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I've been waiting for a non-plastic, non-lame ("look at me, I'm tracking my steps!") way to wear a fitness tracker for years. So props to Tory Burch for partnering with Fitbit on a gold bangle that looks like nothing else on the market. The bracelet isn't real gold, of course, but it's shiny and substantial, with a cool geometric pattern, and the hinged design is comfortable.—Caitlin Roper
Ariel Zambelich/WIRED Back in the early '90s, the best car audio amps were made in the US of A. Even now, it's tough to beat the sound quality of an old-school jewel like the Linear Power 952i. Bone stock it put out 47.5 watts per channel, but a few mods pushed it to 65. The result is clean and dynamic sound. It's like having Mick and Keef riding shotgun, strumming "Wild Horses" as I tear up my favorite back road.—Chuck Squatriglia
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Ariel Zambelich/WIRED I don't always want to dress like a Power Ranger, but I always wear protective gear when I ride my motorcycle. So I'm stoked on the Revit Windsor. Made of heavy cotton, it's a thoughtful piece of armored motorcycle kit. It even looks like a cool, military-style jacket you'd wear to the bar. But don't—because if you get on your bike after closing your tab, you'll probably have to test its protective abilities.—Joe Brown
Ariel Zambelich/WIRED I took one of The North Face's Base Camp Duffels along on a recent trip to Brazil for the World Cup. The size was perfect. My "small" fit an extensive travel wardrobe while retaining unimpeachable carry-on status. Cushy straps made it comfy to tote around. An even better testimonial? My three travel companions wouldn't shut up about how badly they wanted one.—Kyle VanHemert
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Nerf's Super Soaker Tidal Tube Blaster. It uses a simple pump-action plunger—much like a giant, 10-ounce syringe—to shoot a stream of the
wet stuff about 20 feet. Keep a bucket nearby for refills; just dip the
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along comes Teenage Engineering's OP-1. This portable music machine is improbably capable—it squeezes synth sounds, drum sounds, oscillators,
modulation tools, a 4-track recorder, and a mixer into a tiny, super-clean white box. Building tracks is a joy; you
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Ariel Zambelich/WIRED I love massive, head-hugging cans as much as the next headphone nerd. But they're not the most practical audio accessories. That's why I'm digging Beyerdynamic's new T51i. These German-made beauties come with all the rich, immersive sound of an over-the-ear headphone, but in a much more travel-friendly package. Superb isolation means you won't even need to crank your Krautrock.—Bryan Gardiner
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In the spring of 1988, two leading journals published special issues on quality of care (Health Affairs, 1988; Inquiry, 1988). Several subjects have become especially topical: (1) measurement of patient outcomes and health status; (2) the impact of Medicare's Prospective Payment System (PPS) and other financing schemes on quality of care (Heinen et al., 1988; ProPAC, 1989; PPRC, 1989); (3) the extraordinary and unexplained variations in population-based rates of use of services across like geographic areas (Chassin et al., 1986; Schroeder, 1987; Brook et al., 1989); and (4) appropriateness of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures and ways to feed information on utilization back to clinicians in those geographic areas.3
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The city council will vote on higher fines for owners of dogs who attack, but it has rejected breed-specific legislation against Pit Bulls.
The dog was 20 feet from shore, surrounded by ice and swimming for his life when the Henrico Fire Department arrived.
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HARLINGEN — Bird watchers have something to be excited about as city chamber members held a ribbon cutting ceremony at Hugh Ramsey Park for the revitalization of four ponds. The ponds were dried out from the drought and so the city installed a water system and now the ponds are full of water again with the project costing $280,000 dollars.
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John Stultz discovered a faulty BUG_ON trigger in the handling of
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The road was no wider than a driveway, hemmed in by tall trees that formed a canopy above. By day it was brooding and damp, and at night the only illumination came from the headlights of an occasional car.
We were driving from the Boonton Tavern to our musty apartment above a honky-tonk deep in the woods. My roommate, Nick was at the wheel. I was sweating like a hog in a sauna, due to the record heat and all the beer I'd drunk back in town. It did not help that the old car had no air conditioning. The windows were wide open, but the feeble breeze only made matters worse.
Nick pushed the old Toyota to 50 miles per hour in an effort to scare up a draft, while the worn-out shock absorbers sent shudders up my spine, and the pistons croaked and complained like a pair of old men on a park bench. I watched the speedometer needle climb higher and higher before it froze at 55 miles per hour.
Between my blood alcohol level and the unrelenting heat I was ready to pass out. I stuck my head out of the window in an effort to cool off. I stretched out further, balancing my weight on the window frame. The more I leaned out , the cooler the rush of air felt on my face.
Nick had bought a wooden roof rack at a yard sale for five dollars, and strapped it to the car with a pair of bungee cords. I figured that the flimsy device might be the coolest place in town. I reached up for it, fumbling until I gained enough purchase to pull myself up. Nick saw me climbing out and must have read my mind. He lunged for my ankle, but I tugged myself free. He bellowed that I should get back into the car, but I ignored him and hoisted myself to the roof.
The sudden gust of air took my breath away. I scrambled to the front, and wedged my knees between the front cross-bar and the roof. When I decided that I was properly secured, I knelt into a crouch. As the wind howled in my ears and whipped my long hair against my face. I filled my lungs and bent into the gale, spreading my arms like wings.
I blacked out for a moment, and when I regained consciousness, I found that I had folded my wings and had regained my hold on the roof rack. The wooden frame vibrated wildly beneath me, and I tightened my grip until my knuckles and my face turned as white as chalk. With a sudden snap the bungee cord at the front of the roof rack came loose, and the steel hook at the end of it raked across my chest. When the other cord let go, the car slid from under me, leaving me in a flying wooden heap, which a moment broke apart and crashed to the road. The only part that survived was a foot-long scrap of polished oak that I clutched in my hands. I watched Nick's tail lights disappear around a dark bend in the road. He had never looked back. I took flight with the shard of roof rack still in my hands, held before me like a bumper..
Whatever velocity had kept me airborne faded quickly.The pavement drew closer as my speed diminished. Things began to unfold in slow motion. It felt as if was simply hovering over the road. Seconds passed like minutes as I coasted above the pavement, counting every pebble that I passed. I saw my mother's face come into view. Her tears glistened in the night. She did not deserve this. I felt her heart break as I dropped the wooden scrap and crossed my arms to shield my head.
I awoke in a ditch. I didn't know how long I'd been there, but the bright sun burning my cobwebbed eyes signaled that I was alive. My head felt as if it was wrapped in a piano wire, and the constant glare of the sun made me sick to my stomach. I lifted an arm out of the ditch and dug my fingernails into the hot asphalt. I climbed onto the road, but fell back into the ditch immediately.
The sounds of the emergency room made me cringe, and I had to shut my eyes tightly to escape the bright light above my bed. Soon I was placed onto a gurney and rolled into a cramped elevator, then steered through busy tiled avenues at breakneck speed.
I was parked outside a pair of swinging doors with the word 'Radio' stenciled on one, and 'logy' on the other, A wheezing woman as frail and thin as fungo bat was rolled to a stop against the opposite wall. Everything about her was gray, from her wispy hair to her toes. A cloud seemed to hover above her, and I wondered if I'd ever be so gray. As they rolled me through the doors to the CAT scan, I smiled and said 'hello' to her, although I knew she would never respond. Life sucks in the end, I thought as I was pushed feet-first through the doors. It's difficult and sloppy and embarrassing, and in the end we all turn gray.
After the test I was returned to my room to await the verdict. A pair of nurses in green scrubs leaned over me, making small talk with each other as they hung bags on a stainless steel pole, and secured tubes from an oxygen line into my nostrils. One of them changed my dressing and re-taped the IV tubes to my arm, and the other replaced the vinyl morphine bag that dripped above my head. As the drug entered my veins I propped my head on the pillows and tried to stay awake. I didn't want to waste a good morphine high.
A doctor appeared at the door with my chart in his hands. He said that I had suffered a minor concussion, and that I was a very lucky young man. He said that someone had seen me on the side of road and hauled me to the hospital in the bed of a pickup truck. The doctor said that all I needed was some rest. He added that they would keep me overnight for observation, and perform an EEG in the morning. If all went well I'd be discharged, he said as he left the room.
The damage was far worse than the doctors could have imagined. I continued on my self-destructive path for years until I was taken to the Meadowlands one evening and nearly beaten to death by a trio of juiced-up Jersey City cops. They placed my head on the roof of their unmarked car, and the blows from their nightsticks re-opened the scar tissue in my temporal lobe. Soon the seizures began. I denied the condition at first, but in the end, epilepsy saved my life.
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The BBC reports on research pointing to the importance of seagrasses to protecting coral reefs against the impacts of ocean acidification, caused by carbon dioxide from fossil fuel emissions dissolving in seawater, causing unprecedented increases in the ocean's acidity.
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We've described ocean acidification as potentially the "the gravest and most immediate planetary threat yet," and as more and more research results become public, it appears that this threat is, indeed, every bit as potent as we had feared.Yet it has been a painfully slow process for ocean acidification to gain traction in the media and is still far from being a "mainstream" issue. So when the San Francisco Chronicle recently called for action to deal with the issue, we took notice. [Read more…]
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This infographic from MastersDegree.net lays it out there for all to see: Our oceans are getting more and more polluted, and most of the pollution originates from land, like plastics. These pollutants have a wide range of impacts on marine life, including getting caught up in the food chain, even at a microbial level. Scary stuff. Please share!
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We've barely explored the world's oceans, but when it comes to marine life living in the harsh conditions at the poles where few scientists and explorers can spend time, we are constantly being surprised by what we're discovering. The Greenland shark — the largest shark in the dogfish family — is no exception. It's slow — really slow — so scientists asked the logical question: "If it's so slow, how does it catch prey?" The BBC reports on a recent study. [Read more…]


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The Blind Boys of Alabama formed in 1939 in the Yellowhammer State, made up of a group of young boys from the Alabama Institute for the Blind in Talladega. Now, nearly 75 years later, the group has seen a rotating cast (not all of them blind), but their initial goal of spiritually uplifting audiences hasn't changed at all.
In the 1940s and '50s, they toured throughout the segregated South. During the 1960s, they sang at benefits for Martin Luther King, Jr., providing a soundtrack for the Civil Rights movement. There were opportunities to sell out for "secular" fame, but they stood firm. Then, at the turn of the century, they found a way to cross over without selling their souls.
In 2001, the Blind Boys released Spirit of the Century on Peter Gabriel's RealWorld label, mixing traditional church tunes with songs by Tom Waits and The Rolling Stones. It earned them their first Grammy Award. The next year they backed Gabriel on his Up album and joined him on tour. That was only the beginning. Their cover of Waits' "Way Down In the Hole" was picked as the theme song for the first season of The Wire, and they went on to work with Ben Harper, Mavis Staples and Bon Iver's Justin Vernon. Vernon and his buddy Phil Cook helmed the Blind Boys' 2013 disc, I'll Find a Way, handpicking the songs for the project. But they recorded in Wisconsin, and the ailing Clarence Fountain, a founding member of the group and its leader for many decades, couldn't make the trip. So they recorded his robust bass vocals in Birmingham and added them to the mix.
In total, the Blind Boys have won five Grammys and four GMA Dove Awards -- not that they're keeping count: "We appreciate the accolades and we thank God for them," says Jimmy Carter, a founding member and the group's leader for the past five years. "But we're not interested in money or anything other than singing gospel."


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World-renowned poet and master of prose Langston Hughes enlightened Americans nationwide when his poem "Let America Be America Again" appeared in 1936. Today, more than half a century later, this poem's insights into American society and its dream of social justice continue to resonate powerfully among readers. In celebration of the poem's inspiring message, artist Antonio Frasconi illustrated Hughes' poem with thirty-two woodcuts in an extraordinary limited-edition artist's book, adding a rich visual dimension to the poet's verses. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., noted scholar and W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University, contributed a foreword.
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Puppy doesnt like a family member
Kovu is 3 months old and just moved into my house prior to living with my gf. He loves me and my mother but does not like my dad at all! He wont even get near him and runs to me. I dont know what to do? Help please, im scared he will get big and still not like him
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Is it something with your puppy or with your dad? Has your dad been around the puppy as long as you and your mom? Where did you get your puppy? If it was a rescue puppy the dog may have trust issues with males. Or it could just be the way your dad acts towards the puppy. I think we would need more information on how the puppy came into the family, who does what with the puppy, etc. before anyone could give much advice.
Sorry, just re-read your post and saw some of the answers. Now that I see that, I wonder what things were like for him in your gf's house.
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Regional countries try to avoid confusion over Russia's attempt to create a new flight region including Crimea and parts of Ukraine.
By Linda Karadaku for Southeast European Times in Pristina -- 20/08/14
NATO air traffic regulations for the Balkans are often amended to maximise air safety. [AFP] |
Balkan aviation authorities are following NATO and EU air traffic regulations more cautiously after Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down in eastern Ukraine, officials said.
NATO regulations regulate the airspace over Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Kosovo.
Balkan civil aviation authority officials said they communicate daily with NATO.
"Everything that is undertaken is done with a unique goal to improve security, and the main focus is on the responsibility of states to provide reports of potential risks in some of the conflict areas," Dejan Mojsovski, director of the Macedonian Civil Aviation Agency, told SETimes.
The US Federal Aviation Administration issued a special note on the potentially dangerous situation in Ukrainian airspace, particularly over Crimea, the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.
"[There is a] potential for conflicting air-traffic control instructions from Ukrainian and Russian authorities, and the potential for misidentification of civil aircraft," it said.
Russia is trying to establish a new flight information region that includes airspace over Crimea and the international airspace now managed from Ukraine, resulting in conflicting instructions to pilots.
"Air carriers are required to follow instructions, but deal with other issues with the relevant air traffic control authorities," Eduard Sostaric, spokesman for the Croatian Civil Aviation Agency, told SETimes.
Croatia's civil aviation agency announced it is closing part of routes as a result of the Malaysia Airlines incident.
NATO first issued regulations for civil air traffic in the Balkan Joint Operation Area -- known as "spins" -- in 2000, but amends them repeatedly to factor in operational changes.
NATO made the latest changes in April when it opened the upper airspace over Kosovo for commercial flights under control of the Hungarian aviation authority.
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Croatia and Macedonia officials reported the number of flights and passengers have increased.
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There's a myth in politics that what the Prime Minister says matters. Actually, as he knows, and everybody who wants his job knows, it only matters much if he says it enough times. 'Long term economic plan', anyone?
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So how we will spot and get ahead of all those claims? We need your help to build the tools that can monitor this election properly and level the playing field between big-spending political parties and the rest of us.
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- Television. To pull out subtitles, we need someone to spend some time getting dvbstream, VLC or similar to work with CCExtractor. Not too hard but needs patience and decent linux skills. We also want to save the actual recordings too. (UPDATE currently blocked on getting a TBS 6284 working under linux — any takers?)
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- Twitter. A robust scraper for ongoing tweets, given a list of twitter handles and API keys. (UPDATE We have working but not terribly robust code for this, that I will get on github asap).
- Past tweets. A robust scraper for past tweets, given a list of twitter handles and API keys. You can go back about 3,000 tweets with the API. (UPDATE Ditto).
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- Pictures. Pictures are going to be important: infographics, twitpics, and other wannabe-viral content. Maybe Tesseract can pull out the text to make them more searchable.
- Websites. We think the software archive.org has built might be able to handle this.
- What websites look like. You sometimes see full length screen shots of websites. Regular visual records of news websites would be immensely valuable for tracking how the priority things get changes with the news agenda. (UPDATE: here's a start: http://partypages.johnre.es/ by @john_rees)
- Blogs / RSS. Scrape an RSS feed, given a URL.
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We can't speak for all the other people who might use this data: journalists, campaigners, researchers, and anyone else who's curious.
During the election we're running an 18 hour/day election centre doing rapid analysis of the campaigns' claims. We'll use this data to make sure we're focusing on the things that make most difference, and to make sure that when we've spotted something that doesn't stack up, people know and can choose not to repeat it.
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And what format would we like for the processed version? Here's an example, a simple adaptation of House of Commons Hansard from mySociety. Basically, each item should be an xml file, with <item> as the root tag, broken into <section>s where necessary (for example if the URL changes or a different person is known to be speaking) and each separate sentence in its own <s> tag — for which we used nltk.
Shout at us with any questions: firstname.lastname@example.com or @FullFact.
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Bespoke witch is a rocking story, lm/dm/hg :) love it. Its not finished yet but fab so far
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Looking for a good fic to keep me busy. In fact I was hoping to find an old fic abouthermione not being muggle born.
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ForeverFalling i think you may be thinking of My Brother Blaise.
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Mkm- Harem? It's by Scifichck. Or Ten Too Many by Flibhins. There are more in the Hermione/Multiples category that I can't recall. Hope that helps! :)
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There is a story that has a multitude of men engaged to Hermione Granger and I cant recall the title of it. Can anyone help me?
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angiehooks81 - alliean left the fandom several years ago. I think she took all her stories with her. I miss her too!
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Searching...can anyone tell me what happened to alliean? Loved her stories...Macaroons, Macaroon Crumbs...etc. Can't find her anywhere...and can't remember which site I found her stories on.
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@pelemdlee I highly recommend ladyofthemasque over on restrictedsection.org if you haven't read her fics yet! She was my into to HG/SS. For Someone Special is a long-completed-one
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If you haven't read the Fortnight Foray story for this week by TarnishedArmour - do yourself a favour and read it! Gorgeous writing!
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Somebody update something or I'm going to go crazy! After all day with three kids I need something to dig into at night :p Any favorite recs for Mione and Snape?
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from TarnishedArmour would be Mourning Comes. from Snapes_Goddess would be The Last Man On Earth.from Atruwriter would de Quidditch Wives and Easy To Keep!
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I wish all of the unfinished ones would show up finoshed tomorrow as a late birthday gift to...well everyone. If frogs had wings they wouldn't bump butts when they jump.
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How about TarnishedArmours the Road to Hell? A Living a History is also a good one.
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@melds: Oh, now that IS a good question. What story do I wish would get a sequel? Coming up with an answer is going to take some time...
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Just a side note: There are 3669 fics currently posted on GE. A rather inspirational number
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for everyone : just a wishful thinking, what stories in GE that you wish their author would write a sequel? mine would be MistressMalfoy's A Living History.
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I thought it was atruwriter. I remember a post on one fic about pediatric migraines. Awful things.
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Foreverfalling I think your are thinking of The Darker Side of Love by kerri24087. Her son has been ill but the last I heard he was doing much better.
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Her has one at adult fanfiction that is mine. Hermione is blaise's cousin and sick. Draco discovers this and there is tension.
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@foreverfalling... wow that a lot of info lol. i wish Atruwriter will update While You Were Gone, it's my fave!
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Man i feel stalkerish. I'm not. I am just an adult fangirl.
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I believe her family were affected by terrible fires in OZ a few years back as well.
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I LOVE atruwriter and everything she wrote. Her son was ill, if i recall
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anyone who like Atruwriter! she updated her profile in FF. hopefully there will be new stories and updates! keeping my fingers cross!
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@twistedcandi sounds like Shared Flame by LadyMiya over at aff.net
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Sorry my post was cut off. I was looking for a Hermione/Tom story.
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back in time (gasp) and meets Tom. He takes her to orphanage where he grew up and gets beaten by a muggle that works there.
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Separately, TheStreet Ratings team rates MATERION CORP as a Buy with a ratings score of B. TheStreet Ratings Team has this to say about their recommendation:
"We rate MATERION CORP (MTRN) a BUY. This is driven by some important positives, which we believe should have a greater impact than any weaknesses, and should give investors a better performance opportunity than most stocks we cover. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures, solid stock price performance, growth in earnings per share and increase in net income. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company shows weak operating cash flow."
Highlights from the analysis by TheStreet Ratings Team goes as follows:- MTRN's debt-to-equity ratio is very low at 0.19 and is currently below that of the industry average, implying that there has been very successful management of debt levels. Along with the favorable debt-to-equity ratio, the company maintains an adequate quick ratio of 1.15, which illustrates the ability to avoid short-term cash problems.
- Investors have apparently begun to recognize positive factors similar to those we have mentioned in this report, including earnings growth. This has helped drive up the company's shares by a sharp 25.81% over the past year, a rise that has exceeded that of the S&P 500 Index. We feel that the stock's sharp appreciation over the last year has driven it to a price level which is now somewhat expensive compared to the rest of its industry. The other strengths this company shows, however, justify the higher price levels.
- MATERION CORP has improved earnings per share by 6.1% in the most recent quarter compared to the same quarter a year ago. This company has reported somewhat volatile earnings recently. But, we feel it is poised for EPS growth in the coming year. During the past fiscal year, MATERION CORP reported lower earnings of $0.95 versus $1.19 in the prior year. This year, the market expects an improvement in earnings ($1.85 versus $0.95).
- MTRN, with its decline in revenue, underperformed when compared the industry average of 4.5%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues fell by 13.4%. The declining revenue has not hurt the company's bottom line, with increasing earnings per share.
- The company, on the basis of net income growth from the same quarter one year ago, has significantly underperformed compared to the Metals & Mining industry average, but is greater than that of the S&P 500. The net income increased by 8.0% when compared to the same quarter one year prior, going from $6.79 million to $7.33 million.
- You can view the full analysis from the report here: MTRN Ratings Report
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- Release Date: Mar 14, 2001
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A very enjoyable game with an intriguing storyline, a captivating environment, and engrossing gameplay.
Squad-based, tactical strategy game set in the same universe as the classic Fallout rpg sets a new standard. [Feb 2003, p.94]
The huge array of skills and the depth of character development stay true to Fallout's predecessors while the play is a devious mix of precision and inspired tactics with a healthy dose of an army motto, "Check, check and check again!"
The game has plenty of swearing, and lots of gore. I like running around nearly dead--you leave a big trail of red wherever you go. Ok, so maybe it is over the top, but at least somebody still has some cajones out there.
A tour-de-force for fans of both the genre and series, especially if you're able to handle the gigantic scope of the missions.
The best game of its kind available today. Anything coming after it has a lot to live up to.
For serious gamers who want a long squad-based game -- it's challenging, it has hours of gameplay, the Fallout universe is faithfully recreated and the production values are top-notch. It's not a game for everyone, though; the difficulty and squad-based strategy will turn some gamers off.
Capturing the offbeat Fallout flavor, humor, and sense of violence perfectly, Tactics should prove to be a worthy sidestep for the series.
What I did not expect from this game, besides its well-developed RPG foundation, is the sheer size of it. Fallout Tactics covers 3 CDs, contains 20 missions, and for the average game will take over 60 hours to complete. That is amazingly long, especially for a strategy game.
Fallout: Tactics isn't just one of the better squad-combat games out there. It's also a decent action game, and has strong roleplaying aspects.
The only problem is that there's too much of it. After a certain point, enough is enough. But while your attention holds out, this game is incredibly fun and challenging.
It'll provide dozens of hours of entertainment to both fans of squad-based combat games and fans of the series and stands a good chance of turning one into the other.
It will push you to be a better gamer, but once complete it has little replay value.
It adds new depth and action to the Fallout universe, while staying true to the rich history already built for the world.
An excellent game, true to Fallout tradition in all respects. Unfortunately, one of those respects is a cavalcade of bugs and a product rushed to the market.
An innovative game with a long single player campaign filled with loads of detail and fun gameplay.
Contains all the elements of a classic but foolishly falls short in vital areas. The overall quality does remain however and can keep a gamer involved for weeks, though not without side effects.
If you're a fan of squad-based combat, this title is a must!
Contains all the best elements of its predecessors, and introduces novelties that will make it popular today.
The mission structure is thoughtful, the character skill/trait development is fantastic, and the tactical combat is challenging.
An immensely detailed if not immensely exciting game.
Expanding a fine franchise, FT is the king of tactical combat games. [June 2001, p.72]
It's simply too frenetic in spots for some tastes. Still, that's a fairly minor quibble with what is undoubtedly one of the more enjoyable strategy offerings of the year thus far.
This latest effort seems mired in a war between greatness and mediocrityand mediocrity has the upper hand.
Many strategy fans will appreciate the depth and Fallout groupies will love the continuity, but some things like control in CTB mode or the pace in the classic style may drop bombs in the wrong places.
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I recently sold an item online and was paid by the purchaser using paypal. Paypal is apparently the only way to get paid. I have positive feedback on the site.
The buyer paid me. Paypal took their commission and now they are holding my funds. They claim they can hold onto my money for 21 days.
I have spoken to the purchaser. They thought they had paid in good faith and expected the item to ship. I typically don't ship a $900 item before the funds clear my bank, but Paypal is not releasing the funds. The purchaser is OK with paying me. Paypal has already subtracted their funds from their account.
I communicated with the buyer, who is anxiously awaiting their item. I am holding off shipment until I'm paid.
This, in my opinion, is an unfair and perhaps even illegal business practice. I would like to know where the funds are while I am waiting to get paid? Does Paypal invest them or bank them and earn interest on them? If so, then I am entitled to that also. Meanwhile, I made a purchase locally and charged it on my credit card. My intention was to sell the item I did sell and use those funds to pay my credit card. I will be charged interest while waiting to get paid. Who covers that?
It's time to look for another marketplace that is not controlled by Paypal. I have no issue with buyer protection, but this practice borders on fraud. Most credit card companies offer protection against unscrupulous sellers. They allow you to cancel payment.


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iFixit tears down the latest generation iMac to reveal LG display, removable GPU
iFixit got its hands on the newly announced 21.5-inch iMac and tore the all-in-one down to its screws and casing. The teardown analysis reveals the latest iMac has the same LG-manufactured LED display used in the previous generation iMac and a Thunderbolt port similar to the port found on the latest MacBook Pro models.
Good news for those that enjoy taking apart their iMac hardware as the magnetically held glass front is easily removed using suction cups, and the LCD is only held in by a few screws. Once the display is removed, the RAM, hard drive and optical drive are easily accessible. Interestingly enough, iFixit noticed a small opening for the optional SSD drive which can be mounted underneath the optical drive.
The logic board is a bit more difficult to remove as you need to disconnect several connectors and apply upward and outward pressure to jiggle it out of the casing. iMac owners don't have to worry about a fried processor or graphics card contributing to the early demise of their machine as both the GPU and the CPU heat sink can be removed from the logic board. If a problem with either component develops, you could easily replace the AMD graphics card or Intel CPU if you want.
Overall, iFixit gave the latest generation iMac a 7 out of 10 repairability score with 10 being the easiest to repair.
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The New Americans
Commentary: Still a vaunted destination, the US is the immigrant Olympics, and new citizens are gold medalists. THE NEW IMMIGRANTS
THE scene was a mini-market in Boston's ethnically diverse South End on a Saturday morning. Customers were picking up the morning newspapers.
Two young men from Uganda stood by the cash register. For unknown reasons one of them was loudly condemning the United States as materialistic, unfriendly, dirty, and wasteful. He blustered for several minutes while people avoided him.
Then an elderly man in a neat, dark suit looked up at him, shrugged, and with a Yiddish echo said, "So, leave."
It was as if he had raised a small American flag and given it one quick, patriotic wave.
The irony is that despite well-known excesses and shortcomings, the United States of America remains the premier destination of the world's immigrants. Instead of coming and leaving, they arrive and stay by the millions. The exercise of liberty, as a political and historical fact, still beckons most clearly from the American landscape despite significant changes in immigration laws.
Few newcomers want to leave. Grumble as they may, drive cabs as many do, they cluster together in communities and businesses for friendship and survival, and speak English hesitantly or not at all. But they stay and learn the irresistible ways of America.
Not surprisingly, voices are being raised that there is enough of "them" now, either legally or illegally. Over the last decade or so, too many immigrants have arrived, say the critics. The immigrants aren't assimilating; they cost too much, add to a bulging population, don't vote, and don't share good, old American values. They have become an environmental problem. Snatch the welcome mat away, slam the door, say the critics.
In the years between 1880 and 1924, the ideal behind the US motto, E Pluribus Unum (out of many, one) was much easier to embrace. Those who had come to the US prior to 1880 could afford to be magnanimous and establish a national policy of welcoming the expectant masses stepping off the crowded boats at Ellis Island.


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Families might choose an international adoption because of an affinity for a particular country or a desire to help. Many couples want a child who resembles them so that their family will not stand out as an "adoptive family." Since most adoptive families are Caucasian, this might explain the rise in adoptions from Russia and other eastern European countries.
In 2003, 37 percent of all international adoptions to the US were from countries where the majority of children adopted were Caucasian.
White couples may also be concerned about how their extended family will react to a black child. And they sometimes worry they are not up to the task of raising a black child in America and are not sure it is in the best interest of the child to be raised in a white environment.
Then, too, whites often are uncertain whether they can provide the child with cultural exposure to the African-American community.
Most adoption professionals agree that, all other things being equal, it is best to place an African- American child with an African-American family. The National Association of Black Social Workers' position is that every effort should be made to place children with families of the same race and culture.
Most, but not all, birth mothers agree, if they have the choice. However, they do not often have the choice, since fewer African-American couples apply to adoption agencies. One reason is that babies are frequently available within their extended family or community, and they have no need to go through the expense of an agency to adopt. Also, the number of infertile black couples who can afford to adopt is simply not as large as the number of black babies available.
Some speculate that African-American babies have lagged behind in adoption rates because many Americans don't realize they're available. Media coverage and popular culture have focused on Americans adopting internationally rather than domestically.
"When we started to think about adoption, we thought only of international adoption because that's all we were hearing about," says Lisa Malaquin-Prey of North Carolina, mother of an adopted Russian baby. "We thought it would cost too much and that we would have to wait for a long time if we adopted domestically."


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In the year of S.K. Pottekat's centenary, the works of this little-known Malayalam writer need to be brought into the limelight.
March 2013 marks the birth centenary of S.K. Pottekkatt, one of the icons of Malayalam literature. Pottekkat was one of the five Malayalam writers who won the prestigious Jnanpith Award. His genius, however, was not much recognised outside Kerala because of the constraint of language.
Pottekkatt was the product of the renaissance period of Malayalam literature that gathered momentum in the mid-20th century. His works straddled the two spheres of fiction and travelogues, where he created a unique identity of his own. While his distinguished colleagues like Takazhi, Keshav Dev and Basheer based their stories on Kerala's society, its caste and class divisions and the resultant injustices, Pottekkat's themes were more universal. Pottekkat explored the complexities of human relationships, romantic interludes and the agonies and ecstasies they caused. His early novels and short stories like Naadanpremam, Premashiksha, Chandrakaantam, and Padmaragam were romantic tales. Nadanpremam (Country Love) a story of love and sacrifice is widely regarded as a classic in modern Malayalam fiction.
Unusually for a Malayalam writer of his times, Pottekkatt travelled across the world on a shoestring budget, by 'deck' on ships, by third class on trains and sometimes by trucks and lorries. Avoiding air travel completely, he was aware of the ground realities in the countries he visited and saw people as much as places. As he once observed, "It is the pain and not the pleasure of travel that produces great travel literature." Fifty years later, his travelogues still make refreshing reading.
In his later works, Pottekkatt immortalised his home town Kozhikode through two novels. Oru Desathinte Katha (the story of a locale) and Oru Theruvinte Katha (story of a street). The former won him the Janapith Award in 1980.
Pottekkatt's craft was disciplined and his prose elegant and neatly chiselled. His writings were also marked by a delicious sense of humour. Dr. K. Parameswaran translated some of his stories into English in a vintage collection titled Twelve Stories. His centenary may be an occasion to bring out a more comprehensive volume of Pottekkatt's writings.
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Welcome to the High-Tech Jail of the 21st Century
Oct. 1 (Bloomberg) -- The fifth-biggest jail in the United States has become the home to the most cutting edge energy technology in the world. California's Santa Rita detention facility has an $11.7 million dollar "Smart Grid" project that
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Joe Allen enjoyed playing with Liverpool teammate Lucas Leiva for victory over Southampton.
With Lucas back in the holding midfield role, the Reds dominated throughout and Allen believes everyone in Brendan Rodgers' side benefited from his presence.
"You're always going to miss quality players like Lucas and it's great to have him back in the side," Allen told the Liverpool Echo. "When he pulled up injured in the Man City game it was a bitter blow.
"He had worked so hard to get back from the knee injury. It was a disappointing setback on a personal level but also from the football club's point of view.
"His return, with the steel and quality he brings, is only going to help the team going forward.
"It's a very important role. If you look at the top teams, they all utilise that position and have a quality player there.
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Rhubarb Meringue Pie
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- 1.00 disk Pate Sucree
- All-purpose flour, for surface
- 2 pound(s) rhubarb, trimmed and cut crosswise into 3-inch pieces
- 1.75 cup(s) sugar
- 1/4 cup(s) cornstarch
- Coarse salt
- 3 large egg yolks
- 4 large egg whites
- 2 tablespoon(s) unsalted butter
- Preheat oven to 375 F degrees. Roll out pate sucree to 1/8-inch thickness on a lightly floured surface. Fit dough into a 9-inch pie dish; trim to 1 inch, fold under, and crimp edges. Refrigerate for 30 minutes. Prick inside of pie shell all over with a fork; line with parchment. Fill with pie weights or dried beans. Bake until edges are golden and set, 20 to 25 minutes. Remove weights and parchment. Bake until bottom is dry and light gold, 5 to 10 minutes more. Let cool.
- Juice rhubarb. (You'll need 2 cups juice; add water if needed.) Whisk together 1 cup sugar, the cornstarch, and 1/2 teaspoon salt. Whisk in juice; bring to a boil in a medium saucepan, whisking. Cook for 1 minute.
- Place yolks in a bowl; gradually whisk in half of hot juice mixture. Return to pan. Cook over medium heat, whisking, until thick, about 1 minute. Whisk in butter. Strain through a fine sieve into pie shell. Refrigerate until set, at least 4 hours or overnight.
- Preheat broiler with rack about 8 inches from heat source. Heat whites and remaining 3/4 cup sugar in a double boiler or a heatproof bowl set over a pan of simmering water, whisking, until sugar dissolves and mixture is hot (160 degrees F), about 2 minutes. Transfer to the bowl of a mixer. Whisk on high speed until medium peaks form. Dollop meringue onto pie. Broil until browned, 30 to 40 seconds.
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