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Monday, March 30, 2009
Relegation and College Football
Once every two years, a major world soccer tournament rolls around and I get temporarily sucked into soccer fandom. It's easy to get sucked into international soccer because everyone cares unlike the gutless pinko heretics who decry the World Baseball Classic as a waste of time, and it is a good time to gain a dated knowledge of soccer stars who may or may not be washed up by the time the next tournament rolls around.
French midfielder Franck Ribery had a
great World Cup run in 2006, and then
disappeared from my consciousness until
he crashed the Bayern Munich team bus
in January. In the understated tradition
of the British tabloid, the website writes
that "The hotel were left fuming by the
damage and the fact that Ribery didn't
have a bus driving licence, and
embarrassed Bayern general manager
Uli Hoeneß had to suffer the consequences
of Ribery's prankery."
European soccer, in addition from boasting homemade stadium pyrotechnics and films about hooliganism inexplicably starring Elijah Wood, has relegation, a brilliant system that adds drama to the bottom of the table as crappy teams attempt to avoid demotion to a lower-tiered league. For example, the 2007-8 Fulham team managed to avoid relegation from the Premiership with what fans called the "Great Escape" triggering celebratory youtube tribute videos about finishing in firmly in 17th place.
Fulham were captained by U.S. soccer legend and current Fire forward Brian McBride
getting a face full of elbow from Old Robert DeNiro, who showed no remorse at the post-game
press conference
If there's any sport that can benefit from relegation, it is college football. Much like the English Premiership, college football is top-heavy and dominated by a few heavyweights, with lower level teams in BCS conferences and non-BCS conference teams having little to play for but berths in crappy bowl games. While BYCTOM ardently supports all crappy bowl games, this is not enough. More importantly, high-level "BCS buster" teams such as Boise State have shown that they deserve a chance to prove themselves in BCS conferences and bedevil teams with trick plays such as The Annexation of Puerto Rico.
The Annexation of Puerto Rico infuriated both Ed O'Neil and Pedro
With the stark difference between BCS schools and mid-majors, annexation would work well for college football.
This model pairs BCS conferences with mid-major conferences-- the Big Ten and the MAC, the Big 12 with the Mountain West, the SEC with the Sun Belt, and the Pac 10 with the WAC. The winner of the mid-major conference moves up to the BCS conference and the team with the worst record in the BCS conference in relegated to the mid-major conference (sorted in priority by overall record with conference wins and head-to-head as tiebreakers.) Because there are six BCS teams and only five midmajor conferences, the ACC and Big East are both associated with Conference USA. The ACC swaps with the C-USA winner, while the Big East gets the Conference USA runner up. This is not perfect, but I use those conferences because C-USA is the mid-major with the most football teams and the Big East the BCS conference with the fewest.
Fig. 1: BCS-Mid-Major conference pairings.
Using the Big Ten as an example, Indiana would be relegated to the MAC East, replacing MAC champion Buffalo. This model privileges winners of conference championship games, especially as a way to make BCS conference fans more excited about mid-major conference championships other than ESPN's insane scrolling commentary from internet users and the Lloyd Bridges Glue Sniffing Society.
Fig. 2: Relegation in the Big Ten. Note that Indiana is relegated due to
conference losses, although alternate models may invoke the Michigan
Relegation Schadenfreude Clause which allows Michigan to be relegated
whenever vaguely plausible in order to bring delight to college football
fans across the Midwest
Imagine how great college football would be with relegation. The Sweet Sioux Rivalry would have had serious ramifications in the last decade. UCONN and Duke would regularly play meaningful games in November. Programs like Boise State and Utah could get into BCS bowls without questions about their schedules. Imagine the joy at watching Michigan fighting to avoid playing in the MAC East for the next year, or a team like Buffalo coming out of nowhere to get a chance to play in the Big Ten. Imagine coaches of relegated SEC teams not only get fired, but also thrown into a moat filled with alligators that travels from SEC school to SEC school on the back of a flatbed truck to placate legions disappointed overall enthusiasts.
Actual Auburn booster Jimmy "Yella Fella" Rane expresses his
displeasure with an inexplicably grizzled Tommy Tuberville
The last post ended with a possibly spurious claim that the Harmonicats are the greatest all-Harmonica band of all time. Recently, I have discovered a potential challenger with a band called the Philharmonicas, who gain bonus points for performing Raymond Scott's Powerhouse.
I don't know if the Philharmonicas and the Harmonicats ever met, but my guess that it would look like a tiny version of the end of Desperado.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
NIT Analysis
The 'Cats lost another winnable game as they folded down the stretch and Tulsa's Uzoh and Jordan took over in the second half. They got into some turnover trouble and could not handle the intense, bug-eyed leer of Tulsa head coach Doug Wojcik who looks like his pre-game ritual involves taking piles of trucker-approved amphetamines and putting his forehead through various objects.
Wojcik springs into action after
spotting a pledge pin on a uniform
Wildcat fans also got short shrift, as we got stuck watching a double-overtime Duqesne-Viriginia Tech game that took up most of the first half and would have been thrilling if it didn't happen during the NIT or prevent me from watching Kevin Coble throw down off-balance one legged lefty scoop shots. We also got announcer Dickey Simpkins who spent the entire game shouting meaningless basketball cliches instead of using the broadcast to spout a venomous string of uncalled-for personal attacks on Jud Buechler from their days of battling to be the last guy on the Bulls' playoff roster during the second Three-Peat run.
The Buechler-Simpkins rivalry was the most compelling
subplot of the Bulls' second dynasty fuelled mainly by
Buechler's refusal to teach Simpkins how to fly up and
down the court on an invisible surfboard
Dickey Simpkins actually started on those abysmal 1998-1999 and 1999-2000 Bulls teams, and his Basketball Reference Page also reveals that his full name is the unparalleled LuBara Dixon Simpkins. Simpkins also now runs a training center in the Chicago suburbs, and his page includes a tremendous highlight reel as well as a fantastic demonstration of defense and offense.
The end of the 'Cats season is somewhat disappointing, although losing in the NIT is a less bitter pill than falling off the bubble for the NCAA tourney. Making the postseason was an important step, and frankly, performance in the NIT is essentially irrelevant. Having the NIT and other second-tier tournaments at the same time as the NCAA essentially kills all interest in them once the Madness starts up. The NIT has the right idea by kicking off on Wednesday to snag those who cannot wait one more day for their basketball fix, but after that, the tournament vanishes into background like another drunkard in Hogarth's Gin Lane lithograph.
Gin? What do I look like, a pox-ridden baby tosser?
If they want to make the NIT a ratings winner, they should condense the tournament into a single day on Wednesday by having the winners immediately play their next games with no break until only one team remains standing. They can start at 5:00 in the morning and crown the champion sometime early Thursday, with the exhausted champions carried out off the court onto a waiting parade float. It will give terrified walk-ons a chance to get some tournament experience sometime in the third or fourth consecutive game, and would definitely be a compelling lead-in to the NCAA tournament. Richard Dawson can host the whole thing, and they can get 500 people to shake money during the entire time.
A few minor changes make the NIT a must-watch
tournament, another sensible idea from BYCTOM
Tico Tico No Fubá is not just a jazz standard, but apparently some sort of mid-century musical phenomenon. The peppy Brazilian piece was written in 1917 by Zequinha de Abreu, but became popular in the US with its use in Disney's Saludos Amigos in the 1940s, after which musicians began rushing to cover it the way indie rock bands ironically flock to the A-Ha catalogue. The tune is fairly infectious, although an awkwardly phrased translation of the lyrics includes the phrase:
This tico-tico - he's the cuckoo in my clock.
And when he says: "Cuckoo!" he means it's time to woo
This WFMU blog entry cataloging 61 versions of Tico Tico remains consistently riveting. The blog has downloadable versions from luminaries such as Les Paul and Henry Mancini, as well as from the greatest all-harmonica outfit of all time, the Harmonicats.
The Harmonicats were born from an experiment to test
whether it would be more disconcerting for someone
to pull a tommie gun or a giant harmonica out of a
nondescript leather case
The Lucien Jeneusse version remains a personal favorite, but you would be doing yourself a personal disservice if you didn't drop what you are doing (including a small child if you are located near a supply of gin and a precarious wooden staircase) and download the Shooby Taylor version. I don't want to ruin too much, but it's a must have in the fusion genre combining scat singing and grand mal seizures.
Also of interest is Raymond Scott's version, not because it is particularly good but because Raymond Scott himself is a fascinating guy, putting together odd, quasi-jazz orchestral recordings in the late 1930s that were taken by Warner Brothers musical director Carl Stalling and used as the backbone of Looney Tunes soundtracks, most notably using the second half of Powerhouse as ubiquitous "factory music." Scott was also a notable pioneer in electronic music, and he dedicated his mature years to developing synthesizers and an electronic composing machine he called the Electronium.
Scott built his Electronium (right) after an unfortunate discovery that whirring tape
machines cannot be used for any purpose other than space lasers
At best, Tico Tico is a whirling cascade of notes, which is most effectively demonstrated by Ethel Smith, the "first lady of the organ," who gets down with her backing band, which I have dubbed the Squarenado.
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
NIT Madness
I hope that everyone has their NIT brackets filled out because the 'Cats travel to Tulsa tomorrow to take on the Golden Hurricane in the first round of NIT action. This will be the first time that Northwestern plays in the NIT away from the Chicago area. Tulsa is of course known for its Golden Digger, an enormous yellow statue that guards the Tulsa County Fairgrounds and wards off evil spirits and malevolent djinns.
The Golden Digger must defend the Tulsa County Fairgrounds from Big Tex,
who emerges from the prairie every so often to plunder elephant ears, send the
tractors into disarray and menace the carnies
Tulsa went 24-10 this season, finishing second in Conference USA to Memphis. The Golden Hurricane is led by guard Ben Uzoh, center Jerome Jordan, and their mascot Captain Cane, who was stolen from a misguided Dairy Queen promotional effort.
Captain Cane's hollow, funnel-shaped
head has led to a series of unfortunate
mascot drownings on rainy football
afternoons and a near catastrophe with
a disastrous wadded up paper
night promotion
The city of Tulsa prided itself on a 1957 time capsule project that included a 1957 Pontiac Belvedere. The capsule leaked, destroying the car, but preserved the rest of the contents of the capsule, which according to this picture seem to be a mysterious series of jugs.
Tulsa's thwarted attempts to mess with time have thankfully prevented an inevitable
Bifftown apocalypse
Seeding for the NIT is, of course, a mysterious science that has little in common with NCAA tournament bracketology. While the NCAAs have a series of pundits looking at record, RPI ranking, conference standings, and conference RPI, the NIT uses the telepathic dolphin from Johnny Mnemonic.
Ecstatic fans react to the dolphin's selection of Tennessee-Martin as an eight seed in the NIT
Johnny Mnemonic is a tremendous movie because no one in his or her right mind can turn down Keanu Reeves, Ice T, and Dolph Lundgren battling the Yakuza in a poorly-thought-out cyberpunk setting with computers operated by what appear to be Power Gloves. Dolph Lundgren had a brief run in the 1990s as the poor man's Schwarzenegger, selflessly churning out direct to video gems at an laudable clip. Try to guess which of the following Dolph Lundgren movie titles are fake: Hidden Agenda, Bridge of Dragons, Storm Catcher, Danish Vengeance, Silent Trigger, The Minion, The Clobberer, Red Scorpion.
Welsh-Ryan Ramblings has assailed the NIT seeding process, arguing that Notre Dame got an undeserved home game while the 'Cats have to take a prairie schooner out to Tulsa. The complaints are logical and make sense except for that Welsh-Ryan Ramblings might be the only person on the face of the earth to take NIT seedings seriously. Not even the NIT selection committee cares about where teams are seeded as they're too busy escaping from the Future Yakuza and Johnny Mnemonic's demands for room service and a $10,000 a night hooker. Still, you can contact the NIT and give them a piece of your mind, but I believe that they'd just laugh at you like a Zaporozhian Cossack.
The NIT Committee responds to Stephen F. Austin fans' remonstrances at getting
an unjust seven seed
According to legend, in 1676, the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed IV sent a letter to the Zaporozhian Cossacks in the lower Dniepher river area a demand to "submit to me voluntarily and without any resistance, and to desist from troubling me with your attacks." The Cossacks apocryphally replied:
Zaporozhian Cossacks to the Turkish Sultan!
You, turkish devil and damned devil's brother and friend, secretary to Lucifer himself. What the devil kind of knight are you, that can't slay a hedgehog with your naked arse? The devil shits, and your army eats. You will not, you son of a bitch, make subjects of Christian sons; we've no fear of your army, by land and by sea we will battle with thee, fuck your mother.
You Babylonian scullion, Macedonian wheelwright, brewer of Jerusalem, goat-fucker of Alexandria, swineherd of Greater and Lesser Egypt, Armenian pig, Podolian villain, catamite of Tartary, hangman of Kamyanets, and fool of all the world and underworld, an idiot before God, grandson of the Serpent, and the crick in our dick. Pig's snout, mare's arse, slaughterhouse cur, unchristened brow, screw your own mother!
So the Zaporozhians declare, you lowlife. You won't even be herding Christian pigs. Now we'll conclude, for we don't know the date and don't own a calendar; the moon's in the sky, the year in the book, the day's the same over here as it is over there; for this kiss our arse!
Koshovyi Otaman Ivan Sirko, with the whole Zaporozhian Host
- Let's hope the 'Cats can make an NIT run starting with those wheelrights and scullions over at Tulsa.
Saturday, March 14, 2009
NIT and WBC
There are two schools of thought on the use of the phrase
"Die Hard" in everyday conversation. On the one hand, Die
Hard can be used exclusively to refer to John McClane, as in
"did you see the part when Die Hard hanged that enormous
German blond German guy with those iron chains." Alternately,
Die Hard can be used as a verb to describe the vengeful killing
of all opponents in an unnecessarily gruesome way. Examples
of die harding involve driving vehicles indoors, uses of rocket
launchers, most impalements, and anything having to do with
helicopters; therefore, the best venue for die harding is almost
certainly a helicopter blade, railroad spike, and dynamite factory
located next door to either a bottomless pit or a crocodile farm.
The loss to Minnesota is payback for 2003, when a twelve-win Northwestern team unexpectedly upset the Gophers and knocked them off the bubble. Minnesota was led that year by Rick Rickert, who left for the NBA after his freshman year in order to fulfill the childhood dream of getting pummeled by Kevin Garnett. Rickert now plays for the New Zealand Breakers of the Australian NBL, who are currently sitting at third behind the South Dragons and the Melbourne Tigers. The NZ Breakers are led by Tony "Bear" Ronaldson, who is the Brett Favre of Australian basketball, missing only 15 games in his 19 year career, including a 324 game streak.
The Breakers game day experience involves the Moppets,
their youth mopping squad who dance with the Mizone
Breaker Girls and antagonize their Mascot Cheeky the Kea,
who according to the website, "spent countless hours
each day learning the Superhero force from the masters.
He studied ancient teachings that heightened his intelligence,
trained tirelessly to sculpt his muscular physique and
developed combat techniques to make the enemy tremble
in terror."
The World Baseball classic delivered on one of the greatest upsets in the history of international sports when the Netherlands beat the Dominican Republic twice to advance the second round of competition and knock the powerhouse Dominicans out of the tournament altogether. The Netherlands beating the Dominicans was like the Miracle on Ice only twice and without the spectre of mutually assured nuclear destruction hanging over their rivalry. When the Netherlands meets Venezuela in Round Two, however, there are grave political overtones.
As mentioned in the the last post, the Netherlands team is made up of several players from the Netherlands Antilles. Three of the islands, Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao, are located just off the coast of Venezuela, and President Hugo Chávez has in recent years been doing a bit of saber-rattling there. In this 2006 Spiegel article, Chávez attacked the Netherlands foreign minister as a "Washington stooge" and accused the Dutch of allowing the U.S. to use the islands as a staging area for an invasion of Venezuela. In 2007, a Dutch public radio broadcaster staged an elaborate hoax, reporting that Venezuela had invaded Curaçao, setting off a mild panic.
Chávez decries Yankee imperialism while a
V.I.L.E. henchman skulks in the background.
You must be on the right track!
The Dutch Antilles formed a minor theater for a proxy war against Portugal in the the Netherlands' war for independence from the cruel Habsburg yoke during the Eighty Years' War fought from 1568 to 1648. The global scope of these naval battles during the Early Modern period is remarkable as the Dutch and Portuguese clashed in the Caribbean, Goa, Jakarta, the Gold Coast, and Macau during the first quarter of the seventeenth century.
The more exciting action of the Dutch Revolt, however, took place on the Continent. The Spanish sent in the Duke of Alba to pacify rebellious Dutch noblemen which was the early modern equivalent of bringing a gun to a knife fight. The "Iron Duke" quickly endeared himself by ordering an impressive array of public decapitations in his "blood court." Though Alba's mission involved cracking down on Protestant heretics, he also found the time to decapitate loyal Catholic nobles in an attempt to end their unacceptable reign of tolerance.
The "Iron Dukes" Alba (left) and Wellington, progenitors of the Iron tradition
of rule
The Dutch hero was William of Orange (The Silent, not to be confused with the William of Orange who took the English throne in 1688), who led the rebellion until his assassination by Balthasar Gérard in 1584 after Phillip II put a bounty on William's head, calling him "a pest on the whole of Christianity and the enemy of the human race." Before Gérard, Juan de Jáuregui attempted the assassination on behalf of his boss, a vengeful Spanish fur merchant who was tempted by the bounty. Though de Jáuregui wounded William, he struck down by Royal Halberdiers. Unfortunately, Gérard and de Jáuregui did not team up to take down William of Orange and Klaus Kinski as the Hunchback. Instead, Gérard's elaborate plan involved walking into the palace and shooting the Prince, and was remarkably successful. He planned to escape via moat by using a pigs' bladder as a makeshift water-wing, but was caught and condemned to an elaborate series of gruesome tortures described with a slightly creepy amount of relish on his Wikipedia page.
Gérard attacks a vulnerable William as he takes refuge at an institute for
the gaping-mouthed
The Dutch face a similar uphill battle to advance in the Classic, facing not only their political archrival Venezuelans but also the Yankee Imperialist Americans in next round of group play. The Wildcats will find out about their NIT fate, I assume, sometime after selection Sunday. The 'Cats have been good enough this season that a run in the NIT would certainly be less shocking than another Netherlands win in the WBC, although it would be slightly less inspired by Habsburg treachery.
Monday, March 9, 2009
Baseball Classic
The halcyon days of Northwestern basketball ended with the Hoover
Despite the depressing basketball loss, this weekend also saw the kickoff of the World Baseball Classic, brilliantly combining international competition with professional baseball and constant fear of injury. Organizers hope that the World Baseball Classic will someday be as meaningful to baseball as the World Cup is to international soccer, although they have a lot of catching up to do in terms of international tension, historical blood rivalries, and vicious, marauding hooligans.
FIFA would never sanction a souvenir bat night
The Classic so far has had everything a sports fan could want from an international tournament: crazy upsets, young players coming out of nowhere, hilariously washed up guys waddling into the on-deck circle, screaming Venezuelans, Asian events that start at 5:30 AM and Canadian baseball legend Stubby Clapp. The U.S.-Canada game at Skydome was probably the best international baseball game since China kept beaning Americans in the Beijing Olympics causing commentators to claim that "our relations with China were nearly broken at the plate." The Canadians looked like a formidable team, hiding their lackluster pitching with an impressive array of major league sluggers and keeping Matt Stairs around in case of a little-known WBC rule that ends ties with a beer chugging and wing eating contest.
The seventh inning of the WBC is the
beer inning, and Matt Stairs is ready to
rake or chug for his country
Unfortunately, Canada was eliminated earlier this evening by Italy, a team made up of European Baseball Championship Serie A players and selected major leaguers who have recently eaten at a Sbarro restaurant. Another major upset involves BYCTOM favorite Australia, who not only beat Mexico in Mexico City, but invoked the slaughter rule in the eighth inning after racking up 17 runs. According to the Australian Baseball Federation, Australia not only faced Mexico's major leaguers but a hostile crowd that threw nuts and bolts at the Australian bullpen and drenched the Embassy staff with beer. The last thing you want to do is insult an Australian, especially former Prime Minister Paul Keating who has an entire webpage devoted to his insults. Some highlights include calling Wilson Tuckey a "stupid foul-mouthed grub" and shouting "Shut up! Sit down and shut up, you pig!" at him, calling John Howard a "little dessicated coconut" and a "mangy maggot" while taking cheap shots at his unkempt eyebrows, and assailing John Hewson's speaking style as "being flogged with warm lettuce." He also continuously attacked the Liberal Party in parliament as dullards, cheats (cheats, cheats-- he repeated this one for effect), scumbags, blockheads, and "intellectual hoboes."
Paul Keating has no time for intellectual hobos or their
periodicals about lakes of stew and whiskey too, thwarting
railroad bulls, and a Goofus and Gallant feature.
The story of the tournament so far, however, has been the Dutch who upset the powerhouse Dominican Republic on Saturday and gave Puerto Rico all it could handle in San Juan and Montreal's Hiram Bithorn Stadium. The Netherlands traditionally dominate European baseball, but also augment their success through Dutch imperialist legacies, using players from the Dutch Antilles. Aruba's Sir Sidney Ponson got the win on Saturday, and the WBC has brought back former Cub and racing sausage assailant Randall Simon from Curaçao. The sausage assault can be seen here in a newscast that breaks down the incident like the Zapruder film. Most people seem to forget that Simon was wearing a ridiculous mustard Pirates throwback uniform with a cylindrical hat that made the incident approximately eight percent funnier.
Legacies of Dutch Imperialism
The Netherlands Antilles have an interesting place in the Dutch Empire. After the smooth decolonization of Dutch Indochina, the Antilles remained part of the Dutch Empire. In the twenty-first century, the Antilles have been angling for further autonomy, with Curaçao and Sint Maarten leading the way (Aruba got its own semi-autonomous status in 1986). For now, however, the Antilles remain under the iron fist of Queen Beatrix.
Baseball enjoys larger popularity in the Netherlands than in the rest of continental Europe. This may be due to the fact that they refer to baseball as Honkbal, the greatest word ever created by human beings. This site has a guide to Honkbal in Dutch, with such phrases as Dat is vast een homerum!
Wel raak slaan hoor!
The Dutch face an elimination game against a vengeful Dominican Republic that they probably will not win. Nevertheless, the Dutch have shown that nothing is impossible in sports, a valuable lesson as the Wildcats head to the NCAA tournament and do their best to make their final case for the NCAAs. And to anyone who doubts the Wildcats' chances, as Paul Keating would put it, "We're not interested in the views of painted, perfumed gigolos."
Friday, March 6, 2009
Dance hopes still alive
Mirkovic celebrates Wildcat
basketball and defies Principal
Northwestern needs a win on Sunday in Columbus as well as an impressive performance in the Big Ten tournament in order to bolster its bubble, but the NCAA tournament selection process remains a mystery. As Jeff Goldblum might say if he wasn't making discrete phone calls to Sam Neill about his availability for a fourth Jurassic Park movie in order to make a yacht payment, god help us we're in the hands of bracketologists.
Jeff Goldblum and the S.S. Ah um ha uh yes a um yacht?
Determining the teams and the seeding for the NCAA tournament has spurred its own cottage industry of experts, most notably ESPN's Joe Lunardi, who coined the term "bracketology." Of course, bracketing has inspired a number of different disciplines, such as David Mihm, who calls himself a bracketographer. "I kind of got tired of Joe Lunardi's schtick," Mihm said in this article about his motivation to challenge Lunardi. The article gives the impression that Lunardi is under siege from a host of underground bracket analysts who want to seize his throne as the foremost bracketologist and will no doubt suffer the same fate as Edmond Dantés's thousands of enemies on which he has sworn vengeance if he is ever betrayed and imprisoned on a desolate Mediterranean island.
Bracketology implies some sort of science and I always picture bracketologists toiling away at the sort of analogue computers with whirring tape machines that Bond villains are always using to set up their space lasers (and it's always a space laser-- I estimate that at least 35 percent of Bond villain plots involve a space laser of some kind possibly because the space laser company purchases the largest amount of advertising space in the Bond villain skymall catalogue that sells one-piece jumpsuits, eye patches, and glass furniture).
Bracketologists busily at work breaking down the
bubble teams, predicting seeding, and threatening the
United Nations with a laser apocalypse
Steve Rose wrote a fascinating article last November about Bond villains and architecture. Fleming evidently despised modernist architecture, which is why his motley collection of potential mass murderers always had swanky Le Corbusier-inspired bachelor pads in the middle of dormant volcanoes. Fleming even named Goldfinger after architecht Erno Goldfinger, who incensed Fleming by knocking down two Victorian buildings. In his defense, Erno Goldfinger did not help his case by posing like a potential Bond villain in publicity photos and menacing Fleming with an array of colorful, ethnic henchmen.
Erno Goldfinger and his modernist towers
named Good Afternoon Gentlemen and
You Have Twenty Four Hours
The Shirley Bassey Goldfinger theme is probably the best known of the Bond title songs, all of which are compiled here with full lyrics. Perusing the site is a powerful reminder of how severely underrated the 1980s Bond themes are, especially A View to A Kill's Duran Duran tune.
In fact, A View to a Kill is violently underrated-- it has Christopher Walken as a maniacal blimp enthusiast, Grace Jones, the horse-racing set, and a henchman who kills people by strangling them with his Walkman. More importantly, it features an aged Roger Moore bumbling through his last Bond movie as he castigates cashiers who keep him waiting too long, successfully completes car chases with his left blinker on, and romances a woman whose own mother is younger than him.
After dispatching Roger Moore, Grace Jones
traveled to Barcelona to steal the Dream Team's
A-Ha's The Living Daylights theme is also vastly underrated, but generally any Bond who gets upstaged by A-Ha does not deserve to karate chop people or flee from self-destructing buildings or dispatch Hervey Villachez when he sneaks aboard your getaway schooner.
Making the NCAA tournament would be a tremendous step in the right direction for Northwestern's basketball program, even if it didn't include a memorable upset or classic March Madness moment. Probably the most iconic March Madness event is Laettner's shot against Kentucky in the 1992 East Regional, which is now notable for the number of college basketball's most hated individuals including Laettner, Mike Krzyzewski and the entire Duke basketball program, Rick Pitino, and even Billy Donovan, the non-descript coach of Florida who is notable only for his dos-si-do with the Orlando Magic. Laettner parlayed his March Madness performance into a stint with the Dream Team and this truly ridiculous spread in People Magazine.
Who says white men can't jump? Here's one
who also shoots and rebounds and blocks shots.
Oh, and steals hearts too. After leading Duke
to its second straight college basketball title in
March, Laettner, 22, drove Arsenio's audience
beyond woofs into wild squeals.
Of course, Laettner memorably struggled with injuries and the general crappiness of the Minnesota Timberwolves in the NBA. There's an article about his mini-resurgence with the Hawks in 1996, which reveals that he occasionally busts out a Mutumbo impression as well as owns unusual pets:
In the gym after a recent practice, Laettner is talking about his pet shark, which he keeps at home in a 600-gallon, salt-water tank...It seems Laettner's pet shark died on the move south from Minnesota. The creature didn't have a name. Laettner rolls his eyes. It's not like it came when you called it. So he bought another pet shark, and now it is thriving in Atlanta. In a burst of creativity, he calls this one "Shark No. 2"


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Green Day will be performing as part of the iHeartRadio Music Festival this Friday, as you may have heard before. If you can't attend, like most of us, we've got great news: the festival will be LIVE-STREAMED this Friday, so we'll be able to see Green Day perform in real time from Las Vegas. Here's the link to the stream site, where there's currently a running countdown to the performance.
iHeartRadio did a short interview with Green Day a couple of months ago, in which the band talk about creating intimacy, being played on the radio, what to expect from them at the festival, and some Brazilian guy's infected back tattoo.
Additionally, the entire iHeartRadio festival will be aired on the CW TV network on October 1st, incase you miss the live stream.
Green Day is one of 10 acts performing during the first half of the festival on Friday night, starting at 7pm PST (or 10pm EST). The performance order hasn't been specified so there's a chance we might have to suffer through Lil Wayne, Rihanna, Usher, and others before Green Day performs......I know, but it'll be worth it.
Thanks to Christina Harris for sending in this news!

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Hidden - BBC Audiobook performed by Naoko Mori
An age-old secret is buried in the heart of the Welsh countryside. After a series of violent and seemingly unrelated deaths, the solution to a riddle seems to point the finger of blame at Captain Jack Harkness. Can the Torchwood team uncover the truth that lies hidden in time to save Jack?
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Background – Federal Return Due Date Changes
The IDOR administrative adjustment to the C corp filing dates is in response to federal filing due date changes that were passed by Congress in 2015. These new changes will apply to 2016 tax returns prepared during the 2017 filing season.
Previously, calendar-year C and S corps were required to file by March 15, while individuals, trusts, and partnerships had to be filed by April 15. With the rise of more limited liability companies (LLC) and limited liability partnerships (LLP), there are now many more tax filings of partnership and S corp returns. There is also a large increase in the number of investors, both individuals and businesses, in pass-through entities that need information from the corporations, companies and partnerships mentioned above – before determining their own taxable income.
The new federal due dates make the partnership and S corp returns due first (3/15) and then individual and C corp returns due a month later (4/18). The extended due dates are modified in a similar manner so that the same logical flow is maintained. To maintain this logical order, states are beginning to align their filing deadlines to the new federal dates.
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WebCertain is an SEO company focusing on international markets. One of the main countries that people require help in is Russia, where the major search engine is Yandex. The big difference between Google and Yandex is the way they are structured. Yandex uses a lot of machine learning. The human assessors will say what they want the results to look like, then the algorithm will figure out how to produce the results. Google works the opposite way. However, the Panda update implemented a scalable machine learning technique, so maybe they are headed the same way.
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Members of the Lafourche Parish Council are threatening possible fines for the company contracted to pick up residents' garbage throughout the parish.
Members of the Lafourche Parish Council are threatening possible fines for the company contracted to pick up residents' garbage throughout the parish.
Representatives from Progressive Waste Solutions were apologetic addressing the council Tuesday night, admitting service hasn't been up to par.
"First let me apologize to everybody, I know we have been a burden. We have had a lot of missed streets and a lot of missed stops. I'm not here to lie about it," said Robert Stesney, division manager of Progressive Waste's Lafourche services.
Several council members complained of regularly receiving residents' rants about skipped streets and shoddy service.
"The last several months, it was bad. It has gotten worse," Councilman Michael Delatte said. "We have some days and some areas where the whole community was not picked up at all."
Parish Solid Waste Manager Jerome Danos, who oversees the contract with Progressive, said having some complaints is not abnormal, but the current situation has his office fielding complaints daily.
"I've been working for the parish for 20 years. This is probably the worst year-long stretch we've had as far as consistency of subpar performance," Danos said, "For some reason in the past year, this company has not taken corrective action that is permanent."
Danos said the parish has not paid the company for the past two months in an effort to get its attention. The company receives about $500,000 each month for its services to the parish, Danos said.
"Within the past couple of months I can count on one hand the number of times the garbage was actually picked up," said William Fitch of Raceland in response to a Daily Comet Facebook post, "Sometimes they would pass right on by. Other times there were no pickups."
Stesney said Progressive has gone through a rough patch in recent months. He cited losing 15 of the company's 29 residential drivers to better jobs in the oilfields as one reason service has dipped.
"We've had some drivers who have been here for quite a while just up and leave us for the oilfield. It has been hard on us that way," Stesney said.
Stesney said new drivers combined with decade-old maps being used by the company was why some areas are routinely missed.
To remedy this issue, Stesney said his company is updating its map system and looking for other avenues to recruit workers.
Progressive provides service through the parish and for Thibodaux, though the city is on a different contract.
Thibodaux Administrative
Assistant to the Mayor Ryan Perque said the mayor's office has received numerous calls about missed pickups, and the council will discuss the issue at its meeting Tuesday.
Other complaints were aimed at the quality of service given, rather than service being missed.
"I don't have issues with missed pickups," said Monica Crout of Thibodaux, "I have issues with trash left in the road and my garbage cans being torn up — ripped handles, cracked sides, left on their sides to roll into traffic and (be) hit by cars. Good garbage cans aren't cheap."
Stesney said his company is seeking to introduce more accountability in its drivers and workers. It is doing this through better accounting of who is responsible for what, and GPS tracking and cameras on the trucks, he said.
"Accountability is everything, and until we start holding people accountable, nothing is going to change," Stesney said.
Councilman Joe Fertitta sought to initiate the process for potentially terminating the company's contract with the parish. After some discussion, the council agreed to give it more time before implementing fines or further discussing termination.
The council also discussed issues with special waste pickup for things such as tree limbs and larger items. Stesney said Progressive is working to improve its service by better communicating where such waste needs to be picked up.
Danos said residents can help ensure their garbage is picked up by bagging or bundling it. He said the parish asks residents to cut things such as tree limbs into sections no longer than 6 feet and make their own arrangements for removing waste resulting from a professional service, such as house renovations or extensive tree cutting.


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"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
Hiring the Right Attorney for a Firearm Offense
If you've been arrested on weapons or firearms charged, it is in your best interest to immediately speak with an experienced criminal defense lawyer. Weapons and firearms crimes will most likely bring about felony charges, which if not properly defended can result in very serious consequences, including imprisonment, fines, and the loss of your right to own, buy, or possess a firearm.
As a life member of the National Rifle Association, Attorney Jeff Goodwin strongly believes in the right to legal firearm ownership. Jeff has an extensive knowledge of weapon and firearm law given his background in the U.S. Army, as a Police Officer, and as a Public Defender . Jeff has provided counsel for both the National Rifle Association and Safari Club International and continuously attends seminars and conferences to learn about the latest changes to federal and state firearm laws.
In addition, Jeff Goodwin's background includes:
- National Rifle Association – Life Membership
- National Rifle Association – Certified Instructor: Rifle, Pistol, Shotgun
- Safari Club International – Life Membership
- California Certified Hunter Safety Education Instructor
Goodwin Law Corporation has 30 years of courtroom experience related to firearm laws and is constantly defending its clients in firearm cases. Some of the areas where we have helped our clients include:
- Self-Defense with a firearm
- Concealed Firearms
- Loaded Firearms
- Machine Guns, Silencers and other National Firearms Act Violations
- Assault weapons and other prohibited items in California
We know the laws, and we know how to handle all aspects of criminal courtroom procedure, including pretrial motions, plea deal negotiations, bench trials, and jury trials. We have received numerous favorable verdicts for our clients and have a near perfect record for reduced sentences.


text: Tax withheld calculators The tax withheld calculator applies to payments made in the 2018–19 income year. For information about the Federal Budget changes for the 2018–19 income year refer to Tax tables. If you employ working holiday makers, new tax tables apply. For more information refer to Tax table for working holiday makers. Working holiday makers include individuals who hold a: working holiday makers visa (subclass 417), or work and holiday makers visa (subclass 462), or associated bridging visa. Our tax withheld calculators If you're an employer or another withholding payer, our tax withheld calculators can help you work out the tax you need to withhold from payments you make to employees and other workers. There are two withholding calculators you can use depending on your situation: Tax withheld for individuals calculatorThis link opens in a new window – for employees and other workers including working holiday makers. Voluntary agreement calculatorThis link opens in a new window – for workers, such as subcontractors, who are subject to a voluntary agreement. To use these calculators, you will need the information your employees or other workers supply in their: Tax file number declaration Withholding declaration Medicare levy variation declaration What the calculator does The tax withheld calculator takes into account the: Income tax rates Medicare levy Higher Education Loan Program (HELP) contributions Trade Support Loan (TSL) contributions Student Financial Supplement Scheme (SFSS) contributions Student Start-up Loan (SSL) contributions Worker status: Resident Non-resident Working holiday maker Registration of employers of working holiday makers Tax-free threshold Tax offset entitlements. Disclaimer All outcomes provided by this calculator are based on the information you provide at the time of calculation. See also: ATO app How to use the tax withheld for individuals calculator Terms we use More information Last modified: 08 Oct 2018QC 16944


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CFDb Review:
Although there was no Christianity in this film, it was marketed to Christians and therefore it is on CFDb. This is a film we just enjoyed for the sake of enjoyment. The sound effects were fantastic, as well as the musical score. A bit goofy, but if you like Lord of the Rings, you should enjoy this one. I giggled during several parts of this film and normally I do not like silly films. Favorite characters were Randall & Stacey.
Film Synopsis:
Randall Dooley is a geek. His three best friends are geeks too, he works in a game shop, he spends all his free time playing online games, his older brother bullies him unmercifully, his widowed mom doesn't understand him, and he's hopelessly in love with the prettiest cheerleader in high school.
In short, he's a loser.
All of that changes when he hears of the Lord of the Rings gaming competition in Orlando, Florida. Finally! Meaning in life!
Randall's guild of online-gaming geeks is the best around. They're a cinch to win their area and gain a spot in Orlando. However, right before the regionals, Randall is framed for drugs by a gaming rival and expelled from high school. He's grounded for life and going nowhere-least of all, the gaming competition in Orlando.
After the principal refuses to believe the evidence showing he's innocent, Randall is left with only one option: vindication at the gaming competition. He and his gaming friends steal the class car, rebuilt by the inept hand of students in auto shop and hit the road.
Evading capture by Randall's older brother, the four friends fall in with a commune of hippies in the forest, get in a paintball war and finally make it to Orlando with the assistance of a hamburger-loving vegetarian hippie.
At the gaming competition, Randall and his friends evade capture by the security guards in order to reach the convention commissioner. Vindicated of guilt, they enter the competition and find victory, true love and sweet revenge.
The Fellows Hip: Rise of the Gamers is a buddy-comedy written in honor of online gamers and The Lord of the Rings. Full of Tolkien-references and good-hearted parody, The Fellows Hip will appeal to Tolkien-fans and gamers alike, as well as anyone who's never been part of the in-crowd.
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MAHWAH, N.J. – An armed 66-year-old Mahwah man bent on "suicide by cop" was subdued by township officers who rushed him using ballistic shields, authorities said Sunday.
The man's daughter called police after fleeing his Fardale home around 7:45 p.m. Saturday, telling them that he said he was going to kill himself and had retrieved a gun case that she knew contained a rifle, Police Chief James N. Batelli said.
Responding officers "set up a perimeter, closed the street and surrounded the house," Batelli said.
They "attempted to make contact via telephone but received no answer from the home," he said.
The Bergen County SWAT Team was called and township police officer began evacuating surrounding houses when Officers Christopher Fasulo and John Lange saw him emerge from his house onto a rear deck, the chief said.
They tried talking to him, but he "refused to comply with their instructions," Batelli said.
"He became increasingly agitated and began making gestures towards the officers, continually yelling at them for them to shoot him," the chief said.
Unsure whether he had a weapon – and aware that he had several inside the house – Fasulo, Lange, Officer Tyler Boucher and Sgt. Michael Blondin rushed him using ballistic shields as cover, tackled him and took him into custody, Batelli said.
The Mahwah Ambulance Emergency Services Unit took him to Bergen Regional Medical Center for evaluation and treatment and the weapons were seized, he said.
Batelli commended his officer for "their professional response in defusing an extremely dangerous situation."
ALSO SEE: A Mahwah police officer pushed a man out of the way of a speeding car driven by a drunk driver on the shoulder of Route 17 before it slammed into his patrol car, pushing it into a vehicle that had a 3-year-old girl in the back seat, authorities said.
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Nights of the Spirit: Art, Worship, Prophetic Ministry, Prayer, Healing, Music, Teaching??? We are not setting an "End Time" to this meeting, let's see where the Holy Spirit will lead us!
Time: 7 pm
Second Friday of Month: Don & Bonnie Franklin and Keith Goodson
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The Technomancer E3 Trailer and PC System requirements
The Technomancer E3 Trailer and PC System requirements
Published: 10th June 2016 | Source: Focus Home Interactive |
The Technomancer E3 Trailer and PC System requirements
Focus Interactive has just released a new E3 trailer for The Technomancer, alongside the PC version's minimum system requirements.
The Technomancer is a story driven Sci-fi RPG based on Mars, where players can choose between diplomacy and combat as you travel through this new world. You play as a Technomancer, a formidable warrior who can make use of destructive electrical powers, who can have a number of combat styles using the wide upgrade tree.
Below is the new E3 trailer for the title, which will become available to purchase later this month on June 28th.
Below are the PC system requirements for the title, which state that the game will require a minimum of a quad-core CPU, 4GB or system memory, and a GTX 560 or HD6950 GPU.
- Minimum PC requirements:
- OS: Windows 7 / 8 / 10 (64-bit versions only)
- Processor: AMD FX-4100 X4 (3,6 GHz)/Intel Core i5-2500 (3,3 GHz)
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: 1 GB, DirectX 11, AMD Radeon HD 6950/NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 11 GB available space
- Sound Card: DirectX compatible
You can join the discussion on The Technomancer's E3 Trailer and PC system requirements on the OC3D Forums.
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RobWorkProject 0.7.0
Workcell setup files in the tag format have suffix
.wu or
.dev. Conventionally a
.dev file is used for a single device (rw::models::Device) whereas a
.wu file is used for a complete workcell (rw::models::WorkCell) containing the environment and a number of imported devices. Tag workcell files are loaded with rw::loaders::WorkCellLoader::load().
A tag file contains a sequence of tags. Every tag has a name and each name must be unique. A tag contains zero or more attributes that each take up one line. The first word on an attribute line is the name of the attribute, and the elements following the name are the attribute values. The following types of attribute values are supported:
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double): For example
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The following is an example of a syntactically valid tag:
{ "demo tag" ! A tag named 'demo tag' ! Two attributes with mixed types of attribute values: StringsAndNumbers "one" 1 "two" 2 "three" 3 DofsAndQs 1 (12) 2 (54, 12) ! An attribute with no attribute values: Hello }
In workcell descriptions based on the tag format each tag maps to a frame (rw::kinematics::Frame) of the workcell. The name of the tag maps (prefixed by the device name) to the name of the frame. Here is an example of a typical tag for a frame:
{ "Obstacle" ! The name of the frame. ! The transform and parent of the frame: Position (0.8, -0.5, -0.4) RPY (0, 0, 0) ReferenceFrame "WORLD" ! CAD geometry for collision checking and display: GeoID "Geometry/obstacle" }
The name of the frame is
"Obstacle". Its parent frame is the frame named
"WORLD" which is defined to be the world frame (rw::models::WorkCell::getWorldFrame()). The position and orientation of the frame relative to its parent is given by the Position and RPY attributes. The contents of the CAD file
"Geometry/obstacle" is used for display and collision checking for the frame. The loader will add a suitable suffix so that e.g.
"Geometry/obstacle.stl" is used for collision checking and
"Geometry/obstacle.3ds" is used for display.
The tag attributes GeoID, CollisionModelID, and DrawableID each take an identifier for a CAD geometry as argument. The identifier can either be the name of the file of a CAD geometry, or it can be a string describing a geometric primitive.
The supported geometric primitives are:
This is a complete workcell showing the use of geometric primitives:
This is what the workcell looks like when loaded into RobWorkStudio:
We show the setup files for a workcell containing a static environment, a device and a movable item:
The workcell description is distributed across 3 files named
environment.wu, and
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workcell.wu file imports the environment and device files and positions the movable item:
environment.wu file has a setup similar to the workcell described in section Geometric primitives :
device.dev file contains a device with 7 revolute joints that alternate between roll and pitch. To keep the example self-contained the built-in geometric primitives have been used for link geometries.
device.dev file as well as well as the
workcell.wu file has a collision setup file that lists the pairs of frames for which to omit collision checking. This is the
DeviceCollisionSetup.xml file referred to in the
device.dev file:
This is the
CollisionSetup.xml file referred to in the
workcell.wu file:
Constructing such collision setup files can be cumbersome; in fact the two files were computed by a script.
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The Telepsychiatry Committee of AACAP envisions a time when all children with mental health conditions have access to the care they need. Health care reform has made many more children eligible for services. Telehealth technologies offer one approach to help provide services to children who do not have access to traditional sources or are living in underserved communities. The Telepsychiatry Committee focuses on the use of telehealth technologies to improve the care and outcomes of children and adolescents who do not have access to traditional forms of mental health care.
There are many definitions for telehealth. The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) defines telehealth as "The use of electronic information and telecommunications technologies to support and promote long-distance clinical health care, patient and professional health-related education, public health, and health administration (http://www.hrsa.gov/ruralhealth/about/telehealth/glossary.html). When telehealth relies on synchronous (interactive) technologies, such as videoconferencing or telephony to deliver medical care to patients, the term "telemedicine" is used, and when that care specifically involves mental health or psychiatric services, the terms "telemental health" (TMH) and "telepsychiatry," respectively, are generally used (American Telemedicine Association; www.americantelemed.org).
The Telepsychiatry Committee has developed some resources to help AACAP members to establish a telepsychiatry practice.
Telepsychiatry Toolkit
The Clinical Update: Telepsychiatry with Children and Adolescents, Oct. 2017
Guidelines and Policies
Links to resources from AACAP on practice guidelines and information for families.
Telehealth Resource Centers
In 2006, the federal Office for the Advancement of Telehealth initiated a regional telehealth resource center (TRC) grant program to provide support and guidance to telehealth programs. The thirteen TRCs have a mission to serve as a focal point for advancing the effective use of telehealth and support access to telehealth services in rural and underserved communities. The TRCs have extensive telehealth experience and can provide services, resources and tools to both developing and operating programs. Their websites offer many tools to assist in program development and success.
Other Useful Websites
Useful websites providing practical information regarding telemental health practice, including information on reimbursement for telepsychiatry services.
A list of commonly used words or phrases to describe telehealth activities, equipment and requirements. Further information regarding terminology can be found at the web sites for each of the federally funded Telehealth Resource Centers and at the American Telemedicine Association.


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Job description
Duties: Provides process and technical leadership for Information Technology Services to ensure enterprise reporting and data are integrated into school operations. Develop a reporting portal with reports and extracts and manipulates data, analyzes and interprets data to produce regular reports. Serves as primary resource for school-wide institutional research needs. Analyzes trend data to provide timely business and process analytics for strategic management decision support. Manages systems security and enforces and audits security policies and procedures. Leads Security and Privacy Impact Assessment (SPIA) activities. Leads education and outreach by conducting workshops on computer security related topics. Participates on relevant committees and teams.
Qualifications: BA/BS degree with a minimum of three years of relevant experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience. Strong analytical skills, with an attention to detail. Excellent written and verbal communications skills are required. Experience working with large, complex datasets. Familiar with writing complex queries to pull data from multiple databases and tables. Experienced with creating and generating data reports, that can be used by various departments. Knowledge of various IT security concepts.
Reference Number: 06-28851
Salary Grade: D
Employment Type: Exempt
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The Dream Team, Worship Leaders: Barbara Clutter, Tamara Range, George Hubert, Steve Burns, Charles Halsted, Meghan Kelly
When was the last time you really had a really great conversation? Whether it was with a partner, some long-time friends, or new acquaintances, it usually starts by being asked the right questions. Whether you are a founding member or a seeker who has just recently come to our congregation, we've got some questions for you, and we think they're the 'right questions.' This is a continuation of the invitation The Dream Team extended to this congregation to be a part of "something big." It's getting bigger, and we'll reveal how.


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(1) Material: 100% High-grade PU Leather
(2) Dimensions: 16.92″ x 5.5″ x 11.02″.
(3) With zipper closure;the handle can be adjustable,can be used as tote,or shoulder bag.
(4) Contains 3 pockets (inside); 1 inner zipper pocket, phone slot and card slot
(5) Excellent bag for leisure, school, party, shopping and duty
Leather Tote Bag (Model1651) (Big)
Type: High-grade PU leather, 16.92″ x 5.5″ x 11.02″,
Two-sided Printing
33.51 Oz. Made from High-grade PU leather.
Dimensions: 16.92″ x 5.5″ x 11.02″.
One Inner zipper pocket on back wall and two slip pockets.
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Recovering from a Heart Attack
Your heart is responsible for pumping life-giving blood throughout the body. When your heart stops, cells all over your body can die from a lack of oxygen. Heart attacks are devastating, but many people can return to a normal lifestyle after their first attack. Thus, it is important to make recovery your main responsibility following a heart attack.
Often, a heart attack can come without warning. However, there are some medications that have been linked to increased chances of heart attack. One such drug is YAZ, also called Yasmin or Ocella. If you have taken any of these medications, then suffered from a heart attack, you should contact a YAZ lawsuit attorney from Williams Hart today at 800-761-3187.
Lifestyle Changes After Heart Attack
After a heart attack, you will need to get two weeks to three months of rest. However, it is also important for heart attack victims to become more physically active. Thus, you need to balance physical activity with rest. If you get tired during the day, you can take a nap to help keep you healthy. Also, it is of utmost importance to avoid tobacco, as this can greatly increase your risk of having a second attack.
Angina Pectoris
Many heart attack victims suffer from chest pain called angina pectoris following a heart attack. Usually, this tightness or pressure hits after exercise or a large meal, and it should go away very shortly. You should always let your doctor know about any pains that you may have, but especially if it gets worse or occurs after little to no physical activity.
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A heart attack is a traumatic, emotional event for your family, as well as a physical hardship and stressful time for you. If you have suffered from a heart attack due to YAZ, Yasmin, or Ocella, you may be entitled to financial compensation to help you recover from this difficult time. For a free case evaluation, please contact an experienced YAZ lawyer from Williams Hart at 800-761-3187 today.


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DNA confirms the genetic link between northern Spain and Ireland, indicative of the westward migration of Israelites prior to the Assyrian dispersion:
DNA confirms the genetic link between jews and Negroids:
5. History since the last Ice Age: National and International DNA Projects
5.1 Y-chromosome and mixed Y-chromosome/mtDNA tests
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5.2. mtDNA test programmes
The most famous forensic mtDNA test is probably that which positively identified the
bodies of the last Russian czar, Nicholas II, four of his family, three
servants and their doctor. The test also confirmed that Anna Anderson Manahan wasn't as
she'd claimed a surviving daughter of the czar, the Duchess Anastasia, but plain Franziska
Schanzkowska. (Alan Savin's pamphlet has full details of this case.)
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5.3. Other modern DNA testing activities
Canadian authorities recently announced that three of 43 unknown victims of the Titanic
disaster whose remains lie in a graveyard in Halifax, Nova Scotia are being partially
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Experience the Kruger National Park & Marloth Park
While staying with Nokuthula Bush Retreat, you will have a wide selection of activities and attractions to experience in the Kruger Park area to enjoy.
Some of the activities and attractions include the following while staying at our Marloth Park Accommodation:
- Fitness: Nokuthula Bush Retreat is an ideal area for cycling and jogging. (Guests are welcome to bring their mountain bikes.)
- Photography: With the abundance of bird life, animals and majectic landscapes, it is sometimes a challenge to put your camera down and live the moment.
- Safari: Book a game viewer for an outing to the Kruger National Park.
- Restaurants: Excellent restaurants are located nearby to enjoy.
- Golfing: Excellent golf courses are available in Malelane and Komatipoort
- Hiking: Kilometers of unexpected experiences on many walking trails are available.
- Relaxing: For your convenience and relaxation, we have a small library, DStv (satelline TV) and splash pool available, We will also assist in the booking at any health spa in the area.


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2. Using a 1 1/2" curling iron, curl the bottom half of your hair away from your face.
3. This is what mine looks like after I curl it. I curl the bottom half pretty loose to preserve the length and help it lay better once it's all curled.
4. Let down the top section. This time spray each section individually before you curl it to make sure every section gets a good amount of hairspray.
6. Crispy curls! If anyone is considering just leaving it like this, I forbid it. This step is important though, using a lot of hairspray is what will give you a lot of body.
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It's hard to survive in our economy when you need to have bad credit repaired. You can't get new credit cards. You can't get a loan for a house or car. You have to use inconvenient payment methods that don't offer rewards like cash back or frequent flier miles. Whether you live in Syracuse, NY or somewhere else, it's a drag. But hey, complaining never helped. Why not talk to Syracuse credit solutions experts instead? When you need credit repair help, the best solution is to go ahead and get it.
In the current bad economy, your Syracuse, NY financial situation is more difficult if you need debt solutions or consumer credit repair. Credit card companies know this, and they'll do whatever they can to take advantage of your hardship. They're all too happy to kick you while you're down, and the frustration can make it hard to know where to turn for good advice or credit repair help. Fortunately, there are many Syracuse consumer credit solutions if you know where to look, and our qualified agents can help you find them.
It's annoying when you need a new credit card but can't get one because you have to fix a bad credit report. It's even more annoying when you didn't know you needed bad credit repair because the bad credit isn't your fault, but the result of a misunderstanding, a stolen identity, or a stolen credit card. If you need help finding credit services in Syracuse, NY that can quickly repair credit reports, call our credit repair hotline. We've got all the resources you need on Syracuse credit restoration.
Credit card companies make their money by enticing you with the freedom of plastic, then cashing in when you're struggling the most. When people are down on their luck, credit card companies just laugh because now they can make billions off of what they hope will become a lifetime of suffering. Don't give these greedy corporations the satisfaction. Find a credit repair agency in Syracuse, NY and stop giving away your hard-earned dollars. Contact us for detailed information on Syracuse consumer credit solutions.
Are you thinking of buying a new house in Syracuse, NY but have bad credit? Even if you have a reliable income and a history of financial responsibility, bad credit can make it hard to get a loan. Additionally, if you can get a loan, lenders will use bad credit as an excuse to raise your interest rate. It's not fair, but with help from Syracuse credit services, you can fix bad credit and make getting that loan or low interest rate a possibility. Call us for help.


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How to Make Debt Collection As Easy as a Cakewalk
Whether you own a small company, a big one or a mere start-up, one major thing that you have to face is not getting your dues on time from your customers. That is why; usually what most of the companies do is they hire professionals who can deal with the company's finance related issues. However, if you think you are not ready to hire a specialist in your company to deal with such clients because that might take a toll on your office budget, then it'll be best if you hire a debt collection agency when needed, because they take the payment only when the accounts are recovered.
What is a debt collection agency?
Don't know what a debt or business collection agency is? Well, it's an organization that has a team of professionals who can easily help you get back all your debts from clients/customers. How? Well, they initially send letters and emails to the debtors and wait for their responses. But, in case they don't receive any response, they will do every possible thing to track the debtors to get back your debt.
Now, you must be thinking, from where you can get such a service in Houston, Texas, right? Well, there's nothing to worry as there are numerous debt collection agencies available all across this business hub of USA. But, don't just hire a random agency. It's wise to find a few companies online or by taking referrals and then comparing them. Comparing will surely help you choose the best collection agency in this city.
What should you compare before hiring a collection agency?
Wondering what to compare to find out the best agency? Then here's a list of things that you should compare before hiring a commercial collection agency. Please take a look.
Compare the experience
When you hire an employee, you do check his/her experience, right? Similarly, when choosing a debt collection agency, it will be wise that you check that agency's experience. Experience is something that will give you an idea whether the company is capable of handling tough to toughest of debt related issues. Hence, make sure you check every company's experience and then compare it to see which one is more experienced.
Compare the reviews/testimonials
Before you choose a business collection agency, it is always better that you check their reviews and testimonials thoroughly. Why? So that you can get an idea of what their previous customers think about their service. So, do ask the companies to provide their testimonials. And in case they cannot show testimonials, look for online reviews. And after collecting the reviews or testimonials, make sure you compare and see which agency has got more thumbs up. The one that has received more thumbs up is surely the one that is better than the rest.
Compare the agency's 'win rate'
Last but not the least, what you have to do is compare the 'win rate' among those companies. Win rate means that how many cases a company has won out of all the cases that they received in the past years. By comparing the number of cases the companies has won, you'll be able to filter the best collection agency that has solved most of the cases they have received in the past.
So, these were all the three essential things that you have to compare when hiring a commercial collection agency. Hope this article was helpful. For more collection agency related information, wait for my next articles.


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Secret-Files is a tool which helps you to protect your private files and folders. With it you can hide files and folders which you don't want other people to see. So it's a useful tool for people who want to protect their privacy. Besides it support password protection. And at last, it has a friendly and clean UI and it's really easy to use.
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What's New in Secret-Files
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Introducing PTAir™ – a world-first low carbon and carbon neutral PTA solution.
BP Target Neutral has been working with our Petchems business on a world first, the low carbon1 and carbon neutral PTA brand, PTAir™. The range includes three products that offer a more sustainable solution for the polyester value chain through a combination of world-class technology and carbon management expertise.
A feature of PTAir™ is its use of proprietary PX and PTA technology which supports a 29% lower global warming potential than the average European PTA production2. This low carbon benefit has been independently assured by ERM CVS3.
In addition to this BP has launched PTAir™ Neutral, the world's first certified carbon neutral PTA. PTAir™ Neutral offers customers the opportunity to purchase a carbon neutral product where associated carbon equivalent emissions are mitigated through the investment in carbon projects providing equivalent carbon benefits and delivering a net zero position. These projects, located around the world, provide economic, social and environmental benefits to the communities they serve.
In addition, customers have the opportunity to offset all of their product footprint – over and above their PTA use – to achieve full carbon neutrality across their product portfolio. This unique offer is made possible through BP Target Neutral.
PTAir™ is available in Europe and China today with plans to roll out in the US in 2018.
"Our exciting new PTAir™ product offer is an important stepping stone towards a more sustainable polyester chain," said Luis Sierra, CEO, BP Aromatics. "PTAir™ is available today in large quantities and seamlessly fits into the current supply chain as a 'drop in' substitute for higher carbon, conventional PTA. Moreover it allows our customers to economically achieve a meaningful carbon footprint reduction using a raw material whose eco-profile has been independently measured and verified by respected environmental consultants."
For more information visit Our Advancing Low Carbon activities.
- Based on an independent cradle-to-gate Eco-profile by IFEU reviewed by ERM Certification and Verification Services (ERM CVS). The study conducted by IFEU uses Plastics Europe Methodology to compare the environmental impact of 1 Kg of BP Geel PTA manufactured with BP integrated PX (integrated production) to PTA produced in Europe as published in the Environmental Product Declaration of the PET Manufacturers in Europe February 2016.The study is in accordance to ISO 14040-44 requirements. Data for both studies are based on 2013. Mass balance approach based on proportion of integrated PX versus total consumption. PTAir™ is a trade mark of BP p.l.c
- Compared to the Global Warming Potential (100 years) per 1 kg PTA as published in the Environmental Product Declaration of the PET Manufacturers in Europe February 2016. PTA produced by BP Aromatics NV in Geel is included in the European study average and represents ~30% of the total installed production capacity in Europe in the input
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Le Thu, Mar 27, 2003, à 04:19:25PM +0100, Jeroen ten Berge a écrit:
Hi all, I've tested Dia 0.91 at work as a replacement for Visio, the DXF importer fill's all my memory and messes up the complete GDI, seeing events from key strucks but no can make sense about what's happening on screen, I thought it was busy importing so i left it for about 15 minutes, thinking that a P4 2GHz with 256MB shouldn't take more than that for a 1M44 DXF file i decided to reset the machine, another try led to the same result.
There may be an infinite loop somewhere. Normally, the DXF import plug-in is platform-independent; is there anything confidential in this DXF file? -- Cyrille --


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Froch v Groves 2
30 May 2014, 07:23 | Updated: 30 March 2016, 13:50
Listen to Froch and Groves ahead of their rematch at Wembley.
Nottingham boxer Carl Froch thinks tomorrow's re-match against George Groves could define his career.
Groves, meanwhile, says he'll end the day a worldwide boxing star.
Froch'll put his IBF and WBA world super-middleweight titles on the line at Wembley.
The weigh-in takes place this afternoon.
They haven't had many nice words to say about each other in the build up to the contest at a sold-out Wembley.
Fighting Talk: Froch v Groves 2
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Pagination is a navigation style where you have a bunch of content that won't fit on one screen, so you give your user BACK and NEXT arrow keys to flip through "pages" displaying the content. In many ways, it's preferable to a scrolling navigation, because you don't have to fill the box with all of your content at once – you can pull it down for your user on demand. (note: i've seen a few rare cases where a the application downloads content as you scroll the list, but in my experience it's not very common)
You see pagination everywhere, and i use it at least once in every single game i build. It's just handy. Check out the puzzle gallery in Jigsaw! for an example:
When i was first learning Flash and i had to set up these paginated galleries all the time, i would constantly make the same mistake. The left arrow button would fire a function that would be almost identical to the right arrow button's function. For some bizarre reason, it took me YEARS to figure out how to set this up without duplicating code.
If you're a smartypants and you figured this out long ago, more power to you. But if you're just learning and you have a similar problem, here's the trick:
ID, please
The first thing you need is an ID to store which "page" the user is looking at. Remember that our gallery is going to be completely code-created, so there are no actual "pages" to speak of – you decide how many items will appear on your pages. But you'll use this ID value to figure out which content to display.
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//AS2: var ID:Number; //AS3: var ID:uint;
That's the variable declaration. When you initialize your gallery screen, set ID to 0.
Next, i give each arrow button a variable called "mod". That's short for "modifier". The LEFT/BACK/PREVIOUS arrow gets a mod of -1, while the RIGHT/FORWARD/NEXT button gets a mod of 1.
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btnArrowLeftClip.mod = -1; btnArrowRightClip.mod = 1;
Interactify it!
Set up some button events or event listeners for your arrow buttons, and pass each button's mod value to a common function.
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//AS2: btnArrowLeftClip.onRelease = btnArrowRightClip.onRelease = function():Void { flipGallery(this.mod); } //AS3: btnArrowRightClip.mod = 1; btnArrowLeftClip.mod = -1; btnArrowLeftClip.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, flipGallery); btnArrowRightClip.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, flipGallery);
Flip it real good
Now, you just set up a flipGallery function. It accepts mod (-1 or 1) as input and uses that to change the ID value.
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// AS2: flipGallery = function(mod:Number):Void { ID += mod; // If mod is -1, ID goes down. If mod is 1, ID goes up. } //AS3: function flipGallery(e:MouseEvent):void { ID += e.target.mod; }
That's a Wrap (?)
You'll want to add some logic to your flipGallery function to wrap the ID variable. Figure out how much stuff you have to display, then figure out how much stuff you can fit on one "page". That will give you totalItems and totalItemsPerPage values. Do some division to calculate a totalPages value.
Then, within your flipGallery function/method:
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if(ID >= totalPages) ID = 0; if(ID < 0) ID = totalPages-1; // we subtract 1 because we're working with 0-base counting
So what do you actually do with your flipGallery function once the ID is set properly? If you have all of the things you want to display numbered sequentially and linked from the library (or stored in an array), just loop through totalItemsPerPage. Multiply ID (current page) by totalItemsPerPage and add it to your iterative value (usually i in a for loop). That's the number of the correct item to display … so display it!
There's a little more work involved with actually laying out your items on the stage so that they're not all lumped together. i'll leave that up to your discretion. i just wanted to talk about the mod method, because i would have appreciated it very much if the Ghost of Christmas Future had written this article for me and emailed it to me back in 2002.
Will Tiny Tim ever learn Actionscript, spirit?
Shall we have some more?
Was that helpful? Not? Do you have a way better way to do it? Is there another topic you want to see covered? Let me know!
– Ryan


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The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) today announced a cooperative agreement with the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM), a specialty organization of addiction medicine physicians, to develop a mentoring program for internists, family medicine specialists, primary care physicians, pain specialists, psychiatrists and other non-addiction medicine physicians who are treating patients addicted to prescription narcotic pain medications or heroin with buprenorphine medications.
Using a three- year SAMHSA grant of $499,681 annually, ASAM will create a physician clinical support system that will provide a national network of 50 trained physician mentors with expertise in treating addiction to opioids (narcotic pain medications and heroin) with buprenorphine. The mentors will represent the medical specialty training societies permitted by law to provide required training to physicians on use of buprenorphine.
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