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ED COWAN won't be drawn into a conversation about Shane Watson's desire to open the batting but believes he has shown he can do the job against any attack.
Cowan has spent the short break since the Test summer finished working on his conditioning and refining his plans against spin bowling in preparation for a tour of India in which he hopes to remove selection doubts from the equation before the Ashes.
Asked whether he felt his position was secure after a summer that began with a century against South Africa but tapered off and finished with a handful of missed opportunities, Cowan said: ''I think I've shown enough to suggest I'm good enough. If you can score Test hundreds against South Africa you can score Test hundreds against anyone.
''It's a question of doing that consistently and for the first four-fifths of the summer that consistency was there.
''There was an opportunity to go big a couple of times which I missed, but at the same time it felt like I was improving, and the quality of batting was there but the results weren't. So when I was looking back it was probably disappointing not to really nail it but a few things happen out of your control … that you might do differently. There's no point getting too beat up about it.''
Cowan realises his Ashes hopes depend on a strong series in India, where he has been on academy and state tours. Neither he or Watson will play a Sheffield Shield game before the touring squad is chosen at the end of the month. Cowan declined to comment on Watson's public preference to open.
The vice-captain will return from a calf injury in his new role as a non-bowling batsman in grade cricket in Sydney this weekend rather than through the shield for NSW against WA, leaving the national selectors to judge his form and fitness without the benefit of a first-class game.
Cowan is not concerned about the gap in his own schedule, and believes a ''red ball camp'' in India, for which Test specialists will depart early, is sufficient preparation.
Australia's next two Test assignments will be played in contrasting conditions, and it's conceivable that different Test line-ups will be tailored accordingly, but Cowan still expects performances in India will, to a large extent, shape the Ashes squad.
''For me, the focus is very much on playing in India and how I'm going to score runs and hopefully, if things work out like I know they can, if I prepare well and play as well as I can, then I will get an opportunity in England, but that feels miles away to be honest.
''I need to get through this series really strongly, hopefully contribute really heavily with the bat, and that takes the selection issue out of it.''


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I ordered the dress to custom size and it was too long, but had it altered. I thought the neckline looked a little low, so I ordered the bridal party bra in red (bra with attached lace cami look) and was not sure it would look good but matched perfectly. I also ordered a chiffon jacket to go with the dress in both red and black to wear to two different occasions. The dress has slightly sheer, small strip of fabric under the breast and has a slightly sheer back, but the red bra made me feel comfortable and looked wonderful.
Where did you order the cami insert? I'm not finding it online here.
De sstevens_53 3 / 2 / 2013
The dress look elegant.I love it
I ordered this dress in black. It was very well made. Very high quality. The neckline was a little modest than I expected but not bad at all and I would have loved the slit to be more pronounced. You don't see the slit in the front until you hold the dress like the model. You see the slit when you hold it up (and you would need to hold it up to walk). Overall I would recommend this dress and the customer service is out of this world...absolutely brilliant!!!!
I am 5"10, and it is extremely difficult for me to find dresses that are long enough. After stumbling upon this site through a google search, I was pleased at how easy it seemed to order a custom fit gown. Not only are there endless choices of reasonably priced dresses and gowns, but the site is easy to follow, the online chat is extremely helpful, and what did it for me was the fact that so many people had only positive reviews and uploaded pictures of themselves so you can see what other body types look like in their dresses.
I ordered my dress with the additional fee for custom measurements, and the dress arrived in about 2 weeks from the date I ordered it!! It fit PERFECTLY. I am really pleased, and will definitely be ordering from this site again, and I recommend it to anyone and everyone who will listen.
The only drawback was the fact that I had to pay about $80 extra once the package arrived, due to my country's fees, which I recommend looking in to before you purchase. That being said though, I would still DEFINITELY have ordered my dress, even with that additional customs fee.
The only pictures I have are me wearing the dress over a shirt. I got the dress in Navy.
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I got this dress for prom in April in lavender and the color was beautiful and what I hoped for. I definitely recommend you order it to your exact fit because a seamstress will have a hard time fixing it for you do to the beading and the chiffon. I got many complements on it and it moved beautifully. If you're getting your dress for an occasion like prom, I recommend ordering it 2 months early to avoid being stressed about getting it on time.
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De ghaayathri 2 / 10 / 2012
Very happy! Amazingly beautifull in Watermelon colour, but it actually makes me think more of a strawberry sorbet :) perfect for a June wedding bridesmaid! :) merci!
This is a beautifully made and good quality dress. Unfortunately it was too big and I did need to get alterations done. Light in the Box were very helpful and swift in resolving this issue.
The repairs were done and the dress fitted much better. I also did end up purchasing a bando to wear underneath as the sheer panel is really in the wrong place and revealed too much of the bust.
I received a lot of good comments from people at the party. My experience with Light In The Box has been very good. The communication has been very prompt, making the whole experience pain free.
I would not hesitate to purchase from them in the future with confidence!
My dress was a made to measure as im 5'5" and size 28. I was so worried everything was going to be wrong but totally reassured by the amazing online chat help i received. my order arrived before the due date and had to get a minor adjustment done and get the wrap sewn on (ordered this separately) to cover my upper arms. I CANNOT WAIT to wear it as bridesmaid at my sister in laws wedding! I have recommended this site to everyone ive met!
The only downside is that my dress is a lot brighter than i thought, i would say red not the burgundy i ordered and the sheer bits under the bust and on the back are super see through in this colour (model in black version does not show this very well) my wrap covers my back and im getting bits put under my bust on the inside so this wont be a problem. the sparkly bits are coming off and the pleated bit under bust doesnt sit right either but can all be fixed with a few stitches.
Im still 110% over the moon with it!!
Hi Liz. Thanks for sharing your picture. Your dress does not look like it has the plunging bust like other pictures I've seen. Did you have it altered or did it come like that? I am also a plus size and am a little concerned about showing too much cleavage! You look great, by the way!
De Jeannette 15 / 10 / 2011
thanks jeanette! i did have to have the dress adjusted slightly as it was really plunging, a few stitches to the shoulders to pull it up was all it took. also there are see thro panels under the bust which i didnt notice on the model, again a couple of panels sewn into the inside and it was sorted x
De liz 11 / 9 / 2012
this picture was actually before the dress was altered!
De liz 11 / 9 / 2012
Orded in ivory, beautiful and well made.
don't why it was reccomended to 'only order in dark colours' mine is gorgeous.
ordered custom fit and it has been very well made built in bra and everything!
i completly reccomend.
you look so beautiful in this dress! i was wondering what it would look like in ivory and it looks lovely! thanks for posting the picture.
De amber 20 / 3 / 2012
This was my first time I ordered, and I was very happy with the dress. I was a little bit afraid of the size, so I decided to order it 2 sizes bigger than I wear, which was not nessesarry, and I will not do it the next time I order. The dress was about 10cm too long, but the change was very easily made by a friend and we had a wonderful night at the operaball in Graz., and as you see, I think the dress looks great in RED.


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Amber Tamblyn's Wedding Dress Is As Refreshingly Non-Traditional As She Is
Amber Tamblyn wore a sunny yellow dress as she wed David Cross over the weekend. Take a peek here!
-Lucia Peters
As you've probably heard by now, actress Amber Tamblyn and Arrested Development star David Cross tied the knot over the weekend. Does the match seem a little unusual to you? It does to us, too, but at the same time, it also makes a lot of sense: One of the things we love about both Amber and David is that they march to the beat of their own proverbial drums. Despite the age difference (she's 29, he's 48), they've been together since 2008/2009, and now they're happily married. Congrats to the newlyweds!
Questlove of The Roots was in attendance, and thanks to him, we have a few peeks at Amber's wedding dress—which, we're happy to say, is just as unique and non-traditional as she is. Questlove Tweeted the Instagram pic seen above accompanied by the message, "Princess Amber arrives in style #weddinginthewoods." He also snapped this shot of Amber and David after they said their "I do's" ("Bliss #weddinginthewoods"):
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I've adored Amber Tamblyn ever since Joan of Arcadia (which, by the way, you owe it to yourself to watch if you haven't already seen it), and her choice of wedding dress just makes me love her even more. The bright, sunny yellow suits her far better than a standard white confection would have, and the flowers in her hair and the bare feet are the perfect finishing touches.
Also, doesn't it look like the wedding itself was a blast? I can't think of a better way to start a new life together than in a picturesque setting like that with all of your friends, family, and loved ones surrounding you. According to E! Online, all of Amber's former Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants costars—Alexis Bledel, America Ferrara, and Blake Lively—helped her celebrate. Awww!
Congratulations once again to the happy couple! Here's to many more years of bliss to come!
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Guild Wars 2 is a Massively Multiplayer Online Role-playing Game (MMORPG) which requires no subscription and is releaed only for the PC. It is a sequel to the original Guild Wars with extended customization and improved gemplay features.
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Guild Wars 2 is an MMORPG and one of the most popular of its kind and 2 was given the Game of the Year award in 2012. It was released to those who pre-ordered on August 25th of 2012 and then released to everyone else three days later on August 28th.
Guild Wars 2 was awaited with great anticipation, especially among those who wanted more out of their MMO like World of Warcraft players. Guild Wars 2 includes many differences between itself and World of Warcraft, which was the most popular MMORPG until Guild Wars 2 surfaced, with races more individual than the races of World of Warcraft, such as the plant humanoids, the Sylvari, and better story options like choosing the past of the character and playing out that character's story based on the options chosen in character creation.
The customization is much more extensive than almost all of the MMORPGs out there and far surpasses the limited customization in World of Warcraft. In Guild Wars 2's character creation, multiple presents are allowed for facial structure, but there are sliders that allow facial features to change. The colors for the hair are of a wider variety, and the character's height and body type can even be changed. If the player wishes to create a massive macho man with big arms and great height, he can do so. If the player wants to make a small, petite, female player, they can do so as well. The petite character will only be a little bit taller than the NPC children in the various stages and areas in the game, but it goes to show the variety and options in the customization for Guild Wars 2.
Players don't just play out their character's story. They play out another story line pertaining to the world of Guild Wars 2 which involves the leaders of their race. When completing the story or main quests, the NPCs that the player speaks with does actually speaks to them. Previous World of Warcraft players were dumbfounded when they saw that there were "cutscenes" for character dialogue instead of just grabbing a quest from an "important" figure in the game and moving on. The cutscenes involve the player in the story, making them feel more important and needed, whether it's in the Guild Wars 2 story line or the character's personal story line.
Players experience things that aren't usually experienced in MMOs like World of Warcraft. They feel a sense of importance and are given certain choices all throughout the game from how to create their character to what measures to take in attacking certain enemies. Guild Wars 2 players are brought into a world of fantasy and science fiction all at once with the races that were created like the technological Asura and the fantastical Sylvari. So many different original ideas were brought into one game, making it a fantastic MMO to top.
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Fairfax County's Volunteer Solutions Invites Community to Open Houses
Volunteer Solutions, the Fairfax County program that recruits volunteers to provide services to older people and adults with disabilities, invites the community to drop by one of its upcoming open houses to learn about its volunteer opportunities.
According to Volunteer Solutions Director Ruth Reagan, the program provides convenient volunteer opportunities close to where volunteers live and work.
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Published: Monday, January 28, 2013 at 11:18 a.m.
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Florida's Scottie Wilbekin, a 6-foot-2, 176-pound junior guard, was named SEC Player of the Week after averaging 15 points, six assists and two rebounds in wins at Georgia and at Mississippi State last week.
Against Georgia, Wilbekin led the team in scoring with 17 points, matching a career-best. He was 7-for-9 from the field against the Bulldogs.
Against Mississippi State on Saturday, Wilbekin notched his third-straight game scoring in double-figures, finishing with 13 points. He was also one assist shy of his second career double-double.
This marks the second consecutive week that Wilbekin has recorded at least nine assists in a game.
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It's National Margarita Day and it's Friday so whether you prefer your cocktail blended or on the rocks, it's definitely time to break out the tequila.
1. Tyler's Ultimate Margarita (pictured above)
Tyler's version of a margarita has it all: lime juice, sugar, orange liqueur, triple sec, tequila and even a splash of beer for good measure. The only other thing you'll need? Great guacamole.
Ellie shares a lighter take on the classic frozen margarita. Get sweetness from frozen diced mango and use fresh lime juice for a cocktail that has 180 calories per serving.
Blend store-bought pomegranate juice with lime, tequila and triple sec for Tyler's fruity take on a classic margarita. Drop fresh pomegranate seeds in the bottom of your glass and pour the drink mix over the top.
4. Whole Citrus Margaritas
Michael Chiarello juices navel oranges, lemons and limes for this refreshing cocktail. Try to look for in season citrus options and adjust the recipe based on what is available. Tangerines, Meyer lemons and key limes are all great flavor options if you can find them.
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Don Julio tequila shared their spicy version of a classic margarita with us in honor of National Margarita Day; use caution with the chipotle powder.
1.25 ounces Don Julio Anejo
1/4-ounce Grand Marnier
1/2-ounce fresh squeezed lime juice
1/4-ounce simple syrup
1/4 tsp. of chipotle chili powder
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The dictionaries consider the two meanings come from being two different words. Hang around this Agora for awhile, and you will see Dr Goodword now and then discusses words like this. The etymology for the meaning to stunt, stop or hinder growth comes from the 16th century word that meant foolish or stupid. The American Heritage Dictionary finds the etymology of the second meaning, a daring or foolish act, to be unknown. However, it seems to me that the root of foolish or stupid could also have been the source of the daring meaning. Perhaps someone looked at the wild stunts and called them "stunts," meaning stupid, which of course some stunts are.
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Oh no! All of the dogs on Lexington Avenue have run away from home. The owners quickly made police reports and luckily all the dogs were found. But the poor officers mixed up the paper work and can't figure out who owns which dog, where they were found, and in what order. They are in great need of help. Can you figure it out?
Owners: Sam, Bailey, Chase, Joel, Paige
Dogs: Spot, Wiggles, Butch, Roscoe, Heinz
Locations: Park, Neighbor, Pound, Parking lot, Restaurant
Order: First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth
1. Heinz's owner knew exactly where to find his dog, in front of the restaurant where he discovered Heinz as a puppy. That's why Heinz was safe in bed first.
2. The 5 dogs are: Wiggles, Joel's dog, the dog in the parking lot, Chase's dog, and the last dog found.
3. Only one owner shares the same initials as his/her dog.
4. Butch was found before the dog in the pound but after Sam's dog.
5. Chase found his dog after Paige.
6. Spot was found 2nd.
7. Paige was so happy when her neighbor brought Wiggles home.
Answer1) Sam, Spot, Parking Lot, 2nd
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text: State reptile: Timber rattlesnake shuns the limelight By Bill Lynch June 15, 2013 Story Share CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Among its many symbols, as of 2008, the state of West Virginia has an officially recognized reptile: the timber rattlesnake.Found through out West Virginia, Crotalus horridus often grows to a length of about 3 feet with the occasional specimen reaching a little more than 5 feet and weighing up to 5 pounds.With its rough-edged scales, dark bands and long, fearsome fangs, the timber rattler may be the stuff of nightmares, but Dr. Thomas Pauley, a biology professor and herpetologist (reptile expert) at Marshall University, said they're not really something to be terribly afraid of."We're freaked out about snakes, period," he said. "Whether it's a garter snake, a green snake or a rattlesnake."Rattlesnakes, of course, are venomous, and the timber rattler is no exception."Of that, there's no doubt," Pauley said. "Could they kill you? They could. [But] there probably aren't that many deaths from timber rattler snakebites."Not that the biology professor endorsed picking one up. Pauley would recommend leaving them alone, but he thinks the timber rattler isn't as scary as some might think. He said, "They can certainly make you sick, and a person could die -- I'm not saying they wouldn't -- but if you check the figures, deaths by snakebite in West Virginia, there are very few."Pauley pointed out that timber rattlers are pretty common in West Virginia; he acknowledged, though, that actual sightings are more rare. People just think they see them."I've been a herpetologist for 50-some years and there's hardly a week that goes by at Marshall when I don't get an email or a phone call. Someone will describe a snake or send me a picture, and they're always telling they're rattlesnakes or copperheads."They're usually garter snakes and black snakes and things that aren't venomous." Pauley said a timber rattler looks very different than a garter snake or a black snake, but he added that it's human nature to assume that if it's a snake it has to be poisonous. Society, in general, has a deep-rooted fear of snakes.People don't see timber rattlers, he explained, because the snakes don't want to be seen."They're just so secretive," he said.Pauley recalled a few years ago that he and a graduate student had put transmitters on a number of snakes in Randolph County to track them with a receiver. Later, they were out looking for salamanders among some large rocks when the receiver picked up a signal of a nearby snake. "We followed the antenna right over to that rattlesnake," he said.The snake was tightly coiled up. Pauley said it was about the size of a coffee cup saucer and lying next to a tree root."I tell you, I would have walked right over it," he said.Pauley stressed that it was a pretty big snake and would have kept hidden if not for the receiver.Timber rattlers blend in and hide, and they don't move unless they have to."They're part of what's called the hidden biodiversity," Pauley said. "They're hidden and stay hidden, and we just don't know they're there." Reach Bill Lynch at firstname.lastname@example.com or 304-348-5195. Story Share Story Share Trending Now 1 Capito slams Trump's Charlottesville response; WV GOP congressmen mum 2 WR Jovon Durante leaving WVU for FAU 3 WV official: Emergency opioid declaration 'step in the right direction' 4 Mission trip brings South Charleston, Haitian families together 5 Eclipse will be partial in WV, but still spectacular State insect: Honeybee supports W.Va.'s main industry Previous Story State fossil: Thomas Jefferson played role in discovery of bones Next Story


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Without question, Argentina is a meat loving country and for good reason. Any meat-eating traveler would be amiss if they didn't try Argentina's famous grass-fed beef or experience an Asado–the traditional barbeque featuring numerous cuts of meats and entrails. Most streets have a Parrilla every few blocks where hungry wanderers can satisfy their carnivore cravings. Yet beef is not the only Argentine specialty. There exist many other regional dishes and a few unexpected treats worth sampling. Be warned though, some are thoroughly addicting!
These meat, cheese, or vegetable filled pastries are the perfect snack when on the go or an ideal alternative for a full meal when in need of something fast and simple. Compact and delicious, empanadas come in a variety of forms and with a variety of fillings. Some favorites include carne (with either ground beef or whole cuts of steak inside), pollo (chicken), jamon y queso (ham and cheese), queso y cebolla (cheese and onion), or vegetales (vegetables). Better yet, empanadas are cheap! At around four pesos apiece, you can snack on empanadas all day without breaking the bank.
If you were to discuss the great pizza capitals of the world, you may not think to mention Buenos Aires. However, pizza is as widely consumed here as anywhere, and like New York or Napoli, its preparation is considered an art form. Thanks to a large population of Italian immigrants (Italian is the second most spoken language in BA behind Spanish) pizza has not only found a new home in Buenos Aires but a new style as well. Unlike sauce-based pizzas, it's all about the cheese in Buenos Aires. Here, pizzas come with fresh slices of tomato and green olives placed upon mounds of mozzarella cheese.
The ice cream of Buenos Aires is simply superb. From quality to presentation to the vast variety of flavors available, Buenos Aires makes gelato of unrivaled delight… dare we say it may even be better than Italy's? Heladerias (ice cream shops) are everywhere, and they provide the best place to cool down on hot summer afternoons.
Medialunas (literally half moons in Spanish) are sweet croissants. Eaten for breakfast with coffee or as an afternoon snack to quell hunger while waiting for dinner, they are as delicious as they are useful. Sample these and other facturas (sweet pastries) at any café or panderia.
Argentines really can't get enough sweets. Case and point Alfajores. These ubiquitous packaged treats are sold in every street side kiosco, and will cure the most severe of sweet cravings. An example is Conitos, a cone shaped piece of cholcolate filled with dulche de leche, a sugary caramel-like spread, and more chocolate.
Dulche de leche
This rich confection is perhaps Argentina's signature treat. Like Nutella, dulche de leche can be used as a spread to sweeten up most anything. Additionally, it is also the main ingredient in most Argentine deserts and is even a popular ice cream flavor.


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Brewers being cautious with Lucroy's hamstring
MILWAUKEE -- Add catcher Jonathan Lucroy to the list of the Brewers' walking wounded.
Lucroy is batting a minor strain of his right hamstring, troubling enough to manager Ron Roenicke and the medical staff that Lucroy was held out of the opener of the weekend showdown with the National League West-leading Dodgers at Miller Park.
"We were going to give him a day somewhere," Roenicke said. "He's got a little bit of a hamstring issue. It's there. I'm being cautious with it. I don't want him to miss time."
It's that time of year. Shortstop Jean Segura and second baseman Scooter Gennett are still fighting nagging quadriceps strains (though Gennett started on Friday), and left fielder Khris Davis has a sore throwing elbow.
Lucroy, an All-Star starter this season, has been one of Milwaukee's steadiest hitters. He entered Friday among the NL leaders in doubles (second, 38), extra-base hits (fifth, 51), batting average (seventh, .307), OPS (eighth, .867) and on-base percentage (10th, .374). He is on a pace to challenge Lyle Overbay's franchise-record 53 doubles (2004), and to be the Brewers' first regular catcher to bat higher than .300 since Ted Simmons hit .308 in 1983.
Adam McCalvy is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Brew Beat, and follow him on Twitter at @AdamMcCalvy. Caitlin Swieca is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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The concept of superrationality is discussed in Douglas Hofstadter's book "Metamagical Themas"[1]. Superrationality is a type of rational decision making which is different than the usual game-theoretic one [2], since a superrational player playing against a superrational opponent in a prisoner's dilemma will cooperate while a game-theoretically rational player will defect.
Prisoner's Dilemma Edit
The idea behind superrationality is that two logical thinkers analyzing the same problem will come up with the same, correct, answer. For example, if two persons are both good at arithmetic, and both have been given the same complicated sum to do, it can be predicted that both will get the same answer before the sum is known. In arithmetic, knowing that the two answers are going to be the same doesn't change the value of the sum, but in game theory, knowing that the answer will be the same might change the answer itself.
In a prisoner's dilemma, each player can either cooperate (C) or defect (D). The players choose without knowing what the other is going to do. If both cooperate, each get 100 dollars. If they both defect, they both get 1 dollar. If one cooperates and the other defects, the defecting player gets 101 dollars, while the cooperating player gets nothing.
One valid way for the players to reason is as follows: whatever the other player does, my payoff is increased by defecting, even if only by one dollar. So the rational thing to do is to defect. This defines game-theoretic rationality, and two game-theoretic rational players will both defect and receive one dollar.
Superrationality is an alternative way to reason. First, it is assumed that the answer to a symmetric problem will be the same for all the superrational players. Then the sameness is taken into account before knowing what the strategy will be. The strategy is found by maximizing the payoff to each player, assuming that they all use the same strategy. Since the superrational player knows that the other superrational player will do the same thing, whatever that might be, there are only two choices for two superrational players. Both will cooperate or both will defect depending on the value of the superrational answer. The two superrational players will both cooperate, since this answer maximizes the payoff to each one.
Note that a superrational player playing against a game-theoretic rational player will defect, since the strategy only assumes that the superrational players will agree. A superrational player playing against a player of uncertain superrationality will sometimes defect and sometimes cooperate.
If the two players are only superrational with probability p, and with probability 1-p they are game-theoretic rational and therefore defect, the result is as follows. Assuming that the superrational strategy is to cooperate, the expected payoff is 100p. Assuming that the superrational strategy is to defect, the expected payoff is 1. So as long as p>.01 the superrational strategy will be to cooperate.
This means that when the temptation to defect is very small, the superrational strategy is to cooperate even in the presence of a large fraction of non-superrational opponents.
Although standard game theory assumes common knowledge of rationality, it does so in a different way. The game theoretic analysis maximizes payoffs by allowing each player to change strategies independently of the others, even though in the end, it assumes that the answer in a symmetric game will be the same for all. This is the definition of a game theoretic Nash equilibrium, which defines a stable strategy as one where no player can improve the payoffs by unilaterally changing course. The superrational equilibrium is one which maximizes payoffs where all the players strategies are forced to be the same before the maximization step.
Some argue that superrationality implies a kind of magical thinking in which each player supposes that his decision to cooperate will cause the other player to cooperate, despite the fact that there is no communication. Hofstadter points out that the concept of "choice" doesn't apply when the player's goal is to figure something out, and that the decision does not cause the other player to cooperate, but rather same logic leads to same answer independent of communication or cause and effect. This debate is over whether it is reasonable for human beings to act in a superrational manner, not over what superrationality means.
There is no agreed upon extension of the concept of superrationality to asymmetric games.
Probabilistic Strategies Edit
For simplicity, the foregoing account of superrationality ignored mixed strategies: the possibility that the best choice could be to flip a coin, or more generally to choose different outcomes with some probability. In the Prisoner's Dilemma, it is superrational to cooperate with probability 1 even when mixed strategies are admitted, because the average payoff when one player cooperates and the other defects is less than when both cooperate.
In other situations, though, using a randomising device can be essential. One example discussed by Hofstadter is the platonia dilemma: an eccentric trillionaire contacts 20 people, and tells them that if one and only one of them sends him a telegram (assumed to cost nothing) by noon the next day, that person will receive a billion dollars. If he receives more than one telegram, or none at all, no one will get any money, and cooperation between players is forbidden. In this situation, the superrational thing to do (if it is known that all 20 are superrational) is to send a telegram with probability p=1/20, which maximizes the probability that exactly one telegram is received.
Notice though that this is not the solution in a conventional game-theoretical analysis. Twenty game-theoretically rational players would each send in a telegram and therefore receiving nothing. This is because sending the telegram is the dominant strategy; if an individual player sends a telegram he has a chance of receiving money, but if he sends no telegram he cannot get anything.
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- ↑ Douglas R. Hofstadter "Metamagical Themas", Basic Books
- ↑ Conventionally called perfect rationality


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Now that we've all survived Christmas (or have we?), it's time to take it easy for a few days and let our minds and bodies rest. My Christmas menu worked wonders and I felt satisfied, but not stuffed. Still, I don't mind having a few lighter days to balance things out and this quick summer gazpacho is a perfect way to enjoy summer's bounty.
I've used sweet tomatoes as a base for this cold soup. Blended with cucumber and cooked chickpeas, the colour of the soup is a beautiful pale peach and the taste is sweet but tangy, thanks to the apple cider vinegar and lemon juice. This is a perfectly filling, yet light meal for a summer's day.
Quick Summer Gazpacho
(serves 2-4)
600g tomatoes, seeded and cut into chunks
1 big cucumber, peeled, seeded and cut into chunks
250g cooked chickpeas
2 scallions/spring onions, sliced
(fresh herbs, like parsley and basil)
1 teaspoon sweet paprika
1/2 teaspoon ground celery seeds
pinch of sea salt
freshly ground black pepper
1/2 lemon, juiced
2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar
2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
1. Place the tomatoes, cucumber, cooked chickpeas and spring onions and herbs (if using) in a blender. Blend until smooth.
2. Season the mixture with paprika, ground celery seeds, salt and pepper. Add in the lemon juice, apple cider vinegar and olive oil. Blend for a couple of minutes. Add water/ice if you want it thinner. Serve cool.


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Say, 'People of the Book! come to a proposition which is the same for us and you – that we should worship none but Allah and not associate any partners with Him and not take one another as lords besides Allah.' If they turn away, say, 'Bear witness that we are Muslims.' (Surah Al 'Imran, 64)
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It is He Who has appointed the stars for you so you might be guided by them in the darkness of the land and sea. We have made the signs clear for people who have knowledge. (Surat al-An'am, 97)
It is He Who sends down water from the sky from which We bring forth growth of every kind, and from that We bring forth the green shoots and from them We bring forth close-packed seeds, and from the spathes of the date palm date clusters hanging down, and gardens of grapes and olives and pomegranates, both similar and dissimilar. Look at their fruits as they bear fruit and ripen. There are Signs in that for people who have iman. (Surat al-An'am, 99)


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The Tourism Grading Council of South Africa's website enables you to find graded self-catering establishments throughout South Africa.
While star grading for the South African hospitality sector is a voluntary process, official recognition by the Tourism Grading Council of South Africa (TGCSA) is a stamp of quality the majority of consumers tend to rely on.
The grading framework allows for the award of one to five stars based on quality of services and amenities, with five stars denoting the top of the range.
Star graded establishments are further divided into accommodation categories covering hotels, guest houses, country houses, B&Bs, self-catering establishments, backpackers & hostel amenities, camping & caravan parks and the meetings, exhibitions and special events category (MESE).
Independent assessors who have undergone training approved by the TGCSA undertake inspections of properties that apply for grading.
The assessors make their recommendations to an Awards Committee that ultimately decides on the number of stars an accommodation establishment qualifies for.
The criteria for quality assurance are strict and in keeping with international standards, and apply broadly to building exteriors, bedrooms, bathrooms, public areas, dining facilities, food and beverage outlets, services and service, and housekeeping.
To ensure credibility in measuring the star grading system, consumer feedback is encouraged on the TGCSA website.
The TGCSA sees itself as a collaborative partner in the hospitality industry's efforts to attain and maintain high standards. It was recently incorporated as a business unit of South African Tourism.
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In a first for the series, Mass Effect 3's first pack of downloadable content landed on launch day alongside the game. But is it worth the extra cash, or should it have been in the game for free in the first place?
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(Excerpt from Harun Yahya's live interview dated 28 January 2011)
Say, 'People of the Book! come to a proposition which is the same for us and you – that we should worship none but Allah and not associate any partners with Him and not take one another as lords besides Allah.' If they turn away, say, 'Bear witness that we are Muslims.' (Surah Al 'Imran, 64)
Almighty Allah says that priests and men of religion will come up with such propositions, but he tells us not to abide by them instead of Him. He says it is Allah who issues commandments. Some ignorant Muslims regard their own sheikhs as being able to issue commandments, and they also regard their own priests and clergymen as issuing commandments instead of Allah. Allah says that this is wrong, that it is Allah who issues pronouncements, insha'Allah.


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- Smoke-free
- Garden / Patio
- Pub/shop < 1 mile
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A charming stone-built detached Peak District cottage, in the grounds of the owner's home and smallholding in the lovely village of Tintwistle.
This delightful Peak District cottage offers warm, comfortable and modern accommodation, with a welcoming, open plan living area with patio doors and views over Bottoms Reservoir and Glossop.
There is also a cosy double bedroom and a wet room, while outside this Peak District cottage there is a sunny patio garden, ideal for alfresco dining.
Tintwistle boasts village pubs, 17th and 18th century cottages and the wonderful Bottoms Reservoir.
Numerous scenic walks radiate from the village and the many attractions of the National Park can be enjoyed from the doorstep of this Peak District cottage.
Nearby Glossop offers a good selection of shops, restaurants and pubs together with an 18-hole golf course, whilst the nearby spa town of Buxton, with its majestic gardens and architecture, offers a lovely day out.
An ideal romantic Peak District cottage retreat for you to get away from it all and enjoy this beautiful and historic area.
One double bedroom, accessed by spiral stairs. Ground floor wet room with shower, basin and WC. Open plan living area with kitchen, dining area, sitting area, patio doors to garden and wonderful views.
- Gas central heating
- Gas hob, electric oven, microwave, fridge, TV with FreeSat, DVD, WiFi
- All fuel and power inc. in rent
- Bed linen and towels inc. in rent
- Off road parking adjacent to the cottage
- Enclosed patio garden with furniture, BBQ and superb views over the reservoir and Glossop
- Sorry, no pets and no smoking
- Shop 5 mins walk, pub 2 mins walk
- Note: The property is accessed via steps from the roadside parking area
- Due to the spiral stairs, this cottage is not suitable for children or the less mobile and care must be taken
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Glossop 2 miles.
The millstone grit village of Tintwistle, 2 miles from Glossop, often dubbed the "Gateway to the Peaks", is skirted on three sides by the Peak District National Park and is renowned for the moorlands of the Dark Peak. Accessed via the infamous Snake Pass, this most attractive area houses some fine 17th and 18th Century cottages. Bottoms Reservoir is in the centre of the village, providing the perfect setting for a leisurely stroll. Follow Doctor's Gate Roman road to Kinder Scout and Edale, the start of the Pennine Way, or the Snake Pass to Ladybower and Derwent Reservoirs, where the famous Dambusters Squadron practiced. The nearby bustling town of Glossop provides plentiful shops, pubs and restaurants together with a superb 18 hole golf course and is surrounded by some of the most magnificent Peak District scenery. With the pretty spa town of Buxton and the picturesque Hope Valley, home to Castleton Castle and Caves, both within easy reach, this is a wonderful location offering plenty to see and do.
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SAM Wood said it's essential Wanderers preserve their Football League status - and says the players are more than good enough to stay up.
With his side on a run of one win in 18 matches and sitting two points above the relegation zone, Wood and his team mates could be forgiven for fearing the worst about their potential fate at the end of the season.
But the 26-year-old said there is no fear factor around Adams Park despite their precarious league position - adding a lack of goals is the only reason for their predicament.
He said Blues can draw strength from their escape from a similarly hopeless position last year, as they survived the drop despite being bottom of the table in November.
Wood said: "Where we are, we want to stay up and I think we will do that - we've got the players for that.
"From where we are, staying up is a must. We're going to aim as high as possible - there's no set target but we're looking for mid table.
"We did it last year and I don't see why we can't do it again.
"It's not good being down at the bottom but we are always going to look up. The league's so tight, if we get a couple of wins together we'll be flying up the table.
"When you've got Gaz as your manager, he doesn't do negativity and that helps us."
Blues host leaders Chesterfield tomorrow and Wood was in bullish mood going into the game.
He said: "When we played them up at their place I thought we were the better team second half.
"We don't fear anyone in this league. We might be down at the bottom but we are as good as any team. We are just lacking in goals.
"We all know we are lacking in the goal department and that's been the only problem. Hopefully that will change very soon, starting on Saturday."
Wood has a reputation for spectacular strikes after winning goal of the year last season and he said he was keen to get back on the scoresheet.
He said: "It would be lovely if I could help out. I'm playing left back recently so I'm a bit further back than usual but I'd love to score a goal to help the team and push us up the league.
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BRIERLEY Hill fitness instructors from Team Taylor Health & Fitness will be holding a Zumba-style 80s disco this Saturday (November 10) to help raise money for Children in Need.
People across the borough are invited to take part in the event which will run from 4pm to 5pm at the Team Taylor studio - unit 17, Premier Estate, The Leys.
Organiser Nicola Taylor said: "As fitness instructors we wanted to come up with something fitness based but also different.
"Children in Need began in 1980, so 80 is our theme. We will be using music from 1980, dressing in 80s disco style clothing and we hope to get 80 people taking part aged from one-year old up to 80-years-old."
It costs £5 per person to take part. All proceeds will go to Children in Need.
The event is expected to be filmed by the BBC as part of the official Children in Need show, which will air on Friday November 16.


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The top job at the Orange County Transportation Authority, hung up for more than a month on a legal snag, was awarded Monday to an heir-apparent inside candidate. Again.
The agency's board first appointed Darrell Johnson to the $255,000-a-year position in late November. But the vote came during a special meeting, a violation of California's open-meetings law that threw the appointment into question.
The law forbids local agency boards from calling special meetings to consider the compensation of executives.
On Monday, the OCTA's board of directors rescinded the November contract and then, in the same vote, approved a nearly identical contract with Johnson. This time, the vote came during a regular meeting, "just to clean up the record," board member Miguel Pulido said.
Johnson has worked his way up the management ranks of the OCTA. Current chief executive Will Kempton handpicked and groomed Johnson to succeed him when he steps down at the end of February. The agency did not launch an outside search before naming Johnson the next chief executive.
Several board members said before the November vote that they had been kept out of early deliberations about the appointment. They pointed out that the full board did not discuss or negotiate Johnson's contract before that first vote.
This time, the board voted 16-0 to make Johnson the next chief executive. But two board members voted against the specifics of his contract.
County Supervisor Pat Bates said she opposes a provision in the contract under which the OCTA will make Johnson's employee contributions to his pension for him. And Supervisor John Moorlach said he opposes a severance clause that guarantees Johnson six months salary and health benefits if the OCTA fires him for any reason.
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A 35-year-old Cockeysville man who is a youth group leader at a Baltimore County church has been charged with possession and distribution of child pornography.
Robert David Wright, of the 10000 block of Hillgreen Circle, 21030, is held at the Baltimore County Detention Center on $150,000 bail.
An investigation by BCoPD's Crimes Against Children Unit found that Wright had downloaded to his home computer thousands of pornographic images of female babies, toddlers and prepubescent girls, including images of children being raped.
The investigation shows that Wright shared these images electronically with other users.
Wright is a youth group leader at Clynmalira United Methodist Church, 2920 Stockton Road, Phoenix. There is no evidence at this time that any of the children pictured in the photos and videos recovered at Wright's residence were members of Clynmalira UMC, or that Wright sexually abused children himself. However, the investigation is ongoing, and detectives are still reviewing the vast amount of pornographic material seized from this suspect's home.
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A man has escaped a fine and points on his licence after being caught driving across a level crossing when the lights were red.
Olatokunbo Oladuti, 35, from Sandfield Gardens, in Thornton Heath, denied the driving offence when he appeared at Wimbledon Magistrates' Court for the day trial on Monday, March 4.
But a magistrate found him guilty of driving his Toyota Avensis across the West Barnes Lane level crossing on 21 May 2013 and he was given an absolute discharge with no costs or surcharges to pay.
A British Transport Police spokesman said: "We work closely with Network Rail to raise awareness around level crossings and to educate people about the potential dangers of misuse.
"Drivers who willingly flout the law and place themselves and others in danger should be in no doubt that if caught doing so, we will do everything in our power to prosecute those responsible. It is simply not worth the risk."


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There's no denying that from now until the end of the year is prime turkey time. I suspect you might even see a very similar Thanksgiving meal appear during Christmas, give or take a ham and prime rib served alongside. And this means lots of turkey leftovers. I have no shame in telling you that I've eaten a few days worth of turkey already, and plan on roasting at least one more next month. And while I'd never publicly knock the turkey-stuffing-gravy trifecta, I've gotta ask you: Where's my spice? Where's my flavor? I'm opting for turkey tacos this year, a quick and easy recipe that uses what I have but pays homage to the flavors I grew up eating. And it couldn't be any easier.
The turkey meat is shredded, re-seasoned, and nestled into a tortilla shell. But after that, the rest is up to you. Generous dollops of guacamole, some sour cream or Mexican crema, salsa, pico de gallo. You name it and you can do it. And if you've got a particularly flavorful bird and are concerned about the cross-cultural flavoring wrought from adding new spices, well, don't worry. It'll just add an extra dimension. Remember, these are leftovers — you aren't starting with a fresh slate.
Turkey Tacos
1 lb cooked turkey, shredded, no skin (white or dark is just fine)
1/2 onion, chopped
1 teaspoon cumin
1/2 teaspoon coriander
1/2 teaspoon chile powder
1/2 teaspoon black pepper
1 tablespoon olive oil
1/4 cup water
salt to taste
4-8 corn tortillas or pre-made taco shells, depending on the size of the tortilla
1 cup shredded lettuce
1/2 cup chopped tomato
1 cup shredded cheese
2 tablespoons sour cream
2 tablespoons cilantro, chopped
optional: jalapeños, Mexican crema, pickled carrots and onions, radishes
- Place the chopped onion and oil in a skillet and sauté until cooked, about 5 minutes.
- In the same pan add the shredded turkey, cumin, pepper and water to the onions. Stir to mix spices and cook for 3 to 5 minutes, until the water evaporates.
- Remove from heat. Season with salt if needed, it will depend on the original flavor of your turkey.
- Place the cooked turkey into the taco shells (you can make your own by frying corn tortillas in hot oil and forming into a taco while they're still soft).
- Top each taco with lettuce, tomato, shredded cheese, sour cream or anything extra you'd like. I'm a sucker for pickled carrots and jalapeños on mine.
More posts from Matt:
Chipotle Sweet Potato Spoon Bread
Twice Baked Potatoes
Chocolate Cherry Cookies
Queso Fundido
Fig and Blue Cheese Flatbread
Ice Cream Terrine with Sautéed Peaches
Matt's Ultimate Summer Salad
Matt's Cherry Galette
Find Matt at mattbites.com.


text: The Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney published last week his plan for Energy Independence for the US by 2020. Critics immediately dismissed the plan as unachievable. But while parts of it certainly look unlikely, many of the proposals could be delivered and by including Canada and Mexico in the calculation, Romney has made "independence" technically possible. The real challenge, however, is the mindset and beliefs revealed by the plan and its implications for the rest of the world. Read more


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Fishing Regulations for Red River
To combat the spread of invasive zebra mussels, the law requires draining of water from boats and onboard receptacles when leaving or approaching public fresh waters.
- Note:
Below Lake Texoma
It is unlawful to transport live, non-game fishes from this water body to any other water body. Nongame fishes may be collected and used for bait within the same water body.
- Black bass
- For largemouth and smallmouth bass, minimum length limit = 14 inches. No minimum length for Alabama, Guadalupe or spotted bass. Daily bag limit is 5 fish for all black bass species in any combination.
- White, striped and yellow bass
Below Lake Texoma
For striped bass and hybrid striped bass, there is no minimum length limit; daily bag = 5 fish and culling of striped bass is prohibited. For white bass, minimum length = 10 inches and daily bag is 25. There are no bag or size limits for yellow bass.
- Carp
- There is no minimum length limit or daily bag limit for common carp.
- Catfish
Below Lake Texoma
For flathead catfish, MLL = 20 inches and daily bag = 5. For channel and blue catfish, their hybrids and subspecies; MLL = 12 inches. Daily bag = 25 catfish in any combination of channel, blue, or their hybrids.
- Crappie
- For white and black crappie, their hybrids and subspecies, minimum length limit = 10 inches. Daily bag limit = 25 in any combination.
- Gar
- For alligator gar, daily bag limit is 1 fish of any size. No bag limits on other species of gar. Certain areas may be temporarily closed to alligator gar fishing when optimum spawning conditions occur. Get details.
- Sunfish
- There is no minimum length or daily bag limit on bluegill, redear, warmouth or other species of sunfish.
- Trout
- For rainbow and brown trout, their hybrids and subspecies, there is no minimum length and daily bag limit = 5 trout in any combination.


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OMG, is it Thursday aready?!? PRIDE is just around the corner! Kick off the celebrations tonight with as many of these parties as you can attend!
Take a look at this (still-growing, so check back later) list of what's going on in and around NYC today. Click on the links for details (location and more) and make sure to read though, you may find special announcements!
Don't forget to check our Events Calendar on the lower right corner of our page, and watch out for a full list of events for the rest of the week coming later!
***If you have any information on events we should feature please e-mail our Nightlife and Events Editor at email@example.com***
- Hedda Lettuce's Interactive Mommie Dearest . Join the über-hilarious Queen of Green as she celebrates 10 years of artistic life! 8pm at the Ziegfeld Theater. $15. Tickets HERE. Bring your WIRE HANGERS!!!
- OUT, OUT, DAMN'D POP! A Pride Music Review presented by SPIN CYCLE NYC at 10pm at the Gramercy Theater. FREE! (RSVP to email@example.com) Hosted by Dallas DuBois and featuring XELLE, Mila Jam, Carl Man, Jim Linehan and The Kiki Twins!
- NYC Pride Kickoff at Aspen Social Club Thursdays, a BENEFIT for the Abzyme Research Foundation. Presented by Night Affair Productions, with DJ Hector Fonseca! 10pm at Aspen Social Club. Suggested donation at the door. Join the fight as we attempt to eradicate HIV/AIDS!!!
- The GUTTER BOYS CLUB, a new monthly party of bowling, dancing and drinking presented by Joey Israel and Marco Ovando and featuring the extraordinaire Cazwell! Special performances and guests, drink secials and FREE bowling all night! 10pm NO COVER!
- BASSMENT at Monster. Special Pride Launch Party! Legendary venue, special DJs and drink specials! NO COVER! Your weekly summer workout begins NOW!!! 10pm.
- BoiParty.com's Gay Pride MEGA-EVENT at Campus Thursdays at Splash! 10pm. Special performances, great music, drink specials and LOTS of cute guys! Special discount for the Gay, Gorgeous and Twenty-Something boys!
The hottest young gay dance party in NYC! -RECOMMENDED!
- Bianca del Rio's Disaster Hour at Vlada (331 West 51st Street, between 8th and 9th Aves.) Show at 11pm. You never know what you're going to get with Bianca! Best vodka in town!
- Everything Thursdays at Bedlam, 10pm. "Precum Pride Event" hosted by the amazing LadyFag!
- FAGGOTR?NIC at Eastern Bloc. Horse Meat Disco album preview! $4 sick drinks all night! 10pm.
- The Lady B.L.U.E. Show at Boots and Saddle at 10pm. Crazier than ever with special guestAmanda Poupon!
- Marquee Thursdays with Dina Marie and the House of Delicious. 11pm. Always FREE, Always Bottle Service, Always Beautiful People that know how to do it best!! -RECOMMENDED!
- Paige Turner's Pride Playhouse at The Stonewall Inn at 10:30pm. Special edition with special guest stars! NO COVER!
- Queen at Industry with Shequida with DJ David Serrano! 11pm.
- So you think you can Go-Go? At Therapy. 11pm. Name says it all!
- Star Search with Mimi Imfurst at Barracuda. Special Pride Edition at 10pm.
- Vicious at the R Bar. Come take a walk on the wild side! 10pm. (Amaing visuas by Holly Daggers!)
- Vicky Modica's Smokin' in the Boys' Room at Bar-Tini Ultra Lounge. Show at 11pm. Come and celebrate Pride Week with one of Hell's Kitchens fishiest gay men giving real girl realness!
- Twisted Pride at Posh. 9pm. Drink specials all night!
- ORGULLO 4, the 4th Annual Latino Gay Pride! 9pm at Feathers in River Edge. Todo especial! (Special everything!)


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Heinz One Carb Reduced Sugar Tomato Ketchup
As I'm surrounded by an increasing number of dieters, I'm often amused by the healthy items they come across. For ketchup lovers, consider switching to Heinz's One Carb Reduced Sugar Tomato Ketchup. You may think you've been eating tomatoes, but you'd be surprised how much sugar is typically involved!


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In any sport, a team is in trouble when the most divisive member is, because of his talents on the field, indispensable. Managing the player becomes a complicated balancing act, where his on-field contribution is weighed against the negative impact of his personality upon the rest of the team.
Kevin Pietersen had to spend a lot of runs to buy his place in the England team. This has been the case for most of his career, especially in the two years since he was caught sending South African players derogatory texts about his then captain, Andrew Strauss. After he was reinstated, Pietersen paid his way with a century in Mumbai that was arguably the finest Test innings of the past decade, displaying that inimitable Pietersen mix of courage, self-belief and outlandish skill.
Since then, he let his account run down. He scored an important but chancy hundred at Old Trafford, and almost pulled off an improbable win at The Oval, but otherwise was inconsistent during the winter Ashes. By the end of the return series, being England's top run-scorer was not enough. England looked to Pietersen for leadership. If it was not to be found in his character, then it had to come in runs. Instead, while he was in form, he was cornered and thwarted by Peter Siddle, and by Sydney he was a pale KP hologram.
Perhaps his end was written in his second-last Test match. For nearly the whole of Boxing Day, he batted as if to send a personal message to his arch critic, Geoff Boycott. Patting back half-volleys, dropping rank long-hops at his feet, he passed Boycott's career total in pointedly Boycottish fashion. The next morning, Pietersen tossed it away with a playground tonk. Here was the paradox. Pietersen was England's top scorer, yet the slowness of his innings couldn't be mistaken for grit or responsibility. It was just more of Kevin being Kevin, all for Kevin.
In the calculations of his worth, England's selectors decided that Pietersen needed more than half-centuries to keep his place, and more than 294 runs. He needed big hundreds, or, failing that, he needed to show that he really cared.
Plenty of outsiders have commented on whether Pietersen's axing is warranted or a failing of the leadership to control and channel his talent. It might be both. Only those inside the England squad know what effect Pietersen had on the team. Scraps will filter out, eventually, to demonstrate both his obnoxious ways and the inability of Alastair Cook, Andrew Flower and the rest of the team to bring out his best. It's like a no-fault divorce; both sides share some blame and the cord is cut. But once Pietersen failed to convince his teammates, not just on the field but in the many small things that make up a long cricket tour, that he really did care about them and their success, once they ceased to believe he was with them, then he had to go.
Pietersen will feel he is hard done by, but if the England leaders were more hard-headed they would have dropped him after the third Test. If they were really ruthless, they would not have brought him to Australia at all. If they were uncompromising about team-first principles, the South African texts would have been the end of his career.
He has been cut plenty of slack, in recognition of his run-scoring. But clearly they have had enough. In a style that has been characteristic of Cook's leadership, England have done the right thing, but at the wrong time, trying to ignore the problem and then only addressing it when it was too late.
If Pietersen was not held accountable for his performance in Australia, who would be? Flower has gone; if it was 'he goes or I go', the ECB has neatly resolved it. They both go. Cook, four years younger than Pietersen, is the only viable captain and can rely on future opposition bowling attacks lacking Australia's accuracy. It is impossible to see him rebuilding a team with Pietersen in it. If the ECB had to choose between Cook and Pietersen, it was a matter of picking the man with a future over the man with a past.
In Australia, Pietersen might not have been England's worst player, but he brought their worst attitude. They were let down by all of their senior men, but Cook was outfoxed, James Anderson was worn out, Ian Bell was stripped of his scoring options, and Matt Prior, Graeme Swann and Jonathan Trott had their lives made a misery by an insatiable opponent.
Each was defeated by Australia.
For Pietersen, Australia had a different plan: play on his ego and he will get himself out. Pietersen duly did that, chipping and slogging his way to oblivion, selling himself cheaply when he could least afford it. As his teammates tried to rally around their captain, Pietersen was to be found signing autographs, comforting himself in the knowledge that among the public, who didn't know him personally, he remained famous. He can now go to the celebrities' playground of the Indian Premier League, the Miami Beach of cricket, where he will be in his element. He bows out as an acknowledged player of great innings, the key player in winning back the Ashes for England after nine lost series in a row, a supreme batsman on all surfaces, and yet something less than the numbers beside his name.
Test cricket is not about which batsman makes the most runs in a series. It's about winning. This year, Pietersen's influence on England has steadily dropped to a net negative. The decision for England's selectors was a long time coming, in deference to his record and the inevitable criticism they would face, but in the end it was unanimous and, probably, not that hard.


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I am writing some programs for controlling my heating system. I have a class which is rather large and is used by several programs so I thought it would be a good idea to place that in a separate file and include it in the programs which need it. The problem I have now hit is that global variables need to be defined in each file that references them, which introduces the possibility of errors if I change one and forget another.
So having a single definition of the class is an improvement but having multiple definitions of global variables is a definitie disadvantage.
Is there a better way to do this? Are there any guidelines on writing modular code?


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I used to do almost all my coding (and editing in general) in vim. I actually think vim is one of the most brilliant pieces of software ever created — obviously not because it's particularly feature rich, but because it is simple and elegant. I can use vim for editing almost any type of document, on any platform, and it can be used remotely through ssh just as easily as it can be used locally.
But I've actually been using Eclipse more and more lately in an attempt to modernize. I find the editor itself slower to use (not because of performance, but because vim was designed from the start to make navigation and editing as fast as possible), but in general, all of the features of Eclipse have actually made me more productive. In an attempt to get the best of both worlds, however, I'm now experimenting with a Vi plugin for Eclipse. It seems to work pretty well, though not exactly as I would expect in all circumstances, so I'm debating whether to stick with it, or just give up and surrender myself entirely to Eclipse. Whenever possible, I always try to stick with as much of the default functionality of an application as possible so that I can move from one machine to another and feel like I'm in the same environment. Ironically, that's precisely one of the things I like best about vim, and might be what prevents me from trying to integrate it into Eclipse.


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I have seen the future of the living room computer, and it has a Microsoft logo on it. No, I'm serious. Stop laughing. Really.
I'm talking about the Xbox One, which was finally unveiled this week after literally years of teasing and the slow drip of feature upgrades to the now 8-year-old Xbox 360. Technically, I haven't seen it -- I've only read about it. In fact, all the people who wrote about it were seeing a canned Microsoft demo, where everything always looks good. But the Xbox One sounds megacool, if also a little unsettling -- more on that last part in a bit.
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Microsoft has been down this road a few times, to be sure. There was its $425 million purchase of WebTV in 1997, which resulted in, well, nothing. Once for a brief period in the mid-1990s I had a Gateway Destination Windows PC-TV in my living room. It was a $4,000 monstrosity that came with its own 200-pound 31-inch CRT. I think they delivered it with a forklift and had to remove part of my roof to take it out.
Microsoft made a huge push to out-TiVo TiVo with XP Media Center in the early 2000s, though the company essentially gave up promoting it by the time Vista came along. Over the years there have been numerous other attempts to foist Windows PCs, Windows landline phones, and Windows home control systems onto a public that really didn't want them.
The one-of-a-kind Xbox One
This time, though, is different. Xbox One is not Windows. Sure, it has Windows 8's don't-call-it-Metro tiles, but the similarity ends there. The original Xbox is barely even a Microsoft product. It emerged from a skunkworks project more than a decade ago and has been kept at a safe distance from Stevie Ballmer's Flying Chair Circus throughout most of its life. Aside from the Red Ring of Death debacle, it's the least Microsofty product Microsoft has ever made. That means it actually has a shot of succeeding where all the other Microsoft attempts have failed.
Like the current Xbox, the One incorporates living room entertainment; you can play movies on disc; watch Netflix, Amazon Video, cable TV, and so on; and just plain game on it. It also employs the Kinect camera-based motion-sensing interface Microsoft unveiled in 2010. I've used the Kinect in the past, and I have to say I was impressed. It works so well you'd never think it was made by Microsoft.
The new Kinect does even more; not only can it be controlled by voice and simple hand gestures and recognize your face when you enter the room, it can also measure your heartbeat while you're jumping around in front of your couch. Whether it can also alert the paramedics if you have a heart attack has yet to be determined, but I wouldn't be surprised.


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Kayak king Ed McKeever from Bradford on Avon leads a long list of Wiltshire people commemorated by the Queen in her New Year's Honours List.
The former St Laurence School pupil, 29, who grew up in Farleigh Wick, was awarded an MBE for his Olympic Games heroics on the waters of Eton Dorney in the men's kayak single K1 200m where he won a gold medal.
The accolade capped a remarkable year for Ed who had a postbox in Bradford on Avon painted gold in his honour and in September he tied the knot with his fiancée, teacher Anya Kuczha, at a service held in Beaconsfield with the couple currently in the Virgin Islands enjoying their honeymoon.
Father Derek McKeever, who lives in Farleigh Wick, with his wife Janice, said: "We are very proud of him. Having talked it through with my wife, she said she has three other people on her side of the family who've received honours, so it carries on the trend for her but this is something very new for me and concludes a great year for Ed."
Gitte Dawson, 70, a trustee of The Galleries Shop & Café, in Freshford, which raises funds for village projects was also awarded an MBE.
The Galleries, owned and run by trustees, has raised around £17,000 for the Freshford & Limpley Stoke Community Association this year.
Ms Dawson, of Hillside Farm, Freshford, said: "I discovered I'd been nominated about two weeks ago when I received a letter asking me if I'd accept the honour. Of course I was delighted and said yes. It is a fantastic accolade which I'm very, very proud of."
Seend village stalwart Lilian Smallshaw, who founded the village's Nosh and Natter Club, has been awarded a British Empire Medal for her tireless work in her community.
David Deacon has also been awarded a MBE for charitable efforts in the Warminster area, and David Edgington, from Westbury, has been honoured with an MBE for services to the Industrial Heritage of the Stationary Engine .
Jill Clark, 76, who lives in Sutton Benger, and organises village events including church fetes, a flower festival and a variety show, was awarded an MBE for services to the community.
The mother-of-three said: "I think the village has given me more than I've given them. I've tried not to think much about it, I do find it a bit embarrassing.
"To me, it really is for all the people that I've worked with over the years as you're only a part of it really. In a way the award really belongs to the village."
A Warminster charity worker will receive an OBE after being named on the New Year's honours list for her work with cancer charity CLIC Sargent.
Daphne Pullen, of Manor Road, Upton Lovell, joined CLIC Sargent as chair in April 2006, after previously completing a three-year term as chair of Samaritans, where she continued to offer her services as a helpline volunteer.
The 60-year-old, who lives with her husband Andrew, is a retired local authority lawyer, but has been doing charity work for years - including time as vice chair of a branch of Victim Support.
Marlborough special constable Mike Tupman has also been awarded an MBE for his years of dedicated service in the town, while June Barnes, chairman of Frome Carnival has been awarded an OBE and Simon Pugh-Jones, a teacher at Writhlington School has been made an MBE by the Queen.


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I would wear any one of them proudly in all of my curvy glory! Alisi is an Australian company, but they do ship internationally. You can even find them on these US and UK web sites, but it looks like sizes go pretty quickly. So get on it!
Let's make a day at the beach or just lounging by the pool fashionably classic.


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There are no dummies at The Lizard lifeboat station, but there is a brand new rescue mannequin for the team.
Donated thanks to well-known local photographer Geoff Squibb, the "dummy" will give RNLI volunteers a chance to practice searching for people missing out at sea.
Geoff has worked alongside The Lizard lifeboat crew for more than two years while compiling a book about the rebuild of the lifeboat station in Kilcobben Cove, taking nearly 7,000 photographs in the process.
He has now used some of the proceeds from the book, entitled "Kilcobben's Rose",to buy some essential rescue equipment. All 1,000 copies sold out in less than six months.
At a dinner at the Mullion Cove Hotel last Saturday night he presented coxswain Andrew Putt and mechanic Dan Atkinson with the rescue manikin He also presented each member of the crew with a new jacket that displays the station name and logo.
Coxswain Andrew Putt said: "This has been a fantastic evening. All the crew feel really privileged that Geoff decided to put together a book about the rebuild.
"We have now benefitted twice, as we have an outstanding record for the future demonstrating what was involved in the rebuild and now Geoff has presented us with an important training resource which will benefit the station for many years to come."
The evening also saw Daphne Skinnard, Deputy Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall, present some members of the lifeboat crew with the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal.
A number of the crew were eligible to receive the award as they have served on the lifeboat for over five years.
Anyone wanting to support the lifeboat and have a look around the new lifeboat station and meet the crew, a carolaire at the station in Kilcobben Cove, The Lizard will be at 7pm on Friday, December 7.
St Keverne Choir and Landewednack School choir will be performing. For information contact 01326 290451 or Pat on 01326 290760.


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National Bison Day Celebrates a Nutritious Meat Alternative Driving Rural Economies
National Bison Day is one of the signature components of legislation now working its way through the United States Congress. At a time of deep partisan gridlock, the National Bison Legacy Act, which would make the bison our National Mammal, boasts broad support among both Democrats and Republicans. The bill has 18 sponsors in the Senate and 7 in the House, split about evenly by party.


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Bridgwater & Albion 20, Blackwood 31
AN inexperienced Bridgwater & Albion side suffered a 31-20 defeat in the opening pre-season friendly against Welsh side Blackwood, writes Tony Pomeroy.
The home side scored four tries courtesy of Rob Allen, Ollie McGowan, Rhys Satchell and Dan Lang - but it wasn't enough to prevent the defeat.
In the first minute, Blackwood lost possession in midfield, Bridgwater hacked on the loose ball and were delighted when Rob Allen gathered some 40 metres out and cruised over for the opening try under the posts.
Minutes later, from a scrum on their own 10 metre line, Bridgwater moved the ball left where it reached winger, James Brakes, whose chip ahead caused absolute mayhem in the visiting defence and the bobbling ball eventually reached debutant scrum half, Ollie McGowan, who scored a second unconverted try.
Blackwood hit back and following a scrum against the head, flanker Ben Papp scored the try converted by Scott Turner.
Blackwood dominated the second quarter but all they had to show was a try from number eight Mike Preece converted by Turner.
At the end of the period, a rare Bridgwater attack saw Rhys Satchell score an unconverted try to regain the lead at 15-14.
The only score of the third quarter saw the visitors gain a 15-19 lead with an unconverted try for David Brake.
Blackwood again dominated the final session and a clean break saw an excellent unconverted try for Matt Morgan closely followed by a fifth try, this time for Rhys Lloyd converted by Turner.
The final act of the game saw the ball reach home winger, Dan Lang, who crossed in the corner.
Next week, Bridgwater visit Exmouth for another friendly.
## EXETER Chiefs Rugby Camps at North Petherton RFC, Beggars Brook on August 28 and 29.
The first Exeter Chiefs rugby camp at the North Petherton was a success with the keen youngsters commented they learnt new skills and had a lot of fun.
The coaches were pleased with all the enthusiasm and the skills of the players.


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Lyne Bio
I have only been here for YEARS and decided it was way past time to post something! I came into the 3d world via the very first Bryce for the PC and stayed ever since, branching out into Morphing, Mapping, finally modeling the things I love most- animals and birds! :) Fox in this image is my own commercial morph and map of the original poser wolf. BIO I never imagined a commercial career doing what I love (in between the hair pulling hard parts!) in the world of 3D. The 3D community of fantastic sharing people are the basis for my education in this field. Without the help, guidance and suggestions of so many, I would not have been able to teach myself to do what I love to do! Then my customers/friends bring all my "babies" to life in all sorts of environments and that is the ultimate thrill! Thank You all from the bottom of my heart! (too mushy? well, that is me! :) Update: My life has taken a new direction... www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php I do still "lurk" around, visiting Renderosity as I can, but I spend much of my time in/on Second Life now - where I can do things I have either never done in RL or can't do NOW in RL... my Second Life has given me BACK a life! I have so many new friends there, and can have all sorts of animals around me... I can ride a dragon ... BE a dragon... go horse back riding, BE a mermaid... think of being the most lovely Vickie and being able to DRESS UP in all sorts of clothes, have all sorts of hair styles and GO DANCING .... how cool is that?? I can USE the costumes I buy! There is a whole commercial world in SL... so one might look into making clothing for avatars there! :) I have voice (headset and mic) and I talk to friends all over the world via SL! I am so happy I live in this modern age!
UPDATE: oh gosh, this needs updating!! Now with the loss of my "one true love-NOT!!" I am back FULL STRENGTH at Rendo, spending much LESS time in Second Life, tho it is still a vital social outlet for me... but now BOTH communities are equally important to me, with my annoying health limitations in this life. I TREASURE friends in both worlds SO MUCH! :)