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DoubleTree by Hilton New York Times Square South
New York City, United States of America
DoubleTree by Hilton New York Times Square South
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The Shape of Ideas
Can we all just take a moment to listen to this beautiful 8-bit rendition of Adventure Time's, I'm Just Your Problem, preformed by Marceline.
This is so smooth and amazing!
Season 2 of Gravity Falls just started and with it a ton of teenage mystery twins headcanons… Bonus pic with Pacifica's incredulous face when confronted to 17 yo Dipper !
"Okay. This looks bad."
Via Schtaky with thanks to Lickal0lli for the translation
60 day song challenge
↳ Day 23: A song that you think everyone should listen to.
Hello My Old Heart by The Oh Hellos
I'm doing this with my friend Riley, follow his here!
Be still
Wild and young
Long may your innocence reign
Like shells on the shore
And may your limits be unknown
And may your efforts be your own
A Little Piece || The Jezabels
"It's your tyranny that drives us,
Adds the fire to our flames."

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Week of Monday, August 25
This is the Saint Louis Science Center's NIGHT SKY UPDATE for the week of Monday, August 25. All times are given as local St. Louis time (Central Daylight Time). For definitions of terminology used in the night sky update, click the highlighted text.
Information updated weekly or as needed.
Join us for our next star party, Friday, September 5, 2014 held in association with the St. Louis Astronomical Society. For details, see the information at the bottom of this page.
The Sun and the Moon
Sunrise is at 6:24 a.m. on Monday, August 25 and sunset is at 7:41 p.m. providing us with about 13.5 hours of daylight. Even after sunset, the light from the Sun will still dimly illuminate our sky for about 1.5 hours. This period of time is called twilight, which ends around 9:16 p.m. this week. For those with a sun dial, solar transit or local noon occurs around 1:03 p.m. this week.
Moonrise for Monday, August 25 occurs at 6:29 a.m. and moonset will occur at 7:33 p.m. New moon occurs on August 25, 2014 at 9:13 a.m.
International Space Station (ISS) Observing
This week visible passes of ISS are all evening passes. The two ISS passes this week will be the last for the next two weeks. After this dry spell we will start seeing ISS again in the early morning hours starting September 10. To learn more about these passes follow the links in the table.
Catch ISS flying over St. Louis in evening hours starting Monday, August 25.
Max. altitude
Magnitude (Mag): The Measure of brightness for a celestial object. The lower the value is, the brighter the object will be.
Altitude (Alt): The angle of a celestial object measured upwards from the observer's horizon.
Azimuth (Az): The direction of a celestial object, measured clockwise from an observer's location with north being 0°, east being 90°, south being 180° and west being 270°.
For information about ISS flyovers and other visible satellites, visit www.heavens-above.com
Detailed information regarding all unmanned exploration of our universe, missions past, present, and planned, can be found at Jet Propulsion Laboratories:
The Planets Visible Without A Telescope
Venus is now well within its current morning apparition. It rises around 5:05 a.m. becoming visible after 5:30 a.m. Venus is currently exhibiting a gibbous phase with roughly 95% of the Venusian disk illuminated.
Mars is now in the constellation Libra and rises before the Sun sets. Mars can be seen with Saturn in the southwestern skies about 20 minutes after sunset. By the end of this week Mars will have overpassed Saturn as it wanders eastward into the constellation Scorpius. Mars will set by 22:41 p.m.
The largest planet in the solar system is starting to join us once again in the morning skies. Jupiter can be found rising by 4:29 a.m. becoming visible by 5:00 a.m. Look for Jupiter and Venus together in the morning skies. If you watch the two planets over the rest of the month you will notice Jupiter is moving higher in the sky each day while Venus is getting lower in the east each day. This wandering of the planets is what made ancient astronomers name the planets Aster Planetes or wandering stars.
Saturn will be visible about 20 minutes after sunset. Look for it in the south next to Mars which will be visible around the same time. Saturn will remain with us until 22:56 p.m. Saturn can be found near the bright double star Zubenelgenubi.
Comet Jacques (C/2014 E2)
There is another binocular comet that has been cruising through the early morning skies for most of the summer. It is now in the constellation Cassiopeia making it visible not long after midnight. Comet Jacques (C/2014 E2) was discovered earlier this year in March by the SONEAR observatory team. It is a long period comet that is estimated to take roughly 22,000 years to orbit the Sun. It is now on its way back out of the inner solar system and will continue to fade as it gets further from the Sun.
To find Comet Jacques (C/2014 E2) first look for the constellation Cassiopeia. She will be seen as a bright W-shape of stars rising in the northeast. Comet Jacques (C/2014 E2) starts the week off in the northern part of Cassiopeia and passes into Cepheus by the end of the week. On August 30 Comet Jacques (C/2014 E2) will pass by the massive and extremely luminous red supergiant star Mu Cephei. This is one of the largest and most distant stars visible to the unaided eye. While you look at the comet take some time and enjoy the garnet red color of this dying star giant star. In the next few million years it is likely to end in extremely energetic explosion called a type II supernova. .
The last time I was able to observe this comet it was still around 7th magnitude. Sadly the last week has been extremely humid and as such has limited our chances of observing Comet Jacques (C/2014 E2). The few nights I was able to observe the comet I used 8x42 and 10x50 binoculars. It goes to show that you don't need to go buy a giant telescope to see some of the amazing objects the sky has to offer.
Below are a number of links to maps and other information that will be helpful. If you have any questions regarding this comet feel free to send an email to email@example.com.
Constellation of the Month
Each month we will highlight one constellation and some of the objects that can be found within the boundaries of that constellation. At the start of the month we will list only a few of these objects and each week we will add another to the list. Some objects will be visible to the unaided eye and some may require a telescope. Many of the objects listed will require a map of the sky to find or may require repeat observations to notice various properties. Links to star charts and other information that will be useful in identifying the objects listed will be given at the end of each week's section.
For August we are going to do things a little different again. This month we will visit three constellations that contain an object called a star cloud. These are virtually dust free windows into the larger structures of the Milky Way. This type of object is typically missed by those of us that observe from light polluted locations like St. Louis as the dim glow of the Milky Way's concentration is washed from view. The constellations we will visit to find these are Sagittarius, Scutum and Cygnus.
Star clouds are fascinating structures. Again they are virtually dust free windows into the larger structures of the Milky Way. A good analogy for this is to imagine an overcast day. As you scan the cloudy sky you come across a hole in the clouds giving you an unobscured view of the blue sky. Just like atmospheric clouds obscure the sky behind them, clouds of dust and gas in our galaxy will obscure the stars that are positioned behind them. Scattered along the dim glow of the Milky Way are relatively dust free zones that offer bright unobscured views of the dense and distant star fields of the Milky Way's spiral arms. Even though a great deal of what star clouds offer is lost to observers with light polluted skies they still offer large vistas of denser star fields and often contain some of the most striking deep sky objects to look for.
When observing these large features in the sky it is best to star with binoculars. They offer a much wider field of view and can take in more of the dense star field. Once you have done this for a while then try pointing a telescope into the star clouds. This will yield views of more specific objects such as open star clusters, double/multiple stars and various nebulas.
The first star cloud we will look at is the Great Sagittarius Star Cloud (GSSC). As the name implies this star cloud is located in the constellation Sagittarius. This famous constellation can be found in our southern skies during the summer months. Due to its low altitude Sagittarius may be hard for some to see if you have tall buildings or trees south of your viewing location. Finding Sagittarius is pretty simple. First locate a large fishhook shape of stars in the south. This is the constellation Scorpius. Just east of the fishhook you will find another bright group of stars in shape of a stovetop teapot. This is called the teapot asterism which is the bright part of the constellation Sagittarius.
Once you have found the Teapot asterism grab some binoculars and scan the patch of sky near the spout of the teapot. Here is where you will find the Great Sagittarius Star Cloud. For those of us in light polluted skies this part of the sky will have a noticeably denser star field. The part of the Milky Way we are looking at here is the Sagittarius arm of the galaxy that sits between us and the center of our galaxy. Many of the stars you will be able to see in binoculars lie at distances between 6,500 and 13,000 lights years away. Even in light polluted skies there are thousands of stars scattered in this relatively small patch of sky.
Getting out to dark skies is where you will see why these structures are called star clouds. With just the unaided eye the dense fields of these relatively dust free windows into the depths of the Milky Way will be much brighter than the rest of the dust obscured parts of our galaxy's concentration. The glow you see here is representative of millions of stars that lie closer to the Milky Way's core than we do.
Once you have scanned and taken in the entire star cloud there are a number of other objects that stand out in the same area. M7 or Ptolemy's cluster is an open cluster that is much closer to us than the GSSC is. It will be easily seen as a bright group of roughly 80 stars on the southern boundary of the star cloud. At only 800 light years away this group of stars is in the same arm (Orion Spur) of the galaxy that the Sun is. On the north edge of the GSSC is a bright emission nebula called M8 or the Lagoon Nebula. This is an area where stars are actively forming that lies at about 5,200 light years away. This stellar nursery is part of the Sagittarius arm of our galaxy and can be easily spotted with small binoculars. In fact if you scan north of M8 you will find three more nebulae that are also in the Sagittarius arm. These are named M20, M17 and M16.
In addition to these nebulae there are a number of open star clusters scatter around the GSSC that can be seen but many will go unnoticed if you just quickly scan through the sky. Most of the cluster will be around 8th or 9th magnitude and contain fewer than 100 stars.
To get as much out of the GSSC you will need to spend some quality time soaking in the light for these distant stars. I would recommend starting with binoculars no larger than 10 x 50. There will be numerous double stars to identify and a hand full of deep sky objects as well. Having a desktop planetarium software handy will help you identify some of these but a more detailed database will be required for fainter less obvious objects. Below you will find basic maps of Sagittarius and Scorpius that will aid you in finding the GSSC and the brighter deep sky objects listed above.
The star cloud for August 11 is called the Small Sagittarius Star Cloud (SSSC). Even though the name implies it is lesser in nature this is the densest and my favorite of the star clouds we will look at this month. The SSSC is also known as M24 as it was one of the objects Charles Messier included in his famous catalog. Messier described it as a patch of nebulous light with numerous intertwined stars of different magnitudes.
The SSSC spans about 1.5 degrees of the sky and provides us with a view of stars that fills a volume of the galaxy extending about 16,000 light years deep. Like last week's star cloud the SSSC provides us with an unobscured view into the depths of the Sagittarius arm of the Milky Way.
In light polluted skies where the dim glow of the Milky Way cannot be seen the SSSC looks like a collection of bright stars that are organized into long chains and arches. All together I think they look like an umbrella that has been turned out by strong winds. It is a very nice view that contains a number of bright stars many of which are double stars.
Getting out to a dark site where the dim glow of the Milky Way is visible the SSSC will appear as a detached and brighter portion of the Milky Way. The SSSC is best viewed through binoculars or small telescopes with wide fields of view. Larger instruments will typically limit your field of view only allowing you to see small portions of the star cloud. On a clear night using a good solid tripod it is easy to get lost in the myriad of stars in this dense part of the Milky Way. Once you have spent some time scanning the star cloud there are a number of smaller deep sky objects to look for in the same part of the sky. The most obvious will be an open star cluster called NGC 6603. This 11th magnitude cluster will be a fine target in larger binoculars and small telescopes. In addition to NGC 6603 you may notice two large dark patches in the SSSC. These are dark nebulae known as B92 and B93. These are large clumps of dust that block out the light from background stars. Beyond these more obvious objects there are a number of less obvious clusters, a number of double stars and a planetary nebula to look for using moderate sized telescopes. For an object that only spans 1.5 degrees of the sky it is densely packed with loads of goodies that will keep you occupied for a long time.
To find the SSSC look for the teapot shape of Sagittarius described last week. Using binoculars scan north of the teapot's top and you will easily identify the compact dense star field of the SSSC. Below you will find links to a map that will help you locate this object and additional information about the SSSC. The linked IAU map for Sagittarius does not label the SSSC (M24) but it is located near a star called Mu Sagitarii. This star will be marked on the map.
The star cloud for the week of August 18 is the Scutum Star Cloud (SSC). Like those covered in the previous weeks the SSC is a relatively dust free window into a deeper portion of the Milky Way. This window again allows us to peer deeper into the arm of the Milky Way known as the Sagittarius arm.
To find this part of the Milky Way first locate the three bright stars in the Summer Triangle; Vega, Denib and Altair. The southern most of the three stars is Altair which is the brightest star in the constellation Aquila the Eagle. The brightest stars of Aquila take the shape of an elongated diamond with the north/south axis short and the east/west axis long. If you use binoculars and follow the north/south axis of Aquila's diamond shape to the south for roughly 10 degrees of sky you will find the star Lambda Aquilae. Scanning the sky around this star you will see a bright hook shape of stars which demarcates the northern edge of the SSC.
For observers contending with light pollution that obscures the dim glow of the Milky Way, this hook shape of stars will be the first indicator you are looking at the SSC however most of the bright stars you see in the hook shape are only a few hundred light years away from us. This means they belong to the same part of the Milky Way the Sun does. As you scan the sky below the hook shape of stars you will start to notice fainter stars around 7th, 8th and 9th magnitudes. Many of these fainter stars are giant stars that lie up to 4,000 light years away. Some of these giant stars are on the nearer edge of our neighboring Sagittarius arm of the galaxy.
While scanning for these fainter giant stars you will likely notice one or maybe two dim patches of light. One of them appears near the curve of the hook shape and the other is another five degrees south of the hook shape near the star Delta Scutii. These dim patches are galactic star clusters known as M11 and M26. M11 is also known as the Wild Duck Cluster and lies at a distance of about 6,000 light years. This is a collection of roughly 2,900 stars that are about 220 million years old. M26 is a little fainter and the member stars are a little more scattered which will make it a tougher cluster to find. M26 lies about 5,000 light years away and its member stars are a bit over 80 million years old. Both of these clusters are located in the Sagittarius arm.
Also in the area of the sky covered by the SSC is the classic carbon star V Aquilae. Carbon stars are usually highly evolved red giant stars that have more carbon than oxygen in their atmospheres. This allows for carbon compounds to form which are good at scattering light. The wavelengths that are not affected by this scattering are the red wavelengths so carbon stars appear to be the reddest stars in the sky. V Aquilae can be found between the stars Lambda and 12 Aquilae. These are two of the brighter stars in the hook shape.
Getting out to a dark sky site the SSC will appear as one of the brightest parts of the Milky Way. Scanning this dim glow you will notice several dark patches where clouds of dust obscure parts of the star cloud. These types of dark dust clouds are called dark nebulae which were cataloged by astronomer Edward Emerson, Barnard. Barnard's catalog contains 366 of these dark nebulae many of which can be seen with binoculars on nights with good viewing conditions. You can find 19 of Barnard's dark nebulae scattered around the SSC.
I will include a number constellation maps that are near the SSC to aid in its discovery. The key will be to find the Summer Triangle and from there it is pretty simple. Besides the object listed above there is a globular star cluster a planetary nebula and a number of interesting stars in the same vicinity of the SSC. I would highly recommend using desktop planetarium software such as Stellarium to help you explore this rich part of the sky.
The final star cloud we will cover this month is the Cygnus Star Cloud (CSC). As the name implies the CSC is located in the constellation Cygnus the Swan. As is such this will be an easy find for most as Cygnus is one of the prominent constellations of the Summer Triangle. Simple go out and look straight up for a large triangle shape of bright stars. By midnight it will be straight over head. The bright star Denib marks the tail of the swan and its head is marked by the double star Alberio. The CSC spans about 20 degrees of the sky between the stars Beta Cygnii (Alberio) and Gamma Cygnii (Sadr).
In light polluted skies if you scan the patch of sky between the two aforementioned stars you will see a noticeably denser star field. When you are looking into this dust free window you are looking down the arm of the galaxy called the Orion Spur. This is the part of the Milky Way the Sun belongs to. Many of the stars you can see here are thousands of light years away from us.
When observing the CSC you can think of it in two halves. The south half near Alberio has some nice chains of stars but it is pretty sparse when it comes to open star clusters. The one star cluster that can be observed in this part of the CSC is NGC 6834. This open cluster contains about 50 stars that are well detached from the background stars. The northern half of the CSC has a number of open clusters and a large diffuse emission nebula called the crescent nebula. The shining gem of these objects is an open cluster named M29 or the "Cooling Tower" star cluster. This is a group of about 50 stars that lies at a distance of about 4,000 light years away.
One of the most intriguing objects in Cygnus is called Cygnus X-1. Cygnus X-1 is an X-ray source that lies about 6,100 light years away. It was discovered in 1964 by using suborbital rockets equipped with Geiger counters. Eventually enough information was discovered about this bright X-ray source that scientists now believe that it is a black hole. We cannot detect X-rays with our human eyes but we can observe Cygnus X-1's companion. Where the X-ray source is found scientists have determined that it forms a spectroscopic binary with a bright blue supergiant star. This star's name is V1357 Cyg. It is 9th magnitude star which means 60mm binoculars will be able to show you this star. If you have an interest in finding V1357 Cyg you will need a map with stars down to 10th magnitude or a desktop planetarium program such as Stellarium. V1357 Cyg is near the bright star Eta Cygnii.
For observer in dark locations you will see the CSC as a large bright patch of the Milky Way between the tail and head of the swan. In last week's star cloud we talked about dark nebulae. Near the CSC we can see one of the largest dark features of the Milky Way known as the Cygnus rift or the Great Rift. This is a series of dark nebulae that start in Cygnus and extends down to Sagittarius creating what looks like a dark lane splitting the Milky Way length wise. These dark clouds are large masses of molecular material that are associated with large star forming regions in our arm of the Milky Way. It is a very striking feature that is plainly visible to the unaided eye provided you are in a dark location. Below you will find a map for Cygnus that will aid you in locating the CSC. It will not be marked on the map however just remember the stars Beta and Gamma Cygnii lie on either end of the star cloud.
Our next Star Party will be held on Friday, September 5, 2014, from dusk until 10 p.m.
Weather permitting, the St. Louis Astronomical Society and the Science Center will set up a number of telescopes outdoors and be on-hand to answer your questions. Telescope viewing begins at 8:00 p.m. Regardless of the weather on September 5, join us indoors in our planetarium theater for "The Sky Tonight". Showtime is at 7 p.m.
This free, indoor star program will introduce you to the current night sky, the planets, and the seasonal constellations. Doors open 15 minutes before show time. Shows begins at 7 p.m. Sorry, no late admissions due to safety issues in the darkened theater.
The St. Louis Astronomical Society hosts the monthly Star Parties at the Science Center which are held on the first Friday of each month. Our Monthly Star Parties are open to the public and free of charge. For more information about the St. Louis Astronomical Society visit their website at www.slasonline.org


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New Order's 'World in Motion' does convey a sense of Englishness, but perhaps not in the vein BR is looking for?
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New Order's 'World in Motion' does convey a sense of Englishness, but perhaps not in the vein BR is looking for?
It is a crime that you forgot about the smiths. One could put up an entire set of only smiths' songs about englishness. England, by the way, is Morrissey's and owes him a living.
Undoubtedly correct, Valladares. He is one of those rare ones that is an unabashed English nationalist (albeit from the comfort of his Los Angeles home). His songwriting started out as fantastically observed ("Rusholme Ruffians" could easily have gone into the top five above). Unfortunately, I rather fear his nationalist sentiments have become a bit more, shall we say, dubious of late.
"Unfortunately, I rather fear his nationalist sentiments have become a bit more, shall we say, dubious of late."
No doubt the absence of being in England makes his heart grow... harder?
The English think of, and very often refer to, the UK as "England" and the British as "English" - except when the context requires more precision. England has no national anthem, but the other nations do. The Scots, Welsh, Irish (and Cornish) have no problem with their identities, but most English seem to.
It's the Brits wot get the pleasure and the English wot get the blame. Ain't it all a bleeding shame.
What about Gerry and The Pacemakers - 'Ferry Cross The Mersey'
I'm surprised you forgot to mention the latest album from PJ Harvey 'Let England Shake' 2011, which is entirely composed of songs to England. It won numerous prizes last year including the Murcury Prize, and the 'Independent' reviewed it as "a portrait of her homeland as a country built on bloodshed and battle."
It really is a bit of a silly idea to say that English bands don't sing about England and to try to prove the point by saying you have to ignore London, which accounts for about 20% of the English!
Most English bands outside of the identikit pop charts have had songs that show their Englishness e.g. Mersey Paradise by the Stone Roses, (Land of) The Green and the Grey by New Model Army, Battle of the Cornfield by The Levellers, London Belongs to Us by St Etienne, Concrete Jungle by the Specials.
What's more interesting is often the way English bands sing about England is as a protest more than a celebration.
mabye even add Tom York's Harrowdown Hill (a very dark vision of England)
Perhaps the author is looking at the wrong timeframe for England, whose songwriting started much earlier than in the US. Many English songs were around long before pop, rock and blues existed.
"A town called malice" by the Jam could be set in any provincial town of uk as could "I predict a riot"
US music is, essentially, very based off regional scenes with some "schools" going national.
When Chicago was the place to be for jazz, songs about Chicago made it national; good luck finding a popular one now. Comparatively, if Detroit produced a number of bands that made it big (most notable being Eminem, but the list also includes somewhat notorious Insane Clown Posse), then the world has a chance to know about 8 Mile Road.
Throw in some sweet stereotypes to the mix (like that redwood forest, which is quite a spectacular site) - and you end up with a pretty skewed picture of US, which would surprisingly exclude certain geographical features (i.e. I can't remember a single song singing praises to Niagara Falls, or to Great Lakes in general), entire geographical regions (anything in Midwest North of Kansas) exist, so I'd say that UK is doing fine - given that 5/6ths of the UK lives in England.
The foremost singer/songwriter who cares most about Englishness is Morrissey. Perhaps nationalism, outside America, is too closely connected to phobias of other nationalities. America, as always, the exceptional case; why do we persist in asking why other western countries aren't like America, when the truth is that America isn't like other western countries?
In case of US, it's not as much nationalism, as it is regionalism.
Because, you see, as usual, you'll have pretty big places like, say, Chicago, which will have local attractions and major cultural things (say, the Cloud Gate, Sears tower, Magnificent Mile, and the like), which would be very well known regionally and a source of local proud and joy - but move, say, to Houston and people will often give you a blank stare.
Europeans use language and history for that sort of stuff. Since US acted more or less as a single country for much of the recorded history, such things don't work, so instead people praise their local things, like, hell, Southern charms.
To be frank, in case of Europe this has drawbacks, as outsiders will have hard time distinguishing second-tier national cities that don't serve as postcards for the nation at some sort of gut level.
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I need help! The walls around my bathtub were paneled years ago and at some point an acrylic type covering was rolled over that. I bought the house last year and could not stand the gold glitter walls, so I painted over it. This didn't work well around the bathtub. I noticed a few months ago that the wall was bulging around the faucet area. Water has gotten to the paneling and warped it, I think. There were bi-fold shower doors up, which didn't work too well, so I removed them a couple of weeks ago. When I did, it was obvious that the paneling was rotted - at least at the end of the tub where the faucets are. My question is...if I put up a tub surround, do I need to take all the paneling down? Can the tub surround be attached just to the studs? Will I need some kind of board to replace the paneling? I really want to do this myself - maybe with the help of my son-in-law - and haven't been able to find the answers I need. Thanks in advance. Cecilia
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unfourtunatly you will have to take the old stuff off first, if you cover over it you will have a mold problem.And you need to find out what is leaking.It's probably the faucet if it has been around awile you should replace it while everything is apart.i would not recomend putting the suroound directly on the studs most surrounds are only 1/8 inch thick and you will have no support.The job you are attempting can be done by yourself with a little paitence and help from someone.
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METAIRIE, La. ― In the past three seasons, the Saints have won 13 games, 11 games and 13 games.
They've gone 3-0 in the playoffs and won a Super Bowl, gone 0-1 and lost in the wild-card round and gone 1-1 with a divisional-round loss.
Yet – and this is where fans will agree – the standards are higher than that.
The Saints want Super Bowl and nothing less.
So, going 14-4 this past season and setting records galore isn't a salve for the playoff loss at San Francisco.
"I think your standards continue to get high and are high for what we want to accomplish and so I think just shortly after a loss like that it's hard to maybe come up with a summary," Saints coach Sean Payton said. "Certainly there were a lot of good things about the season, and yet, you get that pit in your stomach with the way it ends. And so that's difficult.
"Having had a season where it ended with a win, where your last game was a win, you know what that's like and for everyone else in the postseason that's not the case."
Just seven short years ago, a playoff berth is all anyone in New Orleans strived for.
Prior to the Payton Era, the Saints had found themselves in the postseason only five times in the franchise's previous 39 seasons.
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March 27, 2013 (CHICAGO) --Chicagoans who live near Wrigley Field crammed a community meeting to find out what the Chicago Cubs have planned for the historic ballpark.
The team and City of Chicago are negotiating the Wrigley Field actual renovation plans- and how to pay for them. The Ricketts family, which owns the Cubs, is willing to invest $500 million in improvements in the park and the neighborhood. However, they want the city to ease restrictions on Wrigley Field's landmark status, which could allow more advertising and street fairs on Sheffield Avenue.
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Limfjorden, strait (110 miles [180 km] long) across northern Jutland, Denmark, connecting the North Sea and the Kattegat and separating the Vendsyssel and Thy regions from the mainland. Actually a series of fjords dotted with inlets and islands, it opens into a lagoon (15 miles [24 km] wide) in its middle course, then becomes narrow from Ålborg to the Kattegat. The strait is crossed by several bridges, and a road tunnel connects Ålborg and Nørresundby. Shallow in parts (maximum depth is about 82 feet [25 metres]), it has been deepened to aid shipping. Its western outlet at Thyborøn was open during the Viking period but silted up in the Middle Ages creating freshwater lakes, which drained into the Kattegat from the eastern end. In 1825 the tide of the North Sea broke through the western part, and the Thyborøn Kanal was cut in 1875 to keep the outlet open.
Limfjorden is noted for its oysters and mussels, and the ash and clay of the surrounding region supplies special lightweight building bricks (moler). The largest island is Mors, and the chief ports are Ålborg, Nørresundby, Løgstør, Nykøbing Mors, and Thisted.
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For those of you who live in Australia and are in the market for a luxury car, you probably already know all about the controversy surrounding the luxury auto tax (which is 33 percent on some cars that cost over $60k). Well, according to The Age, the tax is up on the chopping block yet again for being so unpopular.
My very first memories of the MINI are of sitting on the floor in front of my dad, watching Michael Cane tear through the streets in The Italian Job and laughing as Mr. Bean drives with his feet as he scrambles to get ready for a dentist appointment. I wanted one of those cars, because my dad loved them — it was that simple. Now, after having been invited by MINI to test drive their new 2014 Cooper Hardtops through the windy roads of Puerto Rico, I want one for a whole new slew of reasons.
Having already celebrated its 50th anniversary at full throttle, Lamborghini is now preparing to launch its first SUV supercar in 2017 — the Lamborghini Urus.
If you were buying a Rolls-Royce a couple of decades ago and inquired about how much power it produced, the official answer you'd receive was "adequate" — or, in the case of a turbocharged model, "perfectly adequate."
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There were tons of really cool cars at the 2014 Detroit Auto Show, but a few stood out amongst the rest — especially the incredible selection of concept cars. Nissan had a great showing with two of their conceptual designs and Honda's FCEV looks like it rolled straight out of a science fiction flick starring Tom Cruise.
Big sedans and chrome-laden SUVs may be the first thing we think of now when it comes to Cadillacs, but the luxury auto brand just wouldn't be the same without its coupes.
Actors Sir Ben Kingsley, Tom Hiddleston and Mark Strong will appear in Jaguar's first-ever Super Bowl TV commercial. The 60-second commercial titled Rendezvous, which was made in London and directed by Oscar-winning director Tom Hopper, will feature Jaguar's F-TYPE Coupe.
For the fourth consecutive year, luxury automaker Audi established another record for U.S. sales by unloading 158,061 cars during 2013 — a 13.5 percent increase over the previous annual record set the year before. The firm sold 17,013 automobiles in December alone, which is a 14.6 percent uptick over sales for the previous month. December 2013 also established the 36th successive monthly sales record for Audi in the U.S. market.
Whether you already have a Maserati in your garage or you just lust after them from afar, you may have already known that the famed Italian luxury auto brand teamed up with Bowers & Wilkins for a loudspeaker and an in-car audio system for the Ghibli and Quattroporte. Extending their collaboration, the two companies are now offering the P5 Maserati Edition Mobile Hi-Fi Headphones!
Nothing in Formula 1 racing comes cheap. The tickets are expensive, the teams have enormous multi-million-dollar budgets, the cars themselves cost millions to develop and the drivers regularly rank among the highest-paid sportsmen in the world.
The automotive industry may have taken a hit in recent years, but it's still one of the largest industries in the world. And its leaders rank among the most powerful and influential captains of industry the world has ever known. Yet, every single one of them — without exception — throughout their hundred-plus years of operation, has been a man. Until now.
Lamborghinis don't typically sell in large numbers. Their high prices and limited availability ensure their exclusivity and exotic stature. But in such a rarified breed, the Gallardo was by far the auto brand's most successful model.
The San Diego International Auto Show rolled in last week, filling the Convention Center with cars of all shapes and sizes. Having concluded yesterday, the show featured over 400 autos from manufacturers all over the world, including 2014 models and muscle cars — especially the Ford Mustang, which just turned 50.
Audi of America will be among the few companies to run a 60-second TV commercial during Super Bowl XLVIII. The 48th running of the NFL's game of the year marks the seventh consecutive time the luxury car maker will appear. The commercial will run during the first in-game break following the kick-off to start the third quarter of play, and the star will be the all-new Audi A3 — which will arrive to U.S. showrooms in spring 2014.


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In an interview with the website RightWingNews.com, Wisconsin's Gov. Scott Walker (R) claimed that as a young Republican, he voted for former President Ronald Reagan. Walker was promoting his new book, Unintimidated: A Governor's Story and a Nation's Challenge.
Right Wing News' John Hawkins asked the governor about his view of what went wrong with former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R)'s presidential campaign. Walker replied that Romney's mistake was to make his whole campaign a referendum on President Barack Obama.
Ronald Reagan, Walker said, ran on more than just defeating President Jimmy Carter in 1980. Reagan's campaign, he said, was "aspirational."
"I remember, I was a teenager, had just become a teenager and voted for Ronald Reagan — limited government, you know, smaller government, lower taxes, strong national defense," Walker said.
"You knew what you were getting. You knew how a Reagan administration, a Reagan presidency was going to be better for you," he claimed.
However, as Blogging Blue pointed out, Walker is 46 years old, born on Nov. 2, 1967. On Election Day of 1980, he was 13 years old and in 1984, he was just 17 and not old enough to legally vote.
UPDATE: On Monday afternoon, John Hawkins of Right Wing News issued a statement saying that he misquoted Walker due to a transcription error.
According to Hawkins, Walker did not say "I remember, I was a teenager, had just become a teenager and voted for Ronald Reagan — limited government, you know, smaller government," but rather "I remember, I was a teenager, had just become a teenager and a vote for Ronald Reagan meant limited government, you know, smaller government, etc."
According to Hawkins, "I went back and listened to the audio. It's a little hard to hear at that point and unfortunately, my transcriptionist made an error."
"All I can do at this point is apologize for the error," he concluded. "This was our mistake and it was very unfair to Scott Walker who is catching flack because of an honest error on our part."
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Seeing the latest Crystallized Fire farming guides, which are always the same for that matter, I decided to post the place where I farm my Crystallized Fires. It's not your usual Wintergrasp or Anvil spot in the Storm Peaks. Rather, it's a little secluded place called Frostfloe Deep.
Location: 62, 42 Storm Peaks.
It is in this cave where you will find about 15 Wailing Winds. These things have low HP and have close to a 25% drop rate of Crystallized Fire. They can drop 2 at a time, and usually always do.
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Re:haven't watched it... (391 comments)
because the guy had a London accent, I imagine quite a lot of people want to see it to check it was nobody they recognise from school or whatever.
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Re:haven't watched it... (391 comments)
because the guy had a London accent, I imagine quite a lot of people want to see it to check it was nobody they recognise from school or whatever.
put the documentation in with the code (199 comments)
Hi Fabian o/
many of the modules have really really little documentation, just a fairly small description string in the __openerp__.py file. It is great that this is now in markdown format, but they are nowhere near long enough in the modules. I would like to see each and every module being like a chapter of a book. If you take it out of the __openerp__.py file and move it to a README.md in the module then it would also render on github I think, people could then use screenshots and so on in it. This would also separate documentation updates (easy and safe, nobody should be scared, can be done on github with the github markdown editor) from editing a
In terms of how the documentation is written, some modules like CRM use the description string to sell the module to you, others use it to describe what it does, I don't really need the sales pitch, but I do need to know what problem it solves, and what kind of business situations that the author had in mind when it was written. Plus of course, what it does, how to use it and anything it conflicts with, any downsides to installing it.
Re:consider an open source ERP (209 comments)
maybe I should have said the business value of Software Freedom is huge rather than the business value of Free Software is huge. It is the freedom part that people don't value sufficiently.
Re:consider an open source ERP (209 comments)
it is designed around a product shifting business, yes. That shows sometimes, it sucks for custom make to order products even. You can sell services and there is also a rather powerful contract management module, a contract links to a project and consolidates timesheets and regular invoicing. It would work well for fairly significant sized projects, like a civil engineering contract. Not brilliant for managing small scale software development projects, but it can be done.
dear facebook (114 comments)
I have a problem with my fish oil sales, it tastes like shit, it does not outperform a placebo and costs twice as much as other competitors that also do nothing. Can you help?
Of course Facebook can help, that is exactly what social media is for.
consider an open source ERP (209 comments)
You can throw good money after bad, and you probably will.
If you want to have an alternative, you could do worse than look at Oodo (formerly OpenERP) it is a python based, AGPL licensed ERP package that is modular with a sensible API that is growing an even more sensible API. It is not without it's problems, I wouldn't sugar coat it, but if it is broken, you own all the pieces (http://odoo.com source at https://github.com/odoo/odoo) and that is priceless.
Depending on your specific requirements it might work great, or might be a bigger pain in the ass than your proprietary mess. Like I say, you will almost certainly take the path of throwing good money after bad, but for anyone else at the front end of a decision, the business value of Free Software is huge.
firewalls that shut closed doors are not helpful (348 comments)
There are firewalls and firewalls. If you have a box with port 80 listening and nothing else listening, and you install a firewall that blocks connections to ports that are not port 80, you haven't really added a whole heap of useful. If you have a firewall that allows port 80 from anywhere and ssh connections only from a particular subnet, then maybe the firewall is earning it's keep. If you have a firewall that warns you about outgoing connections from your server that might be to command and control botnet servers if it gets compromised, then maybe it is worth doing. If you have a stateful firewall that is doing traffic analysis and shutting down particular attacks on your server then great. Shutting closed doors just for the sake of buzzword compliance is not a useful function.
actually not a bad idea (205 comments)
People in cars face forward, in the front I can hear the kids just fine, no problem at all. It really is quite difficult to hear forward facing people in the front from the back. Of course there is a further difference between hearing and listening, but this doesn't sound like the most crazy thing I have ever heard of.
hmm that is interesting (188 comments)
interesting things herald good science. Uncertainty and a collection of speculative theories are a good thing.
"Hmm, that is interesting" > "Eureka!"
conceptually equivalent != legally equivalent (263 comments)
Reading a book to someone is perfectly legal, reading a book on the radio to lots of people is conceptually equivalent to visiting them one by one and reading the book to them, it just saves a bit of time to do it in parallel. Conceptually this pretty much the same thing, but they are not the same from a legal perspective. Same goes for patentability of software, just like art or porn, you know it when you see it, but pinning down the definition is non-trivial - and doesn't need to be pinned down as much as you might expect for practical legal purposes.
Personally I don't support software patents at all, however there is a tendency from technical people like myself to expect the legal system to follow more logical rules than it does.
covered in adverts for other stores (207 comments)
I see a ton of adverts for beds and sofas and flat pack stuff from other furniture stores, I can totally see why IKEA told them to C&D. It seems IKEA have said they can turn off the adverts and carry on, which is very nice of them.
Nothing to see here, move along please.
make mine a double Irish with a Dutch sandwich (155 comments)
This is a very well known scam
the UK parliament is rather upset about it, assorted companies have been asked grumpy questions about their tax avoidance, in particular Google. The problem is closing these loopholes requires a lot of international cooperation and it isn't generally in the interests of the smaller countries to play ball.
only a trick if the truth makes a difference (346 comments)
"Hello Edward, I am a Russian diplomat, come to Moscow and we won't extradite you to the Americans"
"Hello Edward, I am a Russian spy, come to Moscow and we won't extradite you to the Americans"
I can't imagine Snowden was under any illusions about the job title of the "diplomats" he was talking to, so it wasn't much of a trick. It might not have been a particularly good long term deal, but there wasn't a whole lot else on the table.
Re:Ocean (170 comments)
work with the environment, not against it. You would have a weight, tether and float, your electronics go in the float portion, a solid state unit that is robust and has a average density just a fraction less than water. The tether is designed to corrode and fail after a year, or you perhaps have an electro magnetic clamp, or explosives, or several mechanisms of cutting the tether. As long as your device is below 750M it is below regular submarine depth and well below fishing depth and generally quite hard to get until it comes up.
Re:The premise of this article is broken. (170 comments)
"You do not have to say anything, but it may harm your defence if you do not mention when questioned something which you later rely on in court. Anything you do say may be given in evidence."
pros and cons to it really, the US version, anything you say will be used *against* you. Anything helpful to you can be discarded by the police. In the UK you can say stuff helpful to yourself and it is worth doing that if it is true because the police have to note it down and you can use it. In the UK if you make up a complicated story later on, but didn't mention anything consistent with it to begin with then the court is allowed to wonder why you didn't mention it in any way at the time, it doesn't make you guilty or invalidate the story, just the court is allowed to call BS on it if appropriate.
Re:Hoax? (142 comments)
Burned out meteors have slowed down to terminal velocity (or close to it) so they would be going at a similar speed to a rock tossed from a plane, several times faster than the terminal velocity of a human, but only a few hundred meters per second, the video is within the plausible zone for speed. Pretty astonishing bit of video.
I quite like it (106 comments)
much more modern looking, it works fine for me. I can reply to stuff, understand the threading and generally it works just great.
Re:What's bzr? (252 comments)
it pre-dates git by a year, it was the NiH version of cvs and svn. Bzr was doing useful stuff before anyone realised Git would ever be used for anything other than the Linux kernel source tree. That isn't to say that NiH isn't sometimes a good thing, and that Canonical do daft things from time to time, but bzr wasn't a NiH reaction to Git.
Re:This won't happen in the future. (114 comments)
rusted pile?!?
they should just tell their employees what to do (903 comments)
This is how insurance works, if a group of people have lower risk factors for certain things then the premiums come down. So if these particular employers want the premiums to not include birth control then they should tell their employees not to have sex or whatever. That way if the employees end up costing the insurance companies less in terms of birth control then the premiums will adjust accordingly (though they would probably will go up due to increased demand for pregnancy care and terminations). Campaigning to have their employees treated as a distinct category for actuarial purposes would be mildly logical and certainly better than campaigning to give their employees worse healthcare.
"If DIS 29500 mark II has been accepted, then the narrowness of the victory needs to be something that Ecma and Microsoft take very seriously: standards maintenance needs to be a budgeted, normal cost of doing business. They should be aware that they are being thrown a lifeline, to some extent. If this becomes a one-off publicity stunt, as is the dire warning of MS' competitors (and therefore, their own publicity stunts!), and timely, real maintenance is not performed, I would expect OOXML would be de-standardized at ISO.
The second half of 2007 has been an extremely trying time for WG1. I am more than a little glad my 3 year term is up, and must commiserate with my successor on taking over an almost impossible task.
WG1 has been struggling against the rules laid down ISO for a number of years, trying to prepare a complex multipart standard that needs to take account of work being done in OASIS, W3C and IETF within the extremely limited timescales laid down by ISO for completion of standards. While these rules make sense when you have a single standard, or sufficient members to multi-task, they make it impossible for a small group to produce a multipart standard. WG1 have frequently had to ask for extensions to our time limits, and must continue to do so while trying to produce an integrated suite of standards.
This year WG1 have had another major development that has made it almost impossible to continue with our work within ISO. The influx of P members whose only interest is the fast-tracking of ECMA 376 as ISO 29500 has led to the failure of a number of key ballots. Though P members are required to vote, 50% of our current members, and some 66% of our new members, blatantly ignore this rule despite weekly email reminders and reminders on our website. As ISO require at least 50% of P members to vote before they start to count the votes we have had to reballot standards that should have been passed and completed their publication stages at Kyoto. This delay will mean that these standards will appear on the list of WG1 standards that have not been produced within the time limits set by ISO, despite our best efforts.
Unless ISO tightens up on its rules, and removes or demotes, P members who do not vote as required by ISO rules I would recommend my successor that it is perhaps time to pass WG1's outstanding standards over to OASIS, where they can get approval in less than a year and then do a PAS submission to ISO, which will get a lot more attention and be approved much faster than standards currently can be within WG1. The disparity of rules for PAS, Fast-Track and ISO committee generated standards is fast making ISO a laughing stock in IT circles. The days of open standards development are fast disappearing. Instead we are getting "standardization by corporation", something I have been fighting against for the 20 years I have served on ISO committees. I am glad to be retiring before the situation becomes impossible. I wish my colleagues every success for their future efforts, which I sincerely hope will not prove to be as wasted as I fear they could be.
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Convenor, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34 WG1
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Matt Britain enters his first year on the Vanderbilt staff, serving as assistant director of football operations.
A native of Kennesaw, Ga., Britain will assist Director of Football Operations Jason Grooms with the daily management of the Vanderbilt football program, including team travel, housing and special activities.
Britain was a student-athlete on the Ohio University football squad, playing offensive line for current Vanderbilt coach Keven Lightner for the Bobcats from 2008-10.
After seeing his playing career shortened by injuries, Britain continued to participate with the Ohio program, serving as a student manager, facility and event operations assistant and football operations assistant from 2010 to June 2013.
As the Bobcats' operations assistant, he worked with Grooms directly, assisting in the planning, coordination and project development of all day-to-day operations.
During his association with the Bobcats, Ohio University enjoyed plenty of success, playing in four consecutive bowl games and earning back-to-back postseason wins in 2011-12.
A graduate of North Cobb (Ga.) H.S., Britain earned a Bachelor's degree from Ohio University in Sports Administration in 2012.
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