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Cyan is a color overlooked all too often probably because it isn't a common color that we see day to day. While it is confused as a "bright turquoise," cyan is more present than you imagine. Recall learning, in elementary school (or lower school if that suits you better), about the primary colors… red, yellow, and blue, right? Yeah, but there's a grown-up's lesson too.
Red, yellow, and blue are primary colors, but only for light. Primary colors also operate in the world of pigmentation, however, where light appeals to the biological side of colors, pigmentation pertains to the physics of color. The primary colors of pigmentation are cyan, magenta, and yellow.
If you've ever been shopping for printer toner you've probably come across these four letters. These letters stand for the colors that will print all your pictures and color documents. Cyan, magenta, yellow, and black are the colors that make up every other color in color printing.
If you've ever been shopping for printer toner you've probably come across these four letters. These letters stand for the colors that will print all your pictures and color documents. Cyan, magenta, yellow, and black are the colors that make up every other color in color printing.
The additive color theory, under which the primary colors or RGB color model operates, is a method that creates color by mixing a number of different light colors with varying levels of RGB. This is how our TV screens work; they use the RGB (red, green, blue). The cones in our eyes are receptive to red, green, and blue light, so the combination of these can be used to "trick" ourselves into seeing a full spectrum of colors through numerous combinations of red, green, and blue bulbs in our screens.
The secondary colors, or CMYK color model, is explained by the subtractive color theory, through which color is created by absorbing parts of the spectrum of light. Pigmentation operates under the subtractive color theory—a pigment absorbs a certain amount of the white light that is shown, and reflects the colors we see and perceive in our minds. White light consists of red, green, and blue light. Cyan pigment absorbs red but reflects blue and green. To print in color, computers are programmed to figure out the correct proportions of cyan, magenta, yellow, and black to produce a cohesive image.
CMYK printing did not become more ubiquitous until the 1950s, when Pantone Inc. searched for a way to streamline their printing process. In fact, it wasn't until the 1980s when RGB display was formally introduced to consumers. The concept is similar, but again, play on different aspects based on how each is perceived.
4 Color Paint
Painter Charlie Hankin replicates this very process as an inspiration for his style of painting. His colors are smooth and vibrant. The hues are precise and static. This is because he paints using only four colors—cyan, magenta, yellow, and black. From four stripes of the CMYK color scheme, he carefully mixes to attain the right color.
This is amazing to any painter that's ever had an attempt to mix colors turn into a marshy brown. Nonetheless, Hankin does not have the precision to mix a full spectrum of colors. He is limited within the colors he can produce. Working within this cold aesthetic, his work is a comment on the impact of our computers as well as how computers make us see images.
The familiarity of this image is strange, but it is a quintessential depiction of an age we've all grown up knowing. Video communication has become something of the past recently, but we all know the blue tint of the screen; the ambient, cyan glow mimics the reflection of a laptop screen as seen in a Skype call.
Cyan Stains
My most exhilarating experience seeing cyan also happens to be the reason for this article. It happened this winter break, when I was in Costa Rica with my family. After driving for four hours on the bay, we arrived at the pier. It was a warm Costa Rican night when we packed into our kayaks. As dusk arrived, we set out in our kayaks across the bay. The water had a blue tint to it when we paddled. I was disappointed because I knew what I came to see and this wasn't it.
After about 15 minutes of paddling through the warm breeze, we slowed and beached. It was finally dark, with the exception of a full moon. One of us took a paddle a skimmed the surface of the water in an arc. The water lit up like cyan paint was being splashed in it. We had come on this tour to see the bioluminescent plankton.
The next half hour was full of childish bliss. Running through the water, the glow of the bioluminescence splattered onto the water like paint, and then disappeared. Zooplankton and algae are responsible for the bioluminescence, and only light up when disturbed. This is the stuff that feeds whales, like the scene in The Life of Pi when the whale pops out of the glowing sea. I wish I could've taken the above picture, but my lens and camera weren't strong enough.
Finding a part of the water with a higher concentration of the plankton was amazing, as the glow of cyan was unreal. I kid you not, it was as bright and vibrant as the swatch on this article's cover. As we looked on the beach, the bioluminescence would ride the crest of the waves and light it up, like a real life animated neon sign. Everyone acted like a 5-year-old, splashing around on the beach, trying to hold the bioluminescence in their hands.
It wasn't nearly as dramatic nor as consistent as it was in The Life of Pi. But that made it all the better. It was dark, and seeing the sharp flash of the bioluminescence was exciting, even if only for a second.
So, keep an eye out for the color cyan. As you realize and understand more colors, everyday objects start to look a little different. Knowing the color that makes up every part of an object is really mind blowing, considering the fact that there is an endless amount of colors.
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Today's xkcd comic is...huge. Enormous. Seriously, the thing goes on for pages. It must have taken creator Randall Munroe forever to draw it all out.
But hidden in the huge map of the world as he sees it are a bunch of gaming references, like Mario up top. Or Oregon Trail below, which brings me back. Pokémon was probably a must. And I insist there's some BioShock reference in the pirate ship. At least a tiny one.
Hit the comic to explore on your own, or check out this awesome map version where you can zoom in and out. Let us know what hidden references you find!

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By Elaine Minamide
How can workaholics break the cycle of addiction? The first step is recognizing the problem. Debra Weaver, a pastor's wife and mother of four who teaches part time at her children's school, recently made the decision to step down as director of women's ministries at her church after she recognized the toll her busyness was taking on her relationships at home.
"I was constantly on the phone or on the computer, and as a result, I was constantly getting mad at my kids," she recalls. "I knew it was time to give it up. For me, it was a matter of trusting God: Do I really believe that if I invest my time where God wants me to invest it — in my family — He will bless my ministry?"
Rebecca Robeson, a self-admitted workaholic, is not yet free of her workaholism. But she is becoming aware that she has a problem. Whenever she finds herself caught in the destructive cycle of work addiction, she thinks of a friend and mentor named Brenda. "Brenda has learned to say no," Rebecca says. "It irritates me, because she refuses things I wish she'd agree to do. More often than not, though, she says no to something good in order to say yes to something better — her family and her relationship with the Lord."
Whether we're real volunteeraholics or simply over-functioning moms who have taken on too much, we need to ask ourselves: In our drive to create an illusion of self-worth that's based on what we accomplish, are we doing irreparable damage to our children, family and friends? If so, what are we going to do about it?
10 steps to finding balance
- Acknowledge you have a problem.
- Be accountable to someone for your schedule.
- Cut out half of your outside involvement.
- Don't add a new activity to your schedule without eliminating another.
- Allow time in your schedule for doing nothing.
- Set a time budget and live within it.
- Forget quality time — it's quantity time that counts.
- Cherish the time you have with your children now. It can never be reclaimed.
- Maintain your perspective. There's a time for everything; maybe it's just not now.
- If you're a workaholic, get help before it's too late.
Symptoms of workaholism often mask deeper emotional problems such as depression or low self-esteem. Consider getting outside help, either from a trusted pastor or counselor.
From the Focus on the Family website at focusonthefamily.com. © 1999 Elaine Minamide. Used by permission.


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Up until now, investing in municipal bonds has been a calm experience. Politicians and credit raters have assured the public that munibonds are safe. But tremors are appearing.
The State Budget Crisis Task Force released a July 17 report showing how six heavily populated states (California, Illinois, New Jersey, New York, Texas and Virginia) are in fiscal turmoil."The trajectory of state spending, taxation, and administrative practices cannot be sustained," said the report.
The task force listed threats to the fiscal health of these states and others, including growth of Medicaid spending, underfunded retirement promises, narrow and eroding tax bases, the impact of federal deficit reduction, stresses on local governments, and state laws and practices that mask imbalances.
State and local governments spend $2.5 trillion annually and employ over 19 million workers, which is six times as many workers as the federal government. Is the munibond market the next crisis?
Case Study: California
California is home to 37 million Americans and is a case study in fiscal insanity. On Nov. 16, 2011, the Office of Legislative Analyst released a report forecasting a budget deficit of $3 billion at the end of 2011-12 and an operating shortfall of $9.8 billion by 2012-13.
Today, California's actual budget deficit is now a $16 billion headache (up from $9 billion in January) and the state's cities are going bankrupt. (See Mammoth Lakes Stockton and San Bernadino).
Instead of buckling down, California lawmakers approved a $68 billion project to build a high-speed train connecting Los Angeles and San Francisco. (A flight from L.A. to S.F. takes about one hour and costs around $100 one way.) Interestingly, the approval allowed the state to collect $3.2 billion in federal funding that would've otherwise been rescinded. The federal government rewarded California for needless spending projects, leaving U.S. taxpayers on the hook.
California's experimental plan for cutting its massive budget holes involves increasing taxes.
Gov. Jerry Brown (D.) wants California voters to approve "temporary" tax increases on the highest income earners along with the sales and use tax rate by 0.5%. The vote is set for November 2012 and informed observers know that there's nothing more permanent than a temporary tax increase.
California may be an extreme example of the fiscal challenges facing states, but it's still a good representation of big problems ahead.
Red Flags Everywhere
Instead of cutting spending, states and cities are borrowing more. U.S. municipal bond issuance is already 69% higher through the first six months of 2012 compared to the same period in 2011. Although declining interest rates has given struggling counties, cities, and states more time to get their financial house in order, how can they borrow themselves out of debt?
More crucially, the borrowing capacity for states and cities is not the same as for the U.S. government. An insolvent state, for example, cannot print its way out of debt. For this reason, the order of massive bond defaults probably first happens in the municipal bond market and eventually in U.S. Treasuries—not the other way around.
Finally, asset flows into bond munifunds currently suggest investors are either complacent or ignorant. Through the first half of 2012, investors have sunk $31.56 billion in munibond funds. Not only does the existing pace easily beat last year's, but it's 40% more than the record inflows experienced during the first half of 2009-10. Asset flows suggest an unsustainable peak.
Strategic Options
Over the past two years, national munibond yields have been nearly cut in half. At the same time, credit risk is increasing with cities and states on the brink. Instead of compensating bond investors with higher yields for shouldering the additional risk, national munibond yields have collapsed to around 2%. How can you navigate this difficult environment?
Some advisors have decided to only use insured munibond funds like the PowerShares Insured National Munibond (PZA). Insurers guarantee payment of principal and interest in case the bond issuer were to default. In 2007-08 when credit rating agencies began downgrading municipal bond insurers, the market started to price even insured munis based on their underlying ratings. At that point, bond insurance added little value in the municipal market.
One final strategy is to avoid state specific munibond funds altogether by sticking with nationally diversified funds like the iShares S&P National AMT-Free Munibond (MUB). Although it may constrain tax benefits, it could significant reduce credit risk by diversifying across multiple regions.
In summary, the munibond market looks poised for trouble, but preparing clients for the rough ride ahead will give them confidence in your ability to steer them in the right direction.


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AUGUSTA — Former Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine, whose frustration with partisanship drove her to leave office more than two years ago, said Monday that the nation is at a crossroads as to whether it propels change in Washington or allows political dysfunction to become a way of life.
On Tuesday, Snowe will help unveil a set of recommendations "" on issues including redistricting, filibuster reform and campaign finance "" designed to eliminate gridlock and dysfunction in government. She said the current situation is putting the country in jeopardy by preventing work from being done and causing concern nationwide.
"If we don't change the fundamental problem, we can never get to the point of addressing the key issues," she said in an interview.
Snowe will join former Senate Majority Leaders Tom Daschle, a South Dakota Democrat, and Trent Lott, a Mississippi Republican, as well as former Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman, for the release of the Bipartisan Policy Center Commission on Political Reform's report titled "Governing in Polarized America: A Bipartisan Blueprint to Strengthen our Democracy."
Since surprising Maine's political establishment in February 2012 by announcing that she wouldn't seek re-election, the three-term moderate has been working from the outside to try to improve the functionality of Congress. She said she realized "the fight had to be fought differently."
Among her top priorities are holding more open primaries, using redistricting commissions to draw electoral lines instead of state Legislatures and improving communication between branches of government.
Broadening voter participation in primaries is essential to allow for the election of more candidates that reflect the broader views of their political parties instead of ideological extremes, she said. She called it "deeply disturbing" that 10 percent of a state's population "" the voter turnout in some primaries "" can ultimately choose who serves in Congress.
Following the release of the report, the group plans to hold events on college campuses, meet with members of Congress and encourage residents to bring citizen referendums to drive change in their states.
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VAIL, Colorado – Thirteen is Marc DesRosiers lucky number.
The Vail man is riding 1,300 miles in 13 days from Vail to Detroit. He'll spend Day 14 running the Detroit Marathon, not because he has to but because he can.
DesRosiers is working with a Michigan-based nonprofit to help raise $100,000 for three youngsters with life-threatening illnesses. They're more than halfway there and DesRosiers doesn't start until Sunday.
"These kids suffer every day of their lives. I figured I could suffer for a couple weeks," DesRosiers said.
DesRosiers is originally from Lake Orion, Mich., just north of Detroit. Three women from his Lake Orion High School class each have a child with vastly different illnesses, but all three have one thing in common. If they don't get some help these kids will die.
"After seeing my father pass in 2008 from cancer, I knew I had to try to do something," DesRosiers said.
And that's why he's riding and running. He started last Sunday.
He's not alone; 15 people from his Lake Orion High School class will run that Detroit Marathon with him.
It's all part of Lake Orion Loves, a nonprofit launched to help these families. They're hosting all kinds of benefits for the families.
"We have a goal of raising $100,000 for these families," said Kimberly Casper, a Lake Orion graduate and Lake Orion Loves coordinator. "We are looking for companies interested in supporting this cause in any way."
The three kids
Max Milewski was born 11 weeks prematurely with Down syndrome and cataracts. He's now 2 years old and is beginning his battle with leukemia. You can follow his battle on Facebook at "Let's fight like Max for Max."
Nicole Marie Burton was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic eukemia in 2008. She was 4 years old. She endured chemotherapy and treatment, and on March 23, 2011, she rang the bell at Children's Hospital to announce she was done with her treatment and essentially in remission.
Her cancer has returned and she started a new round of treatments last month.
Faith Aisthorpe was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis at 18 months old. She has been admitted to the hospital over a dozen times for cystic fibrosis exacerbation, pancreas and kidney issues. She takes five oral medications and does up to 12 breathing treatments a day. She also has a permanent IV port in her chest to access for blood draws and to infuse the IV antibiotics when she is in the hospital.
The money raised will be divided equally among the three families, Casper said.
"Raising $100,000 is a lofty goal, but is it impossible? We don't think so," she said.
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Taking technology that has already been proven to grow carbon nanotubes of world-record breaking lengths, researchers Vesselin Shanov and Mark Schulz in the UC College of Engineering NanoWorld Lab have now found new applications by spinning these fibers into strong threads.
David Mast, from UC's McMicken College of Arts and Sciences, saw possibilities in the threads. Mast, an associate professor of physics, took a 25-micron carbon nanotube thread and created a dipole antenna using double-sided transparent tape and silver paste. He was immediately successful in transmitting radio signals.
"It transmitted almost as well as the copper did, but at about one ten-thousandth of the weight," says Mast.
"Then I decided to dismantle my cell phone," says Mast. He created a cell phone antenna, using CNT thread and tape. Ripping the back off his own cell phone, he tore out the phone's original antenna and replaced it with his home-made one. With the "nano-antenna" or "nantenna," he was able to get four to five "bars" of service, compared to none when he removed it.
"That was a very pleasant surprise, how easy it was to do," Mast says. "The hardest thing is to manipulate them. They float on ambient air."
From there it was an easy leap to video, in which he was again successful. "I want to now set up a wireless webcam for the lab using these thread antennas so that others can see how well they work."
Mast says that the key to the new applications is the quality of the material that Schulz and Shanov came up with using multi-wall carbon nanotubes.
"They spin thread that is of such high quality, it opens the door to incredible possibilities," says Mast. "This is just one of many potential applications."
Schulz explains that the carbon nanotube threads work well as an antenna because of something called the "skin effect."
"The electrons transfer well because they want to go to the surface," he says. "Instead of traveling through a bulk mass, they are traveling across a skin."
"Copper wire is a bulk material," Shanov points out. "With carbon nanotubes, all the atoms are on the surface of these carbon structures and the tubes themselves are hollow, so the CNT thread is small and light."
"Carbon thread that is a fraction of the weight of current copper conductors and antennas could directly apply and would be significant to aerospace activities - commercial, military and space," he adds. "On any aircraft, there are about several hundred pounds of copper as cables and wiring."
Mast points out that the threads have what he calls an "immensely high tensile strength - perhaps five times that of steel and yet they are less dense than steel."
Now that the team has shown the feasibility of such applications, the next steps will be to work on improvements (such as making yarn out of several threads) and to find industries that will commercialize CNT thread.
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With Halos struggling, outfielder unlikely part of AL MVP debate
CLEVELAND -- Four of the regular season's six full months have passed, and Mike Trout leads Miguel Cabrera in Wins Above Replacement, 7.4 compared to 6.6.
"Here we go again," Trout said, smiling sheepishly at the thought of another heated American League MVP debate centering around him and the Tigers' slugging third baseman. "It's the same as last year, I guess. Wins Above Replacement -- whatever that means."
It means Trout, one day removed from his 22nd birthday, is once again considered the best player in baseball by the all-encompassing sabermetric statistic. It means -- in a big-picture sort of way -- that we may be witnessing the embryonic stages of one of the greatest players in history, while on pace to be the second since 1965 to rack up consecutive 10-plus WAR seasons.
It means Trout has done the unthinkable coming off a historic rookie season: He's found a way to be better.
The Angels (51-62, 7-13 in the second half) are having a rough go of it. Albert Pujols (partial tear of the left plantar fascia) may not play the rest of the year. Josh Hamilton (.667 OPS, 2-for-26 in August) still looks like a lost cause. Every aspect of their team is struggling, from starting pitchers not named Jered Weaver or C.J. Wilson, to a bullpen that has a 6.39 ERA since the All-Star break, to a defense that has committed an AL-leading 85 errors and allowed 13 stolen bases in two consecutive games.
Trout is a reason to keep watching.
His slash line heading into a seven-game road trip through Cleveland and New York is .333/.424/.580. Last year, in a season that was in many ways unparalleled, it was .326/.399/.564. Trout's hit 20 homers, stolen 24 bases, driven in 70 runs and is tied for the AL lead in hits (145), triples (eight) and runs scored (80).
All that said, though, his MVP chances are slim. Cabrera (.359 batting average, 33 homers, 102 RBIs) and Orioles first baseman Chris Davis (.302 batting average, 41 homers, 106 RBIs) have better power numbers while playing for teams in the thick of the playoff race.
The Angels -- 13 games back of first place in the AL West and of the second Wild Card spot -- need a miracle.
"That's always going to hurt you," Trout said. "You have to be playing for something. We're still trying to get back in this thing, but you look at Cabrera in Detroit, they're sitting in first place, and the Orioles are right in there competing. It definitely did its toll on me last year, as you can see, [Cabrera] being in the playoffs and on a first-place team. That definitely affects you in the long run."
But Trout shrugs off the MVP talk, as he does most things. He's innately levelheaded, and that's the trait his teammates have been most impressed by.
"He doesn't change, no matter how it's going," Pujols said. "He stays very humble. That's what I admire most about him."
That doesn't just show up in being cool in the clubhouse, or politely answering questions, or not over-celebrating home runs. It's tangible, easily identified by an unwavering plate discipline that points to the biggest reason Trout continues to trend upward.
In case fans hadn't noticed, few are pitching to him these days. With Pujols gone and Hamilton slumping, there's little need. No matter. Trout takes his walks, hardly expands his strike zone and often makes it a double with a stolen base. He doesn't get impatient and doesn't force anything that isn't there, that compact swing never wavering.
"I'm just up there looking for my pitch, and if I don't get it, I'm not swinging," Trout said of an approach that's logical in theory but difficult in practice -- and darn-near impossible at age 22.
"Seeing six, seven, eight pitches an at-bat is big for me. Especially seeing a starter -- knowing what he has and seeing the different pitches he's throwing me just gets me better for the next at-bat."
Trout has drawn 18 walks in his last 12 games, four of them being intentional, and leads the AL with 67 on the year.
Getting frustrated and expanding his zone, manager Mike Scioscia said, "is not in Mike's game."
Trout has seen 47.1 percent of pitches inside the strike zone this year, down from last year's 51.3 percent. But he's swung at 24.5 percent of pitches outside the strike zone, down from last year's 25 percent, and he ranks 18th in the AL while seeing 4.06 pitches per plate appearance.
Early in the year, perhaps while caught up in the hype of what seemed like unrealistic expectations, Trout was admittedly overanxious, uncharacteristically chasing pitches while posting a .261/.333/.432 line in April.
And like all great players, he adjusted.
"He looks calmer now," Angels hitting coach Jim Eppard said. "It's crazy to say it, but more confident, too. It's hard to imagine that he can be more confident or calmer than he was last year, but that's what I see on a day-to-day basis."
Trout's walk rate is up (from 10.5 percent in 2012 to 13 percent in 2013), his strikeout rate (21.8 to 16.7) is down.
He's getting better -- even while the team around him goes in the opposite direction.
"He's the face of baseball now," said Pujols, who has taken on a mentoring role with Trout, especially this season. "One thing I've told him is it doesn't matter what season you had last year. That passed. You have to concentrate each year and try to get better. And I feel like he can still get better in a lot of areas."


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A master class on the state of clean-energy investment [VIDEO]
I just got back from the Bloomberg New Energy Finance Summit in NYC. It was a mixed bag, like all conferences — not sure I understand the rationale behind inviting so many fossil-fuel shills to an event like this (Canadian oil minister Joe Oliver? really?) — but the ratio of new-and-interesting to Christ-how-many-times-have-I-heard-this was substantially above average. Congrats to the crew at BNEF, whose work, I hardly need to point out, you should be following.
One of the highlights of the event, as I expected, was BNEF head honcho Michael Liebreich's keynote address on trends in clean energy investment. It was centered around the conference's theme of a "new ROI," i.e., resilience, optionality, and intelligence. (I wrote a piece on that theme a little while back.)
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ERIE — It took Stillman Valley a little while to get going, but a 16-point second quarter launched the Cardinals to a 24-14 victory over Erie-Prophetstown and into the third round of the IHSA Class 3A playoffs.
Trailing 8-0 after one quarter, Tristan Elliott woke up the Stillman Valley offense with an 81-yard touchdown run. Logan Alberts' conversion run knotted the game at 8.
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Late in the third quarter, Erie-Prophetstown found the end zone again, but the conversion attempt failed and Stillman Valley clung to a 16-14 edge.
Then in the fourth quarter, Zac Hare's 1-yard dive gave the Cardinals a 10-point cushion from which Erie-Prophetstown could not recover.
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Paula Hayward of Elgar Court, Rainbow Hill, appeared at Worcester Magistrates Court on Friday, May 16, where she pleaded guilty to dishonestly failing to disclose information when she was under a legal duty to do so.
The court heard the 60-year-old had received illegal overpayments of £19,152.78 in Income Support and Employment and Support Allowance and a further £12,867.36 in Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit over a five year period after failing to declare cash in a number of bank accounts, bonds and investment policies.
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Miley Cyrus threw on her two-piece yesterday to join her boyfriend, Liam Hemsworth, at Orchard Lake in Michigan. The couple ventured into the water to share a jet ski when they weren't hanging on a dock with pals. As a complement to Miley Cyrus's bikini, she also debuted some body art. Miley's new tattoo features two lines on one of her fingers. Miley explained on Twitter that it was to support gay marriage, writing, "All love is equal." Miley was able to visit with Liam now that she's wrapped up her Gypsy Heart tour. He's staying in the state to shoot AWOL, and Miley will be back on the road soon if she chooses to attend the Teen Choice Awards this Sunday in LA. She's up for two awards, including best TV actress for Hannah Montana as well as Choice Red Carpet Fashion Icon.


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According to a new market research report published by Credence Research "Abrasives and Abrasive Machines Market (By Abrasive Type – Bonded, Flexible and Superabrasives: By Machine Type: Industrial and Hand-held: By End-use Industry– Automotive, Machine Tools and OEMs, Electronics and Semiconductors, Healthcare and Medical Devices and Others) – Growth, Future Prospects, Competitive Analysis and Forecast 2017 – 2025", the global abrasives and abrasive machines market stood at US$ 23.1 Bn in 2016 and is estimated to expand with a CAGR of 6.0% from 2017 to 2025.
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Industrial manufacturing and processing includes an extensively wide array of processes requiring cutting and grinding operations. Due to rapidly growing competition across the sector, it has become necessary to ensure fast and precise processes so as to maintain optimum quality of the end-products. Thus, it becomes essential for the manufacturers to adopt viable solutions for specific operations in order to facilitate the required output. Numerous abrasive cutting and grinding processes require variety of abrasive products that may differ in shape, size and composition. This has been one of the most prominent factors responsible for the overall abrasives market growth. Over the period of time, abrasives have replaced traditional cutting processes leading to development of wide range of abrasive products. However, the major challenge for the market players is to select the composition of abrasive materials.
Market players are keen on providing abrasive solutions catering to the varied needs of industrial manufacturing and processing industry. Majority of the companies operating in the industry produce abrasive products designed to be applied to specific models of the machines/workpieces. This has gradually led to emergence of a variety of abrasive minerals, glues, backings, resins, matrix materials in different shapes and sizes, thereby leading to sustainable market growth.
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Sue Grafton continues to work her way through the alphabet in her long-running detective series that features her beloved character Kinsey Millhone. "W is for Wasted" is the 23rd book in the series. In this interview Sue Grafton talks about the challenges she faces in trying not to repeat herself and what we might expect from the last three books and the letters of the alphabet that she will be covering as this series draws to a close in coming years.
Sue Grafton's first visit to the program took place 17 years ago. She was in Yellow Springs to take part in the Antioch Writer's Workshop. She's been back since but it had been almost a dozen years since her most recent appearance. We are hoping to have her come back at least three more times as she winds down this extraordinary project.


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On the day the MPC report was published, the Office for National Statistics announced the biggest rise in the Jobseeker's Allowance claimant count (up more than 10,000) for a year, adding to the gloom. Growing pains To the right, you can see two ziggurat charts for the final quarters of 2013 and of 2014, which are taken from the MPC report. These show the probabilities of a range of GDP growth predictions, compared with the committee's last forecast in August. The big deal here is that the MPC has used its judgement rather than a forecasting model to remove the prospect that the economy could get some really good outcomes. Both ziggurats shift to the left compared to August's forecast, showing lower overall growth; in each case, the 90 per cent confidence interval no longer contains 4 per cent or 5 per cent growth. Whenever I discussed the August forecast with business folks and told them that the MPC thought there was some prospect of 5 per cent growth in 2013 and 2014 but little chance of negative growth, the response was an outbreak of laughter. Nobody believed it. It remains hard to see where even this small amount of growth, especially in 2014, will come from, given the low levels of business and consumer confidence and a slowing world economy, plus the euro area in double-dip recession and a possible "fiscal cliff" in the US. So, these forecasts may still be overcooked. That said, the MPC is forecasting there could be a triple-dip recession, with output turning negative in the fourth quarter of 2012. So much for the economy "healing", as George Osborne has claimed. It was growing when Slasher took it over but he killed that stone dead. The MPC also predicts that output won't return to its pre-recession level in 2008 until mid-2014. This is the weakest recovery from recession ever and is already longer-lasting, in terms of lost output, than the Great Depression (which went on for four years). In contrast, US output returned to its starting level after 45 months and has grown 13 quarters in a row – against the UK's paltry one. The MPC does not expect GDP to be revised up in any serious way, as the small group of deluded "recession deniers" still claims. Another developing story is the impact of Osborne's austerity as measured by what are called the fiscal multipliers, which calculate the hit the economy takes from fiscal changes. In a big blow to Osborne, research by the OBR suggests that these multipliers are much larger than it previously thought. In its forecast evaluation report of October 2012, the OBR concedes: "The multipliers would have needed to be more than twice as large to explain the growth shortfall we have seen. Estimates of multipliers vary widely, so it is clearly possible that the fiscal consolidation exerted more of a drag on growth than we assumed." It sure has. What applies on the downside to cuts applies in spades to stimulus, as multipliers tend to be higher. Multipliers for infrastructure build are likely well over two, so you can and should borrow your way out of a debt crisis when interest rates are so low and the economy is flat on its back. There is a lot of spare capacity in the economy, so now is the right time to inject a substantial fiscal stimulus, focused on expanding the infrastructure, along with large tax cuts directed at firms to get them hiring and investing again. Are the Tories really opposed to tax cuts? Top dog The big question – in the light of the MPC's downgrading of its growth forecast and given the OBR is sure to downgrade its forecast, too – is what will be announced in the autumn statement on 5 December. My answer is: probably not much. We are likely to be told that the part-time Chancellor is giving up on his self-imposed fiscal rules, even though he made a £37bn smash-and-grab raid on the Bank of England to make his borrowing look lower. The sense I get is that the business community has bailed out on Osborne. The refrain is that he must do something – anything – but it has zero confidence that he will. If the MPC is right (and I suspect it broadly is), there is little chance of a significant economic turnaround before the 2015 election. Finally, there is that little matter of who is to be the next governor of the Bank of England. Apparently the decision will also be announced on 5 December. It won't be me, even though ForexLive kindly named yours truly the number one central banker in the world since the financial crisis began. Paul Tucker didn't appear on the list. Nor Mervyn King. My Christmas came early this year. David Blanchflower is economics editor of the New Statesman and professor of economics at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire David Blanchflower is professor of economics at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, and a former member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee Subscribe For more great writing from our award-winning journalists subscribe for just £1 per month! This article first appeared in the 26 November 2012 issue of the New Statesman, What is Israel thinking? SUBSCRIBE More


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Raburn staying productive in limited role
CHICAGO -- Ryan Raburn has continued to produce offensively for the Indians despite playing in just three games since Aug. 18 because of right calf and left heel injuries.
Raburn -- who went into Friday's game hitting .286 with 16 home runs and 51 RBIs in 203 at-bats, including a 3-for-3 performance with a homer and five RBIs Thursday -- said it was all a matter of understanding his role on the team and maintaining a relaxed approach at the plate.
"I'm just trying to keep [my hitting approach] as consistent as possible," Raburn said. "I try to keep the same routine, and I think the biggest emphasis when I get to the plate is that I'm not trying to get hits every time; I'm just trying to have a good at-bat and just let the results take care of themselves."
Going into Friday, Raburn had played in 73 of Cleveland's 146 games, used by manager Terry Francona particularly against left-handers. Raburn's recent injuries have further decreased his playing time, but he has managed to continue to make the most of his plate appearances, citing that he has been used in the same role before.
"It's just that you know how [Francona] is going to use you," Raburn said. "It's nothing to be surprised [about]. I've done it for five or six years now, so it's not something I'm starting just this year. It's tough; not a lot of guys can do it. Thankfully I've been able to have some success at it, and it'll keep me around the game a little longer.
"I've been prepared for everything they've thrown at me, and I think the longer the season progressed, the more I started getting onto my helm [about] kind of when I'd be going into certain situations, and then start preparing for it. And if I got in, I was ready, and if not, [I'd] sit back down and wait for another shot."


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When Tom Berg was elected to the state Legislature in 1970, he beat out an incumbent Republican lawmaker who had represented the Minneapolis district for five terms.
Berg and his wife knocked on thousands of doors in southwest Minneapolis during his campaign. He was 30 when he was elected to the Minnesota House of Representatives and his victory was a shock to many in the area who typically voted Republican — a political atmosphere in stark contrast to the DFL-dominated southwest Minneapolis of today.
Berg, a longtime Kenwood resident, is out with a new book, "Minnesota's Miracle: Learning from the Government That Worked," reflecting on his time in the Legislature during a decade that saw major reforms to state government. It was an era when Minnesota gained national attention for being a successful state and then Gov. Wendell Anderson graced the cover of Time Magazine with the headline: "The good life in Minnesota."
"We were young, aggressive and reasonably smart and adept at things," Berg said during a recent interview. "We were able to make the case for change — that the way it's going isn't working anymore."
Berg was reelected for a second term in 1972 — a watershed year for the DFL party when it took control of the Legislature and executive branch for the first time in Minnesota history.
The issues of the day were in many ways similar to those dominating headlines today. The country was in the midst of a prolonged war, environmental problems and economic concerns were at the forefront of political discussions, and feminists waged battles for women's rights.
"In my view there's tremendous similarities between the times," Berg said.
The Legislature, however, was a very different place in the early 1970s than it is today. It met every other year, legislators had to share support staff and there were no computers. Still, in Berg's view, it was a time of great progress and camaraderie.
Berg regularly met with a group of other young DFLers who had common goals to share ideas. The group included Martin Sabo who was already a veteran lawmaker at that time. Sabo was first elected in 1960 at the age of 22.
"It was a group of young folks who were strong believers that government could work," he said. "We weren't afraid to stick our nose into a fight, but we worked with the Republicans — and there were some Republicans we could work with."
The Legislature made major changes in the 1970s that have had a lasting impact on state government. State fiscal policies were changed to try to even the playing field for low-income areas that relied on steep property tax levies to fund local government and schools. The changes became known as the "Minnesota Miracle." Business leaders also worked with lawmakers in the 1970s to reorganize government and make it more efficient.
Berg consulted with many of his former colleagues on his new book. He hopes lessons from the past will inspire people to get more involved in their communities.
He proposes several ideas in "Minnesota's Miracle" to improve the political scene that has turned more nasty and divisive than when he was in office. He advocates for a new course in the state's schools that would improve civic literacy, and would like to see lawmakers of different political stripes have more social contact with one another.
"I want to improve the political discourse," he said. "We need to go beyond government by bumper sticker. It's just more complicated than that."
Tom Berg will be discussing his new book, "Minnesota's Miracle: Learning from the Government That Worked," on Tuesday,
Oct. 9, at the Hubert H. Humphrey Center. The event starts at 4 p.m.


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Prince Harry wraps up U.S. visit with Greenwich polo match
GREENWICH -- Britain's Prince Harry is wrapping up a weeklong visit to the United States in the affluent New York City suburb of Greenwich, Conn., where he is playing in a polo match at a club with a history of hosting royal visitors.
The prince competed Wednesday afternoon at the Greenwich Polo Club to benefit Sentebale, the charity he co-founded to help poor children and AIDS orphans in the small African nation of Lesotho. About 30 miles from New York, Greenwich ranks among the wealthiest towns in America.
"Thank you for a wonderful week," Prince Harry said in a speech before the match, which kicked off shortly after 3 p.m. "I have witnessed the extraordinary generosity of the people of this great nation."
The match drew an invitation-only crowd of about 400 including supermodel Karolina Kurkova and fashion designers Jason Wu and Valentino, who posed for pictures on a red carpet at the club on their way to lunch with the prince.
"Is the sun coming out?' Kurkova asked as she posed in a light rain.
Greenwich is home to many celebrities and hardly unaccustomed to fanfare. But for some, the royal visit of the 28-year-old prince was still cause for celebration.
At the Atelier360 shop on Greenwich Avenue, co-owner Veronique Lee said her company was planning a party with tea and cucumber sandwiches. She said British designers are well represented at the boutique, which sells items including hand bags, flasks and cuff links.
"We like royalty. What can you say?" Lee said. "We're having a lot of fun here."
The polo club, founded by billionaire Peter Brant in 1981, has hosted other British royals including Duke and Duchess of York, Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson, in 1987 and Torquhil Campbell, the Scottish Duke of Argyll, in 2012.
Brant said Wednesday that Harry's father and grandfather were good players and he was excited to watch Harry play at his club.
"It's a great honor," he said "It's great for polo."
Dressed in a navy-colored suit, white shirt and no tie, the prince arrived at the club in the late morning with Brant and his wife, model Stephanie Seymour. They viewed a selection of art from the Brant Foundation Art Study Center as well as some paintings owned Brant, including some pieces by Andy Warhol, in the club's entrance hall.
Before the polo match, Malcolm Borwick, captain of Harry's team, said he expected Harry to show his true athleticism on the field after having tried his hand at baseball in New York City on Tuesday.
"He's an extremely good polo player," said Borwick, who has played with the prince in other charity matches.
Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy was not among the invited. "He's more of a hockey guy, anyway," Malloy spokesman David Bednarz told the Greenwich Time.
Prince Harry also touted the work of Sentebale and thanked people for their support of the charity.
"The HIV pandemic continues to leave thousands of children without parents and family structures to guide them through life," the prince said. "Without this support, basic needs such as food, shelter and care remain unmet, leaving children vulnerable and very often without much hope in their lives."
Harry's visit struck a lighter tone than his stop the previous day in New Jersey, where he toured two shore communities devastated by Superstorm Sandy.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie showed the prince a spot in Mantoloking where the sea had cut the town in half, taking out a bridge and houses. The channel has since been filled in. Every one of the wealthy town's 521 homes was damaged or destroyed. Scores remain as piles of rubble.
"This used to be a house?" Prince Harry asked at one barren spot.
The prince said he was impressed to see "everyone getting together and making things right."
He also spent Tuesday in New York City at events promoting tourism, entrepreneurism and philanthropy.
The prince, the son of Prince Charles and the late Princess Diana, began his visit to the U.S. on May 9. He is third in line to the British throne, after his father and older brother, Prince William.