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Show there are exactly 12 magic labellings of the Magic W using the
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Label this plum tree graph to make it totally magic!
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GoldBar Gets Even Glitzier; $1 Oysters at the LeadbellyPlus: lunch at Harding's, brunch at Mercadito, and more in today's leftovers.
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Topics: Delivery of Care, Insurance, Marketplace, Health Reform, States
Feb 20, 2013
Meanwhile, Kaiser Health News reports that private companies have won lucrative contracts to build the information technology infrastructure of the online marketplaces, also known as exchanges.
Reuters: U.S. To Operate 26 State Health Exchanges With Little Local Help
The Obama administration said on Tuesday that it will operate federal online health insurance marketplaces in 26 of the 50 U.S. states with little or no input from local state officials. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced that a total of 24 states, including six with Republican governors, plus the District of Columbia, are on track to run their own marketplaces, known as healthcare exchanges, or to do so in partnership with the federal government (Morgan, 2/19).
Medpage Today: HHS To Run Health Exchanges In 27 States
The 27 states that defaulted to a federal exchange include heavily populated states like Florida, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Texas. Many of the states in the group are politically conservative areas in the deep South and Midwest. The seven states that have decided to partner with the federal government will manage qualified health plans and provide consumer assistance and outreach for residents eligible to participate in the exchanges, while the federal government sets up the exchange infrastructure and determines eligibility. It's that partnership which Gruber sees as becoming more prevalent in the future (Pittman, 2/19).
Kaiser Health News: Capsules: Big Firms Win Multimillion Dollar Contracts To Build Insurance Marketplaces
President Barack Obama's health law has been criticized as a 'government takeover' of health care. But private companies are building the underpinnings of the online health insurance marketplaces that are a key element of the law – and winning contracts worth hundreds of millions to do so (Galewitz, 2/19).
Also in the news related to the health law's implementation --
Politico: ACA Mental Health Plan's Growing Pains
Aided by the health care law, some states have already put in place a model that creates a dramatically different way of caring for Medicaid mental health patients. But if the slow state uptake of the program is any indication, the patterns of spotty care for most low-income people with big mental health problems won't change quickly (Smith, 2/20).
Kaiser Health News: Nurse Practitioners Push To Help Care For Health Law's Newly Insured
Kaiser Health News staff writer Alvin Tran sat down recently with David Hebert, a veteran health care lobbyist and former CEO of the American College of Nurse Practitioners, who now is the first CEO of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP). Hebert discussed the changing role nurse practitioners may soon have, as well as some physicians' efforts to stop them (Tran, 2/20).
This is part of Kaiser Health News' Daily Report - a summary of health policy coverage from major news organizations. The full summary of the day's news can be found here and you can sign up for e-mail subscriptions to the Daily Report here. In addition, our staff of reporters and correspondents file original stories each day, which you can find on our home page.
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An introduction to the Sonoran Desert
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The Sonoran Desert in southwestern America experiences high temperatures and low rainfall. Plants adapt to the harsh conditions by storing water and becoming tolerant to drought conditions.
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Ancient footprints at Sefton Sands
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Ancient human footprints dating back 5,000 years often appear at Sefton Sands, before being washed away again by the tide.
Arctic Survey team awoken by cracking ice
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The Catlin Arctic Survey team is awoken by the sound of pressure ridges being formed as the ice cracks around their tent.
Changing seasons in a North American forest
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A timelapse film of a forest reveals the changing seasons in North America. The change of colour from summer green to autumn red is even visible from space.
Collecting atmospheric data by satellite
Duration: 01:03
Satellites give forecasters a unique overview of the world's weather.
Contrasting Morecambe with Torremolinos - climate
Duration: 02:37
Air masses have a great influence on the climates of Morecambe and Torremolinos. Climate graphs illustrate these differences.
Contrasting Morecambe with Torremolinos - latitude
Duration: 04:57
Torremolinos and Morecambe are only a two-hour flight apart, yet their climates are very different. The climates of the two coastal resorts differ because of latitude and air masses.
Convectional rainfall - Costa Rica
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Costa Rica experiences hot weather. This heat brings heavy convectional rainfall.
Depressions and frontal rainfall in the UK
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The UK experiences depressions as it lies on the boundary between cool air from the Arctic and warm air from the tropics. Fronts mark the boundary between the warm and cold air and rainfall is always found here.
El Niño and La Niña - ocean currents and winds
Duration: 03:24
An introduction to the typical pattern of Pacific trade winds and the resulting impact on regional climates, with a description of the El Niño phenomenon.
El Niño, La Niña and the Southern Oscillation (no narration)
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An animation of El Niño, La Niña and the Southern Oscillation in the southern Pacific. No narration.
Extreme weather - flooding in the UK
Duration: 02:41
In October 2008 East Devon and parts of Cornwall were hit by serious flooding after a night of storms, including severe rain and heavy hail.
Global weather circulation
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An explanation of how heat from the Sun in conjunction with the Earth's rotation create our weather.
High and low pressure
Duration: 03:35
Atmospheric pressure causes winds as air tries to move from high to low pressure areas. High pressure brings fine weather, but low pressure causes rain and storms.
How Indian monsoon rains are caused
Duration: 08:13
Presenter Kate Humble and physicist Helen Czerski go to India to explain the causes of monsoon rains.
How is rainfall distributed across Africa?
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An investigation into the causes of uneven rainfall across Africa.
How planet Earth was hit by meteorites, causing Earth's tilt and its seasons
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An explanation of how the earth's 23 degree tilt may have been caused by meteorite impacts. The presenter uses a paraglider to show how warm, rising air is at the heart of Earth's weather.
How the atmosphere behaves like a fluid
Duration: 02:26
A look at how the atmosphere behaves like a fluid and is capable of moving in a similar way to water.
How the Earth's tilt creates the seasons
Duration: 07:02
An explanation of how the earth's 23 degree tilt causes seasons. Illustrated by footage from Chichen Itza in Mexico and through the use of a clear demonstration of the earth's orbit.
Monsoon rains support the Indian rainforest
Duration: 00:51
The rainforests of southern India receive monsoon rain for six months each year. The forest is sustained by this water and in turn it is able to support the vast biodiversity found in a rainforest.
rainforest, India, monsoon, tropics, rain, water, biodiversity, biology, habitat
Predicting the weather - frontal systems
Duration: 02:07
A demonstration and explanation of the weather formed by fronts and by the landscape.
Rainforest processes - Costa Rica
Duration: 02:59
The rainforests in Costa Rica exist in a delicate balance. Water and nutrients within the forest are recycled and in this way the ecosystem sustains itself.
Rainforest structure - layering
Duration: 05:09
The rainforest consists of several layers. Each layer has plants and animals which are adapted to the conditions found there.
Relief rainfall - New Zealand
Duration: 02:50
New Zealand's South Island experiences regular relief rainfall. This creates a rare temperate rainforest environment.
The Arctic Circle tundra
Duration: 01:18
An introduction to conditions in the tundra region of the Arctic Circle, which experiences only two seasons.
The frozen taiga forest
Duration: 01:55
An introduction to the taiga or boreal forest environment of Siberia.
The impact of flooding on traffic in Northern Ireland
Duration: 01:22
News report about traffic problems after flooding in the north west of Northern Ireland.
The influence of weather on human activity
Duration: 00:20
An introduction to the influence of weather conditions on human activity, both at leisure and at work.
The Monsoon rains of India
Duration: 01:22
Professor Iain Stewart explains how differential heating of land and sea give rise to the Indian monsoon.
Thermal imagery in the desert
Duration: 02:02
Thermal imagery can be used to show the diurnal range of temperature in the hot deserts.
thermal imaging, sand, heat, desert, freezing, sun, dunes, night, day, diurnal range, chameleon, adaptation
Tornadoes - What triggers a twister?
Duration: 03:17
Computer models allow us to simulate the conditions which could account for the formation of a tornado.
Tornadoes – The power of a tornado
Duration: 02:22
Scientists demonstrate the power of a tornado's winds in a laboratory in Texas using compressed air guns.
Tornado, weather, storm, simulation, Fujita, hail, wind, laboratory, gun, Horizon
UK weather patterns - the summer floods of 2007
Duration: 04:19
The UK suffers from notoriously unpredictable weather patterns, exemplified by the summer floods of 2007. Includes a look at how humans have increased the risk of flooding.
Using satellites to understand ocean currents and climate change
Duration: 4:15
The latest generation of satellites use ocean imaging technology to detect changing weather patterns and help us understand climate change.
Using satellites to understand weather and climate
Duration: 4:55
The history of weather forecasting and early satellite programmes is told using archive film. The science of weather forecasting has been transformed by the introduction of satellite technology.
Volcanoes and global climate (no narration)
Duration: 02:35
An animation is used to explain how volcanic ash in the upper atmosphere increases average global temperatures. No narration.
Weather stations - collecting climate data
Duration: 01:12
To predict the weather, a range of data about the Earth's atmosphere is needed. Data is collected at stationary and mobile weather stations around the world.
What happened to the iceberg which sank the Titanic?
Duration: 01:29
Documentary description of how the Titanic's iceberg might have melted as it travelled further south into warmer waters.
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By Steve Schwarz, Fantasy Sports Editor
Philadelphia, PA (Sports Network) - Have you checked the 2013 NHL scoring leaders lately? The leader isn't either of the Pittsburgh Penguins' duo of Sidney Crosby (he's second) or Evgeni Malkin (10th), and it's not Tampa Bay superstar Steven Stamkos (third).
In fact, the league leader in goals and points is Buffalo winger Thomas Vanek. Through 15 games, he's totaled 25 points (12 goals, 13 assists).
What a bargain you are getting if you selected him on Draft Day. He was a fifth-round selection in my fantasy league (No. 56 overall) just after Mike Richards, who has four goals and five assists this season and is currently ranked No. 99 in my Yahoo league.
Vanek has always been a goal scorer, averaging 32.8 goals over his first seven seasons, but he's on a pace to score 37 goals in a 48-game schedule. That's almost double his normal goal-scoring rate. He's also putting up assists at an astonishing rate - again, almost twice his career average. The question that every fantasy owner must ask themselves is whether he can keep it going.
Here's the good news:
Over his career, Vanek has been a better scorer after the All-Star break than before it. He averages 0.41 goals and 0.81 points per game before the break (normally in February), while his post-break numbers are 0.49 and 0.92, respectively.
The key to his continued success may come from his linemates - Jason Pominville and Cody Hodgson. Pominville has a solid history to look at and is coming off a 30-goal, 43-assist season. He's producing at the same level as a season ago.
But the center for Vanek and Pominville is the 23-year-old Hodgson, who is just beginning his second full season in the NHL and his first full year with Buffalo after begin traded from Vancouver last February (for winger Zack Kassian).
Hodgson and Vanek played together at the end of last season, but Pominville wasn't added until this season. And at the moment, the trio is the highest scoring line in the league, two ahead of the Crosby-Chris Kunitz-Pascal Dupuis line.
Don't feel bad if you are missing out on Vanek's production. Yahoo had him rated at No. 96 in their preseason rankings (an eighth-round pick), so apparently they missed out on his line's improvement, too.
But back to the question of the day. Should you keep Vanek or trade him while his value is high?
I believe this line can continue to be one of the top lines in the league. While the trio may not keep up their current pace, they should stay at or near the top. And this season you can't expect everything to simply even out over the "long haul" because there isn't such a thing in a shortened 48-game schedule.
Our advice is to hold on to Vanek and enjoy the ride.
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Al-Jazeera's slick video news magazine "Fault Lines" investigates the incredible income disparity in the United States that now sees 40 percent of the nation's wealth in the hands of the top 1 percent. Spoiler alert: The rich get richer, and it's not very pleasant. —PZS
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JOHNS CREEK -- Perhaps it has been the typical Southern summer heat or the fact that many players have taken a bit of a break since Wimbledon, but few of the higher seeds have had it easy in their early rounds of the singles draw at the Atlanta Tennis Championships.
Such was the case for top-seeded Andy Roddick in his first singles match, a second-round meeting with fellow American Rajeev Ram.
However, the world's No. 7-ranked player toughed out heat in the mid-90s and high humidity, plus an ailing foot, to outlast Ram 6-1, 6-7 (1), 6-3 on Thursday at the Atlanta Athletic Club's stadium court.
Lleyton Hewitt, however, was not so fortunate.
The fourth-seeded Aussie looked sluggish in dropping a 6-4, 6-2 decision to unseeded Lukas Lacko of Slovakia.
With three other seeded players -- No. 4 Horacio Zeballos, No. 5 Janko Tipsarevic and No. 8 Benjamin Becker -- having been ousted in early rounds and others like Roddick and No. 2 John Isner having struggled to three-set wins, nothing has come easy for the favorites.
"It's probably similar to what Isner told you last night. You come here, and you haven't been playing much. I don't think we're expecting to see the best versions of ourselves early on in this tournament," Roddick said in his post-match media conference. "But you work your way in. You give yourself a chance to play another day and to improve every day.
"That's how you get your feet into a tournament. That's how you get to that level where you're feeling sharp on everything. What I did (Thursday) was give myself a chance to come back (today)."
Roddick looked pretty sharp early on, breaking Ram's first two service games en route to a 5-0 lead and eventual 6-1 win in the first set.
But he started feeling the heat -- both literally from the high temperature and figuratively from Ram's improved serve -- in the second set.
Ram increased his first-serve percentage by 14 points and winning 80 percent of his service points with six aces and no double faults to hold his serve throughout the set and force a tiebreaker, where he gained an early mini-break off a second serve and breezed to the 7-1 win to even the match.
"I think we (felt the heat) in different parts (of the match)," Roddick said. "(Ram) said he felt it a little bit just when we first got out there in the first set. It was kind of a shock to the system. I was feeling it in the second set. He said he felt it a little in the third set. I think it kind of goes in waves."
Roddick gathered himself at two critical points in the third set, first holding off two break points on his first serve and then rallying from 40-15 down to gain a break for a 3-1 advantage before closing out the match.
"That was a huge turning point," Roddick said. "(If) he breaks first game of the third, I think it's a long way back, especially since he started serving better in the second. ... That was a pivotal moment in the match."
Instead, Roddick will take on seventh-seeded Xavier Malisse of Belgium, who cruised past Ukrainian Illya Marchenko in straight sets 6-3, 6-3, in tonight's quarterfinals.
Roddick defeated Malisse for his first ATP title in the finals of the last previous Atlanta Tour stop in 2001.
"It's a little coincidental," Roddick said. "We've played each other plenty of times since then. I don't think there's going to be a lot of surprises out there. We both know each other's games well."
Hewitt, meanwhile, actually went up a service break to take a 4-3 lead in the first set.
But Lacko answered with two straight breaks of his own to take the set, and the two-time Grand Slam winner and former world No. 1 player never recovered, and also couldn't overcome an unspecified injury he was trying to play through.
"A couple of days ago, I had a small injury," Hewitt said. "I haven't been out at practice 100 percent the last couple of days.
"I went down love-40 (up 4-3 in the first) and played a couple of good points and got it back to deuce. If I could've snuck out of that game and gone 5-3 ahead with a little bit of momentum. It could've been different."
But it will be Lacko advancing to today's quarterfinal match against Kevin Anderson, a 7-5, 6-3 winner over Atlantan Donald Young.
While Roddick survived in his singles match, he and No. 6 singles seed Mardy Fish won't be moving on in doubles.
Fish withdrew from the doubles draw to rest a sore ankle suffered during his 6-1, 7-5 win over Robby Ginepri late Wednesday.
Instead, Stephen Huss and Andre Na will move on to meet either Tipsarevic and Jonathan Erlich or Rohan Bopanna and Kristof Vliegen in the semifinals.
Fish, however, is scheduled to continue in the singles draw, where he will meet fellow American Taylor Dent in today's quarterfinals.
Isner and James Blake also moved into the doubles semifinals Thursday by beating the German pair of Michael Kohlmann and Ranier Schuettler 6-4, 6-1.
Isner will be in singles action today with his semifinal match against Michael Russell.
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"(Gary)Heckel, whose family owned the Grove Theater in Irvington when he was a child, connected with Roberts accidentally when he took a fill-in projectionist job at the Chatham theater some 20 years ago."
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A Robert Morton organ was installed in this theater in 1926. After it was moved to the Capitol Theatre in South River, NJ, the Grove theatre bought another Robert Morton in 1928.
Oddly enough, may have been known as the Hindenburg Theater in 1940:
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Corvallis, Ore. • Jason Washburn and Chris Hines had never been a more effective tandem than Saturday against Stanford.
They've also never been less effective than they were in Thursday's 77-67 loss at Oregon State.
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The Utes' two leading scorers were held scoreless in the first half of the blowout — which was far more lopsided than the final score made it seem — when the Beavers leapt out to a 36-15 lead.
Washburn picked up his second foul 4:37 into the game and did not return before halftime. Hines, though, played 16 first-half minutes but missed each of the four shots he attempted.
"I think I took some tough shots at first," Hines said. "As the game went on, I got some better looks."
The duo combined for 36 points in the 58-57 thriller against the Cardinal. Washburn finished Thursday with 14 points, while Hines added 12. By the time they got hot, though, the game was well out of hand.
"We never really found a flow in the first half," Washburn said.
Beavers pay tribute • Oregon State bypassed its usual orange-and-black threads and wore turquoise uniforms against the Utes.
The look was courtesy of Nike's N7 program, which honors and supports American Indians. The Beavers had worn the uniforms once each of the past two preseasons, but coach Craig Robinson, who is an ambassador for the program, wanted to showcase the uniforms in a Pac-12 game.
Doing so against the Utes, named after the local tribe, was intentional, an Oregon State spokesman said.
The Utes, meanwhile, wore black uniforms for the third time this season. They found success with the look during the "blackout" game in January, when they beat Washington State.
The Utes have lost their last two games, though, when they've worn the uniforms, including at California on Jan. 14, when they were blown out by 36 points.
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Shabazz Napier is everything that the N.C.A.A. says it wants student athletes to be. And, on Monday night, the twenty-two-year-old senior scored twenty-two points while leading the University of Connecticut to a 60-54 victory over John Calipari's Kentucky Wildcats for the national championship.
Napier grew up in tight circumstances in Roxbury, Massachusetts, and went to prep school on scholarship in order to qualify to play in college. He stayed at Connecticut after Jim Calhoun, the coach that recruited him, stepped down.
He stayed through the school's temporary ban from postseason play, in 2013, for failing to meet the N.C.A.A.'s academic standards. He was tempted to leave early to try his luck in the N.B.A. draft, but ultimately decided to stay in school.
He was his conference's player of the year, an All-America First Team selection.
And his fine play in the tournament gave him the kind of visibility that is sure to raise his draft stock among professional teams in June. His story would be the one that the keepers of the college-basketball status quo would tell to young men across the country.
Except, there is a problem. Speaking to reporters earlier in the tournament, Napier said that while he had played for Connecticut—making money for the school, his coaches, Nike, and so many other stakeholders in the system—he had not always had enough spending money to buy food.
It might have gotten lost amidst the excitement of the national championship, were the contrast between the image of a hungry student athlete and that of the immense profits made from his sport not so striking. Asked about the recent ruling that would allow members of the Northwestern football team to vote on forming a union, Napier called it "kind of great."
A reporter asked if he considered himself an employee. No, he responded, he was a student athlete, but one who felt stretched thin. He didn't think college kids needed to be paid hundreds of thousands of dollars (he, of course, has been worth more than that to UConn over the past four years), just enough to eat.
Napier seemed to mean that literally; he talked about hungry nights. "We're definitely blessed to get a scholarship to our universities, but, at the end of the day, that doesn't cover everything," he said. Athletic scholarships, which are capped in value, do not necessarily cover all of the costs of attending college, meaning that players have to pull resources together in other ways.
Those ways, of course, may not involve using their considerable celebrity to make money via related employment or endorsements. Napier talked about that, as well: "It may not have your last name on it, but when you see a jersey getting selled … you want something in return." This is what a voice of reason sounds like.
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Indisputable Evidence That Millennials Have It Worse Than Any Generation in 50 Years
Every generation likes to believe that it came of age at an especially trying moment in history. Millennials have the Great Recession to lament. Gen X had the dotcom bust. The Boomers had Vietnam. And the Silents had the early Cold War, complete with the not-so-silly threat of nuclear war.
But at least when it comes to the job market, I think we can all agree by now that today's young adults are deserving of at least a few extra pity points. And should there be any doubt, here's a wonderful, one-chart demonstration of why from a new Pew report. At every education level, the 25- to 32-year-olds of 2013 confronted a higher unemployment rate than past generations did when they were stepping into the workforce. And keep in mind, that's 2013—four years after the economy was supposed to have started mending.
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This Watch Tells When You Will Die
In 2005, Steve Jobs told a class of graduating students at Stanford University, "for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?'"
The idea that we should live each day like it was our last isn't new, of course, and is supposed to inspire us to, you know, go sky-diving, Rocky-Mountain climbing, and the like. But how would you live this day if it wasn't your last, but rather the 19,718th-to-last? Or the 8,657th?
A new watch called Tikker claims to have created a way to calculate approximately when, according to its creators, a person is likely to die, and then to input that date into a wristwatch. The idea is that being constantly reminded of his or her own mortality will nudge the wearer to live life to the fullest.
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In this week's issue, Ben McGrath looks at the renewed success of the wildly popular Brazilian soccer team Corinthians: http://nyr.kr/1aAYpTX. The Brazil-based photographer Sebastián Liste spent time at the club's training center and among the stalwart fans. A look at his photos: http://nyr.kr/1aBW23e
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On first glance at Malin Bergman's (@vivaladiva_) self-portraits, you might think she has her back turned to the camera. But upon closer inspection, the truth is revealed.
"I'm really fond of photos that at first sight look nice and flawless, but when you look closer for a while you start to notice details that give an illusion that not all is as peaceful and perfect as you first thought."
Malin uses her long red hair as a prop to create imaginative self-portraits that make the viewer work hard to determine the mood of the photo.
"Quite early on when I started shooting portraits, I was interested in disguising the faces of the people I photographed, both with masques and simply by asking the person to face away from the camera. The facial expression tells you a lot, but if you hide it, it's harder for the viewer to interpret the mood in the photo which makes it more interesting and lets the viewer interpret it in their own way."
Based in Stockholm, Sweden, her style began as an art project on self-portraits.
"I started to experiment with my camera and self-timer and thought I didn't just want to take a plain portrait of my face with the hair hanging down, so I combed my hair over my face. When I looked at the photo in the camera, I saw that you couldn't really tell if it was taken from behind me or in front of me and I liked that optical illusion."
Malin often uses another subject to adjust lighting and composition, then shows them where to hold the phone as she steps into the frame. She tries to add a small detail to distort reality.
"I get very inspired by the surrealism in my pictures, but I try to make that influence just slightly noticeable. I hope that my photos affects the viewer in a way that makes him/her stop and view the picture one more time and let their own fantasies decide what the photo really shows."


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This Hubble Space Telescope image captures thousands of sparkling young stars nestled within the star-forming nebula NGC 3603. This stellar "jewel box" is one of the most massive young star clusters in the Milky Way Galaxy. The image and text... (View More) describe a family portrait of stars in different stages of their lives, from infant stars still wrapped in cocoons of gas to stars nearing the end of their lives. In the accompanying educational activity, In Search of ... Stellar Evolution, students investigate stellar evolution through a level 1 inquiry activity using the images and text from the lithograph and other resources. A level 1 inquiry activity can help prepare students to become independent thinkers. (View Less)
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I don't know what this has to do with Blackberry today.
Maybe him and Prime Minister Harper will buy a hockey team.
Anyway who cares?
He'll run that into the ground too!
Looks like big Joe is going to fall back on big Jim in case the Keystone pipeline is scuttled this fall by the US State Dept.. Hmm. Obama said today that they'll decide by the fall. The catch is that the pipeline can't escalate carbon emissions. That's a tough one. 10% of Canada's GDP comes from Alberta's tar sands. And presently Calgary is in bad shape from flood damage which the premier feels will take unknown amounts of money to fix over the next ten years. On top of that. People are starting to short Canada's commodity based economy which is seeing condos and real estate bubbling up… Can big Jim do it? Certainly if he avoids trying to go into Washington with his facts right he'll be better off than big Joe who got laughed out of the universe with his Conservative in denial con act. Eh. Eh. Me thinks. Anyway. Who would have ever think Balsillie would have to get a government job. What's the world coming to? Sheesh. Are we in trouble or what? By the way. Have the Cons found the lost $3 bin.? Ha.
Not going to risk putting his own skin in the game again? What's going to happen. He knows everybody's business and then like a hawk scoops in and privatizes or ipos the best meat? Watch. Btw. What was up when he was at the provincial Liberal leadership campaign where he had his picture taken with Toronto Central MPP and candidate Glenn Murray along with George Smitherman the ex Liberal eHealth minister. Great team. Good head hunting Joe!
One could play Charlie Babbitt in the Canadian remake of the movie while the other played the Rainman.
If this fund has anything to do with fossil fuels then its name comes straight out of the Ministry of Truth (aka Ministry of Propaganda circa 1984).
He has used car salesman written all over him. But I would have taken him as an NHL owner any day over that guy George Cope from Bell Canada whose had more to do with people cracking up than any media messages they propagate in the name of…
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Victor Martinez homered and had four RBIs, leading the Detroit Tigers to a 13-4 victory over the Minnesota Twins on Sunday. Rajai Davis also connected for the Tigers, who have won two straight to earn a split of this four-game series. Detroit trials Kansas City by two games in the AL Central and is one back of Seattle for the second AL wild card.
Minnesota scored 32 runs in winning the first two games of the series and Detroit had 21 in taking the last two. The Tigers' 60 hits in the four games is their most in a four-game series since having 60 at Chicago from July 6th to 8th, 1956. Minnesota set a franchise record for most hits allowed in a four-game series, surpassing the 59 yielded at Texas July 25th to 28th, 2011.
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) - The Green Bay Packers started the final week of the preseason with two big losses. Coach Mike McCarthy confirmed after practice Sunday that veteran nose tackle B.J. Raji suffered a significant biceps injury two days earlier in the Packers' preseason win over the Oakland Raiders. McCarthy also said center JC Tretter sustained a significant knee injury in the same game.
While Raji is expected to miss the entire season after he undergoes surgery in the coming days, the Packers will be breaking in another new starting center with Tretter sidelined for several weeks.
And they won't have much time to get rookie Corey Linsley ready to hold down the important spot in front of quarterback Aaron Rodgers. Green Bay plays its last preseason game Thursday against the Kansas City Chiefs, then has only a week to prepare for the NFL season opener Sept. 4 at defending Super Bowl champion Seattle.
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) - Former Boston College quarterback Chase Rettig is among seven players who have been released by the Green Bay Packers with the first deadline for roster cuts approaching. Rettig was an undrafted rookie free agent. Barring injury, he faced a tough time making the Packers' active roster.
Matt Flynn and Scott Tolzien will likely split time in Green Bay's preseason finale Thursday night against Kansas City. They back up Aaron Rodgers.
Also released Sunday were: safety Charles Clay, cornerback Antonio Dennard, linebacker Korey Jones, fullback Ina Liaina, and receivers Chris Harper and Gerrard Sheppard. NFL teams must cut rosters down to 75 players by Tuesday afternoon.
ST. LOUIS (AP) - Rams quarterback Sam Bradford has a torn ACL in his left knee for the second straight year and is out for the season. Bradford, the first overall pick of the 2010 draft, missed the last nine games last season after getting injured at Carolina. Veteran Shaun Hill has been the backup and the Rams also have rookie Garrett Gilbert and Austin Davis on the roster.
In all, five starters were hurt against the Browns. Cornerback Trumaine Johnson was carted off with a knee injury and three others - guard Rodger Saffold and defensive tackles Kendall Langford and Michael Brockers - left with ankle injuries. Johnson will be out 4-6 weeks with an MCL tear, but coach Jeff Fisher said Saffold, Langford and Brockers could play if needed in the preseason finale Thursday at Miami.
In other NFL news:
- Panthers coach Ron Rivera says quarterback Cam Newton has a hairline fracture in his ribs and will miss the team's final preseason game. Rivera says he expects Newton to be ready for the team's Sept. 7 regular season opener against Tampa Bay. Newton was hit after scrambling from the pocket in Carolina's preseason game Friday night against New England. Newton has never missed a regular season start in his three seasons with the Panthers.
- The lawyer for Denver kicker Matt Prater says his client has agreed to a four-game suspension for violating the league's substance abuse policy. Harvey Steinberg says Prater's suspension was alcohol-related.
- The Denver Broncos have parted ways with 11 players, including nine-year veteran tackle Winston Justice, undrafted rookie running back Brennan Clay of Oklahoma and former University of North Dakota standout Greg Hardin.
- The Chicago Bears have cut Jordan Palmer, making Jimmy Clausen the backup quarterback behind Jay Cutler.
UNDATED (AP) - The Los Angeles Angels salvaged the finale of their weekend series against Oakland -- and regained a one-game lead over the Athletics in the AL West in the process. The Angels built an early 9-0 lead and held off the Athletics 9-4 behind Jered Weaver's 14th victory.
The Angels roughed up Oakland starter Scott Kazmir, a 14-game winner himself, with six runs in the opening three innings. The big hit was a two-run home run by Josh Hamilton, his 10th of the season. Mike Trout hit his 29th of the season, off reliever Jesse Chavez.
Weaver went six and two-thirds innings, giving up a pair of home runs by Alberto Callaspo and Andy Parrino in the seventh after the Angels took a 9-0 lead.
In other baseball:
- The Milwaukee Brewers beat the Pirates 4-3 to avoid a three-game sweep by the Bucs. The win, along with Philadelphia's win over St. Louis, secures Milwaukee's hold on the National League Central. The Brewers now lead the Cards by 1 1/2 games and Pirates by five. Mike Fiers held Pittsburgh to two hits in seven innings for his fourth straight win since coming up from Triple-A and closer Francisco Rodriguez picked up his 39th save.
- In the Phillies 7-1 win over the Cardinals, Jimmy Rollins homered and Jerome Williams tossed eight strong innings. Ben Revere had a pair of hits and a run batted in for the Phillies, who took two of three from St. Louis to claim consecutive series wins for the first time since April. The Cards loss was just their third in 11 games.
- Lucas Duda homered twice, drove in a career-high five runs and was involved in the New York Mets' first triple play in over four seasons in an 11-3 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers. Bartolo Colon improved to 12-10. Despite the loss, the Dodgers maintained their 4 1/2 game lead on San Francisco in the NL West following the Giants' 14-6 defeat at Washington.
- Ian Desmond and Bryce Harper each homered and drove in two runs as the streaking Nationals rallied from a five-run deficit to beat the Giants 14-6. The Nats have won 12 of their last 13 games to bolster their lead to eight games over Atlanta in the National League East.
- Alfredo Simon pitched went seven innings to earn his first win in eight starts since the All-Star break and Todd Frazier homered as the Reds held on for a 5-3 win over the Braves. Simon is 13-8.
- Trevor Bauer took a shutout into the seventh and won for the first time since July 18 as Cleveland beat Houston 3-1. Cody Allen, the Indians' fourth pitcher, worked out of ninth-inning trouble for his 17th save. The Indians took two of three games from the Astros in the series.
- San Diego beat Arizona 7-4. Yasmani Grandal homered and drove in four runs as Ian Kennedy won his 10th game.
- Nolan Arenado hit a two-run homer and Christian Bergman pitched into the seventh to earn his first major league win as the Colorado Rockies beat the Miami Marlins 7-4.
-Scott Baker won as a starter for the first time in more than three years as the Rangers beat the AL Central-leading Kansas City Royals 3-1 to avoid a series sweep. Adrian Beltre put Texas ahead to stay with an RBI double in the first.
- Dustin Ackley had three hits and scored three runs and Seattle's bullpen was sharp for the second straight day as the Mariners beat Boston 8-6. The loss is Boston's eighth straight.
- Evan Longoria singled home the go-ahead run in the 10th inning as Tampa Bay edged Toronto 2-1. Jake McGee worked two innings for the win and Brad Boxberger finished for his second save in five chances as the Rays won for the eighth time in 11 road games.
- Pinch-hitter Brian McCann lined a three-run homer with two outs in the 10th inning to give the Yankees 7-4 win over the White Sox. The victory gave the New Yorkers a three game sweep. Chasing an American League playoff spot the Yankees have won four in a row.
- American League East leader Baltimore finished off a nine game road trip with a mark of 4-5 after losing to the Cubs in Chicago 2-1. The O's only hit was a home run in the seventh inning off winner Tsuyoshi Wada. This was the Orioles first losing road trip of the season.
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - Athletics closer Sean Doolittle was placed on the 15-day disabled list by Oakland about an hour before Sunday's game with the Los Angeles Angels with a strained right intercostal, a muscle in the rib cage.
Doolittle, who saved the last two games against the Angels, is 1-3 with 20 saves and a 2.28 ERA in 54 relief appearances. He has walked five and struck out 80 in 55 1-3 innings. Opponents are batting just .171 against him
Right-hander Dan Otero was recalled from Triple-A Sacramento.
(Copyright 2014 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)


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After winning two World Series titles in three years from 2010-12, the San Francisco Giants collapsed in 2013. The club delivered an extremely tepid defense of their 2012 title by going 76-86 and finishing 16 games behind the first-place Los Angeles Dodgers in the National League West.
Giants general manager Brian Sabean pulled no punches in assessing the club during his state of the franchise address at season's end. Sabean said:
I think its pretty simple, we didn't have enough depth. Last year, we seemingly were able to overcome injury and lack of performance. We didn't do that this year. We didn't get any kind of life from the minor leagues, whether that was the fifth starter or what we went through in center and left field. Lack of depth became an issue, other than having our team on the field or the best team we could get on the field…It's safe to say the window, with the group at hand, is closed. Now we've got to create a new window immediately. And that's the task at hand.
Sabean told the media that the window had closed on the 2013 Giants, even though the roster was nearly identical to the one good enough to win it all the year before. The puzzling thing about Sabean's comment is that his actions haven't backed up his words so far this offseason. After saying the window had closed on the current roster, Sabean immediately spent $125 million to retain free-agent right field Hunter Pence (five-years, $90 million) and free-agent starter Tim Lincecum (two-years, $35 million).
While both contracts have widely been panned as overpays, the reality is no one knows how the free-agent market is going to play out this winter with each team flush with extra revenue from Major League Baseball's new television deal. What we do know is that Sabean paid a lot of money early in the offseason for two players who clearly aren't stars without ever using the leverage of the one-year qualifying offer.
Pence is an above-average regular who can hit, hit for power and run. He's in great shape and he's proven to be incredibly durable. His contract isn't far from the five-year, $85 million deal the Dodgers gave Andre Ethier, though it is much steeper than the four-year, $56 million contract (with a club option) the Cleveland Indians gave to Nick Swisher last winter.
By ERA, Lincecum has been well below-average over the past two seasons. The advanced metrics are more kind to Lincecum, however. The Giants believe that he can continue to learn how to pitch without the blazing fastball he once possessed. The jury is still out on that, but Lincecum did cut his ERA from 5.18 in 2012 to 4.37 in 2013 as he increased his focus on studying opposing hitters.
The ultimate issue with Lincecum is the delivery. He's only 5'11" and 170 pounds, so he uses unorthodox mechanics to get every ounce of his frame behind his pitches. He takes an enormous stride to the plate, which prevents him from driving the fastball downhill. His arm is late in getting out over his front side, and that causes him to pitch up in the zone with his fastball. That wasn't a problem when Lincecum was throwing 93-98 mph. However, now that his fastball sits at 88-93 mph, location is much more important.
Lincecum took positive strides last year by cutting his walk rate by nearly two percent. If he can continue to limit the walks and improve his fastball command, the lack of velocity will become less of an issue. Lincecum isn't exactly devoid of weapons out there even though his velocity has decreased. He still has a changeup that flashes plus-plus at times to compliment two breaking balls that will flash as above average.
After retaining Lincecum and Pence, the Giants will also likely try to retain free-agent reliever Javier Lopez. My guess is that they'll also pick up the $6.5 million option on starting pitcher Ryan Vogelsong. Even if the Giants bring back Lopez and Vogelsong, they will still have the funds available to add another starting pitcher and a new left fielder, though they won't have the budget room to make a huge splash for a top tier free agent like Shin-Soo Choo. Thus, the remaining moves that Sabean makes this winter will likely be marginal in nature. Veteran free-agent starting pitcher Bronson Arroyo and free-agent outfielder Michael Morse are two players who would make sense given the voids the Giants have in the rotation and in left field.
Sabean said the window had closed on this group, but he's spent the beginning of the offseason making sure the team stays intact. Perhaps he had a change of heart and decided that the group who brought him a championship in 2012 deserved another shot at glory in 2014.
Regardless of Sabean's thinking, the Giants have plenty of holes to fill even after spending a great deal of money to retain Lincecum and Pence. Sabean will have to find creative ways to fill a roster that still has plenty of holes.
Healthy, effective seasons from Pablo Sandoval and Angel Pagan would certainly help the cause next year, as would a bounce-back season from Matt Cain and a better second half from Buster Posey. However, bringing the same team back and hoping for improved performances isn't a strategy that will allow for the Giants to make up 16 games on the Dodgers. For San Francisco to improve by 16 games this winter, Sabean will have to do more than bring the same troops back, particularly after he watched the window slam shut on them last year.
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There's something beautiful about relaxing with your favorite beverage while watching a classic geek film. If you like to imbibe certain bottled alcoholic beverages while doing so (who buys bottled sodas?), well you're pretty much stuck doing that at home. Unfortunately, most movie theaters don't allow bottled alcoholic drinks, with few exceptions. So when you're at home watching Marvel's The Avengers or The Empire Strikes Back, why not make the experience complete by popping the top with a beautifully designed Marvel Heroes or Star Wars themed bottle opener?
Made from a heavy gauge metal, some with a chrome finish and some with a paint wash, these magnetic bottle openers can be neatly tucked away on the front of your fridge as one more decorative magnet.
A magnet that opens beer!
Magnets – how do they work? Hey, who cares as long as they open beer!
In the Star Wars galaxy, they already have Millennium Falcon and Death Star openers, with a Han in Carbonite and R2-D2 (below) on the way!
In the Marvel realm, they have Mjolnir (Thor's hammer), Silver Surfer's surf board, and Captain America's shield available now (pictured above). They're working on a Punisher skull logo and Galactus to debut in the near future.
And outside of those popular licenses, they will be announcing Domo and The Walking Dead bottle openers very soon.
Each retails for $18 each and you can order or pre-order most of these items right now at Diamond Select Toys online or ask your local comic retailer to order it for you.
Remember to not drink and drive and please use magnets responsibly. You're controlling foundational components of our reality. That mixed with the Power Cosmic or the power of this fully armed and operational battle station, who knows what kind of havoc you could wreak?


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A Look at "Ragtime" at Near West Theatre (by CallBackCleveland)
I'm so proud to be a part of this amazing production at Near West Theatre. I'm playing Coalhouse Walker,Jr. Here is a video I produced looking at our production.
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My article for MobileBeat.com for today!
My latest Piece for Mobile Beat.com. Take away their pain!
Jerry Bruno Productions Live at MobileBeat 2012 | Las Vegas Riviera Hotel (by storymixmedia)
Scott E Jones and I used Storymix while in Vegas at the Mobile Beat Show. If you don't know about Storymix, check them out online at www.storymixmedia.com. It's a fun inexpensive "NOVELTY" service for Brides & Grooms. Its a novelty type video service your GUESTS can use - kind of like putting disposable cameras on tables (NOT meant to replace any professional service at all). Guests can download the app on their phones - shoot short vid clips during the reception and upload them to the service. Then the service sends an edited version to the client! We tried it out in Vegas…
Focusing on new friends…that I'll never see again.
My latest article for Mobile Beat. A couple performance (not gear) tips for gig mishaps. Be prepared! Don't be a trumpet-butt!
My latest piece for Mobile Beat- Why DJing is a performing art. Are you an artist?
Is DJing a performing art? If it were considered a performing art by our clients – that is, if DJs were considered artists – our profession could be elevated to a point where we could overcome stigmas of DJs being no more than glorified serving staff or musical bartenders (no disrespect to serving staff or, particularly, bartenders, without whom I'm sure I could not live). Then could corresponding prices be far behind?
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First F-35A Delivered To Luke AFB
The U.S. Air Force's 56th Fighter Wing at Luke AFB, Arizona is set to formally unveil its first Lockheed Martin F-35A fighter on March 21, following delivery of the aircraft earlier in the week. Hosted by Undersecretary of the Air Force Eric Fanning, the ceremony comes ahead of this weekend's public airshow at the base. The aircraft was flown in from Edwards AFB on Tuesday by test pilot Colonel Roderick Cregier.
Following delivery of the first aircraft, Luke AFB will begin preparation to train crew for the conventional takeoff and landing version of the Joint Strike Fighter. By the end of this year 16 F-35As are due to have been delivered, and training is scheduled to start in the second quarter of next year. By 2019 more than 100 F-35As should be at Luke, from a final allocation of 144, split among six squadrons. This month the first Luke-assigned pilot, Capt. Joshua Arki of the 61st Fighter Squadron, is scheduled to return from JSF conversion training.
Luke has been the principal location for U.S. Air Force tactical training since the 1950s, with F-84s, F-100s, F-4s, F-15s and F-16s assigned as the major types. F-16 training has been undertaken since 1982, and Luke became the primary F-16 training center in the early 1990s with the transfer of three squadrons from MacDill AFB, Florida. Located in the western suburbs of the greater Phoenix area, Luke enjoys excellent year-round weather and has quick access to sizeable ranges over sparsely populated areas of Arizona.
F-35 training for all three U.S. services is currently conducted by the F-35 Integrated Training Center of the 33rd Fighter Wing at Eglin AFB, Florida, which parents the 58th FS "Mighty Gorillas" (Air Force, to be at full strength with 24 F-35As this spring), VMFAT-501 "Warlords" (Marine Corps, 20 F-35Bs) and VFA-101 "Grim Reapers" (Navy, to receive 15 F-35Cs). As well as assuming the training mantle for U.S. Air Force pilots, the 56th Fighter Wing at Luke will also parent training for overseas JSF operators. The first aircraft for Australia (AU-1) is scheduled to arrive at the Arizona base before year-end.
Next year the Air Force plans to begin F-35A deliveries to its first operational unit (388th Fighter Wing) at Hill AFB, Utah. The base will ultimately have 72 F-35As assigned to the 388th FW and Air Force Reserve 419th FW. Hill is also home to the Ogden Air Logistics Center, which is the primary maintenance depot for the F-35A. This unit received its first F-35A for pre-service modification work last year.
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