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SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — Merriam-Webster Inc. has added dozens of entries to the latest edition of its Collegiate Dictionary. Here are some, along with the year in which Merriam-Webster researchers first found them used in an English-language publication, and their meanings:
_ Americana (1841): genre of American music with roots in early folk and country music.
_ boomerang child (1988): young adult who returns to live at her family home, especially for financial reasons.
_ bromance (2004): a close nonsexual friendship between men.
_ continuous positive airway pressure (1975): abbreviated CPAP; a technique for relieving breathing problems (as those associated with sleep apnea or congestive heart failure) by pumping a steady flow of air through the nose to prevent the narrowing or collapse of air passages or to help the lungs to expand.
_ cougar (1774): slang term for a middle-aged woman seeking a romantic relationship with a younger man.
_ crowdsourcing (2006): the practice of obtaining needed services, ideas or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people, especially from the online community, rather than from traditional employees or suppliers.
_ duathlon (1988): a three-part long-distance race typically having a running phase, a bicycling phase and a final running phase.
_ fist bump (1996): a gesture in which two people bump their fists together, as in greeting or celebration.
_ helicopter parent (1989): a parent who is overly involved in the life of his or her child.
_ m-commerce (1997): business transactions conducted by using a mobile electronic device, such as a cellphone.
_ parkour (2002): the sport of traversing environmental obstacles by running, climbing or leaping rapidly and efficiently.
_ robocall (1993): a telephone call from an automated source that delivers a pre-recorded message to a large number of people.
_ social media (2004): forms of electronic communication, such as websites for social networking and microblogging, through which users create online communities to share information, ideas, personal message and other content such as videos.
_ tweet (1768): a post made on the Twitter online message service.
_ walk-off (1990): ending a baseball game immediately by causing the winning run to score for the home team in the bottom of the last inning, i.e., a walk-off homer. Also, won by the home team in the bottom of the last inning, i.e., a walk-off win.
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Do you know what big event is right around the corner?
Do you know what big event is right around the corner? I will give you a hint – it is on April 22. It is my youngest daughter's birthday!
Okay, so maybe you would not have known, or even cared about that, but it is also Earth Day. 2013 marks the 43rd Earth Day celebration since this special day was first named in 1970 by Sen. Gaylord Nelson (D-Wisconsin). He stated that we needed a day to inspire awareness and appreciation for the Earth's environment and so declared April 22 as Earth Day.
Remember, back in the 1960s and '70s; those were the days of peace, love, flower power, and earth children. I think they may have been on to something there because here we are nearly 50 years later still celebrating Earth Day.
Since then cities, states, and countries around the world celebrate Earth Day. This year competitions throughout the world have increased for students, communities, and individuals to get involved. According to Earth Day Network, last year the "Earth Day Network's 'MobilizeU Campaign' – now one of the world's largest environmental competitions for college students – galvanized students from 300 colleges and universities in 51 countries and 36 U.S. states to take part in a month of environmental action. The campaign's message and call to action reached over six million students across six continents during the month-long competition that ended on April 29."
Here are a few other notable contributions made by others as reported on the Earth Day Network:
1,570,839 acts of green contributed by Students in Oman. For Earth Day 2011 and 2012, every school in the country hosted an environmental festival where students learned about conservation and sustainability204,722 trees planted in Cyprus. The Department of Forests in Cyrpus coordinated with Earth Day Network to plant over 200,000 trees.Over 200 Earth Day activities held in U.S. embassies and consulates.3,187,521 pounds of recyclable material collected from California beaches.Corporations:789,041 generators and skyhydrants distributed to earthquake victims in Haiti1,006,639 trees planted in 16 countries for the Avatar Home Tree InitiativeOrganizations:5,000,000 energy efficient stoves installed in Africa.3,836,343 pounds of recyclable material collected in schools across America.Individuals:89,000 individual acts of green from Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, India12,000 pounds of trash collected in Minnesota.These are only a few of the notable mentions, but they are all quite amazing achievements.
In a perfect world, everyone is doing what they can to care for and keep the Earth clean and alive for the next generation. There are countless measures you as one person can do. Earth Day is one day a year to remind us to do our part.
When my daughter was young she was thrilled to tell me that she was my Earth Day baby. April 22 will always be a special day in our family, for more reasons than one.
Lynn Youngblood is a Kansas City-based naturalist who writes for Gatehouse Media.

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David Plouffe Gives Preliminary Response Concerning Obstacles To Innovation
from the did-they-really-listen dept
Many respondents felt that too much government regulation stifled businesses and innovators and that the patent process and intellectual property laws are broken.Unfortunately, rather than listening to why today's patent system is a real and significant problem, it appears that Plouffe is using this to score political points for his boss:
In his State of the Union Address, the President called for a government-wide review of regulations to find and fix those regulations that place unnecessary burdens on businesses. Indeed, in his Budget, the President put forward a set of common sense reforms to our patent system that will make it easier for innovators to move ideas to market and foster growth.The problem is that his suggestions for patent reform do not fix the system, and in some cases make it much worse. In fact, I pointed to numerous studies and research in my response that explained this.
Plouffe claims he'll have much more on this topic of encouraging innovation, so we'll wait and hope that perhaps the administration will really listen this time, and not just paper over the real problems of the patent system with reform policies that won't help (and might actually make the system worse).


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The Worldnutdaily is promoting an event called the Presidential Inaugural Prayer Breakfast, which sounds official but is really just a gathering of wingnuts. The lineup includes Michele Bachmann, Pat Robertson, Pat Boone, and Jan Crouch. And WND says that Joseph Farah is on the list too, but the Christian post reported a few days ago that he had been dropped from the program.
Joseph Farah, the CEO and chief editor of the conservative website WorldNetDaily, who has questioned President Barack Obama's birth record, has been removed from the guest list of the sixth Presidential Inaugural Prayer Breakfast which will take place on Jan. 21.
Merrie Turner, who founded and has hosted the event since 1993, shared with Media Matters that Farah had incorrectly been listed as a featured guest on the list, which includes most notably Rep. Michele Bachmann and televangelist Pat Robertson.
"It is against my beliefs to be openly targeting someone like the president of our country, we have enough enemies outside the country," Turner shared with Media Matters. "It was incorrectly picked up by our staff, I am going to be correcting that."
So let's see. Farah was allegedly removed from the guest list because he has been "openly targeting" President Obama, but they'll keep Pat Boone, also a birther, and Pat Robertson, who has promoted every whacky conspiracy theory about Obama on the 700 Club, and Michele Bachmann, who says Obama has deliberately let the Muslim Brotherhood take over the government. Oh, and Rabbi Jonathan Cahn, author of The Harbinger, which was turned into a documentary called The Isaiah 9:10 Judgment" that was produced by — wait for it — Joseph Farah. Yeah, that's a credible excuse.Farah is still listed as a speaker on the event website, and the Worldnutdaily is also listed as a sponsor of the event. It must be so hard figuring out which of these cretins is too crazy to be on the dais.
And I can't wait to hear what the prayers are like with this group of loonies.
Dear heavenly father, we pray that you would reach down and touch the heart of Barack Obama, who should not be president because he's ineligible for the office. We ask that you bring him to the light, lord, so that he would no longer be a Kenyan anti-colonialist Nazi commie fascist who is trying to destroy America by giving free health care to terrorists. Please make everyone aware that Obama's real father is Frank Marshall Davis, or that his real father is Malcolm X, whichever is most effective in making him look like the enemy. Amen.
Update: The organizer of the event has now issued a statement saying that Farah will be part of the event and said the whole thing was a miscommunication.


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Insyte Consulting, a non-profit management consulting organization, has announced it has helped its manufacturing clients reach $1 billion in economic impact in Western New York. The figure is the sum total of the benefits reported by Insyte Consulting clients since 2000 to independent third-party survey companies working for the U.S. Department of Commerce. Part of the $1 billion includes saving or creating more than 7,200 jobs.
"This $1 billion is good for all of us, because it shows that Western New York manufacturers continue to invest in making themselves more competitive and profitable," said Benjamin Rand, president of Insyte Consulting. "Manufacturing ranks No. 1 in gross domestic product and No. 3 in employment in WNY, so it is still the most important economic engine in our region."
Here is a breakdown of the $1 billion impact:
•New and retained sales: $458,323,595
•Capital investments: $147,527,999
•Cost avoidance: $73,923,887
•Jobs created or saved (7,201*): $348,725,109
Total: $1,028,500,590
Insyte works side-by-side with its clients to help each company make lasting, positive changes using proven and cutting-edge tools and methods to help them innovate, grow and profit. Services range from innovation engineering and new product development to strategic planning and operational excellence.
Among the companies that contributed significant economic impact are:
Insyte's experienced team has been working with local manufacturers for more than 30 years to help them innovate, grow and profit in competitive global markets. With a focus on growth, Insyte is already working with its clients to reach the next $1 billion milestone in record time.
"I'm confident that we can help any manufacturing company, big or small, improve," Rand said. "This $1 billion proves that, if you make a little progress every day, every week, every month, company by company, it really adds up."
To learn more, visit www.theotherbuffalobillion.com.
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"Verifiable production evidence" is what the Farm Service Agency calls the paperwork required to update your program yields under the 2002 farm bill. You may come up with a more colorful description.
According to USDA's Farm Service Agency (FSA), landowners must have verifiable production evidence in order to prove a yield for counter-cyclical payment purposes when updating crop bases, and in order to prove a yield for soybeans for direct payment purposes when adding an oilseed base.
Ideally, county FSA offices would like producers to submit a completed FSA-658P form, along with any required documentation, when signing up for the new program. This will allow the county office to check your calculations, and should help alleviate potential problems later down the line.
"Let's make sure we get it right on the front end, because Lord knows nobody wants me to come back down the line three years from now and say you owe us money back on the 2002 program," says Robin Richardson, county director for the Farm Service Agency in Sunflower County, Miss. "At the same time, this is the most time-consuming process in the whole deal. The more legwork you can do in preparation for sign-up, the less time it is going to take you at the county office."
According to USDA, production can be substantiated by the following documentation: warehouse receipts; warehouse ledgers; warehouse load summaries; settlement sheets; scale tickets; gin records; and computer-generated documents from a licensed warehouse that contain the required information. Weight slips can be used if supported by other evidence such as sales documents, and LDP records provided by the producer can be used if they are substantiated by verifiable production evidence.
If production records are co-mingled, production will be prorated to the separate farms based on harvested acreage, unless documentation acceptable to the County Committee to substantiate another method is provided.
"In most cases, soybeans are going to be co-mingled. If you've got some other documentation submit it, and we'll have to make the decision whether we can accept it or not," Richardson says.
For production that is commercially sold, stored or disposed of off the farm, acceptable production evidence must show the producer's name, commodity, buyer or storing facility, transaction or delivery date, and quantity, according to USDA.
Richardson says for grain crops that's a load summary, settlement sheet, or something of that nature. For cotton, it's gin records. "Right now, that's not a 503 form from the cotton buyer, or the cotton warehouse, or the gin. We may be able to use 503s, but nobody is willing to put their name on the dotted line and put it in writing for us," he says. "I want to be able to accept a 503. I don't want to take gin records bale by bale, and I don't want you to have to go to your gin to pull all of that information. At the same time, all production documentation must be verifiable, and if the ginner is giving the certification of pounds, and he doesn't have the bale information in his records to support it, how is it verifiable?"
Crop insurance records can only be used to substantiate the split or the division of production, and they must be supported by verifiable production evidence. Richardson explains, "When you turn your production into crop insurance, the majority of folks pick up the telephone and say I made X number of bushels on this farm, and X number of bushels of that farm and then never turn any documentation in, and crop insurance has never spot-checked."
"Loan Deficiency Payment records are acceptable, but only if provided by the producer and supported by acceptable production evidence," Richardson says. "I don't have the manpower to go back through LDP records, nor do I know where they are all located in the office in some cases. This is where you need to help us out. The more legwork you can do on this thing as far as getting yield information to me, the easier it's going to make both our jobs. Please work with us on this one."


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We reported about the cover of the latest issue of French mens fashion magazine L'Officiel Homme last week. Produced by English photographer Nick Knight from SHOWstudio, it captures Kim Kardashian and Kanye West entirely nude.
Today we can take a further look at the exclusive spread, which divides itself up into a further intimate look at the superstar couple and a more fashion focust part featuring only Kanye West.
The new issue of L'Officiel Homme will hit newsstands in France this week.
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The Specialty Crop Farm Bill Alliance, a national coalition of more than 120 organizations representing growers of fruits, vegetables, dried fruit, tree nuts, nursery plants and other products, commends House Agriculture Committee Chairman Frank Lucas and Ranking Member Collin Peterson for releasing the Committee's version of the 2012 Farm Bill. It also applauds the Committee's diligent efforts to complete action on the measure and move it to the floor of the House of Representatives for passage.
The Alliance welcomes the Committee's continued commitment to policies that enhance the competitiveness and sustainability of specialty crop agriculture. These commitments reinforce many of the policies that were included in the Senate-passed legislation.
Included in the House version are provisions funding key specialty crop priorities such as:
- Specialty Crop Block Grants at $70 million per year;
- Specialty Crop Research Initiative at $25 million in FY13; $30 million in FY14-15; $65 million in FY16; and $50 million in FY17;
- Plant Pest and Disease programs at $71.5 million starting in FY13. This is an increase over the Senate version;
- Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program at 2008 Farm Bill levels;
- Farmers' Market and Local Food Promotion program;
- Section 32 specialty crop purchases at 2008 Farm Bill levels; and
- DoD Fresh Program at 2008 Farm Bill levels.
These funding commitments demonstrate that the House recognizes the value of these programs and their tremendous importance to the specialty crop industry.
Members of the Alliance are disappointed, however, to see the House language makes a significant policy change to the Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program, a landmark program which has demonstrated the benefits of providing access to healthful fresh produce to millions of America's school children. The Alliance believes that by proposing to eliminate the program's focus on fresh fruits and vegetables, the House Farm Bill undermines the program's benefits for up to 4 million low-income elementary students. The Alliance has long advocated that the integrity of the program's mission is essential to promoting healthful eating habits in children. We will continue to work with our industry allies in Congress to ensure that the integrity of the program and its original mission of promoting fresh fruits and vegetables are upheld as the Farm Bill works its way through Congress and to the president's desk.
The Alliance remains committed to working with broader agriculture interests to urge lawmakers to pass the 2012 Farm Bill before the current law expires on Sept. 30 this year.


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Lindsay Lohan made a surprise appearance on "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" on Thursday to weigh in on the rear-shaking twerking debate.
While some other late night hosts were embroiled in "a rap feud," Lohan and Fallon introduced his recurring spoof called "Ew," a Teen Nick parody hosted by S-A-R-A (no H, because "H's are ew!"). Sara is actually Fallon, 39, decked out as an overly enthusiastic teenage girl with a blond wig, braces, nail polish and a purple dress.
Joining Sara was her BFFFLFR -- best friend forever for life for realsies -- Stephanie Sullivan, who is really embattled actress Lohan in pigtails, a trucker hat and lots of pink lipstick. (Like, totally ew!)
Lohan, 27, teased to the guest spot in an Instagram photo of the two of them earlier that day.
"@jimmyfallon @latenightjimmy get ready for some #skrumping," she captioned their costumed pic.
In the spot, the pair discussed the latest teen craze: boy band One Direction, its heartthrob Harry Styles and "kissy-face time." And that's when the conversation (if we can call it that) turned to Lohan's contemporary: 20-year-old Miley Cyrus and the never-ending discussion of her infamous dance move.
"Did you see the new Miley Cyrus video?" Sara (Fallon) asked. "We should do some twerking!"
"Ew," Stephanie (Lohan) said. "No. Twerking is so 2-0-1-3. Nowadays it's all about skrumping!"
Skrumping, for the uninitiated, involves holding your hands out at your sides and gyrating your hips like you're turning an invisible hula hoop -- at least that's what we gathered from their little demonstration.
And you can reverse it too. Watch out world, the skrump is coming for you!
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Obama Misses Economic Benefits of Penny in President's Day Remarks
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It's ironic that on the eve of President's Day weekend President Obama said he would support eliminating the penny. "Such a move would remove the image of one of our great presidents, Abraham Lincoln, from public view in our circulating coinage and harm consumers," said Americans for Common Cents Executive Director Mark Weller.
President Obama is wrong to state that the penny is one of the those situations "where people get attached emotionally to the way things have been." "American's may have an emotional attachment to Lincoln and the penny, but their strong support for the penny is based on economic issues," Weller said. "The alternative to the penny is rounding prices, which is something consumers abhor," Weller added. Rounding simply can't be done fairly and will hurt working families.
During the Presidential campaign, President Obama consistently reminded Americans about economic fairness. Federal Reserve studies show that people with relatively low incomes use cash more frequently than individuals with high incomes. Since only cash transactions will be subject to price rounding, it follows that penny elimination and rounding prices will force the poor to bear a larger share of the burden.
President Obama also said he wants to reorganize inefficient agencies to create a more modern infrastructure. In doing so, he needs to look no farther than the US Mint. The penny costs two cents to make and the nickel costs over ten cents to produce due largely to fixed costs at the Mint. "If you focused on production costs alone you'd have no penny and no nickel and you'd round to the dime," Weller said. "But no one thinks that option makes sense," he added. Congress and the Administration must find ways to make our coins less expensively, not eliminate coins and currency. An ongoing Mint study into alternative metals for our coins is a step in the right direction.
The penny is our nation's final line of defense against inflation. Without it, we would see a jump in prices that will add billions to government outlays.
"In these uncertain economic times, the last thing consumers need is price rounding, inflation or reduced charitable assistance," concluded ACC Policy Director Robin Adams.


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Food Ingredients North America trade show to debut at SupplySide West in 2019
Informa announces combination of two leading global events to create U.S. "super show" for food, nutrition and health market.
Informa announced that it will launch Food ingredients North America (FiNA) in 2019, co-located with the SupplySide West trade show Oct 15-19 in Las Vegas. The combined trade show will bring together two key events serving the global food, beverage and dietary supplement markets. The Food ingredients (Fi) events around the world offer food and beverage manufacturers access to a wide range of ingredient suppliers, and Fi North America will bring this event to the United States for the first time.
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The La Catrina Quartet at New Mexico State University won a 2012 Latin Grammy in November for their work on the album, "Brasileiro, works of Mignone," by Cuarto Latinoamericano. The award-winning CD, on the Sono Lumnius label, won for Best Classical Recording, with the ensemble collaborating on Francisco Mignone's "Seresta for double quartet."
"This Latin Grammy is a tremendous honor for La Catrina," said Lon Chaffin, NMSU music department head. "It is confirmation of their excellent musicianship and the professional level at which they perform."
The string quartet in residence at NMSU tours regularly throughout the U.S. and Mexico, and has received several awards and recognitions, such as Western Michigan University's All University Research and Creative Scholar Award and the North Carolina Arts Council cARTwheels 2009 and 2010 touring program.
Faculty members collaborating on the award-winning project were violinists Daniel Vega-Albela and Roberta Arruda, cellist Cesar Martinez and violist Jorge Martinez-Rios.
"We are proud to represent NMSU around the U.S.," Martinez-Rios said. "This award will definitely keep the quartet with a busy concert agenda. And locally, we'll continue doing our outreach concerts as well as recruiting and showing students from New Mexico and abroad what we are doing here in the Department of Music."
In addition to the Grammy, season 2012 proved eventful for group members.
In May, the National Endowment for the Arts Mexico (CONACULTA), invited Martinez-Rios to record chamber music works by Jose Pablo Moncayo, a revered Mexican pianist, composer and conductor who passed away in 1958. Martinez-Rios recorded "String Trio" and "Sonata for Viola and Piano" for the project.
"This would be an historical recording since his chamber music was recently released by the Moncayo family," Martinez-Rios said. "They called on Mexican musicians from around the world to participate."
Additionally, L'Orfeo Magazine, a popular online Spanish magazine dedicated to the arts, recently featured Martinez-Rios as their "Artist of the Month." In the article, he talked about his work at NMSU and his life as a musician.
To read the article in Spanish visit their website at http://nueva.lorfeo.org/2012/12/03/artista-del-mes-jorge-martinez-rios/.
La Catrina performs up to 50 concerts a year. Last season included performances at the University of Washington World Series in Seattle, the New Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix, the Symphony Space in New York, and the Mexican Embassy Series in Washington, D.C.
In February 2013, they are scheduled to appear at the Manon Caine Russell Kathryn Caine Wanlass Performance Hall on the Utah State University campus with a short evening performance at the St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church. Additionally, they will perform at the Chamber Music Society in Ogden.
They are currently working to record and release four CDs of Mexican, Latin-American and European string quartet music as well as a collaborative recording with tuba player James Shearer, a Regents Professor in the College of Arts and Sciences.
"This award should be a very positive reflection of the high caliber of world-class talent and musicianship we have here in the music department at NMSU," Chaffin said. "We're very fortunate to have La Catrina, among others, represent us to the public."
For more information about the quartet visit their website at http://www.lacatrinaquartet.com/index.html.
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YourPlace.com - "Find and Discover your Place"
This is my 2nd project at 99Designs and I am very impressed with the caliber of designers here. We will be launching this logo as part of this site launch in a few weeks.
YourPlace.com is a friendly, accessible site where people can learn about real estate places from those people who know them best - those who live and work there. It begins with local real estate agents who share ground-level, authentic information about the communities they live and work in and is joined by anyone who lives there and loves to talk real estate and especially about their community.
Before Yourplace, this information about the "brand" of a neighborhood and the "context" around the homes for sale could only be garnered through a tour by a local real estate agent or if you happened to know someone who lived there. Yourplace is the first place online that is bringing this community information online and making accessible to all homebuyers and homeowners.
The primary audience is home buyers. Home buyers typically decide on a neighborhood or list of favorite neighborhoods and then try to find the right home in one of those neighborhoods. Our audience is this home buyer who is trying to discover the community right for his/her lifestyle. Are there kids playing in the street? Do neighbors share cups of coffee on their porches with either? Is it a commuting neighborhood? etc.
This will be a mainstream consumer-facing site so the logo needs to bring across the following feelings:
1. Credibility: This is a credible, stable and trustworthy site.
2. Accessibility: This site will be easy to get around and understandable.
3. Fun: Real estate is fun and this site looks like a fun place to spend some time.
Our site primary colors are can be seen on the attached homepage design that was created by a great 99 Designs designer. This blue-green combination is very nice. However, if you have a vision that includes a different color scheme, I am excited to see it.
I am open to either logos that just consist of a the text yourplace.com or those that add graphics to it.
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This is the Mastodon Superheavy Systems interdictions platform designed by the friendly folks at TSOC (The Synthetic Organic coalition) former AN (android nation)
It is designed for taking and holding entire starsystems with only a small escort.
To facilitate the destruction of enemy units The Mastodon is equipped with numerous weaponstations including:
30 Heavy railcannon turrets for antiship and orbital bombardment.
100 General purpose heavy infinite repeaters for anti-fighter and anti-ship operations
200+VLS cells capable of being loaded with everything from specops insertion pods to anti-matter MIRVs
3 Superheavy Raillance cannons for use against fleets and glassing
2 Centerline Hellbores for use against fleets and superdreadnaughts Produces a thermal bloom that cooks just about anything without combat armour or shields within a 2 kilometer area
The mastodon requires quite the amount of engines for normal operations and even then its painfully slow, luckily the weaponry and sensory equipment mounted on it is capable of engaging foes from extremely long ranges.
A tigershark SHDT and four Dogfish fighters provide a meager escort.
t just me or does
The mastodon was designed for volleyfiring to keep constant pressure on its foe that is why most of the ship is occupied by heatsinks and cooling equipment.
The Bridge where numerous "make it so`s" can be heard at any given time, ther is also a secondary bridge deep within the hull that can take over command of the ship if the primary bridge is destroyed or boarded.
Showing of the primary weaponry (funfact: Hellbores were outlawed due to a legislation regarding warcrime and turning civilans into burning radioactive heaps, TSOC however bypassed that legislation by classifying Hellbores as cooking equipment)
Thats right people fredde has entered the super dreadnaught arms-race!
Also I listened to this while creating this thing:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTwWU4tWV3w&feature=BFa&list=LLGwPNICECktxBQu8Kr0sIAw
thats all people C&C appreciated!


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Who here has heard of Schrödinger's cat? Lots I expect, you might not know much more, but lots of people have heard of it.
It never was a real cat tho, thank goodness, poor thing. It is a scientific "thought experiment" by this brillient guy called Schrödinger. Erwin Schrödinger to be exact.
It is all to do with quantum mechanics who don't actually have ^_^ quantum wrenches as best as I know and it is all quite thought provoking now... and this was going on way back in 1935!
So, to show his point, this very clever guy Schrödinger said to imagine this cat. Locked in a box with some radioactive atoms and a Geiger counter. The Geiger counter is set to break a poison vial and kill the poor cat if it picks up radiation.
So Schrödinger said that his idea was if no one looked to check then after a while the cat would be both alive and dead at the same time.. a "Superposition" until someone looked. It is called the Copenhagen interpretation. If I have gotten this wrong I am sure someone can tell me.
All that is interesting, almost mystical… but not my point at all.
No. My point is what Schrödinger, this really clever guy, was imagining is a horrible, cruel, thing to imagine and no one seems to call him on it – ever. Why would he think that?
He didn't have to imagine killing some poor cat did he? It could just have easily been a pin and a balloon or a clamp releasing a coin, could't it? Why the cat?
This is just one, maybe more dramatic, example of something I seem to notice every now and again all over. People's unconscious assumptions being revealed or maybe moving them in one direction than another.
A person will get to some though and you think, "Huh?", "Why would a person go there, or think that at all?"
I do really wonder if something like this shows something about how a person thinks?
I do wonder if it maybe shows how someone actually values the life of something like a cat, or maybe their attitude to cruelty and suffering. Austria in 1935 must have had some pretty hard attitudes about. Did I mention he was Austrian.
What sort of a person would think to do that if there was an alternative? The balloon idea took me a moment or two. I just thought tho. I guess it would need to be a soundproof box or the "pop" would give it away?


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Magic Mile Power Rankings: Las Vegas
Race #3 - Kobalt 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway
What better place to gamble than Las Vegas? Dale Earnhardt certainly rolled the dice on Sunday, but in the end he crapped out, running out of gas on the final lap. Junior's loss was Keselowski's gain, as the 2012 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion streaked by the 88 and didn't stop until he reached victory lane.
Keselowski now has one of those coveted spots in the Chase all but locked up, joining Earnhardt and Kevin Harvick as 2014 race winners.
Here's a look at the MMPR heading into Race 4 at Bristol Motor Speedway on Sunday:
1. Dale Earnhardt Jr. - While Junior Nation can be upset with the way things went down during the final lap on Sunday, there is a silver lining. Crew chief Steve Letarte told Junior over the radio with 40-plus laps to go that they were going to be three-quarters of a lap short. Which they were, exactly. This team is clicking on all cylinders, even when it comes back to haunt them.
Previous ranking: First, --
2. Brad Keselowski - Sure, it was a case of being at the right place at the right time. Had Junior not run out of gas then it would have been Bad Brad taking the runner-up position. Instead, Keselowski chased down Earnhardt, forced him to use up his fuel and captured his first win of the season - and with it, a guaranteed spot in the Chase.
Previous ranking: Second, --
3. Joey Logano - Some want to completely debunk the importance of points now that an emphasis has been put on winning. But for those still interested in, you know, the whole point standings thing - Logano is currently ranked fourth with back-to-back fourth-place finishes.
Previous ranking: Sixth, +3
4. Jimmie Johnson - A third straight top-10 to begin the season, Johnson now has a fifth- and two sixth-place finishes to begin his quest for a seventh championship. Double J ran up front for most of the race, leading 44 laps and finishing with a race-best average running position of 3.4.
Previous ranking: Third, -1
5. Jeff Gordon - The 24 ran 97.4 percent of the laps in the top 15. That's an impressive stat for one of the quietest strong starts to Gordon's illustrious career. His ninth-place finish at Vegas wasn't anything to sneeze at, but the veteran was certainly eyeing a third straight top-five to begin the season, something he hasn't done since 1997. Oh, by the way, he won the championship that year.
Previous ranking: Fifth, --
6. Carl Edwards - Smart pit strategy put the 99 near the front at the end of the race, and Edwards did all he could to earn his first top-five of the season, his third straight fifth-place finish at Vegas.
Previous ranking: 10th, +4
7. Ryan Newman - A fitting spot in power rankings for Newman, who has back-to-back seventh-place finishes. The first-year Richard Childress Racing pilot is off to a strong start, and given how things have started at Stewart-Haas (aside from Kevin Harvick's victory), Newman has to be very happy with his new home.
Previous ranking: Ninth, +2
8. Matt Kenseth - At this time last year, he left Vegas with the first of a career-high seven victories. His 10th at Vegas was a respectable one given his 29th starting position, the only driver to start the race outside the top 20 and finish in the top 10.
Previous ranking: Eighth, --
9. Kyle Busch - Rowdy hasn't gotten off to the most scintillating start, but he ranks fourth in laps led and has been a factor in every race so far.
Previous ranking: NR
10. Kevin Harvick - It's hard to drop a race winner completely off this list. Harvick led 23 laps on Sunday and had a car to win, but a locked up front hub put the 4 in the garage early.
Previous ranking: Fourth, -6
Wave Around: Paul Menard - This was no fluke. Menard's third-place finish was well-earned, as he had a race-high 71 quality passes and 92 green flag passes, making the 27 Chevy one of the best on the track all day.
Out of MMPR: Denny Hamlin
Previous MMPR No. 1s
Week 1 - Dale Earnhardt Jr.
Week 2 - Dale Earnhardt Jr.
*This list is comprised of drivers that compete in the Sprint Cup Series on full-time basis.


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Mila Kunis made no attempt to dispel pregnancy rumors at the MTV Movie Awards on Sunday, when she rested her hand on her belly during her acceptance speech.
The actress has kept quiet about reports suggesting she is expecting her first child with Ashton Kutcher, but she gave her biggest hint yet at the glitzy bash in Los Angeles.
Kunis sported a fuller figure when she took to the stage to pick up the Best Villain prize for her turn as the Wicked Witch of the West in "Oz The Great and Powerful," and she also placed her hand protectively on her belly as she thanked her fans for the award.
She said, "Listen you guys. You just made my 12-year-old self's dream come true. This is by the far the coolest award and I just realized I was the only woman nominated, and I won. So thank you guys."
Reports suggest Kunis is also engaged to marry Kutcher, who she has been dating since 2012.


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Earth : Oceania : New Zealand : North Island : Wanganui (region) : Wanganui
Wanganui [19] (also spelt Whanganui) is a city on the west coast of the North Island of New Zealand. It lies at the mouth of the Whanganui River, which flows from Mount Tongariro via the stunning Whanganui National Park. The district has a population of approx. 44,000.
The name Wanganui comes from the Maori words whanga, for a bay or harbour, and nui meaning big or large. However, when the early colonists heard the placename said in the local maori accent with a softly spoken wh that sounded more like a wo sound, rather than the classical maori fh sound, they mis-spelt the placename as Wanganui rather than Whanganui. Despite much heated debate over the years, spelling this place name with or without an h is unlikely to be resolved.
Founded in 1840 and originally named Petre, until 1852; Wanganui is one of the oldest European settlements in New Zealand.
Tourist and visitor information is available from:
Get in
By car
Wanganui is between Palmerston North and New Plymouth, at the junction of State Highway 4 (SH4) with State Highway 3 (SH3). It is a two and a half hour drive from Wellington, using State Highways 1 amd 3 (SH1 and SH3) and a six hour drive from Auckland, via Hamilton, using State Highways 1 and 4 (SH1 and SH4).
By bus
There are daily coach services from Wellington, New Plymouth, Palmerston North and Auckland.
By plane
Wanganui Airport handles domestic flights from Auckland and Wellington.
By train
The nearest railway station with a passenger service is at Marton (40 km away).
Get around
A mixture of walking and taking buses is generally the most cost-effective way to get around Wanganui. Buses generally depart every hour from Maria Place Extension. There are also 2 taxi companies.
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Monday, October 29, 2012
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I have no balls for these sort of photographs with a complete camera at hand. I genuinely love to photograph. I am nervous of someone yelling or punching me in the camera lens. It is now time for it all to be hidden. 'I am simply just taking a look at my text messages and buying new ringtones.' I am now at the time present brimming to the wing tips with excite.


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Assassin's Creed – Altair's Chronicles Review
When Assassin's Creed burst on to the scene for consoles back in late 2007, it was praised for its sandbox-style gameplay and the high level of interactivity with the environment. Following up the wall-crawling hit and coinciding with heavy online promotion for Assassin's Creed 2, Gameloft brings Assassin's Creed – Altair's Chronicles to the iPhone.
Though it does a great job capturing the spirit of Assassin's Creed, the iPhone title is clearly limited in translating many aspects of Altair's talents — namely platforming. Along with a number of glitches in this first build, it may be worth waiting a bit before shelling out the $9.99 price tag this title carries.
Described as a prequel to the main title, the iPhone version takes the title assassin, Altair, and puts him on a quest to find a chalice before the invading Crusaders, the Templars, in a Middle Eastern setting. Rather than opening up the world sandbox style, giving free reign across the environment, this version is a straight-up platformer on rails. There is no freedom to choose, just a single path that is presented in obvious fashion. It seems a bit unambitious, especially for fans of the console edition. The strategy is reduced to staying on the rooftops and following the designated path. Fall off and soldiers attack you. And repeat.
Control is handled through touch buttons for actions, like attacking, jumping and pickpocketing, with an omnidirectional d-pad for movement. The d-pad works well enough but can be a little tricky in areas that require a little precision or fine touch. Combat is largely button mashing with some timing at play. With no ability to freely climb up a building, ladders are plentiful, and a grappling hook is thrown in for good measure.
Assassin's Creed does a great job with the minigames, though they are limited to pickpocket and interrogation. Pickpocket is basically "Operation," requiring Altair to take an object without touching anything else in the bag or the sides. Interrogation is timing-based, just touching multiple pressure points when they turns green. Assassinations can be considered a bit of a minigame themselves, as they require sneaking undetected to the target. It's executed with a single button-press, with the screen blurring white in slow-motion — It's pretty cool to see and do. These minigames, as fun as they are, happen all too infrequently when compared to the rather mundane platforming of the main game.
There were a number of glitches we encountered on our playthrough. Most were movement-based, with Altair getting stuck at random spots on the map. During combat, he would sometimes get stuck against the wall, unable to defend himself or even move. Either die or reload a checkpoint. During one particular boss battle, the large circus axe-man got his weapon stuck in the ground — the strategy is to kick him as he tries to pull it out — but the axe was still in the ground after he "pulled it out," and he proceeded to kill Altair from a distance with what we can only assume is an air guitar (axe, get it?). There were also several framerate drops while platforming, that, while minor, were enough to throw off our timing.
There's no doubt that the atmosphere of Assassin's Creed is well-presented. Production values are quite high, and there's a good amount of game time with this particular title. But fans of the original console version will find this mobile edition lacking. Not that anything too ambitious should have been expected, but for the high price tag and all the glitches, it's worth waiting for a corrective update or a price drop.


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ExSeed Genetics L.L.C. has entered into an agreement to sell all its assets to BASF Plant Science. ExSeed Genetics will now operate as a wholly-owned subsidiary of BASF Plant Science.
"We are pleased to be a part of BASF," explains Mark Scholl, president of ExSeed Genetics. "A single owner will allow ExSeed Genetics to react more quickly to emerging market opportunities. We are excited about the opportunity to participate in the BASF Plant Science technology platform to accelerate the overall development of ExSeed's ideas and products globally. In addition, we look forward to the upstream and downstream synergies that the BASF Group will bring to ExSeed and its customers."
"ExSeed brings valuable additional capabilities in plant biotechnology and genetics to the existing BASF Plant Science group," says Hans Kast, president of BASF Plant Science. "Its proprietary FasTrack genetic trait introduction technology continues to deliver value-added agricultural grain products tailored to end users in the feed and retail food processing and milling industries. Clearly, the marketplace is moving away from generic commodities and toward value-enhanced grains with specific traits. We are now better positioned to meet the needs of the marketplace."
ExSeed provides value-enhanced grains to feed, food and industrial markets under the brand name ExSeed Enhanced. ExSeed Genetics works with a variety of seed and production partners within the ExSeed Contracting Network to provide animal feeders, millers and food processors ExSeed Enhanced traits in grains that add value and improve the end-use product.
In 1998, ExSeed Genetics launched NutriDense, an elevated oil protein and amino acid corn hybrid, available to swine, poultry and dairy producers throughout the United States. Through exclusive licensing agreements, ExSeed Genetics uses several genetic patents to incorporate specialty traits into the agricultural grain crops of corn, wheat and rice.
Unique proprietary breeding processes developed by ExSeed can speed crops with specific traits to the marketplace faster than ever before.
Also in 1998, ExSeed Genetics merged with Thurston Genetics. Thurston Genetics, founded by Robert Thurston in 1993, serves as a genetics clearinghouse acquiring marketing rights of elite corn inbred lines from seed companies that have an active breeding program. Thurston Genetics selects and solicits elite germplasm from all over the world; ExSeed Genetics adds value added traits to the germplasm.
You can visit the ExSeed Genetics Website at www.nutridense.com. BASF's Internet address is: http://www.basf.com


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CENTENNIAL The Douglas County Sheriffs Office reports a man who flew from New Mexico to Colorado to visit his girlfriend died when his single-engine plane crashed in a cow pasture south of Denver.
Douglas County Sheriffs Office spokeswoman Deborah Sherman says a rancher Sunday found the wreckage of the 1973 fixed-wing Cherokee Piper in a pasture near Castlewood Canyon State Park in Franktown.
Sherman says the plane took off from Sandia Airpark in Edgewood, N.M., on Saturday. Later in the evening, a woman called Douglas County authorities to report the sound of a stalling plane overhead.
Federal transportation officials say the pilots girlfriend also reported him missing and the plane as overdue.
The name of the pilot has not been released. The planes registered owner is from Texas.


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The Doha-based airline is operating four-flights-a-week non-stop on the Baghdad route. Located on the banks of the Tigris River, Iraq's capital is one of the Arab world's largest cities.
The move comes just two weeks after Qatar Airways launched flights, also four-times-a-week, to the northern Iraqi city of Erbil.
Cargo traffic bound for Iraq will see a boost when Qatar Airways launches a dedicated weekly freighter service to Erbil, effective July 5.
Both the Erbil and Baghdad passenger services are being operated with an Airbus A320 in a two-class configuration of 12 seats in Business Class and 132 in Economy.
Qatar Airways Senior Vice-President GCC, Levant, Iran, Iraq and Indian Sub continent Fathi Al Shehab was onboard inaugural flight QR442 to Baghdad, which arrived at the city's international airport to a traditional water salute welcome followed by an airport ceremony attended by local officials and media.
The addition of Baghdad takes Qatar Airways' global network to 116 destinations worldwide. Qatar Airways' passengers flying to Iraq from destinations across the Gulf, Europe, Indian subcontinent, Asia Pacific and The Americas can seamlessly connect via the airline's Doha hub.
Qatar Airways Chief Executive Officer Akbar Al Baker said: "Baghdad had long been on our list of destinations which we identified as being a key part of growing our Middle East network.
"During Iraq's current period of reform and development, with industries resurging and many new companies expanding operations to Iraq, we felt this was the time to move into the country.
"With our new passenger flights to both Baghdad and Erbil, together with our new dedicated freighter service to Erbil starting next month, Qatar Airways is offering excellent capacity to and from the country."
Added Al Baker: "With growing business ties between Iraq and the rest of the world, it is a natural next step for the airline to expand further within the region, providing opportunities for greater economic, cultural and educational exchanges through this greater air access."
Addressing local airport officials and media upon arrival in Baghdad, Al Shehab said: "Baghdad is a route which will help facilitate easy movement for those travelling from around the world on business to the country, with excellent connectivity via Doha.
"In addition, we are offering Iraqis living abroad with a more convenient way to return to Baghdad and neighbouring towns and cities. We provide our passengers with an exceptional award-winning onboard product and great connections to reach their families and homes.
"We have been working closely with the travel trade and corporations in Iraq and indeed across our international network to promote our new Iraq services.
"Qatar Airways has enjoyed a busy year so far with Baghdad becoming the airline's sixth new route start-up since January."
Since the beginning of the year, Qatar Airways has launched flights to Baku (Azerbaijan); Tbilisi (Georgia); Kigali (Rwanda); Zagreb (Croatia), Erbil (Iraq), and now Baghdad, with many more planned during 2012.
Over the next few months, Qatar Airways launches services to a diverse portfolio of new routes, including Perth, Australia (July 3); Kilimanjaro, Tanzania (July 25); Mombasa, Kenya (August 15); Yangon, Myanmar (October 3) and a date yet-to-be-announced to the Serbian capital Belgrade.
Qatar Airways has seen rapid growth in just 15 years of operation, currently operating a modern fleet of 109 aircraft to 116 key business and leisure destinations across Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific, North America and South America.
|DOHA – BAGHDAD, effective 7 June 2012: 4-times-a-week
|Mondays and Thursdays
|Depart Doha at 1340 hrs
|arrive Baghdad at 1555 hrs
|Depart Baghdad at 1655 hrs
|arrive Doha at 1855 hrs
|Saturdays and Sundays
|Depart Doha at 0905 hrs
|arrive Baghdad at 1120 hrs
|Depart Baghdad at 1220 hrs
|arrive Doha at 1420 hrs
Qatar Airways currently has orders worth over US$50 billion for more than 250 aircraft, including Boeing 787s, 777s, Airbus A350s, A380s and A320 Family of aircraft. Skytrax is the only global independent passenger survey monitoring airline standards and is considered the ultimate benchmark for excellence in the airline industry. In addition to winning Skytrax's prestigious Airline of the Year 2011 award last summer, Qatar Airways was named Best Airline in the Middle East for the sixth year in a row, and its Premium Terminal at Doha International Airport was named Best Premium Service Airport for the second consecutive year in 2012.
Qatar Airways Group Corporate Communications
Tel: +974 – 44302072, Fax: +974 – 44302069
E-mail: email@example.com
Web: www.qatarairways.com


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Mica, 8609 Germantown Ave., was named one of 10 best new restaurants in the country by GQ magazine. See story online, here.
The restaurant, opened by former Le Bec Fin chef, Chip Roman, earned the eight spot. It was reviewed by veteran food writer Alan Richman, who was struck not only by the charm of Chestnut Hill ("a cobblestone street of gingerbread houses and trolley tracks ") and the quality of Mica's food, but the stark interior of the restaurant.
He writes: " Roman reminded me of the young Parisian chefs cooking in stark surroundings, thinking about nothing but their stoves. Maybe he's better than they are, considering the lusciousness of his Manjari-chocolate dessert. Did I mention that he's Mica's pastry chef, too?"
Does this put Chestnut Hill on the foodie map? I think so.
— Pete Mazzaccaro


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Queensland's attorney-general will appeal the decision to release one of the state's most notorious sex predators from prison.
Jarrod Bleijie will apply in court on Thursday for an immediate stay of the order to release Robert John Fardon.
Brisbane Supreme Court Justice Debbie Mullins on Wednesday ruled Fardon should be released on Thursday despite him previously breaching a supervision order.


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Everything about the town of Beacon Heights seems perfect, from their top-tier college to their overachieving residents, but nothing in Beacon Heights is as it appears to be. The stress of needing to be perfect leads to the town's first murder. Behind every Perfectionist is a secret, a lie and a needed alibi.Descendants 3
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Baseball players learn to cope with Florida sun
If the Gulf Coast League had a theme song, it'd be Heat Wave. Or Too Hot by Kool & the Gang. Kool, not Cool.
Candy? Hot tamales. Food? Hot dogs, followed by a hot cross bun, both washed down with a cup of hot coffee.
And if the GCL wanted the ultimate in realism, Gulf Roast League would serve as its name. Indeed, some like it hot. Just not scorching enough to almost make our national pastime a pass-out time.
"I've seen catchers go down," said GCL Phillies manager Rolano de Armas. "The catching position is probably the toughest because of the gear."
"I don't know if you ever get used to it," said Phillies pitching coach Steve Schrenk.
Besides wood bats and superior opposition and the expected homesickness, players in one of pro baseball's lowest classifications face another obstacle: Florida's noon summer heat. Because most of the GCL fields have no lights, day games are a must, along with copious amounts of hydration when sweat glands are forced to work overtime.
At a recent Phillies-Pirates game at Pirates City, temperatures hit the low 90s. Gatorade buckets of ice water were within easy reach of both teams. Off to the side, a Phillies player sat slumped on a training table, a white towel draped around his neck. Nearby stood team trainer Troy Hoffert, who preaches common sense when feeling hot, hot, hot.
"They've got to learn to drink every night when they get back to the hotel," he said. "They've got to learn to drink every morning, drink during the day. Eat their fruit, take their electrolytes, get their rest.
"Guys get heat exhaustion, guys get cramps. That's how it is in this entire league."
Teams in the GCL make it easy for players to prepare accordingly. They are fed up to four times a day. Before this game, said GCL Pirates catcher Daniel Arribas, he was served Philly cheese steaks and chicken quesadillas, along with vegetables and rice.
"The meals are really good," Arribas said. "There's enough to provide us with what we need. The Pirates do a great job of keeping us in shape. They prepare us for more than nine innings."
Tables of fruit, water, Gatorade and sun screen are made available. For his first game in the GCL, former Manatee High star Cord Sandberg forgot to apply sun screen.
"He doesn't have a football helmet on and shoulder pads," said Cord's mom, Kelsie. "His high school baseball team did summer camps, so he's used to being in the sun."
Said Schrenk, "There's no reason for them not to eat and take care of themselves. It's all planned out for them. We have a lot of young kids that we have to take care of. A lot of families are depending on us to take care of them."
Pirates catchers have another weapon at this disposal. A teeth-chattering one at that.
"After the games they have us jump into the cold tub," the Miami-born Arribas said. "It's mandatory for all the catchers. That's how we stay fresh.
"They preach to us to be tough guys, especially the catchers. So they try to push us. Trainers won't go out there (on the field) until we really can't play anymore."
Pirates first-round pick Reese McGuire has noted the Florida humidity. Playing once in Las Vegas, he became aware of the area's dry heat. The hard way.
"I had no energy," he said. "At the end of the practice, I went to the side and threw up some liquid.
"My dad said I was dehydrated and said I needed to drink more water. From then on I didn't want to feel like that again."
The Pirates' trainer and staff will make sure of it.


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Brownlow Medal 2017 | photos, video
It's THAT time of year – footy medal ceremonies plus all glam galore on the red carpet.
Tonight it's the AFL stars and their partners strutting their stuff at Crown Casino.
After the fashion stakes the attention turns to the best and fairest for season 2017. Check out the final leaderboard here.
Remember the red carpet at last season's Brownlow Medal? The usual fashion statements – some sound, some not so much – were there for all to see.
Before the round-by-round voting is made public, check out the top chances and game-by-game information in this comprehensive 2017 Brownlow guide.


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What's new in May 2017
May 18, 2017
This month over 500 new books have been published online across 23 partner presses, including 90 books from Oxford University Press, bringing the total number of titles on University Press Scholarship Online (UPSO) to over 24,900.
These new academic works have been added to 28 different subject areas and cover a diverse range of topics, from the connections between warfare and tourism to friendship networks in academia, and from Quantum Field Theory to the Black church's contributions to the Black Power Movement.
Discover a selection of titles by clicking on the book covers below:
UPSO brings together the best scholarly publishing from around the world and is available to libraries and institutions, so ask your librarian if you have access. If you don't, then recommend this essential resource to your librarian.


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WASHINGTON (Sinclair Broadcast Group) -- Amazon Alexa users are experiencing something unusual from their devices - laughter in a 'witch-like' way.
One user, who goes by @CaptHandlebar on Twitter, posted a video of Alexa "laughing randomly" while they were in the kitchen.
"I thought a kid was laughing behind me," the tweet stated before joking about technology. "Technology is evil. I live on a Native American burial ground. Robots are coming for us all."
Another Twitter user, @HeyItsKamo, says their Amazon Echo/Alexa listed off local cemeteries and funeral homes unprompted after they arrived home.
These complaints from various users of the Amazon product have just been unearthed now. But users have been complaining about Alexa's weird behavior on Twitter since at least February.
Amazon has released a statement to The Verge saying, "we're aware of this and working to fix it.


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Two of Scotland's leading independent theaters have teamed up to offer a pioneering online viewing platform showcasing curated films, including new releases. The partnership is a first for U.K. exhibitors.
The move sees Glasgow Film Theater and Edinburgh Filmhouse offer online streaming through branded GFT and Filmhouse Players from November. The players are powered by video-on-demand service Distrify.
The trial scheme is supported by a £90,000 ($144,500) grant from Nesta's Digital Research and Development Fund, Scotland, a partnership between Creative Scotland, Arts and Humanities Research Council and U.K. innovation foundation Nesta. The trial will run until the end of March 2013. The two theaters are looking for funding to extend the project indefinitely.
Films selected, including current and recent releases, and films yet to secure U.K. distribution, will be available to stream anywhere in U.K./Ireland with prices starting at $5.60. Titles announced include new release music doc "Sound it Out" and Japanese comedy-drama "Rent-a-Cat," which will be available online alongside a theatrical release, and "Morgen," which won four awards at the 2010 Locarno Film Festival, but has not received U.K. distribution.


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From MyLabWiki
PyEphem provides scientific-grade astronomical computations for the Python programming language. Given a date and location on the Earth's surface, it can compute the positions of the Sun and Moon, of the planets and their moons, and of any asteroids, comets, or earth satellites whose orbital elements the user can provide. Additional functions are provided to compute the angular separation between two objects in the sky, to determine the constellation in which an object lies, and to find the times at which an object rises, transits, and sets on a particular day.
The numerical routines that lie behind PyEphem are those from the wonderful XEphem astronomy application.


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Hebrews 10:32
But recall the former days when, after you were enlightened, you endured a hard struggle with sufferings.
In one of the Rocky movies, Rocky's grizzled old trainer tells him he has to go back to the days when he was "hungry" to find the oomph to fight well again. Scripture, both in the Old and New Testaments, does something similar. The prophets often remind Israel of its youth, wandering in the desert with God and learning to be faithful to the covenant. The New Testament, as well, sees something wonderful in the early — and hard — days of the Church. It is one of the strange paradoxes of life that there is something beautiful in hardship, something precious in poverty, something singularly intimate with God in rejection by men. Today, if you are enduring hardship, bring it to God and ask him transfigure it. One of the miracles of Christ is that he can bring us to the place where we look back with fondness and nostalgia on some painful time in our life and say, "Those were the days." But, of course, he does so not to make us pine for the past, but to inspire us to press on toward heaven.


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YouTube is full of clips showing teens swallowing a tablespoon of dry cinnamon and choking out a cloud of dust. The amount of teens taking the so-called cinnamon challenge skyrocketed, and a new study in the journal Pediatrics outlines the health effects.
Dr. Steven Lipshultz, the lead researcher, said his team was unable to find any studies of cinnamon inhalation in humans. Instead, rats breathed in cinnamon powder just one time, then were followed as they aged.
"(The) cinnamon would coat the airways and the lungs and it would lead to inflammation," Lipshultz said. "The inflammation led to scarring in the lungs, something called pulmonary fibrosis." The lung disease causes shortness of breath and chronic coughing, and can lead to hypoxia and heart failure.
Lipshultz, a professor of pediatrics at the University of Miami, says the dare is particularly dangerous for those suffering from bronchopulmonary diseases, including asthma.
Nationwide, the study found, at least 30 cases stemming from the challenge required medical attention in 2012, including ventilator support for some teens who suffered collapsed lungs.
The American Association of Poison Control Centers reported 222 cinnamon-related exposures in 2012, up from 51 in 2011, reports USA Today. So far this year, 20 exposures were reported from between Jan. 1 and Mar. 31.
Lipshultz told the Chicago Tribune the number of cases that have been reported nationwide is far less than the number of people actually the challenge.
"Those numbers relate to people intentionally calling. ... You know as well as I do that if you have a teenager or college student who becomes ill, how common is it for somebody to call a poison control center? Not that common," he said.


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DailyDirt: The Future Of Storage
from the urls-we-dig-up dept
- Printing at about 100,000 dots per inch in full color has been achieved by researchers at the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) in Singapore. As a proof of principle, a test image of Lenna was formed on a silicon wafer covered with a nanoscale metal coating. [url]
- Amazon is starting to offer archival storage for just $0.01 per gigabyte per month. This Glacier storage service is aimed at replacing old tape archives and geographically distinct facilities, but retrieving the data isn't so convenient: data retrieval requests can take hours (hence the name Glacier) and there's also a retrieval fee after you've accessed more than 5% of your data vault in a month. [url]
- Geneticists in Boston have stored a 5.27-megabit book (containing 53,246 words, 11 JPG image files and a JavaScript program) on DNA. This is the highest density of non-biological data ever encoded by DNA, and a gram of material could store 455 exabytes of data. [url]


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The speaker is Mark Killingley from the NFL. He says online is the best place to be in the recession – although people go out less in such times, meaning they watch more TV. And TV is getting cheaper to advertise on. So he says the internet is great but still only part of the overall media mix.
The philosophy these days should become "we don't have any money, so we're going to have to think".
Client agency relationships are just a lot like marriage counselling in the end. Trust, respect, communication, proactivity, understanding, involvement, partnership, creativity (and ownership – which is less like marriage). In other words, it's a two way relationship.
Things go wrong when the partners fail to listen to each other. Inflexibility has no place in a creative environment. Lack of hunger and stale thinking are the agency's nemeses – but on the other side, clients need to avoid loss of focus and inflexibility.
Setting clear expectations is important to make things go right. Who does what, when and why? New relationships need these questions answered. Clear communication is paramount. If either partner is unhappy, it must be known. No politeness for politeness's sake. British stuttering modesty out of the window.
Of some of the aspects of relationships: partnership, integration, imbalance, confusion and the adversarial approach, only confusion is entirely negative.
Research shows 70% client satisfaction with traditional agencies and only 50% for digital ones. That is a problem for digital agencies. Making clients understand what they do is of great importance. Lose the jargon and don't make it sound more scientific than it actually is. And clients, on the other hand, should ask more questions.
He then gave a case study of the NFL's dealings with Nordic eMarketing. The brief was basically non-existent. Just get me some web traffic! And it helped to drive users to a new NFL introduction website.
Sometimes short briefs are the best for creativity and excellent results.


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Here's a safe prediction: Between now and Jan. 1, 2014, there will be a barrage of stories about businesses struggling with the changes wrought by the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare.
There have already been quite a few pieces looking at the concerns of small companies that are approaching the 50-employee threshold set by the law. Starting in January, those with 50 or more full-time workers will face a penalty of at least $40,000 if any of their workers obtains subsidized coverage from a state insurance exchange rather than from an employer-provided plan. This provision gives companies an incentive to replace full-time workers with part-timers and contractors, or to stop growing before they need that many employees, neither of which would be good for the economy.
Then there are the challenges to the law's requirement that insurers cover contraception, as well as to the regulations the Obama administration issued to implement that requirement. This issue has been particularly troubling for employers affiliated with religious institutions or led by executives who oppose abortion; as the New York Times noted over the weekend, dozens of lawsuits have been filed against the requirement.
Congress could have avoided these fights by embracing an alternative approach to healthcare reform that had bipartisan support but was in some ways more radical than the Affordable Care Act: ending the country's reliance on employer-provided health insurance. The main proponents of this idea were Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore., shown above) and then-Sen. Robert F. Bennett (R-Utah), whose proposed Healthy Americans Act would have replaced the federal tax subsidy for employer-provided coverage with one for individually purchased insurance.


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Visby is one of the most remarkable towns in Sweden and Scandinavia, situated on the west coast of Gotland Island. The population figure is about 23,000. It is known for the city wall, the Cathedral and the church ruins. In 1995, the city was declared a UNESCO World Heritage site.
During the Swedish summer Mid June - Mid August Visby is crowded. It is the best party city in Sweden in the summer. Many Visby residents leave during these hectic months and rent their apartments. During the rest of the year the atmosphere is quite different.
Get in
By plane
There are flights all year to Visby from Stockholm and Linköping. During summer, there are also flights from Gothenburg, Oslo, Hamburg and Ängelholm.
By boat
Destination Gotland runs ferries from Nynäshamn and Oskarshamn to Visby. You can bring your car.
Get around
The inner city (Old Town), which is located within the city walls, is small enough to be covered by foot. The rest of the city is easy to get around by bike and has plenty of good bikes paths.
By Foot
Visby is best enjoyed by foot, especially the Old Town, located within the city wall.
By Bicycle
During the summer there are usually plenty of bike rentals, but they can be expensive, if you're staying for a longer period purchasing a used bike might be a cheaper option.
By Bus
There are several bus lines going out to the rest of the island, check the time table before heading out though.
By Car
During the summer cars are not allowed within the city walls of Visby, and parking can be difficult to find, or expensive.
By Taxi
Like the rest of Sweden, taxis can be expensive, and are best for short trips when you are otherwise unable to get around otherwise.
Note that many of the town's attractions are only open during the summer months, usually until Aug 30th.
Old Town
Art and Museums
There are several tours of the Old Town during the summer, most available in Swedish, but occasionally in other languages, and they are sometimes available for group bookings. The best bet is to check with the Tourist Centre (Skeppsbron 4-6, 62157 Visby) what guides are available in your language. Also ask whether you need to get a ticket before the tour starts or if you pay when you meet up.
Other Events and Activities
There are only two ATM machines in the old town and port area: one at Donners Plats, just as you come up from the water front and one on Adelsgatan. Along the Ostertorg there are several others.
Most shops close at 5pm on weekdays, 3pm on Saturdays and are closed on Sundays.
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For all of their regular season success in the Matt Ryan era, the Atlanta Falcons have fared horribly against the New Orleans Saints of late. They can do something about that -- and deal a fatal blow to their division rivals' fragile playoff hopes -- with a win on NFL Network's "Thursday Night Football" tonight at 8 p.m. ET. Get a head start with "Thursday Night Kickoff" at 6 p.m.
Here's what else is on tap for Thursday:
• Thursday, Dec. 13, 8 p.m. ET
• Watch on NFL Network and NFL.com/LIVE
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» Legendary Miami Dolphins coach Don Shula joins "NFL AM" at 6 a.m. ET on NFL Network, plus the latest NFL news. Cincinnati Bengals rookie Mohamed Sanu joins "NFL Fantasy Live" at 2 p.m. ET, and don't miss San Francisco 49ers linebacker NaVorro Bowman and Washington Redskins rookie Alfred Morris on "Around the League Live" at 4 p.m.
» DeMarco Murray returned to Dallas Cowboys practice, while Ben Roethlisberger had was a limited participant for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Gregg Rosenthal examines Wednesday's injury report.
» With Mike Holmgren out the door and new owner Jimmy Haslam running the show, NFL.com's Ian Rapoport addresses the future of the Cleveland Browns.
» Albert Breer's Play Sheet kicks off with a look at Steelers-Ravens II on Sunday.
» Elliot Harrison offers his picks for all Week 13's games.
» Find out how your team would fare if the season ended today with the updated Playoff Picture.
» The Houston Texans lead the pack in the NFL.com Power Poll, but who's on "top" of the worst-team rankings? Adam Rank has your answer in the Alternate Rankings.
» Make sure to vote for the week's top plays and players, including Rookie of the Week, Air and Ground Performers of the Week, and Never Say Never Moment of the Week.
» Happy birthday to Indianapolis Colts center Samson Satele, who turns 28 on Thursday.
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Pseudo Nippon, the long time stage moniker of London based artist Peter Caul, has been on the fringes of the UK weird pop scene for a fair few years now. Having expanded his line up to include drummers Colden Drystone and Dove Kokojin, Pseudo Nippon now has a harder, groove led angle on latest set Colorama. 'Lady Cactus Fog' perfectly encapsulates the new found, drum led sound. Peter's Flaming Lips-esque surrealist lyrical ramblings are masterfully offset with intense, glitch edit electronica and some excellent hard funk rhythms.
For all the wacky track titles and slightly grating yodeling, there's a lot of thought and musical depth to the narrative of Colorama. From the fractured sample loops of what might well be a shakuhachi (Japanese flute) in 'Green Surf Death Song' to the Damo Suziki-aping 'Skating Over You' and the classic J-Pop electro bluster of 'Universal Brotherhood (Cops Say Ow)', Pseudo Nippon are well aware of their place in recent musical culture. The double drum attack certainly gives a wild, polyrhythmic element much in debt to Japanese experimental music heroes Bordoms.
Nippon is the Japanese word for Japan, so Caul's literally calling himself fake Japan, an artistic statement that is very fitting given the willfully obtuse, chaotic nature of the music he's trying to encapsulate. Hearing the kaleidoscopic electro pop of 'Cat With Shark Teeth' one can't help but think of vintage Lips who, with their 2002 masterpiece Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots, made a bold acknowledgment of the influence of Japanese musical culture. The movement of influence of music between east and west is an ongoing cycle that Pseudo Nippon seems keen to continue to perpetuate.
'German Octopus' has strong element of Can (who were fronted by Damo Suzuki, a Japanese ex pat busker) with the Germanic/Japanese lyrical interplay and the looping, hypnotic rhythms of drummers Drystone and Kokojin. 'Paper Moon' carries on the Japanese ethnic influence with what sounds like some time stretched Shamisen (Japanese banjo) in a classical Japanese sounding scale.
Aside from the J-Pop influence there are some interesting musical sidesteps: 'Jeweled Eyes of A Carp', which opens with an Animal Collective-esque tribal chant and builds into a Seventies jazz groove complete with glitchy piano loops and free form flute, is a welcome musical diversion.
Throughout the album the production values and virtuoso drumming are excellent but, with lyrics like "follow me into space we will skate over you" and "she says a man ain't nothing without a beat to hold", it's annoying that Caul feels the need to fall back on self-conscious wackiness. What separates Pseudo Nippon from the genius of Flaming Lips and fellow dayglo pop stars Of Montreal is that FL and OM use humour and surrealism as tools for cultivating a sense of bathos and light relief in contrast with the pathos and sadness of their music. Although there are moments of beauty and haunting atmosphere such as the space-y vocal montage opening 'Sanshin Yo' Colorama is lacking anything approaching genuinely affecting emotional content. As a result it is ultimately a disappointment.
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Chris Colfer Covers 'August Man' February 2013 (Exclusive)
Chris Colfer takes the cover of August Man Malaysia's February 2013 issue, on newsstands February 1.
Here is what the 22-year-old Glee actor had to share with the mag:
On his developing interest in fashion: "I've always thought fashion should be something that makes you feel good on the inside and outside. I'm slowly coming around to the whole psychology behind it. My favorite designers are Ben Sherman, Dior and Alexander McQueen."
On his hopes on how the industry will react to Struck By Lightning: "For the last year or so, I've been the 22-year-old kid that people pat on the head and said 'Oh, Chris, that's nice.' No one was paying attention to me unless I was Channing Tatum. With this film, I want to be taken seriously."
On being on Glee: "I think I was cast in Glee because I was authentically believable. I could have been one of the kids on the show… in fact, I was."
For more from Chris, make sure to check out AugustMan.com and pick up your copy on Friday!


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This article originally appeared in "Colonial Spanish Borderland Research" by George R. Ryskamp, JD, AG in The Source: A Guidebook to American Genealogy
As the reforms of King Charles III extended into the administration of the Spanish colonies, the Council of Indies initiated a series of empire-wide census projects. Previously, some governors in specific colonies and even local officials had censuses prepared, resulting in numerous censuses available for the Spanish colonial areas. Latin American Census Records by Lyman D. Platt identifies by specific locality the vast majority of those available.<ref>Lyman D. Platt, Latin American Census Records (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1998).</ref>
Spanish censuses are considerably better in detail than their English-language counterparts, normally identifying the head of household by name and surname with occupation and material status and age, and then providing for the household a list of all other members by name, frequently with ages and relationships to the head of household. Some censuses were taken to enumerate specific categories of individuals, such as all resident aliens. Figure 16-3 is a page from the abstract of such a census, that of St. Augustine, Florida, 1786, appearing in Floridas' First Families: Translated Abstracts of Pre-1821 Spanish Censuses, by Donna Rachal Mills. For a detailed discussion of the content and use of censuses in Hispanic research, see Finding Your Hispanic Roots.


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Suzuki Aerio Hatchback
2006-2002 |Compact
Like so many others of the big automotive company names, the Suzuki car manufacturing company started out as something entirely different.
Suzuki Reno Hatchback
2008-2005 |Compact
There are automotive companies that started out as carriage or buggy companies, heavy industrial plants, and military factories.
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The Suzuki Swift offers another space saving, economic option for the city driver.
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When it comes to the automotive industry, many of the industry's leading companies started out manufacturing something besides cars or trucks.


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My dear stylist, what does one would wear for pants these days? I am just waking up from my FoggyBottom coma and I need help dressing myself. I have no pants.
Yesterday I spent 4 hours going to 2 malls (this is the way one shops in Atlanta). I was armed with macys and bloomingdale and loft gift cards, hoping to find 3 pairs of casual-nice pants to wear for normal social activities and maybe another pair of teaching/conference pants. I wondered around like a zombie finding tons of beadazzled jeans, black dress pants, and polyester bell-bottoms. I came home empty-handed, remain virtually pant-less, and unsure how to proceed except to avoid social activity.
I'm going to try my shopping spree again the next time I'm in a northeastern city. But, I'm feeling lost and thought I'd ask your trusted insight first: What does one wear these days? Where does one shop for pants? If I were a paper doll, what would you clip onto my legs? What's on your legs? How about the legs of other women who look good?
Whenever this activity tempts you, if you might find it fascinating, let me know!! Amy
Dear Amy,
Oh lord, pants. I have been thinking about your message for days, alternately laughing and sighing. I have very little to offer you for advice, having found my pant niche about a year ago. I either wear very cheap skinny jeans from the Macy's Junior's department (they're about $30 a pair and made to fit my adolescent boy-type figure) or woman's Dickies classic work pants. I own one extremely expensive pair of wide-leg black wool pants that I wear for all occasions for which skinny jeans or Dickies are not appropriate.
However, aside from the extremely expensive pants, these are probably not the most flattering options for your curvy, shortish body.
Would you mind if I post your dilemma on my blog? I think others will have suggestions, and, even if they don't, will be amused by and identify with the struggle for pants.
your stylist, lost in the world of pants,
Looking through my photostream, it seems that I am always wearing the same pair of Dickies, to be honest. Those of you who have met me know this to be true.
That last one is from Rhinebeck, in my Vert & Horiz sweater, with Kara Gott Warner, editor for DRG publications and Creative Knitting. Check out our shared sense of eyewear and haircut style!
The point is, though, these Dickies have gone from work pants to all-occasion pants.
What do YOU do for pants???