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Two young pitchers who have performed very well in their brief major league careers are Stephen Strasburg of the Washington Nationals and Chris Sale of the Chicago White Sox. Both youngsters were dominant in college. Strasburg was the top overall pick in the 2009 draft, while Sale was selected 13th overall a year later.
Both made their major league debuts very quickly. In fact, Sale signed right after the 2010 draft and was in the majors after only 10 innings in the minor leagues.
Strasburg has been solely a starting pitcher while Sale started in the bullpen and this season became a starting pitcher (Sale did have a relief appearance earlier this season, when he came in relief after the White Sox moved him back to the pen because of elbow stiffness). Strasburg and Sale, after both were called up to the major leagues in mid-season during 2010, have been downright dominating at times.
Strasburg has gone 15-5, 2.51 ERA in his short career, while Sale has a 12-5, 2.41 ERA. Both have similar WHIPs, ERA+ and H/9 numbers, with high K/9 rates. Strasburg's numbers have been affected by his Tommy John surgery and Sale's overall numbers by his two-year bullpen stint.
Each filled a glaring need for their teams. Strasburg became an attendance draw for a franchise in the early throes of their resurrection. Sale, however, was needed to become a stopper in the bullpen for two years before his transformation to starting pitcher, a role he has known throughout his entire career.
Let's fantasize a little and plot out one of these young pitchers careers. We can choose either Strasburg or Sale in our "for instance", and since I am an American League fan, I will select Sale. Remember, although I will consistently reference Sale, these scenarios could also play out for Strasburg.
For arguments sake let's say Sale, who has two Grade A pitches (fastball & slider), plus a very nice developing change-up, continues to pitch well in 2012 leading the White Sox to a playoff run. He ends up winning 16 games, losing 7 while posting a great ERA of 2.85. Bothered by some arm issues the following season, Sale regresses to a record of 9-7.* The White Sox resist the Joba Chamberlain urge to move Sale back to the bullpen and he comes back strong in 2014, winning 22 games, losing 5 with a stellar ERA of 2.54. His strikeouts pile up consistently during that 2014 season, and Sale finished with 267 whiffs.
He will, of course, win his first Cy Young award.
*Sale does have a wicked delivery, one that if off-line to the plate and takes his throwing arm back way behind his body, getting into a high "Inverted W" arm action. Many evaluators believe this type of delivery is great for his velocity, but terrible for his health, and some have predicted a future arm surgery. While predicting future arm surgeries are not difficult for today's pitchers (many, many pitchers who are babied have them –including Stephen Strasburg), I believe Sale's delivery (except being off-line to the plate) is more like Randy Johnson's. Johnson leaned over when delivering the ball, giving the image of a terrible delivery, when his delivery was actually not harmful to his health.
Over the next six seasons (while hitting his prime), Sale racks up totals of 20, 18, 17, 21 (another Cy award), 18 and 18 wins. American League hitters are oftentimes in awe and state "Sale is the premiere pitcher in the A.L…," and "the movement on his pitchers sometimes make him impossible to hit." After a devastating 19 strikeout performance against the cross town Chicago Cubs in the summer of 2015, a Sports Illustrated writer quotes the home plate umpire as saying, " that was the best pitched game I have ever umpired."
Remember that Strasburg (despite still being on strict pitch counts and innings limits) is putting up equally gaudy number in the National League. Because of these two phenoms, the drafts of 2009 (Strasburg, Dustin Ackley, Zach Wheeler, Drew Storen, Shelby Miller and Mike Trout) and 2010 (Sale, Bryce Harper, James Taillon, Manny Machado, Matt Harvey, Christian Yelich, Zach Lee) is now being considered two of the best drafts of all time.
After those 7 great seasons, Sale runs into some unforeseen difficulties and more elbow problems, posting only 31 wins over the next 4 seasons. But, in 2025 he bounces back, making 34 starts and going 21-7 with a 2.30 ERA and 295 strikeouts. A third Cy Young award takes its rightful place in his trophy case (just missed his fourth in 2015, placing second to Ivan Nova of the New York Yankees). But, late in the comeback 2025 season Sale has a recurrence of the elbow problems which had plagued him over the prior four seasons.
With the White Sox clearly wanting him to continue playing, at age 36 Sale decides to take the Sandy Koufax/Mike Mussina route and retires gracefully from the game, and as George Costanzo would likely approve, he exits on a high note.
His career numbers are exceptional with a record of 213-118, an ERA of 2.97, with 2882 strikeouts recorded in slightly more than 3000 innings. He won the three CY Young awards and helped lead his team to at least one World Series title.
Remember it could also be Strasburg that has this career.
After that type of career, do you think Sale or Strasburg would be a Hall of Famer? Absolutely they would!
The writers would be falling all over themselves to proclaim Sale/Strasburg as the "best pitcher of his generation" and are predicting they might generate close to the vote totals of Greg Maddux, who became the first unanimous player voted into the Hall of Fame.
So why then is there any debate at all about Roger Clemens' chances for Hall of Fame induction?
Those career "fantasy numbers" presented above are exactly Clemens' career totals AFTER the 1997 season in Toronto. This was the season BEFORE he has been named by his trainer Brain McNamee of being on the receiving end of "performance enhancing steroids" and human growth hormone (HGH).
Early in Clemens' career, he had shoulder surgery and bounced back to go 24-4, slightly better than what Sale or Strasburg "did" above. But Clemens also won four Cy Young awards during this early period, before his ultra-competitive nature allegedly pushed him into the forbidden zone of performance enhancers.
About 99% of the baseball public has already persecuted Clemens, and an informal survey of 80 probable Hall of Fame voters, taken the day after the Mitchell Report came out, witnessed 28 saying they would vote YES for Clemens, 21 voting NO, with 31 UNDECIDED. Many undecided's are clearly in the NO category after Clemens' recent trial acquittal.
The source of Clemens' involvement was his long time trainer, Brian McNamee, who said he personally injected Clemens with steroids and HGH during the 1998, 2000 and 2001 seasons. Most people who have an opinion believe McNamee, but what McNamee said was under direct pressure from the federal government to "tell the truth" or face deep prosecution for distributing controlled substances.
While Greg Anderson kept his secrets regarding Barry Bonds, McNamee felt compelled to tell what he knew. And like I mentioned earlier, mostly everyone believes him.
But for the powers that be (the writers) to reduce Clemens' entire body of work before the allegations made by McNamee is ridiculous.
Clemens is a Hall of Fame player with HOF credentials. If you add in the seasons which McNamee said he didn't administer PEDs to Clemens (1999, 2002-2007), the non-alleged PED numbers are even more staggering. If you want to remove all the seasons from Clemens' career after his first use of PEDs, then you still have a tremendous career. Clemens (and Barry Bonds) were HOF players before they became supposed "cheats."
Should we then remove Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker from the HOF, great ball players who were implicated in a game-throwing scandal during the 1919 season? Do we remove from the HOF all the players like Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, Mickey Mantle, Willie Stargell and Mike Schmidt who supposedly used "greenies" and other amphetamine drugs to stay on the field during the 1960s and 1970s?
Is it OK because the use of greenies (and reds, etc) that was widely accepted in the game back then?
MLB writers constantly call on the game's umpires to just call the game and not impose themselves into the game. Now it appears like the writers are not only calling the HOF game, but are actually imposing themselves into the contest.
And that is bad for baseball.


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A team of overseas researchers discovered 54 billion cubic feet of helium gas in Tanzania's Rift Valley, according to The Guardian. Helium is a rare gas used for research and medical purposes, and its scarcity has sent prices skyrocketing over 500% in the past decade. Norwegian firm Helium One has three extraction licenses pending with the Tanzanian government.
There is little word on the commercial aspect of helium production in Tanzania, but it is another element that could produce more wealth to an economy that is relatively robust, but still needs vast improvement. Helium is rare to the point where many doctors have urged a ban on its use in balloons.
The gas is a precious find for Tanzania as the county struggles with dire poverty. The East African nation retains other precious minerals and natural gas resources, including gold and diamonds, but natural resources have not provided wide-scale prosperity. Market instabilities in oil and commodities have added some instability to an economy that has remained above water for the most part, but will see some troubles along the way. Food shortages will continue to be a problem, and the economy must produce a surplus of high-quality jobs to satisfy a growing labor force.
The good news is that Tanzania's economy expanded 7.0% in 2015, and leaders see a growth target of 7.4% in 2017, notes Standard Digital. With that, corruption is a primary issue preventing economic advancement. President John Magufuli has campaigned on a pledge to reduce graft, and his policies are popular with the public.
Reducing corruption will place the economy on stable footing as it ventures into new projects such as helium production, including overall diversification of the economy. Tanzania relies heavily on agriculture production, but officials have diversified into other ventures, such as construction and finance, and the new helium discovery could add to Tanzania's diversification portfolio. Such a strategy is the right path as other economies around the world struggle with lower commodity and energy prices.
Helium extraction would prove to be a more lucrative venture than oil and natural gas, especially as the oil market contends with a glut, and heightened helium prices would provide more revenue in the short-term at a time when the government needs to capitalize on its momentum. It remains to be seen what role helium would play in Tanzania's economy, but policymakers would see some significant gains as their country becomes a primary supplier of a scarce resource.


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Prism-Folding Low Table by Nak Boong Kim
Nak Boong Kim Illustrates The Prism Folding Low Table
Nak Boong Kim, the creator of the highlighted design Folding Low Table by Nak Boong Kim explains, The question 'What is this for?' is the core of this product, giving customers pleasure to see this prism-like triangle pillar turning into a totally new table just like the film Transformers. Its operating parts are also moving in the same way of joints of a robot: if you lift one side of the furniture, it is automatically unfolded into a flat table board. You can also lift both sides for the use. After lifting both panels a small storage space is revealed beneath..
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After the War (ft. Alex, MoShang, HEJ31) by SackJo22
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No Mercy: Police put banned chokehold on pregnant woman
Jeremy Pasker | 7/31/2014, 10:17 a.m.
The Black community is in an uproar after a video surfaced showing a seven-months pregnant woman being held in an apparent chokehold by an NYPD officer. The Police Department said her family was grilling on the sidewalk outside their home in East New York, which is illegal.
"I was shocked," said Rosan Miller. "They just drove up and held me and began to choke. I asked them, 'What's the problem?' and they never explained it. The police are here to protect us, but they're not doing that. I'm in pain. A lot of pain."
"[Bratton's] policy of 'broken windows' perpetuates a system that targets people of color that causes negative interaction between police and community," Councilwoman Inez Barron told the Amsterdam News. "Bratton must go!"
Monday, July 28, shortly after noon, Barron and her husband, former Councilman Charles Barron, held a press conference in front of Brooklyn's 75th Precinct to dispute the actions taken by the NYPD. "If it was a white neighborhood [the patrolling officers] would have kept driving by," said Charles Barron.
Miller and her family were grilling food outside their home in East New York, Brooklyn, like people in the neighborhood tend to do during the humid summer days. But a day that should have ended like any other, with laughs and full stomachs, instead ended with husband, Moses Miller, with a dislocated shoulder and Rosan Miller needing to go to the clinic to check on the health of her unborn child.
"[NYPD] are suppose to protect our community, but they ended up abusing my wife," Moses Miller lamented from the podium, while addressing the press. "She is not feeling well. She's feeling a lot of pain in her back."
Police say the trouble began Saturday evening around 7 p.m., when they found Moses Miller grilling on the sidewalk, and he refused to hand over his ID and began walking away from the officers. Officers say they attempted to arrest Moses Miller, but John and Rosan Miller intervened, slapping at the officers. According to the police, Rosan Miller then resisted arrest. Moses Miller was charged with resisting arrest and his brother, John Miller, was charged with harassment and obstruction of justice. Charles Barron called for the immediate release of the Millers after learning of the incident.
Pictures of the incident show an officer with his arm around Rosan Miller's neck, forcibly removing her from the front yard. Video footage of the incident corroborates the Millers' claims that the police exceeded their mandate, according to the family's attorney.
A neighbor, Tanya Wilcox, said that she's afraid to confront officers after they act inappropriately for fear they might retaliate. She thinks that police continue to assault Black people because there are rarely, if any, repercussions for doing so.
"They need to hire police officers from the community and not transfer them in from Long Island, or whatever," stated Wilcox, a mother of four. "They need to be mentors but not think they are above the law."
The Barrons are both holding the police commissioner personally responsible for the tactics his men used. Retaining his role as head of the police force under Mayor Bill de Blasio, despite the multiple infractions under his watch, is unacceptable, they argued. The two also disputed Bratton's claims that sensitivity training would remedy the schism dividing the community and the police force.


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Ireland is in for another six weeks of non-stop rain – thanks to an ancient myth and a downpour on Sunday morning across the country.
As the farming community comes to terms with the wettest summer in years, the outlook took another turn for the worst.
Legend has it that if St Swithin's Day – Sunday July 15th – sees rain then the country will be hit with constant rain for 40 days.
Forecasters have attempted to pour their own brand of cold water on the myth but many were despondent when it rained in most parts of the country on Sunday morning.
Forecasters with the government's Met Eireann weather service predicted:
"Many areas should see bright and fresh sunny spells on Sunday although there is a threat of heavy downfalls, especially in the north and west of the country.
"Rain is forecast for Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, but showers should die out towards Thursday."
The same meteorologists warned there will be no heatwave in the coming weeks with temperatures to be "below normal."
Farmers are being badly hit by the rain with crops rotting in flooded fields and many animals moved indoors.
Irish Farmers' Association vice president Eddie Downey has warned the situation will become critical for farmers if the weather does not improve soon.
He said: "If the weather does not pick up we are looking at a bleak harvest. Farmers won't be able to harvest crops because the ground conditions are so bad.
"If we got a reasonable spell of weather, a lot of work could be done to avert a catastrophe but we are in salvage territory right now.
"Food costs could rise for consumers as a result of all this. In northern England and Europe farmers are flooded and in Poland and America they are burnt out of it.
"There is a serious shortage of grain and meat in the world and the weather problems could have a major effect on food prices."


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Share a fun language arts enrichment activity with your child, and learn the basics of Japanese! The Hiragana alphabet is a simplified version of the complex Japanese language, and will help you both get started learning new phonics, letters and words in Japanese.
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Etherly's 27, Team Free Throw Shooting Lifts Loyola Into CIT Quarterfinals
BALTIMORE – Erik Etherly recorded a double-double with 27 points and 11 rebounds, making 17-of-19 free throws, and Loyola University Maryland made 87.9-percent of its attempts from the charity stripe, and the Greyhounds defeated visiting Kent State University, 73-59, on Sunday afternoon in the CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament.
With the win, Loyola (23-11 overall) advanced to the CIT Quarterfinals where it will play at East Carolina University on Tuesday, March 26, at 7 p.m.
Etherly's 17 made free throws are tied for second-most in school single game history, one shy of the program record 18 set by Jamal Barney against NJIT on January 14, 2009. Of the four players in school history to make 17 or more in a game – including Maurice Hicks (17 in 1983) and Rodney Floyd (17 in 1973) – Etherly's came in the fewest number of attempts.
As a team, the Greyhounds made 29-of-33 from the line, as Dylon Cormier made 7-of-9, Anthony Winbush knocked down his three attempts, and Chido Onyiuke scored his first collegiate points by making 2-of-2 in the final 30 seconds.
"Erik can make a living by getting to the free throw line, and he was aggressive in going to the basket and drawing contact today," Head Coach Jimmy Patsos said.
The Greyhounds never trailed in the game that was tied just twice in the first four minutes. Loyola built a nine-point lead less than seven minutes in after a pair of Etherly free throws.
Kent State (21-14) cut Greyhounds lead back to three on a Khaliq Spicer dunk with 3:34 left before halftime, but that was as close as the Golden Flashes would get.
Robert Olson did not score in the first half, but he knocked down a three 57 seconds into the second half to extend the Loyola advantage to 10, 36-26.
Loyola went up by 12 twice over a minute span, the second time coming on a Cormier free throw at 12:41, but Chris Evans made two free throws at 10:47, and Kent State was within seven, 50-43. The Greyhounds quickly took the lead back into double figures until Randal Holt made two at the line to pull Kent State within nine, 54-45, with 8:28 on the clock.
A quick 6-0 Loyola run, however, with four Etherly free throws and a goaltending call against the Golden Flashes on a Cormier fast-break layup gave the Greyhounds their largest lead of the game, 60-45, with 6:29 left.
Kent State had one final comeback attempt, pulling within nine on a Darren Goodson jumper at 4:21, but Etherly again made a pair at the line, and the lead was back to double figures.
Cormier finished with 18 points, and Olson added 10. Etherly also led all players with four assists.
Evans and Holt led the Golden Flashes with 13 points each, and Goodson scored 12, but Kent State shot just 27.6-percent (16-of-58) from the field.
Evans, who was Kent State's leading scorer (16.3 points, 7.8 rebounds) entering the game, was held to just 2-of-11 from the field primarily because of the defense played by Winbush.


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Inadequate risk assessments – A study on worst-case scenarios related to petroleum exploitation in the Lofoten area
Heated debates are currently taking place on whether to open the area of Lofoten and Vesterålen in Northern Norway for petroleum production. Seismic explorations in this area have indicated promising petroleum resources. ...


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Award Winning Vanilla Lounge Chair
Sahar Madanat Haddad Shares The Vanilla Lounge Chair
Sahar Madanat Haddad, the designer of the displayed design Award Winning Vanilla Lounge Chair explicates, A luxury lounge chair with a story that embodies generational gaps and ties them together into one beautiful piece of art you can relax on. Wide seating with 7 cm cushioning for utmost comfort, adjustable neck rest, 360 rotation and tilt back technology to support knees and back. Bent-wood frame has an ergonomic form that adjusts to your shape for the ultimate lounging experience. It's Luxury with a small carbon foot print! The majority of this chair can be manufactured locally with simple production processes, and the brass decorative sheet metal is handmade by local craftsmen..
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While reading an article in the November 1954 issue of American Artist on "Art for Television Commercials" I was struck by a point I think I have always intrinsically been aware of, but had never fully considered...
The storybook stylists of the 1950's had a profound influence on cartoon animation, both in terms of character design and the look of settings and props. Their influence was so powerful that decades later, second and third generation animators are still looking back to the work of these early pioneers for inspiration.
Consider this: some of the best known and most beloved storybook artists of the 50's began their careers in the animation industry of the 1940's. Alice Provensen worked at Walter (Woody Woodpecker) Lantz Studios and her husband, Martin, worked at Disney - as did other reknowned storybook artists Gustav Tenggren Aurelius Battaglia and Mary Blair.
The significance of this influence can not be overstated!
If you were born and raised in North America since the advent of television and watched endless hours of old Warner Brothers and MGM cartoons, or grew up as I did on a steady diet of Hanna Barbera's made-for-tv fair, or went to any Disney movies from the 'Aristocats' era, then you'll recognize the similarity of style in the look of the work done by the 50's storybook artists and the buildings, trees, picture frames, chair legs, salt and pepper shakers and a million other props and environments in the cartoons you watched.
Some of you grew up and became animators and illustrators - and when I look at imagery all over the Internet today, on your blogs and websites, its clear that the childhood memories of styles these storybook artists originated still resonate powerfully for a great many of you.
This brings us to one particular storybook artist who stands at the crossroads between storybook and animation art: Mel Crawford.
While the other artists mentioned above created styles whose influence can be seen in the work of animators, Crawford brings the process full circle by adapting the animated cartoon back into the storybook format. He understands the technique and stylistic nuances of the storybook artist -- and the cartooniness and dynamic movement and exaggeration of the animator.
Crawford manages to create a hybrid that is the perfect, delightful synthesis of both!
Crawford is an amazingly versatile artist. Though he is best known for his storybook adaptations of tv cartoons (for which he is adored by a legion of illustrators and animators) he is equally adept at realistic illustration.
Some might be surprised to discover that this work below is Mel Crawford, too.
While preparing this post I was thrilled to discover that not only does Mel Crawford have a website, he also has a blog where you can see many more examples of his wonderful artwork.
I'm really running behind this week, but there's more to show on the subject of the storybook style. Stay tuned and I might just fire off a second post later today!
My Ads with Storybook Styles Flickr set.
My Mel Crawford Flickr set.
Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Friday, July 11, 2008
Storybook Stylists and their Influence on Animation
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Holy smokes, those are illustrations of RIN TIN TIN, a TV show I grew up loving as a kid. Will certainly check this artist out. Amazing, beautiful work.ReplyDelete
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I am absolutely loving these last few posts. These drawing and painting styles never fail to get me all worked up into an illustration frenzy. They are eternally fresh. I'd love to see an enormous world-class museum devoted just to this storybook style and the general "mod" 40s-60s style of illustration and animation.ReplyDelete
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IBM will be collaborating with the Georgia Institute of Technology and Ohio State University to develop new autonomic technology for cloud computing. The collaborative Critical Enterprise Cloud Computing Services (CECCS) research project will focus on self-managing features for virtualized data centers in a cloud computing environment.
Virtualized data centers give organizations the ability to do more with fewer resources by optimizing the use of software, computing hardware and storage, and network infrastructure by sharing not only across departments but also across different physical locations. Cloud computing lets data centers operate more like the Internet by enabling computing across a distributed, globally accessible fabric of resources, rather than simply depending upon local machines or remote server farms. The success of cloud computing and a virtualized data center depends on the ability to continue the development of new management technology based upon autonomic, or self-managing, capabilities that can reduce the complexity and resources to manage the underlying distributed computing resources.
The CECCS project focuses on software application services that are critical to the ability of a business to function, such as operational information systems run by large airlines. It will look at how job and process activities and maintenance schedules can be undertaken without seriously jeopardizing critical data center operations. Similarly, the project intends to use self-managing software to address a general problem of balancing technology system availability versus performance.
The project will foster interaction and exchange of innovative ideas among professors at Georgia Tech and Ohio State and IBM Watson and Austin Research Labs and Raleigh development teams. Through the use of IBM Shared University Research and IBM Academic Initiative programs, IBM is awarding the universities with IBM BladeCenter H chassis running HS21 servers, IBM System Storage DS3400, networking equipment and software that includes IBM Tivoli, WebSphere and Information Management. Together with virtualization support, these will form the necessary foundation for building the CECCS facility.
"For future virtualized and service-oriented systems within a cloud environment, we contend that without the coordinated use of hardware, operating systems, middleware and applications, it will simply not be possible to meet the demands of tomorrow's critical applications and systems that support them," said Karsten Schwan, CERCS Director at The Georgia Institute of Technology. "The CECCS facility will be a test-bed for modern management tools, such as those provided by IBM Tivoli, and a visible artifact for interactions with industry technology users and developers in these regions and around the world."


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Everyone likes our feminized seeds, from small growers to large-scale commercial growers because cultivating them isn't complicated. No matter your level of expertise, we are happy to advise to get the most out of your seeds. The grow guide helps to breed the strains of your choice. And have you ever thought about taking advantage of the climate you live in? Read more about in our online blog.
Profit from feminized seeds
If you like a natural way of breeding, AMS offers a right mix of high-quality regular seeds too. Haze seeds feminized, however, are more efficient to grow. As we said earlier: feminized seeds save time, energy and money. They are a great choice, and the size of the buds make you spin. Above that, they are a right choice if you are just starting out. If you like it more when you purchase feminized marijuana seeds for selling the yields gotten thereafter, then our assortment of feminized weed seeds gives you the best in terms of profits. Sell the buds, pocket your profits, come for more seeds.
What are your needs?
Now that we have established that feminized marijuana seeds are the way to go let's have a look at your needs and the best match. Are you growing for medicinal purposes? Try our White Strains or our Marijuana. Recreational user? Try our Cup Winner Combo or Most Wanted Feminized combo. Do you want a big field full of huge buds? Big Bud Feminized is the answer. If taking marijuana for recreational purposes is your thing, then the best item of news today is that we have them, and loads of them awaiting you to take action. Tip: We know that there are lots of options in feminized cannabis seeds. Check the marijuana seeds table out first; it makes it easier to make a choice. The table shows you exactly which strain fits your experience and desires. That makes buying feminized marijuana seeds lots easier.
Guerilla farmers choose feminized seeds
The best sellers of AMS feminized marijuana seeds are Bianca Feminized and the good old classic White Widow XTRM Feminized. The most robust feminized seeds we offer are AMS XTRM, AMS Supreme and again White Widow XTRM Feminized. Fact: Guerrilla growers prefer feminized seeds, fewer trips to the field and less chance of being caught.
"Five stars for AMS"
Amsterdam Marijuana Seeds strives to be the best seed bank with high-quality feminized seeds only. We offer excellent service, share our expertise, and we are very discrete. Check it out yourself on the independent review website Kiyoh. The site where you'll find out that our customer's satisfaction is "above the norm", as they write.
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Order your feminized seeds straight from Amsterdam. We offer high-quality feminized marijuana seeds at affordable prices. Top Dutch breeders select our feminized cannabis seeds. All seed packages contain 10 feminized marijuana seeds. Your schedule isn't a big deal. Provided we support your payment option, you can order your feminized cannabis seeds from the comfort of wherever you are.
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Tagumpay ! That's the name of a male relative of mine and also the Tagalog word for success! For this innocuous recipe adapted from Epicurious proved to be quite a hit at first try. Actually, on first inspection of the recipe I wasn't too impressed because if you remove the chillies, masa harina and cumin, it would be your usual beef stew. How wrong I was! Maybe it's the masa harina or its combination with the chillies my husband got from his colleague that shaped the great flavour. It is really really good especially for this blustery, wintry weather we seem to be all under right now. I highly recommend this my friends so get cooking!
Thanks to my husband's colleague Dave who gave us his prized hybrid chillies he got from a specialist grower. They added a complexity of flavour and a variety of spiciness that is departure from the usual. The heat I felt was around the mouth and back of throat which was surprisingly pleasant for me not like the usual in-your-face hot spiciness that just gives you pain. For someone who's a chilli wimp this was a great adventure.
This chili is a departure from the usual recipes where they normally use minced (ground) beef. True Texan chili I've read and heard - never use minced meat only cut-up pieces of well-marbled beef. Thus the use of braising or chuck beef was important. I think other stewing beef parts like the shin would be good as well. And that is only one of the differences. It also never use beans nor tomato sauce. And I guess bell peppers would be sacrilege as well!
Texas Chili
1 kg braising beef (or chuck or stewing beef) - cut into 3/4-inch pieces
6-8 pieces of dried New Mexico, guajillo, or pasilla chillies (or combination)*
1 1/2 tsp ground cumin
1 tsp whole black peppercorn
2 tsp sea salt
5 Tbsp (approx.) lard, butter, or vegetable oil
1 medium onion - finely chopped
3 cloves garlic - minced (about 1 Tbsp)
2 Tbsp masa harina (corn tortilla flour)*
2 cups beef stock
1 Tbsp firmly packaged dark brown sugar
1 Tbsp white distilled vinegar*
sour cream
lime wedges
- [Optional] If you're using dried chillies, lightly toast the dried chillies in a pan over medium-low heat about 2-3 minutes on each side. Be careful not to burn them or they will taste bitter. Put in a bowl and soak in very hot water until soft (about 30-45 minutes).
- Split the chillies; remove and discard the seeds and stems. Chop roughly.
- Place in a blender or food processor and add salt, ground cumin, and 1/4 cup water. Blend/process until a smooth paste forms. Set aside.
- In a heavy pot, heat 2 Tbsp of the lard or oil. Brown the beef on at least two sides in small batches over medium heat. Add more oil if needed. Set aside.
- Reheat pot and add more lard/oil if needed. Saute the onion and garlic. Cook for about 4 minutes over low-medium heat.
- Add in the chilli mixture and quickly saute for a few seconds. Watch out, this might sting your eyes and throat so just cook them very briefly.
- Add the beef, mix briefly. Then add the beef stock.
- Slowly add the masa harina while stirring. Cover and bring to boil. Lower heat and simmer for about 1.5 hours or until beef is tender. (Note: I used a pressure cooker and it did not seem to affect the quality)
- Stir in the brown sugar and vinegar and cook a few minutes more until dissolved. Taste and add more salt or pepper if desired.
- Serve with sour cream and wedges of lime with long grain rice or chips (thick french fries).
- You can use plain tortilla chips if you can't find masa harina. Grind them into fine crumbs before using.
- Dried chillies are not mandatory. You may use fresh chillies; just skip procedure no. 1 above.
- I used cane vinegar for this recipe and it was okay.


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The fonds consists of records generated by the Museum of Anthropology Public Relations and Communications Office in the course of carrying out its mandated functions and activities. In addition to textual records, the fond also includes graphic material. The records are composed of correspondence, publications, reports, press releases, photocopied newspaper clippings, minutes of staff, committee, and association meetings, and other materials relating to the activities and functions of the Public Relations and Communications Office and its staff.
The fonds has been organized into the following series:
1. Administrative files (1981-2006)
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3. Media activities files (1975-2015)
4. Museum programs and projects files (1977-2008)
5. Museum events and performances files ([ca.1977]-2008)
6. Museum exhibition files (1978-2008)
7. Volunteer and student position files ([ca. 1981]-2009)
8. Resource files (1976-2007)
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Dow 17K: A Story of Recovery, Perseverance
Wall Street has emerged from the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression deeply and irreversibly changed. But one certainty has proven itself once again: Patience and courage are critical virtues for investors on Main Street.
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A perfect storm of financial and economic turmoil brought the seemingly impenetrable financial system to the very brink of collapse in two painful years starting in 2007. Financial historians are still piecing together the puzzle, but a big bust in the real estate market is cited as the impetus for the financial hurricane.
A Financial System at the Brink of Collapse
A mixture of poor underwriting, excessive risk-taking, lackluster regulations, shaky balance sheets and insufficient corporate governance meant the entire credit market took a massive blow that sent asset prices across the board plummeting, sometimes with a frightening velocity. In March 2008, the U.S. government hastily arranged a deal in which JPMorgan Chase (NYSE:JPM) bought Bear Stearns -- then one of the Street's biggest mortgage originators and a storied investment bank -- for the fire-sale price of about $2.4 billion.
By early fall, the situation was grave. The U.S. government placed mortgage behemoths Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac under conservatorship on Sept. 7. A mere eight days later, Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) controversially scooped up hemorrhaging Merrill Lynch for $50 billion -- representing a heavy discount to where the Wall Street icon traded the previous year.
Worst of all, Lehman Brothers, the once powerful bond shop, filed for bankruptcy that same fall day after numerous rivals and finally the government snubbed cries begging for a rescue package. Just a day later, the Federal Reserve was forced to craft an $85 billion rescue package to save insurance giant American International Group (NYSE:AIG).
At the same time, the Reserve Primary Money Fund infamously "broke the buck," meaning investors who stashed assets in the money-market fund, an investment that's perceived to be almost as safe as cash, suddenly saw their funds shrink to less than a dollar on every dollar invested.
"There were headlines every hour on the hour," recalled Bob Doll, who was then Chief Investment Officer of Global Equities at BlackRock, the world's biggest money manager with trillions of dollars in client assets under management. "The financial system as we know it almost fell apart."
In the frenetic weeks that followed, the situation only deteriorated. Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) and Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) converted into bank holding companies to make it easier for the Fed to provide them with more liquidity. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation helped devise buyout deals to keep Washington Mutual and Wachovia, the nation's biggest thrifts, from collapsing. The Treasury Department, FDIC and Fed stepped in to give Citigroup (NYSE:C) a rescue package.
Eventually, a great many banks would tap the Treasury Department's Troubled Asset Relief Program for $245 billion in emergency capital. Treasury used the same program to prop up General Motors (NYSE:GM) and Chrysler -- two of the Big Three U.S. automakers -- as part of an $82 billion investment of the auto industry.
In December 2008, the Fed sliced short-term rates to a range of 0% to 0.25% -- a historic and dramatic move aimed at salvaging the financial system.
Main Street Investors Pummeled by Wall Street's Woes
The intense turbulence in the financial markets, of course, ricocheted straight to Main Street USA.
"I think retail clients … may not have understood everything that was going on, but sensed there was a real crisis. Some of that sense was brought home to them when money market funds broke the buck," recalled David Joy, chief market strategist at Ameriprise Financial (NYSE:AMP), which sports $783 billion in assets under management and administration.
It wouldn't take more than a glance at the Wall Street Journal to realize there was intense trouble. The Dow Jones Industrial Average -- perhaps the most famous market barometer -- hit a closing high of 14164.53 in October 2007. By the end of 2008, the blue-chip average had nose-dived 5388.14 points to 8776.39. The broader economy also skidded into a deep recession, with gross domestic product shrinking at an annual rate of 8.3% in the fourth quarter.
And the bleeding didn't stop there.
"People were deer in the headlights. Some were concerned, some were scared, some, because they're trained, asked 'is this an opportunity,'" Doll, now chief equity strategist at Nuveen Asset Management, said of clients' varied sentiment at the time.
Investors, large and small, were shedding stocks at an incredible clip, with many preferring the safety of cash or Treasury bonds. In fact, between January 2008 and March 2009, investors yanked a whopping $161.9 billion from equity mutual funds, according to data from the Investment Company Institute.
On March 9, 2009, the Dow careened to its bear-market low of 6547.05, representing a crash of 7617.48 points, or 53.8%, from its 2007 highs. Fear was running high, with the CBOE's VIX, a measure of implied volatility, trading at 49.68 (still an improvement from the record closing high of 80.86 notched in November 2008).
Naturally, skittish clients asked Doll a whole range of questions: "Are we going to have a depression? Is the system going to make it? Are the markets going to make it?"
They were right to be nervous.
A portfolio made up of 10 shares of the popular SPDR S&P 500 exchange-traded fund (TICKER:SPY) -- an investment vehicle that provides exposure to a broad swath of large-capitalization U.S. stocks -- would have been worth $1,564.80 at the Oct. 9, 2007 bull-market high. The value of that same group of holdings plummeted $883.70, or 56.5%, to $681.10 by the time Wall Street bottomed to its bear-market low on March 9, 2009.
The advice Doll and Joy -- two asset-management veterans -- gave to clients at the time was fairly similar: Hang in there, because light always eventually makes its way through even the thickest clouds.
"The first thing we tried to do was make sure our clients had access to liquidity, and hold their hands to figure out what was going on and find out if the policy response was appropriate and likely to succeed and (encourage them) not to make emotional decisions," Joy recalled, noting Ameriprise even tapped its own capital reserves to provide clients liquidity when money-market funds ran into trouble.
"We generally had faith the financial system would stabilize."
Echoing that sentiment, Doll said "the advice (at the time) was the central government has lots of firepower" that can be used to support the economy.
Indeed, under the leadership of Ben Bernanke, the Fed launched a series of unprecedented moves aimed at pulling the world's biggest economy out of what many economists say could have been an even deeper recession or even a depression. In addition to ultra-low short-term rates, the Fed unleashed several rounds on bond purchases to put pressure on longer-term rates and support the housing market, and utilized other unorthodox tools to buttress ailing banks. Other government agencies, notably Treasury and the FDIC, also played important roles.
A New Wall Street Emerges
Fast-forward five years since Wall Street hit rock bottom and the world is a different, although certainly still perilous, place. Employment, as measured by the Labor Department, finally returned to pre-crisis levels in May, while the jobless rate hit its lowest level since September 2008 in June. Auto-industry sales are running at the highest rate since 2006. The U.S. economy, despite a tough first quarter, is expected to grow at an annual pace of at least 3% this year. And the VIX is at its lowest level since 2007.
As the economy improves, and the financial system heals, the Fed is slowly beginning its exit from the massive easing program. Indeed, economists are even beginning to question whether the central bank will begin hiking rates sooner than expected, given the better-than-expected jobs gains of late.
Perhaps most impressive of all, the Dow on Thursday rallied to the 17000 level for the first time ever. That represents a once unfathomable 10452.95-point, or 159.7%, surge from bear-market lows. It also signifies a solid 2835.47-point, or 20%, advance from the 2007 bull-market highs.
That portfolio made up of ten shares of the SPDR S&P 500 ETF is now worth $1,978.50, as the S&P 500 rallies to new record highs. That represents a whopping $1,297.40, or 191%, advance from the bear-market lows. More importantly, though, given even the best stock pickers historically aren't great at calling market bottoms, the portfolio is up $413.70, or 26.4%, from the bear-market highs reached in 2007.
The moral if the story is even when the going gets tough -- really tough -- it's often better to hang in there … even if it means some temporary losses on paper.


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Dresses are feminine. But beyond that, for Taylor Swift, they have a way of making her feel carefree, fancy or like a '50s housewife. They're powerful like that. Yet here she is, in an array of pants that range from $295 to $1,395 in the December issue of Harper's Bazaar . The dress talk comes from a story she told about carrying a picture of Gwyneth Paltrow's pink Ralph Lauren 1999 Oscar gown around a mall when she was 15 looking for something similar to wear to her prom. "I went all over the mall and showed it to all the store owners and said, 'Do you have anything that looks like this?' And no one did. So there's that. That's a sad story for you," she said. Now, though, she'd probably have no trouble finding someone to fetch her that dress. Fitting it in her closet, though, might be a problem. Swift claims she has hundreds of dresses. "Because I'm in a predicament where I can't wear a dress twice or else it's pointed out in magazines, so unfortunately I have to shop for dresses all the time," she laughed. As for posing in so many pairs of pants — which are out of her comfort zone — Swift had a positive outlook. "Personal growth, let's call it that."


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Cybersoft Timeline
1986 - Cybersoft Information Technologies, Inc. was organized as a computer training and systems development consulting company. The company (now known as Cybersoft Integrated Geo Informatics, Inc. or CIGI) leads the Philippines in Geographic Information Systems applications and mobile location-based services. CIGI also has the largest and most complete private digital road and map network for the country.
1988 - Cybersoft starts providing simple data entry services to the United States.
1988 - Cybersoft, Inc. was registered in California to serve as the marketing and liaison office for data entry services in the United States.
1992 - Cybersoft Data Networks, Inc. (now known as Cybersoft Content Services, Inc. or CCSI) was established as a separate company in the Philippines to handle data entry outsourcing operations.
2001 - Total Transcription Solutions, Inc. (TTSI) was established as a separate entity to provide offshore medical, legal and other transcription services. TTSI now delivers 1 million lines per month to its Health Care, Legal and General transcription clients.
2005 - Cybersoft Information Technology, Inc. (Beijing) was established as a joint venture in Beijing, China. In 2007, CITI (Beijing) was awarded a multi-year long term outsourcing contract by China Netcom (now merged with China Unicom) to provide location-based services and multilingual call center for the 2008 Summer Olympics. This service is now expanding to more major cities in China. CITI (Beijing) also provides us the third leg of our best shore outsourcing solution.
2009 - Cybersoft, Inc. signs an agreement with Centrealtech, Inc. (CRT) to use their One-Click System to provide Title Insurance Reports Production services utilizing a best-shore methodology.
2011 - Cybersoft embarks on a serious application development initiative focused on creating a service delivery platform. The vision and objective was to enhance the value of our services by creating a seamless method of delivering and collaborating over source documents. The platform is a web based system centered on document processing and handling. It was called PURODOCS.
2013 - Purodocs is repackaged and named Safebox. It's first major implementation was in the mortgage industry.
2013 - Cybersoft enters an agreement with the largest dollar volume broker in the United States since 2010. Which employs fourteen of the top-producing 200 (and six of the top-producing 50) loan officers in the country. Cybersoft has "empowered" it's client's staff in a paperless platform using Safebox that resulted in a increased efficiency and accuracy of their loan packages.
2013 - Cybersoft signs an agreement with one of the top ten lending companies in the United States. Cybersoft is able to provide services for the client's 30+ branches scattered across different states by using Safebox as their paperless platform for processing loan transactions.
2014 - Safebox is redesigned and optimized to add more "intelligence" into the document handling process. It is rebranded as SafeboxIQ.
2014 - Cybersoft creates another web based application intended to provide it's existing BPO services clients with a "window" to our production processes. It is called the Collaborative Activity Tracking System (CATS).


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If you follow me on Twitter you can tell that I was pretty surprised that Mike Shanahan left Robert Griffin III in the game against the Seahawks on Sunday. He started out by leading two scoring drives, but he clearly aggravated his knee and was noticeably limping after he did. Not only that, but he was clearly not 100% before he aggravated his knee and it was obvious any time he tried to use his normally elite mobility. But after he aggravated his knee (the same knee he tore his ACL in when he was at Baylor) there was no question in my mind- RGIII needed to come out of the game.
I can understand wanting to keep him in until halftime, but at halftime if I am Mike Shanahan I would have benched RGIII and put Kirk Cousins in the game. I'm sure some will claim that hindsight is 20/20, but I was calling for this to happen in real time on Twitter, go read my timeline. I'm not saying that Cousins would have led the Redskins to a glorious victory, but I think he gave them a better chance to win than a clearly hurt RGIII.
I understand this was a huge game for Washington and really for the entire city of DC. And honestly, Shanahan would have likely caught flak either way no matter what he did. If he pulls RGIII and he loses he's a moron, but if he keeps him in, loses, and it results in his franchise QB doing serious damage to his knee then he's an even bigger moron. I don't expect Shanahan to bend to the will of the fans and the media (and he shouldn't) but that is just another reason why he shouldn't have been afraid to take RGIII out. This team is building for the next decade, not just for this one wild card game. You have to be able to see long term, and while advancing in the playoffs is awfully important this is the exact situation you drafted Kirk Cousins for: your star quarterback is hurt, he can't run effectively so the zone read is a glorified hand-off, and he can't drive off of his plant leg because of the pain from his injury leading to inaccurate throws (and an interception by Earl Thomas). Put Cousins in. He knows the offense, he isn't as mobile as RGIII but he can run the zone read and make plenty of the same throws that RGIII can make. He's not the same, but if he was as good as RGIII he would have gone much earlier in the draft. He is a capable back-up, and this is why you drafted him- PLAY HIM!
But Shanahan didn't play him, and there are going to be people defending his decision to not do so. One of those people is Mark Schlereth. Another is Skip Bayless. I don't know about you, but those aren't the kind of people I want backing up my decision making. In fact, I'd prefer the opposite. Regardless of who agrees or disagrees with Shanahan though, he left his QB in after the half instead of playing his capable rookie back-up. As the head coach, that is his decision. Some are already saying "Well I'm sure RGIII wanted to stay in the game, I agree that Shanny should have left him in if he wanted to be in." That is irrelevant. Very rarely will an athlete, hurt or not hurt, ask to come out of a game. Everyone can remember what happened when Jay Cutler came out of the game right? He was torn apart in the media and even some players criticized him (here's looking at you Maurice Jones-Drew). Was it fair? Maybe, maybe not, but my point is that in one of the rare instances where a player requested to be removed from the game he was torn apart for it. I personally believe that RGIII is a much better leader and honestly a more likeable person than Cutler is, and it's not a surprise that he would want to stay in the game. And I won't be surprised when he defends Shanahan's decision to leave him in the game- it's almost certainly what he wanted. He wanted to lead his team to a playoff win and he wanted to do it whether he was playing on one leg or two. I respect that, and it was alright for the first half despite the fact that he was noticeably less accurate after he was injured. However, the head coach is responsible for telling RGIII that even though he wants to play, it's not worth the long term risk of injury, especially given how much less effectively he has been running the offense. That is why he gets paid a small fortune every year; to make tough decisions that while possibly unpopular are better for the team even if the players involved are vehemently opposed to his decision. I think Shanahan understands that, but inexplicably he still left Griffin in and we all saw the result- he got hurt.
I really hope that RGIII didn't do any structural damage to his knee. He tore that same ACL when he was at Baylor and doing damage like that to it again would likely be very problematic. It sure looked like he did something to it though, it buckled when he planted it after that bad snap and he crumpled to the ground. He did walk off under his own power, but I have seen plenty of players with serious knee injuries walk off under their own power only to find out they did structural damage to it. It may seem encouraging, but it doesn't guarantee he didn't do any serious damage. We will have to wait for the result of that MRI, but regardless of what happened to his knee I believe that he should have been taken out. He couldn't throw accurately, he was throwing with awful footwork and mechanics because he couldn't drive off of his plant leg, and the one time he kept the ball on the zone read he literally limped for 9 yards and went out of bounds. He should have been taken out of the game.
Honestly, I am in disbelief that RGIII even played as long as he did and I have a ton of admiration for Coach Shanahan. In fact, I'm about to buy his book. But RGIII could barely jog back to the huddle. He couldn't drive off of his plant leg. He couldn't throw with his normal velocity or accuracy. He couldn't run the ball effectively. He couldn't even roll out on a bootleg. James Andrews, a man who seems to perform more surgeries on serious knee injuries than anyone ever has or will, said he was worried about RGIII playing today. They decided to play him anyway, but there were a number of times where Shanahan should have, in my opinion, asserted himself as the Head Coach of this team and taken him out. In the heat of the moment you can't expect an athlete, especially an athlete as talented and tough as RGIII, to willingly take himself out. A leader like that will lie, cheat, beg and steal to keep himself from being taken out. RGIII did that tonight and now he got hurt. He was very professional after the game as we expected him to be, but that doesn't make Shanahan's decision the correct one. Here's hoping he didn't do any structural damage, but even if he didn't that doesn't mean he shouldn't have come out of the game. It would only mean that he is lucky.


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Last week, �ber-lobbyist Jack Abramoff's former partner Michael Scanlon pleaded guilty. As part of the plea deal, Scanlon admitted that he conspired to bribe public officials and defrauded several Indian casinos of millions of dollars. Scanlon has agreed to cooperate with the prosecution and pay restitution in the amount of $19 million.
Yesterday, on the Sunday talk shows, they were abuzz about the spectre of a scandal which threatens to overwhelm Washington. We've got a video compilation below.
U.S. News & World Report has learned that Scanlon is now the star witness "in a probe that threatens to ensnare officials throughout the nation's capital." A source reports that the scandal could take out a least a dozen in Congress.
John McCain is leading the senate investigation into Abramoff which has been also linked to the anti-government crusader Grover Norquist. According to an article in the Boston Globe, Norquist is now attacking McCain.
After ATR turned over its e-mails, Norquist charged, McCain tried to ''steal our donor list."
Norquist then accused McCain and Senator Byron L. Dorgan, a North Dakota Democrat, of discrimination by targeting lobbyists who worked for Native American tribes. Abramoff and his partners collected $82 million in fees from Indian tribes and their casinos over four years.
When we asked the senator's staff for a comment on Norquist's fusillade against McCain, his chief of staff, Mark Salter, had a lot to say. "In Norquist's world, the truth is for suckers. And it's as pointless to respond to him as it would be to respond to some street-corner schizophrenic," Salter responded.
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(For an update, 11/18/09/, on this story click here. And for a post relating to a Harvard coed and her sexual relationship with a Harvard TF, click here.)
Harvard women prepare to go nude in the new online magazine Diamond to be published by Harvard student Matthew M. Di Pasquale. Di Pasquale began to solicit Harvard coeds for nude photo opportunities via the Dunston House email list in February. The Harvard Crimson reported yesterday that "Harvard women posing nude alongside their theses just might be the way Diamond magazine wins over feminists."
On Thursday evening Diamond founder Di Pasquale and Harvard student H Bomb editor Brandon Perkovich (H Bomb is an ongoing sexually orientated publication at Harvard) met with a dozen Harvard undergraduates at the Harvard Women's Center to discuss the sexually orientated publications. The discussion was sponsored by the Radcliffe Union of Students.
Much of the discussion put Di Pasquale on the defensive. He told the crowd numerous times that Diamond's purpose is to allow women to "express themselves" in a pro-sex light-not to objectify them-and that he understands their concerns about typical pornography.
"One of the ideas behind Diamond is that [the models] are not just sexy girls, but intelligent, smart, successful, Harvard girls," he said. "I want the reader to understand who they are what they're doing in their lives. I read the interviews in Maxim."
While H Bomb received praise-Julia T. Havard '11 said that it was "artistic expression" with "a message behind it"-some of those present feared that Diamond would be less like H Bomb and more like mainstream pornography.
"[Pornography] perpetuates the idea in society that it's okay to see women on a page, that it's acceptable in society to objectify women in terms of sexual attractiveness," said Shanti S. Kris '11, who identified herself as a feminist.
"In rape, you're objectifying women through a violent action, so the danger is that it makes it acceptable to look at women as objects," she said.
But despite the fact that the discussion became spirited at times, the conversation ended on a positive note, with those present praising the rise in sexual publications on campus.
Di Pasquale indicated that the premiere issue of Diamond will be on May 12. "Di Pasquale said that day will be a celebration of women and pornography-and perhaps the start of a profitable, enjoyable business venture."
In a February article, the Harvard Crimson reported that the then Harvard student editor of H Bomb, Michelle E. Crentsil, supports the efforts of Di Pasquale. "I think artistic magazines involving the way people think about their bodies is always a great thing," Crentsil said.
DiPasquale did not dispute the reference to Diamond as an artistic magazine.
"Diamond will be more mainstream-"more Hollywood"-à la Maxim or Playboy, he said. Diamond will feature nude female models and possibly shirtless males, but not explicit sex acts, he said.
He said that he sees potential in Harvard women to make Diamond a "really sexy magazine."
Not everyone is excited about Diamond's debut. Leo J. Keliher '10, co-president of the premarital sexual abstinence group True Love Revolution said he believes that anything that allows men to look at and fantasize about women "just objectifies women."
But campus sex blogger Lena Chen '09 gave her nod of approval to Diamond. "I think that any increase in dialogue about sex on campus is certainly positive because Harvard is kind of Puritanical," she said.
Maybe somewhat Puritanical but not as puritanical as Yale. The dankprofessor cannot imagine the Yale Women's Center hosting a discussion with the editor of a campus publication which was recruiting Yale female students to pose nude. We have two different worlds here. In fact, the Yale Women's Center ultimatum to the Yale administration to respond to their demand for corrective action by March 7 regarding the Yale fraternity "I love Yale sluts" imbroglio did not pass without notice. Click here for an update.
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I am an undergrad and I know that the conjecture may have been proven recently. But in reading about it, I am entirely confused as to what it means and why it is important. I was hoping some of you kind people could help me.
I know there are several formulations of the conjecture.
Wolfram says:
for any infinitesimal $\epsilon > 0$, there exists a constant $C_\epsilon$ such that for any three relatively prime integers $a$, $b$, $c$ satisfying $a+b=c$ the inequality $$\max (|a|, |b|, |c|) \leq C_{\epsilon}\displaystyle\prod_{p|abc} p^{1+\epsilon}$$ holds, where $p|abc$ indicates that the product is over primes $p$ which divide the product $abc$.
Then Wikipedia says:
For a positive integer $n$, the radical of $n$, denoted $\text{rad}(n)$, is the product of the distinct prime factors of $n$. If $a$, $b$, and $c$ are coprime positive integers such that $a + b = c$, it turns out that "usually" $c < \text{rad}(abc)$. The abc conjecture deals with the exceptions. Specifically, it states that for every $\epsilon>0$ there exist only finitely many triples $(a,b,c)$ of positive coprime integers with $a + b = c$ such that $$c>\text{rad}(abc)^{1+\epsilon}$$
An equivalent formulation states that for any $\epsilon > 0$, there exists a constant $K$ such that, for all triples of coprime positive integers $(a, b, c)$ satisfying $a + b = c$, the inequality $$c<K\cdot\text{rad}(abc)^{1+\epsilon}$$
A third formulation of the conjecture involves the quality $q(a, b, c)$ of the triple $(a, b, c)$, defined by: $$q(a,b,c)=\frac{\log(c)}{\log(\text{rad}(abc)}$$
I am particularly interested in the first definition, but any help with any of it would be greatly appreciated.


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When mom-to-be Jamie-Lynn Sigler met her fianc Cutter Dykstra in steamy Myrtle Beach, S.C., last week, she didn't think twice about slipping into a bikini.
Nor did she give much thought to being photographed in it.
"I would probably not be caught in a bikini otherwise, but when you're pregnant, it is what it is!" she told PEOPLE at her baby shower (benefitting children's charity Baby Buggy) in New York City Wednesday. "However your body's carrying is how your body's carrying."
The actress, 32, met her fianc , a minor league baseball player, down south while he was there for a game, and says that due to his travel schedule, the couple will probably opt for a staycation, rather than a babymoon before their son's August arrival.
Meanwhile, as her pregnancy progresses, the process is becoming more exciting for the first-time dad, 23.
"I think as he feels him move and kick it becomes more real," says Sigler. "We have a couple of [baby] names we're toying with. We'll call him one name one week and one name another week. I think we have our favorite, but you never know. We could change our minds when we meet him."
At the shower – held at Sugar and Plumm on Manhattan's Upper West Side and the sponsored by Britax/BOB, Hanky Panky, cloud b and Serena & Lily – Sigler and her family and friends dined on salads, veggies, chicken, fries and sliders and an impressive dessert selection. On the menu? The "Earthquake in a Fishbowl:" heaven/hell cake, cheesecake, key lime pie, Brooklyn blackout cake, butterscotch pudding and vanilla, chocolate and salted caramel ice cream.
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As she counts down to her due date, Sigler (who says she's still feeling good and even wore cute heels to her shower – "I'll make do for certain occasions," she jokes) says she's got good friends to rely on for advice.
Pals Beverley Mitchell, Jenna Dewan-Tatum and Joanna Garcia Swisher have all recently welcomed daughters.
"My best girlfriend Joanna just had her baby a couple weeks ago and she talked me through her entire [birth] so I know everything that happened – the good, the bad, the ugly and so I've got all the pointers," she says. "She'll probably be there when I give birth so it's been nice to have her go through it and get to experience it with her."
And her son will be one lucky little guy to have so many playmates close in age. Jokes Sigler: "Most of them are little girls so he'll be like the little prince with his harem!"
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