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You know, it's fun keeping an eye on where blog readers come from. I've noticed some interesting readers here at 'Not PC' recently from some very interesting places -- place that including but are not not limited to (yep, I can keep some secrets) the Universities of Virginia, Wisconsin, Georgia, Texas, Colorado State and California State, Northridge; the Australian Department of Housing, the NZ Ministry of Education, Richmond Public School in Virginia, the German Leibniz-rechenzentrum Der Bayerischen Akademie, Stanford University, Melbourne City Council, Fairfax Australia, Wilson & Horton, Time Warner, Ministry of Social Development, Ministry of Agriculture, Bloomberg Financial Market, Waikato District Health Board; and my favourites, the Mississippi Naval Research Laboratory and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory.
Hi to all of you. I hope you're enjoying your visit. :-)
And while we're looking at who came here and from where, popular searches landing here recently (in descending order, all Google searches unless otherwise noted) are:
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In Spain, a plate of gooseneck barnacles will set you back more than the cost of a lobster dinner. Known as percebes, goosenecks "set the palate in ecstasy," a Barcelona chef recently told a reporter. Nevertheless, Julia Bingham winced a little last spring when asked if she had ever tried the tube-shaped delicacies while she […]
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July 25, 2016
A Market for Barnacles
July 8, 2016
Soap Makers for Social Justice
WHEN THREE OREGON STATE STUDENTS signed up for a project in the university's new humanitarian engineering program, the first question was, Have any of you made soap? Nervous laughter broke out when each one said "no." "OK, this will be fun," Brianna Goodwin recalls thinking. But nearly a year and hundreds of bars of goat-milk […]
May 5, 2016
Fulbright for Wildlife
Katharina-Victoria Perez, a 2014 graduate of Oregon State University, has received a Fulbright award to conduct research in Chile in 2017. Perez will work with local Chilean organizations and international environmental groups to map the habitat and threats of a species of Andean deer, aka the huemul (Hippocamelus bisulcus). Hunting and habitat loss have reduced […]
February 3, 2016
School to School
In the western Kenya city of Kisumo last spring, Leah Tai expected to meet with a few teachers from only three schools. The Oregon State graduate student in Water Resources Engineering was serving as a school program coordinator for TAHMO. In short order, she found herself at a workshop having lunch with 60 teachers. "They […]
February 3, 2016
Looking for Trouble
The reliability of a weather station is subject to the wanderings of wildlife. Frogs crawl into rainfall collection buckets. Insects build nests in air tubes. Rodents chew through wires. And that's on top of damage from dust, high winds, ice and hail — or simple equipment failure. Maintaining weather station networks is a labor-intensive enterprise, […]
February 3, 2016
Swimming Through Science
If science were the Pacific Ocean, Kylie Welch would be halfway to Japan by now. With the persistence of a long-distance swimmer, she has plunged through a double major in biochemistry and anthropology, worked in an oceanography lab and traveled abroad. Still amazed by new experiences, the Oregon State University senior sees herself as a […]
October 28, 2015
Arsenic in Rural Oregon
When it comes to water, Lauren Smitherman doesn't mind getting a little personal. As a graduate student in Water Resources Science at Oregon State University, she asked people in rural Oregon for permission to collect samples of their drinking water. Assured of confidentiality, most people welcomed her into their kitchens where Smitherman ran a stream […]
October 15, 2015
Stormy Waters
Maneuvering a tiny boat over thundering ledges in places like Oregon's Opal Creek Wilderness is no more dodgy than facilitating a series of community meetings in a tiny Coast Range town.
May 11, 2015
Student Research: Electric Earth
Through the science of geomagnetics, an Oregon State University senior from Beaverton is peering into the structure of the Earth's crust with an eye on how the continent is put together and what that might mean for our future.
May 11, 2015
Taking the Plunge
If engineering still seems like a male domain, you wouldn't know it by talking to Amber Meeks. While she says she was "that one girl" growing up in Gaston, Oregon, with three brothers, she has plenty of female engineering peers at Oregon State. They run the gamut from chemical and biomedical to electrical and civil […]
February 26, 2015
Solar Car Race Offers Gold Standard Learning in Abu Dhabi
Call it the experience of a lifetime. Or just call it part of a great education at Oregon State. In January, nine OSU students took a solar car they built to the United Arab Emirates to participate in the Abu Dhabi Solar Challenge, a four-day, 1,200 kilometer race. This was the first international competition for […]
February 16, 2015
Understanding Tropical Reefs
By David Baker All signs pointed to Ryan McMinds attending Oregon State University as an undergraduate. Both of his parents graduated from OSU, and he grew up just down the road in Jefferson, Oregon. It was always his default choice. "But at the last minute, I decided that I needed to travel and […]
February 10, 2015
Closing in on Cholera
In the life of Bo Park, there's a quirky connection between her early childhood in South Korea and her pharmacology research at Oregon State University: fish. In the city of Incheon where she was born, her mom and dad sold hot bowls of fishcake soup from the food truck they owned and operated. As a […]
January 12, 2015
Nuclear Sleuthing
"There's still much too much material — nuclear, chemical, biological — being stored without enough protection. There are still terrorists and criminal gangs doing everything they can to get their hands on it. And make no mistake, if they get it, they will use it; potentially killing hundreds of thousands of innocent people, perhaps […]
October 10, 2014
Innovation: Smart Bike Helmet
Bike helmets have long proven their worth by helping to prevent head injuries. Now a team of OSU student interns who worked at Intel last summer has turned the durable plastic shells into an emergency beacon, communicator and diagnostic tool in the event of an accident. Equipped with electronics that can detect and analyze a […]
October 10, 2014
Technical Assistance
Last summer, Ben Arvey took an electric wheelchair for a test drive. He blinked his eyes, and as the Google Glass on his head relayed those small movements through the Internet, the chair moved forward. With no assistance from Arvey, it swerved to avoid a table and then straightened out as though traveling down a […]
October 6, 2014
Aspen Recovery in Yellowstone Spurred by Wildlife Shifts
Wildlife in Yellowstone National Park is undergoing dramatic shifts with consequences that are beginning to return the landscape to conditions not seen in nearly a century. In the park's northeast section, elk have decreased in number in their historic winter range in the Lamar Valley and are now more numerous outside the park. Aspen recovery […]
August 14, 2014
Oceanography Boot Camp
If they had come home early, you wouldn't have been surprised. Half of them got seasick. Equipment failed. And the weather changed unexpectedly. But last April, 11 Oregon college students from three institutions — Oregon State University, the University of Oregon and Clatsop Community College — stuck it out for four days at sea on […]
July 8, 2014
Across the Cultural Divide
For an artist, science can be confusing, full of numbers, variables and technical terms. Whereas for a scientist, art can seem like a fantasy, a distraction from the real world. Such differences lie behind the classic chasm between art and science, which British scientist and author C. P. Snow immortalized in his famous 1959 speech, […]
May 28, 2014
Learning to Dive
It seemed that Kyle Neumann had a dream job: video broadcasting for the Portland Timbers. But something kept nagging at him. "For me, it just wasn't fulfilling a higher purpose," says the Oregon State University senior. He wanted to use his video storytelling skills, he decided, not for professional sports but for Planet Earth. First, […]
May 28, 2014
Wanted: A Strong Work Ethic
You might think the No. 1 quality professors seek in an undergraduate researcher is braininess. Yes, brains matter. But there's another valued trait, perhaps less obvious but at least as important: a strong work ethic. In the labs in Oregon State's Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Health Physics, work ethic is often the deciding […]
May 28, 2014
Searching the Past
Since 2009, students from Oregon State and around the country have come to the lower Salmon River canyon and lived in tents for eight hot summer weeks. When not cooling off in the river, they dig, sift, haul and record as they participate in the search for traces of some of the earliest human activity […]
May 28, 2014
Bioengineering Students Jump-start Their Careers
A team effort to find a new way to treat sepsis has provided myriad hands-on opportunities for undergraduate and graduate bioengineering students at Oregon State. They've made vital contributions to the research and advanced their careers. "This is such a large project that we've probably had a couple dozen or more students involved in recent […]
May 23, 2014
Future Doctors
Students studying genetic properties of a fungal species hope to use their knowledge in medical careers.
May 23, 2014
Delving Into Censorship
The past seemed familiar to Matthew Schuck when he began scouring the Valley Library Archives for clues to censorship during WWI.
April 18, 2014
Taking the Measure of Seals and Those Who Study Them
In Antarctica, when you sedate a 1,000-pound Weddell seal, it can take a while for the animal to settle down.
January 22, 2014
The Gas Track
For an undergraduate, Josh Tibbitts faced an unusual problem last winter: where to find a source of high-pressure natural gas for a new research lab. We're not talking about double or triple the pressure that produces the blue flame in your furnace or a kitchen stove — typically less than one-quarter of a pound per […]
January 22, 2014
Shoring Up Our Coasts
As a scholar in environmental communications, Miriah Russo Kelly is digging into the interpersonal dynamics of collaboration and cooperation among people who may share little in common except locale — fishermen and hotel managers, loggers and grocers, political leaders and homeowners, climate scientists and climate skeptics.
November 13, 2013
Great IDEA
Oregon State University students increasingly use the globe as their campus. They might live with a family in the Amazon rainforest, go scuba diving in the Caribbean and hear life-changing stories in health clinics in South Africa and India. They witness wildlife management on an African safari ranch and in the Himalayan foothills of Nepal. […]
November 11, 2013
Sustainability, Face to Face
Last February, when Lisa Baldinger arrived in Belém, a city of 2 million people on Brazil's north coast, she didn't speak a word of Portuguese. "I didn't even know how to say 'hello,'" she says. Baldinger had gone to Brazil to learn about grassroots environmental management in the Amazon rainforest. She came home with a […]

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Home to 1,000 dogs per square mile, West Hollywood is one of the most pet-friendly cities in the world. In West Hollywood, our pets are considered to be important members of our families and communities, and the city's pet policies reflect this attitude as well as our core values of freedom and civil rights. West Hollywood was the first city in the country to outlaw the de-clawing of cats, the second city to ban sales of dogs and cats in pet stores (to combat puppy mills) and the third city in the country to legally designate pets "companions" to their "guardians." If your companion will be accompanying you to West Hollywood, visit some of these pet-friendly destinations:
Pet-Friendly Hotels
Andaz West Hollywood
Andaz' Pet Program, available for a $100 one-time fee, permits one 50-pound dog or two dogs with a combined weight of up to 75 pounds. The Pet Program includes a doggie bed, two bowls and day care at a local, cage-free petcare facility.
Chamberlain West Hollywood
Pets up to 25 pounds are welcome at the hotel with a one-time fee of $110 and damage waiver. Pet arrangements should be made before arrival.
The Charlie Hotel
The Charlie accepts dogs up to 60 pounds for an additional fee.
The Grafton
Pets are welcome at the Grafton for an additional $100 fee.
Le Montrose Suite Hotel
Le Montrose allows pets up to 30 pounds with a $100, one-time fee.
Le Parc Suite Hotel
Up to two pets under 40 pounds are welcome in each Le Parc Suite with a $100, one-time fee per suite. Each suite includes water and food bowls and dog treats. Pet packages, organized by "Bella the Boston Terrier, Director of Pet Relations," may also be available.
The London West Hollywood
Garbanzo, the London West Hollywood's resident English bulldog, welcomes other pets to his luxurious hotel. For $20 per night plus a one-time cleaning fee of $100, one pet up to 25 pounds is welcome in each room.
Mondrian Los Angeles
Mondrian Los Angeles accepts pets up to 20 pounds for a one-time fee of $100 with signing of a pet waiver.
Palihouse West Hollywood
For a one-time fee of $125, Palihouse accepts dogs of any size or breed.
Petit Ermitage
Petit Ermitage permits small dogs for a one-time fee of $150.
The Sunset Marquis
The Sunset Marquis accepts up to two pets under 10 pounds in each room for $200 per two weeks, plus any applicable damages.
The Sunset Tower Hotel
The Sunset Tower's pet policy provides dog beds, bowls, treats and a pet dining menu designed by Bisou, the staff beagle and Director of Goodwill, for a one-time, $100 fee. The hotel is adjacent to William S. Hart Park, a leash-free dog park.
The San Vicente Bungalows
Pets are welcome at the San Vicente Bungalows for a one-time fee of $50.
The Standard, Hollywood
The Standard is pet friendly—bring along your furry friend free of charge!
Pet-Friendly Shopping and Dining
In West Hollywood, you'll often see people out walking and dining with their pets at outdoor cafes and coffee shops, and unique pet stores, dog washing services, and animal care businesses are located thtroughout the city. Because of the strong animal protections and pet culture in West Hollywood, many businesses offer special services and offer dog treats and water bowls for pets. For a detailed list of pet-friendly West Hollywood businesses, visit our page on BringFido.com.
Dog Parks and Resorts
Dog Parks
William S. Hart Park, located next to the Sunset Tower Hotel, is a small, off-leash dog park open from 6:00 a.m. to midnight. This neighborhood hangout for local dogs features wood-chip flooring and benches for pet guardians. If you'd like to take your dog hiking, West Hollywood is in close proximity to Runyon Canyon Hiking Trail and Dog Park in Hollywood, an off-leash park which offers a moderate workout in the Hollywood Hills with a view of the Hollywood Sign.
The Club Beverly Hills
The Club Beverly Hills, nestled on the border of Beverly Hills and West Hollywood, is an exclusive country club where expert staff provides specialized care and attention to each dog. The Club Beverly Hills teaches socialization, manners, nutrition, health and fitness and is the perfect spot for L.A.'s most powerful dogs to socialize with like-minded peers, enjoy a Jacuzzi soak, grab a gourmet meal, see their private doctor or fit in a quick workout. Members enjoy state of the art facilities including a fitness course, day cottages and overnight villas, spa, salon, restaurant-grade kitchen and concierge.
Special Events
During the week prior to October 31st, animals can participate in a doggie costume contest in West Hollywood Park.


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French utilities group Veolia Environnement reported Monday a six-month profits slump owing to provisions and warned that its activities in China were slowing, but its shares climbed as it held onto targets to cut costs and debt.
The group, which provides water and waste management services in many countries, eked out a profit of just 4.0 million euros ($5.3 million) in the first half of this year, marking a fall of 98.0 percent from the equivalent figure last year.
This reflected a provision of 48 million euros for its waste activities in Germany and another of 17 million euros for restructuring at company headquarters.
However, excluding such non-recurrent items, earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (Ebitda) fell by 7.6 percent to 930 million euros and recurrent operating profit rose by 28.0 percent to 539 million euros.
Sales slipped by 3.3 percent to 11.07 billion euros.
Analysts had expected a much higher net profit figure of 106 million euros but lower sales of 10.6 billion euros, according to a poll by Dow Jones Newswires.
The price of shares in Veolia Environnement jumped 3.41 percent to close at 10.62 euros whereas the overall CAC 40 index rose 0.11 percent.
Finance director Pierre-Francois Riolacci told a telephone press conference that business conditions in the second quarter pointed to a "stabilisation" in Europe after a difficult first quarter .
The group expected conditions in Europe to remain much the same in the second half of the year but was vigilant regarding the possible consequences of a slowing of activity in China.
In Europe "we are expecting quite sluggish activity. We are not seeing a rebound but on the other hand we are not seeing a slowdown either, and we are in this rather slack situation," he said.
But Veolia was being "particularly" vigilant regarding China where the slowing of strong growth "could have an impact on the level of prices of raw materials sold by the group."
Otherwise, the group had shown "quite strong resilience" in the face of the economic crisis, he said.
At Citigroup brokers, analysts noted that Veolia had performed markedly better in the second quarter than in the first. Even though the group would be making provisions up to 2015, "the restructuring is going well," they said.
Waste management, which is closely tied to the economic cycle, had fallen most by 5.3 percent in terms of sales to 3.98 billion euros, owing to declines of 4.9 percent in France and 10.5 percent in Germany.
Water management activities, in which Veolia is the world leader, reported a fall of 4.6 percent to 5.0 billion euros, mainly because of a slowing of work on infrastructure and engineering.
But the energy division Dalkia, a joint venture with French group EDF, increased sales by 3.0 percent to 1.97 billion euros.
The strategy of chief executive Antoine Frerot has been based largely for 18 months on reducing debt which fell to 10.0 billion euros from 10.1 billion at the end of March and 10.8 billion at the end of December.
The group, which has a programme to sell assets to raise 6.0 billion euros, held to its target of reducing debt to 8.0-9.0 billion euros by the end of the year.
Veolia also stood by its target of saving 400 million euros next year and 750 million euros in 2015.


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An introverted young woman, who's been thrown in a socially demanding job, that has its ups and downs. Everyday is an adventure, whether it's fending off creeps at work, or washing crayon drawings off the wall. I am a lover of anime with an actual story line.
500~ June 21, 2016 ~ My love story!!
These are a few of my favourite anime Characters (no order of importance)
Some of my favourite shows
Some of my favourite canon couples.
Current addiction
Yowamushi Pedal
Favourite quotes:
Aki Yoshii:
"Global warming is killing our planet, and if you throw that food away, then you're a planet killer too. And the ghost of a dead homeless dude might haunt your bathtub. Which is also why you should recycle and hug a spotted owl, and try to stop talking so much if you can. It's mostly how I feel."
Ryoko:"Hey Kyo, umm.You know, whenever I think about you it makes me feel all funny inside, my heart starts racing and I can't get to sleep."
Kyo "That's cause you're dying."
My book review blog : http://ayoungmomsbooks.blogspot.com/
My anime blog is http://animeisalifestyle.blogspot.com/
8,438 total episodes
when you get a chance you should watch it
never watched it XD, well I've watched one ep, but never got around to watch it.
that sound like it came from Zero no Tsukaima
Well i did find it funny well mostly cause it was random lmao
It's actually a quote form Nerima Daikon Brothers. Thought you might find it funny :D


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COLLEGE STATION -- The Big 12 Conference and its television partners announced the 2008 Texas A&M vs. Texas football game will be televised by ESPN and the game will be played on Thanksgiving night. This marks the first time for the game to return to Thanksgiving since the 1993 game, which is also the last time ESPN televised the rivalry game.
"When I arrived in Aggieland, one of the first questions I was asked was when would we get the Texas football game back on Thanksgiving?" Aggie Director of Athletics Bill Byrne said. "I knew the Big 12 contract called for the game to be played the day after Thanksgiving on ABC, but that didn't stop the questions or desire to move the game back to Thanksgiving. I am thrilled that ESPN has offered to move the game back to that traditional date of Thanksgiving. I applaud the Big 12 Conference and our television partners in making this happen."
The current contract calls for the 2008 and 2009 Aggie and Longhorn gridiron battles to take place on Thanksgiving.
The Aggies are 9-0 against Texas when the game has been televised by ESPN. The first meeting televised by ESPN was in Austin in 1984 when the Aggies upset the Longhorns, 37-12. Texas A&M won six straight meetings through the 1989 season before the 1990 contest in Austin was televised by CBS and Texas won, 28-27. The 1991 through 1993 seasons, all Aggie victories, were televised by ESPN.
"I am very excited about playing our Texas game on Thanksgiving night," Aggie head football coach Mike Sherman said. "This tradition-rich rivalry between two great universities deserves this type of exposure. I am hopeful we can keep this date for this game in years to come."
After the 1994 game was not televised, the final Southwest Conference match up between the two schools was televised by ABC in 1995. With the formation of the Big 12 Conference, the A&M and Texas football contest has been played on the day after Thanksgiving and has been televised by ABC.
The two schools have played 114 times in football, the third-most played game in college football. Texas holds a 73-36-5 advantage overall, but Texas A&M is 14-11 in the last 25 meetings including this past year's 38-30 win in College Station.
ESPN will continue to televise regular-season Big 12 Conference football games through a two-year agreement with Fox Sports Net. As part of the new pact, seven Big 12-controlled contests will be televised on ESPN or ESPN2 each year, with games being played on a Thursday or Saturday.
Two selections have been finalized for the 2008 season, Texas A&M at Texas on Thanksgiving, as well as West Virginia at Colorado on Thursday, Sept. 18. Additional selections will be determined throughout the season.
With the addition of the Big 12 home contests last season, ESPN became the first network to televise home games from 10 Division I conferences and was the only network to offer coverage of all six BCS conferences.
"Big 12 football was a great addition to our schedule last year and we look forward to continuing our coverage," Dave Brown, ESPN vice president for programming and acquisitions, said. "The addition of games to our Thursday primetime schedule will make a big impact to the popular series. With the cooperation of Fox Sports Net and the Big 12, fans will be able to see even more action from this premier conference for two more years."
2008 TEXAS A&M FOOTBALL SCHEDULE (As of Monday, Feb. 25, 2008)
Aug. 30 ARKANSAS STATE
Sept. 6 at New Mexico
Sept. 20 MIAMI
Sept. 27 ARMY
Oct. 4 at Oklahoma State
Oct. 11 KANSAS STATE
Oct. 18 TEXAS TECH
Oct. 25 at Iowa State
Nov. 1 COLORADO
Nov. 8 OKLAHOMA
Nov. 15 at Baylor
Nov. 27 at Texas


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Economics genius Michael Cullen says he will be talking to Inland Revenue about 'closing the student loan loophole' exposed by one Thomas Banfield, who reclaimed his voluntary student loan repayments and whacked it in the bank to earn interest -- a smart thing to do when your loan is interest-free and the bank is giving you back eight per cent on your deposit.
'Closing the loophole,' Cullen calls it. But Cullen's 'loophole' is not the ability to reclaim voluntary repayments; the 'loophole' is the whole no-interest, money-for-nothing, student-loan election-bribe fiasco. Labour said during the election that 'there was unlikely to be a big rise in the number of students taking out loans, even if they were interest-free.' As anyone with a brain knew at the time, they were wrong. It's looking like another $1 billion error.
(Supplementary question: If you publicly predict an outcome that you know by your own judgement is the opposite of what will occur, is this a lie? Or just an election promise.)


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Los Angeles Dodgers star Andre Ethier not happy about SCG outfield
- From: News Limited Network
- March 19, 2014
FIRST there was Zack Greinke and his "zero excitement" about coming to Australia. Now his Dodgers teammate Andre Ethier has chimed in with a snide remark of his own.
While training for the first time at the SCG on Tuesday, Ethier was not in a good mood, according to Dylan Hernandez of the Los Angeles Times.
"Without the slightest trace of a smile, a clearly irritated Ethier sarcastically recited the company line: 'Glad to be here. Fun trip. This is a good time. Great for baseball. Good for Australia. Happy to be here, guys,'" the report said.
MUG'S GUIDE: DODGERS v DIAMONDBACKS
What prompted the remark were questions regarding the conditions in centre field, which is where he will be stationed for the two-game series against the Arizona Diamondbacks on Saturday and Sunday. The cricket pitch is normally there, making the surface not nearly as lush as what the outfielder is accustomed to back home.
Asked what it was like out there, Ethier was reportedly curt.
"I'm here to play a baseball game. I boarded a plane last night and this is where I landed. I'm here to play," he said.
Diamondbacks centre fielder A.J. Pollock described the SCG as "probably the quickest field I've ever seen.
"You go out there and throw a baseball, it just scoots off it."
Now taking the field at @scg: pic.twitter.com/l9E5RLQYuc— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) March 18, 2014
Another Times reporter, Steve Dilbeck, was not happy about the league denying the press access to the clubhouse before the game.
"If Major League Baseball wants this pair of games to actually spur interest and grow the game Down Under, you would think they'd make it as media friendly as possible, instead of the opposite, which is more like what they're doing," Dilbeck wrote.
"Unlike every other regular season game, the media are not allowed in the clubhouses prior to a game in Sydney. Neither are they allowed in after the game. They have no clubhouse access at all.
"Play your didgeridoo to that, mate."
Dilbeck may be unhappy, but apparently the access to the players has been far superior to what Australian journalists are accustomed to, as Richard Hinds wrote. Read Hinds' piece here.
ESPN's Mark Saxon took great interest in the tributes to the sporting figures around the SCG – while also confusing a bit of Australian sporting terminology.
"About 80,000 fans will get to see some of the best players in the world - pitchers such as Clayton Kershaw and sluggers such as Paul Goldschmidt - but the legends this place reveres compete in a different arena," Saxon wrote.
"Above centre-field, a sign reads, 'Victor Trumper Stand.' Trumper scored 214 points (runs) against South Africa in 1910-11.
"Above right-field, a sign reads, 'Clive Churchill Stand.' Churchill was a fullback, one of the greatest Australian rugby (league) players of all time.
"And then there's Stephen 'Yabba' Gascoigne. He's the fan who heckled the English cricket team so mercilessly, he became an icon. They built a bronze statue of him.
"If you look closely while the Dodgers and Diamondbacks play, you might be able to make it out. He's in the second row sitting in left-centre field, his hands cupping his mouth, a bottle nearby."Originally published as Another Dodger hits out at Australia
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Baller of The World Posted at 4:49 PM March 19, 2014
Way to go with the negative press, that should make the NBA or NFL want to play games here, which I'm sure would pull huge crowds. How often do you hear our cricketers complaining about pitch conditions and they're there to play cricket. Those not intersted in baseball, why are you reading stories about it? Its called the World Series because it was originally sponsored by a newspaper called 'The New York World', baseball has a World Cup where you get to represent your country.
Real Istic of Sydney Posted at 4:44 PM March 19, 2014
This bloke is right up there with another Yankee rocket scientist - Harry Comick Jnr - STFU & don't berate my country!!
Wrath of Perth Posted at 4:35 PM March 19, 2014
Why do they call it the World Series, if they're too afraid to play anywhere outside of the states?


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Right before earnings. How to time it so your clients can get in at a lower price. Crooks.
June home sales down 8%. Some say its due to low inventory. All the same that's 8% less going to the revenue. Inventory is actually about same last 3 month. So I don't think you can blame it on low inventory.
CAT sold off today after 5% gap up open. Street doesn't believe the optimism expressed by CAT.Home builders probably in the same boat. Difference is high high PE , PPS near all time high.


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Indiana governor choice for running mate
Supreme Court justice says judges should avoid commenting on candidates in future.
Will to succeed outgoing Reps. Tim Brown and Barbara Sears.
7 points ahead in quest for second term.
2-day meeting of the 112-member Rules Committee meeting begins in Cleveland.
UFC President Dana White to attend
Tensions run high after the recent police shootings, ambush of officers.
Mayor Hicks-Hudson says she likely will pursue 0.25% hike in spring.
Britain's new Foreign Secretary in recent months made insulting and vulgar comments about Obama.
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There is a problem with touch gesturing on IOS 6. It seems to effect the scroll-down gesture specifically. It causes the slideshow to freeze. You can't scroll the page or slide to next/prev slides, either through gesturing or the control buttons.
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Went to a family wedding held in their conference center and we stayed on the premises. The rooms surrounding the indoor pool area was modern with updated furniture and carpeting. My room was in the older part which had stained carpet and no microwave in the room. The toilet was low with no toilet paper holder attached to the wall. There was dirt on the ice bucket. The hallways were dark and needed a paint job. This hotel needs to be updated throughout. The staff was pleasant and did a nice job coordinating the wedding. The frontdesk staff were nice.
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Merce Cunningham: A legacy
From "Minutiae"
While the likes of Emily Dickinson, Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, and other artists throughout the course of time didn't achieve notoriety until after their deaths, there have been some lucky few who have gotten the recognition and esteem that their works merit while still living. That certainly can be said of Merce Cunningham, the prominent, avant-garde choreographer who went from a dancer in Martha Graham's company to founder and choreographer of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company (MCDC), a troupe who took modernist dance to new and exciting levels. Cunningham, who died in 2009, left behind a legacy of innovative movement with collaborations with the likes of other prominent artists such as his partner, John Cage, Abstract Expressionist Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, and many others.
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With companies such as Alibaba, Tencent, Sina, Renren, Huawei, ZTE, JD-com, and Baidu, which is the Chinese answer to Google, China seems to have a thing or two to brag about in terms of its Internet tech portfolio.
For example, Alibaba Group, which is like eBay, Google, and PayPal rolled-up into one in terms of the range of offerings, is a hallmark of China's inroad into the world-stage on Internet technology.
Alibaba filed for an IPO in the U.S. in May 2014, in what is predicted will be the biggest in Internet company IPO history. Thus, Alibaba's IPO event is expected to trump, for Internet companies, previous record holder Facebook's $16 billion, the amount that Facebook raised on the day of its IPO on May 18, 2012. At IPO, underwriters set Facebook's stock price at $38 a share, with a valuation of $104 billion. In May of this year, it was predicted that Alibaba would raise $20 billion at IPO, and be valued at $106 billion. With these figures, only 36 U.S. companies, including Apple, Microsoft, Google, Intel, Amazon, and Facebook, will be more valuable than Alibaba. However, recent figures have projected Alibaba's valuation at $150 billion at IPO. Thus, it's not difficult to imagine how profusely, underwriters, exchanges, potential investors, and the public at large are salivating to join Alibaba's bandwagon at IPO.
Also, consider this: China has more smartphone users and households with Internet access than any other country in the world. Its e-commerce, with an estimated turnover of $300 billion last year, was the largest of any country. And let us not forget China's ambition to build its own home-grown 4G technology, rather than adopting the relatively more established 4G deployment from the West. While it would have been much easier and hassle-free to "go with the flow" and adopt the existing 4G technology, China sees values in promoting the growth and enhancing the stability of its domestic high tech base, even if there are a few tech hiccups along the way. In a nutshell, a government's goal is to bolster domestic companies. The state-owned telecom company, China Mobile, is the vehicle through which the Chinese government is advancing its 4G initiative.
So, what is the contradiction? Realize that gross data (such as e-commerce turnover of $300 billion) favors China on account of its population of 1.35 billion people. On a per person basis, China's data are not so impressive, but this is of little consequence because a business is generally interested in the volume of sales, for which the population, not its density, forms the base. So, China is okay, and the potential market its population represents will always work in the country's favor, helping to lift the country to the top of the ladder, and perhaps leave the United States in the dust in some metric!
The rather rosy picture painted above of the Chinese Internet tech portfolio seems to be at conflict with a few other details of Internet technologies in China. You just need to dig deeper and forget the headlines, in order to unearth these details. That is, there is an apparent disconnect in China's tech portfolio, the basis of which seems to have derived from the communist-era perspectives, maybe.
In my view, a sizeable portion of the progress made so far in China seems to have been the outcome of the hard work of entrepreneurs, coupled with the fact that some ventures might have received substantial and preferential government handouts. The progress is thus an outcome of business ventures, whereas the lack of progress (the conflicts) may be partly attributable to government policies. Some of the Internet technology issues in China include: Chinese government's apparent propensity for "show-case projects" rather than deep-rooted interests in tech innovation, the politics surrounding the banning of social media networks like Facebook and Twitter, the details surrounding the exit of Google from the Chinese market, the awfully low bandwidth available to individual Chinese, higher institutions, and business enterprises, and the incredibly low level of Internet connectivity among small businesses in China. Moreover, Internet-based tech trends such as cloud computing and big data analytics may just be Greek in Chinese technology vocabs, as they are virtually non-existent. In a related article in the 26 July 2014 issue of The Economist, Schumpeter pointed out that "although millions of Chinese businesses sell their products on Taobao, an online marketplace owned by Alibaba, vast numbers remain offline: only 20-25% of small firms in China are internet-connected, compared with 75% in America." Schumpeter further suggests that this low connectivity explains why the labour productivity of local small businesses in China is roughly 67% of the average for all firms in the country, whereas the analogous figures in Britain and Brazil are 90% and 95%, respectively.
The Internet bandwidth available to an average Chinese is pathetically low, both in absolute value and in the ranking among other countries, based on Q4 2012 data by Akamai Technologies. For this metric, South Korea is on top, with a bandwidth of 14 megabits per second (14 mbps), followed by Japan (10.8 mbps), and Hong Kong (9.3 mbps). The U.S. is Number 8 in the ranking (7.4 mbps), whereas China and India are Numbers 91 and 116, respectively, with corresponding bandwidths of 1.8 mbps and 1.2 mbps. Seriously, you can't do much with these low bandwidths!
The bottom line in this article is that a few selected Chinese Internet companies, such as Alibaba, are able to leverage on China's huge population to play big in the international tech arena. However, China seems to be missing out on a few critical Internet tech capabilities, such as decent bandwidth, internet-connectivity among small businesses, and a few tech trends.


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PREVIEWS: "Daredevil," "Uncanny X-Men," & More Marvel Comics On Sale August 3, 2016
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Manga | It's official: Tite Kubo's "Bleach" will come to an end within the next 10 weeks. Japanese "Shonen Jump" editor Hisashi Sasaki revealed the news on Viz Media's weekly Shonen Jump podcast. The 74th volume will be the final collection. [Anime News Network]
DC Comics returns from its two-month Convergence break with a reinvigorated line, including more than 20 new series, new directions for existing titles, a new "DC You" promotional campaign, and a brief commercial message from Nick Lachey.
Among the most notable changes evidenced this week is the wildly increased diversity of the publisher's offerings. Over the past 43 months or so of the New 52, DC was particularly daring in the oddball titles, characters and concepts launched, likely the result of having a set goal of 52 books (and the knowledge that they had some 75 years' worth of IP to exploit). But while the publisher toyed with twists of the superhero genre (superhero war comics, superhero horror comics, superhero Western comics, etc.) and went surprisingly deep into its character catalog (Dial H, The Green Team, Infinity Man and The Forever People), there wasn't much diversity in terms of tone or visual style.
That's no longer the case. This week's new releases include comedy miniseries starring Bat-Mite and Bizarro — two particularly fun Silver Age characters – and featuring intentionally cartoony styles that are as far removed from Jim Lee-derived New 52 house style as one can imagine.
Following the initial announcement last month by Boom Island Brewing Company, The Hero Initiative has revealed more details about the debut of the craft beer Gravity No. 9 at Wizard World Minneapolis.
The Belgian strong features a label specially designed by Fables creator Bill Willingham to support the organization, which helps to provide a financial safety net for creators in need.
Fans of the weekly format — like yours truly — had an interesting new comic book day. That's because all three of DC's weekly series concluded on Wednesday, and the publisher kicked off its next weekly series with a zero issue.
When it comes to weekly comics, the first and last issues are the most important. Weeklies have a distinct advantage over monthlies, in that readers tend to be more forgiving from issue to issue. Perhaps the art is rough, but we excuse it, because we understand the brutal deadline pressure. Perhaps the story drags and stalls, but because a new issue arrives each week, we don't have a lot of time to dwell on the flaws — and there's always the hope it will get better with the next installment, which, of course, is just seven days away. But when we reach the final issue, that hope is gone, and readers discover whether their investment in the story— time and money — was worthwhile.
Of the three weekly series DC Comics is releasing this year, Futures End is arguably the most "important." It spans the entire superhero line, bridges the gap between Forever Evil and 2015's Big Event, and promises to change the New 52 irrevocably.
None of that apparently is deemed sufficient to attract new readers, because Futures End's preview issue kicks off with 20 pages of your favorite characters either turned into, or slaughtered by, giant killer spider-bots.
To be fair, maybe the folks behind FE wanted to attract those readers already interested in a certain other let's-prevent-the-robot-holocaust storyline from their crosstown rivals. But it's not just X-Men: Days of Future Past, The Terminator or even Star Trek: First Contact (where you can hear the Borg Queen gloat "Watch your future's end") that Futures End echoes. Just off the top of my head, evil and/or assimilated versions of our heroes appeared in Final Crisis (remember Wonder Woman's Female Furies?), in the Swamp Thing/Animal Man crossover "Rotworld" — which, by the way, I seem to be alone in liking — and in Flashpoint's dog-eat-dog timeline. A future ruled by OMACs was also part of the Justice League: Generation Lost miniseries. Back in the day, "changing the bad future" was the plot of 1991's summer crossover Armageddon 2001 and the unrelated JLA arc "Rock of Ages," and 1992's Eclipso: The Darkness Within featured "heroes turned bad."
DC Comics' current publishing pattern seems to center around growing various franchises, like Batman, Superman, Green Lantern and the Justice League. Aquaman is one of the publisher's more familiar faces, he's rooted pretty deeply in the superhero line, and he's even had a good bit of multimedia exposure. However, when the April solicitations came out at the end of January, I wasn't sure the world had been clamoring for another Aquaman title.
After reading the first issue of Aquaman and the Others — written by Dan Jurgens, penciled by Lan Medina, inked by Allen Martinez and colored by Matt Milla — I'm still not entirely convinced. AATO #1 is a solid first issue, dealing largely in traditional superhero matters, but its last-minute attempt to tie into the larger DC Universe comes from out of left field, and threatens to hijack the main narrative. Otherwise, it's a fine reintroduction which gives newcomers a good glimpse at characters who are still pretty obscure. Still, those good fundamentals will have to overcome the why-should-I-care factor.
Summer is officially over, so this is a little late, but I've been meaning to talk about a certain arc from the summer of 1993. It was the height of the speculator bubble, when everything came with cover enhancements, trading cards, unfortunate hairstyles and/or superfluous pouches.
For many DC Comics readers, 20 years ago was also the summer of "Reign of the Supermen!" That's not necessarily enthusiasm — the exclamation point was part of the title, which in turn was inspired by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster's early proto-supervillain story, "The Reign of the Superman." The third (and by far the longest) chapter of the "Death of Superman" saga began with teasers at the back of Adventures of Superman #500, published around April 15,* and ended with Superman Vol. 2 #82, published around Aug. 26.** Those four and a half months may not seem like much, but they saw 20 issues of the four regular Superman books (including Action Comics and Superman: The Man of Steel) spread over 20 weeks. In fact, "Reign" was front-loaded, with all four titles marking the official start of the arc on April 29 or so, two weeks after Adventures #500. That meant there were some weeks without a new installment, and those were sometimes hard to take.
"Reign of the Supermen!" is not the greatest Superman story ever memorialized in print. On one level it is very much a product of its era. However, for the Superman books, that era was energized not just by the efforts of their creative teams, but by the overarching framework the books had developed. While "Reign" wasn't the only big DC event of the summer — for one thing, the debut of DC's imprint Milestone Media has much more historical significance — it's a reminder of the ebbs and flows of serial superhero storytelling, and it remains instructive today.
Warning: This is a very long post, because I think there's a lot of background to be explored.
I read all 13 of the Villains Month issues released this week by DC Comics, and in so doing I saw 89 people killed (Kryptonians and Thanagarians included) in all manner of ways. I saw people shot to death with laser guns, with regular old bullet guns, with eye-beams, with an arrow and even with an umbrella. I saw people stabbed, bludgeoned, impaled, decapitated, blown up, pushed off buildings, flash-frozen and shattered. I saw someone's neck snapped, someone's life-force magically drained, people sliced in half with psionic energy, and others torn to pieces by claws.
I saw a bestial woman eat the still-beating hearts of her victims.
But man, the rabbit that Arcane tore in half? That's the image that sticks with me from this week's Villains Week offerings. Thank God they didn't put that on the cover; imagine that arc of rabbit innards being flung your way in lenticular 3D!
The comic book annual has, in recent years, become an endangered species. Once an oversized, extra-length dose of the characters and concepts a reader could count on appearing once a year (or, you know, annually), the changing funny-book landscape has made them a less appealing proposition.
The rise of the graphic novel and trade paperback collections made "novel-length" adventures appearing in actual, off-the-rack comic books somewhat obsolete. The rising price of comics helped make annuals seem less practical; if a 20- or 22-page comic costs $2.99 or $3.99, a 48- or 56- or 64-page one would be prohibitively expensive. And with the shrunken market, it doesn't make sense for a publisher to release an additional, extra-long issue of almost every title in its line.
Digital comics | Despite all the talk about digital comics lately, Paul Delos Santos finds plenty of ink-on-paper comics, as well as creators and fans, at last weekend's Amazing Las Vegas Comic-Con. "Digital is the newsstand of yesteryear for people that are new to comics that are discovering that way," said Ralph Mathieu, owner of Las Vegas' Alternate Reality Comics. "Then (they are) going to comic stores and getting the physical format." [Las Vegas Sun]
Superheroes | Looking at the lineup of Marvel and DC Comics adaptations, Frank Hagler argues, "It is far past time for Hollywood to release a comic book movie based on a minority comic book hero where the characters race is central to the theme of the story." [PolicyMic]
Conventions | Comic-Con International in San Diego is about six weeks away, so it's time for Tom Spurgeon to post his massive list of tips for those planning to attend: "It helps to remember that the hassle of going to Comic-Con is mostly an accident of our recent cultural history — All those spectacle movies! All those fantasy franchise books! Marvel's post-bankruptcy comeback! All those graphic novels! The toy explosion! The rise of manga and anime! — rather than something the convention itself enjoys or endorses or requires or was ever shooting for. I honestly don't have any more fun going now than I did in '96 or '01, back when it was so much easier to attend the con that the worst-case scenario was registering on-site and staying in a $65 hotel ten blocks away. It wasn't that long ago! But I also can't stress this enough. I still have fun." [The Comics Reporter]
Hello and welcome to What Are You Reading? Our guest this week is Greg Hatcher, who you can find blogging regularly at our sister blog, Comics Should Be Good!.
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College basketball season starts back up in November, so that makes thinking about bracketology only a little less premature. Looking at the various discrete (and, occasionally, indirect) crossovers happening throughout November's New 52 solicitations, I couldn't help but picture the field of 68, with each individual game a step along the way to … "Trinity War," I guess …?
Green Lantern's "Rise of the Third Army" occupies the four GL titles, of course, but it also brings in Justice League, where the solicit for issue #14 wonders where Hal is. (After reading this week's GL #12, I have a better idea about that.) Likewise, GL #14 guest-stars the League.
From the solicits I wonder if "ROT3A" takes place mainly in GL (with a little JL on the side). "Night of the Owls" was advertised that way (you only need to read Batman, because the other Bat-books dealt with ancillary stories) and it kind-of fits with the way the New-52 books have hyped their creative teams. Johns, Scott Snyder, and Jeff Lemire are responsible for a total of seven books (GL, JL, Aquaman, Batman, Swamp Thing, Animal Man, JL Dark), and each writer has at least one book in some sort of crossover this month.
We're coming up on the one-year anniversary of the New 52, and I anticipate doing the usual examinations of what worked and what didn't. Until then, however, this preliminary post will try to organize my general impressions.
I have tried to keep an open mind about the various changes, but apparently I keep coming back to the New 52-niverse's lack of meaningful fictional history. Much of this comes from the five-year timeline, but a good bit of it is due to storytelling styles. While origin stories can generate a nominal setting, including a regular supporting cast, many of the New-52 books held off for various reasons — like readers pretty much knowing the origins at the outset — and with today's practical concerns, many books spent their first 12 issues on extended arcs.
For the past couple of weeks I've been talking about this as a function of "idea generation," but I think it is a more elemental concept. Specifically, it seems like I have been conditioned to expect a certain amount of continuity in a modern shared universe. Furthermore (and more troubling), I suspect the simple acknowledgment of preexisting continuity helps mitigate whatever weaknesses may exist in the stories themselves.
August marks the end of the New 52's first year — and whether it's the practicalities of collected editions or a prelude to mass cancellation, there's a lot of finality in these solicitations.
Storylines conclude in All Star Western, Aquaman, Catwoman, Deathstroke, Frankenstein, GL Corps, Legion of Super-Heroes, Red Lanterns, Resurrection Man, Suicide Squad, Voodoo, maybe GL: New Guardians, and the main Justice League book. Big changes are coming for Stormwatch, Captain Atom and Green Lantern. August also sees the final issues of Justice League International (about which more later), iZombie and Scalped.
On the other hand, new stories begin in Flash and Batman, and the big Animal Man/Swamp Thing crossover kicks off. Better yet, J.H. Williams III returns to art on Batwoman with Issue 12, which not only starts a new storyline but guest-stars Wonder Woman. It's somewhat ironic for a guy who drew the guest star-heavy Chase that his Batwoman work hasn't ventured too far into the larger DC Universe, so I'm really looking forward to his Wonder Woman. (Along the same lines, I can't wait to see what Gail Simone does with Batwoman in the latter's Batgirl appearance.) Apparently the Next Six titles also just keep humming along.
Collectively, it may make the next four weeks a waiting game. With September set to include fifty-two zero issues, at least one of those will replace JLI on the schedule. From now until the September solicits are released, I wouldn't be surprised if DC announced more cancellations in order to free up those zero issues for new series' debuts.
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Could you resolve the conflict in LogToFile.java in the current trunk revision and resubmit the patch? Sunitha Kambhampati wrote: > Thanks Suresh for your comments. I have attached a new patch that takes > care of them and as well as the property name change as discussed on the > list. > > So now, > 1)To enable this no syncs mode, the property setting is > derby.system.durability=test If it is set to any other value other than > test, then this property setting is ignored and the system will default > to the usual mode where all syncs happen correctly. > 2) If database is booted in this mode then the flag to indicate this > mode is being used is set in log.ctrl file and it will not change after > that.Thus there wont be any switching between this mode ( no syncs) to > default ( all syncs) mode because we cannot guarantee that the database > will be in a consistent state once its booted in this no sync mode.. > 3) This flag is now written out as part of the log control flags in > log.ctrl file instead of using a spare byte. > _______________________ > svn stat: > M java\engine\org\apache\derby\impl\store\raw\log\LogToFile.java > M > java\engine\org\apache\derby\impl\store\raw\data\BaseDataFileFactory.java > M java\engine\org\apache\derby\impl\store\raw\data\RAFContainer.java > M java\engine\org\apache\derby\iapi\reference\MessageId.java > M java\engine\org\apache\derby\iapi\reference\Property.java > M java\engine\org\apache\derby\loc\messages_en.properties > A > java\testing\org\apache\derbyTesting\functionTests\tests\store\TestDurabilityProperty.java > > A > java\testing\org\apache\derbyTesting\functionTests\master\TestDurabilityProperty.out > > M > java\testing\org\apache\derbyTesting\functionTests\suites\storemats.runall >
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I have a script that generates a temporary PDF file, binary-streams it to the client, then deletes it.
If you click on "Save Page As" in the browser File menu, it wants to save the correct file name that I specified through Content-Disposition.
However, if you click on the Save button in the Acrobat reader or Acrobat Pro, it wants to save the name of the script file, replacing ".asp" with ".pdf". It's like Acrobat completely ignores "Content-Disposition"
It's important that I don't use a static URL, but instead use a Dynamic script to generate the PDF, so that I can delete it immediately upon closing the stream. Otherwise, I can't know when the client is finished downloading.
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Warner and MGM invest in The Hobbit: Kingdoms of Middle-earth developer Kabam
Kabam, the developers of The Hobbit: Kingdoms of Middle-earth, has secured investments from Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. and MGM Studios. The investment will see Warner Bros. Home Entertainment president Kevin Tsujihara joining Kabam's board of directors, and Gary Barber, the CEO of MGM will also join the board as an "observer." Kabam's second title in the Hobbit series, Armies of the Third Age, is currently in beta and expected to be released on PC. Via Reuters.
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I am experiencing extreme initial (first 60 seconds) hard disk activity while loading/watching HD clips with Flash in the latest versions of Firefox (problem started sometime after the fifth version and was never seen before). The SSD activity is so extreme that the computer can become unresponsive the first minute of load, after which videos play fine and do not lag. If monitored, one can see that Windows does not run out of memory (3 Gb; ≈1½ Gb free even during most severe loads).
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Another image that went its own way. Am I complaining? Not at all.
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She's definitely the boss
Yes Mam. I'll help you with that printer. Right away Mam. Anything else Mam?
Thanks alot.
Yes Ma-am!
I can relate to this. Wonderful image!
Soooooo ... where do I turn in my application to be her 'Boy Friday'?
I wish my boss was that hot.
Well and a chick haha
Well and a chick haha
A DiNozzo-esque "Sure thing boss!" comes to mind when seeing this...
She's prettier than my boss.
lookin' fine...like a BOSS!
very nice! I could work under her!
I'd be torn...part of me would resent having to take orders from someone so young...part of me would be trying to get into her pants
Wouldnt mind her as me boss >.>
Oui, madame!
Legs, legs, legs!
That's either the tallest woman, or the smallest copier, I've ever seen
Yeah, that set of props is weird. I had to scale the clock down to 80% as it was huge! But I've worked with smaller copiers. I think this one is designed for facilitating making copies of your butt.


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Freddie Green, the guitar player in the Count Basie Orchestra, had amazing chordal technique. I use his chords all the time but I think I'm missing some of the voicings. Where can I find a complete listing of Freddie Green chords?
If you're playing this style, I would suggest that instead of looking for a list of Freddie Green chords, you should procedurally construct all drop 2 chords using string set 6543. Freddie Green chords are merely drop2 chords on strings 6543, but with the note on string 5 always omitted to leave a little bit of space for the rest of the ensemble.
(Straw man coming up...) Some may say, "but wait, sometimes you play a major 6th chord in substitution of a major seventh, and that merits its own place on a list of "major 7th freddie green chords." Hogwash, I say. The decision to make small harmonic substitutions is not really directly related. You can make many substitutions especially in this use of thin shell chords.


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Skydiver Jumps With No Parachute [VIDEO]
Some guy jumped out of a hot air balloon with no parachute. How much money would it take to get you to do this?
Some guy jumped out of a hot air balloon with no parachute. How much money would it take to get you to do this?
As if it the movie Jaws didn't already scare us enough to go out into shark-infested waters, this weekend's events has us second-guessing if we should ever go into an ocean again!
Holy moly this is an intense video!
Oh, I'm all for getting up close and personal with the wild animals. But this is WAY to close for comfort.
In a scene straight out of the Twilight Zone, it's a rainy day at an amusement park. The thunder rolls. Lightning crashes. A new dimension is entered...
I gotta be honest ... this video freaks me out. It's cool, but terrifying at the same time. Get an inside look of a wasp nest. It's like cribs of flying insects of doom...
Crazy video from Australia, a man is trying to get on a train when he slips between the train and the tracks (a painful way to die if the train starts moving). Well, I'm glad to say that doesn't happen here. Someone notice what happened, and everybody got off the train to help push the train away from the man so he can get free.
My only time I've ever been out to see was in the Gulf of Mexico on a cruise to Cozumel. I had a fantastic time. The ship was as smooth as glass...
I'm not overly fond of heights. I mean don't get me wrong I don't mind them. But at the same time give a guy a guard rail here. You know what I'm saying...
Here's a video of a guy at work. Who it seems is easily startled. Check out this french guy getting started and screaming the same way over 20 times.
It doesn't get old.
At first watching this video I said "Oh, it looks like the Yo-Yo Ride at the old Hamel's amusement park." Assuming you're old enough or lived in the SBC long enough to remember the days we had an amusement park, you'd get the reference. If not it's a swing that takes you up in the air. Only at Six Flags you go up about 400 feet.
So, little sisters and brothers can be annoying. I should know: I'm an annoying little brother to my big sister. Thankfully, she never did anything like this to me because my reaction would be...well, the same actually.
Here's a video of a guy scaring his little sisters and causing them to scream EXTREMELY loud. Turn down the volume on your computer and enjoy!


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Hate asking a dumb question but I cannot set up a CDN on a self hosted subdomain. I set up a subdomain static.englishadvantage.info and added a CNAME record to point it back to my domain.
In W3 Total Cache settings I have
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FTP username: USERNAME
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FTP path: Not sure what to put here.
Replace site's hostname with: static.englishadvantage.info
Keep getting a can't resolve error message.
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I recently installed Ubuntu in my machine which already has Windows 7. Internet pages load really fast when I boot Windows 7, but its very very slow and sometimes wont even load in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. I tried several solutions mentioned online but nothing works. My settings use IPV4 not IPV6. Please help.
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Publishers WeeklyLewis's remarkable 1929 satirical novel about millionaire auto manufacturer Sam Dodsworth, who journeys to Europe with his new wife, is brought to life in a straightforward yet entirely enjoyable performance by Grover Gardner. He offers only slight variations in tone and dialect for each character, but they are always entertaining and realistic. He's never over-the-top or outrageous, which, given the writing style, could easily have been the case. Gardner's Dodsworth is a clear-cut and firm individual whose voice shifts ever so slightly once he begins to realize that there is far more to life than just a paycheck. As Dodsworth's wife, Gardner delivers a slightly more grating tone with a higher pitch reminiscent of a stage performance, which offers a more lighthearted tone at times.
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Translation of alcohol-free in Spanish:
- (drink/cosmetics)the coffee bar is an alcohol-free area
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- Try alcohol-free beers, wines, and mixed drinks as a substitute.
- Alas, this tasting shows that many brewers have not improved the drinkability of their alcohol-free beers and lagers since their introduction.
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Nick Jonas is currently single.
Nicholas Jerry "Nick" Jonas (born September 16, 1992) is an American singer, songwriter and actor, best known as one of the Jonas Brothers, a pop rock band he formed with his brothers Kevin and Joe. The Jonas Brothers originally started as an attempt...ed solo singing career for Nick Jonas, but the record producer liked the sound when his brothers sang backup for him. Nick starred in the Disney Channel original movies Camp Rock and Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam, as well as the TV series Jonas L.A., alongside his brothers. He formed the band Nick Jonas & The Administration, which released its first album in 2010.
Connect any celebrity with Nick Jonas to see how closely they are linked... romantically!
Also, he is like my hero. I really do look up to him. I want to be like him when I get older. Like him, I love to sing.
Also, he is definently not a player!! He treats his ladies like they should be treated. So all of you haters please back off because some people actually take this to heart wether you realize it or not
Some of you guys are just mean... I read these comments. Nick Jonas is an incredible and talented person. Any girl should be lucky to have him. I saw him in concert last night. He really is something special and he is so unique. I hope I get to meet him in person someday.
Omg guys you know this dude is so hot
U r so cute
Nick Jonas is a cute handsome man young man and deserves a great girl which I think he has right now
I think they both make a good couple
Saw him several time with my daughters in concert. Thought he and his brothers were full of talent. We really enjoyed the pre-show events, meet and greets and concerts. Personable family and band mates.
Why is he suddenly trying to be a thing gain?
This guy is not very known
What happened to this guy? At least he dates normal girls.
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The big U.S. stations – ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox and PBS – all came in clearly on setup day, which was near perfect, weather-wise. Signal quality hovered around 75 per cent, which seemed to have no effect on the HD picture. Local stations, such as Global, CTV, Citytv and CBC, came in above 85 per cent. I noticed the superior picture quality on the majority of stations right away. Digital signals sent over the air are not compressed the way they are when delivered through cable or satellite. Signals are transmitted at a data rate of almost 19.4 megabits per second while cable and satellite transmit at a data rate of between 10 and 14.6 Mbps to each channel.
However, during a stretch of inclement weather around Toronto in late April and May, the U.S. stations – especially ABC, CBS and NBC – were unwatchable. The weather interfered with the signal, dropping its strength below 60 per cent and whenever we tuned to those channels the screen was dark. Fox kept coming in strong no matter the weather, and so did PBS. Local stations also had no trouble getting through, so there was almost no programming interruption because between CTV, Global and Citytv, nearly all of the prime-time U.S. shows are simulcast.
Aside from the main TV networks, the antenna picks up several other stations that don't hold much appeal in my house, though they may one day. We get OMNI, Sun TV, Crossroads Television (a family oriented channel with some religious programming) and The CW. There's also a country music station, a 24-hour sports station that seems to show mostly figure skating, rugby and handball, and Retro TV, which features the likes of Magnum PI, The A-Team and Gilligan's Island.
While the channel list is considerably less than the 500-odd stations available through cable or satellite, we have few regrets. In April we re-activated Netflix, which for all the criticism of its programming, has a huge library of kid-centric shows and movies. Between that and my annual MLB.com subscription, we have not missed much at all (I'll cover more on this in a companion piece that looks at the Internet side of the equation that will be posted Friday).
I've found the changes in our TV habits to be overwhelmingly positive.
For one thing, we watch less TV. We used to have a daily battle with the kids after school. There seemed to be no alternative in their minds to Hannah Montana and other shows on the Family Channel (which I often referred to as the Young Disney Brainwashing Channel). Now they fill their after-school leisure time with other things, such as playing on the computer or doing arts and crafts. They still watch kids shows, but they're either on PBS – did you know the Electric Company is still on? – or Caillou on Netflix.
My wife gets to bed earlier instead of flipping through 500 channels and I read more often. I find that when we watch TV, we do it to be entertained rather than distracted, which is most evident with the kids. The process of selecting something from a Netflix menu seems to dovetail more closely with the prevailing mood – fun, serious, mentally stimulating – than just time-wasting picture and noise.
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I do not want to use Google Chrome - I purposely installed Chromium. But whenever I click on a link in an external application ( like a link in a pdf or email) Google chrome launches. It is not in installed applications in software center
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Gift Ideas for the Sports Nut
Are your family and friends crazy about game time? You may be thinking, "Yeah! They put the 'fan' in fanatic!" Even if "enthusiastic" is an understatement when it comes to describing the sports nut in your life, game day is surely fun and exciting for your loved one. So whether you're looking for something that adds team spirit to tailgate time or something that they can sport around every day, here are some gift ideas for you.
"And he's safe!" This "Safe" Paperweight is perfect for anyone who loves baseball.
These College Football Helmet Cufflinks are made from helmets that have actually been worn during a game!
With this Putter Cup Golf Mug, the avid golfer can practice putting at his desk whilst enjoying a cup of java.
A Ticket Stub Diary is a great way to preserve memories. Slide ticket stubs into the clear sleeves and jot down notes about the event—such as the final score and any awesome plays—in the margins.
Any sports nut can welcome friends, family, and visitors into his abode with this Home Plate Doormat.
Hockey lovers will take a liking to this Hockey Stick BBQ Set. These grilling utensils are made from repurposed hockey sticks!
This NFL Four Piece Barbecue Set is available in any NFL team logo, so you can choose whichever one the recipient would like.
Know someone who loves basketball or likes to play with their food? The Mug with a Hoop makes mealtime fun as they can practice their three-pointers while they eat!
For the fan whose car even boasts about their team pride, NCAA Tire Valve Stem Caps will make a great stocking stuffer!
This Team Logo Mini Day Pack is just the right size for carrying essentials on game day. A great gift for him or her!
Dress 'em up or down, these NFL Earrings can be worn anytime.


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The Stihl battery-powered TSA 230 Cutquik cut-off machine changes the game for the jobsite with zero exhaust emissions, and more.
Could a smaller saw, maybe even a cordless, handle everything you really need to cut on the job?
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Twice the batteries, twice the voltage, and more than twice the speed of the company's current 18-volt model.
During their recent 100th anniversary event Lenox held an "open house" its factory in Western Massachusetts. Here's your chance to see how hole saws are made.
This kit includes the essential cordless tools and good batteries for a reasonable price.
This scary vintage machine is not for use by the faint of heart.
Two well-known power tool companies prepare to duke it out in the parking lot.
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New Super Mario Bros
New Super Mario Bros. is a four player co-op Mario game for the Nintendo Wii.
New Super Mario Videos
1UP's Retronauts Lunch Break: Super Mario World (11/16/12)
1UP's Bob Mackey and Marty Sliva play the Mario game that launched several million Super Nintendos. Find more playthroughs of cNovember 19, 2012
New Super Mario Bros. 3 Trailer
A fan recreates the NES classic Super Mario Bros. 3 for the DS using The New Super Mario Bros. engine.November 12, 2010
Retronauts: The Best and Worst of the NES EP 2
The full Retronauts episode covering all three topics: the best and worst NES games, and fixing the carts by blowing.October 13, 2010
Retronauts: Fixing the NES by Blowing EP 2-3
How did you repair your glitchy NES cartridge? 1UP staff discuss their favorite ways to make the damn thing work.October 13, 2010
Super Mario Bros. 25th Anniversary Feature
Nintendo celebrates the 25th anniversary of Super Mario Bros. with a feature outlining the history of one of gaming's most recognizable characters.September 13, 2010
Game Over Super Mario Bros Rap
Musician Levar Allen serves up a satisfactory Kid Cudi-esque Super Mario Bros track.August 10, 2010
Perhaps the Best Interpretation of Mario's Classic Tracks on a Violin
Classically trained violist provides the music and the sound effects for Super Mario Bros.June 22, 2010
Super Mario Intervention
The line between the real world and world 1-1 begins to blur for the famous plumber.May 10, 2010
Mario Land:Muda Kingdom (Rock Version)
Super Mario Land - Muda Kingdom (Rock Version) Composer: Hirokazu "Hip" TanakaMarch 18, 2010
Tap Dancing to Super Mario Bros.
CK marvelously tap dances to Super Mario Bros. theme.December 14, 2009
New Super Mario Bros. Wii World 1-1
Endless 1UPs.November 23, 2009
New Super Mario Bros. Wii World 1-2
Endless 1UPs.November 23, 2009
World 1-3 (Secret Goal)
Secret Goal to World 5 Warp Cannon.November 22, 2009
New Super Mario Bros. Wii 99 Lives Trick
Mario gets 99 lives and loses his hat in the process.November 18, 2009
Game Night with New Super Mario Bros Part 2/2
We fall, we get back up, we grow enormously.November 11, 2009
Game Night with New Super Mario Bros Part 1/2
Multiplayer mayhem in New Super Mario Bros.November 11, 2009
New Super Mario Bros. Wii Desert Gameplay
Frenetic platforming action with 4 players.October 15, 2009
New Super Mario Bros. Wii Castle Gameplay
Four players attempt to avoid spiked death from above.October 15, 2009
New Super Mario Bros. Wii Ice Flower Gameplay
Mario uses new ability to find new heights in aquatic level.October 15, 2009
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New Super Mario Bros. Wii are coming to the Wii.June 02, 2009
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We offer over 70 wines by the glass and have a number of "wine flights" which allow you to compare and contrast different selections. We carryover 600 wines byMore
$5 mil. - $10 mil.in Revenue
20 - 50EmployeesContact people at this company
N29 W23810 Woodgate Court W. Suite 400PewaukeeWisconsin53072United Statesview map
(262) 970-7200(262) 970-9066Fax
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