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In nature, toucans (Ramphastos spp) eat mostly fruit but also consume insects, rodents, and invertebrates. Like mynahs, toucans are susceptible to iron storage disease. Their basic diet should be a low-iron pellet with a variety of fruits (apples, banana, grapes) offered daily. If the bird picks the fruit preferentially over the large toucan pellets, the pellets can either be crushed, or very small low-iron pellets can be mixed with the fruit, so the pellets adhere to the fruit and are ingested. Drinking water provides a novel challenge for these long-beaked birds. If they are not provided a large enough drinking pan, dehydration may occur.
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This is pretty wild that some of the same coding techniques that we use to identify spam mail can also be applied to identify HIV virus mutations and this is a great way to use "machine learning" for better research and knowledge. Today there's so much code written that you can in fact see what parts or portions of existing queries, etc. are built in and use those for another industry outside of the original design. Mashable does some good coverage on this and also you have to love the video when you look at how they are working with augmented reality and the race car. Of course there's no better device and technology than Kinect that makes a lot of this happen. In the video they are using the "Beamatron" technology as it is called to control a virtual race car that sees stuff in it's path and having a virtual toy car as such might put some of the other folks out of business, maybe? They also continue on to the demonstration of using Power Point in the same fashion. We all know that Kinect is coming to Windows and developers are hard at work to make more of this happen. It is very interesting to see a million dollar surgical robot working with the $150 Kinect device, link below at what Johns Hopkins was working with.
If that isn't enough you can see another use of Kinect with radiology taking the need to "touch" out of the picture. Last year I attended the Israel Conference and had quite a bit of time to speak with Microsoft/XBOX Corporate VP Ilan Spillinger and of course he was also very high on medical solutions with Kinect.
When you watch the video with the car and passing the virtual "ball" around you get all kinds of ideas on how lighting, or other information could be shared like even in an operating room or the ER for that matter. BD


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Police offer confused testimony in Pistorius case
"There's no other way of getting there," Nel said.
Botha said the trajectory of the bullets showed the gun was fired pointed down and from a height. This seems to conflict with Pistorius' statement Tuesday, because the athlete said that he did not have on his prosthetics and on his stumps and feeling vulnerable because he was in a low position when he opened fired.
Officers also found .38-caliber pistol rounds in a safe, which Botha said Pistorius owned illegally and for which he said the athlete would be charged with a crime. However, Botha also acknowledged investigators didn't take photographs of the ammunition and let Pistorius' supporters at the crime scene take them away.
Botha said the holster for the 9 mm pistol was found under the left side of the bed, the side on which Steenkamp slept. He also implied it would have been impossible for Pistorius to get the gun without checking to see if Steenkamp was there. Roux later argued that Pistorius had suffered an injury to his right shoulder and wore a "medical patch" the night of the killing which forced him to sleep on the left side of the bed.
Steenkamp was shot in the head over her right ear and in her right elbow and hip, breaking her arm and hip, Botha said. However, Roux later asked Botha if Steenkamp's body showed "any pattern of defensive wounds." The detective said no.
Botha also said the shots were fired from 1.5 meters (five feet), and that police found three spent cartridges in the bathroom and one in the hallway connecting the bathroom to the bedroom. However, later on cross-examination by the defense, Botha said he wasn't a forensics expert and couldn't answer some questions.
Police also found two iPhones in the bathroom and two BlackBerrys in the bedroom, Botha said, adding that none had been used to phone for help. Roux later suggested that a fifth phone, not collected by the police, was used by Pistorius to make calls for a hospital and help. After the hearing, Roux told journalists that Pistorius' defense team had the phone, but did not elaborate.
Guards at the gated community where Pistorius lives did call the athlete, Botha said. The detective said that all the athlete said was: "I'm all right."
He didn't hang up, Botha said, and the guards heard him uncontrollably weep.
"Was it part of his premeditated plan, not to switch off the phone and cry?" Roux asked sarcastically.
Gerald Imray reported from Johannesburg. Associated Press writer Michelle Faul in Johannesburg contributed to this report.
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Help Wanted: A Call for More Oncology Massage Specialists
By Mia Miller, LMT
I am eager to see a dramatic rise in the number of massage therapists specializing in oncology massage. Consider this a call to action. Reviewing Gayle MacDonald's opening to her book Medicine Hands, "As patients travel the road of the cancer experience, they will have pain that the best medications cannot totally alleviate, their self image will be shattered, they will suffer from lost relationships, anxiety about the future and possibly a sore back from lying too long on a gurney." Here, she describes the deep and penetrating unease that is familiar to many with cancer.She doesn't say it exactly but, as a therapist, I see this as an invitation to utilize the power of presence when with a patient to affirm the fact this person we hold is dealing with more than a physical battle, but a threat that is often enigmatic and silent, difficult to share but with skilled touch, capable of being acknowledged and soothed for a time. It's teachers like Gayle MacDonald (through her texts) and Tracy Walton (her class) who have set the tone for much of my practice of oncology massage and encouraged me to use the movement of my hands over a sore back to both ease pain while affirming and celebrating the life of another.
An Early Career Choice
I discovered my desire to work with clients going through cancer when I was still in training at the Swedish Institute in New York, so the seed was planted early on in my career. I was in a clinical strategies class and writing a research paper on Hodgkins Lymphoma when I was introduced to a young lady in her mid-20's, who two years prior received this same diagnosis. She agreed to share her experience with me. During our afternoon together, I came to know better the various forms of psychological and physical distress she'd suffered as she went through treatment; the neuropathy that lingered in her hands and forearms, the weight and hair loss, ongoing GI distress, chronic fatigue and anxiety, poor sleep, hardened shoulders and increasing neck tension. She knew I was finishing up my training in massage therapy and lamented as she said, "I wish I had known I could have been getting massage when I was going through treatment." I heard her aching for the kind of care we can provide.
Within a year, I was in Seattle training with Tracy Walton in order to be clinically prepared to serve this growing population. I was so clear on the efficacy of the work we therapists could do and the need for our inclusion in comprehensive cancer care. After my oncology massage training, I came back to Los Angeles charged and ready to apply all I had been exposed to and to implement the protocols and think through the various options for treatment. I instantly felt I could establish a meaningful rapport with the various intake questions I had learned to ask and the critical pause of giving space for clients to share their difficult experiences. Many clients felt they could open up when asked to share the side effects of chemotherapy they'd been trying to manage or hopeful when wondering, could our work together help them feel less anxious or sleep better later that night?
Taking the Journey
Around this same time, I volunteered at Roze Room Hospice where many of my referrals were at the end stage of cancer, a wonderful plane in which to be introduced to the deeper emotional connection of our work. It seemed serendipitous that most of the children I saw at Children's Hospital of Los Angeles were in the rehab unit with a cancer diagnosis and finding their way to a new normal. The families were often right there during the massage and were sometimes soothed by the work in a vicarious way or able to learn a technique or two from me to try later on. I see how introducing comforting, skilled touch brings families together in a unique way and allows for a way to communicate without traditional dialogue.
Oncology massage allows me to think critically and problem solve, while engaging real nuances of our hands-on work in a way that is very energizing and provocative. I enjoy the need to monitor my pace and pressure particularly when I am establishing a baseline with a first time client. I honor the compromised lymphatic system and work mindfully in quadrants of the body that have even one lymph node removed so as to protect against lymphedema. I approach my work with more attention in several special ways and this benefits both of us. It's wonderful to see clients gain freedom of movement after scar tissue has been realigned or light up as they describe that after reconstruction their tissue begins to feel less and less like a separate part of them. There are countless examples of the many ways we help our clients as they journey through cancer and treatment, these are only a few.
The professional experiences I describe allowed me to get comfortable and gain some initial confidence, but in a strange way I felt I was on a little island. I know this is not unique to providing oncology massage, as many therapists in private practice feel the effects of working alone from time-to-time, but this growing concern of mine was bigger than that. I had this sense there weren't a lot, if any, therapists around me that were laser focused on providing massage for those going through cancer or if there were, they weren't particularly visible or easy to find. I knew that Memorial Sloan Kettering in New York City had doctors, patients, therapists, support staff, a whole community dedicated to integrating our manual therapy into the care they provided. This kind of environment seemed ideal and I wanted an equivalent here in Los Angeles. I longed for a community of colleagues as there is power in association.
A Community
I was aware of the Society for Oncology Massage (www.S4om.org) and how it serves to link therapists to each other and the wider public. I am very comforted by this organization's mission. I have yet to attend their annual Healing Summit which would certainly allow for networking with others who share this passion. I did decide to look up therapists on S4OM's locator service and called the one lady listed in my area. I met her and we talked over coffee. My resolve continues to solidify with each individual I meet that shares their experience and expertise with me.
While I found my passion to provide clinically sound bodywork in the context of cancer, it became more apparent on a purely practical level, that there just might not be enough of us trained and ready to meet the need. I can't even count the number of hospitals, clinics and oncologists treating cancer in Los Angeles alone and if we consider they need us to support their patients, then my initial conclusion seems obvious; there need to be more of us. As integrative medicine gains ground in our changing healthcare system, we will be in high demand. Clients who have already experienced the healing work we do, offer very specific anecdotal evidence to anyone in earshot. As massage therapists, we know how our work brings equilibrium and relaxation to our clients' body's and minds. I think the power of our skilled touch can have a profound impact, perhaps an even greater concentrated effect when mitigating the symptoms, challenges and side effects of cancer and cancer treatment.
Do you want to be challenged in a new way and increase both your curiosity and compassion as you work? Do you want to transform and improve the delivery of health care with your very own hands? Find an oncology massage certification course today and get started! You will be humbled by your increased ability to serve those in their critical time of need. The very act of showing up for another with a equal portion of skilled touch, clinical reasoning and an open heart will amaze and transform you both. I hope you'll join us as we expand and transform the parameters of caring for others through cancer today and tomorrow.
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DIY Locker - Tattoo Locker
■ Features:
★ Customise your lock screen by adding your own photos over the numbers and rearranging the number-pad into cool shapes.
★ DIY sweet lock pattern with in-app icons.
★ Crop sweet pattern shape with images from gallery.
★ Use sweet shape or passcode to DIY a keypad lock
★ Side screen for notifications and widgets.
★ Various stylish live wallpaper.
★ Hate remembering passwords but still want to be secure? Activate the "Time as Password" feature to sync your password with the current time!
★ Much more to discover!
■ Users love DIY Locker:
"Most stylish locker ever" -Miyonna Rackley
"Good app I love this app" -Johan Deniel Batol
"Best I actually now love my stylish lock screen before it was plain" -Jennifer Jimenez
"That's really good I love it <3" -Sahar Hemmati
"Amazing" -Chin Lladoc
"Omg its so beautiful" -Trishia Espena
☆ If by chance you forgot your passcode, you can enter a backup
☆ It is best to disable password locks or other lock screen applications to avoid having to unlock multiple times.
☆ Please be aware that if several locker apps are enabled at the same time, it may cause problems, so please only keep DIY Locker active.
■ Contacts
Any issues or suggestions, please feel free to contact us.
E-mail: email@example.com
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Photo Keypad Lock Screen
With this Keypad screen lock you can not only Slide to unlock your screen lock,but also Set password/passcode/pin to enhance your phone security.
and you can choose your own photo in passcode from gallery.Unlock screen is impossible without password,Keypad Locker is an application to secure your phone.
this Keypad lock screen is the best choice for who are getting bored of your default launcher screen lock.
★ Beautiful Wallpaper HD,Cool looks and nice graphical interface.
★ Add a photo to each of passcode buttons from app wallpaper or gallery.
★ Custom background from gallery.
★ wallpaper glass effect,consume less memory and battery.
★ Display real time clock and date.
★ Disable home/menu/back key in Keypad Lock screen,so no one can access your phone without right password or passcode.
★ Security : easy to set password/passcode/pin,change and use,you can set 4 digits password to enhance your phone security.
★ Slide to unlock.
★ Use Iphone IOS keyboard,work as iphone password.
★ Iphone IOS Font
★ Show unread message and missed call
★ Show message content
★ custom 'Slide to unlock' text.
★ custom text color
This 'Photo Keypad Lock Screen' has been tested extensively on following devices:
* Galaxy S2,Galaxy S3,Galaxy S4,Galaxy S5,Galaxy S,Galaxy Y.
* HTC One,HTC Explorer,HTC M8, HTC One,HTC Explorer,HTC M8.
* Xperia Z1,Xperia Z2,Xperia Z3.
* Nexus 4,Nexus 5,Nexus 7.
Start improves the way you use your mobile device. With Start, you get everything you care about the most on your Startscreen. No more browsing through screens, menus to navigate or folders to search … everything you want is available for you on the first screen.
Start gives you quick access to all your favorite applications. Start keeps you up to date with news feeds, social networks and more. It also provides quick access to media, weather and music applications without unlocking your device. If by chance you missed a call or a message, Start notifications ensure these events are kept noticeable for you.
Knowing how much you care about the privacy of your device, we have added security features that allow you to set your log-in passcode and ensure that no one else can access your device, but you.
Start is not only awesome, it's also FUN! It comes with decorative stickers and interactive themes, making your Startscreen AMAZING!
Millions of users enjoy Start. Join the Start revolution – download it now.
★Secured unlock – easily set the security level of your device to swipe/pin or pattern.
★Simple navigation — with a single swipe, you can call, message, take photos and launch apps
★Interactive & fun — loads of stickers that you can paste on your screen. Interactive themes that create lively Startscreens.
★Smart- Start learns the way you use your phone and helps you get to what you want faster
★Social networks - view all the activity on your social media from the startscreen
★Organized — re-order your starters making it even easier to access your content and apps
★Quick settings — choose your Wi-Fi connection, your ringer mode, Bluetooth options and flashlight from a starter
★Notifications manager – start organize and displays all your notifications inside a dedicated starter and allows you to perform an action directly from the start screen
• Start is available globally in English, Polish, Arabic, French, Spanish, German, Russian, Bahasa, Thai, Portuguese, Hungarian, Vietnamese, Urdu, Burmese, Japanese, Greek, Romanian, Hindi, Malaysian, Cambodian, Bengali, Azeri, Ukrainian, Italian and Chinese with more languages coming soon!
• Start is compatible with Android 4.0. and up
Visit our HELP page at www.startscreen.com/faq
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Connect with us: www.startscreen.com or email us at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Lock Screen Wallpapers
The digital version of a posted "Keep Out" sign, these wallpapers will tell snoopers to get their hands off your phone! Some are humorous, taunting those who don't know your password, while some are simple reminders that your phone will remain locked until the password has been entered. Not only do these backgrounds send a clear message with their text, but they also feature fun or cute images that make them visually appealing as well.
To send a clear message that unwanted eyes are not permitted on your phone, simply download the app and set your favorite message as your background. You can even share these wallpapers with friends!
Heads-up Notifications
Heads-up displays the latest notification as a floating popup, complete with full text and quick actions (4.1+).
Works on everything running Android 3.1 and newer.
You're in control: Heads-up has five pages of customization, so you'll get notified your way.
Pocket detection – when you get a message, Heads-up turns the screen on if you take your phone out of the pocket! (Kind of like AcDisplay. Note: this causes a tiny increase in battery usage if you get a ton of notifications)
Privacy on the lock screen (and in general - Heads-up doesn't even have internet permission, so it can't send your private data anywhere)
Oh, and it's known to work on some smartwatches.
Heads-up is not a lockscreen app, so don't expect it behave like the Lollipop lockscreen.
Heads-up notifications is available in over 20 languages, thanks to an awesome team of translators.
If you want to help translate, head to https://crowdin.com/project/heads-up
If no popups appear, please make sure that Heads-up shows up in the list of running services. If it doesn't, make sure you have enabled the service, and then reboot the phone.
If your device is running Android 4.2 or earlier, and you have other accessibility services running (such as Pushbullet), they might block Heads-up from receiving your notifications. Please try to disable them if Heads-up doesn't work.
Huawei, XIAOMI and MIUI users: please allow Heads-up to display popups under Settings > Apps > Downloaded > Heads-up. It might also be necessary to reset the app data/settings.
Uninstalling: If you find that the uninstall button is disabled, go to System Settings > Security > Device administrators > Heads-up, and tap Disable.
Other: Facebook Messenger, AcDisplay and PushBullet notification mirroring might conflict with Heads-up.
Heads-up is open-source, licensed under GPL!
That means you can make your own version of Heads-up, as long as the resulting app also is open-source.
If you want a feature, theme or something else, head to:
If you experience any issues or have feature requests, please open an issue at:
If the app crashes, please tap 'Report', then 'Send'. This makes it far easier to fix the issue.
GO Locker - theme & wallpaper
The most stable lock screen can be adapted to more than 8000 kinds of phones! Nearly 100 million downloads, 1,000,000+ user reviews and a 4.4-star rating, that's Go Locker! As the smartest locker ever, it learns from you and always prepare time-appropriate apps right at your fingertips! Never worry about your privacy again as GO Locker will completely lock home button from waking up your screen!
■ User Reviews
"Love it, excellent lock with many different backgrounds to choose from, I recommend this app to anyone looking for cool wallpapers n locks for their phones." - Adrian Spaulding
"I love this app it is so much better then the regular lock screens for cellphones." - Brittney Sanders
"Live and so cool And I cant believe it's free! So worth it" - Liam Frege
■ Free Features
- Lock home button from waking up your screen to fully protect your privacy (NEW)
- A vast number of themes with plenty of unlocking style, iphone style, android style and other styles beyond your imagination (keep increasing)
- Shortcuts to system switches and settings
- Read your message directly from the lock screen
■ Contact
Feel free to contact us if you have any problems or suggestions.
E-mail: email@example.com
Follow us :
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Testing Community: https://plus.google.com/communities/109162600904651506822
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and Privacy Policy: http://www.goforandroid.com/en/privacy-policy.html
It will let you know about new notifications by showing a minimal, beautiful screen, allowing you to open them directly from the lock screen. And if you want to see what's going on, you can simply take your phone out of your pocket to view all the latest notifications, in a similarly pleasing and minimalistic manner.
- Great design and awesome performance.
- Active mode (uses the device's sensors to wake your device up when you need it.)
- The ability to use AcDisplay as lockscreen.
- Incredible level of stability.
- Inactive hours (to save some battery.)
- Enable only while charging.
- Lots of another features such as: Blacklist, Dynamic background, Low-priority notifications and much more.
REMINISCE Lock Screen Photos
REMINISCE grabs photos from your phone gallery, Picasa, Facebook and/or Instagram and randomly displays a new picture on your lock screen every time you wake up your phone. REMINISCE is one of the most fun and simple lock screens that takes you for a quick trip down memory lane every time you wake up your phone!
WALLPAPER CAROUSEL for your Lock screen.
1) Download App
2) Turn "ON" the sources you want your lock screen photos to come from.
3) Now every time you wake up your phone, you'll see a different picture.
- Customize your lockscreen with many TIME/DATE designs
- Select your language
- add these photos to your wallpaper
~ Reminisce doesn't work with the default passcode or other lock screen apps. Reminisce now has its own Passcode/Pattern feature to help block your phone access.
If you were looking for lock screen fingerprint scanner, lock screen scanner or lock screen with passwords, this might be different, but you will love it!
Looking for a digital clock lock screen? REMINISCE Lock Screen Photo Includes a Digital Clock (TIME-DAY-MONTH) on the top of the lock screen. Several different designs to make your lock screen fully customized.
More features and widgets coming as we continue to develop them. Thanks!
Please send any suggestions and feedback to @ReminisceApp or firstname.lastname@example.com. Thank you!
WidgetLocker Lockscreen
- Drag and Drop placement of Sliders, Android Widgets and App Shortcuts
- Sliders look selectable from built-in styles (Ice Cream Sandwich, Jellybean, Gingerbread, Sense and Sense 3, Motorola, iPhone, and Rotary) or from user-themes.
- Slider Actions can be customized, for example Slide-to-launch-Camera or Slide-to-call-your-Girlfriend.
- Resizable widgets and custom grid size
- Notification badges on apps/sliders via TeslaUnread ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.teslacoilsw.notifier )
- Customize which widgets/buttons are allowed or blocked at the lock screen
Portions of WidgetLocker are based on the excellent ADW.Launcher ( http://t.co/YvVMkGc ) by Ander Webb and friends.
For download issues or Play Store errors such as Error 941 please contact Google at http://support.google.com/googleplay/bin/request.py?policy=apps&contact_type=contact_policy
S Notifier
It support:
+ Missed call counts
+ Unread SMS counts
+ Gmail counts
+ Facebook notification counts
+ WhatsApp notification counts
+ and any app's notification counts
♥ Heart Zipper Lock Screen ♥
Matching Wallpaper, Icons, & Docks Pack: http://bit.ly/1qEqJPX
Matching Go Launcher theme: http://bit.ly/Z4gRlm
Matching Go SMS theme: http://bit.ly/Y6a1u4
Matching Go Keyboard theme: http://bit.ly/14M6req
Matching Go Contacts theme: http://bit.ly/ZaCHqc
★ Use any background image you want, from your phone, online, anything!
The pink zebra background comes standard. To get other free backgrounds please follow these two simple steps:
Download Free Backgrounds:
1. Click the link for the background you want, long press on the image and "Save" it to your phone
2. Go Locker > Settings > Background > Custom Background > Choose the background you downloaded
★ Pink Hearts Wallpaper Background:
★ Pink Damask Wallpaper Background:
★ Pink Leopard Wallpaper Background:
★ Leopard Fur Wallpaper Background:
★ Hearts & Skulls Wallpaper Background:
1. Install Go Launcher EX v2.58 or above and Go Locker v1.0
2. To select the new Go Locker Theme - Click on "Menu" > Theme Settings
3. Select "Locker" at the top
4. Click on "Installed" and click on "Diamond Studded Zipper"
5. Click on "Apply"
If you enjoy the theme please rate it, it encourages me to keep designing themes, thank you!
*** Any problems, feedback, or requests just email email@example.com, we look forward to hearing from you! ***
SWEET Lock Screen *girls*
A set with 12 sweet colors and 11 types of background designs!
You can choose and combine your favorite color and background design,
and in addition, you can set your favorite image as the background, and thus create a combination of your own liking.
Transform the lock screen , an area that is prone to be seen by people, thoroughly, in a cute way ♪
●Colors for lock screen: 12 colors
●Background design : 11 types
*It's possible to set your own original images
≪Way of installing≫
1. Put a check in "Use the lock screen" which is on the TOP screen
2. Choose the color type
3.Choose the background design or choose the image that you want to install
Just by this, the setting is completed! ♪
★What's more, if you buy our SWEET Style app now you'll get free wallpaper images, too!★
Download several different wallpapers designed for girls, for free!
New designs are added every Monday!
Increase your girl power with these cute Home Screen wallpapers ♪
※ These free wallpapers are the same as those from SWEET Style, Animal Style and Simple Style.
*Recommended For*
・Want to change into a cute lock screen, or a stylish lock screen
・Want to freely customize (dress-up) the lock screen in a girly way
*Wallpaper Settings*
・ Save new wallpaper images in the Gallery before changing your wallpaper.
・ Choose how your will be displayed from the Wallpaper Settings Screen.
We recommend choosing the largest display range possible for your Android device.
≪How to Change Your Wallpaper≫
Hold down your finger on the home screen → Wallpaper (background image) → Select "Gallery" → Set display range → Save
Holo Locker
Holo locker is not a theme for Go Locker or others, it is the real Jelly Bean lock screen app.
Basic features:
- Enable/disable Holo Locker
- Support system security lock
- Customizable text color
- Emergency unlock
- Enable/disable vibrator
- Change screen orientation
- Hide status bar
- Disable status bar
Plus features:
* Support alternative wallpaper.
* Option to change background tint.
* Unread count notifications for call, sms, gmail and K-9 mail.
* Customizable notification badge color.
* Left, right, top and bottom shortcuts customization.
* Other enhancement and customization options.


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If nothing else, Silvio Berlusconi knows how to rattle a saber.
saber, however, is an outspoken atheist, according to his lawyer and friends.
type of single-edged sword, 1670s, from French sabre "heavy, curved sword" (17c.), alteration of sable (1630s), from German Sabel, Säbel, probably ultimately from Hungarian szablya "saber," literally "tool to cut with," from szabni "to cut."
The Balto-Slavic words (cf. Russian sablya, Polish szabla "sword, saber," Lithuanian shoble) perhaps also are from German. Italian sciabla seems to be directly from Hungarian. Saber-rattling "militarism" is attested from 1922. Saber-toothed cat (originally tiger) is attested from 1849.


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- An included 650 CFM built-in blower quickly clears your kitchen of unwanted odors and residual cooking heat
- The cooking area is illuminated by 2 halogen lights (bulbs included)
- Innovative 6 speed electronic touch controls allow for precise control of your cooking environment
- Stylish and beautiful stainless steel construction
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Waimak Earthquake bubbles.
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Dave from Jungle Patrol Cafe out fishing with pomy mate .. nek minit earthquake hits and river starts to bubble .. crazy! Christchurch, NZ, Friday 23rd December 2011
Wow..that is interesting.
did you see this article last year?
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lots of great maps and images
New boiling hot springs near Christchurch? New volcano activity?
IceAgeNow posted a letter from concerned reader writting about new hot spring formed in the area of Cass Bay near Christchurch. There were various reports recently about new hot springs boiling in the peninsula. People also reporting the stench of sulphur emanating from the harbour area. Navy and army are apparently combing the area with geological survey tools. Residents are scarred that Ruaumoko volcano is coming to life. 36 million liters of water mysteriously disappeared from a reservoir in Huntsbury New Zealand following the February 22nd 6.3 earthquake in Christchurch. In past 7 days there were 88 earthquakes reported in Christchurch.
Subduction zones always have associated volcanoes inland from the point of contact and on the east coast of the South Island are several, each one occupied by a major town or city: Christchurch, Timaru, Oamaru and Dunedin. Subduction zone volcanoes are never extinct, only dormant. New Zealand in general and the South Island especially sits astride a subduction zone where the sea floor on the west side is pushing under the sea floor on the east side causing uplift.
Volcanoes of very fine silt have sprung up around the Christchurch area since the initial quake, some as high as 2 metres have been likened to termite hills. These cones seem be linked to the smell of sulphur in some places.
Banks Peninsula forms the most prominent volcanic feature of the South Island. Geologically, the peninsula comprises the eroded remnants of two large shield volcanoes (Lyttelton fand Akaroa). The peninsula formed as offshore islands, with the volcanoes reaching to about 1,500 m above sea level. Two dominant craters formed Lyttelton and Akaroa Harbours.
New Zealand lies on the rim of the Pacific tectonic plate which is the same fracture in the earth's crust that passes through Japan and the west coast of the United States. This fracture passes through both the North and South Islands and causes high mountains in both islands, but the geological process are different. In the South Island, the Pacific and Indo-Australian plates are smashing in to each other. This collision has created the spectacular Southern Alps mountain range. In the North Island, one techtonic plate is sliding under the other, and the result of this geological process is volcanic activity. The vast majority of thermal activity in the North Island is centred in and around Rotorua and the Central Plateau area, which makes up the centre of the island.
New Zealand has a lot of active volcanoes and a high frequency of eruptions. There are three major types of volcano in New Zealand. Volcanic activity in New Zealand occurs in six areas, five in the North Island and one offshore in the Kermadec Islands. Volcanoes in New Zealand are grouped into areas of more intensive and long-lived activity, whose position (and the composition of the lavas erupted) can be related to the large-scale movement of the tectonic plates in the New Zealand region.
Most New Zealand volcanism in the last 1.6 million years has occurred in the Taupo Volcanic Zone (TVZ). The zone extends from White Island to Ruapehu. The Taupo Volcanic Zone is extremely active on a world scale: it includes three frequently active cone volcanoes (Ruapehu, Tongariro/Ngauruhoe, White Island), and two of the most productive calderas in the world (Okataina and Taupo).
The biggest and most dangerous volcano in New Zealand and the world, is actually Lake Taupo which is New Zealand's largest lake, and is located in the centre of the North Island. This volcano last erupted in the year 186 AD, and erupts approximately once every 2000 years. This eruption was over 50 times the magnitude of the Mt St Helen's eruption. Mt St Helens moved 3 cubic kilometers of earth, and Krakatoa (the biggest in recent times) in Indonesia moved 8 cubic kilometers, compared to 110 cubic kilometers for Taupo.
This eruption is regarded as the biggest in the last 5000 years. The event was recorded by the Chinese and the Romans. The Chinese actually heard the bang and made a record of the brilliant sunsets that lasted approximately 6 months. About 26,500 years ago, Lake Taupo had the worlds biggest and most destructive eruption in the last 70,000 years. That event dwarfed the 186 AD eruption.
The Rotorua area contains many thermal reserves that all contain good examples of boiling mud pools, hot springs, geysers, thermal rivers, boiling lakes, steam vents (fumeroles) and volcanic terraces.
Christchurch Quakes: Strong smell of sulphur in eastern suburbs (WeatherWatch.co.nz)
Sulphur Smell After Lyttelton Shake, Sulphur Dust On Cars (EmigrateToNewZealand)
Smell Reported Across Eastern Christchurch Suburbs (Voxy)
New boiling hot springs near Christchurch? (IceAgeNow)
Engineer concurs – Christchurch could be headed for volcanic eruption (IceAgeNow)
New Boiling Springs appear In Christchurch Harbor (DiscloseTV)
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Rep. Jack Kingston repackages several deceptive claims about his opponent's business record in a new TV ad that has all the charm of a summer re-run.
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Rep. Jack Kingston repackages several deceptive claims about his opponent's business record in a new TV ad that has all the charm of a summer re-run.
A TV ad falsely claims Tennessee Sen. Lamar Alexander is "responsible" for a surge of "illegal aliens" who are "overrunning our border" because he voted for "amnesty."
In a Republican primary runoff in Alabama's 6th Congressional District, Paul DeMarco's TV ad leaves the false impression that Gary Palmer supported a $1.2 billion tax plan.
Rep. Nick Rahall of West Virginia takes a quote from his Republican opponent, Evan Jenkins, out of context to falsely imply that Jenkins is "comfortable" with raising "seniors' out-of-pocket costs" for Medicare by $6,000.
Senate Minority Leader Mitchell McConnell misquoted EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy when he claimed in a floor speech that she conceded the administration's new climate change plan is "a war on coal."
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This summer, Toby Keith will lay down the hammer. The popular crooner has lined up 20 dates for his just-announced 2013 Hammer Down Tour, which will take off in June.
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Mirror, mirror on the wall, who are the highest paid country musicians of them all? That honor goes to country favorites Taylor Swift and Kenny Chesney. The superstars, along with Toby Keith, earned spots on the Forbes World's Highest-Paid Musicians of 2012 list. And you know that ain't a bad place to be.
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In the opening moments of Enduring Love (both Roger Michell's movie and Ian McEwan's inspirational source novel), a hot air balloon dips silently into a field, a beautiful anomaly trailing awful horror in its wake. Inside are a small boy and an elderly man, the latter of whom is soon engaged in a life and death struggle to lash the flailing craft to the ground even as the winds threaten to whip it once more into the great unknown. As the balloon again looses the surly bonds of the earth, with the small and wailing child still huddling in its ascending basket, a group of disparate strangers charge to lend their weight to the battle.
"We were running towards a catastrophe," wrote Mc-Ewan in his novel, "which itself was a kind of furnace in whose heat identities and fates would buckle into new shapes." Among those rushing headlong into the abyss are Joe (McEwan's narrator, handsomely portrayed on screen by the hypnotically photogenic Daniel Craig) and Jed, an unemployed loner teetering on the brink of an eroto-religious delusion. While chaos reigns on the ground, from the sky the scene adopts an eerie romanticism, with Joe and Jed "rushing towards each other like lovers . . . The encounter that would unhinge us was minutes away, its enormity disguised from us not only by the barrier of time but by the colossus in the centre of the field that drew us in with the power of a terrible ratio that set fabulous magnitude against the puny human distress at its base."
As even this brief extract illustrates, Mc-Ewan's novel is at once immensely cinematic and problematically prosaic - the latter quality leading some commentators to dub it as definitively "unfilmable". Indeed, despite the spectacularly visual nature of the opening (which becomes even more weirdly magical on screen), much of the ensuing drama, in which Jed (Rhys Ifans) becomes fixated with a guilt-wracked Joe, consists of edgy encounters between people in rooms - an interior melodrama played out in the minds of the protagonists. In lesser hands, this could easily have resulted in an extremely lop-sided viewing experience - a film that starts with an incident of extraordinary eye-catching splendour only to settle down into dreary kitchen-sink familiarity. Yet from the breathtaking beauty of that opening air crash to the claustrophobic house-bound climax in which Joe's increasingly estranged girlfriend Claire (Samantha Morton) feels the sharp end of Jed's affections, Michell and screenwriter Joe Penhall have remodelled McEwan's source material with alchemical cinematic skills. The result is one of the very best British movies of the year, a spine-tingling psychological thriller that combines nail- biting tension with the heartbreaking clout of a doomed romance.
Having shown an exemplary eye for the external architecture of internal conflict in The Mother, Michell once again proves himself the master of emotional space, leading the audience gently into the very heart of this unfolding tragedy. While we may be startled by the blind love that these characters endure (both the set-up and the climax produced audible gasps in the screening I attended), Michell's triumph is in keeping his characters grounded even as the genre-inflected narrative takes flight. To this end, he is aided by a trio of note-perfect performances from the film's key players, with Craig reaffirming his position as one of Britain's most charismatic leading men, while the occasionally over-earnest Morton wisely soft-pedals in a deceptively complex role. But it is Ifans (best known for shambling around in his underpants in Michell's blockbusting Notting Hill) who steals the movie, finding exactly the right blend of tragicomic gawkiness as Jed gradually turns from goofy God-botherer to border- line biblical psycho. Significantly, Jed's obsession with Joe (which McEwan's novel discusses in an appendicised medical account of "a homo-erotic obsession with religious overtones; a clinical variant of de Clerambault's syndrome") is never defined within the parameters of gay or straight sexuality - rather, Jed is a man struck by a revelation so soul-shaking that it simply overrides all boundaries of social interaction.
In the supporting roles, Bill Nighy and Susan Lynch make engaging sounding boards as Robin and Rachel, providing what Penhall describes as "normal, regular people" in whose company the maelstrom of Joe and Claire's bizarre experiences can be domestically discussed. That such a mechanical device should seem entirely organic to the plot speaks volumes about Penhall's talents as a writer. Yet, in the end, the real praise for this marvellous movie is due to Michell, who has risen quietly through the ranks (his eclectic filmography spans the television series The Buddha of Suburbia, the low-key Brit pic Titanic Town and the flashy Stateside thriller Changing Lanes) to become one of the most unassumingly adventurous directors currently working in the increasingly reinvigorated British film industry.