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Retro fans of the world delight! The Chopper is heading back to a street near you. Raleigh are launching a World Cup 2006 Chopper in support of England's football campaign over in Germany. Officially the 70s icon was reborn in 2004, although I can't really... >>
Give cyclists room and rights2 March 2006
It's an argument that will never be resolved, unless you're German, of course: cyclists on the road. Everyone keeps telling us to exercise more. Everyone is telling us to stop using our cars. Everyone is telling us that cycling is a great low-impact form... >>
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The guys at Segway are obviously looking to expand in to new areas - and are looking to golfers around the world. At one point whenever you mentioned Segway, you'd start a discussion about how walking was going to be a thing on the past, and within a... >>
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As the Winter Games continue into the second week, we thought it was time to report on the progress so far. The medal table is currently being topped by Germany, with 9 Gold, 7 Silver and 5 Bronze medals, followed by Austria, hot favourites for the maximum... >>
Poles for Boarders? Surely not14 February 2006
If there is one thing that the snowboarder like mocking, it's poles. Afterall, boarders prove that you can do it all without the silly sticks. (I have been curtly reminded that a person on a snowboard is actually a rider, not a boarder. A boarder is someone... >>
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With the nation talking about England's chances in the World Cup and the latest 6 Nations results, you might be surprised to learn that the Winter Olympic Games opens tomorrow, in Turin, Italy. Great Britain has a 40-strong team heading out to the games.... >>


text: PGCrosschecker.com writer Patrick Ebert has put together his 2009 All-American Team. The players that are included on the list took part in previous Perfect Game events. He has Missouri catcher Trevor Coleman behind the plate with Rich Poythress of Georgia at first base. Kyle Seager of North Carolina and Grant Green of Southern Cal are the second base and shortstop selections respectively. Chris Dominguez is the selection at third base as he is having a great career with Louisville. The outfielders are Kentrail Davis of Tennessee, Aaron Senne of Missouri, and Blake Dean of LSU. Robert Stock of Southern Cal is the utility player. The three starting pitchers are Andrew Oliver of Oklahoma State, Mike Minor of Vanderbilt, and Kendal Volz of Baylor. Scott Bittle of Ole Miss was named the Relief Pitcher on the team. You can check out the full team with break downs on each player by clicking here.

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Toddler Thinks Outside the Box With Shapes Game (VIDEO)
This toddler displays one the most impressive life hacks that we have ever seen a young person perform with an incredibly frustrating block game.
The adorable brunette is far too young to understand the "square block into a round hole" saying, but she is not too young to develop a genius work-around for the problem. As she plays the quintessential shape-goes-in-matching-hole game meant to exercise babies' motor and problem solving skills, she fails. Upon her repeated failure, she gets annoyed enough to simply lift the lid of the game and plop the shapes into the container.
Because that's totally the point.
We applaud this budding young mind and look forward to the day she discovers that the cure for cancer is in her backyard.
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Here's one that I thought everyone knew till someone looked at me funny the other day. All of us have extension cords or electrical items with cords that need to be tidied up for storage etc. Grab an old toilet paper tube and fold up your cord then stuff it in the tube. Done!
Not just for modeling
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Posted 19 August 2012 - 08:04 PM
Brilliant! I might be using this one
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Posted 20 August 2012 - 09:15 AM
Ha Ha Ha. I thought only my wife did that! I like to use twist ties myself. Longer life span. These work just as well in a pinch.
Posted 12 September 2012 - 02:46 PM
You sir, are a GENIUS! If I hadn't picked up a bunch of cord tamer things at a hardware storethat was going out of business, I would be out in the garage right now!
Edited by eizzle, 12 September 2012 - 02:47 PM.
Posted 12 September 2012 - 07:33 PM
It's pretty funny this topic popped up again cause I literally just got done doing this to all my cords today. I myself have always been a twisty tie guy myself but this actually works great and less of a pain in the rear. Thanks again for the tip Joe.
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A retirement party was held Wednesday for Bonnie Pearson. She is a 911 dispatcher for Boone County Sheriff's Department and Belvidere Police. She's also the longest working employee at both departments.
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Leh, December 26 (Scoop News)-This year Stanzin Dawa from Ladakh who is currently working with the Commonwealth Secretariat as Program Manager was conferred prestigious Karmaveer Chakra award for his contributions for social development through different initiatives in the field of HIV/AIDS and youth development. He received a medallion along with a certificate of appreciation from Jeroninio Almeida, Founder ICONGO (International Confederation of NGOs) at a glittering ceremony held recently in New Delhi.
Karmaveer Chakra award instituted to recognize real life unsung heroes who believe 'It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness' and have walked that extra mile to "Be the change they want to see in this world". In the past it has been awarded to individuals and businesses that display exemplary citizenship by fighting for social justice.
Today as Program Manager, Stanzin Dawa is responsible for implementing youth development initiatives of the Commonwealth Youth Programme Asia Centre in eight Commonwealth member countries in the Asia region that include Bangladesh, Brunei Darussalam, India, Malaysia, Maldives, Pakistan, Singapore and Sri Lanka. In this position he is closely working with the government in formulating National Youth Policy, institutional capacity development, creating mechanism for youth participation in policy and development process and developing youth leadership.
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Adel Gadllah has had patches for Mutter and GNOME Shell to add unredirection for over a year, but I've dragged my feet on landing them, because there were some questions about when it's appropriate to unredirect a window and when not that I wasn't sure we had fully answered. We want to unredirect fullscreen 3D games, but not necessarily all fullscreen windows. For example, a fullscreen Firefox window is much like any other window and can have separate dialog windows floating above it that need compositing manager interaction to draw properly.
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My goal here is that this is a benchmark that we can all use to figure out the right timing algorithms and get them implemented across compositors. At that point, I'd expect to see only minimal differences, because the basic work that every compositor has to do is the same: just copy the area that the application updated to the screen and let the application start drawing the next frame.


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Nutrition Q&A With Nate Miyaki
written by Sean Hyson
I'm interrupting my series of get stronger/leaner tips (don't worry, I'll finish them up soon) to bring you an interview I did with Nate Miyaki. I've written about Nate before on this blog (see "The Oil Crisis") and he's really opened my eyes to some things in the short time I've known him. He's one of my favorite nutrition guys in the industry now and I want you all to get more familiar with his work. It's not always "sexy" and easy to define, but it gets results. And Nate is all about a HEALTHY, SUSTAINABLE approach to fat loss and muscle gain. He's also a competitive bodybuilder with a really hot wife.
And that's enough for me.
Sean: You like to keep track of the calories and macros of a diet. Unfortunately, most of us just don't have the patience for that. How can we eyeball these numbers without breaking out food scales, protractors, and mad scientist lab equipment?
Nate: Some strength coaches proclaim that as long as you eat the right foods, or cut a certain macronutrient to zero, you don't need to track anything else. That may be fine to go from out of shape to decent shape, or for the genetically elite or drug enhanced, but the average, natural dude is not going to get ripped to shreds with such a free-spirited, instinctual approach.
We can argue over optimum dietary approaches into eternity, but consistently hitting the right calories and macronutrients will always be the most important step in achieving ANY body composition goal.
Good food choices optimize the health aspects of a diet, and can do things like improve satiety, which makes staying within those numbers a lot easier. Diet structure can improve the practicality and sustainability of a plan. But science is science—targeted numbers will always have the biggest impact on the physiological processes behind physique transformation.
With that being said, however, knowing your numbers is not as backbreaking or impractical as it may seem. We're looking for ballpark figures that we can refine based on progress. Here are some tracking short cuts for you:
THERE IS NO NEED TO WEIGH ANIMAL PROTEINS on a scale. Simply buy these foods in one pound (16oz) chunks and cut them up according to your dietary needs. If you are supposed to be eating 3oz servings at each meal, cut the chunk into 5 pieces. Four oz servings = 4 pieces. Five oz servings = 3 pieces. Eight oz servings = 2 pieces. It doesn't have to be exact; we just want the right range.
You don't have to measure non-starchy vegetables (broccoli, lettuce, spinach, onions, etc.) UNLESS they are cooked in butter or oil.
Most whole fruit is pre-measured for you. One piece of fruit is one serving. If not—for example, berries—go with a small bowl full.
The most important food to measure is starchy carbohydrates, which need to be modified up or down based on the goal of the diet (muscle gain or fat loss). When at home, simply use a measuring cup to serve your food instead of a traditional utensil. Portion precision with no extra steps.
When eating out at a restaurant, just eyeball the portion sizes. Four ounces of meat, poultry, or fish is about the size of a deck of cards. One cup of starch is about the size of a closed fist or a baseball.
Sean: GREAT answer. That will help a lot of people enormously. Myself included! In general, you're a fan of the intermittent fasting (IF) structure of dieting. But what are some of the ways you see it being misused or made less effective? Are there any populations or goals it's not appropriate for?
IF can be great but people tend to forget that food choices still matter. So it is not for those lazy people looking for a miracle cure that allows them to eat crap every day just because they've fasted for hours.
And even for the lucky few who can get away with eating daily junk in the short-term, it is not a good long-term strategy when factoring in overall health.
Here's the thing. Cellular integrity, insulin sensitivity, optimal nutrient partitioning, etc., can all degrade over time. So it's not how your diet affects your body or biomarkers of health in some short-term window. It's the accumulative effects of your diet over years and decades that matter most.
We'll see how some of these sh*tloaders are doing 10–20 years from now. I've dealt with clients who were former athletes, who spent a good percentage of their lives looking awesome but not paying attention to the health impacts of their diet, who are now on 8 different medications and need a handful of blue pills just to get their wieners to move an inch. Not a good situation.
The way I like to see IF implemented is what I call Intermittent FEASTING. The main difference is that I recommend eating the majority of your calories and carbohydrates at night REGARDLESS of the time of day you train.
That's mostly because of evolutionary and instinctual reasons. We evolved as hunter/gatherers, eating lightly while hunting during the day, feasting on whatever we caught at night. Nowadays, it's also for social reasons. Most people are blasting away through work during the day not all that hungry, but want to enjoy a real dinner, not lettuce leaves, while with their family, friends, or business colleagues at night. And it's also for psychological reasons. Most people can sacrifice, eat lighter, and make better food choices during the day if they get the reward of a big, complete, satiating dinner at night.
But there is some physiology behind it, too. If you train at lunch time, for example, and then have a big, insulin-spiking, starchy carb-loaded post-workout meal, it can trigger rebound hypoglycemia and leave you tired and brain-fogged a few hours later. That's fine if you have nothing else to do all day, but not so great if you have to go back to an office job.
I'd rather have people eat lighter during the day so they can stay sharp, remain in a fat-burning/energy production mode, and then make some modifications around the workout to prevent catabolic activity, and then, finally, feast at night when they can actually kick back, relax, and optimally digest their food.
And don't believe the hype that eating big at night will make you fat. Total myth. EATING AT NIGHT DOESN'T MAKE YOU FAT. Eating too much/too many calories makes you fat. If you've eaten large and/or frequent meals throughout the day, and then eat another large dinner on top of that, chances are you will overshoot your daily calorie needs and gain fat. It's the total food intake not the distribution that is the problem.
If you eat lighter during the day and are active, chances are you'll enter dinner in a relatively large calorie deficit with depleted energy reserves, and even a large meal with a significant amount of carbohydrates will be used to restore energy reserves first, before spilling over into fat stores. You need to look at this recommended diet structure as an entire big picture (fast AND feast), not at isolated topics.
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Sofer et al. 2011. Greater weight loss and hormonal changes after 6 months diet with carbohydrates eaten mostly at dinner. Obesity (Silver Spring) Apr 7.
Sean: Wow. Did you just drop a study on us? Actual research?? We don't see a lot of that on blogs. Now what about IF with regard to special populations?
Nate: I've had to make some modifications when working with performance athletes.
Here's the short summary. With a large, carb-based feast at night, you should have plenty of MUSCLE glycogen reserves to fuel muscular contractions during your training sessions the next day, even if you fasted all day long, or even two days long.
However, LIVER glycogen is what regulates normal, system-wide blood sugar and brain and CNS functioning. And liver glycogen stores are smaller and more transient than muscle glycogen. Low levels of LIVER glycogen are what normally cause fatigue or impair performance. In other words, the muscles could keep going, but the brain and CNS say, "stop".
During resting conditions, the body only uses about 5-6g/hour of liver glycogen to regulate circulating blood sugar. During high-intensity activity, this can jump 8–10x.
So depending on the "fasting window", some athletes have complained of low energy, or poor performance, or running out of gas and hitting the wall while training completely fasted or running on just a low-carb lunch. That's not a huge deal if you are only training for cosmetic reasons, but it is problematic if performance is your top priority.
So we can do things like add 1–2 pieces of whole fruit 0–60 minutes pre-workout to provide just enough circulating glucose to get through the workout, without the rebound hypoglycemia and blood sugar crash often associated with refined sugar drinks.
A second demographic I've had to make modifications for are some of the athletes I advise who train intensely 2x a day. MMA fighters, for example. Although I recommend that most people eat all of their starchy carbohydrates at night, twice a day training is an exception.
So we go with more nutrition following their morning training session to immediately start the recovery and refueling processes, and to adequately prepare them for their evening training sessions.
Sean: I've experimented with IF, including Jason Ferruggia's Renegade Diet, which I'm a big fan of. I found that I could lean out and stay that way quickly but I couldn't gain weight. I just couldn't jam in enough carbs and calories later in the day to grow. How do you solve this problem? Is it just a matter of eating earlier?
Nate: Yeah, that really goes back to your first question—why I recommend tracking calories and macros. Remember, targeted numbers have the biggest impact on your physique goals. When trying to gain mass, you have to hit your prescribed numbers regardless of what diet structure you use.
First off, you CAN gain weight with my Intermittent Feast structure, which is based off of 2 meals a day. You just have to eat big, baby. Serge Nubret, the legendary bodybuilder who was in Pumping Iron, used to eat something ridiculous like 6 pounds of meat with beans and rice for dinner. In a previous muscle-gaining phase, an average dinner for me was 16oz of animal protein with 8 cups of rice.
But more important, I think this question points to a bigger problem within our industry—trying to slot everyone into one universal diet regardless of their situation or goal. I hope people don't look at my Intermittent Feast approach as a dogmatic system, but rather as a set of informed guidelines.
I promote the hunt and feast structure, not because I believe it's the only way, or because I give a sh*t about cavemen, but simply because I think it's an easy and efficient path to get the physique enhancement job done. With that being said, adjustments and refinements are sometimes necessary.
So depending on digestive tolerance, as calories increase into bulking levels, you may need to make some modifications. Here is a progression:
1. Start by splitting the dinner feast into two smaller meals—one early dinner (say 4 or 5pm) and one late dinner (7 or 8pm).
2. If that doesn't allow you to fit all of your calories and macros in, progress by adding more food to your lunch meal.
3. Finally, you may need to add additional meals/snacks. It may eventually lead you back to doing a more traditional bodybuilding spread of several small meals throughout the day. If that's what works for you, that's totally fine.
I'm not one of these coaches that bash bodybuilding nutrition. It absolutely is effective. Most of the top bodybuilders still follow a basic spread, and I've used that approach myself with great success. Where I think it falls short is in terms of its practicality, functionality, and long-term sustainability for the 95% of us with careers outside of that profession.
I'll be back later this week with more of my interview with Nate. If you think he offered up some good info here, just wait. He was extremely generous in revealing his secrets, and there's much more to come. Nate also recently released an e-book, Intermittent Feast, which you can pick up HERE.
Subscribers to MY NEWSLETTER are getting a special deal on the product. As a favor to me, Nate is throwing in a separate e-book, The Samurai Diet, absolutely FREE with purchase of Intermittent Feast. Both are great products I highly recommend.


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About the series
"Medicine in Blue and White" is a new television series about Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and the first medical information show to air on the Big Ten Network. >> Watch Episode 2 >> Watch Episode 1
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The incredible connection between one fourteen year old boy -- and the thousands of people he has helped over the past forty years. Combining aerospace engineering and medical technology to help improve health care in developing countries. Never-before-seen-behavior under the microscope that could lead to a cure for some of the most challenging diseases we face. And a new way to test for what is -- literally -- an age-old problem.
You wouldn't expect 15,000 Penn State students to have all that much in common with a 14-year-old boy named Chris Millard, but that's what makes this story so special. In fact, the 15,000 are part of an annual event called THON -- Penn State's Dance Marathon. But it's not just any event, it's the largest student run philanthropy in the world.
Chris Millard was not just any kid. Before he died of cancer at the age of 14, he wrote a short story called The Four Diamonds -- calling out the very best of human qualities: courage, honesty, wisdom and strength.
The Four Diamonds Fund -- a charitable organization set up by Chris' parents in his memory in 1972-- has been helping families who themselves have a child battling cancer at Penn State Hershey Children's Hospital.
That's where THON comes back into the picture. The money raised here -- and to date it's been more than $78 Million dollars -- goes directly to The Four Diamonds Fund -- providing financial, social and emotional support to the kids and families affected by pediatric cancers.
The fund's ultimate goal? To conquer childhood cancer. Period. About 100 new families receive support each year. You'll meet two of them in the video.
With new medicines and technologies, survival rates for pediatric cancers are rising significantly -- from nearly 60 percent in 1975 to about 80 percent today. But that's only in the United States. And the "lack" goes beyond just pediatric cancers.
It's no secret, of course, that many of those who seek healthcare in developing nations are left wanting. A Penn State Hershey team of doctors, scientists and engineers is working to help change that. And they're starting with the CAT scan, a special type of x-ray machine that's been around since the 1970s. It uses digital geometry to give doctors a 3D view inside the body.
Because it's been around for 40 years, many poorer communities have access to one and this team wants to take advantage of that. Their goal: make the existing machines smarter so that they can see more. To help them do that, the Penn State Hershey team is adapting military aircraft technology. They are using the same complex mathematical algorithms that help pilots track targets to upgrade CAT scans to better target disease.
Two conditions that could be impacted are epilepsy and hydrocephalus -- or water on the brain. Doctors will be able to treat both better with the improved CAT scans.
And there are a lot of people in need. Fifty million people in the world have epilepsy -- the most common serious neurological disorder. More than 40 million of them are thought to be in developing countries and ninety percent of them -- some 36 million people, are not receiving appropriate treatment.
As for hydrocephalus -- It's one of the most common birth defects, affecting about 1 child in 500...making it more common than Down Syndrome or deafness.
Enhanced CAT scans to help visualize the brain will be crucial in treating the condition. There are now about 6,000 CAT scanners installed in the U.S. and about 30,000 installed worldwide.
Take a look at a retrovirus. At its simplest, it's a biological agent that reproduces inside a host cell, but changes its genetic makeup faster than other viruses. Some are linked to life-threatening diseases. And though they have existed for millions of years, scientists still have a lot of unanswered questions.
For the very first time, researchers can see a retrovirus use the nucleus of a cell in order to make more copies of itself, something the scientific community thought never happened. Knowing how viruses operate is key to finding cures for the diseases they cause.
Currently, there are only three known infectious human retroviruses -- and they're linked to HIV, cancer and neurological disease. So while this Penn State Hershey team is excited about their discovery, they realize there is much more work ahead.
Macular Degeneration is a disease that affects some 13 million Americans and yet 85 percent of them don't even know that they have it. Unlike glaucoma, which affects about 4 million Americans, macular degeneration is an especially challenging disease because it can come on so slowly and gets confused with the normal aging process.
Right now, there is no cure for macular degeneration. Until now, there wasn't even a test for it. That's about to change. Dr. Jackson's team found an early warning symptom that largely goes unnoticed: Night vision, or to be more precise, the gradual loss of it.
Researchers found that the cells responsible for night vision are affected by macular degeneration long before and more severely than those that enable sight during the day. But they weren't being tested.
A Penn State Hershey team developed screening technology to measure that adjustment period. The patient sees a flash of light and then pushes a button when they see a more faint green light. The screening will be widely available soon. Early detection could help to arrest the disease that causes so much damage to so many people. By 2040, 33 million people could be impacted by macular degeneration.


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by foxestacado
Recap by Bolissa
So, a couple weeks ago I decided to pop in my X-Files DVDs and watch the whole series. Or at least all the episodes I can sit through without becoming bored or infuriated. So, I get to the Season 6 finale Biogenesis and I instantly remember watching it for the first time, back in 1999 at the age of 17. That Sunday night I watched it with my mom upstairs in my parents' bedroom. When the episode ended, my mom said "Wow." The first time I watched the Biogenesis and Sixth Extinction episodes, I remember thinking that the whole idea of the Navajo writings on the alien spacecraft, and how Mulder and Scully are tied together by fate was a really amazing turn for the series. It appeared as though the mytharc was going to go someplace really cool. And then we all know what happened after that. But let's try not to go down that road because I've managed to bury a lot of the bitterness and anger. So remember all that hullabaloo about Mulder's Mysterious Brain Disease? Well, let's take a trip down memory lane and find out where it all started.
Ok, so here we go!
Chris Carter penned this episode, so it really shouldn't shock anyone that it starts off with Scully doing a voice over about life. So is she talking to herself or what? I don't know. Maybe she's writing in a journal. Since this is part of a 3-episode arc, maybe this V.O. is Scully writing in her journal while in Africa. But I'm getting ahead of myself. We haven't gotten to that part yet. "From Space, it seems an abstraction — a magician's trick on a darkened stage. And from this distance one might never imagine that it is alive. It first appeared in the sea almost four billion years ago in the form of single-celled life. In an explosion of life spanning millions of years, nature's first multicellular organisms began to multiply… and then it stopped. 440 million years ago, a great mass extinction would kill off nearly every species on the planet leaving the vast oceans decimated and empty. Slowly, plants began to evolve, then insects, only to be wiped out in the second great mass extinction upon the Earth. The cycle repeated again and again. Reptiles emerging, independent of the sea only to be killed off. Then dinosaurs, struggling to life along with the first birds, fish, and flowering plants — their decimations Earth's fourth and fifth great extinctions. Only 100,000 years ago, Homo Sapiens appear — man. From cave paintings to the Bible to Columbus and Apollo 11, we have been a tireless force upon the earth and off, cataloguing the natural world as it unfolds to us. Rising to a world population of over five billion people all descended from that original single cell, that first spark of life. But for all our knowledge, what no one can say for certain, is what or who ignited that original spark. Is there a plan, a purpose or a reason to our existence? Will we pass, as those before us, into oblivion, into the sixth extinction that scientists warn is already in progress?"
While Scully blah blahs about science and life and whatnot, we're treated to lots of scenes of earthy stuff. Just take scenes from that Planet Earth series on The Discovery Channel and insert here. We then are transported to a beach where some Africans spot an artifact in the sand and start yelling in Swahili. Or at least I think they're speaking Swahili. I can't think of any other African languages right now. ["It's the Ivory Coast, so I think... some form of French?" - raceguy] Anyways, they seem pretty freaked out. While this freak out commences, Scully continues talking to herself. Or writing in her journal. Whatever. "Or will the mystery be revealed through a sign, a symbol, a revelation?"
Old Credits. Like balm for my scars.
Ivory Coast, West Africa. Dr. Merkmallen finds another artifact in the sand. Once he's in his office at the University, the two pieces connect like magnets and fly across the room. Since there aren't any AlienMiracleBabies around, it jams itself into a Bible. Dr. Merkmallen seems pretty shocked, as one would, and removes the artifact. It starts spinning on the desk but then he wraps it in cloth. As he gets on the phone, the camera pans down to show us that the Bible is opened up to Genesis 1:28, a verse explaining God's purpose for the earth. Interesting.
Three days later, Merkmallen has landed in D.C. and arrives at American University. He asks some students where can he find Dr. Sandoz. At some lab in the Biology department, Merkmallen is greeted by "Dr. Sandoz", an older guy wearing a white lab coat and he immediately creeps me out. I don't know why. He's just creepy. He also seems to be giving Merkmallen the skeeves, too. They sit down at a table and discuss the artifacts. Then a whole lot of monkeys in cages start freaking out. Maybe they thought Michael Jackson walked in the room. Or it could have something to do with Merkmallen's mysterious artifact or maybe "Dr. Sandoz" was creeping them out, too. It's hard to say. Creepy "Dr. Sandoz" takes this as his cue to kill Merkmallen. Aww, we hardly got to know you. Oh well. Will the real Dr. Sandoz please stand up? Ok, here he is. He's bald and short and wearing a bowtie. He pretty much looks like he belongs in the Biology department. He finds Merkmallen's bloody body on the floor in the lab and the Creepy Dr. NotSandoz is gone. Dun dun DUN!
Skinman's Office. He's giving Mulder and Scully the assignment of finding out who murdered Merkmallen. It's assumed he was murdered because of all the blood at the scene, but the body was missing. Not really an obvious X-File, but Skinner says that Mulder is familiar with Merkmallen's work. Mulder comments that both Merkmallen and Sandoz believed in "Panspermia," that life on earth originated elsewhere. Skinner wants Scully's opinion. Scully agrees that many scientists believe that "microbes" from other planets landed in our atmosphere and flourished but it's only a theory. Scully wants to know what this has to do with his death. Skinner tells them that Merkmallen found an artifact and shows her a rubbing of it. Merkmallen believed that the writings contained the answer to human existence. Scully shoots Skinner an eyebrow. For those of you who enjoy X-Files drinking games, there's your first eyebrow out of many in this episode. Enjoy. Anyways, Mulder points out that Dr. Sandoz contributed to "a science journal" that he also found an artifact with similar writings. Scully gives a classic eyeroll. Ah, Season 6 Scully. How I've missed you. Scully thinks they should ask Dr. Sandoz some questions but he's missing.
As Mulder and Scully get on the elevator, Scully tells him that she doesn't think this case warrants their attention. Mulder claims that he's just "a hired gun for the FBI." How ironic. Right about now, I'm pretty sure the FBI has hired guns looking for Mulder. Scully sarcastically wonders why two men who claim we're all martians could "come into foul play." As a whole lot of people fill up the elevator, Mulder and Scully move to the back. Scully tries to have a heart-to-heart with Mulder, but he starts hearing a loud ringing noise and lots of indistinct voices. He looks around the elevator, wondering where it's coming from as Scully continues to talk. He can't really hear her until everyone else gets off the elevator and they're alone again. Scully's in mid-rant, telling him that this endless pursuit of the truth doesn't make sense anymore. Word, Scully. Word. Mulder stares at her blankly and Scully assumes that this is just another case of Mulder not wanting to listen to what people are telling him. As they get off the elevator, Scully tells him that he won. He uncovered the truth behind the Syndicate's conspiracy and they're all dead now, so what else does he hope to find. "My sister," he says. Don't even go there.
American University. Mulder and Scully check out the crime scene. Creepy Dr. NotSandoz is talking to Mulder about his crazy colleague Sandoz, and we learn that he's actually Creepy Dr. Barnes. When Scully shows Creepy Dr. Barnes the rubbing, the ringing noise starts up again in Mulder's head and he leaves the lab. Creepy Dr. Barnes, let's just call him CDB, tells Scully that Sandoz believes that the artifacts are from aliens. Scully gives him an eyebrow. Out in the hall, Mulder's splashing water on his face. He tells Scully that he hears a hollow noise and she checks to see if he's got a fever. Mulder tells her that it may sound weird, but he thinks the rubbing is causing it. Scully's not that shocked. She's clearly heard crazier things from him. ["So, there's this two-headed, peanut-butter-sandwich-eating serial rapist with a Cher fetish..." - raceguy] She tells him that it's just a piece of paper.
LBO. Chuck Burks is in da house! Scully and Chuck are rocking the projection screen. Chuck thinks this whole thing is fascinating and he's amazed that it's only happening to Mulder. Yeah, what's up with that? Scully also has the alien virus in her system. Why didn't she get the Mysterious Brain Disease? Maybe what Scully tells Moronica in Provenance is true, that she was meant to find that ship. This brings up questions of fate, Mulder and William. Which I guess ties in somehow with Amor Fati. But I'm getting ahead of myself, here. Anyhoo, Chuck and Scully show Mulder some magazine articles about magic squares, CDB de-bunking Sandoz' beliefs and uncovering religious and scientific fraud. Mulder thinks that proves that CDB would want to hide what he couldn't disprove. Scully asks Mulder why there would be a real Native American artifact in Africa. Mulder tells her that a Mars rock was found in Antarctica. Scully's like, "Duh. It was from outer space." Mulder raises his arms in victory. Heh. Chuck wonders why would someone produce a fraud with Navajo writing in Africa. Which makes sense. If they really wanted people to believe it wasn't fake, why not claim to find it in Arizona or New Mexico? As Chuck places the rubbing on the projector, the ringing noise starts in Mulder's head again. He doubles over, holding his head and Scully takes him out to the hallway and the noise goes away. Scully wants Mulder to get an imaging scan. Mulder refuses, telling Scully he's fine. Scully thinks Mulder should at least go home to bed. "Only if you're coming too." Not really. Mulder refuses to go to bed. Mulder thinks he knows what's causing the problem. And he also knows that CDB killed Merkmallen. Scully's like, "We can't arrest him based on what the voices in your head are saying." Mulder tells her that he's going to show her where CDB stashed the body.
Casa de Sandoz. The Landlord, a bald version of Ian Holm, lets Mulder and Scully into the apartment. He seems really put out by it. Mulder finds Sandoz' luggage and comments on his frequent trips to New Mexico. Scully points out the picture of Sandoz with Albert Hosteen. Mulder figures that Hosteen was helping Sandoz translate the artifacts. "Or write them," Scully says. Mulder has no response to this. Scully wants to know where the body is. They walk into the kitchen. "Scully, you packing any latex?", Mulder asks. Scully shoots an eyebrow. "No, Mulder. I don't think now's the appropriate time. We're working on an assignment. And besides, I've got no ova so there's really no need for the latex." Famous last words. Anyhoo, Mulder comments that the garbage is stinking up the joint and he grabs a dish towel to open the trash. They're greeted by the smell of decaying flesh and some flies for good measure. Hello, Dr. Merkmallen.
Skinman's Office. Mulder tells Skinner that Sandoz is innocent, that CDB killed Merkmallen for the artifact, which is genuine. Scully tells Skinner that certain body parts were taken to hide the evidence of galactic radiation. As Skinner places the rubbing on the desk, the ringing and voices kicks it up a notch inside Mulder's head. Mulder starts interrogating Skinner about someone else being on the case, that Skinner is hiding something from them. Scully takes Mulder out to the hall and tells him he's losing it. Which I think is kind of unfair. It's not like Mulder's drilling holes in his head. Mulder tells Scully that Skinner's not telling them the truth, that he's "hearing people" and he thinks Skinner is spying on them. Scully wants Mulder to see a doctor but Mulder wants to find the artifacts. Scully tells Mulder to go home and she'll find the artifacts. Skinner is watching them from his office. After they walk away, Skinner collects a tape that's been recording in his cabinet and slides it across the table to none other than Krycek. Yummy, yummy Krycek. ["Yummy, indeed. He's almost enough to make me jump ship. Add Knowle Rrrrrrrrooooaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrr into the equation, and I'd definitely go Brokeback." - raceguy]
Hospital, New Mexico. Scully's visiting Albert Hosteen but she sees him being wheeled out in the hallway surrounded by medical staff. A nurse approaches Scully in Hosteen's room after Scully finds another rubbing with a translation on the back, which happens to be Genesis 1:28 again. Scully tells the nurse that she's here to see Hosteen and wants to know what's wrong with him. The nurse tells her that she can't give out that kind of information. Yeah, just ask those New Jersey hospital staff who got suspended after George Clooney's motorcycle accident. But our Scully won't take no for an answer and shows the nurse her badge. HIPAA SCHMIPAA, I say. The nurse tells Scully that Hosteen is dying of cancer.
American University. Guess who's not home in bed? Mulder starts going through CDB's office looking for the artifact. He hears, I think, CDB coming down the hall and once CDB gets into the office he can tell someone's been in there. CDB checks out the lab, where Mulder's hiding with the monkeys. The ringing starts up in Mulder's head and as he walks down the hall he's hearing voices again. He crawls up some stairs before collapsing.
Hospital, New Mexico. As Hosteen returns to his room, Scully spots Sandoz at the door and a chase ensues. The camera goes in for a super close-up of Scully's face as she's straining to hear something. Is she starting to hear vocies, too? Oh, it's just the alarm on the door that Sandoz was trying to go through. Sandoz is caught and she wants some answers. Get in line, Scully.
Stairwell of Brain Pain. Mulder's still rolling around, clutching his head. Here comes Krycek, casually stepping over Mulder's body as if he wasn't even there, and walks upstairs. He meets CDB on the roof. I think this is the same exact roof that Billy Miles was thrown off of in Essence. ["Yes, it is." - raceguy] Krycek hands CDB a tape and tells him that they're "destined to be great friends." Who exactly is Krycek working for? I mean, we don't see him again until Requiem, right? ["Here and Amor Fati, then Requiem, yes." - raceguy] For some reason, CSM had him put in prison in Tunisia. Why? Over this Mysterious Brain Disease fiasco? I guess we'll never know.
Hospital, New Mexico. Sandoz tells Scully his tale of meeting Hosteen and having the artifact translated. Hosteen sensed its "power and importance." He translated one of Merkmallen's rubbings, "a passage from the Bible on an artifact that is extraterrestrial." Scully is one huge eyebrow right now. Sandoz basically says that the Bible came from aliens. Yeah, I really can't figure out why anyone would want him dead. Sandoz pulls out an artifact and places it on the table. It starts spinning, but Scully grabs it before it can fly through the air at anyone. Couldn't that artifact have cured Hosteen? Poor guy. I really liked him. Scully calls Mulder at home and The Fowl One answers. Scully asks for Mulder and Diana hands him the phone. Scully asks Mulder where he is. Um, Scully? You called him. At home. But it's ok, I'm sure hearing Diana Fowley's voice has thrown your normal brain function off balance a little bit. Scully asks Mulder who answered the phone. Mulder avoids this question and asks Scully where she is. She tells him that she's with Sandoz in New Mexico and Mulder asks about the artifact. Scully reluctantly tells him about the passage from Genesis. Mulder jumps on this and starts babbling about how we all came from the aliens. Scully refuses to believe that. Well, she sure changed her tune at Mulder's Fake Trial.
Mulder tells Scully to go ahead and prove him wrong. Then he just hangs up on her. Ah, just like old times. Technically, this was old times. Wasn't it? Can we consider the season finale of Season 6 "old times?" Is everything before Season 8 "old times?" Or is basically everything before XFII: The Movie "old times?" Moving on… Mulder hands the phone to Diana and rolls over trying to sleep. She walks out towards Mulder's kitchen and makes a phone call. She tells someone that Mulder called her, she found him in "a particular state of distress", she doesn't know why but she's gonna stay there until she finds out. She then takes off her shirt and heads towards Mulder's bedroom, I'm assuming. And now I'm feeling nauseous. We cut to CSM hanging up the phone as he sits in a meeting with people we'll never see again, discussing the alien invasion.
Scully's back to her V.O., journal, whatever. "It began with an act of supreme violence — a big bang expanding ever outward, cosmos born of matter and gas, matter and gas ten billion years ago. Whose idea was this? Who had the audacity for such invention? And the reason? Were we part of that plan ten billion years ago? Are we born only to die? To be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth before giving way to our generations? If there is a beginning, must there be an end? We burn like fires in our time only to be extinguished. To surrender to the elements' eternal reclaim. Matter and gas… will this all end one day? Life no longer passing to life, the Earth left barren like the stars above, like the cosmos. Will the hand that lit the flame let it burn down? Let it burn out? Could we, too, become extinct? Or if this fire of life living inside us is meant to go on, who decides? Who tends the flames? Can he reignite the spark even as it grows cold and weak?" ["If she doesn't shut up with the anvilicious monologue, I'm gonna blow out the candle myself." - raceguy]
While she's talking, we see Hosteen being brought into a tent for a healing ceremony. Scully tells Sandoz that she doesn't want to sit in on it because she doesn't share their beliefs. ["Wait. Didn't she ASK him to visit Melissa back in Paper Clip? And a faith healer to visit Daniel in all things, which she sat in on?" - raceguy] Skinner calls Scully to tell her something bad has happened to Mulder and he's in the hospital. He tells Scully to get there right away. Scully's cell phone works in the New Mexican desert? Ok, sure.
Georgetown Memorial Hospital. Skinner's sitting on a bench or something with his head in his hands, contemplating his life and thinking maybe he should search the personal ads for a blue-eyed ex-cop with some dead son issues who wouldn't mind relocating to Vermont. ["And who likes pie. Don't forget the Pie." - raceguy] Scully approaches Skinner and is surprised that Mulder's in the Special Psychiatric Unit. Should she be really surprised, though? I mean, she must've thought that there was a likely chance he'd end up there one day. Skinner tells Scully that no one knows what Mulder's problem is. Skinner says that he knew she'd want to see Mulder and talk to the doctors. Skinner then holds Scully's hand and she looks as though her heart just fell into her stomach. Scully goes to the observation room, where The Fowl One is watching Mulder on some monitors. He's wearing a hospital gown and basically acting crazy: holding his head, mumbling indistinctly, etc. Diana thanks Scully for coming and tells her that Mulder was asking for her last night. Yeah, I bet he was. As soon as he saw Diana's jugs in his face, he probably started screaming for Scully and then Diana had to take him to the hospital. ["Psych ward, no less." - raceguy]
The doctor walks in and tells them they can't be there. Scully wants to know what's wrong with Mulder. As soon as Scully says his name, Mulder starts screaming at the camera. I think he knows his Scully's there, ya'll. The doctor has no idea what's wrong with Mulder and they have no idea how to treat him. Mulder has extremely abnormal brain function but he hasn't had a stroke and they're waiting to run more tests. Scully wants to know what they're waiting for. The doctor tells Scully that Mulder's extremely violent and that they've given him so much drugs that he should be in a "barbituate coma," but there's brain activity they've never seen before. Scully wants to talk to Mulder but the doctor tells her that he's dangerous. "Not to me," she says. Diana wants to speak to Scully privately. "About what?" Scully spits. Then there's this Look of Death face-off between them. Hee! Skinner gets them into the hall. As Skinner opens the door, Mulder screams "SCULLY!" into the camera and directly at her. He knows she's there! He needs her! Even when he's whacked out on drugs and aliens have taken over his brain, he needs the one person that without which he cannot live without!
Hallway Showdown. Diana asks Scully when did Mulder start getting sick. Scully tells her that it was when Skinner gave them this case. Diana wants to know the nature of the case and Scully tells her that it's a murder investigation. Diana wants to know who was murdered and then Skinner butts in and says that the case has nothing to do with Mulder's condition. Diana trusts Scully's judgement. Well, at least there's one positive thing about Diana. Diana wants to help, based on her background into the paranormal blah psychiatric wards blee, and her work on the X-Files. Skinner once again butts in and says that the X-File is a fraud, Scully has proof of a scholar de-bunking it. Basically, the conversation in the LBO between Scully, Mulder and Chuck. Scully eyeballs Skinner and he makes a "Busted!" face. "I never sent you that report," she tells him. Skinner ignores this and tells Diana that the case is being resolved. Diana's all, "Not as far as Agent Mulder's concerned." Diana then asks Scully that if she knows what's happening, why she won't tell her. Why? Because Scully doesn't trust you Diana. At all. And she knows who you're really working for. She may not be able to prove it, but she knows. Scully wants to get down to business, however, and asks Diana why she was with Mulder last night. Oooh, Mulder's in trouble when he gets out of the hospital. ["You heard the lady, Mulder. Scully's gonna go all dominatrix on yo' ass. Why couldn't that have been a DVD extra? And why couldn't Krycek show up in that episode?" - raceguy]
Diana tells Scully that Mulder called her, she found him in the Stairwell of Brain Pain and he could barely speak. But he did manage to get out that the only one who would believe him about an artifact was Diana. God, I hate her. Sure, I can buy that Mulder called her since Scully was in New Mexico and all. But he did not say that Diana was the only one who'd believe him. I mean, Scully's his one in 5 billion. And I'd bet my life on the fact that if Scully had been in the D.C. area, he would've called her. Scully rightfully calls Diana a liar and turns to leave. Skinner grabs her arm she says that they're both liars. Scully gives them one giant eyebrow before walking away. ["And anotherrr *hic* thinnng!" - raceguy]
New Mexico. Hosteen's healing ceremony is still going strong. Sandoz looks as though he's had a revelation and walks out of the tent.
LBO. Scully starts searching the office for a camera. Isn't this something they should've been doing, like, every week since they started working together? Scully notices the smoke alarm on the ceiling and she stands on a chair to check it out. There's definitely a camera in there. But before she can discover it, her phone starts ringing. Foiled! It's Sandoz. She warns him that the line may not be secure but he doesn't care. He tells her that the random letters that Hosteen was trying to translate on the other artifact are gene clusters. Sandoz then notices the horses freaking out and then Scully hears a gunshot. Sandoz is dead, ya'll. Killed by Krycek. What is he up to? I don't think he's working for CSM. I mean, he saw Mulder in the Stairwell of Brain Pain. But based on Diana's phone call to CSM, that was the first he heard of Mulder's condition. Right? Unless it was really Krycek who called Diana. Does that even make any sense? Am I thinking too much about this? ["Yes." - raceguy] I should just be happy that Krycek is alive.
Ivory Coast, West Africa, 36 hours later. Scully's on the beach wearing a really nice beige dress. The Africans lead Scully to the water where she finds an alien spacecraft. I guess Scully has finally gotten the solid proof she needed. I mean, I can't really see her trying to deny this. Now Scully is equipped to become the "believer" to Doggett's "skeptic." But let's not speak of such things. Happy thoughts, people. Happy thoughts.
Recap by Bolissa


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The road had been kind to the Lady Rebels during the first two weeks of the season. Owen County Coach Bob Osborne's team had played four games away from Owenton and had won all four. Most people expected the success to continue when the team played its first two home games last week.
The Lady Rebels hosted a pair of 31st District rivals in Gallatin County and Henry County. The first game came against the Lady Wildcats from Warsaw.
The Lady Rebels got off to a slow start as they trailed 11-8 at the end of the first quarter.
What started out as a promising week fell flat for the Owen County Rebels.
The Rebels entered last week riding a four-game winning streak as they welcomed Gallatin County to town for a 31st District showdown.
The game began with both teams running up and down the court at a frenetic pace. The Wildcats took a 19-17 lead after one quarter.
The beginning of the second quarter was much the same until Blake Lewis connected from 3-point range to give the Rebels their first lead at 27-24 with 4:20 left in the half.
People across the nation are concerned that the pending health-care legislation before Congress could affect the costs of health care in the United States.
Those concerns filtered down to the Owen County Fiscal Court Monday when Owen County EMS Director Kevin Luther approached the magistrates about a 5-percent increase in the ambulance rates to match new rates that Medicaid allows ambulance services to charge and be reimbursed for under federal policy.
In the song "I'll Be Home for Christmas" the composer laments that although he knows it's a long road back, he promises to be home for Christmas. Reminiscing about the memories of home, he ends with the line: if only in my dreams.
Whether near or far, whether returning home for Christmas or not, Owen countians cherish their memories of that special time of year by sharing traditions with their families, thus preserving their history and heritage.
A home at 9905 Hwy. 227 S. was destroyed by fire early Tuesday morning.
Owen County Fire Chief Larry Karsner said the station received a call around 1:30 a.m.
"Five departments were there," Karsner said. "It was pretty much fully involved by the time we got there in the left, front center of the house."
Fire crews worked until around 5:30 a.m. putting out the flames at the home of Rodney Osbourne.
Karsner said no one was injured in connection with the fire.
It was fun last week to read the letters listing what kids all over Owenton wanted for Christmas. The great thing about kids is that they don't understand what things cost or how impractical they might be. Instead they just ask for the things they want and hope for the best.
As a sports fan, I have decided to do the same thing. I have put together my wish list for things I would like to see during the next year. Call it my Christmas Wish List for the Sports Fan.
An Owen County man was found dead early Monday morning in a creek bed at 3120 Hwy. 1316 near Mosby Creek.
According to Owen County Sheriff Zemer Hammond, Jesse Bailey, 66, kept a sump pump in the creek to pump water into his home.
Police suspect Bailey went to turn the sump pump off Saturday evening and slipped, hitting his head on a rock in the creek bed.
Hammond said Bailey had suffered with illnesses.
Following a 2-1 week to open the season, the Owen County Rebels hit the road for a pair of important road games last week.
After committing 33 turnovers in their opening night loss, senior Blake Lewis said the team has been "working on the little things" in practice.
Lewis said after a week of playing against teams that seemed content to play zone defense against the Rebels' strong inside game, it was going to be important for him and Stone Osborne to start knocking down shots.
There is a saying: "The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry." It was based on an ode that Scottish poet Robert Burns wrote when he turned over a newly built mouse nest as he plowed his fields. Seeing the mouse scamper away with no hope of rebuilding that nest because the season was so late, Burns reflected on how many times, although carefully thought out, plans don't always turn out the way we envisioned them.
With the nation suffering through an economical crisis, many people throughout Owen County became angels to 76 boys and girls on this year's angel tree.
The angel tree started out with 54 children but as the weeks passed by, more and more parents went through the Owen County Extension Office to receive assistance for their children.
The extension office's support member, Stephanie Howard, said 76 is the highest number of children the records show, which go back to 1994.
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ICOS/USI International Student Forum - Dublin, 14th November 2012
The Union of Students in Ireland (USI) and the Irish Council for International Students (ICOS) hosted a forum for international students Wednesday, November 14, in central Dublin.
This event allowed students from a variety of countries and Higher Education Institutions to discuss issues of importance to their studies and overall experience in Ireland. The focus for the forum was 'Uniting Students', exploring the integration of international students academically and socially both on campus and in the community.
To include the views of those unable to attend, ICOS and USI are also gathering feedback from international students via short survey until the end of November 2012.
A report on the forum and survey findings will be circulated to all relevant stakeholders, including HEIs, to inform policy makers and service providers regarding possible improvements to provision for international students in the future.


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The Xclamation Fest is a downtown music and arts festival that draws an estimated crowd of 15,000 to 20,000. It features 30-40 bands on 6 stages and a disco that takes up 4 city blocks.
Downtown streets are blocked for this celebration of the Central Valley's Summer. People are everywhere festivalgoer's wave their hands, dance, bob their heads and cheer to the sounds of bands and DJ's It is also a 21-and-older event, which makes it a great value for sponsors.


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Pon Farr: Dilbert needs an empathetic mate, quick!
Nerds everywhere are excited about some "Star Trek"/"Dilbert" synergy Tuesday (Jan. 11), as the "Dilbert" cartoon of the day mentions Pon Farr, a fictional disease from the "Star Trek" canon.
Pon Farr is a psychophysical condition wherein Vulcans go into heat every seven years. It is accompanied by a blood fever and, if the Vulcans cannot find someone to mate with whom they are empathically bonded, the Vulcans become violent and eventually die.
Poor Dilbert. An engineer and no Pon Farr vaccination.
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Mainland music fans are treated to more Chinese-language pop choices
Beijing/Hong Kong, September 30, 2010: Universal Music Group (UMG), the world's leading music company, will promote and distribute Taiwanese pop artists signed to B'in Music throughout China in a new agreement announced today by Sunny Chang, Managing Director of Universal Music Greater China.
Established in 2006, B'in Music was founded by Ason Chen in Taipei. B'in Music's core business consists of record production, marketing, promotion, artist management, merchandising and concert production. The company's vision — to create unique, new content — has helped solidify its strong position in the Chinese entertainment and independent-music industry. B'in Music's top artists includes Mayday, Rene Liu and Victor Wong, who have enjoyed incredible popularity across Greater China. The label is also known for breaking new talents, such artists Della and Yen J, who have already amassed a following of younger fans.
Universal Music and B'in Music's new partnership, which is effective on October 1, features two main components:
* Universal Music will distribute B'in Music catalogue in Taiwan;
* Universal Music will now also market, distribute and sell B'in Music's repertoire across Mainland China and Asia, excluding Singapore.
Says Sunny Chang: "B'in Music's pop artist roster is so fresh, young and talented. We're excited to help promote these stars across the Mandarin-language markets in our region and, in particular, China, whose music fans are always searching for new artists to explore and adore."
Ason Chen, Founder of B'in Music, adds: "B'in Music and Taiwanese pop are ready to enter a new era with Universal Music. We're looking forward to expanding our horizons with our new partner — and especially getting in touch with more Mainland music fans."
Sandy Monteiro, President of Universal Music South East Asia, says: "We have a determined vision to keep growing our business in China, by strengthening our A&R and business-alliance strategies. Our relationship with B'in Music is certainly in line with this, and we look forward to offering even more artists and repertoire to Chinese music fans."
This agreement is the latest update to UMG's long-term strategy of strengthening its presence in China's fast-expanding music market. Recent partnerships – including the recent fourth contract renewal with Taiwan's Linfair Records, to continue promoting its artists across the Mainland – are part of Universal Music's overall drive to find and develop the best talent in Greater China.
Universal Music China: www.umusic.com.cn
B'in Music Taiwan: www.bin-music.com
About Universal Music Group
Universal Music Group is the world's leading music company with wholly owned record operations or licensees in 77 countries. Its businesses also include Universal Music Publishing Group, the industry's leading global music publishing operation.
Universal Music Group's record labels include A&M/Octone, Decca, Deutsche Grammophon, Disa, Emarcy, Fonovisa, Interscope Geffen A&M Records, Island Def Jam Music Group, Lost Highway Records, Machete Music, MCA Nashville, Mercury Nashville, Mercury Records, Polydor Records, Show Dog – Universal Music, Universal Motown Republic Group, Universal Music Latino and Verve Music Group as well as a multitude of record labels owned or distributed by its record company subsidiaries around the world. The Universal Music Group owns the most extensive catalogue of music in the industry, which includes the last 100 years of the world's most popular artists and their recordings. UMG's catalog is marketed through two distinct divisions, Universal Music Enterprises (in the U.S.) and Universal Strategic Marketing (outside the U.S.). Universal Music Group also includes eLabs, its new media and technologies division; Bravado, its merchandising company; and Twenty-First Artists, its full service management division.
Universal Music Group is a unit of Vivendi, a global media and communications company.


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Amir Sulaiman is a poet, recording artist, activist and newly appointed Harvard Fellow, born in Rochester, New York. His poems cross subjects of love, tragedy as well as what it means to reconcile humanity with the unprecedented trials of modernity. He has performed his works across the US as well as many other countries including England, Belgium, Senegal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Sweden, Australia, Iran and the Netherlands, and continues to tour world-wide. His recently published book of poetry, "Love, Gnosis & Other Suicide Attempts" met with critical acclaim, in addition to his latest album "The Opening," the third in a unique trilogy project, following "The Meccan Openings" (2011) and "The Medinan Openings" (2012). Amir was first introduced to a National audience in 2005 when he was featured for two seasons on Russell Simmons' groundbreaking series Def Poetry Jam on HBO.
my heart
building its home
on a fault line
I let the black
lay itself over my face
I sat in the door frame
it gave way
nothing stays the same
earth epileptic
ground grinding against ground
like my mother's molars in labor
I curled up in the tub
feeling earth barking at heaven
it wasn't until my stomach started to hurt
that I realized I was laughing
tears warm on my cheeks
but cold on my chin
nothing stays the same
Like Plato says, "Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."
dark and cold and gorgeous.
Where and when it all began. #TheMeccanOpenings #TheMedinanOpenings #TheOpening
Detroit bound.
Candida Hofer - Libraries (published 2005)
her heart is
binging and purging
her heart
always hungry
neither tasting nor chewing
just swallowing every affection
she can't keep it up
she can't hold it down
her middle finger pressing the back of her tongue
like she's trying to flip off her own heart
until every sweet word I've ever fed her
leaps from her belly
and fills her mouth
but then all the sweetness is
half digested love
looks like foul
smells like wrong
she is kneeling like Narcissus
staring into toilet water
upside down
the porcelain kind of looks like a halo
she cant brush the smell of regret off her breath
the remains of pseudo-romance are rotting between her teeth
her ribs are showing
her heart isn't
the sun isn't setting
but it is getting darker
I'm sinking into my own personal evening
the surface is sliding away
the sun falling into the distance
its long rays slipping between
the tiny anxious bubbles rushing out of my nose
and the fat oblique ones rolling from my mouth
the light making sparkling colors
from my panicked breaths
I thought
how beautiful this would be if I wasn't drowning
how beautiful life would be if I wasn't dying
how beautiful you'd be if you weren't leaving
not until there was no more leaving
just left
not until there was no more drowning
just drowned
did I become lighter
with more light
with more life
than I had when I was living
I thought
how tragic this would be if I had lived
thank God I didn't survive
not everyone gets to die such a gorgeous death
only drowning freed me
from my fear of falling into deep rivers
and dark waters
only because I laid at the bottom of that river
can I now plunge so deeply into yours
don't be afraid
let your riverbed quake
let your shore swell
don't be afraid
I will still reach your bottom
many men have learned to swim
not many have learned to drown
wearing my self out
she says she wears her heart on her sleeve
reminded me
a tree wears its most delicate part on its limbs
leaves lying open
tiny veiny
frail enough to see through
fragile enough to tear through
hungry enough to make food of the sun
I wear my heart like overalls
well worn in
but only worn in
when finally I wore it out
she wore me out
but the more worn out
the more I like to wear it
edges frayed with the familiar
holy and holey
mis match patch work
make scars look like poems
my heart looks
limited edition
"nice. where'd get that heart?"
"sorry. it's custom"
While we're dealing with monkey rappers and cheap crass Emmitt Till punchlines and Rick Ross' rape lyrics can we build for a second on how GZA has been meeting with the top scientist like Neal deGrassee Tyson to release an album, Dark Matter, that illustrates the creation of the Universe. don beleeme jus wach, nigga nigga nigga.
she is a wide floating meadow
with more green than gravity
and more beauty than my eyes can hold
my eyes swollen trying to drink her in
but they cannot bear it
like heavy rain laden clouds
if I don't weep I fear they would explode
headless but heartfelt
heart too smart for it's own good
the heartless made headless
by the lovers and lawless
caved in cavemen
the concave lens
made you seem closer than you were
worry is worthless
you worried about being worthless
but who isn't?
(worried and worthless?)
worthiness as an aspiration
is like trying to build upon an apparition
love is fiction
not that it's not real
but in that you make it up as you go
or make it up as you're gone
making love
making up love
making up for lost time
making up for wasted life
I'm the authorized biographer
writing out our fiction
less biography and more obituary
aren't the living always dying?
not until they die is the dying done
"A man who trusts everyone is a fool and a man who trusts no one is a fool. We are all fools if we live long enough."
― Robert Jordan
In the studio looking for the words to unravel my heart. Session brought to you by Coltrane and Christ. #True+Living
Yeah Yeah Yeahs : Sacrilege
My Lord, expand my breast for me: and ease my affair for me: and loose the knot from my tongue, that they may understand my word
Savor kindness because cruelty is always possible later.
- Jenny Holzer's truisms
to knock on the door of God's Mercy is to knock in an absent door #mosque #masjid #malaysia
to knock on the gate of God's Mercy is to knock on an absent door. #mosque #masjid #malaysia
Then and Now Photos of Abandoned Detroit School
MalcolmXmen, Martin Luther King Kong #BoomBayeBaye #EveryIdolLieDead
two farewell raka. thank you, Singapore.
#salat #salute #salud
Everyone's lands are different but everyone's sky is the same. Fajr from the balcony. #Singapore #theycanhavetheearth
i swear to God, i pray for the day when this poem and all poems like it are irrelevant and unnecessary . #houlamassacre #everymassacre
That time
I thought I could not
go any closer to grief
without dying
I went closer,
and I did not die.
Surely God
had his hand in this,
as well as friends.
Still, I was bent,
and my laughter,
as the poet said,
was nowhere to be found.
Then said my friend Daniel,
(brave even among…
Fantastic! That's the whole idea! #Rumi #suicideattempts #love #gnosis
#King #Prophet #Solomon #Sulaiman
the very first piece of paper you get flying into Singapore. just in case you thought it was a game. #badboysbadboys #whatyagonnado
#flood #cisse #boombayebaye #medina #thesecretart
Islamic Arts Museum in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
the greatest name, the all compassionate, the all merciful, the absolute ruler, the pure one, the source of peace, the inspirer of faith, the guardian, the victorious, the compeller, the greatest, the creator, the maker of order, the shaper of beauty, the forgiving, the…
We must first be brothers.
Such a great exploration of how we not only kiss, but how we love.
the human being is a such a diverse and infinitely fascinating thing. i love them.
Amir Sulaiman X Flying Lotus X Khalil Joseph = RE:Until The Quiet Comes ::: doing a series called "RE:". it's re:mixes, re:dos, re:plies, re:buttals etc to different pieces of art that inspire me. sometimes video or audio, maybe even monologues or visual art. who knows. just wanted to share the process.
this is a Flying Lotus video, Until The Quiet Comes, directed by Khalil Joseph. it was a spiritual experience the first time i saw it. so hood and black and beautiful and surreal and spiritual. cant count how many times i've watched it. decided this was as good as any to begin RE:. hope you find good in it.
Mothers grieve for their sons killed during a student demonstration, South Korea, 1960. See more photos here.
i cant even front. i wrote and recorded this poem some time ago around the time of the houla syria massacre and to this day i cant even listen to it myself. just cant get used to seeing dead children so i had to post and listen. #GazaMassacre #EveryMassacre
Thelonious Monk with his wife, Nellie and John Coltrane. Late 1950s.
Rocky Mount, NC and Hamlet, NC respectively
Allah! this is some beauty right here. Mumford & Sons video for "Lover of the Light" starring and directed by Idris Elba. In just a few minutes i wept for him, laughed with him and was awe inspired by him. sounds corny, i know. but it's trilly trill. im so sincerious.
"A Moroccan Man" by Jose Tapiro y Baro
Amir's new book of poetry is incredible! you can purchase a signed copy now..
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Under The Skin-If
- Release Date:
- 5/9/2014
- Genre:
- SciFi/Fantasy
- Runtime:
- 107 min.
- Director:
- Jonathan Glazer
- Starring:
- Scarlett Johansson, Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Paul Brannigan, Robert J. Goodwin, Krystof Hádek
A voluptuous woman of unknown origin combs the highway in search of isolated or forsaken men, luring a succession of lost souls into an otherworldly lair. They are seduced, stripped of their humanity, and never heard from again. Based on the novel by Michael Faber, this film examines human experience from the perspective of an unforgettable heroine who grows too comfortable in her borrowed skin, until she is abducted into humanity with devastating results.


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Interdependent activities for building a safer system for health IT.
settings. The use of health IT is intended to aid in performing technical work that is also cognitive work, such as coordinating resources for a procedure, assembling patient data for action, or supporting a decision that requires knowledge of resource availability. However, creating a graphical representation of the information needed to support the complex processes clinicians use to collect and analyze data elements, consider alternative choices, and then make a definitive decision is challenging.
The introduction of health IT sometimes changes clinical workflows in unanticipated ways; these changes may be detrimental to patient safety. Although some templates may be very useful to providers, a rigid template for recording the "history of present illness," for example, may alter the conversation between physician and patient in such a way that important historical clues are not conveyed or received. An inflexible order sequence may require the provider to hold important orders in mind while navigating through mandatory screens, increasing the cognitive workload of communicating


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Nation Topics - Nuclear Arms and Proliferation
News and Features
Richard Rhodes's Arsenals of Folly, sequel to the book that defined the atomic age, captures the political struggle that brought it to an end.
The Bush Administration's failed war on terror has stoked the fires it was meant to quench. And in Pakistan, the risk of nuclear terrorism is on the rise.
Candidates should rethink their commitment to outmoded security tools and veiled nuclear threats against nonnuclear states.
Remembering an eminent scientist who fought tirelessly to protect human health from the hazards of nuclear weapons and nuclear energy.
Twenty-five years after the largest antinuclear demonstration ever, the movement has dwindled. But the threat of mass destruction grows greater.
Tehran's religious fanatics move closer to wreaking nuclear havoc, and what can Bush do about it? Nothing.
A forgetful world was reminded this week that Kim Jong Il now holds in
his hand the same pitiless weapon possessed by a growing number of
Instead of pursuing real diplomacy with North Korea, the Bush Administration chose a my-way-or-the-highway approach. Rather than face up to the mess they made, it's easier to blame Bill Clinton.
As the world reacts to news of North Korea's underground nuclear test, a crucial anniversary is observed: Twenty years ago at the Reykjavik Summit, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev outlined a vision for a non-nuclear world. What went wrong? In this Nation forum, four experts from the nonproliferation movement discuss how to put disarmament back on the world's agenda.
Twenty years after the Chernobyl disaster, an area twice the size of Rhode Island is uninhabitable, yet a power-hungry world thirsts for nuclear energy.


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Imperial Cash and Carry – Your London Wholesaler for Beers, Wines & Spirits
Understanding Your Business
Imperial Cash & Carry is a family wholesale business based in Edmonton, North London. We started out as an off-licence in west London in 1966 and over the next two decades evolved into a chain of off-licences. In 1987, we withdrew from retailing to specialise in the supply of wines, beers, spirits and other confectionery products to the on and off-trade. Since 1987 we have continued to expand, and we now supply trade only customers from our 45,000 ft2 warehouse in Edmonton, London.
As a London Cash and Carry we are proud of the long-term relationships that we have built over the years, with both our suppliers and our customers. Moreover we are passionate about what we do, and are not afraid to take a hands-on, proactive approach to wholesaling. We strive to keep our prices competitive and offer regular weekly promotions as well as further promotions on the weekend. Our warehouse is spacious and well lit, ensuring a pleasant shopping environment for all. We also offer a pre-pick palletised ordering system – simply phone, email or fax us your order.
Our experience both in the cash and carry industry and as retailers ourselves has given us a unique insight into understanding our customers' needs. Great customer service is at the heart of our business. We understand that times are tough for many of our customers, and that time is of the essence. That is why members of staff are always at hand to assist our customers and create the best possible cash and carry experience for them.
Product of the Month
Crabbie's Alcoholic Ginger Beer
July's Product of the Month is Crabbie's Alcoholic Ginger Beer. Crabbie's is the official sponsor of the Grand National at Aintree this April. Make the most of most of your sales in your store by trying a 3 for £5.50 deal across the flavours. On your marks, get set, GO!
Crabbie's is on promotion this month at Imperial Cash & Carry. Stock up now!


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Safe Place is a national youth outreach program that educates thousands of young people every year about the dangers of running away or trying to resolve difficult, threatening situations on their own. This easily-replicated initiative involves the whole community to provide safe havens and resources for youth in crisis.
Safe Place creates a network of Safe Place locations — schools, fire stations, libraries, grocery and convenience stores, public transit, YMCAs and other appropriate public buildings – that display the yellow and black diamond-shaped Safe Place sign. These locations extend the doors of the youth service agency or emergency shelter throughout the community. Youth can easily access immediate help wherever they are.
Our Mission
Ensuring an effective system of response for youth in crisis through public and private partnerships at a local, state and national level.
Our Vision
Safe Place is universally recognized and used by youth across America as the place to go for immediate help and safety.
At National Safe Place, we employ a few key principles to guide our tactics:
Young people are valued, and:
- are capable of initiating the helping process and taking an active role in creating a healthier living situation.
- are more likely to seek help in places that are familiar, safe and identified by a standard, recognizable logo.
- have access to services on a nondiscriminatory basis.
Our service to young people is:
- focused on immediate interventions to address issues at the earliest possible stage of a crisis.
- supported by advocacy and access to safe, supportive resources.
- evaluated on an ongoing basis.
We believe the community:
- takes an active, cooperative role in assisting young people in crisis.
- benefits when a young person can access safe, supportive assistance rather than dangerous alternatives.
- must be educated concerning issues relating to young people in order to improve the quality of services.
Most Safe Place agencies reach out to youth between the ages of 12 to 17 years old. Some agencies serve younger and/or older youth.