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Pāua is the Māori name given to three species of large edible sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs which belong to the family Haliotidae (in which there is only one genus, Haliotis), known in the United States and Australia as abalone, and in the United Kingdom as ormer shells. Pāua or paua is now accepted as an informal English word, and can be used as singular or plural.
There are three species of New Zealand pāua:
Species | Scientific name | Maori and common names |
pāua | Haliotis iris | Blackfoot Pāua[1] |
Queen Pāua | Haliotis australis | Silver Pāua, Yellow Foot Pāua, Hihiwa & Karariwha[1] |
Virgin Pāua | Haliotis virginea |
New Zealand's best known pāua species is Haliotis iris. It is also the most common species, growing up to 18 cm in width
Pāua are commonly found in shallow coastal waters along rocky shorelines in depths of 1 to 10 m. There is clear distinction between juvenile and adult habitats for Haliotis iris, pāua less than 7 cm occur in crevices and under stones in the shallow intertidal zone while adults are found in subtidal zone
These large sea snails survive the strong tidal surges by clinging to rocks using their large muscular foot. They feed on seaweed.
Pāua are gathered recreationally and commercially but strict catch limits are set for both. For recreational fishers this is ten pāua per person per day. The minimum legal size for caught pāua is 125 mm for Haliotis iris and 80 mm for Haliotis australis, measured in a straight line at the greatest length of the shell.[2] The exception is Haliotis iris taken from the Amateur Taranaki Paua Fishery Area, which is the area of Taranaki coast bounded by the Awakino River in the north and the Whanganui River in the south, in which the minimum legal size is 85 mm. However, pāua caught in this area cannot be taken east of State Highway 4 unless they meet the 125 mm limit.[3]
In addition, no single person may have in their possession at any time (including on land) more than 20 pāua or more than 2.5 kg of shucked (shell removed) pāua. Pāua can only be caught by free diving; it is illegal to dive for pāua using scuba equipment. All pāua must remain un-shucked until they are on the land side of the high tide mark so Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) fishery officers can inspect them if required.
There is an extensive global black market in the collection and export of abalone meat. Pāua poaching is a major industry in New Zealand with many thousands being taken illegally, often undersized. The right to harvest pāua can be granted legally under Māori customary rights, but since permits to harvest are abused, it is difficult to police. The limit is strictly enforced by roving MPI fishery officers with the backing of police. Fishery officers can issue infringement notices of between $250 and $500 for minor offences, such as having one or two more pāua than permitted. More serious offences have resulted in hefty court convictions, including seizure of diving gear, boats, and motor vehicles as well as large fines and in rare cases, imprisonment. The Ministry of Fisheries expects in the year 2004/05, nearly 1,000 tons of pāua will be poached, with 75% of that being undersized.[4]
Human useEdit
To Māori, pāua are recognised taonga, or treasure, esteemed both as kaimoana (seafood) and as a valued resource for traditional and contemporary arts and crafts. Pāua are frequently used to represent the eyes in Māori carvings and traditionally are associated with the stars or whetū, the symbolic eyes of ancestors that gaze down from the night sky.
The pāua is iconic in New Zealand: its black muscular foot is considered a delicacy, and the shell is frequently used in jewelry.
Highly polished New Zealand pāua shells are extremely popular as souvenirs with their striking blue, green, and purple iridescence. Empty shells are often used as ashtrays.
Other namesEdit
Haliotis means 'sea ear' and some parts of the world use this term for various species. Pāua is also incorrectly called "Sea Opal" in the United States and Australia.[5]
Pāua aquacultureEdit
Pāua aquaculture is a growing industry in New Zealand. The industry was started in New Zealand in the 1980s and to date there are 14 pāua farms operating which are located throughout New Zealand, from Whangarei to Stewart Island. The first farms that were started consisted of small scale back yard and shed farms in which techniques and processes that grew good quality pāua were developed and these are now being on a commercial scale in the large pāua farms. These farms produce pāua for their meat, shells and some farms solely focus on the production of blue pearls.[6] Most of the production from these farms is exported to the US, and Asian markets.
There is high demand on the worldwide market as decline in wild stocks due to over-fishing and poaching means that the global market for abalone is greatly under supplied.[7]
Aquacultural usesEdit
Pāua meat and shellsEdit
Most pāua farms on-grow pāua that is produced from wild broodstock, however some farms have developed their own hatcheries and selective breeding programs to produce faster growing species, the pāua are then grown to market size (depending on conditions this usually takes 2 – 3 years) in either long trays with inflow of seawater at one end and out flow at the other, or smaller tanks with tipper buckets that regularly dump seawater into the tanks to recreate wave motion that the pāua experience in the wild.[8]
There are a number of different feeds used throughout the pāua's life-cycle. Pāua hatch as trochophore larvae and feed on plankton that are present in seawater that is being pumped into the holding tanks, when the larvae are ready to settle (usually 7 days at 16 °C)[8] they are moved to settlement tanks which consist of many glass plates that have small films of diatoms present (usually Navicula minimata). The diatoms are the main food source for the juveniles until they reach about 3 cm in length then diet is then switched to a macroalgae species ( Several species have been used including Lessonia variegata Pterocladia sp. and Ulva lactuca, however research has shown that pāua will eat most seaweed species). The pāua are considered adults around 6 cm in size and are then fed on a meal based diet until they are ready for processing and sale.[8]
Pāua pearlsEdit
To produce pāua pearls the pāua are harvested from the wild stocks (at the legal size of 12.5 cm), shell or plastic based implants are either poked through the shell or fixed in place under the shell with glue, the shape of the insert dictates the shape of the final pearl. After the pāua are "nucleated" they are kept in tanks for 2 to 3 years and fed on either seaweed or meal during which time they coat the insert with nacre . After the 2 – 3 years they are harvested from the tanks the meat is shucked, and the pearl is then removed. The quality and size of the pearl changes depending on the size of the pāua, the pearls tend to be smaller when [hatchery] reared pāua are used, which is why pāua from the wild are preferred. High stress levels within the farm can prevent the pāua from coating the insert to produce the pearl. So control of the conditions in the farm to ensure that the paua are not stressed is paramount in pearl production.[9]
- Reduced reliance on overexploited pāua fisheries
- Constant supply rates can be achieved
- Higher quality meat and shells can be produced under farm conditions
- Pāua aquaculture is expensive to set up and maintain
- Pāua require very specific conditions to grow well
- Are active and so require larger tanks than other mollusc species used in aquaculture
- Long growth period before pāua are ready to be sold
- If the pāua are damaged or cut, they have low survival and a long healing period
Popular cultureEdit
Pāua shells make up the decoration on Xena's first chakram in the hit TV series Xena: Warrior Princess.[10] Although the show was set predominately in Ancient Greece, the shell is used because the pāua is native to New Zealand, where the show was filmed.
- ^ a b www.nzfsa.govt.nz Retrieved on June 3rd, 2008.
- ^ "Guidelines for gathering paua". Ministry of Primary Industries. Retrieved 11 September 2012.
- ^ "Shellfish – Central Fishery Management Area". Ministry of Primary Industries. Retrieved 28 May 2013.
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- ^ www.earthstreasure.com Retrieved on April 27th, 2008.
- ^ www.nzafa.org.nz/ Retrieved 2010-12-09
- ^ NIWA Retrieved 2010-12-09
- ^ a b c ISBN 0-8493-3528-0 Handbook of Culture of Abalone and other Marine Gastropods
- ^ www.Unlimited.co.nz Retrieved on 2010-12-09
- ^ http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/objectdetails.aspx?oid=765775
- Powell A W B, New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
- Kirk O. Hahn, Handbook of culture of abalone and other marine gastropods, CRC Press Inc, Boca Raton, Florida 1989 ISBN 0-8493-3528-0
- NZ Business (2010-04-10), "Growing paua plus", Dominion Post
- National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (2006), Creating right conditions for paua
- National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (2008), Getting picky with paua: selective breeding to improve productivity
- Paua Industry council (2010), Facts about paua
- NZ Business (2000), "Paua to the people", NZ Business
- New Zealand Press Association (2006-05-30), "Paua industry wants stiffer penalties for thieves", The New Zealand Herald
- Ministry of Fisheries (2007), Species Focus – Paua (purple paua – Halitosis iris)
- Unlimited (2004), Paua pearl pioneers
Further readingEdit
- McCrea, Malcolm (2005) Paua Craft: A Nga Paua.| url = http://www.pauamana.com Raupo Publishing (NZ). ISBN 0-7900-0995-1.


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Finally, someone has come up with a way to settle the debate over climate change: Put the people on the wrong side of the argument in cages.
A writer for the website Gawker recently penned a self-described "rant" on the pressing need to arrest, charge and imprison people who "deny" global warming. In fairness, Adam Weinstein doesn't want mass arrests. (Besides, in a country where only 44 percent of Americans say there is "solid evidence" of global warming, and it's mostly due to human activity, you can't round up every dissenter.) Fact-checking scientists are spared. So is "the man on the street who thinks Rush Limbaugh is right. ... You all know that man. That man is an idiot. He is too stupid to do anything other than choke the Earth's atmosphere a little more with his Mr. Pibb burps and his F-150's gassy exhaust."
But Weinstein's magnanimity ends there. Someone must pay. Weinstein suggests the government simply try the troublemakers and spokespeople. You know, the usual suspects. People like Limbaugh himself as well as ringleaders of political organizations and businesses that refuse to toe the line. "Those malcontents must be punished and stopped."
Weinstein says that this "is an argument that's just being discussed seriously in some circles." He credits Rochester Institute of Technology philosophy professor Lawrence Torcello for getting the ball rolling. Last month, Torcello argued that America should follow Italy's lead. In 2009, six seismologists were convicted of poorly communicating the risks of a major earthquake. When one struck, the scientists were sentenced to six years in jail for downplaying the risks. Torcello and Weinstein want a similar approach for climate change.
This is a great standard for free speech in America. Let's just agree that the First Amendment reads, "Nothing in this clause shall be considered binding if it contradicts legal practices in the Abruzzo region of Italy."
The truth is this isn't as new an outlook as Weinstein suggests. For instance, in 2009, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman insisted that "deniers" in Congress who opposed the Waxman-Markey climate change bill were committing "treason" while explaining their opposition on the House floor. (That same year, Krugman's fellow Timesman Thomas Friedman wrote that China's authoritarian system was preferable to ours, in part, because it lets "enlightened" leaders deal with climate change.)
"The fact is that the planet is changing faster than even pessimists expected," Krugman insisted. How fast the earth is changing is open to all kinds of debate, but short of an asteroid strike it won't change as fast as the global warming pessimists have claimed. For example, in 2008, Al Gore predicted that the North Pole ice cap would be ice-free by 2013. Arctic ice, which never came close to disappearing, has actually been making a bit of comeback lately.
Gore's prediction — echoed by then-Sen. John Kerry and countless others — was always ridiculous hyperbole. But even most serious, nonhyperbolic, computer-modeled predictions have overestimated the amount of warming we've experienced. The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has had to retract several histrionic predictions, such as its erroneous prophecy that the Himalayan glaciers would be gone by 2035.
Its new report, out on Monday, contains a new raft of dire prophecies requiring trillions in new spending. If I greet it with skepticism, shall I pack a toothbrush for my trip to jail?
Climate-change activists insist that in science, revisions are routine, and that such corrections prove the good faith of scientists. Even if that's true, one might still note that incentives are unhealthily arranged so that even well-intentioned researchers are encouraged to exaggerate the dangers of climate change and discouraged to criticize hyperbole. Moreover, were it not for the skeptics and deniers, many such corrections would never have been brought to light. (My own view is that man plays some role in warming, but the threat is overblown and the popular remedies range from trivial to unaffordable to ridiculous.)
The real problem is that political activists and many leading institutions, particularly in the news media and academia, are determined to demonize any kind of skepticism — about the extent of the threat or the efficacy of proposed solutions — as illegitimate idiocy.
That attitude is unscientific and undemocratic enough. But it sure beats calling for your opponents to be thrown in the gulag for disagreeing with you.
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Spain is in a deep recession, its national bank has warned a day after clashes in Madrid between protesters and the police led to 38 people arrested and 64 injured.
The demonstrations against the government's austerity drive at a time of mass unemployment put in sharp relief the scale of discontent brewing in a country suffering its second recession in three years and an jobless rate of nearly 25%.
In the wake of the clashes and a warning from the central bank that the country's economy continues to shrink "significantly," financial markets have grown increasingly nervous.
The protest saw an estimated 6,000 people converge on the national parliament building in central Madrid. More than 1,000 riot police blocked off access to the building, forcing protesters to crowd nearby avenues. Police baton-charged those at the front of the march and some demonstrators broke down barricades and threw rocks and bottles.
Smaller demonstrations attracted hundreds of protesters in Barcelona and Seville.
The protesters are calling for fresh elections, claiming the government's hard-hitting austerity measures are proof the ruling Popular Party misled voters when it won power last November.
A National Police spokeswoman said 27 of the injured were police officers.
The government praised the police, saying the protest was an attack on democracy.
Opposition Socialist party spokesman Eduardo Madina said the government should take note of the popular discontent, adding that some images of the police charges displayed "pure brutality."
The government is expected to present a new batch of economically painful reforms tomorrow when it unveils a draft budget for 2013. Even before enacting the new measures, it was predicting a 1.5% economic contraction this year. The Bank of Spain's warning suggests it may be more.
On Friday, an auditor will release the results of stress tests on Spanish banks hit hard by the collapse of the country's property sector, which drove economic growth until the 2008 financial crisis hit. The government will then judge how much it will need to help bail out the banks.
Spain is also under pressure from investors to apply for European Central Bank assistance in order to keep its borrowing costs down.
Prime minister Mariano Rajoy has yet to say whether Madrid will apply for the aid, knowing that such assistance comes with conditions.


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Many people think short hair is just for summertime, but fall can be a great time to cut your long locks too. For busy women on the go, a short hairstyle can be the best low maintenance option. Just make sure you trust the stylist because once you go short, it can take a long time for your hair to grow back.
Add some color
For fall, consider taking your hair color a couple shades darker, or trying a completely different hue -- like coppery-brown or deep auburn. Rainbow colors are also trendy right now. Women of all ages and lifestyles are adding streaks of colors like bright pink, purple and blue to their hair. You can do this very subtly by adding the streaks in the underneath layers of the back of your hair. You don't have to make a big commitment either. Try hair chalking, which is very temporary.
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After the heat, humidity, chlorine and salt water of summer, your hair and skin can be in rough shape. Give your hair a deep conditioning treatment once a week to restore the shine to your locks. For your skin, moisture is the key. Exfoliate regularly to slough away dead skin cells, improve circulation and smooth your skin. Hydrate morning and night with a moisturizer suited to your skin type. Keep in mind that in the cool months, you might need a heavier facial cream than you do in the summer. Don't forget your feet. If your heels are dry or cracked, slather your feet with thick cream and wear socks to bed.
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Only very small children still easily impressed by interaction of human actors and CGI quadrupeds will be amused. Tepid kidpic based on long-running comic strip about a lasagna-loving cat and his chronically clueless owner will be hard-pressed to generate even respectable matinee biz during theatrical play.
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Only very small children still easily impressed by interaction of human actors and CGI quadrupeds will be amused by "Garfield: The Movie." Tepid kidpic based on long-running comic strip about a lasagna-loving cat and his chronically clueless owner will be hard-pressed to generate even respectable matinee biz during theatrical play. To attract maximum potential aud, Fox will have to wait until this kitty litters vidstore shelves. Casting Bill Murray as the voice for Garfield, the famously indolent orange tabby, may have seemed promising in pitch meetings. On the screen, however, seemingly perfect match-up has, at best, modestly funny payoff. It doesn't help much that, even while cracking wise or tossing insults, Murray sounds curiously disengaged, if not downright bored. But it helps even less that, except for greatly improved f/x, drearily retro pic resembles nothing so much as a lesser live-action Disney comedy of 30 years ago. Opening scenes dutifully establish computer-generated Garfield as a lazy feline who easily manipulates Jon (Breckin Meyer), his nominal owner, and just about every other animal in his neighborhood. (Cats, dogs and even mice are portrayed by real critters enhanced with CGI tweaking.) Trouble arises in paradise only when Jon — eager to impress Liz (Jennifer Love Hewitt), a leggy veterinarian — agrees to adopt Odie, a pint-sized mongrel in need of a good home. Not surprisingly, Garfield resents having to share Jon's affections with what he indelicately dubs a "dumb animal." (Unlike Garfield and his four-legged friends, who freely converse with each other without being understood by humans, Odie can't talk.) But the yapping canine responds to Garfield's every put-down or push-off with avid affection and happy-go-lucky glee. Indeed, Odie even learns to mimic Garfield's disco-dance moves. Unfortunately, his frisky footwork attracts the attention of Happy Chapman (Stephen Tobolowsky), a local TV personality who seizes the pooch as his ticket to network stardom. Directed with minimal pizzazz by Pete Hewitt ("Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey") from a bland script by Joel Cohen and Alec Sokolow ("Cheaper by the Dozen"), pic lopes along at torpid pace as Garfield tries to redeem himself by rescuing Odie. Alan Cumming and Jimmy Kimmel are among the notables who earn mild chuckles while speaking for other animals. Human co-stars go through their motions without embarrassing or distinguishing themselves. Overall, "Garfield: The Movie" looks cheerlessly drab, even with a pudgy orange cat bouncing off the walls. The juxtaposition of CGI creatures with flesh-and-blood characters is generally seamless, yet surprisingly unremarkable. Pic inadvertently serves as a cautionary object lesson: Novelty value of such high-tech trickery simply isn't what it used to be.Garfield: The Movie
A 20th Century Fox release of a Davis Entertainment Co. production. Produced by John Davis. Executive producer, Neil Machlis. Co-producers: Michele Imperato Stabile, Brian Manis. Directed by Pete Hewitt. Screenplay, Joel Cohen, Alec Sokolow, based on the comic strip created by Jim Davis.
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The researchers said TEBAL provides a more dependable method for producing quality versions of such microscopic devices, while also permitting simultaneous, real-time atomic imaging of the devices as they are made.
Traditional techniques for building nanodevices employ electron beam lithography but also require the use of polymers and chemicals. Typical results are closer to 50 nanometers and are rarely as small as 10 nm.
Physics Professor Marija Drndic said "Reliably and consistently fabricating devices at the sub-10-nanometer scale from the top down is generally still challenging, but our technique offers a route to this regime."
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Nanostructures near 10 nanometers are created
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A Console Strategy Game That Works!
Staring at the clock, you consider starting another match. "Hey, I'll just set things up for when I play tomorrow!" you say. Three hours later, you've finished another Civilization Revolution match, and you're left wondering where the time went. Sounds like a Civilization game, doesn't it? If you're a veteran of the series, that's music to your ears.
That's always the concern with PC strategy games making the jump to consoles — does it feel like the PC game? Too many times gamers have been double-crossed by game companies selling them soy milk, claiming it to be "just like the real thing!", only to have gamers take a swig of the soy milk, spit it out, get pissed off and run to message boards to bitch about the bad taste left in their mouth. (All apologies to soy milk fans) That is to say that Civilization Revolution wasn't stripped down to be "like" the real thing — it is.
Saying Civilization Revolution is a Civilization game comes with all the positives and negatives associated with the franchise. Civilization Revolution, like previous Civilization games, can be ridiculously addicting, causing you to lose yourself for hours and hours planning out how best to dominate the world. Because it's a turn-based strategy game, it has the feel, much like an MMO, of "I can do this task really quick and then I'll be done." But after you complete that task, two more tasks come to your attention and it starts to snowball from there. The addictive qualities are thanks in large part to the in-depth strategy that the Civilization franchise is known for. There are four different ways for you to win: military, financial, cultural and technological dominance. Each of the four victory paths have different objectives for you to aim for (military dominance, for example, has you taking over all of the other civilization's capitals), so tailoring what you build and research is key to reaching victory.
Keeping up with what units to build, technology to research, cities to attack, etc., can sometimes make newcomers to Civilization feel like a freshly hired waiter at a busy restaurant. You're juggling two different trays, not trying to drop the customer's food, while still trying to get there quickly in the hopes they give you a nice tip after they're done feasting. Eventually, a customer with a full bladder gets up to go to the bathroom, bumps into you and makes you drop everything, killing all your work. Civilization Revolution can be the same in that way — you do a lot of work to set your army up, you plan out your attack on a neighboring city, and then the other civilization's defenses are vastly superior to your expectations, crushing your planned "tip" for all that work. For newcomers like myself, learning what units to build and what technologies to research can be overwhelming at first, but when you finally get the hang of things and capture a city that you had been longing for, it makes the journey completely worth it — even if it was a bit messy getting there.
In addition to the standard offline single-player, there are scenario missions and a "game of the week" — a randomly generated new scenario for players. The game of the week is the same for everyone, and each week you can compete with others to get the highest ranking on online leaderboards. Online multiplayer is also included for up to three other players, It runs smoothly and without any lag issues, but might not be ideal if you don't have a couple hours to dedicate to the match.
Audio-visually, Civilization Revolution is neither here nor there. The music isn't memorable, and the characters speak in this Sims-like gibberish that gets a little grating. Visually, you're getting a decent looking game considering the scope, but it's not going to "wow" you. Surprisingly, though, I did experience some significant slow-down in the game on a couple occasions, leading me to believe my console had frozen — instead, the game had screeched to a complete halt for about 10 seconds. Although the slowdown was puzzling, it only happened twice and never got in the way of the game.
The highest praise you could give a game like Civilization Revolution is to say that it plays like its PC counterparts. It might not be for everyone, but for the hardcore strategy fan, you finally have a console strategy game that isn't broken and busted. Instead, you're getting the same addicting, deep gameplay you've seen on the PC. Drink up — you're not getting soy milk for once — you're getting the real thing.


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Located in South Fort Lauderdale, this hotel is 2.5 mi (4 km) from Pines Ice Arena and 3 mi (4.9 km) from C.B. Smith Park. Pembroke Lakes Mall and Vista View Park are also within 6 mi (10 km).
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An outdoor pool, a fitness center, and a spa tub are available at this smoke-free hotel. Free buffet breakfast, free WiFi in public areas, and free self parking are also provided. Other amenities include a 24-hour business center, a meeting room, and dry cleaning.
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All 110 rooms provide conveniences like sitting areas and refrigerators, plus free WiFi and TVs with satellite channels. Microwaves, coffee makers, and free newspapers are among the other amenities available to guests.
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In addition to an outdoor pool, Holiday Inn Express Pembroke Pines-Sheridan Street provides a spa tub and a fitness center. A computer station is located on site and high-speed wired and wireless Internet access is complimentary. This hotel offers access to a 24-hour business center and a meeting room. A complimentary breakfast is offered. Event facilities measure 1100 square feet (102 square meters). This business-friendly hotel also offers multilingual staff, complimentary newspapers in the lobby, and laundry facilities. Complimentary self parking is available on site.
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"I still hear from both schools but it is sporadic," he said. "Sometimes I hear from them a lot and then suddenly I won't hear from either for a while."
He will attend camps at the two in-state schools this summer and is still looking into other visits and camps. "I'm not sure where I'll go but I want to see as many schools as I can, Arcega-Whiteside said. "Obviously I want the schools that are offering me the most."
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 335 diseños de 100 diseñadores freelance.
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Mosi Systems is a new company that helps organizations take advantage of their diverse data and apply advanced analytics for greater insight and to make better decisions. We bring business and IT expertise together to create meaningful frameworks to merge structured and unstructured data. We help companies take action based on data and evidence by giving them nuanced views of their operations, customers and markets.
The name Mosi itself comes from "Mosi-oa-Tunya" which is the local name for Victoria Falls in Zambia. Mosi-oa-Tunya literally means "smoke that thunders." We think this is a fun analogy for the truth we reveal behind data-- everybody knows there's something there, but initially it's a challenge to make sense of it all.
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Moscow Soccer Club Involved in Racism Controversy
With Russia preparing to host two of the biggest sporting events in the world, a professional soccer team from Moscow has been involved in a racism controversy that has led to calls for tougher action.
Manchester City midfielder Yaya Toure, who is black and grew up in Ivory Coast, said he was racially abused by opposing fans during a Champions League match at CSKA Moscow on Wednesday.
The Russian club denied it, but the governing body of European soccer opened disciplinary proceedings against CSKA on Thursday.
"We regret the incident, even though we consider the accusations of racism to be unfounded," CSKA said Thursday in a statement.
Russia will host the Sochi Olympics in February and the 2018 World Cup.
Opinion polls show that many Russians dislike dark-skinned migrants from ex-Soviet nations, and violent xenophobic groups have beaten and killed non-Slavs and anti-racism activists.
Russia has come under scrutiny as host of the 2014 Winter Olympics after a law was passed this year outlawing "propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations among minors," which many worry may apply to gay athletes and visitors to the games.
On Wednesday, Toure said a section of CSKA fans abused him with racist chanting during the match, and the City player then complained to the referee.
Besides denying the incident, the Russian team went further by quoting Seydou Doumbia, a striker from Ivory Coast who plays for the Russian team, as saying Toure was overstating what had happened.
"Yes, they're always noisy in supporting the team, and try to put as much pressure as possible on our opponents," Doumbia said, "but they wouldn't ever allow themselves to come out with racist chants. So my Ivory Coast colleague is clearly exaggerating."
City won the match 2-1, but Toure called on UEFA to take action against CSKA.
"I think UEFA has to be stronger, and hold all the clubs and all the fans that do that (responsible)," Toure said. "Maybe they have a stadium ban. For me as an African player it is always sad to hear something like that and we need to do something about it."
Toure also raised the prospect of teams boycotting the 2018 World Cup in Russia if the racism issue isn't dealt with in the interim.
"If we aren't confident at the World Cup, coming to Russia, we don't come," he said, according to RIA Novosti.
On Wednesday, City manager Manuel Pellegrini had echoed the call for action over the chants, saying "it was a pity and I hope we have the right measures."
In the past, Russia has tried to deal with the issue of racism at its stadiums. Some, including Anzhi Makhachkala players Roberto Carlos and Christopher Samba, repeatedly had bananas thrown at them by fans.
After an incident with Samba last year, Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko vowed to reduce racism. But such promises haven't been backed up with action and authorities remain reluctant to investigate and punish the culprits.
On Thursday, CSKA also said it was "surprised and disappointed" about Toure's statements, and added that it hadn't found any such chants after checking the video recording of the game, saying that the fans were booing some of the players during the game, irrespective of their ethnicity.
"It's unclear what made the Ivorian midfielder think that it was directed against him," CSKA said.
Bobby Barnes, Europe's top official in the international players' union, said Thursday that the match officials failed to carry out their own protocol.
Toure said he told referee Ovidiu Hategan about the racist chants, expecting that he would speak to the safety officer who should warn the fans that the game will be stopped if the chants didn't end.
"I would certainly hope in line with the hard line stance that UEFA has stated and intends to use in these circumstances they will make a meaningful sanction in this case," Barnes said in a story posted on the FIFPro website. "It's important we send a message now."
UEFA has recently decided that racist chants should involve a partial stadium closure for the first offense and a full stadium closure for repeat offenders. Three clubs this season have had full stadium bans for racism and five had had partial closures.
Previously in Russia, Lokomotiv Moscow fans held up a banner in 2010 thanking an English team for signing their black striker Peter Odemwingie with a picture of a banana. The head of Russia's World Cup bid awkwardly said it wasn't racism, but rather an innocent reference to a colloquial expression meaning a student failure at an exam.
Last year, fans of Zenit St. Petersburg called for non-white and gay players to be excluded from the team. Landscrona, the largest Zenit supporters' club, said that "dark-skinned players are all but forced down Zenit's throat now, which only brings out a negative reaction," and said gay players were "unworthy of our great city."


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Toronto is one of the greatest cities in the world when it comes to crafting and appreciating film. Last time we checked Toronto had close to 70 film festivals each year, the diversity of the festivals mirroring the multicultural heart of the city. While attending festivals is a joy for many, including the staff at Entertainment Maven, it can be very taxing both mentally and physically to adhere to a hectic festival schedule. For this reason we think it's often best to pick a few of your favourite festivals to attend throughout the year, and then rely on Toronto's wonderful movie theatre scene to fill in gaps between festivals.
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On Ka'anapali Beach, tiki torches blazing, sitting under a #palapa while the sun sets over the Pacific and Hula dancers sway with the palms. Yup, this was the place on the travel brochure alright!
They have an outside grille and an inside dining room.
This place gets very busy and there can be a both long waits for tables and slow service. Fortunately most people aren't in a mad rush when on vacation sitting at the beach with drinks in hand!
The food is pretty good - nothing spectacular, though - and portions are on the smaller side and a bit overpriced. Service can also be strained. They've got a popular novelty "barefoot bar" in the sand, and the views can't be beat.
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Curtains- Curtains become difficult to maintain sometimes. Instead of using a cloth strap for holding the curtain together you can try a rubber band. Use a rubber band of almost the same shade as the curtain and tie it in the middle. It will camouflage with the background colour and look sleek and beautiful.
Tie Up Things- You may tie up things with a rubber band to keep them in place. For example, you may take some pencils or pens and tie them together so that they do not get scattered here and there in the house. Keep them over your study table or a pen stand. You can also segregate different coloured wires with a rubber band. Tie a rubber band around the thread spools and prevent them from tangling. Not only that, you may also tie up the pieces that have fallen apart from a broom with a rubber band.
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Megan Fox Is Engaged!
Brian Austin Green popped the question earlier this month.
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The second time's a charm for Megan Fox – she's engaged again!
Her boyfriend, and now fiancé, Brian Austin Green, had popped the question once before in 2007, but called it off after two years. Now, the couple has decided to give it another go.
On June 1, Green surprised Fox with a ring on the beach in Hawaii, near the Four Seasons Hualalai hotel. A source tells Us Weekly that Fox was so thrilled, she dropped the ring in the sand!
"I saw her jumping up and down," says the source. "Later, I saw a half dozen staff sifting through the sand."
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Another source tells the magazine, "Security and maintenance staff spent a couple of hours looking for [the ring]. No one found it."
So, if you happen to be vacationing on Big Island in Hawaii and come across a 2-carat diamond sparkling near your feet, it is not a seashell. It is a very important ring belonging to a very famous celebrity, and she'll probably do anything to get it back.
That is, if this engagement actually lasts this time.
Ring or no ring, congrats to the happy couple! Here's hoping a wedding soon follows. (Us Weekly)
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Global defense contractor BAE Systems said Wednesday that it has received initial contract funding of $81 million from Lockheed Martin Corp. to begin production of 143 infrared seekers for the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense weapon-system program
The system, also known as THAAD, is designed to defend US and allied soldiers, military assets, and metropolitan areas from ballistic missile attack threats, BAE Systems said in a press release, and the seeker is made at BAE Systems' facility in Nashua, N.H.
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According to Fleas, everything I did was either bad, wrong, or a waste of time. That's probably why I don't remember what set her off whenever she exploded. We had a strict code of conduct, and I don't think I ever provoked her on purpose, expressed an opinion on anything important, or otherwise set off the fireworks. If she knew some of the things the teenaged me did when she wasn't around, I'd probably not be around to tell the tale.
It's been only the last few years that I've come to appreciate how dramatic Fleas actually was. When you're a kid and you live with the drama, it's not drama—it's a lifestyle. Another thing I learned about Fleas is that she made every meal seem like it took hours upon hours of preparation and was physically exhausting. Maybe that's why she didn't share her recipes…she didn't want anyone else to suffer as she had. Oh, the humanitarian!
One typical Sunday, Fleas spent an inordinate time making lasagna, salad, bread, and whatever other goodies would accompany such a meal. And she did make a killer lasagna. She set the table in the small-but-formal, sunny dining room with a beautiful tablecloth, her fine china, and real silver (which I have in a suitcase in my basement; but, what, no crystal?). It was the kind of setting that Norman Rockwell captured so well. Sunday dinner, the exception to the weekly grind, was served at 2:00.
I don't know what crime I had committed, but Fleas used her displeasure to stage a spectacular show. She called us to the table, set out the steaming dishes of delightful Italian food, served everyone including herself, then announced, "I can't eat if I have to look at her," threw her napkin down, and ran off to her bedroom. Wow! My transgression (I was the only other "her" in the room) must have been a doozy! After all that labor, she couldn't even enjoy her dinner.
I never considered that she may have had that planned for hours or days. I was probably fifteen years old and I thought her performance was spontaneous. As a cynical old hag, I look back and think that she was probably munching all afternoon while cooking (can anyone resist mozzarella?), and/or had a box of Russell Stover chocolates in her room. Or both. I can picture her on the edge of her bed, chocolate box on her lap, watching Ted Mack's Original Amateur Hour and feeling that she deserved an Oscar (it was a small role but filled with passion) and that she had successfully ruined our dinner.
I know she ruined dinner for at least one person that afternoon, but all ate like they were unaffected; we were used to dinner theater. I'm not really my mother's daughter—I could never have pulled off that performance. For one thing, who am I to turn my back on a nice salad and fabulous lasagna? If I'd spent hours making it, I wouldn't have stormed off. Wouldn't it make more sense to send the offending kid to her room, with or without a plate? Another reason? When I do feign melodrama, I usually get the giggles.