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- bleep
- bleep leep n.
a short high-pitched tone produced as a signal or warning.
Syn: beep. [WordNet 1.5]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
Syn: beep. [WordNet 1.5]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
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bleep — ► NOUN ▪ a short high pitched sound made by an electronic device as a signal or to attract attention. ► VERB 1) make a bleep. 2) (in broadcasting) censor (a word or phrase) by substituting a bleep. 3) summon with a bleeper. ORIGIN imitative … English terms dictionary
bleep — leep v. t. (Broadcasting) to to obscure or replace (an offensive word or phrase) by substituting a beeping sound while broadcasting. Syn: bleep out. [WordNet 1.5] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Bleep — steht für: Zensur (Informationskontrolle) What the Bleep Do We Know US amerikanischer Film Diese Seite ist eine Begriffsklärung zur Unterscheidung mehrerer mit demselben Wort bezeichneter Begriffe … Deutsch Wikipedia
bleep — /bleep/, n. 1. a brief, constant beeping sound, usually of a high pitch and generated by an electronic device. 2. such an electronic sound used to replace a censored word or phrase, as on a television broadcast. 3. Also, blip. (used as a… … Universalium
bleep — (n.) electronic noise, 1953, imitative. As a verb, 1957, from the noun; specific sense of edit a sound over a word deemed unfit for broadcast is from 1968 (earliest reference seems to be to the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour on U.S. television).… … Etymology dictionary
bleep — [blēp] n. [echoic] 1. BEEP 2. a) a recording, as of an electronic tone, over a segment of a soundtrack, as for covering an expletive b) a word substituted as a euphemism for such an expletive, vulgar or taboo word, etc. vi. BEEP … English World dictionary
bleep — I UK [bliːp] / US [blɪp] noun [countable] Word forms bleep : singular bleep plural bleeps a short high sound made by a piece of electronic equipment II UK [bliːp] / US [blɪp] verb Word forms bleep : present tense I/you/we/they bleep he/she/it… … English dictionary
bleep — bleep1 [bli:p] n [Date: 1900 2000; Origin: From the sound] 1.) a short high sound made by a piece of electronic equipment 2.) a bleeper bleep 2 bleep2 v 1.) to make a high electronic sound ▪ The timer on the cooker star … Dictionary of contemporary English
bleep — bleep1 [ blip ] noun count a short high sound made by a piece of electronic equipment bleep bleep 2 [ blip ] verb intransitive if a piece of electronic equipment bleeps, it makes a short high sound or several short high sounds ,bleep out phrasal… … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English


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Love to read books, lifetime vegetarian, work out regularly, enjoy movies, HGTV, the History Channel.
What I did before being a mom? hear live bands, festivals, museums, love to travel around the states, dining out.... am spiritual, most comfortable in jeans and a stylish t-shirt, have a pet cat... love to be outside in the sunshine. Own a tent and have camped in it. Want to get back to the Carribean again and again! but love the desert out west. Need to spend more time in CA.
Like wine, not beer. Love dark chocolate...and favorite food in the world is Blueberries!
I am educated, outgoing, and active. My little one and I mostly hang out at parks these days, but would love some company.
My little one is a product of modern medicine and an immaculate conception. Just me and her... which has been great =)
Would love to share it with someone. Relax in bed on a Sunday morning, share the newspaper and coffee together...
I have been, done and seen alone. More than ready to share the everyday with someone else.
All 6 Kevin Smith movies! rock on!
Food? blueberries.... mexican food. Avoid Indian food at all costs....
Something to read
My little girl
A warm , soft place to sleep
A great pair of blue jeans
Doing well at my job.. in this economy, it isn't easy.
Doing home improvement projects...
Where I might want to live other than the Chicago area?
What would I like to do? go out to eat, hear a band, see a movie with someone, just kick back and hang out together and share a bottle of wine! have a reason to get a sitter!
If you like great conversation, to be active, but are also happy in a corner with a book at times.

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|As much as it is difficult to make any kind of broad statement about the ethnic media business, that is probably doubly true for its online components. There's little information available on traffic or investment, and the great appeal for ethnic groups where the Web is concerned — the fact that users in one country can get information from sites based in others that may be thousands of miles away — makes tracking things even more difficult.
For many groups, particularly those from more distant places, the Web presents a way to connect with even more news and events back home. Consider that three of the top 10 Web sites in the world are Chinese, according to the Web traffic-measuring service Alexa. How many of the visitors to those sites (Baidu.com, Qq.com and Sina.com) are based in the U.S.? No one can say for sure.
The one exception in this area is Hispanic media, for which there are some audience data.
Hispanics are a diverse group hailing from many nations. The term also describes a U.S. population that spans those who have been here for generations, those who are recent immigrants, and those here only temporarily. Some speak English fluently, others hardly at all.
The diversity of the population is clearly reflected in the way Hispanics use the Web. There are big differences between "Hispanics" as a whole and "Spanish-dominant" Hispanics (those who primarily rely on Spanish). For instance, the list of the top 10 Web sites visited by U.S. Hispanics looks a lot like the top 10 Web properties for the U.S as a whole, according to comScore.
Top 10 Web Properties for the U.S. Hispanic Audience
Source: comScore
Top 10 Web Properties for the U.S. Population as a Whole
Source: comScore
The biggest difference in those two charts is the appearance of Apple Computer on the Hispanic list (presumably because of iTunes) and the appearance of Viacom on the more general U.S. population list. But on the whole they match up fairly closely. Now compare those top Hispanic Web properties with the top sites for Spanish-language dominant Hispanics in the U.S. as identified by a 2006 survey by the research firm Experion Simmons.
Top 10 Spanish-language Web Sites
Source: Experion Simmons
While Yahoo is tops in the comScore ratings for U.S. Hispanics overall and for the U.S. as a whole, for Spanish-language users Espanol.Yahoo.com is fourth. The top three slots are occupied by Univision and Telemundo (the two big Spanish-language TV networks) and Terra.com, a Spanish-language portal. And while AOL is not a top 10 site with Hispanic Web users in general, Latino.AOL.com is No. 6 on the Spanish-language list. For the most part, the Spanish-language versions of U.S. brands do not fare as well as others designed exclusively for this audience.
The Spanish-language user list is also particularly diverse. Not all the top 10 sites, for instance, are delivered in Spanish. HispanicVista.com, No. 9, is a site that features commentary from and about Hispanics, but is written in English. Migente, No. 10, is a Spanish-language social networking site. And CNNEspanol.com, which appears on the Spanish-language list at No. 8, is the only pure news site on either list.
What Web sites do Hispanics turn to specifically for news? For the Spanish-language users, it is hard to know. The Experion Simmons survey of Spanish-language Internet users did not ask specifically about news. CNNEspanol is the highest pure news site on the list, but others like Univision and Telemundo offer news along with other content, and we don't know which of these pages users visit.
For the broader group of Hispanics, ComScore does gather data specifically on news sites. Again the numbers look a lot like the figures for the U.S. population as whole. The list actually contains the same sites with some slight re-ordering.
Top General News Sites For the U.S. Hispanic Population, Decemeber 2006
Source: comScore
Top General News Sites For the U.S. Population as a Whole, Decemeber 2006
Source: comScore
Yahoo sits atop both lists. The sites of the newspapers in the nation's biggest Spanish-language print media conglomerate ImpreMedia — which includes La Opinion in Los Angeles and ElDiario in New York — rank far down the comScore list at 23.
The finding that Hispanics—many of whom have been in the country for longer than the smaller group of Spanish-language users — tend to gravitate to English-language media supports much of what we found about the audience for print and television. It also may raise longer-term questions about the strength of the Spanish-language media as the next generation of Hispanics, an extremely sizable one, comes of age and moves out on its own — in some cases away from Spanish-language-dominant homes. And that trend will be going on, according to demographers, as the number of foreign-born Hispanics, those most likely to speak the language, is declining.
Is the biggest difference between Spanish- and English-language sites the language? Or are there other inherent differences in the design and features that might influence a user's choice? PEJ looked at 38 English-language sites for this 2007 report and inventoried their features and content and then later added two of the biggest Spanish-language TV sites, Univision, and one of the best-known newspaper sites, La Opinion, to get a feel for their offerings.
La Opinion
The Web site of the largest U.S.-based newspaper was honored in October 2006 as the top site for a Spanish-language publication, according to a Salvadoran firm — the first time a U.S. publication won the award. What earned the site that designation?
From our inventory, laopinion.com places most emphasis on the content. There is a lot of information here, including the latest wire stories from U.S. and foreign wire services, copy from the day's paper, and special photo galleries.
The site also has a different orientation than many English-language news sites. U.S. news is still covered here, but it is through a different prism than mainstream English-language news sites. For instance, on the afternoon of January 24th, the day after the president's State of the Union speech as the Congress was debating Iraq policy, the site led with an AP wire piece on the stalling of the minimum-wage bill in the Senate. The bill, which failed that day to get the 60 votes needed for cloture, was news on English-language sites as well, but well down the page, after stories about the Iraq debate and the president. The lead story under laopinion.com's "Primera Pagina" (Front Page) header from that day's paper was about Bush's speech, but focused tightly on the president's immigration proposals. "Irak" (Iraq) didn't appear until the end of the story's fourth paragraph.
There are also links on the page to the other newspapers in the ImpreMedia group, the U.S. publisher that owns Spanish-language papers around the country. Those sites suggest that though the papers have one owner, each has its own design.
Laopinion.com is not all that high-tech. The link to its RSS feed is far down the page, and the site didn't offer any podcasts or a homepage that users could rearrange as they saw fit. Its use of multimedia was a little more advanced, with several video and photo viewing options. It's worth noting, however, that the video here is not from La Opinion but from the AP, and in English.
An aspect of the page that stood out was its advertisements — there were only two, but they were big and prominently placed. A large ad sat next to the page's lead story and equaled it in size. Another ad ran in a long column just under the top ad.
Laopinion.com offers readers the Spanish-language equivalent of what most English-language newspaper sites offer, but with a different focus for a different audience.
Univision.com is, according to survey data, the most popular Spanish-language Web site by far. While there are no figures on how many users go to its news pages, some significant level of traffic seems fair to assume.
What do those visitors find there? A national Spanish-language news site that focuses on issues affecting Hispanics around the country and the world.
On its news page users get a mix of news broken down by region (even by city) and resources that are aimed squarely at Spanish-speakers. Like the site for La Opinion, Univision.com is squeezed into the center 2/3 of the screen. It follows a three-column format that has navigation on the left of the page, a lead story in the center with other stories under it, and a right column with things like photo slide shows and videos.
And beginning with the heavier use of videos — 20 of them on the home page, all in Spanish — several differences from La Opinoin's site stand out. In addition to the slides and video, the site offers a news blog high on the page.
Customization is a low priority here, with an RSS link at the bottom of the page and no podcast options. And the site is also more commercial than La Opinion's, with several prominent ads on the page, including one in the right column that is bigger than the page's lead item.
The content on the site is also broader than that on the Los Angeles-based Hispanic newspaper site. Local U.S. news is available through a menu that lets users jump to the local Univision news page of any one of 18 U.S. cities. And under that, but still high on the page, there is a list of "Recursos" (Resources) for users that include information on and links to U.S. government sites and to a page with several different kinds of calculators to help with finances and forms for immigration.
Immigration also has its own news topic header, the top header, indeed, under Noticias at the top of the page, followed by U.S., Mexico, Latin America, World and Weather.
There is also Latin American news that would likely be hard to find featured on English-language news sites. On the morning of January 25, the lead item on the Noticias page was a wire story questioning the validity of Fidel Castro's signature on a letter the Cuban leader had reportedly written to at President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. The story did not even appear on the front pages of the New York Times and Washington Post sites. And while most of the stories from the U.S. section are from Univison's online staff, or a combination of staff and wire, the stories from other regions tend to be wire copy.
Univision.com's news site is a hybrid, part breaking news page, part multimedia center and part user help center. In that sense, the differences between it and those of most English-language sites extend well beyond language.


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Tegan and Sara @ The Pabst Theater
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
The Con's songs are nervy and short—Ramones short, even—but where The Ramones largely limited their between-song banter to "1, 2, 3, 4," the Quinn sisters get chatty. Very chatty. At their sold-out show last night at the Pabst Theater, Tegan lost herself in long tangents about her mother, life on the road and the tension between audience members who want to stand and those who prefer to sit. Sara was more reserved, save for a lengthy rant about Wisconsin accents. During her sister's monologues, Sara largely played the straight man (which is ironic, of course, since like Tegan, she is neither.)
Talk, talk, talk. The sisters love to talk. It's likely a remnant of their early start in folk circles, where on-stage personality is as important as the actual music, but the capacity crowd at the Pabst Theater ate it up, gleefully hollering and cat calling throughout the sisters' banter.
In current alternative- and indie-rock circles, it's now a faux pas to cheer too frequently or tooloudly at concerts—modern rock audiences are bred to be a polite, almost impassive lot, deathly afraid of standing out. Not so with Tegan and Sara's rabid fanbase, who are either unaware of these unspoken conventions or refuse to play by them. I may admire Tegan and Sara, but much of last night's crowd, apparently, lives for Tegan and Sara, and their boisterous enthusiasm and frequent interruptions held up the show nearly as much as the performers' spoken digressions.


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Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, Aug.19
By Huseyn Hasanov- Trend:
Temporary charge of Chairman of "Turkmennebitgazgurlushyk" State Concern has been assigned to Arslan Sopyev, says a public statement of Presidential Decree on Aug. 19.
Former head Amanaly Gurbanov was dismissed as chairman of the State Concern for the serious shortcomings in the work.
Units of the group are engaged in the construction of oil and gas pipelines and improvement of oil and gas fields; reconstruction of refining facilities; construction of steel and concrete tanks, etc.
At this stage State Concern together with the "Turkmengaz" implement a project for the construction of the longest "East-West" highway in the country scheduled to be launched in 2015.
In addition to existing networks this communication can provide the raw material to actively discussed the Trans-Caspian gas pipeline project, which can be laid via the bottom of the sea to the coast of Azerbaijan, and from there Turkmen gas could potentially get to markets in Turkey and Europe.
Turkmenistan natural gas reserves rank fourth in the world and this kind of fuel is currently being exported to markets in China, CIS and Iran.


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Country Ribs with Ginger Sauce Recipe
This recipe comes from my church kitchen. It's appeared on many menus through the years because the ribs have such mass appeal.
- 3 pounds boneless country-style pork ribs
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup reduced-sodium soy sauce
- 1/2 cup ketchup
- 3 tablespoons brown sugar
- 2 teaspoons minced fresh gingerroot
- 1. Sprinkle ribs with sugar and salt; rub into both sides of meat. Refrigerate for 2 hours.
- 2. In a small bowl, combine the soy sauce, ketchup, brown sugar and ginger. Spoon half of the sauce over both sides of ribs; refrigerate for 1 hour. Set remaining sauce aside for basting.
- 3. Place ribs on a greased rack in a 15-in. x 10-in. x 1-in. baking pan. Bake, uncovered, at 350° for 1-1/2 to 2 hours or until meat is tender, basting with remaining sauce every 15 minutes. Yield: 8-12 servings.
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Metadata removal tool
Metadata removal tool or Metadata scrubber is a type of privacy software built to protect the privacy of its users by removing potentially privacy-compromising metadata from files before they are shared with others (e.g. by sending them as e-mail attachments or by posting them on the Web).
Metadata removal tools are also commonly used to reduce the overall sizes of files, particularly image files posted on the Web. For example, a small image on a website, which may contain metadata including a thumbnail image, can easily contain as much metadata as image data, thus removal of that metadata can halve the filesize.
Metadata can be found in many types of files such as documents, spreadsheets, presentations, images, and audio files. They can include information such as details on the file authors, file creation and modification dates, location (GPS), document revision history, thumbnail images and comments.
Since metadata is sometimes not clearly visible in authoring applications (depending on the application and its settings), there is a risk that the user will be unaware of its existence or will forget about it and, if the file is shared, private or confidential information will inadvertently be exposed. The purpose of metadata removal tools is to minimize the risk of such data leakage.
The metadata removal tools that exist today can be divided into four groups:
- Integral metadata removal tools, which are included in some applications, like the Document Inspector in Microsoft Office 2007.
- Batch metadata removal tools, which can process multiple files.
- E-mail client add-ins, which are designed to remove metadata from e-mail attachments just before they are sent.
- Server based systems, which are designed to automatically remove metadata at the network gateway.
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Hinduism, which is the most skeptical and the most believing of all, the most skeptical because it has questioned and experimented the most, the most believing because it has the deepest experience and the most varied and positive spiritual knowledge, — that wider Hinduism which is not a dogma or combination of dogmas but a law of life, which is not a social framework but the spirit of a past and future social evolution, which rejects nothing but insists on testing and experiencing everything and when tested and experienced turning it to the soul's uses, in this Hinduism we find the basis of the future world-religion.
This Sanatana Dharma has many scriptures, Veda, Vedanta, Gita, Upanishad, Darshana, Purana, Tantra, nor could it reject the Bible or the Koran; but its real, most authoritative scripture is in the heart in which the Eternal has His dwelling. It is in our inner spiritual experiences that we shall find the proof and source of the world's Scriptures, the law of knowledge, love and conduct, the basis and inspiration of Karmayoga.
Sri Aurobindo Ghose
(Source: Aurobindo's Karmayogin: Political Writings And Speeches - 1909-1910: Chapter: The Ideal of Karmayogin)


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Zero Tolerance Must Continue
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One player said to me recently that we really don't want "zero tolerance" because we want the referees to have some leeway in determining whether the foul is justified. No, we want "zero tolerance." We don't want officiating based on the score. We want the skilled players to have as many rights in the 59th minute or overtime as they had in the first minute. For years, it has been acceptable for referees to "swallow their whistles" in the third period in the name of "letting the boys play." The theory: Players should decide the outcome, not referees. But my argument is that the new rules are actually "letting the boys play" for the first time in many years. If the rules are enforced, talent and skill should determine the outcome. Isn't that the idea?
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Wizards, Capitals owner will shave his head if both teams make finals
Ted Leonsis owns both the Washington Wizards and Capitals, two teams who are not only in the playoffs, but are leading series against the top seeds in their conferences.
This windfall of good fortune has Leonsis, and Washington sports, fans feeling pretty great, so he has decided to up the ante in an interview with NBC 4-Washington, and agreed to shave his head bald if both teams make it all the way to the finals.The owner was asked about an earlier claim that he would get a mohawk if the Wizards made the finals.
Leonsis said he would be willing to go even further than a mohawk if both team continue their postseason success, according to NBC.
• Draft pick Randy Gregory got a Cowboys tattoo already
"I'll shave my head bald if both teams get to the finals. That would be the least that I could do. And I bet you we could do something for charity and get thousands of people to get mohawks or shave their head bald, because it would be a very, very unique, once-in-a-lifetime kind of achievement."
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Noordam - Southern Caribbean Cruising Fun: Noordam Cruise Review by Hamptonvacruiser
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Noordam - Southern Caribbean Cruising Fun
Destination: Southern Caribbean
Embarkation: Fort Lauderdale (Port Everglades)
We flew into Ft. Lauderdale the same day that our cruise departed and arrived at the ship around 3:15 pm for a 5:00 pm departure. We flew Jet Blue from Richmond, VA and were very pleased with the airline, the service and the flight itself. When we got to the terminal, it was empty and we sailed through our check-in. We boarded, went to our cabin, freshened up and took a quick More stroll before the muster drill. The muster drill went as they all do, no one listening and people refusing to move an inch for passengers trying to fit into their assigned section. After the drill, we went to the Lido Grill to get a snack. We then went to our cabin verandah to watch the ship depart from port and to unpack. We purchased the unlimited laundry package and immediately sent much of our clothing to be pressed. We then went to explore the ship and get our bearings as to where the casino, shopping, dining rooms, etc. were. I liked the understated elegance of the ship. Although some areas did get a little too close to the New Orleans bordello style of decorating that many lines seem to emulate, the Noordam's interior spaces were usually pleasing to the eye and not
garish or overdone.
The first night, all of my husband's trousers, dress shirts and jackets were being pressed, so we went to the Lido for dinner. This buffet style restaurant had good food and an amazing variety of offerings. It was not gourmet dining, but was completely acceptable. We purchased soda and beverage cards ahead of time, so we found it easy to get bar service.
Later that evening, we went to the casino to play the tables. We started with 3 Card Poker and I proceeded to do nicely, getting my first Straight Flush of the cruise that night. We loved the casino staff and dealers and the fun we had with them the first night continued through out the cruise. We also met some great people with whom we would end up spending a lot of our cruise.
The next day, we went to the private island of Holland America (which I understand they share with other lines under the CCL umbrella)! But on that day, we were the only ship there. The day started out cloudy with drizzle, as often happens in the Caribbean, but the sun soon came out. The island was surrounded by absolutely gorgeous turquoise water and white Sand beaches. There was a little shopping village which was not very impressive, but the beaches were great. We took our snorkeling gear and jumped in the water. The sea life was very minimal, but we enjoyed being in the water. We found quite a few sand dollars which we gave to some of the children on the beach. I found two beer cans underwater and proceeded to carry them to the trashcan. To my surprise, something moved against my hand, and looking down at the can, I found a tiny octopus glaring at me, annoyed that I was trying to throw away his place of residence! I quickly escorted my new buddy back to the water, with his beer can home, but he climbed out and swam away as I gently placed him back in the water. That was really cool! The island BBQ was okay, but nothing to write home about. We enjoyed our day relaxing at the beach, saw some friends from the casino and hung out with them. We headed back to the ship by tender and got ready for our first formal night.
That evening, we got all dressed up and went to the dining room. I had brought 6 bottles of wine aboard with us, so we took one of those with us for dinner. The wine steward promptly corked and recanted the wine for us with no fuss. Dinner was nice, again not exceptional but good, with formal service, varied selections and an attentive waitstaff. We requested open dining, so we sat at a table with 4 lovely seniors from Florida.
That evening, we returned to the casino and I was dealt yet another Straight Flush AND 3 Of a kind! We had a great time!
The next day we went to the Turks and Caicos and my husband and I went diving. I found the dive shop on the Internet, and while they had good reviews, we found them to be disorganized and not safety conscious. We enjoyed the dive and saw some great sea-life, including spear fishing of several lion fish. We would not dive with Grand Turk Diving again.
After our dive, the dive shop dropped us off on the beach right near where our cruise ship was docked. After stowing our gear and a quick shower, we went to Margaritaville for drink and a snack. The food was only mediocre, but we picked up the requisite t-shirts for friends and family members. We liked the island and would like to return for more diving and exploring. We returned to the ship, rested awhile, went to dinner and this time, we had a table to ourselves. The food was again good, and we took one of our wines to drink. We went to the casino, and I got not one, but two Straight Flushes at the three card poker table!
The next day, we went to La Samana, Dominican Republic. We did not dive, but chose to hang out with some friends from the ship. We disembarked the tender and booked an island tour. The tour was disappointing. I have been to the DR many times, but the people have become bitter and entitled, nagging the crap out of you for money, completely ruining any chance of fun for you. I will not soon waste my time going to the DR again. We boarded the ship early in the afternoon, glad to be back on board. We booked an evening at The Pinnacle Grill, so after a late lunch, we rested,
watched a movie and got ready for dinner. We met our friends at Happy Hour and enjoyed cocktails and appetizers with them before dinner.
Our dinner at the Pinnacle Grill Was wonderful. I brought a wonderful bottle of wine to drink and we thoroughly enjoyed our dinner. My husband had Onion soup gratinee', I an amazing goat cheese salad, he a huge steak and I had lobster, with asparagus and fabulous potatoes, chocolate souffle and creme brulée, wonderful bread, Amuse Bouche, delicious petit-fours, aromatic and rich coffee. We could barely move when finished. If you are considering this as an add-on to your cruise, do it! On our next Holland Cruise, we may choose to dine there every evening!
After dinner, off to the casino, as usual, but Lady Luck was nowhere to be found. My husband switched to blackjack and I continued with poker. We still had a great evening!
The next day we spent at sea, relaxing, playing team trivia, sitting by the pool and just enjoying the unbelievably blue water as it went by, watching the flying fish skim the water, escaping the bow by sailing off of the ship's pressure waves. Dinner in the formal dining room again, this time, sitting next to all of our friends and at a table with a lovely Dutch couple from Canada onboard to celebrate their 63rd anniversary. Back to the casino, no big wins, but another night of fun!
Our next port of call was Curacao, where we left the ship early for a dive trip. Our dive operator sent a truck for us and we went straightaway to the dive shop, located near the Marriott and Hilton hotels. We boarded our dive boat and headed around the island for about one hour to our dive location. We had a great first dive and after our surface interval, the boat dropped us off near the dive shop for an unguided second dive. We surfaced and walked up on the beach at the dive shop. A nice fellow diver offered to give us a ride into town, which we gratefully accepted. He was staying at the nearby Marriott, an upscale and beautiful resort that we definitely will visit on our return to Curacao. We enjoyed our ride back to the cruise terminal, over the very high bridge that dominates the skyline of Willemstad. We promised to buy our friend a drink after we cleaned up, so we agreed upon a meeting place and time and headed back to the ship for a shower and quick snack. Getting back off the ship, we instantly fell in love with the beautiful and colorful Willemstad. We walked through the shops and boutiques near the Renaissance Hotel and into the lovely old fort, also filled with shops, bars and cafes. We met our friend and a few others at the bar called The Sopranos and enjoyed hearing about everyone's day. After awhile, we bade our friends farewell and briefly explored the area. As we were staying late, we decided to eat at a local restaurant for a change of pace. A lovely couple from Pittsburgh that we met while diving were staying at the Renaissance and said that the restaurant was very good. So, we ate dinner there. After our Latino/Caribbean feast, we waddled back on board shortly before it was time to depart Curacao. We will definitely return to this paradise! Casino and then to bed!
Bonaire, a diver's dream, was the next island we visited. We departed the ship early in the morning, took a taxi and headed out the the dive shop, run by a laid back guy from the Netherlands named Bart. What a great guy! His shop is right on the edge of the water, where you suit up, walk off the beach and dive into an underwater zoo unlike anything I have ever seen. Fabulous corals (so much purple!) and such an abundance and variety of sea life! After our first dive with Bart, we lunched at the beach bar next store, where we tried biterballen which was a local Dutch appetizer and a sausage like thing, both of which were awful, but hey, we tried it! After lunch, we suited up for an unguided dive with just the two of us and had a wonderful time. We hated to leave this underwater dreamland, but we had to get back to the ship, before it took off without us. That night, we dined on board ship, with our friends at the Italian restaurant, Canaletto. The service was horrible and I developed a head cold, which precluded my tasting anything. After dinner, I went to bed early, desperately hoping to feel better, so as not to miss the dive in Aruba.
Unfortunately, the next morning, my head and ears were a mess, so we had to cancel our dive. I slept in and after a late breakfast, we went ashore to sample Aruba. We wandered around, shopped and ate sushi for lunch. We talked to some deep sea fishing boat captains about trips for wahoo and marlin on our next visit. This port is very much tourist oriented, but it was still quite charming nonetheless, with an endless variety of things to do and see. Interestingly, by the end of the day, I was able to breathe much easier and began to feel better. We went onboard late afternoon and I took a nap and my husband went to have a cigar. That evening, we had dinner reservations at the Evening at Le Cirque in the Pinnacle Grille. I forgot to bring wine, so based on a suggestion by the sommelier, we tried Chateau St. Michele Cold Creek Cabernet Sauvignon. It was amazing and one of my new Favs. We both enjoyed our meal so much...I had one of the best soups I have ever eaten, a butternut squash pureed soup with sun-dried tomato concasse, with creme Fraiche. My lamb chops were the BEST I have ever eaten, perfectly cooked, moist, tender and flavorful. My husband had an incredible blueberry soup, and a pork chop cooked to utter perfection. Absolutely scrumptious! Again, we would highly recommend this to anyone! I skipped the casino and went to bed again early, hoping my cold would completely go away. Hubby went to the casino and played with our friends.
The next day, we were at sea all day, headed north toward the USA. We slept in, had a leisurely breakfast and went to the pool. We lazed around, talked to our friends, ate lunch and then we went for a couple's massage. The Noordam has a lovely spa and gym for anyone who wants those services. We checked in to the spa, wearing our stateroom robes, as everyone on the ship does. And were ushered into the relaxation room. This room has lounges upon which you recline, listen to spa music(this one played a lot of Japanese meditation rhythms) and sipped cranberry juice while we awaited our massage therapists. They came to escort us into our couples massage room and when we got settled, we had a wonderful massage. The only part I hated was after the massage, the high pressure sales pitch started, trying to get you to purchase all of their products. I immediately told them to stop and they obliged, thankfully! We then booked another couples massage for the next day.
Another formal night and cocktails and dinner with friends. We bought our tablemates a cake for their anniversary and they seemed genuinely touched. Off to the casino and then to bed.
The next day was somewhat a repeat of the prior day, but at 10:30 am, we were invited to a bloody Mary party in a beautiful suite, by some of our new Friends, a lovely older couple from Connecticut who were veteran cruisers. They were gracious hosts and it was a lovely time together, as we all exchanged e-mail addresses and phone numbers. Later, we for our massages, I booked a hot stone massage and my husband a deep tissue massage. Utterly relaxed, we went to dinner, drank our last bottle of wine and kissed our table mates goodbye. We went to the casino, and I got my last Straight Flush of the cruise. What a way to end the evening and the cruise! We kissed everyone goodbye and went to bed for one final night.
The next morning, we got room service and disembarkation went very smoothly, with not much of a wait at all.
We had a great time! Why? Because we love meeting new people and are genuinely interested in them. We researched everything about our trip...there were no big surprises and many times we were touched by the kindness of a fellow traveler or the thoughtfulness of a crew member. We don't expect everything to be like it is in the USA...that is WHY we travel. We also understand that every moment we are blessed to be on a cruise is a moment to be cherished.
Special things...a cool towel and drink always awaits you at the end of the gangway before getting on board, fresh flowers everywhere, clean, clean, clean ship, hardly any bratty kids and no out of sight parents, no hairy legs contests, no limbo dancing, a great mix of Europeans (guten schlafen), Brits, Canadians and Americans, wonderful staff (a shout out to the beautiful cocktail waitresses Jackie and Danielle, Bartender Ronald, cabin steward Widi and casino team, Evgeny, Sleeve-ester, the polish assassin, the Ninja, Dracula, and so many more, whose names I can't recall now), a cigar bar where my husband could relax, a stateroom that was always spotless, fantastic coffee, speedy room service, great laundry and pressing service, flaky pan au chocolates every morning......
Things that I did not like...sometimes bar service in the Lido was slow. It was sometimes difficult finding a lounge by the pool. They did not have Ginger Beer in the bar for our favorite drink, Dark and Stormys. The spa relaxation room was under a deck where chairs were constantly being scraped across the floor...not very relaxing. The high pressure sales pitch in the spa.
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Jenny Slate has done standup and sketch comedy, viral videos and Web series. She even did a season of "Saturday Night Live."
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Workers started stringing fiber Tuesday for the sprawling Lake County broadband project, which has become a hotspot in the debate over the public's role in extending Internet access. Meanwhile, just up the road in Cook County, that debate is muted, and the first federal check to build a broadband fiber network just rolled in.
Check out MPR News reporter Dan Kraker's report from Lake County, where more than $60 million in federal stimulus money is slated to help build a fiber network that would improve broadband service in all of Lake County and part of rural St. Louis County.
Businesses and residents have long clamored for better service, but cable company Mediacom has been crying foul about the county's project for several years now. Mediacom doesn't serve the whole project area but it argues that for the county's project to succeed it will have to steal customers in the areas Mediacom does serve, like Two Harbors.
It feels a lot like the Monticello debate, which resulted in stiff competition between a city owned network and private providers. The public system there is struggling to generate the revenue it expected, and the city recently decided to stop making bond payments.
But up the shore from Lake County, in Grand Marais, Joe Buttweiler was a happy man Tuesday. The first $550,000 federal check had just arrived, reimbursing Arrowhead Electric Cooperative for its early engineering and design work on a project making fiber and broadband available to everybody in Cook County.
The system is about 10 percent built, said Buttweiler, Arrowhead's director of broadband projects, and the first residents and businesses should see service in early 2013, somewhere around Lutsen, Tofte or Schroeder.
No private opponent has emerged to generate much of a private-public debate in Cook County. For one reason, even though a total of $16.1 million in federal money is going into it, the local electric cooperative, rather than a government body, is building the network. And secondly, broadband availability in Cook County is demonstrably worse.


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Seems an awful lot like a dictionary entry... --OuroborosCobra talk 17:32, November 26, 2009 (UTC)
- It might qualify to being categorized as Slang, but that's a stretch, I think. I don't believe we have articles on every figure of speech used in Trek.--31dot 23:12, November 26, 2009 (UTC)
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Snyder a Success Because...
No, this season has had its ups and downs, but who would you rather have coaching your Wildcat team right now than Bill Snyder?
No offense to the Wildcat players of yesteryear or today, but by star-status created by recruiting gurus, the Kansas State coaching staff does more with less than any program in the country.
The question is how?
How can Snyder, and his staff, mold a collection of 2- and 3-Star athletes, plus a handful of yearly walk-ons, into a team that last year won the Big 12, and in recent history has had tremendous success against schools like Texas?
How? What exactly is the key to success?
Snyder will talk about the intrinsic values and buying into being a little bit better today than yesterday, and a tad better tomorrow than today. It's a phrase that he's used and re-used ... well, since 1989 when he strolled onto the K-State campus.
But can it be that simple?
Running game coordinator Dana Dimel says K-State's success starts with what he calls Snyder's "master plan."
"It's a structure that has been tweaked with time, but it's an ultimate plan that serves as our foundation from year to year," said Dimel, who has been a head coach at Wyoming and Houston. "It's our ultimate plan that, if executed, will bring success."
Dimel says the plan starts with intense evaluation of players and a focus on how they will fit into the K-State system.
Then, Dimel says, "It becomes a focus on player development and attention to detail in practices. What we get out of practice every day is more than what other programs get out of their practices. Our practices are long, but with a lot of detail. If you can work though it as a player, that's where our players have an edge."
Assistant coach Mo Latimore, who has also coached at UTEP and Missouri, says Snyder's success starts with work ethic: "I think other programs baby their kids more, while we demand more out of our kids. That's true on the field where all kids love to play football, but our guys know that we truly care about them going out and making it in the world. I think our players understand that, and in turn are willing to work harder than most guys."
Andre Coleman is new to the coaching staff, but he was a Wildcat player from 1990-93 when he was first introduced to Snyder's program and work ethic.
"Once you get that taste of winning it's easy to buy into whatever the coaches ask," said Coleman, whose K-State years included five, seven, five and nine wins. "Like nowhere else I've ever been, there is a commitment to achievement at Kansas State that starts with Coach Snyder. It's the culture. Once you put in the work, Coach Snyder's system becomes machine-like. There's a culture of winning when you buy into the system."
Laughing, Coleman, a modestly recruited talent out of Hermitage, Pa., said, "I'm a living example of buying into Coach Snyder's system and the maturing process that one gets within that system. It's what makes up the foundation of K-State football. It's a process that 'if' you buy into, you're going to be a winner on, and off, the field."
Passing game coordinator Del Miller uses the terms "persistence" and "consistency" in defining what separates Snyder from the other elite coaches in the nation.
"When a normal player or coach says I've done everything I can do ... I'm tired, coach asks for more," said Miller. "That's true with everyone under his supervision."
Former Kansas State quarterback Lynn Dickey has viewed Snyder's program from the outside looking in and marvels at his results.
"Every year you go to those early games and ask, 'Where did that guy come from?' said Dickey.
Last year it was 6-foot-9, 320-pound Cornelius Lucas, who went from not playing at all as a freshman and sophomore, to an All-Big 12 left tackle as a junior.
"You see guys like this at all levels," Dickey said. "They've never been pushed beyond exhaustion into that twilight zone. Once a kid can push past that certain barrier there can be that moment of, 'Holy cow ... I can play!' It just clicks. The coaches have been on you for two years, but there comes a time when 'you' have to say, 'I can do this! This system does work.' They finally see the light of Bill's system."
Past coaches under Snyder echo the words of those of today.
Rod Humenuik, a member of the 1994 staff said, "He is meticulous. A lot of coaches have a plan for every hour, but he has a plan for every minute."
Bob Elliott, who knew Snyder while at Iowa as a graduate assistant and defensive coach, and later as a defensive coach at K-State starting in 2002, said, "I don't think anyone can believe how hard he works until you see it. There is maybe one percent of the people in this country who can concentrate like he can."
If not a football coach, Elliott said of Snyder, "I think he would be a great general .. a General (Norman) Schwarzkopf type."
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The only problem we had was noise... the windows are clearly old and in need of replacement, and so we could hear everything coming from the street!
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Documented "Mod Squad" Television Series Car
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On-air between 1968 and 1973, TV's Mod Squad series featured Pete, Linc and Julie; three hip, streetwise young people who worked as undercover cops. A gritty, highly acclaimed series, the Mod Squad remains one of very few TV dramas of the 1960s to accurately portray those turbulent and rapidly changing times. During the five-season run of the series, the American car landscape also underwent massive changes as the "youth" car market went from a late-1960s peak to the fuel and insurance-constrained environment of the early 1970s.
The 1971 Dodge Challenger Convertible offered here is one of two cars built and used on-screen during the 1972 Mod Squad season. Since Chrysler discontinued Challenger Convertible production after 1971, this car was updated with 1972-specific front and rear components, resulting in a highly unusual and desirable hybrid. The Challenger is finished in Gold Metallic with matching interior and black soft-top. It is highly optioned with high-back bucket seats, Rallye instrument cluster with tachometer, power windows and power convertible top. It also features an automatic transmission, air conditioning, power disc brakes, power steering, six-way manual driver's side seat adjuster, AM/FM radio, rim blow steering wheel, hood pins, variable speed wipers with electric washer, chrome exhaust tips and sport stripes; as well as the original style wheels and tires that were used during the filming of the Mod Squad.
This 340-cid, 275-hp V-8 Challenger was also used as a PR/show car in period and was featured in the highly respected Mopar Collector Guide as designated by Chrysler for 'special handling' and destined for Universal Studios and is positively identified by its VIN as such. Today, it features a high quality restoration to original 'as seen on TV' specification. Documentation for the Challenger includes the factory build sheets and Bill of Sale.
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Sao Paulo (AFP) Oct 14, 2012
A federal judge has suspended a planned hearing for fishermen and indigenous people occupying a disputed dam in Brazil's Amazon after they failed to vacate the site, developers said Sunday.
Federal Judge Marcelo Honorato had summoned for a hearing on Monday representatives of both the Norte Energia consortium in charge of the Belo Monte Dam and of the dozens of fishermen and natives occupying the dam's Pimental construction site for a week.
He had warned that the meeting would occur only if the activists end their occupation of Pimental, one of the dam's five construction sites. The protesters had until Saturday morning to vacate the premises.
"The conciliation hearing has been suspended because the occupiers have not vacated the Pimental work site," Norte Energia said on its website.
"An officer of the court overflew the occupied area and found that the protesters were still there."
Court officials were not immediately available to confirm the claim.
Protesters accuse Norte Energia of backtracking on accords signed in June when 150 indigenous people occupied the Pimental area for three weeks.
The natives want their lands demarcated and non-indigenous people removed from them, as well as a better healthcare system and access to drinking water.
Indigenous groups fear the dam across the Xingu River, a tributary of the Amazon, will harm their way of life while environmentalists have warned of deforestation, greenhouse gas emissions and irreparable damage to the ecosystem.
Expected to produce 11,000 megawatts of electricity, the dam would be the third biggest in the world, after China's Three Gorges facility and Brazil's Itaipu Dam in the south.
It is one of several hydroelectric projects billed by Brazil as providing clean energy for a fast-growing economy.
The dam is, however, expected to flood an area of 500 square kilometers (200 square miles) along the Xingu and displace 16,000 people, according to the government, although some NGOs put the number at 40,000 displaced.
The federal government plans to invest a total of $1.2 billion to assist the displaced by the time the dam is completed in 2019.
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Radio 1 did come about through the banning of the offshore pirate radio stations in 1967 (Smashing. And Nice, August 10), but so did Radio 2 and Radio 4. It was a little disingenuous not to mention the fact that it was not the BBC that forced the closedown, but the postmaster general, thereby nationalising popular music - one more loss of freedom.
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SALVADOR Dali is coming to Winnipeg this fall.
His art, that is.
Paintings from the famed Spanish surrealist, who died 25 years ago, will be shown at two different exhibitions at the Winnipeg Art Gallery that open in September.
The first exhibit, Masterworks from the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, and a second one focusing on Dali's works, will open Sept. 27 during Nuit Blanche, the gallery's annual all-night festival. The exhibitions will remain on display until Jan. 25, 2015.
The Beaverbook gallery exhibit, from the collection amassed by Canadian-born businessman Lord Beaverbrook, will include 75 paintings that span four centuries of European and Canadian art and three Dali masterworks, including Santiago El Grande, which will be the exhibition's centrepiece.
Santiago El Grande, one of Dali's most famous paintings, measures more than four metres tall and depicts St. James, Spain's patron saint, rising from the ocean on a white horse.
"We are thrilled to debut Dali's paintings in Winnipeg, and offer everyone the chance to experience the inimitable Santiago El Grande and other works by this modern master," Stephen Borys, WAG's director and CEO, says in a release.
"Without question Santiago El Grande is the one of most celebrated works by Dali in the world -- and you really need to see it in person to understand why."
Alongside the Beaverbrook exhibit will be a second display that will focus on two different periods of Dali's career: his works before 1950 and second from his later, "classical" phase.


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The two-way trade turnover between Vietnam and Pakistan in the first quarter of 2012 hit a record high of US$113.6 million, up by 85.6 percent against the same period last year.
The Import-Export Department under the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) said exports were estimated at US$38.6 million and imports at US$75 million.
Tea topped the list of export items with 3,913 tonnes earning US$6.6 million (17 percent). With its annual tea consumption rising by 2 percent, Pakistan will have to import over 235,000 tonnes by 2015.
Tea was followed by coarse textile fibres (US$6.3 million), seafood (US$4.5 million), pepper (US$4.4 million) and rubber (US$1.06 million).
Economic experts forecast that by the end of 2012, the trade turnover between Vietnam and Pakistan would increase by 30 percent compared to last year.
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The website Iran-e Hastei, or Nuclear Iran, claims that Iran's General Prosecutor has formed a committee to build a case to claim damages against 18 American individuals or authorities held to be responsible for alleged terrorism against Iran.
"The General Prosecutor for the entire country has ordered the formation of a special committee for the claim against some of these individuals [i.e., responsible for alleged terrorism against Iran] and building a case with the extant evidence. Now there is news that these individuals will very soon be tried in public court in Tehran."
"The domestic laws of Iran give permission to the judiciary that individuals of non-Iranian nationality who have committed crimes against the Iranian nation somewhere other than Iran be tried."
"Prior to this, Iran lodged a suit via Interpol against two American officials called Jack Keane, a former commander of American army ground forces and Reuel Marc Gerecht, an expert at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, because of their statements to members of Congress, based on the necessity of planning the assassination of Commanders of the Revolutionary Guards, such as Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani."
The hard-line outlet, Mashreq News, has done a profile on Valerie Bowan Jarrett, a senior advisor to US President Barack Obama, who also as it happens was born to American parents in Shiraz, Iran. The article is entitled, "The Woman Who is Closer to Obama than Anyone." It had been alleged earlier this year on the Israeli website Ynet that Jarrett had been leading secret bilateral talks with the Islamic Republic.
The article also has pictures of Jarrett's father and states that, "James Bowman was amongst the first doctors of Namazi Hospital in Shiraz."
The article goes on, "Valerie always recalls her memories of life in Iran as "very sweet memories."
It also claims that "this women is so close to Obama that she can predict what Obama likes for dinner."
"The media of America and Israel together and in the heat of the American elections claimed that the Shirazi advisor [i.e., Jarrett] of Obama has begun making new efforts for opening the gate of communication with the Iranians."
"According to these reports Valerie Bowman Jarrett, the woman originally from Shiraz, was made responsible for establishing relations with Iran. Bowman Jarrett, who is amongst the preeminent lawyers of Chicago and became senior advisor to Obama and according to Washington and Tel Aviv's media reports, is trying to establish contacts between the government of America and representatives of Iran."
The article doesn't directly or indirectly confirm these reports, but merely cites Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi's denial of the existence of any parallel diplomatic track to that of the ongoing negotiations between Iran and the P5+1.
Interestingly, after recounting all this, the article goes on to speak at length about the life of Dr. James Bowden and almost fondly retells the story of his time as a doctor working in Shiraz.
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Fars News reports an incident at a memorial ceremony for the late Ayatollah Anvari. While Hojjat al-Islam Hassan Khomeini, the grandson of the Islamic Republic's founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, and Ayatollah Bojnurdi were leaving the ceremony, journalists asked Khomeini whether he would be running in the presidential election. Instead of giving Khomeini time to answer for himself, Bojnurdi answered in his stead, and stated "he will not be a candidate in the election."
Head of Iran's Assembly Experts, Ayatollah Mohammadreza Mahdavi-Kani, also in attendance at Ayatollah Anvari's memorial ceremony, is also on record as stating, "the orders of the Leader regarding [the unity of the branches of government] must be made practical."
In the course of a live interview on state television, Majles Speaker, Ali Larijani, said, "the 9th Majles is committed to obeying the leader and resistance in the path of the politics in their entirety as systematised by him [i.e., Supreme Leader Khamenei]."


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Parents Did Not Want 6-Year-Old Cheering "We Shake Our Booties Left To Right"
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we shake our booties from left to right!"
Jennifer and Duane Tesch, of Madison Heights, Michigan, would have sooner gang-banged the cast of "Yo Gabba Gabba" than hear those words come out of 6-year-old daughter Kennedy's mouth. I mean, who did the coaches think these kids are — Destiny's Child? But when the Tesches complained to the cheerleading squad that perhaps there might be more age-appropriate cheers for tykes, what did the adults who run the Madison Heights Wolverines flag football cheerleading team do? They unanimously voted Kennedy off the team and told her she could try out again next year. The Tesches were told they would be reimbursed the cost of her $125 cheer uniform and to not let the door hit them on the way out. Kennedy will pursue gymnastics instead, her parents said. [FOX News]


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In probability theory, Luce's choice axiom, formulated by R. Duncan Luce (1959), states that the probability of selecting one item over another from a pool of many items is not affected by the presence or absence of other items in the pool. Selection of this kind is said to have "independence from irrelevant alternatives" (IIA).
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Mathematically, the axiom states that the probability of selecting item i from a pool of j items is given by:
where w indicates the weight (a measure of some typically salient property) of a particular item.
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The axiom is often encountered in economics, where it can be used to model a consumer's tendency to choose one brand of product over another. It is also found in psychology, particularly in cognitive science, where it can be used to model some stochastic properties of neural networks.
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- Luce, R. D. (1959). Individual Choice Behavior: A Theoretical Analysis, New York: Wiley. ISBN 0-486-44136-9.
- Luce, R. D. (1977). The choice axiom after twenty years. Journal of Mathematical Psychology 15: 215–233.
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