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It was odd, the Clippers looking like they might win a second consecutive game on the Houston Rockets' court while barely breaking a sweat only to falter in the second half of a 115-109 loss to the Houston Rockets in Game 2 of the Western Conference semifinals on Wednesday night at the Toyota Center. Here are five takeaways from the game:
1. The Clippers foundered without Chris Paul's poise in the second half. The offensive execution that was so sharp in the second half of Game 1 and the second quarter of Game 2 dissipated into the Toyota Center air after the Clippers took a 13-point lead in the third quarter Wednesday. The Clippers looked unsure of themselves while moving the ball without a sense of purpose. Their 44 points in the second half were only three more than they scored in the second quarter, when they had appeared to seize control of the game and the series.
2. James Harden finally got going. You could make a fairly strong argument that the Rockets were better with Harden off the court through the first seven quarters of the series, when he did little besides miss shots and turn the ball over. Then the runner-up in most-valuable-player voting started playing like one, scoring 16 points while playing the entire fourth quarter. "Basically, it was up to me to go out there and push us forward," said Harden, who finished with 32 points.
3. Blake Griffin couldn't sustain his superhuman first half. The Clippers forward joined Kobe Bryant, Tim Duncan, Tony Parker and LeBron James as the only players to score at least 24 points while making 75% or more of their shots in the first half of a playoff game since the 2005-06 season. Then the Rockets put Dwight Howard on Griffin in the third quarter and things changed, Griffin scoring 10 points in the second half as the Clippers failed to match up with a smaller Houston lineup.
4. Free throws were costly for the Clippers. The Clippers intentionally fouled Howard and Josh Smith at times, but there were plenty of other occasions in which they sent the Rockets to the free-throw line without intending to do so. Howard shot 21 free throws, making eight, and Harden made all 15 of his to help the Rockets wallop the Clippers, 64-32, in free throws attempted. Had Houston made more than 42, the game would have been a rout.
5. All eyes turn to Paul for Game 3. Hamstrings can be tricky, as the Clippers are discovering while assessing Paul's availability on what seems like a minute-to-minute basis. If he returns Friday night at Staples Center after sitting out the previous two games, Paul will have had five full days off since he strained his left hamstring in the first half of Game 7 in the first round against the San Antonio Spurs. Paul was scheduled to begin on-court workouts Thursday, giving the Clippers a better idea of whether he could play in what is suddenly a pivotal game for the Clippers.
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New York approves tuition-free college for middle class
- New York became the first state to waive college tuition for middle-class students with the passage of a bill in its Senate.
Under a plan first introduced in January by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, undergraduate students at State University of New York or City University of New York schools will be eligible for the Excelsior Scholarship if their families earn less than $100,000 a year. By 2019, the income cap will be raised to $125,000. The law will be phased in beginning in September.
The bill comes with some provisions: It excludes part-time students, room and board, and other fees. The legislation provides $8 million to promote online educational resources. Students benefiting from the bill are expected to live and work in the state for a number of years equal to their time spent in college. If students leave the state, the scholarships become student loans.(Excerpt) Read more at: upi.com ...
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For a long time, not just the Trojan War but the city of Troy itself was held to be mythological. In the late nineteenth century, however, Heinrich Schliemann uncovered the ruins of a Bronze Age city that corresponds with many descriptions of where Troy must have been. Based on Mycenaean and Trojan archaeological evidence, historians and archaeologists believe that a series of conflicts did actually take place between Troy (in Asia Minor) and the Mycenaean cities (in Greece) in the Late Bronze Age (1400-1200 b.c.e.) While the causes of the conflict can only be speculated at, what is known is that the city of Troy suffered enormous destruction during this period, and was apparently burned to the ground. While we cannot know, the Iliad may refer to events in this conflict that attained legendary status over time, particularly as Mycenaean culture was destroyed by Dorian invasions that ended their Bronze Age heyday.
The Trojan War was in fact a real war, but the reasons that lay behind the war may be varying widely. It is however known for sure, that the story of the Greek Horse, is in fact a myth.
The Romans also consider themselves to be descendants of the Trojans, and more specifically, Aeneas. A trojan commander. The Romans must have had some basis for this story, as it couldnt have been completely made up.


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"For me, they have been absolutely amazing. In my first three months training with them (twice a week) I dropped three pant sizes. I only lost about 5 lbs, but I lost fat and gained muscle. My body was completely changed. Now, I am not an overweight person by any means, but I noticed a huge difference almost immediately. I have a good friend (male) who joined my class last year and with twice a week Kettlebells and a changed diet he has now lost somewhere around 70 or 80lbs.
I was petrified when I joined because I had never been one for going to the gym, let alone lifting weights and I had absolutely NO clue what Kettlebells were. I used to joke that I had "negative muscles" but I went from struggling with a 6kg to now being able to press a 16kg (sometimes, I'm still a work in progress) and swinging with a 24kg. I love that almost every exercise is an overall body workout, not just focusing on one muscle group or one part of the body. My trainer always says that if he had to choose just a couple of things out of his entire gym he would take Kettlebells every time. I love going to my class, it's invigorating and, even three years later, I still find it exciting to realize that I'm actually kind of strong, and way stronger than I look or people would expect me to be.
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I thing Best one is http://www.9bgames.com/
Evony is a free browser based game that uses flash. It is a quick and easy 10 second signup and asks for NO personal information.
It is one of the best games I've played and definitely very much worth trying out. You will make lots of friends as there are alliances in Evony. You can also declare other alliances as friendly or hostile.
The game plays similar in the beginning to something like AoE because of the building of your city etc but it very quickly becomes something very different. You will build cities(you can have up to 10 once you hit highest rank) and you can attack and conquer other people or NPC character cities. You will be building huge armies to attack these cities or defend your own cities, you can also garrison your alliance members cities with your own troops to help them out and vice versa, freakin' awesome!
There is so much to this game it would be impossible for me to explain everything in one review so just do this.
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On her farewell game, USWNT star Abby Wambach wants the United States men's Coach Klinsmann fired and out for saying
"a bunch of foreign guys"
The United States Women's National Team soccer star, who helped the U.S. win the Women's World Cup this summer, played her final game on Wednesday. In her last game she played China in New Orleans for a friendly.
Wambach says
"The way he brought in a bunch of foreign guys is not something I believe in. He hasn't focused on the youth programs. I don't believe in it"


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Day 1 – Check into a deluxe room in the Seaview Motel, overlooking the wharf and with stunning views of the mouth of the Endeavour river. The Seaview Motel is a short walk to the boat ramps, pubs, clubs and restaurants. Twin motel room, ensuite, tea and coffee.
Day 2 – Full day fishing the Endeavour river. Cast lures, fly and live-bait for barramundi, mangrove jack, fingermark, trevally and queenfish in a river rich with history, diversity and wildlife. All bait, tackle, refreshments and lunch provided. Depart 7am return 4.30pm.
Day 3 – Reef fishing – With Cooktown's close proximity to the Great Barrier Reef you will be fishing for Spanish mackerel, longtail tuna, trevally, queenfish, coral trout, red emperor and nannygai within a few minutes of leaving port. All bait, tackle, refreshments and lunch provided. Depart 7am return 4.30pm.
Day 4 – Check out of accommodation.
Accommodation is at the conveniently located Seaview Motel directly opposite the wharf and easy walking to restaurants, pubs and clubs.
Inclusions – 2 days guided fishing charters and lunches. All bait provided. Tackle provided on a lost and replace basis. 3 night's twin share motel accommodation.
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28.Dec.2013 Quinnipiac @ Oregon State
Sunday at 8pm, the mighty Quinnipiac visits Gil.
This is the last non-conference game, so it looks like the Beavers will go 8-4 versus horrible competition (#168 RPI). Hopefully Gary Payton II is half as good as his father, because right now the trend is clearly a slow decline, despite 5 years of "rebuilding". With Nelson and Collier leaving I don't see who will score. Jack and/or the two guys who still watch Beav hoops — are any of the underclassman ready to replace these guys?


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Whoever came up with the concept of "snack cake" knows what's good. Such clever wording that makes it seem totally acceptable to snack on cake any time of day. I can totally get on board with that. Plus I'm sure a little more sugar is just what you needed after Halloween. Why not keep the sugar… Read more
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After Kim Kardashian, Miley Cyrus has decided to break the internet by going completely naked once again for V magazine.
Last time, Miley Cyrus stripped for the magazine but showed her bare side body as she lied on the sofa during the shoot. However, Kim Kardashian West seems to be inspiring this singer as the later showed full bare frontal for the magazine this time.
This is the first time Miley Cyrus went full frontal for a magazine. She posted several of the NSFW behind-the-scenes pics from her Bangerz tour on Instagram. The magazine shows a series of X-rated Polaroids taken behind the scenes of Miley's recent Bangerz world tour.
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This opening installment of the author's Lockwood and Company series is a brisk-paced tale with easily flowing prose that would be a quick read for most folks. It's a novel that will appeal to fans of the supernatural, as well as of feisty heroines.
Technically, this could be called fantasy, since it's set in an alternate England. Aside from the Problem and its ramifications, the setting is much like the real world. (I originally thought it might be supposed to be our world, decades into the future, but a reference to capital punishment existing in England at the time of a 50-year-old murder precluded that idea.) But the ramifications of the Problem are big. For half a century, ghostly apparitions have become VERY common in England (it's not said whether that's true in the rest of the world), and universally recognized as real.
The ghostly Visitors aren't always malevolent; but they can be, and their touch can kill. Curfews keep people indoors at night, iron and other charms are commonly used to ward buildings and people, and agencies that deal with apparitions are respected and profitable. But though most agencies are run and supervised by adults, only some children gifted with the sensitivity can see, hear or sense ghosts directly; and they lose this sensitivity as they become adults. So the field operatives of these agencies are tweens and teens; well-paid for their work, but subject to lethal danger all the same. Lockwood and Co. is atypical in not having adult supervisors; the teen owner and his two associates (one of whom is our narrator, Lucy Carlyle) are on their own.
This brings us to one point that's admittedly unrealistic. I don't mean the idea that society would countenance putting minors in harm's way. If that's what it took to handle something like the Problem, politicians and pundits who now wax eloquent about protecting children and the merits of child labor laws would hesitate about one nanosecond (if that). But it's not likely that they'd tolerate three teens living together on their own and running their own business. True, Lockwood's an orphan. But he'd been "in care" at one time, and I can't see them voluntarily letting him out of it. Lucy's a runaway, though not without some reason; and the fact that her Talent made her the main breadwinner for her mother and sister would give the former a big incentive to want her back. (Her cavalier abandonment of her family is the one blot on her character for me; I can see leaving, but not just abandoning without a goodbye or any further thought or contact.) We don't know where George's parents are; they're not even mentioned.
This is Stroud's way of freeing his teen characters to act on their own without adult guidance, and let his teen readers vicariously fantasize about being free to have their own adventures and show the mettle they think ((sometimes with a basis!) that they have, even if adults don't agree. It's certainly a conceptual flaw in the premise, though. (Like Ilona Andrews in her Kate Daniels series, he also doesn't deal with the massive revolutionary social and ideological implications that a cultural admission that the supernatural is real would have.) But I still found this a great read!
With its teen characters, this is marketed as a YA novel. In keeping with that, it has no sex, hardly any bad language, and no wallowing in ultra-grisly or gross violence (though the feeling of danger is very real). But it's not in any sense a dumbed-down or pablum read; it's a quality work, which can easily command the appreciation of adult readers. Stroud delivers a well-constructed plot, excellently drawn main characters whom you readily like (with the single caveat above) and root for, and a style that's about as pitch-perfect as one could ask for. The tone is mostly serious, and the author is one of the best I've read at evoking a menacing Gothic atmosphere in the right places. (If you're a buff of haunted house yarns, you owe it to yourself to "visit" Combe Carey Hall –vicariously, with the light on.)
But he also knows when to insert a light leavening of humor, and the interactions of his three teens are as real-seeming as they come. Lucy has a great narrative voice. I classified her as an action heroine based on how she handles herself here in life-threatening physical challenges that demand guts, speed, and agility, although the foes she's combatting aren't flesh-and-blood humans. Intensely romance-allergic readers can take note that there's none of THAT here –though I could imagine Lucy and Lockwood as a couple in a few years. And Lockwood's a smart, resourceful, capable hero, in the psychic detective mold.
Bottom line: this is good, clean supernatural fiction, as it's meant to be! I think most readers of that genre will eat it up with a spoon.
Author: Jonathan Stroud
Publisher: Doubleday, available through Amazon, both for Kindle and as a printed book.
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Shadowing effects in MIMO channels for personal area networks
Publiceringsår: 2006
Språk: Engelska
Sidor: 173-177
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Dokumenttyp: Konferensbidrag
Förlag: IEEE--Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
In this paper we analyze the effects of body shadowing in multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) channels used for personal area networks (PANs). We give physical reasoning to why PANs may experience two different types of shadowing, and to support our argument, we present results from a measurement campaign for three different PAN channels with human influence. The campaign is performed using different types of multi-element antenna devices; an access point, a body-worn device and two hand-held devices, conducted over a series of distances between 1-10 m. For each distance, a number of channel realizations are obtained by moving the antenna devices over a small area, and by rotating the persons holding the devices. The results show that it is suitable to distinguish between body shadowing (due to the rotation of the person holding the device) and shadowing due to surrounding objects (lateral movement). We also present a statistical model where the two types of shadowing are described as separate log-normal processes. Furthermore, we find that body shadowing has a big influence on the capacity of the investigated PAN channels. © 2006 IEEE.
- Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering
- Personal area networks
- Shadowing effects
- Multi-element antenna devices
- MIMO channels
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Conad, a supermarket chain based in Italy, has launched a new line of eco-friendly cleaning products that are designed to make it easier than ever for you to keep your household environment clean while reducing the deleterious impact of chemicals on the indoor and outdoor environment.
The Verso Natura Eco line includes solutions for cleaning the home, your clothes and even your own backside. The products include dish soap and laundry detergent made from vegetable-sourced ingredients, and toilet paper and paper towels made with cellulose fibers.
Ultimately, this line of products is a convenient way for people interested in sustainable household practices to dive headfirst into green cleaning in the bathroom, kitchen and laundry room alike.
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Over the next few months I will be writing about why I re-enlisted at 54 years old after more than 23 years as a civilian. Ten years ago next month is when I actually began the process, but for several months before I was thinking about re-enlisting. Congress raised the enlistment age to 42 at the end of 2006. That gave me a window to re-enlist before my 55th birthday.
Ten years ago this month, I had a good job, four kids at home, an amazing beautiful wife, a nice home, a nice life and I had just about convinced myself to call a recruiter and re-enlist.
At the time, in my mind, I wanted to do something for an undefined greater good. Joining the Army National Guard seemed like something I could do for the state, the nation and I might even like it.
In half-dozen years preceding my re-enlistment I had tried volunteering for organizations that help the community. My wife was a hospice volunteer, a kidney donor, and a dozen other great things. I raced my bike and rode 10,000 miles a year.
When I volunteered, the main difficulty was my fellow volunteers. They were so nice. They wanted to be sure was happy volunteering. They agonized over the best way to do everything. And they drove me nuts.
The Army would not care how I felt, not care if I had scheduling conflicts and not care if I was happy. That sounded wonderful.
In retrospect, all this sounds crazy. But at the time, I really was on the way to convincing myself I was doing a good thing by re-enlisting at 54 years old.
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GE Oil & Gas Gets $400 Mln UKEF Injection for Its Ghana Project
UK Export Finance (UKEF) has announced that it will provide $400 million in support for a GE Oil & Gas contract with Ghana's Offshore Cape Three Points Project (OCTP).
GE Oil & Gas, which is headquartered in the UK, is providing subsea production systems to the project, which will develop oil and gas fields approximately 60km offshore from the western side of Ghana's coast. Following first gas production in 2018, the new fields are expected to continuously feed Ghana's thermal power plants for more than 20 years.
Rt Hon. Greg Hands MP, minister for trade and investment, said: "The Offshore Cape Three Points Project will greatly improve Ghana's energy security. Thanks to the UK Government's support, via UK Export Finance, and our global leadership in oil and gas, UK companies are ideally placed to support Ghana's future development and seize the huge export potential that brings."
Lorenzo Simonelli, president and CEO of GE Oil & Gas, said: "This contract represents GE's ability to invest to build local partnership, resource and infrastructure capabilities, and will utilise engineering and manufacturing expertise from the UK, across the supply chain. Export credit agency financing is an important source of support for our customers, and the MoU signed with UKEF in 2015 has helped to support this success."
Support for the contract is a result of the Memorandum of Understanding signed between GE and UKEF in 2015, affirming UKEF's support for GE and GE's commitment to continued investment in its UK operations.
UKEF will provide US $400 million of support to the OCTP project, including a loan under its direct lending facility. This will be UKEF's first direct loan for a project in Africa. UKEF support will finance the specialised systems and equipment, a significant proportion of which has been sourced from the UK.
Total investment in the development of the OCTP are estimated to be $7.9 billion over the life of the project, represents the largest foreign direct investment in Ghana's history. UKEF's support is provided as part of a larger USD$1.35 billion financing package alongside that of the International Finance Corporation and Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency of the World Bank Group, as well as commercial banks HSBC Bank plc, Standard Chartered Bank, Société Générale (London Branch), ING Belgium SA/NV, Natixis, Bank of China, Singapore Branch, Mizuho Bank Ltd and MUFG (Europe) N.V.


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The beach is deserted.
The men in chemical suits
Have left whatever it is
They've left, and leave.
Inland nothing moves.
An abandoned hide,
The cross-bones of a sign,
A dead fox in the heather.
When gannets rooked,
The black rocks were white
With guano like badgers
In an angry sett of sea.


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You do not have to spend a fortune to get a lifetime memory from your successful harvest. Enclosed is a photo of a turkey mount from the gobbler I harvested this spring season. Quaker Boy makes a nice mounting board, where you simply dry your tail fan and insert it into the wooden plaque. The beard attaches with a rubber grommet and hangs below. I added the feet w spurs showing, by using an empty 1/2 gallon cardboard milk container, placing both feet in and filling with Morton table salt. Once dried, I attached them with a length of 20# fishing line. Cool mount, very reasonable cost!
Inexpensive Turkey Mount
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by Tom Butler
Also see: Recording EVP Using a Telephone and EVP Using VoIP and Telephones
The above device permits the connection of a household phone (and phone line) to a tape recorder or computer sound-card for EVP voice recording purposes.
The device input taps directly onto the (undisturbed) phone connection wiring, with the output having a microphone (or sound card) audio plug via shielded cable.
When used in this way, the telephones are used as a modified form of tape recorder microphone for receiving EVP voices as per the standard microphone method. The procedure that has been mentioned previously in the AA-EVP newsletter may be useful – that is, letting the phone go "dead" after picking up the handset – then recording. A faint background sound source may be useful with this microphone method – perhaps a local radio tuned to static / low level voice babble.
If there are two phones on the same line, both may be used simultaneously (see later comments).
When used, the phone network supplies power to energize the telephones when the handset is lifted, and the device then channels the audio to the recorder or sound card.
Older models of telephone may work better with this method, one reason being due to them having the older carbon microphone, rather than the more modern electric version.
Circuit Details
The two 100N caps connected to the line are to isolate the phone line DC from the transformer, preventing any call set-up requests to the phone exchange when the device is connected (phone exchange will not sense this device). Device connects to red and green wires (in USA) of phone termination. Do not remove any existing wires at termination.
The transformer provides balanced input to unbalanced output, so the microphone plug can be grounded via the recorder without upsetting phone line balance.
The 100K / 4K7 resistors drop the line audio level so to be compatible with normal microphone input sensitivities.
The two cross connected diodes ensure that any ringing voltages do not damage the tape recorder (if the phone rings while this device is connected the tape recorder wont be damaged).
A metal enclosure would be preferable to avoid hum pick-up.
Shielded cable should be used between microphone plug and the box and its components. The metal case (if used) should be connected to the cable shield ground.
Simulated Local Telephone Network
(not connected to phone company)
A couple of stand-alone telephones can be energized locally to form a simulated network (see above diagram) for experimentation. The output shown, connects to the phone interface.
A 30V (approximately) supply is used to energize the phone, and this voltage is fed to the phone via two sets of relay coils and resistors. The coils ensure that derived audio is not attenuated by the power supply, and the resistors set the standing current flowing through the phones. This current should be set to 30mA per phone. If preferable, the power supply voltage can be altered instead, to achieve the 30mA.
The use of two telephones may provide advantage over a single unit for the purposes of EVP reception, as there is a circulating interaction of simultaneous audio currents between the two units, which may aid reception.
The two 2uF capacitors may not be needed if the above device only connects to the interface unit – as the interface already has DC input blocking.


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Camelthorn Kalahari Lodge
11 Chalets
Leading Lodges of Africa
The Kalahari Desert in Namibia or Dorsland in Afrikaans is the second largest desert in Namibia after the Namib. The Kalahari is not a true desert as it supports a number of plants and animals, thus making it ideal for game drives and safaris.
Camelthorn Kalahari Lodge is set in a secluded valley between two red sand dunes and hidden amongst ancient camel-thorn trees.
Accommodation and Facilities:
Each air-conditioned chalet has an en-suite bathroom including all the modern conveniences, offering a comfortable getaway from the desert heat. The Lodge consists of a thatched main building, dining area and a boma overlooking a natural stone pool, where you can relax in the shade of a large Camel-thorn tree.


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Naph: Autumn Of The Saroos
Otherwise established as an engineer (for artists such as Tujiko Noriko and World's End Girlfriend) and collaborator (with Chihei Hatakeyama and Tomoyasu Takanishi in All The Frogs Are Our Week End, for example), Naph (real name Toru Ohara) also creates pretty electroacoustic songs and soundscapes, twenty of which compose his double-CD set Autumn Of The Saroos. It's an endearing and intimate collection that features sixteen pieces on one disc (some as short as thirty seconds and one as long as eleven minutes) and four experimental explorations on the other.
Disc one, Far Sounds, is especially endearing when the focus is on the delicate acoustic guitar picking that dominates many of the songs; the inclusion of field recordings (nature sounds, family life, children's voices, etc.) is also a positive, as is the unusual sonic colour a warbly mini-moog contributes to the more experimental pieces. The disc often alternates between an acoustic guitar-based setting and an experimental one, with the latter sometime sounding like an explorative miniature produced by The BBC Radiophonic Workshop (Layer Feedback, for example). Titles alone hint at a given song's content: Rainydays, and Countryside are pastoral acoustic songs, whereas Seascapes and Far Sounds are field recordings-oriented. The latter, the aforementioned long piece, sounds as if Naph took his acoustic guitar into the countryside and recorded himself playing by a river and surrounded by insect thrum and bird chirp. The disc's sole weak element is the amateurish flugelhorn playing that drags down the material whenever it appears (both Naph and Shinobu Nagao are credited with the instrument) and which would have been better omitted altogether.
Disc two, Autumn of The Saroos, draws inspiration from the musique concrete tradition, and it hardly surprises that its four pieces are uncompromisingly experimental in contrast to the sometimes melodic nature of the first disc. Think long-form space drones, equipment noise, and microtonal minimalism, with nature field recordings sprinkled throughout to lend the material a real-world foundation. Time slows considerably during these constructions, which sees the zenith reached in Shirakami, a seventeen-minute collage of insect chirp, acoustic guitar playing, and myriad alien noises of one kind or another. Needless to say, the first disc's the more accessible one of the two and the natural entry point. Having said that, there's a strong home-made feel to the ninety-minute collection, which adds rather than detracts from its appeal, and so too does its handsome packaging. It might be added that Autumn of The Saroos is also the first release on Naph's own Ambiencephono label.
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Over Easy: BRICS Summit VI
Today, leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — the world's largest emerging economies plus South Africa — will meet in Fortaleza, Brazil for the sixth BRICS summit.
With a combined land mass of 25% of the earth's surface, 40% of the world's population, and 18% of the global economy, BRICS is becoming an established counterbalance the power of the G7 and "The West" on the global scene. Although the theme of the summit will be "social inclusion", at the top of the agenda is the creation of two new entities controlled entirely by the five BRICS members. The New Development Bank (NDB) will fund development projects independent of the US-controlled World Bank, and the Contingent Reserve Arrangement (CRA) will provide relief from the austere conditions and requirements of the IMF.
The BRICS Development Bank, which will mirror the World Bank, will have US$ 100 billion in authorized capital to be used for financing infrastructure and sustainable development projects in the BRICS member nations and other developing countries. The BRICS countries will initially underwrite US$ 50 billion in capital to the bank, in equal parts of US$ 10 billion each.
Additional shareholders will be permitted upon approval, but the BRICS nations will maintain a 55% controlling interest in the bank. Officially, the location of the NDB has not been determined, but there are indications that Shanghai will be host.
The CRA will be a defensive mechanism that will protect BRICS nations against external currency shocks and will be able to react quickly to capital outflow by keeping its exchange reserves in gold and convertible currencies. According to the BRICS summit press release,
The Contingent Reserve Arrangement (CRA), which will mirror the IMF, will receive an initial subscribed capital of US$ 100 billion and function as an additional buffer of defense for BRICS countries facing difficulties with their balance of payments. China will contribute US$ 41 billion, Brazil, Russia and India will each contribute US$ 18 billion and South Africa will contribute US$ 5 billion to the initial capital
The CRA will operate similar to a closed credit union and will provide an alternative for nations unwilling or unable to meet the economic or political conditions of the IMF. Let's see how effective global banking can be if it has a conscience and compassion.
As always, Off topic is welcome and encouraged. Lurkers are welcome to join the chat. See you in the comments.
Photo by Ricardo released under a Creative Commons license.


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Send a POST request to a web service endpoint offered by this module to start a download. The web service accepts the following URL query parameters.
You can start the endpoint via the command line or by including download-service as a module.
Install the module in your project.
npm install --save download-service
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My Partner and I recently stayed here after a day exploring Chester - we had decided not to stay in the city centre and were very pleased with our choice when we arrived at this beautiful hotel. The Staff were very welcoming and our room spacious and comfortable. We ate in the restaurant (I don't think I have ever met such a helpful and efficient waiter!) and the quality of the food was excellent. Only a couple of tiny things I would point out, there was no music in the restaurant or bar, which considering how small and intimate it is meant we felt we couldn't really talk much during dinner so as not to disturb the other customers. Also the bathrooms could probably do with a refit, but nothing major. Overall a charming hotel, and I think we would definitely return when back in the area.
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BTEUP Result 2017
The Board of Technical Education, Uttar Pradesh, Lucknow has been completed the examination process in May month for Diploma Engineering courses. A lot of students have taken this exam and now they are looking for BTEUP Result 2017 for all the job seekers. The concerned authority of the board will soon upload the UP Polytechnic Diploma Exam Result 2017 on its official website at www.bteup.nic.in. The students who are studying in 1st, 2nd, 3rd final year can check result of all trades (Electronics, Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, CS, IT) in July month. If you are one of them who have given this exam and looking for the exam mark sheet that stay connected to this page.
The Board of Technical Education is responsible for allowing students taking the admission in various affiliated colleges with the board. After taking the data of admitted students, the board gives them a unique enrollment no and arrange the exams and declare the result. After final years exams, a diploma certificate will be given to the passed candidates. A very large amount of students has participated in diploma exam. Now all of them are waiting to check their exam marks. We are providing a direct link to get your exam mark sheet easily. Aspirants are advised to keep visiting this page to get day by day update related to UP BTE Result 2017.
Board of Technical Education Uttar Pradesh is one of the biggest board of India which provides technical education to students after completing their Higher or secondary education. The course is a three-year program, also called the three-year diploma or Polytechnic.
Name of the department
Board of Technical Education,UP
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May 2017
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1st, 2nd, and Final (3rd)
likely to be declared in June/July
UP BTE Polytechnic Diploma 1st 2nd final year Result / Marksheet 2017
The Board of Technical Education UP has released declaration date of UP BTE 1st 2nd final Diploma / Polytechnic Result 2017. It is scheduled to be announced on in June last or July starting tentatively. Students will be able to check their 1st, 2nd, and 3rd or final year exam result through this page. If you are also one of the scholars who had given main exams for Polytechnic then you can check your mark sheet from the official portal. We have given the simple steps to check the scorecard from the authorized portal.
Dear students, you should visit this page time to time for future updates related to your marks. You can check your report card from here directly.
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- Go to official website at www.bteup.nic.in or www.bteup.com
- Navigate the Results Section on the homepage.
- Now select your course and year and then enter the details required.
- Enter Your Necessary Details Like Name, Father's Name, DOB etc
- Next Page will show up your marks.
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Ealing's Whisky Galore (1949) – re-released in cinemas and on Blu-ray
Hot on the heels of The Lavender Hill Mob, another Ealing Studios classic is out now in cinemas and coming to Blu-ray and DVD on Monday 8th August. Pour yourself a wee dram to celebrate.
Whisky Galore!
(Alexander MacKendrick, GB, 1949)
Not a 'dry' eye in the house once these Scots start drinking and push cosily eccentric comedy past the 1940s boundaries of bad-taste anarchy
The key difference between the Brits and the Americans is that the Yanks' WWII movies, almost to a man, are heroic, even sentimental stories of courage and valiant fight. Our predecessors, much closer to a genuine risk of invasion, found a much better weapon: irreverent mockery, even to the point of having a pop at 'our boys.' So it was that only four years on from VE Day, Ealing found a corner of the British Isles where the biggest threat to national character came not from the Nazis but a bureaucratic buffoon standing between an island full of alcoholics and their beloved dram.
Whisky Galore isn't your conventional wartime movie. It isn't even your conventional comedy. Ealing had a masterful ability to spot the potential of frankly bizarre material and Compton MacKenzie's novel – inspired by a real-life incident in which a tanker full of whisky crashed off the coast of an Outer Hebrides island – mines a rich seam. Tradition versus modernity, rebels vs authority, Scottish versus English and of course drinkers versus teetotallers. The film's almost radical notion is to remind that, with the threat of Nazi Germany, there was a bigger picture to think about than a spot of local crime. But the film is also something of a sigh of relief that there never was an invasion because the Home Guard was commanded by exactly the sort of pedantic fool portrayed (with exceptional self-deprecation) by Basil Radford. Seriously, we'd have been fucked – a joke that disguises its uncomfortable truth with whimsy galore, and which is so enduring that an entire TV series (Dad's Army) was spun out of it.
Yet Whisky Galore is also a celebration of British eccentricity, and the film gains its punch from its sheer specificity. So much homegrown comedy relies on broad class and cultural stereotypes (posh Southerners, down-to-earth Northeners) that it takes Whisky Galore to remind us that there are other options. The people of Todday live their sheltered lives on a weird diet of booze and religion – possibly, judging from the example of Jean Cadell's formidable, tyrannical Bible-basher, the latter accounts for the former. This is a community that will go to any lengths to steal 50,000 cases of whisky from a sinking ship, to the point of risking another ship's crew to get tongue-wagging witnesses out of the way… but when the church bell chimes for the Sabbath, they won't lift so much as a finger out of holy terror.
Watched not long after fellow Ealing classic The Lavender Hill Mob, it's noticeable that Whisky Galore is, in structural terms, a heist movie, about intrepid crooks trying to stay one step ahead of the law.
This is a ripe set-up, which the film takes its time to unfold – the wreck doesn't happen until 25 minutes into an 80 minute film. But after this mild, laidback beginning, the pay-off is a sudden injection of pace and humour, not least because of the film's canny genre swap from class satire to thriller. Yes, really. Watched not long after fellow Ealing classic The Lavender Hill Mob, it's noticeable that Whisky Galore is, in structural terms, a heist movie, about intrepid crooks trying to stay one step ahead of the law. The film piles on car chases and bootlegging hidey-hole montages straight out of American gangster movies…. Although, if anything, the Ealing version is more extreme: there's no way Jimmy Cagney would ever have hidden liquor in a baby's cot.
This was Alexander MacKendrick's debut and paved the way for a career of leftfield, cynical satires (The Man In The White Suit, The Ladykillers) that would culminate in his American masterpiece, Sweet Smell of Success. This is an altogether nicer affair, but already MacKendrick has enormous fun pushing the boundaries of what's acceptable in a film whose heroes are pissheads – including possibly the best drunk sight gag in cinema, as the booze's location is given away by two lines of footprints in the sand: one heading straight there, the other zig-zagging back and forth like a helter-skelter. And, just as he'd do to New York in Sweet Smell of Success, MacKendrick is a master of location filming, making Todday (in real-life, the island of Barra) as much of a character as anyone else.
It's so idyllic you'd want to buy a round even without an infectious cast. It goes without saying that Joan Greenwood has the sexiest voice in cinema, but this is a merry band of rascals, especially the Machiavellian gleam in the eyes of James Robertson Justice's doctor, a cavalier physician whose one and only remedy appears to be… yes, more whisky!
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Here's another exhibit at the Met in New York:
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From the Village to the Concert Hall: Flamenco
From the Village to the Concert Hall: Flamenco
Audio will be available later today.
Eva Encinias Discusses Flamenco
Only Available in Archive Formats.
Spain's national dance, the flamenco, is a highly technical form of dance, with intricate rhythms and steps — but it's also improvisatory. And its most important characteristic is an underlying rhythmic drive. As part of a continuing series on the connection between folk music from around the world and western classical music, NPR's Fred Child talks with Eva Encinias, a professor of flamenco at the University of New Mexico, and director of the National Institute of Flamenco.
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King of Flamenco Guitar July 16, 2004
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Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 16:34:28 -0600
From: Sean Winters
Subject: FW: speedo gear...revisited
> Speaking of speedometers...
> I replaced the 3sp column shift tranny in my 82 with a 4OD floor
> shift. The speedometer worked fine before the swap. The new one had a
> different cable end on the transmission side. No big deal. Went to
> Ford, bought a new one along with a new gear. Put everything back in
> paying careful attention to the path of the old cable (no extreme
> bends, etc.). Now the speedo flutters wildly, going between 5-35 mph
> no matter what the actual speed is and sometimes does not work at all.
> When it does not work, you can stomp the accelerator and it will
> sometimes bump up to around 25 mph and then fall back down.
> Steps I have taken:
> 1. Pulled the cable back out and oiled it.
> 2. Bought another speedo gear (the one I bought at first was not
> correct for my axle ratio.
> 3. Double-checked the connections at both the speedo and the
> transmission.
> None of these things effected any change.
> I can have my son sit in the drivers seat while I disconnect the cable
> from the trans and spin it with my hand and it is registering.
> Any ideas???
> Thanks!
> Sean Winters
> >
> > Walt,
> >
> > Where and how do you fix the speedo. I've heard there some =
> > sort of little gear in the end of the speedo cable?
> >
> > John Cassis
> > The Danger Ranger
> John,
> On my 85 F-150 4x4 I just crawled under the truck, looked at the end
> of
> the speedo cable where it goes into the tranny, removed the one screw,
> pulled out the cable, the plastic gear followed(no clip or anything,
> it
> just comes right out), popped in a new one, plugged the cable back in,
> put the screw in and it was done. Took me less than a minute.
> I picked up my new gear ahead of time, I went from the stock P235-15's
> to 31x10.50 and I had to go with a gear that had one less tooth. They
> actually come in different colors but the number of teeth are what is
> important. I calculated the percentage difference in rolling
> distance
> with the new tires and determined I needed to drop 5 % for the speedo
> and odo to be accurate. I went to Ford, they told me my stock green
> gear
> had 20 teeth and gave me a pink gear with 19 teeth. They had it in
> stock, say they get calls for them all the time. Cost me less than $6
> bucks with tax. It now records like a charm. It was the easiest thing
> ever replaced on the truck.
> I would imagine that your Ranger would be very, very similar.
> Hope this helps.
> Walt
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Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 15:49:01 -0700
From: "Smeins, Larry"
Subject: RE: Which MSD
Have you hit the limiter yet? I'm curious how it works. I invented a
limiter back in the 70s that dropped every other cylinder and worked
very smoothly. When you hit limit the engine just wouldn't go any
faster instead of shutting down like most limiters I've seen. I
incorporated this limiter idea in an ignition I did for Indy cars but we
never got it into a race. The engine man didn't like new electronics
and the driver blew the engine by overrevving when he blew a
transmission during time trials. I published the idea and wonder if MSD
picked up on it. Maybe I should have gotten a patent.
>Date: Thu, 05 Feb 1998 08:44:56 -0600
>From: Gary Spradley
>Subject: re: which msd?
>I'm just curious Gary, unless yer drag racin, what good
>is the rev limiter gonna do you? (hopin you don't come
>up with a good reason, cuz I already got the 6a :)
>Should I have consulted with you first? hehe
>I bought the 6AL because on occasion I run my Windsor pretty hard.
>Wouldn't you if your Windsor put out 385 hp and 413lbs or torque
>It's a nice ride with 4.10's and limited slip on both ends.
>Although a 4X4 should never be used as a drag truck, I am entitled to a
>little fun every once in awhile.
>To me, $40.00 was worth a piece of mind.
>Gary Spradley 84 F150 4X4 359 Windsor
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 15:14:11 -0900
From: "Casey Vandor"
Subject: Re: Radio
Well I unhooked the alternator and ran the radio with the truck on and it
is crystal clear. Problem is I can't find what I need to put in the system
to block it out. Any suggestion on how to eliminate noise from the
>>>>>Date: Wed, 04 Feb 1998 18:25:26 -0600
From: "David J. Baldwin"
Subject: Re: be thankful it's only $30.00
Casey Vandor wrote:
> You should be happy if two tanks is only 30.00! It costs me on average
> 55-60! I see your point about the extra money though.
> Casey
Ugh! Glad I don't live where you do.
How are you coming with that radio? You have any luck with the buzzing?
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 15:19:34 -0900
From: "Casey Vandor"
Subject: Re: Forever to fill
I don't know if this is the same on a truck, full size bronco, but my
friends BII had the inlet line inside of the breather tube. We simply
pryed open those two little vents furhter than they already were. After
that, enough air was able to get out quick enough so the pump wouldn't shut
>>>>I hate it when that happens!!!
I have the same problem on my '87 F-250 and I go thru it TWICE w/each
fill. I have not noticed a pattern, but sometimes it works just fine,
and others not at all. I though that maybe there was too much fume
build up in the tank, but I don't notice any rushing air while
removing the cap. It must be these Cleveland/NE Ohio stations, I
swear. Of course it happens when I'm in the biggest hurry. I've
tried it w/the nozzle shoved all the way down into the stinkin' tank
itself and even just far enough in to hold the flap open so gas
doesn't spray on me. Nothing seems to work. Here I though I was the
only one suffering....let's start a support group....
Let me know what you come up with,
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 19:40:02 EST
From: Z1bobaol.com
Subject: MSD mileage increase
ran out of steam about 3000-3500 rpm. with the MSD it is
engine when you reach the higher revs.
added a K&N filter, just the panel filter. And removed the
cat back. >>
Did you really get a 3-4 MPG improvement with just those changes?? I
would gladly spend the money for an MSD & a K&N if I got even a 2 MPG
Thanks! Bob
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 18:43:47 -0600
From: "Jram"
Subject: MSD
Someone asked for a good reason to have a rev limiter on a 4x4 and I have a
great one. Mud and hills. When off roading my friends sometimes zing their
engines pretty good. Floating valves and one guy even cracked a piston just
to get to the top. I dont use MSD but I have a Unilite ignition system and
I am sure that the revlimiter has saved me a bundle in engine repairs while
off roading in the mud.
'81 F-150 4x4
88 Lincoln MKVII
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 18:10:11 EST
From: JBien45204aol.com
Subject: Re: be thankful it's only $30.00
Hey Casey
I think you are missing the cost/treatment? 1mL treats 1 gal. A quart treats
1000 gal. so you need to do the math figuring an increase in fuel economy of
say 20%. That's 200 gal. saved by using a quart of SUPER 21. If the cost of
fuel is averaged out across the country, you'd find it is about $1.40 gal.
200 times 1.40 is $280. If the retail price of the quart is SUPER 21 is $160,
that is about $120 isn't it? Nearly twice the cost!
So, the tailwind doesn't need to be quite 200 mph!
Besides, a 200 mph tailwind will put you past all the rest stops!!
Kind Regards,
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 1998 18:30:26 -0500
From: "Brian J. Paisley"
Subject: bronco II, modifications
i am new to this ford digest, and i have a question. I am doing a lot of
things to my 84 Bronco II with the small v6. it's not fuel injected, and i
have upgraded it with an offy dual port intake, and a holley 390cfm carb.,
i also unhooked the computer (no emmissions here) and put on a dual point
mallory distributor and mallory promaster coil. i have heard a lot about
cat back exhaust, but i really don't understand what it is. i am going to
get it custom fitted for dual exhaust, but if cat back is good and
relatively inexpensive, that could be an option. But i want it to sound
tough. man it's hard to find performance parts for the 2.8 v6, i got all
these parts at racer walsh, maybe you've heard of it. any helpful comments
or anyone who has done what i'm doing and could steer me in a particular
direction would be greatly appreciated.
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 20:19:38 EST
From: Heater6ix9aol.com
Subject: Re: Radio
sorry i didnt get in this conversation from the start, but is this a stock
radio? if its not then the easiest solution to get rid of altenator whine is
to move your ground wire.....
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 1998 14:43:45 -0600
From: "Beaman, James"
Subject: RE: speedo gear and fuel tank
Mike Johnson wrote:
> On my 86 f-150 I also went from the stock P235-15's to 31x10.5
> about 30,000 miles ago. I never changed the speedo gear.
> Does going to a larger tire size make my odometer and speedometer
> read higher or lower? By what percent is my milage off? Do I actualy
> have more or less miles than the 185,000 my odometer reads?
Doing the math, the difference in circumference seems to be about 6%.
So John's comment about registering 55 for an actual speed of 58 is
about right. Your gasoline mileage will seem to be less but actually
might be better depending on what the lower numerical "gear ratio" puts
you on your torque curve. If your odometer reads 185,000 and you
changed tires 30,000 miles ago on your now slightly inaccurate odometer,
your actual mileage will be about 183,200 miles. Remember also that for
the same throttle setting, your acceleration will be 6% slower and for
the same brake pedal pressure, stopping distance will be 6% further.
All other things remaining equal, of course.
James Beaman
Houston, Texas
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 22:00:48 EST
From: Macormickaol.com
Subject: Re: Lifts
I bought these coil spring expanders for my Ranger and they don't work too bad
but I don't know if that's good to put that kinda stress on the stock springs.
Any of you think I should just buy a 2 inch lift with new springs? I would
much rather just leave these in because it sure is less expensive and I don't
have all the money in the world.
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 1998 22:26:49 +0000
From: Jake
Subject: horsepower
I have a 1987 351w and would like to get a few more horses out of it. I
have headers but they are pretty trashed. I have a high rev carb $
barrel. and a mild cam. I don't know what kind of horses I am getting
now but I could use a little more to turn my mud Tires on the trails
around me. Any info on some quick horsepower would be greatly
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 1998 22:56:03 +0000
From: Jake
Subject: HP
I have been looking for the horsepower ratings for a stock 1987 HO
351W. If anyone knows were I can find these or could tell me what it is
I would be grateful.
Jake Everly
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 01:25:38 EST
From: Midwest96aol.com
Subject: Brain burp...dualies
Sorry, but every now and then I get these brain burps...awhile ago when you
guys were talking about towing I thought someone mentioned dualies bring down
the towing cpacity. Is this true, and if so why?
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 01:32:08 EST
From: Midwest96aol.com
Subject: Re: Super 21 Snake Oil/im240
In a message dated 98-02-05 16:53:17 EST, you write:
Baseline 0.0868 2.1109 371.9243 0.1712
With Super 21 0.0524 1.4753 372.4785 0.0901
% change -40% - 30% - -48%
C. 1995 Ford Taurus
Baseline 0.0220 0.2118 388.8413 0.0223
With Super 21 0.0005 0.3229 388.6041 0.0012
% change -98% +35% - -95%
Why the increase in carbon gases for those two? (monoxide for Taurus, dioxide
for Escort)
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 22:20:43 -0700
From: "Randy Kindler"
Subject: re: popping noise
Hi, John.
Do you have auto hubs. I've occasionally had the same thing happen on my '95
F150. Usually, it happens when making a tight turn. One of the hubs will
lock, and I get a popping noise. It usually only locks for a couple minutes.
Once, I had to stop and back up to get it to unlock. Its only happened 3 or
4 times in three years, and doesn't seem to have damaged anything.... yet.
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Here's my holiday in pictures, enjoy!
Castle Alcazaba.
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Hague hits out at Israel boycott law
Foreign Secretary William Hague has criticised Israel's new anti-boycott law, calling it an "infringement of freedom of expression".
Mr Hague also said he would reserve Britain's position on whether or not to support the declaration of a Palestinian state at the UN in September as a bargaining chip to persuade both sides to return to peace negotiations.
Speaking at Foreign Office Questions on Tuesday, Mr Hague said: "The government in no way supports boycotts but is concerned about this law, which infringes on the legitimate freedom of expression."
His comments came in response to a question from Labour MP Sir Gerald Kaufman, who asked the Foreign Secretary to "join the very many Jewish supporters of Israel in Britain, the United States and Israel itself in expressing utter disgust at the legislation".
Labour MP Richard Burden challenged Mr Hague to reveal his position on the declaration of a Palestinian state, saying: "Israel has rightly been recognised as a full member of the UN, with internationally recognised borders… That has not been seen as an impediment to a negotiated settlement… In that case, what is the problem with recognising Palestine as a full member of the UN?"
Mr Hague said he had discussed the matter with Quartet Middle East envoy Tony Blair, and said he was hopeful that the Quartet would release a statement in the coming weeks which will be a basis for resuming negotiations.
Conservative MPs Robert Halfon and Bob Blackman cautioned against UN recognition of a Palestinian state while Hamas rocket attacks were ongoing.
Mr Hague said later he was "extremely disappointed" at the approval of 300 new housing units to be built in the West Bank.
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Smooth Criminal
My little tribute to Michael Jackson comes in the form of probably the most famous street performer in Rome. Those of you who have visited may recognize that yellow shirt, which belongs to Marcel Gorgone. Marcel has been performing his finger puppet in Piazza Navona for what seems like forever and is a true part of the history of the square. He's been featured in newspaper articles and television show both in Italy and abroad and even has his own website. I know someone who lived in Rome for many years and she first saw Marcel right when she moved to Rome. She had such a fond memory of it that every time she comes back to town, she goes by to watch the performance again. Marcel does a finger puppet act that consists of a few different songs, but without fail always finishes with Michael Jackson's Smooth Criminal, moonwalk and all. I took this shot on Saturday and was wondering if he'd still do it, and of course there it was in all its glory. All jokes aside about how odd Michael's life was, his music is so universal it's hard to imagine anyone could come close to what he'd accomplished.


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Shortly before she and her family departed for the trip, Taylor stopped by with a cash donation of $250 which she collected in lieu of gifts at a birthday party with her friends.
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We're continuing to rank each position group in the Big Ten, both by individual player and as units.
We wrapped up the offense on Tuesday and are now turning our attention to the defense. Let's start up front, with the top individual defensive linemen in the league heading into 2012. Remember that we're basing this heavily off 2011 production, along with consideration given for 2012 potential.
A drumroll, please:
1. John Simon, DE, Ohio State: Others on this list may have more physical gifts, but few get as much out of their talent as Simon. A nonstop motor and off-the-charts work ethic are his best qualities. He had 16 tackles for loss and can play just about anywhere on the line. He seems poised for huge things this fall.
2. Kawann Short, DT, Purdue: Short likely would have been selected in the first three rounds had he enter the NFL draft, but he's got his eyes set on the first round. He just might get there, too, as an exceptionally athletic 310-pounder who wreaks havoc in the middle. He had 17 tackles for loss last year, the same number as Big Ten defensive player of the year Devon Still.
3. William Gholston, DE, Michigan State: No one has more potential than Gholston, and he's already pretty productive, too. A second-team All-Big Ten performer a year ago, he had a breakout showing against Georgia in the Outback Bowl. He can be scary good.
4. Johnathan Hankins, DT, Ohio State: Speaking of high ceilings, there are many who think Hankins is a first-round pick in next year's draft. It's easy to see why, since he's a massive, 317-pounder who's quick on his feet. He had 11 TFLs last season, and that number could go up.
5. Akeem Spence, DT, Illinois: So far, this list proves one thing: The Big Ten is once again stacked at defensive tackle. Spence is one of the strongest players in the league and a big reason for the Illini defensive success a year ago. He could parlay a big junior year into a high NFL draft pick next April.
6. Michael Buchanan, DE, Illinois: Buchanan is undersized at 240 pounds and was overshadowed by teammate Whitney Mercilus last year. But no returning Big Ten defensive linemen had more than his 7.5 sacks a year ago. Explosive off the edge, he can also drop back and play outside linebacker when not terrorizing quarterbacks.
7. Jordan Hill, DT, Penn State: Hill has been a sturdy, steady player in the middle of the defensive line and complemented Still last season. The question is whether he can become more than that and take his game to the next level as Still did in 2011. And, of course, whether he'll be wearing a Penn State uniform while doing so.
8. Craig Roh, DE, Michigan: The Wolverines need Roh to take his game to the star level in 2012 as he moves to the strong side to replace Ryan Van Bergen. Roh is undersized for the position but has worked hard to add weight. He's got the necessary speed and athleticism to be an impact end.
9. Cameron Meredith, DE, Nebraska: Meredith has started 27 consecutive games for Nebraska and has been effective both as a pass-rusher and a run-stopper. He looks to be a leader on the defense this season.
10. Marcus Rush, DE, Michigan State: Jerel Worthy got most of the headlines last season, and Gholston steals the spotlight now, but Rush is a very promising player in his own right. He collected 12 tackles for loss and four sacks last year as a redshirt freshman and is sure to get plenty of opportunities this season as teams game plan to stop Gholston.


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