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When Stacy went on vacation Jim got back at her by interviewing one of the greatest bands of the 1980s — The Bangles! What are they up to? Glad you asked, because they released a new album called 'Sweetheart of the Sun' and are touring. They've actually been back together since the late 1990s and have been writing, performing and touring off-and-on again when their personal lives allow.
Check out their interview here.
Find out what they did on 'Dancing With The Stars' that they'd never done before.
Learn who made them do a sound check at 3:30 a.m.
Guess what they were not allowed to do in the 1980s that they did three times last decade.
Hear what they called MTV VJ Martha Quinn after being on her show several times.
Observe Jim stick his foot in his mouth, first by reminding them how old they are and then implying they, too, are "snow wimps."
So why couldn't we air it on the morning show? Because it was recorded in the afternoon.
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#BringBackOurGirls has become the most used hashtag on Twitter in Nigeria this year with over a million tweets.
This hashtag is used on social media as a way of demanding the rescue of over 200 female studets abducted by Boko Haram on April 14, 2014 in Chibok Borno State. The hashtag has become viral in Nigeria and received international attention in the last seven days.
Ibrahim Abdullahi, a lawyer in Abuja, was one of the first to use #BringBackOurGirls.
"Initially, this was not a coordinated campaign. It was a number of individuals in Nigeria tweeting to raise awareness in the hope that the international community would eventually take notice," Abdullahi told the BBC.
The hashtag is also very popular on Facebook and Instagram, receiving over 150,000 posts on the latter. It has been posted by a number of global celebrities and personalities including the first lady of the United States Michelle Obama, actress Angelina Jolie, Queen of Pop Madonna and pop singer Chris Brown.
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NEW YORK: A top American military commander is expected to travel Pakistan this month in an effort to repair United States' strategic relationship with Pakistan which was frozen for more than two months.
The New York Times Tuesday, citing Obama administration officials, reported that General James Mattis, the head of the US military's Central Command, will meet General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, the Pakistan Army chief of staff, to discuss the investigations of Nato's attack on Pakistani posts near Afghan border that killed 24 soldiers, as well as new border coordination procedures to prevent recurrence of the episode.
The newspaper said in a dispatch from Washington that General Mattis's visit, the first by a high-ranking US official since the cross -border confrontation in November, was to have begun Thursday, but has been postponed by at least a week pending what is expected to be a spirited debate in Pakistan's Parliament over a new security policy toward the United States.
The dispatch cited Pakistani officials as saying they will probably reopen Nato supply lines running through their territory, which have been closed for more than two months.
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Nats Topple Marlins, 12-8
Friday, August 7, 2009
Long after his team had fallen way behind and swaggered all the way back -- and later, after the fireworks had popped, the clubhouse music had died down and most of his teammates had showered and left -- soft-spoken relief pitcher Logan Kensing, still charmed by the afterglow, reclined in his clubhouse chair and said, "Lately it just seems like we're alive."
Comebacks are the best litmus test for life; they require vigor at the exact depths where it's tempting to have none. The Washington Nationals have life. Thursday afternoon proclaimed it, practically screamed it. Down six early, their starting pitcher gone after five outs, again forced to ride a tired bullpen, playing their 22nd consecutive game without a day off, the Nationals battled back for a 12-8 victory over the Florida Marlins at Nationals Park, winning their season-high fifth straight game.
In tandem with the winning streak -- and with their 11-11 stretch under interim manager Jim Riggleman -- they also have a newfound sense of what they look like, and what they can do, with actualized talent. This comeback required help from almost every player on the roster. For every Ryan Zimmerman homer, there was a Kensing 3 1/3 -inning bailout, eating innings after starter Craig Stammen faltered. For every Elijah Dukes RBI (and he had four of them, including the game-tying solo homer in the seventh), there was a Jason Bergmann escape with the bases loaded in the sixth.
Washington won this game not because of one breakthrough, but because of relentlessness. Because of Alberto González's two-run double in the fourth, the first real puncture wound inflicted on Florida's Chris Volstad. Because of Zimmerman's two-run shot in the fifth, his 23rd homer of the year, which made it an 8-5 game and removed the wishful thinking from the comeback. Because of hits in the fifth from Adam Dunn, Josh Willingham and Josh Bard, an 8-5 deficit shrank to 8-7.
"I just wanted to keep the game close," said Kensing, who took the mound in the second, allowing two earned runs in the next 3 1/3 innings. "The way we've been scoring runs lately, it's pretty phenomenal. The offense, it's pretty much unstoppable. Any time we keep it close, there's a good chance we can pull through at the end."
Comebacks, however, work like a snare, requiring pressure from both sides. The offense alone doesn't work when chasing six runs. Yes, Washington's offense has flourished in the past few weeks -- it's averaging 7.1 runs per game since July 25 -- but that's not the first time this year that a Zimmerman-Dunn-Willingham lineup has caused damage. The thing is, earlier this year, Washington would have lost this game, 13-12, and only come away with heartache for all its effort.
"Our bullpen, they're getting worn down a bit, but they've just been outstanding," Riggleman said.
"I think they've done great," Zimmerman said. "They've been really good for a while now after the shaky start. It's just a credit to them."
On this afternoon, the bullpen ran its version of a marathon. Stammen, with a 15.43 ERA in his past three starts, faced 12 hitters. He allowed six hits and walked one. He threw 45 pitches, just one of them a swinging strike. Two of his five outs came on sacrifice flies. When he was done, a fatigued bullpen had 7 1/3 innings to handle.
But it met the challenge. Since the all-star break, Washington's relievers have a 3.19 ERA, a reversal as drastic as the roster overhaul that prompted it. Here, six relievers combined to hold down Florida as Washington's offense got to work. In the sixth, after the Nationals climbed to within 8-7, Bergmann was called to clean up a bases-loaded, one-out mess. He forced Hanley Ramírez and Jorge Cantú into back-to-back popups.
Florida didn't score in its final four innings, even though closer Mike MacDougal, who had pitched in four straight games, was not available. When Dukes's homer in the seventh against Brian Sanches tied the game at 8, Sean Burnett and Jorge Sosa combined for a scoreless top of the eighth.
Then, Washington's offense again surged in the bottom of the inning. Cristian Guzmán led off with a walk. Nyjer Morgan bunted him to second. Ronnie Belliard ripped a single up the middle, bringing home the go-ahead run. And the Nationals kept adding on, putting up three more before handing the ninth to Sosa.
"Everybody pulled their weight," Bergmann said.
"I think that hurdle has been crossed," Riggleman said. "Nobody in that room has any doubts that we can come back."


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In college I had a pothead friend prone to making grandiose statements. Nothing was ever merely okay with this guy; every experience was either the best or the worst of his life. That grilled-cheese sandwich we'd just eaten in the cafeteria? The worst in the history of the New England Small College Athletic Conference. Those Phish shows he kept going to? Incredibly, each one was the best concert of all time! (This is possible, I suppose: It's like taking a million shits, and saying each one stinks the worst of all. How are you going to measure which stinks the worst? Each shit could, theoretically, be the stinkiest, because, when you think about it, they're all shit.) And the best beer homeboy ever had?
Heineken Brewery, Amsterdam. After a two-and-a-half hour tour, during which he learned the entire history of the brand, he was treated to a tall pint of the freshest Heineken in the world. Two fingers of foam at the head, beads of perspiration cascading elegantly down the frosty glass -- my buddy took that stein and drank. To hear him tell it, he sipped with the satisfaction of a man quenching a thirst that had plagued him since the day he was born, although odds are he was probably drinking contaminated canal water out of a used syringe, so fucked up was he on mushrooms and ecstasy. But the passion behind his tale always inspired me, so when I went to Amsterdam, I made a point of going. I scheduled the brewery for the last day of my stay, and after checking off all the other items on my to-do list -- the Van Gogh Museum, the Rijksmuseum, paying a prostitute to watch me eat three ears of corn naked while two other prostitutes sang into a fan -- I was ready for that beer. But when I got to the Heineken Brewery, it was closed.
You can only imagine my disappointment.
The Coors Brewery Tour was worse.
Don't get me wrong: Coors was open -- but therein lies the problem. I'd been on the Coors tour before, and I had not been impressed. At one point, our guide actually had us standing in a long, narrow hallway, studying framed posters of beers -- never mind letting us taste those beers, or sharing a few anecdotes about the most gruesome disfigurements in the history of each beverage's production. No, the crack Coors team thought that the best way to keep their products imprinted in our skulls was through good, old-fashioned poster-starin'. It was pathetic.
But when a Nepalese midget courier recently delivered the news that as of June 26, the tours would be "newly upgraded" -- and still free -- I decided to give Coors another go. After all, what had the company ever done wrong? Besides polluting the environment and having a founder named Adolph, that is. So I tipped the courier six paper-clips -- currency to his people -- and headed for the hills.
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If by "newly upgraded" Coors means "even less impressive," the brewery's announcement was right on the money. The only addition to the tour was a series of museum-like displays where you can ponder questions such as, "How long does it take to brew a Coors beer?," then lift a placard and discover the answer, "An average of 55 days, the longest in the industry!" Or "What is the shelf life of a Coors beer in a can?" "About 112 days!" And finally, "What the fuck am I doing in the Coors Brewery?" "Your editor rejected your column idea about trying to teach a capuchin to drive. This is all you had left!"
Inside the brewery, all was essentially the same: the stinky brew-kettle room that prompted a fat kid in the Jeff Gordon T-shirt to comment, "It smells like somebody farted Grape Nuts"; the Quality Control Laboratory with the sign celebrating "1 Million Hours Without a Lost Time Injury" (this could be why Coors is still #3; in my lab, so constant and reckless would be our quest for innovation that no chemist would have all of his fingers); the packaging plant with Coors Lights whizzing past; the gift shop where, amongst the personalized mugs, there still wasn't one labeled "Adam" (it's not like I'm named freaking Punjab); and, of course, the poster-lined hallway of shameless self-promotion.
Yet when a waitress asked me that evening what I'd like to drink with my dinner, I couldn't help but think back on all I had seen and learned during the day: the importance of fine barley, the delicate act of germination, the kiln that dries the grain. I thought about all the hard work that goes into crafting a delicious, quality beer, and it moved me.
"One Fat Tire, please."


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For years, Utah legislators criticized No Child Left Behind as a matter of principle because they believe the federal government (even President George W. Bush's federal government, where it started) should butt out of public education, and also because of its one-size-fits-all inflexibility.
Today, with the launch of the Legislature's school grading system and its lists of school grades, it's obvious the state has adopted many of the failed practices of NCLB.
Legislators behind the grading legislation say its purpose is to "shine a light" on schools with problems. That is essential. But whether this system does anything more than degrade the reputations of schools, which it surely does, or if it identifies truly failing schools better than other assessment systems, depends on what legislators do next.
Assigning letter grades to all public schools seems like a simple way of showing parents and educators which schools should get extra attention so they can improve the job they're doing. But, simplicity of evaluation should not be the primary goal. Improved student learning should be.
This system attempts to boil down performance to a letter grade by looking at test scores and individual progress (remember NCLB's "adequate yearly progress"?), but it does not allow for the vast differences in school demographics and missions.
Alternative high schools, for example, which enroll only students who have struggled in regular high schools, sometimes for most of their school careers, all received F grades. It may be the case that a particular alternative high school is doing a poor job, but it's impossible to tell from the pervasive F grade, given those schools' unique role.
It's not surprising that a charter school that emphasizes science and math received the top grade. The school attracts students who already have an interest in such subjects and are high achievers. Such factors should be taken into account.
West High School, known for its innovative programs, received an F grade because fewer than 95 percent of students took the tests on which the grades are based (remember NCLB's focus on attendance?). The school's graduation rate is far too low, but the grade should not ignore the school's unique accomplishments. Utah public schools are not cookie-cutter reflections of one another, and they shouldn't be.
Yes, Utah's graduation rate is too low. Yes, too many students, especially minority students, do not graduate. Yes, far too few high school graduates are prepared for higher education or jobs. Those are serious problems that must be corrected. To be useful, school evaluations should show specific deficiencies that can be rectified, and there should be a corresponding allocation of resources that schools need to fix the problems. School districts decide how to spend the money given them by the Legislature, but not much can change if the size of the pot remains the same.
There is no doubt some schools are deficient. But what are the causes, and what is the Legislature willing to do to help? School grading, by itself, is useless. Florida, the model for Utah's system, combined school grading with a cap on class size and much larger per-pupil allocation of revenue. Utah continues to invest the smallest amount of money per student in the nation, resulting in the largest class sizes and among the lowest teacher salaries.
Without a commitment to larger revenue allocations to F-grade schools to attract and reward excellent teachers and fund programs such as early-grade reading, prekindergarten and all-day kindergarten that are proven to boost academic success of young children, the Legislature is wasting everyone's time with school grades.


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Everybody loves Jason. Or at least, everybody knows Jason, the machete-wielding specter in a hockey mask, stalking the woods around Camp Crystal Lake and preying on the young and promiscuous. Jason Voorhees has become an archetypal pop culture figure, winning a notoriety greater than that of his films; most critics still scoff at even the original Friday the 13th, which has never commanded the camp cachet of, say, John Carpenter's Halloween. (And even having dressed up as Jason on more than one Halloween as a kid I have to admit that Sleepaway Camp still comes first in my heart.)
But as this trade's introduction by professional partier Andrew W.K. suggests, Jason sticks in our minds. Maybe it's the way he turns a seemingly commonplace object—the famous goalie mask—into such a baleful symbol of evil, or the way that he incarnates the Puritan spirit at its most bloodthirsty and unforgiving. In any case, Jason resonates with Americans in a way that few screen villains have. Even just seeing the cover of this trade in the comic store stopped me in my tracks: it's a wonderfully creepy depiction of Jason by the gifted Ryan Sook (X-Factor), with the knife-wielding butcher looming over the Crystal Lake bunkhouse like Mephisto in F.W. Murnau's Faust.
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Wildstorm planned Friday the 13th as an ongoing series, but it only lasted for six issues, collected here. The story retreads some pretty familiar ground, as a new group of teens flock to Crystal Lake in order to renovate the old camp and re-open it for business. But the explanation is a plausible and amusing one, as the new owner plans to retrofit the camp as a sort of ghoulish haunted house under the name "Camp Blood." And the set-up of the story—which no doubt would've dragged on and on in a film version—whips by at lightning speed here, so we can get down to business.
The collection of characters in Friday the 13th may have you feeling more than a little bit of déjà vu: there is, of course, the straight-laced female lead, the standoffish hard-ass and his forgiving girlfriend, the nerdy milquetoast, the bickering couple, the goofy stoners, and the unattached male with designs on the female lead. If you're a scholar of the slasher form, you may even be able to guess the order in which they get gruesomely dispatched by Mr. Voorhees. And along the way, there's also a fair amount of sex and drugs, although not as much as you might think—these campers aren't given much chance to get naughty before they start getting hacked into chunks.
It all sounds standard-issue, but Friday the 13th works better than most contemporary slasher films precisely because it's a comic book. As a result, the story is never hamstrung by the usual problems, such as overly contrived plotlines, a weak cast, or Hollywood restraint. Friday the 13th is already aimed squarely at a niche audience, and it caters to that audience rather than to a broad mainstream one. In addition to its unapologetically back-to-basics setup, the story's cast is wickedly acrimonious: there's not a sentimental moment in this whole book. And since there's no need to tone down the gore or profanity to snag a PG-13 rating, Friday the 13th easily outdoes most of today's "torture porn" movies in terms of raw carnage, and without wallowing in its own bloodshed the way they tend to: Jason's killings are customarily quick, savage, and pitiless. The only place Friday the 13th falls flat is with its climactic "twist": I won't spoil the surprise, but suffice it to say that fans of 1980s horror films will find this new addition to the Crystal Lake mythos more than a bit familiar—and unnecessary.
Friday the 13th isn't for everyone. Everybody knows Jason, but not everyone is going to want to read a trade that's essentially the most over-the-top, pure and unfiltered Friday the 13th story ever. But it's also more than just another notch on Jason's machete grip: it's a wildly energetic and devilishly enjoyable take on the slasher genre, with none of the self-conscious, postmodern bullshit. (Well, almost none: writers Justin Gray and Jimmy Palmiotti can't help working in a couple of Scream moments, but they're usually undercut by all the chop-chop.) Above all else, Friday the 13th is bloody good fun.
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Opening Statement of Senator Chuck Grassley
First of all, I would like to thank Chairman Baucus for calling this hearing on electricity from renewable energy. The Finance Committee has been very successful in identifying energy tax issues that have created domestic energy options for the nation. Everyone wants to talk about shaking our growing dependence on foreign fossil fuels, but we will never have that opportunity in our lifetimes if we do not aggressively identify domestic energy options. The Finance Committee has jurisdiction over all of the potential tax and trade provisions that can help create a consistent sustainable energy policy for this nation.
As a long-term member of this committee and the previous chairman of this committee, I have aggressively proposed utilizing the tax code to help level the playing field between renewable resources and traditional fossil fuel-powered electricity.
In fact, for years, I have worked to decrease our reliance on foreign sources of energy and accelerate and diversify domestic energy production. Public policy ought to promote renewable domestic production that uses renewable energy and fosters economic development.
Specifically, the development of renewable energy resources conserves existing natural resources and protects the environment. Finally, alternative energy development provides economic benefits to farmers, ranchers and forest land owners, such as those in Iowa who have launched efforts to
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I have been a constant advocate of alternative energy sources. I proposed the original wind energy credit which became law in the Energy Policy Act of 1992. Since inception of the wind energy tax credit, wind energy production has grown from being almost non-existent to the success story of today. In addition, wind represents an affordable and inexhaustible source of domestically produced energy.
It is my hope that the Senate continues to support this maturing green energy source that has environmental benefits. Every 10,000 megawatts of wind energy produced in the United States can reduce carbon monoxide emissions by 33 million metric tons by replacing the combustion of fossil
fuels. In addition, some studies suggest that for every 100 megawatts of wind you could save an equivalent of over 500,000 barrels of oil per year. These are important issues as we consider our energy options of the future. I am proud to say that the State of Iowa has over 1000 megawatts of
wind facilities in operation making a substantial contribution to emissions free electricity and displacement of fossil fuel.
Today, I expect to hear many bold plans and accomplishments on electricity policy, but I will be most interested in those ideas that help to empower our rural communities to reap continued economic benefits and diversifying our electricity portfolio and reduce our impact on global climate issues.
And finally, I have growing concerns that our U.S. trade deficit has been substantially impacted by our continued reliance on foreign fossil fuel and U.S. reliance on foreign technology and imported equipment needed to fully utilize capturing and converting wind, solar and biomass energy options.
I am pleased the Finance Committee will have the opportunity to hear the views and experiences of His Excellency John Bruton, the Ambassador to the European Commission Delegation, and his discussion of the European Union's experience in renewable electricity. Increased independence from fossil fuels and reducing any potential impact on global climate issues is a world wide issue.
I am pleased the Finance Committee energy hearing schedule has included worldwide experience as we continue to review our options for a stable long-term policy on electricity.
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The news comes in the same week that the company has announced a multi-title deal with THQ.
"Frank has been a major force within the European publishing scene for the past 12 years," said Double Fusion's CEO Jonathan Epstein. "His knowledge of the key players and the machinations of the European publishing scene will obviously help us to fast-track our efforts in Europe. This is going to be a very exciting year for Double Fusion."
Sagnier added: "It's early days, but in-game advertising is already becoming hugely exciting as major brands wake up to the true potential this unique medium has to offer. We're also beginning to see the major interactive brands placing in-game advertising at the core of their future growth strategies, so this is the perfect time to be joining Double Fusion, a company that has consistently taken a leadership role within the sector."
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In October we usually celebrate fall, leaves, apples, and Halloween, instead why not celebrate World Smile Day Oct 7th. To find out more about this day or other unique or bizarre days in the month of October like: Do Something Nice Day, Fire Prevention Day, Moldy Cheese Day, Cookie Month, Eat Country Ham Month, International Drum Month, National Diabetes Month, National Pizza Month, National Vegetarian Month, and National Popcorn Popping Month visit Holiday Insights Bizarre and Unique Website .
What are some unique or bizarre happenings or things to celebrate? They could be family traditions, daily routines, habits you have formed, or who knows what. Why don't you share these ideas with your friends, teachers, classmates, family members or here on the blog. Let's see how strange, unique or bizarre your celebrations are with some of your fellow teens.
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Equity funds outsold fixed income funds in each of the past four months of 2012 as assets under management in IMA funds hit a record £658bn.
However, fixed income funds still dominated retail inflows in 2012 after topping the sales charts for the first eight months of the year before the risk rally took hold.
Fixed income funds brought in £5.6bn compared to £4.5bn in 2011, while inflows to mixed asset funds more than halved compared to 2011.
The market share of equity funds continued its steady decline and it has now fallen from 73 per cent of total assets under management in 2003 to 53 per cent by the end of 2012.
Within equities, global equity funds were favoured by investors over region-specific funds, bringing in £4.1bn in 2012, while UK-focused funds saw nearly £1bn of outflows in the same period.
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PUBLISHED: 10:23 24 January 2014 | UPDATED: 10:24 24 January 2014
Proposals for a gas-fired plant to top up the National Grid are 'called in' by parish councillors.
PLANS for a gas fired power plant at Yelland to boost the National Grid have been called in by Fremington Parish councillors.
Green Frog Energy, has lodged a planning application bidding to create the 'small-scale gas-fired Capacity Mechanism' plant on land beside the former power station site.
It is proposed to place nine generators inside containers within a fenced compound measuring about a third of an acre.
The plant will be operated remotely from the company's Midlands base and is designed to kick in at peak times to generate electricity when a high demand is placed on the National Grid.
Developers said the 9MW plant would be run for an estimated 1,200 hours a year.
But Fremington councillors said there was not enough information for them to make a recommendation on the application and have voted for it to be 'called in' to a North Devon Council planning meeting. They also agreed to invite the applicant to a parish meeting.
In a letter to the North Devon Gazette, Cllr Jim Bell said the proposal had not been widely advertised: "It is important developments of this nature are understood by the community who are expected to live with them.
"Councillors were as concerned as myself regarding this application and have had the plans 'called in' for the following reasons: 'The council would like the need for this facility to be demonstrated. If required, it would be better sited on the original power substation site to reduce visual impact and noise ambience for residents'.
"One district councillor felt it will merely be 'rubber stamped'. This is no reason to 'play dead' and let developers ride rough shod over local communities."


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THE European Union has agreed to lift its embargo against arming Syrian rebels, but no member state intends to send any arms in the coming months for fear of endangering a US-Russia peace initiative.
After a gruelling 12 hours of talks in Brussels, British Foreign Secretary William Hague announced on Monday the deal to lift the arms embargo against the rebels, while maintaining the remainder of a far-reaching two-year package of sanctions against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime.
Without such a deal, the entire set of sanctions, including an assets freeze on Assad and his cronies, and restrictions on trade in oil and financial transactions, would have lapsed at midnight on Friday.
However, splits within the EU were exposed.
Britain and France championed the lifting of the arms embargo while Austria, Sweden, Finland and the Czech Republic were reticent about pouring more arms into a conflict that has already cost about 94,000 lives.
To send arms is "against the principles" of Europe, which is a "community of peace", said Austrian Foreign Minister Michael Spindelegger, a longtime outspoken opponent of the move.
A French official in Paris stressed "this is a theoretical lifting of the embargo. In concrete terms, there will be no decision on any deliveries before August 1."
Such a delay will allow for the planned US-Russia sponsored international peace conference on Syria next month, which it is hoped both the Assad regime and opposition figures will attend.
The deal agreed in Brussels leaves the decision to supply arms to the rebels up to each nation. Ministers nonetheless vowed to stick to safeguards against misuse and to respect EU rules on arms exports.
"None of the member states have the intention of actually providing arms at this stage," added Frans Timmermans, the Dutch minister who tried to steer a compromise.
"Quite a lot of arms are already going to the wrong hands," he added. "The parties to the conflict don't have a shortage of arms, frankly."
Hague stressed that Britain, while championing the move, also had "no immediate" plans to supply weapons to the rebels fighting Assad.
He said Britain saw only a political solution and a diplomatically supported solution for Syria, but that Monday's ground-breaking decision "sends a very strong message from Europe to the Assad regime of what we think of the continued brutality and murder and criminality of this regime".
In Istanbul, Khaled al-Saleh, spokesman for Syria's opposition Coalition called the EU decision "the moment of truth that we've been waiting for for months".
He was attending Coalition talks which descended into total disarray after several days of negotiations, failing to agree on whether to participate in the US-Russian peace initiative, particularly if the Assad regime is also represented there.
The Syrian regime has agreed "in principle" to attend the so-called "Geneva 2" peace initiative.
The first Geneva talks, last June, produced a peace roadmap which failed to win support, triggering the resignation of Kofi Annan as special envoy on Syria.
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius left the Brussels talks before the finish to meet in Paris with his Russian and US counterparts, Sergei Lavrov and John Kerry, over efforts to convene the Syria peace conference in Geneva.
However, Lavrov admitted it would not be easy and that ensuring the success of the proposed peace conference was "a very tall order".
Kerry has warned that unless both sides come to the table, the world will witness "the continued tragic disintegration of a country that will go down further into more violence and more bloodshed and more destruction".
The push to bring the warring sides together is ever-more pressing amid reports of "horrific" rights violations and mounting evidence that chemical weapons are being used.
French Foreign Minister Fabius said there were "mounting suspicions" that chemical weapons were being used in Syria, as UN human rights chief Navi Pillay decried the "horrific" level of rights violations.
Meanwhile, on the ground fighting raged between rebels and regime troops, now aided by the Lebanese Shi'ite group Hezbollah.
Opposition fighters battled regime troops, aided by Hezbollah, for control of the key rebel stronghold of Qusayr.
Four people died in a bomb attack in a regime-controlled district of the central Syrian city of Homs, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights watchdog reported.
With the much-publicised involvement of Hezbollah threatening to pull Lebanon deep into the conflict, peace talks are becoming increasingly pressing.
Later, Syria's opposition denounced the EU decision as "too little, too late".
"Definitely it is a positive step, but we are afraid it could be too little, too late," Louay Safi, spokesman for Syria's main opposition National Coalition, told AFP.
"The Syrian people are disappointed. They thought that democracies care about those who seek democracy," Safi told AFP on the sidelines of an opposition meeting in Istanbul that has been stalled by divisions.
"We need to provide protection for civilians, for the Syrian people. Weapons would be one element but also we would like to have a more serious position taken, a firm decision taken by the European Union," he added.
A rebel spokesman inside Syria also lashed out against the EU decision.
"Why wait until August? Why wait another two months? So that the Syrian people continue to be subjected to genocide?" Qassem Saadeddine told AFP by telephone.
"We need anti-aircraft rocket launchers and anti-tank missiles," he added.
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Virgin Media could be offering customers broadband at up to 200Mb per second by 2012, roughly 40 times faster than the average speed currently enjoyed by British web surfers, according to the cable company's chief executive, Neil Berkett.
Dramatically increasing the speed available over its network would also give Virgin Media a lead over bitter rival BT, which is spending £1.5bn on improving its network so it can offer 40Mb to 60Mb per second to 10m British homes in time for the London Olympic.
Berkett's prediction came as Virgin Media announced it lost a total of 19,500 customers over the three months to end June. Analysts were cheered, however, by the company's success in generating a profit before financial charges of £333m, up from £315m last year, and persuading 53% of its 4.7 million customers to sign up to a so-called "triple play" of television, broadband and home phone. Virgin Media added a net 54,600 broadband users during the three months, well below the 200,000 secured by BSkyB and the 103,000 that BT gained in the same period. But Berkett said the vast majority of those new customers signed up for its fastest broadband service, currently at 20Mb and Virgin Media wants to get even faster to differentiate itself from the competition. It is already rolling out 50Mb and, with plans to switch off its analogue TV service in the next two years, which will free up capacity, speeds will increase.
"BT are talking about 40Mb in 2012; we have got 50Mb now and by 2012 we would have the technical capability of delivering up to 200 Mb per second. We are leading next generation access in this country," he said. Such a service would be faster than anything available in the most advanced internet access markets of Japan and Korea and well above the current average UK speed which Ofcom estimates at 4.6Mb.
Faster speeds may also help kickstart a residential broadband market that has slowed as homeowners rein in spending and opt for cheaper broadband services.


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Cities Crackdown on Private Transport
August 29, 2013
Uber pulled into Dallas one year ago, offering residents a ride with a few taps of an app. Uber, which uses your smartphone's GPS to track you down, sends you the flat rate for getting from Here to There, and dispatches a nearby car-service driver, whose progress can be followed all the way to the pick-up point. Sounds like quite the ride, but Uber has always maintained: "Uber is not a transportation provider." It maintains it's a tech company that just makes it easier for drivers and passengers to connect, which is how, much to the chagrin of cab companies, it has skirted cities' rules and regulations that steer the car-for-hire business, says Robert Wilonsky, writing with the Dallas Morning News.
Dallas City Hall aims to change that.
- The Dallas City Council was scheduled to vote on a substantial city code rewrite that will redefine everything from who can dispatch a car to who can drive a limo to the cost of a limousine's off-the-lot sticker price (has to be more than $45,000).
- And the city doesn't want people to be able to order up a limo whenever they want: The rewrite, says the addendum, will "require limousine service to be prearranged at least 30 minutes before the service is provided."
The addendum item doesn't come out and say it's aimed directly at Uber, only that "the use of computer applications and other technologies by some providers of limousine service has distorted certain distinctions between limousines and taxicabs," and that it's high time the city "establish those distinctions to help the public understand the differences between those types of passenger transportation services." City Hall also wants to be able to regulate drivers being dispatched via app.
In September Yellow Cab President and CEO Jack Bewley said Uber is using the app "to skirt the regulations." Cab owners in the United States and Europe have been trying for months to crackdown on these app-driver start-ups.
That hasn't hurt Uber's ability to raise money: At week's end, the company said it raised $258 million during its latest round of cash-collecting, and that Google's senior vice president of development now has a spot on its board. It is said to be valued around $3 billion. Some of that money has gone toward fending off legal challenges aimed at keeping Uber off the road, like the case in Cambridge, Massachusetts -- which Uber won in June.
Source: Robert Wilonsky, "Dallas to Rewrite Limo Regulations In Effort to Calm Cabbies Unhappy with App-Summoned Uber," Dallas Morning News, August 25, 2013.
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RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. – July 19, 2005 – Quintiles Transnational Corp., the world's leading pharmaceutical services organization, announced today that it has signed an agreement with Aptuit Inc., an emerging company focused on streamlining and supporting the early drug development process, to enter a strategic partnership. Aptuit will acquire three Quintiles business units – Preclinical Services, Pharmaceutical Sciences and Clinical Trial Supplies – for approximately $125 million, and the two companies will sign a two-year commercial agreement.
"This is a winning, strategic move for Quintiles that we believe will benefit our customers," said Dennis Gillings, CBE, Chairman and CEO of Quintiles. "The commercial agreement will enable Quintiles to continue to make early development services available through the alliance while we grow internally to meet the increasing demand for our services in clinical trials and commercial partnerships.
"With this agreement, we enhance our already strong cash position, which is important for many of our partnering solutions. We can also bring greater focus to our clinical services and clinical support services, such as our global laboratory network."
The Quintiles units provide services to 19 of the top 20 drug companies worldwide, as well as many of the emerging biotechnology and small to mid-sized pharmaceutical companies worldwide. The transaction also marks a significant step forward in Aptuit's strategy to build a world-class drug development services company, focused on early stage development, through acquisition and investments in talent, technologies and infrastructure. Aptuit plans to provide customers in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical sectors with a suite of early development services and competencies designed to accelerate and enhance the probability of success for new drugs in development.
"As an integrated organization, these three business units constitute a premier business that will form the foundation for our drug development services offerings," said Michael Griffith, CEO of Aptuit. "We gain an industry-leading team with the right expertise for our business model, a world-class customer base, GMP/GLP facilities, and a range of technologies to support and help drive drug development. From a technical and operational standpoint, we aim to make the transition to Aptuit virtually seamless to employees and customers."
The three Quintiles business units employ about 1,400 people, primarily in Kansas City, Mo.; Mt. Laurel, N.J.; Edinburgh, Scotland; and Singapore. Aptuit plans to reorganize the units into three global business lines: Preclinical Technologies, Pharmaceutical Sciences and Packaging & Logistics.
Aptuit, which is backed by the private equity firm Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe, intends to invest up to $50 million in the business units over the next three years to enhance operations and expand its service portfolio. Once the acquisition is completed, a management team will be named. The agreement relating to the purchase of Quintiles' business units is subject to satisfaction of customary contractual conditions and regulatory requirements. Closing is anticipated to occur during the third quarter of 2005.
About Quintiles
Quintiles' Product Development, Commercialization and PharmaBio Development divisions help improve healthcare worldwide by providing a broad range of professional services, information and partnering solutions to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and healthcare industries. Headquartered near Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, Quintiles has about 17,000 employees in offices in 50 countries and is the world's leading pharmaceutical services organization. For more information visit the company's Web site at www.quintiles.com.
Information in this press release contains "forward-looking statements." These statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially, including, without limitation, the inability of the parties to satisfy all of the conditions to closing, the possibility of delays in obtaining or the failure to receive required regulatory approvals, the possibility that the transaction might otherwise be delayed or fail to close, and the ability to operate successfully in the alliance. Additional factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are discussed in Quintiles' recent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including but not limited to its annual report on Form 10-K, its quarterly report on Form 10-Q and its current reports on Form 8-K.


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Biologists discover 'control centre' for sperm production
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Biologists at the University of Leicester have published results of a new study into the intricacies of sex in flowering plants.
They have found that a gene in plants, called DUO1, acts as a master switch to ensure twin fertile sperm cells are made in each pollen grain.
The research identifies for the first time that DUO1 switches on a battery of genes that together govern sperm cell production and their ability to produce seeds.
The findings have implications for plant fertility, seed production – and could be used to help produce improved crops to help meet food shortages. This work also formed part of one of the author's PhD thesis (Dr Michael Borg, University of Leicester).
The new study is reported in the journal The Plant Cell and was funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC).
Professor David Twell and colleagues in the Department of Biology at the University of Leicester previously reported the discovery of a master regulator protein called DUO1 that has a critical role in allowing precursor reproductive cells to divide once to form twin sperm cells. The discovery of a battery of genes governed by DUO1 has shed light on the mechanisms by which plants control sperm cell formation and fertility.
Professor Twell said: "Unlike animals, flowering plants require not one, but two sperm cells for successful reproduction. These two sperm cells are housed within pollen grains, which act as a vehicle to deliver the sperm cells to the female sex cells within a flower.
"One sperm cell will join with the egg cell to produce the future plant or embryo, whilst the other will join with a second cell deep within the flower (the central cell) to produce a nutrient-rich tissue called the endosperm. Together these two structures make up the seeds and grains that form the staple food of humans and livestock across the globe.
"A mystery in this 'double fertilisation' event was how each pollen grain could produce the pair of sperm cells needed to make seeds. We now report that the regulatory gene DUO1 switches on a battery of genes that together govern sperm cell production and their ability to fuse with the egg and central cells. So in effect DUO1 acts as a master switch to ensure twin fertile sperm cells are made. "
Their new study expands on their previous work on pollen development and has identified a battery of new genes that collectively ensure male fertility in flowering plants.
The study of genes active within plant sperm is technically challenging because their sperm cells are not only tiny, but they are encased within tough pollen grains and as such are difficult to isolate. "We overcame this problem by genetically forcing plants to make DUO1 in plant roots, a place it is not normally found because DUO1 is normally restricted to sperm cells. By studying these genetically modified plants, we were able to survey the target genes switched on by DUO1."
The researchers also report on the mechanism by which DUO1 switches on its target genes. Being a regulatory protein, DUO1 was shown to bind to short DNA sequences near the genes that it targets, which in turn allows DUO1 to control a wide variety of processes needed for sperm cell production.
"This work provides insight into the genetic mechanisms by which fertile gamete production is achieved in flowering plants. Such knowledge will also be helpful in devising strategies for the targeted manipulation of sperm cells, enabling plant breeders to control crossing behaviour in crop plants." This work also provides new molecular tools for the manipulation of plant fertility and hybrid seed production as well the means to control gene flow in transgenic crops where the male contribution may need to be eliminated.
Professor Twell added that the study is timely given the challenges of breeding improved crops to meet the demands of food shortage and food price inflation the world is currently facing.
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Full text of the study is available here.
Abstract Background
The male germline in flowering plants arises through asymmetric division of a haploid microspore. Each divided microspore produces a large, non-germline vegetative cell and a single germ cell that divides once to produce the sperm cell pair required for double fertilisation. Despite the importance of sperm cells in plant reproduction, relatively little is known about the genetic hierarchy controlling plant sperm formation.
Abstract Findings
Here, we investigate the role of the Arabidopsis male germline-specific MYB protein DUO POLLEN1 (DUO1) as a positive regulator of male germline development. We show that DUO1 plays an essential role in sperm cell specification by activating a germline-specific differentiation programme. We show that ectopic expression of DUO1 in roots upregulates a significant number (~63) of germline-specific or enriched genes and validated 14 previously unknown DUO1 target genes by demonstrating DUO1-dependent promoter activity in the male germline. DUO1 is shown to directly regulate its target promoters through binding to canonical MYB sites, suggesting that the DUO1 target genes validated thus far are likely to be direct targets.
Abstract Conclusion
This work advances knowledge of the DUO1 regulon that encompasses genes with a range of cellular functions including transcription, protein fate, signalling and transport. Thus the DUO1 regulon has a major role in shaping the germline transcriptome and functions to commit progenitor germ cells to sperm cell differentiation.
TPC Image 1 - DUO1 expression in Arabidopsis roots
Pictured is an image of an Arabidopsis root showing expression of GFP-tagged DUO POLLEN 1 (DUO1) transcription factor along with a DIC image of the same root showing the different cell files. DUO1 is normally restricted to sperm cells because its expression has been shown to be germline-specific. It is normally technically challenging to study genes active within plant sperm cells because plant sperm are tiny and encased within tough pollen grains. Using these genetically modified plants, the researchers were able to survey the target genes switched on by DUO1.
Image Credit: Image generated by Lynette Brownfield (University of Leicester)
TPC Image 2 - Illustrating sperm cell-specific expression in Arabidopsis pollen
Pictured is a fluorescence image of an Arabidopsis pollen grain showing sperm cell-specific expression of a GFP-tagged marker of the IMPa-8 promoter along with a corresponding DAPI-stained image of the same pollen grain. The DAPI image shows the two densely-stained sperm cell nuclei and the diffusely-stained vegetative cell nuclei. In the GFP image, fluorescence is confined to the sperm cell nuclei, illustrating sperm cell-specific expression. The authors show that sperm cell specification of several genes, including IMPa-8, is regulated by the germline-specific transcription factor DUO POLLEN 1 (DUO1). Thus DUO1 has a major role in shaping the germline transcriptome and functions to commit progenitor germ cells to sperm cell differentiation.
Image Credit: Image generated by Hoda Khatab (University of Leicester)
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Sponsored by Government, in 2010/11 BBSRC is investing around £470 million in a wide range of research that makes a significant contribution to the quality of life in the UK and beyond and supports a number of important industrial stakeholders, including the agriculture, food, chemical, healthcare and pharmaceutical sectors.
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VICTORIA Barnt Green remain on course to retain the Premier Cup as they reached the final after beating Redditch United 4-1.
United went ahead through Jak Allbutt, but Barnt Green came roaring back to put the game out of sight by half-time.
Richard Bishop scored a brace, while further strikes from Shaun May and Scott Smith ensured Victoria will face Rubery Oak in the final on Sunday, March 2 at the Victoria Ground (kick-off 6.30pm).
Bromsgrove and District Football League results – Worcester Nursing Minor Cup – quarter-final: Washford Lions P-P Droitwich RBL.
Kidderminster Hospital Minor Cup – round three: Toby Jug Athletic 5, Marlpool Olympic 3.
Quarter Final: Victoria Barnt Green Reserves P-P Wilden Village.
Premier Cup – semi-final: Victoria Barnt Green 4, Redditch United 1.
Premier Division: Golden Lion Athletic 2, West Heath United 3; Meadow Park P-P Rubery Oak.
Division One: Hare and Hounds P-P Frankley; Sporting Grapevine 0, Belbroughton Athletic 2; Stoke Sporting P-P AFC Northfield; Santiago RV P-P Spa Athletic.
Division Two: FC Rednal 5, 3 Studley Road Social; Golden Lion Athletic Reserves P-P North Colts United; Bromsgrove United P-P Hewell Grangers; Callowbrook Swifts P-P Lickey End Social.
Division Three: Arrow Valley 1, Hizza United Seconds 3; Laburnum P-P Coldfield; Red Lions P-P AFC Millfields; Longbridge Athletic P-P Belbroughton Athletic Reserves.
- The flood defences surrounding the football pitches of Redditch were breached once again this week by yet more heavy rainfall, ruling out league action in the Redditch and South Warwickshire Combination League.
Bartley Green beat AFC Bentley 2-1 in the BCFA Sunday Cup with goals from Odane Barnes and Anthony Miller, to reach the semi-final, where they host to Hundred Acre.
Fairfield General La Coruna lost 2-0 at Kidderminster Premier Division Leaders Woodside.
Redditch and South Warwickshire Combination League results – BCFA Sunday Cup: AFC Bentley 1, Bartley Green Sunday 2 (Barnes, Miller).
Kidderminster Hospital Cup: Woodside 2 Fairfield General La Coruna 0.


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Rodin Reflections (in 4 actions)
Installation, Human figure, Political / Social, Various materials, 300x150x70cm
With this work we are investigating the notion of the plinth; how it acts functionally in elevating and supporting artwork but also how it is perceived. We initially asked different London art institutions to donate to us what they felt was a 'standard' plinth. Using the body and clay to elevate and support the plinth we are reversing its function to then turn this back upon itself. We have re-made this work with plinths from the art institutions of Rome, in its new context.
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There is a preview available for the mobile version of Firefox, called Fennec, which is scheduled to arrive on Android sometime at the end of this year. The video shows us something that is clearly a little buggy, but the general principles are certainly there. I guess they would have to be otherwise 'MartinSchirr' would not have released this video.
It would appear as though this particular version is only going to work for Android 2.0 or later, which does make sense given that by the time this application is ready, Android 9.1 is probably going to be out (ok, maybe not). Anyway, if your curious check out the Youtube video after the jump to grab a look at what will surely be one of the most popular applications for Android when it is available in a fully functioning form.


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Health Expo Offering Free Screenings and Entertainment July 9th
Fri, 08 Jul 2011 12:00:00 GMT —
On Saturday July 9, 2011, Dialysis Clinic Inc. (DCI), Dougherty County Health Department, and the City of Albany will present the "Kidney Kamp Health Fair" located at the James H. Gray Civic Center in downtown Albany from 10:00 am to 2:00 p.m.
In celebration of DCI's 40th anniversary, DCI is hosting 40 Acts of Service Celebrating 40 Years of Care around the United States. The "Acts of Service" are a variety of community service projects hosted by local DCI facilities that serve to educate the community regarding chronic kidney disease. The DCI Albany area clinics (Jefferson, Arlington, Dawson, East Albany, Sylvester, West Town, Home Training, Palmyra Acute, and Phoebe Acute) have teamed up with the City of Albany Department of Community and Economic Development, and the Dougherty County Health Department, to host the "Kidney Kamp Health Fair" which will provide healthcare screenings for families of southwest Georgia.
The health fair is free and open to the public. Entertainment and health screenings will be provided for the entire family. There will be art displays, music entertainment, fitness, and food demonstrations, as well as activities for the children including arts and crafts, "Kip the Kidney" puppet shows, and face painting. Door prizes will be given throughout the event.
The Dougherty County Health Department will be on-site offering 20 minute HIV testing, immunizations, stroke assessments, weight, and body mass index (BMI) assessments, said Vamella Lovette, Adult Health Director for the Health Department.
The City of Albany and the Dougherty County Health Department are sponsoring lead based paint screenings for children, which related complications include kidney diseases.
DCI will be conducting risk assessments for Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) by performing blood pressure checks and blood glucose monitoring.
Chronic Kidney Disease is a silent killer. More than 26 million Americans, 1 in 9 adults, have kidney disease and millions of others are at increased risk of developing it. The two main causes of kidney disease are diabetes and high blood pressure. Early detection and treatment may slow the progression of kidney disease and keep it from getting worse. If left undetected and untreated, kidney disease can lead to kidney failure resulting in the need for dialysis or a kidney transplant in order to live.
For more information about the event, please visit www.dciinc.org or call (229) 888-4943.


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I'm not a big fan of Bleach anymore, But I really wanted to draw this picture of Rukia. I could've done better but I was okay with how it looked....
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MSF treats around 650 people with anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs), but there are also more people coming to receive treatment for opportunistic infections and other illnesses. This is very encouraging as MSF's head of mission, Riekje Elema, explains: "It's important that people know their status as early as possible so that we can try to prevent the onset of opportunistic infections and delay the need for ARVs. People with HIV can lead healthy, positive lives if they receive regular medical care."
It's not always easy to provide this care to all people living with HIV/Aids, especially not for the Ministry of Health which is facing a major human resource crisis. In Nchelenge district, medical staff struggle to provide general healthcare services and HIV/Aids care. As Riekje says: "We are trying to simplify HIV/Aids care in Zambia to make it possible for the Ministry of Health to take over. It's not easy, but working together we'll get there."


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Beaver Falls, PA - It was the home opener for Geneva′s women′s volleyball team on Saturday and cats were not welcome. After spending the first ten matches of the season on the road, the Golden Tornadoes finally made their way to Metheny Fieldhouse and defeated both Thiel College and Saint Vincent College. Neither the Tomcats nor the Bearcats could manage a game as Geneva pulled off 3-0 victories in each match. The doubleheader sweep moved Geneva′s win streak to seven matches and moved its overall record to 9-3, including four straight victories against PAC opponents.
In match number one, Geneva allowed just 45 total points in the three game victory. Adriane Blake paced the offense with 15 kills, while teammate Elizabeth Fisher chipped in with nine kills. Blake added 17 digs for the team lead while junior setter Brandi Snavely continued her solid play with 28 assists.
The night cap took a bit more out of the Golden Tornadoes as the first two games went down the wire with Geneva coming away victories 26-24 and 25-23. Game three was a bit easier at 25-20. Rachel Kuegler led the way with 14 kills and Adriane Blake posted 12 kills and 21 digs in the victory. Faith Guerra helped the defensive effort with 20 digs and Snavely put up 39 more assists.
Geneva will go back on the road on Wednesday to face Bethany College before returning home next Friday for a tri-match with Penn State Beaver and Houghton College.
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Re: Is anyone writing anything new in the entertainment world?
Try Utopia (if you haven't already). It nearly passed me by. I rate Black Mirror highly too (the last one was a bit so-so though, imho...).
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Try Utopia (if you haven't already). It nearly passed me by. I rate Black Mirror highly too (the last one was a bit so-so though, imho...).
I dunno, i cam to all of this stuff with MW3 - loved it and when I got tired of it moved to Battlefield 3 which is also great (for different reasons). I got bored of that and so was looking forward to Black Ops 2. Having played it for a few hours now I feel like I must be missing something - the graphics seem really cartoony and way too 'clean', and the levels seem tiny (even compared to MW3). Maybe it's just that my standards have got much higher... Also tried CS Global Offensive a couple of months ago and again, I read the reviews and thought 'what is wrong with me' because I found it massively shallow and repetitive, despite most people being all like - 'it's great'. Hmm. Will persevere with 'BLOPS 2' but so far it is somewhat uninvolving, compared to MW3.
Don't forget the fact that depreciation on Apple stuff is comparatively low. That makes a BIG difference in terms of what you get for your £1500.
Looks good yeah, am really after < 12" screen though... Though the weight is right. Will see if I can find one to look at in the (metal) flesh perhaps.
So, I need a very portable machine to be able to work away from home for a little over a month (PHP web app dev / support, including offline, so need Apache or similar & MySQL. AAMP stack??). I've been on the verge of getting an 11" Macbook Air (currently use Netbeans on a 15" Macbook Pro) but 1366x768 mkes me want to cry. I also can't find any Windows laptops below 12" which have better than 1366x768.
So, does anyone use Android for dev work? I've looked around a bit for solutions and the only suggestions I find are to VNC or whatever to another machine, or use an online IDE. I don't really want to do either of those (would rather cope with 1366x768). Anyone actually do this in reality? I wonder if Linux can be installed on this machine in any useful way. I expect I'll get the Apple mahcine but thought I'd check with all you experts first :) Sorry if I'm an idiot!
Replace this lens with a fixed f1.4 one and I'm in...
...is to buy the previous model. People were making video last week, I'm sure they are still ok this week. The refurb shop is the way to go. If it wasn't for the fact I have an NUS card I'd be buying an 11" Air from the the refurb shop. £639!! Not much more than a Transformer, and lighter + better resolution (although not transformable of course). If you're into video - 17" Macbook Pro for £1419. Stick an SSD in it and move the HD to the optical bay. Sorted (at your own risk, warranty wise...).
...is for the buzz. Seems to be working too. No 'retina' display on air though :(
The small size+proper resolution screen was what solded me on the Motorola Defy. I don't play games (on my phone). Well, my girlfriend might disagree haha[misogyny]ha.
Just awful. Patronising and crass. C'mon, let me vote for it.
Anyone see The Idaho Transfer? That's my most recent sh!te film.
I find Charlotte Rampling a highly redeeming feature.
Resale price.
Baby, life's what you make it.
Smaller and tougher (theoretically) than the iPhone that I had before it. I've got a 32GB card in it. It can be a wifi hotspot. It was rubbish though before I put Cyanogen Mod 7 on it. The major negatives are slight lagginess (everyone has different tolerances, and mine are fairly low I think so it can't be that bad...) and Google Maps freezes sometimes. I could probably fix that, just not got round to it.
Crucially though, a good screen at £200 no contract (last July). The resolution on this new one is massive pants. If only there was a decent QWERTY keyboard phone...
...seems awful high. I can't for the life of me remember which other games have scored that high but I'm sure they must have been pretty special.. Perhaps I am mistaken though and the score is more common than I seem to think.
Not when you account unglamorous but very real depreciation factor. Just before Christmas I sold a 15" Macbook Pro from early 2006 for a shade over £400. Cost £1150 new (well, Apple refurb). So cost to me just under £11 a month (no repairs /replacements etc needed). Oh yes and I sold an iPhone 3GS (16GB) for about £200 in July which I'd had for nearly two years.
I think obelisks have to taper (or at least normally do). The big black jobbies in 2001 were referred to as monoliths. (sorry, wouldn't split hairs if it weren't my favouritest film).
For what it's worth, I can't bear framing using the screen on the back. Much easier to hold steady when pressed to your face. The other difference is that there is less to distract you from framing because all you can see is what the camera sees as opposed to all the distracting stuff outsideof the frame. In that sense I think it is easier to concentrate. If you are trying to get a moving subject then I suppose that context can be useful, but it is possible to open your other eye and use that....
Only trouble with my SLR (Canon 5d - £650 off eBay) is that it's big and obtrusive. It takes the knocks well though., as well as it's awesome full frame loveliness :)
...but holds value well (which makes it a high value product). Sold my 3GS for just over £200 a few months ago (having had it for 18 months) and got a Motorola Defy for just over £200, SIM free. Now paying £10 a month for more sms and data than I'll ever need (don't really need any voice minutes!). They're great for non techies too, and bear in mind most people on here are techies of some sort.
...so maybe doesn't count as a FPS but how about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_Maze? I remember playing it on Acorn Electron. 1982 beats this anyway!
Have not used Swype but I understand that it still involves touchinig the screen thus covering up the text you are working on somewhat in the process.
Want the hardware keyboard for 'emergencies' when needing to travel super-light!!
Only other option is a little bluetooth keyboard I suppose but i don't like having too many 'things'. Was waiting for the Milestone 3 but now it's looking like no UK release it may have to be the HTC 7 Pro. Though I miss being able to drag and drop music etc to files and folders etc on my iPhone and cannot stand iTunes. Not happy having to move to a similar sort of thing with Zune.
So... to get a 5 row QWERTY the only option now or in the foreseeable future is Windows Phone OS? HTC Touch Pro2 or HTC Pro 7? Bah.... I hope I am wrong (and that somebody will enlighten me...).
Anyone know what sort of time to look for this? I've got a good North facing view so would like to have a look out. Just don't want to stay up all night!
If everybody took their TVs off standby etc...
If I have to get up in the night for a pee I notice that in my living room there are lots and lots of static or flashing LEDs. This is surely not good. Why don't we have a system like in hotels where when you go out everything gets switched off? I know - you need your ftp server up, your wii downloading updates... But do you really?
My point really is that there seems to be a tendency for people to expect somebody else to sort their lives out for them rather than taking responsibility for it themselves. I guess the '80s never really finished in that respect....


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Hilary Warms Up With Her Sharply Dressed Hockey BF
Hilary Warms Up With Her Sharply Dressed Hockey BF
Spending some time with boyfriend Mike Comrie put a smile on Hilary Duff's face as the couple ducked out of NYC's Waverly Inn on Monday night. Awwww, so cute. Hilary downgraded her earrings a little since the last time we saw her, but she seems to like 'em big these days. Somehow it's hard for me to believe that it was really tank top weather in Manhattan last night, but maybe she had some liquid help to warm her up before stepping out. Plus having a big cuddly hockey player around can't hurt.
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Thursday, June 30, 2005
Brenda Andersen, far right, triumphantly holds up a tube containing the deed to an acre of land that was returned yesterday to the Suquamish Tribe after a century in the hands of others. The small parcel of land in Kitsap County is occupied by the Old Man House Park.
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As consumers, we've all been pitched on countless multi-purpose products. Oh, on the surface that late-night infomercial may appear to be hawking a big plastic ball, but keep listening and you'll discover that you're really looking at an all-in-one pillow, portable seat, exercise machine, and when dressed up using the optional black marker, a smiley-faced companion to keep you company on those (other) lonely nights.
The 2010 Ford Transit Connect Wagon falls into the same general category, though in this case we're talking about a legitimate product. At its core, this rig is a cargo van, one offered as a light-duty, efficient alternative to the full-size E-Series. With the addition of a rear bench seat, the Transit would appear to be transformed into a five-passenger vehicle with a huge trunk, but in reality, Ford's European-sourced utility van is designed for work, regardless of how many people buckle up inside. If that's what you're looking for, the 2010 Transit Connect delivers, albeit with disappointing fuel economy and refinement below that of Ford's other new or redesigned models.