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Movado planned to extend its existing product line beyond watches into office and personal accessories, luggage and leather goods. There was serious concern that this expansion could dilute and erode its core brand.Solution>
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TDO developed "The Legend of the Museum Watch", a coffee table brochure for watch buyers. The brochure revisited the history of the design, articulating Bauhaus philosophy and its long museum collection heritage.Results>
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The piece solidified the roots of the Movado brand in the minds of buyers. "The Legend" brochure was published in seven languages and distributed worldwide. It was accepted into the permanent collection of The Cooper Hewitt Museum (Smithsonian). TDO words and images were extended across all forms of Movado communications forming the cornerstone of the Movado brand for over ten years.
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At Loyola, Freshman Class Size Plunges
As Loyola University New Orleans gears up for fall classes next month, the 101-year-old Jesuit University faces a crisis: There will be 25% fewer freshmen than the school had banked on.
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nodules are growths or lumps in the
thyroid gland in the front of your neck. This
gland controls how your body uses energy. Most thyroid nodules are not cancer
and do not cause problems. Many don't even need treatment.
Sometimes a thyroid nodule can cause problems. Sometimes a nodule can
make too much
thyroid hormone. When a nodule makes too much hormone,
the rest of the gland is suppressed and actually doesn't work as hard as
Most thyroid nodules are not cancerous. But if tests show cancer, surgery will be done to remove the nodule.
It is not clear what causes thyroid nodules. But
people who have been exposed to radiation have a greater chance of getting
them. Also, the nodules tend to run in families. So if your parents had thyroid
nodules, you are more likely to have one.
Most thyroid nodules are so small that you
don't even know you have one.
If you have a big nodule, you may
be able to feel it, or you may notice swelling in your neck. It's possible that
you may also:
Most people don't find thyroid nodules on their own,
because the nodules aren't easy to feel and don't usually cause symptoms. Your
doctor may have found a nodule on your thyroid when you were having a
CT scan or
ultrasound for another reason. Your doctor will do a
physical exam and will ask you if you have symptoms or any changes in how
you've been feeling.
You may have tests to see how well your
thyroid is working and to make sure the nodule is not cancer. Possible tests
If your nodule is not cancer (benign) and is not causing
problems, your doctor will watch your nodule closely for any changes. But if the nodule is large or causing problems with swallowing or breathing, you'll need surgery to remove the nodule.
If your
thyroid nodule is causing hyperthyroidism, your doctor may recommend a dose of
radioactive iodine, which usually comes in a liquid that you swallow. Or your
doctor may have you take medicine (antithyroid pills) to slow
down the hormone production. In some cases, surgery may be done to remove an overactive thyroid nodule.
If your nodule
is cancer (malignant),
you'll need surgery to remove the nodule. You may also need treatment with
radioactive iodine to destroy any leftover cancer cells. After surgery, you may
need to take thyroid medicine for the rest of your life.
Learning about thyroid nodules:
Being diagnosed:
Getting treatment:
Ongoing concerns:
Living with thyroid nodules:
Experts don't know the exact cause
thyroid nodules. But they do know that people who have
been exposed to radiation have a greater chance of developing thyroid nodules.
Exposure to environmental radiation or past
radiation treatment to the head, neck, and chest
(especially during childhood) raises your risk for thyroid nodules.
Experts know that thyroid nodules run in families. This means you are
more likely to have a thyroid nodule if one of your parents has had a thyroid
Also, if you have another thyroid condition (such as
goiter), you may have a greater chance of developing
thyroid nodules.
thyroid nodules do not cause symptoms and are so small
that you cannot feel them. They often are found during a physical exam or when
another test, such as a
CT scan or
ultrasound, is done for a different reason.
If your thyroid nodule is big, you may be able to feel it or you may
notice that your neck is swollen. In rare cases, you may also:
thyroid nodules do not cause problems and are not
cancerous. They are often hard to notice because they are so small. Lots of
people have thyroid nodules that are never found or treated.
There are three kinds of thyroid nodules: solid nodules, nodules that are
filled with fluid (cystic nodules), and nodules that are partially cystic. You
can have one thyroid nodule or several thyroid nodules (multinodular
goiter). You can also have some nodules that are solid
and some that are cystic. Solid nodules may grow slowly over time. In rare
cases, cystic nodules bleed, which can cause them to grow suddenly and become
Thyroid nodules usually do not prevent the
thyroid gland from doing its job. But sometimes a noncancerous thyroid nodule
can cause:
About 5 to 10 out of 100 thyroid nodules are cancer.1Thyroid cancer is
usually diagnosed and treated early, so most people do very well. For more
information, see the topic
Thyroid Cancer.
You are more likely to
develop a thyroid nodule if:
Call your doctor if you have
any of these signs of
thyroid nodules:
If you have had part of your
thyroid gland removed because of noncancerous thyroid
nodules, you will need regular medical checkups to make sure your thyroid gland
is working well.
Different types of health
professionals can help treat a thyroid problem.
Your doctor may also refer you to an
endocrinologist for further tests and
If you need a special exam or treatment, you may see
one of these types of doctors:
To prepare for your appointment, see the topic Making the Most of Your Appointment.
The first step in diagnosing
thyroid nodules is a
medical history and
physical exam. Thyroid nodules often are found during
a physical exam or during a
CT scan or
ultrasound of the neck, chest, or head done for
another problem. Most people do not find thyroid nodules on their own, because
they are difficult to feel and usually do not cause symptoms.
your doctor finds a thyroid nodule, he or she may refer you to an
endocrinologist for more tests and treatment.
Common tests for people with thyroid nodules are:
Other tests you may have include:
If your
nodule is not cancerous, your doctor will see you regularly to monitor the size of your nodule. He or she
may do other tests, such as checking your
thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) levels or doing a thyroid
ultrasound. If your nodule grows, other tests or surgery may be needed.
your thyroid gland was removed because of cancer, your doctor may test for
thyroglobulin, a protein made by both normal and cancerous cells. High levels
of thyroglobulin may mean that the cancer has spread (metastasized) to other
parts of your body.
Your treatment will depend on how
thyroid nodule affects you. If your thyroid nodule is
not cancerous (benign) and is not causing any problems, your doctor will watch
the nodule closely before doing anything else. If your thyroid nodule is
causing problems, you may need to take medicine or have surgery.
Antithyroid medicine and radioactive iodine can treat benign nodules that
are causing your thyroid gland to make too many hormones (hyperthyroidism). For more information on
hyperthyroidism, see the topic
Surgery is usually only
necessary if your thyroid nodule is so large that it causes problems with
breathing or swallowing or if your nodule is cancerous. After a cancerous
nodule is surgically removed, you may need radioactive iodine to destroy any
thyroid tissue or cancer cells that are still causing problems. If you need to
have your entire thyroid gland removed, you will need to take thyroid hormone
medicine for the rest of your life.
For information about thyroid
cancer and its treatment, see the topic
Thyroid Cancer.
When you know you have a
thyroid nodule, your treatment options include:
part or all of your thyroid gland needs to be surgically removed because of
radioactive iodine may be used to destroy any thyroid
tissue or cancer cells that remain after surgery.
If you have a thyroid
If your
thyroid nodule gets bigger, your doctor may recommend
fine-needle aspiration to see whether the nodule has become
cancerous. If your nodule has become cancerous or appears to be cancerous, your
doctor will probably recommend surgery (thyroidectomy)
to remove some or all of your thyroid gland. You may also need
radioactive iodine.
Thyroid nodules
cannot be prevented.
The American Thyroid Association recommends that all adults be tested beginning at age 35 and continuing every 5 years.2 But after reviewing all of the research, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) has not recommended for or against routine thyroid testing.3 Some other groups suggest that people who are high-risk—women older than 60 and anyone who has a family history of thyroid disease or who has other autoimmune diseases—may want to be screened.4 Talk to your doctor about whether you need to be tested for thyroid problems.
thyroid nodules aren't cancerous. Many thyroid
nodules don't need medical treatment. If you have a thyroid nodule that is
being watched, schedule regular medical checkups to see whether there are any
If you have had surgery to remove your thyroid gland, it
is important to:
If you have had radioactive iodine treatment for thyroid
nodules, call your doctor if:
iodine is sometimes used to treat
hyperthyroidism in people who have noncancerous
thyroid nodules.
If a nodule is noncancerous
but is producing too much thyroid hormone, causing
hyperthyroidism, antithyroid medicines may be used
before radioactive iodine treatment. For more information on treating
hyperthyroidism, see the topic
Surgery (thyroidectomy) is the best treatment for
thyroid nodules that are:
People who develop thyroid nodules after receiving
radiation treatment to the head, neck, or chest are
more likely to need surgery because their risk for developing thyroid cancer is
greater. But most nodules in people who have had radiation therapy are not
For information about thyroid cancer and its
treatment, see the topic
Thyroid Cancer.
Thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) suppression therapy may be given to shrink noncancerous thyroid nodules. This uses medicines
such as levothyroxine (for example, Synthroid, Levoxyl, or Levothroid),
liothyronine (for example, Cytomel), liotrix (Thyrolar), or desiccated
thyroid (for example, Armour Thyroid).
It is not clear how well
thyroid-stimulating hormone suppression therapy works to shrink noncancerous
thyroid nodules. If you have a noncancerous nodule, talk to your doctor about
whether TSH suppression therapy is right for you.
TSH suppression
therapy can raise your risk of heart and bone problems, especially if you have
heart disease or
osteoporosis. If you have heart disease, this kind of
medicine can make chest pain or problems with your heart rhythm worse. It can
also raise your chances of
heart attack. If you have osteoporosis, TSH
suppression therapy can further weaken your bones.
Hypothyroidism (too little thyroid
hormone) occurs in some people after being
treated with radioactive iodine for thyroid nodules.
For this reason, your doctor will check your thyroid hormone levels regularly
after you have this treatment.
If a thyroid nodule is not
cancerous but is making too much thyroid hormone, causing
hyperthyroidism, antithyroid medicines may be used
before radioactive iodine treatment. For more information on treating
hyperthyroidism, see the topic
The American Academy of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck
Surgery (AAO-HNS) is the world's largest organization of physicians dedicated
to the care of ear, nose, and throat (ENT) disorders. Its Web site includes
information for the general public on ENT disorders.
The American Thyroid Association promotes scientific and public
understanding of thyroid disorders. It publishes a monthly journal and manages
a Web site.
The Hormone Health Network is a nonprofit organization
started by the Endocrine Society. The organization promotes the prevention,
treatment, and cure of hormone-related conditions through public outreach and
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Organize Firefox Favorites with Samfind Bookmarks Bar
I use the bookmarks toolbar in Firefox to organize the sites that I most commonly visit. It's useful to have them all in a drop-down menu that I can scroll through instead of navigating through the bookmarks folder. I even use Open All in Tabs, to read my webcomics every day.
At the same time, I know people who are very sensitive about making the best use of their toolbar space. For those folks, there's Samfind Bookmarks Bar, a free Firefox extension that replaces your toolbar bookmarks with favicons, allows toolbar access to your favorite social networks, and groups your favorite pages into categories that you define.
The beauty of a well-customized bookmarks toolbar is that you can get easy access to all of your sites and services with a few clicks, and without having to open multiple tabs and type in the URL for each service. Samfind claims that the bookmarks toolbar in Firefox is "obsolete," and while that's probably an overblown statement, the extension does add some useful functionality that you would otherwise have to manually tweak Firefox's preferences to get.
Samfind crams a lot of features into a small space. For that reason, some people who prefer a clean-looking toolbar may not like it, but the space savings over bookmark folders and toolbar items is easy to see. Once you have Samfind installed, you can customize which services the tool hooks into, what bookmarks are displayed in the toolbar, and which search engines the tool's built-in search uses. First, you can add bookmarks to the toolbar in the form of favicons only, instead of the Firefox default which is a favicon and a text description.
Additionally, Samfind allows you to create "folders" where you can store multiple sites of the same category. For example, if you have multiple sites you check for news on a daily basis, you can create a category for it and drag all of your favorite news sites into it. This way you don't take up precious toolbar space with each individual link. Frankly, this isn't much different than using bookmark toolbar folders, which you can already do in Firefox.
However, how Samfind treats your toolbar bookmarks is what makes it stand out. You can simply drag and drop a URL to the Samfind toolbar to add it, or you can add it as a custom site and fill out the RSS feed URL and search URL. If you do this, Samfind will display top stories or results from the RSS feed when you click on the icon in the toolbar, and you can search the site at any time from the Samfind toolbar, even if you're on another page.
The tool also supports dozens of social networks, microblogging services, and other Web apps that you can access directly from the toolbar. For example, you can set hotkeys for different search engines so you can search the one you choose when you use the built-in search box. There are widgets for Twitter, Friendfeed, Digg, StumbleUpon, Bit.ly, and more that make it easy to access those services straight from the toolbar. For example, the Twitter widget doesn't just take you to Twitter; if you click on it, you can update Twitter right from the toolbar. If you need to shrink a URL, the Bit.ly widget will do it without you having to leave the page you're viewing.
You can also add or remove widgets from the toolbar easily to match the way you surf. If you find yourself looking up driving directions frequently, you can add a Google Maps widget with fields for your source and destination addresses. Paste them in and you instantly see a map of your trip.
Samfind also synchronizes your bookmarks between computers, so you don't need another separate extension to make sure all of your computers have the same bookmarks. Additionally, just because Samfind is a toolbar doesn't mean it has to live right under your address bar; you can move it to the top of your Firefox window or to the bottom, wherever you prefer.
Samfind is free, and earns its money from companies whose products and search engines are placed in the toolbar. For example, when you search for a product at Amazon and use the toolbar to get to it and purchase it, the developers of Samfind get the referral fees for your search. The app works in Firefox 3.0, and supports any OS that Firefox does.


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Bring in the Clowns: Humor in Political Communication
Late one night in the capitol city a mugger wearing a ski mask jumped into the path of a well-dressed man and stuck a gun in his ribs. "Give me your money!" he demanded. Indignant, the affluent man replied, "You can't do this - I'm a Member of Parliament!" "In that case," replied the robber, "give me MY money!"
Sometimes all you can do when you hear the latest news from the political stages all over the world is – laugh. Actually, laughing is a good thing in politics. Humor has become a major vehicle for political information. Political commentary in late night shows and political comedy have become an important part of political communication. Humor helps to transmit information and messages in a way that dry news formats probably can't do.


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Savory Muffin Recipes
Mango Stilton Cheese Muffins
Making savory muffins is one of the easiest fancy, light accompaniments you could prepare. The batter can even be prepared in advance. This time around, I flavored the muffins with mild stilton cheese, dried mango and fresh ginger.
I prepared a full platter of mini muffins and served them with a salad of mixed greens and another platter of rolled smoked salmon (cold sliced meat would work fine as well), crème fraîche and slices of lemons. The weather is getting warmer, so a light lunch along with sweet treats and fresh cold drinks was really satisfying.
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Savory Muffin Recipe: Mushroom Cream Cheese Muffins
This morning, I prepared a batch of savory cake batter. I flavored it with fresh herbs from the garden, goat cheese, cream cheese, garlic and shiitake mushrooms. I baked them later in the day and had already prepared a garlic herb goat cheese spread to go along with the savory treats. It was "un délicieux en-cas", which literally means in French a "delicious in case of [I get hungry]"!
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Smoother than a porn star's bits, Freedom ThickSlick Sport looks almost identical to the ThickSlick Elites reviewed recently but saves 80g and £20 (pr) over their urban siblings. Admittedly, you lose the Kevlar belt and sidewalls but put through the same paces, ours seemed friskier, just as impenetrable with more refinement to boot.
465g could never be described as light, especially by road standards but then it's pretty reasonable given the density of their casings. Wire beads add to the bulk but keep the costs favourable for winter hacks/daily drivers and getting them aboard the rims couldn't be simpler since there's no directional arrow to follow and the beads don't creep away from the rim like some folding types when you're seating the final sections. Sensible 25 and 28mm widths extend their horizons to Audax and weekend touring, although devotees of the tyre drive dynamo should opt for the urban versions.
The most challenging part of the Sport's installation was locating the recommended pressures-they are stamped on the sidewalls but in the smallest print imaginable. I am a wallop up to maximum and bowl along gracefully sort of chap but they'll entertain 25psi variations should you like to experiment or want a little more contact with terra firma when things turn picturesque. Manners are impeccable, combining speed and traction by the bucket-load. Bowling along the lanes and tackling the climbs, their improved zest and comfort wasn't the stuff of 10 mile TTs but perfect for long, steady miles and sufficiently brisk for winter training.
Greater comfort was only discernable after 20 miles or so but directly attributable in my view to the omission of the otherwise welcome Kevlar. Merciless, I thundered through the towns, collecting as much grit, glass and similar debris as the casings could handle without so much as a nick, let alone hiss and this was equally true of rural lanes littered with cuttings from freshly pruned hedgerows. Passage across manhole covers and similar ironworks, if not leach-like proved more predictable too, although I remained vigilant for the obvious reasons.
Bargain tyres for winter training and general road duties.
If you're thinking of buying this product using a cashback deal why not use the road.cc Top Cashback page and get some top cashback while helping to support your favourite independent cycling website
road.cc test report
Make and model: Freedom ThickSlick Sport Tyre
Size tested: Black - 700 x 25c
Tell us what the product is for, and who it's aimed at. What do the manufacturers say about it? How does that compare to your own feelings about it?
"Twice the protection of a standard rubber casing tire. The ThickSlick is designed to withstand the harshest urban elements. Throw in versions with Urban Armor Casing and DuraStrip and the ThickSlick competes with the strongest urban tires in the market.". Well suited to winter training, Audax and light touring too.
Tell us some more about the technical aspects of the product?
Twice the Puncture Protection of a standard rubber casing
Urban, Commuter, 700 x 25c, 700 x 28c. Operating pressures between 85 and 110psi, wire beads.
463g each
Tell us how the product performed overall when used for its designed purpose
The sport might be the budget versions but roll slightly faster and with no obvious loss in durability over their "urban" siblings when subjected to the same envioronments.
Tell us what you particularly liked about the product
Quick, dependable and great value.
Tell us what you particularly disliked about the product
Nothing given the desgn brief.
Did you enjoy using the product? Yes
Would you consider buying the product? Yes
Would you recommend the product to a friend? Yes
About the tester
Age: 38 Height: 1m 81 Weight: 70 kilos
I usually ride: Rough Stuff Tourer Based around 4130 Univega mtb Frameset My best bike is: 1955 Holdsworth Road Path and several others including cross & traditional road
I've been riding for: Over 20 years I ride: Most days I would class myself as: Experienced
I regularly do the following types of riding: cyclo cross, commuting, touring, fixed/singlespeed, mtb,
Shaun Audane is a freelance writer/product tester with over twenty-eight years riding experience, the last twelve (120,000 miles) spent putting bikes and kit through their paces for a variety of publications. Previous generations of his family worked at manufacturing's sharp end, thus Shaun can weld, has a sound understanding of frame building practice and a preference for steel or titanium framesets.
Citing Richard Ballantine and an Au pair as his earliest cycling influences, he is presently writing a cycling book with particular focus upon women, families and disabled audiences (Having been a registered care manager and coached children at Herne Hill Velodrome in earlier careers)


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Building Information Modeling (BIM) has changed the way construction industry participants interact with each other and communicate internally. Project plans have moved beyond two-dimensional design to multi-dimensional models that have parametric capabilities. The American Institute of Architects is continuously evaluating the development and adoption of BIM and the impact it has on contractual relationships. As a result, the AIA Contract Documents program is updating its documents for use on construction projects involving digital data or BIM, and will make a draft of these Digital Practice documents available for public review and comment.
During this unique public comment period, the documents will be available for review through the AIA Contract Documents website. Users will be able to download the documents and will be asked to complete a simple survey. They will also be given the opportunity to provide detailed comments on a section-by-section basis, if they so desire.
"The development of BIM and incorporation of other digital practices has been critical to the construction industry, because it facilitates successful implementation of the challenging tasks of planning, coordination, and communication among the multiple parties in construction projects," said Kenneth Cobleigh, managing director and counsel, AIA Contract Documents. "The AIA Contract Documents program has always been committed to obtaining industry feedback through our network of individual and group liaisons, and then incorporating that feedback into the development of our documents. Reaching out to a broader audience through a public review and comment process is uniquely suited to the rapidly developing nature of BIM and other practices related to the exchange and management of digital data – and this will help further our goal of ensuring that AIA Contract Documents are as comprehensive and useable as possible."
The updated Digital Practice documents will create a project-wide process and related protocols for working with BIM, and for the exchange and management of other digital data. They will also help prompt project participants to discuss and address many issues that may arise throughout a project and thereby reduce barriers that often hinder BIM adoption.
Currently, the updated Digital Practice documents consist of:
- AIA Document E203–2012, "Building Information Modeling and Digital Data Exhibit"
- AIA Document G201–2012, "Project Digital Data Protocol Form"
- AIA Document G202-2012, "Project Building Information Modeling Protocol Form"
Drafts of these documents will be available for download and public comment on August 15. The public comment period will close on September 24. In addition, a commentary and guide to help explain the updated documents will also be available for download. Following the open comment period, the AIA Contract Documents Committee will review the feedback and incorporate suggested changes, if appropriate. Please visit www.aia.org/digitaldocs to download the documents.


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Synergy Dance Academy Recital 2017 - Show 2
Veria Video In Association With Synergy Dance Academy presents the studio's annual dance recital production held on Saturday, June 3, 2017, 6PM at Luisa Performing Arts Center in Colorado Springs, CO. Professionally filmed in High Definition and available on both Standard Definition DVD & High Definition Blu-ray Disc.
All orders will be delivered to Synergy Dance Academy studio for pickup unless you select the "Mail it to me!" shipping option ($5) during checkout, upon which we will ship your order to your provided address. Estimate time of completion / delivery is 6 weeks after filming of event. Digital Copy (if ordered) will be sent via e-mail notification for download prior to official video release.
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Does Unity support disabling the global application menu?
Is there a way to move program's main menu (The one that says File, Settings, Help, ....) from the top panel Unity's panel to the top of the window, like it was before? I have 25" display and if small window open on the right side of the screen it is kind of annoying to move cursor to another corner of the screen to press go to the menu. Or if I need to go to the menu of not active window I must always click on and only then will be able to access menu.


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London: South Africa wicketkeeper Mark Boucher will return home after suffering an eye injury during the first day of the Proteas' tour opener against English county Somerset, his team confirmed on Tuesday.
The 35-year-old had to undergo surgery on a "laceration" to the white of the left eyeball on Monday night after being struck by a bail on day one of the Proteas' tour match at Taunton. "Mark Boucher will be returning home from the tour. Selectors will name a replacement in due course. Thank you all for your positive thoughts," said Cricket South Africa on Twitter.
A Cricket South Africa spokeswoman later confirmed that Boucher's replacement on the tour would be named on Wednesday. The incident occurred when a ball from spinner Imran Tahir clean bowled Gemaal Hussain, with Boucher standing up to the stumps and wearing a cap instead of a helmet.He immediately hit the ground and was helped from the pitch with blood apparently coming from his eye.
South Africa's team manager Dr Mohammed Moosajee revealed that Boucher's hopes of playing the remainder of what could have been his final international tour were over, but also that there are wider health concerns. "The extent of the eye injury can be described as severe. The eyeball [globe of the eye] was repaired during the operation," Moosajee said.
"The long-term prognosis at this stage remains unknown. He is definitely out of the series and will return home as soon as able to travel."
Boucher may be replaced by the versatile AB de Villiers, who has previously provided cover behind the stumps in both Tests and one-day internationals, although South Africa may wish to send for specialist Thami Tsolekile. Boucher has been a mainstay of the South Africa side for 15 years, appearing in 147 Tests and becoming the first wicketkeeper to take 500 catches in Test cricket, where he has also scored five hundreds.
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Treating a Puppy's Ear Mites and Mange Mites
Ear mites and mange mites can be found on your puppy's skin or in their coat. Before treating for these parasites, get a diagnosis from your vet to ensure the treatment is parasite-specific (infections can cause some of the same symptoms).
Ear mites
Ear mites crawl into your puppy's skin to reproduce. These eight-legged buggers nestle in your dog's ear and feed on the outer layer of skin. The first sign of ear mites is your puppy's behavior — she'll scratch her ear intently, shake her head, and walk funny.
You can check for ear mites by examining your dog's ear canal. If the canal is filled with brown wax and is crusty around the edge, take your pup to the vet. Your veterinarian can determine whether mites or another sort of infection is the problem. After your puppy gets a professional flushing from her doctor, you need to follow up with drops and cleaning procedures.
Mange mites
Mange mites are nasty little creatures that are related to ear mites. However, they're more free-ranging than ear mites and often localize along the spine, legs, head, or underside of your puppy.
Here are the three different types of mange mites (talk to your vet for a diagnosis and treatment):
Cheyletiella or walking dandruff: These critters hang out along your puppy's spine and create a lot of flaking as they munch the skin. The surest sign is intense scratching and nibble-biting along the spine.
Demodectic mange: Demodex mites, which are noncontagious, are usually transferred from a mother dog to her pups during nursing. Under normal conditions, these mites exist at a harmonious level. However, if a puppy gets stressed or is malnourished, they can multiply and create either a localized infection (the infected area loses hair and becomes itchy, red, and bald) or a widespread infection (creating large, inflamed, bald patches).
Sarcoptic mange: Otherwise known as scabies, these contagious crab-shaped bugs burrow into your puppy's skin to lay eggs and sip blood. Their favorite spots are the head region, legs, and underside. The surest sign is a dog who literally can't stop itching all over.
As much as you want to control your puppy's itch with anti-inflammatories, don't. Anti-inflammatory drugs, such as cortisone, lower an already weakened immune system.


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Gratitude 2013 Special - Snap #426
'Tis the season to chronicle our good fortune. This week, Snap Judgment looks back on some of the stories we were especially thankful for. Snap Judgment from PRX and NPR... do not miss it.
Secrets In Siberia
Mike Ramsdell served as a covert operative for the federal government. He was assigned to capture and extract a high level target from Russia, but the mission went horribly wrong. Check out a fictionalized account of the story at potevka.com and you can personally contact Mike at www.MichaelRamsdell.com.
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The Last Yugoslavs
In Belgrade, Jonathan discovers that you can remove a man from a country, but you can never remove the country from the man . . .
Jonathan Groubert hosts the wonderful storytelling program, "The State We're In", from WBEZ in Chicago. Subscribe @ www.WBEZ.org/content/state-were-jonathan-groubert
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How to Make a God Angry
As Glynn and crew are hiking up the the mountains of Japan they are blessed with the fruit from the gods. Or so they think…
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Workin' On The Chain Gang
Paul Cauthen grew up in the ultra-conservative Church of Christ, and took pride as a part of the church's exceptional chorus. So as an adult he felt very out of place when his life took a turn for the worst and he found himself incarcerated in a Texas jail, working on a chain gang. He didn't really know how to deal with the situation...except to sing.
Paul now heads the band, Sons of Fathers. They just put out a new album called "Burning Days." You've gotta check it out. They're on tour now across the United States.
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Buried Alive
When Ricky Megee emerges from a shallow grave in the harsh Australian outback, fate forces him to redefine "food" as he struggles for survival.
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http://www.rpgfan.com/news/2011/1037.htmlSo, I didn't know much about Darkspore before last week, when I was talking to our friends at EA about this. I'm honestly intrigued and I'd like to see where this goes. Game should be out in the spring for PC.


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For Seniors: Capture Movies with iPad 2
iPad 2 sports two video cameras you can use to capture your own movies. You can e-mail videos you capture, or simply display your movies on the iPad screen. If you purchase the iMovie app (a longtime mainstay on Mac computers), you can edit the videos you take before you share or play them.
To capture a video, tap the Camera app on the Home screen.
The Camera app opens.
If needed, use the Camera/Video slider to switch from the still camera to the video camera.
The video camera becomes active.
To switch between the front and back cameras, tap the icon in the top right corner of the screen.
The view out the camera you selected appears onscreen.
Before you start recording, you might want to make sure you know where the camera lens is, because while holding the iPad and panning, you can easily put your fingers directly over the lens and accidentally ruin your movie!
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Ah, what an adorable ending. It was a bit cheesy here and there, but overall it reminded me why I originally fell in love with this series. To think that I took two years and four months to fully blog this series. That's been longer than any other show I've blogged, even Saiunkoku Monogatari, Jigoku Shoujo or Higurashi. It's been a wonderful ride, that's for sure, and Bee-Train's debut surely showed a lot of promise in the studio that they were to become.
I decided to not write a review about this series, simply because it's been too long since I watched the real meat of this series, and my memory is too fuzzy about it. (Plus, I'm rather tired right now, which probably also plays some kind of factor) If I did review it, I bet it would rate high, though, and I wouldn't be surprised if it ended up above 90/100. I do remember how this has been the best RPG-adaptation made, simply because of its wonderfully charming cast of characters, and definitely recommended to any fantasy-fan.
With that said, I'd like to thank Wyrdwad and the other ones who contributed to the fansubbing-process: you ROCK! I also must say that I really enjoyed reading the different episode-notes for each release. They provided interesting insights in the Japanese language and culture. Most times when fansubbers try to insert something personal in their work, it doesn't really work, and most of the comments end up being in the sense of "yea hot!", but Wyrdwad's writing style is really fun to read. When watching a raw series, I now keep chuckling at characters who use "ore-sama" or "Otoko no ROMAAAAN!!!" :P
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How Habitable is an Earth-Like Exoplanet?
Looking for planets outside the solar system is cool and all, but the obvious subtext behind much of the searching is the possibility of finding another Earth out there — a relatively small, mostly rocky planet with liquid water and, thus, habitable conditions. Today scientists announce they've found a planet that meets all but one of those criteria.
The planet named Kepler-78b, some 400 light-years away, was already known to be just 1.2 times bigger than Earth, but two papers in Nature today announced its mass was pretty close too, just 1.7 times Earth's own. That means the exoplanet has a very similar density to our homeworld, implying the two are made of basically the same stuff, mostly rock and iron. It's practically an Earth-twin we've found out there! Success!
Hell on Earth
But don't stop the presses just yet. That planet is actually nothing like Earth — at least as far as habitability is concerned. Despite headlines like "Kepler 78b is Most Earth-like Planet Yet," and "New Exoplanet is a 'Virtual Twin of Earth,' " you definitely wouldn't confuse the two worlds.
Astronomers mean something specific when they talk about Earth-like worlds: basically, they are just referring to planets like Kepler-78b, with compositions and sizes like Earth's. What that description doesn't include, but matters enormously for purposes of habitability, is temperature. Specifically, due to Kepler-78b's absurdly close orbit around its Sun-like star, Kepler 78, the world's surface temperature is around 4,300 degrees Fahrenheit. As "Bad Astronomer" Phil Plait puts it:
With a daytime temperature in the thousands of degrees, the surface of the planet is almost certainly molten rock, so it's not exactly a vacation spot. But it does show that the Earth is not a one-off planet; the Universe is quite capable of making Earth-sized planets that have the same physical characteristics as well.
So Hot, It's Cool
Okay, so this planet might not be as big a deal as the headlines suggest,
but it's still pretty neat! This finding proves that Earth-like planets (in the astronomical sense) are indeed possible, and that we can find them. It also means theoretical planetary scientists have a lot of work ahead of them — a find like this was considered literally impossible, according to current theories. No one thought a rocky world like this could form so close to its star. And while planets (including possibly some of our own gas giants) have been known to migrate within their systems, none would dare to migrate so close to its star. Or so scientists thought. Yet, there it is!
Perhaps the most fascinating part is trying to figure out how it got there
. Plait and others suggest that maybe Kepler-78b is the burned out core of a larger gas world whose tight solar embrace blew away its gaseous atmosphere. But, of course, that's just a guess. Another neat idea (with no evidence to back it up) is that our solar system once had its own super-hot rocky inner world that eventually got torn apart by the sun (as will almost surely happen to Kepler-78b). We'd have no way of ever knowing, of course, since such a body would leave no trace behind after its death.
For now, marvel that we can see and know these things about worlds trillions of miles away. And keep an eye out for the increasingly likely discovery, someday, of an actually Earth-like world — and probably a few more near misses like this, too.


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CONWAY, S.C. (AP) Anthony Raffa and Kierre Greenwood combined for 38 points and Coastal Carolina defeated Big South Conference-rival Campbell 73-59 Saturday.
The win is the Chanticleers' (9-9, 4-3) first against Campbell since Dec. 20, 2003.
Raffa scored 20 points and Greenwood 18 for Coastal Carolina, which shot 49 percent (24 of 49) and made 22 of 31 free throws.
Darian Hooker and Leek Leek shined off the bench for Campbell (10-11, 5-2), scoring 15 and 14 points, respectively.
The Camels entered having won seven of their past eight games with a 48.6 shooting percentage. Saturday, Campbell hit just 37.5 percent (21 of 56), and Trey Freeman, who was averaging 16.6 points per game during the run, had just two points on 1-of-11 shooting.
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World War II Love Letters Wash Up on NJ Beach After Sandy
(ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS, N.J.) -- Superstorm Sandy destroyed towns and homes, and took lives, but a stack of 57 letters tied together with a pink ribbon survived the devastating storm.
Kathleen Mullen was taking a walk along the Henry Hudson Trail in Atlantic Highlands, N.J., the day after the storm hit when she spotted the bundle of letters.
"They were obviously tied with a pink ribbon, so I automatically knew that they were love letters," Mullen told ABC News' New York station WABC-TV.
She took them home, carefully dried them under the fireplace in her powerless home and began to read. The letters were written by Dorothy Fallon of Rumson, N.J., and Lynn Farnham of Vermont between 1942 and 1947.
"There isn't much more to tell you tonight, dear," one letter read. "I love you very much. Yours always, Dotty."
Mullen was determined to reunite the letters with their owners. She posted about the letters on Facebook, Craigslist and eventually did a search on findagrave.com, where a Lynn Farnham was listed who died in 1992 and was buried in New Jersey.
Through the website, Mullen connected with Shelly Farnham-Hilber, a niece of the couple, who lives in Virginia. She was thrilled to hear of the find.
"It's magical. You go, 'This can't be real,'" Farnham-Hilber told WABC-TV. "It's like a genealogical gold mine. It's just that moment that you think is lost forever and here is something. It's a gift."
Farnham-Hilber said that Lynn Farnham, her uncle, served in WWII and was at Pearl Harbor. The couple had two children. The son has died and Farnham-Hilber's family has lost touch with the daughter. Dorothy Farnham is 91 years old and lives in a nursing home in New Jersey.
The family is looking forward to being reunited with the letters and the find was a beacon of light to Mullen during tough times.
"It kind of sent the message that love conquers all, you know, in such devastation … something so delicate just washes ashore," she said.
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"I'm embarrassed, and everybody in that room should be embarrassed. If they're not embarrassed, they got the wrong job, or they're stealing money from baseball. I feel like I'm stealing the money from [White Sox chairman] Jerry [Reinsdorf], and that's a shame. When you've got more errors than hits, you better look yourself in the mirror and start second-guessing yourself. But I'm second-guessing myself right now, making the wrong lineup every day. I second-guess myself bringing in the wrong guys to pitch, second-guess myself [in that] we work so hard to put this team together, all the way from Spring Training, and when I look on the field … It gets to the point where [if] you are a veteran player — and I have a lot of respect for them — you appreciate what they [have done] for you in the past, but this is not Major League Baseball, sorry."
"I was making the lineup today and started to laugh. I just finished making the lineup minutes ago and started laughing because when you only got one hit and three errors, it's not easy to pencil people in. It's not."


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Awareness, Your Most Important Skill
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Introduction to the machine: The Large Hadron Collider, built underneath the Swiss and French Alps, is the world's largest particle accelerator, 14 years in the making.
Now Under Construction:A Black Hole Factory 3/1/2002
DISCOVER's own Phil Plait, The Bad Astronomer, takes a tour of the machine.
Europe: Day 3—CERN! The LHC! 4/22/2008
The LHC's main target: finding evidence of the ever-elusive Higgs boson, the so-called "God particle."
Catch Me if You Can 7/24/2005
Hopefully, though, all those underground collisions will reveal more than just the Higgs.
Beyond the Higgs 8/13/2007
To do its work, the LHC has to be cold, and we mean cold.
Is the LHC colder than space? 7/23/2008
And "large" is an understatement: The LHC's main ring is 17 miles around, and over the course of its life it will crank out an enormous amount of data.
The Biggest Thing in Physics 8/13/2007
Will the Large Hadron Collider Create 12 Miles of Data? 7/22/2008
If you need your physics explanations to be rhymed (and augmented by amazingly bad dancing), here's the LHC rap:
Worst(and Best) Science Rap of the Week 9/2/2008
It's not all fun and games, though. As you may have heard, some people are stricken with the idea that the collider will create "strangelets," mini blackholes that will destroy the world. So they sued in order to stop the LHC from activating.
Taking Particle Physics to Court 3/29/2008
When the legal avenue failed to stop the march of physics, other LHC opponents took another tack—threatening the scientists.
Letter to LHC Scientists: You Are Evil and Dangerous 9/5/2008
And just when you thought it couldn't get weirder, some scientists speculate that the consequences of the LHC's experiments will prevent those experiments from ever taking place. Wait, what?
Willthe LHC's Future Cancel Out Its Past? 8/11/2008
Physicists try, and try, and try to reassure everyone that no, in fact, the world will not end when they start smashing particles this month.
The Extremely Long Odds Against the Destruction of the Earth 7/24/2008
Physics Experiment Won't Destroy Earth 6/23/2008
Brian Cox calls 'em like he sees 'em 9/7/2008
And finally, let the colliding commence.
The Large Hadron Collider Will Finally Start Smashing in September 8/7/2008
All Systems Go For World's Largest Particle Smasher 8/26/2008
First Protons Whiz Around the Large Hadron Collider's Track 9/10/2008
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|as i am under age i have oney seen them in the bunnifyd formate so i enjoyed all of them
|Apr 8th, 2008 02:26 AM
|I agree nearly completely with this list. As far as Grindhouse goes, I had the desire to see it, but for various reasons cant stay that long in a theater. It's a shame too, I'm sure its a whole lot better there than in any other format. Woulda liked to see the fake previews too.
|Mar 7th, 2008 06:45 PM
|Magic Flyin' Lemur
|Mar 7th, 2008 05:39 PM
|Grindhouse....ugh. I didn't see the second film, but Death Proof was so PAINFULLY boring I damn near fell asleep. Honestly, if I wanted to listen to 75 minutes of pointless gossip dribbling from the faces of a bunch of stupid, uninteresting broads, I'd go hang out at the freaking nail salon or hair cutting place.
|Mar 2nd, 2008 03:00 AM
|i've heard LOADS of people saying hot rod is the shit, thank goodness i don't have to pay to find out due to internet crime
|Mar 2nd, 2008 02:55 AM
|The fact that you actually saw Hot Rod without having to be forcibly strapped to a bed first, as I was, makes me question your taste in movies.
|Feb 28th, 2008 02:36 PM
|You're so right about Grindhouse. I was couldn't believe so many people passed up the opportunity to see zombie explosions and hilariously engaging dialogue in two movies...FOR THE PRICE OF ONE!!!! The only reason I couldn't see it myself is because I'm 15 and my mom refused to see it with me so I couldn't get in. I would give a homeless person's shopping cart of treasure to have a decent fake ID right now.
|Feb 27th, 2008 07:10 PM
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"You see?! The END IS NEAR!"
'There are some moments in my life where I meet people who make me want to kill myself...If you don't know why I hate you, it's already too late...'
"You're not alone D.K you are not alone."
|Feb 27th, 2008 06:49 PM
You've made my point nicely HowardC. You say that the original Transformers series wasn't very good and that the movie took a major part of its plot from that. While you occasionally can get away with it, if you base something off of that which sucks, you end up with that which sucks. While I agree that there should have been humans in the movie to save, I think that their roles were over-inflated. They could have thrown out every scene between Blackout's attack and the first time Barricade goes after Sam and not have lost an incredible amount of plot information. They then could have used that time saved to develop a few of the robotic characters past the "Autobots are good because they cherish life and Decepticons are bad because they're power-hungry" stages. The humans in the animated series were nothing more than morality translators for what was going on between the giant sentient robots.
I must give you credit though for being better at watching summer blockbusters than I am. I agree that,even as is about the overly human-centric story, the movie had all the makings of an enjoyable summer blockbuster. I freely admit that I could not ever get the bother out of my head after I heard that Bumblebee was going to be a Camaro for no other reason than because General Motors paid a shitload of money to make it happen. Surely I'm not the only one who is tired of companies blatanly shoving advertisements at us at every turn. It's not a concept as high as "oh this stuff is ruining the high-art of a summer blockbuster" but for fuck's sake they're not even trying to hide it anymore and that's insulting.
You have made a great point that the Go-Bots sucking was thanks in large part to the fact that there were no humans. I remember specifically as a very small child being confused as to which were the good guys and which were the bad guys. With no humans to protect or no other obvious markings to denote factions, I had to rely on which ones were using the meanest voices to figure it out.
|Feb 27th, 2008 03:34 PM
vets 4 life
|Feb 27th, 2008 02:53 PM
|oh,and to howard c,fuck off!u know not what you speak of.proto's a genius.this site iz not for u homey so dont kill it with your "i went to film school to so let me put my what i feel iz real intellect on what i think iz great movies" rhetoric on the rest of us.i hate dumbshits on the net like u."oh,i think i know everything and what i know iz real and everything else iz pretend then".dipshit!smoke my snausage then blow it in yor skanks anus then suck it out with a straw.transgenders suct asssss!
|Feb 27th, 2008 02:37 PM
|i went to see grindhouse,partialy.my lady wit a badass body but fugly face gave me dome.that was the first time i nutted while looking at rose mcgowen's face.please believe
|Feb 27th, 2008 01:56 PM
I had to register just to comment on this one.
Proto, I love ya man, but like everyone I've ever known who's ever when to film school, you have really piss-poor opinions in regards to certain films, particularly adaptations.
First off, regarding Transformers... it was a very enjoyable film! Sure for every good thing there was one stupid thing Bay added (like decepticons with predicon heads) but it was certainly action-packed with a decent enough story considering it's merely a summer blockbuster. Could it have been better? Sure, but only if I personally wrote the script myself because like yourself I have THAT strong an emotional attachment to the franchise.
Despots response to Krish-0 tickled me a bit because what he described is the pilot episode of the original series. Yup Bay totally ripped off the pilot merely adding a bit of the animated movie for good measure. The boy and his car thing was how the transformers series was supposed to go and in many ways it did, with spike, his father and others' interactions with the transformers grounding the series and giving it more depth than "robot faction a vs robot faction b". To see how crappy the transformers, would have been without humans, please see the go-bots.
Also, just to put a hammer on it, remember that the Transformers series wasn't all that god to begin with. (Gasp!) Seriously go back and watch, it's pretty lame looking back without the nostalga glasses. Even the animated movie wasn't all that great. It turned out great because of the killer soundtrack, but honestly that thing was on the verge of suckage. And remmber, I'm a UBER transformers fan, but even I can admit that the transformers were never known for their great writing.
I also agree that hotrod isn't that great of a movie. Mind you I enjoyed it, but just barely. It seems like ever since Napoleon Dynamite was released, every few years somebody tries to make a better version of that film. That's what this felt like to me, a poor-man's ND.
When were the chipmunks cool? Proto were you held up in a cave between the years 1984-1987? Hit tv show, two animated films, ect... Plus they did something that other "band" cartoons never had the balls to do, namely they did covers of real songs, real 80's songs! It doesn't get any better than three rats on helium singing old duran duran tunes! That's why the chipmunks totally own Jem, Josie and the Pussy Cats, and any other fake cartoon band you can think of. They are still quite enjoyable at adulthood as well, but I woudl reccomend certain herbal supplements.
I'm also not a fan of grindhouse. It was every film student's wet-dream of what a cinema experience should be, and that is exactly why it did so poorly. If it weren't for all the hot women I would have totally fallen asleep through death proof, it's too frikkin slow and the payoff sucks. Planet Terror was certainly good, but I could have done without the slow build-up of the women who's abused and how we just know it'll come back to haunt the good doctor. I mean I know it's supposed to have a 70's feel, but I think they had retired the telegraph even back then. ;-) But what hurt grindhouse the most was that as a whole, it was too frikkin long. People BARELY made it through lord of the rings and it had state of the art cgi, an epic tale, and killer surround sound to keep them awake. While I personally got a kick out of the grindhouse experience, I can certainly understand why people weren't willing to spend that much time in a theatre watching grainy-assed movies and crappy sound and crappy visual effects. All that would have been ok if the plots were better, but they weren't.
There is a reason they don't do the grindhouse anymore ya know... movies now are of a better quality (even the really crappy ones) than they were in that period.
I hope that puts things in a bit of perspective. I think in the case of some of these films, either you had a pre-determiend opinion of how they'd turn out and you looked really hard for points to prove it after the fact, or you are seeing what you want to see. My reason for this conclusion is that you HATE the transformers. Quite frankly I don't think the film is that impactful to have such a negative response. Either you thought it was pretty good, or you thought it kinda sucked. The film is far to middle of the road for anyone to completely hate or completely love it. That is, unless they are seeing something that isn't there.
|Feb 27th, 2008 10:10 AM
|Krish-O: What we were expecting from Transformers was a story about huge fucking robots busting shit up, what we got was a story about some nerdy human kid and his vapid, shallow girlfriend playing grab-ass around the huge fucking robots. Did you ever want to own the Sam Witwicky action figure and make all of your Transformers play time center around him? If so, then I can safely tell you that you failed at playtime as a child. None of us were expecting anything Oscar-worthy, but the huge fucking robots who were to bust shit up could have at least been the main characters.
|Feb 27th, 2008 09:25 AM
|I just didn't find HotRod funny. The parts with him and his stepdad were pretty good, but other than that, it couldn't even make me chuckle. To each his own I guess.
|Feb 27th, 2008 01:46 AM
Thanks for the comments everyone! For those of you who said that this is why you haven't seen a movie in the theater in X amount of time, there are a lot of really great movies still being made and you're really missing out by not experiencing them on the big screen. But maybe I'm old fashioned in thinking that's the most proper way to enjoy a movie...
Purple Man: Watchmen isn't until spring of next year, actually. They just finished filming it a couple weeks ago. God, what a piece of shit that movie is going to be. Not sure about Magneto and Avengers, but I'd be surprised if they come out as early as this year. I am very glad to hear about Hostel 2 though. Now that you've told me, I can at least be at peace knowing that without actually having to watch the movie.
Nilus: I know a lot of people felt that way but I really think Death Proof was a better movie, if a bit slower. I think they made a mistake in the order they presented the movies though...the slower movie should have been first, considering that my ass was right sore sitting in that theater seat by the start of that third hour.
Krish-0: Gotta disagree about Hot Rod. Funniest movie I saw all last year. I laughed so hard I was in tears, seriously. Wait a second--you LIKED Transformers because you get to "turn off your brain" and yet you didn't like Hot Rod? What gives, man??
Überguy: There was a period when Alvin and the Chipmunks was awesome? Do you hail from some parallel universe, or perhaps Earth-2?
Mattjack: Please tell me what frowning out loud sounds like. I must know.
And a couple of you mentioned the following:
Epic Movie and Halloween 2007. Honestly, I forgot about Epic Movie (and haven't seen it anyway) and I never saw Halloween 2007, so my judgment in the "raping of a franchise" category comes from my personal experience with Transformers versus all the shit I HEARD about Halloween. And as bad as the reports of Halloween I heard were, it just couldn't compare to the spewing, venomous hatred I feel for Transformers.
|Feb 27th, 2008 01:34 AM
Best Western joke made me laugh out loud.
You hating on Transformers made me frown out loud.
|Feb 26th, 2008 11:40 PM
|I'll have to agree with you about Grindhouse. It was such a great movie in the theater. I don't know why they had to ruin it by splitting it up. I loved the fake trailer for the movie 'Thanksgiving'.
|Feb 26th, 2008 10:17 PM
Don't feel bad for admitting you liked a movie JJ. I liked it too. It was a big dumb movie about huge fucking robots busting shit up. And it was awesome. All of you should get off your high horses and relax a bit. It was a movie based on a TOY LINE from the eighties. Were you expecting it to have an award winning story? The special effects were great, the action was exciting and it was fun. What more do you want out of a summer blockbuster? If I want to see "No Country for Old Men" I'll go see it (and loved it btw), but what's wrong with also wanting to turn off your brain for a few hours and basking in the glow of huge fucking robots.
Go ahead and bash me all you want.
|Feb 26th, 2008 10:04 PM
|/More interesting and personally relevant than the oscars.
|Feb 26th, 2008 09:06 PM
|JJ the Jetplane
|i may become the most hated person in this message board for saying this, but i honestly didn't think the transformers movie was that bad, to tell you the truth. I actualy [i]ENJOYED[i] most of the movie...i apologize
|Feb 26th, 2008 05:54 PM
daddy would you like some sausage
daddy would you like some sau-sa-ges
|Feb 26th, 2008 05:52 PM
|freddy got fingered lol
|Feb 26th, 2008 05:50 PM
'Worst Raping of a Classic Franchise- Transformers...?'
Well I'm not going to say your wrong. But I am going to say that 'Worst GANG PRISON Raping of a Classic Franchise' goes hands down to Halloween 2007. Why? Well lets look at the facts shall we? Jason= Tuned Cyborg, Chucky= Got married And had a kid, M. Myres = Just wasn't hugged enough as a child...They're signs you see. Do you know what this depravity will lead to? Cause I do: The new Freddy Kruger movie= 'Freddy got laid'. A new level of Horror..."
|Feb 26th, 2008 05:33 PM
|Nothing quite like praying to God for him to kill Peter Parker.
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I found an interesting post a while back on the concept of cognitive surplus. The core of this post was basically a reference to a video which I will place here:
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It does make you wonder about the future. Indeed, there are many small projects that carve out cognitive surplus, and the question then becomes how do you engage people to give some of their cognitive surplus to your project.
What I also wonder is how much this is a chicken-egg situation. After all, if you look at social sites, that carve out a part of the cognitive surplus (Though albeit somewhat mindlessly) they mostly operate on the possibiity to meet other people and thus require enough people to take off. A critical mass of sorts is required to launch such systems.
But even when we look away from those types of sites to sites that provide more useful information, they nonetheless require a critical mass to ensure that the amount of information found is large enough to attract people to contribute themselves.
The question then becomes on how to attract the early adopters as to create the required critical mass to make it of interest to the public, as well as how big the critical mass is for a given system.
I presume that earlier adopters are probably reached more easily if the interface of the web-application is intuitive, innovative and interesting. And obviously, that the problem you're trying to address is something of relevance to the user.


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Change is Good?
In an excerpt from Chapter 15 of "How Baseball Explains America," a new book examining the connection between baseball and our society as a whole, Hal Bodley writes about several innovations in the game's recent history.
When the Red Sox handed out coveted World Series rings from their 2013 championship over St. Louis, Bill James was in the receiving line.
In an excerpt from Chapter 15 of "How Baseball Explains America," a new book examining the connection between baseball and our society as a whole, Hal Bodley writes about several innovations in the game's recent history.
When the Red Sox handed out coveted World Series rings from their 2013 championship over St. Louis, Bill James was in the receiving line.
Yes, Bill James, baseball's original sabermetrician.
He received his ring because he's a senior advisor to the Red Sox. During his tenure the Red Sox won the World Series in 2004, 2007, and 2013.
Consider this: James now has three World Series rings. Hall of Famer Carl Yastrzemski never earned one.
Bill James is the most extreme example of how baseball invites innovation, just as America has.
During the early 1990s, Bill and I appeared on the nationally syndicated radio show Baseball Sunday from studios in Kansas City. Bill and I often sparred over his radical ideas and his techniques in rating and analyzing players. I called him a statistics guru; he argued he's a sports journalist.
Joe Garagiola, the show's host, would frequently referee our heated, but good-natured, arguments.
After spending all those hours with James I learned how gifted he is, how important he has been to the game.
Bill rewrote how we see and measure baseball. His work has shaped the Moneyball era, the players it values, and even the Academy Award-nominated movie starring Brad Pitt as Oakland general manager Billy Beane.
Even the most devout purists agree baseball has been shaped by innovation.
Commissioner Bud Selig, a self-proclaimed purist, has been at the forefront of dramatic, and I must admit, enormously successful changes to the game.
Selig, who has announced he will retire on January 24, 2015, has led baseball since September 9, 1992.
During his regime many changes have been introduced, including the addition of two wild cards from each league for the postseason, interleague play, and the six-division format, as well as many other innovations, including extensive video replay.
Nothing has been more controversial than the ratification by the American League of the designated hitter in 1973. Believe it or not, the DH was first proposed within baseball in 1891.
It's become one of the most pivotal changes to our national pastime and has triggered criticism from those who oppose it and those who love it.
On September 3, 2008, I was at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg when the Yankees' Alex Rodriguez hit a ninth-inning fly ball high over the left-field foul pole. It ricocheted off a catwalk above the field.
It was called a home run.
Rays manager Joe Maddon asked crew chief Charlie Reliford to review the call. Two minutes, 15 seconds later, after video replay was studied from the MLB Advanced Media headquarters in New York, the home run stood.
That is when replay, which only recently had been adopted, was used and became a part of Major League Baseball for the first time.
Nothing is more innovative than MLB utilizing modern technology to make sure the calls by umpires are correct.
It started in 2008 with just home run calls.
Beginning in 2014, expanded video replay is being utilized throughout Major League Baseball. Managers will be permitted to call for a replay in certain situations. The replays will be quickly studied from a bank of state-of-the-art monitors in MLB Advanced Media headquarters at 75 Ninth Avenue in New York and the findings relayed to umpires working the game in question.
Changes such as this are often difficult to accept.
The human element has been so important to baseball, there's always a danger when that is lessened.
But when you think of the technology available today and how it is so important crucial plays are called correctly, even devout purists agree video replay is necessary.
"Three or four years ago, I wasn't the least bit interested in expanded replay," Selig said recently. "Well, my father told me many years ago that life is nothing but a series of adjustments.
"And this is an adjustment that I've made."
Balls and strikes, check swings, and several other aspects of the game will not be involved.
"We do not want to lose sight of umpiring on the field," said Joe Torre, MLB executive vice president. "We have to make sure that umpiring on the field doesn't get punished by this. We may have replay, but that doesn't mean we're going to sacrifice the quality on the field."
Former manager Jim Leyland, a member of Selig's blue-ribbon committee for on-field matters, told me, "People have become so obsessed with getting the calls right. That's why they're doing what they're doing.
"I think they should replay some, but not to the extent that it is."
Doug Melvin, Milwaukee Brewers general manager has been in baseball as a player and an executive since 1972.
"I think we always have to be open-minded for something new," he told me. "In any business you do, in any sport, things have changed a lot. I do think there's a point where we do have to take a step back sometimes and think, Are the changes helping? Have they been effective?
"There's no doubt there's a lot of growth in our game, there's more money in it than ever before. The thing we always have to be concerned about is it's still a game, a family event, family entertainment. We have to make sure we don't lose touch of that.
And we don't lose touch of the history of the game…"
…During a symposium at the Yogi Berra Museum late in 2013 that brought together five current and former managers, the subject of Moneyball came up. Numbers are important, all agreed, but the human element cannot be overlooked.
Orioles skipper Buck Showalter expressed concern that players think decisions are coming not from the manager, but from numbers.
Yankees manager Joe Girardi said: "I personally love numbers. That's my background. I love math, but I think you use the math to back up what you see, and I think at times, they use the numbers to try to prove a point.
"But it does support sometimes what you're trying to do. The one thing it doesn't do, it doesn't tell you about a guy's heart. And that's what you need to know if he's going to be successful in the long run, and if you want him in the trenches with you when the game gets tough."
Beane played for Tony La Russa when the latter was managing the Oakland A's, but Moneyball has no place in Tony's world.
"Michael Lewis wrote a nice story, it's got some truth to it, and Billy has taken that thing and made himself a fortune and I'm very upset about it," La Russa said.
La Russa believes there's a trend of teams relying on analytics to the point of dictating lineups and strategy to managers throughout their organizations.
"It's an arrogance for these people to stand there and tell guys in baseball that this is how you should run the game," he said. "It's arrogant and it's foolish, and if I managed again, I'd love to have five teams in the division using that process, and we'd clean their clock every day."
Nothing is more innovative or long-lasting in baseball than the box score.
We take it for granted. In fact, the term is used in many other sports as a summary of the event.
The Dickson Baseball Dictionary states that for years it was believed that the first box score appeared in the New York Clipper on July 16, 1853. "However, historian Melvin Adelman located a newspaper account of a baseball game in the New York Herald from October 25, 1845, accompanied by a sort of proto-box score that qualifies as a 'condensed statistical summary,' of the game," the Dickson dictionary states.
Box scores didn't appear with regularity in newspapers until 1876.
The term comes from the old newspaper custom of placing the data in a boxed-off section of the page.
Rule changes also fall under the category of innovation.
In March of 2014, Major League Baseball and the players association added rule 7.13, which essentially eliminates intentional collisions at home plate. It will be effective for the 2014 season on an experimental basis.
"Home-plate collisions are something you cannot ignore," said Torre.
Those who insist home-plate collisions have always been acceptable probably do not realize how the advancement of medical science has shown us how severe even the slightest of concussions can become in later years.
When Giants All-Star catcher Buster Posey suffered a broken bone in his left leg and three torn ligaments in his ankle during a collision with the Marlins' Scott Cousins in May 2011, discussions to ban collisions intensified.
"All that we know now about what's happening in any sport with collisions and concussions has to be examined, not only from the catcher's standpoint, but from the base runner's standpoint," says Giants GM Brian Sabean. "Do you really want anybody in harm's way? And should they allow there to be any malicious intent in baseball?"
Yankees GM Brian Cashman said: "I don't think catchers should be getting pounded."
There has never been a more memorable home-plate collision than Pete Rose crashing into Ray Fosse to score the winning run for the National League in the 1970 All-Star Game at Cincinnati's Riverfront Stadium. Fosse suffered a dislocated shoulder and was never the same player.
With 2014's rule change, plays like Rose-Fosse will never happen again. Some say that's innovation; some say it's erosion. Ruining a great game or making it better? The conventional wisdom is that only time will tell, but sometimes even time isn't enough. Let me show you:
Did the addition of the designated hitter pervert the beautiful strategy of baseball, or is it a common-sense change that makes the game more fun?
Reprinted with permission of Triumph Books, www.triumphbooks.com.
Hal Bodley, dean of American baseball writers, is Correspondent Emeritus for MLB.com. Follow him @halbodley on Twitter.


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