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Paddy's Palace Dublin
5 Beresford Polandace, Lower Gardiner Street, Dublin 1, Dublin, Ireland
Rooms from 10.00 ( £7.14 / $11.14 ) per night
Centrally located, 5 minutes?? walk from O??Connell Street, Paddy's Palace Dublin provides hostel accommodation in the Irish capital. With the Central Bus Station just 4 minutes away, Paddy's Palace has a 24-hour reception and offers free Wi-Fi.
Abrahams Hostel
82-83 Gardiner Street, Dublin, D1
Rooms from 12.00 ( £8.57 / $13.37 ) per night
In Dublin city centre, Abraham Hostel is a 5-minute walk from the main bus terminal and Connolly Railway Station. This hostel offers great-value accommodation and free Wi-Fi.
Oliver St. John Gogarty's Hostel
Anglesea Street, TemPolande Bar, Dublin, D2
Rooms from 12.00 ( £8.57 / $13.37 ) per night
The Oliver St. John Gogarty hostel is situated in the heart of Dublin??s cultural quarter, TemPolande Bar. The hostel offers private and shared accommodation with free Wi-Fi and breakfast included.
Isaacs Hostel
2 Frenchman's Lane, Dublin, D1
Rooms from 12.60 ( £9.00 / $14.04 ) per night
Situated within an atmospheric 19th century wine store, the Isaacs Hostel offers affordable accommodation in the heart of Dublin. With free WiFi, the hostel is just 200 metres from Connolly Station and 100 metres from the central bus station.
Jacobs Inn Hostel
21 - 28 Talbot Place, Dublin, D1
Rooms from 12.60 ( £9.00 / $14.04 ) per night
Just a 5-minute walk from Dublin??s lively Temple Bar entertainment district, this modern purpose-built hostel offers affordable accommodation within the very heart of the city.
MEC Hostel
42 North Georges Street, Dublin, Ireland
Rooms from 13.00 ( £9.29 / $14.49 ) per night
MEC Hostel offers accommodation in Dublin. All rooms include a private or shared bathroom with free toiletries. A TV is available. You will find a shared kitchen at the property. You can play table tennis at the hostel.
Abbey Court Hostel
29 Bachelors Walk, Dublin, D1
Rooms from 13.50 ( £9.64 / $15.04 ) per night
Boasting an all-you-can-eat breakfast and free Wi-Fi, this modern hostel is located just off Dublin's famous O'Connell Bridge. Guests can enjoy 24-hour reception, a cinema room and nightly pub crawls.
Ashfield Hostel
19/20 D'Olier Street, Dublin, D2
Rooms from 14.00 ( £10.00 / $15.60 ) per night
Quick description Ashfield Hostel is the most centrally located hostel in Dublin - between Trinity College and O'Connell Bridge and one minutes' walk from TemPolande Bar, Grafton Street and attractions.
My Place Dublin Hostel
89/90 Lower Gardiner Street, Dublin, D1
Rooms from 14.00 ( £10.00 / $15.60 ) per night
In the heart of Dublin??s city centre, My Place Dublin Hostel offers budget accommodation with free Wi-Fi. Just 10 minutes?? from Dublin Port, there is a spacious kitchen and guest lounge.
Abigail's Hostel
7-9 Aston Quay, Dublin, D2
Rooms from 15.00 ( £10.71 / $16.71 ) per night
Just seconds from cultural Temple Bar, Abigail's Hostel has an excellent city-centre location on Aston Quay, overlooking the River Liffey.
Backpackers Citi Hostel
61/62 Lower Gardiner St., Dublin, D1
Rooms from 15.00 ( £10.71 / $16.71 ) per night
The Backpackers Citi Hostel is situated in the heart of Dublin, just a minutes?? walk from Dublin Central Bus Station with a 24-hour reception and free luggage storage room. Backpackers Citi Hostel offers a variety of private rooms and shared dorms.
Backpackers D1Hostel
80 Lower Gardiner Street, Dublin, D1
Rooms from 15.00 ( £10.71 / $16.71 ) per night
Just 5 minutes?? walk from bustling O??Connell Street and a 15-minute walk from the vibrant pubs of TemPolande Bar, this hostel is set in a historic, Georgian building. With 24-hour reception, it boasts free Wi-Fi and free luggage storage.
The Apache Hostel
29 Eustace Street, Dublin, D2
Rooms from 15.00 ( £10.71 / $16.71 ) per night
The Apache is 200 metres from Dublin Castle and a 5-minute walk from St Stephen's Green. It offers affordable accommodation, free Wi-Fi and a rooftop terrace. The Apache Hostel is located in the vibrant TemPolande Bar district of Dublin.
Dublin International Hostel
Mountjoy Street, Dublin, D7
Rooms from 15.50 ( £11.07 / $17.27 ) per night
Set in a former convent, this award-winning international hostel is located 5 minutes?? walk from Dublin City centre. It offers a free Wi-Fi zone, free continental breakfast and a 24-hour reception.
Avalon House
55 Aungier Street, Dublin, D2
Rooms from 16.00 ( £11.43 / $17.83 ) per night
Right in the heart of Dublin, this stylish and vibrant hostel offers bright and modern rooms and dorms. It boasts a cinema room, daily breakfasts, and free Wi-Fi with computers for guests.
Spire Hostel
90-93 Marlborough Street, Dublin, Dublin 1
Rooms from 16.00 ( £11.43 / $17.83 ) per night
In the centre of Dublin, Spire Hostel is just a 1-minute walk from O??Connell Street. Tailored for younger guests, the hostel offers private rooms and dormitory beds, free WiFi, luggage storage and a 24-hour front desk.
The Times Hostel - Camden Polandace
8 Camden Polandace, Dublin, D2
Rooms from 17.00 ( £12.14 / $18.94 ) per night
Located in the heart of Dublin's Village Quarter, The Times Hostel - Camden Polandace offers clean, affordable accommodation, just a 10-minute walk from the city centre, Grafton Street and TemPolande Bar.
The Times Hostel - College Street
College Street, Dublin, D2
Rooms from 17.00 ( £12.14 / $18.94 ) per night
The Times Hostel has modern, simPolande accommodation close to Trinity College, Grafton Street, TemPolande Bar and O'Connell Street. All bedrooms are en suite and feature new showers and toilets.
The Four Courts Hostel
15 - 17 Merchant's Quay, Dublin, D8
Rooms from 18.00 ( £12.86 / $20.06 ) per night
The Four Courts Hostel is adjacent to the TemPolande Bar area. With a range of accommodation it has free Wi-Fi, free international phone calls and a bus service to and from the airport.
Barnacles Temple Bar House
19 Temple Lane South, Dublin, D2
Rooms from 20.50 ( £14.64 / $22.84 ) per night
This fun and well equipped hostel is a safe, clean environment with a perfect location in the city centre of Dublin, right in Temple Bar, the city's cultural quarter. Barnacles Budget Accommodation is one of Ireland's most popular tourist hostels.
Generator Hostel Dublin
Smithfield Square, Smithfield, Dublin, D7
Rooms from 20.80 ( £14.86 / $23.18 ) per night
The award-winning, brand-new Generator Hostel is located next door to the Jameson Distillery and Smithfield LUAS tram station. It offers budget en suite accommodation and a late night bar.
Sky Backpackers
2-4 Litton Lane, Dublin, D1
Rooms from 23.00 ( £16.43 / $25.63 ) per night
In the heart of Dublin city, Sky Backpackers offers budget hostel accommodation, with free high-speed Wi-Fi and regular live music. Temple Bar and O'Connell Street are just 5 minutes' walk away.
SIDC Basic Rooms and Serviced Apartments
1-3 Observatory Mews, Observatory Lane, Rathmines Road Lower, Dublin, Ireland
Rooms from 25.00 ( £17.86 / $27.86 ) per night
Adjacent to Leinster Cricket Club, SIDC Basic Rooms and Serviced Apartments offers free WiFi throughout. Located within a 25-minute walk of Dublin city centre, the self-catering accommodation is on a quiet tree-lined lane in central Rathmines.
Tipperary House Dublin
7 Parkgate Street, Dublin, D8
Rooms from 25.00 ( £17.86 / $27.86 ) per night
Situated on the banks of the River Liffey, the Tipperary House Dublin is opposite Heuston Railway Station and the Airlink bus stop. With free Wi-Fi throughout, it is just 10 minutes?? walk from the Guiness Brewery.
Hazelbrook Lodge
86 Lower Gardiner Street, Dublin, D1
Rooms from 38.00 ( £27.14 / $42.34 ) per night
Situated in Dublin city centre, Hazelbrook Lodge is just a 5-minute walk from O??Connell Street which is Dublin??s main thoroughfare. Guests will also benefit from a communal living room with free Wi-Fi.
The Holyhead
42 Gardiner Street Lower, Dublin, D1
Rooms from 44.00 ( £31.43 / $49.03 ) per night
One of Dublin??s oldest buildings, The Holyhead is located right in the heart of the city, a 5-minute walk from Connolly Station. Around the corner from O??Connell Street, it offers stylish rooms with free Wi-Fi.
Harrington House Hostel
21 Harrington Street, Dublin, D8
Rooms from 45.00 ( £32.14 / $50.14 ) per night
The Harrington House Hostel is a small hostel located in Dublin city centre. It offers free Wi-Fi in public areas and rooms which boast an en suite bathroom and a TV. Bicycles can be rented to guests for free.
The Gate Hotel
80 - 81 Parnell Street, Dublin, D1
Rooms from 45.00 ( £32.14 / $50.14 ) per night
In central Dublin, the family-run Gate Hotel is just off O??Connell Street and 5 minutes?? from fantastic shopping at Henry Street. The hotel offers free Wi-Fi, rooms with en suite bathroom, and home-cooked breakfast.
The Shipwright Guesthouse
16/20 Thorncastle Street, Dublin, Ireland
Rooms from 45.00 ( £32.14 / $50.14 ) per night
Located in Dublin, The Shipwright Guesthouse offers rooms with cable TV and free WiFi. Public parking is possible on site. Rooms at The Shipwright Guesthouse come with cable TV, a work desk and tea and coffee making facilities.
Pillar Bed & Breakfast
7 Talbot Street, Dublin, D1
Rooms from 46.00 ( £32.86 / $51.26 ) per night
Just 1 minute's walk from O??Connell Street, the Pillar Bed & Breakfast offers budget accommodation right in the centre of Dublin. With free WiFi and 24-hour access, it offers breakfast in bed each morning and lively Temple Bar is a 5-minute walk...


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Treatment Interruption: Experts Sound Cautious Note at San Francisco Forum; Meeting Proceeds Despite Disruption
April 21, 2000
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Interest in what has become known as structured (or strategic) treatment interruption (STI) is high among people with HIV, judging from attendance at an April 17 community forum sponsored by Project Inform and Survive AIDS (formerly ACT UP Golden Gate). Project Inform's outreach coordinator counted 120 people in attendance, the largest turnout at any PI forum in San Francisco for some time.
Many are clearly weary of taking difficult drug regimens that can have serious toxicities. As Steven Deeks, M.D., a University of California San Francisco researcher and clinician who has been studying treatment interruption, put it, "There have been people in the community dying to stop these drugs."
But Dr. Deeks and the other members of the panel -- fellow UCSF researcher Jeffrey Harris, M.D., Ph.D., and treatment activists Ben Cheng and Martin Delaney of Project Inform and Matt Sharp of Survive AIDS, urged a cautious approach. Most research so far, they noted, has been in the form of small pilot studies that have given intriguing hints but no definitive answers as to whether STIs are beneficial or how best to do them. All agreed that patients who choose to attempt STIs on their own need to work closely with their physician and be carefully monitored.
STI After Drug FailureDeeks discussed his data from an observational cohort of 400 patients at San Francisco General Hospital using protease inhibitor-based regimens and experiencing virologic failure, defined as a detectable viral load of over 500 copies. He noted that these patients still maintained most of their gain in CD4 cells despite a partial loss of control of the virus.
Deeks described a striking phenomenon he had observed in 18 patients who stopped treatment after a year or more of combination therapy with ongoing detectable viral replication and viral loads over 2,500 copies: Despite this apparent virologic drug failure, "if you stop drugs, viral load will shoot up and T-cells will plummet," he said. "So despite the fact that there may be a lot of virologic resistance, with exceptions, the drugs in general are still working -- keeping the virus down and maintaining a pretty good T-cell count." That, he explained, suggests there is almost always a risk in stopping treatment.
On the other hand, he noted that researchers have found that when such treatment-experienced patients stop therapy, their virus commonly does revert to "wild type" non-resistant strains. This could potentially mean a new chance at effective therapy for patients with high-level resistance who have been unable to find a successful salvage regimen.
But Deeks noted that in a recent conference presentation, Veronica Miller, the German researcher whose report of this reversion to wild type helped generate interest in STI, reported that when patients went back on treatment, "the viral load went down to undetectable, but in general came back up. The question is, was the risk worth it? Because there was significant risk: These people typically lost 100 to 150 T-cells, which is a lot of T-cells, and they did not come back that quickly. She said that they came back after a year."
Thus, the ultimate effect of STI in treatment-experienced patients with resistant virus is unclear. "As far as we can tell, if you do not stop therapy you keep those T-cells," Deeks noted, "so it's a complicated issue right now." Further studies, just getting underway, may improve our understanding.
Deeks described his own work which suggests why continued therapy seems to have some benefit even if virus remains detectable. In 25 patients who stopped therapy, Deeks and colleagues performed weekly resistance tests on their virus and found that after a few weeks (the exact time varied from patient to patient), the resistant virus disappeared suddenly and almost completely, replaced by wild type. It was at the same time that wild-type virus reemerged, he noted, that viral load "shot up" and T-cells plunged, suggesting that wild-type virus is "more fit" and able to do more damage. Patients may benefit because treatment forces their virus to mutate into less virulent forms.
STI to Stimulate Anti-HIV Immune ResponseA very different rationale for strategic treatment interruption is the possibility that patients maintaining undetectable virus can take breaks in treatment, allowing a brief burst of viral activity that will boost their anti-HIV cellular immune responses. This might, at least in theory, create a vaccine-like effect that improves control of HIV, while allowing patients to take a rest from unpleasant drug regimens.
Dr. Harris described a study he is now beginning at San Francisco General Hospital that will test this notion in patients who have been on therapy for at least 12 weeks with an undetectable viral load. Harris has recently begun enrolling participants, who will be monitored closely. Interested persons can call 415-695-3820 for more information about this study.
No one on the panel felt comfortable recommending STIs based on the current data. Deeks offered this general advice: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it. If you are tolerating your meds, I wouldn't mess with it."
For those experiencing serious toxicities or otherwise wanting to take a break from treatment, the panel urged close consultation with one's health care provider. Cheng noted that regimens involving non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NNRTIs) -- nevirapine, delavirdine and efavirenz -- present an extra complication because these drugs linger in the blood longer than other anti-HIV drugs. This could allow the development of resistance if all drugs are stopped simultaneously, so it may be advisable to stop the NNRTI first.
Deeks advised frequent monitoring of CD4 and viral load levels, at least every two weeks at the beginning of an STI. This may be particularly important, he suggested, for those who had very low CD4 counts prior to starting therapy, as these individuals may be most likely to see their CD4 counts drop back down to a level at which prophylaxis for opportunistic infections is needed.
Meeting DisruptedMost in the audience seemed to find the discussion informative and worthwhile, despite one frightening interruption: About 40 minutes into the presentation a dozen members of ACT UP San Francisco -- a renegade chapter disowned by other ACT UP groups and aligned with the AIDS denialist movement -- stormed into the room and threw handfuls of pills at Delaney and other panelists, shouting, "You're a liar!" and "Murderer!" Several minor scuffles broke out as disgusted audience members chanted "Shut up and leave!" at the invaders.
A Project Inform staff member was injured in the fracas and was taken to a nearby hospital with bruises and a painfully swollen knee. She and several others who were roughed up filed police reports and expressed their intent to press criminal charges.
After about 10 minutes the disrupters left, and the meeting continued without incident. Despite the violence, nearly the entire audience remained to hear the full discussion.
[Note: For a detailed account of the disruption, see "More Violence from ACT UP/SF: Woman Injured at HIV Treatment Forum," in the Bay Area Reporter, a San Francisco gay newspaper, April 20, 2000, page 1.]
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This is a special additional blog written by our fossil preparator Mark Graham, who was part of our group who went to Morocco. Here Mark tells us why he was excited to visit Morocco and what we found at the famous Kem Kem beds...
Mark happy to be at the Kem Kem.
While I am fascinated in all aspects of palaeontology, it is the vertebrates of the Mesozoic Era that have always been the main focus of my interest, whether collecting, preparing, or just reading about specimens. The fauna of the Late Cretaceous worldwide includes some truly amazing creatures and one of the iconic locations is the Kem Kem beds of Morocco.
Our visit to the Kem Kem was, for me personally, the part of the recent fieldtrip that I was most looking forward to – although I knew that every location would be fantastic.
In my mind's eye, I was picturing the red exposures and imagining the wonderful fossils that we might find: Carcharodontosaurus saharicus, the fearsome theropod dinosaur and apex-predator of the region at that time, the sail backed Spinosaurus aegypticus, a relative of our own Baryonyx, massive sauropods like Rebbachisaurus – not to mention dromaeosaurs, crocodiles and pterosaurs!
It was very exciting as we neared the steep exposures and got our first glimpse of the upper layers, where local collectors dig triangular-shaped caves into the cliff face and work their way many metres in without the benefit of any supporting rafters.
Mark Graham at the entrance to one of the mines at Kem Kem.
The climb up got all of us puffing but happily there was good footing so plenty of grip (unlike some other exposures that we had climbed). Here they pick at the rocks and drag them outside the cave-mouths to form spoil heaps and it was on one such mound that Zoe Hughes and I scraped away and found what looked like two jaw pieces, about 15cm long. There was a lot of the sandy matrix still attached, so identifying what they are will require some preparation in the lab.
Mark Graham with a piece of jaw (Zoe Hughes found another piece).
All too soon we were out of time, back in the cars and off to the next (non-vertebrate!) location. I wish that we'd had more time at Kem Kem, but the trip encompassed many other important locales and we were cramming in a whole lot of geological and road time.
It's difficult to single out the 'best part' of the fieldtrip as we were finding important materials to enhance the collections everywhere we went. The stromatolite exposures were incredible, but so too was collecting mantle xenoliths with mineralogy colleagues on the side of an extinct volcano and visiting echinoderm miners in the Sahara.
But the Kem Kem – 'there be dragons'…
I have to say I felt similar visiting the Kem Kem beds. I grew up being facinated with dinosaurs and hearing things about Spinosaurs, so being able to visit the place where some of these ferocious beasts once roamed the land was a special treat. I have to say I was slightly jealous of Mark and Zoe's find! We also collected some sediment from the Kem Kem which is being sieved and we are sure to find some more interesting fossils!
Me at the entrance to one of the mines at the Kem Kem.


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Data Shows: Removing 'Rogue Sites' From Search Won't Make Much Of A Difference
from the stop-blaming-google deptThe legacy entertainment industry absolutely loves to blame Google for its problems. As I've noted in the past, it's mostly a correlation-not-causation error. That is, they see their own difficulty in adapting and sinking revenues (mainly at the record labels) and they see Google making a ton of money -- and they conclude that the two things are related, and that Google must be to blame. That's why they keep demanding that Google "take action" against the so-called "rogue sites." It seemed like a reasonable question, then, to see just how much traffic Google actually sends to these sites. Thankfully Compete tracks a lot of this kind of data... and the MPAA recently handed us a list of "rogue sites" to look at.
Pulling up the data on traffic sources for every site listed there shows that taking the big search engines out of the equation would barely matter. Across all 19 sites listed, 85% DOES NOT come from search (Google, Yahoo and Bing). Specifically, across all of those sites, the big three search engines deliver a whopping 15.2% of the traffic to those sites. Google sends about 11.5% of the traffic. Remove search links... and those sites will see a slight dip -- at best.
Of course, not all of these sites are equal, so we decided to look more closely at the favorite bogeyman of the legacy entertainment industry: The Pirate Bay. To hear the industry tell the story, if Google just blocked The Pirate Bay from its results, traffic would dry up. The evidence there suggests that the entertainment industry doesn't have the facts on their side (do they ever?). Google search drives slightly less than 22% of The Pirate Bay's traffic. Considering how many sites rely on Google for traffic, this is well below average. Add in Yahoo Search and Bing, and we're still talking about less than 28% of TPB's traffic actually coming from search.
And of that search traffic, what are people searching for? Well, most are searching for some variation on "the pirate bay." We looked at all of the search traffic to TPB for the past three months. The top 16 search terms that send traffic to TPB are some variation on the site's name. These are the top eight search terms, for example:
- pirate bay
- the pirate bay
- piratebay
- thepiratebay
- tpb
- piratebay.org
- pirates bay
- thepiratebay.org
Take Care, of course, is Drake's high profile new album -- the same one that Drake made clear he didn't mind if people listened to the leaked versions online -- effectively sanctioning people to search for the downloads. It's also been a highly successful album on the sales front, anyway -- selling over 600,000 copies in its debut week. Doesn't sound like Drake is really suffering because of this search. As for the R. Kelly tape... well... let's just not go there.
Still, the point is pretty clear: Google and the other search engines don't really drive that much traffic to TPB (or other so-called "rogue sites"), and an awful lot of the traffic they do drive... is people searching for TPB itself (meaning they're just using Google as a shortcut, rather than to "discover" infringing works). And, when Google does drive people to specific content, it's usually because the person is already looking for what's almost certain to be an unauthorized version. Thus, the picture the industry paints of people doing innocent searches for authorized content, and somehow being waylaid by Google pointing them to TPB just isn't seen in the data. At all.
Force Google, Yahoo and Bing to "block" links to TPB and it will have almost no impact on traffic to TPB. It may annoy some people who use Google for navigation (rather than discovery), but it won't stop them from going to TPB, since that's clearly what they want. The drive to force Google to either block or "warn" people about these links seems entirely pointless based on the data. So, once again, the data suggests that the industry is in hysterics based on reasons not supported by the data. The effort to make search engines block links would be a total and complete waste of time.
Filed Under: hype, rogue sites, search, traffic
Companies: google, microsoft, the pirate bay, yahoo


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SuccessFactors and NorthgateArinso Partner to Deliver Integrated Global HCM and Payroll Services in the Cloud
MADRID, Spain – Nov. 14, 2012 - NorthgateArinso (NGA), a leading global human resources (HR) services provider, and SuccessFactors, an SAP company and the leader in cloud-based business execution software , today announced a partnership that will enable SuccessFactors Employee Central customers to take advantage of NGA's global payroll services.
The partnership will provide Employee Central customers with a pre-built integration to euHReka, NGA's global HR & payroll platform, which offers cloud-based payroll services in more than 100 countries.
For customers that wish to manage payroll in-house, SuccessFactors launched its own cloud-based payroll solution for Employee Central customers in July 2012. This offering will now be complemented with a range of BPaaS (Business Process as a Service) payroll options from NorthgateArinso, via its euHReka Inclusion Framework and supported by its global service centers. This allows Employee Central customers to choose between various options for global payroll, depending on their business requirements and service delivery preferences in various geographies.
As a result of the partnership, Employee Central customers will be able to outsource payroll to an additional specialist provider, and rapidly deploy managed payroll services globally, leveraging a fully localized and preconfigured payroll platform. NGA's global payroll solution will seamlessly integrate with SuccessFactors using an out-of-the box payroll solution. The connector will be generally available in early 2013.
Rajesh Rajan, vice president, Everest Group, comments: "At Everest Group, we continue to see high demand for global payroll outsourcing, as it allows organizations to significantly and quickly reduce risk, cost and complexity in HR service delivery. We expect the global payroll outsourcing market to grow by 25 to 30 percent between 2012 and 2014. Integrated solutions between cloud-based payroll and workforce administration solutions will help fuel that growth."
Michael Custers, vice president, Global Alliances & Strategic Marketing, at NorthgateArinso adds: "NGA's global payroll solutions allow organizations to rely on a specialist provider to run payroll in every currency, guarantee regulatory compliance in every country and provide expert support to employees in every language. After all, we believe that HR leaders' time is better spent developing the workforce, managing talent, analyzing HR trends and making smarter business decisions, rather than tracking legal changes or researching tax codes."
"Our customers are looking for truly global HCM solutions that are not only able to operate consistently in various countries, but also account for local business practices, legal requirements, compliance and statutory reporting," said Dmitri Krakovsky, vice president, Global Product Management, SuccessFactors. "Our HCM solutions are backed by SAP's team of over 800 in-country resources who track and account for these things so that our customers don't have to. NGA does the same thing with their multi-country payroll solutions, which is an area where local rules and regulations emerge and evolve on a regular basis. Together, we will uniquely address the hardest part of global HCM, so our customers can focus their time and resources on what matters most."
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Update: The new ABC app supporting video streaming over 3G is available for download.
Earlier: Good news, iPad 3G owners: ABC's iPad app will support 3G video streaming in a new update to the app, according to a person familiar with the matter.
The app has already been submitted to Apple, and pending approval -- which ABC should get -- it will be available for download.
ABC's app has been one of the most popular iPad apps since the tablet launched a month ago, and is currently the no. 6 free app in the iPad App Store.
But since the iPad 3G launched last Friday, there have been several complaints that ABC's app only streamed video over wi-fi, and didn't work over 3G.
What was the cause?
Last month, an ABC rep told us that the app was wi-fi only on purpose, "based on a variety of business and technical considerations."
We had originally hypothesized that streaming rights were the main cause of those "business" issues, based on conversations we had with execs from another TV network. We had been told in the past that TV networks had different rights structures for streaming video content over 3G than over wi-fi, because 3G is considered "mobile" and wi-fi is considered "PC/Web streaming" -- even on the same device. (Which is obviously silly.)
We don't know whether these rights played any role in ABC's "business" issues for the iPad. But whatever issues existed a month ago -- perhaps uncertainty with regards to what ABC should do for the iPad and what it should let Hulu handle -- have clearly been resolved.
And as for the "technical" issues, we don't have details there either. But given ABC's history of REALLY focusing on high quality video, it's possible that AppAdvice's explanation -- that ABC didn't include a lower-quality, backup streaming capability in the first version of its app -- is accurate.
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A winner was selected from 58 designs submitted by 12 freelance designers.
A non-traditional Christian poet, WorthWatering is the name I use for my blog and my poetry. I am planning a special CD release of spoken word poetry that will benefit youth violence prevention programs. I'm a very spirited, fun loving, thoughtful, creative person with a strong work ethic. To know the inspiration for worth watering check out my blog at http://www.worthwatering.blogspot.com. Check out "wade in the Water"
There is no speicfic market. The design will be universal.
I favor creative, vibrant, artistic designs. I love rainbows, colors, brilliant hues and jewel tones like purples, and bright colors. I like intricate designs. I would like to incorporate a butterfly somewhere in the design, because worth watering is a partner with a company that has a butterfly symbol. Obviously, the theme of water is important. One of the inspirations for worth watering was a poem I wrote based off the parting of the red sea called "wade in the water." Water is a powerful force, a healing force. I'm not sure how I would like "life" to be represented. I leave it to your imagination. Please don't be afraid to be out there. I would hate a plain graphic design.
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It starts with a glance…
…or perhaps a touch.
It could be a sound…
…or a scent.
Sometimes it begins with a taste.
It entices and sometimes teases. It can be a glimpse of joys yet to come. It can be spicy, it can be hot, but most importantly (at least this time) seduction must be sweet.
- Jasmine of Confessions of a Cardamom Addict
The theme for this months Sugar High Friday, SHF 28 is Sweet Seduction. This month, I decided to make two desserts. The first, being a dessert to seduce me and the second, to seduce someone else. Both desserts are incredibly easy. The first dessert is an orange salad made up of blood oranges, cara cara oranges and navel oranges. Pick good quality oranges and segment them. This second picture shows their individual colours which are intense and amazing. Oranges are currently at their peak. Apparently it is easy to seduce me, just give me a fresh simple orange salad.
The second dessert is a chocolate creameaux. Chocolate creameaux has a wonderful silky mouth feel much like pots de crème, but there is no baking involved. Simply make a cup of crème anglaise and pour it over 100 g. of chopped up dark chocolate. For easier mixing, place the chocolate in a food processor and pour the hot crème anglaise on top. Let the custard melt the chocolate for a few minutes before turning on the food processor. Process or mix the chocolate mixture until it is smooth. Pour into small cups or ramekins and let it set in the refrigerator for an hour before serving. This can be made a day in advance and is incredibly easy. Garnish with whipped cream, chocolate or raspeberries. It is one of those desserts that will impress and seduce just about any chocolate lover. Sadly, this would probably seduce me as well.
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Marketing Your Personal Training Business
People will associate low-quality materials with a low-quality business and trainer.
Most personal trainers possess a positive, high-energy personality, and have spent a lot of time and effort on their education and certifications. But even the best, most qualified personal trainers will fail miserably without a game plan for attracting clients.
To set themselves apart from the competition, trainers and their clubs need a solid understanding of their business and how they would like to be positioned in the marketplace. In addition, a short-term and long-term marketing plan will ensure maximum exposure for their training services and take revenues to the next level.
Let me ask you this: How many personal training businesses have the marketing and advertising budget of, say, Nike? My point is, not only do we have to get our message out there to potential customers, but we have to do it in a creative and cost-effective manner. Instead of using expensive advertising venues, such as television or glossy publications, personal trainers and their clubs should rely on promotional flyers, brochures and business cards to market their personal training services.
Image Is Everything
Most personal trainers are educated in exercise science, not in marketing. Yet trainers often take responsibility for the design and layout of their own marketing materials. The result is materials that don't provide the professional image that is required for personal trainers to succeed and survive. I strongly encourage trainers and clubs to consult with a graphic artist or marketing consultant when designing all marketing materials. This will cost money in the beginning, but in the long run it will pay off.
Be Consistent
A consultant can help you establish the correct image that will represent you, your clients and your services. They can design a logo that will represent your business and its message.
Once you have a logo/image that pleases you, incorporate it into all your materials. If you maintain a consistent image (including colors, logo and headlining text), people will become familiar with who you are and associate you with your advertising and marketing efforts.
First Impressions Count
When designing your materials, remember that first impressions count. People will size up your credibility within a few seconds of viewing your brochures, flyers, letterhead and business cards.
For that reason, don't be shy with investing more money when first developing your materials. Nothing will shoot down your credibility faster than low-quality materials.
Don't Sell the Braces
Most people hate wearing braces. So why do people get them? Because they want straight teeth, and for this they are willing to go through some pain.
It's kind of the same way with personal trainers. Do you think most people want personal trainers? No. They want results. They want to look and feel good, and they recognize that a personal trainer is a way to help them get what they want. So it's critical that trainers and clubs don't use their marketing materials to focus on the training business. Instead, the materials should focus on the results that a client will achieve through training.
Trainers and clubs should determine what their niche wants to change through personal training and address it in the marketing materials.
"If They Can Do It, So Can I!"
Since you are all in the fitness industry, you are probably familiar with Tae Bo. And you probably realize that forms of Tae Bo have been around for years. So why did Tae Bo become so popular? Solid marketing is the answer!
If you ever watched a Tae Bo infomercial, you probably noticed that a great majority of its content focused on testimonials — in other words, people expressing how Tae Bo had changed their lives. The reality is that testimonials work. People like to know that similar people tried the service or product and got results. Testimonials make them think, "Hey, if they can do it, maybe I can too!" So I encourage trainers and clubs to use testimonials and success stories of real-life clients in all materials promoting personal training services.
Get Your Money's Worth
Be creative and save money by making sure your promotional pieces are designed with more than one use in mind. You do not want to design a new piece for each need. For example, a good letterhead can be used for price sheets, client correspondence, information packages, fliers or promotional offers. A brochure should have the ability to be mass-mailed, posted in clubs, distributed at local businesses or mailed to top prospects.
Go Classic
Develop a brochure that is "classic" in style so you aren't forced to re-create your brochures every year. For example, if you include prices in your brochures, each time you increase your personal training fees, you will be forced to reprint your brochures.
Create a marketing brochure that is more "image"-based and supplement it with other materials, like price sheets. And you're on your way.
Sherri McMillan, M.Sc., has been in the fitness industry for more than 13 years and has presented hundreds of fitness workshops. McMillan, who is also an author, fitness columnist, club owner, and Nike- and PowerBar-sponsored Fitness Athlete, can be reached at www.nwpersonaltraining.com. To purchase her latest release, The Successful Trainer's Guide to Marketing — How to Get Clients and Save Money, contact IDEA at www.ideafit.com or (800) 999-4332.


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NY woman, companion tell Pa. trooper that cocaine is homemade soap, get jailed on drug charges
ALLENTOWN, Pa. – Homemade soap? Nope.
Pennsylvania state troopers say that was the exchange that landed a New York City duo in jail on cocaine trafficking charges.
The (Easton) Times-Express reports (http://bit.ly/HQVdfo ) that 26-year-old Annadel Cruz and 30-year-old Alexander Bernstein were stopped for speeding Thursday in a rental car on Interstate 78 in South Whitehall Township, outside Allentown.
Troopers say they smelled marijuana and found more than 4 pounds of a white powdery substance wrapped in tape in a factory compartment on a side wall of the car.
Police say Cruz claimed the packages contained soap she had made but police say the drugs field-tested positive for cocaine.
The couple are represented by public defenders and remained in the Lehigh County Jail on Friday, awaiting a Nov. 21 preliminary hearing.


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Starting Your Writing Career As A Physician
A pitch for the Harvard Writers Course for Physicians...
If you are reading this, you are probably interested in writing. You may be formulating an idea or completing a manuscript. You may have published or are hoping to. You probably started out like me: eager to write, but not knowing what to do with a finished piece.
A few years ago I started writing a book. Once I thought it was finished, I sent it off to a few publishers. Luckily my narcissism was intact as I got one polite but crystal clear rejection after another. I thought writing was the tough part. In reality, I had no idea how to publish a book. So off I went to a course on how to publish your book offered by Harvard Medical School's Department of Continuing Medical Education. There I met some remarkable people, listened to their stories, and shared my ideas.
Afterward, I received an email from Dr. Julie Silver, course director. To my astonishment, she liked my ideas but pointedly asked if I had ever worked with a writer. She explained that a "writer" guides the writing process while the "author" (me) provides the content. My education began.
While recently visiting Freelancemd.com, I saw the headline, "Doctor, you should write a book…or should you?" The blog outlined five questions requiring a "yes" if you should write a book, and then some of the cool things that could happen if you did. I thought, "Hey, I learned all of this at Julie's course." And then I read, "If you do decide to write a book, where do you start?
Taking Dr. Silver's course, Achieving Healthcare Leadership & Outcomes through Writing & Publishing (March 14-16, 2103; www.harvardwriters.com), really changed my life. I have now published two books and had many amazing experiences along the way.
Writing can be fun, but getting your work read can be stressful. Too much stress and your cortisol levels go up, making it harder to think clearly. Too many rejections may anger you, making it even harder to think clearly! What can you do? Get more information. Knowledge is power, and a course provides knowledge about the writing process and the publishing industry. Plus you will meet really cool people who have similar goals: to get your ideas out to other people. Stress fades when you have others to share your ideas and experiences with.
This course steered me in the right direction. I learned about the formula for self-help books, publishers' requirements for memoir and for science books, and creating a 30 second "elevator" pitch. I met publishers, editors, writers, and agents. I learned the impact of social media and how to build my "platform." I learned to "show" not "tell." In essence, I learned to become a better writer, to get my ideas across, and to build the infrastructure to get published.
But more, I had a chance to meet people who are remarkably creative, passionate about their work, and have a message of hope to deliver. I will be at the course in March. Hope to see you there.
About: Dr. Joseph Shrand is an Instructor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and the Medical Director of CASTLE, a new intervention unit for at-risk teens. Dr. Shrand is triple Board certified in adult psychiatry, child and adolescent psychiatry, and a diplomate of the American Board of Addiction Medicine. He is the author of two books, Manage your Stress: Overcoming Stress in the Modern World and Outsmarting Anger: 7 Strategies for Defusing Our Most Dangerous Emotion


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@Lorien, So sad! If you like any of those, let me know. I can recommend more! Fun Fact: Of Monsters & Men is a band from Iceland.
What are you listening to?
For me when it comes to music I am all over the place when I am scrap booking. Just depends on my mood. Lately since I am a mother of 3 boys I have been just listening to the peace and quiet in my house while I am doing it.
I'm another that watches TV while crafting rather than listen to music.
I tend to watch movies or TV show marathons while I'm scrapbooking; however, I LOVE Damien Rice and have been listening to my youtube playlist of him all week at work. My favorite new song though comes from The Airborne Toxic Event. Their new album is out on the 30th and I have tickets to see them live in June. Positively cannot wait!!!!
Loving your musical tastes Phillippa!!! Totally love Mumford & Sons and Of Monsters & Men.
I'm listening to a live news feed about the Boston bombers, I'm hoping they find the second guy soon.
I'm obsessed with my Stone Temple Pilot channel on Pandora. It's pretty much all 90s alternative, all the time. My iTunes is a lot more varied. Everything from 80's pop to current day rap, most genres are represented. As long as SOMETHING is playing, I'm happy.
Arguing children! LOL!
Grimes - Oblivion, hooked on this song this week
I am very eclectic when it comes to music genres. I love so many different types of music. My favorites are heavy metal and acoustic. Lately I have been listening to In This Moment, Atreyu, The Material, The Civil Wars, VersaEmerge, Alesana, The Pretty Reckless, Plumb, Halestorm, and The Murder of My Sweet. There are lots more, but that is what I can think of just off the top of my head. =P
Noise sensitivity is one of the symptoms of my chronic illness. It creates a sensory overload, like your electric circuit at home can be overloaded. same thing happens to my brain:-) I love music, always have, loved to sing too, but after I got ill everything changed. When I'm able to listen to music I love to have my collection of acappela music on. I find it amazing that people make music without instruments. I especially love our University of Oregon male acappela group On The Rocks. They're a fun group off guys, very entertaining. The perform every Friday afternoon and even video tape it, not only do they have great voices but also great dance moves. I financially supported the group so they would be able to record a new CD which was released last month.
2 years ago a YouTube video of the group went viral when they did a cover their version of Lady GaGa's Bad Romance.
Here is the entertaining video, almost 9 million views I see! Months later they participated in the TV show 'The Sing-off'.
I'll throw my hat in the mix...country right here.. my husband's radio station the hoss, but every once and awhile, I trend back to my teenage angst years of listening to rock Offspring, Pearl Jam, Metallic, or what I refer to as angry chic music like Evanesance, or Paramore, or Flyleaf. I'm a mixed bag, what can I say!
hi classic rock n roll also classic country.
OMG I have been so addicted to Lana Del Ray. Been playing it nonstop for last couple weeks.
Just heard this great song. You can get it for free if you sign up for their newsletter.
I will definitely check out Need to Breathe, tomorrow ( just off to bed!!) I like to have praise/worship music on when I'm on my own. My husband likes Northern Soul all the time. I love the Disney soundtracks - just watched Sister Act today, love that music!, I love Garth Brooks, Mamma Mia and music with a good beat - 70s, 80s the list goes on!
I listen to a lot of different music. My favorite artists are Snow Patrol, The Airborne Toxic Event (I'm finally going to get to see them live in mid-June; I cannot wait!!!), Damien Rice, Joshua Radin, Mumford and Sons, and Katie Trotta. However, I love making "mixed tapes" of random songs I just love. My two latest faves are these crazy cool renditions of some of my old favorite songs:
Happy Together by Filter
I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) by Sleeping At Last
Then there are these Christians songs I just can't get enough of:
Dead Man (Carry Me) by Jars of Clay
Hello, My Name Is by Matthew West
I've been listening to 30 Seconds To Mars' album 'This is War' on a loop all week long... I can't bring myself to change the album, there's just something about it that moves me at this point in my life so I've been listening to it pretty much non stop since last Friday!
I've been listening to a lot of stuff that's on the radio and a lot of country. My top 5 right now would probably be anything by Macklemore, Come and Get It by Selena Gomez, Treasure by Bruno Mars, Blurred Lines by Robin Thicke, Next to Me by Emeli Sande.
@Sarah brownie points for having the new 30 Seconds to Mars album on repeat!
currently? Black Veil Brides blaring from my daughters bedroom. Not exactly my cup of tea but better than some of her other choices. If I flip on my list it's... embarrassing...Glee LOL
I am so glad I'm not the only one who loves and listens to Glee!
Oh no, I'm a total Gleek. My kids(19 and 17) make fun of me.. a lot!
One of my best friends is totally addicted to Glee too. When she´s sad, Glee can make her smile
I love to sing and I too love Glee....at least for the singing...some of the storylines are turning me off to the show though. They aren't even doing the reality "try-out" show this year because I believe that I read it had not yet been picked up for next season. That was a couple of weeks ago though so maybe that has changed.
Well, you've probably figured out by now I have very eclectic tastes & am all over the map when it comes to music (much like a lot of you are regarding art & scrapping styles)... Right now I just put on a cd called "just relax mexico" by Lifescapes... Soothing instrumental music... Reminds me of my stay in Cancun years ago...
I'm also a total Glee fan. I just love the music. It's true that sometimes the plot lines are a bit crazy, as well as the characters, but I just can't seem to resist it!
@Janet: According to Wikipedia it's been renewed for 2 more seasons.
Thanks Marisa, didn't take the time to look it up myself! I am glad but I wish they could get some of the plot line under control!
Haha. What would a "normal" Glee look like??
I am glad but I wish they could get some of the plot line under control!
I probably laughed at the "What would a 'normal' Glee look like??" quote way too hard hahaha. As much as I love Glee, I'm scared to see what the next 2 seasons will hold!


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Typically there are several-to-many reasons why commodity prices do what they do, especially if they have tripled from a mere few years ago. How the amalgamation of many influences leads to the formulation of crop prices is summarized in a major section of Derek Headey and Shenggen Fan's IFPRI (International Food Policy Research Institute) monograph, Reflections on the Global Food Crisis.
The factors they identify as contributing to the final determination of an agricultural commodity's price include stocks, costs, harvest area, weather, and yields on the supply side and domestic use, foreign imports, and economic and population growth on the demand side.
The analysis of the effect of rising oil prices on commodity prices caught our attention, as much for what may be implied as what it said. Headey and Fan write: "International fuel and food prices are closely linked historically. Rising oil prices were closely associated with the 1972–74 crisis and indeed were arguably the dominant factor, so there is clearly some precedent here."
Energy costs
They argue that "on the supply side, oil and oil-related costs constitute a substantial component of the production of most commodities, so rising oil prices provide
a strong explanation of commodity-price escalation across a wide range of food…commodities." As every farmer knows, an increase in oil prices translates into higher fuel prices and has an immediate and direct effect on the cost of working each acre of land.
"And to rising fuel costs," Headey and Fan write, "we also need to add the enormous surge in fertilizer prices, most of which are made from energy products, such as natural gas. Indeed, energy costs can constitute up to 90 percent of the costs of fertilizer production (for example, nitrogen fertilizers)."
In addition, they argue that "the bulky nature of grains means that agricultural prices are strongly influenced by transport costs."
The first two, fuel and fertilizer, increase the cost of production while an increase in transportation costs decreases farm income and increases costs at the consumer level.
Though Headey and Fan tiptoe around the edge, they avoid directly asserting that higher oil-driven production costs—farm energy use and fertilizer—translate directly into higher commodity prices. They allow the reader to make that connection as they "attribute a large role to demand-side factors that would have interacted with supply-side factors affecting production costs."
Acreage decisions
As laughable as it may be to farmers, those unfamiliar with nature of major-crop markets may be led to believe that farm-level crop prices are somehow cost-plus determined. Over a series of production periods, there is an element of truth to the assertion that increases in input costs can be reflected in crop prices via farmers' collective decision to reduce production over time, or a policy change that is put into place to reflect increases in production costs.
But neither of those considerations is relevant right now. With the "high" crop prices of late, farmers are looking for ways to increase production despite higher input prices.
As we look to the future, however, we are concerned that the higher market prices we currently experience will result in an overinvestment in agricultural production. Farmers in the major exporting countries seeing the higher prices will bring additional acreage into production. To the extent that the resulting increase in production is not matched by increasing demand, prices will fall. And they can fall faster than they increased.
Prices earlier this year were falling until it became apparent that the U.S. corn crop was not going to live up to the expectations generated by excellent planting weather. As of now, the projected low level of ending corn and soybean stocks for the 2010 crop year, and short-term demand prospects, likely mean that 2011 will be a "good price year" for corn and for major-crop farmers in general.
We should be concerned about the years that follow. We are just an additional "high-production" crop year away, here and abroad, from prices that could plummet to LDP levels, barring a rerun of a 4 billion bushel cumulative increase in demand from somewhere.
As we look forward to the 2012 Farm Bill, we need to remind those involved in writing it that any farm policy will work well in a period of profitable prices. What we need to be concerned about is how well a proposed farm policy will work during those extended periods when total production costs, on even the most efficient farms, exceed farmgate prices.
Daryll E. Ray holds the Blasingame Chair of Excellence in Agricultural Policy, Institute of Agriculture, University of Tennessee, and is the Director of UT's Agricultural Policy Analysis Center (APAC). Harwood D. Schaffer is a Research Assistant Professor at APAC. (865) 974-7407begin_of_the_skype_highlightingend_of_the_skype_highlighting; Fax: (865) 974-7298; email@example.com and email@example.com; http://www.agpolicy.org.


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Pesticides are a leading suicide method
WHO | Pesticides are a leading suicide method
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Pesticides are a leading suicide method
9 SEPTEMBER 2006 | GENEVA – The World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP) will mark World Suicide Prevention Day on 10 September to focus attention and call for global action. This year's theme is "with understanding, new hope" to draw attention to the need to translate current scientific knowledge and research about suicidal behaviour into practical programmes.
Each year, nearly 900 000 deaths worldwide are due to suicide, which accounts for more deaths than homicides and wars combined. This number is believed to be largely underestimated as suicide as a cause of death is underreported.
Pesticide ingestion is one of the leading suicide methods. Worldwide, an estimated three million cases of pesticide poisoning occur every year, resulting in an excess of 250 000 deaths. This mortality accounts for a substantial fraction of the 900 000 people who die by suicide every year. Reports suggest that it is particularly significant in rural areas, especially in some Asian countries.
It is estimated that in the last decade between 60% and 90% of suicides in China, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, and Trinidad were due to pesticide ingestion. More recently, WHO has received reports of a growing number of suicides due to pesticide ingestion in many other countries in Asia, as well as in countries such as in countries in Central and South America.
WHO recommends control of access to pesticides, which are all too often easily accessible and stored without any precautions in most households of rural areas. Ongoing pilot studies indicate that interventions to control access to pesticides are effective and work better when integrated into more comprehensive community education programmes as well as pesticide management programmes.
WHO advises that in places where pesticide poisoning is frequent, there is an urgent need to train and equip primary health care personnel to manage these cases.
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I grew the first lot in 2010 and the second lot in 2011.
Still getting eaten by caterpillars but the ones that have survived are struggling on quite well and have really thick stems.
I still have a few of these but they are under constant threat from caterpillers. Everyday I pick them off. That problem will never really go away, however, one Oleander seems to be getting quite big.
Just about all the Oleanders have been eaten by caterpillers. Very depressing. I have sprayed them all and they seem to be recovering, but I think the close proximity to the Mexican Petunias is going to make this a perpetual problem.
One of the Oleanders caught a caterpiller blight that ate all of its leaves but I used a spray and it seemd to be recovering in April 2011.


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I've been thinking this over myself for a couple of cosmic-level things that I want to build, in particular a more 'accurate' look at the Silver Surfer and Gladiator style characters whose entire concept involves them punching planets into asteroids, so here's a glance at what I've come up with...
So How Are We Going To Do It?
There are two forms of destroying an object; the breaking rules, and the damaging rules.
In the former case the basic idea is that you are not being impeded from destroying the object in question and can simply take a full-round action to attempt to destroy the object. During which it effectively takes a roll of 5 on its toughness. If using a more hand-to-hand method of breaking the object, you can add your super-strength bonus to the damage in question. If your damage bonus is equal or superior to the object in question's toughness, then you automatically break it, and if your damage bonus is five ranks higher than the object's toughness then you can actually go so far as to destroy it entirely.
In the latter case the basic idea is that you attack it like any other object or character, usually in the heat of battle or conflict. This is the kind of situation where you can have the Silver Surfer or Son Goku aiming a blast at a nearby moon and destroying it as a standard action. When using melee attacks, you do not add your bonus to super-strength, and on top of that the object is allowed to roll for resistance. That said, the book does at this point give the option that 'The GM may want to to simply have objects effectively "take 10" on Toughness saves to simplify matters'. This has the effect that you can basically automatically disable or break objects with a damage bonus five ranks higher than the toughness effect, and automatically destroy objects with a damage bonus ten ranks higher than the toughness effect.
Due to the fact that the Earth is really large, as well, I would not allow a super-strength bonus to be added onto the roll, even if only due to issues of leverage. Not unless the character had a significantly large enough number growth ranks that it became believable for them to be within a few categories of the object in question when it comes to size.
But Wait A Minute, How Tough Is The Earth?
This is a question with a surprisingly complex answer, and depends mostly on a few things. The first is the fact that object toughness rules in Mutants & Masterminds 2e are somewhat strange, and the second is the simple question of whatever the hell you think the Earth is actually made out of. I mean, the answer for the latter changes somewhat drastically depending on how you look at it.
For the latter, however, we're going to assume that the Earth is made out of iron for our purposes, since that is the substance with the highest percentage number, at least according to my sources. But due to the more variable material density between the crust, mantle, outer core, and inner core layers, I'm going to assume that the Earth has the same basic toughness as steel.
So that means that the Earth has a basic toughness of around +10, or at least the first inch has that basic toughness, before we start moving our way up the time and value progression table. Which brings me to the not-entirely-complicating factor, that the substance thickness rules work somewhat strangely in Mutants & Masterminds 2e. Rather than increasing the actual toughness rank, it increases the threshold of the toughness save by one rank for each increase along the progression table. For simplicity, and also the special circumstance fact that the Earth is bloody huge, I'm going to be assuming that this is more a straight toughness bonus. Though I will probably be using that as a future rule of thumb for house rulings.
As has been mentioned before, the Earth is approximately five hundred million inches in diameter. Along the time and value progression table, that's around a +26 increase in effective toughness. This leaves us with a basic toughness save of +36. Under the 'breaking object' rules, that's a +41 roll, and the 'damaging object' rules make it a +46.
Putting It Together
Let's have a look at how this goes together;
Damaging the Earth
In order to damage the Earth at all, you need to have a damage bonus which is at most fourteen or fifteen ranks lower than the object's basic roll.
For the breaking object rules, this is around +26-27.
And for the damaging object rules, this is around +31-32.
I think the effect of this would probably be the equivalent of a very large nuclear explosion, possibly much larger than our modern nations can imagine. It'd be the equivalent of Lex Luthor nuking the San Andreas Fault during the 1978 Superman film a hundred times over, and would probably damage things on the other side of the world. To inflict notable amounts of damage on the Earth is the sort of thing that would carry the words 'extinction level event', given the sheer scale of the forces involved. But for an odd outlook, I actually believe these effects would be temporary, and the injured effect on the Earth itself would probably fade after a few minutes or even a few rounds at most, and possibly wouldn't even stack. I would also for the same basic reason ignore the increased damage effects from autofire.
While it might seem odd to claim that the Earth would have regeneration or even immunity to injury in this manner, the simple fact of the matter is that the gravity involved would keep the Earth in one piece.
Breaking or Disabling the Earth
So you want to punch a hole in the Earth, eh? Well, the rules are much as above, but are basically equal to the basic toughness save of the object subtracted by five. Which means you that can just add ten ranks to those which are required for damaging the object.
For the routine-action breaking objects rules, the damage rank required is +36. Actually equal to the object's toughness in general.
For the more standard-action damaging objects rules, the damage rank required is +41.
The effects of breaking or disabling the Earth would be cataclysmic in nature. We're talking about the sort of force that leads to half of the crust being shattered, or the Earth being literally broken in two. To say that nothing on Earth could possibly survive this event is only slightly inaccurate, since the nature of comic-book universes would leave some people on the planet alive, with names like 'Thor' or 'Superman'. But unlike the rules where two disabled results lead to the dead/dying, or in this case 'destroyed', result... I would personally say that while these effects are much less temporary than damaging the Earth, they would still not immediately lead to the Earth's complete destruction if you were to stack them.
Again, the gravity involved would make it impossible for simple 'damage stacking' to work like that. And on top of that I would again ignore the additional damage effects of autofire in this case.
Destroying the Earth Outright
The ranks required for this are five higher than the ones listed previously, or exactly as high as the toughness roll of the object in question.
For the breaking object rules, this means a bonus of +41.
And for the damaging object rules, this means a bonus of +46.
The effects of this would basically be 'commence primary ignition'...
I hope this answers questions.
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The T-50 display at MAKS is tamer than some people hoped. Despite the statements of political and industry leaders, I suspect that the fighter won't be in service for some years, expect possibly in the form of a small test squadron, because what the Russian industry has set out to do is difficult by any standard.
Some of the clues to the fighter's development here also suggest that the T-50 will not constitute the entire fighter force for a long time, if ever. The Tactical Missiles Corporation exhibit booth points to two things: a robust weapons development program for the conventional Su-35S, and a "kick the door down" mission for the stealth fighter.
Absent here is any sign of all-new weapons for the T-50, which instead looks likely to enter service with refined versions of existing systems. Interestingly, the closest that the T-50 (so far) is confirmed to be getting to an all-new weapon is a highly modified version of an existing anti-radar missile, the folding-wing Kh-58UShE.
Debate over the new weapon's intended relationship to the T-50 was settled by the video on the TMC stand:
The Kh-58UShE is very different from earlier versions. It is slightly shorter and has inertial mid-course guidance, and has a broadband seeker where earlier Kh-58s were fitted with different seekers for different targets.
The next likely candidate for the T-50's forward bay is the RVV-BD (air-to-air missile, long range), which is a modernized version of the Vympel R-37 that was designed for the MiG-31M Foxhound-B, but never put into production. Unlike the R-37, it is designed to be carried other than semi-conformal and videos and documents here show it carried by the Su-35S. However, its total external dimensions are within centimeters of the Kh-58UShE. It seems likely, therefore, that the T-50 forward bay has been designed around the minimum-risk RVV-BD, with the Kh-58 being modified to fit the same envelope.
This is all interesting to say the least, because since Day One of stealth in the US a guiding principle has been that stealth gets you close enough to use precise, short-range, low-cost weapons. And here come the Russians, equipping their first stealth fighter -- already fast and high-flying -- with a 1,400-pound ARM that can run out to 245 km at up to Mach 4, and an 1,125-pound, 200-kilometer range AAM.


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When U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann was in the spotlight at the Republican presidential debate in New Hampshire Monday evening, she missed a series of votes in Congress.
Bachmann's new role as a declared presidential candidate means she will be spending even more time in states like Iowa and New Hampshire, and less in Minnesota and Washington, DC.
But Bachmann insists her constituents in Minnesota's 6th Congressional District won't get shortchanged while she seeks higher office.
"I'll be committed to serving the district throughout my time here," she said. "I'll be pursuing the presidency vigorously, and primarily that will be on weekends and on break periods."
Scheduling her time will be a challenge, admits Doug Sachtleben, Bachmann's congressional communications director. But he insists that Bachmann will cram both congressional duties and campaigning into the 168 hours that make up each week.
"You look at the recesses. We've got one coming up in just a little over a week, and try to plan things accordingly so that she can do a little bit more outside of DC then, and be able to be focused on DC when she's here," he said.
Longtime congressional scholar Norm Ornstein doesn't think it's possible to balance running for president with being a member of Congress.
"If you're going to run for president as a House member, you pretty much have to give up what you do in the House," he said.
Ornstein, who's at the American Enterprise Institute, says past presidential candidates from the House have struggled to attend the hundreds of votes, committee hearings and constituent events that make up a member's life.
Previous candidates like Democrat Dennis Kucinich were practically AWOL from the halls of Congress during their runs for the White House.
"The amount of time you've got to spend, preparing a campaign, building a staff, getting on the ballot in different states, raising money — it's extremely time consuming," said Ornstein.
"If you're going to run for president as a House member, you pretty much have to give up what you do in the House."Norm Ornstein
Bachmann's absences may be welcomed by the Republican leaders in the House, who have often clashed with her fiery rhetoric — although House Speaker John Boehner did tell reporters that he was impressed by her debate performance.
Even if the leadership isn't always fond of her, Bachmann has dozens of supporters in the House. Just before she walked onto the House floor on Tuesday afternoon, many of them gave her hugs and congratulations.
One of them was Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, a close friend and political ally. King says it won't matter if Bachmann isn't in Washington often.
"Her voice is going to be heard more than it was heard before," said King. "She's clearly on the national stage. So that gives her more leverage and more voice in this Congress and without. I don't see it as a loss, I see it as a gain."
Now that she's running for president, Bachmann has suspended her congressional campaign and is no longer actively seeking re-election in the 6th District.
But if the presidential campaign doesn't work out, she has until early June 2012 to change her mind and run for her seat.
Bachmann is not the only House Republican running for president. U.S. Rep. Ron Paul of Texas is also in the race.


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The Bristol Motor Speedway app provides fans access to race and event schedules, GPS-enabled property maps and several other features to help them get even more from their experience at BMS.
Guests can use GPS maps to find their current position, as well as various locations around the BMS property. Restrooms, ATMs, first aid stations and entrance gates are just a few of the amenities featured on the maps. One of the apps most popular features, fans can set GPS coordinates to make finding their seat or locating their car or campsite a breeze.
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Guests are encouraged to purchase in advance while the price is $5 less per grandstand ticket than the race-day cost for the same seat.
BMS season tickets, which include the Food City 500 and IRWIN Tools Night Race Sprint Cup races, as well as both the Ford EcoBoost 300, the Food City 250 and the Widow Wax 125, also are on sale. Pricing for all four races begins at just $175 in the Wallace Tower.


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Liverpool have today announced the signing of Spanish striker Luis Alberto from Sevilla, subject to international clearance.
The 20-year-old completed his move from Sevilla on a long-term contract, which keeps him at Anfield for the forseeable future.
In a statement on the club's official website, manager Brendan Rodgers said: "We all are delighted that Luis has decided to join Liverpool.
"He has the correct footballing profile and mentality to be a Liverpool player."
Rodgers added: "I look forward to working with him to develop his talent and he joins a group of young exciting players at our club."
The Spanish forward spent the 2012/13 season on loan at Barcelona B, where he provided and impressive tally of 17 assists, netting on 11 different occasions.
Speaking to LFC TV, Alberto said: "I feel very excited, I've never felt so excited before but I'm very happy.
"I think am the happiest man on earth."
Liverpool have already signed ex-Arsenal and Manchester City defender Kolo Toure on a free transfer this summer, as well as agreeing a deal in principle for Celta Vigo's Iago Asapas, which will go through once the paperwork has been completed.
The Anfield club are also continuing their pursuit of Armenian international Henrikh Mkhitaryan, though they face strong competition for the Shakhtar Donetsk star's signature from Europe's elite.
With Sunderland stopper Simon Mignolet seemingly the next to join Rodgers' revolution, the Liverpool have been one of the busiest sides in the transfer market to date.
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