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See also: -cycle
From Late Latin cyclus, from Ancient Greek κύκλος (kúklos, "circle"), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷékʷlos ("circle, wheel"). Doublet of wheel; see there for more.
cycle (plural cycles)
- An interval of space or time in which one set of events or phenomena is completed.
- the cycle of the seasons, or of the year
- (Can we date this quote by Burke and provide title, author's full name, and other details?)
- Wages […] bear a full proportion […] to the medium of provision during the last bad cycle of twenty years.
- A complete rotation of anything.
- A process that returns to its beginning and then repeats itself in the same sequence.
- 2013 August 10, "Legal highs: A new prescription", in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
- No sooner has a [synthetic] drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one. These "legal highs" are sold for the few months it takes the authorities to identify and ban them, and then the cycle begins again.
- The members of the sequence formed by such a process.
- (music) In musical set theory, an interval cycle is the set of pitch classes resulting from repeatedly applying the same interval class to the starting pitch class.
- The interval cycle C4 consists of the pitch classes 0, 4 and 8; when starting on E, it is realised as the pitches E, G# and C.
- A series of poems, songs or other works of art.
- The "Ring of the Nibelung" is a cycle of four operas by Richard Wagner.
- A programme on a washing machine, dishwasher, or other such device.
- Put the washing in on a warm cycle.
- the spin cycle
- A pedal-powered vehicle, such as a unicycle, bicycle, or tricycle, or a motorized vehicle that has either two or three wheels.
- Hyponyms: motorbike, motorcycle, unicycle, bicycle, tricycle, motortrike
- (baseball) A single, a double, a triple, and a home run hit by the same player in the same game.
- Jones hit for the cycle in the game.
- (graph theory) A closed walk or path, with or without repeated vertices allowed.
- (topology, algebraic topology) A chain whose boundary is zero.
- An imaginary circle or orbit in the heavens; one of the celestial spheres.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Milton to this entry?)
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Burke to this entry?)
- An age; a long period of time.
- 1842, Alfred Tennyson, Locksley Hall
- Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.
- 1842, Alfred Tennyson, Locksley Hall
- An orderly list for a given time; a calendar.
- (Can we date this quote by Evelyn and provide title, author's full name, and other details?)
- We […] present our gardeners with a complete cycle of what is requisite to be done throughout every month of the year.
- (Can we date this quote by Evelyn and provide title, author's full name, and other details?)
- (botany) One entire round in a circle or a spire.
- a cycle or set of leaves
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Gray to this entry?)
- (weaponry) A discharge of a taser.
Usage notes[edit]
- (aviation sense): One take-off and landing of an aircraft is a cycle, referring to a pressurisation cycle which places stresses on the fuselage.
- (baseball sense): As in the example sentence, one is usually said to hit for the cycle. However, other uses also occur, such as hit a cycle and complete the cycle.
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Related terms[edit]
- → Japanese: サイクル (saikuru)
interval of space or time in which one set of events or phenomena is completed
complete rotation
process that repeats itself
member of the sequence formed by such a process
music: interval cycle — see interval cycle
series of works of art
program on a washing machine etc.
baseball: single, double, triple and home run hit by the same player in the same game
topology: chain whose boundary is zero
imaginary circle or orbit in the heavens — see celestial sphere
long period of time
botany: entire round in a circle or a spire
cycle (third-person singular simple present cycles, present participle cycling, simple past and past participle cycled)
- To ride a bicycle or other cycle.
- To go through a cycle or to put through a cycle.
- (electronics) To turn power off and back on
- Avoid cycling the device unnecessarily.
- (ice hockey) To maintain a team's possession of the puck in the offensive zone by handling and passing the puck in a loop from the boards near the goal up the side boards and passing to back to the boards near the goal
- They have their cycling game going tonight.
Related terms[edit]
to ride a cycle
to go through a cycle or to put through a cycle
to turn power off and back on
ice hockey: to maintain a team's possession of the puck in the offensive zone
From Late Latin cyclus.
cycle m (plural cycles)
Further reading[edit]
- "cycle" in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
- English terms derived from the PIE root *kʷel-
- English terms borrowed from Late Latin
- English terms derived from Late Latin
- English terms derived from Ancient Greek
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English doublets
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- English terms with audio links
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- English nouns
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- English terms with usage examples
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7. When you're working or concentrating very hard, and you're interrupted, you... a) Welcome the break b) Feel extremely irritated c) Vary between these two extremes
8. Which of the following colours do you like most? a) Red or orange b) Black c) Yellow or light blue d) Green e) Dark blue or purple f) White g) Brown or grey
9. When you are in bed at night, in those last few moments before going to sleep, you lay... a) Stretched out on your back b) Stretched out face down on your stomach c) On your side, slightly curled d) With your head on one arm e) With your head under the covers
10. You often dream that you are... a) Falling b) Fighting or struggling c) Searching for something or somebody d) Flying or floating e) You usually have dreamless sleep f) Your dreams are always pleasant
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2. (a) 6 | (b) 4 | (c) 7 | (d) 2 | (e) 1
3. (a) 4 | (b) 2 | (c) 5 | (d) 7 | (e) 6
4. (a) 4 | (b) 6 | (c) 2 | (d) 1
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The health harms of atrazine are no secret. A widely used herbicide — particularly on corn — it is a known endocrine disruptor that can cause birth defects and reproductive harm at very low levels. It's also a suspected carcinogen. Still, atrazine's defenders, especially its manufacturer, Syngenta, return time and again to economics to rationalize the chemical's continued use.
Industry-funded studies claim that without atrazine, our agricultural economy would suffer devastating consequences. But a report released yesterday — Atrazine: Consider the Alternative — tells a different story. Taking a close look at the economics of atrazine, report authors conclude that Syngenta's defense of the herbicide is full of holes.
Syngenta's spin doctors
It comes as no surprise that Syngenta hand-picks its experts and put them on payroll to produce favorable data. That's old news for scientific research, and the same is true for economics.
In November 2011, a group of Syngenta's researchers released a series of five papers defending atrazine. Aptly named the "Atrazine Benefits Team," these researchers hailed atrazine for doing everything from preventing soil erosion to contributing $3.3 billion to the agricultural economy.
But even if Syngenta hadn't funded these papers, they contain enough flaws to be questionable on their own. Yesterday's report shows that these studies significantly overestimate the benefits of atrazine.
No change in yields
While Syngenta insists that atrazine ensures high yields for corn growers, there are forceful examples to the contrary. Since Italy and Germany banned use of the herbicide in 1991, they have seen no significant decrease in crop yields. And USDA studies in 1994 and 1997 estimated that an atrazine ban would lead to a minimal yield decrease just over 1%.
The report Atrazine: Consider the Alternatives — commissioned by NRDC and conducted by environmental and agricultural economists Frank Ackerman, Melissa Whited and Patrick Knight —flags a major gap in Syngenta-funded research: the industry figures that cite drastically reduced yields, if atrazine use is halted, fail to take into account alternative agricultural practices that are less chemically intensive and can be highly effective.
As farmers see increases in herbicide-resistant "superweeds" across the country, non-chemical farming practices are becoming more critical. And while Syngenta researchers are quick to point out the rise of glyphosate-resistant weeds as an argument in favor of atrazine use, they fail to acknowledge that atrazine-resistant weeds are also a quickly growing problem.
The report out yesterday touches on another important economic point: withdrawing atrazine from the market may actually increase revenue for growers. And the likely financial impact on consumers would be minimal; the cost of a hamburger would go up a little more than a penny, and a gallon of gas would increase about three cents.
Who wins?
The benefits of atrazine are elusive, but the costs are high. And clear. USDA found atrazine in 94% of the drinking water sampled, meaning exposure is widespread, and those who come in the most direct contact with the herbicide — farmers and farmworkers — face the greatest health risks. While Syngenta digs in their heels on their flagship product, more and more farmers are finding innovative, safe techniques to manage weeds without relying on atrazine.
The new report, Atrazine: Consider the Alternatives, ends with a strong reminder about who would benefit most from reduced reliance on the health-harming herbicide:
If U.S. agriculture moved away from atrazine, the winners would include farmworkers, farmers and their families, and others who are exposed to atrazine either directly from field uses or indirectly from contaminated tap water, along with the natural ecosystems that are currently damaged by atrazine. The winners would also include the nation's corn growers.
What's striking about this list of winners is that almost everyone is on it… with Syngenta the sole winner if atrazine stays in widespread use.
Independent economists have taken another rigorous look at atrazine, and found that it doesn't measure up to its claims. It's time for EPA to do the same.
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I wanted to make a general comment.
Most pesticides are used in agriculture, but direct application to native ecosystems has also been common. There are instances where introduced invasive plants are overwhelming native ecosystems. Early efforts to use atrazine and other pesticides produced resistant invaders and failed to save native systems. Along the way, the U. S. Bureau of Land Management, U. S. Forest Service, and various State Land Management agencies helped create and still support a massive chemical industry that now refuses to let go.
Where capitalism/industry defeats common sense, we need stronger regulation. We need strong leaders that will promote long-term solutions. We need them in Congress where the regulations are defined. We need to break the links between Congress and industry and free our representatives to act independently.
Thanks, Gary for your comment. I have a nephew who spends his summers, mostly in state and federal parks and forests spraying invasive species. Seems like we need to spend that money on finding biological controls.
Also, in the areas where I live, I've seen repeatedly that a noxious weed comes in and I will say something to the appropriate agency, but nothing happens until the problem is widespread. Then they mandate spraying.
I see thousands being spent by homeowners to control invasive species in lakes when the logical and cheaper solution would be to prevent boats from going in and out of that lake and spreading the problem. We are so concerned with individual rights, in those cases, that we can't do what's good for the long term and for future generations.


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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (April 30, 2013) – Pool play in the main draw of the FIVB Shanghai Grand Slam, part of the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour, will begin on Wednesday without the U.S. men's team of Todd Rogers and Ryan Doherty.
Rogers and Doherty, seeded No. 1 in the qualification bracket, fell in the qualification round on Tuesday, losing their second match to Germany's No. 17 Mischa Urbatzka and Markus Bockermann, 21-15, 21-13 in 32 minutes. In the first round of qualification, Rogers and Doherty defeated Switzerland's No. 32 Roman Sutter and Andreas Martin Sutter, 21-18, 21-12 in 34 minutes.
The highest seeded U.S. men's beach volleyball team in the main draw will be No. 2 Sean Rosenthal (Redondo Beach, Calif.) and Phil Dalhausser (Ormond Beach, Fla.), who won the FIVB Fuzhou Open last week. They are seeded behind No. 1 Penggen Wu and Jiaxin Wu from host China.
Rosenthal and Dalhausser will open play in Pool B on Wednesday against China's No. 31 Lizeng Zhang and Zhuoxin Li. In the afternoon, they will face No. 18 Julius Brink and Sebastian Fuchs of Germany. Brink won the men's beach volleyball gold medal at the 2012 Olympic Games in London with former partner Jonas Reckermann.
On Thursday, Rosenthal and Dalhausser will complete pool play against Austria's 15th-seeded Clemens Doppler and Alexander Horst. The first round of single elimination play will begin on Friday.
The U.S. men's team of Jake Gibb (Bountiful, Utah) and Casey Patterson (Van Nuys, Calif.), seeded ninth, will play in Pool H and will open on Wednesday against Brazil's No. 24 Vitor Felipe and Evandro Júnior. In the afternoon, Gibb and Patterson will take on Austria's No. 25 Alexander Huber and Robin Seidl, the team that eliminated the U.S. pair from the Fuzhou Open in the second round last week.
On Thursday, Gibb and Patterson will close out pool play against China's eighth-seeded Linyin Xu and Peng Gao.
Nick Lucena (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) and Brad Keenan (Westminster, Calif.) will make their debut as a team seeded 14th in Pool C. They will open on Wednesday morning against Netherlands' No. 19 Daan Spijkers and Steven van de Velde. In the afternoon, they will play No. 30 Urbatzka and Bockermann from Germany. On Thursday, they will finish pool play against Brazil's No. 3 Pedro Salgado and Bruno Schmidt.
Qualification for the women's main draw will also begin on Wednesday, with the U.S. team of Emily Day (Torrance, Calif.) and Brittany Hochevar (Fowler, Colo.), seeded No. 14, playing Norway's No. 19 Cindy Treland and Janne Pedersen in the first round.
Play in the women's main draw will begin on Thursday. The U.S. beach volleyball teams of April Ross (Costa Mesa, Calif.) and Jennifer Kessy (San Juan Capistrano, Calif.), Lauren Fendrick (Carlsbad, Ind.) and Nicole Branagh (Orinda, Calif.) along with Jennifer Fopma (Bellflower, Calif.) and Brooke Sweat (Fort Myers, Fla.) are scheduled to compete.
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I.1) Name, Addresses and Contact Point(s):
Telford & Wrekin Council
Civic Offices, Darby House, Telford, TF3 4LF, United Kingdom
Tel. +44 1952384622, Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Contact: Scott Connor
Main Address: www.telford.gov.uk, Address of the buyer profile: www.telford.gov.uk
NUTS Code: UKG21
I.2) Joint procurement:
The contract involves joint procurement: No
In the case of joint procurement involving different countries, state applicable national procurement law: Not Provided
The contract is awarded by a central purchasing body: No
I.4)Type of the contracting authority:
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General public services
Section II: Object Of The Contract
II.1) Scope of the procurement
II.1.1) Title: RERUN 2 - Taxis - 0026
Reference number: Not Provided
II.1.2) Main CPV code:
60000000 - Transport services (excl. Waste transport).
II.1.3) Type of contract: SERVICES
II.1.4) Short description: All age passenger transport service to include Home to School; SEND and Social care. Requires over 17 seat vehicles; 5-17 seat vehicles; taxis ; black cabs; specially adapted vehicles; ambulance; supported transport and public buses. A Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS). Call off from this DPS is available for any public sector body within the West Midlands area.
II.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots: No
II.1.7) Total value of the procurement (excluding VAT)
Value: 49,660
II.2) Description
II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s):
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II.2.4) Description of the procurement: All age passenger transport service to include Home to School; SEND and Social care. Requires over 17 seat vehicles; 5-17 seat vehicles; taxis ; black cabs; specially adapted vehicles; ambulance; supported transport and public buses.
II.2.5) Award criteria:
Quality criterion - Name: Suitability of vehicle supplied / Weighting: 25
Quality criterion - Name: Quality of Service / Weighting: 25
Quality criterion - Name: Ability to perform individual contract / Weighting: 25
Cost criterion - Name: Cost of the Service / Weighting: 25
II.2.11) Information about options
Options: No
II.2.13) Information about European Union funds
The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: No
II.2.14) Additional information: Not Provided
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IV.1.3) Information about a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system
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A dynamic purchasing system was set up: Yes
IV.1.6) Information about electronic auction
An electronic auction has been used: No
IV.1.8) Information about the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: No
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Number of tenders received from SMEs: 2 (SME - as defined in Commission Recommendation 2003/361/EC)
Number of tenders received from tenderers from other EU Member States: 0
Number of tenders received from tenderers from non-EU Member States: 0
Number of tenders received by electronic means: 2
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F15 James House, Albrighton, Wolverhampton, WV7 3FA, United Kingdom
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NUTS Code: UKG21
The contractor is an SME: Yes
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For some reason, it also brings back memories of my aunt Diane and uncle Dana in their early years of dating and marriage. It was the 80s, they had an apartment and a CD player, and just seemed like super cool people in my 10-year old mind! They would suggest car games like "burn out" where we'd turn on the heat full blast and close the windows, to see who the first person (usually me) would be to give up and beg to turn off the heat or open a window. My aunt would have my brother, sister and I over for sleepovers, and make lasagna and homemade sourdough bread, which made her a little bit of a hero in my eyes.
I vividly remember the bridesmaid dresses at their wedding, dresses sewn by my mom - dark blue taffeta with lots of puffs and bows, and little pearls sewn on bows on those puffy sleeves; I remember thinking those pearls made the bows look like Dominoes. Did I mention it was the 80s?
Whenever I make lasagna, I also think of a lasagna soup I used to make years ago. It was exactly what it sounds like - all the usual ingredients you'd find in lasagna, but in a soup instead, with the pasta added at the end so it didn't get too soft (and no, it did not have great big lasagna noodles in the soup - I think I used rotini or shells). I haven't made that soup in a long time, but I remember it being a big hit with my friends overseas when we'd all get together for dinner. Lasagna soup and endless garlic bread made for great dinner parties with all my foreign friends, with apple crisp and ice cream usually making an appearance for dessert, too.
Another dinner I remember making for them was beef stroganoff, a recipe I made up as I went, but it ended up pretty good - the biggest problem, though, was that I bought the ground beef from a butcher down the street instead of at a more reputable grocery store, and it ended up having little bits of bone all throughout. And probably more than a few lumps of flour from my unskilled attempts to thicken the cream sauce. But other than THAT, it wasn't bad. Since my friends didn't break any teeth on the bone chips, I'm sure they've all forgiven me for that. :)
Since I've mentioned this lasagna in a few posts now, I thought I should go ahead and get this recipe posted. I could talk about the flavorful addition of the mushrooms and spinach, the melty cheeses, the wonders of no-boil noodles, the fact that this was Garfield's favorite food... But come on. You guys know what lasagna tastes like. And I'm sure everyone has their own favorite version, this just happens to be mine, because, well, it's just awesome!
So instead of talking about it anymore, I'm just going to leave you with the recipe...
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- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1/2 onion, diced
- 1 pound lean ground beef or turkey
- 1 teaspoon minced garlic
- 2 14.5-ounce cans Italian diced tomatoes
- 1 28-ounce can tomato puree
- 4 tablespoons fresh, chopped basil
- salt and pepper
- 2 eggs, lightly beaten
- 3 cups grated mozzarella, divided
- 1 15-ounce container part-skim ricotta cheese
- 1 cup grated Parmesan
- 1 box no-boil lasagna noodles (16 noodles)
- 2 cups fresh baby spinach leaves
- 3 cups sliced mushrooms
In a large stock pot, heat the olive oil over medium heat. Add the diced onion and a pinch of salt, and cook for about 5 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add the ground meat and cook, stirring to break up the meat, until browned, about 10 minutes. Add the garlic and cook for 1 minute. Add the diced tomatoes, tomato puree and basil. Reduce to a simmer, and cook for about 30 minutes, seasoning with salt and pepper as needed.
In a bowl, combine the beaten eggs, 2 cups of the mozzarella, the ricotta cheese and the Parmesan cheese, and stir until well blended. Set aside.
When the sauce is ready, preheat the oven to 375 F, and spray a 9x13 (or slightly bigger) pan with non-stick cooking spray. Build the lasagna per the following steps:
- Spread 1 cup of the sauce in the bottom of the pan.
- Lay 4 noodles down. Top noodles with 1 1/2 cups of the sauce. Top sauce with 1/3 of the cheese mixture. Top cheese with 1/3 of the sliced mushrooms. Top mushrooms with 1/3 of the spinach.
- Repeat step 2.
- Repeat step 2.
- For the final layer, lay down the last 4 noodles. Top with the remaining sauce. Sprinkle with the reserved cup of mozzarella.
Cover the pan with foil and bake for 50 minutes. Remove the foil and bake, uncovered, for an additional 5 minutes to brown the cheese on top. Let sit for about 10 minutes before cutting.
Yields 10-12 servings.


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Education at Hogwarts
In 1991 Josh and his cousin on his mother's side, melissa, were accepted into Hogwarts. He was sorted into Ravenclaw while she was sorted into Slytherin
First year
Josh was excited to start his school year and was happy he could bring his pet owl, Lucky. Being fairly rich he and his cousin had the best school supplies money could buy. Josh was the top in Transfiguration class partly because of his wand. He was accepted onto the Ravenclaw Quidditch team as a beater, and was fairly good at it, but was injured when a he fell off his broom while flirting with the Hufflepuff Beater and was out for the rest of the season. He and melissa often studied and practiced quidditch and dueling together.
Second year
In his second year Josh developed a secret crush on Ginny Weasley. He also learned more and got better at charms. Josh was devastated when he found out the basilisk had taken Ginny into the Chamber of Secrets. lucky had started a good relationship with Hedwig. he earned 30 points and lost 15 points
Third year
Josh wasn't afraid of Sirius Black because he had confidence in the teachers of Hogwarts and Dumbledore. Josh was also getting better at DADA thanks to Professor Lupin . After Josh heard that Sirius Black had entered Hogwarts he got scared so he worked even harder at DADA and was soon the second best of their year(behind Harry). Josh was excited to hear that Professor Lupin was a werewolf, he wanted to ask so many questions,but before he could Professor Lupin left the school and Josh was sad. He earned 100 points and lost 20.
Fourth year
Josh's dad and uncle were two of the people in charge of organizing the tri-wizard tournement so Josh and Melissa knew about it before most of all the other students but they didn't know about the age restriction and were bummed when they found out about it. Josh supported Harry throughout the competition and so did melissa and most of their friends because they all knew harry was a better wizard than all three of the others put together. Josh took his friend Luna Lovegood to the yaleblue. When Harry finished the last competition and told everyone what had happened Josh, melissa, and all their friends believed him right away. Josh won 70 points and lost 45 points [for fighting Harry Haters]
Fifth year
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Sixth Year
Josh was part of the Slug Club for his excellent work in transfiguration and DADA. Melissa was also in the Slug Club for exelent work in potions. During this year Josh had managed to gain enough courage to ask out Cho Chang and she said yes! Josh recieved all O's except for two E's in potions and divination.he learned more about potions and earned 30 points and lost none.
Seventh year
When the Ministry was taken over over and Josh returned to Hogwarts to find out that Harry, Ron, and Hermione are not there he has a very strong need to rebel. Luna Lovegood is a very close friend of Josh's and when she gets taken from the train he gets worried and then when his old crush, Ginny, doesn't return from Holiday, he becomes furious, but has to go into hiding with Nevelle, whom he has befriended, Melissa and other students in the rom of requirement. Josh lost 200 points and won none.
Battle of Hogwarts
Josh and Melissa were an unstoppable team after training together so much they knew what the other one was going to do before they did it, and took down many death eaters, until they were fighting back to back against two death eaters, Josh had just managed to disarm and stupify the death eater he was duleing when he herd melissa yelp in pain behind him he turned to see the death eater had managed to cut two slashes into Melissa's stomach. Furious, Josh disarmed and stupified the unexpecting death eater in a few seconds just in time to watch the last dule between Harry and voldemort.
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Because Josh and Melissa were in Dumbledore's Army they got to become Aurors and they were put togeather as a team and ended up being the most feared and the best aurors ever. Josh ended up Marrying Cho Chang and had three lovely children Seth, Alice, and Tyler.
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I am constantly being asked by clients and panels that I am speaking on, about how to prioritize the very limited budgets that are being forecasted for 2013 when it comes to what they can do for marketing that will give them the greatest ROI without costing an arm and a leg. Here is my best advice for 2013:
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- The BBS was an advance when the computer era began. Operators would type instead of speak, which was much less efficient. But it was advanced. Political opinions were welcome on a BBS, and in fact many BBS's were set up to air such opinions. These days, people who want to communicate so inefficiently use IRC. They avoid outrageous telephone charges, instead paying outrageous Internet access charges. This is advanced too.
- The telephone is also a method of communicating subversive political opinion. However, phoning up complete strangers to give them a piece of your mind quickly fell out of favor. (This is why the trees in the front yard of Alexander Graham Bell were toilet-papered so often.) It came back into fashion with the advent of telemarketing.
Rush Limbaugh invented talk radio in 1984, much as Henry Ford had invented transportation. Limbaugh had bounced from the employ of the Kansas City Royals to music radio stations and had not made a mark for himself, probably because none of his employers shared his view that unsolicited expression of his own political opinion was part of the job. (Compare the excuses from recipients of Permanent Disability on why they can't find steady work.) Limbaugh created an industry where the customer would receive a piece of his mind. He went national in 1988 and dozens of imitators started shows to give the customer a piece of Limbaugh's mind.
Talk radio today[edit]
Talk radio is now the conservative counterpart to the liberal cable news networks and large East-coast newspapers. Talk radio spends most of its time lamenting the bias of those media. When the listener points out that talk radio has a comparable bias in the other direction, the host has an instant fallback argument. Those other media claim they are in the news business. We are merely entertainers. They are mislabeled but we are not.
Talk radio shows are franchised onto dozens of local radio stations. These stations may be FM, where the signal fades out when you drive out to the belt-line highway; or AM, where it is instead pleasantly mixed with forty other stations.
They reach only listeners who are right downtown, and yet have nothing better to do than listen to the radio, nor any access to a computer. They feature local voice-over guys promoting the shows who never actually listen to them and who seem to hate the hosts.
Station owners[edit]
Station owners are like owners of yachts and baseball clubs. They have money to burn, and they hope that sinking money into new gadgetry will make their annual losses "sustainable," as international bankers say when offering advice to Greece. The owner's goal (again, comparable to a ball club) is to convert a large amount of money directly into prestige in the community.
Given that the typical station owner has not thought far enough to know what content he wants to broadcast over his new toy, many jump at the chance to air a talk radio program.
Talk radio works on the "advertising model," where the listener receives the broadcast for "free" (based on the maxim that free advice is worth every penny) but is maneuvered into listening to advertisements. The radio station collects money from the advertisers. It claims to be serving the listener, but in fact is serving him up.
The following industries advertise on talk radio:
- Male enhancement and other mail-order pharmaceuticals. We have a registered pharmacist standing by (or at least a website written by one) and we will evaluate your personal condition and recommend the perfect dosage right after you provide your credit-card number to the people in our boiler room.
- Credit counseling. If you owe more than $20,000 to the IRS (or can prove in several other ways that you have completely bollixed up your personal finances), we will be able to, mmm, "help" you. Remarkably, few of these services are operated by Nigerian princes.
- Car dealers, cell-phone dealers, and bankers. Through the magic of radio, the ponderous disclaimers required to keep their pitches almost truthful can be recited at faster-than-human speeds and take up only a tiny bit of a 30-second spot.
Unfortunately, the typical small-town station owner—who, as described above, has not thought about the actual content he will broadcast—has neither thought about the need to hire ad salesmen. So he mostly runs public-service ads. You get them for free and they help when it's time to posture about your diligent community service for your license renewal. Listeners who tuned in to hear criticism of Barack Obama instead hear, during every commercial break, Michelle Obama nag them to get off their lard-asses and do sit-ups.
Commercial breaks[edit]
The talk radio format is built around 14 minutes of commercials during each hour of programming. (Networks sometimes tease that they are going to reduce this amount. But, as in many other fields, the purpose of teasing is to never have to put out.)
The 14 minutes is structured as follows:
- A "hard break" at the bottom of the hour has 4 minutes of commercials. It used to be only on Channel 4 in Britain that the audience could be conned into sitting through 4 minutes of froth to reach content it actually wanted. Innovative talk hosts go with 5-minute and 6-minute commercial breaks. One might think they hold their audience in contempt, but that would be like controversy, and there is no controversy in talk radio.
- There is another 4-minute "soft break" during the first half of the hour. It is called a "soft" break because the host can vary the time at which it occurs. This doesn't keep the host from hanging up on a caller or on an invited guest because "I'm up against a break."
- There is another one in the second half of the hour; also, because listeners have been lulled into submission, a 2-minute break to achieve the total of 14 minutes. These are both "soft" breaks and, like the other "soft" ones, can be used to ditch callers. No one knows which break is the 4 and which is the 2. If listeners simply tune out for 4 minutes each time, they could miss key details on exactly how that new bridge to Canada means the end of America as a nation.
The host often delays the final "soft" break for so long that the final segment is ten seconds long. During this segment, the host at most tells what's going to happen next hour, and might only repeat a slogan or reintroduce himself. Listeners have sat through four minutes of simulated digestive noises, shouting pitch-men, and bad singing to get them to donate their cars to benefit orphans, for this cherry nougat that is nothing but pit. And they'll do it again next hour.
But wait! there's more![edit]
Subtracting the top-of-the-hour break for Fox News (with its own commercial breaks) would leave about 40 minutes per hour for the stuff you want to hear. Only, you are not the biggest fish the host has to fry. To-wit:
- His nationwide tour is coming to your city, and you can buy tickets to the show at the local civic center, and see him in person say the exact same things you hear him say on the radio every weekday. (Most listeners don't really want to see him but to be seen seeing him.)
- His vanity Internet video business is all but going viral—the one he started after walking away from the lucrative gig on national cable TV after a dispute over first principles—but only if you get involved now!
- There is also his latest book, which is surging up the charts, or would be, except that the damned New York Times won't review it.
- And there is an ever-changing set of side businesses. Lapel pins and bumper stickers will identify you as a talk-radio listener (though oddly, you have to buy them; the host doesn't pay you to advertise his show). And a line of apparel, after-shave lotions, and perhaps teas are designed exactly for people who share your political opinions.
Once all the commercials are done, the host proceeds to important topics like identity theft and the nation's poor awareness of its heritage. Only, he is still selling. There are remedies for each of these problems, and each is as close as dialing 1-800 something.
Finally we have gotten through all that, and there is a good 20 minutes left for the meat of the program, which is an advertisement for the Republican Party.
Guests appear on talk shows either in-studio or by phone. Two things are true about each guest:
- He is a noted conservative commentator on national issues with acerbic wit.
- He has just written a brilliant new book.
It is left to the reader which of the above facts is the basis for his appearance on the talk show. (Could you give us the book's full title again?) The book breaks new ground on the political scene, exposes one scandal per chapter, and tells you a multitude of things that they don't want you to know. (We can buy it through Amazon, I suppose?) The talk host asks the author a flurry of questions whose answers are in the book. These questions make it obvious that the talk host has browsed the book's Table of Contents and maybe the bibliography, not just read the dust jacket. (And the book's name is, again?)
The author appears on small-town radio, even though there is no green room with buffet but perhaps packets of cheese-and-crackers, for one reason: It is a condition of the publisher's willingness to publish yet another endless tome on how Barack Obama was born in Kenya with a butt-chip installed by which a cabal would induce him to sabotage America. When the book is out in paperback, he will be back on the show. Maybe the host will have read it by then.
Talk hosts, of course, also have acerbic wit, and they write brilliant new books of their own. When they do, they declare short truces and become guests on one another's shows.
The audience of talk radio is unique and with important differences from the audience for cable news. Just ask them. Cable news viewers are fundamentally couch potatoes, passively splayed in front of their televisions and soaking up misinformation with mouth gaping and eyes glazed-over.
Talk radio listeners, by comparison, have active minds. They don't just unquestioningly take in the host's interpretation of the day's events. Rather, their hands are busy pursuing constructive activities. These may include organizing their collections of vacuum tubes, or rubbing a worry stone. With the magic of the portable radio, they may be outdoors, whitewashing the picket fence, snapping at nearby children, adjusting the leg-hold traps to catch the neighbor's dog the next time he comes to take a dump in the yard, or hammering campaign signs into the lawn. They may also listen to talk radio in the car, as they drive downtown to count their money.
Talk radio listeners concede that newspaper readers have the most active minds of all. They hold paper in their hands and devote their entire attention to it. (But they no longer program computers with punch cards.) They are able to operate pens and pencils, and thus can relax with crosswords rather than bonbons. Talk radio listeners especially esteem people who subscribe to multiple newspapers to get different viewpoints, like the New York Times and the Boston Globe. Listeners themselves are satisfied that they get enough diversity listening to both Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.
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Royal Worcester pie bird, designed in 1950 by Paul Gertner, in it's original box. The funnel and the blackbird are two separate pieces. The directions printed inside the box explain how they are used (third photo). Basically, the funnel (white part) is placed in the middle of a pie crust and steam escapes through the top during baking so the juices remain inside the pie. The bird is ornamental and is placed on top of the funnel after baking so that it is prettier when serving the pie.
I have two, one is a pure black blackbird (first two photos) and the other has white tips on the wings, beak, etc. (last photo). I also have a blue & white model that sold at a higher price, which I posted separately. It was also made in brown, which I do not have.


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Towards the end of last year me and my wife were deciding whether to cash out our chips and stick with 2 children or take the gamble and go for three. As well all know gambling is a risky business, non more so than when it results in a lifelong commitment. In the end we rolled the dice and here is what they landed on:
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Online poker has been up and down this year, or I should say down and up. Three months in it was looking like job-time for me, things were not going well and I had made approximately £0, which does not a nappy buy. But I sort of re-set myself on the first of April (a fool-proof plan). I vowed to exercise before each session I played, made some study-based goals as I had been getting lazy at studying (this tends to happen when running bad for a while, but it is the most important time to study), and essentially forget the first three months of the year really happened. Fortunately, since then things have been going much better so I have put the McDonald's application form away for the time being.
I haven't dabbled in the live poker arena much this year. I travelled down-under for the Aussie Millions for the third consecutive year. I did manage to secure my first Australian flag on Hendon Mob after this visit, but unfortunately it was only from a min-cash for 20th place in a $2.5k side event.


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Which watch for your summer adventure?
For a guy whose idea of adventure is trekking to the end of the road to the 7/11 for some midnight munchies, the exacting specifications and capabilities of the Casio Protrek or Suunto Vector could be considered overkill.
But let's say you take your outdoor activities a little more seriously. You're off to the back of beyond where timing becomes a life saving necessity.
You need to measure distance/average speed, timing food and hydration breaks, making sure that you reach communication targets. You need a watch that can deliver even in the most treacherous conditions. You need one of these.
Casio Protrek
This watch not only looks cool, it comes equipped with a compass, altimeter, barometer, thermometer, worldtime, moon data, tide graph, stopwatch, 5 daily alarms. It's also solar powered and has 6 months battery reserve if it's not exposed to the light within 6 months. Useful to know while in the depths of suburbia with just the street lights for illumination.
This watch will also auto correct itself in most countries, whether in North America, Europe or Japan or even the outer reaches of Canada, Central America and China. It also detects magnetic North. But does it detect the frozen wastes of the ice cream cooler?
The Protrek is as good in the water as it is on land. You can take it swimming and snorkelling as the watch is water resistant to 10 bar / 100 metres.
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Suunto is a Finnish watch brand which caters to the whole gamut of outdoor sports including orienteering, diving, mountaineering, hiking, skiing and sailing. The Suunto Vector is still considered the standard by which other sport watches are judged, and it's a favourite with outdoor enthusiasts from the mountain tops to the Marine Corps.
The Suunto range is bewildering in its diversity with features aplenty. The Vector comes with all the necessary toys for mountaineering including an altimeter with vertical speed measurement. It has a barometer, compass all in a light plastic casing.
With only 100 feet water resistance the Suunto does not offer you the chance to go snorkelling once you've slid your way down the slopes all the way to the sea.
So which one to take with you? Well the good news is, you can actually afford to take both.
The Casio Protrek Wave Ceptor Titanium Chronograph retails for around $512 while the Suunto Vector X-Black Negative Face is just $238. Keep one in your rucksack in case the other slips down a sudden and unexpected gulley.
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"Tracy, I just thought of something! Have you ever tried leche poleada? … Preguntale a Carlos si comía eso de niño. Cuando vivía con mi mamá ella lo hacía en tiempo de frío. It's so good. I wouldn't be able to tell you how to start or what to put in it aside from sprinkle ground cinnamon before you eat it…"
I had never heard of leche poleada but I asked Carlos and his eyes lit up.
"I love leche poleada!" he said, then he told me about how his mother used to make it for him when he was little. He hadn't eaten it for at least twenty years.
"Why didn't you tell me?!" I asked. We've been married for fourteen years and I never knew what leche poleada was, let alone that he loves it. Of course I wanted to make it for him right away, and that's just what I did after a little research on the internet to find a recipe.
Below is my recipe which I adapted from one I found online. This leche poleada is about the same consistency as pudding. Carlos says some people prefer it thicker, so if you want it thicker, I would add another tablespoon of cornstarch and use whole milk instead of 1% – that should do the trick. Also, Carlos likes his cold, but you can eat this warm. (I should know, I licked the pot clean.)
Leche Poleada
4 rounded tablespoons corn starch
4 1/4 cups 1% milk
3 egg yolks
1 cinnamon stick
1 cup sugar
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
ground cinnamon
In a blender add milk, sugar, egg yolks and cornstarch. Blend for 30 seconds until well combined.
Pour mixture into a pot over low heat. Add cinnamon stick and vanilla extract.
Stir constantly until the mixture boils and thickens.
Remove from heat and let cool. (You can serve warm if you like. If you want to serve cold, continue.)
Remove cinnamon stick. Pour into single serving cups and place in refrigerator 1 to 2 hours.
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"In this film, I wasn't able to use the camera as a point of reference from which you see the world of the movie. It was more like looking at it from a child's knees. The Muppeteers hold the Muppets up over their heads so that they are about six feet up in the air, and any humans in the scene are up in the air about nine feet because they stand on three-foot platforms in order to be in perspective with the Muppets. I'm standing on the floor looking up at everything. We had to work off ladders and platforms using a remote camera on a large crane which didn't allow us to look through the camera while we were lighting and shooting, but through a videotape on a remote head.
...Another challenge was keeping Elmo from glowing. He was so red that we tried to use a different light to offset some of the redness. The thing about all Muppets is that they suck up the light. Elmo, Grover, Telly, Cookie Monster, those characters really suck up the light. Oscar lit the best. There were definite considerations to be dealt with in keeping light on the Muppets and trying to minimize it on the humans. "
Caso's other film credits include Reindeer Games, Ed, Midnight Kiss, and Hotel Oklahoma. His most prolfic work has been in television, however, on such series as Sliders, Any Day Now, Joan of Arcadia, and Six Feet Under (which he also directed an episode of). TV movies and miniseries, include Tom Clancy's Op-Center, Shake, Rattle and Roll, Frankenstein, Into the West, and The Librarian: Quest for the Spear.


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877: Beauty
Title text: The best hugs are probably from hagfish, which can extrude microscopic filaments that convert a huge volume of water around them to slime in seconds. Instant cozy blanket!
In this comic Ponytail's statement in the first is proved wrong by Megan's actions throughout the comic and the statement in the image text, to the point where she retracts and changes her statement.
Concerning the hagfish - "Their unusual feeding habits and slime-producing capabilities have led members of the scientific and popular media to dub the hagfish as the most "disgusting" of all sea creatures."
- [Ponytail and Cueball are discussing science. They are interrupted by an off-panel shout.]
- Ponytail: The problem with scientists is that you take the wonder and beauty out of everything by trying to analyze it.
- Megan: Dude!
- [Megan runs across the panel, carrying a microscope and a slime mold.]
- Megan: My plasmoidal slime molds have heightened pigment production! Check out that yellow color! That actually makes them zinc-resistatn. Amazing, huh?
- [The slime mold is proferred to the same human who was speaking earlier. The close up hides Megan's face.]
- Ponytail: It looks like dog barf.
- Megan: Hah, yeah! F. Septica is nicknamed "dog vomit slime mold." Cool, huh? Check out my slides!
- [Megan has set down the microscope on the floor of the panel, and the slime mold is jiggling.]
- Ponytail: Okay, never mind: What's wrong with scientists is that you do see wonder and beauty in everything.
- Ponytail: Oh God, it's moving!
- Megan: It wants to hug you! So cute!
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In his book The Pleasure of Finding Things Out, Richard Feynman takes exception to the common characterization of scientists as unable to see beauty. He also mentioned this in a 1981 interview.--Prooffreader (talk) 01:29, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
08:24, 25 November 2012 (UTC)overanalyze probably is the point where there is no need which could mean while scientist miss the beauty and wonder while others wonder at the Beauty. Though they see beauty in things which are not conventional
Beauty is not only sink deep.
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I can't believe nobody's mentioned NetHack. My! That was a yummy slime mold! Leafy Greens (talk) 21:31, 16 November 2014 (UTC)


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Reit v. Yelp, Inc., — N.Y.S.2d —, 2010 WL 3490167 (September 2, 2010)
Section 230 of Communications Decency Act shielded site as interactive computer service; assertions regarding manipulation of reviews was not consumer oriented and therefore not actionable.
As I am sure you know, Yelp! is an interactive website designed to allow the general public to write, post, and view reviews about businesses, including professional ones, as well as restaurants and other establishments.
Lots of people and businesses that are the subject of negative reviews on sites like this get riled up and often end up filing lawsuits. Suits against website operators in cases like this are almost always unsuccessful. The case of Reit v. Yelp from a New York state court was no exception.
Plaintiff dentist sued Yelp and an unknown reviewer for defamation. He also sued Yelp under New York state law for "deceptive acts and practices". Yelp moved to dismiss both claims. The court granted the motion.
Defamation claim – protection under Section 230
Interactive computer service providers are immunized from liability (i.e., they cannot be held responsible) for content that is provided by third parties. So long as the website is not an "information content provider" itself, any claim made against the website will be preempted by the Communications Decency Act, at 47 U.S.C. 230.
In this case, plaintiff claimed that Yelp selectively removed positive reviews of his dentistry practice after he contacted Yelp to complain about a negative reivew. He argued that this action made Yelp an information content provider (doing more than "simply selecting material for publication") and therefore outside the scope of Section 230's immunity. The court rejected this argument.
It likened the case to an earlier New York decision called Shiamili v. Real Estate Group of New York. In that case, like this one, an allegation that a website operator may keep and promote bad content did not raise an inference that it becomes an information content provider. The postings do not cease to be data provided by a third party merely because the construct and operation of the website might have some influence on the content of the postings.
So the court dismissed the defamation claim on grounds of Section 230 immunity.
Alleged deceptive acts and practices were not consumer oriented
The other claim against Yelp — for deceptive acts and practices — was intriguing, though the court did not let it stand. Plaintiff alleged that Yelp's Business Owner's Guide says that once a business signs up for advertsing with Yelp, an "entirely automated" system screens out reviews that are written by less established users.
The problem with this, plaintiff claimed, was that the process was not automated with the help of algorithms, but was done by humans at Yelp. That divergence between what the Business Owner's Guide said and Yelps actual practices, plaintiff claimed, was consumer-oriented conduct that was materially misleading, in violation of New York's General Business Law Section 349(a).
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Every year millions of people travel from far and wide to celebrate Oktoberfest in Germany. But, even if you can't make it to Munich, you can still enjoy the festive 16 day celebration of beer. Lay out your lederhosen, pour a cold pilsner or grab a mug of märzen, and take a bite of a brat. You'll feel like you're in Bavaria in no time.
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