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Yet I always feel so good when I watch it. I like hanging out with these people.
Bob and Linda are an example of the best we can hope for in a marriage where money is a constant struggle, where you're barely keeping your family above water. They enjoy their eccentricities while taking turns playing the straight man/woman to the other's hi-jinx (how much do I love it that Linda avoids the Nagging Wife trope and often gets to be the funny crazy one, with moments of much needed clarity on the occasions Bob goes off the rails? She has it both ways and it's great, never out of character). Meanwhile, characters like Teddy, Mort, and Gayle may be single, slow, and oblivious, but seldom afraid to reach out and make friends.
Above all, I really, really wish Bob's Burgers had been around when I was a kid.
Why do I like hanging out with these people? Lots of cartoon and TV shows have characters who are quirky, zany, unusual, and downright weird and unsettling. Yet what sets Bob's Burgers apart--particularly where the kid characters are concerned--is that the characters are who they are without apology. They get off on their own weirdness. They embrace it.
Maybe not. Childhood/prepubescent self-doubt runs deep, no matter how charming the role model. What I honestly believe these kids would have taught me is to have more of a sense of humor about myself. Oh, I was always a bit of a cut-up, the clown of my social group. But I'm talking about the internal jokester; the one that says, "hey, I ain't perfect, I'm weird and loud, I like writing erotic friendfiction about that hot zombie boy Chad, and you know what? That's funny. And it's okay to be funny in weird, unconventional ways. In fact, it's pretty terrific."
And hell, once kids get a little older, after they've overcome the hurdles of adolescence, Linda can serve as a great adult role model about not letting life and its troubles scare them away from bursting into horrifying and perky musical numbers. Sure, the songs may be a little dark and twisted, but if you're happy singing them, that's what really counts.


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If you're planning a romantic north Queensland getaway either a Hotel Room or One Bedroom Studio is the ideal choice. They feature air-conditioning, tea and coffee facilities, and internet access, Studios also have the added benefit of a kitchenette and balcony. If you're travelling with up to five people, a Two Bedroom Apartment or Dual Key Studio will see you well accommodated.
For those who like to stay in shape while on holiday, there is a fitness centre, tennis court and lap pool. For the more leisurely inclined, be sure to make the most of the lagoon pool with swim up pool bar. The kids will love the waterslide and bike hire. If everyone is tired at the end of a busy day, simply cook an easy dinner at the barbecue area.
Let the Tour Desk help you make the most of the beautiful surrounding region, by assisting with organising bookings to the reef, rainforest and other local attractions.
The Hotel Room is perfect for singles or couples, it is fresh and clean featuring an ensuite, the option of one double or two single beds, Foxtel television, air-conditioning and tea and coffee facilities.
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Available with a queen bed and boasts a garden view or lagoon pool view on request (additional fees apply).
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These room types are available with a queen or king (zip) bed and are available with a garden view or lagoon pool view by request (additional fees apply).
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Birthday Candle - Baileys and Friends. Let's Do This Again.
2/10. One hopes this will be Diageo's new text book 'how not to do our advertising'. Someone drops a birthday cake. But the remains are scooped into bowls and Baileys glugged over them. Insight? You can make an already sweet drink as saccharine as this so-called slice-of-life.
Captain Morgan - Party Like a Champion. 2012.
4/10. Pirates are all the rage. Hard to screw up? It is when you create a cod football anthem featuring poor lookalikes of Rooney and the Queen. Jugs of rum and coke is suddenly the footy fans drink of choice? Not if your budget and imagination is this thin.
Gordon's - The dinner party.
9/10. An ambitious and category-defining campaign. A beautifully cast and witty TV commercial. This is what we expect from Diageo. Gordon's new advertising is founded on a truth: gin isn't and shouldn't be a session drink; but it is the perfect way to start the evening.
Johnnie Walker - The Man Who Walked Around the World.
8/10. Start your film in the bleak Scottish Highlands to the strains of a piper. Brave. But appropriate. Robert Carlyle narrates the origins of the famous blended malt to camera in one, continuous 6-minute shot. Even the walking/Walker pun is forgivable.
Smirnoff - 'Yours for the Making' campaign
5/10. Bang-on average. Smirnoff makes a party night feel like a vicar's tea party. We know this is a highly regulated sector. But don't make the sexy sexless with a tedious and pretentious litany: "We invite the creators, the curious, the yearners, all aiming to make a mark on the night with sound, flavour, texture and sight."
Guinness - Surfer Ad (with Horses)
10/10. Product truth: this pint takes longer to pour than ales and lagers. Ignore this fact? Apologise for it? No. Celebrate it. Some things - like the biggest surfing wave - are worth waiting for. Made in 1998, this commercial still lives in the memory and is probably the benchmark for modern Guinness advertising.
Smirnoff - Purified.
10/10. Simple facts turned into an epic commercial. 10 times filtered, triple distilled are the product features. What follows is a visually stunning tale of the sea disgorging the refuse of centuries. In the cinema, the acting, effects and music for this ad were often better than the main feature.
Pimm's - London Bus Tour.
10/10. Laugh out loud funny. In the age of 'lol' how many commercials achieve this? For once, a script exploits the genuine talent of the comic presenter, in this case: Alexander Armstrong. Subtle, engaging and self-deprecating, one hopes this whimsical campaign would work globally.
Piat d'Or - Le Piat D'or (wine) advert 1980s (1988)
7/10. Any ad starting with a French lady in her bath can't be all bad, gents. Piat d'Or was one of the original wine brands - as we know, a double-edged sword. This 1980s campaign claimed 'Le Français adore Le Piat d'Or'. Really? While the claim is incredible, the advertising had enough Gallic charm to pull it off.
Red Stripe - Jamaican Math
4/10. Red Stripe attempts to play on its Jamaican heritage in a series of ads presented by 'The Ambassador' who wears a sash to match the packaging. Sounds plonky because it is. No cliché is left unturned, including the one where white folk can't dance. It's not big and it's not clever.
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More Than Just A Game
By: Josh Jackson
There are plenty of obvious factors contributing to the buzz surrounding the Fresno Grizzlies this season. Perhaps one can say that it all started last year. The 2010 campaign was one of the more successful seasons in the recent history of the franchise, and fan favorites Buster Posey and Madison Bumgarner were major role players in the Giants' championship quest. Madison Bumgarner World Champion Bobblehead night drew nearly 10,000 fans to the ballpark this weekend, and the upcoming Buster Posey ROY/World Champion Bobblehead night is sure to draw a huge crowd as well.
Grizzlies and Giants fans alike are now excited to see what is in store for the organization. One of the most talked about players would be top Giants prospect Brandon Belt, who is one of the focal points of the upcoming Showtime series, The Franchise, along with Grizzlies closer Marc Kroon.
However, there are a lot of things the Grizzlies are doing to bring our community together that you may not yet be aware of.
Friday, May 20th, marked the first of two "Pack the Park to Fight Hunger" nights benefiting the Poverello House, presented by CBS 47. Poverello House is a nonprofit organization here in Fresno that has been serving the hungry and homeless since 1973. The residents of the Central Valley showed tremendous support, as over 9,000 people came out to the game. Many fans that showed up brought non-perishable food items in order to help the needy in the Fresno community and received a discount on their ticket for that nights game.
In addition, CBS 47 recently put on a food drive of their own at the station's studio and helped the Grizzlies spread the word in the community's effort to fight hunger. Don't worry if you missed the first night, but make sure you join us for the second and final "Pack the Park to Fight Hunger" night on Friday, July 8th."Pack the Park to Fight Hunger" is a great cause, but it isn't the only beneficial event that will be held at the ballpark this weekend. The Grizzlies are teaming up with the Red Cross on Sunday, May 22nd, to increase health awareness. During the game the Red Cross will have informational videos shown about CPR training, pool safety, babysitting precautions, and what to do in the wake of a natural disaster.
As many already know, the Grizzlies make it their responsibility to have a hand in the development of young children throughout the Central Valley. The Hopes and Dreams Foundation will also join the Grizzlies on May 22nd in this mutual effort. The Hopes and Dreams Film Project helps children suffering from life-threatening illnesses, and those of active military and first responders, to find inspiration and joy through the magic of filmmaking. The Hopes and Dreams Project shot their first film, "Build a Better Fastball", right here at Chukchansi Park this past January. The film will premiere on Wednesday, June 1st at 6:30 pm at the Sierra Vista Mall.
To extend the fun-packed weekend here at Chukchansi Park, the students that met the Wild About Reading challenge were invited to redeem their two free tickets on Sunday, May 22nd. Over 8,000 tickets were given to students that met Parker's challenge of reading ten books over a five-week period. Wild About Reading is just one of the ways the Grizzlies continue to help in the development of young children in the Central Valley.
Everyone in the Grizzlies family is more than excited about baseball this summer. But the Grizzlies and their fans are even more excited to use the sport as a platform to come together for the purpose of bettering our community. Make sure to keep an eye out for more beneficial events that will coincide with great baseball down at Chukchansi Park this summer.


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Space Rock
Space rock is a subgenre of rock music; the term originally referred to a group of early, mostly British, 1970s progressive and psychedelic rock bands such as Hawkwind, Gong, and Pink Floyd, characterised by slow, lengthy instrumental passages dominated by electronic organs, synthesizers, experimental guitar work and science fiction or outer space-related lyrical themes, though it was later repurposed to refer to a series of late 1980s British alternative rock bands that drew from earlier influences to create a more ambient but still melodic form of pop music.
A major album in the history of space rock was Hawkwind's "Space Ritual" (1973), a two-disc live album advertised as "88 minutes of brain-damage" documenting Hawkwind's successful 1972 tour that included a liquid light show and lasers, nude dancers (notably the earth-mother figure Stacia), wild costumes and psychedelic imagery.
Apart from Hawkwind, Marc Bolan and his band T Rex probably had the most success with space rock, mainly appearing on album tracks such as "Ballrooms of Mars", "Venus Loon" and "Spaceball Ricochet", although he characterised his music as "cosmic rock" (at the end of his first No 1 hit in the UK - "Hot Love". Like Hawkwind's Dave Brock, Bolan used pentatonic guitar progressions to design riffs.
Other examples include Flaming Youth's only album "Ark 2", Arzachel's "Arzachel", Mournblade's "Times Running Out", and the collaborative concept album The Zodiac "Cosmic Sounds".
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The oldest Christian parish north of Mexico, the Basilique-Cathédrale Notre-Dame-De-Québec has suffered everything from fires to battle damage to reconstruction and restoration. The opulent cathedral you see today is richly decorated with impressive works of art including stained glass windows,
Most of the Neo-classic facade of the Basilique-Cathédrale Notre-Dame-De-Québec is from the reconstruction completed in 1771, though parts of the basilica date from the original construction, including the bell tower and portions of the wall. The neo-baroque interior is appropriately grandiose with neo-baroque, filled with ecclesiastical treasures, paintings, and a chancel lamp (a gift of Louis XIV), illuminated by the flickering light of votive candles. Below is a crypt, where some 900 people are buried including governors of New France, archbishops and cardinals.
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Categories: Earth
Mar 7, 2011
ENCORE From the double-helix to the expansion of the universe, great scientific discoveries reshape our understanding of who we are and how things work. But great discoveries require more than just a great mind. We tour brainy breakthroughs from Archimedes to Darwin, and find out what made their revolutionary insights possible.
Also, why you need more than a stratospheric I.Q. to be a super-achiever. And how the invention of reading re-directed the course of civilization and re-wired our brains in the process.
- Alan Hirshfeld –" Professor of physics at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, and author of Eureka Man: The Life and Legacy of Archimedes
- Richard Holmes –" Author of The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
- Angela Duckworth –" Psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania. Her grit study can be found here
- Stanislas Dehaene –" Cognitive neruoscientist at the the Collège de France in Paris, and author of Reading in the Brain: The Science and Evolution of a Human Invention


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Mining giant BHP Billiton is considering appealing an order to pay a record $2.2 million to a man who was exposed to asbestos at a NSW steelworks.
The compensation was ordered on Thursday by the Dust Diseases Tribunal and is understood to be the largest payment in the tribunal's 25-year history.
The decision is the first time BHP Billiton has been ordered to pay financial compensation to a former employee of the Newcastle Steelworks who has contracted mesothelioma, an incurable cancer.
"BHP Billiton is currently considering the judgment and given it could be subject to appeal, is not commenting further on the matter at this time," a spokeswoman said.
The claimant, Steven Dunning, was diagnosed with the asbestos-related disease in 2010.
The 54-year-old was 19 when he began his two-year stint as a labourer at blast furnaces in the steelworks.
Slater & Gordon lawyer Joanne Wade said the case was a landmark win in NSW.
"While today's verdict is a significant victory for Mr Dunning and his family, it does not take away from the fact that he is dealing with an incurable, terminal disease as a result of BHP's negligence," Ms Wade said in a statement.
Mr Dunning's wife, Roma, said their lives had changed dramatically since her husband was diagnosed with the disease.
"I cannot begin to explain the devastation we felt on the day we were told he had this terminal illness," she said.
"We are trying to make the most of every day, even though Steven is still very sick and unable to do most of the things he used to enjoy."


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Both 2012 Hope College tennis squads have been named to the All-Academic honor roll of the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA). A total of 13 players from the two teams have been honored as ITA Scholar-Athletes.
The ITA honor roll required a cumulative team grade point average of 3.20 or above (on a 4.00 scale). The Flying Dutch, coached by Nate Price, maintained a cumulative 3.633 GPA during the 2011-12 school year while the Flying Dutchmen, coached by Steve Gorno, had a 3.598 cumulative GPA.
Scholar-Athlete recognitions were presented to players who maintained at least a 3.5 GPA for the entire school year. Hope honorees included (school year was in 2011-12): Casey Baxter. junior from Saline (Saline HS); Melissa Bieri, junior from Holland (Holland Christian HS); Parker Bussies, sophomore from Zeeland (Zeeland West HS); Carli Capestany, freshman from Hudsonville (Hudsonville HS); Gabe Casher, sophomore from Ann Arbor (Pioneer HS); Kelsey Jeletz, sophomore from Cedarburg, Wisc. (Cedarburg HS); Kyle Kreps, junior from Holland (Holland HS); Leah LaBarge, junior from Hudsonville (Hudsonville HS); Daniel Owens, junior from Rocky River, Ohio (Rocky River HS); Hannah Schulz, freshman from Allegan (Allegan HS); Shelby Schulz, junior from Allegan (Allegan HS); Mallory Smith, sophomore from Grand Haven (Grand Haven HS); and Davis Vanderveen, junior from Clarkston (Clarkston HS).
Both Hope tennis teams were also named to the Academic Honor Roll of the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA).


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Reservation for Model S
Runar | March 9, 2013
Only way to do this is to sell the car afterwards, can sell reservation
sethvandermeer | March 9, 2013
But how would Tesla know? In your profile you can change name, address, everything actually. And when the MVPA arrives it will be in the name of the one on profile, right? Not that I am interested, I think my car will arrive before the end of the year in The Netherlands ;-)
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Hi skirby015, I'd be interested in taking the reservation off your hands if you've changed your mind.


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from Sculpture/Inuit (Sculpture of the Inuit: Masterworks of the Canadian Arctic), Canadian Eskimo Arts Council/University of Toronto Press, 1971
Monday, July 11, 2011
Ayii, Ayii
Posted by ahoi! at Monday, July 11, 2011
Labels: art, books, carving/whittling, inuit art, sculpture
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the birds. amazing.
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MODESTO, Calif. – Modesto retailer Buy-Rite Thrift Store violated federal law by firing an employee for having epilepsy, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission charged in a lawsuit filed today under the Americans With Disabilities Act.
The EEOC's lawsuit alleges that Buy-Rite Thrift Store illegally fired Chris Cherling, a stocker on the night shift who has epilepsy, after he experienced mild seizures at work. Rather than request Cherling to take a fitness exam or provide medical documentation of his ability to perform the job duties required of his position, the thrift shop relied on its own judgment – which is not consistent with the law -- to determine that Cherling was a danger to himself and others, the EEOC said.
"I was shocked that Buy-Rite Thrift Store fired me because of my epilepsy," Cherling said. "Prior to working for this company, I had performed the duties of a stocker and cashier successfully for 17 years at a grocery store, despite having mild seizures during work."
The ADA prohibits disability discrimination and requires employers to make reasonable accommodations to employees with disabilities. The EEOC filed the lawsuit (EEOC v. BRT Management Company, Inc. dba Buy-Rite Thrift Store and W. & J. Capitol and Mgt. Co., Inc. d/b/a Buy Rite Thrift Store, Case No. CV 11-4536-HRL) in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its conciliation process. The suit seeks monetary damages, including back pay and compensation for emotional distress and punitive damages, as well as measures to prevent future discrimination.
EEOC San Francisco Regional Attorney William R. Tamayo said, "Epilepsy reportedly affects two million Americans. And it affects each person in different ways, with varying degrees of symptoms. This lawsuit emphasizes that employers cannot fire employees with epilepsy based on preconceptions about that disability. Please don't assume that having seizures caused by epilepsy automatically disqualifies your employee from doing a job, in this case as a stocker. It's critical to use objective evidence to determine whether that particular individual can perform the duties of the job."
EEOC San Francisco District Director Michael Baldonado added, "It is both illegal and bad business to target disabled workers for discriminatory treatment. Employers lose talented and loyal employees when they fire workers because of their disabilities."
The EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. Further information about the EEOC is available on its web site at www.eeoc.gov.


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Global Demand, ethanol and natural gas prices are the primary drivers behind high fertilizer prices, says Ford West, president of The Fertilizer Institute (TFI). In fact, they have contributed to the highest fertilizer prices on record.
TFI points out that natural gas accounts for 75 to 90% of the cost of producing a ton of ammonia (the building block for all nitrogen fertilizer). Ammonia production costs have increased 172% since 1999 due to skyrocketing natural gas prices. Twenty-five U.S. fertilizer production plants closed due to these high prices, and the U.S. now relies on imports for half of its nitrogen supplies.
Average fertilizer prices in August were 116% higher than they were in 1990 to 1992, according to USDA. In addition, fuel prices in August were up 161% from the 1990 to 1992 period.
The possible unavailability of potash also has become a concern. In October, Reuters reported that the Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan was suspending new sales due to problems at Silvinit, a major potash producer based in Russia. A sinkhole caused by mine flooding was threatening the railway that Silvinit uses to ship potash. The Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan, the world's largest fertilizer company, said in October that it would honor existing shipping agreements but would not make new sales to North American customers until it learned more about the situation in Russia.
Contributing to the potash situation is growing demand from Asian and Latin American markets and a weakened U.S. dollar, which makes Asian and Latin American markets more attractive to potash manufacturers.
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Soil fertility experts and ag retailers recommend some actions to take to reduce fertilizer costs.
John Sawyer, extension soil fertility specialist, Iowa State University (ISU), says to use university guidelines for nitrogen (N) application developed for your region. Do not over-apply. Use the Corn N Rate Calculator (extension. agron.iastate.edu/soilfertility/nrate.aspx) to help adjust to rapidly changing N fertilizer and corn grain prices.
Sawyer also recommends accounting for all nitrogen applied in ammoniated phosphate fertilizers, starters, weed and feed, and animal manure. And account for corn in rotation with soybean and forage legumes.
Test your soil for phosphorus (P) and potassium (K), he adds. If soils test high to very high, you can reduce rates and withhold applications until soil tests show P and K have dropped to levels where fertilizer is needed.
The use of yield monitors in the fall can help you better determine where you need to put the most or least fertilizer, suggests Bob Williams of Frontier FS Cooperative, Jefferson, WI. An area where only 50 to 60 bu. of corn/acre were harvested, for example, is going to need less fertilizer than an area with higher yields.
Side-dressing is an efficient use of N, Williams says, but adds there is generally not enough equipment available for side-dressing in a timely manner. If you wait to side-dress and experience a rainy spell, you might be unable to apply any N at all.
The closer to side-dress time N is applied, the more efficient it will be utilized, reports James Camberato, associate professor, soil fertility and plant nutrition, Purdue University. "Instead of adding extra N to early preplant N applications, fertilize later or side-dress at the recommended rate," he says.
Anhydrous is generally less expensive per pound of N than 28% urea-ammonium nitrate (UAN), so if you have equipment for both, you should use anhydrous, Camberato says. "In most situations, anhydrous will be as good as or better than 28% UAN since N loss from anhydrous is usually less," he points out.
Camberato also recommends incorporating 28% UAN or urea into the soil whenever possible to reduce the loss of ammonia. "If incorporation is not feasible, band rather than broadcast the fertilizer to reduce ammonia loss," he says. "This is especially important in no-till cropping systems where ammonia volatilization from urea-containing fertilizers can be as much as 30% with broadcast applications and 10% with banded applications."
Forward contracts, prepay
Williams says that, with fertilizer and fuel prices and land rents as high as they are, you should take advantage of forward contracts and lock in prices to cover your expenses. If you plan to prepay to help save on crop input costs, Williams recommends prepaying for fertilizer first, followed by seed and then crop protection products.
If you did not already make fall applications, you should lock in your spring supply, says Tom Warner, president, Crop Production Services (CPS), Galesburg, IL.
There was not much evidence that growers cut back on fertilizer rates this fall, Warner says, adding that most know from experience that high yields require sound fertility. "Growers with high P and K needs could cut back this year, but they know they are mining their soils and will have to catch up later if they want to continue improving yields," he notes.
You can cut back a bit on P and K, especially if you use a starter fertilizer, Williams says. You can fertilize in-row, making nutrients more available to the plant. "We ran one trial this year and saw a 14-bu./acre yield advantage when we used starter fertilizer compared to an application with no starter fertilizer," he says. This trial was in Wisconsin, which experienced a very cold spring in 2007.
Nitrogen fertilization is necessary to raise acceptable corn yields, says ISU's Sawyer. "Cutting below economic optimal rates will result in reduced yield and lower net return," he says. "The same thing happens with over-fertilization, so it is important to look at proper fertilization rates and good management practices. There is no guarantee that fertilizer prices will be lower in the future, so not applying needed fertilization now might cost as much or more in the future."
Offset costs with manure
Manure can be a good source of N for corn production and certainly can offset N fertilizer use. But it takes extra planning and effort to use manure as a nutrient resource, Sawyer says. "Not all manure nutrients are crop-available in the year of application, so some differential account for that is needed when determining the value of manure [which depends on its source]," he says.
Manure becomes more valuable as fertilizer prices increase, especially when P and K prices, as well as N prices, are high. Manure is more valuable when applied to fields that need P and K in addition to N, says Purdue's Camberato. However, he says, N availability is more uncertain with manure than anhydrous or 28% UAN, so you should consider applying a portion of the N requirement with manure and the remainder with inorganic fertilizer to reduce the risk of over- or under-applying N.
He also recommends using the pre-sidedress nitrate test (PSNT) to check on soil N supply in manured fields before deciding to sidedress N in corn.
Another option is to hire custom application. Dick Stiltz, Lincoln Land FS, Jacksonville, IL, says you should not dismiss custom work because you think the cost is too high. In many cases, it makes more sense to hire custom application services than to do it yourself when you factor in fuel, labor liability and other costs, Stiltz says.
He agrees with Warner that if you did not already make fall applications, you should lock in your spring supply. In fact, he cautions that if you do not already have fertilizer contracted, you may be shut out of getting what you need for spring.


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BOS to HOU = 1602 miles
HOU to PTY = 1770 miles
PTY to CTG = 283 miles
CTG to BOG = 408 miles
BOG to LIM = 1170 miles
LIM to CUZ = 364 miles
CUZ to LIM =364 miles
LIM to QUI = 826 miles
QUI to HOU = 2347 miles
HOU to BOS = 1602 miles
BOS to CHI = 863 miles
CHI to AMM = 6220 miles
AMM to CAI = 295 miles
CAI to ABD =1464 miles
ABD to JNB =3892 miles
JNB to CPT =790 miles
PEL to JNB = 562 miles
JNB to BOM = 4318 miles
BOM to BKK = 1885 miles
BKK to PNP = 329 miles
SAI to HUE = 390 miles
Danang to HAN = 390 miles
HAN to BKK = 601 miles
BKK to CMA = 353 miles
CMA to BKK = 353 miles
BKK to NAR =2880 miles
NAR to HNL =3810 miles
HNK to LAX = 2550 miles
SAN to NWR = 2420 miles
NWR to BOS = 200 miles
Total Miles flown = 45,311
What we do not include here are the miles traveled by foot, car, bus, taxi, bicycle, or train. We often lamented not bringing pedometers because we definitely walked 100's of miles. People continually comment on us looking as though we did not eat on this trip - trust us, we ate and we ate a lot, but when the primary mode of transportation is by foot, a lot of calories are burned!
We also did not calculate the number of hours spent waiting in airports, that would be interesting because it's going to be a fairly high number!
Total World Heritage Sites
As we mentioned at the beginning of our journey, we planned our trip with an emphasis on World Heritage Sites as a starting point. Here is the rundown of the World Heritage Sites we visited around the world. Our best count is in Vietnam, where we saw 5 out of 7!
*Panama Viejo
*Fort San Lorenzo
*Cartagena de Indias: Port, Fortresses, and Group of Monuments
*Machu Picchu
*Lake Titicaca - Taquile Island (the people of the island and their culture is really the item on the list)
*City of Cuzco
*City of Quito
*Memphis and its Necropolis – the Pyramid Fields from Giza to Dahshur
*Historic Cairo
South Africa
*Robben Island
*Hoi An Ancient Town
*Complex of Hue Monuments
*Central Sector of the Imperial Citadel of Thang Long (or, as we call it: Flag in Hanoi)
*Ha Long Bay
*My Son Sanctuary
*Historic City of Ayutthaya
Bodies of Water
*Dead Sea – Lowest Body of Water on Earth
*Lake Titicaca – Highest Lake on Earth
~~Anthony's Reflections~~
Favorite Special Treat? All of the glorious and I'm sure terribly bad for you, Cadbury chocolates in South Africa
Favorite Day or Experience? This one is virtually impossible to narrow down, but if I have to pick one day/experience, I'd have to say the day we spent with Me in Sa'Pa Vietnam. She was a very friendly and quite funny Hmong woman who lived in a small village up in the mountains. The great thing for me about this day was the fact that she met us in town early in the morning so that she could provide us a guided three hours-plus walk/hike to her home. En-route we passed through beautiful rolling hills with rice terraces on all sides, more colors of green than one could count, and snapshots of daily village life in Vietnam. We spent the rest of the day eating a home cooked lunch with freshly harvested rice and veggies, talking with her and her family, and learning more about the Hmong people than I had ever known. At the end of the day I think we both realized we had really been part of something special and it will definitely stay with me for a long time.
Favorite New Food? Eggplant and falafel pita pockets and I'm down for just about anything Thai or Vietnamese…yummy!!!
What you missed the most from home? I like a nice comfortable pillow to rest my head on at the end of the day, unfortunately, these were often tough to come by. We actually experienced many creative attempts in the pillow department, but when it comes down to it a nice pillow makes a huge difference in the quality of sleep, regardless of how tired one may be. I also missed Marie Sharps hot sauce…I still do in fact.
What you'll miss the most from traveling? I'm not sure since three weeks after I arrived home I was already getting the travel bug again, itching to go somewhere. I will miss all of the amazing people with whom we talked, laughed, shared meals, hiked, and spent quality time. The world is an amazing place and to travel to places that pushed us even further outside of our comfort zones is humbling. There are an immense amount of incredible, amazing, and genuinely kind people in our world who always teach me something new about whom I am and why it is so important for us to take care of one another as human beings.
Something you'd prefer to forget? Absolutely nothing… Everything that I experienced, whether good or bad, became memories that I will always have with me.
Worst Hotel? Ditto with Ginnie on the New Palace Hotel in Cairo
Worst Meal? I can't remember the name of the place, but we had a cheese pizza in Aguas Calientes, Peru. This was not only one the worst pizza I'd ever had, but also ranked right up there as one of the most terrible meals I've eaten in my life.
Best Meal? Another tie. The Thai red curry that I made from absolute scratch in cooking school and the Pad Thai dish in Phnom Penh, Cambodia (only $1.75 too!); oh, almost forgot, the pizza topped with fried eggplant in Banos, Ecuador…MMMMmmmm.
Best Hotel? Casapaxi in Quito and Hoang Trinh Guesthouse in Hoi An, Vietnam
Something you'll never forget? A tie. Standing in the tombs of Saqarra and staring at the wall still etched and painted with hieroglyphics from thousands of years ago, pretty darn amazing. Second, waking before the sun to arrive at Addo Elephant Park at sunrise and then spending the day viewing some of the most amazing and beautiful creatures on Earth.
Favorite Special Treat? Lay's Sweet Potato Chips in Peru – we went on long walks searching shops for these, they are just that good and there have been none to rival them anywhere else!
Favorite Day or Experience? All of it? No, to pick one is hard, but two things jump to mind: 1) walking with an elephant's trunk in my hand and feeling no fear and 2) spotting my first giraffes in the game park and the excitement of that sighting
Favorite New Food? Koshary (from Egypt, it's made of rice, brown lentils, chickpeas, macaroni and topped with a spicy tomato sauce and then crispy fried onions)
What you missed the most from home? a couch (sitting on a bed is just not as comfortable!)
What you'll miss the most from traveling? Experiencing new things daily, all the walking, learning to say things in different languages and interacting with some of the most amazing, friendly, open and generous people all over the world - what a wonderful place we live and how lucky I feel to have had the chance to see so much of it
Something you'd prefer to forget? The pain that develops in the lower part of the body when riding a beach cruiser bicycle through streets of Cambodia or Vietnam for several hours due to wrong turns or following well-meaning people who decide our intended path is not as good as where they think we should go. Truthfully, I agree with Anthony, there is nothing I would wish to forget because every moment made an impact.
Worst Hotel? The New Palace in Egypt – HORRIBLE (we stayed one night, but immediately checked out upon waking the next day!) Let me expound some – it is in a bit of back alley (first sign of alarm upon arrival from the airport) and is on the 6th floor of a dilapidated building that requires taking a rickety elevator and passing empty, abandoned floors that looked as though they would collapse at any moment. Once in the room, we were attacked by mosquitos and could not find their lair. Then our toilet leaked continually and the response from staff was to just turn it off and they would look at it the next day; they also simply brought in a new bathroom rug to soak up the water and then be smelly. Finally, the staff is super creepy and rude – not comfortable to be a woman there – and when we checked out they wanted us to still pay for the remainder of our reservation (hence the reason we NEVER pay for rooms upfront because we would never have been given our money back). So, do NOT stay there if you go to Cairo!
Worst Meal? I don't really have a worst meal (perhaps on the two occasions we had to have beans right from the can since there was no way to heat them was not my favorite, but it works), but I do have the worst dining experience and that came just days into being in Jordan when because we could not cook at our hotel, we had to eat out and since there are not a lot of vegetarian meals, we ate hummus, pita, falafel, or baba ghanouge and I felt like I never actually had substinence the entire time we were in the country! (Oh wait, not true, the night we stayed with PCVs we had an amazing spaghetti and fresh vegetable home-cooked meal that was super delightful!). The sad thing is, I was so excited to eat hummus in the Middle East, but I was so sick of hummus and pita after a few days that I just could no longer enjoy it and it was a burden!
Best Meal? The most amazing eggplant pizza at the small little unassuming restaurant in Banos, Ecuador ties with the meal we cooked ourselves at the Thai Cooking School (I am quite proud of that Pad Thai I made from scratch!)
Best Hotel? If I'm cheating, I'd say our condo in Thailand, but since that was using the timeshare I'll pick one of the many fabulous locally-run places – Casapaxi in Quito. I also really loved Hoang Trinh in Hoi An, the people are amazing, the breakfast is fantastic and they gave us a gift when we left.
Something you'll never forget? The adrenaline rush of having 3 lions walk right next to me and the excitement of first seeing hieroglyphs on the walls of tombs in Egypt


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ASU Computer Programming Competition
This morning, from 9am to 1pm, the Computer Science club at ASU (it's actually the Woman in Computer Science club but they hardly have any woman in their group - sorry Fred, I have to give you a hard time about this) had their annual programming competition.
Yours truly was one of the judges for the competition. There were some seriously tough problems to solve. In total, there were 10 computer science problems. Students were in teams of 1-4 people and they started the clock at 9am. The Team that solved the most problems correctly would win the competition.
Thank goodness there were pre-defined input and output files that the judges used to score each potential solution. Otherwise, my brain would be hurting right now. With more than 60 students and 30 teams and the possibility of 2 submissions per problem and a choice of programming languages that included Python, Java, C, C++ or .NET, judging the competition got to be quite interesting at times. We had to take submissions and compile them to ensure the code was original and compiled correctly, then use the input and output files to ensure the problem was solved appropriately. It was hectic, but it was fun.
So who wakes up super early on a Saturday morning to prepare for a 9am programming contest? Exactly the type of people that create great software companies and precisely the type of people we're looking for at AZ Disruptors and Axosoft! Yeh, we're geeks. So sue us (that's just a figure of speech people).
Congratulations to all the participants. I also wanted to highlight the winners of the competition:
- First Place: JDR - Daniel Olivas, James Cotter, Venkataramanan Kuppuswamy
- Second Place: Blue Bombers Forever - Matthew Brown, Andrew Morgan, Arjun Mukherji
- Third Place: Team Broadmor - Taylor Smith, Chris White, Patrick McInerney
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Two things did I know about William Howard Taft before reading this book. Firstly, in 1903, as governor of the Philippines, he opposed a ban on the sale of opium. Secondly, in 1913, as the 27th president of the USA, he vetoed the Webb-Kenyon Act which would have banned the transportation of alcohol from into dry states. A liberal man in age of puritanism, Taft's resistance was in vain. Opium was banned in the Philippines in 1908 and the Senate overrode his veto of Webb-Kenyon Act, paving the way for national prohibition followed seven years later.
After reading this novel, Jason Heller's first, I am not sure I know much more about this one-term president. He was a fat man, that much is amply emphasised. He had a moustache, like so did many gentlemen of the Gilded Age. And he would have fitted into the world of 2012 with surprising ease.
Taft died in 1930 in the bosom of his family, but that was only in real life. In 'Taft 2012', he mysteriously disappeared in 1913 and reappeared still more mysteriously in November 2011, just in time to bring some traditional American values to the current presidential election. His re-emergence leads to some inevitable fish-out-of-water confusions from the Crocodile Dundee school of comedy. There are various battles with technology, which Taft wins with remarkable ease for a man of 155. He enjoys some punk rock. He is unfazed by his descendent marrying a black man. He is soundly opposed to the War on Drugs.
Heller sees Taft's main attribute as being his reluctance to hold political office. He may be right, but even if not wanting to be president is an excellent qualification for the job, having no policies is not, and Heller's Taft has little of substance to say. He is neither appalled nor delighted to see what has happened to his country. He is just a bit confused, an affable man who is out of his depth and knows it. He sees no reason why he should run as president in 2012, and the reader has to agree, but the invitations rain in nonetheless. Thanks to the internet, a minor movement of 'Tafties' attempts to goad him back towards the White House. Heller's depiction of the madness of the Twitter crowd is well-observed, gently parodying the shallowness of the medium while showing Taft to be just another celebrity freak on the social networking conveyor belt.
It may be churlish to lay the charge of unrealism at a time travel yarn, but the ease with Taft fits into modern day liberal America strains credibility. This would matter less if the novel had the teeth to fulfill its promise. Instead, it is a political satire with very little satire and hardly any politics. Taft has nothing of significance to say about American foreign policy, abortion, Obamacare, the economy or how to reunite a divided country. He is an everyman with enough wisdom to know that he doesn't have the answers, but his reluctance to stir things up wastes an interesting premise. Heller clearly sees Taft as the kind of middle ground, third way candidate his country supposedly needs. He is, as his fictional grand-daughter tells him, "conservative yet forward-thinking, pro-business yet pro-regulation, principled yet open to compromise", but which politician does not describe themselves in these bland terms? Certainly not Mitt Romney.
The closing pages see something of a twist in the tale, but the target Heller takes aim at is too trivial to justify the effort of resurrecting a dead president, as if Churchill came back from the dead to complain about chewing gum. In the end, Taft 2012 is a perfectly enjoyable bit of fun which is as disposable as its title destines it to be.


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Members of the Buffalo Bills past and present expressed their grief Tuesday over the death of team owner Ralph C. Wilson Jr.
Then they expressed their admiration for Wilson's ability to make them feel a part of the Bills' family, a connection they said was the most special part of playing in Buffalo.
"He used to call me his favorite son, and we used to always laugh and joke about that," said Bills Hall-of-Fame running back Thurman Thomas. "When you have that type of relationship, it hits home. I was very close to Mr. Wilson. It hurts."
"I was like a son to him, and I felt that way," said Bills Hall-of-Fame receiver Andre Reed. "I could always talk to him. If anything was on my mind, I could call him up. He was always the first guy to greet you after a win and the first guy to greet you after a loss. Your owner really sets the tone for your football team. ... Family, that's what it was about."
Steve Tasker, the special teams great on the Bills' Super Bowl teams, said the players were able to joke with Wilson far more than one would expect in a player-owner relationship.
"On those home games Ralph would come down on the field every Thursday," Tasker said. "It was kind of his habit. We made fun of him because he wore these brown corduroy pants. 'These are my lucky pants!' he'd say. And he would joke with us. It says a lot about him. It got to the point where we were so familiar with him, he would allow us to make fun of him and join in the joke."
"I played in Minnesota," said Bills great Darryl Talley. "You know what? I never met the owner. I was there for a year. ... When you sit down and think of some of things he's done, it's amazing."
Tasker said the players did not doubt Wilson's passion to win.
"When we'd win a big one, it was great to see what it meant to him," Tasker said. "He didn't fake his joy. He didn't put on a front of how happy it made him. He didn't make up any emotions to make it look good for any media or any fan. When the Bills won a big game, it was as if he was the only fan."
"And sometimes, in the dark days, maybe he was," Tasker laughed. "But this team mattered to him deeply. For all the criticism, for all the bad years and dark times and back to back 2-14 teams, let me tell you this, it wasn't because he didn't care. He cared deeply."
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Here are excerpts of interviews from Tuesday:
"A lot of Bills fans have been standing on this cliff for a long time, but for those of us who played for him and knew him we were hoping it would never come. I'm sad. I'm brokenhearted."
"On those home games, Ralph would come down on the field every Thursday. It was kind of his habit. We made fun of him because he wore these brown corduroy pants. 'These are my lucky pants!' he'd say. And he would joke with us. It says a lot about him. It got to the point where we were so familiar with him, he would allow us to make fun of him and join in the joke."
"Bill Polian had a short fuse. Ralph had a shorter one. Ralph had a bigger explosion. So it was fun to hear the fallout once in a while, and the things those guys would argue and bicker about. The players knew that once you were on this team, Bill Polian would fight for you. Literally, he would throw fists for you. Ralph was cut from the same cloth. It was easy to be motivated to play hard for Ralph and this organization."
"It was my second game here, a road game at New England, and I didn't know anything. I was a second-year player. I had been a Houston Oiler for a year and a half and I had met Bud Adams, the owner of the Oilers, once briefly in a reception line. And I thought, that's kind of the way it was in the NFL. I got picked up off waivers midseason by Buffalo, right after Marv got the job. I'd been here eight days. I was sitting in the locker room in my game pants and T-shirt about two hours before the game. This gentleman walked up in a coat and tie, trench coat, and said, 'Hey Steve, I'm Ralph Wilson, I just want to say welcome on board. I hope it goes really well for you. Good luck, today. I hope you play well. I just want to say welcome.' I had to go over to Ed Abramoski and say, 'Who's this Ralph Wilson guy.' He goes, 'He owns the team.' I said, 'You're kidding me, he seems like a great guy.' From that moment on I knew it was going to be different here in Buffalo."
"I'll tell you this, the NFL is the 800-pound gorilla of professional sports leagues, and it's because of men like Ralph Wilson. He's not the only one. But he's certainly the template for the kind of man, the kind of leader that has made the NFL the institution on the American landscape that it is."
Tasker recalled a game about seven years ago in which the power went out at the stadium.
"I'll always remember this: when the Kevlar balloons hit the transformer out on the corner of the property and the lights went out in the stadium. Some vendor let the balloon get away, it arcs across and blows a fuse and the whole grid goes down. When it happened, they came on and went back off. It was pretty frustrating for everybody. Pretty soon the fans turn around and start looking at Ralph's box, and Ralph shrugged his shoulders and said, 'I knew they'd blame me eventually.' So he knew what he signed up for."
"My heart's been heavy for the last 24 to 36 to 48 hours, but with Mr. Wilson passing today, it hurts. I was just truly blessed to be around Mr. Wilson during the glory days. To see his energy, to see the passion, to see the love for the game that he had throughout the years when we were a good, exciting football team. To have him in the locker room after the game ... to see the excitement but also to see the disappointment of never winning a championship ... Coming into the locker room after big games, after Super Bowls, and always hearing him remind players, every player, and saying we wouldn't have got here without you. He felt that way about everybody on this football team."
Thomas recalled a game against the Bills in 2000, the one year in which he played for the Miami Dolphins:
"The one thing I'll always remember, and I don't think I've ever told anybody this story, was the week that I was in Miami and the Dolphins were getting ready to play the Bills. Mr. Wilson called me. I hadn't talked to him since my release in February. The week of the game he called me that Friday and said, 'I apologize for not letting you go out the way you should have went out.' At that point in time, we made up. And that's when I wanted to retire as a Bill. Mr. Wilson was very important in my life, very important."
"It was just a really good fun relationship that I had with him.
Mr. Wilson said what he had to say, and he was going to say what needed to be said. Mr. Wilson had to ante up the money in order to keep Bruce Smith here when he got the offer from Denver. He did a great job keeping the core players together for a long, long time."
"I remember when I signed my contract. He said to me, 'Look, this will be the second time in my career that the highest paid running back in the league will be playing for the Buffalo Bills. The other was O.J. Simpson. ... He played a very vital role in not only keeping the players but keeping this team here over the years. We really appreciate him keeping the guys together as long as he possibly could."
"The City of Buffalo lost a damn good man, one who was very loyal to the city, and could have left when he wanted. Even through lean years of the Bills, the city stuck by him and when we won, he stuck by the city. It was a very good marriage. There was never a more loyal person than him to a city."
"I understand what the Bills mean to Western New York. That is the heartbeat of that city, the pulse. The way they perform on Sunday translates to the beginning of the week, how they go to work how they do their jobs, whether they feel miserable or decent."
"The people of Western New York are very, very loyal people, loyal to their teams and support them no matter what. I don't think that can be said for a lot of cities, or a lot of teams. There's a relationship there that's second to none. I don't care what anybody says, I can go from Orlando to California and after being there an hour I'll run into somebody from Buffalo, and they want to talk about the Bills. I played in Minnesota. You know what? I never met the owner. I was there for a year."
"He was 95. I'd take 95 in a heartbeat. You give me 95, I'm signing up. He had 95 years on this Earth. The first 30 may have been hell. But I guarantee you, that last 60-some odd years, he had a hell of a time."
"After the very first Super Bowl, he could have got up and left. They were arguing about the stadium back then. He could have said, 'OK, I'm done, I'm going to do what Al Davis did.'"
"I truly enjoyed getting together with him, if we were at the league meetings, we went to dinner together or out to breakfast. He was fun to be with. We shared interest in many things, certainly in the game of football. He was a unique man to work for in that he would strongly express his opinions, and he would really listen if you have had a contrary opinion. I remember once he wanted to replace a coach on the staff, and I felt it was so wrong to do in that case, and I persisted, and I wondered if I was putting myself under the gun. And finally at the end, he said, 'I still don't agree with you, but you're the coach.' He never held any malice, and a few years later he really liked that other guy.
"Almost every time he would come to practice he'd exchanged jibes, usually with Thurman, but some of the others who weren't reticent about doing that with the owner."
About every month or so I'd call him and upon occasion he'd call me, just to say how you doing. I'd done this all the years since I retired, but about four to five months ago I began to detect that maybe he was struggling a little bit to communicate. I spoke a time or two more with Mary to see how he was doing. I'd say it used to be about once a month we'd have a telephone conversation about nothing, just to talk to each other."
On getting to the Super Bowl: "I could sense the glow and how proud he was. Here's a guy who had come into the beginning of the AFL so many years previously and really had never gotten there until the 1990 season. It wasn't just Ralph Wilson that was going to the Super Bowl, he saw to it that everybody in the organization. He really set an example of total organization wins. Not just a great owner, not just a coach or a quarterback, it was total organization. We'd go to those Super Bowls and he took everybody, the security guards, everybody. The people that cleaned up at night, they were part of the Buffalo Bills at the Super Bowl."
"We all know the history of the NFL and the AFL merging with the NFL. Ralph really innovated, and really took a chance to make the sport better. The original AFL owners wanted to be a part of it. You've got to thank those guys for why the TV revenue is the way it is and why the game became so dominant, because of those guys who challenged the NFL and said we want to merge with you. He bought the Bills for $25,000 and they're worth almost $900 million now. You have to recognize not only what he did for the league but what he's done for Buffalo, and how he's kept the team there all these years. Owners can move. You show them money, they go. But Ralph was really loyal to the city."
"I was like a son to him, and I felt that way. I could always talk to him. If anything was on my mind, I could call him up. He was always the first guy to greet you after a win and the first guy to greet you after a loss. Your owner really sets the tone for your football team."
"Family, that's what it was about. It wasn't just on the field. It was how you were doing off the field. How are your kids doing? How's your mom doing? How's your dad doing? He set that tone.
"I've been in the locker room when he'd come through pre-game and give us speeches at training camp or minicamp. ... We're all motivated, especially, with his passing, we want to continue to cement his legacy. I know that's something a lot of guys here will focus on. We want to honor him, and a great way to honor him is going out and winning a lot of football games next year.
"I can remember every time he spoke to us as a team, there wasn't an eye in the building that wasn't focused on him, listening to what he had to say to us. He'll be missed."
"I remember him every time coming in to the locker room during pregame, and he'd stop at my locker and tell me, 'You're the guy that's not supposed to be here, and you keep proving them wrong.' Little things like that, he tried to touch everybody when he spoke to them at their locker, he tried to tell them what he was thinking and that he knew who they were. Any time you get a guy like that you want to go out and fight hard for him."
It's a sad day for all the former Buffalo Bills and the current ballplayers but most of all for the City of Buffalo and Erie County. It's devastating because he meant so much."
"I thought he did a great job of bringing the staff together, getting the coaches together. He was looking for a championship team right off the bat. ... We put together a great team and we ended up winning the AFL championship two years in a row."
"He did so many things for the community. He did things for Canisius College, for UB, and he saved the Oakland Raiders from going under. At a later point, he contributed to the Miami Dolphins to keep them going. So Ralph Wilson not only did a lot for the city of Buffalo, but a lot for the league in general."
"One of the greater interactions I had with Mr. Wilson was in Kansas City. We were playing the Chiefs, and he was having a meeting with the Chiefs' owner and a couple other businessmen in the community. On Saturday nights it became a dry town. He had brought them up in the hotel to have some cocktails, and there was no cocktails. Previous to that, because I had relatives living in Kansas City, I had bought a few bottles of alcohol, because I was staying over to the next day. We were going to party that night. I saw Mr. Wilson walking in the lobby, and he had this strange look on his face. I asked him, I said, 'Hey boss, what's wrong? You look like you lost your last friend.' He said, 'I might have lost my last friend, if I don't find some alcohol because I've got the owner of the Kansas City Chiefs here and some other business people.' I said, 'What do you need?' He said, 'A bottle of vodka would be great.' I went up to my room, got a bottle of vodka and brought it down. You should have seen the smile on his face. We always talked about it from that point on. He said, 'You saved my hide.'"
"He would tell the players, 'What do you guys need in order to be better?' ... I can remember sitting on the bench at practice in the old stadium, when Jim Kelly says to Ralph, 'Hey, Ralph, you know what you need to do? You need to build an airplane hangar that you can just put everything in. We can practice inside.' Boom, within a year we had it. That's what Ralph did. I can remember plane trips. You know, we were going back and forth with different companies about who was flying us. I think there was an issue somewhere with the flights. The next thing you know, Ralph gets involved with it, and we show up to our away trip. And we got a red carpet. Red Buffalo Bills carpet leading to stepping in with a new plane and everything. I know the guy wanted a championship. I wanted it just as much as he wanted it. That's where I think he had a bond, and I'm terribly sorry that we didn't get it together. But he built something special."
From the archives:
• Mark Gaughan's profile of Ralph C. Wilson Jr. before his Hall of Fame induction
• Jerry Sullivan's column on Wilson's having the heart of a fan
• Mark Gaughan's article about the inductions of Wilson and Bruce Smith
• Larry Felser's column about Wilson's getting his due
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Israeli unit-testing company Typemock has pointed to the increasing popularity of Agile software application development techniques as a key driver for testing technologies in the years ahead. Despite Typemock CEO Eli Lopian's "well he would say that" position of proximity to testing, his comments relating to functional quality, on time releases, and mission-critical apps have some extra resonance at this time.
Forrester analysts Margo Visitacion and Mike Gualtieri's "Functional Testing Tools Are Not Enough" report stated that, "Now it is time for quality management and testing to respond to [this] faster-moving environment. Functional testing tools are not enough. Quality must move beyond the purview of just the testing organization and must become an integrated part of the entire software development life cycle (SDLC) to reduce 'schedule-killing' rework, improve user satisfaction, and reduce the risks of untested non-functional requirements such as security and performance."
Typemock makes another play to "add two and two to make five" by also pointing to another recent Forrester report, which recommended that developers engage in automated testing, including unit testing, in order to build higher quality software. Kevlin Henney, coauthor of several software architecture and programming practice books, was interviewed by the company on his predictions for the upcoming year, commenting that there will be an "increased acceptance of unit testing and techniques surrounding it, particularly in domains where it has been considered off the menu."
Corey Haines, self-proclaimed "software journeyman" and cofounder of Code Retreat, had this to say on the subject of automated unit testing: "Honestly, I see more of the same. Lots of people exposed to it for the first time. Lots of people trying it, finding it hard, then saying it doesn't work. Lots of people trying it, finding it hard, keeping with it, and seeing benefits over the years."
"Unit testing is like staying healthy," argues Lopian. "Staying healthy requires best practices such as eating right and working out. Similarly, development teams need the right practices in order to innovate faster. Just as it's hard to start working out, many find it's hard to unit test and thus stop — despite its well-known benefits. This is why Typemock's vision has always been providing easy unit-testing tools for agile software developers to release better software, even with legacy code."


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- Dutch scientists create the smallest vehicle in the world
- Nano car is the first to be powered by electricity
- Car traveled a distance of six nano meters
- Scientists hope nanomotors will power nanorobots of the future
A tiny nano-sized car which can propel itself forward in response to electrical pulses has been created by scientists in the Netherlands.
The electric-powered vehicle, which is the size of a single molecule, has a chassis and four paddle-shaped wheels and is roughly one-billionth the size of a traditional hatchback car.
Its maiden journey wasn't exactly epic -- six nanometers -- and its fuel-efficiency wasn't world-beating either, needing a jolt of 500 millivolts every half revolution of its wheels.
But it's an important milestone in nanotech research (the science of manipulating matter at molecular scale), say scientists, because it demonstrates that single molecules can absorb external electrical energy and turn this into targeted motion.
"To build the nanotechnology of the future like nanorobots, machines and transporters you need something to fuel it. So there is a great incentive to build motors at the nanoscale," said Ben Feringa, professor of organic chemistry at the University of Groningen, and one of the authors of the research.
"There are many nanosystems built from all kinds of materials, but this is, as far as we can tell, the first time a nanomotor has been used to propel something by fueling it."
The fuel in this instance came from a scanning tunnelling microscope (STP) with its atom-sized stylus acting as an electrode allowing electricity to flow from its tip to the surface beneath it, Feringa says.
"When there is a molecule, the current goes through it and electricity excites the motor which drives the car forward," Feringa said.
The discovery, say scientists, takes them a step closer to understanding and ultimately mimicking nature's highly efficient molecular robots.
"In living cells there are a whole variety of molecule motors that are involved in almost every important biological process like cell division and transport, and mobility in our muscles," Feringa said.
The world's smallest synthetic motor was created by Alex Zettl, professor of physics at University of California, Berkeley in 2003 while the first nano car (without a motor) was built by James Tour in 2005.
"The Feringa team is to be congratulated for their excellent work," said Tour, a professor of chemistry at Rice University, Texas.
"It will certainly propel the field to a higher level of sophistication with the eventual goal of synthetic molecular machines being used for controlled transport and ex vivo (in an artificial environment outside an organism) bottom-up assembly..." he added.
But it's still early days and Feringa says he feels a bit like the Wright Brothers, likening the nano car to their "fairly awkward-looking primitive plane" when compared to the passenger jets of today.
"It's very difficult to know where the future will go and ultimately the systems will be different. But first you have to find the fundamental principles. That makes things possible," he said.


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Josie's Medical Massage
by EvangelineRobinson
It was unfortunate really. The last practice session before the big game, and Josie, the team's star hockey player had injured her leg. While on an ordinary training day in the middle of the season this would have been of little issue, it was less than 48 hours before the big match. Their team was the underdogs in this finals match, but with Josie in perfect condition they stood a shot at winning the championships. Now however, moral was low, and the championship cup seemed even further out of their reach.
Josie could not help but blame herself for this as she limped towards the school's sports centre. If she had just paced herself a little but more during training, maybe paid a bit more attention to her warm up stretches at the beginning of the two hours on the field, then maybe this could have been avoided. Then again maybe not - she did feel that between this, her casual job and running the youth club she was wearing herself thin. Hopefully the schools doctor would be able to take a quick look at her leg and give her the green light for the match on the weekend. Surely after a solid day of rest and recuperation she could survive one measly match on the pitch.
It was nearing sundown as she entered the sports centre, the cool air-conditioning sweeping over her sweaty skin. Josie was uncertain as to whether the doctor would still be in, it was nearing 6pm and though the centre remained open till late to compensate for all the sports training session taking place in preparation for season finals. Josie went to a quite prestigious all girls private school that prided itself on, other than raising good little Christian girls, having some of the most elite high school athletes in the state. Josie herself would be graduating at the end of the year and had already been offered a sports scholarship at their states most renown college.
Taking a quick peak into the sports infirmary, she noted that all the lights were off. Slightly disappointed she turned away - Josie had been hoping to use this as an excuse to take the day off school tomorrow and watch Netflix on the couch. While she was a dedicated student, she did appreciate being able to spend an extra few hours on the couch relaxing. Josie would never dream of not turning up without medical leave from the school though, so she resigned herself to a Friday filled with double maths and an hour with her least favourite history teacher.
On the way out the door however, she noticed a light on in the Head of School's office. A quick peak inside confirmed it; Dr Andrews was sitting at his table, looking over typed pages. Dr Andrews was 35 and young for his position, with a muscular frame, a head of wavy brown hair and penetrating green eyes. He both taught sports science classes, as well as being the head coach for a number of sports. A glimmer of hope awoke in Josie, maybe she could get permission from Dr Andrews to take leave the next day - it was worth a shot.
Knocking on the door tentatively, she peeped around the corner.
"Hi Josie," Dr Andrews looked up from his notes and smiled warmly at her "what are you doing at the centre at this late hour, I though training wrapped up a short while ago?" Dr Anderson took off his reading glasses and looked at the girl in front of him. She was certainly a fine specimen, with smooth pale skin, flowing locks of golden hair and large breasts that were straining against her white sports top. Looking closely he thought that he could almost see the outline of pert nipples pressing against the fabric, undoubtedly responding to the cold air-conditioning after sweating on the hot field for a few hours. He felt himself becoming aroused - he had always fantasised about fucking one of his students.
"Hi Dr Andrews." Josie replied, putting a little strain into her voice and making sure to over pronounce her limp as she entered the room more fully. "I injured myself on the field right near the end of practice. I am not sure what I did but my left leg really hurts." Even now she could feel the pain subsiding a bit, perhaps it had just been an unusually strong muscle cramp. But she was not going to let Dr Anderson know that. She had to play her cards right if she wanted the day off school tomorrow.
"Oh dear," said Dr Anderson in a level tone, "I hope it is not serious. You know the whole school will be cheering for the senior firsts hockey team this weekend. I myself was planning on attending.
"I have had pains like this before in this leg," Josie lied, "I generally find that they go away in about a day or so, but only if I am very careful to move my leg as little as possible." She clasped her leg and massaged it a bit to emphasis her point. In doing so she had to lean forward a bit, giving Dr Anderson a clear view of her large pale breasts swelling above the seam of her sports bra.
Dr Anderson tried to not let his eyes linger on them too long. Instead he got up, and walked slowly from behind his table to stand in front of her.
"You know I spent a few years as a sports physio before I got into teaching," He mentioned "let me take a look at it and give you my medical opinion."
"Of course sir," replied Josie dutifully, "whatever you think it best."
Dr Anderson bend down slowly until he was squatting in front of Josie. He lightly ran his hand up her leg, letting his fingers trail along the delicate skin of her calf before coming to rest more fully on her thigh. Josie made sure to let out a quick hiss of breath, careful to maintain the fiction of an injured leg. Dr Anderson continued to massage her thigh, his large warms hands encircling her leg and probing it gently. He was so close to her that he could smell her scent, a mixture of vanilla body wash and the scent of sweat from the exercise she had been doing.
His mind was made up.
Straightening, he took a step back from Josie, making sure to appear as nonthreatening as possible. He knew what she had come in here looking for, and if he was careful he may very well get what he was looking for.
"I think you are right Josie, it looks like you just strained a muscle in your leg a little bit. But after a solid day of rest you should be right as rain, and more importantly able to do you magic on the hockey field. I'll write you a leave of absence for tomorrow, and you need to promise me that you will spent tomorrow resting so that you can be our shining star during the finals."
Josie could scarcely believe her luck as Dr Anderson turned his back to her and started to fill out the necessary form. She allowed herself a brief triumphant slime, before quickly resuming the expression of disappointment mingled with pain.
"Alright Dr Anderson, I trust you. I promise to spend tomorrow resting."
"Good girl," he replied, handing her the form. This was it, time to make his first move.
"Though now I think about it, we really shouldn't leave anything to chance however, given how important this weekend's game is. I know you mentioned that when you get this injury it usually heals very quickly, but I think it would be safest if we went down to the infirmary and did a quick session of physio. Just a quick one to make sure nothing else is off the rails. We want to be sure after all."
"But Dr Anderson, my mum is expecting me to drive home soon, she will worry if I am very late."
"Don't worry my girl, this will take ten minutes at most, I promise. Run, or rather amble down to the infirmary, I will quickly pack up my papers here and will join you in just a few minutes." His tone left no room for arguing.
Resigned to getting home a little later today, Josie limped back towards the infirmary, quickly shooting a text to her mother to let her know that she would be a little late getting home, and then a second text to her best friend on the hockey team to let her team know that she was ok for the game, but had managed to score herself a school free day. Popping herself down on one of the infirmary tables she patiently waited for Dr Anderson to approach.
Dr Anderson entered the room after only a few minutes, closing the door behind him and making sure to lock it quietly. He had with him his briefcase, in which he had slipped a few items that he had lying in his desk draw. His ex-wife, before they had been divorced, had often come around to his office for 'lunch.' He had kept a number of their play toys, not for sentimental reasons, but because he lived in hope of the day he could use them on a student. That day had arrived.
"Now Josie, I am going to have to get you to take off your shoes, short and top so that I can complete the medical massages properly."


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- Arup Associates Qatar FIFA ShowcaseArup Associates' stadium for the 2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar Showcase has been nominated for World Architecture News' 2012 Engineering Award. The gorgeous zero-carbon structure is the world's most sustainable stadium, setting a precedent for both the sporting and architecture fields. The space ship-shaped stadium runs on solar power while protecting spectators from the strong summer heat.1
- Arup Associates Qatar FIFA ShowcaseThe state of the art cooling and climate control technologies in Arup's design is meant to set the bar for technology across the arid climate of Qatar, and regions like it.2
- Arup Associates Qatar FIFA ShowcaseThe design was paramount in the decision to adopt the Arup Associates' design, for not only its architectural design, but also the message that building a sustainable and zero-carbon stadium sends to the world concerning renewable energy, especially in the Middle East.3
- Arup Associates Qatar FIFA ShowcaseThe saucer-sized stadium, called The Showcase, has a retractable roof, giving the option for open air games when the scorching sun goes down, and also angles to cast a giant shadow to keep fans cool during the day.4
- Arup Associates Qatar FIFA ShowcaseThe roof is made up of hundreds of panels that can be adjusted to field strong winds or the sun from players and guests. Fans will stay cool by cross breezes as well as under-seat cooling, rather than blasting air conditioning throughout the stadium complex.5
- Arup Associates Qatar FIFA ShowcasePhotovoltaic solar panels siphon the sun's energy, and store it on site when the arena isn't being used. Biofuel supplements the energy usage when the stadium is in use and requires extra energy.6
- Arup Associates Qatar FIFA ShowcaseThe Showcase's ability to be carbon-zero in a desert climate is not only incredible, but entirely worthy of WAN's award.7


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After Bape, fellow Japanese brand SASQUATCHfabrix. worked on custom versions of the iconic SX-70 camera. When Bape worked with premium leather on the camera, SASQUATCHfabrix. decided to go with vintage metal customizations, resulting in a rather interesting look. Two colorways of the camera have been produced as part of the collaborative project and are on sale now in Tokyo for 55'000 Yen, approximately 690 USD.
- Source: Fashion Press