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FBI Rejects Freedom of Information Act Request About Carrier IQ 156
from the let's-jump-to-conclusions dept.
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People, there is a path here...
http://androidforums.com/evo-4g-all-things-root/459292-how-do-i-remove-carrier-iq-software.html [androidforums.com]
Rom your phone, walla no more carrier ifucked.
It's little things like this why the art of hacking is not all lost despite the American social media's mass confusion.
If the FBI is using Carrier IQ data for investigative purposes, doesn't that call into question the earlier claim from security researchers that Carrier IQ isn't logging data [slashdot.org]?
If you read closely, you'll see that Carrier IQ's argument relies heavily on that data never hitting their servers. The fact that their keylogger-capable malware allows the carrier to extract that info, and consequently hand it to the FBI, is "not their fault" [1].
[1] http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/12/08/carrier-iq-interview [daringfireball.net]
But when the FBI/CIA/NSA or some other TLA requests details of a carrier's customer, they PAY for it. Were you not here when there were massive discussions about the release of a carrier's price list for law enforcement and the services they offered to them? Law enforcement doesn't have to get a warrant or a subpoena, they just fill out an order form, check the appropriate boxes and send payment. It's not "law." It's commerce.
Notably, both Stalin's regime and entire Stasi organisation have been significantly less successful at monitoring people. We long past the point where even those comparisons in terms of monitoring would be appropriate. To try to whine about Putin, who actually failed at any significant monitoring of his people (as in comparison to both above) shows extreme depth of ignorance in the subject. As it stands now, top countries in terms of monitoring their citizens are located in the West, and the gap between them and others is more of a huge chasm.
Google didn't put it in Android but a number of Android OEMs ARE using CarrierIQ, mostly at the behest of carriers like AT&T who said "include CarrierIQ or we wont sell your new phone"
The FCC has came out and said rooting an iPhone is legal.
I take them a more authoritative on the matter then a random slashdot poster.
Be sociable. Speak to the person next to you in the unemployment line tomorrow.

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Offshore wind power is a valuable source of renewable energy that can help reduce carbon emissions. Technological advances are allowing higher capacity turbines to be installed in deeper water, but there is still much unknown about the effects on the environment. In a recent paper, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science researcher Helen Bailey and colleagues review the potential impacts of offshore wind developments on marine species and make recommendations for future monitoring and assessment as interest in offshore wind energy grows around the world.
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Which kind of power is the cheapest? Listen to energy companies, and they'll insist that traditional forms like gas and coal are the way to go. Of course, they have money invested in keeping the existing systems in business. That's why the European Union commissioned an independent analysis to study the topic. According to the report, wind energy is the most cost-efficient way to supply power. When proponents of non-renewable energy point to costs, they intentionally overlook the overall economic impact that polluting causes. Once experts start to calculate the costs associated with public health and climate change that coincide with burning coal and gas, the true cost is far higher than initially reported. It's both irresponsible and shortsighted to ignore these environmental and health consequences from the equation.
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A global low-carbon energy economy is not only feasible - it could actually double electricity supply by 2050, while also reducing air and water pollution, according to new research. Even though photovoltaic power requires up to 40 times more copper than conventional power plants, and wind power uses up to 14 times more iron, the world wins on a switch to low-carbon energy. These positive findings are published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by Edgar Hertwich and Thomas Gibon, of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology Department of Energy and Process Engineering.
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Elephants worth more alive, than when they are poached for ivory
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Elephants are worth 76 times more when they're alive than dead, according to a new analysis released this past weekend. The report follows on the heels of findings by WWF that the world has lost 50 percent of its wildlife over the past 40 years, with more than half of African elephants killed for ivory in just one decade. The analysis, conducted through the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust's iworry campaign, compared the value of elephants to local economies to profits netted through the illegal ivory trade.
How "Natural" are Naturally Labeled Foods?
October 8, 2014 08:46 AM - ClickGreen Staff, ClickGreen
A wide variety of packaged food that carry the label "natural" on US supermarket shelves were found to contain substantial amounts of genetically modified organisms (GMO), according to product testing organization Consumer Reports. Tests on dozens of common food products including breakfast cereals, crisps and infant formula found almost all of them contained recognizable levels of GMOs. The research results has led to Consumer Reports to now call for the mandatory labeling of GMOs in food and a ban on the "natural" label, which suggest products don't contain the controversial ingredients.


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Looking fo advice on variety of pear tree planting
Just joined-1st post. Have 4 Maple trees that are interfering with power lines in boulevard and must be removed. My City will replace 2 trees at no cost. I am attempting to get a 3rd tree provided by the Power Co. that will no longer have to absorb the expense of "v-ing" them out every 4 yrs. One of the options from my city is the Clevland Pear(supposedly power line friendly). I've read some BAD reviews of this variety on this site. HOWEVER, would it be a good enough cross pollinater for a more acceptable variety in my yard? If you were in MY situation, what would you plant in the yard? (Gotta tell you, the last 2 properties that I owned, I wanted a producing pear tree on - but never got around to planting one). Would appreciate any/all advice.
If you plant a pear that is on quince rootstock or OHxF , it should be small enough to stay under the wire. Not all pears are compatible with quince. When you go to a nursery, ask them for the NAME of the rootstock. Don't accept "semi-dwarf". They often say that when they don't know or when they're too lazy to check it out and just want you to pay.
John S
Cleveland pear is, I assume, a relative of the Bradford pear of shopping mall fame- ornamental with tiny worthless (to people) fruit. Bradford flowers early and may miss most European varieties. Seckel flowers early enough and is pretty reliably self-fruitful anyway. Most Asian pears would likely be compatible.


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Tarte Amazonian Clay 12-hour Full-Coverage Foundation SPF 15
566 reviews
60% would repurchase
Package Quality: 4.2
Price: $$$
Package Quality: 4.2
Price: $$$
INGREDIENTS6% Titanium dioxide 3% Zinc Oxide Inactive Ingredients: Water, cyclopentasiloxane, octldodecyl neopentanoate, butylene glycol, plyglyceryl-4 isostearate, dimethicone crosspolymer, PEG/PPG-18/18 dimethicone, dimethicone, silica, cetyl PEG/PPG-10/1 dimethicone, stearic acid, aluminum hydroxide, sodium dehydroacetate, phytantriol, hexyl laurate, triethoxycaprylysilane, nylon-12, sodium chloride, kaolin, tocopherol, tetrahexyldecyl ascorbate, polyvinylalcohol crosspolymer, magnesium chloride, potassium chloride, zinc chloride, lysine, sodium hyaluronte, hexylene glycol, caprylyl glycol, phenoxyethanol. potassium sorbate, titanium dioxide, iron oxides, mica Made in USA
on 4/29/2014 7:50:00 AM
Age: 30-35
Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium, Warm
Hair: Brunette, Wavy, Coarse
Eyes: Brown
This is a so-so foundation. I have combo/dry skin, with a lot of oil in my t-zone but this winter has left my cheeks and the area around my mouth quite dry. That being said, you definitely need to moisturize well with this foundation. I find that I cannot layer it very easily because it ends up looking too obvious and chalky. I also think that this is not a true full coverage foundation (that is not what I was looking for anyway, but if you buy this thinking it is, you may be disappointed). When I get the occasional blemish, I still need to add quite a bit of concealer on top of the foundation to really cover it. It has a strange mousse- like texture that takes some getting used to if you generally use liquid foundations.
It also does not really stay 12 hours on my skin. Around the 4 hour mark it starts to fade around the edges of my nose, but also tends to settle in those little creases.
I do love the matte finish and the fact that it is some ingredients beneficial for your skin. When I'm having a good skin day and I am very well hydrated, this looks quite nice. But it's difficult to work with daily when i'm getting ready for work. I'll use up the tube but would probably not re-purchase.
on 4/28/2014 3:58:00 PM
Age: 19-24
Skin: Combination, Olive, Warm
Hair: Brunette, Wavy, Medium
Eyes: Hazel
I think I might have FINALLY found my HG foundation. And I have tried quite a handful, both high-end and drugstore (Revlon CS, Revlon CS Whipped, Rimmel Lasting Finish, Bare Minerals, Laura Mercier Silk Creme, MakeUp Forever HD, Urban Decay, Estee Lauder DW), to name a few.
Before I dive into my full review, some background about my skin: I have light golden olive skin (NC20ish currently), my skin gets pretty light and grey-looking in the winter (ew) but I tan very easily and nicely in the summer. My skin is combination and acne prone, I get quite oily in my T-zone all year round but quite dry on my cheeks and around my mouth and eyes in the winter. Finding the right products for my skin is always a challenge.
THE PAST: I was a loyal Bare Minerals user for years, it was the first foundation I fell in love with and we had a good run but as I grew out of my teen years I began to realize that it looked cakey on my skin and was rather drying - whether I was oblivious to those things the entire time I wore it or whether my skin changed with age, I don't know, but I fell out of love with it about a year ago. Ever since, I have been on the search for a compatible liquid foundation.
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Makeup is only going to look as good as the skin underneath it. I am very strict on my skincare and face cleansing, I ALWAYS remove my makeup before bed no matter how tired I am, even if that means half-assing it and using only a makeup wipe. ALWAYS take off your makeup before bed, always. Even with my diligent skincare routine I still get random small pimples and occasional nasty, large cystic bumps but my skin is now nearly flake free and blemish free, I think in large part thanks to finally taking proper care of my skin.
My go-to foundation as of late has been Laura Mercier Silk Creme or Urban Decay Naked, neither of which I am totally in love with. I love the silky texture and coverage that LM provides but it's staying power doesn't really impress me even with a good primer and Skindinavia setting spray - it just doesn't last around my T zone and begins to fade around my jaw by midday. I do expect a lot out of my foundation but staying power is a MUST for me. The Urban Decay naked feels truly naked, which I love, but it is too sheer for me for most days. On good skin days I can be confident wearing it but that's rare, the color I have (4.0) is too dark for my pale skin at the moment also, it looks splotchy as it wears because the shade and my skintone are so different right now. I think the color match will be perfect mid-summer when my skin is tan. The UD staying power isn't the greatest either, it rubs off on everything and doesn't last all day. I plan to use it in the summer for light coverage on days when I am only running short errands and don't need it to last for a full day of work.
This is getting long-winded and I apologize but I always enjoy reading long in-depth reviews of a product when I am really interested in it before I decide to buy it.
THE HOLY GRAIL (maybe): In comes Tarte Amazonian Clay 12-hour Full Coverage Foundation (that's a mouthful). I have considered trying this for a while but just never bothered to buy it and tried Urban Decay Naked and LM-SC instead. When I wasn't completely enthuse with either of those, my search began again. On a whim, I recently purchased Tarte BB 12-hour Tinted Primer in Light and fell in love with it. I don't usually buy things on a whim but I'm so glad I did. It has amazing coverage for a BB cream, a silky feel, and it provided a good, even base for my LM-SC - but that's another review. Anyways, the point is that Tarte's BB primer introduced me to the Tarte line and after being so pleased with the primer, I decided to bite the bullet and buy the foundation. I currently wear the 12-hour foundation in Light Sand and it is the closest match that I have ever found for my light golden olive skin - that alone really impressed me! It is almost on the edge of being too light and as the weather continues to get warmer and my skin continues to warm up, I will have to sooner rather than later move on to Light Medium Sand - I am hoping that will match my summer skin just as well as Light Sand matches my winter skin.
Aside from the tone matching so closely, I love the feel and finish of this foundation, it is comparable in feel to Laura Mercier Silk Creme but I feel that it stays matte longer on my skin and is easier to blend and looks more natural, + the color is better for me. After I apply my toner, moisturizer, and primer, I apply the Tarte AC foundation in small dots to my face, blending and smoothing it out with my fingers. I find that the warmth of my fingers helps melt the product into my skin. I then use a damp BB sponge to tap gently over the top to blur any finger marks or smudges. I typically only have to apply one layer of foundation to get my desired Medium+ coverage, and build up a second light layer in trouble spots. I finish off with Skindinavia setting spray and then move on to my bronzer/blush, etc. I get flawless, natural, semi-satin coverage that lasts a good 10 hours with minimal to no touch-ups, I am SO impressed with this foundation and I am very rarely impressed by much, especially cosmetics! I could keep going but I'm sure your eyes are bleeding by now if you made it this far.
THE END: Some people say that this foundation is expensive but I will gladly splurge on foundation if it works because the key to great makeup is a great canvas and I do believe you get what you pay for, especially with this foundation. Plus, it's .7 ounces larger than typical foundations... 1.7 ounces will set you back about $38 USD but you get almost twice as much product! For me that's a GREAT deal and more than worth it. It may not work for everyone but it works fo
on 4/27/2014 12:54:00 PM
Age: 19-24
Skin: Normal, Olive, Cool
Hair: Brunette, Wavy, Coarse
Eyes: Black
Ah, how tedious the search for the perfect foundation is. So far, this one's my HG for these reasons:
- Doesn't look cakey, even without applying primer first
- Perfect tone for me (although this is a very personal reason)
- Blends in majestically with my bronzer, concealer, etc.
- Actually long-lasting
I can't tell you how perfect this tone (Tan) is for me. It looks closest to my natural skin tone and even gives me a VERY SUBTLE looking tanned appearance.
- Feels a little heavy
The only con, aside from the price, is that it felt heavy enough to clog my pores. I already have a bit of acne cosmetica, so for a month or two I switched to the 4-in-1 Pressed Mineral Foundation by Pür Minerals, as I was told by the Ulta consultant that it was more lightweight than this one. It just wasn't the same. Tone was off and didn't settle into my skin as well.
Oh well. The struggle of choosing between having clean, clear skin or looking temporarily nice when I leave my house continues.
on 4/22/2014 6:52:00 PM
Age: 19-24
Skin: Acne-prone, Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Black, Other, Other
Eyes: Brown
I love this foundation! perfect for acne prone skin! no parabens or harsh chemicals :)
I bought the brush that is suggested for this foundation. I have realized that i tend to use to much product with that brush. Has anyone tried applying it with their hands? It works very well as odd as that sounds. Overall this is an amazing foundation. I would say it is medium coverage. It has more pink undertones than yellow so watch out for that one! It is amazing for oily skin. It controls the oils and does not accentuate dry patches either!
on 4/22/2014 12:25:00 AM
Age: 18 & Under
Skin: Acne-prone, Fair, Not Sure
Hair: Blond, Other, Other
Eyes: Green
This may just be my new HG foundation..
I have been using this for a month now, I had just switched from my old foundation which was making me break out horribly, and thank goodness I found this! So the texture is like a thick mousse which feels really lovely and airy on the skin. I'd never tried a foundation with a mousse consistency before so this was a pleasant surprise for me. I apply it with a damp beauty blender and it looks beautiful. The coverage is medium. I have huge pores and acne- prone skin with hyper pigmentation scars and this does a great job of camouflaging without covering too much and making me look fake and cakey. I have oily skin and this lasts all day. Lasts about 9 hours, 12 hours on a good day. Definitely recommend this to anyone with oily skin looking for decent coverage.
on 4/19/2014 12:05:00 PM
Age: 19-24
Skin: Acne-prone, Fair-Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Black, Other, Other
Eyes: Brown
It was such a cakey disaster when i applied with my regular flat-top foundation brush (bare minerals precise angle) i hated it. It looked like i has put on a mask and this made me really sad because the formula and shade were perfect for me. Anyways i tried again with a damp sponge and it was perfect! Not as full a coverage as with a brush but that also meant not cakey. I had it on for literally 12 hours and it lasted me the whole day with no touch-ups! Just a little blotting with tissue after 10 hours. Btw im usually nw25 and i have this in the shade light sand. Fair skin with yellow undertones.
on 4/15/2014 3:19:00 PM
Age: 19-24
Skin: Combination, Fair, Cool
Hair: Brown, Curly, Medium
Eyes: Blue
I really liked how well it went on; it was nice and smooth and it did last all day. You know how I could tell? Because even the lightest shade was still too dark for me. I was actually waiting for it to start rubbing off. Had to return, very disappointing.
on 4/15/2014 12:30:00 PM
Age: 25-29
Skin: Sensitive, Olive, Not Sure
Hair: Brunette, Other, Other
Eyes: Brown
I purchased in an attempt to find something that is heavier coverage than clinique acne/sensitive foundation.
I was told it is great for both sensitive and oily skin and they WEREN'T LYING!
It is rare to find something that my skin doesnt react to, so i do love this product BUT
1-it is VERY thick. more full cvg than i originally wanted
2- i think it is VERY expensive.
that being said, it has lasted a few months so far. The tube however is difficult to get the last bit of product out of it so a lot goes to waste.
on 4/13/2014 2:52:00 PM
Age: 18 & Under
Skin: Combination, Fair, Not Sure
Hair: Black, Other, Medium
Eyes: Brown
This foundation is kind of thick, but it applies on my face nicely. It has build-able coverage (remember to let the 1st layer settle in) and still looks quite natural for the second layer. I can still somewhat see my blemishes, but it evens out everything. I would say that it lasts for 12 hours, but if you have oily skin like mine, the foundation could come off whenever you touch your face. When that happens, I usually use oil blotting papers or tissues to lightly pat my face to remove most of the oils. Since I have oily skin, it doesn't dry out my face, and it also doesn't make me break out, which is great because my skin is acne-prone. I've used this for more than a year now, and I wouldn't mind buying another bottle after the current one runs out, but it is pricey. I also noticed recently is that it is oxidizing/turning slightly orange. This didn't happen before, but now I'm on a search for a new foundation that doesn't oxidize as much, otherwise you can tell the difference between the shade of my face from my neck.
TL;DR: Thick foundation, better applied with clean fingers than a brush, build-able coverage that looks pretty natural for the 2nd layer, lasts for 12 hours, doesn't dry out skin or contribute to break outs, started to somewhat oxidize after months of using it.
on 4/7/2014 2:39:00 PM
Age: 25-29
Skin: Combination, Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Blond, Straight, Medium
Eyes: Blue
I wanted to try a more organic foundation... I regret it. I ended up breaking out horribly in less than a week! This looked good upon first application at Ulta...but overall this is cakey and mask like. It also is not long wearing....I look patchy by the end of the day. It is a mousse like consistency too..supposed to be light weight but it feels heavy to me. The only plus is the packaging is easy for travel and it is 1.7oz where other brands offer 1.0 oz. I would not recommend this product. I'm returning it. Now I have to fix my skin that was blemish free prior to trying this.
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I don't grow that many clematis. I bought this unmarked from a local nursery 2 years ago. It has settled in quite well, and has a ton of buds and started blooming much earlier than my others. I would like to get another one, but don't know the name. I feel like it's fairly common as this was not a specialist nursery. Thanks in advance-Barb
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Ramona is one of the best.
thanks to all of you..I am sure it is Ramona. For me, a really good performer and I will be on the look out for another. The iris is just a siberian iris...nothing special-a pass along plant so i can't give a specific id, but a huge plus in my yard---have had it at least 20 years and dug it, moved it, divided it, and given it away by the wheelbarrow...no pests, no diseases, no coddling (I almost take it for granted)...I am zone 8b if that helps.
I just bought a Siberian Iris at a big plant sale that is supposed to be a rebloomer but I can't remember the name. The Iris society had a booth at the show. I have several dwarf beardeds and beardeds but no Siberians. I wish Iris bloomed for longer periods of time. They have the coolest blooms and great colors. The biggest commercial grower in the US is here and they have the most amazing display garden, I go every year. They have Clemmies too (in the garden)


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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Quicksilver \Quick"sil'ver\, noun [Quick living + silver; -- so called from its fluidity; cf. G. quecksilber, L. argentum vivum. See {Quick}, adjective] (Chem.) The metal mercury; -- so called from its resemblance to liquid silver.
{Quicksilver horizon}, a mercurial artificial horizon. See under {Horizon}.
{Quicksilver water}, a solution of mercury nitrate used in artificial silvering; quick water.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Mercury \Mer"cu*ry\, noun [L. Mercurius; akin to merx wares.]
1. (Rom. Myth.) A Latin god of commerce and gain; -- treated by the poets as identical with the Greek Hermes, messenger of the gods, conductor of souls to the lower world, and god of eloquence.
2. (Chem.) A metallic element mostly obtained by reduction from cinnabar, one of its ores. It is a heavy, opaque, glistening liquid (commonly called {quicksilver}), and is used in barometers, thermometers, etc. Specific gravity 13.6. Symbol Hg (Hydrargyrum). Atomic weight 199.8. Mercury has a molecule which consists of only one atom. It was named by the alchemists after the god Mercury, and designated by his symbol, [mercury].
Note: Mercury forms alloys, called amalgams, with many metals, and is thus used in applying tin foil to the backs of mirrors, and in extracting gold and silver from their ores. It is poisonous, and is used in medicine in the free state as in blue pill, and in its compounds as calomel, corrosive sublimate, etc. It is the only metal which is liquid at ordinary temperatures, and it solidifies at about -39[deg] Centigrade to a soft, malleable, ductile metal.
3. (Astron.) One of the planets of the solar system, being the one nearest the sun, from which its mean distance is about 36,000,000 miles. Its period is 88 days, and its diameter 3,000 miles.
4. A carrier of tidings; a newsboy; a messenger; hence, also, a newspaper. --Sir J. Stephen. "The monthly Mercuries." --Macaulay.
5. Sprightly or mercurial quality; spirit; mutability; fickleness. [Obs.]
He was so full of mercury that he could not fix long in any friendship, or to any design. --Bp. Burnet.
6. (Bot.) A plant ({Mercurialis annua}), of the Spurge family, the leaves of which are sometimes used for spinach, in Europe.
Note: The name is also applied, in the United States, to certain climbing plants, some of which are poisonous to the skin, esp. to the {Rhus Toxicodendron}, or poison ivy.
{Dog's mercury} (Bot.), {Mercurialis perennis}, a perennial plant differing from {Mercurialis annua} by having the leaves sessile.
{English mercury} (Bot.), a kind of goosefoot formerly used as a pot herb; -- called {Good King Henry}.
{Horn mercury} (Min.), a mineral chloride of mercury, having a semitranslucent, hornlike appearance.
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1: liable to sudden unpredictable change; "erratic behavior"; "fickle weather"; "mercurial twists of temperament"; "a quicksilver character, cool and willful at one moment, utterly fragile the next" [syn: {erratic}, {fickle}, {mercurial}, {quicksilver(a)}]
1: a heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element; the only metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures [syn: {mercury}, {quicksilver}, {hydrargyrum}, {Hg}, {atomic number 80}]
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Just inherited a Yard Bug Riding Mower, (Model 13B-325-401), Used only one summer. Excellent shape, kinda Fun! On the Grass Bag there is what the Manual calls a "Grass Fill Level Indicator". Mine only has the black rubber gromet, but no other functioning parts. The manual talks about a ball that drops as soon as the hopper is full (due to air flow). I know this thing is pretty cheap to buy, $13.66. The cut sheets show my gromet but no other working parts? Anybody got one of these? How is it configured? Does it really work?
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The "Grass Fill Level Indicator" is a yellow ping pong ball. However, you may use a white ping pong ball if you desire. The ball floats on a stream of air until the grass bin is full and then it settles down into the gromet located on top of the bin. There is a small window on the bug cover just in front of the seat to view the ball.
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Well, I have gone and done it. I bought a 6X9 Nettar on eBay for about $20 including shipping. Not even sure if it works. It has the relatively cheap f/7.7 lens and appears to be an early one. Zone focusing, of course.
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How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
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"Provocative, challenging and witty…In challenging the line between reading and non-reading, Bayard actually whet my appetite to read more."—USA TodayWith so many important books out there, and thousands more being published each year, what are we supposed to do in those inevitable social situations where we're forced to talk about books we haven't read? Pierre Bayard argues that it doesn't really matter if you've read a book or not. (In fact, in certain situations, reading the book is the worst thing you could do.) Championing the various forms of "non-reading," How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read is really a celebration of books, for book lovers everywhere to enjoy, ponder, argue about—and perhaps even read.
Pierre Bayard is a professor of French literature at the University of Paris VIII and a psychoanalyst. He is the author of Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?, and many other books.
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About 6-7 am……got up to pee and saw how pretty the lighting was!
Was featured in the Inspiration RB blog, and was also the cover picture for it!!!!!!! yay!!!!
stunning image
Thank you, Rosina :)
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Having those lights reflected on the snow makes this a pretty scene. I had to laugh at your VERY truthful description, letting us know why you were up at such an early hour :) :) I assume the scene was so pretty that you grabbed the camera to get the shot BEFORE you went pee, right? :) :)
lool! Ofcourse had to shoot this first! :))) Pity that the cam didnt get thru the real colours…..everything was more lilac….
But its alright as it is i guess…
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You can add this one in Art In Math.
Ok! thanks :)
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this is really incredible !!! i love the lights
outstanding :)
intense living space
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Im not after money (eventhough this is like a first sale!!!), i dont know how to mess around with that stuff, so if u want i can email it in high resolution (whichever u want) and u can get it printed the way u like it!
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just like ants in the nest, just better….a bit more glow
Its not THAT bad! Quite fun to do some window-looking lol
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I missed the "Mole" story when it broke in 2012, so I was coming to this completely fresh. I'm glad I did. Joe Muto's thoughts in retrospect make a much better story than it did while it was unfolding. This is often true for newsworthy events. I found the story funny, laughing out loud to my radio many times throughout the book.
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I have owned this stock since 2007 at an average buy of $4.61. Any thoughts of what the new study means and any insights to where the other Phase 2 studies are at?
Sentiment: Strong Buy
Anybody have a clue when the next event for the stock will be?
It is up. INCY is slightly down. That stock seems to always travel in a dfferent direction


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Guild Wars 2 Release Date Announced: August 28th
NCSoft have finally told Guild Wars fans what they've been waiting to hear for months…The official release date for Guild Wars 2. Starting August 28th the thousands of eager Guild Wars fans will finally be able to explore NCSoft's latest addition to the franchise.
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Munich: A survivor of the Sobibor death camp
testified that Ukrainian guards in Nazi-occupied Poland were
worse than the infamous SS Nazi paramilitary police as he
recalled his experiences today at the trial of John Demjanjuk.
The Ukrainian-born Demjanjuk, a retired auto worker who
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Jules Schelvis, an 88-year-old from the Netherlands,
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family. He told the Munich state court that he lost 18
relatives -- including his wife, Rachel -- at the camp in
occupied Poland.
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joined the trial as co-plaintiffs, as allowed under German
law, recounted his 72-hour journey from the Dutch transit camp
of Westerbork in a cramped freight car, with no food and
little water or fresh air.
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was happening and thought they were being deported for labour.
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Conspiracies and catastrophe
British co-authors contend that Bush administration incompetence and cover-ups, combined with America's illogical Middle East position, lit the fuse for 9/11 attacks
For those readers who find it difficult to believe that Bush administration insiders could have engineered the 9/11 attacks -- and more important, for those who don't -- this ambitious book would have you consider what its authors believe is a more plausible and politically charged set of 9/11 conspiracies.
With the 10th anniversary of 9/11 almost upon us, The Eleventh Day forges a coherent narrative out of this horrific, momentous yet poorly understood tragedy, and emerges as a cogent portrait of governmental incompetence, intransigence and deception.
The Eleventh Day
- The Full Story of 9/11 and Osama bin Laden
- By Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan
- Ballantine, 624 pages, $34
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British investigative journalists Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan are the husband and wife co-authors of previous books on Frank Sinatra and J. Edgar Hoover, while Summers previously wrote on the conspiracy to assassinate JFK, the murder of the Romanovs and the arrogant will to power of Richard Nixon.
Here they offer what they claim is the "full" account of 9/11, from the origins of Osama bin Laden's radicalism right up to his assassination by the Obama administration this past spring.
In what must have been a painstaking effort over five years, the authors sifted through conflicting testimonies and competing versions of events (including tens of thousands of documents released by the 9/11 Commission) to piece together the catastrophe and the history that preceded it. The result is meticulous, gripping journalism, told with moral conviction.
The book begins with a harrowing retelling of the attack, followed by the authors' assessment of efforts to understand it through popular speculation and official investigations. In the second half, Summers and Swan reconstruct their own thorough account of the plot led by bin Laden and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and the misbegotten efforts to track bin Laden through the '90s and beyond.
They demonstrate convincingly that, even as preparations for the attack escalated and warnings grew more frantic from both foreign intelligence agencies and George W. Bush's own counter-terrorism adviser Richard Clarke, the U.S. president's administration assiduously ignored the threat and, indeed, became impatient with any attempt to raise it.
According to Summers and Swan, Bush and his administration not only covered up their own blinkered inattention to al-Qaida prior to the attacks -- and incompetence and dysfunction on the day itself -- but stonewalled investigations into the attack to downplay the hijackers' real motivations and protect the foreign government that funded them.
In this effort Bush was aided in no small way by the phenomenally widespread but often science-fictional claims of the so-called "9/11 Truth Movement," which, in the authors' view, drew attention away from actual official omissions, distortions and malfeasance. Where Summers' earlier work on JFK articulated the case for conspiracy, here he and Swan find no merit in the arguments of the Truthers, which the authors methodically demolish.
In contrast with most mainstream efforts to debunk 9/11 skepticism (such as Toronto journalist Jonathan Kay's recent Among the Truthers, which lumped 9/11 truthers in with all manner of paranoid beliefs) Summers and Swan do not rely on ad hominem characterizations to debunk these ideas.
Instead they consider each major theory in light of the available evidence. They find that the unconventional collapses of the Twin Towers have been convincingly explained as the result of the laws of physics rather than of planted demolition charges, and the notion that no plane hit the Pentagon is simply offensive, given the personal and emotionally wrenching testimony they provide of those who had to sift through the wreckage there.
The real cover-up, they argue, concerned not just the actions of the government, the FBI and the CIA in advance of the attacks, but more significantly the financial and material support provided by the Saudi royal family for the 19 hijackers.
Steeped in fundamentalist Wahhabism -- a severely austere, rigid and conservative branch of Islam -- elite Saudi society including the royal family sympathized with bin Laden's ideology, particularly with regards to his desire to liberate Palestine from Israeli occupation and punish the U.S. for its support of the Jewish state.
Very little of this information would be revealed by the 9/11 Commission. Between misleading the commission, redacting key documents implicating Saudi Arabia and selling the American public on the completely fabricated role of Iraq in the attacks, the Bush administration managed to divert public attention away from the political realities that underlay 9/11.
Ultimately, argue Summers and Swan, it was America's untenable position in the Middle East -- dependence on Saudi oil while incurring Saudi hostility over its unwavering support for Israel - that doomed nearly 2,800 people on that day, as well as more than 100,000 Afghans and Iraqis killed in wars cynically justified by 9/11.
Committed Truthers and partisans of the former president alike will probably object to a great deal of the authors' analysis, but open-minded readers will find The Eleventh Day a thoughtful and sobering reassessment of the most pivotal event of our times.
Michael Dudley is a research associate and library co-ordinator in the Institute of Urban Studies at the University of Winnipeg.
The Eleventh Day
- The Full Story of 9/11 and Osama bin Laden
- By Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan
- Ballantine, 624 pages, $34
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition August 13, 2011 J5
Updated on Sunday, August 14, 2011 at 3:54 PM CDT: Changed conspirators to truthers in 10th paragraph
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Young Adult author Des Hunt to tour schools in Southland
Bursting balloons, crashing gongs and plenty of wild ideas will all feature in Coromandel-based writer Des Hunt's Southland schools tour, made possible through the New Zealand Book Council's popular Writers in Schools programme. While on tour Hunt will visit school students in Invercargill, Winton and Gore from 23 – 27 March 2015.
Hunt, a science teacher for over 40 years, began writing novels for young adults as a way to inspire students' interest in science and nature – and he consciously includes locations and features that young New Zealand readers would recognise. He has since published over ten titles, most of which have either been shortlisted for the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, or been acknowledged in Storylines Notable Book lists; including Project Huia (Scholastic, 2013), The Secret of Jelly Mountain (Scholastic, 2009) and Cry of the Taniwha (HarperCollins, 2009).
His tour of Southland is being organised by the New Zealand Book Council as part of their Writers in Schools programme, of which Hunt is one of their most requested writers. The Southland region has a shortage of writers and illustrators registered as part of the initiative, so annual tours are now being planned as an essential way for students in the area to meet a writer face-to-face and gain inspiration for developing their own skills.
"What's good for schools is good for the future of the region. It's proven that students do better at school and have better career prospects, if they also enjoy reading in their free time. Bringing a writer into a school has the power to inspire young readers and writers, but can also provide an incentive for reluctant readers to give books a try," explains Lynette Hartgill, Programmes Manager at the New Zealand Book Council.
In order to reach as many schools as possible, the New Zealand Book Council is also sponsoring Des Hunt to host a free creative writing workshop for talented young writers at Invercargill City Library on the morning of Thursday 26 March.
Schools have jumped at the chance to work with Des Hunt, and the week of visits is fully booked, providing a strong case for the Writers in Schools programme to bring more New Zealand writers and illustrators to Southland in the future.
For more information or interviews with Des Hunt:
Lynette Hartgill
Programmes Manager, New Zealand Book Council
Email: email@example.com
Phone: (04) 801 5546
About Des Hunt
Des Hunt is a young adult fiction writer. He was a school teacher for more than 40 years and has also published textbooks. The strong environmental messages in Hunt's novels emphasise the unique features of New Zealand fauna and geology. His first novel, A Friend in Paradise, combined action adventure with ecological themes, and was a finalist in the 2003 New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards. Hunt was also a finalist in the Junior Fiction section of the 2007 and 2014 New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards. Read more about Des Hunt in his Book Council Writers file.
About the Writers in Schools programme
The New Zealand Book Council Writers in Schools programme has been working with schools across New Zealand to encourage children to read, write, create and learn through books since 1974. Over 200 of New Zealand's best novelists, journalists, playwrights, non-fiction writers, storytellers and illustrators are registered in the programme. Writers in Schools visits span the length and breadth of the country. Find out more on the Book Council Writers in Schools page.
Monday 23 March James Hargest Senior Campus Visit
9.00am - 3.00pm 288 Layard Street
Invercargill 9810
Tuesday 24 March Southland Boys High School Visit
9.00am - 3.00pm 181 Herbert St
Invercargill 9810
Wednesday 25 March Winton School Visit
9.00am - 3.00pm Eglinton Street
Winton 9741
Thursday 26 March Invercargill City Library Writing Workshop
9.00am - 12noon 50 Dee St
Invercargill 9840
Friday 27 March Longford Intermediate School
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Gore 9710
Janet Frame's Owls Do Cry announced as the 2015 Great Kiwi Classic book
The New Zealand Book Council and the Auckland Writers Festival are pleased to announce this year's Great Kiwi Classic is Owls Do Cry by Janet Frame.
Nominated by readers around the country in a month-long search for New Zealand's most treasured and classic books, Owls Do Cry is a firm Kiwi favourite and will be celebrated in a special event at the Auckland Writers Festival in May.
Published in 1957, Owls Do Cry was Janet Frame's critically-acclaimed debut novel and is seen as a seminal work of New Zealand literature. It has been in print for nearly 60 years and was most recently republished in 2014 as part of the Text Classics series (Text Publishing, Australia, 2014).
Distinguished UK novelist Margaret Drabble wrote the introduction to the Text Classics edition of Owls Do Cry. On hearing news of the book's selection, she said, "I am delighted that Owls Do Cry has been selected as the 2015 Great Kiwi Classic. It is an unforgettable and startlingly original work, a true and timeless classic of enduring power."
New Zealand Book Council Chief Executive Catriona Ferguson said choosing this year's Great Kiwi Classic was difficult due to the compelling arguments put forth by passionate readers in favour of their book of choice.
"We received hundreds of nominations for books of all persuasions. It was fascinating to read through the nominations and to realise how much love there is for our country's writers and their books.
"This year's choice stood out from the others not only for the extraordinary writing, but also because of Frame's standing in our country's literary and social history," said Ferguson.
The Great Kiwi Classic event at the Auckland Writers Festival will feature Owls Do Cry in a lively discussion, where all views on the book and its claim to classic status will be explored and debated. Chair of the event, Kate De Goldi, will be joined on stage by New Zealand writers Courtney Sina Meredith and Anne Kennedy, alongside Scottish author Damian Barr.
Leading up to the event, the legacy and appeal of Owls Do Cry will be explored on the Book Council's online readers' hub, Booknotes Unbound (http://booknotes-unbound.org.nz/), and on the Great Kiwi Classic Facebook page: www.facebook.com/GreatKiwiClassic.
Visit Booknotes Unbound to catch up on last year's Great Kiwi Classic, the Booker Prize-winning novel The Bone People, celebrated at a moving Auckland Writers Festival event with author Keri Hulme as special guest, and a rapt audience.
The Great Kiwi Classic event will be held on Sunday 17 May, 4.30pm, at the Aotea Centre as part of the Auckland Writers Festival.
For more information about the event visit: http://writersfestival.co.nz/
About Owls Do Cry
Owls Do Cry (1957) was the critically acclaimed first novel of New Zealand's beloved Janet Frame, a seminal work and a set text for many teenage New Zealanders. Semi-autobiographical, it soared beyond the social realism that dominated much of New Zealand's literature at the time (and perhaps still does), winning the NZ Literary Fund Award for Achievement in 1958 and finding an international audience. Poetic and experimental, Owls Do Cry recounts the story of the Withers family, gently exploring mental health, poverty and loneliness.
About Janet Frame
Janet Frame (1924-2004) is New Zealand's most distinguished writer. Among her numerous honours, Frame is a Member of the Order of New Zealand, a Nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature and an Honorary Foreign Member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. She was among ten of New Zealand's greatest living artists named as Arts Foundation of New Zealand Icon Artists in 2003. Traumatic childhood events and other life experiences find displaced fictional treatment in her writing; nevertheless, Frame warned against the 'blurring of the fine distinction between the writer's work and the writer's life' — the naive treatment of her fictional creations as autobiography. In 1999, before her death in 2004, she founded the Janet Frame Literary Trust.
For more information visit Janet Frame's writers profile on the Book Council website: http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/Writers/Profiles/Frame, Janet
For further information, contact New Zealand Book Council Chief Executive, Catriona Ferguson on 021 024 82637 or email@example.com.
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• The New Zealand Book Council and Auckland Writers Festival have announced Owls Do Cry (1957) by Janet Frame is the 2015 Great Kiwi Classic book.
• A free panel event will be held as part of the Auckland Writers Festival on Sunday 17 May at the Aotea Centre to discuss and celebrate the 2015 Great Kiwi Classic.
• A celebration of Owls Do Cry will take place leading up to the Festival event on Facebook and Booknotes Unbound (http://booknotes-unbound.org.nz/).
Key links:
• Great Kiwi Classic Facebook page: www.facebook.com/GreatKiwiClassic
• Great Kiwi Classic email: firstname.lastname@example.com
• Auckland Writers Festival website: http://writersfestival.co.nz/
• New Zealand Book Council website: www.bookcouncil.org.nz
• Booknotes Unbound NZ literary magazine: http://booknotes-unbound.org.nz/
• Janet Frame's writers profile on the Book Council website: http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/Writers/Profiles/Frame, Janet
Author photo of Janet Frame (above right) restricted use: Photo is copyright the Janet Frame Literary Trust and can only be used in conjunction with the 2015 Great Kiwi Classic campaign and for related publicity. Media can request a higher resolution version of the photo by contacting the New Zealand Book Council.
Bernard Beckett on the National Library's transformation of its services to schools
Bernard Beckett — award-winning author and teacher —ponders the imminent changes to the National Library's Services to Schools and what these mean for young readers.
This year the National Library is changing the way it provides resources to schools. It would style these changes a transformation; critics see them more as a financially motivated slashing of essential services. So, what exactly is going on, why do they say they're doing it, and should we believe them?
The existing Curriculum Information Service is one that many will be familiar with. It's been around for some seventy years. Under this outgoing system, the National Library made its vast resources available to schools by way of topic requests. So, if you were teaching six year olds in Gore and they were interested in studying the squid and octopus, then you put in the order, the Library searched its resources and a box of age-appropriate books would duly arrive. Ditto for the senior geography teacher whose students were studying the localised risk management of natural hazards.
The scheme was centred about the apparently sensible notion that there is no point in schools up and down the country attempting to purchase their own resources when a centralised public resource exists. Better to soak up a little librarian time and postage cost than see the vast, and inevitably inadequate, replication of school library resources.
The most striking thing about the new proposed system is the disappearance of this postal, topic-based ordering system. In its place, the Library will be concentrating on sending out packages of high-interest books, on one-year loans to schools and their libraries, in the hope of fostering the habit of reading for pleasure. At the same time, there is to be an attempt to provide guidance in the accessing of online resources. Roughly speaking, the National Library is moving from the goal of providing quality written resources to aid teacher and student-led research to the slightly vaguer aims of encouraging a love of reading and better digital research skills. Vagueness, I always think, is a worry, but let's dig further.
Why might an existing service be cut? Broadly speaking, there are four reasons (if we exclude political incompetence from consideration). Either the service is no longer being used, or the service is no longer deemed relevant or important, or we have come across a better way of providing the same service, or we have come across an alternative service that represents a better use of the available funds.
Read the full article on Booknotes Unbound.
OECD findings on why boys are likely to be poorer readers than girls
New Zealand Book Council CEO Catriona Ferguson on the recent OECD findings that boys are likely to be poorer readers, and what can you do? On our booklovers' hub, Booknotes Unbound.
Bernard Beckett on the National Library's transformation of its services to schools
Bernard Beckett — award-winning author and teacher —ponders the imminent changes to the National Library's Services to Schools and what these mean for young readers.
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'The Way It's Gonna Be' in the playoffs
Whether you like the results or not, the major league postseason matchups are set.
Or in the words of The Baseball Project, that's "The Way It's Gonna Be."
That's also the title of the band's latest single in its seasonlong Broadside Ballads series, and it's available for all to hear in the box at right and here for a free download.
The music and lyrics were co-written by Steve Wynn and Scott McCaughey, and the fluctuating playoff picture created a need for some late tweaks to get the song and it's postseason predictions ready for today.
"The lyrics were the hard part -- not because we were stuck for inspiration and rhyme schemes but rather because we wrote the song in mid-September and had to allow for picking teams that might not even make the postseason," Wynn said via e-mail Saturday night before all the National League playoff teams were nailed down Sunday. "I went the easy route by picking two teams that were pretty much a sure bet. Scott took the more nail-biting route by going with the Giants."
McCaughey also happens to be a huge San Francisco Giants fan, adding an emotional element to the creative process.
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Click here for a free download of "The Way It's Gonna Be," the eighth entry in a series of songs The Baseball Project will release each month until November exclusively in ESPN.com's Music in The Life.
Scott McCaughey (The Minus 5, R.E.M., Young Fresh Fellows), Steve Wynn (The Dream Syndicate, Gutterball, Miracle 3), Linda Pitmon (Miracle 3, Golden Smog) and Peter Buck (R.E.M., The Minus 5) have been making musical commentaries on baseball all season.
The Life asked McCaughey and Wynn where they plan to do their postseason baseball viewing:
"I'll be at home for the first few weeks but then Linda and I will be heading over to Europe for a tour that will last until well after the end of the World Series," Wynn said. "I'm over in Europe quite often for the Series, which, given the time change, usually means finishing the gig, grabbing a beer and heading back to the hotel to watch the game which usually lasts until the sun comes up. I do a lot of sleeping on the bus the next day."
Said McCaughey: "It's going to be tough, because I'm going to be traveling, too. But I'll hopefully be able to stop and catch the first round in Motel 6s across the Great West, and then see the Giants take the NLCS back at home in Portland. And if I'm driving I love listening to baseball on the radio."
The Baseball Project's acclaimed debut, "Volume 1: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails," can be purchased here.
In exclusive videos above this story, you can check out the band performing two songs, "Jackie's Lament" and "Broken Man," from "Volume 1" back in August at Maxwell's in Hoboken, N.J.
"What's nerve-wracking is watching the Giants, who had it all but locked up, make me dangle in the wind each day by falling to the Padres. ARRRGGGH! This is wreaking havoc on me both because of allegiance and because of the song," he said in an e-mail Saturday.
Like his bandmate, Wynn said the games have caused more anxiety. Wynn grew up in Los Angeles as a Dodgers fan, and after living in New York for many years, he's a die-hard Yankees fan.
"Finishing the song was a breeze," Wynn said. "It's been much more nerve-wracking to watch the Yankees and wonder if they can come up with a No. 2 starter. Oh, and then there was the nervousness of wondering if San Francisco would even make the playoffs. I found myself rooting for the Giants, merely for the sake of the song. And rooting for the Giants is a weird feeling for a native Los Angeleno."
Toss in bassist Peter Buck's Athens, Ga., roots and drummer Linda Pitmon's Minnesota connection and The Baseball Project's teams are well represented in these playoffs.
Pitmon and Wynn are married, so the Yankees-Twins divisional series could become the source of some friction in their household.
"It's going to be war. Like it is every year," Wynn said. "But then the Yankees prevail and after a short period of mourning (and definitely no gloating -- do I look like a fool?), Linda comes back to the Yankees. But this year might be different. The Yankees are certainly backing into the playoffs."
Ironically, The Baseball Project has a song called "Don't Call Them Twinkies" on the band's second album due out early next year. Wynn wrote the music and Craig Finn of The Hold Steady wrote the lyrics. Together they have performed it at Target Field and "Don't Call Them Twinkies" is apparently getting strong play in the Twin Cities.
"And this leads to an interesting conundrum: Do I root for my team, the Yankees, or for the Twins, the team whose postseason success means a longer life for our new song?" Wynn said. "Hmm … that's a tough one."
For the record, the way it's gonna be, according to Wynn, is the Yankees beat the Phillies for the second year in a row while McCaughey predicts, "Jim Thome gets his ring" when the Twins beat the Giants.
"If I was being honest, I'd probably just have picked the Phillies and the Yanks too," McCaughey admitted. "But that would have made for a boring song!"
Although The Baseball Project has had some infamous "predictions" during Broadside Ballads this season -- "Cubs 2010" eyeing a title at the start of the season, "30 Doc" sensing Roy Halladay's chances of winning 30 games and "Phenom" celebrating Nationals rookie Stephen Strasburg before his season-ending injury -- McCaughey insisted he wasn't trying to jinx the Twins.
"I just remember 1962 and 1989 (that one hardly counted though) and 2002 and I guess I am not confident that the Giants won't fall short again," he said. "And I do like the Twins, I'd love to see them make the Series. Although seriously, none of the AL teams seem to have much playoff-worthy pitching right now."
Jim Wilkie is the editor of The Life and can be reached at email@example.com.
The Baseball Project's Broadside Ballads
ESPN.com's The Life and Yep Roc Records are teaming up to offer free downloads of The Baseball Project's "Broadside Ballads" from March through November.
- Final ballad for 'San Franciscans' dream'
- 'The Way It's Gonna Be' in the playoffs
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- Get ready to do the 'Triple Crown'
- Tune into Strasburg via 'Phenom'
- 'Lima Time!' honors pitcher's spirit, joy
- 'Doc' can win in the tune of 30 games
- You heard it here first -- 'Cubs 2010'
- Baseball Project steps up to the plate