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Welcome back to the wonderful world of "Glee," folks.
Let's start with the elephant in the room. You may have realized at some point that something was slightly off. Was it the fact that Artie, Blaine, Tina and Sam were still there? Was it the fact that prom was being talked about prematurely? Was it the fact that Rachel still didn't know anything about "Funny Girl" or that the episode never once addressed the fact that we had spent the last three months away from this lovable cast of characters?
Well, it was all of the above BECAUSE THEY'RE STILL IN THE SAME SCHOOL YEAR! It took me the entire episode to realize this and I was so confused the whole way. I can't be the only one bothered by this, right? I should also mention (though this will probably get me a few haters early on) that I am by no means a Beatles (the focus of this week's episode) "fan." I appreciate what they've done for music, but I have never been able to drink the Kool-Aid.
There, I said it.
We begin part one our two-part Beatles-filled adventure in New York City with Rachel overhearing the casting director of "Funny Girl" calling her "too young and green" to carry a Broadway show. The moment leads her to reminisce about the easier days as the star of McKinley High in a beautiful rendition of "Yesterday." A little later, she and Santana serve the casting directors a little "Hard Night's Work" with their BLTs during a shift at their new jobs in the Spotlight Diner on Broadway. This was a small storyline tonight as I'm pretty sure these characters will develop more in the next few episodes in regards to the big loss that the show suffered this year. I'm looking forward to seeing how they handle that.
In yet another upward move, Sue Sylvester becomes the principle of William McKinley High School when she sabotages Principle Figgins by sneaking into his desk one night and filling it with porn, gambling receipts and a Hitler-autographed copy of "Mein Kampf." Where do they come up with this stuff?
She tells Will Schuester and Nene Leakes (that is all I'll ever call her on this blog because I can't be bothered with her "Glee" name) that she has their backs as long as they are winners of the national championships. She even name-drops Jesus as the original mind behind "the end justifies the means," even though this writer is pretty sure that that was actually Niccolo Machiavelli. Whatever. Figgins ends up as the school's janitor because even though he's probably a Nazi, gay porn addict with a gambling problem and a wicked foot fetish, cleaning the halls of the high school he once governed seemed like a fantastic idea to someone.
One of the more prominent storylines tonight was the socially forbidden love story shared by Kitty and Artie. Kitty tells Artie she wanted to date him on the DL like "secretly gay conservatives" but when thrown under the bus by the Bitter Betty herself, Tina Cohen-Chang, Kitty announces to New Directions that her feelings for Artie are indeed real and she's ready to be a human and love.
Be that as it may, McKinley's head mean-girl-in-charge still has a tongue sharper than those notes she attempts to sing every week. My favorite Kitty one-liners of the night? When Ryder said he still identified with the Beatles, she responds with "Why? Were the Beatles dyslexic and 'Catfished' by transexuals?" And when she called Tina "Memoirs of a Lame Geisha." We also are introduced to Bree, "with two E's and not like the way you spell the nasty cheese" who looks like she might be swiping Kitty's status soon. And what's worse? She's the kind of mean that is SO nasty she can do it with a smile on her face. *Shudder.*
Another big storyline: Klaine are back together. And what's better? Blaine wants to ask Kurt to marry him ... tonight! Blaine sets up an elaborate proposal while singing "All You Need Is Love" with the help of rivals the Warblers, Vocal Adrenaline and the Haverbrook School for the Deaf. We're reaching here, people. Kurt says yes and everyone is super happy. This is when I realized that we were still four months behind in "Glee" time. Maybe they'll flash ahead to present time after the Cory Monteith tribute in two weeks? We'll see. I hope this storyline improves because I'm not really buying it, and I hope that Ryan Murphy doesn't pawn off an intended Rachel-Finn storyline on these two because the two couples couldn't be any more different. For me, this just doesn't feel right.
Along with the songs I've already mentioned, we had a slew of Beatles hits: "Drive My Car," "Got to Get You Into My Life," "You've Got to Hide Your Love" and "I Saw Her Standing There." This is just too many songs. And Kitty is now a singing lead? NO PLEASE! Quinn, I could handle. But please, let's just let Kitty throw around snarky comments at people because she's so good at that.
Next week looks fun because we're getting Demi Lovato as Santana's hot new lady love. This wasn't my favorite season opener, mainly because it felt like things weren't explained enough in the beginning to guide viewers through the episode.


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In what will perhaps be the coolest limited edition system ever produced, period. The new limited edition Kinect Star Wars Bundle, which launches alongside Kinect Star Wars this holiday season, will feature an Xbox 360 made to look like our favorite R2 unit, R2-D2, as well as a controller designed to resemble our favorite protocol droid C-3PO. The included Kinect abandons the existing black color scheme in favor of white to match the system. Also included with the system is a copy of Kinect Star Wars, in addition to the obligatory Kinect Adventures. If all that didn't send you into hyperdrive there is also word that some sort of exclusive downloaded content will be packaged in as well.
How much intergalactic credits will the ultimate Xbox Star Wars experience set you back? Well, it all comes at a hefty price point of $449.99 when it releases later this year…may the funds be with you.


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The profession of farming felines in the Canadian Wilderness. A rather hauntingly difficult task, usually done by planting cats in the ground and waiting for them to sprout and thus being able to farm them correctly. Alternatively, you can just let them roam free until they reproduce and be all badass with your cat farm.
I've heard of vegetable farms, cow farms, even zombie farms, but a cat farm?!
So I recently quit my job and became a full time Cat Farmer..
So I recently quit my job and became a full time Cat Farmer..
by johnnycomic April 17, 2012
A label in the airline hospitality industry, referring to female flight attendants who are older and considered past their youthful prime of beauty. Usually they have decades of service with their airline. This is mostly an American industry term, as foreign airlines usually limit stewardesses to a top age of 26.
Janis was trying to work the flight to Chicago, but she was trumped by that cat farmer Eileen, who has twenty years of service with the company.
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Oct 08, 2004
Sept. 8, 2004
CAMBRIDGE, MASS. - In a rematch of the 2003 ECAC New England Division III Championships, the visiting MIT Engineers defeated host Brandeis University, 30-17, 30-24, 30-20, on Tuesday night. Caroline Jordan paced Tech's (3-0) offense with 10 kills and contributed one ace, seven digs, and four assisted blocks. Joy Hart tallied seven kills and seven digs while Frances Rogoz posted five kills in one game. Amanda Morris led the Engineers' defense with 13 kills and Austin Zimmerman totaled 33 assists and 10 digs.
This weekend MIT travels to Ithaca, N.Y. to compete in Ithaca College's Bomber Invitational.


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"Peg + Cat," pronounced "Peg Plus Cat," a new, math-themed cartoon, will be added Monday to PBS Kids, the preschool lineup that already includes "The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That" and "Curious George." (Added — get it?)
It is the perky product of a collaboration between Billy Aronson ("Postcards From Buster") and Jennifer Oxley (the super-superb "Wonder Pets") and comes from the Fred Rogers Co., which is not quite the same thing as saying that Mr. Rogers made it. But it's as close as you're going to get anymore.
Peg is a little girl; Cat is a cat. They have adventures in likely and unlikely places (a bedroom, a farm, outer space, some medieval mythological something or other) and face problems that require the use of mathematical concepts. The art is childlike, and everything is rendered as if hand-drawn on graph paper with crayons and markers and colored pencils and watercolors. Peg sometimes draws on her own background.
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They count. They gather chickens in groups of 10 to get to 100. One hundred, which is "way more than 10" has a kind of totemic power here. It is as good as a zillion when you're just getting the hang of five, which is the number Peg counts down from when she is "totally freaking out," which is pretty often.
They note the relative sizes of pieces of pie, though in my experience, that is something that children are naturally good at.
They compare shapes. (That's geometry.) They distinguish circles from spheres, but as the cartoon is two-dimensional the spheres are technically ovals. It is probably pointless and even counterproductive to mention that to any kids you may be watching alongside.
PHOTOS: Hollywood Backlot moments
Along with Peg and Cat, recurring characters include Ramon, who drops in like Mr. Green Jeans; a big-mouthed space monster attracted to small yellow things (he wants to eat some baby chicks but is distracted with baby corn); and a pig who sings opera. As this puts me in mind of "Wonder Pets," it is my favorite part of the show.
There are songs. (And Peg plays the ukulele, as does musical director J. Walter Hawkes, also from "Wonder Pets.") You will hear a lot of one that goes "Problem solved/ The problem is solved/ We solved the problem/ Problem solved."
Apart from the fact that the chickens are kept in a coop the size of a washing machine (they do get out regularly) and the pig is somewhat unfairly abused ("I know you're not used to solving problems, because you're a pig"), I have nothing bad to say about this show. I felt I had a pretty good handle on the math concepts, mostly, and look forward to learning more.
'Peg + Cat'
Where: KOCE
When: 9 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. Monday
Where: KVCR
When: 10:30 a.m. Monday
Rating: TV-Y (suitable for young children)
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Fun is just around the corner in a town near you! Painting pottery is a great idea for celebrating a special occasion, getting together with the girls for a fun night out, making extraordinary memories with the entire family or making a one of a kind gift as a gift for an important person in your life! No experience needed. You come into your local Paint Your Own Pottery Studio and they'll guide you through the entire process. They have the paint, the supplies, idea books, inspiration pieces, stencils and everything you need to make something you'll keep for a lifetime. Everyone is an artist! Make time stand still by having your little ones hand or foot print stamped on a piece to save forever. Make a gift for that special teacher. Paint a mug for grandma – she'll think of you every morning!
And ceramic studios have changed through the years. It's not just ceramic painting, many offer other products such as free form clay projects, fused glass, mosaics and more. Search for a studio near you and check out all the fun products they offer. Make a date and get ready for a fun time! There is something for every budget!
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- Blade Material:Elmax
- Blade Style:Dagger
- Blade Grind:Flat
- Finish:Black
- Edge Type:Fully Serrated
- Handle Length:6.125"
- Handle Thickness:0.48"
- Handle Material:Aluminum, Carbon Fiber
- Color:Tan
- Weight:3.95 oz.
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Think of the Makora II as the Ultratech on steroids, then add carbon fiber. Boom! At a massive 10.5" they are the largest double action production knives yet.
The Microtech Makora II knives fire in and out automatically via the sliding firing button the the knife's right side. The handle is tan anodized T-6 aluminum with carbon fiber inserts front and back. The double edge blade is two-tone black finished Elmax steel with plain and fully serrated edges. The Makora II has a pocket clip for easy carry. The clip also features a glass breaker on the end. The action on this run feels exceptional and we think the Makora series represents the Microtech line well. The screws on these are custom and cannot be opened with either torx or standard Tri-wing wrench sets. You must use the tool sold HERE.


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Xandros Desktop Management Server Illustrates a Maturing Linux Market
The Need for Enterprise Desktop Administration
One of the classic indicators of the maturity of any software platform is the existence of enterprise-caliber administrative software. Companies such as Tivoli, now an IBM subsidiary, Computer Associates, and many others have made this space their bread and butter. Xandros, purveyors of fine Xandros Linux distributions for home and business use, recently introduced their Xandros Desktop Management Server (xDMS) software to fill exactly this need for Xandros Linux users and administrators.
It's easy enough to install a Linux distribution on a zillion desktops, one at a time, but it's incredibly time-consuming and obviously not an enterprise solution. Folks like Red Hat have largely punted on the desktop space, while companies such as Novell have stepped up to demonstrate an increased focus there thanks to their acquisition of SUSE.
However, the real key to successful penetration of the desktop space is the availability of administrative tools that make it easy to deploy, update, and manage Linux installations across multiple desktops. Tools like YaST2 (SUSE), the surprisingly unlamented linuxconf (Red Hat's old centralized administrative utility), and others are fine for tweaking local settings, but administrators in an enterprise environment need an easy way to set up and manage hundreds of largely identical systems.
Administrators need to be able to provide standard but customized installations to satisfy the requirements of various groups, while standardizing infrastructure requirements such as printer configuration, user accounts and authentication, network filesystems, and all of the other components of a true enterprise-wide computing environment. A distributed installation, deployment, and configuration management tool is the only sane way to do that, and it is precisely this need that xDMS addresses for sites that have adopted Xandros Linux as their Linux distribution of choice.
While still a young product and not without a speed bump or two, xDMS is a nicely-designed and well-thought out product that currently makes it easy to deploy and manage Xandros Desktop OS Business Edition, version 2.6. Given that version 3.0 of Xandros Linux was recently released and an updated business edition is slated for January, an updated version of xDMS is sure to follow that will make it similarly easy to deploy and manage version 3.0 on any desktop that is reachable by an Ethernet connection.
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Kyle Daigle needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 52 designs submitted by 22 freelance designers.
This is an interesting challenge: a new service I'm developing needs to be sold to Registrars of Voters (the people who run elections in your local towns). Most don't have a lot of internet experience. I'm selling them an online solution, so I need a logo that is "Web 2.0", will catch their eye, but won't scare them away.
oneElection (primary), One Election (secondary)
I need a web and print friendly logo using either the oneElection or One Election form. The logo should be easy to read but iconic. The general audience for this project is late thirties to mid fifties. I enjoy the Web2.0 look but I also need something that will appeal to these less web-friendly types. The logo will primarily be used on the sales page for the product as well as business cards, postcards, and other signage.
- if you can get USA/election colors to work, go for it
- please make the logo iconic: you should know exactly what the service is without 'reading' it
- logo must be web and print friendly
- I would be interested in having a face or graphical persona that I could use elsewhere on the site
- final result should be a piece of vector art
- stay away from anything too sharp or jagged edges (in terms of font)
- please don't vomit all kinds of patriotic stuff over the logo; if it works, it works
- please don't use too many colors (5+ is too many)
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


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New Mexico woman's plea for hat lost at Phoenix airport goes viral
PHOENIX – A New Mexico woman's plea on social media for help in finding a special hat she lost at a Phoenix airport is garnering thousands of supporters.
Bridget Hughes of Las Cruces, N.M., turned to Facebook after she misplaced her hat Monday while at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. It's not any hat: Hughes says on her page that the floppy, knit brown hat belonged to her mother, who died of breast cancer when Hughes was 7.
The plea posted Tuesday has been shared more than 45,000 times and "liked" by more than 5,000 Facebook users.
Airport spokeswoman Julie Rodriguez says the airport's lost-and-found has received several calls about the hat and there's no need for the public to report it. Airport employees have been working hard to find it.


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Server Name: =GC= Global-Conflict.org RS2 Server
Server IP: 184.108.40.206:6030
The server is in the server browser should you wish to search for it manually, however you can also access it through the following steps:
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1. start RS2
2. open the console (default is the '~' key on US keyboard layouts)
3. type "open [server IP:port]" without quotes and replacing the bracketed area with the server IP and port
4. hit enter and the game should automatically load into the server
I have gone ahead and created teamspeak channels for both teams with squad channels for each in game squad, the airforce for US, along with separate channels for commanders similar to an army setup should it be required. the top channel has the above information for the server in the channel description.
the server is set to the basic public play preset and is ranked. each map runs for 2 rounds, with teams swapping between rounds, and map voting at the end of the 2nd round. the 5 maps appropriate for 64 players are in the voting list.


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Sharks tie game late, beat Canucks in OTby Kevin Woodley
VANCOUVER - Dan Boyle wasn't going to miss an open look twice.
After Boyle helped tie the game late in regulation by missing an open shot, the veteran defenseman made no mistake when he got another chance in overtime. Rookie Tomas Hertl converted Boyle's whiff to tie the game with 1:05 left in the third period, and Boyle won it by scoring a power-play goal with 2:22 remaining in overtime as the Sharks came back to beat the Vancouver Canucks 2-1 on Thursday night.
With Canucks captain Henrik Sedin off for hooking, the Sharks' power play worked the puck around crisply to Boyle at the top of the left circle for a perfect shot over a sprawling Roberto Luongo.
"That one I put it where I wanted it," Boyle said of a shot that bounced off the back post and out so quickly it took a review to confirm a goal. "The power play needed to come through. We actually struggled quite a bit against Vancouver through three games but got a huge one."
The tying goal was a lot less pretty.
It started with goalie Antti Niemi on the bench for an extra skater and Sharks captain Joe Thornton lying on the ice behind the Vancouver net. Thornton managed to sweep a loose puck to an open Boyle between the circles, but he whiffed on his shot only to have the puck squirt to Hertl at the side of the net. He lifted his 11th goal - tops among NHL rookies - over Luongo, who was stranded by the miss.
"That was a puck that came out slow and I could see in slow motion four or five guys coming together and I was going to shoot and I changed my mind at the last second and it just spun off and was a very lucky, fortunate bounce for us," Boyle said. "Tomas was in the right place at the right time. That's what scorers do."
Niemi finished with 34 saves and was busiest while being outshot 20-9 in the second period as the Sharks won their second straight following a five-game losing streak. They are 2-1-4 in their past seven games, six of which have gone past regulation.
"Nemo gave us a chance to stay in it until the end, he made a number of big saves," coach Todd McLellan said. "This becomes the game you hear hockey people talk about the hockey gods, where it starts to even out. We weren't the better team tonight and we have been on the other end of that where we were the better team and found a way not to win it. Tonight we found a way to come back."
Vancouver defenseman Kevin Bieksa opened the scoring on a power play one-timer with 6:20 left in the second period and Luongo made 28 saves for the Canucks, who have lost three straight (0-2-1).
"I thought they got a really lucky break on their tying goal and they get a power play in OT and that's it," Luongo said. "That's how close the NHL is. We're a minute away from playing what I thought was a really great game, and all of a sudden it turns into a loss."
Bieksa's goal also snapped a 2-for-28 funk for Vancouver's 28th-ranked power play in the previous seven games. It was just the Canucks' third man-advantage goal on home ice this season.
For a while it looked like the Canucks' penalty-killers would make that stand up. Luongo got a break when Thornton rang a shot off the crossbar on a first-period power play, but Vancouver killed off all three chances against the Sharks' eighth-ranked power play, and had killed off 26 straight before Boyle converted in overtime.
"It's a kick in the teeth," coach John Tortorella said, "But looking at the big picture and some of the things we did against a pretty good hockey club, that's what we are going to take out of this."
Tortorella's only lament was a number of missed opportunities to put the game away, including Henrik Sedin shooting the puck through the crease with an empty net midway through the third period.
"We need to finish, we have some opportunities we don't finish, but I am going to take the good stuff out of it," Tortorella said.
This was the last of four games between the Pacific Division rivals this season. San Jose won the first two, extending its winning streak against the Canucks to nine games, including a sweep in the first round of last spring's Stanley Cup Playoffs. But the Canucks snapped that slump with a 4-2 win at San Jose a week earlier and appeared on their way to splitting the season series until the final minutes.
"We're done with a very good team that is going to do some damage here down the stretch to other teams so it was nice to get six out of eight points," Boyle said of the season series being over so soon.
Boyle was also happy the Sharks have continued to rack up points despite struggling for stretches over the past two weeks. San Jose has points in 17 of 20 games.
"We're trying to find ways," Boyle said. "In this League with the extra points they are giving now it's just going to come down to the end of the year and you never know which extra point is going to solidify your playoff position or have you on the outside."
The Canucks will be thinking about the one they let slip Thursday.
"Getting a point is a positive against the top teams but two points was right there," Bieksa said. "It's early in the season. You don't want to get too down on yourself, but we deserved those two points."


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St. Patrick's Zine Library
The St. Patrick's Zine Library is open every 17th of March from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. (regular opening hours). It is a "traveling" zine library. There is no official permanent residence for the collection and the library pops up on different locations "to save the kids from the forces of evil", as stated on a flyer / invitation card.
The library was founded by an anonymous person and is run by volunteers.
Among zines, fanzines, minicomics, newsprints and other small press publications the library hosts a "motley crew" of zines produced by young people, sometimes related to workshops, held by artists, writers and/or zinisters at schools or other facilities or as a private event. These publications are predominantly in German or English language.
List of these Zines (among others): Fucking Different - irgendwie cool! (2011), Freche Früchte (2010), Super Kauke 1-2 (2010), 100 Morde Wald (2011), Our World (2011), Politik hat Burger Pflicht (2012), Die Jugend wird unruhig #1 (youth are getting restless) (2013), Der verhexte Raum (2013), Black Fleck (2013), Peng Bumm Boing (minicomic 2013) etc.


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Blast near KGB building in Vitebsk (Photo)261
- 12.11.2012, 4:13
The explosion occurred in Vitebsk in early hours of November 12. It is reported to have happened close to the KGB office.
Journalists and Facebook users were the first to spread the information.
Journalist Dzmitry Brushko wrote: "It is said something exploded in the city centre. The police are arresting young people in streets. Nothing is clear. The police are arresting everyone wearing a hood."
Photographer Anton Matolka notes: "The blast is reported to have occurred near the KGB building. Judging by silence, it may be just an act of hooliganism."
Natasha Che: "I was not there, so I cannot say the details. My brother says he returned home at 2 a.m. He had been waiting for his friend at a police station for five hours. He saw that the KGB building, which is near the police station, was surrounded with caution tape. He says windows were broken, but no significant damage was noticed. No one, except for the people living in the nearby houses, is allowed to come closer. I think it is a sort of hooliganism."
Alena Styapanava: "Something really happened. Eyewitnesses say the right wing of the building, which is close to the Dvina river, is cordoned off with caution tape."
Pavel Levinau, a representative of the Belarusian Helsinki Committee in Vitebsk, visited the scene of the incident.
He says what he saw at 3:30 a.m. near the KGB building:
"There are lights in the windows of the KGB building. A special bus stands near the entrance; the right wing of the building (if you face the central entrance) is surrounded by caution tape. There are many plainclothes men near the building. Policemen guard the surrounding area.
A duty officer at the Kastrychnitski district police department (which is situated 90 metres from the KGB building) refused to say anything about the incident. He also refused to say if there were any people detained. He advised to refer to the press service of the Vitebsk police department."
The website charter97.org phoned the KGB directorate in the Vitebsk area at 4 in the morning. Asked if the blast really happened KGB officers answered: "No comments". Such an answer gives grounds to suppose there's no smoke without fire.
BelaPAN news agency confirmed in the morning with reference to eyewitnesses that the area close to the building of the Vitebsk region KGB directorate on 18 Savetskaya Street, has been cordoned off by the police for several hours.
The KGB released the following information at 10 a.m.:
A primitive home-made explosive device exploded near the building of the KGB directorate in the Vitebsk region at 6:48 p.m. on November 11, 2012, damaging two windows of the administrative building.
According to preliminary information, the device was a cardboard or plastic tube with 50-70 grammes of pyrotechnic mixture placed into a metal box of 0.25-0.33ml without destructive agents. The bomb detonated after firing.
Three persons have been detained as a result of urgent investigative procedures and questioning of eyewitnesses. One of them, having external signs of deviation from normal behaviour, called the KGB directorate earlier to say offensive remarks relating to government agencies. A criminal case over article 339 of the Criminal Code of Belarus (hooliganism) has been opened. An investigative team is working at the scene.
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Last year, the Steelers cut quarterback Ben Roethlisberger's base salary from $11.6 million down to the minimum of $900,000. The $10.7 million became a guaranteed payment, with the cap hit spread equally over the four remaining years in Roethlisberger's deal.
The move added $2.675 million in cap charges to each year of the contract, pushing this year's cap number to a belt-bending $19.6 million.
As MDS pointed out earlier in the afternoon, the Steelers plan to do it again, without extending the deal. But with only three years left on the contract, the Steelers can't take as large a chunk out of Roethlisberger's cap number this time around.
Once again, Roethlisberger's base salary is $11.6 million. The Steelers could drop it to the 10-year minimum of $940,000. The $10.66 million difference would then be converted to a guarantee, with the amount spread out over the final three seasons of his contract.
This would create $7.1 million in cap space. But it also would increase Roethlisberger's cap number by $3.55 million in 2014 and 2015. With last year's restructuring, that's another $6.225 million to be carried in each of the final two seasons of Roethlisberger's deal.
And with a base salary of $12.1 million due in 2014, it converts to a minimum cap number of $18.325 million next year.
Whatever the Steelers do, they should wait until March 5 to finalize it. If they reduce the deal before then, Roethslisberger's cap number would drop out of the top five in 2013 — and the exclusive franchise tender the Ravens would have to pay to quarterback Joe Flacco would drop again.


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The Shaligram will be sent after performing Mahapuja and energization.
The Shila shown in picture will be sent.
The Shaligram will be sent after performing Mahapuja and energization.
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So are the days of their lives… or lives' …or whatever.
Last week's Entertainment Weekly featured Ken Tucker's review of Lost. (note that the review wasn't written by EW's resident Lost junkie Jeff "Doc" Jensen.) In it, Tucker argues that lost has gained some momentum because, unlike many "sci-fi" shows, this one appeals to women.
Well, ladies– this episode's for you!
To re-cap, the episode centers on what happens to Sawyer, Miles, Juliet and Faraday after the flash that sends Locke on his journey as Jeremy Bentham (I think last week's episode will go down as one of the most pivotal of the season, if not the entire series).
Here's what we learn:
- The 4 toed statue used to have a full body. Has long flowing locks, but we only see it from behind. Speculation to ensue, I'm sure.
- Sawyer and Co. seem to be over their time travel sickness. Apparently this means that Locke succeeded.
- Soon upon their return, Sawyer and the crew "rescue" a woman (Amy) who is being kidnapped by "hostiles" One of them is named Paul. I'm sure there are biblical implications here.
- The sonic fence thing that killed (but did not kill) Mikael was operational in the Dharma Days. Apparently some people know how to go through the wall and some (like our fearless leader, James "LaFleur" and his rag-tag group of followers) don't.
- Sawyer has convo. with Richard Alpert and tells him what he knows about Locke, the bomb, etc. Alpert realizes he isn't Dharma, but doesn't seem overly concerned.
- Sawyer, Juliet and Jin stay on the island as Dharma people for 3 years, in which time Amy marries and gets pregnant by Horace, yet still holds a torch for Paul, as evidenced by some necklace that surely has significance, but just looks like the Prince emblem to me. She successfully has a baby boy, thanks to Juliet. Weird island curse against pregnant women, be damned. Is this because whatever makes the curse happen hasn't happened yet or did Locke's "fixing" of everything all of a sudden cure the island of the curse? Time will tell, I'm sure.
- Speaking of Juliet, she's now shacking up with Sawyer. Lucky girl. He convinces her to stay for 2 more weeks. She stays 3 years. He tells Horace that 3 years is long enough to get over a girl.
- He gets an early morning call. Jack, Kate, and Hurley are there. Back from their days as half of the Oceanic 6. So, Sawyer, is 3 years really long enough?
In his review, Tucker says:
"What's great about the series this season is that you can dive deep into its familiar-yet-fresh bubbling stew of physics, numerolgy, and smoke monsters… or you can just skim across its blinding sun surface, grooving on the thwarted romances, the time shifting nosebleeds, and how great Kate looks in a suit."
True, but for me the whole thing was a little too schmaltzy — from the love triangle (now rectangle?) to Sawyer's hair, everything had an aura of cheesiness on it that kinda turned me off. Yeah we got the 4 toed statue. And the mention of polar bears. And the black rock. And some insight into Daniel (more in a sec), but the main plotline was week. And cheesy. And for a show that was clearly geared toward the estrogen set, there wasn't nearly enough of Sawyer shirtless. Seriously. (Come to think of it, was he ever shirtless this episode?)
Then again, I said something similar after the episode last season where Hurley found the Dharma bus and it ended up having a lot more significance later in the season. So I should learn to keep my mouth shut.
Other random thoughts:
- I really liked the scene with Faraday where he saw the redheaded girl we can only assume is Charlotte. Faraday is my favorite character this season. So far, we're supposed to trust everything he says as "truth" because he's the scientist and all, but we'll see how it shakes out.
- I'm sure there will be lots of speculation about the baby– who is it? why was he allowed to survive on the island? What changes between 1970-whatever and 1994. My best guess is that the boy is Faraday– he's really the only one young enough to have been born in the 70s. His mom's name is "Amy" on the island, but maybe she changed it to Eloise. Or maybe Amy dies and Eloise raises Daniel as her own. Or maybe she just ages really quickly. There are lots of possibilities. If this is true, though, it contradicts my earlier theory that Daniel was the "clever fellow" who figured out that whole pendulum thing. Whatever.
- I'm sure there's something to Sawyer's pseudonym, James LaFleur… it's also the title of this episode. And there's that uber-romantic scene with the flower… That whole scene reminded me of the "before" scene with Juliet and [name escapes me] right before the Lostie's plane "crashed."
- I couldn't figure out where I knew the dark-haired Dharma guy from. And then it occurred to me that he played Jimmy (the TV show host, blanking on last name) on Mad Men. First The Wire and now Mad Men!! I love it when my favorite shows cross-pollinate like that.
- My favorite lines of the night came from Sawyer (as usual): To Daniel after he makes some existential statement: "Thanks anyway, Plato." To Miles after he told Miles about the dead guys not being Dharma: "Hold your horses, bonsai." (I think he's called Miles Mr. Miagi in the past.)
Don't forget to read Doc Jensen tomorrow. I'm sure he'll have a hootenanny of a time unravelling all the mysteries!


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A lawsuit and counterclaim between Planet Fitness owners Mike Grondahl, Marc Grondahl and Chris Rondeau and three New York-based franchisees with whom they are partners brought to light the fact that executives at the Newington, NH-based company had discussed taking Planet Fitness public.
Planet Fitness confirmed last month that discussions for an initial public offering (IPO) took place between June 2011 and November 2011, a month before Planet Fitness filed a complaint in New Hampshire District Court against James Innocenti, Jeffrey Innocenti and Luigi "Gino" LaVerghetta, who are partners with the Grondahls and Rondeau in the PFNY LLC franchisee entity, the largest franchisee in the Planet Fitness system.
The Grondahls and Rondeau claim the Innocentis and LaVerghetta conducted business involving real-estate companies and a contractor without their knowledge, thus violating their agreement. The Innocentis and LaVerghetta filed a counterclaim in January denying the allegations. As of press time, the two sides were still in a legal battle, and new documents were expected to be filed in the court system.
Planet Fitness said last month that it has not made a final decision about an IPO. If Planet Fitness takes the company public, it will be the third public club company in the industry. Life Time Fitness, Chanhassen, MN, and Town Sports International, New York, are the two current public club companies.
Rick Caro, president of Management Vision, New York, says it would be difficult for a public franchise company to show quarterly improvement.
"That probably would be dependent on selling more franchises every quarter, and that's an unpredictable business," Caro says.
Harvey Spevak, CEO of Equinox, New York, said in a March interview with Bloomberg TV that his company has no plans to go public. Last year, Equinox acquired the remaining clubs from The Sports Club Co., Los Angeles, which is traded on the Pink Sheets.
Bally Total Fitness, Chicago, had been a public company, but it went private in 2007 after the first of two bankruptcy proceedings.


text: How CS has used the island model to extrapolate the design of a model for software/hardware dynamics is beyond my knowledge base. Biology has been my learn'n. The following is an intuitive guess and may be redundant: In ecology, an oversimplified island model is a theory that details why diversity varies between islands. Island size is a direct relationship to genotype diversity. Island's distance from the main land and/or other islands is inversely related to the island's diversity. Other factors could be included such as island's global location, climate's seasonal temp/wind/current patterns that may also alter specie migration patterns, human impact, etc. This aforementioned model may include predator prey relationships, inter/intra specie competition for resources, and other food web facts and specie relationships. At best, a software program will only be as good as the data derived from good field work. Traps that are not properly set will yield poor results, as well as animal behavior not accounted for or known/observed. Field methods may enhance or impair how the target animal behaves. Data may be precise but not accurate. Building a model on limited research might be a waste of computer resources when a less interesting but statistically accurate environment might better merit data mining, to dwell on how to mitigate hardware needs and software design. Where field data produces copious results that fine tune statistical curves, I would think a population could be grouped such that individual calculations could be avoided for each organism when a subroutine wants to find out how many birds with small beaks fail to eat enough food when the weather impairs their food source. However, individual computations may create enhanced results, that is if the average wave height at 60 fathoms forty feet from a shoal on the north side of an island, during high tide in a fixed hector^2 area is found at 2PM when the moon is new and water temp is 27C, the frequency of the rouge wave height can be modeled using RND and an S curve, but it doesn't tell you where this wave occurred in the measured zone. If the birds that die off are individually computed, then other field factors may be altered such as how that bird's death impacts its immediate territory. The bird population may encompass territory shared by species that are niche or mutually exclusive to other species or in defined zones depending on many relationship factors. The death of a bird(s) where it competes for certain resources (including nesting sites) with a niche community may just help (or hurt) that niche community's population, approaching a new population limit which would alter your diversity model and CPU/memory needs. Also, learned behavior in certain animals might not be accounted for in a program, such as a cat that doesn't forage past a boundary of a competitive neighbor (although that neighbor has gone/died) before another competitor takes advantage of the resource. I would think a good program would divide the model into several programs, some suggestions: [most to least predictable] i) weather, ii) geography, iii) botany, iv) animal profiles excluding prokaryotes unless the animal needs it, v) tags for profile attributes that use similar calculations, vi) uncommon computations, and vii) monitor for CPU/memory needs between programs at n cycle. I imagine the weather modal would easily merit predictable CPU/memory power, as well as the geographic model (physical attributes as well as effects caused by animals/plants/time such as how much nitrate is in soil, hard/soft water, pH, water/soil cohesion tension, etc), and to a less extent the botany model (current plant surveys and known/recent trends). The aforementioned models will be using data that is by far easier to obtain than when compared to animals, so I would find good/meaningful curves to represent these items for the program (so knowing what kind of animal would alter the number of variables needed for a profile). The variable CPU/memory power would most likely need to be fluid when approaching animal relationships. Perhaps generalized curves could be used for populations or regions at n cycle unless an event merits itemizing each organism's profile (ie, approaching a limit where a virus bloom may occur as augmented by an organism's profile, weather, geography). Some animals are easy to study while others are obscure, so profile variables would need to address the info known about the genotype. Without a keystone organism, the continued computing of profiles for other species in the shared domain would be pointless, so to speak. A library of curves could be built for certain species, so individual profiles may not be necessary when field data is solid. How and by what standards field research is measured would need to be a collective discussion to establish a benchmark as to when a specie population can be statistically infused in the code vs a population with individually computed profiles, or what kind of event would merit itemizing a statistical population into a collection of individual profiles. Perhaps R species might warrant greater use of statistics vs K species with individual profiles? If RND generation takes more time than to access when compared to seeking an address holding a preset RND, then I would harvest idle CPU time to stack RND numbers such that when an event requires use of curves or heavy profile calculations, the call uses the stack. [I don't know if this is good application of CS.] On 3/9/06, Eric Thibodeau <kyron at neuralbs.com> wrote: > > I happen to be working on just this subject ;) > > Island model can be more than one thing, it depends on your > implementation. > >From your description, you seem to be implementing a "multiple-deem" > approach > while retaining the same GA parameters across these islands. David A. Van > Veldhuizen addresses the parallelisation issues in his document entitled > "Considerations in Engineering Parallel Multiobjective Evolutionary > Algorithms" > http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=1197689 > > Even though his article is oriented towards MOGAs, most if not all issues > brought up in his article also apply to GAs. To give you an idea, here are > four points brought up in his article specifically about island model: > > Four basic island pMOEA variants are seen to exist, each with > appropriate migration operators. > 1) All islands execute identical MOEAs/parameters (homo- > geneous). > 2) All islands execute different MOEAs/parameters (hetero- > geneous). > 3) Each island evaluates different objective function subsets. > 4) Each island represents a different region of the genotype > or phenotype domains. > > My masters is actually geared at trying to "answer" or "reply" to > some of the > unanswered questions brought up in this same article (providing > quantitative > results with a clearly defined/detailed environment specification as well > as > some sort of recipe for parallelising a specifically given MOGA). > > I hope this reference helps! > > Eric > > Le Dimanche 5 Mars 2006 03:30, purnima a écrit: > > hi, > > I've to implement island model genetic algorithm using MPI. the > problem is I've already implemented a parallel Genetic Algorithm using MPI > where i divide population into subpopulations and distribute it 2 all the > processors, and each processors performs sequential GA on its > subpopulation > after some iteration these processors migrates its best chromosome toe ach > other and again proceed. > > > > My problem is that i dnt understand what exactly is island model? what > island represents?? how shud i implement it.. > > Plz reply soon.. > > thanx > > > > > > --------------------------------- > > Yahoo! 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Many years ago I was at the heart of Nairobi's art scene. I sat in a roundtable and discussed Nigeria politics with Wole Soyinka at the GoDown, danced to Sweet Mother with Chimamanda Adichie in her first visit to Kenya at Club Afrique, spent a fortnight in Lamu with writers from across the globe, attended monthly spoken word gigs organized by Kwani, and so on and so on.
Somewhere along the line I dropped out of the Nairobi art scene. My people say he who once danced watches. And watch I did as new folk entered into the scene. For them the essence was not art for arts's sake but rather money was the bottom line even at art's expense. Added to their quest for money was their quest for fame aided by technology and social media.
This led to an interesting occurrence in Nairobi: Increased artsy events, increased number of people in those artsy events, increased number of people proclaiming to be creatives and yet still a nagging feeling that the Nairobi art scene is stagnant at best or filled with posers at worst.
But as I discovered much to my delight a vibrant honest-to-God art scene is very much alive and kicking in Nairobi away from Instagram and Twirra.
Friday – Caged Bird Sings
Reading through Nairobi Now I stumbled on the advert for the musical adaptation of Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings at Phoenix Players.
The Thursday night show had been bought out by the American Embassy who was the play's sponsors so Friday night was the first open-to the public run.
The play featured 6 odes: to man, woman, Africa, America, love and life. It sought to address the issue of being black in America but there was also a bit of localization. The cast of Tone Theatre Productions directed by George Orido worked to deliver an excellent mix of elocution, music and poetry.
The play lasted a hundred minutes and it carried the audience along its brainy fare with the climax for me being the hauntingly beautiful duet between a flute and saxophone. From a production perspective, the lighting, wardrobe and props were all top-notch. Mr. Moipei (father to the Moipei sisters) was the musical director and that perhaps explains were the music was beautiful. The intimacy of the setting at Phoenix Players also added to mood.
The 14 member cast was pretty young and featured 3 teenagers who sat for their KCSE exams last year.
Remember these names: Terry Wambui, Wendy Kendra, Linda Manja, Charles Ngambi, George Njoroge and Claire Etaba. If nurtured well, then these are Kenya's future stars seeing as Lupita Nyong'o also treaded the boards at Phoenix.
Dreams are certainly valid.
Friday – Singing the Blues
Still buzzed from the creative excellence enjoyed at Phoenix I decided to check out a gig I had heard about and even read about but which seemed incongruous – American mugithi/one-man guitar.
The gig is located at The Blues restaurant in Hurlingham. At the petrol station where there used to be Kula Korner.
The concept is simple. There is communal as well as individual band equipment – guitars, drum kits, keys – and anyone is free to go up on stage and jam. The talent do not know each other and are as diverse as you can imagine. In addition, a chat with the drummer, a Kenyan guy in his early twenties revealed that the songs performed are on demand and are improvised.
The appreciative audience was also diverse. A trio of young Kenyan guys at the counter, an in her thirties European looking lady, a Kenyan man seated alone downing Tuskers donning a Godpapa, a table of Americans men and women aged approximately 25-65 years.
What was common was the love for blues and country music with patrons singing the blues as they quaffed beers and kept the kitchen busy.
I totally enjoyed the vibes and the gig gave me an idea too: America meets Kikuyu.
Imagine a random American guitar player going head-to-head against say Mike Rua. Intriguing inter-cultural mash-up, no?
The gig happens every Friday. Check it out if you are a Blues, country music fan or if you just seek a different kind of Friday night out.
Sunday – WeLoveVinyl
My dad had an old Sanyo radio which had the vinyl player or 'kinanda' as we called it.
Before the needle broke I grew up listening to 33s and 45s of Charlie Pride (my mum) and Jim Reeves, Kenny Rodgers, Kikuyu benga (my dad).
It thus did not seat right that an year after #WeLoveVinyl started I had never graced it and I sought to fix that.
However I may have run ahead of myself.
From the outside in I thought #WeLoveVinyl is a Sunday plan involve girls in small sundresses, music playing on vinyl, many Nairobians, food, drink and your regular to be seen-at gig.
How wrong I was.
#WeLoveVinyl is a niche, for-fanatics Sunday plan. Music plays on Vinyl, there is crate digging but I was wrong on the other fronts.
Began by a group of music lovers, #WeLoveVinyl seeks to connect the small but growing community of vinyl lovers with record sellers as well as vinyl player sellers while creating a Sunday plan of music and fun.
Crate-digging – the act of perusing vinyl records placed in a crate is a delight. I pride myself as a music buff but I discovered I know nothing. There were records upon records.
There was a crate of music about which I was totally clueless.
Rhumba crate had Simaro, Anna Mwale, Tshala Mwala, Bozi Boziana, TP OK Jazz etc etc.
In the Book of 45 was Kikuyu gold. History of Kenyan music in the 45 records. Nyeri Hills Band, Karura Brothers, Nguku Happy Bros, Gatundu Boys, Joseph Kamaru and Sister, Baba Kiwinja, Kamaru Music Stores KMS, DK Undugu Sounds, Equator Records. These bands and recording studios were all up and running in the 1960s! Also, discovered that AP Chandarana based in Kericho was making Kikuyu music in Kericho in the 60s. Makes you wonder where the rain started beating us.
Crate digging is akin to a treasure hunt and the glint in the eye of music lovers and joy upon getting a prized record is a sight to behold.
The gig is held every first Sunday of the month at Soiree Gardens. Alight at Uchumi Ngong Road, Take the road where iHub is (Bishop Magua House), go down then turn right and follow the music.
So if you are a passionate art lover check out these gigs and enjoy authentic experiences. If you know of other 'unspoilt' artsy gigs happening in Nairobi please do tell.
I appreciate that art is expensive and commercial aspect has to be cultivated. It is unfortunate that the emerging middle-class are the folk who can afford the art gigs even though for them it is about being seeing and not the art. A necessary evil I guess.
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Thousands of people still die because they didn't buckle up.
April 2019
Federal standards require that occupant compartments of vehicles be designed to protect occupants during a crash. The beds of pickup trucks are designed to carry cargo, not people, and are not designed to provide protection in a crash. In addition, children and adults can be easily ejected from cargo areas at relatively low speeds as a result of a sharp turn to avoid an obstacle or crash.
The hazards of riding in cargo areas have been addressed in 30 states and the District of Columbia by a variety of laws, most of which are designed to protect children, but few of which provide comprehensive protection for all children younger than 16. Safety belt and child restraint laws also may apply to prevent people from riding unrestrained in cargo areas.
The following table and map show which states have laws regarding riding in cargo areas and the major gaps or exemptions in those laws.
Hover over map for more detail.
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Attaining the conditions abroad that ensure American security and prosperity at home demands responsible management of U.S. diplomacy and development efforts. This section presents selected accomplishments and key management challenges of the Department of State and USAID for FY 2012. The achievements highlighted here reflect significant efforts to improve the way both agencies administer resources, deliver services, and manage for results. Challenges identified by the Inspector General of each agency and the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) denote management and performance issues that the Department and USAID take seriously and are actively committed to resolving. In the years ahead, the Department and USAID will continue to strengthen their accountability and capacity to deliver results consistent with the recommendations of the Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review.


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The faculty of practicing professionals, state-of-the-art facilities, study abroad opportunities and collaborative approach to learning all contribute to creating a unique, intellectually stimulating environment that enables students to creatively meet the challenges of our fast-changing global marketplace.
The School of Design and Engineering gives students the ability to shape the world through creative problem-solving and driving innovation by constantly pushing the envelope of what is possible.
Immersed in the Jefferson design community, animation students use cutting-edge tools and techniques, hone their storytelling abilities and study every phase of production. Students collaborate with graphic, interactive, industrial and fashion students on industry projects and graduate equipped for leading creative roles in film, television, visual effects, and video games.
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Use professional tools to design, model, and animate compelling 3D characters and environments
Explore advanced 3D and 2D studies to plan and implement short films
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Leverage our faculty�s industry connections to land a great engineering internship or job
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Be recognized in major design competitions, exhibitions and publications like the Adobe Design Achievement Awards
Take advantage of our excellent study abroad and internship programs
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Work within multidisciplinary teams on industry sponsored projects
Work in the lab to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data
Work within the industry with our excellent internship opportunities and solve engineering problems
Students in this program develop designs for various physical forms using a variety of printing technologies. Students work on interdisciplinary teams, enhancing creativity and design skills while learning valuable printing, business and applied engineering skills needed to lead in the imaging industry.
Work in interdisciplinary design teams on real world projects
Develop design skills in conjunction with advanced printing technologies
Textile design students learn how to turn innovative ideas into printed, woven and knitted products. Learn to turn innovative ideas into real products in preparation for careers as print designers for everything from home furnishings to high performance swimwear. Blending aesthetics with technology, our proven curriculum provides graduates with a competitive edge to secure careers in the global textile marketplace.
Work on industry-sponsored collaborative projects with industry professionals
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Make significant contributions in either advanced manufacturing technology or textile materials technology
Gain exposure to a wide range of professional education possibilities
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Develop research in an environment steeped in a rich textile heritage
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Contribute original research and scholarly publications in the fiber and textile fields
The program focuses on the innovative global textile industry, including fiber-engineered products for medical, geotextiles, architecture, fiber-reinforced composites, and traditional apparel and home applications. In this program students have the opportunity to select one of 5 career-focused concentrations and complete graduate level courses to transition into select Jefferson graduate programs.
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Pear Frangipane Croustade
Here we have one Pie based on another. This pear croustade has a gooey, chewy almond filling based on the French Pithivier, a gâteau of puff pastry filled with almond paste.
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- 1lb/500g ready-made puff pastry
- beaten egg, to glaze
- icing sugar, for dusting
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- 8 small ripe pears
- grated zest and juice of 1 lemon
- 4oz/125g butter, softened
- 1 egg
- 1fl oz/30ml dark rum or Cointreau
- 3oz/75g caster (superfine) sugar
- 7oz/200g ground almonds
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Peel and core the pears and slice each one into 8 lengthways. Place the slices in a bowl and toss with the lemon zest and half the lemon juice. Beat the butter in a bowl until softened and then beat in the egg, rum or Cointreau, caster sugar, ground almonds and remaining lemon juice.
Cover a large baking tray with parchment paper. Roll out half of the pastry on a lightly floured surface until about 3mm/1/8in thick and cut out a 27cm/10 1/2in circle using a plate as a guide. Lay the pastry on the baking tray. Spread the almond mixture on the pastry circle up to 2.5cm/1in from the edge. Top with the sliced pears.
Roll out the remaining pastry to a 28cm/11in round. Brush the edge of the pastry base with beaten egg, then carefully lay the pastry lid over the filling. Press the edges firmly to seal and scallop the edge of the pie decoratively, using a knife to make the indentations.
Brush the top with beaten egg to glaze and use a sharp knife to make faint lines radiating out from the centre to the edge in semi-circle patterns. Bake for about 30 minutes until well risen and golden. Dust the top generously with icing sugar and serve warm with cream or ice cream.
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African viewpoint: Leaping into 2012
In our series of viewpoints from African journalists, former BBC Focus on Africa deputy editor and Ghanaian government minister Elizabeth Ohene looks into her crystal ball and tells us what to expect from the year ahead.
There is much unfinished business from 2011, the year of the contagious revolution; and having failed to predict the phenomenon, we, journalists and commentators will try to read into every street demonstration echoes of Tunisia, Egypt and Libya.
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I am predicting a number of state funerals, not quite at the North Korean level, but close"
Am I suggesting then that the contagion has stopped, I hear you ask.
No, I am afraid the genie is out of the bottle and we will continue to see big changes on the political landscape.
However, I suspect there will be more intervention from the Big Reaper this year instead of young people having to face armoured tanks and tear gas to change their leaders.
I am predicting a number of state funerals, not quite at the North Korean level, but close.Elections ahead
There are interesting elections coming up, with Senegal kicking off things in February.
There will be fireworks and Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade will pull out all the stops to try and win a third term. Africa's longest lasting multi-party democracy is in for a tumultuous time.
The elections in Mali will hopefully pass off without as much drama whilst we all hold our breaths for the Kenyan elections. Kenya thoroughly frightened all of us the last time it tried to hold elections and indeed, we have not seen the end of that debacle.
In Zimbabwe the government of national unity would seem to be ready for dissolution.
President Robert Mugabe says he is prepared to hit the campaign trail again aged 85 and claims he will lead his Zanu-PF party into another election victory. I am not holding my breath.
I do wish I could tell if there will be long overdue presidential elections in Angola, but normal rules do not seem to apply to the venerable Jose Eduardo dos Santos.
There will be elections in Sierra Leone and in Ghana and I hereby declare more than journalistic interests in the Ghana ones about which there will doubtless be more later.What hope for Somalia?
There will of course be the football fiesta, the African Cup of Nations, to be held in the unfamiliar grounds of Gabon and Equatorial Guinea.
I predict that football pundits will be suggesting that the competition will be somehow devalued by the absence of Egypt, Cameroon and Nigeria.
When the captain of the Ghana national team, the Black Stars, holds up the cup at the end of the competition, let's all remember that those three nations were defeated in the qualifying rounds.
The Kenyans will shine again at the Olympics and their performance will make it worthwhile to watch the games to be staged in London.
In South Africa, the ANC, Africa's oldest liberation movement celebrates its 100th birthday this January. Unfortunately, the celebrations will be overshadowed by the struggle between President Jacob Zuma and his one-time protege, Julius Malema.
In July our newest nation, South Sudan will celebrate its first anniversary of nationhood and the African Union will be 10 years old without a certain Brother Gaddafi, who was instrumental in its formation, available to lead the celebrations.
Some things though never change on our continent and so we can be sure Somalia will continue to be in the news for all the wrong reasons in spite of the best efforts of the AU Special Representative, Ghana's former President Jerry Rawlings.
The Democratic Republic of Congo will continue to be in turmoil, the majority of its citizens will continue to suffer and outsiders will continue to prosper from its riches.Who is Charles Taylor?
The area of the biggest growth on the continent will continue to be in religious congregations and fake prophets.
In literature, Nigeria will continue to reign on the continent and their writers will continue to entertain and amaze.
A young journalist will ask me who Charles Taylor is when the International Criminal Court in The Hague finally hands down a verdict in his trial.
Laurent Gbagbo, former president of Ivory Coast, will rediscover his voice as he takes the stand to thrill the court with his elocution.
My one hope is that the economy grows at a faster rate all over Africa.
I deserve to see a prosperous Africa in my lifetime and it is now getting perilously close to my going without seeing that day.
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Superchunk Spoof Aging Hipsters in 'Void' Video
This week, Superchunk head to the U.K. for the All Tomorrow's Parties fest at Camber Sands, but before jumping the pond, the indie heroes made a video for 'Void,' the latest single from their 10th album, 'I Hate Music.'
Directed by writer Scott Jacobson, the clip stars 'Human Giant's' Jon Glaser, actors Jon Benjamin and Ted Travelstead and Superchunk themselves. It also features cameos from Ava Luna, Heliotropes, Lost Boy? and Weird Womb. Shot in a club, it's a touching yet hilarious spoof on aging hipsters hanging out and trying to retain relevance to a scene. A touch of self-effacing autobiography, perhaps?
Superchunk follow ATP with several U.K. dates and then trek though Scandinavia before hitting Chicago on Jan. 18 for the Tomorrow Never Knows Festival at the Metro. The short U.S. jaunt ends in February, in the warmer climes of Texas.


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Six-time Pro Bowl defensive tackle Kevin Williams is continuing his delayed free-agent tour after visiting the New York Giants earlier this month.
Williams visited the Seattle Seahawks on Monday, according to Howard Balzer of The Sports Xchange. Williams did not try out for the team, however.
Williams, 33, sits sixth on Around The League's list of the best available free agents.
The Seahawks' Super Bowl run included impressive performances from Michael Bennett and Cliff Avril, a pair of defensive linemen picked up at bargain-basement prices. Although Williams is past his prime, he fits Seattle's profile as a value signing who can play key snaps in a defensive line rotation.
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George and Angela Dyczynski saw much at the MH17 crash site but nothing that diminished their belief their daughter, Fatima, somehow survived.
The Perth-based parents arrived back in the Netherlands on Tuesday after a five-day trip during which they reached the crash site in rebel-controlled eastern Ukraine.
At Amsterdam Airport they clasped a flyer for the upcoming International Astronautical Congress in Canada and told AAP: "Fatima is a speaker at the conference."
There was no suggestion the couple's brilliant 25-year-old daughter might not be able to make it to Toronto in late September.
Indeed, Ms Dyczynski later threatened to sue anyone who suggested - without evidence - that Fatima was dead.
The professionals want Fatima's colleagues from the space science community to become involved in the crash investigation. They want the best of the best on the case.
Fatima had, after all, created a start-up company to send nano-satellites into space.
"She was an aerospace engineer, she was a scientist, she was a young person with new ideas and new perspectives and new horizons," Dr Dyczynski said on Tuesday.
"We want more scientific investigations with the data that's already gathered. It should start now - not wait months and months until we forget."
The couple say an expert panel including space scientists could help prevent future incidents.
Dr Dyczynski believes something is amiss in the world's skies - particularly given the disappearance of MH370 in March.
"Maybe not all things are looked at from the right perspective," the cardiologist and acupuncturist said.
"Maybe other perspectives are important to investigate. It's not only maybe a missile (that downed MH17) but something more.
"If it would have been a missile, and the rebels shot down this aeroplane, they would not have handed out the black boxes."
It's one thing to question how the plane was brought down, but another to believe a passenger could have survived.
The fact the Dyczynskis do is down to a combination of faith and science.
"There is a small possibility that something still survived," Fatima's father said.
"The people of Donetsk were first at the crash site and if somebody survived maybe they have taken them."
The couple plan to stay in Amsterdam for two or three days and then likely head home to Australia.
They've received support from back home and from Foreign Minister Julie Bishop who wrote to them after the crash.
In return, the Dyczynskis left Ms Bishop, who's currently in Kiev, one of four sunflowers they took from the crash site.
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Exxon Mobil Corp. /quotes/zigman/203975 /quotes/nls/xom XOM and partners have started to look for what has eluded even the luckiest of the Irish — offshore oil and gas.
Exxon has kicked off a six-month drilling campaign off southwestern Ireland, and a rig previously stationed offshore Liberia was relocated to the area late last month, according to media reports.
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Providence said it started to drill the Dunquin well last month. Drilling was expected to take "several months" using the Eirik Raude semi-submersible drilling rig, the company added.
A story on the Financial Times Monday cited cost estimates around $200 million.
Providence's Chief Executive Tony O'Reilly told the newspaper oil had been found offshore western Ireland in the 1970s and 1980s, but commercial development wasn't feasible at the time.
Higher oil and gas prices, improved logistics and technology, as well as a "generous tax system" in Ireland — drawing 25% of the net profits generated from drilling successes — have changed that picture, the newspaper said.
Dunquin was the first well to be drilled in the central part of the deepwater Porcupine Basin, the company said.
Exxon Mobil has a 27.5% interest in Dunquin and 36% interest in the Cuchulain field. These licenses cover approximately 225,000 net acres, the company said in its annual review.
Dunquin is named after a village in southwestern Ireland, Europe's most westerly populated town. Cuchulain was named after a mythological Irish warrior likened to the Greeks' Achilles.
The Porcupine Basin is about 125 miles off the southwest coast of Ireland. The basin is shallower than its neighbor to the northeast — the North Sea fields, and drillers have sought geological similarities with offshore West Africa, the Financial Times said.
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