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#26012 - 04/10/01 10:52 AM Re: marshmallow -sweet tooth
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and its the season for my favorite marshmallows-- peeps-- little marshmallow birds covered in yellow sugar (think of it, a sugar foam candy, covered with cyrstal sugar! sugar on the outside and on the inside!)
I can usually pass on most marshmallows-- but peeps-- i could inhale! My kids used to wonder why they never got them in there easter baskets-- i could pass on chocolate (yes, i know i sound less than human when i say that) but no matter how many peeps i bought-- i manage to eat them all before the holiday-- and then bought all the left over ones at 50%, and devoured them!
#26013 - 04/10/01 11:06 AM Re: marshmallow Peeps
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Posts: 3439
Loc: New England, USA
Oh yes! Peeps ... those little yellow, marshmallow, baby chick shaped, mouthsfull of sugar overload yummyness!
Race you, Helen!
#26014 - 04/10/01 12:04 PM Re: marshmallow
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re: and its mucilaginous qualities make it useful in treating internal inflammations and healing mucous membranes.
In the post above this (the one above the quoted one!--flat mode) i suggested that Marshmallow plants formed a sort of gelatin... and Fiberbabe uses the word based on mucilage--which is a gelatinous substance from plants-- (which some how differes from pectin, an other jelly like plant substance... )
Do these words reflect a basic chemical difference or some difference in texture that i am not aware of?
are marshmallows "Gummy" like okra? or is there a whole world of words for the vicousness in food-- (point here is not the food, but the words to describe it.)
and are there other words?
is gelatin animal based? and what about the gelatin from "birds nest soup"-- the gelatin that lines the nest of certain sea swallows, is this a gelatin
#26015 - 04/10/01 04:05 PM Re: marshmallow
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Posts: 13858
"is gelatin animal based?" Yes, it is made by boiling skin, bones, horn, hooves. My father would not have Jello on the table, as he had heard of its being made from horse and cow hooves.
mucilage,pectin, and carrageenan are all plant products.
#26016 - 04/10/01 06:07 PM Re: marshmallow -sweet tooth
Registered: 12/14/00
Posts: 544
Loc: San Francisco, CA
As to peeps, those odd little confections - I have heard of a rather unorthodox activity carried out with the little beasts - peep jousting.
Apparently, peeps swell hugely and wildly when subject to microwave radiation. So, some stalwart soul selected a brace of peeps, armed them with toothpicks (by poking them into the peeps), placed them facing each other, but at a respectful distance, inside a microwave oven, and fired it up. The peeps are said to bob and weave as they swell up, giving the appearance of doing combat with each other.
The Peeps corporate representatives, when asked about such behavior, had little to say on the matter, but did suggest that if it contributed to the sales of peeps, they were all for it. I think they recognize that, aside from the lovely Ms. of troy and a handful of other folks deficient in the evolutionary traits which allow an appreciation (nay, a madness) for chocolate, nobody really eats peeps - they're just for decoration in an easter basket.
And with that, my 200th post, I move from member (which makes me feel like I belong here, and have achieved some sort of recognized status) to enthusiast (which seems somehow a demotion).
#26017 - 04/10/01 06:43 PM Re: Easter Baskets
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"decoration in an easter basket."
Easter Baskets can be fun for the kids, but do any of you remember when kids "hung" May Baskets as a surprise for their mothers? I haven't heard of it for a long time.
#26018 - 04/11/01 05:41 PM Re: marshmallow -sweet tooth Anonymous
I think they recognize that, aside from the lovely Ms. of troy and a handful of other folks deficient in the evolutionary traits which allow an appreciation (nay, a madness) for chocolate
i believe what Hyla meant to say was that only a select handful of us have evolved beyond the primal craving for chocolate.
nobody really eats peeps - they're just for decoration in an easter basket.
i beg to differ ~ peeps rock. yum, yum. the wonderful thing about peeps, too, is that even though they get all hard when they're stale, if you wait long enough they get mooshy again. ditto for lucky charms.
in case anyone feels the urge to know the preferred method for enjoying a peep, i found this gem:
Q: What's the correct way to eat a Peep? My husband insists it's bite the head off, then the butt, then stuff the middle in your mouth.
A: There's not really a correct way, but there is a preferred way. According 1998 surveys by MSI International and International Communications Research (ICR), 60 percent of consumers eat Peeps head first. And if that's not grizzly enough, 40 percent stretch the neck out before the fatal chomp. No statistics on butt and belly biting, but 10 percent admit, actually admit, they stuff more than one whole Peep in their mouth at once.
#26019 - 04/12/01 07:54 AM Re: marshmallow -sweet tooth
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Loc: rego park
Oh yes-- first you must de capitate them! (after all, as R crumb said--" The head is the best!") and then the rest. No particular order for the body- it really depends on whether or not it's an end peep or a middle! --
I'll take your word on the stale one B96-- mine never stay around long enough to get stale!
(mean while, AnnaS, i have been doing real word stuff over in the Q & A section.... and not just food fun!)
#26020 - 04/12/01 08:02 AM Peeps
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I currently have a silly little Peeps screen-saver dancing around on my computer-- if any of my fellow Peeps enthusiasts want to check it out, they can go here:
The site also includes a look at how Peeps are made, among other strange and wonderful things.
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The Bronx district attorney's office is no longer prosecuting people who were stopped at public housing projects and arrested for trespassing, a stop-and-frisk tactic widely used by the New York Police Department.
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The alleged victim's injuries were not serious enough to be transported to the hospital. Worcester Police Department Sgt. Donald E. Cummings, who was working a detail at the time, made the arrest around 1:30 a.m. based on witness statements and the fact that the woman showed signs of having been struck in the face.
Regele, who was off duty at the time of the incident, has been suspended until further notice from his job as a part-time police officer in Holden, where he has worked for the past four months, Holden Police Chief George Sherrill said. As a part-timer, Regele would not be paid unless he is working, and is therefore without pay while under suspension. He will not be working shifts or details while under suspension until the case is settled. The suspension went into effect Friday.
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Is A Woman's Rejection Always Final?
reader's questionHey Doc,
I need you to straighten me out on something.
When a woman says "no," does it always really mean no? I'm not talking about intimacy here. I'm simply referring to asking a girl out on a date . In the past, I've had girls decline or pass up the opportunity only to accept a date later on. Some of these girls weren't even involved with someone else, but my suspicion was that they said no just to be difficult, and eventually they gave in (and it turned out that they wanted to do it all along).
I recently asked Greta out. We know each other from the club scene. She told me that she's really busy and trying to get her life together (whatever that means), so she couldn't go on a date with me. However, she has flirted with me, danced with me, and also given me outright hints as to where she's going to be on certain nights.
My approach after getting blown off is to continue talking to her whenever I see her, but not mention going out for the time being. Frankly, I'm waiting for her to give me a big signal on her own. I figure that if she wants to go out, she'll make it obvious, and then I can go forward.
Doc, my question is this: why do some women decline dates even though they aren't going out with anyone else? I'm talking about situations where the woman shows at least some interest but then declines when you ask her out. (I'm not talking about women who simply think you're repulsive.) Is it the chase that these women want? Or is it maybe that they think you're a player and just looking for a one-night stand, and the only way for her to find out if you really like her is if you come back for more and stick with it?
I understand your theory that annoying a woman will only get you a restraining order, but we're talking about a woman who declines but continues to send out positive vibes. What's your take on this? Obviously some women decline but really want you, or they reconsider — I've seen it happen.
One last thing. Any hints on how I should handle Greta? Thanks in advance.
Richard — who can't figure 'em out
doc love's answerHi Richard,
Can't figure 'em out, huh? Boy, that's the understatement of the year.
Hey, Rich — why in the world would you ask a woman out a second time after she's already turned you down the first time? That's what you should really be asking yourself. Usually when a woman says no, she's less apt to be interested in you, much less ask you out, than a woman who's never asked you out or hasn't already rejected you. Right? Or am I missing something here?
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The Department of Interior announced yesterday that it's moving forward to open offshore oil and gas exploration off our Mid- and South Atlantic coastline.
To determine where it's best to drill, oil companies first use dangerous high-pressure air guns and other seismic exploration methods up and down the Atlantic coast.
Imagine blasting dynamite in a neighborhood every 10-12 seconds for weeks or months on end. Now imagine that you can't see, and depend on your hearing to feed, communicate and just about everything else you need for survival. That's the situation whales, fish, and other marine wildlife are facing.
"Today's announcement is great for petroleum companies, but horrible news for our coastlines and a potentially deadly blow to ocean fisheries and wildlife. It's yet another reason why we need to break our dangerous addiction to oil-not find more ways to feed that addiction," says Frances Beinecke, President of Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).
Michael Jasny, Senior Policy Analyst for NRDC says:
Airgun noise is loud enough to mask whale calls over literally thousands of miles, destroying their capacity to communicate and breed. It can drive whales to abandon their habitat and cease foraging, again over vast areas of ocean; closer in, it can cause hearing loss and death. The latest science from NOAA and Cornell shows that endangered North Atlantic right whales - which calve off the coast of Georgia and Florida - are especially vulnerable.
And the concern isn't just about whales. For years, fishermen in other parts of the world have complained about loss of catch when seismic comes around - and for good reason. Norwegian researchers have shown that airguns dramatically depress catch rates in commercial fish by as much as 40-80%, depending on the fishing method. Again the impact area can be huge: roughly the size of Rhode Island for a single seismic survey.
Green technologies that would substantially cut the environmental footprint of airguns in many areas can be available for commercial use in 3-5 years or less. Yet the administration is opening the floodgates now, in areas it doesn't even intend to consider for leasing until 2017. Industry has already applied to run hundreds of thousands of miles of trackline from Delaware south through Florida, blasting all the way.
We can't boom-and-drill our way to lower gas prices. But we can destroy our oceans trying.
In coming months, the Department of Interior will hold public hearings on this issue.
Last November, President Obama announced his 5-year plan for offshore drilling. It's hard to understand why this seismic exploration is necessary given that his plan says the Pacific and Atlantic coasts would be off-limits to drilling.
The plan satisfies neither the GOP - which wants much more widespread drilling - or the environmental community - which points to the Gulf spill as evidence that there is no safe offshore drilling in deep waters.
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- Too early to tell freeze damage
- Some crops could be severely damaged
- Replanting may be one option
Forage update
Leonard Lauriault is a forage agronomist at NMSU's Agricultural Science Center at Tucumcari, slightly northwest of Clovis. He reported that soil temperatures only dropped to 24 degrees Fahrenheit in his area, where there was some insulating snow cover. He thinks alfalfa in most of the state is less susceptible to cold than in some other areas because the winters tend to be dry and the soil tends to be more alkaline and high in potassium.
Rick Arnold, a weed science expert and superintendent of the Agricultural Science Center at Farmington in the far northwest corner of the state, predicts the alfalfa and winter wheat grown there will be fine but the fate of winter canola is less certain. Their region is more used to extreme cold than many other parts of the state, though, so the varieties farmers choose are probably better suited to survive extreme cold.
Arnold's colleague Kevin Lombard is a horticulture specialist at the Farmington science center. He reported all of the grape vines he checked after the storm had at least survived. A later random check of his vines suggested minimal damage; he was finding a lot of green cambium. He said a hard freeze in late spring is typically more of a threat to grapes than mid-winter cold. And he echoed what most other experts have said, that it is too early to assess much of the potential damage to established plants, including grapes and fruit trees. "I'll know more this spring when bud break occurs," he said.
Shengrui Yao is a fruit specialist based at the Sustainable Agriculture Science Center at Alcalde, north of Santa Fe near the Rio Grande. She reported that the peach flower buds both there, where the temperature dropped to -11.3 degrees Fahrenheit, and at the Agricultural Science Center at Los Lunas south of Albuquerque, were badly damaged by the freeze. The evidence includes the brown/black color of the buds she discovered when she cut them open. She said apricots were also damaged, but not as badly as peaches and that "flower bud survival of sweet cherries and tart cherries is much better than peaches." Apple buds seem to have escaped damage from this storm. Yao recommends that growers check their flower buds before pruning or do the pruning late when the season starts.
Yao is also involved in research on berries and reported the freeze probably caused some cane damage to blackberries.
Will the intense early February cold spell help reduce the populations of insect pests? Tess Grasswitz, an integrated pest management specialist based at the Agricultural Science Center at Los Lunas, said, "It's anybody's guess. What tends to knock them back the most is not one or two short periods of intense cold, but cycles of cold alternating with significant warming. They become active during the latter periods and start to metabolize stored fat. If that happens often enough, then they have fewer reserves to get them through any subsequent cold snaps."
Is there good news? It seems clear that things could have been worse. And the timing of the storm was obviously beneficial to some of the state's crops, such as chili peppers and cotton, which have not yet been planted.
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Sergio Martinez cleaned the clock of Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., but one great rally in the final round for Chavez Jr. has the promoters clamoring for a lucrative rematch, according to Ryan Burton of Boxing Scene.
For 11 rounds, Martinez put on the best performance of his career in a boxing clinic complete with amazing flurries and vicious lefts from awkward angles that brutalized the pretty babyface of 26-year-old Chavez Jr.
In the 12th and final round, Martinez got caught with a powerful straight right and went down for the count after further aggression from Chavez Jr.
With unsteady legs, Martinez continued to slug it out with Chavez Jr. in what became the longest 40 seconds in recent boxing history as fans jumped off their couches yelling for either the bell to hurry up and ring or for Chavez Jr. to jump on him and finish the job.
Ultimately, Martinez survived and won the unanimous decision. Though Chavez Jr. had a great final round, it does not make a great case for a rematch.
Martinez would likely be better challenged elsewhere, but it's hard to imagine a better paycheck at middleweight than the one he made facing the Mexican money printer that is Chavez Jr.
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great thread, I didn't know if I could believe everyone saying they are trying to trade thanks for the confirming
Can you link me?
Mike D'Antoni supported David Lee, saying he would "love" to coach him next season but admitted Lee is the subject of trade talks. Unrestricted free agent Beno Udrih of Sacramento, Golden State restricted free agent Monta Ellis and Raymond Felton are their top point guard targets, but that may be shooting too high, considering the Knicks' new cap restrictions. Trade options include the Bulls' Kirk Hinrich and Memphis' Mike Conley and Kyle Lowry. D'Antoni doesn't consider Nate Robinson a true point guard.
Don't you guys love how D'Antoni is honest, straight up and gets to the point? Getting an answer from Isiah is like stealing a plate of rice of beans from me
Isiah is the devil. He is a slick tongue with a sharp smile(no homo) that people just believed without question. I'm scared rightt now because, the biggest lie the devil ever made was to convince the world he didn't exist. Keep an eye out for evil Isiah.
Let's...Go...Lottery! Let's...Go...Lottery!!! Say it with me Knicks fans!
This is what I want to do,This is our plan.From day one that is what you have heard from Walsh and Dantoni no double talk no selling you dreams no saying we are gonna have to reavaluate and let you know.Straight up this is our plan Like it dont Like it this is what we plan to do to get this team back in the right direction.As a fan you cant ask for much more no sarcasim no treating us like we dont understand knowlegable thinking.Isiah treated the fans the city and the pride of the Knicks like **** thats why I dont knock Walsh or Dantoni all you can ask from a man is to be straight up and not to say one thing and laugh behind your back when they do another.So until Walsh or Dantoni do something like that I respect and support them and as Knick fans even if you dont agree with the direction they go with certain things you can not knock them until they fail.
And can someone please tell me why every time I post something that goes against one of the old timers on this site it gets removed from the top threads on the board.Its like the 5th time its happened and if its done intentionaly please let me know so I can stop wasting my ****ing time and find a site that doesnt mind when you go against one of there company guys.
of the before mentioned point guards that the knicks are targeting none really impress me
the only guy i would consider trading for is conley
i mean we are offering a 2 year deal to duhon who can fill in till we get a guy to be a leader on the team but none of the guys mentioned can control a game or lead a team....
even with conley i think i would add another player like a crawford or something and ask for a first rounder
All I really heard D'Antoni say was that Lee is a great player and that he would love to have him on the team next season.
I dont recall him saying anything about trades being made other than Lee.
D'Antoni draft pick forces the Knicks to trade one or two of the Knicks SF this offseason.
Which Knick SF will be traded we dont know yet.
The Nets SF/PF-Nachbar is willing to accept the MLE from the Knicks, his offense and defense is better than Q.Rich & Jefferies put together but he like to push the ball off of all his defensive-rebounds like Balkman.
If the Knicks had planned on picking up FA Nachbar than they did'nt have to let D'Antoni make that sorry 6th Lottery draft pick for Gallinari.
i just realized it's pretty sad when the last couple days of trade rumors+draft are more exciting then this whole last seasons of Knicks basketball


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There's no need for surreptitious glances to make sure nobody's looking as you pocket a green-and-black pen at the local Huntington branch office.
That's what they're there for.
The Columbus-based bank has given away more than 14.7 million pens — and counting. If laid end-to-end, they would stretch from Columbus to Denver with a few to spare.
"The pens are very much part of our rebranding efforts," said David Clifton, Huntington's chief marketing officer. So go ahead, he said, take a few ... but not a dozen.
"People know what's appropriate," Clifton said.
The rate of pen giveaways is growing every month and shows no signs of slowing.
Huntington gave out 60,000 pens in May 2010, the first month of the pen promotion.
The monthly number was up to 620,000 this May.
"We had no idea it would take off like this," Clifton said, adding that Huntington's approximately 700 branch offices order more pens as they need them, in black and blue ink.
The bank's goal is to give away the equivalent of one pen to everyone in every household in the vicinity of its 700 branch offices in Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia and Pennsylvania.
This adds up to about 35 million people — and pens, Clifton said.
"We're only three years in," he said. "It might take a decade."
The plastic-and-ink symbol of Huntington's overall rebranding strategy is joined by a $70 million renovation of its branches, as well as the introduction of customer-friendly services such as a 24-hour grace period for overdrafts and asterisk-free checking.
"What would a welcoming bank do?" Clifton said of the overall strategy.
For one thing, it unchains its pens and gives them away by the millions, he answered.
The bank's approach wins praise from at least one local marketing expert.
"They did it in the right order," said Bill Faust, the chief strategy office of Ologie, a Columbus branding company.
"They trained their people, redesigned their branches and changed their policies, with the message of being more welcoming," he said. "The pens are a great reminder of that."
And this reminder seems to be multiplying exponentially.
"It's a running joke here, that if anyone sees one of the pens (outside the banks), they take a picture of it and we posted it on our Facebook page," said Joel Hoover, director of development for Leaderpromos.com, the Columbus company Huntington hired to produce them.
The pens are no joke to Leaderpromos.com. The Huntington order, Hoover said, is by far the biggest pen purchase in the company's history.
"We've had a few orders in the hundreds of thousands and one or two around a million," he said. The company employs about 80 in Columbus and said its 2012 revenue was about $20 million.
Clifton and Hoover declined to say how much the pens cost to manufacture.
A similar pen on the Leaderpromos.com website is listed for sale at 66 cents with a minimum order of 5,000, which is less than Huntington gives away every day.
"Our price is much lower than what you see on their website since we order them by the millions," Clifton said.
And they're a one-of-a-kind pen designed for Huntington and made in China.
"We made custom molds and had the manufacturer make a large volume of molds so they could run a lot at a time," Hoover said.
The barrels of the first batch were too thin and "the point wiggled when you used them," Clifton said. Since tweaked, the pen's barrel is now thicker, and the glue that holds the pieces together is stronger.
Other banks have not leapt into the pen giveaway practice to the extent Huntington has.
JPMorgan Chase does not give away pens at its local branch offices, said spokesman Jeff Lyttle.
PNC does give out pens at its branches "upon request from our customers," said spokesman Craig Friedman, adding the bank does not track the number. (What it does track is a different giveaway — a multimedia school-readiness kit for preschoolers called Grow Up Great. A total of 2.6 million have been given away, he said.)
Meanwhile, Huntington keeps giving out pens and Leaderpromos.com keeps making them.
"At any point, there's 2.5 million pens here," Hoover said, referring to the Leaderpromos.com warehouse near Port Columbus. "Right now we have 1.6 million with blue ink and 1.4 million with black ink ..."
Initially, Huntington branches ordered pens with black ink 70 percent of the time, but the blue ink ones have gained traction and it's now about a 50-50 split.


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Proof of the Power Rule
Let be a irrational number. Let be a rational sequence with .
We get a sequence of functions .
Now we are to prove that , so that .
There is a theorem saying that:
If 1: ,
2: uniformly converges at ,
3: converges at at least one point ,
then .
we know that for every x, ,so 3 is true.
1 is clearly true.
Now we only have to show 2.Let
let , it suffices to show that
Let , then
We have .
so ,the second inequality is true since is uniformly continous on .
So ,we are done..
So tough a proof...
Or, if you first prove that the derivative of ln(x) is 1/x, starting from , take the ln of both sides: ln(y)= r ln(x).
Now, differentiating both sides with respect to x, . Multiply both sides by y: .
That's easier than ynj's proof but requires first proving that the derivative of ln(x) is 1/x as well as the chain rule.


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What If: After six months had passed from the first proposal/letter and Elizabeth received another proposal from a gentleman of modest means, one she knew from childhood, and she said yes?
Summary: Elizabeth accepts a childhood friend's proposal, knowing she was fond of him, but not in love. She accepted for mercenary reasons, knowing she could no longer hope for Jane to make a good match when she was still so obviously in love with Mr. Bingley. If only she had known Darcy and Bingley were right around the corner! But how was she to know they would show up at Longbourn looking to court the ladies who stole their hearts?
- That Darcy worms his way into Longbourn as Bingley's companion and doesn't give up even though Lizzy is very off the market.
- Darcy's possessive, jealous side. It's hot. Like burn your sheets up, hot. Favorite quote coming up.
- That Lizzy learns her own heart and is willing to risk all for her own liberty and happiness.
- That Lizzy has a deeply valid concern for refusing Darcy when he proposes again (pg 147 for those who care to know)… and that Darcy figures out how to get around Lizzy. (Love how Mr. Bennet uses Mrs. Bennet to advantage, bwuahaha!)
- That Darcy has a rival!
On the Other Hand:
- Of course Mr Covingon is not much of a rival. He's a valid choice for marriage with a comfortable home, quazi gentry, a land owner, a farmer, good to his mother, interested in Lizzy, etc. But he lacks passion, depth, and his interest can't stand up to reputation breaking scandal. He may have Lizzy's hand but her heart is not such a sure thing.
- The awful petnames. "Best beloved?" What's wrong with a simple "Darling" or just plain Elizabeth or Lizzy?
Favorite Quote:
Darcy was silent as he wrestled with his own demons. He had never intended it to go so far; he knew full well that he would have taken her if she had not asked him to stop. His toying with her responses at the end, provoking her and demanding verbal submission to replace the physical one he craved, revealed an uncontrolled part of himself he had always harshly repress. But, by God, it had been gratifying to hear her say she wanted him, and to see her helplessly entangled in the pleasure he was giving her. There was, he thought, less of the gentleman and more of the predatory tiger in him than he cared to admit… (page 208)
The bolded part is my doing – it's also my favorite part of the quote. Seriously hot, and I do mean hot! Love it!
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The 2013 Solheim Cup finishes up in Parker, Colorado, on Sunday, with Team USA needing an unprecedented comeback in singles matches to avoid losing the event for the second time in a row.
Team Europe has a commanding 10.5 to 5.5 lead in the standings, courtesy of a dominant sweep in the four-ball session that ended Saturday's action. The Europeans need only 14 total points to retain the trophy, while the Americans need to storm back just to make the outcome respectable.
Below is a general overview of the points and how they have fluctuated on a day-to-day basis, followed by a recap of what happened Saturday at Colorado Golf Club.
|Day 1
|Day 2
|Day 3
Day 2 Recap
|Team USA
|Team Europe
|Europe, 2 & 1
|Morgan Pressel & Jessica Korda
|Anna Nordqvist & Caroline Hedwall
|USA, 1 Up
|Stacy Lewis & Paula Creamer
|Azahara Munoz & Karine Icher
|Brittany Lincicome & Lizette Salas
|Catriona Matthew & Caroline Masson
|Michelle Wie & Brittany Lang
|Suzann Pettersen & Beatriz Recari
The United States team of Morgan Pressel and Jessica Korda was 1 Up through 13 holes before letting the match slip away. Anna Nordqvist and Caroline Hedwall stormed back down the stretch, winning three of the next six holes to put a European flag on the board.
Nordqvist ended the match in dramatic fashion with a hole in one on the par-3 17th hole.
Great picture showing Anna Nordqvist's reaction to her historic Solheim Cup hole-in-one. pic.twitter.com/tKrHI1t97H— Sky Sports Golf (@SkySportsGolf) August 17, 2013
Stacy Lewis and Paula Creamer also suffered a similar fate for the Americans. They were 4 Up through 10 holes when Azahara Munoz and Karine Icher began to mount a comeback. They fought back to even with four holes to play.
Luckily for Team USA, Lewis and Creamer were able to pull out the victory by winning the final hole with a birdie. Two early defeats would have been crushing to a team already playing from behind.
The Americans did allow a half-point to get away in the morning's third match. Brittany Lincicome and Lizette Salas took the lead on the second hole and kept the red, white and blue flag on the board all the way until the final hole when Europe squared the match.
Catriona Matthew and Caroline Masson won each of the final two holes to earn a draw for the Europeans.
It was the United States who pulled off the comeback in the final Saturday foursomes match. Michelle Wie and Brittany Lang were down two at the turn, but won five of the next holes holes to earn another full point for the American squad.
While it was ultimately a successful session for Team USA, winning 2.5 of four possible points, it could have easily been a clean sweep. Instead, Europe was able to salvage the session and maintained its overall lead, which stands at 6.5 to 5.5 after the morning rounds.
|Team Europe
|Team USA
|Europe wins 2 Up
|Jodi Ewart & Charley Hull
|Paula Creamer & Lexi Thompson
|Europe wins 1 Up
|Azahara Munoz & Carlota Ciganda
|Gerina Piller & Angela Stanford
|Europe wins 2 & 1
|Caroline Hedwall & Caroline Masson
|Michelle Wie & Jessica Korda
|Europe wins 1 Up
|Beatriz Ricari & Karine Icher
|Cristie Kerr & Morgan Pressel
Source: www.solheimcupeurope.com
That momentum generated from staving off a sweep in the morning certainly translated well to what happened in four-ball.
The first match was headlined by a battle between two of the most gifted teenagers in recent memory in women's golf. The USA's Lexi Thompson and opponent Charley Hull, all of 18 and 17 years old respectively, put on a show on the front nine:
Charley Hull and Lexi Thompson each make four birdies on front nine. They are a COMBINED 35 years old. #SolheimCup— Ron Sirak (@ronsirak) August 17, 2013
Ultimately, the tandem of Thompson and Paula Creamer loss 2 Up after conceding the final hole. Creamer was in a fairway bunker on the par-five 16th, but elected to take a fairway wood and smash it onto the green in two.
When an impressive two-putt for birdie squared the match, it was time for the teens to take center stage again.
After Thompson stuffed her approach to the subsequent par-three, Hull hit it even closer. Thompson failed to convert; Hull buried it. Unfortunately for the Americans, it was a sign of things to come.
Angela Stanford is a seasoned veteran like Creamer in the Solheim Cup, but she lost her sixth consecutive match overall with partner Gerina Piller. It was essentially up to Piller to get it done down the stretch, but she failed to convert several golden opportunities.
A missed birdie putt on the 17th proved costly with the match all-square, as Carlota Ciganda drained a birdie on the next hole to win with former Arizona State teammate Azahara Munoz 1 Up.
Despite the best efforts of captain's pick Michelle Wie, who birdied the 16th hole to extend the match, she suffered her first loss of the 2013 Solheim Cup at the hands of Caroline Hedwall and Caroline Masson.
Cristie Kerr and Morgan Pressel fought to the end in their match, digging out of a 3 Down deficit after 10 holes, only to come up short. A birdie on 18 wasn't good enough to earn the half point, and it was a fitting end to the dominant display by the Europeans.
It looks as though this will be a year of unwanted firsts for Team USA at the Solheim Cup.
Never has the U.S. lost twice in a row, nor lost when hosting the event. No team has ever come back from more than two points down entering the final day to win, so the Americans have their work cut out for them to say the least.
Day 1 Recap
Team USA's bid to win back the Solheim Cup in 2013 got off to a rough start on Friday morning, as the European side won three of four matches in foursomes at Colorado Golf Club to take a 3-1 points lead.
If not for clutch putting from captain's pick Morgan Pressel, the United States could have posted a goose egg in the early going. However, the 25-year-old came through in the alternate shot format—she and partner Jessica Korda defeated Catriona Matthew and Jodi-Ewart Shadoff 3 and 2.
The rest of the matches ended well in Europe's favor. Below is an overview of the early results:
|Team Europe
|Team USA
|Anna Nordqvist & Caroline Hedwall
|Stacy Lewis & Lizette Salas
|Europe wins, 4 & 2
|Suzann Pettersen & Beatriz Recari
|Brittany Lang & Angela Stanford
|Europe wins, 2 & 1
|Catriona Matthew & Jodi Ewart-Shadoff
|Morgan Pressel & Jessica Korda
|USA wins, 3 & 2
|Azahara Munoz & Karine Icher
|Cristie Kerr & Paula Creamer
|Europe wins, 2 & 1
Source: solheimcupusa.com
Paula Creamer and Cristie Kerr had never lost as a tandem in the Solheim Cup, but poor work with the flatstick cost them a chance at victory, which Creamer alluded to on the Golf Channel telecast after the match.
Momentum is always huge in this impassioned battle, which is essentially the women's equivalent of the Ryder Cup. Given how formidable a duo Creamer and Kerr have been, Golf Digest's Ron Sirak suggested the loss was akin to handing the Europeans two points:
Biggest surprise of morning session is relatively easy win by Munoz-Icher over Creamer-Kerr. Almost like winning two points.— Ron Sirak (@ronsirak) August 16, 2013
Even though this is Creamer's fifth Solheim Cup, captain Meg Mallon made it known that she would stick with the hot hand. Mallon sat the veteran in the afternoon, per Golf Channel's Jay Coffin:
Paula Creamer will sit this afternoon. Can't imagine that was the original plan.— Jay Coffin (@JayCoffinGC) August 16, 2013
The fact that Pressel sat too was a bit surprising given her strong form in the morning, but Coffins suggests that Mallon may be pushing all the right buttons.
Who will win the Solheim Cup?
The tandem of Brittany Lincicome and Brittany Lang defeated Anna Nordqvist and Giulia Sergas 4 and 3 to give the Americans a much-needed victory. With their teammates struggling and the Europeans showing no signs of slowing down, Lincicome and Lang brought the overall score back to 3.0-2.0.
A rejuvenated Michelle Wie helped to continue that momentum for Team USA, teaming with Kerr to take down Catriona Matthew and Charley Hull 2 and 1. The Americans needed that point, as they fell into a deep hole and may not have been able to recover without it.
Wie and Kerr have become Team USA's day one heroes.
Unfortunately, more American superstars struggled, as Stacey Lewis and Lexi Thompson lost to Suzann Peterson and Carlota Ciganda. The European squad defeated Team USA 1 up, fighting off a furious mid-round rally by Lewis and Thompson to extend Europe's edge.
To make matters worse, Caroline Hedwall and Caroline Masson defeated Gerina Piller and Angela Stanford 2 and 1 to give Europe yet another win. The victory gave the Europeans 5.0 points on the first day and a comfortable lead.
Team USA has an uphill battle from here on out.


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Retrograde tracing
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Retrograde tracing is a research method which is used in neuroscience to trace neural connections from their point of termination (the synapse) to their source (the cell body). The opposite technique is anterograde tracing, which is used to trace neural connections from their source to their point of termination (i.e. from cell body to synapse). Both the anterograde and retrograde tracing techniques are based on the visualization of the biological process of axonal transport.
The anterograde and retrograde tracing techniques allow the detailed assessment of neuronal connections from a single population of neurons to their various targets throughout the nervous system. These techniques allow the "mapping" of connections between neurons in a particular structure (e.g. the eye) and the target neurons in the brain. Much of what is currently known about connectional neuroanatomy was discovered through the use of the anterograde and retrograde tracing techniques.
Retrograde tracing can be achieved through various means, including the use of viral strains as markers of a cell's connectivity to the injection site. The pseudorabies virus (PRV; Bartha strain), for example, may be used as a suitable tracer due to the propensity of the infection to spread upstream through a pathway of synaptically linked neurons, thus revealing the nature of their circuitry.[1][2]
Another technique involves injecting special "beads" into the brain nuclei of anaesthetized animals.[3] The animals are allowed to survive for a few days and then euthanized. The cells in the origin of projection are visualized through an inverted fluorescence microscope.
A specialist technique was developed by Wickersham and colleagues, which employed a modified rabies virus. This virus was only capable of infecting a single cell, and only capable of jumping across 1 synapse; this allowed the researchers to investigate the local connectivity of neurons.[4]
- ^ O'Donnell, P., Lavín, A., Enquist, L. W., Grace, A. A., Card, J. P. (1997). Interconnected Parallel Circuits between Rat Nucleus Accumbens and Thalamus Revealed by Retrograde Transynaptic Transport of Pseudorabies Virus. Journal of Neuroscience. 17: 2143-2167.
- ^ Luo, A. H., Aston-Jones, G. (2009). Circuit projection from suprachiasmatic nucleus to ventral tegmental area: a novel circadian output pathway. European Journal of Neuroscience. 29: 748-760.
- ^ Katz, L. C.; Burkhalter, A.; Dreyer, W. J. (1984-08-09). "Fluorescent latex microspheres as a retrograde neuronal marker for in vivo and in vitro studies of visual cortex". Nature. 310 (5977): 498–500. doi:10.1038/310498a0.
- ^ Wickersham IR, Lyon DC, Barnard RJ, et al. (March 2007). "Monosynaptic Restriction of Transsynaptic Tracing from Single, Genetically Targeted Neurons". Neuron. 53 (5): 639–47. doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2007.01.033. PMC 2629495. PMID 17329205.


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TRENTON, N.J.(CBSNewYork) — A costly decision made in the hours leading up to Superstorm Sandy has been pinned on a mid-level manager at NJ Transit.
A move that placed rail cars in low lying spots in Kearny and Hoboken resulted in more than $120-million in damage when surging flood waters filled the rail yards, The Bergen Record reported.
Governor Christie spoke with the paper's editorial board earlier this week and said that the move had not been vetted all the way up the chain.
The paper uncovered a chain of emails regarding the movement, one of which NJ Transit Executive Jim Weinstein confirmed receipt of, WCBS 880's Jim Smith reported.
But, the Sierra Club's Jeff Tittel isn't buying it.
"Instead of being like Harry Truman where the buck stops here. It seems that the governor keeps passing the buck and coming up with new stories," Tittle said.
WCBS 880 had not received a response from NJ Transit on Saturday. The governor's spokesman said that the employee had been disciplined.
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Wi-Fi models shipping in late March // 3G models shipping in April // UK pricing to be announced.
BBC should respond ASAP to this.
"Charging is an attempt to replicate an old business model in a profoundly changed media economy that is no longer built on scarcity—on publishers' control—now that everyone can publish. The new link economy rewards openness and collaboration."
What utter, utter drivel.
Amen to this: "The decline of news is not about the platform; it is about whether people value the news they get on a platform. No gadget or magic business model will turn around the news business simply by making it easier to read or pay for news."
Save The Music Industry – Buy A Subscription – In The NME Office – NME.COM – The world's fastest music news service, music videos, interviews, photos and free stuff to winMakes a fair point – there will come a time when fans have to ask whether they want to support music or not…
The list is quite staggering.
thebusinessdesk remains a really interesting site and model. Why can't it work?
"Beehive City is the internet blog of Dan Sabbagh and friends. Dan was media editor of The Times for five years. His latest recruit is Adam Sherwin, The Times's media correspondent for much of the same time."
"Also I remember that pick-up pictures of people involved in scandals or tragedies were very valuable to the nationals. Now national reporters just have to lift them from Facebook pages."


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20 June 2009
That's right. I didn't even like Heat, the consensus pick for Mann's best film, and one of the most highly-praised crime pictures of the modern era. A film that I knew I probably ought to love, given the kinds of people who tend to love it and the reasons they tend to give for loving it, but for which I had simply no use. It had been a very long time since I saw it - the first half in class in 2000, the whole thing in 2001 - and I've changed much in my tastes since then, and I wondered if maybe the time had come to revisit it with my newer, better perspective. And do I thus like it more? Hmph, like I'm going to spoil the ending.
Heat was first made after the second three years of absolute silence in Mann's career. In 1992, The Last of the Mohicans had been his biggest film yet, both in terms of the production's size and the box office returns, and perhaps this gave him pause. At this moment, he had as much clout as ever in his career: more than during Miami Vice, more than after The Jericho Mile turned him into the hot young director to watch. What he did with that clout was to return to the one great missed opportunity of his career, the screenplay for a grand crime saga that he'd cut down into such a cheap, careless botch with the 1989 telefilm L.A. Takedown, and do it up right this time. And so he did in 1995, making a film infinitely greater in its ambitions, its scale (two hours, fifty-one minutes), its budget (the largest of his career to that point, at an estimated $50 million), even its cast: in an ensemble featuring hardly a single person who wasn't famous or on the road to future fame, Heat managed the incredible coup of pairing, on-screen together for the first time, Al Pacino and Robert De Niro, two of the biggest icons of the 1970s, or indeed of cinema altogether.
To the chronological student of Mann, such as we are here, the most obvious thing about the film is that it's shockingly close to L.A. Takedown, not just at the most basic level of plot, but in many passages of dialogue and even in some camera setups, allowing for the fact that L.A. Takedown was framed at 4:3 while Heat luxuriates in the grand old anamorphic 35mm aspect ration of 2.35:1. The chief difference between the two (other than that Heat renames the main criminal from Patrick McLaren to Neil McCauley, the real-life inspiration for the character) is that Heat has a much larger canvas to cover, at 1.75 times the length of its little cousin, and so it presents a much more expansive, "epic" if you will, narrative, focusing not just on the basic story of how a bank robber named McCauley (De Niro) and a cop named Vincent Hanna (Pacino) were alter-egos, opposite numbers in a pas de deux around Los Angeles, but expanding to notice the lives of many characters around them, giving greater emphasis to Hanna's wife (Diane Venora) and introducing his stepdaughter (Natalie Portman), but exploring in far greater depth several of the men in McCauley's crew, particularly Chris Shiherlis (Val Kilmer), whose strained marriage is brought front and center, making him the third branch in the story's treatment of how men in this lifestyle can possible manage to keep a personal life.
Of course, thinking of it as an "expansion" is missing the point: L.A. Takedown was a contraction and bowdlerisation, and it showed in every rushed moment and abbreviated conversation indifferently thrown in front of the camera. Heat is undoubtedly better than its forbear in nearly every possible way, for the simple reason that Mann was making the story the way he'd wanted to in the first place, and doing so with a level of care never previously seen in his films, though Mohicans and Thief especially were awfully controlled and careful movies.
And that's why it makes me so sad, embarrassed, and upset to come clean and state that, though I tried my very damnedest, I still don't love Heat (though I like it quite a lot more) - and for the exact reason that it's so vast and rich and full of so many characters with intricate backstories. Frankly, I think it's too long, by a good 40 minutes, and too detailed by at least three characters. Or, it's too short by at least an hour, and underpopulated by at least three characters.
As I see it, there are multiple stories that Heat's basic concept could engender: the story about a cop and a robber who play off each other like mirror images (this was L.A. Takedown); an epic story about the lives of criminals, exploring the backstories of several different thieves and murderers in detail; that epic story, but about the lives of cops; or a gigantic, operatic mishmash of all of it, with several cops and criminals studied in great detail, with two men at the center of it all, jousting like gods against the background of the sprawling city. The problem with Heat is that it wants to be the first and second of these, except that they're not meant to be combined. As I see it, here is the film we have: two opposing characters at the center, their lives looked at like bugs under glass, and several other criminals, their lives looked at with much less detail, mainly to study they ways that they are ultimately not like Neil McCauley. It is absolutely, undeniably the case that McCauley is the most important of the criminals, mind you, but the attempt to make some of them - notably Chris, as I mentioned before - important characters, but not that important that they become co-leads, leaves an unresolved imbalance: is the film about McCauley and Hanna, or a tapestry about the criminal life? And if it's both, why? More importantly, why aren't any of the cops besides Hanna given the same study that McCauley's crew is? Like I said, add an hour, making the cops just as important and interesting as the robbers, and you have an unimpeachable movie. Take a healthy chunk away, removing all the backstory from Chris and Donald (Dennis Haysbert) and so forth, but leave enough so that the story has more room to breathe than it did in L.A. Takedown - in particular, leave all of the stuff about Hanna's family, which is fantastic despite Venora's weak performance and Mann's customary lack of interest in writing strong female characters - and you have an unimpeachable movie. The Heat that we got, to my way of thinking, is too long for the story it appears to be telling, and much too full of extraneous deadwood. I found myself antsy for it to get moving by the two-hour mark, if not frankly bored - a damning criticism, if imprecise.
But what do I know? I would have been delighted out of my mind for the 201-minute Jeanne Dielman to be twice that length, and indisputably, less activity happens in that whole film than in any given ten minutes of Heat. So it's all in the eye of the beholder, I guess.
Setting this quibble - all right, it's much more than quibble, it's a conceptual argument with the entire thesis of the film, but one that I know most people will disagree with - and we do, certainly, have just about the most accomplished film of Mann's career, from a craftsmanship standpoint. It is perhaps cinematographer Dante Spinotti's masterpiece, for a start: the inky blues of the city at night sing with an abstract poeticism not seen in the director's films since Thief, though where that city reduced Chicago to an indeterminate Everywhere, Heat could only possibly take place in Los Angeles - the city is as important a character as anyone, perhaps more so. L.A. Takedown tried for a similar goal, but failed entirely: it's cheapness worked against it, or perhaps just the filmmakers' revulsion at that cheapness. Besides, L.A. Takedown was trying for a '70s-style "gritty urban realism" approach, whereas Heat suggests the mood and feel and consciousness of L.A. without urgently trying to capture its specific look: it is perhaps the filmed version of how Los Angeles sees itself in its dreams.
And in Heat also do we find the very best setpieces of any of Mann's films, just after Mohicans proved that he could "do" action: the opening armed car robbery, and the mid-film bank heist even more, are immaculate mini-movies that aren't quite as extraordinary as the similar scenes in Thief, but nevertheless capture the detail of how to commit a robbery with directness but also a certain level of formal abstraction that makes them almost more arty than thrilling. But neither of them are a patch on the shoot-out following the bank heist, the one scene I clearly remember loving from all the way back in 2001: edited to remain just on this side of coherent, the sequence manages to evoke at the same time sheer violent anarchy of guns blazing on all sides at once, with the rigid professionalism of men who know how to move from place to place under fire. Whatever else is true of the movie's reputation, this one scene surely is among the most perfect action sequence in any American film of the 1990s.
I've gone on long enough, and shot far enough past my self-imposed deadline, so I'm going to try to wrap this up quickly. Heat, I feel, is the quintessential example of a film that's less than the sum of its parts: every frame is directed with the greatest precision - this could almost make it seem over-fussy, but then, Mann is not a filmmaker given to looseness and improvisation - and nearly every performance is note-perfect - only an overacting Venora, and a stone-faced Tom Sizemore really fell flat for me, although Pacino was right on the cusp at some times (his ("Awful Ham" period had already started, and would quickly become his default mode within just a couple of years) - and every scene works so well individually, if two or three stretch on just a wee bit (especially the very last confrontation between Hanna and McCauley); and when you throw it all together, the result is a slow-moving, overburdened, well-meant and at times quite entertaining slog. There are scenes as good as anything else in the whole history of the crime film, and yet overall, I am curiously unmoved. But at least I no longer actively dislike Heat - indeed, I actively like it now - let us see what happens in another eight years.
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- Neil Fulwood said...
Although I love 'Heat' unashamedly - it's probably a photo-finish for my second favourite Mann film after 'Thief' (gawd bless my old VHS copy of the theatrical cut - no stupid speeded-up footage to detract from its brilliance) - I have to say that you've insightfully and articulately pinned down the essential problem of the film.
I remember critics at the time of its release either buying in wholeheartedly to the 'Heat'-as-existential-crime-movie school of thought, or dismissing its visual stylisations as attempts at cod-intellectualism.
I think this is Mann's great flaw as a filmmaker: his talent for the detailed mise-en-scene or visceral set-piece is always struggling with his predilection to the cerebral approach, the longueurs of contemplative filmic space.
Christ, that sounds pretentious, but I hope it makes sense. It's kind of like, for Mann, his craftsmanship is the id and his intellectualism the ego. This was certainly the kiss of death in 'Miami Vice' where the whole thing was so po-faced bloody serious when what it called for was sports cars, rock music and a cathartic cutting loose in the action scenes.
Looking forward to your take on 'The Insider', which I featured in my personal faves project recently.
- dfantico said...
In total agreement with Neil, I can hardly wait to read your take on The Insider, oscar bait or not, I loved every minute of it.
- Jeanne said...
EVERYTHING About this movie is why they call it the Miracle movie HEAT! Michael Mann did a brilliant job in all aspects on this one!!


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Fruit will be flying at the Albion College Equestrian Club's first annual Pumpkin Chunkin' contest Friday, November 2 at the Held Equestrian Center, located 1/4 mile south of the intersection of 29 Mile Road and Albion-Concord Road in Albion. Setup begins at 4:30 p.m., with a 5 p.m. launch.
According to Equestrian Club member Alyssa Olson, "pumpkin chunkin'" is the sport of launching pumpkins with team-built catapults. Although complicated catapult plans are available on the Internet, Olson stressed that their competition is focused on fun. "Two sticks in the ground with an exercise band works great," she said. "We want this to be something kids and families can get involved in."
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This is an article for adding a mailbox inside your existing Outlook Profile. For adding another mailbox as a separate profile (where you will be prompted when opening Outlook to choose a profile) please see How do I add a mailbox in Outlook as a separate profile?
Purdue Calumet has recently migrated to Exchange 2010 which gives users better ways to manage their account and mailboxes in Outlook Web Access. Although this has been available in the desktop client for some time, this is a new feature for the Web Access client. The steps below will show you how to add another mailbox in both the Outlook Desktop and Outlook Web Access clients.
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1. In Outlook, choose the File tab, then the Info section (this should be the section you see by default). Choose Account Settings, then Account settings, again.
2. On the Account Settings window, choose the Data Files tab. Select your primary mailbox in the list (it will most likely have your name) and click the Settings... button.
3. In the Settings window, choose the Advanced tab and then click the Add... button.
4. In the Add Mailbox window, type in the name of the mailbox you want to open and click OK.
Note: If there are several mailboxes that match the name, you will be presented with another window asking you to pick the correct mailbox.
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1. Right click your mailbox name (most likely your own name) and choose Open Other User's Inbox… from the menu that appears.
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3. The email address will resolve and display the mailbox name. Click OK again.
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Dubai – United Arab Emirates, October 2 nd 2011: the Etisalat XGames - the World Game Championship (WGC) announced yesterday the winners of the fourth season of the most competitive video game event (WGC) in the UAE which was launched earlier this year at the American University of Sharjah. More than 11,000 gamers participated in the tournament which took place in seven different locations across the UAE over the past six months, and yesterday best five gamers were selected at the Mall of Emirates to formulate the UAE national team that will represent the UAE at the 2011 World Cyber Games – WCG Grand Finals in Korea.
For the past three years, the UAE national Team has been participating in the World Cyber Games – WCG in Germany, USA and China, and this year the winning team will travel to Korea in December to be part of the very competitive e-sports festival. Earlier this month the organizers of the Etisalat XGames - the World Game Championship (WGC), INDEX Conferences & Exhibitions Organisation Est. had organized the World Game Championship in Kuwait for the first time to select the gamers for the Counter Strike (1.6) team. A tournament was held in at the Discovery Mall in collaboration with Eclipse Gaming Cafe which was broadcasted on a national TV in Kuwait.
Yesterday, the organizers announced the names of the UAE National Team that will represent the UAE in the WCG finals in Korea. Ahmed Abdul Qader Albanna form Dubai, Abdulla Ahmed Alnekhailawi from Sharjah, Ibrahim Mohamed Almuaini from Sharjah, Abdulla Mohamed Almarzooqi from Sharjah and Hamad Ahmed Almansoori from Al Ain made it to the finals.
This year, more than 2000 gamers participated in the tournament from the UAE and the Gulf Region starting from the American University in Sharjah, then the Escape Gaming Cafe and the Flamingo Gaming Cafe. Moreover, the GameHolics and Impulse teams participated at the biggest Counter-Strike tournament in Spain known as GameGune.
The Etisalat XGames - the World Game Championship (WGC) 2011 featured three PC games; Counter Strike 1.6, Pro Evolution Soccer 2011 and Super Street Fighter 4 where the grand prize was 18,000 AED. The winning team of Counter Strike 1.6 will compete with the best Counter Strike (CS 1.6) teams from Europe, Asia, North America, and South America.
The World Cyber Games - WCG is the world's first "Cyber Game Festival", designed to build a healthy cyber culture where best gamers from all over the world will gather into different cities to share the excitement and fun of the game tournaments. This year, the grand final will be hosted by Busan Metropolitan City, South Korea and elite gamers from all around the world including UAE will flock to the Busan Exhibition & Convention Center (BEXCO) this December to compete for the title of world's best gamers.
According to ABI's research's latest study "Gaming in the Cloud", the worldwide online gaming market is projected to grow to $20 billion by 2012. The Middle East is currently seen as the next booming gaming market which is estimated at $10 billion. This includes also the mobile phone market and PC platforms overwhelming advantage. The region has more than 75 million people using the internet including Turkey, the Middle East and North Africa while Facebook by itself hold more than 55 million users, and is forecast to grow five-fold to 250 million by 2015. In addition, approximately 60 percent of the demographic in this region are under the age of 25, thus the young people representing gaming markets are very remarkable.
The Etisalat XGames - the World Game Championship (WGC) has been tagged as the most anticipated video game tournament in the region and is a proud partner of the Dubai World Game Expo – which is the largest computer games exhibition in the region scheduled from 30 November – 3 December 2011 and organized by INDEX Conferences & Exhibitions Organisation Est. -Member of INDEX Holding. Mr. Paul Wilson, Director of INDEX Conferences & Exhibitions Organisation Est. said: "We are very excited to partner with the World Cyber Games - WCG. Our attendees hunger for video games and the WCG will provide fans with the best of the best. The WCG UAE National Final is a unique event that we are honored to host.
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Cooperation fueling Bellaire vehicle purchase
BELLAIRE – Bellaire Police Chief Mike Kovalyk is still looking for that raise for his officers.
The department has received just one raise in the last decade.
The village's current financial state dictates that a bump in pay isn't likely to come to fruition any time soon.
However, Kovalyk and his department have been reaping the benefits recently of inter-governmental cooperation between the village's police and water departments, along with the court system in Belmont County.
Kovalyk, along with Village Administrator Dan Marling, announced a deal the two had in the works in relation to the selling and subsequent purchase of a new cruiser of the police department.
Instead of going outside village government to try and fetch a reasonable price of sale for one of the police department's older Ford Crown Victoria cruisers, the water department is going to purchase it.
The department needs a new vehicle for the meter reader.
So while the "miles per gallon" rating of the Crown Vic may be more than the other vehicles Marling was considering for purchase, he'll gain the piece of mind knowing the usage and maintenance history of the PD's cruiser.
"We had another vehicle in mind and it was more efficient fuel-wise," Marling noted. "But knowing the history of the cruiser, even though it will take a bit more gas, in my opinion, that vehicle has been well taken care of.
"We know the longevity we'll be able to get out of it."
Marling said he's trying to implement a fleet management system so that when the police department gets done with a particular vehicle, it can move down the line to different departments. When the vehicle's capital worth is depleted, it can head to the junkyard.
"Another bonus is that we're keeping the money in-house," Kovalyk added.
The cost of the purchase will be $5,500. Council approved the sale with a 6-0 motion in favor.
Kovalyk said there will be a meeting Wednesday to discuss putting together specifications for the new cruiser.
- In February, Kovalyk announced that Eastern Division Court and Judge John Vavra agreed to assist the Bellaire Police Department, along with other department's in the county, by agreeing that any law enforcement agency in the county transporting arrestees on outstanding warrants to the county jail will receive $20 in transportation costs.
In the last month, the other courts in the county fell in line.
Judges Frank Fregiato and Eric Costine from Northern and Western Division courts, along with Mark Costine from the juvenile court, agreed to similar fee structures for all county departments.
It's not a large sum of money. However, it goes a long way into paying for fuel costs and vehicle maintenance that area departments incur picking up people on outstanding warrants and transferring them to St. Clairsville.
"I want to thank Judge John Vavra for taking the lead, as well as judges Frank Fregiato, Eric Costine and Mark Costine. We should start seeing some results soon after the mechanics are worked out on how we'll be paid," Kovalyk said.
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Pilgrim Lutheran School's Annual Jog-A-Thon is Just around the Corner
Pilgrim Lutheran School (PLS) will be holding its 3rd Annual School Jog-A-Thon on Friday, October 5th.
"The money raised last year helped purchase much needed programs and supplies for our school," said Chris Herold, Principal at PLS. "We added classroom supplies, a K-8 Art Literacy Program, Rocket Math Program for K-6, Raz-Kids program for K-6, and ELMO document cameras and projectors in each classroom which display 3-D objects and text from a book or worksheet to the whole class."
"Students are raising money by collecting flat pledges," noted Sheri Kaetzel, PTL President. "On the day of the jog-a-thon, students will run for a SUPER FUN 20 minutes. It's great to see their competitive spirit and energy every year."
All pledges are tax deductible, and donations of cash, checks made payable to PLS and PayPal are accepted through the children or the school office.
"One thing to consider too is that many companies match at least 50% of donations," noted Sheri Kaetzel. "Donors may need to fill out a form through their Human Resources Department, but we'll take care of the rest."
Pledge envelopes are due Friday October 5th, however monies will be accepted until Thursday, October 11th. Come join the fun!
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Best Gospel Nigerian Songs List
Nigerian Songs have made long journey from old highlife to today's. Nigeria is called the heart of African music because of its contribution in the development of African traditional music and extensive use of Congo as an instrument to give indigenous identity to it in the world. The origin of music has been dated back in the 16th century here with the help of bronze inscriptions. Nigerian Gospel songs are motivational Christian songs that has become most important part of Nigerian music. List of Nigerian Gospel songs could be downloaded online from any worship songs website. Here is the list of best Nigerian Songs. Please have a look at the list of Nigerian Songs.
Top Nigerian Songs List – Latest Nigerian Christian Gospel Music
Maureen George – Change my Story
The Air I Breathe – Micheal Smith
Nigerian Gospel Music-Well done1 by Alice and Paul
Days Of Elijah – Donnie Mckurkin
New Nigerian Gospel Music 2012-Funmi shittu
It was'nt easy – Cece winnans
Igbo Gospel music by Gozie Okeke
Supernatural – T.Y Bello
Lara George Ko Ma Si
Oluchi Okeke – Battle Praise
GRACE AMAH – Onyeoma
Prince Gozie Okeke – Cry For Mercy
Spiritual Love – Tri-ni-tee
Panam Percy Paul Come Let's Praise The Lord
New World praise1 by Agatha Moses
Make Me Shine -Nigerian Gospel High Life Song
Purified – Cece Winnans
Arambada – Jahdiel
Let It Rain – Micheal Smith
Agatha Moses – Nigerian Praise
Well done by Alice and Paul
Nnam Nara Ekele by Rosemary chukwu onumaebgu
Luke Ezeji – Chim Na Efe Di Ndu 2
I Lift the Lord's Name
Psalm 23 – Don Moen
Tope Alabi Iwe eri
Ijoba Orun – Lara George
Nigerian Worship Songs List – Best Nigerian Songs
His Name Is Higher Than Any Other Name
The Name of Jesus
Ta la ba fi o we
Edumare Soro Mi Dayo
Jehovah You are the most High
Baba wey dey for heaven
Jesus is the sweetest name I know
Osuba re re o
Who is like unto Thee
Ese o Baba, Ese o Jesu
Ta lo da bi Re
I just want to Praise You Lord
You are worthy to be praised
Lord You are good
Halleluyah is a heavenly language
Oruko re ti ni to
Adonai we worship You
How I love calling Your name
Jesus we are here
What manner of man is Jesus
My Jesus Conquer Satan
You are highly lifted up
Cast me not away from Your presence
Forever Oh Lord Thy word is settled
More songs would be added to the list of Nigerian Songs.
The colonisation of Nigeria by European powers had a drastic impact on the flow of Nigerian music to the rest of world. Popular Nigerian songs have given birth to many indigenous styles of music like Yo-pop, Highlife, Apala, Fuji, etc. Top Nigerian songs also exhibit a unique feature of polyrhythm, where there are more than one rhythm playing in the same song, simultaneously.
Latest Nigerian Music
In spite of the huge background of oral communication and history of folk music in Nigeria, the best Nigerian songs are in complete sync with the globalised world. Since 1920s, the Palm wine music genre became the most popular. With this genre, Baba Tunde King, the most popular of all palm wine artists, coined the term Juju which was a form of music to express the extreme feelings against the colonial masters. After World War 2, the technological advancements led to the modernisation of Juju and the music composers gave many popular Nigerian songs with the help of it.
Nigeria Folk Music
The folk music of Nigeria is special in its own kind as it makes use of many instruments usually drumming and wind instruments like xylophone, electric guitar, woodwinds, brass drums, banjo, etc. The culture of Nigeria facilitates people from all walks of life to get incorporated in their daily life activities like birthdays, death ceremonies, games, etc, through music. Latest Nigerian music have succeeded in maintaining the essence of the folk music through its beats and rhythm. Hope you liked the list of Nigerian Songs.
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DB2 Web Query Updates to Ship in August
Published: June 2, 2009
by Alex Woodie
The new DB2 Web Query enhancements--including an adapter that provides "occasional" access to the SQL Server database from the i OS business intelligence tool, and the capability to access and update DB2 Web Query reports from within Excel--won't ship until August, IBM announced recently. The new capabilities were originally expected to be available by the end of June, back when the announcements were first made with Information Builders in February, but the timeline has apparently slipped.
DB2 Web Query is a special version of Information Builders' WebFOCUS software that IBM announced in 2007. The Java-based software enables users to write queries for the DB2 for i (DB2/400) database and view the results in a Web browser. It's designed primarily to be a more graphical and feature-rich replacement for IBM's Query/400, which has been a reliable member of the i OS (OS/400) middleware stack for years.
In February, Information Builders and IBM announced pending updates to DB2 Web Query that give the products more hooks into the Microsoft BI environment. This included a new adapter allowing users to incorporate data stored in SQL Server into their DB2 Web Query reports, and a new Spreadsheet Client feature will allow users to embed their DB2 Web Query reports directly into Excel, and also to refresh the data from the spreadsheet.
According to IBM, the new features provide deeper integration with Microsoft products, "without forcing you to replicate data around a network or implement different components on multiple servers," the company says in its April 28 announcement letter.
The new SQL Server Adapter will help turn DB2 Web Query into the single, go-to reporting tool for the enterprise, IBM says. While many i OS shops keep most of their data on DB2/400, they store data that's slightly less critical (but still important) on SQL Server databases. By installing the SQL Server Adapter, users will be able to analyze data from DB2/400 (DB2 for i) and SQL Server databases using the same query definitions, and simplify the report distribution and dashboard creation process along the way.
The SQL Server Adapter will support SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005 databases; there's no word on whether the software will support SQL Server 2007, which introduced 64-bit support. Users will also be able to access multiple SQL Server instances with a single adapter, IBM says; there's no word on whether users can mix and match analysis of SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005 data. It is likely that IBM and Info Builders will develop support for additional databases in the future.
The new Spreadsheet Client will give users of DB2 Web Query another way to access data from DB2/400 (and SQL Server if they have the adapter noted in the previous paragraph). In addition to the dashboard, PDF, and Windows-based front-ends for DB2 Web Query, which work well for executives and power users, the new Spreadsheet Client will be ideal for accountants and other financial whizzes who spend a lot of time with their noses buried in Excel spreadsheets, according to IBM.
Specifically, the new Spreadsheet Client will allow users to build spreadsheet reports that get automatically refreshed with queries from DB2 Web Query--automatically, it's worth adding, with no manual intervention required by users. Users will also be able to burst data into multiple worksheets, and refresh data in a server-based Excel application or template, according IBM. Data computations and totals are brought into Excel as native formulas, and you can add data filtering and style the output to further enhance the data within Excel, IBM says.
Users will also be able to create new queries against DB2/400 data with the new Spreadsheet Client, but only if they have named-user licenses and have the proper authorities to access the Report Assistant component of the base product. (Named user licenses are more expensive than the run-time user licenses that IBM created last year after listening to criticism that the product was too expensive.)
The Spreadsheet Client and SQL Server Adapter help round out a suite that already offered several options. Info Builders develops and sells several add-ons for DB2 Web Query, including: an OLAP Module, for drill-down and multidimensional database reporting; Active Reports, for accessing reports while disconnected from the server; and a Developer Workbench for creating more advanced reports and dashboards. IBM also recently added a new Report Broker and a software development kit (SDK) to the DB2 Web Query lineup.
Pricing for the SQL Adapter ranges from $1,600 on a P05 box to $28,800 on a P60 box. Pricing for the Spreadsheet Client ranges from $400 on a P05 box to $12,000 on a P60 box. The new products will ship with DB2 Web Query V1R1M1 on August 21. For more information, see Software Announcement 209-090 and, be sure to check out IBM's DB2 Web Query Web page for APARs associated with the new software.
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Cuomo tackles campaign finance reform in telephone town hall
With a new poll showing his favorability rating slipping, Governor Andrew Cuomo made an appearance by telephone last night to weigh in on fair elections in New York.
Billed as a Fair Elections Telephone Town Hall with Governor Cuomo, it provided a vehicle for the state's top executive to argue his case for a campaign finance model that mirrors one in place in New York City.
Cuomo's plan places stricter limits on what candidates may raise and spend while backing up more campaigns via matching public funds. He envisions what he calls "almost real-time" internet tracking of contributions for candidates, political committees and lobbying committees.
The governor concedes the state can't overrule federal law but he says it CAN mandate aggressive disclosure and regulate when an entity is actually electioneering, triggering the disclosure rule.
In theory, Fair Elections levels the playing field - but what about those PACs and SUPER PACs that drown favored candidates in cash? NYPIRG's Bill Mahoney says its always going to be difficult to regulate such entities.
Governor Cuomo, himself a master political fundraiser, stressed his belief in the essence and capacity of government. Once budget negotiations are complete,campaign finance reform is expected to be the No. 1 topic among lawmakers in Albany.