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|2012-09-27, 22:56
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You're basically just saying the opinion of the international community is inferior to the Japanese one, who you just happen to agree with, so they are probably more knowledgeable/can understand the manga better, hence you are calling our segment delusional because we were lead to believe something the manga outright showcased, and saying the Japanese know better because you assume they read/are reading the manga the same way and for the same reason you are.
That's a ridiculous defense, as stated before. Your opinion that the plot-holes aren't there is no different or more substantiated from mine which states that they are. It's pointless trying to argue any further.
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|2012-09-27, 23:01
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|2012-09-27, 23:04
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Do you honestly believe you have the same level of understanding of the story as the Japanese? Do you honestly believe that there are no obstacles or deficiencies which could prevent you from interacting with the text on the same level as a speaker of the original language? If you say yes, I will tell you that that is the definition of delusion, my friend.
|2012-09-27, 23:11
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Someone I know even went through the raws to confirm this, and that is indeed what she managed to do; Medaka somehow forced everyone into speaking a version of Japanese where those syllables did not exist. That's why it's so ridiculous.
The issue is that MB is simply not predictable.
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|2012-09-27, 23:16
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I don't know if you're purposefully being dense, but you've already been anwsered this question, so I'll reply to you one last time:
And...you think that's the best thing since sliced bread?
That's a...nice opinion you have there. Good thing you're here to enlighten us on all those complex nuances.
|2012-09-27, 23:24
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I'd like to point out that I don't have a flying fucking idea of what is going in this manga and I haven't for a while, but the entire time I'm reading it there's an air of stuffy and superiority that always bothers me. I don't even know if saying things will be 'predictably unpredictable' even sounds right but that's what I feel like.
I just want some normal shit to happen, god damn.
|2012-09-27, 23:51
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Also, lol, yes, Medaka Box is totally a straightforward manga . Not that the general gist of the plot is usually difficult to follow, but this is fucking Nishio we're talking about, dude. Tell me you think you completely understood the operation of all of the dozens of made-up games and wordplay abilities Nishio threw into the manga. Alternatively tell me if you can give a concise, well-defined summary of the differences between Normals, Specials, Abnormals, Not Equals, Pluses, Minuses, Skills, Minus Skills, and Styles. You'd think all of this stuff is simple, but apparently there is tons of variation in readers' understanding of these concepts across the western fanbase.
|2012-09-28, 00:33
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Homo Ludens
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Seems like you're the one who doesn't understand the manga.
|2012-09-28, 01:02
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|2012-09-28, 01:59
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minority spirit(?)
So guys, if you're telling that Shiranui is up to something then you should also consider that Kumagawa's inability to erase the memories of Medaka and Zenkichi was also part of a plan? So Kumagawa lied to them because he's up to something too, right? I mean he said that they didn't forget about Shiranui because "her feelings are still at Hakoniwa Academy".
Or her feelings are real after all and all these events weren't part of some sort of plan.
|2012-09-28, 03:05
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Previously I was not really expecting Medaka to stand a chance against Iihiko without (for example) somehow getting ridiculously beaten up to the point of being forced to expose her darkness inside. However, at this rate it looks like Medaka's growth after she threw off her limiters from her old personality has actually already reached the point that she is practically bending reality in the same way as Iihiko. This is suggesting that Medaka's base abilities might end up legitimately reaching Iihiko-levels of brokenness in the near future. The impending possibility of such a scenario puts even more pressure on the object of the story's recent focus, Medaka's interpersonal and emotional growth as a human.
If you don't understand the reasoning for a plot twist now, go back and read the chapters again sometime later. Your explanation will turn up eventually. The only important point in the present that you should care about is that the story remains entertaining.
The point besides is that any continuing/multiple-volume story is gonna feature throwbacks/connections to events earlier in a series, and future happenings can cause you to look at earlier events in an entirely new light. So given that none of Nishio's series have remotely been completely translated yet, it is obviously impossible for you to have captured all of the meaning of a story. The same thing applies to ongoing chapters of Medaka Box. The things you claim are "inconsistent" or "don't make sense" are small, incomplete parts of a bigger picture.
Regardless, my earlier points about the Japanese fanbase have not even particularly been about the language. It's actually about the nature of the fanbases themselves. Over here in English-speaking land, a circlejerk has developed over hating Medaka, and people legitimately believing there is/was a chance for Zenkichi to be the "real" main character. The progression of this circlejerk is fed by limited direct contact to the actual situation and reception of the manga in Japan, leading to expectations for the story which are detached from reality. For reasons including the lack of widespread availability of Nishio's works in English, these false expectations are further exasperated by the western fandom's general lack of understanding of what to expect from this author. This leads to disappointed followers, and a generally angry and disrespectful readerbase.
The purpose of saying "defer to the Japanese fanbase" is that they are the people whose opinions actually matter, and whose support upon which the continuation of the manga actually depends. Not to mention, although this may not particularly apply to the most visible segment of Medaka's japanese fandom (the Jump readers)--Medaka Box's audience in Japan are much more likely to be thoroughly familiar with the style of works from Nishio, leading to more accurate evaluations in terms of what to expect. This is particularly true for the Medaka Box fandom on 2ch, who are not only active enough to support regular weekly spoilers earlier than even the big 3 Jump series, but are also much more organized and successful in serious efforts like decoding the various riddles Nishio throws out. Further advantages the Japanese fandom has over us include access to supplementary material like audio drama cds or the light novels. All in all, it can be said that the western fandom faces severe disadvantages in terms of resources for the sake of being able to predict/understand Medaka Box as a whole, and that it should be expected that the Japanese fanbase have a much more complete picture of the intent and story. That's why, although Jump rankings should probably be considered less representative than volume sales in terms of Medaka Box's popularity and reception in Japan, it is utterly ridiculous to dismiss reactions from that audience like the western view has any greater meaning at all.
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|2012-09-28, 08:20
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Well I was somewhat surprised...looks like Medaka doesn't just curbstomp Ihiko. But of all characters, why Oudo to save the day? I mean, he does still have something of an amicable relationship with Medaka, but what?!!
At the same time, I like that they're trying to keep certain characters relevant. Now if we could get those kendo delinquents...
Why a matchup between Ihiko and Akune?
|2012-09-28, 13:18
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But to me, I'd guess that Zenkichi wasn't a variable that was factored in, as he probably remembers Shiranui because, well, they're best friends and she loves him and all.
I'd guess that's going to play a bigger part when this plot gets unveiled, if it's even there.
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Augusta native and former astronaut Susan Still Kilrain says it's difficult to see America's space shuttle program end this year after three eventful decades.
"It's what made space travel a common occurrence," said Still, who traveled 7.8 million miles aboard Columbia as commander of two 1997 shuttle flights.
Today's launch of the Atlantis will be its last, and final missions of NASA's other shuttles -- Discovery and Endeavor -- are planned later this year.
"It's the only reusable space vehicle -- ever -- and it may end up being the only one ever," she said. "We could land it on a runway and just fly it again."
As the shuttle program -- begun in 1981 -- winds to a close, it is important that our nation find a way to continue manned flight, Kilrain said.
"At this point, we don't know where the manned space program for our country is going from here because that hasn't been decided," she said. "But I think it would be a shame -- and a disappointment -- if we didn't find a way to continue our manned program."
NASA has said it is retiring its shuttles to focus on new technologies and rockets that could one day get astronauts to asteroids -- and perhaps to Mars.
However, there are no formal plans in place as to how the program will proceed in the post-shuttle era.
"We will still have representation on the international space station," she said. "But the astronauts and everyone interested in space are waiting to see what will happen next."
Kilrain, who retired from the Astronaut Office in 2002 and from the Navy in 2005, is one of only three women to pilot a shuttle. She hopes future space programs will create new opportunities for future generations, too.
"We need to have a program," she said. "Other countries are certainly going to, and China is ramping up its own program. We're not in a space race like we were in the '60s, but we'll have no say in the matter if we have no program at all."
Kilrain, a motivational speaker, now lives in Virginia with her husband and four children.

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Amazing Spider Man 2, Shaliene Woodley Mary Jane Watson First Pic
The first picture of Amazing Spider-Man 2's Shaliene Woodley as Mary Jane Watson has just been released! Woodley was previously announced for the role but now we finally get to see what the new Mary Jane Watson looks like. The character was previously played by Kirsten Dunst in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man movies. Woodley's Mary Jane will be a romantic rival for Emma Stone's Gwen Stacey, but Woodley said the two get along famously off screen.


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An unsuspecting police officer inadvertently gave a lift to a violent prisoner who had absconded from prison.
Christopher Weston, who is serving life for attempted murder, hitched a lift from the officer, who has not been named, when he went on the run to visit his sister after fleeing HMP Kirkham.
He was picked up walking along the M6 motorway and taken to Preston Railway Station after he gave the policeman a false name.
Weston, 35, then borrowed the rail fare to Bradford, West Yorkshire, from 'a kindly stranger', returning the money promptly in the post with a thank you note.
Lancashire Police declined to comment today, but Justice Minister Jeremy Wright said: "There has always been a small minority of prisoners who abscond from open prisons, but the number has fallen by 80 per cent in the past 10 years, and we have just introduced tough new restrictions for those in open prisons today. But they do play an important part in preparing prisoners for release in the last few months of their sentence. If we did not have them, all the expert advice is that reoffending would be higher."
Weston went back to the area where he repeatedly stabbed his former partner Dawn McGarry almost nine years ago, and was captured the next day at his sister's address.
His escape came almost a year after he fled Sudbury Prison, Derbyshire.
He is serving a sentence after admitting the attempted murder of his ex partner in 2005.
Prosecutor John Bull said he was discovered missing after a roll check on May 27.
Weston's lawyer, Maria Temkow, said he was worried about his sister who was having problems and was very anxious to see her.
The court case, at Bradford Crown Court comes less than a month after former HMP Kirkham inmate Arnold Pickering, 44, was returned to custody after absconding from an open prison for the third time.
Pickering, who stabbed a man who wrongly believed to be a paedophile, was granted leave from the prison despite being known to abscond on at least three occasions.


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(OKEECHOBEE, Fla.) — A massive alligator that hunters estimate was just shy of 15 feet was found recently in Florida and officials are trying to determine just how large it was.
Lee Lightsey, owner of Outwest Farms in Okeechobee, and hunting guide, Blake Godwin, wrote on Facebook it's the largest they've ever found.
They did not immediately return calls for comment.
The duo spotted the huge gator on April 2 in one of their cattle ponds, and believe the reptile is to blame for their disappearing cattle, according to local reports.
Tony Young, spokesman for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, confirmed to ABC News that the jaw-dropping gator is real.
"All we know is a large alligator was killed," Young said. "We haven't determined if it was killed in the wild or if it was a farm-raised alligator that was in this guy's pond."
Where the alligator was found is important because Young said only alligators found in the wild are entered into state records.
The FWC notes that the largest alligator ever found in the wild in Florida measured at 14 feet, 3.5 inches long.
Young added that hunters are seldom accurate in their own measurements.
"The official way is to have an alligator on its stomach and have someone pulling on its nose a little bit and pulling on its tail to get it real straight," Young said. Chalk is then used to mark both ends of the animal.
Young said official information will likely be available on Wednesday.
"I think it's a big gator nonetheless," Young said.
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Paris Saint-Germain v Chelsea: Predicted lineups
Chelsea's projected lineup in Champions League thriller against Paris Saint-Germain
Chelsea, who lost against Crystal Palace on Sunday, travel to Paris to face Paris Saint-Germain at Parc des Princes in the Champions League quarter-final.
The two sides have met just once before in the Champions leauge, during Jose Mourinho's first spell in charge at Stamford Bridge in 2004.
John Terry, who scored an unfortunate own goal on Sunday, is almost certain to start this match joined with BranislavIvanovic, GaryCahilland CesarAzpilicueta. All those three players were praised by José Mourinho after Sunday's defeat:
"Ivanovic, Azpilicueta, Cahill, Terry - they perform in the sun, on small pitches, on big pitches, against aggressive teams, not aggressive teams, possession teams and not possession teams. They perform every game from day one to last day" per the BBC.
Oscar, Hazard and William should all find themselves in the starting XI, especially Hazard and Oscar are important players for Mourinho's side. Oscar scored one goal and gave four assists during this Champions League campaign. Hazard, however, needs to find his goal-scoring boots again as he only scored one goal so far. William's strength on the right and Hazard's pace on the left will make it an unpleasant night for the PSG's defence.
Chelsea's major problem this season is the fact that their strikers are in an, to put it kindly, awful form. Samuel Eto'o is still injured so won't be available for the match. Mourinho will have to do it with Fernando Torres, who has seldom impressed since his move to London.
Chelsea's strikers are sub-standard, something which is completely different when you take a look at the opposition's project lineup. Paris-Saint Germain can make an appeal to Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Edison Cavani, those strikers are able to score a goal when it's highly needed.
It will be a tough game for the Blues as PSG are unbeaten in 28 European home games, a record stretching back to 2006 per UEFA.
Chelsea XI: Cech: Ivanovic, Cahill, Terry, Azpilicueta; Lampard, Ramires; Willian, Oscar, Hazard; Torres.
PSG XI: Sirigu: Jallet, Alex, Silva, Maxwell; Verratti, Motta, Matuidi; Cavani, Ibrahimovic, Lavezzi.


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text: I used Pimp My Wii to update some IOS. Some manually installed. I cannot get back to HBC and cannot boot to system. It stays blank, but green led, i can eject disc and disc is spinning. I dont have NAND backup. My wii is Korean, Region Changed to USA 4.1. How can I fix this wii?


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Really feeling neutral about this one… I really love Adagio's White Peach tea, and this tea has that same added peach flavor, but it just doesn't marry with the oolong as well as the white. There's a woody flavor to the oolong that just doesn't scream "add PEACH to me!" but it's still a solid tea. Simply not my favorite marriage of flavors.
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules | 2011
Greg Heffley is about to learn that there may be something scarier than middle school - his own family!
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Greg Heffley is back with problems new and old. Greg chronicles a hilarious litany of problems, alternating between home and school, focusing this time on the particular punishments of his reprobate older brother, Rodrick. Whether Greg is suffering on the swim team or trying out for the K-12 school talent show as Magician's Assistant to a First Grader, his escapades are united by his struggle to avoid embarrassment.


text: Well I had my Wii all set up the way I "wanted it". I have emulator and roms for Sega, SNES, NES, N64, etc etc. well I just had to push for one more. I tried the whole Gamecube dios mios thing and ended up wiping my whole sd card. so now I gotta start all over and to be honest I dont know where to begin...hahaha. Right now the way it sits I put the Private folder, apps, and boot.elf on the sd card. I put a SNES emulator in the apps folder and it did show up on my wii menu. but now I try to use my configurable usb loader on the main wii menu and it just loops me back to the main menu. Does it not exist anymore?


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Canyon Ridge High School Student Raises Concussion Awareness in Twin Falls
Henley Blick is a high school senior at Canyon Ridge High School in Twin Falls, who had to give up competitive sports after suffering multiple concussions
Henley is trying to raise awareness and funds for concussions among active youth by organizing a fun run.
Henley stopped by the morning show today to talk about the event.
What: Joggin' for your Noggin' is a 5k walk/run
When: January 12, 2013 – 9:00am check-in. 10:00am start
Where: Elevation 486, East Patio
Why: Henley Blick's Senior Project.
Cost: $30.00 – includes your entry fee, lunch & drink tickets and logo headwear.
If you're not up for a run, you can still support Henley's event by eating lunch. Lunch only cost is just $10.00
Get your entry form here or register the day of the event.
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On Saturday October 3, Wave House San Diego will celebrate 50 years of great surfboards, great skateboards, great surfers and skater and innovation from one of the pioneering companies of the southern California surf industry. From 1959 to now, the Gordon and Smith label has been one of the prime movers of surfing and skateboarding, and that history will be on display from one end of Wave House to the other, accompanied by woodies, music and legendary surfers.
The label began to bubble in the 1950s, when surfboards were evolving from balsa wood to foam. Larry Gordon was a Chemistry student with access to the family business – Gordon Plastics – and he teamed up with his friend Floyd Smith to make some of the best polyurethane foam surfboards on the coast. In the late 50's most surfboards were shaped from balsa wood. The boards were heavy, hard to maneuver, and easily became waterlogged. Polyurethane foam was a new and ideal material soon to become cutting edge. Larry, a chemistry student, was able to source the foam chemicals with help from Gordon Plastics, his father's family business. With no surfboards available within 50 miles, Larry Gordon and Smith to move out of Floyd's Pacific Beach garage and open a surf shop.
And so it began.
According to The Encyclopedia of Surfing, the innovations credited to Larry Gordon and Floyd Smith include the screen-printed surfer t-shirt in the late 1950s and into the 1960s. From the 1960s into the 1970s, Mike Hynson, Skip Frye, Barry Kanaiaupuni, Butch van Artsdalen, Duane Brown, Bobby Thomas, Billy Hamilton were some of the great surfer/shapers associated with G & S and their Input into design resulted in many board models like the Hynson Models, The HotCurl, and the SSModel were some of the most advanced boards of the pre-shortboard era. In 1968 the G & S "Magic" was one of the earliest ancestors of the shortboard era.
Also during the 1960 and 1970s, Gordon and Smith were one of the leaders in the skateboard boom, selling 500 G & S Fibreflex skateboards per month with a 6 month backlog.
This history will be on display and celebrated at Wave House San Diego beginning at 12 noon on October 3. The good times will roll in a procession of classic woodies and other surf vehicles from the San Diego Woodie Club – on display around the Wave House lot. From 3:00 to 4:00, members of the current G & S surf team will join the Wave House pros to put on an exhibit of modern wave riding on the FlowBarrel Bruticus Maximus.
In the Courtyard area, there will be a timeline illustrating 50 years of G & S: Great boards, great surfers, great surfing. Plus a display of over 30 Gordon & Smith Classic Boards.
Founders Larry Gordon and Floyd Smith will be at the Wave House talking story and reflecting on all that has happened since they first began mixing dangerous chemicals in their Pacific Beach garage. And they will be attended by G & S surfers/shapers and riders past, present and future, including Skip Frye and Mike Hynson.
A special 50th Anniversary Surfboard, signed by Larry Gordon will be raffled off to benefit the Windansea Surf Club for their community service projects.
The party begins at noon and goes on into a warm fall southern California night. There will be classic surf movies including a rare showing the 1965 Tom Morey Noseriding Contest, the first pro surf contest featuring Mike Hynson. And also the 1968 World Contest in Puerto Rico – the first contest of the shortboard era.
And from 8:00, there will be soothing Hawaiian noises from Pau Hana.
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" Brand: Kong / Type: Catnip Spray "
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My cat Whizz is literally driving me crazy! She has always bit a bit temperamental but just recently she has been really trying. She is an indoor/outdoor cat but just recently at night time she has been asking to go outside and then will want to come in a few hours later, then go out again a few hours later and so it carries on night after night. We do not have a cat flap as my husband does not want to get one so she will just scratch and pull at our door seal until we get up and open the door for her. Its destructive and annoying and I am at a bit of a wits end to figure out what to do.
One of the things I thought about trying was to spray cat nip onto her bed and see if that would help and make her want to stay there all night rather than go in and out all the time. So what exactly is catnip and what does it do? Well, I am going to quote an article I read to help explain it a bit better as all I really know is that it is called crack for cats!! The article says, "Given to the right cat, catnip can cause an amazing reaction! The cat will rub it, roll over it, kick at it, and generally go nuts for several minutes. Then the cat will lose interest and walk away. Two hours later, the cat may come back and have exactly the same response. Although no one knows exactly what happens in the cat's brain, it is known that the chemical nepetalactone in catnip is the thing that triggers the response. Apparently, it somehow kicks off a stereotypical pattern in cats that are sensitive to the chemical. The catnip reaction is inherited, and some cats are totally unaffected by it. Large cats like tigers can be sensitive to it as well."
I decided to purchase the Kong catnip spray as I know Kong to be a good name in pet products and that was the one they had in Pets at Home. The spray comes in a small 30ml bottle and Kong call it a concentrated oil specially designed and distilled from finest North American catnip to ensure maximum fun is achieved by your cat. All you do then is spray it onto things that you want your cat to have fun with but I just sprayed it onto Whizzs bed to see what she would do. There wasn't much of a smell to my nose, perhaps a bit of a natural plant smell but nothing chemical smelling or too wrong for the house. I think the smell is a bit like dog whistles, only dogs can hear high pitched dog whistles and alternatively, only cats can smell catnip.
When I first sprayed it on Whizz did seem to like it and came straight to her bed and rolled and snuggled around in it. She seemed to be very attracted to it, more than usual but unfortunately this has not had my desired effect and kept her in her bed all night so maybe this is not really what it was intended for so if anyone has any suggestions please let me know. I have kept the spray and spray it onto her favourite toys now and again and she seems to like that so hopefully I am pleasing my cat even if she is not pleasing me in the middle of the night. The bottle will last for absolutely ages as you only need a few sprays and I have hardly made a dent in the liquid.
Catnip, fun for a while but not a cure all formula for cat obedience!
I have found that with my cat Dashiel that some cat nip is hit and miss with him. Whereas I have bought expensive brands and sprinkled it all over his scratching post and it has had no effect some cheap toy from the market with some in will have him in ecstasy for hours.
Although I like dried catnip and Dashiel seems to prefer it for convenience sake I find that catnip spray to be much easier not to mention cleaner to use with the only down side being that the effect doesn't last as long as with the dried stuff.
Like with the effectivity of the dried catnip some sprays are better than others and the Kong catnip spray is one of the better ones in my experience. It contains pure catnip oil and distilled water and is supposed to be all safe and natural.
The price for a bottle of the spray is £3.49 in my local pet shop and I find that the little spray bottle will last me a good couple of months before I have to buy a new one.
To use the Kong catnip all you need to do is spray a small amount on a toy, scratching post etc and then wait for your cat to catch the smell.
Dashiel gets excited as soon as he sees that I have the bottle in my hand and he jumps around my feet until I spray his toy or his bed and as soon as I have sprayed it he loses all interest in me completely and gives his undivided attention to whatever it is that I have sprayed.
His reaction to this catnip is slightly different to the dried catnip I also use. With the dried he goes a little wild but with this one his reaction is more calm and he seems to just enjoy rolling over it and giving it a little chew.
The only problem that I have with this catnip spray is that it just doesn't last that long. Dashiel will be having the time of his life but only for about half an hour before the scent must fade and he loses interest.
Because Dashiel enjoys this spray so much I have to give it quite a high score but I am deducting a star due to its longevity or lack off.
Just over a month ago I lost one of my gorgeous boys (cats) at the age of 16 and his brother who is also the same age was left without his lifelong playmate and companion and was showing signs of distress and grief. Unable to think of much I could do to help him through the difficult time I decided to try distractions in the form of new toys, plenty of company and TLC, a change of beds and some fresh catnip spray to entertain him. One thing I've learnt over the years is not all catnip sprays are created equal and some smell pretty fine and others have no effect so I wanted a brand that I could trust. A quick Google search brought up the Kong catnip spray and I ordered one for about £4 from an online company.
The Kong spray is only a 30ml bottle but claims to be highly potent so for refreshing toys it seemed ideal and you'd be surprised how far 30ml of catnip goes when you just spritz the toys with a couple of sprays. I can't remember exactly where I purchased the spray but it is widely available, although by the time you get to the foot of this review you probably won't care! Not all cats respond to catnip but those that do generally react immediately to the scent and it acts kind of like alcohol does with us.
The Kong spray is in a small pump action bottle which unfortunately seems to leak very easily, when I received mine it had leaked in the jiffy bag and when I've shaken it I've ended up with drops of it on my hands too. It may just be my bottle but either way it's not ideal. The claims on the bottle are "irresistible scent, no mess and highly potent" and advises us to shake well before use. The ingredients are distilled water and catnip oil. When I sniff the product I can smell something herby so everything was as it should be until we tried it.
The first time I tried this spray it was very soon after losing my boy's brother and when he didn't react very much I thought he might not be ready for play yet so put it away for a bit. The next time I offered him the bottle to sniff and he could definitely smell something mildly interesting but gave none of his usual reaction to catnip. The next time I sprayed his toys thoroughly and then played with him for a while to see if I could get him interested but again he wasn't displaying any signs of catnip frenzy. My lad has always responded to catnip so it isn't that he's one of those cats who doesn't get it, it's obviously the spray. I've tried many times over the last few weeks to get him interested in the Kong spray but he just isn't getting the normal scent from it. I have no idea why this would be but it just doesn't seem to smell like catnip, or perhaps it just doesn't smell strongly enough of catnip. I've actually worked my way through, and had some leak on me, almost half the bottle with still not much of a reaction so I'm about to bin this little item. To test my theory that perhaps he isn't ready for play I purchased some "cosmic catnip cups" (review to follow) which contain dried catnip and nothing else and he reacted exactly as I'd expect to those so it is definitely the spray that isn't working.
Overall I'm very disappointed, Kong is a brand I trust and it never occurred to me the spray wouldn't be up to scratch. My boy though has a fine nose and if this had smelt as it should it would have had some effect on him. Perhaps there's too much water and not enough oil in this, or maybe the leaking was mostly oil so when I shake it there isn't much left. I'm not sure what the answer is but it's got to get a lowly 1 star from me and my lad for being ineffective.


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...around and around with a smooth, carefully coordinated step. Among its varieties, the gammal polska, or old polska, is the simplest and probably the oldest. The lively and very popular hambo is a 19th-century offshoot of the gammal polska. The Norwegian dance analogous to the Swedish polska is the pols.


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Texts Lead Police to More Victims
KSAL Staff - June 4, 2015 11:33 am
Police find more victims linked to a sexual assault case against 21-year-old Holdan M. Hartman of Salina.
Police arrested Hartman on Monday after an investigation into sexual contact between he and a girl in her early teens led to charges of aggravated indecent liberties with a child and criminal sodomy.
According to Captain Chris Trocheck, detectives have looked through his cell phone and traced text messages and explicit photos that Hartman sent of himself to, two 16-year-old girls in May of 2014 and February of 2015.
Police say additional charges are possible as the investigation continues.


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How to Use QR Codes In Your Job Search
- April 19, 2012
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QR codes can increase their visibility with recruiters and potential employers. Here's what career expert and strategist Mary Jane Vincent says:
I recommend that my clients create a personal QR code and individual 'search me' link to help them curate their specific Google results. We find, organize and vet the results, enabling them to manage their online reputation, control their personal brand and make a stellar first impression.
Ever thought of including a QR code in your resume? Think it'll work? Tell us what you think in the comments below.
If you're inclined to use a QR code, include it on your resume, business card and any other materials you use so that prospective employers can use to get the dettails you want them to see. It's particularly helpful if you bump into an employer at a conference or users group, or meet throngs of recruiters at a job fair, because it creates a scannable shortcut to the "hire me" information on your website. That information can can include details of your accomplishments, recommendations, awards, professional articles your blog and public profile.
James Alexander, CEO of QR-code developer Vizibility, says that adding a code to your resume is a tech-centric way to illustrate your strengths and make your resume stand out. He recommends setting up a QR code that links to a mobile-friendly mini-site presenting curated links and information. And he makes the smart point that you can tailor your profile toward a specific search.
Other benefits include the ability to set up an alert system through an online identity management service so you can receive a text or email when someone scans your QR code. Plus, a code will help employers find your online information, especially if you have a common name ("Nice to meet you, Mr. Smith.").
If you want to create a QR code, try QR-Code Generator or QRMedia.us. Or, simply find a smartphone app by searching for QR Codes or QR Code Makers.
I'm interested in information security, so I just decided to go full-on hardcore geek with the QR code on my business card: it decodes directly to the text of my OpenPGP public key fingerprint.
I put a QR code on my resume that links directly to my about.me/emilybaum page. At that site a potential employer can see all of my social sites and clearly depict my personal brand identity. I'm a huge advocate of the QR codes, especially with the popularity of smart phones.
How do QR codes work? I don't get it.
Making sure it is a high-quality QR Code and doesn't go to a dead page or take a non-compatible action with the version of the device is key. Not doing so is like having a personal website that is broken when someone tries to get to it later…..
Also signifying where the scanner is going to be taken and for what info is also an important piece, otherwise it's like a physical popup ad that has no information on it!
Professionally, QR Codes are a great way to record/ document anything since they are unique numbers with lots of function. Build it once professionally for resume, use it for marking everything else!


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Wallace joins Choice Financial
Mark Wallace recently accepted a customer service representative position with Choice Financial at its 4501 23rd Avenue S. in Fargo.
Wallace currently attends North Dakota State University and plans to obtain a Bachelor's Degree in business administration.
Choice Financial is a premier provider of financial solutions with nine locations in North Dakota, including two in the Fargo area.


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SEOUL (AP) -- North Korea refused to give details Monday about four South Korean fishermen seized last week after their boat strayed across the border, only repeating that an investigation was under way, a South Korean official said.
The seizure on Thursday came amid badly frayed relations between the two Koreas and heightened tensions following Pyongyang's flurry of nuclear and missile tests in defiance of UN resolutions.
The communist regime also has been holding another South Korean citizen and two American journalists since March. Fears have grown that the fishermen could also be held long term if Pyongyang is tempted to use the case as a pressure card against Seoul.
On Monday, Seoul's Unification Ministry spokeswoman Lee Jong-joo said the South had queried the North about the case but was given the same answer as before.
"The North only said a corresponding agency is investigating" the case, she told reporters.
South Korea's government and families of the fishermen have urged Pyongyang to free the crew, saying their crossing into northern waters was accidental. The 29-ton vessel drifted across the eastern sea border after its satellite navigation system apparently malfunctioned, officials said.
On Saturday, the North's official Korean Central News Agency said that the boat "illegally intruded deep" into the North's territorial waters and that an investigation was under way.
The brief dispatch did not give any word on the fishermen's condition or say how long the probe would last.
The two Koreas technically remain at war because their three-year conflict ended in a truce in 1953, not a peace treaty. Their relations have been tense since a pro-US, conservative government took office in Seoul last year advocating a tougher policy on the North.
Pyongyang cut off nearly all ties in retaliation, and it has halted major joint projects except for an industrial complex located just across the border in the North. A South Korean worker at the factory park has been detained in the North since March for allegedly denouncing Pyongyang's political system.
The North has also been holding two US journalists after arresting them near the North's border with China on March.
Laura Ling and Euna Lee, reporters for former US Vice President Al Gore's Current TV media venture, were sentenced in June to 12 years of hard labor for entering the country illegally and engaging in "hostile acts."


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Shadow of the Eternals - News Roundup
Leviathyn has a new podcast with Denis Dyack were he explains why Shadow of the Eternals should be on your radar.
Polarizing or not, Denis Dyack is a man who has crafted many wondrous things; we're talking about the man who brought you Eternal Darkness and the ever impressive Legacy of Kain series, to name a few. For one reason or another, the internet has taken a blind-focus on the man's past and with that somehow have overlooked his new project at hand, Shadow of the Eternals. To shed more light on the spiritual successor to Eternal Darkness, Mr. Dyack sits down with us and discusses his future plans, the meaning of working directly with Precursor Games' fans and why he needs your help this time around.
Next Precursor Games has released a new video showcasing Shadow of the Eternals'"Sanity System."
If any of these newsbits make you interested you can also look at their kickstarter which is in need of help.
Information aboutShadow of the Eternals
SP/MP: Single-player
Setting: Historical
Genre: Adventure-RPG
Platform: PC
Release: Canceled


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#ROWING: In a race with a dramatic finish, Ireland's lightweight double of Mark O'Donovan and Niall Kenny finished fifth in the C Final of the lightweight men's double at the World Cup Regatta in Belgrade this morning. This placed them 17th overall.
The Ireland crew held third behind two Austrian doubles until a final charge by Slovenia and surprise packets Croatia saw both boats pass them. Croatia were just one hundredth of a second ahead of the Irish on the line.
Michael Maher did not start his C Final in the men's lightweight single scull.
World Cup, Belgrade – Day Two (Irish interest)
Lightweight Double Scull – C Final (places 13 to 18): 1 Austria Two 6:24.17, 2 Austria Three 6:24.21, 3 Slovenia Two 6:26.16, 4 Croatia 6:26.66, 5 Ireland (M O'Donovan, N Kenny) 6:26.67, 6 Austria One 6:27.57.
Lightweight Single – C Final: Ireland (M Maher) did not start.
Lightweight Single Scull – Repechage (First Four to A/B Semi-Final): 1 Switzerland (P Weisshaupt) 7:55.81, 2 Ireland (C Lambe) 7:57.35, 3 Sweden One (C Lilja) 7:58.63, 4 Croatia (H Pavkovic) 8:01.57; 5 Sweden Two (L Kalstroem) 8:06.42.


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If you're a lighting showroom owner who is looking to differentiate your store from other showrooms in your area, consider jumping across the pond this February to attend The ARC Show in London.
Established in 2008, The ARC Show is one of the newest lighting shows on the scene. This year, the show will take place Feb. 4-5 at Earls County 2 in London and will feature a wide range of exhibitors as well as a full slate of educational seminars.
The ARC Show puts an emphasis on high-end architectural lighting, and this year, it will also play host to the International Association of Lighting Designers' European conference.
One of the highlights of The ARC Show is the Decorative Lighting Gallery, which features signature pieces from up-and-coming lighting designers and manufacturers such as Albioncourt, Album and Advanced Fibre Optics.
Another highlight of the show, which is new this year, is a series of Architect's Workshops. The workshops will be held in an open plan theater on the main show floor and will analyze some of the most significant lighting projects undertaken in the past year. In the workshops, the client, lighting designer and architect will sit together on a panel to provide value insight about how the three key stakeholders worked together to create their vision.
This year's line-up will also feature several free educational seminars including seminars on using LEDs in outdoor lighting, computer-aided architectural design and LED luminaires.
And of course, sourcing new products will also be a key component of the show. Some of the exhibitors who will be showing new products at the show include: Advanced Fiber Optics, Mizar, Inspired by Design, Dynalite Europe, B.Lux and more.
For more information on the show and to register, visit www.thearcshow.com.


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Where the Australians are involved, you can be sure of one thing. There will be a lot of verbal play and mental games before the start of the actual game. And this time is no different.
"Something has been sparked inside of me, watching them carry on over the last few days. We have had a very successful side and I think watching how we celebrate and how they celebrate, I think we have been pretty humble in the way we have gone about it. And personally, I think they have got far too carried away with their celebrations. It has definitely sparked passion inside of us. It has certainly spiced it up as well."
Ponting makes the age-old "Pressure is on them" quip.
Uthappa retorts:
"We are looking forward to carry on our winning momentum when we meet Australia in the first match on Saturday and there will not be any pressure on us. We are just looking forward to take on Australia"
Knowing that Sreesanth can get overly excited pretty easily the Aussies seem to have singled him out saying "he does not scare us" and that they have "seen how he plays and will not be surprised this time".
Sreesanth, typically, seems to have taken some of the banter to heart:
"Now I hear that Ponting and his team have singled me out, this is in fact a boost to my confidence. This means that I have the stuff in me. I think if I am aggressive, only then can I perform better and I would be back to my normal self."
Now, that is a lot of talking, isn't it?
In about 8 hours time we will get to know who comes out on top on the field.


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Here's a story that's related to this very piece. For almost 7 years I've been a big fan of dark ambient. My first forays into the genre were always unclear to me, and it always felt as if that knowledge was hidden just beyond reach, in a very taunting fashion. I knew this much: it was videogame music combined with something else. First it was Newgrounds music, but there was never much dark ambient here, so I moved on to more specific sources when I stopped coming here in 2010/2011.
For years, I'd listen to dark ambient songs and certain fragments would subconsciously register. A strange feeling, I can only describe it as the feeling of being in a room where some very specific things are incredibly familiar, but you cannot point out why, nor can you point out the exact things. Very strange and sometimes disconcerting.
For the past few days, I have been playing Dark Echo. The sounds of water drops splashing, the claustrophobic feeling, the darkness were all immediate catalysts. The fragments would appear spontaneously and very often, even without listening to dark ambient. I'd... hear these sounds in my head while washing the dishes or petting my dogs, cleaning my Airsoft gear or working on my laptop. Predominantly, the drone and that high pitched buzzing sound.
Today, I had the urge to go on Newgrounds, and more so, I intensely felt the need to recover my old account. This was a determination, an urgency that had no definite basis. It was like a buried marker, a sleeper code, a preprogrammed impulse.
I couldn't recover it yet. The sounds kept ringing in my head. I once more felt an impulse to look at my old account. About 45 minutes ago I began listening to my favorited songs.
Then my eyes stumbled on the title. I initially skimmed past, until I noticed a sharp and complete silence in my mind that forced me to do a double take. What came next were entire waves of chills, rolling through my back rapidly, again, again, again. No more sounds in the back of my head. Only silence.
This was it. The piece which introduced me to dark ambient. My first foray, my first taste of the genre, that memory that was lying just outside my mind's grasp for years. The source of all those familiar yet strange moments.
And it does not feel like a string of coincidences. This feels too structured and guided to be sheet luck. Something took years to taunt me, then guide me here.
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A song that gives everything that promised in its name :) Lost in the Tunnels.I liked it keep it up with good work :)
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Shit my pants but then I remembered I was in my bedroom. Very goodz, I liked it. It made me smile and think "Awwwe, its like a cutie try' na be scary! >.<"
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Khadafy's son reveals proposal to attract tourists to Libya
CYRENE, Libya - Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy's son unveiled an ambitious plan yesterday to protect ancient Greek ruins, conserve the country's pristine Mediterranean coastline and draw eco-tourists to this former pariah state.
Seif Al-Islam Khadafy's plan is part of an attempt to dramatically change the image of Libya to an ecologically friendly tourist destination, at a time when the country is nearing its long-sought political goal: getting into the West's good graces.
The younger Khadafy announced the project at a ceremony inside a 2,200-year-old Greek gymnasium in the ruins of the ancient city of Cyrene, among the largely untouched and unvisited antiquity sites that Libya hopes will pull in foreigners.
"Our intention is to build a complete and sustainable social, cultural, economic, and environmental system in which the needs of the present allow for the needs of future generations," Khadafy said.
Details of the plan were vague. But the intention is to make 2,046 square miles of northeastern Libya - a region known as the Green Mountain - an environmentally sustainable region, creating a national park and ecotourism opportunities while excavating and protecting the nearby ancient temples and Mediterranean coast.
The Green Mountain is a virtually unspoiled region of fertile land, gorges, and Greek ruins that rival those in Greece and Turkey.
"Its time now to join developed countries and make a statement that we are also concerned about the environment and culture," Khadafy, who is known in Libya as "The Engineer," told reporters after the ceremony.
Touted as a reformer, 36-year-old Khadafy has increasingly been sharing his father's spotlight and reaching out to the West to soften Libya's image and return it to the international mainstream.


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The Problem with (How we Treat) Highly Disciplined People
Self-control: it's a skill that most of us wish we had a lot more of. Yet, every once and a while, you meet a person who has a seemingly mystical ability to make themselves do things they ought to do, and resist the urge to do things they ought not to do. It's that person who walks their dog, eats their oatmeal, picks up coffee for everyone in the office, and still shows up to work by 9am. The person who gets their day's work done by lunch and then works out during their lunch hour. The person who not only makes homemade cards for their friends and family's birthdays, but actually gets them mailed on time.
It's easy to envy such individuals. People who have high self-control are more likely to achieve their goals in a wide variety of domains. Research shows that people with high levels of self-control tend to get better grades in school, they are less likely to engage in problem behaviors such as binge eating and alcohol abuse, and they have better psychological adjustment compared to people with lower levels of self-control.1 High self-control also has important benefits for romantic relationships. For example, married couples with greater combined levels of self-control are more responsive, trusting, and forgiving of one another, they have smoother day-to-day interactions, they have less day-to-day conflict, and they are more satisfied with their relationships on the whole.2
Looking at the literature, it's tempting to conclude that one simply can't go wrong by having high levels of self-control, or by having close others with high levels of self-control. However, in a paper that just came out this year, Koval, vanDellen, Fitzsimons, and Ranby3 explored a potential downside to self-control: the high expectations that others might have of high self-control individuals. Below are the three ways we tend to treat high self-control individuals, according to Koval et al.'s research, that might be damaging for our relationships with such individuals.


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By Bob Copper
I love my wife and everything about her. Well, almost everything. Despite my best educational efforts, she's still a closet communist. She doesn't understand why Southwest Airlines charges a different price every time I book a flight or why mountain-cabin rentals are more expensive during the peak fall season than in January. Of course, the reason those circumstances exist is ... say it with me ... profit!
While I've come to accept my wife's way of thinking, I'm having a difficult time understanding why so many self-storage operators adhere an outdated financial system in which their unit prices always stay the same, regardless of the situation. They fail to capitalize on existing and potential revenue because they don't use a revenue-management system. Those operators could increase their revenue and profit by using a couple of simple techniques proven to work across all facility sizes and markets.
Supply and Demand
The reason Southwest Airlines consistently charges a different airfare is simple: supply and demand. Their rates increase and decrease based on the demand, or lack thereof, for seats. The person who books his flight at the last minute is likely to pay more than someone who booked well in advance. And although the airlines are always aware and sensitive to what competitors are charging for the same flight, they're also aware of their own inventory and charge accordingly.
Can you operate your self-storage facility using a similar technique? Of course you can, and many sophisticated and successful operators do. They generally have the highest market rates and occupancy levels. These operators base their rates on their own supply and care little about what their competitors charge.
Many facility operators are far too concerned about competitor pricing and pay little attention to their own inventory levels. If you have only one or two vacant 10-by-10 units, why shouldn't that next potential renter pay a bit more than the person who rented when you had 10 units available? If you print your rental rates on brochures or business cards, you can't effectively manage them. If you want to increase revenue and profit, start using supply-and-demand rate management.
Convenience and Customer Service
When I book a Southwest flight online, I can typically get a lower "Web only" rate that is not available if I call an agent. If I'm willing to buy online, I pay a lower fare than someone who feels the need to speak to a person.
More self-storage operators are starting to offer Web-only rates, and the evidence is clear that they do entice renters to make online reservations. If a customer walks into the facility, he will likely pay a higher rate one who reserves on the Web. Well-trained salespeople should be able to charge more for a walk-in rental than an anonymous online rental.
When I fly, I have no idea what the other people on that plane paid for their flight. Your self-storage customers also don't know what other customers paid. The evidence provided by operators who charge different rates to different "classes" of customers shows that this method works to increase revenue and profit. If you market web-only rates on your website, you'll find potential customers are more likely to reserve space online because they believe they're getting a special deal.
As a quick aside, if you don't offer online rates, reservations and payment options, you're already way behind the marketing curve and need to catch up. Think about it: The industry's largest and most successful operators, those who spend millions on customer research and marketing, have determined that it's good practice to make it easy for customers to conduct business online. What makes you think you're smarter than they are?


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Welcome to the Quilting Board!
....was given to me quite some time ago and that's what I've been making with them....
Your mind is a garden, your thoughts are the seeds....you can grow flowers or you can grow weeds!!!
i love the layout, color, and pattern of the first runner. very nicely done!
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T is it True? H is it Helpful? I is it Inspiring? N is it Necessary? K is it Kind?
I like the both, especially like the quilting you did on the first one. Nice work!
They both looks very nice.
When it seems like the world is falling to pieces remember that the pieces are falling into place. We are nearing closer to the End Times.
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Lovely-I like to work with orphan blocks-it makes you think harder about making them work.
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No. 9 Jayhawks hold off TCU 64-59 in Big 12 tourney
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Kelly Oubre Jr. scored a career-high 25 points, Landen Lucas added 13 and ninth-ranked Kansas beat pesky TCU 64-59 on Thursday in the Big 12 tournament quarterfinals.
Playing without leading scorer Perry Ellis due to a knee injury, the top-seeded Jayhawks (25-7) had to sweat out all 40 minutes against the No. 9 seed Horned Frogs. It wasn't until Oubre got loose for a jam with a minute left that Kansas got some breathing room.
Trey Zeigler turned the ball over at the other end for TCU (18-15), and Kansas was able to run down the shot clock before Frank Mason III found Lucas for an alley-oop jam and a 63-57 lead with 30 seconds left. The Jayhawks were able to hold on the rest of the way.
Kansas advanced to play No. 16 Baylor in the semifinals Friday night. The fourth-seeded Bears pulled away late to beat No. 18 West Virginia 80-70 in an earlier quarterfinal.
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I am customizing this theme: http://demo.studiopress.com/minimum/ .
I am trying to make the header (the part with the logo and menu) just 1140px wide instead of 100% and make it centered, but I also want it to remain fixed at the top of the screen. If I remove position: fixed, it will center, but with that applied, it will not.
Is there a workaround for this type of thing?
HiTry this css code:
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That's a nice solution, @MarPlo. (It also works with the required 1140px width.)
Another option would be this (although I think I prefer MarPlo's):
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The downside of that technique is that as you close the window the left side of the element slides off the left side of the window and is unreachable. Some people used to center whole pages like that and it's a bit of nightmare on smaller screens.:)
I usually use the same technique as MarPlo for both fixed and absolute elements. As long as the element has a width (or a max-width) then left:0 and right 0 will center the element within the containing block (as will top:0 and bottom:0 vertically center the element with a fixed height). It doesn't work in IE7 though and if IE7 compatibility is needed another option is simply to nest a static element of the desired width inside a 100% wide fixed element and center it in the normal way.
Thanks so much, everyone! That solution works beautifully.


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School: Humboldt
Year: Sophomore
Sport: Soccer
Midfielder and captain opened the season by scoring four goals in a 5-4 loss to Columbia Heights. In addition to scoring on a penalty kick, she used her speed to create three others. "She is a true leader on and off the field," Humboldt activities director David Mergens said. "She has set the pace for a successful season."
School: Frederic, Wis.
Year: Senior
Sport: Football
Tailback has rushed for 428 yards on 60 carries and has three touchdowns in two games for the Vikings (1-1). In a 15-6 loss to Elmwood/Plum City on opening night, he rushed for 185 yards and a touchdown on 25 carries. In a 28-6 victory over Glenwood City, Chenal rumbled for 243 yards and two TDs on 35 carries. He is a starting inside linebacker.
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Sport: Soccer
Forward scored four goals in a 6-1 nonconference victory over St. Francis, Tartan's third consecutive win to open the season. She began the season with two goals in a 3-2 victory at Moorhead, then added two more in a 4-1 victory over Simley.
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Year: Senior
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Running back rushed for 209 yards and four touchdowns on 26 carries in a 38-27 victory over Tartan on opening night in the new Metro East Conference. After Tartan took a 14-0 lead, Hastings answered with three consecutive scoring runs by Latuff — of 12, 50 and 29 yards, respectively. He also caught a pass for 18 yards.
School: Hill-Murray
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Sport: Volleyball
Setter had 78 kills, 47 set assists, 14 blocks, 50 digs and 14 service aces as the Pioneers started the season 5-2. A three-year starter and captain, Angeli "has taken on the role of offensive leader, not only as a setter helping to run the offense, but also as a primary attacker," coach Tim Walen said.
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Third Report of the Expert Panel on Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Cholesterol in Adults (Adult Treatment Panel III, or ATP III)
**Note: The ATP III Report is out-of-date and is available for historical reference only.
The ATP III Report presents the National Cholesterol Education Program updated recommendations on cholesterol testing and management. This evidence-based report provides the scientific rationale for the recommendations contained in the Executive Summary.
ATP III was constructed on the foundation of ATP I and ATP II, with low density lipoprotein (LDL) continuing to be identified as the primary target of cholesterol lowering therapy.
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One of the leading figures in the Chicago music scene was lost Thursday as Fred Anderson, saxophonist, club owner and tireless advocate for the city's fertile jazz scene, died at 81. In a tender, illuminating obituary for the Chicago Tribune, critic Howard Reich reported that Anderson's sons declined to get into specifics about the saxophonist's death, but grave news of his "massive heart attack" on June 14 sent ripples of concern through the jazz community.
Owner of Chicago's landmark Velvet Lounge and co-founder of Chicago's intensely creative Assn. for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) collective, Anderson helped nurture the careers of many Chicago jazz heavyweights, including Ken Vandermark, Hamid Drake and Jeff Parker. Anderson remained a force onstage and on record late in life, including a remarkable 2007 album with Drake and Parker, "From the River to the Ocean" (recorded by Tortoise's John McEntire and released on the Chicago indie label Thrill Jockey), and last year's live recording from his 80th-birthday show at the Velvet Lounge, "21st Century Chase," a fiery, inspiring free excursion that also featured Parker along with tenor saxophonist Kidd Jordan, bassist Harrison Bankhead and drummer Chad Taylor.
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OT - would you use an at home hairdresser?
I looked forever to find a good hairdresser. I got a call the other day from the salon that she is no longer with them. I don't know why she left but they gave me her number.
Now she is doing hair out of her house. I'm not sure how I feel about going to some one's house. I'd rather be at a salon but a good person is hard to find.
I don't think she was planning on leaving. She's in the middle of buying and renovating a new house. The whole thing seemed really sudden.
It depends on how long i was going to her and how much I've gotten to know her. I don't have a hairdresser....i do go to a place that does decent hair cuts. My friend had a hairdresser that was great and they became friends. She used her for over 2 years and she started getting her haircuts at her house so they can drink wine and have fun while she was getting a haircut. Even though my friend moved away, they still keep in touch.
hmm... never thought about it being not be legal. I'm sure she's licenced. I've been going to her about 2 - 3 years.
If she has been doing your hair for awhile now, what would the problem be? You obviously like how she does your hair and you obviously have a decent relationship with her. It is no different than her moving to another shop. I really don't understand the problem.
I guess I'm worried that she won't be set up or have the right equipment. I usually get a cut and color. Is she going to have a way to wash my hair? Will she have the color? What am I going to do sit at her kitchen table?
It's one thing when the person is planning on having an in home business but it doesn't seem like this was her intent. I like the anonymity of the salon but I really did like her. I'm torn.
I would, but my hairdresser is one of my best friends. I would trust her anywhere. She's fully licensed, which is a big deal to me. If it was someone else, and I was used to them and trusted them, I don't see why the location would matter, really.
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Yes. The lady who does my braids has been doing them for about 8 years. She had her basement renovated to look like a salon long before I started going to her, she is licensed.
I go to a friend's house for my hair. She just sets a chair up in her kitchen and washes our hair in the kitchen sink. She does an awesome job and is just doing it out of her home so she can be at home iwth her 4 kids. Going to her, helps support that and I love that. Plus it is a lot less $$ for me to pay than when I went to her at a salon she had worked at.


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What is Peer review?
My point is that peer review is impossible to define in operational terms (an operational definition is one whereby if 50 of us looked at the same process we could all agree most of the time whether or not it was peer review). Peer review is thus like poetry, love, or justice. But it is something to do with a grant application or a paper being scrutinized by a third party—who is neither the author nor the person making a judgement on whether a grant should be given or a paper published. But who is a peer? Somebody doing exactly the same kind of research (in which case he or she is probably a direct competitor)? Somebody in the same discipline? Somebody who is an expert on methodology? And what is review? Somebody saying `The paper looks all right to me', which is sadly what peer review sometimes seems to be. Or somebody pouring all over the paper, asking for raw data, repeating analyses, checking all the references, and making detailed suggestions for improvement? Such a review is vanishingly rare.
What is clear is that the forms of peer review are protean. Probably the systems of every journal and every grant giving body are different in at least some detail; and some systems are very different. There may even be some journals using the following classic system. The editor looks at the title of the paper and sends it to two friends whom the editor thinks know something about the subject. If both advise publication the editor sends it to the printers. If both advise against publication the editor rejects the paper. If the reviewers disagree the editor sends it to a third reviewer and does whatever he or she advises. This pastiche—which is not far from systems I have seen used—is little better than tossing a coin, because the level of agreement between reviewers on whether a paper should be published is little better than you'd expect by chance.1
That is why Robbie Fox, the great 20th century editor of the Lancet, who was no admirer of peer review, wondered whether anybody would notice if he were to swap the piles marked `publish' and `reject'. He also joked that the Lancet had a system of throwing a pile of papers down the stairs and publishing those that reached the bottom. When I was editor of the BMJ I was challenged by two of the cleverest researchers in Britain to publish an issue of the journal comprised only of papers that had failed peer review and see if anybody noticed. I wrote back `How do you know I haven't already done it?'
Does Peer Review 'work' and what is it for?
But does peer review `work' at all? A systematic review of all the available evidence on peer review concluded that `the practice of peer review is based on faith in its effects, rather than on facts'.2 But the answer to the question on whether peer review works depends on the question `What is peer review for?'.
One answer is that it is a method to select the best grant applications for funding and the best papers to publish in a journal. It is hard to test this aim because there is no agreed definition of what constitutes a good paper or a good research proposal. Plus what is peer review to be tested against? Chance? Or a much simpler process? Stephen Lock when editor of the BMJ conducted a study in which he alone decided which of a consecutive series of papers submitted to the journal he would publish. He then let the papers go through the usual process. There was little difference between the papers he chose and those selected after the full process of peer review.1 This small study suggests that perhaps you do not need an elaborate process. Maybe a lone editor, thoroughly familiar with what the journal wants and knowledgeable about research methods, would be enough. But it would be a bold journal that stepped aside from the sacred path of peer review.
Another answer to the question of what is peer review for is that it is to improve the quality of papers published or research proposals that are funded. The systematic review found little evidence to support this, but again such studies are hampered by the lack of an agreed definition of a good study or a good research proposal.
Peer review might also be useful for detecting errors or fraud. At the BMJ we did several studies where we inserted major errors into papers that we then sent to many reviewers.3,4 Nobody ever spotted all of the errors. Some reviewers did not spot any, and most reviewers spotted only about a quarter. Peer review sometimes picks up fraud by chance, but generally it is not a reliable method for detecting fraud because it works on trust. A major question, which I will return to, is whether peer review and journals should cease to work on trust.
The Defects of Peer Review
So we have little evidence on the effectiveness of peer review, but we have considerable evidence on its defects. In addition to being poor at detecting gross defects and almost useless for detecting fraud it is slow, expensive, profligate of academic time, highly subjective, something of a lottery, prone to bias, and easily abused.
Slow and expensive
Many journals, even in the age of the internet, take more than a year to review and publish a paper. It is hard to get good data on the cost of peer review, particularly because reviewers are often not paid (the same, come to that, is true of many editors). Yet there is a substantial `opportunity cost', as economists call it, in that the time spent reviewing could be spent doing something more productive—like original research. I estimate that the average cost of peer review per paper for the BMJ (remembering that the journal rejected 60% without external review) was of the order of £100, whereas the cost of a paper that made it right though the system was closer to £1000.
The cost of peer review has become important because of the open access movement, which hopes to make research freely available to everybody. With the current publishing model peer review is usually `free' to authors, and publishers make their money by charging institutions to access the material. One open access model is that authors will pay for peer review and the cost of posting their article on a website. So those offering or proposing this system have had to come up with a figure—which is currently between $500-$2500 per article. Those promoting the open access system calculate that at the moment the academic community pays about $5000 for access to a peer reviewed paper. (The $5000 is obviously paying for much more than peer review: it includes other editorial costs, distribution costs—expensive with paper—and a big chunk of profit for the publisher.) So there may be substantial financial gains to be had by academics if the model for publishing science changes.
There is an obvious irony in people charging for a process that is not proved to be effective, but that is how much the scientific community values its faith in peer review.
People have a great many fantasies about peer review, and one of the most powerful is that it is a highly objective, reliable, and consistent process. I regularly received letters from authors who were upset that the BMJ rejected their paper and then published what they thought to be a much inferior paper on the same subject. Always they saw something underhand. They found it hard to accept that peer review is a subjective and, therefore, inconsistent process. But it is probably unreasonable to expect it to be objective and consistent. If I ask people to rank painters like Titian, Tintoretto, Bellini, Carpaccio, and Veronese, I would never expect them to come up with the same order. A scientific study submitted to a medical journal may not be as complex a work as a Tintoretto altarpiece, but it is complex. Inevitably people will take different views on its strengths, weaknesses, and importance.
So, the evidence is that if reviewers are asked to give an opinion on whether or not a paper should be published they agree only slightly more than they would be expected to agree by chance. (I am conscious that this evidence conflicts with the study of Stephen Lock showing that he alone and the whole BMJ peer review process tended to reach the same decision on which papers should be published. The explanation may be that being the editor who had designed the BMJ process and appointed the editors and reviewers it was not surprising that they were fashioned in his image and made similar decisions.)
Sometimes the inconsistency can be laughable. Here is an example of two reviewers commenting on the same papers.
Reviewer A: `I found this paper an extremely muddled paper with a large number of deficits'
Reviewer B: `It is written in a clear style and would be understood by any reader'.
This—perhaps inevitable—inconsistency can make peer review something of a lottery. You submit a study to a journal. It enters a system that is effectively a black box, and then a more or less sensible answer comes out at the other end. The black box is like the roulette wheel, and the prizes and the losses can be big. For an academic, publication in a major journal like Nature or Cell is to win the jackpot.
The evidence on whether there is bias in peer review against certain sorts of authors is conflicting, but there is strong evidence of bias against women in the process of awarding grants.5 The most famous piece of evidence on bias against authors comes from a study by DP Peters and SJ Ceci.6 They took 12 studies that came from prestigious institutions that had already been published in psychology journals. They retyped the papers, made minor changes to the titles, abstracts, and introductions but changed the authors' names and institutions. They invented institutions with names like the Tri-Valley Center for Human Potential. The papers were then resubmitted to the journals that had first published them. In only three cases did the journals realize that they had already published the paper, and eight of the remaining nine were rejected—not because of lack of originality but because of poor quality. Peters and Ceci concluded that this was evidence of bias against authors from less prestigious institutions.
This is known as the Mathew effect: `To those who have, shall be given; to those who have not shall be taken away even the little that they have'. I remember feeling the effect strongly when as a young editor I had to consider a paper submitted to the BMJ by Karl Popper.7 I was unimpressed and thought we should reject the paper. But we could not. The power of the name was too strong. So we published, and time has shown we were right to do so. The paper argued that we should pay much more attention to error in medicine, about 20 years before many papers appeared arguing the same.
The editorial peer review process has been strongly biased against `negative studies', i.e. studies that find an intervention does not work. It is also clear that authors often do not even bother to write up such studies. This matters because it biases the information base of medicine. It is easy to see why journals would be biased against negative studies. Journalistic values come into play. Who wants to read that a new treatment does not work? That's boring.
We became very conscious of this bias at the BMJ; we always tried to concentrate not on the results of a study we were considering but on the question it was asking. If the question is important and the answer valid, then it must not matter whether the answer is positive or negative. I fear, however, that bias is not so easily abolished and persists.
The Lancet has tried to get round the problem by agreeing to consider the protocols (plans) for studies yet to be done.8 If it thinks the protocol sound and if the protocol is followed, the Lancet will publish the final results regardless of whether they are positive or negative. Such a system also has the advantage of stopping resources being spent on poor studies. The main disadvantage is that it increases the sum of peer reviewing—because most protocols will need to be reviewed in order to get funding to perform the study.
Abuse of peer review
There are several ways to abuse the process of peer review. You can steal ideas and present them as your own, or produce an unjustly harsh review to block or at least slow down the publication of the ideas of a competitor. These have all happened. Drummond Rennie tells the story of a paper he sent, when deputy editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, for review to Vijay Soman.9 Having produced a critical review of the paper, Soman copied some of the paragraphs and submitted it to another journal, the American Journal of Medicine. This journal, by coincidence, sent it for review to the boss of the author of the plagiarized paper. She realized that she had been plagiarized and objected strongly. She threatened to denounce Soman but was advised against it. Eventually, however, Soman was discovered to have invented data and patients, and left the country. Rennie learnt a lesson that he never subsequently forgot but which medical authorities seem reluctant to accept: those who behave dishonestly in one way are likely to do so in other ways as well.
Trust in Science and Peer Review
One difficult question is whether peer review should continue to operate on trust. Some have made small steps beyond into the world of audit. The Food and Drug Administration in the USA reserves the right to go and look at the records and raw data of those who produce studies that are used in applications for new drugs to receive licences. Sometimes it does so. Some journals, including the BMJ, make it a condition of submission that the editors can ask for the raw data behind a study. We did so once or twice, only to discover that reviewing raw data is difficult, expensive, and time consuming. I cannot see journals moving beyond trust in any major way unless the whole scientific enterprise moves in that direction.
So peer review is a flawed process, full of easily identified defects with little evidence that it works. Nevertheless, it is likely to remain central to science and journals because there is no obvious alternative, and scientists and editors have a continuing belief in peer review. How odd that science should be rooted in belief.


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– After the announcement of the WWE Title tournament, CM Punk tweeted the following text and pic:
New champ? How can that be, when the champ is…here: http://t.co/S2xOcLe
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Many chinchilla owners ask the question: can chinchillas get wet? It certainly is a valid question to ask, and an important one for us as chinchilla owners to understand. You see, when it comes to the answer, the short answer is yes, but the long (and perhaps more correct) answer is no.
Wow – now doesn't that sound confusing! Let's look at this in a little more detail. You see, the relationship between chinchillas and water is all down to the whole reason that so many have been bred – their wonderfully soft, luxurious fur coat.
Unlike most other animals, chinchillas don't have any outer guard hairs that repel water from the coat. Consequently, they have very thick, soft, fluffy coats, which are not very resistant to water. This dense fluffy fur acts as a sponge, retaining water close to the skin and this then prevents the coat from drying easily. And as you can no doubt appreciate, sitting around in a thick, soggy damp fur coat for a long period of time is not going to do any chinchilla (in fact, any animal whatsoever) any good.
So, chinchillas can get wet – it's a myth that their hair will fall out, or that a chin will instantly die if it gets wet. But at the same time it is not good for a chinchilla to get wet, simply because they take a long time to dry. This in turn can cause it to catch a chill and become ill. Also, as the moisture is retained close to the skin, this can result in a fungus growth that can cause infection of either the skin or fur – or both. If your chinchilla gets wet it's best to towel dry it immediately, and then use a no-heat hair dryer to remove all traces of moisture from the coat.
It's Time to get Dirty….
Like many wild animals, chinchillas take a dust bath to keep their fur in tip-top condition. This is how they keep clean. In their natural habitat chinchillas take regular dust baths in volcanic ash. In captivity, their natural behavior can be replicated by providing them with a sand/dust bath at least twice a week to maintain their coat in a healthy condition.
Check out this to see a couple of baby chinnies loving their very first dust bath!
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Specially formulated chinchilla bath dust, consisting of pumice grit, can be purchased from most pet stores that cater for chinchillas. The dust absorbs excess oils from the coat, keeping it clean, soft, and fluffy. If your chinchillas coat looks scruffy or oily it's probably due for a dust bath. However, if the chinchilla's skin becomes too dry and he begins scratching himself, a sure sign of dry, flaky skin, you can reduce the frequency and duration of the dust baths.
Chinchillas thoroughly relish their dust baths, and they should be regularly provided. It's best to provide the dust bath in a container that prevents the dust from flying everywhere as they tend to bathe with vigor – and it's soooo much fun to watch… It's also advisable to remove the dust bath from their cage once bath time is over to prevent them using the dust bath as a litter box.
So, to sum up and answer the question "can chinchillas get wet?" Yes they can, but they don't like it, and it's not healthy for them. If your chinchilla should accidentally get wet, make sure that you dry it quickly in the way mentioned above to prevent any ill-effects.
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Kellogg Australia makes kids cereal pledge
The company's free school breakfast program will feed around 10,000 children each school day throughout the year and is part of the company's wider Breakfast for Better Days hunger relief initiative.
"Our program exists to support children in need by helping to ensure they have the best start to their day possible, but to see one in seven children skipping breakfast remains a concern for the community at large," said Nitin Vig, head of the free school breakfast program at Kellogg Australia.
Kellogg launched its Breakfast for Better Days initiative in early 2013 and previously told BakeryandSnacks.com it had an important role to play in curbing world hunger.
However, the company hasn't had a smooth run since the initiative launched. Kellogg's UK business faced social media backlash in November last year over a distasteful tweet relating to the initiative that read '1 RT = 1 breakfast for a vulnerable child'. The cereal major promptly removed the tweet and issued two apology tweets.