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With the Wii and the PS3 just around the corner, you're all going to need a pretty large screen to get maximun use out of those motion snesing controllers. Well, thanks to Panasonic, you can now invest in a hefty 103 inch TV set. How much of an investment is it i hear you ask? The TV set will retail for $80,000, and that's without the adding expense of installation.
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Man faces assault of a public servant charge (+Arrest Affidavit)
Published 4:11 pm, Tuesday, May 31, 2011
A Midland man remained in jail Tuesday after being arrested following an alleged struggle with police during which officers said he also urinated in his bed while intoxicated over the holiday weekend.
Chad Leascher, 32, is being held on third-degree felony charge of assault on a public servant and various misdemeanors after police responded to a domestic disturbance with a woman late Friday night.
Police arrived to a domestic situation on the 4400 block of Andrews Highway about 9:30 p.m. Friday, where a woman told police the dispute began in a vehicle about four hours earlier when an argument broke out during a return trip from Big Spring. She said Leascher grabbed her by the arm and took away her cell phone she was using to alert police to the issue, according to affidavit of probable cause.
The fight continued after they returned from the trip, and the woman said she feared for her and her children's safety.
When officers arrived at the Andrews Highway location, they said they heard Leascher yell at the woman to "go ahead and call the cops and we will see what happens."
Police then observed the man run to a bedroom and get underneath the covers. Midland police officers removed the sheets of the bed to apprehend Leascher and check for weapons when they noticed the "obviously intoxicated" man had urinated himself, according to the arrest report.
Leascher began to resist arrest by shoving the officer and trying to dodge the officers' grasp. An officer finally was able to corner Leascher between a wall and a dresser, but Leascher headbutted the officer in a last ditch attempt to get away, police said.
The officer, in response, took the suspect to the ground and landed in a control position by using a joint lock to get on of his hands behind his back. Another officer tried to assist in handcuffing Leascher, but he continued to resist and was unresponsive to verbal commands, pressure points, joint manipulation and strikes to the leg. Eventually, one officer used his flashlight as an impact weapon and struck Leascher twice, police said.
After being struck, Leascher was finally brought under control but continued to resist officers. Police said Leascher even attempted to jump a jailer at the corrections facility.
Court records show Leascher has previously been arrested for alcohol-related crimes and resisting arrest, as recent as December.
He is being held on a $7,100 bond for a third-degree felony charge of assault on a public servant and misdemeanor charges of resisting arrest, interfering with a emergency call and family violence. If convicted of the felony, he could serve up to 10 years in prison.
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Writing Effective Trade Show Marketing Copy
By Lorrie Baumann, Editorial Director, Oser Communications Group
Here are some quick tips for writing marketing copy that will start your sales conversation with prospective buyers even before they reach your trade show booth.
- Remember whom you're writing for! When you're writing marketing copy to place in a trade show daily or a flyer to hand out at your booth, you're writing for your customers, not for the general public. That means that you can use jargon or terms of art that you wouldn't expect members of the general public to understand. However, you should also keep in mind that even your customers might not be familiar with abbreviations and acronyms that are specific to your company. Don't assume that everyone knows what you mean when you shorten or abbreviate your company name, for instance.
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From driving your car to watching T.V. we rely on our eye sight for almost everything we do. However, what if you were told in less than 10 years your sight would be gone? Calvin Mandley was a freshman college-athlete when he started noticing his basketball skills fading. "They pass the ball a lot harder in college and if you are not ready for it, it gets you right in the face," he explained.
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Captain Okland has piloted us through calm waters, rough seas, and jagged cliffs and always on schedule. Today was a great day - no sun, but the rain stayed away.
This is the Skua Glacier which is part of the Amalia Ice Field, part of the O'Higgins Ice Cap.
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Today there are lots of "bergy bits" (say that with an English accent, and you'll sound like our guest wildlife expert).
In a rare moment - the ship's photographers happened to be together and guest cameras were pointed at them, turning the tables.
Because of all the bergy bits (some of which can be rather large) it was too dangerous for the ship to get very close to the glacier today.
This glacier is receding, whereas the glacier we saw yesterday, Pio XI is advancing.
The 15 per cent of an iceberg that is above water deceives as to the real size and shape of the ice below.
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Right Hook: The Tactics of Conservative Criticism (pt.2)
Start here: Right Hook: The Tactics of Conservative Criticism (pt.1)
In Chavs, author Owen Jones argues that media caricatures and opportunistic politicians have helped shape the image of the British working class as feckless, scrounging criminals, or 'chavs'. We direct a level of ire toward this people that would be unthinkable were the word 'chav' replaced with 'black', 'gay' or even 'pleb', which alone shows how unacceptable it is. Yet this vilification of 'chavs', combined with the fact that many of us consider ourselves 'middle class', obscures the simple fact that a majority of people in the UK fit a fairly reasonable definition of working class, and, on top of this, these people are not work shy louts.
A lot of the conservative criticism of this book seems to miss the point. "Chav is not commonly understood as shorthand for working-class; it is shorthand for violent, work-shy louts who ruin perfectly good neighbourhoods", writes Tim Stanley. But why do we have a shorthand for these people when they are in poor neighbourhoods, but not when they are in middle class or upper class neighbourhoods? Stanley reckons that anyone can be a chav, but I've not often seen, say, the Bullingdon Club referred to as such. 'Ordinary' people who commit crimes are simply called...criminals, or perhaps 'bad eggs', or even something less affectionate, but they do not earn their own collectively derisory term. There is also no doubt that, while some may use the term chav sparingly, overall it helps to tarnish entire communities, as so aptly demonstrated by the media treatment of the Kidnapping of Shannon Matthews. Jones does not defend the working class as chavs; he says that they have been charactised by it, and their reality has been obscured.
Critics such as Stanley argue Jones is "simultaneously conflating and defending the working class and chavs", and questions the need for the "anachronistic" idea of a 'working class' at all. Yet Jones spends a substantial amount of time discussing what the concept really means. He defines 'working class' in the (loosely) Marxist sense as somebody who has to work for another to get by, though he also adds that it is less applicable to professionals, who have a lot of control over their working lives. Jones makes it clear that the popular 'we're all middle class now' myth is simply not reflected by the facts: around half the British work force are in low pay, menial, often insecure jobs. However, the decline of unions, coupled with the increasingly atomised nature of this work, has thwarted attempts to restore working class solidarity.
For some, Jones' treatment of the working class essentially robs them of autonomy, and paints them as gullible to politician's propaganda, unable to fend for themselves. This is really a superficial reading that is generally only achieved by quoting Jones' arguments selectively. For example, Peter Cuthbertson characterises Jones' position as "[the working class] may say they want welfare reform and an end to mass immigration, but don't take that at face value". Yet Jones notes that many of the people he interviewed were incredibly clued up about the real nature of problems such as housing shortages, and viewed even their own opposition to immigration in a similar way that Jones did: an unfortunate, second-best solution to a much bigger problem.
It's true that when talking about income, employment and so forth, Jones tends to emphasise the systemic aspects such as the decline of industry in local communities, but this is something that even critics such as Cuthberson do not deny is a major factor, and is virtually impossible for individuals to control. On the other hand, when Jones is talking about people themselves, he goes to great lengths to praise them, precisely in the name of combating the 'chav' caricature. For instance, Jones places a lot of emphasis on the pulling together of the people of Dewsbury after Shannon Matthews was kidnapped, and warns that it is dangerous to lump the 'working class' together, as they are obviously a diverse group of people.
Conservatives often seem to think that even mentioning class is a patronising attack on 'aspiration', but pretending the UK is some sort of 'meritocracy' in the face of the evidence Jones presents to the contrary is simply deluded. As Jones points out, it is simply a fact that some people will always have to do 'working class' jobs: clean the streets, drive the buses etc. These jobs are, in fact, the most important jobs in society, and attempts to improve the lot of the people who do them as a group, instead of encouraging them to 'escape' is recognition of this fact, not - as Brendan O'Neill puts it - anything to do with making sure they "know their place" (remember: under socialism, everyone would have to the shit work!)
Thankfully, unlike the other books in this post, the initial wave of criticism does seem to have been displaced by a more reasoned approach from both sides. The Economist, to its credit, gave a fair review of the book, noting that although sections on Thatcherism might be disputed by some, and a large amount of evidence was "inevitably...subjective and anecdotal", the central point of the book was "depressingly difficult to argue with". Even some of the aforementioned reviewers I have linked to have acknowledged there is at least a grain of truth to the 'chav' hypothesis; if they could overcome their priors about class and meritocracy, they might be more sympathetic overall.
Right Hook: The Tactics of Conservative Criticism (pt.3) / The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein.
Out of all 3 books, the reactions to this one were easily the worst. If you were to believe these reviews - and before reading the book, even I was somewhat taken in by them - the author, Naomi Klein, was a polemicist, a liar, a hack, or even - as one delightful commenter put it - "a cunt". Klein's hypothesis was that disasters - both natural and man made - were often harnessed to push through unpalatable neoliberal economic reforms, to the detriment of many. This, combined with her attacks on Milton Friedman, did not sit well with 'free market' advocates, who generally see themselves as on the side of freedom. The book was therefore attacked quite vehemently by the libertarian right...


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Health care premiums could drop for older adults
By Susan B. Garland
Starting in 2014, the law, which was recently upheld by the
Moreover, the law will narrow the difference in premiums between policies sold to older applicants and younger ones, leading many experts to believe that costs for older adults will decline. The new "age rating" rule, together with the subsidies, could mean that older adults who didn't have the money to buy coverage in the past "can make a different judgment about affordability now that they have a little help," says
Despite the likely improvements for a large number of older applicants, many seniors, especially those who are not eligible for tax credits, could still have a tough time affording the premiums, co-payments and other out-of-pocket costs. Medical costs are likely to continue to rise, and it's unclear whether subsidies will keep pace with rising premiums in future years.
Still, many early retirees and the growing number of older adults who are self-employed are likely to get some relief. The number of uninsured persons ages 50 to 64 has exploded in the past decade -- to 8.9 million in 2010, up 71 percent from 2000, according to an analysis of U.S. Census data by Smolka and co-researchers. The increase has been due in part to growth in that age group, rising health care costs and the loss of employer-based coverage during the economic downturn.
Under the health care law, about 3.9 million uninsured older adults would be eligible to receive tax credits, and 3.4 million would be eligible for
To be eligible for tax credits, you must buy a commercial policy on a state-based insurance exchange. The exchanges will offer four benefit plans, varying in price by the percentage of the total expenses that the plan would cover. For example, the "silver" plan, the second-lowest benefit plan, would have a 70 percent actuarial value, meaning that consumers would pay on average 30 percent of the expenses, including deductibles, co-insurance and other out-of-pocket costs.
Even if you're not eligible for government aid, many experts believe costs of individual policies will decline for many older adults. That may be especially true for older adults who are paying high rates because of a medical condition.
The law will allow insurance companies to continue to charge older, sicker applicants more than younger ones -- but there will be restrictions. Depending on the state, insurers can now charge older applicants five or six times more than what they charge younger applicants in the same geographic area, says
Under the new law, the "age band" can be no wider than three-to-one for the same health plan, even for older applicants with costly preexisting conditions. McLean says she expects that premiums will drop for less-healthy older people "because so many younger, healthy adults will be brought into the insurance market."
According to one private analysis, premiums could decline by about 12 percent for individuals who are 55 to 64 in states that now allow insurers to impose a five-to-one age rating. Premiums in these states could rise for young adults, according to the study.
Tax credits to defray the costs of premiums will be available to applicants with AGI of up to 400 percent of the federal poverty level, or
For example, someone at 133 percent of the poverty level (
The size of the tax credit will be tied to the silver plan's cost. Consider a 55-year-old whose income is 350 percent of the federal poverty level --
Because the premium could rise with age, older individuals at similar income levels could get bigger subsidies. A 64-year-old whose income is 350 percent of the poverty level could pay a premium of
Most individuals who do not buy coverage will pay a flat fee or a percentage of household income, whichever is greater. The penalty will be
Some companies could decide to end health benefits to early retirees who are not yet eligible for
"You can argue that employers who provide retiree health benefits have done so because of the dysfunctional individual insurance market," says
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Gold dissolves in mercury, forming amalgam alloys, but does not react with it. Gold is insoluble in nitric acid, which dissolves silver and base metals. This property is exploited in the gold refining technique known as "inquartation and parting". Nitric acid has long been used to confirm the presence of gold in items, and this is the origin of the colloquial term "acid test", referring to a gold standard test for genuine value.
Gold is the most malleable and ductile of all metals; a single gram can be beaten into a sheet of 1 square meter, or an ounce into 300 square feet. Gold leaf can be beaten thin enough to become translucent. The transmitted light appears greenish blue, because gold strongly reflects yellow and red.[2] Such semi-transparent sheets also strongly reflect infrared light, making them useful as infrared (radiant heat) shields in visors of heat-resistant suits, and in sun-visors for spacesuits
TextGold is a good conductor of heat and electricity and reflects infrared radiation strongly. Chemically, it is unaffected by air, moisture and most corrosive reagents, and is therefore well-suited for use in coins and jewelry and as a protective coating on other, more reactive, metals. However, it is not chemically inert
The isotope gold-198, (half-life: 2.7 days) is used in some cancer treatments and for treating other diseases, In modern times, injectable gold has been proven to help to reduce the pain and swelling of rheumatoid arthritis and tuberculosis
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what people dont realize is sitchin merely took the "myths" of ancient people and played on it like hypothetically it was real stuff and then applied it to the bible and other religions...while doing this you find that what he says makes more sense then anyhting else..
for example lets take the theory of evolution from ape..theres a missing link! lets take the study of our genetics 98% of it is considered junk...now lets combine the 2...yes lets combine the fact that 98% of our dna is a mystery via junk because obviously they dont have any other answer and the fact theres a missing link in the evolution theory what do you get?
we are half alien half ape the first test tube babies!
I agree with your statement. I think there's much more going on with our origins than we are led to believe by the simplistic explanations that religion or modern science provides.
if we were made in gods image which most religions believe and applying logical thought to the equation the only thing logical would be god is an alien!
As an example, the Sitchin interpretation of the Enuma Elish (Babylonian Epic of Creation) may appear to be highly speculative (and it mostly is). However; I have yet to read a more comprehensive interpretation showing how the bizarre features of our Solar System came into being (eg asteroid belt, disproportionate moon size, contraflow orbit and random planar paths of the comets, pluto's off-typical planar orbit etc).
Originally posted by NoahTheSumerian
Let's face it - much of his work is based on hypotheticals, and on interpretations of ancient writings that EVERYONE is 'interpreting'. No-one can ALWAYS know for certain what the exact meaning of a particular cuneiform is/ isn't.
Consider the CUMULATIVE EVIDENCE - particularly in terms of the immense knowledge of astronomy/ mathematics possessed by the ancients (which apart from basic seasonal progressions would have served no purpose).
The astronomical knowledge could be explained away as a 'leisure pursuit' - IF there was an abundance of peace, stability of society etc to allow for UNFATHOMABLY long periods of observation and knowledge-sharing.
The archaeological records show that converse to that supposition, human knowledge of mathematics, societal structure and astronomy appeared essentially ready-formed in Sumer... (NOT Egypt, Babylon, Greece, MesoAmerica)
Yes, I believe Sitchin's theories about gold mining are naiive and in all probability incorrect. However, when you consider the cumulative evidence (written records, inscriptions, bas reliefs, human genetic clues/ genomic 'missing link', shared mythology, 'impossible' architecture, religious text etc ad nauseum), a trend develops indicating that SOMEONE was leading events on Earth - someone who didn't evolve here, or at least had been 'away' for a VERY long time.
It may ultimately be proven beyond doubt that the Sitchin interpretation of the Enuma Elish has always been closer to the truth than people 'in the know' would have wanted to become public knowledge. I believe there's been a determined effort to suppress and ridicule the interventionist explanation, with much disinformation being propagated in the past 100 years or so.
Coming onto a forum with the express intention of trashing the hard-won interpretations of those with a commitment to finding the TRUTH is plain wrong.
Originally posted by Gouzze
What do you all think? I also think we are gonna find out by the end of this year the truth about the annunaki..
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Originally posted by Gouzze
What do you all think? I also think we are gonna find out by the end of this year the truth about the annunaki..
What do I think?
I think I've already posted all the truth there is to know about the Annunaki right here in this thread (as well as in several other threads.)
i think its a little hard to believe that we've been told everything there is to know about the anunnaki by a high school math teacher and self proclaimed failed atlantologist. i can't find any evidence that you've read a single text.


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Jay Carey is quoted in a Law360 article providing a review of significant government contracts policy developments in 2016. Commenting on the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act, Carey says, "I think the provision that puts a thumb on the scale against using LPTA [the lowest price technically acceptable model] is important, and in the long run beneficial not ...
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Law360 selected Jay Carey as a 2016 Government Contracts MVP and profiled his involvement in a number of major bid protests by federal contractors in a variety of industries, such as UnitedHealth's challenge to $58 billion Tricare contracts. According to Carey, "One of the things I really enjoy about it is that every protest is a challenge in terms of learning ...
March 3, 2016, InsideDefense.com
Jay Carey is quoted in this InsideDefense.com article focusing on the need for the bid protest process and its unintended consequences. Carey, backing the need for greater information throughout the whole process said, "If agencies can share more info in a debriefing, I think that will lower the protest rate." He also added that the government can improve the ...


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What's in a box? Ikatbag has a post full of fabulous ideas of things to make with boxes! She has a postbox, puppet show, dog kennel, pirate ship and more. Seriously, I could see my children going mad for these! One way to spend a rainy spring day.


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AWF has launched a new program designed to help African wildlife businesses become more profitable while improving their impact on conservation.
Lions, eradicated from Lake Mburo National Park in southwestern Uganda some 20 years ago, may be returning.
About half a dozen sightings have been made in recent years, reports Mark Infield, AWF's technical adviser to the Uganda Wildlife Authority for community conservation.
AWF President Michael Wright was among experts from several conservation organizations invited to brief White House officials on environmental and food-security issues in Africa prior to President Clinton's landmark trip to the continent in late March.
Kenya experienced its first rhino poaching in several years with the killing of three rhinos in February.
The incidents occurred at two private sanctuaries about 30 miles apart. Two white rhinos were killed at the Solio Ranch, but their horns were not taken. The horns had been removed from a black rhino carcass found at Ol Pejeta Ranch.
There is no evidence the crimes were committed by the same person or persons, and no arrests have yet been made. The Kenya Wildlife Service has tightened security at all sanctuaries, and no further poaching has been reported.
How are elephants affected by the ecosystems in which they live and by upheavals in their families? What impact do the elephants have on their habitat and neighboring human communities?
The answers to these questions hold a key to the African elephant's long-term survival--and researcher Charles Foley hopes to find them. A Princeton University doctoral candidate who has been studying elephants for nearly a decade, Foley is conducting--with AWF support--a two-year study of the elephants in Tanzania's Tarangire National Park to learn more about the elephant's role in the ecosystem.


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Tuscon University, in collaboration with its alumni association, conducted a comprehensive survey a couple of days back on the effectiveness of its career services. The survey revealed that not only Tuscon University's graduates are entering the international job market with confidence; they are also finding suitable positions in leading firms and companies of the world.
As per the details of the survey, more than 89 percent gradates from Tuscon University are finding themselves at key positions in topmost global companies. Mentioning a recent report of the United Nations called 'World Economic Situation and Prospects 2014: Update as of Mid-2014' Michael B. McCarty, spokesperson of Tuscon University said, "When the international unemployment rate remained at 6 percent in the year 2013 and the job gap is expanding in developed countries, we are glad that our students are getting respectable jobs."
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Central quarterback Robert Mitchell could potentially play again this season, but his return date is still unknown. Mitchell suffered an injury to his left shoulder on the opening drive last Friday in Central's 35-0 loss to Livingston at the BISD Thomas Center.
Junior Eric Bramble entered the game in Mitchell's place, and Bramble is expected to start Friday when the Jaguars (1-4 and 0-2 in District 20-4A) host Little Cypress-Mauriceville (4-1, 1-1). Freshman Michael Jacquet could also see action for Central.


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Surprise! A Healthier Me
Like so many others, my unhealthy habits and weight gain crept up on me. After having a pretty dramatic surgery I found the scale heading north with increasingly larger numbers. Call it medication
issues, call it comfort eating, call it lack of exercise… it's all jumbled up into one complicated mess.
So now I've started to unravel that mess. I have reached that tipping point where I get that my unhealthy habits are within my control – that the comfort I believed food brought me was an empty promise. I have been eating healthy meals and have been building back to exercise slowly over the past month. Small steps, but an important turning point in my mental approach to weight loss.
Here's my issue – despite the positive habits I've not seen much movement save for an ounce or two on the scale. I am confident I'm not the only person who has ever felt that frustration. I just can't seem to move the meter.
Intellectually I know there are a TON of reasons why this could be happening. I talk about these reasons to CK members all the time. My medication perhaps? Retaining water? Not enough cardio (almost certainly in my case). Am I getting enough protein versus carbs? I'm mentally ticking through the practical things I can do and making that plan makes me feel pretty darn good.
Now it is time to work on that motivation. With a plan in hand, it just takes the motivation to get up and do it. Today I found that extra push I've been needing. I pulled out some winter clothes and tried on a pair of pants that I was sure was going to head into the giveaway pile. To my surprise, they actually fit. So it seems that while I am not moving the scale, I am shifting my body shape.
This made me stop and think for a minute. I do actually FEEL better with the change in my diet. The regular exercise is giving me more energy. My clothes are fitting better. So I AM making progress despite what the scale says. That is a pat on the back – and perhaps a better barometer for me to hang my success upon in the short term. Sticking with it for the long term will move the meter.
The moral of this story? It's important for us all to look beyond the scale for things that point to our successes in our journey. Whether it is better quality of life in terms of feeling better, or lowering key health numbers like blood glucose or cholesterol levels it's better to look at the bigger picture of overall health not just weight and that we shouldn't feel so frustrated by what the scale tells us.
So, my advice to all of us on the road to better living it to start keeping a record of the bigger picture. Record your key health numbers along with your weight in our tool, and keep a journal of how you FEEL along with your calories in/out. Connecting with your changing body measurements, or how you felt after you exercised that extra five minutes, or when you avoided the office birthday cake is every bit of a win for your quality of life than just the numbers on the scale!


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Revolutions is a powerful tale of love, loyalty, murder, and redemption, set in Russia in the late nineteenth century. The story begins at the country home of Alexander Herzen, an old revolutionary who has retired to the country to finish his memoirs. A young radical, Sergei Nachaev, follows him there, seeking shelter from a political murder. Herzen is appalled that his writings have led to such violence, and tries to win Nachaev to the cause of peaceful change. Knowing the power of the older writer, Nachaev seeks Herzen s blessing for his actions. Herzen s daughter, however, is increasingly drawn to the young revolutionary and, as the police close in, Herzen finds that he must choose between his undying hatred for the Russian state and his love for his own family
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A location- and scale-invariant predictor is constructed which exhibits good probability matching for extreme predictions outside the span of data drawn from a variety of (stationary) general distributions. It is constructed via the three-parameter {\mu, \sigma, \xi} Generalized Pareto Distribution (GPD). The predictor is designed to provide matching probability exactly for the GPD in both the extreme heavy-tailed limit and the extreme bounded-tail limit, whilst giving a good approximation to probability matching at all intermediate values of the tail parameter \xi. The predictor is valid even for small sample sizes N, even as small as N = 3. The main purpose of this paper is to present the somewhat lengthy derivations which draw heavily on the theory of hypergeometric functions, particularly the Lauricella functions. Whilst the construction is inspired by the Bayesian approach to the prediction problem, it considers the case of vague prior information about both parameters and model, and all derivations are undertaken using sampling theory.
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Sony signs Transmeta
Crusoe to power upcoming Vaio, thanks to outsourced production deal
Updated Sony could be Transmeta's next high-profile customer, if a company source is to be believed.
According to said deep throat, Sony is lining up Transmeta's notebook-oriented Crusoe CPU for a new Viao C1 sub-notebook aimed initially at the Japanese market - it'll ship this autumn, apparently - but possibly making it to the US and Europe later on.
We're not remotely surprised. Sony, which has produced its own hardware up 'til now, recently signed an outsourcing deal with Taiwanese manufacturer Quanta, which is - guess what - an investor in Transmeta (see Sony to outsource notebooks to Taiwan). So is Sony.
Taiwan has become the world's main centre of notebook production, with almost all portable PCs, both major brand and minor, coming from the island. Transmeta was long courted Taiwanese manufacturers, precisely to help it get its chips into well-known PC vendors' notebooks.
The Taiwan connection has allowed Transmeta to get Crusoe into upcoming notebooks from NEC, Fujitsu, Hitachi and IBM. Or, rather, all of them have at least demo'd systems using existing or upcoming Crusoes - IBM showed a prototype Crusoe-based ThinkPad at PC Expo in June, but later said that it was simply a proof-of-concept model and was not a commitment to Transmeta's chip (see Major vendors cagey on Transmeta support).
Still, Taiwan's notebook manufacturers are interested in using Crusoe and, for that matter, AMD's mobile CPUs, as much to break their reliance on Intel as for any technological reasons.
Indeed, according to the source, Sony will also release a Vaio - the 'Note F' - based on mobile-oriented AMD CPUs. Again, that's primarily because the machines will be outsourced to Quanta.
The source said Sony had chosen to use the Transmeta chip in the sub-notebook because of its very low power consumption. The use of the AMD, on the other hand, is more about getting the price down. ®
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August 17, 2010
Gov't Proposes Seat Belts In All Motorcoaches
The US government announced Monday a proposal for new commercial buses to be equipped with seat belts in order to help reduce the risk of death and injuries of passengers in accidents.
Transit buses and other locally run bus systems would not be covered by the proposal.According to Reuters, bus manufacturers would be given three years to comply with the new rules. Buses already in circulation would be exempt from the proposal. The government said it would not be economically feasible for most companies to retrofit their buses with seatbelts.
The proposal has been set up for a 90-day period for public comment before the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) decides whether to make the proposal a regulation or not.
Between 1999 and 2008, more than 180 people were killed in 54 accidents involving motor coaches, according to government figures. Most bus crashes do not involve other vehicles and can result in rollover, according to the NHTSA.
Three out of four passengers killed in the bus crashes were ejected from their seats. Most commercial buses are not equipped with passenger safety belts. The proposal would require all newly-built commercial motor coaches to have passenger safety belts.
Charter companies represent nearly half of all miles traveled by the some 30,000 buses on the road. Children, mainly on school and other organized trips, and the elderly comprise about two thirds of motor coach passengers.
It would cost bus manufacturers in the neighborhood of $25 million to equip the 2,000 buses manufactured each year with seat belts, NHTSA said.
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Chinese authorities demolish parish
June 10, 2010
Government authorities in Ordos City, a city of 1.6 million in northern China, demolished the city's only parish on June 7 in order to make way for a larger road. Authorities also handcuffed the parish priest and a lay leader. The parish had been registered with the government and was not part of the underground church; the local Inner Mongolian bishop has been approved both by the Holy See and by the Communist government.
One source told UCA News, "How could the government demolish the church secretly in the middle of the night and cause the 'disappearance' of our Church leaders while talking about social harmony?"
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We know that the communist government of China does this type of thing often enough that the world is inured by individual reports. China is a member of the UN and obviously ignores the basic principles enumerated in its many documents. China newfound economic largesse (partially sponsored by the World Bank that continues to grant it loans) has rendered so many countries mute in the condemnation of China's lack of the most basic and fundamental liberties.


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One of the areas which has received considerable
attention in the compliance world over the past six months is that of
assessment. Today, we would like to focus on a smaller facet of assessment
which we considered when reading a recent article in the Harvard Business
Review, entitled "Failing By Design" by Columbia Business School
Professor Rita Gunther McGrath. Professor McGrath's article focuses on trials
in the business world to experiment on how companies can learn from
errors. She advocates that with a properly managed system, companies can learn
through failure. She cites to the term of "intelligent failure" which she
believes can help companies evolve.
This idea of learning from failure struck me as a useful
lesson in how a company might test the effectiveness of the components of
its compliance system. One area that would seem to be ripe for testing is to
set up a test for reporting a compliance violation or incident, either through
a company's hotline or other reporting mechanism. McGrath advocates four
principles of intelligent failure.
Based upon these four principles McGrath then lays out
seven tenets which she believes "can help your organization leverage from
failure." We adapt them here for the testing of your compliance program.
All of this would come into play in the testing of the
reporting component of a compliance program. You can provide an anonymous tip
to your company hotline and determine what the response is at every level, both
from the compliance department and other relevant groups, in the organization.
From such a start, you can have the relevant players develop an investigation
protocol which they would follow. To whom and what notifications should you
make and at what point in the testing? All of these questions can be evaluated
if you not only perform such a test but learn from it, without pointing fingers
of blame. Here it is important to remember that one should "report facts, not
assess blame" if company is to learn from any failure or testing.
A few years ago I heard Paul McNutly speak to a group of
General Counsel after he had left the position as former United States Deputy
Attorney General and was beginning his life in private practice. He gave his
perspective on the three general areas of inquiry the Department of Justice
(DOJ) would assess regarding an enforcement action. First: "What did you do to
stay out of trouble? Second: "What did you do when you found out?" and Third:
"What remedial action did you take?" By testing your compliance program and
learning from any failures your company can go a long way towards satisfying
points two and three.
The key to this testing is not to be afraid of the
results. If there are components which need to be enhanced, you will have the
opportunity to do so. If additional or supplemental training is called for;
then take the opportunity to provide. In short, do not be a afraid of the
results and use Paul McNulty's maxims of "what did you find" and "what did you
do about it".
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Discussion in 'Photography Beginners' Forum' started by RokyRoc, Sep 2, 2008.
First Pictures with new Panasonic Lumiz TZ5 camera. Let me know what you think.
i dont see micheal phelps, i really like the ferris wheel and the last one although i do feel that the last one is a bit too warm and most of them seem a little underexposed
i really like the first shot and the last shot. in the first, the clouds sort of looks like fire.
1. Nice sky and pretty well exposed. Try positioning the horizon along the bottom third of the frame or even shoot this in portrait to get enough foreground and keep plenty of sky.
2. Interesting subject but a poor perspective. there's far too much happening in the foreground and much of it is obscuring your subject.
3 has some very nice light, a nice silhouette and is pretty sharp. Again too much happening in the foreground though.
4 is not bad but a little dark, leaning to the right and again foreground distraction. It would really benefit from a more interesting composition.
5 is over exposed and you're a little close to it. Try stepping back and including some background. If the backgrounds rubbish try getting in really close and pick out a particular point of detail and experiment with the DOF.
6 again badly over exposed. You could also bring your angle around to the right to minimise the bush on the left obscuring your subject and include the edge of the pond on the right.
Overall try and get close to your subjects so there are no obstruction or distractions, watch you verticals and horizontals or at least learn to correct them in photoshop, try adding some contrast to the shots to bring out the detail.
And keep shooting.
haha yeah i would have liked a picture with him too.
thanks for your input, but I dont quite understand the whole under/over exposure. Could you explain it a little bit more indepth?
For the 4th photo, I think you should crop the image a bit to correct the angle of the building and flagpoles. They seem to be leaning towards the right, and it looks a little weird to me.
I like the photo of the dragon statue a lot, but I think it may be a bit over exposed. It looks kind of washed out in the background.
To attempt to answer your question about exposure, the way I understand it is this. An overexposed photo, is one where the light areas are blown out, and pure white, (or just overly bright, which can be wrong for some scenes) resulting in loss of detail. For example, the sky in your last photo. (Of course, if you had exposed to get the details in the sky, the rest of your photo may have been to dark to make out).
Underexposure is pretty much the same thing, just affecting the shadows of an image.
Hope that helps, but someone with more experience could probably provide a better explanation.
Also congrats on making it to Beijing. That's pretty awesome.
So adjust the lighting to best show different aspects of the picture.
Got it!
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Getting the "Business" into Business-Oriented Data Modeling – Techniques and Examples
Organizations today need a common language in order to understand how to improve business processes and applications, but to do so, they need to start out with a business mind-set when examining critical data.
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Elephant Production is a video production company that was established as a separate entity of the tour company, Elephant Tour, which has been serving the travel and tour services in Los Angeles, California for nearly 30 years. With the knowledge built on the strong connection in the travel and tour industry, we produce the TV shows and original contents, which feature the beautiful images of fantastic sites and amazing spots.
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Our office is located inside the Westin Bonaventure Hotel and Suite at the center of Downtown Los Angeles, very convenient for the traffic access. The hotel is not only one of the most prestigious hotels in the world, but also very famous as a movie location, it has appeared in movies such as Clint Eastwood's "In the Line of Fire", Arnold Schwarzenegger's "True Lies", Matthew McConaughey's "Interstellar", and others
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Trump painted an inaccurate portrait of American manufacturing while Clinton stretched credulity in saying her plans won't add to debt.
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Debbie Allen will reprise her role as Jackson's (Jesse Williams) mother on "Grey's Anatomy."
Allen is set to appear as Catherine Avery in the fourth episode of the forthcoming season, TV Guide reports.
"Grey's Anatomy" returns Thursday, Sept. 27 at 9/8c on ABC.
More casting news…
Wendy Crewson has been tapped to guest star on "Revenge." The "24" alum will play Helen, a powerful business executive who has business with Conrad. [TV Guide]
Chris Diamantopoulos will guest-star in Fox's new comedy series "The Goodwin Games." Diamantopoulos's character Chad Morrow is a charismatic doctor who is popular in the Goodwins' hometown. [TVGuide]
Anika Noni Rose will guest-star in an episode of CBS' new drama "Elementary." Rose will play a former doctor colleague of Lucy Liu's Joan Watson. [TV Guide]
"24" alum Annie Wersching will join Body of Proof third season for a multi-episode arc. Wersching will play a nurse in the new season's two-part premiere. [TV Line]


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Appliance Repair Questions? Ask a Technician for Answers ASAP
Can you skip through the programme to drain? Press pause button. then press start to move the lights down to the empty cycle. leave to finish.If you have already tried this, I can explain how to put machine into engineer test mode, which will then give out a fault code to identify problem.
Other interlocks have a secondary locking system which ties in with the pressure switch - the mechanism which detects if there is water present in the drum. If this system is faulty - caused by blockages in the filter, pressure vessel or the thin rubber pipe running to the pressure switch the machine "thinks" its still full of water and wont allow the door to be opened. Take off the top cover, examine the interlock from behind and detach any rubber pipes or cables to try to open it from inside. If all else fails, the interlock itself may be faulty and will have to be broken open. A replacement interlock unit and/or catch will of course be required.
Basically you will need to remove the top and with a screwdriver pop the latch.
You will need to replace that part but it is easy to do, and I will help you with this. Idf you will rate me today before you leave as good service or better, the system will allow me to schedule free follow ups with you so we can remain on this question and it will not cost you anything further:-) Thank you Tech Michael


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When the Forsythia Bloom, Prune Roses for More Blooms
Pruning may seem tricky, but it's not. And it's definitely worth the effort. Pruned roses produce almost twice as many flowers as those that don't get pruned.
Don't worry about making mistakes. It's hard to kill a rose with bad pruning. Prune less in the beginning. You can always go back and cut more, and most goofs grow back just fine. But it's a good idea to first know why you are pruning – to shape the plant, thin it out, or get rid of dead branches.
- Wear rose gloves to protect your hands. Start from the bottom of the bush and work your way up.
- Use long-handled loppers to prune thick canes. Remove any dead, black, shriveled, diseased or broken wood.
- Prune hybrid tea roses to leave 3 to 5 strong, healthy canes, each 6"-8" long. Prune floribundas to leave 8 to 10 strong, healthy canes, each 8"-12" long. Make the cuts on an angle, about ¼" above buds that face away from the center of the bush.
- Use bypass pruners for canes that are about as big around as a pencil. Remove twigs or branches that cross or rub against each other.
- Cut off any suckers, the stems that sprout from the roots. You may have to remove some soil to get to them.
Shrub roses, like 'Knock Out' roses, can be pruned with electric hedge trimmers. Just remove about 1/3 of the growth, and you're done!
- Rose gloves
- Bypass pruners
- Long-handled loppers
- Pole pruners or a pruning saw to cut branches more than 1½" thick
- Electric hedge trimmer or hand shearer
- Optional: Hedge trimmers for shrub roses
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Georgia Senate Passes Act to 'Religiously' Discriminate Against LGBT Community
The bill's sponsor said it could even protect the rights of the KKK.
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Conservatives Push Gay Bashing vs. Corporate America
The 2016 presidential campaign has transformed into a battle between evangelicals and liberals.
The Connection Between Corporate Values and Talent
Good values and successful diversity efforts aren't very powerful if you keep them a secret.
Cities, Companies Wither or Prosper on Their Reputation to Attract Talent
The economics professor discussed how communities and businesses that recruit college-educated skilled labor improve their economic outlook.
Even Lawyers Are Beginning to 'Get It'
Top law firms are largely staying away from representing bigotry – because it hurts recruiting.
Survey: Millennials Identify as LGBT Much More than Previous Generations
A study of millennials suggests they are much more open about their own sexual identity, and businesses and policymakers should pay heed.
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Companies that fought Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration Act, including Eli Lilly and Company and Anthem, are applauding the proposed revisions
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Walmart's powerful voice weighed in its home state against the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, helping to push the governor to send the bill back to the legislature.
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The corporate, political and social backlash against Indiana's new 'Religious Freedom Law' is escalating. The fight against the law, which allows LGBT discrimination, is led by Diversityinc Top 50 companies Eli Lilly and Company and Cummins
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They join 354 other businesses/organizations in urging the Supreme Court to strike down the remaining 13 state bans on same-gender marriage.
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Cummins, Marriott, Target and WellPoint very publicly make their position known on same-gender marriage.
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The companies noted that passage of the bill would put their companies at a serious disadvantage in attracting and retaining top talent.
7 Things NEVER to Say to Asian-American Executives
Pretty sure you'd never make a stereotypical comment to an Asian American in your office? Read what seven things these Asian-American executives hope you never say.
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Jacqueline Smith: Not one more — again
Published 12:00 am, Sunday, October 4, 2015
When 24-year-old Alison Parker was shot to death on live television on Aug. 26, her devastated father vowed to work for reform.
"This is my life's work," Andy Parker said. "I've been robbed of a treasure that I will never see again, so the only thing I can do is make something happen where someone else's treasure isn't taken — and I'll be damned if I'm going to stop."
His daughter was doing her job as a broadcast journalist with WDBJ in Virginia when a former co-worker murdered her and the cameraman and injured the woman they were interviewing.
"There has to be a way to force politicians who are cowards in the pockets of the N.R.A. to make sensible laws to make sure crazy people can't get guns," the grieving father said on CNN. "How many Alisons will it take?"
The father's sense of despair and outrage were palpable. And evoked, in me, a heavy weight of sadness. He doesn't know yet, I thought. How many Alisons will it take? He doesn't realize the vise-like grip that is squeezing out common sense about firearms in this country.
Another father who understands Parker's anguish, Richard Martinez, blamed "craven, irresponsible politicians and the NRA" for the shooting death of his son Christopher, a sophomore at the University of California at Santa Barbara. A gunman killed six young people near the campus; that was May 2014, more than a year ago.
"They talk about gun rights. What about Chris's right to live? When will this insanity stop? When will enough people say, 'Stop this madness, we don't have to live like this.' Too many have died.
"We should say to ourselves: Not one more."
Not one more. That was before nine people were shot to death in a Charleston, South Carolina church while at a Bible study (June 17), before five people were shot to death at recruiting and reserve centers in Chattanooga, Tennessee (July 16), before two people were shot to death and nine injured while watching a movie in Lafayette, Louisiana (July 24).
Not one more. This year alone, the number of mass shootings in which four or more people are killed or injured has reached 294, according to Mass Shooting Tracker. The fact such a site exists is shameful. More mass shootings than days in the year, so far, is even more shameful.
Not one more. That's what we thought nearly three years ago, after the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy (Dec. 14, 2012). Surely the senseless gunning down of 20 first graders who still had their baby teeth, and six educators, would lead to reform that did not happen after Columbine, Virginia Tech, Tucson, Aurora.... Connecticut acted nobly, but Congress did not.
And now, Thursday, 10 college students were shot to death and nine injured while in class at a community college in Roseburg, Oregon. The insanity continues. The raging grief goes on.
Gun control has devolved into a polarizing issue, fanned by the likes of the NRA. But it need not be so. People who use guns to hunt for sport or for food can also be for responsible use, for safety. People who advocate for gun reform do not, as a whole, want to strip away anyone's Second Amendment rights.
Surely we can find some common ground, and prevent the number of mass shootings from growing. Surely we want our loved ones to go to classes, the movies, to church without the risk of getting shot to death.
How many Alisons will it take? Not one more.
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Newbie question: how to determine protein concentration after IP? - (Aug/05/2009 )
Hello everyone, I'm new here. I have a newbie question.
I am purifying protein lysates by IP, for Western blotting. In the final IP step, it says to elute my antigen from the beads using loading buffer.
Question 1: I need to quantify the protein concentration after IP, to load wells evenly, right??? But I never see people doing that in research papers...is it so simple that it's implied, or is there some other way of going around it?
Question 2: Can I measure protein concentration using Bio-rad protein assay after adding loading buffer? I'm guessing maybe not, because the loading buffer contains dye and other stuff.
Thanks very much!!
not so easy to quantify protein concentration in loading buffer (even if you omit the bromophenol blue). Usually I load all the sample and consider it is quite equally loaded. I was analysing the phospohorylation state of the IPed protein (it was before they sell all this antibodies directed against the phosphorylated protein of interest) with anti-phospho antibodies that detect any phosphorylated protein, stripping and labeling the protein with a normal anti-protein to show that it was equally loaded.
It depend what you want to show.
You don't see people doing it because it doesn't make sense to measure protein concentration after IP. Different antibodies will pull down different proteins from different complexes in different amounts, so there is no such thing as an "equally loaded" amount. The best strategy is to load all of your elutant in a single well. You can stain for actin, which should be present in your inputs but absent in your IPs (unless your protein target associates with actin). But, as usual, the best way to be sure of your results is through repeated experimentation.
Thanks very much for your replies.
Little mouse, that is what I am trying to measure too, the level of phospho-protein plus level of protein. The question I had was, how to make sure the total (normal) protein would be constant across all wells after IP?
Does this mean I have to treat each sample EXACTLY the same way, so that the volume/concentration across all eluants is the same??
In your case it is very simple, you have an internal control (the level of protein of interest).
Treat your samples exactly the same. the tricky point is the washing step of the beads. You wash 3 times, let always a thin layer of liquid on the top of the beads not to lose beads.
It's only during the last wash that you discard all the liquid, just before to add the loading buffer.
Then you reveal the phosphorylated protein (start by the anti-phospho as the band are weaker than for the total protein), strip and reveal with your normal antibody directed against the protein of interest. Then you can quantify your bands using a software as ImageJ (you will always have slight difference in the total amount), and present the ratio phosphorylated protein versus total protein. To be convincing I was publishing the blot where the total protein was slightly lower when the phosphorylated was clearly higher, so nobody could say there was a bias. (the perfect solution would be to have really equal level)
The way I do it is to measure the protein concentration of the cell lysate and then split it evenly between my antibodies. After doing this a few times I've determined that for my purposes 150 ug of cell lysate is optimum so to compare different experiments on different days I always use this amount of lysate.
N.B. If your lysis buffer contains Triton X-100 (as mine does) you cannot use the Bradford assay to quantitate, I use the BCA assay instead.
Penguin on Aug 6 2009, 02:12 PM said:
N.B. If your lysis buffer contains Triton X-100 (as mine does) you cannot use the Bradford assay to quantitate, I use the BCA assay instead.
But if you would be sure to load exactly the same amount , this is not enough, because much more variations occur during the immunoprecipitation process than during the cell lysis process. if you don't mesure the concentration right before loading you need an additional control
Thanks Penguin and Little mouse for your replies. I am starting to do it now, let's see how it goes!
Little mouse, I have another question
I've read that you must add enzyme inhibitors fresh to the lysis buffer before use, that I did. I guess it is because the inhibitors lose potency over time.
My question is, if I repeated freeze/thaw my protein lysate (after lysis, before IP), would that have adverse consequences on my sample? Would the inhibitors be degraded, yet the enzymes still active?
The reason is because after obtaining the protein lysis, I freezed the protein samples at -80C and went home. The next day, I thawed them to measure the protein concentration, then freezed them again.
How easily do phosphate groups "fall off"? Should I have somehow deactivated the enzymes first?
Thanks in advance everyone!!!
Sorry, I was out of the lab.
you have to be careful with crude samples, but when you IP and start purifying, you can stop adding inhibitors, but always keep your samples on ice.
What I do is that I incubate the samples with the antibodies in lysis buffer containing fresh inhibitors, but then I wash with lysis buffer without buffer if don't have buffer containing inhibitors anymore (I have pellets for 10 mL buffer).
about freezing and thawing... I don't think there is a problem. actually I have no answer, but I would not add again inhibitors, I would just keep the sample on ice and quickly bring them back to the freezer. Usually I quantify right after lysis, freeze, and thaw for IP.


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Boxers prepare for their match. Various shots of the fight in progress, with titles between the commencement of each round.
Most shots are L/S of the boxing ring although some closer shots of the boxers before the fight.
(Old negative probably issued as a Gazette Special. Date of fight 5.3.1920. Location of events unknown).
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Wet weather is no fun, but an accident can really put a damper on anyone's day. As raindrops begin to fall from the sky, here are some tips to help you navigate rainy trips with confidence.
Keeping your car in tip-top shape is your number one priority for driving safely in rainy conditions, so use that sunshine to your advantage before the clouds roll in. In fact, according to experts at Sears Auto Center, 80 percent of your driving decisions are based on your visibility. So replace those old, brittle or broken windshield wipers, and while you're at it, make sure your headlights, taillights, brake lights and turn signals are in good working order.
Bald is not beautiful when it comes to tires. Tires without tread do not provide necessary traction, says Brad Rea, owner of Champtires.com. "Driving on worn tires is a huge safety hazard — for you, your passengers and others on the road around you," he said. "Typically, tire tread above 2/32 of an inch is considered to be adequate, though some tests have shown that 4/32 is a much safer guideline to follow."
While it makes sense to wipe your feet before you enter your home, you should also wipe them once you get into your car. Wet shoes can easily slip off the pedals, so keep a towel in your car or use floor mats that absorb water and keep the bottom of your pumps with heels dry.
Cruise control is an awesome invention in modern-day automobiles, but it can also be a hazard when the roads are wet, says David Melton, driving safety expert with Liberty Mutual Insurance. Your reaction time may be slightly decreased when your foot is off the gas pedal, so keep your foot on the pedal when the roads are wet.
We've all been there — the car in front of us is going unreasonably slow, at least in our minds. Tailgating is never a good plan, but especially when roads are hazardous. So decrease that urge to tailgate and increase the distance between you and the car ahead of you. Sears Auto Center recommends at least two car lengths.
Splish splash, don't give your car a bath. While standing water is an invitation to reminisce your childhood years, while in your car, avoid puddles altogether. It's impossible to judge how deep or shallow a puddle might be, so don't take a chance. Even the largest vehicles can become stranded. If you are forced to drive through standing water deep enough to get your brake shoes wet, Sears Auto Center recommends applying the brakes lightly to dry them.
The first few hours of rainfall can be the most dangerous. When the new rain mixes with oil and grease on the road, it can create a very slippery surface, and your car can hydroplane. If you begin to hydroplane, try not to turn the wheel or brake suddenly. Instead, slowly release the gas pedal and keep the steering wheel straight until your tires regain traction.
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If you're overly concerned about data privacy you'll want to stop reading right now because I'm about to give you a glimpse of the future that will make you bristle.
For the rest of you, I'd like to describe a vision I have of how content services will dramatically improve, become widely used, and even paid for, in the not too distant future.
You're probably familiar with services like Taboola and Outbrain. They're the technologies behind all the "You may also like" or "Sponsored content" blocks of links that have become ubiquitous on websites. They use sophisticated algorithms to suggest related content you might be interested in reading.
Then there's Google. My Android phone's Google app does a terrific job presenting nuggets of information I might find useful. It's equally awful at it too though. On a recent trip through Atlanta it suggested the CDC as one of the nearby attractions I might want to check out. I realize Ebola is a hot topic right now but is there really anything in my Google-accessible content stream that would suggest the CDC as an interesting destination for me?
Google's app, as well as its News service, are both casting an extremely wide net in the hopes that something in their recommendation stream will cause me to click. Every year I find Google's stream suggesting fewer and fewer truly relevant articles for me. This, despite the fact that they have access to so much of what I'm doing, where I'm going and what I'm interested in.
What's wrong with this picture? These services should be improving, not simply providing an even wider pipeline of content, most of which doesn't interest me at all.
What's missing is a service that pays much closer attention to who I am and what's likely to engage me. That's one of the things I always liked about Zite, the content service that recommends more content based on what you've previously read in the app. I used to spend a great deal of time in Zite every day. Then they got acquired and for some reason their stream just isn't as engaging for me as it used to be.
What's needed is a service that is much more closely aligned with everything I do, or as much of my life as I'm willing to let it access. I'm talking about my email in-box as well as the websites I visit and even my work and personal calendars. Here are a few use cases for the service I'd like to see:
I can see multiple flavors of this service. The simplest one is free and is funded by ads and sponsorships, just like many of Google's existing services. A paid version eliminates the ads and comes with more bells and whistles. And remember that leaders/celebrities idea? Those could be structured as subscriptions to that individual's feed. Plenty of people would pay a monthly fee for access to these streams. And although Warren Buffett doesn't need this additional income, he could always have it flow to his favorite charity.
We've got a long way to go before we'll see a service like this, but I'll be among the first in line to sign up for it when one arrives.


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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991760003960066476.post6955439844018065913..comments2017-11-21T06:53:44.154+02:00Comments on Dark Wolf's Fantasy Reviews: Cover art - "The Dog of the North" by Tim StrettonMihai A.http://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991760003960066476.post-71701712749613715332009-02-17T12:00:00.000+02:002009-02-17T12:00:00.000+02:00I will have a review of the novel pretty soon :)An...I will have a review of the novel pretty soon :)
And I too wait for the right mood when it comes to certain titles. After all we can't read everything (although I would certainly like that) :DDark Wolfhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991760003960066476.post-8394400843052198132009-02-17T07:48:00.000+02:002009-02-17T07:48:00.000+02:00I am truly curious about this one; I was about to ...I am truly curious about this one; I was about to get it when originally published in the UK last year, but both the subject and excerpts are "in-between" for me, could go either way, and it was too expensive for such.

I bought then a very reasonably priced e of Zael's Inheritance and again it's an in-between book, good enough so I will read it sometime in the future when in the mood for it, but not compelling enough to read it "now"

If compelling reviews come along, I may go with the mmpb to be released later this year since that one is priced ok for taking a chance, considering that being a non-US book I cannot browse it in stores for now...Liviuhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991760003960066476.post-29305986528034440272009-02-10T12:52:00.000+02:002009-02-10T12:52:00.000+02:00Tim, thank you for visiting my blog :) The paperba...Tim, thank you for visiting my blog :) The paperback cover looks really good and I am looking forward to read your novel.

Michael, I'll read "The Dog of the North" after Mike Carey's novel :)

Adele, your Romanian becomes better and better ;)
And I totally understand you, I just keep putting money in my piggybank for a new massive order on Amazon :DDark Wolfhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991760003960066476.post-35066693538142845852009-02-09T20:59:00.000+02:002009-02-09T20:59:00.000+02:00Salut. oooh pretty! See if I lived in america it w...Salut.
oooh pretty! See if I lived in america it would be easy, I could sell my blood to buy more books. *sigh*Hagelrathttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991760003960066476.post-71295508694774384642009-02-09T16:35:00.000+02:002009-02-09T16:35:00.000+02:00Thank you for mention this book. Didn't read about...Thank you for mention this book. Didn't read about it so far. Beside the covers the content sound promising. And again one more book for my list.
I hope you will write a review about it.ediFanoBhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991760003960066476.post-13234884744729996112009-02-09T12:56:00.000+02:002009-02-09T12:56:00.000+02:00Thanks for posting this!As you'd expect me to say,...Thanks for posting this!

As you'd expect me to say, I like both covers, but I do prefer the paperback which has captured a lot of what I've tried to put in the novel.

I hope you actually like the text too when you come to read it!Tim Strettonhttps://email@example.com


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By Vicki Pepper
Thomas Rhett and his wife Lauren are celebrating their first Thanksgiving as parents this year, having adopted now-two-year-old Willa Gray from Uganda in May, and with the birth of Ada James in August. Rhett sees holidays as an opportunity for Willa to learn about the culture of her birth nation.
Related: Thomas Rhett Shares Sweet Birthday Message to Wife Lauren
"You know, Willa's a little bit too young to understand a lot of things. So I think once she gets to the age where she starts to ask questions like, 'Where am I legitimately from? What kind of holidays do they celebrate in Uganda?' I would love to start incorporating a ton of her culture into our lifestyle because, you know, we're celebrating Thanksgiving and Christmas and Fourth of July," Rhett said in a press release. "And when she starts asking those questions, I would love for her to start knowing and learning about her culture as well."
Meanwhile, the "Unforgettable" singer will perform at halftime during the annual Dallas Cowboys Thanksgiving Day football game to kick off the Salvation Army's Red Kettle Campaign. This year, the Cowboys play the Los Angeles Chargers, with the game and performance to be televised on CBS.