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SAN ANTONIO, June 16 (UPI) -- Tony Parker, Manu Ginobili and Danny Green combined for 74 points Sunday and the San Antonio Spurs bested Miami 114-104 for a 3-2 lead in the NBA Finals.
Parker (26 points), Ginobili (24, 10 assists) and Green (24, six 3-pointers) led an unrelenting offensive assault as the Spurs shot a sizzling 60 percent from the field on their way to a Game 5 victory.
After trading baskets with the Heat to begin the game, Parker netted six straight points to ignite a 15-2 run ending the first period and the Spurs were rarely challenged after that.
Kahwi Leonard (16 points, eight rebounds, three steals) punctuated the run with a 3-pointer for the top-seeded Spurs, who marked their last home game of the season with a resounding win and pushed Miami to the brink of elimination.
LeBron James provided 25 points, eight assists and four steals while Dwyane Wade added 25 points and 10 assists for defending NBA champion Miami.
The Heat will try to extend its season at home in Tuesday's Game 6.


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MOSCOW (AP) — A senior lawmaker from the pro-Kremlin party resigned his seat in parliament on Wednesday after an anti-corruption campaigner alleged that he owns properties in Florida worth more than $2 million.
Vladimir Pekthin, chairman of the State Duma's ethics committee, told the parliament that he is stepping down to protect his party from the scandal.
The lawmaker became the center of the scandal last week when the anti-corruption crusader, Alexei Navalny, published copies of deeds and other legal documents indicating that Pekhtin and his son own two condos in Miami Beach and a villa in Ormond Beach, Florida. The market value of one of the two condos is about $1.3 million, Navalny said.
The resignation also comes days after Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill that would prohibit Russian officials from holding bank accounts abroad.
Pekhtin has denied owning the properties although he admitted that his signatures on the deeds were genuine. Last week he told Izvestia daily that he "owns practically no property abroad."
In an interview with the NTV TV channel over the weekend Pekhtin insisted that the condos and villas belong to his 35-year-old son, Alexei. Pekhtin said that he does not speak English and thought that "warranty deed" meant that he was signing on the deals as a trustee. He describes the scandal as a "legal misunderstanding."
"I'm innocent before the law," Pekhtin told lawmakers, adding that allegations aim to "discredit the government and parliament."
Russian law does not bar public officials from owning property abroad but the officials are supposed to disclose all their property and bank accounts in tax statements. Pekhtin has never disclosed any property abroad.
Vladimir Vasilyev, Pekhtin's fellow lawmaker from the United Russia party, told the Interfax news agency after the morning session that Pekhtin will go to the United States to prove that he does not own property there.
Navalny, who made the allegations public in his blog last week hailed Pektin's resignation and said that he "feels a bit sorry" about $189 that he had to spend on the shipment of the certified copies that have yet to arrive from the United States.

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Preparing chemically competent cells
From OpenWetWare
See also Transforming chemically competent cells
- Plate of cells to be made competent
- TSS buffer
- LB media
- Ice
Glassware & Equipment
- Falcon tubes
- 500μl Eppendorf tubes, on ice
- 200ml conical flask
- Repeating pipettor & tip that can make 100μl aliquots.
- 5ml pipette
- Grow a 5ml overnight culture of cells in LB media. In the morning, dilute this culture back into 25-50ml of fresh LB media in a 200ml conical flask. You should aim to dilute the overnight culture by at least 1/500.
- Grow the diluted culture to an OD600 of 0.2 - 0.5. (You will get a very small pellet if you grow 25ml to OD600 0.2)
- Put eppendorf tubes on ice now so that they are cold when cells are aliquoted into them later. If your culture is Xml, you will need X tubes. At this point you should also make sure that your TSS is being chilled (it should be stored at 4C but if you have just made it fresh then put it in an ice bath).
- Split the culture into two 50ml falcon tubes.
All subsequent steps should be carried out at [math]4^o[/math]C and the cells should be kept on ice wherever possible
- Centrifuge for 10 minutes at 3000 rpm and [math]4^o[/math]C.
- Remove supernatant. The cell pellets should be sufficiently solid that you can just pour off the supernatant if you are careful. Pipette out any remaining media.
- Resuspend in chilled TSS buffer. The volume of TSS to use is 10% of the culture volume that you spun down.
- Using a repeating pipettor, add 100 μl aliquots to your chilled eppendorfs and store at [math]-80^o[/math]C.
TSS (50 mL)
- 5g PEG 8000
- 1.5 mL 1M MgCl2
- 2.5 mL DMSO
- LB to 50 mL
Filter sterilize (0.22 μm filter) and store at 4˚C or -20˚C.


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i did not try cup but spoon feeding, when he was a few weeks, and it was alright but sometimes messy.
Later we used a medela soft feeder
and still later a bottle. But the soft feeder was not bad at all. The place I bought it sold it as a device to feed children with cleft palate.


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Nintendo's Wii U launched in November with a new entry in the "Super Mario Bros." series, but missing in action were some of the game makers' top-flight brands, namely "Mario Kart" and its "Legend of Zelda" franchise. Nintendo is quiet no more on its plans for each series, and in announcing today Wii U editions for each, the company pledged that it would completely "rethink the conventions of 'Zelda.'"
What, exactly, does that mean for the series, which recently completed a 25th anniversary celebration? Nintendo offered a few hints, as producer Eiji Aonuma promised a game that would include some form of multiplayer option as well as more of an open-world design.
"I'm referring," Aonuma said in the latest installment of Nintendo Direct, "to things such as the player is supposed to complete the dungeons in a certain order. That you are supposed to play by yourself, the things that we've come to take for granted recently." His comments were translated for the American audience by Nintendo.
"We want to set aside these conventions, get back to basics," Aonuma added. He said Nintendo tried to implement such changes to the Wii's 2011 title "Skyward Sword," but the company struggled in finding ways to change "the linear structure of the game."
No release date was set, and Aonuma cautioned that it would "take some time to complete."
In the meantime, Aonuma said Nintendo would be re-making GameCube title "The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker." The game, celebrating its 10th anniversary, introduced a more cartoonish look to the "Zelda" series, and Aonuma said the title was studied closely in plotting the feel of a brand new entry in the franchise for the Wii U.
"We continued to experiment with converting past 'Zelda' art styles into HD as we continued to consider graphical styles for the new game, but in fact felt as if it had been transformed into something entirely new," he said.
"Wind Waker" is due this fall. Nintendo President Satoru Iwata cited the game's "whimsical and endearing cartoon style" as being a good entry point for those new to the Wii U or "Zelda" universe. The game will be entirely playable on the Wii U GamePad.
Nintendo also unveiled that there will be a new Wii U edition of "Mario Kart," as well as a Wii U take on the 3-D "Super Mario Galaxy," but no details were offered. Both will be shown at the 2013 edition of E3, which is set for June 11-13 in Los Angeles. Also announced today: The team that created "Kirby's Epic Yarn" was deep into a game featuring Mario pal Yoshi.
Nintendo has said consumers in the U.S. purchased 890,000 Wii U units from the system's launch through the end of 2012.
January has been a relatively quiet release month for Nintendo, save for the launch this week of Ron Gilbert's download title "The Cave," but there are plenty of notable games on the horizon.
Among the most anticipated perhaps, is superhero title "The Wonderful 101." Nintendo showcased a new trailer for the game, which boasts a Saturday morning cartoon look and a host of goofy superheroes, including Toilet Bowl Man and Vending Machine Man.
Nintendo still hasn't unveiled a release date for the game, which was promised within the Wii U's "launch window." Nintendo has stated that the launch window closes at the end of March.
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From Imperial Wiki
Homosexuality is the sexual attraction to someone of your own sex, contrasting with Heterosexuality. Homosexuality is a trait that one in ten humans is born with.
Related Concepts
- Bisexuality: Sexual Attraction to both genders. This covers a spectrum of sexual preferences ranging from near complete heterosexuality through equal attraction to both genders to near complete homosexuality.
- Transexualism: A state in which a person identifies him/herself with a gender he/she was not born in. Transexuals generally have brains that are effectively that of the other gender. Transexualism is distinct from homosexuality in and of itself.


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By Karin Calloway
Recipe Categories
Olive Bread
Puff pastry sheets, raspberries in syrup and bread dough are the secret weapons I keep in my freezer. And, my recipe for Olive Bread uses the last secret weapon for the perfect accompaniment to a bowl of soup or a pickup hors d'oeuvre for a cocktail party.
A loaf of frozen white bread dough is defrosted, rolled into a square and spread with some melted garlic butter. You can find tubs of butter flavored with olive oil and garlic in most supermarkets. This has become one of my favorite convenience products, as it saves time while delivering great garlic flavor. If you can't find this ingredient, simply combine 2 tablespoons of melted butter with one small clove of garlic, pressed.
You could stop there, perhaps add some sprigs of fresh rosemary and bake up some delicious focaccia. But go forward with the recipe, and add pitted Green Spanish and black Greek olives and shredded cheese and you've got something truly special.
The finishing touch before baking is a brushing of olive oil and sprinklings of chopped rosemary and coarse sea salt. Then, in 25 to 30 minutes, you'll have a loaf of bread that doesn't hint of its ease of preparation!
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Roll dough into a 12x12-inch square and brush it with melted garlic butter. Place the olives down the center of the dough. Top with cheese. Fold the left side over the filling, and then fold the right side over the top. Place the loaf on a parchment-lined baking sheet. Brush with olive oil and sprinkle with fresh rosemary and coarse sea salt. Bake for 25 to 30 minutes.
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DM3005, Reviewed October 1993
Community leaders continually make important decisions that affect their community's economic growth and development. To make informed decisions, leaders need a thorough understanding of the community's economic base. This guide explains a method to measure a local economic base and compare it with other communities.
The economic base deals with how a community earns its living. It consists of that proportion of employment and income generated in a local community that determines the overall level of production. The growth, decline or stagnation of the local community rests upon the basic economic activity, which goes beyond local needs.
There are several measures of economic activity, but employment and income are the most commonly used in actual case studies. Information about employment and income values are the easiest to find at the county level.
Division of an area's economic forces into basic and non-basic categories can provide valuable information for concerned citizens. For example, how much of the area's basic employment is tied to one industry or firm?
Base studies identify the area's primary sources of employment and earnings. In some communities, small industries may be identified as major supporters of service or locally oriented employment.
Some firms produce primarily for the export market. For example, in rural counties, most of the agricultural production and manufacturing output probably are sold outside the producing county.
In the following analysis, assume that all the employment and income in farming, agricultural services, forestry, fisheries, mining and manufacturing are basic, or export-oriented. The federal government, social security recipients, transfer payments and residents commuting to work outside the county also are considered totally basic because they bring outside money into the community.
Additional employment in food retailing may exist to supply food to residents living outside the local area. The level of employment in food retailing that exists to supply non-local residents is called basic. Food retailing can be a "mixed" economic sector.
In mixed sectors, employment or income in excess of local needs contributes to a community's economic base. One way to measure your local economic base is to compare, sector by sector, your community's employment and income with that of similar communities in the Midwest.
The percentage distributions (group averages) of employment and income, including social security recipients, transfer payments and commuters-to work, have been calculated for 1984-86 (Table 1).
Table 1 shows the average percent of employment, including social security recipients and commuters, and income accounted for by 15 major categories in counties. These values are a group average employment or income. They are key values used in computing basic employment and income in individual communities. These group averages are based upon the typical conditions in 439 non-metropolitan counties in a nine-state midwestern region.
Table 1Employment and income group averages for midwestern non-metropolitan counties, 1984-86
Worksheet A (Table 2) shows the typical data necessary for an employment base analysis of a typical county. It illustrates the essential elements of a simple base analysis. Leaders can use this worksheet as a guide for such an analysis, given the information included in columns 2 and 3.
Table 2Worksheet ACalculation of basic and non-basic employment for study area
Examination of Table 2Column 1 lists industry categories. This listing is arbitrary; a more detailed breakdown of industry is possible. Column 2 shows the actual employment in the county by industry. Column 3 indicates the percentage distribution of industrial employment of a group of similar counties between 1984 and 1986.
The percentages in column 3 are the group average percent employment. These figures are important in a base analysis. It enables an individual county trade area to compare its employment in an industry with that of the average of similar counties.
Follow this procedure to find the basic employment (Column 5) in a particular mixed industry:
A careful interpretation is needed, but this minus number in the example suggests that the community is relatively low in retail trade employment. It may indicate that retail trades are not meeting local needs.
Go through the same procedure with services. The computation yields a positive figure of 393, which indicates more employment than the typical county has in this category. It is this positive figure that contributes to the total economic base of the example county. This positive figure would be entered in Column 5.
Notice that the illustration of base computation by industry for the mixed industries shows they may have both basic and non-basic components. (Remember that the non-basic component of a mixed industry serves local needs; the basic component serves needs outside the local area.) Assume that the first five industries — farming, agricultural services, forestry and fisheries, mining, manufacturing and federal government — are all basic employment.
Most of the agricultural output of a small, rural county is sold outside the county to processors and distributors. Some are sold through direct marketing on a local basis, but generally not enough to affect the analysis. The same is believed to be true for manufacturing plants located in low-population rural areas and for mining and federal government employment. Although these are approximations, statistical analysis of large numbers of counties suggest results accurate enough for practical purposes.
Social security recipients also are basic. Their incomes come from the federal government. Commuters who live in the county but work outside are also basic.
After all industries are completed for Column 5 (Worksheet A, Table 2), compute the total basic employment by adding the positive values in Column 5. In this example, the total is 3,834.
This example shows that farming, social security, commuters and service are the most important basic industries. They account for 93 percent of basic employment. (Column 6, Table 2). In the mixed industries, wholesale trade; finance, insurance and real estate; and services provide a positive contribution to the economic base.
Other mixed industries provide less employment than the average for similar counties. This suggests that local leaders might look for ways to increase employment in these industries.
These interpretations are meant to show local officials and interested citizens ways to develop and use a simple base analysis. You should be able to make more realistic interpretations of these data as you become familiar with your local economy.
The same kind of worksheet is used for analyzing income data with the addition of a sector for dividends, interest and rent, which accounts for 15.3 percent of total income for the counties studied.
Copies of both types of worksheets are shown in the publication Foundations of an Economic Base Study, available from MU Department of Community Development.
Income computations are made in the same manner as were those for employment data (Table 2). Interpretations are made in terms of income.
Economic base multipliers and economic base computations help by:
In summary, the computations and monitoring of the economic base of a city, county or region can be a useful tool for local business and government leaders in determining the sources of basic economic activity in their area. A changing base may signal other kinds of changes well in advance so that decision makers may respond earlier than would be possible otherwise.
Note that the procedure for computing the economic base discussed in this guide is appropriate for counties with largely rural economies. Larger cities and metropolitan areas need to modify this procedure.
County employment and income data prepared by the Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. Department of Commerce, are available from the MU Office of Social and Economic Data Analysis. The only adjustment to these data is to reduce "Dividends, Interest and Rent" by 30 percent to account for imputed rent attributed to owner-occupied homes and free services associated with checking and savings accounts.
Data for the number of social security recipients in a county can be obtained at the nearest social security office.
Order publications online at http://extension.missouri.edu/explore/shop/ or call toll-free 800-292-0969.


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Longest run of mediocre / poor albums before calling it quits...
I'll start with Oasis, commercial and critical peak with (What's The Story) Morning Glory? and then five albums of diminishing returns thereafter. Put the dog down already.
Who else should have quit while they were ahead?
My first thought when I read this was...
...REM. Maybe a bit harsh, but by their own very high standards everything from New Adventures In Hi-Fi was a bit disappointing.Antelope, funkycow, rainmaker, bruised_blood, and dawale this'd this
Up was amazing!
And Reveal is fine. I don't think REM's problem was so much that they put out lots of shit albums as they continued to exist for way too long putting out the odd record - they had an amazing 80s and 90s and then they just kind of hung around for another decade and a bit not doing muchamyblue this'd this
ahhh forgot about Up
Up was amazing. I still have issues with At My Most Beautiful though. It sounds like advertisement music.
REM is the wrong answer
more correctly classified as a late career wobble, which is a mighty achievement considering how so many dinosaurs slip into parody in their later years (Rolling Stones anyone?).
Up is one of their finest, but different.
The last 2 albums are not perfect, but still damn good records, with at least 3 or 4 songs that stand with the best of their work.
Reveal and Around The Sun on the other hand...JohnEW this'd this
It's kinda a classic situation where you have to take those records separately. Those were pretty decent records, but not for the band that made Fables of the Reconstruction, or Automatic for the People, or even New Adventures In Hi-Fi.
That's just me, man. Also, if memory serves, even THEY hated Around The Sun.
Up is my fav of all time
No joke. But to be fair, every album after The Great Beyond isnt quite the same. Some songs are very good, but I always rated them as an album band and by that measure they did not succeed in the 2000's+. So I almost agree even though they are one of my favourite bands of all time.
I agree.
Up had some fine moments, but it was definitely the beginning of the slip. I couldn't find a single thing to like in any of the following albums. It was a great shame to watch them fade away.
Around The Sun is the only total turd
which in a career that long is pretty good going
You didn't like Imitation of Life!
How is that even a thing?
Sorry but
Collapse Into Now is every bit as bad as Around The Sun, Peter Buck had just run out of ideas/enthusiasm and he'd spent the last three albums propping up Mills and Stipe. If anything it is more offensive than ATS because of the blatant rehashing of ideas and motifs from the more successful eras, because when they rehashed Pageant and Document for Accelerate it sounded okay but Collapse was recycling ideas that were Out of Time-Monster, badly.
ATS is hardly the disaster the band make it out to be
I think Buck was genuinely down on it because he was barely on it, but I always thought the band scapegoated it when they were trying to woo America again with Accelerate. The production on ATS is pretty sterile, but I there's a only a couple of songs that are properly rubbish, I think the last three records are much of a muchness.
It always struck me that REM lost their nerve a bit after Up, if you think how wilful their Nineties records were, I got the impression that it stung them when putting out weirder records actually lost them fans, so they stopped doing it.
- Woodchuck, domgourlay, andyvine, and ThisTemporaryLife this'd this
Their new album 'Comedown Music'...
...recently received a healthy 8/10 rating on obscure music website "Drowned In Sounds".
I have no say in what different individuals write in their reviews. I'm not so evil so as to prescribe opinions to people.
Wait, you're THAT Sean Adams?!?
This is new information...
Thank fuck
Thought for a second that I may have crossed swords with the wrong guy there...
Rude, Strokes are great.
Is This It is still my summer album all these years later
Let me guess...
they turned you down for an interview back in 2001 when this lil' website was taking its first steps on the big new internet and you're still holding a grudge 12 years later?Reckoning and politelydeclined this'd this
i like Sean...
...but he needs to stop trolling his own site.
this is who I thought of first
then I thought, actually, this could apply to 95% of the bands out there.
Depeche Mode
Very slim pickings post-Songs of Faith & Devotion.bruised_blood and ethricdouble this'd this
Ultra and Playing The Angel are very good. Plus the new one is miles better than awful Sounds Of The Universe.
- Royter-Hatfood and johneggfish this'd this
I thought Journal was a pretty good album
Postcards is a bit weak though.
- pentargo, spiritofjazz, SCROTUM, fiddygent, emmettcruddas, sean, silverfoxqpr, domgourlay, 1986_and_all_that, Sloame_Ocean, justanothersheeldz, cryoncamera, Mynci2000, and Olivarez this'd this
I wouldn't go that far
but Williams Last Words still sends chills
I'd say Razorlight...
but miraculously they haven't called it quits yet.JaguarPirate this'd this
I should clarify
nothing wrong with imploring an existing band to quit!
There are so many bands who only made a great debut and everything else was very 'meh'
Maybe a separate thread for bands who only made great debut albums but carried on regardless?
- funkycow and Huggy_Bear this'd this
Antics is almost as good.
And depending on who you ask, maybe even better.JaguarPirate, stalecloud, rainmaker, elspud, Faceless_Opinion, and badmanreturns this'd this
- brainfeedr this'd this
I never connected with TOTBL like I connected with Antics.
Maybe it was just the time and place, but Antics is a dear old friend to me.
Not yet quit
but SFA haven't captured my imagination for a while, I don't even bother getting their new records any more. Everything after Rings Around The World, which was 12 bloody years ago now!
- pentargo, silverfoxqpr, Mynci2000, and Olivarez this'd this
Phantom Power has one of their best songs on it (slow life)
but Love Kraft is fucking glorious. The last two were a bit hit and miss.
Have to disagree with SFA
All their albums ar good to great.Matt_was_taken, monkeyboyuk, Elfrim, and Und_Gorgeous_Cars this'd this
I've gone back to their recent stuff lately
And it's all pretty wicked. I think the trouble is they've had no fanfare, hype or OTT stage shows to go with the last few albums.
Was going to say Oasis
They're my favourite ever band for many reasons but I don't mind admitting the last 3 albums were average. There's some great tunes on them but they're let down by Liam Gallagher's input. Half decent but half finished. Only 11 of the last two were written by Noel and even then Liam only sang on 5 of them. 'Democracy' ruined them.
noel is the problem
generally the better tunes on those later albums are by members other than noel. shame the death in vegas sessions never worked out.
Tunes like Ain't Got Nothing, Love Like a Bomb, Meaning of Soul and Better Man are woeful and as for that Lennon sample in I'm Out of time, I'm just out.
turn up the sun
a bell will ring
eyeball tickler
born on a different cloud
make a nice, non-Noel EP and all you really need from those latter LPs/singles.
btw Noel's stuff on DBTT - wtf went on there? farcical, barely concealed rips of the velvets, the kinks, shack, with the drowned turd of "let there be love" doing little to redeem things at the end. And Lyla - the worst single they ever did, bar none.
The Charlatans
Last decent album: 2001
You Cross My Path is a belter
Is that the one where they don't even bother to disguise the new order rip offs?
- AlistairCampbell, funkycow, bruised_blood, JaguarPirate, and cryoncamera this'd this
the new ones actually alright
about 14 years too late though
It's really not
and I say that as someone who spent 17 years believing they/he wasn't capable of a bad song... it's a revelation just how shit he can be recently!
- warplp101, Royter-Hatfood, SarcasticFringehead, and cryoncamera this'd this
- Antelope, ethricdouble, bruised_blood, and Mynci2000 this'd this
15 year rule mate...
Artists/bands can only perform at a peak level for 15 years. Bowie's period = 1968-1983. Everything after that clearly isn't as good.
Band of Horses.
Downward spiral of disappointment since cease to begin. Ceased to be good.bruised_blood, Christophales, Rev_Kramer, elspud, Und_Gorgeous_Cars, sadpunk, and Ekels this'd this
- crosseyedsniper this'd this
new order
post technique the albums have been poor with the odd exceptional track on them
albeit that you could make a very good album with those best tracksbruised_blood this'd this
but then do you need to have had a non mediocre one to qualifysunstroke_house, ThisTemporaryLife, and johneggfish this'd this
rolling stones
have they quit yet?
- kostenurky and wilbur this'd this
I would probably agree with this
but, I dunno, I find that they've crossed back over. I can't ever be bothered to listen to anything new they do, but their ZaNy AnTiCs keep me entertained. Music would be a duller place without the semi-regular batshit Weezer stories.Lofisongsaregreat this'd this
I was waiting for someone to say Weezer.
Hopeless, absolutely hopeless since (dare I say it) 'The Green Album'.
Say it all you want, it's true.
Weezer has made two amazing records, and SIX terrible ones. SEVEN if you count Death To False Metal.
Bad track record.
they havent crossed back over
rivers singing on a B.O.B track whilst wearing a red gilette is embarrassing.
and the fact that he now seems to insist on playing without a guitar and on a trampoline
green really was the last one that i can listen to as an album
love maladroit and red in pieces. still feel like they'd be considered one of the greatest bands ever if they'd split up after pinkerton. hoping after the tour where theyve been playing blue and pinkerton in full they go back to making the kind of music weezer do so well (ie no lil wayne collabs/songs called 'wheres my sex?')
Maladroit is great
Make Believe was utter garbage and I refuse to listen to anything that came afterwards.JaguarPirate this'd this
I can't listen to any recent Weezer albums.
But that BOB song is brilliant!Royter-Hatfood this'd this
only thing worse than the song
is the video. take a drink every time you cringe!
I prefer their later stuff.
Raditude > Hurley ...
I'm not buying a fucking word of this post, including "I" and "their"
- lovelessrapture this'd this
Primal Scream
Decade of nothing much to care about since XTRMNTR and parts of Evil Heat.
New album More Light could bring back some magic though so will put them on a yellow card only for now.wolfamongwolves and bruised_blood this'd this
To be fair, that's only two duff albums (following three great ones)
Plenty of bands go far longer than that.
They take some beating on this one. From the second album its all downhill. Making mediocre album after album .
- sadpunk this'd this
Their last couple of albums are, in my humble opinion, terrific.
especially Something Rain...
...except for that inadvertent parody of an opening track.
glum? random assumption...
...i just find that opening track a bit try hard and cringeworthy. the rest is fantastic tho.
They had a run of 3 average albums
but only by their own sky-high standards. Many bands would kill to make albums half as good as Waiting for the Moon/Hungry Saw/Falling Down a Mountain.
They're just cranking them out to template. And surely it makes sense to judge a band's output relative to their peak?
- georgiabeth this'd this
No way do they fit this descriptionOissin_, JaguarPirate, and Stringly this'd this
Jimmy Eat World. Queens of the Stone Age to a slightly lesser extent. Foo Fighters for sure.
QOTSA only have Era Vulgaris
So not them
era vulgaris is better than Lullabies
I'd probably even say Songs for the Deaf as well but that's apparently controversial
Yep, probably Jimmy to be fair
Everything since Bleed American has been bland.
post-Futures Jimmey Eat World has been weak.
but then they've only released two shit(ish) albums since then. Ratio of 5/2.
Iron Maiden must be up there surely?
Grim returns since 1985 at best.
Everything post-Pop has been excruciatingly dull.
Pearl Jam
Nothing good since Yield.
Man this thread is making me feel old.Mehodor this'd this
Fair play
But there are at least 3 or 4 songs on Yield that I actually like, which is more than I can say for any of the boring tuneless bilge that followed it.
I think you misunderstand
Pearl Jam have never written a good song
I may be alone
In thinking that backspacer is rather good.TheWza this'd this
Also I happen to think the Self-Titled record is phenomenal if only because Army Reserve, Unempolyable and Inside Job are some of their best tracks ever, but then I think only No Code was a true dissapointment.
some terrible spelling there
Yeah, Off he goes
Is a tune though.
- sunstroke_house, JaguarPirate, Antelope, TheWza, theShipment, and badmanreturns this'd this
Mercury Rev - after Deserter Songs
ok All is dream had it's moments but it also contained the seeds of their demise
I fecking love Snowflake Midnight. Don't think it's had anywhere near
the praise it deserves.
Fun fact about me:
Mercury Rev are the fifth highest played band overall on my Last.FM, with exactly 500 plays. Each and every one of them is from when I heard Snowflake Midnight, and was entranced.
I never got around to hearing the rest, though I have Deserter Songs on my computer.
I really like The Secret Migration as well. People get hung up on
Deserters Songs, yes it is amazing and the other albums aren't as good, but they are still good albums. All is Dream is lovely as well.
Another vote for Secret Migration
being great. It's their pastoral album.
hopefully not Death Cab
But the last two don't fill me with much confidence....
Oh come now.
Narrow Stairs was fucking splendid.thesewoodenideas and fullerov this'd this
the highs were as good as anything they've done
but the lows were pretty freaking bad. Codes and Keys was totally consistently good though, so i ain't worried
Cat Stevens
Mona Bone Jakon, Tea for the Tillerman and Teaser and the Firecat are three back to back perfect albums. Pretty sure it wasn't that great from then on... I may be wrong!
The Zutons
They've only ever released 3 albums, the first two of which are stupendous and the third lost the way a little. Really don't think they belong here...
sebadoh have 7 good - great albums
and 2 mediocre onespoptimusgrime this'd this
Bought everything Liars have ever done
Not overly enjoyed any of their output since Drums not dead though
- joeymahone this'd this
There's 2 or so great tracks on all three of those records
But as entire records, I'd give them all 6 or 7/10
You're alright.
At least you didn't start off with Sisterworld, like I did. I even bought the deluxe edition with the viewfinder artwork and extra disc of remixes. Oh boy. I have no idea what possessed me to pick up WIXIW but it's considerably more listenable than Sisterworld, which is somewhat damning it with faint praise as I do actually like WIXIW. Sisterworld, on the other hand, sits on my shelf and blows raspberries at me. And I shiver, chastised and cowed by its impenetrable fug.
That first single is a neck-snapper.
The moment that "Scissor" kicks in I feel like someone has hit me in the head with a sledgehammer. It's wonderful.
That album has some good tunes on it. I didn't care that much for it, but it was a Liars record, which means it's better than a LOT of great albums by other bands.
See, that's the thing
Scissor is *incredible*. Those ghostly overdubbed vocals, the sinister beauty of the melody and the outright skincrawling lyrics, then the sudden THRASH that totally disorients you like... well, yes. A sledgehammer to the head. It's when Scissor finishes that the problems start for me. It's like the band recorded the album below a flickering streetlight under the watchful gaze of some LA gang, standing just out of the light, who've told them if they so much as THINK about putting two notes together that might actually fit, they'll gun the whole band down.
You are fucking crazy
Sisterworld is an amazing record. Solid gold.
- ma0sm this'd this
Probably a bunch of hip hop acts
Public Enemy. Eminem. Jay-Z.
Agree with Eminem and Jay-Z
But Public Enemy are a bit different. Had a run of six very good albums, at least two of them great, before they began to wind down.
First three Public Enemy albums are all bonafide classics
I felt that How You Sell Soul To A Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul arrested the slide - haven't listened to their stuff from last year though.amyblue this'd this
Let Illmatic = 10
It Was Written = 5
I am = 2.5
And so on.
I'll just pretend somebody didn't actually write Tindersticks in this thread
and just focus on the ridiculousness of saying SFA (one of our greatest bands)and Manic Street Preachers (who've recently released the awesome Journal and the on form postcards). A lot of you are sad, fickle bastards.EndlessWindow and Antelope this'd this
Yeah, calling out Tindersticks is insane
Waiting for the Moon and Something Rain are incredible records. I'm starting to think Killing Joke might be a candidate for this though: Hosanna was average material stretched out far too long, and neither of the 'reunion' albums have been that consistent either (and as for the cover of the last one: christ, even Mark E. Smith would have thought twice about signing off on that one!)
- Puds this'd this
Few good tracks, but a lot that just coast. And the last one was just plain bollocks for the most part.
MMXII was brilliant
Genuinely surprised how good their output is at this stage in their career to be honest.
Your Future Our Clutter is really great.
OK, I know what you're getting at
But I'll take shitty The Fall before any other crap going today.
not a huge discography but dwindles, nontheless
Bit harsh
given that they only released two albums! First album is one of the great lost classics of the 1990s.
I have that album.
It's good but calling it a classic is a tad over generous.
Blood Music is great too
basically, there's nothing right about this call.pentargo this'd this
The Jesus and Mary Chain
Psychocandy and Darklands are great, Automatic is good, Stoned and Dethroned is passable-ish, and then I'm not really fussed.
Mary Chain...
They only had one album after Stoned & Dethroned.
In my head Honey's Dead was after Stoned... Those two and Munki are all pretty crap though so I'm sticking to my point.
actually, scratch that
I love them all equally (though I love Automatic more equally than the others).
The Cure
Much as I love them, they could have packed it in after Wish and we wouldn't really have lost anything. Wild Mood Swings is absolute shite, The Cure is patchy at best, and 4:13 Dream is so badly produced I can barely listen to it. Bloodflowers wasn't bad but not worthy of being considered as a trilogy with Pornography and Disintegration, as Robert seems to think.heartworms this'd this
I had drafted a similar post as this
probably right at the same time as you were writing up yours.
Decided not to post, though, because in the end 4 bad albums over 20 years isn't a terrible record, particularly when you consider the Bloodflowers is on the right side of mediocre. But, yeah, I agree with all of ^that.
Maybe I'm just really forgiving, or tone-deaf...
But I remember loving Wild Mood Swings. I saw it super-cheap on cassette at a record shop in Aberystwyth and it was exactly what I needed at the time. Of the post-Wish albums, it's probably the one I like the most.
I'm not keen on it
But I really like Bloodflowers. I really, really like it in fact.
It's a lot better if you've got the version with Coming Up on it
and if you permanently erase all living memory of "Where the Seagulls Always Shit"
I do think post-Wish has been pretty patchy
but i've never understood Wild Mood Swings being as despised as it is. Lot's of lovely melodies, at least 2 great Cure singles and it's last song is one of their most heartbreaking and intense.
Electric 6
Just in terms of sheer number of pointless follow ups.
I personally really enjoy Heathen Chemistry
The Hindu Times, Stop Crying Your Heart Out, Songbird, Little By Little, She Is Love, and Better Man are all great songs. And the other tracks on the album are far from bad. I wonder how much of the critical consensus around Oasis' tail-off comes from folk who simply haven't given their latter-day albums more than a cursory listen...
I really liked HC when it came out
I remember spending about 10 hours on Limewire downloading it when it leaked but haven't really given it the time of day since about 2003 just because there's been better music around. I dunno, I just think that if Noel had written more songs for Liam (that Liam could actually be bothered to sing - there's loads of great Noel demos floating around that are from Oasis days) they would have been better. I don't think Liam being a tiresome individual helps with how people seem them but, as I say, there's just a lot more out there so I can see why people won't have bothered.
Everything that Spiritualized have released after Ladies and Gentlemen...
a few good tracks but mostly mediocrethehedge, heartworms, funkycow, and vamos this'd this
I would agree for this
if it hadn't been for Sweet Heart Sweet Light which came out last year, which was greatInfinite_Jest this'd this
Magnetic Fields after 69LS?
All albums since appear to be theme-based exercises in novelty and self-parody, which I know is sort of the point of them (or at least I think it's sort of the point of them) but just really find it difficult to be moved by anything apart from a couple of tracks from 'i'Eldritch this'd this
Totally agree
In fact I would say this is the case with Stephin Merrit in general, since the second Future Bible Heroes album and his solo ventures since 69LS have been suffering from the same malaise. The Gothies Archies album is an exception -- but only because nearly half of it (including nearly all the better songs) was recorded before 69LS.
- oojimaflop and Loui_Tacceh this'd this
Everything from Aftermath up to and including Goat's Head Soup is good...
Arcade Fire.
Have failed since funeral. FAILED.Ricky_Ronco, robluvsnic, and politelydeclined this'd this
Fair call.
The thread has deviated from the OP towards 'good to progressively bad' albums without the quit bit. I wish Arcade Fire had stayed more.... humble. Recording thunder storms and honking great organs smacked of huge budget, must spend. It just lost some of the mystery along the way.
Yes, of course.
It has some nice tracks but its mostly a bore fest. Imo obv.
That band has barely made a bad song, let alone a bad record.
Belle and Sebastian
Diminishing returns since The Boy With The Arab Strap.
DCW and the Life Pursuit are fantastic albumscrosseyedsniper, TheWza, justanothersheeldz, sam_henshaw, pichaelmarker, and politelydeclined this'd this
dare i say
these two are their best two albums...
Fold Your Hands
is a good album. Nothing worth bothering with since then really. Catastrophe Waitress is an embarrassing car wreck of an album.
- Mynci2000, colon_closed_bracket, pichaelmarker, chasingabee, Schadenfreude, and badmanreturns this'd this
Since Kicking Television. Sky Blue Sky, Wilco the album and The Whole Love, are all dad rock to me.
"I'm a dad and I listen to Merzbow. Does that make Merzbow dad rock?"
- Jeff Tweedy
I love Sky Blue Sky.Mynci2000 and silverfoxqpr this'd this
Its just an expression
I was pointing out that dull 70s am rock that those records have. No disrespect intended
The wonderful thing about that quote
is that he's chosen the quintessential "dad noise" artist to make his point.
Morrissey since Vauxhall and I
Should have retire like he said he would do at the time
Just came on to post this
Much as the critics called You Are The Quarry a return to form...it wasn't. He needs to ditch that awful workmanlike backing band and work with someone a bit more interesting, like he did with Vini Reilly on his debut or Mick Ronson on Your Arsenal (his best solo album IMO).
Years of Refusal
most vital thing he did since Vauxhall
Bjork since Vespertine
WTF happened?
I would say maybe since Medulla
as that album has some really interesting stuff on it. But Volta was a disastrously dull album (with admittedly great artwork) and Biophilia was better but we're talking degrees, here. If I'm honest with myself, I haven't been blown away by a Bjork album since Homogenic. That said, I haven't missed an album yet, so she's doing something right. I just don't know what it is.
Funny thing is, if anyone else had made those records, they'd be classic.
Except Volta. That was dreadful for anybody.
I really like a lot of moments on Biophilia, but it doesn't GRAB me like it should.
I don't think so
boring is boring. She needs to get over herself.
Yeah Medulla was brilliant
She's tried lately to push the envelope and do something different. Hasn't been totally successful but I admire her desire not to conform. Both Volta and Biophilia have their moments.
I think they're disappointing
But mostly by HER standards, rather than compared to the competition. Everything up to and including Vespertine was absolutely incredible. All three albums since have moments of brilliance, but they are diminishing returns compared to what came before.
For me she's still very interesting as an artist. The ideas and productions sound great. But beforehand she used to wed all that to great pop hooks. Memorable and affecting melodies. That was distinctly missing in Biophilia, as much as I did enjoy it anyway.
Also, Volta has 'I See Who You Are' on it, which still kills me everytime those horns come in at the end.
Iggy Pop since Lust for Life
count also all the shitty Stogees records he made recentlyEndlessWindow this'd this
Frank Black since Teenager of the year
actually since he broke up Pixies.
This is fun but i don't want to over do it.
Frank Black and the Catholics is great
Otherwise I'm right with you
Neil Young (since Rust Never Sleeps)
Talking Heads (since Remain In Light)
Oh sorry, missed the "calling it quits" bit
Please, Neil, just stop OK?
Neil Young's fucking rad, leave him out of thisThisTemporaryLife and crosseyedsniper this'd this
He is fucking rad
but his output since 1979 definitely comes under the banner of "mediocre/poor". He gets a lifetime pass for his 70s stuff, and I love the fact that he does whatever the fuck he likes - but the results in terms of albums for which I'd actually pay money are pretty dire.
- crosseyedsniper this'd this
the lyrics are so shit on psychedelic pill
makes it very difficult to call it a good album overall
plus even musically there's only one great track
Le Noise was stronger, as was some of his 90s output (Ragged Glory). the best thing he released since the 70s is probably the EP Eldorado I reckon.
no sweat
Just noticed (and not aimed at you either) that Uncut is quite a good anagram. Perhaps "write for uncut" should become new euphemism for being a....pichaelmarker this'd this
Cliff Richard
The Osmonds
Slim Dusty
His first two albums (and Nearly God) were brilliant, but everything after has been disappointing at best. He's become one of those artists whose albums are always promoted as a return to form and never are.
In saying this though, I loved Murder Weapon and Time to Dance off of his last one
although the mixing in the bass levels on Time to Dance is freaking awful
Presidents of the United states of America
Great fun live, but after their classic debut album, bit mehhhhhhh dont care.
Love Everybody was really cool
But the ones after that are mehhhhhhh
They're like a less goofy They Might Be Giants, or a goofier Barenaked Ladies.
Massive Attack
Diminishing returns since Mezzanine (now a staggering 15 years old, which is kind of worrying).


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Just start watching Showtime's series "The Affair" on Sunday nights. It's enough to scare the pants right back onto you.
Even when you're happily married, watching "The Affair" with your spouse sitting beside you is like watching an R-rated movie with your parents when you're a teenager.
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"Doctor Who" returns to U.S. airwaves on March 30, and this weekend the BBC released new images from four upcoming episodes, as well as information on what we can expect from the second half of Season 7.
Here are a few hints: a dangerous cruise on a Russian submarine, a haunted mansion on the moor, and Dame Diana Rigg. Oh, and something about how the Doctor's greatest secret will be revealed.
Doctor Who quiz: Test your smarts as the Doctor turns 50
"It's the 50th year of 'Doctor Who' and look what's going on!" "Doctor Who" lead writer and executive producer Steven Moffat said in a BBC release. "If this wasn't already our most exciting year it would be anyway!"
"Doctor Who" fans will also, hopefully, get some answers about the Doctor's next companion, Clara Oswald (Jenna-Louise Coleman). We first met Clara in the Christmas special when she was a 19th century barmaid and governess, but in the midseason premiere, "The Bells of Saint John," Doctor Who will find what appears to be the same person (same name anyway) in modern-day London.
"You've sort of met her, but you sort of haven't," Moffat says. "The same shed-load of attitude you saw before, the same rapid-fire banter with the Doctor, but this time she's living in modern London with no memory of the Time Lord!"
This first episode will be a modern, urban thriller about "something sinister lurking in the Wi-Fi," according to BBC. And the Doctor will meet new nemeses, the Spoonheads.
Future episodes will take Clara and the Doctor to the inhabited rings of the planet Akhaten, so Clara can see "something awesome." In an episode titled "Cold War" the pair wind up on a damaged Russian submarine in 1983, helping the crew face off against an alien creature. They will also get to the bottom of what is chasing a ghost in a haunted mansion.
The show returns at 8 p.m. March 30 Pacific time on BBC America.
— Deborah Netburn
Neil Gaiman's 'Who' episode to feature Cybermen
John Barrowman talks 'Doctor Who' anniversary
'Doctor Who': Ice Warriors, Cybermen and London in show's return


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We haven't said much about China lately and that peaked back in February after the spring festival in a place where the square root of the high was 49.44 and the range for the move up was 495 points. How do you like that symmetry? It's now 55 days off the bottom and we'll see really soon if it's an inversion high. These kinds of symmetries at the high are tough to violate.
Also, we need to watch the DAX because it stalled at the end of the week at a key resistance on the gap down.
Since Europe has been leading since Christmas this piece of GPS could be very important to what can happen here. If the bears think they have any shot at taking down the market this week I think we almost certainly have to see this chart drop. If it doesn't it's a given we'll see a new all-time high in the Dow.
While we've remained focused on the events on Capitol Hill, the good economic news suggests we indeed are in a new secular bull market although it's the very earliest stages. Since markets have been hovering around highs for the past 6 months it only stands to reason the economic data had to get better. After all, the stock market is still the best leading economic indicator.


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Corsair Carbide Air 540 Review
Corsair Carbide Air 540 Introduction:
Corsair has been around since 1994, initially being know as a supplier of top-notch memory. Over the years though, Corsair has gained a strong reputation for SSDs (Solid State Drives), power supplies, CPU coolers, computer cases, as well as a wide range of gaming hardware. OCC readers are no stranger to Corsair products and I'll bet that most of you have at least one Corsair component in your system.
Today we have the Corsair Carbide Air 540, which is the latest addition to the Carbide Series of cases and is Corsair's first foray into the cube style case design. This case uses a dual chamber approach to cooling and Corsair refers to this as its Direct Airflow Path™ design to deliver cool air to your components. They locate the power supply and SSDs in a separate chamber and there isn't a hard drive cage tower to hinder air flow from the front fans. This allows the main chamber to be less cluttered and give the front intake air a nice direct path past your motherboard and PCI-e components. In addition to the case layout change, we also have a couple of internal hot swap bays to check out.
This is certainly a different looking case. Not tall and narrow as most mid-tower (and full-tower) cases are, but short and wide, like a cube. I like it already and I'm anxious to see what is inside.
Corsair Carbide Air 540 Closer Look:
The front of the box shows a plain graphic of the case and we have a plain brown box with black text and a nice graphic on the front and back sides. The exploded view gives you an idea of all the components before you ever get it out of the box. Both sides and front of the box highlight the features. It supports a 280mm radiator in the top and in front a 360mm radiator.
The sides of the box are identical and show the specs as well as three illustrated views of the case.
The large, thick Styrofoam end caps keep everything well protected and instead of the usual clear plastic bag, to my surprise the case is enveloped in a black cloth bag. Even though I know what is in the bag, it still seems mysterious, like this is some sort of colossal unveiling at a special VIP event. No one is allowed to see inside until the proper time. Maybe Houdini is in there? Ok, I'm being silly, but It really does add a touch of class and elegance - like the way the owner's manual for an expensive car often comes in a fancy leather case.
And here we are out of the box, um...I mean bag. The side window really lets you see inside, but first we will look over the exterior, which is our next stop!


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Giant Black Hole Could Upset Galaxy Evolution Models
ScienceDaily (Nov. 27, 2012) A group of astronomers led by Remco van den Bosch from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) have discovered a black hole that could shake the foundations of current models of galaxy evolution.
At 17 billion times the mass of the Sun, its mass is much greater than current models predict -- in particular since the surrounding galaxy is comparatively small. This could be the most massive black hole found to date.
To the best of our astronomical knowledge, almost every galaxy should contain in its central region what is called a supermassive black hole: a black hole with a mass between that of hundreds of thousands and billions of Suns.
The best-studied super-massive black hole sits in the center of our home galaxy, the Milky Way, with a mass of about four million Suns.
For the masses of galaxies and their central black holes, an intriguing trend has emerged: a direct relationship between the mass of a galaxy's black hole and that of the galaxy's stars.
Typically, the black hole mass is a tiny fraction of the galaxy's total mass. But now a search led by Remco van den Bosch (MPIA) has discovered a massive black hole that could upset the accepted relationship between black hole mass and galaxy mass, which plays a key role in all current theories of galaxy evolution. The observations used the Hobby-Eberly Telescope and existing images from the Hubble Space Telescope.
With a mass 17 billion times that of the Sun, the newly discovered black hole in the center of the disk galaxy NGC 1277 might even be the biggest known black hole of all: the mass of the current record holder is estimated to lie between 6 and 37 billion solar masses (McConnell et al. 2011); if the true value lies towards the lower end of that range, NGC 1277 breaks the record. At the least, NGC 1277 harbors the second-biggest known black hole.
The big surprise is that the black hole mass for NGC 1277 amounts to 14% of the total galaxy mass, instead of usual values around 0,1%. This beats the old record by more than a factor 10.
Astronomers would have expected a black hole of this size inside blob-like ("elliptical") galaxies ten times larger. Instead, this black hole sits inside a fairly small disk galaxy.
Is this surprisingly massive black hole a freak accident? Preliminary analysis of additional data suggests otherwise -- so far, the search has uncovered five additional galaxies that are comparatively small, yet, going by first estimates, seemed to harbor unusually large black holes too. More definite conclusions have to await detailed images of these galaxies.
If the additional candidates are confirmed, and there are indeed more black holes like this, astronomers will need to rethink fundamentally their models of galaxy evolution. In particular, they will need to look at the early universe: The galaxy hosting the new black hole appears to have formed more than 8 billion years ago, and does not appear to have changed much since then. Whatever created this giant black hole must have happened a long time ago.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks ended little changed after a lightly traded session on Monday as investors hedged bets before a policy debate aimed at heading off U.S. tax hikes and spending cuts early next year.
Firmer economic data from China and delays to an installment of Greek aid also were trading day topics.
News that Chinese exports rose sharply in October, signaling the giant economy was strengthening, argued for buying riskier assets. The safe-haven U.S. Treasury market was closed on Monday in observance of Veterans Day.
But stock market gains were limited, made tentative by concerns about the euro zone and possible higher U.S. taxes and spending cuts that could kick in early next year.
On Wall Street, the benchmark S&P 500 index remains up 10 percent for 2012.
In Chicago, grain futures tumbled amid a wave of technical selling, with soybeans sinking to a 4-1/2-month low that nearly erased gains from this summer's devastating drought.
Prices had already been under pressure after the U.S. Department of Agriculture on Friday raised its estimate for U.S. soybean production more than expected and increased its forecast for global inventories. Most actively traded January soybeans fell 3.08 percent to $14.065 a bushel on the Chicago Board of Trade.
The euro was flat against the dollar but near a two-month low, at $1.2707 as uncertainty about another tranche of financial aid for Greece to help pay off its debt kept investors cautious. The euro is down about 1.9 percent against the dollar so far in November.
Last week's stock market weakness was partly driven by concerns about whether there will be a timely solution to avoid a combination of government spending cuts and tax increases set to take effect early next year. Economists fear tax increases and spending cuts could tip the economy back into recession if a deal is not reached.
"The markets don't like uncertainty and while the election is over, investors must still deal with the fiscal cliff, the debt ceiling and the unpredictable situation in Europe," said Randy Frederick, managing director of active trading and derivatives at Charles Schwab, in Austin, Texas.
"But keep in mind, the markets are clearly oversold in the short-term and even a hint of resolution on any of these issues could spark a nice bounce," he said.
The Dow Jones industrial average .DJI ended down 0.23 point, or 0.00 percent, at 12,815.16. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index .SPX was up 0.15 point, or 0.01 percent, at 1,380.00. The Nasdaq Composite Index .IXIC was down 0.62 point, or 0.02 percent, at 2,904.25.
Overseas, a weekend report showing China's export growth climbed to a five-month high added to recent data suggesting the country's seven straight quarters of slowing economic growth have ended.
Although Greece approved a tough austerity budget for 2013 on Sunday, its international lenders still need to agree on how to make its debts sustainable into the next decade.
The MSCI world equity index .MIWD00000PUS was down 0.14 percent at 322.79 by 2145 GMT.
In Europe the FTSEurofirst 300 Index .FTEU3 slipped 0.26 percent at 1,094.35 after last week's 1.6 percent drop. London's FTSE 100 .FTSE was down 0.04 percent and Frankfurt's DAX .GDAXI was up 0.07 percent while Paris' CAC-40 .FCHI was down 0.35 percent.
The uncertainty over the Greek aid talks and the U.S. budget impasse supported German government bonds, with 10-year yields steady at 1.35 percent.
In the oil market, worries about the danger of the United States, the world's top oil consumer, tipping into recession as a result of the fiscal cliff and weak Japanese data weighed on prices.
Brent crude oil futures fell 37 cents to $109.01 by 2130 GMT, after gaining more than 2 percent on Friday. U.S. oil was down 40 cents at $85.67 after finishing up more than 1 percent last week to end a three-week slide.
Gold was at $1,727.09 an ounce, well above a 2-month low around $1,672 hit last week.
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Chastised: Portsmouth paper gets called out
Scoring cheap political points by impugning the motives of Republicans in general and conservatives in particular is a tried and true method of "argument" among so many on the left (even those who decry a loss of civility in politics these days). As the highest-ranking Republican office-holder in New Hampshire, U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte has found herself on the receiving end of such attacks since her election in 2010. Usually, though, they come from partisan Democrats, not from New Hampshire newspapers.
On Dec. 21, the Portsmouth Herald published an editorial on the Newtown, Conn., school shooting. The paper called for more gun control, in particular for the reinstatement of the 1994 assault weapons ban. It was hardly a display of originality or nuanced thinking. The editorial might have received little attention but for this sentence criticizing Ayotte for not letting her emotions overwhelm her judgment in the immediate aftermath of a national tragedy: "By being silent, Ayotte is failing to show she cares more about preventing 6-year-olds from being shot in the face than she does about being a rising star in the Republican Party."
And there is the left's dictatorial impulse we all know and love so much. Who needs argument and persuasion when bullying and character assassination work so well?
After a flood of letters from angry readers, many from noted Republicans in the area, the Herald surprised everyone by doing what the letter writers demanded. It apologized.
"We apologize both to our readers and Ayotte for our unfair characterization of her views," the Herald wrote. "We'd like to see Ayotte join the rest of the Maine and New Hampshire congressional delegation and reconsider her position on assault rifles and other gun-control measures, but our arguments need to be calm, rational and fact-based. We fell short of that standard Dec. 21."
Calm, rational and fact-based? If gun-control proponents stick to those standards, they will have to abandon many of their own policies. But maybe if more folks do as the Herald's readers did and call the anti-gun zealots on their nonsense, the more reflective ones will actually stop to think about what they are saying.


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If there's one thing that distinguishes Ron Paul from the rest of the GOP field, it's his principled stand against American empire and his ardent defense of individual liberties. Paul's opposition to wars, bloated defense budgets and government spying on US citizens has made him a hero among some young conservatives. His seemingly rock-solid principles and radicalism have even drawn some on the left; unlike even left-wing Democrats, Paul has said he wants to abolish both the CIA and the FBI to protect individual "liberty."
So it should come as a shock and disappointment to his followers that Ron Paul's single largest donor—his Sheldon Adelson, as it were—founded a controversial defense contractor, Palantir Technologies. The company profits from government espionage work for the CIA, the FBI and other agencies, and last year it was caught organizing an illegal spy ring targeting opponents of the US Chamber of Commerce, including journalists, progressive activists and union leaders. (Palantir takes its name from the mystical seeing stones used by characters in Tolkien's Lord of the Rings to spy on one another.)
According to recently filed FEC disclosure documents, Ron Paul's Super PAC, Endorse Liberty, has received nearly all of its money from a single source, billionaire Peter Thiel. So far, Thiel has contributed $2.6 million to the Super PAC, providing 76 percent of the its total intake.
Thiel, a self-described libertarian and opponent of democracy who made his fortune as the founder of PayPal, launched Palantir in 2004 to profit from what the Wall Street Journal described as "the government spy-services marketplace." The CIA's venture capital firm, In-Q-Tel, was brought in to back up Thiel as one of Palantir's first outside investors. Today, Palantir's valuation is reported to be in the billions.
A recent BusinessWeek profile explained how Palantir makes its money—and why Ron Paul's followers should be bothered:
Depending where you fall on the spectrum between civil liberties absolutism and homeland security lockdown, Palantir's technology is either creepy or heroic. Judging by the company's growth, opinion in Washington and elsewhere has veered toward the latter. Palantir has built a customer list that includes the U.S. Defense Dept., CIA, FBI, Army, Marines, Air Force, the police departments of New York and Los Angeles, and a growing number of financial institutions trying to detect bank fraud. These deals have turned the company into one of the quietest success stories in Silicon Valley—it's on track to hit $250 million in sales this year—and a candidate for an initial public offering. Palantir has been used to find suspects in a case involving the murder of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement special agent, and to uncover bombing networks in Syria, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. "It's like plugging into the Matrix," says a Special Forces member stationed in Afghanistan who requested anonymity out of security concerns. "The first time I saw it, I was like, 'Holy crap. Holy crap. Holy crap.' "


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Have you ever been mistaken for an angel?
In all honesty, I don't spend much time in contemplation regarding angels. When I do think of them, images planted by Hollywood come to mind:
• Clarence, from "It's a Wonderful Life," who in his quest to earn his wings is sent down to Earth to help George Bailey. (I know, you've seen the movie and don't need a plot summary.)
• Michael, from the movie by the same name that stars John Travolta as the archangel who is sent to Earth to do various tasks, including mending some wounded hearts.
• And then there is Seth, from the movie "City of Angels" starring Nicholas Cage. Seth is one of many angels who watch over humans and protect them in unseen ways. Seth's main responsibility is to appear to those who are close to death and guide them to the next life.
While I fully understand there is frequently a big gap between what Hollywood portrays and reality, I certainly don't dismiss the possibility that there are angels among us.
In the Bible, at the end of the book of Hebrews is a verse that says, "Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by this some have entertained angels without knowing it."
That scripture would suggest that angels aren't chubby, little naked beings with wings, as many artists have portrayed them. Neither can one count on recognizing them because they are carrying a harp. My mother-in-law Glenda would suggest that some angels actually carry a snow shovel.
My in-laws, Don and Glenda, are two of the dearest people you'd ever want to meet, but they are at a stage in life where neither one of them has any business being out shoveling snow. That wasn't a problem when my son, Jacob, and his wife, Whitney, were still living with them because they were more than happy to help move snow and/or ice. But when Jacob and Whitney moved to Wisconsin, Don and Glenda lost their snow movers.
When the late-March snowstorm dropped roughly a foot of snow in the St. Louis area, Don and Glenda were content to just stay inside their home and wait for the snow to melt. However, last Wednesday, as they were having breakfast, Don and Glenda heard the sound of shoveling just outside their home.
"I felt we were visited by an angel," wrote my mother-in-law on her Facebook page.
As you might suspect, the individual turned out not being an angel, but a relatively new neighbor a couple of doors down, whom they had said "hi" to while out on walks.
"Guess she knew we shouldn't be shoveling and came down and surprised us," wrote Glenda. "I know she is a Christian and felt the whisper of God and obeyed it. I am just overwhelmed at how God takes care of our needs. God is so good."
While we mortals may not be angels, I guess it's possible for us to be mistaken for one. But to do so certain criteria must be met:
• One must be on the lookout for a need. Take your blinders off and just look around, they're not hard to find.
• Don't simply meet the need of someone you know. You want to plant the seed that you truly are an angel sent by God, and not just so-and-so being a sweetheart.
• Leave your harp, and brass band at home. If you truly want to be considered an angel, try your best to do your good work anonymously so that God receives the glory.
No, doing a good deed for someone in need of help won't make you an angel, or even open the gates of Heaven to you. But one thing is certain, there are a lot worse things your deeds can have you mistaken for in this lifetime than an angel.


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Are you worried about what other shoppers think of your coupon usage in the checkout lane? My blog readers at JillCataldo.com recently shared words of wisdom for a new couponer. She posted that she'd had a bad experience in the checkout lane on her first coupon-shopping trip and wondered if this was the norm:
"I'm a newbie to couponing and my first day was last week. I'm not sure if I'm going to continue with couponing after what happened to me in line. A customer behind me at checkout started screaming at me because I was "taking too long." Management came and removed her from the lane and put her in another. After she was checked out, my cashier, the cashier from her lane and the front-end manager came over to me and apologized profusely to me. I appreciate the gesture, but I was very upset and embarrassed, and this has put me off from ever couponing again. Has this ever happened to anyone else? If so, how do you deal/continue?"
Readers immediately jumped in with their own tips. I'm sharing my favorites here with you!
"I was at the grocery store and an elderly man, who was at least 5 carts back, yells 'Clip your coupons at home, young lady!' I replied, 'I am sorry to make you wait 30 seconds. Don't worry, the sun will still come tomorrow!' Point is � couponing saves you money, and doing it this way saves you a lot! If you save $40 at the store and it took you 30 minutes to get in and out, you essentially got paid $80 an hour. Don't ever feel bad, embarrassed or shamed for that! Don't give up!"
"Don't forget, coupons are your currency. There's no difference to the store whether you buy something with a $1 coupon or a $1 bill. Envision yourself with a big wad of CASH in your hand � would people be complaining then? "
"My mother and I recently started couponing together and she was really put off when the first few times it took so long and people behind us complained. The easiest thing to do is start at one store and get to know your friendly cashier there. You'll get used to the stares and the groans. I smile because I'm getting so much stuff for free they do not bother me anymore. Some cashiers don't like it and don't think it's right that we get stuff for free, but it's legit."
"The worst cashier I've ever experienced was at a well-known department store chain. She kept yelling and screaming at me. I had the managers there in seconds and corporate on the phone in minutes. She was making up rules and just releasing all her couponing frustration out on me. It was crazy."
"It is not your fault at all. That person was just really having a bad day whether you had coupons or not. Don't stop saving your hard-earned money just because of one really bad experience. Most people don't say anything, or they move to another lane. I try to give them a heads up that I have coupons, but if they decide to stay, then that is their choice. Just stick to your shopping plan and don't get flustered. You will be fine, because this too shall pass. The savings really are worth it."
"Never, EVER, allow others to keep you from saving your hard-earned money. Develop a thick skin to let the insults bounce off you. Keep your smile at the ready and your sense of humor intact. In the absence of those 'choice words', learn how to give a good side-eye, loud sigh or come up with something snappy.
"Unfortunately, your first experience was probably your worst. Don't give up because of one rude person."
Smart Living Tip: Don't give up! I've always approached my shopping trips with patience. Shopping early in the morning or later in the evening helps, too, as stores are less busy during this time. And if I've got a lot of coupons, I'll offer to let the person behind me go first.
Jill Cataldo, a coupon workshop instructor, writer and mother of three, never passes up a good deal. Learn more about Super-Couponing at her website, www.jillcataldo.com. Email your own couponing victories and questions to email@example.com.
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The article on hypothermia that appeared in the Saturday, Dec. 29, edition of the Cortez Journal contained valuable information. Hypothermia can be fatal.
Frostbite is a condition that is more common in extreme cold. It affects extremities only: fingers, toes, nose and ears. Uncovered extremities are at greatest risk, sometimes in just a few minutes of exposure, but even covered ones can be affected in less than an hour of cold conditions.
Extremities exposed to cold turn red as the body increases blood flow in an effort to warm the impacted area. If the exposed extremity changes color from red to white, this is a warning sign of frostbite. This occurs because the capillaries carrying warm blood constrict as a result of the cold and are no longer able to supply warmth to the extremity. A loss of feeling often accompanies this restriction of blood flow. Adults as well as children need to be aware of this color change for themselves as well as others to help prevent frostbite.
The response to frostbite is to gradually warm the impacted area with warm, not hot, water or other substance.
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Saints open season with heartbreaking loss, 57-55
The Siena Heights University women's basketball team opened up the season against Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference foe and NAIA Division II seventh-ranked Concordia University on Monday at the Siena Heights Fieldhouse. The Saints lost in heartbreaking fashion, 57-55.
The Saints (0-1, 0-1 WHAC) faced an early uphill battle, going down 6-0 after a couple of 3-pointers by the Cardinals (3-2, 1-0). Concordia was able to maintain a 10-point lead for the majority of the first half.
"It took us a little while to get going tonight," said Saints coach Sue Syljebeck. "…You can't spot the seventh-ranked team in the country 10 points, and they did what they needed to do with the experience they had coming back."
In the first half, Siena Heights was led by Grace Howrigon with six points, four assists and five rebounds. Sierra Calhoun pitched in six points and four rebounds to go with two blocks.
The Saints shot 28.1 percent from the field and 12 percent from the 3-point arc for the first half. The Cardinals shot 50 percent from the 3-point arc and shot 40.7 percent from the field en route to a 31-21 halftime lead.
"We know we have the potential," said Howrigon. "…Unfortunately we didn't pull through tonight, but it was a really good game, and Coach Sue told us, 'Let it shape you, don't let it define you,' so we're going to learn from it."
The Saints had trouble hitting their shots against a Concordia team that allowed 40 percent shooting against their first four opponents.
The halftime lead expanded to 41-27 for the Cardinals, before the Saints went on a 12-3 run to cut the lead to five. They closed within three, 47-44, with under eight minutes to go. Mackenzie Tomasik hit 3 of 4 foul shots in a minute span to tie the game at 47 with six minutes to play.
Howrigon went 1-for-2 at the line to give the Saints a 48-47 lead with just over five minutes to go. After the Cardinals took a two-point lead on Hannah Sabol's 3, Howrigon tied the game at 55 with 14 seconds left.
The Saints, however, fouled Abbey Hengesbach with one second left and a 55-55 tie. Hengesbach hit both free throws to seal the victory for the Cardinals.
Off the bench, the Saints got needed scoring from Tomasik, Taylor Langenderfer and Jen Jasinski, who played tough minutes in the second half. The trio gave the Saints 18 points off the bench.
Howrigon finished the game with 12 points, 12 rebounds and seven assists. Jasinski finished with nine points and six rebounds.
"We have a strong team," Syljebeck said. "I think we're a better team one through 15 than most teams in the league. I think most teams have a top two or three player, but we're able to counter that with a team effort, and that's what we had to understand in the first half."


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- Datasets listed by file for now. Not a great method. Preferred is dataset and variable on separate pulldown.
- Full date range not listed automatically. someone would need to know available years.
- Ouput file name odd. needs dataset in title and in front.
- Surface level option not working.
- Could do multi-level output
- I suppose one could optionally plot a month to see if it worked.
- Different seasons could be returned (JFM, AMJ.. or A-S). Interface would need to be changed.
- I don't test any inputs :(
- Someone could use page to tie up machines. We could limit number of processes at a time using lock file.
- Database could return files, levels, etc. Would probably need two levels of pages (specify dataset, get list of vars or specify var and get list of datasets). Is two levels a pain? Might be able to have frames with left column allowing selection of one or another and the right displaying the output. The left column would then look like the contents of http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/cgi-bin/db_search/SearchMenus.pl.


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Since its founding in 1908, Pompano Beach has grown from a small fishing and farming community in the Jim Crow South to a diverse city of 100,000 people. Today, Broward County's second oldest municipality faces challenges endemic to many mature cities, including an aging infrastructure, and blight and high crime rates in certain neighborhoods.
Property values are down substantially since 2007, as are incomes, yet the tax rate has gone up by nearly 2 mils. Pompano Beach faces competition from newer cities to attract and retain businesses, yet complaints abound that City Hall and its red tape hinder, rather than help, growth prospects.
Yet, numerous positive developments bode well for Pompano Beach as it enters its second century. The city has put firefighter pensions on a more sustainable path by implementing a defined contribution plan for new employees. Pompano Beach recently upgraded one of its golf courses to attract new players and revenue. The course is now among the best in South Florida. Redevelopment of the beachfront and fishing pier are proceeding apace, which should enhance tourism, as well as increase property values and tax receipts. The Community Redevelopment Agency is working to upgrade the Atlantic Boulevard and Dixie and Federal Highway corridors.
Changing the direction of a city is akin to turning around an aircraft carrier. It takes time and a steady hand. The Sun Sentinel believes the City Commission has made progress in changing the direction of the city, and the candidates best equipped to continue the course correction are the three incumbents: Mayor At Large Lamar Fisher; District 2 Commissioner Charlotte Burrie; and District 4 Commissioner Woodrow "Woody" Poitier. The Editorial Board recommends voters return them to office on March 12.
Fisher, 53, is a lifelong resident of Pompano Beach. First elected to the City Commission in 2002, he was elected Mayor At Large in 2007. Fisher is a consensus builder, which is especially important given the City Commission's structure. It contains six members, which means four votes — two-thirds — are required to pass ordinances.
He has pledged to make the building department more "user friendly." Among Fisher's priorities is implementing the land-use and zoning changes, and completing the infrastructure improvements needed to facilitate mixed-use development along Dixie, Federal and Atlantic.
Fisher owns and operates a real estate auction/marketing firm. He's opposed by David Baumwald, 47, who owns a home remodeling company. Baumwald was convicted on felony cocaine charges in the late 1990s. His civil rights were restored in 2010.
Burrie, 69, has spent six years on the City Commission. She's an attorney in private practice who knows the intricacies of Pompano Beach government, having once served as city clerk. She, too, sees the building department as an impediment to re-development, and wants the city administration to work for reform.
Burrie has been a tireless commissioner and civic activist. She understands crime is a major problem and has worked with the Sheriff's Office to improve law enforcement. She's opposed by Thomas Terwilliger, 67, a semi-retired investment banker.
Poitier, 65, has served on the City Commission since 2008. His district encompasses some of the more economically depressed areas in the city, and he's an enthusiastic proponent of redevelopment through the CRA. He also strongly backs efforts to encourage tourism and to upgrade the beach. Poitier is a funeral director and former Pompano Beach firefighter/paramedic.
Poitier has two spirited opponents, who have unsuccessfully faced off against him before. Ed Phillips, 62, owns an insurance agency and is well-versed on issues. Joseph Wells, 38, teaches broadcast communications at Pompano Beach Middle School.
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Oculo-auriculo-vertebral spectrum (OAVS) refers to three rare disorders that many clinicians believe to be intimately related to one another and which represent the range of severity of the same disorder. These disorders are apparent at birth (congenital). As the name suggests, they involve malformations of the eyes, ears and spine.
Oculo-auriculo-vertebral disorder (OAVD) represents the mildest form of the disorder, while Goldenhar syndrome presents frequently as the most severe form. Hemifacial microstomia appears to be an intermediate form.
The disorder is characterized by a wide spectrum of symptoms and physical features that may vary greatly in range and severity from case to case. However, such abnormalities tend to involve the cheekbones, jaw, mouth, ears, eyes, and/or bones of the spinal column (vertebrae). Although, in most cases (about 60%), such malformations affect one side of the body (unilateral), approximately 10 to 33 percent of affected individuals have such malformations on both sides of the body (bilateral), with one side typically more affected than the other (asymmetry). In the majority of such cases, the right side is more severely affected than the left.
In most cases OAVS appears to occur randomly, with no apparent cause (sporadic). However, in some cases, family histories suggest autosomal dominant or recessive inheritance. In addition, some researchers suggest that the disorder may be caused by the interaction of many genes, possibly in combination with environmental factors (multifactorial inheritance).
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