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Boogie Monster meet Sandman, Sandman meet the Boogie Monster.
Boogie Monster meet Sandman, Sandman meet the Boogie Monster.
El Biuf is an English Bulldog from Lima, Peru who's been famous for quite some thanks to his skills on a skateboard, but now Biuf the Bulldog is taking up surfing.
The waves don't just go to sleep at night, not always at least.
Daniel Norris is a pitching prospect in the minor league system of the Toronto Blue Jays, he's currently ranked as the #25 overall prospect in the minor leagues, and he spends his off season living live as an absolute bro king.
If you're looking to become Public Enemy #1 in the eyes of PETA then a pretty good place to start is by using an actual living horse to pull you around a flooded field on a surfboard.
If you're here to find out the back story on this video, first I ask, "Why.
He's now 6-years-old, but at the time this video was filmed of him shredding 8ft waves in Maui he was only 5.
British surfer, Andrew Cotton (35), got absolutely wrecked by a 60-foot wave while surfing at Farol da Nazare, Nazare, Portugal.
The JetSurf is exactly what it sounds like, a jet-propelled surfboard that takes paddling out of the game entirely.
If you had to find one fault with surf videos it would be the lack of equal representation between the two sexes.
A surfer in Australia was greeted by a fesity great white shark while in the water at West Beach in Western Australia.

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Prez eats the ribs....but doesn't pay the bill.
Earlier this week, President Obama sat down for a Father's Day lunch
with military veterans, but after chowing down on pork ribs and posing
for a photo-op, Obama and his staff left the restaurant without paying
the tab. The $55.58 bill for four at Kenny's BBQ on Capitol Hill went
The irony of this particular situation is incredible considering the
President's recent remarks about Republicans running up the tab.
PRESIDENT OBAMA: "They [Republicans] baked
all this stuff into the cake with those tax cuts and a prescription
drug plan that they didn't pay for. So all this stuff's baked in with
all the interest payments for it. It's like somebody goes to a
restaurant, orders a big steak dinner, martini, all that stuff and then
just as you're sitting down, they leave. And accuse you of running up
the tab".
Representatives at the White House ultimately settled the bill, but
not before the President proved (once again) that he is not as fiscally
responsible as he claims to be.
Nice going, Mr. President!
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- onetirednurse 2012/06/21 01:03:30
- Franklin 2012/06/21 00:55:34+9...now if only he had done that with all his wasted stimulus BS ...you know tell GM and all those bogus green companies that he was going to give them the money and then walk out on the bill ...that would have been a good idea!
so how many pardons do you think he is going to hand out ? We know he has to beat Clinton's record but by how much ...I am thinking 3K to 5K . - John Hall 2012/06/21 00:49:17
- DebraJMSmith 2012/06/21 00:31:46
- GoodEncounter 2012/06/21 00:18:38
- Captain-Morgan 2012/06/21 00:11:54
+8I believe Barack Obama is without class for treating soldiers to lunch but leaving without paying the bill. http://www.sodahead.com/unite...
- Justin Teufel Hunden 2012/06/21 00:09:17
- TuringsChild 2012/06/20 23:58:24
- Reggie☮ 2012/06/20 23:55:53
- Dave0626 2012/06/20 23:55:39
- Libertarian 2012/06/20 23:50:53
- mustangluver 2012/06/20 23:46:16
- Rodney 2012/06/20 23:40:19
- Marek 2012/06/20 23:39:32+8Nice going,...jacka..., he does exactly what he accuses others of doing.
He is the would be emperor. It is very telling that he does not pay the bill and then has the staffers pay with taxpayers money. If he had any class he would have had paid the bill himself out of his own pocket. He gets paid enough to be able to afford it. -
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- Jack Sprat 2012/06/20 23:29:17
- abubincrazy 2012/06/20 23:26:06
- tncdel 2012/06/20 23:22:29
+2These owners keep reinforcing his entitlement attitude by letting him eat free, some think it is awesome to have him eat in their place. What has he done but rip this country down and crap all over it's people. If they want to give a free meal sometimes it should be to a first responder who actually does something good for this country and the people...not to a loser..
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New Balance x La MJC x Undefeated x Colette
A collaboration involing 4 different brands can't be more than a marketing ploy. That's what can be immediately thought the first time you hear about this collab, and such a reaction seems natural with a title lining up all these brand names. But no one can turn up his nose being in front of these two limited sneakers. Following their 2006, 2007 and 2010 collaborations with New Balance, Colette and La MJC do it again for autumn-winter 2012 to release a collection called "UCLA" adding the Californian Undefeated in the loop. The collection to be pronounced "You see LA" in French proposes two revisited New Balance's classics : the MT580 and the 1500.
The MT580 symbolizes the French Capital. It features a nubuck and suede body, colored in blue and red which is a nod to its football club. A special inner sole just like the team's jersey emphasizes this "tribute". To this day, the model is the first to be fully imagined in France by "NB".
Like the MT580, this exclusive 1500 was designed by Undefeated and offers a different silhouette (still sticking to the 1500's). It sports the sky and sun color in reference to te city of Angels (to its weather actually). The inner sole also has a triple signature and features a quirky-lovely leopard lining.
Well, it makes us quadruply branded sneakers… hwo cares seriously? Two extra limited and beautiful as fuck sneakers, you would have to be more than reactive to get your own pair (so do we).
Both will be available for €150 in a limited quantity (200ex for each) on september 29th at :
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In an interview this week on British television, a Christian couple defended their decision to deny a room to two homosexual men—even though it ended up costing them their livelihood.
As previously reported, Peter and Hazelmary Bull of Cornwall, England are selling their business, which also served as their home, after legal costs and harassment from homosexual advocates drove them to close their doors.
The situation at issue occurred in 2008, when Martyn Hall and Steven Preddy reserved a double room, but was turned away by the manager when he discovered they were homosexuals. Chymorvah Hotel does not allow unmarried couples–homosexual or heterosexual–to share a room.
"Please note that as Christians we have a deep regard for marriage (being the union of one man to one woman for life to the exclusion of all others)," the business website states. "Therefore, although we extend to all a warm welcome to our home, our double bedded accommodation is not available to unmarried couples."
However, after Hall and Preddy were turned away, the Bulls found themselves having to face a legal battle in court. They were ordered by the Bristol County Court to pay restitution to the men in the amount of $2,900 each, and also racked up a considerable bill in legal fees.
The Bulls state that they have also been the targets of vandalism and even death threats since the incident went public. They told reporters that a dead rabbit was once nailed to their fence, the bolts were removed out of the wheels of their car, and they were infected with pornography on their computer.
In addition to the harassment they have experienced, the Bulls state that financial woes have forced them to close their doors and sell the property as business has slowed down significantly due to opposition.
This week, the Bulls appeared on ITV Daybreak, where they explained their Christian convictions and their beliefs that God should not be shut out of the way His people operate their businesses.
"As a Christian, surely the God you worship is a loving God, is a tolerant God. And if people are in a civil partnership, they are obviously in love, so what is wrong with them sharing a bed?" host Aled Jones asked.
"I think it's a myth to believe that entirely," Hazelmary Bull replied. "He is a loving God, that's true. He's a forgiving God, but there is…"
"And a tolerant one?" Jones interrupted.
"He is a longsuffering God; He's not entirely tolerant because the Bible is full of cases when He does finally bring judgment about," she replied. "We felt that we wanted to, as far as possible, live according to His instructions, and the Bible is very clear about marriage."
"It's 2013," co-host Lorraine Kelly noted. "It's 2013."
"God hasn't changed; Jesus says He's the same yesterday, today and forever," Bull replied. "He hasn't changed, the Bible hasn't changed, and we are wrong—we are living in a dream—if we think that He has changed His laws to suit us, because that's not the case at all."
Later, when Bull explained that the way they run their business is not exempt from the Lordship of Christ, Kelly emphasized that the Bull's were only referring to their God and not the god that others envision.
"God demands that our faith doesn't end at the kitchen door. He means for your faith to run in every corner of your life," Bull replied. "You can't just section Him off like that. So one would think that dealing with Christians, we would be fair and honest and upright and honorable and live according to the Bible, because the Bible is the Christian's textbook."
The Bull's have appealed their case to the UK Supreme Court even though they have put their bed and breakfast up for sale.
Bless you for remaining faithful while the world says what is right is wrong and what is right is wrong.
Glory! My mum and dad, I am strengthen by your faith.
Stand fast, and hold onto your courage. Our King is coming!
Another sad excuse for Christians, I pray that you all follow the true Christ and his loving message for homosexuals and all who have been blessed to be homosexual, as this is a blessing from your god, fear not these lost souls who call themselves Christians, there end is coming soon. Look for the Son as he will give a great sign in your sky in the next few months, the all you who read this will fear, as the day of judgement draws near and those who judged, will be the judged….
Sister Gloria
"Not everyone can accept this teaching, but only those to whom it is given. For there are eunuchs who have been so from birth, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by others, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. Let anyone accept this who can." (Matthew 19:11-12)
May I ask: what do eunuchs have to do with homosexuals?
You need to do research re: same-sex relationships in the Bible.
Most of the post here are not in judgment, but in defense of the couples' Christian beliefs in the Word of God.
The Lord Jesus declared that "if you love me keep my commandments" (John 14:15). It is the hardness of hearts and the desire for personal pleasure that so many change the natural affection for the un-natural desire that sends them pleasure seeking.
Marriage was purely designed for reproduction and those involved MUST be the male and female God instructs to do so like Elizabeth and Zachariah or Joseph and Mary.
How can a male who slept with a female, got her pregnant, fathered a son with a pronounced gender turn around and declare to another male like himself that this son is now the mans wife? And the same for the female….SICK PEOPLE!
Excellent post, DAVE NEIL.
At first, I didn't have a lot of sympathy. I thought to myself that hotels rent rooms to unmarried heterosexuals all of the time, so what's the big deal? The big deal is that this couple was treating everybody fairly in regards to not renting out to unmarried couples and this gay couple felt they were entitled to special treatment. There may be some disagreement as to what God's rules are, whether scripture has been misinterpreted. However, God doesn't change his rules. Trust me. I've had my own heterosexual based arguments with him on this and he wins. That's because they're his rules made for our own good. I'm not currently sure how I feel about homosexuality, but I applaud this couple for standing up for their convictions. I also think it's lame that these activists talking about tolerance would threaten them.
i applaud your decision to reject those kinds,,this political correct crap is going berserk,an to think ,it was our POTUS that started all this,,at least Russia ;despite there way of life ,reject homosexually,,actually ,i would have not rented the room either,,an get those throat cutting devils out while your at it go Russia go
"an to think ,it was our POTUS that started all this"
What in the heck are you talking about? How, exactly, did our POTUS start anything like this?
Seriously? You are all seriously okay with this? Everyone is okay with discrimination in the 21st century? Jeez…
My experience of Christians growing up was on the whole largely positive. Loving, caring, welcoming and, most importantly, accepting. I was told by every Christian that God loves everyone equally, and I recall Mark 12:31 specifically: "Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater."
So why then is it acceptable to discriminate against homosexual people? Please, somebody explain to me how and why that is acceptable for a religion that is supposed to be accepting of everyone.
Anyone recall Luke 6:31 at all? "Do unto others as you would have them do to you." What about if a couple were refused service because of their Christian beliefs? What about if someone discriminated against a couple and wouldn't let them share a double room simply because they were Christian?
To anyone who says being gay is 'unnatural' 'wrong' or a 'disease', what if someone told you that being Christian was a disease?
I understand that they have claimed they have a rule for all unmarried couples. I can kind of understand that. But, in the Bull's case, they don't have a rule for all unmarried couples, as this article clearly states. http://www.secularism.org.uk/christian-hotel-owners-claimed-i.html
Anyone who can clear up any of my questions or answer any of my points please do reply because I am at a loss. Because currently all I can see is that the views of Mr and Mrs Bull are quite literally that; a load of bull.
Thank you in advance to anyone who can help and doesn't simply try to attack me for trying to understand.
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The original soundtrack to Bruce Paltrow's karaoke drama Duets follows up on the film's premise, collecting the actors' performances of pop favorites. Huey Lewis' "Feelin' Alright," Maria Bello's "I Can't Make You Love Me," and John Pinette's "Copacabana" may not equal the original versions, but they're still entertaining enough in the album's context. Similarly, Gwyneth Paltrow's duets with Babyface ("Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)") and Lewis ("Cruisin'") are as interesting for their sheer novelty as for the discovery that Paltrow has a surprisingly good singing voice. However, Paul Giamatti's sweetly awkward "Hello, It's Me" and Paltrow's guileless reading of "Bette Davis Eyes" go one step farther, imbuing their performances with the desperation and vulnerability that drives their characters. As with the film, Duets is a personal and occasionally captivating -- if not always successful -- soundtrack. Heather Phares, All Music Guide
- Genre: Soundtrack, Rock
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11.StopFree Bird 1.23
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Kevin Harvick took home the checkered flag at the 2013 Hollywood Casino 400 on Sunday afternoon in Kansas City. He led 138 laps and moved into third place in the Sprint Cup Standings with the win.
NASCAR's official Twitter account had this post as Harvick crossed the finish line.
CHECKERS! Kevin Harvick wins the Hollywood Casino 400 at @kansasspeedway #NASCAR
— NASCAR (@NASCAR) October 6, 2013
Here's a fun fact surrounding Harvick's win, courtesy NASCAR Stats on Twitter:
This is the 3rd time in 6 tries that Kevin Harvick has won a #NASCAR Sprint Cup race from the #CoorsLight pole
— NASCAR Stats (@NASCARStats) October 6, 2013
Kurt Busch, Jeff Gordon, Joey Logano and Carl Edwards rounded out the top five. Jimmy Johnson (sixth) and Matt Kenseth (11th) were unable to make a late push to seal a victory, but they will remain one-two in the Chase standings heading into the Bank of America 500.
Here's a look at the final results, per NASCAR. Click the link to see the full results.
Position | Driver | Team | Laps Led |
1 | Kevin Harvick | Richard Childress Racing | 138 |
2 | Kurt Busch | Furniture Row Racing | 0 |
3 | Jeff Gordon | Hendrick Motorsports | 0 |
4 | Joey Logano | Penske Racing | 33 |
5 | Carl Edwards | Roush Fenway Racing | 0 |
6 | Jimmie Johnson | Hendrick Motorsports | 6 |
7 | Paul Menard | Richard Childress Racing | 0 |
8 | Dale Earnhardt Jr. | Hendrick Motorsports | 10 |
9 | Marcos Ambrose | Richard Petty Motorsports | 0 |
10 | Aric Almirola | Richard Petty Motorsports | 0 |
Harvick, Gordon, Kurt Busch and Dale Earnhardt Jr. were among the drivers whose performance gave way to a move up the leaderboard. Kyle Busch, Clint Bowyer and Ryan Newman all lost ground. Here's a look at the updated Sprint Cup standings, per NASCAR:
Position | Driver | Car | Points |
1 | Matt Kenseth | 20 | 2183 |
2 | Jimmie Johnson | 48 | -3 |
3 | Kevin Harvick | 29 | -25 |
4 | Jeff Gordon | 24 | -32 |
5 | Kyle Busch | 18 | -35 |
6 | Greg Biffle | 16 | -44 |
7 | Kurt Busch | 78 | -47 |
8 | Dale Earnhardt Jr. | 88 | -54 |
9 | Clint Bowyer | 15 | -55 |
10 | Joey Logano | 22 | -59 |
How It Happened
Cautions Rule in Kansas
Any time there are double-digit leaders and cautions in a NASCAR race, you know it's been a wild day. That's exactly the way things shook out in Kansas City.
As noted by the NASCAR Twitter account, the various caution flags that were waved on Sunday were no joke:
WATCH: Something you don't see every day... smoke from a brush fire brings out another caution - http://t.co/sIODB24FMc
— NASCAR (@NASCAR) October 6, 2013
WATCH: After trouble all weekend, @KyleBusch sees his #HC400 end with this wreck -> - http://t.co/TJ0nWEQVyt
— NASCAR (@NASCAR) October 6, 2013
According to Jayski.com, the 15 cautions during Sunday's race were a new record for the track in Kansas:
Caution 15 (new Kansas record), lap 243, #55 into wall after breaking loose #NASCAR
— Jayski (@jayski_nascar) October 6, 2013
In fitting fashion, a late caution allowed Harvick to gather himself for a strong finish. ESPN's NASCAR account had this post as the restart occurred with 19 laps to go:
Restart 19 to go: 29 24 99 78 48 22 9 27 88 31 15 16 43 1 20 13 5 7 93 14 36 32 40 11 56
— NASCAR on ESPN (@ESPNNASCAR) October 6, 2013
The numerous stops and starts made the action drag on a little bit longer than expected, but fans in attendance certainly got their money's worth.
Big Names Struggle to Contend
2012 Hollywood Casino champion Kenseth and Johnson were the favorites to win this year in Kansas City, but each was lucky to finish in the top 11 at the end of the day.
NASCAR on ESPN had comments from both drivers after the race:
Jimmie: "All in all, it was just a crazy day. Whacky restarts, lots of chaos there. We rebounded from all of that and passed a ton of cars."
— NASCAR on ESPN (@ESPNNASCAR) October 6, 2013
"It's a good save for as bad as we were," says Kenseth of finishing 11th and leading points by 3 over Jimmie. #NASCAR
— NASCAR on ESPN (@ESPNNASCAR) October 6, 2013
Luckily, neither driver lost ground in the Chase standings. Kenseth will enter the Bank of America 500 with a three-point lead over five-time champion Johnson, a situation that bodes well for another exciting finish to the NASCAR playoff system.
Keselowski Runs Out of Gas, Loses Lead
Brad Keselowski led the second-most laps of the day behind Harvick with 52, but a late judgement error concerning his fuel level wound up costing him a top-10 finish.
NASCAR Stats had the tweet as Keselowski's gaffe allowed Harvick to move back to the front of the pack:
Lap 224: New leader, Kevin Harvick as Keselowski runs out of fuel #NASCAR
— NASCAR Stats (@NASCARStats) October 6, 2013
Keselowski would finish a distant 17th, and despite not being in contention for the Chase, he blew a chance to play spoiler with the miscalculation.
Gordon Keeps Pace Despite Leading Zero Laps
Jeff Gordon finished third despite leading zero laps on the afternoon, sneakily moving his way into fourth place in the points standings in the process.
He will head to North Carolina just seven points behind Sunday's winner, Harvick, and 32 points behind Kenseth for the top spot.
According to Jeff Gordon Online, he also moved past the late Dale Earnhardt for fourth place on NASCAR's all-time top-10 finishes list:
That was Jeff Gordon 429th career top-10. Moved past Dale Earnhardt for 4th most in #NASCAR history pic.twitter.com/TCtyrxZTtj
— Jeff Gordon Online (@JGinfo) October 6, 2013
Not winning the race has to be disappointing for No. 24, but he now has some momentum and the Sprint Cup trophy is very much up for grabs.
Harvick Surges to Key Win
What Harvick did on Sunday was quite impressive.
Despite the chaos of multiple cautions and the threat of disaster at every turn, he managed to lead for over half the race and did so with a car that was running great all afternoon.
NASCAR.com's David Caraviello fully expected Harvick to deliver, and that's exactly what he did:
Kevin Harvick takes the checkered flag at Kansas. Despite all that chaos today, the best car still won the race.
— David Caraviello (@dcaraviello) October 6, 2013
Now third in the Chase standings, the 37-year-old has a chance to record the best finish of his career this season and appears to have confidence for the final few weeks of the season.
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What's Next?
The Chase continues in Charlotte Motor Speedway next weekend, as the Bank of America 500 will do its best to help sort out the way things will finish during this year's NASCAR playoffs.
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MIDDLEBURY — Addressing a crowd of around 50 farmers Monday night at the Middlebury American Legion, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., offered a few words of support for dairy farmers struggling to make a living: the dairy crisis isn't a Vermont issue or a New England issue so much as a national one, and lawmakers are paying attention.
MIDDLEBURY — A local nonprofit will soon launch a competition in which the winner will be the one to have accomplished the least.
Sounds strange? Yes — until one realizes that the participants' objective is to consume the least amount of energy possible.
And that's exactly what 15 local businesses have pledged to do during the next three months as part of "Middlebury Unplugged," a challenge organized by the Vermont Community Foundation (VCF).
MIDDLEBURY — So far, despite rumors to the contrary, Middlebury College has seen no confirmed cases of the H1N1 virus this year.
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An extra day off to start the week seems to have done the Buccaneers well.
As practice began on Wednesday, only two of the Bucs' 53 players were limited in any way by injury or illness, and none were out completely. That included the return to full participation by CB LeQuan Lewis, who has missed the last two games due to a knee injury suffered in Denver. Tampa Bay's two limited players were DE Aaron Morgan (shoulder) and TE Luke Stocker (head/nose)
The Rams may have something going through their locker room, because three players were held out on Wednesday due to "illness:" CB Bradley Fletcher, RB Steven Jackson and DE Robert Quinn. Fortunately for the Rams, those types of midweek absences are rarely a problem by the time game day rolls around. Three other Rams missed the week's first practice due to other ailments, including CB Cortland Finnegan (thigh).
Here are the full Wednesday injury reports for both teams:
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DE Michael Bennett | Shoulder | Full Participation |
DE Da'Quan Bowers | Hamstring | Full Participation |
LB Lavonte David | Knee | Full Participation |
CB LeQuan Lewis | Knee | Full Participation |
DE Aaron Morgan | Shoulder | Limited Participation |
TE Luke Stocker | Head/Nose | Limited Participation |
WR Mike Williams | Wrist | Full Participation |
St. Louis Rams
Player | Injury | Practice Status |
CB Cortland Finnegan | Thigh | Did Not Participate |
CB Bradley Fletcher | Illness | Did Not Participate |
RB Steven Jackson | Illness | Did Not Participate |
LB James Laurinaitis | Back | Did Not Participate |
DE Robert Quinn | Illness | Did Not Participate |
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Review: LiveScribe's Sky wifi smartpen – a clever bridge between paper and tablet
By Loz Blain
October 29, 2012
This is one of the coolest toys I've played with in years. LiveScribe's smartpens have the ability to instantly digitize anything you write in a notebook and send it to a tablet or PC as a handwritten note. But here's the cool part: they can also record the sound you were hearing when you wrote those notes, timecoded to each penstroke, so, for example, you can tap on a lecture note and hear exactly what the professor was saying when you were writing it. The latest LiveScribe pen, the Sky wifi smartpen, has built-in wireless connectivity that quickly syncs your notes, audio and all, with the ubiquitous Evernote application so you can read and play them back on your PC, tablet or smartphone. It's a fascinating device that revolutionizes the taking, usage and sharing of handwritten notes. We spent ten days with a LiveScribe Sky 4 GB.
You'll have to forgive me if I sound overexcited here. The smartest pen I'd used prior to the LiveScribe Sky wifi was one of those ten-color jobbies where each ink has a different perfume in it, so it's safe to say I'm a complete newbie to the concept of smartpens.
What the heck is a smartpen anyway?
Here's the concept if, like me, you've never seen one before: you go into a meeting or a lecture, turn on your electronic pen, hit record and start taking notes as per usual in a specially coded notebook. The pen digitizes everything you write, so you can sync all your notes to your tablet, phone or PC – and it also records audio the entire time, time-coded to every stroke of your pen so that if you tap on anything you've written, it'll start playing the audio of whoever was speaking at the moment you took that note.
So when you're looking back through your lecture notes and they're complete gobbledegook, you just tap on the bit you don't understand, and you can hear exactly what the lecturer was saying at that moment. Or if somebody disputes your meeting minutes, you can tap on the sore point and go back to the conversation as it happened.
If your job involves taking notes, I'm sure you can imagine how useful this sort of thing would be.
How does it work?
LiveScribe's Pulse, Echo and the new Sky wifi smartpens all work on the same mechanism. They use a tiny camera to record the pen's position on specially marked paper, courtesy of Anoto. If you look very closely at the paper, you can just make out a series of tiny dots. These dots tell the pen what page it's on, and what exact part of that page it's pointed at, so that as you write, every pen stroke is digitized at 72 dpi.
The LiveScribe Sky wifi has only a single button on it, and yet it's able to perform a whole bunch of different functions by tapping printed buttons drawn onto special pages in the included notebook. In fact just about everything you do with the pen is controlled by tapping it on these pictures of buttons. It's quite an odd feeling.
Integrating your notes with the cloud
You can use the LiveScribe pens exclusively with the notebooks provided (which are no more expensive than a regular notepad) and it's an exceptionally useful gadget. But the whole concept comes alive when you connect it to the Web and sync your notes with the cloud.
And that's the killer new feature of the LiveScribe Sky wifi smartpen: the Pulse and Echo needed to be physically connected to a PC in order to sync content, but the brand new Sky, announced today, has inbuilt Wi-Fi connectivity that fires your notes and audio into the cloud and back out to all your desktops, laptops, tablets and smartphones using the very popular and platform-agnostic Evernote app.
So effectively, if a student carries a single notebook and a tablet at all times, they have access to the entire year's lecture notes and lecture audio, in a format that works pretty much the same as it does on paper: you can tap or click on any bit of writing on the page in Evernote, and it'll play the audio from that moment.
Is it any good?
Having played with a 4-GB LiveScribe Sky wifi for a week and a half now, syncing to an iPhone, an iMac and an Asus Transformer tablet, I can unreservedly say yes. It does exactly what it says on the tin, it syncs quickly and effortlessly, and the whole experience is extremely smooth.
The audio recording quality is surprisingly good, even when the speaker is at a considerable distance. If you can clearly hear it where you're sitting, the pen will record it in a fashion you can understand. Yes, background noise, paper rustling and some pen use sounds come through as you write, but in all, the audio recording part is very well done.
The pen stroke digitization worked without any hiccups for me. All my notes came through beautifully and legibly despite my kindergarten-level handwriting. The 72-dpi resolution scan probably doesn't make this a feasible tool for fine art drawing, but the Sky captures cartoons, diagrams and signatures perfectly.
Evernote integration is very easy to set up and works pretty much seamlessly – except for the fact that if you want to tap around and listen to your audio recording, it needs to launch an external browser window and download what can sometimes be a large audio file before it'll work. LiveScribe and Evernote are working together to bring the LiveScribe player into the Evernote app to remove this one slight speed bump. Evernote has already signaled its dedication to the partnership by offering all Sky wifi propack users 500 MB of storage per month, which should be more than enough even for heavy users.
I was astonished to discover you can actually run text searches on your digitized scribbles, and Evernote does a surprisingly good job of finding the words you're searching for.
There're a few printed buttons that aren't up and running yet printed into the LiveScribe notebook. Share buttons that fire LiveScribe notes to email, Google Drive, Facebook and Dropbox are set to come online early in 2013. And the developers have a few other ideas up their sleeves too, including audio and note transcription services, sketch-to-SMS apps and a range of other fascinating ideas that are being developed in-house or through the soon-to-be-released LiveScribe SDK that will allow anyone to develop software for the platform. We'll have to wait and see how much of this stuff sees the light of day, but at least the scientific calculator at the back of the notebook works fine!
Even before the addition of the Sky's Wi-Fi connection and wireless sync abilities, LiveScribe's Pulse and Echo smartpens are pretty astounding gadgets. The on-board batteries last for ages, and even the smallest capacity 2-GB pens will record as much as 200 hours of audio before you need to sync or clear them off.
This is an exceptionally useful gadget, and a lot of thought has been put into making it simple and intuitive to use. I can see it being a transformative experience for students, a lifesaver for journalists, and a very handy tool for anybody in charge of taking meeting notes.
Pricing and availability
The LiveScribe Sky wifi pen is available from today through a range of retailers globally. The LiveScribe Sky will retail at US$169.95 for the 2-GB pen, $199.95 for the 4-GB version, and $249.95 for the 8-GB propack edition, which includes a 12-month premium subscription to Evernote.
The release of the Sky should also push the price of the non-Wi-Fi, USB-syncing Echo pen down as well, so if the smoother wireless experience of the Sky doesn't seem worth an extra hundred bucks, the Echo is still an excellent option.
Pen-and-paper note-taking is still a comfortable, easy way to organize thoughts and enhance verbal communication. Writing directly onto electronic tablets just isn't good enough to replace it yet – but the LiveScribe smartpen systems do an amazing job of blending the advantages of tablets and cloud storage with the sheer, simple usability of the humble pen. Brilliant stuff.
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This pen is fine and all except it's the size of those fat pencils and crayons that children and OT patients use. This product would be far better served with a slimmer profile, at the very least the tip nearest the point should be closer in size to a standard pen or pencil. My other complaint is why use this bright blue display when a LCD screen would be for more elegant and able to get a much high pixel count. There is no doubt that technology is packet into this instrument, however, poor design execution will continue to relegate it and its users to well deserved quips and jokes. Technology follows two basic rules combining into one universal philosophy that this company seems to have forgotten: smaller is sexier and sex sells!
Facebook User29th October, 2012 @ 02:00 pm PDT
Having used pens of this nature, some, not all, are let down by the software and the character recognition. All depends on the users handwriting skills, neatly formed = easily translated, scribble then anything can happen. Also the life of the batteries and the life of ink are elements to take into consideration.
Phillip Willis30th October, 2012 @ 04:28 am PDT
When they get one that will work on ordinary paper, then they'll have something worth buying.
Gregg Eshelman30th October, 2012 @ 08:45 pm PDT
This will be my third LiveScribe, and I can say from years of experience that the technology is valuable, meaningful, and the build quality excellent ... even down to the ink.
With encrypting, this will be even handier to integrate with electronic medical records, since I continue to need to diagram and include interview comments.
I hope the company can continue to find ways to market to the progressive people who value the freedom and connection this little pen can provide. it is not for everyone, but definitely many more than are currently enjoying its capabilities.
Darick Nordstrom31st October, 2012 @ 11:43 pm PDT
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Al Gore and the wedges game
Whether they realize it or not, policymakers dealing with energy and climate issues are now deeply engaged in the wedges game. What is the wedges game? It is a useful way of thinking about how to replace energy technologies that produce greenhouse emissions with less-harmful alternatives.
Princeton professors Robert Socolow and Stephen Pacala first introduced the concept several years ago, and it has really taken off. The basic concept is this: we have an industrial society built on a shaky foundation of fossil fuels that must be replaced. There is no one technology that can substitute directly for fossil fuels, but by combining technologies and new lifestyle choices, we can ramp down our emissions to a safe level. Each option is termed a "climate stabilization wedge" because it will help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and stabilize the climate.
Wedges include solar power, wind power, more efficient appliances, green buildings, coal-plant carbon capture and storage, public transportation, auto fuel efficiency, nuclear power and so on. Socolow and Pacala have turned their idea into an actual role-playing game that is being adapted for use in schools.
The wedges game certainly has all the elements of a fast-paced, exciting game: you have to keep the atmospheric CO2 concentration under 450 ppm, but your society is now on track to double its carbon emissions in the next 50 years. If you fail, your planet may lose its Arctic ice cap, which is likely to tip the climate into runaway heating mode and destroy human civilization. If it were just a game, it would be lots of fun, but unfortunately, it is very real.
Richard Richels, a senior engineer at the Electric Power Research Institute, thinks that the wedges idea is useful for helping people to understand that there is no silver bullet solution to the climate-energy crisis. However, Richels is concerned that letting participants just choose the wedges they like best does not consider real-world cost factors. "You've got to get the economics in there," he said. "If the train is really going to leave the station on this issue, the price of the ride is going to have to be affordable." But who determines what is affordable and feasible?
We can find an answer to that question by comparing the public impact of two recent studies that assess the feasibility of different kinds of climate wedges. In early February, the American Solar Energy Society (ASES) released a study showing how the energy efficiency and renewable energy wedges together can reduce US emissions enough to meet the goal of keeping CO2 under 450-500 ppm.
Two weeks later, the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) released an assessment of carbon reduction wedges for the utility industry that snipped out only tiny slices for increases in efficiency and renewables, while chopping out big fat wedges for new nuclear plants and coal-carbon capture and storage. Both the EPRI and the ASES studies focus on emissions reductions that can be achieved by 2030.
While the EPRI study was covered in the New York Times and elsewhere, the ASES study was covered by only two news organizations, The Daily Camera out of Boulder, Colorado, and Truthout.
Neither the EPRI study nor the ASES study considers the economic costs of its scenarios in a comprehensive way. Each relies instead on the independent judgment of experts in their fields about what is achievable both technically and economically.
The difference in their assessments of renewable energy is striking. EPRI allows renewable energy to grow from today's 1.6 percent to only 6.7 percent of our electric energy portfolio by 2030. ASES says it can grow much more - to 40 percent by 2030.
I emailed Charles Kutscher, editor of the ASES report, to ask him why he thinks the EPRI report downplays renewables so heavily. His answer is worth quoting in full:
There is an old saying that the challenge in predicting the future is that it 'isn't what it used to be.' EPRI sees a mix of fossil, nuclear, and renewables that does not depart greatly from what we have today. To them the future is basically what it used to be.In his book, 'Energy Autonomy,' Hermann Scheer lists a number of technological and economic assumptions that many people mistakenly embrace. One is 'the functional priority placed on existing energy supply structures.' As he puts it, 'This premise turns the status quo into the standard for determining how much renewable energy can be tolerated.'
In support of this premise, EPRI used very low cost estimates for carbon-free alternatives to renewables. For example, slide presentations on the EPRI web give a levelized cost of electricity for nuclear power as under 5 cents per kWh. Back in 1996, the California Energy Commission estimated the cost of nuclear power at 11.1 to 14.5 cents per kWh.
Kutscher also pointed out that the coal-carbon capture and storage program EPRI relies on so heavily for emissions reduction is an unproven technology. Not a single coal plant has been built anywhere in the world that uses the complete capture and storage process. The first US pilot plant that can capture CO2 from coal burning, called "FutureGen" is due online in 2012, but the safety and reliability of long-term storage of CO2 underground has yet to be demonstrated. Kutscher says that EPRI has also low-balled the cost of this technology, accounting only for the cost of capturing the carbon and not for storing it.
So who determines what options are most affordable and feasible? Up until now it has been the utility industry in conjunction with the oil, coal and gas producers. But today there is a revolution in the air.
When Al Gore testified in Congress on March 21, he brought up the idea of decentralized power from renewable energy, and he called for policy changes to make it happen. Here's what he said:
We ought to have a law that allows homeowners and small-business people to put up photovoltaic generators and small windmills and any other new sources of widely distributed generation that they can come up with and allow them to sell that electricity into the grid without any artificial caps, at a rate that is determined not by a monopsony - that's the flip side of a monopoly.You can have the tyranny of a single seller; you can also have the tyranny of a single buyer, and if the utility sets the price then it'll never get off the ground. But if it's a tariff regulated according to what the market for electricity is ... then, you might never need another central station generating plant.
In the same way that the Internet took off and stimulated the information revolution, we could see a revolution across this country with small-scale generation of electricity everywhere. Let people sell it! Don't reserve it for the single big seller.
You can click here to watch this portion of Gore's testimony.
If we are going to play this wedges game, and it's looking more and more like it's the only game in town, then we have to play it fair. What Al Gore laid out in his full testimony was the rules of the game, starting with the goal, which he says is to freeze carbon emissions at current levels immediately, followed by a program to generate 90 percent reductions by 2050.
The details of Gore's testimony can be boiled down to various ways of leveling the playing field. Gore may not want to run for president, but he's looking like a pretty good umpire. Let the game begin!
Al Gore's Ten Point Plan for Global Warming, presented to both houses of Congress on March 21, 2007:
- Immediately freeze carbon at the existing level; then implement programs to reduce it 90 percent by 2050.
- Reduce taxes on employment and production, instead taxing pollution (especially CO2). These pollution taxes would raise the same amount of money, but make us more competitive by encouraging employment while discouraging pollution.
- A portion of the revenues must be earmarked for low-income and middle-class people who will have a difficult time making this transition.
- Negotiate a strong global treaty to replace Kyoto, while working toward de facto compliance with Kyoto. Move the start date of this new treaty forward from 2012 to 2010, so the next president can start to act immediately, rather than wasting time trying to pass Kyoto right before it expires. We have to try to get China and India to participate in the treaty. If they don't immediately participate, we have to move forward with the treaty regardless, trusting that they will join sooner rather than later.
- Impose a moratorium on construction of any new coal-fired power plant not compatible with carbon capture and sequestration.
- Develop an "electranet" - a smart grid that allows individual homeowners and small businesses to create green power and sell their excess power to the utility companies at a fair price. Just as widely distributed information processing led to a large new surge of productivity, we need a law that allows widely distributed energy generation to be sold into the grid, at a rate determined not by the utility companies, but by regulation. The goal is to create a grid that does not require huge, centralized power plants.
- Raise CAFE standards for cars and trucks as part of a comprehensive package. Cars and trucks are a large part of the problem, but coal and buildings must be addressed at the same time.
- Set a date for the ban of incandescent light bulbs that gives industry time to create alternatives. If the date is set, industry will meet this challenge.
- Create Connie Mae, a carbon-neutral mortgage association. Connie Mae will defer the costs of things like insulation and energy-efficient windows that cut carbon but are often not used by builders or renovators because they add to the upfront costs of homes, only paying for themselves after several years of energy savings.
- The SEC should require disclosure of carbon emissions in corporate reporting.
- From the AlGore.org web site.
Kelpie Wilson is Truthout's environment editor. Trained as a mechanical engineer, she embarked on a career as a forest protection activist, then returned to engineering as a technical writer for the solar power industry. She is the author of Primal Tears, an eco-thriller about a hybrid human-bonobo girl. Greg Bear, author of Darwin's Radio, says: "Primal Tears is primal storytelling, thoughtful and passionate. Kelpie Wilson wonderfully expands our definitions of human and family."
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Feb 15, 2012 Full Version 11 commentsRequires Source SDK Base 2007 to be installed. You can install Source SDK Base 2007 from the Tools section of your Steam Games Library. You need to have...
12 comments by Au-heppa on Jan 1st, 2013
"From Earth" takes place close to the year 3,000 when one woman and one man, Zenaida and Anthony, are sent to a remote alien planet. After fifty years in cold sleep, they find themselves on a recently industrialised world being hunted by an alien government. They have only their wits, athleticism and the remains of their equipment to keep them alive.
In this first person singleplayer experience, the player takes control of Zenaida Liu upon arriving on the planet. From Earth's gameplay is very much about your relationship to this world and its technology, requiring you to figure out how it all works and encouraging cooperation with the local population. Nothing about the alien technology is explained to players. It's about experimentation and learning what's what and how things on this planet work. The player also has some athletic abilities, such as climbing, wall running, hanging on ledges and so on.
From Earth is a Half-Life 2 / Source Engine mod and will require a Source Engine game such as Half-Life 2, Portal, Counter-Strike: Source, etc.. The estimated release date is a year from now. We are announcing the mod now to garner some early feedback. We will try to give your monthly updates on the progress, feature descriptions that go a little bit deeper, as well as just loose thoughts on the development process.
Here's some of the features included in the modification:
First Person
Unlike our previous game Water, From Earth is completely in first person. However, the player model is always visible. When a player interacts with the world, for instance, presses a button or opens a door, it is animated and visible.
Interaction System
The focus of the game is the interaction system that includes examining and combining different items of alien technology. Players can also communicate with the aliens, allowing them to ask questions about specific items from them, or trade them.
The player can climb, jump, and wall-run around obstacles. Finding your way through an environment creates another type of puzzle to accompany the interactive ones.
Alien AI
Some of the new AI behaviours include the way the aliens react to the player, as well as the ability to dynamically use interactive machines.
The team has previously brought you such Source Engine mods as Human Error, Water and the hated Last Zombie.
The project has had a good start, but since I bought so many games in the Steam sales, I won't have time to work on it. So, we need people to help while I go through all my new acquisitions. We are a small team and we like to keep it that way, so we want to hire people who are super talented and serious about getting into the gaming industry. We understand that other people have lives outside modding, unlike me, but it is our wish that you will become a permanent part of the team. For all positions either message on moddb or e-mail me at firstname.lastname@example.com.
The current team is:
Tero "Au-heppa" Knuutinen - Programming, Gameplay design, 3d modelling & animating
Daniel "CzechDeath" Tejnicky - Leading Concept Artist
Henri "Leon_Kilean" Tervapuro - Prop modelling, world texture creation
Dennis "Entru" Yaremov - Sound & Music
Colter Wehmeier - Level Designer
Adam "Blacklight" Sklar - Video Editing
Special thanks to Ross Gardner.
Level Designers
We are looking for two different types of Level Designers. Firstly, we need people that can bring existing levels an aesthetic quality, and are experienced with lighting, texturing, and the general make up in Hammer. Screenshots and/or example maps are required.
We are also looking for puzzle designers, such as anyone who has a lot of experience designing different types of puzzles for games like Portal 2. Source engine or Hammer experience is not necessary.
Concept Artists
Most of the concept work will revolve around the industrial era Alien technology and architecture. Samples of previous work required. We already have a strong set of existing concept art for you to draw on.
Voice actors and actresses
Although the script is nowhere near ready, we are looking for people to play the parts of Zenaida, Anthony, as well as the generic voices of aliens, both male and female actors. All voice actors applying should provide some kind of samples. You should be able to do big range of emotions. Some lines might be delivered at a later date.
The aliens will be speaking an alien language specifically designed for this mod. Their dialogue is partly already written and ready for recording. Examples will be provided if you are interested.
We are interested on getting any help we can get, especially world texture creators and prop modellers.
Remember to check out our facebook page and our website.
Requires Source SDK Base 2007 to be installed. You can install Source SDK Base 2007 from the Tools section of your Steam Games Library. You need to have...
Au-Heppa did, as usual, a great job (in only 2 weeks! You've got to be kidding me!), it's very fun to play a zombie and it is very short, there is no reason not to enjoy this.
Now Source has its own "HL Zombie edition" ^^,
and basically it fits well with the "Half Life short stories" name...
But now, I think it's time to move with Human Error Episode 2 ^^ even if you want to add some random Combine playing deadly music with a guitar :D
I beta tested Half-Life Zombie Edition. :3 (Closed Beta) My name in the credits is Evils_Army. :3
Great mod here. You should make the second chapter.
I liked this, it was interesting. Very minimalistic, dunno why people find that to be a bad thing.
Quite a strange mod. Totally OK, but I don't really understand whats it all about. I think I missed the point completely.
If you are looking for an action mod where you kill people and scare civilians, this is not it. If you like a short psychological nightmare, go ahead.
Oh! And what little speech exsists is all in german (I think).
I honestly would find this idea stupid (to say it nicely) if not for the fact that it's made by the Short stories team which made me change my mind and I'll definitely try this out.
I think this mod is good.Few little problem but its great.I the like scary music:D but in the ending dat girl scary as hell.I think try out.
Lowest Rated (4 agree) 5/10
Pretty short. Only in German. Not much happens in what they have released. You pretty much just walk around and ask civilians if they speak German. Then some guy with a guitar cuts your legs off and you crawl over to a lady that take off your headcrab...
Map looks good, enough.
Third person works great.
Controls are simple and smooth. Animations are good as well.
Good camera work.
One voice actor from what I can hear.
Short so far.
Black and White makes it difficult to see.
Feb 17 2012, 6:49pm by codemanj94
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Tallen Damascus Bowie #3 Fixed Blade Knife - Damascus Plain
- Overall Length:12.00"
- Blade Length:6.75"
- Cutting Edge:6.25"
- Blade Thickness:0.18"
- Blade Material:Damascus
- Blade Style:Clip Point
- Blade Grind:Hollow
- Finish:Damascus
- Edge Type:Plain
- Handle Length:5.25"
- Handle Thickness:0.51"
- Handle Material:Horn, Brass
- Weight:1 lb. 0.08 oz.
- Sheath:Leather
- Knife Type:Fixed Blade
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- Model:Bowie #3
- Country of Origin:Pakistan
- Best Use:Hunting
This elegant knife is a beautiful work of art that is also tough enough for heavy duty tasks. The Bowie blade is made from Damascus steel with a rich and detailed pattern. The handle has contoured finger grips and features horn and brass sections secured with brass pins. The knife comes with a crafted leather sheath.
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Mau मऊनाथ भंजन Mau |
city | |
Coordinates: 25°56′30″N 83°33′40″E / 25.94167°N 83.56111°ECoordinates: 25°56′30″N 83°33′40″E / 25.94167°N 83.56111°E | |
Country | India |
State | Uttar Pradesh |
District | Mau |
Government | |
• Type | Municipal Council |
• Body | Maunath Bhanjan municipal council |
Area | |
• Total | 180 km2 (70 sq mi) |
Population | |
• Total | 292,000 |
Languages | |
• Official | Hindi/ Bhojpuri/ urdu |
Time zone | IST (UTC+5:30) |
Telephone code | +0547 |
Vehicle registration | UP 54- |
Sex ratio | 978 (as of 2011) ♀/♂ |
Website | www |
Mau, now known as Maunath Bhanjan, is an industrial town in Uttar Pradesh, India, located nearly 120 km from Varanasi on the banks of Tamsa (Choti Saryu). It is a major centre of the textile weavers. It is divided into 4 tehsils, 9 blocks, 596 gram panchayats and 1644 villages. The Tamasa river flows through the city. In the 1960s it was the biggest supplier of a plant called plash. This town is the headquarters of the Mau district.
Etymology of the name[edit]
Many myths are popular regarding history of Mau district. The word 'Mau' means 'padaav' or 'chhavani' in Turkish language i.e. barrack. The city was used as barracks by many a rulers since long times. Shershah Suri, Akbar, Aurangzeb are the prominent rulers who used the city in such a way. There is a mosque, built by Aurangzaib's sister Jahan Aara Beghum, the shahi mosque attached with a number of barracks (can be seen still now) in mohalla keyari tola.
It is also believed by the People of Mau that centuries before lived a man (a natt), a dancer named 'Muhoo Natt Bhajjan', who was cruel in nature. He always use to tease people the entire area therefore, a Holy man (Pandit, who was the chief of the area) asked him to leave that area, for the sake of his people, to which he replied negatively. Then the Pandit challenged him to wrestle and win. If he wins, Pandit will leave the area else he himself will. After the wrestle the Pandit won. Pandit asked the natt to leave the place at once. He agreed and kept his condition to leave. He asked the Pandit to keep the name of his area on his (Natt's) name. Pandit agreed and gave the name of his area 'Muhoo Natt Bhajjan'. This named was further modified to 'Maunath Bhanjan'.
District Mau has been cast out from district Azamgarh. It has a very rich historical background from the protohistorical period. The Archaeological Survey of India has found some records like coins of the king Kanishka's period.
During the reign of Sher Shah Suri, the famous emperor who defeated Humayun, visited Kolhuvavan (Madhuban) to meet the great Sufi saint Syed Ahmad Wadva.[1] Mahvani, one of the daughters of Sher Shah was settled permanently near the dargah of Syed Sahab. Various developmental works were undertaken by Sher Shah Suri during his reign for economic development of the Mau region. After Humayun had retaken India, it is mentioned in the historical book of Ziaudeen Barni saying that his son Akbar the Great passed through Mau, on his way towards Allahabad.[citation needed]
During the construction of a military base and the Shahi Masjid, a large number of laborers and artisans came with the Mughal Army. They, the weavers, etc. had originally come from Iran, Afghanistan and Turkey; they settled there permanently.[citation needed]
During the period of India's struggle for freedom the residents of Mau gave their full support to the movement. Pandit Algu Rai Shastri a great Leader and Indian Freedom fighter Facts about Pandit Algu Rai Shastri ji was Affiliated to Indian National Congress Constituency Azamgarh (UP) Lok Sabha Constituency Member of parliament Member of 1952 Member title MP, offer to Mahatma Gandhi came to Dohrighat on 3 October 1939 during the 3rd salt law breaking movement; many persons of Mau actively took part.
During the 1942 Quit India Movement a mob had collected in outrage of an action by a Madhuban Police Station Officer; Collector Navlate was present there, he ordered his men to open fire on the mob killing and injuring raghunath, bhar, Kanhyee bhar etc. In memory of the shaheeds of that day a monument was built on the site were the shaheeds had made the ultimate sacrifice.[citation needed]
In the 1970s and early 1980s many people (like Jharkhandey Rai, Tejpal Singh) worked hard for social empowerment in Mau.[citation needed]
Mau was an important township of Azamgarh district before its creation as a district itself. On 19 November 1988 it was made a district, largely due to the efforts of the Late Kalpnath Rai (MP Ghosi) The local language of Mau is peculiar to the area as it includes the dialects of Bhojpuri Persian, Turkish and Irani. The main Industrial setup here is of cloth making by powerloom due to the presence of a large number of weavers in the district. Sari, Lungi and other clothes being prepared there are exported to various states of India and also to various countries.
Religious Places[edit]
DEVLAAS is most important cultural place in Mau. This is situated in Mohammadabad Gohna tehsil. there is surya temple . Some Images in this temple are very old. Very famous Chhath mela of India is organised every year 6 days after Deepavali here.
In Ghosi Huzur Sadrussharia is famous for Islamic religion distance near about 20 km from Mau. There is a famous madarsa also, named Amjadia .
A village in Mau called Sonadih is famous for dhieru's way of studying in Baba Thanidas Ji Temple. 'Shitala Mata Dham' (Or Shitala Mandir) and 'Vandevi' are two important and Oldest Temples in Mau. Shitala Mata Dham is located beside the State Highway 34; East of Mirzahadipura of this city. This Temple is one of the oldest temple in the city. Many God and Goddesses of Hindu mythology are found in this temple including Lord Shiva, Lord Ganesha, Mata Parvati, Lord Hanuman. This temple is managed by 'Shitala Mata Samiti', and 'Shri Ram Bhakta Mandal Mau'. A small pond is present in its realm which full-fills the requirements in holy prayers, and mostly, makes this place the most attractive one. Priests of this temple believe that by the last twenty generation, no one is sure about the age of the temple but formally they believe that it is about 2,000 years old. In the holy month of Navratri (occurring twice a year), more than half a Million people, from different part of the country, visit this ancient temple to worship Goddess Shitala. Religious village Bagli is also a great place for inspiration.
In sports Arena Mau have a tremendous History and their Vivid Persona to Glorified the Mau name on time to time -International Athletes and National wrestlers are there. few of them are Bhim Narayan Rai of village Revaridih -Sahroj, he has been awarded as National Champion and Record Holder in National Games 1961 in Athletics-javelin Throw & he has been broken the Asian Games record there, his record was also credentialed in National Games of School Federation Meet in 1960, in the state of UP he has awarded as Outstanding performer (Championship) in 1964 Athletics Meet of U.P.Other Eminent Sports persons are Long racer Bahadur Prasad who is participated in several Asian Games as well as in common wealth games for India, in wrestling category -Eminent Wrestler Kisore Pahlwan of Village Basiharam,Sprinter Ram das Sahani of Village Amila for 200 Meter Race, Tez Bahadur Singh of village Sarwan Ranbirpur & Tridip Rai -International Basket Ball player of village Kasara participated in Asian Games. Kamran Khan IPL Cricket player of village Nadwa Sarai, Santosh Yadav of village Tahirpura won the bronze medal in junior wrestling championship in Thailand, Rashmi Singh of village Pardaha, participated in Junior Hockey India Team in ASEAN games.
Geography and climate[edit]
Mau (Mau nath Bhanjan) is situated on the fertile plains of the Ganges–Ghaghara doab. It lies between 83° 17' to 84° 52' East & 24° 47' to 26°17' North. At its north, Ghaghara river is on the border, Ghazipur district is on the south, Ballia district is on the east & Azamgarh district is on the west side. This district represents geographical characteristics of mid Gangetic plain. "Khachari" and "Khadar" are types of soil found in the areas of north of Azamgarh - Ballia Road. In some high places "Bangar" soil is also found. In the southern part of the district, river flow is absent, due to which that area has Bangar type of soil, which is not fertile. The river system of the district is dominated by the Tons River and its tributary Choti Sarju. The Ghaghara River forms the northern border of the district. The main means of irrigation in the district are tubewells. Ponds are used mainly for fishing and bird sanctuary purposes. In Mau "Pakari Piua" pond have 1.7 km breadth and 32 km length. It also has two big ponds (Tal) one Ratoy tal near Madhuban and Garha tal near Ratanpura.
Climate data for Mau | |||||||||||||
Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Average high °C (°F) | 23 (73) |
26 (79) |
33 (91) |
39 (102) |
42 (108) |
40 (104) |
34 (93) |
33 (91) |
33 (91) |
33 (91) |
29 (84) |
25 (77) |
32.5 (90.3) |
Average low °C (°F) | 9 (48) |
11 (52) |
16 (61) |
22 (72) |
26 (79) |
28 (82) |
26 (79) |
26 (79) |
24 (75) |
20 (68) |
14 (57) |
10 (50) |
19.3 (66.8) |
Average precipitation mm (inches) | 12 (0.47) |
18 (0.71) |
9 (0.35) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
96 (3.78) |
144 (5.67) |
162 (6.38) |
201 (7.91) |
24 (0.94) |
3 (0.12) |
6 (0.24) |
675 (26.57) |
Source: [Mau Weather] |
In 2011, Mau had population of 2,205,968 of which male and female were 1,114,709 and 1,091,259 respectively with population density of 1287 people per km2.[2] In 2001 census, Mau had a population of 1,853,997 of which males were 933,523 and remaining 920,474 were females with population density of 1087 people per km2. There are 978 Females for every 1000 Male in Mau, Which is above the national average of 940.[3] Census 2011 puts Urban population at 22.63%.
Economy and Education[edit]
Mau is industrial town of eastern UP. After demise of textile industry of Banares and Mubarakpur, Mau stands as one of the last bastion of textile hubs of UP. A 1998-99 survey of Ministry of Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) puts number of powerlooms at 58,381.[5] This industry employs low skilled workers, who mainly come from traditional weaving families. Main products are Sarees, however lungis,dhotis,towels, etc. are also produced in small quantities. The products are mainly marketed in south India and Maharashtra, as well as exported to Bangladesh,Srilanka and China.
There are speculations that this huge industry will benefit if GI is awarded to Mau as well as if clusters (of powerlooms, resembling modern industry) are encouraged. But as of date only one clustur has been identified as Palki Industries Pvt. Ltd. with 4100 units as per MSME survey of 2012.[6] Mau also contains three small industrial areas in Tajopur, Shahadatpura and Ghosi.[7]
Mau leads fairly well in terms of basic literacy, thanks to extensive network of Madrasas in Mau. The literacy rate of Mau district is 75.16% as per 2011 census (which is higher than national average). Male literacy rate stands at whooping 84.61% while female literacy is 65.59%.[8]
The literacy rate of Mau is quite high as compared to other areas of eastern UP, but it lags in higher education. One statistics shows that only 3% of people complete graduation. Several organizations are currently working to spread higher education in Mau, most notably Global Education and Career Guidance,[9] Scholar Foundation, Aligarh Old Boys Association, etc.
- 22.63% of District population resides in Urban area.
- According to 1991 census sc/st population is 319,000 which is 22% of total population.
- Population density of the district in 2011 census is 1287/km2
- In 1997-98 total foodgrain production is 372,000 tonnes
- Net irrigated area is 1,120 km2 & gross irrigated area is 1,530 km2
- Percentage of electrified villages is 88.1% in the year 1997-98.
- Per capita electricity consumption is 162 units in the year 1998-99.
- In 1998 -99 total number of rural & small industrial units are 61526.
- Total number of Handloom/Powerloom units are 58381 in 1998-99.
- Percentage of Workers in the district, according to 1991 census, is 33.2%.
- Number of dependents per hundred workers is 201.
- According to 1991 census, 68.3% of total workers were directly involved in agriculture.
- In 1996-97 per cultivator net sown area was 6,500 square metres
- CD ratio in 98-99 is 11.96.
- Length of metalled road per 100,000 population is 57 km.
- In 1998-99 teacher-Students ratio is
- Junior High School 44
- Senior Basic School 45.6
- Higher Secondary School 46.1
- Degree College 135.7
- No. of Allopathic Hospitals/Dispensary/PHCs per 100,000 population is 3.7
- Telephone connection per 100,000 population 275
- TALIMUDDIN INTER COLLEGE,DAV INTER COLLEGE,MUSLIM INTER COLLEGE are popular intermediate college in mau.
Notable people[edit]
- Parichay Das ( born 1964 ) - Famous Bhojpuri-Hindi-Maithili writer, singer, editor Parichay Das was born in Rampur Kandhi village, near Devlaas [ Ghosi to Mohammadabad Gohna Road in Mohammdabad Gohna Tehsil, Dist- Mau ] . The original name of Parichay Das is Dr. Ravindra nath srivastava. He was Secretary, Hindi Academy, Delhi Govt. and Secretary, Maithili-Bhojpuri Academy, Delhi Government. His important books are- 'Ek nayaa vinyaas', 'Prithvi se ras le ke', 'Sansad bhavan ki chhat per khadaa ho ke', 'Chharutaa', 'Yugpat sameekaran me', 'Dhoosar kavita', 'Kavita chaturthi', 'Akaanksha se adhik satvar', 'Anupasthit dinaank', 'Maddhim aanch me' , 'Swapn, sampark, smriti' etc.
- Laxmi Narayan Mishra (1903–1987) was born in the village Basti, district Mau.He was a popular play writer of HINDI. He was a theatre personality of Uttar Pradesh. His works became very popular between the 1930 and 1950.They were frequently staged by schools,colleges, and amateur groups. Laxmi Narayan Mishra is considered the founder of the problem play in Hindi theatre.
- Fiza Ibn-e-Faizi (1923-2009) was a modern Urdu and Persian poet. He was a native of Mau district of Uttar Pradesh and was considered a 'qadir-ul-kalaam' poet and had received numerous awards within the Urdu world. At least, six poetry collections of Faizi had been published and acclaimed. In 2009, a memorial named as Faizi Gate was constructed by the then municipal head near his house.
- Maulana Habibur Rahman Azmi (1900-1992) was a well known Islamic Scholar, belonged to this city. He wrote under pen name of Abul Ma'sir. His works on Islamic Jurisprudence is well acclaimed. He remains a well known figure in major Islamic seminaries like Medina University, Al-Azhar and Darul-uloom Deoband. His works are cited by Muslims across the world.[10]
- Atul Kumar Anjaan (born: 1955) is a senior CPI leader and national secretary of Communist Party of India. He is an active politician in Mau and contesting Lok Sabha election since 1998 from Ghosi (Lok Sabha constituency) unsuccessfully and came 6th in General Election, 2014, getting over 18000 votes.
- Mufti Habiburrahman Sahab Khairabadi Good Islamic scholar Darul uloom Deoband
Peoples Representatives[edit]
- District Council:: Zila Panchayat-Mau Chairperson : Mr. Sunil Singh Chauhan
- Parliamentary constituency :: Ghosi MP : Harinarayan Rajbhar
- Parliament Upper House Representation (Rajya Sabha) :: Salim Ansari (Since July 2010)
- State Assembly constituency:: Madhuban(353) MLA : Umesh Pandey
- State Assembly constituency:: Ghosi(354) MLA : Sudhakar Singh
- State Assembly constituency:: Muhammadabad-Gohna(355) MLA : Baijnath
- State Assembly constituency:: Mau(356) MLA : Mukhtar Ansari
- Municipal Corporation:: Nagar palika parishad-Mau Chairperson : Mrs. Shahina Arshad Jamal [11]
- District Magistrate :: Mr.Chandrakant Pandey (IAS)
- Superintendent of Police :: Mr. Dinesh Chandra (IPS)
- Chairperson of Nagar Palika Parishad :: Mrs. Shahina Arshad Jamal
- Chairperson of Zila Panchayat :: Mr. Sunil Singh Chauhan
In Fiction[edit]
Mau is the setting for the third and final part of A Passage to India, a novel by English author E. M. Forster
See Also[edit]
- ^ http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-02-10/lucknow/31046000_1_doharighat-mukhtar-ansari-bsp-ticket
- ^ http://www.censusindia.gov.in/pca/default.aspx
- ^ http://mau.nic.in/AboutDistrict/population.html
- ^ http://www.pacsindia.org/mau
- ^ http://www.smetimes.in/smetimes/in-depth/2013/Jun/26/gi-tag-varanasi-mau-bhadohi-leading-in-up629606.html
- ^ http://dcmsme.gov.in/dips/Mau%2012..12.12.pdf
- ^ http://mau.nic.in/Economy/industrial.html
- ^ http://mau.nic.in/AboutDistrict/population.html
- ^ http://www.gecg.org/
- ^ http://www.masjideumar.co.nz/sunnah/taraweeh-20-or-8-rakaats-106.html
- ^ http://nppmau.in/
External links[edit]
- District Website of MAU NATH BHANJAN
- Census of India 2001: Data from the 2001 # Census, including cities, villages and towns (Provisional)


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