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Holy water is an effective method of removing The Corruption/Crimson , arguably more so than Purification Powder because the latter reverts corruption to neutral stone/grass/sand, which will shortly become corrupt again, especially when playing in Hard Mode. Holy water on the other hand Hallows whatever it touches, meaning these areas will stay cleansed for a much longer period of time. However, if the aim of cleansing the Corruption was to make it more liveable, remember that the Monsters found in the Hallow are equally as deadly as those of the Corruption.
Holy water can be taken to worlds in which the Wall of Flesh has not yet been killed; they can be a very effective way of removing Corruption on such worlds. However, on these worlds, given the slow nature and limitations of the Corruption's spread (it being stopped by Sunflowers or small amounts of artificial blocks) it may be easier to use Purification Powder instead.
Another possible limitation of Holy Water is the materials required: gathering Pixie Dust takes time, and Hallowed Seeds can be expensive when bought in bulk.
As mentioned at the top of the article, Holy Water can be used as a weapon, although it deals little damage. The only time this could be useful is when battling enemies in the area you're trying to Hallow.
Unholy Water has an equal and opposite effect to Holy Water, spreading Corruption instead of Hallow.
- When thrown from high heights (around 500 ft above ground) the bottle reaches its maximum travel capacity and suddenly explodes, doing no purifying.
- Prior from 1.2, Holy Water was the best way to remove the corruption, but after the 1.2 update, the Clentaminator removes any biome a lot quicker (The whole screen in only 2-3 seconds.) than the Holy Water.
- The damage caused by Holy Water is not affected by any damage increasing-factors, including all-encompassing ones such as the Wrath Potion or Destroyer Emblem.
- Holy Water may be a reference to Castlevania's Holy Water weapon. Early American versions of Castlevania were often censored to remove references to religious materials and the holy water weapon was referred to as a Fire Bomb.
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- Tooltip now correctly shows "20 Damage"
- Max stack increased from 250 to 999
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Magnet Races
On a rainy Saturday afternoon, my friend Jesse and I had nothing to do. The Race Day at the park was canceled because of the rain. Jesse and I had signed up to run in the relay race together. My mom told us that the park would reschedule Race Day. Then we could run the relay race. But we still had nothing to do that afternoon.
"Have a race here," Mom said.
"We can run through the house?" I asked. I could not believe it. We never got to run through the house.
"No. No running. Have another kind of race." She walked over to the refrigerator. She pointed at the magnets that were stuck to the front of the refrigerator.
"Have a magnet race," she said.
"How do we do that?" Jesse asked.
Mom told us to take some of the magnets from the refrigerator. Then she cut a piece of white paper from a big paper roll. She set the piece of paper down on the kitchen floor. I brought my markers from my room.
"Before you can have a race, you need a race course," she said. Jesse and I carefully drew a race course on the big piece of white paper. We drew twists and turns. We kept the path wide enough for us to move the magnets across the paper.
When we were done, we knelt down in front of the paper. Jesse put a red magnet at the start of his lane. I put a blue magnet at the start of my lane. We each held a yellow magnet in our hands.
Mom stood by and said, "Remember not to touch your yellow magnets to your other magnets. Go!"
I put my yellow magnet on the paper, right behind the blue magnet. The blue magnet shot backwards and stuck to the yellow magnet.
"Better turn your magnet around," Mom said.
I looked over and saw that Jesse's yellow magnet was slowly pushing his red magnet forward along his lane. I turned my yellow magnet around and put it behind the blue magnet again. This time the blue magnet wiggled a little bit. Then it moved forward and stopped. I moved the yellow magnet forward, and the blue magnet pushed forward again.
It took a while for Jesse and me to get our magnets around the course. We did draw a lot of twists and turns. Then our magnets were in the last inches of our lanes. Jesse's red magnet was a little bit ahead of my blue magnet. With a final push from his yellow magnet, Jesse's red magnet crossed the finish line first.
"I think I'm getting the hang of this," Jesse said. We laughed. Then we put our magnets back at the beginning of the race course. We raced again and again until it was time for dinner.
- The characters in this story raced red and blue magnets. How did they move their magnets through the race course? What made the magnets move?
[anno: They moved their red and blue magnets with the yellow magnets. The yellow magnets repelled the red and blue magnets, so the red and blue magnets moved forward.]
- Why did the blue magnet shoot backwards at the beginning of the race? What did the character do after that?
[anno: The blue magnet shot backwards at the beginning of the race because it was attracted to the yellow magnet. The character turned the yellow magnet around. Then the yellow magnet repelled the blue magnet instead of attracting it.]
- What is another game you could play with magnets? Invent a game that uses magnets. How does the game use the magnets? What other materials do you need? Write a few sentences about another game that uses magnets.
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This is the first of seven anti-distracted driving ads the California Office of Traffic Safety will roll out on TV this week, reports the Sacramento Bee. They're all filled with zombies.
April is this year's designated National Distracted Driving Awareness Month, so we suggest all California residents immediately consult our recommendations for apocalypse-proof vehicles lest they be consumed by hordes of texting undead.


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That's one of the Hotspur tubes before it was fabricated last week. It's being built up this weekend, with a hotspurian theme, and readied for the Handmade Bicycle Show on 2/8.
More details are coming and, as an aside, before naming the bike, I consulted the Naming the Bicycle section of the Bike Cult Book. I didn't crowdsource the name though, as Merlin Mann jokes about in this 5ives post.


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Ilaria Fendi, heiress and former designer for Fendi, has stepped aside from her birthright to pursue her own ventures. She is a farmer--and is designing an accessories label called Carmina Campus that is made from recycled trash and waste. Christina Binkley has details on Lunch Break. Photo: Fendi.
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NEW YORK — US fast-food workers often earn about $7.25 an hour to make the $3 chicken sandwiches and 99-cent tacos that generate billions of dollars in profit each year for McDonald's and other chains.
Thousands of the nation's many millions of fast-food workers and their supporters have been staging protests across the country in the past year to call attention to the struggles of living on or close to the federal minimum wage. The push raises the question of whether the economics of the fast-food industry allow room for a boost in workers' pay.
The industry is built on a business model that keeps costs — including those for labor — low so companies can make money while satisfying America's love of cheap, fast food. And no group along the food chain, from customers to companies, wants to foot the bill for higher wages.
Customers want a deal when they order burgers and fries. But those cheap eats squeeze franchise owners, who say they survive on slim margins. And corporations increase profits to keep shareholders happy.
''There's no room in the fast-food business model for substantially higher pay levels without raising prices for food,'' said Richard Adams, a former McDonald's franchisee who runs a fast-food consulting business.
Caught in that triangle are the workers.
The median hourly wage for a fast-food cook last year was $9, up from about $7 a decade ago, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. But many workers make the federal minimum wage, which was last raised in 2009. At $7.25 an hour, that's about $15,000 a year, assuming a 40-hour workweek. It's less than half the median salary of an American worker. Massachusetts' minimum wage is $8 per hour.
The protests come as President Obama has called for an increase in the federal minimum wage to $9 an hour. And the fast-food workers' movement is getting financial support as well as training from organizers of the Service Employees International Union, which represents more than 2 million workers.
Workers protesting in cities like New York, Chicago, and Detroit are pushing for $15 an hour, or $31,000 a year. But the figure is seen as more of a rallying point; many say they'd be happy with a few bucks more.
''Anything to make it more reasonable,'' said Jamal Harris, 21, who earns $7.40 an hour working at three fast-food restaurants around Detroit — a Burger King, a Long John Silver's and a Checkers — because he's never sure how many hours he'll get at any one job.
The same is true for Robert Wilson, a 25-year-old McDonald's employee in Chicago. ''It was never a consistent check,'' said Wilson.
Wilson said he got one 10-cent raise in the past four years. That brings his pay to $8.60 an hour after seven years of working at the restaurant.
Low wages and a lack of benefits aren't new in the fast-food industry. It's why ''McJob'' has been a pejorative term for so long.
What's changing is that such jobs are playing a bigger role in the economy, bringing the protests closer to home for many. Nearly 70 percent of jobs added since the recession have been in low-paying industries such as fast-food and retail.
Yet half the jobs lost during the Great Recession were in industries that paid between $38,000 and $68,000 a year.
Currently, the median for all US full-time wage and salary workers is $40,350, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That's based on weekly earnings of $776.
The tilt toward low-wage jobs is what makes it so critical for fast-food and retail jobs to provide better pay, said Robert Reich, an advocate for workers who served as labor secretary in the Clinton administration.
''It's impossible for the economy to run on all four cylinders unless consumers have enough purchasing power to keep the economy going,'' he said.
Still, raising wages for fast-food jobs means figuring out where the money would come from.
Franchisees say their profit margins are thin — they make 4 to 6 cents, on average, for every dollar they take in — and that they can't afford to increase pay, particularly when companies are trumpeting value menus amid tougher competition.
Kathryn Slater-Carter, who owns two McDonald's in California, said what franchisees can pay depends ''on what money you've got left after all [the company's] interference.''
Slater-Carter said that in addition to emphasizing low prices, the company has been putting more costs onto franchisees for things such as software licenses and service contracts for restaurant equipment.
Aslam Khan, chief executive of Falcon Holdings, which owns 165 Church's Chicken and 44 Long John Silver's locations, said his employees start at $8 to $8.50 an hour. To keep the best workers, he pays $10 to $13 per hour. He recognizes that's still not much.
''These days the whole family has to work to support the family. In order to put bread on the table, you have to do whatever,'' he said.
Over the past three years, Khan said, his profit margins have declined from 5 percent to 1 percent as food and other costs have climbed and menu prices have remained flat.
Many labor groups point to the profits of the companies — and the pay packages of CEOs — when trying to assign blame for low wages.
Last year, the five big publicly traded fast-food companies together earned 16 cents in profit for every dollar of revenue. That was 73 percent better than at the average big US company, according to FactSet, a research firm.
McDonald's, for example, reported profit of $5.5 billion last year on $27.6 billion in sales. CEO Don Thompson got a pay package worth $13.8 million.
Still, publicly traded companies feel pressure from shareholders and creditors to maintain or improve profits; even a slight change from quarter to quarter can send stock prices moving in either direction.
In e-mails, McDonald's and Burger King said they don't determine wages for workers, noting that the vast majority of restaurants are run by franchisees.
Representatives of Wendy's and Yum Brands Inc., which owns KFC, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut, did not respond to requests for comment.
Labor organizers dismiss the idea that companies can't influence pay. They say companies have near total control of every other aspect of operations through their strict franchise agreements, down to which napkins and computer systems are used, as well as the prices that are charged for the food.
''Corporations try to insulate themselves legally and morally by dictating everything but working conditions,'' said Stephen Lerner, a longtime union organizer.
If franchisees and companies can't or won't pay more, that leaves the people who buy fast food.
''This all comes back to the consumer,'' said Adams, the former McDonald's franchisee turned consultant.
Although many Americans say they support higher wages for workers, the reality is that people flock to the cheapest meals. If prices went up noticeably at McDonald's, for example, 23-year-old Eugene Santos said he would probably find someplace else to eat.
And the weak job market tilts the power in favor of employers, who can easily find replacements who are willing to work for low pay.
Organizing workers has been notoriously difficult in the fast-food industry, given the high turnover rates and ranks of younger workers who see the jobs as temporary gigs.
Garrett Mattson, 24, from Warren, R.I., started working at McDonald's when he was in college and stayed because he couldn't find another job. He earns $7.75 an hour.
He said he would probably support the effort to raise pay if it came to the restaurant where he works. But even though the job is important, he doesn't consider it a career path.


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His first restaurant on Oahu, the Diamond Head Restaurant, opened in 1995. Located on the east edge of Waikiki, this award-winning restaurant serves Sam's unique rendition of Hawaii Regional Cuisine. Chef Sam also founded the Poke Festival in 1991 and won the James Beard Foundation's America's Classics Award in 2004 for Sam Choy's Kaloko Restaurant.
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Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in education programs and activities that receive federal funds. The enforcement provisions applicable to Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (investigating complaints and conducting periodic compliance reviews on identified issues) are incorporated by reference in the Title IX regulations (34 C.F.R. Part 106). The Title IX regulations cover admissions and recruitment policies, participation in education programs and activities (such as athletics), financial assistance and employment in education programs and activities.
|Civil rights data indicates7 that in elementary and secondary education male student enrollment was higher than female student enrollment every year from 1994 through 2004. There were approximately 105 or more male students for every 100 female students. However, in regard to postsecondary education, a 2005 Digest of Education Statistics8 report indicates that of the young adults between the ages of 20 and 24 years, 903,000 males and 1,320,000 females have bachelor's degrees. Thus males have 40.6 percent of the degrees in this age range. Males are also going to college at lower rates, representing 44 percent of enrollment,9 and are graduating at even lower rates (40.6 percent). This in turn means that for every 100 females in this age range with bachelor's degrees there are 68.35 males with these degrees.
8U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics (2005). Digest of Education Statistics: 2005, Table 9, "Number of persons age 18 and over, by highest level of education attained, age, sex and race/ethnicity: 2005." Washington, D.C.: Author.
9Ibid., Table 168, "Enrollment, staff, and degrees conferred in postsecondary institutions participating in Title IV programs, by level and control of institution, sex, and type of degree: Fall 2003-04."


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He has been a member of the Philharmonia Orchestra since 1996 where he holds the position of Joint Principal Trumpet. Alistair is also currently Principal Trumpet in András Schiff's own chamber orchestra, the Cappella Andrea Barca, and was formerly Principal Trumpet in the Orchestra of Glyndebourne Touring Opera. He works regularly with the London Sinfonietta, Lontano and many of London's other orchestras and has performed on many soundtracks for film and television.
In 1990 Alistair became the first brass player to win the wind section of the Royal Overseas League Music competition which led to many solo engagements. He has performed as a soloist with many orchestras including the Philharmonia, London Mozart Players, London Soloists Chamber Orchestra, the Norwegian Radio Orchestra and the Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra and has performed many recitals throughout the UK, France and Switzerland.
Alistair is married with two children and lives in Woking, Surrey.
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Thomas Andrew Bailey (December 14, 1902 – July 26, 1983) was an American historian based at Stanford University, who specialised in diplomatic history. His best-known work may be The American Pageant.
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- The teacher asked us to write an essay based on an artist's visual version of the cold and other hardships endured by Washington's men at Valley Forge. I dashed off a page or so of commentary, which brought from the teacher public commendation for my historical empathy and perception. This juvenile effort may have influenced my instructor when he gave me a grade on my report card of 100 percent in history. I thought then, and still think, that no pupil is worth 100 percent in history.
- The American Pageant Revisited, p. 9
- Vietnam is the dead albatross around Johnson's neck that may pull him down.
- As quoted in The New York Times (November 6, 1966)
- The two-thirds rule [of the Senate], which can be changed only by constitutional amendment, will no doubt continue for a long time to come. Like monogamy, it is not completely satisfactory, but, like monogamy, it has won general if somewhat grudging acquiescence.
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Boffin hacks Wi-Fi to double mobile gadget battery life
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Want to significantly boost your smartphone's battery life? US Duke University researcher Justin Manweiler reckons he's worked out how.
Manweiler's work centres on Wi-Fi, specifically when the phone - or tablet or laptop, for that matter - is operating within range of more than one wireless access point.
If access points are able to co-operatively manage their shared radio environment, client gadgets can keep their Wi-Fi adaptors in sleep mode for longer, extending battery life.
Currently, clients periodically wake up their radios to check in with their associated access point and see if data is available to be transfered. Existing Wi-Fi energy saving technology, called Wi-Fi Power Save Mode (PSM), ensures data is buffered in the access point to ensure the client radio doesn't need to be woken up for dribs and drabs.
Instead, data packets are bundled and sent as bursts big enough to maximise radio sleep time without introducing so much latency that the user perceives that the data isn't being streamed - video playback that isn't smooth, for example.
Now throw multiple access points into the mix and the upshot is that a given client's radio needs to stay awake for greater periods - up to five times longer, Manweiler found - than it would when in range of a single access point, thanks to contention between access points.
As so many of we city dwellers and workers know, these days there are lots of access points around us, and the longer the device's radio is on, the more power it's burning.
Manweiler's solution, dubbed SleepWell, has a compatible access point dynamically reschedule those bursts of traffic to its clients so they don't occur when other access points are sending data to their clients. Clients sleep when other clients are active, and can be sure they can download data without interruption when it's their turn.
"By carefully modifying the timestamps - as a part of the Wi-Fi clock synchronisation process - the SleepWell AP regulates the client's sleep and wake-up schedules," writes Manweiler in his paper Avoiding the Rush Hours: Wi-Fi Energy Management via Traffic Isolation.
"Results show a median gain of up to 2x when Wi-Fi links are strong," he says. "When links are weak and the network density is high, the gains can be even more."
SleepWell was implemented by tweaking the open source
ath9k driver for Atheros 802.11n PCIe interfaces.
Since bursts take place periodically, SleepWell can work out the best time to send its data even if some or all of the surrounding APs are not SleepWell-enabled themselves.
Manweiler said that SleepWell only needs to be implemented at the access point, so there's no need to change the radio code running on the client - it's compatible with all existing client devices.
Testing SleepWell with a variety of laptops and smartphones, Manweiler said he recorded "energy reductions vary between 38 per cent to 51 per cent, across a variety of real online applications, including YouTube, Pandora, Last.fm and... FTP".
The gotcha is VoIP and other "interactive, highly latency sensitive traffic", which requires lower levels of latency than even PSM can ordinarily introduce without being noticed.
You can read Manweiler's paper on the Duke University website (PDF). ®


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DJ AM -- whose real name is Adam Goldstein -- has died. He was 36.
The star -- who has battled his own drug addictions and survived a tragic plane crash last year -- was found dead in his New York City apartment Friday afternoon, Usmagazine.com confirms.
Three days before his death, he Tweeted, "New york, new york. Big city of dreams, but everything in new york aint always what it seems."
Last year, he revealed that he was abused by his father, became addicted to drugs and had attempted suicide. He said he attended recovery meetings and has remained drug-free for about a decade.
"He was sober for 10 years, a friend told Us. "His sobriety was really important to him."
Back in April, the celebrity DJ signed on to do an intervention-style reality show, called Gone Too Far, on MTV and began promoting the series this month.
In September, he was critically injured after a Learjet caught fire during an aborted takeoff in South Carolina. After surviving the accident that left four others dead, the star -- who survived along with Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker -- said he was "the luckiest guy alive."
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"It makes sense that they would think about selling high on him," a National League talent evaluator told Martino. "There would obviously be a lot of interest."
Martino says associates believe is genuine in his desire to retain Dickey. However, while he is open to other viewpoints, "there is far more talk about dangling the popular ace than Jon Niese, another pitcher who rivals say would draw significant interest."
Last week, I said I put trading Dickey or signing Dickey at 50 percent. I think it's one or the other, though, since I can't see Alderson keeping Dickey on just a one-year deal knowing his value is super high right now. I've also had MLB insiders predict Dickey could fetch one near-ready, upper-level prospect, in addition to two, maybe three mid-to-lower level prospects.
The teams that make sense seem to be the Brewers, D-Backs and A's, though that is an educated guess by people with knowledge of this year's overall trade market.
I like that Martino tied Dickey to Niese, because I actually think the decisions are connected. My sense is that if Dickey can be signed to an extension, knowing he's a short-term play, the team could move Niese and Lucas Duda for an immediate-impact, outfield bat. However, if there is no hope with Dickey returning, the Mets might choose to trade him (and keep Niese) for prospects to help down the road... plus they'd add back Dickey's $5 million in to the available budget. I think it's one or the other, though, not both.
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The latest in the Surrogates marketing has old man Willis lookin' to the side, probably for robots, or a better designer. What has happened to our action stars? Actually he reminds of another cue-ball hero...
Sorry this just isn't as appealing as my Korben Dallas/John McClane boys from the past, sigh. We need new action stars, and fast. Harrison Ford's befuddled old man Indiana and Nic Cage in just about everything aren't doing this genre any favors.
Also I'm generally starting to worry about the Surrogates film in general. Besides the little Bruces at the bottom, you really can't tell that this film is about robots, at all. And robots sell from Wall-E to Transformers – people like to see droids, and especially ones who pretend to be people. So why isn't this poster emphasizing the robot angle? People are going to see Surrogates to imagine what the pretty robotic versions of themselves will look like. Maybe we can get a more appealing poster before the film comes out September 25th.
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ZURICH (Reuters) - Olympic and world champion Usain Bolt outsprinted fellow Jamaican Nickel Ashmeade and American Justin Gatlin to win the 100 meters at the Zurich Diamond League meeting on Thursday.
Bolt, running into a slight headwind, made his customary sluggish start before accelerating away from the field to win in 9.90 seconds.
Ashmeade was second in 9.94 with former Olympic and world champion Gatlin two hundredths of a second further back. Gatlin finished second behind Bolt at this month's Moscow world championships.
"I am tired," Bolt told the BBC. "But the good thing is that everybody else is tired. But I'm happy, I've come out victorious and I'm continuing winning."
Another Jamaican Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, who became the first woman to sweep the world 100, 200 and 4x100 sprint titles in Moscow, won the 200 meters in 22.40 seconds.
Fifteen Diamond Race trophies were awarded along with the $40,000 first prize accompanying them before a capacity crowd of 26,000. The second of this year's Diamond League finals will be held in Brussels September 6.
American world champion LaShawn Merritt defeated Grenada's 2011 world gold medalist Kirani James in the men's 400 meters to add $40,000 to his bank balance.
Meseret Defar won the battle of the Ethiopians in the women's 5,000 meters, beating compatriot Tirunesh Dibaba to the finish in 14 minutes 32.83 seconds.
Dibaba took the 10,000 gold medal in Moscow, but opted out of the 5,000 which Defar won with ease.
On Thursday, Dibaba took the lead with 600 meters to run only to see Defar ease past her on the final bend.
Ukrainian world high jump champion Bohdan Bondarenko, who has been edging closer this season to Javier Sotomayor's world record of 2.45 meters, failed with an attempt on the Cuban's mark after winning the event on a countback with 2.33. It was his 11th attempt in the past two months to break the record which has stood since 1993.
New Zealand's world and Olympic champion Valerie Adams won the women's shot put which was staged in the city's main railway station on Wednesday.
Adams set a meeting record and a year's personal best of 20.98 meters.
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Short But Not Sweet
Mena Habeeb | 14 May 2012
Newspapers published that Abu Ismail has asked his supporters during his sermon in a mosque to vote for him in a separate paper to avoid annulling their voices. The man doesn't understand he is out of the presidential race yet! .. More
By Force
Magdy Malak | 9 May 2012
It seems that Abu Ismail wants to be president of Egypt by force, although he stills denies everything. He says that he had nothing to do with what.. More
New generation of Glove puppet
Mena Habeeb | 4 May 2012
Two days ago in an electoral conference of Mohammed Mursi, MB candidate for presidency, something really weird happened: The General Guide exempted Mursi from the full obedience rule .. More
Losing the aim
Magdy Malak | 30 April 2012
From the introductions we have seen lately in political life, we can say that the elite of the Egyptian community failed to have clear vision about the future and all what they do is just words. I didn't see any actions from.. More
Cake of illusion!
Mena Habeeb | 24 April 2012
Muslim Brotherhood has announced that Mursi is the only Islamic candidate for presidency, while Awa has announced that he is.. More
The Banana country
Sherif Mansour | 19 April 2012
I love banana the fruit and many of you too; however here we are talking about Qatar the Banana kingdom. While our Canadian government granted Qatar Airlines the landing rights to fly 3 direct flights to Montreal, and Canada officially opened a Canadian Embassy in.. More
A Historical verdict
Magdy Malak | 12 April 2012
The verdict of disbanding the constituent committee is a historical resolution which will lead us back to our initial steps again. When we were screaming, pleading, for the MB and other religious groups in the parliament,.. More
Unstable and dirty
Mena Habeeb | 4 April 2012
Politics has been always known for being unstable and dirty, and MB has been always known for its long experience with politics. Now, after MB had promised not to .. More
Magdy Malak | 1 April 2012
After the announcement of the Muslims brotherhood to candidate El-Shater for presidential election, now we can say that they were lying on all Egyptian people, .. More
Funny dictators!
Mena Habeeb | 28 March 2012
For many years, Islamists were not allowed to speak in Egypt, but now they can speak as much as they want. No problem yet. The problem appeared while selecting.. More
The Religious Constitution
Magdy Malak | 26 March 2012
What we have witnessed yesterday was the formation of the constitutional committee that will, by all means, lead us into a religious state. It will also lead us .. More
Salafi, have mercy!
Mena Habeeb | 21 March 2012
After the departure of the Pope Shenouda, many hardline Islamists were thinking of making the Copts feel better, so they tried to issue some funny announcements,.. More
Magdy Malak | 19 March 2012
Pope Shenouda, you will remain always in our hearts, in our minds, and in our souls. What you have left for us was entirely enough to maintain our soul and to save our life. Your books, your sermons, your education, and your humility. Your nation love you and will love you forever. .. More
Sorry, I need to hurry up!
Mena Habeeb | 16 March 2012
Egyptian judiciary attributed for long time of slow judges that used to last for years. Now it looks like the revolution has come to fix that: In few days .. More
Magdy Malak | 14 March 2012
It seems that Egypt has become addicted to the term, "Anonymous." The old regime, before the revolution and after revolution, remained anonymous. Before the revolution, the doer of El-kosh, Kedessen, Omrania, was anonymous... More
scare or amuse the snakes!
Mena Habeeb | 12 March 2012
I have always thought that governors of Egypt love the Chinese idiom that says, "Beat the grass, to scare the snakes". But upon hearing that the priest of al-Merinab church was sentenced to 6 months for irregularities in.. More
A New Hope?
Magdy Malak | 8 March 2012
After the announcement of Mansour Hassan electing himself in the presidential elections, we can say that there is renewed hope in our midst. Can we assume that a balance between the religious groups in parliament,.. More
The nose of Salafy MP
Mena Habeeb | 6 March 2012
I was happy to hear that an Islamic MP is undergoing a plastic surgery to make his nose more beautiful. I thought this might show that he is open-minded. However, hearing that he lied about it and made out a story .. More
Magdy Malak | 5 March 2012
After the ridiculous way NGO member, left Egypt, we can be sure that the whole world is laughing at us now. While the Prime Minister said we will not kneel, the SCAF has made all Egyptians bend to their power... More
Measuring crimes!
Mena Habeeb | 2 March 2012
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Magdy Malak | 12 December 2011
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Scientists and policy makers told love stories about nature as part of an IUCN CEC side event at CBD COP 11. The event drew on the Love Not Loss Campaign for communicating biodiversity.
Love, passion and longing. If these words make you think of a romance novel, think again. This is how scientists and policy experts described their connections to nature at a recent United Nations workshop on positive strategies for communicating about conservation. Participants spoke about their love of nature, the passion that drives them to protect biodiversity, and the longing to experience natural world with others.
The UN workshop was a side event on 'Communicating Biodiversity: How to Tell a Love Story' offered by members of the IUCN Commission on Education and Communication (IUCN CEC) at the eleventh Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity. The side event, held 10 October 2012 in Hyderabad, India, showcased effective communication strategies. Participants enjoyed presentations featuring successful positive communication practices and viewed wildlife film clips such as 'Funny Talking Penguins' and 'Funny Talking Elephants' and the short videos 'How to Tell a Love Story' and 'Love. Not Loss'.
The focus on what we love about nature provided an energizing counterpoint to the conference's important and serious discussions on text amendments, protocols and resource mobilisation. CEC members delivered the side event as a contribution to Aichi Target 1 of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity, which states: 'By 2020, at the latest, people are aware of the values of biodiversity and the steps they can take to conserve and use it sustainably'.
Effective communication approaches are critical to achieving Aichi Target 1 and international conservation agreements of all kinds. The conservation community needs to communicate effectively with people in ways that resonate. Using communication approaches that personalise, humanise and publicise nature, the conservation community can reach out to people in ways that generate support for nature and motivate action.
Nancy Colleton, IUCN CEC Deputy Chair, moderated the session, asking participants to share their experiences of how they have helped people to fall in love with nature. "We can't communicate science without knowing science. And we certainly can't communicate it effectively if we don't understand where the communication is going and the change that we might want to motivate," she said.
The multinational audience told personal stories on many aspects of nature, from caring for cobras to swimming in streams in Nigeria. They spoke about initiatives that introduce children to the beauty of the underwater world and about the important role that zoos and aquaria can play in introducing people to animals.
Effective communications are required for progress in the United Nations Decade on Biodiversity, the Aichi Biodiversity Targets and CBD Article 13 on Communication, Education and Public Awareness. This need was described by David Ainsworth, Information Officer at the CBD Secretariat and member of the CEC Steering Committee. He said that within our biodiversity work we have both the best job and the hardest job: we get to work with amazing natural environments and yet we must communicate very complex subjects in ways that people can understand.
Rod Abson, CEC Focal Point, told the story of the development of the Love Not Loss Campaign from Nagoya in 2010 to the launch last month at the IUCN World Conservation Congress of its newest component, 'How to Tell a Love Story'. He said that in the future CEC hopes the campaigns will generate interest and support for strategic, positive messaging in the wider conservation community.
Britta Garfield of Rare provided a case study about the group'sefforts to save the St Lucia parrot from extinction by using effective public awareness and action.
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LONDON (Reuters) - June's global markets quake suggests little positive in a rising interest rate environment but the flip side is significant relief for pension funds that may itself may provide a stabilizing mechanism into the bargain.
Bonds, equities and emerging markets have all lunged violently since the U.S. Federal Reserve last month started signaling a timeline for a reduction in its latest bond-buying program, in what some see as the beginning of the end of its four-year-old policy of quantitative easing.
Hyper-sensitive to a big turning point in the U.S. monetary policy cycle, benchmark 10-year Treasury yields have jumped up to a full percentage point - to more than 2.5 percent - since the first week in May - pushing up long-term interest rates across the globe and puncturing buoyant world equity.
This, of course, could be an overreaction by short-term markets. With little change of economic information and only minor tweaks to policy guidance, they have lurched within weeks from the euphoria of endlessly cheap money to conjuring up the gloom of ever-spiraling interest rates.
Policymakers themselves seem to think so. Bank of England Governor Mervyn King said on Tuesday investors had "jumped the gun". Dallas Fed chief Richard Fisher was blunter on Monday in referring to markets as "feral hogs" and "manic-depressive mechanisms."
But on a more measured view there is a positive side to at least normalizing interest rate levels, if not higher borrowing costs per se.
The most obvious is the one highlighted by Fed chief Ben Bernanke himself. "If interest rates go up for the right reasons — that is, both optimism about the economy and an accurate assessment of monetary policy — that's a good thing."
And if the monetary policy pullback is indeed commensurate with economic recovery, then equities could well resume their rise alongside higher interest rates and have done historically.
Yet a much more direct positive from higher interest rates, however comes via the impact on savers - and final salary pension funds in particular where average liabilities have in recent years been far higher than the assets in those funds.
"We may find everyone's going around with glum faces except pension schemes," said Kevin Wesbroom, senior partner at pensions consultant Aon Hewitt.
According to JPMorgan, the bond selloff to the end of May alone pushed the accounting deficits of U.S. and UK "defined benefit" or final salary pension funds to their lowest since 2011. The subsequent rise in yields this month - another 40 basis points on 10-year Treasuries for example - will have helped further, outweighing the drop in equities.
And crucially, assuming asset prices such as equities hold steady from here, they reckoned defined benefit deficits would again be fully covered with a further increase of about 80-90 basis point in yields in the UK and slightly less in the U.S..
As defined benefit pension fund liabilities to pensioners and prospective retirees are pre-determined and bond-like, the discount rate used to calculate them is the yield on top-rated corporate bonds - which have also risen about 80 basis points since early May.
And so extraordinarily low yields have not only depressed returns on asset returns of bond-heavy funds, they also lead to a bigger liability calculation as the pension funds are deemed to need even more assets to pay retirees - leaving companies sponsoring the schemes to stump up more cash for the pot.
So the bounceback in bond yields is a big relief.
Aon Hewitt calculates that the cumulative deficit of the UK's FTSE 350 company pension schemes fell from 86 billion pounds ($132 billion) on May 2 to 65 billion pounds on Friday.
More dramatically, it calculated cost to these sponsoring companies of offloading their pension liabilities to insurance companies or banks - a costing that uses government rather than corporate bond yields as reference - has fallen by about 100 billion pounds to 320 billion over that same period.
The additional silver lining for the marketplace overall is that the yield shift may also see subsequent pension fund behavior act as a stabilising force in any further market turbulence.
As yields rise, the more nimble pension funds - who remain innately risk averse into peak retirement periods over the next 10 years amid considerable regulatory and sponsor pressure to better match their liabilities - will likely buy even more bonds to quickly lock into higher long-term rates.
"We've had a pent up demand for de-risk for an awful long time," said Wesbroom at Aon Hewitt.
"Rather than the 'Great Rotation' from bonds to equities, we could well see pension funds do a 'contra rotation'."
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The models are powered by a 7.4-liter-capacity AGCO Sisu Power 74CTA engine. The CVT along with AGCO's tractor management system allow the operator to determine a specific ground speed and optimum rpm. The tractor's engine and transmission then work together to choose the most efficient engine speed for maximum productivity.
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Goodyear Farm Tires, a brand of Titan Tire Corporation, introduces the DT 930TM 1100/45R46 radial tire. It features a low sidewall (LSW) aspect ratio for stability and wide, deep lugs for enhanced flotation. The tires enable users to harvest the crops and power through the muddy fields that narrower dualed tires cannot handle, according to Jeff Vasichek, vice president of sales and marketing for Titan Tire Corporation.
The tire is agriculture's largest radial, standing at 85 in. tall and almost 4 ft. wide, and is designed to reduce vehicle bounce, loping and power hop.
AGCO has approved the DT 930 tires for use on its Challenger brand tractors. Flotation can be maximized when dualed on 4-wd and MFWD tractors. DT 930 tires with appropriately sized wheels can be used in place of narrower dual rear tractor tires.
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New hay-conditioning rollers called Crushers help reduce alfalfa hay drying time and the time hay lies on the ground exposed to the elements. B & D Rollers reports that drying time may be half when Crushers are used. The new rubber rollers feature an intermeshing design and release more moisture from the hay than standard rollers do for faster drying and better quality hay.
Crusher rollers are available for all makes and models of mower conditioners. They are trued to 1,000 rpm and operate without vibration. A set of new rollers retails for $5,546. Hay growers also may have their old rollers reconditioned for a cost of $2,950. For more information, call B & D Rollers at 800/832-1135, visit http://www.bdrollers.com.
Gator updated
John Deere has updated its Gator series of utility vehicles with an eye on improved performance. The Gator TX features an extra 19 hp, 90% more torque, quicker acceleration and a new coil-over-shock suspension system. The electric model, the Gator TE, operates for a full day with one overnight charge. It will haul 900 lbs.
The Gator TH, TX and TE are now equipped with a metal and composite cargo box with a pickup-style tailgate and latch. The sides can be removed for a flat bed. Plus, the box now offers 20 tie-downs to keep cargo from shifting.
Prices for the Gator T models start at $6,499. For more information, contact your local John Deere dealer, visit http://www.deere.com.


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|I submitted two aprons this year, but sadly have not heard back...oh well, always next year's issue. I'll just have to get really creative and knock their socks off!
|Please pardon the yellow hue..lighting is not the best for good pics!
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text: The Colonial Theatre, dark since July 2011, may reopen on Oct. 24. Citi Performing Arts Center president and chief executive Josiah A. Spaulding Jr. confirmed Wednesday that he has requested an entertainment license from the city Consumer Affairs and Licensing board. Spaulding said Citi is operating the building under a three-year deal with Emerson College, which owns the venerable Colonial. The agreement, signed over the summer, took effect Sept. 1, he said. "We have been cleaning, painting, cleaning, painting, cleaning, painting, to get the theater back into shape to do shows,'' Spaulding said. The board's decision is expected within a couple of days, according to city officials. If it grants the license, the first show would be a benefit concert by James Taylor on behalf of US Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren. Other upcoming shows at the Colonial are slated to include "Memphis'' in December, "Jersey Boys'' in early 2013, and the world premiere of "Tuck Everlasting," the musical, in June 2013, all previously announced for the venue by Broadway in Boston.Don Aucoin can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Asymco has compiled the profits, revenues, and unit shipments among all of the major manufacturers, and as you can see in this graph, Apple is still kicking everyone's behind when it comes to smartphone profit share. Though the revenue share gap with Samsung is a bit smaller than the one for profits, Apple is still decidedly in the lead. After all is said and done, Apple is claiming 75% of the profit share, 40% of the revenue share, and 9% of the unit share of the mobile market (though that last number might be closer to 8%).
After Apple's monstrously successful first quarter it's no surprise that Apple is profitable. Heck, it's no surprise they're the undisputed God-King of the mobile industry, and they probably have a giant pool of money where employees can get all Scrooge McDuck on lunch breaks. However the fact that Apple is pulling in so much money out of the entire industry really illustrates just how successful the iPhone has become. Of course, if you ask any Android fan, financial success doesn't necessarily equate to product quality (and I'm inclined to agree with them), but you can't argue with the results. There's another great graph here that shows just how much the iPhone's market share has increased on multiple fronts since launch in 2007.
With this much of a lead, how much does Apple really have to worry about? Will it suffer death by a thousand cuts from a bajillionty Android devices? Or will Windows Phone eventually come into its own and give iPhone a run for its money? Looking at this graphs, it's hard to imagine either of these things happening. The best the competition can reasonably hope for now is to get comfortable in second place. Let's put it this way -- what would the competition have to do to win you over?
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Question: which one of the above machines needs planning permission before you can buy and use it?
The answer, of course, is the wind turbine. This particular turbine should generate enough electricity in an a year to save more than 7 tonnes of CO2.
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Liverpool, England—A few lads from the Land Rover crew tore the cover from an abandoned subterranean rail line and thought it would be "smashing good fun" to bring their stylish new Evoque down there.
I really hate them right now, as this place is a genuine horror show, complete with slime-covered walls and crumbling masonry. The only light is from the sealed xenon headlamps that appear to blink on and off as we plow through black, crotch-deep water.
"Just keep up with the bow wave, lads," chirps an all-too-happy Land Rover engineer.
I'm going to punch him as we pass. If this car conks out I will scream so loud they will hear me at their factory 20 miles away at Halewood in Merseyside.
I should have had more faith in the product. Land Rover builds cars to do what other cars cannot… should not. The Evoque is no exception.
Virtually every European automaker has tossed its hat into the small/midsize/crossover SUV segment. A few are pretty good too, capable of actually leaving the pavement for modest off-road shenanigans. I ponder this while deep beneath the streets of Liverpool. Would I risk this passage in another brand? No freaking way.
"We build our vehicles to perform off-road as well as on-road."
I must have heard that a dozen times from the Land Rover crew. I think they get a perverse pleasure in seeing their cars romping through ghastly muck. Never mind the fact few Evoques will ever see such abuse. It's still nice to know they can do it.
Although first renditions of Land Rover's LRX concept vehicle appeared to be designer fantasy fodder, the production version has remained faithful to the concept. Measuring 171 inches in length and 77.4 inches in beam, the Evoque is officially the smallest car in Land Rover's fleet, but by no means lacking in content. Virtually every gizmo and gadget within Land Rover's tool chest (including a few new ones like a multi-POV camera system and Meridian sound system) has been included within its boron steel-enhanced monocoque.
Powered by Ford's global 2.0-liter turbocharged engine, the Evoque rides on a fully independent suspension featuring large-diameter gas struts and stiff, isolated subframes. The 240-hp powerplant has been weatherproofed and features uprated oil circulation for extreme angle performance. An optional MagneRide suspension is based on magnetorheological damper technology that leaves it instantaneously responsive over any type of terrain. The Evoque will be augmented with a Haldex-based all-wheel-drive system.
While classic, larger Range Rover models tend to be stocky, buttoned-down affairs, the Evoque is clearly pointed in a brave, new direction. If the Range Rover Sport is a linebacker, the Evoque is a gymnast, both lithe and sinuous. The Range Rover Evoque exterior features new interpretations of classic Range Rover design cues, including the clamshell bonnet, floating roof and solid "wheel-at-each-corner" stance. Unlike any previous Range Rover, the Evoque adopts a very dynamic profile with its rising beltline, a muscular shoulder running the length of the car, and a distinctive taper to the floating roofline. The sculpted corners reduce the car's visual overhangs front and rear. There's an aircraft phrase: looks good, flies good. The Evoque manages to fulfill both.
Its street manners are impeccable where it behaves like a standard, European-bred sport sedan. Steering is direct and well weighted, and the Evoque's powerband leaves it more than capable of squirting through traffic. The Evoque's cabin is beautifully designed, both ergonomically effective and handsome. A sizable glass panoramic roof fills the Evoque with natural light while concealed LED lighting provides ambient nighttime illumination, leaving the interior with an ethereal glow. An especially nifty touch is the dual-view eight-inch LCD screen that allows both driver and passenger their own display. Not really sure how it works so we will just assume it's some sort of English magic.
These factory-fresh Evoques were British-spec right-hand-drive models. It was something of a double whammy for drivers trained to drive on the opposite side of the road. I must have hit 50 curbs and did a great job of unintentionally terrorizing my passenger. Despite the abuse, the 19-inch wheels remained true with nary a nick or scrape on their handsome faces.
The base Evoque (Pure) starts at $43,995; the two-door costs $44,995. The Prestige package adds 19-inch alloys and leather while the Dynamic model adds more aggressive aerodynamics. A full-tilt Dynamic Evoque goes for $52,895 so Range Rover has retained a fairly tight pricing structure.
Reaching down-market is a thing luxury car builders do at substantial risk. Though the Evoque is the most attainable of the Range Rover line, it comes off as a rich, technically savvy piece that will no doubt appeal to a broad group, folks that might not have considered a Range Rover product. Chances are this group won't go traipsing about the mud in subterranean caves, but Evoque owners can take pride in knowing their Range Rover could do it anyway.
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Stars fire coach Glen Gulutzan; what's next for Dallas?
The Stars have relieved head coach Glen Gulutzan of his duties and will immediately begin a search for his replacement.
Gulutzan, 41, has coached the Stars for two seasons, and the team had an option for a third year on his three-year contract. New general manager Jim Nill has informed Gulutzan the team will not be extending the option.
Nill also informed assistant coach Paul Jerrard that he will not be returning. The Stars will retain assistant coach Curt Fraser and goalie coach Mike Valley.
Gulutzan was 66-57-9 in his two seasons and failed to make the playoffs. However, he had a tough challenge. He advanced to the NHL after two seasons in the AHL, and was the second youngest coach in the league when he was hired. The Stars also made significant personnel changes, which included the departure of longtime Stars Mike Ribeiro, Steve Ott and Brenden Morrow, as well as the acquisition and departure of Jaromir Jagr and Derek Roy this season.
"I thought our team competed really hard,'' Gulutzan said at the end of the season. "Any time you don't get in the playoffs, it's certainly a negative thing, but when you're judging yourself as a coach, you're judging yourself on how hard your guys are competing and how much work you're bringing to the table every night, and I thought at that level we were fine.''
Gulutzan and Jerrard were a team for four seasons, including two with the Texas Stars in the AHL. Jerrard, 48, has been with the Stars organization since 2005.
Fraser, 55, was hired last season as a Stars assistant to bring some experience to a young coaching staff. He was hired by Nill in 2008 to coach the Detroit Red Wings AHL affiliate in Grand Rapids, Mich., and the Stars had to seek permission from the Red Wings to hire him away. He served as head coach of the Atlanta Thrashers from 1999-2003, and might be a candidate for the Stars' head coaching position.
Inside, Fraser and Texas Stars coach Willie Desjardins are the most qualified candidates. Desjardins served two years as associate coach of the Dallas Stars before taking over as head coach of the AHL team this season. The Texas Stars are currently in the second round of the AHL playoffs.
Outside, Nill will have a long list of people to consider. Current veteran coaches without a job include: former Buffalo coach Lindy Ruff, former Toronto coach Ron Wilson, former Los Angeles coach Terry Murray, former Tampa Bay coach Guy Boucher, and former Edmonton coach Tom Renney. Renney currently is working as an assistant with the Red Wings, so Nill has a relationship with him. Another candidate who is familiar with Nill is former Detroit assistant Barry Smith, who currently serves as the director of player personnel for the Blackhawks.
Also interesting names to watch are Dave Tippett in Phoenix and Alain Vigneault in Vancouver. Tippett's contract expires June 30, and he has not signed an extension with the Coyotes because the franchise still could move this summer. Vigneault is under contract in Vancouver, but there is speculation he might be fired after a first-round playoff exit this season.
Nill also could wait to see if other coaches are made available during the playoffs.
Valley, 36, has been Stars goalie coach for four seasons. He and Kari Lehtonen have established a good relationship in that time.