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This week, Next Issue Media released a new Android tablet newsstand for magazines from equity partners Condé Nast, Hearst, Meredith and Time Inc. According to NIM, an iPad version will be submitted to Apple's App Store in roughly six weeks. For the first time, customers can subscribe to unlimited reading of as many as 32 titles from five different publishers through one app, with one user interface, at one price.
We've now had plenty of magazine apps and even some efforts at UI standards, depending on the device. Next Issue even brought out its first batch of magazines for Android tablets almost a year ago, offering seven titles from four publishers. Next Issue CEO Morgan Guenther now refers to that soft launch as a "beta preview," a proof-of-concept to kick the tires for what the joint venture is offering now.
"If you look at where we started in June of 2010 to today, there's been a ton of innovation," says Guenther. "But about 95 percent has been on the hardware and operating system side. We went from iPad 1 to iPads 2 and 3, FroYo to Gingerbread, Honeycomb, and Ice Cream Sandwich. The Kindle Fire and Nook have sold a ton of tablets. But where is the consumer innovation?"
That's why the all-you-can-eat pricing model is what's attention-worthy here. Ten dollars per month ("Unlimited Basic") fetches access to all the monthlies and biweeklies in the catalog (Popular Mechanics, Vanity Fair, Real Simple, etc.); $15 ("Unlimited Premium") adds weeklies like Entertainment Weekly, People, Sports Illustrated, The New Yorker and Time for an extra $5. $180 annually may be a lot of money, but that's a lot of magazines.
(Disclosure: Wired isn't included in the initial group of NIM magazines, but other titles from our publisher Condé Nast are, and Condé Nast is a partner in the NIM joint venture.)
Next Issue also offers single issues, subscriptions to individual titles, and comped digital copies for current print subscribers — all things most of us are familiar with from existing mags for iOS or Android. The cross-title, cross-platforms subscriptions for a flat rate are the high-order bit.
What's more, Guenther says the $10 and $15 price points are unlikely to change even as more titles from NIM's publishing partners are added. "We'd never say never, but we feel very good about those prices," Guenther told Wired. "If you look at similar offerings in other media, with Netflix at $7.99 and Spotify at $10, or what HBO costs, we think we look pretty good."
Time, Inc. Executive VP Steve Sachs agrees. "We know from other content categories what happens when you introduce a new offer to consumers to buy on an unlimited basis rather than piece-by-piece," Sachs told me. "Not only do they find benefit in that model, they consume more in that category.
"This is really about driving adoption of digital magazines to create a rising tide for the entire category," added Sachs. "Our philosophy is that as a market leader in magazines, as that tide goes up we'll get our share."
It's a typical Silicon Valley start-up strategy: Price for fast growth in the market and figure out how to finesse the profit and revenue side later. (It helps that Guenther and most of the engineering team at NIM are based in Palo Alto.)
It's just the opposite of typical media start-up content. It's not user-created or leveraging the "long tail" of niche publications or the back catalog. (NIM also has offices near its publishing partners in New York.)
Instead, it's a return to content's "short head" — you know, the other segment on the curve where you find big volume. NIM's first 35 titles, Guenther says, already have a mostly print readership of 350 million, with $8 billion in ad revenue.
This is a pretty big deal. It's a little like if Hulu Plus just included every new show from the four networks, HBO, Showtime, Disney, AMC and ESPN. Or to use a different metaphor: this is a cable subscription for the most popular magazines in the world.
By partnering together, the magazine publishers (plus News Corp., who has a stake in the joint venture but doesn't yet have a title in the mix) don't just get more eyeballs on tablet editions and a little more revenue. They also get the chance to experiment with new business models and delivery mechanisms.
After all, the biggest reason to try to grow digital magazine readership quickly is to grow digital advertising buys. But Guenther and NIM want to offer something more to advertisers than just more numbers, like better targeting and bigger reach.
"Right now, there's no scale in digital magazines for advertising," says Guenther. Currently, magazine titles sell their own ads for tablets, usually for all platforms (iPad, Android, Kindle, Nook, etc.), often bundled with print and/or web buys.
"With our platform, we have the capabiliity of showing cross-title engagement," Guenther adds. "Instead of 18- to 34-year-old-males all going into individual apps, we can do group sales to reach that same guy over at Wired or Esquire, etc."
Sachs at Time sees cross-publisher ad sales as "a ways down the road": Next Issue's partners could definitely "create a network offering that advertisers might find compelling. It would probably be a little different from what Hulu does now. It's not really a focus of our strategy right now — maybe a year or two down the road"
For Sachs and Guenther, the real opportunity for advertising and subscription is to deepen engagement from existing readers, help move heavy readers of one title to another they might not have thought to read, and to help open up the category to light magazine readers who may not subscribe to any titles at all.
A big part of that is reducing friction. "Right now, in all of our app stores," says Sachs, "if a customer wants to read multiple magazines, have to download an app every time they want to read that title for the first time." Apple's made things somewhat better on the discovery side with a separate "newsstand section," but you still need to download an app for every title. It may not seem like a big deal, but every click matters.
Here as elsewhere, Guenther likes to look ahead. "For magazines, I think the native App Store is an interim solution for what will ultimately be all browser-based buying and reading," he says.
Guenther makes with an analogy with TiVo, where he was president before joining NIM. "We always used to say, performance is better on the edge. We laughed at the cable companies doing streaming video, because they had to build all this cloud infrastructure to play the same HD content we were storing locally. But if you look now, HD streaming video is getting there.
"In 18 to 24 months, it'll be the same with magazines," he adds. "HTML5 templates and standards, the cloud infrastructure, wireless speeds, the devices will all get better. And with these new Retina Displays, you're looking at 50MB per page. At some point, you have to leapfrog this whole thing. It's shaking everything up. Luckily, we think the big guys see it."
And here as elsewhere, Time's Sachs is a little more rooted in the present. "App stores will continue to be a significant part of the retailing experience," he says. "Customers love them. Apple, Google Play and Amazon are digital superstores. They're one place to go to find everything. That won't change. But when the technology gets there, so we can get real design and layout fidelity, we think HTML5 will be absolutely a new option our customers will find convenient."
Here's my prediction: Within two years, we won't call newsstands like Next Issue's "a Netflix for magazines" because it's one price for a big catalog of content. We'll call it "a Netflix for magazines" because instead of mail delivery or bulky downloads, the primary delivery mechanism will be streaming high-definition, through-designed magazines over the web.
Then we get into the stuff that's really fun for Guenther. How do I do search? What about individual article discovery? Where are the recommendations? What does personalization look like in magazines? How do we interact with social media and the open graph? You don't need to go to HTML web magazines to add these elements, but they all point in that same web-native direction.
They also all point to bringing magazines back to the center of public attention, social conversation and private enjoyment.
"At a high industry level," Guenther says, "our job is to start to turn around the decline of magazine readership as a slice of people's leisure time. With digital technology, web consumption has gone up, TV consumption has gone up, social media, and so forth — and a chunk of that has been at the expense of magazines."
In Guenther's mind, on top of efforts like NIM's, a few things will help grow the share for magazines:
Tablets that reach price points that are accessible to everybody. "Everybody in the developed world can find and read magazines," says Guenther. "We need to make that the same in the digital world." But how do we get there?
Google doubling down on the Android tablet category. "We hear their new tablet will ostensibly be priced at $150, Guenther says. "Some guys can afford to subsidize, and Google is one of them."
More devices with more firepower from Amazon and Barnes & Noble. "We're told Amazon has two or three new Kindle Fire devices in the works right now, and we suspect they're all running Android built on Honeycomb or above," says Guenther. "When the Fire comes out with something that can run us, we'll be all over that."
The next generation Nook tablet, too, brings millions of magazine readers, including lots of upper-middle-class women, a demographic any magazine publisher wants to reach.
In short, even though people joke about the nonexistence of the Android tablet market, Next Issue had many very good reasons for starting with Android tablets as well as iOS. The greater market of Android-compatible reading devices can and likely will get very big in a hurry.
I'm also thinking (and probably will be thinking for a while) about the findings in this week's Pew Research Center report on the rise of e-reading.
The two big takeaways of the Pew Report are, first, that more people are reading on digital devices than ever, including a bump from 17 percent to 21 percent of respondents over the recent holidays alone. The second is that people who read on digital devices read more, both digitally and in print.
There are methodological issues with the report that keep me from drawing grand conclusions even in e-books, let alone another publishing category. But it's clear that in magazines as well as books, digital technology offers substantial opportunities for both growing share among casual readers and deepening relationships with intensive readers.
It offers those opportunities to both readers and publishers if both parties choose to take them.
This is important, because the only group that's probably more fickle than magazine publishers are magazine readers, particularly once you enlarge that sphere to include the entire digital world.
Unlike books, a lot of magazine content is already on the web legally and for free, being sold against ads as we speak. Will customers pay $10 to $15 per month for magazines they may or may not read, when the competition for that last $10, whether from Netflix, Spotify, HBO or anyone else, is already so fierce?
Alternatively, what if instead of enabling new attachments, Next Issue's gigantic pool of content simply erodes customers' already fraying attachment to magazine brands? What does that do, not just to advertising, but to the still-emerging range of vertical opportunities within brands, from stores to conferences?
What happens if or when I stop being a Wired reader and become an 18 to 34 male?
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By Declan Taylor
Arsène Wenger still does not know when Tomas Rosicky will be back in action.
A number of complications with an injury sustained against Newcastle in January kept the Czech midfielder out of the second half of last season, the European Championships and the start of 2008/09.
When he is back in contention, the 28-year-old will add vital experience to a very youthful midfield, but his manager admits that there is still no solid return date.
"I believe that all the checks we made are reassuring, but it's difficult to say," said the Frenchman. "It's an inflammation that's going on in his leg that has to settle, to calm down."
"We are a little bit speechless on that at the moment because we feel it is all going well. It is a problem of re-coordinating his muscle with the exercises he does.
"There's nothing really that harms his future, but, as well nobody can tell me on the 10th of December he will play.
"He can be on the 31st of December, he can be on the 10th of November, nobody knows with him. In the next two months he should be back but what date, nobody knows."Copyright 2017 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source

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Despite its high profile in India and in the US, the David Headley trial has been left largely unreported in Pakistan. Most news channels refer to Headley as an American and in most instances do not mention the Pakistani connection. Some media outlets also question his Pakistani links terming it 'Indian propaganda'.
This week there was no mention in any of the major channels or newspapers about his trial or its conclusion.
But Headley has had a far reaching effect on Pakistanis who travel abroad.
Pakistani foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar admitted that Pakistanis are facing tougher restrictions abroad with many Western countries now insisting on extra security clearances for them.
In addition, there have been instances where people who visit Pakistan are questioned at airports in Europe and US and some are even denied entry.
Activists in Pakistan say that Pakistanis are facing discrimination because of people like David Coleman Headley and Faisal Shehzad, the Times Square bomber.
"We have been fighting the extra security requirements imposed on Pakistani nationals and how some governments assume all Pakistanis are terrorists unless proven otherwise," says Ansar Burney, who runs an NGO that helps Pakistanis lodged in foreign prisons.
Burney says that after the Headley incident and other such incidents, many Pakistanis have been illegally detained.


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kuma32478 wrote:I'd vote for no Nukes. Tiebreaker is random map with standard sunny settings.
Also, why not just have one clan send out their 20 in RD1, another clan in RD2 and the final clan in RD3
Im fine with no nukes, I dont like them anyways lol
tiebreaker played only if needed right?
As for the staggered invites.... :shrug: Im weird....
Either way is fine with me, Was just throwing it out there


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In Evil Hour (original 1962; edition 1980)
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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In Evil Hour by Gabriel García Márquez (1962)
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A solid story with a claustrophobic, hot atmosphere; but to understand this you need to really understand a lot more about South American politics than I do to get the satirical thrust.
A short novella for any fan of [a:Gabriel García Márquez|13450|Gabriel García Márquez|https://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1397938106p2/13450.jpg].
Not really my favorite work of his. Or perhaps it was the translation? I don't know. I understood what was happening at a very basic level, but I think somewhere along the way the prose just didn't get to me. I found myself just reading the words rather than understanding the complexity of layers the builds upon one another. It's a story about a town, about the people, about history and violence, and about human nature. But that's all I can really say, since this text didn't speak to me as much as I had hoped it would.
After reading Liam Howley's The Absurd Demise of Poulnabrone I felt the sudden (if not completely inexplicable) urge to read a novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, an author I've been wanting to read more of for quite some time, and as I'm a sucker for chronology, I grabbed his first published novel, In Evil Hour (only to find out later that he had published two novellas before that… ah well).
It is a very short novel but has a felt two dozen protagonists, so it is not always easy to keep everyone apart, and reading it is likely to require more attention than its language or structure might otherwise warrant. With that many characters in such a small space, you wouldn't expect them to be fleshed out much, and indeed, they aren't: Marquez is obviously not so much interested in portraying individuals but instead wants to give the collective portrait of a village, each inhabitant part of a whole rather than something in and of themselves.
The village itself is never named, which suggests that, just like he is not describing individual persons, Marquez' is not to write about a specific village. Using the regional to portray the general while still staying true to regional idiosyncrasies is a method William Faulkner has perfected, and his influence is very, very noticeable here, not just in the way local peculiarities and wide-ranging allegory are folded into each other, but also in the way In Evil Hour never seems to be tackle its supposed subjects directly, but has a strange, and to me at least very Faulknerian way to write around them. The ostensible subject of the novel, what its claims its plot to be about and what keeps evens moving is a deluge of slanderous notes pinned to house walls the village is being plagued by. (The translator renders the Spanish word as "lampoon" which did seem a bit off to me, as the contents of the notes appears to be gossip rather than the satire the English term would imply.)
In Evil Hour starts off with a (literal) bang as the notes claim a first death (which will not be the last), and the main part of the novel shows how the village's authority figures – the mayor (who, like the village, is never given a name), the judge and the priest – attempt to deal with the perceived threats to the village's peace, attempts that lead to a downwards spiral of violence and oppression until the village finally slides back into the dictatorship it originally claimed to have left behind for a more enlightened and humane regime. While all this happens, we never get to see a single one of those notes (the only one that actually shows up is immediately torn into small pieces without the reader being told anything about its specific content), they are only referred to by others, and – of course – we never get to find out who actually posted them. The latter in particular seems to have infuriated quite a few readers, but I think it actually works in the novel's favour, lending it a slightly off, unreal atmosphere, as if we were watching a dream unfold, a dream that inexorably descends into a nightmare.
So while there is nothing blatantly magical about In Evil Hour, it's not simply realistic either – there is a pervasive sense of unreality shrouding the characters and events in the novel; it never really manifests itself but is felt all the more keenly precisely because of its intangibility. Even the characters themselves seem to be aware of that some times, it is like one of them occasionally lifts his or her head, wondering what it is they are doing, on the cusp of waking – only to sink back into the dream again an instant later. And here lies what appears to me to be a bit of an issue with In Evil Hour: It is undoubtedly an immensely political novel, offering what I think is a valid analysis of how power structures persist even after the circumstances and reasons that give rise to them have disappeared. But the political impetus would have to be one towards change, and for that the dreamlike quality of the novel which tinges everything with an air of fatalistic necessity seems very counterproductive. In Evil Hour demonstrates that change is necessary, while at the same time suggesting that it is impossible, thus getting in its own way and lessening its impact – although, of course, one also might read it as a profoundly bleak novel about the futility of political endeavour.
I keep trying to read GGM novels because I think they MUST be good! He must be a GREAT author. He MUST be amazing. Or he is great, but just for people smarter than me. I'm still not sure what happened in this story and I finished it! There were notices being put up on people's doors about affairs. Someone got shot. There was a mayor/police chief/military officer person...he didn't like the dentist. And there was a priest who rang a bell when he didn't want people to go see a movie. And the church had mice. Honestly though, nothing was resolved! I am so confused! If someone can explain this book to me...PLEASE do!
A small town, recently and brutaly ''pacified'' after a civil war, immersed in a thick, sticky, oppressively hot and humid tropical weather, is brewing a latent violence, expressed in the nightly postings of anonymous pasquines disclosing supposedly private secrets but in reality displaying gossip known to all. One of those sheets triggers the murder that is the starting point of this engaging Márquez's novel.
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John to depart for USA!
By Jeffrey Pamungkas
After one month of training at Harry's Gym in Perth, Australia, Chris John and his trainer, Craig Christian, was in Indonesia for some days before departing to the US today (8/13), for the rematch with Rocky Juarez. Their first match in Houston, Texas, ended in a disputed draw, then John pulled out just a week before the June 27 rematch in Los Angeles due to a breathing illness. Now he stated that he has no longer had any problem with his health and he's already well prepared for this fight, and ready to prove that he deserves to win the fight against Juarez, rescheduled on September 19 in MGM Grand, Las Vegas, as the co-feature bout of JM Marquez vs Floyd Mayweather Jr.


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- DM Bravo 14
- MN Samuels 16
- S Chanderpaul 203*
- D Ramdin 126*
- Sohag Gazi 3/145
- Shahadat Hossain 1/85
- Rubel Hossain 0/89
- Mahmudullah 0/45
- Shakib Al Hasan 0/104
- Naeem Islam 0/24
- Nasir Hossain 0/8
- Tamim Iqbal 0/10
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Sohag Gazi to Gayle, OUT, Gazi gets a big debut wicket!! Gayle charged down to a flighted ball but didn't get the timing he wanted to send the ball over the long-off fielder placed for the shot, gives an easy catch to the fielder there. What a start for the youngster after getting hit for a couple of sixes in his first over!
CH Gayle c Mahmudullah b Sohag Gazi 24 (20m 17b 2x4 2x6) SR: 141.17
Sohag Gazi to Bravo, OUT, Gazi gets his second wicket this time. This was flighted way outside off and Bravo went for a big drive away from his body, but the ball turns and takes an outside edge that lobs easily to the fielder at point.
DM Bravo c Rubel Hossain b Sohag Gazi 14 (50m 28b 3x4 0x6) SR: 50.00
Shahadat Hossain to Samuels, OUT, a wicket at the stroke of lunch. Short and on the body, Samuels obliges with a crisp pull shot but fails to keep it down. Gazi, who has been having a good debut, is placed in the deep for the shot and he dives forward to pull off a smart catch. Another big one falls for West Indies.
MN Samuels c Sohag Gazi b Shahadat Hossain 16 (46m 41b 3x4 0x6) SR: 39.02
Sohag Gazi to Powell, OUT, Gazi gets his third. Over the stumps this time, the ball was a bit on the shorter side and Powell wanted to smash it somewhere around the mid-wicket boundary, the ball turned and probably stayed a little low and hit the middle.
KOA Powell b Sohag Gazi 117 (243m 178b 18x4 1x6) SR: 65.73
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"Darn!" I muttered (or something stronger) as I pushed off in my kayak from the sandy shore of Follensby Clear Pond. A strong headwind started blowing across the lake just as I managed to start paddling, and the small waves turned into a difficult chop. Off in the distance, I could see a loon couple playing around, but I was doubtful that I'd make it far enough onto the lake to get any good photos. Besides, even if I could stay afloat with these cresting waves, keeping the camera steady would be impossible.
Intent on making some headway even as part of me wanted to turn back, I kept paddling against the chop. Nothing like kayaking into the wind to test my strength and make me think that if I could do this every day I'd be in Olympic form! At least in my dreams…
Then, as I made it past an esker into the lake and rounded the corner, suddenly, the wind died and the water became very calm. And there, right in front of me, the loveliest loons I have yet to encounter!
Loons are not usually friendly, but on this particular day the three couples I observed in the more hidden coves of this lovely lake seemed relaxed and almost friendly. I noted that they had no chicks, which probably explained their approachability — they sent the kids to college and so were ready to par-tay…. or something like that! I got close enough to get some real loon portraits:
Sometimes, what starts out as a very rough trip across difficult waters turns out to be a very successful adventure!
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Submitted to: The Plant Cell
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 7/10/2002
Publication Date: 9/1/2002
Citation: VAN DER HOEVEN, R., RONNING, C., GIOVANNONI, J.J., MARTIN, G., TANKSLEY, S. DEDUCTIONS ABOUT THE NUMBER, ORGANIZATION AND EVOLUTION OF GENES IN THE TOMATO GENOME BASED ON ANALYSIS OF LARGE EST COLLECTION AND SELECTIVE GENOMIC SEQUENCING. THE PLANT CELL. 2002. V. 14. P. 1441-1456. Interpretive Summary: We have generated a database for tomato comprising more than 120,000 ESTs. In addition, BAC clones corresponding to six selected regions of the tomato genome were sequenced. In this report we describe the analysis of both the tomato EST database and the BAC sequences. Computational comparisons are made against the arabidopsis genomic sequence and a similar high density EST database from another dicot species, Medicago truncatula. As a result of these analyses, we have been able to address a number of issues including the content, number and organization of genes in the tomato genome and the degree to which genes have diverged since tomato, arabidopsis and M. truncatula diverged from their last common ancestor.
Technical Abstract: Analysis of a collection of 120,892 single pass ESTs, derived from 26 different tomato cDNA libraries and reduced to a set of 27,274 unique consensus sequences (unigenes) reveals that 70% of the unigenes have identifiable homologs in the arabidopsis genome. Many of the most highly conserved multigene families share similar copy numbers between tomato and arabidopsis, suggesting that the multiplicity of these families may have occurred prior to the divergence of these two species. Finally, 6 BAC clones from different parts of the tomato genome were sequencing and annotated. The combined analysis of the EST database and these six sequenced BACs, leads to the prediction that the tomato genome encodes approximately 35,000 genes.


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He is all about provoking authority, seeking opportunity for a lawsuit, it has nothing to do with gun rights. I have exchanged PM with him before. He is a world class sphincter.


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Habitat and Distribution: Found in forests and grassy plains of India, Indochina, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, and southern China.
Size: 7-12 feet at the shoulder; 5,000-14,000 pounds
Wild Diet: Grasses, bamboo, small trees, bark, shrubs, and fruit
Predators: Humans; some calves become prey to tigers.
Reproduction: Asian elephants are ready to mate at 10-17 years. Females give birth to a single calf after a gestation of 20-22 months (twins are rare). Each calf weighs about 200 pounds at birth, can stand within a half hour, and will nurse for 2-3 years. Aunts within the herd serve as midwives, removing the fetal membrane and helping the baby to stand.
Behavior: Asian elephants make a variety of sounds, including trumpets, roars, purrs, and squeaks. Some of these low-frequency sounds can travel for miles. Like African elephants, they have matriarchal societies, meaning that one female elephant leads and other females assume different ranks within a herd. Males leave their herds at 10-15 years of age and generally roam alone or in small bachelor groups.
IUCN Status: Endangered
Asian elephant populations have declined as a result of poaching and ivory trading, and they are quickly losing their wild habitat due to human encroachment.
Did you know?
- Asian elephants can eat up to 300 pounds of food in a day.
- They have 6 sets of teeth in their lifetime. Instead of being replaced vertically (like ours), elephant teeth slowly move from the back of the mouth to the front as new molars grow continuously.
- They use a fingerlike feature at the end of the trunk to grab small items.
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In the long-standing tradition of fine porcelain dining, our double-shot cups are designed for specialty coffee drinks. They display beautifully alongside the rest of the Great White dinnerware and a host of colorful table linens and accessories.
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ING Insurance is used to be of the leading providers of life insurance products in Australia. They offered a broad range of products that include life insurance,trauma insurance, total and permanent disability,income protection, business expense, living expense, child and Extra Care insurance. These enabled individuals, families and businesses to protect their wealth, income and dependants.
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From May 2002 until late 2009, ING Australia operated as a joint venture between Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited (ANZ), one of Australia's major banks and the global ING Group (ING). ANZ purchased all of ING Group's shareholding in ING Australia, and now owns 100% of the company. This new venture is called OnePath and now operates as ANZ's Australian specialist wealth management and protection business.
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The railings have been on Marine Drive for nearly 100 years.
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Patricia Cornwell's novels of big-city police have taken this classic genre to a new level. Now, with this #1 New York Times bestselling novel, she outdoes herself, with a wry tale of life and turmoil behind the blue wall.
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Back to School Program
The Back to School Program ensures that children from low-income families in our area receive the tools they need to succeed in school. This includes backpacks stuffed with grade level supplies for children in Pre-K through high school and supplies for college students. The program reaches nearly 1,000 students in total each year through the generosity of the community.
During the summer, MOM collects new school supplies and new back packs for this program. Cash donations are also accepted and used to purchase items needed for the program.
Donations of new and gently used athletic apparel and equipment are also accepted to help student athletes achieve success with extra-curricular activities. Many talented student athletes are not able to participate in their sport of choice due to lack of affordability.
The Back to School Program is one of many ways that MOM is working to keep families in stable housing, supplying them with the assistance needed to free up financial resources to pay rent. The program also provides relief to families worried about the extra expense, and joy to children as they prepare for a great year ahead.
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- Blackhawk Church
- Cross Plains Lions Club
- Cross Plains Optimist Club
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Items most needed
All supplies are needed and welcomed but we find the greatest needs each year include:
- extra-large back packs for high school students
- dry erase markers
- three ring binders (without logos)
- graph paper
- dividers for folders and binders
- protractors
- compasses
- black sharpies
- Crayola crayons
- plastic page protectors in packs of 10
- 3x3 Post-it notes
- scotch tape
- pocket folders
All donations of brand new items are welcomed.
Where to bring Donations
Brand new backpacks and school supplies should come directly to the MOM office.
Donations of sporting goods and gently used school supplies can be taken directly to the MOM Distribution Center.
You can also find brightly colored barrels in which to leave your donations throughout the community.
Please bring your items by Friday, August 19.
How else you can help
- If you have a child, consider buying double of what is on your child's list.
- Help organize a supply drive in your neighborhood, your church or at your office.
- Donate money.
Community Drop-Off Locations
"Stuff the Bus" with the Cross Plains Lions
- Terry's Market, Cross Plains
- World of Variety, Cross Plains
- Cross Plains Pharmacy
- Walgreens, Cross Plains
- St. Frances Parish, Cross Plains
- Sisters on Main, Cross Plains
- St. Martin's Church, Cross Plains
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The report, titled "Targeting Emerging Delivery Technologies across the Value Chain: From Chemicals and Materials Suppliers to End-Products and Applications," applies the Lux Innovation Grid framework to evaluate developers of targeted delivery technologies including advanced materials, encapsulation technologies, biological and chemical targeting platforms, delivery devices, and processing technologies.
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You've probably been in the position of trying to figure out if that tie you are about to purchase your father for Father's Day is too similar to the one from last year, or if what he really needs is yet another package of socks, but what exactly is Father's Day for the recipients of these classic gifts?
Two fathers share views on what Father's Day means to them.
A view from across the pond:
Wandering the Safeway parking lot in Willits, Martin and Pauline Jenks, a longtime married couple visiting California from Brighton, England were desperately searching for a caf? and some good coffee. They spared a few moments to discuss what it means to be a father. With a coy laugh Martin responded, "The best part of being a father is having a son and a daughter."
Martin also recalled the many sleepless nights when his children were young. With their children all grown up, their daughter, 32, and their son, 31, the Jenks shared fond memories of their daughter's wedding, family vacations to Disney World, and graduations from university. Their son now lives in London, England and their daughter in Edinburgh, Scotland which means each visit is eagerly anticipated, with much excitement, according to Martin.
Martin said that in his younger days he played squash with his son, but then laughed and said, "He's gotten too good for me now."
?"Fathers Day doesn't seem to be as big in England," said Martin, "I'll maybe get a card or an email." When the kids were younger he would get handcrafted cards and gifts from their children and in more recent years he has received items like a DVD or a CD, he said.
A new Laytonville father shares his view of Father's Day:
While unloading his eight-month-old son Paxton's car seat from the back of his vehicle Ben Scott, 23, of Laytonville said that missing out on sleep is tough but, much like the Jenks' response, he simply pointed at Paxton and let out a huge smile. With his wife, Jordan Scott, 19, of Willits at his side and his son in his arms, Ben said that despite the new issues with scheduling and the lack of sleep they were enjoying parenthood. "We are loving all of the milestones that happen; seeing him crawl and grow up," Jordon added.
Ben works for Cal-Fire and is stationed in Boonville, which means that he spends a lot of time away from home on duty. "He has worked for them for six years and this is the earliest he has ever started," said Jordan. He might be at work for Fathers Day, but if he isn't he will be spending the day with his family opening presents and eating a nice Father's Day meal. Jordan said she will send him photos and plans on rescheduling Father's Day if he does get called into work.
Ben hopes that his son will grow up to play sports, any or all. He said "I grew up playing everything."?Paxton received a signed football from his grandfather when he was first born, Jordan said.
Both fathers clearly expressed, whether their children were 32 years or only eight months old, what they cherished most was the time spent with their children. "He started saying dada, and he said it before mama," Ben said proudly.


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Besides juggling a busy school schedule and social life, many Fashionistas and Fashionistos are also interning during the semester as well. The stress of interning does not just come from the added time commitment. People often think that interning means one thing: the dreaded suit and tie.
Well, Fashionistas/os, I am here to dispel that horrid myth. In most cases, there is no need to suit up to an internship. In fact, the lady with the final word on everything in fashion, Anna Wintour, has publicly said that for an interview or internship at Vogue, the wrong thing to wear would be a suit. If Anna says its not necessary, then Fashionistas/os, it is not necessary.
So what should you wear to an internship then? When I spotted this Fashionisto, I knew I had found the answer to that allusive question. Even better, his look is comprised of everything every Fashionisto should already own! A bright blue button-down is the perfect alternative to classic white. The color is universally flattering on most skin tones and adds some personality to a look. Roll up the sleeves to make the look more relaxed and not so stuffy. Next, put on your favorite tie. Opt for a tie that shows a bit of your personality. I am not talking about sporting neckwear with cartoon characters by any means; but a nice pattern adds some pizazz to the classic silhouette.
While Fashionistas have pencil skirts and dresses, Fashionistos have the opportunity to sport some leg too with a pair of well-tailored shorts. Choosing khaki over denim keeps the look office appropriate with still young and fresh.
Finish the look with a pair of standout shoes. His blue, lace-up sneakers are sure to be a memorable fashion moment around the office.
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Bruins defenseman Dennis Seidenberg is out for the season with a torn ACL/MCL suffered in the final minutes of Friday's game, the team announced Saturday. The team also announced it has recalled Zach Trotman on an emergency basis and assigned goaltender Niklas Svedberg to Providence.
Seidenberg suffered the injury with about four minutes to play in Friday's game when he got tangled up with Senators forward Cory Conacher. He left the ice in pain and did not return to the game.
Losing Seidenberg is obviously a massive blow for the Bruins this season, as he is regularly second on the team in time on ice and has been used the past three postseasons on a shutdown pairing with Zdeno Chara.
This season has seen the Bruins suffer a rash of injuries to the likes of Loui Eriksson, Chris Kelly, Dougie Hamilton, Johnny Boychuk, Adam McQuaid, Carl Soderberg and Daniel Paille, but Seidenberg's injury is by far the most damaging to the team's Stanley Cup chances.
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InhaltsverzeichnisForeword by Professor Clyde Chitty; Preface; Introduction: What is important about teaching the Holocaust in school history?;
1. History teachers on teaching the Holocaust;
2. What was the 'Holocaust'?;
3. Teaching the Holocaust before 1991;
4. The question of whether the Holocaust should be compulsory in school history;
5. Teaching the Holocaust in school history since 1991; Conclusion: Implications for the future.
PortraitDr Lucy Russell lectures on the Primary PGCE and BA Ed courses at Goldsmiths College, University College London. Prior to that she was a History teacher in a Secondary School in Kent. She regularly writes for the TES.
Pressestimmen"Teaching the Holocaust is a sensitive and contentious issue. Lucy Russell offers a clear and through outline of the arguments that have surrounded it. There is a fascinating behind-closed-doors account of how the topic passed in and out of favour with the history working group...Lucy Russell's own sympathies clearly lie with the Holocaust-as-ordinary-historical-topic camp, but she doesn't impose them; she invites is to debate the issues she has raised."--Sanford Lakoff "Tes "
Untertitel: 'Continuum Studies in Education'. Sprache: Englisch.
Verlag: BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC UK
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Citation: N/A Interpretive Summary: The starch in corn kernels contained in corn silage is not completely digested by lactating dairy cows, resulting in waste and loss of nutrients. The situation worsens if corn silage is harvested after the window of optimum harvest has passed. Timely harvest of corn silage is often delayed due to weather or simply because the amount of corn silage to be harvested stretches the labor and machinery resources available. Thi series of three experiments examined the potential of roller milling (kernel processing) for improving the nutritive value of corn silage. Corn silage that was processed at the time of harvest was compared to control corn silage that was not processed. Three lactation trials were conducted, and milk production, milk composition, and feed intake were measured. The digestibility of starch was also measured. There were indications that starch digestion was increased in two of the trials, and that dry matter intake was increased in one trial. The processing of corn silage increased milk fat test in one trial, but had minimal effect on milk production in the three trials. While there was no strong evidence of benefit from processing corn silage with the maturity and moisture content used in these trials, there were trends for benefit in terms of starch digestion, feed intake, and milk fat test. While the benefits from processing were small in this study, the cost of processing can be very modest, and can often be justified by relatively small improvements in nutritive value. Results of this study will help dairy producers decide if processing of corn silage is likely to be of benefit.
Technical Abstract: We conducted three experiments to determine the influence of mechanical processing on corn silage utilization by lactating dairy cows. Total mixed rations contained either unprocessed or processed corn silage harvested between 1/4 and 3/4 milk line. In trial 1, twelve multiparous Holstein cows were used in a replicated double switchback design with 21-day periods. Intake of dry matter (DM) was increased 1.2 kg/d by processing, but milk yield was unaffected. Processing did not affect apparent total- tract DM digestibility, but processing tended to lower starch and corn excretion in feces and reduced concentration of sieved corn kernel particles in feces. In trial 2, 42 Holstein cows were used in an 18-wk randomized complete-block design. Intake of DM and milk yield was unaffected by processing, but milk fat percent was increased 0.35 percentage units by processing. Processing tended to increase total-tract digestibility of starch, but reduced organic matter, crude protein, and neutral detergent fiber digestibilities. In trial 3, 30 Holstein cows were used in a 15-wk randomized complete block design. There was no influence of mechanical processing on intake or lactation performance in this trial. Despite indications of increased starch digestion in two trials and increased DM intake in one trial, effects of processing corn silage on lactation performance were minimal with corn silage at the maturity and moisture contents used in these trials.


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As one might expect, Lanvin's spring '13 campaign video, shot by Steven Meisel, shows models posing in sexy slow-motion while looking stunningly aloof. More than that, however, it's a charming portrait of creative director Alber Elbaz and his ethos: the pursuit of happy modernism and eccentric beauty.
In a corner of the video, Elbaz is seen Skyping in, presumably from Paris HQ. As he watches the final edit in seeming real-time, he gets more and more excited, and more and more adorable, brushing away all the pretension and elitism normally associated with fashion shoots. He's just a regular guy at the office after a long day of work, fawning over his finished product. "Oh, it's divine!" he gushes. "The perspective is just sick." At one point he proclaims, "It's California at its best, you know?" Yes, Alber, we do. The collection has a sophisticated yet breezy air that would fit in locales from Marin County to the Chateau Marmont. You can almost smell the Jasmine home fragrance likely spritzed on set.
The French house is no stranger to this vein of digital marketing, having found viral success with previous clips featuring Raquel Zimmermann dancing to Pitbull, and a stop-motion short of a glamourous dinner party oozing with pythons. Quirky!
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TestScheduler, Concat and Do
I have a ViewModel that subscribes to a client connection event.
When the event is raised, I serialize the call to 5 client methods using Concat.
When a method returns, I update some progress indicators.
This works fine in production (with real objects). Notice that I do not use ObserveOnScheduler, but rather ObserveOn.
In production, I inject the DispatcherScheduler, and in tests, a TestScheduler.
_Client.Connected.Do(t => { SetProgress(0, "Starting"); _Client.Method1() .Do(v => SetProgress(20, "Text info")) .Concat<object>(_Client.Method2() .Do(u => SetProgress(40, "Text info"))) .Concat<object>(_Client.Method3() .Do(u => SetProgress(60, "Text info"))) .Concat<object>(_Client.Method4() .Do(u => SetProgress(80, "Text info"))) .Concat<object>(_Client.Method5() .ObserveOn(dispatcherScheduler) .Do(u => { SetProgress(100, "Done!"); //...Update UI consequently })).Subscribe(); }).Subscribe();
Now, I created a Unit Test to verify that when the client connected event is raised, all 5 methods are called and at the
end the progress indicators are set to 100 and Done!
To do this, I used a TestScheduler to setup observables for a fake client. I used Moq to verify that the method were called,
and some assertions at the end to verify the progress indicators.
The code looks like this:
[Test] public void GetStuffFromClientWhenConnected() { _ClientMock.SetupGet(t => t.Connected) .Returns(_DispatcherScheduler.CreateHotObservable(ReactiveTest.OnNext(1, new EventPattern<EventArgs>(null, null)))); _ClientMock.Setup(t => t.Method1()) .Returns(_DispatcherScheduler.CreateHotObservable(ReactiveTest.OnNext(3, new FakeData()))); _ClientMock.Setup(t => t.Method2()) .Returns(_DispatcherScheduler.CreateHotObservable(ReactiveTest.OnNext(4, new FakeData()))); _ClientMock.Setup(t => t.Method3()) .Returns(_DispatcherScheduler.CreateHotObservable(ReactiveTest.OnNext(5, new FakeData()))); _ClientMock.Setup(t => t.Method4()) .Returns(_DispatcherScheduler.CreateHotObservable(ReactiveTest.OnNext(6, new FakeData()))); _ClientMock.Setup(t => t.Method5()) .Returns(_DispatcherScheduler.CreateHotObservable(ReactiveTest.OnNext(7, new FakeData()))); var vm = CreateViewModel(); _DispatcherScheduler.AdvanceTo(8); _ClientMock.Verify(t => t.Method1()); _ClientMock.Verify(t => t.Method2()); _ClientMock.Verify(t => t.Method3()); _ClientMock.Verify(t => t.Method4()); _ClientMock.Verify(t => t.Method5()); Assert.That(vm.Progress, Is.EqualTo(100)); Assert.That(vm.ProgressText, Is.EqualTo("Done")); }
The connected event is raised, the 5 methods are called, but the progress indicators stay at 20, "Text Info".
I wonder why. I registered and raised these events using the TestScheduler.AdvanceTo(8).
It looks like only Method1 completed event was raised.
Any advice?
Louis-Pierre Beaumont
- Editado Louis-Pierre Beaumont quarta-feira, 28 de março de 2012 16:50
I'm going to answer my own question.
I'll give credit to Dave Sexton too, as he wrote part of the answer in a post named Reactive Framework - Chaining
I simply rewrote my big Concat + Do statement, using SelectMany instead.
It now works in both tests and production, and looks much more elegant.
- Marcado como Resposta Louis-Pierre Beaumont quarta-feira, 28 de março de 2012 17:37
- Editado Louis-Pierre Beaumont quarta-feira, 28 de março de 2012 17:38