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Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel II. lost butterfly 2019
Theatrical-release adaptation of the visual novel "Fate/stay night", following the third and final route. (Part 2 of a trilogy.)
Theatrical-release adaptation of the visual novel "Fate/stay night", following the third and final route. (Part 2 of a trilogy.)
As Hiccup fulfills his dream of creating a peaceful dragon utopia, Toothless' discovery of an untamed, elusive mate draws the Night Fury away. When danger mounts at home and Hiccup's reign as village chief is tested, both dragon and rider must make impossible decisions to save their kind.
Lightning McQueen, a hotshot rookie race car driven to succeed, discovers that life is about the journey, not the finish line, when he finds himself unexpectedly detoured in the sleepy Route 66 town of Radiator Springs. On route across the country to the big Piston Cup Championship in California to compete against two seasoned pros, McQueen gets to know the town's offbeat characters.
23rd Detective Conan Movie.
Miles Morales is juggling his life between being a high school student and being a spider-man. When Wilson "Kingpin" Fisk uses a super collider, others from across the Spider-Verse are transported to this dimension.
The further adventures of Max the dog and his furry animal friends.
A young elephant, whose oversized ears enable him to fly, helps save a struggling circus, but when the circus plans a new venture, Dumbo and his friends discover dark secrets beneath its shiny veneer.
Princess Jasmine grows tired of being forced to remain in the palace, so she sneaks out into the marketplace, in disguise, where she meets street-urchin Aladdin. The couple falls in love, although Jasmine may only marry a prince. After being thrown in jail, Aladdin becomes embroiled in a plot to find a mysterious lamp, with which the evil Jafar hopes to rule the land.
Video game bad guy Ralph and fellow misfit Vanellope von Schweetz must risk it all by traveling to the World Wide Web in search of a replacement part to save Vanellope's video game, "Sugar Rush." In way over their heads, Ralph and Vanellope rely on the citizens of the internet -- the netizens -- to help navigate their way, including an entrepreneur named Yesss, who is the head algorithm and the heart and soul of trend-making site BuzzzTube.
Subaru and friends finally get a moment of peace, and Subaru goes on a certain secret mission that he must not let anyone find out about! However, even though Subaru is wearing a disguise, Petra and other children of the village immediately figure out who he is. Now that his mission was exposed within five seconds of it starting, what will happen with Subaru's "date course" with Emilia?
Elastigirl springs into action to save the day, while Mr. Incredible faces his greatest challenge yet – taking care of the problems of his three children.
It's been five years since everything was awesome and the citizens are facing a huge new threat: LEGO DUPLO® invaders from outer space, wrecking everything faster than they can rebuild.
Young princess Anna of Arendelle dreams about finding true love at her sister Elsa's coronation. Fate takes her on a dangerous journey in an attempt to end the eternal winter that has fallen over the kingdom. She's accompanied by ice delivery man Kristoff, his reindeer Sven, and snowman Olaf. On an adventure where she will find out what friendship, courage, family, and true love really means.
The special bond that develops between plus-sized inflatable robot Baymax, and prodigy Hiro Hamada, who team up with a group of friends to form a band of high-tech heroes.
The thrilling second chapter of the epic How To Train Your Dragon trilogy brings back the fantastical world of Hiccup and Toothless five years later. While Astrid, Snotlout and the rest of the gang are challenging each other to dragon races (the island's new favorite contact sport), the now inseparable pair journey through the skies, charting unmapped territories and exploring new worlds. When one of their adventures leads to the discovery of a secret ice cave that is home to hundreds of new wild dragons and the mysterious Dragon Rider, the two friends find themselves at the center of a battle to protect the peace.
Determined to prove herself, Officer Judy Hopps, the first bunny on Zootopia's police force, jumps at the chance to crack her first case - even if it means partnering with scam-artist fox Nick Wilde to solve the mystery.
Growing up can be a bumpy road, and it's no exception for Riley, who is uprooted from her Midwest life when her father starts a new job in San Francisco. Like all of us, Riley is guided by her emotions - Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness. The emotions live in Headquarters, the control center inside Riley's mind, where they help advise her through everyday life. As Riley and her emotions struggle to adjust to a new life in San Francisco, turmoil ensues in Headquarters. Although Joy, Riley's main and most important emotion, tries to keep things positive, the emotions conflict on how best to navigate a new city, house and school.
Two sisters move to the country with their father in order to be closer to their hospitalized mother, and discover the surrounding trees are inhabited by Totoros, magical spirits of the forest. When the youngest runs away from home, the older sister seeks help from the spirits to find her.
A young girl, Chihiro, becomes trapped in a strange new world of spirits. When her parents undergo a mysterious transformation, she must call upon the courage she never knew she had to free her family.
As the son of a Viking leader on the cusp of manhood, shy Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III faces a rite of passage: he must kill a dragon to prove his warrior mettle. But after downing a feared dragon, he realizes that he no longer wants to destroy it, and instead befriends the beast – which he names Toothless – much to the chagrin of his warrior father


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Kelli-Anne Chang never considered playing soccer in college until the state high school tournament was finished her senior season.
Where: Waipio Peninsula Soccer Park stadium.
TV: Sunday's match on KFVE (Channel 5).
A four-year letter winner for Aiea as a center midfielder, she helped Na Alii reach the state soccer semifinals each season. Chang was an All-Oahu Interscholastic Association selection twice and was named to the Star-Bulletin All-State first team as a senior.
"One of the UH coaches approached me about joining the Wahine as a walk-on after the state tournament," Chang said. "I really didn't know if I should play soccer or if I should concentrate on my studies."
Chang's friends encouraged her to play. They told her she had to try it, at least for a year, or some day she would regret missing the chance to play at the college level.
Chang concluded she would really be upset at herself if she didn't take advantage of the opportunity. She did not consider any other schools because she wanted to stay home, hence UH was the only option.
"I worked out with the team (the summer before entering UH) and got to know the girls early on," Chang said. "They were nice and helped me get a feel for what college soccer was all about. I was comfortable (when fall practice began) and that made it a lot easier."
A year ago, Chang appeared in 10 matches, mostly as a reserve forward for the Wahine. She took eight shots and put two on goal without scoring.
Her approach to life is to set little goals, take it step by step and gradually go up. She again trained with teammates over the summer while attending school.
"I guess my goal was to pass the running test. It took me a couple of tries, but I did it. Then I wanted to start and get playing time," Chang said.
UH coach Pinsoom Tenzing announced at the end of the final practice before the opener against Washington that he would e-mail the starting lineup to the players that night.
"I checked my e-mail six or seven times, just kept clicking on refresh," Chang said. "They said it would come by 9 p.m., but it was almost 10. The first thing I did was call my mom (Gwen) and told her to look at this (message)."
Chang was named a starter, was more relieved than anything else and has held the position every match this year.
The UW match would be her first collegiate start. She was nervous, excited, about to experience something new and different.
"As soon as the whistle blew, I settled down," said Chang who has a better understanding of the team strategy this year.
"Last year went by fast. This year it is game by game and I remember every moment."

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In attempts to learn more about God and constantly keep my thoughts occupied with love. I assume that getting rid of my cell phone, my internet, itouch and whatever else that can be a distraction from just constantly thinking about God. But it's not always what you own but what you do with it.
I do realize that the reason we buy most of our gadgets is for productivity and convenience. I am starting to think that productivity and convenience are some of the biggest distractions ever. Sometimes they separate us from what's most important.
For example, in Africa it can take the women almost a full day just to get water. They have to climb hills, go through trails and then travel back with water on their back, sometimes even with kids with them. First off, they seem the most appreciative of the water and they would never accidentally take water for granted. They know it's worth. Also in that time they run into more of their friends, see more plants, animals and streams than when I just walk to the bathroom sink to fill up my cup. I certainly don't really understand the worth of that water, when I am done drinking I pour the little left down the sink.
I am not saying that getting water from a sink is bad. I am just seeing what I may be missing out. I could have more time to think, pray, meditate, learn on every water break. My simple every day things lost their adventure.
When people write me asking me what they should do to improve their relationship with God, I used to just tell them what I know works for me, which is take a walk, consistently, every night if you can. If you have the time to check your facebook, you have the time to take a walk. But I know now why the walks are helpful, because they aren't productive, I walk to a train track down the road, sit there then walk back home. Nothing accomplished, but I feel like I had a very honest and real conversation with my God. But if I am walking to the grocery store, I am thinking about what to buy, how much to get, how much money I have, paper or plastic, I rarely pray while running an errand. When doing nothing but sitting on the porch or walking, for some reason I just think about God.
"Be still and Know I am Holy" -God.
Try this; walk away from this computer, in whatever room you are in, and sit there. You may have seen that you have unread messages/emails and you didn't yet update your status. But forget that for a second. Walk away from the computer, and sit down, even on the floor. Sit there until the lack of productivity is painful. I feel like when we are unproductive or bored it reveals to us where our relationship with God is and a lot of us stay productive to distract that. I think that is why this world is filled with workoholics because we don't want to face where we are with God. So many Christians that are fine with Jesus just being an acquaintance and not their Lord, because they are happy distracting themselves with this or that. Anytime we Christians think we are bored we should do a serious heart check, because we claim to be in relationship with the creator of the universe.
I was on a park bench yesterday waiting for something to open, and I had my cell phone and itouch, I was so in the habit of using one of them to pass the time, but I felt like God needed me to just sit there. That is when I started looking at the mulch, trees and bugs, remembering how much it all used to interest me and how much I used to learn from it. I use my possessions for a lot of good reasons, sometimes I don't, but if I can't handle the potential distractions they can become I should be able to get rid of anything in a heartbeat if needed. But it's not what I own, it's what I lack: self-control.
Whatever we use for good the devil can use for evil. If we use our phones to keep in touch with friends on tour or to call friends for accountability, awesome. But we could also use our phones for gossip and text messaging while someone needs us to listen [which I have regretfully done both]. This goes for everything. I believe that everything in life is powerful. Everything in life can harm us. Sex, alcohol, facebook, movies, even the Bible. If used wrong, anything can be a very dangerous thing, even if it's a direct gift from God.
We can delete our myspace and cancel our facebook but you can never get rid of distractions. One time I was staying a friends house by myself and I was walking to another room and saw a seductive magazine on the floor, nobody was home and I started to get curious, but I fought it and decided to take a walk. While walking in the forrest, there was a porn magazine eye-level in a tree I walked by. That didn't make my attempt to avoid lust any easier. But I will always remember, that you can run from temptations or distractions, but without God you will just run into more distractions or even more difficult temptations.
The constant struggle I have is to not let things distract me from getting to know my Lord and my God. My good friend and I were talking about watching TV and movies and he said, what is the difference between watching TV/movies for 6 hours a day and shooting up heroine and staring at the ceiling? Sure there is a physical difference, but on the spiritual side of life, what is the real difference? I think this applies to internet and whatever else.
Another good friend said to me a long time ago, 'how do I get my father to stop reading the Bible and spend a little time with me'. From that I learned that even reading the Bible can separate you from your relationship with God and others. Not to mention people interpreting the Bible to do unGodly things. Even the Bible can be dangerous.
We need to live life intentionally, realize that our lives are spiritual as much as physical. After knowing that we can see how even the most 'innocent' things can have a negative affect on us, physically and/or spiritually.
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Several non lawyer friends of mine have asked me some questions about this case. In case you're not familiar with the facts. Mark Mullen is the defendant in a vehicular homicide case where he had multiple DUI convictions, had two pending DUI cases one in Seattle Municipal Court and the other Snohomish County District Court and he killed several innocent pedestrians and critically injured another. There has been a lot of questions why this guy was on the street, why he didn't have the court ordered ignition interlock device in his vehicle, and how something like this could have been prevented.
Recently he had his first court date on the new vehicular homicide charges and he entered a not guilty plea. Some of my friends were wondering how he could do this when the evidence was so stacked against him already based on the news accounts they had heard. My answer to them is pretty simple this is how the criminal justice runs.
Despite how you feel about Mr. Mullen he is entitled to have representation. He will be given an attorney if he cannot afford one. Certain rights attach to him now that criminal charges have been filed. Things like the right to counsel, the right to a jury of his peers, the right to remain silent, the right to have the Prosecution prove beyond a reasonable doubt these charges, and the most important the presumption of innocence.
By entering a plea of Not Guilty at his arraignment does not necessarily mean he won't take responsibility for this later on, or he won't be found guilty in the end. The arraignment is not the place to dispute charges, challenge evidence, or really plead guilty. It is an informal hearing where the charge will be read in open court. The defendant or the accused will enter a formal not guilty plea, and the Judge will determine whether there is probable case to hold, and then determine what conditions if any the defendant must follow while the case is going on. In Mr. Mullen's case that is $2.5 million in bail. So he is not going anywhere anytime soon.
So before you get up in arms that this man plead not guilty. Remember we are all afforded these rights. Whether you have never been in trouble before, or whether you have a lengthy criminal history. As a Seattle DUI lawyer this is just something I understand, and second nature to me. So it is completely understandable how a non lawyer may question what is going on. But this is how it works, and this is why our criminal justice system works.
About the author: Matthew Leyba is a DU Lawyer in Seattle, WA. His practice focuses on representing those accused of DUI and other traffic offenses. He is currently rated as a Top DUI lawyer by Avvo, and was named a 2013 Rising Star in the field of DUI Defense by Super Lawyers Magazine, and Seattle Metropolitan.


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Turkey and Israel expel each other's diplomats because of the violence in the Gaza Strip
Turkey and Israel each expelled the other country's high-ranking diplomats on Tuesday because of a dispute over the killing of 60 Palestinians by Israeli forces on the Gaza Strip during protests against the moving of the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem.
According to Reuters, the Turkish leadership ordered Israeli ambassadors to leave the country.
"Turkey was one of the loudest critics of both Israel's reaction to protests in the Gaza Strip and the moving of the U.S. Embassy. It recalled its ambassadors from Tel Aviv and Washington and urged Muslim countries to hold an emergency meeting on Friday," the news agency reported.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan called the bloodshed on Monday genocide and said that Israel is a terrorist state. The Turkish government proclaimed a three-day period of mourning. "The Israeli ambassador was informed that our ambassador in Israel was recalled for consultation, and also informed that it would be better for him to return to his country for some time too," a source in the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs told the agency.
A few hours later, Israel decided to temporarily expel the Turkish consul in Jerusalem. According to a representative of the Israeli Foreign Ministry, the Turkish diplomat was asked to return to Turkey "for some period of time for consultations."
Clashes between the Palestinians and Israelis took place against the backdrop of the opening of the American embassy in Jerusalem. Since March, Palestinian protests have been held in the Gaza Strip under the name of the "Great March of Return." Protesters are demanding the right to return to the territory of Israel.
According to the Palestinians, the moving of the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem indicates that the United States recognizes that both the Western and Eastern parts of the city belong to Israel, which the Palestinian authorities consider its territory. Monday was the bloodiest day of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict since 2014.


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This is just a collection of stuff I put online. If you want to stalk me, start reading my blog or follow the abundance of tracks I left in social media.
Go to Mathias' Blog » or visit Mathias Frey on Twitter Google+ Github YouTube Facebook Linkedin
Inside: n.a.
Outside: n.a.
Current value of π: n.a.
On the left the browser is currently calculating π by means of numeric simulation. Imagine a circular pond inside a square. Random tosses of stones either land in the water or on the ground. The ratio between tosses and hits euqals the ratio of the square's and circle's areas. Thus π can be calculated according to this formula:
square = 4r2 circle = r2π (inside + outside) / inside == square / circle (inside + outside) * 4r2π == inside * 4r2 π = inside / (inside + outside) * 4
Since there is some good proof out there that π is something like 3.141592653589793, the result is rather a test of your browser's random number generator than a way of finding π.
I was quite fascinated by the Pendulum Waves on YouTube. Since the underlying physics boils down to a simple sine function I built this simulator using HTML5's canvas element.
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Homeruns 0
Percentage 0%
My friends came home from Europython 2012 with a mathemetical problem that turned out to be rather a riddle than a solvable problem (at least for us).
A robot is moving forward with a probability of 30%, sideways with a chance of 25% for each direction and backwards in the remaining cases.
What is the probability that it reaches its point of departure within 13 steps?
Unfortunately we were too dumb to calculate the answer.
So I'm still trying to find a solution via numeric simulation. The output is quite pretty and don't worry, the robot is untiring. So please help the planet becoming a warmer place and join the simulation in your browser window!
If you have the (mathematical!) solution send me an e-mail.
(By the way: There are 67 million possibilities for the robot moving inside the grid. This site needs 776 days to calculate all of them. The probability of the robot moving 13 steps backwards is 0.00000008%. For reasons every software developer can understand, I did although draw the grid up to this point.)
But someday maybe more.
Time 14:15
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Move around the bluish green booking. The rest of the calendar is fixed.
Isn't it awesome that modern browsers actually can do 3D rendering? Here I'm using three.js.
First take some...
And guess which drug has the most damaging effect on the spider's net.
People have done quite a bunch of research on the effect of drugs on spiders and their nets.
No spiders were harmed in the production of this simulation.


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Come sail in comfort on the crisp blue waves of the Gulf of Mexico! Our luxury fishing yacht is equipped with everything you need to meet your deep sea fishing needs. From our air conditioned cabin to our top of the line rods & reels, your fishing trip is sure to be a breeze! Our fishing adventures include (3) staterooms, (2) restrooms, kitchen with dining area, living area with satellite TV, sundeck & stereo system. Are you looking to catch some fish while having a great time?
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Russian national bibliography [electronic resource].
- Language
- English, Russian. Russian and English.
- Imprint
- Minneapolis : EastView
Search this database
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- Summary
- ["Comprehensive bibliography of Russian printed works presented to the Russian Book Chamber. Provides access to books, newspapers, journals, book criticism and reviews, the arts, sheet music, dissertations and maps from over 20,000 publishers. Includes Cyrillic keyboard maps for standard keyboards."]
Bibliographic information
- Beginning date
- 2003
- Title Variation
- Also known as: EastView Russian national bibliography
- Universal database of Russian national bibliography
- Vol/date range
- Began in 2003?
- Note
- Title from caption, viewed on Feb. 5, 2004.
- Access
- Access restricted by license agreements.
- Note
- Also issued on CD-ROM with title: Rossiĭskai͡a nat͡sionalʹnai͡a bibliografii͡a.
- Format
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Note
- Available online to Stanford-affiliated users.


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Pit Bull Princess Refuses To Get Out Of Bed
Meet Lily – the Pit Bull "princess" who doesn't want to get out of bed. Her human Madeline Staddon needed to go to work, but Lily just wants to stay under the covers.
This is just too precious!
As a user noted on this video, Lily does a "subtle pleading" to her human to sleep just a little bit longer. I love her! Reminds me of my dog a lot. There is something about the eyes of a dog that just pierces into your soul.
Pit Bulls are just amazing dogs and are beautiful just like Lily.
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As a kid, I ate things that, upon reflection, were probably better off uneaten. Not mud or hair or other inedible things that whisper "Let me in" to the unbalanced. Proper food, just...not the way one is meant to eat them. Pats of butter, for instance. Christ, I loved butter. Not on rice or noodles or toast (though that happened as well when Mom prepared meals). No. The best butter (salted, of course) was pilfered little slabs, sheered from the end of quarter-pound blocks while nobody was looking and the refrigerator door stood open. And the best place to eat them? Behind the couch in a sunbeam, hidden from view like some feral little beast with a fresh kill.
The last time I snarfed a tablespoon of butter behind the couch, Elvis still performed for sell-out crowds. While my tastes have evolved, my relationship with food remains just as intense; every once in a while, old memories and primal cravings rise to the surface of my thoughts with sudden, compelling urgency.
And so I found myself recently assembling an old kit I hadn't thought about in decades: a box a graham crackers, a half-gallon of milk, a pint glass, and a spoon. Another ritual from childhood. As precise and predictable as any junkie's kit, this has no name. There is no recipe. It's merely a thing I do. It could not be more simple: jam as many graham crackers into a glass as will fit. Then break more and stuff them into the gaps along the side. Fill just to the top of the crackers with milk. Wait a beat. Dig in. The balance of crunch and mush slides along a tipping scale until, at the end, it's a mess. A slurpy, sloppy, chuggable mess.
I may be a grown-ass man with work to do and bills to pay, but now and again, knuckling under to childhood food cravings allows me to put aside thoughts of that work and those bills.
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Today I'm linking with Beverly and Kelee for this cause. Please leave a comment for a donation!!
Here is the video to watch about Charlie.
It is nice that you and daughter have a good relationship. So many do not. That is a very pretty pink bloom.
I am GRATEFUL for you! Thank-you for this simply
lovely post. On the table right in front of my keyboard is a single pink hydrangea I picked from my garden yesterday....
Thank-you for your effort on behalf of Miracle Makeover. You are a Design Angel with wings of
In Gratitude,
Kelee and Charlie
Oh, thank you so much for joining our efforts for Kelee & Charlie, sweetie. You are a peach!
Your flowers pink is just delightful.
Have a beautiful day ~
Thank-you for your post in support of the Miracle Makeover blog party. The hydrangea represents the beauty of your inspiration to help a great cause! Together we are making a differnce in the world one comment at a time!
Sending a big hug,
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There is no doubt that fans of the young adult trilogy "The Hunger Games" are counting down the hours until the film based off the first book hits theaters next week. The stars of the film have looked nothing but fabulous as the movie premieres in London and Paris.
Jennifer Lawrence, the 21-year-old bombshell who plays the leading lady Katniss Evergreen, has looked sophisticated and gorgeous at the various events. In London, she chose a gold floor-length gown and in Paris she wore a black form-fitting gown with a gold zipper accent and gold shoes, according to People Magazine.
Lawrence went from two gold gowns to a black gown with gold accents. However, her co-star Elizabeth Banks, who plays Effie Trinket in the film, chose some bold hues at each event. Banks donned a sequined bright yellow Bill Blass floor-length gown with an open back with drop earrings in London. In Paris, the actress wore a fuchsia-colored form-fitting number that cut right above her knees, according to the Daily Mail.
Many fashionistas cannot afford the same jewels and gowns as the celebrities who portray Katniss Evergreen and Effie Trinket. However, shoppers can take advantage of fashion jewelry such as the Sterling Silver DiamonUltra Cubic Zirconia Drop Pierced Earrings to achieve similar looks for less.


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Pig keepers: identify animals before moving them
How to identify pigs and piglets before moving them off your holding.
You must tag, tattoo or mark pigs aged 12 months or older with your official herd mark before they leave your holding.
The only exemption is if you're moving piglets aged 12 months or less between 2 farms.
Types of identifier
You can use any of these identifiers:
- an ear tag
- a tattoo on 1 of the animal's ears
- 2 slap marks applied to both of the pig's front shoulders using permanent ink
Ear tags must start with the letters 'UK' and information must be printed or stamped, not handwritten.
Slap marks and tattoos don't need to include the letters 'UK'. You can use compressed air equipment to apply slap marks.
Information required on identifiers
All identifiers you apply must show your herd mark.
You must also select a unique identification number for the pig and add it to the identifier, if you're moving pigs to:
- an exhibition or show
- an artificial insemination (AI) centre or any other breeding location
- another country (within, or outside the EU)
You don't have to select an identification number and add it to the identifier if you're moving pigs anywhere else, eg to another holding, market or abattoir.
Identify piglets
You don't have to tag, tattoo or mark pigs aged 12 months or less with identification details, if you're moving them from one farm holding to another farm holding.
For such moves you can instead identify them using a temporary paint mark, eg a red line, black cross, or blue circle.
The mark must last until the piglet reaches the destination holding.
The piglet must be accompanied by a haulier summary / movement document (HS/MD) which identifies the holding from which it was moved.
If you're moving pigs aged 12 months or less anywhere else, (eg to a market, abattoir or show) you must tag, tattoo or mark them with identification details like adult pigs.
Identify imported animals
You must tag, tattoo or mark any pigs you import from outside the EU to your holding with your herd mark.
You don't have to tag, tattoo or mark the pigs, if you're sending them for slaughter within 30 days of their arrival in the UK.


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Create fun name tag labels for your child belongings. Ladybug Labels designs colourful, water resistant, fade-resistant name labels for school items, toys, shoes, clothes and uniforms. Medical and allergy labels are also available to let others know if your little one needs special care. All the labels are dishwasher and microwave safe. Made in the United Arab Emirates. We design your logo on T-shirt, make car stickers or magnets, poster and window decoration for special occasions. Like our page on Facebook
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Hand drawn and painted personalised jute bags great for the beach, carrying your little ones toys or for work. The bags are highly customisable and start from 200dhs.


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2013 Cox Plate winner Shamus Award has returned to light trackwork and trainer Danny O'Brien could not be happier with the condition of the classy colt.
Shamus Award stunned Australian racing by breaking his maiden with a start-to-finish victory in the Cox Plate and O'Brien is confident that the son of Snitzel can add further Group 1 win's to his racing resume; with the Australian Guineas (1600m) at Caulfield on March 1 the major target for the three-year-old.
O'Brien told Racing Victoria that Shamus Award had returned to work at his Barwon Heads property and has already made good progress ahead of his return to full-time training at Flemington in the New Year.
"He's loving life," O'Brien said.
"He's been doing a bit down at Thirteenth Beach and he looks great.
"He'll stay out at Barwon Heads until just after Christmas and then he'll come back here and he'll be getting ready for the autumn.
"The Australian Guineas would be his main target for the autumn and he'll probably have one or two runs leading into it."
The merit of including a maiden in the field for the Australasian-Weight-For-Age Championship was heavily debated in the lead-up to the Group 1 event but Shamus Award was unlucky not to have already recorded a couple of wins during the 2013 Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival.
Shamus Award started his preparation with an unlucky second place finish behind Cauthen in the Listed McKenzie Stakes (1200m) at Moonee Valley and produced an uncharacteristically poor performance when finishing seventh in the Listed Henry Bucks Best Dressed Stakes (1400m) at Flemington.
He returned to his best form with an unlucky second place finish behind Divine Calling in the Group 2 Bill Stutt Stakes (1600m) at Moonee Valley and produced another impressive run with a third place finish in the Group 1 Caulfield Guineas (1600m).
Shamus Award was originally the first emergency for the Cox Plate but he earned a run following the withdrawal of glamour mare Atlantic Jewel and took advantage of his opportunity; leading all the way to hold off a fast-finishing Happy Trails and a game Fiorente.
No Cox Plate winner has ever gone on to win the Australian Guineas; with Savabeel finishing seventh in the 2005 edition of the race after winning the Cox Plate during the 2004 Spring Racing Carnival.


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Announcing the Shortlist for the 2017 Newfoundland & Labrador Book Awards
21st NEWFOUNDLAND & LABRADOR BOOK AWARDS SHORTLIST ANNOUNCED
(April 6, 2016 – St. John's, NL) The juries have read and debated and have named the finalists for the prestigious Newfoundland and Labrador Book Awards. This year the Awards honour excellence in the categories of Non-Fiction and Poetry.
Finalists for the 2017 Newfoundland and Labrador Book Award for Non-Fiction
Sponsored by Killick Capital, Cox & Palmer, and Don Power
- Jenny Higgins for Newfoundland in the First World War (Boulder Publications)
- John Nick Jeddore, Elder (deceased), for Moccasin Tracks: A Memoir of Mi'kmaw Life in Newfoundland (ISER Books)
- James McLeod for Turmoil, As Usual: Politics in Newfoundland and Labrador and the Road to the 2015 Election (Creative Book Publishing)
Jury Members: Glen Carter, Marjorie Doyle, Elaine Janes
Finalists for the 2017 E. J. Pratt Poetry Award
- Michael Crummey for Little Dogs: Poems Selected & New (House of Anansi)
- Robin Durnford for Half Rock (Gaspereau Press)
- Patrick Warner for Octopus (Biblioasis)
Jury Members: Andreae Callanan, Boyd Chubbs, Mary Dalton
The shortlist was announced at a reading at the Carbonear Public Library on Wednesday, April 5, 2017 at 6:30 pm.
Public readings by the finalists will take place as follows:
- Poetry: Tuesday, April 25th at 7:30 pm, Eastern Edge Gallery, 72 Harbour Drive, St. John's, NL. Hosted by E. J. Pratt Award jury member, Mary Dalton.
- Non-Fiction: Wednesday, April 26th at 7:30 pm, Suncor Energy Hall, Memorial University, St. John's NL. Hosted by CBC's Ted Blades.
The winning authors will be announced at a ceremony on Wednesday, May 3rd at Government House in St. John's and will receive a cash prize of $1500 with the remaining finalists to receive $500 each.
The Newfoundland & Labrador Book Awards are sponsored by the Literary Arts Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador and administered by the Writers' Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador under the distinguished patronage of The Honourable Frank Fagan, Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador. Other sponsors this year include The Telegram, Perfect Day and the NL Teacher's Association.
What the jury members said about the shortlisted books:
Non-Fiction Finalists:
Jenny Higgins – Newfoundland in the First World War
This historical book takes a timeless subject and leaves no stone unturned in its inclusivity of data in a well researched and well organized form. The book includes additional literary material which makes it interactive and entertaining. It is unique in the sense that it is like being in a museum and touching the artifacts of the soldiers from so long ago. Newfoundland in the First World War is an educational work of art.
John Nick Jeddore, Elder – Moccasin Tracks
Moccasin Tracks is an unsentimental record of a life lived, of a Conne River Indian who respects the tradition he was born into and recognizes its vulnerability to a newer age. Jeddore's story is pivotal. It links his 1920's boyhood and young manhood to those who came before him, who shared the same closeness to the land and the animals that inhabited it. Jeddore's senses are finely tuned; his narrative makes it easy to hear the sound of hooves on the hard ground, the padding of hairy paws, the taste of pancakes fried in beaver fat, and smell the venison cooking.
James McLeod – Turmoil, As Usual: Politics in Newfoundland and Labrador and the Road to the 2015 Election
James McLeod has deked away from the safety of his calling as a legislative scribe, to reveal the truth about Newfoundland and Labrador's topsy-turvy political tableau. Through his eyes, we scope the hiccups and at times hilarious struggles of imperfect politicians, whatever their political stripe. No one escapes his critical eye, or the irreverence he brings to his unique narrative. Sometimes directed at his own human condition.
Poetry Finalists:
Michael Crummey – Little Dogs: Poems Selected and New
Little Dogs contains works from Michael Crummey's entire poetic oeuvre to date. The selection from earlier volumes attests to this author's ease with the speaking voice in his work, as well as his ability to tease out the poetic implications of a nugget of image or story. Crummey's poetry is in the tradition of Wordsworth, work that strives to capture everyday experience. The "New Poems" section, which makes up about one-quarter of the book, displays those strengths and introduces a new note, exploring some of the harder truths about marriage, experience, and aging.
Robin Durnford – Half Rock
The poems in Half Rock are filled with longing: longing for the land and speech of outport Newfoundland, longing for a lost parent or grandparent, longing for a time before the current threat of ecological destruction. The collection is ambitious, navigating childbirth, parenthood, and teenage reminiscences without succumbing to the saccharine. Durnford's language is energetic to the point of crackling; crow-like, she gathers the shiniest bits of European tradition and adds to them pieces of her own ancestral vernacular and lore.
Patrick Warner – Octopus
The octopus, an emblem of the mind in the work of several modernist poets, presides over this collection, an image evoking fluidity, the hidden, the strange. Octopus continues to explore territory travelled in Patrick Warner's other works; contemporary life is reflected at times through a Swiftian lens. The satire is often phantasmagoric, with elements of dream or of a carnival funhouse. An important strain of this new book is its enquiry into the nature of lyric and of mind. Warner's skill with image and the musical resources of poetry makes Octopus compelling technically as well as emotionally and intellectually.
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In I Am Not Service, Blake McConnell reflects upon his former life as a server and bartender. A tightrope walk along the porous border between the performance of authentic self and the structural rules governing the behavior of the service sector worker, this work questions the meanings of service in our post industrial society. From behind his portable bar, Blake will have you asking yourself: "how can I be of service?" Read more here.
Blake McConnell is an artist and musician in the second year of his Masters in Fine Arts, Digital Technology at ASU. He uses his grab bag of skills to perform, record, and design installations. Most find he's at his best when he's up to no good. Find out more at blakemcconnell.net
Spencer Goad, mbira
Spencer Goad is a freelance percussionist and music educator in the greater Phoenix area. He was born in Los Angeles, California where he studied percussion with orchestral and TV/film studio musicians as well as mbira, Zimbabwean thumb piano, with Dr. Ric Alviso. Spencer has been playing mbira, the sacred thumb piano of the Shona people, on and off for the past three years and has also studied Ghanian djembe and dun-dun drumming with John Magnussen, A. O. "Bongo" Sidibe, and master drummer Mamady Keïta.
Spencer received his Bachelors of Music in Percussion Performance at California State University Northridge and his Masters of Music in Percussion Performance at Arizona State University. Spencer was raised with the Los Angeles studio musician mentality of being a "jack of trades," so you can find him in musical theater pits, Brazilian samba bands, Salsa bands, church praise bands, and jazz combos all over the Phoenix area. Music education has always been a big part of Spencer's life and he currently teaches percussion ensembles at St. John Bosco Interparish K-8, Shepherd Junior High as well music classes at South Mountain Community College; he also runs his own private teaching studio in Tempe.
Photo by Steve Lee.
Improvisation #1, Sound and Movement Ensemble
Sound and Movement Ensemble organized by Courtney Brown and Julie Cruse. Guided improvisation in response to written prompts.


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The Molecular Biology Toolkit (MBT): a modular platform for developing molecular visualization applications
© Moreland et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2005
- Received: 31 August 2004
- Accepted: 06 February 2005
- Published: 06 February 2005
The large amount of data that are currently produced in the biological sciences can no longer be explored and visualized efficiently with traditional, specialized software. Instead, new capabilities are needed that offer flexibility, rapid application development and deployment as standalone applications or available through the Web.
We describe a new software toolkit – the Molecular Biology Toolkit (MBT; http://mbt.sdsc.edu) – that enables fast development of applications for protein analysis and visualization. The toolkit is written in Java, thus offering platform-independence and Internet delivery capabilities. Several applications of the toolkit are introduced to illustrate the functionality that can be achieved.
The MBT provides a well-organized assortment of core classes that provide a uniform data model for the description of biological structures and automate most common tasks associated with the development of applications in the molecular sciences (data loading, derivation of typical structural information, visualization of sequence and standard structural entities).
- Protein Data Bank
- Application Programming Interface
- Class Hierarchy
- Common Data Model
- Sequence Viewer
Recent scientific and technical advances in the field of experimental biology, particularly in genomics, have produced large amounts of biological data, which has posed new conceptual challenges. The visualization and visualization-driven analysis of these experimentally derived data has become a key component of the scientific process.
Until recently, these needs were typically approached by designing applications specialized in a set of well-defined specific tasks. So, for example, popular applications for molecular visualization include, but are not limited to, Molscript [1], PyMol [2], Rasmol [3] and Swiss-PdbViewer [4]. However, the analysis of these molecular data frequently requires novel approaches to visualization and integration with a variety of data types. Therefore, the ability to quickly prototype and develop software suitable for diverse tasks becomes paramount. Hence, libraries, like the MBT described here, are particularly useful, especially given that many applications can be accessed through the Web.
This paper, aimed at bioinformatics software developers, provides a concise presentation of the design and capabilities of the toolkit, presents a number of models for its usage, and illustrates its performance with several applications. The paper is organized as follows. The following section provides a general overview of the application programming interface (API). The Results and Discussion section presents details about core components of the toolkit and illustrates its capabilities with two applications. The Conclusions section summarizes the main functionality of the toolkit, discusses availability and documentation, presents performance data and outlines future development plans.
The application-programming interface (API) that serves as the foundation of the toolkit has emerged from the exploration of the typical needs encountered by a researcher in the analysis of a documented biological molecule. The list of requirements includes reading the data file and converting the information to data objects that are easily accessible by applications, extracting subsets of chemical components according to different chemical or biological properties of interest (e.g. chains, residues, CA atoms, ligands, etc.), deriving information that is not explicitly present in the original input data (e.g., covalent and hydrogen bonds, torsion angles, secondary structures) and visualizing chemical or physical properties of different subsets of the molecule, or the entire molecule.
The output of the load methods in the StructureFactory is a Structure object, which is effectively an interface to a summary of raw primary and secondary structure data. The Structure object is not restricted to holding structural information and can contain any other data relevant to the organization of the molecular entity. For instance, it can store the description of single or multiple protein sequences preserving the ordering and alignment of the amino acid residues and their properties.
The StructureMap class builds the internal data model of the simple or complex molecule and provides hierarchical access to both raw data and derived information generated from the input. This includes access to chains, residues, atoms, bonds, nucleic acid components, ligand atoms, fragments associated with secondary structure components, or features defined by the user.
The StructureStyles class provides information about rendering, coloring and selection attributes associated with any structure component produced by the StructureMap. A wide variety of methods in this class allow any module of an application, in particular any viewer, to set and retrieve the information describing the visually represented parameters of any structure component.
The StructureDocument is designed as a container class that maintains a log of all loaded structures and viewers that are instantiated by an application in a given session. It also has the role of generating events associated with the addition or removal of structures and viewers.
The next level of the API contains graphical user interface (GUI) elements. This portion of the package contains high level constructs, such as windows and panels designed to display 3D graphics, protein or DNA sequences or tree representations of the chemical components of the molecule, as well as lower level components that can be used to build a molecular scene according to a developer's preferences.
Finally, at the application level, a number of applications are provided that can be used to illustrate the features of the toolkit, or as starting templates for new application development. For example, the applications illustrate how to use methods in the StructureMap class to retrieve all secondary structures within a given molecule, or how to obtain a list of atoms or residues. This is the level that most developers would modify in order to create custom applications tailored to their specific needs.
Note that care has been taken to further enable application developers to use different components of the toolkit to build purely analytical applications that have no visualization component. For example, a developer could write a command-line tool that simply loads a molecule and gathers statistics about the structure data without presenting any graphical interface. Such an application could be part of a back-end process that runs in a web-server environment.
Results and discussion
Core components
The MBT was developed as an object-oriented Java-based environment and hence is flexible, modular and lightweight, which facilitates maintenance, web deliverability and limits the required computer resources. Moreover, the toolkit can be easily extended and having been written completely in Java is effectively platform-independent.
The Fragment class contains, for example, one of the four known conformations: α-helix, β-strand, turn or random coil, but is sufficiently general to define ranges of residues grouped according to any property of interest. In addition, the data model contains classes that describe other objects associated with derived information, such as covalent or hydrogen bonds.
In order to provide uniform style features across the toolkit a StructureStyles class has been implemented. This class maintains a representation of the rendering characteristics of all structure component objects so that any application module has access to the style data for any given object that needs to be visually represented. The set of style parameters maintained by the StructureStyles class is comprehensive – it is the union of the sets of style parameters required by any known viewer.
Communication between different components of the toolkit is enabled by a flexible event handling mechanism. Changes in the data, rendering styles, addition or removal of viewers and many other actions with toolkit-wide impact generate descriptive events, which are recursively propagated across the toolkit components, allowing an automatic synchronization of the state of different active parts of an application.
Version 1.0 of the MBT provides three standard viewers: a 3D structure viewer, a primary sequence viewer, and a tree viewer. The 3D viewer is implemented using the Java3D™ extension. The use of Java3D for visualization was motivated by the convenience of the availability of high-level constructs for building complex 3D scenes. Analysis of the performance aspects [5] of Java3D has shown that some performance issues can be overcome through a careful organization of the molecular scene. Existing applications indicate that the visualization of most molecules using typical desktops and graphics cards is fast and fully interactive. For example, typical protein data sets with four to five thousand atoms (e.g., PDB identifiers 4 HHB, 10 MH, 6 GEP) load and display in four or five seconds on a Pentium III 1.2 GHz laptop computer.
The geometry engine of the 3D viewer uses a flexible approach to generate ribbon-like surfaces. It allows the construction of ribbons using an extrusion with any shape of the cross section. A few most commonly used shapes are immediately available as core components of the toolkit. However, the developers could easily implement and register with the toolkit any additional shapes that may be of interest in their specific applications. The quality of geometry can be controlled either directly by setting individual geometry rendering parameters, or indirectly by a general quality parameter that optimizes the number of facets/vertices used in the construction of different geometric shapes. This allows for an easy adjustment of the application parameters in a wide performance-quality range, from very fast line-only drawing, to a somewhat slower, publication-quality rendering.
The sequence viewer is a module designed to display primary sequences of proteins and nucleic acids that are either derived from the loaded structures or acquired from individual sequence files or sequence alignments. The sequence viewer uses AWT drawing methods, which does not impose any specific requirements on the client system, as they are part of the standard Java distribution. The viewer is designed as a full-featured module capable of performing most of the sequence analysis tasks, including basic statistics, pattern and motif searching and display of secondary structure mapping onto the sequence. The viewer is capable of displaying an unlimited number of sequences and provides multiple representation options. The latter include residue coloring by several criteria with a possibility of an easy extension, setting sequence display to any of the available system fonts, a flexible selection system, and more. As stated, the integrated event handling of the toolkit allows for simultaneous updates of the presentation layer for any participating viewers. Hence, the toolkit has the built-in support for common selection and common coloring across all registered viewers. This offers an important visual cue to many applications, linking for example sequence and structural components.
The tree viewer offers a hierarchical view of all components of a given molecule. It reflects the logical organization of the derived StructureMap data including Molecule, Chain, Residue, and Atom objects. The tree view provides a convenient mechanism to select portions of a molecule based upon the biological relationship between atoms, residues, and chains.
Finally, the MBT provides a repository of data and methods that can be used for the retrieval and/or derivation of physical, chemical and structural information associated with the molecules loaded by an application. For example, the package contains a periodic table with physico-chemical properties of the elements, as well as methods for the derivation of the secondary structure information, using the Kabsch-Sander algorithm [6]. Full details of all these features are provided with the documentation.
Applications built using the MBT
Applications can be explored and downloaded from the MBT Website [7]. They have been tested on a variety of UNIX, Windows and MAC OS X platforms.
The molecular biology toolkit (MBT) provides a set of pluggable and extensible classes for use by application developers interested in the visualization and analysis of macromolecular data. The MBT provides a set of pre-written data loaders, viewers, a common data model and the means to add to and customize the toolkit for specific applications delivered as applets through the Web or as standalone applications. Base functionality and comparable tools (where applicable) are as follows:
Classes to load raw data from a number of common protein structure and sequence data sources (PDB, mmCIF, FASTA, etc.) and a means to easily add new "loader" modules independent of the applications they might serve.
A common data model to which raw information is imported, mapped, and indexed. A number of data record types (StructureComponent objects) are provided (e.g., Atom, Bond, Residue, Chain) and new data types are easily registered. Further the data model provides an extensible means to describe viewable or visible attributes (e.g., color, radius, drawing style) of these objects.
Written entirely in Java, programs may be embedded (using Java WebStart or the Java Plug-In) directly inside web pages. This enables the deployment of tightly coupled interactive web content much like the popular MDL Chime plug-in.
Applications are not restricted to the features provided by the MBT APIs. The Programmers Guide details how to extend the system.
With source code provided, core features of the toolkit may be directly modified or extended for independent use (though, this may cause your code to diverge from and become incompatible with subsequent releases of MBT). However, adding code within the existing framework and contributing it back for others to use is encouraged. The source code has been extensively commented to produce a rich and complete set of hyper-linked javadoc API documents.
A set of pre-written viewers (Sequence, Structure, Tree) that can be extended, replaced, omitted, or augmented with completely new viewers that implement entirely new visualization techniques.
The 3D StructureViewer module provides visual representations similar to RasMol and Molscript such as balls-and-sticks, CPK spheres, split-bonds, extrusion/ribbon-style backbone traces, and secondary structure cartoons (Helix, Turn, Coil, Strand). It also provides 3D labeling.
A scripting interface is being developed for MBT to enable toolkit functionality to be command-line or even script-driven (similar to MDL Chime or PyMol).
Version 1.0 of the toolkit and sample applications, including those described here, are available for download from the project web page [7]. The same site contains links to various documentation pages (Project Introduction, Talk/Presentation Slides, Related Links, Installation Guide, Build Guide, Programmers Guide, Examples Source, and Toolkit API). The MBT has been tested on common hardware and UNIX, Windows and MAC OS X operating systems. A good consumer-level graphics card is recommended. The loading and generation of a 3D scene when representing a typical protein structure takes a few seconds. Large structures from the PDB [9] that contain over 105 atoms require physical memory in excess of 500 MBytes and on a notebook computer with a 1.2 GHz processor can take nearly one minute. Efforts at optimization are on-going.
New applications are on-going including the generation of high quality images for all structures in the Protein Data Bank and new ways of visualizing protein-protein interactions. We invite contributions to the MBT by sending mail to firstname.lastname@example.com. Bugs may be reported to a bug tracker available on the project web site [7].
Availability and requirements
Project Name: Molecular Biology Toolkit (MBT)
Project Home Page: http://mbt.sdsc.edu
Operating System: Platform independent
Programming Language: Java
Other requirements: Java 1.3.1 or higher, Java3D
License: Free for educational, research and non-profit purposes
Any restrictions to use by non-academics: Contact the University of California at San Diego's Technology Transfer Office (firstname.lastname@example.com, 1-858-534-5815)
We are very grateful to Drs. Paul Craig, John Westbrook and members of the developer and user community at the San Diego Supercomputer Center for their suggestions and valuable feedback.
This work was supported by NIH grant 1-P01-GM63208. SB is supported by the Protein Kinase Resource project NSF grant DBI-0217951. QZ is supported by the RCSB Protein Data Bank, a multi-agency project led by the NSF.
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Northeast Agribusiness & Feed Alliance
The health of agriculture is integral to all corners of the U.S. economy, from the food-supply chain to employment. Oftentimes the Midwest gets most of the credit, but the Northeast also has a diverse crop mix and is a source of strong agricultural production. Producers such as dairy farmers, crop input specialists and feed manufacturers in the Northeast keep this multibillion dollar sector moving. Providing industry oversight, the Northeast Agribusiness and Feed Alliance (NEAFA) strives for the proliferation of agriculture, serving as the collective voice for agricultural businesses, cooperatives, suppliers, dealers, lenders and other agribusinesses that support the farming industry throughout the Northeast
Originally named the Northeast Ag & Feed Alliance, NEAFA was formed in 2004 when two longtime organizations came together: The New England Grain and Feed Council and The Eastern Federation of Feed Merchants. The two groups joined to harness their collective strength, roots and industry experience dating back to the early 20th century.
Joining in collective strength
Amid industrywide consolidation in recent years, NEAFA has restructured to look out for the best interest of its members, the majority of which are small- to medium-scale producers, feed manufacturers, dealers and suppliers and leaders in the local agribusiness community. NEAFA's mission is threefold in terms of collaboration with other industry organizations, ongoing education and advocacy efforts. NEAFA's reach covers all six New England states: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut, as well as New York.
Rick Zimmerman has served as the organization's executive director for the last nine years. "Our leadership realized industry consolidation was inventible and that the changing face of the agribusiness community in the Northeast required out-of-the-box thinking by well-established, longtime organizations serving primarily the feed industry," says Zimmerman, who holds a degree from Cornell University in agricultural economics and animal science. "In 2004, we finalized our merger to create NEAFA to better serve our multistate membership across animal agriculture. This partnership reflects how the animal agriculture industry has grown throughout the Northeast."
Zimmerman joined the association in 2007 and has helped shaped NEAFA into the body it is today. In 2014, as part of the organization's 10-year anniversary, "Agribusiness" was added to the name to represent a diverse scope of work and leadership in support of a variety of agricultural companies.
"When we're talking about agribusiness, we're talking about more than our traditional roots in serving feed manufacturers, dealers and suppliers," explains Zimmerman. "We're going beyond that and into the agronomic input community as well [seed fertilizer, chemical] and our membership ranks also include farm credit and agricultural banks that are a significant part of the agribusiness community as well. We still serve a wide range of family-owned agribusinesses. The more regionally based companies, often owned by families in the Northeast, are a very important part of our membership."
Zimmerman brings years of related experience to NEAFA from formative years on his family's dairy farm in western New York to more than 30 years in professional public policy on behalf of agriculture. "My professional goal has been to help advance the growth and development of the agricultural industry here in the Northeast," he says.
Passionate about the issues that matter to local agro-producers, Zimmerman served as the director of government relations for the New York Farm Bureau for 16 years. "Following this role I served as deputy commissioner for the Department of Agricultural Markets in New York for seven years," says Zimmerman. "I had the ability to administer a number of programs that I had previously lobbied while at the Farm Bureau."
In addition, Zimmerman also runs his own public policy business and has since 2006. "We serve the agriculture industry as registered lobbyists and we represent NEAFA and other organizations," he says.
Focused efforts in education
"Unlike many organizations, our board of directors is highly engaged in the activities of the alliance," says Zimmerman. "Much of the board's work is accomplished in focused committees that further our three-part mission: advocacy, collaboration and education. We're fortunate to have a lot of active participation within various committees, which have resulted in our recent accomplishments and will be vital as we move forward with our strategic goals."
NEAFA's Education Committee is chaired by Rick Grant, president of the board of directors. The primary purpose of this committee is to get major educational programs off the ground. "One of our major, annual events is the Herd Health and Nutrition Conference," says Grant. "This focuses on nutrition and dairy management and the conference has traditionally been held in Syracuse, New York, and central New England."
NEAFA's Education Committee is one of the largest of all focus groups. "It incorporates people from all over the education sector in New England, from colleges to land grants. We have 20 members on this committee," notes Grant.
Grant says hot topics in recent years have been addressing various dairy cattle nutrition questions and improving herd efficiency in terms of minerals, vitamins and proteins. "Another concern is how to maximize nutrition management with a minimal impact on the environment," adds Grant.
The education committee also rallies around NEAFA's Land Grant Institutions, such as Cornell University. "In the last year, we've helped add two new faculty members in the Department of Animal Science at Cornell," shares Zimmerman. "We raised more than $1 million from the agribusiness community to leverage Cornell funds sufficient to support two tenured faculty positions for their entire professional careers. We're committed to support this Faculty Renewal Program because we know these faculty members will serve the industry for generations to come."
In partnership with the national affiliates — the American Feed Industry Association (AFIA) and the National Grain and Feed Alliance (NGFA) — NEAFA also connects members to interactive online educational tools, such as webinars. NEAFA recently hosted a series of webinars on changes to the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). The three-part series included training, which aired to 24 viewers at four locations throughout Vermont and New York. Each of the three webinars qualified for two continuing education credits by the American Registry of Professional Animal Scientists.
Fundraising for today and tomorrow
Supporting programs and initiatives that make a difference in the industry and local communities is an important priority for the NEAFA. The Good Works Committee, chaired by Chip Hyde, heads up a majority of the alliance's charity fundraising efforts. The committee hosts the annual Golf for Good Works Tournament, held last year June 26, 2015, in Verona, New York. The tournament raised more than $10,000 to support agricultural educational programs and NEAFA hopes to go above and beyond that figure in 2016.
A major recipient of the dollars raised is the Intercollegiate Dairy Challenge, a competition that prepares college-level dairy students for successful careers in the field. NEAFA is a proud annual sponsor of this event. "Over the last seven years, we've awarded more than $75,000 to 4-H groups, various FFA organizations and winners of the Dairy Challenge," says Zimmerman. "Our interest is in supporting programs that involve upcoming generations and potential future ag leaders coming up through the ranks."
"We are trying to put emphasis on youth in agriculture," adds Hyde. "They are the future of the industry and they will be the professionals, CEOs and managers down the road."
Attracting younger generations is such a critical issue in the industry, so much so that NEAFA has based its annual meeting around the theme of youth in agriculture. The board of directors' annual meeting and forum for members will take place February, 2 and 3, 2016, in Albany, New York. The theme for the 2016 annual meeting is "Agriculture's Workforce: Who Will Meet Our Needs?"
Speakers will focus on various aspects of the workforce requirements for tomorrow's agriculture industry. "The annual meeting will draw about 200 people from across the United States and Canada who will be attending for the excellent program and networking opportunities," says Zimmerman.
"Last year our discussions focused on the impact of mandatory GMO labeling and proposals to control and ban GMO seeds," recounts Zimmerman. "This year we're focusing on the labor needs of the future and there will also be smaller seminars for specific topics such as transportation issues and the Food Safety Modernization Act. We also have invited a farmer-agribusiness panel to discuss the labor issues from their in-the-field perspective."
"Damian Mason, a well-known speaker in many agriculture circles, is going to be closing the conference," adds Zimmerman.
More room for rail
One issue the annual meeting will discuss is the daily transportation and logistical issues producers and feed manufactures face in New York and New England in getting their products to market. In April 2015, NEAFA launched its Transportation Committee, now chaired by Blake Lutz.
The Transportation Committee was created in order to address poor rail transport and convince state governments to reinvest in infrastructure to allow for high-capacity trains to travel along the region's short-line railroads. To that end, the Transportation Committee is also working to launch conversations with rail industry leaders to improve the quality of service currently provided to mills in the Northeast.
"The Transportation Committee is working to understand the new requirements for truck and rail shipments to be in compliance with FSMA," explains Lutz. "We're also helping mills and other shippers involved the agribusiness industry comply with state and federal Department of Transportation regulations. We'd eventually like to organize a webinar for this DOT training."
The committee also works within the rail industry to explore infrastructure changes that may allow large-capacity cars. "Currently many of those lines are restricted to small-capacity cars," says Lutz. "We're working to identify a way to better discuss rate concerns with the Surface Transportation Board for small-volume shipments that are common in the Northeast feed business. Overall, it's an effort to collaborate with the truck and rail providers to ensure dependable, efficient and cost-effective transportation of agricultural commodities to our Northeast Corridor."
Advocacy on the legislative front and key collaboration
From thruway tolls and road restrictions to tonnage taxes and registration fees, NEAFA is working to limit unnecessary mandates and regulations that plague producers and the greater agribusiness community. The Government Relations Committee, led by Art Whitman, has been a big player in the NEAFA's advocacy efforts. "We connect with organizations throughout the northeast, such as the Farm Bureau, the Animal Ag Alliance, Northeast Dairy Producers and more, to make it easier for our members to get their voices heard through key leadership," says Whitman.
The Government Relations Committee works on both the state and federal levels to address issues, such as immigration reform, access and labor, to stabilizing dairy farms through Farm Bill programs. The GMO labeling battle has been a huge issue for the committee. Last year the committee helped defeat a mandatory GMO labeling bill in New York through an active broad-based coalition. NEAFA supports farmers' use of science-based practices and crop production technology, such as genetically engineered seed, for the production of quality food.
Success wouldn't be possible without collaboration among committees and various facets of NEAFA. The Communications Committee, chaired by Jenny Mills, is essential in this process. "Our purpose is to communicate issues to the membership as well as to externally represent agricultural messages to the greater public," says Mills.
The Communications Committee accomplishes this through print media, social media and NEAFA's quarterly newsletter and monthly emails going out to members. "Collaboration is a big part of what we are doing," stresses Mills. "We are trying to work with a lot of different organizations across agriculture in the Northeast and nationally. We want to communicate why the health of agriculture is so important and to make sure our challenges to this are heard."
"The neat thing about our membership is that it spans several generations," adds Mills. "This means we have to use a broad range of communications to speak to all of our members, through emails, newsletters, Facebook and blogs. In addition, we reach out to the general public to help with building understanding and trust between our industry and consumers."
Day in and day out, the Northeast Agribusiness and Feed Alliance is bringing to light the important role agriculture plays, not just for individual families and farmer's bottom lines, but for the good of everyone across the Northeastern states, the country and the world.


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Intex on Monday launched new android 4.4.2 KitKat Smartphone in its Aqua series, the Aqua Y2 Pro for Rs. 4,333. From the past few months, Intex came up with new budget and cheap devices for the customers looking to migrate from featured phones to Android Smartphone's.
The Intex Aqua Y2 Pro comes with dual SIM support and features a 4.5-inch IPS display with 800 x 480 pixels screen resolutions. The Smartphone runs on Android 4.4 KitKat and is powered with Dual Core MT6572 processor clocking at 1GHz. There is 1400 mAh battery on the back with decent talktime and standby time.
The other features of Intex Aqua Y2 Pro includes 4GB inbuilt memory (expandable up to 32GB with SD card), 5 MP rear camera with LED Flash, VGA front facing camera, 3.5mm audio jack and includes connectivity options like 3G HSPA+,WiFi 802.11 b/g/n,Bluetooth and GPS.
Commenting on the launch, Sanjay Kumar Kalirona, Mobile Business Head, Intex Technologies said, "The Aqua Y2 Pro as the name suggests is handcrafted for the gen-Y crowd and is our latest addition to the Aqua collection. With unique pricing, the all new Y2 Pro runs on Android 4.4.2 KitKat and is the most reasonably priced 3G smartphone in 4.5 inch screen. We are proud to announce a phone which is made for the millennials."
The company recently launched 3 new budget Smartphone's for the Indian market- the Intex Aqua Star, Aqua Star HD and Aqua Star Power. All the three devices runs on Android 4.4.2 KitKat out of the box and includes features like dual SIM support, 8GB inbuilt memory and are powered with 1.3 GHz Quad Core processors coupled with 1GB of RAM.
Intex Aqua Y2 Pro Specifications:
- 4.5-inch IPS display with 800 x 480 pixels screen resolutions
- 1GHz dual-core MT6572 processor
- Android 4.4 (KitKat) OS
- 4GB internal memory, expandable memory up to 32GB with microSD
- Dual SIM support
- 5-megapixels rear camera with LED Flash
- 0.3-megapixels (VGA) front-facing camera
- 3.5mm audio jack, FM Radio
- 3G HSPA+,WiFi 802.11 b/g/n,Bluetooth, GPS
- 1400mAh battery
Price and Availability:
The Intex Aqua Y2 Pro Android Smartphone comes in Black and Navy Blue colors and has price tag of Rs. 4,333.


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Helen Flanagan has returned to the I'm a Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! jungle a year after she took part in the daring series as a contestant.
The former Coronation Street actress jetted Down Under for a guest appearance on the ITV2 spin-off show I'm A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! Now! where she once more came face to face with the jungle's wild, managing to stroke a crocodile that lay on the spin-off programme's presenter Joe Swash's chest.
Dressed in a pretty pink and black bikini with her blonde locks in cute pony tails, Helen made her way to a bushtucker trial.
But, still fearful of the jungle and the daring trials, she thought better of it. Asked if she would take part, the actress and model said: "Absolutely not. I did my trials last year."
Helen, who came seventh in the last series, returned to the show as a panelist to discuss this year's contestants.
But the 23-year-old blonde lived in the lap of luxury this time around, making herself at home in a luxurious suite at the Palazzo Versace hotel, situated on Queensland's picturesque Gold Coast.
In contrast to her days as a contestant on I'm a Celebrity…, she spent time shopping at local boutiques just hours after landing for her guest slot.
She also enjoyed the luxuries of her hotel suite, posting on Twitter, "Jet lag joy. Going to sloth take a long bath and chill with a film."
After appearing on the show, Helen wrote: "Absolutely loved returning to the jungle as a panelist on IACGMOOH #NOW Show on ITV2 will be here for…"
When the fleeting trip came to an end, it was time to go home – and get ready for Christmas. Helen tweeted: "Home time! Had the most amazing time thank you so much @imacelebrity love you. looking forward to cuddles and Xmas 🙂 xxx ❤"


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Video game industry veterans Nick Koziupa, Brian Westergaard, and Dave Eberly have announced the launch of Azo Studios. The studio plans to develop video game titles and middleware solutions for console systems, personal computers, and handheld devices.
"We are committed to building mutually beneficial relationships throughout the entertainment industry in order to provide high quality gaming experiences for a global audience," said Nick Koziupa, Azo Studios' president.
The studio's founding members bring extensive management, leadership, and production experience to the team. For over a decade, each has contributed to the development of critically acclaimed and commercially successful titles delivered across multiple video game platforms.
Eberly's background lends a distinct technology advantage to the studio. "We look forward to joining the video game community not only as a game developer but also as a provider of middleware solutions," said Koziupa. "Dave's prior experience as the chief architect of NetImmerse, the game engine that later became Gamebryo, puts Azo Studios in a strong position to develop cutting edge technology with an eye toward future licensing opportunities."
The team plans to develop intellectual property in-house and in conjunction with strategic partners in the music and entertainment industries. "Our goal is to ensure that creative vision guides our decision making process every step of the way," said Westergaard, Azo Studios' vice president.
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text: Clay Siegall, PhD is a cancer scientist and pharmaceutical executive. He is the current President, CEO and Chairman of Seattle Genetics. He holds a PhD in Genetics awarded by George Washington University and a BS in zoology from the University of Maryland. Dr. Siegall has had over seventy published papers and holds seventeen patents. As the cofounder of Seattle Genetics, Dr. Siegall has been a driving force in Seagen's move toward scientific innovation and passion for patient care. It is believed that Dr. Siegall helped to secure over $300 million in funding for his company's drug research. Dr. Siegall's company has a current focus on developing antibody-drug coagulates (ADC) including ADCETRIS (bretuximad vedotin) which was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 2011 for the treatment of cancer. Seattle Genetics completed an initial public offering in March 2001 and is traded under the symbol SGEN. Seattle Genetics has around 600 total employees. In addition to his work with SEAGEN, Dr. Siegall serves on the board of directors for Ultragenyx, Mirna Therapeutics and Alder Biopharmaceuticals. Under Dr. Seigall's leadership, Seagen has entered into strategic partnerships with Roche, Abbvie, Glaxoklinesmith and Pfizer to further research into ADCs. Dr. Siegall and his company have been reported on by Bloomberg, CNN and Fox News. Before founding Seattle Genetics, Dr. Siegall worked for Bristol-Myers Squibb as well as the National Cancer Institute. Dr. Siegall is the recipient of a number of awards including 2013 university of Maryland Alumnus of the Year, and 2012 Pacific Northeast Earnst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year.


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Blueberry Pancakes
1 1/2 cups plus 1 tablespoon cake flour
3 tablespoons sugar
1 heaping tablespoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cups evaporated milk (more if needed)
1 lemon, zested and juiced (more juice if lemon isn't very juicy)
2 tablespoons butter, melted, plus more softened for serving
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 large egg
1 cup blueberries
Maple or pancake syrup, warmed, for serving
Heat a heavy skillet or grill over medium-low heat.
In a medium bowl, mix the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. Set aside.
In a separate bowl, mix the evaporated milk, lemon zest and juice. Allow to sit for 5 minutes, then add the egg and vanilla. Mix to combine.
Pour the wet mixture into the dry ingredients. Stir gently to combine. Stir in the melted butter. Splash in more evaporated milk if the mixture is overly thick. Stir in the blueberries.
Melt a little of the softened butter in the heated skillet. Drop the batter by 1/4 or 1/3 cup measures and fry the pancakes on both sides for a couple of minutes until golden.
Serve with more softened butter and warm syrup.
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Dr. Avichai Mandelblit, Attorney General of Israel, on Monday stressed the importance of legal action against the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.
Speaking at the Legal Network Initiative (LNI) Conference, organized by the Israel Ministry of Strategic Affairs, the Israel Bar Association, and the International Legal Forum Minister, Mandelblit said, "As BDS efforts are in large taking part in the legal arena, it is important for us as legal professionals to broaden our knowledge in order to learn how to respond to these claims and be able to articulate legal arguments against such efforts."
"Courts around the world have repeatedly rejected the strategy of BDS, and deemed it harmful to the actual number of fundamental human rights-such as equality and non-discrimination," he noted.
"In the past few years, we have seen a surge in successful local advocacy in a number of countries, by lawyers and NGOs working to counter different types of pro-BDS, government or municipal, decisions. These local advocates can take pride in dozens of court decisions ruling against local BDS activities in such places as Spain, France and the UK, reflecting once again the international community's rejection of this strategy."
Mandelblit particularly noted the United States which "has been at the forefront of international efforts to combat these types of boycotts within the legislative domain, both on the federal and state level."
"The State of Israel and its allies employ different legal and diplomatic tools to counter the challenge of BDS, including in the legal field, on a daily basis. The Israeli Minister of Justice, Ayelet Shaked, made clear upon her appointment that the legal response to the BDS movement is a top priority," he added.


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RUSSOFT Forum 2007
Venue: Saint-Petersburg
Location: Saint-Petersburg, Russia
|Event Date/Time: Apr 18, 2007
The event offers you presentations from prominent industry analysts and thought leaders, breakout sessions, and real-world case studies. The RUSSOFT Forum 2007 will provide IT executives with unique and valuable content to help them realize business value in their outsourcing engagements.
Why attend
Learn why Russia has emerged as a strong alternative to India for high value, complex software outsourcing work.
Discover the major pain points that the Russian outsourcing suppliers are able to address from the leading industry analysts' data and the experience reports from the existing clients of the Russian outsourcers.
Hear about the advantages of doing software engineering work in Russia from some of the world's leading technology vendors with presence in Russia
Explore the diverse and vibrant Russian vendor community, and meet all the leading industry players in one place. If you are already considering outsourcing to Russia, this forum is your unique opportunity to interview vendors, conduct cite visits, and greatly advance your selection process.
If you are a buyer, a supplier, an ISV, or a VC, use the pre-qualified B2B meeting program to discuss business opportunities
Hear about the latest trends in the industry, share your views, and network with your IT executives from around the world
Enjoy St. Petersburg, one of the world's most beautiful cities, during the magnificent White Nights season!
Who Should Attend
Executive/Corporate Management
Operations executives
CFOs and financial directors/managers
Sourcing executives/directors
Purchasing and procurement directors
CIOs and their direct reports
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If Matt Maloney has a home away from home, it just might be the lacrosse field at East Hampton High School. He had, after all, spent six years coaching girls lacrosse on that field turf until taking over as the Mattituck/Greenport/Southold coach three years ago.
For the first time since he last coached East Hampton/Bridgehampton/Pierson, Maloney returned to that East Hampton field for a game Friday, this time as an opposing coach, and it conjured up plenty of memories.


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Giving birth is no simple task and your body needs to recover in a multitude of ways. Your physique is not just recuperating from the labour, but also from carrying your baby for nine months. While your body is perfectly capable of healing itself, there are some things that you can do to hurry the process along. This way, you will be back to pre-baby condition in no time at all.
While you are taking care of a new-born, you may find yourself ignoring your own health. However, it is important that you maintain a well-balanced lifestyle. This means getting plenty of rest, eating right, and having postnatal fitness training. Here is how to include these things in your hectic life:
Get Some Shut Eye
Being a new mother will give new meaning to word exhausted. Recovering from labour, taking care of your little one, and breaking rest means that you are going to be tired throughout the day. However, sleep deprivation is not a good thing for someone who is trying to remain healthy and care for a child. This is why it is important to take a nap whenever your baby does. Ignore house work and other chores and close your eyes every time your baby decides to sleep.
Eat Healthy
A common complaint by new mothers is that they actually forget to eat. They are so busy tending to their baby that they lose track of their basic needs. Particularly if you are breast feeding, however, you are going to need to make sure that you are getting proper nutrition. This means eating three, balanced meals a day and having healthy snacks. Make sure that you are getting lots of protein, fibre, fruits, and vegetables into your diet. You should also consume food that is high in calcium such as dairy.
Postnatal fitness training is more than just losing the weight that you gained during your pregnancy. Of course, this is certainly a welcome advantage. Pregnancy and giving birth tend to take toll on various muscles throughout the body. These muscles need to be repaired and to be coaxed back into their original position. Frequent workouts will also help you to feel better and will give you more energy as well. It is important, nonetheless, to always check with your doctor before you start working out. Once you have gotten the all-clear, you may begin.
Though you are now a caregiver to your baby, it is important to still pay attention to your wants and needs as well. This will help you to take care of your baby in the long run.


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Our first March for Babies, in April 2009:
Our second walk, in April of 2010:
Our third walk in 2011:
And today:
It doesn't take much to transport my mind back to the NICU. To remember the machines, the beeping, the not being able to hold my girl anytime I wanted to . . . but on days like today, even though those moments -- the NICU moments -- are forever engrained in me, nothing feels better than just being with my little family, and those that love us. Today, I truly felt so, so blessed.
And, let us not forget the newest, miniest member of Team Sammie B, our sweet Mia. Mia was born full-term, and while we may never know WHY she made it to full-term and Sammie B didn't, we do know that my pregnancies with both girls were similar (pre-term labor, bed rest) but with Mia, I had weekly progesterone shots, an intervention discovered, in large part, due to research supported by the March of Dimes. So, for that too, we are grateful. These two girls just make my world go 'round. Today and everyday.
This organization is a part of us, and today, we walked for it. For the March of Dimes, for Sammie B, and for all the other babies born too soon.
Here's to Team Sammie B!


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Drink Scott, drink.
See car.
Drive Scott, drive.
See more coffee.
Drink Scott, drink.
See computers.
Work Scott, work.
Watch movie, watch. (3.4 meg Quicktime)
Q. What kind of camera did you use?
A. Nikon Coolpix S4
Q. How often did it take a shot?
A. Every 30 seconds.
Q. Is that an AMD Opteron sticker on your dashboard?
A. Yes.
Q. If you had chosen a sound track, what would it have been?
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The "Golden Apple" Hunt | 12.12.12 – 12.24.12
For 12 days, beginning on 12.12.12 we are launching a "Golden Apple" hunt. Twelve "Golden Apples" will be hidden around the sim enclosed with exclusive items.
Missy (Missqwerty Pevensey), owner of American Bazaar & founder of Flair for Events will be coordinating the event in partnership with the New York City SL Event Coordination team!
Your taxi awaits…
. : VyC : . Men's Bodyshop [Mainstore]
Adjunct [Mainstore]
AMERICAN BAZAAR [Mainstore]
Indyra Originals [Mainstore]
Kamouraska [Mainstore]
LoQ Hair [Mainstore]
Loulou & Co [Mainstore]
Maki Kato [Mainstore]
Maxi Gossamer Jewellery [Mainstore]
PIDIDDLE [Mainstore]
S W I T C H [Mainstore]
SugarsmacK [Mainstore]
The Hints
1. Who needs oxygen? We have sticky notes
2. I can get you there in a New York minute
3. Is it safe back here?
4. What is that smell?
5. This isn't the route to my heart.
6. This is what it sounds like when doves cry.
7. My favorite song is Racks on Racks on Racks.
8. Don't get lost in this triangle.
9. Who's on the cover of Best of SL?
10. Is that Jay-Z in there?
11. Its not easy being green.
12. You'll hate me in a blackout.