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Believe it or not, but it has taken 103 years and the combined power of various of the world's top supercomputers to prove Eintein's biggest equation right, resolving e=mc2 at the scale of sub-atomic particles. The feat has been achieved by a team of French, German, and Hungarian physicists led by Laurent Lellouch at the Centre for Theoretical Physics in France, and has finally answered a question that has puzzled scientists for decades: The Mysterious Case of the Disappearing Atom Mass!
The Mysterious Case of the Disappearing Atom Mass
The night that the Frenchy called me I didn't have any plans. Susan took the day off for shopping. Something about new stockings. I said yes. She never seemed to have enough of those. I never had enough of her in them either. Taking her down to the club for the usual bourbon and dancing was out of the question. Maybe that's why I said yes to Lellouch. I never was fond of the froggies. Not even while I was shooting Nazis in Normandy.
Laurent Lellouch. That was the name. I liked it as much as the sound of the case he wanted me to take: Nothing at all. Something about a war between gangs of Prussian gangsters, the Neutrons and the Protons. I didn't know them. It was all weird and related to that stuff they did at Los Alamos and then dropped in Japan. I knew Uncle Sam wasn't going to be far behind this one, but Louis said he was ok to trust him. A bit. I didn't have anything better to do, anyway. Pork chili down at George's while listening to what Lellouch had to tell me was a better plan than going with the boys to the 42nd. I looked out the window and saw it was still raining nails. Hot chilli was it.
When I arrived, Lola nodded behind the bar and looked to the table where the guy was waiting. She rolled her eyes and shouted the usual order to George at the kitchen. The Frenchman was nervous, mumbling something about international conspiracies and computers and that guy from Germany who turned everything inside out with his theories. That equation. E=mc2. The told me about the protons and the neutrons. While I was downing my chilli he went on and on about it. Inside those families there were quarks, which are bound by gluons. I didn't have a clue what he was talking about. The mass of a gluon is zero, he said, while the mass of the quarks is only five percent. So, where is the missing 95 percent?
Maybe he was onto something. I finished my chilli, dropped a couple of Washingtons, and went on to see Janos the Hungarian. He wasn't going to talk. Fortunately for him, I'm a reasonable man. It was nothing that a simple knuckle kiss couldn't fix. Ten minutes and three teeth later he spilled. The key is in the quantum chromodynamics, something about equations running at the sub-atomic level. More gibberish, but I know he was telling the truth. I left him trying to fix his bloody nose and went to meet the Germans. I knew that if anyone had the answer, it was going to be Otto.
I was right. He knew about Janos, so I didn't have to get nasty again. Too bad. I was thinking about how much I wanted to see Susan in her new stockings. Wasting my time listening to this was making me angry. Otto said that the unaccounted mass came from the energy from the movements and interactions of quarks and gluons. The computations involved envisioning space and time as part of a four-dimensional crystal lattice, with discrete points spaced along columns and rows.
I still didn't know what the hell he was talking about, but I crossed the street to call the Frenchy. I had his answer. When he picked the phone he was excited like a little girl in her first date at the back of the movie theatre. He wanted to meet right away. Get all the details. I just wanted to get my money and go meet Susan at her place. I told him to meet me at the park, on the corner of Fifth and 64th.
He was there when I arrived, sitting on a bench with a stupid smile in his face. He'd had a lead overdose. Someone got him before I could tell him that Einstein was right. E=mc2 was corroborated for the first time thanks to those computers they stole from the Germans and the Hungarians. I don't know who killed him. Probably the CIA. Or the KGB. Maybe the Italians. Or all of them. I knew it was time for some silk and alcohol. I took the envelope he still had in his coat and I closed his eyes. There are things that mere mortals don't need to know. And none of them were Susan's legs. [AFP]


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Thomas Tjapaltjarri's Tingari Cycle
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Kunstenaar: Thomas Tjapaltjarri
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Kunstenaar: Thomas Tjapaltjarri
Maat: 60x45cm
CAT No: ttjaag387
Materiaal: Acryl op linnen
Prijs: €695,-
Artist: Thomas
Born: c.1964
Skin Name: Tjapaltjarri
Language: Pintupi
Region: Kiwirrkurra
Dreaming: Tingari cycle
Thomas Tjapaltjarri was born sometime around 1964 in the Gibson Desert, Western Australia. Thomas and his family which includes fellow artists Warlimpirrnga, Walala, Yukultji, Yalti and Tjakaria led a completely nomadic life until they emerged from the desert, coming to Kiwirrkurra in 1984. Dubbed "the Last Nomads" or "the Pintupi nine", they had had no contact with western society until this point. Amazingly, he transitioned from an utterly traditional lifestyle to commencing as an artist within a matter of a few years and painting the traditional stories of his people.
Thomas paints simple, geometric designs and uses a dotting technique shared with other Pintupi artists such as his brothers, Warlimpirrnga and Walala, and with Willy and George Ward Tjungurrayi. Thomas's works explore the stories of the Tingari cycle. Tingari are the legendary beings of the Pintupi people that travelled the desert performing rituals, teaching law, creating landforms and shaping what would become ceremonial sites. As far as we can know, the meanings behind Tingari paintings are multi-layered, however, those meaning are not available to the uninitiated.
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U.S. Soccer Unveils Name of New Women's Soccer League
The League Will Begin Play in the Spring of 2013
CHICAGO (Dec. 15, 2012) – The new eight-team women's soccer league will be called the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL). The league, which will be administered by U.S. Soccer, will begin in the spring of 2013.
The new league logo is appropriately red, white and blue and features the silhouette of a female soccer player about to strike a shot.
With the confirmation of the league name and logo, the National Women's Soccer League has also launched its official pages on Facebook and Twitter. Fans are encouraged to like the league at facebook.com/NWSLsoccer and follow on Twitter @NWSL_soccer. A league website will be launched in the near future.
U.S. Soccer President Sunil Gulati announced on Nov. 29 that former U.S. Women's National Team General Manager Cheryl Bailey had been named the Executive Director for the new league.
"We are working on finalizing a number of league items, but we now have a name and a logo that we think the fans will identify with and enjoy," said Bailey. "This is a league we have to build from the bottom up and we have a group of dedicated owners and talented support staff at U.S. Soccer to keep this process moving in a positive direction while slowly growing the brand."
FC Kansas City President, Brian Budzinski, is excited about tonight's announcement, "We are thrilled about this new development and FC Kansas City will be proud to play in the NWSL. Bill Predmore and his staff at Pop Agency did an excellent job with the design of the league logo."
U.S. Soccer will subsidize the salaries of up to 24 U.S. Women's National Team players while the Canadian Soccer Association and Federation of Mexican Football will each do the same for up to 16 players.
The eight teams in the league are: Boston Breakers, Chicago Red Stars, FC Kansas City, Portland Thorns FC, Sky Blue FC, Washington Spirit, Western New York Flash and Seattle, which has yet to announce its team name.
More information on the details of the league will be released as they become finalized.


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The Waratah wasn't a fancy ship compared to the giants that crossed the North Atlantic. She was built for mixed-use (both freight and passengers) but still had fashionable features to keep her travelers comfortable. She worked the long (6-8 week) voyage between England and Australia, serving stops in South Africa along the way.
And 103 years ago today she disappeared. Without a trace.
211 people vanished with her. She'd stopped in Durban, South Africa, where one passenger disembarked as he felt she was top-heavy and unsafe. She left port later that day, never to return.
Cruising along the South African coast on July 27, 1909 she was passed by (possibly) 3 other ships, though identification was difficult. The Waratah, like many other ships of the era, didn't carry the newly invented telegraph equipment.
The area is known for monstrous freak waves, which can overwhelm and badly damage ships. One steamer reported seeing a ship coming up quickly, possibly on fire (though it could also have been a brush fire on land, which were common). A police officer patrolling the Transkei coast thought he saw a large ship offshore being battered in huge waves, finally rolling over and sinking.
She was expected to reach Cape Town on July 29, but never made it.
The Royal Navy quickly launched a search with 3 cruisers, without success. One of them (HMS Hermes) was so badly damaged by huge waves that she required extensive drydock repairs upon return.
Further patrols were sent out, both private and government sponsored. All together they covered 14,000 square miles of water of South Africa. Without any evidence of the Waratah.
Not a single verifiable trace has ever been found. A few sightings of what may have been bodies floating off the coast afterwards, or a non-identifiable chair cushion bobbing on the waves. All seen from passing ships, but no one stopped to get a better look. For all we know they were seaweed or aquatic objects.
Leads have come in sporadically over the years. In 1925 the pilot of a plane reported seeing a large vessel on the bottom, but searches of the area have since been unsuccessful. Similar searches of the offshore area where the officer reported seeing a ship sink have also found nothing.
Twice it was thought her wreck had been found, but on investigation they turned out to be other lost ships. One was a freighter sunk during World War II.
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The answer remains a mystery. She was considered a safe, well-built ship, and had received top ratings from government inspectors and insurance companies.
A great deal of investigation time was spent on descriptions of her stability, but in the end a board of inquiry was unable to find any clear evidence of her being unseaworthy.
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Indelethio Nebeker spent five months chasing one job, only to be disappointed. He works odd jobs intermittently while trying to get the career he wants on track.
In 2008, Marcey Carver lost her job in the finance department of a Vermont car parts maker that closed its doors after the auto industry went into freefall.
With a degree in molecular biology, an MBA and a master's in accounting, Carver, 58, spent the next year and a half working temporary jobs, landing full-time work in October 2009 as finance director for a small non-profit. After 11 months, she was laid off again.
Since then she's had temporary jobs, but her search for full-time work has run into a major roadblock.
"You can't get the job you're qualified for," she said. "But you can't get a job you're overqualified for because they think you're going to quit as soon as you find something else."
Carver doubts she'll ever land full-time work and now focuses on just making enough money to pay the bills.
Millions of other Americans have come to the same conclusion as the worst economic recovery since World War II has left them sidelined and unable to replace the job they lost to the Great Recession.
Many have given up altogether, left behind by the economy and left out of the government's employment statistics. In fact, so many people have given up looking for work that the official jobless rate fell to 8.1 percent last month from 8.3 percent, even though the economy is not adding nearly enough jobs to absorb the growth in working-age population.
With the presidential election just weeks away, President Obama and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney squared off Wednesday night in the first of three campaign debates. The discussion focused heavily on which candidate has the better plan to spur the economy and create jobs more quickly.
On Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics will report September employment data and is expected to show another month of modest job growth that will leave the unemployment rate little changed.
Nobody knows exactly how many people have given up looking and left the workforce. The BLS monthly household survey has a relatively large margin of error, and the pool of "discouraged workers" is not static – people move in and out of the category from one month to the next.
But the pool is growing. Since last August, the official count of people who have left the work force but still want a job has risen by a half-million, to just over 7 million. That doesn't include the roughly 8 million "underemployed" people with part-time jobs who want full-time work, double the number when the 2007 recession began.
Millions of retirees also have left the labor force this year. That category has been growing as the outsized baby boom generation grows older.
But relatively few boomers approaching the phase of life traditionally called "retirement" can look forward to the pension checks that helped past generations pay the bills in their "golden years." For many, the individual retirement accounts that were supposed to replace pension incomes have been severely damaged by the financial collapse and by the drain on savings from extended unemployment since.
Older workers on the sidelines say that without that financial cushion, their current status can hardly be thought of as "retirement."
"It means no vacations, no repairs to my house, almost never eating out, no going out to a movie or other entertainment, no new clothes, dreading opening the mail, juggling paying bills, knowing every time you spend money, it is just adding to debt that there is little likelihood of paying off," said Carver.
As more baby boomers have left the official count of the labor force, a decades-long expansion of women working full-time has slowed. Those forces explain about half the shrinkage in the labor force participation rate, according to economists at the Chicago Federal Reserve.
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Indy Nebeker, 37, of Mandeville, Louisiana is one of of more than six million workers who are not listed in the official tally of the government's jobless labor force. Many of these people still badly want, and need, to find work.
The rest of the drop is the result of the grim prospects job seekers face in the current stagnant economy, according to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke.
"Some people, because they have essentially given up or at least they're very discouraged, have decided to leave the labor force," he told reporters last month.
The high level of unemployment "imposes hardship on millions of people, and it entails a tremendous waste of human skills and talents," said Bernanke."As the skills of the long-term unemployed atrophy and as their connections to the labor market wither, they may find it increasingly difficult to get good jobs, to their and their families' cost, of course, but also to the detriment of our nation's productive potential."
Concerned about the long-term impact of long-term unemployment, the Fed has begun a new round of bond buying designed to lower interest rates and spur more hiring.
With nearly three unemployed workers for every new job opening, it's not hard to see why people get discouraged. For many job seekers, the odds are much longer.
Indelethio Nebeker, 37, with a degree in communications and experience as corporate trainer, has been looking for full-time work for several years. He recently was up against 700 other applicants for an opening at a Louisiana pharmaceutical company. The interview process took five months.
After filling out an application, he got a call back and was asked to answer questions online. Then came a second call back for a preliminary phone interview, followed by a request to produce a five-minute video and write a personal statement. Then came a second phone interview, followed by a trip to the company for a 25-minute audition and a meeting with the hiring managers. More than a month later, a company manager called to break the news that they "had decided to go in a different direction."
Up for another entry level job with a different company, he said, the interviewer recently asked why he was interested in a job that paid less than someone with his experience would typically expect to earn.
"I thought, 'Because it's the only one you're offering. Have you looked around?" he said. "It seems like the people that are hiring have no clue about what's going on out here."
In the meantime, Nebeker is doing odd jobs, including part-time work as a driver's education instructor while he keeps up an intermittent job hunt.
"I've stopped, I've started again, and I've stopped again," he said. "It's a constant roller coaster."
George Morris, 30, has been looking for a full-time job in advertising since he was laid off from his last one in February 2010. Since then he's been working a series of related odd jobs, including photographer's assistant and writer for a website. He's also paying the bills with unrelated jobs, from getting paid as a clinical test subject to suing telemarketers for illegal calls.
Those jobs are generating income. But they're no substitute for the experience Morris needs to build traction in his career.
"People were laid off during the recession with more experience than I have," said Morris. "But I can't get enough depth in my field to keep up because I can't get a company to pay me a living wage."
For those sidelined from full-time work, odd jobs are critical to financial survival. But they also create an obstacle when it comes time to interview for the next full-time positions.
"(Employers) look at my resume and say, 'Could you go back into a full time position when you've been doing this other stuff for so long?'" said Nebeker. "I look at them and think. 'What are you talking about? I need a job.'"
Based on recent data, the odds of finding a job are improving – but very slowly. Since the recession ended in June 2009, roughly 140,000 net new jobs have been created every month. That's barely enough to keep pace with the growth of the working-age population.
Economists point to continued gains in productivity to explain how companies have managed to increase profits with so little new hiring. Some job seekers agree.
"I think (companies) figure, 'We've done so long without replacing all these positions, we're just going to make people do more work so we don't have to hire more people,'" said Nebeker.
The search for a traditional, full-time job with benefits has become tougher as companies rely more heavily on short-term, contract assignments to fill empty positions until the economy is on a stronger footing. Many employers also complain that uncertainty about changes in tax policy and health care costs have forced them to delay hiring decisions until the outlook becomes clearer.
Employers may also be slow to create full-time jobs with benefits because the large pool of jobless workers makes it easy to get the same work done with temporary and part-time workers at a lower cost.
"The loss of unions has played a major part in it," said Morris. "There's no collective bargaining. It's become a very asymmetrical: 'Here's what I've got offer. Take it or leave it.'"
Morris is still hopeful the laws of supply and demand will eventually swing back in his favor. But it may take time.
"When I was in college, the unemployment rate was at a 4 percent rate, and if you could spell your own name right you could get hired," he said. "The pendulum has swung the other way. I don't think the pendulum is going to fall off and go away. But I do think we're looking at painful cyclical changes that are going to go on for some time."


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In this digital age, opportunities and threats are often different sides of the same coin. Customers are less loyal and more demanding; competitors are entering the industry with radical ideas unburdened by legacy systems or mindsets. Disruption is inevitable; insurers must decide whether they will be among the disruptors or one of their casualties.
Digital insurers are harnessing the power of digital technologies to re-conceptualize their business models around the customer, and seize the opportunities of a fluid marketplace. They are creating unique customer experiences through new combinations of information, business resources and digital technologies. They take an outside-in, or customer-centric view of the organization, and use innovative strategies, products, processes and experiences to create new revenue.
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Talk about stress! Read all about Keon Williams here, then catch up on the latest developments.
A six-month reprieve has been issued to Keon Williams, the north side man whose home was sold at a sheriff's sale in January even though he is current on the only mortgage he knew he had.
The agreement filed in court Monday between Williams and attorneys for Harris Bank prevents the bank from concluding its purchase and evicting Williams from the N. 44th St. home until Nov. 12.


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Perhaps tired of answering questions about A380 wing cracks and customer concerns over the A350-1000, Airbus is trying to change the topic of discussion for the Farnborough air show to its U.S. expansion plan.
That the company has continued to have had internal discussions about expanding its Mobile, Alab., engineering facility to a production site was highlighted in March by EADS CFO (at the time) Hans-Peter Ring, who confirmed continued contact with local officials. Mobile was to be the A330 final assembly site should the U.S. Air Force select the A330-based tanker in its KC-X program. It didn't, and the A330 FAL concept went away.
But the talks Ring alluded to in March appear to have progressed. Bloomberg News and New York Times reports suggest the focus has changed to narrowbodies, though, where a huge fleet replacement cycle looms in the U.S.
Some U.S. carriers have in the past still shown reluctance to buying a European aircraft.
There are still a lot of uncertainties about what Airbus will do. How high will the production rate be in Mobile and at whose expense does it come? Airbus is boosting output to 42 A320-family aircraft per year, but is holding off, for now, on going to 44 aircraft per month, so any U.S. output will come at the expense of either Hamburg or Toulouse (the Tianjin facility in China is unlikely to be hit). Narrowbody production is likely to increase again once the A320NEO comes online, though.
The move would be one of the first signs the new EADS/Airbus leadership team of Tom Enders and Fabrice Bregier will move more aggressively on key strategic issues; expansion to the U.S. had long been in the plan under prior EADS CEO Louis Gallois, but pulling the trigger proved difficult.
Much remains uncertain about the Mobile plan, such as when it will become operational. The facility is all-but certain to build A320NEOs, but whether and how many current generation A320s may come off the line remains to be revealed. Much of that should come out even before the Farnborough air show formally kicks off.
Will that be enough to deflect attention from A380 and A350 issues? Probably not.


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Ravens reach two-year, $7 million deal with Bryant McKinnie
Joe Flacco can rest easy. The $120.6-million Super Bowl XLVII MVP has his blindside protector back in the fold.
Despite flirtations with the San Diego Chargers and Miami Dolphins, free-agent Bryant McKinnie, 33, agreed to in principle on a two-year deal worth $7 million, according to a person informed of the talks told USA TODAY Sports. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the deal hasn't been signed.
TACKLE AVAILABLE:Chiefs still trying to move Albert
The 11-year veteran, who didn't start during the regular season, came on strong in the playoffs. He held Dwight Freeney of the Indianapolis Colts and Von Miller of the Denver Broncos in check during the AFC playoffs before neutralizing Aldon Smith in Baltimore's 34-31 Super Bowl XLVII win against the San Francisco 49ers.
The Ravens averaged 410.3 yards of offense in their four playoff wins as Flacco matched Hall of Famer Joe Montana in throwing 11 touchdown passes without an interception during a single postseason.
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OTTAWA — The value of building permits issued in Canada during November tumbled to the lowest level since January 2012 due mainly to a slowdown in housing and non-housing construction in the province of Ontario, Statistics Canada said on Thursday.
Building permits slid 17.9% to $6.2 billion, the biggest monthly drop in 19 months in percentage and value terms, following a 15.9% increase in October. Statscan revised its October estimate from a 15% gain previously.
The decline in November was far steeper than the 7.6% drop forecast by analysts in a Reuters poll.
Despite the setback in November, permits issued in the first 11 months of 2012 was 11% higher than in the same period of 2011 and surpassed the pre-recession peak in 2007.
Residential permits fell 6.8% overall, led by Ontario where a slump was partially offset by gains in the western provinces and Quebec. Single-family housing permits slipped 4% while multi-family dwellings fell 10.8%.
In the non-residential sector, permits fell 30.6% in November following a 53.6% increase in October.
Compared with November 2011, the value of residential permits was down 1.9% while that of non-residential permits was 3.7% higher, Statscan said.
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The City moves to The Hook
It is with great pleasure that I welcome "The City" into the pages of The Hook. When I first began publishing this cartoon in the late 1990s, I was attracted by creator John Backderf's ability to jump between political and social commentary and to illustrate both in his inimitable and always funny style. The Hook is grateful to "Derf" for moving his talents from another Charlottesville newspaper to this one.


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Training Daze (Japanese: ロケット団 愛と青春の原点 Rocket-dan: The Origin of Love and Youth) is the 12th Weekly Pokémon Broadcasting Station side story episode and the 13th episode of Pokémon Chronicles. It first aired in Japan on September 30, 2003, in the United Kingdom on August 3, 2005 and in the United States on August 19, 2006.
|Spoiler warning: this article may contain major plot or ending details.
In the middle of being blasted off again, James finds a bottle cap from his training days that starts everyone reminiscing about being Team Rocket trainees. Jessie was a problem trainee, unable to work with any partner for long. Meowth walked into Giovanni's office, asking to be made a Team Rocket field agent. And Butch and Cassidy were trainees, too—Cassidy was Jessie's constant rival. Drill Sergeant Viper ordered Jessie to start training with her new partner, James, and Meowth was assigned to their team after Giovanni lost patience with its incompetence.
In their first team challenge, they had 24 hours to reach a target location in the wilderness, surviving on a loaf of bread and bottle of water per person. When Meowth ate all its food right away, James shared his food with Meowth. Jessie sniffed at such sentiment, but when they made camp that night, she reluctantly shared her own food with the other two. The next day, the trio had to cross a rickety bridge. Jessie made it across, but the bridge collapsed beneath Meowth and James. Although Jessie grabbed them just in time, James let go and fell into the river below, thinking it was for the best. His injuries put him out of action for the final trainee test: a real heist job to steal a red Snorlax from an office tower.
But to Jessie's surprise, James showed up for the mission anyway. Nothing would keep him from being there for his team! The only teams left were Jessie, James, and Meowth against Butch and Cassidy; in the final room, Butch and Cassidy fell into a pit trap, and James and Meowth almost fell in as well. This time, Jessie grabbed her partners and wouldn't let go, even when the building's alarms went off. As soon as she pulled them to safety, they started to make off with the Snorlax, but time was up—and the Snorlax was Drill Sergeant Viper in disguise!
Not only did Butch and Cassidy pass, but Jessie, James, and Meowth also become real Team Rocket agents for getting as far as they did in the final test. Back in the present day, Team Rocket is still blasting off after another failure, but no matter what, they're still a team!
Team Rocket is flying through the sky after being blasted off. They exchange remarks on their pathetic situation. James rifles through one of his pockets, sending a bunch of his prized bottle caps flying through the air. One of them, a beat-up gold one with a red R on it, lands on Meowth's face. Jessie gets very sentimental, and a flashback begins.
Jessie is hanging upside down, wearing a maroon Team Rocket outfit. She slowly descends downward, hanging by a rope. She stops just above a giant Articuno statue. Looking up, she sees her partners, Jubei and Mankey, struggling to hold the rope. Back to the task at hand, she wraps her arms around the statue and tells them to pull her and the statue up. Suddenly, the rope slips, and Jessie drops the statue; it shatters on the floor. The room turns red and shakes and an alarm rings. Jessie drops to the ground and runs out a door, Jubei calling after her; she ignores him and leaves. The room collapses on him and Mankey.
A female voice on an intercom announces the results of the training test, and a man with a Mohawk, Viper, emerges from the darkness. Bright lights suddenly shine on Jessie, and looking back, it is seen that Team Rocket Grunts are helping Jubei and Mankey to their feet. Viper chastises Jessie, and she blows him off and walks away.
Later, Viper is reporting to Giovanni the results of the test. He looks at a chart and sees that the top group in the Blue Team of trainees consists of Cassidy, Butch, and their Raticate. He looks at another chart and sees that the top contenders in the Red Team were rejected except for Jessie.
Suddenly, a grunt bursts in the room, telling Giovanni that his unit discovered something rare: a talking Pokémon. At that point, Meowth appears, saying that he wants to join Team Rocket, and Giovanni accepts the offer.
Meanwhile, Jessie and Cassidy are running on treadmills; they glare at each other and begin seeing who can run the fastest. As a result, both treadmills break down. Later, both are in a locker room when they begin exchanging insulting remarks. Cassidy wonders who Jessie's new partner will be. At the end of the conversation, Cassidy calls for Butch (using the wrong name) over the wall to the male locker room; he yells at her that she got his name wrong. Jessie looks depressed.
In Giovanni's office, Giovanni's Persian looks jealous of Meowth, who is on the floor eating ravenously from a bowl, talking to Giovanni as he eats. Giovanni simply remarks, "I see," without making further comment.
Outside, the sun is setting on the mountainous base, and Jessie leans on a railing, looking out over the rocks. Viper approaches her from behind and tells her she was the top trainee in the Red Group; he also tells her that she has a new partner. He points to a nearby wall, against which James is leaning. Both trainees glare at each other and speak cautiously. James tells Jessie that he has never run away.
The next day, Jessie and James are put through an agility and endurance course together, jumping over pits and barriers. While crawling under barbed wire, they stop and glare at each other before continuing on. Jessie manages to run over a group of hole traps without falling in, but James falls into one. Jessie stops and looks back, and James climbs up, saying he won't run away because he never has. Both trainees begin running again.
Meanwhile, Giovanni talks to someone on the phone (probably Viper) about how Jessie and James need a Pokémon teammate. Meowth walks down a nearby hall, carrying a cup of coffee for Giovanni. He trips over a wet mop that hits an overhead light, electrocuting him. He enters Giovanni's office, burnt and disheveled. Giovanni calls him over, and Meowth responds enthusiastically, hoping he can replace Persian as Giovanni's pet. However, Giovanni has other plans.
Later, Viper introduces Meowth to Jessie and James, telling them he will be their teammate. They look skeptical at first, but are shocked when they learn he can speak human language. Meowth thinks he is special because Giovanni gave him a job to do...
Viper shows a group of teams a mountainous map with an X, telling them to reach that point (the exercise is another skills test). Jessie and James exchange unsatisfactory glances again before setting off.
In the hills, the teams are seen hiking over rocks. Meowth stops to eat some bread and drink and bathe himself in some water. Later, he ends up stuck on a rock in the middle of water. James has to rescue him, carrying him across the water on his head. While scaling a rock, Meowth slips down, James having to aid him again, giving him some of his water and bread on one condition- he returns the water bottle's bottle cap. Jessie looks back and keeps climbing the rock.
Nightfall, and the three are around a campfire, James and Meowth appearing to sleep. Jessie pulls out her bread and water and hears Meowth's stomach growls. She almost eats her bread, but instead splits it into three parts, giving one to Meowth and one to James. He originally resists, but she tells him that "we eat together as a team." He takes the bread.
Some time later, the campfire is out and the trio appear to be sleeping. Meowth is snoring loudly. Turned away from each other, James asks Jessie if she's awake, and she answers "yeah." He confesses to her that his remarks about not running away were lies, and that he has been running away his entire life thus far. She then confesses that she has always been alone and has never felt friendship or love. Both say they are optimistic about tomorrow, and vow to be the top team. Meowth agrees in his sleep.
The next morning, the three find that they have to cross a rundown bridge. Meowth is scared, but Jessie and James are determined. Jessie tells him that they are a team and have to go together. James gives Meowth a pep talk, and Jessie continues ahead onto the bridge. A plank falls out ahead of her, but she misses the gap and keeps going. She eventually makes it across the bridge safely. Then, James attempts to cross with Meowth riding on his head. Suddenly, a rope holding the bridge up breaks. Jessie reaches out to them, but all James can do is throw Meowth to her while holding on to his tail. Seeing that Meowth is in pain, James lets go, dropping into the river. Jessie screams for him.
Later, Jessie and Meowth are standing outside an operating room with a doctor while James is seen, bandaged from head to toe, inside the room laying on a bed.
Then, Jessie, Cassidy, and Butch sit in desks in a classroom while Viper tells them of their next test. They have to get to a red Snorlax in the top of a tall penthouse, but there are many traps waiting for them. The first team to get there becomes the top team. Butch asks a question, and Viper praises him, but calls him by the wrong name. Butch tries to correct him, but is ignored. Viper once again calls him the wrong name. Cassidy mocks Jessie for having an injured teammate, then calls Butch the wrong name again.
Later that night, Jessie and Meowth appear in some bushes alongside Cassidy, Butch, and Raticate. Cassidy once again calls Butch the wrong name. They scale the penthouse wall using suction cups. Back in the bushes, Jessie walks off, about to give up, remarking that failure is the story of her life. Suddenly, James appears, still bandaged. He says the first couple of lines from what will soon be the team's motto, and pulls the bandages off, apparently unscathed, to a shocked Jessie and Meowth. He tells Jessie that he doesn't want to run away this time. Jessie's eyes well up with tears, which she clears, and the three rush off to beat Butch, Cassidy, and Raticate.
After a montage of the two teams making it through numerous traps, both appear in the room with the red Snorlax from opposite doors at the same time. Cassidy and Butch run ahead to the Snorlax, Cassidy actually calling Butch the right name this time, but a hole appears in front of them and they fall in. James and Meowth, not having seen the other team fall into the hole, run ahead and fall in their hole, Jessie trying to stop them but it being too late. James grabs onto Meowth's tail again, and Meowth manages to hook his claws onto the floor above, but the two begin sinking quickly. Jessie runs up and grabs Meowth's paws. James tells Jessie and Meowth to go on to be a good team, leaving him behind. Jessie tells him she hates that idea, but James lets go of Meowth's tail anyway. Both Jessie and Meowth manage to grab onto his hand before he falls into the hole (it's really just Jessie holding him up, though, because she is simultaneously holding Meowth). James tells them to let go, but they refuse. James is visibly touched.
Finally, Jessie and Meowth pull James out of the hole, James landing awkwardly on top of Jessie, who blushes. Meowth jumps up in excitement and both spring up immediately and act as if nothing has happened. They make it to the caged Snorlax and activate a balloon that pulls it to the ceiling. An alarm clock rings and Viper emerges from the Snorlax, which was a costume.
The next day, Jessie, James, Meowth, Cassidy, Butch, and Raticate stand before Viper, with the latter three in bandages (Cassidy calls Butch the wrong name again, too, and his angry response is muffled by bandages). Viper tells the groups that despite the fact that they didn't capture the Snorlax, they have been made official teams. They all looked shocked, and Viper congratulates them. The two groups shout in excitement and hug their respective group members.
The flashback ends with Jessie's narration, and the trio goes flying off into the distance, Jessie's Wobbuffet appearing just in time to get in its obligatory agreement with whatever has just been said.
Major events
- Meowth recalls how he met Jessie and James for the first time.
- Jessie, James and Meowth recall how they, Cassidy, and Butch went through training to become Team Rocket members.
- For a list of all major events in the anime, please see the timeline of events.
Pokémon debuts
- Meowth (Team Rocket)
- Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
- Persian (Giovanni's)
- Raticate (Cassidy's)
- Mankey (previously partnered with Jessie and Jubei)
- Gengar (Trainees's partner)
- Magnemite (Trainees's partner)
- Venonat (Trainees's partner)
- Geodude (Trainees's partner)
- Gastly
- Growlithe
- Arcanine
- Articuno (statue)
- This episode aired between AG044 and AG045 in Japan.
- Jessie reads the title card.
- The English title of the episode, "Training Daze", is a pun on the phrase "training days".
- Jessie had been through 12 partners, including Jubei, in two months before being partnered with James and Meowth.
- In the Japanese version, Team Rocket Forever and Because the Sky is There are used as insert songs.
- The history given in this episode appears to contradict earlier statements in The School of Hard Knocks and The Bridge Bike Gang. Jessie and James previously stated they were friends long before joining Team Rocket, whereas this episode implies they met after joining.
- Another contradiction is presented concerning Meowth. In Battle Aboard the St. Anne, Meowth was horrified to see Giovanni with a Persian, claiming that he had been Giovanni's "lap cat" before being teamed with Jessie and James, and this is what starts Meowth's series-long desire to supplant Persian. However, in this episode, Giovanni already has his Persian as a pet when Meowth first joins Team Rocket, with Meowth being presented as something of a personal assistant to him, who already has the desire to replace Persian.
- Yet another contradiction is that James and Meowth did not know who Butch and Cassidy were in The Breeding Center Secret. Only Jessie and Cassidy were familiar with one another, something James expressed surprise at. However, in this episode, James and Meowth help Jessie compete against Butch and Cassidy in training camp.
Dub edits
- As with all episodes of Pokémon Chronicles, the title card is completely replaced.
- In the English dub, Double Trouble was used, replacing Team Rocket Forever.
- In the Japanese version, Jessie had gone through twelve teammates, and in the English version, she had only gone through ten.
- While the Team Rocket Grunt tells Giovanni about Meowth and introduces him in the Japanese version, the English version makes the grunt say that Meowth insisted on seeing Giovanni.
- The English version of the campfire scene is completely rewritten to have James tell Jessie that they would make a great team, with Meowth ordering something to eat in his sleep.
- In the dub, when they meet each other, Jessie calls James by his name and tells him that she's not going to carry him through the training, and James replies with "No one's carried me since my momma!" In the original, Jessie doesn't call James by his name and tells him that she's already gone through twelve teammates. James interrupts Jessie, wags his finger, and says that he's not interested in the other trainees who failed before him.
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Make no mistake � climate change is real, and we humans are the drivers.
That is the thrust of a new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the latest attempt by experts from more than 100 countries to generate a consensus of the science behind changing global temperatures, sea levels and environmental patterns.
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There was a man who had a book
Of Things Which He Believed;
He followed it religiously—
He would not be deceived.
The story in its pages was
The Truth that he adored—
The world outside its ancient script,
He faithfully ignored.
When someone found a falsehood
Or a small mistake inside it
(Or even some tremendous flaw)
He eagerly denied it.
The Truth was there inside his book
And never found outside
If something contradicted it
Why then, that something lied
And when he met another man
Who had another book,
He fell not to temptation—why,
He didn't even look.
And, surely, there are other men
With other books in hand
Who walk, with views obstructed,
Here and there across the land
There was a man who had a book
(I find this quite exciting)
Who looked upon a tangled bank
And then… he started writing.
He wrote about the things he saw
And what he saw them do
And when he found mistakes he'd made
He wrote about them, too
He shared his book with other men
And women that he met—
They found the catch is bigger, when
You cast a wider net.
They shared their observations
So that everyone could read;
They worked as a community,
The better to succeed.
They found they saw much further,
And discovered so much more
When they stood upon the shoulders
Of the ones who'd gone before
It's a book that keeps evolving,
Always growing, as we learn.
Many people help to write it:
Would you like to take a turn?
I had forgotten about this one, and was reminded while searching for a response to yet another claim that atheism leads to nihilism leads inexorably to suicide. The most passionate people I have known have been atheist scientists.


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Democrats fear being swamped by 'Obama's Katrina'
President Obama's mea culpa and proposals to fix his health care overhaul Thursday didn't mollify California Democrats furious over the administration's botched rollout of its signature law, which they fear could dash their hopes of retaking the House and jeopardize the party in competitive races in the state.
"This is Obama's Katrina," said Democratic strategist Garry South, referring to the 2005 hurricane that inundated New Orleans and robbed then-President George W. Bush of much of his second-term credibility when his administration bungled the disaster response.
"If you're a Democrat running in an endangered seat who has supported" the Affordable Care Act, South said, "how can you defend this?"
Rep. Juan Vargas, D-San Diego, surveyed the damage and said, "Someone messed up. Someone's head ought to roll."
The harsh reaction came after Obama proposed changes that would let insurance companies offer customers the option of continuing with coverage that does not meet Affordable Care Act requirements.
House takeover iffy
Obama acknowledged that his "fumbled" rollout of the health plan "has put a burden on Democrats" in next year's midterm elections.
Democrats had hoped to capitalize on the Republican-prompted partial shutdown of the federal government to pick up the net gain of 17 seats they need to win back the House. That is looking like a much tougher challenge now.
Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee, promised Thursday to "tattoo (the health law) to their forehead in 2014." And within hours of Obama's announcement, the National Republican Congressional Committee sent e-mail blasts targeting a pair of Sacramento County Democrats who could be vulnerable next year - Reps. John Garamendi of Walnut Grove and Ami Bera of Elk Grove - as co-conspirators "in the disaster that is Obamacare."
Magnified effect
The health care rollout will cast a large shadow over the midterm elections, with each missed deadline, each website glitch and each story of canceled policies fueling outrage over the issue, said Nathan Gonzales, deputy editor of the Rothenberg Political Report, a nonpartisan journal that covers congressional races.
In California, besides Garamendi and Bera, Reps. David Valadao, R-Hanford (Kings County), and Raul Ruiz, D-Palm Desert (Riverside County), could be affected by how the law plays out. Both are contests that the Rothenberg Political Report rates as toss-ups.
"It's a potential game changer," said Tony Quinn, co-editor of the California Target Book, which tracks state legislative and House races. "Six weeks ago, it was the Republicans that were blowing their brains out" after the partial government shutdown, he said, but the anger over the Affordable Care Act "now potentially saves their vulnerable members and endangers Democrats who won in these marginal seats."
Polls turn south
For months, polls have shown that public opinion about the health care law remained steady - most opposed it - but this week support started to nosedive further. Now, 55 percent oppose the law and 39 percent support it, according to a Quinnipiac University survey of 2,545 voters released Tuesday.
Plus, the rollout is crushing Obama's personal approval rating. That number is down to 39 percent, the lowest of his presidency, according to the same Quinnipiac poll.
Still, the political damage to Democrats could be muted, said Darry Sragow, an adjunct assistant professor of political science at the University of Southern California and a longtime Democratic strategist.
"If people see that there is a good-faith effort to get it fixed, then it shouldn't be a big problem," Sragow said. But if not, he added, "this could be worse for Obama than Katrina was for President Bush - because this is national. Katrina affected a relatively small number of people in a certain region."
Tech backers puzzled
Barbara O'Connor, professor emeritus of political communication at Cal State Sacramento, said Democrats in California - home to Google, Facebook and Twitter, whose executives have all donated generously to Obama - are stunned that he didn't tap Silicon Valley to avoid the website disaster that prevented millions of people whose insurers canceled their policies from finding out what was available under the Affordable Care Act.
She said she was recently at Google's Mountain View headquarters, and "they're just dumbfounded. They're trying to help, but it's like - 'Why didn't you talk to us beforehand?' "
For their part, House Democrats are "frustrated because of the ineptitude," O'Connor said, especially since "some of them have already put their careers on the line several times" for Obama.
"They're going to go home over the holidays and get questions on it - and they better have answers," O'Connor said. "If everything works by the end of November - and that's a big 'if' - it's a nonstory. If it doesn't, they're in deep trouble."
San Francisco Chronicle Washington staff writer Carolyn Lochhead contributed to this report.
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Rockies' target Bobby Crosby likely headed to Pittsburgh
INDIANAPOLIS — Scratch Bobby Crosby from the Rockies' list of utility player candidates. The free agent is expected to sign with the Pittsburgh Pirates, where he will be given a chance to compete for a starting job.
The Rockies liked Crosby's versatilty — a right-handed bat who could back up first and third base. But Crosby would not have a chance to start with the Rockies, where the infield is set heading into next season. Colorado has identified Robb Quinlan, Fernando Tatis and Jamey Carroll as targets. Carroll is unlikely given the interest he has received.
Crosby is a former American League Rookie of the year, but has battled injury problems with Oakland in recent seasons.


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Albert Paley (1944 - present)
Traverse Maquette, 1996
Formed and fabricated steel, stainless steel
40 1/4 22 x 19 inches
Signed and dated at base: ALBERT PALEY 1996
One of the world's most distinguished metalsmiths, Albert Paley continually pushes the boundaries of what is thought to be possible with iron, steel, and bronze.
Albert Paley, an active artist for over forty years at his studio in Rochester, New York, is the first metal sculptor to receive the coveted Institute Honors awarded by the American Institute of Architects, the AIA's highest award to a non-architect. "The allure of Paley's art comes through its intrinsic sense of integration of art and architecture," as one noted architect stated. Paley, Distinguished Professor, holds an Endowed Chair at the College of Imaging Arts and Sciences at Rochester Institute of Technology.
Commissioned by both public institutions and private corporations, Paley has completed more than fifty site-specific works. Some notable examples are the Portal Gates for the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC, Synergy, a ceremonial archway in Philadelphia, the Portal Gates for the New York State Senate Chambers in Albany, Sentinel, a monumental plaza sculpture for Rochester Institute of Technology, as well as a sixty-five foot sculpture for the entry court of Bausch and Lomb's headquarters in Rochester, New York. Recently completed works include three sculptures for the National Harbor development near Washington DC, a one hundred and thirty foot long archway named Animals Always for the St. Louis Zoo, a gate for the Cleveland Botanical Gardens in Cleveland, Ohio, a sculptural relief for Wellington Place, Toronto, Canada, Threshold, a sculpture for the Corporate Headquarters of Klein Steel, Rochester, New York, and Transformation, a ceremonial entranceway for Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa.
Pieces by Albert Paley can be found in the permanent collections of many major museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
Broadly published and an international lecturer, Paley received both his BFA and MFA from the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia. He received honorary doctorates from the University of Rochester in 1989, the State University of New York at Brockport in 1996, St. Lawrence University, in Canton, New York in 1997, and the University of Gothenburg, in Sweden in 2012.
American Craft Museum, New York, New York
Arkansas Arts Center Foundation, Little Rock, Arkansas
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
The Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama
The British Museum, London, England
The Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio
Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
The Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan
Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana
The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge University, England
Gannett Publishing Corporation, Washington, DC
Grace Episcopal Church, Scottsville, New York
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford
Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, New York
The Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis Tennessee
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, Minnesota
Mint Museum of Craft and Design
Museum of Art, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, Texas
The Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey
Philadelphia Archdiocese, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, Florida
Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin
Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Strong Museum, Rochester, New York
Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio
University of Illinois, Normal, Illinois
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia
The White House, Washington, D.C.
Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
2010- University of Kentucky Art Museum Sculpture Park, Temporary installation of the sculpture Sylvan.
2007- Art St. Urban, Lucerne, Switzerland, In the Shadow of the Alps. Temporary installation of the sculpture Portal.
2001 Georgia and David K. Welles Sculpture Garden, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio. Permanent installation of sculpture Continuum.
2001- DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, Massachusetts. Temporary installation of sculpture Apollo.
1996- Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona. Temporary installation of several large scale sculptures.
1994- Seneca Park Zoo, Rochester, New York. Temporary installation of Zoo Gate Prototype.
1992-00 Eastman Plaza, Rochester, New York. Temporary installation of sculpture Wedge.


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Sales Essentials
Length: 1 day
Format: classroom
Resources: Please bring your own laptop
Course description
You want to sell more, but sometimes, selling video surveillance systems can become complex. Axis' new sales training – Sales Essentials – enables you to sell more by identifying the sales process and tools you can use along the way, and simplifying the way you identify the right system for your customers.
This 1-day training is designed to provide you with the knowledge and tools needed to ignite new and run-rate business in network video surveillance by providing an all-round approach to generating more profitable sales results on small to medium-sized projects.
Course objectives
With Sales Essentials training, participants will be able to:
- Understand a fresh approach to the value-added sales process
- Gain the competitive advantage through leveraging Axis' design tools and resources
- Get to know Axis' new technologies & product roadmap
Who should attend?
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I've been living in my apartment on acmpus for almost a week now! It's a great apartment, but I haven't gotten my flatmates yet, they move in tomorrow =)
I wanted to quickly show you my new nail polish stash :p haha.. I went a bit crazy in New York.. I didn't really buy many polishes in DC the first time around, so this is what I have been buying in two weeks:
|53 polishes!!!! :O
I'm so looking forward to trying them all! I hope to get you a better view of the polishes at some time, so you can see each of them :) But things have been a bit crazy with adapting in to my new home and all the orientations and hanging out with other exchange students.. And it's getting more crazy from tomorrow on, 'cause my flatmates are moving in and on wednesday the classes start.. But I'll se what I can do :)
I've done one mani since I've moved in.. No nail art - I didn't have the time for that.. But it is nice and colorful and I've actually got a lot of compliments on it :) I'm still wearing it, but it's pretty chipped..
So here's a very bad pic - I don't have any proper lighting:
|Wet'N'Wild (Fergie) Glowstick, China Glaze Towel Boy Toy and Flying Dragon (neon)
Allright I'm off, ladies! Hope you are doing fine =)
Have fun and take care!


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Upward Bound
What is Upward Bound?
Upward Bound was established by special amendments to the Higher Education Act of 1965. The program operates year round and provides services through three components. These services include, but are not limited to, a six week summer residential program in which students live on campus and attend classes, a bridge program for those students who have successfully completed two summer sessions, and a nine month academic tutorial program for students involved in Upward Bound. Some other basic services are instructional advising, personal career development, cultural enrichment, and individual assistance in applying to colleges.


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Whether you are looking for a career opportunity or a chance to earn some extra cash, Amazon wants to welcome you. The associates – people just like you – have been on the front lines of making Amazon's magic happen. Associate roles range from selecting items and sorting packages inside our warehouse fulfillment centers to shopping for Prime Now customers in a grocery store. The opportunities at Amazon are designed to help you find an hourly role that fits your life right now, including full-time, flex-time, and part-time positions.
Amazon has designed a process that makes it easy for you to get to your start date
The new job application process is changing the way you find your next job. Amazon has streamlined everything and added a little sprinkle of Amazon fun. Forget about that lengthy resume, or even an interview. In about 30 minutes on your smart phone or computer, you answer some questions, play a few fun games designed to show you what it's like to work at Amazon, and you get to select when and where you start your next job at Amazon.
Amazon has few basic requirements to get you started:
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English guitar luthiers have been renowned the World over for as long as I can remember and have built reputations for performance, musicality, playability and a constant drive to deliver the best in our instrument.
Currently in England there are many people building guitars and amongst this number you will find names such as Aram, Barton, Dean, Gee, these Luthiers have built World wide reputations and have helped to develop the guitar as we know it.
Amongst younger makers there is a lot of good work being carried out and to represent all would be impossible therefore Stafford Guitar has selected just a few who we feel you will enjoy; Ainsworth, Christie, Hall, Williams are makers whose love for the instrument shines through their work.
The magic of the classical guitar is more than just a beautifully designed piece of artwork it is an instrument capable of communicating all the emotion and expression written into the music by the composer.
Kevin Aram
Kevin Aram grew up in the coal mining village of Clipstone in Nottingham, England. Kevin started his guitar making career repairing and restoring instruments. This gave him the opportunity to examine some of the finest instruments in the world. Aram Guitars was established in 1978 where Kevin has concentrated on making guitars in the tradition of Torres and Hauser.View Maker
Peter Barton
My work has been inspired by studying instruments I have had in for repair from some of the great makers of this century such as Hauser, Fleta, Aguado, Santos Hernandez, Simplicio, Archangel Fernandez, Ramirez, Rubio and Jose Romanillos.View Maker
Michael Gee
In 1977 after years of study Michael Gee opened his own workshop, making only classical guitars. Since those early days Michael has made over 600 guitars, gained a World wide reputation and sent his instruments to guitarists from over 20 countries.View Maker
John Ainsworth
Luthier John Ainsworth has been crafting fine classical, flamenco and baroque guitars for over 25 years, from his workshop in Lancashire. Like other respected luthiers, his initial inspiration came from A. P. Sharpe's book on Spanish guitar construction, followed by McLeod & Welford, and Sloane.View Maker
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Synopsis: This futuristic animated adventure is based on the graphic novel The Melting Pot, created by noted comic artists Kevin Eastman, Simon Brisley, and Eric Talbot and published by the creators of the well-known graphics magazine Heavy Metal. In a distant universe, the acronym F.A.K.K. (Federation Assigned Ketogenic Killzone) is used to designate places of extreme danger to all life forms. In a bid to keep out unwelcome visitors, the quiet civilization of Eden has designated itself as F.A.K.K., level two. However, a lunatic named Tyler (voice of Michael Ironside) invades Eden, and when he discovers Eden's secrets -- life-preserving if respected, deadly when abused -- he lays waste to the civilization, leaving behind only a female warrior named Julie (voice of Julie Strain). Julie sets out to find Tyler, determined to see the secrets of Eden returned to safety and eager to take her revenge for the slaughter of her people. Unlike the 1981 film Heavy Metal, Heavy Metal 2000 tells one long story rather than several shorter ones; in keeping with the first movie, it does features a soundtrack by a number of noted rock bands, including Monster Magnet, Pantera, Days of the New, Insane Clown Posse, System of a Down, Coal Chamber, and others. Heavy Metal 2000 was released in Europe as Heavy Metal F.A.K.K. 2.
Reviews: Variety.com | allmovie | Rotten Tomatoes | IMDb (external reviews)
IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119273/
IMDb Rating: 5.2/10 (2,587 votes)
Tomatometer: 00%
Directed by: Michael Coldewey & Michel Lemire
Michael Ironside .... Tyler [Voice]
Julie Strain .... Julie [Voice]
Billy Idol .... Odin [Voice]
Arthur Holden .... Dr. Schechter [Voice]
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Title: Heavy Metal 2000 (2000)
AKA Heavy Metal: F.A.K.K. 2
Source: DVD / R1, NTSC / Columbia / Special Edition
Size: 1.564.287.760 (1/3 DVDR)
Runtime: 01:27:54
Format: MKV
Video Codec: H264 (x264 rev.1145)
Video Bitrate: 1919 kbps
Resolution: 716x464 (Anamorphic, displayed at 1.83 AR)
Aspect Ratio: 1.83 (SAR: 32/27)
Frame rate: 23.976 fps
Audio Codec: AC3 (5.1 channels)
Audio Bitrate: 448 kbps
Sampling Rate: 48 KHz
Language: English
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AMERICUS – Georgia Southwestern competed in their last home game event for the 2013-14 season against Clayton State Saturday afternoon in a 76-56 upset. Junior Tiara Thompson led the Lady 'Canes with 15 points, nine rebounds, and five steals.
The Lady 'Canes move onto a record of 9-16, 4-14 in the Peach Belt Conference. Clayton State improves to a 19-5, 14-3 PBC. The Lakers continue to shutout GSW in their all-time record with 16-0.
The Lady Hurricanes came out fighting; they didn't want this games end result to repeat the last time they faced off with the Lakers in Morrow, Ga. back in December. Right away the two teams were point for point with each other until Thompson stepped up to drain a three at the 15:30 mark to push GSW ahead.
Clayton State was halted in their comeback by back to back layups by Shanedra Lockett, Sierra Barrino-Kennedy, and Shatoria Hudson put GSW up by three. Clayton State then got hot and started a 19-7 run over GSW, from the 10:30 to two minute mark. The Lady 'Canes were down by nine points with two minutes to go when Danisha Green came up with a layup and extra point at the free throw line to spark things into gear. Thompson finished the half for GSW with four more points. The Lady 'Canes went into the half 29-27.
The Lady 'Canes have been doing well coming out of half time recently. This afternoon the Lady 'Canes went on an 11-4 run on the Lakers. Featuring two three-pointers by Shaniece Sheffield both assisted by Danyelle Jones, who finished the game with seven assists. This run gave GSW their largest lead for the day of five points at 17:06.
The Lakers came back again holding GSW to nine points compared to their 25 from the 17 minute mark until 6:20, where CSU reached their largest lead of 11 points, 58-47. The Lady 'Canes didn't let the Lakers get away too easily. With six minutes left in the half, Thompson added six more points and Jasmine McSwain added five. The game slipped farther away from GSW with less than a minute to go as they were forced to foul in hopes to catch up. After sending CSU's Bena Hanyard to the line four times, the Lakers were able to get their last eight points from the free throw line. CSU was victorious 76-65.
This being the last home game of the season, senior Shaniece Sheffield was given a big round of applause as she exited the court with 16 seconds left in the game on Senior Day. Sheffield was rewarded for her two years of hard work and dedication to the team after the final buzzer. In her final game at home, Sheffield added six points, four rebounds, and two steals while playing for 24 minutes.
Three other members of the GSW team contributed double-digit scoring with Thompson. Shatoria Hudson contributed 12 points and nine rebounds. Jasmine McSwaine added 11 points and five rebounds. Shanedra Lockett furthered the score with ten points and three rebounds.
Clayton State had one double-double by Shacamra Jackson (16 pts and 11 reb). They also had double-digit scores by Hanyard (17 points), Andrea Benford (12 points), and Tiayra Green (11 points).
GSW contributed four less turnovers than CSU. The Lady 'Canes bench also contributed nine more points than the Lakers. Clayton State 48.2% (27-of-56) excelled where it mattered by out shooting GSW 34.2% (25-of-73).
The Storm Dome was decked out in Pink accessories for the Zeta Tau Alpha Brest Cancer awareness in an annual Pink Day game. Raffle tickets were sold throughout the women's and men's game to benefit the Susan G. Komen foundation.
The Lady 'Canes have one more game in their regular season play away against PBC opponent North Georgia on March 1st. Tipoff is set to start at 1:30 p.m.


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Moving Past the Commodity Supercycle: Are We There Yet?
Some analysts are predicting that the commodity price boom of the new millennium is something that has played itself out. Except for shale gas and its downward pressure on U.S. natural gas prices, however, natural resource-based commodity prices have remained high by historical records in the last few years, despite the feebleness of the recent global economic recovery.


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Smidt Heart Institute
The Smidt Heart Institute is home to a distinguished team of experts who are setting the bar for cardiovascular care in the United States.
The Institute unites 16 centers and programs to diagnose and treat the full spectrum of heart and vascular conditions for all patients, from infants to those with advanced disease. Compassionate care is integrated with an agile research enterprise, giving patients access to pioneering treatments.
Led by Eduardo Marbán, MD, PhD, our faculty and attending physicians provide deep expertise across all specialties, including transplantation, stem cell therapy, congenital heart disease, women's heart health, valve disorders, arrhythmia and hypertension.
Lara Borda
After a surgical procedure when she was 7, and the continued care of the team at Cedars-Sinai's Guerin Family Congenital Heart Program, Lara Borda is blossoming and her future is bright.
Mechanical Circulatory Support Program
The program provides heart-failure patients with the most innovative devices to help the heart pump blood, as a bridge to a transplant or as a permanent treatment.
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Eduardo Marbán, MD, PhD
"The goal is to keep from having open heart surgery."
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Cedars-Sinai announces a $50 million gift to advance vital research and innovative practices across the fields of cardiology and cardiovascular surgery.
The gift is the largest in Cedars-Sinai's 116-year history.


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Take Your Pick was a game show hosted by Des O'Connor that ran from 1992 to 1998.
First, there was the infamous "Yes-No Interlude" - a qualification game lasting up to 60 seconds where the contestants had to respond to the Des's interview questions without saying those two little words, or nodding or shaking the head.
Successful contestants were then brought on one-at-a-time and were asked three simple general knowledge questions. If they get them right, they get to pick a key from ten available, each key opening a corresponding box.
However, Des would try to buy back the key using increasing amounts of money until either the contestant gave in or the host refused to offer any more money. The boxes contained three booby prizes, one key to a treasure chest, and the rest were good prizes including a star prize.