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RIO DE JANEIRO -- Three new maintenance and safety units ordered by Petrobras -- Cidade São João da Barra, Cidade de Cabo Frio and Cidade de Araruama -- are now in place and operating in the Campos basin. The units are connected to the PNA-1 production platform in Namorado field, the PCH-2 platform in Cherne field, and the PGP-1 platform in Garoupa field, respectively.
Petrobras is running a number of revitalization campaigns involving maintenance and safety units as part of its operational efficiency improvement program. To this end, it is conducting actions to guarantee the integrity of offshore production units, such as by replacing metal pipes and structures, cleaning and repairing tanks, and painting platforms. This will enable the units operating in the Campos basin to continue to produce oil and gas safely for many years, going beyond their original planned lifespan and making the most of the reservoirs' potential.
The new maintenance and safety units have been chartered for four years, to undertake campaigns ranging from two to eight months in time, in line with the complexity of the services to be performed on each platform. They may be described as service platforms that are connected to production units via an access ramp.
These units are equipped with mechanical and electrical workshops, cranes, storage areas, areas for painting and maintenance of parts and equipment, and accommodation for all the professionals who will be performing services.
The three new maintenance and safety units have joined another four already operating in the Campos basin: Cidade de Arraial do Cabo, Cidade de Quissamã, Cidade de Casimiro de Abreu and Cidade de Carapebus. Their activities are underpinned by the operational principles of Petrobras' exploration and production area, focusing on integrity, reliability and safety for people, facilities and the environment.
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Spiders of North-West Europe
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Over eighty pages keep 500,000 visitors busy every year. Most pages are translated in Dutch, Polish and some in Esperanto.
Many people think spiders are dangerous creatures that should be wiped away with a cloth, sucked up in the vacuum cleaner or smashed with a newspaper. That is not wise because spiders play a very important role in our Eco-system. They catch many annoying and harmful insects, are not destructive and are therefore useful creatures.
I receive many questions about poisonous/venomous spiders. Most spiders use venom to kill their prey. Spider venom is almost always harmless to humans. However, there are a few exceptions. In Europe there is one spider, called "Black widow", whose effects of the bite may hurt. The stories about her deadly venom are exaggerated. She lives in the southern parts of Europe.
Male jumping spider Euophrys frontalis.
Which spiders can we find around the house? (Many more small spider pictures here ->)
The house spider (Agelenidae) is a famous "scary" spider. In autumn the males are often spotted searching for a female. He runs on his long legs through our house,
especially if we are watching television. Leave him alone and after a few minutes he is gone or eaten by the cat.
The garden spider (Araneidae) is also often seen in her wheel web. To see the glue spitter (Scytodidae) you have to look better.
The daddy longleg (Pholcidae) is the greatest killer inside your house. In winter she almost kills all surviving insects and they even kill their own kin.
|Vibrating spider
|Garden spider
|Wasp spider
|House spider
|Spitting spider
|Meshweb weaver
|Zebra spider
|Wolf spider with egg cocoon
|Wolf spider
|Woodlouse spider
|Sac spider
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|Sheet web spider
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|Prowling spider
|Prowling spider
|Small huntsman spider
|Lynx spider
|Stretch spider
|Stretch spider
|Nursery web spider
|Fishing spider
|Sheetweb spider
|Lady bird spider
|Orb web spider
|Cob web spider
|Cob web spider
An impressive spider often seen in the US is the Argiope aurantia (Family Araneidae). Pictures of Argiopes from different continents can be seen on the following pages: Europe, USA and Australia.
In a study, the Panamese wheel spider was observed for a year. It consumed an average of 1.63 insects (= 0.089 g) a day. A study in Great Britain estimated an average of 130.8 spiders living in a meadow per square meter. If we extrapolate this to Holland with 15 million habitants on 36150 square kilometers (4.4 human beings per hectare), we can make the next calculation: spiders living on one hectare consume 116.4 kg of animal material every day. In other words, spiders eat the weight of all humans living in Holland in three days!
|Argiope aurantia from the USA
| Class Arachnida
Part of the tree of life site
Acari, Tick, Ixodes ricinus before and after feeding
Camel or sun spider, Solifugae by Oleg Kucheryavenko
Inter site links
Common spider information
Spider location chart, find your spider by behaviour
Australian spider site
Spider information
Pictures and information by family
Order Araneae - Spiders
Sub-order - Orthognatha (Mygalomorphae, primitive spiders)
|Sub-order Labidognatha (Aranaeomorphae, modern spiders)
Cribellatae (These spiders have a cribellum and a calamistrum)
Haplogynae (six eyed spiders)
Entelegynae (eight eyed spiders)
Order Opiliones - Harvestmen
More informational links (<-- click link)
European spiders
Special sites
Brown recluse,
fiddleback spider
Black Widow, Red back, Malmigatte
Red back, Queensland museum
Red back, Australian museum
Because of their big variety in color, shape and size, it is difficult to determine a spider from a picture. The only secure way is to catch the spider and have proper books on identification.
I have tried to give them the right name. If you can correct, E-mail me.
E-mail me: Click here
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This is the first upcoming spring without a due date or a child turning one since 2001 and it feels so strange. Baby #6 will be 2 at the end of May and we don't have a new baby coming. I need to sort out my feelings. I want more babies! But I kind of dread the morning sickness, no not kind of...in fact, that may be the only thing keeping us from TTC right now. I don't know how i would manage life/how the rest of the family would manage life with me and my awful morning sickness. I feel very sad imagining that nobody else is coming to join our family. But I also sometimes imagine that we have another baby or even twins. I am being brutally honest here. I hope this isn;t taken the wrong way. Anybody else out there felt this conflict or feeling it now? I don't feel like anyone IRL would understand.
Just editing to say that I just read the what's your plan posts. Many of you answered kind of what I wanted to know. I wish I had a friend IRL with a large family. You all inspire me. Sometimes it feels like people expect us to function like a family with half of the kids we have. I just can't do that. And when I try, I burn out. It just doen't work the same for us.
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I know how you feel. DH doesn't want anymore but I don't want to be done having babies. I just had one not three months ago and the thought of him being my last makes me very sad. It's so much work having six (counting my two step-sons) but I don't mind. The only thing stopping me from having any more is the fact that I can't afford to be a SAHM, and having any more just wouldn't be fair to them all. I feel terrible enough having to work a full time job instead of giving them full time attention (again, not that I have a choice if I want to keep a roof over their heards). Hugs to you momma!
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Hugs! I'm fortunate to know a couple of other large families IRL. It is nice to have someone who can relate to your issues and not look at you like you're crazy. There are other large families out there, but I'm not really sure how to find them. The full size van is usually a give away. A lot of large families home school. Maybe there's a local home school group that you could contact? Just know that you're not alone, and most of us feel that way at one time or another.
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and performance. Both may vary systematically with the degree of heterogeneity. With respect to institutions, Tang (1994:231) describes two types of "rules-in-use": boundary rules ("the requirements one must fulfill before appropriating water") and authority rules (the procedure and basis for withdrawal, including fixed shares or rotating turns). Bardhan (2000) and Dayton-Johnson (2000a) consider cost-sharing rules for mobilizing canal-cleaning and maintenance efforts, as well as water allocation rules that define households' claims on irrigation resources.
Performance is measured in various ways. An obvious dimension is the degree to which irrigators adhere to the rules established above: rule conformance. Bardhan (2000) measures whether water allocation rules are frequently violated by one group; Tang (1994) codes more generally whether the irrigation rules are followed. Alternatively, one could measure not rule conformance per se, but rather the level of infrastructure maintenance. Bardhan (2000) uses a categorical-variable index of maintenance of distributaries and field channels. Dayton-Johnson (2000b) uses disaggregated variables and estimates statistical models of three dimensions of maintenance: the degree of definition of canal side slopes, state of repair of field intakes, and degree of control of leakage around the canals. Lam (1998) uses the overall physical condition of the system. Another class of performance variables measures the adequacy of water delivery; Lam aggregates information on adequacy of water delivery at various points in the system, equity among users, and reliability of water supply at the tail end. An imperfect indicator of the success of irrigation is crop yields, considered by Dayton-Johnson (1999) and by Lam (1998), who aggregates information on output per hectare, and cropping intensity at the head and tail ends of the system. Lam subjects the three dimensions of his performance measure (condition, water delivery, and productivity) to confirmatory factor analysis, finding, among other things, that the dimensions are not highly correlated. Fujita et al. (2000) propose a four-dimensional concept of irrigation system performance, based on the existence of rules for maintenance, coordination in rice-cropping schedules, practice of water rotation, and organized monitoring of rules. They perform a principal components analysis on the four measures to derive appropriate weights for an index of performance. Finally, Bardhan (2000) also considers the absence of water-related conflicts as a measure of performance.
All of the studies considered here are multivariate analyses, but the list of independent variables differs considerably from study to study. To some extent, then, we are comparing estimated coefficients that are not strictly comparable: This should be borne in mind when considering the results reviewed in the following paragraphs.
Income inequality. What then, are the effects of heterogeneity? Consider first inequality in incomes. Tang (1991) finds that "a low variance of the average annual family income among irrigators tends to be associated with a high degree of rule conformance and good maintenance." Tang (1992:72-73) identifies 27


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The new trailer for "The Carrie Diaries," starring AnnaSophia Robb as the young Carrie Bradshaw, is out and it's the fun froth you would expect. You've got to hand it to the "Sex & The City" franchise: they sure are dedicated to fantasy! We're not sure how many suburban girls fresh off the boat from Connecticut get scooped up immediately by the fashion editor at Interview magazine, who sends Carrie free clothes and trots her out to the hottest club. The '80s fashion is fun, though, and AnnaSophia really has got Sarah Jessica Parker's facial movements down. Clearly I will be watching this (although I'd never admit it) when it debuts in January.
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Irrational exuberance is so widespread in hip-hop right now that Alan Greenspan might freak out — if he understood rap lyrics. There are no two ways about it: Hip-hop sales are declining. Album sales dropped 30 percent in 2007, a figure that includes digital downloads. And ringtones, which have given folks like Soulja Boy a reason to soulja on, are not enough.
But judging from recent rap songs, you'd think these guys were too rich to stand up. Literally. In fact Fat Joe's single "The Crackhouse" begins, "I'm sleeping on a billion dollars." (Bear in mind this is coming from a guy whose last CD, Me, Myself & I, sold about 250,000 copies.)
Once upon a time, MCs were content to exaggerate their wealth in ways that were somewhat plausible. Only a few years ago, in fact, T.I. made the fairly modest claim he was worth "a couple hundred grand" in his song "Rubberband Man." But those days are ancient history. Nowadays even the lowliest rappers brag about Steve Jobs-type stacks. Perhaps the most egregious offender is Bow Wow, who boasts on his recent album that "It's like every time I breathe I make a million."
Seriously? Humans take at least 10 breaths per minute, so that would put him at roughly $600 million an hour.
R. Kelly, on the other hand, is a bona fide megastar and probably quite rich. Nonetheless it's difficult to believe him on Beanie Sigel's song "All of the Above" when he asserts, "I'm worth about a billion, but I'm still hood rich," if only because of his mountain of lawyer fees. And in the same song, Sigel claims to pull "seven digits clean soon as I grace the stage," which is odd, given that his new album sold about 50,000 copies in its first week and hasn't done much since.
Some in the rap game are also inflating numbers for their other, non-music businesses. Russell Simmons famously admitted to deceiving the public about sales of his Phat Farm clothing line. According to the New York Times, in a 2004 civil deposition he said, "It is how you develop an image for companies." Though Simmons had claimed the line sold $350 million in 2003, the actual figure was less than 1/20th of that.
Much was made, meanwhile, about 50 Cent's stake in Energy Brands, after its subsidiary brand Glaceau (which includes Vitamin Water) was sold to Coca-Cola last year for $4.1 billion. Fiddy — deemed the second-highest-earning rap cat in 2006 by Forbes — did nothing to quash rumors he was a 10 percent stakeholder in the company. But the Energy Brands folks did, calling rumors that 50 had become a near-half-billionaire "erroneous."
Not surprisingly there's even a label called Billionaire Records, based in Crockett, Texas. It seems likely the label's name is a misnomer, although the title of its most popular song on MySpace probably isn't. The track is called "Billionaire Dreams"; it has only been played 298 times.
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The QBZ-95 (Chinese: 轻武器步枪自动一九九五 Qīngwǔqì Bùqiāng Zìdòng, 1995; English: Light weapon, Rifle, Automatic, 1995), or Type 95, is a bullpup style Chinese assault rifle designed in 1995 and manufactured by Norinco and Jianshe Corp(Chinese: 北方工业公司), China South. The updated QBZ-95-1 is in service with the People's Liberation Army, replacing the older QBZ-95.
The weapon uses a proprietary 30 round magazine, has a rate of fire of around 650 rounds per minute and an effective range of 400 meters, with a maximum range of 600 meters. It also has a specialized and optional 4x telescopic sight.
Battlefield 2: Modern CombatEdit
|Type 95
|Magazine size
|30 rounds
|Reload time
|4 seconds
|Rate of fire
|600 rpm
|Fully Automatic
The Type-95 is a weapon featured in Battlefield 2: Modern Combat and is issued to PLA Assault soldiers. It has a moderate rate of fire, a 30 round magazine, high damage and good accuracy. It can kill in a single head shot and is effective as a sharpshooting weapon with Y/MA 95 scope. It also has a Type 91 underbarrel grenade launcher attached to it. Blind firing for head shots and the grenade launcher can easily dispose of a large group of enemies.
Battlefield 4Edit
|25 - 18
|Damage multipliers
|2.1× head
1.0× torso and arms
|Unlocked at
|Complete To Valhalla
|Magazine size
|30 + 1 rounds
|5.8x42mm DBP-10
|Starting ammunition
|124 + 31 rounds
|Maximum ammunition
|124 + 31 rounds (SP)
217 + 31 rounds (MP with AMMO)
|Reload time
|3.0 seconds
3.5 seconds (empty)
|Rate of fire
|630 m/s
330 m/s suppressed
|0.24 up
0.2 left
0.1 right
3-Round Burst
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|Inventory slot
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|Coyote (RDS) (10 kills)
Laser sight (20 kills)
Ergo Grip (30 kills)
Muzzle Brake (40 kills)
JGM-4 (4x) (50 kills)
Canted Ironsights (60 kills)
Angled Grip (70 kills)
Heavy Barrel (80 kills)
PRISMA (3.4x) (90 kills)
Flash Light (100 kills)
Bipod (110 kills)
Compensator (120 kills)
HD-33 (1x) (130 kills)
Magnifier (2x) (140 kills)
Stubby Grip (150 kills)
LS06 Suppressor (160 kills)
The QBZ-95-1 is an assault rifle featured in Battlefield 4.
The QBZ-95-1 is the standard rifle of the PLA. It features an HD-33 alongside a Magnifier and Compensator. It sports a Hexagon Naval paint. Completing the To Valhalla assignment unlocks it for multiplayer.
The QBZ-95-1's handling is very similar to the L85A2 from Battlefield 3, having the same low firerate of 650 RPM. It has easy to use iron sights, low recoil and good accuracy, making it an effective all-around weapon. Its stats sit between the SAR-21 and the AUG A3.
Being a Chinese assault rifle, it unlocks the Chinese attachments and gets the US and Russian ones from Battlepacks.
The QBZ-95-1 is one of the four bullpup assault rifles that can equip an underbarrel grenade launcher, the other three being the AUG A3, L85A2 and the SAR-21. However, it cannot equip the M26 MASS underbarrel shotgun.
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Tom Cruise has delved into the fickle waters of the sci-fi blockbuster time and time again.
The public is invited to run in the Dirty Up Flight Line 5K/10K on Hunter at 8 a.m. Saturday.
I watch a lot of reruns of The Food Network's "Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives," in which chef Guy Fieri travels around the country, showcasing hometown restaurants the locals love most.
Following the professional path of a parent isn't always easy, especially if that career is acting. Brothers Clint and Ron Howard long ago escaped their father's acting shadow, with Ron starring in two popular TV shows, "The Andy Griffith Show" and "Happy Days," and going on to become one of Hollywood's most respected directors.
Over the past four months, the Armstrong Police Department at Armstrong Atlantic State University collected nearly 500 pounds of unused prescription drugs.
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The big ones were biting for more than 230 children who participated in a kids' fishing event Saturday at Fort Stewart's Holbrook Pond, but it wasn't just little ones who enjoyed a day on the pond.
Liberty County political pioneer and well-known resident Lyndol Anderson died Saturday after dealing with mounting medical problems.
Women of all backgrounds were honored at the Talented and Educated Leading Ladies' (TELL) inaugural banquet and showcase May 10 at the Liberty County Community Complex in Midway.
Emma Davis, 12, has been chosen as a state finalist in the National American Miss Georgia Pageant to be held July 3-5 at the Renaissance Atlanta Waverly Hotel and Convention Center in Atlanta.
To honor fathers, their golf is free after noon on Sunday, when someone also pays for 18 holes and a golf cart. For more information, call 912-315-9115.
Liberty County's annual summer lunch program returns Monday to provide free noon meals to kids across the county.
While browsing through the reference section of our local Live Oak Public Library, I saw a small book entitled "The Riceboro Poems, A Biography of Place."
Navy Seaman Johnathan J. Esterbrook recently completed U.S. Navy basic training at Recruit Training Command in Great Lakes, Ill. Esterbrook also was meritoriously promoted to his current rank.
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Ever since he grabbed the public's attention with the Oscar-nominated "Memento" in 2000, director Christopher Nolan has established himself as one of the most brilliant filmmakers of the 21st century.
Liberty County High School held its fourth annual Pink Panther Day for breast-cancer awareness Oct. 30. This event is sponsored by Family Career and Community Leaders of America. This year, Pink Panther Day was held in honor of Kim Brown, an LCHS teacher who is battling breast cancer. This year's shirt was designed in honor of Brown and had her favorite quote, "You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have," on the back with her initials. FCCLA members sold 267 shirts, almost double what they sold last year. Proceeds totaling $850 ...


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Edward P. Pitts, M. D.,is a well known specialist at Atchison, where he had practiced as an eye, ear, nose and throat physician and surgeon for fifteen years.
He is a native of Virginia and his ancestry for several generations lived in that part of the South. He was born in Northampton County, Virginia, October 13, 1880. This branch of the Pitts family came out of England and settled in Maryland in Colonial times. Doctor Pitts' grandfather, Edward P. Pitts, was born in Somerset County, Maryland, in 1821, and became a prominent lawyer. He lived at Norfolk, Virginia, where he died in 1881, and for about thirty years had been judge of the Circuit Court. Doctor Pitts' father, Edward D. Pitts, was also a prominent lawyer. He was born in Northampton County in 1849, was reared and married there, and graduated in law from the University of Virginia. For a time he practiced at Eastville in Northampton County, but subsequently took up practice at Norfolk, where he was active in his profession until his death in 1909. In early manhood he served as clerk of the court at Eastville. He was a democrat, a member of the Episcopal Church, and was affiliated with the Masonic order. Edward D. Pitts married Emory W. West, who was born in Northampton County, Virginia, in 1850 and is now living at Norfolk in that state. Her children were: Mary, wife of Frank K. Clements, a hotel proprietor at Petersburg, Virginia; Charles D., in the plumbing business at Norfolk; Doctor Pitts; Mrs. Mildred Rogers, whose husband had charge of the branch of the Morris Packing Company at Norfolk; Emory, who lives in Northampton County, Virginia, her husband being a farmer; and Mrs. Nellie Parker, Mr. Parker being connected with the Whichard Brothers Wholesale Dry Goods Company at Norfolk.
Doctor Pitts was educated in the public schools of Norfolk and in 1898 graduated from the Gatewood Episcopal Academy. He soon afterwards came West, and at St. Joseph, Missouri, matriculated in the Ensworth Medical College, where he completed the course and was given the degree M. D. in 1902. Doctor Pitts spent six months of 1903 as a post graduate in the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, and was again a student at that institution in 1916. He began practice at Atchison in 1902, soon after graduating, and his work had been as a specialist in the treatment of the eye, ear, nose and throat. Doctor Pitts had his offices in the Simpson Building. He owned his home at 505 Kearney Street, and also had a farm of sixty acres near Effingham in Atchison County. Doctor Pitts is a member of the County and State Medical societies, the American Medical Association, is independent in politics, belongs to the Episcopal Church and is affiliated with the Masonic order and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He was married in April, 1903, at DeKalb, Missouri, to Miss Beulah Judah, daughter of Samuel and Margaret (Pyles) Judah. Her father was a farmer, and her mother is still living at DeKalb. Doctor and Mrs. Pitts have one son, Spencer W., born February 3, 1907.
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What made you say to yourself it was time to retire? It's been a constant battle since my surgery. And I was making progress, I was getting ready but we just ran out of time. My knee kept acting up. In reality it just wasn't going to happen. With only a few weeks left, nationals had already passed. It was a decision to make, to let someone else take a step in my place.
What was your parents' reaction? It wasn't a surprise to them. It was more of a relief to them because they didn't have to see me struggle anymore. It has always made them nervous during training and practice so I don't think they were too upset.
You've said in other interviews that you were concerned about hurting yourself and jeoparding your future. How much was that weighing on you? You can only ignore your body's signs for so long. The long terms effects are something my doctor was warning me about. Multiple cortisone shots and cramps here and there add up after a while.
What's your reaction, when fans like me continue to be inspired by you? It helps and it makes it more difficult. It definitely made it scary because I was afraid of disappointing everyone out there, the sponsors, family, and friends. But seeing this overwhelming support and courage coming from it, it's been a good result.
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Why did you want to write this book about your life and what do you think people will get out of it? I kind of wrote it to give everyone an idea of my side of the story. I feel like so many different news channels told my story for me, so I wanted to give people a backstage pass of what was going through my mind -- what I went through, journals, pictures, diaries, and everything. It is what people can relate to. In gymnastics, there is the idea that you can't show emotion or share anything you are thinking or going through but this is my chance to do it. Hopefully people can just connect and relate.
Faith seems like it is an important theme for you, is that true? Yeah, definitely. It kind of progressed through everything... There were so many good times and hard times I had to find some bigger picture to fall back on.
How has your faith helped you after this difficult decision? It made it all make sense, everything happens for a reason. If you try to control it or think you can control it, you are put back in your place.
Have you thought about college 2013? Yeah, I'm deciding between East and West Coast, Vanderbilt or Stanford.
What would you study? I kind of want to study business. I know it might change a 100 times.
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Do you think you have a future in gymnastics? Coaching, probably not, I feel like I have been a part of the sport so much, and on this side I don't think I would be a tough enough coach. But as for speaking, I love that and any type of philanthropic work. I will hopefully start working with UNICEF, doing field work with them. I don't know yet where I would go.
What did you learn most about yourself during this comeback period? I'm a lot stronger than I give myself credit for. That's something I really experienced coming back from the knee injury and the second surgery, and after the first time I stepped back in the gym. It just has been a long ride and I've come out of it, happy and healthy, ready to move on to the next chapter.
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The heart is really colourful, very in your face. Before that they had records that were not as popular and this was the real breakthrough.
We've got the French editions of the Beatles albums. We've even got a Sergeant Pepper's that Paul McCartney signed
Nirvana: Nevermind
We like the baby floating in the water on the cover, that's really crazy and the song Come As You Are is really good.
We like it on the unplugged version too, it's more authentic, really raw, more real.
Michael Jackson: Off the Wall
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We have all the original records but this is one of our favourites.
We go to charity shops for them. We've got his yearbook from school and an airport log from a Donald Trump-owned plane that Michael travelled on.
Justin Timberlake: FutureSex/LoveSounds
This is a great transition from Justified, it's really "pop" and a really grown-up record. We like SexyBack.
There are cool collaborations on there too, with will.i.am and Timbaland. We saw him in concert and he lived up to all the songs.
The album cover has some retro artwork with a disco ball. It cemented him as an artist as he didn't have a direct style. He does now with the suits and all.
The Beatles: The Beatles ("White Album")
Side A is the better one. We've got the French editions of the Beatles albums. We've even got a Sergeant Pepper's that Paul McCartney signed.
No Doubt: Push and Shove
A really strong album. We like Settle Down as it has a different style. We also like Looking Hot and the video's really good.
Gravity is really cool and there's a bonus collection disc that has all these acoustic versions, which is really good.


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- 2 tablespoons vinegar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground pepper
- 1/2 cup olive or vegetable oil
In a small bowl mix the vinegar and salt and let stand a few minutes. Add the pepper and slowly whisk in the oil. Taste for acid and salt and add more if too bland. Stir to blend before using, or store in a jar with a tight lid and shake well before using.
Mustardy French Dressing.
Add 1 to 1 1/2 teaspoons Dijon mustard. Blend well. Include onion and garlic, if desired.
Onion or Garlic French Dressing.
Add 1 to 2 tablespoons minced onion, scallions, or shallots or 1/2-1 teaspoon minced garlic.
French Dressing with Fresh Herbs.
Add 2 teaspoons fresh chopped herbs, such as basil, chervil or tarragon.
Curried French Dressing.
Add 1 teaspoon curry powder and blend well.
Cream French Dressing.
Add 3 tablespoons heavy cream or sour cream and blend well.
Fruit Salad French Dressing.
Use lemon juice instead of vinegar and add 1/3 cup honey. Blend well.
Blue Cheese Dressing.
Add 3 tablespoons crumbled blue cheese. Blend well.
Cumberland Dressing.
Add 1 tablespoon heavy cream, 1 tablespoon currant jelly, and 1/4 teaspoon grated lemon rind. Mix until well blended.
Chiffonade Dressing.
Add 1 tablespoon minced parsley, 2 tablespoons minced red pepper, 1 tablespoon minced onion, and 2 hard-boiled eggs, chopped fine. Blend all ingredients well.
Reprinted with permission from The Fannie Farmer Cookbook by Marion Cunningham. © 1996 Knopf
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Nutrition Informationper serving (4 servings) POWERED BY Edamam
- Calories240
- Carbohydrates0 g (0%)
- Fat27 g (42%)
- Protein0 g (0%)
- Saturated Fat4 g (19%)
- Sodium178 mg (7%)
- Polyunsaturated Fat3 g
- Fiber0 g (0%)
- Monounsaturated Fat20 g
- Cholesterol0
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Predominantly female occupations are projected to grow in the coming years—but the expansion won't create all that many jobs.
Both Liza Mundy (The Richer Sex) and Hanna Rosin (The End of Men) argue that the transition to a postindustrial, service- and knowledge-based economy—in conjunction with declining gender discrimination—are leading inevitably to women's economic dominance. I have critiqued those stories in a series of posts on my site Family Inequality.
But there is one piece of Mundy and Rosin's argument I haven't questioned until now. It is so intuitively appealing that I assumed it was true: The demands of the economy are shifting dramatically in women's favor. Brains have superseded brawn and social skills have become increasingly important, they both claim (and I accepted without thinking much about it) which all favors women over men.
Mundy and Rosin make frequent references to a set of projections from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), showing that the occupations with the largest expected growth are dominated by women rather than men. But that description is, it turns out, misleading.
Occupations Projected
First, here is how Mundy and Rosin use the BLS numbers. Mundy writes:
Projections made by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics show that women's occupations will be favored in the next decade. ... All in all, of the ten jobs with the largest projected job growth—nurses, home health aides, customer service reps, food preparation and serving workers, home care aides, retail sales, office clerks, accountants and auditors, nursing units, and postsecondary teachers—nine are majority female.
Rosin uses similar statistics, which have been repeated in reviews like this one in the Chicago Tribune, this one in the Globe and Mail, and blogs like this one at the World Bank. She writes (in a passage approvingly quoted by David Brooks):
The recession merely revealed—and accelerated—a profound economic shift that has been going on for at least 30 years, and in some respects even longer.... Of the fifteen job categories projected to grow the most in the United States over the next decade, twelve are occupied primarily by women.
Okay, here's the first moment I should have paused. Women are almost half the labor force. So if occupations are "majority female" or "dominated" by women, how different are they from average? Does this really mean the occupational structure really strongly shifting in women's favor?
The BLS projections are detailed here. They include hundreds of occupations, but they also summarize this pattern for 22 "major occupation groups," which range in size from 1 million to 23 million workers. I added in the gender composition of each group to show the relationship between gender composition and projected growth.
As you can see, the female-dominated occupations are projected to grow fastest. For dramatic effect, one might point to the top-right point: healthcare support occupations are 87 percent female and projected to grow 35 percent over the decade. On the other hand there are production occupations: 26 percent female and aiming for a paltry four percent growth. But that would be cherry-picking examples. What the sophisticated reader really wants to know is the overall relationship between gender and job growth. And that is not what it appears.
Here is the same graph, but with the occupation groups shown in proportion to thethe number of workers they represent, and the trendline redrawn to reflect their disparate weights.
Now the picture is much different. That giant dot on the lower right is 23 million office and administrative support workers—72 percent female and growing slowly. And near the middle are three large occupation groups that are 40 to 50 percent female, also growing slowly (sales, food preparation and serving, and management). The gender action is all in the occupations that employ a smaller number of people. The big story about growth and gender composition of major occupation groups is not true. (In technical terms, the slope of that line in the first figure is reduced by half when we account for the size of the dots. And in fact the slope would be cut in half again if we just dropped the healthcare support occupations point, which exerts outsized influence as an outlier.)
So how do Mundy and Rosin come up with the lists of occupations projected to grow the most? The top 10 growing occupations (at the detailed level) are mostly female-dominated. But those occupations made up just 15 percent of the workforce in 2010, and are projected to make up only 17 percent by 2020. The top 15 are projected to increase from 22 percent to just 23 percent of the workforce. The growth in these jobs just doesn't represent that much of a change for the entire economy.
If occupations aren't really shifting in women's directions anymore, we shouldn't be surprised. In 2001, analyzing occupational trends of the 20th century, David Cotter, Joan Hermsen and Reeve Vanneman concluded:
Change in the occupational structure is not responsible for the continued growth in women's labor force participation after 1970. That is, it is not the growth of traditionally female occupations that is driving the continuing growth in women's labor force participation rates in the 1970s and 1980s.
Rather, it was—and still is—the growth of integrated middle-class occupations, and women moving into new occupations, that provide the impetus for women's increased labor force share. Hard as it is to believe, the overall shift toward traditionally female-typed occupations largely ended by the 1970s. Yes, there are more nurses and home health aides today than there were then, but there are also fewer maids and domestic servants. And although blue-collar manufacturing jobs have continued to decline, truck-driving and construction have not. (I extended their trend through 2010 to check whether this is still true. Women's share of the labor force would have increased from 38 percent in 1970 only to 41 percent in 2010 based on occupational shifts alone, if the gender composition of each occupation hadn't changed. That means about 70 percent of the increase in women's share of the labor force came from occupations becoming more integrated instead of occupations growing and shrinking.)
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Updated NFL draft Big Board
Robinson, Mack vault into top three while Beckham Jr. makes rankings debut
There are some who like to downplay the importance of the NFL combine, but look at the top half of the first round of the NFL draft and it's rare to find a player who had a bad combine. Just remember: The combine isn't a replacement for watching tons of tape, but it's a helpful indicator, a check on what we think we know and in many cases a reason to go back to the tape to see if our eyes have been deceiving us. Is he really that fast? Is the scheme he plays in hiding his true ability? It elicits all kinds of questions.
The combine gets going next week, but the studying goes on and you will see changes here week to week. I'm getting through tape and calls on about three to five players a day and will do the same for the next couple of months. There are things that stand out to me, things I've missed due to the pace of the season, and my rankings shift. Yes, I watch a ton during the season, but believe me, you need the extra time.
Remember: Scouting reports remain similar week to week, though you'll see tweaks over the next couple months.
Asterisks denote players who were juniors at the time of their entry into the draft, and two asterisks denote redshirt sophomores. All players are now either officially in or out of the 2014 NFL draft.
I expect Clowney to have an outstanding combine and further cement his standing. Clowney has a special range of traits and talent, with the quickness to beat people at the point of attack, the power to run through blockers and the speed to pursue plays all over the field. He's not just an edge-rusher looking to quickly turn the corner; he doesn't even bend that well. He can win with quickness or power and succeed in any scheme. Need will factor into where he lands in the draft, especially given so much need at quarterback among teams drafting early.
Robinson is now my best bet to be the first offensive lineman taken, and I think his athleticism will shine in Indy. He is certainly a possibility to go with one of the top two picks, and it mainly would be because his tape from 2013 is exceptional. Brought in as a guard, Robinson started at left tackle in the SEC as a redshirt freshman and held his own. Last season, he was dominant, with increased strength making him closer to that complete package at tackle. He moves well, can get out in the run game and block in space and pass protects well with a wide base and quick feet. He also has long arms and delivers a solid punch. A potential star.
I expect Mack to put on a show in Indy, with good speed, agility and leaping ability and adequate length. Scouts are getting caught up on his tape, but those who haven't aren't missing constant dominance so much as versatility. You'll see Mack lining up both at the line and on the perimeter. He is versatile and capable of rushing the passer with quickness and power or dropping into coverage with a great ability to shed tackles and make plays in the open field. He uses good leverage to take on blocks and drive people back and uses quickness and strong hands to shed. He plays with a great motor and tackles with form.
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Mattress Firm Holding Corp. (the "Company") (NASDAQ:MFRM) today announced its financial results for the third fiscal quarter (13 weeks) ended October 29, 2013. Net sales for the third fiscal quarter increased 17.7% to $326.2 million, reflecting comparable-store sales growth of 2.9% and incremental sales from new and acquired stores. The Company reported third fiscal quarter earnings per diluted share ("EPS") on a generally accepted accounting principles ("GAAP") basis of $0.53, and EPS on a non-GAAP adjusted basis, excluding ERP system implementation costs ("Adjusted"), of $0.55. Diluted EPS on a GAAP basis and Adjusted basis are reconciled in the table below:
Third Fiscal Quarter Reconciliation of GAAP to Adjusted EPS
See "Reconciliation of Reported (GAAP) to Adjusted Statements of Operations Data" for Notes
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"As a result of initiatives we recently put in place combined with the early benefits we are experiencing from a renewed commitment of manufacturer advertising spend, we successfully drove traffic and comparable store sales growth in our third fiscal quarter," stated Steve Stagner, Mattress Firm's president and chief executive officer. "We implemented a number of sales initiatives during the quarter that encouraged our sales associates to improve their productivity and capture a higher percentage of sales from customers. While these initiatives resulted in an anticipated reduction in margins, we experienced a positive momentum shift in comparable store sales toward the end of the quarter that has continued into our fourth quarter. Furthermore, our strong pace of organic growth continued as we added 40 new stores to our base this quarter. We remain focused on our strategy of driving continued sales growth and building relative market share."
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Oakland, CA (Sports Network) - Ervin Santana threw eight strong innings and continued his mastery of the Athletics, as the Angels beat Oakland, 6-2, in the opener of a four-game series.
Santana (2-5), a 16-game winner a year ago, yielded three hits and a run while walking two and striking out four. The right-hander, who snapped a three-start losing streak, moved to 10-1 lifetime against the Athletics. His ERA against Oakland stands at 1.34 in 15 games (14 starts).
"I just want to put everything together in the second half...refocus and forget about the first half...(I had) good stuff today," said Santana.
Kendry Morales belted a two-run homer and extended his hitting streak to a career-best 16 games for the AL West-leading Angels, who started the post All-Star break with their fourth consecutive victory. Chone Figgins added a two-run double, while Erick Aybar had three hits and an RBI. Mike Napoli went 3-for-4 and scored once.
Dallas Braden (7-8) was charged with 10 hits and six runs over five innings and had a two-start winning streak broken.
"I figured I'd try something new and start everybody out 2-0, and see how that worked. That didn't really pan out," Braden said with a laugh. "They scored runs and I couldn't get an out."
Matt Holliday homered and drove in both runs for the Athletics, who won their previous two games, but remain mired in last place in the division.
Napoli singled to start the second inning and Morales then homered to left- center field.
The Angels exploded for four runs in the fourth to extend the cushion to 6-0. Napoli doubled to left to begin the frame, but was caught in a rundown between third and home for the second out of the inning. Howie Kendrick reached base on the play and went to second. Gary Matthews Jr. walked before Robb Quinlan singled to left field for a 3-0 lead. Figgins followed with a two-run double to the gap in left-center, and Aybar added an RBI single to left.
Holliday homered to center with one out in the seventh.
Justin Speier came in for the ninth inning, but immediately gave up consecutive singles to Adam Kennedy, Orlando Cabrera and Scott Hairston. Brian Fuentes entered from the bullpen, and Holliday sent a fly ball to deep right- center field, but it was tracked down by Bobby Abreu. Kennedy scored, but pinch-hitter Nomar Garciaparra struck out. Kurt Suzuki then grounded out as Fuentes picked up his major league-leading 27th save.
H: Jerry Layne
1B: Tony Randazzo
2B: Chris Guccione
3B: Mike Muchlinski