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The objective of establishing a national animal ID program is to enhance the animal disease surveillance and monitoring system and improve trace-back capabilities should a reportable animal disease event occur.
The proposed plan calls for establishing a system that allows complete trace-back within 48 hours of a confirmed reportable disease event. Rapid response capability will aid with intervention and should improve security of the nation's food supply, provide assurance to domestic and international consumers and mitigate economic problems that could occur with the discovery of a reportable disease event.
Controversy over the implementation of a National Animal Identification System (NAlS) increased recently as the July 6 deadline approached in Texas to apply for and obtain a Premise Identification number. The NAIS is a project of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and state animal health agencies. Texas ranchers would have had to register for a premise identification by July 6, 2006, under a free registration provision. A $20 feeper premise for a two-year permit would have come due in July 2008.
These rules were enabled in Texas by HB 1361, which was passed by the legislature in its last regular session. The Texas Animal Health Commission was charged with developing and implementing a premise identification system. Under those regulations, owners or lessees of premises found to be noncompliant could be fined. Keep in mind that this program covered a premise identification system in Texas and not a complete animal identification program.
In the middle of this recent controversy, the Texas Animal Health Commission canceled a meeting, which had been scheduled on March 23, near Austin, Texas. According to the March 8, 2006, news release, the commissioners had planned to consider proposed regulations that would require registration of sites where livestock, exotic livestock, domestic fowl and exotic fowl are held, managed or handled, and to charge a fee for premises registration. According to the news release, more than 8,200 of the state's estimated 200,000 premises had been registered for a premise identification as of March 8, 2006.
Opposition to establish a NAIS is complex, but appears centered on privacy issues and the increased implementation costs, which could be borne by producers.
While the current NAIS program has been under development since 2002 by a public/private partnership with the National Institute for Animal Agriculture, discussions to establish a livestock ID program have been underway for more than 20 years. The implementation of a program was accelerated by the December 2003 bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) incident.
On Dec. 31, 2003, Agriculture Secretary AnnVeneman called for creation of a nationwide animal identification system. Congress has not passed legislation mandating an NAIS. As a result, an NAIS remains voluntary. While a voluntary program is currently in place, plans are underway for a mandatory identification program by 2009. The current concept appears to be to establish an NAIS in phases: voluntary premises registration first, followed by mandatory registration, then animal registration, and finally animal movement detection. Enforcement would include fines of up to $1,000 per day for non-compliance.
Congressmen Charles Grassley, R-IA, when speaking about a mandatory national program for trading livestock, said recently: "Either you have somebody in the U.S. Department of Agriculture with guts enough to make a decision that we're moving forward or else Congress is going to have to act."
A required identification system may lead to structural changes in the cattle industry. For example, cattle marketability will hinge on having a viable animal ID system in place. An identification system will call for additional management and record keeping requirements.
Recent concerns about animal disease outbreaks, food safety and agricultural terrorism highlight the need for information about the movements of food and agricultural commodities into and within the United States.
Livestock and meat are of special concern, given the potential health and economic impacts of diseases such as foot and mouth, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), anthrax, tuberculosis, and brucellosis. These concerns mean that a system of tracking livestock will be implemented.


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Originally Posted by BCap888: 5/11
I am on the Rangers, so one of us will win!
Hi BCap,
Please help me run few queries below:
1. 1. In 2011, after teams get swept the first time in
3 games series or 4 only, what is the record that they don't get swept the
second time in the same season.
2. 2. Same as query number 1 but with filter with team
that had 40% winning only.
3. 3. This one is for over/under: what is the record
for lowest total era of 2 starter pitcher of the day in 2011. Pitchers must
start at least one game. ex: today game 5-12-12 between SF and Ari(Cain 2.38 +
Cahill 3.26 = 5.64)
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It was a big book, and now it's a movie. The new mythical, Winters Tale is out just in time for Valentine's Day.
Right up front, this is a very dramatic, artsy, and a bit schmaltzy love story that certainly will not be appeal to everyone. This is though a very good romantic date movie, and one that actually does make you feel good for the most part. And yes, there are some silly holes in this story, but so what? Sometimes you just have to watch a movie and move on.
This is a classic "Good Vs.Evil" movie. It takes place in the early 20th century for the most part, as Peter (Colin Farrell) meets Beverly (Jessica Brown Findlay). She is a 21 year old beautiful woman who is dying from consumption, common in those days. Peter is a common thief and meets Beverly by accident and falls in love with her. She is from extreme wealth, he is not.
All the while at play is the supernatural part of our story. While Beverly appears to be "chosen" and blessed by the light, there is evil on earth, and they are out to get Beverly because of her amazing capacity for love and good. The Demon (Russell Crowe) dressed as a common man wants her dead. The demons hold the belief that all humans have the gift of one miracle in them. And hers is very valuable.
Eventually Beverly does give in to her illness, and passes over. Heartbroken, Peter suddenly finds himself in 2014, in modern day New York City. He has no idea how he got there, and has no idea why he is there. He meets and befriends Virginia (Jennifer Connelly) who has a young daughter dying of cancer. As Peter tries to figure out his destiny, and how all of this has happened, he finds that the demons are still, 100 years later after him, to prevent his miracle from taking place. That is it in a nutshell. Of course, there are far more nuances than we have time for here.
There are a bunch of holes in this movie. And there are moments that it is a bit much on the "awwww" meter. But I say that's OK. This movie looks real nice, and overall is a very uplifting piece that makes you happy. It's a bit predictable, and a whole lot idealistic, but it's Valentine's Day. Many critics are going to hammer away at this thing with a sledge, and I think that's a shame. We need a bit of chivalrous movie making from time to time.
This movie at times is quite sensuous, and overall very romantic. It also holds on very nicely to it's very apt PG-13 rating. Findlay is wonderfully alluring and captivating as the enigmatic, and blessed Beverly. She was incredibly well cast, and is the movies bread and butter. The character written for her is splendid and she breathes wonderful life into a character losing her own. Crowe, seems a bit out of water here, but I think some of that was the silly character invented for him. Connelly is over casted, her role is very small, but she's fine. Farrell, was born to be in this movie and holds his own well in this large role. Also kudos to those in support including William Hurt and even Will Smith.
Winters Tale. In the long run - forgettable. But for today, fun date movie. Enjoy and have some fun.


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Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 157,000 in January, and the unemployment rate was essentially unchanged at 7.9 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Retail trade, construction, health care, and wholesale trade added jobs over the month.
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The number of unemployed persons, at 12.3 million, was little changed in January. The unemployment rate was 7.9 percent and has been at or near that level since September 2012.
Among the major worker groups, the unemployment rates for adult men (7.3 percent), adult women (7.3 percent), teenagers (23.4 percent), whites (7.0 percent), blacks (13.8 percent), and Hispanics (9.7 percent) showed little or no change in January. The jobless rate for Asians was 6.5 percent (not seasonally adjusted), little changed from a year earlier.
In January, the number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks or more) was about unchanged at 4.7 million and accounted for 38.1 percent of the unemployed.
Both the employment-population ratio (58.6 percent) and the civilian labor force participation rate (63.6 percent) were unchanged in January.
The number of persons employed part time for economic reasons, at 8.0 million, changed little in January. These individuals were working part time because their hours had been cut back or because they were unable to find a full-time job.
In January, 2.4 million persons were marginally attached to the labor force, down by 366,000 from a year earlier. (The data are not seasonally adjusted.) These individuals were not in the labor force, wanted and were available for work, and had looked for a job sometime in the prior 12 months. They were not counted as unemployed because they had not searched for work in the 4 weeks preceding the survey.
Among the marginally attached, there were 804,000 discouraged workers in January, a decline of 255,000 from a year earlier. (The data are not seasonally adjusted.) Discouraged workers are persons not currently looking for work because they believe no jobs are available for them. The remaining 1.6 million persons marginally attached to the labor force in January had not searched for work in the 4 weeks preceding the survey for reasons such as school attendance or family responsibilities.


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"Neither closed in one landscape
nor in one season
the mind moving in illimitable
-- Basil Bunting, "Chomei at Toyama"
Poet Max Blagg and writer and producer Wickham Boyle discuss memory's role in the creation of a poem and the ways in which memorizing poems can give our daily life meaning. Following their discussion, the two will lead a walk during which each audience member will be given a poem to memorize.
Max Blagg was born in England and has lived in New York City since 1971. He is the author of four books of poetry including Pink Instrument, Licking the Fun Up, and Eat a Peach: Eat it Down to the Bone. His most recent book is the novel Ticket Out.
Wickham Boyle is a writer, theater producer (seven years at New York's famous La MaMa), stockbroker, teacher, bike rider, lover of poetry and mom. Currently she heads a passion project working with women shea harvesters in Ghana called JUST SHEA.


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Scott Feschuk: Last week (7-9)
Scott Reid: Last week (7-9)
Chicago (plus 6) at Green Bay, Thursday, 8:20 p.m. ET
Scott Reid: If you felt the solar system wobble slightly on Sunday night, don't worry – that wasn't your imagination. It was the entire United States of America picking the exact same moment to jump off the Green Bay bandwagon. Take away Randall Cobb's TD that was generously awarded by Daddy Frank the replacement referee and the much-feared Packer offence squeaked out only two scores all day. Not to be outdone, the Green Bay defence let Frank Gore, Kendall Hunter and Abe Vigoda run around the field at will. All in all, there was much sadness in the land of cheese. But keep this in mind: They were playing the 49ers who really are all that (I say, 10 years to the day that that colloquialism went officially out of cool). Chicago, on the other hand, played Indy. And yes, Cutler and Marshall clicked like Richard and Karen Carpenter. But something tells me that against the Pack they won't be quite so on top of the world looking down on creation. Nevertheless, if the Bears feed Forte the ball, those six points will be more than Chi-town needs. Pick: Chicago.
Feschuk: Jay Cutler is the best: He was quoted this week as dismissively wishing the Packers "good luck" in stopping the Bears' passing attack. The guy puts together one good game against a secondary made up of castoffs and housewives and suddenly he's cockier than Jon Hamm's trousers. (Link possibly not safe for work and definitely not safe for insecure males.) Pick: Green Bay.
K.C. (plus 3) at Buffalo
Feschuk: Man, I couldn't be more excited about the 2013 Buffalo Bills season. Just 359 days 'til Opening Day! As for this year, well, where to begin? Buffalo's top receiver and top running back are out with serious injuries. They gave up 48 points to a Jets' teams that's unlikely to score 48 more points the rest of the season. And big-ticket free agent Mario Williams looked about as fierce as a Shetland pony.
Oh, and Ryan Fitzpatrick went to Harvard and obviously totally aced Introduction to Dejectedly Unsnapping One's Helmet Chin Strap After an Interception 101. I'm not saying Fitzpatrick looked stiff and inanimate but he spent most of the third quarter being yelled at by Clint Eastwood. On the other hand, it's only one game, right? * smothers self to death with pillow * Pick: Buffalo.
Reid: Buffalo's season opener was the football equivalent of the first 15 minutes of Bar Rescue – ugly waitresses, dirty kitchen, and Ryan Fitzpatrick standing motionless, looking inebriated. I mean, he was drunk, right? That can't be the way he plays sober. I think the good news for Buffalo fans is that fall is a beautiful time of year in upstate New York and Ryan Reynolds finally seems to have found love. Not that Buffalonians (Buffalozians? Bisonians?) care uniquely about his love life but you people have to take the good where you can find it. My honest view is that the defence will rally. Mario Williams is great and that will show up on the field. As for the QB? Let's just say that Ryan Fitzpatrick is no Matt Cassel – and Matt Cassel is no Frank Reich. And Frank Reich was, in the final analysis, no damn good. Pick: K.C.
Minnesota (minus 1.5) at Indianapolis
Feschuk: Haha Minnesota, your team couldn't even beat the Jaguars in regular time. That's like having to go to overtime to defeat an infant in a game of peek-a-boo. I don't know how you could possibly even lose at peek-a-boo but that's the point: JAGUARS. Pick: Indianapolis.
Reid's pick: Minnesota.
Tampa Bay (plus 7.5) at New York Giants
Reid: Most Giants fans will find good reasons to excuse their Week One loss. The Cowboys were underrated. The defending Super Bowl hype was too much. Victor Cruz was incorrectly billed as having arms that ended with hands.
The bad news for New York is that Tampa (as I correctly informed you last week) is for real. On D they will make things very hard for a now one-dimensional running game. And their offence is going to ruthlessly beat down the Giants secondary the way you, me and every man with an ounce of decency should do to Chris Brown. Pick: Tampa Bay.
Feschuk: Yes, you told us last week that Tampa is for real. You also told us that the Vikings would crush the Jaguars by a large margin and that you were just yawning and stretching when you put your arm around us at the movies. Pick: New York.
Oakland (minus 2) at Miami
Feschuk: Guys. Guys. Miami kicker and apparent former Doobie Brother Dan Carpenter has a killer moustache and his holder, Brandon Fields, also has a moustache.
These guys need a nickname or a motorcycle and sidecar. Pick: Miami.
Reid's pick: Oakland.
Cleveland (plus 9) at Cincinnati
Feschuk: So they unfurled a huge American flag over the field before the Cleveland-Philadelphia game – and rookie Browns QB Brandon Weeden somehow managed to get trapped underneath. Seriously.
It took him, like, 20 seconds to crawl to sweet, sweet freedom. Who'd have thought a day that started like that would end up going so poorly? Weeden threw four interceptions and wound up with a 5.1 rating in his first NFL game, which is pretty amazing because the passer-rating system is designed to give QBs a minimum of 10 points for not pooping themselves. So what's Weeden got in store for us this week? Will he trip over the 50-yard line? Put his helmet on backwards? Get hit by a falling piano? The fun part will be finding out. Pick: Cincinnati.
Reid: There hasn't been a debut as bad as Weeden's since UK heavy metalists (and noted animal lovers) The Handsome Beasts released their first studio album.
A lot of people are feeling bad for Cleveland's rookie QB. But you know who we really ought to feel bad for? Colt McCoy! He's thinking to himself, "Am I to assume that people around here believe I'm worse than THAT?" I am no fan of what Cincy's got going this year but I certainly expect their defense to unlock the mystery of how to frustrate Weeden. Pick: Cincinnati.
Washington (minus 3) at St. Louis
Feschuk: So Robert Griffin III does very well in his debut and naturally the media immediately take that performance, multiply it by infinity hype, and produce a 24/7 torrent of rave-speak about how he's instantly a top 10 elite quarterback and potential MVP who can cure cancer with his farts. ESPN.com actually wrote that Griffin is "about to stupefy us all with his mind and his talent" – because, yeah, I guess talking like Skip Bayless is contagious. The only upside is that this one game will surely convince Daniel Snyder to sign RG3 to a 100-year contract extension worth $600-squillion, to be followed immediately by Griffin's inevitable four-interception outing and revelations of his involvement in a cock-fighting ring. (Spoiler alert: Jon Hamm's wins.) Pick: St. Louis.
Reid: I think it's important to keep in mind that that RGIII has the most marketable nickname since Chestica Simpson. And like her, I expect his career to be without limit. You warn us all that it's only been one week – but read your Bible, Couch Boy. God was able to create all the heavens and the Earth in a single week – and unlike Griffin he wasn't playing on the road. Personally, I believe the hype. I embrace the hype. I repeat the hype. For Pete's sake, I am standing and cheering as I write this. And sure, thanks to Roger Goodell, the Saints didn't have a head coach or a defensive coordinator or a guy to PVR players' favourite shows. But they're still a pretty good team. Robert Griffin the Troisieme is, in my considered opinion, the Beatles. And remember, I'm the man who told you that Chestica's Dukes of Hazzard reboot was can't miss! Pick: Washington.
Tennessee (plus 5.5) San Diego
Reid: This is a hard game to handicap based on Week One performances. So instead, I think we should look at CW's upcoming show The Arrow – based on the DC superhero who you may remember from the last few seasons of Smallville (or not if you are distracted by things like being grown up and sexually active with a person who isn't yourself).
Now, few men know better than I the thrill of running around at night performing good deeds dressed as Robin Hood. (And I must be inspiring others because Meals On Wheels says they have all the volunteers they can use at present). But if my own experience with shirtless, hooded costumes is any guide, not everything about this concept is practical. For instance, I ask you: Is there are any logic to the bow and arrow once you become aware of the existence of firearms? Aren't guns faster and more killy-like? Also – zip lines. How do they work in the real world? They're not just everywhere. Did billionaire Oliver Queen sneak out earlier in the day and fortuitously pick that exact spot to place the line should he later be chased by police and need to escape into the night? And why do the police just stand there saying, 'Well, shucks Chief, he got away." It takes him 35 minutes to slide down that damn thing. Here's an idea, Barney Miller: Cut your end. Green Arrow becomes guacamole. Most unbelievable of all? Dude has been on an island for three years. Even that's not enough time for olive outfits to come back in fashion for men. Pick: San Diego.
Feschuk: No one has any idea what you were talking about just there. No one. But in far more important and even more unrelated news, I have to be honest with you: I'm getting a little worried about our Prime Minister. His speeches to Conservative barbecues this summer pretty much consisted of him just saying "My friends" over and over. That's been his favourite oratorical crutch for a long time but it's getting out of hand. At best we're one or two Augusts away from him standing up and saying, "My friends, you are my friends, my friends." His staff should at least equip their boss man with some synonyms. Let him drop the occasional "my bruthas," or "guys" or "human flesh-beings of the earth planet." Pick: Tennessee.
Arizona (plus 13.5) at New England
Feschuk: Tough news, Scott Reid. Wes Welker this week described Tom Brady as "the toughest metrosexual I've ever come across," so now you're shooting for second place at best. Pick: New England.
Reid's pick: Arizona.
Houston (minus 7.5) at Jacksonville
Feschuk: Great moment there in Jacksonville's overtime loss to the Vikings. It's fourth down. The Jags need only three yards to get the first and keep the game alive. Instead of running a short out or a slant or even a screen pass, they call for QB Blaine Gabbert – whose first year in the NFL went about as well as Nicolas Cage's last 293 movies – to drop back and chuck up a deep pass. Into double coverage. BECAUSE THAT MAKES SENSE. To Gabbert's credit, he only overthrew his receiver by five yards, his least overthrowy overthrow of the day. At the rate he's learning, he should be a pretty decent quarterback by the time he's 48. Co-ed Rec Touch Football League of Greater Sarasota – you've been warned! Pick: Houston.
Reid: Since this game is boring and predictable (barring a pandemic of necrotizing fasciitis in Houston, the Texans will win by at least 10 points), I thought I'd mention the three things about the people of TIFF that bug me most. First, everyone is beautiful. Even the ugly people. I saw a woman yesterday with an enormous wine stain birthmark covering her face but she was holding a spritzer, playing confidently with her designer glasses and telling the funniest story about Brian Grazer. I was smitten. Second, everyone is a writer, they all think they're brilliant and never shut up about it. Course, I'm used to it. I know Scott Feschuk. Finally, everyone's a shameless name dropper. It's so obnoxious. On Tuesday night, Bill Murray and I were totally laughing about how insecure people can be. Pick: Houston.
Detroit (plus 6.5) at San Francisco, Sunday, 8:25 p.m.
Reid: Last year during this matchup Detroit coach Jim Schwartz went all Joan Rivers on Jim Harbaugh. Seems the Niners coach bumped him or ignored his handshake or didn't compliment Schwarz's perm.
Who knows? Whatever happened, it was all very second-floor girls' bathroom. What we do know is this: In an afternoon when they set records for the longest field goal and oldest Randy Moss ever, the Niners were damn near perfect. They'll have to stiffly defend the pass against Stafford but, honestly, I don't think the Lions will score more than 10 points. Pick: San Francisco.
Feschuk: Forget the game itself: There's so much more to enjoy simply from watching the new version of the opening theme to NBC's Sunday Night Football.
First of all, I didn't know this was possible at her age but Faith Hill's legs seem to have grown even longer. Pretty soon her nickname is going to be Stilts. Also, the segment sets a new world record for number of Verizon advertisements and NBC show promos (although where was Adam Levine for the cameo featuring the judges on The Voice? Here's a guiding philosophy to embrace, NBC: if Adam Levine considers your promotional concept too tasteless to appear in, you've probably gone too far). Finally, what's the over-under on how long Aaron Rodgers spent combing his hair before shooting his little part? Twenty minutes? I bet it was at least 20 minutes. Pick: San Francisco.
Baltimore (plus 2.5) at Philadelphia
Feschuk: I'm not saying Ray Lewis is getting old but here's the complete transcript from his firin' up of his team on Monday night: "Y'ALL GET OFFA MY LAWN." Pick: Philadelphia.
Reid's pick: Baltimore.
New Orleans (minus 2.5) at Carolina. Feschuk: New Orleans. Reid: New Orleans.
Dallas (minus 3) at Seattle. Feschuk: Seattle. Reid: Dallas.
New York Jets (plus 6) at Pittsburgh. Feschuk: Jets. Reid: Pittsburgh.
Denver (plus 3) at Atlanta, Monday, 8:35 p.m. Feschuk: Denver. Reid: Atlanta.
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The rover Curiosity has detected simple organic molecules in samples of Martian sand, but they're almost certainly byproducts of the testing process.It's been four months since the Mars Science Laboratory, a.k.a. Curiosity, landed inside Gale crater on Mars. Although the craft's science team has urged patience as they put the rover through ever-more-complex activities, the public is growing increasingly eager to see some boffo results from NASA's $2½ billion investment. So the Web was understandably abuzz this past week with hints that mission scientists would announce Something Big at this week's American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco.
They did, and yet they didn't.
The good news: Curiosity is working exactly as designed. For several weeks, it's lingered at a site called Rocknest to make sure its sample-handling mechanisms are working and to analyze a few dabs of carefully prepared sand. The grains that go down the chute can't be any larger than 150 microns across, finer than granulated sugar but coarser than ground flour.A few weeks ago the CheMin instrument used X-ray diffraction to determine that its first delivery of this fine-grain material consists of standard-issue rock-forming minerals such as feldspar, pyroxene and olivine, along with abundant volatile elements like sulfur.
Now attention has turned to the rover's most sophisticated instrument, called Sample Analysis at Mars, which actually has three parts. One uses a mass spectrometer to determine the molecular weight of gases — either in the Martian atmosphere or the ones releases as a solid sample is gradually heated to higher and higher temperatures. A second component assays how much water, carbon dioxide, and methane are in a sample and the ratios of isotopes in those molecules. The third section, a gas chromatograph, will look for various organic molecules.SAM found that the powder from Rocknest released water vapor, oxygen, and sulfur dioxide when heated. But that's nothing new — these results match the compositions of the dust found elsewhere on Mars by previous rovers and landers. Still, notes Paul Mahaffy, principal investigator for SAM, "We consider this a terrific milestone." The water vapor, for example, probably came from hydrated minerals like clays.
The instrument did identify some simple organic molecules, variations of methane (CH4) in which chlorine atoms have substituted for one or more hydrogen atoms. But there's a huge caveat: it's very unlikely that chlorinated methane actually exists on Mars. Instead, SAM's tiny ovens probably caused perchlorate molecules (found commonly in martian dirt) to release lots of chlorine and oxygen as they broke down."We have no definitive detection of Martian organics at this point," Mahaffy says. It's not clear yet where the carbon comes from — perhaps it's derived from carbonates in the Rocknest sample, or it could be traces of carbon-based contamination carried from Earth.
Potentially more interesting is SAM's determination that the derived water vapor is highly enriched in hydrogen's "heavy" isotope, deuterium. The D:H ratio is more than five times that in Earth's seawater. The thinking goes that, over the eons of history, molecules of water vapor have been broken down by ultraviolet sunlight high in the Martian atmosphere, and the lighter hydrogen atoms have preferentially escaped to space. In principle, this five-fold deuterium enrichment can be used to figure out just much water has been lost. It's also possible that Curiosity will eventually unearth a sample of "old" water — locked up in an ancient rock layer — to reveal how the atmosphere has evolved over time.
All this scratching and sniffing takes time, cautions project scientist John Grotzinger. Plans call for Curiosity to be maneuvered to an overlook called Point Lake before heading for a tantalizing outcrop called Yellowknife. Getting the rover to its primary objective — the ancient sediments at the base of "Mount Sharp" (officially Aeolis Mons) — would appear to be many weeks away.


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The Leafs had 4 forwards who scored more than Grabovski in the playoffs. Not bad considering he was the 3rd line center.BigTuna wrote:Meds wrote:I did. I'd take him. He never quit. He got knocked around quite a bit by the Bruins, but who doesn't? Regardless, every time he did get put on his ass it was in the corner or in front of the net. He was fearless, and he always bounced right back up and got back in the play as quickly as he could. Open ice and down the wing the Bruins weren't fast enough to touch him.....most of the time.dbr wrote: Did not watch the Leafs playoff series this year so I can't speak to Grabovski's play there.
Grabovski >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Schroeder.
I don't care if it closes the door on JS. Grabovski would give the Canucks the option of 3 attacking lines, or the standard 1-2-Shutdown-Grinder approach.
Ths is 100% true. But in the end, you have to score and the guy did NOTHING offensively in that series. I think he got way too much ice-time in the playoffs.
He was a minus-10. Tells me that he's not great defensively and should never have been out there in that role.


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Well my company wants me to learn Cisco routers and they gave me a PIX 501 firewall router and i understand how to get into the router and some basic commands like:
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Ahmed Abul Wafa al-Suaidi, the son of prominent Qari Mahmoud Abul Wafa al-Suaidi, has followed the path of his father and is gaining fame as a Quran reciter in Egypt.
In an interview with al-Yawm al-Sabi website, Ahmed answered questions about his Quranic activities.
He said he started learning the Quran by heart at an early age.
"My father would invite sheikhs (Quran teachers) to teach my brothers and me the Quran. I memorized the entire Quran after graduating from university."
Ahmed said he also learned Quran recitation and has received a permission for recitation in different styles from Sheikh Nabil Ahmed Ali in Cairo.
He said he liked Quran recitation when he was a child but his first public recitation of the Holy Book came when he was studying pharmacy at university.
Asked whether his father encouraged him to recite the Quran, he said, "Actually he had not expected me to become a reciter as he thought I was just memorizing the Quran. When he first heard me recite the Quran, he was surprised but then encouraged me to continue enhancing my recitation skills.
"I would accompany my father to places where he recited the Quran and also listened to his recorded recitations.
"One thing I learned from my father was that Quran recitation is a mission, I believe that it is the easiest way for inviting people to Islam."
Ahmed said that in addition to his father's recitation, he likes the Quran recitations of such great Qaris as Sheikh Mohamed Umran, Sheikh Mohamed Sidiq Minshawi and Sheikh Mohamed Hilbawi.
He went on to say that he is trying to come up with a new and special school of Quran recitation.


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Over the past week or so, we've roasted our former editor A.J. Daulerio, who has moved across the room to edit Gawker, the English-language newsletter of a Hungarian tech company. Some people who knew A.J., and some who didn't know him at all, were kind enough to send in their own tributes to the man.


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1. Re: What is the best way to inject the TransactionManager into a cache instance?Galder Zamarreño Dec 20, 2011 5:37 AM (in response to Nicolas Filotto)
In the new config in 5.1.0.CR1, you can do:
ConfigurationBuilder cb = new ConfigurationBuilder();
cb.transactionManagerLookup(new DummyTransactionManagerLookup());
So, you can pass a transaction manager lookup instance that accesses your transaction manager. There's no need to construct it via reflection, you can just pass your initialized instance.
The code you suggest is a hack
2. Re: What is the best way to inject the TransactionManager into a cache instance?Nicolas Filotto Dec 20, 2011 6:42 AM (in response to Galder Zamarreño)
Thx Galder for your answer however it doesn't totally fulfill my needs as the transaction manager lookup is not a dynamic configuration parameter and since I don't see any way to inject it before creating the cache instance (I mean manager.getCache(String cacheName, boolean start) doesn't exist), I'm stuck. Maybe there is somthing that I missunderstand as it looks like the new configuration class is immutable so you obviously don't expect that we modify it, if so how can we load first the configuration from the XML files and apply some changes programmatically? I must admit that the new configuration class doesn't seem to be a good news for me since I have many warnings in my code base that I cannot fix with the new configuration class as I rely on dynamic parameters a lot which doesn't seem to be allowed anymore.
3. Re: What is the best way to inject the TransactionManager into a cache instance?Galder Zamarreño May 15, 2012 5:57 AM (in response to Nicolas Filotto)
Nicolas, you can manually parse the configuration from XML (via Parser.parseFile() method), then apply changes to it (by making modifications to the configuration builder in it), and then create the cache manager + caches.
Once the cache has started, some parameters can be modified but does not include the transaction manager.
4. Re: What is the best way to inject the TransactionManager into a cache instance?Nicolas Filotto May 15, 2012 6:30 AM (in response to Galder Zamarreño)
Hi Galder,
It is actually what I already do, indeed I first parse it as next:
Parser parser = new Parser(Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader());
// Loads the configuration from the input stream
ConfigurationBuilderHolder holder = parser.parse(configStream);
Then I inject the TM as below:
ConfigurationBuilder confBuilder = holder.getDefaultConfigurationBuilder(); if (tm != null) { TransactionManagerLookup tml = new TransactionManagerLookup() { public TransactionManager getTransactionManager() throws Exception { return tm; } }; confBuilder.transaction().transactionManagerLookup(tml); }


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Newt Gingrich loves selling himself _ both as a presidential hopeful and as a for-profit author.
As he seeks the GOP nomination, the former House speaker frequently combines traditional political campaigning with the sales job for his books and films that has earned him millions. As his rivals on Friday scheduled busy days with voters in early nominating states such as Iowa and New Hampshire, Gingrich canceled his single public event: a book signing in the nation's capital.
Gingrich, enjoying a surge in the polls just a month before the first contests are held, prides himself on his non-traditional campaign style. It isn't clear whether it will pay off politically. But it certainly has not hurt his own income.
Gingrich's personal financial disclosure form shows that he and wife, Callista, reported between $500,000 and $1 million in assets from Gingrich Productions, the couple's media company that produces books and films. The filings also list a promissory note worth between $5 million and $25 million owed to the production company, records show, although details of that asset are unclear.
The July filings list Gingrich's income and assets since early 2010, including rental income, investment dividends and capital gains.
Gingrich has turned over the production company to his wife as he works to build support for his White House bid. Yet he still promotes their films, often hosting screenings on the sidelines during conservative conferences.
Afterward, aides sell DVDs of the programs and their companion books.
It is a routine for Gingrich. He delivers a rousing speech, as he did at the Conservative Political Action Committee conference in Orlando, Fla., this summer; a short time later, he and his wife are at a table signing freshly purchased copies of their books. The same thing happened last week at events in South Carolina.
It is all legal, said former Federal Elections Commission chairman Dave Mason.
"The basic rule is that he can do both things, as long as he doesn't use any revenues from the book tour to subsidize the campaign, and as long as he doesn't use campaign funds in a way that benefits him personally," said Mason.
The only hiccup is logistics, as it was on Friday. In a statement released through the campaign, the news stand that was hosting the Gingriches cited security concerns and canceled the event.
For Gingrich, a former history professor, the books and films are a point of pride, and he seems programmed to promote them.
When asked last week about Russia during a town hall-style meeting in South Carolina, he noted that he made a film about the Ronald Reagan-Margaret Thatcher-Pope John Paul II nexus that he posits helped bring down the Soviet Union. Any mention of "American exceptionalism" earns a mention of his movie on the subject of America's special role. And his film and book about Reagan seldom go unmentioned as he hails the former president as a role model.
"I've done a movie on Ronald Reagan called `Rendezvous with Destiny,'" Gingrich told CNBC this week. "Callista and I did. We've done a book on Ronald Reagan. You know, I campaigned with Reagan. I first met with Reagan in `74. I'm very happy to talk about Ronald Reagan."
Even when asked about real estate mogul Donald Trump's upcoming debate for GOP hopefuls, Gingrich can't help but plug the connection: Trump appeared in a Gingrich film.
At times, there seems little distinction between his campaigning and bookselling.
For instance, before a one-on-one debate with then-contender Herman Cain outside of Houston, Texas, the Gingriches signed copies of their books for fans who lined up to buy an autographed copy just outside the venue's doors. Nearby, a volunteer donned an elephant costume and stood in for the star of Callista's children's book, "Ellis the Elephant."
For Gingrich, the campaign sometimes takes on the feeling of an extended book tour.
"At 8:30 tomorrow morning, we're going to be at the Westin at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport, and we're going to be talking about jobs and the economy," Gingrich told a radio interviewer last month. "And then after the town hall meeting, Callista is going to be signing her new book, the New York Times bestseller, `Sweet Land Of Liberty.' ... And I'll be signing my new novel, `The Crater,' about the Civil War, and a book on American exceptionalism called `A Nation Like No Other.'"
Gingrich, meanwhile, continues to run a campaign perhaps like no other.
Associated Press writer Jack Gillum contributed to this report.


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For some time now, media outlets have been touting the Warrior Dash as an extreme sport that not only takes brawns, but the mental capacity to make it through nearly four miles of an obstacle-laden course. Jumping over cars, fire, and barrels of hay are only met with a wade through water and mud. Yes, the Warrior Dash is extreme, but in more ways than you would initially expect. For me and the group that I was lucky enough to race with, the physical extremities paled in comparison to the emotional extremities experienced from the camaraderie between friends and even strangers. As we raced through the dusty course, sweat streaming from every place that you could imagine, we coaxed one another to keep pushing forward with calls such as "you can make it" and "don't give up." The dash presented a parallel for many of life's moments. You know, the moments where we feel nearly beaten down by the elements only to have people pull you up via words of encouragement. Yes, sport, beer, food, and fun where prevalent during the dash, but so were all the intangible moments.
So, just what is this event that moved so many through sweat, blood, and tears? It is an annual event put on by Chicago-based event production company Red Frog Events. Red Frog not only puts on Warrior Dash, but other popular events such as the Great Urban Race. I had the opportunity to speak with one of Red Frog's amazing event coordinator's, Alex Yount. Yount explained that it takes a lot of resources, including employees, volunteers, and city officials to put on an event of this capacity. With the So Cal event being the first race of the season, you could feel the excitement in the air. For those that weren't racing, they enjoyed bands like Cod who performed on the outdoor stage.
"We try to make this a family-friendly event," states Yount. "Not only is it about athleticism, it is about bringing the family out to enjoy a day of adventure and fun." And by the number of families pouring out onto the "Battle Field" located next to Storm Stadium in Lake Elsinore, the message came through loud and clear. I was amazed by how organized the event ran with races containing hundreds of people going off every 30 minutes without a hitch. The first race started at Noon with the last group to take off at 5:00p. Every racer received a bib number, a timer chip that automatically recorder each runners time, a t-shirt, and a warrior / Viking hat.
The race brought out some of the most extreme costumes that I have ever seen on any other day except Halloween. I donned a Xena Warrior Princess outfit, complete with wig and all, while others were dressed in everything from super heroes to ballerinas. One brave racer even committed to racing in heels as a part of her party look. Can you believe that she trekked across narrow wooden beams above a trench in heels! I couldn't believe my eyes. Scurrying across beams and hopping over car wreckage was simple for me. What scared me the most was clearing the flames of the fire block and crossing over the water logs in thigh deep water of the lake. I was sure that my cap would catch on fire and that I would roll off one of the logs to be submerged in the water as one of my running partners, Anitra Simmons, did. Fortunately, I cleared both obstacles free from being charred nor baptized.
The last obstacle and the messiest of them all was the mud crawl. Racers were forced to crawl beneath barbed wire in a pool of thick, sticky, and smelly mud. As I made a slow and poignant crawl, careful not to lose my wig or anything else that might cause me anymore embarrassment than I had already endured, I watched as extremist dove head first and literally swam through the thick, brown pool. I guess if you are going to go for it, you might as well go for it. The children that came out to watch all of the days shenanigans got a kick out of seeing the muddied, bruised, and slightly delirious racers charge for the lake to bathe away a portion of the day.
Although everyone that crossed the finish line was awarded a cool medallion, awards for the best time, costume, and beard were given out following the last race at an awards ceremony. My crew and I ran in the 12:00 and 12:30 legs of the race and although we all received a medallion, we didn't manage to grab any of the coveted awards. What we did grab was each other's hands as we crossed the finish line and gigantic grilled turkey legs after we cleaned up a bit. And for those that love beer, ice cold cups of the beverage were served along with grilled corn on the cob and turkey burgers.
By the end of the day, still muddy, wet, and fatigued, my crew and I walked off the battle field with a sense of pride and accomplishment. Not just because we had completed one of the most grueling races that we may have ever took part in, but because we had done so together with the support and encouragement of all the "Warriors" that united on that day. I would recommend this race, not just to those looking to participate in an extreme sport, but to all those that are looking to participate in an extreme fellowship. Warriors unite!
Missed the So Cal race? You still have a chance to participate in 8 more dashes taking place across 8 different regions within the United States. Please log onto the website at www.warriordash.com for additional information.
Special Thanks goes out to Red Frog Events for inviting me and the team out to an amazing race!


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By Patrick Temple-West
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top U.S. tax collector warned on Thursday of a delayed start to 2013's tax season if Congress fails to reset the alternative minimum tax (AMT) on high-income taxpayers so that it does not sweep in millions of middle-income people.
Without another adjustment by lawmakers soon to the AMT, "many of us will see a delayed filing season," said Steven Miller, named just last month as Internal Revenue Service acting commissioner.
Miller did not give an exact date by which Congress must approve an AMT "patch" to prevent a delay to the tax season, which is scheduled to begin on January 22.
"We don't have any drop-dead time in mind," Miller told reporters after a speech at a conference in Washington.
But his remarks came on a day of continued stalemate in Washington between Democrats and Republicans over what to do about the "fiscal cliff" approaching at the end of the year.
The AMT is a crucial part of the assorted tax increases and automatic spending cuts that make up the so-called "cliff," a convergence of events that, absent congressional action, threatens to plunge the U.S. economy back into recession.
"Many people don't realize that they could potentially face a significantly delayed filing season and a much bigger tax bill for 2012," if the AMT is not dealt with, Miller said.
"In programming our systems, the IRS has assumed that Congress will patch the AMT as Congress has for so many years.
"And I remain optimistic that the fiscal cliff debate will be resolved by the end of the year. If that turns out not to be the case, then what is clear is that many of us will see a delayed filing season," Miller said.
The AMT is a tax intended to make sure that at least some tax is paid by high-income people who otherwise could sharply reduce or eliminate their regular income tax bills through using tax loopholes. About 4 million people annually pay the AMT.
Unlike the regular income tax, the AMT is not indexed for inflation. So the thresholds that determine who must pay the tax have to be regularly raised. This prevents the AMT from hitting middle-class people whose incomes may have crept upward on the back of inflation, but who are not wealthy.
Congress last patched the AMT in late 2010. Without another patch, the AMT could hit as many as 33 million people for the 2012 tax year, according to the IRS.
Democratic Senator Charles Schumer of New York said on Thursday he is "hopeful" that the AMT problem will be fixed with a broader "fiscal cliff" resolution before December 31.
Republicans in Congress may see the AMT as leverage in their "fiscal cliff" negotiations with President Barack Obama and the Democrats.
The IRS might have until mid-January to implement an AMT patch and still start the tax season on time, if Congress approves the fix as expected, said Richard Harvey, a tax professor at Villanova University and a former IRS official.
The AMT "is a ticking time bomb that is going to go off some time in January," Harvey said.
(Editing by Kevin Drawbaugh; Editing by M.D. Golan)


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National CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) Association and the Toy Industry Foundation have partnered at the national level to provide toys and increase the number of trained CASA volunteers to benefit children in the foster care system. The Toy Industry Foundation will donate more than 25,000 toys to CASA this year. The launch of this partnership will take place at the Toy Industry Foundation's Play Your Part volunteer event on April 5 in Los Angeles.
National CASA, a network of 946 community based programs that recruit, train, and support citizen-volunteers to advocate for the best interests of abused and neglected children in courtrooms and communities, will be working with CASA programs across the country to identify and distribute the donated toys to children in the foster care system.
Former foster youth, CASA volunteers, and special guests will share their personal stories at Play Your Part, joining more than 100 Toy Industry Foundation volunteers from Southern California toy companies to package and sort more than 16,000 toys for local foster youth. Walmart is donating the use of two tractor-trailers to ship toys to destinations throughout Southern California, and World Vision has donated the space for the event. Mattel, Leapfrog Enterprises, Funrise Toy Corporation, and Women in Toys are additional event sponsors.


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Layers, Icing, and Sprinkles: 14 Birthday Cakes
When it comes to birthday cake, we don't mess around. In our health-conscious times, there aren't many opportunities to whip out a five-layer old-fashioned cake, but we really feel that birthdays should be one of them. The more layers the better! Here are a dozen inspiring birthday cake recipes that we think would light up any birthday table - whether the honoree is 9 or 90.
I am actually baking a birthday cake for a young friend this weekend, and it's going to be a surprise - it won't look anything like these lovely cakes. (If all goes well I'll post it here next week.) But if he hadn't made a special request, one of these towering cakes would be on the table.
I'll leave cupcakes for some other time. For now, here are birthday cakes to make someone's day special.
• 1 Ruffle Tower Cake - Such a pretty cake. This technique is a great one for people just learning how to use a decorator bag, too; just cover the cake in one sort of ruffles. You can adapt it to any number of recipes, too.
• 2 Sponge Cake with Chocolate Frosting - This happens to be my personal favorite cake combo. I haven't tried this recipe, though; I use our Yellow Cake and Whipped Chocolate Frosting recipes.
• 3 Lemon Layer Cake with Lemon Cream Frosting - I love lemon, so a sweet, tangy cake like this seems a perfect birthday gift -- especially now, as spring approaches.
• 4 Dorie's Perfect Party Cake - A gorgeous cake from Rebecca at Ezra Pound Cake, decorated with little candied shapes and coconut. It has more lemon inside, snuggled up next to raspberry preserves.
• 5 Oreo Cake - An over-the-top treat. Basic chocolate cake, white buttercream, and crushed sandwich cookies.
• 6 Bee's Dot Cake - This sweet dot cake was made by Brooke, a former art director at Martha Stewart. This cake is extremely easy to copy, though; she gives instructions on making the dots out of icing.
• 7 Deep Dark Chocolate Cake - With raspberry filling and chocolate frosting. For chocolate and fruit lovers, this very rich and grownup cake will satisfy a big crowd. A little goes a long way.
• 8 Harvest Cake with Goat Cheese Frosting - A little healthier, but still very special. Carrot, beets, walnuts, raisins, and a creamy, sweet topping.
• 9 Ultimate Coconut Cake - Those who love coconut cake will really love this towering cake from South Carolina, brushed with simple syrup and layered with coconut cream.
• 10 Martha's Birthday Cake - I've been waiting for a chance to try this cake, an amaretto and almond cake smothered in peaks of toasted meringue frosting.
• 11 Mile-High White Chocolate Hummingbird Cake - This recipe calls for a box mix; we suggest skipping that and starting from a plain white cake recipe instead. The results, regardless, are spectacular!
• 12 Toffee Crunch Cake - Um, caramel crème fraîche? With chocolate cake? Yes please!
• 13 Orange-Carrot Cake with Classic Cream Cheese Frosting - Carrot cake is very sturdy, and it stacks well, especially with the classic cream cheese frosting. Try piling it six layers high!
• 14 Dolley Madison Layer Cake - And finally, an even simpler layer cake: Just layers and a glaze. Simple, slightly more grownup, and still a special treat.
What is your favorite kind of birthday cake? Do you have any pictures of some spectacular examples?
More Birthday Cakes:
• Birthday Baking: Chessboard Cake with Chocolate Chess Pieces
• Survey: What Was the Most Spectacular Birthday Cake You Ever Made or Received?
• Good Question: Easy, Transportable Birthday Cake?
• Summer Birthday Gear: Giant 12" Birthday Candle
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States must keep the pressure on Syria to relinquish any chemical weapon stockpile it has by maintaining a credible threat of American military action against Damascus, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Democrat, said on Tuesday.
Reid, speaking to reporters after President Barack Obama huddled on Capitol Hill with senators, also said that Syria's government has displayed an "extremely low level of credibility," having denied in the past that it has chemical weapons.
The Senate has been debating whether to authorize U.S. military strikes against Syria after Obama said there was strong evidence Syria used chemical weapons against its own citizens last month.
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BERLIN (AP) — The publisher of the Financial Times' German offshoot is set to shut the loss-making business daily, putting up to 350 jobs in jeopardy in the latest blow to Europe's ailing newspaper industry.
The national daily Financial Times Deutschland, which has a circulation of about 100,000 copies, said on its website Wednesday that the publication is "about to be stopped."
The publisher of the English-language Financial Times, Pearson PLC, sold its stake in the German paper in 2008, but it continued to appear on the same distinctive salmon-colored paper.
The German offshoot, often called FTD by its initials, became a widely respected national newspaper published five days a week, but it was never profitable and reportedly again saw significant losses this year amid falling advertising revenue.
The board of the daily's publisher, Gruner + Jahr, was meeting Wednesday and declined to comment beforehand on reports that it plans to shut the daily, three business magazines and their websites with a total staff of about 350.
"We fear the worst," a journalist with the newspaper told The Associated Press. "We are just waiting for the publisher to finally make the announcement," said the employee, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of retribution.
Media group Bertelsmann SE, which also owns the book publisher Random House, holds a majority stake in the Hamburg-based publisher Gruner + Jahr. Any decision by the publisher must be validated by Bertelsmann's supervisory board later this month.
On its news website, the FTD thanked its readers and said, "We now await the decision of our publisher."
The news comes just a week after another one of Germany's top 10 national dailies, Frankfurter Rundschau, filed for insolvency, putting some 500 jobs in jeopardy. The center-left leaning paper, with a daily circulation of about 120,000, was one of the first to receive a publishing license by the American occupation authorities after World War II.
Newspaper readership in Germany has been falling constantly over the past few years. From 2000 to 2011 the daily circulation of all newspapers fell by about 22 percent, from 24 million to 18.9 million copies, according to the BDZV lobby group of newspaper publishers.
In much of Europe newspapers appear be following the path of their U.S. peers a few years behind, with falling revenues leading to paper closures or changing business models as readers switch to read their news online or on tablet computers.
In recession-hit Spain, the media group that owns top-rated newspaper El Pais started laying off almost a third of its 466 employees earlier this month. National daily Publico this year stopped publication and now uses a much-reduced staff to put out an online edition. At the same time, Spain's union representing journalists said some 8,000 journalists have lost their jobs since the financial crisis hit in 2008.
In France, newspaper circulation has declined steadily over the last decade, with readership falling by an average of 20 percent across the country's main dailies.
The French minister in charge of media, Aurelie Filippetti, has acknowledged there are "difficulties" in the French press, an industry that's struggling despite the €1.2 billion ($1.5 billion) in state subsidies for newspapers every year.
France Soir, a popular paper founded during the World War II, was the most serious victim, stopping its print edition in favor of an online one from December 2011, and eventually going bust last July.
Meanwhile, newspaper readership in Britain is also under strain. The National Readership Survey for October 2011 to September 2012 shows that the Daily Telegraph lost 12 percent of its readers on the year, according to media analyst Roy Greenslade. Mass-selling tabloid The Sun lost 7 percent and the Daily Mirror 6 percent.
In Italy, where newspapers are subsidized by the government, the industry has seen some belt-tightening but overall continues to be healthy.
Thomas Adamson in Paris, Alan Clendenning in Madrid, Danica Kirka in London and Colleen Barry in Milan contributed reporting.
Juergen Baetz can be reached on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/jbaetz


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A small, fanged dinosaur called Pegomastax africanus was identified this week, more than half a century after its skeleton was dug up in South Africa. The dinosaur looked like a fierce cross between a chicken and a porcupine, and had long fangs which it used to eat plants and compete for mates. Pegomastax was a diminutive beast, standing less than two feet tall and weighing no more than a small house cat.
Paleontologist Paul Sereno discovered the dinosaur. He originally came across the skeleton in 1983 in the back rooms of the Harvard Museum of Natural History, where it had been stored since the mid-1960s waiting to be cleaned and prepared. Decades after he first laid eyes on the skeleton, Sereno finally published his description of Pegomastax this week in the online journal ZooKeys.
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On finding the fossil as a graduate student nearly 30 years ago
"A professor [at Harvard], Alfred Crompton famously found a small dinosaur called heterdontosaurus, which means "different-toothed reptile." It had canines, it was a beautiful little skeleton. And that's what I came to worship. I came to study its bones. But what I found was something else."
"On the slab were these tiny inch-long — just a little bit less than inch-long — jaws with teeth and fanged and it was revelation. I looked at it and immediately I knew I was looking at a new dinosaur.
On what Pegomastax looked like
"It has a very characteristic look — very short jaws, pretty much like a dinosaurian parrot."
"What really catches you are the fangs. It looks like a bird with a parrot-like beak but right behind that beak are fangs both upper and lower."
"Pegomastax is under two feet. We're talking about a small house cat in terms of weight. It would have been covered by a bristle-like covering making it perhaps less appetizing for another dinosaur to snarf it for lunch. And I think they were strict plant eaters."
On training a dinosaur as a pet
"They have a pretty good-sized brain, but I think the question would be could you train it not to nip you, something we have to train our dogs."
"I think you could probably get some average birdseed. We don't know what it was eating exactly, but a very short snout and this plucking, recurved beak and then the slicing teeth — it's eating something hard."
"I think you'd be able to keep it around and it probably would be trainable."
Back in 1983, a young graduate student in paleontology named Paul Sereno went to one of Harvard University's research museums to study a well-known fossil.
PAUL SERENO: A professor there, Alfred Crompton, famously found a small dinosaur called heterodontosaurus, which means different-toothed reptile. It had canines. It was a beautiful little skeleton. And that's what I came to worship. I came to study its bones. But what I found was something else.
RAZ: Hidden among the shelves in the back room, Sereno found blocks of red rock full of fossils that had never been studied.
SERENO: This is the 1960s when he originally collected all these blocks of sandstone. They came to Harvard. One dinosaur was a prepared heterodontosaurus. The others sat in a can.
RAZ: So a few days later, Sereno was talking to the man in charge of preparing fossils for examination. The man had been slowly going through those cans, dusting off ancient bones. And he showed Sereno one slab of rock that seemed particularly interesting.
SERENO: And on the slab were these tiny - this little bit less than inch-long jaws with teeth and fangs, and it was a revelation. I looked at it, and immediately, I knew I was looking at a new dinosaur. And that's sort of my story on this new dinosaur begins.
RAZ: OK. That was 30 years ago. And then what happened?
SERENO: Well, you know, I photographed this new beast, drew it up, reconstructed it. But I ended up taking a detour. I thought I would find new specimens myself. And I headed down to Argentina to the earliest dinosaur beds where fragments of this kind of dinosaur had been found 30 years ago. And I struck gold there. I found lots of early dinosaurs. But this kind of dinosaur, the different-toothed dinosaur, eluded my team.
And years passed, and I decided now is the time to release a very long study on this group, highlighted by a dinosaur I dubbed pegomastax, thick jaw, because it has a very characteristic look: very short jaws, pretty much like a dinosaurian parrot.
RAZ: Yeah, I'm looking at an artist's rendering of it, and it was like a snake, cat, parrot, chicken.
SERENO: Snake, cat, parrot, porcupine. But what really catches you are the fangs. It looks like a bird with a parrot-like beak, but right behind that beak are fangs, both upper and lower.
RAZ: Paul, we should mention before you discover further, that this was a two-foot creature. This is like a cute, little cat-sized dinosaur.
SERENO: Yeah. None of them are beyond three feet. Pegomastax is under two feet. We're talking about a small housecat in terms of weight. It would have been covered by a bristle-like covering, making it perhaps less appetizing, where another dino sort of snorts it for lunch. And I think they were strict plant eaters.
RAZ: If there was a dinosaur that you could domesticate, I think this would be the one.
SERENO: I think so. It'd be a question of - they have a pretty good size brain - but I think the question would be could you train it not to nip you, something we have to train our dogs. But I think you probably get some average bird feed - and we don't know what it was eating exactly, but a very short snout and this plucking, recurve beak, and then the slicing teeth, it's eating something hard, at least for part of its diet. It's probably picking at seeds. And so I think it, you know, you'd be able to keep it around, and it probably would be trainable.
RAZ: That's Paul Sereno, a paleontologist, who this week identified a new dinosaur species called Pegomastax. You can see photos and drawings of that dinosaur at our website, npr.org. Paul Sereno, thank you so much.
SERENO: Thanks for having me. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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The room is small as expected from most of guesthouses in Hong Kong, but the cleanliness could do better. The toilet has a strong musty smell. and the wall is dusty. The floor and bed sheets are clean though. And during our stay, we have not seen any pests/insects in our dwelling.
In term of facilities, it is quite satisfactory. Room is provided with tv, drawers, shelves, air-con, fan, hot-shower, bathroom slippers and wifi. The toilet floor is kind of slippery.
The host/receptionist and the helper are most helpful. They are nice and easy to talk to and they offers promotional price for some attraction/ferry tickets. Do make your queries!
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Top five things to watch in Sochi on Thursday
Five things to watch at the Sochi Games on Thursday:
The Jennifer Jones rink out of Winnipeg, undefeated so far in Sochi, will go for gold for Canada at 8:30 a.m. (Eastern) against Sweden. Jones & Co. made history by finishing the Olympic round-robin with a perfect record. Their reward will be, at worst, a silver medal in Sochi. The men's side goes for gold Friday.
To no surprise, it's Canada-U.S. playing for gold (and silver) in women's hockey at the Sochi Games. While the Americans won gold in 1998, the first Olympics to feature the sport, Canada has taken gold in the three Games since. Want to make it four, anyone?
The women's singles competition continues at 10 a.m. with Canada a long shot to win a medal. Heading into the free program, Kaetlyn Osmond sits in 13th with a score of 56.18. Skating star Yuna Kim of Korea is first at 74.92 followed by Adelina Sotnikova of Russia and Carolina Kostner of Italy.
No, Canada doesn't play today. Yes, it's the main thing most Canadian sports fans will be talking about anyway. Coach Mike Babcock's team plays the red-hot Americans Friday and one question looms large: Can Canada's alleged scorers finally bust loose against a U.S. team backstopped by arguably the world's best goalie, Jonathan Quick? We'll see in about 24 hours.
Brady Leman fell in the men's ski cross final at the Sochi Games early Thursday, losing what looked like a sure shot at an Olympic medal. Four years ago, the Calgary native broke his leg one day – ONE DAY – before the Vancouver Olympics began. His struggle, and fight to come back from it, is remarkable, even if it didn't have a fairytale ending.


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O'REILLY: "Weekdays with Bernie" segment tonight some Americans believe the media in general tilts against Israel. I don't think so. But the left-wing media, certainly does.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: What would you say to those who argue that the - - the rockets are essentially very ineffective. They rarely do damage and that the response from the Israelis is disproportional to the threat that they're under?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well, I wouldn't -- I would say that to the three Israeli people who were killed by one of those rockets. The 150 Israelis who have been wounded physically and psychologically by this, these rockets paralyze an entire country.
O'REILLY: A new CNN poll says 57 percent of Americans believe Israel is justified in taking military action against Hamas; 25 percent say it's not justified; 19 percent don't know.
Joining us from Miami, Bernie Goldberg the purveyor of BernardGoldberg.com. So is Israel getting a fair shake in general from the media here, Bernie?
BERNIE GOLDBERG, FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR: Well, there's too many -- to many news organizations for -- for me to make a broad generalization. So let me say this: before Israel's counter offensive last week, Hamas lobbed between 750 and 800 missiles into civilian places in Israel. That's a lot of missiles, 800 in one calendar year -- just this year up to 800 missiles.
But that was never a big news story in the United States. I'm not saying they never covered it, but it was never a big running news story. It only became a story when Israel launched this major counter offensive. Now, why is this? I think it's because there is a fascination on the part of liberal journalists and actually liberals in general, fascination and an attraction towards the underdog. They love the underdog. They sympathize with the underdog. And if the underdog has brown skin, better yet.
So they see the Palestinians as the underdog and Israel as the oppressors, a lot of the far left media, and that's why we start to get stories about Uncle Mahmoud, who was killed in the terrible savage attack by Israel and we get incredibly dumb questions like the one you just played from the woman on MSNBC --
O'REILLY: The NBC. Right, right.
GOLDBERG: But I don't think this is a media problem so much as it's a general liberal problem. You ran that CNN poll. Let me break that down a little. The CNN poll said that 74 percent of Republicans think that what Israel is doing is justified; 59 percent of Independents think it's justified. But only 40 percent -- 4-0 percent of Democrats think it. They can't even get a majority of Democrats in this country to think that Israel's response is justified.
And why is that? Because there are a bunch of liberals and liberals generally don't like Israel. A lot of liberals don't, anyway.
O'REILLY: Well it's true. I don't know really why I guess it's tied into some kind of -- I don't know. I'm not even going to speculate. But Anderson Cooper got into trouble --
GOLDBERG: Look, 40 percent that can't get a majority.
O'REILLY: -- Anderson Cooper got into trouble on CNN when he did one of those Uncle Mahmoud stories and then it turned it was a total phony. So you got to be careful about reporting there.
GOLDBERG: Right.
O'REILLY: All right, let's -- let's pivot and get into what I was talking to Charles Krauthammer about.
GOLDBERG: Ok.
O'REILLY: And you're a psychologist by hobby.
GOLDBERG: Yes right, right by marriage -- by marriage I'm a psychologist.
O'REILLY: All right.
GOLDBERG: My wife. Yes.
O'REILLY: So why is the "Washington Post" attacking me so vehemently for telling the truth which I backed up 15 different ways yesterday and tonight about the entitlement culture overcoming the traditional culture in America? Why are they attacking me?
GOLDBERG: Because too many times liberals in the media and out of the media see any kind of observation that involves race and minorities as an attack -- a racial attack.
O'REILLY: But this was just under -- but this was just income $30,000.
GOLDBERG: I know, but I understand that. But they accused you, did they not --
O'REILLY: Yes absolutely they accused me of it. They brought it right into the racial arena, absolutely.
GOLDBERG: What makes it -- what makes it so -- what makes it so dumb is that I could envision if -- and they may have actually done this. But I could envision a page one story in the "Washington Post," hard news story, saying America has changed demographically. White political clout is not what it used to be. This will affect voting patterns, which is basically what you said.
O'REILLY: That's exactly what I said.
GOLDBERG: Well, right.
O'REILLY: But I think it's further than that. I think they understand that the culture is changing very quickly and they don't want the folks to understand it. They want the folks to keep going blithely along until we fall off the fiscal cliff and then everybody will pay attention. But that's probably a few years away.
Last word, Bernie.
GOLDBERG: Well, I think that, too often, people on the left see any kind of observation that says people want things for free and -- not everybody does certainly, but some people do.
They see it as a racial attack. They are the defenders of minorities. That's how they see themselves. And they feel better about themselves attacking you for being a so-called racist because that makes them feel better about themselves. , O'REILLY: All right.
GOLDBERG: That's a psychological component of it.
O'REILLY: I'm glad I could help them out. Bernie, thanks very much.
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Loquat and apricot may not make the most traditional chutney, but it is delicious. I've wanted to use the fresh loquats I got from my aunt to make a dish that really highlights the ingredient, and fruit chutney seemed like an obvious choice.
Since I made so much, I canned the chutney and stored it for future use. I let it rest for a week and opened our first jar today. The flavor was amazing. There were still some chunks of loquats in it, and the hint of spices from the red chili powder and mustard provided a mild, lingering heat that follows closely behind the sweetness of the fruit.
There are many ways to use the chutney, but I opted to pair it with roasted chicken breast wrapped in smoked turkey slices. A-ma-zing!
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Dick Pinney's Guidelines: Ice fishing in Maine and good foodDICK PINNEY February 09. 2013 9:48PM
A few weeks ago we ice fished on a small Maine pond with my friend of many years, Master Maine Guide Stu Bristol of Lyman, Maine and my grandson. Stu and I have shared a lot of time out in the great outdoors, but this was only the second time we'd ice fished together.
When my grandson, Nate Griffin, now a grown married man with his own son, was about four-years-old the first time he went out with me on the ice. Out on the cold and windy ice with him as a grown man and me getting a bit long in the tooth, I had to laugh when the realization that we'd changed rolls came to mind.
It was only four above when we reached this small pond that Stu had fished in open water season and had good luck on both panfish and some good sized brook trout. The wind was brutal and along with the low temperature we had to take shelter behind a huge ice shanty that was unmanned and just a scant 30 feet offshore. It was so miserable that without that shanty as a windbreak we would have probably sat in the vehicles and watched for flags on our tip-ups but with the sun in our face and shelter from the wind, it was bearable out on the ice.
Nate cut our holes in the ice with a hand auger for our tip-ups while Stu and his longtime friend and sporting companion Peewee (Raymond Grenier) used a slow-to-start power auger. Nate being a former semi-pro football player and power-lifter could dig two holes to their one, he with the manual auger. But it was so cold we put our less than our limit of five per person and to tell you the truth, this old timer never had to touch any one of them as Nate gracefully volunteered to do the job. My hands were too cold to even try to help but it was pretty grateful to see what kind of a man that his grandfather had helped to mold.!
We always hit on Stu's Master Guide status and he takes it pretty well but this time we couldn't help but be in wonder of how quickly he set up his cooking rig in the wind-free area behind the huge shanty. It only took him a scant few minutes to set up a rig that had his two small charcoal stoves off the ice enough so there'd be no ice melt, something that used to plague me all the time. He did it simply with a three-foot piece of metal rod shelving suspended off the ice with small steel rods. In between the two charcoal stoves he was able to lay out all the condiments for hot dogs as well as the rolls and his real plates and tableware.
He explained that he'd stopped using those small bottles of propane because they wouldn't light in cold weather and his match-ready charcoal was hotter and much quicker. Although the charcoal didn't need it if you had the patience, Stu dowsed them down with a spray of charcoal lighter fluid and we were cooking Maine's famous red hot dogs and toasting rolls on the two grills within a few minutes of his lighting the grills. I'll have to admit that they were some of the best food we'd eaten in a long time and they helped to put some fire in the belly.
A couple of hours later it was Stu up to the bat again, asking how we liked out venison cooked. He had two plastic bags of both moose and deer venison along with another plastic bag of cut up onion and green pepper. Using a cast iron oblong griddle he quickly had the venison sizzling in a mixture of olive oil and real butter and soon had added the onion and green pepper mix, covering it all with an aluminum throw-away cook pan.
We all dove into that meat and veggies with abandon and we all went back for seconds. "I've had this griddle for several years and know enough to never wash it with soap and water. Once you get it seasoned you just scrape all the crusty stuff off with a scraper and just rinse it with water. Then I heat it up and put some olive oil on it, let it cool and it's ready to go again," he answered my obvious question.
Stu had also brought a pan of homemade brownies he'd cooked the previous night. You've never eaten an awesome brownie until you've plucked one off a charcoal grill just as it starts to show meltdown. That whole pan of brownies disappeared in the wink of an eye.
When it came time to break his cooking rig down, it took only about five minutes. He had ziplock plastic bags for the dirty plates and utensils and had a large tote that everything just fit in nicely and was light enough for one man to lift and put in the back of Peewee's pickup.
Don't ask about the fish. They too must have been frozen.
Dick Pinney's column appears weekly in the New Hampshire Sunday News. Email him at firstname.lastname@example.com.