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San Francisco Giants Sweep Twins After 8-1 Win on Sunday
The Minnesota Twins were swept by the San Francisco Giants after an 8-1 loss on Sunday afternoon.
The Minnesota Twins were swept by the San Francisco Giants after an 8-1 loss on Sunday afternoon.
Kyle Gibson only lasted five innings as the San Francisco Giants downed the Minnesota Twins 6-2 on Friday night.
Paul McCartney is in a Japanese hospital and has been forced to cancel his tour.
Minnesota has Thursday off, then will begin a series with San Francisco on Friday at PacBell Park.
The Twins downed the Padres in San Diego 5-3 Tuesday night. Kevin Correia threw 6 innings with 4 hits and 3 earned runs allowed to get the win and improve to 2-5. Glen Perkins threw a scoreless 9th inning to get the save, his 13th.
The Twins are in San Diego Tuesday to begin a two game series with the Padres.
The Minnesota Twins couldn't solve Felix Hernandez and fell to the Seattle Mariners 6-2 on Sunday.
The Minnesota Twins have climbed their way back to .500 after holding on to defeat the Seattle Mariners 5-4 on Friday.
The Twins beat the Red Sox 4-3 Thursday at Target Field to take the three game series two games to one. The win gives them a 19-20 overall record heading into the weekend.
Boston wraps up their series with Minnesota Thursday afternoon at Target Field. Clay Buchholz will get the start for the Red Sox against Phil Hughes of the Twins.
The Twins got a walk-off 2-run homerun from Chris Parmelee off Andrew Miller in the 9th inning last night to beat the Boston Red Sox 8-6. Minnesota went out to a 5-1 lead in the 2nd inning before Boston tied the game at 6 in the 7th inning.
The Twins are off Monday, then will host the Red Sox Tuesday night.


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Thanks for all the responses to our question: What's the hardest part of being a Sox fan? Some of you didn't heed my call to be brief, and thus we're not including your long and windy e-mails, no matter how heartfelt. Anyway, here's the best and briefest of the bunch. We'll return to your regularly scheduled complaints next time:
The hardest part about being a Sox fan? It's like being Cassandra. You know you're right, you know you're telling the truth when you talk about what a great team it is and how more people should head to the games, but then nobody will listen to you. It's a Greek tragedy. --Claire Zulkey, Evanston
White Sox fan is the hardest part of being a Bears, Bulls, Blackhawks and Cubs fan. Chicago has the most knowledgeable, most hungry (quite literally) fans in the U.S.A. and absolutely the worst ownership in every major sports team. It's amazing. --Joe Farrell, Rio Rancho, N.M.
There's nothing "hard" at all about being a Sox fan. This 40-year-old die-hard enjoys every season (some more than others), whether there are 4,000 or 40,000 people in the stands. I would think true fans, and students of baseball, feel the same way. --John Novotny, Lombard
Hardest part of being a Sox fan? Trying to explain why you're a Sox fan to out-of-towners--"How can you not like the Cubs?"--and at some point in the discussion realizing you are now trying to defend Reinsdorf and "new" Comiskey park. --Steve Shaw, Sausalito, Calif.
The hardest part of being a White Sox fan? I've been a fan since I was four years old and wore a Sox uniform (I am now 73) and I remember being able to watch all the home games on WGN, with some road games thrown in. I have retired to Kentucky and, if I'm lucky, get to watch one game a week. I sure miss the WGN coverage of the White Sox. --Rick Jordan, Bowling Green, Ky.
The toughest part about being a White Sox fan is being a perennial good, not great team. It's like knowing Cindy Crawford will look at you, just not go out on a date. --Chip Ramsey, Birmingham, Ala.
The hardest part of being a Sox fan, obviously, is putting up with Cubs fans. No matter how good the Sox are and how bad the Cubs are the Cubs are still the darlings. Seeing the Ivy and a Sosa homer in a losing cause is more appealing than seeing the Sox win as a team? But it must be in me to be in the "correct minority." I use a Macintosh, I'm pro-life, and I'm a Sox fan. Better to be right than in the majority! --Shawn Viland, Aurora
Living in the New York area this is what I find hardest about being a Sox fan: When asked who my favorite team in baseball is I proudly say the White Sox. The follow-up question from the New York snobs is invariably "Who?" The other hardest thing is that this team HASN'T WON A BLEEPIN' WORLD SERIES IN ABOUT 200YEARS! --Harvey Schatz, Teaneck, N.J.
The hardest part about being a Sox fan is all of the flak you take from other people. Growing up in the north suburbs, I was continually harassed by Cubs fans who wondered why I would ever want to be a Sox fan. It's hard to stay a good fan outside of Chicago when the effort is greater to keep up with the stories and the current players and when watching a game live means making the effort to get tickets when the Mariners host the Sox. During the 2000 playoffs, it was especially difficult to be a Sox fan in Seattle when the M's swept the Sox and that's all anyone could talk about. All of these fair-weather M's fans fell out of the woodwork and you just have to take it. --Erin Abrahams, Tacoma, Wash.
The hardest part of being a sox fan is listening to the Cub fans say "at least we fill our stadium." Little do they know, the more they spend at the ballpark the less likely the Tribune Company is going to put a winning team on the field. As long as the Tribune is making money by having fans in the seats, there really is no reason to improve the team. If the Cub fans were smart, they would stop going to the games and force the Tribune to put a winner on the field to bring back the fans. Think about that my friends. Go Sox! --Terry Goins, Milwaukee
Three Words: Hawk, Wimpy and Fiesty. --Andy Baker, Houston
The hardest part about being a Sox fan is being all alone in a quiet stadium...until the playoffs when 45,000+ show just how electric Comiskey really can be. --Jamie Schwab, Chicago
As far as I am concerned there is nothing hard about being a White Sox fan. I love the White Sox and could care less what anyone else thinks about the team, ballpark etc. I stick with my team no matter what. --Gina Locasto, Lockport
Jerry Reinsdorf --Bob O'Connell, Norwalk, Conn.
I've been a Sox fan since I first started following them as an eight year old in 1960. They went to the World Series in 1959 and haven't been back since. Baseball has become a game of haves and have-nots when it comes to money. Teams like the Yankees, Braves, Mets, etc. will buy the missing pieces they need when they've got championship potential. Our White Sox under Reinsdorf won't. --Peter Mark, Dallas
The hardest part about being a Sox fan is watching Sammy Sosa hit 60 homers knowing that George Bell is somewhere pumping gas. --Dewayne Hankins, Lockport
What is the hardest part of being a White Sox fan? Jay Mariotti, Chicago Sun-Times. The guy is a shrieking, sneering Sox-hater who never gets tired of talking out of both sides of his mouth. One side: the neighborhood is scary, the park is ugly. The other side: Why don't the fans come? Enough already. He needs to get a real job where he has to exercise his brain and write a real sports column, not recycle the same old idiocy. --Barb Medley, Clarendon Hills
The hardest part about being a Sox Fan like myself is having to explain to the Cubs fans that there is no use in fighting over who is better. The Sox's season will prove it well enough! --Shawna O'Hara, Chicago


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AMHERST — When it comes to flag bearers, smiling 31-year-old Lisa Lunt is in a league of her own.
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Tonight show skit succeeds with real-life couple
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Get Down bash will help bring in the new year
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urn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entries-cbb260b5-3c14-486e-bc49-4b4320d45935 Communications - Tags - networks Capitalize on Cloud. 1 2013-06-26T16:02:13-04:00 IBM Connections - Blogs urn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entry-aeb82138-9a7d-4515-87a7-bae4b149de87 Telecom Analytics: The Difference between Social Networks and Social Media Anthony Behan email@example.com 27000538DT active Comment Entries application/atom+xml;type=entry Likes 2012-11-26T10:12:19-05:00 2012-11-26T10:12:19-05:00 Many CSP's around the world are asking about social network analytics and about social media analytics, and many folks think these things are the same thing. Well, they're not. Social Network Analytics allow you to understand people's connections and relationships with one another. There are different ways to do this – we can look at phone calls, and determine who calls who, for how long, and how frequently. Taking this data, we can extrapolate strength of relationships. For example, an analysis of my calling patterns will tell you pretty immediately who my wife is, because I call her more frequently than anyone else, and she calls me more frequently than anyone else. That it is my wife, of course, is uncertain; to be clear, we could argue that it would be clear who my significant relationship is with, and while that is likely to be my spouse, it could be a girlfriend, boyfriend, very good friend, business partner, or other person. Nevertheless, the analysis will tell us that this is the most significant relationship. Similarly, we can tell who they (the significant other) are related to, and therefore who I may be connected to by extension, a bit like LinkedIn. This is part of sociology dating back almost a century; computing and automation helps us to understand it better, but the theory is well practised.
We can also model social networks based on text messages, emails, and tweets. What we've found here at IBM, is that for the same people, the models are different. We have different text based relationships than we have call based relationships. Email relationships are different again (and the one to many nature of email conversations tends to produce different effects). The trick in social network analytics of course is to find an appropriate application. We've figured out that in most telecom based analysis, almost 90% of groups have clear "pack leaders", that is customers who call most often, and receive most calls, within a group. While it is something of a jump to say that this implied disproportionate influence, this group of people is certainly interesting. There is some evidence to suggest that pack leader churn causes disproportionate churn propensity in the rest of the group. In addition, we can measure pack leaders who are off-net based on inbound terminating calls, and outbound terminating calls, though the greater the group if off net, the less accurate the information we can gather. One aspect that we're beginning to work on is buying pattern overlays on social networks – and thereby understanding influence patterns within social networks. So, for example, if a pack leader buys a particular type of phone, does that mean that the members of that group have a higher propensity to buy, or have a higher desire for that type of phone? That kind of data can significantly help to make marketing campaigns and promotions better targeted, more relevant, and more useful to customers, and minimise the amount of noise in marketing communications.

 A final point on social networks – formal structures, such as companies, schools or households, tend to be the structures within which mass market companies like telcos operate. Therefore because society has constructed groups, it is logical that those groups will seek to socialise and collaborate together. This is not entirely untrue, but it is slightly inaccurate. While societally imposed group structures are important, there are often significant anomalies and crossovers that are difficult to detect. People create their own groups, locally and remotely, within formal structures and without. Association and identity are nebulous things; social network analytics can help us to better understand those associations, and be more personally relevant to people. Depending on formal structures is often misleading. We can think of this in simple terms in an organisation – we think people within departments or silos work with each other, but in fact it is often when they work across silos that they are most efficient. Mapping internal organisational social networks can help organisations to modernise and transform; mapping mass market social networks can help telcos to deliver a better customer experience.

Which brings us to social media analytics. It could be argued that social network analytics is a subset of social media analytics, but only insofar as social network information can be gleaned from the social media data, such as tweets between twitter users, or Facebook users friending other Facebook users. Social media analytics however are more especially about sentiment, about expressions of preference and opinion about products, offers, companies, people, and competitors. Social media is a massive opportunity to capture and understand what people think about all sorts of aspects of the performance of consumer offerings like telecommunications (where is the service quality perceived to be poor?), consumer electronics (who likes the new Samsung?) content (who likes the new movie?) and competitors (why do people like *them* and not us?).

Taking a twitter feed with certain parameters – say sent from within the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region>, between Tuesday and Friday last week, and so on – we can identify those tweets that reference our new product (let's just say a new VoIP client) and those of our competitors. Using natural language processing, we can determine positive or negative sentiment, which can be tricky. Sarcasm is notoriously difficult to interpret (as demonstrated by TV character Sheldon Cooper on The Big Bang Theory – if a human struggles with it, then it's going to be tough to code that interpretation!), and there are other aspects including colloquialisms, idiom and abbreviations that can be similarly complex.

Bringing the two together can be very powerful. Understanding how consumers behave within their social networks, and understanding their influences and patterns, can make communications much more effective, much more personal, much more relevant, and ultimately make the communications service provider much more useful to the consumer. And a useful relationship is pure gold.<o:p></o:p>
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One of the things you notice about the virtual keyboard on the iPhone is that it has no arrow keys that would let you move the text cursor to a different position without backspacing and deleting characters on the way. It IS intuitive to use your finger as a mouse, but it is often difficult to get the cursor exactly where you want it, although this method is useful for moving to the end of a line of text, as an example. Just tapping at or beyond the end will move the cursor there.
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Thread: What makes a good character?
May 5th, 2008 #1
What makes a good character?
I've gotten to the stage where I wish to explore more with characters, so I thought I'd pop the question.
In your opinion, what makes a good character? Is it their physical design? Their character/personality? Color pallet? Their story? Breaking the mold of stereotypes? Relatability? If they are convincing or not?
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May 5th, 2008 #3
If your character can sit in front of you and ask...
"Do you love me?"
"Do you hate me?
"Do you admire me?"
"Do you envy me?"
"Do you feel sorry for me?"
"Are you afraid of me?"
and the proper answer to any of the above is supposed to be "yes," and you can honestly answer "yes," you have a good character...
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May 5th, 2008 #4
I tend to separate good character designs with good character development.... I don't usually tend to see them go hand-in-hand... Because one is a product of the character designer while the other is a product of the storyteller...
So to answer your question, a good character to me is the one that is personified by the story and not by the design... A good character design however enhances the personality a step further as a means to visually support the character's traits...
May 5th, 2008 #5
Correct anatomy, facial features, expression and hands. Designs elements should fit the characters background. Speaking of wich, when drawing/painting a character, always make up a story, what he does, why he has sertain items with him for example and why he dresses like that.
Design elements should also fit the character, Because when you draw a ninja with Sholder plates that he-man couldn't even carry, would make the character off looking and off-role.
thats my philosopy on this..
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May 5th, 2008 #6Site
"it's much easier to scale up from simplicity than to scale back from complexity"
May 5th, 2008 #7
Unorginallity, cuz everyone is used to it and most of people like it thats why its unorginality, you can create a very good character with your personal fantasy, desires, but it will be the best only for you.. But you can make a very good char of shit with a good story, like comics for example, when you see a man with letter on his chest and with underwear on his pants it can look kinda stupid but if he's from other planet and has superpowers, can fly and so it will be fucking awesome... In the end you cant create a char wich will be liked by all.. (i think i looked stupid with this all speech)
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May 5th, 2008 #8
Well, as artists I think we're mostly concerned with the physical design, even though it must support the character concept (like Elwell said). I think the physical design should give you a good sense of what the character is like without them needing to say or do anything. A carefully selected pose can give you clues into personality (are they shy or confident? Dangerous or loveable?). Clothing and props should give you clues into who and what they are. A mechanic obviously would carry tools, and a ninja would carry weapons. If someone is down on their luck we should be able to tell that by the clothing they wear. To me a really good design shows me not just that the character is a mechanic, but he is THIS mechanic. Maybe instead of merely carrying a wrench it can be a very specific wrench with a heart shape in the handle, a gift from a loved one. Maybe a big patch in their over alls because he keeps splitting the seat. I think you need to think deeply about the character to make them memorable, and find a way to portray it visually.
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May 5th, 2008 #9If your character can sit in front of you and ask...
"Do you love me?"
"Do you hate me?
"Do you admire me?"
"Do you envy me?"
"Do you feel sorry for me?"
"Are you afraid of me?"
and the proper answer to any of the above is supposed to be "yes," and you can honestly answer "yes," you have a good character...
Dissect good character design.
Make sure you look at each character in context... look at the cast of characters they stand next to, and how they contrast.
May 5th, 2008 #10
I'm at work right now, but I'll get back to you on this.
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May 7th, 2008 #11
Meant to get back to this the other day...
*ANYWAY* - this will probably be a somewhat sporadic/disjointed post at first as I'm at work, but here goes:
In your opinion, what makes a good character? Is it their physical design? Their character/personality? Color pallet? Their story? Breaking the mold of stereotypes? Relatability? If they are convincing or not?
Typically speaking most people respond well to eye candy - but eye candy does not a character make. You can create something that really looks good, but doesn't fit the bill for a character. That's what I call a stereotype. I.e. - hot chick, buff dude, wizard, warrior, lost soul, alien fighter pilot, and so on.
All of those have potential, but they're just a rough idea - there's no character there. it's a stereotype, an assumption based on our own ideas.
Now, consider: Jennifer, a freshman college student at the UW in Seattle Washington, moved from San Jose, California to study Marine Biology. She's five foot four, athletic, has auburn hair, with green eyes and dimples when she smiles. She also has a very engaging personality, but couldn't dress herself to save her life. She wears a friendship bracelet on her left wrist that was given to her by her sister, Kim, two weeks before she was killed in an auto accident on the 101 freeway in Los Angeles, California.
Suddenly, the "Hot Chick" is a person, with a history, quirks, pain and personality.
More to come - have to work for a bit.
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May 7th, 2008 #12
The more non-human a character is the harder you have to work to get readers/viewers to relate to the character. You can see this difficulty with the last two Pixar/Disney movies: The Incredibles was a hit, while Cars wasn't as well recieved. One of the reasons for this (besides the vastly different plots and character development itself) was because in the Incredibles the characters were human, while in Cars the characters were...well, talking cars. Let's face it, we have an much easier time relating to a human (or near human) character simply because we are human ourselves.
Even with human/near-human characters relatibility can be a chore. Spiderman for instance is much more relatible then Superman, as Spiderman, despite being a superhero, struggles with day to day 'normal' activities (getting bills paid for instance). Superman by contrast, his biggest hurdle in 'normal day to day activities' seems to be just keeping his idenity secret (Disclaimer: I'm not an avid reader of either comic so this is based on my limited knowledge of both). So a good character usually does have some kind of struggle s/he has to deal with, a struggle that an everyday person can relate to, even experienced for him/herself.
On character design I don't have much more to add to what other's have said. I've personally gone both ways in terms of 'design first then fill in the personality' and 'figure out the personality then design around that' roads. Sometimes both develop at the same time, which is fine as well. As long as you avoid the dreaded 'Mary Sue' for personality and design...you'll be fine.
May 9th, 2008 #13
In your opinion, what makes a good character? Is it their physical design? Their character/personality? Color pallet? Their story? Breaking the mold of stereotypes? Relatability? If they are convincing or not?
My two cents.
"God is in the details." Like any good painting, the character becomes better than the sum of its parts so all of what you said is important.
When designing my own characters, I go through something like this.
1. I am thinking of what their backgrounds are first so I know how to dress them. It starts very generic as I say, mayan tribe for a background and then proceed to apply a Mayan motif to how he dresses.
2. Then i make another pass and decide what kind of character this is. Strong man, sniper, wizard, punk, and change his clothing according to the needs of what the character is. ie. pouches for wizard, no sleeves for swordsman, etc.
3. The next pass starts to get a little more in-depth into this character. is he rich? is he clumsy? a romantic? All of these things should bring out small details that you can add. ie. a rich guy might have some gold detailing, jewellry, etc. a talented strong guy might have trophies from his conquests somewhere on his person and his clothes might be ripped from fighting (or even a broken nose!)
We're starting to see alot of details on this character now and this should all serve to make him more unique. Relatibility is something that you think about as you get into his back-story, or with his clothes. I mean, everyone can relate to a t-shirt but not everyone to a tartan(tho I have no idea why...:p).
colours is soemthing that should be considered within context of their background and the prominent colours of whatever that background might be, the other characters that will be interacting with(mostly just to make sure everyone isn't wearing blue), and the larger visual look of the series/game/poster as a whole. There are no rules here that I know of, but I think if you at least give each some thought, you'll end up with something that looks considered.
Hope this helps! This was also for my own benefit.
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And America's long-term unemployed are still struggling. More than 4 million people have been out of work for six months or longer. That figure was essentially unchanged in November. By contrast, the number of people who have been unemployed for less than six months fell.
Low-wage industries also still account for a disproportionate share of jobs added. About 45 percent of jobs created in the past year have been in retail, hotels, restaurants and entertainment, temporary positions and home health care.
Melinda Popel, 42, has worked at McDonald's in Kansas City, Mo., for most of the past 10 years. She left on two occasions to return to school but hasn't been able to find a job with the skills she gained.
She makes $7.35 an hour, just enough to pay her rent, and relies on food stamps to feed her three children. Popel took part in strikes on Thursday by fast-food workers seeking $15 an hour.
The steady decline in unemployment, from a high of 10 percent four years ago, is welcome news for the White House. But Jason Furman, President Barack Obama's top economic adviser, said the plight of the long-term unemployed points to the need to extend emergency unemployment benefits.
About 1.3 million people who've been out of work for six months or more will lose unemployment aid if a 5-year-old program to provide extra benefits expires on Dec. 28. The Congressional Budget Office has estimated the cost of an extension at $25 billion. Some Republicans have balked at the cost.
But on Thursday, House Speaker John Boehner said he was willing to consider extending the program.
Among companies ramping up hiring is Eat24, which handles online restaurant deliveries. Eat24, based in San Francisco, expects this month to hire 10 to 15 salespeople, mobile application developers and data analysts, on top of its 150-person workforce.
"The economy is picking up a little bit," said Amir Eisenstein, the chief marketing officer. "In the last couple of years, the mobile market has boomed."
If hiring continues at its current pace, what economists call a virtuous cycle will likely kick in: More jobs typically lead to more pay, more spending and faster growth.
That said, more higher-paying jobs are needed to sustain the economy's momentum.
Consumers have been willing to spend on big-ticket items. Autos sold in November at their best pace in seven years, according to Autodata Corp. New-home sales in October bounced back from a summer downturn.
But early reports on holiday shopping have been disappointing. The National Retail Federation said sales during the Thanksgiving weekend — probably the most important stretch for retailers — fell for the first time since the group began keeping track in 2006.
Associated Press writers Josh Boak and Jim Kuhnhenn contributed to this report.
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From Press Release The Golden State Collegiate Baseball League (GSCBL) entering into its first year of operation has 7 highly competative teams for the 2013 season. The GSCBL is committed to bringing a first class wooden bat baseball experience to every franchises local community. We exist to advance collegiate baseball prospects towards their futures of becoming a professional baseball player, while providing them the structure and guidance to return to their respective colleges. In addition it's a goal of the league to present a wholesome, safe family oriented atmosphere for fans to enjoy high level competition by athletes who exhibit a positive role model for children in the community. Read the rest of this article here.
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UNIONDALE, NY - DECEMBER 14: Kamil Kreps #28 and Keith Ballard #2 of the Florida Panthers look on against the New York Islanders on December 14, 2009 at Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, New York. (Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images)
According to TSN's Farhan Lalji Canucks defenceman Keith Ballard has struggled through the road to recovery from a concussion, crushing allegations over managerial interference during his recovery. The timing of Ballard's original injury and his potential return on the heels of Aaron Rome's most recent injury is a little curious.
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Religious police, whom the king funds, roam the streets whipping women who mingle with non-relative males.
And today, he is free to roam the 100 acres of Little St. John, his private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
c.1300, romen, possibly from Old English *ramian "act of wandering about," which is probably related to aræman "arise, lift up." There are no certain cognate forms in other Germanic languages, but Barnhart points to Old Norse reimuðr "act of wandering about," reimast "to haunt." "Except in late puns, there is no evidence of connexion with the Romance words denoting pilgrims or pilgrimages to Rome ...." [OED], such as Spanish romero "a pilot-fish; a pilgrim;" Old French romier "travelling as a pilgrim; a pilgrim," from Medieval Latin romerius "a pilgrim" (originally to Rome). Related: Roamed; roamer; roaming.
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It's Halloween and loads of candy will be making its way to young members of your family, including you. I think it's time to take a health stand and say, "we can do better!" With a little creativity and time you can avoid so many of the toxic additives and anti-nutrient foods that are driving inflammation causing the New Millennium diseases we are plagued with today.
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Plus it was clear that the heat they generated was extremely extremely hot and more than enough to cut through an empty suit or even a worn suit without much effort. Hot knife through butter.
What isn't clear is why the Extremis agents' own body parts aren't similarly destroyed by all that heat.
Movie "logic", I guess...
Watched it again last night and during the 'march of the JARVIS suits' two Extremis peeps clearly rip the head off one of the suits w/o any heat powers. Meshes with the above...
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