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The last time England played a test series, they thrashed India to become the world's No. 1 team. The last few times Pakistan have played a test series, they've proved themselves to be the other form team in world test cricket with a string of encouraging results.
The last time England and Pakistan met in a test series, it fell under the long, dark shadow of the match-fixing antics of Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir. So the eyes of the cricketing world will be firmly on the three-test encounter in the United Arab Emirates that starts in Dubai on Tuesday . Fortunately, the focus will be on how these dominant teams match up rather than how the scandal unfolded.
Most encouraging going into the series is that this is a Pakistan team transformed. First, the squad has been free from suspicions of corruption since that fateful 2010 series in England. But beyond that, under the calm leadership of Misbah-ul-Haq, this is the most unified-looking Pakistan side in a long time, with no evidence of the factionalism and personality conflicts that have long bedeviled them. It has led to a succession of steadily improving performances, culminating in a recent 1-0 (with two draws) series victory over Sri Lanka, as a result of which they took fifth place in the rankings and aren't far behind fourth-ranked Australia.
Misbah's calmness extends to his batting, and the accumulative style he characterizes has come to dominate the current line-up, giving it a solidity quite at odds with the stereotype of Pakistani batsmen as risk-taking run-plunderers whose strokeplay is as impetuous as it is thrilling. Of the likely top six for the forthcoming series, only Mohammad Hafeez comes close to fitting that description, assuming the madcap Umar Akmal doesn't play. Alongside Misbah are young batsmen such as Azhar Ali and Asad Shafiq, who have had encouraging starts to their careers while acquiring their runs at the stately rate of less than 40 per 100 balls (these days, 50, or three runs per over, is only a modest canter). Younis Khan, meanwhile, remains one of the most quietly impressive test batsmen in the game, an effortless stroke-maker all around the wicket who seems to acquire runs without trying.
The endless Pakistani fast-bowler conveyor belt shows no sign of slowing down, either. To accompany the solid and experienced Umar Gul, they have the nippy, slingy Aizaz Cheema, plus left-armers Junaid Khan and Wahab Riaz, who can extract swing, in particular the reverse variety. But on pitches that are likely to be low and slow, perhaps the most crucial contribution will be that of off-spinner Saeed Ajmal—and in particular how it matches up against that of his England counterpart, Graeme Swann.
The latter has been the world's leading spinner in the past couple of years, but he was a little lackluster in last year's India series, claiming 13 wickets in the four games at more than 40 runs each. Ajmal looks to be catching him up; in the past two series—against Sri Lanka and Bangladesh—he took 27 wickets at an average of 27 over five games. A late developer like many spinners, with just 17 test appearances at age 34, Ajmal has added increased control to his variations. He's always been able to spin the ball both ways, and before this series he has been claiming to have mastered a new, mystery delivery. This puts in mind the words of Shane Warne, who admitted after the end of his international career that the various different, exotically named mystery balls that he kept announcing he'd just developed were in fact more or less all different names for the one that went straight on. In reality Ajmal doesn't need mystery balls; he just needs to carry on doing what he's been doing.
Pakistan's recent run of encouraging form has come in the face not only of the disruption caused by the spot-fixing affair, but also of the team's itinerancy. It hasn't hosted a test since the March 2009 terrorist attack in Lahore on the visiting Sri Lankan side. It seems, however, to have settled into the UAE as its unofficial home away from home, after a short-lived experiment with England, where the financial consequences of a disappointing attendance can be severe. Conditions in the UAE, moreover, are relatively similar to those in Pakistan: low, slow, and with a drier atmosphere than many other places in Asia.
England have always found Asian conditions most difficult; their marauding pack of seam bowlers have done more than anyone to propel them to the No. 1 position, but their principal weapons are conventional swing and bounce, both of which will be hard to extract in the UAE. They have also lost fast-bowling all-rounder Tim Bresnan to an elbow injury, robbing them of their best exponent of reverse swing.
Fortunately the possible replacements, to appear alongside James Anderson and Stuart Broad, include man-mountain Chris Tremlett and increasingly pacy beanpole Steven Finn, whose bowling in similar conditions was one of the very few pluses of England's disastrous 5-0 one-day international thrashing in India in October.
England's batters, with the exception Alastair Cook, have performed rustily in their two warm-up games, against a Pakistan Cricket Board XI and a team made up of players from ICC associate and affiliate nations, but then that's why they have warm-up games. Cook, alongside Jonathan Trott, Ian Bell and Kevin Pietersen, forms the nucleus of a quality line-up that might fail occasionally, but won't fail consistently.
England have got to the top largely through wins in conditions that play to their strengths, and their credibility as global top dogs won't be complete until they win consistently in Asia. In other words, this is the sort of series they need to win. When England last approached the summit of test cricket, rising to second after winning the 2005 Ashes, they came down to earth with a bump on their subsequent tour of Pakistan, losing a three-test series 2-0. By the end of the bout with Pakistan, we will know whether this time they're good enough to not just get to the top but stay there.


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So, what is on your mind when hiring, even finding cake on the table at your home? Basically, chocolate cake is a favorite choice for most people, especially children, so how is about Sachertorte? This was famous around 1832 after an Austrian Franz Sacher invented this. Talking about chocolate, I do not know why most people love to consume it with different serving food. By the time, this dish began famous in some place, even some countries worldwide. Like common chocolate cake this is very tempting, moreover, after storing in the freezer. Yes, I know everybody has different way to enjoy their favorite cake, but as people who like to eat frozen foods, enjoying this cake after being frozen one will be more tasting. To enjoy this cake, there are many times such as when you are gathering with your children and other family members. Besides that, you also can choose this for a dish in big event such as anniversary celebration, wedding and birthday parties and more.
Basically, every cake store or hotel, which provides this cake has different way to decorate the cake, so if you want to get the most beautiful one, coming to trusted place in a town is good deal. Besides that, a trusted provider has the most delicious collection, so you will not feel disappointed after getting or buying it. Special Sachertorte is able to be presented for special person such as mate, husband, even parent. By getting some references, you are able to find best choice and then enjoying a slice of cake with your loved ones in the memorable moment or daily moment like in the weekend during you watch television. There are many reasons to take this dish and then it is of course you also have many ways to enjoy it.
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Nobody has reason to try Wiener schnitzel
As culinary lover, you will be not able to control your appetite for trying more and more foods, especially Wiener schnitzel. This is famous and easy to get in some regions in German and Australia, so going to travel to these places is best way to enjoy this food. This is known as a thin piece of meat fried in breadcrumbs. This might look something new for you, but when you are trying this, I am sure that you will to try it for more time. Like other food, this is able to make you forget that you are person who is running dietary program. To enjoy this food, you can use the same way like enjoying steak, where you can use some vegetables with mayonnaise, or you can combine it with french fries. It does not matter if you want to eat this with different way, but when doing it, it is important to limit the consumption.
Though you are able to try cooking this at your home, but Wiener schnitzel which you get from reputable restaurant will be more delicious, so though you like to consume it, it is important to check your pocket first. Commonly, the price which some restaurants offer are varieties, but ensuring that you have enough budget will not make you feel embarrassing when you should pay the bill. This was appeared for first time in the end of the 19th century, so how long time this food existence? An old food does not mean that this is very outdated because in these days, there are more places to get it with different flavor. As mentioned, if you are running dietary program, are you sure that you can skip to try this food? Nobody has reason to skip trying it because this is very tempting.

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Caramelized Onion, Feta and Zucchini Pizza
Otherwise known as random-ingredients-you-have-in-your-fridge pizza!
The other night Chris and I were craving pizza, he had just played an intense game of soccer and I had ran 4.0 mile run around my new neighborhood for the first time since moving (hurray!), so we were both very hungry come dinnertime, which ended up being around 8:30PM. Late for me! Anyway, that's how this pizza came about!
I'm a huge fan of pre-making pizza dough and freezing it, and that's what I did here–I make Jenna's pizza dough since it's pretty much the easiest thing to make on the planet. And if I can't mess it up, that's saying something.
Caramelized Onion, Feta and Zucchini Whole Wheat Pizza
- Pre made whole wheat pizza dough
- 1 cup of shredded part skim mozzarella cheese
- 1/2 cup of reduced fat feta cheese
- 3/4 cup onion, chopped
- 1/2 medium or small zucchini, sliced into rounds and then sliced in half again
- 1-2 TBSP olive oil
1. Preheat oven to 425
2. Saute onions on medium heat with a splash of olive oil until they are browned, about 10 minutes
3. Roll out pizza dough onto greased baking sheet
4. Brush edges of dough with olive oil (makes a crispy crust)
5. Sprinkle on mozzarella cheese
6. Place caramelized onions onto pizza
7. Sprinkle on feta cheese
8. Evenly spread out zucchini slices onto pizza dough
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It was AMAZING–one of the best pizzas I've ever made.
Enjoy your Friday!
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You see them in sunflowers and artichokes. The familiar, concentric spiral-shaped Fibonacci sequence is part of a lot of flowering plants. These patterns precisely follow the Fibonacci sequence (1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8), in which each digit (once you move along) is the sum of the previous two. But until now, nobody really knew how plants knew to make these mathematically precise patterns.
Researchers did know that the Fibonacci sequence provides one of the best ways for plants to maximize exposure for sunlight and other nutrients—seeds and flower steps are packed in the most efficient way possible. But scientists at the University of Arizona discovered, at least among sunflowers, that a plan growth hormone called auxin is responsible for creating the Fibonacci spirals.
Matthew Pennypacker and Alan Newell reported in Physical Review Letters that as sunflowers grow, their seeds in the head of the flower align themselves in annuli, which are closely arranged as the familiar spirals. The annuli shrink as the plant head grows and the spiral is formed. What's causing the pattern? The researchers found that concentrations of auxin were highest right where seeds were about to be formed. So it was the auxin that led the spiral pattern formation. The researchers used a computer model that accurately predicted where auxin concentrations were going to be greatest—and how the patterns were formed.
Auxins were the first plant hormone to be discovered, and are involved in transforming stem cells into mature cells, as well as guiding the cell elongation process in plants. Since auxins are found in a wide variety of plants, the research suggests that these and other mathematical formulas may be behind many other plant growth patterns.
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13 out of 13 people found this review helpful:No.6, a mesmerizing short animeI am still giving this anime 5 stars, even though it isn't perfect.Read more
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4 out of 4 people found this review helpful:Excellent--though left much to be desired.I'm currently reading the manga and told myself I wouldn't watch the anime but I couldn't resist and I'm glad that I didn't. The anime was fantastic and somewhat follows what I've read in the manga so far. My only complaint about this series would be the ending. I and I know many others felt it was a bit rushed seeing as they crammed so much info (and lack there of) in only 11 episodes when it ...Read more
3 out of 3 people found this review helpful:Great, but short, showI agree with some of the reviewers, the show is hindered by the limited amount of time they can tell the story in. I feel like there could be more episodes exploring the background of Nezumi and Sion's mother and the founding of No. 6. Overall it is a bit tropy but one of the best shows I've watched in a while.
3 out of 3 people found this review helpful:Each episode makes you want more! PLOT OVERVIEW! for those who havent watched No.6No.6 is in a way a unique anime as it show how a utopia can't really exist without a little government conspiracy and secrets. It shows how the so called "utopia" keeps order by silencing the people who wish for a different life/question the government. In a way that it shows this is when Sion first meets Rat when he was young. Sion learns that Rat is a runaway prisoner being tracked by the ...Read more
3 out of 3 people found this review helpful:The Tears Their So Strong T^TOverall this anime was amazing. Not only is it touching but *spoiler coming* they express homosexuality in it. I give the props for taking a step in anime that not many other animes take. Some people say it's just too much but I just think it adds a little more spice to the characters. I don't have any negative comments for this anime just that it excelled in every way. I would love it if there ...Read more
3 out of 3 people found this review helpful:All short anime are sad......and No. 6 is no exception, but it is worth it. Oh so worth it. In this series a young boy risks his cushy lifestyle to help a young convict because he can't believe someone his age could be dangerous. The two boys form a quick, if shaky, bond. This one act of compassion begins a domino effect that changes, well, everything.Read more
Quality work from BONES as usual, the detail is stunning, the ...
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The Storyline is to interesting it takes place in the ideal city "NO.6″ in 2013. Shion was judged as having "highest-ranked intelligence" when he was two years old and was allowed to ...
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The adaption suffers a bit; it was a novel before it was an anime so expect the ...
2 out of 2 people found this review helpful:I loved the show till the endI loved this show till the end. When I found this show I was really happy because it wasn't a crazy anime show like most others. Then the end came and I was like WTF happen here it was a really great show. I also started watching it because it was a BL show but, It was a great bl but I just don't believe in the couple Nezumi and Sion. The couple was cute. The show had great potential but, it went ...Read more


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FDA cleared Prizer's kinase inhibitor Inlyta® (axitinib), for the treatment of patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC) after failure of one prior systemic therapy. The approval is based on data from the Phase III Axis study, which showed that in comparison with sorafenib therapy, treatment using Inlyta extended progression-free survival by 43%, from 4.7 months to 6.7 months.
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Inlyta is designed an oral therapy designed to selectively inhibit vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) receptors 1, 2, and 3. The drug is separately being evaluyated in patients with treatment-naïve as well as previously treated advanced RCC, and is undergoing a randomized Phase II clinical trial as a treatment for hepatocellular carcinoma. Pfizer and SFJ Pharma in addition have a development agreement in place under which SFJ will carry out an Asian Phase III clinical trial evaluating axitinib as a adjuvant treatment of patients at high risk of recurrent RCC following nephrectomy.
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Your pull gets a bit better as the weight increases because you stay over the bar better. On the lighter ones, you start opening your hips a bit too early.
Try to stay flat footed a bit longer in the pull (aim to feel pressure on your heels until you start the final explosion at about upper thigh), and reconnect your feet flat on the floor - right now you toes stay in contact as you pull down.
Get more aggressive pulling under the bar as well (moving your feet as described above will help this) - pull the elbows up and out hard and squat down fast - think of locking the bar out overhead at the same time your feet hit the ground.
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Arriving at 1am, 'immediately warmly greeted by Night Staff who took care of our baggage & car. This hotel was heaven on earth, not only stunning in every way but located in probably the main street of town - brilliant, and the service SO kind and friendly - being a 5 star, it could've been quite stiff but it wasn't. The 6 course half board table d'hote dinners were amazing with so much choice in various restaurants within. Not only was each course delicious, the presentation was incredible - each course arrived on a different type of plate, be it glass, porcelain, slate etc displayed like a piece of art, and the breakfasts - about 150 items to choose from! Endless finishing touches all around - AWEsome place - incredible, beautiful.
Only that we had to eventually leave!
the location , staff , treat you as very important person, the food , every thing is great on this hotel and very well recommended in seefeld in tyrol
No internet in the rooms however hotel give guest free internet access in the lobby
The very friendly staff and the comfort of the spa and other facilities
Room was one of the "to be refurbished" ones
The hotel was very serving because it was at a good place.
The cleanliness of the rooms.
Very friendly, polite and welcomming service. A luxury room in a quiet hotel. Absolutely a hotel to come back to next time in Seefeld.
Staff was very helpful and kind. location was great and especially the view from the room.
friendly atmosphere , very good location. warm people.
Very good hotel located in a paradise in middle of Austrian Alpes.
The hotel price is ok 83 euros for a couple per night, but at the end they included a 48 euros as final cleaning taxes and with breakfest it tooks 167 euros per night, too expensive for only one day.
Nice SPA, very gentle receptionists.
The furnitures/carpets are a little old-style. It wasn't very clear at the online reservation you'll have to pay an extra for the final cleaning rate for the apartments. Better to include it directly on the apartment rate.
The surprise that our halfboard included a 6 course gourmet dinner. The heated outdoorpool was great. Rooms very comfortable. Serviceminded staff.
The parking was full when we arrived.
just a joy to stay there -all the staff - the food was just 5star -menu even on half board just wonderful, thank you very much
In the restaurant there seemed to be a regulars club, if you did not belong you were treated very rudely.
Staff friendly and helpful. Abundance of good food. A large comfortable room. Relaxing evening entertainment. Good gym and swimming pools.Close to station and shops.
The evening meal comprised of many courses but not one of them was coffee !!. A pot of the excellent coffee served at breakfast would have gone down a treat. The room heating was too high for us and we needed to keep the windows open at night.
We stayed at the Hotel Stefanie, which is now a "Hotel Garni", so dinner was taken in the Schönruh (as well as afternoon cake, salad and soup if wanted). The room was large with plenty of space to hang & store clothes. The staff were incredibly pleasant and helpful. Breakfasts had good choices. Dinners were excellent and both hotels offer many facilities and activities for the residents. It was a perfect place to spend our holiday and we couldn't have been happier with our choice
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My 12 year old daughter had Indian fry bread at girls' camp this summer and she's been craving it ever since. So today she decided that we needed to learn how to make it ourselves. She got online and found a really easy recipe (not sure where she found it) and then she got everything out we needed and waited until I was done scrubbing my toilet (I washed my hands after) so I could help her. I was seriously surprised at how simple it was and it tasted good! I kind of felt like we were at the State Fair.
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Crisco is best for fry bread, also a large very hot cast iron skillet. My husbands family is Indian and my mother in law makes amazing fry bread its so very addicting!! I stumbled on your blog through pinterest and I LOVE it!
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Turtles at the lake
Little turtle at Stow Lake
My first American hot-dog.
That's a big baby... Sculpture near the de Young museum
Look who's here again!! The Sutro tower!!!!! wooonnn
Took 10 pics of this mural and forgot to read what it is.
The _colors_ of this thing are unbelievable.
Shaman transforming into a bear
This is completely incredible. It's a rubbing of an actual wall in Chichen Itza (?). It's the priest at the left holding a knife and the head of the losing player from the ball game. The ball is in the middle, with a skull inside. The headless body on the right. The blood is represented by the snakes flying everywhere. There are some hallucinogenic plants here and there too.
Sculptures of dogs from donnowhat pre columbian civ. Notice the one below scratching his head, how cute! :)
Axe blade with engraving
Piece of an actual mural from Teotihucan. No comments...
The feathered and blurry snake.
The things the mayan dudes weared on the waist when playing that game
Inca (?) bling
Feathery Peruvian clothing
Close on the feathers, pretty neat...
Couple of embossed paper "drawings", or whatever they are.
Roy and me
Looks like a CG demo
It tooke me a _while_ to see...
The museum entrance seen from inside.
Arts and crafts
Tiffany lamp. As beautiful as I imagined! Pity the shot is a bit overexposed maybe....
Colt gun
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The tower on top of the museum, seen from the entrance
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If you bought Shutter #1 this week by Joe Keatinge and Leila del Duca — and you should, if you haven't yet — then you probably noticed the return of a certain orange-and-black-stripped attorney — Tiger Lawyer!
Created by Ryan Ferrier, Tiger Lawyer has starred in a couple of self-published comics and also ran as a back-up in a previous Joe Keatinge comic, Hell Yeah. Ferrier created the character with the idea that he could use him all sorts of different situations and genres, and work with a variety of artists.
Happy Mother's Day and welcome to another edition of What Are You Reading? Today our special guest is Ryan Ferrier, who I spoke to a couple of weeks ago about his comic Tiger Lawyer and recently kicked off an Indie GoGo project to fund the second issue.
To see what Ryan and the Robot 6 crew have been reading, click below.
"… we could use more books with talking tigers, am I right?"
– Joe Keatinge
If, like Joe, you think comics could use more talking tigers, then Ryan Ferrier has the comic for you. Tiger Lawyer, his self-published comic, is now available through his Big Cartel site as either a print or digital comic, and very soon, it'll start appearing in Keatinge's Hell Yeah comic.
Ferrier was kind enough to answer a few questions about Tiger Lawyer and his subpoena into the pages of Hell Yeah.
JK Parkin: I'm sure you've been asked about this a million times already, but the title, Tiger Lawyer, is the kind that elicits a chuckle and makes you wonder where the idea came from. So, where did the initial idea come from?
Ryan Ferrier: I really wish I had a cool story for this question, but alas it was one of those things that I've completely forgotten, though I'm fairly certain it stemmed from something I posted on Twitter last December, something silly. It was a tweet along the lines of Tiger Lawyer being my next comic, made entirely with sarcasm. I do remember gearing up to tackle a different script, and decided to actually write Tiger Lawyer–the script that would become the first short–one afternoon. I immediately posted the script online, and surprisingly, people dug it enough for me to actually make it.
You can take the guy out of the anthology, but you can't take the anthology out of the guy … or something like that.
Before writing Hell Yeah and Glory, Joe Keatinge not only worked for Image Comics as their PR guy, but also co-edited (with Mark Andrew Smith) the anthology series PopGun.
"Working at Image Comics, I got exposed to a huge amount of amazing new talent," Keatinge said on his blog. "PopGun was born out of wanting to give this talent a place to start. From there, editing and project management became something of an itch I loved to scratch."
In order to keep scratching that itch, Keatinge is adding back-up features to Hell Yeah, starting with a comic called "Baby Girl" by artist David Hahn and written by The ThreeOneFive collective. "This is an invite-only series of creator-owned shorts by cartoonists, artists and writers I think either are or will someday be a way big deal," Keatinge said. "I've been lucky to have a good amount of success in comics, in good part because of help I've had along the way, and I think it's really, really important and essential to pay that forward."
In addition, Keatinge says he'll start running one-page "Tiger Lawyer" comics by Ryan Ferrier. "I got to read the comic and was really impressed by how unique, hilarious and interesting it was. Good times. I immediately asked writer Ryan Ferrier if he was cool with doing one-pagers. I was very happy when he said yes," Keatinge said.
"Baby Girl" will run through Hell Yeah #3-5, while the Tiger Lawyer one-pagers debut in Hell Yeah #4.


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up big?
Take a look at TWMJF. It has gone down almost as much as FITX since getting the license.
be it a Wall Street executive or now a law firm, the stock pops, only to fade in following days. I think these "news" events are just an excuse to squeeze the shorts. When the squeeze is over, the shorts re-short and the stock slides. I can't imagine what an executive or lawyer can do to overcome the massive dumping by insiders and early birds taking profits.
I feel bad for all the sincere but naive longs here, even those who slandered and bashed me. But some of the
relentless pumpers may be in deep kim chee if it turns out they were paid to pump.
I have only one ID. Reply to myself was to bump my msg and see who's paying attention. I'm sorry you guys were victims of the scam, but I've been warning you for several weeks.
That was the climax. Now gone limp. Insiders dumped on the rise. Net result: longs here got screwed. It's called P&D.
I agree completely. Good post.
A transfer of millions of dollars from the longs here to the FITX insiders and early birds.
Are you saying b*ners don't deflate after the climax? Come on, it's biology. Today's action is proof and the deflation will continue tomorrow.
climax. And they do it quickly.
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Brilliant post. I totally agree.
This price is about where I bought several weeks ago, sold around 9 when I realized they wouldn't be making money for many months and the market has changed from speculative stocks to dividend stocks. I say it's going under .05 and will stay there until they get a license.
People, especially men, always fall for BS claims of aphrodisiac powers. There are already hundreds of such products on the market, none of them proven effective. I guess there's always room for one more, but that doesn't mean it will sell any better than those already out there. But limp#$%$ guys never lose hope that some day they'll get it up, so it's a great way to juice a stock.
I have no stake in any so-called MJ stock. But I follow them in an effort to understand the mass psychology of stupidity.
This stock is soaring on announcement of a fraudulent product. Worse than Herbalife. What a bunch of suckers -- you dummies buying this garbage stock and any customers dumb enough to buy the garbage product. There are already scores of phony OTC herbal aphrodesiacs on the market, in health fraud stores, online, in dozens of magazines.
Meaning sellers have sold an equal amount.
This nice rally could be stopped in its tracks tomorrow, Thursday. IWM closed decisively below pivot point of 111.52. Bad inflation reports coming up (ppi, cpi) could rock the market, especially small caps.
why GTLL has been spammed here for a couple weeks with claims of massive volume, but the Yahoo page for the stock shows no trading (0 shares) for several days. Similar for GERSD but with a little trading. Anyone know what's going on?


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Talk:1964 Pacific hurricane season
1964 Pacific hurricane season was nominated as a good article in the Natural sciences category but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There are suggestions on the review page for improving the article. Once these are addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.
Reviewed version: July 13, 2013
|WikiProject Tropical cyclones / Season / Eastern Pacific
|(Rated C-class, Mid-importance)
I made it stub class since it seems rather stubby, despite that technically every storm has a section. --♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 21:11, 9 June 2011 (UTC)
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Reviewer: Cyclonebiskit (talk · contribs) 15:18, 13 July 2013 (UTC) Going to be reviewing this article. Cyclonebiskit (talk) 15:18, 13 July 2013 (UTC)
- Lead
- Infobox contradicts details in the article (Odessa's winds / strongest storm is not listed by pressure)
- It would be more useful to state that the NFWC was in charge of advisories in the basin within the lead than the season summary, in my opinion
- Probably should give a brief explanation of the boundaries of the basin, a single sentence would suffice.
- I'm hesitant to agree with using the Category 2 peak for Odessa since it's not listed as such by HURDAT (the final say in TC intensity).
- "Of the two hurricanes, one reached Category 2 intensity of the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale." – Both the SSHWS and SSHS did not exist in 1964. It should be noted that it would have been classified as such on the modern-day scale. Also, add the SSHWS or SSHS acronym and replace uses of "Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale" with that throughout the article.
- "No storms reached major hurricane status (Category 3 or higher on the hurricane scale)..." – simply linking "major hurricane" to "SSHWS#Category 3" would suffice over the parenthetical explanation.
- I would prefer to see the rest of the lead reworked a bit.
- State when the first storm formed and when the last dissipated
- Give a general overview of impact caused by the storms, note any major details
- Season summary
- "Moreover, 1964 is the least active season since the satellite era began in the basin in 1961." and "...and 1964 is still two years shy of the start of the geostationary satellite era, which began in 1966." – these two sentences seem contradictory, especially when taken from the perspective of a layman. Also, not a fan of the wording for the second part.
- No need to provide an acronym for Pacific Decadal Oscillation since it's only used once.
- "Some efforts are underway to improve the records for this time period; however, this process will likely take years to complete." – not necessarily relevant to the article itself since it doesn't have specifics for 1964.
- Natalie
- "On July 5, the ship California Star recorded winds of 35 mph (55 km/h) and a barometric pressure of 1,005.8 mb (30 inHg); consequently, the storm was upgraded into Tropical Storm Nataline." – Context of where the storm is, and one being there in the first place is necessary.
- "After passing through the Tres Marinas Islands just offshore, Nateline attained its peak intensity of 80 mph (130 km/h) (making Nataline a Category 1 hurricane on the present-day Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale) and a peak pressure of 1,001 mb (29.6 inHg), though the Pacific hurricane database does not show the storm getting any stronger than 50 mph (80 km/h)." – No idea where the Tres Marinas Islands are so I still don't know text-wise where this storm is. Please understand that HURDAT overrides the older reports on storms. Just because one report lists it as stronger, doesn't mean it overrules the final listing in HURDAT. Instead, Natalie should be listed as a tropical storm with a sentence stating that it may have been a hurricane for whatever the reason is in that report. Additionally, "peak pressure" is improper wording; minimum pressure or lowest pressure is preferable since it's a value that decreases as storms get stronger.
- "The next day, July 7, the NFWC reported that Nataline made landfall near Mazatlan with winds of 50 mph (80 km/h) just before dissipating." – There was no prior indication of a transition to July 6, so this makes no sense. According to HURDAT the storm persisted for several hours after making landfall
- Was the storm ever moving and if so, in what direction?
- General notes
- Please, please, please check for grammar issues! There are several present in the article and these should be addressed before an article goes to GAN.
- I've noticed this in other PHS articles that you've worked on but you seem to take the HURDAT values as exact indications of the storm's intensity. Due to the lack of data, these are merely general estimates of the intensity and should not be taken as solid evidence for changes in strength. One example is within Prudence's section: "... it initially failed to intensify, and maintained winds of 50 mph (85 km/h) for a few days..." It's more appropriate to just state what the intensity was and say where it was moving rather than straddle the line with Original Research and state that nothing happened.
I think you get my point. This article needs a fair amount of copy editing and fact checking before going any further. Due to the large amount of issues, I'm failing this article, sorry. Once you address the concerns above as well as look over the other sections and apply similar changes, you can give the article another go. Regards, Cyclonebiskit (talk) 15:53, 13 July 2013 (UTC)


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Volume 119, Issue 22, 08 December 2003
- Theoretical Methods and Algorithms
Internal noise stochastic resonance in a circadian clock system119(2003); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1624053View Description Hide Description
We have studied the influence of internal noise on a circadian clocksystem using stochastic simulation methods and chemical Langevin equations. It is found that internal noise can induce circadian oscillations, when the corresponding deterministic system does not oscillate. The performance of the noise induced circadian oscillation undergoes a maximum with the variation of the internal noise level, showing the occurrence of internal noise stochastic resonance. Since the magnitude of the internal noise is changed via the variation of the system size, these phenomena also demonstrate a kind of system size resonance.
On intervector angle descriptions and their numerical implementation for solving molecular problems119(2003); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1623485View Description Hide Description
The angular parametrization comprising only bending angles is considered in detail. For tetratomic and pentatomic molecules, we first study the volume element, coordinate ranges, and parity-adapted basis functions. In contrast to the common belief, we show that the intervector angle description allows to uniquely specify the internal molecular geometry and to model tunneling through planarity. The redundant intervector angle and coordinate interdependences are explained by simple geometrical means. Principal difficulties arising from the interdependent coordinate ranges obstruct the numerical implementation of the description studied, since the angular basis functions are nonorthogonal and the overlap matrix may easily become ill-conditioned. For the symmetry-adapted representation, the origin of multiple solutions for the redundant coordinate is discussed. We additionally show that the redundant coordinate plays an important role by the characterization of the internal molecular geometry of pentatomic molecules described in terms of the cosines of the intervector angles.
Representation of the exact relativistic electronic Hamiltonian within the regular approximation119(2003); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1623473View Description Hide Description
The exact relativistic Hamiltonian for electronic states is expanded in terms of energy-independent linear operators within the regular approximation. An effective relativistic Hamiltonian has been obtained, which yields in lowest order directly the infinite-order regular approximation (IORA) rather than the zeroth-order regular approximation method. Further perturbational expansion of the exact relativistic electronic energy utilizing the effective Hamiltonian leads to new methods based on ordinary or double perturbation theory (n: order of expansion), which provide improved energies in atomic calculations. Energies calculated with IORA4 and IORA3(2) are accurate up to Furthermore, IORA is improved by using the IORA wave function to calculate the Rayleigh quotient, which, if minimized, leads to the exact relativistic energy. The outstanding performance of this new IORA method coined scaled IORA is documented in atomic and molecular calculations.
Extended Hellmann–Feynman forces, canonical representations, and exponential propagators in the mixed quantum-classical molecular dynamics119(2003); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1624062View Description Hide Description
Analytical expressions of the Hellmann–Feynman (HF) forces in the quantum-classical molecular dynamics (QCMD) are evaluated and analyzed. The conventional expression of the HF forces is valid in the differential form of the QCMD evolution equations, but the extended formula appears in the context of approximate, time-step propagators. The canonical Hamilton representation of QCMD, and its symplectic and nonsymplectic exponential propagators, are reviewed. Tests for a model proton transfer system are performed in order to compare efficiency of the proposed integration schemes. The most efficient scheme results from separation of either different time scales or different approximation orders for the quantum and classical parts, and also from correct accumulation of the HF forces, corresponding to an improved extended HF formula. We derive the canonical representation and propagators of QCMD in the adiabatic basis set. If the classical and quantum parts of the propagator are separated in that representation, the extended HF forces appear, and are related to transitions between the adiabatic states. Applications to the quantum-classical molecular dynamics are proposed, using multiple protonic and/or electronic adiabatic states.
An efficient method for computation of long-ranged Coulomb forces in computer simulation of ionic fluids119(2003); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1624364View Description Hide Description
Angular averaging of Ewald sums eliminating the nonphysical cubic symmetry of electrostatic field in the uniform ionic system under conditions of computer simulation with periodic boundaries is proposed. The resulting effective potential is central, has simple analytical form and its range is correspondent to the main box size. The approach provides a fast method for computation of electrostatic contribution to the energy of ionic fluids and other dense, uniform Coulomb systems in Monte Carlo or molecular dynamicscomputer simulation.
Conical intersections of three states: Energies, derivative couplings, and the geometric phase effect in the neighborhood of degeneracy subspaces. Application to the allyl radical119(2003); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1623483View Description Hide Description
The properties of the five-dimensional branching space of conical intersections of three states of the same symmetry (denoted i,j,k) are considered. The results of a perturbative model are compared with multireference configuration interaction calculations for three spectroscopically observed states of the allyl radical. Of particular interest is the three-dimensional subspace of the branching space where two states remain degenerate. The energies, derivative couplings and geometric phase effect are studied in the neighborhood of this degeneracy subspace. The degeneracy subspace includes two kinds of conical intersections, i,j and j,k. The existence of a three-state intersection impacts the phase of the wave functions (and the derivative coupling) traversing a closed loop. For example, in the branching space, the number and kind of conical intersections in a surface bounding the closed loop is constrained if the closed loop contains the three-state intersection.
Density matrix functional theory of four-electron systems119(2003); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1623741View Description Hide Description
An approximate expression for the electron–electron repulsion energy of a closed-shell four-electron system in terms of the Coulomb and exchange integrals among natural orbitals and the respective occupation numbers is derived. It constitutes a strict upper bound to the exact density matrix functional, yields energy that is lower than that obtained within the antisymmetrized product of strongly orthogonal geminals theory, and thus is exact for two noninteracting two-electron systems. Its relevance to the general case of closed-shell N-electron systems is discussed.
Restricted open-shell Kohn–Sham theory for transitions. I. Polyenes, cyanines, and protonated imines119(2003); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1623742View Description Hide Description
We present a self-consistent field algorithm for the restricted open-shell Kohn–Sham method which can be used to calculate excited states that have the same spatial symmetry as the corresponding ground states. The method is applied to transitions in polyenes, cyanines, and protonated imines. Excitation energies obtained with gradient corrected functionals are found to be significantly redshifted; the shift is constant within a homologous series. Planar excited state geometries have been optimized for all systems.
Restricted open-shell Kohn–Sham theory for transitions. II. Simulation of photochemical reactions119(2003); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1623743View Description Hide Description
We present first principles molecular dynamics simulations of the photochemistry of butadiene and cyclohexadiene. The excited state is described with restricted open-shell Kohn–Sham theory. We observe cis–transisomerizations for 1,3-butadiene and conrotatory ring opening of cyclohexadiene. The excitation of a sample of several butadiene molecules leads to the formation of an excimer.
Advantages and limitations of Kohn–Sham orbitals as single electron basis for multireference configuration interaction and multireference perturbation theory119(2003); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1624593View Description Hide Description
In the present work we study the performance of orbitals from an effective exact exchange-only optimized potential method, the localized Hartree–Fock approach, in multireference ab initio methods. In the first part local Hartree–Fock orbitals are used to describe the excited states of carbon monoxide, formaldehyde, and acetone in multireference configuration interaction calculations. The local Hartree–Fock orbitals are compared with standard Hartree–Fock orbitals, and those from a gradient corrected and a hybrid density functional. This part mainly tries to analyze possible deficiencies of the local Hartree–Fock orbitals. In the second part of this work the above-mentioned orbitals are tested in multireference perturbation theory second-order. We test to which extent known deficiencies of single state perturbation theory second-order are eliminated in multireference approaches, and then study how well local Hartree–Fock orbitals perform in multireference perturbation theory second-order computations of excited states.
- Gas Phase Dynamics and Structure: Spectroscopy, Molecular Interactions, Scattering, and Photochemistry
Quantum wave packet study of reactive and inelastic scattering between and119(2003); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1624060View Description Hide Description
Using a wave packet method, state-to-state inelastic transition probabilities and initial state specified total reaction probabilities are calculated for the title system on a recent ab initiopotential energy surface. Both the inelastic and reactive scattering probabilities are found to be strongly oscillatory, indicative of the involvement of long-lived resonances that are supported by a deep well. The oscillation becomes less pronounced at higher collision energies and with internal excitation of the reactant molecule. The reaction from the initial state is clearly dominated by the insertion pathway, and this dominance is largely unaffected by the excitation of the reactant rotation or vibration. In addition, low-lying vibrational states of have been determined and compared with spectroscopic data.
Spectroscopic study of by photofragment excitation spectrum119(2003); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1624596View Description Hide Description
Photofragment excitation spectrum of ions has been studied in the wavelength range of 278–328 nm, where the parent ions were state-selectively prepared at the levels by [3+1] multi-photon ionization of jet-cooled molecules at 360.55 nm. The spectrum was attributed completely to the electronic transition of Totally 47 vibronic bands associated to 24 vibrational levels of the state were identified in the present work, most of which were observed for the first time. The sufficient spectroscopic data made it possible to investigate the Fermi-resonance between the and vibrational modes at the state. Based on the assignment, the spectral constants of the state, such as vibrational frequencies, anharmonic constants, and Fermi interaction constant, were determined with relatively high reliability and precision.
Elusive electron affinity of ClF119(2003); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1623474View Description Hide Description
Highly correlated methods were used to obtain the optimized bond lengths and vibrational frequencies of ClF and With convergent quantum mechanical methods, the anion is much more difficult to treat than neutral ClF. Adiabatic electron affinities vertical electron affinities, and vertical detachment energies have been evaluated and compared to the controversial experimental values reported in the literature. Our best prediction for the zero-point vibrationally corrected is
Electronically excited states of sodium–water clusters119(2003); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1624599View Description Hide Description
The lowest electronically excited state of small clusters has been investigated experimentally and theoretically. The excitation energy as determined by the depletion spectroscopy method drops from for the sodium atom down to when only three water molecules are attached to the Na atom. For larger clusters the absorption band shifts back towards higher energies and reaches for The experimental data are compared to quantum-chemical calculations at the Møeller–Plesset second-order perturbation and multireference single and double excitation configuration interaction levels. We found that the observed size dependence of the transition energy is well reproduced by the interior structure where the sodium atom is surrounded by water molecules. The analysis of the radial charge distribution of the unpaired electron in these interior structures gives a new insight into the formation of the "solvated" electron.
Absolute yields of from the dissociative recombination of ions with electrons119(2003); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1623480View Description Hide Description
The flowing afterglow technique has been applied to the dissociative recombination in order to determine the radiative cascade contribution from high-energy triplet states of CO, and to the total yield of the long-lived state. The yields of the states were found to be approximately 18%, 20%, and 0.3%, respectively, of the total yield, which leads us to conclude that of the total yield is due to radiative cascading, rather than direct formation. When combined with our previously reported total yield of the absolute yields of the triplet states become and
Resonance enhanced multiphoton ionization and zero electron kinetic energy spectroscopy of the van der Waals complex: Divergent energy level spacings as evidence for an offset parallel structure119(2003); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1624594View Description Hide Description
The van der Waals complex has been investigated using a combination of (1+1′) resonance enhanced multiphoton ionization and zero electron kinetic energy spectroscopy, supported by ab initio molecular orbital calculations. The observation of extended vibrational progressions of low wave number with diverging vibrational spacings supports an assignment to an offset parallel structure analogous to the 45° canted parallel structures proposed for the nitrogen dimer. The active vibrational mode is assigned to a mixed van der Waals stretch/rocking mode in which the nitrogen solvent undergoes a hindered rotational motion against the DABCO framework in the plane containing the axis in DABCO and the intermolecular axis in The results of counterpoise corrected ab initio calculations support this assignment to the extent that they suggest that a parallel structure is the most stable with a cross structure identified as a transition state. No experimental evidence is found for the existence of other stable structures.
Parallel-tempering Monte Carlo simulations of the finite temperature behavior of119(2003); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1624597View Description Hide Description
The parallel-tempering Monte Carlo method is used in combination with a Drude model to characterize the cluster over the 50–190 K temperature range. Chainlike structures are found to account for about 50% of the population at 190 K, whereas they are unimportant at the temperatures below about 130 K. At the lowest temperature considered, prismlike structures are dominant. Two new low-energy forms of are identified.
Potential energy surface and rovibrational spectrum of dimer119(2003); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1624061View Description Hide Description
Symmetry-adapted perturbation theory (SAPT) calculations were performed to determine a two-dimensional potential for the interaction of the helium atom with the nitrous oxide molecule. For selected geometries, correlated supermolecular calculations were used to verify SAPT data. The ab initiointeraction energies were fitted to an analytic function and rovibrational energy levels of were computed on the resulting surface. Extensive comparisons were made with a literature ab initio potential and rovibrational states in order to rationalize the counterintuitive observations concerning spectra of and in superfluid helium nanodroplets. We conjecture that the greater reduction of the rotational constant than that of is related to the greater potential depth in the former case and the resulting greater probability of attaching helium atoms. An additional factor could be that the secondary minimum on the O side of is 30% deeper than the linear minima in the case of As a by-product of this work, accurate multipole moments of have been computed. The quadrupole, octupole, and hexadecapole moments are significantly different from experimental values and are probably more accurate than the latter.
Full dimensional theoretical study of the torsion-vibration eigenstates and torsional splittings of119(2003); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1624595View Description Hide Description
The vibrations of methanol are studied theoretically via a fully coupled treatment of the small amplitude motions and the large amplitude torsional mode. Van Vleck perturbation theory is used to find a representation in which the coupling between the vibrational states is reduced. The full vibration-torsion eigenstates are obtained subsequently via matrix diagonalization. The convergence of the perturbation theory and variational calculations are discussed. The torsion-vibration energies and the torsional tunneling splittings are compared with available spectroscopic data for all the fundamentals. The unusual inverted torsional tunneling splitting pattern observed spectroscopically for rotationless torsion-vibrational states is predicted by our calculation.
OCS in small para-hydrogen clusters: Energetics and structure with complexed hydrogen molecules119(2003); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1624058View Description Hide Description
We determine the structure and energetics of complexes of the linear OCS molecule with small numbers of para-hydrogen molecules, using zero temperature quantum Monte Carlo methods.Ground state calculations are carried out with importance-sampled rigid body diffusionMonte Carlo and excited state calculations with the projection operator imaginary time spectral evolution methodology. The ground states are found to be highly structured, with a gradual build up of two axial rings as increases to 8. Analysis of the azimuthal density correlations around the OCS molecule shows that these rings are quite delocalized for small values, but become strongly localized for Excited state calculations are made for a range of total cluster angular momentum values and the rotational energy levels fitted to obtain effective rotational and distortion constants of the complexed OCS molecule as a function of cluster size Detailed analysis of these spectroscopic constants indicates that the complexes of OCS with para-hydrogen have an unusually rich variation in dynamical behavior, with sizes showing near rigid behavior, sizes showing extremely floppy behavior, and the larger sizes showing more rigid behavior again. The large values of the distortion constant obtained for are rationalized in terms of the coupling between the OCS rotations and the "breathing" mode of the first, partially filled ring of para-hydrogen molecules.