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The effects of energy taxes on energy consumption in Finland between 1995 and 2004 - An historical analysis using the VATTAGE-model
Abstract This study evaluates the effects of changes in energy taxes on energy consumption between the years 1995 and 2004 using an applied, general equilibrium model for a historical simulation. During this period, Finnish energy taxation was fundamentally changed, going from an up-stream, emission and energy content-based approach to one with a mixed fuel and electricity tax. The change put the burden more closely on the users of electricity and fuels. We find that while the sharp increases in energy prices since 1995 have significantly restricted the growth of energy demand, energy taxes have also been effective in curbing the growth of energy and especially electricity consumption. For transport fuels, the effective tax rate actually fell as the price net of tax increased over time. Nevertheless, for petrol and light fuel oil we do find the taxes to have slowed down overall demand growth.
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Iowa salutes 'Forgotten War' veterans
1,000 Korean War vets attend event at Knapp Center
By ELYSSA CHERNEY
, Times Herald Staff Writer
Alvin Irlbeck, 84, of Carroll joins 1,000 Korean War veterans from across Iowa in Des Moines this Saturday to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Korean War, an event initiated by the U.S. Department of Defense.
Irlbeck poses at an Army base in South Korea with the bazooka gun he hauled up mountains in the summer swelter of 1952 when he served overseas in the Korean War.
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
DES MOINES — Wherever he goes, Alvin Irlbeck carries a memento from his years of service in the U.S. Army — the piece of an exploded grenade shell that lodged in his right shoulder about 60 years ago.
His memories of battling on the front lines are revived each time the 84-year-old Carroll man glances at the Purple Heart he earned for the injury in an ambush on Old Baldy, a treacherous mountain range in west-central Korea.
In the summer heat of 1952, Irlbeck trudged up those hills as part of a three-man regiment, hauling ammunition to fire at enemy forces.
"That Old Baldy, all hell broke loose, and they were waiting for us, evidently," Irlbeck said. "I'm glad I got back alive, for one thing, and I think it makes you realize how good your country is. You'll take your cap off when the flag goes by."
On Saturday, Irlbeck remembered those days with 1,000 fellow Korean War veterans from across Iowa who flooded Drake University's Knapp Center to commemorate the 60-year anniversary since the conflict began in June 1950.
The Des Moines gathering comes as just one in a series of events started by the U.S. Department of Defense in 2010 to honor the 6.8 million American men and women who served during the Korean War. Ceremonies have already been held in 20 states, Canada and South Korea.
When Irlbeck was drafted in November 1950, he was one of 802 men uprooted from their Carroll homes and sent overseas to fight in the Korean War. At least 14 of them did not make it home alive, according to the Iowa Department of Veterans Affairs.
More than 85,000 Iowans defended South Korea after its Communist neighbor, North Korea, launched an aggressive attack across the 38th parallel — the latitudinal line that separates the two countries.
That invasion escalated into wholesale warfare that claimed the lives of more than 2 million soldiers and civilians and became the first global conflict to fire up the Cold War, although it would not be regarded as more than a "police action" until much later.
Irlbeck remembered those days with more than 3,000 other people who poured into the Drake University athletic arena Saturday morning. Members of the Iowa National Guard controlled traffic and directed Korean War veterans who arrived with scores of family and friends.
"This will be the largest event that the U.S. Department of Defense is having," said Sherri Colbert, director of the Iowa Gold Star Military Museum. "We are really trying to reach every Iowa Korean War veteran out there, and are even honoring those who were killed in action and those who have may have already passed away."
Before an official awards ceremony commenced at 1 p.m. sharp, veterans received certificates and snapped photos with commanding officers
"Today, those who served in the 'Forgotten War' are remembered," said Col. David J. Clark, executive director of the Korean War Commemoration Committee, in his remarks to the crowd. "I think that's terribly important."
Clark was part of a packed lineup of speakers, which included U.S. Reps. Tom Latham and Leonard Boswell; Sid Morris, president of the Korean War Association Tall Corn Chapter 99; and top ranking officials of the Iowa National Guard.
They addressed the sea of soldiers for about an hour until the ceremony concluded with a traditional musical performance by members of the Korean United Methodist Church who flew in from South Korea.
A spokeswoman from the group thanked the veterans for defending her country's freedom.
Irlbeck watched from just feet away, where he parked the red motorized scooter he uses to navigate crowded venues like the one in Des Moines this weekend.
Irlbeck said he doesn't make the trek out to Des Moines often but arranged for his granddaughter to drive him and his wife down early so they could secure prime seating.
"I didn't realize there were this many veterans," Irlbeck said after the event.
Irlbeck was one of the lucky ones. After the grenade penetrated his shoulder at Old Baldy, he spent about one month recuperating in a Japan hospital. He was later transferred back to Korea, where he drove jeeps and lugged water to the front lines, before completing his term fixing guns as a welder.
"I don't think I would have probably enlisted, but it was a hell of an experience," Irlbeck said, looking back on his service. "You really got to see stuff. You got to see Korea and Japan and the army bases."
The smiling faces of Korean children enjoying the gum and candy he dispensed from the back of an Army truck remain etched in his memory, he said.
When Irlbeck finally returned to America by ship, he said the streets of Seattle, Wash., were closed and covered with confetti to celebrate the soldiers' homecoming.
But after that moment, he encountered general unawareness about what had happened in Korea as he worked setting up convenience stores back in Carroll County.
And the reactions remained the same until recently.
Within the past decade, Irlbeck said, he's seen a greater effort to recognize Korean War veterans. When he's sporting his baseball cap that reads "Korean War Veteran" people often stop him on the street to say thank you.
Whether they are a personal choice or part of a federal program, these efforts reflect a growing awareness that, as the older heroes of World War II begin to die out, those who fought in "The Forgotten War" will become the last living generation to have served in a foreign conflict.
That appreciation was revitalized by the troops serving in Iraq and Afghanistan today, said Louie Grote, a Carroll County Veterans service officer. It reminded the nation about the sacrifice of all soldiers — past and present.
"Knowing what the veterans of today are doing gives them an appreciation of what the veterans of the past have done," he said. "It changed the mindset of Americans to appreciate that the soldiers were doing the jobs that they were ordered to do to help protect our nation."
Last year, about 1,700 veterans registered in Carroll County received more than $3 million in direct aid from the state for services ranging from health care to state pensions, Grote said.
Grote's office is a resource for Carroll-area veterans to receive all the benefits and services they earned with their service to the country. With Korean War veterans, Grote said, he has mostly seen hearing problems caused by loud gunshots on the front lines or frostbite suffered during the brutal winters.
Just three years ago, the state began allocating about $10,000 to individual counties for accredited offices like Grote's to accommodate veterans.
Carroll has an active Legion too, with about 243 members registered at the Carroll Post 7 and a total of 1,214 members county-wide spread among the those in Coon Rapids, Breda, Carroll, Arcadia, Dedham, Glidden and Manning. Each year there is a Carroll Memorial Day parade where veterans march into center stage.
And then there are the more impromptu gatherings, like the early-morning meet-ups George Sorenson, 78, of Lake City attends each weekday. About 10 of his buddies from the Lake City Legion converse over coffee at Sweet Things Bakery in Lake City, sharing war stories and swapping playful jabs at each other.
In his 20-year military career, Sorenson saw Korea, Vietnam, Germany and a handful of other stateside destinations including Alaska. The Lake City native served two terms in Korea rebuilding roads that were flattened during the war. He enlisted in the Army when he turned 18 in 1953, just after the war's end.
"Out where we were at I wouldn't even raise chickens in the houses," said Sorenson. "Their heat was always in floor, mud walls and a hay roof. Sometimes I'd like to go back over there to Korea to just to see how good they've built it up. They say that road that I worked on is a four-lane highway! When I was there, it wasn't even two-lane."
Back in Lake City, Sorenson took up several trades after his military service, working in feed mills and in the construction industry.
He caught wind of the Korean War Commemoration in Des Moines at the Lake City Legion, where he volunteers cleaning rifles.
Sorenson said the event was disorganized in the beginning, even a little "disappointing," but that he'll go next time if there's one for Vietnam veterans.
"It was all good — I liked when the Korean girls sang and they played the drums," he said. "Too many politicians for me, though."
And so they sat, Sorenson and Irlbeck — among 1,000 other veterans — two men from the same western county in Iowa who served the Korean War in profoundly different ways. One, a draftee, carried ammunition to the front lines and the other, after enlisting, rebuilt the country in the wake of destruction.
Yet, for a Saturday afternoon, they both received just a little more acknowledgement than usual.
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'An unwanted child'. 'A turkey of a tournament'. 'A damp squib'.
Descriptions of varying rudeness have been used for the Champions Trophy, a tournament beget purely of commerce that will meet a permanent denouement in England and Wales this year. Again, it's only fitting that commerce alone has allowed the event to take place one last time.
With the ICC moving towards one premier event for each format – the Twenty20 and 50-overs World Cups and the proposed Test Championship for cricket – there is, once various cash-rich pajama leagues are factored in, no financial or administrative rationale for undertaking this biannual exercise in logistics.
The television rights for England-2013, however, were sold well in advance, and the ICC's subsequent offer to replace the tournament with qualifying matches for the Test Championship did not cut it with the broadcaster. Eight countries hence will have a final fling at a prize that originated as a knockout tourney and then underwent several crises of format and identity.
Cracking show
Proximity to the afterlife, however, doesn't necessarily mean we won't have a cracking show on TV. The tournament was an unequivocal weather-ravaged failure the last time England hosted it in 2004, but a tweaked format means the present edition is pretty much what a real man's World Cup should be, but never will: No minnows, no dead matches, tight scheduling, and the pressing provision that five straight wins will lead a team to the trophy.
A new ball from either end on devious England grounds is likely to thicken the plot. And another intrigue would be the mindset of various teams as they enter what is likely to be considered a preparatory or trial-run for future assignments. Australia and England will have an eye on the impending Ashes, over-reachers New Zealand will want to make the most of their acquaintance with local conditions, and Sri Lanka and West Indies will keep a tab on their new captains, Angelo Mathews and Dwayne Bravo respectively.
For India, and the billion-strong fan faction she is touted to be buoyed – or pulled down – by, the resumption of international cricket will be a welcome distraction from the dirty tumult of recent events. But if victory is the ultimate salve, its procurement will not come easy. For, MS Dhoni's men have been clubbed in the league stage with South Africa, West Indies and Pakistan, who are the only team to have never won, or even jointly won, the event.
Group of Death
The top eight teams have been cleaved into groups of four, leading to the e inevitable branding of one cluster – Group B – as the 'Group of Death'. India's batting heavyweights will thus battle Pakistan's bowling might, South Africa's solidity and the recently-reacquired West Indian swagger for two semifinal places.
Having left behind Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir, they will be served by young openers Shikhar Dhawan and Murali Vijay, and a middle order whose worth against the moving ball is still suspect. Reciprocally, Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Umesh Yadav are likely to revel in helpful conditions, provided they keep their heads against batsmen of the likes of AB de Villiers, Chris Gayle and Mohhamad Hafeez.
As a special mention, the role of South Africa's Dale Steyn, who was impossible to handle even on dead IPL tracks, cannot be overstated. Expect Pakistan's terrorizing attack – led by the seven-foot-plus Mohammad Irfan – to swing a few games too. This much is sure – Group B's combustible elements are likely to light up the tournament even before the knock-out stage is reached.
Aussies look strong
The other segregation appears, at least theoretically, more sedate. Hosts England have put their faith in a full-strength pace attack, backed by one spinner – Graeme Swann, and in the absence of Kevin Pietersen their few options of batting brutality reside in Eoin Morgan and Ravi Bopara.
Australia's IPL successes will ensure they hit the ground running. Left armers Mitchell Johnson and James Faulkner are in form and supplementing them, if not frankly outshining them, will be Mitchell Starc. David Warner and Glenn Maxwell will be out to prove the IPL was but an aberration, while skipper Michael Clarke and Shane Watson will provide the class and experience.
Like always, Sri Lanka and New Zealand form the backend. The Islanders, under Mathews, have heavyweights such as Tillakaratne Dilshan, Mahela Jayawardene and Kumar Sangakkara, but all fared poorly in the recent IPL. New Zealand have spent almost a month in England and have also bested their hosts in the ODI series. Their frontline batsmen appear to be in good form and the Kiwis anyway have a history of pulling off surprises in big tournaments.
The Groups: 'A': Australia, Sri Lanka, England and New Zealand; 'B': India, Pakistan, South Africa and West Indies.
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How Consumers Use Social Networks to Connect with Food Retailers: Traditional Advertising Tools
Posted: July 16, 2012
Print ads were generally seen as more appropriate than TV and/or radio for all outlets. Nearly 62% believed print ads were a good fit for on-farm and farmer's markets while only 37% felt that TV or radio fit these direct marketers well. Table 1 shows these figures as well as U-Pick operations, roadside stands, and local wineries.
Table 1. Percent of participants who thought print advertisements and television and/or radio were "good fits" for direct marketers.
|Type of retail outlet
|Print advertisements
|Television and/or radio
| On-farm/farmer's markets
| 61.7%
| 37.4%
| Road-side stand
| Local winery
Table 2 shows that print ads were seen as a better fit than broadcast ads for the direct markets investigated. We also found that men had higher preference for both print and broadcast advertisements (64% and 40%, respectively) than women (57% and 31%, respectively). The same pattern holds for pick-your-own operations, road-side stands, and local wineries.
Table 2. Percent of participants, by gender, who thought print advertisements and television and/or radio advertisements were "good fits" for several types of direct marketers.
|Type of direct marketer
|Print ads, male
|TV and/or radio, male
|Print ads, female
|TV and/or radio, female
| On-farm and farmer's markets
| 64%
| 40%
| 57%
| Pick-your-own operations
| 38%
| 30%
| Road-side stands
| 27%
| 40%
| 18%
| Local wineries
| 43%
| 43%
| 32%
We found that interest in print ads generally increased with education level. For example, Table 3 shows the percent of respondents by age group who indicated that print ads were a good fit for on-farm and farmer's markets. A majority (68%) of those with at least a Master's degree believed they were a good fit while only 52% of those with a high school education or less believed so. The same pattern existed in print ads for pick-your-own operations and local wineries. Pertaining to TV and/or radio ads, "fit" for a pick-your-own operation decreased from 46% to 31% as education increased.
Table 3. Percent of participants, by education level, who thought that print advertisements were "good fits" for select direct marketers.
|Education level
|On-farm/farmer's markets
|Pick-your-own operations
|Local wineries
| High school graduate or less
| 52.2%
| 46.5%
| 41.2%
| some college
| B.S. degree
| M.S. degree or higher
When we looked at large, national retailers, we noticed that, in general, more people believed that print and broadcast ads were a better fit for these types of outlets (Table 4). However, print is still seen as a better fit than broadcast ads.
Table 4. Percent of participants who thought the following advertising tools were "good fits" for large, national retailers.
| Print
| Local grocer
| 52%
| 61%
| Specialty food store
| 54%
| 59%
| 46%
| Warehouse club
| 48%
| Internet/mail-order
| 40%
| 32%
In general, print and broadcast ads were viewed as a better fit for larger, national retailers. This doesn't mean that direct marketers should not use these tools. Rather, it means that direct marketers need to carefully evaluate the effectiveness of print and broadcast ads in their local market. Results consistently showed that men found these tools to be a better fit for each type of retailer than women. These may be a good way to motivate men to visit markets and retail outlets if they are properly targeted.
In the next article, we will present data that discusses who is reading online reviews and how they are responding. To view the entire YouTube series, please visit http://bit.ly/wWIXto.
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The potential for mass consumer use of 3D printing has generated a lot of conversation on the interplay between the technology and IP laws. Less discussed, however, are the IP issues raised by 3D scanners — often a key component in successful additive printing. But 3D scanner advancements have kept up with 3D printing, and the technology has IP issues that merit review.
3D scanners now
Like 3D printing, 3D scanner technologies once limited to industrial use have begun to push into the consumer market. Most 3D scanners use a method to collect visual data that allows production of "point clouds"— a set of data points in some coordinate system —that, with associated software, enable computer extrapolation of a three-dimensional shape. Industrial scanners often combine robotics and lasers to generate the hundreds of thousands of high-end data points needed to produce scans with the precision manufacturers require.
Those same quality options don't yet exist in the consumer 3D scanner market. Early adopters could use an iPhone app that used light from the phone to generate less-than-precise 3D models. Last month, MakerBot — the consumer 3D printer manufacturer acquired by 3D printing industry giant Stratasys—released its MakerBot Digitizer, a home scanner that costs about $1,400 and apparently makes acceptable, but imperfect, scans. 3D printing enthusiasts also have a number of DIY options, including creating a 3D scanner by "hacking" Microsoft's Kinect motion sensor (soon to be an integral part of the Xbox One). They can also invest on Kickstarter in the hopes of acquiring an almost-there handheld, desktop or iPhone/tablet accessory 3D scanner. As with 3D printers, the greater affordability of lasers attributable to Blu-ray advancements has helped to make many laser-based consumer scanners more affordable.
Intellectual property law and 3D scanners
3D scanners share many of the IP law issues associated with 3D printing, including patent rights questions. Early battles between scanner technology holders will help define patent rights in machines made for the consumer market — just as they have and will continue to do for 3D printers.
For example, in Metris USA., Inc v. Faro Technologies, Inc., the owner of a patent covering a device that combined a precision 3D scanner with an articulated robotic arm sued another scanner manufacturer for patent infringement. After a trial on the merits in 2011, the district court granted summary judgment of non-infringement as to one of the patents-in-suit and, in 2013, the parties reached a full settlement. The Metris court's 60+ page opinion fully explores the state of the art of industrial 3D scanners. As with the smartphone wars, early 3D scanner rights disputes like the one in Metris will serve to shape obviousness inquiries and other patentability issues associated with claimed 3D scanner advancements.
3D scanners also present unique IP issues, especially when it comes to copyright. For example, at least one early scanning company claimed copyrights in the scans themselves. In Meshwerks, Inc. v. Toyota Motors Sales, U.S.A., the creator of digital car models argued that the laborious "digital sculpting" required to create a realistic end product entitled it to copyrights in the digital models. But the district court and court of appeals both rejected those claims. The 10th Circuit held that no matter the effort involved in the creation, depictions of "things or facts in the world" must reflect some new creative expression — like pose, lighting, or other ingredients that apply to the art form — in order to qualify for copyright protection. As a result, it seems unlikely copyrights exist in images created through the use of 3D scanners, unless some additional form of expression gets added.
But 3D scans can infringe copyrights and leave a trail of doing so in way that is often easier to follow and enforce when compared to 3D printing. Just what copyrights are implicated depends upon the rights in the object being scanned. Scans of utilitarian objects likely do not raise copyright issues because those kinds of objects typically do not qualify for copyright protection. Scans of functional items with decorative elements can, however, give rise copyright issues — though they present complex questions of "separability" for which no definitive test exists and which can be expensive to prove and litigate. Scans that make exact copies of artistic or other clearly copyrighted items likely infringe that item's copyright.
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) provides an avenue for copyright holders to challenge scans that potentially infringe copyrights, particularly if those scans end up being shared in 3D printing's ever-growing maker community. (For example, Thingverse, a free 3D printing file-sharing website, now hosts more than 100,000 files.) The DMCA dictates the steps that websites must take when a rights holder claims that content on that site infringe a copyright. Through a series of notices and takedowns, the copyright holder and the entity uploading the allegedly infringing content communicate — and potentially dispute — the claimed copyright. As 3D printing has expanded, reports of takedown notices of files originating in 3D scans have increased. No scan maker has disputed a claim of copyright and reposted a disputed filed — yet.
3D printing's dependence on 3D scanners has spurred innovations in both. As a result, the related technologies share many IP issues and 3D scanning patent holders will likely see as many rights battles as those in 3D printing. In the consumer market, however, 3D scanners potentially leave more easily traceable breadcrumbs, potentially making it easier for copyright holders to protect their rights through the DMCA. For now, the DMCA has worked to police copyright infringement, but suggestions to manage the coming IP rights conflict consumer 3D scanning creates range from an iTunes-like fee-based service to Congressional action. Only time, future advancements and IP rights litigation will define which approach is best.


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I've been noticing a growing trend in 'coffee and ________'.
What I mean is that the pure coffee bar, in recent years, was the height of cool. Retailing other things (especially food) alongside coffee was often seen as a compromise.
But no longer! We are entering a new age of 'coffee and ________'.
I've been in San Francisco for the past week, and have been pleasantly surprised by the offerings at many of the hippest new cafes:
- coffee and toast at The Mill
- coffee and waffles at Linea
- coffee and vegan stuff at Timeless
Is this business model of 'coffee and things that taste good with coffee' totally new? Well, not at all. But it's cool again.
And generates more revenue than just selling coffee. And I got waffles at Linea 4 times in only 7 days, so there's that too.


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- Released: Apr 25, 2006
- Sound: 6
- Lyrics: 8
- Overall Impression: 6
Users' score:
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Sound — 6
Even if I am taking into account that this was some of the earliest work from Snow Patrol, the sound is very amateurish and sounds like it needs a lot of work, especially when compared to some of their most recent works ("Final Straw" and "Eyes Open"). As most bands are with their earliest works, Snow Patrol will have just been finding their feet and discovering which style of music best suits them. All this alternative style that they have produced on [B]Songs For Polar Bears[/B] sounds like someone has thrown a load of different compositions into a washing machine and let it spin. It isn't them at all. The best track, sound wise, has to be "Mahogany", which is a beautiful acoustic piece. The worst track for sound is, basically, any of the others that you choose.
Lyrics — 8
As always, Lightbody produces brilliant lyrics and vocals, but it is painfully apparant that he wasn't as experianced as he is now. Some of the vocals get very out of place in various songs and bring them down a little (along with the sound, as I have said). If I'm being reasonable, the vocals are the best thing about this album. The best vocals, for me, are on "Mahogany" (Again) and the worst are on "NYC", as there are only 4 different lines repeated over and over and over.
Overall Impression — 6
If you're looking for classic Snow Patrol with beautiful lyrics, masterful guitars and bass with crisp production quality, this isn't it. I wouldn't waste your money on an album like this when you could buy "Final Straw" or "Eyes Open" for the same price, when you can listen to either of them albums over and over again and not get bored. I wasted 10 on this. Oh well, at least I got 1 or 2 good tracks off it.


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London, Sept 30 (ANI): Danny Cipriani is reportedly dating underwear model Sophie Gradon, who bears a striking resemblance to his former girlfriend Kelly Brook.
The 25-year old English rugby union footballer had first pursued the former Miss Britain on Facebook, two years ago when he was dating Katie Price, but after getting dumped by the 33-year old English model, the rugby star has been dating Gradon, the Mirror reported.
The 27-year old former Miss Britain confirmed the news and said that they have been dating for a month.
Sources revealed that the relationship was getting "quite intense quite quickly" and the rugby ace has already met his new girl's family.
Sources added that Gradon agreed to date him as she thinks everything that's happened has made him grow up. (ANI)


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Christian Roth, 30, beach complex operations manager at Angsana Laguna Phuket, was reportedly involved in a head-on collision at 2.55am near Baan Lipon, in the island's north.
A representative of the Kusoldharm Foundation told The Phuket News that Mr Roth was driving his car towards Phuket Town when he appeared to have crossed on to the wrong side of the road.
He then collided with another vehicle close to Siam City Cement Co at Baan Lipon.
Mr Roth suffered a broken neck and internal injuries in the crash, and reportedly died instantly.
The three people in the other car – Kitjakarn Manajit, 23, Khuntap Alaisuk, 21, and Taksin Sirijan – were injured, though it's not clear at this stage what condition they are in.
The three injured and the body of Mr Roth were taken to Thalang Hospital.
Mr Roth's father Frederick posted in Spanish on his son's Facebook wall early this afternoon, confirming the death and saying his "beloved son has gone". Others are also posting messages of condolence.
Jerry John, the general manager of Angsana Laguna Phuket, said, "Our thoughts and prayers are with his family, as well as his team, at this very difficult time. We will all miss him dearly."
Christian, who was Swiss-Mexican, was born in San Luis Potosi, in northern Mexico, but grew up in Mexico City.
During an interview with The Phuket News last month, he said after graduating from the Ecole Hoteliere de Lausanne (EHL), he started to work for Banyan Tree. He was part of the opening teams for both Banyan Tree hotel operations in Mexico – Mayakoba in Playa del Carmen, and Cabo Marques in Acapulco.
He then opened a third hotel for Rosewood hotels and resorts in San Miguel de Allende before heading to New York, where he opened a restaurant with a couple of friends.
This year he started work as the beach complex operations manager at Angsana Laguna Phuket.
His death had caused ripples of shock to run through the hotel industry in Thailand; many hoteliers graduated from the EHL, and knew or knew of the popular Christian.


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I own a GLOCK 23 and a SIG 220.
Maybe for cleaning, but...
Keep it FAR away from your ammunition.
I don't use it because there are so many other cleaning options out there that won't compromise your ammunition.
I recommend Rem-Oil.
DON'T use WD-40 to clean your guns! It is quite flammable with a high flash point!
Don't use WD-40 on your guns. It will form a thick residue in small areas that you cannot reach to scrub often. A good example would be a guy I shoot with often who used WD-40 to lube his guns. Over time it built up a thick coating inside his firing pin channel in a Glock 22. Well during a range trip the firing pin stuck, and caused a slam fire. The culprit was later found to be a mass of WD-40 residue built up inside his gun. I use Rem Oil on my pistols and shotguns, and CLP on my rifles.
WD-40 is a water displacement formula not cleaning agent. I have found that it will become gummy after setting for awhile. Use it to remove water or displace water, use firearms cleaning agents to clean firearms.
WD stands for water displacing. It is a good penetrant and preservative, that's all. It is not a good solvent and a very poor lubricant.
I use it for rusty bolts on cars and homes and that's about it. I will not use it anywhere near a firearm.
There are too many gun specific cleaners and lubes made just for guns for me to take chances w/w-d 40 and the like.
rem-oil is the best to use
I have used it for years on my guns with absolutely no problems, but let me describe how I use it. I don't used it to lube the guns, but it is my favorite for spraying onto a cloth and giving the guns exterior a light wipe down to remove fingerprints on barrels and recievers. It doens't leave a super oily residue like gun oil can for this purpose. For internals, I use Hoppe's oil.
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It's easy to imagine how the pitch for "Non-Stop," the latest action thriller starring Liam Neeson, went down. "Okay, guys, how about this? It's 'Taken,' but on an airplane!"
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Neeson plays Bill Marks, a former cop turned U.S. air marshal. Like all authority figures in these types of movies, he's gruff, unethical, an alcoholic, and, of course, has a tortured past. On a seemingly routine flight from New York to London, Marks gets a text from a stranger demanding $150 million. The text messaging baddie threatens to kill a passenger every 20 minutes until the money is transferred to his account. Marks soon finds that the threat is incredibly real and the villain is setting him up to take the fall.
Neeson has played this character so many times before that he's on the verge of becoming a walking cliché. In a way, Neeson actually appeared to be parodying himself as a good cop/bad cop in "The Lego Movie." Although he might not be broadening his horizons, Neeson still packs a punch as a smart, gutsy man doing his best to protect everyone else on board while attempting to single out one person as the culprit. It additionally helps that Neeson is given a first-rate supporting cast to work with.
Julianne Moore is wonderful as a fellow passenger who comes off as an obnoxious snob at first, but becomes one of Marks' greatest allies in unraveling the mystery. Michelle Dockery of "Downton Abbey" is just as effective as a flight attendant caught up in an increasingly chaotic situation. We also get some nice work from Oscar winner Lupita Nyong'o as a fellow stewardess and Corey Stoll as a New York police officer who suspects there's more going on than meets the eye. Director Jaume Collet-Serra, along with screenwriters John W. Richardson, Christopher Roach, and Ryan Engle, all do a fine job at naturally establishing these characters through visuals as opposed to lazy expositional dialog.
"Non-Stop" doesn't treat its audience like idiots, although the film is undeniably implausible. The bad guy's motivations for hijacking the plane are particularly ridiculous. But unlike "3 Days to Kill," "Getaway," "White House Down," or some other recent action pictures, it's easy to forgive the film's improbability since the action, suspense, and plot are so well paced. This is a movie that requires the audience to suspend their disbelief at the gate. If you're willing to get on board, you'll have an enormously entertaining time and be glad you just went along for the ride.
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'Survivor: Panama' penultimate episode ends in elimination cliffhanger
By Reality TV World staff, 05/12/2006
No one was eliminated from the game in
: Panama -- Exile Island's
thirteenth episode, with the show's penultimate episode instead ending with
Danielle DiLorenzo
Cirie Fields
about to face off in a tiebreaking firestarting challenge in which the loser will be eliminated.
Thursday night's CBS broadcast of
: Panama -- Exile Island's
penultimate broadcast began with the Gitanos tribe having returned from
the Night 33 Tribal Council session
in which the former Casaya tribal members that had voted out
Shane Powers
, the second consecutive episode in which they'd blindsided one of their one.
Shane's ouster marked the latest strategic setback for
Terry Dietz
, the competition's sole remaining La Mina member. While Terry's string of five consecutive individual Immunity Challenge victories had managed to keep him in the game, all his efforts to form an alliance with the fragmenting Casaya members had failed. After his previous plan to align with
Courtney Marit
and Danielle had failed (due to Danielle's betrayal) and resulted in Courtney's ouster, Terry -- believing that Shane, Cirie, and
Aras Baskauskas
would all be casting their votes for Danielle -- had begun to eye Shane as his new best Final 2 partner.
Once the four remaining castaways returned back to camp, Terry -- still obviously frustrated about Shane's elimination -- took his frustration out on Cirie, who as the first person to return to camp, had placed her torch in a spot that resulted in him tripping over it. Launching into a tirade, Terry compared Cirie's behavior to something his children would do. After listening to the pair argue for a couple of minutes, Aras and Danielle both came to Cirie's defense, criticizing Terry for jumping on Cirie and putting a damper on what should have been a happy occasion -- the fact that the four of them had made it to
: Panama's
Final 4.
Adopting a "Terry versus the world," stance, the 46-year-old airline pilot decided to call it a night, leaving the threesome to celebrate their "Final 3 situation." "He's just pissed off because his other option, Shane, is now gone," Cirie remarked after Terry went to bed. "I didn't come here to make friends with 24-year-olds... they haven't made it easy for me, the target's been on my back, I've been the underdog the whole time," Terry vented the next morning. "You know what, if nobody talks to me for the next five days, I could give a damn. I'm winning the million dollars, and that's all."
The next day, the castaways gathered for the Reward Challenge, a mostly mental challenge that required the castaways -- while attached to rope paths by carabineers -- to visit six stations and count the number of items (poles, fish, rocks, etc.) at each station. After visiting each station, each castaway would have to race back to their starting station and find the numbered tile that represented the number of items they'd just counted. After visiting all six stations, the castaways would then have to place the six tiles in an answer grid and use the three two-number combinations it revealed to open three combination locks. If a lock failed to open, the castaway could then revisit the stations and correct their mistakes. The first person to unlock all three of their locks would win reward
Two stations into the competition, the challenge appeared to settle into a three-way race between Aras, Terry, and Cirie. By the final station, the challenge had turned into a two-way race between Aras and Terry. Rather predictably, the carabineers resulted in the castaways getting in each other's way, causing Aras and Terry to engage in some pushing and shoving. However, although Terry beat Aras back from his final station, neither had counted all their stations correctly, turning the challenge back into a four-way race.
After heading back out for his third look while Aras still hadn't returned from his second, Terry told
host Jeff Probst that given how long Aras had been gone, he must be visiting more than one station at a time and therefore -- based on Terry's understanding of what he thought were the challenge's rules -- cheating. Jeff responded by explaining that the "one station at a time" limit only applied to each castaway's initial visit to each station, causing Terry to complain that "you didn't tell us that... it was one look and back to the station" Overhearing the exchange, Aras shouted "Somebody call the whambulence, Terry's crying on the course." "I had to take over your role," Terry fired back.
In the end, Aras second multi-station proved to be the critical difference, allowing him to unlock his final lock and win the challenge while Terry was still returning from revisiting the stations that comprised his second combination lock number. After Aras' win, Terry continued to ask Jeff for clarification about the challenge's rules, causing Aras to accuse him of being a poor loser. As the challenge's winner, Aras got to decide which castaway would get to accompany him on a luxury yacht cruise through the Panama Canal and which two castaways would be banished to Exile Island. Aras decided to have Cirie join him on the overnight Panama Cancel tour, sending Terry and Danielle to Exile Island.
During their cruise, Aras and Cirie laughed about Terry's Reward Challenge complaints, with acknowledging that after having lost every single individual Immunity Challenge to him, it felt good to finally beat Terry at something. "It was huge to beat Terry at the Reward Challenge," he explained to the cameras.
Meanwhile out on Exile Island, Terry and Danielle also discussed the challenge, with Terry defending his attempt to clarify the rules even after the challenge had ended. Afterward, Danielle decided that Aras' decision to take Cirie on his reward trip, coupled with Terry's disclosure that he still possessed the hidden Immunity Island he'd found during his initial stay on Exile Island, meant that unless she won the next Immunity Challenge she'd very likely be the next castaway voted out of the game.
Hoping to increase her chances of surviving the next Tribal Council vote, Danielle -- despite having already previously backed out of one fledging alliance with him -- decided to form a new Final 2 alliance with Terry. "It's the right time to align myself with Terry," she explained in confessional. "It's gotten to the point where it's like, I'm going to try to use him -- I don't care about being his friend, I'm not here to make friends, I'm here to win the million dollars."
After returning to their empty Gitanos camp on Day 35, Cirie decided to try and do something she's never done before -- start a fire. Cirie's accomplishment impressed Aras, who noted how far Cirie had come since her Day 1 comments about how she found the campsite's leaves frightening. "Wow, I'm impressed, Cirie made a fire -- that's awesome," he remarked, "Day 1 out here, Cirie would not have known what to do... now she's come full circle."
Later, the castaways gathered for the Immunity Challenge, with a production boat returning Terry and Danielle from their Exile Island stay. Both mental and physical, the challenge required the castaways to dig up a bag of puzzle pieces and then complete the puzzle and use the "coordinates" it revealed to determine where in the sand their next puzzle bag was buried. Retrieving and completing the second bag of puzzle pieces would reveal the "coordinates" for a third bag of puzzle pieces, with the Immunity Challenge winner being the first castaway to correctly solve all three of their puzzles.
Aras quickly jumped out to an early lead and never really looked back, completing his third puzzle as Terry -- his next closest competitor -- appeared to be only about halfway through his final puzzle. Aras' victory meant that for the first time in the game, someone other than Terry had won one of
: Panama's
individual Immunity Challenges, however as Terry had noted after his last Immunity Challenge win, that fact that he still also possessed the hidden Immunity Idol meant that he had already assured himself in the game's Final 3. But Terry's inability to win his sixth consecutive individual Immunity Challenge did still have a significant impact on Terry's plans -- not only would he no longer be able to protect Danielle from elimination by giving her his hidden Immunity Idol, but he and Danielle could also no attempt to vote out Aras, Terry's biggest remaining rival.
After the castaways returned to camp, they quickly realized that assuming the current alliances held, the evening's Tribal Council would result in a 2-2 tie vote between Danielle and Cirie. Convinced that (
just as it was in
: Palau
) a firestarting challenge would serve as the vote's tiebreaker, Terry and Aras each began giving their allies firestarting tips.
Sure enough, once the evening's Tribal Council session resulted in a 2-2 vote, Jeff revealed that Danielle and Cirie would compete in a firestarting challenge, with the loser becoming the thirteenth castaway voted out of
: Panama
. However unfortunately for
viewers, Thursday night's episode ended there, meaning that viewers will have to wait until Sunday night's finale broadcast (or read our
State Of The Spoiling finale edition
) to discover who will join Shane, Courtney,
Bruce Kanegai
Sally Schumann
, and
Austin Carty
as the sixth member of the seven person jury that will decide which Final 2 member wins
: Panama's
$1,000,000 grand prize.
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Yes, it is that time of year again where there seems to be a lot of little ones running around! Spring is a wonderful time of year to get out and go for walks to enjoy nature at its renewal after such a long winter. While walking around enjoying the flowers blooming and the birds singing you may encounter some baby animals of some sort. Don't be alarmed, because this is what happens this time of year.
Many baby animals are being born or hatched and the possibility of running into some are pretty good. Just remember to leave them where you found them. It is always a human instinct to take care of something if you feel it has been abandoned or you feel it is helpless.
I would like to reassure you that wild baby animals are not as helpless as they seem. Most wild animals are able to reproduce and survive with no human intervention at all. Yes, not all baby animals make it, but that is how Mother Nature works and it isn't always fair.
If you come in contact with a baby wild animal, the best thing to do is leave it where you have found it. It is likely that you have scared the mother away, but don't worry, the mother will return in time after your presence is no longer noticed. There are some cases where you know that the mother has been killed by some incident and there is a baby left behind.
The best thing to do is leave it be and contact a specialist or Game, Fish and Parks to figure out what is best for it. Do not take the animal home and try to care for it yourself. Many wild animals are sensitive to human scent. You are merely sentencing it to death because it will not survive in the wild when it is released.
Sometimes the animals may be carrying a disease and this is Mother Nature's way of fighting off continued contamination to other animals. It might not be the most humane way, but you must understand that to keep yourself safe.
Taking in a baby wild animal and caring for it might seem like a good idea at the time, but what happens when you can no longer care for it?
Keep these things in mind when you come in contact with baby wild animals. If you do happen to come in contact and need some advice, please contact your local Wildlife Conservation Officer or Game, Fish and Parks office.
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Manipal (Karnataka), June 24 (IANS) In a desperate attempt to trace the three culprits involved in the abduction and gang-rape of a medical student here last week, police Monday released a sketch of one of them, hoping the public would help in nabbing him.
"We have prepared the sketch based on the description given by the victim, who is still in the hospital recuperating from injuries sustained during the incident," Inspector General of Police (Western Range) Pratap Reddy told reporters here.
A major educational centre, Manipal is 5 km from the famous Udupi temple town on the west coast of the state and about 410 km from Bangalore.
Asserting that there was no let-up in the hunt for the accused, Reddy said efforts were on to get the description of the other two culprits from the 22-year-old victim through doctors attending her and anyone who had information on them.
"We are not in a position to interact with the victim directly in view of her health condition. In the absence of specific details on the incident, which the victim can alone give, investigation into the case was not progressing as it should be," Reddy admitted.
The incident occurred when the victim, a fourth-year student of the Kasturba Medical College, was waiting to hire an auto outside the Manipal University campus gate to return to her flat from the library around 11.30 p.m. Thursday
A criminal case was registered Friday against the accused, including an auto driver under sections 366 and 376 (abduction and rape) read with 34 (common intent) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) on a complaint by the victim to the local police station.
"We are waiting for the girl to recover completely to question her on the incident and record her statement," Reddy added.
Through doctors and her parents, police learnt that the accused spoke to her in Hindi but interacted among themselves in a local dialect, which could be Tulu.
Meanwhile, the eight probe teams formed to crack the case have fanned out across the district and the neighbouring areas, including Mangalore to trace the culprits and the three-wheeler autorickshaw in which the victim was abducted and driven to a secluded spot for committing the crime.
"About 20 people have been questioned so far and autorickshaws plying in the town, district and in the region are inspected to identify if any one of them were involved in the crime," Reddy added.


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Ambassadors share their experiences in the College of Education with prospective students, current UT students, and the UT Austin community. They represent the school at outreach events and assist with various college-wide programs.
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What a great DC and a reminder that I owe a friend in Germany a postcard from my home town...I will do this as soon as I'm all better...Still dealing with this flu...Finally found something I can drink that doesn't make me sick to my stomach...Hot Tea!!!...I've had four cups so far today which is the most fluids I've consumed in one day in over 4 days...I also had mashed tators for lunch, my first meal in 4 days...Still not feeling great but forcing more fluids and eating small amounts of food...Have not smoked for 3 days and will use this opportunity to try and quit...This must be a sign ;-)...
Well Brad it is day 5, Thanks for pacting with me!
"Pick up a postcard and send a quick note to someone you like"
Still sick but took my hubby in for a colonoscopy this morning...Did this DC without even knowing it...after my hubby was in recovery I actually cracked a few jokes and made him smile...back home now and nursing a migraine...It has been a rough week and I'm hoping I get over whatever this is SOON!!!...
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Me So Seussy: Converse Does Dr. Seuss-Themed Kicks
There are a lot of reasons to wish you were a kid again. A few off the top of our heads: Nap time, no weird looks when you order a Happy Meal, the potential to become a virtuoso fashion blogger. Also—the awesome new kicks from Converse styled after Dr. Seuss books and characters. You'll recognize the illustrated designs from some of your favorite childhood storybooks (it's nice to know that some things never change, right?). There's a "One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish" style, a "Thing 1, Thing 2″ pair, a Cat in the Hat design, and more. Yup, most of the sneakers are for kids, but a couple do fit grown-ups if you want to spend a day taking a walk in a kid's shoes. [Converse via L.A. Times]


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Q: I don't seem to getting the results I expected from squats. Any ideas of where the problem is?
A: Squats are the most technique-governed exercise ever invented. Performed properly, they produce the greatest and most complete gains possible in leg size, muscularity and strength. But if you perform them improperly, you won't see gains in any of those areas. What's more, you'll probably injure yourself.
I'd bet that your problem is your hips. Squats are a compound movement, which means they involve the coordination of many different bodyparts, and your hips are the key to it all. If they are not free to rotate and pivot as necessary, nothing else in your body will work as it should. Your back won't be able to assume its strongest angle. Your abdominals and shoulders won't be able to provide support.
Your thigh and calf muscles won't be able to push with maximum power. And you won't be able to breathe efficiently, because you're bent over in a manner that prevents your chest from expanding fully.
You want more? I'll continue. Your knees will be taking most of the stress, the shear plane of the bar will cut right through the weakest part of your lower back, you might snap your Achilles tendons, and you'll promote arthritis in your hips. And that's just for starters.
The next time you're in the gym, observe the form most people use when squatting, then compare yours to theirs. Most likely, their backs and hips will be locked in position so tight that no joint is discernible between the two. Their backs will be a concave arch (slightly swaybacked), and their hips will jut out behind them, causing their upper bodies to lean forward.
This, instead, is what you should be doing: Your hips should swivel forward, under your upper body, to place the center of gravity and maximum support in your body's vertical axis. Keep your upper body comfortably upright. Your back should not be straining to hold the barbell. As you squat, allow your upper body to tilt as necessary--only enough to maintain balance, but not so much that it cantilevers in front of you, as if it's a support beam for the barbell. Before, when you were sticking your hips out behind you and leaning forward, you were restricted to partial squats and had no more range of motion than a beast of burden. Now, with your hips rotating and pivoting freely, you can squat all the way down to your calves, and this complete extension and contraction of your thighs is the only way to maximize their size and strength. From now on, when you think of squats, think "hip squats," and you'll find yourself exploring a vast new frontier of leg growth.


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Possible to replace battery?
So I have a MacBook Pro 13" Unibody back from 2009 and I need to replace the battery. I already know that's the problem but Apple wants entirely too much money to fix it. They say it can't be manually replaced but I have my doubts. I just don't see why not. If anyone knows a way I can replace the battery myself for cheaper then they'll do it let me know. Is it really impossible? Or is that just some scam Apple put out to get more money from us?
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The Morrison County Fishing League banquet will be held Wednesday at the Royalton American Legion. The evening begins at 4 p.m. with happy hour and a steak dinner will be served at 6 p.m.
Prizes will be awarded for first, second and third places as well as for the largest fish for each species.
All raffle/giveaway items accepted. Remember to bring the fish bags.
Contact Kirk Lindberg for more information, to suggest rule changes for next year or to add topics for discussion. He can be reached at (320) 267-6739.


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About the Book
A few great pictures of some of the wonderful raccoons rescued!
Features & Details
- Category Arts & Photography
Large Square, 12×12 in, 30×30 cm
40 Pages
- Publish Date Feb 16, 2013
- Language English
- Tags Raccoon, wildlife, animals, Laughing raccoon
About the Creator
When I came across my first orphaned baby raccoon I was hooked on these charming creatures. I became a certified wildlife rehabilitator and decided to specialize in orphaned raccoons. Since then my rehab efforts have grown to encompass more than just raccoons and I have gained several wonderful friends that have also become certified rehabbers. Together we work as a coalition taking in the injured and orphaned wildlife brought to our doors, or by finding a place for those we cannot take. Some of the gang are released at the back of my property and I continue to have visits with them. Others are released at appropriate sites and eventually fade into the forests after regaining their new found freedom....but not before leaving their story behind for all to enjoy and learn from! So enjoy the Meerkat Manor - like soap opera as well as the many pics I take of the kids as you learn about the world of Wildllife Rehabilitation!
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STAGE TUBE: Watch Wendy Williams Join CHICAGO Cast in HOW YOU DOIN', BROADWAY? Special
The buzz-making talk show host, best-selling author and Broadway star Wendy Williams will headline an exclusive one-hour television special, Wendy Williams: HOW YOU DOIN', BROADWAY?!, premiering on TVGN (TV Guide Network) on Wednesday, October 2 at 8:00 PM ET/PT. Check out a sneak peek below!
Wendy Williams: HOW YOU DOIN', BROADWAY?! is a candid, up-close presentation of Wendy Williams that will give fans an inspiring look behind the curtain at her personal life during the most challenging period in her career. Viewers will follow Wendy as she embarked on her Broadway debut in the musical production of "Chicago" and prepared for her role as the prison matron Mama Morton. The cameras also capture Wendy at the taping of her daily talk show, "The Wendy Williams Show," which kicks off its fifth season on Monday, September, 16, and is distributed by Lionsgate's Debmar-Mercury syndication company.
"I'm excited to share one of the most exhilarating and challenging journeys in my career in a primetime television special airing only on TVGN," said Wendy Williams. "Fans will see my successes and struggles as I prepared for my stage debut in 'Chicago' this past summer and say 'how you doin, Broadway?!'"
Wendy Williams: HOW YOU DOIN', BROADWAY?! is produced by Wendy Williams Productions with Wendy Williams, Kevin Hunter, Lisa Knapp and Jill Ramsey as Executive Producers.
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UTSA-South Alabama key matchups
Updated 11:52 pm, Friday, August 31, 2012
UTSA on offense
WR Kam Jones vs. new cornerbacks
Junior-college transfers Tyrell Pearson and Darrius Morrow will have their hands full with Jones, UTSA's most dynamic player on offense. Jones led the team with 39 receptions for 578 yards. He scored three times, two on receptions and one on a rush. Pearson (5-foot-8, 150 pounds) is small even for a lower-level FBS program, but he did pick off eight passes last year at Mesa, Ariz. One South Alabama coach said Pearson's game tape from junior college was "like an action movie." Morrow came to Mobile out of Hutchinson, Kan., after being recruiting by BCS-level schools, including Baylor.
UTSA on defense
Sports Channel
Linebackers vs. RB Demetre Baker
Steven Kurfehs and Brandon Reeves are two of UTSA's top athletes on defense. Kurfehs finished third on the team in tackles (61) in only seven games last year. Four were behind the line of scrimmage. Reeves led the squad in tackles (69), including 27 solo stops.
Baker is one of the best players on the South Alabama offense. The returning leader in all-purpose yards also ranked second in rushing and scoring. At 6-1 and 215 pounds, he is hard to stop in the open field. Baker gouged the Roadrunners last year with a 25-yard TD romp to cap the Jaguars' 30-27 victory in double overtime.


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CES is a gadget-related madness and mistakes happen - but what's better than that, really? Thanks to one such mistake there is a photo of the newly announced Sony Ericsson Xperia arc running Android 2.4, a.k.a. Gingerbread.
If this rumour proves to be true, this 2.3/2.4 situation is not going to be a precedent by any means, since Eclair was both Android 2.0 and 2.1, and we can expect Google to add a handful of new features with the new Gingerbread, as well as slight improvements to its existing ones.
Of course, if Android 2.4 exists it's only a prototype, so it's too early to say what exactly these improvements are going to be, but the new Gingerbread is said to be faster, with an animated screen and it may come with video chat capabilities out of the box.
Obviously, there would be no Gingerbread 2.4 announcement during CES, and this may be a false rumour anyway, but if Android 2.4 is genuine, leaks are sure to happen, so stay tuned.
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Figure 1 depicts an experimental inchworm- type linear microactuator. This microactuator is a successor to the one described in "MEMS-Based Piezoelectric/ Electrostatic Inchworm Actuator" (NPO-30672), NASA Tech Briefs, Vol. 27, No. 6 (June 2003), page 68. Both actuators are based on the principle of using a piezoelectric transducer (PZT) operated in alternation with electrostatically actuated clutches to cause a slider to move in small increments. However, the design of the present actuator incorporates several improvements over that of the previous one. The most readily apparent improvement is in geometry and, consequently, in fabrication: In the previous actuator, the inchworm motion was perpendicular to the broad faces of a flat silicon wafer on which the actuator was fabricated, and fabrication involved complex processes to form complex three-dimensional shapes in and on the wafer. In the present actuator, the inchworm motion is parallel to the broad faces of a wafer on which it is fabricated. The components needed to produce the in-plane motion are more nearly planar in character and, consequently, easier to fabricate. Other advantages of the present design are described below.
Whereas the previous actuator contained two clutches (denoted "holders" in the cited prior article), the present actuator contains four clutches. Each clutch includes a pair of units on opposite sides of a channel, into which the slider is inserted and along which the slider moves. Rails along the sides of the substrate prevent outward movement of the clutch units. Each clutch unit includes a rounded frictional contact that is springloaded against one side of the slider. Attached to each spring-loaded frictional contact is an electrostatic comb drive that, when energized, opposes the spring load to pull the contact away from the slider. Hence, each clutch is normally latching: the rounded frictional contacts clamp the slider from opposite sides until and unless the electrostatic comb drives are energized. The spring load is obtained by inserting the slider that is slightly wider than fabricated clutch clearance. This insertion also displaces the comb teeth to achieve very narrow (<1 μm) comb gap that is power efficient but difficult to fabricate in bulk Si structure. A low-thermal-expansion-glass lid, omitted from the figure for the sake of clarity, is placed across the rails to retain the slider in the channel.


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Selena Gomez tells US Weekly she thinks Miley Cyrus is "really sweet" and Justin Gaston is "really cute", and she wishes them "all the luck" with their romance.
Selena Gomez has nothing to hide when she is asked to comment on Miley Cyrus and Justin Gaston's much publicized romance despite the fact that she keeps her own love life under the radar. Expressing her praise for both of them, she even wishes all is well in their love relationship.
"I honestly think that she's adorable," Selena told US Weekly at the Comme des Garcons for H&M Collection preview in N.Y.C. on Thursday, October 23, when asked on what she thinks about fellow Disney star Miley. "I think she's really sweet."
As for Miley's underwear model boyfriend Justin, Selena thinks "he's really cute, too" adding "I wish them all the luck." As for her own love life, Selena told TV Guide earlier this month she and her rumored boyfriend Nick Jonas are "getting to know each other," but didn't exactly confirm or deny that they are an item.
"I've gotten really close to the entire Jonas family this past year," so she told the magazine about her close bond with Nick and his singer brothers Joe Jonas and Kevin Jonas. "Nick and I are getting to know each other, but we're not confirming anything."
Also on Thursday, Selena was seen attending the launch of UNICEF's 2008 Trick-or-Treat campaign, held at Dylan's Candy Bar in N.Y.C. Revealing her plans for the nearing Halloween, she told Twist magazine during the event she's going trick-or-treating with her best friend Demi Lovato and is planning to dress up as June Carter Cash, the singer-actress wife of singing legend Johnny Cash.


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Do You Consider Your Skin Tone When Getting Dressed?
Love Julianne Moore. Don't love Julianne's choice of dress color. She looks a bit sickly, no? When it comes to picking out a dress or blouse, I swear people don't bother to think about their skin tone. It's funny because with anything makeup-related the first question is: "Will this work with my skin tone?" Um, hello, your top has to make just as much skin color sense as your shade of red lipstick!
Like Ms. Moore, I'm a pale person. Granted, I don't have skin as pretty as hers, but I take serious pains to make sure I do my pale (and sometimes ghostly white) skin every possible favor. And that means never wearing this type of neutral, blah color—I let the more olive-skinned lady folk rock it, the women who always look great in this nude hue. Me, I buy loads of jewel-toned tops and, if I really want a nude or a neutral, I'll wear it on my bottom half, so it doesn't suck all the color out of my face and make me look green. What about you — do you consider skin tone when shopping or putting on your clothes every morning? Do you have a go-to color that always makes your skin look great?