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It is an image that has stuck in the nation's mind; thick globules of white fat dripping off the end of a cigarette. Within days of the shocking image appearing on billboards and television, attendance at smoking clinics had doubled.
Now the group behind the advert is rolling out Part Two. The British Heart Foundation will today launch its 'Under My Skin' campaign, which will focus on what happens when the build-up of fatty deposits in the arteries rupture to form a blood clot.
It features images of a dark mass pulsing through a smoker's veins. The TV advert moves from the hand of a young woman in a fashionable bar to the neck of a suited man in a train station, ending with a close-up of a clot working its way towards the heart of a chef on a cigarette break. It runs under Frank Sinatra's version of 'I've Got You Under My Skin' and ends with the words 'A blood clot kills a smoker every 35 minutes' flashing on to the screen.
The £4 million campaign is designed to instill fear rather than disgust, says Professor Andrew Steptoe, the BHF's head of psychology. 'When it comes to smoking, most people are at the "tipping point"', he said. 'They know they shouldn't, but find it difficult to make the decision to stop at this moment. Like the previous campaign, these adverts were developed to tip smokers over the edge.'
The campaign will form part of a wider plan to curb smoking to be unveiled by Patricia Hewitt, the Health Secretary, this week.
Cabinet ministers will meet tomorrow to decide whether plans for a limited ban on smoking only in pubs that serve food should be replaced by an outright ban on smoking in all pubs and restaurants, or by a compromise that would allow pubs to set aside rooms for smokers. The decision is expected to be outlined in a white paper to be published on Wednesday.
The Department of Health approached the BHF to devise another anti-smoking campaign after the success of the previous award-winning ads, which led to 30,000 hits on its website to find out how to quit and thousands giving up.
That advert spurred Katy Leggate, 25, to give up after 13 years. 'It was horrible and disgusting,' she said. 'I never realised that was what was happening to my arteries. I saw [an ad] the evening before I quit and I think that gave me the extra kick that I needed to quit and stay quit.'
The government has set the same targets for today's campaign, which will see 2,200 billboards go up across the country. It is aimed at smokers aged between 30 and 50 who have tried repeatedly to give up.
The more subtle campaign uses the Cole Porter song because of its appropriate lyrics that include: 'I've got you under my skin, I've got you deep in the heart of me ... I've tried so not to give in ... I'd sacrifice anything come what might, for the sake of having you near. In spite of a warning voice that comes in the night, and repeats, repeats in my ear.'
'We expect this one to have a slower burn,' said Betty McBride, policy and communications director at the BHF. 'But, thanks to Sinatra, every time they hear that song the smoker will bring to mind the unseen damage.'
Professor Peter Weissberg, medical director at the BHF, said smokers were significantly more likely to have the 'furring of the arteries' caused by the build-up of fat and more likely to have blood clots. If that occurred in the heart, it would cause a heart attack, he said; if it happened in the brain, it would prompt a stroke. Every 35 minutes, a smoker dies needlessly from a heart attack when a blood clot blocks a coronary artery.'
The launch comes as the BHF revealed that more than half of Britain's 12 million smokers mistakenly believe it is nicotine that causes heart disease, rather than tobacco smoke. The new campaign will aim to get across the link between smoking and heart disease, and persuade smokers to use government cessation clinics and nicotine replacement patches.
'Today's survey is worrying, because it suggests smokers think nicotine is the killer but it's the other constituents that damage arteries,' added Weissberg.
'Nicotine replacement therapy is an ideal way to give up smoking, because it satisfies the craving without causing the damage.'

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The 49ers released rookie free-agent Lance Brandenburgh and they announced their training camp will start July 24, with the first exhibition with the Raiders scheduled for Friday, Aug. 8 in Oakland at 7 p.m. The rest of the exhibition schedule is Saturday Aug. 16 against Green Bay, 6 p.m., Thursday Aug. 21 at Chicago at 6 p.m., and Friday Aug. 29 versus San Diego at 7.
Ten of the practices are open, but the 49ers haven't announced them yet.
The first team offense for the 49ers looked like this in minicamp last weekend.
QB: Alex Smith/Shaun Hill
RB: Frank Gore
TE: Vernon Davis
TE: Delanie Walker
RT: Jonas Jennings
RG: Adam Snyder
C: Eric Heitmann
LG: Tony Wragge
LT: Joe Stalely
WR: Isaac Bruce
WR: Bryant Johnson
To make it even, Smith got the first snap with the starting offense in the morning session of the first day and then Hill worked with the first team in the afternoon. The 49ers didn't use a fullback that much, so their base offense will be more of a one-back with two tight ends or three receivers. I suspect Johnson and Arnaz Battle will pursue the second wide receiver spot beside number one Isaac Bruce. Here's the D:
LOLB: Tully Banta-Cain
LILB Patrick Willis
RILB Jeff Ulbrich
ROLB Parys Haralson
RDE: Justin Smith
NT: Aubrayo Franklin
LDE: Isaac Sopoaga
LCB: Nate Clements
RCB: Walt Harris
FS: Mark Roman
SS: Michael Lewis
K: Joe Nedney
P: Andy Lee
RTR: Allen Rossum
LS: Brian Jennings
Manny Lawson will presumably replace Haralson, possibly as soon as next month when the 49ers go through three weeks of organized team activity practice, and Tony Wragge will presumably keep the left- guard spot warm for David Baas. He's out until the end of training camp with a torn right pectoral muscle.
RESPONSES TO RESPONSES: NoFear asked about Alex Smith and whether he's putting in the time to learn the Mike Martz system and about the first-team lineups on offense and defense during minicamps. Smith continues to be very diligent learning the system, throwing and working out, working hard to pick up the offense has never been his problem.
Markpdx wrote about quarterbacks being more prepared for the NFL than they were 25 years ago when Joe Montana came out. Montana and the other quarterbacks who followed him with the 49ers were brought along slowly, while Alex Smith was indoctrinated into the lineup almost immediately.
Today's quarterbacks are less prepared for the NFL than they were 25 years ago because pro defenses are much more complicated in the NFL, and college defenses, with limits on practice time, aren't that much more sophisticated.
Also, more college offenses are going to spread schemes and shotgun formations. Quarterbacks, like Smith, have to learn to drop back and to tightened up their mechanics for the pro game.
Cincinnati and San Diego let Carson Palmer and Philip Rivers sit for a year, and they came from more competitive conferences and more traditional offenses than Smith. They've had better receivers and offensive lines to work with and they've also had greater success than Smith.
Teams are paying huge sums for first-round quarterbacks. That's why they can't afford to have them fail. If you believe in the Walsh way of quarterback development, teams can't afford NOT to have their rookies sit for a year at least.
-The 49ers do read the blogs, but I don't know if it's consistent, and who knows what their reaction to the blogs might be as far as influence.
NO NEW-OLD UNI's: Despite a groundswell of sentiment to the contrary, the 49ers won't be going back to their 1980's 1990's look at least not for this year. Sorry forty9rfaithful.
-As to NoFear's point when I'm writing an article and when I'm writing a blog, that's a great question and purely subjective. For example, the prior sentence would that be blog or article?
–Mike Martz's offense is based on the digital system. As far as I know, Martz is the only one to take the digital system, or digit system in a different direction. The Don Coryell-Norv Turner system was based on a mis-direction power running game, and a downfield passing attack where quarterbacks throw to an area. It means they throw the pass before a receiver cuts or they "throw open" as the 49ers say.
Instead of names for receiver routes, the routes are based on numbers with odd numbers denoting cuts to the sidelines, and even numbers signaling routes towards the center of the field.
A go route is called a "9" a deep post an "8."
-NoFear is absolutely right about criticism and most of you have no qualms about shooting down my theories and slants. That's the way it should be.


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Environmental activists, united under the banner of Bali Friends of the Earth (WALHI), continue to try to close down the private development of the publicly owned South Bali Mangrove Forest (Tahura).
In what has proven to be a highly controversial move, Bali's governor granted a 55-year license to a private firm (PT TRB) to develop tourism within the Tahura. That decision provoked street protests by WALHI and a letter threatening legal action (Somasi) sent to the governor if he did not withdraw the licenses he granted to PT TRB.
According to the Bali Post, WALHI has sent a second Somasi warning the governor that they will file legal actions against the province and the governor in the case if the permit to develop the forest is not withdrawn before December 23, 2012.
The first Somasi was sent on December 10, 2012.
WALHI insists that plans to build tourist accommodation at Tahura violates the provinces moratorium on new accommodation development in Bali and threaten the remaining 22% of forested land in Bali, a figure that falls fare below desired minimum of 30%.
WALHI says they cannot understand the Governor's reluctance to withdraw the permits, especially given protests from the traditional communities surrounding the Tahura site who oppose the presence of an outside investor and a recommendation against the license by the Bali House of Representatives (DPRD-Bali).
The Governor's office is yet to formally respond to WALHI's Somasi.
According to Radar Bali, WALHI is also threatening legal action against the Governor in connection with the ongoing construction of the Benoa to Nusa Dua toll way that environmentalists claim violates the project's environmental impact study and is destroying Bali's mangrove forest.
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MOUNT VERNON, Maine (AP) -- A contraption created by several friends is making ice fishing a spectator sport in Maine.
While family members and friends generally do not turn up at frozen lakes to cheer on the efforts of their ice-fishing loved ones, the Fish-O-Matic has drawn people to Minnehonk Lake from far away.
Jim Landry, Judd Derbyshire and Dave Bryant created the machine in an effort to appear on the Learning Channel's ''Junkyard Wars.''
The three may make the perfect team for the cable show. Landry is a metal artist, Derbyshire is an antiques dealer and Bryant is a carpenter.
The Fish-O-Matic consists of three parts: the fisher, the launcher and the catcher.
The fisher, powered by a car battery, uses a windshield wiper motor to pull the line. Its components include two ironing boards and a small, pink bicycle.
The launcher throws the fish from a wok attached to a spring-loaded metal chair.
The catcher, whose parts include a stove pipe, a baby carriage and parts of a gas grill, funnels the fish to a mailbox.
Once it hooks a fish, the Fish-O-Matic pulls it from the water, removes the hook and tosses it into the air. The fish then hits a chute and slides into a mailbox.
A siren sounds when a fish is caught and a flag pops up when the fish is delivered into the mailbox.
The friends haven't heard from the show yet. They may be facing stiff competition from other inventors, including applicants who have touted skills in rocket building and other sciences.
But the Fish-O-Matic team isn't too worried.
''I'd like to show them that three little dubbers from Maine can do just as good,'' Landry said.
''Even my old lady likes it, which is hard to believe,'' Bryant said.
Because there has been so much interest in the Fish-O-Matic, the men have had to use a toy fish and frozen cusk to demonstrate their invention. But nothing, they say, beats a live fish, which has the right amount of sliminess to glide through the machine properly.
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So, today David Fincher turns 52. We talk a lot about Fincher on this blog. We love him. Of all the modern filmmakers today, he's probably my favorite. He has crafted such a signature style, but he's one of the most effective directors when it comes to allowing his material room to breathe. His style never overtakes the film, but he uses it as a compliment, as a way to embellish. I'll be the first to admit that he's had some rocky moments. The Game is an utter mess, and Alien3, while not the disaster so many think it was (or have been told to think it was) just didn't hit all of the right marks, and Panic Room feels like an admirable attempt at blending his two most prolific films (Fight Club and Se7en) but a sadly uneven attempt at that. Still, amidst these missteps, Fincher has maintained his reputation as one of cinemas greatest talents thanks to his ability to excite all of our senses within a single frame.
David Fincher is always the brightest star of all of his films.
So, this brings me to my top ten for today. I wanted to celebrate his career with a birthday top ten, but I didn't want to just rank his films. I've kind of done that before. I considered ranking my ten favorite performances in Fincher films, and yet some of those are so obvious (some not) and so that got me thinking…Fincher is just SOOOOO good with his actors, even actors we would never think could pull off the roles they've been assigned. He just knows how to make an actor look good. Maybe it's the hundreds of takes he takes that gives him the one good take he needs, but I chose to feel that there is something that emotes from his vast talent that just overtakes the actors and pushes them far above what they've been capable of before.
So, I want to talk about ten often overlooked performances in Fincher films. This is an unranked list, because rating them isn't really the point. I just want to raise awareness. Watch these films again. Take your eyes of Brad Pitt and look at the actors who are sharing the screen with him! Don't focus on the Oscar nominee or the actor who nearly got that Oscar nomination (sorry Garfield, you would DEFINITELY be on my Top Ten performances in a Fincher film, but you are not here) but look deeper, to the performances that didn't get the critical attention or don't have the rabid fan base.
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I Am Abomination's Phil Druyor on How a Cartel Song Changed His Life
I Am Abomination's Phil Druyor fronts one of the most popular up and coming acts in the post-hardcore community, but things didn't always look as promising for the young musicians. "I didn't even think I could ever be in a band. I was just a fan and wanted to be around it all," says Druyor during a recent conversation with Noisecreep.
"When I was 18 or 19-years old, my friends in a band called Living Like Ghosts were about to go on their first tour. They asked if I would go out with them and handle their merch stuff. So I jumped on that. That was the year I went to first show in this realm of music. It was a fun tour, but one day in Richmond, VA, the van broke down. So the drummer picks up an acoustic guitar and he starts playing a song by Cartel who happened to be my favorite band at the time. Anyway, I started singing along to it and I realized that I can actually do it well. From there I tried out for a local band called Allison's Hope, but they told me that I was a terrible singer and that I should run away from the music industry," laughs Druyor.
While most of us would have cowered in embarrassment after that kind of rejection, Druyor soldiered on and was determined to be heard. "That audition happened two weeks after I had even begun singing, so I knew I had room to get better. Soon after I met Nick [Sampson, guitarist for I Am Abomination] and Brandon [Good, ex-bassist] at a party at one of the dudes from Living Like Ghosts' house. They told me they were starting out a band. Nick was like 16-years old at the time. One day he came over my house and we wrote a song on the balcony. We immediately bonded and wrote something called 'Jaw Dropper' right there on a Macbook."
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The new project would eventually be dubbed I Am Abomination and release a critically lauded album called 'To Our Forefathers.' Earlier this month they issued 'Passion of the Heist,' a blistering EP that was recently named one of Guitar World magazine's Top 50 studio albums of the first half of 2011. "I think this new record is much better than anything we've done before. I just can't wait to see how people react to it."


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The dispute underscores the tensions developing in the TV industry as it strives to keep pace with consumer demand for emerging online-video technologies and popular digital devices without damaging the pay-TV subscription model that has become the most important source of revenue in the business.
Netflix predicts that the number of subscribers to the online-video service will remain flat in November and rise in December.
But he attributes the subscriber losses mainly to the price increase, which he said was not adequately explained as necessary to keep up with the rising costs of mailing DVDs and of acquiring content for the online-video service.
In July, Netflix boosted the price of a combined online-video and DVD-rental package by 60%, to $16 a month from $10.
Late Tuesday, Mr. Sheen launched another salvo in an online-video broadcast where he described the decision to fire him as "completely and entirely illegal," and attacked the executives involved as "nothing shy of traitors," among other personal insults.
While both Dish and DirecTV are offering online-video programming to subscribers, that product relies on customers having Internet connections through rival cable or phone companies.
Dish Network and DirecTV Find Themselves at Opposite Ends of the Satellite Spectrum
Verizon is gambling that the advantages of gaining a nationwide customer base would outweigh the risk that a less expensive online-video offering could undercut the lucrative pay-TV part of FiOS's business, which reaches about 14% of households.
For years, cable companies and other pay-television providers have fretted about the threat that online-video subscription services like Netflix Inc.'s could pose to their business.
Gary Wei Wang was 38 when Chinese online-video provider Tudou Holdings Ltd. went public last year.
As it concentrates on streaming video, Netflix is bracing for competition from online-video website Hulu LLC and online-retailing giant Amazon.com Inc., which began offering its own video service last year for subscribers of its Prime fast-shipping program.


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Sunday, September 12, 2010 by: David Gutierrez
In a recent U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) report, intersex fish were found in a third of all 111 sites tested across the United States, including in major waterways such as the Mississippi River and the Rio Grande. The phenomenon occurred in 16 different species, but was most common in male smallmouth and largemouth bass.
Researchers agree that the phenomenon is almost certainly caused by the presence ofpollutants in the water, including endocrine- (hormone) disrupting chemicals and the residue of pharmaceutical products.
"We have not been able to identify one particular chemical or one particular source," said USGS biologist Vicki Blazer. "We are still trying to get a handle on what chemicals are important."
Among the chemicals likely to be contributing to the problem, Blazer cited birth control pills and other hormone-containing drugs, antibacterial products including tissues, personal care products (especially those containing fragrances), flame retardants, pesticides and fertilizers.
"In fertilizer [and pesticides] there's natural estrogen and testosterone and other things … so if we can hopefully pinpoint some of those mixtures or individual chemicals that then perhaps we could manage better," Blazer said.
It has been hard to narrow down the list of major contributors, however. For example, Blazer tested fish up- and downstream of sewage treatment plants to see if the factories might be major sources of endocrine-disrupting pollutants. She found no difference in rates of sexual abnormalities.
The Potomac Conservancy has called for more research into the problem.
"We've got to figure out what the heck is going on here," said the group's president, Hedrick Belin. "And we've got to figure it out sooner rather than later because it's clear the longer this mystery continues it's only going to lead to bad things yet to be discovered."
Because the hormonal systems of all vertebrates are strikingly similar, anything that has an impact on fish living in water is likely to have an effect on humans drinking it, as well. Yet figuring out the specific effects of tainted water on people may prove difficult.
"Because fish, of course, are in the water all the time," Blazer said. "But what's in your drinking water, what you might be exposed to through skin and food and everything else, is another issue for people."
Even if researchers eventually figure out which chemicals are the major contributors to sexual deformity in fish, that may shed little light on the question.
"It's going to be a lot harder to get to how these chemicals affect people because of course you can't experiment on people," Blazer said.
Approximately 4.5 million residents of the Washington D.C. area get their drinking water from the Potomac.
According to the Potomac Conservancy, individuals can help reduce watershed pollution in part by making more careful purchasing decisions. Consumers should reduce their use of toxic chemicals such as pesticides, and look for more natural cosmetics and other products.
"The chemicals that are in personal care products such as some of the antimicrobials, fragrances, are endocrine disruptors," said Blazer. "So being smart about the kinds of products you're buying — because they are available in things that are fragrance-free, antimicrobial-free, things like that — are things that individuals can do."
Conservancy supporter Rep. James P. Moran of Virginia has urged people to always take old or unused drugs back to a pharmacy for disposal.
"Don't flush pharmaceuticals down the toilet," he said. "They don't disappear when you flush them."
The Potomac Conservancy is also working on a campaign to get pharmaceutical technologies to dispose of drugs more safely, and calling for better water filtration technology.
"We need to get these toxins out of our river water," Belin said.
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• Learn to play with scale. When everything in a space is of expected scale, relative to human proportions and perception, the result is comfortable but predictable. Introduce pieces that break from that norm to showcase a single item or spark conversation.
• Choose window treatments that suit the look and functions you're after. Layering window coverings lets you customize your privacy and light entering the room.
• Ensure the room is well-lit. Layer lighting types to include a mix of task, room and wall lighting.
• Define the seating area with a large rug.
• Repeat colours, materials, furniture or accessories for a cohesive look. Whether you're decorating a shelf or a whole room, this fail-safe decorating principle applies.
• Have a small living room? Pay attention to furniture shapes to make the most of your space.
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Author has written 9 stories for Naruto, Gakuen Alice, Labyrinth, MirrorMask, and Chronicles of Narnia.
This has got to be one of the CUTEST pictures of Gaara I have ever seen! Anyway...
Hi, I am kind of new to the whole writing fanfiction thing I read more than I write.
I love anime and fanfiction of any kind, um I don't really know what to put on this site and I hope once I begin writing online my stories will be appreciated, if only a little.
I have a weakness for finding your own family and angst fics, as long as it has a happy ending I say bring on the suffering.
I apologize in advance to all readers I don't update much because I either don't have the time, I'm really into a book, manga, anime, fanfiction, or homework at the time or I'm just too lazy. So in the mean time read the fanfiction posted on my favorites cause I only stick the ones that really hit me on that list even if it is freakishly long its only because I've been reading this site for so long, also a warning for if you search my favorites if it is rated "M" then it is rated "M" (especially if its a sasunaru or kakairu) for a reason, if you don't like it don't read it.


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anyway, you say that one of the locals gave you directions to the Ranch. why didn't you filmed that?
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cloud = reflection of something on a windshield
that flying thingy at 6:39 = a fly
The National Institute for Discovery Science (NIDSci), which funds study of the paranormal, purchased the ranch for $200,000
The National Institute of Discovery Science (NIDSci) is a privately financed research organization based in Las Vegas, USA. It was founded in 1995 by real-estate developer Robert Bigelow, who set it up to research and to raise awareness in ufology and other areas of the paranormal. [1]
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if you look really closely at around 3:06 in the top left hand corner you can see something like a little disc or somethng dart inand out of the screen, then some 14 seconds later the mysterious cloud pops up.
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um.......... I DID. just mentioning something I noticed. I wasnt completely blind as to the cloud being there. I just saw a little shiny thing dart around really quick some 14 seconds later that cloudl ookin thing showed up.


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Happy New Year and welcome to another issue of the Heinz C. Prechter Bipolar Research Fund's e-newsletter!
You're Invited: "Boy Interrupted" – the Prechter Fund's 2012 Fundraiser & Educational Event
On Sunday, March 11, at the Michigan Theatre in downtown Ann Arbor, MI, the Prechter Fund will host a large fundraiser & educational event: "Boy Interrupted" - a screening of a 2009 Sundance documentary followed by a panel discussion to raise public awareness of bipolar disorder and to benefit the Prechter Fund's groundbreaking research into this debilitating illness.
The film tells the heartbreaking story of Evan Perry, a 15-year-old boy who ended his own life after a lifelong struggle with bipolar disorder. It recounts Evan's life and death in the words of his parents, filmmakers Hart and Dana Perry, and others who knew him. His suicide sent his parents looking for answers from experts, friends and family members, as well as from the reams of video they'd taken of Evan through the years. Illustrating how one family deals with loss and grief, this moving film confronts the stigma associated with mental illness and suicide among children.
The panel discussion will feature Dr. Melvin McInnis (Principal Investigator of the Prechter Fund) as the moderator. Panelists will be Dr. Cheryl King (from U-M's Youth Depression and Suicide Prevention Program), Dana Perry (the filmmaker & Evan's mother), and Catherine Starr (a graduate student who is part of the Prechter Fund's flagship Longitudinal Study on Bipolar Disorder).
All event info, including link to buy tickets, can be found here.
If you are interested in becoming a sponsor for this worthwhile event, please contact email@example.com, (734) 649-5268. Sponsors will be invited to a special VIP Reception with the filmmaker Dana Perry & remarks by University of Michigan faculty.
We'd appreciate your help in promoting this event – please let all your friends know. We also have a Facebook event page.
Saks Fifth Avenue to Partner with the Prechter Bipolar Research Fund
This February 2012, Saks Fifth Avenue will give 5% of all registered purchases made with a Saks Fifth Avenue credit card back to charity. The donations will benefit certain local organizations, keeping support within each Saks Fifth Avenue store's immediate community.
The Prechter Fund is one of the local charities to which customers may wish to allocate their 5% contribution at the store in Troy, MI - part of the Somerset Collection – at 901 West Big Beaver Road.
Wally Prechter, our Founder, Honored as a 2011 Ambassador of the Year
In Detroit's Ambassador magazine's Nov./Dec. 2011 issue, the Heinz C. Prechter Fund's founder Wally Prechter is profiled as a "2011 Ambassador of the Year."
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Nowadays, mobile phones aren't only useful for contacting your friends and family, but in addition for using the internet. Along with the creation of Android OS browsing throughout the smartphone turned out to be even more common. Android OS tablets can also be used in same manner. However the question at this point is that, which is the best browser for Android OS? Since Android has arrived recently, very few individuals are familiar with complexness of this OS. So here in this post we're going to reveal top 3 best browsers for Android OS in 2013 and I am sure it would be very helpful for people who are planning to buy a new Android device just to surf the web.
3. Google Chrome Beta
Google Chrome is certainly a most preferred browser for desktops. However, in Android OS devices even Google Chrome (Android version) doesn't work as it was expected. This really is mostly because that Google Chrome doesn't provide flash player. Other than that Google Chrome browser operates perfectly and gives an amazing speed. Handling the tabs is usually the simplest in this web browser. However it doesn't offer any choice to request for PC version of any blog or website.
2. Opera Mobile
Opera mobile web browser is among the top internet browsers for mobile users around the world. Certainly one of the unique options of this web browser is Opera Turbo. When asking for data, Opera Turbo running on browser will pack the data and then folded type of the data is loaded on your Android device. So when your websites are loading in folded form, it is clear that speed will improve strongly. The opera mobile internet browser will also support flash which means you will never face any difficulty with web sites which use flash.
1. Dolphin
Dolphin Browser is surely unbeatable when we talk about browsers for Android OS. Exactly what renders this particular web browser stand out is truly its simplicity of scrolling. Hardly any other browser offers a scrolling like Dolphin web browser does. Furthermore, sites are usually opened in a fastest speed you could ever imagine. It will not believe your vision once you see sites opening at such increased speed on your device. There are many extensions designed for Dolphin web browser that are acquired from Google Play Store. If you use just about any other browser on your android device, you need to check Dolphin web browser now and I am quite sure you'll simply love it.


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The $50.5 million project will feature 209 apartments, 42 of them for veterans. Public investments will cover nearly $29 million of the project cost, an upfront contribution that will subsidize expenses for renters.
"This is the project that no one thought we could pull off," said city Commissioner Nick Fish, who oversees the Portland Housing Bureau.
Affordable housing had been promised as part of the transformation within the North Macadam urban renewal district, where riverfront industrial land gave way to 30-story condominium towers. Under the development deal, the first affordable apartment building was supposed to be built by December 2006.
But the city's urban renewal agency didn't purchase land for the affordable housing complex, known as Block 49, until that year. The ensuing housing collapse then froze lending and halted would-be investors.
Federal subsidies largely will cover rent for the 42 units open to veterans who earn less than $15,000 a year. The remaining apartments will fetch rents of about $575 for one-bedroom units. To qualify for those, single tenants must earn less than $25,000 a year.


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Curious about the prices and variety at the Taste of Tacoma? I snapped photos of menus during an early lunch there today. The first thing you'll notice is that the $3.75 bargain bites from last year are gone. Expect to pay $5-$7 on average for most dishes. Organizers capped the prices at $8 for the most expensive dishes. Bring cash.
I got there for an early lunch just as the festival opened, so the only Tacoma restaurant that was serving – the raw restaurant, AmeRAWcan Bistro – did not have its menu posted. If you're curious about what AmeRAWcan Bistro is serving, I saw coconut drinks and brownie bites. A counter worker told me they were $6 and $3.75, respectively.
Tasting notes of a dozen dishes here
An overview of the festival here
You be the critic – you can vote for your favorites here


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ONLY students who are HIRED as part of the Summer Internship Program at the Times are eligible to apply for these awards. Scholarships are worth up to $3,500 for returning fulltime undergraduate students and up to $1,500 for returning full-time graduate students.
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The Akhilesh Yadav government in Uttar Pradesh on Saturday removed Chief Secretary Javed Usmani and appointed Alok Ranjan in his place.
A 1978 batch IAS officer, Ranjan, who assumed office this evening, said he would try to ensure clean administration.
"I will try to ensure clean administration and deal with problems like power crisis. I will emphasise on team
work," he told media persons in Lucknow.
No official reason has been cited for Usmani's removal though the Samajwadi Party-led government has been shuffling both IAS and PCS officers after the party's debacle in the Lok Sabha polls.
Prior to his new assignment, Ranjan, a graduate from Delhi's St Stephen's college and MBA from IIM-Ahmedabad, was Infrastructure and Industrial Development Commissioner and Agriculture Production Commissioner of the state.


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Remember that ever-so-adorable GTK Last.fm player we showed you several weeks back? It's just updated, adding a new mini-mode, a volume slider and an improved installation script which cleans up after itself – which is always nice, no?
|Chipmunk mini-mode
Chipmunk 1.7.2 can be downloaded and installed using the steps beneath: –
- Download this script, saving to your home folder:
- Give permissions to execute:
- Right click > permissions > Execute
- Open a terminal and run:
- ./install_chipmunk_on_linux_mint.py


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Vick accused of illegally withdrawing $1.3 mil from pension plan
Michael Vick is in more hot water as the Department of Labor is accusing him of illegally withdrawing more than $1.3 million from a pension plan he had to help play his criminal restitution after his conviction on dog-fighting charges.
The department says Vick made a series of prohibited transfers from a pension plan sponsored by MV7, a celebrity marketing company owned by the former Atlanta Falcons quarterback. The department alleges that Vick violated his duties as trustee of a pension plan that covered nine current or former MV7 employees.
"This action sends a message that the Labor Department will not tolerate the misuse of plan money and will take whatever steps necessary to recover the assets owed to eligible workers," Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis said in a prepared statement.
The department also accused two of Vick's former financial advisers, Mary R. Wong and David A. Talbot, of participating in some of the transfers.
The filing further complicates Vick's bankruptcy case, which has gradually moved along in Newport News while Vick serves a 23-month prison term in the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kan. The judge presiding over the bankruptcy case has ordered Vick to testify in person at next week's hearing on confirmation of his Chapter 11 plan.
The department says the plan assets were partially used to help pay the criminal restitution imposed on Vick after his federal dogfighting conspiracy conviction.
I've never seen anyone blow through millions of dollars like this a-hole and have nothing to show for it.
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1,800 gallons of raw sewage spilled in two Kalamazoo neighborhoods
By Gordon Evans • Apr 28, 2013
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City was notified about overflow from a manhole Saturday morning
Source: Mlive
KALAMAZOO, MI -- A sewer blockage caused more than 1,800 gallons of raw sewage to spill in Kalamazoo's Oakland/Winchell Neighborhood Saturday. Kalamazoo Department of Public Services was notified of the overflow from a manhole at 2041 Saxonia Lane at about 11:40 a.m. Saturday. By 5:30 p.m., workers had removed the blockage.
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We're planning or creating a multi-user blog system (somewhere around 10,000) and I have narrowed my choices down to b2Evolution and Serendipity. Has anyone used one or both of these systems. We want something that is easy to install and customize.
Neither of the blogs have all the custom options that we want, so we need to be able to easily edit the code and database.
or if you know of another blog system that would be better, let me know. I did a little research of all the blog systems on this site.
thanks for any advice


text: I saw this on another forum. I thought I'd share this as I know lots of folks like to make their own baskets. This is the best DIY basket I've seen. A bit more expensive but a much nicer end product in my opinion then the Ikea step stool models I've seen. Might be a good winter project for someone looking to make their own basket. SF http://www.stripersonline.com/t/917113/diy-stripping-basket-final-product


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Inside a small, free library in St. Paul's Hamline-Midway neighborhood. Under a bench in Rice Park. Outside a restaurant near University Avenue and Dale Street.
Free art has been found all over the city this summer as part of Free Art Fridays Twin Cities when artists hide their creations for folks to find and take home.
St. Paul artist Jun-Li Wang started the event in the Twin Cities after learning about the Free Art Fridays movement happening around the country. In May, she set up a Facebook page for the group, and it has attracted more than 800 members. In less than two months, artists have hidden a couple of dozen pieces of art around the Twin Cities.
"It's pretty much an experiment," said Wang, who also works at Springboard for the Arts. "There are some guidelines, but there's definitely no big plan. It doesn't come with an organization backing it."
Here's how it works: Artists are invited to create a small piece of work, hide it somewhere in the Twin Cities, then on Friday, post photo clues on Facebook and/or Twitter. The finder is asked to post or tweet a photo to let the group know the art has found a good home.
Of course, not all of the art is found by group members. A random passer-by could just as easily snag a piece, adding to the mystery.
"There's some joy thinking about who discovers it and thinking about where to hide it," Wang said. "And taking this silly little picture.
"I'm the kind of artist who likes to make things for people, and even though I don't know who the recipient is, I like the idea that it's a gift. I feel artists should be recognized for their work and should be paid for it, so this isn't an act of charity or anything. But for me, and in my life, it's a way for me to send some of my work out into the world without having to worry about getting it in a store for people to buy."
Melissa Martinez-Sones and her daughters — Ruby, 8, and Cecilia, 10 — found one of the first pieces of Wang's hidden art, a drawing of a bicycle, tucked away on University Avenue. Martinez-Sones said she loves the idea of Free Art Fridays, especially because it involves St. Paul neighborhoods. On their art scavenger hunt, they also came across sidewalk poetry that they stopped to read.
"The whole experience made me feel like, 'Oh, look how great our city is,' " Martinez-Sones said.
A hider and a finder, Erin McKiel appreciates the creative outlet Free Art Fridays has given her. An architect by trade, the St. Paul woman stashed some of her work — a small collage and painting — around the city and has also looked for art with her 4-year-old daughter, Evelyn. She said part of the program's intrigue is getting to know your surroundings.
"I've enjoyed being able to both explore the city in search for the art, as well as share the city with other people when I choose where to hide it," she said. "I think it has the great elements of a whimsical exploration of your city, as well as connecting people more directly to the arts."
Since they started searching for art, McKiel and her daughter have discovered two pieces: one at a coffee shop near their home and one on Grand Avenue.
"One was a potato print of cupcakes on a dish towel," she said. "My daughter was so excited. It could become a picnic blanket for her dollies; it could be a tablecloth for her tea parties. She has all these ideas for how she's going to make use of it."
So far, McKiel has tucked her work under a bench in Rice Park during the Flint Hills International Children's Festival and inside a small free library.
"Art isn't always just for ourselves, and it doesn't always need to be sold or commissioned," McKiel said. "It's fun just knowing it's been given away."
Wang said there's no plan to find funding for artists participating in Free Art Fridays or to bring an organization into the mix. She wants the grass-roots program to grow organically.
"I want to live in a place where these kinds of things happen," Wang said. "So part of it is about making it happen and hopefully inspiring others to do similar things."
You can join the Free Art Fridays Facebook group at facebook.com/groups/FAFTC/. For those who tweet, clues and finds can be posted on Twitter with the hashtag #FAFTC.
Amy Carlson Gustafson can be reached at 651-228-5561. Follow her at twitter.com/amygustafson.


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Sandro was delighted with his playing return for Tottenham in their friendly against Espanyol.
The Brazil midfielder hadn't featured since midway through last season due to knee injury.
"It was fantastic, an amazing feeling," Sandro told the club's website. "It felt like my first game all over again.
"It's been seven months without football so to come back and see the fans, it was amazing for me.
"It was a special moment and I have to say thank-you to everyone. I'm so happy and now I will improve myself every day to get stronger and stronger."
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"I feel insecure as cadres of my husband are threatening me, my mother and brother with death if I do not withdraw the case," she said at a press briefing at her paternal house at Merul Badda in the city.
She demanded security of her life in the face of the alleged threat.
Naznin alleged that her husband had tortured her for two years since their marriage on June 16, 1983. Later, she was divorced in 1995 as she had complained about her husband's extramarital affair. Later, Bulu forced her to remarry him by giving her Tk 2 crore, she said.
"With this money, I bought shares of Dhaka Bank and Jumuna Bank. Bulu started torturing me again for two reasons -- I used to protest his extramarital affair and he wanted me to transfer the shares to him," she said.
Naznin took shelter at her father's house on December 10 last year as Bulu ousted her from their Gulshan house.
Asked why she made delay in filing the case, she said fear held her back.


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3.4 Higher-order Statistics
Given the complexity of the observed large-scale structure, a complete statistical description of the galaxy distribution requires the use of high-order statistics. To investigate high-order correlations, counts-in-cells have been used to compute the count probability distribution function P (N, V), from which the Void Probability Function (VPF), P (0, V), and the normalized skewness S3 and kurtosis S4 have been derived. These statistics have been used to test the hierarchical relations and to compare data to simulations using optical and infrared-selected samples with complete redshift information (Vogeley et al. 1991, Lachieze-Rey et al. 1992, Bouchet et al. 1993, Benoist et al. 1998). From the moments of the counts distribution and from the scaling of the VPF one finds that the galaxy distribution satisfies the scaling relations predicted by second-order perturbation theory well into the non-linear regime. However, high-order statistics, such as VPF, have not proven to be good discriminants of different cosmological models. Instead, preliminary results suggest that high order moments may be best used to constrain galaxy biasing models, especially for large redshift samples expected from 2dF and SDSS.


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Plan to eat at home this week (and save money) with these five easy, budget-friendly family recipes and easy printable shopping list.
Slow-Cooker Baked Ziti
Cost per serving: $2.37
A family-pleasing dish like this is a great place to sneak in some extra vegetables. If you have leftover cooked carrots, zucchini, spinach or broccoli, chop up finely and add to the sauce. You can also cook this dish with whole-wheat pasta for added fiber and other nutrients.
See recipe: Slow-Cooker Baked Ziti


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Introduction to the Sun Ultra 20 Workstation
This chapter provides an overview of the Sun Ultra 20 Workstation, as well as power-on and power-off procedures and information on adding more components.
The following sections are included in this chapter:
TABLE 1-1 shows the system's key components.
Onboard ATI graphics controller with DB15 VGA graphics connector
The following sections describe the preinstalled and supported software for the Sun Ultra 20 Workstation.
Solaris 10 Operating System, Sun Studio 10, Sun Java Studio Creator, and Sun Java Studio Enterprise software are preinstalled on your system.
For information on configuring the preinstalled Solaris 10 and other software for the Sun Ultra 20 Workstation, refer to the Sun Ultra 20 Workstation Getting Started Guide, 819-2148.
For detailed information on Solaris 10 and other software, see the Sun software documentation site at:
Your Sun Ultra 20 Workstation has the Solaris 10 Operating System preinstalled. If you want to install another operating system on your workstation, the following additional operating systems (or later versions) are supported for the Sun Ultra 20 Workstation:
Instructions for installing these operating systems are available in the media sets that are packaged with the operating system software. For an updated list of supported operating systems, refer to the the following web site:
If you want to run Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS or SUSE Linux Enterprise System on the Sun Ultra 20 Workstation, you can order it from the from the following web site:
Before installing an operating system, refer to the Sun Ultra 20 Workstation Getting Started Guide, 819-2148, for further information on updates and drivers that must be installed.
The Sun Ultra 20 Workstation Supplemental CD, included with the workstation, contains the following software:
The following sections describe the hardware orientation and features of your Sun Ultra 20 Workstation.
This section describes the front and back panels of the Sun Ultra 20 Workstation.
FIGURE 1-1 illustrates the front panel of the Sun Ultra 20 Workstation.
FIGURE 1-2 depicts the back panel of the Sun Ultra 20 Workstation.
FIGURE 1-3 shows the locations of the components inside the Sun Ultra 20 Workstation.
After making sure that you set up the system properly and connected all the required cables explained in the Sun Ultra 20 Workstation Getting Started Guide, 819-2148, you can now power on your system.
Tip - If you are installing optional internal components such as additional memory DIMMs, PCI cards, optical drives, or hard drives, install those components before you power on the workstation. See Chapter 4 for remove and replace procedures. If you are not installing optional components, you are ready to power on the workstation.
Follow these steps to power on the workstation:
1. Turn on the power to the monitor and to all external devices.
2. Turn the power switch on the rear of the workstation to the On ( | ) position.
3. Press and release the workstation Power button on the front panel (FIGURE 1-1).
4. After several seconds, verify that the platform power LED next to the Power button is lit.
The platform power LED lights after the workstation begins the internal booting process (FIGURE 1-1).
5. After the system finishes booting, configure the preinstalled Solaris 10 Operating System or install another supported operating system.
See the Sun Ultra 20 Workstation Getting Started Guide, 819-2148, for more information on configuring the preinstalled operating system or installing an additional operating system.
If you need to change the system parameters in the BIOS, press the F2 key during the POST process to access the BIOS Setup Utility.
Caution - Be careful when making changes to the system BIOS, as some changes can cause your system to malfunction.
1. Save your data and close any open applications.
2. Read all of the following power-off options before powering off the workstation:
In most cases, this will power down the operating system, then turn off the power to the workstation.
This initiates an orderly shutdown of the operating system and powers off the workstation.
Caution - To avoid data loss, use one of the first two options whenever possible.
This shuts down the power to the workstation but does not initiate an orderly shutdown of the system. This method could result in data loss.
If the proceeding options fail to power off the workstation, see Chapter 2, Section , Troubleshooting for more options.
After powering off the workstation, wait at least four seconds before powering on the workstation again.
If the power to the system is interrupted for less than ten seconds, do the following to ensure that the standby power is completely shut off:
1. Unplug the AC power cord from the workstation or turn off the power switch on the back panel of the workstation.
2. Wait ten or more seconds.
3. Plug the power AC cord into the workstation.
4. Power on the workstation.
You can order additional components and replacement parts for the Sun Ultra 20 Workstation.
Contact your local Sun sales representative for more information. For the most up-to-date component information, see the Sun Ultra 20 Workstation components list at the following web site:
Copyright © 2006, Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.


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According to TheWolverine.com....
According to TheWolverine.com....
that show up every practice to be on the practice squad with only the love of Michigan football as motivation and the hope of getting in the game in the 4th quarter of the Bowling Green game.
You have to look at PT last year though. Roh - Tons. Big Will - Less. I'm not saying that Big Will is less awesome, I'm just saying he's less proven.
I thought Campbell would be higher, too. I'm guessing if this list is revisited at midseason or so, he'll be top 10.
#1 most important is DG
I. Think. Not.
I think special teams is flying under the radar. We need Gibbons or someone else to kick well. We weren't great in the red zone last year; we can't miss easy field goals. We need Hagerup to be as Zoltan-like as he can. Hopefully Stonum can be huge on kickoffs and whoever receives punts holds onto the damn ball. I think a lot of games this year could be close (UConn, ND, MSU) so special teams will be huge.


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Hypnotism is by no means a new art. True, it has been developed into a science in comparatively recent years. But the principles of thought control have been used for thousands of years in India, ancient Egypt, among the Persians, Chinese and in many other ancient lands. Miracles of healing by the spoken word and laying on of hands are recorded in many early writings. The priests and medicine men of primitive tribes used these forces widely and still use them today, with results sufficiently impressive to maintain their traditional position of authority for successive generations.
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WELLSVILLE, N.Y. (WIVB) – A southern tier man is accused of embezzling up to $40,000 from the Wellsville Elks Lodge.
The Wellsville Daily Reporter reports Charles Costello has been charged by State Police with third degree grand larceny. Investigators say while treasurer of the lodge, the 49-year-old Wellsville man stole the money and left the club with unpaid bills.
After being arraigned, Costello was taken to the Allegany County Jail on $20,000 bail.


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A week of self-flagellation clearly works for Wasps. Seven days after their dire performance at Stradey Park they yesterday ran in six tries, three of them to Tom Voyce. "We had a walloping," Llanelli's director of rugby Gareth Jenkins admitted later. "We've been taught a lesson."
Wasps and Llanelli still have mathematical hopes of reaching the quarter-finals, but it looks unlikely that a second team will qualify from Pool Six, with the holders, Toulouse, going through comfortably. "We thought any of the sides in the pool could beat each other and that's how it has turned out," said Jenkins who claimed Llanelli had been refereed out of the game by half-time. "We played 39 minutes of the first half without the ball. We weren't allowed to compete at the contact area. There were nine penalties against us, none for. Alan Lewis refereed the contact completely differently to Alain Roland last week. They're both Irish referees, I wonder if they had conversations on the phone."
More importantly, Wasps, led by their front row, were stronger all over the field. Ian McGeechan and Shaun Edwards made five changes after the angst of the past week. Mark van Gisbergen returned at full-back, which meant Josh Lewsey moved to centre alongside Stuart Abbott. Matt Dawson was relegated to the bench from where he watched Eoin Reddan have an impressive hour at scrum-half.
There was also a pre-match flea in the ear from the owner Chris Wright, who said the Stradey defeat was one of the most disappointing performances he had seen in 10 years paying the bills. "We have to get our season back on track. We have to let people know that the Wasps of old are not the Wasps of history and that the Wasps of tomorrow will be equally strong," he said.
Jenkins opted for the XV that started in last week's 21-13 win, but within seven minutes his confidence seemed misplaced when Wasps gained a 10-point lead.
Already three points up thanks to an Alex King penalty, Raphael Ibanez threw short to Simon Shaw at Wasps' first line-out, took the return and made 10 yards before the ball went back to King with Tom Voyce steaming up on the outside and a yawning gap ahead of him.
Another Ibanez break seven minutes later led to several team warnings administered to the Llanelli captain, Simon Easterby, whose game lasted only five minutes longer. Ireland's captain tangled with a forceful hand off from Wasps' breast-beater-in-chief, Lawrence Dallaglio, and left for hospital with an eye injury.
Easterby's replacement, Jonathan Mills, barely had time to get his hands into a ruck before Lewis lost patience and waved the first of three yellow cards. But by then Wasps had already made the Stradey result a nonsense thanks to the industry and aggression of their front row.
The prop Ali McKenzie made the best of a ball set up by Paul Sackey, spun it on to Josh Lewsey and with one step inside his man, England's full-back negotiated a 40-yard corridor to the line. By half-time the try bonus point to keep Wasps hopes alive was in sight when George Skivington scored to make it 27-7.
Llanelli were living on scraps and the generosity of Simon Shaw. The lock rarely finds himself at scrum-half and it was his pass from the base of a ruck which Matthew Watkins picked off to go in under the posts.
The inevitable was delayed 16 minutes into the second half by a brief Llanelli resurgence and Lewis turning his whistle on the English champions. Dallaglio was given a dressing down and when McKenzie was penalised a minute later for a high tackle it was obvious that a yellow would follow. It didn't seem to matter.
With the prop in the bin, Wasps scored twice to wrap up both game and bonus point. Lewsey made the break down the left for Voyce to cut inside and Ibanez bulldozed over in the 68th minute. Llanelli's replacement full back Barry Davies fumbled for Voyce's hat-trick, but then came back to score the final try of the game.
After pointing the finger at "one or two" of his team-mates in a Roy Keane moment after last week's game, Dallaglio was impressed by the improvement. "We are out of Europe but we can sleep well for the next six days and I can unwrap my presents with a smile on my face," he said.
Wasps: Van Gisbergen; Sackey, Lewsey (Erinle, 70), Abbott, Voyce (Hoadley, 75); King, Reddan (M Dawson, 67); McKenzie, Ibanez (Barrett, 64), Payne (J Dawson, 62), Shaw, Skivington, Hart, O'Connor, Dallaglio (capt, Lock 70).
Tries: Voyce 3, Lewsey, Skivington, Ibanez. Cons: King 6. Pens: King 2. Sin-bin: McKenzie, 48
Llanelli Scarlets: Byrne (B Davies, h-t); Evans, M J Watkins (Stuart-Smith, 76), James, M Jones; Bowen (Hercus, 62), Peel; Williams, Rees, J Davies (Madden, 61); Louw (Afeaki, 48), A Jones; Easterby (capt; Mills 20), Thomas, Popham.
Tries: Watkins, B Davies. Cons: Bowen, Hercus.
Sin-bin: Mills 33, M Jones 63. Referee: A Lewis (Ireland). Attendance: 7,517.


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By: Spacelab Research Staff
Austin City Limits has announced its 2010 lineup. The show is of course in Austin, Texas, and features over a hundred bands on eight different stages over three days. This year's festival includes The Strokes, M.I.A, Flaming Lips, LCD Soundsystem, Spoon Deadmau5, Sonic Youth and Broken Bells, plus a lot more. Check out the festival overview for a complete line up.
Austin City Limits has grown into one of the largest in the world, as well as one of the oldest, and is now rapidly becoming one of the most diverse. Take this year's ACL lineup, for example. The acts are widespread among the genres, from indie rock and alternative to country, blues and folk to rock 'n' roll, bluegrass and zydeco.
You can of course jump into the whole social media thing by connecting with the festival on Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Flickr, email and mobile. They'll of course be tweeting their hearts out on Twitter because everyone is doing it, and Austin City Limits doesn't want to be left out.
All early bird, advance and 3-day pass tickets have been sold out, anyone wanting a ticket now will have to pony up for a regular old 1-day pass for $85 starting on Wednesday, May 18th. But hey, no service fees! High rollers (what's left of them anyway) can get 3 day VIP passes for the skinny price of $850. Live LARGE.
The 2009 festival included names like Beastie Boys, Thievery Corporation, The Dead Weather, Sonic Youth, and The Decemberists.
The festival also ends up being featured on late night installments on PBS, often around midnight, so check local American listings to see when it plays in your area.
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June 9, 2005
Brazilian order for Damen PSV
Damen Shipyards Gorinchem, the Netherlands and Brazil's Wilson, Sons have signed a contract and license agreement for the construction of a Damen Platform Supply Vessel 7216.
The nearly 72 meter long vessel will be built by Wilson. Sons at its shipyard in Guaruja (Santos), Brazil.
Damen will provide engineering, construction drawings and a material package.
The vessel, operated byÊWilson, Sons, will enter into a charter contract with Petrobras and fully complies with its requirements.
The total deadweight is 3,100 ton, the available deck area 630 sq.m with a maximum deck load of 1,000 tons.
The tank lay-out includes fuel oil, potable water, ballast/drilling water, liquid mud and dry bulk.
Propulsion is based on a diesel - electric propulsion system, comprising four main generators, two electric motorsÊand two 1,500 kW CPP Azimuth Rudder Propellers.
Twin 600 kW electric bow thrusters are provided with CPP.
Fully air-conditioned accommodations are provided for 24 persons.
The PSV 7216 will enter into service during the second half of 2006.


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AS CHICHESTER heads into its third year as a business improvement district, the city centre partnership has come under scrutiny.
Speaking last week, partnership chairman Andrew Finnamore reiterated his desire to look after the side streets of Chichester and boost their potential for independent businesses.
"It does appear on the outside that things are getting better in the economy. Don't be deluded by that. The businesses in the city that speak to us all the time know how difficult it is," he told assembled councillors at a meeting of Chichester District Council's overview and scrutiny committee last week.
He said the partnership had plans to further boost side streets in Chichester, work which he said was 'desperately needed'.
"They survived, only just, in the last five years and we now need to do more than just talk about it," he said.
"As a community we've given nothing more than lip service to that over the last ten or 20 years."
Since 2012, Chichester's city centre has been a business improvement district, with businesses in the centre paying an extra one per cent levy on their rates.
According to the partnership, there are around 720 businesses paying into the BID, giving it a net budget of £270,000 per year to spend.
The partnership has subdivided its spending into four categories: promotion and marketing, organisation, environment and safety and security.
When BID was elected in April, 2012, it was given a five-year tenure for the city centre and will canvas for re-election for 2017.
During the five years, it has budgeted £370,000 to be spent on promotion, including the Christmas lights, £370,000 on organisation, including a full-time city centre manager, footfall cameras and business communication. There is also £285,000 allocated for environmental issues, such as street clean ups, trees, signs.
Finally, £175,000 is set for crime reduction initiatives, such as ChiBac (Chichester businesses against crime).
ChiBac has been trumpeted as a great success for the city centre, along with another initiative to cut down on crime at night.
Head cameras worn by security guards at bars in the centre have led to a great reduction in anti-social behaviour, according to Kim Long the city centre manager.
"Head cameras have been absolutely amazing," she said, quoting the manager of the Dolphin and Anchor pub, which she said saw several incidents diffused because people knew their actions were being filmed.
Mr Finnamore also told the meeting maps of the city were ready to be printed imminently, which would help signpost the way for visitors.
He said it had been a goal from when they started but had been held up by funding problems.
"What we chose to do was to prepare a new map of the city that would be placed as a leaflet by every pay-and-display machine in the city," he said, adding it was now 'ready to go'.
One side of the map would feature 'cultural attractions', with the other containing details of hotels, restaurants and much more.
Around 200,000 were due to be distributed around the city.
At the meeting, Mr Finnamore said now was the time for action to boost Chichester, saying plans were afoot to improve side streets, with £20,000-30,000 earmarked in BID's business plan.
It has provisional plans for road improvements and also has planning permission for hanging signs and an art sculpture in Crane Street.
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Blast From The Past - Sorensen and A Mirror
Thomas Sorensen has tried to clear up some confusion over his comments, but admits MON told him to 'look in the mirror' when it came to his form.
Speaking to Setnata Sports Sorensen revealed that O'Neill launched a 'blistering' attack on his form after we signed Scott Carson on loan, and although he is still looking for a new club believes his time at Villa was soured over a simple misunderstanding when an interview he gave was badly translated.
'I didn't understand that the club took Scott Carson on loan at a time when I was coming back from injury,' he told spn.dk.
'I was contacted by the media in Denmark and I said that I didn't understand what happened.
'That statement was a little distorted when it travelled over the water and it appeared in a way that seemed like I was criticising the manager about his purchase - something which wasn't the case.
'He saw I had commented in a newspaper that I thought I had a good season last year. He said that he was not at all of the same opinion and that it was five or six years since I was, in any way, a good goalkeeper, and that I had to look at myself in the mirror.
'My jaw simply dropped to the table. They were hard words and they came completely out of thin air.'
We all know things can get lost in translation, take a look at the above, it's not exactly direct English in translation BUT how many months has it been since that article aired and this is the first public 'correction' to any misunderstandings? Why wasn't this done the day the article appeared in the English press? Why didn't he immediately correct the mis translation and explain in English, to English journalists exactly what he meant?
As for the form issue, O'Neill is perfectly right. Tommy was dropping clangers, that's not to say overall that Carson was in the grand scheme of things a better replacement, or a better replacement than Taylor might have been. But Sorensen's form was suffering and if his jaw dropped as he explained when those words came out of 'thin air' then what was his reaction in training? We certainly saw the reaction in subsequent press articles and his concern about the National team, but what kind of response did O'Neill see where it mattered.
Probably not the one he hoped for, and that's why Sorensen never played again.
Coming out all these months later, whilst still hoping to find a new club, and trying to clear the air with the managers and fans is simply a wasted excercise if that was the idea. If the idea was simply to get his name in the papers again then it's worked a treat.
But I fail to see how this improves his standing, as effectively it reads, he didn't respond, motivate himself, and react and fight for his place after his dressing down.
I would imagine that does him more damage than people thinking he openly attacked O'Neill?


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In the past the records were a tool to help doctors better care. Now a great deal of time is spent on the patient record so as to stay out of the courtroom. Seemginly more and more time is devoted to the paper trail and less and less to the sick, injured and unknowing.
Electronic medical records the goal of Murphy's bill WASHINGTON -- Rep. Tim Murphy introduced legislation yesterday with a bipartisan group of House and Senate colleagues that would provide new grants and loans to develop electronic medical records systems in an attempt to reduce medical errors and health care costs.
Wellness is important.
This theme would be a great course of action, or track, for the proposed Youth Technology Summit.
I was at another event last night, and heard of a new concept -- a mini medical school. Humm. It sounded a bit like the citizens police academy, but for another major topic area.
Lifelong learning is so important.


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BOSTON — This month, David Ortiz has probably become the first player in history to get over the hump and into the Hall of Fame by the margin of his spectacular postseason play.
If the Boston Red Sox complete their third World Series triumph in the past 10 seasons, all with Big Papi as a central offensive engine, and Ortiz continues to hold the highest career batting average in World Series history, currently an insane .465 in '04, '07 and '13 combined, we can probably remove the word "probably."
In the past week, hitting .733 in this series despite being robbed of a grand slam in Game 1 by a great catch, Ortiz has, in all likelihood, dispelled the last Cooperstown doubts anyway. Stat students may debate whether there's any such thing as a "clutch hitter," but don't try to sell that to the St. Louis Cardinals. After Ortiz finally made an out on Monday, on a vicious deep line drive to center, ace Adam Wainwright turned and made a gesture of admiration as if to say, "So, you can make an out."
The Hall of Fame is full of players who have starred in the postseason, including Mr. October, Reggie Jackson. But, at the moment, Ortiz occupies a curious "tweener" status in the game's pantheon. He has 431 homers and turns 38 in November. With normal erosion with age, he may never quite reach the stat thresholds usually associated with Cooperstown. Because he'll be measured, at least in part, against the norms of a power-crazed era, he may resemble players like Fred McGriff, who has more homers and RBI than Ortiz but will probably never make the Hall.
Big Papi, however, seems determined to batter his way from "almost" to "in," thanks to October. And many players here seem to sense his quest.
After Game 5, in which Ortiz went 3 for 4, Red Sox winning pitcher Jon Lester spotted his slugging teammate and couldn't contain himself.
"My man, here he is, the guy I don't think has gotten out this series. Knock on wood," said the southpaw. "You don't get to play with many Hall of Famers, and I'd like to call him a Hall of Famer after the pleasure of playing with him the last eight years and hopefully a couple more."
"Thanks, brother," said Ortiz in a baritone worthy of his 1.267 slugging percentage over the last five games.
Another Boston stalwart, David Ross, interrupted the first and likely only World Series press conference of his life to say, "Speaking of clutch hitting with David Ortiz — what planet is that guy from?"
That's what everybody says almost every October since Ortiz arrived in Boston in 2003. What he's doing this postseason, with a two-homer game against the Rays in the Division Series, a crucial ALCS-turning grand slam against Detroit and now a total devastation of the Cards, has become an almost predictable encore.
In the most memorable playoff series in baseball history, Ortiz hit .387 and drove in 11 runs against the Yankees in '04 as Boston became the only team to recover from a three-games-to-none deficit. That was after he'd hit .545 against the Angels to get the Red Sox into that ALCS. In Boston's two Series wins since '18, he's hit .308 and .333 with eight RBI in eight games. He once hit .714 in a Division Series — in '07 against the Angels.
Few star hitters actually perform better over extended postseason exposure because they face only the best pitchers from the best opposing teams and do so under chilly autumn conditions that neutralize some of a batter's power. But Ortiz blows away this rule of thumb. In 81 postseason games, exactly half of a normal season, he's hit 17 homers, driven in 60 runs, had 40 extra-base hits and batted .296, better than his career mark of .292. His postseason on-base percentage and slugging averages also top his regular season norms, .403 to .381 and .554 to .549.
This October, in three playoff series combined, he's hitting .360, slugging .720, has five homers and 13 RBI in 15 games and hit the grand slam that reversed the momentum of the AL Championship Series. Any more questions?
"The Cardinals have tried a lot 1/8of different pitching approaches3/8," said Ross, a catcher who says he's been studying Yadier Molina's pitch sequences to Ortiz. "David's just … he's David Ortiz. That says enough. The guy is a postseason stud and a stud in general. That's why we call him 'Cooperstown,' because he does Hall of Fame stuff."
Someday a wonderful October pitcher, the Yankees' Andy Pettitte, may join Ortiz as a Cooperstown-with-help-from-the-playoffs Hall of Famer.
Ortiz does more than hit — or, rather, designate hit, which would normally be a huge factor working against his Hall candidacy, just as it has doomed Edgar Martinez.
In the last three games in St. Louis, he moved back to his old first base spot and never had a misstep. When the Red Sox were flat in Game 4, and trailing in the series two-games-to-one, Ortiz called a team meeting in the dugout after the fifth inning for an in-plain-view pep talk. The Sox immediately scored three runs to win, 4-2, with a Jonny Gomes homer following an Ortiz walk.
"We were like 24 kids in kindergarten when the teacher starts to talk," Gomes said.
So, add October leadership to the resume. "This guy right here is the epitome of a superstar and a good teammate," Lester said. "I don't think you could ever ask more out of an individual than what he has done on and off the field. He's got a heart of gold."
Ortiz also understands that a three-games-to-two lead should not induce overconfidence. "Our biggest challenge," he said, "is to come back on Wednesday and continue playing the way we have."
For Ortiz, the Cards have presented a tough task. "They have great pitching staff," he said. "If you try to look for everything they throw, you're definitely not going to hit anything."
Then how can Ortiz go 11 for 15 and, yes, take note of that barely missed grand slam, too? Has he ever been this hot before, he was asked?
"I did it like 20 times this season," Ortiz said, matter-of-factly
"That pretty much sums it up," Lester added.
But Ortiz actually summed his feats, spread across 17 different postseason series — all but two with the Red Sox.
"I was born for this," Ortiz said.
And for Cooperstown, too.


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Date: 2012-10-18
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has unanimously approved an order creating a do-not-call list for America's 9-1-1 centers. The action, approved on October 17th, prevents robocalls and unsolicited telemarketing from reaching 9-1-1 centers on administrative lines – a needless distraction that could prevent emergency calls from being answered in a timely manner.
According to the FCC, hundreds or even thousands of unwanted robocalls are made to 9-1-1 centers every day. The calls go to the full 10 digit phone number of the center, not 9-1-1, but can still tie up lines and divert resources.
The FCC's order creates a Do Not Call list of 9-1-1 call centers and bars robocallers from contacting numbers on the list. The order allows for a fine of between $10,000 and $100,000 for each call or text to numbers on the list.
Reps. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) and John Shimkus (R-Ill.) led the push in Congress to adopt the 911 robocalling provision. "Getting a busy signal when calling 9-1-1 is simply unacceptable, and some telemarketers make that happen. This order would stop that," FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said in a statement. "In emergency situations, minutes – even seconds — matter. This order would prohibit automatic dialing to lines that are dedicated to emergency responders, such as 911 operators. I expect it will save lives."
Brian Fontes, CEO of NENA, the 9-1-1 Association, expressed gratitude and support for the order on behalf of 9-1-1 professionals across the nation: "In an emergency, seconds often mean the difference between life and death. Today's action ensures that 9-1-1 call takers are not forced to take unnecessary time away from providing the lifesaving service of 9-1-1 to answer frivolous and unwanted calls. The FCC's order to end robocalls to 9-1-1 undoubtedly benefits both citizens in need of assistance and the 9-1-1 call takers who enable effective and efficient emergency response."
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