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ISIS ENDGAME: How and Why the CIA in Switzerland Created ISIS as Cover for Nuclear and Biological Terror Attacks
RED ALERT: 10 Reasons Why Switzerland is Home to the CIA
BREAKING: CERN Complex in Switzerland Identified as CIA Headquarters
David Chase Taylor
May 5, 2019
EARTH, Undisclosed Location — Based on breaking news and events, it appears that CIA Headquarters located beneath CERN at Lake Geneva, in Switzeland are planning to stage an apocalyptic man-made eruption of the Yellowstone Supervolcano in Wyoming on May 5, 2019, possibly in the aftermath of a nuclear detonation.
Although the Yellowstone Supervolcano allegedly erupted 70,000 years ago, CNN recently called it one of the planet's greatest time bombs. Exactly when this so-called time bomb will explode is not known, but it will definitely transpire sometime in the year of 2017.
In all likelihood, the allegedly dormant Yellowstone Supervolcano does not even exist. Since calderas remain below the surface, there is no real physical evidence which confirms that a massive supervolcano lurks below the surface of Yellowstone National Park. In short, we have to take the government and their pseudo-scientists at their word.
The notion that the Yellowstone Supervolcano is a real volcano is essentially being sold to the public on the basis that Yellowstone National Park has over 300 active geysers, thousands of bubbling and boiling mud pots, and thousands of hissing steam vents. Needless to say, the park is very geothermally active.
While volcanoes are indeed a natural occurring phenomenon, they can be outfitted with large amounts of shaped explosives. Said explosives can be strategically placed deep inside the shaft of the volcano, providing the gunpowder for a gun-like explosion that propels millions of tons of dirt and ash miles into the atmosphere.
That being said, the Yellowstone Supervolcano is a caldera and therefore has no visible volcanic shaft. Whether a volcanic shaft lurks beneath the surface or one was recently created with high-tech machinery is not known, but one exists nonetheless. Once the explosion is triggered, drones will keep the "volcanic ash" falling for months or possibly even years via the non-stop disbursement of chemtrails.
In other words, man-made explosives will be used in order to sell the notion that a "naturally occurring" volcanic event just occurred while the man-made volcanic ash-like substances (i.e., chemtrails) will be disbursed into the atmosphere in the aftermath of the so-called "natural disaster" (i.e., the volcanic explosion).
In the wake of a man-made Yellowstone Supervolcano eruption, the skies of Western America will be blacked out by chemtrails for months if not years, choking out the sun, the plants, as well as the economy. The chemtrails blackout scenario is also planned in the aftermath of a nuclear detonation, except that the "volcanic ash" will be labeled as "fall out".
This exact scenario was essentially stated in the August 7, 2015, Daily Mail report entitled "The Timebomb Under Yellowstone: Experts Warn of 90,000 Immediate Deaths and a 'Nuclear Winter' Across the US if Supervolcano Erupts".
In order to acclimate the masses to the notion that a massive volcanic eruption could destroy the world, the BBC published a report on April 15, 2015, entitled "Will a Volcanic Eruption Destroy Humanity?". Although any country could theoretically suffer a man-made supervolcanic attack, American is the #1 target.
According to the timely propaganda report, so-called scientists at the European Science Foundation estimate there is a 5-10% probability of a large explosive volcanic eruption by the end of the century. They warn that this eruption could send humanity back to a pre-civilized state.
In order to highlight the Yellowstone Supervolcano just prior to its historic eruption, the Discovery Channel published a report on April 23, 2015, entitled "Yellowstone Supervolcano Much Bigger Than Thought". The report revealed that a giant reservoir of magma and hot rock lurks beneath Yellowstone National Park.
A day later on April 24, 2015, Russia Today published a report entitled "Newly-Mapped Yellowstone Volcano Chamber Could Fill Grand Canyon 11 Times", further highlighting the Yellowstone Supervolcano just prior to its slated eruption.
Less than 24-hours later on April 25, 2015, CNN published a report entitled "Magma Expanse Under Yellowstone Supervolcano More Vast Than Thought". Although the report states that there are "no signs of an imminent eruption", a man-made Yellowstone Supervolcano eruption appears imminent.
Lastly, in order to sell the notion that once dormant volcanoes can suddenly erupt, it was reported on April 23, 2015, that a Chilean volcano erupted for the first time in 42 years, prompting massive evacuations. In the aftermath of a man-made Yellowstone Supervolcano eruption, the U.S. government will predictably state that the volcanic ash is toxic, resulting in mandatory evacuations across the United States.
FLASHBACK: 2010 Iceland Volcanic Ash Attack
Back in April of 2010, the European economy virtually came to a standstill due to ash which allegedly emanated from the Eyjafjallajokul volcano in Iceland. The unprecedented cloud of what was purported to be volcanic ash suspended air travel for approximately 10 million people. Similar travel bans were enforced on December 16, 2013, when Mt. Etna's volcanic ash forced flights to shut down in Sicily, and on February 14, 2014, when an Indonesian volcano erupted, grounding flights yet again. The volcanic eruption in Iceland and its alleged ash cloud appeared to have been a beta-test for a future man-made volcanic explosion in the United States, namely Mount St. Helens in Oregon, and/or the Yellowstone Supervolcano in Wyoming. In the aftermath of a man-made volcano attack in America, the U.S. economy will likely come to a screeching halt due to the volcanic ash which will ground flights and black out the sun. Needless to say, business and tourism will suffer greatly.
About the Author
David Chase Taylor is an American journalist and the editor-in-chief of Truther.org, a state-sponsored terror whistle-blower website. Taylor currently lives in Switzerland where he applied for political asylum on July 17, 2015. Taylor authored The Nuclear Bible, a book credited with foiling a nuclear terror attack upon Super Bowl XLV in Dallas, Texas on February 6, 2011, and Greenland Theory: Apocalypse Now, a book and website exposing the true power structure of the world, especially in respect to Greenland and its primary proxy state of Switzerland which is coincidentally home to the CIA. Taylor has also published The Bio-Terror Bible, a book and website exposing the global bio-terror pandemic planned for 2015. To date, Taylor has blown the whistle on over 100 state-sponsored terror plots, including the 2012 Democratic National Convention Terror Plot, the 2011 Super Bowl Nuclear Terror Plot, the 2014 Super Bowl Nuclear Terror Plot, the Terrorgate Scandal, the 2014 Memorial Day Massacre, the man-made asteroid attack planned for 2015, and the drone strike which killed "Fast and Furious" star Paul Walker. Taylor was also the first to expose Alex Jones' treacherous links to STRATFOR and is noted for the 10 reasons why the Rosetta Comet landing was a hoax.
READ: World's 'Most Wanted' Whistle-Blower Journalist David Chase Taylor Applies for Political Asylum in Switzerland
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Palestine participated in the meetings of the NATO as an observer within 12 other countries. PLC participated in the meetings of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly which was held in Bucharest- Romania, in the period between 6-9 Oct,2017.
29 States members of NATO as well as many Member States of the Parliamentary Union participated in the NATO sessions, they discussed security, civil and economic dimensions as well as political issues.
The delegation included the members of the Palestinian Legislative Council Mohammad Hijazi, Abdul Rahim Barham and Kamal Dabis adviser of the Secretary-general for the Legislative Council.
Statement by the Mp. Mohammad Hijazi was delivered during the meeting of the Committee on the civil dimensions of security, he thanked the countries that hosted refugees in Germany and Europe, as well as Jordan, Lebanon . He pointed to the importance of the continued support and assistance to the refugees after their return to their homes in both Syria and Iraq.
On the sidelines of the meetings of the General Assembly, the Palestinian delegation met the President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly Paulo who visited Palestine in July last year. Through this meeting the delegation discussed topics related to developments of the Palestinian situation and efforts of reconciliation, in addition to economic and social conditions in Gaza Strip and the homeland. Paulo expressed readiness to support the Palestinian Legislative Council to carry out its functions with hopes to hold new legislative elections.

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Should Obama Make Nice to Business?
An accommodation is key to getting the economy moving again.
From now until Nov. 2, President Obama will walk a tightrope, trying to please his business-bashing base without going so far that he makes an eventual rapprochement impossible. That's hardly surprising ahead of a crucial election, but what happens afterward?
Here's hoping Obama offers an olive branch to the business community and follows it up with meaningful action. For starters he should appoint a highly respected CEO to replace National Economic Council Director Larry Summers, who's leaving at the end of the year. Summers' replacement will be part of the inner circle, with daily access to the president. Any of the business execs being mentioned -- former Xerox CEO Anne Mulcahy, Honeywell CEO David Cote, Google CEO Eric Schmidt -- would be a good choice, and there are lots of other strong possibilities.
Business desperately needs a "go-to" person close to Obama, someone who understands the needs of companies and shares their perspective. It won't ease all the tensions or solve all the problems -- far from it -- but it's an important first step. Atmospherics do matter. And if the business advocate chosen is effective, it could have a real impact on policy.
There's no shortage of things that Obama might do for business. He can stop with the bashing, for one. He can work to overhaul the messed-up corporate tax structure that makes international competition harder. And he can put some muscle behind his talk of free trade.
That's not to accept all of businesses' complaints about Obama or blame him entirely for the bad feelings. Obama will never give business the kind of preferred status it had under George W. Bush, but that didn't work out so well for the economy, either. And the fact is, business hasn't done that badly under Obama. The economic recovery may be hit and miss, but business has gotten most of the hits. Company profits are up 28% since Obama took office, and share prices have climbed even more. And business seems to forget that Obama has actually provided a number of business tax breaks.
Administration officials have their own gripes. They accuse business of backing the stimulus and the bailouts, including for the auto industry, and then running for the hills when those policies became controversial.
They have a hard time, too, accepting gripes over the Wall Street regulatory bill. Did anyone really think the government would or could do nothing after the 2008 crisis? And if the legislation left too many details to be filled in by regulators, that's in large part because Obama blocked Democrats in Congress from writing tough provisions into the law.
But name-calling doesn't get the country where it needs to be. As a result of the higher profits, businesses are sitting on $2 trillion in cash, ready to invest at a moment's notice. But the catch-22 of this recovery is that businesses won't hire until consumers start buying their products, and consumers won't spend until businesses start hiring. The key is confidence, and the tense relationship between the White House and the business community undercuts confidence.
The ball is in Obama's court. He has to go first. That means listening to business executives and showing a willingness to meet them partway. Many of his initiatives -- education reform comes to mind -- can be starting points for building a more trusting relationship.
But the business community has to work with Obama, too. It can't expect a return to the Bush era -- Democrats are never going to desert organized labor, for example -- and it can't count on a Republican-controlled House doing it much good. In fact, that will just bring more complications. Gridlock is usually good for business, but not this time. With a vast number of regulations coming to fill in the blanks of the health and financial laws -- to say nothing of climate change and workplace safety -- gridlock will only increase the uncertainty about what will happen next. And as everyone knows, business hates uncertainty.
Both sides have to be willing to compromise, and while that's impossible with many other disputes, it's not the case here. Businessmen and businesswomen have a reputation for being practical and achieving results, and Obama needs results just as much. And in this case, both sides have the same goal -- a vibrant and growing economy.


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When I was in my teens big brows were definitely not all the rage they are today. Back when pencil thin eyebrows were in fashion, I couldn't have possibly stood out more with my big, unruly brows. If I had a penny for everytime I was told to 'get my eyebrows threaded', I would have more than enough for a dozen or so brow shapings. Nevertheless, whilst I am glad that big brows are in right now, it's hard not to laugh at the irony.
As the old saying goes 'the grass is always greener on the other side'! Anyway, due to having quite full eyebrows, I've never really felt the need to try out eyebrow products. I've tested eyebrow pencils before to help my Sister pick one, but never any of the mascaras/powders/gels on offer. However, I always thought a brow mascara might work to settle and set my brows in place. Not only do my eyebrows grow fast but they can also grow upwards. So when I saw Benefit were giving away some of their coveted Gimme Brow in Glamour, I was of course in deep anticipation!
I think the release date for the magazine was the 11th July, but on my grocery shop at the weekend I decided to have a quick look anyway. It was lucky I did as they already had some in stock! Although I did go into a bit of a panic 'Oh no what shade do I get', but a quick google told me that 5 is the darkest shade.
The Gimme Brow has been repackaged, just like most of their other brow products, to now feature a shiny, silver casing. I do like the new packaging, I think it looks a lot sleeker and glamorous. Whilst there are three shades available on the website; 01 - light, 03 - Medium and 05 - Deep, only 1 and 5 are available with Glamour.
The sample size is 1g, a third of the usual 3g. As you can see in the image above, it's barely half the size of the mascara tube. I know it's only a sample, but I still have the Benefit High Beam and Benetint samples going strong, and those were from many moons ago. It also feels like there isn't much product in the tube, I don't think it will last more than a handful of trials.
So would I purchase the full size? Probably not, I feel like I could get a cheaper brow mascara or even a clear gel that would do the same thing. It is a nice product for when you want your brows to look more groomed, but I wouldn't fork out nearly £19 for 3g of product, not when there are high street alternatives too.


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Troo Health Care's Cranberry 5000mg tablets provide a powerful dose of essential minerals including magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, calcium, iron and copper in one convenient and easy to swallow tablet. These Cranberry extract tablets are also high in Vitamins A, B and C and have a high organic acid content. This pack contains 90 x 5000mg tablets.
Cranberry tablets are taken to maintain the health of important organs such as the kidneys and bladder as well as supporting healthy circulation and cardiovascular function.


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St. Martin-in-the-Fields Episcopal Church named a new rector this week, W. Jarrett Kerbel. The 44 year-old is currently the executive director of the Crisis Ministry of Princeton and Trenton. His first sunday at the church will be on February 6, 2011.
"I could not be more excited and grateful for the opportunity to serve St. Martin-in-the-Fields as rector," Kerbel said. "I already feel a wonderful sense of connection to the vestry and discernment committee, and I look forward to the wonderful journey we will all share in the coming years. I see so many gifts and so much strength at St. Martin's. My joy will be to work with God's many blessings as they empower us for ministry and mission."


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From boy wizard to a Broadway darling, Daniel Radcliffe has left Harry Potter behind and is singing and dancing his heart out in the spectacular Broadway revival of "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying."
An animated Radcliffe paid a visit to the set of Access Hollywood Live in New York City (the interview airs Friday, check local listings) where he shared with Billy Bush his Katie Holmes moment, run-ins with rabid "Potter" fans in Japan and his rise to global superstardom.
VIEW THE PHOTOS: 'Harry Potter' Stars: Then & Now
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"Particularly this last film, I'm so proud of the way we've gone out 'cause I think it's so much better than any of the other films made," the actor told Billy, when asked about putting the finishing touches on the "Harry Potter" franchise.
When asked about being a global superstar in other countries and the reception he gets from "Potter" fans, he responded, "When I got to the airport in Japan at 13, there were 5,000 people screaming and waiting at arrivals… If I walk down the street there, there is just this kind of snowballing of people. I bumped into this girl in the corridor and said, 'Oh, I'm sorry.' And boom! [She] just fainted immediately."
VIEW THE PHOTOS: 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 2' NYC Premiere
Now that he's starring on Broadway, the star said it's much of the same when he leaves the theater each night.
"I've been handed some very strange things. I've been given an Etch-A-Sketch, which was kind of awesome. That was a present from a fan I'd never been given before. And, I got told that I smelled good by three people last night," Radcliffe joked.
The actor also told Billy about a certain performance one night where he incorporated a reference to Tom Cruise's infamous couch jump on "Oprah," after hearing that Tom's wife – Katie Holmes – was in the audience to witness the act.
VIEW THE PHOTOS: Daniel Radcliffe: From Boy Wizard To Broadway star!
"I got very, very paranoid that night because she was in the audience and I did it and the audience reaction wasn't nearly as much as it normally is and I was like, 'Oh man, they all know she's here' and they're like, 'Wow, this is really awkward!'" he laughed. "But it was."
Catch more with Billy Bush's interview with Daniel Radcliffe on Friday's Access Hollywood Live.
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Brief Description : Thin Tile , Marble Series .Thickness is just 4.8mm. Size : 600*1200mm
Surface Treatment:Glazed/Matte
Water Absorption:<0.05%
Usage : Floor and Wall ,suitable for any indoor&outdoor places....
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AS you know, slim tiles is porcelain tiles ,but also different with porcelain tile. It is a kind of new material that become more & more popular at present, because of outstanding features contrasting to the traditional ceramics
1, More thinner and lighter. Thickness is only 4.8mm,and the weight is 8kg/pcs
2, Due to the lightness, it will cut your cost In aspects :
Save freight : 2200 SQM / 20GP, nearly triple quantity can be loaded than traditional tile .
Save storage :more sqms can be placed in warehouse than before.
Save human cost, one people work as two or more because of only 8kg / pc (1200x600x4.8mm), one worker can pave 30sqm
3,Perfect for rebuilding of old house.
no need to smash the old tiles of your building, just put Slim tiles on the surface of your original tiles after your finding the level of it. That will be saving installation cost highly, keeping quite ,saving time & no dust in construction.
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used on wall & floor easily only need level the foundation of wall or floor. Big size can use on wall easily.
5.Thermal installation system can be used easily on exterior wall.
6.Floor heating is better
7, It can be cut to be any size with glass cutter --It's perfect for designers to decoration.
8,The size is 1200*600mm,looks more elegant and vivid ,
it's more beautiful while using as wall paper .Furthermore ,it's moistureproof & heat-resisting that much better than wood material and aluminum plastic panel
With its headquarther located in Foshan. JHD Ceramics Co.,Ltd which is a blend of ceramic production and sales of ceramic, is a modern enterprises, And it is the first professional factory in China to produce thin tiles.
JHD Ceramics Co.,Ltd have more than two thousand square feet of the large exhibition hall in China Ceramics Industry Headquarter.We export our product all over the world. Such as Europe, Asia, Africa,South America, ect.Also we are one of the most famous export trader in Foshan.
In 2010,after mastering the development tendencies of ceramics and under the guideline of policies on erengy saving and emission reduction,JHD developd its new business in the manfacture of thin tiles to enhance its export trading, It invested greatly and bulit a new plant as its production base in xianning,hubei Province, The Plant occupies an area of 330,000 square meters and own 10 production lines.
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Q:Is JHD thin tiles breakable?
A:JHD thin tiles looks thin and large in dimensions. This gave people some impression that ultra-thin tile is breakable. In fact, this is a kind of misconception. For the traditional tile with its thickness less than 7.5 mm, its average breaking strength is 700 or a little bit more; and for ultra-thin tile, it is up to 744. You can see that ultra-thin tile is not weaker than the traditional one.
Q:Can JHD thin tiles be used to pave in the floor? What attentions are to be considered? How to maintain the thin tiles?
A:JHD thin tiles can not only be used to tile in the wall, but it can also be used to pave in the floor. It is a misconception in the selection of tiles that ultra-thin tile cannot be used to pave in the floor. Ultra-thin tile has great advantage on wall-tiling. If it is used to pave in the floor, and if the floor is flat enough, there is no difference between the ultra-thin tile and the traditional tile/brick, and the former has more elegant appearance than the latter
Q:For wet tiling on the outside wall of building, can thin tiles only be used for the section lower than 24 meters?
A:No. Such a limitation is only a recommendation in our country. And in abroad, there is not such a limitation. If it specially designed and tested, thin tiles can be used without such limitation. An office building with its height of 69 meters, which is owned by Xianning Justice Bureau, Hubei Province, was wet-tiled with JHD thin tiles for all the height. This is a successful demonstration on application of JHD thin tiles.
Q:What adhesive is to be used to tile JHD thin tiles? And how much is the price for the adhesive?
A:For tiling the wall (indoors or outdoors), it is recommended that glue for tile would be used. At present the best glue brands are from USA, Germany and British. And JHD Co., Ltd cooperates with those enterprises and provides customer with the glue and the service. On the current market, the price of normal glue for tile is usd 200 --- 400/ton, For some top brands in the world, the price of it is usd 300---500/ton.


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Businesses of all sizes are making a major shift: they are gradually moving their workloads out of their corporate data centers, onto a combination of platforms like AWS®, Azure, Google Cloud Platform™, VMware® and more.
But architecting and operating multiple platforms can be highly complex — especially with new tools, apps and features being launched daily. Rather than going it alone, or trying to wrangle multiple vendors, businesses are turning to managed cloud service providers.


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NBA hot seat: Jason Kidd, Mike Woodson, more face fire
- NBA coaches face early-season scrutiny now as teams struggle to live up to preseason expectations
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It's about to get interesting in the NBA.
Nearly three weeks into the regular season, the excuse about how it's too early to judge anyone harshly is gone by the wayside. Such is hoops life when approximately 12% of the schedule is already in the rear view mirror. As such, here's a look at which teams have been most disappointing, which players may be the most disappointed, and what it all means in terms of possible forthcoming changes.
Embattled is more like it.
Remember when the Brooklyn Nets and the New York Knicks were not only in a colossal cage match for Big Apple supremacy but considered championship contenders? October suddenly seems so long ago.
The Nets (3-6 entering Monday) aren't playing winning basketball and have very little reason for hope at this point. First-year coach Jason Kidd's job is considered completely safe for now, as management assumed all along that this project would require patience and they see signs of growth he develops his bench style. Injuries to Deron Williams, Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce, Andrei Kirilenko and Brook Lopez have played a part and take some of the onus off the coach. As far as possible roster changes, the Nets are all-in with this high-priced bunch and simply don't have the valuable assets that could lead to a deal of much consequence before the Feb. 15 trade deadline.
As for the 3-6 Knicks, the fireworks are just getting started inside Madison Square Garden. Coach Mike Woodson is certainly under fire, though — like Kidd — he has more than enough injuries on his roster to point to as an excuse for the horrid start. (The biggest is center Tyson Chandler being out four to six weeks after fracturing his right fibula earlier this month.)
When healthy, third-year guard Iman Shumpert is the type of young, promising player that could warrant a hefty return via trade. But not only did he play only 45 games last season after tearing the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee in April 2012 , but he also had an arthroscopic surgery in July that was not announced by the Knicks, the Daily News of New York reported this week. Still, the Knicks — who reportedly offered him as part of a package for Boston Celtics point guard Rajon Rondo — are expected to continue exploring deals involving Shumpert while Woodson waits to see if his team's fate, and his own, can improve.
As for Rondo, a person with knowledge of the situation said the Celtics are showing no inclination to trade the seven-year veteran, who is still recovering from his own ACL tear in January. The person spoke to USA TODAY Sports on the condition of anonymity because of the private nature of the situation.
COACH'S CORNER: Capital might be first to change
The temperature of a coach's seat usually can be determined by contrasting the respective team's expectations entering the season with the current state of affairs. As such, one has to wonder about how safe Washington Wizards coach Randy Wittman's job is right now.
Wittman, whose owners made clear they want to be in the playoffs this season but have seen Washington get off to a 2-7 start, has a third factor not in his favor as well: he's in the last year of his contract. The Wizards have had a tough schedule early on, and they adjusted to the loss of center Emeka Okafor to injury (herniated disk in his back) by trading him to Phoenix for veteran big man Marcin Gortat.
According to a person with knowledge of the Wizards thinking, Wittman still has some time to turn things around. The fact that Washington played six of its first eight games on the road did not help his cause, and their Tuesday night home game against the dangerous Minnesota Timberwolves will be the latest test on this front. The person spoke to USA TODAY Sports on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the situation.
Whether it's Woodson, Wittman, the Toronto Raptors' Dwane Casey (in the last year of his contract, facing playoff expectations and a 4-7 record), the Utah Jazz's Tyrone Corbin (who has a league-worst 1-10 record and also is in the last year of his contract) or any other struggling coach, the pressure may be even greater than usual because there are so many proven coaches still available on the unemployment line.
Yet among that group that includes the likes of Phil Jackson, Jeff Van Gundy, Stan Van Gundy, George Karl, and Jerry Sloan (now a Jazz consultant), former Memphis Grizzlies coach Lionel Hollins has seen his stock continue to rise because of his old team's slow start. After winning a franchise-record 56 regular season games in Hollins' final season and reaching the Western Conference Finals for the first time in franchise history, the Grizzlies — who are now run by rookie head coach and former Memphis assistant Dave Joerger — are hovering around .500. Hollins, make no mistake, is waiting eagerly in the wings for his next challenge.
A similar dynamic is in place when it comes to Karl, who was fired after the Nuggets also set a franchise record for wins (57) but were eliminated by Golden State in the first round of the playoffs. Under first-year head coach Brian Shaw, the Nuggets — who lost small forward Andre Iguodala to free agency during the summer — were 4-5 entering Monday's game against the Oklahoma City Thunder. Attractive options abound for frustrated owners who are willing to pay for a more-proven leader, in other words.
TRADING PLACES: How close is Asik to leaving Houston?
Two dates to remember when it comes to the trade front: the Feb. 20 deadline, and Dec. 15. The latter is relevant because free agents who signed during the summer can be traded from that point, meaning the sheer breadth of proposals can be expanded and the odds of more moves taking place increased.
Houston Rockets center Omer Asik is widely known to be up for grabs after his agent, Andy Miller, has twice requested a trade twice since the summer. No one can blame Asik for wanting out, as Dwight Howard's arrival via free agency this summer ruined the plans he had in mind after signing a three-year, $25 million deal with the Rockets two summers ago. The Rockets have the luxury of being patient on this front, and it remains unclear where Asik may land.
He's hardly the only one who is likely on the move, as third-year Nuggets forward Kenneth Faried has sparked much discourse early on because of his fluid situation. With general manager Tim Connelly having taken over for the departed Masai Ujiri (now in Toronto), Faried's known desire for a huge payday via extension next summer was enough to inspire the decision maker to test his market value around the league as a way of considering all his options.
With teams such as the Raptors, Sacramento Kings, Milwaukee Bucks, Cleveland Cavaliers and Denver Nuggets struggling, there will be many inquiries made between now and the time when the trade deadline buzzer sounds.


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Your little one's huggable bears can now sport the family AFL team colours with this Adelaide Crows Sparkle Bear. This plush bear stands at 21cm with a team guernsey and shorts design to emulate their favourite players out on the oval. Finished with unique 'magic boots', these bears are perfect to help your youngster join in the AFL fun this season.


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Matthew Perry is losing his edge, he promises.
The still-beloved "Friends" co-star is giving television another go with "Go On," a new NBC sitcom created by one of his go-to "Friends" writers Scott Silveri. The show casts Perry as a charming but in-denial sportscaster who's forced to go to group grief counseling to finally deal with the death of his wife.
Perry concedes that his own attraction to edgier, crankier and damaged characters led to follow-up shows that didn't quite click with TV audiences ("Studio 60 On the Sunset Strip," "Mr. Sunshine"), but the 43-year-old actor believes he's found a gentler take on a sharper-edged character in "Go On." One that he thinks will be more welcoming to viewers with fond memories of Chandler Bing, but with enough bite to keep him challenged, too.
On finding the right tone for his comedic vehicles:
"The bad news for me creatively – well, the good news and the bad news – is that Scott created a TV show for me better than the one that I created for myself, so this show is just better. Scott's a better writer than I am…I gravitate towards sort of broken characters who try to be better people, and that setup is just much better here, first of all. ['Mr. Sunshine'] was sort of in a bad mood and no one really knew why, and this guy has had some very dramatic things happen to him, and he's in denial when you meet him, so it's a sort of built-in excuse to be really funny… In my efforts to have a TV show and come back, the characters have progressively gotten nicer."
On the perks of playing a sports radio star:
"I think we're sort of loosely basing it on a few people – Rich Eisen, Jim Rome, Colin Coward – who's sort of a very opinionated sports guy on the radio. So he's successful at his job, but there's always sort of upward national hopes, potentially. But what he's doing right now, he's definitely good at his job and successful...It's really fun for me because we're going to be able to invite famous athletes to be on the show – Terrell Owens is in the first episode. And whenever I come across a famous athlete, I'm shameless: I'll just ask them to be on the show. And to my face they've all said yes so far."
On finding the balance mining humor from his character's tragedy:
"Behind everything is the fact that this guy just lost his wife, and so there's the reality of that and I don't have a lot of experience grieving. I have a ton of experience of sitting in circles and talking about my problems – I've been doing that for a long, long time, so I didn't have to do much research. But the interesting thing – and you would only know this is if you were in such circles – but that common bond creates a lot of laughter. A lot of jokes, a lot of funny, a lot of laughing.
On his own belief in a twelve-step healing process:
"I [believe in it], yes. And this character, I think – in a nonlinear fashion – will. That kind of belief usually comes out of a sense of need. And he realizes at the end of the pilot that he needs that."
On therapy:
"My feeling on therapy is it's a luxury, and if you're fortunate enough to get some smart people to talk to about life then that's fortunate and you should go for it. He had no reason to go to therapy. His life was he likes sports, he likes his buddies, he loved his wife. And had this awful thing not happened to him he probably never would have dug deeper than that."
On the group therapy influence of the classic 70s sitcom "The Bob Newhart Show":
"Yeah, there are some parallels – the difference being that I'm not a shrink, I'm one of the patients. Bob Newhart is such a genius at reactionary comedy, you know: reacting to kooky, weird things. And I get to do that, but I also get to take part in the group. Yeah, we talk about 'The Bob Newhart Show' a lot."
On whether "Go On" has cracked the code of how viewers want to see him on TV:
"I don't know. I know that I just love the material. I know that it breeds a kind of acting that I really am excited about. I get the chance to do both things that I really enjoy, doing comedy and drama, and I hope it's a sympathetic character and I hope I'm playing him in a sympathetic way while still being funny."
On whether he'll delay inviting any "Friends" co-stars to guest on the show for a while, or lean into it this time around:
"Yeah, I've sort of had the same answer: I think it would be confusing. We're trying to put out something new, so it would be very confusing, I think, at first. But ultimately I love those guys, so it would be nice to work with them."
Matthew Perry: "Go On" Will Be Therapeutic For Post-"Friends" Career
Actor say he's found a "kinder, gentler" version of the edgy roles he prefers.
Matthew Perry is losing his edge, he promises.


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The Scientific Way to…
Swat Flies
Flies are like little ninjas, dodging even the most skillfully wielded rolled-up magazine. Michael Dickinson, a neurobiologist at the University of Washington, wanted to know how they pull this off. He got flies to climb through a tiny tube ending at a 5-millimeter-wide stage. Over it loomed a black disc that would descend from various angles when triggered. Meanwhile, a video camera recorded the encounter at thousands of frames per second. The flies, which have a nearly 360-degree field of view, are always on guard, and within 200 milliseconds of spotting a threat, they began a series of postural adjustments in advance of, well, flying. You can't beat that speed. So to crush flies professionally, you have to predict their moves. —Judy Dutton
Method #1
From the front
If the crushing blow approaches head-on, the fly shifts its middle legs forward so it can push backward. Anticipate the backward jump by angling the swatter to arc over and then behind the fly.
Method #2
From behind
Perceiving a threat coming from behind, the fly moves its middle legs backward in preparation to launch forward. To land the swat, you have to lead the fly "like a quarterback leading a receiver," Dickinson says.
Turn that crap down! Playing your favorite music in the background may make it harder to study or acquire a new skill.
(Applied Cognitive Psychology)
Get in Shape
We could all use a little exercise. The question is, just how little? A recent study at the Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, found that everyday movements can contribute significantly to healthy heart function. So do a little more housework. Instead of sending emails to coworkers, get up and walk over to their desks. Take the stairs. Or just stand up and sit down a lot. There. You've worked out. —Erin Biba
"I don't mind crowds… it's just people I can't stand."
"Don't worry about this stuff. Just remember my motto: 'Every day is the first day of what's left of your life.'"
Eat Spaghetti
One of the occupational hazards of eating pasta is the way it slings sauce on everything around you—shirts, jacket … dates. Physicists creatively named this the spaghetti effect, the tendency of long flexible strands (like spaghetti) to whip side to side when pulled into a container (like your mouth). It's a mild annoyance at dinner but a real danger in industrial settings where ropes or chains are rapidly pulled to and fro—or at home, when your metal tape measure goes feral. Fortunately, you can tame the noodle. —Judy Dutton
Why it whips
Slurping the spaghetti strand into your mouth applies kinetic energy. But it also shortens the length of the strand outside your mouth. So the energy gets concentrated, which turns the noodle into a bullwhip.
You could try…
Coiling the spaghetti around a fork and putting the whole thing in your mouth at once. This approach has the advantage of being dignified.
But it's more fun to…
Cut the strand before putting it in your mouth. Or break the spaghetti in half before boiling so the shorter strands will whiplash less. You can still slurp as loud as you want. Just go slow to keep the kinetic energy down.
Find a Soul Mate
There's a probabilistic approach to finding the love of your life, and it even has a name: satisficing, a combination of satisfy and suffice. OK, technically, satisficing refers to getting a good enough outcome when you're lacking complete information about your options. But isn't dating like that? According to Peter Todd, professor of informatics and cognitive science at Indiana University, the question always comes down to this: "Do you keep searching and hope something better will come along, or do you stop searching when you find something that looks pretty good?"
In the face of this conundrum, the best strategy for picking a mate is to date enough people to establish some baseline standards, then settle down with the next person you meet who exceeds the bar. According to Todd, you should have a baseline after dating roughly 12 people. He's dubbed this theory the Twelve-Bonk Rule, and it can also be applied to picking the right employee or choosing a home. So, if you've dated fewer than 12 people, you should feel free to keep looking. If you've had 30 relationships, odds are you're being too picky. Quit obsessing over your new paramour's dorky laugh.—Judy Dutton
Fix a Credit Card That Won't Swipe
A credit card is like a cassette tape. And just as your old copy of Van Halen II got fuzzy after hundreds of repeat performances, a credit card slowly gets garbled from overswiping. The reason: Both the tape and the magnetic stripe on the card are made up of millions of iron-oxide particles that convey information by generating electrical pulses in the reader. With wear, these particles get smeared, creating background noise. Luckily, this noise has very low magnetism, and it can be dampened by increasing the space between the magnetic stripe and the head that reads it. So simply cover the stripe with Scotch tape. If only reviving David Lee Roth's career were that easy.—Judy Dutton
If you can't remember the item before this one, you should get outside more. Taking a nature walk improves short-term memory.
(Psychological Science)
Cool Off
Man, is it nice to cool off with an ice-cold drink on a hot day. Nice, but pathetically inefficient. According to multiple studies, the faster way to cool your core is to strip naked and mist your entire body with lukewarm water while standing in front of a fan blowing warm air.
The magical result: Heat quickly transfers from your core into the surrounding air and water vapor—water is about 25 times more effective than air at conducting heat. Why not frigid water and air? Because the more temperate microclimate promotes evaporation, which is what cools you off. The technique will chill you out by up to 0.6 degrees Fahrenheit per minute.
Got ice? A more equipment-intensive method can also work for rapid cooling: Jump into an ice bath like athletes do. If you don't have a chilled Jacuzzi handy, you can also use bags of ice to supercool your heat-sensitive parts—your groin, wrists, armpits, neck, and ankles—while misting in the buff. (Yes, you can still grab a cool drink when you're done.)—Katharine Gammon
Remove Common Stains
Sprinting to the dry cleaner's isn't the only way to save your wine-splattered suit. All you need is a crash course on the chemistry hiding in your kitchen cupboards.*—Judy Dutton
Red wine
Remove it with:
Club soda or baking soda
Why it works: Red wine contains tannic acid, while the carbon dioxide in club soda or baking soda creates a basic solution when dissolved in water. Acids and bases are attracted to each other, so when carbon dioxide comes cruising by, it lures the tannic acid away from the fabric it's clinging to so it can easily be flushed away with water.
Dirt or rust
Remove it with:
Lemon or vinegar
Why it works: Dirt and rust are alkaline or basic, while lemon and vinegar are acidic. Yet again, the acid/base cancellation policy applies (see above). It's an especially useful trick in the case of rust, which is iron oxide and is insoluble in water. Introduce an acid into the mix and it interacts with the iron oxide, causing small particles to break away from the fabric.
Remove it with:
Hair spray or rubbing alcohol
Why it works: The ethyl alcohol found in both hair spray and rubbing alcohol is a surfactant, which means that one side of the molecule is hydrophilic (or water-loving) while the other side loves organic molecules, like the carbon that serves as the pigment in ink. Because of this, ethyl alcohol acts as a liaison between water and ink so they exit your clothes together.
Remove it with:
Salt water
Why it works: Blood contains hemoglobin, which is part iron and gives blood its red color. Salt displaces the iron in hemoglobin, causing the red color to fade. Meanwhile, the water keeps the blood wet and cold, preventing the hemoglobin from binding tightly with the fabric. And once you have iron, sodium, and chloride ions floating around together in liquid, it's all ready to be washed away.
*Thanks to Bob Kenworthy at the Chemical Heritage Foundation
Apple juice: cloudy or clear? Cloudy. It has four times the concentration of the antioxidant polyphenol.
(Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture)
Be Happy
Do good deeds
Researchers at UC Riverside found that performing acts of kindness makes people happier. Unless, that is, the acts become repetitive tasks.
Get exercise
According to research at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, exercise has the same kind of physical effects on the brain as antidepressants.
Get hugged
Penn State researchers found that students who were hugged frequently were happier than students who weren't.
Get a pet
Studies done at Miami University show that pets are as good at providing social support as other humans.
"An ice bath! Reminds me of my first wife."
"I had a pet once. I trained it to run away."
Rekindle Your Relationship
Sooner or later, most relationships fall into a rut. Advice abounds on how to spice things up (cue the furry handcuffs). But the scientifically vetted solution for making sparks fly is much simpler, says Arthur Aron, a psychology professor at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. Aron set up an experiment in which couples roll a ball across a room toward each other, which they did with ease. He assigned other couples a similar task but with their hands and feet tied. Afterward, Aron asked everyone to complete questionnaires on how much they loved their partners. The bound couples reported being much more smitten than the unfettered ones, whose task was easier.
No, this doesn't take us back to furry handcuffs. The moral of Aron's experiment is actually this: Take on a new challenge and the excitement of tackling it will rub off on your relationship. "That exhilarating feeling may come from another source, but it's still associated with your partner," says Aron, who theorizes this happens because of brain chemistry. "When people fall in love, they get activation in the dopamine system," he says. Novel or exciting pursuits also stimulate the brain to pump out more dopamine. Aron theorizes that even playing videogames together may draw a couple closer. (Who knew Grand Theft Auto could help your love life?)
One easy way to put this wisdom to work is to shake up date night, suggests Aron, who conducted another experiment in which he asked couples to spend 90 minutes a week doing unfamiliar activities like rock climbing or taking Italian lessons. Ten weeks later, when these couples filled out a questionnaire about how they felt about each other, they scored much higher than couples who had stuck to familiar date nights like dinner and a movie. Problema risolto!—Judy Dutton
Ace a Test
You've studied. You've taken practice exams. You've gotten a good night's sleep. there's only one thing left to do before that big test: Get some exercise. According to experiments conducted at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, one of the best things you can do to prep your brain for an intellectual challenge is to get in a perfectly timed small workout. Here's how to sweat your way to a better score.—Brendan I. Koerner
Consider a Treadmill
You need to get your heart racing to sharpen your cognition, but you don't want to risk overtaxing your mind. So avoid athletic pursuits against opponents—even virtual ones. One study found that treadmill workouts improve mental performance but vigorous sessions of Wii games do not.
Hit the Sweet Spot
Avoid either under- or overexertion: Taking it too easy will leave you as dull as when you started, and overdoing it will make you too tired to focus. Aim for a heart rate of about 60 percent of max. Use a heart-rate monitor to make sure you keep that same exertion plateau for a full 20 minutes.
Timing Is Everything
The cognitive benefits don't kick in the moment you hop off the treadmill. Ongoing research suggests it will be anywhere from five to 20 minutes before they take effect. So time your workout to end about 20 minutes before the proctor yells, "Go!"
The cognitive boost can be short-lived. After about 50 minutes researchers saw a return to baseline. So tackle the hardest questions first—remember, they're often placed at the end of each section.
The more you chew, the less you eat. Chewing your food lowers levels of the hormone ghrelin, associated with hunger.
(The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition)
Microwave Food Evenly
Nothing is as fickle as a microwaved burrito. One bite scorches the tongue; the next turns up a cold lump of bean and cheese. To better understand this paradox, in 2002 Suvi Ryynänen, a researcher in the department of food technology at the University of Helsinki, inserted thermometer probes into various points of prepackaged meals before nuking them. After cooking, Ryynänen found the difference between the hottest and coldest spots to be greater than 150 degrees—a range sure to flummox even the most ardent consumer of microwavable food.
The reason hot spots happen is because the waves in microwaves have peaks (high points) and troughs (low points). As these waves bounce around inside the oven, they often meet, resulting in a phenomenon called interference. When a peak meets a peak, they create an even bigger peak, frying food in that area. When a peak meets a trough, they cancel each other out, leaving food cold. The key to avoiding these land mines is to know where the hot spots are hiding. How? Cook a tray of marshmallows in your oven. In the hot spots, "the marshmallows puff up and melt, and in the cold spots the marshmallows don't change much," says Lou Bloomfield, professor of physics at the University of Virginia. If there are too many hot spots, your best strategy is to keep your food moving, which is why most microwaves have turntables (one study showed these can increase the temperature uniformity by 40 percent). Don't make the mistake, however, of placing your food in the center. Since food here just spins on its axis, it's not moving much, which means you could be burning a Chernobyl-sized hole through your pastrami sandwich. Instead, place your food along the turntable's edge.—Judy Dutton
Plan a Party
In 1959, physicist William MacLean at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, New York, published a study, "On the Acoustics of Cocktail Parties." In it, he pointed out that the noise you hear at a social gathering has two sources: the direct sound from, say, a person who's speaking and the indirect sound that arrives at your ears after bouncing off the walls, furniture, and other guests. The noise level will remain manageable as long as speakers can be heard over the background noise. As soon as indirect sound exceeds direct sound, though, people will begin to raise their voices, starting a chain reaction that will cause the volume in the room to skyrocket.
To avoid such eruptions, you must invite the right number of guests. Arianna Astolfi, a researcher at Politecnico di Torino in Italy, studied noise levels in a local pizzeria. She found that when there were 18 people in the 42-square-meter eatery, conversation stayed at reasonable levels. But when the restaurant was packed with 36 guests, the volume rose to the point that people started to raise their voices. Based on her calculations, Astolfi says, if you want to throw a party where guests can hear each other and won't attract noise complaints, invite no more than one person for every 21 square feet, or about 24 people for a 500-square-foot room.—Judy Dutton
"Dating chickens? Passing tests? Are you sure this is the latest issue of The Saturday Evening Post?"
"When you turn on the microwave, my pacemaker skips a beat. And that's what passes for love around here."
Walk on the Moon
Even if you've mastered the moonwalk, you're not prepared to walk on the moon. getting from here to there on lunar surfaces means bouncing around in low gravity while wearing an extremely cumbersome space suit. It's hard. So what should you do if you find yourself on the surface of our biggest satellite? Go for an easy lope—kind of like a simplified skip. It's the most efficient way to locomote, according to a team at M.I.T. that studied apollo video and conducted treadmill experiments with low-gravity-simulating harnesses and exoskeletons. here's what they recommend.—Katharine Gammon
Learn to lope
Loping is just about the easiest gait out there—put one foot in front of the other, and push off the back foot to rock onto the front foot. MIT's Christopher Carr says that loping comes naturally to kids (loping is easier than skipping, so kids learn it early), vampire bats (surprisingly, the bats are tetrapods that run with a lopelike gait), and (duh) astronauts.
Conserve energy
Carr and his colleagues found that loping—which doesn't require the body to bend as much as running—gave their test subjects the most metabolic bang for their buck both with and without a simulated space suit. But things might be different on Mars: The Red Planet's gravity is between the Moon's and Earth's, which means there's no metabolic advantage to loping.
When in doubt, go faster
A separate piece of advice for lunar perambulators: If you need to get back to the lander in a hurry, run! Loping may be the most efficient stride on the moon, but it's not necessarily the fastest. Carr calculated the difference between slow and fast gaits and concluded that running—or at least loping faster—could save your life. "Your metabolic rate will be higher, so you'll go through oxygen more quickly," he says. "But you're also going to get there sooner."
Gain Trust
Trust is something you earn. And to earn it, you must slowly and painstakingly build a relationship based on mutual admiration and respect. Only kidding! Trust can totally be faked. The key, as researchers at Vrije University Amsterdam discovered, is in convincing others that you have a high level of self-control. The researchers conducted a series of experiments on married couples as well as complete strangers in an effort to determine how trust forms. In each instance, people who exhibited self-control—who decided against buying CDs when they were short on cash, for example, or who showed up at places on time—were deemed trustworthy. So if you want people to trust you, just tell someone you are on a diet, then pass on dessert. Or promise to do a favor for them, then do it. And be on time. It works. Trust us. —Erin Biba
Stick with bent-shaft snow shovels this winter. You'll bend less and clear snow more efficiently.
(Applied Ergonomics)
Work With Others
Looking out for number one is not a great survival strategy. We know this intuitively or we wouldn't tip waiters or stop at red lights. Game theorists discovered years ago that cooperative strategies usually produce the most success. Computer models show that the top dog isn't the most ruthless; it's the one who reciprocates. Math proves the golden rule.
There were conditions, of course. If you're "nice"—that is, if you cooperate—but your competition responds with lying or cheating, you have to retaliate. (Forgiveness is part of the equation, too, though. Slap the wrist and move on.)
The theory got more support when evolutionary biologists started noticing how important cooperation is to evolution. "If I am willing to let others have a slightly bigger share of the pie, then people will want to share pies with me," wrote Harvard researcher Martin Nowak. "Generosity bakes successful deals." In other words, a social group that plays by these rules becomes a kind of superorganism. (Like an ant colony—or Twitter.) That's especially true in a globally integrated world. So unless you've got a ship packed for Mars, best to play nice.—K. C. Cole
Level a Picture
If pictures on a wall start a little crooked, they end up a lot crooked. Being slightly askew means their centers of gravity are lower than if they were straight, so over time, gravity pulls them even more off center. When a chance disturbance (like building vibrations or a door slamming) momentarily relieves the friction between the cord and the nail, the cord will slide slightly, nudging the lowest corner of the frame farther southward.
The simplest solution is just to use a longer cord to hang your picture. In effect, this turns it from a teetering seesaw into a swing that always settles at its lowest point. You can also cheat by using two nails. "This fools the picture into thinking it's hanging from a long cord," says Hugh Morton, a mathematician who specializes in knot theory at the University of Liverpool in the UK. "It will be very happy." So that's the cold calculation to make: Is doubling the number of holes in your wall worth never having to readjust the frames? —Judy Dutton
Keep Your Earbuds From Tangling
No matter how carefully you place a pair of earbuds into your pocket, they emerge as a rat's nest. Why? Dorian Raymer and Douglas Smith at UC San Diego unraveled the mystery in a paper titled "Spontaneous Knotting of an Agitated String" in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The researchers stuck lengths of string in a box, rotated the box, then opened it to see if knots formed. After an eye-glazing 3,415 trials, they determined that string shorter than 1.5 feet never tangled, but as a string gets longer, the probability of knots shoots up sharply (which is why 10-foot-long Christmas tree lights can melt your soul).
Apple, never one to pass up an opportunity to hawk a new product, has patented a method to keep iPod earbuds from tangling by stiffening the wires so they can't curl in on themselves so easily. In theory, this should help, although it's not your only option. Robert Matthews at Aston University in Birmingham, England, hypothesized that he could cut down on knots by clipping the earbuds themselves to the miniplug, forming a loop. To test this theory he persuaded kids in eight schools to jumble clipped and unclipped string in boxes and report the results. Some 12,000 trials later, he found that looping reduced the risk of knots forming up to tenfold.
If you don't have any binder clips, Smith suggests an approach he picked up from rescue squads who hang from cliffs and helicopters, where tangled rope could prove fatal. "They put one end of the rope into a bag, then feed the rest in, like you'd stuff a sleeping bag into its stuff sack," Smith says. This keeps the ends away from each other, preventing knots from forming.—Judy Dutton
"That bear is the perfect astronaut: 'In space, no one can hear you not laughing.'"
"This sure is a hip magazine. And I oughta know, I just got a hip replacement."


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Michael Snell and Steven Bridges of Portland, Maine were the first gay couple to married in the state following our victory in the November elections.
The Portland Press Herald has photos.
Here's video of the first married couple leaving the City Hall after the ceremony – the crowd goes wild (video courtesy of Marissa Bodnar, a reporter with WGME in Portland):
Marissa Bodnar, a reporter with WGME in Portland, just tweeted out the following photo of gay marriage supporters waiting outside city hall, in freezing temperatures, for the marriages to begin:
And TVTeddy, an assignment manager at WCSH6 in Portland, tweeted the following, including a photo:
The boys, walking out to greet the crowd after their marriage:
Crowd in Portland sings "All You Need Is Love" (the video is crooked, but you can still listen, and turn your head :):


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Emblemata, Emblemata, Emblemata – May
What is an emblem book? It is a form that was tremendously popular during the Renaissance. It is believed that the Italian lawyer Andrea Alciato devised the first such book. The books themselves contained small illustrations (a bit like a modern thumbnail image) that were accompanied by "a brief title or motto, an edifying verse epigram, and often an additional explanatory text in verse or prose." (Gordon Collection: Emblem Books http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/rmds/portfolio/gordon/emblem/)
These books were created by individuals and reveal their own outlook, but they also "communicate moral, political, or religious values in ways that have to be decoded by the viewer." (Glasgow University Emblem Project. http://www.emblems.arts.gla.ac.uk/) They often have classical or humanist sources, such as Erasmus's Adages. (Gordon Collection: Emblem Books http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/rmds/portfolio/gordon/emblem/)
Alciato introduced the first Emblematum liber, published by Heinrich Steyner and printed in Augsburg in 1531. Scholarship suggests that Alciato himself had nothing to do with this series of editions, but that his associate and friend Conrad Peutinger commissioned the publications based on unillustrated epigrams, etc., that "had circulated among Alciato's friends in manuscript" (Andrea Alciato's Emblematum. Alciato at Glasgow. http://www.emblems.arts.gla.ac.uk/alciato/books.php?id=A31a&o=). Several versions were printed in continental Europe and were collected widely.
This month's CABS Book-of-the-Month is a version printed, we believe, in Leiden by Franciscus Raphelengius (son-in-law of Christoph Plantin) in 1608. We don't know for sure because the title page is a hand drawn copy that was added at some stage, possibly to replace the original title page which was destroyed. But one inclined to conspiracy theories might think that it was a deliberate attempt to associate an inferior copy with a renowned publishing house and established edition of the book. Who knows?
This book is fascinating for a number of other reasons, mostly relating to its binding. First of all, the book has no writing on the spine, but Alciatus is written vertically on the fore-edge of the book, two letters per row. Anyone interested in library history will know that bookshelves as we know them only came into common usage well into the era of the printed book. Manuscripts and early printed books were usually laid flat on lecterns or shelves and were often chained to the furniture. It was only with the mass production of books that forced libraries to find a more space-efficient way of storing them. Initially they were shelved upright, fore-edge facing out. Blind-tooled decoration was common in northern Europe into the 17th century and that did not lend itself well to spine titles. With the spread of gold-tooling from northern Africa via Italy and Spain, which was a more visible way of marking the spine, books began to be shelved spine outwards.
We know very little about the book's provenance other than it was given to the Courtauld in 1978 in accordance with the bequest of the art historian and collector Dame Joan Evans. But if the book was published in The Netherlands it was northern Europe and the binding tells us a bit more. The book has been sewn onto pasteboard boards using 4 parchment thongs, which are visible because there are no pastedowns. These are all features of that suggest the binding is contemporary to the publication of the book, if 1608 is correct.
The covering is brown calf, blind tooled with floral and compass motif stamps, one of which incorporates the initials RW. The initials could be those of the owner of the book, although they are more likely to have been those of the binder or the finisher (the person who decorated the binding). The initials also suggest a northern European origin, as the letter W appears in Spanish, Italian and French words usually only of foreign borrowings.
The book has a shelfmark of CABS Z7483 ALC. We have another edition (Emblemata ad quae singula, praeter concinnas insciptiones, imagines…) in the Anthony Blunt bequest. This was published in Lyon in 1626. Its shelfmark is BLUNT ALICIATI. The library has a other emblem books, including a copy of Ripa's Iconologia, which is not an emblem book per se, but has similar elements, Jacob Cats's Proteus ofte minne-beelden verandert in sinne-beelden, for an example of a Flemish emblem book, and an 1883 facsimile of Jean Cousin's Liber: Fortunæ centũ emblemata, et symbola centũ, continens…, as well as a number of books about emblem books.
There are numerous emblem projects, so if you are interested:
OpenEmblem Project – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign – http://media.library.uiuc.edu/projects/oebp/
Alciato's Book of Emblems – Memorial University at St. John's, Newfoundland – http://www.mun.ca/alciato/index.html
Glasgow University Emblem site – http://www.emblems.arts.gla.ac.uk/
Alciato at Glasgow – http://www.emblems.arts.gla.ac.uk/alciato/
The English Emblem Project – Penn State University – http://emblem.libraries.psu.edu/home.htm
Emblem Project Utrecht – http://emblems.let.uu.nl/index.html
Erica Foden-Lenahan
Special Collections


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NBC News has called the 2012 presidential election for President Obama. So has Fox News.
After both networks called Ohio for Obama, they brought the gavel down on 2012. Virginia, Nevada and Florida were still to be called, according to Fox, but Mitt Romney's last path to 270 electoral votes was gone.
Lead Fox anchor Chris Wallace, however, soon went on-air to say Fox may have made a too-early call: "The Romney camp has real doubts about the call made by us."
Top Republican strategist Karl Rove said, "This is premature."
Then, in a bit of Must See TV, then Fox gets the jitters. Anchor Megyn Kelly was dispatched a couple floors away — or somewhere — LIVE to interview Fox's own "Decision Desk" – the network's own in-house numbers crunchers.
"We are quite comfortable" with our call on Ohio, The Desk told Kelly. And they didn't back down from Rove.
Now THIS is compelling live TV.


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Singer Bobby Brown made sure to let his fans know what's up.
The artist--who checked himself into rehab shortly after marrying Alicia Etheredge in Hawaii, and then checked out three weeks later--wanted concertgoers from last night's show in Orlando to know that he's not going down the same troubled road as before.
Bobby Brown's wife has a seizure
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"I'm seven and a half years off of narcotics, 21 days clean of alcohol and I go by the name Bad Ass Bobby Brown," he announced to the crowd.
Brown took part in the New Edition reunion show Saturday night shortly after his wife was admitted to the hospital for a seizure.
"The report that my wife was rushed to the hospital is true," Brown tweeted Saturday afternoon. "She is recovering and in good spirits. Please keep my family in your prayers."
Earlier today, Brown told his Twitter followers, "Once again... Thank u, Thank U, THANK U.. My family is doing great!!! B. Brown out!!!"


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Overhead Projector, Part II
After the first analytical look at the projections for the 2008 Indians, as determined by Bill James Handbook 2008 and courtesy of Fangraphs.com, the time has come to cast our probing eye to that 6" by 24" white piece of rubber that occupies the center of the diamond a mere 59 feet from the front of home plate and the players that stand atop it.
That's right, boys and girls, it's time for the second ½ of the 2008 projections from the Bill James Handbook 2008 (BJH2K8) – the pitchers:
C.C. Sabathia
While BJH2K8 sees a bit of a downturn for Sabathia with a higher WHIP and ERA from his Cy Young Award winning (doesn't that sound nice) campaign, a projected 3.56 ERA and a 1.25 WHIP are certainly nothing to sneeze at. The big difference in Sabathia's 2007 to his 2008 projections come from a huge increase in BB/9 (1.38 in 2007 to a projected 2.70, which would be his highest since 2005) which predicates a huge drop on K/BB rate (5.65 in 2007 to a projected 2.74, this time the lowest since 2005). While the Hefty Lefty's projected numbers look good, they are far from the numbers of 2007 or even his 2006 season, so the statisticians see something in Sabathia's numbers that indicate that after marked improvement that he showed down the stretch in 2006 and throughout 2007, the Crooked Cap's 2008 will fall closer in line with his 2005 season that helped the Tribe to a 93-win season. Thus, according to the projections, the aCCe will return in 2008, just perhaps not CCy.
Fausto Carmona
Like his left-handed counterpart at the top of the Tribe rotation, The Faustastic One is due for a fallback from 2007, according to BJH2K8, with a higher ERA, a higher WHIP, and a higher BB rate. All of that being said, though, the "higher" numbers for all of those projections are far from significant increases as the 2008 projections for Carmona show that the number-crunchers think that his 2007 breakout season was far from a fluke. Essentially, the projections play out to the conclusion that the Indians have a 24-year-old (in December of 2007) stud sitting at the top of their rotation capable of a 6.07 K/9 rate with a 1.31 WHIP every fifth day. That…um…that's not bad.
Jake Westbrook
Steady as she goes, Mr. Westbrook's projections have him returning to form after a 2007 that was marred early in the season by a muscle pull. And by "returning to form", I mean that the innings-eater who will not dazzle anyone, will pitch to contact (combined K+BB/9 rate under 8), and figures to win as many games as he loses. A solid middle-the-rotation starter whose numbers don't quicken the heart rate, for good or bad, Jake is what he is. His 2008 projections most closely resemble his 2006 season which, while far from dominant, established him as a viable #3 to #4 starter and justified (particularly in light of the Carlos Silva deal) the contract signed by him last year.
Paul Byrd
For those expecting the Byrdman to lose some altitude after a successful 2007 season…surprise! The folks at BJH see Byrd's 2008 nest full of a lower ERA, a lower WHIP, and a higher K rate than 2007. While the projections don't quite recapture the pre-Cleveland success that Byrd experienced in Anaheim, Atlanta, and KC, they are (at least) a continued improvement from the 2006 season that had Tribe fans banging their collective heads against a wall. Byrd's projected numbers are far from scintillating and (outside of some extra hormones and possibly some Crisco) nobody knows how he is still able to baffle hitters, but the folks who look only at numbers and not "stuff" and not "electricity" see a moderately successful 2008 for Byrd, certainly befitting of a #4 starter.
Now we get into the nitty-gritty, with the top 4 in the Tribe rotation spoken for in terms of projection. Whereas the top 4 are pretty black and white, the unknown 20% of the rotation exists mainly in shades of gray and who, in 2007, better personified gray than Clifton Phifer Lee?
Cliff Lee
BJH2K8, unlike many Friends of the Feather, are awfully bullish on Mr. Five and (F)Lee, projecting numbers that would indicate that 2007 was the aberration on the low end for Lee much like 2005 was the aberration on the high end. Interestingly, the 2008 projections are nearly identical to Lee's 2006 season (same ERA, nearly the same WHIP) with the highest K rate since 2004. Whether or not Lee will post these numbers at the Jake remains to be seen as the Indians do have options past Lee for that 5th spot in the rotation and the possibility of moving him prior to leaving Winter Haven still has to exist in the minds of the Tribe Front Office. However, if Lee is able to right himself from 2007 to settle somewhere in the range of a 4.40 ERA and a 1.40 WHIP with decent peripherals, his existence on the roster and his contract become entirely more palatable for a #4 or a #5 starter.
Jeremy Sowers
And now, from the "Welcome Back" category (pitcher edition), the boys at BJH predict a triumphant return of the Heady Hurler that we all grew to know and love in 2006 as his 2008 projections fall more closely in line with the 2006 Sowers (actually with a better projected WHIP) than the abomination of his 2007 season. If the Scholarly Southpaw has, in fact, returned to his 2006 form (albeit with the same underwhelming K rate), the Indians' starting depth will fall in line with the desires of the Tribe brass. Sowers, despite the trumpeting of some that he was a potential #2 starter after a few brilliant starts in 2006, is likely (according to BJH) to settle into the mean of an ERA around 4.00 and a WHIP around 1.40. Again, like Lee (though at a much lower price tag), if this is true – the Indians back end of the rotation will be in good hands as few teams can boast fair, or even middling, 4th and 5th starters.
Unfortunately, due to a lack of concrete numbers, everyone's favorite baby-faced LHP Aaron Laffey (OK, some still may prefer Sowers) was not included in the BJH2K8 projections. This is unfortunate as there seems to be a wide gap in thinking about how Laffey eventually projects out as a MLB pitcher. One school of thought sees him as a groundball-inducing machine from the left side, with a better K rate and K/BB ratio than Jake Westbrook. Another sees him as a fair prospect who simply parlayed the confidence of a good season in the minors to a great cup of coffee in Cleveland, while past success certainly does not guarantee future results. Even a third exists that Laffey, with his bulldog mentality belied by a "High School Musical" face, is best suited for the back-end of the bullpen given his infinitesimal HR rate despite his propensity to pound the strike zone. While the projections are far from Gospel, it would have been interesting to see where the number-crunchers saw the developmental curve of Laffey going in 2008.
All told, very promising projections for the 2008 rotation with the slight regressions projected for C.C. and Carmona offset (somewhat) by a full season of Jake and a bit of an uptick for Byrd. The big change, of course, is the (relative) success projected for Lee and Sowers which help the depth of the rotation to the degree that it would keep (barring a trade of Lee) the Buffalo rotation of Sowers, Laffey, and Atom Miller at beck and call in case of injury or ineffectiveness. Somewhere, the manager of the Toledo Mud Hens is groaning.
But what of the firemen, the men paid to spell R-O-L-A-I-D-S?
Ask and you shall receive -
Joe Borowski
4-3, 31 saves, 3.90 ERA, 1.28 WHIP, 7.80 K/9, 3.00 BB/9, 2.60 K/BB
If you're looking for the argument that The Big Borowski's tightrope walk is going to end badly (i.e. falling without a net) in 2008, don't look at these numbers. BJH2K8 sees a marked improvement in line for JoeBo with a much lower ERA (5.07 in 2007 to a projected 3.90 in 2008) and a much lower WHIP (1.43 in 2007 to a projected 1.28 in 2008) both mainly due to a stat known as BABIP (Batting Average of Balls in Play) which quantifies what happens when a batter actually makes contact with the ball, discounting both K and BB. Since BJH sees Borowski's K rate falling and BB rate rising for 2008, the difference in BABIP (a whopping .348 in 2007 to a projected .295 in 2008, nearly identical to his 2006 Florida season) is the difference-maker for JoeBo's projection. The important thing to remember in these projections is that they are just that and don't take into account "guts", "intestinal fortitude", or "ability to separate" – descriptive terms all used by some to get their head around Borowski's save total from 2007. These projections don't factor in any of that – it simply looks at hard data and makes projections based on trends and statistical formulas. Even for the person who refuses to call the Indians' closer anything but "Bloworowski", the fact that the statheads (who don't take emotion or a "closer's mentality" on their spreadsheets) see Borowski improving upon his 2007season, which garnered him 45 saves, this is good news.
Rafael Betancourt
7-2, 3 saves, 2.83 ERA, 1.05 WHIP, 9.00 K/9, 1.88 BB/9, 4.78 K/BB
When a projected 2.83 ERA and 1.05 WHIP represents a regression from the previous year for a pitcher, you begin to fully realize how fantastic Betancourt's 2007 was. The BJH2K8 projection for Senor Slo-Mo actually falls closer to his 2006 season (in terms of K/BB rate and WHIP) than his 2007 masterpiece while BJH sees Raffy Right's K rate staying ridiculously high…all while throwing nothing more than a fastball. The projected numbers are certainly suitable for a closer (which many see Betancourt evolving into at some point in 2008), but at this point (particularly if the Borowski projections hold true) Betancourt's 2008 projections essentially eliminate the 8th inning as a run-scoring opportunity for opponents.
Rafael Perez
5-3, 1 save, 3.33 ERA, 1.22 WHIP, 7.64 K/9, 2.71 BB/9, 2.82 K/BB
Much like his RH counterpart, The Scarecrow's 2008 projections are a disappointment only if you truly expect him to post 1.78 ERA, 0.92 WHIP campaigns (as he did in 2007) on an annual basis. As the likely 7th inning option, a projected 3.33 ERA and 1.22 WHIP with strong rates and ratios, Perez looks poised to build on his breakout 2007 season, while perhaps not with the same unbridled success that he experienced this past year. His projected K/BB rate remains favorable which bodes well for his long-term future out of the bullpen as relievers (particularly brought on with a lead) are not meant to put baserunners on via the BB. There has been some talk of returning Perez to a starting role (he started 12 games in Akron in 2006 and 7 games in Buffalo last year) but, at this point, if the bullpen role is suiting the lanky LHP and the Indians' SP depth goes into quality arms in Buffalo, Perez's best role for the 2008 Indians is squeezing that narrow frame through the bullpen door.
Tom Mastny
If the Two Raffies are thought to "regress" in 2008, BJH2K8 has the Nasty Boy making a big leap forward with marked improvement in his ERA (4.68 in 2007 to a projected 3.74 in 2008), WHIP (1.65 in 2007 to a projected 1.42 in 2008), a higher K rate (8.12 in 2007 to a projected 8.83 in 2008), a lower BB rate (4.99 in 2007 to a projected 4.42 in 2008), and a drop in HR/9 (0.94 in 2007 to a projected 0.34 in 2008). As far as the folks at BJH are concerned the native of Borneo is ready to make the jump to a viable contributor to the back end of the bullpen. While his BB rate remains high, and would likely preclude him from usurping any of the relievers above him on the "bullpen ladder", the 27-year-old (in February of 2008) may take the step in 2008 to becoming a fixture in the Cleveland bullpen no longer subject to the "Buffalo Shuttle".
Aaron Fultz
The projections for Fultz (in terms of a higher ERA) are actually promising as BJH2K8 sees a higher K rate and a lower BB rate (which hopefully applies to less BB with the bases loaded) than 2007. Fultz has certainly been moved down the pecking order in terms of where he fits in the Tribe bullpen, but as long as he is used to start innings and not get the Tribe out of jams (which, of course, is not an desired attribute for a reliever), Fultz should be able to eat up some innings with the Indians behind while not throwing gasoline on the fire.
All in all, an extremely bright outlook for the Tribe pen, even without projections being done for the player I'm most optimistic about (Jenny Lewis) and the most intriguing part (Masa Kobayashi). BJH2K8 projects that all 5 relievers listed above will have ERA under 4.00 with Tom Mastny's 1.42 WHIP being the highest projected WHIP. All 5 relievers have a K/BB rate of 2.00 or better and the players with the higher BB rates (Mastny and Fultz) figure to fill out the bottom portion of the bullpen.
After years of spending Spring after Spring trying to cobble together a settled bullpen in the volatile world of relievers, the Tribe (at least according to BJH2K8) have both quality and depth residing in their bullpen. A strength of their 2007 team (once Betancourt put a stranglehold on the set-up role) would seem to remain one in 2008 with the depth available in the organization (notably Jen Lewis) to augment the relievers listed above.
And with that, all of the projections (from BJH2K8, at least) are done – its time for the players to hit the field soon…please?
42 days until Pitchers and Catchers Report…
42 days until Pitchers and Catchers Report…
42 days until Pitchers and Catchers Report…


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While everyone else was on the award circuit and at Sundance this weekend, Mrs Carter went to Washington. She just woke up like that… in the White House. As you know, Beyonce and the Obamas are tight. So she was invited to Michelle Obama's 50th birthday party this weekend where she also sang some songs – Irreplaceable and Single Ladies – and hung out with Bo. I'd hang out with Bo too. Bo is a badass.
Look at how short that dress is. It's not that B's never worn a short dress. But I always wonder, for all the short dresses/skirts she wears, how is that she in particular never has a short dress accident?!


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The biggest winners at the 2011 People's Choice Awards all have one quality in common: brooding.
The sullen vampires of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, the moody protagonist of House, M.D. and surly rapper Eminem each captured four trophies at the star-studded gala in Los Angeles, reports MTV.
Twilight dominated the movie category, nabbing Favorite Movie, Favorite Movie Actress for star Kristen Stewart and Favorite On Screen Team for Stewart and co-stars Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner.
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Hugh Laurie and Lisa Edelstein, better known as Dr. Gregory House and Dr. Lisa Cuddy on the long running Fox medical show, captured Favorite TV Drama Actor and Actress, along with Favorite TV Drama. House also scored the Favorite TV Doctor award.
Eminem, who didn't make an appearance at the show, was named Favorite Hip-Hop Artist and also won Favorite Music Video for his collaboration with Rihanna for "Love the Way You Lie."
In the late-night talk show wars, Conan O'Brien prevailed, receiving the Favorite Talk Show Host prize. "When you're up for an award and you're up against Oprah, you don't want to win," he joked. "It makes Oprah very unhappy."
Johnny Depp, making a rare awards show appearance, won Favorite Movie Actor, much to the delight of the crowd, who gave him a standing ovation. Taylor Swift, who won Favorite Country Artist, presented to Depp, who thanked fans for the "stupefying honor."
And it wouldn't be an awards show unless Katy Perry or the Kardashian sisters made an appearance. The "Teenage Dream" singer collected Favorite Female Artist and Favorite Online Sensation while plugging her forthcoming summer tour, while the Kardashian's won Favorite Guilty Pleasure for their E! reality show, Keeping up with the Kardashians.
Suggested Reading: People, MTV, Entertainment Weekly


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By the middle of the nineteenth century, New York City was teaming with new immigrants, with more coming every day. These new families often found themselves in dire circumstances, surrounded by poverty and disease. As a result, many children ended up without parents, orphaned and left wandering the streets. The plight of these children did not go unnoticed, and soon several orphanages and aid societies developed to assist them. Some, such as Charles Loring Brace of the Children's Aid Society, believed that the best way to help these unfortunates was to remove them from the dirty, disease-ridden streets of New York to the comparatively clean, morally upright farms of the Midwest. Other agencies, such as the New York Juvenile Asylum and the New York Foundling Hospital came to the same conclusion. Soon agents fanned out across the states of the Midwest, offering children for indentured work on farms. Eventually they made their way to Champaign County. An advertisement in the September 14, 1859 edition of the Central Illinois Gazette stated:
Trainloads of children, soon known as the "Orphan Trains," began heading west. By the time the last train left New York in 1929, some 200,000 children were sent to new homes. Between 1855-1898, The New York Juvenile Asylum alone sent 6000 children to Illinois.
Many of these institutions entered their wards into formal indentures with heads of households. These indentures set formal terms: a specified trade to be learned, length of contract, and payment at the end of the term. Edward Kelly, a ward of the New York Juvenile Asylum, was entered into this indenture with George Yeager for the term of six years and ten months. These children would then be a regular part of the household, as seen in this entry in the 1860 Federal Census [George "Yager" and Edward "Kelley"]:
Many times these orphans would successfully complete the terms of their indentures, remain locally, and start and raise families of their own. James Robertson offers one such case. When the Civil War broke out, he ran away from his indentured home to enlist in the army. He returned to Champaign County after the war, married, bought a farm, and raised six children of his own. Edward Kelly's case was a little less successful, as demonstrated by this notice in the August 7, 1861 edition of the Gazette:
We have many records of the "Orphan Train" children here in the Local History and Genealogy Department, including the original copies of many of the indentures. Stop by soon to learn more!


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Editors' note, March 11, 2007 The rating on this review has been lowered from 8.1 to 7.5 due to changes in the competitive marketplace, including the review of the Sony VPL-VW200 and the DLA-HD100.
JVC's first relatively affordable 1080p DILA (aka LCoS) projector has garnered a lot of praise on Internet forums recently. The DLA-HD1's coveted 1080p resolution, at a price somewhere between the Sony VPL-VW50 (aka the Pearl) and its big brother, the VPL-VW100 (aka the Ruby), may have something to do with it. From a setup and picture optimization perspective, the DLA-HD1's feature set is outstanding, and we really like its sleek design.
In most areas of picture quality, JVC's DLA-HD1 is certainly an excellent 1080p projector. If the company would improve on the primary and secondary color accuracy, green in particular, it would be worthy of CNET's Editors' Choice award. Unfortunately, this is the norm in our industry, and as a result, there are very few HDTVs of any type that can deliver truly accurate color. This is the main reason the 720p resolution Samsung SP-H710AE remains our reference projector. With that said, the JVC's other logical 1080p comparison would be to the Sony Ruby. The DLA-HD1 is superior to the Ruby in video processing, grayscale tracking, gamma implementation, light output, and panel alignment, and they are about the same price. As a result, the JVC is our favorite LCoS-based projector so far, but it still can't match the picture quality--specifically the color accuracy--of the best 1080p DLP projectors.
This JVC projector is available in two versions, which are identical in every way aside from color. The DLA-HD1 is silver and black, while the DLA-RS1U is all black.
The lens is centered on the chassis, giving the projector a symmetrical look and making ceiling installation much easier. At roughly 25.5 pounds, it is rather heavy by today's projector standards. Even so, at just more than 7 inches high, the HD1's profile or footprint is quite small, giving it a sleek, streamlined look. Its attractive design lends itself well to many a family room as well as to dedicated home theaters, because it should be easy to integrate its elegance into a room's decor.
The remote control is extremely well designed and quite easy to use. Thankfully, it is fully backlit, making setup quite simple in a darkened home theater setting. There are direct access keys for all inputs, all picture modes (JVC calls them Image Profiles), and all picture parameters (Contrast, Brightness, and so on). Navigating the internal menu system is also quite intuitive.
We mentioned the JVC's 1080p resolution at the outset, which enables the projector to resolve every detail of 1080i and 1080p sources, the highest currently available. Higher resolution is especially important in projectors, whose very large screen sizes are capable of really showing off the extra detail. As an LCoS-based unit--JVC calls it DILA--the DLA-HD1 employs three separate liquid crystal on silicon panels, which has the advantage of avoiding any possibility of the "rainbow effect" that some viewers of most single-chip, DLP-based displays can see (more info).
Setup features, which provide the ability to fine-tune the picture, abound on the JVC. For starters, a High Lamp mode opens the iris all the way for use with larger screens, while a Normal mode, for smaller screen sizes, will produce deeper black levels. A total of five selectable color temperatures are on board, including two user temps that add red, green, and blue color adjustments for tweaking the grayscale. There are also a total of six Image Profiles (picture modes), including three user modes. Three user memory profiles, and the ability to create memory profiles for the Cinema, Natural, and Dynamic Image Profiles, provide for ample memory slots.
By far the coolest feature, however, is Pixel Adjust, which allows you to converge the three LCoS panels so they line up with one another, improving the clarity of the picture. This is a first in the industry as far as we know, and it works well. Zoom and Focus features are manual at the lens assembly as opposed to electronic, and the zoom ratio is a generous 2.0:1, giving the projector a lot of flexibility in terms of placement in the room relative to the screen. Finally, in addition to vertical lens shift, the DLA-HD1 also sports horizontal lens shift, which is something we are used to seeing only on much more expensive projectors.


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So, Kara no Kyoukai is being released in the US, but not at a reasonable price for the US anime market. At $400 to order from RightStuf, you will be getting all of it along with a nice box and an art book. But, what about the people that have never seen it and would like to watch it atleast once? FUCK THEM! I have been told this is for collectors by many people on forums.
Now, I count myself as an anime collector, but, I also have the common sense to know that I shouldn't spend a whole pay check on 1 series that is shorter than most shows I can get for $100. And yes, I know I spent close to $250 on Lucky Star LE singles and $200 on Haruhi singles, but that was also spread out over months. I can't afford to spend $400 on something I may or may not like.
Then, there are people on other sites saying that people like me who say support the industry are hypocrites for not being willing to spend $400 on this. Well, I would be a hypocrite if I were to go and download it after saying that, but I have no intention to do so since I believe someone will eventually release a cheaper version somewhere down the line. I surely hope someone does though, because this is reminding of the old days of anime that I was not really part of as much since I was 10 or younger.
I just want to watch KnK without going bankrupt. That is all.
Oh well, I can wait. I mean shit, I have waited much longer for things (such as teh time between Super Metroid and Metroid Prime). There are tons more for me to buy while I wait for a reasonable release of KnK. Until then, will just wait. If it never is released, then I just wont see it. If not seeing one thing were to bother me, I would be crazy since I still haven't seen the thousands of other anime out there.
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Sam (Rory Culkin) is physically bullied by George (Josh Peck) one to many times. After telling his brother Rocky about it, Rocky tells his irrational friend Marty (Scott Mechlowicz; Peaceful Warrior), and a plan is born to enact some lighthearted revenge. Things go awry when George and Marty's strong personalities clash in the creek. Friendships are tested while perceptions are questioned.
6 out of 10 - I enjoyed the journey, but not the destination. This is one of those films I find myself wanting to like more. The performance by Josh Peck is unforgeable! With that and the other positives, I recommend you give it a watch if you come across it and let us all know what you thought. The last ten minutes is what is keeping me from giving this an eight or nine.