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Klosterman Baking Company's Leads Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign
Oct 1, 2012 - Oct 31, 2012 8:00 A.M.
Kroger & Meijer retailers throughout Cincinnati
What: Klosterman Baking Company, a family-owned bakery headquartered in Cincinnati, is kicking off its Pink Ribbon Loaves donation campaign benefitting The Pink Ribbon Girls, in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The Pink Ribbon Girls mission is to provide personalized support to young women throughout all phases of the breast cancer journey. Klosterman will donate $0.10 for every pink ribbon loaf sold (up to $7,500).
Where: Klosterman's Pink Ribbon loaves are available in Kroger and Meijer retailers throughout Cincinnati.
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I was pet sitting down the street and after seeing reviews on here went to try China wok. I was impressed! the man behind the counter told me they could make almost everything gluten free including sesame chicken and sweet and sour chicken. I got the fried rice and it was amazing. I felt safe,understood and not judged there. This will be my go to Chinese restaurant!
So good! My whole family is GF and I am celiac. Never been sick. They are very accommodating.
Order GF and they will cook it for you fresh! Best Chinese food around!!!!
The reviews are true. Staff is very knowledgeable and accommodating. Food is prepared fresh and with gluten-free ingredients. The restaurant isn't much to look at but if you take it to go you'll never know. Enjoy!
I had seen good reviews regarding being celiac friendly so my littlest and I decided to try it out. Jojo the owner was very very knowledgeable about gluten-free and told me she has many gluten-free customers. I was off my detox so I decided to try the sesame shrimp with brown rice: huge portions & very, very delicious! We will definitely be returning with the entire family best thing I'm not sick!!!
Owner very knowledgeable, understanding and accommodating. Definitely on the list for repeat business.
They make their dishes separate to keep from cross contaminating. Used gluten free soy sauce. Excellent quality food. Very nice surprise find.
I LOVED this place! I walked in and talked to the main lady, and she was a doll! I told her about my gluten allergy. She handed me a menu and said pick whatever you want and the kitchen will make it for you, gluten free. It was absolutely delicious and I had no reaction at all! Very pleased!
This was our favorite Chinese place before we had to go gluten free for medical conditions. On a whim I stopped in to ask if they would make our meal with gluten free soy if i bought the bottle. After I explained what gluten was the owner was more than happy to help. He even source a gluten free version of his normal soy sauce so everything tastes the same. He even offered to make the hot & sour soup gluten free if I call ahead. Let them know of your allergy and they will let you know what items they can make for you.
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Yamaha's RX-V473 A/V Receiver provides a very cost-effective way to process sound and video for any home theater system. Just hook up your choice of display, video source and speakers, and this receiver will tie them all together. It's capable of producing five 115-watt channels of powerful surround sound.
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Somers coach Kristi Dini still recalls the bitterness of beating Peekskill in the regular season last year and losing to Albertus Magnus in an overtime battle in the Section 1 Class A tournament, only to watch those two meet in the championship.
The Tuskers seem to have little care or fear that Peekskill returned every player from its section-championship roster, downing the Red Devils 62-54 at home on Wednesday.
"Preparation for each game is always the same: I like to scout, see the strengths and weaknesses, see what we can take advantage of," said Dini, who is in her second year at the helm. "We played them in a zone last year. … Our man-to-man (this year) was good (against Peekskill)."
The Red Devils (1-1) had been ranked No. 8 in the state for Class A by the New York State Sportswriters Association in the first installment of weekly rankings released on Tuesday.
Dini said that her bigs, Kayleah McGuire and Caite Opfer, were a major factor on Wednesday, but ultimately attributed the win to excellent ball movement and balanced scoring.
"Normally, I can sit and point out one or two players that really stand out, but they really played good team basketball today," she said. "Everyone was doing their job and contributing on both sides of the floor."
McGuire (17 points) and Opfer (12 points) were two of four double-digit scorers for the Tuskers, who were 0-2 to start the season. Nicole DeMase scored 16 points, including back-to-back 3-pointers to open the game, and Gabby Rosenzweig had 11 points.
"This was huge," Dini said. "We needed this for Somers basketball."
Best of the rest: Kyle Lefkowitz had 12 points, 24 rebounds and 11 blocks as Harrison handed Briarcliff its first loss of the season, 53-44. … Miranda Santiago hit for 19 points to lead Yonkers to a 53-28 win over Lincoln in the Yonkers tournament. … Grace Carr had 22 points to lead Sleepy Hollow over Bronxville 67-38. … Chloe Mullarkey had 18 points and Ciera Rivera 16 points as North Rockland topped host Nanuet 62-47.
We got all but two or three scores in, so have a look at the scoreboard:
Wednesday, December 18
North Rockland 62, Nanuet 47
Clarkstown South 66, Pearl River 59
Hastings 41, Edgemont 27
Ursuline B 56, Dobbs Ferry 40
Somers 62, Peekskill 54
Ossining 81, Horace Greeley 66
Byram Hills 43, Pleasantville 20
Ardsley 65, Woodlands 56
Keio 42, Tuckahoe 33
Croton-Harmon 35, Rye Neck 22
Port Chester 40, Hamilton 34
Fox Lane 73, Westlake 63
Sleepy Hollow 67, Bronxville 38
Albertus Magnus 68, East Ramapo 28
Harrison 53, Briarcliff 44
Irvington 66, North Salem 39
Mount Vernon 63, Mamaroneck 62 — Man, so close
Rich Bosco Memorial tournament at Suffern
Scarsdale 55, Clarkstown North 35
Suffern 52, Tuxedo 14
Yonkers tournament
Palisade Prep 38, Yonkers Montessori 28
Yonkers 53, Lincoln 28
Gorton def. Riverside
Saunders def. Roosevelt
Prediction record tonight: 15-7
Season prediction record: 78-27


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The 40th season of the Smithsonian Chamber Music Society (SCMS) features masterpieces from the early 17th to the early 21st century, played on some of the world's most highly prized instruments. Two series, featuring the SCMS's acclaimed artists, offer musical feasts simply unobtainable anywhere but the Smithsonian. The full season is performed in the chic and comfortable new Hall of Music in the American History Museum.
Kenneth Slowik, artistic director and recipient of the Smithsonian Distinguished Scholar Award, curates a series of pre-concert lectures (one hour prior to each program), shedding light on the glorious music and the life and times of the featured composers.
To learn more about the Smithsonian Chamber Music Society, click here.
The Axelrod String Quartet Series
Smithsonian Chamber Music Society audiences are privy to the unparalleled opportunity of hearing two magnificent quartets of instruments—one made by Antonio Stradivari, the other by his teacher Nicolò Amati—in this popular three-concert series.
The season opens in November with a string quartet adaptation of Johann Sebastian Bach's Die Kunst der Fuge (The Art of Fugue), BWV 1080. The four voices of the string quartet bring fresh clarity to the exquisite counterpoint of this masterful work, written during the final decade of Bach's life.
Over the remainder of the season, the Axelrod Quartet concludes its traversal of Haydn's Op. 76 quartets, and presents works of other Viennese composers: Webern and Brahms (January), and Haydn's pupil Beethoven (March).
The final concerts of the series introduce the Rolston Quartet, the graduate-quartet-in-residence at Rice University's Shepherd School of Music. This gifted young ensemble, which was grand prize winner of the Chamber Music Yellow Springs Competition and took prizes in both the M-Prize and Bordeaux International String Quartet Competitions, joins the Axelrod players in the last of Louis Spohr's four innovative double quartets, utilizing both sets of instruments.
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Concert Schedule
Sat., Nov. 19, 2016; Sun., Nov. 20, 2016
Johann Sebastian Bach: The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080
Sat., Jan. 14, 2017; Sun., Jan. 15, 2017
Joseph Haydn: Quartet in D Major, Op. 76, No. 5
Anton Webern: Langsamser Satz
Johannes Brahms: Quartet in A Minor, Op. 51, No. 2
Sat., March 18, 2017; Sun., March 19, 2017
Joseph Haydn: Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 76, No. 6
Ludwig van Beethoven: Quartet in G Major, Op. 18, No. 2
Louis Spohr: Double Quartet in G Minor, Op. 136
Featuring The Rolston Quartet: Luri Lee and Jeffrey Dyrda, violins; Hezekiah Leung, viola; Jonathan Lo, violoncello
This six-concert series features several ensembles including the The Smithsonian Chamber Players, Smithsonian Consort of Viols, and the Esterházy Machine.
The season opens in October with a turn-of-the-century Viennese program containing two contrasting works of Arnold Schönberg: his Dvorák-like D major quartet of 1897, and his monumental D minor quartet of 1904-05, which is formally a small-scale analogue to the First Chamber Symphony heard at the conclusion of last season.
The Smithsonian Consort of Viols makes another January outing, with a program centered around works of Alfonso Ferrabosco and Orlando Gibbons for viols and organ.
In February, two of California's top period-instrument players, Katherine Kyme and William Skeen, join Kenneth Slowik for four of Haydn's inventive fortepiano trios from the late 1780s.
Slowik celebrates his 40th season as a member of the Smithsonian Chamber Players with a pair of all-Bach recitals at the beginning of April. Later that month, the theme is again late-19th-century Viennese, with two of the greatest chamber works of Brahms: the warmly gemütlich A major piano-and-violin sonata, and the haunting, autumnally beautiful clarinet quintet, one of the pieces Brahms wrote after he was seduced to end his self-imposed compositional retirement by the artistry of clarinetist Richard Mühlfeld.
The season ends on a festive note, with the Esterházy Machine presenting a sampling of the 126 baryton trios Haydn wrote for his music-loving employer Prince Nikolaus Esterháy "The Magnificent," and Robert Schumann's genial piano quartet of 1842.
Sat., Oct. 8, 2016; Sun., Oct. 9, 2016
Krzysztof Penderecki: Leaves of an Unwritten Diary
Samuel Barber: Adagio from the String Quartet, Op. 11
Arnold Schoenberg: Quartet in D Minor, Op. 7
The Smithsonian Chamber Players
Mark Fewer and Audrey Wright, violin; Steven Dann, viola; Kenneth Slowik, violoncello
Sat., Jan. 7, 2017;
Sun., Jan. 8, 2017
English Consort Music of the Elizabethan and Jacobean Eras
The Smithsonian Consort of Viols
Kenneth Slowik, Rebekah Ahrendt, Loren Ludwig, Catherine Slowik and Arnie Tanimoto, viols; with Webb Wiggins, organ
Sat., Feb. 25, 2017;
Sun., Feb. 26, 2017
Joseph Haydn: Piano Trios of the 1780s
The Smithsonian Chamber Players
Kenneth Slowik, fortepiano; Katherine Kyme, violin; William Skeen, violoncello
Sat., April 8, 2017; Sun., March 9, 2017
Music of Johann Sebastian Bach: BWV 1012, 825, 1027, and 1061
Kenneth Slowik, assisted by harpsichordist Joseph Gascho
Sat., April 29, 2017; Sun., April 30, 2017
Johannes Brahms: Violin Sonata in A Major, Op. 78;
Clarinet Quintet in B Minor, Op. 115
The Smithsonian Chamber Players
Vera Beths and Meredith Riley, violin; Steven Dann, viola; Kenneth Slowik, violoncello and piano; Charles Neidich, clarinet
Sat., May 6, 2017; Sun., May 7, 2017
Joseph Haydn: Trios "fatto per S.A.S. Prencipe Estorhazi"
Robert Schumann: Piano Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 47
The Esterházy Machine
Steven Dann, viola; Myron Lutzke, violoncello; Kenneth Slowik, baryton and piano; with Ian Swensen, violin
Programs, locations, and artists subject to change.


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WESTMINSTER, Md. (WJZ) — A Dundalk man is facing burglary and theft charges in Carroll County.
Police say Jason Young, 33, stole close to $10,000 worth of electronics and jewelry from a home in the 1600-block of Terrace Drive in Westminster.
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Toronto's mayor is emphasizing his dedication to underprivileged high-school athletes to deflect questions about his use of taxpayer-funded employees and cell phones to help run his football squads.
Rob Ford trumpeted his work as a volunteer coach and derided as "cowards" anyone who would hypothetically criticize his staff in an official statement Wednesday. But neither the mayor nor his spokesman directly addressed the questions raised in a Globe and Mail story – namely, why the mayor has had at least three "special assistants" in his office, including former university quarterback Andrew Gillis, help administer and coach his football teams.
"I'm okay if Councillors want to criticize me for helping kids. That's their right," the statement quotes the mayor as saying. "I'm a big guy and I can take it."
Mr. Ford's statement praised volunteerism, but did not say – as his councillor brother did earlier in the day – that his aides were volunteering on their own time when they accompanied the mayor to the gridiron during office hours.
Instead, the statement seemed to suggest that was part of their jobs. "As Mayor of Toronto, Mayor Ford is accompanied by one or more of his staff members at most times, in order to assist him in his official duties."
The statement provided no explanation for why two of the mayor's aides listed their city-issued cell phones as contacts on the Facebook page for the Rexdale Raiders, the summer squads Mr. Ford founded after becoming mayor.
Before the statement was issued, Councillor Doug Ford called The Globe to say the mayor's office employees who are helping with his brother's football programs are doing so as "volunteers."
"This is on their own time, after 40 hours," the councillor said. "Rob doesn't force anyone to work on city time."
Reporters were left to parse the councillor's comments and the official statement after the mayor did a lone television interview in his office, then left to coach football practice without taking questions.
After practice at Don Bosco Catholic Secondary School field in Etobicoke, he hurried from the field surrounded by the football team. "I have no comment," he said as he squeezed into the driver's seat, while players blocked reporters from the mayor. Mr. Ford backed out while the players cheered.
Meantime, councillors slammed Mr. Ford's apparent misuse of city resources – not his penchant for helping kids – and predicted the integrity commissioner will eventually investigate the matter. (A spokeswoman for the integrity commissioner said her office does not confirm complaints or investigations until findings are made public.)
"It is disrespectful of taxpayers as far as I am concerned," said Gloria Lindsay Luby, a fiscally conservative councillor from Etobicoke. "I am not happy with it and that's not what I bought into as a taxpayer and a resident of this city."
Joe Mihvec, a left-leaning councillor from mid-town, called the mayor's use of city resources "clearly inappropriate."
"I think the bigger picture is, he loves football. That's his priority," Mr. Mihevc said. "When he has a choice between a football event and City Hall obligation, he chooses football. That's the big concern."
Deputy Mayor Doug Holyday defended Mr. Ford, saying the mayor has been unfairly subjected to harsher media scrutiny than his predecessors.
That echoed Councillor Ford's take.
"This is all about two things: Rob Ford and football," he said. "If it was the tree-huggers or whatever, you wouldn't care."
He vowed to take a tougher stance with the media, particularly The Globe and Mail.
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If your company owns life insurance policies on your executives or any key people for that matter, you need to be aware of the potential tax ramifications and the requirements to avoid taxation of benefits. Important changes have taken place in the last few years that can significantly impact the taxation of corporate owned life insurance. The information below is designed to inform you of the IRS regulations that have been implemented over the last few years and what is needed to comply with these IRS requirements so that policy proceeds avoid needless taxation.*
On August 17, 2006, President George Bush signed tax legislation containing provisions that significantly impact key man and other employer owned life insurance purchased after August 17, 2006. The legislation, known as the COLI (Corporate Owned Life Insurance) Best Practices Act (which is part of the Pension Protection Act of 2006), includes the proposed IRC Section 101(j). Under this proposed law, life insurance death benefits for business-owned life insurance policies issued after the effective date of August 17, 2006 are income taxable (to the extent the death benefit exceeds the employer's premiums) unless certain requirements are met.
This new legislation applies to all employer-owned policies issued after August 17, 2006 and includes policies used for key man insurance, stock redemption plans, Corporate Owned Life Insurance and Supplemental Executive Retirement Plans (among others). It may also extend to collateral assignment (economic benefit) regime split dollar and split dollar loans. With this law, all situations where an employer will have full or partial ownership of a life insurance policy that is issued after August 17, 2006, regardless of the purpose of the policy, will need to meet certain requirements and follow specific guidelines to avoid potential taxation.
In order to prevent policy proceeds (death benefits) from being income taxable, both of the following requirements must be met:
1. Notice and Consent Requirements:
a) The employee must be notified (in writing), prior to the life insurance policy being issued, that the employer intends to buy a policy on his/her life and disclose what the maximum face amount that is being applied for on his/her life is;
b) The employee must provide written consent to being insured and agree that the employer may choose to keep the policy in force even after the employee separates employment; and
c) The employee must be notified in writing that the employer is the beneficiary of all or part of the death benefit proceeds.
Under the COLI Best Practices Act, unless the employer provides written notice and obtains the employee's written consent prior to the issuance of the policy, the death benefit of the life insurance policy will be taxable from day 1. Notice and consent may not be obtained after the life insurance policy is issued to remove this taxable death benefit status.
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All employers are required to report annually all corporate-owned life insurance policies to the IRS. The annual reporting requirements imposed under the IRC Sec. 6039I include:
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If proper record keeping and reporting is not maintained, any and all key man life insurance policy proceeds or other corporate owned life insurance death benefits may be subject to income taxation
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|Man accused of being gay executed by ISIS in Iraq, July 2016
ISIS has publicly executed yet another man accused of being gay by throwing him from a rooftop.
The Iraqi man was executed by ISIS militants in the Kirkuk stronghold, after being accused of homosexuality, reports local media.
The victim is the latest of dozens of men perceived to be gay to have been executed by the militant group.
ARA News Network published the story which has not been independently verified, showing footage of the man being thrown to his death.
According to the report, a crowd had gathered, who threw stones at the man's body after he hit the ground.
"He was thrown off a roof in front of dozens of people," the reads the report.
"Then ISIS militants called on the people to stone the victim, although he was already dead. They started to barbarically stone his corpse."
Such punishment is often the result of Shariah law being carried out by "judges" or "courts" who decide whether the accused is guilty.
"Civilians who live under Isis suppression are forced to follow any order by the group, otherwise they could get killed," the head of Nineveh media centre Raafat al-Zarari said in the report by ARA News.
"People sometimes have no choice but showing loyalty to IS."
Just over a month ago, Omar Mateen took to the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, killing 49.
Mateen called authorities and declared his loyalty to ISIS before he was killed at the scene.
Hillary Clinton visited the nightclub on Friday, and spoke at a roundtable event to say she would make changes to protect LGBT+ people from being targeted.
Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump also said he would do "everything in his power" to protect LGBT people, despite having held anti-LGBT stances for some time.
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I have a customer who had another taxidermist send off a bear hide for him. When the customer got the hide back it had been shaved too thin and had hair coming through the skin side. He wants me to make a rug for him but it hasn't been stretched. What is the best way to do this other than sending it to a professional?
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This response submitted by Dan on 5/31/99. ( firstname.lastname@example.com )
Joey, it has a lot to do with the time of year the bear was taken, sometimes the hair roots are so deep, some will pull through the other side. This has happened to me before with bear that has been sent out. If the hair is tight on the fur side you should not have any problems. As for streching, I take it, it came back dry tanned. you can re-wet,mount the head, strech it out, and tack it down skin side up then let it dry again. you will also have to cut the folds at the neck, arm pits, and in front of the hind leggs to make it lay flat then re-sow. Depending on the tan, oil and break it as it drys. good luck. Dan
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I,m sure the hide is fine.Early fall bear often have the hair showing through.My advise is to mount the head and let a pro do the rugging.If you must do it though rehydrate the body skin with a sponge and water,might take a while.Do not brush the hair side untill the skin side is completely dry.When the skin is relaxed you can pull those hairs completely through and have a not so hairy rug.After the rug dries the skin will tighten back up and then you can groom it without any problems.
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From the restaurant: Red, White and Brew
Jumbo shrimp sautéed in a fresh garlic and butter wine sauce crowned with fresh mushrooms and mozzarella over linguini
For scampi sauce:
½ pound butter
1 tablespoon chopped fresh parsley
3 tablespoons minced fresh garlic
¼ teaspoon fresh oregano chopped
¼ teaspoon white pepper
2 ounces white wine
2 ounces fresh lemon juice
Roasted Button Mushrooms
Salt and black pepper to taste
1 pound Linguini Pasta
24 shrimp
1 lemon wedge
Do Ahead:
Melt butter over low heat in stainless sauce pan. Mix in remaining sauce ingredients. Keep warm.
Oven to 450 degrees
Lightly season washed fresh mushrooms with salt and black pepper. Roast on oiled pan in oven for 20 minutes or just until they begin to brown and release their water. Drain in colander.
Cook imported linguini in boiling salted water for 10 minutes or until just al dente. Drain and hold.
Peel and de-vein shrimp. Remove tails.
Heat a 10'' sauté pan over a medium flame until hot. Stir scampi butter sauce well with a ladle and add 3 ounces to hot pan. Wait 1 minute. Add 8 pieces cleaned and de-veined (tail off) shrimp to pan. Add 4 ounces button mushrooms to pan. Flip shrimp in pan. Cover shrimp and mushrooms with three 1 ounce slices of whole milk mozzarella. Sprinkle cheese lightly with sweet paprika. Place pan under broiler to melt mozzarella.
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Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge
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Charlestown Navy Yard (0.54 mi / 0.87 km)
US Coast Guard ISC Boston (0.61 mi / 0.99 km)
City Hall (0.72 mi / 1.15 km)
Faneuil Hall (0.73 mi / 1.17 km)
Massachusetts State House (capitol) (0.75 mi / 1.20 km)
From: BruceThis is pretty cool - I just realized that the current pictures of the bridge are two different sets merged at different times during the Big Dig construction that this bridge is a part of. If you zoom in on the bridge itself you'll see that there's no traffic between any of the supports. There are no lines painted on the road bed yet and near the southern tower you can see what appears to be some construction equipment parked in the northbound lane at an odd angle. You can also tell that the picture at this point is a few years old since the old bridge that the Zakim replaced still exists in the picture and northbound traffic can be seen on that bridge. That means the picture was taken before March 30, 2003.
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If you follow the old bridge northward you'll see it reach a point almost directly above the northern tower of the Zakim bridge where the contrast changes. At that point the old bridge transitions to a skelton, which means that part of the photograph was taken a few months after December, 2003. The southbound traffic didn't shift from the old bridge to the new one until then, and it took them a little while after that to tear the old one down. So the two sets of pictures are about a year apart.
It looks about the same in Google Earth right now.


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Greener Products for York
The College is changing the hand towel, toilet tissue, and soap dispensers throughout the Campus
We expect to complete this transition over to these new dispensers by early next week.
This is one way that the college is trying to be more sustainable and provide better quality products in our campus lavatories.
In the near future, we are going to try using some prototype air hand dryers as well, to further reduce the use of our paper product waste stream.
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Over 400 members of the dairy industry contributed to this year's ANZ Privately-Owned Business Barometer. We have captured the challenges, opportunities and level of optimism amongst the industry to provide valuable insights to help grow your agri business.
The 2015 Dairy Key Insights paper focuses on the dairy sector responding to the current industry cycle along with building strong, efficient farm businesses for the future. The ANZ Barometer finds that confidence in the future of the industry remains high despite concern about current product prices. The report explores ways that participating farmers are making their business more efficient and productive, without just cutting costs.
It shows that the dairy sector is strongly focused on building resilience to commodity price fluctuations, sharpening business practices and taking care of the environment.
As dairy farmers grapple with a range of complex choices, the ANZ Barometer suggests that a number of farmers are using information differently to priorities spending and investment. We hope this report is of valuable use to you and your business' future.


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In a blog post, MicrosoftŌĆÖs Cesar Menendez provides an update based on the wide range of questions heŌĆÖs gotten about the new 10 free song per month perk thatŌĆÖs part of the Zune Pass subscription. One bit really caught my eye:
1. WhatŌĆÖs the catch here?
No catch. You get everything you always got with your Zune Pass (i.e. unlimited access to Marketplace subscription tracks, for as long as you maintain your subscription), plus your choice of 10 tracks to keep every month.
This isnŌĆÖt true. In fact, there are quite a number of gotchas attached to this service. And Cesar even hits on a few of them in later parts of this same post. That is ŌĆ"
No rollover
There is no rollover of the ten downloads from one month to the next. Download your selected ten tracks each month; next month youŌĆÖll be able to download ten more.
How do you know you have credit?
You donŌĆÖt. You do thisŌĆ"
Right-click on the track you want, and select ŌĆśbuyŌĆÖ or ŌĆśadd to cartŌĆÖ. If you have a Zune Pass, each month you will have a ten-item credit in your account to use for this.
Are the free tracks in WMA or in MP3 format?
That depends on the song. About 90% of Marketplace tracks are available in DRM-free MP3 format. So chances are youŌĆÖll be getting a drm-free mp3.
This isnŌĆÖt true. Right now, only two-thirds of the songs on Zune Marketplace are MP3 instead of WMA. The press release reads: ŌĆ£With the addition of tracks from UMG and Sony BMG, Zune will soon offer over 90 percent of its music in the MP3 format.ŌĆØ Soon isnŌĆÖt the same as now. And in my real-world experience on the store, there are still plenty of WMA tracks. Which, by the way, are not called out in any way. For example, the songs IŌĆÖm trying to buy here are all WMA, not MP3. See how it tells you that? Oh, wait. It doesnŌĆÖt.
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The biggest problem, of course, is that the Zune software doesnŌĆÖt alert you to the fact that you have 10 free song credits in the default application window, as iTunes does, incidentally. You have to know that you do, and know when the credit appears. Is it every calendar month? Every 30 days from the date of your service starting? Who knows? Certainly, MicrosoftŌĆÖs not telling us.
Oh well. ItŌĆÖs still cool that we have 10 free songs per month now. And it certainly isnŌĆÖt a big deal to fix the issues I raise here. Hopefully they will do soon.
Just donŌĆÖt believe the ŌĆ£no catchŌĆØ baloney. You have to do a lot of legwork to take advantage of this functionality.


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Hi,I had dermal fillers injected in my nose in mid jan and developed complications (infection and necrosis 4inc x 3inc).my healing was thru secondary intention and after 2 mths, my nose is fully covered but with indents,discoloration,skin still thin,red,itchy.how long would it take for my nose to be ready for corrective surgery?thanks
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Surgery for Nose After Dermal Filler Necrosis
It is very difficult to answer your question without seeing you in person - but possibly up to 12 months
Correction of scars from filler injection in the nose
We would consider the correction of your scar as any other scar revision. You are best to wait a full year to allow the healing cycle to complete, and the skin to soften. Sunscreen and gentle massage are helpful. Laser treatments are probably not. Take time to let the skin recover naturally.
Learn more: http://www.peterejohnsonmd.com/non-surgical-procedures
Correction of Dermal Tissue Loss After Fillers
Presuming that was from hyaluronic acid fillers like restylane or juvederm I would wait at least six months for the skin to normalize and see what specifically needs to be corrected. In order to correct those areas, the skin must become untethered from the undelying nasal skeleton to optimize repair. I would in the interim consider vascular laser treatments to help with the redness and may improve the final appearance of the scars as well. Good luck,
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I'm sorry to hear about your experience. It is hard to say when the ideal time for intervention would be without seeing the extent and condition of the situation. You need to be under close supervision by a board certified specialist who can guide you during this and determine the appropriate time for intervention.
Learn more: http://www.kimberlyleemd.com
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Tropical Depression in Gulf
The National Hurricane Center says Tropical Depression 5 has formed in the southwestern Bay of Campeche, off Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. The system has maximum sustained winds of 30 mph.
As of 4pm Sunday, it is centered at 20.1 N, 93.6 W and is moving west-northwest at 13 mph. Tropical Storm Warnings are posted from Tuxpan to Pesca on the eastern coast of Mexico.
There is no immediate threat to the US, but forecasters say heavy rip currents can be expected along the coast near the Rio Grande Valley by midweek.
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STRUGGLING welfare-dependent households in Adelaide's north will be banned from spending their benefits on alcohol, cigarettes and gambling.
As many as 1000 households will be signed up to the income management pilot program, which aims to ensure children are cared for - and benefits are not diverted to non-essentials, including pornography and home brew kits.
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Yeast is a common ingredient in many vaccines. A simple search on the CDC website for "vaccine yeast ingredient," and you'll get almost 80 results. While most experts, including the Mayo Clinic, are quick to point out that there is no link between autism and vaccines, there is new autism research that is drawing a link.
Candida Yeast
According to Henry Butt, M.D. of the University of Melbourne, a person's general health depends largely on how well his or her body is able to absorb the byproducts of naturally present "gut flora." Changes to our internal physical environment, especially persistent ones, can cause a variety of gastro-intestinal symptoms, such as diarrhea or abdominal distention. Patients with autism seem to be prone to such GI issues, which may be caused by an overabundance of yeast. According to some schools of thought, elevated yeast levels can cause a variety of autism-like symptoms, including increased sensory defensiveness, inappropriate laughter, and inattention. To date, however, there has been no proof that an elevated yeast level actually causes autism, and the etiology of autism remains unknown.
Ultimately, what Dr. Butt's research shows is that while we are not yet able to pinpoint the causes of autism, we are reaching a point where we are able to ascertain whether or not secondary treatments, such as diet modification, are able to lessen some of the symptoms associated with autism. By additional outside factors that contribute to autism-like behaviors, we will perhaps be one step closer to finding the ultimate cause of this very prevalent disease.
An abstract of the lecture he presented at the 2011 ARMS Global Autism Conference can be found in HERE.
For more information on the validity of dietary changes and their effect on autism, please see the Mayo Clinic articles on autism and candida cleanse diets.


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Sevierville police are looking for a man who may have planned to steal from or kidnap a young girl at a local craft fair on Saturday.
The 11-year-old girl was visiting the Great Smokies Craft Fair on West Dumplin Valley Road when a man approached her at the snack bar and accused her of stealing. The man said he was a security guard and told her to follow him outside so he could check inside her purse.
The girl followed the man into the parking lot, where she said he tried to grab her hand and attempted to get her purse. She managed to get away and ran back into the building to her mother.
Surveillance video was found that showed the victim following the suspect, but the video quality made it difficult to get a good luck at the man.
He was described as a white male, 35-45-years old, bald, approximately 5'8" tall and weighing 170 pounds. He was wearing a white t-shirt, camouflage shorts and sandals.
Anyone with information is asked to call SPD Detective Lieutenant Sam Hinson at 865-868-1751.
Sevierville Police said everyone should be wary of people who claim to be security or a police officer if they are not in uniform. You should ask for identification, and young people particularly should not leave with someone claiming to be an officer without first going to a parent or guardian.


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" Author: R. J. Anderson / Format: Paperback / Date of publication: 06 January 2011 / Genre: Children's Fantasy & Magical Realism / Publisher: Hachette Children's Books / Title: Arrow / ISBN 13: 9781408312629 / ISBN 10: 1408312629 "
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Arrow is the third book in the Knife series by Canadian author, R.J. Anderson. It was published on January 6th by Orchard and the book is 368 pages long. Thanks to the publisher for sending me a copy for review.
Rhosmari has always lived a sheltered life on a series of faerie islands, hidden away from everything and everyone else. The Children of Rhys are unlike the other faeries. The like to keep to themselves and do not condone violence or war at all but when the Stone of Naming is taken from them, Rhosmari knows that something must be done.
Garan, the faery whom Rhosmari was betrothed to has run off to join the rebels, a group of faeries determined to take down the Empress once and for all. Rhosmari knows that finding Garan may be the only hope of getting the Stone of Naming back and saving her home. What Rhosmari doesn't prepare for is the Empress and her spies in the real world. Caught up in a whirlwind of adventure, excitement and loss, Rhosmari still needs to save everyone but how far is she willing to go?
What I thought
The Knife series has been one of my favourites for a long time now, partly due to it being one of the first YA books I read and partly due to its awesomeness. When Orchard asked me to run a giveaway for the newest book, Arrow and to review it, I jumped at the chance.
Rhosmari was a fantastic protagonist. It was nice to see her with other Children of Rhys to begin with as it made a good comparison when she finally made it to the real world. After being hidden away all of her life, Rhosmari has no idea what to expect or how she is even going to manage to find Garan and the Oak. As soon as she began to find her way, she came across as extremely naïve, trusting people far too quickly but I also thought this was believable. Rhosmari never really knew what was happening when she met Martin, who was helping her on her journey so when things didn't go as she planned, I felt extremely sorry for her and wanted to give her a big hug! As the story went on, Rhosmari really began to grow as a character and realise who she was and to starting knowing what she really wanted out of life. I was glad that she stood up for herself and what she believed in throughout and because she was such a strong character, I loved her.
The Empress is certainly a nasty piece of work. At times though, I really doubted just how bad she was. She has a strange kind of charm though which made me think twice about her at times. Being as manipulative as she is, I did always have the thought in the back of my head that she wasn't being as truthful as she was making out to be when talking to Rhosmari. The twists and turns concerning her character were exciting and I was always looking forward to what was coming next because I could never quite figure out what direction she was going to go in.
Arrow has a lot of action scenes so I think that this book would be great for boys as well as girls. The mix of action and romance in Knife and Rebel was one of the main things that I loved about them but this time around, I think I would have liked to have seen a bit more on the romance side. I think that is probably more of a girls' opinion more than anything though but I can see why Anderson kept the mix as it was in order to widen the appeal of the book. While the romance was sweet, I felt like some of it was a little rushed and that Rhosmari and the boy involved didn't spend enough time together.
The previous books in the series explored different aspects of faery lore and we get something slightly new in Arrow. As the Stone of Naming is a integral part of the story, faery names are explained in a little more detail and why it is so important when they decide to give someone their real name. The fact that the different faeries in the story had different reasons for doing this was really interesting and I loved hearing different characters explanations of why they have done it. I was left wondering what part of the world of faeries was going to explored in the next book in this series.
Arrow was by far, my favourite book in this series so far because of how exciting and interesting it was. I can't wait for the next instalment, even though there is quite a while to wait.


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A few spots remain open for former members of the Lebanon High baseball team to attend Saturday's inaugural First Pitch Dinner to meet the 2014 Blue Devils and new head coach Tony Long.
Cumberland University's Hall of Fame baseball coach Woody Hunt will be the guest speaker.
Sponsored by the Lebanon Police Department and the Lebanon O'Charley's, the casual event will be held 6 p.m. Feb. 1 in the Lebanon High cafeteria.
Thanks to the generous donations of Chief Scott Bowen and O'Charley's manager K.J. Jones -- all former LHS baseball players will dine free of charge.
However, reservations are necessary and must be made prior to 10 a.m. Friday, Jan. 31,
The team will be unveiling a tribute to the late Randy "Hondo" Vanatta -- who played a key role in last season's opening day ceremonies before his passing.
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Washington • Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was admitted to a New York hospital Sunday after the discovery of a blood clot stemming from the concussion she sustained earlier this month.
Clinton's doctors discovered the clot Sunday while performing a follow-up exam, her spokesman, Philippe Reines, said. He would not elaborate on the location of the clot but said Clinton is being treated with anti-coagulants and would remain at New York-Presbyterian Hospital for at least the next 48 hours so doctors can monitor the medication.
"Her doctors will continue to assess her condition, including other issues associated with her concussion," Reines said in a statement. "They will determine if any further action is required."
Clinton, 65, fell and suffered a concussion while at home alone in mid-December as she recovered from a stomach virus that left her severely dehydrated. The concussion was diagnosed Dec. 13 and Clinton was forced to cancel a trip to North Africa and the Middle East that had been planned for the next week.
Clinton was also forced to cancel Dec. 20 testimony before Congress about a scathing report into the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans. Clinton took responsibility for the incident before the report was released, but she was not blamed.


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Background: Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) is the primary, non-medical treatment of choice for mood and anxiety disorders of childhood. As identification rates of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) have risen, so has interest in adapting CBT to treat this population (Attwood, 1994). Although the efficacy of CBT modified for youth with ASD is promising, to the authors' knowledge, no previous research has examined teenagers' satisfaction with the treatment (Reaven & Hepburn, 2003). Objectives: The primary purpose of the present study was to evaluate teenagers' satisfaction with a manual-based CBT program. Additionally, we explored self-report measures of change. Methods: Four adolescents (12-14 years; 2 boys) with confirmed ASD and anxiety disorder diagnoses received the treatment, which addressed anxiety and social skills deficits. Teenagers had high intellectual capacity (IQ: 105-135). Following each individual therapy session and at treatment completion, the teenagers and their parents completed blinded measures of satisfaction with the treatment. Youth completed self-report measures of anxiety, loneliness, and depression. Results: The data indicate that the youth found the sessions helpful (range: 5.82-8.83, on 1-10 scale) and overall program satisfaction was quite high (range: 7-10). Individual, followed by group, therapy were the components rated as most helpful. Parents also rated the sessions as helpful (6.18-9.91) with program satisfaction equally high (8-10). Individual therapy, followed by between-session assignments, were rated as the most useful components by parents. On self-report measures of change, there was considerable variability. Despite confirmed anxiety disorders at the beginning of treatment and independent clinician-rated change following treatment, teens reported little difficulty with anxiety and minimal change following treatment on the MASC (March, 1999) self report measure of anxiety. Only two teens reported clinically significant change (RCI = 5.67, 2.72). Two teens showed elevated scores on the depression measure at baseline. Change in depression, and social and emotional loneliness was variable and generally nonsignificant. Conclusions: Overall, both youth and parents found treatment helpful and acceptable, although they differed in what components they found most helpful. Results of this pilot study have potentially important implications for outcome measurement in treatment studies of ASD. Despite clinically confirmed anxiety disorders and parent-reported change with anxiety, the youth reported minimal problems with anxiety and inconsistent change. Furthermore, there was variability in both the report and change of depression and loneliness. In summary, the teenagers found the CBT program to be helpful, but there are implications for reliance on self-report measures of change. High-functioning youth with ASD may have difficulty recognizing or reliably reporting their symptoms of anxiety, depression, or loneliness. It is recommended that self-report measures for screening, diagnosis, and change be supplemented with clinician, teacher and parent ratings. References Attwood, T. (2004). Cognitive behaviour therapy for children and adults with asperger's syndrome. Behaviour Change, 21, 147-161. March, J.S. (1999). Multidimensional Anxiety Scale for Children manual. North Tonawanda, NY: Multi-Health Systems. Reaven, J. & Hepburn, S. (2003). Cognitive-behavioral treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder in a child with Asperger syndrome: A case report. Autism, 7, 145-164.
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In this tiny South Hebron Hills encampment of tents and cave dwellings, where camels cling to the sandy hillside and hardy goats scrounge for shoots of brush and desert grasses, it is summer camp time for the children.
It is not yet 10 on a late June morning and the heat is already intense. There is no shade. Camp counselor Amjad Addarah, 24, of nearby At-Tuwani village, has the boys lined up for a traditional debka dance in one part of the encampment. In another area, the girls, most with their hair covered, are practicing a song with counselor Intisar Addarah, 23. Later, the two groups will combine for a short performance.
Afterward, clutching blue helium-filled balloons, the children trek up a rocky, thorn-covered hill where they release them skyward.
"That balloon is going really far," said 12-year-old Yousef, pointing to his colorful orb above the horizon.
"It is extraordinary, usually the boys need to help with shepherding the goats, and the girls help the mothers. But for two weeks they get to play," said Matteo, a volunteer from Operation Dove, the nonviolent peace corps of the Italian-based Pope John XXIII Community.
He and the other camp volunteers asked that their real name not be used to avoid visa problems entering or leaving Israel.
After the two-week camp concludes, the children will spend time recounting the activities with their friends, said Mterah Jindieh, 50, who had five grandchildren joining the camp.
"The children are very happy ... but in two weeks' time, they will be back to their routine and will be bored with nothing to do," she said.
It is the 11th year in which the South Hebron Hills Popular Resistance Committee and the Alternative Information Center, a joint Palestinian-Israeli non-governmental organization promoting cooperation, have run a summer camp for the children of Tuba and four other villages. The European Union funds the program.
The camp is usually held in At-Tuwani, the largest of the South Hebron villages. It's where the children attend classes during the school year.
To get to At-Tuwani, the children of Tuba must walk past the Israeli settlement of Ma'on and next to chicken coops the settlers have built. At times, the settlers attack and harass the children, making for a perilous journey. During the school year, Operation Dove volunteers walk with the children and monitor their progress in order to dissuade attacks.
Only the children are permitted to go this way. Palestinian adults must take a longer route through the village of Yatta.
An Israeli Defense Forces escort is supposed to protect the children, but the soldiers do not always show up and seem not to take their job seriously, Matteo said.
This year, the camp met for two days in each village, giving all of the children a chance to host their friends. The camp is a special treat because of the distance between the villages and the danger in passing the Israeli settlement. Normally, there are no afterschool or summer visits with friends.
"They always have to travel very far to get to school in At-Tuwani," said Omar Abu Jundieh, 47, a father of five. "Now all the children are playing in the village with their friends. They are so happy to have their friends coming to them."
Three Operation Dove volunteers working in At-Tuwani have been helping with the logistics of moving the children to each village.
"In these two weeks of summer camp, our presence is more important," volunteer Pascal said.
Creating a sense of unity among the children scattered among the villages is important, said Hafez Huraini, leader of the South Hebron Hills Popular Resistance Committee.
So the parents in these communities allowed their children to spend the night in the other villages. The boys and girls ate separately. The boys slept outside, while the girls slept inside one of the tent homes.
They didn't fall asleep until late at night, said Tuba resident Mariam Omara, 16, grinning shyly.
"We talked about the way to get here and if they were scared coming here," she said.
All of the villages are situated in a region designated as Area C, which remains under full Israeli military and administrative control. Israel has declared the area a firing zone and the villages face threats of evacuation and demolition. Some of the villages have been destroyed repeatedly only to be rebuilt. Residents confront violence from the surrounding Israeli settlers and are denied access to their agricultural land. They have no electricity or running water even though the neighboring Israeli settlements do.
"They are all targeted for eviction," Huraini said. "What the army does after they confiscate the land is they build a settlement. There is settlement expansion to control the land, which the people depend on for grazing their sheep. The people here are all peasants and day after day they are losing their land. We are doing the best we can to let the children feel like children. Seeing their houses demolished is not easy."
At noon, when the heat has become unbearable, the children from At-Tuwani, along with Operation Dove volunteers, pile into a trailer pulled by a tractor -- the only vehicle the villagers have -- and are driven down the valley toward the path past Ma'on. They have called the Israeli Defense Forces and expect the escort to arrive soon.
But the children are anxious to return home and decide not to wait for the soldiers. Pascal calls Matteo, who is watching from above, along with Jundieh and Huraini. They anxiously watch as the group makes its way past the chicken coops. The adult monitors lose sight of the kids for a while as they round a bend past a grove of trees. Then there is a phone call from two other volunteers in At-Tuwani. They have sighted the group. The children are safely on their way.
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Norway is a country that makes a virtue of economy. It has never been a place that suffers its prodigals gladly, and for a people saddled with a bony strip of Scandinavia lacking an abundance of natural resources for the taking, the Norwegians have contributed more than their proportional share to the glories of Western civilization. Like the paper clip, invented by Norwegian Johann Vaaler in 1901. And the cheese knife, which slices off one perfect strip of uniform thickness at a time. And the sock-trapper, a toothed ring of plastic that not only keeps socks from straying in the wash, but comes in a pack of ten color-coded trappers to put an end to family sock disputes.
Norwegians can also claim, with at least as much validity as any other European nation, to have discovered Greenland and North America. Norwegian explorers like Roald Amundsen and Fridtjof Nansen were among the first Europeans to explore the polar regions, in Amundsen's case narrowly edging out Englishmen Robert Falcon Scott for top honors in the race to reach the South Pole first. In their free time, those busy Norwegians have also managed to come up with the explosive-tipped harpoon, the floating whaling station, the modern ski binding with iron lugs, the gas turbine, plastic ammunition and the Serpent sediment sluicing system for increasing the productivity of hydroelectric power systems. And you thought they were just lefse and lutefisk!
Interestingly, most of these innovations were contributed by Norwegians in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, in many ways a sort of Golden Age for Scandinavia, when Norway was the submissive partner in an unhappy union with neighboring Sweden.
For the Norwegian cognoscenti, along with the lure of fame and personal fortune for significant advances in the arts and sciences went the promise of accruing greater glory for Norway—and in doing so, it was fondly hoped, shoring up Norway's case for autonomy by placing the tiny country on equal footing with the great European powers of the time.
Kristian Olaf Birkeland was a keenly intuitive scientist, a ceaseless toiler in service of his ideas, and a fervent Norwegian nationalist for whom the advancement of his country was more than a happy side effect of his own scientific and financial ambitions. When he set about the business of systematically deciphering the riddle of the Northern Lights, he was aware that the whole of turn-of-the-century academic Norway was watching him as he watched the skies.
Before Birkeland, the Northern Lights were a phenomenon that had baffled the best minds of Europe. Centuries of scientists and skalds had enriched the common body of folklore surrounding the eerily beautiful sheets of light with explanations of their own that were as colorful as they were scarcely credible: The lights were the reflection cast by shoals of herring in the North Sea, or by the beating wings of swans as they struggled to free themselves from winter ice.
The Lappish guides who helped transport and provision Birkeland's first scientific expedition into the barren expanses of Finnmark in northern Norway regarded his undertaking as boastful and foolhardy. For them, the lights could be the spirits of the unhappily dead, and they could be vengeful.
From the outset, Birkeland was beset by financial obstacles to his research. Financing field observatories in the wilds of Finnmark, and later still less hospitable parts of northern Russia, was an expensive undertaking for an academic establishment that initially doubted the significance of his aurora research. Birkeland spent his own modest income as a university professor freely on instruments to make the measurements that, he was sure, would establish a scientific explanation for the aurora once and for all. Yet only the first third of Lucy Jago's crisply written biography of Birkeland is bound up in his fascinating quest to vindicate the science behind the Lights. For much of the rest of the book, Birkeland is forced to find more practical applications for his scientific talents in order to bankroll his aurora obsession.
And they are equally fascinating. As Sweden and Norway prepare for a possible war with one another, Birkeland tries to make himself the unlikely prize in an international arms race after he serendipitously invents an electromagnetic cannon capable of hurling a projectile up to 60 miles. When the prototype misfires during its first public unveiling, the resulting fiasco only urges him on to an even more lucrative crackpot venture: using an electromagnetic furnace to produce nitric acid for making fertilizer, thereby easing the looming shortage of Chilean saltpeter that could threaten the world with starvation.
It's great entertainment. The picture that emerges of Birkeland the tireless scientist compares rather more favorably to the one of Birkeland the man, for whom the pursuit of scientific proof comes before anything else—even his marriage, the end of which he fails to notice until he finds a note from his wife while blotting the ink from a vicious letter he is preparing to send to a treacherous business partner. She writes that she is leaving him and has gone to stay with a friend.
As is ideally the case with scientific biography, Jago could not have invented a more intriguing subject than the brilliantly unbalanced Birkeland. We are there for his setbacks and triumphs, and we get to know some of the notable Norwegian personalities of his time through their admiration, and in some instances antipathy, for him. An obscure corner of science history comes alive through Jago's Birkeland, and the results are a pleasure.


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Discussion in 'Playstation Consoles' started by En4Neo, Mar 2, 2007.
Sony of Europe is effing crazy.
I don't get it, just a link to some site, with an odd video on it.
Elaborate perhaps?
If it was a ps3 commercial, it does seem a bit...off.
I don't know any more than most of you will, it's pretty obvious that it has somehting to do with the PS3 if you watch till the end.
I think I get it now, sonys meaning of it = each person is like advertising some form of game (like the dude with the staff - fighting games) and that it is all at some holiday resort as the ps3 is meant to be fun.
did you guys hear that the european PS3s are not properly compatible with MOST PS2 games? that has to suck.
I did hear about the backwards compatability issue, however I like to think of myself as 'somewhat informed' but the British public as, 'somewhat retarded' so the day after released I expect a lot of 'I traded in my ps2 for this blah blah not working' compliants on the sony phonelines. Also most shops advertise it as £425, for a ps3, yet that does not include a game
That commercial is stupid.
That's too bad...
the title of this thread is very accurate, as it was the first thing out of my mouth "WTF?". that commercial makes no sense at all.
while we're on the topic of bonehead Sony moves, they have publicly announced that they will not include rumble in their controllers in the future. They don't think it's something gamers want, and they also don't see it having anything to offer and consider it "last-generation technology". Do they not know anything about the gaming community anymore???
I Don't Get It.:tard:
Lol who gets anything that Sony does these days? I swear they must be on weed cuz they are definitely smoking something that changes the perception of the mind...
Um... ok then...
Agreed. WTF
I agree with one of the other guys. Dude wit stick- fighting game, grenade soccer- Sports. Lady with smeared lipstick- I DONT F*CKING KNOW!!!!!
Anyone remember the white and black Sony add they made not too long ago? Nice to know Sony didn't learn a damn thing from that incident.
yeah its worse than japanese guys guy saying "we would like to play" then a cut scene of people acting retarded flailing their arms through the air. I guess all commercials should be kid friendly ut: Sony makes those commercials because it makes you think. Obviously little boys wont understand it *hint hint*
Well at least in the wii adverts it shows actual gameplay, not just random people doing activities that are possibly linked to the ps3, maybe they didn't show gameplay as there are no ps3 games where you shoot people as a weird lipsticked person yet.
Also the advert does make us think, what is makes is think is the title of this thread, "sony, wtf?"
Once again, I'm pretty sure I'm quoting a Sony employee...plus, YOU DON'T HAVE TO ACT RETARDED AND FLAIL AROUND FOR ANY WII GAME (excpt warioware which sucks anyway). How would your niece and nephew that you mention in the 20% off topic feel about you calling them retarded? And at least people can understand the wii ads. Ads are meant to sell products, not make people think.
I would actually expect more little boys of the now to understand it better than the older men of the now. I really would. I know you were trying to insult the people here talking about it, but calling someone a little boy on here really isn't an insult. It might just be true sometimes, but little kids play more violent video games than a lot of people.....
But anyways....That commercial is strange, but if it leaves you thinking about the PS3, whether it's good or bad, you're most likely going to check it out if you're not a gamer or informed on many things.
Weird, I don't get the point for making this commercial
thats a bit of a strange add for ps3


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App Review: Vox 2.0, a Minimalist Music Player
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Private-equity owned EnviroWaste has been bought by Hong Kong-listed infrastructure fund CKI Infrastructure in a deal worth about $NZ500 million.
The deal, signed on Monday night, was first reported by The Australian Financial Review on Tuesday morning and later confirmed by Ironbridge in a media release.
The sale price represents an earnings multiple of about 10 times. Macquarie Capital advised EnviroWaste and UBS advised CKI Infrastructure.
EnviroWaste was bought by mid-tier Australian private equity firm Ironbridge Capital for $NZ259 million in 2007.
It owns and operates New Zealand's largest landfill at Hampton Downs and is the market leader with Transpacific Industries, dominating the Kiwi solid waste collections and disposals market.
CKI is backed by Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing and is Hong Kong's largest publicly listed infrastructure company. It has a shareholding in one other New Zealand-based asset, Wellington Power.
The sale of EnviroWaste is the third strong exit for Ironbridge from its current fund. Together with the divestment of Easternwell and iNova, the private equity firm is able to return 70 per cent of invested capital from this fund.
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We are thrilled at the news that NIST's David Wineland has been awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics, along with Professor Serge Haroche of the Collège de France and Ecole Normale Supérieure. Wineland was cited by the Nobel committee "for ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems."
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