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As the largest golfing complex on the planet, boasting 12 courses, 216 holes and a land mass twice the size of Manhattan, Mission Hills could be described as being a world away from most places, certainly the traditional Chinese district it has transformed like the arrival of a spaceship in Sleepyville.
But for Justin Rose and Ian Poulter this week's 28-team World Cup must feel like it is taking place in a different universe to the circumstances in which they first linked up and became friends. Then they were young professionals struggling to equate those incompatible tasks of making putts and making a living; this morning they set off as the favourites to lift the first prize for England. Not to mention a cool £800,000 for themselves.
The contrast was obvious as they had their first taste of the Olazabal Course here yesterday. They were located on the first tee, half a mile past a 108-metre statue called the "Lady Goddess Buddha", straight up a hill that was something of a mission to conquer. "Jeez, you did well to get up here on foot," said Poulter. He was glad to be in possession of a buggy for another reason, too. "You should have seen the snake that just squirmed underneath this cart – it was a big bugger, this long and this thick," he explained, showing the measurements with his hands, just as he would a 30-footer with plenty of left to right. He then asked one of his pro-am partners if the viper was deadly. "Maybe," said the nonplussed local. And to think, it was once fleas that Rose and Poulter were worried about.
"Yeah, the accommodation was pretty basic when we roomed together back on the Challenge Tour, although perhaps quite not that bad," said Rose, now a neighbour of Poulter's in the gated Florida community at Lake Nona. "It was all definitely a million miles from this resort. I suppose it just shows how far we've come since that first meeting."
That happened to be on the practice green at the French Open in 1999. Poulter that week played the agonising role of being first reserve, desperate for a spot in the fully fledged European Tour that offered an escape from golf's minor leagues. He went home disappointed but, if anything, Rose's plight was even more white-knuckled. The 18-year-old's berth was confirmed because of yet another invite but, as he was nearing the end of that infamous run of 21 missed cuts, he probably wished it had not. Rose's joint-fourth-placed, amateur heroics of the previous summer at the Open at Royal Birkdale had long become a distant, rather surreal memory and he cut a sad, almost pathetic figure who, following all the hype, it is fair to say was not altogether popular on a circuit creaking with cynical journeymen. Then Ian Poulter entered his life.
"It was love at first sight," laughed Poulter, when asked to recall the moment the pair first clapped eyes on each other. "Justin was putting, I was chipping and we just started chatting to each other. We hit it off from there really. Soon after that we started rooming together. Then we got married in 2000, then..."
Rose liked that, giggling himself silly, happy to be the straight man in this double act and going on to make a serious point about the influence of this new friend who, while being four years older, was many years younger in so many other respects. "That was a key time in my career," he said. "I had virtually finished playing on the European Tour and was starting afresh on the Challenge Tour. I learnt a lot from Ian at that point. He seemed to have a lot more fun than me. We would go out to dinner and there would be so much more laughing going on than at any time since I turned pro. That was an important part of me improving as a player – learning to enjoy myself on Tour.
"For example, with Poults, the music would be on, blaring in the room, and that was something that I wouldn't have necessarily have done before. Relax, like that. And there was his confidence as well. I was rooming with him when he went out and won a few events. I saw how he went about it, just went out and did it. Like I said, I learnt a lot."
The education was two-way. "What did I learn off Justin?" said Poulter. "He was going through a tough, tough period at the time, but to see someone with the will and determination to keep pressing on and keep working – well, it was good to see. It would have been easy for someone of that age just to crumble and Justin didn't. And look where he is today – eighth in the world, having won the Order of Merit. That's inspiring. It's certainly inspired me."
Indeed, Poulter credits his pal with assisting his own leap up the rankings. Last week's success at the Dunlop Phoenix in Japan hurtled the 31-year-old to a career-high of 20th in the world. "It's been a great friendship," he said. "If you are in a period when you're not playing well and one of your best mates is up there winning and being in contention week after week, it invigorates you to do the same. It's been that sort of rivalry. A healthy one."
Healthy or otherwise, there will be no rivalry between the pair here over the next few days, not even sartorially, because the usually flamboyant Poulter has sought to colour-match his outfits with the comparatively dowdy Rose. If that sounds like a concession – and do not forget, golf is rather good at them – then it really shouldn't, because this alliance is one of compromise and not dominance. While Poulter is clearly the half with the bravado, Rose is no longer the violet with a height problem. Over the years, he has grown up and Poulter has grown down, so now their banter is the banter of equals.
"You know, I pop around his house and we have arguments over what gadgets he's going to buy and this and that and he does likewise," said Rose. "Because of our schedules we don't see as much of each other as we once did, but then that is inevitable. But we are still really close and that's what makes this tournament so special.
"It's funny, but people always wonder how we became so good friends and yeah, I suppose we are very different," Rose added. "But they say opposites attract don't they? I probably feed off him because he has traits in his character that I haven't and vice versa. Whatever, we're just both really glad to be here, representing England and playing for the World Cup. We dreamt of doing things like this back in the day."
From the fleapits to the snakepit – it's been some journey.
Shared goal: How the unlikely lads rose to the top
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1999/25/£13,635/4th Austrian Open
2000/29/£79,406/11th BMW Open
2001/29/£447,553/2nd Dunhill Champs
2002/31/£953,700/1st British Masters
2003/29/£911,569/3rd Deutsche Bank
2004/32/£706,862/4th Memorial Event
2005/33/£663,753/3rd Buick Champs
2006/31/£949,492/1st Melbourne Event
2007/24/£2.67m/1st Volvo Masters
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1999/28/£15,440/1st Ivory Coast
2000/28/£322,462/1st Italian Open
2001/31/£530,674/1st Morocco Open
2002/27/£599,921/1st Italian Open
2003/30/£1.08m/1st Wales Open
2004/28/£1.13m/1st Volvo Masters
2005/30/£791,622/4th Scottish Open
2006/31/£1.39m/1st Madrid Open
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FDA Approves Blincyto to Treat Rare Leukemia »
"The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Blincyto (blinatumomab) to treat patients with Philadelphia chromosome-negative precursor B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-cell ALL), an uncommon form of ALL.
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Clinical Trials Experience
Adverse drug reactions reported by ≥ 1% of LEUSTATIN-treated patients with HCL noted in the HCL clinical dataset (studies K90-091 and L91-048, n=576) are shown in the table below.
Adverse Drug Reactions in
≥ 1% of Patients Treated With LEUSTATIN in HCL Clinical Trials
System Organ Class Preferred Term | LEUSTATIN (n=576) % |
Blood and Lymphatic System Disorder (see also sections WARNINGS and PRECAUTIONS) | |
Anemia | 1 |
Febrile neutropenia | 8 |
Psychiatric Disorders | |
Anxiety | 1 |
Insomnia | 3 |
Nervous System Disorders | |
Dizziness | 6 |
Headache | 14 |
Cardiac Disorders | |
Tachycardia | 2 |
Respiratory, Thoracic and Mediastinal Disorders | |
Breath sounds abnormal | 4 |
Cough | 7 |
Dyspnea* | 5 |
Rales | 1 |
Gastrointestinal Disorders | |
Abdominal pain** | 4 |
Constipation | 4 |
Diarrhea | 7 |
Flatulence | 1 |
Nausea | 22 |
Vomiting | 9 |
Skin and Subcutaneous Tissue Disorders | |
Ecchymosis | 2 |
Hyperhidrosis | 3 |
Petechiae | 2 |
Pruritus | 2 |
Rash*** | 16 |
Musculoskeletal, Connective Tissue, and Bone Disorders | |
Arthralgia | 3 |
Myalgia | 6 |
Pain**** | 6 |
General Disorders and Administration Site Conditions (see also sections WARNINGS and PRECAUTIONS) | |
Administration site reaction***** | 11 |
Asthenia | 6 |
Chills | 2 |
Decreased appetite | 8 |
Fatigue | 31 |
Malaise | 5 |
Muscular weakness | 1 |
Edema peripheral | 2 |
Pyrexia | 33 |
Injury, Poisoning and Procedural Complications | |
Contusion | 1 |
* Dyspnea includes dyspnea,
dyspnea exertional, and wheezing ** Abdominal pain includes abdominal discomfort, abdominal pain, and abdominal pain (lower and upper) *** Rash includes erythema, rash, and rash (macular, macula-papular, papular, pruritic, pustular and erythematous) **** Pain includes pain, back pain, chest pain, arthritis pain, bone pain, and pain in extremity ***** Administration site reaction includes administration site reaction, catheter site (cellulitis, erythema, hemorrhage, and pain), and infusion site reaction(erythema, edema, and pain) |
The following safety data are based on 196 patients with Hairy Cell Leukemia: the original cohort of 124 patients plus an additional 72 patients enrolled at the same two centers after the original enrollment cutoff. In Month 1 of the Hairy Cell Leukemia clinical trials, severe neutropenia was noted in 70% of patients, fever in 69%, and infection was documented in 28%. Most non-hematologic adverse experiences were mild to moderate in severity.
Myelosuppression was frequently observed during the first month after starting treatment. Neutropenia (ANC < 500 x 106/L) was noted in 70% of patients, compared with 26% in whom it was present initially. Severe anemia (Hemoglobin < 8.5 g/dL) developed in 37% of patients, compared with 10% initially and thrombocytopenia (Platelets < 20 x 109/L) developed in 12% of patients, compared to 4% in whom it was noted initially.
During the first month, 54 of 196 patients (28%) exhibited documented evidence of infection. Serious infections (e.g., septicemia, pneumonia) were reported in 6% of all patients; the remainder were mild or moderate. Several deaths were attributable to infection and/or complications related to the underlying disease. During the second month, the overall rate of documented infection was 6%; these infections were mild to moderate and no severe systemic infections were seen. After the third month, the monthly incidence of infection was either less than or equal to that of the months immediately preceding LEUSTATIN therapy.
During the first month, 11% of patients experienced severe fever (i.e., ≥ 104°F). Documented infections were noted in fewer than one-third of febrile episodes. Of the 196 patients studied, 19 were noted to have a documented infection in the month prior to treatment. In the month following treatment, there were 54 episodes of documented infection: 23 (42%) were bacterial, 11 (20%) were viral and 11 (20%) were fungal. Seven (7) of 8 documented episodes of herpes zoster occurred during the month following treatment. Fourteen (14) of 16 episodes of documented fungal infections occurred in the first two months following treatment. Virtually all of these patients were treated empirically with antibiotics. (see WARNINGS and PRECAUTIONS)
Analysis of lymphocyte subsets indicates that treatment with cladribine is associated with prolonged depression of the CD4 counts. Prior to treatment, the mean CD4 count was 766/μL. The mean CD4 count nadir, which occurred 4 to 6 months following treatment, was 272/μL. Fifteen (15) months after treatment, mean CD4 counts remained below 500/μL. CD8 counts behaved similarly, though increasing counts were observed after 9 months. The clinical significance of the prolonged CD4 lymphopenia is unclear.
Another event of unknown clinical significance includes the observation of prolonged bone marrow hypocellularity. Bone marrow cellularity of < 35% was noted after 4 months in 42 of 124 patients (34%) treated in the two pivotal trials. This hypocellularity was noted as late as day 1010. It is not known whether the hypocellularity is the result of disease related marrow fibrosis or if it is the result of cladribine toxicity. There was no apparent clinical effect on the peripheral blood counts.
The vast majority of rashes were mild. Most episodes of nausea were mild, not accompanied by vomiting, and did not require treatment with antiemetics. In patients requiring antiemetics, nausea was easily controlled, most frequently with chlorpromazine.
When used in other clinical settings the following ADRs were reported: bacteremia, cellulitis, localized infection, pneumonia, anemia, thrombocytopenia (with bleeding or petechiae), phlebitis, purpura, crepitations, localized edema and edema.
For a description of adverse reactions associated with use of high doses in non-Hairy Cell Leukemia patients, see WARNINGS.
Postmarketing Experience
The following additional adverse reactions have been reported since the drug became commercially available. These adverse reactions have been reported primarily in patients who received multiple courses of LEUSTATIN Injection:
Infections and infestations: Septic shock. Opportunistic infections have occurred in the acute phase of treatment.
Blood and lymphatic system disorders: Bone marrow suppression with prolonged pancytopenia, including some reports of aplastic anemia; hemolytic anemia (including autoimmune hemolytic anemia), which was reported in patients with lymphoid malignancies, occurring within the first few weeks following treatment. Rare cases of myelodysplastic syndrome have been reported.
Immune system disorders: Hypersensitivity.
Metabolism and nutrition disorders: Tumor lysis syndrome.
Psychiatric disorders: Confusion (including disorientation).
Hepatobiliary disorders: Reversible, generally mild increases in bilirubin (uncommon) and transaminases.
Nervous System disorders: Depressed level of consciousness, neurological toxicity (including peripheral sensory neuropathy, motor neuropathy (paralysis), polyneuropathy, paraparesis); however, severe neurotoxicity has been reported rarely following treatment with standard cladribine dosing regimens.
Eye disorders: Conjunctivitis.
Respiratory, thoracic and mediastinal disorders: Pulmonary interstitial infiltrates (including lung infiltration, interstitial lung disease, pneumonitis and pulmonary fibrosis); in most cases, an infectious etiology was identified.
Skin and tissue disorders: Urticaria, hypereosinophilia; Stevens-Johnson. In isolated cases toxic epidermal necrolysis has been reported in patients who were receiving or had recently been treated with other medications (e.g., allopurinol or antibiotics) known to cause these syndromes.
Renal and urinary disorders: Renal failure (including renal failure acute, renal impairment).
Read the Leustatin (cladribine injection for intravenous infusion only) Side Effects Center for a complete guide to possible side effects
There are no known drug interactions with LEUSTATIN Injection. Caution should be exercised if LEUSTATIN Injection is administered before, after, or in conjunction with other drugs known to cause immunosuppression or myelosuppression. (see WARNINGS)
Read the Leustatin Drug Interactions Center for a complete guide to possible interactions
This monograph has been modified to include the generic and brand name in many instances.Last reviewed on RxList: 11/16/2016
Leustatin FDA Prescribing Information
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Tony Gemignani (USA, left) spun 500 g (17.6 oz) of dough for two minutes to form a pizza base measuring 84.33 cm (33.2 in) wide at the Mall of America in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, on 20 April 2006 during the filming of Guinness World Records Week for the Food Network channel.
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Gluten-Free Lemon Zucchini Bread
Author Notes: This is my "off the wheat-en path" zucchini bread recipe. Usually during the summer months I am up to my ears in zucchini fresh from the garden, and this year has been no exception. So, I have been scouring the gluten free blogs for new recipes, and was inspired by glutenfreegoddess. I used a GF flour mix in lieu of a singular flour, as well as almond milk, which makes this version dairy free, GF and vegan to boot. —Cannelloni&Cayenne
Makes 1 loaf
- 1 cup grated zucchini, from 1 large zucchini
- 1 cup GF flour mix (I used white rice, brown rice, millet and sorghum flour)
- 1/2 cup tapioca starch
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon
- 1/4 cup almond milk, unsweetened
- 1/3 cup canola oil
- 1/4 cup coconut milk
- 3/4 cup coconut palm sugar
- 1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice
- 1 tablespoon lemon zest
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon chia seeds
- Preheat oven to 350. Grease loaf pan; set aside.
- In a large bowl, combine the GF flour, tapioca starch, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon.
- In another bowl, whisk together the almond milk, canola oil, coconut milk, lemon juice, zest, vanilla, coconut sugar and chia seeds. Add to dry mixture, and beat to combine. Stir in grated zucchini (be sure to squeeze out moisture before adding.)
- Pour batter into loaf pan. Bake 45-55 minutes; when done, knife inserted into middle should come out clean. Bon appetit!
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The Blushing Bride features a petite pair of faceted rose quartz coins wrapped in vermeil. The gorgeous little babies are a mere 6mm wide (yes, less than 1cm). Despite the name of this baby it's perfect for daily wear and that special occasion too. The Blushing Bride hangs off 14k goldfilled earposts.
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- Azahara dorado laguna said...
Very nice earrings. Do you make them?
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- Dainty Life said...
Hi! if you make another one of this, let me know! thanks..
- 2:46 pm, June 19, 2012
- Dawne Lee said...
Hi there, thank you for your compliments. Yes i did.
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Hi there, I may have another set. Could you drop me an email so that i can reply you from there.
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November has come and gone and left us with a great selection of films. Most of these titles are still in theaters so in case you missed them over the holidays, you can still catch them.
With so many great choices, there were bound to be a few favorites this month. From the return of James Bond in Skyfall to the farewell of Twilight, blockbusters proved they didn't need the summer months to post monster box office numbers.
Awards contenders were also in full force. Denzel Washington's Flight, Keira Knightley reteaming with director Joe Wright for Anna Karenina, Steven Spielberg's take on Lincoln, Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence in Silver Linings Playbook and Ang Lee adapting the unfilmable book, Life of Pi.
And then there were the guilty pleasures, from RZA's turn in The Man with the Iron Fists, Disney's video game-themed Wreck-It Ralph and DreamWorks Animations' holiday feature Rise of the Guardians.
You probably saw one or more of these films over the course of the month, so we want to know, which one was your favorite film of November? Vote in the poll below and sound off in the comment section with some of your other favorites not listed.
Then, get ready for December and let us know which movie you're looking forward to the most to close out 2012.


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power vacuum
power vacuum (plural power vacuums or power vacua)
- A lack of centralised political authority, especially following a conflict, revolution, change of power etc.
- 2008, Rory McCarthy, The Guardian, 23 July 2008:
- A few hours before the attack, Yuval Diskin, the head of the Israeli security agency the Shin Bet, had told a parliamentary committee that there was a "power vacuum" in East Jerusalem and he also called for the demolition of the homes of people involved in terrorist attacks.
- 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic 2011, p. 184:
- the old order had irretrievably vanished like breath off a razor blade, and there was a good old-fashioned power vacuum or, as we used to say in factional meetings, a "situation of dual power."
- 2008, Rory McCarthy, The Guardian, 23 July 2008:
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#1 Conservatives Blast Census Bureau for Counting Gay Couples (counted as married).
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04-07-2010, 05:54 PMThe U.S. Census Bureau has boosted its efforts of reaching out to the LGBT community, assuring gays and transgender people that they can be "true" to who they are when filling out census forms.
The U.S. Census Bureau has boosted its efforts of reaching out to the LGBT community, assuring gays and transgender people that they can be "true" to who they are when filling out census forms.Same-sex couples will, for the first time, be counted as married even if their relationships are not recognized in their state.
Moreover, transgender people have been encouraged to complete the forms according to their "true gender," as Mara Keisling of the Center for Transgender Equality stated. They, however, will not directly be counted as transgender."Be yourself and be counted," Keisling, a transgender-identified woman, said in a promotional video.
On Monday, the Census Bureau released new videos encouraging same-sex couples and transgender people to participate in the 2010 census.Gay rights groups have hailed the bureau's move as historic, as it signals recognition of gay and lesbian marriages."We pushed hard to make it possible for married same-sex couples to be counted in the 2010 census," reads a statement by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.
The organization launched a "Queer the Census" campaign demanding even more recognition in the next U.S. census, complete with a question that asks if one is lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender.
"The law should count for something when the Census Bureau counts America's population, but apparently it doesn't on President Obama's watch," said Family Research Council President Tony Perkins. "The President's Commerce Department is actively encouraging people to ignore U.S. marriage law and invent new definitions for their relationships."Perkins noted that the federal Defense of Marriage Act forbids the government from recognizing same-sex marriages.
"When it comes to advancing the extreme homosexual agenda, this White House has no limits, not even the facts," he lamented.Gary Randall, president of Faith and Freedom Network, believes homosexual numbers will be inflated by the "you decide what you are" policy."This policy shift is another attempt to confuse the discussion about marriage by creating a problem of sorts, then providing a solution that advances the homosexual agenda of redefining marriage," he stated.
The Census Bureau has begun mailing second forms to approximately 40 million housing units to increase America's participation. Households have until mid-April to mail back their forms. Census data are used to apportion congressional seats to states, to distribute more than $400 billion in federal funds to tribal, state and local governments each year and to make decisions about what community services to provide.
census workers are not permitted to challenge anyone on their answers. If Sarah Brown sends in her census form with the name Super Fartnocker on it - the bureau must accept that answer. It's part of their confidentiality policy.
Stand up for what is right, even if you have to stand alone.
When the wife was going through training for doing group quarters - they have to verify that a form is 'complete' and if not try to get it complete - someone asked what to do if a college student puts a false name on the form - specifically: Oliver Clothesoff. They'll know it's a false name because it will not match the name on the master list . . . anyhow . . .she was told to count it complete and that they were not to change it.
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The Dutch government has frozen official contacts with Iran as a protest against the hanging of a Dutch-Iranian woman.
Iranian Ambassador Gharib Abadi was informed of the sanctions on Saturday after he confirmed reports that Zahra Bahrami, 45, was executed in Tehran. His embassy later said the hanging was "an internal issue" that should have no impact on relations.
Iranian state television reported Bahrami was hanged for possessing and selling drugs. The report said that initially Bahrami was arrested for committing "security crimes," but it did not say what became of that case.
Bahrami had been jailed in Iran since December 2009, after protests against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's re-election. The Iranian Embassy in a statement on Saturday, described Bahrami as a member of an international trafficking ring.
It said Bahrami – who was born in Iran, but gained Dutch citizenship after moving to the Netherlands – was accorded the legal rights of an Iranian citizen, but that Tehran does not recognise dual nationality.
Dutch Foreign Ministry spokesman Bengt van Loosdrecht said Foreign Minister Uri Rosenthal was "shocked, shattered by this act by a barbaric regime". He added that the hanging was especially shocking as Abadi had assured the Dutch minister on Friday that Bahrami's legal avenues had not yet been exhausted. Dutch diplomats had been denied access to Bahrami while she was in prison.
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Worried if certain harmless stuff like a fruit or an eclipse might have any influence over your unborn baby?
Just say the word 'pregnant' and you will have women of all ages swooping down on you with words of advice. Every statement they utter will be supported by the deadly disclaimer, "I speak from experience", and so you will be in dilemma – to believe them or not?
Pregnancy Myths:
While some of them have been ruled out completely, there are still some myths that have been doing the rounds for so many decades that we have simply come to accept these as true without attempting to discover the real truth behind them. Here we present you the top 23 widely-believed pregnancy myths and the real truth:
Myth 1: Belly Position Determines Baby's Gender:
Chances are that any prediction your aunty or mother-in-law or any neighbourhood woman does will have a fifty percent possibility of coming true. Think about it. It has nothing to do with belly positions. Each woman carries her
baby differently, and it all depends upon the body type and hip measurements. The sex of the baby most certainly has nothing to do with it.Myth 2: Certain Types of Foods Will Affect the Baby's Complexion:
This one is completely baseless. Your near and dear women try to push you into drinking too much coconut water with the sound advice that it will make you have a fair baby. Some old timers even go so far as to tell you to stay off iron supplements because they make your baby's skin dark. First of all, food has nothing to do with complexion. Secondly, staying off iron supplements may lead to serious consequences both for the mother and the baby. Hence this is one myth you should completely disregard.
Myth 3: You Should Eat For Two:
No matter what anyone says, you do NOT need to eat for two. Yes, pregnancy does increase your daily caloric requirement, but only by 300 calories. This means just a single chapatti with ghee, or two servings of fruit, or two servings of salad extra. Not the kind of food bandwagon that is suggested to you just because you have another life growing within you.
Myth 4: Eating Spicy Foods Will Lead to Labor Induction:
No way. Eating spicy will only lead to heartburn and gases. Not labor induction as is told to you time and again. But to reduce discomfort from gas trouble, which may be even painful for a pregnant woman in delicate health, it is advisable to consume spicy stuff in moderate quantity.
Myth 5: More Heartburn Means More Hair on Baby's Scalp!
The amount of hair on a newborn baby depends a lot on the genetic make-up of the child and not based on how much heartburn the mother suffers during pregnancy. The growing weight of the foetus, often leads to pushing the digestive apparatus upwards towards the cardiac sphincter, leading to acid formation. This is the reason for hyperacidity and not hair. Suffice it to say, many a women with terrific heartburns have given birth to hairless babies, and many women with nay heartburn have had children with heavy hairs on their heads.
Myth 6: No Sex during Pregnancy:
While most doctors may advise you to stay off sex during the first three months, they all agree that during the second and third trimesters it is pretty much safe. Also, many women experience an increase in sexual desire due to an increase in the hormone levels. Fetuses are protected by layers of tissues, and cannot be harmed by intercourse. So unless your practitioner has expressly told you to abstain from sex, please continue getting intimate with your partner.
Myth 7: Eclipses Can Cause Genetic Defects:
Cleft lips and palates are genetic anomalies and are caused due to certain genetic factors predisposing to it. They are more often seen in intermarriages. Under no circumstances are they related to eclipses either of the sun or the moon.
Myth 8: Spinal Anesthesia Causes Backaches:
While spinal anesthesia may contribute somewhat to backaches, they are primarily caused by the shifted center of gravity in pregnant women. All those weight an expectant mother carries causes the spine to curve excessively leading to awkward positioning and backache. Even women who deliver naturally suffer from debilitating backaches, and the only way to prevent it is by doing spine-strengthening exercises both during and after pregnancy.
Myth 9: Ghee for Easy Labor And Delivery:
Well-meaning aunties will tell you to consume ghee in copious amounts, supposedly because ghee lubricates the birth canal, therefore facilitating easy labor and delivery. This particular myth has no base whatsoever and having ghee in high quantity will only make you put on excessive amount of weight! The severity and duration of labor differs with every woman, and consuming ghee will not ease it in anyway. Castor oil is often prescribed by practitioners if labor is delayed, to bring on the contractions, but ghee is just an old wives' tale.
Myth 10: Papaya Causes Abortion:
The basis behind this myth is that unripe or even semi-ripen papaya contains latex that can activate uterine contractions. However, to cause miscarriage, a woman would have to consume papayas in humongous quantity. Miscarriages often happen because of anomalies in a foetus, making it unviable for continuing. You can easily enjoy your favorite fruits and foods to your heart's content, but before that always confirm your diet with your doctor.
Myth 11: Determining The Sex Of The Baby, According To The Sexual Position:
Many women may have heard of the 'idea' that the sex of the baby can be determined by the sexual position adopted. Well, the truth is, you can't determine the baby's gender by sexual positions, as they have no impact on determining the sex of your baby.


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Think for a second about the word "recruit". When the army recruits new soldiers, do they just walk up to a youngster, ask if they want to join the army, and give them a form to fill out? No. There is a relationship between the army recruiter and his pool of prospects in the community. Similarly, if you want to know exactly how to recruit people into your network marketing opportunity, you have to be a master of three simple relationship building steps.
- Share tons of value for free.
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Face Detection in PHP using Open CV
In this article, i will explain how possible this task can be achieved with simplicity with OpenCV and PHP Facedetect extension. Both are free to download and opensource.
To auto detect faces in a photo and draw pink box around the faces with a php script running a linux centos server. Please note that face detection and face recognition are two different things. To recognize a face you have to first detect a face and then do the required processing.
- Linux server running Centos with SSH access
- PHP/Apache
- GD Library
- OpenCV [Download]
- PHP Facedetect extension [Download]
PHP facedetect extension is very simple. All you have to do is call a function face_detect(p) and it will give all the x,y coordinates in a photo where we draw a square. face_count() will output how many total faces in the given photo. For documentation see here
We install opencv and then we compile the php facedetect extension with php.
How to Install OpenCV
If you are running centos then one single line will install opencv.
yum install opencv
OpenCV may also need the following depencies to work properly and you will need to install them as well.
yum install ibpng libpng-dev zlib libjpeg libjpeg-dev libtiff libjasper swig python pkgconfig gtk gtk-dev
For more installation instructions on linux see here
The opencv will be installed in/usr/local/share/opencv and all the important facedetection training files known as "haar training" can be found in haarcascades folder in xml format (like haarcascade_frontalface_alt.xml)
How to test run OpenCV
Inorder to test run opencv you have to compile the samples folder. Go to /usr/local/share/opencv/samples/c/
Run this command to compile to binary.
If you find large number of errors and variables not declared like shown below..
Package opencv was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing `opencv.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package 'opencv' found ….
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig ./build_all.sh
and then it will compile.
To test run the opencv run the following command in the c folder for a test.jpg photo.
./facedetect –cascade="../haarcascades/haarcascade_frontalface_alt.xml" test.jpg
Since your server does not have Xwindow installed, you probably do not see the output just the processing time.
If you see error "error while loading shared libraries: libcxcore.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" then see this solution
Install PHP Facedetect Extension
Installing the PHP facedetect extension is very easy. Just download the package and compile it for PHP.
wget [download_file_path] tar zxf facedetect-1.0.0
phpize && configure && make && make install
If you see phpize command not found error, install php developer libraries
yum install php-devel OR yum install php5-devel
open php.ini and make sure you add this line.
Thats it! all the installation part is over!
Writing a PHP Script
Before you start writing php script make sure you copy all xml files in /usr/local/share/opencv/haarcascades folder to the web folder.
and this simple two lines to from php to call the function
<?php //face_count() outputs total faces detected // face_detect() outputs assoc array of x,y,width,height of each face recognized $total= face_count('test.jpg','haarcascade_frontalface_alt.xml'); $coord= face_detect('test.jpg','haarcascade_frontalface_alt.xml'); print_r($coord); ?>
Make sure the path of xml files are correct else you would see a blank face or bool(false) output. Once you get this co-ordinates all we have to do is use php gd library to draw square around the face with the above coordinates.
This script will do that and you have call the script with photo file like this http://domain/face.php?file=test.jpg and the test.jpg file should be in the same folder
<?php //face.php -> detects faces and draws a pink square on faces function LoadJpeg($imgname) { $im = @imagecreatefromjpeg($imgname); /* Attempt to open */ if (!$im) { /* See if it failed */ $im = imagecreate(150, 30); /* Create a blank image */ $bgc = imagecolorallocate($im, 255, 255, 255); $tc = imagecolorallocate($im, 0, 0, 0); imagefilledrectangle($im, 0, 0, 150, 30, $bgc); /* Output an errmsg */ imagestring($im, 1, 5, 5, "Error loading $imgname", $tc); } return $im; } $total= face_count($_GET['file'],'haarcascade_frontalface_alt.xml'); $ord= face_detect($_GET['file'],'haarcascade_frontalface_alt.xml'); $im = LoadJpeg($_GET['file']); $pink = imagecolorallocate($im, 255, 105, 180); if(count($ord) > 0) { foreach ($ord as $arr) { imagerectangle($im,$arr['x'] ,$arr['y'] , $arr['x']+$arr['w'], $arr['y']+$arr['h'], $pink); } } header('Content-Type: image/jpeg'); imagejpeg($im); imagedestroy($im); ?>
Just remember haarcascade_frontalface_alt.xml are haar training files used for face detection. You can play around with other training files like to detect various body parts, not just faces.
haarcascade_frontalface_alt.xml haarcascade_frontalface_alt_tree.xml haarcascade_fullbody.xml haarcascade_profileface.xml haarcascade_lowerbody.xml haarcascade_upperbody.xml
Conclusion and the Results
(standard test image used for image processing)
I have given multiple frontal detection photos to the script and the script performed well, despite few false face detections.
I should say i am pretty surprised the way the multiple faces are detected and the results are good with haarcascade_frontalface_alt.xml as training file . To get more accurate results, you need to do haar training to xml files to produce more accurate results.
Other Useful Links
Facedetection with pure PHP without OpenCV [visit site]
Facedetection with javascript [visit site]
OpenCV Face Detection Page [visit site]


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It's not about always playing your best players. It's about not wearing out your best players. Paul George is better than Rasual Butler, no one questions that. But in the last five minutes of a game is Paul George better if he's already played 30 minutes that night? Or is he better if he's only played 25 minutes so far that night?This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
If we put Butler in for 5 minute in the first half, can we stay competitive? And if we do stay competitive, why not give him 5 more minutes in the second half. Or at least have that option.
It just gives Frank more options if he's playing a deeper bench during the regular season. As it is, if he wants to change things up he has to bring in a cold player off the bench. And he's shown that he's not willing to do that. We just sort of keep floundering when things aren't going well because Frank is playing such a short rotation.
If this were the playoffs then I'd have no problem with the rotations. But it's the loooong regular season, so we need a deeper rotation. 9 players isn't enough. Yeah, we can win a lot of games, but what if it catches up to us?
People are saying we just need the all star break to rest everyone up. What if we don't get a rest period during the playoffs? The coach needs to manage the roster so that the players don't get worn out (physically or mentally) in the first place.


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I know it's not prep sports, but MT. SAC beat the No. 2-ranked team in the nation on Saturday, beating Bakersfield, 47-42 in the Southern California junior college championship game in front of more than 12,000 fans in Baskersfield.
The win propels Mt. SAC (10-2) into next Saturday's 1 p.m. state championship game in Fresno against City College of San Francisco, which won the Northern California title earlier Saturday with a 24-10 win over Sierra. The Mounties will be looking for their first state title since 1997, a game they won in dramatic fashion over San Francisco under then-quarterback Mike Moschetti, who went on to play at Colorado. Is this something you want to blog about. Steve and I have recently been put in charge of our area colleges. I think at least in football, maybe we should blog our area colleges next season and follow the Mounties through to the title game on Saturday. Your thoughts?


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Seattle, WA (PRWEB) September 22, 2011
EnerG2 (http://www.energ2.com), a Seattle-based company focused on producing advanced nano-structured materials for next-generation energy storage breakthroughs, today announced that it has received a prestigious research contract from the Advanced Lead-Acid Battery Consortium (ALABC; http://www.alabc.org) that could help improve lead-acid battery performance in emerging applications – from automotive microhybrids to industrial motive to power backup.
Based in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, and founded in 1992 as a program of the International Lead Zinc Research Organization (ILZRO), the ALABC is an international research consortium comprised of over 60 lead producers, battery manufacturers, equipment suppliers, research organizations and other pertinent entities – including Johnson Controls, Exide, Northstar, Enersys, C&D, Doe Run, RSR, Eastman Chemical, and Southern California Edison – organized to enhance the performance of lead-acid batteries for a variety of markets, including hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) applications.
The consortium pools the resources of its worldwide membership in order to facilitate and manage specific research and development programs that otherwise would not be possible.
Advancing Knowledge and Progress Exponentially "EnerG2 has a unique, customized, and high-purity carbon manufacturing process that makes it very deserving of this research project," says Dr. Boris Monahov, program manager of ALABC. "Our members are very pleased, and eagerly await the findings that will result from this project. Our sincere hope is that it will advance our knowledge and progress in the field of lead-acid batteries exponentially."
The purpose of the ALABC's 12-month project with EnerG2 is to study the hydrogen gassing characteristics of carbon materials and develop a hypothesis for relating gassing performance to the physical and purity properties of activated carbons, as well as graphite and carbon blacks.
"This project offers several very important benefits," explains Dr. Aaron Feaver, Chief Technology Officer at EnerG2. "Direct electrochemical performance of carbon in a lead-acid system has yet to be studied in depth, and our research will provide insight into the hydrogen gassing characteristics of carbon materials. The influence of carbon additives to negative plate performance can sometimes be difficult to distinguish due to interactions and parallel processes in the lead-acid battery system, and our project provides a test method for direct analysis of the electrochemical behavior of the carbon additives. Most importantly, though, at the end of this project, we think we'll be able to help lead-acid-battery manufacturers select carbons that do not adversely affect the hydrogen gassing performance of their batteries when included in the negative active material."
The new lead-acid battery application is based upon EnerG2's Carbon Technology Platform, which brings together the company's proprietary carbon processing technologies and rapidly advances the speed with which carbon technologies are developed and applied to a variety of energy storage applications.
Helping Key Industries Fulfill their Energy Potential "Advanced carbons represent a new frontier for improving lead-acid battery performance in emerging applications," says Rick Luebbe, CEO of EnerG2. "And the significant research project from the ALABC, for which we're very grateful, allows us to pursue a number of meaningful approaches that will help a variety of key industries fulfill their 21st century energy potential."
Lead-acid batteries, which are expected to generate $16 billion in sales by 2016, up from $10 billion in 2010, have been the energy storage backbone for a variety of applications. However, increasing power and cycle demands have limited the industry's growth and pushed manufacturers to seek new approaches, specifically the inclusion of carbons in the active materials.
Looking forward, one of the biggest opportunities for lead-acid batteries is in "micro-hybrid" vehicles, which draw battery power to eliminate idling in stop-and-go traffic and to power cabin electronics. This expanding market is expected to fuel gains for energy storage technologies through 2015.
"The ALABC research grant that EnerG2 has just received offers a good measure of encouragement for our supply base to continue innovating lead/acid battery technology," says Dr. Eckhard Karden at Ford Motor Company. "We need energy storage breakthroughs to make the best and cleanest vehicles possible in the coming years. That's why research toward cost-efficient storage devices is so important."
Support from the Public and Private Sectors Harnessing its patented, activated carbon technologies to build customized high-purity carbon materials at the molecular level, EnerG2 and its proprietary Carbon Technology Platform have attracted support from the public and private sectors because of a shared belief that the company's approach will ultimately improve the performance of a wide variety of critical and next-generation energy storage devices.
In addition to backing from the United States Department of Energy and the Washington State Energy Program, EnerG2 has received support from: the University of Washington, the Washington Technology Center, WRF Capital, the Sustainability Investment Fund, Northwest Energy Angels, the Frontier Angel Fund, OVP Venture Partners, Yaletown Venture Partners, Firelake Capital Management and strategic partner Oregon Freeze Dry.
Since its founding in 2003, EnerG2 has expanded its workforce to over 30 people; will hire more than 30 employees for its Albany, Oregon operation; and has placed its carbon materials in the hands of approximately 60 key energy storage companies. The company will operate the first facility in the world dedicated to the commercial-scale production of nano-engineered synthetic high-performance carbon electrode material in Albany, Oregon.
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Ibrahim Sunday
Personal information | |||
Full name | Ibrahim Sunday | ||
Date of birth | 22 July 1944 | ||
Place of birth | Koforidua, Ghana | ||
Playing position | Winger | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1966?–1975 | Asante Kotoko | ||
1975–1977 | Werder Bremen | 1 | (0) |
1977–1980 | VSK Osterholz-Scharmbeck | ||
National team | |||
1966–? | Ghana | 20 | (8) |
Teams managed | |||
c.1983 | Asante Kotoko | ||
c.1992 | Africa Sports | ||
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
Ibrahim Sunday (born 22 July 1944 in Koforidua, Eastern, Ghana[1]) is a former Ghanaian football player and coach.
Playing career[edit]
Sunday started his career playing for local club Kumasi Asante Kotoko, of which he became the captain. In 1970, he and his club won the African Cup of Champions, predecessor of the CAF Champions League, the first international title obtained by the club.[2] A midfielder, he played the majority of his career for Ghanaian club Asante Kotoko, and was also a member of the Ghana national team, participating in two Africa Nations Cup tournaments. In 1971, he won the African Footballer of the Year award.[3] In 1975, Sunday moved to Werder Bremen in the German Bundesliga, where in two seasons he barely had any playing time, appearing in only one league match against Rot-Weiß Essen in December 1976.[4]
International play[edit]
He was first named to the Ghana national team in 1966,[5] and his first official international tournament was the 1968 African Cup of Nations, where he scored a goal against Laurent Pokou's Côte d'Ivoire on the semifinal won by Ghana 4-3. The Black Stars lost the final to DR Congo. At the 1970 Nations Cup, there was a rematch of the semifinal from two years before; Ghana defeated the Ivorians again 2-1, with Sunday scoring the opening goal.[6] However, they lost in the final again, that time to hosts Sudan. The 1970 final was Sunday's last Nations Cup match, as Ghana failed to qualify for the 1972, 1974, and 1976 continental tournaments. In 1971, while playing for Kotoko, Sunday was named African Footballer of the Year (Ballon d'Or) by French magazine France Football, being the first of three Ghanaian footballers that have earned such distinction to date. Ghana then qualified for the 1972 Olympic tournament in Munich, and Sunday was part of the Olympic squad.
Coaching career[edit]
As a coach, he has managed his former club Asante Kotoko, leading them to their second African Cup of Champions victory in 1983. He also managed Abuakwa Susubiribi and Ashanti Goldfieds of Ghana, FC 105 of Gabon and Côte d'Ivoire club Africa Sports of Abidjan, whom he also led to the continental title in 1992.[7] and now coached the MTN Sports Academy.
- ^ Ibrahim Sunday Biography and Statistics - Olympics at Sports-References.com
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- ^ Der Kopfballartist zauberte nur eine Halbzeit lang
- ^ Source: http://www.fussballportal.de/index.php?kat=44&spieler_id=3720
- ^ (French) http://www.africafoot.com/special_can2002/souvenirs_de_can.html
- ^ See http://www.rsssf.com/tables/70a.html
- ^ Source: (French) http://www.rfi.fr/actufr/articles/078/article_44175.asp
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Misys, a leading supplier of software to the banking industry, saw its market value soar to nearly £1.5bn after it revealed a takeover approach.
The disclosure from Misys, which has offices in Worcester and London and employs 4,000 people worldwide, ends weeks of speculation that the group was a bid target.
Shares in the group jumped 9 per cent to a new 10-year high of 418.9p, valuing the group at £1.4bn. Misys gave no indication over who the bidder might be, but in recent weeks market talk has mentioned the US firms Sungard and FIS Global as possible bidders.
The company has more than 1,200 bank customers and is also a major supplier of back-office and trading systems to fund managers and traders. It has seen its value rise sharply over the past three years following the sale of its majority holding in the AllScripts US healthcare business last year, which resulted in a cash return of nearly £700m to Misys shareholders.
Misys shares have risen from 310p in March as takeover talk has persisted. Analysts suggested a bid for the company seemed inevitable given the group's strong market positions in software banking, and treasury and capital markets, and improved financial position following the recent restructuring carried out by its chief executive, Mike Lawrie, which included the Allscripts disposal.
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Lightnings weigh closer to 5,000 lbs. I believe 4,700 lbs. is about the exact weight, with bedcover and driver, you are looking at about 5K. My friends 01 L weighed 4700 on the dot when it was stock with no driver (before sound system, bedcover and chrome 22" boat anchor rims). An 99-00 Lightning is about a drivers race with a 99+ GT, the L might be a TAD quicker, but barely, my two buddys who are brothers raced their cars, one has a stock 00 L, and the other a 99 GT 5-speed with K&N, and Flows (stock H-pipe) and the GT had about half a car on him. An 01 L is faster than a GT, but I've seen well driven GT's come damn close. A GT with MAF, gears, pullies, O/R midpipe and mufflers should be about a drivers race VS a stock 01 L. Stock L's aren't TOO much faster than GT's, once they do the simple BPU mods is when they really start kickin' ass.
sorry but it looked like the lightning just pulled up next to him and then took off! Didnt look like the Z06 was even trying. I highly dout that the lightning even heavily modded would take a Z06!! especially from a roll like that. Top end the lightning is owned!! Hell ive taken 2 different lightnings in my car and i do not for a second think i could take a Z06!
Hahaha, I love how people base their opinion. YOU WILL NOT TAKE THIS ONE BIG BOY.. Hehehe I want to say he is near 500RWHP (don't quote me) and I know 620RWTQ. You can head over to crossroadonline.com and check out the street kills section for yourself, who knows, you might learn something. Just giving you a hard time, check it out though. Guy driving the Lightning is a great guy and he also owns a 03 Cobra, you can find the details at crossroadonline.com Cheers
I raced a '01 Lightning from a roll at 10 mph. I pulled a half a car length on him, and by 105 mph, we were dead even. If that L was stock, they are pretty damn quick. If he had the mods I have, I would of had a nice view of those ricey brake lights. Remeber, S/C motors respond 2 times better to mods than a N/A motor, especially exhaust mods.
was just saying it didnt look like the vette was racing. Also just because i have taken a couple L's by no means does that mean im saying i could take them all! I know of 2 around here that are also about 500rwhp and would not want to race them(well for fun maybe) but know my arse would be handed to me. I just honestly also cant see even at 500rwhp on a 4700pd truck taking a Z06 much after 100+ The hp and tq of the L im sure would have no prob taking one up to around 100 but when aerodynamics start kicking in that truck is done for. I raced this LT1 vette before that had some work done to it and we both started in 4th gear. I was about 1-2 car lengths on the guy up till about 135 then my car started to get to much drag and run out of breath. He also had lower gears (2:73's compared to my 3:73's) but still he kept on pulling wayyy past 150 and then some! The areodynamics of those cars at high speeds are very impressive and no mustang or especially lightning will ever match that.
It's a 2002 Lightning... If I am not mistaking, I think they knew each other. Also, in another video, their is a Z06 driver that says un-(phuggin) believable. He has had most of everything done to it and to stand near it while it is running is a great experience (cams) let a lone, to see it take off. I have personally rode in his 03 Cobra and it is such a blast. Great guy by the way. Shoot, almost, if not all the Lightnings where I hang out would destroy Z06's (even lightly moded).
You are talking about two different set ups of racing as you expressed. Stip is 1/4 at a time. And please note, I was just giving you a hard time. I didn't pass this Vid on to get flamed, you either know it or you don't. Check out crossroadonline.com here
I saw a bone stock lightning run 8.5's in the 1/8 mile. The best I've ever seen out of a stock gt in the 1/8 is like 9.2. I'm sorry no way unless the lightning guy was in overdrive or something. Or your highly modded. I raced a lightning on the freeway when i was stock (well tryed to) he took off so fast there was no point in racing him or trying. The guy got about 2 cars on me before i could even react in pushing down on the gas pedal. When he was boosting so much. A c-5 and a lightning are a good race.
The last two times I went to englishtown to race, there wasn't a lightning running over 12.7 and most were around 12.5 and it was over 85 degrees. they are very impressive and I wouldn't have believed it if I didn't see it.
If the lightning is full throttle, he's not going to hit overdrive until he's going well over 100 mph.
well what the hell was done to them then? had to have a good bit of bolt ons to pull that off including a different pulley. Ive watched many of the guys around here run with thier lightnings and best ive seen stock was 13.5 in the 1/4 and with alot of bolt ons and DR's ive seen one run a 12.98.....1/8 mile they are running in the area of 8.4-8.7!! there is only one ive seen around here that has an ass load of work done including full exhaust, tons of bolt ons and different pulley that runs the 1/8 almost every week and best ive seen him do is 7.9 This is also on average in 80+ degree heat.
I was referring to Budstang but 98superstangGT I think with all your mods you and a bone stock lightning would be a good race. At the track you would get him and on the street he would get you no doubt. All I gotta say is if this was a c5 vs gt thread everyone would be c5, but since its heavy truck everyone says gt. Even though a c5 and a lightning are like dead even cars. Josh
so its like i said, had a different pulley and im sure a few more bolt ons so there's nothing to argue then. A different pulley can make a HUGE difference on those things. I dont dout they were running what you said then. There are only a few around here though that have changed out to a different pulley so im sure thats why they are a little slower.


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Advances in Meteorology
Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 175296, 14 pages
Spectral Analysis of the Svalbard Temperature Record 1912–2010
1Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo, P.O. Box 1047 Blindern, N-0316 Oslo, Norway
2Department of Geology, University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS), P.O. Box 156, N-9171 Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway
3Department of Physics and Technology, University of Tromsø, N-9037 Tromsø, Norway
4Telenor Norway, Finance, N-1331 Fornebu, Norway
Received 14 September 2011; Revised 14 December 2011; Accepted 20 December 2011
Academic Editor: Igor N. Esau
Copyright © 2011 Ole Humlum et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Climate development with possible anthropogenic effects occurs on a background of natural climatic variations, which may be considerable, and especially in the Arctic. Natural climate variations however remain poorly understood, although they remain important for discriminating between natural and anthropogenic influences on current climate change. Using the Svalbard (78°N) surface air temperature record 1912–2010 as an example, we here suggest a road ahead to identify and describe such natural climate variations. By means of Fourier and wavelet analysis the record is decomposed into time-frequency space, to extract information on periodic signals and their amplitude and variation over time. By this we identify several cyclic variations on the time scale investigated. These oscillations are present in the annual record, as well as in seasonal subsets of the record. Using only three oscillations it is possible to hindcast the Svalbard temperature record well. We suggest that such persistent oscillations may be used for forecasting the overall features of future temperature changes for a limited period, about 10–25% of the record length. Our main focus is on identifying the character of recurrent natural temperature variations, but we also comment briefly on possible physical explanations for some of the identified cyclic variations.


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Americans with Israeli bank accounts may be in for a financial nightmare in just several months if they haven't filed their taxes properly.
According to Charles M. Ruchelman, a member of the Washington, D.C. law firm of Caplin & Drysdale, some Israeli banks are already notifying U.S. account holders that they may be disclosing the relationship between the Israeli banks and their U.S. owners to the U.S. Department of Justice, which could result in fines—or even prosecution—for Israeli account holders who didn't inform the U.S. of the funds they have abroad.
By law, Americans are required to submit 1040 tax forms to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) each year. Those forms ask them whether or not they hold a foreign bank account. If they do, and the aggregate value of all foreign financial accounts exceeded $10,000 at any time during the calendar year to be reported, they must file another form, the Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR). The IRS penalties for failing to report foreign accounts include fines of up to 50 percent of the account balance for each year of each violation.
Since 2007, the United States has been aggressively working to counter tax evasion, going after foreign banks to find what assets Americans are hiding within, and threatening to shut them out of the U.S. financial system if they don't comply. Just this past year, the IRS convinced UBS Switzerland and Credit Suisse to disclose information on their U.S. account holders; prosecution followed.
The banks are revealing the data because they are participating in a special program with the U.S. Department of Justice in order to avoid criminal prosecution themselves. The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) was enacted in 2010 and accepted by Switzerland in August 2013. According to multiple reports, Israeli banks have also agreed to sign on and will begin turning over information as early as July 2014. Media reports indicated that the Swiss branches of Bank Hapoalim, Bank Leumi, and Mizrahi Tefahot are under investigation.
"Israel wants to stay on the good side of the U.S. and to be a friend and an ally, so the banks are going to cooperate with the Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. government," Caplin & Drysdale's Ruchelman told JNS.org.
As part of the participation in and implementation of the program, explained Ruchelman, the Israeli banks will be required to disclose to the U.S. authorities certified details about U.S. held accounts, including—on an account-by-account basis—the highest value since 2008, the number of persons affiliated with the account, whether the account was held in a structure (i.e. foundation), and information about transfers of funds into or out of the account. An IRS examination could be triggered by the banks' disclosures to the U.S. authorities.
The challenge: This aggressive, all-encompassing approach may pick up a lot of people not intentionally trying to hide money.
Yaakov Jacob, a certified public accountant with Philip Stein & Associates, said his firm—which has offices in Jerusalem, Beit Shemesh, and Ramat Gan—is working with several Americans who have been living in Israel for decades (many since birth or since childhood) and didn't know they had to file.
"Sometimes people lived here since they were 3 or since they were born, and their parents were U.S. citizens, got for them a social security number and put them on the IRS' radar," Jacob told JNS.org. "Now, they have a filing requirement."
Similarly, Moshe Gelbtuch, senior manager at Roth and Co. LP, said he sees American clients, generally wealthy businesspeople, who traveled often to Israel and opened an account there for simplicity or to support the Jewish state.
"Some of them may have forgotten they opened it or it never entered their minds that they would have to report it," Gelbtuch told JNS.org. He noted that at the same time, until the U.S. focused its counter tax-evasion efforts on foreign bank accounts, accountants "didn't know or think to ask clients. … [These accounts] simply got ignored."
Gelbtuch said right now is the time to take action.
"If I were a betting person, I don't know that I would want to take a chance. I don't think any of this is hype," he said.
In 2013, six Israelis were prosecuted for having undisclosed bank accounts. Most recently, David Raminfard of Los Angeles pleaded guilty on Nov. 4 in federal court to one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States. According to court documents, Raminfard, a U.S. citizen, maintained undeclared bank accounts at an international bank headquartered in Tel Aviv, identified in court documents as Bank A. For tax years 2005 through 2010, Raminfard failed to report approximately $521,000 in income. The highest balance in Raminfard's undeclared accounts was approximately $3 million. He faces a potential maximum prison term of five years and a maximum fine of $250,000. In addition, he has agreed to pay a civil penalty to the IRS in the amount of 50 percent of the high balance of his undeclared accounts, for failing to file FBARs.
Ruchelman said that for another several months, Americans are able to take advantage of the Overseas Voluntary Disclosure Program (OVDP) for people who have violated the law. This requires them to admit past violations, file old tax returns and pay a lower—though possibly still substantial—fine.
"[Americans with Israeli bank accounts] really need to talk to an attorney," Ruchelman said. "There is a cost to that, but doing so will be getting criminal exposure off the table so you can sleep at night."
Ruchelman said part of the reason for OVDP is to give individuals who really did not know about the law a chance to make good, and to get people back into compliance and back into the system. He explained that the U.S. is losing millions of dollars per tax year, which is multiplied exponentially over decades. He added that when FATCA goes into effect, there would no longer be a chance to plead innocent or ignorant.
Jacob said that people who open new bank accounts at Bank Leumi are already being asked about their U.S. citizenship. He said they are being requested to fill out a W-9 form, which enables the banks to obtain the information that will be required to turn over to the States. He also noted that once someone is under investigation, that person cannot enter the OVDP program, so it is important that people make that move before they are turned over to the IRS.
Ruchelman explained, "Whether you are intentionally hiding it or not, the information will be sent to the IRS. … The IRS voluntary disclosure program … could change at any moment. … U.S. taxpayers should move quickly."
Maayan Jaffe is a freelance writer based in Overland Park, Kan.
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Taliban leaders will decide soon whether to join talks with the Afghan government, a militant spokesman said yesterday, after President Hamid Karzai invited them to a peace council aimed at ending the war.
In the country's south, suicide attackers launched an assault in the capital of Helmand, Afghanistan's most violent province, with gunmen holed up in three buildings, battling government and Nato troops who returned fire with helicopter strikes. When the fighting stopped before dusk a witness saw the bullet-riddled bodies of four gunmen dragged out of a building in Lashkar Gah by Afghan troops and displayed in the street. Two of the dead gunmen wore police uniforms.
At a major conference in London on Thursday, Mr Karzai set the framework for dialogue with Taliban leaders when he called on the Islamist group's leadership to take part in a "loya jirga" – or large assembly of elders – to initiate peace talks.
The call came amidst a diplomatic push from Western powers involved in the Afghan conflict to make hard plans that would pave the way for them to begin withdrawing their troops.
Under Mr Karzai's proposal, the West would not be directly involved in peace talks. A separate plan backed by Washington and its allies would set up a fund to reintegrate Taliban fighters by luring them away from the insurgency with jobs and cash.
A Taliban spokesman declined to talk in detail about the President's plans and only said the militants would make a decision "soon" about his offer. "I cannot say a word regarding these peace talks. The Taliban leadership will soon decide whether to take part," the spokesman, who uses the name Qari Mohammad Yousuf, said by telephone from an undisclosed location.
The Taliban have said repeatedly that negotiations with the Afghan government can only take place when foreign troops completely withdraw from Afghanistan and have dismissed the reintegration plans as a "trick".
A big Pashtun tribe in east Afghanistan, the Shinwari, meanwhile, announced it would help the Afghan government in its efforts to fight the Taliban in return for construction projects for the community. The tribe's head, Malek Osman, said he would impose a fine on anyone in his district who worked with the Taliban, and urged one man of fighting age from each family to join the army or police.
The government in Kabul and its Western backers have increasingly signalled their hope for a negotiated end to the eight-year-old war. A UN official said the organisation's envoy to Afghanistan, Kai Eide, had met representatives of the Taliban leadership in Dubai earlier this month. Mr Eide told the BBC yesterday that he would not reveal details of any meetings that might have happened.
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No doubt miffed that gadget blogs were inexplicably excited about Apple's Magic Trackpad last month, the folks at Microsoft Hardware have posted a couple of tweets with teaser images revealing a mysterious upcoming product. Assembled together, the two images look like so:
The first tweet also provides one hint: "Don't be so touchy…flat is where it's at." (And no, there isn't a bigger image.)
Considering Microsoft Hardware is all about mice and keyboards, one would be tempted to think this upcoming product is some sort of multi-touch mouse. That certainly wouldn't be the first hint; Microsoft demoed multi-touch mouse prototypes last year, and e-tail listings for a "Microsoft Arc Touch Mouse" quietly appeared last month. The pictured design doesn't look very arc-like, but who knows... perhaps Microsoft has more than one multi-touch peripheral up its sleeve. (Thanks to Engadget for the tip.)
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