek letters.
Those particular variables might be somewhat hard to measure for space, but there are lots of different ways of calculating the speed of sound
the suprathermal electron sensor in the IMPACT (In-situ Measurements of Particles and CME Transients) suite of instruments on board each STEREO spacecraft detected neutral atoms originating from the same spot in the sky: the shock front and the heliosheath beyond, where the sun plunges through the interstellar medium."
Admit it, you don't know what it means.
since it's invisible, there's nothing to see...
They are the "First IMAGES of Solar System's INVISIBLE Frontier" I was glad it wasn't any goatse or April's fools kind of thing.
Look for a Pink Unicorn of course.
The termination shock is the region of the heliosphere where the supersonic solar wind slows to subsonic speed as it merges with the interstellar medium.
Why is anything relating to the sound-barrier even mentioned in this article? I was under the impression that there was no sound in the vacuum of space.
I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that they're putting the velocities into a frame of reference that more people can appreciate.
The interstellar medium is essentially a gas. An extremely thin gas, but a gas all the same. As such, it does indeed transmit sound and so objects can be said to be moving supersonically and subsonically through it.
Supersonic and subsonic are used to denote the speed relative to the speed of sound in the medium in question, just as they are in any fluid.
..."Hi. Can I take your order?" ???
Only, you know, smaller?
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In awarding grants under this subchapter, the Attorney General shall give priority to applicants that—
(1) do not currently provide for centralized handling of cases involving domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking by police, prosecutors, and courts;
(2) demonstrate a commitment to strong enforcement of laws, and prosecution of cases, involving domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking, including the enforcement of protection orders from other States and jurisdictions (including tribal jurisdictions);
(3) have established cooperative agreements or can demonstrate effective ongoing collaborative arrangements with neighboring jurisdictions to facilitate the enforcement of protection orders from other States and jurisdictions (including tribal jurisdictions); and
(4) in applications describing plans to further the purposes stated in paragraph (4) or (7) of section 3796hh (b) of this title, will give priority to using the grant to develop and install data collection and communication systems, including computerized systems, and training on how to use these systems effectively to link police, prosecutors, courts, and tribal jurisdictions for the purpose of identifying and tracking protection orders and violations of protection orders, in those jurisdictions where such systems do not exist or are not fully effective.
(c) Dissemination of information
The Attorney General shall annually compile and broadly disseminate (including through electronic publication) information about successful data collection and communication systems that meet the purposes described in this section. Such dissemination shall target States, State and local courts, Indian tribal governments, and units of local government.
[1] So in original. Probably should be "section".
[2] See References in Text note below.
Source(Pub. L. 90–351, title I, § 2102, as added Pub. L. 103–322, title IV, § 40231(a)(3),Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 1933; amended Pub. L. 106–386, div. B, title I, § 1101(a)(3), (b)(3),Oct. 28, 2000, 114 Stat. 1492, 1493; Pub. L. 109–162, title I, § 102(c),Jan. 5, 2006, 119 Stat. 2977; Pub. L. 113–4, title I, § 102(a)(2),Mar. 7, 2013, 127 Stat. 72.)
References in Text
Section 3796hh (c)(4) of this title, referred to in subsec. (a)(1)(B), was redesignated section 3796hh (c)(1)(D) of this title by Pub. L. 113–4, title I, § 102(a)(1)(B)(vi),Mar. 7, 2013, 127 Stat. 72.
2013—Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 113–4, § 102(a)(2)(A), inserted "court," after "tribal government," in introductory provisions.
Subsec. (a)(4). Pub. L. 113–4, § 102(a)(2)(B), substituted "victim service providers and, as appropriate, population specific organizations" for "nonprofit, private sexual assault and domestic violence programs".
2006—Subsec. (b)(1), (2). Pub. L. 109–162inserted ", dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking" after "involving domestic violence".
2000—Subsec. (a)(1)(B). Pub. L. 106–386, § 1101(b)(3), inserted before semicolon "or, in the case of the condition set forth in subsection 3796hh(c)(4) of this title, the expiration of the 2-year period beginning on October 28, 2000".
Subsec. (b)(1). Pub. L. 106–386, § 1101(a)(3)(A)(i), struck out "and" at the end.
Subsec. (b)(2). Pub. L. 106–386, § 1101(a)(3)(A)(ii), substituted ", including the enforcement of protection orders from other States and jurisdictions (including tribal jurisdictions);" for period at end.
Subsec. (b)(3), (4). Pub. L. 106–386, § 1101(a)(3)(A)(iii), added pars. (3) and (4).
Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 106–386, § 1101(a)(3)(B), added subsec. (c).
Effective Date of 2013 Amendment
Amendment by Pub. L. 113–4not effective until the beginning of the fiscal year following Mar. 7, 2013, see section 4 ofPub. L. 113–4, set out as a note under section 2261 of Title 18, Crimes and Criminal Procedure.
Effective Date of 2006 Amendment
Amendment by Pub. L. 109–162not effective until the beginning of fiscal year 2007, see section 4 ofPub. L. 109–162, set out as a note under section 3793 of this title.
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Luol Deng filled the stat sheet with 25 points, seven assists and six rebounds to lead the Chicago Bulls past the Philadelphia 76ers, 93-88, at the United Center.
"It seemed like whenever we needed a bucket, he was making big shots. He played a really well, all-around game," Bulls guard Kirk Hinrich said about Deng.
Carlos Boozer and Joakim Noah each added a double-double for Chicago, which won its second straight game and earned a bit of payback for being eliminated in the first round of last season's playoffs by Philadelphia.
Boozer finished with 12 points and 12 rebounds, while Noah had 12 points and 13 boards in the win.
Jrue Holiday scored a team-high 23 points and Thaddeus Young followed with 22 for the 76ers, who had a three-game win streak snapped.
The Bulls held a 67-64 lead entering the fourth quarter and held that lead for the remainder of the game.
Philadelphia was able to keep the game tight, but was not able to get closer than two points over the final 12 minutes.
The Sixers' final threat came in the closing seconds when Holiday found Young under the net for a layup to bring Philadelphia within 90-88 with 16.6 seconds remaining.
But Hamilton was able to grab his own rebound after missing the back end of two free throws on the other end. He was then fouled again and connected on both foul shots this time to account for the final margin.
"I thought our guys did as much as we could to win the game. A couple of possessions here or there, and we would have had a chance to win the game," Sixers head coach Doug Collins said. "If we play hard like that every time, we'll find a way to scratch some games out."
The teams traded baskets over the opening minutes until Philadelphia netted seven straight points to go on top, 13-6, with 7 1/2 minutes left in the first quarter.
However, the Bulls closed out the frame with a 16-6 run to carry a 22-19 edge into the second.
Chicago was able to maintain its lead for the majority of the second but after a Deng tip-in gave the Bulls a 36-29 lead with 4 1/2 minutes left in the half, the Sixers reeled off seven in a row to knot the game at 36-36.
A Richard Hamilton jumper followed by a Boozer free throw put an end to the run and put Chicago back on top, but consecutive baskets by Holiday and Evan Turner gave Philadelphia a 40-39 lead with about a minute to play.
Noah answered with a dunk at the other end before Holiday made the front end of two foul shots in the closing seconds to make it a 41-41 game at the break.
The teams continued to trade blows in a third quarter which saw three lead changes and four ties.
The largest lead of the frame belonged to Philadelphia when Jason Richardson converted a three-point play to give the Sixers a 55-50 advantage with about seven minutes remaining.
Chicago, though, outscored Philadelphia, 17-9, for the rest of the quarter to carry a 67-64 lead into the fourth.
Game Notes
Holiday also had seven assists, while Young added seven rebounds ... Hamilton finished with 15 points for the Bulls, who shot 46.9 percent from the floor in the contest, including a 4-for-7 mark from three-point range ... The Sixers connected on 43.9 percent of their shots and went 3-for-12 from beyond the arc ... The game had 10 ties and eight lead changes.


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The United Nations agencies on Monday 8th December 2008, presented to an audience of more than 100 participants their capacity building and development activities to address climate change.
The side event which was hosted by UNITAR at the ongoing United Nations Climate Change Conference in Poznan, Poland, was in collaboration with UNEP and UNDP and included presentations from: UN-HABITAT, WFP and UNFPA as well as remarks from Adnan Amin of the UN system Chief Executives Board for coordination, Sudhir Sharma of the UNFCCC and Achim Halpaap of UNITAR.
Setting the tone for the side event, Phillip Gwage of Uganda and also speaking on behalf of the LDCs said that: "Institutional capacity building is crucial for developing countries, as well as building negotiating capacity." He emphasized that current training initiatives should go beyond workshops to hands-on approaches insisting that" Knowledge without skills is not useful:"
The panelists apart from showcasing their current activities also highlighted their practical on the ground training challenges and the future needs expressed by the countries.
Summarizing the key messages from the event Janos Pasztor, UN Secretary-General Climate Change support team and also moderator for the day, said that the UN agencies need to build upon their current work to enhance their cooperation on capacity building and development which already exists, but can be improved."
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My motherboard broke and I've replaced it with an Asus M5A 78L-M and an AMD FX4100 cpu (not the best choice but it was sitting in the shop waiting for me to take it home).
Would there be any advantage in fitting a Nvidia GeForce FX5200 I've been offered, mostly writing and u-tubeing, rarely games. Can't find any serious analysis on how to make such a decision.


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CSKA Moscow have stepped up their interest in Alen Halilovic in an attempt to replace the outgoing Keisuke Honda, reports the Daily Express.
The Croatian starlet is currently plying his trade at Dinamo Zagreb but has been linked with a move to Tottenham and Bayern Munich recently.
Both the Bavarians and Spurs were believed to have offered £8.5m for Halilovic but the Croatian club are only willing to listen to offers of £13m and above.
It is now being reported that a deal to bring the 17-year-old to White Hart Lane is unlikely with CSKA Moscow ready to step up their interest.
The Russian club have been scouting the player, who is currently representing Croatia at the Under-17 World Cup in the UAE.
According to Russian publication Izvestia, scouts from CSKA have been impressed with Halilovic and see him as the perfect replacement for Honda who is expected to sign for AC Milan when his contract expires.
Recent reports suggested that a move to Tottenham had been blocked by the player's father due to there being no guarentee that he'll get first team football.
Halilovic's agent, Shay Chen, has however, insisted that it is Zagreb's high valuation that is preventing a move.
The Daily Express quote Chen as saying: "Dinamo Zagreb wants too much money for Alen.
"We need to see what happens in the winter [transfer window].
"If they reduce their financial demands then we can make progress in the negotiations.
"We have offers from many clubs but everything will depend on Dinamo Zagreb's position."
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We've seen sneakerheads steadily put more focus on their sock game over the past couple of years, from the Nike Elite Basketball socks to the recent graphic printed pairs that have been hitting in conjunction with certain sigs. Jordan Brand is about to up their offerings in that realm as well with the Air Jordan Dri-FIT crew sock, carrying with it a subtle design element paying homage to MJ: the color blocking at the top half is set at a 23 degree angle. Click through for all the colors which are available now at the New York Nike sore and look for a later global launch.
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text: is there any thing i can do to my box to make it better .can i port it .there 2 alpine 12 type e .but what can i do to make the bass better caus i just bought a sealed box . but i cant return it .what should i do .there firing twords the back doors about 2 foot away would going to ported or band pass really help that much . can i port my box? each compartment is about 1.5 cubic feet can i port it .if so how thanks very much for the help


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A deadline concerning one of Meridian's most historic buildings is quickly approaching. Next Friday is the deadline for developers to submit their proposal for the Threefoot Building to city officials. Mayor Percy Bland says that the building's future is just one part of a much larger plan for development in downtown.
"We currently have about $84 or $85 million in projects that we foresee happening over the next two year period already within a mile or mile and a half to two mile radius from city hall," says Bland. "That's huge!"
Some of the projects that Mayor Bland is referring to include those for new housing downtown, and others for MSU Meridian and the Mississippi Arts and Entertainment Center.
Then of course there's the historic Threefoot Building which is vacant. We could find out its fate within the next two months.
About a half dozen developers who have expressed interest in the building have been given a deadline of February 28th to submit their proposal for the structure to city officials.
"They're serious guys, and they're also developers who have done projects similar to the Threefoot in other states," says Mayor Bland. "We feel comfortable if they put the right proposal together that they can actually take over the building and actually get something done that will be a statement for this city."
"We hope that within a month to two months we will have found somebody to take on the project. Keep your fingers crossed on that now," says Community Development Director, John McClure.
Another plan that's in the works is establishing a medical corridor in downtown. This is a task which the mayor has assigned to newly appointed Chief Administrative Officer, Mike McGrevey to spearhead.
"The city and both hospitals, and also Mississippi Power have started to put together money so that we can formulate our plan," says Mayor Bland.
City officials intend to work with the Montgomery Institute in developing the comprehensive plan for the medical corridor. At this time there's not an official target date to complete that task.


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Avalon drops heartbreaker in baseball final
Tournament favourites settle for silver after 6-3 loss to St. John's
They played just one bad inning in the entire tournament, but it couldn't have come at a worst time for the Avalon male baseball team.
Filled with confidence after posting an unblemished record in the round-robin portion of the tournament at the 2012 NL Summer Games, the Avalon team went into the final against St. John's as the odds-on favourite to claim the gold medal.
But a costly sixth inning proved to be the team's undoing as St. John's rallied late in the game to double Avalon — a team comprised mainly of players from Conception Bay North — 6-3 at Moriarity Park in Harbour Grace on the afternoon of Tuesday, Aug. 21.
Early on, Avalon looked to be in control, and jumped out to a 2-0 lead on the strength of a timely hit to centre field by Zachary Parsons of Bryant's Cove that drove in two runs.
Blake Fudge of Conception Bay South then placed a looping fly ball into centre field the next inning to single in another run and put Avalon up 3-0.
The momentum was clearly on the side of the home team for much of the game, with starting pitcher Chris Smith of Spaniard's Bay seemingly having his way with the St. John's batters, with the help of some timely defence, including two solid plays at first base by Bradley Riggs of Upper Island Cove to shut down potential rallies.
But the St. John's team did not fold, and erupted in their half of the sixth inning for six runs, beginning with a two-run blast off the bat of Andrew Paul that sailed over the centre field fence, narrowing the gap to 3-2.
That's when the wheels completely fell off for Avalon, with relief pitcher Nick Parsons of Bryant's Cove struggling to find the plate, giving up a handful of walks that allowed St. John's to bust lose with another four runs in the inning.
It was more than enough to secure the victory.
Winning pitcher David Edwards was steady throughout the game, and was just two outs away from pitching a complete game victory.
With Avalon threatening in the bottom of the seventh, reliever Redmond Hunt took to the mound and overpowered the Avalon hitters, blowing fastballs over the plate and nailing down the win.
"This is probably the best thing that's happened to me so far in baseball," Edwards said as he waited to receive his gold medal.
St. John's coach Brian Fitzpatrick praised his young charges for staying focused, despite failing to make good on some opportunities early in the game. He said his players were patient and steady, and pounced when the opportunity arose in the sixth.
"These guys are battlers all the way," said Fitzpatrick.
The mood among Avalon players was understandably downcast.
"I feel a bit mad, but it's a silver medal. It's a big accomplishment," said Chris Smith, who carried much of the load on the mound for Avalon throughout the tourney.
Avalon coach Scott Adams said losing the tournament on one bad inning is a tough pill to swallow, but he said that's the way the game goes sometimes.
"I know they're all heartbroken right now. Hopefully next week they'll look back and say 'silver wasn't too bad.'"
When asked about the sixth inning collapse, Adams steered the blame away from his pitchers and onto the umpires.
Member of the Avalon m a l e b a s e b a l l team include: Front ( l- r) — Stewart Brazil (Spaniard's Bay), Zach Clarke (CBS), Tyler Hennessey (CBS), Bradley Riggs ( Upper Island Cove), Blake Fudge (CBS), Brad Porter (CBS); back — coach Randy Hennessey ( CBS), Zachary Coombs ( Upper Island Cove), coach Dave Coates ( CBS), Steven Quinlan ( C B S ) , N i c k Pa r s o n s (Bryant's Cove), Michael King (Upper Island Cove), Ricky King (Upper Island Cove), coach Scott Adams ( Upper Island Cove), Zachary Parsons (Upper Island Cove) and Chris Smith (Spaniard's Bay).


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silver-swallow wrote:dawn wrote:I love that Liz Reaser came out to the MTV Movie Awards last night. She was never at any of the press tours for Twilight, but it looks like she might be more involved for New Moon! She's very eloquent I'd like to see more interviews with her.
agreed, i know this will sound rediculous, but doesnt she give off real esme-ish vibes, even when she talks in interviews??? like, almost as if she IS the character incarnate! she has a way of speaking thats very soft, motherly, patient, very gentle, very controlled and elegant..... its strange to see an actress thats THAT similar to her character in interviews, you would swear she was still acting.
Agreed! She's very engaging. I reeeally hope we see more from her in the future


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Penn State women clinch share of Big Ten title
Penn State women clinch share of Big Ten titlePenn State's Maggie Lucas (33) makes a 3-point shot against Michigan in an NCAA college basketball game on Saturday, March 1, 2014, in State College, Pa. (AP Photo/John Beale)
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) -- A parting gift from Penn State's four-woman senior class was a share of the school's third straight Big Ten championship.
The No. 8 Lady Lions' 77-62 victory over Michigan on Saturday enabled Penn State (22-6, 13-3) to celebrate in a post-game, on-court shower of blue-and-white confetti, and gave coach Coquese Washington a reason to smile.
''It's like Christmas morning for parents when kids open gifts and the wonderment they have and excitement they have,'' Washington said. ''It warms my heart to see the players enjoy the experience because they work hard for these championships.
''It's hard work winning championships. The moment the confetti comes down, I just like watching and enjoying that moment.''
Ariel Edwards scored 21 points and her three senior teammates - Maggie Lucas, Talia East and Dara Taylor - followed with 17, 16 and 11 points, respectively. East also had a game-high seven rebounds.
Penn State can win the title outright on Sunday only if Nebraska loses to Purdue and Michigan State falls to Indiana.
The Lady Lion seniors have won 99 games for Penn State thus far in their careers, and this marks the fourth straight season the Lady Lions have won more than 20 games.
Edwards scored 15 of her 21 points in the second half.
''I was taking what they gave me,'' Edwards said. ''My coaches always want me to be aggressive and that's what I try to do. My teammates got me the ball when I was open.''
Taylor had seven assists for Penn State and Lucas four.
Michigan (17-12, 8-8) got 21 points from Shannon Smith and 14 from Madison Ristovski. Siera Thompson added 10 points.
The Wolverines entered the game with a 9-1 record (6-1 Big Ten) in road games, but Penn State pulled away in the second half.
The Lady Lions opened the half with a 19-7 scoring advantage, holding Michigan scoreless for a four-minute span and eventually opening a 63-41 lead.
Back-to-back 3-pointers by Michigan's Ristovski and Smith and a baseline drive by Smith cut Penn State's lead to 63-49 but the Wolverines were unable to draw any closer.
Penn State shot just four times from 3-point range (3 for 4) because it was able to penetrate and attack the rim for layups and short jumpers.
''It was pretty even back and forth in the first half in the first eight or nine minutes and they went on a stretch where they were scoring and also shooting one-and-one at that point,'' Michigan coach Kim Barnes-Arico said.
''That hurt us. Talia East did a great job of scoring and getting the ball inside as well. When we were able to contain Lucas at times, they had other people step up.''
That started with Lucas, who scored 13 points in the first half but turned her left ankle at the end of the half and added just four more.
''My ankle hurt pretty bad,'' Lucas said. ''I tried to feed off the crowd. They really fire me up. I was feeling some pain, so I went to the crowd and got a little juice.''
Penn State opened a 63-41 second-half lead that Michigan closed to 16 but failed to get any closer.
''I don't think too many people believed we could do this,'' Lucas said. ''We worked so hard for this. I'm just so happy for the four of us. We have a bond over this championship and the previous ones. It's great to win another one.''
For Taylor, who transferred from Maryland after her sophomore year, this title was her second straight.
''It doesn't get old,'' Taylor said. ''You can win one, you can win 10. It feels great every time. It feels special because of how hard we worked for it.''


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Thursday, December 30, 2010
BREAKING NEWS: Tate Forcier ruled ineligible for Gator Bowl
No word at this time if coach Rich Rodriguez, AD Dave Brandon or the Gator Bowl CEO are lobbying school or NCAA officials in order to have the suspension postponed until the 2011 season.
10 comments:
- Mikoyan said...
Wow, he only had 4 touchdowns in the games he played. IT seemed like he had more than that.
- December 30, 2010 10:44 PM
- bigGexpress said...
Wow, ain't karma a bitch. Right after he was talking about how easy it was to get grades at Michigan.
- December 30, 2010 11:57 PM
- bigGexpress said...
FastForeward to Nov. 26 2001:
(Sorry, a combination of a sucker for nostalgia and KJ)
Keith Jackson: Whoa Nelly the Tat5 come to the bighouse to face the Tate1.............
- December 31, 2010 12:02 AM
- srudoff said...
no tater in the gator
- December 31, 2010 3:02 AM
- srudoff said...
if richrod is truly playing to remain the coach at michigan and denard gets hurt in the 2nd or 3rd quarter of a close game, i gotta believe he's going to throw gardner in there to try to get the win. he loses and he's done and he won't be around to get the benefit of having gardner redshirt.
- December 31, 2010 3:34 AM
- Bigasshammm said...
Tate's gone now.
- December 31, 2010 9:39 AM
- TitleIX said...
RR presser: Devin Gardner will be ready to go. There goes his redshirt.....
Fork in the eyeball now...
- December 31, 2010 11:51 AM
- Yost said...
Sru, I was thinking the same thing re: DG/RR. What does he care if he burns the kid's reshirt? In fact, by saying he'll play him, that to me would indicate RR thinks he's gone. B/c you don't play the kid in meaningless bowl game and blow entire year of future starting QB if you're gonna be around for his career.
- December 31, 2010 11:59 AM
- Steve said...
The fascinating question for me is, how bad a student would you have to be to violate OSU's academic standards?
- December 31, 2010 2:32 PM
- Jim said...
I really doubt Brandon's decision is based on a single game. I'm sure the decision's made and has been for a while. You can spin whatever just-so story you like to support what you think will/want to happen.
The kid's here to play football. If you need him, play him.
- December 31, 2010 11:07 PM


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DEPTFORD (AP) — A lawyer says a shooting involving a New Jersey police officer was a "terrible accident" that left the officer's friend in critical condition.
Lawyer John Eastlack declined to elaborate on details of the Saturday shooting when he spoke with the South Jersey Times.
Eastlack's client, Deptford Police Patrolman James Stuart, is charged with two counts of aggravated assault and accused of shooting 27-year-ol David Compton in the head.
Authorities have not said whether the gun involved was Stuart's service weapon.
Eastlack says Stuart is praying for his friend's recovery.
Stuart is free on $10,000 bail and has been suspended from the police force.


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Teamlist Tuesday is here with #NRL Teamlists and officials for Round 12 confirmed.
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It was sloppy but they won, Brisbane will now play finals football. Peter Wallace inspired his side to a 19 points to 12 win over Penrith in front of 35,187 fans at Suncorp Stadium.
Brisbane knew the equation that stood before them going into tonight, win and they will play finals football, lose and they were relying on results. It was a cautious start from both sides, looking to work into the groove of the match.
All the attack went to the Broncos early with several raids on the Panthers line but none producing results due to poor options on last tackle. Brisbane looking a tad nervous in attack.
Those nerves wouldn't have been helped when Brad Tighe split them open and fund strike centre Michael Jennings. He took it to the line, dribbling one out the back for Josh Mansour to cross. Luke Walsh converted from the sideline and Penrith took a shock 6-0 lead into halftime.
Both teams needed to come out, much more disciplined but Griffen would of been slamming the desk after Josh McGuire knocked on from the restart. Penrith weren't able to capitalise with Brisbane defending well.
They finally got on the board though when Justin Hodges who was a handful for defenders all night, burst onto a pass slicing the Panthers defense open and sending halfback Peter Wallace stumbling over. Corey Norman stepped up for the conversion and it was 6 all.
Looking much brighter, Brisbane settled into their structures and started getting on top on field but needed to convert that to the scoreboard. Ben Te'o exploded onto a pass, showing a nice step back inside to give Brisbane the lead after 53 minutes.
Penrith weren't going to go quietly into the night despite having nothing to play for. Luke Walsh hooked a kick across the face of the goalmouth for Lachlan Coote to leap above the pack and slam it down, leveling the score once again.
Brisbane though, weren't going to be denied. They came back at the Panthers with Corey Norman who had an unhappy night throwing a nice flat pass onto a rampaging Alex Glenn to put the Broncos into the lead and possibly the finals.
Peter Wallace would confirm the Broncos place after a knock on from Penrith in retrieving the short restart. He coolly slotted it from 30 metres out and gave Brisbane the win and a spot in the finals.
Match Details
Brisbane Broncos 19 defeated Penrith Panthers 12
National Rugby League - Round 26 - Friday August 31, 2012 7:45pm
Venue: Suncorp Stadium
Referee: Shayne Hayne and Alan Shortall
Video Referee: Phil Cooley
Touch Judges: Russell Turner and Adam Gee
Crowd: 35,187
Halftime: Brisbane Broncos 0 Penrith Panthers 6
Leagueunlimited.com players of the match:
3 Points - Peter Wallace (1 Try, 2 Conversions, 1 Field Goal)
2 Points - Justin Hodges
1 Point - Lachlan Coote (1 Try)
Tries: Peter Wallace, Alex Glenn, Ben Te'o
Field Goals: Peter Wallace (1/1)
Conversions: Peter Wallace (2/2), Corey Norman (1/1)
Tries: Lachlan Coote, Josh Mansour
Conversions: Luke Walsh (2/2)
LeagueUnlimited.com Live Commentary Welcome to Suncorp Stadium for the final team in 2012. Brisbane will be farewelling Petero Civoniceva while Penrith will be looking to play spoiler.
If Brisbane can win tonight, they will confirm their place in the top eight but a loss will put them on the precipice of missing the top eight. Penrith have successfully navigated themselves away from the spoon but look for a positive end to an indifferent 2012 season.
BRI - No change. They will be 1-17.
PEN - No change. They will be 1-17.
Brisbane have held on in an entertaining Toyota Cup contest withstanding a late surge from the Panthers to win 36 points to 34.
Both sides have hit the field here.. Penrith head to the Southern end, ready to receive the kick-off. Wallace kick-offs and here we go!
3 min: Solid opening from both sides.. with Petero getting a big cheer on each carry.
4 min: Brad Tighe defuses a bomb and goes on a run, Jack Reed shows him the sideline and tosses him over.
7 min: First error from the Panthers, Mansour getting in the way of a Thaiday offload, knocking it down.
12 min: Quick hands found an opening for the Panthers but Michael Jennings throws it to the touch judge.. Broncos scrum.
13 min: Corey Norman tries to chime in, for a backline movement but he spills it.
17 min: Knock on by Penrith.. Game is going through the motions currently.
18 min: Wallace puts it high on last.. Reed outjumps Gordon and tries to offload but he's lost it. Penrith pounce and work it out.
19 min: He was looking for distance but kicked out on the full by Lachlan Coote. Full set coming for Brisbane.
20 min: Nicely weighted kick from Wallace forced Simmons to attack it but he knocks it on. Another set coming for the Broncos to try and break the deadlock.
22 min: Good defense from the Panthers. They have repelled the Broncos.
22 min: Michael Gordon is through but it's knocked down by Hodges.. SIX MORE!
23 min: Panthers try to force one pass too many, knocked on.
32 min: TRY
A long range effort from Penrith. A nice interchange of passes opened up the Broncos and Jennings almost finished it himself but offloaded to Mansour to score! Walsh converts.
Penrith Panthers 6-0
34 min: Penalty to Brisbane.. offside.
35 min: Broncos seem to have lost their way.. Hodges swatting players off like flies. He got lucky with Michael Gordon touching his errant offload, so six more for the home side.
39 min: Another set here for Penrith. Can they extend the lead?
VIDEO REFEREE: Possible try to Penrith.
40 min: NO TRY! Held up.
40 min: Wallace defuses a bomb and it's HALFTIME.
Back for the second half and Josh Mansour, due to a head clash will be in jersey #22.
Luke Walsh kick-offs and we're back underway!
41 min: OH NO! Josh McGuire knocked it on from the kick-off!
47 min: TRY
Flat pass to Hodges and he slices through.. gets to Gordon and sends Wallace in for the TRY! Wallace took a knock as he scored, so Corey Norman will be taking the conversion.. splits the uprights.
6 all
51 min: Penalty to the Broncos.. offside. Brisbane with all the running currently.
53 min: TRY
Wow.. some hot stepping there from Ben Te'o. He took it at pace, saw that there was a gap inside, stepped and soon was at the tryline. Wallace from besides the posts, slots it.
Brisbane Broncos 12-6
54 min: Oh dear, it's unraveling for the Panthers.. knocked on trying to take the ball.
56 min: Penrith get a fortunate penalty, strip.
62 min: Brisbane's defense has been good tonight but Coote nails a 40/20 and Penrith come on the attack again.
63 min: Penalty to Penrith, Wallace offside.
64 min: Brisbane defuse the attacking opportunity and turn it into attack.. getting a PENALTY!
66 min: Civoniceva and Thaiday go close on charges but last, Norman goes himself and taken easily. Changeover.
67 min: Late tackle penalty to Penrith.. Corey Norman the culprit.
67 min: Strong run by Tim Grant but he tries to throw an offload, gathered up by Wallace.
68 min: Oh dear.. Broncos knock it, guess who Corey Norman.
68 min: Followed by a penalty, here comes the Panthers.
VIDEO REFEREE: Penrith might have locked things up.. checking the onside.
70 min: TRY
GREEN LIGHTS.. TRY! Lachlan Coote leaps high from a Walsh bended kick to touch down.. no chasers were offside. Walsh converts from in front.
12 all
73 min: Ben Te'o causing problems here, he was through and offloads to Beale who throws it forward. Let off for Penrith.
75 min: Good kick from Norman, forcing Gordon to take in the field of play and driven back. Dropout.
77 min: TRY
Brisbane setting up for the field goal? No they attack, short ball to Glenn and here he goes, explodes into the hole and scores. Wallace converts.
Brisbane Broncos 18-12
78 min: Short kick-off from Penrith. it cames off and it's knocked on from Achurch.
79 min: FIELD GOAL
Broncos march downfield and Wallace coolly slots the field goal, to send Brisbane into finals football.
Brisbane Broncos 19-12
80 min: FULLTIME! Brisbane win to send Petero Civoniceva out a winner.


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Redstone Golf Club - Tournament Course
Humble, Texas • June 4 - 7
HUMBLE, Texas — After the second round of the Fidelity Investments Junior Championship, Adam Wennerstrom of Austin, Texas, and John Peterson of Fort Worth, Texas, are leading the Boys Division after each recording a 10-under-par 134 tournament total. Lee Lopez of Whittier, Calif., is leading the Girls Division after carding a 4-under-par 140 tournament total.
Conducted by the American Junior Golf Association, the Fidelity Investments Junior Championship is a 54-hole stroke play event held at Redstone Golf Club — The Jacobsen Hardy Course. The 84-player field features players from 10 states and Uruguay. The course is playing at 7,132 yards for the Boys Division and 6,190 yards for the Girls Division.
Peterson, who placed third in this tournament last year, hopes to use his experience to his advantage and take the win.
"I hit my irons and 3-wood well and was 3-under-par on the front," Peterson said. "Golf's easier when you can two-putt or birdie."
Besides being happy about being in contention for a win, Wennerstrom is also excited about a good start to the summer recruiting season.
"I kept things under control and kept it going," Wennerstrom said. "Tomorrow I'll take it one shot at a time, one putt at a time, and see where it puts me."
Tied for third in the Boys Division are Benjamin Thorseth of Richmond, Texas, and Blake Redmond of Sugar Land, Texas, both posting 6-under-par 138 tournament totals. In fifth place is Beau Schoolcraft of Englewood, Colo., shooting a 5-under-par 139 tournament total.
In the Girls Division, Lopez said the key to gaining the lead today was her putting. She said her consistency throughout the round helped keep her score low.
"I got up and down when I needed to," Lopez said. "Tomorrow I'll play another round of golf - hit the fairways and greens and hopefully the putter will get hot."
Tied for second in the Girls Division are Tessa Teachman of Baton Rouge, La., and Allyson Ferguson of Houston, each carding 3-under-par 141 tournament totals.
The American Junior Golf Association is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to the overall growth and development of young men and women who aspire to earn college golf scholarships through competitive junior golf. The largest Association of its kind, the AJGA has a junior membership (boys and girls ages 12-18) of more than 5,000 junior golfers from 49 states and more than 25 countries.
Titleist, the AJGA's National Sponsor, has been the catalyst and driving force behind the Association's success since 1989. Rolex Watch USA, which is in its third decade of AJGA support, became the inaugural AJGA Premier Partner in 2004. In 2007, after 12 years of support, Polo Ralph Lauren became the AJGA's second Premier Partner.
AJGA alumni have risen to the top of amateur, collegiate and professional golf. More than 160 former AJGA juniors currently play on the PGA and LPGA Tours and have compiled more than 300 wins. AJGA alumni include Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Jim Furyk, Stewart Cink, Davis Love III, Cristie Kerr, Pat Hurst, Paula Creamer, Brittany Lincicome, Morgan Pressel and Julieta Granada.
For more information about the Fidelity Investments Junior Championship, please contact tournament headquarters at (281) 459-8722.


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6 keys to managing a sales team (Video)
There are so many books on effective management techniques that at times it can be a little daunting or confusing.
The problem with most "middle managers" is that they do not read, get very little training and then do what they feel is best.
That is a great idea if what you do best is actually correct. Most managers do it poorly, make plenty of mistakes, and as they get older, wiser and more experienced, they change what they originally did, which probably did not work that well anyway.
I remember a number of years ago running into one of the first people I ever hired as a sales manger and going up to him and apologizing. He thought I was nuts. What I thought was proper "self-taught" sales management when I was in my late 20s is nothing close to what I have learned as I matured and became a student of the subject.
Regardless of the books, seminars or videos you might watch on the subject matter of sales management, the basic philosophies have pretty much remained the same.
Here are some of the key points to remember while managing an effective sales team:
1. Avoid creating superstars.
This might be great in the short term but will kill you as you get further down the line. People do not stay forever, especially the superstars. What usually makes them incredible salespeople is their desire and drive. That is not something you can teach.
Prepare for them to leave and continue on their path of success either at your company in another position or somewhere else. In Cleveland, very few people are thrilled with the way basketball superstar LeBron James left the Cleveland Cavaliers. After his departure, the team did not win nearly as many games.
2. Remove non-performers.
Why do companies (or managers) hold on to people who are not performing?
Giving someone a pass if they had a bad month or have a personal situation in their family is one thing. Holding on to someone if his or her consistent overall performance is not desirable or way under quota is not a smart move.
You are telling the rest of the team that such behavior is acceptable, or maybe you just do not have anyone lined up to replace them. That means you are not out there looking for new hires, which is unacceptable for a number of obvious reasons.
3. Coach but don't intervene.
Coaches don't make plays. They now are supposed to observe their salesperson's talent.
They have one singular task, and that is to take their players to a higher level of performance. This is done by being out on sales calls with the salespeople and guiding them through their talents as a "former player" and providing feedback after the sales call by listening, taking notes and watching their presentation.
4. Put employees first.
Let's get a little sappy here. Think of coaching or managing this way: If you are a parent, you (hopefully) put your kids first. Your role as a parent is to teach, guide, inspire and show them how to do things correctly.
Now you go to work, and you have "daytime kids." Believe it or not, you spend more time with your daytime kids than your nighttime kids. Therefore, as you do with your children, put your employees first as well. You will find it will establish loyalty, trust and respect.
5. Manage people, not numbers.
This one can be understood in one sentence —period. If you manage the salespeople properly, the numbers will follow.
6. Ask questions rather than give answers.
If you want your salespeople to be self-sufficient, quit doing everything for them.
Look at it this way. Your top performers — the ones who are over quota — you work for them. The ones at quota or below, they work for you.
Don't enable. Let them learn through their mistakes (again, like your kids), and by asking questions they can figure things out for themselves. If you always do the quotes or proposals for them, how will they ever learn to do it by themselves?
Why are you still reading? Get out on a sales call!
Hal Becker (halbecker.com) is an author and trainer in sales and customer service.


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IUCN has a long history of engagement in water and wetlands conservation in the east and southern African region. It was one of the earliest organizations to draw attention to the significance of wetland resources and has achieved some notable successes.
With that in mind Katharine Cross, IUCN's Water and Wetlands Coordinator in the region is in the perfect position to explain to delegates at the World Water Forum in Marseille just how IUCN's natural solution approach to water works on the ground.
Katharine explains where IUCN is putting its theories in to practice.
Availability and access to water resources have a strong bearing on patterns of economic growth and social development in the eastern and southern Africa region. It has become increasingly important that water resource development takes place in the context of integrated water resource management (IWRM) with its main principles of equity (regarding access), efficiency (economic) and sustainability (environment).
Poor management of water and wetlands resources not only destroys the environment we depend on but also hinders economic development, leading to a loss of livelihoods. Investments in natural infrastructure such as river basins and wetlands, water institutions and good water resource management are the vital foundations of sustainable economic development and social wellbeing for the eastern and southern Africa region.
But how in practice do the projects IUCN are involved in actually make peoples' lives better. Katharine Cross explains more.
Bringing those stories to the World Water Forum, Katharine tells us how they have been received.


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Judge Rules Oracle Must Continue Porting Software To Itanium 109
angry tapir writes "A California court has ordered Oracle to continue porting its software to the Intel Itanium chips used by Hewlett-Packard in a number of its servers. Last year, Oracle, which competes with HP in the hardware market but shares many customers with the vendor, announced it would cease supporting Itanium. HP filed suit in June 2011, maintaining that Oracle was contractually bound to continue supporting Itanium."


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Newtown Anner Stud's Purple Cat set a pressured pace and held off the late charge of Falbala to capture the $45,000 allowance feature at Monmouth Park on Friday.
Trained by John P. Terranova, II and ridden by Chris DeCarlo, Purple Cat stepped the mile over a fast main track in 1:39 3/5 and returned $6, $4.40 and $3.20 as the favorite in the field of eight fillies and mares. Falbala, who finished nearly a length behind the winner, completed the $94.20 exacta and paid $11.20 and $5.40. It was another 2 ½ lengths back to Be My Candy who paid $2.80 to show.
Friday's win was the second in three starts for Purple Cat, a 3-year-old daughter of Bluegrass Cat from the Unbridled mare Swift Girl.


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Nearly every gearhead (petrolhead for you in the UK) has some familiarity with the long-running BBC program Top Gear. Based around the on-air chemistry of automotive journalists Jeremy Clarkson, Richard
Some nights, you know that you are just not going to be a productive member of society. The easiest way known to man to affirm this decision is to start watching YouTube videos and simply let your appetite
You should watch this video so you can understand the rest of the article:
As a guy who writes about whatever I think are interesting
In political science, states are sometimes described as the laboratoires of democracy. The 50 individual states can try out experimental public policies that will then diffuse to other states or,
Baylor football should get the death penalty. There, I said it. We all know, however, its never going to happen.
For those unaware of the term death penalty and its meaning in NCAA


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WinTariff is a program that collects and processes information about telephone calls. It receives data from an office PBX about the date/time, duration, and dialled number of phone calls, then calculates the cost of the call and determines the direction. Various reports about all calls during the month, calls to a certain internal subscriber, etc. can be generated. A data collection module is available for Linux/FreeBSD.
PhoNetInfo for WP8 / WP8.1 retrieves detailed technical phone and network information such as firmware version, device name, battery status, power saving status, network operator, roaming status, WiFi/WAP interface names, camera details (e.g. ISO, white balance), number of CPUs, CPU architecture, CPU features, CPU page size, CPU frequency, high performance timer frequency, time since last device reboot, RAM, etc. All information can be exported by email and the application's language can be changed at any time.
HOMER is a robust, carrier-grade, scalable SIP capturing system and monitoring application with hEP, IP Proto4 (IPIP) encapsulation, and port mirroring/monitoring support right out of the box, ready to process and store large amounts of signaling with instant searches, end-to-end analysis, and drill-down capabilities for ITSPs, VoIP providers, and trunk suppliers using SIP signaling.
WombatDialer is a platform to provide mass outbound calling. This can be used to implement many different services. By offering a set of ready-to-use components and a monitoring GUI, it lets you create complex solution in minutes. It can work on predefined call lists or can dynamically create them over an API (e.g., dial number X after 10:30AM). It shares the load on one or more PBX servers and has flexible rescheduling logic to handle missed calls. It is built to be used with your existing Asterisk PBX, and does not require separate servers or a separate set of lines. It can call over VoIP or through the public telephone network. It is built to integrate with your business processes, and can receive calls to be made over HTTP and/or notify an external system in realtime of calls made and results gathered. It works natively with the QueueMetrics Call-Center Monitoring Suite to produce state-of-the-art campaign analyses and insight.
Ip phone Scanning Made Easy (ISME) scans a VOIP environment, adapts to enterprise VOIP, and exploits the possibilities of being connected directly to an IP Phone VLAN. It seeks to get the phone's configuration file directly from a TFTP server, enable SIP/SIPS (TCP/UDP), communicate with an embedded Web server and Web server banner, identify the editor by MAC address, and identify potential default login/password combinations which should be changed.
A Java-based build tool.
A Web-based change management, issue tracking, and help desk customer support system.


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For those of you coming her thinking you were about to discover some secret Game of Thrones spinoff you never knew existed...sorry--Wildling is not the continuation nor prequel of the shenanigans of the free folk North of the wall. It is however a not-your-typical werewolf fairytale that's probably not going to help the little ones get to sleep at night, but will satisfy the genre fan that enjoys a taste of coming-of-age drama with their indie horror.
When Spontaneous Combustion came out in 1990 it was the capper on Tobe Hooper's remarkable two decade run of good to outright classic horror and sci-fi movies.
Director: Don ManciniWriters: Don ManciniStarring: Fiona Dourif, Danielle Bisutti, Brennan Elliott, Maitland McConnell, Chantal QuesnelleCompany: Universal
We're back, and so is Chucky!
What a Happy Friday! The sun is shining, the birds are singing (and probably crapping on my car), the work week is almost over, and we get brand new images from the upcoming 'Curse of Chucky', which will debut on DVD & Blu-Ray later this fall.
I guess I need to learn to pay better attention to what I'm renting because I grabbed "Last Kind Words" while I was in a hurry, and from glancing at the box, it wasn't quite what I expected. I was pretty interested when I saw Brad Dourif (Rob Zombie's "Halloween," and "Halloween 2," etc) was in a movie about someone who finds corpses hanging in their woods at night. Unfortunately, what I didn't realize that this wasn't really as much of a "horror" movie, as much as it is another "Twilight"-esque teenage romance set within a horror movie framework.
Nevermind the fact that the title makes no sense, it has Brad Dourif!
I'm supposed to watch something else to review for the site today but I can't stop staring at this title in my Netflix Instant queue. Tiffany Shepis is an evil siren... (slight NSFW trailer after the jump)
What can I say about David Lynch's "Blue Velvet" that hasn't already been said by hundreds if not thousands of film scholars, critics, biographers, and journalists? The film has been discussed in a diverse number of concentrations including auteur studies, queer theory, genre studies, and psychoanalytic film theory. It has been viewed as both an intrepid piece of personal vision and an exploitative aggrandizement of cinematic masturbation.
The Syfy Channel has ordered up 13 episodes of the BBC hit series "Being Human". The show revolves around a ghost, a vampire and a werewolf living together as roomates.
Brad Dourif joins Vivica Fox in a new cannibalistic serial rapist thriller called "Junk Yard Dog".
"Evil Dead" is coming to theaters. Read that again. "Evil Dead" is coming back to theaters! That's right, the original movie, not a remake, is being brought back for a midnight run at select theaters across the country.
Joe Dante and Roger Corman team up for a new series available only on Netflix streaming called "Splatter". The included clip at the link looks cheese-tastic, so check it out. And uh... you know, I heard about this cool place to get Netflix if you wanted to give it a watch...


text: Friends, I don't think you need me to tell you this is a crazy world. You've got Ron Artest of the Lakers admitting he drank French cognac at halftime of NBA games when he played in Chicago (MMMMM refreshing!!). There's the situation in Florida where the former Swedish nanny whacked around the worlds' most famous athlete with a golf club because he had several "transgressions". Bobby Bowden pushed out at Florida State. The Patriots not showing up for their Monday Night meeting in New Orleans. One Florida Panther accidentally nearly decapitating another with his stick. The list goes on and on. And all this happened within the last week! You can't make this stuff up. You don't need to because it happens all the time. So forgive me if I yawn when Terry Francona talks about moving Dustin Pedroia from second base to shortstop. It's not like we're asking him to split the atom or cure cancer. Pedey was a standout shortstop at Arizona State University. The National Defensive Player of the Year while he was in Tempe, Pedroia succeeds because of the tremendous belief he has in himself. When the media approached Dustin about this possibility, he embraced it as if it was his newborn son, Dylan. "They've asked me if I think I can play shortstop." Pedoria said in a recent interview. The Golden Glove second baseman continued- "They've put it out there and I've told them I'm all for it. I can do it. I can't wait for Tito to call and ask 'Can you do it?' I can do it. In fact, I really want to do it." While there are still other options, it would add another chapter to the improbable story of the kid from Woodland California, who has already been named the Rookie of the Year and the American League MVP. Listed at 5'9 and 180 pounds (probably both exaggerations) Pedroia has made a career out of proving the naysayers wrong. He is one of the most fascinating people I have ever met. I encourage you to read his biography "Born to Play". Written by Ted Delaney, it offers insight to the man and why he has become so successful. It is in all bookstores and would make a great Christmas gift. My favorite part is on page 126. You'll have to pick it up and read it to see why. Will the Sox move Pedey? It isn't the ideal situation. He is one of the best second basemen in the game. But given what I have seen from the young man, he'd be a success no matter where he played.


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My wedding is coming up in three months, I already have my two gowns **I know I am greedy**, and generally most details are sorted but that doesn't mean I don't swoon over dramatic princess couture bridal gowns like this one designed by Ralph & Russo.
I think all girls dream of a fairy tale princess dress like this, why wouldn't you it is simply beautiful, it's the dress you wish for a lottery win, a sugar daddy or a fairy godmother. I don't know how much a gown like this would cost, a lot for sure, especially as it took 3,900 hours to do all the hand embroidery – details like that not only make this one special gown but one with a hefty price tag.
But it's the details of this dress that I truly adore, the 40 different types of beads, the 25 different Swarovski crystal designs, the 6 metre train, and the fact that it needed the help of 5 male models to help the beautiful Hanna Ben Abdesslem turn on the runway.
I just can't express how exquisite I think this couture bridal gown is, I love everything from the luxurious embroidery to the volume in the skirt and the hand-printed Chantilly-lace effect, I think it is because it marries the modern and traditional bride so well. Now where is my fairy godmother when I need her!!!
To really see the beauty of this gown watch the short film below, the couture bridal gown really shimmers and those details really shine through. Love, love, love it – now this is a wow bridal dress. I am already jealous of the bride who gets to get married in this beauty.


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blogging is a great release for me
it frees up so much of what is trapped in my head
it keeps me from having to tell people so much they did not really need to hear
I am still very much a chatty cathy
with the passing of my dog rosoce I thought that the rational outlet of my emotions may be a journal
this being the electronic age I went the directions where I am already familiar
I have started to get some ideas out about my dogs, Roscoe and Brutus
here it is
playing through the good memories feels better than trying to figure out what went wrong in the final moments
this weekend is going to be a painful one
one week ago today Roscoe started his rapid decline
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- Eitan Freedenberg said...
Hey Joel --
I'm the intern at WABA and found your blog through Eric Gilliland. It's an absolutely wonderful blog, and a heartfelt tribute to bikers and biking in DC. We're trying to build a large database of DC biking photos and were wondering if you could help us out by giving us permission to use your photos and by perhaps doing a few assignments for us. Email me at email@example.com whenever you can, and maybe I can get you on the phone and we can talk about this.
Thanks so much, and I'm very sorry for the loss of Roscoe. Take care.
--Eitan Freedenberg
- 7/18/2006
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Catherine Norris, 89
Catherine Marie "Katie" Norris, 89, of South Whitley, died at 8:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 7, 2010 at the Peabody Home, North Manchester where she had been a resident since July.She was born Dec. 14, 1920 in Collamer, a daughter of John and Maude (Poland) Tschantz. Her formative years were spent in the Collamer area where she attended Collamer grade school until 6th grade, then South Whitley schools. She graduated from South Whitley High School in 1940. She was the president of the student council.On June 26, 1943 she married Merritt Leroy Norris. They made their lifelong home in South Whitley. Mr. Norris died Jan. 9, 2000.In addition to being a homemaker, she assisted her husband with his insurance agency that the couple began in 1945.Her memberships included United Methodist Church of South Whitley where she served for many years on the funeral dinner committee and enjoyed making decorative pillows for Riley Hospital for Children.Surviving relatives include three sons, Richard (Elise) Norris of Indianapolis, twins, Dennis (Deb) Norris of South Whitley and Darrell Norris of Carmel; grandchildren, Stephen (Shelly) Norris of Huntsville, Ala., Mark (Elizabeth) Norris of Cincinnati, Ohio, Travis (Jennifer) Norris of Terre Haute; step-grandchildren, Kevin (Stephanie) Ogan of Wabash and Amy Ogan of Lafayette; 10 great-grandchildren; and two sisters, Betty (Lawrence) Roberts of South Whitley and Jeannie (Ralph) Dailey of Huntington.In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by three sisters, Dorothy Watson, Peggy Schaffer and Ruth Walter; and two brothers, Dale Tschantz and Don Tschantz.The funeral service will be held at 10 a.m. Monday at the United Methodist Church of South Whitley. The burial will be in the South Whitley Cemetery. Visitation will be 2 to 6 p.m. Sunday at Smith & Sons Miller Chapel, South Whitley and one hour prior to the funeral at the church.Memorials are to United Methodist Church of South Whitley. Condolences may be sent to www.smithandsonsfuneralhome.com.


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for casual kicking around (jeans t-shirt) -not for winter
i would probably swap out the red laces
one potential problem, I'm the laziest person in history and boots seem time consuming
Too pointy looking.
get these......perfect for lazy people....velcro
I don't care for the color. I'd go with this one.... sans the red laces of course.
Sharp brogues, Timmy. I actually own a pair of similar boots:
They were pricey but worth it. I wear them on the weekends from Fall to early Spring, and they are dressy enough to wear to work on really cold days.
I miss wearing my loafers to work.
Stupid new real job.
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The summer travel season is here, and with it, hotel deals in Florida.
Some offers we've received:
Key West: Casa Marina, a Waldorf Astoria Resort, offers its "Best of Waldorf Astoria" promotion. Rates start at $179 a night and include free breakfast for children, plus a $25 resort credit for each night's stay. The 1920s resort, built by Henry Flagler, was recently remodeled at a cost of $43 million. For more information, visit www.casamarinaresort.com.
Hutchinson Island: The Hutchinson Island Marriott Resort & Marina off the coast of Stuart offers a promotion on bookings made by July 4 for stays through Sept. 30. It includes 20 percent off the room rate, a $25 resort credit, two welcome drinks, and free parking. Discounted rates start at $120 a night. The package requires a two-night minimum stay. Blackout dates and restrictions may apply. For information, visit www.marriotthutchinsonisland.com or call 1-800-775-5936. Use the rate code SPU.
South Beach: The Palms Hotel & Spa is offering a Florida resident deal for June. It features 10 percent off rooms, spa and dinng, with discounted rates from $135 a night. A minimum two-night stay is required for Friday and Saturday arrivals. Blackout dates may apply. A hotel fee of $12.43 a day is added for wireless Internet, gym access, beach chairs, a newspaper and other amenities. For more information, call 305-534-0505 or visit www.thepalmshotel.com.
High-end resort The Setai South Beach on Miami Beach is offering a fourth night free for guests who stay three consecutive nights through Oct. 31, with rates starting at $595 a night. It also offers rates in June and in September starting at $440 a night, with no advance booking required. For more information, call 305-520-6110 or visit www.setai.com.
Sunny Isles Beach: Acqualina Resort & Spa on the Beach in northern Miami-Dade County offers a June staycation package. Guests get half off one night of their stay when staying three or more nights, Sunday through Thursday. Rates start at $350 a night. The deal also includes a $40 spa treatment credit for up to two adults daily and free valet parking. For more information, visit www.acqualina.com or call 305-918-6777.


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I'm so happy I stumbled upon this website and found I'm not the only one who is nuts about my sweet little dog! Cupcake, our almost one year old blenheim Cavalier, came into our lives last December. I've wanted a cavalier sine I was a child and when my husband surprised me with her last winter I was beside myself with happiness.
I cannot even describe how much joy she has brought to our lives. She is the sweetest little thing who is always ready for a snuggle. Though our two cats may disagree, she has been a wonderful addition to our family.
My parents also have a male blenheim, who will be one in January, named Nacho. Nacho and Cupcake are the best of friends and love chasing each other and "sharing" their toys (this is funny because when Cupcake is at Nacho's house he always tries to steal his toys away from her and then when Nacho comes to our house Cupcake does the same thing to him - so naughty!!).
I fear I may have rambled a bit in my introduction, but I look forward to getting to know everyone on the board and having an outlet for my puppy obsession!
(My co-workers threw me a "puppy shower" and here are some of the goodies we/Cupcake received!)


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Aaahhh ... I opened the sliding glass door that leads to my backyard deck, and the smell of spring hit me. A gentle breeze brought the fragrant smell of lilacs into my home — the old lilac bush just a few feet away from the deck was in full bloom, sending me back quite a few years to life on my grandparents' farm, where the sweet scent of lilacs permeated our world in the spring.
Not to be outdone, the bluebells waved gently in that soft spring breeze, causing the tulips, daffodils and bleeding hearts to silently nod their pastel heads. The birds were busy — the squirrels and rabbits too. The hum of somebody's mower a few blocks away shouted spring's message. And for a few minutes, I couldn't think of a better time to be alive.
I hope you embrace this season. I know we've had some crazy weather, but it's absolutely beautiful out right now. Breathe. Exhale. Enjoy.
I hope your Mother's Day was perfect — everything it was supposed to be. Personally, I think we need to celebrate moms every day — dads too ... grandpas, grandmas, aunts, uncles, cousins. We should cherish our families.
Congratulations are in order for Terry Himes, who retired (again) from the BCR last week. Terry began his career many years ago as a reporter at the Bureau County Republican. He later opted out of the newspaper business and developed an outstanding career with the Princeton Fire Department. After he retired as chief from the department about seven years ago, he became a returning letterman at the BCR and has worked as a copy editor and editorial assistant for the past six and one-half years. While we hate to see him go, Terry's retirement is well deserved. We wish him the best, and if you see him out and about, give him a congratulatory pat on the back.
With that being said, I'd like you to help me welcome the BCR's new copy editor/editorial assistant, Sarah Maxwell of Princeton. Sarah has experience in the newspaper business, and she's doing a great job copy editing, laying out pages and more. Please help the BCR welcome Sarah to our family and community.
Can you believe it's graduation time already? It seems like the school year just got underway, doesn't it? High school graduations begin this week: DePue High School, 7 p.m. Friday; Hall High School, 7 p.m. Saturday; and St. Bede Academy, 2 p.m. Sunday. On behalf of the Bureau County Republican, we congratulate these graduates, and we wish them the best of luck and success in the future.
When you're thinking about just the right gift for your favorite high school graduate, don't forget to shop at home when you can. Every dollar you spend in your hometown or the county comes back to help us all.
Thought for this year's graduates: "A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success." Robert Orben.
Another graduation thought: "You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world." Tom Brokaw.
Spring storms are, no doubt, on their way. Sign up for the BCR's instant messaging system — bcralerts, which will deliver a text message or an email to you about severe weather. It's free. Sign up at our website at www.bcrnews.com.
The BCR welcomes your Letters to the Editor of 500 words or less. Send them to firstname.lastname@example.com. Questions? Give me a call at 815-875-4461, ext. 229.
Enjoy your spring. There will never be another Spring 2013. Have a great week, and remember ... you are important to me and the BCR.
BCR Editor Terri Simon can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Recent Rain Helps Soybean Crop But Not Corn [AUDIO]
The Wyoming Highway Patrol says a tractor trailer that was pulled over during a traffic stop over the weekend was carrying 231 pounds of marijuana worth almost $1.4 million dollars. Doug Randall reports. The recent rain is too little too late to help the deteriorating corn crop, but has helped the soybean crop somewhat, that's according to u.s.d.a meteorologist Brad Rippey. Click past the jump to listen to Wyoming Radio News.