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Developer Blog: Validating scientific names with the forthcoming GBIF Portal web service API
A guest post I co-wrote about a new way of validating species names that my colleagues and I had developed.
I'm fascinated with taxon names, those ambiguous, complicated, universal identifiers we use to tie together all of biology. My PhD examines how the recircumscription of taxon names affects the interpretation of biodiversity data, especially in large analyses where individually reconciling observations to taxonomic concepts is not an option. Once I'm done, I'd like to study broader questions on how best to use and manage taxonomic names when building the global-scale databases that will fuel the next generation of biodiversity research.
June 2016 – Current
I have presented or co-presented at the following national or international conferences:
January 2015 – May 2016
September 2011 – June 2015
May 2014 – August 2014
My project focused on extending DBpedia's Extraction Framework to record data on files stored in the Wikimedia Commons. You can find a final list of my deliverables at on the Wikimedia Commons.
I presented some of my findings at WikiConference USA 2015 in Washington DC. A publication documenting our work was published in the Proceedings of the 14th International Semantic Web Conference.
January 2013 – May 2013
I worked on a dataset provided to me by Avibase, an online database, in which I looked at the evidence used to lump and split bird species over the last hundred years. I am currently working on completing and publishing this analysis with my coauthors at NESCent and Avibase, and hope to submit this analysis for publication soon.
You can find out more about my project on the NESCent website or in a presentation I gave in August 2013. I have presented on this project at NESCent, and at the AOU/COS/SCO 2014 Annual Conference.
June 2012 – August 2012
I worked with the Art of Life team to develop a schema to share computer-readable descriptions. We worked hard to incorporate the minimum number of properties and categories that would provide useful information for users of this data. I also developed a template for this schema on the Wikimedia Commons as a testbed for annotating BHL images and improved organization of the BHL images already on the Commons.
I presented some of the results of this work at the Visual Resources Association 2015 annual meeting in March 2015.
September 2007 – February 2011
I was lead developer for OCR Terminal (once hosted at http://www.ocrterminal.com) and half of a two-man team who took the idea from prototype to final launch in less than a year. I maintained, improved and supported this online application and web service between 2008 and 2011. I am particularly proud of the API I developed allowing our clients to OCR images online.
I was also a developer on several smaller projects for my company, and was the system administrator for all company IT resources, working with Debian GNU/Linux and Windows servers. I helped move our computers onto Amazon Web Services, learning about running, maintaining and monitoring cloud computing resources in the process.
August 2006 – June 2007
I worked on Species Identifier, a Java-based bioinformatics software for analysing and editing datasets, and Sequence Matrix, a Java-based bioinformatics tool for concatenating multiple datasets. You can read more about these software tools below.
I also acted as a system administrator for my lab, helping to set up and maintain MacOS X computers and working with a high-performance computing cluster we had access to.
2011 – 2017
I'm currently in the fifth year of my PhD program.
I've co-authored the following peer-reviewed publications:
I have presented or co-presented at the following national or international conferences:
I have attended the following workshops:
I reviewed papers for the following journals:
During fall 2012 and spring 2014, I served on university-wide Honor Code hearing panels.
2002 – 2006
I won the Malayan Nature Society Silver Medal for 2004-05. Programs I wrote were used to generate data for a peer-reviewed journal article, on which I am a co-author.
The research I conducted while an undergraduate was later used in two publications that I co-authored:
While at NUS, I was selected to join the Special Programme in Science (SPS), an exclusive interdisciplinary programme to help students find the links between diverse sciences. While at SPS, I was junior mentor for one semester, system administrator for one year, and web administrator for one semester. I also helped organize courses to train students in Linux skills as well as trained the next generation of system and web administrators.
GitHub, Jun 2013 - Dec 2015; followed by 8 people
OpenRefine reconciliation service for taxonomic names
GBIF has an excellent database of taxonomic checklists, and provides APIs to search by scientific name. However, different taxonomic checklists might interpret the same name in different ways; restricting the search to a single checklist can help, but then obscure names that are only found in a few checklists cannot be found.
I developed an online web service that provides an (OpenRefine reconciliation service)[https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/wiki/Reconciliation-Service-API] that searches GBIF's checklist database by scientific name, then groups checklists that treat name identically into a single entry. It adjusts the score for that match based on the number of checklists that match, allowing users to automatically resolve names that match a certain minimum number of checklists before manually examining names that match obscure databases.
This project is described in more detail in a blog post that I wrote for GBIF.
GitHub, Aug 2012 - Current; forked 3 times
A DwC-A version of the ITIS taxonomic database
I wrote a script which uses a Ruby module to build a set of files, including a full Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A) for ITIS releases. I then used Github to publish this dataset, including a simple tab-delimited file which can be used to quickly search through the taxonomy produced by ITIS.
GitHub, Sep 2013 - Jan 2014
URI to BibTeX lookup
My first Ruby gem, which retrieves information about a URI and provides a citation for it in BibTeX, by searching CrossRef, dereferencing it as a URL and checking for COinS, and through custom modules which can be added to the code. I wrote it in less than a week for the TaxonWorks Hackathon 2013.
GitHub, Jan 2012 - Jun 2012; followed by 2 people
The Henderson Field Notes Project
The code used to extract text from WikiSource, then parse it for annotations. Used in Thomer et al, 2012.
GitHub, Apr 2009 - Jun 2015; followed by 4 people
TaxonDNA consists of two tool: Sequence Matrix (described separately below) and Species Identifier. Species Identifier is a program I wrote to test DNA barcoding by using sequences downloaded from NCBI GenBank; it's a collection of tools united in a common user interface.
Species Identifier is a simple but well-structured Java application which interacts with users using the Java AWT. Each module is a separate Java class, which has a common interface with which it can be registered by the main application, and through which it can obtain access to the currently loaded dataset. Access to the dataset is regulated so that only a single module can access the dataset at a single time, avoiding problems of simultaneous editing of the data by multiple modules. The modular structure of the program allowed me to add or remove modules easily, customizing the release for the task at hand and adding new "debugging" modules not intended for general release.
Google Code, ; followed by 4 people
SequenceMatrix arose from the need to assemble large datasets, to easily eliminate individual suspicious sequences from a complex dataset, and to generate custom taxonsets and codonsets to allow parts of an incomplete dataset to be analysed separately.
Sequence Matrix is based on the Species Identifier codebase (together referred to as TaxonDNA). It utilized a Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture to separate file loading and saving from displaying the sequence information in the table. Using a common codebase allowed new features from Sequence Matrix (such as improved NEXUS and Mega file format support) to be ported back into Species Identifier easily.
OCR Terminal was an online optical character recognition (OCR) service: it read text from uploaded images and provided the image files in an editable format such as Microsoft Word, Adobe PDF or plain text. Between mid-2008 and 2011, tens of thousands of user accounts have been created and over 100,000 documents had been processed on this website. Apart from the website itself, the service featured a simple API which can be used to submit documents for processing programmatically.
I was lead developer of OCR Terminal right from project inception. I have written all of OCR Terminal's underlying code, first as a Perl/CGI application, and later as a Perl/Catalyst application. I am particularly proud of designing the public API, which is used by our own desktop client, several in-house tools, and several clients of ours who use it for both bulk processing and as a backend for their own software.
I also manage OCR Terminal's main server administrator, responsible for maintaining all the servers and backend components. I was able to learn about server monitoring with tools such as Munin. Since early 2009, OCR Terminal has been hosted on the Amazon EC2 processing cloud, giving me experience with setting up, bundling and managing EC2 instances.
A guest post I co-wrote about a new way of validating species names that my colleagues and I had developed.
An article I co-wrote, talking about the Henderson Field Notebooks Project.
A paper I co-wrote describing the Henderson project.
A fundamental work for my PhD research, this paper drew attention to the difference between scientific names and their associated meaning (their "circumscriptions"). My work uses this framework to look at how quickly taxonomic knowledge is changing.
I was fascinated by John Alroy's analysis of the validity of species names; in many ways, my PhD attempts to do the same analysis but with taxonomic changes rather than scientific names.
Systematics and Biodiversity - Taylor & Francis
The future of taxon concepts will be to ensure that computers can make sense of species circumscriptions and their interrelationships. Nico Franz and Robert Peet here develop a vocabulary that allows these interrelationships to be encoded and shared between different databases.
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The Black Eyed Peas star was reportedly disappointed the show failed to produce any stars
Past winners and early favourites are all featured in this look back at some of the greatest moments from the show so far
Schoolgirl overcomes friend Amelia O'Connell in emotional sing-off to come through their Battle
Rachael O'Connor going head-to-head with Amelia O'Connell in bid to remain in Kylie's team
Music student from Edinburgh impressed the coaches after performing Daft Punk hit Get Lucky while accompanying herself on the harp
Meanwhile Kylie links with Scissor Sisters' Jake Shears, Ricky Wilson enlists Katy B and Sir Tom Jones recruits Tinie Tempah
Celebs will be joined by Jake Shears of the Scissor Sisters and last year's finalist Leah McFall for the next stages of the singing show
Rachael O'Connor and Jai McConnell on song to continue love affair with show
Jessie J's on air hissy fit and Will's post-match sour grapes ought to be enough to ensure those two don't return for next year's farewell series
Partially sighted Andrea beat hot favourite Leah McFall, who was on Will's team
Where others might employ dancers, lights, stunts or gimmicks to keep the audience entertained, Andrea needs nothing ... just herself and that voice
Tragic sister Rebekah "always told Leah she would be a star some day," says dad
Our poll shows that you think the Northern Ireland lass will walk away with the prize
Who do you think will win? Who do the bookies rate? Everything you need to know for the big final
Jessie J, Tom Jones, Danny O'Donoghue and Will.i.am admit huge lessons have been learned from last year's show
Plus, who do you think will win? And who do you want to win? Get involved
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openSUSE Conference 2011: Call for Papers
The 2011 openSUSE Conference, which will be held in Nuremberg in September, announced its call for papers. Talk proposals will be accepted until July 11th.
Scheduled for September 11-14 in Germany, the 2011 openSUSE Conference will be co-located with the SUSE Labs event. With 500 expected attendees, this year's event will be held in the Zentrifuge exhibition and event hall. The 2011 event theme is Read, Write, Execute. Find out more about the event and suggested talk topics on the announcement page.
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The company is collaborating with Google and Intel to use Kubernetes as an engine for Fuel
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Customers can take a free test drive of SLES for HPC on the Azure Cloud
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San Francisco-based chip company announces their first fully open source chip platform.
Fedora 24 Released
The whole distro gets rebuilt on glibc 2.3
Canonical Announces Cross-Distro Support for Snaps
Ubuntu Vendor tries to solve app packaging and distribution problem across distributions.
ownCloud Forked
Founder of ownCloud launches the Nextcloud project.
HP Enterprise Unveils a Futuristic Computer
Will The Machine change the way future programmers think about memory?
CoreOS Announces Distributed Storage System
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Trinity of Fairview will host the third annual Spirit and Truth Worship Conference Friday through Sunday, April 17. Special guest speaker will be the Rev. Jack Taylor.
Taylor has written several books, preached around the world and appeared on TBN's "Praise the Lord." He will be speaking at 7 p.m. nightly and at 8:30 and 10:45 a.m. Sunday, April 17.
The event is free to all. A special invitation is extended to all pastors and worship leaders.
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Fourth graders at Highland Elementary School of the Crookston School District went on their first field trip of the school year on Tuesday. September 24.
They went to the fairgrounds in Warren, MN and participated in the NW Minnesota Water Festival. Students moved around to different stations and listened, learned, and participated in hands-on activities around the themes of Water Quality, Flooding, Watersheds, Ground and Spring Water, and Exploration, with over 300 kids from around the area. They even got to try their hand on casting a fishing rod!
All in all, it was a fun and educational filled day! Thanks to the West Polk Soil and Water Conservation District for providing the funds for us to go!
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Highlights of 2014 ESPN Watch List linebacker Shaun Dion Hamilton (Montgomery, Ala./Carver) at the April 13th, 2013 Atlanta Nike Football Training Camp.
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Raw athleticism doesn't just disappear with age. It might hide behind love handles or disguise itself with clumsiness. For the true athletes, it always comes back.
Case in point: Ricardo Josef. The 1993 Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind graduate had spent little to no time on the track since he competed in the World Deaf Games in '93. No matter.
FSDB's Hugh Lewis still wanted the former Dragons standout for next summer's United States deaf track and field team, a squad Lewis has been chosen to coach.
A phone call was all it took. With just a month of preparation, Josef showed up at the team trials in Washington, D.C., and ran and jumped his way onto the team, which will compete in Rome, Italy in the summer of 2001.
Josef finished second in the long jump (20 feet, 4 1/2 inches), fourth in the 110 hurdles (16.2 seconds) and the 400 hurdles (1:01.1) and sixth in the high jump (5 feet, 8 inches).
""When (Josef) gets in shape he is really going to be something else,'' Lewis said. ""He could probably go another two feet in the long jump.''
FSDB will be well represented on the U.S. team. Sophomore-to-be Kristina Burke was thought to have a good shot at making the team. She did. And she showed up her competition in the process.
Burke shined at the trials, winning the 100 and 400 hurdles -- her two strongest events. She finished the 100 hurdles in 17.4 seconds and clocked in at 1:13.7 in the 400. She was also third place in the high jump (4 feet, 9 inches) and won the heptathalon, and event in which she was making her debut.
""She's a pretty dedicated kid,'' Lewis said. ""She's going to be very competitive.''
One of Burke's teammates from last year's FSDB girls team, Shakeem Glover, will also compete in Rome. Lewis said she was not in optimal shape, but still managed to finish second in the 100-meter dash at 13.3 seconds. She added a third in the 200 (27.9).
Other FSDB athletes competing in the trials were Niran Jagede, who finished fourth in the 100 (11.8). Michael Jones, who will be a sophomore, ran a 55.7 in the 400 and a 2:11 in the eights. Nelson Benitez also competed, running a 56.7 in the 400, 2:12 in the 800 and 4:57 in the 1,500.
Josef will also be traveling, along with Lewis and seven other runners from across the country to the Olympic Trials in Sacramento. The eight deaf athletes will be running in an exhibition 400 on Friday night.
For Lewis it will be the start of an extremely busy year. He will serve as the assistant men's basketball coach at Flagler College while trying to organize the U.S. Deaf Track and Field team's trip to Rome. He's also serving as FSDB's principle on an interim basis.
"I know I'm going to be really busy, but in the end it will all be worth it," Lewis said. "This will be a great experience for me and the kids."
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By Eric Reid-ISV Engineering-Oracle on Mar 04, 2009
Sitting in the Acquia update presentation this afternoon. What are they up to?
- Announced a new CEO today (Tom Erickson)
- 40 customer and 50 partners so far
- The Acquia Drupal Stack Installer ("DAMP)" (Note to Acquia: when is this available for OpenSolaris?)
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Product Launch - UK: John Distilleries' Paul John Brilliance, Edited Indian whiskies
By Olly Wehring | 15 May 2013
Click through to view John Distilleries' Paul John Brilliance and Edited Indian whiskies
John Distilleries' Paul John Brilliance, Edited Indian whiskies
Category - Spirits, whisky, India, single malts, both 46% abv
Available - From this month
Location - UK, trade sales available from Speciality Drinks, also available online from The Whisky Exchange
Price - Brilliance RRP of GBP38.49 (US$58.85) per bottle, Edited RRP of GBP42.49
John Distilleries has followed the launch of Paul John Single Cask 161 last year with the release of two new single malt Indian whiskies.
Distilled in Goa, the two whiskies are called Brilliance and Edited.
Last month, local reports suggested that Beam Inc, Gruppo Campari, William Grant & Sons and ThaiBev were mulling buying a stake in John Distilleries.
Having earned rave reviews for its debut Single Cask releases in 2012, Paul John Whisky has demonstrated extraordinary skill and consistency with the launch of Edited and Brilliance - its new flagship Single Malts.
Distilled in Goa, Paul John has quickly gained recognition from the whisky community after launching as a brand in late 2012 with a series of Single Cask whiskies (limited to 150 bottles each) that received 94 point 'Liquid Gold'* awards in The Whisky Bible.
Even more impressively, the new releases have surpassed these results with Edited receiving 96.5 points and Brilliance following closely behind with 94.5 points, thus putting them both firmly amongst the finest whiskies in the world. Moreover, the same availability issues will not arise with these new releases as both are being produced as traditional Single Malts.
In terms of styles, both whiskies also differ significantly:
- Brilliance (46% Abv) - Distilled in traditional copper-pot stills, Brilliance is made from un-peated Indian malted barley and has been aged in ex-bourbon (American oak) barrels. Quote from Jim Murray from The Whisky Bible: "yet another astonishing malt from India."
- Edited (46% Abv) Distilled in traditional copper-pot stills, Edited is made from a combination of un-peated and a small amount of peated Indian malted barley and has been aged in ex-bourbon (American oak) barrels. Quote from Jim Murray from The Whisky Bible: "…a sublime malt from the subcontinent. To be more precise: a world classic!"
Scotch vs Indian Whisky - The Temperature Factor
So what makes Indian whisky so different to Scotch? With only 3 main ingredients at play – the grain, the water and the climate – arguably the biggest difference between Indian whisky and Scotch is the temperature at which they are matured. Given Scotland's cool climate, Scotch generally matures in its barrels at below 10°C and averages around 1.5% 'angels share' loss of liquid/year. On the other hand, Paul John Indian Whisky is matured in the tropical heat of Goa at temperatures of over 40°C, thus increasing the speed of the maturation process, but also leading to around 10% 'angels share' loss of liquid/year.
Talking about the aspirations for the new launches, Sanjay Paul, Executive Vice President – Marketing & Overseas Operations at Paul John comments: "Whilst our Single Cask whiskies put Paul John on the radar amongst experts, the outstanding quality of Edited and Brilliance shows that Paul John has the ability to produce world-class whiskies on a consistent basis. As such, we expect these whiskies to draw interest from everyday whisky enthusiasts who want an exciting new experience that more than matches the finest that Scotland has to offer.
"Ultimately, these whiskies represent a major step forward in a journey for Paul John to become a brand internationally recognised for making truly distinguished whiskies."
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Companies: Campari, Beam Global Spirits & Wine, Gruppo Campari, William Grant & Sons
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Joe Paterno, College Football's Winningest Coach, Dies at 85
PSU coaches wear black ribbons at Illinois game today.
Former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno died this morning at a Happy Valley hospital — a statement put the cause of death as "metastatic small cell carcinoma of the lung." Paterno, who coached the Nittany Lions for 46 years, found out he had lung cancer last November, less than a week after being fired over the child sex abuse scandal that erupted around his assistant coach Jerry Sandusky. Less than two months later. Joe Pa, as he was known around campus, was admitted to hospital where his condition continued to worsen. In memory of college football's winningest coach, a moment of silence was held before the tip-off at today's PSU-Illinois game where, according to the AP, Penn State's coaches wore black ribbons.


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I just finished opening up my Jasper 360 and exposed the inside of my Lite-On DG-16D2S. I built a probe for key dumping according to the tutorial here:
and it appears to be working.
I wanted to check if anyone has actually been banned when using their 360 to eject the drive, meaning, they had their dvd drive disconnected from their 360 while the 360 was powered on.
If anyone has any tips as well, please let me know.
Questions Before I Flash My Lite-on
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Posted 26 July 2009 - 05:23 AM
well I wish I knew/had the common sense to realize that portio32 doesn't work in 64-bit vista. Now I have to install win xp...
Posted 26 July 2009 - 05:28 AM
I've used the xbox to power the drive on 3 separate xbox's when flashing. none have been banned (except one went RROD a few months later, totally unrelated to the flashing).
Edited by DanB91, 26 July 2009 - 05:29 AM.
Posted 26 July 2009 - 05:47 AM
Just a myth, carry on.
Posted 26 July 2009 - 01:17 PM
It migh be a myth, but it cant be proved right or wrong. It does make sense, ms can detect hardware changes such as nme modchip. So why wouldnt they be able to detect it. Its your decision really. Unless somone works at ms, we will never know.
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the story of how a boy named Temujin became the founder and Great Khan of the Mongol Empire. Adapting Khanâs engrossing life to graphic-novel form are writer Daryl Gregory, award-winning novelist of The Devilâs Alphabet and Pandemonium, and artists Alan Robinson (Weekly World News, Phoenix Without Ashes) and Jay Fotos (Locke & Key). The all-new, 104-page graphic novel will also feature a special painted cover by Sam Shearon as well as back-up material detailing Khanâs life and battles.
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2 clothing worth £40,000 has been stolen in a raid on a shop in Bond Street
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attack, make a raid on, assault, set upon, descend on, swoop on, harass, harry, blitz, make inroads on, assail, storm, rush, charge
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rob, steal from, hold up, break into, make a raid on
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4 homes and offices in Merseyside were raided by police
search, make a search of, swoop on, make a raid on
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A few years back I wrote a quick-and-dirty art gallery script for my website, way before I had ever heard of WordPress. I upgraded my blog to WP this past year, and I want to include my gallery as a seperate page inside WP.
I've included the PHP and such inside a new template, have coded a seperate sidebar for the page so that users can switch between sections, and everything works fine EXCEPT for the fact that I can not change the gallery I am looking at.
You can see the page here: Gallery
The "Galleries" links on the left hand side are what I am having trouble with. The links works fine outside of the WP template, but I can't figure out how to get WP to recognize that I am using the link to pass a new variable to the page (that variable defines which images appear, based on the gallery they have been identified with, as well as the text at the top of the page).
This is the relevant code in the page.
//set category to gallery if no category given
if (!$catid) {$catid = 'Gallery'; }
The above checks the variable $catid, and sets it to the main gallery if the variable is empty. The code below is from the sidebar; each link sets the $catid variable when the link is clicked so the page loads only the images from the chosen gallery.
<a href="<?PHP print("?page_id=94&catid=Gallery"); ?>" >Main Gallery
<a href="<?PHP print("?page_id=94&catid=Sorcerer"); ?>" >Sorcerer Gallery
<a href="<?PHP print("?page_id=94&catid=published"); ?>" >Published Illos
<a href="<?PHP print("?page_id=94&catid=abstract"); ?>" >Abstracts
I know the code itself is fine because it has worked just fine for years, but obviously the variable-passing code isn't working once dropped into a WP template. Also, the template is apparently picking up the initial command that sets the variable to the main gallery (because if it was not, nothing would be showing up).
My problem is that I don't understand the architecture of WordPress well enough to understand why it isn't working, why it is working the way it is, or how to make what I am attempting to do work.
Can anyone help?


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The Fast and The Furious series of films has devolved with each new entry in the series, much like Fuddruckers did in Idiocracy. Not that the source material was that great to begin with…. Joe Budden snatches the mic (and the spotlight) right from Ludacris on this joint. From the Fast Five soundtrack, hitting May 3rd.
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Regarding the VP debate I thought Joe Biden was remarkably restrained considering his personality. As for the interruptions and laughter I think the inaccuracy of Ryanĺs rehearsed remarks prompted Biden to react and laugh because he thought Ryanĺs responses to be genuinely funny. I know that I did.
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A lot of people call in with negative comments about President Obama, but remember this, thereĺs never been a man who came into the presidency with a worse mess than he did. Bush and Cheney left a disaster for him to clean up. To the fact that heĺs even been able to keep his head above the water is an amazing feat. Iĺm not really sure who Iĺm going to vote for but just remember the mess he was left with.
Voters, reality check. It boils down to this. Obama stated he wanted to redistribute the wealth - that is socialism. He told Joe the Plumber to move aside and give somebody else a chance. Romney at least believes in the constitution and the American dream. Which do you want more - socialism or the constitution?
Why canĺt Republicans accept the truth? When Obama didnĺt do too well in the first debate, everyone admitted he didnĺt do a good job. Now that Obama has done a better job in this recent debate, Republicans donĺt want to admit that Obama won.
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Iĺm a 54-year-old female and I recently had the pleasure of spending a weekend at the shore with the Boy Scouts, a day at Pennhurst cleaning up trash and an event where everybody got their badges. It was the best three days of my life. Those kids are so grounded, respectful, clean up after themselves, take charge of themselves. Anyone with a son should put them in the Boy Scouts. I was so impressed with the way they behaved.
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The Houston Texans haven't even had their first mini-camp session yet, and already assistant head coach Mike Sherman has had an impact on the team's offensive line, the unit he is charged with upgrading.
Houston has reached a contract agreement with unrestricted free agent center Mike Flanagan, and there is little doubt that the presence of Sherman on first-year head coach Gary Kubiak's staff played a role in the decision of the 10-year veteran snapper. Sherman tutored Flanagan as an assistant at UCLA and then as the Green Bay Packers' head coach for six seasons.
Flanagan, 32, played his entire NFL career with the Packers before entering the unrestricted free agent market two weeks ago. He will sign a three-year, $9 million contract that includes a signing bonus of $3 million, and will become the Texans' starting center.
Texans officials had considered a few other free agents for the center position but Sherman, whose primary responsibility is to fix an offensive line that has ranked among the NFL's shoddiest during the Texans' four-year existence, preferred a player with whom he is familiar.
The acquisition of Flanagan, who played in the Pro Bowl in 2004 and has also been an alternate in the past for the all-star game, means the Texans will be able to move Steve McKinney to left guard full-time. The eight-year veteran, who recently signed a three-year contract extension, has played mostly at center for the Texans, but logged three of his 16 starts at guard in 2005.
An excellent technician and a savvy player who can handle all the line-calls, Flanagan will also bring some much-needed toughness to the Texans as they attempt to revamp their blocking unit.
A third-round choice in the 1996 draft, Flanagan suffered a ghastly right leg injury during the preseason of his rookie season. The injury was so severe, and required so much rehabilitation that Flanagan played in just two games during his first three seasons and started only twice in his first five years in the league.
But the Packers coaches, sensing Flanagan's considerable potential, refused to give up on him. In 2001, he became the full-time starter. Over the next five seasons, Flanagan started 13 or more contests four times. The only season in which he fell short of that mark was 2004, when chronic tendinitis forced Flanagan to have knee surgery and limited him to three appearances.
Last season, he missed only two games after undergoing surgery for a sports hernia, and started in 14 contests. For his career, Flanagan has played in 98 games and started 64 of them.
Len Pasquarelli is a senior NFL writer for ESPN.com.


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Australia and England will lock horns in the second test match of the 2009
edition of the Ashes series on Thursday, when they meet at Lord's. And
with the score-line reading 0-0 after the first test match at Cardiff was drawn,
it will be interesting to see which team draws first blood in the game.
Australia had the better of most exchanges in the Cardiff encounter and yet,
they were not able to close out the match as they would have expected. Going
into the last day needing eight wickets, Australia had managed to bag three
of them in the first session, but could garner only four more in the next two,
to have only a draw to show for their effort.
However, what they will be cock-a-hoop with, would be the effort of the bowling
side, especially the under-fire spinner, Nathan Hauritz. The off-spinner
bowler captured six wickets in the game and out-bowled his English counterpart
to almost bowl his side to the doorsteps of a win. He may not get enough spin
from the Lord's pitch, but he is bound to retain his place.
Amongst the batsmen, there were four century scorers for Australia and that
should augur well for them. With Marcus North and Brad Haddin
slamming a century each at the number six and seven position, and Mitchell
Johnson a decent bat at eight, it does look like their batting is something
of a plus point.
England, on the other hand, would be ruing the wasted opportunity in the first
innings, when ten of their batsmen got starts but not a single century was scored.
The worst affected would be Kevin Pietersen who was put under a lot of
pressure by the media and the opposition alike, both, on and off the field and
seemed to have succumbed to it.
England is sure to drop one of the two spinners for this game, especially given
Lord's record as a seamer-friendly track. Graeme Swann did not have a
great game with the ball, but he did well enough with the willow in his hand
to deserve the lone spinner's spot, which means that Monty Panesar who
batted out more than ten overs, will get the boot.
Panesar's spot will be taken by Graham Onions, who had a five-wicket
haul in his debut game against West Indies, and is also the back-up seam bowler
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Prada Says 2014 Sales May Miss Estimates on China, Italy
Prada SpA said it may fall short of analysts' predictions for fiscal-year revenue after unfavorable currency moves and slowing demand for luxury goods in Europe and Asia weighed on third-quarter profit.
"Consensus at the moment is challenging," Chief Financial Officer Donatello Galli said, without specifying a figure, during a conference call after Milan-based Prada reported quarterly profit today. Before the announcement, analysts were predicting that sales in the year through January would rise to 3.71 billion euros ($5.1 billion) from 3.3 billion euros, according to the average of 32 estimates compiled by Bloomberg.
Prada, whose products include $2,950 leather handbags, joins European luxury-goods makers including LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA and Gucci owner Kering SA in reporting slowing revenue growth as Chinese demand wanes and the euro strengthens against currencies including the Japanese yen. Fewer Chinese consumers are shopping in Europe, preferring instead to go to the U.S., while domestic consumption remains under pressure in Italy and Spain, Chief Executive Officer Patrizio Bertelli said on the call.
"Unfavorable exchange rates and softening consumption patterns in some regions could weigh on results, and thus will require increasing attention by the management in order to ensure profitability and continue the retail expansion," Prada said in a statement.
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Prada had 516 stores at the end of October. The company plans to open about 80 more a year through 2015, Investor Relations Director Alessandra Cozzani said on the call. Prada got 86 percent of sales from its own stores in the nine months through October.
Net income rose to 132.6 million euros in the three months ended October from 122.1 million euros a year earlier, Prada said. Analysts estimated 153 million euros. Revenue rose 7.1 percent to 848 million euros, also trailing predictions.
Profit was affected by a higher-than-expected tax rate, Prada said. The company, which is in talks with Italian tax authorities on how to interpret legislation related to foreign holdings, said in a separate statement that its holding company will repatriate non-Italian activities.
Third-quarter sales advanced 13 percent, excluding currency shifts, Prada said.
Margins are likely to be stable the coming year, as efforts to widen earnings as a proportion of sales "may eventually jeopardize our commercial penetration," Bertelli said.
"This will not be well received by part of the market, as consensus implies a further improvement in profitability over the next few years," analysts at Mirabaud Securities said in a report. "The company has mentioned in the past that as long as sales growth remained solid there would continue to be margin uplift."


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Friday Fabulous Flower - Sacred Lotus
The sacred lotus (Nelumbo nucifera) is so called because of its role in Hindu mythology. Lord Brahma emerged from the navel of Lord Vishnu while he was sitting on a lotus. The lotus flower is a symbol of eternity and good fortune, and Lakshmi, the Goddess of wealth is usually shown associated with a lotus flower.
The lotus is a lovely big flower, quite elegant, and the most pleasing pink color. My daughter has always thought the way water beads up and rolls around on the waxy surface of the large peltate leaf was most amusing. Enjoy.
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Beautiful. Do you do anything to protect your water plants? The local raccoons think water lilies make the most delicious salad, and they spare no energy ripping up the pads to get to them.
- July 16, 2010 at 1:00 PM
- The Phytophactor said...
Anonymous asks, "Do you do anything to protect your water plants?"
No, nothing much bothers the lotus, not even the Japanese beetles who love the pickerel weed growing with the lotus. We have no shortage of raccoons, but perhaps the water is too deep. And of course, lotus are not water lilies!
- July 16, 2010 at 4:11 PM
- Arati said...
you have a lotus in your garden! i'm jealous..
- July 17, 2010 at 8:42 AM
- The Phytophactor said...
Arati said, "I'm jealous".
This is one of the purposes of a garden, to make neighbors and friends envious, but really my garden plant that generates the most jealousy is the gigantic bald cypress in the front yard. Everyone wants it, which is why we have this garden, Mrs. Phactor had coveted that tree for years.
- July 17, 2010 at 4:23 PM
- Arati said...
lol.. now you need to post a picture of the cypress so the rest of us can turn a darker shade of green
- July 18, 2010 at 12:02 AM
- Christine said...
I am planning on going to a Lotus festival here in Korea soon. It's a white lotus festival, those are rare. The event will be in Mokpo. I should put up some pictures.
- July 18, 2010 at 7:49 AM
- The Phytophactor said...
RE: white lotus.
Lotus do come white, but big white water lilies also get this name. The Korean ones should be lotus. Pictures would be great!
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St Andrew, Wissett, Suffolk
A 19th century representation of the medieval symbol of the Holy Trinity at Wissett CofE parish church. P stands for Pater ('father'), F for Filius ('son'), S for Spiritus ('spirit') and D for Deus ('God'). The lines linking the outher symbols read non est ('is not'), but the lines linking to the middle read est ('is').
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Dear Abby: My sister and I live with our aunt because our mother is in jail and our father is nowhere to be seen. She was the only one willing to take us in. However, she uses drugs and has many criminal types in and out of the apartment.
Some of the guys she brings here sometimes stay awhile and try to make moves on us (if you know what I mean), and it makes us very uncomfortable. We share a room that doesn't even have a lock on the door, and we are so scared at night we put the dresser against the door before we go to bed when there's somebody here.
We're grateful that our aunt cared enough about us to take us when nobody else would, but it's still a scary situation. What can we do? - Scared in Michigan
Dear Scared: You and your sister have my sympathy. For no fault of your own, you have been dealt a difficult hand in life.
Although your aunt's heart may have been in the right place when she took you in, it appears from what you have written that she is neither mature enough nor stable enough to live up to that responsibility. You and your sister deserve to be able to sleep in your beds at night without fear.
I strongly urge you to talk to a trusted teacher at school about your situation. Your well-being could depend upon an intervention.
Dear Abby: I am a 14-year-old boy, and my mother still insists on coming in with me when I go to the doctor for a physical exam. I think I am old enough to go in by myself.
She says since she's my mother there is nothing she hasn't seen before, but if I'm that paranoid she'll promise to look the other way during the part of the exam when I have to pull down my shorts. Even if she does, I will still be uncomfortable with her standing right there .
She says she needs to be there to hear what the doctor has to say and ask him questions. I don't see why she can't just talk to him for a minute right afterward.
If it's necessary for one of my parents to be right there, I'd much rather it be my father, but he says it's too hard to get off work during the day. Please tell me what you think. - C.J. in Wilmington, Del.
Dear C.J.: Many physicians prefer to have someone else in the examination room while they perform physical examinations or procedures on their patients. If you would prefer that your mother not be there for part of the exam, you should indicate that to your doctor and let him handle it.
Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Write Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.
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Louisville has made a lot of strides this year under first-year coach Charlie Strong. That much is undeniable. But unless the Cardinals can win at Rutgers on Friday, their season will end the same way it has the previous three years: at home without a bowl.
"Going to a bowl game would say we're taking major steps in trying to get this program back in the right direction," Strong said.
Of course, not many people projected that Louisville would make a postseason game this year. But if the 5-6 team fails to get there now, it would feel like a disappointment. The Cardinals were 5-4 after beating Syracuse two weeks ago, but since then they've dropped two straight games at home, including an overtime loss to South Florida in a game they led 14-3.
The pressure, then, is on. Strong called it "a one-game playoff." But he's trying not to put a burden on his players.
"What we have to do is prepare our guys," he said. "If we prepare our guys the right way, they'll feel no pressure."
Louisville has been in this situation before. Two years ago, it went to Piscataway with the same record, needing a win for bowl eligibility. It left with a humiliating 63-14 loss. Rutgers led 49-0 at halftime in perhaps the lowest of the many low points in the Steve Kragthorpe era.
That Scarlet Knights team, though, was on a roll late in the season. This one has lost four straight and is coming off its own embarrassing defeat, a 69-38 thrashing at Cincinnati on Saturday. By comparison, the Cardinals have far fewer issues.
One of their glaring issues, however, is revving up a flat offense. That offense produced just three points in last week's 17-10 loss to West Virginia and committed too many mistakes down the stretch in the overtime loss to South Florida.
The attack has become too one-dimensional, as the team has not passed for more than 146 yards in its last four games. Justin Burke will make his fourth straight start at quarterback Friday in place of still-injured Adam Froman. Still, one-dimensional is OK as long as that dimension is really powerful.
"We've got to get back to our bread and butter," Burke said. "We've got to run the football."
Star tailback Bilal Powell came down with the flu bug late last week and had no yards on just four carries against West Virginia. Strong said Powell should be healthy and ready to go Friday.
Getting to a bowl game would be a reward for Louisville's 27-man senior class, which has never experienced the postseason. And with all those players leaving after this season, the 15 extra bowl practices would help Strong get a jump start on preparing younger players to take over in 2011. Mostly, though, a bowl game would be a signal that things really have changed.
"It would put some hope back into this program," Strong said.


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Liam Neeson's Very Particular Set of Skills Includes Charming Women While Cutting Them on the Bathroom Line
This happened at the Waverly Inn last week.
While celebrating his 60th birthday at the Waverly Inn last week, handsome celebrity Liam Neeson decided to use the women's bathroom, because apparently the men's line was longer for the first time in human history. According to the Post:
[H]is visit gave some female diners a very pleasant surprise. "You'll never guess who's in the ladies' room," a woman standing on line excitedly whispered to another, sharing that it was indeed Neeson. When he finally emerged, he was as pleasant as ever, apologizing to the line of women waiting: "I'm so sorry. Please excuse me." He even held the door open for the first lady to walk in, witnesses said. "You can use my bathroom anytime," one guest was overheard telling the tall, handsome actor.
This is exactly how it would play out if we had used the women's room, except instead of "excitedly whispering" to her friends, the woman who found us inside would have pepper sprayed us in the face until we passed out.