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THE design of cruise ships carrying many thousands of passengers needs urgent re-examination after the rapid and fatal capsizing of the Costa Concordia on 13 January. So says Nautilus International, a maritime trade union which was already campaigning for outsize leisure vessels to be made safer.
The liner, carrying 4200 passengers and crew, was holed by a rocky outcrop just off the island of Giglio, Italy, at 9.42 pm local time. Just 45 minutes later it was listing at an angle too steep for lifeboats to be lowered from its port side. At least 11 people were killed and others are still missing.
It shouldn't be that way, says Nautilus spokesman Tony Minns. The design of watertight compartments should be such that the vessel remains stable for much longer, perhaps by having more hull beneath the water or by installing systems that pump water to help rebalance a listing ship.
"The regulators need to look at the construction of these vast cruise ships so they are better designed for survivability - so there's a reasonable chance of getting all passengers and crew off the ship safely," says Minns.
Commercial concerns are likely to oppose significant changes, he concedes. To access picturesque quaysides without having to load passengers into boats, cruise ships have a very shallow draught. The 13-storey Costa Concordia had only 8 metres of its hull underwater. "That draught currently limits options for providing compartments that can provide reserve stability," says Minns.
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Oprah's Favorite Things for 2011: Brut champagne, tote bags and more
Just because her talk show is no more does not mean Oprah Winfrey has forgotten her annual list of Favorite Things. The list is out and suddenly we are very anxious to do some holiday shopping.
Highlights include:
Brut Gold Champagne, Armand de Brignac
"Jay-Z has a head for business, a soul for poetry, and a taste for luxury. He sent me this glorious Champagne, and I've since sent 25 cases to friends." -- Oprah
$300 | Wine.com
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Reisenthel Bottlebag
"I use this to recycle my evening's wine consumption. Kidding! I give it to friends--stocked with Australian varietals--or bring it to picnics and outdoor concerts." -- Peter Walsh
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UGG Classic Cardy Boots
"Ugg's headquarters are right near my home in Santa Barbara, and I'm friendly with the designers. They have so many styles now - one for everyone on my list!" -- Cat Cora
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- Niaz Uddin Sohel
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How have you benefited from TED?
TED has been revolutionizing everything from different perspectives. There has been so may amazing projects inspired by TED. It is a place of doers. It is an amazing platform for Future Leaders.
What do you think about
1. How TED helps you
2. Why
3. What are the industries that we can change by TED Talks and contribution of TED Community.
Apr 12 2012: My response is, I feel better today.
How this organization or website eluded my radar for so many years escapes me, but I have found you at last. I just registered today after watching about 30 TEDTalks episodes on Netflix. Great move to release them there, Hope everyone is ready for the influx of new members.
After about 18 months of participation in some "discussion" sites I was losing faith in the state of civilization and the ability of persons to have a constructive dicussion of ideas. Discovering this site and foundation has cheered me up quite a bit.
It will take me a little time to digest the scope of content before I will be comfortable in participating at this level, but this is one venue I will gladly be a vouyer.
Apr 15 2012: Great. I am wishing you all the bet with your works and projects.
Luo Ying
Apr 10 2012: i get a lot of amazing ideas from ted talks. people r so imaginative.
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Apr 15 2012: Right you are..:)
Luo Ying
Apr 25 2012: but i myself lack of imagination...
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shivang vyas
Apr 19 2012: for me TED has become a huge source of motivation. i have become a big fan of TED.
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I like to read TED articles, watch TED talks, read TED conversations rather than spending time in social networking sites.
people from all around the world, share their knowledge, their ideas, i mean thats really mind blowing, really awesome.
Everyday before starting any work, i always listen to TED talks of my interests field.
Motivation make huge contribution in your work. I just love my work, i love what i do. i love Technologies.
But you always don't get right kind of people and right environment around you, so it may slightly affect your focus.
So whenever i feel that i am not able to focus properly on work, i started to listen TED talks.
when you see people around world, sharing their knowledge/ideas to make world, life even better, you feel really motivating.
TED has given me a best platform where i can gain/share my thoughts/ideas, where i can contribute, learn, share in a right direction.
TED is like "Heaven" for me.
Apr 20 2012: WOW! Great man!
These words are the motivation for me. All the best with your TED Journey.Apr 19 2012: TED helps me gain insights and new perspectives.I find the topics healthy and stimulating.
Apr 19 2012: Great!
Apr 14 2012: I'm a proud member of the TED community and have been following most of the talks for a long time! Its inspiring, imaginative and creative talks always gives me new ideas to work on! I have recommended this to several of my friends who have liked it too!
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Apr 15 2012: Great Suja. I hope you are gonna spread TED more effectively to reach to the MASS. I just have gotten back to TEDMED 2012. It was amazing..:))Apr 14 2012: TED helps me by inspiring me because it's simply inspiring; It opens up new perspectives. If you think about it, any TED "talk" can fit to almost any purpose.
Apr 15 2012: You are right Edvine.
Jeff Sladden
Apr 13 2012: I love the knowledge I gain from the wide range of speakers at TED
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Apr 15 2012: Great Jeff!Apr 13 2012: I enjoy watching TED speakers, hearing their ideas on important issues, and I'm surprised (more often than not), how what I think isn't that different from their educated opinions. Maybe I'm not crazy.
Apr 15 2012: Some continuous practice can make you CRAZY!. Trust me. I am also happy to know that you are hinging as like as the world heading with. Take very good care Vince. Spread these invaluable ideas to all of your near and dear ones. Chill with knowledge.Apr 5 2012: TED is a great source for discovering human possibilities and direction.
1Ted helps me to navigate through my own curiosity and contemplation, and I believe that we are all One; so the individuals who contribute solutions to our problems humans are posed with are not individual but common.
2 The minds that manifest on TED talks resonate within a similar frequency range- the doers as much as the viewers, I believe we complement each other to find solutions- even with comments we are contributing to our future
3 Which industries? Hopefully new industries that don't even exist now, and take our imagination by surprise!! :)
TED is awesome, and I am grateful for every person I meet
Apr 5 2012: Hey Sokratis!
I can realize how beauiful mind you do have..:)
First of all this is an amazing saying 'we are all One'
I do agree with you regarding this 'Hopefully new industries that don't even exist now, and take our imagination by surprise'
And even I have been working for it.
Thanks for your time and passion. Take very good care.
Terry Harman
Apr 4 2012: 1/ TED helps me 'think out side of the box' It helps me hone my own arguements and world view.
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2/ For every talk/conversation on TED there is a counter talk/arguement/conversation. for example I can watch a talk on the enviroment, a topic I feel passionately about, participate in an intellectual and challenging conversation and see a spectrum of views. This helps me challenge my own assumptions and pre-conceptions. I can also just browse at random and see something else that informs my world view. There are serious topics being explored with passion and also humour. It's just all so very much EDUCATIONAL and also engaging. I think it's very important to look at the comments on talks as well as just watch the talks.
3/ Virtually everyone of them if you approach things with an open mind, an ability to cross reference and a willingness to spread the new ideas you have gained.
Apr 5 2012: Dear Terry
I am thanking you for your nice comment. YOU are perfectly right.Apr 4 2012: I've only recently been introduced to the forum and actively watching TED. I just really enjoy having some respite from other mindless blogs that invite idiotic, mundane threads and comments. That said, I appreciate the quality of the topics as well as the comments. I think it fosters a thinking environment and creates a community based on respectful, intelligent, and rational (most the time) communication. I hope to continue to be a part of such a group!
Apr 4 2012: Hello Tyler
You are right.
Morgan Kent
Apr 2 2012: TED is one of the driving forces behind my classroom.
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1a. I embed every video I can into my lessons.
1b. I mimic the great TED speakers in ways I address and lecture my class. (The other day a student said I sounded like rives the way I explained the logarithmic functions . ;) it was my goal )
1c. I am trying to convince my school to allow me to run a TED class as an elective that will focus on research, world issues, technology, and presentation skills. (no success yet we are way to understaffed and over budget)
2. Because TED to me is being able to attend mental development classes year round. TED is surrounding myself with like minded individuals that want more for themselves and the world. TED is the future, or at least what i want the future to look like.
3.EVERY SINGLE INDUSTRY. I show TED to every single student I have. I expose them to others very educated thoughts. And by exposing them, their thoughts and actions can be influenced by TED. Dan Pink's Motivation talk is one of my favorite talks to get students discussing the future of business and management. Students love discussing interesting presentations and applying the ideas to themselves or future endeavors.
*Only one small problem-You tube videos can not play in my school.*l
Apr 2 2012: Dear Sir.
First of all, I am thanking you for sharing your amazing and trend setting experience.
Second of all, wishing you all the best with these endeavors. I believe you are going to be a change maker.
Third of all, Yes! we can change some industries with TED Talks. Recently I have given my status on Facebook like ""A single IDEA/INNOVATION can make your 20 Years EXPERTISE meaningless. Hence, See 'Who is KNOCKING at the DOOR'""
This quote is based on my works to let people know how TEDTalks can change HRD industry.
Finally, Can you please explain why you can't play you tube videos in your school?
Punchlines: It will be an honor to get connected with you. This is my Facebook Link: http://www.facebook.com/ideaprogrammer
This is my Knowledge Hub: http://niazbiz.com/ (Under construction). You will find great TED Talks in my i-Theater.
Thanks for being nice and cool with the art of Knowledge. Take very good care.Mar 31 2012: Truly? TED keeps me from losing faith in humanity. Individuals with widely different political/social/philosophical views openly discussing such topics respectfully. Such an amazing phenomenon.
I think TED's biggest potential is in support of the Open Source movement, which can drastically (and imo positively) change many, many industries.
Mar 31 2012: I do strongly believe about changing industries.
Thanks Ferri.Apr 27 2012: I am amazed at the diversity of the topics and the people.I get to hear brave stories of people whom I might not be able to meet in my life.I also find it fasinating as an English studying material and I learn new English words and ideas everyday.
Kelly Eagles
Apr 22 2012: 1. How TED helps you
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I'm still fairly new to TED. I'm still discovering the rich ideas that people are so wonderful to share. TED has helped me in many ways though. Solving boredom, writers block, and my own emotional obstacles. It has helped me look at topics in different lights. It has even shown me that emotional, ideological and morality struggles that I am faced with every day as a career minded, business/IT minded woman + an activist/occupier is faced with every day are struggles that cross not only cultures but species (which was probably the most entertaining speech I've seen in a long time). TED has opened my eyes and my mind to new things that I knew in my gut were out there, but I wasn't articulate enough to find them!
2. Why
The creativity, the knowledge and the courage that people share amazes me. I think TED is part of the reason why I'm even more open to this. But not only that, I just found it at the right time in my life!
3. What are the industries that we can change by TED Talks and contribution of TED Community.
I think there are a lot of industries or communities you can change with TED. Activism is something I could see that could STRONGLY benefit from having TEDTalks (We do it every once in a while here; Stew, Wine and TED nights!). But I also see large corporations and government departments benefiting as well. It would be a great outlet and input for them to understand how public perception and even internal perception of their practices are.
This isa wonderful question that I've actually been asking myself for the past couple of days. TED has become such a large part of my life(I'm worried almost) over the past couple of days. It's great to see others responses....If you haven't answered yet, how about yourself? And would your answer change on a daily basis/video basis?Apr 19 2012: TED is coming home.
I am 41 years old, have always felt different. Was great at surfing the people in all the crowds and have my close friends.
TED has pushed forward a place to know there are others just like me.
Honestly, I have not needed the validation, it is truly a big giant gift.
Apr 19 2012: I do agree with you : It is honestly a true BIG giant gift...:))
Dan F
Apr 16 2012: How have I benefited from TED?
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First I should say, I'm a fairly active contributer. I concentrate on a rely to the TED TALK as opposed to entering discussions with others regarding the talk.
I believe my writing skills have improved, as have my skills to communicate what I am trying to convey. This wasn't without effort. I have a collection of self help aids, such as "Grammar for Idiots" that show considerable wear. As I get a credit here and there, I feel some reward in that acknowledgement.
It's fun being involved and hopefully providing thoughtful comments. My intent is to influence partisipants in these TALKS and perhaps add encouragement for the enterprise it takes to continually improve and provide this service. I feel somewhat invested with TED.
It has been a growth experience to be part of the TED Community. TED has inspired me to be a more effective communicator about things I have studied and experienced over the years.
Apr 16 2012: Simply Great Sir.
Jasmin Begic
Apr 15 2012: To be fair, you forgot to add question marks. :)
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Apr 16 2012: ...:) Thanks Brother...:))
But it was my conscious mistake and this is my style. As you have seen the question mark at the Main Question. Thanks. And your observation is so cool.
Apr 16 2012: You are a genius. :)
Rhona Pavis
Apr 14 2012: I enjoy interacting with people from all over the world. I appreciate ted.com for providing a place where I can express anything that pops into my lovely head. I appreciate the people who participate in ted as reflected in the inputs they make. I love experiencing people expressing their true thoughts and feelings. When I am on ted.com, I feel as though I am hanging out with my peers, and that is something that is exremely important to me. HAPPY TODAY.
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Apr 15 2012: Great! Rhona.
Stuart Woods
Apr 13 2012: I have to say TED excels in deepening awareness of SELF and our contribution to whatever we dedicate out lives to. It's also amazing at helping CONNECT theories, experiences and viewpoints which celebrate DIVERSITY. Relatively new to TED I am indebted already for the wise and helpful conversations I have been lucky to witness and take part in. I can safely safe EDUCATION can and will change because of TED.
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Apr 15 2012: Dear Stuart
You are perfectly right. And I do strongly agree with you.
Kris Rosvold
Apr 13 2012: TED helps my by exposing me to thoughts, dreams and revelations that I had not previously considered.
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These force me to think and question the whys and wherefores of my chosen values. The greatest gift I am being given by this group is the remembrance of what can be, and the possibility of making it so.
I suspect we have value for all industries. There is truly "something for everyone" here. With that said; I believe the largest change could come from TEDs' involvement in....GAsp... Politics and government. The US and the World desperately need many more thoughtful (and heartful)folks (including kids) speaking out in that arena.
TEDsters, Thank you for sharing your vision, insight, and joy in your work and inspiration. Most of all thank you for sharing your hopes and dreams!
Apr 15 2012: GREAT to know all the ideas you have shared here.Apr 13 2012: Knowledge and learning in "listen". I study english language....!
Apr 15 2012: COOL!Apr 13 2012: knowledge, exposure, information and inspiration
Apr 15 2012: cOOL MAN!
Jasmin Begic
Apr 13 2012: Knowledge.
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Apr 15 2012: Okay..:)Apr 12 2012: Hi Niaz.. I certainly have because anytime we can learn or explore new ideas, see new ways of looking at things and share in one and others opinions in open dialog.... How can we not benifit..?
Apr 15 2012: Great. Yes! You can get benefited,,,,:)
Xie Shuhua
Apr 11 2012: What do you think about
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1. How TED helps you
2. Why
3. What are the industries that we can change by TED Talks and contribution of TED Community.
Thank you for your question!
First of all,I think TED helps me to improve my English,cause I am an English major.
Second,some ideals are quiet remarkable!And they can even change your attitude towards life! I still remember the first time I saw a video in which Stacey Kramer gives us a speech about how to handle life something,I must say it touched me and changed my life in some way.Since then,everytime when I faced with something difficult,I could always remeber Stacey Kramer onece said "That is just maybe a gift.".
finally,I can not find out something need to be modifided now,but if I get one I will send message to you.
Apr 15 2012: Great Shelly.
Thanks for the ideas.Apr 10 2012: TED has become an intergral part of my life.Its become mandatory for me to listen to atleast 15 talks each day, for my daily dose of encouraging TED talks.Prior to TED,I had given up on my dreams and goals I had set for myself.TED has reignited my passion to pursue my dreams and never give up.I listen to sarah kay"If I had a Daughter" every day without fail.Her poem has given me a different perspective on motherhood. Since the poem, I strive harder to become a better Mom. TED talks across different topics have made me regain my lost confidence.Thank you TED for changing my life. Do continue to touch millions of lives with your amazing talks.
Apr 15 2012: TED has also become an inevitable part of my life. I have already watched more than 1000 TED Talks. After seeing your enthusiasm I am motivated to watch all TED Talks. Trust me, i AM GONNA DO SO SOON. eNLIGHT THE WORLD WITH YOUR IDEAS TOO. take very good care.
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Apr 15 2012: Great Natasha. I am impressed. Take very good care.Apr 7 2012: I have benefited from TED as my 8 year old son loves watching the TED lectures; he is actually interested in academic debates on science and literature . . . sometimes more so than watching cartoons!
Apr 7 2012: Really great. Can you please kindly make a profile for him so that we can contribute in TED conversation?
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Apr 7 2012: Don your are great. The way you have been removing your aloneness is impressive. If you allow me I would love to write a blog post regarding your comment on my blog: http://niazbiz.com/blog/ as well as my knowledge hub: http://niazbiz.com/
Take very good care.Apr 5 2012: TED has expanded and enriched my knowledge. Its been a source for material for all my training needs. Being a trainer, i need to understand the various perspectives of a subject from a trusTED source and that was my introduction to TED. That's a beginning.......
Apr 5 2012: Great!Apr 2 2012: English is my second language, TED is a good place to learn English. In a addition, TED helps me to be closer to the World. The topic involves all walk of life which can not be learned or seen in our daily life. It develops our creative thinking. TED is great. The only thing should be improved, in my perspective, subtitle should be added. As I found some of screens has no subtitles. That is very pity as a english learner, sometimes can not follow up speaker due to their fast spead, or accent.
Apr 2 2012: "English is my second language, TED is a good place to learn English"- This is a new point for me. Great Catherine Bai!
Yes some new videos don't have subtitle. But I guess if you try later you will find them with sub title. If you keep watching and contributing in this community, I do strongly believe you will never need subtitle after just few days.
Thanks for sharing your ideas.
Take very good care.Apr 2 2012: For a senior like me TED is a boon, as I can catch up with all that I had missed during my growing up years. I can reflect , become aware, educate my self and with growing age and resulting maturity, not get too carried away.
Apr 2 2012: Dear Asgar Sir
It is a great lesson for us from your life. As a young star I should best use my time.
I am so happy to see your enthusiasm at this age. You are a great lesson for me and I am thanking you for sharing your experience of TED.
Take very good care.
Clem Foltz
Apr 1 2012: This world is amazing. I was sitting in school learning what I felt was disconnected from the real world, learning should be as amazing as everything that is happening around us. I heard about TED my senior year of high school and it gave me to motivation to go to college even though I still want to learning to change, at least I can supplement TED talks into my life, and therefore to answer the last question, education. Everything we do centers around the education we have, While TED has done much for education and awareness of new education types and flaws with the current systems. The fact of the matter is education has changed very little for the average student in the public school system.
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Apr 1 2012: WOW! These sentences are remarkable.
I am thanking you for sharing everything with OPEN mind. I hope TED is going to help you to contribute greatly with your works for illuminating the world with blessing.
Take very good care.Apr 1 2012: It might have actually saved my life. I have been a long term severe sufferer from manic depression and depression. This venue has given me hope for the future and it has provided me with and audience that takes my input at its value not filtering it through perceptions of what the mentally ill can do. Its been a treasure.
Apr 1 2012: Russell
Great to know that.
Thanks for sharing your experience here. Wishing you all the best with everything.Mar 30 2012: TED is just amazing. Most recent discoveries within my reach. Different fields and sciences in one place. I especially appreciate medical sciences and modern technologies and these talks I find most interesting. I think modern technologies and medicine will surely benefit from TED Talks.


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The survivors of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi have urged government to marshal all diplomatic efforts to ensure that Genocide fugitives are brought to book.
Under their umbrella, Ibuka, the survivors said that different countries have deliberately refused to have special provisions in their legislations that have led to hundreds of suspects accused of the Genocide into which a million people died, remain scot-free.
The call came in the wake of a story by the Daily Mail, a British newspaper, which tracked down one genocide suspect, Modeste Kennedy Hakizimana, who has lived in the United Kingdom for the past 13 years and currently works as a taxi driver in London.
"The reluctance by some countries has facilitated the growth of what one can call the international conspiracy, mainly championed by well known (Genocide) deniers, most of them stand accused of the Genocide," said Ibuka president Dr Jean Pierre Dusingizemungu.
He noted that the principle is to have fugitives apprehended and brought to book either in those countries, or extradited to Rwanda to face justice.
Despite the UK authorities being aware of the atrocities Hakizimana stands accused back in Rwanda, the newspaper reported that he was in 2009 granted "discretionary leave to remain" on UK territory due to a precedence set by the country's High Court regarding the fate of four other Rwandan Genocide suspects.
The four fugitives include three former Bourgmestres (Mayors) Charles Munyaneza (Kinyamakara), Celestin Ugirashebuja (Kigoma) and Emmanuel Nteziryayo (Mudasomwa), while the other one is Vincent Bajinya, a medical doctor who was the director of the National Population Service (ONAPO).
They were freed on grounds that they would not receive fair trial once transferred to Rwanda, and could not be tried under the British law because of what activist call loopholes in their legal system.
Reacting to the story, Prosecutor General Martin Ngoga accused UK authorities of acting with indifference when it comes to dealing with Genocide suspects on the European country's soil.
"There is more than the case of Hakizimana or even the four who were set free years ago. There are more suspects. Crown Prosecution (UK) is aware, we have been in touch and we know they have been trying to do something but until when?" said Ngoga in a telephone interview.
The release of the quartet took place a few days after the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda had differed cases that had been referred to Rwanda by the tribunal's prosecution, citing concerns over the country's justice system which needed to be fixed.
These have since been fixed and the first suspect was transferred to Rwanda by the tribunal earlier this year, and his trial is ongoing.
"The response by the United Kingdom on this issue is most disappointing...facts are clear, and the court itself has established that there is Prima Facie case against these men but they remain indifferent," Ngoga added.
He alluded to a semblance of double standards, picking on the case involving Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, a whistle blowing website, where the British authorities have, for months, struggled to smoke him out of the Ecuadorian embassy in London to extradite him to Sweden where he stands accused of rape.
However, when contacted last evening, Ben Llewellyn-Jones, the British High Commissioner to Rwanda attributed the blowing of the Assange case to the media, saying that Crown Prosecution was doing a lot to ensure that the Genocide fugitives are brought to book, only that this does not receive the media attention like Assange's.
"From the very beginning, the attitude of the British government has been to have these people face justice, these men were arrested, and Crown Prosecution proved that they had a case to answer but our courts are independent, so they ruled that they would not get fair trial at the time," said Llewellyn by telephone.
He said that currently the cases were under review.
"The Department of Home Affairs is working with prosecution to review the extradition request and in light of recent developments, we hope extradition this time will be possible," said the envoy in reference to the recent precedence set at the ICTR, Canada and the European Court of Human and People's Rights, which all gave green light to extradition of different suspects.
He, however, said that even if the courts were to sanction extradition, further discussions would follow, because Rwanda does not have an extradition treaty with the United Kingdom.
Rwanda does not have an extradition treaty with any European or North American country, apart from Switzerland, which, it is said, was acquired during colonial days, at the time Rwanda was a Belgian protectorate.
In case of absence of a treaty, the governments work on a memorandum of understanding which may guide any extradition.
The loophole in the British legal system which campaigners have continued to say has made the European country a den for war crimes and genocide suspects stem from the UK International Criminal Court Act 2001 for England and Wales.
This law, which gives British courts the universal jurisdiction to try war crimes committed on other parts of the world, is not retrospective and limit itself to crimes only committed after 2001.


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Returning to the week after a killer weekend, I normally inappropriately salute Mondays with an unusual use of one of my fingers, but this Monday is different. This morning, I happened to stumble upon a gem of a YouTube video that moved me to tears and made me realize the world isn't too bad after all — even on Mondays. (Aren't those moments fantastic?) In this vid, Jodi DiPiazza, a young girl diagnosed with autism, sits at a piano playing "Firework†by Katy Perry at an autism awareness event. (Donate to autism research here: http://cc.com/donate) The performance takes an amazingly inspiring turn when Katy Perry starts to harmonize to Jodi's melody and the two duet the entire song from start to finish. From the look in Jodi's eyes to Perry's loving smile, this video perfectly captures the compassion of the human race.
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Harry Styles and Taylor Swift's breakup is awkward enough, what with rumours that she desperately wants him back and the fact they'll be reunited at the BRITs whether they want to see each other or not.
Harry Styles and Taylor Swift have found themselves at the centre of a sex tape scam. Copyright [Splash]So Harry Styles and Taylor Swift REALLY didn't need a SEX TAPE scam thrown into the mix.
[Related article: Taylor Swift confirmed for BRITs performance]
[Related article: Harry Styles gets over Taylor Swift with some partying]
However, this is exactly what's happened.
News of a Harry Styles and Taylor Swift sex tape popped up on Facebook, encouraging users to click through to a Haylor sex tape.
The message read: "The famous singer Taylor Swift had her iPhone hacked Monday and a sex tape between her and former boyfriend Harry Styles has been leaked on the Internet.
"Taylor's publicists are trying to take down all of the websites hosting it, but we found a working one! Watch the video before it's taken down!"
Harry Styles and Taylor Swift will have an awkward reunion at the BRITs. Copyright [Splash]Apparently LOADS of people were keen to see Harry and Taylor doing the deed, but the whole thing was a phishing scam.
People who clicked on the link had to fill in forms with their personal details which is never good.
We're just glad that (as far as we know) there isn't a genuine Harry and Taylor sex tape.
The photos of Harry with a stripper on his birthday last weekend were difficult enough to deal with.
Taylor Swift was yesterday confirmed as the final performer at this year's BRITs. Harry Styles is also performing with his One Direction bandmates.
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Finnish national romantic choral music is performed by the Klemetti Institute Chamber Choir, which was founded in 1959 and whose aim is to promote new and rarely performed choral music.
American Record Guide, July/August 2013
If you like the choral music of Finland, boy have you come to the right place. Singing is one of the forces that held the region together in its formative years, and these are the composers whose music gave voice to the nationalist yearnings of an entire people. As these sailing songs, lullabies, love poems, laments, odes to nature, and tales from the epic Kalevala pass by, it's really the soul of a nation that's placed on display. The music is hopeful, too. So this is music of genuine humanity. The program brings many rewards. Alba, who share the stories of these seminal composers and their music in loving detail. (They translate it all into English, too.)
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Ear infections can occur due to a variety of medical conditions and can occur in the external and internal ear areas. The external ear includes the visible portion (called the auricle) and the external auditory canal or tube.
The inner ear includes the cochlea (which contains the sensory hearing nerves); vestibule (which contains the sensory receptors for balance); and semicircular canals (which also contain sensory receptors for balance).
Ear infections cause painful earaches and, if left untreated, may lead to hearing loss. Two of the more common types of ear infections are infection of the middle ear infection, or otitis media, and infection of the outer ear canal, or otitis externa (swimmer's ear).
Otitis Externa
What is otitis externa (swimmer's ear)?
Swimmer's ear, also called otitis externa, is an infection of the outer ear canal. Swimmer's ear is either caused by a fungus or bacteria. Water that remains trapped in the ear canal (when swimming, for example) can provide a breeding ground for bacteria and fungi.
What causes swimmer's ear?
Many different factors can increase the chance of developing swimmer's ear. As the name implies, one of the factors is excessive wetness as with swimming, although it can occur without swimming. Other possible causes of this infection include the following:
- being in warm, humid places
- harsh cleaning of the ear canal
- trauma to the ear canal
- dry ear canal skin
- foreign body in the ear canal
- lack of cerumen (ear wax)
- eczema and other forms of dermatitis
What are the symptoms of swimmer's ear?
The following are the most common symptoms of swimmer's ear. However, each individual may experience symptoms differently. Symptoms may include:
- redness of the outer ear
- itching in the ear
- pain, especially when touching or wiggling the ear lobe
- drainage from the ear
- swollen glands in the neck
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- conductive hearing loss
The symptoms of swimmer's ear may resemble other medical conditions or problems. Always consult your physician for a diagnosis.
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Swimmer's ear may be diagnosed with a complete medical history and physical examination by your physician. Your physician may use an otoscope, a lighted instrument that helps to examine the ear and to aid in the diagnosis of ear disorders. This will help your physician know if there is also an infection in the middle ear, called otitis media. Although this infection usually does not occur with swimmer's ear, some individuals may have both types of infections.
Your physician may also take a culture of the drainage from the ear to help determine proper treatment.
Treatment of swimmer's ear:
Swimmer's ear, when properly treated by a physician, usually clears up within seven to 10 days. Specific treatment for swimmer's ear will be determined by your physician based on:
- your age, overall health, and medical history
- extent of the condition
- your tolerance for specific medications, procedures, or therapies
- expectations for the course of the condition
- your opinion or preference
- antibiotic ear drops or oral antibiotics
- corticosteroid ear drops (to help decrease the swelling)
- pain medication
- keeping the ear dry, as directed by your physician
- a wick (a piece of sponge may be placed in your ear if there is a lot of swelling. This wick helps the antibiotic drops work more effectively in the ear canal.)
Preventing swimmer's ear:
The following are some hints to help prevent swimmer's ear:
- Place two to three drops of a mixture of vinegar/isopropyl alcohol/water into your ear after the ears come in contact with water.
- Use ear plugs for swimming or bathing.
- Do not aggressively clean your ear canal.
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BTW, why did he switch to Corgi?
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Value Based Pricing means charging what your customers are willing to pay (WTP).
The other day I was describing this to a successful, self-employed businesswoman and she kept asking, "How do I know what my customers are willing to pay?".
I mentioned how she should put herself in her customers' shoes, compare her offering to the competition. She said, "I don't always know who else my customer is considering, and I certainly don't know what he thinks about our offers."
I told her she could use win/loss data to narrow down the possibilities. "I don't have that many data points. Will this be significant?"
I described how she could use conjoint analysis to determine what types of customers are willing to pay for which features. "But that doesn't tell me about the customer I'm talking to right now."
I suggested she learn from her customers during the sales cycle. "Sure, but they aren't going to tell me the most they are willing to pay, even if they know it."
Finally, I conceded with an Aha! of my own. We will never know how much a specific customer is willing to pay in a specific situation. We can't read his mind and he's not going to volunteer that information. If we can't know his true willingness to pay, what good is value based pricing?
Think of value based pricing as an attitude. We know we won't always be right, but we are doing our best to estimate what our customers are willing to pay and charging as close to that as possible.
We can use experience (and statistics if possible) to guide our estimating methods. For example, if we continually lose, then we are estimating too high and need to lower our pricing. If we always win, we are pricing too low and need to estimate higher.
When you go to buy a car from a dealership, the salesman is looking you over, trying to determine how price sensitive you are. In other words, he is estimating your willingness to pay. He's looking at the car you arrived in. He studies your clothes and your jewellery. Once you give him your address he will look up the value of your house. He can never know exactly what you will pay, but he can make estimates based on observable criteria.
This is what Value Based Pricing really is, estimating willingness to pay. If you know which competitor your customer is considering, that can help you know how much to charge. If you know which market segment your customer is in, you will price more appropriately. The more you know about this customer and this situation, the better.
This lack of precision is probably one reason companies like and use cost plus pricing. They know their costs (at least they think they do). If you always charge two times your cost, then there is no uncertainty. In fact, no thought is needed.
However, if you want to be more profitable, if you want to capture more of the value you create, then adopt value based pricing. Value based pricing enables more powerful pricing strategies, like price segmentation and product portfolio pricing. It has the power to focus the entire company on creating more value. Value Based Pricing may not be precise, but it is powerful.
Adopt the attitude.
Mark Stiving is a pricing strategist, runs Pragmatic Pricing, and is the author of Impact Pricing: Your Blueprint for Driving Profits.
Some people think that price is everything. My son currently works in my company, SellerDeck, sitting beside me in the home office. His job is account managing customers who use our ecommerce web hosting. It's very instructive listening in. We're not the cheapest offering, although we believe that we offer good value. Since you will start losing orders and customers the second your ecommerce web site goes down, and Google research suggests that marginally slow sites reduce orders by 20%, you would expect quality of service to be the major topic of conversation. Often it is, but for a minority, price is all that matters. In fact, there are relatively few products and services where price should be the sole criterion. These probably include electricity, where the same stuff always comes down the same wire anyway, and petrol, where rival brands across town often sell petrol from the same refinery. But some people always focus on price. The question is; do you even want to speak to customers who only care about price? Wouldn't these customers be better hassling the competition? They not only pay less, they can also waste a lot of time. Competing on price requires the lowest possible cost base. So most businesses try to compete on overall value. My suggestion is if you aren't losing a few customers on price, you probably aren't charging enough. And those customers that you would lose from slightly higher prices, will probably be the very same ones that would be the least profitable and the most trouble.
Market research — the name alone brings moans and groans from customers and businesses alike. Somewhere deep down, we know that it's worthwhile filling in those seemingly endless surveys to end up with a better, brighter, tastier product or service.
Market research plays a vital part in any business as it gives you insight into your market, your competitors, your products, your marketing and your customers. This way you can make informed decisions, such as which chocolate Easter eggs to stock. And believe me, this is hugely important.
Market research helps you to reduce risks by getting product, price and promotion right from the outset. It also helps you focus your resources where they will be most effective. Much information is available online and from industry organisations, and some of it is free. This information provides data on market size, sales trends, customer profiles and competitors. Your customer records also provide a wealth of information, such as purchasing trends.
So that's the theory. With our experts like Kate Willis of KW Research and Steve Phillips of Spring Research Ltd offering their hands-on advice and tips, you can turn the theory into good business practice.
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Yeah, I was saying Bill didn't know why Harry was talking to Griphook.
you can be if you want to, i won't be unduly perturbed.
also thanks for the title. if only my status could change from "old school" to "harry potter goddess"...
Ask Dani. I'm sure she can arrange that.
I don't have a special title and I'm way cooler than you. You can probably give it a shot.
Now now. Kristen wouldn't have sobbed in a corner circa 1999. She would have played Bauhaus or The Cure. Go that route.
kristen circa 1999 is way cooler than me too, but at least i already knew that.
but you best watch your mouf, son. i'll make myself president of the unofficial kristen nicole brown circa 1999 fan club and fire you for embezzling if you continue to say i'm lame.
We can rap battle to settle this if you'd like.
Ooh, zing.
That didn't stop Vanilla Ice.
True. +10.
One week later...
I'm glad I had my sister taped the epilogue's pages together. That's one good reason to have someone read it beforehand.
I thought the whole backstory with Albus was totally unnecessary and kind of annoying (anything with Rita Skeeter is annoying).
The bit where Bathilda Bagshot had the snake spurt out her neck freaked me out so much I had to read it twice and then stop for a few minutes.
Also, Voldey flying is both amusing and pretty frightening.
GO Neville! and Mrs. Weasley.
Both Snape's and Dobby's deaths are the only ones that got to me. Even though I always thought the house-elves were really irritating. I had sympathies for Snape ever since the Occulmency thing. Poor Sev.
I wished Draco got more of a backbone.
Baby thing = creepy. The whole white train station and one-on-one talk with dead Dumbledore bothered me. As near death experiences go that one was sappy.
Please stop with Aberforth and goats. Please.
I was waiting for Voldey to totally freak out about Bellatrix. But then he died.
Also, does Harry have a new Avada Kedavra scar?
Is there anyway they can make this movie shorter than 3 hours? Or anything below PG-13/R? There's just too much death...
Poor Snape...You know he died a virgin, too.
And Cho is cuter than Ginny.
So what would have happened in the end if Harry had never de-wanded Draco?
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Aug. 28, 2011 in Sports Sue Bird hit two free throws with 1.6 seconds left in the game to snap a tie, and the Seattle Storm hung on to beat the Los Angeles Sparks on …
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Perry bills U.S. for illegal migrants
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China moves closer to secret detentions
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In brief: IMF's new chief leans on Congress
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With the recent release of Ubuntu Linux 6.06, I figured this was as good a time as any to have a free-for-all distribution discussion with regards to games. Specifically, things like which distribution you prefer, what ease-of-use functionality is most important to you, what's still missing in terms of support, and so on. Feel free to share your experiences with installation and configuration as well.


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Colors stay put. These cotton sateen sheets come in eight colors, including neutrals, muted pastels and a floral pattern. The colors stay true after being machine-washed five times during expert tests, but a few owners say the colors fade a bit after long-term use or don't match pictures on L.L.Bean's website. Some add that the sheets wrinkle easily in the dryer. The fitted sheet has 15-inch pockets, and nearly all reviewers say the depth is generous enough to accommodate most mattresses with room to spare. Experts praise the fit on a standard queen mattress. The flat sheet, fitted sheet and pillowcases are sold separately.
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Example sentences for spinning
By touching the spinning bowls with wet fingers he produced chords and complex melodies.
She leans casually on her spinning frame, staring out at the camera, dressed in a filthy work smock.
We give them the tools to realize when they're spinning and need to stop.
Usually these discussions leave my head spinning, unable to keep track of all of the concepts being flung my way.
He reacts silently to each new revelation rather than spinning out glib one-liners, and he lets his pain show.
Spinning blood device set to safeguard astronaut health.
As you gaze at a, you soon notice circles spinning in opposite directions.
They picked a color of laser light that ensured the energy absorbed by the molecules would not set them spinning.
Similar issues come up with mechanical storage, whether it's water behind a dam, compressed air underground or spinning flywheels.
On the way to the super market stop into a toy store and purchase a kids toy spinning top.
Vertigo refers to the sensation of being in a spinning environment.
Evidence of this asymmetry could be found by playing a film of a spinning, slightly squashed electron in reverse.
Air spinning in a toroid has low pressure at its center of rotation, which makes the toroid of air rise.
So the researchers turned back to their supercomputer and ran more simulations to produce videos of spinning gears.
Tornadoes are vertical funnels of rapidly spinning air.
Pulsars are the spinning cores of dead stars that ended their lives in huge explosions.
If he could place weather tools in a tornado's path, its spinning winds could roar over them.
If a gust of wind blows through, it can send the circulating air spinning horizontally, triggering a dust devil.
But tornado chasers and scientists have seen, photographed and videotaped clockwise spinning tornadoes north of the equator.
It turns out two of them are spinning off into their own series.
He finished his shaving in a growing testiness increased by his spinning headache and by the emptiness in his stomach.
Her spinning-wheel turned of its own volition and her pillow circled as if on a pivot while she slept.
So his agile mind worked, spinning its familiar web of possibilities and contingencies and fine distinctions.
More generally, the novel occasionally feels too long for its weight, its seething activity spinning rather than flowing.
Other parts of government are not above spinning the facts for their own ends.
In addition, the flow of water into a hydropower dam's turbines draws fish into the spinning blades.
They visualize a satellite whose characteristic spinning and tumbling can be reduced to zero by a system of control jets.
Aficionados considered his style, full of spinning angled shots and feathery drop shots, the epitome of beauty.
We believe it to be round, plastic, and always spinning.
Many of these books come in series, spinning out extended narratives in intricately imagined worlds.
Bougainvillea poured down the hillside, and the hummingbirds were spinning.
On one level, he was spinning fantasies, but on another he was merely saying that nothing was going to make him quit.
Once in position, the drill can be set spinning so that an ice cylinder gradually forms within it.
Snow had started to fall, spinning in the beams of our headlamps.
The flywheel continues spinning, storing energy until that motion can be transferred back to the wheels via a transmission.
If it is spinning fast enough it will continue to spin even though at an angle.
In addition, the excess heat from the process can then be used to pre-heat water for conversion to steam for spinning turbines.
Those transistors were made by spinning the plastic foil to spread a drop of organic liquid into a thin, even layer.
Normally, these polymers are spread out across the substrate by spinning or using a small scraping blade.
Any spinning sphere that it is not entirely spherical should wobble in this way.
The app uses a spinning, color-coded wheel to make it easy to hop from one artist to the next.
What limits the speed of a helicopter is the same thing that allows it to hover-the air flowing over its spinning rotor blades.
Some previously money-spinning activities are shadows of their former selves.
With leaks appearing almost daily, the commission now appears to be dangerously close to spinning out of control.
The problem is that matters rapidly seem to be spinning out of the control of fiscally-limited governments.
But the college did try spinning off different programs and establishing alternate campuses.
Some of my friends started spinning fantastical explanations, including my political views and simple jealousy.
As students and enrollment officials alike grasp for certainty in an uncertain time, the admissions cycle keeps spinning faster.
The goal is to diminish your isolation and spinning of wheels.
But the metamorphosis offered by the great religions is often less dramatic than spinning golden gods out of human straw.
It's amazing what can go through your mind when the number of plates you're spinning falls to a manageable number.
Then the government began a campaign of forgetting, first spinning the event and then erasing it.
It is frighteningly easy to imagine this crisis spinning out of control.
Vertigo is a sensation of motion or spinning that is often described as dizziness.
From that moment on, he was in perpetual motion, spinning tales of his travels into two dozen books and scores of stories.
There was a carousel spinning around, playing calliope music.
Not at all the sort of place you would expect to find a spinning red swastika on prominent display.
Haynes climbed the spinning, rocking structure to a perilous and precarious perch high on the scaffolding.
Mac was alone in his wakefulness, his mind spinning with fear.
Rather than scrambling the ice crystals, the shock wave from the rocket organized them into an array of tiny spinning tops.
Here is a diagram showing the wheel while it is spinning.
Silkworms, on the other hand, are natural silk-spinning factories.
It is great because you can stand or sit on it if you don't mind getting sick from spinning.
Ten seconds of spinning and your dinner table goes from seating six to seating twelve, which is the equivalent of six fat people.
Five seconds into the video, it failed to play and the spinning circle took over the site, forcing me to close it down.
We live on a spinning ball, rotating madly as it moves through space.
Vertigo is an illusory sensation of motion or spinning, often accompanied by nausea.
It may have been done on purpose as part of a gyroscopic-stabilization move, or it may have been spinning out of control.
You'd have to integrate for a while to see all those stars so the mount must have been spinning.
Pulsars are the rapidly-spinning über-dense fantastically-magnetic collapsed cores of exploded stars.
In her first academic year, she seemed to be spinning without direction.
Finally a wildly spinning filament of cloud snaked out and grabbed at the ground.
As a science writer, my focus is biology, but that didn't ease my year-long case of head-spinning.
The syngas ignites inside the turbine, spinning the turbine blades that generate about half the plant's electricity.
Therefore, the path you find yourself on has less to do with choice than with the way a particular electron is spinning.
The content of the show has the traditional plate-spinning, hoop-diving, juggling and contortions.
When an updraft moves over the spinning, and stretches it, a tornado can form.
Researchers are spinning spider silk from goats' milk.
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I just thought of something. Hulk hogan beat Shiek in 1984. Stone Cold won the king of the ring tournament in 1996, 12 years later. Minus three from that and you get 9. 9 years later, cena beat JBL. Minus 3 again and we get to 2011. What was the biggest match? CM Punk beating Cena.....and there is your answer. We had hulk and cena who were like each other. Now we will have stone cold and punk who are like each other.....I read into things too much
I think, like Punk, and the SES, im better than you persona. I think think someone will make the call and let Ambrose be that crazy man character eventually, so out of this grouping hes my pick. I mean, Ziggler, IMO, is good, but without a voice doing his talking, he wont be the one. I dont think they have buried Barrett enough to put him to Swagger status yet, but hes teetering. I truly do think he has tons of talent and works hard, if they tried, Barrett could be a huge deal moving forward. Cesaro is a tough call, the guy will always kill it in the ring but it takes more than that to get to face of the company status. Seth Rollins is also very possible, he got very over in ROH for a guy that just couldnt talk, but he can do a Bret Hart type promo that could be enough to get him to an important spot. Nice blog!
Whoever it is, he will be physically larger than Ziggler or Punk or Daniel Bryan. Vince has always favored the bigger guys. There have been exceptions (HBK, Bret Hart). Also, mic skills definitely count more than in-ring skills. McMahan has always said he can put anyone over, so the technical skills are secondary to him. He has always liked big strong musclemen, like the Warrior and Triple H. Of the names you mentioned, Ambrose might be the one. But we really haven't seen his in ring skills yet, at least not in WWE. But maybe...
Ryback is the obvious choice for me, but nobody else seems to get it
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Bacon Love Friday: Bacon on the Grill
Spring has come very early to a lot of North America, and if you are anything like me you are absolutely loving it. If global warming means that I get to relax on a patio with a beer in March, then I am hard pressed to complain. The unseasonable warmth has gotten a lot of people thinking about summer a little earlier than usually, and in addition to putting away all of our sweaters and starting to get into bikini shape, thinking about summer means thinking about barbeque.
While most picture bacon sizzling away in a pan, this King of Meats also works wonders smoking on a hot grill. In honour of the heat and the happiness that has come with us, for this Bacon Love Friday I thought I would pass on some of my favourite ways to grill bacon.
Grill Some Bacon
Seriously, bacon all by itself on a grill works beautifully and tastes damn delicious. The bbq enhances the smoky flavour and allows a lot of the fat to drip away, meaning that you get to enjoy more of the tastiness and less of the great. Just remember to keep your grill nice and greased to avoid sticking.
Green Beans and Bacon
This makes an awesome accompaniment to any barbeque meal and is an awesome alternative to the traditional bacon wrapped asparagus. The bacon and green beans cook together in a tinfoil packet on the same grill that the meat is on, allowing their flavours to mingle together. What a great way to get folks to eat their veggies!
Grilled Bacon Jalapeno
These tasty little nuggets are like jalapeno poppers only way better and baconier. The cream cheese stuffed jalapenos are wrapped in bacon before being grilled to perfection, and are sure to make their lesser, deep-fried cousins jealous.
Bacon-Wrapped Steak
This one is just a no-brainer. Taking a scrumptious piece of beef and tenderly wrapping a strip of bacon around it? Brings a tear to my eye. Nothing screams summer more than this.
Catfish and Bacon
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New cloaking technologies could make a tank "disappear", "sweat" or even look like a cow
EVEN at a distance, a tank is hard to miss. Yet if it is a tank with adaptive camouflage you might barely realise you are looking straight at it. At least that's the aim of the "chameleon" system being developed by BAE Systems in Sweden.
The system, which will be tested later this month, is part of a broad push to find ways of making tanks less conspicuous in the battlefield, says Hisham Awad at BAE Systems in Bristol, UK.
Given their large size and relatively slow speed, tanks are often sitting ducks for enemy fire. BAE Systems believes its system can not only make tanks harder to see, but also disguise them thermally, by making the vehicles "sweat", or even look like cows.
At the moment, the visual camouflage system is the technology that is at the most advanced stage and is being developed to conceal the tank's sides, Awad says. A pair of "bug-eyed" compound video cameras on each side capture the tank's surroundings. Each one contains nine small cameras, giving a wide field of vision. The images from these cameras are then fed to displays built into the outer surface of the armour on the tank's opposite side. The displays use arrays of organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) to project the image onto a screen contained within the armour, much like a rear-projection TV, says Awad. The screen will be built in to a layer of a transparent composite armour on the tank's side. How to hide the tank's tracks and roof are challenges that the researchers have yet to overcome.
"There may be discontinuities at the edges," says Alan Johnston, head of the vision lab at University College London. But even so, provided the display refreshes fast enough it should work, he says, adding that just matching the colours to the background could be enough.
BAE Systems would not reveal many of the details but claims that a working version of the system could be available within five years.
While this should make a tank more difficult to see, hiding its thermal appearance is much more challenging. "A lot of heat comes out of the vehicle at any one time," says Awad. This produces a characteristic thermal signature, making tanks easy targets for heat-seeking missiles.
BAE researchers are modelling ways to capture the water component of the engine exhaust and channel it to composite armoured tiles along the tank's sides. The water could then evaporate off, cooling the tank's surface just like sweating.
Rather than just hiding the vehicle's heat signature, though, the researchers want to be able to move water over the tank's body very quickly and create specific shapes. Individual composite tiles could be switched on and off and used like pixels to depict simple shapes, the company claims. "You can make it look like a Ford Focus, or you can have the shape of a cow," says Awad.
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Riiiiiiight, come out here for a day or two and pass judgement. Pro-tip, the "misters" make it more humid under them. I don't know why some of the sporting venues have them because as you said, it makes it worse. The humidity you felt was man made from the misters and you being in a grass field. Seriously, do the math. Those misters usually mist out cold water at high end patios and outdoor malls for a bit of relief in the heat of the summer.
I won't deny for one bit that it gets incredibly hot here, but it is not humid. I have been to every state in America and lived in just about every part of California before. California is way more humid than Phoenix.
Yes it's hot, no it's not humid. There are amazing riding roads all around the state and just outside the city and even within the city and year round riding as well. I'll admit, parts of SoCal are probably the ultimate for year round riding, but you have to deal with WAY higher prices, way more congestion and 90% of the roads in California are in terrible condition. I also like how the architecture here is generally a lot nicer, newer and more well kept on "average." Too much old stuff that isn't well kept enough in California for my taste.
I'm generalizing everything other than the fact that it's not humid here at all. The OP could move to half the united states and get year round riding and probably find some nice roads in all honesty. Just be prepared, if you choose California or for that matter even Florida these days, you're going to be paying high prices. If you have it? Certainly worth a look, but not worth it in my opinion if you don't have the $$$.
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ORANG-UTANS normally steer clear of water. In the wild they rarely go near rivers and lakes, where crocodiles and snakes lurk. So it came as a surprise when a group of orphaned orang-utans that had been relocated to Kaja Island in Borneo started to get wet for all sorts of reasons.
"Orang-utans are famous for their fear of water," says Anne Russon of York University in Toronto, Canada, who studies the orphan apes. Their dense bodies sink rather than float, prompting some zoos to stop putting moats around enclosures - too many have drowned. But "one day we saw an adolescent orang-utan called Sif wade into deep water, hunker down and then lunge forward making simple paddling movements with her arms and legs", says Russon. "It was like a bad dog paddle." One pair was even seen having ...
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Eligible candidates are those who are in their final year of clinical or post-doctoral fellowship or hold an academic appointment not higher than Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School or the Harvard School of Public Health (MD, PhD, or MD/PhD required). A track record of interest and productivity in gastrointestinal cancer research is strongly desired. The research plan and career goals of the individual may include the disciplines of basic biology, translational science, clinical science, population studies, outcomes, social science but must have a plan for translation into humans, since the purpose of the this program is to promote translational research in Gastrointestinal Cancers. Applications will be judged on their merit and/or their potential contribution to the overall status of the DF/HCC Gastrointestinal Cancer Program/GI Cancer SPORE.
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Christie McCawley is the only daughter of the town's most influential citizen, Rafe McCawley. Christie never had the opportunity to meet her mother - who died shortly after Christie's birth - and from an early age took on her mother's role in the family, acting as caregiver for her father and brothers. Christie faces another challenge: An interspecies marriage to Alak Tarr, the Castithan son of two of Defiance's most influential (and notorious) citizens, Datak and Stahma Tarr.
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Nicole Munoz is an actor and a dancer born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia. With more than 10 years of experience and training in the film industry, Nicole has over 60 commercial spots and 40 film and TV credits to her name. Among them are Sanctuary, Stargate: Atlantis, Fantastic Four and Hemlock Grove.
Her dance career also began at a very young age. Throughout her years as a dancer, she has branched into styles such as jazz, hiphop, ballet and contemporary. She is a three-year Canadian representative for the Los Angeles international convention Dance Excellence and winner of "Best Partnering" at New York City Dance Alliance.


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