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Ray-Ban Jackie Ohh Sunglasses
These striking sunglasses by Ray-Ban have a brilliant 1960s inspired design. Named after the famous Jackie O, they embody her signature fashion icon status.
These chunky oversized frames are a nod to the glamour of Hollywood in its heyday, evoking a wonderfully retro inspired charm. The brown tone creates a warm feel that continues across the lenses, with the trademark logo to the top left. The logo is also embossed on both arms for an unmistakably cool finish.
Wear with an A line dress, court shoes and oversized tote to really channel a retro vibe. Opt for skinny jeans, loose shirt and pumps for a casual feel.
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Jimmy Choo Chain Detail Sunglasses
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Sleek Folio style case featuring our unique Universal Grip System. Grips stretch to fit your tablet and do not impede your view of the screen. Cover opens to provide a hands-free viewing stand. Cover folds to provide an easy typing stand. Inside cover features colour co-ordinated soft-touch lining.
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Oakley Ladies Sunglasses
Large and attitude filled, these ladies sunglasses by Oakley will work overtime for you this summer.
The large frames of these sunglasses frame your face beautifully, while the detail to the arms adds a hint of colour. Polarised lenses reduce glare making them perfect for driving as well as getting through a good book on the beach.
Carry these sunglasses around in their embossed case with wrist strap to keep them safe. They'll work with any summer outfit this season whether casual or chic.
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Metal Cut-Out Cuff Bracelet
With a statement cut-out pattern this cuff bracelet can't help but look chic on your wrist. The oversized deign of the cuff makes an impact no matter the occasion, while gold metal works with your summer glow for a flawless finish.
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Ray-Ban Aviator Sunglasses - Pink
Standing the test of time since their 1930s origins this pair of pink lens aviators by Ray-Ban add a little girly charm for the summer.
In the iconic tear-drop shape, the pink lenses of these sunglasses features a gradient adding detail and charisma. Contrast red metal frames and the double bridge detail create the timeless shape we love for effortless cool.
Complement these aviators by wearing a cute print playsuit and low profile plimsolls for a dressed down day. Amp up your off-duty wardrobe in a pair of skinny ankle grazers, pink cami top and court shoes.
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When you enter Prior Payroll History or a Payroll Edit for an employee, it is important to enter "Taxable Wages" for employee or employer payroll taxes, so that W-2s and payroll tax filings are accurate.
Both screens include fields for entering Taxable Wages for each type of tax. If you're entering prior payroll history information, you should have a report of Taxable Wages for each type of tax for each employee from your former payroll provider. If you're not sure what amounts to enter for Taxable Wages, here is a guideline:
Gross Pay
Gross Pay is the total amount of wages paid to your employee before non-taxable pay, such as expense or mileage reimbursements, or non-taxable deductions are taken into account. For more details, see What Types Of Income Are Taxable?
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State Tax and Local Tax Subject Wages depend on whether your state and/or local taxes include Section 125 pretax deductions and 401k/403b/457 contributions. Check with your state's taxation department to confirm.
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|Adams Paces UNCW In Final Round At LSU
BATON ROUGE, Louisiana – The UNCW women's golf team combined for a team total 328 in the final round of the LSU Tiger Golf Classic Sunday at The University Club.
The Seahawks finished the tournament with a 54-hole total of 335-329-328=992, 36 strokes behind 13th place Louisiana Monroe (323-319-324=966).
"It was a tough go for the team overall," said UNCW Head Coach Cindy Ho. "I felt we were prepared to be more competitive but our inexperience really showed when the conditions were tough. We have to trust our swing, our decision making and improve our short games to be more competitive."
No. 8 Arkansas completed the wire-to-wire victory as it posted a 309 during Sunday's final round capture the team title with a three-day total of 293-297-309=899, 10 shots ahead of second-place Tulane (298-302-309=909). Host Louisiana State (306-294-312=912) claimed third while TCU took fourth (301-303-312=916).
Junior Lori Beth Adams carded a four-over-par 76 on Sunday to earn a share of 14th place with a 54-hole total of 77-74-76=227. Sophomore Mattie Tobey posted a six-over 78 during the final round to earn a share of 64th with an 87-83-78=248 tournament scorecard. Junior Megan Burnham (83-85-91=259/T-77th), senior Danielle Lamy (88-87-84=259/T-77th) and junior Jeanne Metivier (89-96-90=275/79th) completed the Seahawks entry. Sophomore Mallory Warrick (83-86-86=255/T-72nd) competed the event as an individual entry.
"Very proud of how Lori Beth competed and played this week," said Ho. "The golf course played very difficult this week and she was able to stay patient throughout the round. Her putting speed was excellent on the challenging greens and her overall short game really saved her."
Arkansas' Emily Tubert carded an even par 72 during the final round to claim the individual title with an even-par total of 72-72-72=216. Maribel Lopez Porras (71-74-76=221) of Tulane and Madelene Sagstrom (78-68-75=221) of LSU finished five shots back of Tubert in a tie for second.
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FORT WORTH — Alabama lost Saturday. Kansas State won. I think you know what that means.
But in case you don't: A spot in the national championship game in Miami come early January is more realistic for the Wildcats than it ever has been.
This is real. And if K-State can keep from doing in the next two weeks what you fans are probably doing this very second — going crazy with anticipation and experiencing tightness in the throat area — it's going to happen.
K-State wasn't at its best Saturday night during a 23-10 win over TCU. Check that, the Cats weren't at their best offensively, but the defense played its most dominating game, leaving the Horned Frogs horn-less.
It was a good, old-fashioned defensive struggle. You remember what those look like, right?
Yards were at a premium. Possessions were important. Turnovers were magnified.
When K-State quarterback Collin Klein threw an interception on the first possession, there was an immediate reaction.
Is Klein OK? Or was the injury he suffered last week against Oklahoma State still an issue?
Klein straightened himself out, and contributed a big 34-yard touchdown run on the first K-State possession of the second half, but for once he wasn't the difference.
This one belonged to the defense, one that allowed 33.3 points in Big 12 games last season but has lowered that average to 19.1 points.
Every facet of K-State's game is so much better than it was last season that it's hard to comprehend that the Wildcats were 10-3 in 2011. That's pretty good. So what is this?
K-State is 10-0 with an offense that usually rolls, special teams that click and a defense that hits.
About the only bad news Saturday came in the form of injuries to junior free safety Ty Zimmerman and sophomore wide receiver Tyler Lockett, both of whom had to be helped off the field with apparent leg or ankle injuries.
Lockett's injury came in the final 90 seconds, after the game had been decided. He shouldn't have been out there and if he's lost for an extended period of time — word from the sideline was that he was walking well — it'll be hard to defend the decision to have him out there.
Other than that, it was another hunky-dory night for the Wildcats, especially in the wake of Alabama's loss.
Of course, when K-State coach Bill Snyder was asked about the Tide's defeat at the hands of Texas A&M, the team that ruined K-State's only other serious run at a national championship in 1998 by knocking off the Cats in the Big 12 championship game, Snyder pleaded ignorance.
He did admit to hearing about Alabama's loss in the locker room after the win over TCU. But he was not about to bite on a question about his reaction to the turn of events.
"I have no thoughts about it whatsoever," Snyder said. "I'm going to ask our guys, like I always do, to try and practice better on Monday. Then we'll work on Tuesday and go from there."
What, you expected him to pop open a bottle of champagne and scream a whoop-whoop chant?
Snyder is the king of the downplay, the master of de-emphasis.
And it's when you want him to share his feelings the most that he closes ranks even more.
Snyder also withheld Klein, who is in the middle of a Heisman Trophy race, from talking to the media after the game. Klein is a pretty popular guy at the moment and being friendly with the media probably can't hurt his Heisman chances.
Those of us who know Snyder aren't surprised at his refusal to join in the jubilation. But the growing horde of national media members who are looking for their two cents worth is left speechless by Snyder's speechlessness.
It's just his way. He's steadfast in repetition and consistency and nothing, not even a chase for a national championship, is going to throw him off his game.
Snyder devotes as little time as possible to hyperbole, opting to spend his energy on turning a football team into something as close to a machine as possible.
The numbers this season bear out his success.
K-State is averaging more than 40 points (42.2) for the third time in history and the first time since 2003.
The Wildcats have rushed for 2,136 yards and passed for 2,075. They cannot be pigeon-holed.
In 10 games, K-State has scored a touchdown on its first possession of the second half eight times. The Wildcats have outscored opponents 115-28 in the third quarter.
K-State has turned the turnovers of its opponents, which grew to 26 Saturday night, into 114 points. Meanwhile, TCU became the first team to turn a K-State turnover into points, scoring a touchdown late after an Angele Pease fumble. Makes sense — K-State has turned it over six times this season.
If you're playing K-State, you never have time to breathe. The Wildcats are always doing something, whether on offense, defense or special teams.
TCU did as well defensively as any team has done against K-State this season. But the Wildcats still found ways to score 23 points. It wasn't a good night offensively for K-State, but it didn't need to be. This game belonged to the defense.
And it gets the Wildcats one step closer to an unimaginable scenario.
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Inside the 6-metre aluminum dome of the Grenfell Campus Observatory, which is visible from all over the city, there is a precision-made reflecting telescope. At the heart of the telescope, designed and built by DFM Engineering of Colorado, lies a 60 cm (24") mirror with almost 10,000 times the light-gathering ability of the human eye. The faint light from distant objects such as galaxies will be collected in this "light-bucket", then focused through an eyepiece for direct viewing or into instruments for analysis.
The telescope is used primarily as a research and teaching resource for physics and astronomy faculty, staff and students, however community outreach programs are also an important part of its mandate. Public tours and observing nights are scheduled, as well as remote-observing programs for provincial schools, and astronomy and physics-themed "camps" for high school students - such as the SNAP camp for Level II students held in the spring.
The telescope is fully computer-controlled with tracking motors on an equatorial mount to compensate for the motion of the Earth, allowing it to maintain objects in its field of view. Within the dome, an 11 cm refracting telescope and articulated relay eyepiece (ARE) can accommodate the viewing public of all sizes and abilities.
A small solar telescope, piggybacked on the main telescope, allows safe viewing of the Sun during the daytime. Sunspots and beautiful prominences along the Sun's limb are revealed through the special solar filter.
A separate "warm room" allows observers to point the telescope and control its instruments - such as the high-performance Apogee U6 fan-cooled CCD imager - from relative comfort.
A display area in the vestibule of the observatory is open to the public during the day. Displays and posters will change often. Now in the display case:
The astronomical research group at Grenfell will use the instrument to study galaxies, star clusters, variable stars, supernovae, asteroids, and extra-solar planets.
The telescope was installed in October of 2011 and was officially opened in May of 2012. See how the observatory came together on our Building page.
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everything that we did in class related back to this book which made it a big part in passing my class.read more
nothing. it was good. all the information that I needed was inside this book.
I would change nothing with this textbook , it was very well written. Awesome book for non-science majors.read more
I was required to take biology II , this book really helped me with the diagrams that the authors featured theroughout the textbook.
I learned that everything living is the same at a basic level, and that everything down to our cells is very complex and works much like a machine.read more
This book provided graphs, pictures, and diagrams that helped me understand the material.
actually less information is always better. you dont want to cram alot of info in a students brain if he or she wont sponge it up. less is better.read more
tonicity! crazy stuff. even if a little more oxygen or water got into our blood stream, our blood would either, shrivel, or burst due to too much water solution. this interested me the most, therefore found it useful and definitely learned.
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Ms. Maryam Laly
Kabul, Afghanistan
This summer Maryam interned with the International Center for Religion and Diplomacy in Washington, DC. This was Maryam's second summer interning in DC – last year she was an intern at American Councils for International Education. "I loved the location and the opportunities available in D.C. As a result, I applied to International Center for Religion and Diplomacy where I will be able to gain a broader experience working in a field I am interested in and widening my circle of networks," said Maryam at the start of her summer. During her internship, Maryam conducted research, participated in meetings and took part in various projects that ICRD has in the Middle East.


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You've heard of omega-3 fatty acids. It's the good stuff found in fish and nuts.
Its benefits are well known by healthy living advocates everywhere.
But have you heard about the benefits of omega-7?
Top medical experts are calling omega-7 the 'new' good fat. It has been proven to improve cardiovascular and metabolic health.
It was discovered by scientists researching the mechanism behind weight loss. What they found was a fat that behaved like a hormone [1]. Harvard Medical School decided it was so important, it filed a patent to protect it [2].
Why is omega-7 so important?
1. Helps Maintain Healthy LDL Cholesterol Levels*
Low-density lipoprotein (LDL) is also known as "bad cholesterol". LDL is beneficial in small amounts. But you can get too much of a good thing. With age, the endothelial cells coating the interior your blood vessels rupture more easily. LDL is like mortar that repairs the nooks and crannies in these cells. But high LDL causes a buildup of waxy deposits called plaque. Excess plaque leads to coronary heart disease and hypertenion. [3] Omega-7 optimizes LDL cholesterol levels to keep endothelial cells in good shape.
2. Helps Maintain Healthy HDL Cholesterol Levels*
High-density lipoprotein (HDL) – or "good cholesterol" – are like garbage trucks of the cardiovascular system. HDL cleanses your arteries of "bad cholesterol" by breaking it down and transporting it to the liver. The liver then flushes the excess LDL out of your system. [4]Omega-7 boosts HDL cholesterol levels so you can eliminate "bad cholesterol" more efficiently.
3. Helps Maintain Healthy Triglyceride Levels*
Triglycerides are fats in your blood that are also central to a healthy metabolism. They provide energy and store important fat-soluble vitamins. But too many triglycerides increase risk of heart conditions and hepatic fat accumulation ("fatty liver disease"). Fatty liver can leads to diabetes.[5] Omega-7 optimizes triglyceride levels. It helps you avoid undesirable consequences of too many fats in your blood.
4. Helps Maintain Healthy Glucose Metabolism*
Insulin is the hormone that regulates your blood sugar levels. Insulin resistance makes you more vulnerable to glucose-borne toxins. The toxins increase your risk of developing diabetes type II. Diabetes can cause cardiovascular disease and renal failure. Omega-7 helps increase insulin sensitivity to metabolize glucose more efficiently. [6,7]
5. Supports Healthy C-Reactive Protein Levels*
C-reactive protein (CRP) is a marker for inflammation. As your immune system's response to harmful stimuli, inflammation helps your body heal. However, too much inflammation to chronic inflammation and then acute inflammation. Chronic inflammation is the culprit behind alzheimer's, multiple sclerosis, psoriasis, rheumatoid arthritis, type 1 diabetes, and more.Omega-7 helps maintain healthy c-reactive protein levels and keeps inflammation in check. [8,9]
6. Improves Appetite Control*
One way to gain weight is to eat too much. Eat too many of the wrong foods and you lose your ability to know when you're full. So eat more and more. And the problem gets worse. omega-7 has been shown to help the hormone leptin do its job. Leptin is the hormone that controls satiety. Omega-7 helps your body recognize when you're full. It also helps halt an undesired increase in body weight. [10]
7. Boosts Metabolism Towards Energy Expenditure*
De novo lipogenesis is the process by which excess calories are converted into fats. Fatty acid oxidation is the process which which fatty acids are converted into energy. Omega-7 moderates de novo lipogenesis and increases fatty acid oxidation. This means it tells your body to use the fatty acids towards energy expenditure rather than storage. Omega-7 boosts your metabolism. It helps you burn calories instead of storing them as fat. [11]
So there are 7 good reasons to learn more about omega-7.
That's why : "Omega-7 is like Manna from Heaven."


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GPS receiver
Basic Description
A GPS receiver, for our purposes, is a small hand-held electronic device that receives multiple satellite signals to determine its position pratically anywhere on the globe. Further detail The accuracy of GPS receivers varies depending on a number of factors, including time of day, weather, obstructions (trees, buildings, etc.), satellite geometry, WAAS signals, and more. Many geocachers allow their GPSr to get them close to a target, and then use The Force to guide them the rest of the way.
Units prices can range from a under $100 to more than $500.
Selecting a GPS for Geocaching
Bare Essentials
The bare essentials for a GPS unit (GPSr) used to hunt a geocache are: (1)the ability to input and display user coordinates to three decimal places for the minutes, and (2)the use of WGS-84 (NAD-83) datum. While some have successfully hunted caches with units that don't meet these minimums, they do have some difficulties. All consumer grade units sold in the last few years will meet these minimums.
Can't Live Without
Be careful of the most inexpensive units because they do not include a data cable that hooks up to your computer. You will want a data cable to reduce time entering coordinates and errors inputing them manually. Many a new cacher, and even expereinced, has been frustrated when inadvertantly entering the wrong coordinates.
Another nice feature is mapping screen. The map will give you an overhead map that helps you get your bearings. Most modern units will have some sort of mapping screen. This is not to be confused with a mapping unit which will have detailed real-world maps includes roads, rivers, and more.
Advanced Features
Most mid to higher end GPS units allow you to add real-world maps of different flavors to your units. The types of maps can be detailed roads and streets, topo maps with detailed topographical features, or both. The area your unit can hold is determined by the amount of data that will fit in the unit's memory. Some units have removable memory so you can use large data sets or swap smaller ones out for others.
Autorouting units will give you turn-by-turn directions from the present position to a destination you select. This can be extremely helpful in geocaching to go you from the parking area of your last find to your next.
Electronic Compass
Units that don't have a built-in magnetic compass rely on the movement of the unit to deterimine direction. Thus, when you are sitting still, it has no clue. When you stop and turn in any direction, the unit cannot tell you which way to proceed until you start moving again. An electronic compass will tell you which way the unit is pointed regardless of movement. Some cachers forego the electronic compass for a good magnetic compass because the GPS-based option is more expensive than a good old-fashioned magnetic compass. Packing a manual compass is good advice anyway, in case one's GPS fails.
>>STUBB<< Putting it all together. Basic recommendations for starting out.


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The Dana Point Chamber of Commerce is swamped with prepartations for this week's Thanksgiving Day Turkey Trot race, officials say.
"It's Turkey Trot all the time right now," said chamber Executive Director Heather Johnston.
The 10- and 5-kilometer races at the Dana Point Harbor Thursday are expected to host more than 11,000 people and gross $350,000, the profits of which will go to support the Dana Point 5th Marine Regiment Support Group.
"Get here early and give yourself plenty of time," Johnston suggested to racers and spectators. "The Harbor is the first place people go for parking, but also park along side streets."
The following is a listing of race day events:
- Registration, 6 a.m.
- 10k, 7 a.m.
- 5k Masters, 8:30 a.m.
- 5k Open, 9:30 a.m.
- Mission Hospital Kids Gobble Wobble, 10:15 a.m.
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Installation and Configuration of Oracle SOA Suite 11g R1: Part 1
This article by Heidi Buelow, Manas Deb, Jayaram Kasi, Demed L'Her and Prasen Palvankar, provides the instructions for installing and configuring the Oracle SOA Suite server and the Oracle JDeveloper development tool. These instructions are for the GA version of 11g Release 1 (126.96.36.199.0), dated July 2009. In addition, this article includes the instructions for installing Oracle Service Bus.Read Installation and Configuration of Oracle SOA Suite 11g R1: Part 1 in full
Adding Sound, Music, and Video in 3D Game Development with Microsoft Silverlight 3: Part 1
In this article by Gastón C. Hillar we will add sounds, music and videos to the game. By reading this article and following the exercises, we will learn how to:
- Add background music to the game
- Generate sounds associated to the game events
- Take advantage of multiple channel audio
- Control the reproduction of concurrent sounds
- Organize the media elements for the game
- Prepare our media elements for their use in Silverlight applications
- Take advantage of Silverlight 3 performance enhancements for videos
- Reproduce videos combined with animated projections
Adding Sound, Music, and Video in 3D Game Development with Microsoft Silverlight 3: Part 2
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The easiest and simplest way to add value to your Topics is to make good use of Custom Text in the Bubbles. In this article by Dirk Manuel, we will simply look at what you can (and should) do with Custom Text.Read Providing context using Custom Text in UPK 3.5 in full
Glossary in UPK 3.5
This article by Dirk Manuel explains how to build and implement a Glossary.
A Glossary defines terms that are unique to a project or system, or new to your users. A Glossary typically consists of a number of term/description pairs. The added value that UPK provides is that instances of each term in exercises can be hyperlinked to the relevant entries in the Glossary.Read Glossary in UPK 3.5 in full
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In this article by Dr. Jayaram Krishnaswamy, you will learn how you may display XML data using the Microsoft Chart in ASP.NET 3.5 and add title to the chart as well as the titles to the axes. You will be using both element-centric as well as attribute-centric XML data.Read Microsoft Chart with XML Data in full
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They say there's a thin line between love and hate. In the world of business however, the lines are clear and they are bold – you can't miss them. This is especially true in the tech sector where companies fight every day trying to put each other out of business.
There has been no better example of this than with tech giants Apple and Samsung and their on-going legal dispute over copyrights. Samsung proclaims "flattery" while Apple screams "theft." Who's right? I suppose it depends on who the judge is.
Four months ago, Apple was awarded $1 billion worth in damages after a federal jury found sufficient evidence to determine that Samsung willfully infringed upon several Apple patents. Apple immediately sought to ban sales of several Samsung products in the U.S. Samsung argued that it deserved a new trial – citing (among other things) juror misconduct. Suddenly, the company has done an about-face. What changed?
In a move that comes completely unexpected, the South Korean giant has decided to drop its suit against Apple in Five European countries – Germany, France, the U.K., Italy and the Netherlands. Samsung's surprised decision comes only one day after the company earned a small victory after Apple's sale ban request of Samsung's products was denied by a U.S. judge
Samsung officials released the following statement:
"Samsung remains committed to licensing our technologies on fair, reasonable and nondiscriminatory terms, and we strongly believe it is better when companies compete fairly in the marketplace, rather than in court," the company said. "In this spirit, Samsung has decided to withdraw our injunction requests against Apple on the basis of our standard-essential patents pending in European courts, in the interest of protecting consumer choice."
That sounds great, but companies don't typically make such PR moves without expecting something in return. Does it mean that Apple and Samsung will settle the rest of their disputes out of court? Is Samsung no longer a threat to cut off Apple's supply of parts? How will this impact Google's relationship with Apple?
If it is true that there will be no more nastiness between the two companies, there is a chance that this peace treaty might still present come casualties. Unfortunately, it might adversely impact Microsoft and Research in Motion since both stood to benefit from any prolonged rift with the Android OS. Phone manufactures were looking for non-Android platforms as a way to avoid potential obstacles. RIM's BB10 and Microsoft's Windows Phone 8 were ideal alternatives. But perhaps not anymore.
If Apple agrees to drop its sales ban on 26 Samsung phones, that means there are more devices with which the weaker players such as RIM and Microsoft must compete. Also it remains to be seen how this will affect the $1 billion in damages that Apple was awarded during the summer. Will the two companies negotiate the amount lower or was this already a consideration in Samsung's sudden "change of heart." Investors will find out soon enough.
Early indicators suggest that the market loves this news. Shares of Apple are up over 1% to $525.19 in premarket activity.
Uhm… I didn't know you could use the stock upticks as an indication if the market approved of a result or not. Especially since the market appears to be giving you mixed messages then. As of the time of this writing:
By your logic, it would appear that the markets now believe Nokia is going to benefit from this new arrangement, much more than Apple will. I somehow doubt this is the case.
It is quite simple, you don't. If it is as you said, you can use an uptick as a measurement, the statement about the agreement between Apple and Samsung being negative for Microsoft is not true, as its stock increased as well. Nokia, who is dependent on Microsoft right now had an even larger surge.
So by your very logic the market is saying "Nokia will benefit from the new agreement between Samsung and Nokia", and they are saying it will be more beneficial, as its stock price increased more. Please refute :)
I suggest a different tack. Give everyone their injunctions with no remedy. See how fast everyone innovates to work around them. Monetary relief is nothing, especially for the major players. But cut their revenue out from under them and you move them out of the uncertainty of a court case.
As for the SEP holders, they should be held to their FRAND commitments. Of course the issue comes when someone who can't pay the whole fee wants to trade patents as part of the deal. I say tough. Pony up or forget it. But the SEP holders need to honour FRAND, same rate for everyone, no exceptions, or they lose all rights to their patents.
The problem with rules is people don't always want them so things will be clearer. they want the rules so they can justify why they don't apply to them.
Entirely unrealistic. But I honestly think the benefit would be the patent system accomplishing what it was set up to do, spur and reward innovation. Anytime the court gets involved in things like this the results are always drug out to an irrelevant end, months even years of cases and appeals.
I think it also levels out the playing field. If the little guy who created something can get real, timely relief the big guy will be forced to deal sooner. I know of at least one person who created something, but because of the deep pockets of the big guy he had no recourse to outlast the endless trial system.
I also think something similar needs to be dealt with non-practicing entities who buy patents. I have no problem with a guy who invents and patents, but does not have the capacity to turn over to implementation so sells or license his invention. But a company who only exists to buy and hold patents is no longer allowed. If you didn't invent it or you buy it and don't do anything with it, you don't get to own it. Even practicing entities start to straddle this kind of behaviour and that is sad.
Ah, well. This all only an issue as long as we live in a monetary economy. When we can move to a post-monetary economy there may be hope. But people are still people. They'll find something to exploit.
ALL of this sounds nice, but it barely amounts to anything in the realistic context.


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The original call said there was a reaction to lithium batteries at the plant, producing smoke inside the building. When firefighters arrived, scanner calls said multiple explosions were heard inside the structure.
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I'm not entirely sure whether Star Trek Into Darkness is an objectively better film than the 2009 Star Trek reboot. It is arguably no better written than the last time around, with the film again coasting on its technical aspects and sheer chemistry of its cast over a story that makes little sense and feels rushed. And the picture is hobbled, especially in its second half, by an inexplicable choice to chain itself to the original mythology to its disservice as a new story. But it fixes a key flaw of the first film while telling a politically and socially relevant adventure tale that excites and amuses throughout. It may offend classic Star Trek purists, but it is mostly an entertaining and visually dazzling picture. If only it had the courage to truly chart its own course.
J.J. Abrams has been explicit about keeping the film's twists and turns secret, even to the point of hiding plot points that have little bearing on the story. The picture's biggest twist is sadly the one involving the identity of a secondary character. Since pretty much everyone has known the scoop for two years, I was hoping that this was an Iron Man 3-style diversion, something painfully obvious to keep the fans off the scent of the film's true secrets. But like Super 8, there are no real mysteries to be solved or jaw-dropping twists to be had in Abrams's "mystery box", only a relatively generic action-adventure buoyed by superb casting and quality set pieces. It is hardly fair to discuss a film's marketing when discussing the final product, but the picture is pretty much as generic as its 'dark sequel' marketing implied, albeit with a lot less darkness. To the film's benefit, the tone is perfectly balanced throughout, with humor and gravity dispersed where respectively appropriate.
So while Star Trek Into Darkness is pretty much a standard second-go around, it's an awfully entertaining one. Like the initial 2009 entry, the film unfolds in non-stop movement, even during most of the 'people talking to each other' moments. The sheer momentum once again allows us to temporarily gloss over the plot issues at least until after the credits roll, although careful viewers will find much to nitpick as the film unspools (certain climactic develops severely undercut the potential for peril in any future installments). The basic outline involves Kirk and his crew and their response to a terrorist campaign waged by Starfleet Officer John Harrison (Benedict Cumberbatch). Right off the bat, you'll notice that the sense of cocky entitlement that harmed Pine's take on Kirk has been severely softened, which by itself makes for a much more enjoyable movie this time.
Also helping is a heaping helping of political subtext, as the film doesn't just go for generic post-9/11 politics but specifically the morality of extra-judicial executions and preemptive warfare in the wake of high-casualty terrorist attacks (torpedoes = drones). The film doesn't dwell on its subtext, but it's there for anyone looking for it. The debates over militarizing the Enterprise and how to deal with new potential threats works both for its political content and as a parable for the push-pull over keeping Star Trek as it once was versus the desire to turn it into a more general audiences-pleasing and/or conventional hard-action science fiction franchise. For what it's worth, the film does still mostly take place in deep space and the ambivalence of this 'good guys versus bad guys' approach is shared by several major characters.
The murderous John Harrison is actually a pretty thin character, even when you learn his background, but Cumberbatch is such a dynamic performer that he is able to sell his 'villain monologue 101′ boilerplate dialogue. So poorly defined is he that a supporting character actually chimes in late in the game to explain that he really is a bad-ass after all. The rest of the Enterprise crew shines per usual, although some have more to do than others. Everybody gets at least one shining moment (John Cho has a great bit of intimidation), although the focus is for the most part on Kirk, Spock, and Uhura. Urban gets somewhat shafted this go-around, as his Bones is basically comic relief. Alice Eve shows up as a seemingly peripheral character and exists only for a gratuitous T&A shot and for a pointless tie to the old continuity.
Ah, here we get to the film's Achilles' heel. While the first film basically created a kind of alternate universe to allow these new films to embark on their own missions unencumbered by decades of continuity, this second chapter feels the need to feel a part of not just the old-school Star Trek universe but specifically the portions of said universe that the most casual viewers would be familiar with (a tribble makes a cameo appearance). The intentional straight-jacketing on display will, especially in the film's botched finale, remind people of Superman Returns in how it traps itself by pointlessly rehashing the most well-known portions of its most well-known adventures. What's weirdest about the film's callbacks is (aside from how botched they are) how they are arguably aimed at the very hardcore Star Trek fans who would be most put off by the film's 'stronger-faster-louder' approach in the first place.
Up until that final reel or two, the film mostly works, getting away with some poor characterization and iffy scripting via the sheer chemistry of its cast and the inventiveness of its action. Abrams shot portions of this on IMAX film, and those sequences are glorious to behold. The prologue is a delight, a bright and colorful mini-episode that both plays around with the Prime Directive problem as well as highlighting our heroes actually helping people in peril. There are a few too many action sequences, including a second act fist-fight/shoot-out that undermines what should be Saldana's big moment, but Abrams again proves himself an accomplished director of big-scale action, and the 3D is good enough to allow me to recommend the IMAX version without hesitation.
Taken as merely a big-scale summer blockbuster viewed by audiences with little emotional attachment to the world of Star Trek, it is pretty much a success and a more enjoyable film that the last go-around. The finale nearly kills the film, but there is enough to enjoy prior to those final beats to allow a recommendation.Since J.J. Abrams is now off doing Star Wars Episode VII, we have little clue of where the series will go from here. To Abrams's credit, he leaves the door wide open to either continue in the "Star Trek to the Extreme!" approach or dial it back a bit and return to stories of space exploration and what-have-you.
But if the series is truly to survive, it needs to find its courage to truly seek out uncharted territories and/or undiscovered countries unchained to its prior mythology. From here on out, the stage is set for this new variation on Star Trek to truly and finally 'boldly go where no one has gone before'.
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The film has already opened to $31 million in seven territories, which amounts to a 70% uptick compared to those markets' respective openings for the first Star Trek. The focus this time around has been in pulling in non-Trekkies from foreign markets, as the last film earned just $128 million overseas despite a massive (especially for this series) $255 million domestic. The film cost $185 million, not that much more than the last film's alleged $150 million budget, so it doesn't have to 'pull a Dark Knight' to be profitable. Oddly enough, the domestic buzz is relatively cool compared to just after the first film opened four years ago, when pundits like me were predicting a huge opening weekend jump for the sequel due to audience goodwill.
The tracking is around $95 million, which is pretty much the first film's opening weekend of $79.5 million adjusted for inflation and the 3D price bump. The marketing has been painfully generic, trying desperately to sell the film as a 'dark sequel' along the lines of The Dark Knight or Skyfall. But in the end, the marketing is basically just offering 'more of the same, but with a scary villain played by an actor who is only worshiped in the geek community'.
This is similar to the marketing of Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (which also only saw a token budget increase from $90 million to $120 million), which basically sold "more of the same, but with Jared Harris as Moriarty!" That film actually opened to far less than the first entry ($40 million vs. $62 million) and ended up making just $186 million in the US versus $209 million gross of Sherlock Holmes. But overseas made up the difference, and A Game of Shadows wound up eclipsing Sherlock Holmes worldwide.
So while I no longer see Star Trek Into Darkness being the breakout sequel that we thought we were looking at a few years ago, a moderate uptick in overseas business should make up for any domestic slow-down, giving the film an overall upsurge in total worldwide box office.
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Very good review that doesn't spoil the film like some across the net. Still, I'm not at all surprised that this film ties itself in knots to keep with portions of canon.
The moment the writers introduced the "alternate reality" aspect into this reboot, I knew that the writers, who are hardcore Trek, wouldn't be able to resist the urge to take their favorite portions in Trek lore and rework them in slightly different ways.
It's lazy as hell, but it's not like they didn't telegraph what they were going to do back in '09. And in a lot of ways, it's their "get out of jail free card from criticisms" excuse.
Still, looking forward to it. I do want to see the IMAX portions in all their glory but it's in 3D. If you saw it in 3D Scott, is it truly necessary?
Okay. I'll give IMAX 3D a go. I find it fascinating that not only was there portions of the film shot with IMAX cameras but they were post converted to 3D and I'm sure the amount of visual effects work in those IMAX filmed scenes had to be immense. I wonder how long it took them to render the the visual effects during those IMAX sequences.
I shouldn't pander to the so called "Star Trek" purists, because half of them barely have seen the original series let alone remember the tone and ideas behind that show. If they had their way it would be Picard, Riker and Data looking awkward in action films where they should have always been used for television only.
Sure the JJ films lack that smart social commentary and human psychology that the original series had, but it brings a level of fun and excitement that the franchise hasn't seen in years…and therefore brings it back a mainstream audience that star trek hasn't achieved since the late 60′s. JJ Abrams might not be the perfect guy for Star Trek…but he was the right guy and he put Trek in the minds of people that will certainly go out and pay for the next one, which hopefully will be written and directed by people who are a little more savvy in regards to original trek lore.
That being said…this film was awesome.
"…and therefore brings it back a mainstream audience that star trek hasn't achieved since the late 60′s…"
Star Trek wasn't 'mainstream' until the early 1990′s.
The Original Series didn't initially have a large following, it only started to take off once it was in syndication and that took the better part of a decade.
The films with the original cast were, with the exception of The Motion Picture, only really profitable because they were by Hollywood standards low budget – Wrath of Khan cost something like $40 million to make, which in modern terms would be around $100 million (the average blockbuster costs $120-150 million).
It wasn't until The Next Generation hit the small screen that Trek really started to take off – and even with TNG this didn't happen until the shows third year, some twenty years after TOS had finished.
As for TNG films, these were hampered ironically by the success of TNG as a TV show. This meant that they had a large cast they had to fit into the story, lest there be howls of outrage (probably in Klingon) if anyone got left out. The problem is/was that shoehorning so many characters into the scripts tended to cripple the pacing, especially since half the characters had nothing to do.
You do realize that if you look at the actual number of tickets sold, Jar Jar Abrams 2009 Star Trek movie pulled in only 75% of the number of people who saw Star Trek 2: Wrath of Kahn, right?
The $millions made by 2009 Star Trek were a direct result of movie ticket cost inflation.
So in reality, when you say "Abrams Brought Trek Mainstream" what you mean is, "Abrams lost 25% of total Star Trek Movie Audience, but because he's the 'Golden God of Generation X' his new movie audience is 'hipster chic'"
Granted, Abrams did pull in more than Nemesis (which was a flop), but if this new Abrams Timeline an example of the best he can offer, then he's falling short of the bar in the worst way possible.
We only in the first week of release…I'm sure those numbers are going to climb especially once Word of Mouth gets around.
Its Bad & You Know Its BAD!!!
….Check your Gut ..check your Vibe…Smoke Some Cush!
sit and think about it .J.J. Abrams (Star treck & Star Wars )
is to much for one man to doo.CGI=(Cartoon Ghetto information)
is the Patch work most studios use to get out of real actting & Dialoge
-Must Mindless Action be the premise of 21st century Movies
Where is The "4 play"the big tease…?


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Lockport Union-Sun & Journal — MEDINA — In the classic novel "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court," Mark Twain wrote, "You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."
Indeed, libraries and book stores across the world subscribe to this axiom. In a variety of ways they advertise to the population that books open up entire worlds to them.
With that in mind, the first-ever World Book Night was held in March of 2011. It started in the United Kingdom and Ireland as part of an award-winning publisher's idea to encourage reading among adults.
Last year the event moved to April 23, which is the International Day of the Book. (It is also Movie Theatre Day and Talk Like Shakespeare Day; movies use books as source material and students in classes around the world read the works of Shakespeare.)
Both Germany and the United States joined in on the World Book Night event last year. Locally, The Book Shoppe in Medina participated. Owner Sue Phillips handed out two boxes of "The Book Thief" to two people, who then distributed the Marcus Zusak novel.
Phillips said World Book Night is important because it "gets books out into the public so people have a good book to read."
Phillips was part of a group of almost 80,000 in the participating countries. That group gave out more than 2.5 million copies.
She said the books served as a way to promote literacy and to encourage more reading among less-active readers.
Joining Phillips this year in the event are Medina's Lee-Whedon Memorial Library and Bindings Bookstore in Albion. The library and The Book Shoppe are handing out "Girl with a Pearl Earring" while Bindings Bookstore has a handful of distributors giving away "Playing for Pizza" by John Grisham, "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris, "The Phantom Tollbooth" by Norton Juster, and "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury. The store is also a participant, with copies of "Montana Sky" by Nora Roberts.


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The Story Behind 'We Were Soldiers Once...and Young'
Joe Galloway's award-winning account of a bloody Vietnam battle became a book and movie.
Galloway in 1982.
Though just 24, Joe Galloway was no greenhorn when he hitched a chopper ride to the remote South Vietnamese countryside in November 1965 to check on reports of a hot battle. Galloway had started as a newspaperman in Texas when he was 17 and moved on to United Press International. By November, Galloway had been in Vietnam more than six months, but it had been a quiet tour. "I had been looking for a major battle," Galloway recalls. "I hadn't found it."
Two days later, he stood amid a hellish, seared landscape that would become one of the Vietnam War's famous battlefields. From November 14 to November 16, fewer than 500 troops of the Army's 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, fought almost nonstop against a force of North Vietnamese regulars that outnumbered them 7 to 1. The Americans fought tenaciously, and suffered dearly. The unit's casualty rate was 44 percent—79 killed and 121 wounded. As Galloway was about to fly out to file his story, he faced Lt. Col. Hal Moore, commander of the 7th Cav battalion. Tears bathed both faces. "Go tell America what these brave men did," Moore said. "Tell them how their sons died."
Return to Vietnam. Galloway did. After that he covered other battles. He went on to assignments in Asia, India, and Moscow. By the late '80s, he had joined U.S. News and was an editor in Washington, polishing foreign dispatches. But Galloway yearned to return to the field—and, above all, to go back to Vietnam with Hal Moore, who had retired as a three-star general, to reconstruct the Battle of the Ia Drang Valley, as it was now known.
His bosses obliged, and on Oct. 29, 1990, U.S. News published "Vietnam Story," a 14-page cover package that explained why the Battle of the Ia Drang was a "fatal victory" for American forces. Tactically, the Americans won: The enemy melted away, leaving a felled forest of perhaps 700 corpses. Yet by validating new air-assault techniques that allowed troops to maneuver by helicopter, not just by ground transport, the battle drew the United States deeper into a war it was destined to lose. In addition to a minute-by-minute reconstruction of the battle—which was so close and bloody that at one point Moore ordered his troops to fix bayonets in preparation for hand-to-hand-combat—Galloway and Moore broke new ground by interviewing North Vietnamese commanders to get their side of the story.
Six months later, "Vietnam Story" earned U.S. News its first National Magazine Award. The story became a book, We Were Soldiers Once...and Young, which has sold about 1.3 million copies since it was published in 1992. Then came the 2002 movie, We Were Soldiers, starring Mel Gibson as Moore and Barry Pepper as Galloway. (Moore says the film is about 60 percent accurate; Galloway, 80 percent.)
Later this year, Galloway and Moore will publish a sequel, We Are Soldiers Still, with fresh material gleaned from additional trips to Vietnam. They also apply the lessons of Vietnam to Iraq—where Galloway, now a columnist for McClatchy Newspapers, sees more fatal victories. "In almost every case," he says, "war is an admission of failure—of leadership, of diplomacy. War is not something you do pre-emptively."


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favorite song
what is your favorite nickelback song?
mine is "if everyone cared".
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Midnight Queen
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Lullaby. It means a lot to me and is so beautiful.
Re: favorite song
Its a tie between Savin' Me & Lullaby but if I had to choose I guess it would be Lullaby
If everyone cared and nobody cried, If everyone loved and nobody lied!
Re: favorite song
Curb is my favorite song. The meaning behind Curb combined with Chad's vocals especially for the first half of the song is very powerful.
RE: favorite song
i know its not fair to nickelback themselves if their fans acctually have a favorite song . but when i heard them make a song called when we stand togther . i called it the universal signature song ! its a feel good song like this atfternoon !
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RE: favorite song
I would say Savin' me but generally there are so many good songs that it's hard to decide for one ;) it's constantly changing anyway.
Re: favorite song
Re: favorite song
I can't choose just one. My favorites songs are Savin' me, When we stand together, Burn into the ground, Lullaby, Trying not to love you and Far away.
Re: favorite song
This Means War
Everytime somebody or something has made me angry, I turn to this song. The tune and the general "hard rock" feel of it just match the mood perfectly.
Gotta Be Somebody
This song has helped me countless times over the years when I've felt down / alone.. "Gotta be somebody for me out there"
One Last Run
One of the less known songs from The State, great song.
I'll add more if I can think of them
RE: favorite song
I love:
1. Holding On To Heaven
2. Gotta Be Somebody
3. I'd Come For You
4. How You Remind Me
5. And all song performed by NICKELBACK
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another vote for Gotta be Somebody! excellent stuff
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My favorite song is Figured you out
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My favourite song is the Leader of men, don't you wanna play it in Hungary? :)
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So many to choose from but ithink I've narrowed it down to Burn it to the ground, Lullaby or Gotta be somebody
Better to Burn Out than Fade Awayyyyy
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definitely Savin' me. then Animals, When we stand together and Side of a bullet.
Re: favorite song
Mine is "If Everyone Cared", all Here and Now, "This Affternon", "I'd Come for you", "Far Away", "Someday", "Savin' Me", "Rockstar", "Photograph" and others xDD
~Thank's for reading
Re: favorite song
All of them are good in their way, but these are my favourite:
HeroWhen we stand together
If today was your last day
Trying not to love you
Gotta be somebody
Too bad
Feelin way to damn good
Good times gone
This means war
Burn it to the ground
Do this anymore
Dont ever let it end
Far away
Holding on to heaven
Id come for you
Just to get high
Never gonna be alone
Someone that youre with
This afternoon
Savin me
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I'd come for you :)
Re: favorite song
For now, it's Midnight Queen but it changes from times to times
Re: favorite song
So many to choose from but I will say right now it's a three way tie between Lullaby (which I play every morning before starting work), Burn it to the Ground (because we all need a good loud song to begin the day as well) and This Means War (see previous comment)...
My daughter, who is 8, loves 'Rockstar' and my 10 yr old Son Loves 'Gotta Be Somebody'...say I'm raising them right ;-)


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In the taxonomy of sandwiches — the grinders and the pita pockets, the panini and the smørrebrød — there is one commonality that separates the sandwich from all other classes in the handheld food phylum: the bread. The Venezuelan arepa thus ends up in limbo. A thick, soft corn cake, split like an English muffin and filled with almost anything, including cheese and vegetables, the arepa is the platypus of handheld foods — belonging to both the sandwich and the tortilla-pupusa classes.
Arepas proliferate on the northern curve of South America — primarily Venezuela and Colombia, though they're common in the surrounding countries as well. San Francisco now has two arepa restaurants at opposite ends of the Mission: Mr. Pollo, an Ecuadoran-Colombian shop with a new Venezuelan chef, and Pica Pica, a Venezuelan restaurant from Napa that just established a second spot at Valencia and 15th streets. Both restaurants are caught up in San Francisco's sandwich rush, a wave of cooks determined to make art out of a casual meal. Like many of their cohort, Pica Pica and Mr. Pollo sometimes do.
The older of the two, Mr. Pollo, has been around for four years. Its owner, Angelo Vaca, is Ecuadoran, his wife Colombian, and when they opened, they sold small arepas stuffed with cheese alongside Colombian fare like arroz con pollo and bandeja paisa. Though the arepas were good, the restaurant seemed too small to flourish. I've seen restaurants whose walk-in refrigerators are bigger than the red-and-gold room; it's big enough for a small cooking station and chairs for 10 people who don't mind touching their neighbors. But seven months ago, Manny Torres Gimenez, a Venezuelan who'd cooked for 12 years in high-end restaurants including Coi, A16, and Quince, took over running the restaurant.
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2823 Mission (at 24th St.), 374-5546. 11 a.m.-3 p.m. and 5-11 p.m. Mon.-Sat. Cash only. Muni: 14, 48, 49, 67.
Pica Pica Maize Kitchen
401 Valencia (at 15th St.), 400-5453, www.picapicakitchen.com. 11 a.m.-10 p.m. daily (sometimes later on weekends). Credit cards accepted. Muni: 14, 49.
Six days a week, Gimenez works alone, polite and quick, dapper in his white waiter's jacket and bowtie. He does everything, from shopping at the farmers' markets and breaking down whole goats and lambs to serving food and doing dishes.
He's still selling the Vacas' Colombian arepas ($1.50), which look like miniature pupusas but have a surprising sweetness. But he's added thinner, CD-sized savory Venezuelan arepas filled with a choice of meats, chorizo, or vegetables (all $6.50). They're so thin that splitting them into halves must take a knife of surgical sharpness, and they cook up into a crisp-edged, almost crackery shell. Diners who dispense with the paper wrappers before eating the arepas risk coming out of the experience looking like they've been in the front row of a Gallagher show. Between the halves, Gimenez layers meat, cheese, avocado, tomato, and his salsa de ajo, a mayonnaise fragrant with garlic and cilantro, potent enough to stop vampires and time.
I've eaten at Mr. Pollo several times over the past three months. I've had arepas filled with overly chewy pork with burned edges, but also tender, cumin-crusted goat with plantains and cheese, and an arepa packed with grilled cabbage, zucchini, onions, and cheese. When they're good, his arepas crackle and gush, every bite a different story, the narratives laced together with the jade-colored sauce.
Gimenez makes up dinner platters ($10) consisting of any of the meats or vegetables he stuffs the arepas with, surrounded with your choice of three sides (salad, beans, plantains, yuca, or rice). In the Mission, a cult of Manny has arisen based on his four-course tasting menus — for $15 a person — which he changes daily. Chowhounders and Yelpers have reported octopus, lamb, and papaya salad. The tasting menu I had a few months back, which came to the table over the course of a couple of hours, was more prosaic: a cheese arepa, followed by grilled shrimp over rice; a deep-fried beef empanada; and a perfectly cooked chunk of grilled pork, every course drizzled with the same salsa de ajo. Meanwhile, all 10 seats were occupied from the time I entered to the time I left, and teenagers stood in the gaps among tables, chatting up Gimenez in English and Spanish while they waited for takeout. He doesn't need advertising. He needs an assistant to help him crank up production.
By contrast, Pica Pica Maize Kitchen is already rocking at high volume. Venezuelans Adriana Lopez Vermut; her father, Leopoldo Lopez Gil; and Luis Sosa opened the first Pica Pica in Napa's Oxbow Market in December 2007. Two months ago, they opened in the old Mi Lindo Yucatan space on Valencia. Their reputation preceded them. The Missionites who now occupy the commercial strip from Four Barrel to Beretta are giving the place a go, and South American–accented Spanish is almost as common in the room as English.
Pica Pica's decor is as coordinated as a Brown Twins appearance: The pinstriped wood tables mirror the paneling on the wall. The orange, green, and yellow flourishes match the playful, 1960s-tinged design of the menu and the website. The dishes on the menu interlock more tightly than a Lego space shuttle kit. Everything about the place is smart, attractive, timely, and just a wee bit overpolished. One of my friends looked inside, spotted slogans like "aMAIZE Yourself" and "Be Corny" on the menus and T-shirts, and announced that Pica Pica looked like the South American Chipotle (in fact, Sosa's career includes a stint at McDonald's).


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FRONTENAC, Kan. —
Frontenac senior pole vaulter Taylor Johnson figures if you're going to dream, you might as well dream big.
"I'm just going to shoot for the stars," Johnson said of his long-term goals in track and field. "I'm going to say the Olympics. I think it would be the greatest thing in the world to be in the Olympics."
Sure, it's quite a goal. But this type of confidence is what's made Johnson one of the best pole vaulters in the state. It takes a certain level of faith to let your body soar high into the air with little to no control.
"You got to be determined to do it," he said. "You can't just lollygag out there, or you're going to get hurt."
Johnson signed his letter of intent Wednesday at Frontenac High School to continue his track and field career at Pittsburg State University.
He said the proximity and the coaching were two of the reasons he chose Pittsburg State. Head coach Russ Jewett just led the Gorillas to the MIAA Outdoor Championship this past weekend, and assistant coach Kyle Rutledge was a three-time All-American in the pole vault at Missouri Southern.
"For one, it was close," Johnson said. "Coach Rutledge was another reason.
"I have a lot of people behind me, and it will be a really good place to go."
Johnson is a two-time state qualifier in the event and enters this year's Class 4A regional with one of the best marks in the state.
According to catchitkansas.com, Johnson is tied for the sixth highest vault in the state and third best in Class 4A at 14 feet, 11 inches. Johnson reached that mark at the Southeast Invitational this season.
The Raiders are scheduled to compete at the CNC League meet today in Riverton. Regionals are set for May 17 at Iola.
Of course, Johnson is going to set his goals high.
"I'm hoping to get first this year," he said.
Pittsburg's Avalos to wrestle at Labette Community College
Gershom Avalos wasn't your typical 220-pound wrestler for the Pittsburg Purple Dragons. Avalos also was an all-SEK League soccer player, and he used that athleticism on the mat.
"He's just real light on his feet," Pittsburg wrestling coach Scott Rieck said. "He can scramble real well for a big guy and can get out of situations real quick when needed. He can do techniques that little guys can do, and a lot of that can be attributed to soccer."
Avalos signed his letter of intent Wednesday at Pittsburg High to continue his wrestling career at Labette Community College.
He will be wrestling for a program that has won back-to-back national championships but will have a new coach in Ryan Phillips, who had been an assistant at NCAA Division II's Upper Iowa University for six years. Phillips replaces Joe Renfro, who left to rebuild the wrestling program at Northeastern Oklahoma A&M.
Avalos was a three-time state qualifier at 220 pounds for the Dragons, finishing third this past season.
Rieck said Labette is planning on making Avalos a heavyweight in college.
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by Annabelle Williams, Dylan Lobo on Feb 07, 2013 at 11:46
The Bank of England's incoming governor Mark Carney has said he will not be an 'emperor' and hinted he may tinker with the inflation target when he takes office.
In a grilling by the Treasury Select Committee, Carney, who replaces Mervyn King on 1 July, said: 'As governor I will from time to time be in the minority. That is fine. My job is to ensure all views are heard. It will not always be possible to have consensus on the Bank of Engalnd's MPC and FPC...I would like to be on the right side more often than not. I fully imagine during the course of my term I will be outvoted.'
Carney, who provided 45 pages of written evidence to support his philosophy, added: 'I hesitate as a foreigner coming in and suggesting changes to the longer traditions of the [Bank of England]. Others should make those judgments rather than me.'
When asked if the 2% inflation target was 'too flexible' Carney said he did not think this was necessarily the case but indicated more clarity is needed:
'In these exceptional economic circumstances, with inflation above target, it would be useful to have a shared understanding of what is the optimal timeline to return [to the target] and why. There is merit to considering the Fed-style threshold-based guidance,' Carney said.
He added: 'The flexible inflation-targeting framework should remain broadly in place, but details need to be reviewed and could be changed.
'In Canada we review our framework every five years. We have found that is an effective process. It ensures shared understanding about the "flexible" word in "flexible inflation targeting". 'In an exceptional environment, it is important to ensure there is buy-in to the current framework.'
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Carney also defended his pay package of nearly £1 million in front of the Treasury Select Committee saying he believes the sum is 'equivalent' to his predecessors.
MPs had asked him whether £874,000 pay package, which is three times that of King's, was 'excessive'.
'I was offered these terms and I accepted them,' he said.
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