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Afghans Unimpressed by Pakistan Talks
|Institute for War and Peace Reporting
|Hafizullah Gardesh
|Publication Date
|23 November 2012
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|ARR Issue 443
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A visit to Pakistan by the Afghan body charged with talking to the Taleban has been hailed as a major step forwards towards ending the insurgency. But analysts in Afghanistan expressed grave reservations, saying the High Peace Council had achieved little at home, so the apparent breakthrough achieved in Islamabad was likely to prove illusory.
During a three-day visit ending on November 14, the High Peace Council delegation met Pakistan's president, prime minister, foreign minister, the army's chief of staff and various other politicians and Muslim clerics in a bid to get them to engage wholeheartedly with a peace process for Afghanistan. In practical terms, that also means identifying insurgents who are prepared to negotiate, even if they are in custody.
The talks produced a joint declaration calling on Afghan and Pakistani officials and the international community to work together to get insurgents' names removed from a United Nations blacklist so they could take part in negotiations, and to ensure safe passage for such individuals.
Afterwards, High Peace Council chairman Salahuddin Rabbani said he believed officials in Islamabad were now committed to a talks process involving the Afghan insurgents.
The council's spokesman Qiamuddin Kashaf said one success from the meetings was that religious scholars in Pakistan who used to describe the Taleban's Afghan insurgency as a "jihad" were now supportive of negotiations.
At the council's request, the Pakistani authorities released nine Afghan Taleban members from prison, although none was a particularly senior figure. Five more were freed subsequently.
An unnamed member of the Taleban's Quetta Council indicated that the group would take the proposed negotiations seriously, according to reports in the Pakistani media.
In Afghanistan, the upper house of parliament or Meshrano Jirga poured cold water on the talks, accusing the High Peace Council of indulging in a one-way dialogue – it made concessions to the Taleban, but secured nothing in return. The releases were just a gift to the insurgents, it said.
Afghan commentators were even less impressed, saying the peace council had achieved no progress towards ending the conflict since it was set up in 2009.
"I do not believe the commitments agreed between the High Peace Council and the Pakistani government at all," political and defence affairs expert Atiqullah Amarkhel said. "The council itself is in question – it should have been dissolved. It has done this just to demonstrate its achievements, to secure its own survival."
Many analysts, Amarkhel among them, said pledges of good faith from Islamabad were not to be trusted, since its real stategy involved controlling Afghanistan by providing covert assistance to the Taleban to undermine security.
"The Pakistani government isn't so stupid that it would cede Afghanistan without securing advantages and achieving its aims," Amarkhel said. "Unless Pakistan is confronted with force, it will never abandon its satanic goals in Afghanistan."
Another political analyst, Satar Saadat, agreed that Pakistan had no reason to abandon a winning position.
"It isn't possible that Pakistan is going to work honestly with Afghanistan on the peace process, and lose the Taleban, its best military force, by persuading it to negotiate with the Afghan government," he said.
Saadat also suggested that Islamabad wanted to underline its own central role in the future of Afghanistan, especially in light of a parallel peace process that might exclude it, where negotiations would take place with a Taleban office in the Gulf state of Qatar. (See Afghans Demand Ownership of Taleban Talks Process on this initiative.)
"Recently, Britain and the US decided to restart the Qatar negotiation process. Pakistan wants to sabotage this process, and that's the reason it adopted a softer line on the demands made by the High Peace Council. In my view, the peace council has been entrapped in a Pakistani plot," he said.
IWPR contacted several members of the High Peace Council for comment, but all refused to be interviewed.
On the streets of Kabul, people were divided on whether the peace process was heading the right way, or any way at all.
"We should not be downhearted. I believe every war ends though negotiations and a common understanding," university student Nawid said. "Regardless of whether Pakistan's intentions are honest, we must convince the Taleban – who are Afghans – that war benefits Pakistan, not us, and that they should stop fighting."
Another Kabul resident, Abdul Qayum, disagreed, suggesting that the peace council was a purely symbolic body that had to travel about and hold meetings to use up its budget and justify its existence.
As for Pakistan, he said, "politicians [there] are not like ours – they wouldn't support anything that wasn't to their country's advantage".

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March 11, 2013 06:30 PM by Ryan Haidet
A long-time Survivor tradition is about to end. Every even-numbered season since Survivor: Marquesas (season four), the show's finale has been held in New York City. But that May tradition is about to end its run as the upcoming Survivor: Caramoan — Fans Vs. Favorites finale switches things up and takes the finale out of the Ed Sullivan Theater and pushes it back to the west coast. Why the change? Read what CBS had to say with our scoop inside this article!
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Published April 15, 2014
The Boeing Co. recently leased space and began upfits for its IT Center of Excellence in North Charleston, according to several March filings with Charleston County.
Boeing leased roughly 32,000 square feet of office space at 3875 Faber Place Drive, Suites 100 and 200, in North Charleston. Boeing originally signed a lease at 3875 Faber Place last May to provide temporary office space for some of its information technology workers.
Boeing also filed to upfit roughly 20,000-square-feet of interior space at 3860 Faber Place Drive, units 100 and 500, and 40,000-square-feet of space at 4340 Corporate Road in North Charleston, according to county documents.
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Boeing announced plans last year to add about 600 information technology jobs in North Charleston over the next three years as part of the company's plan to reorganize its IT operations. In March 2013, Boeing announced plans to open IT centers in North Charleston, Puget Sound and St. Louis.
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Can anyone suggest to me how I can pass a parameter to a thread?
Also, how does it work for anonymous classes?
Can anyone suggest to me how I can pass a parameter to a thread?
Also, how does it work for anonymous classes?
You need to pass the parameter in the constructor to the thread object:
and invoke it thus:
For Anonymous classes:
In response to question edits here is how it works for Anonymous classes
Named classes:
You have a class that extends Thread (or implements Runnable) and a constructor with the parameters you'd like to pass. Then, when you create the new thread, you have to pass in the arguments, and then start the thread, something like this:
Runnable is a much better solution than Thread BTW. So I'd prefer:
This answer is basically the same as this similar question: How to pass parameters to a Thread object
via constructor of a Runnable or Thread class
When you create a thread, you need an instance of
If you then want to change the parameter while the thread is running, you can simply add a setter method to your runnable class:
Once you have this, you can change the value of the parameter by calling like this:
Of course, if you want to trigger an action when the parameter is changed, you will have to use locks, which makes things considerably more complex.
To create a thread you normally create your own implementation of Runnable. Pass the parameters to the thread in the constructor of this class.
Either write a class that implements Runnable, and pass whatever you need in a suitably defined constructor, or write a class that extends Thread with a suitably defined constructor that calls super() with appropriate parameters.
You can either extend the
You can derive a class from Runnable, and during the construction (say) pass the parameter in.
Then launch it using Thread.start(Runnable r);
If you mean whilst the thread is running, then simply hold a reference to your derived object in the calling thread, and call the appropriate setter methods (synchronising where appropriate)
Parameter passing via the start() and run() methods:
One further option; this approach lets you use the Runnable item like an asynchronous function call. If your task does not need to return a result, e.g. it just performs some action you don't need to worry about how you pass back an "outcome".
This pattern lets you reuse an item, where you need some kind of internal state. When not passing parameter(s) in the constructor care is needed to mediate the programs access to parameters. You may need more checks if your use-case involves different callers, etc.
Thread t = new Thread(new MyRunnable(parameter)); t.start();
If you need a result of processing, you will also need to coordinate completion of MyRunnable when the sub-task finishes. You could pass a call back or just wait on the Thread 't', etc.
Specially for Android
For callback purposes I usually implement my own generic
Usage is simple:
In manager:
There is a simple way of passing parameters into runnables. Code:


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Patti Stanger, Bravo's Millionaire Matchmaker, was as shocked as everyone else when Scarlett Johansson and People's Sexiest Man Alive, Ryan Reynolds, announced that they were getting divorced. But of course, Stanger had some suggestions for the two newly single celebs when it comes to choosing their rebounds.
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As a travel and food writer who has traversed the world for more than a quarter century, I always enjoyed sampling fiery dishes in the countries where hot foods and spicy foods are the usual fare. From Central and South America to North Africa and the Arabian Gulf to the Indian subcontinent and beyond, I've dined on countless vegan dishes made tasty and appetizing by the inclusion of hot peppers.
During my many trips to the Caribbean, Mexico, and South America, I relished hot foods in both peoples' establishments and luxury hotels. Some restaurants, especially in the grand hotels with their tourist clientele, offered safely mild dishes. However, like the Mexicans, I love mine fiery hot.
Halfway around the world from Mexico, I found an array of satisfying hot foods on my numerous trips to Tunisia. Unlike some other North African cuisines, Tunisian food is noted for its spicy hotness. It is said that a husband will judge his wife by the amount of hot peppers with which she prepares her food. Some men even believe that, if a wife's cooking becomes bland, it means the love for her husband is fading.
Further away still, in the United Arab Emirates, I've enjoyed another version of hot-spicy foods, dishes with origins in the Indian subcontinent. The majority of workers in the United Arab Emirates are recruited from that region, and they make up some 50 percent of the population. Not surprisingly, they have brought their culinary traditions with them and have saturated the land with their eating places. In the kitchens of Arabian Gulf countries, exotic herbs and spices such as cinnamon, cloves, coriander, cumin, ginger, nutmeg, cardamom, turmeric, and all types of curries and hot peppers are now used to create a world of gourmet delights. The spices of the lands to their east have become an integral part of Arabian Gulf dishes.
In addition, the foods of the Far East, especially Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia, are a twin to the foods of the Indian subcontinent. These kitchens have the quality and consistency of Chinese food integrated with the hotness and spiciness of Indian and Mexican cuisines. Indian cuisine, and to a much lesser extent Portuguese-, Dutch-, French-, British-, and Japanese-introduced foods, have left an indelible mark on these Southeastern Asian menus. I greatly enjoyed these foods, which ranged from the mild to fiery hot and spicy, oozing with unique flavors and mouth-watering aromas. Indian condiments, coconuts and their milk, galangal, lemon grass, lime juice, mango, salted cabbage, palm sugar, tamarind, and hot pepper sauces give the kitchens of these lands a luring appeal to those, like myself, who enjoy exotic hot dishes.
Chilies, the fiery fruit of some capsicum plants, are what give hot dishes in all parts of the world their fire and succulence. They come in many varieties and can be eaten interchangeably fresh, canned, or dried. When dried, they become a spice, and they can be used whole in pickles or pickled themselves and served as a relish.
The best chilies, both in appearance and in flavor, are picked when they are bright red. The larger the chili, the milder it will be; the smaller the fruit, the more volcanic it becomes. The seeds are the hottest part; if cooks want a fierce, fiery effect, the seeds should remain. Without the seeds, the dish will still be hot but somewhat subdued. It is no wonder, then, that chilies are known as "little devils" in parts of Italy.
When chilies are ground, they become cayenne, a spice highly favored in hot countries. Cayenne gives an essential zest to food and is used to season curries, sauces, and vegetable dishes.
When ground chilies are mixed with other spices, the product is called chili powder, a versatile spice utilized to flavor stews and other foods. In most dishes, it can be used to replace cayenne.
Paprika, a cousin of the hot powdered chilies, is a spice made from dried, finely-ground large Hungarian or Spanish red peppers, which range from sweet and mild to semi-hot and slightly aromatic. The finest paprika in the world is made from the brilliant red variety grown in Hungary.
Many times after I returned from exotic locales, I have duplicated a good number of their hot dishes with one type of chili or another that I relished on my meanderings. Try the following recipes, which I have recreated to my own taste. They will make a successful party meal for fiery-food lovers. The amount of hot peppers that you use in these recipes can be adjusted according to your tastes.
(Serves 5)
This dish is believed to have originated in Puerto Rico, but it has spread to the other islands of the Caribbean.
3 Tablespoons oil
1 pound thawed frozen okra
1 large onion, finely chopped
4 cloves garlic, crushed
1 large sweet pepper, thinly sliced
1 small hot pepper, finely chopped
2 large tomatoes, finely chopped
1 cup water
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon pepper
1/4 teaspoon allspice
Heat oil in a non-stick saucepan and sauté the okra over medium heat until it turns light brown, turning it over a few times to cook evenly. Remove okra with a slotted spoon and set aside on paper towels to drain excess oil.
In the same oil, sauté the onions, garlic, and peppers over medium-low heat for 10 minutes. Stir in tomatoes and water and sauté for another 10 minutes. Gently stir in the okra and the remaining ingredients. Cover and cook for approximately 15 minutes or until okra is tender, adding more water, if necessary, to prevent sticking. Serve hot with cooked rice.
|Total calories per serving: 138
|Fat: 9 grams
|Carbohydrates: 15 grams
|Protein: 3 grams
|Sodium: 478 milligrams
|Fiber: 5 grams
(Serves 8)
This dish is from the Guadalajara region of Mexico.
4 medium-sized ripe avocados
1/2 cup ground almonds
4 Tablespoons finely chopped scallions
2 Tablespoons finely chopped fresh coriander leaves
2 cloves garlic, crushed
4 Tablespoons lemon juice
1 Tablespoon olive oil
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
1/4 teaspoon cayenne
Cut unpeeled avocados in half lengthwise and remove pits. Scoop out the pulp and place it in a mixing bowl, reserving skin. Add the remaining ingredients to the pulp and thoroughly combine. Spoon mixture into avocado skins and serve immediately.
|Total calories per serving: 216
|Fat: 20 grams
|Carbohydrates: 10 grams
|Protein: 3 grams
|Sodium: 157 milligrams
|Fiber: 6 grams
(Serves 8)
This dish can be served hot or cold.
2 cups black beans, rinsed and soaked overnight, then drained
6 cups water
3 Tablespoons olive oil
2 medium onions, chopped
4 cloves garlic, crushed
1/2 cup finely chopped fresh coriander leaves
1 large hot pepper, finely chopped
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon pepper
1 teaspoon cumin
Place pre-soaked beans and water in a saucepan and bring to a boil. Cover and cook over medium heat for 1 hour, adding more water, if necessary.
In the meantime, heat the oil in a frying pan and sauté onions over medium heat for 10 minutes. Stir in garlic, coriander, and peppers and stir-fry for another 5 minutes. Add frying pan contents, salt, pepper, and cumin to the beans and simmer over low heat for 30 minutes or until beans are well done. Serve this recipe as is or mashed, either hot or cold.
|Total calories per serving: 209
|Fat: 6 grams
|Carbohydrates: 31 grams
|Protein: 11 grams
|Sodium: 309 milligrams
|Fiber: 10 grams
(Serves 8)
In Tunisia, this dish usually contains meat, but it was served sans meat at a farmer's home.
3 Tablespoons olive oil
1 pound chopped mushrooms
2 medium onions, chopped
4 cloves garlic, crushed
1/2 cup finely chopped fresh coriander leaves
1 large hot pepper, finely chopped
4 cups cooked chickpeas
4 medium tomatoes, chopped into small pieces
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon pepper
1/2 teaspoon cumin
1/2 teaspoon thyme
3 cups water
1/4 cup green olives, pitted and chopped
2 Tablespoons lemon juice
Heat oil in a saucepan and sauté the mushrooms over medium heat for 5 minutes. Add onions, garlic, coriander, and peppers and stir-fry for another 5 minutes. Stir in chickpeas, tomatoes, salt, pepper, cumin, thyme, and water and bring to a boil. Cover and simmer over low heat for 30 minutes, adding a little more water, if necessary. Stir in olives and lemon juice and simmer over low heat for 5 minutes. Serve hot.
|Total calories per serving: 229
|Fat: 8 grams
|Carbohydrates: 31 grams
|Protein: 10 grams
|Sodium: 390 milligrams
|Fiber: 8 grams
(Serves 8)
This dish makes an excellent appetizer when scooped up with crackers or pita bread.
1/2 cup split red lentils, rinsed
3 cups water
2 cups cooked chickpeas
2 cloves garlic, crushed
1 teaspoon oregano
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
1/4 teaspoon ground cayenne
5 Tablespoons lemon juice
2 Tablespoons finely chopped fresh parsley
One small tomato, finely chopped
1 Tablespoon olive oil
Place lentils and water in a saucepan and bring to a boil. Cover and cook over medium heat for 20 minutes or until the lentils are cooked but still somewhat firm. Drain and allow lentils to cool.
Place lentils, chickpeas, garlic, oregano, salt, cumin, pepper, cayenne, and lemon juice in a food processor and process into a paste. Spread on a flat serving platter and decorate with parsley and tomato pieces. Sprinkle with oil just before serving.
|Total calories per serving: 127
|Fat: 3 grams
|Carbohydrates: 20 grams
|Protein: 7 grams
|Sodium: 302 milligrams
|Fiber: 5 grams
(Serves 6)
Besides being on the daily menu in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, tamarind is utilized to a great extent in the Arabian Gulf countries.
2 Tablespoons olive oil
2 medium onions, chopped
1 large hot pepper, finely chopped
4 cloves garlic, crushed
1 Tablespoon grated fresh ginger
2 cups stewed tomatoes
2 Tablespoons tamarind paste, dissolved in 7 cups hot water
1 cup lentils, rinsed
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cumin
1 teaspoon pepper
4 Tablespoons chopped fresh mint
Heat oil in a saucepan and sauté onions, peppers, garlic, and ginger over medium heat for 10 minutes. Stir in remaining ingredients, except mint, and bring to a boil. Cover and cook over medium heat for 40 minutes or until lentils are well cooked, adding more water if you desire a thinner soup. Stir in mint and serve.
|Total calories per serving: 209
|Fat: 6 grams
|Carbohydrates: 31 grams
|Protein: 11 grams
|Sodium: 549 milligrams
|Fiber: 12 grams
(Serves 8)
I enjoyed a dish similar to this one in the United Arab Emirates, where taste buds have become accustomed to hot Indian foods.
3 Tablespoons olive oil
2 medium sweet peppers, finely chopped
2 medium onions, finely chopped
1/2 cup finely chopped coriander leaves
8 cloves garlic, crushed
1/4 teaspoon cayenne
2 teaspoons ground cumin seeds
6 large potatoes (approximately 2 pounds),
peeled and chopped into large pieces
4 cups water
1 teaspoon salt
1 lemon rind, finely chopped
Heat oil in a saucepan and sauté peppers and onions over medium heat for 10 minutes. Stir in the coriander and garlic and stir-fry for another 3 minutes. Add the remaining ingredients and bring to a boil. Cover and cook over medium heat for 40 minutes or until potatoes are well done but still somewhat firm, adding more water, if necessary. Serve hot.
|Total calories per serving: 158
|Fat: 5 grams
|Carbohydrates: 26 grams
|Protein: 4 grams
|Sodium: 307 milligrams
|Fiber: 4 grams
(Serves 6)
This is my own version of a well-known Thai vegetarian dish.
3 Tablespoons vegetable oil
4 cloves garlic, finely chopped
1 large hot pepper, finely chopped
2 cups sliced mushrooms
1 large onion, finely chopped
3 cups cooked rice
2 cups green beans, broken into inch-long pieces
1 large sweet red pepper, finely chopped
2 Tablespoons soy sauce
4 Tablespoons chopped basil leaves
In a heavy frying pan, heat the oil until sizzling and stir-fry garlic and hot peppers over medium-high heat until the garlic turns golden brown. Add the mushrooms and onions and stir-fry for 2 minutes. Add cooked rice and stir-fry for a few more moments. Add green beans, sweet peppers, and soy sauce and stir-fry for 2 minutes. Stir in basil leaves and serve immediately.
|Total calories per serving: 226
|Fat: 7 grams
|Carbohydrates: 35 grams
|Protein: 5 grams
|Sodium: 338 milligrams
|Fiber: 3 grams
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Anchorage Rep. Charisse Millett says doctors have discovered a lesion in her brain that is a likely sign she has multiple sclerosis.
The Anchorage Daily News reports (http://bit.ly/LhD7VP) that Millett has so far missed this legislative session due to pain in her back. The lesion was discovered in an MRI during treatment.
The back pain is the result of a damaged disc that will require surgery after the session.
Millett says the possible multiple sclerosis diagnosis is troubling.
The 49-year-old Millett, a Republican, has represented Anchorage's lower Hillside since her election in 2008. She says she plans a day trip to Seattle for further tests to confirm the diagnosis.
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My temp. warning light appears as soon as I start my car. I have let car idle for 2 minutes then turned it off. I start car again, & warning light is off.NO PROBLEM, RIGHT ? Wrong !!! The oil & coolant fluids are correct, but after driving for 5 min. The engine is giving off a strong burning smell.Temp is correct, no high reading...WHAT CAN IT BE...?
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6 Nov 2011 2:30 AM #1
Request Factory question
How do you deal with pagination and Request Factory? The object you have to obtain from request should be:
6 Nov 2011 9:33 AM #2Code:
@ProxyFor(BasePagingLoadResult.class) public interface MyRfPagingResultsProxy extends PagingLoadResults<MyModelProxy>, ValueProxy {}
I'll experiment with this issue this evening, see if we can get a concrete sample of this in the explorer.
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So it is not possible to write genericMyRfPagingResultsProxy for all paging results as you must specify MyModelProxy as an argument?
I would appreciate for any sample and in my opinion it's not an issue just limitation of Request Factory.
6 Nov 2011 10:10 AM #4
There is another solution but I would treat it as a last option. You can obtain List<MyModelProxy> and the rest in separated request batch:
MyContext ctx = factory.context();ctx.getList(offset, limit).to(new Receiver<List<MyModelProxy>>() { … }); ctx.getTotalCount().to(new Receiver<Integer>() { … }); ctx.fire();
6 Nov 2011 11:46 AM #5
and... how have you implemented code generation ofBasePagingLoadResult?
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Sorry it has taken me to long to get back to you - been trying to see if there is a neater way around this issue.
First, yes, this is mostly an issue of how RequestFactory works. I saw the issue you filed at http://code.google.com/p/google-web-...detail?id=6967 and that it was closed in favor of the 'started' issue at http://code.google.com/p/google-web-...detail?id=5974. I don't see any active codereviews on this topic, so I am not sure how much attention it is getting - if I have time this weekend, I'll look into what it might take to fix this myself.
If you want to send the load config and load result objects over the wire, the only good solution for now seems to be creating matching proxy and bean types for each object you want to use. Config objects suffer the same basic issue if they wrap other config objects - even the ListLoadConfig will have this issue, as it contains a collection of SortInfo objects, which each must be translated to a SortInfoBean by RF. One can also create subinterfaces of the configs, as well as beans, or one could just send along the data that is able to be translated. In this code sample, I am doing both: creating a value/proxy pair for the load result, and requiring that the load config be taken apart before being sent over the wire:
public interface PostRequest extends RequestContext { @ProxyFor(PostPagingLoadResultBean.class) public interface PostPagingLoadResultProxy extends ValueProxy, PagingLoadResult<PostProxy> { @Override public List<PostProxy> getData(); } public static class PostPagingLoadResultBean extends BasePagingLoadResult<Post> { public PostPagingLoadResultBean(List<Post> list, int totalLength, int offset) { super(list, totalLength, offset); } } Request<PostPagingLoadResultProxy> getPosts(int offset, int limit, List<? extends SortInfo> sortInfo); }
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Insect astronomers: The lowly dung beetle seemed to have been a dealt tough, mundane life, filled with nothing but crawling on the ground and eating poo. But scientists have shown that these insects are the first known animals to navigate by the Milky Way. That's right, the beetles are each a miniature, crap-eating Copernicus, consulting the heavens on which direction to roll their balls of dung for safe-keeping. On cloudy nights, the researchers noticed the beetles' normally straight paths went haywire. Then a simulation in the lab confirmed that it is truly the Milky Way, not a lone star, guiding the insects that, let's admit it, we've been underestimating. Sorry, Mr. Dung Beetle. It was just the poop thing, honest. Los Angeles Times
Lovely lake effect: If you're a Midwesterner or East Coaster, chances are you've noticed this week's frigid temperatures, perhaps when you stepped outside and your hair and snot froze, or when you stayed inside reading your Facebook feed and its non-stop coverage of the obvious: It's cold. But check out these aerial photos that show how all that cold air has created an awesome phenomenon, nicknamed "cloud streets," over the Great Lakes. And for all your it's-cold-thus-no-global-warming friends (we've all got 'em), the reason the lake effect is so strong right now is because the lake water is warmer than usual, thanks to y'know, the hottest year on record ever. Slate
Sandy returns: The blows associated with frankenstorm Sandy just keep on coming. The newest one is in the form of tax dollars that localities affected by the storm will miss out on. With property damages affecting home prices, many areas in Long Island and New Jersey will have to restructure their budgets to reflect the lower revenues coming in. New York Times
Save the John Does!: The bad news is that many scientists believe most species will go extinct before we even discover them. The slightly better news is a new paper suggesting that if scientists try hard enough, we could succeed in naming most of them. Oh, the riveting debates amongst taxonomists! For the low price of between $500 million and $1 billion, all species could have their Latin binomials (Johnum doelicus? Janeus doedes?) by 2060. Since the world's biodiversity could be cut in half over the next 150 years, we better get on it. At least the graves will be marked? New York Times
Are you ready boots? Start walking!: Thousands of crocodiles are on the loose from a South African croc farm, escaping a fate that ends in a ladies footwear -- at least temporarily. A storm surge flooded the Limpopo River killing 10 people and forcing thousands of others from their homes. During the flood, the croc farm had to open its gates or risk severe damages, adding many a toothy worry to the area's recovery process. Last night, as the crocodiles' eyes glowed in headlight and flashlight beams, the "rescue" team captured less than half of the 15,000 escapees. Guardian
You're hired!: A suspicious temp job cropped up on Craiglist. No news there, right? There's more: An ambiguous company named Ovation says it will pay volunteers $20 to participate in a rally protesting wind energy in the United Kingdom, held at the British Consulate in Midtown Manhattan. Job candidates don't even have to hate wind energy, they just have to provide enough warm bodies behind the speakers to make it seem like people hate this technology that could help reduce carbon emissions. The ad has now been pulled, but not before Philip Bump got to suggest that Donald Trump -- a long-time hater of a UK wind project that would ruin the view from his golf course -- might be behind the scam. Grist
Stepping up to plate: New York Yankee Derek Jeter spoke up about climate change at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland this week. "Something has to be causing it," he said of the uptick in natural disasters. Hopefully he'll soon get his environmental lingo up to the speed of his double plays. The Columbus Dispatch
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MEQUON, Wisconsin, July 12. THE top ranked recruit out of the state of Wisconsin, Sam Senczyszyn, has decided to spend her college years somewhere a bit warmer as she committed to the University of Arizona today.
Senczyszyn, who trains at Ozaukee Aquatics and preps at Grafton High, made her commitment known today via Twitter.
So thankful to be able to swim at the University of Arizona next fall #BearDown #Wildcats
— Sam Senczyszyn (@Sam_Senczyszyn) July 12, 2014
Senczyszyn gives Arizona head coach Rick DeMont one of the top breaststrokers in this class as she has a 1:00.76 to her credit in the 100-yard breast as well as a 2:15.07 in the 200-yard breast. She also has some sprint speed with a 22.91 in the 50-yard free on her resume from the Wisconsin Girls Division 2 State Championships this past season.
In long course competition, Senczyszyn has gone a 1:10.91 in the 100-meter breast as well as a 2:34.74 in the 200-meter breaststroke event.
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GREENVILLE, N.C. - Physical play and a strong performance by the Pirates' defense, most notably up front, highlighted East Carolina's second intra-squad scrimmage of the spring practice period Saturday morning at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium.
The controlled contest, which featured game officials and was played in comfortable 60-degree temperatures under sunny skies, consisted of 14 possessions that included situational work inside the redzone.
The Pirates' defense tallied nine tackles for lost yardage, allowing just 1.6 rushing yards and 2.4 overall yards per attempt during the morning. Junior end Justin Dixon (2), sophomore nose tackle Terry Williams (2), junior end Lee Pegues and junior end John Lattimore keyed a dominating front line effort that produced six of the TFLs to help keep the offense out of the endzone on nine consecutive drives during the traditional portion of the scrimmage.
Dixon and junior inside linebacker Kyle Tudor, who also added a pair of stops for lost yardage, led all defenders with five tackles each, while senior nose tackle Michael Brooks chipped in with four. Senior cornerback Leonard Paulk paced the secondary with three hits and generated the game's only turnover by picking off a Brad Wornick pass on the third overall possession.
Junior Rio Johnson and redshirt freshman Cody Keith handled the majority of the snaps as each took turns guiding the Pirates' top two offensive units. Johnson completed nine-of-19 passes for 56 yards, while Keith was three-of-10 for 23 yards for a squad that was also hampered by five penalties that negated positive first down production most of the morning.
"We went about 60 plays and that was the number I had in my head," head coach Ruffin McNeill said. "I thought the team's enthusiasm today was fantastic, but the biggest thing we need to keep working on are the penalties, especially the administrative ones."
While East Carolina's defense enjoyed much success outside of the 20-yard lines, the offensive unit converted both of its opportunities during the redzone phase of the scrimmage. Junior running back Hunter Furr, who led all rushers with 24 yards on seven carries, capped situational 18-yard drives with one and 12-yard ground scores. His last touchdown, and a Wornick-to-Justin Jones 15-yard pass, marked the longest plays of the contest.
"Today's focus was to establish some offensive flow in the middle of the field as well as putting each group in a stress situation, whether it was putting the defense in the redzone or making the offense drive the length of the field," McNeill added.
Sophomore placekicker Warren Harvey provided the special teams' highlight by drilling a 48-yard field goal to finish off Keith's last possession in good order.
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EU CRACKDOWN ON SMOKING – Ask a smoker if smoking cigarettes is bad for your health and you are likely to get a very open and honest response.
Yes I'm a smoker and it is quite frankly a disgusting anti-social habit that is expensive and seriously damaging to the health; not just for me but for those around me.
I know this, millions of other smokers know this, but do we really need dictating too by a body of people that are not elected by any person? Yes we are talking once again about the despot regime known as the European Union who now intends to crack down on smoking.
I wouldn't suggest that this move is a bad thing but do we really need to be forced into giving up smoking?
According to the latest developments from the EU they intend to remove cigarettes that are packaged in ten – yes those packs ten cigarettes, according to our EU masters, will no longer be available for sale by 2016.
The idea here is to reduce the number of young smokers who often find a packet of twenty cigarettes too expensive and therefore opt for a packet of ten.
In a related move by the EU they also intend to ban all 'flavoured' cigarettes at the same time, so if you are one of those who prefers a menthol cigarette then you'll be out of luck.
Time to Quit Smoking
Should Anti Smoking Campaigns Take a Different Approach?
Again these new laws are being labeled as measure to prevent young people from taking up the habit and even helping long-term smokers to quit.
To me this doesn't actually appear like a bad move, after all any excuse to give up smoking is a positive move in my book – maybe cigarettes should be banned altogether in order to help us quit.
Would you support such a move by government to ban cigarettes from sale? I suspect many people would but there is one hurdle, a fly in the ointment, which is opposing these plans – yes of course the tobacco companies.
The tobacco companies are extremely powerful entities and have the financial resources to question the legality of such a ban and indeed lobby MEPs to oppose the move. Currently the tobacco companies have already quashed one plan, that being the banning of menthol cigarettes.
Whilst it is widely accepted that menthol cigarettes are popular among young and new smokers the tobacco firms have successfully lobbied MEPs to oppose the ban resulting in the phasing out of menthol cigarettes being scrapped; for at least the next eight years.
The EU is insisting that the packaging of cigarettes needs larger warning signs and that the health warnings must cover a minimum of 65 per cent of the packaging surface – this legal requirement will come into effect in 2016.
It is not yet certain if the EU will be able to implement these new laws. Currently there are discussions between the tobacco firms, health campaigners and politicians and depending upon how much pressure the tobacco firms can apply will really determine whether the EU will indeed be able to introduce bans over the next few years.
There has been quite a move, by smokers, in taking up the use of the e-cigarette but despite this being seen as an alternative, especially with the issue of second-hand smoke, some scientist have declared that the fumes from e-cigarettes create their own unique set of health issues; not just for the user but also those around them.
Are E-cigarettes Really Safer than Smoking Tobacco?
I'm sure most of us smokers would like to become non-smokers but we are also fully aware of the hold that the nicotine fix has over us – it does appear rather silly at times to how such a small thing could wield so much power over us. Maybe I should try again to quit the filthy habit.


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The Duxbury boys' and girls' cross-country teams kicked off their seasons on a beautiful Wednesday afternoon in Pembroke last week in a tri-meet with the Titans and the new Patriot League entry of a combined Quincy/N. Quincy squad.
The Dragons were considered an underdog to Pembroke, especially on the Titan's newly designed and challenging 5K course, while Quincy remained a mystery in its first Patriot League meet.
Pembroke and Quincy paced the boys' race, but sophomore Jonathan McKinley took the lead in the last 1000 meters to win in a time of 16:08, followed by Pembroke's Paul Cina in 16:21 and Quincy's Matt McGroarty. Duxbury's Billy Jewel (5th/16:50), Mark Brust (7th/17:25), Paul Dacey (8th/17:48), Greg Bray (10th/17:52) and freshman Jason Angell (12th/18:04) completed the scoring to secure opening-day wins over Pembroke (26-30) and Quincy (20-38).
The Duxbury boys have plenty of experience with senior co-captains Brust and Dacey returning, while sophomore sensation McKinley provides the Dragons with the kind of firepower they'll need to battle perennial cross-country powerhouse Whitman-Hanson for the Patriot League crown.
Hanover and Hingham also are expected to be strong competition for the Dragons.
"We have five or six runners who have made some significant improvement over the summer," said Coach Mark Dunn. "If everyone stays healthy, I think we have a good shot at being one of the top five teams in our division, and that would earn us a trip to the States."
Pembroke was also considered to be a tough opponent for the Dragons, but Dunn likes what he saw in the opener and it has raised his expectation level for the rest of the season.
"McKinley really worked the hills this summer with his brother, and probably worked harder than any cross-country runner I know," said Dunn. "He was so far ahead of Brust and Dacey in this meet, that I have to think he might just be one of the top 25 runners in the state right now."
The emergence of McKinley, although not a big surprise after he won the McIntyre Invitational last year at Franklin Park, takes the pressure off Brust and Dacey, who very well may find themselves as the team's #3 and #4 runners after the arrival of Billy Jewell.
"Jewell's performance pretty much has him passing some of our veterans," said Dunn. "I'd say we are looking much stronger after watching him finish fifth last week."
Junior Ben Kimball also did well at Pembroke, finishing 17th, while classmates John Hemingway, Tom Guilfoyle, and Greg O'Neil are expected to work their way into several meets according to Dunn.
After taking on Whitman-Hanson yesterday, the Dragons will host Silver Lake on Friday at 3:30 p.m.


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FIIs in driver's seat
Feb 10 2013 , Mumbai
Foreign institutional investors now own 44% of the market's free float; the risk in such heavy reliance on them is that the market will tank the moment these overseas flows dry up or reverse
Because FIIs, as they are referred to in the Indian stock market parlance – short for foreign institutional investors – are pumping in money like never before. Last calendar, they invested $24.38 billion (Rs 1,28,359.80 crore) into Indian stocks, the second highest in a year after the Indian stock market was opened up for their participation in mid-1990s.
The biggest year for FII inflows was 2010, when India attracted $29 billion. Thanks to the government's mega disinvestment over the past two-three weeks (Rs 11,400 crore share sale in NTPC and Rs 3,113 crore share sale in Oil India) and private sector Axis Bank's Rs 4,726 crore QIP, all of which saw heavy participation by foreign investors, FIIs' total investment into equity in 2013 has already touched $7.3 billion (Rs 39,629.80 crore).
This means barely one-and-a-half months into the New Year, FII investment has touched 30 per cent of last calendar's total!
It is now reckoned that FIIs own 20 per cent of Indian stocks, accounting for 44 per cent of the market's free float. That's really huge.
Citi analysts Aditya Narain and Jitender Tokas said one needs to look beyond foreign inflows, but added that foreigners were becoming "dominant" in the Indian market.
"It's the FII money monsoon: $24 billion in 2012 (second-highest ever), $8bn in Q4 of 2012 (Oct-Dec) and $4 billion plus in January. FII ownership (19.9 per cent) now accounts for 44 per cent of the market's free float. This is big, making foreigners even more dominant, and should suggest a very strong equity market. But, money and the mood apart, India's market performance has been soft (4.6 per cent) since October, 2012, lagging peers/benchmarks: we have to look beyond foreign flows," they wrote in a note dated February 7.
A key reason for the relative underperformance of the Indian market despite the huge inflows may be the selloffs by local institutions.
"India's domestic institutional investors (DIIs) are doing almost the opposite of foreign investors. They are selling ($10 billion in 2012, $3.4 billion in Q4 of 2012 and $3 billion in January); limiting net institutional flows to $5 billion in Q4 of 2012. And it's because of a mixed set of reasons. Insurers becoming sellers for the first time on a financial year basis (big one), investors 'breaking even and getting out' and building liquidity for divestments," said the Citi analysts. "It's a contra trend, but does dampen the impact of FII flows," they said.
Indian insurance companies, mostly Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC), have been trimming their stake in listed companies in a move widely perceived as a strategy to invest in the government sell-offs as indicated by Citi analysts.
According to an analysis by JP Morgan analysts led by Bharat Iyer, insurance holdings of Indian equities at 5.6 per cent have been declining over the past three quarters. Mutual fund holdings at 3.6 per cent are also "well off the highs" though, the JP Morgan analysts said.
A major problem in heavy reliance on FIIs is that the Indian market will see a major correction the moment these overseas flows reverse or even dry up. JP Morgan analysts admitted that Indian equities are indeed "vulnerable".
"FII ownership of Indian equities is at an all-time high. Latest available EPFR data indicates that FIIs' overweight position on India is at a six-year high. From a technical perspective, this position highlights the vulnerability of India to global risk-off trade. The vulnerability extends to the currency as well, the large current account deficit (CAD) is being funded mainly by capital flows and underscores the need for the government to ensure revival in growth. We reiterate that there appears limited policy flexibility — fiscal and monetary — to stimulate growth in the near term," the JP Morgan analysts said.
Morgan Stanley's Sheela Rathi and Ridham Desai looked at the FII ownership pattern in a more detailed manner after the December quarter filings by companies.
According to their analysis, "FIIs bought in five out of the 10 sectors. Consumer discretionary turned out to be the sector with the most buying, mostly due to the decline in the sector's weight. FIIs also added stocks from materials and industrials, while trimming positions in financials, energy and technology," they said.
"Over the past 12 months, consumer discretionary has seen the most buying while energy and technology have seen most selling," according to Morgan Stanley.
For FIIs, the biggest plays are on energy (-373 bps) and financials (+361 bps); in contrast, DIIs are positioned mostly in consumer staples (+525bps) and financials (-456bps), according to Citi's Narain.
Of the top 20 stocks owned by institutions overall, HDFC saw the most buying and Infosys was most sold (for the third quarter in a row) in the December quarter. No wonder the stock reacted so significantly to its earnings surprise. Their largest overweight is ICICI Bank and the largest underweight is Reliance Industries, unchanged from the previous quarter.
Last year's surge in inflows stands out compared with the record inflows of 2010 because of lower primary activity in 2012.
Maybe significant inflows may have come when private equity funds (PEs) sold some of their holdings last year, such as Carlyle exiting HDFC and Warburg Pincus selling out its stake in Kotak Mahindra Bank.
"Primary market activity at 11 per cent of the $24 billion FII inflows in 2012 compared with 29 per cent in 2010, when FII inflows stood at $29 billion, although there were chunky secondary market exits (PE/FDI), would have probably raised this cumulative level beyond 2010's 29 per cent," the Citi analysts said. zz


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I hate waking up before my girlfriend and seeing her morning wood.Kwaugh96 09/19/2012
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Your girlfriend wakes up before you?! I'm lucky if mine wakes up in time for lunch...JayDee240 09/19/2012
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lol. true story, my ex started to suck my morning wood while i was asleep and said "how come you didn't cum?"
answer? i still dont know.FrontalPR 09/19/2012
Damn dude! You need to get that checked out. My dick doesn't rotate like that.kslatin 09/19/2012
I make a point to press that shit against my girlfriends back/ass first thing in the morning.gocougs11 09/19/2012
I hope your girlfriend is declawed.motor_boating_SOB 09/19/2012
When my girlfriend wakes up before me, I wake up to a blowjob. BEST. FEELING. EVER.joerant 09/19/2012
Your girlfriend is adorable. And fuzzy.canafominux 09/19/2012
The GIF cuts right before the cat bites it in half.bawwsicle 09/19/2012
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My boyfriend just told me today not to do that... >.< he hates it! Sometimes I'd "rape" him and he just doesn't even react lol.oOBUBBLEOo 09/19/2012
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You forgot the part where you wake up, she realizes that you've realized she's playing with your dick... and gets up and walks away. Such a damned tease in the morning...wvboltslinger40k 09/19/2012
Lucky. Married seven years and I don't think the wife even remembers morning wood exists.savagemick 09/19/2012
We can't help it! It's like cat nip!lexicological 09/19/2012
Yeah, I wish my girlfriend licked her lips after touching it too.Honey_Cheese 09/19/2012
You mean when you wake up and you wish you had a girlfriend to see your morningwood?nottalentedduh 09/19/2012
I actually found out, during REM sleep a man has erections throughout the night. Something to do with the blood flow while sleeping.
I do like waking up and feeling for a boner.Ebby86 09/19/2012
Its funny because you are implying your girlfriend is a pussyHarutinator 09/19/2012
That is the cutest kitten I have ever seen.joshman196 09/19/2012
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If you would like to know more on the subject of morning wood. http://www.reddit.com/r/shitty...t_base 09/19/2012
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This is actually quite accurate.LadyTinuviel 09/19/2012
I don't have a girlfriend (hey, I'm on reddit), but this applies to me and my own wood.New_High_Score 09/19/2012
It's all good, unless you wake her up by poking her in the head with it. The wife seemed taken aback by that for some reason.Betanut 09/19/2012
Y'all talking about me?sudden_morning_wood 09/19/2012
I'm so lonely.cor315 09/19/2012
I wish my boyfriend lets me touch his morning wood SIGHspippy 09/19/2012
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i love how the cat even licks it's lips.daratpaintbll 09/19/2012
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Does she lick her lips like that too??spicymonkey13 09/19/2012
Mine too.BazookaSamurai 09/19/2012
why does you girlfriend get a cat to touch your morning wood?Carefree_CFC 09/19/2012
Does she...does she dig her claws in?bingeverything 09/19/2012
U soooo lucky.KennedyRules6 09/19/2012
You might have just ruined kittens for me.fundip_ 09/19/2012
I do this to the bf while he is AWAKE. That shit is hilarious.hellohaley 09/20/2012
I sincerely hope she licks her lips after batting your morning wood.DarkDyer 09/20/2012
I like how the kitty sticks his tongue out
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When I was in a relationship my favorite thing to do with my boyfriends morning wood was to pretend I was rally racing. Extremely entertaining..... for me.Uni_Boober 09/20/2012
Bitches love morning wood.YSCapital 09/20/2012
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Brown, a South Wilkes-Barre resident, said the main reason he felt the need to introduce the issue is that he currently pays $800 per year for flood insurance and when he was going to sell his house, the buyers were told they would need to pay $7,000 per year. Brown also said he believed the home was worth $90,000.
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Brown said the issue is important to local residents.
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Well we all work very hard on formatting our message and targeting the correct audience, but how do we know how effective our message is coming across. We really don't very well whether "Capitalizing The First Letter Of Every Word" is better than adding "Bold to the entire message".
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"A/B testing, split testing or bucket testing is a method of marketing testing by which a baseline control sample is compared to a variety of single-variable test samples in order to improve response or conversion rates. A classic direct mail tactic, this method has been recently adopted within the interactive space to test tactics such as banner ads, emails, landing pages or even entire websites. For instance, on an e-commerce website the purchase funnel is typically a good candidate for A/B testing, as even marginal improvements in drop-off rates can represent a lot of additional sales."
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