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Littleton Coin is a NH 2012 BBB Torch Award Finalist!
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"The BBB's Torch Award for Marketplace Ethics" recognizes American businesses that maintain a solid commitment to ethical business practices...
MANCHESTER, NH. On May 8, 2012, at a ceremony held at the Radisson Hotel in Manchester, Littleton Coin Company was recognized as a finalist for the NH Better Business Bureau's Torch Award for Marketplace Ethics. The retail firm, with approximately 300 employees in Littleton, NH., was one of only three finalists in the large company category. Littleton Coin was noted for its commitment to trust and ethics with its customers, community and employees.
At the event, John Hennessey, Littleton Coin's Vice President of Marketing, expressed "how proud" he was that Littleton "was selected among so many fine NH businesses". The company's mission, since its inception in 1945 from the family's kitchen table, has been to establish a relationship with its customers based on trust and ethics. Littleton's famous Coins-on-Approval Service, in which collectors receive coins without having to pay for them in advance, gives customers a risk-free way to view coins in their own home before deciding whether to add them to their collection.
The mission of the Better Business Bureau is to promote and foster the highest ethical relationships between businesses and the public through voluntary self-regulation, consumer and business education and service excellence. To this end, the Council of Better Business Bureaus established an annual awards program to gain public recognition for American businesses that maintain a solid commitment to conducting their business practices in an ethical manner. Each year, American companies throughout the nation are selected through a competition to receive the Torch Award for Marketplace Ethics. While the award recognizes outstanding American businesses, it also promotes a fair and honorable marketplace for all Americans.
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Venus Williams said the assets she seemingly bared at the French Open are a result of good genes.
The world's No. 2 tennis queen stunned spectators by playing in a frill black dress with red trim and, at first glance, little underneath. But it was actually skin-tone, form-fitting underwear. So viewers were witnessing an illusion, not a wardrobe malfunction, Williams assured AFP. The shape was legit, and Williams wasn't apologizing for that.
"The [clothing] design has nothing to do with the rear. It just so happens that I have a very well developed one!" she said. "It's all genetic. If you look at mom and dad, you'll see the same thing happening. If you look at my sister (Serena), you'll see the same thing."
"It's really about the illusion. Like you can wear lace, but what's the point of wearing lace when there's just black under?" she asked reporters.
"The illusion of just having bare skin is definitely for me a lot more beautiful. So it's really not about anything else other than just that skin showing. So I'm glad that it's gotten good reviews. I mean, it could be worse."
The 29-year-old a seven-time Grand Slam champion, reached the third round at Roland Garros on Wednesday by beating Spain's Arantxa Parra Santonja 6-2, 6-4.


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OSAKA, Japan (AP) -- Top-seeded Samantha Stosur advanced to the quarterfinals of the Japan Open by beating Virginie Razzano of France 1-6, 6-2, 6-4.
Stosur, the 2011 U.S. Open champion, rallied after having her serve broken three times in the first set at the Utsubo Tennis Center. Razzano had 10 double-faults.
The Australian will next face Jamie Hampton in the quarterfinals. The American defeated wild-card Tamarine Tanasugarn of Thailand 7-5, 7-5.
Also, Japanese qualifier Misaki Doi beat Olga Puchkova of Russia 6-3, 6-2 and will next take on Chanelle Scheepers of South Africa, while Kai-Chen Chang of Taiwan defeated Casey Dellacqua of Australia 7-6 (4), 6-3 and will play eighth-seeded Laura Robson of Britain in the quarterfinals.


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Fraser syndrome is a rare genetic disorder characterized by partial webbing of the fingers and/or toes (partial syndactyly), kidney (renal) abnormalities, genital malformations, and/or, in some cases, complete fusion of the eyelids (cryptophthalmos) that may be associated with malformation of the eyes, causing blindness. In infants with Fraser syndrome, renal malformations may include improper development (dysplasia), underdevelopment (hypoplasia), or absence of one or both kidneys (unilateral or bilateral renal agenesis). In affected males, one or both testes may fail to descend into the scrotum (cryptorchidism), the urinary opening (meatus) may be abnormally placed on the underside of the penis (hypospadias), and/or the penis may be abnormally small (micropenis). Affected females may have malformed fallopian tubes, an abnormally enlarged clitoris (clitoromegaly), and/or an abnormally shaped uterus (bicornate uterus). In addition, the folds of skin on either side of the vaginal opening (labia) may be abnormally fused. Infants and children with Fraser syndrome may also have additional abnormalities including malformations of the middle and outer ear that may result in hearing impairment. Fraser syndrome is inherited as an autosomal recessive genetic trait.
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Police: New Mexico Kidnapper Thwarted by Alert Neighbor
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – The pair of 911 calls came in quick succession from a New Mexico mobile home park.
On one, a frantic 12-year-old says her little sister is missing. On the other is the wife of the man who would be credited with saving the 6-year-old from every parent's nightmare.
"We are outside of my mom's house here," Martha Diaz told the dispatcher. "We heard a man going, 'Hey, hey let her go. Let her go.' So we turn around ...
"The man came running to us and said, 'They stole a little girl.'"
Phillip Garcia, 29, had snatched the girl moments earlier on Monday afternoon in Albuquerque, taking her away in a blue van, police said.
Diaz's husband, Antonio Diaz Chacon, jumped in his black pickup and gave chase. Garcia tried to lose him by driving through a maze of residential streets, "turning, and turning," Diaz Chacon, a 24-year-old mechanic said Tuesday night as a swarm of media stood outside his home to hear his story. The events were interpreted and relayed from Spanish to English by his wife.
Finally, Diaz Chacon said, the man crashed into a telephone pole.
Garcia fled on foot, and Diaz Chacon grabbed the girl and took her home. Garcia then returned to his wrecked van and took off but was later captured by police, authorities said.
Hidden under a rock just 25 feet from the van was packing tape and a tie-down strap, police said.
Inside the impounded van were tostadas, a glove, a Leatherman tool, a black satchel, orange strapping similar to the strap found hidden under the rock, police said.
"This little girl was very lucky," police Sgt. Tricia Hoffman said. "We can only guess what would have happened to this child."
"Throughout the county we see situations like this and they do not end typically well," she said.
Diaz Chacon, she said, "did an amazing, amazing job and he saved this girl's life"
Diaz Chacon said he was proud people considered him a hero, but that he never thought twice about taking the action. While he was chasing the van, he said, he thought of his own two girls, one 7 years old, the other 5 months, and how he would want someone to do the same for him.
"I told him 'I don't know how you could have gone after him," his wife said, shaking as she recalled the events in front of their house in the normally quiet sprawling South Valley neighborhood, where even on the evening after the abduction kids played freely in the streets on their bikes and scooters.
"How could you have gone after him, not knowing where he's going, what he's going to do? But he saved a life." Garcia was charged with kidnapping, child abuse and tampering with evidence. Hoffman said Garcia is from Albuquerque and had a revoked license but she was unsure if he had a criminal record.
Garcia immediately "lawyered up," declining to give any statement to authorities, Hoffman said. Garcia was still jailed Tuesday and no lawyer had yet been listed as taking the case, according to court officials.
There have not been any other recent child abductions or attempted abductions in the city, Hoffman said.
The girl told police she had gone to a neighbor's to pick up some tostadas and was walking home when the van stopped and the man grabbed her.
"She went to go to the neighbor's and on her way back we don't know what happened to her. ... When she was coming back or on her way, she just like disappeared," her sister said in the 911 call.
The girl was grabbed with such force, police said, that bruising had already begun to appear on her chest and back Monday evening. The girl told police the man put his hand over her mouth and she bit him.
She said the man shoved her on the floorboard to keep her head under the window view, according to the police report. She told police there were no backseats in the van and described other details consistent with impounded van, police said.
She also described rolling in the van when it crashed, and breaking a fingernail. Police said they found what appeared to be a piece of fingernail in the van.
During her interview, police said the girl was concerned that she was unable to bring the tostadas home because she had left them in the van.


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"At its annual developer conference in San Francisco, Calif., on Wednesday, Google said that Chrome OS notebooks, now called 'Chromebooks', will be available in the U.S., U.K., France, Germany, Netherlands, Italy and Spain starting June 15, and that it will be offering a combined software and hardware subscription service for businesses, schools, and government customers. The pricing of Google's subscription plan is modest: For $28 per user per month, businesses will receive Chromebooks, Web-based administration controls, enterprise-level support, a warranty, and hardware replacement upon subscription renewal. Schools and governments have access to the subscription package for $20 per user per month." Look at the concept here.


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It's hard to explain to regular people how much technology barely works, how much the infrastructure of our lives is held together by the IT equivalent of baling wire.
Software sucks. It really, really sucks. I have yet to meet a piece of software that didn't make me go "...eh." several times per hour - whether it be a videogame, a browser, or an operating system.


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If you have a solution, I encourage you to reply to my blog, or respond to my still unanswered questions on the ASP.NET Forums or Stack Overflow or Server Fault. I will happily mark your answer as correct (assuming that it is).
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Venous leg ulcers are one of the more common conditions treated at wound care centers. They are much more troublesome than varicose veins, though they are related.
EDITOR'S NOTE: This article is the second in a series about wounds and wound care centers.
Q: What are venous leg ulcers?
Venous leg ulcers are one of the more common conditions treated at wound care centers. They are much more troublesome than varicose veins, though they are related.
These wounds occur because of stagnant blood flow in the veins of the legs. Blood gets to the legs through the arteries just fine. The problem is gravity. Blood returns to the heart through the veins, helped by the pumping action of the leg muscles. There are valves in the veins, which open to allow blood to flow upward toward the heart, but the valves are supposed to close to prevent blood from flowing backward down the leg. When a person stands up all day or sits with their legs down for a long time, the long column of blood may not move very well. Eventually, the veins dilate (widen), and the valves don't work properly, allowing blood to flow backward. Varicose veins may result. If a patient develops a blood clot in the leg, this compounds the problem by causing obstruction to the flow of blood out of the leg.
All of these cause increased pressure in the capillary network between the arteries and veins. Fluid, as well as red blood cells, protein, and other substances, leak out of the capillaries. Over time, this damages the tissues and prevents proper oxygenation and nourishment of the skin. Eventually, the skin surface may break down and an ulcer (sore) may develop. One might notice a reddish-brownish discoloration in the lower legs from breakdown products of hemoglobin leaking into the tissues. Sometimes redness, inflammation, and itching can occur, called stasis dermatitis. In more advanced stages, fibrous tissue replaces the normal, supple tissue.
The best treatment is prevention. Wearing support stockings, moving about frequently and elevating the legs are all simple measures. The mainstay of treatment of venous leg ulcers is compression. This consists of various types of bandages, or wraps, to prevent the swelling and the ensuing problems described above. First, after cleaning and removing unhealthy tissue from the wound, an appropriate dressing is applied. Frequently, a gauze bandage, impregnated with zinc oxide paste and calamine lotion (called an Unna boot), is applied and covered with a special elastic bandage. Sometimes, a two-layer, or even four-layer wrap is used to provide maximum support. A sequential compression pump might be used, compressing the leg, starting at the foot and working upwards, thereby "squeezing" the excess fluid out. Bioengineered tissue grafts, skin grafts from the patient, or tissue rearrangement — called skin and soft tissue flaps — may be used to heal the wounds.
Sometimes, the problems presented are so advanced that even the best care does not achieve the desired result. In most cases, however, with a skilled wound care team and a motivated, cooperative patient, treatment is successful. Unfortunately, venous leg ulcers can easily recur so the patient must be forever vigilant and follow instructions carefully.
Avrohm Faber, M.D., is the Medical Director of Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine at Halifax Health, and is a staff physician at the Bert Fish Wound Center, New Smyrna Beach. For more information on this physician or to send topics for future medical columns, please visit vcms.org.


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IT'S A WONDERFUL WORLD WITH SKIES OF BLUE AND CLOUDS OF WHITE AND EVEN SOME UFOs. They have been reported in New York, New Jersey, North Carolina, Georgia Wisconsin, Missouri, Texas, Arizona, Idaho, Oregon/Washington, California, Canada, Argentina, and Chili.
GIVE THANKS: Our world changed on September 11, I ask for your prayers for the sick who write us and our country and the world. Give thanks with a grateful heart; give thanks to the Holy one who gave his Son. And now let the weak say I'm strong and the poor say, I am rich for what the Lord has done. This is a decisive time of hatred and war, at Thanksgiving its time to pray, give thanks, and reflect. Prayer can heal sickness and help you personally a great deal. The Bible says, "If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land." Happy Thanksgiving to everyone and remember there is someone out there watching.
Eugene Cernan was the commander of Apollo 17 that flew to the moon. In a Los Angeles Times article in 1973 he said, about UFOs: "I've been asked (about UFOs) and I've said publicly I thought they (UFOs) were somebody else, some other civilization."
LONDON -- The British government has announced that in an unbroadcast video tape made last month, Osama bin Laden declared that his al Qaeda network "instigated" the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. Bin Laden's video states, "if avenging the killing of our people is terrorism, let history be a witness that we are terrorists." Bin Laden made the video on October 20 for secret distribution to al Qaeda members, but British intelligence learned of its contents. Prime Minister Tony Blair said in an address to Parliament that Bin Laden admitted the attacks, saying, "It is what we instigated, for a while, in self-defense. And it was revenge for our people killed in Palestine and Iraq. Bush and Blair don't understand any language but the language of force. Every time they kill us, we will kill them, so the balance of terror can be achieved." The British government did not release the video. It is interesting to note that during Congressional Iran Contra Hearings fifteen years ago, Lt. Col. Oliver North warned that the terrorist Osama Bin Laden had threatened him and his family and in his opinion, "He is the most evil person alive that I know of."
Sunday morning I was one of many who watched the Leonid meteor storm light up the early morning sky at 5:00 AM. It was the best show in some 35 years. There were hundreds of meteorites making the most exciting display, I have ever seen. A combination of clear skies and no moon made for a great show.
PLEASANTVILLE -- On November 11, 2O01, at 11:20 PM the witness saw a very large cigar shaped object traveling very fast. The witness reports, "I was looking at the sky while my dogs got their nightly exercise. Very dim lights traveling across the sky caught my peripheral vision. There were 4 or 5 of them that came from a long object traveling south very quickly at about 60 degrees above the horizon. It was silent. I could see the lights for 4 or 5 seconds then lost it in the glare from the Ford dealership lights. Thanks to Peter B. Davenport, NUFORC www.ufocenter.com Reporting Hotline:(206) 722-3000
CARNEYS POINT -- At 12:35 PM, a veteran police officer and private pilot, accompanied by a legal professional saw a brownish black cylinder shaped object flew over their vehicle at 250 feet altitude on May 18, 1996. The sighting lasted five seconds before it vanished. One 50 feet long cylinder shaped object, dull brownish black in color, with a metal tail structure, crossed S.W. to N.E. across dual highway at moderate speed over our vehicle. The sighting lasted about five seconds, after which object vanished. The leading edges of structure appeared to display the dull pattern typical of "re-entry burn" on the space shuttle. Local weather verified to be: Bar: 29.99, Visibility: 2 miles, ceiling 800 feet, Temp: 66 Deg. F, Dew Point: 63 F, Hum: 90%, Wind: SSE 6 mph. Thanks to Peter B. Davenport, NUFORC, www.ufocenter.com.
SHILOH -- On November 11, 2001 at 6:20 PM a large triangular shaped object with large blue lights suddenly made a quick u-turn and hovered a mile away. The witness reports, "My husband and I were driving and as we approached an intersection near a small airport. There was a large triangular shaped object very close to the ground slowly moving over the intersection. We drove toward the object and as we got closer to about 30 feet away, we could see three large blue lights (one in each corner). It suddenly rose up and made a fast u-turn. In less than five seconds it was gone, quickly heading the other way. About three miles from the intersection, my husband and I looked back and it seemed to be a hovering bright light at or near the airport. The strangest thing about the whole ordeal was there was no sound at all. There was a car about two car-lengths in front of us who I am sure saw it too. Believe me, you couldn't miss it. Thanks to Peter B. Davenport, Director National UFO Reporting Center www.ufocenter.com
CHICKASAW STATE PARK, SULPHUR -- On November 10, 2001, from the south the witness observed what appeared to be a small, round, white light moving fairly slowly in all directions at 9:35 PM. At first it was behind trees but then it increased it's altitude and moved above the trees. The witness thought the light was no more than 100 yards away. Another witness thought it was no closer than a mile. At first its movement was slow and steady, moving toward the west while traveling up and down. It looked more like it was floating as apposed to flying. After a minute or two, it picked up speed moving toward the west or northwest. At this point, I grabbed my binoculars and lost visual contact for a few seconds. When I found it in my binoculars, it was traveling at a high rate of speed and had a flashing red light on its tail, like an airplane. One of the witnesses confirmed that I was indeed still observing the same object. It now moved and looked like an airplane. I couldn't see wings or anything like that but like I said, it now had a flashing red light on its "tail." When the red light would blink, the front portion of the object appeared to have a slight tint of yellow to it. I noticed that I could hear a jet in the far distance but have no idea if it was coming from an actual airplane or from this object. Thanks to Peter B. Davenport, Director National UFO Reporting Center www.ufocenter.com Reporting Hotline: (206) 722-3000
Researcher John Thompson has some thoughts on abductions related to the new Terrorist situation. One of the possibilities why so many abductions have taken place across America during the last decade is to weaken the resolve and resistance of America. As you know, I've advocated for a long time that abductions are really about "mind-control" and not the fanciful extraterrestrial kidnappings that many entertain. We have to assume that along with the general population an equal percentage of our nation's leaders have been abducted and "conditioned" over the years. Listening to recent talk radio shows some callers have expressed outrage that our response to the 09/11/01 slaughter has been far too politically correct. Coalition building and sensitivity to concerns of Muslims have over-ridden a true and strict military retaliation against the Islamic killers responsible for much of the world's terrorism over the last quarter-of-a-century. Diligent mind control and "programming" applied to selected individuals in the United States could do much to defeat America and the West. While abductions have occurred worldwide, their frequency and dispersion seems to pale in comparison to the estimated millions of Americans that have been abducted. Indeed, there is almost no data to suggest that abductions are numerous in the Third World. The target of the abductors seems to be more of where the real power of the world resides: America and Western Europe. While culture, language difficulties, and lack of investigators in the Third World may keep reports of abductions low, I personally have heard of none from the Modest and South-central Asia while hearing of some in Africa, which is far more improvised. America is the leader of the non-Muslim world. To many Muslims, America is the enemy and the leader of the infidels; that is, non-believers. It may well be that we are engaged in a grand Crusade and abductions are simply another weapon being employed by demonic entities to give an edge to an otherwise weaker enemy. Thanks to Researcher John Thompson firstname.lastname@example.com
KANSAS CITY -- On November 10, 2001, James A. Tutt Jr. saw a silver cigar shaped UFO flying over East 87th Street toward the Kansas City limits near the over and under pass area of I-435. It was 11:00 AM, and the sky was clear. James was using his powered + binoculars and noticed an object standing still east of him at about 25 to 30,000 feet altitude. The object continued hovering over the I-435 until he lost sight of it. The cigar was silver color and may have had fins on it, but it was too high to tell. This is not the first time that a similar object was seen. On September 27, 2001, there was a sighting of another cigar shaped craft with several fins on its side. The craft was the size of a small house. Thanks to James Allen Tutt Jr firstname.lastname@example.com MUFON -Field Investigator kcmo area id#7606 and Joe Trainor Masinaigan
HOUSTON -- F Beau Spikes reports he and his wife saw unexplainable lights in the sky each night from October 30, to November 4, 2001, on several nights, two other friends also saw them. The friends were located five miles away nearer to Spring, Texas. We saw many light patterns from it with all colors. It would hover from side to side and up and down. We saw it for 30 or 45 minutes then went to bed, at 11:00 PM The second night we saw it again, 35 degrees up a little to the south from previous night. We watched for 2.5 hours, until 2:00 AM. The third night there was only one; I observed it from 12:00 to 12:30 AM. Fourth night there were three UFOs a little more south in a pattern like a check mark. They took turns being "active." We watched from 7:30 to 9:30 PM. In addition, my friends my neighbor too had binoculars so I could see the colors as little bit better. There were brilliant colors of every shade, but mostly blue, purple, and green. Last night was a full moon too, and these "devices" still were plainly visible but the stars were not. We called the local FOX weather desk; they reported no meteors or weather balloons etc. These sightings in my opinion are definitely mechanical in nature. I don't know what they are but stars don't jiggle and bobble, stars don't appear to flash symmetric and lit appendages with alternating colors. Stars don't often change shape and have straight-line emissions and stars or planets don't change patterns in a group within a couple of hours. This is why my wife and I were convinced we were watching something bizarre. Seeing that they appear (from my perspective) near a major international airport, I doubt it would be foreign technology. Thanks to F Beau Spikes (email@example.com) who writes, thanks for your reply, I would like to be contacted by a MUFON investigator. In addition, I have already entered a report at the form on the MUFON main page.
ARLINGTON ALIEN ACCOUNT -- A college student worked in a paint store frequented by a painter who claimed to have alien encounters. He was a peculiar kind of guy who lived, alone, in a small house outside the city limits. "He often talked about being visited by beings from other planets and strange futuristic technology that they had showed him and space ships and the like. The painter and college student became friendly as the painter began to talk about his leaving this earth to go to live on another planet. They showed him all their strange machines. The painter told the college student that he had no family and that before he left this earth to go and live on another planet, he wanted to deed his house and land to him. The student told him (with tongue in cheek) that, "sure," before he left for outer space, he could deed his house to him. The painter transferred his house, and land and all his assets to my business associate. In addition, within a matter of days from doing so, the painter called him and told him to come to a certain field on his property at a certain time that very evening. He told him that he would be leaving this earth with the men from outer space tonight, never to return, and that the student would be able to see him leave on the space ship if he would be at the field at the appointed time. The student drove up to the man's property, parked his car, and walked to the particular field that the painter had specified. As he approached, he could see a strange kind of green mist-like light coming from behind the rise of earth ahead of him. When he reached the edge of a berm he saw a saucer shaped craft hovering just a couple of feet or so above the ground and glowing green. The painter appeared and looked over at him, and acknowledged his presence with a wave. An opening appeared in the saucer and the painter entered.
The craft shot straight up in the air and in a matter of only seconds was a bright dot that just disappeared. After a while, when he realized the painter was really not coming back, he and his wife and children moved into the house that the painter had deeded to him. They did not stay very long. He said, "You wouldn't believe all the strange, eerie things that went on in that house." He added that some of the technology (having to do with computers and nanotechnology) that exists today are things that the painter had told them about that seemed so far-fetched at that time. He is a very no-nonsense kind of person, which makes me believe his story even more. Talk at you later, email@example.com (name removed) Mike_Harman @rocketmail.com
GLENDALE -- Rick reports seeing what appeared to him as a UFO on November 6, 2001. He says, "I just witnessed the best thing ever." I have never seen one before only read about them on different sites. However, the object I saw at about 9: 25 PM, was lower than most aircraft in the area and shooting across the sky at a high rapid rate much faster than the aircraft here. The object was round, the bottom looked like a reddish gold color, no lights and no sound. I ran downstairs, from my apartment, went to the parking lot, not 3 to 4 seconds later and the object was gone. I read your site and other's and has had many mixed feelings until now. Now, I myself have become a believer. I thought you would like to know my story; I'm very excited about the entire event and wanted to share this extraordinary night. Thank you for your time. Thanks to Rick Glendale at Eichbaum74, and Joe Trainor Masinaigan
NAMPA -- D. Kennedy reports a flying wing entered our line of site as we were watching the Leonid meteor shower on November 18, 2001. It flew directly over us then off to the south at 2:45 AM. It made "NO" noise, and had "No" lights. There was a faint temperature glow on the leading edge of the wing, tip to tip. Altitude was impossible to tell. If it were higher than 5,000 feet the craft would have been extremely large. It did resemble a B-2 Stealth bomber, but without the sharp angles. All the edges were rounded, more like a boomerang. My wife observed it as well. The color was dark, possibly black with a rounded boomerang shaped flying wing with temperature glow on leading edge of wing. The height and speed are unknown. The higher it was? The larger and faster it would have been. Joe Trainor writes, "Here's a sighting from Idaho. However, it sounds less like a UFO than some sort of flight test of a prototype "flying wing" aircraft of our U.S. Air Force. I was amused to see that this event took place in Nampa. In 1883, this town was the site of a very unusual Fortean event. A man named M.A. Kurz began drilling a well, and the sump pump spit up a human figurine of incalculable age from a depth of 300 feet below ground. Part of the "doll" had begun to metamorphose, showing an age of hundreds of thousands of years. Good luck with The UFO Store. Thanks to Joe Trainor Masinaigan
Last Sunday, November 11, 2001, my mother and I saw a UFO. It was about four minutes after seven when my mother called me out of my room to our back porch. She pointed out an object that at first looked like a bright star. Then it started to move very slowly and we began to see more detail. There was a red intense red aura type of light surrounding the object just enough to make out a shape with binoculars. This thing was far away at least a thousand feet up, and kind of a disc shape with a black mass to it. It appeared then it would disappear for about 4 to 6 seconds. Then a red ball object came out of the lighted end and seemed like it dropped like a flare after you shot in the sky. I can tell I never been so excited I finally saw one after all these years of looking in the sky. Thanks to RT
PORTLAND -- The 10 o'clock KPTV News reports on November 15, 2001, includes video film of alleged UFOs. -- The Pacific Northwest is no stranger to the UFO phenomenon. For years, Mount Adams, in south central Washington, has been a hub for UFO activity. Mount Adams is home to what some call UFO's and others call naturally occurring lights or satellites. Hundreds of people have claimed to see the lights, and one man who lives near the mountain even claims to have contact with the extraterrestrial beings that are behind the lights. When James Gilliland built his home just outside Trout Lake, Washington, he had no idea it sat right in the middle of a UFO flight path. He and hundreds of other who frequent his 70-acre property near the mountain believe the lights are UFO's. Gilliland has recorded over 15 hours of video of the strange lights. Gilliland also claims he has had direct contact with the inter-dimensional spiritual beings who control what he calls light ships. "These are very advanced beings technologically, spiritually we have to rise to the occasion," said Gilliland. Others say the strange lights are just natural occurring nocturnal geo-thermal lights or satellites. OMSI planetarium director Jim Todd says the images on James Gilliland's video look like ordinary satellites to him. "I can understand their excitement cause they see something moving across the stars. I've seen a lot of satellites space station shuttle and their fun to watch they really are," said Todd. More than 30 years ago, scientists from around the country began documenting the strange light phenomenon. In 1972, "The Investigation of Nocturnal Light Phenomena at Toppensh, Washington" was released. The report outlines several encounters, such as the following: "The light moved so fast it gave the impression of a streak. It would appear stationary for a moment and then almost instantaneously appear some distance away." Now, over thirty years later, there are still no clear answers to the mysterious lights, but Gilliland does say the aliens have a message for all of humanity. "We need to clean up our consciousness. Clean up our environment, raise up, and lead a spiritual way of life." Thanks to firstname.lastname@example.com http://www.oregons12.com/news/local/story.asp?content_id=775291 rd
ONTARIO -- Paul wrote I told my father was visiting me last week and I showed him the on line video of the Disclosure seminar. He reminded me of his unexplained encounter he had. This encounter happened a few years ago while he was working far up in Northern Canada. He was a hydro station inspector. He spent many nights awake looking at the skies and wolves. He is an amateur photographer and was looking to get shots of the wolves feeding at night, anyway he was gazing at the perfectly clear mid winter night, when he noticed three objects in the sky that were quite high in elevation. They were side by side and the middle object was longer then the outside two. The 3 objects were cylindrical shaped, joined together by small joints, like balls on a string. Then one of the outside objects split off, flew a wide circle around the sky, and then shot off out of sight. The middle larger object and the smaller object beside turned lengthwise and seem to face end down towards him. They had very bright lights. They held this position for a while then separated and shot out of sight. He has never told anyone of his encounter for fear of ridicule. He is a very honest person and knows aircraft as he was flying in helicopters all the time in the north. He does have a photo of the objects, which I have seen and are amazing. We both firmly believe we are not alone, how can you not with the billions of solar systems out there. Its time for governments to admit it. Thanks to Paul Cook in Toronto.
BUENOS AIRES -- An air of confusion and suspicion surrounds an hour-long incident in the night skies over the South Atlantic Argentine airspace. The Argentinean newspaper Clar¡n, reports a Lear Jet carrying Lt. Governor Daniel Gallo, encountered unidentified bright flashing lights in the sky over Patagonia. Piloted by commander Mariano Zalotti and copilot Mario Beban, the aircraft had left Jorge Newbery Airfield at 20.50 hours, November 12, and set course for the airport at R¡o Grande. The jet was traveling at a height of 10,000 meters when they saw a nearby blinking lights in the darkness. The "estroboc¢picas" [strobe] lights appeared on the left side of their aircraft. "Nevertheless, I never thought that it could be a foreign military airplane invading our airspace," the three occupants of the aircraft discounted the lights as being either a UFO and theorized that they could have belonged instead to a British aircraft, whose base is at Mount Pleasant, in the Falkland Islands." When flying over the city of Commodore Rivadavia, 75 miles out to sea [Strait of Magellan G-fs], we observed for the first time the flashing lights that followed a short distance, flying the same map course to a height superior and of greater speed", Commander Zalotti said later. "Then we flew at a cruising speed of 900 kilometers per hour." A British Embassy spokesman in Buenos Aires denied that it could have been an aircraft from that country and described the claim by the pilots as "speculation without sense." There was confirmation that no other Argentinean aircraft had been flying in the area at this time. Thanks to email@example.com, Wilmar Caballero Published: 11/14/01 http://www.clarin.com/diario/2001-11-14/p-02001.htm
The following message was received by Inexplicata from Rodrigo Cuadra Salazar of Chile's TOC (Tecnologia, OVNIS y Ciencia) Channel 13 of the Catholic University of Chile broadcast a UFO filmed by Eric Martinez, a member of the GEO group, on Saturday, November 10, 2001. The UFO was filmed over the hills surrounding the La Florida commune. A curious detail is that one object was filmed by day, and another object was filmed at night. They could be one and the same. "
Thanks to Scott Corrales Institute of Hispanic Ufology and INEXPLICATA--The Journal of Hispanic Ufology
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While Hollywood sees tons of crossover stars that may (or may not) successfully wear many hats, we have to give a hand to the fashion insiders who seem to do it with ease and grace. The latest example: Emily Weiss. The reality-TV personality turned successful blogger — Into the Gloss has been a longtime fixture among our bookmarks — now shows us a new side as the face of the 10 Crosby spring '13 lookbook.
The Derek Lam diffusion line is one that we constantly seek out each season, as it offered the same sharp, sexy, and laid-back cool of the namesake collection. Weiss very fittingly serves as the model who embodies it all and, in this case, actually styled the looks, as well.
From one electric blue number that redefines "power suit" to a touch of Western flare and the return of the relaxed pajama looks that 10 Crosby is known for, the collection once again serves as inspiration for the next season to come. It's no wonder that Weiss — herself, a collection of mixed talents — helps pull it all together. (Fashionista)
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There's an article that was posted recently on Science Daily about how much vitamin D a breastfeeding mother needs in order for some of it to be passed to her baby through her milk.
The not-often-discussed issue of Vitamin D deficiency in nursing mothers is discussed by an expert, and how it can affect the infants in their care. An "adequate" intake for nursing mothers is not the 400 IU/d the IOM recommends, but is instead in the range of 5,000-6,000 IU/d, taken daily. If they get that much, they will meet not only their own needs, but their infant's as well.


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Aidan Quinn of "Elementary"
Chicago native Aidan Quinn (left, with Jonny Lee Miller) plays Captain Toby Gregson in "Elementary," which premieres at 9 p.m. Sept. 27 on CBS. He was raised in Chicago, Rockford and in Ireland (Dublin and Birr, County Offaly). Quinn got his start in acting in Chicago theater at age 19. He trained at the Piven Theatre Workshop.
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OK... I didn't know which forum to post this on, but I know there are lots of brilliant AntiOnliners out there that have helped me in the past... hopefully you see this:
I have a VPN setup between two SonicWall TZ170s in my two offices. I am running a Window Network but have a Unix mainframe we access for a lot of our data. In my main office I use TinyTerm emulator to access the mainframe. Up in my other office that runs over the VPN I use FacetWin. Since I installed FacetWin it has been disconnecting randomly every 15 minutes to an hour and we need to keep reconnecting. Which doesn't seem like a big deal but it is filling up all my pseudo-devices and causing a big mess. I determined that only the terminals the were inactive for while were the ones that were disconnecting. I had my software developer just send a null character every couple minutes to keep the sessions alive and that has remedied the problem for now. But I would really like to find out what is causing the problem.
I've already determined the Internet connections and the VPN connection itself is not going down.
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It's been a long search, but I finally found a new flat.
But before I go on, I'd just like to thank everyone for your kind & thoughtful comments, messages and emails regarding the move, it's really meant a lot to me.
After viewing 26 flats over the last two weeks, Bruce & I finally found the right one - a gorgeous 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom, open plan, ultra-modern flat with a balcony overlooking the gorgeous London skyline. It will be a very different living experience, as I've only ever lived in old Victorian buildings since moving to London 15 years ago. This new flat has floor to ceiling windows, gorgeous light and a large kitchen. The second bedroom is going to be our studio and I've already planned all the details - I'm so excited about it that I just can't wait to move!
It's also turned really cold again in London - hopefully for the last time this winter. Having said that, the crocuses in my window boxes have burst into full bloom, and after what seems like such a long winter, it's a lovely sign that spring is well and truly on it's way.
On cold days like these, there's nothing I like more than a bowl of comforting fruit crumble to warm me up again. I had some mixed red berries (raspberries, blackberries, redcurrants) in the freezer that I'd frozen at the end of summer last year, and I've been meaning to make something with them for some time now, so when I saw this gorgeous & tender forced rhubarb, I thought it would be the perfect accompaniment for my crumbles.
I always make double the amount of crumble topping, scattering half over the fruit, and the other half on a baking tray which I bake separately - this is mainly because I get extra crunchy bits on my crumble that way, and I also get to keep more for later and sprinkle over ice cream, yoghurt or fresh fruit - I could have crumble on anything - salads, soups, buttered toast, etc.
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Are The White Sox Really A Bunch Of Underachievers?
The fist table has OPS and predictd OPS for all the guys who have 200+ ABs on the Sox this year. Some guys did not get projections. Overall it does not look too bad. Some guys are doing better than expected, some worse. I calculated the average differential at a negative -.010. Not huge.
Now pitchers and their ERAs. Things don't look too bad here, either. There is one more table after this that uses WHIP per 9 IP.
Now the WHIP table. Does not look so terrible.
11 comments:
- Bill said...
Kenny Williams opened his mouth and was wrong? Who could've guessed? ;)
The James projections are kind of notoriously optimistic, too (not to say they're wrong, but they're generally sunnier than ZiPS, PECOTA, etc.), so I'd say if anything, they're overachieving...
- August 18, 2009 at 3:00 PM
- Cyril Morong said...
Thanks for dropping by and making such good points. In case you are interested, I posted something on Pujols winning the triple crown on 7-4. Here is the link
- August 18, 2009 at 3:08 PM
- Bill said...
Thanks, Cy. I actually found this site through your comment to that effect on wezen-ball. Great work here, and you were obviously way ahead of the curve on Pujols. :)
- August 18, 2009 at 3:32 PM
- Cyril Morong said...
Thanks. So you live in Chicago, but you are a Twins fan? I grew up near Oak Lawn (went to Oak Lawn high school). But I live in San Antonio, TX now. In the 1970's my family took vactaions near Brainerd.
- August 18, 2009 at 3:37 PM
- Bill said...
Yes, I grew up in the Twin Cities, but went away for college and haven't quite made it back yet (though I'm inching closer). I've been up to Brainerd on little vacations many times. We live on the north side, within (longish) walking distance of Wrigley.
- August 18, 2009 at 4:11 PM
Seriously though, the projections systems hardly even can figure out the Sox.
However, the Sox have a FIP nearly .4 runs better than the Tigers and a wOBA 3 points higher and yet are two behind. By those measures sure, they are underachieving
- August 18, 2009 at 5:23 PM
- Colin said...
Kenny presumably has his own projections, ones that are probably better than anything commonly available. Though really, why take him at his word there?
- August 18, 2009 at 5:34 PM
- Cyril Morong said...
You make some good points. Just to underscore what you are saying, the Sox have an OPS differential of .025 while it is -.008 for the Tigers. The Sox pitchers are 2nd lowest in OPS allowed but that drops to 4th with runners on and 9th with runners in scoring position. But I think that is just bad luck, not underachieving.
- August 18, 2009 at 6:00 PM
- Cyril Morong said...
Fan graphs has the Sox at -.69 wins in clutch hitting and +.06 in pitching (using WPA). For the Tigers, it is 1.45 and 1.73. So the Tigers have been 3.81 wins more clutch. That is, they are more timely in their pitching and hitting.
- August 18, 2009 at 6:06 PM
- Cyril Morong said...
From regression analysis, an equation for winning pct is
Pct = .5 + 1.21*OPSdifferential.
The Sox should have .530 and the Tigers should have .490. So the Sox should be 4-5 games ahead of the Tigers based on that.
- August 18, 2009 at 6:15 PM
- Cyril Morong said...
The Sox have a .675 OPS in close and late situations and their pitchers allow a .696 OPS. For the Tigers those numbers are .782 and .693.
- August 18, 2009 at 8:36 PM


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U.N. nuke agency: Progress on Iran nuclear program
VIENNA (AP) — A senior U.N. official announced progress Friday in long-stalled efforts to resume a probe of suspicions that Iran may have worked to develop nuclear arms, saying the investigation could be restarted by early next year.
Herman Nackaerts of the International Atomic Energy Agency spoke of headway after returning from talks with Iranian officials in Tehran, saying his team was "able to make progress" and the IAEA expects to "start implementing" an agreement on the probe shortly after new talks in Tehran on Jan. 16
He acknowledged that a key IAEA request — a visit to a site linked to suspected nuclear weapons research — was again denied. But he told reporters at Vienna airport that he expected IAEA experts to be allowed to go to Parchin, a military base southeast of Tehran, and follow up on suspicions it might have been used as part of secret arms-related experiments once the probe is resumed.
In Tehran, Iran's state TV also reported that there was no agreement on visiting Parchin. But in comments to state TV, Iranian envoy Ali Asghar Soltanieh called the talks "constructive," adding that "good progress was made." He also said a new meeting was set for Jan. 16.
While Nackaerts' comments gave cause for some optimism, they were not the first instance of a senior IAEA official saying that the standoff was close to resolution.
Returning from Tehran talks more than five months ago, IAEA chief Yukiya Amano said the two sides had agreed on "an almost clean text", saying a breakthrough deal would be signed soon. Follow-up IAEA-Iran meetings did not yield significant results.
Iran says it does not want atomic arms and has justified a nearly yearlong delay in cooperating with the IAEA's probe by saying that a framework regulating such an investigation must be agreed on first. But as talks on such an agreement have dragged on, agency officials have complained that they may be nothing more than a delaying tactic.
They are particularly concerned that such delays can hurt their efforts to investigate Parchin. The IAEA suspects that Iran has conducted live tests of conventional explosives there that could be used to detonate a nuclear charge and cited satellite photos indicating a cleanup of the site, at the sprawling military base.
Iran denies it is sanitizing the site, but Amano has warned that his agency's chances of a meaningful investigation there are diminishing.
Nackaerts offered no details on the substance of his talks. But diplomats familiar with the negotiations have said previously that the agreement was stalled because the IAEA wanted repeated access to sites, officials or documents of interest. Instead, Tehran demanded that once such access was granted, the person, document or site be off limits to the IAEA for repeated visits, questioning of viewing.
Amano's announcement of a nearly done deal in May came just days before the two sides met in Baghdad for a new round of negotiations meant to defuse tensions over Iran's nuclear program before leaving the negotiating table with little progress made.
This time, Nackaerts also spoke of movement on the probe as Iran and six world powers again prepare to meet, although they still have not said where and when. The six nations hope the talks will result in an agreement by the Islamic Republic to stop enriching uranium to a higher level that could be turned relatively quickly into the fissile core of nuclear arms.
Iran denies such aspirations insisting it is enriching only to make reactor fuel and to make isotopes for medical purposes.
By compromising on the IAEA probe, Iran could argue that the onus was now on the six powers to show some flexibility, temper their demands, and roll back U.S. and European sanctions that have hit Iran's critical oil exports and blacklisted the country from international banking networks.
The IAEA has already visited Parchin twice — the last time in 2005. But it did not have access then to satellite imagery then and visited buildings other than the one now pinpointed by the aerial photos.
Emailing a series of commercial satellite photographs of the Parchin site to The Associated Press on Wednesday, the Institute for Science and International Security said the images showed "a steady pace of what appears to be the 'reconstruction' phase of the site, which between April and July 2012 had undergone considerable alterations. " ISIS head David Albright frequently briefs U.S. government branches on Iran's nuclear program.
But a former IAEA inspector questioned what the information shown on the satellite photos actually mean.
"This 'sanitization story' is an old wives' tale," said Robert Kelley, in an email Friday to the AP. "It is clear from examination of the satellite images that there is no concerted effort to disguise possible uranium contamination outside the building."
Kelley said the activities at Parchin reflected "a construction project, not a demolition effort," adding: "This is clearly not a sanitization."
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When a boy comes of age in a movie made by Francophones, he's generally obliged to visit a brothel. Among the latest to fulfill this duty is Tarek–and in his case, the rite of passage defies convention. The adult sensuality he savors comes in the form of Nescafé, with milk. The prostitutes, though suited to his fancy, fascinate him less than the madam, a volcanic monologuist dressed in a lava flow of robes. The French language, though available to him, pops out in only a word or two, half-disguised amid a flow of Arabic. And the greatest excitement of his entry into this, the legendary house of Oum Walid? It's the discovery, in the late seventies, that both Muslim and Christian johns frequent this brothel, leaving their assault rifles outside the door. Here, at last, Tarek finds hope. Here there's only one Beirut, with no division into East and West.
Written and directed by Ziad Doueiri, based on his memories of growing up amid civil war, West Beirut seems destined to be called the Lebanese 400 Blows, which is unfortunate. The film is too good to be praised (and dismissed) by comparison. There are, of course, obvious points of contact between Doueiri's first feature and Truffaut's. Both are semi-autobiographical; both are episodic; both track the course of a young man (or boy) who is clever and dislikes school and finds that home life has grown increasingly tense and street life increasingly risky. I can even imagine Doueiri's having taken The 400 Blows as a model for his film. (For evidence of that possibility, look no further than West Beirut's explicit strain of cinephilia.) And yet, for all that, Doueiri's film speaks a different language. The things it has to say in that language–about tensions at home and risks on the street of a sort that were unknown to Truffaut–entitle West Beirut to a category of its own.
The film begins in 1975 with adolescent high spirits, and with moviemaking. Tarek (played by Rami Doueiri, the director's brother) is a skinny question-mark of a kid, whose body curves up to a long shaggy head, then down a long nose to a smile that's both goofy and obstinate. Mama's boy, clown and provocateur, Tarek is the boy who disrupts the high school to get attention–but also, in his case, to express national pride. He attends Beirut's lycée; and one day, during the flag-raising ceremony, he carries a bullhorn onto a balcony overlooking the courtyard and, to general cheers, drowns out the "Marseillaise" with a Lebanese anthem.
Below, photographing the scene with a Super-8 camera, is round-faced, square-shouldered Omar (Mohamad Chamas), Tarek's best friend, who is a head shorter than our hero and likes to boss him around. From time to time, West Beirut shows you a bit of Omar's footage, which looks appropriately casual–as does Doueiri's, in a more polished way. Fond of handheld shots that walk you into the action and of tight framing that keeps the characters snug in their world, Doueiri joins himself through camera style to Omar and Tarek, evoking a moment of adolescence when cinema was a fresh discovery, friendship seemed eternal and war always happened to other people.
They were the Other, even if they were only yards away. That's what we learn at the beginning of West Beirut, when Tarek, because of his defiance of the "Marseillaise," becomes witness to the deaths of dozens of civilians. His teacher has just dismissed him from class; and while she addresses a tirade to his departing back, insisting that France gave Lebanon its civilization and culture and laws and peace, Tarek once again finds himself observing an interesting scene from a balcony. This time, the figures at his feet are not his cheering school chums. They're gunmen in ski masks who creep along the street toward a bus carrying Palestinians. The gunmen open fire; and through the dreamlike logic of movies, Tarek's prank from the first scene now explodes in the second into bloodshed.


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Are the space guys watching more closely?
According to UFO enthusiasts, we on Planet Earth have been witness to an inordinate number of UFO sightings in the past year or so. The objects in question appear to be making themselves more obvious than in the past. Some have lingered for long periods as if they wanted us to be certain that they were not figments of our imaginations, or something manmade, like weather balloons.
If one is to believe some of the hundreds of allegedly credible people who have reported the sightings, there is little doubt that the objects are real. Unfortunately, we don't know what or who they are. None have landed, and no passengers or pilots have come out and introduced themselves, or even made their presence known.
In other words, we have seen flying objects that appear to be mechanically controlled, but no visible signs of life, alien or otherwise, has come to the forefront.
The reasons for the increase in visitations can only be speculative, but a few things come to mind that could be causing the space guys concern.
It appears that earthlings have such a penchant for irresponsible disposal of waste that we have not only polluted our planet beyond repair, we are now polluting space. The amount of space junk orbiting the Earth has been a lifethreatening hazard to the astronauts manning the International Space Station.
Last Tuesday, Russian Mission Control announced that orbital debris came within a couple of hundred yards of the station. The crew briefly took seats in escape capsules as a safety precaution. Spokesman Valery Lyndin said that the six crewmen spent about half an hour in two Soyuz escape capsules docked at the station before the space junk passed without incident.
Apparently, the space station periodically faces close encounters with debris, and engineers normally adjust the station's orbit to reduce the probability of impact. However, if monitors fail to spot the space junk in time to perform the maneuver, the crew has to board the capsules in case of a collision, which could prove fatal.
NASA announced in a specialist newsletter that millions of chunks of metal, plastic and glass are whizzing around the Earth. It's the garbage left from 4,600 launches in 54 years of space exploration. Although the collision risk is low, the junk travels at such high speed that even a tiny shard can cripple a satellite worth tens of millions of dollars.
Additionally, NASA reports that the U.S. Space Surveillance Network tracks around 16,000 pieces bigger than four inches across. Nonetheless, there are around 500,000 pieces between a half and four inches, while the total of particles smaller than half an inch probably exceeds tens of millions, according to the NASA website.
The rubbish mainly comes from old satellites and upper stages of rockets whose residual fuel or other fluids explode while they turn in orbit. As the junk bumps and grinds, more debris results.
Between 1991 and 2009, only four known collisions with satellites causing damage have occurred, according to France's Center for Space Studies. In low Earth orbit, where the station is deployed, debris impacts at around six miles per second or 22,400 mph. To cope with such threats, the ISS has some shielding, but mainly depends on maneuvering to get out of the way, an operation it has had to do several times to avoid disastrous collisions.
Many believe that the space guys have been watching mankind pollute our planet for quite some time. According to historians, modern man has been creating garbage for upwards of 195,000 years, most of which has been dumped in the oceans.
Last week, 27 renowned marine scientists warned that mass extinctions of species in the world's oceans are inevitable if current trends of over-fishing, habitat loss, global warming and pollution continue.
The scientists explained that vanishing species from sea turtles to coral would upend the ocean's ecosystem. Fish are the main source of protein for a fifth of the world's population and the seas cycle oxygen which helps absorb carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas produced by human activities.
If the space guys are watching, there is a good chance that our extraterrestrial neighbors are not too happy about our waste disposal methods, particularly now that they are spilling over into their territory.
The space guys are probably weary of watching us destroy our planet and threaten others with our pollution while we live in a system that even they can't understand.


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Most experienced IT folks have faced the choice of freelancing versus working for an established business. Freelancing offers creative autonomy but not necessarily steady income. A job with a larger company provides a steady paycheck but often comes with creative and personal constraints.
We are part of a growing movement among creative professionals who want an alternative to traditional business structures. The worker-cooperative business model enables IT professionals to maintain control of their work and life, produce excellent work, and retain the benefits of the value that they create, without sacrificing security. Our tech cooperatives offer the support and team approach of a firm but are entirely owned and democratically governed by the folks who work in them - us.
This is a moderated panel with a focused, first-person discussion of different experiences of working in tech cooperatives. We will explain why a growing number of IT professionals prefer working in a co-op setting, the advantages and drawbacks of a democratic workplace, and the processes of starting and maintaining a worker cooperative.
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WABC-TV/NEW YORK DAILY NEWS New York Statewide Poll, October 1998 (ICPSR 2645)
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This special topic poll, fielded October 12-13, 1998, sought New York State residents' views on the upcoming November 1998 elections and other political issues. Respondents were asked whether they intended to vote in the elections, specifically in the senatorial and gubernatorial races. They were asked for their opinions on President Bill Clinton, New York Senator Alfonse D'Amato, Democratic senatorial candidate Charles Schumer, New York Governor George Pataki, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Peter Vallone, Liberal Party gubernatorial candidate Betsy McCaughey Ross, and Independent Party gubernatorial candidate Thomas Golisano. Respondents were asked to assess D'Amato's achievements while in office, to compare D'Amato's and Schumer's integrity, and to declare for whom they intended to vote. They were also asked to assess Pataki's achievements while in office, to compare Pataki's and his challengers' integrity, and to declare for whom they intended to vote in that race. Those queried were asked to identify which of the following issues were most important to them when making electoral decisions: crime, economic development, education, the environment, health care reform, tax cuts, abortion, fiscal responsibility, integrity of the politicians, or expressing support/opposition to Clinton. Respondents were asked whether they supported the referendum that would permit New York City public monies to be spent on building a new Yankee Stadium in Manhattan, and whether that referendum had strengthened their desire to participate in the election. An additional question asked respondents whether they believed that impeachment hearings should be held to decide the fate of Clinton. Background information on respondents includes age, sex, race, ethnicity, political party, political orientation, education, religion, and family income.
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Pyramids were built by numerous Human Earth cultures as monuments, burial sites, and places of worship. They were part of the city designed by Kukulkan. All of the ancient Human cultures influenced by Kukulkan built some type of pyramid, although none of them did it in the perfect way that he had planned. (TAS: "How Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth")
The series of monumental burial chambers built for Egyptian kings of Earth, are among the oldest known, dating from the 27th century BC. The Great Pyramid of Giza was the largest of the pyramids, and one of Earth's most notable landmarks. It had been observed by anthropologists, following proper time travel protocols, since 2769. Daniels showed temporal observers watching the pyramid's construction to Captain Archer in the Temporal Observatory. (ENT: "Cold Front")
After Archer restored a damaged timeline, the Pyramids could be seen in the timestream as the timeline realigned itself. (ENT: "Storm Front, Part II")
The Great Pyramid was also among the images displayed by the Guardian of Forever. (TOS: "The City on the Edge of Forever")
Another prominent pyramid-shaped structure on Earth was the Transamerica Pyramid.
Pyramid-like structures were also found on Ventax II, and in the city of Urquat on the Loque'eque homeworld. (TNG: "Devil's Due"; ENT: "Extinction")
There was at some point a painting of a landscape with a steep pyramid in the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) officer's lounge. (TOS: "Is There in Truth No Beauty?"
The dice used by the Wadi for their game chula were pyramidic. (DS9: "Move Along Home")


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Life Expectancy For Diabetics w/o Treatment?
My mother-in-law was diagnosed with Diabetes a few years ago and she doesn`t have insurance or want to change her lifestyle. She eats whatever she wants and she smokes. Her hands and feet are swollen all the time and she has lost most feeling in them, she has a hard time sleeping and walking, she is tired and in pain all the time and rarely takes her meds or checks her blood sugar levels. How long do you think she could go on like this without the proper care? Thank you!
First, I am very sorry your mother-in-law is going through this; it must also be difficult for you to see this happening to her. Checking blood sugar, following a balanced meal plan and taking prescribed medication are essential to control diabetes. Stopping smoking is also very important to help control blood pressure and keep the blood vessels healthy and lower the risk of heart attack and stroke.
Living with a chronic disease like diabetes can be difficult and requires daily monitoring, diet, exercise, medication, etc; it is not unusual for the person with diabetes to become discouraged. When this happens they may feel 'what's the use?', stop taking their medications, eating well and checking their blood sugar daily.
Does your mother-in-law have a doctor? It is important that she see a doctor as soon as possible, given the symptoms you describe. The doctor could also determine if she would benefit from seeing a social worker or other behavioral health professional about dealing with diabetes.
Does she have Medicare? Many doctors accept payment from Medicare. In addition, one of the benefits of Medicare is for diabetes education, including classes and individual sessions with a nurse and dietitian to help the person put together a plan to help manage their diabetes. They may also help the person locate where to obtain diabetes medications at a lower cost. They may also know of county assistance programs or clinical studies that could defray costs. Good luck!
Margaret G Doyle, RD, LD, CDE
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Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (UK - BD)
Marcus follows these two love birds around town and steals their mix tapes
Nick (Michael Cera) is having trouble getting over his ex girlfriend Tris (Alexis Dziena) and his friends/band mates, Thom (Aaron Yoo) and Dev (Rafi Gavron) convince him to come out for the evening. There he meets Norah (Kat Dennings) and their relationship starts with a kiss.
Seeing this as a good opportunity to cheer their friend up, Thom and Dev decide to step in and help this potential romance along by taking Norah's drunk friend Caroline (Ari Graynor) home and letting Nick and Norah spend some quality time together as they talk about their shared tastes in music, past relationships and track down the secret gig of infamous band of the moment "Where's Fluffy?"
Okay, I'm gonna put it out there straight away, I dig Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist in a big bad way. I put it in the pile with a batch of movies that I could watch a lot or just have on in the background and be happy. Movies like, American Graffiti, the fantastic Lost in Translation, and the great Empire Records; movies that have great soundtracks and basically keep me on board for the duration because hanging out with the characters is a blast.
Nick and Norah has a great little cast. I've been a fan of Michael Cera since Bluth Days in Arrested Development, but he just keeps getting better and better. He somehow makes dialogue sound fresh and made up on the spot and his little throw away comments are on top form here. His sense of timing is astonishing and the little things about his car or comments on situations raise a chuckle every time. "You don't have to yell, it's not a train station. We're in a tiny car!" All this coupled with his underlying vulnerability and awkwardness just make Nick a thoroughly enjoyable character to hang out with. Countering him is Kat Dennings as Norah and she's one cool chick. I really like how their relationship blossoms and how we slowly learn about her character's little hang-ups. Again her vulnerability really makes the character shine and when she does finally reveal all to Nick, there's a real sense of intimacy that you can tell this character has been looking for.
In regards to the supporting cast, Norah's drunk friend Caroline is a riot and she delivers one of the grimmest public toilet moments in movie history. Nick's gay friends in their van are just great as they struggle for a new band name and give Nick's little nuggets of wisdom along his night out and Alexis Dziena plays it with just the right amount of bitch to be thoroughly enjoyable. However the best support in the movie is the soundtrack. This collection of songs has been a permanent fixture on my MP3 player since I saw the movie at the start of the year and watching the movie again with more of a knowledge of the tracks really upped the experience a couple of notches for me this time out. I was already a fan of Vampire Weekend and Band of Horses as well as a few others on the track listing, but getting into many of the other acts as well was an added bonus and something I really enjoy about a good soundtrack. However saying that, my enjoyment of the song 'Negative' by 'Project Jenny, Project Jan' may be a bordering on obsession—though I promise you, I'm not dancing to it like the guy in the movie (what a dude).
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist is just a blast. I like how it looks, I like how it feels, I really like Peter Sollett's laidback approach to his direction and think he does a great job at making you feel something for this blossoming romance. Nick and Norah's Infinate Playlist is a pretty realistic modern love story that manages to capture (prepare yourself, I'm about to sound very old) the excitement of youth (see). It grabs that feeling of fun and the love of music you may have had when all you did was knock about with friends and spend hours just going from place to place without caring how late it was, listening to music and of course falling in love.
Nick and Norah has a fairly pleasing transfer, but it has to be said that grain levels can have moments of being a little too distracting, especially when sitting inside Nick's yellow Yugo. Besides the presence of grain, colours are bright and the warm lights of the city and various clubs really glow off of the screen. Contrast levels can vary between natural and slightly washed out and the same can be said for detail. The image is generally sharp but different lighting can present varying results. Overall I wouldn't say that this was an impressive transfer but it's an adequate one and one that fits the style of the movie pretty well—if only grain levels could be cut down a little.
Pretty much the entire TrueHD track for Nick and Norah resides in the front speakers with only the odd musical track using the rears to any real effect. Dialogue is fine but it has to be said that only the soundtrack shows off the great elements of the track. Whether played as background music in the car or loud and proud as part of the movie, every track sounds great and is used expertly to create the mood to the scenes. Once again, there's nothing exceptional here but it really is all the movie really needs.
Coming loaded with 'Cinechat', the all new text chat system to let you watch/chat along with your friends as well as 'Nick and Norah's Interactive Playlist', which not only gives you a fact track but lets you send playlists to your friends. This is a disc that's trying to get its target audience to interact. It's a shame this, like BD-Live, takes that minute or two too long to actually load up every time and I personally don't get the appeal. Maybe one day a movie will come along with this feature and I'll get it, but at the moment it's lost on me.
Moving on, we get two commentaries; one is a telestator kind with Michael Cera, Kat Dennings, Ari Gaynor and director Peter Sullett. It's fun, playful and the added scribbles on the screen add a few laughs along the way. The second, which includes Peter Sollett again, authors of the book Rachael Cohn and David Levithan as well as screenwriter Lorne Scarfaria, is a little more serious and as you'd expect it highlights how the movie compares to the book.
The nine deleted scenes offer up a few additions like the ongoing handing of demo CDs to Norah but really are only extensions of scenes. The 'outtakes' (04:12) are a little bit of fun.
'A Nick & Norah Puppet Show by Kat Dennings' (SD 5:12) is pretty sweet with its little coloured in paper cut outs and 'Ari Garynor's Video Diary: A Look Behind-the-Scenes' (03:56 SD) is kinda short but gives a nice look at the mood on set.
Storyboard Animations, of which there are two, come with optional commentary by Peter Sollett and editor Myron Kerstein and prove to be quite interesting considering they are re-shoots and we get a nice explanation of how they came about and what they tried to achieve with them.
'Faux Interview with Michael Cera, Kat Dennings and Eddie Kaye Thomas' (0 2:50 SD) is a good little spoof with Eddie Kaye Thomas playing the two leads off of one another and 'Peter Sollett's Photo Album' is a nice collection of photos showing off his cast.
Rounding up with the 'Music Video: Middle Management by Bishop Allen' (02:53 SD) and trailers for House Bunny, Rachel Getting Married, Seven Pounds and Blu-ray is High Definition, it has to be said there's not an awful lot on the disc time wise but just enough to have a bit of fun with.
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist is a movie I can see myself returning to quite a bit. I love a great movie that's easy to watch, has a great little soundtrack and with a cast that's this much fun to follow around on their night out. I love how the movie wears its passions on its sleeve, from the multitude of band flyers and posters littered around the scenes as well as the many conversations about love and life and more importantly I think the coming together of its two lead characters is genuine enough to go along with on multiple viewings.
Disc wise, it's pretty standard with nothing standing out in audio, video or extras departments but even so, I think there's enough to enjoy here and for anyone who wants a laid back modern love story with a great bit of music, this is the place to come.
* Note: The above images are taken from the Blu-ray release and resized for the page.
Review by Marcus Doidge
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Chris Gould wrote: Plus like, you know, Kat Dennings has awesome boobs. Just sayin'.
Chris Gould wrote: Plus like, you know, Kat Dennings has awesome boobs. Just sayin'.
Yeah, that too.
Yeah, that too.
Plus like, you know, Kat Dennings has awesome boobs. Just sayin'.
I could not agree with this review more! I totally feel the same way about this film as Marcus does because it does feel like hanging out and having a fun time with friends. The actors are great and I love the soundtrack, easily one of my favorites that I could watch anytime.
I enjoyed this too. Kat is total babe. A very light teen romance film.
Suitable only for persons of 12 years and over
Disc Details
Release Date: 22nd June 2009
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 1.85:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: Dolby TrueHD 5.1 Catalan, Dolby TrueHD 5.1 English, Audio Description 5.1 English
Subtitles: Danish, English, English HoH, Finnish, Hindi, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish
Extras: Cinechat, Commentaries, Playlist, Deleted scenes, Outakaes, Puppet Show, Behind the Scnes, Storyboard Animations, Faux Interview, Photo's , Music Video, Trailers
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Peter Sollett
Cast: Michael Cera, Kat Dennings
Genre: Comedy and Drama
Length: 89 minutes
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