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Watford, Virginia know onus is on offense to help keep high-powered No. 2 Oregon on sideline
Virginia's defense and special teams got high marks in the Cavaliers' season-opening victory against BYU. Quarterback David Watford and the new offense got by on the bare minimum.
The Cavaliers' touchdown drives covered 19 and 13 yards, and one was set up by a blocked punt, the other by an interception. Virginia was forced to punt 13 times, and it totaled just 223 yards on the day.
With high-flying No. 2 Oregon coming to Scott Stadium on Saturday, Watford knows the offense will have to be a lot better, and he's taking it upon himself to make big improvements this week.
"Offensively we wanted to do more and we should have done more, and I take that on myself," he said. "We had a great scheme in and (offensive coordinator Steve) Fairchild called a great game, and I just have to demand more from my guys and be more demanding of myself, be more of a leader out there on the field."
Watford, who redshirted last season after sharing the job with Michael Rocco two seasons ago, finished 18 for 32 for 114 yards with an interception against the Cougars, and ran 10 times for 17 yards. It seemed like BYU was extra attentive to his scrambling, he said, with two or three players always tracking him.
The low yardage numbers didn't seem to alarm Fairchild, however.
"That's a very, very good defense when you saw them in person, and I thought we held our own in terms of playing a physical brand of football and we went over 100 yards running," he said Wednesday. "Like I said, there's a ton to improve on offensively, but I think that's something you can build on."
Fairchild has emphasized toughness since he arrived last winter, and while he liked what he saw on that front in the opener, the Cavaliers need to get results that show it more. They converted just 6 of 20 third-down chances against the Cougars, continually putting the onus back on their defense.
That's more dangerous against the Ducks than almost anyone.
Oregon is one of the nation's fastest teams, and had 500 yards rushing, a school-record 772 total yards in beating FCS-level Nicholls State 66-3. That all came while the Ducks possessed the ball for just 19:46 because the Ducks had 12 plays that covered 25 yards or more, and of their nine touchdown drives, eight took less than 2 minutes to complete. They reached third down just 10 times, converting six.
Defensively, they led the nation in turnover margin last season at 1.62.
"They just put offenses they face in tough situations because their offense scores a lot of points and then their defense goes out there, they pin their ears back and they get after the quarterback, a lot of exotic blitzes and schemes," Watford said of the team that forced 40 turnovers last season.
"It's going to be a tough challenge," he said, "but I think we'll be ready for it."
They might even have a few wrinkles of their own that the Ducks haven't seen yet.
"We still have a lot that we have up our sleeve that we can use and coach Fairchild is constantly coming up with different stuff every day." Watford said. "Every practice we're putting in something new."
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[Intro: Heems]
Yo, yo Soup Boys
(Soup Soup Soup Soup) Alright
[Verse 1: Heems]
Indians jersey and an Om on my necklace
Outside Van Buren I'm parked in a Lexus
Waiting for the man, I'm waiting for a gram
I'm waiting for the man to put a gram up in my hand
And I'm looking fresh, you'll never find a flyer steeze
I'm in Richmond Hill smoking with the Guyanese
Hindus getting higher than a mother fucking fire kid
Punjabis wild, yo, Himanshu is a Shayar man
They're throwing stones at the Mosque
I'm in tune with goons that's stoned at the Mosque
I'm throwing stones in the zone with my vox
You eating stones I'm seeing drones up top
[Hook: Heems]
That drone cool, but I hate that drone
Chocolate chip cookie dough in a sugar cone
Drones in the morning, drones in the night
I'm trying to find a pretty drone to take home tonight
[Verse 2: Heems]
Timberlands on, polo rugby on my back
I'm outside John Bowne, I'm parked in an Ac
I'm waiting for Jay, Jay got the yay
And when I see Jay all my problems go away
Now I'm drinking with my cousin bars we bum rushing
Drinking White Russians with Russians in Flushing
We can tussle if they look at my cousin's girl
You couldn't last a day in Tarun's world
Moving in Carlos, Corona, taper
If they talk about us, they about to get shanked up
I wake up I'm listening for them to say Hindu
But no problem, then I do like Him do
I'm stoned, I'm stoned at my parent's house
White boys throwing stones at my parent's house
They dot-busting, hate crime, race war
I'm high as space dog, wild as three caged boars
[Hook: Heems]
[Verse 3: Heems]
I'm rocking Nikes, Timeport Motorola
In front of Cardozo, Toyota Corolla
Puff holder, Coca Cola, Back-seat scroller
Back street stroller, hash-tree roller
Chole bhatura eater, heater holder
He the chosen heathen, he hone in and hold her
For Ransom, my Temple look like a mansion
Hindu centre, we be praying we be dancing
On the boulevard, right on Kissena
We rolling green up, from Mecca to Medina
They throwing stones at the temple
Got me drinking too much, got me going mental
Like that drone modest, but that drone flaunt
All of them drones do what them drones want
Drones want to fire then drones want to kill
Drones want your dome and your bone and your grill
[Hook: Heems]
Soup Boy
The term Soup Boy, which Heems references in the song's title is a term coined by Indian song writer and youtube hit Kolaveri Di.
A soup boy essentially means a guy who has been dumped by a girl and the soup song is a 'love failure' song which a guy sings after getting dumped.
Thusly, we can look at Soup Boys as the tale of Heems on the rebound and his adventures across Queens along the way.

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is a health and wellness blog written by a licensed and practicing physical therapist and former massage therapist, and offers tips, pointers and information about improved health and wellness. Physical therapy and massage therapy news and insights are also covered.
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Nina McIntosh
Job's Body: A Handbook For Bodywork
Deane Juhan
Pathology A to Z: A Handbook for Massage Therapists
Ruth Werner and Ben E. Benjamin
Massage Therapy and Medications
Randal S. Persad
Anatomy and Physiology for the Bodywork Therapist
Mark Nielsen and Alexa Doig
Netter's Atlas Of Human Anatomy
Frank H. Netter
Gray's Anatomy
Henry Gray
The Anatomy Coloring Book
Wynn Kapit and Lawrence Elsor
The Anatomy Trains: Myofascial Meridians for Manual and Movement Therapies
Thomas W. Myers, et al
Silent Waves: Theory and Practice of Lymph Drainage Therapy, with Applications of Lymphedema, Chronic Pain and Inflammation
Bruno Chikly, MD, DO
Visceral Manipulation
Jean-Peirre Barral and Pierre Mercier
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Jean-Peirre Barral
Urogenital Manipulation
Jean-Peirre Barral
Trauma: An osteopathic Approach
Jean-Peirre Barral and Alain Croibier
Craniosacral Therapy
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Craniosacral Therapy II: Beyond The Dura
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Somato Emotional Release And Beyond
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The Heart Of Listening
Hugh Milne
Hands Of Light: A Guide To Healing Through The Human Energy Field
Hugh Milne
Energy Exercises: Easy Exercises For Health And Vitality
John Chitty and Mary Louise Muller
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Lauriann Greene, Robert A. Greene
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Bonnie Pruden
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Robin McKenzie
The Egoscue Method of Health Through Motion: Revolutionary Program That Lets You Rediscover the Body's Power to Rejuvenate It
Pete Egoscu
Richard Hittleman's Yoga: 28 Day Exercise Plan
Richard Hittleman
The Sivanda Companion to Yoga: A Complete Guide to the Physical Postures, Breathing Exercises, Diet, Relaxation, and Meditation Techniques of Yoga
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Hatha Yoga: The Hidden Language: Symbols, Secrets, and Metaphor
Swami Sivananda Radha
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Silva Mehta and Mira Mehta
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Robert E. McAtee
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Balance Through Meridians: Assessment And Theory
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Balance Through The Meridians: Theory And Technique
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Shitasu: An Introduction
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Staying Healthy With The Seasons
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Healing With Whole Foods: Oriental Traditions and Modern Nutrition
Paul Pitchford
Heinerman's Encyclopedia of Healing Herbs And Spices
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Heinerman's New Encyclopedia of Fruits And Vegetables
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Massage: A Career At Your Fingertips
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Writing Soap Notes
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My first experiences calling the NAG Library for SMP and Multicore
As a non FORTRAN programmer to be able to run some tests with the new NAG Library for SMP and Multicore I decided to choose a few simple tests that I could run using both CPUs of my laptop. I created some .NET console applications, wrappers around the FORTRAN routines that were able to pass all the arguments to the routines in a .NET fashion and implemented a time counting function. There are many parts of the Library parallelized, including quadrature, partial differential equations, interpolation, curve and surface fitting, linear algebra, correlation and regression analysis, multivariate methods, random number generators, time series analysis, sorting and special functions. I chose routines from the correlation, curve and surface fitting and random number generation chapters.
The results were calculated on a Intel® Core™2 Duo Prozessor P8700 (2.53GHz,1066MHz,3MB) machine with Windows Vista as operating system and Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 (32‐bit project) as compiler. Each function was used to solve a large enough problem to allow for parallelism. Each test case was run with one or two threads. The number of threads was set using the system variable 'OMP_NUM_THREADS' in the Visual Studio console window.
A 'QueryPerformanceCounter' function, was implemented in all the examples to calculate the time which the routines needed for calculating the result. Below is the class implemented for each of the examples which can be used by first creating the constructor HiPerfTimer and then using the methods Start, Stop and Duration:
HiPerfTimer pt = new HiPerfTimer(); pt.Start(); //routine pt.Stop(); pt.Duration(); internal class HiPerfTimer { [DllImport("Kernel32.dll")] private static extern bool QueryPerformanceCounter( out long lpPerformanceCount); [DllImport("Kernel32.dll")] private static extern bool QueryPerformanceFrequency( out long lpFrequency); private long startTime, stopTime; private long freq; // Constructor public HiPerfTimer() { startTime = 0; stopTime = 0; if (QueryPerformanceFrequency(out freq) == false) { throw new Win32Exception(); } } // Start the timer public void Start() { Thread.Sleep(0); QueryPerformanceCounter(out startTime); } // Stop the timer public void Stop() { QueryPerformanceCounter(out stopTime); } // Returns the duration of the timer (in seconds) public double Duration { get { return (double)(stopTime - startTime) / (double)freq; } } }After compiling the examples with the C# compiler option 'csc', the number of threads is first set to the value 1 and then set to the value 2. The only result which is printed is the time which the routine needs for calculating the result.
NAG routine C06PKF calculates the circular convolution or correlation of two complex vectors of period n.
In this example to complex vectors are build up with a period of n (n=5000000) and the correlation and the circular convolution are calculated.
C: \C06PKF\C06PKF>csc c06pkf.cs C:\ C06PKF\C06PKF> set OMP_NUM_THREADS=1 C:\C06PKF\C06PKF>c06pkf Duration: 5.74 sec C: \C06PKF\C06PKF>set OMP_NUM_THREADS=2 C: \C06PKF\C06PKF>c06pkf Duration: 2.98 sec
Random Number Generation
NAG routine G05YKF generates a quasi-random sequence from a log-normal distribution. It must be preceded by a call to one of the initialization routines G05YLF or G05YNF. The number N (N = 10000000) of quasi-random numbers of dimension IDIM (IDIM = 4) are passed and also the mean (IDIM) of the underlying Normal distribution for each dimension and the std (IDIM) standard deviation of the underlying Normal distribution.
C: \ G05YKF\G05YKF>csc c06pkf.cs C: \G05YKF\G05YKF>set OMP_NUM_THREADS=1 C: \G05YKF\G05YKF>g05ykf Duration: 3.52 sec C: \G05YKF\G05YKF>set OMP_NUM_THREADS=2 C:\ G05YKF\G05YKF>g05ykf Duration: 2.06 sec
NAG Routine E02CAF forms an approximation to the weighted, least-squares Chebyshev series surface fit to data arbitrarily distributed on lines parallel to one independent coordinate axis. It determines a bivariate polynomial approximation of degree k in x and l in y to the set of data points , with weights , for and . That is, the data points are on lines , but the x values may be different on each line. The polynomial is represented in double Chebyshev series form.
N, the number of lines on which data points are given, was set to 1000
K, the required degree of x was set to 100 and
L, the required degree of y was set also to 100.
Also the fitting polynomial was evaluated at the data points using the routine E02CBF.
C:\E02CAF\E02CAF >csc e02caf.cs C:\ E02CAF\E02CAF >set OMP_NUM_THREADS=1 C:\ E02CAF\E02CAF >e02caf Duration: 4.77 sec C:\ E02CAF\E02CAF >set OMP_NUM_THREADS=2 C:\ E02CAF\E02CAF >e02caf Duration: 2.48 sec
Fig 1: Timings for the SMP enabled NAG routines with one or two threads
My experience with presenting these examples at different clients has been very positive, but also interesting! "Warum verwenden Sie diese Bibliothek in .NET? Das ergibt doch keinen Sinn, da wir nur in Fortran programmieren!" "Why are you using the Library in .NET and not directly in Fortran? This doesn't make any sense, we are coding only in Fortran!"
Others were excited to learn and understand they might use their second processor!
My conclusions are as follows
- Never show a C# program to HPC Computer Programmers who love Fortran and think languages such as C are radical!
- NAG Library for SMP and Multicore really is easy to use and for those who are current NAG Fortran Library users the transition really is painless. Users just need to take care of the number of threads used.


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L2TP on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
This post is a tutorial on how to run a L2TP over IPSec VPN Server for proxy purposes on a Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Server machine. Before we start the practice, let us review some theories:
What is VPN?
Virtual Private Network, is a technology, mainly developed to provide creation of virtual local networks with a wide geographic distribution. For example, we have a data-center and a considerable network in Bandar Abbas that requires constant maintenance and connectivity to our main servers and offices back in Tehran. We need a local network which consists of our office networks and the Bandar Abbas network, but since they are geographically distributed, we can't have them local, so we cheat and virtually create a private (local) network, hence VPN.
Specifically speaking, we start a VPN server on our Bandar Abbas hub server (main.rajaei.abx.ir), then create a VPN connection from our computer (or router) and connect to it, and it would be like we have just plugged an Ethernet cable into our system, directly connected to whole Bandar Abbas network. After that we could simply connect to our surveillance server at 192.168.0.220 (which is a Bandar Abbas network IP, not ours) via any application.
As you might've already guessed, since VPN is usually established over the Internet, the most important thing to expect is data transmission security. No third party on the route should be able to sniff on our corporates data, right? VPN security is almost the main issue.
Then what is PPTP, L2TP, IPSec, SSTP, etc. ?
VPN, is a concept. It's also a technology, but many protocols and mixtures of technologies tend to provide such means. The simplest form is PPTP, the point to point tunneling protocol. It is easily established, easily connected and fast. To setup a PPTP server on Ubuntu, you need less than 5 minutes. The problem with PPTP is data encryption. To encrypt data with PPTP, both parties (VPN Client and Server) have to agree on an encryption key, and any hacker listening while they are discussing it, would be able to read their transfers.
Then there comes OpenVPN, which is totally open source and good, but since there's no native client on Windows, no body actually uses it. SSTP is also only Windows based, which is based on SSL Tunnels, very like the IPSec underlying layer of L2TP.
The other mostly used VPN technology, is L2TP, which relies on IPSec (lower network layer protocol) for its security. IPSec is a protocol which uses PKI (Public Key Infrastructure), or PSK (Pre-Shared Keys) which both are means to establish Zero-Knowledge connections securely without a third party being able to guess the password.
L2TP is technically called L2TP over IPSec, which is because first IPSec establishes a secure connection between two systems, then layer 2 tunneling protocol takes over for the networking and VPN functionality.
VPN as a means of proxy
In many cases, VPN is used for bypassing certain limitations and/or privacy, as proxy servers are used. Since VPN establishes a low level networking, proxies based on a VPN proxy all sorts of network connections, not just the web or videos. Anything, from peer to peer connections to DNS lookups are performed over the VPN.
To use a VPN for proxy purpose, we simply need to connect to a VPN far away (usually outside filtering region, if we are trying to bypass regional filtering) and use their internet connection. It is as if out Internet gateway, is not our own modem, but the computer over at the VPN.
VPN technologies (all PPTP, L2TP, SSTP, OpenVPN, etc.) work on certain ports and use certain traceable technologies. So blocking VPN usage is pretty simple, as PPTP no longer works more than a few seconds in Iran.
But with SSTP and L2TP, since both use a lower level encryption methodology (IPSec for L2TP), they can not be easily blocked. You might think that it would be pretty easy to prevent all IPSec connections and thus stop L2TP, as well as SSL for SSTP, but the case is, IPSec and SSL are used for all forms of encryption. When you use a banking service on the Internet, you employ SSL. When you transfer a file securely over the network, you employ IPSec. Blocking them would stop half of the Internet functionality.
There's also no way of peeking into IPSec or SSL encrypted data (which contain the actual VPN packets), hence L2TP and SSTP services could not be stopped that easily.
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The foods you should never eat again!
Before you continue any further, we must warn you. What you are about to read will make you really, really sad.
According to news.com.au, a nutritionist has compiled a list of foods that are so lacking in good nutrition, they should be abolished completely from anyone's diet.
In no particular order here are just some of the foods we have been told to 'never eat again'.
Soft drink
Surprise, Surprise. With approximately 13 teaspoons of sugar in a 600ml bottle, they are not only the most concentrated sources of added sugars in the diet they are also highly acidic which means a nightmare for dental health.
Although diet soft drinks don't contain sugar, rather a range of sweeteners, there is more evidence building to link the consumption of diet soft drink to increased blood glucose levels, greater appetite and cravings for sweet foods and overweight and obesity.
Rice snacks
Another one that will send blood glucose levels soaring. This is not to also mention the number of processed rice snacks, including those marketed to children contain added MSG, used to flavour a number of BBQ, chicken and pizza flavoured snacks. The less of these added flavours in the diet the better as evidence suggests that strong flavours programs the palate to seek out other rich flavours in the diet.
Frozen baked goods
Delicious frozen meat pies, doughnuts, cakes, sausage rolls, Danishes, apple pies and other desserts are not only baked full of saturated fats but often trans fats as well.
If you are guilty of enjoying baked pies and cakes, we have been told homemade is a much better option (and the less pastry we eat, the better).
Gotta keep those 'Trans Fats' out of our diets.
Packaged noodles and pasta
Take a glance at the ingredients on a packet of 2-minute noodles, or boxed pasta and sauce and you will get the gist.
These pre-packaged noodles and pasta dishes are packed full of preservatives, flavours and additives but nutritionally they tend to be a high carb, high salt meal option.
We have been told MSG is often added as are thickeners, preservatives, flavours and colours to help the food resemble what it is supposed to look like when reconstituted.
Eat your noodles or pasta fresh, the way they are supposed to be enjoyed.


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On October 24, 2013 my colleague Anna Radivilova, a Political Officer at the U.S. Embassy in Sarajevo, had the honor of representing the U.S. Government at a wonderful event commemorating the tenth anniversary of the Mine Detection Dog Center (MDDC) in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The event brought together friends and supporters of the MDDC to celebrate the Center's contributions over the last decade to reinforce humanitarian demining throughout the Balkans. Deputy Minister of Civil Affairs Ms. Denisa Sarajlić-Maglic and representatives of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Armed Forces demining unit also attended.
The MDDC opened on October 24, 2003 with the full support of the Government of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Political-Military Affairs is proud to have provided the initial funding to support the MDDC for the first three years. Since then, under the capable leadership of its Director, Mr. Nermin Hadžimujagić, the MDDC has developed into one of the world's centers of excellence for providing dogs to safely sniff out and detect landmines and other explosive remnants of war, such as unexploded bombs, mortars, and artillery shells, as well as conduct training for the dogs' human handlers for deployment globally. Once mine detecting dogs signal the precise locations of landmines or unexploded ordnance, clearance teams can get to work to remove these hidden hazards, allowing residents to return safely to roads, fields, and communities, promoting post-conflict recovery and renewed economic development.
Over the past ten years, MDDC has trained over 300 dogs that went on to work, not just in Bosnia and Herzegovina, but also Croatia, Serbia, Kosovo, Iraq, Angola, Lebanon, Turkey, Azerbaijan and Afghanistan. The MDDC also provides mine risk education to raise awareness of potential hazards from landmines and unexploded ordnance. The Center has trained dogs for law enforcement purposes as well, helping our partners to improve their capabilities to better secure their borders, collect customs duties, and address shared security concerns such as trafficking in illegal drugs and arms. Drawing on its extensive technical expertise in humanitarian demining, the MDDC has also expanded into training people in skills required in manual demining. Its human deminers are currently accredited in Serbia and Kosovo.
Thanks to start-up funding from the United States, and continuing support from other government and private donors, the MDDC has made a significant improvement in peace and security in the Balkans and around the world. Over the last decade, efforts such as these to clear anti-personnel mines, anti-vehicle mines, and ERW have helped decrease the worldwide number of landmine casualties from 15,000-20,000 annually, to approximately 4,000 in recent years.
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TERRE HAUTE, IN -- Riverbank Family & Fitness, a nonprofit fitness center that previously operated as the Terre Haute Family Y, closed suddenly today, according to multiple media sources.
Riverbank's board met on Monday night and decided it did not have sufficient funds to operate the Terre Haute, IN-based center past today. The board also accepted the resignation of Greg Ruark, Riverbank's executive director during the same meeting.
The center's president, Tom Jones, told the Terre Haute Tribune Star that the facility needed $40,000 to $45,000 a month to operate but was only bringing in around $30,000 a month.
Employees were told of the club's closure on Tuesday morning. Fitness club members and patrons of the center's day care and pre-school services were notified the same day via a sign on the front door informing them that the center would close permanently at 5 p.m. today and requesting that they remove any personal effects from the building.
Although Riverbank separated from the YMCA in October, two nearby Ys today announced in a press statement that they would honor the defunct club's memberships. The YMCA of Clay County and Paris Community YMCA will allow existing Riverbank members to use those facilities at no extra charge through Dec. 31.


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No matter. His classification is posted on Wikipedia and at other places. His categories go as follows:
Bruce Champagne Sea-Serpents
1A Long-Necked: A 30-foot sea lion with a long neck and long tail. The neck is the same thickness or smaller than the head. Hair reported. It is capable of travel on land. Cosmopolitan.
1B Long-Necked: Similar to the above type but over 55 feet long and far more robust. The neck is of lesser thickness than the head. Only inhabits water near Great Britain and Denmark.
2A Eel-Like: A 20 to 30-foot-long heavily scaled or armoured reptile. It is distinguished by a small square head with prominent tusks. 'Motorboating' behaviour on surface. Inhabits only the North Atlantic.
2B Eel-Like: A 25 to 30-foot beaked whale. It is distinguished by a tapering head and a dorsal crest. 'Motorboating' behaviour engaged in. Inhabits the Atlantic and Pacific. Possibly extinct.
2C Eel-Like: A 60-70 foot, elongated reptile with no appendages. The head is very large and cow-like or reptilian with teeth similar to a crab-eater seal's. Also shares the 'motorboating' behaviour. Inhabits the Atlantic, Pacific, and South China Sea. Possibly extinct.
3 Multi-Humped: 30-60 feet long. A possible reptile with a dorsal crest and the ability to move in several undulations. The head has a distinctive 'cameloid' appearance. Identical with Cadborosaurus willsi and is behind the Naden Harbor carcass.
4A Sailfin: A 30 to 70-foot beaked whale. It is distinguished by a very small head and a very large dorsal fin. Only found in the North West Atlantic. Possibly extinct.
4B Sailfin: An elongated animal of possible mammalian or reptilian identity reported from 12 to 85 feet long. It has a long neck with a turtle-like head and a long continuous dorsal fin. Cosmopolitan.
5 Carapaced: A large turtle or turtle-like creature (mammal?) reported from 10 to 45 feet long. Carapace is described as jointed, segmented, and plated. May exhibit a dorsal crest of "quills" and a type of oily hair. Cosmopolitan.
6 Saurian: A large and occasionally spotted crocodile or crocodile-like creature up to 65 feet long. Found in the Northern Atlantic and Mediterranean.
7 Segmented/Multi-limbed: An elongated mammalian creature up to 65 feet long with the appearance of segmentation and many fins. Found in the Western Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific.
This matter came up again because of the recent reports of a grey whale seen in the Mediterranean. I had previously identified one of Bruce's categories as the same as the 'Scrag Whale' and hence a grey whale, and I mentioned that was my opinion on Darren Naish's blog the first time the matter was posted. I had first posted about the matter at my group, Frontiers of Zoology, when the group was new, 2006-2007.
L: The Israeli Gray Whale 2010 R: Scrag Whale Drawing From Iceland, ca 1640.jpg
Bruce's long-necked categories 1A and 1B are basically Heuvelmans's long-necked and merhorse categories. They are quite possibly female and male of the same species. The lengths he gives tally well with my average estimates (assuming female and male lengths) worldwide. Nowadays, I would say those estimates are probably on the high side for both series of reports, even though Heuvelmans's estimated lengths are much longer.
The interesting part starts with 2A. This is obviously the same as a 'Tusked Whale' reported in the South Pacific and Indian Oceans, and Gesner has a depiction of it. It is not a reptile at all, and I think some of Bruce's sightings are from the New England area. There is a fossil form that corresponds to the description, Odobenoketops, although the fossil form is much smaller. The fossil form is well known in Cryptozoological circles owing to another matter, which is possibly an overlapping category, Southern Narwhals as discussed by Karl Shuker.
L: odobenoketops R: Gesner's Chybby Whale (tusked whale)
Category 2B is pertinent here because although Bruce Champagne calls it a type of beaked whale, it is obviously a gray whale and the same as the Scrag whale of the Atlantic, up until recently thought to be extinct. (Gray whale is the correct spelling, I understand)
Category 2C is evidently a type of giant eel: I have no idea why BC thought it had the odd teeth he ascribes to it. Perhaps the teeth are due to confused reports of actual seals. The reconstruction is oddly short and stumpy. My reconstruction from Heuvelmans' Super-Eel reports made composites of two quite distinct creatures which I called a Megaconger and a Titanoconger. Heuvelmans was aware of the size difference (Megaconger 20-30 feet average, Titanoconger 50-100 feet long) but did not further subdivide the category. The two are also distinct in colouration and habitat.The freshwater Giant Eel reports generally correspond to the Megaconger and not to the Titanoconger type.
Titanoconger and megaconger
Category 3 is the same as the "Caddycarcass" creature, which I would say was a decayed shark (Pseudoplesiosaur).
4A is interesting because it corresponds to other reports of a type of beaked whale with a large backfin far back, also reported in the Pacific. And 4B is obviously the same as the Valhalla Sea-Serpent. I do not know why BC gives it such a wide size range nor Geographic range, although I was aware of other reports of the type (Heuvelmans calls one a "Marine Dimetrodon"). I actually do not know what it is, but with that head and neck it is presumably related to the Plesiosaurs.
Category 5 is the Rhapsody-type giant turtle, obviously based on reports of a humpback whale turned turtle. Reports specify that the foreflippers are 15 feet long. Humpbacks are the only known animals that have 15-foot-long flippers. The "White Carapace" is the whale's lighter belly.
Category 6 is an interesting subsection of the Marine Saurian reports and what BC has illustrated is a large seagoing crocodile, probavbly what was described as the Tarasque in the Mediterranean, the MedCroc. I append an illustration of a "Great Horned Alligator" made in review of Mark A Hall's article "'Horrors' From the Mesozoic, in PURSUIT. (Artist unknown). The same "60-foot horned Alligator (Crocodile) is spoken of in folklore and illustrated in Thailand, and other possible representations of it are from Indus Valley seals. It is worldwide in the warmer regions and better at swimming at sea than the much smaller C. porosis, which it otherwise resembles.
This is NOT the only kind of "Marine Saurian": there is a type that is like an "Alligator" (including the C. porosis references) and then one or more other types which appear to be Mosasaurs.
Category 7 is obviously the same as Heuvelmans' Many-Finned. It is much thinner than Heuvelmans' version and for comparison I include a reconstruction I once did of the Many-finned as an eel (to go with the St. Olaf sighting and several others). The "Manyfinned" is the most dubious of all of Heuvelmans' categories and all the reports could admittedly be mistaken views of small pods of sharks or toothed whales. The "Pluripinniate Eel" version does however preserve the blunt, turtle-shaped head mentioned in several reports.
I do not attach much significance to the report of the Con Rit carcass, the description was most peculiar and at secondhand (or worse).
So out of these additional categories I see some of the same familiar categories from Heuvelmans' In The Wake of The Sea-Serpents and some other things. The modifications on Heuvelmans' categories are interesting, although I have a different spin on them: and there are a few whales in there, one of a potentially new species but two known. One of the known species is probably the same as the Med Whale, and it has been seen rarely and irregularly for many years past the point when it was thought to be extinct.


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Jason Aldean has taken the country music world by storm in the past few years, shooting out of the ranks of wannabe country stars and into sold-out arena tours. The 'My Kinda Party' singer may perform to 20,000 people on any given night, and his songs have been climbing the charts like kids on a playground. Even so, the laid-back country hitmaker says he's not about to go around giving other hopefuls advice — especially not on a reality TV show.
"I'm not really into being the judge thing. I'm kinda focused on my own career and all that stuff," Aldean told Albright & O'Malley producer Dan Van in a recent interview. "I never claimed to be the best singer in the world or any of that stuff. I'm not going to try to act like I know everything there is to know about it and try to give people advice. That's just not my style."
While musical reality shows like 'American Idol,' 'The Voice' and 'The Sing Off' afford esteemed musicians a chance to judge or coach young musicians on their way to the top, Aldean remains rather disenchanted with the whole idea, even if he could be called a coach or a mentor, rather than a judge.
"Maybe, I wouldn't mind giving advice on things that I could actually give them good advice on," he says, but then adds, "There's certain people on those shows that don't need any mentoring. They don't need any advice on how to sing. Some of those guys on the show sing better than the people who are judging the show."
Though he says he understands why other big-name artists, like his country peer Blake Shelton, take that route — "It's TV, I get that," he says — he doesn't seem like he'll be changing his mind anytime soon on the matter. "I don't feel comfortable going out telling somebody what they're doing wrong or acting like I know it when I'm still trying to figure it out myself."


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- Ilana
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- 05-11-14
Gritty. Graphic. Gripping
A gritty, noir thriller, and the first of what promises to be a gripping series. Bernie Gunther has left the police force and struck out on his own as a private investigator. What makes his work interesting is the time and place: Berlin, 1936 when the Nazis are in full power and preparing for the Summer Olympics. His services are more or less forcibly retained by a millionaire industrialist who has just lost his beloved daughter and her husband to a fire in their home. Both bodies are found in their bed, and the safe containing a priceless diamond necklace has been broken into. Was this a straightforward murder and burglary or is there more than first meets the eye? As Gunther investigates local jewelry vendors, he can't help but be horrified at how the Jews are being taken advantage of, with glaring anti-semitism at it's peak. Desperate to sell their valuables to get away from the repressive measures taken against them (most professions are banned to them, and everyone is quick to add "German" as a preface to their profession on their business cards to indicate they are of good Arian stock), they are forced to sell their belongings well below the market price. Trying to find out anything in this repressive system is bound to bring about all sorts of complications, and when Bernie's widowed secretary is too scared to return to work after being bullied by Nazi police officers, he's delighted to find a beautiful and single replacement for her in ex-journalist Ilse, but their romantic involvement is bound to render him that much more vulnerable. "March violets" was a term used for late-comers to the Nazi Party after the passage of Hitler's Enabling Act which rendered him a dictator on March 23, 1933. In May, the Nazi Party froze membership, and those with the lowest membership numbers were given preferential treatment, though everyone was eager to be seen as a Hitler supporter. Not so Bernie, who has Jewish clients and doesn't care for the views of a party he never chose to support, which is dangerous in and of itself because dissidents are daily being sent to concentration camps, where few are expected to survive the harsh conditions. I loved every bit of this private dick story set during a very dramatic period in history. Those who've enjoyed the more recent John Russell series by David Downing are bound to find this precursor highly satisfying. I'm very much looking forward to the next book!
9 of 9 people found this review helpful
- Constance
- New York, NY, United States
- 05-04-12
Brilliant Nazi Era Mystery
Philip Kerr is one of the very best. Think literary thriller (like John Le Carre) combined with a big dash of hard boiled attitude (like Raymond Carver). The detective navigates an increasingly Nazi-fied Berlin, trying to stay below the Nazi radar while maintaining a private stance of utter contempt for the rising regime. The story has plenty of twists and plenty of turns, but the atmosphere and characters are the real spell-binders. Highly recommended.
Narration is great.
26 of 28 people found this review helpful
- Hannes
- cupertino, CA, United States
- 11-21-12
definite plus/minus situation
Would you listen to March Violets again? Why?
fairly clever plot, enjoyed the historical evocation of an era, one of my favorite narrators
What other book might you compare March Violets to and why?
the second in the series, already listening
Have you listened to any of John Lee's other performances before? How does this one compare?
yes...about the same. at least he doesn't try to fake a german accent
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
ridiculous question
Any additional comments?
the corny tough-guy dialogue and overblown similes became quite tiresome. also, the sex scenes....could definitely do without...i'm not a prude but they detract and are completely pointless.
6 of 6 people found this review helpful
- Armen
- 05-27-08
One of the BEST
You won't want to stop listening to what is one of the best historical thriller written. Nazi Germany provides the background. The writing is Chandler quality. If you like historical thrillers - don't miss this one.
13 of 14 people found this review helpful
- KingK
- 06-27-09
Nazi Noir
This is a very entertaining story. The hero is a classic 1930s detective, the story moves nicely along, but the best part was the setting -- Germany 75 years ago. It was completely captivating.
17 of 19 people found this review helpful
- Vivian
- 02-26-08
Good story
An LA type PI in Nazi Germany. Lots of possible material to grow and build new books. A very good start.
If it gets a little dirty and colorful at times, I guess that is the way it could have been. The ending caught me by suprise.
5 of 5 people found this review helpful
- Kitty
- 05-30-14
I want more...
This book gives you some insight into not so distant past and transports you to an era that is a blight on German history. Well researched and well written... I will definitely get this entire series.
4 of 4 people found this review helpful
- Deborah
- Troy, Michigan
- 06-09-09
More a Detective Novel than Thriller...
I love a good mystery or thriller, and I love any novel set in the WWII era. And John Lee is perhaps my favorite narrator. So this book seemed to have all the right elements. But as it turns out, it's more of a detective novel than a thriller. Not my cup of tea.
If you like the classic Raymond Chandler, you'll love this book. It's well written an well narrated, and seems to be an homage to that 40's Noir style. But I didn't enjoy it as much as I'd expected.
9 of 10 people found this review helpful
- George Lendvai
- 12-10-08
Well done
One of the best historical fiction audiobooks I've heard. I could not wait to find out how the detective was going to unravel this case. Nice story, good twists and turns that kept the story very interesting. I was a bit remiss about the ending, but hey I guess you can't have it all.
9 of 10 people found this review helpful
- Molly
- 03-22-11
Gripping but graphic
This was a great period detective thriller -- but an excessively graphic one. Mr. Kerr earns high points for his research and detail but the rape scene was, in my mind, too much. If anything will keep me from purchasing his books in the future, it is the nightmares that I have had after listening to the graphic details of that scene.
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The Community Project premiered at Oakley HQ Wednesday night. We got the TWS posse together, got an eighteen pack, and burned rubber. It was a good time, free food care of In-N-Out burger and free drinks thanks to Red Bull and Ketel One. We hung out like we always do.
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Lots of things in life are more enjoyable when you have company... .surfing is not one of those things. The simple fact that good waves are a limited commodity has pushed surfers to search out remote locations on the planet with a greater concentration of that commodity and less surfers to exploit them. Mathematically this relationship is best represented by the following equation:
Less waves + More surfers = No Fun
More waves + Less surfers = Fun
The search for more waves and less people had me packing my bags to El Salvador recently as a long string of swell-producing storms started pushing surf into the region. A long civil war, a high rate of crime (not the least of which is gang related... interestingly enough... . most of if not all of the gangs in El Salvador were actually started here in the US and exported to El Salvador) has most surfers looking to Costa Rica and Nicaragua for safe waves which is all the better for me as you remember from the equation above... less surfers is half of the requirements for more fun.
I broke the photos into 5 different groups below to help you wade through the chaos; Surf, Art, Food, Things you see while driving and Randomness.
El Salvador International Airport
Promising looking surf from 10 thousand feet. One of the best things you can see before touching down on a surf trip.
There are so many spots to surf in El Salvador and only a very small number of them are surfed. Guarantee there are some discoveries to be had if you could get your hands on a trusty boat and about 2 years worth of down time.
Every spot I surfed was some sort of river mouth and as it was in the middle of the rainy season this complicated the situation a bit. Water quality is always an issue at river mouths... not to mention sharks. Another added bonus is having to watch out for giant trees floating through the line up. At this particular spot I stepped on a piece of barbed wire conveniently hidden just below the sand. Im still waiting to see what type of bacteria takes hold in wound.
One of the things about surfing for 7 to 8 hours a day is that sometimes no mater how good the surf is you just cant surf any more.
This photo was taken while sitting on the toilet at one of the places I stayed. You could survey the line up while taking car of business.
See that log just to the left of the horse... it was floating through the line up the day before.
El Salvadorian hand-style in San Salvador.
Saw this mural in the Anthropology Museum depicting human sacrifice. Pretty common back in the day I guess... made me wonder how many good waves were going un-ridden while people were busy cutting out hearts and jumping into fires. On another note... how sick are those shoes... ... are those the new Jordans???
I'm pretty sure this toilet cover qualifies as art... Right??
Best surf related mural I have ever seen.
These little dudes could climb those coconut trees so fast... scary how good they were with that machete too. Coconut milk is hands down the best post-surf refresher ever.
Those little tree tumors are cacao pods. This is what chocolate looks like before it becomes chocolate.
It was always a good idea to keep an eye out for this dude in the morning. He was the local baker and sold little buns out of his bicycle that looked like hot dog buns but tasted way better. You could get 32 of them for a dollar but it only took 2 or 3 to fill you up.
----- Things You May or May not See While Driving-----
Cows. Pretty much guaranteed to see cows hanging out in the middle of the road every day... .especially around blind corners at night.
Horses too.
Busses in El Salvador are like mobile art projects. The story I got was that each bus is privately owned and so to entice passengers to travel with them the owners would decorate the crap out them... not sure if its true but man were they rad.
Check out the spider man job on this one. Spider man is a big deal down there... Mexico too for some reason.
People would wedge themselves onto already full busses any way they could. These dudes are opting for the "hold onto the back door and hope the bus doesn't take off or stop suddenly" method.
This is another awesome method of transport called "sit on the tail gate of your uncles truck with half of your family and hope that it doesnt fall down while you go 80k/hour down the highway". What this method lacks in safety it more than makes up for in efficiency as gas prices are the same there as they are here.
I bet he could fit one or 2 more balls on there.
I made a vow a few years back that I would only travel for surf in countries where people carried stuff on their heads. There will always be less people in the water that way.
Why is TGI Fridays everywhere??? Remember the post I did on my trip to Morocco. TGI Fridays was there too. Plus why isnt it TGI Viernes?
Child labor = cheap surf board repairs
Every male older than 20 years old in El Salvador caries a gun... ..but its always sketchy trying to take a picture of a guy with a sawed-off shotgun. This was a sign just outside a little carnival I went to one night.
Advertisement before.
Regular TV... in San Salvador... I promise.
Flight back to LA. Love it when this happens, right?
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Sfinx was a science fiction fanzine published by the Oxford University Speculative Fiction Group.
Sfinx was published in the UK. The first issue appeared in 1969.
Editors varied with each issue. Issue 1 was edited by Jeremy Gilchrist, Robert Morrow and Sandra J. Burman; #2 by D.A. Parsons, Sandra J. Burman and C.J.K. Morgan; Diana Reed was editor for #3, #4, #5, published 1970-1971; Allan Scott edited #6; Allan Scott and Kevin Smith were editors for #7, which was nominated for a Nova Award for Best Fanzine in 1973, and #8 in 1973; Kevin Smith was editor for #9, published in 1974; Peter D. Jones edited #10, published in 1975; Andrew Chapman edited #11 in 1976.
David Langford was a frequent contributor. In his book, "The Sex Column and Other Misprints", he describes finding the publication; "So when I went to Oxford for three years of failing to study physics, I was primed to seek out SF contacts. Sure enough, the crowded notice-board of my college (Brasenose) featured the cover of an obviously SF publication called Sfinx - the university SF group's fiction magazine...You could tell the publishers had cosmic minds, by their total failure to provide a price or address. But I tracked them down anyway."
Other contributors of fiction included John Allen, Michael Ballance, Jenny Barrett, Sandra J. Burman, George Codd, Paul Connors, Rosanna Corke, Andrew Darlington (Ludd's Mill), Gregory Dowling, Bill Fraser, Jeremy Gilchrist, Colin Greenland, Erica Hahn, Robert Holdstock (Macrocosm), Robert Jackson (Maya), Simon Jones, D. Arthur Lott, Chris Morgan (Brum Group News), Bob Morrow, Ruth Paul, Philip Payne, Ed Phipps, Mark Powell-Jones, Diana Reed, Paul Robin, Mike Scott Rohan, Allan Scott, Kevin Smith, Steve Sneyd (Data Dump), Andrew Stephenson, Michael Summers, Rosanna Summers, Ian Watson, and Adam Williams.
Contributors of poetry included Paul Jobin.
Contributors of artwork included Roland Aldridge, Bob Elliot, Debby Hickenlooper, Roger Hobby, Matt Nelson, Heidi Pape, Mike Scott Rohan, and Allan Scott.
Kevin Smith was also one of the co-editors of Vector, along with Alan Dorey, Eve Harvey, and Joseph Nicholas for issue #98, Joseph Nicholas for issues #99-#101, and Joseph Nicholas, and Paul Kincaid for issues #102-#105.


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Terry forced out of Ukraine clash
John Terry has been ruled out of England's World Cup qualifier with Ukraine at Wembley on Tuesday due to his ankle injury, the Football Association have confirmed.
Terry suffered the setback during Friday night's 5-0 win in Moldova and England finished the game with 10 men after the Chelsea defender limped out of the action in the closing stages.
He continued to have treatment on Saturday after returning to England but it has been decided, an FA spokesman said, that Terry will not recover sufficiently in time to face the Ukrainians.
Gary Cahill is likely to replace Terry and partner Joleon Lescott at centre-back in the second qualifying match of the campaign.
It would be Cahill's first appearance at Wembley since he suffered the broken jaw against Belgium which ruled him out of Euro 2012.
Phil Jagielka, who partnered Lescott when they were team-mates at Everton, is the other player in contention.
Terry was one of England's most consistent performers at the European Championship and helped his country overcome Ukraine in a group encounter.
Left-back Ashley Cole had already been ruled out with the ankle injury which prevented him from playing in Chisinau and remains on 98 caps.
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Japan's Gree, which runs a large mobile gaming platform, is quietly rolling out a test version of a new chat app called Gree Messenger.
The app was released to India, New Zealand and Australia over the past two days without an official announcement. It is currently available in an iOS version on iTunes and an Android app in the Google Play Store.
"This is just a beta launch. We don't know yet when we will release the final version," said Gree spokeswoman Amiko Tomita.
Gree's app seems similar to LINE, a wildly popular group chat and voice app that has had major success in Japan. Developer Naver, a South Korean firm, says LINE has over 88 million users in over 230 countries worldwide.
LINE is popular because it provides private chat rooms that are invitation only, allowing groups of friends to keep running conversations. It has expanded by using uploads of users' address books from their phones, creating virtual networks that mimic those in the real world, and generates income by selling avatars and ad-sponsored icons.
Gree's rollout follows the launch of a similar chat app by chief Japanese rival DeNA in October. DeNA's "comm" service also includes a chat feature as well as an online telephone service similar to LINE.
Similar to its rivals, the new Gree Messenger app allows users to easily share photos, videos and locations in group chat sessions. It also provides "stickers," icons that can be inserted into conversations.
Gree is developing the app together with eBuddy, a Netherlands-based firm that runs a chat app popular mainly in Europe. Gree took a minority stake in eBuddy earlier this year.
The aggressive Japanese game operator has a stated goal of 1 billion users. It launched its global app platform in May, incorporating the assets of U.S. platform operator OpenFeint, which it acquired last year.


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Solutions for the Current Nursing Shortage
Stephanie Larkin | Articlesbase.com
The nursing shortage in the United States is estimated between 340,000 to over a million nurses. Many of the nurses that are leaving the field are management and faculty nurses needed by nursing schools for training the new crop of nursing graduates. Many of these upper level administrative nurses are nearing retirement age, just at the time that demand for nursing care is increasing as the Baby Boomer generation reaches retirement age. The number of nurses in hospitals, public nursing, teaching and geriatric centers are all falling behind the demand, with little improvement seen in the immediate future. Some of the solutions for resolving the nursing shortage which have been suggested by various study groups and interested partners are as follows:
Developing public/private partnerships
In many instances, the plans for public/private partnerships involve public funding to increase faculty and attendance at nursing education facilities. Due to an aging population, the same time the demand for nurses is increasing; nursing educators are aging as well and subsequently leaving the workforce. A three fold program has been implemented to increase the number of classes, increase the number of faculty in the nursing field and increase the number of students who have been unable to enter the field previously because of lack of resources and limited enrollment quotas. Public funding will cover part of the gap between supply and demand in the nursing field.
Using technology as a training tool
Although a major part of nursing education is clinical experience, much of the classroom education can be handled through today's advanced technology. Internet education, distance learning, and accelerated learning programs based around adult work schedules are all ways in which technology can be used as a training tool for nursing educators. As the care of the patient becomes more related to technological advances, routine nursing practices can be drilled by using that same technology. Technology advancements can also be used in testing and certification settings for nursing educators.


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Nov. 5, 2005
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - MIT swimming and diving opened up the new season in strong fashion, taking first place out of four teams at the Batterman Relays. Scored separately, both the men's and women's units bettered a strong regional quad that included Tufts, WPI and host Wheaton College.
The women set the tone early by winning the first three events and never looking back. The team of Julianna Edwards, Kate Thornton, Kristen Felch and Sasha Brophy hung on in the 200 medley relay to clip the Jumpos with a mark of 1:55.13. Edwards led off with a solid leg in the backstroke, while the rookie Felch produced the event's fastest split in the fly.
Felch and Brophy also aided in the winning effort of the 500 free relay. Joined by Jolinta Lin and Jackee Nowickee, the Engineers outdistanced second-place Wheaton by 13 seconds en route to a time of 4:59.90.
Nabbing their third straight victory, the women's team sealed the win with a win in the 200 backstroke relay. Edwards picked up her second top finish of the day in the lead-off spot for MIT, while Jen Chao, Nicole O'Keeffe and Jen-Jen La'O rounded out the unit. O'Keeffe, another rookie, spirited the victory with the event's quickest split (27.72) while La'O anchored strong to hold off a charging Michelle Caswell of Tufts University.
The men's team didn't score as heavily as their counterparts, but swam well enough for an opening-day win. The 500 free relay got the Engineers cooking as Josiah Rosmarin made up a two-second deficit to rally MIT in the final leg. Touching the wall in 4:22.80, Sofra Spasojevic, Michael Dimitriou and Kalvin Kao helped carry a lineup laden with experience.
The Cardinal and Gray picked up one other win on the men's side in the 200 breast relay. Matt Angle provided the late heroics from the anchor spot this time, but Jeremy Chang, Barry Revzin and Matt Petersen had the Engineers swapping the lead with Tufts throughout the battle. In the end, MIT out-touched the Jumbos 1:57.65-1:57.78.
MIT swept the diving on both sides to ensure the victory.
The women's team had a fourth win later on day with a three-person team in the 1500 free relay. Kate Thornton swam as strong as she did all last season to lead the charge, while O'Keeffe and La'O solidified a group that was too strong for the rest of the field. MIT finished the race in 16:17.92, nearly one minute ahead of second-place Tufts.


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The first wave of DC's rebooted 52 event are out and we begin to see the outlines of the new universe. Everybody's a little younger, costumes are more Hollywood friendly and reassurances are being given that much of the past continuity is intact if slightly different.
Essentially the creators of the 52 books hitting the stands over this month appear to have been given permission to keep the bits they like and ignore the ones they don't. I'm unconvinced but I will be spending more in the short term as I plan to give almost all of them a shot. The exception is Hawk and Dove by Rob Liefeld. I flipped through it in the store and confirmed my confident suspicion that yep, Liefeld still sucks balls so I can save some money at least.
Now he takes on Superman again - his Silver age worshiping All Star Superman run can be considered a continuity all its own - and he goes back to the characters earliest roots.
The earliest Superman stories in the 30's by Seigel and Shuster were the adventures of an almost crazy grinning radical with super powers who would break down the Governor's door to stop an execution, kidnap arms dealers and force them to fight on the front lines of the wars they were supplying, force mine owners to work in their own unsafe mines and smack wife beaters through walls. When the earliest strips Seigel and Shuster had completed before selling the character to DC (then National comics) ran out, the publisher firmly mandated bringing the character in line and making him a bland and nonthreatening protector of the status quo.
Morrison presents a Superman at the beginning of his career in a DIY costume abducting corrupt executives, getting shot at by the police and bleeding when he gets hit by cannon shells. For anyone complaining this isn't the Superman they know Morrison has the unassailable defense that he's actually returning the character to his earliest roots.
I'm in for the duration on this one not least because of Morales' lovely art.
Animal Man by Jeff Lemire and Travel Foreman and Swamp Thing by Scott Snyder and Yanick Paquette are more problematic but still are on my buy list on a probationary basis. They bring in the concepts that Alan Moore and Grant Morrison explored in innovative runs in the 80's while grounding the characters in DC's mainstream superhero continuity.
Basically the plan seems to be to make Animal Man the avatar/elemental of the animal kingdom while Swamp Thing is the same for the plant world. The art is beautiful and the writing is certainly competent, but ultimately for a long time reader of the characters this seems to be re-warmed versions of narratives I've read before with the added complication of more firmly grounding them in the world of long underwear types.
The real innovations of the Moore and Morrison runs were narrative, dialogue and character pyrotechnics that blew the lid off what readers could expect from the medium. So far these books seem to be trying to adopt some of the story ideas of those classic runs, but in the context of more traditional comic book writing. They have me for a few more issues at least and possibly more, but ultimately my recommendation for these characters is to pick up the trade paperback collections of the classic Moore and Morrison runs they are harking back to instead.
Also worth checking out from the new DC books this week are Batgirl by Gail Simone and Ardian Syaf. Problematic decision to write out Barbara Gordon's paralysis notwithstanding the art and writing are beautiful. I'll be giving a Static Shock, Batwing and Men at War a shot too .
But my overwhelming reaction to this book is... disappointment.
Disappointment that a creator I respect has falling down the rat hole of a conspiracy theory I most emphatically do not respect.
The book uses the framing device of a scientist from today going back in time 10 years to September 11th to try to convince her husband to get out of the Twin Towers as a framing device for all the various Truther 'facts' and 'theories'. Lots of niggling little cavils about the inconsistencies and contradictions in the official story culminating in an unabashed statement of belief in the conspiracy theory that the Bush administration killed thousands of Americans to get the excuse they needed to attack Iraq.
I'm not going to get into the many reasons why this is nonsense, this Salon article eviscerates most of the theories in this book quite nicely and this Rushkoff piece expresses how I feel about what a waste of time and energy the Truther movement is.
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Augmented reality systems like Google's Project Glass may seem like an incredible new way of making our lives easier, but filmmakers Eran May-raz and Daniel Lazo imagine an alternate version of the future, a world in which the new technology begins to damage life. Created as a graduation project upon completing their education at the Bezaleal Academy of Arts in Jerusalem, Sight shows us the darker side of virtual reality.
We follow Patrick, a single gentleman living in a barren bachelor pad in some nameless metropolis. At the opening of the film he lies chest-first on his living room floor with his arms and legs hovering inches above the ground for no apparent reason. But Patrick sees something entirely different. Through a set of special contact lenses, Patrick seems to be careening toward the earth, collecting points as he directs his body through various targets while avoiding any obstacles in his path.
Next we watch him make his way to the kitchen. He opens the refrigerator and an information overlay informs him when his food items will expire. Choosing a cucumber, he begins to cut it as a game of Fruit Ninja launches. The goal of the new game is to slice vegetables evenly to score the most points.
As the film progresses it becomes clear that most things in Patrick's world are more fiction than fact. For instance, the walls of his apartment are actually empty but when seen through his lenses they are covered in gaming scoreboards and impossibly expensive art pieces. Patrick's seemingly full and perfect life quickly begins to reflect an uninspired and empty existence.
By the time Patrick is out in the real world with his date, Daphne, augmented reality has become the enemy. Rather than enhance his experience, the lenses become a block between two people, a barrier keeping Patrick and Daphne from truly connecting. As date scores and facial recognition software cross-over Patrick's vision, he struggles to keep the conversation flowing. Suddenly virtual reality is situated as the enemy and we see a much more complicated example of heavily-integrated applications and how they affect social situations. It's certainly not the future Google is advertising.
What do you think? Is augmented reality a scary prospect or one you look forward to? How close is Sight to showcasing the future?


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Farmigo Opens Doors to Online Farmers Market
The benefits of your local farmers markets are plenty. You're getting fresh food, supporting local farms and helping to create a more sustainable food system. But with limited hours and locations, you probably can't take advantage of it as much as you'd like.
So, a company called Farmigo is stepping in to help.
Today, Farmigo launched its online farmers market where consumers can find and purchase goods from regional farmers and producers and have it delivered to a local drop-off point. The service is now live in San Francisco and New York and will expand to Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, Denver, Chicago and Philadelphia in the coming months.
The idea is similar to CSAs (Community Supported Agriculture) where you buy a membership or subscription to a local farm and receive a box of seasonal produce every week. But there are some key differences.
Rather than go the home delivery route, which can get very expensive, Farmigo works on a community-driven model where delivery points are established at convenient pick-up locations (or food communities, as Farmigo calls them), such as a workplace, school, church or community center. Farmigo requires a minimum number of members in each community and will work with individuals through the process.
Each location gets its own marketplace and, based on the farms in that area, Farmigo connects communities with five to six local farms to offer a range of products like fruits, vegetables, dairy, bread and meat. Users can then go online to see what's available and place weekly orders, selecting what they want and how much they want. Farmers then deliver orders to your selected drop-off point within 48 hours of harvest.
Compared to CSAs, Farmigo gives you more control over what you order, and also gives you access to a variety of local businesses, just like a true farmers market.
On the farmer's side, the benefit is that they're better able to scale production and it gives farms that only specialize in one or two products the opportunity to participate in the program. They also make more money. Farms receive 80 percent of the sales, compared to the 9 to 20 percent they get when going through a traditional grocer. Farmigo receives 10 percent for each transaction.
Farmigo was founded in 2009 by Benzi Ronen, who previously worked at SAP as vice president of product management, to provide online software to farmers to help them manage their CSA subscriptions. The company currently works with more than 300 farms in 25 states.
But about a year ago, Ronen realized that CSAs were only reaching about 1 percent of the population, so the company started looking into ways to expand that number.
"We realized that everybody loved farmers markets and were passionate about eating local, fresh-from-harvest food, but time restraints made it inconvenient to do it weekly," said Ronen in an interview with AllThingsD. "So we set out on a journey to bring the farmers market experience to the consumer in a convenient way that would allow people to get food the way they want and create an alternative food system."
Farmigo has been testing its online farmers market in San Francisco and Brooklyn for the past two months. Carrot Creative, a new media marketing agency located in the Dumbo neighborhood of Brooklyn, has been one of the communities testing the program.
"We have great restaurants and food trucks in Brooklyn but the benefits of having fresh food are unparalleled," said Chris Petescia, co-founder of Carrot Creative. "People are sharing recipes, and it's created a sense of community in our office, which is a new dimension I wasn't expecting."
But what about a sense of community between customer and seller? After all, one of the great things about farmers markets is the opportunity to talk and interact with the local producers, and moving the shopping experience online could take away from that.
Petescia said the local farmers often make the deliveries themselves and take time to chat with the customers. "They seem pretty stoked when they see people getting so excited about their deliveries," said Petescia.
Nick Papadopoulous, general manager at Bloomfield Farms in Petaluma, Calif., agrees. "We started using Farmigo about six months ago after struggling to develop a CSA business, and we've seen some promising early results," said Papadopoulous. "We have high hopes on how the service can change the way people interact with their local farmers."
Etsy and Kiva have also started food communities, while Twitter and Google have adopted Farmigo's CSA-based model. Still, Farmigo might face difficulties in areas where there's not enough resources or not enough awareness. Ronen admits that it will be a challenge to bring the service to what he calls "food deserts" — one that will require a team effort.
In addition to the launch of the San Francisco and New York communities, Farmigo also announced today that it has received $8 million in Series B funding from Sherbrooke Capital, RSF Social Finance and previous investor Benchmark Capital.


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1985 Ferrari 288 GTO
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The 288 GTO is powered by a twin turbocharged 2.8 L V8 engine that is mounted longitudinally in the rear. The GTO was an impressive performer with 0-60 mph times in the high 4 second range and a top speed of 189 mph. Only 272 288 GTO's were produced during its 1984-85 production run.
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Global Hunger? School Feeding Offers Double Dividend of Healthier Children and Better Chances in the Classroom
Co-authored by Lesley Drake, Director of the Partnership for Child Development
As leaves crackled and autumn closed in on Washington DC at this time last year, the Brookings Institution played host for a special event focused on global hunger. At that time, World Bank President, Robert B. Zoellick, joined Executive Director of the U.N. World Food Programme, Josette Sheeran, for a pre-Thanksgiving discussion on the fight against food insecurity that continues to wage on for millions around the globe.
Many of those hungry are the most vulnerable—particularly children.


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Startup of the Week
We were featured as the Startup of the Week in the Calgary Herald!
"If you're a hunting enthusiast who's frustrated looking through all the maps, textual boundaries and complicated tables to determine the rules and regulations regarding what, when and where you can hunt, you need to check out iHunter."Calgary Herald - Startup of the Week


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Year in Review: 2016 in 12 Charts (and a video)
Between the social, political, and economic upheavals affecting our lives, and the violence and forced displacement making headlines, you'd be forgiven for feeling gloomy about 2016. A look at the data reveals some of the challenges we face but also the progress we've made toward a more peaceful, prosperous, and sustainable future. Here are 12 charts that help tell the stories of the year.
1.The number of refugees in the world increased.
Forcibly Displaced" offers a new perspective on the role of development in helping refugees, internally displaced persons and host communities, working together with humanitarian partners. Among the initiatives is new financial assistance for countries such as Lebanon and Jordan that host large numbers of refugees., up from 60 million the year before. More than 21 million were classified as refugees. Outside of Sub-Saharan Africa, most refugees live in cities and towns, where they seek safety, better access to services, and job opportunities. A recent report on the "
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Welcome to Butterfly Balloons
After piloting Cappadocia Balloon flights for many years with different operators, we decided to set up our own 'dream' boutique company and began flying as Butterfly in May 2010. Since then we have flown thousands of guests and made many good friends – thank you to all of those who have helped make our adventure a great success, and what fun we have had!
In less than 2 years Butterfly became number 1 on numerous travel forums, recommended by many guide books including Lonely Planet and, the first choice of Rick Steves in the USA. Thank you to all our new-found friends on whose praise we are riding high. We focus on your individuality and our exclusiveness, mix it with fun and adventure and, we give you the flight of a lifetime over the stunning landscape of Cappadocia.
What does Rick Steves say about us
"With a dozen people in our basket and the capable captain Mustafa at the helm, we enjoy a dreamy glide. Halfway through, our captain tosses Super Ted from the balloon. Mustafa learned to fly a balloon in 2005 in Albuquerque and I felt perfectly safe with Butterfly Balloons."
Click here for videos of Rick's Cappadocia Balloon Flight.
- We care about personal space and comfort; flying below full capacity in our baskets, we take a maximum of 10, 12, or 16 guests.
- All our equipment is new and custom-made for us at Cameron Balloons in the UK and Ultramagic in Spain; Butterfly Balloons do not fly second hand or sponsored balloons.
- Each day we choose the take-off site dependant on the wind direction to ensure the best and most enjoyable flight path for us all.
- We fly once a day; around sunrise which offers the most favourable weather.
- We guarantee minimums of one hour + of flying time for the Butterfly Flight and one and a half hours + for the Beyond Flight. We do not land early unless your pilot believes there to be deterioration in the weather.
- new: Wifi on board.
We have no association with any agencies in Istanbul. Please make all bookings online or within Goreme.
How can I book a Cappadocia Balloon flight? We offer two types of flight; Butterfly Flight and Butterfly Beyond. The main differences are the duration of the flight and the number of people in the basket.
We do not operate the Beyond Flight from 1st November and 31st of March due to unsuitable weather conditions
|Butterfly Flight
|Butterfly Beyond Flight
|Flight Duration
|Minimum 1 hour
|Minimum 1,5 hour
|Number of People
|8 to 16 people
|6 to 12 people
|Ground Transportation
|Included with private minibuses
|Included with private minibuses
|30+ Million Euro
|30+ Million Euro
|Included before the flight
|Included before the flight
|Landing Party
|After the flight with champagne
|After the flight with champagne
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Go for a glow by selecting a style with beading, sequins, or metallic, or feel like the queen of fashion in something with crepe, satin, or embroidery! What are you waiting for? Your dream dress is a click away. Shop our breathtaking materials today!
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Helena's theme - People...Products...Knowledge...accurately describes the company's commitment and high level of service to the cotton industry. Across the Cotton Belt - from Virginia to California - Helena's "cotton team" stays busy supplying customers with products and services to help them run their operations profitability. To do that successfully and consistently requires personal commitment, extensive technical knowledge, and the dependability of the Helena distribution system.
Throughout our history, Helena's sales force has always been known as "the best." It's a reputation that began in the Mississippi Delta in 1957 and continues today.
Here's why:
Today, it's commonplace to read about "fast-changing markets," or "rapidly evolving technology." For Helena, there's nothing new about this. It's always been that way. Practices and products are continually shifting, and we've been a leading force in bringing about these positive changes.
And during those revolutionary changes in products and cultural practices, our product line and market reach have grown tremendously.
That's because we've stayed in touch with customers - the people who drive the market. At the same time, we've adapted by learning new technologies and understanding newer, more efficient products. And we've always used our intuitive and technical knowledge to put new technology in the hands of the people who can best utilize it.
So rapid change and progress are nothing new to the Helena sales force. We expect it. This is a primary reason why Helena continues to be a driving force in the U.S. cotton industry - and the strongest link in the supply chain that brings new technology and greater efficiency to the U.S. cotton industry.