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Netflix has ditched plans for a sequel to its million dollar prize as part of a lawsuit settlement regarding the use of members' personal information.
The DVD-rental company has settled a lawsuit about the sequel for an undisclosed sum and concluded a privacy inquiry from the Federal Trade Commission, Netflix said.
"In light of all this, we have decided to not pursue the Netflix Prize sequel," Neil Hunt, chief product officer for Netflix, said in a blog post.
The Netflix Prize was announced in 2006. It promised $1 million to the person or team that could make a 10 percent improvement in the company's recommendation engine, an award that was finally given to seven technology professionals in September 2009.
At the awards ceremony, company executives said that the Netflix Prize: Round Two would involve ratings improvements for people who do not rate movies very often, or at all. Netflix was set to award $500,000 to the team that has made the most progress by April 2010.
In December, however, Netflix was hit with a lawsuit that said the improvements made to the recommendation engine made it easier to identify people through supposedly anonymous information.
"In the past few months, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) asked us how a Netflix Prize sequel might affect Netflix members' privacy, and a lawsuit was filed by KamberLaw LLC pertaining to the sequel," Hunt wrote. "With both the FTC and the plaintiffs' lawyers, we've had very productive discussions centered on our commitment to protecting our members' privacy."
Netflix reached "an understanding" with the FTC and the lawsuit has been settled, he said. "The resolution to both matters involves certain parameters for how we use Netflix data in any future research programs," Hunt said, though he did not elaborate.
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SAN ANTONIO, Texas -- Brandeis University sophomore Adam Mandel (White Plains, N.Y./Masters School) became the first Judge since 2008 to earn All-America status in men's fencing with a 12th-place finish in the sabre competition at the 2013 NCAA Fencing championships in San Antonio, hosted by the University of Incarnate Word.
Mandel had a tremendous rally to earn his All-America status. He entered the day in 18th place in the men's sabre competition with a record of 6-9 on Day One of competition. Mandel then went 1-3 in his first round of four matches today - defeating Kevin Hassett of Notre Dame - to remain in 18th place with seven victories.
With his final four matches scheduled against three other fencers who also had seven wins and another just ahead of him with eight wins, the opportunity was there for Mandel to move up in the final standings. He did just that by sweeping Daniel Wolfson and Cameron Linday of Stanford and Eric Arzoian and Alexander Ryjik of Harvard. Mandel posted 5-3 wins over three of the four competitors with a 5-2 win over Lindsay to jump six spots in the standings and into the final All-America position, coming in 12th out of 24 competitors.
Mandel is Brandeis's first fencing All-American of any kind since Will Friedman '09 was 10th in the foil in 2008. He is the first Judge to earn men's sabre All-America honors since Olympic silver medalist Tim Morehouse '00 finished in fourth place in 2000.
Brandeis's other fencer at the NCAAs, junior foil fencer Julian Cardillo (Medford, Mass./St. Johns Prep) went 3-5 on the final day of competiton, to finish at 5-18 in 22nd place, moving up two positions from Day 1. Cardillo's victories today came against Leland Berstein of Pennsylvania (5-4), Quentin Schneider of Wayne State (5-2) and Stanford's Turner Caldwell (5-2).
At the conclusion of the men's competition, Brandeis sat in 15th place thanks to the 16 points scored by Mandel and Cardillo. They were two points behind NYU for the top Division III performance and three points against of MIT. Freshman Caroline Mattos (Providence, R.I./LaSalle Acad.) will represent the Brandeis women in the foil at NCAAs on Saturday and Sunday.

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About 25% of 1990-1991 Persian Gulf War veterans experience disabling fatigue, widespread pain, and cognitive dysfunction termed Gulf War illness (GWI) or Chronic Multisymptom Illness (CMI). A leading theory proposes that wartime exposures initiated prolonged production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and central nervous system injury. The endogenous antioxidant L-carnosine (B-alanyl-L-histidine) is a potential treatment since it is a free radical scavenger in nervous tissue. To determine if nutritional supplementation with L-carnosine would significantly improve pain, cognition and fatigue in GWI, a randomized double blind placebo controlled 12 week dose escalation study involving 25 GWI subjects was employed.
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Carnosine had 2 potentially beneficial effects: WAIS-R scores increased significantly, and there was a decrease in diarrhea associated with irritable bowel syndrome. No other significant incremental changes were found. Therefore, 12 weeks of carnosine (1500 mg) may have beneficial cognitive effects in GWI. Fatigue, pain, hyperalgesia, activity and other outcomes were resistant to treatment.
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I'm curious to know if it's useful to study Feynman article "Quantum Mechanical Computer" nowadays. I'm a computer scientist, and i don't know any of the literature in quantum computers. Since long time has passed from 1985 it's a waste of time studying that article? If yes, why?
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CHICAGO - A decade ago this month, Kevin Stein was chosen for a daunting task: following two Pulitzer Prize winners, Gwendolyn Brooks and Carl Sandburg, as the poet laureate of Illinois.
Ten years later, the Bradley University professor has put his own signature on a position that is unpaid but considered crucial to widening appreciation for the art form. He has created a state poetry website and donates money out of his own pocket to buy poetry books for libraries across the state.
"I'm a different writer, I'm a different teacher, I'm a different person thinking about poetry than I was 10 years ago," he said.
When he was named laureate, Stein said he felt like the player on the Chicago Bulls chosen to replace Michael Jordan. Brooks, who won the Pulitzer in 1950, was so renowned that she has a bronze sculpture in the National Portrait Gallery. Sandburg, a native of Galesburg, was nationally acclaimed and won three Pulitzers.
"It took me a while to steady myself, but by golly I think we've done some interesting things," Stein told The Associated Press. "I basically took Miss Brooks' model and tried to update it and make it my own. She was really great in bringing poetry and people together in unexpected places."
Stein, 59, is Illinois' fourth poet laureate. Howard Austin, a teacher and banker from a family farm near Blue Mound, took the position in 1936 and held it until he died in 1962. Sandburg held the post from 1962 until his death in 1967. Brooks served for 32 years, from 1968 until she died in 2000.
Illinois went without a poet laureate until December 2003, when then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich named Stein to the post.
The post has a four-year term, and Stein is in the middle of his third term.
One of the additional places Stein has promoted poetry is online. On the Illinois Poet Laureate website, he features poets, provides links to audio and video clips of poetry pieces, hosts an Illinois poet's forum and offers advice to young poets. English teachers across the state use the website in classes.
"This is an audio and visual generation and we're giving them what they want," said Stein, who travels the state visiting libraries and schools. "I can't be every place 24/7. That's why the website supplemented that."
Janice Harrington, a poet and associate professor of English at the University of Illinois' Champaign-Urbana campus, said Stein helps break down any barriers people may have to poetry, making it accessible. She said "People's Poet" is a good description for Stein.
"There are two types of poets, those where (audience members) listen to their poems and quietly leave afterward because they didn't know what they were talking about," she said. "And poets like Kevin, where they're nodding their heads."
On its website, the Chicago-based Poetry Foundation says Stein's work "as an advocate for poetry is matched by his work as a poet, which is concerned with the nature of significance and appreciation."
He said he notices stark differences in how some youth react to poetry. Elementary and middle school students "are so excited about language and have such wild imaginations," he said. But by high school many students have lost interest, Stein said, and one of his goals is to "catch kids before they learn to hate poetry and to persuade them that it's an art form."
Asked about the possibilities of using social media, Stein said simply that he has not yet embraced the world of Twitter and Facebook.
Bradley University helps Stein with his laureate efforts, paying for his travel and offering assistance with his projects. This lets him work on his own poetry, too. Stein has published four books since he became the laureate.
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The numbers are almost too much to absorb.
When Father Mike Shields spoke at our parish about his work in Magadan, Russia, you could almost see the people in the pews doing the ghastly math.
I've written about Father Shields before. He is our Anchorage native son who felt God's call to "pray in the camps." Since 1990 he has followed that call to Magadan, a city created by Stalin's government in far-eastern Russia as a gateway to the hard labor camps where millions of Russians died.
"Say 'Magadan' in Russia and you hear 'Auschwitz,'" said Father Shields.
Abortion rates are astronomical in Russia; for many, abortion serves as a form of birth control. In Magadan Father Shields ministers to the many women who've experienced this common but deadly procedure. In retreats called "Rachel's Vineyard," he and others help women walk toward the healing that God's grace can provide after abortion.
"At the end of the retreat, we have a naming ceremony," said Father Shields. Each woman lights a candle and names her aborted child.
During the last ceremony there were five women. And they had 47 children to name.
"We said the Litany of the Saints instead for all those children now with God," said the priest.
Magadan still lives enshrouded under the burden of its past. It was a place where the political dissident, the hardened criminal or the plain unlucky rotted together. Everyone left is a descendant or survivor of that brutality. Every building project, the priest said, turns up more bones.
When Father Shields, still handsome and athletic in his mid-50s, was ordained for the Archdiocese of Anchorage, parishioners weren't surprised to see him gliding through the neighborhood on his roller blades. He was an accomplished skier who once climbed Mt. McKinley, North America's highest peak.
Today he wears the gray habit, emblazoned with a red heart and cross, which he has adopted for his work in Russia. With a spirituality based on that of Blessed Charles de Foucauld, Father Shields lives together with two other men as the Brothers of the Heart of Jesus.
Incredibly, Father Shields' parish hosts the only Alcoholics Anonymous meeting in Magadan, a city of 130,000 in a country drowning in alcoholism. An Anchorage Catholic quickly offered to buy the AA books.
"We didn't need books," explained the priest. "What we needed were pamphlets we could hand out everywhere inviting people to come to AA." So the donor arranged for pamphlets to be printed in New York and shipped directly to Moscow, then on to Magadan. In a country still recovering from the inefficient Soviet system, all mail coming into the country still passes through Moscow.
The Anchorage Archdiocese, in service to the Russian bishop of Irkutsk, overseas and financially supports Father Shields' parish, the Church of the Nativity, in Magadan. The church, in a city mired in depressing Stalin-era architecture, is an attractive new building with offices and a food kitchen.
The night my husband and I took Father Shields to the airport for his long return flight to Magadan --- through Atlanta and Moscow --- we had dinner in a restaurant that happened to have some foreign staff. It wasn't long before the garrulous priest had struck up a conversation --- in Russian --- with a young Polish busboy. Although we had no clue what the words were, it was apparent when the boy asked the priest where he came from in Russia.
"Magadan?" the boy repeated with surprise and obvious revulsion.
"See?" Father Shields flashed us a knowing smile. "Everyone knows about Magadan."
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30 Sep 2011 02:03:00
Please check v5.9.4 Release Candidate (zip package only).
Project Manager is one of the most wanted features. The implementation of this feature took longer then I thought, that explains the delay of this release. Even though I'm quite satisfied with the result, this feature still needs a lot of enhancements. However, here is the first draft included in version 5.9.4.
I've tried to make project panel interface user friendly, so the creation/modification of project should be quite intuitive. The tutorial of project manager will be done (hopefully) on
v5.9.4 new features and fixed bugs:
- Add 3 Project Panels for the management of projects
- Doc Switcher can be sorted now.
- Fix crash issue while printing for some printers.
- Fix ANSI version Clipboard history entries display bug.
- Fix wrong display of tab number setting dialog in Lang Menu/Tab settings of Preferences dialog.
The release candidate contains only zip package (both ANSI and Unicode). 5.9.4 release (full packages) will be provided in 1 week if there's no critical issue found in this release candidate.
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The presence of an intellectual and/or developmental disabilities1 does not in itself preclude effective parenting; therefore, the rights of parenthood must not be denied individuals solely on the basis of intellectual and/or developmental disabilities. Parents with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities should have access to support as needed to perform parental roles just as they are supported in other valued social roles and activities.
The history of discrimination toward individuals with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities includes the denial of rights and opportunities to have and to raise their own children. This history has included segregation and involuntary sterilization of adolescents and adults. After birth, infants have been removed immediately from parental care, and through legal provisions, parents have been denied the opportunity to raise their children in their home.
Examples of social and social service biases and discriminatory practices include:
Despite research which documents the ability of many parents with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities to raise a child successfully with appropriate and effective supports, access to these supports continues to be limited, fragmented and uncertain. Few specialized programs exist. Many family support and early intervention programs are not equipped to provide the intensive and ongoing supports that parents with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities and their children are likely to require.
All adults, when provided access to appropriate and effective supports as needed to fulfill the basic responsibilities of child rearing, are more likely to be effective in their roles as parents.
Parents with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities and their children deserve social and health supports that:
The Arc of the United States and the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities support adoption of the United Nation's Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Article 23, "Respect for Home and the Family," Obligation 4 states that "Parties shall ensure that a child shall not be separated from his or her parent against their will, except when competent authorities subject to judicial review determine, in accordance with applicable laws and procedures, that such separation is necessary for the best interests of the child. In no case shall a child be separated from parents on the basis of a disability of either the child or one or both of the parents."
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Afghan Heroin: The Lost War Documentary
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I was really surprised when I came across the documentary "Afghan Heroin: The Lost War," as it was the first time I had heard anything about heroin coming out of Afghanistan. Since I've always been impressed with National Geographic's drug documentaries in the past, and I knew so little about the topic, I watched it without hesitation.
I was honestly stunned after the first 30 minutes, as it turns out that Afghanistan is quickly becoming the world supplier of heroin. It is responsible for more than 90% of the heroin on the streets of Britain, with an increasing amount turning up on the streets of the US. While Afghanistan used to be known for its export of melons, the war raging in the country for the past decade has left the population impoverished, and growing a drug crop is a cheap way to keep themselves and their families fed.
While the government in Afghanistan is doing what it can to destroy the drug crops, there is a great deal of corruption at all levels of drug enforcement, which leads to less than 10% of the drug crop being found and destroyed each year.
The documentary did a great job setting the stage of this reality, interviewing both farmers and experts on why the heroin trade is continuing to grow in Afghanistan, and how it is impacting heroin use across the globe, specifically in Europe and the UK. Unfortunately, in trying to prove how Afghan heroin is impacting drug users in different parts of the world, the documentary makes a very noticeable detour.
Instead of continuing to discuss Afghan heroin specifically, the second half of the documentary deals with heroin addiction, and how it ruins lives. This portion of the documentary is still very well done, but it seemed to deviate from the topic of Afghan heroin, which is what the documentary was supposed to be about.
While the documentary did emphasize that Afghan heroin is of purer quality (enabling users to get high more quickly) and cheaper than many other forms of heroin, and therefore is responsible for increased drug use, it didn't seem like a strong enough link to the original topic.
But again, the documentary as a whole was very well done, even if the second half doesn't really match the first. It is definitely worth a watch, especially if you like documentaries that cover substance abuse, and you don't know much about the heroin trade in Afghanistan.
You can watch the documentary here, or you can watch the embedded version below.


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My great grandmother, Katherine Seybold, married Orville Duloss Harris in January, 1876 in Wisconsin.
In the spring of that year, they left their home in Forest Junction and headed west, settling on a homestead eight miles southeast of North Platte, Nebraska, on the old California trail. Their home was near the Sioux look-out, a hill where the Indians watched the immigrants traveling down the valley.
I have a poem, handwritten by Katherine, that relays some of her experiences while living in Nebraska.
Do you remember Tom the day we left our Forest Junction home
To go west where the Buzzard nest and the Buffalo did roam
And when we landed at North Platte the home of Buffalo Bill
It was there they drank their whiskey straight, it was they shot to kill
We wandered up and down the Platte with Casey close behind
And Anton with his old shot gun a following in the line
We roamed around until we found a place to build a home
We made a corral and dug a well and build a house of stone
We gathered up the prairie grass prepared by Buffalo
To cook our grub and keep us warm when it was ten below
And then them bloody Indians come and Katie all alone
But she was brave and stayed them off until the Major come
We went to raising cattle in that we could not fail
If we could not raise them otherwise we would raise them by the tail
And that bronco that y rode I eust to call him Ned
At first he stand up on his heals and then upon his head
But now dear Tom the time has come when we can ride no more
And we will soon meet the old cowboy upon the other shore
I'm not sure is she wrote this poem while living in Nebraska or sometime after. It's a real treasure to have something in her handwriting. Katherine and Orville went to Florida in 1881 and back to Wisconsin in 1896.
More about my Harris family can be read here:
Orville and Katherine's gravestones


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The hapless Charlotte Bobcats won in spite of themselves tonight against the Timberwolves 89-87, needing a Kemba Walker score in the final seconds to seize a lead partially frittered away when Reggie Williams called a time out the Bobcats didn't have and incurred a technical foul.
The Chris Webber happened as Williams tried to inbound the ball while the Bobcats held a two-point lead with 38 seconds left; while Luke Ridnour made the technical free throw, Minnesota squandered the next possession, only to see the Bobcats (of course) miss their following free throws. Seriously, Walker's game-winner is the only thing that kept the last 40 seconds of the bout from being a total clusterfuck, though we're highlighting the excess timeout because, hey, Chris Webber.


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RANCHO CUCAMONGA – Living in Southern California, you might have seen the dramatic sight: A huge red plume of retardant liquid spewing forth from the belly of a diving airplane.
The red liquid is fire retardant and it's colored so pilots can make continuous barrier lines on the ground to prevent an encroaching wildfire from moving forward.
While ICL Performance Products isn't the only company that makes the fire-fighting retardant, it is a major global supplier of the stuff.
Its product, called Phos-Chek long-term fire retardant, is now being made in Rancho Cucamonga.
The company decided to move from its Phos-Chek plant in Ontario to a new plant on the southwest corner of Utica Avenue and Jersey Boulevard.
Rancho Cucamonga officials welcomed the new plant with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Thursday.
"I hate to see empty buildings in this town and Phos-Chek's decision to move here and ICL Performance Products' decision to financially make this transition is a very special thing for Rancho Cucamonga," Mayor Dennis Michael said.
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At 104,000 square feet, the new plant is a little smaller than ILC's former Ontario plant, which had produced Phos-Chek for 50 years.
Still, the plant is state of the art and will be more efficient, ICL executives said.
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"We've got double the capacity than in the old plants, so even in the worst California fire seasons, we won't really be stretched for capaciaty."
Terry Zerr, vice president of operations and technology for ICL, said the new facility contains a state-of-the-art dust collection system.
"In terms of a controlled environment, everything's new," Zerr said. "You always have the potential of release or spill but we've eliminated all that with this new design. "
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George Bevan
Deciphering the old world with new world technologies
Most people like to take a camera on holiday so they can snap photos of their favourite people and places. George Bevan is no different – except the pictures he takes aren't going to be posted on Facebook or shared with Aunt Martha at Christmas.
Bevan, a professor of Classics at Queen's, uses digital photography and sophisticated computer software to produce incredibly detailed three-dimensional images of everything from 19th-century shipwrecks to ancient carved inscriptions on rocks. The techniques he and his graduate-student colleagues are field testing promise to equip archaeologists and historians with a powerful new tool for studying and dating artifacts – and, in turn, to shed light on hitherto unsolvable historical mysteries.
"This will transform archeology."
The technique, called photogrammetry, is a close cousin of stereoscopy, one of the earliest forms of 3D photography. You may have seen vintage stereoscopes in antique shops: they're typically wooden sticks about a foot long, with a pair of magnifying eyepieces at one end and a slot for nearly-identical side-by-side photographs at the other end. When you slide photographs into the slot and view them through the eyepieces, the picture you see appears to be three-dimensional. This happens because the images, while they appear to be exactly the same, were in fact photographed from slightly different positions – which is how your eyes see things. Thus, when you view the pictures through the lenses, your brain is tricked into perceiving not only height and width in the images, but also depth.
Photogrammetry – determining the geometric properties of objects using photographic images – is stereoscopy on steroids. It allows a series of digital images of an object to be digitally converted into an incredibly lifelike model of the object that can be viewed and analyzed on a computer screen, or made into a video showing the object from multiple perspectives. It's just as if you were examining the object in your hand, turning it this way and that, holding it at arm's length or up close to your eye, or even using a microscope. It's that realistic.
The photogrammetry software Bevan uses – Queen's is one of only three Canadian universities licensed to use ADAMTech 3DM Analyst – was originally designed for the mining industry to allow mining engineers to map terrain (such as in an open-pit mine), identify geological hazards and find new deposits. Bevan, who is cross-appointed to the Department of Geology, first realized the potential of the technology after seeing it used to model the destroyed wellhead at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion and oil spill in 2010. Bevan quickly realized that the same software could be adapted to other uses, such as the analysis of cultural heritage.
Last summer, for instance, he and his graduate student Michael Fergusson along with undergraduate Marla MacKinnon were in southern Jordan, snapping pictures of petroglyphs (rock carvings) on scores of boulders scattered on the scorching desert floor of a remote valley called Wadi Hafir.
The inscriptions, carved approximately 2000 years ago by Thamudic tribesmen, depict hunting scenes, animals, even sexual acts. Many carvers signed their names to their work, which – in combination with GPS co-ordinates of the boulders' locations that Bevan's collaborator Glenn Corbett collected for his PhD at the University of Chicago – allows archaeologists to deduce the family relationships and migration patterns that once existed in the area. As well, because it's possible to zoom in on the carvings and measure the depth of the etching, the researchers can also determine whether an original carving was altered – and if so, what it looked like before the changes.
"If we have accurate depth information, we can, within limits, reconstruct the original," says Bevan.
Since the 3-D images are so detailed – up to one-tenth of a pixel accuracy – it's even possible to identify the individual carvers by the characteristic pattern of "peck marks" they left in their work. Another photographic tool Bevan uses is "gigapan," a photographic technique pioneered by NASA scientists to capture extraordinarily high-resolution panoramic images of entire landscapes on the moon or on Mars. "Taking shots of the surrounding terrain helps contextualize the rock art," explains Bevan. "You can get a better sense of the physical environment the artists worked in and how it may have influenced them."
Bevan's other photogrammetry research has included analyzing the historic native rock carvings at Petroglyphs Provincial Park near Peterborough, Ontario with student Marla MacKinnon; computer modelling of the HMS Investigator, a British vessel which became trapped in the ice while searching for the lost explorer Sir John Franklin in the 1850s and whose sunken remains were discovered by Parks Canada scientists in 2010; and an analysis of the remains of the St. Lawrence, a Great Lakes warship built in Kingston during the War of 1812 whose remains lie on the bottom of Lake Ontario not far from the Queen's campus.
"Photogrammetry is very old, but because of the evolution of computer technology we can now use consumer cameras to easily capture high-quality 3D images in remote locations," says Bevan. "This will transform archeology."
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Chronic diseases, such as heart disease, cancer, and diabetes, are the leading causes of death and disability in the United States. In fact, 7 out of 10 deaths among Americans each year are from chronic diseases. Chronic disease makes learning and working more difficult, is expensive to treat, and puts a strain on our health care system. Although chronic diseases are among the most common and costly of all health problems, they are also among the most preventable.
Our Chronic Disease Prevention program promotes activities that encourage healthy living, embraces health screenings for early detection of disease, and encourages appropriate self-management of existing diseases. Program activities include community education on topics such as:
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| Sweet Baby James
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Sweet Baby James (Japanese: マネネ登場!休息の館! Enter Manene! Mansion of Rest!) is the 147th episode of the Advanced Generation series, and the 421st episode of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on October 13, 2005 and in the United States on September 9, 2006.
|Spoiler warning: this article may contain major plot or ending details.
When May's Munchlax gets sick and there's no Pokémon Center nearby, it's a kindly old couple (and their Mime Jr.) to the rescue! They meet May and her friends and offer to help them out. James' Chimecho has gotten sick, too. But he sees a grand manor nearby and takes Chimecho there for help—it's the home of James' beloved Nanny and Pop-Pop, who looked after him when he was a boy. To protect their feelings, James lies about his line of work. And since Nanny and Pop-Pop are the ones who came to May's aid, he needs May and Ash to help cover for him when he finds out they're staying at the house as well!
With the help of Nanny and Pop-Pop, Munchlax is well on its way to recovery, but Chimecho is still sick. James is deeply concerned, not to mention very busy trying to keep Jessie and Meowth from eating all the food and stealing all the other Pokémon around the house! The last straw is when Jessie and Meowth try to creep away with Mime Jr. and Munchlax. James catches them and unexpectedly teams up with Ash to put a stop to their shenanigans... and keep Nanny and Pop-Pop from discovering what's really going on.
Soon Munchlax is ready to hit the road again, and May and her friends gratefully take their leave. But James is distressed because Chimecho is too weak to travel. He must leave Chimecho with Nanny and Pop-Pop until it fully recuperates, and both Trainer and Pokémon are sad to see each other go. However, Mime Jr. wants to travel with James, so he says his fond farewells and leaves with Jessie, Meowth, and his new Pokémon.
On the way to the Battle Arena, May's Munchlax falls ill, even refusing to eat. An old woman and man approach the group, and Ash and his friends are surprised to see the old man has a Mime Jr.. The woman says that Munchlax has a fever and needs help.
Meanwhile, James's Chimecho is also sick. James goes to look for a Pokémon Center, but all he sees is a castle. However, this happens to be one of his family's vacation homes. He runs there with Jessie and Meowth in tow. He calls for the old couple, and they are very happy to see him. He explains that his Chimecho is sick, and the old woman takes it in her arms.
The couple looks back to see Jessie and Meowth, and they assume that Jessie is James's wife, and they congratulate him. James is shocked that they would think this, and he imagines what it would be like to be married to Jessie - doing chores while she orders him around. He freaks out and tells the couple that she is his assistant and Meowth is his manager. Jessie and Meowth take offense to this, and James explains to them that he doesn't want the couple to know he is in Team Rocket because he thinks they would be disappointed in him. He tells them how he loved to come to the vacation home after being ordered to study and behave "properly" at home. He was allowed to act as he pleased at the vacation home, and he loved how the old couple took care of sick Pokémon.
Later, Chimecho is put on a bed in a large room. Everyone is gathered around the bed, and then Mime Jr. comes over to James and he introduces himself to it. Jessie says that it's very cute. James worries that his parents are around, but the woman tells him they're traveling the world, much to his relief.
Suddenly, Ash's group walks in, and James is very surprised to see them. He runs outside to talk to them, and they assume that he is there to steal Pokémon from "the nice old couple." He tells them the real situation, and tells them that he and Jessie and Meowth won't do anything bad there as long as they don't tell the old couple that he is in Team Rocket.
Later, Munchlax is put on a bed next to Chimecho. Suddenly, everyone realizes that Jessie and Meowth are missing, so James runs around the house in a panic to find them, with Mime Jr. following. He finally finds them eating from the refrigerator, their faces stuffed with food. He yells at them, and the rest of the group shows up, so he tries to come up with an excuse to make it seem like nothing is wrong.
Later, everyone walks around the home's giant greenhouse and looks at all the Pokémon living there. Jessie and Meowth split off and see an Oddish. Jessie stuffs it in the back of her shirt, but James knows that something is up. Oddish's leaves poke out of Jessie's shirt, so James pulls it out and lets it go.
At night, Mime Jr. walks in the giant room and sees James sitting over Chimecho, who is sleeping. It starts to run over, but May walks in the room from another door. James tells her that Munchlax will be okay, and that she shouldn't worry about it. She tells Munchlax goodnight, and then leaves. Mime Jr. then approaches James, and he asks if it came to keep him company. The answer is affirmative, and he tells Mime Jr. that it is very kind.
Meanwhile, Jessie and Meowth sneak through the house, planning to go back to the greenhouse to steal Pokémon. First, though, they sneak into the giant room, where James and Mime Jr. are sleeping. They take Mime Jr. and Munchlax, then head off and steal the Pokémon in the greenhouse. Ash wakes up and sees a light in the greenhouse. Then James wakes up and sees that Mime Jr. and Munchlax are gone, then sees the light in the greenhouse.
Everyone finds Jessie and Meowth, who start to do their motto, with James doing his parts. Suddenly, he realizes what he is doing and tries to take the Pokémon back from them. The bag of Pokémon breaks open, and all the Pokémon run out, Mime Jr. running to James. Jessie sends out Seviper and Ash sends out Phanpy to battle. James helps Ash by sending out Cacnea, and when Cacnea is about to attack Ash as usual, James tells it to attack Seviper, and it complies. It attacks, and it and Phanpy send Jessie, Meowth, and Seviper flying up into the air.
The old couple appears, and ask where Jessie and Meowth went. Suddenly, they fall through the ceiling next to the couple and act like nothing happened.
The next morning, Ash's group sets off, May thanking the couple for the treatment Munchlax got. The woman wishes Ash luck at the Battle Arena.
Meanwhile, Jessie and Meowth wait in the balloon, saying James is late. He is still in the room with Chimecho, who is still sick. It wakes up, and the couple and Mime Jr. enter. The couple tells him Chimecho is still sick. James says he loves Chimecho, and remembers when they met and all the good times they had together. He realizes that he can't take it with him. Chimecho smiles at him and nods, letting him know it is okay to go. James starts crying while looking at the smiling yet sad Chimecho.
James wipes away his tears and gets Chimecho's Poké Ball out of his pocket to give to the couple, but a couple of empty balls fall on the floor. Mime Jr. runs over and presses the capture mechanism on one, going inside the ball. James asks why Mime Jr. wants to go with him, and the couple tells him that Mime Jr. likes him and thinks he's a nice person. Chimecho smiles again.
Team Rocket's balloon flies off, and the couple watch it go, revealing that James eventually told them he was in Team Rocket. They say that even though he is in the evil organization, they know he is still a kind person, and they hope that he does well in life. James looks back to the house, and sees through the window that Chimecho is sitting up, smiling at him. Tears streaming down his face, he waves goodbye to it, and the balloon flies off into the horizon.
Major events
- May and Max learn that James comes from a rich family.
- James leaves Chimecho with Nanny and Pop-Pop to continue recovering from its fever.
- James catches a Mime Jr.
- For a list of all major events in the anime, please see the timeline of events.
Pokémon debuts
TV episode debuts
- It is revealed that James's parents are currently traveling the world.
- Smile plays in the scene where James is forced to leave his Chimecho behind with his grandparents in order to recover.
- Nanny tells James that she heard he got engaged and thinks that Jessie is his wife-to-be. This is a reference to Holy Matrimony!, plus the fact that James's actual fiancée, Jessebelle, is a doppelgänger of Jessie.
- This is one of the rare instances when one of Team Rocket's members doesn't blast off. Only Meowth and Jessie blast off.
- The dub title is a reference to the James Taylor song, Sweet Baby James.
- In one scene, the knot on May's bandanna is missing.
Dub edits
- Instead of Smile being used in the scene where James leaves Chimecho, the dub uses a new vocal song.
- Instead of calling Chimecho by its species name like he usually does, James refers to his Pokémon as "Chime."
In other languages
|模仿小丑登场 休养的公馆
|Søde lille James
|Lieve kleine James!
|Kiltti Pikku-James
|European French
|L'enfant qui est en nous
|Der Mann, den sie Klein-James nannten
|ג'יימס הקטן
|प्यारा बेबी James Pyaara Baby James*
|Il piccolo James
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This should be very interesting. God Loves Uganda is a new documentary that debuts today at the Sundance Film Festival. The film examines the "relationship between American evangelical churches, their missionaries, and anti-gay laws in Africa like Uganda's so-called 'Kill the Gays' bill." The film was directed by Black and openly gay Academy Award-winning filmmaker Roger Ross Williams.
Watch the trailer AFTER THE JUMP ...
"I thought about following the activists-brave and admirable men and women-who were fighting against these policies. But I was more curious about the people who, in effect, wanted to kill me. (According to the provisions of the Anti-Homosexuality Bill, I could be put to death or imprisoned.) Notably, almost every evangelical I met – American or Ugandan – was polite, agreeable, even charming. Yet I knew that if the bill passed, there would be blood on the streets of Kampala."
"What explains that contradiction? What explains the murderous rage and ecstatic transcendence? In the well-known trope about Africa, a white man journeys into the heart of darkness and finds the mystery of Africa and its unknowable otherness. I, a black man, made that journey and found – America."
Williams reveals the "scariest challenge" to making the film in an interview at IndieWire:
"While shooting in Uganda in 2011, the conservative evangelical pastors I was filming -- the most ardent supporters of the country's now infamous Anti-Homosexuality Bill -- discovered that I myself am gay. One began circulating emails suggesting that I be killed. I left the country immediately, and hoped I'd never have to go back."
"Cut to a year later. I'm with my editors at the Sundance Documentary Edit lab and it is becoming abundantly clear that we needed more footage from Uganda. We needed to spend more time there to do justice to this very complicated, and very important story. And the only way to get it right meant I had to go back. Either I sacrificed, or the story would have to. And so I went. I spent three terrifying, thrilling weeks in Uganda, knowing full well that this would be the last time I was in a country I've been filming for the past three years. And I'm happy to say that without the footage we captured on that last trip, 'God Loves Uganda' probably wouldn't be premiering at Sundance."
Williams won the 2010 Academy Award for documentary short subject with his film Music by Prudence. He became the first African American to win an Oscar for directing and producing a film.
Watch the trailer AFTER THE JUMP ...
God Loves Uganda received significant financial support from JustFilms, the Ford Foundation's social justice film fund. The film is being supported by AllOut.org, which conducted an online organizing campaign to bring awareness to the Uganda's "Anti-Homosexuality Bill."
"The world has never had an up-close look at how anti-gay animus is exported from the United States to places like Uganda," said Andre Banks, Executive Director and Cofounder of All Out. "God Loves Uganda shows us how the U.S. culture war is being shipped wholesale to Africa, sometimes unknowingly, but always with disastrous consequences. The film should be required viewing."
More about recent developments on Uganda's proposed AHB at EBONY ...


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Discussion in 'SHOW ME YOUR...' started by sicnick, Dec 28, 2010.
Lets see the diversity of custom made shifters.
Post them up
Still a work in progress.
By xc204 at 2010-12-16
The handle bar end of a threadless MTB stem cut off.
I had a few and tried it out one day and wow it fit. Going to use another one for the foot brake mount on that bike.could have welded or drilled the frame but couldn't make up my mind on location.
By xc204 at 2010-12-04
By xc204 at 2010-12-04
http://ratrodbikes.com/forum/viewtopic. ... t=14727&st
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bike by Nesto2008, on Flickr
More in this thread....http://www.ratrodbikes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=14727&st=0&sk=t&sd=a
8-ball from mini billiard set + tilt knob from old tripod + shimano 3sp shifter = my rat'd out 3 speed shifter!
sorry its not a close shot of the shifter itself, but i dont have the bike anymore. its a 70's shimano click shift with a custom arm/knob. 8)
Here's one that I did a few years ago. It's not a custom shifter but it looks real kewl... It's a old 5-speed Sting Ray shifter mounted like a 'jockey' shift on a custom 1950 Schwinn 5-speed cruiser.
I took these pics a little early before the bike was finished. :roll:
Oh did you mean on bikes? I like this one but its not mine...Autorama 09
Or this one at this years Detroit autorama.
Somewhat primitive in design, but with the "idiot proof" theory applied. This is now 6 years old, and still works just like it should. One up close shot, one from far enough away to see the shift lever. Can you say "suicide?"
Not as nice as some of the more machined pieces that have come along in the last few years, but I did what's here with what I had on hand at the time. I don't have any welding equipment so it is a bolt-on piece.
Thanks for looking, and HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
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nice set up lets see more
What more do you want to see of it? Here is a link to my photobucket that has the complete build of this bike...
Page 1 http://s15.photobucket.com/albums/a392/ ... 8QQtppZZ20
Page 2 http://s15.photobucket.com/albums/a392/ ... 7QQtppZZ20
Page 3 http://s15.photobucket.com/albums/a392/ ... 6QQtppZZ20
This is the typical Sturmy Archer shifter with custom knob for the 3 speed on the Fat ......., cable is internal through frame to rear hub
http://i967.photobucket.com/albums/ae15 ... ard002.jpg
http://i967.photobucket.com/albums/ae15 ... ong036.jpg
not sure if any pictures on this thread include this.....but a lot of these i've seen include chrome/metal housings just off the shift that allow for a quick and sharp bend. The closest thing ive found online are brake cable noodles. Is that what these are or am i missing the right name?
XC204, that is a nice piece of work!
What are the two 'extra' screws 180deg. apart around the lever pivot?
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I live in Arlington and am looking for someone to play with. I used to be quite good; I'm getting old, though (I'm 30!!) and these Massachusetts winters leave me pretty rusty. I'm probably about a 4.5. I don't need anything too serious - just someone to hit around with.
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Im free anytime after 5:30 on friday. Let me know what time works for you if you are still available.
Can you make it to any of the Waltham lighted tennis courts? Which tennis courts in Lexington can you play at? I searched online and seems you have to pay reservation fees (more for non residents) to play in Lexington...
I could probably make it to Waltham. Unfortunately, I'm going out of town again. (It's a hectic summer for me!) I'll be back Aug 1 and could play sometime that week. Sorry my schedule is such a mess.
Hi Adam,
It isn't a problem at all. I am quite busy too with a hectic schedule; that's why tennis helps me relax and unwind :-)
Hope you have a safe trip and looking forward to hearing from you when you are back.
hey adam,
im a 4.0/4.5 player and currently work in belmont. I can play mon-fri at 530pm and occasional saturdays (11am-1pm) in the belmont/waltham/arlington area. Let me know if this interests you.
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Hear how machinery has changed the way Museum technicians work.More about Barry Du Bois
Since its opening in 1881, the Museum has grown in terms of its collections, its understanding of the natural world, and its approaches to museum display. Hand tools have since been mostly replaced by computers, dioramas have been replaced by interactive installations, and the Museum has extended its outreach activities to trade and road-shows.
From its connection to the Royal Family, to the restructuring of the Museum's science departments, our staff have witnessed both the positive and negative effects that changes can bring to a cultural institution. Listen to our Museum staff reflect on the various changes that have been made in the Museum, and their opinions on these changes.
Hear how machinery has changed the way Museum technicians work.
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James LeBeau shorted them on pay, a group of the local promoter's current and former workers claim in a class-action complaint filed this week in federal court.
Lebeau heads LeBeau Inc. and does business as Beau Productions. His company manages Frontier Field and LeBeau is the stadium director. His company also mounts the Lilac Festival and other events.
A seven-member group, including six ex-LeBeau Inc. employees and one current Frontier Field worker, claims in a class-action suit filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Rochester that LeBeau failed to pay full wages due them.
The suit names LeBeau Inc., LeBeau as the firm's president and LeBeau Inc. vice president Susan LeBeau as defendants.
In all, a minimum of 50 individuals could join the class action, the complaint states.
The wage-and-hour claim comes three months after the state Department of Labor launched a probe of LeBeau Inc. over alleged violations of the state's prevailing wage law at Frontier Field.
The prevailing wage statute states contractors and subcontractors working under a public works project must pay certain minimum hourly wage rates known as prevailing wages. The state-set rates vary for workers in various job categories and vary by county. The basic prevailing hourly rate for a Monroe County floor mechanic, for example, is $24.12. The same job's prevailing rate in Chemung County is $25 an hour.
Some wage-and-hour suits plaintiffs are also complainants in the prevailing wage investigation, said the class-action plaintiffs' attorney, Robert Mullin of Ferr & Mullin in Fishers. The two sets of claims cover some of the same ground but are not directly related, he said.
The class-action alleges two types of violation: Festival and air show workers say they were paid for all the hours they worked but did not get overtime pay for weeks when they put in more than 40 hours. Frontier Field workers claim that under state and federal labor laws they were supposed to be paid by the hour but were wrongly treated as salaried workers.
(Correction: an early viersion of this article indicated LeBeau has been involved with Park Ave Summer Art Festival. That event has been produced since 1998 by the Springut Group.)
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Elijah Wood has laughed off rumors he has launched a career as a DJ modeled on his famous "The Lord of the Rings" character.
The actor enjoys a sideline as a nightclub tune-spinner with his pal Zach Cowie, and recent reports suggested he has adopted the moniker 'DJ Frodo' as his stage name, inspired by his portrayal of Frodo Baggins in director Peter Jackson's fantasy trilogy.
However, Wood has now spoken out to clear up the rumors, insisting the idea of performing as DJ Frodo would make him cringe.
He tells British magazine Radar, "It's so funny. I don't know where that came from. I've never called myself DJ Frodo. I don't think I would ever call myself DJ Frodo."


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Again, Japanese charactors on the board. Does anyone feel strange? lol
This is how Japanese baseball fun cheer up their teams. They sing all the time...
I was at Bay Stars side. You can see blue color all over. That's the team color.
The other side is Tigers'. Yellow is all over!
And this picture is after the moment Takahiro Arai in Hanshin Tigers acheived his 1000th hit!
Yokohama Bay Stars' Dance performance. The charactors look cute :) Their faces are star.
He is 37th player who made the 2000th hit record in Japan. Omedeto!!


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Urgh I've got SO MUCH cooking to do. So MUCH. And I don't know why, but I don't want to do any of it. Even starting it feels like the biggest load of homework ever, or a tax return.
It's all my fault, too. I offered to do it all and now I don't want to do any of it. The most pressing and urgent thing is a beetroot soup I said I'd test for my friend James who is writing a cookery book and I've just completely failed to do it. Every time I go to the shops I forget to buy some key ingredients and then get home and think Oh God Oh God I haven't got the stuff. But I AM going to do it as I'm now ashamed of myself.
An equally pressing thing is a pork pie I've got to make as a thank you. Now's probably a good a time as any to tell you that those four days when I went missing just now I was in Miami. On holiday.
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I didn't say anything because I never want to know about anyone else's holiday, particularly not in winter.
I try to be nice when they want to tell me about their six weeks in Thailand. I say "Oh how lovely, how lovely - your own pool, really? Free, you say? Best food ever? And Bradley Cooper chatted you up at the bar, wow. That is one. Cool. Holiday!"
But in my head I am thinking FUCK YOU FUCK OFF WITH YOUR FUCKING HOLIDAY YOU A-HOLE.
But now there's a picture of me in Grazia at a party in Miami for this hotel so it seems weird to not mention it. It's like I've been presented with a picture of me being unfaithful and I'm just trying to ignore it. I look fat and sweaty anyway, and had to go to bed about half an hour after it was taken because I'm the biggest most pathetic person ever when it comes to jet lag.
We were there because my husband knows Nick Jones, who owns Soho House and Babington House and all those other houses and now Soho Beach House and we went to have a poke around and complain about the plumbing. But then you get home and you're, like: "What the hell do we get him to say thanks? His own personalised unicorn? A lapdance from Beyonce? This man owns EVERYTHING: he doesn't want dinner, he doesn't want champagne, he doesn't want a lapdance from someone else's wife. I mean... probably not."
So I thought I'd make him a pork pie. But I can't seem to get started. And now I've just found out that I put the lard I bought specially for it in the freezer (WHY?!?!?). So that's delayed that for another few hours. And God only knows where Nick is anyway, he could be half-way to China by now.
I've also got to make a giant chilli - but that's another story.
But I did get off my fat pregnant wheezy arse and make some buckwheat pancakes this morning, out of the really excellent new Leon Cookbook 2 (more of which, inevitably, later). They are wheat-free, for anyone doing a wheat-free thing and although they are not as bouncy and sinful as proper American diner pancakes they are pretty nice with butter, banana and a splosh of maple syrup of a morning. They are dense and nutty and a good alternative if you don't want to have a finely-milled white flour event in your kitchen.
So here we go - buckwheat pancakes.
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125g buckwheat flour
pinch baking powder
pinch salt
3 eggs
1 large teaspoon runny honey
1 Sieve the flour into a bowl and add the baking powder, salt and honey. Separate the eggs and put the yolks in with the flour. Make sure the egg whites go into a large bowl because you're going to beat them - (or straight into a processor).
2 Mix the yolks into the flour and then add milk until you get a smooth batter - not too thick. Then beat the egg whites until they're stiff and fold them in. You can always add a bit of milk after the egg whites if that thickens the whole thing up too much.
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Prairie Dog
Prairie dogs are colonial burrowing rodents. They are social animals that live in family units known as coteries. A coterie is usually a breeding pair with several younger prairie dogs. A group of these coteries makes up a colony. Colonies may contain a few family units and cover a couple of acres or they might contain hundreds of coteries across hundreds of acres. Colonies within a general area (a few square miles) form a complex. Juvenile prairie dogs occasionally move between colonies because they are either pushed out by the adults or leave to avoid conflict. This is important for prairie dogs as colonies sometimes die out. As long as there are other colonies within about 1 mile (1.5km), then dispersing prairie dogs will reestablish the colony. This type of connected system is called a metapopulation.
Prairie dogs are known as a keystone species. This means that they have a disproportionate impact on the ecosystem. In other words, their presence allows other species to be present. Prairie dogs dig burrows which animals like the burrowing owl live in. By clipping vegetation in a colony and keeping it short, prairie dogs allow birds like the mountain plover nest in their colonies. Many animals such as the swift fox and black-footed ferret use the prairie dog for food. There are also many plants that occur on prairie dog colonies that are not found in abundance on the surrounding prairie.
Prairie dogs often cause conflict with people because they dig burrows and eat plants that might be important for cattle or humans. However, the overall positive impact they have on the ecosystem makes them extremely important.


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Victoria's Secret Fashion Show 2012
Here's a Sneak Peek at the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show Before It Airs Tonight!
Here's a Sneak Peek at the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show Before It Airs Tonight!
If there's one thing you can expect from the annual Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, it's the promise of something undeniably spectacular from start to finish. You've got some of the world's most beautiful women — Adriana Lima, Alessandra Ambrosio, Miranda Kerr, and Candice Swanepoel are just the tip of the iceberg — on one catwalk, an insanely cool lineup of performers, and a wildly imaginative backdrop providing the festive mood. In summation: it's the perfect equation for gorgeous lingerie and those iconic wings to make their yearly debut. And the best part of all? The show airs tonight on CBS at 10 p.m. Here's what you need to know now.
Victoria's Secret "split" the show into six themes: Circus, Dangerous Liaisons, Calendar Girls, Pink Is Us, Silver Screen Angels, and Angels in Bloom. And with each awe-inspiring set came its even cooler performer to provide the live soundtrack. Adriana kicked things off as the VS ringleader; Justin Bieber danced with the Angels as they came parading out; Doutzen Kroes flirted with the crowd; Jourdan Dunn did the robot dance; Alessandra looked unreal covered in $2.5 million worth of jewels; Cara Delevingne took a turn on the runway in playful candy stripes; Bruno Mars got the crowd going when he and his band members formed a conga line around Lily Aldridge; and Rihanna kept all eyes on her with two amazing performances and a sexy strut that ended the show. We could keep going, but these snaps speak for themselves. Click through for the best of the 2012 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, then tune in tonight for more of the on-air antics!


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