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Along with Milk & Pepsi, Boo Boo Kitty was one of the running gags on the popular television series Laverne and Shirley.
Boo Boo Kitty was Shirley Feeney's (Cindy Williams) stuffed cat, originally a present to Shirley from her father. It was black and elongated, and wore a big yellow bow tie. Shirley could often be found talking to it, reading to it, carrying it around, or asking it silly questions. Whenever life would dish up a big steaming pile of crap for Shirley, she could also be found taking comfort from Boo Boo Kitty's warm embrace.
Shirley's roommate Laverne Defazio (Penny Marshall) would often use the fact that Shirley talks to a stuffed cat against her in arguments.
Boo Boo Kitty is also the name of Space Ghost's cat. It appeared in an episode of Space Ghost Coast to Coast, in which Michael McKean and David Lander (also known as Lenny and Squiggy) were Special Guest Stars. In the episode, BooBooKitty was carelessly lost and Space Ghost was looking for him (her?).
It turned out that Space Ghost's Boo Boo Kitty was inflatable, and at the end of the show was (quite predictably) punctured.
"Where's my BooBooKitty, you villainous headborne claphole?"
Space Ghost Coast to Coast - Episode Guide Season 4 - Episode 48* - First aired 3 October, 1997 Previous Episode - "BooBooKitty" - Next Episode
Guests: Michael McKean and David Lander Written by: Matthew Maiellaro
The episode opens with Space Ghost (voiced by George Lowe), Moltar, and Zorak (both voiced by C. Martin Croker) having coffee before the show as Zorak explains that his hive exploded. Space Ghost decides to let Zorak sleep on his couch and is excited to finally have company (until Zorak starts emitting a foul order to mark his territory). The opening sequence rolls and Tansut (voiced by Don Kennedy) attempts to act as an announcer but is fired by Space Ghost and ends up crying until just after the introductory sequence completes.
SPACE GHOST: I'm not running a flop house for degenerate bugs! ZORAK: Never judge a bug by its shell. SPACE GHOST: What you see is what you get. ZORAK: Act in haste, repent in leisure. SPACE GHOST: He who hesitates is lost. ZORAK: Help me, Obi-wan, you're my only hope. SPACE GHOST: A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants.
As the show begins, Space Ghost and Zorak's argument over Zorak leaving Space Ghost's toothbrush in the toilet turns into a battle to see just who is the quotemaster. Space Ghost's final retort, seen above, is declared no good by Moltar. Zorak claims he's the quotemaster and another argument/contest ensues, with Space Ghost and Zorak challenging each other with the names of various foods. Moltar informs actor and guest Michael McKean that he'll have to wait because of a roommate quarrel. The argument finishes up when Zorak shouts the invalid breakfast food of Donkey Kong.
Michael McKean finally gets to come out to the set, where Space Ghost lets him "blabber on" about himself. The interview, however, is dominated by Space Ghost's frustration with living with Zorak. "Did you know that living with Zorak is like living in a living nightmare?" There's confusion about how to pronounce Zorak's name from Michael McKean, which strangely enough can't be clarified by Space Ghost or Moltar, and a couple flashbacks to Zorak pestering Space Ghost back at Space Ghost's apartment. In the second flashback, we learn, yet again, that living with Zorak is like living in a living nightmare and that the mantis has let Space Ghost's "Boo Boo Kitty" out of his apartment and it hasn't been seen since. The "Boo Boo Kitty" was a joke on the television series "Laverne and Shirley," on which Michael McKean and later guest David Lander both had parts. Neither of the guests makes any mention of this though.
Michael McKean helps Zorak and Moltar trick Space Ghost into thinking Boo Boo Kitty is in the girls' locker room, so Space Ghost flies off in search of it. Seconds later he returns, having realized there is no girls' locker room.
SPACE GHOST: We don't have girls up here. Where's my BooBooKitty, you villainous headborne claphole? ZORAK: Mwahaha! She's gone! Gone for good! SPACE GHOST: But why? I gave her everything she needed. ZORAK: Everything but love! She hated you! And that's why I set her free. SPACE GHOST: Noooooooooooooooo! Boo Boo! Boo Boo Kitty! I didn't love you enough! I must now lash out at everyone around me! Feel my anger!
After the above dialogue, Space Ghost uses his arm bands to blast Zorak thrice, Moltar twice, and Michael McKean once. Space Ghost's rampage finally halts when he sees David Lander on the guest monitor, talking like his character Squiggy from "Laverne and Shirley." Space Ghost, Moltar, and Zorak burst into laughter after a moment of awkward silence as a giant cat-shaped shadow menacingly approaches the studio outside. Space Ghost, Zorak, and Moltar attempt, unsuccessfully, to figure out who David Lander is. Zorak thinks he's Balki from "Perfect Strangers" and Moltar thinks he's Angie Dickinson. After some brief banter with David Lander, Space Ghost returns to lamenting the loss of his Boo Boo Kitty.
SPACE GHOST: And now I'm having a new thought: One. One is the loneliest number that you'll ever do. [now quietly singing] Boo Boo, you're a fine cat. What a good wife, you would be.
Meanwhile, a gigantic inflatable cat with its tongue hanging out floats by the Ghost Planet Industries building with dramatic music playing! Space Ghost tells Zorak he's no longer his new roommate, to which Zorak responds by marking his territory some more. Space Ghost and David Lander then discuss beef logs, as Space Ghost's shipment of 400 beef logs has just arrived.
SPACE GHOST: I love beef logs, don't you? DAVID LANDER: Oh boy do I. I'll tell you, I really do. SPACE GHOST: Did you ever weigh yourself, then eat a whole beef log, then weigh yourself again? DAVID LANDER: Mm, oh, please I'm hungry, and you're telling me beef log. Oh that's great. SPACE GHOST: Boo Boo Kitty and I used to do that. DAVID LANDER: You ever throw one on the fire just to keep warm? SPACE GHOST: Did you ever make a baby with one? A beef log baby? You ever take 'em and make a little village full of beef log babies and then they all rise up against you and try to kill your head? [awkward silence] DAVID LANDER: Ahm, no. SPACE GHOST: That's when I have to lie down.
David Lander, Space Ghost, Zorak, and Moltar exchange a couple of bad jokes at this point, followed by Space Ghost asking David Lander if he would like to be his new roommate. David Lander says that becoming Space Ghost's new roommate is the primary reason he's on the show and Space Ghost is once again excited about having a roommate. In the window behind the set, we, the audience, see the giant inflated Boo Boo Kitty drift by, while Space Ghost asks David Lander if he would like to put on a pressure suit to go outside and look at his interplanetary monument to the safety pin (which Boo Boo Kitty is casually floating towards).
Moltar points Boo Boo Kitty out to Space Ghost, who thinks it's come crawling back to him. Moltar then points out that it's drifting "precariously close" to Space Ghost's interplanetary monument to the safety pin. Shocked, Space Ghost screams "no" for 23 seconds, takes a breath, and resumes screaming "no" until 4 seconds later when Boo Boo Kitty punctures itself on the pin and goes flying off, deflating. Moltar and Zorak confront Space Ghost about his letting Boo Boo Kitty die.
MOLTAR: I think you wanted her to die. SPACE GHOST: Well, I guess we'll never know, 'cause now I have a new pet! And he's the best and most favourite pet I've ever had! Billy the porpoise! See you back at the ranch, roomie! It's pizza night! [SPACE GHOST flies away] DAVID LANDER: Yeah, where do you guys go to eat? ZORAK: Rock'n'Bowl. Pizza in a cup. It's good.
The show ends with the image of space and relaxed cowboy/western-type music playing. A paper cut-out of Space Ghost riding a porpoise appears, attached to a popsicle stick. With porpoise/dolphin noises in the background, Space Ghost and Billy the porpoise arc across the screen twice, with Space Ghost yelling "Yippie ki-yi-yay! Merry Christmas, everybody!" The credits roll (to a tune by Man... or Astro-man?).
*The episode is marked as 45 at the end but it is preceded by 47 episodes, not merely 44.
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How much does NBC's "America's Got Talent" love Adrian Romoff? Enough to give him the opening slot of its Season 9 premiere this week.
Performing a headbanger version of "Flight of the Bumblebee" on electric piano, the prodigy had judges impressed before even playing a note.
Informed he was already in eighth grade, Heidi Klum asked, "You're that smart?"
"According to reality, yes," Adrian replied, matter-of-factly.
Adrian, 9, and precocious as they come, spent the first six years of his young life in Pittsburgh and now lives in Atlanta with his mother, Olga. His is a name well-known in these parts; uncle, Jeffrey, is president and CEO of UPMC.
An aspiring scientist, Adrian was introduced in the opening moments with a feature interview. This was followed by some brief questions and answers with the judges at Madison Square Garden that had everyone in the crowd laughing at his "kids say the darndest things" patter.
"Well, you can see we're intrigued already," Ms. Klum said. "... Now, win us over with your music."
Removing his wire-frame eyeglasses, Adrian launched into a heavily synthesized version of the classic. When he was done, judge Howie Mandel stood up and yelled "Woooo!"
But Howard Stern was not impressed.
"I am utterly and thoroughly confused," he said, explaining there was so much going on, audibly, it was difficult to assess Adrian's keyboard skills.
The boy then played a second number: Chopin's Grande Valse brilliante in E-flat Major, Op. 18.
This time, even Mr. Stern applauded.
Within 12 hours of the show's 8 p.m. Tuesday broadcast, a YouTube video of Adrian's performance had close to 25,000 views. By 8 a.m. Thursday, it was 138,000.
Adrian, who has played piano at Carnegie Hall, charmed the audience by just being a kid. With a vocabulary that likely exceeds that of most viewers, he said things like "We don't need another machine in this world, we need emotions."
"Your act is not just about playing the piano. It's about talking to the audience, because man, you had me at 'Hello,' basically," said Mel B, the panel's fourth judge.
If Adrian was the youngest star of the night, native New Yorker Mike Greenstein was the eldest. Mr. Greenstein, 93, was once part of a family strongman act, billed as "The Mighty Atom."
He brought his "lady friend" along to the audition, which consisted of his pulling a car, occupied by three people, with his teeth.
Mr. Greenstein promised that if he returned, it would be with an open-bed truck, large enough to hold 20 or 30 folks. The judges put him through, so stay tuned.
• The "MasterChef" run of Meadville native Gavin Edmondson was brief, even by reality show standards. One of 30 contestants manning the cook stations when Season 5 of the Fox program debuted on Memorial Day, Mr. Edmondson was the first to go.
Judges announced that during the first cook — signature dishes — they would be cutting a few folks before the hour was up. Although one of the contestants was called out for throwing scraps on the floor but still received an apron, the crime of unsalted food was deemed more offensive.
"Chicken liver, bland!" yelled judge Gordon Ramsay as he tasted Mr. Edmondson's dish-in-progress. "It's just not 'MasterChef.' "
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The Gustavus softball team went 4-2 last week against tough competition, with three of the four wins coming courtesy of the pitching of Hannah Heacox (Stillwater, Minn.). The Gustie junior went 3-0 in four appearances with a 3.04 ERA and all three wins coming via complete games. She struck out 29 batters while allowing 10 runs on 16 hits and 12 walks in 23.0 innings pitched. For her performance the MIAC sports information directors honored Heacox Monday with the MIAC Softball Pitcher-of-the-Week award.
Softball Splits At Central
The Gustavus softball team wrapped up the Central Invite on Sunday with a doubleheader against host Central and split the games. The Gusties won the first game 6-2, but lost the second 8-0 in five innings to move to 10-6 overall.
Softball Wins Two At Central Invite
The Gustavus softball team started the Central College Invitational with a pair of wins Saturday - 6-4 over Dubuque followed by a 7-3 decision over Buena Vista to improve to 9-5 on the season.
Softball Heads To Iowa For Four Games This Weekend
The Gustavus softball team has four non-league games this weekend in Iowa. The Gusties take on Dubuque (1 p.m.) and Buena Vista (3 p.m.) on Saturday in Oskaloosa and then head to Pella on Sunday for a 1 p.m. doubleheader against Central.
Softball Splits MIAC Opener With Bethel
The Gustavus Adolphus College softball team split its MIAC Opener with Bethel University on Monday afternoon at Ona Orth Complex. The split moves the Gusties to 7-5 overall and 1-1 in the conference, while the Royals are now 6-10 and 1-1.
Softball Begins MIAC Play Today At Bethel
After 10 non-league games and a week of rest, the Gustavus softball team begins Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference play at 3:30 p.m. today in a doubleheader at Bethel University. The Gusties enter the contests with a 6-4 overall record, while the Royals are 5-9.
Softball Wraps Up Tucson Invite With 6-2 Loss To UW-Eau Claire
The Gustavus softball team concluded the Tucson Invitational Sunday with a 6-2 loss to UW-Eau Claire, moving to 6-4 overall. The Blugolds took an early 4-0 lead after the first two innings, which proved to be too large of a deficit for the Gusties to come back from.
Softball Splits Day Three At Tucson Invite
The Gustavus softball team split a pair of games Saturday at the Tucson Invitational, losing to UW-La Crosse 7-4 before beating Crown 6-0 to move to 6-3 overall on the season.
Softball Edged By UW-La Crosse 2-1
The Gustavus softball team was not able to hold on to a slim early lead Friday at the Tucson Invitational, falling to UW-La Crosse 2-1 to move to 5-2 overall on the season.
Softball Splits Day One At Tucson Invitational
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Senate President Pro Tem Joe Scarnati, R-Jefferson, told reporters during a wide-ranging interview that he's heard that Gov. Tom Corbett's anticipated plans for privatizing liquor sales and for finding more transportation infrastructure dollars may be connected as supporters attempt to drum up votes.
"I think that that is a showing of bad faith and quite frankly, I think that people are sick of Washington-style politics," Mr. Scarnati said. "I'm not going to play the game. I want transportation done. It should rise and fall on its own merits."
He urged approval of a transportation funding plan before the June budget negotiations if possible, noting that the issue continues to have "great bipartisan support."
"If we delay this into June, we delay $300, maybe $400 million extra going into roads and bridges this fiscal year," he said. "I think we've talked about it enough."
He did not list privatizing liquor sales as a top priority, but said modernizing those sales should also be pursued to find savings.
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The Senate GOP leader also expressed some skepticism at tying public-school funding too closely to accomplishing certain pension reforms, an approach that has been indicated by the governor and his budget secretary in recent days.
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"Mako Mermaids," Sequel To Global Smash Hit Series "H2O - Just Add Water" Coming Exclusively To Netflix In July
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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., June 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX), today announced "Mako Mermaids," a new adventure from the creators of global hit teen series "H2O - Just Add Water" is splashing down on July 26 exclusively on Netflix, the world's leading Internet TV Network.
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"We are thrilled to be the exclusive home of 'Mako Mermaids' in all Netflix territories," said Netflix Chief Content Officer, Ted Sarandos. "'H2O' hit an amazing chord with teens around the world who love the clever mixture of action, comedy and romance that Jonathan Shiff and his talented team have created."
"Netflix is the perfect home for 'Mako Mermaids'," said Shiff who produced the 26 episode series in association with Screen Australia, Network Ten, ZDF Enterprises and Screen Queensland. "Our fans love to watch the show how and when they want and they often return again and again to enjoy their favorite episodes."
"'Mako Mermaids' will delight the hundreds of millions of fans around the world who have fallen in love with the world created in 'H2O' and we are really pleased to make the series available on such an innovative platform as Netflix," said Fred Burcksen, Executive VP and COO of ZDF Enterprises, who are in charge of international sales of the series and brokered the deal.
Following on where "H2O – Just Add Water" left off, mischievous teen mermaids Lyla, Nixie and Sirena, guardians of Mako Island, fail to stop 16 year old boy Zac from falling into the sacred Moon Pool and becoming a Merman. Risk being cast out forever, the mermaids must get legs, venture onto land and take back Zac's new powers.
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A quick Google search for "World Series bullpens" shows why the Yankees should have been custom-built for this Fall Classic. From national publications to wire services to completely uninvolved cities, the focus leading into this World Series — the story of how the Cardinals and Rangers got here — is relief pitching.
Didn't the Yankees spend their offseason building an unbeatable bullpen? Wasn't that still a unquestioned strength even after injuries to Joba Chamberlain and Pedro Feliciano. Didn't the Yankees have a bullpen to matchup against any other in the game?
In the division series, the Yankees relievers pitched 23.2 innings — counting Ivan Nova's Game 1 appearance — and those pitchers allowed a .185 opponents batting average for a 0.93 WHIP. Those are better numbers than the Rangers relievers have this postseason, and only slightly worse than the Cardinals. Dave Robertson, Rafael Soriano, Boone Logan, Phil Hughes and Mariano Rivera combined for one run on four hits and no walks through 12.2 innings.
Know which team's bullpen allowed the lowest opponents batting average this postseason? The Rays. The first team eliminated.
You really can't predict baseball.
The Rangers and Cardinals played in postseason series in which relief pitching was key. The national narrative is right, those teams wouldn't have gotten this far without their bullpens.
But that doesn't mean bullpens make all the difference. Not always, anyway.
The Yankees' division series didn't hinge on the bullpen, it hinged on the Yankees needing a key hit in a big spot. Without that hit, all the scoreless eighth innings in the world weren't going to make any difference.
The Yankees were equipped to follow the Rangers' and Cardinals' path to the World Series, but they didn't go that route. They might have been built for this Fall Classic, but every game is different, and every series is different, and the Yankees are still waiting for that big hit.
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Raised Beds In The Chicken Run. Plus, What Grass Or Cover Crops To Plant For Chickens
Last year we built a nice, big run for our chickens, to protect them from the hawks and foxes that unfortunately picked off most of our free-range flock. It was full of grass and so nice to have them foraging around in without the worry of being attacked.
Unfortunately, it took about a week for them to completely destroy all vegetation in their yard, and they were down to bare dirt. And when it rained, mud… for days.
And with the first heavy snow we got this winter the entire run was collapsed, and the chickens were set free again. So, it's back to the drawing board for us.
I LOVE the idea of free-ranging our flock, but I've come to realize that for us it just isn't practical…
1. The hawks pick them off like a fast food joint.
2. The foxes get what the hawks don't.
3. The chickens don't know how to stay out of my garden beds, or my flower bed.
4. When they start laying in the woods it can be impossible to find those precious eggs.
5. If any of the hens go broody, and decide they're gonna sit on a clutch of eggs to hatch, I'd much rather she be protected in the coop than out in the woods completely exposed to predators for weeks on end.
And so, we have got to get them back under a protective cover. But we have to find a better way of doing things. I was thinking we could section off their run, plant grass on both sides, and then rotate them around so they have a constant supply of forage. But it would take a lot of materials to build a run like that.
I also thought about building a chicken tractor (a moveable coop), but I don't really wanna have to worry about lugging a chicken coop around the yard every so often. Plus, the only place I'd really want them digging is in the garden where they would benefit the soil, which just wouldn't be practical.
These options sound like a lot of trouble to me. Not to say I won't end up trying them one day, but for now, I'd just like to have the coop and the run and leave the chickens there.
I was searching the internet tonight to find which grasses (or other cover crops) would be most beneficial to plant for chickens, when I came upon a fantastic idea: building raised beds of fresh feed crops to put in the run with the chickens.
Instead of planting grass in the chicken run and having them tear it all up in a matter of days, you would build some shallow raised beds to put in with the chickens, plant the crop of choice in the beds, and cover them with a poultry wire. (Kinda like what I've got pictured above, only this was a chainlink fence we used to cover our strawberry bed. You get the idea.)
When the grass or whatever you plant grows, the chickens will only be able to eat what comes through the wire on the top of the box. They will still get their fresh forage, but won't be able to scratch it to oblivion.
Isn't this genius??!!
Well, I think so, anyways.
So I'm gonna try it.
It may turn out to be a total failure. But it's plan A for now.
To deal with the mud in the rest of the run I'm gonna cover it with a constant thick layer of leaves and grass clippings. Not only will this help to keep the run sanitary, but it will also provide a perfect breeding ground for worms and other little bugs for the chickens to scratch and peck at.
Now… to get Jerry to work on that chicken run!
It may be months before you see pictures of this project finished folks. But I was so excited about the idea I wanted to share it with you now.
I'm still not sure what I want to plant in the beds. I'll probably have two or three covered raised beds in their run. Some suggested crops for chickens are:
- Rye Grass (make sure it's suitable for pasture!)
- Legumes
- Wheat
- Rye
- Oats
- Barley
- Alfalpha
- Clover
- Kale
- Mustard
- Buckwheat
So, whaddya think? Don't you just love this idea?! Any other suggestions for me?
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I am in the planning stages of making a run for my 5 chickens I will get next spring. My problem is I have grass with a sprinkler system. I like the idea of the chicken wire over the grass, but this will be a permenant run. Will it soon turn muddy? Thank you for all your great information on your blog!
Hmmm, just a comment about the grass and leaves your're planning to put in the runs to prevent mud and to give worms and bugs a breeding ground. Good luck with that. My chickens are in small coops and no matter what I have put in there to cover the ground, they do their scratching 'thing' that they do and decimate it very quickly. Then it's back to bare dirt. And forget about the idea of worms….the chickens will make sure no worms have a chance to survive. My favorite thing to put in the coops is old hay for a ground covering, but they soon (very soon) take care of that. I think they are eating it. I suppose if you have an unlimited supply of grass, hay, clippings, etc and add it every day you might be able to keep the dirt covered but the way they love to scratch around, I can't see worms or bugs ever having a chance to survive. Chickens can be such nuisances but I love them just the same.
I'm afraid the chickens will have really bad feet problems walking on that wire so much.
We also have trouble with losing chickens when letting them out to forage.
A chicken scratching and foraging is a happy chicken though so we came up with a compromise. We let them out a few hrs. before they would normally go in to roost. In the summer we usually let them out after dinner and in the fall it's when I start to put dinner together. Since it's close to their "bed time" they don't stray too far from the coop and they really enjoy that couple hours of freedom.
As for the muddy run…we threw a tarp over the top of the run which is also fenced. This worked well but there should be some slope so the water from rain or snow doesn't accumulate. -
Hi Kendra – My husband is in the process of building a chicken coop, my friend is giving us four red hens. Can't waite!!! love your idea of the raised beds so the chickens have a supply of greens. Going to try this and will let you know how it goes.
That sounds like a really great idea. Not to mention that the chicken poo will fall down and fertilize the plants. Did you install a sprinkler system, or how do you plan to water the plants?
We are in the process of building our coop and run and THIS solves so much of my problems. I am very happy I found this thanks!
Comfrey. Bocking 4 Comfrey. High in protein, good for poultry. I recommend it.
I like your idea a lot. I think I might borrow it!!
Aha! You may have just solved my problem, and I may successfully win the argument over chickens (our place is in the woods, so free-range won't work). I second the Alfalfa idea– seems practical beyond anything the chickens could want.
You should check out Joel Selatin's self-sufficient farm, called Poly-Face Farm. We started our new little farm adventure about the time you guys did, and now we're seeing how we seriously need some expertise to go learn from. They offer field trips with kids free, and we're just making a fun family vacation of it. But he also has lots of videos to be viewed freely on the internet. The guy is a genius!! (And btw, a Christian homeschool family)
What a clever idea!
I'd just make sure that you have a very generous and enticing roosting system otherwise I could see them roosting on the wire and then you'd have droppings burning/caking up on the plants before they have a chance to flourish.
I like the idea of alfalfa. It has the same about precent protein found in commercial laying mash/crumbles, will fill in the area, responds well to many cuttings, and is attractive.
I think the grains come in at about 12% protein and the legumes at 24%.
This is a great idea- might just have to try it! We can't really free-range ours either… The dogs would have them in 2 seconds flat…
That sounds like a good idea! We put pasture our chickens and havn't had but a couple taken by the chicken hawks…they dogs keep the away usually…but we always put them back in at night. Once ours are used to laying in the hen house they will come in all the way from the fields to go back in to lay…We planted alfalpha orchard grass mix a few years ago the goats chickens and turkeys like it…the pigs just like to root it up LOL…
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The follow-up to Capcom's well-received RPG Dragon's Dogma will be released in a matter of months.
The publisher confirmed that Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen will arrive in the UK and Europe on April 26th, according to VG247. That's three days after the US release on April 23rd.
It will be released both digitally and as a boxed product and will retail for £19.99. The expansion adds a new area to the game world, more quests and new enemies, as well as extra items and abilities for the Pawn sidekicks.
Capcom also confirmed players will be able to use their original Dragon's Dogma save with Dark Arisen, allowing their characters to earn new high-level skills.
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Hay Day is an app for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. It is very popular and fun. If you're just starting, read this article!
1Download the app if not done already. It is free from the App Store.
2Create a Game Center account if not done already. This will allow you to make friends on Hay Day without having to use FaceBook.
3Create your farm name.
4Learn from the game's tutorials on how to plant plants, feed animals, purchase items, and collect goods. Some things will not be covered, because some things are unavailable until you reach a certain level.
5Plant and collect as much as you can! Occasionally customers will visit your farm and pay you money for your crops and other goods. You can also sell them at your roadside shop (once you reach Level 8) to other users and can complete deliveries. (Level 8)
6Advance levels. To advance levels, you need experience points. To get experience points, you can harvest crops, collect goods from animals, complete deliveries, sell to visiting customers, and many other ways! The more levels you advance, the more features of the game will be available!
7Have fun!
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Where is the newspaper located in Hay Day?wikiHow ContributorThere is a mailbox at the end of your drive. Click on it, then thumb through the pages until you find the newspaper.
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How can I make more cotton?wikiHow ContributorYou can plant it to earn more or use gold to buy it in the newspaper, if there is any there.
How do I get more diamonds?wikiHow ContributorYou can buy them or watch videos or some times you can trade with the people that walk up to your house.
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- Make a lot of food for your animals and have it ready for them! This way you won't have to wait for food to be made while your animals are hungry!
- Spin the wheel of fortune! You could win money or other free items. Also, if you spin it every day for 7 days in a row, you will get an award!
- Don't waste your money (YOUR money, not Hay Day money). It may be tempting to purchase more diamonds and money, but you shouldn't buy too much.
- Don't waste diamonds. They do allow you to speed things up, but using them too much can lead you to having less and less.
- Watch out for foxes. They might eat your chickens. It's better to be safe than sorry, so whenever you see one, tap it repeatedly until it leaves.
- Don't time travel too often. It could mess up your time shown on your system and could mess up your game if you try to change it back!
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Resume: Inter-organizational collaboration is an organizational form that is used by an increasing number of firms to meet a wide range of organizational aims (Hagedoorn 1996; 2002; Narula, 2004; Casson and Mol, 2006). Inter-organizational alliances are a preferred way of sourcing a variety of resources (Eisenhardt and Shonhoven, 1996; Gulati, 1999; Van de Ven and Walker, 1998), and a prominent view of the strategic alliance literature suggests that inter-firm collaboration has a special strength in serving as a mechanism by which a firm can leverage its skills, acquire new competencies, and learn (e.g. Kogut, 1989; Hamel, Doz, and Prahalad, 1989; Huber, 1991; Larsson, Bengtsson, Henriksson, and Sparks, 1998; Lyles, 1988; Powell and Brantley, 1992; Inkpen and Tsang, 2008). As firms collaborate at an increasing rate (Khanna et al, 1998) it becomes still more important to understand how these firms can be instrumental in organizing and governing the various collaborative knowledge processes that take place in alliances. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7416 Filer i denne post: 1
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[OT] MIDI Program Change malfunctions in QuickTime
This is only tangentially related to some stuff I am working on for Max. I figure if anyone can help, it'll be some MIDI/Mac gurus on this list.
I am generating MIDI files, and I want them to be easily playable by anyone without special software. So on Mac that means using QuickTime to play the MIDI file. It also seems like the QuickTime is the standard MIDI plug-in for web browsers.
My problem is QuickTime does not handle MIDI program changes correctly. I put together a simple test case, it's just the notes C D E F and before each note it changes the MIDI program to 0, 10, 20, 30 respectively. So every note should sound different. I have tried playing this MIDI through:
– a hardware synthesizer (using Logic and Max to play the MIDI)
– SimpleSynth (using Logic and Max to play)
– AU DLS Synth (using Max to play)
– WinAmp
– Windows Media Player
(when using Max to play, I just connected a [seq] to a [midiout])
In all these cases, the playback occurs exactly like I would expect. But when I play it with QuickTime, on either OS X or Windows, it does not play correctly. It seems the program change messages lag behind by one note. I tried delaying the note-ons so that the program change would occur well before the note, but that doesn't make a difference. I also tried sending extra program change messages to try to force QuickTime to do the right thing. No dice.
It seems strange that Max -> AU DSL Synth works, but QuickTime does not. Isn't QuickTime also using the AU DSL Synth? I am forced to conclude that QuickTime is buggy and can't handle basic MIDI playback! I have version 7.5.5.
I'm going to cross post this to Apple's forums and submit a bug report, but from past experience with submitting bugs to Apple, I bet this will not be fixed for many months/years, if at all.
So I am wondering:
– Has anyone here encountered this issue?
– Anyone know a workaround?
– If not, what are some alternatives for MIDI playback on Mac and in a web browser?
Thanks for any help. I've attached my test file in case anyone wants to look at it. I was using custom software to generate this but I wanted to rule out bugs in my software, so this attachment was produced from Logic. I got the same behavior when generating the MIDI from my software.
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Study: Education liberalizes religious views
The old wisdom: The more educated you are, the less likely you will be religious. But a new study says education doesn't drive people away from God — it gives them a more liberal attitude about who's going to heaven.
Each year of education ups the odds by 15% that people will say there's "truth in more than one religion," says University of Nebraska-Lincoln professor Philip Schwadel in an article for the Review of Religious Research. Schwadel, an associate professor of sociology, looked at 1,800 U.S. adults' reported religious beliefs and practices and their education.
People change their perspective because, as people move through high school and college, they acquire an ever-wider range of friendships, including people with different beliefs than their own, Schwadel says. "People don't want to say their friends are going to hell," he says.
For each additional year of education beyond seventh grade, Americans are:
•15% more likely to have attended religious services in the past week.
•14% more likely to say they believe in a "higher power" than in a personal God. "More than 90% believe in some sort of divinity," Schwadel says.
•13% more likely to switch to a mainline Protestant denomination that is "less strict, less likely to impose rules of behavior on your daily life" than their childhood religion.
•13% less likely to say the Bible is the "actual word of God." The educated, like most folks in general, tend to say the Bible is the "inspired word" of God, Schwadel says.
Hemant Mehta, the Friendly Atheist blogger at Patheos.com, is skeptical, saying this "raises an eyebrow at everything I've always heard that the more educated you are, the less religious you are. But it must depend on how you define religion."
Schwadel's findings dovetail with findings by Barry Kosmin of Trinity College in Hartford, Conn., a co-author of the American Religious Identification Survey statistics on religious beliefs and the behavior of people with master's degrees, doctorates and professional degrees.
It turns out that on Sunday mornings, "the educated elite look a lot like the rest of America," Kosmin says — just as likely to believe in a personal God or higher power.
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Daniel J. DeNoon Reviewed By Louise Chang, MD May 18, 2009 -- Green tea may be the key to effective anti-HIV vaginal gels, new studies suggest. Triggering the new studies was the recent finding that semen contains a factor -- dubbed semen-derived enhancer of virus infection (SEVI) -- that escorts HIV to the front door of the cells it likes to infect. SEVI is a beta-amyloid fibril formed from a prostate protein common in semen. Other beta-amyloids are implicated in neurological diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. Among the compounds that fight beta-amyloid formation is EGCG -- a highly studied molecule from green tea. Might green tea block SEVI and fight HIV infection? Yes, find researchers Ilona Hauber, PhD, of the Heinrich-Pette Institute for Experimental Virology and Immunology in Hamburg, Germany, and colleagues. In lab studies, Hauber and colleagues showed that EGCG degraded fibrils formed from prostate peptides and stopped semen from enhancing HIV infection. The green-tea molecule did not harm human cells. One of the Holy Grails of AIDS research has been the search for a vaginal gel that women could use to protect themselves from HIV infection during sex. Such a gel would have to cause no irritation, and the active ingredients must thrive in the acidic vaginal environment. EGCG is stable in acidic environments, so Hauber and colleagues suggest that it would be an important addition to anti-HIV vaginal gels, possibly in combination with an anti-HIV drug. Moreover, the researchers note, EGCG appears to have some anti-HIV activity of its own. "EGCG, a natural ingredient of green tea, may be a valuable and cost-efficient inhibitor of semen-mediated enhancement of virus infection, and hence of sexual transmission of HIV," they conclude. The findings appear in the online early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. SOURCES: Hauber, I. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Early Edition, published online May 18, 2009. Munch, J. Cell, Dec. 14, 2007; vol 131: pp 1059-1071. ©2009 WebMD, LLC. All Rights Reserved. |


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People who can't get enough sleep at night are at greater risk of hypertension or high blood pressure (BP), according to a new study. Researchers at the Henry Ford Center for Sleep Disorders, Detroit, US, found that the prevalence of hypertension was greater in insomniacs compared to normal sleepers. Insomnia is the inability to fall asleep or remain asleep.
"The cause of hypertension in insomniacs is due to the number of times the individual wakes up during the night as well as their sleep latency – the length of time it takes to accomplish the transition from full wakefulness to sleep," says Christopher Drake, associate scientist at the Henry Ford Centre, who led the study. "We found that the longer it took the subjects to fall asleep and more times they woke during the night, the more severe their hypertension," adds Drake, according to a Henry Ford statement. About 30 to 40 percent of adults say they have some symptoms of insomnia within a given year, and about 10 to 15 percent of adults say they have chronic insomnia, according to the National Center for Sleep Disorders Research at the National Institutes of Health.
The Henry Ford study compared 5,314 subjects with insomnia to those with normal sleep habits using an internet-based questionnaire. Other study co-authors are Thomas Roth and Ehab Mansoor. Their research will be presented on June 12 at the Sleep 2012 Conference in Boston, US.
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Fake suede boots with big (12.5cm, so big but not drag queen big), glitter-covered heels by H&M. Pretty, funky and cheap and wedges are apparently still big this season.
I'm so glad H&M are selling more shoes nowadays. They always featured brilliant shoes in their displays in store, but for ages, you couldn't actually buy the shoes. Now they seem to have quite a few styles in stock and the vast majority of them are vegan.
You can get these boots and more stuff from the H&M site.
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Dividend Aristocrat bets on 'perennial disappointment' M&S
Job Curtis's City of London Investment Trust has managed 46 years of consecutive annual dividend increases.
Two British household names are attempting sweeping reforms to keep up with 21st century retailing – but while investor Job Curtis has just bought shares in Marks & Spencer, Tesco's overseas expansion remains a concern for the City of London investment trust manager.
Curtis, a value investor who counts Warren Buffett as his 'investment hero', has managed the investment trust since 1991, helping continue a run of 46 years of annual dividend increases. 'I don't know any other UK investment trusts that have done it,' he says, though 'dividend aristrocrats' in the US may have matched the trust's achievement.
Though Marks & Spencer (MKS.L) doesn't make it into the £740 million trust's top-10 holdings – topped by blue chips with heavy exposure to emerging markets including British American Tobacco (BATS.L), Shell (RDSb.L) and Diageo (DGE.L) – Curtis says he bought into the clothes and food retailer's shares in the past week or so.
The company, which has just reported a fall in first-half profits for the second year in a row, has reshuffled its management team, while chief executive Marc Bolland has asked investors for patience as he seeks to turn around the group's struggling womenswear business.
Curtis admitted that in the past M&S had been a 'perennial disappointment', but stipulated that 'I haven't bet the farm on it'.
The fund manager seems less impressed by Tesco, which continues to push through a major turnaround plan after making a surprise profit warning in January.
Curtis cut back his holding in Tesco by a third earlier this year, worrying that the supermarket's management had 'overreached themselves'. Although Tesco is 'Beginning to turn around UK… I'm more worried by overseas'.
But Curtis, who is attracted by long-standing brand names, said he is sticking with a core position in what is 'still a very powerful company'.
Though Curtis says he fiddles with his portfolio less than rival investment trust managers, he has tweaked his top holdings, investing some money from holdings in British American Tobacco and Diageo into BP (BP.L) and HSBC (HSBA.L).
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Nov 13, 2012 at 18:06
This is a core holding for me. Who needs to buy an annuity when there are Trusts like these. Congratulations Job.
report thisNov 13, 2012 at 18:44
You don't need to be an expert to assess M&S, you need to be a Shopper! Try to buy size 12 shoes, queue up behind 9 people for the only kiosk open on a whole floor, assess the so-called qualityof the merchandise and the indifference of the sales staff and you will put your money elsewhere - Debenhams, Asos, House of Fraser....they all seem to have a plan, an enthusiasm and merchandise that compliments the brand. Apart from M&S food, thgis retail operation is drifting into oblivion, still clinging on to a reputation it no longer deserves.
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Nov 14, 2012 at 20:41
Went to M&S to pick up 3 or 4 more of a favourite shirt. Endless stupid stock changes. What's the point, when there's a classic design ? Nothing remotely comparable, 6 months later. An item vaguely acceptable wasn't even on the shelf in my size. Double pathetic. You don't go there anymore with the expectation of finding anything on the shelf that you've tested and want to get more of, and fits. Massive waste of time, every time for 4 years. Drives you upmarket.
CTY is fab. Job take note.
report thisNov 16, 2012 at 23:55
I agree with Miteor.
Is it any wonder that M&S shares are not recovering? The store's offer is so variable. This year women's clothes look better but men's are dire. The homeware department has shrunk to almost nothing in our local branch, probably just as well when nobody is buying their dull offering. And why, when their food is so good and relatively profitable, do they not offer it online?
Yet they still spend a fortune on re-jigging their stores, juggling everything around on new and presumably expensive display stands, so that we cannot find what we are looking for.
I'm a long term shareholder and keep expecting things to get better, but I'm beginning to have my doubts.
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Leading the Republicans in the polls is the former Massachusetts governor and awkwardly backwards Mormon, Mitt Romney. "Now I know this may be pretty controversial," he said in an interview last week, "But I believe we need to end the sex-slave trade in this country. I may not win any awards for saying this, but I think forcing women to have sex against their will to make money for someone else is wrong. If elected--sorry--when elected, I promise to pass laws outlawing sex-slavery. A vote for me is a vote against sex-slaves!"
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Round 4 - Reaches?
Ok, this was a weird draft for me...I didn't do a ton of research before hand and I wasn't around for...ANY of the draft really (just got the family back from Disney last week).
Let me start by saying I liked our draft as a Solid, Not Spectacular one. Upshaw was the only "exciting" pick. Everything else was just good value to plug holes. Most sites seem to say KO should be able to start at OG and Pierce was a good RB choice. Streeter was a good sleeper pick, our 7th round DT was kind've a throwaway as most 7th rounders are, and the Cal Poly CB should be a good returner...
But Thompson and Gradkowski, our Round 4 picks, are being labeled among the big reaches by DraftCountdown.com. I knew Gradkowski was a bit of a reach...heck, GRADKOWSKI HIMSELF was taken back by the early pick, he wasn't even paying attention to the draft yet (http://www.delawareonline.com/articl...ext%7CHome%7Cs). Didn't think Thompson was a big reach, but he was taken before Iloka, who was widely considered the 2nd best FS in the draft.
So, what do people think of these two? I've seen good scouting reports on both which say that Gradkowski just needs seasoning at C but could be a starter in time, while Thompson is listed as a good rangy ST who could become a serviceable starter in time. But I've also seen that Gradkowski was graded as a 6th or 7th rounder, while Thompson was graded around 6th round.
Do you think we reached for these two need picks?.
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Re: Round 4 - Reaches?
You know what they say about opinions....
Trade-down of the weekend: Baltimore trading 29 overall for 35 and 98 overall. In this business, you have to know when to hold 'em and when to fold 'em. Ozzie Newsome does. The Ravens had crushes on two players late in the first round -- Dont'a Hightower and Kevin Zeitler. The cost to trade up from 29 was too steep, the Ravens thought, and so they dealt back six spots with Minnesota and got the guy who even the dumbest mock- and real-drafters had in the first round, Alabama's Courtney Upshaw, at 35. At 98 comes Delaware guard Gino Gradkowski, who could transition to a long-term center (and successor to Matt Birk). When I called around over the weekend asking for players GMs and coaches liked, the brother of Bruce Gradkowski came up a few times, and he'll have the chance to solve a long-term problem for a gritty offensive team.
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Here's why I'll say NO. The Ravens chose Gradkowski @ #98 (3rd pick in 4th round) knowing Ben Jones and Philip Blake (who were both drafted soon thereafter) were still available. Chris Thompson was chosen 37 picks prior to George Iloka. So I must believe that the Ravens picked their guys with a purpose. They didn't make a mistake, they just rated GG and CT higher than the other well known names... Bc
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Re: Round 4 - Reaches?
If Gradkowski ends up starting at center, it won't be a reach.
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I would have done quite a few things differently in this past draft...although I can say that after every draft as the Ravens rarely do what I want them to on the 3rd day every year.
But who's grades? The media's?
That same guy on that same site...despite enjoying the site myself...thought Flacco was a reach in 08.
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Well put, i'll also say they took two guys that seem to have alot more upside then the popular picks at their respective positions...Gradkowski is said to be very athletic on top of being a smart and physical player....Thompson has nice size and measurables and has physical mentality, he certaintly seem to have FS ability but also SS toughness
Re: Round 4 - Reaches?
Reaches cause they went to smaller schools?
Ravens have a few starters from smaller schools
Flacco, Webb, Williams, Birk and in the past Scott and Chester Taylor.
Tons of great players went to small schools vJax, TO, Phil
Simms the list can go on forever. Locally Megget,Bushrod, Raymond Chester, Bruce Laird.
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George Iloka may have been widely considered the 2nd best FS in the draft, but not by the Ravens. They liked Thompson a lot. According to DeCosta, "Christian was a player that we identified early. I think he was probably one of our favorite defensive players, and certainly one of the favorite defensive players on the coaches' board this year . . ."
Iloka is 6'4", 225; Thompson is 6'0", 210, so both are pretty good sized guys for the position. Both are big hitters, but Thompson is the faster and more mobile player, which was probably a key factor for the Ravens. Actually, the Ravens were surprised he was still on the board at that point. I was hoping the Ravens would get him in the 6th round, but there was a lot more interest than I thought.
I also don't think Gino Gradkowski was a reach from the Ravens' board perspective. Yeah, the mock drafts had him going later, but apparently he was also drawing interest from a lot of teams.
Remember, the 4th round picks were 98 and 130 (an untradable comp ppick) and the next pick was also untradable (5th round comp, #169). If the Ravens didn't take Gradkowski with #98 it was likely they wouldn't get him at all. From that perspective he wasn't a reach.
It isn't as if they weren't thought of highly by big college football programs, either. These guys may have been from small schools, but one was a transfer from Auburn (Thompson) while the other was a transfer from West Virginia (Gradkowski).
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