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The Stronger Communities Grants Program lets Members of Parliament engage with their communities to recommend capital investment projects that strengthen their local area.
Up to $150,000 of funding will be available in Watson for small capital projects which improve community participation and contribute to the vibrancy and viability of our local community. Grants of between $5,000 and up to a maximum of $20,000 are available, with applicants required to confirm matched funding in-cash or in-kind on at least a dollar-for-dollar basis.
How do I apply?
To apply for the Watson 2016 Stronger Communities Grant, you can either:
- Fill out an expression of interest form on our Stronger Communities website; or
- Call our Electorate Office on (02) 9750 9088 and ask for an application form.
For further information or assistance, please feel free to call our Electorate Office on (02) 9750 9088.
How are applications assessed?
Applications will be assessed by a Community Consultation Committee and recommended to Tony. Committee members include representatives with connections to the local multicultural, disability, sporting and historical communities.
Who is eligible to apply?
To be eligible for funding an Applicant must:
• Be a legal entity with a current Australian Business Number (ABN) and
• Be a local governing body OR a community based not-for-profit organisation in its own right that is not owned by a state or territory government.
While an entity's umbrella organisation may be state owned i.e. in the case of emergency and fire services, locally constituted bodies will not be considered state owned. In-principle, the following types of not-for-profit organisations may be eligible for funding including (but not limited to):
- local rural fire service;
- local state emergency service;
- Police and Citizen Youth clubs;
- not-for-profit child care centres;
- not-for-profit surf clubs; and
- not-for-profit local aged care bodies
Please refer to the Department's website, the eligibility criteria or frequently asked questions for more details.
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Examples of projects that may be funded include (but are not limited to):
- construction and fit-out of men's sheds;
- fit-out of community centres,
- health centres including kitchen upgrades and equipment purchases such as computers, TVs and furniture and fittings;
- sporting facility upgrades including new scoreboards, seating, new turf, fit-out out of changes rooms, new canteen, new lights, upgrade water systems, gymnasiums, skate parks;
- community arts projects;
- bike paths; or
- purchase of equipment for local SES.
Examples of projects that are unable to be funded include:
- payment of salaries for existing staff or contractors;
- recurring or ongoing expenditure such as annual maintenance, lease payments, electricity or gas expenditure;
- projects that seek funding to stage events, exhibit a display or for filming;
- projects to undertake studies or investigations; or
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New Delhi, Jan 7 (IANS) Hockey India (HI) Tuesday announced that former hockey Olympians and international players will get complimentary tickets for the World League Final to be held at the Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium here Jan 10-18.
The former players need to get in touch with former India captain Ajit Pal Singh and HI selector R.P. Singh for the tickets.
HI secretary general Narinder Batra said it would be a privilege for them to invite all former internationals to witness the top teams of the world in action.
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The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) has notified McDonald's, the world's largest fast-food chain, that its new Irish-themed "McMór" burger is not "artisan" as defined in recently published guidance on the use of certain terms in the marketing of food products in Ireland. Although the guidelines will apply to food products placed on the market or advertised after December 2016, McDonald's has reportedly decided to cease using the term when marketing its new burger.
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Hi! After reading sci.electronics for a couple of years, I've discovered that many people are interested in decoding DTMF-signals for various applications. A frequently asked question (FAQ) concerning this subject is: "What IC should I use in order to decode DTMF signals?"
DTMF means: Dual Tone Multi-Frequency, There is no baseband multiplexing done on DTMF signals. The signal generated by a DTMF encoder is a direct algebraic summation, in real time, of the amplitudes of two sine (cosine) waves of different frequencies. i.e. pressing '1' will send a tone made by adding 1209 Hz and 697 Hz to the other end of the line.
(From the Editor)
Here's a more detailed explanation of what DTMF is:
Q: What frequencies do touch tones use for which numbers?
A: The touch tone system uses pairs of tones to represent the various keys. There is a "low tone" and a "high tone" associated with each button (0 through 9, plus * (star) and # (octothorpe or pound symbol). The low tones vary according to what horizontal row the tone button is in, while the high tones correspond to the vertical column of the tone button.
The tones and assignments are as follows:
1 2 3 A : 697 Hz 4 5 6 B : 770 Hz (low tones) 7 8 9 C : 852 Hz * 0 # D : 941 Hz ---- ---- ---- ---- 1209 1336 1477 1633 Hz (high tones)or:
1209 Hz 1336 Hz 1477 Hz 1633 Hz ABC DEF 697 Hz 1 2 3 A GHI JKL MNO 770 Hz 4 5 6 B PRS TUV WXY 852 Hz 7 8 9 C oper 941 Hz * 0 # Dor:
When the 4 button is pressed, the 770 Hz and 1209 Hz tones are sent together. The telephone central office will then decode the number from this pair of tones.
The tone frequencies were designed to avoid harmonics and other problems that could arise when two tones are sent and received. Accurate transmission from the phone and accurate decoding on the telephone company end are important. They may sound rather musical when dialed (and representations of many popular tunes are possible), but they are not intended to be so.
The tones should all be +/- 1.5% of nominal. The high frequency tone should be at least as loud, and preferably louder than the low frequency. It may be as much as 4 db louder. This factor is referred to as "twist." If a Touchtone signal has +3db of twist, then the high frequency is 3 db louder than the low frequency. Negative twist is when the low frequency is louder.
Q: What are the A, B, C and D touch tone keys used for?
Why are they not found on touch tone phone sets?
A: These are extensions to the standard touch-tones (0-9, *, #) which originated with the U.S. military's Autovon phone network. The original names of these keys were FO (Flash Override), F (Flash), I (Immediate), and P (Priority) which represented priority levels that could establish a phone connection with varying degrees of immediacy, killing other conversations on the network if necessary with FO being the greatest priority, down to P being of lesser priority. The tones are more commonly referred to as the A, B, C and D tones respectively, and all use a 1633 Hz as their high tone.
Nowadays, these keys/tones are mainly used in special applications such as amateur radio repeaters for their signalling/control. Modems and touch tone circuits tend to include the A, B, C and D tones as well. These tones have not been used for general public service, and it would take years before these tones could be used in such things as customer information lines; such services would have to be compatible with the existing 12-button touch tone sets in any case.
There are many ways to detect and decode these DTMF tones. One idea could be an eight sharp-tuned filter combination with detection circuits. Needless to say, this is very impractical, considering the various ICs (Integrated Circuits or 'chips') made by different manufacturers all over the world.
Most of these ICs do not require more than one (inexpensive) 3.58 MHz x-tal or resonator and the power circuitry. Usually the output is 4-bit binary + 1 strobe.
-------------- l l- d3 l DTMF l- d2 signal in -l Decoder l- d1 4-bit binary out l chip l- d0 l l- strobe --------------
Note: This figure is merely for decoration, it does not imply package information
Nice text to read about DTMF and telephony can be found in:
The companies are listed in a random order:
Features of the SSI 75T201/2/3 Integrated DTMF receiver:
[*]: For those in the USA, see the addresses section for this chip.
We have a pinout for the SSI-202 from WDUNCKEL1:
Data 1 =| |= Data 2 HEX/B =| S |= DATA 4 ENABL =| S |= DATA 8 IN1633 =| I |= CLRDATA VALID VP =| |= DATA VALID NC =| 2 |= ATB (CLOCK OUT) GND =| 0 |= X IN X ENBL =| 2 |= X OUT ANALOGIN=| |= GND
A 10 Meg resistor accross the colorburst crystal is neccessary. Pins 5,2,3,8 are tied high and 4,15,9,7,10 are tied to ground. Data output on d1-d8 will be valid when data valid goes high.
All req. 3.58 MHz (3.579545 MHz) crystal
(From John Fields)
Here's a bombshell for you: It doesn't have to be a color burst crystal! As long as the encoder and the decoder are working on the same clock freq, and the freq isn't too high, (or maybe too low) the decoder will decode the tone pair sent by the encoder.
[back to the original FAQ]
A neat and well documented design + PCB layout by Tom Miller KA1JQW, can be found in "The ARRL handbook for radio amateurs", ISBN: 0-87259-169-7
Application note in OKI Telecom LSI data book
(From Arkady Horak-Systems)
I spent about the last 14 months of my life working on an integrated DTMF receiver here at Motolora and I would like to have you add the part to the DTMF-list. The receiver is part of a 6805 8-bit microcontroller and is called the MC68HC05F5. Here is a quick feature list:
Being an avid electronics hobbyist I feel this part will see a lot of service in hobby applications. This part is, to the best of my knowledge the first general purpose microcontroller with an integrated DTMF receiver. Currently only a ROM based version is available but as sales grow a 705 or EPROM version may be manufactured. Also, this part is compatible with the 6805 development tools and software.
Arkady Horak <email@example.com>
Motorola CSIC Microcontroller Division
Austin, TX
CAUTION: M957-02 and M957-01 differ in operating voltage!, M957-01 can operate from 5 - 12V, M957-02 operates 5V only (not suitable for 12 V apps!)
A ready to build schematic by R.G. Krijgsman based on this Teltone M957-2 chip can be found in: "Het Elektuur telefoonboek" ISBN 90-70160-94-3, (Dutch language)
Examples of line-interfaces and app-notes in the UMC communications ICs databook.
You can get application notes (in PostScript) from the Mitel WEB server: http://www.semicon.mitel.com/prod_sum_dtmf.html or FTP site: ftp://ftp.semicon.mitel.com/pub.10may95/ic/dtmf
[*]: For those in the USA, see the addresses section for this chip.
You can get Application Notes (http://rel.semi.harris.com:80/docs/datasheets/Linear_Integrated_Circuits/Section_08/index.html) on the following chips from WWW. They are in PostScript so be ready to print or download them.
Another way to decode/produce DTMF signals is by applying a DSP, a Digital Signal Processor. Practical examples of such an approach can be found in the TMS320 BBS, which is currently being mirrored at ftp://ftp.ti.com/mrrors/tms320bbs/. You may also wish to see the whole index ftp://ftp.ti.com/mirrors/tms320bbs/00readme
Files of interest concerning this faq are:
Texas Instruments (http://www.ti.com) has expanded their WWW presense. They have an excellent search function that will search their whole site for any keywords. You will find it at URL: http://www.ti.com/corp/docs/search.htm.
For example, try searching for "BBS" and you will find the very useful TMS320 Hotline FAQ at http://www.ti.com/sc/docs/dsps/develop/hotfaq2.htm. If you search for "DTMF" you will find a bunch more useful things about DTMF and chips, etc. Way to go, TI!
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If you are designing a device that will attach to the phone line and you are situates in USA, you will need to make the FCC happy. You can either do this by submitting your completed circuit to them for compliance testing (which can run a few thou$and) or you can purchase a small device that is preapproved by the FCC. It is called DAA for Data Access Arrangement. It is a small, usually potted, module that isolates (literally) your circuit from the phone line.
The FCC section you are trying to satisfy is part 68. You should visit your local library and read up on it whether your get the preapproved part or try to have the FCC [affiliated lab] do the testing .. or just plain hope you don't get caught. It's pretty dry reading but that's life.
There are several different modules on the market that fit into this category. They are:
"They carry quite a few different daa modules. Some with Touch tone encode/decoder built in which sells for about $45. And a basic daa for about $25."
(From James T. Wyatt)
My favorite odd-device company, Dallas Semiconductor, has two types of hybrids One is a SIMM stick with about everything, you can even get an FCC type-accepted sticker from them for it to make your project look more engineered.
The other part is a chip-only that you have to add some external parts to. It needs a transformer and optocoupler (can get from Radio Shack), and a non- critical resistor/cap or two. You can call them up, give them your VISA number, and get the chip in the mail.
The chip is a DS1360/S and costs about $7 each. Both provide the FCC-mandated 2-second billing delay, automatic output overload limiting, *two* inputs and outputs (for monitor or DTMF inject), ring detection/anti-falsing, remote loop current detect, etc...
"The chip plugs into phone lines, splits the signal between input and output, has pins for ringing, off-hook, etc. The chip has FCC-transferable Part 68 registration, so it's 100% legal to connect whatever you want to it. There's an international version that should work down there in Oz."
Someone was obviously not too happy using Cermetek parts. This is included here NOT because I'm biased but as a general precaution to designers. These things inherenly impose regulations. Need I say more?.. he writes:
I once worked on a telephone-interface project with the unfortunate selection of the Cermetek parts. They were originally chosen for their small size and supposed FCC ease, but it turns out that a DDA interface from discrete parts was much cheaper and much better quality.
Cermetek problems:
So, if you have the time and the need, invest the effort to build a decent interface from parts. If you just need one for hobbyist needs, the Cermetek might work, but I got better performance from a phone interface ripped from a 1200 baud modem.
There are just my experiences, and they were with early-rev parts, so they may have improved. Still, it would have saved us several months of engineering time if we had avoided Cermetek from the start.
(This from Steve in Vigra - you know who you are :-)
(FYI, this information posted by Dan Hoehnen and dated Sep 11, 1994)
They sell a partial or full kit or an assembled unit for MPC-2. It provides an FCC approved interface (if you buy the pre-assembled unit) that gives you acces to audio in/out, ring detect and off-hook detect connections.
Circuit board only is $9.00, Complete MPC-2 kit is $19.95, MPC-2 that is assembled and FCC approved is $29.95
The above mentioned company also sells an upgrade board that basically conditions the outputs a little better for pc interfacing.
The upgrade can be bought for $69.95 kit, inlcludes an assembled MPC-2. Or assembled for $99.95.
(From Dieter Christensen)
Telephone hybrids are a real pain in the butt to design. Don't waste your time. Buy one. They're not expensive.
Ok, ok. If you're curious, the reason they're so difficult is that they have to be optimally balanced in such a way that they will work on almost any phone line they are hooked up to. A hybrid's function is to transmit a signal over the phone line at the same time that it is receiving the signal from the other end. Ideally, the received signal will have none of the transmitted signal on it (because otherwise you would hear yourself EXTREMELY loudly whenever you talk into a telephone handset, for instance). The degree to which a hybrid's receiver can cancel out the transmitted signal is called 'rejection' and is usually expressed in db. It depends strongly on the complex impedance of the phone line, and unfortunately each phone line has a different impedance. To design a hybrid with good rejection you gotta twiddle a lot with different caps and resistors and all that, and it can be hairy if you want a design that will work with more than one phone line without having to be adjusted. Ma Bell publishes specs on what the distribution of phone-line impedances is and all that, and you'd try to make your circuit nail the median impedance. Of course, in your application it seems like you're only dealing with one phone line, which makes things a little, but not much, easier.
In addition, your DAA has to be able to deal with all the nasty spikes and so on that come down the line, and that isn't much fun to design, either. And the output levels have to be within Ma Bell's specs, and so on.
But, Anyway, the good news is that the ideal solution is quite simple.
You can purchase a complete DAA and hybrid, which comes on a little thick-film module all pre-engineered and calibrated and adjusted, for less than $20. You just hook up the phone line to two of the pins (you DO need a switch to take it on and off hook) and connect your headphone amplifier and microphone amplifier and dialer (or whatever you are using for your studio) to two other pins. Simple.
You get at least 6db rejection, and typically 12 to 16 db. And you don't have to worry.
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Why, yes. Here are two MODEM articles that I have on-line. If you know of any other STABLE articles elsewhere, feel free to [drop me a line]
(yeah, yeah, I know, not very descriptive file names ;-)
TDK/Silicon Systems (SSi)
Tel: (714) 573 6000 (for closest distributor)
Fax: (714) 573 6914
E-Mail for Info: email@example.com
WWW: http://www.ssi1.com
The SSI202 is manufactured by Silicon Systems Inc (SSI) and the full part number is 75T202-IP.
"It is a 30 pin socketed dual sided surface mount PCB. All protection is on the module and includes a speaker driver and additional relay drivers. Can be used up to 14.4KBPS V32.bis speeds."
Head office in Canada:
MITEL Semiconductor
360 Legget Dr.
P.O. Box 13320
Kanata, Ontario, Canada K2K 1X3
Tel: 1-800-267-6244
Tel: 1-800-561-0860 (maybe)
Tel: 1-613-592-2122 (ask for Semiconductor Applications)
Fax: 1-613-592-6909
Tel: 044 291430000
Fax: 044 291436389
Tel: 49 7117701522
Fax: 49 7117701524
Well, that's the latest I've found on DTMF receivers. There are no doubt other companies producing these kind of chips, so please let me know and I'll improve this list (when I've got the time)
Unfortunately, I'm not that experienced yet to answer any difficult technical questions about this subject.
For suggestions, improvements, info, flames, waterbuckets (?) please e-mail me at: email@example.com.
I graduated July 1st 1994, so I won't continue writing updates for this faq (no time, no space, no money :)
I like to thank all of you who think this faq was usefull, especially the ones who wrote me e-mail . I was very suprised to see this faq appear in the most strange places on the Net :)
Anyway...have fun with those di-du-dit-di-duh tones :)
#include <stdio.h> #include <ctype.h> #include <math.h> #include <conio.h> #define BITS 0xFF00 #define NOISE 0 /* enable noise shaper */ #define TON 0.100 /* tone duration */ #define TOFF 0.100 /* silence duration */ #define RAMP 0.002 /* tone rise and fall time */ #define RATE 11025.0 /* sample rate */ #define numberof(n) (sizeof(n)/sizeof(*n)) struct { char letter; double f1, f2; } button[] = { {'1', 697, 1209}, {'2', 697, 1336}, {'3', 697, 1477}, {'A', 697, 1633}, {'4', 770, 1209}, {'5', 770, 1336}, {'6', 770, 1477}, {'B', 770, 1633}, {'7', 852, 1209}, {'8', 852, 1336}, {'9', 852, 1477}, {'C', 852, 1633}, {'*', 941, 1209}, {'0', 941, 1336}, {'#', 941, 1477}, {'D', 941, 1633}, {'X', 20, 20}, {'Y', 100, 100}, {'Z', 500, 500}, }; int main(void) { double t, v=0; char c; int value=0, n; FILE *fout; puts("Press 123A456B789C*0#D to digitize DTMF-tones to file. Fs=11025. ESC quits."); fout = fopen("x", "wb"); while (1) { c = toupper(getch()); if (c == 0x1B) break; for (n=0; n<numberof(button); n++) { if (c==button[n].letter) { putchar(c); for (t=0.0; t<TON; t+=1/RATE) { v = sin(2*M_PI*button[n].f1*t) + sin(2*M_PI*button[n].f2*t); if (t<RAMP) /* See Note Below */ v *= t/RAMP; /* See Note Below */ if (t>TON-RAMP) /* See Note Below */ v *= (TON-t)/RAMP; /* See Note Below */ #if NOISE value = floor(v*(BITS/4)+BITS/2) + (value&~BITS); #else value = floor(v*16383+32768.5); #endif fputc((value&BITS)>>8, fout); } for (t=0.0; t<TOFF; t+=1/RATE) fputc(0x80, fout); } } } putchar('\n'); fclose(fout); return 0; }
Note: This provides simple envelope modulation. It ramps the amplitude up and down linearly to avoid the little pops you would otherwise hear when the sound starts and stops. DTMF encoder chips usually don't bother doing this.
Do you understand the noise shaper? It's a more advanced concept. The effect is subtle, and it's not required for DTMF use. It was just a fun experiment :-)


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The Wii U launch is clambering over the horizon, glimmering with gold coins, amusement parks, and the long, big-eared shadow of Mickey Mouse. But despite the excitement of the impending system launch and the accompanying games, we can't help but look to the future of Nintendo's latest. How does 2013 look for this console?
We collected a short list of games arriving next year. This is just a sampling of what the Wii U library will feature in 2013, not a definitive list. And as you take a look, try and pick out a favorite. We'll quiz you later!
In no particular order, here we go...
Bayonetta 2
The first Bayonetta was a whirlwind of gunfire, witch magic, and ink-black hair. With a superb combat system and a passion for the absurd, Bayonetta continued the tradition of crazy Japanese action popularized by the Devil May Cry series.
Very little information on Bayonetta 2 is known, but its upcoming launch on a Nintendo platform caught a lot of fans (this author included) by surprise. But those fans have plenty of reason to hunger for more of the long-legged witch and her incredible magic. And lipstick.
Rayman Legends
Rayman is no stranger to stellar animation and clever platforming, as the predecessor to Rayman Legends proved with near-absolute authority. Rayman Legends continues the story of Rayman Origins but integrates a series of fantastical paintings that act as gateways into other worlds (Super Mario 64, anyone?).
With refined multiplayer support and plenty of Lums to collect, Rayman Legends should dazzle the Wii U next year.
Aliens: Colonial Marines
From the loot-crazy gun freaks that brought you the Borderlands series comes an interactive chapter in the official Aliens canon. Aliens: Colonial Marines follows Corporal Christopher Winter (Editor's Note: cool name, bro) and his team as they search the U.S.S. Sulaco for Ellen Ripley.
We haven't seen much of the single-player campaign in Aliens -- just the multiplayer -- but there's still time between now and Colonial Marines' launch in February of next year.
The Wonderful 101
Originally known as Project P-100, The Wonderful 101 tasks players with controlling a group of super heroes in Pikmin fashion while defending a city from an alien invasion. Hideki Kamiya, the legendary designer behind Viewtiful Joe, Okami, and even Bayonetta, stands at the helm of this new Wii U project.
Besides the scarce media that's hit the internet already, little else is known of The Wonderful 101, which makes us even more excited to play it extensively. Cheers to super heroes!
LEGO City Undercover
If you're looking for a more family-friendly version of Grand Theft Auto that you can share with your younger siblings or children, this might be it. LEGO City Undercover drops you into a world built of everyone's favorite blocks. As an undercover cop, you work to prevent crime in LEGO City as opposed to commit it. Now everyone can join in on the open-world fun.
Pikmin 3
The well-loved series returns, this time with even more Pikmin to control! Pikmin 3 will reacquaint you with the iconic plant creatures made famous in the original GameCube game from 2001. This time, expect more types of Pikmin, even more Pikmin leaders, and the adorableness that we've all come to expect from the series. And if you're not completely sold on the Wii U gamepad, don't worry -- you can plug in a remote and nunchuck instead. Everybody wins!
Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate
The Monster Hunter series has made a tremendous impact in the gaming space, leaving a world-sized crater filled with dinosaur hides and crafted items. The next entry in the series, Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate, builds off of the previous version with enhanced play systems and additional monsters to... hunt. Like the previous games, Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate can entertain hundreds of hours of play in the never-ending quest for better items and equipment. Monster Hunter fans desperate for more can look forward to this adventure when it begins in March of next year.
So, quiz time: which of these games are you most excited for? Let us, and the entire IGN community, know! And stay tuned in the coming days for a ton of Wii U content, including our coverage of the launch.
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Are you confused by GMOs? Only a minority of Americans can even explain what "GMO" stands for. Competing claims about GMOs' benefits and possible harmfulness confuse the debate further.
Framing the issue as simply "pro" or "con" is far too simplistic an approach to such a complicated part of our food system. Now another confusing reason that GMOs are so controversial—and complex—has emerged: food industry groups are funding scientists' research.
The newly formed anti-GMO labeling group US Right to Know recently requested access to emails of academics at public institutions (a legal request under the Freedom of Information Act) and uncovered some researchers' deep ties with the food industry, according to Eric Lipton of the NY Times. Lipton explains that the real problem might not be the influence over the academic integrity of the research, but rather the way the food industry is using these academics as mouthpieces to support their agendas:
The emails provide a rare view into the strategy and tactics of a lobbying campaign that has transformed ivory tower elites into powerful players. The use by both sides of third-party scientists, and their supposedly unbiased research, helps explain why the American public is often confused as it processes the conflicting information.
Lipton quotes academics from both sides (those funded by organic food industry groups and those funded by biotech groups) as "feeling used," or at least being uncomfortable with the advocacy role that they agreed to. Lipton spends most of the article on the machinations of Monsanto and other big agribusiness companies, but even the feel-good organic food folks don't have clean hands in this mess: Stonyfield Farms has been involved with academics and used them to support their staunch anti-GMO stance.
In a follow up to Lipton's article, Jonathan Latham, PhD, executive director of the Bioscience Resource Project, explains that while the academics in Lipton's article are certainly players in this game, there are even bigger "fish to fry" when it comes to the ways the biotech industry has co-opted academics for advocacy purposes:
So the story that academia's most vocal GMO defenders, and some of its most prominent scientists, are copied into these emails is missing. The focus on individuals like Folta occludes a demonstration, for the first time ever, of long-suspected and intricate coordination and cooperation among them.
We're no stranger to the ways that science can influence policy, and food groups can influence science, but the implications of this current GMO debate are made more significant by the DARK Act, an anti-GMO labeling bill that has already passed in the House. While the biotech industry has stood up against GMO labeling because of concerns that it will cause confusion and unnecessary fear amongst consumers (as well as diminish their profit margins), Libby Folly of Environmental Working Group explains that accepting GMO labeling could be a boon for food companies, according to MIT researcher, Alexis H. Bateman:
Besides improving relationships with customers, Bateman says, labeling could save companies money by forcing them to take a close look at their supply chains, showing where they could become more efficient. It could also help ensure an unbroken supply and improve relationships with vendors, both of which reduce a company's risk. She says smart companies will not only oppose the DARK Act, but get ahead of the game by acting on their own now."
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Food Industry Enlisted Academics in G.M.O. Lobbying War, Emails Show via the New Your Times
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"Who, now who wants to go get whipped, you know, and if you do wanna go get whipped, hey, aren't you really being entertained?"
The Dylan-Judson match-up offers all kinds of thrills, including Bob Dylan's severe and undated insight in his sallies against Horace Judson's apathy. The great moment for me is the comment above, and I ask everyone to watch the scene again simply for Dylan's vicious elocution of the word *whipped.*
Indifference and condescension are Horace Judson's weapons against the wild-haired boy animated to a frenzy by what only looks like the practiced purposeless rage of his generation. Dylan's impassioned efforts to get Judson to take the interview seriously, eventually lead Judson to wearily ask the question that would make him famous in certain circles: "Do you care about what you sing?" and Bob Dylan's famouser answer "Would you ask the Beatles that?" It's Dylan who demands Judson agree that someone would not "go see somebody if they didn't want entertainment." And there's Bob's flash of wisdom: an artist can set out to whip an audience with pedantry, polemics, obscurantism, but no artist can fight the desire for pleasure.
Being whipped/being entertained–this is what I kept returning to when I visited the current Jenny Holzer exhibit at NY's Whitney Museum. Holzer is a familiar and admired artist among my demographic–liberal/intellectual/informed/always ready at a moment's notice to critique our privileges. This exhibit displayed several works that employ text and sophisticated technologies for hypnotic effects of words transmitted with light, color, movement. The texts in this exhibit are of two general types: the cryptic and suggestive platitudes she's known for, and material transcribed directly from declassified government documents including interrogation transcripts, and reports involving political prisoners held by the US, including the report of the death of at least one prisoner. The walls of one room are covered with enlarged photocopies of interrogation transcripts and reports, easy to read and of course containing many blacked-out passages too sensitive to be declassified.
Anyone who visits Holzer's exhibit must necessarily become the sum of characteristics that distinguish them from the conditions that made these works possible, and not much greater than that sum. How can I put this clearly? While I am reading the transcript of a young man's testimony regarding having been beaten while held as a political prisoner, I am right that minute safe, free, sheltered, clean, able to understand my surroundings and welcome to communicate in any way I choose with the people around me, and with no necessary responsibility towards the material I'm reading. If I work as a framer and I happen to be admiring the mounting job done on this display, none of the above changes. Even if I was the person who held the interrogation, there in the Whitney I'm still the sum of what separates me from these words. I am very certain of what I am in that moment and that place. What is the pleasure here? A voyeurism quickly checked by guilt? Then being flooded with the knowledge of my privileges and securities? And then the confrontation with the sobering fact that I still occupy the same world as the one recorded in these documents? Submitting to a vague complicitness and a vaguer desire to be an agent of rectitude in this world? Of course–I came to get whipped, and I got what I wanted.
The installations with text and flashing colored lights offer the pleasures of flashing colored lights, the game of reading the text as it shoots by, and the cleverness of many of the platitudes which are just that hair's breadth away from hackneyed truisms to appear thought-provoking or witty to people with exercised critical thinking habits, people who go to Jenny Holzer exhibits at the Whitney Museum. Forget about the technology of flashing colored lights, just think about the sheer quantity of electricity needed to keep these installations running each day–it's a condition beyond the dreams of much of the earth's population. I came to get whipped, and I got what I wanted.
" You know what they say, man, they say it's all good." I wanted this song broadcast through loudspeakers all through the Whitney Museum. I wanted to see people dance on those floors, dance lovely and dance ugly, and I wanted to hear them holler "It's alllll goooood," and I wanted to hear them laugh, and the widow's cry still going unanswered, and Jenny Holzer's flashing colored lights and Dept of Defense files all around, and all of us so awfully heated up and so entertained.


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Hi guys, I'm not 100% sure, but I think my Arri Alexa EV classic has the de-squeeze license installed. This is what my menu looks like: http://blog.abelcine...ze-explained-2/
If the menu gives me the EVF monitoring options for 1.3x and 2x, does that actually mean that the license is installed?
The other week, I put on some Hawk Anamorphic 2x glass, and could not implement the de-squeeze. It simply remained squeezed in the EVF when I selected 2x or 1.3x.
By chance, if I don't actually have the license installed, how much would it cost?


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We all knew the Snapdragon 835 was coming, so it really shouldn't surprise anyone that Qualcomm took the wraps off their newest mobile CPU at CES 2017. What might be a little surprising is just how hard Qualcomm is going to push this processor to power every single gadget it can possibly be used in.
If you want to dig into the gritty details, the Snapdragon 835 has moved to a 10nm manufacturing process, which means a significant reduction in size, an improvement in battery life, and better performance compared to the 14nm Snapdragon 820. It should also run a bit cooler, solving a problem that's plagued certain Snapdragon chips before. It can utilize four performance cores clocked at 2.45GHz and four efficiency cores clocked at 1.9GHz, so we should see some insane performance from this year's version.
Qualcomm paired the Snapdragon 835 with an X16 modem to match data speeds with processing speeds, bringing gigabit-class transfer speeds to mobile devices. That's a ground-breaking achievement for an integrated modem, which is something Qualcomm should be proud of.
But the biggest selling point of the Snapdragon 835 is that Qualcomm wants it to be in literally every gadget you own. I'm not kidding when I say everything, either, since Qualcomm's press release states it can be used in not only Android devices (duh) but also VR/AR displays, connected home accessories and devices, tablets and PCs, and pretty much any device running Android or Windows. It also supports legacy Win32 applications, which is a huge deal for laptops and 2-in-1 tablets. Intel is probably sweating bullets over that.
Qualcomm already heavily dominates the smartphone market, but if they can work their way into the PC and laptop market they could easily outpace some of the other heavy hitters (like Intel) in the market. It would also help solidify their position even with slowing smartphone growth.
The newest Snapdragon chip also features some other new fancy tech, like Bluetooth 5.0, WiFi 801.11ad, a new DSP from Qualcomm, and some tricks to help the Snapdragon 835 handle audio and visual processing for augmented reality applications.
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A few years ago a friend of mine mentioned that he was going to Idaho for vacation. My immediate response was "Really? Why would you want to go to Idaho for vacation?"
In retrospect I should have thought about my wording before unintentionally bashing his vacation plans, but the question did reflect my true impression of Idaho. I am no less ashamed to admit that most of what I knew of Idaho came from the movie "Napoleon Dynamite."
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weapons possession rap?
Surely in America most peopel are walking around armed to the teeth with guns? why should a pair of nunchucks bother anyone
Cops in Clifton, New Jersey, earlier this week cuffed two ninja vigilantes dressed in black SWAT-style vests and carrying knives, throwing stars, swords, nunchucks and a bow and arrows, who were apparently on their way to deliver cease-and-desist letters to local drug peddlers, AP reports. The self-styled "Shinobi warriors" …
Surely in America most peopel are walking around armed to the teeth with guns? why should a pair of nunchucks bother anyone
Mine's the black one with the balaclava.
as a practicing, and vocal, martial artist* to distance myself from these idiots. I'm sure most genuine martial artists out there will do the same. They cause us nothing but problems with the Daily Heil readership types, in the same way as some kid going berserk then blaming GTA4 gets bad press for the entire gaming community. It was this kind of idiot that got throwing stars banned in the UK.
Unfortunately, these types seldom get hit by Darwin's Laws, and never seem to hit their own eyeballs with an arrow. Assholes.
*See? THAT'S how to use commas.
Yep, in some States it is perfectly legal to carry a licensed gun, but illegal to carry a knife/Ninja Star etc. 'Cause, you know, that would just be dangerous!
Especially in New Jersey.
The cops saved their silly lives.
or it didnt happen
I'm guessing the police did this for their own protection.
Let's face it - nunchucks and katanas might beat automatic weaponry in anime and Hong Kong kung fu flicks but it's probably not going to work so well on the mean streets of New Jersey...
Or maybe that's thirded, forthed, or fifed(?) by the time my comment shows up after several other peoples that are not currently visable.
Lots of people have registered guns in America, but thats it, they are registered. If these weapons were not registered and they had no legal reason to be carrying them then (Going to a ninje expo or something) then it is illegal, even though they appear to be acting in a good natured way
surely you can get some pix of the scene.
Because in the USA, "arms" has been determined to mean "firearms". So whereas it's probably legal to give 8 year olds functioning semi-automatics to take to school for "self defence", it's illegal to carry any weapons that do not create profit for the American weapon makers each time they are used.
I mean, just out of interest.
I realise that's only a distraction, but I would assume there's a reason these chums were underway for some serious vigilante action (and a possible hail of bullets in the style of Indiana Jones - try beating x bullets/sec with a couple of throwing stars)..
Now there was a game! I'm going all misty-eyed as I type...
Just the sort of chuckle I needed for a friday afternoon after the pub.
mine's the black one with the nun-chucks.
Someone's been watching too many 'Something's gotta be done to clear up this mess' films. Michael Douglas, Charlie Bronson and Marion Wayne would be proud.
They want to thank God for the police.
Seriously, sending C&D letters to drug dealers? Threatening them? Out here (UK) you might get some laughs, in the US they'll just shoot you and move down a block.
If they'd been busted carrying a carload of guns to go "persuade" drug dealers to cease their activities, I'm certain they'd have been busted for that, too. The issue isn't weapons, it's vigilantism, which is illegal no matter the methodology.
There seems to be a huge misunderstanding about the US and guns-- yes, they're legal to own, sure, but it still remains illegal to shoot people without justification, and it really doesn't happen all that often.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but adjusting for population size difference, don't the US and UK have a fairly equal murder and violent crime rate?
"Registered" what now?
I never had to register a firearm, and I own several. Yes, I had to go through a background check (the data from which is *supposed* to be destroyed within a certain timeframe) and sign the firearm over into my ownership from the dealer. However, that record of ownership is something which can only be accessed by the government with proper legal reasons, from what I understand.
As I understand it, there is no firearms "registry" in the US. The NRA-types would throw a fit.
Your not alone. I put so much money into that game, it puts supporting a drug habit to shame. Time to fire up xmame.
They're going to fight a criminal scourge, and law enforcement arrests them
The RIAA/MPAA do it for an unproved civil infringement, and law enforcement bends over backwards.
I think the drug vigilantee people should maybe turn on the riaa/mpaa so then the cops have more time to deal with the druggies
Is it just me or is the mental image of two grown men in full ninja costume with a massively under-inflated sense of their own mortality pootling along in a Ford Mondeo, surreal, depressing and funny all at the same time.
There has to be a scene from a film there. Anyone?
Paris because hopefully the ninja outfit would muffle her voice.
In the US, all legal weapons sales (except for C&Rs) are run thru a load of paperwork with the weapon's serial number, the buyer's ID info, fingerprints, etc. Each seller is required to have this data available for years for whenever ATFE decides they need to go thru them all. If even a T is miscrossed, or heave forbid, a "ditto" is used, the fines and fees are tremendous and the dealer is shut down and his records confiscated. Which means stored for however long the ATFE and it's masters decide, in their own facility, with little or no oversight.
So what's the difference then, of your records being stored at multiple locations, or confiscated by ATFE, or in some central "registry"? What about major states with "microstamping" laws with the serial number database to be accessable by LE whenever "necessary"? Is it not "registry" just because Democrats say it's not? A rose by any other name, and all that.
We won't even get into the "accessed with proper legal reasons" issue. Any activist judge can come up with a hundred "reasons" and his signature alone makes it "legal" thru warrants. "Think of the Children!" "OMG White Supremacist!" "Eek Evil Terrorist!"-there's three that are guaranteed to work anywhere under the 9th Circuit Court and anywhere near Mayor Boomberg's influence.
I love theses idiot comments. In most states you cant carry a knife over 1.5 inches . The charge is carrying a concealed weapon, not fire arm but weapon. So any thing that's defined as weapon including a gun is illegal to have concealed. Instates that allow you to open carry you can have a knife . In states that allow to have a permit its call a CCW. The W is weapons. So if you are going to bag on a country for their laws now what t he law actually is . But hey its fun to hate on yanks
Try..."Beverley Hills Ninja".
Haru: [Joey is chasing a chicken] Keep practicing, Joey, and someday you will choke that chicken.
Haru: Do not worry. A ninja knows when he is in danger.
[Tanley and his men fire machine guns at them]
Haru: Now we are in danger. We are really in danger.
Haru: I am sure you would like to know who I am and what I do, but as part of my creed, I cannot tell you. See my identity must remain mysterious and my mission secret, I cannot reveal it to you.
Boy: Why not?
Haru: Because I would then have to kill you.
Boy: Daddy.
Ever been to new jersey? Try pumping your own gas. All gas stations are full service by law for "safety and insurance purposes." New Jersey is a little piece of the UK ('nanny state') in the USA... A tribute to the 'protection' we so envy of our funny speaking counterparts across the atlantic.
I live in KS where guns + beer = weekend fun... my ex-g/f from NJ was shocked when she discovered that people 'actually do that in the midwest,' 'own guns!', 'don't hurt themselves'. Ninjas with swords and stars sounds like fun though, i'll have to see what I have going on next weekend.
skull and crossbones because I'm going to shoot my eye out.
What are you talking about? This "registered" thing you speak of it foreign to me. Where I'm from in the US the original purchaser is the only person who must register the firearm. Afterward is can be sold/transferred to another owner without any sort of paperwork (they asked you to file a form but you aren't required to do so).
If you have ever purchased a firearm in the past you can pay a $50 fee and get through the background check in 6 hours (the background check doesn't apply to rifles and shotguns anyway - which is silly because those are the really dangerous guns. Most people with a pistol aren't very dangerous to the person they are aiming at)
"Correct me if I'm wrong, but adjusting for population size difference, don't the US and UK have a fairly equal murder and violent crime rate?"
Okay. I'm correcting you, you're wrong. No, they don't. :)
Here's a handy list for murders:
U.S scores 0.042802 per 1,000 people, U.K. scores 0.0140633 per 1,000 people . So that's almost exactly 3x higher in the U.S. Canada scores 0.0149063 per 1,000 people.
Violent crime is similar, IIRC.
@AC "Correct me if I'm wrong, but adjusting for population size difference, don't the US and UK have a fairly equal murder and violent crime rate?"
The murder rate in the US more than twice that in the UK.
Aren't democrats the ones who are trying to make people give up their guns?
And, by the way, secondary sales aren't inherently illegal, and don't leave any traces beyond what the two parties consider fair. IE, I give you money, you give me a gun.
It is up to the seller to make sure the buyer is legit, but that doesn't include any sort of background check where I come from if it's two private parties (and not a gun store/gun show).
I could sell one of my firearms to a friend and there would be no record except that in our heads. As far as I'm aware, that's also perfectly legal where I live.
You should live in Finland.
In my usual state (drunk, in bed) it's not unusual for me to "pump my own gas". Trouble is, 'She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed' then tells me to "Open a fuc*king window"!
There's nothing more tedious than hearing a bunch of people spout off about US weapons laws when they know little about them. NJ has the second tightest weapons laws in the US: http://www.stategunlaws.org/viewstate.php?st=nj
"in some States it is perfectly legal to carry a licensed gun, but illegal to carry a knife/Ninja Star etc"
It all depends on the law in the particular state (and city). See non-official summary here: http://www.handgunlaw.us/documents/USKnife.pdf
I believe (and IANANJL) that in NJ, there are no blanket prohibitions on knives, so long as there is a lawful reason for carrying the knife (gutting deer, carving chess pieces, cutting roofing felt) you'd be OK. Living out your Charles Bronson fantasies probably doesn't come under that category.
"it's illegal to carry any weapons that do not create profit for the American weapon makers each time they are used."
Complete gash - see above.
"Lots of people have registered guns in America, but thats it, they are registered."
It depends from state to state again. In Vermont, (IIRC) you don't have to register anything with anyone to buy, own or carry a gun. In Virginia, you don't have to have to register owned guns with the state and you don't have to get a licence to carry a gun openly (although you do have to have a licence to carry it in a concealed fashion).
There are plenty of arguments to made for/against gun laws in the UK/US contexts - but they can at least be made on the basis of facts...
In any case, depending on the content of the letters and what the two tools proposed to say to the dealers, even if they were not armed, their (planned) activities might have been illegal.
Black helicopters because the UN World Overlord Army is coming to take everyone's guns away.
I'm not sure how it is in parts of the U.K., however, for the US it's a hodgepodge. There are federal regulations, state regulations, counties within in the state regulations, city regulations/ordinances, etc..
You don't have to register a gun to own it legally in the US, assuming you purchased it second-hand, or before those laws took effect. However, automatic weapons are have to be registered to be legal in several states, and in most others are outright illegal. Concealed weapons permits are given out like candy in a few states, and in others you need to be giving the governor reach-arounds for several years to get one, and that still doesn't cover transporting over state lines. And I always love the "feel good" laws they pass on guns and magazines, restricting the amount of ammo they can hold, or the weapon itself. They tend not to mention the fact that none of those are retro-active, so you can pick up those "banned" items at gun shows dirt cheap normally. For anything else you could consider being used as a weapon there are laws of similar natures times a hundred.
I would love to see that amendment simply amended/repealed all together, wouldn't break my heart in the slightest. I can't see how it would really effect much since it's already outright trounced anyway in my view. "The right to bear arms", does that not mean carrying a firearm is a right, or did someone flip two pages at once on me? The only reason it hasn't happened (other than politicians making money off the lobbyists as usual) is the Southern states will start a civil war part 2 before they ever allow that right on paper to go away, in fact, just about any state with a significant rural section of it's populace.
Those who live by the sword get shot in the chest by a drug dealer with a pistol.
Being arrested by the cops probably saved these idiot's lives.
So "the right to bear arms" refers only to guns then? I assumed "arms" would cover any weapon.
The right to bear arms does not give you the right to carry said arms around in public. There are concealed carry laws for that, and they are much stricter then the laws around obtaining a firearm.
The second amendment does not specifically say firearm, but it's read that way because who uses a sword these days except for dumbass kids? You're allowed to own a sword but if you go brandishing it in public, you're gonna be thrown in jail the same as you would if you openly carried around a shotgun or pistol.
Think of it this way. The second amendment says that you have a right to keep a gun at home so that when the zombie invasion comes, you will be ready to defend yourself.
Paris because some of your UK people have some stupid ideas about US law.
"I would love to see that amendment simply amended/repealed all together, wouldn't break my heart in the slightest. I can't see how it would really effect much since it's already outright trounced anyway in my view."
Hitler believed the same thing about guns. They were dangerous and only the military should possess them.
"All gas stations are full service by law for "safety and insurance purposes." New Jersey is a little piece of the UK ('nanny state') in the USA..."
And yet, strangely, here in the very nanny state UK of which you so knowledgeably speak, we're invariably expected to pump our own gas. I haven't seen an attended petrol station in a great many years.
So how do we account for this? Could it be that this particular example of nannying is in fact New Jersey's very own brand, and that in fact, your reference to the UK was for no particular reason after all?
so they can easily catch the "vigilianties" but can't just easily go out and arrest the scum they were after? this planet is screwed man. or corruption rules. which is the same point again...
It's no wonder that so many Americans are killed by arms each year. With a right guaranteed in law that the population is allowed bear arms.
If the US government amended the law removing the right to bear arms and instead completely banning it then maybe the bears wouldn't get so angry and keep on killing hikers!
Ok, Ok! I'm going, just let me get my coat!
Sounds like some boys were looking to get sliced, diced, and served (to pit bulls). Lucky for them the cops caught 'em.
"'The right to bear arms', does that not mean carrying a firearm is a right..."
Actually, um, that's exactly what it means. "Keep" as in possess/own, "bear" as in carry on your person, unless you think they were making an ursine reference.
To feel comfortable with the Second Amendment requires that 1) You presume your neighbors to be reasonable and responsible people, and 2) You realize that a firearm is no more intrinsically evil than an automobile or a kerosene lamp. And no less dangerous when used by the careless or malicious.
Maybe the local drug lords gave the police a heads-up. Since most of the police are probably in the employ of these American 'entrepanours', I would expect nothing less (as long as they pay their taxes).
In the USA it is against the law to carry certain types of weapons, but to possess a gun is to be part of the fabled 'American way'.
Paris, is she not American (tenuous, I know)?
Your argument runs thus:
Hitler was a bad guy.
Hitler believed $SOMETHING.
Therefore, $SOMETHING is wrong.
Spot where it falls down.
An automobile is designed to get you from A to B. A Kerosene lamp is designed to illuminate. Any deaths resulting from these objects are accidental, and generally result in a redesign of said automobile or lamp to minimise the chance of it happening again - think seatbelts, crumple zones etc.
On the other hand a firearm is designed to kill things. That's it's purpose.
"evil" is a loaded word, but given that most things that are killed don't wish to be and that a firearm is absolutely, categorically "more intrinsically" designed to kill, then it's not a great leap is it? Bagging the odd rabbit for dinner excepted as only PETA think that's evil.
As for no less dangerous, discounting target shooting (which doesn't require you to carry a gun about in public), please explain to me how you can use a firearm - not just carry one, but use one - and have it *not* be dangerous? They're SUPPOSED to be dangerous, that's the point. See above.
"Dangerous to whom?" is the pertinent question. A military or police force loyal and beholden to its served civilian populace is dubbed a necessity. Either is certainly dangerous to those discerned as malefactors by the protected and, despite any statistical possibility of circumstance of being turned against the intended masters, considered a necessity all the same. The citizen bearing personal arms merely brings the same argument to the level of the individual rather than the group*.
It's a matter of self reliance. Some people are happy taking the bus or metro to work. Others would rather depend upon themselves and drive, work from home, live over shop, etc.
"Evil" was used as shorthand for worthy of dread or contempt. I've personally seen fires kill people and utterly destroy lives. I'm careful that I don't burn my house down, but I'm not contemptuous of fire. I'm careful. And since the vast majority of my neighbors aren't ablaze, I'm assuming they're no less careful.
Bearing all this in mind, why do I have the feeling that the drug dealers are still on the corner while a group of impetuous, rash, and foolish youths were attempting to do what the community as a whole should have? Thugs should be afraid of the ire of the townsfolk, not the other way around. *Never* the other way around. That is neither progress nor civilized.
*I might have written "The citizen bearing personal arms merely brings the same argument *back* to the level of the individual *where it naturally lay* rather than the group" to be more in tune with the mindset that holds reliance primarily on the man in the mirror as a basic personal responsibility and the other side of the coin of claiming personal rights.
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Basil Baxter would like to caution against giving Ninja's undue media attention. Basil Baxter has had dealings in the past with Ninja's and they never ended well; for the Ninja's.
As Basil Baxter has frequently commented on his blog; there is no kick, jump or blow designed to counter a Chainsaw. (Polly would like to amend that; a 'high quality' chainsaw. She gets ever so jealous when Basil Baxter tests other girls.)
These two miscreants were obviously on their way to wreak havoc on Basil Baxter's master plan to distribute narcotics to toddlers and thus lay the groundwork for world domination. All Basil Baxter can say, in their own retarded lingo; MASSIVE FAIL!
Besides, had Basil Baxter, in all his benevolence, not decided to loan Ussama Bin-Laden his SS20 nuclear missiles which where en-route to the Ninja headquarters at the time; the Ninja's would have been less than no more. (Basil Baxter also quite regrets not disarming them at the time, anyone travelling to Pakistan is advised to bring Geiger counters.)
In any case; Basil Baxter is not an unreasonable person. He quite admires these two's audacity and therefore has decided to bust them out. Unfortunately Basil Baxter has never had to measure Semtex quite as precisely as needed to only blow a mere hole in a wall so perhaps some causalities might ensue. Ah well, Basil Baxter feels that it is the thought that counts.
And remember: Babies stop crying if you shake them. Death comes to us all but only sometimes does it wear sunglasses.
In North America the Mondeo is either the Ford Contour or the Mercury Mystique...
I don't know why I'm writing this, no one cares, least of all me.
Commas can't be used before "and". This be because "and" already is a comma. Don't get me stared on starting sentences beginning with "And!"
Mine has I heart Lynn Truss on the back.
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Phipps Stable's Consequence split horses mid stretch and held off a late rally by Excelente to win the second running of the American 1000 Guineas by a half-length Saturday at Arlington Park. John Velazquez came in from his New York home base to guide the "Shug" McGaughey-trained daughter of El Prado who covered the one mile over firm turf in 1:37.59.
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Excelente made a late run on the outside but was unable to get to the winner while pacesetter Afternoon Stroll faded to third in the seven-horse lineup.
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The 6-5 favorite, Consequence paid $4.40, $3.40 and $2.40. Excelente returned $9.60 and $5.60. Afternoon Stroll paid $4.80.
Prytania, Hot Cha Cha, Obsequious and Peach Brew completed the order of finish.