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Independent Distributors / Business Owner - Pepperidge Farm
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• Over-the-top acrobatics with constant action featuring aerial sword attacks and fantastic sword skills
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You don't mess with Rubi Malone, a hardened assassin with a razor sharp sword and a small arsenal strapped to her person, the latest tough girl to grace PlayStation 3. In WET, you take on the role of Rubi (voiced by Dollhouse star Eliza Dushku) as she's tasked by a wealthy man, William Ackers, to track down and bring back his delinquent son, Trevor, who has been running bad deals on the streets of Hong Kong.
Things don't go to plan as Rubi is quickly double-crossed and left for dead in London after delivering Trevor into the hands of his father. Unfortunately for William Ackers and his twisted henchmen, Rubi doesn't go down without a fight and, once back on her feet, she embarks on an anarchic, and bloody quest for vengeance armed with her trusty blade and dual pistols.
With a script penned by Duppy Demitrius, one of the writers on the action packed TV series 24, WET packs in tons of action, crazy laughs, kooky characters and a heroine destined for great things on PlayStation 3.
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The soundtrack to the game is cinematic too, owing a great debt to the likes of Lalo Schifrin, composer of the Mission Impossible TV show theme, and films such as Enter The Dragon, Dirty Harry and Rush Hour. Simply put, WET is the ultimate action title. So, if you like your action thick and fast, your Trophies aplenty, and a huge amount of replay value, then WET has it all.
Stepping into Rubi's boots, you wield a selection of deadly weapons as you progress through each of the missions. The most trusted of these are Rubi's dual pistols and her sword, which you can pull out any time during a battle. WET's combat is particularly stylish in that each time you leap towards an enemy, guns at the ready, time will slow down allowing you to perform pinpoint shots and aim at secondary enemies, taking both out at the same time.
You can also slide along the floor or run along walls in slow motion, to rack up Style Points. Not only is Rubi capable of such insane acrobatic feats in the battlefield, but she can also use enemies to perform zanier moves by bouncing off their chest, unloading a few rounds, land, and then move in for a quick sword slice.
As you leap, shoot and slice your way through the hordes of enemies the game throws at you, you collect Style Points for chaining multiple attacks together. The more attacks you chain, the more points you get which can then be used to purchase various upgrades from the menu each time you finish a mission.
Upgrades include being able to shoot while hanging from ledges or ropes, shooting while sliding down ropes, and being able to slide along the ground and launch enemies into the air with a sword slice. Filling out your acrobatic arsenal with each of these new upgrades is essential if you want to rack up big points throughout the game, which you will get plenty of chances to do, as you are thrust into arena-style showdowns against vast waves of enemies.
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Necklace made of Sterling Silver 925
A necklace to wear at all occasions inspired by the traditional costume of sami silver.
Dimensions about 55 mm in diameter
The chain is 65 cm long.
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Each piece of jewelry from Erica Huuva is made by hand in Sápmi. The material is Sterling silver 925 and mostly recycled. Since each piece is made by hand, small variations of measurement may occur.
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Muohta / Snow
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The red calf grunts
lasso wines
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We are, now. And we've been there, before. The roots and the legacy of previous generations makes me who I am today. The material they worked with then, that I'm working with now. The stories that I tell you today is the same as they told me. The shape of the past is there in my heritage and now it is created by my hands.


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Poetry Dispatch No.139 | December 14, 2006
TWO by Peg Nemeth
Peg was one of our local poets-in-residence at one time, living in a house & studio with a heart-stopping view of the Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal, opening into the bay. It would be difficult to imagine a more perfect setting for a poet, nourishing one's craft, one's sense of self and soul with that ever open invitation of water out there demanding poetic attention.
She's moved on to warmer climes down South at this point. But she's left us all with a marvelous view of what it means to live up here surrounded by water, and how it still speaks to us summer and winter, telling us what we need to know and remember. Norbert Blei
Things To Hang Onto In The Winter by Peg Nemeth
I can make a decent cup of coffee
with the aid of a good bean
and the electric grinder.
Wrapping my fingers around
my favorite mug I think of summer
and drinking French roast on the pier
where mallards meet each morning
to snooze under their wings in the sun.
At night I still copy them, my own
head tucked beneath a pillow.
Our mailbox has been roped together
ever since a county plow sheared it
straight off its post and yesterday
the people renting next door
got stuck in their driveway for the third time
this week. When we went to help
with shovels and sand they told us
they were heading back to Georgia.
The old timers are parked at Willie's
again, probably watching reruns
of Mr. Ed and drinking manhattans.
The Friday night specials in summer
are a plate of frog legs or fried perch.
Everyone talks baseball
and Willie shows his batting form
with an autographed Pete Rose Louisville
Slugger he keeps behind the bar.
I think about July, the trumpet vine
blaring from the pump house,
morning glories bursting through
the fence like pieces of sky. We're
in the hammock swinging with a slow
evening motion, one eye open
for satellites (last year's record was
eleven in one night) listening to a bell
buoy's toll in the shipping lane.
Now the sun has migrated south.
Late afternoons the ice catches fire
as if someone lit the kerosene
on the world's largest fish boil.
When my feet begin to slide
off the roundness of the world
I take another sip of brew
and watch the bay spill over
from Menominee into Potawatomi Park.
Thousand Footer by Peg Nemeth
Even through the blizzard we can spot her,
anchored off the quarry—longer than three
football fields, taller than St. Joe's—her bridge
and deck lights bright as if a town had busted
through the ice when we weren't looking.
We pull on all those clothes you need up here
in winter and wade through drifts to the beach.
Knee deep in snow we shout our speculations.
Walloped by wind they rush back to us for safe harbor.
The pulse of propellers thunders through the dark
and she begins to move. Like some boreal
queen escorted by her retinue of tugs, she follows
an ice breaker through the shipping lane.
Drivers pull their cars to the side of the road.
Headlights unroll a frozen welcome of long
white carpets over the bay. People at home, in bars
and restaurants, abandon recliners, TVs and beer.
They turn on marine radios, crowd around
windows, adjust binoculars, move from room
to room for a better view. Some pile their
children into cars and head for the shipyard.
Everyone leans toward something huge
and powerful. They hear a call this frigid night
sounding from one hundred fathoms down.
from CHASING THE LIGHT, Isis Press, 2000


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Wait for the drop at 0:36. Who says that shooters should get all the great bro-tastic NoScope videos? This game does have motherfucking management, after all.
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Sources are available, as well as prebuilt binaries for Windows (in 32 bit and 64 bit mode) and OSX (thanks to Troed).
Many thanks to all the people who contributed to this version in different ways (code, bug report, testing, reverse engineering and documentation of the real HW, ...), see doc/authors.txt for a list of devs / contributors.
Major highlights of this new version :
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- Hatari now uses one single CPU core for all machines (ST, STE, TT, Falcon). No more need for 2 different binaries
- video emulation now supports the 4 STF wakeup states for MMU/GLUE and a much more accurate state machine for border removal
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A farewell to Furcal
It's certainly a weird feeling to be at the trade deadline and dealing players away rather than getting them back, but today the Dodgers dealt Rafael Furcal to the Cardinals for minor league outfielder Alex Castellanos. To say that Raffy will be missed is truly an understatement.
Though he spent much of his time at the Dodgers battling injuries, you'd be hard pressed to find a more caring individual during his six years in Los Angeles. He is beloved by his teammates and everyone around the game because of what he does on the field, but as someone who dealt with him primarily on off-field endeavors, I can assure you that he was even more important to the franchise and to his home country in that regard.
Not only did he donate huge amounts of money to the Dodgers Dream Foundation over the last six years, but I will always recall a conversation we had at the sushi bar in our Pittsburgh hotel at the end of the 2008 season. He never really tells anyone about all that he does back home in his hometown of Loma de Cabrera, but we got to talking about the poverty he grew up around. He made a passing comment about the local hospital and how the residents know that if they can't afford their bills, the hospital just bills him. It was unfathomable, but in his mind it was simply what he is supposed to do.
That's also the first time he mentioned that his hometown doesn't have a firetruck, another concept that's hard to believe for those of us in the States. When a fire burns here, we pick up the phone, call 911 and people come and help put it out. Down there, they simply don't have that luxury. That's when we talked about the fact that if he returned to the Dodgers as a free agent, we would make sure that his hometown gets a firetruck.
Well, it took some time and effort from a lot of people, but there's now an LAFD firetruck in customs in the Dominican, en route to his hometown and Raffy's efforts in that regard will truly save lives. And his generosity at the local hospital saves lives. And for those who saw his "Before the Bigs" on Prime Ticket, you truly get a sense of the heartache he's experienced in his life.
I'm sure he feels like there was unfinished business here on the field, but off the field he's made his mark and on the field, he was truly a lineup changer whenever he was healthy. And if you've had the pleasure of watching a five-year-old Raffy Jr. in a batting cage at Camelback Ranch, you get the sense we'll be seeing that kid someday in the big leagues.
On behalf of the entire Dodger organization and its fans, good luck, Raffy. You and your family deserve nothing but the best.
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I didn't think I was going to be this sad, I just can't believe it! It's hard for me to picture him in another uniform, thanks for the memories Fookie! you will ALWAYS be loved in Dodgertown! Wish you nothing but the best in St Louis!
Furcal is a class act. Too bad his former owner is just the opposite.
Somebody once OWNED Furcal?
That must have been in the Dominican Republic, as slavery was outlawed in the United States a long time ago.
Thank you raffy for your dedication and hard work. I got to meet you out at camelback, earlier on this year. The fact that it was raining and you stayed out to sign for us the fans said a lot. Most of the dodgers passed us by with a cart or running. Showed your true loving colors. The best to you Furcal. Thank you for the memories.
It is sad to see Raffy go. He is a great player when he is on his game. It is just too bad that he was hurt so much during his time with the Dodgers.
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Thanks for the memories, Raffy. Whenever he runs on all cylinders, he's the best catalyst on the team. St. Louis will be as strong at SS as he is.
In other news… looks like Ned got taken for magic beans again. Wouldn't be a Trade Ned-line without a good fleecing of the still-born future.
In Shakespearean:
"And my poor fool is hanged – No, no, no life?
Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life,
And thou no breath at all? Oh, thou'lt come no more,
Never, never, never, never, never. – " – King Lear (V.3.320)
Dee Gordon is healthy, fast and reliable. Just needs a little intelligence at the plate. Shocked you gave up Trayvon Robinson for Bedard, he's a five tool guy.
Sounds like Raffy was an especially good man, even if not very bright, considering how much he was fleeced by Frank and the organization for Frank's favorite charity.
Rafael, tu eres mi jugador favorito me entristece que ya no seas parte de Los Dodgers, pero se que te va ir muy bien en San Luis, que Dios te Vendiga siempe y que siempre tengas mucho éxito XOXO
Usted tiene razón. Furcal se va a jugar grandes en San Luis, donde será amado por los fans.
Rafael Furcal, I will miss you so much! You were my favorite Dodger thus far, it breaks my heart to hear the news that you aren't with The Dodgers…but once a Dodger, always a Dodger! Your exceptional plays will be missed on the field – for sure! Much love & continued success in your career!
I think it is pathetic, that a team like the Dodgers, has been so demoralized NY it's owners and management that someone of Furcal's talent and ability is traded away. A re-run of poor choices. Spend millions on bums like Ramirez, but have no consideration for players who actually procduce wins for the team. Until the McCourt's are gone, I am following other teams. It's too painful to watch them sink to one of the worst teams in baseball.
It does make me sad to see him go. Gordon is indeed the future and all that blah blah, but Furcal's departure underscores what a crappy situation the team is in. Best of luck, Raffy.
Rafa, thank you for your hustle, your service, and professionalism as a Dodger. I will miss seeing you in Dodger blue and wearing #15 . Gracias y Dios de bediga.
Fire Colletti!! He didn't upgrade the Dodgers minor league system with this or the other piss poor trade. It's indicative that the other GM's are either/or laughing at him and/or taking advantage of him in these trades. You don't trade a major league ready, 4 or 5 tool player for 3 minor league players, who are not major league ready and may never be, an upgrade of your system!!!! Maybe this is an indicator of his lousy DRAFTING!!!!!
Raffy – The best of luck with the Cards!! I hope you get to the playoffs and beyond with them. Glad you got off the sinking ship when you could. It's a good move on your part.
Raffy, love your game and your heart. You really are an outstanding human being. Hope you help bring St. Louis to winning it all. Buenos suerte.
Adios Raffy. Hasta luego. On one hand, we're sad to see you go. On the other, you have a much better chance of getting a ring this year now that you're gone from this circus.
Good for you Raffy, You can now be proud of the team your on. You no longer need to hang your head low knowing you work for one of the biggest scumbags in baseball and his whore ugly bitch soon to be X.
Congrats Raffy! Enjoy what its like to work for a respectable organization!
i hate to see raffy go but i'm happy that he has a better change to get that ring now. ❤ i have no motivation to go to dodger games anymore.
I hate to see dedicated players go to other teams. Raffy is a great player and gave 6 hard played years with the Dodgers. He will be missed. I wish him a successful career with the Cardinals.
I think I may become a Cardinal fan…
i love yu rafael furcal <33
Good luck to Raffy. It was fun watching him play. He went all out and I wish he could of been healthier with the Blue. I always felt that Raffy was the difference maker for this team (Other than the last 2 years when the difference maker would of been a Frankless, Nedless, and Conteless team).
Hi Everybody.
Yes it's sad to see Raffy go. That's why I never buy a T-shirt with an active Dodger's name on it. He's a great one when he's healthy because he plays his heart out. We'll also miss his power at the plate, which I don't think we can expect from Gordon. I wish him luck, but the Cardinals have always been one of my lease liked teams. (Because of their post season records)
Right now I'm hoping the Dodgers can avoid losing 100 games. I just hate a 3 digit number in their loss column and it hasn't happened since 1908.
We'll just take it one game at a time.
I'll be around.
Yeah, I'm hoping the Dodgers avoid 100 losses too. The last thing the team needs this season.
Part of what has always appealed to me about the Dodgers is that, unlike the spoiled Yankees fans, Dodger fans had no illusions about the championship "belonging" to them every year. It's something to earn.
Every season, it didn't matter if they were a winning team or a losing team, I supported them. I still support them today, even though I'm absent more often than not these days. Even amid all the turmoil, even being in the heart of Giants country, I still support them.
When the bickering children disappear, we'll all have more fun. But I just push them aside as much as possible, not allowing them to become bigger than the team. That's what they've always wanted, after all, "Dodgers are the name, McCourt is the brand."
I"d love nothing more than to spoil SF's chances to let Gibby get a crack at the postseason. Well, I'd love a championship more… but we all know the chances of that this year.
Go Dodgers
Yep! Somewhere between VERY slim & NONE.
northstates, I second the motion. Gibby over the Gnats!
Glad to see the Dodgers take care of business in San Diego for a night. My sister (who works at PetCo) was very happy, I'm sure.
I'm just waiting for the day that the 800 lb nitwit in the room leaves for good, so that… well, what of the Dodgers will be left except for the wordmark on the jersey? Especially if they move from the Ravine site?
That will be for the fans to decide, but I'm sure SOMEBODY's spinning the "boycott" as "well, the fans just don't want to come to this rusty ol' bucket of bolts anymore. Did you know it's : gasp : half as old as Fenway?!"
But everything changes. I guess that's why everyone's so upset. For many years, the Dodgers were the one thing that didn't change. Year in, year out, there was a trust between the Dodgers and the fans, a bond so strong, fans showed up even in bad years, as few and far they were.
People from other cities see us as laid back, coming in the 3rd, leaving in the 7th, uncaring of how good or bad the team was. A.) I'd love to see these people's opinions after sitting in their car in the parking lot for 45 minutes after the game, trying to edge over to the lane that's their exit, only to spend another half hour getting to the on-ramp, and 15 minutes on the actual on-ramp.
B.) That support through thick and thin wasn't born of blindness, but of dedication. A respect that the Dodgers are bigger than any one person, or city, for that matter. A respect that Frank McCourt has failed to show Dodger fans time and time again.
And all this notion over whose a "true fan" and who isn't is cockamamie nonsense. I think people so obsessed over pointing fingers at who's a "true" fan and who isn't probably have their own adequacy issues to work over.
I'm old hat at this internet boards/blog/commenting game, and I've seen this happen with the internet community for a favorite band of mine. A band who was comprised of four members from 1988-2000, save for a few years when a member was kicked out for drug problems. They made some of the greatest music of the 90's, and each member was a facet of the total product, and even though the egocentric bandleader did most of the work, they never denied that their band was those four people. The fans each had their favorite or favorites, and managed to get along for the most part rather well despite differences in opinion.
Well, fast forward to this century, and within 7 years, the bandleader reformed the band, sans any original members except for the drummer, who left within two years. The band leader, using the same name of the band, said the band was his, hitched the 12-year legacy of the previous incarnation to the current band, which hardly shares any likeness with the original product (but is vastly reminiscent of the bandleader's solo projects).
Fans of the band railed against this erasure of their favorite members of the band, who would not be coming back even if the leader grovelled. But there came a new breed of people who were in diapers when the band released their seminal third album in the 90's. A breed of people so blind in their love for the leader, they dismissed the old bandmembers and the old fans as "not being in tune with the current situation". People who have shelled out hundreds, maybe even thousands of dollars over the better part of two decades were charged with not being : gasp : "real fans", and the bandleader went on with this new band wearing the old band's name (while wearing chandeliers on his head as a "fashion statement") with nary a thanks, instead saying his true fans would stand by him, as his freshly-diapered youth league pushed the veteran fans out. Oh, they said they supported "differences in opinions", but it became obvious that their support of different opinions only went so far as everyone agreed that this band is the same band as the one in the 90's, which… was BUNK.
Needless to say, I stopped visiting that site, though still listen to every new song that comes out (for free, as they put them out for free at this point). When they re-release their old catalog, I will be there to buy the albums on vinyl I've yet to get, not caring that the money's going to him (he did write most of the songs) or that the newer fans will be hanging theirs on the wall instead of putting them in the turntable. But as far as the "fan" community went, I got tired of the bull, and disappeared, checking in every now and again to see the smoldering embers of what once was undeniably one of the greatest acts of their time.
Nice posts NSB. I really enjoy your comments. Always have and always look forward to what you have to say.
To me a true fan is someone who loves, cheers, and has a favorite team.
I don't question a fan if they go to a game or not. I've said it before that if others go to a game I don't mind. I'm not upset one bit with them and don't question their "fandom". I don't think others are either. They might in their anger and frustration say something but do realize that those that might say something to that affect are mostly venting & feel that the only way they can force McCourt out is by boycotting. I for one think it would be great if they go, they could chant anti McCourt chants. I for one would feel weird going. That being said I won't rip on others that do.
I for one am giving all of us fans a break as we go through this. Whether I agree with others or not. I do appreciate others passion even though I don't always agree with what is said or how it's stated.
I hope everybody is doing well tonight and have a great week!!!


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Q I had a vasectomy 19 years ago when I was 30, but I'm now beginning to worry about the prostate cancer connection. Is it really true that having a vasectomy can cause prostate cancer? If so, what can I do about preventing it? - JP, via e-mail
A The prostate cancer/vasectomy connection is one of those medical controversies that seems to rumble on interminably. Ever since vasectomies first became popular about 20 years ago, there have been scores of medical studies carried out to determine whether or not vasectomy causes prostate problems.
At first, about half the studies said yes while the other half said no.
Then, in 1993, along came two major pieces of research that seemed to resolve the issue. These were a couple of huge studies involving over 50,000 men, and backed by the prestigious Harvard Medical School in the US.
The first was what is called a 'prospective' study, which means that the data were collected as the study continued on. Over the four-year course of the study, there were around 300 new cases of prostate cancer among the men in the study. Looking at these data, there was a 66 per cent greater risk of prostate cases among the men who had undergone vasectomy (JAMA, 1993; 269: 873-7).
The second study was 'retrospective' - which means that it looked at existing medical records. In this case, the Harvard researchers compared some 15,000 men who had undergone vasectomy with 15,000 similar men who had not. The results were virtually identical to those of the first study.
In brutal statistical terms, the risk of developing prostate cancer after vasectomy jumps from seven per 1000 men per year to 11 per 1000 men per year - an increase of more than 60 per cent (JAMA, 1993; 269: 878-82). The researchers confidently concluded that there was a genuine connection between prostate cancer and vasectomy, as the odds of these two findings being chance results were thousands to one against.
But the studies soon began to be questioned. In 1994, a very large-scale Danish report on every vasectomy case in Denmark over a 12-year period (nearly 75,000 men) compared their prostate cancer risk with the rest of the Danish male population - and found no connection at all (BMJ, 1994; 309: 295-9).
This fed a controversy that was kept alive throughout the 1990s with yet more conflicting studies.
The latest study so far has come from New Zealand, a country with the highest rate of vasectomy in the world - and apparently meticulous cancer records. It compared more than 900 men with prostate cancer with about 1200 healthy men, and found no difference in prostate cancer rates (JAMA, 2002; 287: 3110-5).
So, what's the latest verdict? Recently, US epidemiologists pulled together the evidence from 22 separate studies done over the last 20 years, and came to the conclusion that there is indeed a small extra risk of prostate cancer after vasectomy. However, they're not sure whether this is a true causal connection or due to so-called 'detection bias' (Prostate Cancer Prostatic Dis, 2002; 5: 193-203). If it's the latter, it could be, for example, that prostate cancer is more readily picked up in men submitting to vasectomy because such men are more health conscious and more likely to be regularly examined by a doctor.
On the other hand, there is evidence that a vasectomy may slightly increase testosterone levels in the blood - which is important as testosterone is known to promote prostate cancer.
On balance, therefore, there may indeed be a small increase in cancer risk.
However, the scales can easily be tipped the other way by active preventative measures - and here, in contrast, there's good evidence to support lots of possible options.
First, particular foods. Heading the list of prostate cancer preventers is the humble tomato. No less than eight studies have found that tomatoes - especially when cooked, or concentrated in products such as ketchup or tomato paste - can considerably reduce prostate cancer. The largest study (again by Harvard) showed that two to four weekly servings of tomato sauce, such as on a pizza, will reduce prostate cancer risk by as much as half (Exp Biol Med [Maywood], 2002; 227: 852-9). The active ingredient in tomatoes is believed to be lycopene, the pigment that makes tomatoes red. In fact, there's encouraging new evidence that lycopene supplements (30 mg/day) will actually shrink prostate tumours after they have developed (Cancer Epidemiol Biomark Prev, 2001; 10: 861-8.)
Brassica vegetables (such as cabbage and brussels sprouts) can also reduce prostate cancer risk (Nutr Cancer, 2002; 42: 1-9), as can foods containing phytoestrogens, such as soya. The high consumption of soya foods in Japan has been linked to their very low rate of prostate cancer. The active ingredient in soya is genistein, which has been shown to inhibit the growth of prostate cancer cells in the laboratory (J Nutr, 2002; 132: 3168-71). Genistein is also found in red clover and can slow down prostate cancer growth in laboratory animals (Prost Cancer Prostat Dis, 2002; 5: 16-21). Flaxseed has been shown to reduce prostate cancer in mice (Urology, 2002; 60: 919-24).
It may also help if you cut down on dairy products, as calcium may be contributing to the problem. Studies in the US and Sweden have shown that a high consumption of dairy products increases prostate cancer risk by 50 per cent. The culprit doesn't appear to be the fat in milk but, somewhat surprisingly, the calcium. One of calcium's effects in the body is to reduce vitamin D levels, and this vitamin is one of many micronutrients known to prevent prostate cancer (Cancer Causes Control, 1998; 9: 559-66).
There's also good evidence that antioxidants, such as vitamins A, C and E, and selenium, will help protect against prostate cancer (Clin Chim Acta, 2003; 330: 57-83).
In addition, you could take an extract of saw palmetto (Serenoa repens), which is thought to counteract the hormonal imbalances that may cause prostate problems (Br J Clin Pharmacol, 1984; 18: 461-2), and has been shown to kill prostate cancer cells in the laboratory (Cell Biol Int, 2001; 25: 1117-24).
Drink green tea - often. Regular green tea drinkers have a lower risk of prostate cancer. The Chinese, for example, who consume the most green tea in the world, have the least prostate cancer (Semin Urol Oncol, 1999; 17: 70-6).
Finally, take plenty of exercise. If you have a sedentary job, walking is the best exercise for prostate cancer prevention (Cancer Causes Control, 1998; 9: 11-8).


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John Bodel is W. Duncan MacMillan II Professor of Classics and Professor of History at Brown University. His books include Epigraphic Evidence: Ancient History from Inscriptions (2001), Household and Family Religion in Antiquity: Contextual and Comparative Perspectives (co-edited with Saul Olyan, Wiley-Blackwell 2008), and Dediche sacre nel mondo Greco–Romano: Diffusione, funzioni, tipologie (co-edited with Mika Kajava, 2009).
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2 The Power of Highway Networks during China's Classical Era (323 BCE–316 CE): Regulations, Metaphors, Rituals, and Deities 33
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3 Privatizing the Network: Private Contributions and Road Infrastructure in Late Imperial China (1500–1900) 66
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The Dow Jones industrial average was down 231 points, or 1.5 percent, to 14,878 after the first hour of trading. The Standard & Poor's 500 index dropped 26 points, or 1.6 percent, to 1,602. The Nasdaq composite fell 48 points, or 1.4 percent, to 3,412.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury note rose to 2.38 percent from 2.35 percent Wednesday. The yield, which rises as the price of the note falls, surged 0.16 percentage point Wednesday after the Fed's comments. It's up sharply since May 3, when it hit a low of for the year of 1.63 percent.
Government bond yields are used as benchmarks for mortgage rates. The sharp increase in yields prompted investors to sell the stocks of homebuilders, whose business would be hurt if the pace of home buying slows down. PulteGroup fell the most of any stock in the S&P 500 index, giving up $1.49, or 7 percent, to $19.30. D.R. Horton fell $1.11, or 4.7 percent, to $22.29.
Global markets also fell. Japan's Nikkei index lost 1.7 percent. In Europe, the FTSE 100 index of leading British shares was down 2.8 percent while Germany's DAX fell 2.9 percent.
In currency trading, the dollar rose against the euro and the Japanese yen.
In commodities trading, Gold plunged $72, or 5 percent, to $1,301 an ounce. The precious metal has slumped 23 percent this year as its attraction as an alternative investment has faded as the dollar and bond yields have risen.
The price of crude oil fell $3.06, or 3 percent, to $95.44 a barrel in New York.
Among other stocks making big moves:
— Jabil Circuit fell 79 cents, or 3.7 percent, to $19.09, after the electronics manufacturer said its net income fell by half in the fiscal third quarter due to restructuring costs. Jabil's profit forecast for the current quarter also disappointed investors.
— GameStop, a video game store chain that sells new and used games, rose $1.53, or 3.8 percent, to $40.03 after Microsoft backpedaled and said that there will be no limitations on sharing games on its upcoming Xbox One gaming console.


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Sound Off, March 18, 2013
All workers who make over $20 per hour should be taxed $1 per hour, and that dollar should go to the workers only making $9 per hour, so they can earn a living wage. It is only fair that the minimum wage worker has a chance to earn more money. The high money earners don't really need all of that money.
Re: All workers: A German guy told me in Torrington about eight years ago, in 2005, his brother makes about $70 per hour at Ford in Germany, but then $50 goes for taxes.
RE: Do you have the skill. What the hell do you mean that entry level jobs are not supposed to enable someone to make a living? These jobs are stocking shelves, checking out customers and that type of thing. Why shouldn't they earn a living at it? Do you expect someone you offer a minimum wage to work at a fast pace for a paltry wage? You sound like a typical store owner. You want everything done just so and don't want to pay for it. You have to be willing to pay a just wage in order to find help that will take pride in working for you. Otherwise you get lousy results and deserve those results.
No, I am not a store owner and have worked many entry level jobs in my younger years. I always took pride and did the job to the best of my ability. It is called having a work ethic. Something that is obviously lacking in this entitlement society. I never expected anything from anyone and worked extra to make ends meet and coming from a poor background worked my way into a position that I could support myself. When I did not process the skills or education, I had to work at entry level jobs and work just as hard as I did as I moved up the ladder. Again, it is called having a work ethic, and not complaining because someone else is more successful than you. I am not entitled to their money because they have more. They earned it, they should keep it. And if they want to give it away that is their prerogative not the government, who wastes everyone's hard earned money or those who do want to put in the time to earn their way.
Malloy tells us the state is broke, but he's giving out grants in the millions everyday. In the good old days, when you were broke, you stopped spending, until your bills were paid.
"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."
-- Abraham Lincoln
Re: "The high money earners don't really need all of that money." So you are saying anything over $20 an hour is High-Money? And they don't need all of that? Let's say I make $25 an hour. Or $52K a year before taxes. Is that a lot of money? Take away $1 per hour as you say. That brings it to just a bit under $50K per year. I have a mortgage to pay. I have insurance to pay. I have children. Suddenly now, that $2K is a major blow to the household budget. It's easy for someone making $10 an hour to look at someone making $20 or $25 and think how much better their life must be because their paycheck is fatter. But the two of us are in the same boat, looking at the CEO raking in millions and millions of dollars per year plus stock and bonuses.
As a teacher, I could not allow a student to take an aspirin that they had brought to school with them when they had a headache unless we had a parent's signature stating that that particular medication could be given to him/her. So why is it perfectly acceptable in this state to allow a minor to have invasive surgery without even telling the parents, never mind having their permission? And why is it perfectly acceptable for abortion clinics to perform the abortion on a young woman under 16 without reporting statutory rape to the police? Why is abortion considered to be so untouchable?


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Intercooled Turbo Premium Unleaded I-4 2.0 L/122
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Passenger Capacity: 5
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The new media blitz is the second act in Hon Hai's public makeover, following the publication in March of findings from an audit carried out by the Fair Labor Association and an ensuing pledge by the company to improve overtime, health and safety violations found by the investigation. Two years ago an outbreak of more than a dozen suicides first brought major media attention to Hon Hai's China factories which employ about 1.5 million people and since then an unfortunate mélange of plant explosions, worker riots and child labor violations has meant the spotlight has never strayed too far from the Taiwanese company.
The Wall Street Journal visited Hon Hai's 'campus' in Shenzhen home to more than 200,000 workers in early December. On the day we visited, Hon Hai said they were conducting an audit, which meant we weren't able to visit the main production facilities. We were, however, able to see the kitchen, a dormitory, the employee care center, and a cafeteria among other locations on campus places that provided interesting insights into the everyday lives of the workers who churn out some of the world's most popular electronics products.
The company has worked to improve the lives of workers in recent years, though its efforts haven't all been as successful as some might have hoped.
This was evident in the Shenzhen facility's new employee care center, which gets an average of 1,200 calls and 10 in-person visits per day, according to staff. Consultations are free and the volume of interaction suggests many workers are getting help they likely otherwise would have gone without. On the other hand, staff indicated that few of the calls or visits are kept anonymous. If an employee is deemed to have a problem and a risk assessment is carried out, for example, the worker's manager is informed and brought in to explain what issues the worker has had hardly the sort of system that encourages frank discussion.
The worker dorms have been recently outsourced to a management company that allows friends to live together. Despite the change, many workers we talked to said they preferred to live off campus to escape strict oversight by guards, who perform spot-checks on dorm rooms and enforce other rules in an occasionally harsh manner though others defended the guards, saying worker behavior on campus was occasionally out of line.
Hon Hai has also seen mixed results with the campus learning center, which now offers expanded educational opportunities, including an array of training courses and degree programs from junior college to doctorates. Hon Hai says that around 22,000 employees had enrolled in programs at the center, which represents roughly 10% of the work force. Some workers we talked to said they preferred to study on their own or take classes off campus where hours were more flexible. One worker said that, with his long working hours, he'd likely only have time for maybe three classes a month at Hon Hai's center and predicted he wouldn't learn anything.
Still, Hon Hai is trying, and according to labor groups and workers, many aspects of life at the company's Shenzhen facility are better than at other electronics factories in the area where management can be cruel, facilities lacking, overtime extreme and pay docked (or even eliminated) for trivial violations of strict factory rules.
The biggest change for Hon Hai employees will come next summer, when legal overtime restrictions of 9 hours per week are officially put into place. To keep workers around after overtime drops, the company has said it will have to raise wages. Workers interviewed separate from the tour were for the most part aware of the looming restrictions on overtime, but far less certain about whether wages would rise to make up for the cut back in hours. One worker interviewed said there were rumors that base wages could rise 50%, matching a projection by Sanford Bernstein about what Hon Hai would have to do to keep workers after cutting overtime. But the worker was quick to add, 'I really don't believe that number.'
How Hon Hai will do under the new policies depends in part on the company's credibility of workers who are suspicious that the changes will result in less pay for them. It also depends on how much of the costs Hon Hai is able to pass on to end-brands like Apple, who make a premium on the cheap production.
It's important to remember that, despite Hon Hai's massive scale and deep experience, there are other manufacturers out there who could seize the opportunity to grab a bit of Hon Hai's business. One example is Pegatron Corp., the listed manufacturing spinoff of popular Taiwanese computer company Asustek Computer Inc., which often vies with Hon Hai for Apple contracts. Still mostly unheard of globally, the company could come in and undercut Hon Hai for some orders. Nonetheless companies like Pegatron are probably hoping to use any raises in Hon Hai's fees to accomplish the same feat themselves and get more from the branded companies that enjoy better margins.


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Attention Twitter: Chinese micro-blogging giant Sina Weibo has just updated its platform to accommodate English speaking users in a move that may well signal international expansion.
The English language interface is still only partially complete and a Sina spokesman told local blog TechInAsia that it "isn't open globally yet", but the signs are pointing to an imminent launch.
For the record, Sina Weibo's Hong Kong site is still Chinese only at the time of writing although reports are filtering in from US users who can see an English interface.
Although rival Tencent launched a bilingual option back in 2011, Sina's microblog service is by far the most popular in China with approaching 400 million users – by comparison, Twitter is said to have around 500m globally.
Adding an English option could therefore push those figures up massively and given Sina's avian-themed rival something to think about. At present, Sina Weibo's user base outside of China comes mainly from ex-pat Chinese and a smattering of Western celebs who post updates with the help of local agencies.
Sina is not the only Chinese web firm looking to increase expansion overseas in 2013. Tencent's hugely popular Whatsapp-like mobile messaging app Weixin is anecdotally doing good business abroad in the English language guise of WeChat, although reliable user numbers are hard to find.
It even launched a BlackBerry app last month to capitalise on interest from SE Asian countries like Indonesia and Malaysia where the RIM device is still a hit with users.
China's web giants have often been criticised for their failure to innovate and of achieving their success almost by default, because their Western rivals are blocked in the People's Republic.
However, Canalys analyst Nicole Peng sees it differently, arguing they could hold their own overseas. "Many of the local mobile services/applications we have seen in China, such as Tencent, Weixin and Sina Weibo provide great user experience and innovative features that we could not find from the international big names," she told The Reg.
"As long as they continue to innovate and own their IP, I do not see Chinese internet companies having any major disadvantages in competing [overseas], as mobile services become device/OS agnostic in the future."
On the hardware side too, Chinese firms are expanding their reach. Aside from the obvious Shenzhen duo of Huawei and ZTE and PC giant Lenovo, little-known smartphone brand Xiaomi has revealed plans to launch in North America in 2014 or 2015.
The manufacturer of the Android-based MI-2, often referred to as the "Chinese Apple" thanks to consumer ardour for its slick Android handsets, yesterday said it expects to sell 10 million handsets in 2013 on the back of expansion to Hong Kong and Taiwan, before trying to crack the USA. ®


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Dredd 3D might be the only movie ever to make audiences say, "Did you see that guy get his face blown off? It was beautiful!" Ultraviolence isn't for everyone, but for those who like their carnage over the top, this movie is aces.
It's an astonishing rebound for a comic-strip character, plucked from British sci-fi anthology 2000 AD, that first made it to the big screen in 1995 flop Judge Dredd. In that movie, Sylvester Stallone played the futuristic judge/jury/executioner who patrols crime-riddled metropolis Mega-City One. Not to be too judgmental, but it was not good.
This latest multiplex incarnation is a vast improvement, mainly because the R-rated Dredd 3D doesn't try to be anything it's not: The plot is lean to say the least, the performances are one-dimensional (in all the best ways), and lots of people get blown to bits in extremely entertaining action sequences. The straightforward flick pulls off no masterful twists or turns, and is cut from similar cloth as dozens of shoot-'em-ups before it.
But most importantly, it's fun as hell. This is the movie that's supposed to come out at the end of summer, once the blockbuster season is over and everyone needs one more big, stupid fling before fall sets in.
(Spoiler alert: Minor plot points follow.)
So what's so great here? Mainly, the oddly fantastic visuals. In the world of Dredd 3D, a new drug called Slo-Mo plagues the housing complexes of Mega-City One. In addition to making every person who touches the stuff look like they've been on a lifelong crank bender, Slo-Mo also makes everything the druggies see look like a sparkly acid trip shot at a gajillion frames per second.
Imagine if The Dark Crystal were shot on super-high-tech Phantom cameras by a dude trying to capture a "this is your brain on meth" look, and that's kind of close to the incredible point-of-view visuals on the screen.
1980s-style imagery made with 21st-century technology and a decent Hollywood budget? Yes, please.
So, about the plot. The entirety of Dredd 3D takes place in about 24 hours. Judge Dredd (played by Karl Urban), seasoned scum-buster that he is, has been asked to show a young n00b the ropes. He's skeptical she can cut it, but the Justice Department wants her around. Why? Because even though Judge Anderson (Olivia Thirlby, best known as the honest-to-blogging best friend in Juno) was a substandard student, she has psychic powers that make her somehow valuable in a dystopia where most people shoot first and ask questions later. Or something.
She's nervous. He's tough. We've all seen movies; this will work out fine. Regardless, the buddy-cop stage has now been set.
Judges Dredd and Anderson proceed to go into the field to answer what appears to be a pretty standard homicide call at the gigantic Peach Trees housing complex. But when they get there, they realize the victims have been skinned and thrown from a very high balcony at the top of the building. Anderson knows this must be some sort of gang message to everyone around. (She's psychic, remember.) As it turns out she's right: The Ma-Ma clan ain't nothin' to [expletive deleted] with.
Led by Ma-Ma (Lena Headey), a former lady of the night who orally castrated her pimp after he cut her face, the Ma-Ma clan has recently taken over Peach Trees and made it a hub of Slo-Mo production. Once Dredd and Anderson take into custody one of Ma-Ma's lieutenants (Kay, played by Wood Harris, who fans of The Wire know as Avon Barksdale), the drug queenpin knows she can't let the cops get out of the building. She enlists her on-call hacker (these folks are apparently a thing in the future) to put the residential complex on complete lockdown.
From there on out, Dredd is nothing but a good time — a fantastic action spectacle set against the backdrop of two people trying to escape hell on Earth. There are massive bombastic fights, near-death face-offs and bro-ing out between new BFFs Anderson and Dredd.
Anderson goes into the head of Kay and makes him imagine the same neutering that Ma-Ma gave her former pimp. Dredd takes on a whole crew of crooked judges. And ultimately the whole thing becomes a bloody shoot-out-until-sun-up, with Urban never losing his scowl and the camera's careful eye — directed by Pete Travis — never turning away for one gory second.
And that's pretty much it. There are no surprise twists — unless you count one-time hipster sidekick Thirlby making a successful leap to action heroine — and everyone stays amazingly on-message for exactly who and what their characters are supposed to be.
Dredd could've easily been an underwhelming mess, but writer Alex Garland, the scribe who gave us 28 Days Later, smartly confines this story to one day and one place, a decision that keeps the story simple and clean. The characters might be one-note, but at least they consistently hit the right one. It will presumably get no Oscar nods — it's a movie, not a film — but in the last hurrah of a summer filled with complicated and conflicted heroes, it's not terrible to have a good time with a guy who just wants to bring some justice and call it a day.
WIRED Beautiful, bloody visual style; smart and funny turn by Olivia Thirlby as the rookie heroine; nonstop action.
TIRED Pretty predictable; one-note characters.
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Have you ever wondered how long it would take to read all the information available on the web? It would take one's whole life or probably more than one life.
In this DYK post, I have a infographic that summarizes all that happens in a day, in the internet. Click the infographic to view larger.
If you are still wondering how much time it would take to read the whole internet, here are some other nice inforgraphics for you! Enjoy, and don't forget to share your comments here!