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Universal's The Best Man Holiday made headlines this past weekend, opening this weekend to decent reviews, an extremely rare A+ rating on CinemaScore, and excellent box office numbers: $30.6 million, a close second to Marvel's Thor: Dark World, which earned $35.8 million in its second weekend. But films featuring predominantly black casts have been performing well for years, so why the hell are reporters still so shocked when a "black film" succeeds at the box office?
When Sony released Think Like A Man in 2012, it earned $33.6 million in its opening weekend, before going on to rake in a cumulative $91.5 million domestic gross. Not a single one of Tyler Perry's five Madea movies took in less than $21 million in their opening weekends. Yet black films continue to be seen as niche movies that only appeal to a small subsect of the population, and their success remains an anomaly.
When The Best Man Holiday took in $30 million this weekend, entertainment reporters were quick to express their shock that the movie did so well. The phrase "over-performed" was thrown around by outlets, including Variety. Struggling behemoth USA Today also stepped into it, titling an online headline "Holiday Nearly Beat Thor, As Race-Themed Films Soar." After much outrage on Twitter, they changed "race-themed films" to the equally inelegant "ethnically diverse," before finally settling on "Best Man Holiday Nearly Beats Mighty Thor." Ray Subers, the journalist who runs Box Office Mojo, a well-known site for box office prognostication and analysis, summed up his shock with a tweet on opening Friday that read "Looks like at least $30 mil for BEST MAN HOLIDAY this weekend. Very surprising." His prediction for the film was a paltry $54 million cumulative—a figure that will easily be outpaced if the opening weekend successes continue.
Labeling these box office victories as "surprising" and "over performing" immediately indicates that they are an aberration from the norm, unlikely to happen again with any degree of consistency. Coming from an average viewer, it's still short-sighted. Coming from a movie writer? It's idiotic. As a paid critic or commenter, there's a reasonable expectation to know what the hell you're talking about when preaching to thousands of readers. But there's a larger responsibility that comes with the reach: the ability to educate and engage. If entertainment reporters, who have seen continued trending success in films geared towards niche audiences, can't acknowledge that times are changing, can the general public's perception towards said films really evolve either?
Subers had a moronic tweet in the days prior to the film, in regards to the multiple diverse holiday films being released in the coming weeks.
Within the next month, three holiday movies with mostly African-American casts (BEST MAN, BLACK NATIVITY, MADEA) will be released. Overkill?
— Ray Subers (@raysubers) November 14, 2013
When pressed on how that was an oddly racist sentiment masquerading as an interrogative statement, Subers feigned ignorance, asking how that tweet could be seen as offensive. I pointed out that in 2004, there were three major holiday films all featuring big name actors and all-white casts/storylines—The Polar Express, Surviving Christmas, and Christmas With The Kranks—Subers only response was "I wasn't doing box office analysis in 2004." While his statements are surprising for a journalist (I mean, overkill, really?), he's unfortunately not alone. Despite stating that it should be unsurprising that black audiences enjoy the moviegoing experience, Scott Mendelson at Forbes ultimately chalks the success of Best Man Holiday up to a fad (emphasis mine).
On that note, Tim Story's Think Like A Man was a breath of fresh air last April, a genuine ensemble romantic comedy that happened to feature a most black cast without the Tyler Perry baggage. If Think Like A Man was The Ring, Malcolm D. Lee's The Best Man Holiday is The Grudge, the first major movie to capitalize on what Hollywood hopes may be a fad.
In the minds of critics like Subers and Mendelson, black films primarily only appeal to black audiences. And while that's not entirely untrue—Variety reports that 87 percent of the audience was black—no critic would call a Ryan Gosling-Rachel McAdams romance a "white film." In a year where three major Oscar contenders tell the story of black males: The Butler, Fruitvale Station, and 12 Years A Slave, the real shock isn't that a movie like The Best Man Holiday can be successful—it's that in this day and age, anyone is surprised at all.


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You are writing a prediction software program to see if the Houston Astros are going to win their game against the Texas Rangers. They will play nine innings. You need to simulate those innings. The Rangers are the away team and will bat first. Print out the ever innings results and the resulting score of the game.
How do I do that? Well, there are many cool ways to write a simulation program, but let's do a basic simulation:
Every time a team plays their inning they have a 50% chance of scoring, if they do score, then randomize a run score between 1 and 6. If they don't score, then give them a zero. Do this for each team in all nine innings. If the home team is winning in the bottom of the 9th inning, then they don't have to play.
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Thanks guys. --Ian--import java.util.Random; public class Predictions { public static void main(String[]args) { int innings=9; int totalast=(9*innings); int totalran= (9*innings); Predictions astros=new Predictions(); Predictions rangers=new Predictions(); astros.getRunCount(); rangers.getRunCount(); Random astros= new Random(); Random rangers=new Random(); int min=0; int max=6; for(int i=0;astros>=1;rangers>=1;i++) { System.out.println (astros: + :rangers); } } }


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8 Caesar Salads We Love in Chicago
For a time there, it felt like every restaurant was contractually obligated to serve a Caesar salad. But instead of a variety of interpretations, this overabundance only lead to mediocrity and a whole bunch of bland grilled chicken. This is an odd fate for such a truly dynamic salad, one that pairs crunchy lettuce with a dressing that is at once tart but also rich and complex.
Luckily, a new wave of restaurants have reclaimed the salad, lavishing attention on the once neglected dish. Some have stripped the salad to its essence, producing a salad that's light and vibrant, miles away from the clunky version found at most joints. Still others took the original and adapted to their own personal whims, transforming the Caesar salad while maintaining its essential character.
Check out some of the Caesar salads we love in Chicago by clicking through the slideshow. Of course, for such a ubiquitous dish, there was no way we could include them all. Notably, we decided not to dip our toes in the steakhouse genre, though we hope to remedy that soon.


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Sounds Modern, directed by new music guru Elizabeth McNutt, presents "At Home with the Modern" in celebration of the 10th anniversary of the Modern Art Museum building. The concert program reflects the curatorial sensibility of the Modern's current exhibition, tracing common threads through works of both modern masters (including Elliott Carter, one of our most beloved composers, who passed away last November) and younger innovators, and reveling in the discovery of new acquisitions in our repertoire. Admission is free.


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Music geeks know well the work of Roger Joseph Manning Jr. As a co-founding member of Jellyfish, he's easily granted himself a seat in the Power Pop Hall of Fame, while his growing list of session work with top-notch artists like Johnny Cash, Air and Morrissey has made him one of the most sought-after keyboardists working in music today. In between his hectic schedule, Manning somehow managed to finish a new solo album. Catnip Dynamite might have just been released, but its layered vocal harmonies, panoramic production sensibilities, and A.M.-radio-informed hooks have more in common with Jeff Lynne and Utopia than they do with anything you see covered in, say, "Pitchfork Media." Bullz-Eye had a chance to talk to Manning about the new album, Jellyfish, and even his thoughts on "American Idol."
Bullz-Eye: First off, listening to your solo work and the material you did with Jellyfish, it's obvious who a lot of your influences are. You can hear the melodic sensibilities of what a lot of people refer to now as "A.M. Gold" and really, anything with an emphasis on hooks. That said, when you were a kid, did you ever get into say, progressive rock or any non-pop informed stuff?
Roger Joseph Manning Jr: Oh, definitely. Back in high school I got into a lot of the old progressive rock groups. I also listened to a lot of Frank Zappa and all the fusion stuff like Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock. The really old be-bop music was also huge for me back then. I eventually got into punk and new wave, too. During those years I was open to everything and anything musically. My ears were always opened to hear something different. It was such a great time for that.
BE: Before Jellyfish even got signed, there was a huge buzz about you in Los Angeles even though it was still big for majors to sign the hair metal-type bands. Do you think the A&R guys gravitated towards you guys because you reminded them of a lot of those great '70's guitar pop bands they grew up on?
RJMJ: Without a doubt. We just represented a refreshing option to them at that time. They were around all of those kinds of bands you mentioned and they liked what we represented musically.
BE: Something more musical in a sense.
RJMJ: Absolutely. We were much more melodic and lyrical. Jellyfish also wasn't afraid to show our soft and vulnerable side in our songs. Of course the Beatles were like that, too. They heard something in our music that they thought could catch on and be sellable. We never became a cash cow or anything, but we had pop or commercial potential. But yeah, we also probably reminded them of the pop bands they liked from their childhood, too.
BE: You've done session work with a wide range of artists, from critic darlings to blockbuster acts. In the beginning, were you getting a lot of work because the bands or producers knew you from Jellyfish?
RJMJ: It all started out with the producer Jerry Finn, who sadly passed away last year. He started it, really. He was working with a band that were fans of Jellyfish, and they mentioned maybe asking me but they figured I would say no. Jerry convinced them that it didn't hurt to ask because the worst I could say was no.
BE: What was the name of that band?
RJMJ: They were called Coward and they had a deal with Elektra. They wrote some great songs, actually. But yeah, they asked me and I jumped onboard. The thing is bands were afraid to call me because they thought that I was too busy being in my own thing and figured I wouldn't be into doing session work, but I really wanted to. So from that point on, I've been busy doing that, and I did a lot of work with Jerry.
BE: I've seen your name in the credits for so many albums in the last decade. There's that older generation of studio guys like Benmont Tench, but then there's you and people like Justin Meldal-Johnsen who are kind of like the younger generation version of that.
RJMJ: Yeah, that's very true. I played on a lot of Beck sessions with him.
BE: I know you did a lot of stuff with Blink-182. I think Mark Hoppus and Tom DeLonge have a great sense of melody, especially on the material you worked on with them. Can you talk about how much involvement you had with the band on the arrangement side of things?
RJMJ: Before the band even started recording, I would sit there with Jerry Finn and fantasize about keyboard parts for the songs. We would try stuff out and see what kind of parts I might play. But once the band started recording and I would listen to the songs so many times, you really start seeing what works and what doesn't. Sometimes I would show them parts I wrote and they would think that it went too far into a certain direction or whatever. But there were also parts I came up with that they just left like I wrote them. So it all depended from song to song.
BE: Let's talk about Catnip Dynamite. I like to think of it like a great long-lost ELO record. It's the way an album should be made. It has a beginning, middle and end. There's a flow to it. I think a lot of the bands from my generation have lost the sense of that aspect to making albums.
RJMJ: Oh, wow! I love ELO, so thanks so much for that compliment. The sequencing was definitely important. I want the listener to go through the album and feel the complete experience of it. I want it to be like a rollercoaster ride, in a sense. But I couldn't really think of the sequencing until I finished fleshing out the songs and recording them. Then I sat back and figured out the best way to make everything flow in terms of the order. I didn't want there to be lulls and the songs had to go into each other well, so I'm really happy that you felt that way about the album.
BE: Now, this next question might piss you off a bit. I read that working with Beck taught you to be more spontaneous in the studio. But I have to be honest, these songs sound so immaculately put together. Everything from the vocals to the keyboards sound perfectly executed. Am I confusing what you meant by spontaneity?
RJMJ: No, I get what you're saying, and I take that too as a compliment. What I meant by that statement was that working with Beck taught me to trust my first instinct on an idea. They are usually the best ones to go with because it's from your gut. I also learned from working on those Beck records is that sometimes leaving those mistakes and little imperfections works. When you say that Catnip Dynamite doesn't sound spontaneous, it's because of the execution in the performances. But yeah, I understand what you mean and it was meant to sound like that, so thanks again.
BE: There are also some fantastic stand-alone songs on the album. If "Love's Never Half as Good" came out as a single in 1978, it would have been a smash. Did you go into writing that particular song with that kind of frame of mind?
RJMJ: Yes and no, actually. I grew up in that era so when I sit down to write a song, it just comes out like that. It's not something I have to really think about.
BE: So it's almost instinctual at this point?
RJMJ: It definitely is. I don't go into it thinking that I should write a '70s-sounding type of song because it's already part of me; stuff like ELO and Supertramp. Those are the kinds of songs that I love and that era is where I come from.
BE: Musically or lyrically?
RJMJ: Musically. In terms of the lyrics, anything goes.
BE: "Survival Machine" has a baroque feel in the instrumentation and arrangement. It reminded me of some of the Bee Gees stuff off of Odessa. Can you talk about that song?
RJMJ: I'm actually really into the Bee Gees and love everything from the early Beatles-sounding stuff to even the disco period. I don't really know too much about the records they did in the '80s, though. I like Odessa too, but I haven't heard it in a long time. Yes, "Survival Machine" has that kind of thing going on.
BE: It sounds like the kind of track that would be hard to pull off in a live setting.
RJMJ: Yeah, when I toured Japan last time we didn't attempt it. It would be too difficult anyway because of how high the vocals are, anyway. I'm glad you enjoyed it, though.
BE: "Tinsel Town" is a criticism about the disposable celebrity culture that Hollywood pushes out, and you even talk about "American Idol" in it. With that in mind, could you ever see yourself writing with someone like a Kelly Clarkson that came out of that machine?
RJMJ: You know, I've dabbled in that commercial pop world before. I find it extremely difficult. Guys like Max Martin do it so well. He takes the three-four chord kind of thing and gives it these huge productions. He does a great job at that, and I can appreciate it. I have respect for guys like that who do it so well.
BE: I think a lot of people would love to see someone with the musical reference points you have working with these younger pop singers.
RJMJ: The thing is that I speak another musical language altogether. When I get into a room for these kinds of sessions, it's like I'm speaking Spanish and they're speaking French. There are guys who go chasing those types of projects and there is a lot of hustling around trying to get the work. Luckily I don't have to put college money aside for my kids or anything like that so I don't have to try and get those gigs. Yeah, money is still important to me like anyone else, but it just doesn't feel right for me to go for those projects.
BE: Thanks for taking the time out to talk to us. I think the new album is some of your best material and hopefully people find out about it.
RJMJ: Thank you, Carlos. I hope so, too. In Japan we went with "Love's Never Half as Good" as a single because they're more open-minded over there, for some reason. They dig the rockers but love the softer songs, too. It's just not like that over here, so we went with "Down in Front" as the focus track since it's more up-tempo, like Cheap Trick. You only get one chance here to get the public's attention.
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In the wake of extreme drought in much of the United States, widespread wildfires in the U.S. west and now Hurricane Sandy, Barack Obama's and Mitt Romney's refusal to discuss human-induced climate change will undoubtedly go down as political recklessness of historic proportions.
In the wake of extreme drought in much of the United States, widespread wildfires in the U.S. west and now Hurricane Sandy, Barack Obama's and Mitt Romney's refusal to discuss human-induced climate change will undoubtedly go down as political recklessness of historic proportions.
That "climate silence" reigned throughout the presidential campaign and in the face of multifaceted devastation fueled by a warming planet is only somewhat surprising. A political system dominated by moneyed interests and an associated Democrat-Republican duopoly greatly limits the emergence of alternative voices needed to address systemic crisis. Thus, even when global warming is discussed in Washington circles, it results in little.
Compounding the inertia is an inability to ask hard questions about much of what underlies the enormous U.S. contribution to the climate crisis: a profit-driven economic system that demands and necessitates endless growth, a global U.S. military presence that helps facilitate it and the ecologically rapacious consumption it entails.
Clearly, we cannot expect leadership for far-reaching change to emerge on its own from the ranks of those with a deep stake in maintaining the overall status quo. The necessary push will have to come from below.
This is evidenced by what we are largely getting from prominent Democrats and Republicans with Sandy's destruction still palpable: stern-faced promises to "rebuild" and "return to normal" when what is needed is fundamentally different.
Climate science indicates that we need a radical decrease in greenhouse gas emissions within a few decades — around 90 percent over present levels — to maintain a semblance of ecological stability. Against such benchmarks, the Obama administration's initiatives thus far, such as higher car and truck emissions standards, are woefully inadequate — especially given its embrace of expanded hydro-fracking and coal mining and Arctic oil drilling.
Nonetheless, with less than 5 percent of the planet's population, but responsible for almost one quarter of the world's present fossil fuel use (and a far greater share historically), the United States has a moral and political obligation to take the lead in making far-reaching reductions.
In addition to ending U.S. stonewalling of international climate negotiations, true leadership would implement large-scale infrastructural changes in favor of mass public transit, bike-friendly cities and towns, and long-distance trains. Concurrently, it would work to significantly reduce private automobile usage and air travel — the most ecologically destructive act of consumption one can undertake.
Heeding environmental justice organizations abroad and in the United States, such as the Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, it would end exploration of carbon-based fuels and work to keep them in the ground, while stymieing other high-risk and health-damaging forms of energy such as nuclear.
Moreover, it would support development of community-controlled renewable energy sources, and establish mechanisms to protect localities and workers as they transition from dependence on dirty industries.
It would strive for a drastically downsized U.S. military, the planet's number one institutional greenhouse gas producer. It would thus weaken the justification for the Pentagon's gargantuan size and perpetual growth, given that a central U.S. military goal is to ensure the smooth, global flow of oil.
Meaningful leadership would seek to impose a high tax on carbon, while providing financial support for those on the socio-economic ladder's lower rungs to cushion any resulting hardships.
It would facilitate widespread local food production and ecological remediation. It would also encourage simple living, urging people to reduce their wants, to slow down, to consume less and to share and support one another, while helping them find ways to do so.
Fortunately, there are climate justice organizations working to bring about such changes and to guide by example. For everyone's well-being, they need to be supported, grown and replicated so as to increase pressure on the country's ruling class. Only then, as an old adage suggests, will the leaders follow.


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Since the 1970s the White Planter has carved its own niche in the seeding market with its positive-pressure air system. For the 2014 planting season the company is rolling out the 9000-Series row unit and will offer is first-ever center-fill 12-row, 30-inch machine.
The rollout that occurred April 10 had two parts - first was the new planter row unit which will be part of the entire 9000-Series line in 2014. Second, is the 9812 narrow-transport planter that brings together a range of features and innovations for the market.
Tom Draper, product marketing manager, seeding and tillage, AGCO, notes that White planters started in the past with three simple principles - accuracy, simplicity and reliability. "Simplicity was important and we have fewer moving parts," he notes. Key to that is a design that uses positive air pressure to "push" the seed into the singulation plate rather than "pull" it in with a vacuum - a feature that has been a hallmark of White Planters.
He notes that the 2013 9000-Series rollout rests on the same three principles today, which is typified by the row unit's redesign that uses few parts and requires much less field service to maintain uptime. That was important as Bob Boelson, senior product marketing specialist noted: "What's an hour to a farmer at planting time? It's a life-time especially if he's trying to plant and rain is coming," he notes.
The first eight images in this gallery take a look at the new row unit, which is the first significant upgrade for the White planter since 2000. The row unit will be part of every White Planter in 2014 and will create a range of 9000-Series machines. As Boelson explains: "The row unit gives the planter its model designation, so in 2014 all White Planters become 9000-Series machines with the new 9000-Series row unit."
The rest of the gallery is a look at that first-ever 12-row, center-fill planter - the 9812 - which features a narrow transport design. For AGCO, narrow transport is defined as 12-feet. Beyond being easy to move around, this new planter picks up a range of features from bigger planters and brings them to the 12-row class. For more information about the White Planter series, which will be sold by both Massey Ferguson and Challenger dealers, call 877/525-4384 or visit www.white-planters.com.
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2020 Dove Award Nominee: Contemporary Christian Artist of the YearThis re-work of 2018 favorite The Elements finds tobyMac joining with featured artists Bart Millard, Crowder, Jen Ledger, Cory Asbury, and others for a reimagined version of his latest bestseller. The St. Nemele Collab Sessions also includes new song "Heart Of My Beat" alongside fresh versions of "I just need U," "Horizon (A New Day)," "Hello Future," and more.
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- Publisher: Forefront
- Release Date: September 27, 2019
- Language: English
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- Height: 0.40 inches
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Bradfield Senior College
Since 2004 I have met friends on the blogging website LiveJournal.com. Recently I have realised our futures are headed into a world of multiple, fabricated identities. Through my collection of images and text from LiveJournal I reflect on identities, how we create a representation of ourselves choosing particular images and moments to show the world. Choosing a book format, I symbolised how posting on the internet is essentially publishing words and photos publicly. The book is split into two, allowing the audience to mix visual and textual identities creating new personas representing how easily identities are created on the Internet.
Alexa Kapust examines the concept of communication and identity through the internet. Her work defines identity online as something one can curate and manipulate. Considering Kapust's art practice, define the nature of identity and its role in reflecting the truth. What is it that defines truth when it comes to being yourself?
Discuss the use of new technologies in art making practice. Taking into account the art practice of Yasumasa Morimura, Kurt Schwitters and Kapust, explore the significance of new materials and techniques and the impact they have made on contemporary art. How has each artist pushed the boundaries through their art making practice?
Analyse the impact of imagery and text in society and the art world. Researching the art practice of Morimura, Schwitters and Kapust, investigate the many roles that images play. Does an image speak louder than words? Can text be defined as a form of visual language? Respond to these ideas and develop a case study based on your considerations.


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ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) Here's one that won't come as a surprise: Peyton Manning writes down his New Year's resolutions on index cards.
``My dad, since I was a kid, he's been telling us, `Write them down,''' Manning said.
Though he refused to divulge what's on those cards, or what his lifetime success rate has been with those resolutions, he hasn't left much doubt about what his day-to-day goals on the football field were for 2012, the year of his comeback.
Work hard. Improve. Keep building chemistry.
Those are the only ways to get to the ultimate goal - winning the Super Bowl, which is something Manning and the Denver Broncos are now favored to do.
Yet to hear Manning tell it, even if the Broncos do win it all, there will still be room for improvement - quite a tall task for a quarterback who compiled some of the best numbers of his career and a team that finished tied for the league's best record at 13-3.
``I'm not sure you can do it all in one season,'' Manning said Wednesday, after the Broncos, the AFC's top-seeded team, practiced for the first time during their bye week. ``I think we've done a good job of being the best that we possibly can in this short period of time.''
What began as a season of mystery for Manning - How would his body react after missing more than a year with the neck injury? How would his new teammates respond to him? - has turned into one of his very best campaigns.
He threw 400 completions for 4,659 yards and 37 touchdowns, completed 68.6 percent of his passes and finished with a 105.8 passer rating - all franchise records and ranked second best of the 14 years he's played in the NFL.
He is in the mix for his fifth Most Valuable Player award, votes for which are being counted this week. On Wednesday, he received his second AFC offensive player of the week honor this year. It marked the 23rd time he's received that over his career, tied with Tom Brady for most ever.
``To be able to come out and participate like he's done, to be one of the top quarterbacks in the league, it's unbelievable,'' receiver Demaryius Thomas said. ``He had an injury that not many people come back from.''
His latest award came on the strength of a 23-for-29, 304-yard, three-touchdown game against Kansas City on Sunday. The highlights were his touchdowns to Eric Decker and Thomas, who stretched out (in Decker's case) or up (in Thomas' case) to make one-handed grabs on balls Manning put in places where only they, and not the defensive backs covering them, could catch them.
Were they passes he would've thrown to those receivers in Week 1?
``Probably would have thrown them earlier, not sure if we would've completed them,'' Manning said. ``It's hard to say. But there's no question, it would be just downright disappointing if we had not improved throughout the season.''
Manning, however, doesn't judge improvement simply on completions or any other numbers on the stat sheet.
It's a much more intangible thing to him.
Take the touchdowns against Kansas City. Manning said neither he nor the receivers had seen the kind of coverage the Chiefs were in on those plays until Sunday, the last week of the NFL season. The next time they see it, though, they'll have a readymade reference point.
``So if you play together long enough, then you can say, `Hey, remember Kansas City in 2012? Remember that? Oh, yeah,''' Manning said. ``I'm not going to have that much eligibility to be able to refer back too long, but those guys certainly will. It's been kind of like cramming for a test and I think both of those guys have put in the time to cram and we've really worked hard in the short time we've had together.''
In fact, it's the chemistry he's built with Thomas, Decker and the rest of the receivers that Manning lists as one of his most pleasant surprises this season.
``The rapport with the receivers has come probably quicker than I thought,'' he said. ``I really didn't know on some of the timing routes, some of the adjustments and things.''
It's not to say flaws don't exist, but ``I don't think it makes any sense to reveal those things with a game coming up.''
Indeed, it's now time to make the best of the hand they've got.
In Denver's case, it's a pretty good hand.
``There are still things that I wish would be better and I think you kind of have to pick and choose your battles,'' Manning said. ``It's, `Hey, we've only had 16 games together, we're not going to be able to fix that. But let's try to get really good at this. Let's be as good as we can at that.' Some things just take time.''
Notes: Broncos offensive coordinator Mike McCoy will have three interviews this weekend for vacant head-coaching positions - with Arizona, Buffalo and Chicago. The interviews will take place in Denver. ... Executive vice president of football operations John Elway denied the Chargers an opportunity to interview player personnel director Matt Russell for its vacant GM position. ... Though he wasn't required to give an injury report, Broncos coach John Fox said KR Trindon Holliday (ankle) was making progress. ``I think Trindon will be able to go next Saturday,'' Fox said. ... The Broncos are 0-1 vs. Baltimore in the postseason and 0-2 vs. Indianapolis, though both those games came when Manning was with the Colts. The Broncos and Bengals have never met in the playoffs.
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In June 1972, NASA's Langley Research Center (LaRC) in Hampton, Virginia, hired Martin Marietta Corporation to look at using spacecraft based on the planned Viking Mars Lander and Orbiter designs to explore the martian moons Phobos and Deimos. LaRC managed Project Viking, which aimed to launch two Lander/Orbiter combinations toward Mars in 1975, while Martin Marietta was prime contractor for the Viking Lander. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, built the Mariner-based Viking Orbiter.
Viking was the stepchild of the Voyager Program, first proposed by JPL in 1960. Voyager, which had as its major goal the discovery and detailed study of life on Mars, had suffered from management ineptitude, turf battles, schedule slips, a comprehensive redesign (and attendant cost increase) brought on by new Mars data from the Mariner IV flyby mission, and too close an association with NASA Office of Manned Space Flight plans for Apollo-derived piloted Mars/Venus flyby missions.
In an unusual move, top NASA officials met with leaders of Congress shortly after Voyager's cancellation in August 1967 to seek funding for a replacement. The latter agreed to fund Viking starting in Fiscal Year 1969, which began on 1 October 1968. Like Voyager, Viking would seek life on Mars. Congressional leaders also agreed to fund a pair of Mariner Mars orbiters that would launch in 1971.
Mariner Mars 1971, Viking, and the proposed Viking-based Phobos/Deimos missions were all in part a response to declared Soviet space plans. As NASA astronauts explored the moon, the Soviet Union proclaimed to the world that they never meant to accomplish the same feat; that they had in fact opted for robots because they would not place human lives at risk. They pointed to their robotic Luna moon sample-returners and Lunokhod 1 moon rover when they claimed that they would soon dispatch robot orbiters, landers, sample-returners, and rovers throughout the Solar System.
The Mariner VII spacecraft glimpsed Phobos during its fast Mars flyby in 1969, and the Mariner 9 orbiter returned the first clear images of both martian moons in November 1971, while Martin Marietta's study was underway. Mariner 8, Mariner 9's twin and planned fellow traveller, had fallen into the Atlantic Ocean north of Puerto Rico after the failure of its Centaur upper stage on 9 May 1971.
Phobos and Deimos were the first non-spherical Solar System bodies humankind examined close up. They revolve about Mars in circular equatorial orbits. Phobos completes one orbit in about 7.5 hours at an altitude of about 5980 kilometers, while Deimos orbits in about 30 hours at 20,070 kilometers. Phobos measures 21 kilometers by 25 kilometers, and Deimos is about half as large. Small size means low gravity; Phobos has only about 0.1% as much surface gravity as does Earth. Setting down on Phobos or Deimos is more like docking than landing.
LaRC directed Martin Marietta to assume that its Viking-based Phobos/Deimos missions would depart Earth in the 1979 and 1981 Earth-Mars minimum-energy transfer opportunities. The study report described several Phobos/Deimos spacecraft designs.
The first, the baseline Phobos/Deimos landing spacecraft, would comprise a heavily modified Viking Lander and a Viking Orbiter with tanks carrying 38% more propellants than the Viking 1975 design (Martin Marietta called this a "38% Stretch Orbiter"). Mass at Earth-orbit departure would total about 3600 kilograms during the 1979 minimum-energy Earth-Mars transfer opportunity. The Lander would account for 482 kilograms of that mass.
Upon arrival at Mars, the Orbiter would fire its rocket motor to slow down and place itself and the attached Mars moon Lander into an elliptical, equatorial "capture orbit" about the planet. The spacecraft would then maneuver into an elliptical, 15-hour "observation orbit." The apoapsis (high point) of this orbit would reach the orbit of Deimos, while its periapsis (low point) would dip inside the orbit of Phobos.
The spacecraft would repeatedly fly past both moons, gathering data at each encounter so that scientists on Earth could decide which moon most warranted in-depth exploration. Controllers would then command the spacecraft to match orbits with the moon selected.
The Lander would separate from the Orbiter and move toward its target using Viking Lander attitude-control thrusters. It would set down gently on three spidery legs and deploy 82 kilograms of instruments, including a seismometer, a surface sample auger, and a boom-mounted camera. The Lander would be able to hop across the surface in the weak gravity by briefly firing its thrusters; an alternate mobility scheme would employ spindly umbrella-shaped wheels at the ends of the landing legs.
Martin Marietta proposed an alternate baseline mission in which the Viking Orbiter would land on the target moon. This more efficient "landed orbiter" scenario could land about 500 kilograms of science instruments, the company estimated. Total cost for a baseline Phobos/Deimos landing mission would come to $324 million.
The company targeted its second design, the baseline Phobos/Deimos sample-return spacecraft, for launch in 1981 "to allow more time for additional mission design and hardware development." The sample-return mission would build on experience gained in the 1979 landing mission. Its 3374-kilogram spacecraft would consist of a 38% Stretch Viking Orbiter with four legs and a 260-kilogram drum-shaped Earth-return vehicle based on a proposed Venus Pioneer spacecraft design.
The Orbiter would land on the target moon, collect a two-kilogram sample, and transfer it to a sample-return capsule inside the Earth-return vehicle. The Earth-return vehicle would then fire its rocket to separate from the landed Orbiter and maneuver into a 1500-kilometer-by-95,000-kilometer Mars orbit. There it would trim its orbital plane so the subsequent Mars departure maneuver could place it on course for Earth.
Near Earth, the saucer-shaped sample-return capsule would separate from the Earth-return vehicle. It would enter Earth's atmosphere at up to 12.8 kilometers per second, slow to subsonic speed, deploy a parachute, and lower to a soft landing. The baseline sample-return mission would cost a total of $446 million.
Martin Marietta's third design, the baseline combined Phobos/Deimos landing and Mars landing spacecraft, would comprise a minimally modified Viking Lander and a 26% Stretch Viking Orbiter. Total weight at Earth-orbit departure would come to 4150 kilograms in 1979.
For this "Mars + Phobos/Deimos landing" mission, the Orbiter would fire its rocket to place itself and the Viking Lander into an elliptical equatorial capture orbit about Mars requiring 97 hours to complete, then would release the lander. De-orbiting from the capture orbit would impose restrictions on the Lander - it would be able to set down only within a latitude band extending 12° north and 12° south of Mars's equator and would need a beefed-up heat shield to withstand a greater Mars atmosphere entry velocity.
The Orbiter would then maneuver to a 15-hour observation orbit, match orbits with either Phobos or Deimos, and land bearing 62 kilograms of science instruments. The baseline combined mission would cost a total of $441 million.
Martin Marietta also considered "Mars + Phobos/Deimos observation orbit," "Mars + Phobos/Deimos rendezvous," and "Mars + Phobos/Deimos sample-return" missions. Its "Mars +" missions would, the company estimated, be more cost-effective than Phobos/Deimos missions without Mars landings. A separate Phobos/Deimos landing mission would, for example, cost 80% as much as a Mars landing mission, while a "Mars + Phobos/Deimos landing" mission would cost only 14% more than a Mars landing mission.
Martin Marietta then looked at whether sufficient interest existed in the planetary science community to justify missions to the martian moons. The company found that there were "no active and forceful champions" of Phobos/Deimos exploration. It added, however, that it had
repeatedly found easily excited curiosity and conjecturing among space scientists about the origin and nature of these tiny bodies. This undercurrent of scientific interest, which has been given impetus by the recent returns of Mariner 9, may be the forerunner of well defined and enthusiastically supported recommendations for exploring the moons of Mars. If this is the case, NASA's decision to conduct this study may prove to be a very timely one.
Viking 1 left Earth atop a Titan III-E rocket with a Centaur upper stage on 20 August 1975. Viking 2 launched on 9 September 1975. The twin two-part spacecraft entered Mars orbit on 19 June 1976, and 7 August 1976, respectively. The Viking 1 Lander separated from its Orbiter and touched down successfully on 20 July 1976; Viking 2's Lander followed on 3 September 1976. While the Landers operated on the surface, the Orbiters imaged Mars and its satellites. On 15 October 1977, the Viking 2 Orbiter passed just 30 kilometers from Deimos (image at bottom of post).
NASA supported studies of a Viking-derived moon lander, a Viking 1979 Mars rover mission, and other Viking derivatives, but the U.S. opted not to fund new missions based on Viking technology. Much like the $25-billion Apollo Program, Viking - which had cost over $1 billion in 1975 dollars (close to $5 billion in 2013 dollars) - was retired with its potential barely exploited. This occurred because the Soviet Union did not keep its promise to explore the Solar System, because NASA's budget shrank to half its Apollo-era value, and because public interest slumped after the Viking search for life on Mars returned equivocal results. The U.S. would launch no new spacecraft toward Mars until 1992, two decades after Martin Marietta completed its study.
A Study of System Requirements for Phobos/Deimos Mission, Final Report, Volume I, Summary, Martin Marietta Corporation, June 1972.


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Moving Up
Matt Flynn, Packers
Flynn took over for an overmatched Scott Tolzien this week and played reasonably well (218 yards and a touchdown in two and a half quarters of playing time) given the conditions. With the Lions and their less then stellar secondary on tap for Thanksgiving Day, Flynn figures to get the start. In fact, he could get several, with no definitive word on when Aaron Rodgers will return to the lineup.
Alex Smith, Chiefs
With the Chiefs suddenly struggling (or just not getting to face subpar quarterbacks every week), Andy Reid has gone pass happy, with Smith attempting 83 passes over the last two weeks. And Smith has been effective in those games, throwing for 524 yards and five touchdowns with just one interception. Up next are three defensive secondaries ranked 24th or lower (Broncos, Redskins, Raiders).
Philip Rivers, Chargers
After a five game run of decent but unspectacular performances, Rivers turned it up a notch this week against the Chiefs, with 392 passing yards and three touchdowns. With Ryan Mathews out, the Chargers figure to turn to the passing offense more, and Rivers seems to be getting hot again at the right time, with 700 passing yards through his last two games. A tough match up against the Bengals awaits, but that is followed by some easy pickings in the form of the Giants, Broncos and Raiders.
Moving Down
Andrew Luck, Colts
Removing some garbage time production during the Rams game in Week 10, Luck has been entirely underwhelming in the Colts' last three games, with a pair of touchdowns and four interceptions. His fantasy points during that three game stretch were padded with some rushing production (79 yards and a score), but his production through the air when games are in doubt has suffered with Reggie Wayne out of the lineup. Don't expect that to change over the next three weeks as Indy faces passing defenses ranked eighth or better.
Running Backs
Moving Up
Montee Ball, Ronnie Hillman, C.J. Anderson, Broncos
Knowshon Moreno is in a walking boot with a deep bone bruise, but the truth of the matter is that Ball and Hillman have been injury-prone and unproductive while Anderson clearly isn't ready for prime time.
Lamar Miller, Dolphins
It's a similar story for Miller, who figures to see an increased workload with Daniel Thomas likely out for the year with a torn ligament in his ankle. The truth is that with just 95 yards on 29 touches over his last three games, Miller would be Moving Down if not for Thomas's injury situation.
Danny Woodhead, Chargers
Woodhead is another player who will benefit due to injury, with Ryan Mathews likely out with a hamstring problem. But Woodhead really isn't built to handle many more touches than the 11.7 per game he currently is getting.
Benny Cunningham, Rams
Because of a Zac Stacy concussion, Cunningham took over as the Rams' lead back early in the second half against the Bears and finished with the first 100-yard game of his career. While the holes he ran through against an injury-ravaged Chicago defense were large, Cunningham's 13-carry, 109-yard, one-touchdown performance was impressive nonetheless. He is a must-add in all formats.
Chris Ogbonnaya, Willis McGahee, Browns
A little look-see at the Bears' upcoming schedule tells us these are the only running backs who you might be able to grab on the wire to exploit Chicago's defense. Yeah, it was that bad on Sunday.
Moving Down
Stevan Ridley, Patriots
Another day, another fumble. Ridley coughed up his fourth lost fumble of the season this week against the Broncos and spent the rest of the night nailed to the bench. The only saving grace for Ridley is that LeGarrette Blount also fumbled—although that positive is somewhat negated by Brandon Bolden's strong performance.
Ben Tate, Texans
Benched in favor of 5-foot-7, 195-pound Dennis Johnson. Wow.
With all of the injured players noted above, fantasy owners will have some tough decisions on their hands this week.
Wide Receivers
Moving Up
Antonio Brown, Steelers
When you torch the Browns' Joe Haden for six receptions, 92 yards and a score, there is no doubt that you're Moving Up. The score gives Brown a career-high six touchdowns this season, and it might surprise some that he leads the league in receptions with 80. Turns out the Steelers made the right move in deciding to retain Brown over the speedy Mike Wallace.
Josh Gordon, Browns
After his 14-reception, 237-yard, one-touchdown performance this week, Gordon now has 54 receptions for 988 yards and five touchdowns in just nine games. Extrapolating that over 16 games gives you 96 receptions for 1,756 yards and 8.9 touchdowns. Since that's a lot of numbers in just two sentences, I'll sum up what it means for fantasy owners: upper-tier WR1 in 2014.
Justin Hunter, Titans
This one's a lukewarm endorsement since Hunter was targeted once in Week 11 while averaging 6.5 targets in Weeks 10 and 12. However, he looked solid this week against the Raiders, catching all six of his looks for 109 yards and a score. Ryan Fitzpatrick is a check-down artist but he might be receiving marching orders to get Hunter more involved.
Michael Crabtree, 49ers
Likely to be activated and available for the 49ers' Week 13 matchup against the Rams.
Moving Down
Danny Amendola, Patriots
When Amendola returned to the lineup in Week 5 and was targeted nine times, it appeared that he would be a huge part of New England's offense. In the five games since then, he has been targeted only 27 times, and since he rarely finds the end zone (eight touchdowns in 49 career games), that isn't enough to warrant WR3 status.
Cecil Shorts, Jaguars
After finding the end zone seven times in 14 games last season, the big plays have dried up for Shorts, who has just one touchdown in 11 games this season. Worse than that is that he's gone stone cold with fantasy playoffs approaching, hauling in just 12 receptions for 135 yards in his last three games and failing to find the end zone in his last six.
DeAndre Hopkins, Texans
The rookie first-round pick followed up his one-reception, seven-yard performance against the Raiders with a one-reception, eight-yard performance against the Jaguars. Hey, I guess I can't say he didn't improve.
Tight Ends
Moving Up
Rob Gronkowski, Patriots
While his stat line wasn't outstanding (seven receptions for 90 yards and a touchdown on 10 targets), he looked the Gronk of old. Or a healthy Gronk. You know what I mean. His owners have been waiting, and he seems ready to explode over the last five games of the season.
Jacob Tamme, Broncos
Since Julius Thomas tried to give it a go this week but wasn't successful, I expect him to be ready next week. But if not, it is worth noting that Tamme was extremely effective this week, catching all five of his targets for 47 yards and a score.
Moving Down
Antonio Gates, Chargers
It appears as though Gates' 33-year-old legs are wearing down as the season comes to a close. He has just one touchdown in his last seven games and has topped 53 receiving yards just twice during that stretch.


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Teeth Whitening Redditch
Laser teeth whitening is a process that has various steps. The first step in laser teeth whitening is the consultation process . Sometimes it is good to see your dentist first and remove any plaque. The plaque is caused by bacteria in the teeth. It is believed to be a kind of self defense mechanism for the teeth. When the plaque has formed in large amount, it makes the teeth appear yellow near the gums.
The whitening technician who is responsible for laser teeth whitening is there to help you with understanding the whitening process and help you understand the teeth whitening. The plaque is not removed using the laser technique that is used to whiten the teeth. It is removed using the regular plaque removal methods that dentists use. Removal of plaque is therefore very important in ensuring that the end results of laser teeth whitening are good. When plaque is removed, the technician can be sure that they have taken care of all the stains on the teeth including those that may go unnoticed if the plaque in your teeth had not fully developed to the point that it's visible to the eye.
Once the plaque has been removed, the laser teeth whitening procedure is ready to begin. The technician will apply some whitening gel on your teeth. The peroxide gel used for laser teeth whitening is a safe and approved non peroxide gel. The importance of the non peroxide gel is that is acts as the whitening agent that is responsible of removing the stains on your teeth to make the teeth white. Before the gel is applied onto the teeth, the technician must ensure that the gums are protected. This is because the whitening should not come into contact with the gums. Therefore, the whitening expert will cover your gums with a protective dam. Once he has ensured that the gums are completely protected, this is when they apply the gel to the teeth. Each tooth must receive adequate amount of the gel in order to ensure great end results. This is repeated several times until the teeth have changed in colour typically 40-50 minutes.
- Whitened teeth act as a boost to your overall health and boost self esteem.
- You end up developing more confidence not only in your smile, but also your overall confidence level grows and you end up smiling more.
- With high confidence, you will have higher self esteem too, which is necessary for your overall psychological health.
- Whiter teeth will make you feel far much better about your appearance and make you look younger.
- In addition, it eliminates all the stains in your teeth making your teeth free from bacterial and other germs that lead to teeth and gum problems.
- When all the stains that result from drinking wine, coffee, soda and smoking are removed you will also reduce the risk of having odor in your mouth which can be problematic for you, but also to other people around you.
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Laser Teeth Whitening Redditch
Everyone wants that perfect smile the one movie stars have given you the perfect confidence as you walk up to anyone. We all know they weren't born with them! They get laser teeth whitening. Isn't it time that you start taking care the way you look by having a smile that looks just as good as your favourite movie stars?
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Just imagine the confidence you'll have not ever had to hide your smile from other individuals thinking they can see your discoloured yellow teeth. You can achieve this by just simply getting laser whitening Redditch. It is a quick and very efficient way to a new you in just one hour.
Laser whitening is when a whitening consultant administers a solution on your teeth that responds to the laser light. This procedure eliminates the stains on your teeth that have accumulated over the years.
Some consultants recommend more than one whitening session for best results. Typically you will see the results after one session, but going back for two or three follow-up sessions will maximise your results.
Our method will eliminate most unwanted stains by choosing laser whitening for your teeth. The treatment is simple. A solution is applied to your teeth where a strong light will be aimed at your teeth, which will give them their natural colour. The laser light boosts the penetration of the solution that is applied, eliminating stains that are accumulated from food, nicotine, and coffee over the years.
Another good quality the laser has is that it can isolate one tooth at a time, relying on the type of laser used. This is quite helpful when one tooth is more discoloured than the surrounding teeth. Imagine just in one hour your teeth will have the shade that will give you exactly what you've been looking for by choosing the Laser Whitening method.
If you're looking for an effective and quick way to whiten your teeth than other methods, choosing laser whitening will give you the best results your teeth deserve.
A good thing with laser whitening is you won't have the uncomfortable feeling of using mouth trays and whitening strips to get whiter teeth. Laser whitening is also suggested to people who have sensitive teeth. You don't need to feel uncomfortable or in pain to get a beautiful smile.
Milky white teeth are very popular and used by many individuals. Resulting with whiter teeth is not difficult choosing the Laser whitening procedure; this non-invasive whitening system is capable of lightening your teeth up to 10 shades on the vita shade guide giving you a beautiful younger look with your whiter smile.
Laser treatments use only the latest in technology and best peroxide-free whitening gels. This will provide you excellent results and will not cost you as much as at a dentist's office. We offer our service in the comfort of your home at your convenience. We will give you professional results by a complete teeth whitening consultants, trained in all forms of laser teeth whitening in Redditch.
This method of whitening your teeth is considered safe and also pain-free which will not damage your gums and teeth. We use only the mildest and most adequate gels to whiten your teeth, combined with laser whitening, is guaranteed to remove the most stubborn stains giving you the best results. Everyone wants white teeth. Why not experience this in the comfort of your home if you live in Redditch
Your Alternatives:
The crest brand is a name we all know and trust. They've been making our toothpaste ever since we were kids. Crest makes "tooth whitening strips" that are cheap and easy to use, and can get you the white smile you want. They are tiny strips coated with teeth whitening agents. You simply put them on and wear them around for a while each night. That's all there is to it, and pretty soon your smile starts to get whiter.
Some folks have complained that the Crest whitening strips don't quite whiten teeth as professional dentists job can, but then again it all depends on how much you are willing to spend for that beautiful smile.
Crest whitening strips are safe to use. And they are much more cost-effective than you visiting a professional dentist Redditch.
Great results are achievable because Crest White strips contain components applied by a dentist for professional bleaching of teeth.
Bleaching trays:
Dentists bleaching trays work in the same way as many home teeth whitening kits. It comes with a tray and a specially formulated gel. You put the gel into the tray, put the tray in your mouth, bite down and hold it there. The gel works its magic, and in a few days, you start seeing whiter teeth.
This method is a little less convenient than the strips since you have to hold a tray in your mouth for a while, but the results are better.
This involves the dentist making a mould of your mouth and then crafting little plastic trays that fit tightly over your top and bottom teeth. You'll often go for your first appointment where they'll put the mould in your mouth, then come back a week later to pick up the trays.
This teeth whitening bleaching system usually takes about two months to finish and requires you to purchase a teeth-bleaching gel. Fill the trays with the gel and then wear them for 2 hours 1-2 times a day for the next eight weeks.
Teeth whitening is gradual, but the effects are noticeable if you stick with the routine and avoid foods and drinks that can further stain your teeth.
It can be painful. The bleaching gel can make your teeth much more sensitive to hot and cold foods and drinks. It can also be frustrating since you won't be able to eat or drink anything besides water while the trays are in.
Zoom Whitening Redditch:
Zoom whitening Redditch is a popular and effective way to whiten your teeth. Many people have improved their appearance removing unwanted stains by using this whitening system.
In just one hour you'll recover your beautiful smile. It provides long lasting results in so little time. A hydrogen gel is applied on your teeth while a laser beam is used to whiten your teeth. The laser can remove the stains lightening the colour of your teeth to shade as much as six shades lighter.
Whiten your smile by choosing Laser Whitening Redditch and enjoy the new you. If you're inquiring about the price, we offer affordable prices to satisfy everyone's needs. Each option varies depending on your budget. Whichever whitening process you choose you will have outstanding results. Laser Whitening is for everyone that is looking to improve his or her smile.
Poor dental hygiene can result in gum disease, which accumulates from the build-up of bacteria and tartar in the mouth. Maintaining a good and effective teeth-cleaning regime at home is vitally important here to prevent or reverse the disease, which can also lead to tooth loss.
Remember to care for your teeth after you have done a Laser whitening procedure. Flossing and brushing regularly will keep your teeth looking bright and healthy.
What will you benefit at Aspire White Redditch?
You can achieve beautiful teeth in the comfort of your home. Our whitening consults are ready to come to you either in the comfort of your home or office and give your teeth the attention they need.
Our affordable prices will give you the results you're looking for in achieving white teeth using the Laser Teeth Whitening system. We provide results just as if you were at your dentist with the exception that we come to your home.
In just one hour you will feel and look your best. We use safe products on your teeth to give you the best results. If you're inquiring about a teeth whitening treatment one that works, just contact us here ate Aspire White and allowed us to give your teeth the attention they need.
We offer mobile visits to your home to make it even easier for you. Our dedicated professionals will give you the assistance you need. Our quick and affordable service is not only the best but also a guaranteed service that will give you with your movie star smile.
Why do people choose Aspire White?
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I don't know how else to describe this ice cream, but other than decadent goodness (with not as much fat as you might think!) Also it's not that difficult to make and its definitely a crowd pleaser. I made it for Thanksgiving to accompany our Pecan and Pumpkin pies and it was heavenly.
Creamy dulce de leche flavored ice creamed dripping with thick, caramel colored fresh dulce de leche- what could be better! Plus, you can make a huge batch and store it in the freezer! Yummy! I eat mine topped with raspberries, blackberries or strawberries. Also a scoop of this decadence tastes delicious in some homemade Iced Coffee Frappacino!
Furthermore, traditional Dulce De Leche ice cream is made with egg yolks for that custardy and creamy texture. However, I found my EGGLESS recipe to be just as good and creamy and HEALTHY (well healthier!). Anyways on to the scrumptious, creamy, amazing goodness of Homemade Dulce De Leche Ice Cream:
Ice Cream:
- 1 cup heavy cream (yes I know, not healthy but this is the fattiest portion of the dish, and it makes about 3-4 cups of ice cream!)
- 1 cup milk (I used skim plus)
- 1 cup fatfree half & half (I used Land-o-Lakes Brand)
- 4 tbsp sugar
- 1 cup Homemade Dulce de Leche (Recipe BELOW)
1. In a heavy, large sauce pan heat together the heavy cream, milk and half & half over medium heat. Whisk int he sugar to dissolve. Once the mixture comes to a boil, remove from the heat and stir in 3/4 of the Dulce de Leche.
2. Cool COMPLETELY in the fridge for at least 2 hours. Don't make the mistake of cooling over an ice bath and popping it into the ice cream maker- it won't churn properly! (Trust me I've done it before).
3. Once cooled, prepare in your ice cream maker as the instructions state in the manual.
Towards the end, right before the ice cream is thick enough to your desired texture, drizzle in remaining dulce de leche to create swirls-
yes I was drooling at this point. Transfer to an air tight container and chill in the freezer until ready to serve.
Makes about 4 cups
Homemade Dulce De Leche:
- 2 cups milk (I used skim plus)
- 2 cups fatfree half & half (I used Land-o-Lakes Brand)
- 1 vanilla bean- split with the seeds scraped out.
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
See all those specs of Vanilla Beans.. YUM..
1. In a large heavy pot pour the milk, half & half, sugar and vanilla bean & seeds and heat over medium heat. Bring to a simmer, stirring occasionally until the sugar is dissolved. You do NOT want to BOIL the mixture!
2. Once the sugar is dissolved add the baking soda and stir. Lower heat to LOW and cook stirring occasionally. You want the mixture to be BARELY simmering. This is a slow process, so some patience is required Cook for 1 HOUR.
3. After 1 hour, remove the vanilla bean and cook stirring occasionally for another 2 hours until you've achieved a medium-dark caramel color. It should reduce to about 1-1 1/2 cups.
4. Once you've achieve the color and thick texture (be careful it splatters a bit while you stir, and you don't want to be burnt by HOT sugar!), remove the mixture from the stove. Over a heat proof bowl with a fine write mesh strainer, strain the dulce de leche. Cover with a lid/plastic wrap and store in the fridge until ready to use.
Makes about 1-1 1/2 cups
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|Skinner's Sense of Snow
"Skinner's Sense of Snow" is the eighth episode of Season 12. It first aired on December 17, 2000. The episode was written by Tim Long and directed by Lance Kramer. This is the last episode to air in 2000.
When a large storm snows in Springfield Elementary, the children are trapped inside for the holidays and soon rebel against Principal Skinner - while Homer and Ned try to rescue them, using Ned's car.
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The Simpsons attend a French-Canadian circus (called "Cirque du Puree", a play on Cirque du Soleil), when a demonic blizzard hits Springfield. Much to Bart and Lisa's dismay, everyone has the day off, except for Springfield Elementary School. At school, Skinner shows them a boring Christmas film from 1938, called "The Christmas That Almost Wasn't But Then Was". They watch the movie for hours until the DVD overheats and catches fire, but Skinner puts it out. When Skinner dismisses the kids, they find that they are snowed in, trapping them in the school with Skinner and Groundskeeper Willie, much to their horror. Skinner tries to call for help, but phone lines are down. When the students become uncontrollable from cabin fever, Principal Skinner's army instincts kick in, and he begins ruling them with an iron fist.
At night, Bart tries to escape by tunneling through the snow, but Skinner catches him. Skinner tries to collapse the tunnel, but it caves in on him, burying all but his head. The kids tie him up in a dodgeball sack and gag him. they then run wild, even getting into a safe with all their permanent records. Upon learning that Skinner makes $25,000 a year, and knowing that he is 40 years old, they figure Skinner is a millionnaire. (40 years x $25,000 / year = $1,000,000) When it's pointed out that Skinner also makes money painting houses in the summer, they amend their estimate of his wealth to "billionaire".
Meanwhile, Homer and Flanders use a "snow-plower" (Ned's car with Ned's roofing attached to the front as a plow) to save the kids. They get frozen in ice after hitting a fire hydrant, and Homer's repeated gunning of the engine causes carbon monoxide to flood the car. Flanders and Homer get high from the fumes and wildly hallucinate. Homer hallunacinates about bellydancing women who wait on him. They receive a message from Nibbles the school hamster, send out by Skinner, and head for the school. They crash into a salt silo, melting the snow and rusting up the car. The car exhaust makes Homer hallucinate again, making him see Lisa as a camel and Bart as a dancing girl. As Homer tries to kiss the "dancing girl", Bart tries his best to escape, causing the car to crash. Lisa, (as a camel), then says "Merry Christmas from the Simpsons".
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You can safely use the nvidia-kernel-source 190.53-2 from sid, and the matching nvidia-glx driver.
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Estimates of efficiency of Dorper and Rambouillet lambs. Yeaman, Jessup (2011-05-03)Feed intake and body weight were recorded on thirty-seven Dorper ram lambs and forty-two Rambouillet ram lambs from weaning to 61kg of body weight to determine feed conversion efficiency. The data were collected over a two ...


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The New Rules of Cutting Tools -- Rule #1: Do More With Your Machine
(Advertorial) The tooling has the potential to transform the process.
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The most common reason why machine shops switch from one tool to a different tool is to improve tool life.
If the new tool performs longer in the existing process, then it can save money for the shop—money for the cost of replacement tools and money for the labor involved in performing so many tool replacements.
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More aggressive machine shops also adopt new cutting tools in order to increase their speed. If the new tool can perform well in an accelerated process that involves significantly higher metal removal rates, then the tool saves the shop money in an even more significant way. That is, the tool can effectively increase the shop's capacity by allowing it to run more parts per shift.
Both of these process improvements—life and speed—represent important returns on investment, and important reasons to adopt high-performance tooling.
However, the search for ways that the cutting tool can improve the process should not stop here, because there is potentially so much more savings to be realized. Shops committed to improving their machining capabilities need to look to the various ways that advanced tooling can not only extend or accelerate the machining process, but also transform it.
The Power Of Drilling
Precision Dormer product manager Andrew Hunter points to a seemingly simple but tremendously underappreciated example of transformative tooling. Specifically, he points to the state of today's precision drill technology.
In many hole machining applications today, he says, it is no longer necessary to ream. Drills today can be cost-effectively manufactured to tighter quality standards than ever before, potentially allowing the shop to achieve the necessary hole accuracy and quality requirements through drilling alone. In many machining facilities, however, the hole machining process of center drill, drill and ream can be so familiar that it can be difficult to identify this sequence as a source of unnecessary expense.
Precision Dormer routinely advises shops on where reaming might not be necessary. A change in cutting parameters with a drill roughly equivalent to what the shop is already using may produce the requisite quality hole. If not, Precision Dormer can help the shop quickly find and evaluate another drill that is likely to perform better. Even if the new tool is slightly more expensive, the added cost will be small compared to the savings resulting from eliminating an unnecessary tool from the process, as well as removing an unneeded toolchange from the machining cycle.
Other Process Changes
Bill Tisdall, development specialist manager for Sandvik Coromant, is involved in testing and refining most of the company's new tooling designs. He sees a number of other ways that tooling technology can enhance productivity through fundamental change. He urges shops to think about all of these potential benefits of using the right tool:
■ Take advantage of machine tool features. Is your tooling doing all that it can to harness the technology improvements that are becoming more common in machine tools today?
An important example of more commonplace machine tool technology is the prevalence of high-pressure coolant in the newest machines. Too few shops have the tooling that would let them take full advantage of the 70-bar coolant supply its machines may now have available.
Sandvik Coromant's CoroTurn HP tooling does harness the power of this pressure. By accurately focusing the high-pressure stream onto a point just above the cutting edge of a turning tool, the CoroTurn HP holder transforms the coolant supply into a wedge, lifting the chip away. In difficult materials such as Inconel 718, tool life can increase by 50 percent or speed can increase by 20 percent.
■ Reduce setup time. The Coromant Capto system from Sandvik Coromant is an industry standard for quick-change tooling in turning. Relying on Coromant Capto can allow replacement tools or tools for new jobs to be quickly locked in place, without having to adjust the tool position or reset tool offsets. The same Coromant Capto concept has been applied to rotary tools as well, so new or replacement milling and drilling tools can also be swapped in and locked into place without any changeover delay.
One other setup reduction system, the company's QS system, applies to Swiss-type lathes. With QS, tools can be slid in and out quickly, automatically locking into place on center. One owner of a Swiss-type turning shop calculated that the system saved $100,000 per year in setup time on one machine. Based on this finding, it was easy for him to commit to having the rest of his Swiss-type machines equipped with the same system.
■ Run unattended. In addition to life and speed, think about evaluating your cutting tools in terms of their reliability. Not enough shops realize how potentially valuable it can be to depend on tools that provide a high level of performance consistency.
Why is the consistency so valuable? Because it can transform the process in potentially the most profitable way—by sufficiently freeing the operator from the machine that he or she can operate additional machines, inpsect parts or carry out steps related to 5S or other aspects of lean manufacturing while the machine runs. Sandvik Coromant calls this "green-light production." If the machine shop or machining facility can confidently predict exactly when the tool will need replacement, then the shop can trust its machining process to run in this way, without an operator always having to be present.
Sandvik Coromant's new GC1125 and GC1515 cutting tool grades are engineered specifically for green-light production. The inserts' reliability comes from a balance between coating and substrate. The substrate is a little softer to enhance toughness and consistency, while the composition of the coating provides the needed wear resistance.
These tools also offer very sharp edges, which is another important green-light production feature. The sharp edges help eliminate burrs. Eliminating burrs is particularly important for long unattended runs, because the shop that runs this way does not want to have to deal with a large batch of parts all waiting to be deburred when the run is complete.
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Choose The Best Drill Point Geometry
The more common twist drill point geometries often are not the best for the job at hand. By choosing the best point for the material being drilled, it is possible to achieve better tool life, hole geometry, precision, and productivity.
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10 Facts on Malaria in Africa;
- African populations are extremely affected by Malaria
Malaria is caused by blood parasites transmitted from person to person through the bites of infected mosquitoes. In the absence of prompt and effective treatment, malaria often causes death.
The African Region accounts for 85% of malaria cases and 90% of malaria deaths worldwide. Malaria causes avoidable and often catastrophic spending for households and is an obstacle to the development of affected African communities and nation
- Mothers and Children
85% of malaria deaths occur in children under five years of age. Every 30 seconds a child dies from malaria. Malaria episodes in pregnant women cause anemia, and other complications in the mother and newborn child.
- People Living With HIV/AIDS
People Living With HIV/AIDS have a higher risk of recurrent malaria episodes and severe malaria.
- Fighting malaria contributes to the attainment of several Millenium Development Goals (MDGs)
Reducing malaria burden contributes in particular to the attainment of the Millennium Development Goal 4 target of reducing under-five mortality by two-thirds by 2015 but also to MDGs related to poverty reduction, education, and maternal health.
- African Leaders committed to the reduction of malaria burden
African heads of states and governments have committed to leading the reduction of malaria burden at the 2000 and 2006 Abuja Summits through ensuring universal access of exposed populations to essential malaria prevention and treatment interventions.
- Malaria Burden can be reduced in Africa
As a result of the scale-up of use of insecticide-treated nets, Indoor residual spraying, intermittent preventive treatment during pregnancy and Artemisinin-based combination therapy, 10 countries in the WHO African region have reduced malaria cases by at least 50% between 2000 and 2008.
- Health Systems Strengthening and Malaria Control have reciprocal beneficial effects.
Access to services and prevention and treatment interventions, procurement and supply of quality medicines and commodities, diagnostic capacity; routine surveillance, monitoring and evaluation concur to systems strengthening and progress towards national and international targets.
- Engagement of all stakeholders is critical to intensify the fight against malaria
The support of all development partners to malaria control and other disease control programmes, maternal and child healt as well as education must be integrated in the broader context of a sustainable environment and development.
- WHO advocates for the scale-up of proven cost/effective malaria control interventions.
WHO in collaboration with international, continental and regional partners advocates and provides normative guidance and technical assistance for the scale-up of essential interventions in order to reverse the incidence of malaria by 2015.
- Primary health care and community empowerment and involvement are critical for the success of malaria control and progress towards its elimination
All African communities must own and take part in the fight against malaria, provide human and financial resources and develop alliances to conquer the scourge of malaria


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A Dark and Lonely Place
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A Dark and Lonely Place
"We belong together," he said.
"Yes," she whispered fervently in his ear. "We do."
From Pulitzer Prize winner Edna Buchanan, the novel she has always wanted to write: the gripping saga of star-crossed lovers across generations. A century ago, when Indians and alligators roamed frontier Miami, the legendary John Ashley was accused of murder and sentenced to hang. He insisted he was innocent and went on the run with his sweetheart, Laura. Their crime spree lasted years longer and became far more deadly than the exploits of Bonnie and Clyde a decade later.
John Ashley and Laura Upthegrove became the most notorious, colorful, and compelling figures in Florida's violent outlaw history. This is their true story of prison breaks, bootlegging, bank robberies, and piracy on the high seas. Their sensual and dreamy saga of love, passion, and violence is juxtaposed with the taut and suspenseful story of their fictional descendants who share the same love and dangers a hundred years later. In today's Miami, Homicide Sergeant John Ashley investigates a millionaire's spectacular murder and instantly recognizes a stunning model linked to the case as the girl who has haunted his dreams since childhood. Her name is Laura, and the lightning-fast attraction is supernaturally mutual.
The homicide case goes bad, Ashley is falsely accused of murder, and the new lovers go on the run as history repeats itself. The question is, how powerful is the past? Do the present-day renegades stand a chance? Does anyone? Can any of us with the outlaw patterns of violence and tragedy imprinted in our DNA ever break the cycle? Can we change our own destiny? Or must the end always be the same for dangerous people in dangerous times?
In a sweeping epic that explores the inevitability of fate and the belief in predestination, A DARK AND LONELY PLACE draws the reader into an unforgettable world of intrigue, drama, romance, and tragedy.


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FRANKLIN -- The township supervisors are having second thoughts about plans to install traffic lights at a treacherous corner given the effectiveness of stop signs installed two years ago.
Routes 896 and 841 cross each other at an area that has particularly bad lines of sight due to inclines, especially the hill to the south on 896.
Until recently, there were two-way stop signs applying to drivers on Route 841, but not on Route 896. Frequent accidents occurred, because even if the 841 traffic stopped before proceeding, the drivers could not see a sufficient distance on Route 896 to avoid oncoming traffic -- nor could the approaching 841 cars see them until the last seconds.
Inevitably, there were crashes, some of them serious.
Three years ago a particularly horrendous collision caused traumatic neurological and physical injuries to high school student Corey Beattie. She barely escaped with her life, is still suffering the effects and is undergoing daily therapy just to regain basic skills.
That prompted an outcry for more safety measures, and stop signs on all corners were installed.
'They've been incredibly effective, only two or three reportable accidents since the installation,' Supervisors Chairman John Auerbach said.
As time went by, however, residents and public officials pushed for more safety measures, and the township obtained a state grant for $185,000 to install red lights.
Having an additional $50,000 on hand to supplement the grant, the township is in a financial position to go ahead with the project, but Auerbach said he has some questions.
Given the improved safety with the four-way stop, he said, 'Now the question is, what about the red light?'
There are several issues that he said should be worked out.
The first is the line of sight for cars coming from the south on Route 896. He said they will be coming over a hill and will not be able to see oncoming cars waiting to turn left onto Route 841 until the last seconds.
With the stop signs and warnings in place, those cars were prepared to stop. But if they had a green light, they might be less likely to slow down or avoid turning traffic.
The second issue revolves around a Route 896 project that the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation has planned the will level the hill to some extent, giving it a kind of 'flat top.'
Auerbach said it will be an extensive project that will be frustrating to drivers while it is going on.
As if that were not complicated enough, the grading operation will involve more than just leveling the hill on the road; the adjacent land must be graded as well.
That creates another situation, because there is a historical old blacksmith shop along that stretch of highway that would be affected by the construction.
Auerbach said there are some people in the township that want to stick with the stop signs, while others want to proceed with the red lights.
One of those who has a stake in the ultimate decision is Marie Beattie, Corey's mother.
She said she is concerned first and foremost about the safety at the corner and is frustrated that it took the years and many injuries since 1992 for anything to be done at all.
At one point she said she had a petition circulating asking for the light, but now she wants to hear more facts about the future of the corner.
She is adamant that people not get into a serious controversy, but she also said the information is not complete enough to make an informed decision about red light versus stop signs.
'We don't' have all the facts. It's a little premature (to make a decision),' she said. 'The good news is that we have the grant and their have only been two accidents.'
She added however, that minor collisions go unreported, and that information must come out.
'I know a light would enhance the flow of traffic,' she added.
Marie Beattie urged patience. 'It was brought up in a meeting. All the facts are not in. People are jumping to conclusions,' she said.
Auerbach said the township supervisors will probably be looking at PennDOT's designs for the hill in June and July.
He added that he has not made any decisions.
'I'm just trying to understand what the issues are,' he said.


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