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Did Justin Bieber's Plastic Surgery Look Alike Become a Pop Star Too with The Plastics?
June 14, 2014 in Celebrity Plastic Surgery,Male Plastic Surgery by Sam Stets | Leave a Comment
Toby Sheldon gained notoriety after revealing that he has spent $100,000 on plastic surgery to look just like Justin Bieber. Now it seems that he has teamed up with other people who have spent major dough on plastic surgery to look like their Hollywood heroes to form "The Plastics" complete with YouTube music video.
In the opening the Plastics as, "Are you one of the boring people who don't want to be beautiful? Because everyone can be beautiful — when you're made of plastic!"
From their, things only get worse before they get better as Toby's costars, Kitty Jay and Venus D'lite, sing about the joys of plastic surgery via AutoTune enhancement. Kitty Jay reportedly spent money to look like her idol, Jennifer Lawrence, while Venus D'lite hopes to more closely resemble Madonna. Plastic surgeons also make appearances in the video, as do bad lyrics such as Wherever she goes, she doesn't need a cushion / She has silicone in there." "More cushion for the pushin'!" "*half-hearted whooping*"
After seeing the video, celebrity plastic surgeon Dr. Anthony Youn wrote on his blog, "You have to see this one to believe it. Three people who had plastic surgery to look like celebs teamed up with two plastic surgeons to make this new music video that has gone viral. It's in-your-face, gaudy, and… well… you just have to see it to believe it. Their publicist, Gina Rodriguez, truly is a master at keeping her clients in the spotlight. Crazy stuff!"
For his part, Toby has undergone numerous plastic surgery procedures chin reduction and eyelid surgery, multiple hair transplants and face filler procedures.
A rundown of Toby's procedures include:
An initial $8,000 on hair transplants
An additional three hair transplants to the tune of $21,000
Botox and fillers like Aquamid in his forehead, which he regularly reinjects
$5,000 on eyelid surgery to raise his upper lids
$30,000 on "smile surgery," a three part procedure that is popular in Asia and gaining popularity in the States as well
He still has plans for a nose job and a jaw reduction procedure but seems to be making music instead.
In an interview, Toby revealed that despite his best efforts under the knife, he doesn't consider himself to be a die-hard fan saying, " 'I didn't necessarily listen to his music or fawn over him as a celebrity, but his face was just so flawless every change I made was modeled after him."
Toby is one of many people who undergo plastic surgery with a celebrity as their inspiration, but he may be taking his transition the most literally.
For her part, Kitty Jay has also been featured in the news as someone who went under the knife in order to better resemble their celebrity idol.none


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Xiuyong Ding* and Xiu Liu
International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems, vol. 15, no. 2, pp.481-488, 2017
Abstract : "This paper addresses the state-dependent stability problem of switched positive linear systems. Some
exponential stability criteria are established on the given partitions of the nonnegative state space. First, a exponential
stability of systems without delays is established with the help of a single linear co-positive Lyapunov function.
When this does not seem possible, we also prove the stability by using multiple linear co-positive Lyapunov functions.
Moreover, we extend this result to the delayed systems in terms of the single and multiple linear co-positive
Lyapunov functionals respectively. The proposed results can be applied to the general systems without any special
restriction. Some numerical examples are given to illustrate the effectiveness of our results."
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Positive systems, stability, state-dependent switching, switched systems.
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Ford F-150 SVT Raptor R – Click above for high-res image gallery
Ford is really proud of its 3.5-liter EcoBoost V6, and while the automaker currently only offers this mill in the Taurus SHO, Flex, Lincoln MKS and MKT, PickupTrucks.com reports that the Baja-blasting SVT Raptor will get a version of this powerplant, as well.
Ford will be offering the EcoBoost V6 as a top-range engine on the F-150 for the 2011 model year, producing something in the range of 400 horsepower and 400 pound-feet of torque, but in the Raptor R, expect output numbers to be significantly higher. Currently, the Raptor R 6.2 produces roughly 500 peak horsepower out of its modified version of the automaker's latest V8, and we doubt that Ford will want to skimp on power when it comes to a no-holds-barred race truck like the Raptor R.
PickupTrucks.com reports that we could see the Raptor R EcoBoost compete in this year's Best In The Desert off-road racing series, as well as the Baja 1000 later this year. All we know is, this sounds like one seriously brutal pickup for desert storming.
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Washington — As he mulls a 2012 presidential run, former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani is closely eyeing President Obama's handling of the Libyan crisis. The president's management of the situation, he says in an interview with National Review Online, has been alarmingly indecisive. But what most troubles Giuliani is Obama's reluctance to make ousting Moammar Qaddafi a key part of the mission while committing U.S. forces to intervene in a civil war.
"[Obama] has put us in a position where we have to get Qaddafi out at this time," Giuliani argues. "We cannot accept a solution in which Qaddafi is in charge of Libya for the next eight or ten years. We cannot create another Iraq, like we did in the early 1990s, which led to eleven years of on-and-off military actions. Maybe that did or didn't work then, but things are too volatile now."
"The president's decision-making has been startling," Giuliani says. "I have never seen a president who makes decisions like this, who does not seem to think out the consequences of his decisions. Before he announced that Qaddafi must go, he should have known a month ahead, or better a year ahead, that by saying that, he will be asked to follow through and remove Qaddafi."
Giuliani is perplexed by how Obama has fumbled in explaining the cause. Many Americans, he posits, are probably confused about the president's exact position. He calls Obama's policy a "half-decision with a time limit."
"At the outset, if he did not want to support Qaddafi's removal, if he said, 'I agree with [Robert] Gates that this is a mistake,' then he should have kept his mouth shut," Giuliani says. "On the other hand, if he thought that it would be in America's national interest to remove Qaddafi, he should have already outlined steps two, three, and four. It does not seem like he has done that."
Instead, Obama "announces that we are going to do a no-fly zone, but that we are not going to use troops," he continues. "I don't know why he has to decide that right now except for political reasons. Strategically, you want Qaddafi thinking that we might use troops."
Obama's tactics, Giuliani says, are hamstringing the U.S. military. "You can't fight a military action with massive limitations placed on it at the very beginning," he says. "It is irresponsible and you make the troops more vulnerable." If Qaddafi begins to inflict massive casualties upon his citizens, Obama, he predicts, will be forced to consider ground troops and "back up what he started."
"He is not by experience, or by instinct, a leader," Giuliani concludes. Obama, he says, is taking a backseat to France, the Arab League, and the United Nations. "We are going to have to defeat him in 2012. America cannot stand another four years like this."
"We need a Republican president," he says. "My sole goal is going to be to try to figure out how we can best achieve that. I am not going to take myself out of it, but [Obama's handling of Libya] convinces me that [electing] one is a lot more important than maybe we thought four years ago."


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Remember the data interface from Minority Report? Well, it's real, John Underkoffler invented it and will change the way we interact with data.
Minority Report science adviser and inventor John Underkoffler demos g-speak — the real-life version of the film's eye-popping, tai chi-meets-cyberspace computer interface. Is this how tomorrow's computers will be controlled?
"We're not finished until all the computers in the world work like this."
John Underkoffler
John Underkoffler led the team that came up with this interface, called the g-speak Spatial Operating Environment. His company, Oblong Industries, was founded to move g-speak into the real world. Oblong is building apps for aerospace, bioinformatics, video editing and more. But the big vision is ubiquity: g-speak on every laptop, every desktop, every microwave oven, TV, dashboard. "It has to be like this," he says. "We all of us every day feel that. We build starting there. We want to change it all."
Before founding Oblong, Underkoffler spent 15 years at MIT's Media Laboratory, working in holography, animation and visualization techniques, and building the I/O Bulb and Luminous Room Systems.
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Former Bush administration official Peter Wehner's latest paean to the Iraq surge contains a lot of what we've seen before, but then steps seriously wrong.
Befitting the legacy of Commentary magazine's longtime editor Norman Podhoretz, Wehner is less concerned with actually considering the practical implications of the moralistic national security policies he champions than he is with wielding that moralism as a bludgeon against his political enemies. Consequently, you will find no mention in Wehner's article of the tens of thousands of Iraqis who have been killed and maimed as a result of the glorious war that Wehner supported and shilled for. No reference to the cleansing and displacement of more than 4 million Iraqis as a result of the invasion and occupation that he continues to insist, in stone defiance of overwhelming, if not conclusive evidence to the contrary, is a foreign policy success. And certainly nothing of the jihadists who are now returning home — better trained, and more deeply indoctrinated — from the front that Wehner would have us believe represents a victory against global jihadism.
Wehner's purpose is not to consider the Iraq war's effects on America's overall national security, but to hail the surge. But even here he stumbles. His assertion that violence in Iraq has returned to almost "normal" levels is accompanied by an unintentionally ironic footnote, which informs us that "'security incidents' in Iraq are at levels not seen since early 2004." Speaking at the Heritage Foundation earlier this month, General David Petraeus noted that attacks had decreased from a high of 180 per day in 2007 to 25 per day. 25 is better than 180, certainly, and our commanders and soldiers deserve recognition for that. But 25 terrorist attacks a day is not normalcy.
Obscuring that point is all in a day's work for a partisan propagandist like Wehner. It's part of his job to spin the winning of twenty dollars after the loss of a thousand as proof of George W. Bush's poker acumen.
But Wehner also writes something that I think requires special attention.
Contemplating those writers who haven't interpreted the surge as the spectacular policy vindication-cum-ideological resurrection he imagines it to be, Wehner asks "what are we to say of the opinion shapers, the editorial writers of our great newspapers, the essayists and columnists and book authors who, unconstrained by petty interest, present themselves as stalwartly independent spirits willing to follow the truth wherever it may lead?"
What was at work in them when the evidence of American progress — which started as a trickle, and then became a river, and eventually became a flood — could no longer be denied? For not only did they continue to deny it, but they actively promoted an alternative policy of withdrawal and retreat that would have made an American defeat, and a jihadist and Iranian victory, inevitable. Is it not fair to say that what was at work in them was an ideological antipathy not just to an American President, but to America's cause?
Is it not fair to say that Wehner's own reputation is so tethered to the Bush legacy in Iraq that he's about as credible as a sub-contractor trying to unload used asbestos?
Responding to criticism of Bush's foreign policy from George Will in 2006, Wehner wrote that Will's prescriptions "would eventually lead to death and destruction on a scale that is almost unimaginable." He levels a similar charge against the surge's critics in his latest piece. But, of course, there's nothing "eventually" about the the ideas and policies that Wehner has championed. They have, in fact, lead to death and destruction in Iraq on a scale that is now all too imaginable, thanks to the administration which Wehner served.
Let's have some straight talk, my friends: I completely, utterly reject the idea that a Bush administration appliance like Peter Wehner — someone who has personally abetted and propagandized for one of the most heinous and consequential national security blunders in the history of the United States — is remotely qualified to address the Iraq war's critics from a position of moral authority, much less question their commitment to "America's cause."
I suppose I could challenge Wehner to produce evidence — any evidence — that "the opinion shapers, the editorial writers of our great newspapers, the essayists and columnists and book authors" that he mentions harbor "ideological antipathy" to "America's cause," but that would be a waste of time. In Wehner's mind, America's cause is the conservative cause. And frankly, if Commentary magazine actually required its writers to have the goods on all the Americans whose loyalty they've impugned over the past decades, they'd never get anything published.


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Tenants will be happy – the latest news on rent rises is they've plateaued. Trade Me's Rent Price Index reports rents are up just $20 per week compared to the same time last year.
Head of Trade Me Property Nigel Jeffries says:
When we compare the cost of renting to the unyielding climb in house prices, the housing game has stayed firmly in favour of renters. The average property across the country is being let for $420 per week, the same rent as March this year and up only $20 per week on the same time last year.
Auckland property values are up 19.7% in the year to September 2015 while the rest of the country's property is up by an average of 3.8%. Wellington achieved an increase of 0.7% and Christchurch 3.6%.
Auckland median rents have remained on $499 per week for the past two months but represent a 9% increase in the last 12 months to September 2015. With Auckland property values continuing to climb there is pressure on landlords to recoup increases in costs. Pedersen Property Management say their landlord clients have been reasonable with their rent increases and most of them are focussed on the bigger picture – that is the continuity of tenancy with a happy long term tenant.
Outside of Auckland median rents have increased by just 2.9% with Wellington's rent increased by just $5 in the past 12 months which represents a 1.3% increase.
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HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - New surveillance video obtained by Hawaii News Now shows the California stowaway surfacing from the wheel well of a Hawaiian Airlines jet back on April 20th.
One hour after the 767 landed in Kahului from San Jose, security footage shows the 15-year-old stowaway surface out of thin air from the wheel well.
He's visibly wobbling as he tries to walk.
We showed the video to aviation analyst Peter Forman.
"For me, this is the missing ingredient," said Forman. "This makes the story believable is watching him walk after getting out of that wheel well. You can see from his walking, he's clearly staggering."
What's more staggering is that Yahya Abdi could survive the five-hour flight, in freezing temperatures, deprived of oxygen.
In the days after his unlikely story broke, pictures of the boy's handprint on the tire and marks where he climbed up didn't satisfy skeptics.
Forman said with a smirk, "This young man apparently has proven them wrong. Clearly he comes out of that area. There's no way he could have come out of the cargo department."
The video confirms earlier reports from Maui Airport Officials.
On April 21, Maui Airport District Manager Marvin Moniz explained the teen's state this way, "He was weak. He hung from the wheel well and then he fell to the ground and regained some strength and stood up and started walking."
The six-minute video also shows an airport worker find the teen on the tarmac and talk with him for a good four minutes. He had trouble hearing at first.
Moniz said, "He indicated there was some problems at home with his family."
Abdi said he ran away, hopped the fence at San Jose, and hid in the wheel well, to find his Mom in a refugee camp. He said his dad had lied, saying she was dead.
This video proves that the teen did not lie about how he ended up in Hawaii, and could prompt changes to security and pre-flight checks.
Forman told us, "Airport security is going to have to beefed up. If this young man can make it onto an airport and get onto an airplane, that's a red flag."
San Jose Authorities want to question the boy.
He returned home with California Child Protective Services over the weekend, after spending two weeks in the hospital in Hawaii.
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Jan. 10, 1931-Aug. 3, 2012
Marie Guy, 81, of Monroe, died at 1:45 a.m. Friday at Mercy Memorial Hospital.
Friends may call from 4 to 8 p.m. Sunday at Rupp Funeral Home. She will lie instate at 10 a.m. Monday at Bible Fellowship Church with services at 11 a.m. Rev. Jim Walker, pastor of the church, will officiate. Burial will follow at Roselawn Memorial Park, LaSalle.
Marie was born January 10, 1931 in Monroe, she was the daughter of Gus and Elizabeth (Lucas) Thomas. She married Joseph John Guy July 8, 1955 in Maryland.
She had worked at the U.S. Post Office in Monroe.
Marie was a member of Bible Fellowship Church.
She is survived by a daughter, Betty J. (Robert) Boomer of Traverse City, a daughter-in-law, Janet Guy of LaSalle, a sister, Irene Overbay of Monroe; eight grandchildren and four great grandchildren.
In addition to her husband, she is preceded in death by a son, Herb Guy.
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Haruhi author Nagaru Tanigawa has finally started work on the long anticipated but hugely delayed (as below) "Suzumiya Haruhi no Kyougaku / The Shock of Haruhi Suzumiya" light novel, the first in many years.
Previous announcements relating to the title, once due in 2007, always turned out to be lengthy delays, to the point that the once popular series appeared to have been abandoned, but this seems not to be the case now, as in a recent edition of The Sneaker he is described as being in the process of readying the novel.
Whilst it seems for all intents and purposes the Haruhi franchise is finished after having been driven into ground, it will be interesting to see whether Tanigawa manages a worthy continuation after so long a hiatus.
There is of course the intriguing possibility that he long ago succumbed to writer's block or totally lost interest in the series, and only now is finally having his arm twisted into finishing it, a possibility which does not bode well for the quality of future installments…


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Oz pubcasters under funding microscope
$1 bil budget increase prompts second lookSYDNEY -- Australia will conduct a two-month review of its public broadcasters before committing more than $1 billion a year in new funding for 2009, communications minister Stephen Conroy said Thursday.
The review, based on the discussion paper "The ABC and SBS: Towards a Digital Future," invites public comment on the changing roles of the Australian Broadcasting Corp. and multicultural broadcaster the Special Broadcasting Service; the implications of new technologies; and the role of the broadcasters in informing and entertaining Australians.
Issues flagged in the discussion paper include whether some operations of the ABC and SBS can be merged, particularly in the areas of transmission and distribution, and whether the ABC could raise additional revenue through pay-per-view sales of its programming online.
ABC managing director Mark Scott said that the review is "an important and timely discussion in order to secure the future of the ABC," while SBS managing director Shaun Brown said, "It is vitally important that all Australians can benefit from the advances technology can bring and that there is both ubiquity of access and participation for all Australians -- regardless of where they live or what language they speak."
The ABC receives about AUS$879 million ($588 million) a year from the government and boosts that with revenue from program sales and other commercial activity. SBS this year received AUS$191 million and is allowed to carry limited advertising, netting it another AUS$50 million a year in revenue.
SBS has asked the government for an additional AUS$70 million a year to launch a number of new digital TV and radio channels, increase its levels of local production and build online language community hubs, among other things.


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Exposure 2015: The Portrait Saturday
Jan. 31st - Feb. 17th 2015
CAG Gallery: Elevation Place 102-700 Railway Ave Canmore AB.
Upping colour or contrast has a long and honourable history. Everyone who shot Fuji Velvia was taking advantage of the film's tendency to push colour to unreal levels. Agfa film was known for its warm tones, others did nice things to skin, and even Kodachrome wasn't real, just nice, and long lasting.
In evaluating print quality, these are the factors I take a hard look at:
• Colour Printing and Paper Profiles
• Tone Transitions
• Colour Shifts Under Different Lighting
• Surface Sheen on Luster and Glossy paper
• Black and White Qualities
• Paper Handling and Printing Speed
It was early spring and I hadn't been to Fish Creek Park in a long time. It was mid afternoon, the light fairly harsh, and I didn't find anything to excite me 'til I made my way upstream and I was literally under McLeod Trail. In the shadows under the bridge and away from the heat of the sun were some ice formations, and one in particular stood out because it was lit from behind by a stray beam of sunlight sneaking under the bridge from the other side.
There is temptation looking through Louis Helbig's "Beautiful
Destruction" to get caught up in a rant that hasn't much to do with the
content of the work, and getting past that may require a second glance.
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When I picked up my Pro-1 from The Camera Store it was almost a ceremony. I welcomed some help to slide the big box into the back of my SUV. While I managed to get the sixty pound printer into the house and installed by myself, I'm reasonably big and strong. Moving and placing the printer is chancy for one person but is a snap for two, so I recommend having someone along to lend a hand.
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GLACIER BAY, ALASKA — As long as the airplane stays, we have a link to civilization. But eventually it takes off, disappearing down the long arm of frigid water and leaving 10 of us with our mound of gear.
The great indoors and all it signifies -- comfort, warmth, plumbing -- lies 50 miles southeast. A long walk, if it could be walked. An even longer trip by paddle. We will spend the next seven days on our own, kayaking the half-frozen fingers of Glacier Bay in Alaska.
This is what the new wave of tourists does for rest and relaxation. It`s called adventure travel, a path to the great outdoors for those willing to exchange a bit of comfort for wonders of nature that can`t be imagined from the window of a bus or the rail of a giant cruise ship.
We`ve been dropped off on a pebble beach at the top end of Glacier Bay`s west arm. And the first thing we have to do is put together our boats.
``The mad German jigsaw puzzle,`` one of our guides calls the tangle of kindling we wrestle together. Across these sticks we then stretch a canvas- topped, rubber-bottomed skin.
These are kleppers, collapsible open ocean kayaks modeled after Eskimo boats. They`re wider and far more stable than white-water kayaks. We`ll be spending days sitting in them with all our worldly goods, our bottoms three inches below waterline.
Few of us had ever seen, much less paddled, a kayak. So, after loading our gear (somewhat like stuffing a goose), we paddle half a mile for a shakedown cruise. Then we make camp in a patch of wild strawberries laced with thousands of flowers.
The West Coast of North America dribbles off into countless such islands and mainland fingers, many capped with ice. Glacier Bay, 70 miles northwest of Juneau, is one more set of these skinny inlets. It is home for 16 tidewater glaciers and preserved as a national park.


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Water damage- still works but shuts off
I spilt a very small amount of water on my Mac, I immediately flipped it over and then turned it off. I let it sit for a couple days, under a fan, then in a hot car. Then I took it to an apple technician (so the certificate said on his wall anyways).
He said the battery and the display were not working, and that he opened it up and cleaned it out (I'm assuming with iso propyl alcohol). I went home all depressed, and turned it on as a joke, it came on...
Weeks later, the computer still works, but after I turn it on, it will shut down after about 10-30 mins...
Is there a fan in the computer, could the water have caused some oxidation around the cooling mechanism, and it shuts off because of it's inability to keep cool?
Also it only turns on when I have it plugged in (most of the time)
the battery is still taking charge.
Everything seems to work fine, except it shutting off all the time
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Belief is a powerful thing. For all of us it is the foundational construct of how we perceive our world and move through life. I would submit that every war is fought over belief-I am right, you are wrong. It starts in our homes with trying to defend our ego so that at the end of the day we can feel good about ourselves. When it comes down to it, we all come from two places every morning; either love, which is spirit based, or fear, which is ego based. Pick the world and the results you want at the end of the day by choosing the space you get to come from. Love or fear. The beauty of life is you always have a choice. Although there is in my opinion, an age of innocence in which choice might not be an option, in life we always will have a choice. It's our greatest gift.
Some of the most free and loving people came from the most oppressed and ugly circumstance. Yet they made a choice. A choice to love and live. And that has made all the difference.
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Virtual Servers Ordering and Management System is an application which provides a user-friendly interface and a complete back-office for the companies which use virtualization technologies in their business. It can be used in numerous ways: for thin-client workplace management in big companies, for complete automation of business for virtual server hosters, and so on.
The customer addressed EffectiveSoft with the request to develop the system from scratch.
The main features requested for the future product were:
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System components
Management Server a web-application which is used to sell the second application Instance Server. The latter one which actually provides all the functionality. Management Server provides an ability to order the Instance Server and configure its options which becomes the part of the license key file.
Instance Server is a web application with user-friendly installer. It requires Microsoft SQL Server 2008, .NET 3.5 SP1, and IIS 6.0 or higher to be installed. Instance Server works with the following two business models:
Instance Server utilizes a multi-level user system. The top-user level (Service Provider) can configure the overall settings of the application:
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It took us 2 months for the both sides, the customer and EffectiveSoft, to create a detailed specification covering all necessary requirements. Once it was ready, the system architect and DB designer jointly created the functional framework of the system and overall design model.
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The European Lumia 900, which was announced at MWC earlier today (or yesterday for those GMT and beyond), is now available for interest registration at the Carphone Warehouse. The Lumia 900 is also going to be stocked at other retailers including Unlocked Mobiles, and sports a 4.3" AMOLED (with ClearBlack technology) display, 16GB storage, 8MP camera (with FF), 512MB RAM and a 1.4Ghz chip.
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Why do crabs always walk sideways?
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KnowHOW team explains: A crab's legs are attached to the side of its body, like human arms. While the human hand has multiple articulations allowing freedom of movement (shoulder, elbow, wrist and finger joints), crabs hardly have any.
Their leg joints flex only slightly in the front-rear direction, but they flex exceedingly well at right angles to it. In this respect, they are similar to fingers, which can move well up and down, but only slightly from side to side (try this with your palm facing down to mimic a crab).
The ball-and-socket joint of your hips and shoulders is a mechanical improvement that somehow never took place in crabs; they have chosen a different development path, favouring joint strength over flexibility.
They have developed an exoskeleton that protects them from predators at the expense of limiting the movement of their upper limbs.
Evolution shows that crabs with more protective exoskeletons and less leg movement are better able to survive. Thus crabs walk awkwardly, but they are apparently safer than they would have been with more flexible joints.
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Jim Cramer has high hopes for the February employment report, which the U.S. Department of Labor will release on Friday. The "Mad Money" host on Tuesday expects a "real good number."
For those who also think the U.S.'s employment picture is improving, Cramer suggests Cintas . As the U.S.'s largest uniform rental company, it stands to benefit from an uptick in hiring. The Cincinnati, Ohio-based company gets more than 90 percent of its sales from the U.S. and enjoys a 37 percent market share. McDonald's and Royal Caribbean Cruises are among its more than 90,000 customers.
In the last five months, Cintas' stock has posted a 39 percent gain. The stock closed down 1.75 percent on Tuesday, marking the first real pullback in months, Cramer said. This weakness might be the best chance to buy shares, he continued, because the stock will likely pop if Friday's employment data is strong.
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7 APRIL 2014 - The European University Center at Peking University, together with the School of
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There are now 1,645,500 people employed by local authorities in England alone. Since that figure excludes teachers, the majority of the 1.6 million are bureaucrats. Some of them appear to do very little except prevent local people from organising local services in ways that they know will improve their own communities.
Everyone will have an example of local government incompetence, inefficiency and obstructiveness. I live in the London Borough of Hackney, a local authority that for decades has been a byword for incompetence, inefficiency and obstructiveness.
One revealing example of how local authorities can interfere with, and block, the desires of ordinary people to get involved in the community concerns a neighbour of mine named Rosie Jones. Aware that there were many elderly and disabled people living in our neighbourhood who needed help, Rosie decided she would volunteer to visit some of them. Because the local authority is responsible for organising social services and welfare, that required applying to Hackney's Community Resources Team (CRT).
As a result of contacting that organisation, Rosie began visiting a woman whom I will call Gemma. She is severely disabled - she cannot walk, leave her home or even wash or feed herself without help. On paper, the CRT provides Gemma with a carer who comes in twice a day for a total of six-and-a-half hours a week. In reality, a carer - Hackney contracts out Gemma's care to a private company - appears at Gemma's home for a maximum of five minutes in the evenings and often not at all. The official papers, however, say that Gemma receives care twice a day for six-and-a-half hours a week, and CRT officials believe it.
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Prevention.com, the online counterpart to Prevention Magazine, is a community dedicated to health and wellness for women. They're looking for freelance writers to provide content for compensation. According to their website, writers can earn up to $100 per month.
In essence, it looks like they want freelance writers to maintain a blog within their community. I'm not sure how the payment works, but I'm thinking it depends on popularity and page views.
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The upside to it is that Prevention is a well-respected magazine and as a freelance writer, having your work published on their site should work for you. The downside (in my opinion) is the $100 per month limitation. While $100 a month is better than a stick in the eye, I prefer not to apply for online writing gigs that have a financial ceiling.
It's been my experience that the longer my work remains on the Internet, the more traffic it gets and the more income it earns. The $100 cap means that when the articles are good and seasoned and really ready to begin earning quite a few bucks, my earnings are capped at $100 per month.
This opportunity is good for folks looking to be published on the Internet through a reputable company, but in the long run, this freelance writing opportunity is financially limiting.


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NEW JERSEY—Prism Capital Partners LLC and The Davis Companies have team up to acquire 339 Jefferson Road, a 102,433-sq.-ft., three-story class A office building in Parsippany. Cushman & Wakefield Inc.'s Gary Gabriel brokered the deal. The transaction marks the second joint acquisition for the partnership.
Formerly known as Kingsbridge Corporate Center IV, 339 Jefferson Road was acquired from The Realty Associates Fund IV.
"There has been a resurgence of activity on Jefferson Road," said Edwin H. Cohen, principal of Prism. "It's a street that was largely vacant for a good period of time and is now very well-occupied by corporate-quality tenants."
Constructed in 1988, 339 Jefferson Road offers surface and underground parking and a three-story atrium. The building is situated on five acres and located in close proximity to Interstates 80 and 287.


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Despite organizations and policies that work to the contrary, our health in the U.S. is very much connected to our wealth. The more money in our bank account, the easier it is to buy healthier food, afford leisure time for exercise, get proper medical care and education, etc. . . We would hope that Big Food companies who claim to be in "the business of feeding American families" would be cognizant of these economic intricacies and seek to offer healthy options at affordable prices. A recent article in Reuters by Anjali Athavaley explains that the opposite may be true. In response to market trends Big Food companies are selling their junky food in smaller packages at dollar stores. Athavaley uses the example of Kraft's latest revival of Velveeta as an example:
Kraft found that shoppers on tight budgets at dollar stores were gobbling up Velveeta sauce in the affordable small size, and the food got a new lease on life."
As any economist will tell you, single serve or small packages are far less cost effective for a consumer than buying in bulk. But, any business owner would tell you that selling items in smaller packages allows for a higher cost per unit volume - a basic explanation of economies of scale. The strategy that Kraft and others have adopted hinges on this principle. By targeting shoppers in dollar stores, they effectively trick consumers into thinking they are getting a better deal, when they actually may be charging a 50% per ounce increase. Athavaley explains:
Shrinking package sizes allows Kraft to reach higher profit margins on products, though it won't sell as many as it would in a larger store. For instance, a 12-ounce package of Velveeta Shells & Cheese cost $2.50 at the a Dollar Tree store in New York City. Meanwhile, a 2.4 ounce cup cost $1.25. That's 21 cents an ounce versus 52 cents an ounce."
We might just chalk this up to a smart business strategy, but given the target population, Roberto Ferdman of the Washington Post offers this commentary on how ethically questionable their motives are:
So long as the people you're selling to are actively deciding whether or not to stock up at a discount or buy only for the week at a slight mark-up, it's just a value proposition. But it's unclear whether most of the people who shop at dollar stores have that luxury. In fact, it's doubtful."
In connected news, while consumers with little money may not have the choice to spend more to get a better deal, Fast Food companies may very well have that option. A recent study from the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass) found that fast food companies could increase their wages without incurring profit losses, bolstering recent outrage over the low wages that restaurant workers receive. The fast food industry's response has always contended that increased wages would put them out of business. Ned Resnikoff of Al Jazeera America gives a synopsis of the study's findings which argue otherwise:
The industry could absorb increased labor costs, the report contends, by reducing turnover and slightly increasing prices. Reducing turnover would theoretically increase the productivity of the employees, therefore reducing the increase in labor costs."
The question of ethics is thick here once again. Is there justice and equity in a food system that allows for big players to overcharge consumers who have few other options and underpay their workers?
Yet another reason why we continue to look for ways to improve access to healthy and affordable food!
Velveeta revives as young and poor shop dollar stores for groceries via Reuters
How big food brands are boosting profits by targeting the poor via Washington Post
A $15 U.S. Minimum Wage: How the Fast-Food Industry Could Adjust Without Shedding Jobs via Umass Amherst
Report: Fast food industry could survive $15 minimum wage via Al Jazeera America


text: A Jet Blue employee hitched a free flight from JFK Airport in NYC to Logan Airport in Boston this past weekend, after getting trapped in the cargo hold before takeoff. Police aren't charging him with a crime, but they told the Boston Globe that, "Even after talking to him, we were a little uncertain as to how it happened." He apparently called the company from the cargo hold once the plane was in the air—which is exactly what we would do to deflect suspicion in a scheme like this. Tokyo, here we come via new part-time job as a baggage handler!


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A president Trump might be bad but his vice president Mike Pence is even worse: He's one of America's most extreme anti-gay elected officials.
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The Donald will not be the worst President ever but Pence and his ilk are bottom dwellers feeding off the ignorance and superstitions of the uneducated buffoons they trick into voting for them.
On Tuesday night, the BBC reporters interviewed various seppos and two proudly told the World they were voting as the bibble told them.
It's 2016, amerika, you won't defeat fundamentalist loonies abroad when your own country is full of them !
"It's 2016, [America], you won't defeat fundamentalist loonies abroad when your own country is full of them!"
Unfortunately, that is so true.
This election wasn't about Donald winning so much as the democrats choosing the one person in their party that could lose against him and losing touch with a large segment if the country that includes folk on both the left and the right.
I hadn't heard of Jonathan Pie before this video cam across my Facebook feed, but it pretty much breaks it down better then anything I've seen (hopefully the link works): https://www.facebook.com/JonathanPieReporter/videos/1044777035645189/
Lastly, while I get what you're doing, it's not exactly easy to take someone seriously when they can't be bothered to spell the name of my country correctly… especially when the country who's flag is next to their name hasn't exactly had a voting record to be proud of recently either.
"it's not exactly easy to take someone seriously when they can't be bothered to spell the name of my country correctly"
That's because he's never learned respect: He seems to hate America (that's why he continues to disrespect anything American) and we all know HE HATES me, personally. For me, that's OK, but no intelligence points to a reasoned hate for our country and everything about it. Their [Britain's] last victory against us was the War of 1812 so they could keep Canada (and rightly so, as we don't need their land — Canada is doing just fine now and a wonderful country). But the likes of him quickly forget World War I and World War II where he wouldn't be alive today were it not for America and what we did for them during BOTH those major wars.
"especially when the country who's flag is next to their name hasn't exactly had a voting record to be proud of recently either."
Exactly … but he refuses to accept normal reasoning (and their own history).
ignorance is no excuse…
was broadcast in 1987 on ABC, it is a, widely used, shorthand guys?
And aren't you actually the United States of America?
So forgive 'us' for using an acronym you guys came up with first…
And what is so wrong with Hilary? She won the popular vote, not helped by that ridiculous, fabricated (?), scandal put up by the FBI?
Look at her performance on Tyler Oakley's channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwY74h3Mujk
she seems 'real' enough.
See also Michael Moore's 'Moore in Trumpland'.
Hilary, who has given her adult life to public service (living with Bill can't always have been easy), was undermined by the drip drip of constant bad 'unbiased' press.
The Electoral College system is clearly broken, it gave us George W, now it has given us The Donald:
President Elect Trump has lied, left a trail of broken businesses behind him (his four casinos, his airline, several buildings), abused women, and has, to say the least, very odd feelings about his daughter's sexuality…
Ultimately you guys have voted for a plausible(?) buffoon, who appears in court on 28 November ('Crooked Trump?' anyone?). He might not live out his term, and the rest of the world waits to see what happens. Trump probably doesn't have to depend on 'Obamacare'; which for the first time, though inadequately, tried to give adequate healthcare to citizens of one of the richest countries in the world; healthcare which most of the US's allies provide to all their citizens as a matter of course.
Believe me, most of the rest of the world loves the USA, even if we don't always understand the voting decisions you make (and as you point out we don't always make good decisions ourselves). We hope you have made the right decision about your new president, and hope we all survive the next four years.
Oh and regarding WW1 and WW2, which you did join in with, eventually, we paid our debts back to you for those two wars during the last few years. Yes we (the UK) really had to pay you for those wars, check out the figures. It was a really good investment, but kept us in a subservient position to you for a very long time.
"Congress had not authorized the gift of supplies delivered after the cutoff date, so the U.S. charged for them, usually at a 90% discount. Large quantities of undelivered goods were in Britain or in transit when Lend-Lease terminated on 2 September 1945. Britain wished to retain some of this equipment in the immediate post war period. In 1946, the post-war Anglo-American loan further indebted Britain to the U.S. Lend-Lease items retained were sold to Britain at 10% of nominal value, giving an initial loan value of £1.075 billion for the Lend-Lease portion of the post-war loans. Payment was to be stretched out over 50 annual payments, starting in 1951 and with five years of deferred payments, at 2% interest.[67] The final payment of $83.3 million (£42.5 million), due on 31 December 2006 (repayment having been deferred in the allowed five years and during a sixth year not allowed), was made on 29 December 2006 (the last working day of the year). After this final payment Britain's Economic Secretary to the Treasury formally thanked the U.S. for its wartime support."
excerpt from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lend-Lease#Repayment
As I understand it you still own considerable chunks of our country, in the form of military bases, over which you have total control, and we have very little jurisdiction. But if you asked the great majority of UK people (I hesitate to use the subject/citizen terminology), they would still continue to express gratitude and friendship towards the USA.
PS. Most presidents seem to grey during their presidency.
Do you suppose president elect Trump will stop dying his hair?
Trump is a dick.
Pence is evil.
At the risk of upsetting Pen, Jesus said, "love God, and love your neighbour; there is no commandment greater than these". He suggested you obeyed the original 10 commandments, which underlie the laws of most countries.
All the rest 'is details'.
Jesus, had nothing to say about gays. If anything he said '"Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?"
I guess he wasn't a Pence sort of guy…
Rachel Maddow, "righteous dude".
We are going to need more of her, and her colleagues, over the next few years.
Trump and Pence are terrific. You show your nature when you support a baby killer like Hillary.
A misogynistic, child rapist, racketeering, con-man like Trump is terrific? Trump and Pence are terrific in the sense that he is what the Republicans deserve after all the dirty politics they have been playing, unfortunately the country is going to suffer for their mis-deeds.


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great hiking travel shoeVerified Buyer Reviewed by Wear the Fox Hat! from Happy Jack Az and international on Friday, May 11, 2018Great shoes right out of the box. Comfortable, light and with the approach style lacing, very adjustable. I bought these for travel shoes and are wonderful for that. Can handle everything from airports, taxi's, planes and trains, along with city walking and of course hikes outside the cities. Although, you want to pay attention if walking on wet smooth surfaces and the tongues seem to be just a bit long, but overall very good shoe. You will not be disappointed.
Love it!!Verified Buyer Reviewed by Daniel P. from Colorado on Thursday, January 11, 2018Very comfortable, high-quality material, versatile, and stylish enough for casual wear.
five starsVerified Buyer Reviewed by Russ from Seattle on Monday, November 13, 2017These are my second pair of these because they fit my foot perfectly and I use inserts which work real well in them. The first pair I wore down to the foam on the soles and they were still going, not even leaking. I only buy Asolo boots and hiking shoes due to their performance, fit and being well made.
Narrower that other AsoloVerified Buyer Reviewed by Turf1996 from Virginia on Wednesday, November 8, 2017Nice workmanship, the body— wise near mid arch is narrower than the other 5 pairs of Asolo that I have or currently own.
I have wore them about 3 weeks and they are slowly becoming more flexible in the sole.
Best all around shoes I've ownedReviewed by Bandits from Tennessee on Sunday, October 29, 2017I wore these shoes casually for 2 years and they are great, sturdy for hiking & technical approach, and also great for wearing casually.
Then I wore them almost every day for a year, working in the woods.
after 3 years, the soles are worn through but the entire uppers are still in great shape, and still waterproof.
I've bought a pair for my brother & father in law, and am ordering a 2nd pair for myself finally.
I ordered 1/2 size smaller than my normal size and they fit great, my feet are normal width.
Great light hiking shoesVerified Buyer Reviewed by John S from Madison, WI on Thursday, October 5, 2017This is my second pair, and right out of the box I hiked 14 miles in them yesterday, with no discomfort and full confidence in their grip on the trail, and their support of my foot. I'll be sad if or when the maker discontinues these.
The long laceable section allows me to snug them to the unique shape of my foot; the suede uppers hide scuffs; the Gore-Tex moisture protection really works; the soles are grippy without being clunky.
I was able to buy my first pair from STP for many dollars less than this latest pair, but even at more than $100, these are a great value.
Very niceVerified Buyer Reviewed by Paul from Mountains of North Carolina on Saturday, September 30, 2017This shoe is no only good looking but a true fit and comfortable for hiking or everyday use. The full lacing provides a custom fit.
Very well made, but a couple potential issuesReviewed by PH3 1314 from Pocono Mts, PA on Wednesday, September 6, 2017These shoes are really well made, with lots of attention to detail in the pattern, design, materials, etc., and worth trying, even at the relatively high price for STP. However, there are two issues, which others have already pointed out: (1) the shoe is somewhat tight at the front, at the widest part of the foot, even after loosening the laces there; (2) the sole and insole combination used are quite hard, with almost no padding or arch support. (There is a little curve in the sole design that provides a little support that would be OK for those not needing much). For these reasons had to return them. But I would have gone larger if they had that size, and tried them with another insole, with more cushion and arch support. Re: sizing - I tried these in my baseline 'sneaker' size (1/2 size up from dress shoe size) and they still were too tight in the front.
The skinniest shoes I've ever tried on!Verified Buyer Reviewed by RussRuss from Montana on Tuesday, August 29, 2017I don't know how these fit anyone. They are so skinny, I could barely get my feet in them. Horrible fitting shoes!
Nice, ButVerified Buyer Reviewed by Gar from Rhode Island on Thursday, August 24, 2017Nice looking shoe. Very grippy and great for scrambling up a stream bed with rounded rocks where the flexible foot bed and sticky lug sole does seem to allow for good grip; but not sure what else it is good for. Was attracted by the design and the knowledge that climbing shoes and good approach shoes have stiff toes which I need just for walking. Yes it is a striking shoe; but not stiff in the toe and the lug sole, which was fine for me, would also make it useless for climbing (my son is a climber). So at least a good walking shoe I thought, but no. The foundation transmits everything, so you feel the lugs pressing into your feet with each step. Hope mine are defective and this is just a mistake; but they fit so well as is, not sure they were not designed this way. Not good for climbing, so so for walking. Even worse for hiking on difficult terrain.
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"I have waited months for 2/ size 13.
Are you not reordering this model?
When will size 13 be in?"
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"Can you use them with an an orthotic?"
I don't know. I suspect you can depending upon the fit/size and the type of device you want to use. It is a low cut shoe. I still like the shoe now as much as when I made the purchase.
I use Pedag Viva Sport Semi-Rigid Orthotic for Impact Sports with Met Pad and Heel Cushion in mine. They fit fine. The 9 eyelets and position of the shoes allows loosening or tightening to accommodate orthotics, thicker or thinner socks, etcetera. these are my favorite shoes. I have two pairs had them for 6 months and wear them about 3-4 times a week.
"I usually wear a 91/2. They don't have my size.
Would a 9 or 10 work in these shoes?"
I would go with the 10. I find them to run close to size. Some other shoes I've purchased at the same time ran a little big to my thinking. These also can be adjusted very tight (smaller) if needed by the lace configuration. Good luck!
I think 9 would be too tight. They are sized pretty right but you never know.
I have 2 pair and they are wonderful shoes however they are a bit on the small side so I would opt for the 10
Try the 10. The 9 is a little tight. Great shoe. I wore it all over Italy. No blisters.
"I love the look of these - and my feet run narrow - but I am a woman and wonder how the men's sizes translate to women's sizes - I wear an 8 women's - any idea what that would be in a men's size?
I bought the men's size, and they fit me perfectly, with a solid M or "D" width. From my past as a shoe salesman I know that women's feet are narrower than men's, so I suspect that if you bought a men's size you'd find them to be too wide, since, as you say, you have a narrow foot. Women with wide feet and/or short toes can often get away with a men's size, but I don't think this would be a good gamble for you. LOVE these shoes.
I ordered several pair of the men's size 13. They fit well with my wide feet. My wife has also ordered a pair of woman's that fit well. If you have a narrow foot, I would suggest ordering a woman's size as the men's may be too wide since they accommodate my wide feet.
"Has anyone bought the red? Is it actually red or the burnt orange color that it shows in my monitor"
I've bought (and am wearing) the red. They are in fact red, not orange as photo shows. I'm no color theorist, but I wouldn't call them 'fire red', as the product page does, but rather a slightly duller, darker (burnt...?) red.
(for what it's worth, I like the color)
They are red.
actually red. comfortable. nice
Solid red.
"Is the tongue gusseted?"
Yes, the tongue is gusseted.
Yes, the tongue is gusseted, but the gusset stops at the 6th eyelet (counting from the toe, up.
The tongue is gusseted about half way up. On my size 14's, that's about 3" gusseted and 3" not. Since they're always laced up tight for support I'm not worried about small rocks and I don't wade through streams in them so waterproofing is not an issue. They have proven to be excellent shoes for my moderate hiking and casual wear. Another question was if they're any good for climbing. I don't know but they've been fine for me on ~35 degree approaches with small loose rocks.
"Has anyone actually climbed in these? How do they perform?"
These are not designed for use in climbing. According to the product overview tab: Vibram® Tenere rubber outsole provides dependable traction on all terrain
Climbing, like scrambling? I would rank these like a higher quality gym shoe. For hiking and scrambles, I would get boots. These are light duty at best. That being said, they are comfortable.
I have climbed some 5-6 but mostly I use them for hikingrugged terrain, and the performed very good,
"For a trail shoe like this, should there be a little extra room in the toe?"
The extensive lace system seems to make the shoes infinitely adjustable. I wear mine in all types of situations and have played with the laces quite a bit to get the perfect fit, so loosening them up at the toe makes room, while tightening them up higher secures the rest of your foot nicely. I've really enjoyed these shoes.
Not quite sure how to answer . However, size 11's almost always fit me well. These Asolos in size eleven are a perfect fit with plenty of room in the box toe, even if I wear a second pair of light duty socks.
I have a wide foot, especially across the ball of the foot, and find these shoes roomy enough. I take a size 9-1/2 or 10 depending one the manufacturer. On these I ordered a 9-1/2 and returned them for a 10 to get more room.
I believe so. I ordered a half size larger then usual as most shoes and boots I wear have a boxier toe. .
For me, I use shoes like this while we are in camp in remote areas, holding clinic, and are not going to be doing much hiking or walking around very far. So, I usually do not use them with extremely thick socks (unless in a very cold climate). I'm usually wearing mid-weight socks, and these shoes work fine for that. If you need a shoe (as I do) where you can be versatile, then yes, you do need extra room, but of course the definition of "extra" can be different for different folks. I've used Asolo boots for well over 30 years, and have never been disappointed. The Asolo company is an old company in Romania that started many years ago by making hand-made boots for mountain use. They were so well made, and durable that eventually they became more and more popular, and the company has spread it's wings now to pretty much all over the world. These shoes are definitely good for hikes and everyday use also. Since they are light weight, they are travel friendly. I go from over 15,000 ft in the Himalayas and Andes, to the jungles of Bangladesh and Burma, and other places; these shoes are versatile enough for me. The usual test for size in packing boots, and trail shoes are when you put them on, with the socks you're usually wearing on trips/hikes, you sit down in a chair, and tap the toe of the shoe on the floor -- your toe should not hit the end of the shoe, unless you tap really hard. If your toe barely touches the toe of the shoe, that can be OK too, but don't wear the really thick socks with those shoes/boots. Hope this helps.
My understanding is for approaches toe room is good. For basic trail, I think its a personal decision about comfort on the trail and what kind of trail hiking you do and so forth. I typically buy approach shoes because I like the feel of the approach shoes more so than most trail shoes but wuth the Asolo Mantra I sent one pair back and ordered a 1/2 size smaller. I am a size 11 but most of my shoes I buy are approach shoes in 11.5 and they usually fit and feel perfect. The Mantra felt too long to me in 11.5 and the 11 is just perfect. I said in an earlier review that I have a standard wide foot and for me,, most shoes are too narrow in the 11 and when I upsize to 11.5 it works out width-wise as long as the shoes doesn't run on the long side with too much toe room or heel room. The Mantra shoes are very precise and just enough width for me to feel a tiny bit snug in. Not my preferred feel but when I get them on the trail they perform and feel like a class act. Love em. Didn't love em at first but after a couple of outings I certainly want to wear them often...and they are super nice looking shoe. I don't want to wear them in the mud for fear they will lose there pizzazziness. Lol.
My feet are a tad bit wide and sometimes buy wide width. These shoes feel fine and do not pinch my feet. I also wear hiking socks.. I recommend these shoes for hiking in wet conditions. I would not recommend them for trail running. For trail running I prefer shoes with much more support.
"Do these run true to size?"
Yes they do. They are not large for size... I have had mine for a while now. I wear a women's size ten and generally a men's 8 1/2 or 9 and these were perfect and very comfortable. I walk a lot, and wanted some good looking shoes. I love them.
Yes they fit true for me. I think I ordered 1/2 sz larger than my usual "dress shoe" size, which is what I always do for trail or running shoes, and they're perfect.
My feet run between 13 and 14, so size is always a problem. Because the Mantra GV has a zillion laces, practically to the toe. That gives you max flexibility in adjusting the fit. I like the shoe because it is super light weight, water proof and tough. i bought a second pair so I can keep going when the 1st gives out.
Yes, I normally wear 13 M to W shoes. The Asolo 13M fits well and is very comfortable for me for walking, which is why I purchased. In fact, I bought a second pair.
yes they do. not owning this brand before i am quite pleased with every thing about these shoes. i will buy asolo again.
these run very true to size. they are absolutely great shoes


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I have been led to believe that in many common rail diesel systems, fuel rail depressurisation at engine shut-down is accomplished by pulsing the injector with a very short pulse, sufficient for the valve in the injector servo chamber to open and close (expelling fuel out the injector spill/return line), but with a duration so short that it does not cause the injector needle to lift and inject fuel - i.e. servo is shut before inertia takes effect etc - sort of like PWM.
I was just wondering if anyone has ever observed this on a scope, or whether it happens so fast that the process is finished by the time the engine has stopped rotating - indeed are injectors prevented from firing by a safety interlock unless there is rotation sensed?
Also I am a little confused by earlier posts on injection voltage. I understand that voltages on the two injector lines should be measured relative to ground rather than to each other - is it the case that on opening, wire A is pulsed 50V positive relative to B, and then pulsed 50V negative relative to B to close it? Is this negative voltage just recovery of the collapsing mag field to be held in a capacitor for the next quick field formation stage, or is the injector explicitly driven through a 100V peak to peak, 50 volts either side of mid-way, or what?
I appreciate any clarification or experience people have had on either of these two points.


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Mercedes-Benz builds an 'invisible' car
Have you seen the Mercedez-Benz that runs on hydrogen?
The answer could be yes and no.
The German automaker has wrapped one of its F-Cell hydrogen fuel-cell powered cars with an "invisibility cloak" to highlight the small impact that it says the car has on the environment, as it emits only water vapor out of its exhaust.
To achieve the visual effect, one side of the F-Cell was covered with strips of LED lights to create a video display fed by images from cameras mounted on the other side, creating the illusion that you can see through the car, even when it's moving. It's a technology similar to that being tested for use on military vehicles.
The cloak reportedly cost about $250,000 to create and won't be heading to showrooms anytime soon, but a small test fleet of the car underneath it is already on the road in Europe and California.
Essentially an electric car that replaces the heavy, slow to charge battery pack with a high-tech fuel cell that generates electricity through the chemical process of combining hydrogen and oxygen to create water, the F-Cell can be filled up from a hydrogen pump as quickly as a gasoline-powered car and has a range of 240 miles.
The F-Cell is available for lease only at a price of $850 per month, roughly the same as a $60,000 car would cost.


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Writing code for the Penguin is quite easy. First, the servo center and tilt/stride limits are set and written to EEPROM using the Penguin-ServoCalibration.bpx program. Subsequent programs use the values stored in EEPROM, making it easy to share Penguin code without having to adjust servo PULSOUT constants in each program.
Sensors are added into the subroutines, and a direction of travel is executed by assigning a value to the WALK variable (forward, back, left or right). Sensors are monitored between walking movements, without the headache of linking walking movements being handled by the rest of the PBASIC program.
The Penguin robot performs best on your desk or other hard surfaces. It is not designed for long-distance adventuring across thick carpet, but a tight, low-pile carpet is an acceptable walking surface. The Penguin's electronics are fully assembled and wired to an assortment of sensors and output devices.
Penguin Features:
- BS2px24 module chipset
- CNC-machined 6061 aluminum parts available in black, red, blue or nickel
- Hitachi HM55B Digital Compass sensor
- (2) photoresistors for light following/avoidance
- (2) infrared emitters and an infrared receiver for object detection or remote control using the Parallax infrared remote control
- Blue seven-segment LED for feedback
- (2) micro servos for tilt and stride
- Piezospeaker in body underneath battery pack
- Expansion port for the Ping))) Ultrasonic Sensor, Parallax RF Modules or other input/output components
- Power switch located adjacent to battery pack
- FTDI 232RL mini USB programming port
- (2) CR123 batteries for 6V power supply (included)
- Blue power indicator LED


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Oh, where to begin?
Oh, where to begin?
After all, when one writes of Anne Waldman, so much is to be said that there really aren't "beginnings," but more what seems like continual evolutionary/revolutionary cycles of her art and humanity. There are her beginnings as a poet, writer, performer and political activist, dating back to 1960. She was raised and brought up in Greenwich Village and studied at Bennington College. From her first appearance on the poetry scene she was, and still is, a force to be reckoned with.
It is admirable when poets can build bridges where bridges hadn't been built before. Anne Waldman is a builder of bridges.
For far too many years, we have heard so many criticisms and controversies over what is "the real poetry." Academics are harsh on the performance-based poets and the performance poets, in turn, lash back at the academics with their own harsh reactionary words.
Waldman is a poet who was very close friends with the great Allen Ginsberg. As a matter of fact, Ginsberg referred to Waldman as his "spiritual wife." Growing up in the '60s in Greenwich Village at a time when the Beat poets were at their height, Anne came along as the "next generation," as all the good poets also help the newer poets on the scene advance. Waldman was performing her poetry, and Ginsberg and others, such as poet Kenneth Koch [corrected], encouraged her to continue.
But her poetry, and this is important, works well on the page as well as the stage. Though she's a performance poet, her process of composition is all about the page, following her poetic values based on the New York and Black Mountain schools of poetry, both stressing the philosophies of writing employed by the late poet Ezra Pound. The result of this performance poet also staying focused on the page led to her being named one of the chancellors of the Academy of American Poets. The arguments over the "real poetry" take a hit on both sides, leaving both sides of the line silent, with more time now to write and express creativity.
Waldman and Ginsberg started the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University in Colorado, which bases its teachings and teaching styles on Buddhism. Waldman herself is Buddhist, which is somewhat evident in her book and CD titles. Her newest poetry CD is titled The Milk of Universal Kindness. Waldman creates this with her son, musician Ambrose Bye, with the poetry put to music. It is hard to describe the music other than to call it world music, which has elements of jazz, blues, alternative and New Age.
Then again, Waldman's poetry is hard to describe as well. It is performance, but it certainly isn't Slam poetry, nor is it Spoken Word. What it is, is some of the most imaginative poetry you'll ever read or listen to. Her range of topics and themes exemplify her vast and vivid imagination, expressing herself on Feminism, Politics, Buddhist Wisdom, Mythology, her own "personal mythology," the rights of the Gay, Lesbian and Transgendered, and environmental issues, speaking out against Patriarchy and poverty. She is a poet who speaks for those who sometimes cannot speak for themselves. And this is true of her poetry whether on CD or in book form.
Waldman has been working on a career-long project, writing the next great American epic. Come to think of it, what was the last great American epic? Moby-Dick? Perhaps more recently Charles Olson's The Maximus Poems, which is better known amongst poets and bookworms than those outside those circles.
Anne Waldman has traveled the world and won awards in several countries, and even wrote her "signature poem," "Fast Speaking Woman," as a chant meant to worship the Divine Feminine, out of the tradition of Mazatec medicine woman Maria Sabina, discoverer of the psychedelic mushroom.
Well known inside and outside of traditional academic circles as well as amongst the other poets and bookworms, it's hard not to hear Waldman with or without a mic, and is probably America's foremost "poet of the people." She has finally finished her career-long epic project, and Coffee House Press has published The IOVIS Trilogy, Colors in the Mechanism of Concealment. This epic is anti-Patriarch and its warmongering and employs Waldman's lifelong experiences with the Divine Feminine in creating her own personal mythology. Anne also expounds on her Buddhist wisdom, political and societal values as well as personal relationships. How she weaves all these together into the trope of the epic is what makes this book America's new Great Epic.
All of Anne Waldman's books and CDs spanning 50-plus years are available on-line. Other than the CD The Milk of Universal Kindness and the new book IOVIS, some of her other great titles are Fast Speaking Woman, In the Room of Never Grieve: New & Selected Poems 1985–2003, Kill or Cure, Skin Meat Bones, Journals and Dreams, Sun the Blonde Out and Marriage: A Sentence, to name only a few. She is the two-time winner of the International Poetry Championship Bout in Taos, NM, and the Dylan Thomas Memorial Award, The Poets Foundation Award, The National Literary Anthology Award, National Endowment for the Arts grants, The Poetry Society of America's Shelley Memorial Award, a Foundation for Contemporary Arts grant, a Civitella Ranieri Center fellow, has had an Atlantic Center for the Arts residency, and is a fellow of The Emily Harvey Foundation in Venice.
She is respected the world over as a poet, no matter what circles she travels in on any given day, depending on which of her many ongoing projects she is working on in the moment. She has never slowed down over the years in her writing, politics or political activism. Our region is fortunate to have her as a faculty member of the New England College MFA in Poetry program in Henniker, NH.
Here I am nearing the end of this column and I still don't know if I've even begun on writing this piece. Maybe that's because Waldman herself never stops. She's hard to keep up with. She is so active in writing, teaching, political activism, putting her poetry to music with her son, giving performances and recording, celebrating the Divine Feminine and imparting Buddhist wisdom in raising our communal consciousness. She is America's foremost active poet and cultural guru.
Buy her books and CDs, Reading and listening to them just could be life-changing because she is not a poet trying to make history – she is trying to change it.
Joe Gouveia hosts The Poets Corner radio show at WOMR 92.1-FM Provincetown, and on-line at www.womr.org every Thursday from 12:45 to 1 p.m. The website also offers archived podcasts of past shows. Joe Gouveia & Barry Hellman co-host The Poets Corner open mic at the Cultural Center of Cape Cod, South Yarmouth, the last Thursday of every month at 7 p.m.
Matriot Acts, Act I [History of Mankind]
by Anne Waldman
you no longer believe in anything
movement of train, mauve wavesgrammar's anomie gets you down or
war at the back and crown of head
PsyOps, o chicken little the sky! the sky!
o the fallen sky an edge of bluehanging but
still breathing those colors?
a garden broken & restored many times
how often trying to leave it, bend away
words from that beautiful throat
listen or break or oscillate or
clamor as opposed to "read about"
could you be my model human beingup there on the dais?
o you, she...maybe he's the one
& we came back from the cinemaglow behind our tears
and you saying a woman, a woman!
how tragic to be such slender thread of a womanwhere was I being led?
more people thick in spacein constant motion twisted around a clock
solar wind, solar heat, sociable matrix
it's an atavistic mixed-up dreamand stirs the branches high in Freedom Park
it was the voice of a desultory fragment
of speech now, talking about "state" and "union"
how darkness turns at the wrist


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