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Starring Orson Welles, Anges Moorehead, and Ray Collins, The Count of Monte Cristo is a tale of revenge and retribution. Edmond Dantès, a young, energetic sailor, is falsely accused of treason on his wedding day and incarcerated in the forbidding Château d'If. His escape and ultimate revenge on those who wronged him makes this one of the most thrilling stories in French literature, as compelling now as when it was first published in 1846.
The Mercury Theatre on the Air, a show featuring the acclaimed New York drama company founded by Orson Welles and John Houseman. In its brief run, it featured an impressive array of talents, including Agnes Moorehead, Bernard Herrmann, and George Coulouris. The show is famous for its notorious War of the Worlds broadcast, but the other shows in the series are relatively unknown.The show first broadcast on CBS and CBC in July 1938. It ran without a sponsor until December of that year, when it was picked up by Campbell's Soup and renamed The Campbell Playhouse.
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I love the story - I love this old-timey scratchy quality, like we are all huddled around the radio listening to it. Only I'm in my car on the way to work cursing Jersey drivers.
Um, his voice?
When he makes his escape!
- Stefanie
First timer of the C.O.M.
not boring and drawn out or vague
The plot leading to Dante's trumped up arrest.
Good narrative storytelling
exposing his swindlers at the end of the story
I didn't get the part of what happened to his sweetheart. Maybe I need another version. Overall it was a good story for this first time listener.
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Gleniffer Brae public meeting to debate options
A public meeting on the future of Gleniffer Brae is expected to get heated tonight.
Several community groups have united in their opposition to the University of Wollongong's plans to give the site a $40 million facelift and use it as a conservatorium and home for its creative arts faculty.
Council is considering selling some of the surrounding area and leasing the historic house and its grounds to the university.
The groups opposed to the proposal include The National Trust, Friends of the Botanic Gardens and the South Coast Labor Council.
Bess Moylan from the Gleniffer Brae Community Support Group says council has to give proper consideration to other proposals that would keep the site in public hands.
"We're concerned that council hasn't looked at all of the opportunities for the site," she said.
"Since 2009 we've been looking for community input and it's only now in 2012 that we've actually had the opportunity to have some kind of formal input and we think that there are opportunities that are being missed."
But the university says the community supports its plans.
The Vice-Principal of Administration, Chris Grange, says the university commissioned the Illawarra Regional Information Service to survey residents about its proposal.
This includes allowing the site to be used by the community for weddings and functions.
He says the feedback was favourable.
"What the IRIS poll's telling us is that three quarters of the community actually support, or strongly support, the university's proposals," he said.
Tonight's public meeting organised by Wollongong Council will be held at the Wollongong Town Hall from 6pm.
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Leaked! The garish Liverpool 3rd kit for 2013/2014
Our good pals at Brasil Mundial have pointed us in the direction of what appears to be Liverpool's third kit for season 2013/2014.
The purple white and black monstrosity is swiftly doing the rounds on social networks as the kit Liverpool stars Steven Gerrard and Luis Suarez will be wearing next season.
Have a laugh at Liverpool's alleged 3rd kit for season 2013/2014 below!
Related link: Leaked! The Liverpool home kit for 2013/2014.


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A look at the man and the industry behind Unhung Hero.
I'll never forget the first time I walked into a penis enlargement clinic. It was 1995 and the term "male enhancement" wasn't yet in vogue. I wasn't there to get a bigger penis. Really, I swear.
The office was on the second floor of a walkup building in Maspeth, a mostly industrial neighborhood in Queens close enough to the Long Island Expressway that one could scarcely escape the incessant drone of traffic whizzing by. From the outside, the place looked like any other office, with no overt mentions of genitalia or silly novelties, like a penis shaped doorbell, to reassure clients that they'd come to the right place.
I'd been sent to the clinic by my boss, who was the manager of display advertising at the tabloid newspaper where we worked. I was 22 years old and it was my first job after college. I had no interest in being a salesman but I needed a job, so there I was. I took the job seriously, so when Ralph, my boss, gave me the penis enlargement clinic lead, I asked our marketing person to prepare a presentation for my sales call. As I walked out of the office one mid-winter morning, Ralph stopped me on my way to the elevator.
"You're going out to see the penis enlargement guy today, right?"
"Right," I said, after furtively looking around to make sure no one was within earshot.
"Just remember, no barter, okay?" he said with a straight face before letting out a huge belly laugh. "Cash with order!"
The penis enlargement guy said I should call him Manny. He appeared to be in his fifties and had what looked like a very odd hair transplant that was only half installed. Manny was about 40 lbs overweight, had two or three too many buttons undone on his un-tucked, silky button-down shirt and wore a flashy watch loose around one wrist and a loose gold bracelet around the other.
His office was filled with half unpacked boxes but he said they'd been in the penis enlargement business for more than two years.
"We are the leading provider of penis enlargement in Queens," he said, a little boastfully.
Manny said that he had previously run a hair replacement clinic but had decided to open the penis enlargement business after meeting a Korean doctor who specialized in the procedure. I had more than a dozen hair replacement clinics in Queens and Long Island as clients, and my colleagues jokingly referred to me as the Hair Replacement King of Queens.
After some small talk, I pulled my chair around next to his and showed him my presentation. I had no computer at the time, so there were no Power Point slides to click through, just a sheaf of pages with a laminated cover. I showed Manny data proving that our newspaper had plenty of white and Asian male readers with disposable income that they could very easily put towards a penis enlargement procedure.
Scarborough, the company that provided the demographics, had no metrics to quantify which media outlets had the most poorly hung readers, but I vaguely implied that our subscribers fit this bill by telling him they were a 'great fit' for his business.
"What about black guys?" he asked, leafing through the presentation but not finding the data he was looking for.
"Black guys?" I repeated, more than a little confused.
"Dr. Kim has been doing this a long time and he insists that black guys are the best customers," he said. "People don't expect that, but it's true. The problem is that women expect black guys to be huge but not all of them are. And the ones who aren't, well, you can see how they'd feel inadequate. This is a huge problem, it's really sad actually."
I nodded empathetically, as though we were discussing something grave, like the plight of human trafficking victims or children stricken with polio.
Manny agreed to run six ads in our sports section starting the following week, but was less than happy with the results.
"The ads didn't pull," he complained. "We got phone calls, but some of them were pranks, some couldn't afford it, and others were just totally unrealistic."
"How so?" I asked.
"There was one guy who was talking about adding six inches," he said. "That just ain't gonna happen. I don't care what clinic you go to."
I left advertising shortly after our meeting, and didn't think about Manny or his clinic for years until I saw an advertisement for "male enhancement" recently that jogged my memory. I Googled "penis enlargement" and "Queens" and didn't find Manny, but I did see a horrifying story from the Philadelphia Inquirer about a guy who had a botched penis enlargement surgery in Queens in 1998 that required him to have four corrective surgeries and left him with a 1.5 inch penis that was good for nothing save urination.
I have no idea if this poor guy was one of Manny's clients, but I was curious to know if the procedure has become safer since its early days in the 90s, so I called Dr. Brian Rosenthal, a Beverly Hills urologist, who claims to be one of the country's leading phalloplasty surgeons. Dr. Rosenthal says that in the 90s, most phalloplasty surgeons relied upon a "fat transfer" technique, whereby the doctor performs liposuction on the abdomen and uses it on the penis. The problem, he said, is that no one really knew how much fat to inject or how it should be done.
"The procedure has changed a lot since the early days," he says. "It's basically a very easy surgery now."
Rosenthal says that there are 3 penis enlargement options on his menu: lengthening, widening, and enlarging the head. Lengthening costs $4,500 and can add 1-2 inches; widening costs $8,500-$10,500 (the bigger a man is, the more it costs because the graft is bigger) and can add an inch in circumference; and the head enlargement goes for $3,000. (There's a $3,000 blue-plate discount if you get the lengthening and widening done at the same time.)
For the lengthening surgery, Rosenthal uses a technique in which he detaches the suspensory ligament, using an incision in the pubic area, and attaches the inner portion of the penis to the pubic bone in order to advance the penis farther out. After the surgery, men have to use a suction cup weight-stretching device called The Grip System (another $300) to stretch and enlarge the penis. Guys attach weights- they start at just a few pounds but are supposed to build up to 15 pounds over time- to a suction cup device that holds the unit to the penis. Dr. Rosenthal recommends that men "work out" the penis with this device 4-5 times a week for 45 minutes to an hour each session. He insists that attaching 10-15 pounds to one's penis isn't painful.
For the widening procedure, Rosenthal uses something called a dermal matrix graft, which grafts skin from cadavers onto the shaft of the penis.
"Your body grows into the graft and incorporates the graft," he says.
The lengthening procedure takes 90 minutes and patients cannot masturbate or have sex for 4 weeks afterward; widening takes two hours and requires six weeks of celibacy.
It's generally considered a cosmetic surgery, so most health insurance plans won't cover it unless the patient has a micropenis- generally defined as an erect penis that is less than 3 inches in length (compared to the average of about 5.6 inches) or a concealed or buried penis, common to morbidly obese men who may have hygiene problems as a result of the condition.
Just as the procedure has evolved over the years, so has the clientele, according to Dr. Rosenthal.
"It's incredibly diverse now," he says. "We get people from all walks of life and every ethnic group and nationality. People from all over the world- Europe, South Africa, Australia, Canada. I got lots of patients from Canada. Lots."
Aside from the avalanche of Canadians, Rosenthal says that he also treats plenty of A-list celebrities- whom he won't name- and other well off men ranging from their 20s to their mid 70s.
"You'd be surprised, a lot of guys in their 70s are very active," he says. "They have plenty of money and younger girlfriends."
He has African American clients, but doesn't concur with my old friend Manny, who said they were his best customers. And some of his African American clients are already above average in size before they come into his clinic.
"I had one guy who was already seven inches, but he told me his brother was bigger, so he wanted to have it done," he says.
I told Rosenthal that phalloplasty seemed like a lot of expense and hassle just to gain an inch or two in penis size, but he would hear nothing of it.
"This changes people's lives," he said. "It saves marriages. Being small can be devastating to guys."
Who would know more about that then Patrick Moote, the hapless guy whose marriage proposal was publicly rejected a UCLA basketball game because his girlfriend thought his penis was too small? After that embarrassing debacle, Moote embarked on a quest to redress his penis problem, capturing his adventures in a "cockumentary" called Unhung Hero, out on DVD with a limited theatrical release today.
"I found out that size does matter," he told me in a recent Skype interview. "To women, to men, to society, to the media."
Moote said that he tried just about everything- pumps, pills and even something called jelqing, which he describes as a kind of penis yoga. ("You put your thumb and forefinger on the base of your penis in like a hoop, you squeeze and push the blood forward toward the tip and you do that over and over for about 45 minutes per day.") He planned to undergo penis widening surgery but got scared off after filming the procedure for his film.
"It was really brutal, the dudes hands were tied down," said Moote, 30, who is still single. "They essentially turned his penis inside out. I chickened out big time. If I could find something that had zero side effects and would make my penis 3% bigger, I'd probably do it. But I met guys who had it done and they seemed very pleased with it."
Moote speaks passionately about the penis size conundrum- almost as though it's a human rights issue.
"Guys don't want to talk about this," he said. "When a woman's breasts are small, everyone sees it, so they have to become OK with it. But with guys, penis size is our dirty little secret."
Moote, who says he could use a bit of lengthening and widening but insists he isn't a "crazy man with a tiny penis" as some women have alleged, won't give away the ending to his film. But he insists that he's made peace with the penis size issue, for now at least.
"I told Dan Savage, the writer, that I was below average and he told me that half of everyone is below average and 'too small' is relative," he recalled. "At that moment I felt so silly for being insecure and for going to the lengths that I went through to change myself."
Dave Seminara is a freelance writer in Chicago. @DaveSem on Twitter.
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A solicitor at the heart of an inquiry into Irish state-IRA collusion is demanding Garda disclose whether it withheld secret phone recordings from a probe into the murder of two senior RUC officers.
The revelations come in the wake of the shock resignation of the Irish police Chief Commissioner Martin Callinan.
He stood down on Tuesday after the uncovering of the widescale taping of phone calls in Garda stations dating back to the 1980s.
In December Judge Peter Smithwick concluded his inquiry into the IRA murders of RUC Chief Supt Harry Breen and Supt Bob Buchanan in south Armagh in 1989.
He said he was "satisfied" that an officer, or officers, in Dundalk Garda station had colluded with the IRA.
However solicitor John McBurney, who represented the Breen family at the tribunal, is now demanding to know whether conversations were recorded in Dundalk station.
"Judge Smithwick wrote to the Garda Commissioner and asked for all materials relevant to the issues he was probing," Mr McBurney told the News Letter last night.
"If Dundalk Garda Station had its phone calls taped in the 1980s onwards then they would have to be relevant and if so then they must have been withheld from the inquiry.
"It looks to me as though Judge Smithwick has been left in the dark on the existence of any tapes that were available, because he was asking for all materials and he does not seem to have been aware of the existence of anything like this."
Mr McBurney noted the tape revelations followed a series of other recent Garda scandals; the exposure by junior Gardai of thousands of penalty points being wiped by senior officers, and recent claims of secret surveillance of phone calls in the Garda Ombudsman's offices.
He noted that Mr Callinan had rejected Smithwick's conclusion that "loyalty is prized over honesty" in the force.
But the judge's report increasingly looked like "a beacon shining light into dark corners", he added.
"I would call on the Garda to say publicly whether conversations were taped in Dundalk station," he said.
He asked whether such tapes might shed further light on a spate of other IRA border murders in the same period.
The existence of the tapes was disclosed through a civil case currently going through the Dublin courts.
Asked yesterday if phone calls in Dundalk station were recorded, the Garda declined to comment.
A spokesman said it is compiling a report on the matters for the Minister for Justice and that it "wouldn't be appropriate to comment further" while this is being completed.


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An Evans woman told police she found two men at her burned-out home Sunday and suspects they might have been trying to burglarize it.
The owner of the Bridlewood Trail home, which was damaged by an Aug. 29 fire, went to the house with her husband and son Sunday afternoon. Her son, 19, said he thought he saw someone inside when they pulled up. The woman and her husband didn't find anyone, according to a Columbia County sheriff's report.
The woman said her son helped move a few items, then left. Two men, 27 and 19, then approached in the yard and said her son had charged a cellphone for them inside the house. The older man said he wanted to go in and get it, according to the report. The house, however, had no power and the woman confirmed by phone with her son that he didn't charge the man's phone.
The men sat on the curb across from the house and kept asking to go inside to help. She told them they were not welcome inside.
The woman said she noticed items from an upstairs bedroom in the front room. She found the man's cellphone under the items, according to the report. She called police because she believed the man had been inside to steal things.
After a deputy arrived, the older man said he knew the woman's son from school, according to the report. He said the son took the phone inside and left a short time later. The two men denied going inside.
The older man identified the phone the woman found inside as his. The men have not been charged but can be if the woman pursues charges through a hearing, according to sheriff's Capt. Steve Morris.


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Matt S.wrote a review of Jetboil Classic Personal Cooking System on June 19, 2009
A must have!
This is without a doubt the best stove I have ever owned for basic trail food and a continuous addiction to coffee! While you are pretty much limited to food that needs to be boiled or simmered, I love the fact that it boils water in a couple of minutes. Throw in the coffee press (also made by Jetboil, but does come with the stove) and it makes a quick cup of tasty coffee any time you want it. The coffee press does feels a bit flimsy, but it has held up well so far. The attached insulated cup is a nice feature, and I'm a real big fan of the semi protected heating element that works well in weather that would prove hard with my white gas stove. If you use the smaller Jetpower fuel canisters (100g) you can even mail them ahead of time (ground only) to your destination. All in all, a great simple stove as long as you realize that you won't be grilling or frying anything.
Also, keep an eye out for the new redesigned PCS, the "PCS Flash" which is supposed to be released sometime this fall (2009). It looks like it comes in new colors, has a see through lid, and has added strips on the side that change color to show temperature.


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US President Barack Obama met with Opposition Leader Shelly Yachimovich at the President's Residence. The Labor party said that the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Shimon Peres vacated the residence and left to two to talk on their own.
According to the party, Yachimovich spoke with the US president about the Labor party's solution to the Iranian and Palestinian issues, respectively. (Moran Azulay)


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2vvz, resolution 2.50Å
CheckConSurfDB. You may read the explanation of the method and the full data available from ConSurf.
Streptococcus pneumoniae genomes encode three sialidases, NanA, NanB and NanC, which are key virulence factors that remove sialic acids from various glycoconjugates. The enzymes have potential as drug targets and also as vaccine candidates. The 115 kDa NanA is the largest of the three sialidases and is anchored to the bacterial membrane. Although recombinantly expressed full-length NanA was soluble, it failed to crystallize; therefore, a 56.5 kDa domain that retained full enzyme activity was subcloned. The purified enzyme was crystallized in 0.1 M MES pH 6.5, 30%(w/v) PEG 4000 using the sitting-drop vapour-diffusion method. Data were collected at 100 K to 2.5 A resolution from a crystal grown in the presence of the inhibitor 2-deoxy-2,3-dehydro-N-acetyl neuraminic acid. The crystal belongs to space group P2(1)2(1)2(1), with unit-cell parameters a = 49.2, b = 95.6, c = 226.6 A. The structure was solved by molecular replacement and refined to final R and R(free) factors of 0.246 and 0.298, respectively.
Structure of the catalytic domain of Streptococcus pneumoniae sialidase NanA.,Xu G, Li X, Andrew PW, Taylor GL Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun. 2008 Sep 1;64(Pt, 9):772-5. Epub 2008 Aug 20. PMID:18765901[1]
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Categories: Exo-alpha-sialidase | Andrew, P W | Li, X | Taylor, G L | Xu, G | Cell wall | Glycosidase | Hydrolase | Neuraminidase | Peptidoglycan-anchor | Secreted | Sialidase | Virulence factor


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BUMSTEAD, DANIEL DALE Flint
Age 54, died Sunday, February 9, 2014. Funeral services will be held 6 PM Tuesday, February 18, 2014 at Sharp Funeral Home and Cremation Center, 6063 Fenton Road, Flint. Pastor Mark Cox officiating. Visitation will be held 12 PM until time of service Tuesday. Mr. Bumstead was born March 16, 1959 in Flint, Michigan, the son of Dale "Dagwood" Bumstead and Lois (Bumstead) Eckhout. Dan was a transmission mechanic and enjoyed working on cars his entire life. He could fix anything from a bicycle to an army tank, nothing too big or small. He was a man that could do anything and he did. He was loved by all who knew him. He was a protector of the innocent and always was willing to lend a helping hand to anyone who needed it. He served his country as an Airborne Ranger 2nd / 70 Armor Division and Rescuer of P.O.W. He retired from G.M. Truck and Bus with 20 years of service. Surviving are: loving wife, Michelle; children, Janiel Bumstead, Drake Bumstead, Dustin Yax, Brandon Yax Trenton Yax, Mike Donahue; grandchildren, Jaylon Pitts, Isabella Noonan, Thomas Noonan III, all of Flint; mother, Lois Eckhout of Roseville, MI; brothers, Brian, Mike, Jeff Bumstead all of Flint; several nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his father. Those desiring may make contributions to the family. Online condolences may be posted on the obituaries page of www.sharpfuneralhomes.com.
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Obama tries to regain ObamaCare edge after mandate delay setback — The White House is working to get back on offense in the debate over ObamaCare, after a surprise delay in part of the implementation knocked its message off course. — President Obama touted the law's benefits …
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Virginia GOP Nominee For Governor: I Still Believe Gay People Are 'Soulless' And 'Self Destructive' — In his first gubernatorial debate against Democratic nominee Terry McAuliffe, Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinellii II (R) admitted Saturday that his extreme anti-LGBT views have not changed.
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New Zealand trainers teach dogs to drive cars
According to a post from Auto123, people in New Zealand have trained three dogs to teach them how to drive a car. Check out the video to see how they were trained to do it, and tell us what your think! Send us a tweet to @PowerBlockTV, or leave us a comment on our Facebook page.
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text: i looked at this last week. it takes too much to get into it. if your not serious about playing 1000+ games, your just wasting your time helping out everyone above you by giving them 10% of what you win. another thing is im not lucky enough to win anything more than just the points.


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" Brand: Lush / Type: Bath Salt "
One of my very favourite new Lush products of recent times was the lovely Magic Ballistic they brought out last Halloween/Christmas. A complicated, 14-sided turquoise affair, it had the duel benefits of changing both scent and colour halfway through its dissolution in the bath water! A bit of a disappointment, then, that it was only a seasonal special. I tried to stock up, but there's only so much splurging even I can do, and the Magic was at the top end of the Lush price range.
Roll forward to Easter 2009, and hurrah - one of the new specials is a Magic Egg! :) I did have my doubts about how much of the original 'Magic' (sorry!) was to be had from the smaller, cheaper Easter product. However, it smelled the same and was still gloriously turquoise, so let's give it a go!
As with all ballistics, the recommended order is: run bath, get in, drop in ballistic. This usually saves you from sitting on any 'bits' that might be included (none here, thankfully!), and with the Magic product means you're going to get the full effect: for yes, to my pleased surprise, Lush have kept the full Magic experience going here - that is, there are still two layers; same scent, same colour-changing capabilities. However, it doesn't really work quite so well here.
The main problem is really the shape. The Christmas ballistic was bigger, heavier and near-spherical. This meant that the turquoise layer took a longer time to dissolve, and completely infused the water with colour (and scent). The egg version doesn't melt uniformly, so the inner pink layer was exposed almost immediately - there's a thin spot under the pretty little yellow flower decorations (they're still ballistic, and will melt!), and mine fell out anyway! Okay, this isn't *really* a problem, but it does mean that you don't get the effect of the water turning turquoise, THEN the pink layer turning it all indigo.
Of course, there's less bath product here overall, so neither colour is actually as rich as with the original version. In fact, the bath ended up a still fetching shade of dark turquoise, not that deep inky-indigo at all. Again - it's not like it REALLY matters, but it does add to the feel of the egg being a cut-down facsimile type of thing.
On the bright side, the smell is (a) the same, but (b) not as strong. Which I actually thought was better! I did have to be in the mood for the quadrodecahedral (14 sides!), as the rose, marjoram (turquoise layer), peppermint and basil (pink layer) combination was quite full on. Excellently head-clearing, in both senses (refreshing; sinus-clearing!), but here in the egg version you get to scent it rather than drown in it!
My usual bit on the aromatherapy: the whole combination is one to clear the head and refresh you (basil and peppermint), balance emotions and relieve depression (marjoram and rose). Personally, I love getting into a bath with essential oils knowing what aromatherapy says it's supposed to be doing for me! It's a lovely, if unexpected mix, and works really well - although not the usual pre-bed relaxation blend I insist on associating with baths, it's nice for a bit of post-work/event bathing, before regaining some of the evening for yourself.
Overall, then, this still gets a big thumbs up - if I hadn't been comparing it to the original Magic offering, then I wouldn't have nitpicked over the (minor) deficiencies here, as it's still a lovely bathing experience just lacking the innovation and attention to detail to making the concept 'work'. However, it still smelled lovely, looked lovely, and left my skin feeling - well, fine. Nothing special, but not dry either.
I'm almost as disappointed to see this leave the shops as I was with the original Magic ballistic. C'mon Lush - give us some year-round Magic!
~Boring bits~
Price: £2.50
Availability: Alas, slim to none now - the website is sold out, perhaps you could stumble across some leftover stock in a store. Lush: bring back a Magic product on a permanent basis already!!
Sodium Bicarbonate, Citric Acid, Perfume, Marjoram oil (Thymus mastichina), Rose absolute (Rosa damascena), Basil oil (Ocimum basilicum), Peppermint Oil (Mentha piperita), *Eugenol, *Geraniol, *Benzyl Benzoate, *Citronellol, *Linalool, Colour 42045, Colour 18050
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They have a barbie phonics box set http://www.amazon.com/Phonics-Fun-Barbie-Boxed-Sets/dp/0375859446
and ebook.. this is free http://ebookee.org/Barbie-Phonics_155069.html
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you can make worksheets your self http://www.google.com/search?q=barbie+worksheets&hl=en&biw=1536&bih=697&prmd=ivns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=oyBuTsKeKJTKiAKh-cGpCA&sqi=2&ved=0CDkQsAQ
check here? http://www.educationalcoloringpages.com/
I really like that barbie set! I may have to get that come pay day, it will be well used around here :) That and the mylittle pony one that was under the barbie LOL.


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Montreal (Canada), October 26, 2001 -- Kontron Embedded Computers AG, a leading supplier of embedded computer solutions and custom-engineering services, announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire 100% of US-based ICS Advent in an all cash transaction.
With ICS Advent, Kontron gains ICS Advents Industrial Computer Source brand - one of the most recognized in the embedded and industrial PC industry, a significant North American presence, and ICS Advents strength in industrial computers/PC servers and platform-level systems integration.
The acquisition will make Kontron the world leader in the embedded computer merchant market and one of the three largest suppliers of the broader embedded, industrial and specialty computing systems markets. These markets represent a nearly $6 billion opportunity, according to technology market research and consulting firm Venture Development Corporation (VDC).
"This move positions Kontron as a solid global leader," stated Pierre McMaster, Kontron Americas Chairman. "With the addition of ICS Advent, Kontron will be able to offer customers one of the richest product portfolios in the industry. Additionally, we will offer ever-higher levels of integration services, middleware support and value-added vertical market applications. Quite simply, Kontron rises well above the competition in its ability to develop technology, deliver solutions, and service customers on a global scale."
Kontron expects the integration of ICS Advent into the Kontron organization to drive cost savings of $5 to $10 million (US) during the first year of combined operation in 2002. The synergies are expected to positively impact every facet of the combined companies operations. The impact on bookings and revenue opportunities may be even more powerful as each companies customers will now be able to source a broader range of highly interdependent products and services from a single, global source.
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Just tested previously posted API16 and API21 builds and to my surprise both worked quite well, I am on Android 7.0, OxygenOS 4.0.3, OnePlus 3T, game version is from GOG. Few things did irk me though:
] While intro plays perfectly well, there is some significant lag after skipping it, like solid 4-8 seconds. Didn't happen at all with xyz's version but hey, that one instantly crashes when trying to load a game from the menu so what do I know. /:m]
] The way controls are implemented seem awful to me, I much more preferred xyz's way of doing things, he made so your finger upon touching the screen would act as a mouse and controlled the cursor in that way which was really accurate and felt pretty good. If you're still wondering the way he made right click work was that if you had one finger on the screen dragging the mouse around and put a second one anywhere it would instantly stop and hold right click. It's really intuitive and is easy to figure out even if you don't know it beforehand./:m]
] I know it was in the second point but for the love of god implement right click in some way/:m]
] Resolutions higher than 1280x768 might as well not exist for phones since stuff gets ridiculously small and hard to see, but I am guessing you can't fix this without redrawing everything./:m]
] Whole menu, loading, displaying maps and that stuff in general is significantly laggier and slower than xyz's version./:m]
] After you choose your options and start the game there is like 1/10 chance a random very slim flashing bar appears on the very right of your screen, no idea what the hell could that be about. Just something I noticed, doesn't really impact gameplay in any significant way./:m]
] I know you said that the hero movement coding is complex and you don't wanna mess with it but if you could find a way to fix it, it would make the game nearly indistinguishable from the desktop version, could easily be an android store release if you'd do that./:m][/ul]
That's it for now, still hadn't had the chance to properly test it all out but will prob often turn it on when I have free time and report if I see anything acting up. Thanks for making this btw, really cheered up my day, hope you don't give up on the development, wish I could help in some way.
@SomeGuy147 Most of the differences probably come from the fact that xyz used unofficial sdl 1.2 port (github.com/pelya/commandergenius) and I used official sdl 2.0.
I installed xyz version to check how it works because I haven't seen it for a very long time. I don't have any old devices on me to check in-game, but menus worked correctly. So…
I think that in xyz's version, actual loading is done before the intro starts (splashscreen + some black screen afterwards). Ideally I just need a change that doesn't freeze the main thread after skipping intro. Optionally displaying a progress bar in that case. It would look "correct" then. This shouldn't be too hard, but again, I'm slightly hesitant to change vcmi code too much because it makes merging the changes harder.
This input handling is done in SDL port. Feels quite good and I thiiink I could port it. (few weeks ago I added a bandaid method to send right-clicks through extra button in gui, but this would probably work better).
Well, tablets have bigger screens so I assume it could be used there.
Probably nothing I can do. Either SDL2.0 is more CPU-heavy than SDL1.x, or VCMI 0.99 needs more resources than 0.97 (or both).
I meant desktop vcmi version, not OH3. No idea how resources are loaded in the original.
Yeah, basically "random" stuff from memory is displayed outside of the 4:3 game screen area. This is definitely a problem in SDL, because the app itself doesn't even know if the bars are present. It might be fixable.
Edit next day ~ okay, so I added right-click support + changed intro so it looks better. I might build/upload apks later today.
Awesome, just wondering though, are you gonna try fixing movement animations at some point, or will you leave it as it is?
I'll try to build apks tomorrow. I tried to do it, but currently the app seems to crash on older devices (and it looks like some android build system bug).
I've done some testing on the movement animations/logic. I think that the issue here is that
I made a small change/hack (basically added a frameskip during movement rendering so that it doesn't do full redraws every frame) which helped (at least on my phone). I wouldn't call it smooth, but definitely looks better than previously.
Yes. In fact I tried to remove map redraw altogether, but it lead to some crashes - couldn't figure out why. Probably only original author knows why it's implemented this way
Could someone explain to me instalation step by step? What i must download? api16 or api21?
api21 is for android 5.0+. If you have 4.1-4.4.x, you can only use api16. "Installation" instructions should be displayed in the launcher, but rough description is in the post with the first version [VCMI for Android)
Maybe it would be possible to change these forced full redraws into partial draws (redrawing only hero tiles + neighbors(?)) because nothing except hero animation changes there. I might try looking into it (at some point).
Sooo I built new packages, but they're quite weird this time and I'm not sure if they work correctly (honestly, compiling them feels very random). It works correctly on my 7.1 device, but I was unable to start the app on any emulator (tested on three different ones and each one is broken in a different way…). I don't know, I might need to downgrade sdk/ide or something if it doesn't work for others.
If you feel lucky, you can try it.
github.com/Fayth/vcmi-android/r … 3-debug.7z
github.com/Fayth/vcmi-android/r … 3-debug.7z
I just updated from the previous version of vcmi that I had and everything went smooth. On my device, Lenovo P2 with Android 6.0.1, the game works absolutely amazing. The right click is working very well and the hero movement is so smooth now. I've played for a few minutes with no crashes and bugs at all. Thanks for the excellent release, Fay!
Few things I noticed:
]Relative cursor mode doesn't seem to work very well, literally disappears after trying to press right click and you can move it off screen as much as you want, to the point where you completely lose it, thanks for adding it so fast though, if you're gonna fix it and don't mind working a bit more on it add sensitivity too, would be useful./:m]
]While intro seems much nicer now it seems to take longer time to load (might be just a psychological thing) and the sound of it disappeared (Actually now that I think about it, it may have not ever been there, if so dismiss this one), not something essential to the game but I think it worked previously./:m]
]Right clicking is pretty nice, takes a few clicks initially to get used to since one of your fingers always cover the information table but just moving fingers while you don't have them released solves the problem./:m]
]Walking seems a little bit smoother now, but further optimisation would go a long way./:m][/ul]
Will edit if I find more stuff, thanks for the update! Oh also meant to ask, are there any performance differences between 16 and 21 API versions? And if not, what's the point of making two different ones? Also why does this update take up three times as much space compared to the last one?
Okay, you're right. That's because I wanted to do it without adding more java<=>c communication so I didn't have any reliable info about an actual cursor position and had to guess sometimes. I changed it to get the cursor directly from SDL an it works substantially better. Still can go offscreen though; not sure if I can limit it to actual game bounds.
The only things I changed there is clearing screen + displaying progressbar. Definitely nothing that could affect the loading speed.
I'm not sure about the sound because I always have it turned off. If it was there previously, it should still be there.
Okay, so the short answer is "it's complicated". I could probably get away with building only one package. I'm not sure about some details but generally:
Currently the api16 package contains only arm arch and api21 contains all 5.
Because, for some reason, the apk file has no compression. I assume this is some kind of bug in android build system, because I can't see any settings to change it and previously it was compressed normally. You can test this by unpacking the apk file (it's just a zip) – both packages have ~313MB after unpacking.
Actually… never mind. That's definitely not possible, because the screen follows the hero during movement.
VCMI4Droid working nice, but performance on Galaxy Note 2 sucks. Ofc. game is playable
Another release. Yay.
github.com/Fayth/vcmi-android/r … elease.apk (160MB)
github.com/Fayth/vcmi-android/r … ase.apk.7z (the same file as above but 40MB)
Some technical changes:
Can you post it on Google Play? Did you try to contact xyz recently?
I don't have any private google dev account so I can't. I could provide an unsigned package if anyone wants to put it there (or provide signing info to vcmi team). I never really contacted xyz.
I registered developer account in Google Play for that purpose and paid fee some time ago.
I'll try to contact XYZ and ask if he can transfer package ownership to me.
PS: I sent developer console invites to Fay, Warmonger and AVS.
Also sent Slack invite to xyz and hopefully he can help us. Shouldn't be too hard:
support.google.com/googleplay/a … 0247?hl=en
And of course I sent to to xyz to in case he need some account credentials for transfer.
Ok. @xyz sent request to transfer app to my developer console.
There also signing keys for app that I'll need grant to Fay.
Okay, I accepted the invitation.
Things to consider:
If we plan to update the existing app, it becomes more complicated.
I'll try to look into it and and ping some Android developers I know and in IRC.
No good answer for this. One important point: is all code changes merged in develop?
If no this is what you need to start with. We'll also benefit if you join our organization on github and move build system repository here.
And for building stable version I really not sure if it's worth to wait since this would be quite long waiting probably. Like I wish to have tons of time to test and merge everything, but I only have so much…
In same time we don't have any working version for Android at all so I don't think we'll make it worse.
Is that a problem at all? I don't think anyone care what package name is and if xyz going to get some weird credit for his previous work that not problem too.
That's better to be solved one way or another.
Is there any way to detect when application was updated from older version? If there is then it's would be enough to notify users who updated it that path files changed and they need to move assets. I doubt anyone seriously playing older version since it's wasn't really playable at time, many might have it installed.
Also once we get new version I want owner of this one to get it unlisted:
play.google.com/store/apps/deta … vcmi&hl=en
Or if he agrees he can transfer ownership too. Then we could update it once and suggest to install another app instead and then unlist it so it's not confusing anyone.
Well, technically I am an android dev.
3rd party licenses definitely should be placed somewhere in the launcher.
Don't know about policy, because vcmi doesn't really do anything with user data – the only thing that could qualify is probably sdcard reading/writing.
Do you mean my changes in vcmi? Currently they're here github.com/Fayth/vcmi/tree/android-support – I can start a pull request to vcmi/develop if that's what you mean… probably not today though. I tried to wrap all android-specific logic in VCMI_ANDROID define so hopefully the won't be any problems, but currently I don't have any environment installed to check if the desktop version complies correctly.
Sure. I think it's a good idea that vcmi team has the ownership over this.
If you feel that the current vcmi/develop version is stable enough to be published then there's no problem on my side.
No technical problems. Only the fact that google suggests that your app's id should reflect the domain that you own. But it's not really a problem, because it's not a hard rule, just a guideline.
No built-in mechanism. Usually apps just save previously launched version number and check it on startup.
In our case, we should probably try to detect datafiles in the old location and move them if possible. Should be doable.


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Investors are nervous about California's ballot initiative Proposition 23, which would overturn the state's landmark Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 or AB 32. Last week, 23 investors announced that they filed shareholder resolutions with oil companies Occidental Petroleum, Valero Energy Corp. and Tesoro Corp. All three of the oil companies have funded Proposition 23. The shareholder resolutions request Board reviews and oversight of the companies' political contributions and policies.
Valero and Tesoro have spent $4 million and $1.5 million on Proposition 23, while Occidental spent $300,000. Investors who filed shareholder resolutions include Nathan Cummings Foundation, Green Century Capital Management, Investor Network on Climate Risk, and Walden Asset Management.
Laura Campos, Director of Shareholder Activities at the Nathan Cummings Foundation, said that shareholders are "concerned Tesoro's support for the highly controversial Proposition 23 could lead to a decrease in shareholder value by damaging the company's reputation and negatively impacting the business environment in a state where Tesoro has significant operations."
"Climate change is a serious threat to our planet and economy. We are concerned that Prop 23 will remove important market signals necessary to transition to cleaner business practices," said Larisa Ruoff, Director of Shareholder Advocacy for Green Century Capital Management.
"That Valero and the other companies are using company money for such overt political purposes is both inappropriate and reflects poor governance," said Mindy Lubber, president of Ceres and Director of the Investor Network on Climate Risk.
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"As investors, we need certainty about the policies that govern the sectors in which we invest so that we can make strategic, profitable investments over the long term," the statement declared. "This policy certainty, however, would be eliminated if Proposition 23 passes….(it) would cause California to lose billions of dollars of investment and thousands of jobs to competitors like China, Japan, Germany, or other U.S. states that have more stable commitments to clean energy policy."
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I've been making this since high school. Whoever tasted before, loved it. You can prepare this for breakfast, snack whenever you feel like eating something cheesy. This easy recipe to please the kids alike ; ) Also sometimes I add any chopped veggie. Broccolli, spinach, parsley..
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Combine all the inredients in a small bowl. Cover the bread slices with this mixture. Preheat the broil and put the cheesy bread under broiler. You can see photo below just before cooking. About 4-5 minutes till bread turns golden brown.
Serve hot.
When my son Aria walked in from the school today, he said 'cheesy bread yum yum yummm!'
He wasn't the only one who was happy today.
My hubby ate them all untill I grabbed the camera so I made again ;- D
Check the bread often so it doesn't burn. If you 're making for 2-3 or more prepare the ingredients double, triple..


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I have a problem remembering certain things and i am always tired.Sometimes i go into out bursts were i just wanna cry. I can be nice one minute and the next feel grouchy.I try to stay focused on things I need to do but never can complete a task or stay on track.I sometimes dont like I wanna talk to people and other times i just want to stay in my room.Is there any way you can tell me whats wrong with me? I tell my primary care physician about this and all she says is "dont worry you'll be fine".Sometimes I even feel like im out of breath were I have to take my asthma medicine.can you please help me and tell me what it can possibly be that im going through and what should i do to help prevent and change this.
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Sounds like it could be a mood disorder. You should request from your health professional a mood disorder questionnaire (MDQ) and bipolar disorder should be ruled out as well. Also, I would request a thyroid test and other basic blood work (CBC, CMP) just to be sure. If nothing is found to be medically wrong with you then I would seriously look into mental health agencies in your area and make an appointment with a psychiatrist.
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071613 MVSB Calendar Photos (286 w/3COL pic Paddle Boarding
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MEREDITH — The Meredith Village Savings Bank photo contest deadline is approaching. All entries are due by the close of business on Friday, July 26.
Each year, Meredith Village Savings Bank (MVSB) invites amateur and professional photographers to submit photographs that capture the character and beauty of Belknap, Carroll and Grafton counties. They encourage entries that convey the unique aspects of life, community events, landmarks or seasonal pastimes in the greater Lakes Region. Photos featuring local landscape scenes are highly encouraged, especially for the website.
Winners of the Print Contest will have their photographs featured in the full-color annual MVSB Community Calendar, which is distributed free-of-charge to the community. Selected photos may also be used for the Bank's holiday card and/or note cards. Winners of the Website Contest will have their photos featured as a banner photo that appears on the homepage of the Bank's website. Winning photographers will be awarded a $50 cash prize for each photo selected and used. The winner is responsible for the payment of any federal, state and local taxes on the prize.
Photographers may enter both the print and website contests, but separate entry forms must be submitted. The required format for website entries is different from the format for calendar submissions, so please read the submission requirements for each type of entry carefully to ensure your entry will qualify.
Submissions can be mailed to Meredith Village Savings Bank; Attention: Photo Contest; PO Box 177; Meredith, NH 03253-0177 or dropped off at any MVSB office.
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The deadline for submissions for the Annual Meredith Village Savings Bank Photo Contest is Friday, July 26. This winning photo from last year's contest was taken by Nancy Morton of Sandwich. Nancy titled the photo "Paddle Boarding." (Courtesy photo)


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Motivation Monday: Do the thing you think you cannot do
Posted on 26 August 2013
Mondays seem to be the days we need some motivation most. I'm so happy to say that now, creating a business that is built around my dream and my passion - inpiring and empowering women to live a fit and fashionable life, I am excited to start work on a Monday morning. Truth be told, I'm never really "not" working but right now, I wouldn't have it any other way.
So, on to the motivation piece. Today's is courtesy of Elanor Roosevelt: "You must do the thing you think you cannot do". Sometimes we all need a little reminding that it's important to do or at least try, the very thing we think (or have been told) we can not do.
Having close to zero experience in fashion design and manufacturing may well be a reason for some costly mistakes in this business but by the same token it's enabled me to thing big, and constantly push the envelope in terms of what's possible in activewear. I am truly committed to created a brand recognised for its use of the highest performance fabrics married with style and fashion. Our print techniques are innovative and second to none in terms of quality. I am proud to be able to offer women an truly stylish and functional workout wear so that you no longer have to make a choice between being fit or being stylish. After all, "fit is the new it!".
On a physical level, I will never forget being told by a massage therapist that I didn't have "a marathon runner's body". Of course, in my mind – this became a challenge to prove to him (and admittedly myself), that I could in fact accomplish this feat. So I did. I ran my first marathon in Phuket with my good friend Alice a couple of years ago. When's the next one? Hopefully 2015 – New York. Anyone keen to do it with me??? Over the next year, I am bunkering down and focusing on doing some other things I always thought I could not do. Interestingly, they are not physical challenges. I used to always feel the need to have a physical challenge in order to keep me on the straight and narrow but these days I exercise continuously and constantly because I just love it and its fun!
So what's your challenge? What have you always wanted to do but always thought you couldn't?


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call it the 'Joan Rivers' treatment: The giant EYE-catching golden head sculpture dominating the fountain along Walnut Creek's North Main Street was removed Tuesday for a little makeover.
The head sculpture, in front of Mechanics Banks, is having a new sealant applied to its finish, according to a news release from the city. It was installed just last month.
The golden hue of "Fountain Head" would lose its luster throughout the day. But once the water stopped sprouting out of the fiberglass skull at night, the color would return.
"After discussion and research by the artist, fabricator Academy Studios and city staff, it was determined that water was wicking into fibers in the Gelcoat finish, causing 'blushing,' which clouded the color," according to the release. A new product that does not fade when it comes in contact with water has been found, and the head has been removed so the sealant can be applied and dry.
There will be no cost to the artist or the city; Academy Studios will refinish the head at its expense, according to the release.
The golden dome should be back in downtown by the end of the week.
The head, created by artist Seyed Alavi, was part of a public art project to redo two of the downtown fountains.
Rash action averted: A new pair of Eyes was blind to the feud between the Mt. Diablo Unified School District and Clayton Valley Charter High School until the issue arose at a Clayton City Council meeting Tuesday. The council celebrated the start of the charter school's inaugural school year and its break with the Mt. Diablo school district.
Mayor Howard Geller expressed disgust over comments a Mt. Diablo school board member made at a recent mayors' conference. The board member, whom he did not name, said the charter school's departure would cost the district $1.7 million in funding — a figure Clayton disputes and calls misinformation.
"I wanted to get up and strangle her," Geller said. "But I didn't."
SAVING HABITAT AND SKUNKY DOGS: He is a man of humorous words, so you knew that a dinner honoring retired columnist Gary Bogue for his conservation work had to involve a little humor.
Two local officials got some laughs while presenting an award to Bogue, a retired Times columnist, during a dinner last weekend in Martinez for the Muir Heritage Land Trust.
County Supervisor Candace Anderson, of Danville, said Bogue had not only raised millions of dollars to permanently protect wildlife habitat, but he also provided quick relief to many desperate dog owners whose pets were sprayed by skunks.
Just recently, Anderson said, she had given a dog owner Gary's recipe for a concoction to neutralize skunk odors.
"Gary gave me my first job," Bob Doyle, the East Bay Regional Park District general manager, recalled at the dinner.
Bogue, years ago the curator of the Lindsay Wildlife Museum in Walnut Creek, hired Doyle as a young man to work with youths on conservation projects. It was Doyle's first paid job in the conservation field.
Doyle stayed in the field, and now heads a regional park system with 110,000 acres — plenty of space for conservation.
WardRobe Malfunction: It appears Antioch is very serious about what participants wear for its Intro to Belly Dancing class.
One of The Eye's advertising colleagues was thumbing through the city's fall Recreation Guide and spotted the class description.
Participants do not need dance experience but must "wear a flowing skirt or lose pants."
The Eye guesses that is a typo for what should have said loose pants, but perhaps it's best to wear a skirt just to be on the safe side.
Staff writers Elisabeth Nardi, David DeBolt, Denis Cuff and Paul Burgarino contributed to this report.


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Britney's All Growns Up Now
Britney's All Growns Up Now
Page Six reported Britney's publicist left her alone for the Dateline interview which may explain some of her poor decisions. While I am hoping for the Britney comeback, I wish she spit out that gum and hired a stylist before that horrible interview that did nothing for her image. In the meantime, her man was busy hosting a party at Mansion Nightclub this weekend.
BRITNEY Spears needs guidance. "Dateline" staffers were shocked when they showed up with Matt Lauer to interview Spears last week and found the pop star alone in her Malibu manse. "Neither of her publicists, Leslie Sloane Zelnick or Nanci Ryder, showed up," said our source. Spears insisted on doing her own hair and makeup - a regrettable decision. Web sites derided her hair as a "rat's nest" and, when she started crying during the interview, one of her fake eyelashes fell off. "When [the NBC crew] got there, they thought they had the wrong day . . .
To read more of the article and see a bunch more pics of Kevin pimpin at his party at Mansion so
During the interview, no one was there to rein things in," we're told. Spears, when asked about Kevin Federline being with a pregnant Shar Jackson when they first met, shot back, "Julia Roberts' husband had a pregnant wife when he hooked up with Julia, but no one ever talked about that!" Spears wore flip-flops, a see-through tank and micro-mini jeans. Reps tried to control the damage on Friday. "They asked NBC not to release footage to places like E!," said a source. Asked why Spears was on her own for the interview, Sloane Zelnick said, "Britney is a grown-up and makes her own decisions."


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You already know the joke, so lets skip straight to the punchline: Location, location, location. Thats what business renters and buyers have always looked for, and its still the rule.
These days, however, the list oflocation issues is a little longer and more detailed. Nearby availability of skilled labor and proximity to transportation are still important. But so, increasingly, is the location of the nearest central office, long-haul carrier POP, or metropolitan access node. Todays businesses run on bandwidth and communications services: Where these arent available, other amenities matter much less. Where they are available, however, tenants come running. And theyre willing to pay premium prices even forego other perks to do business somewhere their information growth-path wont be stunted.
Certainly, the growing e-conomy presents unique threats and challenges to real-estate stakeholders. Retail space renters look like ground zero to become early casualties of the e-commerce revolution (wanna buy a brick-and-mortar mall?). Folks specializing in huge, landscape-overwhelming cubicle-farms may end up foiled by downsizing or commute-reduction legislation, or trumped by distributed-office and work-at-home technologies. (For example, Texas Instruments Houston A facility, former home base for a major commodity RAM chip-fab and thousands of workers, now stands virtually empty TI no longer plays in that volatile, low-margin business. Our tour-guide, (TIs youngest-ever Fellow) quipped: We used to make memories here ... But now there are only memories.)
Overall, however, the picture is one of enormous opportunity. Anyone who controls a physical plant is ideally situated to capitalize on every major development in convergent communications, often from several different angles. Consider:
A chance to change the rules. Location, location, location sounds like a good value-proposition, if you hold a lot of property on Main Street. It doesnt sound so great, if youre on the wrong side of the tracks. But when Main Street becomes MainStreet.com, the rules change. Whoever provides the smoothest onramp to the InfoBahn wins.
Landlords are natural aggregators. You can resell. You can become a micro-carrier (it costs under $50 to register with the PUC as a CLEC in New York). Most profitably, you can become an application service provider start a whole new business. Its easy to offer web-linked ACD/CRM to a building full of service businesses.
Youre the person in place and it costs $500 to roll a truck. Every time a carrier sends somebody out to do a simple install (e.g., a DSL modem), it costs them a painful amount of money. Enormous ingenuity is going into developing auto configuring DSL router technologies ... which still wont work in a certain percentage of cases. So theyll roll a truck, and your people will spend time giving their people access to the premise. Whereas, if you learned how to install DSL modems (for example), carriers would happily pay you a nice chunk of change for a half-hours work. This cooperative model can be extended infinitely you can earn profits for any degree of consultative expertise or access facilitation you provide. As the landlord, youre the person who can do it most cost-effectively.
Carriers often fall short. All myth and legend aside, we havent yet reached the customer-driven, competitive telecom market of the future. Carriers of all kinds are still pretty bad at serving customers especially small- to medium-sized businesses. (The New York office of Doctors Without Borders, for example, has been waiting more than 90 days for voice/data T-1 from AT&T. Apparently, winning the Nobel Peace Prize isnt enough to give you pull.) If you can develop the expertise required to mediate between clients and carriers: Provide certain services, facilitate provisioning, help tie sales up in neat packages theres enormous money to be made. See our sidebar on Newmark & Co. , whos taking the consultative model to an elegant, logical conclusion.
All the foregoing is just lead-in for the subject of our roundup: Convergence products aimed at the burgeoning market for in-building distribution of broadband-based voice/data services. Topologically, these products are similar: High-density integrated access devices (IADs) that terminate loads of bandwidth in your basement (or rooftop), and generate a range of easily-provisioned services for large tenant populations. Many of the makers of these products Copper Mountain is a good example supply the hot technologies of the moment (DSL), wrapped in consulting services aimed at bringing carriers and real-estate stakeholders together in profitable ways.
Copper Mountain (Palo Alto, CA 650-687-3300) makes DSLAMs that cater particularly well to the MTU environment. Last April, the company announced the CopperEdge 150 and the CopperPowered Building program. The CopperEdge 150, which comes in 24 and 48 port configurations, is a smaller version of the CopperEdge 200, a 192 port DSL concentrator that can be used both for large MTUs and for central office aggregation. The 150 supports SDSL at speeds ranging from 128 Kbps to 1.5 Mbps, as well as VPNs, frame relay access, voice-over-DSL, and remote PBX extensions.
The CopperPowered Building program was conceived to make Copper Mountain a one-stop shop for MTU service providers and real estate owners. Beyond supplying the necessary equipment, along with a fairly extensive line of compatible CPE and SNMP-based network management software, Copper Mountain offers a portfolio of services that include system install and maintenance, equipment financing, network management services (through a partnership with Lucents NetCare division), and WAN backhaul resources (which offers an installed base of data CLECs to newer service providers as an alternative to leasing T-1s).
The CopperEdge 150 is priced at $16,995 for a 24-port configuration, and $28,990 for 48 ports.
Interspeed s (North Andover, MA 978-688-6164) System 500 is a DSL access device for multi-tenant buildings. Unlike traditional DSLAMs, the System 500 DSLAR (DSL access router) has the functionality of an ATM switch and an IP router, in addition to simple aggregation and multiplexing. The advantages of this are that it cuts down on equipment costs, improves efficiency through oversubscription of its uplinks, and facilitates the deployment of multimedia services. (Interspeed is currently in trials with other vendors to support voice-over-DSL and voice-over-frame relay.) The System 500 supports up to 48 ports of DSL, while its big brother, the System 1000, houses 192 ports. Both have the ability to provision multiple userID/password-secured VPNs within a single chassis.


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Stroman quiets Yanks as Lind powers Blue Jays in win
Righty tosses career-high eight innings; DH leads big night for bats
TORONTO -- In a big showdown against the division-rival Yankees, Marcus Stroman and the Blue Jays got revenge.
After being unable to complete four innings in his last start at Yankee Stadium in New York -- where the Blue Jays have lost 16 consecutive games -- Stroman turned in an impressive performance and helped the Blue Jays get back into the win column.
Stroman worked a career-high eight innings, while Adam Lind homered during a six-run second inning to power the Blue Jays to an 8-3, series-opening victory over the Yankees at Rogers Centre on Monday night.
The win snapped a mini two-game skid and helped the Blue Jays move 2 1/2 games ahead of the Yankees in the American League East while remaining 1 1/2 games ahead of second-place Baltimore.
"He was really on," Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said of Stroman. "It was a fantastic job, we needed that."
Less than a week ago in New York, the Blue Jays couldn't get much of anything going against the Bronx Bombers. The Yankees swept the three-game set, and Toronto was held to eight runs combined over the series, which came in the middle of a three-city road trip that saw the slumping Blue Jays go 3-7.
Stroman pitched the opener of that series, as well, but did not have the same success he did Monday. The rookie needed 98 pitches to get through 3 2/3 innings at Yankee Stadium, the shortest of his five starts, and walked a career-high three batters to take his second loss of the season.
Monday night, however, was a different story. Stroman limited the Yankees to one run on three hits and started the game by retiring eight straight batters before Brendan Ryan hit a two-out single in the third. The only damage off Stroman came in the fourth inning, when Mark Teixeira hit a solo homer, his 13th of the season, to center field, just out of the reach of a jumping Colby Rasmus.
Stroman bounced right back after surrendering the long ball, and walked one on the evening while matching a career high with seven strikeouts in front of 31,554. The 114 pitches he threw marked the first time he has reached the century mark in a contest.
Pounding the lower portions of the strike zone, Stroman said, was the key in his second outing against the Yankees.
"Sometimes I just get too excited and overamped, and that's when I elevate," Stroman said. "[Pitching coach] Pete [Walker] is always reminding me in my ear, in between each inning, just really drive in down through the zone, and when I'm down there, I feel like I can be effective."
After a rough experiment in the bullpen in which he allowed 10 runs (nine earned) on 13 hits over five appearances -- good for a 12.79 ERA -- Stroman has been as good as any Blue Jays starter since joining the rotation.
Over his five starts, Stroman has a 2.43 ERA and has punched out 26 while walking six. He has turned in four quality starts, and his 4.33 strikeout-to-walk ratio is better than any member of the rotation.
"He seemed to be in command of a good breaking ball, and he used it effectively," Yankees manager Joe Girardi said of Stroman.
Lind provided Stroman with all the support he needed.
The 30-year-old Lind, who had been limited to pinch-hitting duties after missing three games with a foot injury, returned to the starting lineup for the first time since June 14, and the designated hitter made his presence felt right away.
Lind drove in Toronto's first run of the game with an RBI single in the opening frame, and then followed with a three-run homer -- his fourth of the season -- to center field in the second. Lind later walked in the fourth and came around to score on a Dioner Navarro single.
"You take him out of our lineup, that's a big hole," Gibbons said of Lind, who went 2-for-4 with a season-high four RBIs. "We aren't the same without Adam in there. Lind is a big part of this offense."
Every Blue Jays player reached base on a night the club was in need of some good news after Brett Lawrie was placed on the 15-day disabled list with a fractured right index finger and an MRI revealed Jose Bautista suffered a Grade 1 hamstring strain.
Lind, a nine-year veteran who has spent his entire career with the Blue Jays, didn't downplay the challenge the Blue Jays face without those two.
"It's going to be hard, we all know that," said Lind, who is batting .364 over his last 38 games. "You aren't going to replace Jose Bautista. If we play as a team and do our job in certain situations, we'll hopefully be good, and maintain where we are."
Toronto pounded Yankees starter Chase Whitley for 11 hits to begin a pivotal three-game set with New York. Whitley allowed all eight runs and was yanked from the contest after 3 1/3 innings, the shortest outing of his young career. The right-hander had limited the Blue Jays to two runs over five innings in his last start to earn his third win of the season, but the Blue Jays were all over him from the start this time around.
Melky Cabrera was one of seven Blue Jays to record a hit in the second inning, which extended his hitting streak vs. the Yankees to 20 games.
New York added a pair of ninth-inning runs against reliever Chad Jenkins, but lefty Aaron Loup got Brian Roberts to line out to end the contest.
Chris Toman is a contributor to MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Green, William M. J. and Scheuer, Jacob and DeRose, Guy and Yariv, Amnon (2004) Vertically emitting annular Bragg lasers using polymer epitaxial transfer. Applied Physics Letters, 85 (17). pp. 3669-3671. ISSN 0003-6951. http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:GREapl04
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Fabrication of a planar semiconductor microcavity, composed of cylindrical Bragg reflectors surrounding a radial defect, is demonstrated. A versatile polymer bonding process is used to transfer active InGaAsP resonators to a low-index transfer substrate. Vertical emission of in-plane modes lasing at telecom wavelengths is observed under pulsed optical excitation with a submilliwatt threshold.
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