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A sharp focus by the UK's financial watchdog on the way asset managers pay for bank and broker research has led to efforts by an industry group to find ways to value the goods and services.
The CFA Society of the UK and Frost Consulting are partnering on a report that will lay out techniques the buyside can use to put a specific value on research.
The work comes weeks after the Financial Conduct Authority backed a call for an unbundling of research costs from dealing commissions in the EU's Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II proposals. That means asset managers would have to be able to break down the actual cost of the research they receive.
The move by the two groups underscores efforts within the financial services industry to adapt to a more aggressive stance on dealing commissions from the UK regulator than its international counterparts.
The FCA has studied 17 fund managers in the past year, of which only two had dealing commission policies in place that it deemed satisfactory. In 11 of the firms, it said the amount of research purchased corresponded to trading volume and there were no research budgets or limits on spending.
Will Goodhart, chief executive of CFA Society of the UK, said valuing research was particularly challenging for fund managers because goods and services could hold different value for different firms.
He said: "It's pretty tricky and it's always going to be imperfect. What is important is that firms are clear with clients about the approach they are taking and that clients can then assess their preference for different valuations."
The regulator estimated that dealing commissions in the UK are worth around £3 billion each year.
One approach to valuing research would be cost-based, Goodhart said, and would involve determining how expensive it is for a provider to produce the research. Another would consider the value research generates for a given fund manager.
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The number of unemployed people in Spain dropped by 225,200 to 5.97 million in the second quarter, pushing the unemployment rate down by 0.9 percent to 26.26 percent, the government said in a report Thursday.
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By Patsy R. Brumfield/NEMS Daily Journal
WASHINGTON – Felicia Adams' nomination to be North Mississippi's next U.S. attorney won U.S. Senate approval Thursday.
Also confirmed was former Oxford mayor Richard Howorth to the Tennessee Valley Authority's Board of Directors.
"I'm honored to be asked, and I'm happy to serve," Howorth, the owner of Square Books, had said when nominated.
Adams could not be reached for comment late Thursday.
She becomes the state's first female in the post.
Still unclear is when the 51-year-old Holly Springs native physically will occupy the Oxford-based office vacated by Bush appointee James Greenlee early in 2010.
The U.S. attorney is the government's top lawyer in a specific jurisdiction and oversees a staff of attorneys working on criminal and civil cases on behalf of the government.
Adams is the top assistant U.S. attorney in Jackson's Southern District, where she's worked since early 2000. Before that, she was an assistant U.S. attorney in Oxford.
President Barack Obama announced the nominations of Adams and Howorth this spring.
Their confirmations came without an actual floor vote but that is not an unusual procedure for the Senate. A list of nominee names went out to Republican and Democratic senators, and when none voiced an objection to their nominations by the end of the day, they were deemed as confirmed.
Both of Mississippi's U.S. senators – Thad Cochran of Oxford and Roger Wicker of Tupelo – had voiced their pleasure at the nominations.
Mississippi is one of the last states to get a new U.S. attorney nomination.
Just this week Obama nominated Gregory K. Davis of Jackson as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi, where career lawyer John Dowdy is its acting chief. Davis' nomination must still go before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
In the Northern District office in Oxford, interim leadership has come from assistants Bill Martin and now John Marshall Alexander from appointments by the District Court.
Adams earned her bachelor of science degree in 1981 from Jackson State University and her law degree in 1984 from the University of Mississippi. Before becoming an assistant U.S. attorney in 1989, she was legal counsel to Gov. Ray Mabus and a special assistant attorney general.
"Mississippi should have representation on the TVA board of directors," Cochran said when Howorth was nominated, "and Richard's understanding of Mississippi and the TVA should make him a valued member of that body."
Wicker noted that for more than 70 years TVA has played an important role in promoting infrastructure and economic development in north Mississippi and the surrounding Tennessee Valley area, with Tupelo holding the distinction as "the first TVA city."
He also emphasized that the ties between Mississippi and TVA "have been realized through representation on the TVA Board of Directors."
Tupeloan Glenn McCullough Jr. is a former chairman of the TVA board. In 2005 it expanded from three full-time members to nine part-time.
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This article describes methods for limiting the occurrence of destructive patterns in screen printing.
By Wim Zoomer
We can approximate the risk of the appearance of moiré before the preparation of the stencil. Put the frame with the tensioned mesh on a light table and put the right side of the film positive on the print side of the mesh. Any visible moiré can be reduced by rotating the film positive across the fabric. Mark the new position and expose the image after applying the emulsion.
Dot shape
Screen printing halftones causes dot gain. The amount of dot gain is equally distributed along the circumference of the dot. This phenomenon is visible when the dots just start to touch each other. The so-called double-symmetry dot gain may cause a large jump in tonal value and may be visible as moiré. A relatively high ink deposit reinforces this effect. Moiré is reduced by choosing a dot shape that differs from the square shape of the mesh openings. Round dots or elliptical dots can resolve the issue. The advantage of an elliptical dot shape is that, due to the different distance to the surrounding dots, it produces an area with a tonal-value increase without a sudden, unwanted tonal jump. Another solution is to use different dot sizes in different tonal areas to avoid the tonal jump.
Dot size
Screen printing halftones within a tonal range of 15-85% is generally feasible. However, the requirement is that the smallest printable negative dot must be larger than the sum of one mesh opening plus two thread diameters. After all, the stencil requires sufficient support to adhere to the mesh.
On the other hand, the finest positive halftone dots are printable when the dots are above a mesh opening. Halftone dots do not appear on the substrate when the dots are superimposed on single threads or crossing mesh threads. This kind of moiré, caused by regularly leaving out dots, is strongest between tonal values of 40-60%.
Halftone screen angle
If we want to avoid primary moiré, the angle between two halftones must be 15° or a multiple thereof. In theory, we can print four colors at 0°, 15°, 30°, 45°, 60°, etc. Obviously, we should check the film positives for the appearance of film-to-film moiré. The screen used in the screen-printing process requires a compromise on the printer's part to the eventual moiré effect caused by the four colors and the mesh fabric.
Yellow, the least visible color, is basically placed at the most visible angle, 0° or 90°. Next, a combination of theory and experience establishes the following sets of halftone screen angles depicted in Figure 4. To avoid printing halftones parallel to the threads and, as a result, the creation of harmful moiré, consider the practice of offsetting the screen angles. The screen angles represented in sets 2, 3, and 4 in Figure 4 are also suitable for single halftones, duotones, and more.
A thick stencil can cause moiré when printing a four-color-process graphic—especially in the dark tones, where excessive build-up of several ink deposits causes irregular relief and, as a result, deformation of the dot shape. This deformation is visible as a moiré pattern. A minimum, but sufficient, emulsion over mesh (EOM) thickness prevents many issues. A thin and smooth stencil results in good contact between stencil and substrate and, therefore, produces a crisp printed dot.
Substrates designed with surface textured can increase the chances of creating harmful moiré patterns—woven textiles, for example. We can predict and minimize the occurrence of moiré by mounting sets of film positives to the substrate. Rotating the film positives to the left or right side will reveal the problematic areas. Using the optimum angle between film positive and substrate reduces moiré between the print image and substrate.
Helpful moiré
Moiré is not necessarily supposed to be our enemy. The effect can also be helpful in identifying materials. Collect all sorts of mesh fabrics, cut samples no larger than 4 x 4 in., and mark the samples accordingly. To identify an unknown fabric, we simply put the standard sample on the unknown mesh fabric. A typical moiré pattern will form when we rotate the standard sample onto the fabric. The moiré pattern is characteristic for the two matching regular structures.
Wim Zoomer (firstname.lastname@example.com) is owner of Nijmegen, Netherlands-based Technical Language, a consulting and communication business that focuses on flatbed and reel-to-reel rotary screen printing and other printing processes. He has written numerous articles for international screen-printing, art, and glass-processing magazines and is frequently called on to translate technical documents, manuals, books, advertisements, and other materials. He is also the author of the book, "Printing Flat Glass," as well as several case studies that appear online. He holds a degree in chemical engineering. You can visit his Website at www.technicallanguage.eu.
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Screen printing presents numerous opportunities in which regular grids are superimposed. A regular grid can be a halftone-dot pattern or a set of parallel lines. Other possibilities include:
• The fabric, commonly polyester, stretched to a certain tension level on a frame.
• The image can be, among other things, a single halftone pattern. This (AM) pattern is supposed to be a regular pattern. Another image may consist of multiple halftones with the colors positioned at different angles.
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Secondary moiré, in particular, presents the greatest challenges to screen printers. Let's discuss the major causes in hopes of developing a better understanding of the moiré phenomenon.
Fabric selection
Fabric selection always depends on the printed image's requirements. In general, a finer fabric allows us to print finer halftones. A rule of thumb is that the fabric mesh count is F (= 3 to 5) times finer than the halftone screen. The ration between the fabric mesh count and halftone screen ruling should not be an integer, allowing a decrease of the moiré pattern frequency to make moiré less visible.
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With approval from the school board Wednesday night, the Scott City School District will have a new teacher evaluation system starting next fall. The Network for Educator Effectiveness system is a collaborative effort of two auxiliary units of the College of Education at the University of Missouri -- the Heart of Missouri Regional Professional Development Center and the Assessment Resource Center. It won't be fully online until fall 2014, but will be partly implemented in the spring. Superintendent Diann Ulmer says the plans this year are to find staff members willing to participate. Scott City Middle School principal Mike Umfleet tells KZIM-KSIM that changes must be made because of the "No Child Left Behind" waiver. The system requires all administrators to undergo yearly training, includes a web-based shared access platform, valid measurable scoring guides, and timely, reliable data for teacher and school-level improvement. Umfleet feels that through development of teacher skills, students will only benefit.
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Chef Tom Valenti releases a seriously healthy cookbook full of recipes created for diabetics (and guys who just want to keep carbs and sugar in check).
Mushroom Burgers
- 1 ½ large Spanish onions, minced (about 2 cups)
- 3 large cloves of garlic, minced
- 2 tablespoons dry white wine
- 1 tablespoon distilled white vinegar
- ½ cup store-bought low-sodium chicken broth
- 1 pound assorted mushrooms, such as white button, oyster, and shiitake
- 1 2/3 cups of dry, unseasoned bread crumbs
- 1 large egg plus 1 large egg white, at room temperature
- 1 tablespoon fresh thyme leaves
- 2 teaspoons Porcini Powder
- 1 teaspoon coarse salt
- ½ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 4 slices 7-grain light bread, toasted
- Optional garnishes: lettuce leaves, sliced tomato, sliced red onion
How to Make It:
- Heat a heavy-bottomed saucepan over medium heat and add the onions, garlic, white wine, and vinegar. Cook until the wine evaporates, the pour in the broth and bring to a simmer. Continue to simmer until the broth is reduced by about half, about 4 minutes. Remove the pan from the heat, set aside, and let cool.
- Put the mushrooms in a food processor and pulse to a fine dice, but not so much that they turn to a paste.
- Working in batches, put the diced mushrooms in a nonstick pan and cook, stirring with a rubber spatula, over medium heat until dry but not scorched, 3 to 4 minutes. Put the cooked, diced mushrooms in a large mixing bowl; add the onion and garlic mixture and the bread crumbs, egg and egg white,, thyme, Porcini Powder, salt, and pepper. Stir until well incorporated. Divide the mushroom mixture into 4 equal portions and shape each one into a patty. Set aside on a plate for 10-12 minutes.
- Heat 1 tablespoon of the olive oil in a wide, deep, heavy-bottomed nonstick pan over medium-high heat. Add 2 patties to the pan and cook until browned and beginning to crisp, 3 to 4 minutes per side. Repeat with the remaining 1-tablespoon of oil and patties. You can also cook all 4 patties in 2 pans simultaneously.
- Serve the mushroom burgers on the bread slices and with lettuce, tomato, and red onion, if desired.
Nutritional Information:
(per serving with bread; without garnishes)
Calories: 380
Fat: 11 g
Saturated Fat: 1 g
Trans Fat: 0 g
Total Carbohydrates: 53 g
Dietary Fiber: 5 g
Total Sugars: 7 g
Protein: 15 g
Cholesterol: 54 mg
Sodium: 983 mg
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- Be sure to read the pages on porcini powder!
- If you aren't a master chef, and don't have a huge chunk of time to create this meal, you may want to start preparing the night before
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- The patties are big enough to cut them in half and make 8 smaller ones instead of 4 huge ones. Depending on your appetite, you may wish to do this


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- a rest stop for buses filled with a conglomerate of entrepreneurial booths selling something or other amidst the dirt, smells and activity of bus passengers arriving and leaving in throngs,
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We seem to have some karmic connection with tuk-tuk drivers. The driver at Shadow asked us if we needed transportation on our first day. We declined because we had no plans for the day; we were just going to nose around. Well, we ended up doing a full day trip with another driver (more on that story). Well, for the entire week that we stayed at Shadow, the driver there would not talk to us; he wouldn't even look at us.
Returning to the story of the tuk-tuk driver we did go with…turned out while he waited for us during our boat ride, he drank himself silly. When we got off the boat, we couldn't locate him. Once we did, he was acting a bit curiously but nothing obvious. When he stopped to get a bottle of water and downed it in one fell swoop, we became a bit suspicious. The ride back to Siem Reap was a long way and not easy driving: winding, bumpy country roads, a highway then busy city traffic. About halfway, he veered off to a field to 'show us a Buddha'. Once at a 10 meter high Buddha in the center of the field, he confessed that he was completely drunk and that he had taken a kick-back from the boat driver
Jim, in his way of staying level-headed under stress being able to weigh out the risks, felt we should go with the driver but still remained calm and ready to walk if I did not want to get in the tuk-tuk. We drove safely back to our hotel with him. What's the lesson here? Do our values need to adjust given the different values and situations? Do we need to stand fast in what we believe? If we don't, do we feel like we have compromised on something important? What do you think you would have done? And notice I say 'do you think' because I surely would have answered this differently before I came here. Delicious food for thought!
By the way, during that day we saw Kampong Phluk – a floating village and forest
Temples, Temples and More Temples
Now the highlight of the stay in Siem Reap…Angkor Wat and surrounding temples! Having seen Machu Picchu and Angkor Wat within 2 months of each other has been an experience of a lifetime. They are both magnificent man-made works of art – Machu Picchu is a precise, spiritual, engineering feat and Angkor Wat is an artistically spiritual piece. However, both are clouded by histories of conquest and conflict.
Unfortunately, the crowds have such an impact on my experience that I find myself left with a sprinkling of awe at the work and history mixed with disappointment at not being able to have the experience I had dreamed of. Sunrise at Angkor Wat was a crazy mad house with throngs of people crowded together, trying to push their way to the front to get the best photo, talking and laughing loudly with vendors trying to sell their coffee, souvenirs and even chairs (to rent) for either sitting on for a rest or standing to see over the crowd. Mayhem. Sunset was similar.
We did two consecutive days of temple visiting preceded by a sick day for Jim with a cold and followed by a sick day for me with gastro issues. Back to the temples for one last day and then off to the northeastern part of Cambodia. We were not able to contact our family over the holidays as much as we would have liked; it didn't feel too much like Christmas here anyway. Regardless, we did miss everyone and hope you all enjoyed your celebrations and downtime.


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Basically, several developers were claiming that there's never a reason to set an instance variable to nil in dealloc, while others were arguing that you should always do so.
To me, there didn't seem to be a clear and compelling winner between the two approaches. I've used both in my career. However, since we're in the process of trying to decide which approach to use in the next edition of Beginning iPhone Development, I reached out to Apple's Developer Tools Evangelist, Michael Jurewitz, to see if there was an official or recommended approach to handling instance variables in dealloc.
Other than the fact that you should never, ever use mutators in dealloc (or init, for that matter), Apple does not have an official recommendation on the subject.
However, Michael and Matt Drance of Bookhouse Software and a former Evangelist himself, had discussed this issue extensively last week. They kindly shared their conclusions with me and said it was okay for me to turn it into a blog post. So, here it is. Hopefully, I've captured everything correctly.
The Two Major ApproachsJust to make sure we're all on the same page, let's look at the two approaches that made up the two different sides of the argument last week.
Just ReleaseThe more traditional approach is to simply release your instance variables and leave them pointing to the released (and potentially deallocated) object, like so:
- (void)dealloc
In this approach, each of the pointers will be pointing to a potentialy invalid object for a very short period of time — until the method returns — at which point the instance variable will disappear along with its owning object. In a single-threaded application (the pointer would have to be accessed by something triggered by code in either this object's implementation of dealloc or in the dealloc of one of its superclasses, there's very little chance that the instance variables will be used before they go away , which is probably what has led to the proclamations made by several that there's "no value in setting instance variables to nil" in dealloc.
In a multi-threaded environment, however, there is a very real possibility that the pointer will be accessed between the time that it is deallocated and the time that its object is done being deallocated. Generally speaking, this is only going to happen if you've got a bug elsewhere in your code, but let's face it, you may very well. Anyone who codes on the assumption that all of their code is perfect is begging for a smackdown, and Xcode's just biding its time waiting for the opportunity.
Release and nilIn the last few years, another approach to dealloc has become more common. In this approach, you release your instance variable and then immediately set them to nil before releasing the next instance variable. It's common to actually put the release and the assignment to nil on the same line separated by a comma rather than on consecutive lines separated by semicolons, though that's purely stylistic and has no affect on the way the code is compiled. Here's what our previous dealloc method might look like using this approach:
- (void)dealloc
In this case, if some piece of code accesses a pointer between the time that dealloc begins and the object is actually deallocated, it will almost certainly fail gracefully because sending messages to nil is perfectly okay in Objective-C. However, you're doing a tiny bit of extra work by assigning nil to a bunch of pointers that are going to go away momentarily, and you're creating a little bit of extra typing for yourself in every class.
The ShowdownSo, here's the real truth of the matter: The vast majority of the time, it's not going to make any noticeable difference whatsoever. If you're not accessing instance variables that have been released, there's simply not going to be any difference in the behavior between the two approaches. If you are, however, then the question is: what do you want to happen when your code does that bad thing?
In the first approach, your application will usually crash with an EXC_BAD_ACCESS, though you could also end up with any manner of odd behavior (which we call a "heisenbug") if the released object is deallocated and its memory is then reused for another object owned by your application. In those cases, you may get a selector not recognized exception when the message is sent to the deallocated object, or you may simply get unexpected behavior from the same method being called on the wrong object.
In the other approach, your application will quietly send a message to nil and go about its merry way, generally without a crash or any other immediately identifiable problem.
The former approach is actually good when you're developing, debugging, and doing unit testing, because it makes it easier to find your problematic code. On the other hand, that approach is really, really bad in a shipping application because you really don't want to crash on your users if you can avoid it.
The latter approach, conversely, can hide bugs during development, but handles those bugs more gracefully when they happen, and you're far less likely to have your application go up in a big ball of fire in front of your users.
The Winner?There really isn't a clear cut winner, which is probably why Apple doesn't have an official recommendation or stance. During their discussion, Matt and Michael came up with a "best of both worlds" solution, but it requires a fair bit of extra code over either of the common approaches.
If you want your application to crash when a released pointer is accessed during development and debugging, the solution is to use the traditional approach in your debug configuration. If you want your application to degrade gracefully for your users, the solution is to use the newer approach in your release and ad hoc configurations.
One somewhat pedantic implementation of this approach would be this:
- (void)dealloc
That code assumes that your debug configuration has a precompiler definition of DEBUG, which you usually have to add to your Xcode project - most Xcode project templates do not provide it for you. There are several ways you can add it, but I typically just use the Preprocessor Macros setting in the project's Build Configuration:
Although the code above does, indeed, give us the best of both worlds - a crash during development and debugging and graceful degrading for customers - it at least doubles the amount of code we have to write in every class. We can do better than that, though. How about a little macro magic? If we add the following macro to our project's .pch file:
We can then use that macro in dealloc, and our best-of-both-worlds code becomes much shorter and more readable:
- (void)dealloc
Once you've got the macro in your project, this option is actually no more work or typing than either of the other dealloc methods.
But, you know what? If you want to keep doing it the way you've always done it, it's really fine, regardless of which way you do it. If you're consistent in your use and are aware of the tradeoffs, there's really no compelling reason to use one over the other outside of personal preference.
So, in other words, it's kind of a silly thing for us all to argue over, especially when there's already politics, religions, and sports to fill that role.
The Garbage Collection AngleThere's one last point I want to address. I've heard a few times from different people that setting an instance variable to nil in dealloc acts as a hint to the garbage collector when you're using the allowed-not-required GC option (when the required option is being used, dealloc isn't even called, finalize is). If this were true, forward compatibility would be another possible argument for preferring the newer approach to dealloc over the traditional approach.
While it is true that in Java and some other languages with garbage collection, nulling out a pointer that you're done with helps the garbage collector know that you're done with that object, so it's not altogether unlikely that Objective-C's garbage collector does the same thing, however any benefit to nil'ing out instance variables once we get garbage collection in iOS would be marginal at best. I haven't been able to find anything authoritative that supports this claim, but even if it's 100% true, it seems likely that when the owning object is deallocated a few instructions later, the garbage collector will realize that the deallocated object is done with anything it was using.
If there is a benefit in this scenario, which seems unlikely, it seems like it would be such a tiny difference that it wouldn't even make sense to factor it into your decision. That being said, I have no firm evidence one way or the other on this issue and would welcome being enlightened.
After writing this, Michael Jurewitz pinged me to confirmed that there's absolutely no benefit in terms of GC to releasing in dealloc, though it is otherwise a good idea to nil pointers you're done with under GC..
Thanks to @borkware and @eridius for pointing out some issues
Update: Don't miss Daniel Jalkut's excellent response.


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Anna Wants To Escape, Pam Gets Stalked
anna shoots and scoresIt seems that the blonde with legs to there, Anna Kournikova, is having a little difficulty in the man department. That's right, ever since she broke off her engagement to Pavel Bure of the Florida Panthers, she wants to sell her $4 million estate so that she won't have to keep running into her jilted ex.
Rumor has it that she's in such a desperate bid to rid of the megapad, that she's been giving potential buyers a personal tour of the house herself. Now how's that for taking the bull by the horns?
The 19-year-old tennis babe wants to steer clear from Bure more than ever... especially now that she's sunk her teeth (so to speak) into Detroit Red Wings Russian hockey player Sergei Federov. What was once a very warm and romantic relationship with one has now become that with the other. Ah, I guess true "love" is only reserved for the tennis courts after all.
the sopranos hit thirdIt really did feel like they were gone forever, but finally The Sopranos have come back to HBO for yet another season that promises to be just as fulfilling as the first, if not more so. Fans had begun complaining that the second season of the show lacked the intensity of the first.
But hey, the ratings still didn't suffer, and they're probably not going to this year either. Hmm, do you ever wonder if the real bad boys of organized crime sit around on Monday nights and watch the show — only to discuss who's portraying who and how they should've offed so and so? Just wondering, right Tommy Tulips?
There's no denying that Italians and the like will be rushing home again this year to see what the Soprano family is cooking up this time around.
temptation island: the sequelWell it seems that the outcome of the final episode of Temptation Island was set to please critics everywhere, considering all the idiot couples stayed together. Come on, Billy saw his woman lick another man's nipples and yet he chose to dedicate his life to making her happy? Yeah, and after Shannon sees what a whiny little sap her boyfriend was on the show, she will definitely give him the "it's not you, it's me" speech. That, or Tom rejected her on the "dream date" and she felt compelled to hang on to her effeminate beau.
Anyway, apparently Temptation Island 2 is already in the works considering the first show's ratings were sky freakin' high. I can only imagine every couple at home on a Wednesday evening, discussing how fast they would dump one another if either did something like make out with another person. Isn't that right, honey?
In other news, 22-year-old Mandy Lauderdale (the skanky nipple-sucking redhead who thought that every guy that smiled at her crooked might be "the one") was offered a plum sum to pose for Play.boy magazine, but apparently refused because she wants to focus on her "singing" career instead.
So who's been stalking Pamela?


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Mr. Edgar L. Baker, 70, of Portales, died Friday, Jan. 28, 2005, at Heartland Continuing Care Center in Portales.
He was born on Aug. 27, 1934, in Portales, to Essie and Sidney A. Baker. He lived most of his life in Portales except for a brief time he was in California, and the time he served in the Army from 1957 until 1959. For a number of years he worked as the janitor and parts chaser for the local Chevrolet dealership. In the mid 1980s he went to work at Sunland Peanuts where he was employed as a janitor. He was a member of the Third and Kilgore Church of Christ and also of VFW Post 9515.
Family members said he enjoyed cars and even did some racing. He also liked to build model cars and was a good pool player, they said.
He was preceded in death by his parents; and a nephew, Bobby Givens.
Survivors include a sister, Mary Taylor (and husband, Bob) of Ramah; two nieces, Mary Kay Maloney (Bert) of Portales and Cindy Givens (Tim) of Happy, Texas; five great-nieces and nephews, Julie Pena, Jack and Melissa Maloney, Valerie Struve and Jeremy Givens; and three great-great-nephews, Anthony and Jonathan Pena and Tye Struve.
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The Weeknd promised 3 mixtapes for this year, and you got it. Check the tracklisting below, and download link as well. BTW, why are white chicks always used for these model/art styled photos
02 Montreal
03 Outside
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05 Initiation
06 Same Old Song
07 The Fall
08 Next
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Sunday, May 30, 2010
June 2009 Revisited: Kenny's Picks, pt. 1 of 3
(these are not remasters, but most shows have been level-corrected when volume was low originally.)
Clicking on the date will take you to the Phish.net page, and the numbers at the end of the taper info will take you to the Etree db page for that source.
5/31 - Telefunken USA Ela m262 (hyper) by Jesse Hurlburt (99250)
FLAC pt 1 FLAC pt 2 mp3 AAC
6/2 - Microtech Gefell M210 by M.Watson (99537)
FLAC mp3 AAC
6/4 - Telefunken USA Ela m260 (tubes) by Jesse Hurlburt (99376)
FLAC mp3 AAC
6/5 - Telefunken USA Ela m260 (tubes) by Jesse Hurlburt (99377)
FLAC mp3 AAC
6/6 - AKG 483s by Chris King (103431)
FLAC mp3 AAC
To honor the 1-year anniversary of Phish's full comeback tour, I am rolling out my picks for best AUD available for each show. I will do this in three 5-show increments, hopefully getting the next two installments up in time for the anniversary date of the first show in each group.
While many phans may not have the urge to listen back to June '09 after witnessing the undeniable progression of the band's playing and confidence level throughout the year, I thought this project was an important one for a couple reasons.
The LivePhish SBDs of this first leg were notoriously lambasted by the community as sounding woefully flat and sterile, with very little bass presence. While a big reason for this was the way new sound engineer Garry Brown was mixing the band back then, I can say from being at a couple of the shows that there was a lot more bass and a much better overall sound at the shows than the SBDs would lead you to believe. Because of all the negativity I heard about the first few SBDs, I resolved myself to the AUDs on bt.etree and did not even bother with the boards. I was happy to find that the AUDs sounded fantastic overall, with a good enough bass presence (almost too much bass presence on some sources) and a much more natural, warmer sound than the SBDs LivePhish was serving up. After eventually sampling some of those 1st leg boards, I can confirm that they are light years behind the boards of '03. The boards improved dramatically for the second leg, so I feel the colossal difference between the AUDs and SBDs from leg 1 warrant celebration of the AUDs.
On a more personal note, it was this June 2009 tour that created the passion in me for gathering and analyzing all available AUD sources for every show and choosing my favorite, or favorite two or three if it was a tough call. I would pick a certain song from each show (usually a longer track with multiple sections and volume fluctuations), and create a playlist of that song from every available source for that show. I would then listen through my headphones and jot down on pen and scrap paper my gut impressions of each source, noting pros and cons, eventually narrowing it down to fewer and fewer sources until I had my pick(s). Once I had made my decisions for each show, I would transcribe my notes onto a Word/Google document for future reference. Here are the notes I've compiled thus far for 2009. For the shows with a single source with an asterisk preceding it and no technical notes, that means it was my definite favorite source for that show. I'm sure this is more information than most of you want to know, but I felt it might help to see where I'm coming from.
Similar to my TAB Feb 2010 Tour post, these June 2009 picks are not remasters. While a couple shows could have used a little EQ love, I purposely have refrained from altering the dynamic structure at all to emphasize the point that these are some really great AUDs, and thanks to the tapers we are not stuck with those LP boards. The only thing I have changed about the files for most of the shows is level adjustments if the volume of the original track was several db's lower than the peak level. A few of these were recorded reeeeeally quiet, so I thought it would be better to have them all at a more equal level for your listening pleasure. I have added ID tags where they did not exist and attached album art, which is usually a photo from the official "Phish From The Road" Flickr page, which can also be accessed here. I have also included a separate folder within each show that has all of the photos from each show.
Just a couple quick technical notes: if you're wondering why I went with the MG m210's for 6/2 instead of the Telefunken source (which would have been more consistent with the other two nights), I just thought the m210's had a nice amount of low end which was lacking in the other sources, yet had good clarity as well. The Telefunken and, even more so, the AKG 460 source are much clearer for 6/2 but sound too bright to me...And finally, you may notice that 6/5 sounds significantly rougher due than 6/4, and that is due to the weather. It was pouring and windy, which is a bad combo for AUDs. Still sounds the best to these ears of all the sources.
Posted by Kenny Powers at 12:44 PM 3 comments
Thursday, May 27, 2010
coming up next: VA Beach 7.21.97
due to a few requests...it's a pretty darn good source already but i think i can give it some more pop :). Should be up shortly after pt 1 of the June 2009 series.
Posted by Kenny Powers at 10:25 AM 3 comments
Saturday, May 22, 2010
The Spectrum 12.29.96
Phish.net show page
Sunday, 12/29/1996 CoreStates Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA
Set 1: Poor Heart, Caravan, Cavern, Taste, Guelah Papyrus, Train Song, Rift, Free, The Squirming Coil, La Grange
Set 2: David Bowie, A Day in the Life, Bathtub Gin, The Lizards, You Enjoy Myself -> Rotation Jam -> Sixteen Candles -> Vocal Jam, Harpua -> Champagne Supernova -> Harpua
Encore: Rocky Top
Notes: Mike performed the Phish debut of Sixteen Candles solo on piano. Tom Marshall contributed the vocals to the Phish debut of Champagne Supernova as Harpua, Poster, and Jimmy were confronted by the "Über Demon" and the "evil sound of hell." This show featured the breakout of Caravan, which had been shelved since December 2, 1994 (160 shows).
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The boys sure love the city of brotherly love. Though I was at both Boston shows during the '96 holiday run and had a major blast, one could say the tapes confirm that Philly got the stronger shows. This show has been requested by a couple readers and I'm happy to oblige, as this one was a great remaster candidate.
The original source is a really nice, classic OTS pull. It has a great combination of clear and precise audio from the stage, three-dimensional crowd eruptions, and minimal distracting chatter nearby. The one glaring issue was that the track was recorded at a very low level - much like the source I used for the 11.7.96 remaster. I mean really low. I had to raise the level about 10 db's to attain peak amplitude with no clipping. After doing so, it is now easier to rock this show at an appropriate volume.
The high end was the only area of the spectrum (no pun intended) that was lacking, so I bumped that up a good deal. The low end was a tad muddy, so I tamed it a small amount for a cleaner sound. I'm pretty pleased with this sound of this one, and hope you like it!
Posted by Kenny Powers at 10:49 PM 1 comments
Friday, May 21, 2010
The Osaka Disease
6.15.00 Down With Disease (only) remaster - mp3 - 48 MB
(UPDATE - the entire show has been remastered here)
Since I haven't had the time to remaster a whole show lately, I thought I'd feature a single jam today. An amazing, all-encompassing, 28-minute DWD from the 6/15/00 show at "Big Cat" in Osaka, Japan. If you haven't heard this yet, do it now. If you have, give it another spin. Although I think the Fukuoka show bests this one narrowly as a whole, this is my single favorite jam of the entire Japan tour. Click here and scroll down to read Mr. Miner's take on this masterpiece of improvisation.
Also of note is that I have chosen to remaster a source that is not a straight AUD. This is reportedly a SBD/AUD matrix according to the Etree database source info, although some have contested that it is just a great-sounding AUD. I personally think it's a matrix because of how up-front in the mix the instruments sound and how precise the stereo panning is at times. Also, some straight SBDs at small clubs can sound like matrices because the mics onstage pick up the folks in the front of the crowd more audibly than in larger arenas/sheds...so I think some people may lean more towards thinking it's a straight AUD because of how clear and nearby the crowd chatter/clapping sounds. Anyhoo.
You may be wondering why even bother remastering a matrix. Simply, as I was listening to it I just felt the dynamic range was a little flat, especially for a matrix. Also, the levels could have been higher. After an A/B comparison I prefer my remaster easily, but your mileage may vary. I only posted a v0 mp3 version because I just wanted to get this up quickly while I had a chance...but I'd be happy to up the FLAC and AAC later if there's interest.
Posted by Kenny Powers at 8:20 AM 9 comments
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
recovery mode....
Hey everyone, just thought I'd drop a line in case anyone's wondering where the hell the next remaster is. I'm still recovering from The Hangout...boy, I've never been to a festival that was so tailor-made for drinking all day and night. There were more coozies and 16oz High Lifes than I've ever seen in one place. It was a blast, but damn I feel old. And I managed to not lose my flip-flops until the last night.
Anyway, with my recent travels and with Phish tour coming soon, my remaster output will be way down because the little spare time I have in between all this fun unfortunately needs to be spent taking care of other responsibilities. That's the double-edged sword about life in New England: the winter sucks but gives you lots of time to work on shit like this, and the summer kicks ass but is so busy because it's so damn short.
But rest assured, I will bang a few out whenever I get the chance. I'm working on a couple sizeable multi-show projects, and my next post will be a bit different: a single song/jam remastered. Thanks for all the requests...I have received more than I can possibly get to, but I will try my best!
cheers, KP
Anyway, with my recent travels and with Phish tour coming soon, my remaster output will be way down because the little spare time I have in between all this fun unfortunately needs to be spent taking care of other responsibilities. That's the double-edged sword about life in New England: the winter sucks but gives you lots of time to work on shit like this, and the summer kicks ass but is so busy because it's so damn short.
But rest assured, I will bang a few out whenever I get the chance. I'm working on a couple sizeable multi-show projects, and my next post will be a bit different: a single song/jam remastered. Thanks for all the requests...I have received more than I can possibly get to, but I will try my best!
cheers, KP
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Tuesday, 09/14/1999 Boise State University Pavilion, Boise, ID
Set 1: Chalk Dust Torture, The Sloth, The Curtain > Waste, Loving Cup > What's the Use?, Wading in the Velvet Sea, Farmhouse, Nellie Kane, Taste, Rocky Top
Set 2: Peaches en Regalia > AC/DC Bag > Gumbo, Down with Disease > Frankenstein
Encore: Simple, Hello My Baby
Notes: Peaches was played for the first time since February 28, 1997 (161 shows). This long AC/DC Bag featured Trey on keys and Fishman on vacuum for part of the jam. Gumbo included an Another One Bites the Dust jam. Fishman again grabbed the vacuum for Frankenstein and quoted One of These Days.
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My goodness, the boys were locked in this fateful Tuesday night in Boise. After a varied and well-played first set, they threw down the gauntlet from the start of Peaches through the end of Gumbo. There is just some serious full-band improv going on here, spanning from sublime ambience to triumpantly soaring rock to endorphin-throttling funk. We've all come to know and love the way our heroes channel their myriad influences and bring us a decidedly Phishy take on them. Sometimes they attempt to emulate various bands and styles to a precise degree, and what we get is Phish doing their best Earl Scruggs or Bob Marley or Frank Zappa or Stevie Wonder musical impersonations...which is of course awesome, but is still Phish. But from 6:55 until 10:03 of Gumbo, Trey IS James Brown's rhythm guitarist. It's just straight-up dirty, and I don't want a napkin.
Anyway, this is a really, really nice FOB Schoeps mk4v source. It might be one of my favorite arena AUDs ever. However, with no tweaking and as with many '99 and '00 AUDs, this one was heavy on the low end and in need of increased clarity. I almost scaled the bass back a little more, but Mike sounds so thick and juicy while maintaining a well-defined sound that I decided against reducing his frequencies any more than I did (which wasn't much).
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A graphic designer called Giedrius recently wrote to me from Lithuania, telling me that he had created the symbol above to represent "being here and now – the idea of mindfulness." He said:
This is an open source symbol that can universally represent mindfulness. It can also work as a reminder that can help people to be aware of the present moment.
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Chegg.com Welcomes Rob Chesnut as General Counsel 0
Summer isn't just for relaxing – at Chegg, we're keeping the engines running and business moving smoothly. As we've been doing steadily over the past few months, we're once again adding to our management team to help us keep the textbook rental trains running on time! And, just because school is out for summer, it doesn't mean we aren't hard at work improving our deals on cheap textbooks for college.
Today, we're delighted to welcome Rob Chesnut, our new General Counsel, to Chegg! Rob is on board to help us manage all our corporate affairs and legal relations, as we continually grow our business and bring you textbooks for cheap. His hire comes at a great time, with thousands of you gearing up for the back to school rush to rent textbooks. With previous experience at awesome companies like eBay, Rob is a perfect addition to our team.
You'll be hearing a lot more from us after the holiday weekend, so until then, keep on Cheggin'!


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Rugby bosses have backed their man, sort of, following the first genuine flashpoint of the Rugby World Cup.
The International Rugby Board said the match officials, led by referee Wayne Barnes, followed the correct protocol when deciding Wales' fullback James Hook's penalty attempt had not passed through the posts during their one-point loss to the Springboks.
"The referee may consult the assistant referees or the television match official if he is unsure as to whether a penalty kick, drop goal or conversion has been successful," the IRB said.
"During the match in question, the match official team felt at the time that there was no need to consult the TMO following a Wales penalty kick as they were confident that the kick was not successful."
The IRB's response, however, has added more weight to those who believe that under the circumstances - when many felt the kick to have been successful - Barnes should have engaged TMO Matt Goddard.
Herald columnist Kelvin Deaker said he had looked at the incident closely and even if it had been referred to Goddard, there was no way he could have overturned the on-field decision.
The person best positioned to make the decision was assistant referee Vinny Munro, who was in charge of the right-hand post.
"While it looks as if it could have sneaked just inside the line of the right upright, it was above the height of the posts so there was no way on that evidence the TMO could conclusively identify when the ball passed by the upright to overrule the decision," Deaker said.
That stance was backed by All Black great Grant Fox, who thought the ball may have moved left after it had passed the posts, giving the optical illusion that it had passed through.
Fox said the posts should be higher.
"That would have determined [the kick] really easily," he said.
The kick has provided the tournament with its first real controversy, as Wales were desperately unlucky not to beat the defending champions.
Inflaming the situation was Warren Gatland's claim that the Springbok fullback Francois Steyn admitted in the tunnel at halftime that Hook's kick had gone over.
Hook, who also missed a late chance to win the match with a penalty, said he knew he had kicked it over and it would have made sense for Barnes to consult Goddard.
Gatland, too, felt the decision should have been passed upstairs, but had the sense to acknowledge there were other moments in the match that proved just as - if not more - pivotal in the loss.
Those included a fumble close to the line when they led 16-10 and a missed drop-kick from in front by first five-eighths Rhys Priestland.


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TUESDAY, November 22, 2011 (Health.com) — That morning cup (or cups) of coffee may do more than just kick-start your day. Women who habitually drink several cups of coffee per day over the course of years or decades may be less likely than their peers to develop cancer in the lining of their uterus, a new study suggests.
Researchers at Harvard University analyzed data on 67,470 women between the ages of 34 and 59 who were followed for about 26 years. Compared to women who drank little or no coffee, those who averaged four or more cups per day had a 25% lower risk of developing endometrial cancer, and those who drank two or three cups per day had a 7% lower risk.
Although the study, which was funded by the National Institutes of Health, doesn't prove that drinking coffee was directly responsible for reducing cancer risk, the researchers say a cause-and-effect relationship is plausible. Coffee drinking has been shown in previous studies to lower levels of insulin and estrogen, and chronically high levels of both hormones have been linked to endometrial cancer, the study notes.
The researchers urge coffee drinkers to hold the cream and sugar, however. Whatever benefits coffee may have on insulin levels would almost certainly be negated by the added calories and fat, which could contribute to insulin resistance and weight gain, they say.
Edward Giovannucci, MD, a professor of nutrition and epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health, in Boston, led the study. The findings, which were published today in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, add to a growing body of evidence that indicates coffee may offer more benefits than harm when it comes to health—and not just cancer health.
In recent years, studies have linked coffee consumption to a lower risk of liver cancer and lethal prostate cancer, as well as a lower risk of depression, type 2 diabetes, Parkinson's disease (mainly in men), and cirrhosis of the liver. Research in mice even suggests that coffee may help protect against the brain changes associated with Alzheimer's disease.
It's not entirely clear how drinking coffee might improve health, but caffeine seems to be only part of the picture, since studies on decaffeinated coffee have turned up apparent health benefits as well. (In the new study, decaffeinated coffee appeared to lower the risk of endometrial cancer, but the researchers had too little data on decaf-only drinkers to reach any reliable conclusions.)
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Don't Irk The Influencers: The Power of Klout
A word that didn't exist a few years ago. Now, you can't look at an analytics or metrics blog without hearing the word pop up. According to Klout.com, "The Klout Score is the measurement of your overall online influence. The scores range from 1 to 100 with higher scores representing a wider and stronger sphere of influence. Klout uses over 35 variables on Facebook and Twitter to measure True Reach, Amplification Probability, and Network Score.
True Reach is the size of your engaged audience and is based on those of your followers and friends who actively listen and react to your messages. Amplification Score is the likelihood that your messages will generate actions (retweets, @messages, likes and comments) and is on a scale of 1 to 100. Network score indicates how influential your engage audience is and is also on a scale from 1 to 100. The Klout score is highly correlated to clicks, comments and retweets."
In other words, Klout is a quantifiable score that tracks how much people care about what you say. As an "influencer" (why people follow my random tweets about nothingness with the occasional reference to food, web analytics, travel, cupcakes, yoga and running is beyond me, but thanks for finding me entertaining and/or interesting), you are the proverbial voice that is heard above the noise online.
A quick snapshot of how Klout is building momentum:
As Klout gains popularity, they've partnered up with brands to identify influencers and build brand awareness with programs like Klout Perks, a program that boasts "special treatment for influencers," which sounds like a huge win for brands-influencers get exposure to a new product or company and in return they'll get some social buzz-tweets, a facebook post, maybe a blog here or there. Sounds great, right?
What happens when the "special treatment" becomes a customer service issue? Here is my personal interaction with Klout and why, as a marketer, I would never trust a marketing or loyalty program to an outside source.
I was given a Klout Perk with Popchips (see an example of the program going on in New York now). It was awesome-I got an @ reply on twitter from Klout Perks and signed up for my snack pack and gifted the perk to five of my friends. I filled out the appropriate information, paid it forward to my best friends, and checked my mailbox with anticipation. As the weeks went by, I started feeling like the last kid picked at kick ball and wondering if I had been forgotten. A couple of correspondences later, Klout Perks said they were in hot pursuit of my chips and they'd fix the situation ASAP.
A month later, I am chipless in Boston and while it's not really Popchips fault (I assume that since they haven't responded at all to my tweets that this entire initiative is being handled by Klout Perks), I've got a sour taste in my mouth, which I can only attribute to a lack of tasty Popchips in my presence. If I were the social media manager (or marketing manager) for Popchips, I'd want to ensure that the brand integrity was being upheld and I would have stepped in to help even if it wasn't under my umbrella of responsibilities. As a marketer, I would never trust another company with my brand's image or my potential (or current) customers. It's hard enough to retain customers and build loyalty when you're actively cultivating relationships with your customers without handing them over blindly to an outside source that isn't accountable for the success of a marketing initiative or well-versed in your brand's vision and practices.
A friend of mine, Jeff Esposito (@jeffespo on twitter), also received the Popchips promotion and had a great experience, so the system isn't entirely flawed. There is definitely room for improvement, but by the looks of this video, when Klout Perks runs smoothly, it's a rewarding experience. Klout Perks and Popchips. Klout, Popchips, was it something I said?
I know beggars shouldn't be choosers, but for future reference, don't irk the influencers.
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Summer Reading List: Los Angeles
Long days, beach weekends – summer's here, which means there's plenty of time to catch up on some reading. W asked four of our favorite bookstores for their best sellers and top picks on what to peruse between now and Labor Day.
Book Soup may be the only spot on the Sunset Strip where agency bigs and struggling actors actually inhabit the same space, at the same time, for more than a few seconds. The reason: the bookstore's eclectic mix of titles and speakers, who range from Ed Ruscha to RuPaul. "Our bookstore is not, like, whatever sells on The New York Times best-seller list," says buyer Tosh Berman. "Our store is almost an alternative universe to a lot of other book stores." Berman gave us a peek inside.
"Just Kids" (Ecco) by Patti Smith is doing incredibly well here. For our clientele it's a classic book. Another great book is "Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris" (W.W. Norton & Company), by Graham Robb, which describes key moments in Paris's history, from Napoleon to Sarkozy. Another book is "Dennis Hopper and the New Hollywood" (Flammarion), which is basically about Hopper's taste. It's a really nice catalogue of his world. "A Splendid Conspiracy" (New Directions Publishing) by Albert Cossery is fascinating. It's about three Egyptian characters who have a slightly erotic adventure in Cairo.


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The oh-so-appropriate strains of Madonna's "Material Girl" float out of a shop. While you wait for a cappuccino, a pretty fashionista asks who designed your handbag.
That's downtown Walnut Creek, where North Main Street overflows with designer threads, deluxe consignment shops, and diverse eats.
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Singer Chris Brown was arrested on charges of assault over the weekend after fighting with an individual at the entrance to the hotel in Washington where he was staying, police said.
The 24-year-old Brown had given a concert at Howard University hours before his arrest early Sunday.
Brown got into an argument with a man and supposedly attacked him at the hotel entrance, police said.
One of the singer's bodyguards was also arrested.
The arrest could have legal consequences since Brown has been out on parole since being sentenced in 2009 for attacking his girlfriend at the time, the singer Rihanna.
He had another run-in with the law last July for unduly leaving the scene of a traffic accident and driving without a license. EFE


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Britney Spears has just released the music video for her latest song off her Femme Fatale album, Criminal. The new vid features Spears and her real-life beau Jason Trawick in a modern day Bonnie & Clyde adventure, and we have to say it is extra steamy!
Related Article: Britney Spears Hits 10 Million Twitter Followers!
Brit-Brit released a series of .GIFs during the days before the release of the racy video, giving fans the chance to try and piece together the plot of the video which was directed by Chris Marrs Piliero and shot in London last month.
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The 29-year-old pop princess took to Twitter to release the video, saying, "Ladies & gents, I'm excited to present to you the video for one of my favorite songs off of Femme Fatale. Enjoy… http://bit.ly/q8FGid -Brit"
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It's official, the Ohio State football team finally started its highly anticipated 2012 season. Even though things started slowly for the Buckeyes, they woke up in the second quarter and ended up putting a thumping on the Miami of Ohio Redhawks.
While there are still many uncertainties about this young Buckeye squad, here are 10 things that we learned from today's season opener.


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TUCSON, Ariz. — Polly Klaas. Elizabeth Smart. Megan Kanka. The names are synonymous with a parent's worst nightmare: a child snatched by a stranger from the safety of her own home.
Now, police in Tucson, Ariz., are trying to determine what happened to 6-year-old Isabel Mercedes Celis. Her parents say they awoke on Saturday to find her missing. Police said a window was open with the screen pushed aside.
While officers are investigating all possibilities in her disappearance, experts say, abduction from the home is relatively rare, with just over 18 children taken each year.
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Sleep apnea is a common breathing disorder that affects millions of people. Your throat has muscles that hold open your airway and allow you to breathe in and out. If you have sleep apnea, those muscles relax too much while you're sleeping. This makes the airway close. Your brain notices this, and wakes you up so you'll start breathing again. If this happens a lot, you won't sleep well, and you could feel sleepy and unable to think straight during the day.
Sleep apnea is serious. It can increase the risk for, or worsen, some medical conditions, and increase the chance of having an accident at work or while driving. In some cases, these effects of sleep apnea may be bad enough that your doctor will consider surgery to solve the problem.
The most common signs of sleep apnea are loud snoring, choking or gasping during sleep, and being very sleepy during the day. You may also wake up with headaches or a dry throat, and have trouble concentrating during the day.
Many people never know for sure if they have sleep apnea. Doctors usually can't detect it during routine office visits, and there are no blood tests for it. Most people who have sleep apnea do not really know it because sleep apnea only occurs during sleep.
Doctors diagnose sleep apnea by asking you questions about your medical history and your family's medical past, and performing a physical exam. Your doctor may also want to order a "sleep study" in which your breathing and sleep patterns are monitored.
The goal of treatment is getting you back to having regular breathing during sleep. Your doctor may recommend lifestyle changes such as losing weight or changing your sleeping position. He or she may also prescribe a mouthpiece that helps keep your airway open, or a breathing device that pushes air down your throat into your lungs. In cases where these other treatments don't work or if you have large tonsils, your doctor may want to send you to a surgeon to try surgery to fix the problem. It's important to keep in mind that no surgery works for everyone, and all have possible side effects.
The alignment of the bones and tissue in the jaw, mouth, and throat can cause sleep apnea. The most common surgical options rearrange, reduce, or totally remove the tissue in the throat that is blocking your airway while you sleep. This tissue can be in the soft palate, which is at the back of the roof of your mouth; the uvula ("that little thing that hangs down in the back of your throat"), your tonsils and adenoids, which are in the back of your throat; or your tongue. There are also surgeries to correct the alignment of the bones in the mouth, nose, and face. There is also a new treatment that stimulates your tongue muscles to prevent collapse in the throat.
Surgical treatments for obstructive sleep apnea include:
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Telltale Making Game of Thrones Game
The VGX Awards have been and gone, but the announcements they made linger on. For example, how about Telltale's Game of Thrones? How about, yes please!
Telltale Games are going to have a very busy 2014, considering they have The Walking Dead Season 2, The Wolf Among Us, a Borderlands game called Tales From the Borderlands (also announced at VGX) and now their very own Game of Thrones game.
As you can see in the above trailer, the tentative release date is just 2014, so don't start holding your breath. I personally wouldn't be surprised if it was Winter 2014, similar to The Walking Dead Season 2 this year, which will be released December 17. And you can't pass up on the opportunity to make a "Winter is Coming" joke.
While a lot of VGX was a bit of a let down, this announcement is all I need to make me excited. Suddenly I have a most anticipated game of next year, and all we know about it is… Well, nothing really.
In this interview during VGX, Dan Connors readily admits that they aren't sure what direction the game will be taking, or even what characters will appear.
Telltale Games have been on somewhat of a hot streak lately, becoming one of the greatest developers around. Here's hoping they can keep that up. They better…
Are you a huge Game of Thrones fan? Or are you a Song of Ice and Fire fan (word to my literary bros out there)? More importantly, are you looking forward to this game?
And remember guys, the night is dark and full of terrors.