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WASHINGTON -- On a day that had already featured a pair of marathon games elsewhere in baseball and a doubleheader the next day, the Minnesota Twins and Washington Nationals needed to end extra innings in a hurry.
Ryan Doumit made sure they did.
Doumit singled in the go-ahead run, Joe Mauer homered, doubled and singled, and the Twins defeated the Nationals 4-3 in 11 innings Saturday.
"With a split doubleheader tomorrow, the last thing we need on both sides was to go deep into extra innings," Doumit said. "I was fortunate that I got a pitch to hit there in the 11th and put a good swing on it."
Josh Roenicke (2-1) pitched a scoreless 10th inning for the win and Glen Perkins retired Washington in the 11th for his 13th save.
"We executed some, missed on a couple opportunities, but you keep getting yourself those opportunities, somebody's going to get the big hit," Twins manager Ron Gardenhire said. "Today it was Doumit."
The Twins, who were playing their first game in Washington since 1971, have won eight of 11.
Pinch hitter Chris Hermann drew a walk off Craig Stammen (3-2) to open the 10th. Jamey Carroll bunted him to second and Mauer was intentionally walked. Doumit then hit a soft line drive to short center, scoring Hermann.
"It's a nice little cherry on top. I think anybody that kind of follows the game and has a good idea, you knew that that was going to happen," Doumit said of getting the hit after the walk to Mauer. "You knew that once Jamey bunted and Joe's a career .395 hitter or whatever he is."
Doumit has hit safely in 10 of his last 11 games, batting .319 (15 for 47) with three doubles, five home runs and 16 runs batted in.
"He's been swinging the bat really good and we had some opportunities," Gardenhire said.
Jayson Werth homered and former Twin Denard Span added three hits for Washington, which has lost two straight and six of eight. They've scored three runs or fewer in seven straight games.
"It's very frustrating," Washington manager Davey Johnson said. "It's getting my dander up. We're better than this."
The Nationals collected 10 hits, but went just 1 for 7 with runners in scoring position.
"We got some hits, but didn't string them together," Adam LaRoche said. "We need to start getting three and four in an inning, pushing some guys across."
Trailing 3-2, the Nationals tied it against Twins starter Kevin Correia in the seventh.
Anthony Rendon led off with a single and was bunted to second. Kurt Suzuki hit a high bouncer that shortstop Pedro Florimon charged, but he was unable to come up with it and Rendon scored while Suzuki raced to second with a double as the ball rolled into left field.
"Whether he looked off of it or whatever, he just missed the ball. He's got to at least the put the glove on it," Gardenhire said.
Correia pitched 6 1/3 innings in his best start in over a month, allowing three earned runs on eight hits. He struck out a season-high seven and didn't walk a batter.
Mauer broke a 2-2 tie when he hit a solo homer off Washington starter Gio Gonzalez with one out in the fifth.
Gonzalez gave up three runs, two earned, on five hits in six innings. He walked four and struck out seven. He's winless in his last six starts despite allowing more than two earned runs only once during that stretch.
The Nationals broke on top in the third. Span singled with two outs and Werth lined a 1-2 pitch from Correia over the wall for his fifth home run.
Minnesota came back with two in the fourth. After Josh Willingham singled off Ryan Zimmerman's glove, Justin Morneau hit a smash toward first that got by LaRoche. Willingham scored from first as the ball rolled to the right-field corner.
"I didn't make the play. I gave them that one, cost us the game," LaRoche said. "So that one's on me."
Morneau ended up on second on the error and, after Aaron Hicks walked, scored when Brian Dozier singled past a diving Zimmerman.
- The Twins last played in Washington on July 19, 1971, when they lost 5-2 to the Senators. The Minnesota franchise began play in 1901 as the original Washington Senators and left D.C. after the 1960 season.
- Washington RHP Stephen Strasburg (right lat strain) threw a bullpen session Saturday. Johnson said Strasburg had no symptoms from the injury and is on track to throw a simulated game Tuesday in Colorado and start at Cleveland on June 16.
- Johnson said OF Bryce Harper (bursitis) reported the swelling in his left knee was down. Harper will see Dr. James Andrews on Monday for a second opinion on the ailing knee.
- Mauer's homer was career number 100.
- Willingham's run was the 500th of his career.
- The Nationals' Ian Desmond extended his hitting streak to 10 games.
- LHP Scott Diamond (4-4, 4.66) will start the opener of Sunday's day-night doubleheader for the Twins against RHP Jordan Zimmerman (8-3, 2.16). In the night game, a makeup of Friday's rainout, Minnesota's RHP Samuel Deduno (2-1, 3.44) will go against RHP Nate Karns (0-1, 6.00).


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One of the highlights of Day One of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2014 auction was Chennai Super Kings (CSK) buying Ashish Nehra Rs two crores while Brett Lee, one the fast bowling greats of all time, went unsold.
As always, some of the best reactions was found on Twitter. CricketCountry shares some of the best reactions of Nehra's windfall.
Ashish Nehra takes a leaf from Sir Jadeja's book, displays his loyalty to his new team, CSK #IPLAuction pic.twitter.com/RsBD1nOWAq
— The UnReal Times (@TheUnRealTimes) February 12, 2014
Ashish Nehra is CSK's corporate social responsibility. #IPLAuction
— Rajarshi Guha (@guharajarshi) February 12, 2014
As means of redemption for their past doings, #CSK is now involved in philanthropy. #Ashish Nehra
— Ajay Bhāradvāj (@anachronity) February 12, 2014
#CSK have lost great players from their team Funny how they bought Ashish Nehra for 1.5 crores ! Haan runs dena wala bhi toh koi chahiye na
— Sir Cricket (@SirCricket) February 12, 2014
Ashish Nehra must be feeling like Arvind Kejriwal & Brett Lee will be feeling like Dr. Harsh Vardhan.#iplauction #fb
— Gourab Cr Banerjee (@GourabCR) February 12, 2014
#BrettLee unsold and Ashish Nehra sold in #IPLAuction is the reason why they call India "Incredible"
— Ajeet (@imkumarajeet) February 12, 2014
Ashish Nehra – sold. Brett Lee – unsold #ProudIndianMoment #MonkeyGateKaBadla
— Anurage (@anuraage) February 12, 2014
With all those money from #IPLauction, an injury-prone Ashish Nehra can finally buy the vehicle of his dream – ambulance.
— Stereotypewriter (@babumoshoy) February 12, 2014
"There was room for only one Munaf Patel," CSK on why they bought Ashish Nehra and not Munaf. #IPLAuction
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"Gotta love the rhythmic tapping these babies put out. The weight of the water inside makes 'em move like a see-saw. Mankind sure is incredible, huh? They made this thing with the sole purpose of making soothing sounds."
To establish that a Big Fancy House belongs to a family that is both traditionally Japanese and exceedingly wealthy, one can show many aspects of the home that seem extravagant. There's the big yard, the high fence, the sheer size of it. But for something that just screams "Rich Japanese Family" you need The Thing That Goes Doink.
This is a traditional water feature that is found in the yards of Japanese homes, properly called a shishi-odoshi or "deer scare"/"deer-chaser". It has a bamboo cup on a fulcrum that slowly fills with falling water. When it fills, it tips over and empties; when it flips back upright, its hollow back end hits a stone underneath it and makes a distinctive hollow-log "doink" sound. With a simple two-second shot of this device doing its thing, it is established without a doubt that this Big Fancy House is a place of wealthnote and traditionnote .
If the doinker happens to be in a Western home, you can bet that they're a New-Age Retro Hippie who recently converted to Zen Buddhism and insists that it "balances the home's chi" or whatever.note
Don't confuse the sound of The Thing That Goes Doink with that of the tsuzumi, a drumlike instrument used in Kabuki theatre which can be heard in a number of anime. The two sound very alike, but the shishi-odoshi is usually shown when it makes its noise.
Also, don't confuse it with anything going Boink, the machine that goes 'ping!', or Things That Go "Bump" in the Night.
The Thing That Goes Doink is often used in the Aspect Montage.
In addition to indicating a moneyed and traditional household, The Thing That Goes Doink is sometimes used to signal an imminent Hot Springs Episode - a proper Japanese onsen will often sell itself on a "traditional" image, and a shishi-odoshi is part of that, especially what with water logically being rather available at a hot spring.
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Anime and Manga
- Black Butler In the first episode, when they enter the Japanese garden.
- This is justified as the rock garden was a quick fix to replace the ruined garden from before.
- When Alto from Macross Frontier visits his home for the first time in a while, a thing that goes doink is heard in the background.
- It's actually shown in a later episode, confirming that indeed that noise was the thing that goes doink.
- Suruga from Bakemonogatari owns one at her home.
- The Mendou family from Urusei Yatsura are quite possibly the richest people in the world; and they prove this by having multiple shishi-odoshi around various parts of their town-sized palace-and-villa-filled fortress.
- When Kuruma is training Ataru in episode 9, a drunk Tengu lies passed out underneath a Thing That Goes Doink, getting repeatedly doinked in the head by it.
- It's not just drunk - she tied it up there as punishment for sticking her with Ataru as her mate!
- When Kuruma is training Ataru in episode 9, a drunk Tengu lies passed out underneath a Thing That Goes Doink, getting repeatedly doinked in the head by it.
- Tenchi Muyo!: Outside the shrine.
- Sakura's family estate in Sendai, in Sakura Wars. During the first episode of the first OVA series, the sound of the shishi-odoshi is used to punctuate the passing of time as the young Sakura struggles to learn the secrets of her family's style of kendo.
- Kekkaishi has several. Both Tokine's and Yoshimori's houses have one, as does Urakai headquarters.
- Honoka's home in Futari wa Pretty Cure.
- Best Student Council, unusually, has one in the school's women's bathing room. Said school is also very large and very rich.
- Miki's house in Cheeky Angel.
- In the second episode of Saber Marionette J To X one is shown outside a meeting at which Otaru and several townspeople debate whether to hold an upcoming festival in the traditional fashion or add new elements from other countries.
- When the members of the Six Houses of Kyoto meet in Code Geass, one is visible nearby.
- One is prominently displayed in the courtyard of the Aoiya in Rurouni Kenshin.
- There is one in the third episode of Ouran High School Host Club.
- And at the Haninozuka residence in episode 18. Twice.
- Soun has one in Ranma ½. It's not used to show opulence, but more that Soun has a rather traditional house/dojo set up. It was sometimes used to show time had passed. The sight gag of it 'doinking' being used to show time had passed was used in the anime, even when the action was at the Tendos. The Kuno mansion has at least one of them, if not several. Sasuke Sarugakure has to drink from them. The Daimonji school of Martial Arts Tea Ceremony also has one in the anime.
- In episode 34 of Get Backers the owner of a hugh diamond connection has his estate using electrified barbed wire, security cameras, and "Doink".
- In Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Captain Lindy has one... on a spaceship. All part of her Japanophile collection.
- Both Tezuka and Echizen's homes in The Prince of Tennis have them.
- In Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple there is one at Ryōzanpaku and often is a focal point or the only thing heard.
- There's one made of metal on a desert planet in Birth.
- Naruto.
- Every episode involving a flashback from Sasuke, or the Hyuga household.
- In "Shippuden", there's one at the Nara household, as well. Which is confusing since the family that breeds deer has a device that scares deer away.
- Not to mention almost half of the filler stories.
- Bleach.
- Anime episodes involving the Kuchiki house tend to include a water feature to emphasise how ridiculously wealthy Byakuya is.
- Kirinji's healing pool includes a water feature so ridiculously large and convoluted, it effectively creates a waterfall into the pool. The noise it makes is ridiculously loud, as a very annoyed Ichigo discovers.
- There is one in the palace garden in Samurai Pizza Cats. It provides with atmosphere when Speedy Service faces off against a Copy Cat robot.
- Touya Akira's large, traditional house in Hikaru no Go, usually heard (and sometimes seen) when Touya's large, traditional father is given screentime. The sound of water pouring from the thing, followed by the doink, nicely resembles the rustle of a hand in a bowl of Go stones, followed by the 'pok' of a stone hitting the board.
- One can be found in the hot springs at the Hinata Inn in Love Hina.
- Project A-ko has one of these inside the cabin of the "Max 5000" mecha. (It's only shown very briefly, though.)
- In Magic Knight Rayearth Hikaru Shidou's house has one.
- Jyabura's garden has one in One Piece. Note that it's inside a building on a small rocky island.
- In Higurashi: When They Cry there's one on the grounds of the Sonozaki estate.
- Maison Ikkoku: The very aristocratic family of Kujo Asuna have one, naturally.
- Detective Conan: Whenever Kogoro, Ran, and Conan visit the house of a rich client, this is the first thing you see.
- One of these show up in at least one of the later episodes of YuYu Hakusho at Genkai's house-temple-thing. It's probably to show wealth, as her property is revealed in the last episode to be immense.
- Yomi also has one of those at the house where he meets with Yusuke.
- Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu shows one quite prominently at the Yakuza home of Mikihara.
- Nozomu Itoshiki of Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei turns out to be from a traditional and wealthy family, complete with their own doinker.
- Used immediately to show the wealth of the Shishidou household in The Girl Who Leapt Through Space. And we do mean "immediately" - it's the very first shot in the anime.
- In JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Jotaro Kujo and his mother, Holly, have one of these in their house. It's used a couple of times near the beginning, then never seen again.
- The powerful Kannagi family in Kaze no Stigma have one.
- There's one in Shugo Chara! when Amu goes to Tadase's house.
- There's one in the second OVA outside of Kikuchi's house in Haru wo Daiteita.
- In Earth Maiden Arjuna, one proves rather annoying as you keep hearing the doink over a conversation.
- The Takagi estate in High School Of The Dead has one.
- Fruits Basket has the doinky doink thing in the Souma family complex, complete with pretty gardens and paper screen doors. A little bit ironic, considering the whole place reeks of Dysfunction Junction.
- One exists by the Tennouz mansion in Speed Grapher. Since the entire estate is on top of the highest skyscraper around, it can't be for scaring off deer; it's just the icing on the Big Fancy House cake.
- Excalibur seems to have one in Soul Eater at one point. Then again, he isn't the most reliable of sources.
- In episode 13 of Gintama, The Thing That Goes Doink shows up around Hamiko's mansion.
- In Kyou Kara Ore wa!! Riko's house has one as show of wealth (the role gets even lampshaded by a visitor). Mitsuhashi has the habit to trick people into getting doinked in the head, but failed with the son of the above-mentioned visitor... Who got doinked in the chin as he bragged that nobody would fall for that.
- One shows up in the 13th episode of Shiki. It doinks away in the background of an scene with very little dialogue, making the whole thing seem rather awkward.
- In Magic of Stella, Tamaki's house has one of these. Ayame and Kayo learn the hard way that they should never give the impression that they're messing with it.
- There's one at the restaurant where Tsuruya and her father invite Kyon's family for a formal dinner in chapter 28 of Kyon: Big Damn Hero.
- In Boys Und Senshado, the first scene after the Action Prologue features one in Saburo's garden, which is referred to by the Japanese name.
- It also makes an appearance in the snowy courtyard of the House of Blue Leaves, the site of the Bride's final duel with O-Ren Ishii in Kill Bill Volume 1.
Live Action TV
- Mozzie's safehouse-cum-Zen Garden in White Collar is complete with a Thing That Goes Doink (it's in a loft with a great view of Manhattan). It won't be operational for some time, since circumstances required Mozzie bring Peter and another FBI Agent to the safehouse.
- In Game Center CX, the side-segment "To Catch a Catch Copy" uses footage of a Thing That Goes Doink to signify the next round.
Video Games
- The Hazuki residence in Shenmue.
- A modest-sized one can be found and rolled up in the Katamari Damacy game.
- Pokémon
- There is one in the Bug castle in Pokémon Conquest. And it causes balls to fall on the Zen garden, which you can throw at the enemies to damage them.
- Stantler's Japanese name is Odoshishi, which is derived from shishi-odoshi. Rather then being scared off, the deer does the scaring, and its appearance (its antlers are shaped to look like huge glaring eyes) the moves it learns shows.
- When Baiken uses her Instant Kill in the Guilty Gear video game series, the scene abruptly changes to show her and her opponent's silhouettes through the wall of a traditional-style house, with The Thing That Goes Doink in the near foreground. When it goes doink, the opponent dies.
- Things That Go Doink are used as levers and platforms to solve puzzles at various times in Ōkami, to make use of the Water Spout power. In the English version (at least), Issun doesn't know what to call them, either. He clearly likes them though, as evidenced by the page quote.
- He refers to them as "plonks" at multiple points.
- The catch? You're two inches tall, and the things that go doink are now bridges.
- Genuinely enormous ones also appear in several other areas of the game, serving as switches to open doors. (Though in their case, it's more of a BOOM than a doink.)
- In Animal Crossing, you can get a "deer scare" as a piece of furniture. It makes the little doink sound, and is seen in a few different layouts in the residents' houses. Goes with the stone lanterns and mossy rocks of the "Zen Garden" ensemble.
- Jikkyou Oshaberi Parodius has a giant one of these as an obstacle. As befitting Parodius, it uses penguins instead of water.
- In Goemon's Great Adventure for the N64, there was one area (Frog Mountain) that used a giant one of these as the fork in the road (one route behind it, one route above it doubling back) — however, you wouldn't know it unless you bothered to go all the way to the end of the giant thing, which conveniently enough went off-screen.
- The PS2 music/rhythm game Unison has its lead female characters dancing to a traditional Japanese enka song called "Yo Sa Ku". The establishing shot of the performance hall shows one of these underneath a statue of an Eastern dragon.
- There is one (non-functional, sadly) attached to the 'Serenity Squared' fountain that comes in The Sims 2: Bon Voyage.
- Kingdom of Loathing mentions a Thing in a fight with Yakisoba, one of the monsters in the Pastamancer's quest to kill their Nemesis.
- Xenosaga Episode 2 has one of these at the Uzuki residence on Second Miltia; it even moves and goes doink.
- The Nancy Drew game Shadow At The Water's Edge features this as part of the ryokan's garden. An important clue is hidden in one of the bamboo shoots.
- The King of Fighters KYO manga reveals that the Kusanagi family lives in a Japanese Big Fancy House, and they have one of these in the garden.
- Also, there's one of these in the background of Jubei Yamada's stage in Fatal Fury Special.
- In Haruka Utsunomiya's route of My Forged Wedding, the protagonist notices the sound of a shishi-odoshi when she first arrives at the Utsunomiya estate and marvels at how big, fancy, and traditional the place is.
- Warframe clans can decorate their dojo with one of these, called a Shakan Fountain. Sadly, only the water moves so it doesn't make the noise and the hinged part is locked in the downward drain position. Hopefully this will change in the future.
- The Clash of Clans clone Samurai Siege features these on their Essence Wells until they're upgraded to level 5.
Real Life
- An automated thing that goes *doink* can be found in the courtyard of The Enchanted Tiki Room at Disneyland that tells when the next "show" will be.
- A building with a few of these is visible from the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry. They don't go "doink", though, as they're suspended up at the top of the wall.


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West Ham manager Gianfranco Zola admits his struggling side's attacking plans have been left in tatters following Dean Ashton's decision to retire from football because of injury.
Ashton, 26, announced on Friday he would be hanging up his boots after failing in his bid to fully recover from an ankle problem sustained while training with England in August 2006.
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"I always hoped he would be playing for me since the summer," said the Italian, who now has just one fit out-and-out striker in his squad in Guillermo Franco.
"All our campaign during the summer was conditioned to the fact that we were waiting for him. We left a place for him as we strongly hoped he would be back."
He added: "I feel for him and I feel for me as well as I wonder what it would have been like to have a player like him in my squad, as he would have made a big difference for us. That is my sorrow.
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Zola added: "It was painful for me when I retired when I was 39 - he is only 26. To see such a player having to retire is very sad.
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Jan. 14, 2012: We've scoured the Web to find the best and most compelling animal stories, videos and photos. And it's all right here.
Cat Lost on Vacation Walks Home
When they took their motor home on a road trip to Florida's Daytona International Speedway in November, Jacob and Bonnie Richter brought their cat, Holly, with them. But while they were there, Holly got spooked by fireworks one night, and escaped. The Richters searched for their pet for days but had no luck. Finally, they made the 190-mile drive south to their West Palm Beach home. The indoor cat apparently spent the next two months walking home, and was recently found emaciated in a yard just a mile from her owners' home. The woman who found Holly took her to a veterinarian and discovered a microchip with her owners' information, and helped Holly make the final leg of her trip home to the Richters. "It was quite a journey for this little girl," Jacob Richter told Florida's WPBF-TV. "We just can't believe she came home." — Read it at ABC News
Judge Tosses Alaska Polar Bear Habitat Designation
In a written order last week, U.S. District Judge Ralph Beistline ruled that a plan designating more than 187,000 square miles as habitat for threatened polar bears was too extensive. The matter was sent back to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to correct "substantive and procedural deficiencies." The polar bear was the first species to be designated as threatened under Endangered Species Act of 2008 because of global warming. — Read it at the Huffington Post
106 Baby Chicks Wind Up in D.C. Post Office
The Rhode Island Red chicks were headed for Blountsville, Ala., but because of a shipping error, they ended up in Washington, D.C. The shipper didn't think the chicks could survive another long journey, so after spending four days under heating lamps and blankets at the Washington Humane Society, they departed for their new home at Farm Sanctuary in the Finger Lakes region of New York last week. — Read it at Today
Mexican Dog Recovers With Prosthetic Legs
Lemon Pie, a Belgian shepherd mix who suffered terrible abuse at the hands of Mexican drug traffickers, is currently recovering at the Milagros Caninos sanctuary in Mexico City. Found in a trash can about a year ago without its two front legs, the dog can now walk, run and jump thanks to a prosthetic pair. — Watch it at AP via USA Today
U.K. Cat May Be World's Loudest
With a ferocious purr measured at 100 decibels, Merlin the cat is four times as loud as the average kitty. "When I'm on the phone I often have people asking me what on earth the noise is," said owner Tracy Westwood. The current Guinness record holder, Smokey, was measured at 92 decibels, so Westwood is aiming to get the official designation for her 12-year-old rescue cat. — Hear it at the U.K.'s Mirror
Golden Globe Nominees and Their Pets
Even if you watched the Golden Globes last night, you may not have seen some of the nominees' biggest fans. From Eric Stonestreet's Jack Russell Terrier and Beagle mix to Anne Hathaway's chocolate Labrador Esmeralda, check out this gallery of nominees with their furry fans. — See photos at People Pets


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What the War on Drugs does is a more convincing shimmer (yeah, fine, I said it abou them) and that rises out of how they develop a landscape. Like the sonic folk road trip of Wagonwheel Blues or the haunting space and textures of the Future Weather EP, there is a propulsion to these songs. If front man and arranger Adam Granduciel uses synthesizers and keyboards with wild abandon, there's still a radial hum churning away under them. "Best Night," the album's opener melts the warm strum of acoustic guitar with the airy atmospherics and the effect is striking, even if we've heard it from the band before.
These songs don't want to leave the turf, they don't soar upwards so much as they spread across the land. The epic "Your Love is Calling My Name" also recalls things we've heard from the band before -- the fiery drum machine, guitars layered into some obscured wall of sound -- but yet it feels fresh. The lines assert themselves as the song moves, straightening into krautrock repetitions working against the looser "Touch of Grey"-sounding keys. More than its predecessors, this record plays disparate parts against each other, and if the results seem similar its because the band's sound has enough depth that it doesn't need radical reinvention to keep our interest. But more than that, these sonic tensions make for songs that resonate deeper. Though the layers cohere, they fight to do so, and to hear it happen is exciting at every turn.
Never one to rest on what he's already done, Granduciel does stretch his chops here and, in doing so, produces some of the best work on the record. The roadhouse stomp of "I Was There" clears out the static clutter but doesn't miss its chance to thread beautiful guitar lines over its dusty shuffle. "Brothers", a carry-over from Future Weather, gets reshaped here as a thick dream-pop gem from its country ballad beginnings. Closer "Blackwater" is the band's finest moment here, taking the darker textures they explored on their last EP but tightened them up into a bittersweet storm.
Slave Ambient continues themes of wanderlust and searching that were all over the other records, but as Granduciel sings of friends gone, of calling loved ones home, of trying to find his place in the world changing around him, the music behind him seems to be searching too. And in the gems it finds, it braces his longing on the record with a hope that, however long this road goes on, however long the tires whine and the dust kicks up off the back of the car, however many friends come and go, it'll all end where it is supposed to. Granduciel isn't undone by searching, he is strengthened by it. And as you follow him along the the textured, wonderfully arranged path he's laid out, you're bound to find it just a fruitful as he does.
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The worst kept secret in Boston sports these days is Josh Beckett's love and affection for things other than baseball; golf, fried food and Beer. Unless he is trying to do his best Jon Daly impression, Beckett is failing miserably as an employee of the Boston Red Sox.
The Spring, Texas native found himself in bunker, figuratively and literally speaking, earlier this week when reports surfaced about him going golfing with teammate Clay Buchholz after he had been scratched from his upcoming start that Saturday due to lat tightness….hmm. he declined to comment about the reports prior to his start against the Indians at Fenway Park last night which was of no surprise to myself and the rest of the Boston sports world knowing that Beckett redefines the word shameless in the Webster's Dictionary.
Instead, he toed the rubber going a whopping 2 and 1/3 innings giving up seven runs on seven hits while only recording seven outs. Needless to say that kind of performance was not taken kindly by Red Sox Nation as they showered the Texas tough guy with a deafening amount of boo's, and rightfully so. Most people in this world like to redeem themselves and prove people wrong when they are called out for being in the wrong. That's where this sad individual differs from the ordinary. He does not care what people think or say about him. At this point in his career he has won two World Series titles, a World Series MVP and an ALCS MVP to put on his resume. A sense of entitlement is obvious when it comes to describing Josh Beckett. While the Red Sox organization and fans are surely grateful for all the things he has accomplished pitching in that uniform, he is not the pitcher or person he once was. He earned his big pay day in 2010 when he signed his 4 year, $68 million dollar extension with the team based on his accolades in years past. This is the point in time where the "What have you done for me lately?" formula comes into play.
While he may have been talked about in Cy Young discussions at various points during the 2011 season, Beckett's greasy fingertips produced horrible contributions on and off the field in the month of September, these of which are the freshest memories cemented in those who follow this team. He is being paid by John Henry and Tom Warner to perform as an ace not like a chump. With 2012 being his 11th year in the big leagues he has accrued veteran status which most often times in sports means you lead by example for the younger teammates that you go to battle with. Once again that's not the case with big bad Beckett. The guy could not even muster an ounce of accountability when facing the media after last night's joke of a performance that he put on for the hometown crowd. In his mind what he wants to do on his off days is his own business and not a single person should care about what he does. It's downright sickening to encounter an act such as this one going on with Josh Beckett right now. If somebody doesn't speak up in that organization and take initiative in calling out one of their highest paid employees for acting like a nine year old child, this team will continue in the downward spiral it is currently plummeting in.
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I am a 22 year old aspiring sports journalist. I graduated from Hofstra University with a BA in Broadcast Journalism and was born and raised in Norwood, MA, twenty minutes south of the great city of Boston. Sports consume my life in every which way as I have been an athlete since the age of 8 playing organized football, baseball and basketball throughout high school and have been an avid die-hard Patriots, Bruins, Red Sox and Celtics fan. I Interned for the "Mecca of Sports Radio" WFAN 660 AM while in college and also interned for News 12 Long Island. Working as a member of the hardest working sports department in one of the most talented college radio stations 88.7 FM WRHU is the one thing I am most proud of when it comes to my work in the field. My passion and work ethic define who I am as a writer, person and friend which is why I hope to become successful in the sports Broadcasting spectrum in years to come.


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Bellevue Utilities customers will be able to manage their utilities bills online beginning Jan. 3. By registering at MyUtilityBill.bellevuewa.gov, a customer can pay their bill electronically with a credit or debit card, access water consumption history and view account and rate information. Notice of the new service is being included with utilities bills that go out January-February. For more information, customers can call Bellevue Utilities at 425-452-6973.
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I don't know how it managed to get here so fast this year but we are now in the big countdown to Christmas. If you are wondering what to give the keen family history researcher as a present, then membership of a big Ancestry site may be a good idea.
As you are reading this ,then you may be thinking that you would like this for yourself. You could drop a few hints or go the whole hog and buy it for yourself.
Ever since i received a Microwave for Christmas i have either asked for a particular thing or gone out and bought my own present.
Another present that would suit the researcher is the DVD set of the TV series 'Who do you think you are' This has been a TV show that started in the UK and then Australia and America produced their own series. This may be a particular good idea for those of you who live in a cold climate at Christmas.
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Not really much I can do about that, the way the tile entity using blocks are made goes through IC2's system which then gets them marked as IC2's.Not sure if this was intended or not, but searching in JEI with @advanced only pulls up the Sharpened Iron Plate. All the other machines you've added are under the IC2 main label, which is a little confusing when I'm looking to see what specifically you added.
Indeed it would, fixed in the upcoming update.This can be fixed by subclassing AdvShapedRecipe and returning new ItemStack[9]; as getContainerItems();
And found another "problem":
Crafting a Impellerized Roller uses 7 Forge Hammers but the hammers won't get used up. Instead they lose one damage point. Already damaged hammers can not used in the recipe again. So, trash the 7 hammers or use them elsewhere.
Thanks, I'll include it next version.There is Simplified Chinese translation.
Thanks for your work.
Machine translator?Chinese people have a problem with english grammar and similar things. A while ago I had some chinese person who claimed to be working for a microsoft subsidiary contact me, but that person didn't answer to my reply meaning it was a fake. Not to mention that the PM seemed wonky from the get go.
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Organizing Expert and Author to Hold Class at Lift Bridge
Gretchen Fatouros, a local mom and professional organizer, will be conducting a workshop called "Organizing Your Life" on Sunday, January 15th at Lift Bridge Books, 45 Main Street in the Village of Brockport.
The workshop will be held from 1 – 3 p.m. and costs $10 (which includes a take home booklet)
Fatouros published her first book It's All About the Memories: Preserving your Precious Memories for Future Generations in December.
The books is an informative how-to guide designed to help the reader organize their photos.
Fatouros' book marks a major milestone in her second career. A graduate of SUNY Brockport, she was orginally an IT engineer before taking time off to start her family in 2000.
A few years ago when she was ready to return to work she decided to follow her passion: helping other people organize.
Fatouros founded From Clutter to Wow - an organizing service – from her Churchville home. The agency offers one-on-one organizing services throughout Western New York.
Her book and workshops are a way to reach more people in her quest to help them organize their homes, businesses, memories and lives.
Copies of Fatouros' book are available at Lift Bridge, The Book Centre in Spencerport, Flower Barn in Penfield, Amazon.com and CreatSpace.com


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Getting a facial is a monthly routine of beauty conscious women. To maintain that glowing face, women go to various extents. From surgeries to skin treatments, women have tried almost everything to keep a wrinkle free face. Celebrities have brought in many methods to avoid aging. For example botox skin treatment. But, there are few famous celebrities who have gone further to try weird facial treatments only to look gorgeous. Lets check out the list of celebrities who have introduced weird facial treatments.
Snake Venom: This poisonous skin treatment is becoming a rage among aging celebrities. It is believed that snake venom facial is similar to getting botox treatment. Snake venom facial prevents aging and tightens the skin. Snake venom massage relaxes the muscles on the face, around the eyes thus reducing the chances of getting wrinkles. Debra Messing and Gwyneth Paltrow are few celebrities who buy expensive snake venom creams.
Human placenta: Famous celebrities such as Madonna, Katie Holmes and Eva Longoria prefer applying creams having human placenta to get soft and glowing skin free from wrinkles. Placenta increases the production of collagen, a natural way to keep the skin moisturised.
Sperm facial: Nothing can be more weird than a sperm facial treatment. This bizarre facial is preferred by aging ladies to stop getting wrinkles. Sperm is rich in antioxidants and is an effective skin care treatment to have avoid wrinkles.
Leeches facial: This is another weird skin treatment that few celebrities have tried. These segmented worms are left on the skin to crawl and remove dead skin cells. The enzymes of leeches detoxify the skin, prevent wrinkles and softens skin. Demi Moore reportedly got leeches facial treatment to maintain her glowing skin free from wrinkles.
Caviar facial: Celebrities have started getting caviar facial to treat their aging skin and keep the shine on their face for a few more years. Frozen or dried caviar is applied on the face and massaged. This skin care treatment fights aging and helps get smoother skin.
Butt facial: Imagine a facial can also be done on the butt! This weird facial is done to whiten buttocks. If you are a regular visitor to the beach, this bizarre facial treatment can be tried to get rid of dark lines and spots form your curvaceous buttocks. It is a treatment done to treat cellulite and cure acne.
Hemorrhoids: The swollen veins in the lower portion of the anus is also used as a facial treatment. This facial is done to tighten the skin, prevent aging and keep the skin soft. Sandra Bullock is one celebrity who uses hemorrhoids cream on her face.
These are few weird facial treatments that celebrities opt for only to keep the glow and tightness of their skin intact. Do you know of some other bizarre skin treatments?


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A barcode is an optical machine-readable representation of data, which shows certain data on certain products. Originally, barcodes represented data in the widths (lines) and the spacings of parallel lines. In this post we have gathered some of great photographs and artworks inspired by Barcode, we hope that you will like this collection, feel free to share your thoughts with us.
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Excerpt: Dirty South: OutKast, Lil Wayne, Soulja Boy, And The Southern Rappers Who Reinvented Hip-Hop, Wherein Scarface Recalls His Mental-Health-Ward Days
Also-beloved friend-of-SOTC Ben Westhoff's new book, Dirty South: OutKast, Lil Wayne, Soulja Boy, and the Southern Rappers Who Reinvented Hip-Hop, will be available on May 1st from Chicago Review Press. This excerpt focuses on Southern pioneers Geto Boys and particularly beloved rapper Scarface, with whom Westhoff spoke not long before the emcee was incarcerated for failure to pay child support.
Southern rap's gangsta roots can be traced to one group: Geto Boys. There's nary a thug wannabe who didn't learn something from these Houston trailblazers, who helped put hardcore hip-hop on the map. They were every bit as tough as gangsta rap pioneers N.W.A and Ice-T -- the media's faces for late eighties gangland menace -- and even more twisted.
The group was masterminded by a luxury-used-car salesman named J. Prince. Born James Smith, Prince has also founded a condom company, managed champion boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr., and donated millions to various local causes. But rap will be his legacy, and he possesses impeccable taste when it comes to the discipline, having fostered a who's who of Texas spitters, including Pimp C, Bun B, Trae, Z-Ro, Big Mello, Lil' Flip, and Devin the Dude. Though he hasn't published many runaway bestsellers, he's hasn't had many duds, either, and his Rap-A-Lot Records is hip-hop's longest-running independent imprint.
Some fear Prince, but many sing his eternal praises. Count former Rap-A-Lot artist Ganksta N-I-P among the latter, he a pioneer of the horrorcore rap subgenre that would influence the Geto Boys. One night in 1991 Prince saw him win a rap contest at a South Park spot called Club Infinity, and after the performance asked him to come into the men's room for an audition. Joining them in the quieter, cramped space, N-I-P says, were some twenty men, "bodyguards and highly ranking Rap-A-Lot officials," he remembers.
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N-I-P gave an impassioned performance, "breaking mirrors, hitting up against the wall," and Prince was impressed. They met the next morning in the club's parking lot, where Prince handed him a $20,000 check and signed him to a three-album deal. "I love him to this day," N-I-P says. "If I needed a car, he provided it. If I needed money, he provided it."
But it was Geto Boys who proved to be Prince's greatest creation. As legend has it, in the mid-eighties he promised his younger brother Thelton and some of his buddies that he would release their rap record if they finished high school. Thus was born the original Ghetto Boys, whose members dressed like Run-DMC and were influenced by Miami and New York rap. Their song "Car Freak" got some local play. Featuring giant bass and goofy ad-libs, it's not gangsta but it is funny. "See, if you're walking down the street/ There's no conversation," it goes. "The girl wants a man with some damn transportation."
They didn't make much of a splash, but in the late eighties they changed the spelling of their name and shuffled their lineup; from the beginning Prince saw the group as a series of interchangeable parts. Staying on was DJ Ready Red, a New Jersey native who was a fan of pioneers Afrika Bambaataa and Grandmaster Flash. Though he would be the underappreciated architect of Geto Boys' raw, atmospheric compositions, he departed before they broke big, due to financial disputes with Prince.
Geto Boys' MCs included Bushwick Bill, a dwarf born in Jamaica who emigrated to America with his family when he was five and came up as break-dancer in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Though initially taken on as the group's dancer and hype man, after his rapping talents proved first-rate he was invited to become a full member. In fact, he became the group's secret weapon, by way of mesmerizing chants and gory, over-the-top rhymes. "Motherfuckers be worried 'cause I'm sick," he raps on a Ganksta N-I-P ghostwritten song called "Chuckie." "Dead heads and frog legs/ Mmm... cake mix!"
Joining Red and Bill was a battle rapper named Willie D, a fierce Fifth Ward native and Golden Gloves boxer who once knocked out Furious Five member Melle Mel in a celebrity match. Possessing an angry bark and a coarse sense of humor, D wrote or cowrote many of the group's best-known tracks, and also penned solo works like his anti-hairless-women anthem, "Bald-Headed Hoes," from his first solo album, Controversy. (The work's cover features four seemingly arbitrary expressions of the title: a woman in a bikini, a KKK member, a policeman, and a shirtless D himself.)
Rounding out the collective was a remarkable talent named Brad Jordan, an eighteen-year-old rapper and producer who called himself DJ Akshen. His obsession with Brian De Palma's 1983 film would later bring him a nickname that stuck: Scarface. The new incarnation of the Geto Boys met for the first time when they arrived in the studio to record their 1989 album Grip It! On That Other Level. "That's why the album is so raw," Bill explained on Yo! MTV Raps. But despite Bushwick Bill and Willie D's contributions, Scarface quickly emerged as the group's dominant force. Near-universally regarded as the best Southern rapper, he possess a rich, full baritone and is capable of taming complicated rhyme patterns. An absolute beast of a storyteller, his characters are criminals, convicts, and everyman sinners, some attempting to get things on track, some resigned to living in fear.
Though few can match his songs' nuance or moral complexity, his paternal attitude and exquisitely paced flow established the template for a hardcore rapper, and his influence can be heard in everyone from Tupac Shakur to Jay-Z. "Jay-Z [initially] was tongue twistin'," says Memphis rapper Eightball. "When he slowed that shit down, that was some Southern shit, that was some Scarface shit he was doing."
'Face has always seemed older than his years. He's got a wide face, sturdy frame, bad posture, and tends to make jokes about subjects others might not necessarily find funny, like killing himself, as he did in an interview with video blog site VladTV. He came up in Houston's poor South Acres neighborhood, which he describes as close-knit. "Everybody was cool with each other," he says. "We really believed in our neighborhood. It ain't no different than the hood anywhere else."
Music ran in his family. He learned to play bass guitar from his uncle, and nowadays makes occasional surprise appearances at Houston rock shows as a guitar player. But his childhood was traumatic; he attempted suicide by slitting his wrists with a razor blade when he was twelve or thirteen. Before long he was shuttled off to the mental health ward at Houston International Hospital, where he was plied with lithium and antipsychotic drugs. "When you go crazy in the hospital, they get like five or six big ol' men to come in there and hold you down," he remembers. "They pop you with that Thorazine and you go out."
Even worse was when they locked him in a foreboding spot called the "quiet room," which contained little more than a small mattress with no covers. "I spent a lot of time in the quiet room, to the point where if anybody said anything about that quiet room I was like, 'OK! I'll be good! I'm not crazy anymore!'"
'Face says he had a schizophrenic uncle, who was "on drugs heavy, like he got high and never came down." Other than that, however, he can't point to any genetic or experiential reasons that may have sparked his mental health issues.
He remains unsatisfied with his treatment. During our phone conversation, he grows increasingly sarcastic and worked up as we discuss the subject, at one point Googling his doctor, who is now employed by the University of Texas Harris County Psychiatric Center. Scarface then proceeds to fire off an e-mail to him, which he reads aloud, pausing occasionally to laugh hysterically:
"I don't know if you remember me but my name is Brad Jordan. I was at Houston International Hospital in the early eighties. Thanks for your help in the past. I'm one of the greatest hip-hop artists of all time. You sucker!"
There's something poetic about this note, with both its slightly vengeful and oddly warm notes. Indeed, Scarface's tribulations have repeatedly worked their way into his music. Unlike other rappers who'd have you think they're psychopaths, his honesty makes his voice resonate. Obsessed with the thin line between sanity and craziness, between living and dying, he captures the desperation of men at their wits' end. "Everybody's got a different way of endin' it," he raps on, "I Seen a Man Die," "And when your number comes for souls then they send it in/ Now your time has arrived for your final test/ I see the fear in your eyes and in your final breath." It wasn't necessarily his depression or treatment that informed his style, he says, but rather his therapy, which forced him to articulate what was going through his head. "We had one-on-one and also group meetings, where you had to talk," he says, adding with a laugh that thirteen-year-olds like himself were permitted to smoke cigarettes if they had their parents' permission. "It helped big time."
Not long after departing the hospital, Scarface left home and stayed with some friends through his middle-teen years. He dropped out of high school and later got his own place with longtime producer John Bido. His career as a rapper was kicking into gear; he'd come onto J. Prince's radar after an acquaintance passed along a tape of his song "Scarface."
But though the emerging mogul showed interest in signing him, Scarface was advised to stay away. "Everybody was like, 'Watch out for him,'" 'Face remembers. "Everybody." I ask him why they said that.
"Everybody had their own little, whatever they wanted to say or do, but we never cared about that," he says, vaguely. "He ain't never did nothing but right by us. Rap-A-Lot and Scarface birthed each other. We were together when our careers started."
In fact, just as Geto Boys were gaining national renown, Scarface released his still-admired 1991 debut, Mr. Scarface Is Back. The album went gold and kicked off his long-running solo career, and three years later, he put out his high-water-mark effort The Diary, which featured the remarkable "I Seen a Man Die" and saw his stories coming into sharper focus.
Near the turn of the decade he was recruited by Def Jam executive Lyor Cohen to be president of Def Jam South, a spin-off intended to give the New York company a toehold in the emerging Dixie market. For the imprint 'Face helped orchestrate the signing of Atlanta rapper Ludacris, who would become one of the bestselling MCs of all time.
Scarface released a career-defining album of his own for the label in 2002. The Fix had guest verses from Jay-Z and Nas, not to mention sparkling beats from Kanye West, the Neptunes, and collaborator Mike Dean. Dubbed overly commercial by J. Prince, 'Face calls it his "best work to date."
Though it debuted in Billboard's top five, he wouldn't see that kind of success again. He attributes his relative commercial failings to his lack of dance songs, and it's something of a sore subject that his earnings haven't lived up to his stature. "Give me the money," he says. "I don't care if nobody knows me."
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What to Do When Your Company Is Sold
Marshall GoldsmithThe business landscape is changing dramatically as many companies are being acquired and/or merging into others. This can be very stressful for the employees of the acquired company who worry about their job security, financial stability, and so much more.
The standard PR hype that goes with an acquisition sounds something like this: "We are so impressed with management and the direction of the company we are acquiring that we have no interest in changing them. In fact, we believe that we can learn a lot from all they have done right."
While the acquiring company may actually believe this message at the time of the acquisition, this love-fest seldom lasts beyond a few quarters. There is one seemingly obvious fact that an amazing number of employees in acquired companies never get: They own you. You must remember that fact, and realize that it has the potential to change just about everything. Here are some things to keep in mind.
As soon as your company is acquired, forget about "us" and "them."
You are now part of "them." The old "us" no longer exists. They can do whatever they want to do. Once you make peace with this fact, your life will be a lot easier. (If your old company's management didn't want to transfer ownership and control to the new owners, it shouldn't have cashed the checks and deposited the money.)
Accept the fact that you are now working for a different company.
Don't make assumptions about the future based upon your history with the old company. Realize that as a professional you may well be starting over, no matter how much experience you had, or credibility with the former owner. Learn what matters most to your new executives and new board.
Look for the positives in the company that acquired yours.
Face it, if you and your leaders were so brilliant and they were so stupid, how could stupid them have acquired enough money to buy brilliant you?
Read the tea leaves.
If it looks like you are going to have no future, because the acquisition will lead to "right-sizing" in your function, start looking for another job. Realize that the acquiring company may well have more loyalty to their previous employees than to you.
Revisit how you are working.
This acquisition may well bring resources that your previous company did not have. Consider how these resources can be leveraged to help you make a larger contribution than you have made in the past. Take advantage of these new resources to better serve your customers and stakeholders.
I hope these suggestions are helpful to any of you in companies that have been—or are about to be—acquired.
Readers: What is your experience upon being acquired? Send in your comments. Any positives that can be emulated, or negatives that can be avoided, will be appreciated.


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Ste Marsh - Dad Breaker
Someone needs a new forum signature.
Ste Marsh - Dad Breaker
Someone needs a new forum signature.
Do or do not. There is no try.
- Yer maw
Bit late to the party here, but hello there
Hey there! Sorry I'm late to the party.
You like FF8 and have Rinoa in your sig. Good enough for me - we'll get on.
Do or do not - frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.
Krissi accidentally spoonerised your names. But it stuck. XD We tried to think of names for us, but it didn't work so well.
I do indeed like FF8. As for my sig, I have a silly rule where I don't post on a forum until my sig and avatar are made, so I quickly threw this set together. Rinoa was the first character that came to mind. ^^


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From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishprintprint1 /prɪnt/ ●●● S2 W3 verb 1 words a) [intransitive, transitive]TCN to produce words, numbers, or pictures on paper, using a machine which puts ink onto the surface I need to make a few changes before I print the document. The company's name was printed in bold letters across the top of the page. a printed letter The printer's switched on but it won't print. As a newspaper publisher he understood the power of the printed word (=words that are printed on paper). b) [intransitive]TD when a computer document prints, a printed copy of it is produced Press return, then the document should print.2 books/newspapers [transitive]TCN to produce many printed copies of a book, newspaper etc Over five million copies of the paper are printed every day. When the book was first written no publisher would print it.3 in a newspaper [transitive]TCN to print a report of something or a letter, speech etc in a newspaper or magazine syn publish 'The Express' was the first paper to print the story. 'The Telegraph' has printed numerous articles on this subject over the last three years. I wrote to the newspaper but my letter wasn't printed.4 photograph [transitive]TCP to produce a photograph from a photographic film It usually takes a couple of hours for the pictures to be developed and printed.5 cloth [transitive]TIM to decorate cloth with a pattern that is put all over its surface by a machine a skirt printed with brightly coloured flowers a printed silk shirt6 write [intransitive, transitive]WRITE to write words by hand without joining the letters Please print your name clearly in the top right-hand corner of the page.7 make a mark [transitive]MARK to make a mark on a surface or in a soft substance by pressing something on to itprint something on/in something The mark of the man's shoe was printed in the mud. → a licence to print money at licence(6) → print something ↔ off/out→ See Verb table
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Business Advice: The Influence of Distance
This paper examines the external advisors used by small businesses to help them solve their problems, focusing on distance between client and advisor. The analysis is based on a new stratified random sample survey of small businesses in manufacturing and services in five representative locations in Britain. The paper reports the distance between client and advisor, cost and extent of site visits by the advisor, focusing on differences between types of advisor, fields of advice, types of firm by size and sector, and types of location. The analysis demonstrates the importance of localization: 60.5% of advisors are drawn from within 10km of the client, and 81.5% from within 25km. The high degree of localization is shown to be chiefly dependent on accessibility and advisor location. The general pattern of client-advisor relations is demonstrated to be modelled accurately by a standard spatial interaction model. A key finding is that the spatial pattern of the location of the supply of advisors, particularly the size of the business centres in which they are located, must be taken into account simultaneously with the role of distance in order to explain the pattern of choice of business advisors.
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Home » Breaking News!, News » Pippa Middleton Nude, Round Two!
Amidst the Royal Family's alleged witch hunt, the Pippa Middleton topless photos return!
Did you miss the Pippa Middleton nude photos yesterday? The Royal Family is allegedly less than thrilled that somebody has leaked these topless photos and are tirelessly attempting to get them removed, everywhere. Our good friends at EGOTASTIC published the alleged photos the other day but had to remove them. I have good news as they have just put the Pippa Middleton/Kate Middleton nudie pics back up!
I know a lot of you must have been disappointed when I posted the Pippa Middleton naked photos story the other day as hours after it went live, EGOTASTIC had to take down their royally hot topless pics. Don't worry; today they have reposted the infamous photos for your viewing pleasure. My advice to you, check out the pictures as fast as you can as the Royal Family and its legion of legal soldiers are allegedly out to get them off the web)
Check out the Pippa Middleton topless pictures at EGOTASTIC. (I'll update this post if the photos are taken down again, enjoy!)
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Quoting Birthmark: Absolutely correct!! But the bankers already have the "public diaologue" neatly divided into (1) those who have the intellectual ability to understand the broader issues in light of what's best for mankind and (2) those wannabe intellectuals who imagine that promoting the agenda of their banker bosses is going to bring them respect and other rewards (like a job above that of burger-flipping). So we get constant lame debates w/o improving the quality of government one iota. The election year "Rhetoric Cycle" has already begun, emails making inappropriate jokes about "the other guys" are already being circulated by these backyard geniuses and they're OFF to war in the name of their favorite ideology. It's like the Internet has been turned over to 8 year-old boys who just found out they've flunked third grade. Make bad jokes about the teachers!! (But never themselves.) Anyone who scores less than 110 on a standard IQ test should be prohibited from voting. Anyone who sends out political trash emails should be automatically banned from voting. That's the only way we're going to save this country. Letting idiots and dupes vote (and run for office)- doesn't seem to be working out well. ;-) |


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WASHINGTON — The US trade deficit fell in November to its lowest level in four years, an encouraging sign for economic growth. Gains in energy production and stronger sales of American-made airplanes, autos, and machinery lifted exports to an all-time high.
The trade gap dropped 12.9 percent in November to $34.3 billion, the Commerce Department said Tuesday. That's the smallest monthly trade deficit since October 2009.
Exports rose 0.9 percent to a record $194.9 billion, aided by a 5.6 percent rise in petroleum exports. Imports dropped 1.4 percent to $229.1 billion. A decrease in demand for foreign oil offset a record level of imported autos.
Through 11 months of 2013, the trade deficit is 12.3 percent lower than the same period in 2012. Exports have strengthened, while imports are slightly lower.


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Here it is Mid-January and I am just posting about Christmas. We had a great Christmas Eve! The girls were so excited and I am not sure I have seen them so happy. We went to Mass at 3:00 and then had our good friends over for dinner. It was a perfect evening!!
Ready for our guests!
The kids loved the Santa cake!
Look at that little finger:)
Putting out the reindeer food!
Someone is soooooo excited!
Getting Santa's plate ready
Can't forget a pink straw!
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care.....