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Canada thistle was introduced in North America as a seed contaminant in both French and British colonies. The first legislation to control the weed was passed by Vermont in 1795. It is a long-lived perennial that usually grows 2 to 3 feet tall and bears alternate, dark green leaves that vary in size, usually deeply cut with spiny, toothed edges. It has an extensive underground root system that may penetrate the soil to a depth of 10 feet or more, and can grow laterally 12 to 15 feet per year. Root buds occur randomly along the roots and initiate new shoots whenever environmental conditions are favorable. Root segments as small as 0.6 inch can initiate shoot growth and become established.
Canada thistle has the potential to form dense infestations rapidly through vegetative reproduction, and the spread of these clones may continue indefinitely, crowding out and displacing native grasses and forbs.
Flowering occurs from June to September. Male and female flowers are produced on different plants, so cross-pollination is necessary for seed production. Flowers produce from 40 to 80 seeds per head. Seed distribution can be done via the downy thistles that blow in the wind, although most seed remains in the bud which break off the stem during the winter and roll on top of the snow. Seeds mature rabidly and are able to germinate 10 days after pollination.
Control in non-crop lands:
Herbicide: Numerous herbicides are available to control Canada thistle. Curtail, Tordon, Milestone, ForeFront, Chaparral, Cimarron and Redeem are approved for partical reimbursement of costs through the Landowner Assistance Program. Control is greatest when applied to at the early bud growth stage, (early summer) or in he fall to plants in the rosette form.
Cultural: Repeated mowing will reduce Canada thistle infestation. Mow whenever the plants are in the early bud growth stage to prevent seed-set. Several mowing a year are needed because plant populations vary in maturity. Mowing should be combined with a chemical control program for best results.
Biological: Two biological control agents have been introduced for Canada thistle control. The Canada thistle stem mining stem mining weevil, Ceutorhynchus litura. The adults overwinter in the soil and emerge in early spring as the first thistle rosettes begin to appear. The adults lay their eggs in a thistle rosette leaf. The larva hatch an tunnel through the leaf into the lower stem and root collar. The larva mine the inner stem tissue which stresses the thistle plant. The combined stress of the feeding and entry/exit holes in the stem which allow other pathogens to attack the thistle plant eventually kill the plant.
The Canada thistle gull fly, Urophora cardui, causes meristematic galls. The galls (enlarged areas in the plant stem about the size of a golf ball) prevent plant nutrients from reaching the flower buds above the gall preventing seed formation. This will not kill the plant or reduce established stands but will reduce seed production.


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Tower Bridge Superior Apartments, London Overview
Check Room Rates and Reservation Availability in Tower Bridge Superior Apartments, London
Tower Bridge Superior Apartments, London Details
Tower Bridge Superior Apartments Hotel Overview
Elegantly appointed set of London apartment with extensive amenities near Tower Bridge, HMS Belfast and London Bridge.
Please read carefully:
Check-in takes place at the new head office 6 Union Street, SE1 1SZ, London. Here you will receive the keys and pay the remaining balance.
Arrivals between 21:00 and midnight will be subject to a late check-in fee of GBP 20.00, arrivals after 00:00 are subject to a GBP 30.00 fee.
Please call the contact the property in order to arrange check-in, at least 1 hour before your arrival at the office. The contact details can be found in your booking confirmation.
If you would like to pay by credit card please be informed that due to charges made by credit card companies there is a 1.7% charge for most credit (and debit) card payments (4.2% in case of amex).
Please bring a photocopy of a picture ID of the person in whose name the reservation was made, and of any person paying by credit card.
A damage deposit of GBP 150 or credit card details will be required upon arrival. Groups of 6 people or more will be charged a security deposit of GBP 50 per person.
There is a fully equipped kitchen in every apartment.
City maps, Elevator, Entire property is non-smoking, Multilingual staff
24-hour front desk, Luggage storage, Tourist information
Wi-Fi Internet free of charge in all rooms and general areas (lobby/reception etc.)
Tower Bridge Superior Apartments, London Hotel Details
Tower Bridge Superior Apartments London enjoys a convenient situation in Southwark, just a few steps from the Tower Bridge. The property is a short walk away from many museums including HMS Belfast, part of London's Imperial War Museum, the Golden Hinde, Sir Francis Drake's famous Golden Age ship and Tate Modern gallery. A 15-minute stroll to the east will lead you to London's most famous food market, Borough Market and onto the London Bridge. Furthermore, these apartments are served by 3 tube stations all within a 15-minute walk radius, offering easy access throughout the capital.
Apartment Tower Bridge offers elegantly appointed spacious two-bedroom apartments. Serviced by an elevator and a multilingual staff, every accommodation includes complimentary wireless Internet access. The apartments are excellently furnished and feature many amenities to ensure a memorable stay, whether you are visiting London for business or leisure.
The soundproofed accommodations in Tower Bridge Superior Apartments include a fully equipped kitchen with everything you need to prepare your own tasty meals. You will find extensive amenities from cookware and kitchen utensils, to a dishwasher, oven, microwave, and a fridge/freezer. Enjoy a complimentary cup of tea or coffee whilst relaxing in the living room in front of flat screen television. There is also a modern fully equipped bathroom with a drying rack, hairdryer and a washing machine.

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Maverick director Terry Gilliam is being lured back to opera to direct a work by a "spectacular, shameless" composer he views as a kindred spirit.
The former Monty Python star will return to English National Opera to create its first production of Benvenuto Cellini, a technically challenging work by the grand French Romantic composer Hector Berlioz.
Gilliam — one of a string of top directors for the 2013-14 season announced today — joked that he had enjoyed "beginner's luck" in 2011 when he surprised many top critics with an acclaimed sell-out production of the equally difficult opera The Damnation of Faust. "Now let the truth be told," he said as he approaches the life story of Florentine sculptor Cellini.
The 72-year-old director of several film hits, including Brazil, said Berlioz was "wonderfully ahead of his time", adding: "He had too many ideas, he was spectacular, he was shameless, the music is so extreme — and I kind of identify with him."
Gilliam's venture, with designs by Rae Smith of War Horse fame, joins a programme including the UK premieres of 10 productions and four revivals of recent hits — among them Philip Glass's Satyagraha, Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes and Anthony Minghella's Madam Butterfly.
A new partnership with the Bolshoi Theatre will kick off with Richard Jones directing Handel's Rodelinda, which will then become the first work by the composer to be seen at the company's Moscow home.
Almeida founder Pierre Audi, who has scarcely worked in Britain for 30 years, returns for the world premiere of Thebans, the first opera by Guildhall music professor Julian Anderson, 46, to words by Frank McGuinness.
Simon McBurney, the actor and Complicite theatre company founder, tackles his second opera with Mozart's The Magic Flute, while the Catalan director Calixto Bieito does Beethoven's only opera Fidelio.
Theatre director Joe Hill-Gibbons, 36, will make his opera debut with a revival of Powder Her Face by Thomas Adès. The true story of a society scandal, it will be performed in Ambika P3, a University of Westminster space previously used for exhibitions.
Singers will include Willard White, Amanda Roocroft, Felicity Palmer, John Mark Ainsley and Opera Awards young singer winner Sophie Bevan.
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The New York Permaculture Meetup Message Board › Courses & Workshops › Deadline for NYC Farm School--SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 1st!
Pittsburgh, PA
What is Farm School NYC?
Our mission: Farm School NYC'S mission is to train NYC residents in urban agriculture, in order to build self-reliant communities and inspire positive local action around food access and social, economic, and racial justice issues.
Farm School NYC offers urban agriculture training through a two-year certificate program as well as a wide range of individual courses. Our courses are taught by experts in the field and focus on a wide range of topics from social justice issues, to urban planting techniques, to grassroots community organizing. Through engaging, place-based education, Farm School classes cultivate future leaders in NYC's food justice movement.
How do I take classes at Farm School NYC?
There are two ways to take classes at Farm School; through the Certificate in Urban Agriculture Program or through Individual Course Enrollment.
Please visit the Certificate Program page for more information about the two year Urban Agriculture Certificate program. Please visit the Individual Course Enrollment page for more information about taking short term, seasonal courses with Farm School NYC.
What makes Farm School NYC unique?
Committed to grassroots social justice. Farm School NYC provides students with the tools they need to become effective and empowered grassroots leaders in the food justice movement. We do this by teaching effective community organizing and advocacy techniques as well as engaging in dialouges about larger social, economic, and racial, and justice issues.
Community-based approach. Farm School NYC was created by a vast network of urban farmers, community gardeners, and anti-hunger and food justice advocates in the city. The program is created and run by grassroots leaders who know NYC's unique communities and food issues best.
Accessible to all NYC residents. Farm School NYC aims to cultivate a student body representative of the incredible diversity of NYC. Our students come from a wide range of different backgrounds and life experiences and diversity is crucial to the success of our program. As part of our commitment to social justice and diversity, tuition is on a sliding scale based on income and household size. In addition, the time commitment and schedule of the program is designed to be accessible to students working full time jobs. As the school grows, we will continue to find ways to increase how can be accessible to more students.
NYC is your classroom. Farm School NYC classes take place at a wide variety of city gardens, farms, and other unique classroom spaces in order to engage in city specific place-based education.
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Students will explore a multitude of different subjects related to urban agriculture, education, and food justice. Below are some of the main topics featured in our program but please see our Certificate Program and Individual Course Enrollment pages for Farm School course offerings.
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Coming from someone who owns both. A stg2 WRX will never walk a stock GTO (ls1 or ls2). A stock STi is a good race from the line, but if drivers are equal, the goat should win.
GTO myth number 1: The 5.7s are slower than the 6.0s... depends. I know of few not modded.
A stg2 STi should run with or beat a stock goat.
BUT! Here's the big butt... show me a stock WRX, STi, or GTO at the track.
BTW, I smoked a 350Z in my stg2 WRX last week, but it was stock and a convert.


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1-2/3 cups (400 ml) chicken broth
1 cup (140 g) couscous
1 medium tomato, diced
1 medium cucumber, peeled and diced
1 medium scallion, sliced
1/4 cup (30 g) pignolia nuts
1/4 cup (29 g) golden raisins of currants
1/4 cup (60 ml) lemon juice
1/4 cup (60 ml) olive oil
3 tablespoons fresh mint, chopped
2 tablespoons fresh parsley, chopped
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
Bring chicken broth to boil in a small saucepan over high heat. Add couscous. Reduce heat to low. Cover and simmer 3 to 5 minutes until liquid is absorbed. Remove from heat. Cool to room temperature. Meanwhile, combine remaining ingredients in a large bowl. Toss with couscous and mix well.
Recipe from:
The Casablanca Cookbook
by Sarah Key, Jennifer Newman Brazil, Vicky Wells
$7.95 (hardback)
Abbeville Press Publishers
Recipe reprinted by permission.
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Lindsay Inn
570 South Mirage Avenue, Lindsay, CA
0.4 mi from
it was ok. Nice staff, clean room, and the garage was funny. the water was not really hot, but it was not so disturbing.
I liked that it had 2 beds in 2 seperate rooms. And had a refrigerator.
The room was huge and spacious. Garaged parking was a first for me in a hotel. A few things: 1. Water flow in wash basin was minimal (but was fine in shower) 2. Internet was not working (it worked for first day and didnt work for next two, even after repeated call to the owner). 3.Refrigerator was not in good shape
Private little apartments-older but really clean, felt like a had a little house
The customer service was great here. They were friendly upon arrival and when our car broke down the staff asked if they could help us out somehow. They even helped us push our car onto the uhaul dolly we rented.
Motel was clean but spartan. Laminate floors are cleaner than crusty carpet. A/C worked great, bed was comfortable. Be sure to check out the historic murals in town. Friendly staff. Bathroom remodel looked to be poorly done. Room and carport have battle scars.
No water pressure and water was luke warm at best. Very very old motel and a real dump!
Very close to Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. The staff was available for late arrival and was very friendly. I purchased it because it was a budget hotel, and it met my needs perfectly.
Located not too far from event I attended. In the shower area, no soap holder. Somewhat small shower stall and not handicap friendly.
This motel is surrounded by citrus orchards and cattle confinement pens located on the outskirts this small rural town about 13 miles east of Tulare, California. Don't expect nothing fancy about it. Rooms are very simple but clean. There is only one heater for two bedroom. I was bitten by mosquitoes all night that left me with several red itchy burning and infected spots on my chest and back.
The hotel was in a great location, and room was pretty well taken care of; certainly much better than I thought it would be. The water pressure was almost non-existent, I was almost unable to shower or shave, but made it work. Other than that (and the little spiders in the shower) the place was absolutely 100% perfect, and better than I expected.
refrigerator, microwave, Dinning area, a lot of drawers very weak shower, water was cold, no room clean for the 2nd day


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Before we start with this weeks "what did you do to prep this week" segment I would like to thank K Fields and Judith H for their generous donations. I think this is the first time that I've ever received two donations in one day, that you both – it's good to know the blog has helped you enough that you felt a donation was warranted.
On another note; we will be starting another writing contest next week – look for a list of prizes to be announced tomorrow. One hint, the prizes are awesome, so get to work on your entries… 😀
Didn't buy a lot of preps this week, with most of the week devoted to working at my new place (I'll get some pics taken and posted in next weeks segment) mainly clean up where the old trailer was parked. I need to get some more bulldozer work done along the rear property line, I want to clear off about an acre here to use as a pasture for a milk cow and a couple of goats.
The thing, I love most about this property is that it takes the high ground and no one can see me or what I have just by passing through, the only way to see what is going on, on top is to actually come onto my property and look.
Armed Response sent copies of two of their instructional videos namely "Shoot / No Shoot Scenarios" and "Responsible Use of Lethal Force" look for my full review next week. Lets' see, what else… and I received my first issue of my subscription to Countryside & Small Stock Journal – great magazine.
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Agorsor, the 2008 U.S. Soccer Development Academy U/17-18 Player of the Year, has likely torn both his anterior and posterior cruciate ligaments in his left knee.
The injury Tuesday in the Cavaliers' game against Central Connecticut State when he had to be carried off the field on an ambulance after colliding with a CCSU defender.
Virginia coach George Gelnovatch said Agorsor, who scored five goals, should recover fro the injury that could be out 6-12 months.
"He is a very driven young man and determined," Gelnovatch told the Charlottesville Daily Progress. "Guys like him in my experience seem to do better, quicker. It's obviously bad news that he's out for the season, but the good news is - barring any complications - it should be a recovery that he can make."
GOALIE SERIOUSLY INJURED. A Division I match between New Haven and Merrimack was suspended with 27 minutes remaining in the second half when New Haven keeper James Hilaire was seriously injured after colliding with a Merrimack player.
Hilaire was taken to Boston Medical Center, where he remains in critical condition.


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Social Business transformation
Innovate or die and Microsofts creative distruction
Interesting analysis on why America needs to innovate, quickly : http://www.minyanville.com/articles/economy-innovatation-jobs-unemployment-graduates-PhDs-students-xerox-microsoft-bell+labs-ibm/index/a/26717/from/yahoo
"The future of America is presently in peril, not just because of the shadowy ways of the "banksters," but because of a sputtering innovation engine that's had the fuel choked off"...
And this article in New York Times by Dick Brass who was a Microsoft VP around 2004: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/04/opinion/04brass.html on Microsoft's creative distruction:
"But the much more important question is why Microsoft, America's most famous and prosperous technology company, no longer brings us the future"...
"No one in his right mind should wish Microsoft failure. And yet it is failing, even as it reports record earnings."
"Microsoft has become a clumsy, uncompetitive innovator. Its products are lampooned, often unfairly but sometimes with good reason."
"Microsoft is no longer considered the cool or cutting-edge place to work. There has been a steady exit of its best and brightest."
New Zealand Government says NO to Microsoft Enterprise Agreement and turns to Open Source
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New Zealand government has decided NOT to renew their Microsoft Enterprise Agreement.
See the government notification: http://www.ssc.govt.nz/display/document.asp?DocID=7212 and the
news from TheRegister: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/26/microsoft_new_zealand/
"Microsoft has failed to renew a key government-wide purchasing deal for Windows, opening the door to greater use of open-source software. .. A government spokeswoman said the government looks for value for money, fitness for purpose, and strategic benefit in its negotiations. "We didn't feel we got the appropriate levels of benefit from the negotiations," she told Computerworld." (http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/5FA015D542415324CC2575C100804A31)
Check out Project Liberate: http://www.ibm.com/software/info/liberate for more details on how you can save money by NOT renewing/signing Microsoft Enterprise Agreements.
New York Time article on Intel and Linux with Moblin
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Interesting article on Intel investing big time on Linux with Moblin: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/25/technology/business-computing/25soft.html?_r=1
"Moblin fires up and reaches the Internet in about seven seconds, then displays a novel type of start-up screen. People will find their appointments listed on one side of the screen, along with their favorite programs. But the bulk of the screen is taken up by cartoonish icons that show things like social networking updates from friends, photos and recently used documents."
the path is from netbooks and atom to smartphones...
From IBM Lotus Notes 5 and Microsoft Desktop to IBM open client solution -- Customer in New Zealand
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According to Michael Sampson's blog (http://www.michaelsampson.net/2007/07/mark-bennett-on.html ) a Lotus Notes 5 customer in New Zealand is planning a roll-out of Notes 8."All of the Domino Servers run on Linux, and they are considering the roll-out of some Linux desktops. In terms of Notes 8, Mark says, "What exactly do our people need beyond Notes 8, the inbuilt productivity editors, and a browser?" In other words, Notes 8 paves the way for a move away from both a Windows desktop and Microsoft Office."
See also the IBM web page discussing the IBM open client solution on Linux: http://www.ibm.com/lotus/openclient[Read More]


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Mediation Suite
3PB's Bristol chambers offers a mediation and arbitration suite for exclusive hire, in modern refurbished offices within a historic 19th century building.
Offering up to five rooms, our suite is equipped with complimentary Wi-Fi for our guests as well as video and telephone conferencing equipment for external users. All refreshments can be arranged.
For further information and to discuss room hire costs please contact: Tom Cox on firstname.lastname@example.com or telephone 0117 928 1520.
How to get to us
Public Transport
Bristol Temple Meads station is a 10 minute walk to Chambers. On leaving the main gate of the station, turn right at the T junction into Temple Gate. At the Temple Circus Gyratory, take the 1st exit onto Victoria Street. Continue along Victoria Street, and Royal Talbot House is on the right hand side, just before the Bristol Bridge.
By Car
Chambers has limited car parking so please confirm in advance with the Bristol clerks availability in chambers. The entrance to the car park is on Bath Street (Sat Nav Postcode BS1 6BN). There are metered parking spaces close to chambers in Redcliffe Street and St Thomas Street.
From the M32 follow the signs to Broadmead Parking. Continue past the Broadmead multi storey car park and follow the road round to the left, past a set of traffic lights, prior to the Bristol Bridge. Continue over Bristol Bridge and take the first left into Bath Street.
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Sunday, July 31, 2011
Saturday, July 30, 2011
A couple more sunflower pics
Film: Apaloosa
"Appaloosa" is a good old western, staring and directed by Ed Harris and co-starring Viggo Mortensen (aka the man we call when we need someone to ride a horse: the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Hidalgo, and now Appaloosa). Instead of offering up anything much new to the genre, Appaloosa is masterfully directed and produced and reminds us why the genre once had such a great appeal.
If you like this type of film, go and see Unforgiven (Eastwood), Open Range (Costner), Tombstone (Kilmer, Russell) and Wyatt Earp (Costner, Quaid).
Friday, July 29, 2011
Coming back from a recent short break, I was pleasantly surprised to find that my sunflowers had hatched.
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Artwork from Liu Bolin
Some pictures from artist Liu Bolin:
These pictures have been linked to quite widely on the internet, so this isn't exactly a new finding. Still cool though.
London Blitz in colour
The Daily Mail (no, I don't read it) has some cool colour pictures of the London Blitz.
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Pentax H90 light effects
The diddy little Pentax H90 produces some fine pics when the sun is poking through from behind the subject. Here are some cool pictures of Pebbles Magoo:
Groupon car service - Saxon Bridge
I just gave my car a full service and interior/exterior clean at Saxon Bridge (Milton Keynes), for a mere £48 using Groupon. I can't see how the vendor will make any money from me with such a low price, so I can offer a bit of PR by saying that their service was way above par and they left my car looking finer than it's looked in a while (see above). Also, it seems to be running quite a bit nicer than it did when I handed it in in the morning, so it's all to the good.
The next challenge is the MoT, which is due imminently. Come on you old horse ... keep on running for me!
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Katlama map
On one of more my more popular posts concerning the delicious but scarce katlama, 'Brumtiki' has just commented:
"Shereen Kadah on Moseley Road, Bimingham serves fresh Katlama for breakfast ona Sunday morning, plus Channa & Puri... I am lucky enough to live round the corner.. :-)"
It is alas, too far for me to travel but I spread the word so those better positioned can sample the delights of the great dish. If possible, it would be great to compare it to the katlama's sold at 'Imran's', also found in Birmingham (Ladypool Road).
Thursday, July 21, 2011
Films: The Departed & A Single Man
A Single Man is a cracking debut for designer Tom Ford. Stylistically it is beautiful, almost perfect. However, I didn't feel it was self-indulgent in any way. The film is a simple story beautifully told.
Julianne Moore has a star turn alongside Colin Firth, who gives his strongest performance to date.
I also watched The Departed for the second time this week. I remember watching the original Korean movie and am pleased to say that Scorcese managed to trump the original, helped by an absolutely stellar cast. Some of the scenes are Scorcese's derivative gangster bread and butter, but the film's plusses easily overcome this one drawback.
**** 1/2
PS - Wonder how I get the time to watch so many movies? Simple, an average movie is less than two hours and most people watch more than two hours of tv a night. I've just switched out the gumpf for more quality. Bye bye to the likes of The Apprentice.
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
We have a couple of robins nesting in our kitchen extractor fan vent.
I can hear the baby birds chirping away in the kitchen, so have missed the opportunity for robin eggs on toast.
We'll just let these birds grow a little, me thinks, and then whammy, baby robin pie!
Hello to the Canadian contingent
I didn't realise I had a small Canadian contingent reading my Dinky blog. This means I have a non-spam audience reading audience spanning as far and wide as the US, Canada, Hong Kong and Dubai. It's quite amazing how far one's meanderings can travel.
Monday, July 18, 2011
The tipping point of the tipping point
Over the past week I have heard people on various programmes talking about how we have 'reached the tipping point'. I take issue with this on two fronts. Front number one: if we have only reached a tipping point then we can always quietly back away from it, and yet people talk about raching the tipping point in a fatalistic tone, as if we are actually 'past the tipping point'. Front number two: the phrase has become an overused cliche (yes, not just a cliche, but an overused cliche!).
Indeed, if you look at the usage of the term 'tipping point' you will see that the current users of said phrase are actually behind the times, and that the term 'tipping point' has actually already passed it's own tipping point. For proof, I have searched the entire corpus of the English language (very easy using Google's nviewer tool) and can present the following chart:
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Saturday, July 16, 2011
Photos: Marston Vale
Here are a few photos from the Marston Vale Forest Centre, a nature reserve embarrassingly close to Milton Keynes (we've only lived in MK for a few decades!).
Here be some photos from one of the walks:
Vitamin D: keep banging that drum
I have just performed my regular cursory trawl through the news headlines in search of negative effects of vitamin D supplementation. More of the opposite emerges:
Psoriatic Arthritis Suffers Have Vitamin D Insufficiency
The role of vitamin D, estrogen, calcium sensing receptor
Vitamin D deficiency seen by pair as contributing to Mozart's death
I thought I had finally found a meaty negative story but it turns out to be from 1964!
The most interesting piece of recent times is this review by Cochrane. Here is the plain language summary finding (bold bits brought out by myself):
"This systematic review analysed the influence of different forms of vitamin D on mortality. In the 50 trials that provided data for our analyses a total of 94,148 participants were randomly assigned to either vitamin D or no treatment or a placebo. All trials came from high-income countries. The mean age of participants was 74 years. The mean proportion of women was 79%. The median duration of vitamin D administration was two years. Our analyses suggested that vitamin D3 reduces mortality by about 6%, which corresponds to 200 participants that need to be treated over a median of two years to save one additional life. Another supplemental form of vitamin D, vitamin D2 (ergocalciferol), as well as the active forms of vitamin D (alfacalcidol and calcitriol) had no significant effect on mortality. We also found evidence of adverse effects including renal stone formation (seen for vitamin D3 combined with calcium) and elevated blood levels of calcium (seen for both alfacalcidol and calcitriol). In conclusion, we found evidence that vitamin D3 decreases mortality in predominantly elderly women who are mainly in institutions and dependent care."
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Friday, July 15, 2011
Health stats revisited
I had my key health indicators measured at a 'Wellbeing' day at work recently and my blood pressure came out dangerously high. After an initial panic I dug out my own health diagnostic equipment and took readings every morning and evening for five days:
Average blood pressure: 116/71
Average body fat: 11%
Weight: 9.2 stone
Cholesterol: 3.5%
Resting heart rate: 75 bpm
All is well. Apart from a little increase in weight (purposely increased), my measures are close to where they were when I did my extreme diet over two years ago. Looks like crash diets can work!
PS - I know I need to increase my weight a little more but the cost of having to upgrade my wardrobe is a powerful counterforce, helping to maintain the status quo.
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Bird Hills: Cracked 100
A forgotten post from last week:
At long last, I have broken the key 100 level on an 18-hole golf course.
The round was actually pretty poor goings with a couple of 9's, only two pars, and lots of three puts. Nevertheless, it was still a most enjoyable affair with perfectly pleasant weather, a relatively empty course and enough wildlife on the course to play a side game of wild-life bingo. We had the usual plethora of rabbits of course, but these were joined by a large hare, several woodpeckers or king-fishers, some odd looking ducks, and a pheasant who politely popped out on the 5th to wish us good luck. I think I also spotted a bird of prey, which you often see around these parts.
There are clear improvements to be made to the game this season. The first is trying to find the tee-off shot that I started the season with: no pressure, no great distance, but straight as an arrow. Now it's going all over the place. Meditation is the key.
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Sunday, July 10, 2011
I'd rather smoke crack than eat cheese from a can
Just a passing comment made by Gwyneth Paltrow. Of the 30 comments (so far) on NY Mag, there are some real corkers:
"Is crack organic?"
"this b!tch"
"Me, too, Gwyneth. Me, too."
"maybe she just likes crack."
"Ugh this, THIS is what I hate most about her, her flippancy and dismissal of things that ordinary people like or use, her just plain ignorance about common sense things and willful naivete. She could have said something like, "I would never serve my children that," which okay we get, that's understandable and probably most would agree. But no it has to be " I would rather smoke crack." You'd rather smoke crack Gwyneth? Right because it's totally comparable to fast food? One has socio-economically destroyed and decimated the black urban population for decades while the other is cheese in a can. Which suddenly makes it about class and her elitist attitude. Good Lord.
She is like the least self aware person I have ever read about ever"
"But Chris Martin would totally eat cheese out of a can!
I don't understand their relationship."
"I'd have to smoke crack just to get through one of her movies."
Now that's what I call food poisoning
I ate a piece of bad fish last night. Within half an hour I was feeling quite queasy, really tired, unable to concentrate and pretty weak all round. Then I walked over to the bathroom, proceeded to return my dinner to outside environs and went straight to bed expecting to be waking up many times through the night. Instead, I slept like a baby. I still feel a bit soft around the edges so to speak, but this definitely goes down as my best food poisoning to date.
Saturday, July 09, 2011
Film: Juan of the Dead
This is on my list of films to keep an eye out for. Story wise, it's all been seen before. The twist is that it's a Cuban comedy horror, and they don't come around all that often. Looks like great entertainment.
Film: 14 Blades
"14 Blades" has some super cool fight scenes and even though it packs in the wire-fu (don't mind so much) and CGI (hate it to bits in almost all cases), it is still a very good film.
I remember seeing wire-fu for the first time when Channel 4 showed Jet Li's Once Upon a Time in China some 10+ years ago and being amazed by it. Now, however, it been overkilled by Hollywood who seem to be using it every possible opportunity.
Would really write more but its gone 1am, Caio,
Film: Blood Simple
I like the Coen brothers' quirkiness but their films generally don't quite do it for me. The ones that have really worked are The Big Lebowski and Fargo, and now also Blood Simple, a noir crime thriller that keeps you in suspense all the way through. I miss films like this.
*** 1/2
Friday, July 08, 2011
Good riddance to the end of News of the World
Thursday, July 07, 2011
Film: Synecdoche (5 stars)
Watching Synecdoche the second time in a week is a very fulfilling experience (even better than the first time). Throughout the film, I listened intently, instead of letting the madness just wash over me, and was surprised at how explicit the film is in trying to explain much of what it is about - there are clear universal themes relating to the experience of life that emerge and are built upon, and while there is scope for interpretation, this is not like a piece of modern art where the viewer decides everything for themselves. Here, the writer and director are guiding us into a deeper understanding of philosophical position on the state of being human. I do not necessarily agree with the viewpoints down to a tee, but this doesn't lessen the grandness of this movie as there are so many universal truths concerning human existence, which we should all be able to relate to. I am struggling to explain it well, so I will quote some words from the great movie critic Roger Ebert, who cites Synedoche as one of the best films of the decade. I agree. 5 stars.
" in "Synecdoche" (2008), his first film as a director, he makes it his subject, and what huge ambition that demonstrates. He's like a novelist who wants to get it all into the first book in case he never publishes another. Those who felt the film was disorganized or incoherent might benefit from seeing it again. It isn't about a narrative, although it pretends to be. It's about a method, the method by which we organize our lives and define our realities. "
My first time through "Synecdoche" I felt a certain frustration. The plot would not stay still. It kept running off and barking at cats. The second time was more soothing. I knew what was going on. It is what goes on every day of our lives, made visual by the inspired set design, rooms on top of rooms, all containing separate activities, with the protagonist trying to satisfy, or direct, or obey or evade, or learn from, or receive solace from, the people in all of the rooms.
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Tuesday, July 05, 2011
Ah, the Mediterranean diet
I knew pizza was high in calories but this is crazy:
A simple Giardinera pizza from Pizza Express packs 900 calories. But of course, it's always nice to start with a few dough balls (350 calories) and maybe finish with some delicious toffee fudge cake (700 calories). These crazy calorie numbers don't put me off eating this stuff because eating out is a relative rarity and when I do it, I often enjoy piggin' out to the max. However, if you eat this type of stuff on a regular basis it's pretty clear that you either got to run a million miles a day or start shopping for the next size up!
Here are the links to the pdf's showing the calorie content of Pizza Hut and Pizza Express menus:
Pizza Hut
Pizza Express
A dirty bag of fish and chips will yield somewhere between 550-900 calories. A dirty kebab will close in on 1000 kcal.
It's all so tasty though!
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Sunday, July 03, 2011
Is is safe to eat stale eggs
If you were to make an inventory assessment of my various dry foodstuffs and tinned goods, you would probably think that you had somehow travelled back in time, for most of the 'best before' and 'eat before' dates would be well past.
The one thing I've been really picky about however is eggs, believing that stale eggs increase the risk of salmonella. However, having conducted some further researches, it would appear that eggs with the lion mark come from chickens that have been vaccinated against salmonella.
So, with this horrid risk out of the way, I shall be less averse to the occassional stale egg (happy news for this egg lover). The simple test for freshness is to lower an egg into a glass of cold water. If it floats, the egg is stale and it won't taste nice or cook well (a stale egg will also stink something nasty so be sure not to crack it directly into your cooking if you are unsure). If it stays at the bottom, it is still fresh. If the egg stands at the pointy end on the bottom of the glass, it will be okay for use in cooking so long as the yolk is cooked hard.
I'm off to cook me an egg.
Friday, July 01, 2011
Film: Synecdoche
Really loved this mad mad film, and Philip Seymour Hoffman is one of the best actors out there.
Okay, the burning house I was unsure about, but director Charlie Kauffman explains it well in an interview:
"Kaufman: But other people are really frustrated with it. Even after the movie, when I do Q&As and people ask, "Why the burning house? What is the burning house?", I have to say, "Well, it doesn't speak to you. It speaks to other people. There are other things in the film that maybe, hopefully, will speak to you"; but, I'm trying to let this interaction be personal, in the same way that a dream is personal. A dream is for the dreamer when—as you say—the dreamer wakes up within it. I love that something happened there that clicked for you."
"...she made the choice to live there. In fact, she says in the scene just before she dies that the end is built into the beginning. That's exactly what happens there. She chooses to live in this house. She's afraid it's going to kill her but she stays there and it does. That is the truth about any choice that we make. We make choices that resonate throughout our lives."
Roger Ebert has written a wonderful little post about the film here (or just see below for most of the piece):
"...it's not that you have to return to understand it. It's that you have to return to realize how fine it really is. The surface may daunt you. The depths enfold you. The whole reveals itself, and then you may return to it like a talisman."
"Here is how life is supposed to work. We come out of ourselves and unfold into the world. We try to realize our desires. We fold back into ourselves, and then we die. "Synecdoche, New York" follows a life that ages from about 40 to 80 on that scale. Caden Cotard (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is a theater director, with all of the hangups and self-pity, all the grandiosity and sniffles, all the arrogance and fear, typical of his job. In other words, he could be me. He could be you. The job, the name, the race, the gender, the environment, all change. The human remains pretty much the same.
Here is how it happens. We find something we want to do, if we are lucky, or something we need to do, if we are like most people. We use it as a way to obtain food, shelter, clothing, mates, comfort, a first folio of Shakespeare, model airplanes, American Girl dolls, a handful of rice, sex, solitude, a trip to Venice, Nikes, drinking water, plastic surgery, child care, dogs, medicine, education, cars, spiritual solace -- whatever we think we need. To do this, we enact the role we call "me," trying to brand ourselves as a person who can and should obtain these things.
In the process, we place the people in our lives into compartments and define how they should behave to our advantage. Because we cannot force them to follow our desires, we deal with projections of them created in our minds. But they will be contrary and have wills of their own. Eventually new projections of us are dealing with new projections of them. Sometimes versions of ourselves disagree. We succumb to temptation -- but, oh, father, what else was I gonna do? I feel like hell. I repent. I'll do it again."
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Who knew it would be this hard?? Specially with Christmas and all the food and mom's eggnog! When I think she's not looking, I try to stick my snout in her glass. She gets mad but I think it's just because she doesn't like to share! I did get to go for a walk yesterday but not very long. Mom was cold. Something about 30 mile per hour winds but I hardly noticed! Maybe a New Year's resolution???
My mom used to walk me everyday! In fact, she can't even spell the word walk without my ears perking up! She got a promotion at work so now I don't get as much time with her. Plus, I got a brother a year and a half ago and he's a pain! He was dumped as a little guy and wasn't socialized like I was. I'm trying to understand but I hate when he demands my mom's time! I can get pretty moody! Typical girl, I guess. But mom can't walk the both of us. She used to be able to walk me and my other brother, Loid (they spelled it that way cuz he wasn't too smart--like I am), but Loid passed away from a blood disease. Loid was a LOT smaller and calmer than Chief. That's why mom could handle us both. Chief is scared of EVERYTHING! Poor guy. He's getting better but I'm kinda impatient!
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News Yuna Kagesaki to End AiON Manga in July
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The July issue of Fujimi Shobo's Monthly Dragon Age magazine is revealing on Friday that Yuna Kagesaki's AiON manga will end in the next issue. Kagesaki launched the series in the magazine's August 2008 issue.
The fantasy story centers on a high school boy named Tatsuya Tsugawa, whose parents died in an accident. Tatsuya tries to fulfill his father's last wish for him to become a man of good character and helps a bullied girl named Seine Miyazaki. The boy's kind intentions open his eyes to a strange world where Seine fights parasitic bugs that can control humans minds.
The manga distributor Tokyopop licensed and released the series' first three compiled volumes before shutting down its North American manga publishing division in May 2011.
Kagesaki's other manga include Chibi Vampire, Haikara, and Onii-chan Control.
The August issue of Monthly Dragon Age will go on sale in Japan on July 9.
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Diversity is a good thing, just ask the Wooster Parks and Recreational swim team.
In the Mid-Ohio Swim League Championship Meet at Freedlander Pool Wednesday, the Wooster Whales showed their diversity in impressive fashion.
The Whales, who have 178 swimmers ranging in age between 5-18, ran up 3,418 points in 66 events, well ahead of the second-place Western Reserve Seariders (1,988.50).
"Diversity in the group is how you make a program," said Wooster coach/swim director Larry Smucker. "Many of our kids started out as young kids in the program and we have brought them up through. We have kids in all the age groups and that's the strength of our team.
"Some teams have a lot of older kids and some teams have a lot of younger kids. We've got kids in every age group -- boys or girls."
For Wooster, those kids not only appeared in a group, but made impressive strides and wound up taking home some big points. In fact, six of the top 10 individual age group performers -- there are five divisions for both boys and girls -- were Wooster swimmers.
On the girls side, 8-year-old Aubrey Germ was not only the top 8-and-under performer, but was the top individual at the meet. Germ registered 77 individual points by winning three events and finishing second in her fourth and final event.
Wooster High School sophomore-to-be Whitney Hooley, who set two new meet records on the day, was the top point-getter (60) in the girls 13-14 age group. Hooley set new standards in both the 100-yard butterfly (1:01.06) and 100 backstroke (1:01.03). She also won the 100 freestyle and was part of a champion medley relay.
The final Wooster female to finish tops in her age group was Orrville 10-year old Trinity Hochstetler, who totaled 60 points in the 10-and-under division.
Hochstetler won the 50 breaststroke and 50 butterfly, while also joining a champion relay.
Other top performers for the Wooster girls included Mackenzie Stewart (second overall, 68 points earned), Angela Sibilia (seventh, 59), Megan McLaughlin (tied eighth, 57), Mika Redinger (tied 8th, 57), Katy Senn (tied 13th, 50) and Erin Wanko (tied 13th, 50).
"We improved our times a lot. We beat most of our seed times," said Senn, a 14-year old who joined Redinger in the 100 free, 200 IM and 100 breaststroke.
"It's fun. You don't see a lot of these people every day and you can only talk to so many on-line."
Senn finished third in the freestyle, second in the breaststroke and second in the IM. Redinger was second in the freestyle, first in the breaststroke and first in the IM.
"You get to meet different people and have a different coach's opinion," said Redinger, 13, of why she travels from Tuscarawas to swim for Wooster.
And as for the rain and threatening weather all day.
"We were already wet, so it made the meet more fun," Redinger said.
One the boys side of things, three Wooster guys ended up as the top performers in their respective age groups -- Dane Redinger (15-18), Tim Montague (11-12) and Alex McCord (10-and-under). Redinger, who is Mika's older brother and swims for Dover High, compiled 60 points for top honors in the elder division. The 18-year old registered three first-place finishes, winning the 200 IM and 100 breaststroke, while also being part of the winning 200 free relay.
Montague, a 12-year-old from Ashland, won the 50 free, 50 backstroke,100 IM and was part of the top 200 free relay. Montague matched Redinger with 60 total points, good for a third-place tie in the overall individual standings.
McCord, from Wooster, picked up three firsts and a second for his 57 points and a sixth-place overall individual finish. The 10-year old won the 50 free, 50 butterfly and joined Robbie Sibilia, Gary Gillespie and Matthew Cebul on the winning 200 free relay. McCord also finished second in the 100 IM.
Other top boys for Wooster included Alex Tranovich (second overall, 70 points earned), Phillip Nolletti (ninth, 55), Jeff Montague (tied 10th, 54), Andrew Rudawsky (12th, 53), Adam Zimmerman (tied 14th, 50) and Kyle Hooley (17th, 49).
"For us, this is a captive week," Smucker said. "Everybody is focused and excited, and we try to make it a total team effort as much as we can.
"Our team doesn't build around a couple people, we try to work hard on depth and making everyone feel part of the team.
"My assistant coaches, Rob Harrington, Chris Mathew, Beth Starling, Becky McMicheal and Molly Amstutz do a great job. One person can't work with everybody, so it's certainly a team coaching effort."
A team coaching effort and a team swimming performance. The equation was a good one for Wooster Wednesday. Saturday's ECSL meet still hangs in the balance, though.


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SFOP is a voice for the voiceless and an arm for the clout-less.
Dr. Arelious Walker, Pastor of True Hope COGIC & SFOP's first Board President
Why this issue is important
San Francisco is no longer a city primarily notable by its signature landmark, the Golden Gate Bridge. It is a city now known as having one of the highest costs of living in the country. It is a city now considered not family friendly as families—disproportionately African-American–move to surrounding cities for living wage job opportunities and affordable housing.
- In Bayview Hunter's Point, 30% of families earn less than $10,000 per year, and a median household income of $29,640 annually, as compared to $65,000 for white San Franciscans and a $55,221 average citywide [1].
- The unemployment rate for San Francisco is 9.3%, in Bayview Hunter's Point its 19% [2].
- From 1997 to 2002, African American owned business declined by nearly one quarter and African American business receipts fell by 60.7%, although the number of persons employed by African American businesses increased [3]
In 2008, SFOP leaders from the Bayview LOC sat at the table with leaders from Labor, from ACCE, and from the City of San Francisco to negotiate a historic Core Community Benefits Agreement with Lennar Urban. CBAs are legally binding agreements between developers and community organizations that set conditions on the development project in order to build community support. UC Berkeley economist, Ken Jacobs, called our CCBA the best in the nation [4]. It includes the following benefits:
- At least 3,200 units of affordable housing – rental and homeownership opportunities with an average of 2.5 bedrooms so that they house our families.
- $27 million dollars for a Community Housing Fund that will help families move into new homes in and around the development – bringing the total percentage of affordable housing up to as much as 35%.
- $17 million dollars for workforce development initiatives. This will enable us to invest in strategies and programs that will identify, train and support youth, adults and seniors in this community to find jobs and economic opportunities, start businesses, and take care of their families.
Writing a new story
Our goal, simply put, is to invest the community benefits agreement dollars in revitalizing Bayview Hunter's point over the life of the redevelopment project. We want to both stem the tide of African American's leaving San Francisco and attract working class families back to District 10. Our workforce development strategies are grounded in a belief that to create a self-sufficient & economically empowered community we must:
- Dedicate resources to the capacity building of local community based organizations & service providers
- Assist in forging partnerships and collaborations among the many existing service providers
- Create and build wealth through financial literacy & asset building programs & strategies
- Focus on promotion of entrepreneurship and small business ownership
[1] http://hunterspointfamily.com/about/bayview-hunters-point-a-context/
[2] http://www.bls.gov/web/metro/laummtrk.htm & http://hunterspointfamily.com/about/bayview-hunters-point-a-context/
[3] Mayor's African American Outmigration Report: http://www.sfredevelopment.org/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=292
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Two Salt Lake City artists, a street-artist painter named Murder and a poet who goes by Hansi, have a plan to create between 140 and 400 pieces of art — and then to give that art to random strangers.
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After a three-day event attracting over 1,000 visitors, the 2016 ARCHMARATHON came to a close, with the presentation of its annual awards. Now in its 3rd year, the Milan-based exchange awarded projects in ten different categories, as well as an overall winner, and a "crowd award" based on voting on the event's website. The 42 presented projects were judged by the international jury, chaired by Luca Molinari and composed of internationally famous architects and critics such as Lucy Bullivant, William Menking, Wassim Naghi, Li Brian Zhang and Elie Haddad. See all 12 awarded projects after the break.
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World Building of the Year: The Chapel / A21 studio
The 2014 World Architecture Festival (WAF) has culminated with A21 studio's The Chapel being named the Building of the Year. Each winner of the categories from day 1 and day 2 had the opportunity to present their projects in front of WAF's 'super-jury', comprised of Richard Rogers, Rocco Yim, Julie Eizenberg, Enric Ruiz Geli and Peter Rich. Following all of the presentations, the jury selected the Building of the Year. The winners of the Small Project of the Year, Landscape of the Year and Future Project of the Year were also announced today, in addition to two new prizes: The Colour Prize (sponsored by AkzoNobel) and the Wood Excellence Prize (sponsored by American Hardwood Export Council).
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Sean Kingston: "Feeling A Lot Better!"
Posted Monday June 20, 2011 12:04 PM GMT
After suffering a life threatening accident last month, Sean Kingston is recovering nicely from his Miami, FL jet-ski crash.
On Monday (June 20), the "Fire Burning" singer tweeted a photo of himself and wrote, "Feeling alot better!"
The 21-year-old musician added, "GOD IS GREAT! Thanks for all the prayers and support! Love you ALL!"
From the looks of the photo, Kingston has been released from the hospital - where he was being treated for the past few weeks after suffering broken bones and intense trauma.
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'This is the highlight of the week,' laughed Simon Northrop (GBR). The Englishman and his crew Charles Willett made a flying start at the Texel Dutch Open, the official Open Dutch Championship Cat sailing. The duo commenced the competition in the Open Class I (< 105 rating) in third place and finished the day with a bullet. They are on equal points with favorites Mischa Heemskerk and Bastiaan Tentij from the Netherlands, who scored a one and three.
Northrop: 'We were really pleased with the third place in the first race. We are going well upwind. We are quite heavy, so this breeze suits us. In the second race we just did everything right, certainly upwind and we held it downwind. Coen over stood slightly the lay line and we tacked early on him, so we got him.'
The new Nacra Infusion World Champions Coen de Koning en Thijs Visser didn't get off the starting blocks as well as in the earlier race. The golden boys of the morning submerged twice in the afternoon at the Open Dutch championships. They sailed to a ninth and second place and are fifth overall at the moment. De Koning: 'It wasn't exhaustion - we just made stupid mistakes.'
'Almost everyone dropped out,' says Ingrid Bakker (NED). She refers to the Open class two, the boats with a rating over 105 (the smaller cats). Finally only three of the ten registered teams did start. Bakker and her helmsman Dominique van Asselt did fight the elements boldly.
'We capsized three times. The third time the rudder cam flipped, so we sometimes had to both hang onto the rudder when we were bearing away', she laughed.
The two girls are third overall. Alfred de Jong is in the lead with his Nacra 17, followed by the local favorites Dirk Pool with Anna van der Duim.
The 45 slalom windsurfers had again perfect conditions for their exciting racing. Three elimination rounds were sailed instead of the scheduled four. Bernd Flessner from Germany won three of them and leads by seven points. Damien Le Guen (FRA) and local Adriaan van Rijsselberghe are respectively second and third on equal points.
Van Rijsselberghe: 'It was great. I have two seconds and a fifth. At the end of the day there was more wind, so fortunately we had three and not four eliminations. You can also see everyone with red, tired heads. It was hard.'
Top five Texel Dutch Open 2011 after two races:
1. GBR - Northrop/Willett, four points
2. NED - Heemskerk/Tentij, four points
3. NED - Veenman/De Waard, six points
4. GBR - Piggott/Garcka, 10 points
5. NED - De Koning/Visser, 11 points
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Sanjay Leela Bhansali's forthcoming movie Ram Leela has entered into an controversial issue after the trailer being released over internet.
Sanjay Leela Bhansali is perplexed and mystified after receiving a court order from a Jaipur based stating that his film Ram Leela (Ramleela) hurts the religious sentiments and provokes hate between diverse people.
The film Ram Leela has Ranveer and Deepika Padukone in the lead being portrayed as Hindu in the movie.
Sanjay Leela Bhansali team has decided to take severe action against the complainant who have claimed that the film shows community in a bad light after watching the trailer.
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All the greatest discoveries which have been made since then in the fields of chemistry and physics have been based on this law. Of course it was not easy to discover the Law. So Mendeleev had worked hard and carried out lots of experiments to gain the idea. It is amazing that he saw the Periodic System in his dream!
The elements in Mendeleev Periodic Table follow one another in the order of their atomic weights. They are arranged in periods and groups. Mendeleev's discovery made it possible for the scientists to find 38 new chemical elements to fill the empty spaces left in the Periodic Table. At the same time they tried to find elements heavier than the last elements in the Periodic Table. In 1955 the American scientist Dr. Glenn Seabord obtained element No101 and named it Mendelevium in honor of the creator of the Periodic Law.
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Kearney, Neb. -- The Buckle reported Thursday that net income for the quarter ended Jan. 29 rose to $49.5 million, compared with $42.1 million in the year-ago period.
Sales rose 10.4% to $303.1 million, from $274.4 million.
Same-store sales increased 6.3%.
For the full year, The Buckle reported that net income rose to $134.7 million from $127.3 million in 2009. Yearly sales increased 5.7% to $949.8 million, from $898.3 million. Same-store sales edged up 1.2%.


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All day and night, thirsty pets can dip into a dish of clean, fresh water. supplied continually by a small water tank. Animals love the bubbling water, which is reminiscent of the flowing streams and sparkling rivers of their ancestors. A screw-on water flow cap and plug make it easy for owners to refill the tank with a supply of cool water or colorful fruit punch.
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Barack Obama wowed we people of Missouri on Saturday when 100,000 turned out in St. Louis to see the next president of the United States. Obama also was seen by 75,000 people in Kansas City when he went west as he cut across the state. Even as he spoke, John McPalin was spouting his usual nonsense of distortion and lies. According to the Arizona senator, "Barack Obama's tax plan would convert the (Internal Revenue Service" into a giant welfare agency" that would redistribute wealth from those who make high salaries to those who don't. As Obama pointed out, the past eight years have witnessed one of the most radical redistribution of wealth, only the money came from the middle class and it went to the wealthy. Bush-McCain tax plans benefited the upper five percent and created enormous budget deficits which impacted the lives of all Americans.
Barack Obama has repeatedly said his tax plan give a break to 95% of all workers and 98% of small business owners. For some reason, John McPalin believes those earning under $250,000 represent the poor of America while those earning over that amount represent the ordinary Joe the Plumber. Every economist has pointed out that earnings of the middle class have remained stable with scant rise in their income over the past eight years of Bush-McCain.
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And Just What Is 'Hillbilly Hand Fishing' Exactly? [VIDEO]
Well, I guess I'm late to the game when it comes to Hillbilly Hand Fishing, also known as Noodling. It works like this – crazy people go out into some murky water, find a catfish hole and proceed to pull out a big, slimy Loch Ness Monster looking thing using only their bare hands (and feet).
Though it's illegal in Minnesota, you can do it in Wisconsin, people travel south just for the privilege and Animal Planet has an entire show dedicated to it. Just watch out for the alligators, they like catfish holes too. So, have you Noodled?


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Seems like everyone wants to pick on my wagon lately:
2 weeks ago, a C4 Corvette (sounded sweet, 6 speed, etc.) saw me pull out behind him, smiled and gunned it- I did the same- you shoulda seen the look on his face when he couldn't pull away from me!
3 days ago, a 300ZX Turbo on my butt as I mind my own business- so I gave it some gas as we went into the twisties (I live in the Catskills) and he couldn't pull up the hills and keep up with me- all I saw was a seriosly PO'ed dude in my rearview when I slowed down (got tired of the race, no challenge at all)
2 days ago, an Acura Integra with "extra rice" in the same area the the Nissan- it was lotsa fun to watch his car slide way over the double yellow lines in the twisties as my wagon held the line, nice and tight!!!
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As expected Robin van Persie's last night (Sunday) earned the PFA Player of the Year award, but the really good news was that the Newcastle captain, Fab Coloccini, was named in the PFA Team of the Year.
Fabricio Coloccini – named in PFA team of the year
Van Persie leads the Premier League goal scoring charts with 27 goals, but with Wayne Rooney's two goals against Everton yesterday, the Manchester United striker is right behind the Dutchman with 26 goals, and then Aguero of Manchester City is on 22 and three players are on 16, including Newcastle's Demba Ba.
Tottenham right-back Kyle Walker, who made his England debut under former manager Fabio Capello, took the Young Player award.
And both Walker and Van Persie were named in the PFA Team of the Year, which included four Manchester City players and players from only six clubs.
But the good news is that the Newcastle captain Fabricio Coloccini was named in central defense alongside Manchester City captain Vincent Kompany, and the only real surprise is Everton's Leighton Baines at left back, although Baines has had an excellent season for Everton, and maybe he's a better left back than Ashley Cole these days.
Perhaps those Argentine selectors will now sit up and take note, since our captain is a top center-back and the only Argentine to make the team, but there again we don't really mind that he's not playing for his country right now.
When Fab joined Newcastle in August of 2008 from Deportivo for just over £10M, he said he thought he could become a top Premier League center-back.
And after a rough first season, which saw Newcastle get relegated for the first time ever from the Premier League, he has indeed proved he's one of the best players in the best football league in the world.
Fab has turned out to be wonderful buy for the Magpies, and he's been so loyal to Newcastle, and we're just glad this player will be on Tyneside for the next four years.
Well done Fabricio – you are a credit to yourself, to Newcastle United and to Argentina.
PFA Team:
Hart (Man City)
Walker (Spurs), Coloccini (Newcastle), Kompany (Man City), Baines (Everton)
Silva (Man City), Parker (Spurs), Y Toure (Man City), Bale (Spurs)
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Chesapeake Energy taps restructuring counsel
05 February, 2016
Chesapeake Energy recently brought on restructuring attorneys from Kirkland & Ellis to discuss balance sheet solutions, said three sources familiar with the matter.
The Oklahoma-based natural gas giant faces a wave of bond maturities, including one due in just over a month.
Late last year the company rolled out an exchange offer across all 10 tranches of its unsecured bonds, aimed at delevering its balance sheet and addressing the near-term maturities by exchanging them at a discount into new 8% second lien notes. While the exchange succeeded in cutting total debt by USD 1.4bn to USD 10.4bn, the results were lackluster as only 24% (USD 780m face amount) of holders of nearer-dated bonds maturing through 2019 tendered, while the majority of acceptances (USD 3.8bn) came from holders of longer-dated notes.
As of 30 September, Chesapeake had total liquidity of USD 5.75bn, comprising USD 1.76bn of unrestricted cash, and full availability on its USD 4bn first lien revolver due 2019. Going forward, the company could use that liquidity to fund the 15 March maturity of its USD 476m 3.25% unsecured notes, sources said.
The company will subsequently face a spring redetermination on its revolver borrowing base, which is expected to further reduce liquidity. Going forward, addressing two bond maturities in 2017 amounting to over USD 1bn will be a challenge for the company, buyside and sellside sources said.
Given the prospect that a restructuring could loom on the horizon, there are some doubters in the market as to whether Chesapeake will use its liquidity to pay off the upcoming March maturity, reflected in the bond's trading levels below par. The USD 476m 3.25% notes traded at 95 today, according to MarketAxess.
Meanwhile, the USD 2.4bn 8% second lien notes traded at 40 today for a 28.261% yield, down from 45 on 28 January. Its USD 822m 6.625% unsecured notes due 2020 traded at 25 today, down from 28 on 29 January.
Chesapeake's stock traded at USD 3.06 today for a market capitalization of USD 2.03bn.
Kirkland has worked with Chesapeake dating back to 2010, added another source familiar with the matter. The firm's website indicates that its litigation practice has represented the company in state and federal courts on issues related to oil and gas leases.
Chesapeake declined to comment. Kirkland did not respond to requests for comment.


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What's in a pet's name?
Here they are! The ten wackiest dog and cat names:
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- Snuggles Butt Le Lee
- Count Flufferton
- Katy Purry
- Walter Croncat
- Joey Banana Pants
- Felix Thunder Paws
- Nuttykitty
- Senor Meow
- Sassy Brat Kat
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"TCS outlook for FY14 is better than FY13 with a good deal pipeline and strong performance expected across sectors," said Gautam Sinha Roy, VP, Equities, Motilal Oswal Securities
The country's largest software exporter Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) on Wednesday reported a 22.1% jump in net profit at Rs3,596.9 crore for the March quarter, meeting expectations.
The company's net profit stood at Rs2,945.5 crore reported in the same period a year ago.
Revenue for the fourth quarter ended 31 March 2013 grew by 23.9% to Rs16,430.1 crore as against Rs13,259.3 crore in the year ago period, according to the IFRS reporting.
Announcing the robust numbers here this evening, TCS managing director and chief executive N Chandrasekaran said, "We have delivered a year of strong growth with all markets and industry segments growing in double digits.
"We remain confident that the new fiscal will bring greater opportunities as technology plays an increasing role in reimagining businesses globally," he added.
The company as a policy does not offer guidance.
The company said its net profit margin stood at 21.9% while operating margin rose to 26.5% in the reporting quarter.
"TCS Q4 net profit came in line with expectations... TCS outlook for FY14 is better than FY13 with a good deal pipeline and strong performance expected across sectors," said Gautam Sinha Roy, VP, Equities, Motilal Oswal Securities.
For the full fiscal, net profit increased by 30.9% to Rs13,941.4 crore compared to Rs10,651.7 crore in the previous fiscal.
The total revenue for the year jumped 28.8% at Rs62,989.5 crore from Rs48,893.8 crore last year.