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It is just sandpaper, glorified sandpaper.My ten year old daughter begged me to let her shave her legs and we went with getting this from our local 7-11. The hair on her legs were gone but after about an hour of dillegent use. I being older tried them out but unlike her, I have very dry skin. Using this made me look like I had poured baby powder on my legs and honestly frightened me bu the amount of damage I may have cause my skin. I dont...read more think anyone needs to throw away ten bucks on something that takes an hour to use correctly with the worst drying effects I've ever been through. Don't bother with this product! — 7 years, 1 month agoRENGAM81 | 7 reviews
this is supposed to work! huhthis product does not work this is someone thinking thier out to get rich. Well i want my money back! — 7 years, 1 month agotinman2 | 1 reviews
You have to put in a lot of fort.You have to put in a lot of effort and my skin felt dry. not smooth. — 7 years, 1 month agowyluvwax | 1 reviews
smooth away hair removalthis product removed NO hair only skin — 7 years, 1 month agojaceee | 1 reviews
Sand Paperthis product has been around for over 30 years that I know of personally! and I see it doesn't work any better than it did in the late 70's — 7 years, 1 month agoLiliths | 1 reviews
I bought these at the drug storeThey did work. My Daughter, her friend and myself all sat down in the living room and started using these on our arms, It was amazing all the hair on our arms came off and it did not hurt at all, we continue to use this product and love it. — 7 years, 1 month agocmartineau | 2 reviews
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worked for meI love this product! I have looked and looked for it for a long time now and cant seem to find it anywhere. Never irritated my skin and was much easier to use with lots less time on facial hair. If you wanna try it do, but do not put lots of pressure on you skin with it. I think that is where lots of people mess up and keep the motion in a circle. Use larger circles on your legs. I WANT MY PRODUCT BACK! — 7 years, 1 month agolostbuthere26 | 1 reviews
Worst Product!I am surprised that this is still on the market. It does absolutely nothing. Waste of money and time! — 7 years, 1 month agoKMarcell | 3 reviews
Smooth AwayI didn't think this product worked as well as it claimed to. It's actually sand paper for wet sanding a car. My fiance uses the same thing at work on cars after painting them. — 7 years, 1 month agoMeliss13 | 1 reviews
:/I honestly was not satisfied with this product. The first time I used it I thought " Oh this is cool", but the more and more I did use it, it started to irritated my skin and as well made the hair grow back even thicker. I would not recomend this to any of my friends. — 7 years, 1 month agoforeveralways | 1 reviews
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Fosamax and Dental Surgery Healing
My mother had a tooth extraction procedure done last year and had some difficulty with healing, which required antibiotics and mouth rinsing. It would seem to heal completely, but she would have several relapses, when it would get infected. It hasn`t been giving her any problems for a while now, but...
Could this be due to Fosamax as she has been on it for about 8 years? If so, is there any way to check if she has the condition of osteonecrosis? Are there tests to check jaw bone density?
Thank you!
It is hard to say for sure what is happening. To be cautious, I would recommend she discontinue the Fosamax until she is completely healed for several months.
Margery Gass, MD
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College of Medicine
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Episode 55 kicks off with a visit from Ron Moore. Well, technically some quotes from Moore but hey RON MOORE EVERYBODY!
Transporter Room 3, Episode 55
The past and -- hopefully -- future Star Trek writer sounds off about another TV series happening… someday. Will he have a role in it? Listen to find out!
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Who is this week's Red Shirt? He comes by way of Star Trek III and arguably suffered one of the worst fates in the universe: Killed while sitting in a pink chair.
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Police search for potential victims of alleged rapist who transported children in care of Families SA
South Australian police have begun an operation to identify other potential victims of an alleged rapist who provided transport for children in the care of Families SA.
A 49-year-old man has been charged with rape over an alleged incident in Adelaide's south last Sunday and is due to face court next month.
The alleged rapist worked for a car-hire firm contracted to Families SA.
Police say they are working with the department to examine the man's work history, find potential witnesses and uncover any other possible offences.
The Government says the man had cleared screening for relevant child protection matters.
Opposition Leader Steven Marshall claims the Government and Premier Jay Weatherill are struggling to manage a deepening crisis.
"We're only hearing the details of this unfolding again via the media because the media get onto something before the minister," he said.
"Jay Weatherill needs to front the cameras today and explain to the people of SA why he's been missing for the past week when this crisis has been unfolding here in SA.
"Today's allegations in the paper will do nothing to restore the public's confidence in this government's child protection in SA."
The Government says the alleged offender has had his driver accreditation suspended.
The alleged rape occurred a week after another man working for Families SA was charged with several counts of unlawful sexual intercourse with children in government care.
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Google under investigation in UK for covering up illegal data collection, lying to authorities
Google is coming under a fresh investigation in the UK, which, if it confirms wrongdoing, would be a pretty serious breach of the company's motto "don't be evil." (They were kind of asking for it with a motto like that, no?)
Google initially sent a fleet of cars to the UK to photograph the country for the street view feature in Google Maps. According to The Guardian, Google managed to capture huge amounts of personal data in the process, including "emails, passwords and medical records," which is a violation of UK's privacy laws.
When the personal data capture eventually came out, Google gave UK's office of the information commissioner a mea culpa, saying that they had captured the data by mistake and had no intention of using it. "The project leaders did not want and did not use this payload data. Indeed, they never even looked at it," Google wrote to British investigators.
But then the US uncovered emails in a detailed investigation that revealed a Google engineer telling colleagues he had designed the technology specifically to capture this data. So now the UK's investigation includes not only whether Google violated its privacy laws, but whether it lied to government authorities in telling them the data capture was a mistake.
"If the data was collected deliberately then it is clear that this is a different situation than was reported to us in April 2010," England's ICO wrote to Google in a recent letter.
If it finds Google did violate its privacy laws, UK could fine the company about $750,000, and the ICO's investigation could lead to a police investigation into whether Google lied to authorities, writes The Guardian.
Of course, we can only speculate on what Google would want with this kind of granular personal data derived from street view. But tech industry insiders are always two steps ahead of what most of us can imagine doing with the technology. If Google wanted to capture this data secretly, it was probably motivated by the potential to monetize it in some way in the future. If it was just to make the technology work better, why go through all the trouble of lying to cover it up?
Bad Google. Go to your room (which is all of our rooms now, apparently).


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Halo: Combat Evolved
Review by jack cole
"A great game with more greatness than before"
The long awaited port to the PC has finally arrived. With beefed up graphics and gameplay this game is what Halo should have been.
Gameplay: 10/10
The heart of Halo and what made it Game of the Year in 2001 on Xbox. You can only carry 2 guns at a time, and have the ability to melee attack. There are many different vehicles, and the A.I. is impressive. Never scripted, always acts on the situation. The levels are amazingly huge, 10 in total. But it will take you a many hours to beat them all. It will take weeks (actual gameplay time) to beat them in all difficulties.
The Online play is the most anticipated feature of Halo PC. There are 6 new levels, all vehicle compatible. They are huge and most of them are made for 16 players. Yes, that's right, 16 players dueling it out online! There is also 2 new guns. A flamethrower and Fuel Rod gun. Veterans will recognize the Fuel Rod from later single player levels that the Elite Grunts used, but self destructed when dropped. There is also 1 new vehicle, and 2 more vehicles from singleplayer available for multiplayer. There is 5 different game types, and many options. You can make a new game mode with customized selections of your choice, such as vehicles, weapons, shield options, and so much more. You can make hundreds, possibly thousands of different game modes. It is also compatible with LAN.
Graphics: 9.5/10
They have improved somewhat compared to Xbox, but not vastly. They kick ass and seem very realistic. I can't name any examples right now though.
One problem is that they may not be compressed, or ported well. To set everything at high means I have to set resolution at 640 x 480 to get a constant 30 FPS (same as Xbox). This is on a GeForce 4 Ti 4200, AMD XP 2500, and 512 DDRram. It may be patched but I wouldn't know.
Audio: 9.5/10
Everything sounds what it should be. It supports 5:1 surround sound, but headphones work for me. I like how realistic the Banshee sounds when flying through the air. If you are anywhere and you here that sound you know it's a Banshee. The A.I. say funny things which tie into the current situation, such as ''Not again!'' when you stick a grenade on a Grunt, or ''Come back to class so I can school you again'' when a marine kills an enemy.
There is hardly any music, and you are mostly hearing the sound of your foot steps and gun fire. But you can run Windows Media Player in the background set to your favorite tunes and you're set.
Controls: 9/10
Very good controls! With the mouse precision is much better. There aren't many controls, so learning them will be easy. If you played First Person Shooters you can just glance at the control list and know them within minutes. Vehicles aren't controlled directly, instead you aim in the direction and hit the gas. Your character will automatically steer in that direction. It takes a little getting used to, but when you first try it you have as much time as you want.
Lasting Appeal: 10/10
With Online mode, more maps, more vehicles and weapons, and more of a community you will become as addicted it as possibly Counter-Strike.
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The netcode is very good. I pay for Cable internet with 256k upload. I was able to host an 8 player battle with very little lag (depending on where you live). The game needs a way to kick people off servers, since I have run into a few Team Killers.
Okay, I hoped this review helped. This game is a definite buy if your computer can handle it and you got internet access (hopefully broadband).
Reviewer's Rating: 5.0 - Flawless
Originally Posted: 09/29/03
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TAMPA — The roar of pressure washers cut through the air as crews scrambled to clean away dirt and debris to reveal the reward of more than 18 months of physical labor.
City officials won't be the only ones beaming with pride at Sunday's grand opening of the Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park.
The hard hats are proud too.
Throughout the week, electricians put final touches on lights overlooking the fountains, crews fixed out-of-place pavers and landscapers trimmed tree branches. Workers also spray-painted the lawn green in defiance of winter.
"I just walk around and marvel at the changes everyday, to see everything come together is amazing," said Rick Lee, a superintendent who got his jeans dusty with last minute fixes.
The 8-acre park, designed by Thomas Balsley and Associates of New York, is the first of three projects debuting downtown this year. It features two interactive fountains, a children's playground, terraced lawn, dog run, bathrooms and a revitalized portion of the Riverwalk.
Next up is the Tampa Museum of Art, opening Feb. 6, and then the Glazer Children's Museum in late summer.
Workers at the Children's Museum are still in the thick of construction.
"I go home and tell my wife all about the crazy things I am working on," said Jose Bautista, a framer and drywaller working on the museum.
There's a ceiling shaped like a wave, and a column that is asymmetrical, both new tricks for Bautista.
In the bathrooms, workers on Wednesday laid glass tiles meant to simulate the flow of water from the drain to the floor, something tile foreman Mitch Robertson considered a welcome challenge.
"I like these types of jobs; they test your skills. The layouts are complicated; you're using different materials, and it takes a lot to make it work," he said.
The building's design is the result of an architectural collaboration between GouldEvans, the firm that designed the University of South Florida's Marshall Center, and HaizLip Studios, a firm that specializes in children's museums, and is being built by J.O. DeLotto and Sons.
Over at the Tampa Museum of Art, designed by California architect Stanley Saitowitz, the dust has cleared and finishing touches include the installation of priceless art.
It's precision work, hard-hatted Lee found out.
"I learned about how light affects art, how heat affects art, how humidity affects art," he said. "I even learned how the touch of a finger can affect art."
Lee, a senior superintendent for Skanska, the company overseeing the construction of the park and Tampa Museum of Art, worked on the project from day one, replacing a crumbling museum with modern architecture.
Crews at all three sites said they are proud to have a part of something so important to the city.
"Everyone who worked on these projects put more of an emphasis on quality of work because these are places they will be bringing their families and children to and saying, 'I worked on that,' " said Chuck Jablon, a vice president on the project for Skanska.
Bautista said he will be excited when his kids get to see his efforts at the children's museum.
"I am definitely planning to bring them here," he said. "It feels good to know you had something to do with their fun."
On Thursday, electrician Richard Kuzma pointed proudly to the LED-lighted tiles in the park's fountain areas, in part his handiwork.
Watching the project evolve in his eight months on site left him marveling.
"Just seeing it come from the dirt phase to this type of quality is really invigorating," he said.
With the walkways dust-free and the grass a perfect shade of green, the hard hats will fade into the background until the next reveal is ready.
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by A.W. Tozer
Cast your cares on the LORD and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous fall. Psalm 55:22
"If a burden is laid on my back and another immediately takes it off and carries it himself,"
said Meister Eckhart,
"it can make no difference to me whether it is one or a hundred pounds."
In the Scriptures, there would seem to be three kinds of burdens recognized. First, the burden of loving help which we are admonished to give to others:
"Carry each other's burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ" (Galatians 6:2).
Secondly, the burden of moral responsibility which no one can shift to another:
"For each one should carry his own load" (Galatians 6:5).
Thirdly, the burden resulting from our fallen state, consisting of sin, fear, worry, disappointments, sorrows, remorse, bitter memories and self-accusations.
"Cast your cares on the Lord and he will sustain you" (Psalm 55:22).
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A 40-year-old woman from Redruth has been released on police bail after being arrested on suspicion of murder.
The arrest relates to a fire at the Rosewyn House Care home on Alverton Terrace, Truro on November 24, 2008.
A 96-year-old female resident of the home died in hospital a week after the fire as a result of smoke inhalation.
The suspect was arrested yesterday, Wednesday, March 12 2014 and later released on Police bail until 27 May 2014.
Investigating officers have urged anyone who may have information regarding the incident to contact them on 101 or Crimestoppers in confidence on 0800 555 111, quoting reference GT/13/1051.


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People send me emails all the time to tell me their "justification" for allowing a surgeon to take a sharp knife and cut away at their genitalia and, in place of the male appendage, simulate something female. Frankenstein would have been proud.
Frankly, I do not give a rip why any man spends the big bucks so he can sit to pee. The only thing that is important is addressing the consequences these poor saps face as a result of surgery.
I get the regret letters frequently; they tell the real story:
"I detransitioned, I'm done with this stupid game."
"I had it all, now have nothing because I had gender surgery"
"Can you help my friend? He wants to commit suicide" (the friend had gender surgery in 2007)
From a medical doctor: "I had the gender surgery 6 years ago. The surgery should be classified as a criminal act"
So, who cares about your justification for ripping your genitals off? The devastating consequences suggest the justification is irrelevant.
Don't tell me "The Why"—I do not give a rip because all too often it ends in "R.I.P."
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Why The Yankees Are In First Place
The demise of the Yankees was written at least a dozen times from February 1 until now. The injuries, oh the injuries. But baseball people must not have been baseball people through and through because they forgot that CC Sabathia and Robinson Cano and Mariano Rivera were still around and the bullpen was in tact. And the division actually wasn't that good if you know how baseball teams win in 2013. Here are the Top 5 reasons why the Yanks were in first place as of May 13, 2013 at 9:00 p.m. EST.


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The morning after
LOS ANGELES — It's fairly quiet around the Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles this morning.
As we walked to the arena, we spotted a few more Laker flags than usual hanging from the back windows of cars driving around downtown. With the Lakers emerging with an 87-81 triumph over the Celtics in Game 3 of the NBA Finals last night, we're assuming some fans are hopping back on the local bandwagon.
There's not a lot of activity outside the Team L.A. pro shop at the Staples Center. in fact, a couple of youngsters were tossing around a Laker Frisbee near the main entrance moments ago. No one tried to shoo them away, because there weren't a whole lot of customers for them to distract.
If the Lakers are going to release extra tickets for Thursday's Game 4, it won't happen until tomorrow, so there's no line forming quite yet outside the box office. Some die-hard fans (and opportunistic scalpers) will likely camp out starting later tonight for a chance to snare some extra tix.
Both the Celtics and Lakers have practice here this afternoon and we'll have updates after availability (3:30-4:30 EST).
The arena plays host to a WNBA showdown this evening as the Los Angeles Sparks (with Lisa Leslie and Candace Parker) host the Detroit Shock. A banner depicting the superstar duo, along with head coach Michael Cooper, hangs above the main entrance with the words, "It's Showtime" in the background.
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Despite reports to the contrary, Nissan is not anti-hybrid. In fact, the Nissan Altima Hybrid is arguably has just the right combination of power, style and fuel economy to be a mainstream hit. So why isn't the Altima Hybrid—with its compelling combo of power, handling, style, and fuel economy—well known from coast-to-coast?
Because it's only available in nine states: California and the eight states that have adopted California's emissions rules: Oregon, Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island and Vermont. (Even with its limited availability, the Altima Hybrid outsold the Honda Civic Hybrid and Toyota Highlander Hybrid in May 2010. See our hybrid and diesel market dashboard.)
When the 2011 Altima Hybrid is introduced later this year, it will once again be limited to those nine states. This probably has a lot to do with Nissan wanting to downplay the viability of hybrids, as it focuses on a rollout of its all-electric Nissan LEAF. Keep in mind that the LEAF for the first year or so will also be limited to key markets on the West Coast, in Arizona and Tennessee. (The Chevy Volt is also geo-targeted to California, Michigan and Washington, D.C.)
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The good news is that the 2012 Altima Hybrid will indeed go nationwide. At the same time, next year's model—not the version coming out later this year—will feature Nissan's own proprietary hybrid system, rather than the gas-electric technology borrowed from Toyota for the current Altima Hybrid.
When we spoke with Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn at the recent groundbreaking of its electric battery plant, he said, "We have hybrids. We're selling the Altima Hybrid in the United States. We're bringing the Infiniti M Hybrid, and we're very proud of it. So, I don't want to give you the impression that we neglect this technology. We don't. But we're not leaders."
Instead, Nissan is taking the lead on pure electric cars—a bold position that is pushing the envelop on battery-powered vehicles. Thanks goodness that Mr. Ghosn had the vision and the courage to lead the way on pure electric cars.
So, by the end of next year, Nissan-Infiniti dealerships throughout the United States will have an electric car and at least two hybrids—with its own technology. (We wouldn't be surprised if a plug-in hybrid wasn't too far off in the future.)
Bring on the electrics, but don't think that they will supplant hybrids. Expect EVs to sit side-by-side with conventional hybrids and plug-in hybrids, in an increasingly attractive array of big and small, sporty and sedate models—available in every state in the nation. That's when we'll know that the green car revolution has finally arrived.


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Dead Space hits the stores and here's a trailer
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By now, you should be able to pick up
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Redwood City, CA – October 14, 2008 – Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) announced today that Dead Space™, the award-winning new survival horror game, has shipped to retail in North America for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system and PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system. The PC version will ship on October 20. Dead Space will be in stores in Europe on October 24 for the Xbox 360, PLAYSTATION 3 system and the PC.
First introduced last year, Dead Space is an original horror intellectual property that quickly won over critics worldwide with its stunning visuals, spine-tingling gameplay and horrifying creatures. The game has won over 11 awards and has earned a 5 out of 5 from GamePro magazine and 9.25 out of 10 from Game Informer magazine. GamePro even said that Dead Space is "…one of the best survival horror experiences ever created," and Game Informer quotes, "No game has ever been this frightening."
"Dead Space has been an exciting new direction for the team seeing how it is the first survival horror game to come out of EA," says Glen Schofield, Executive Producer on Dead Space. "We created a very deep piece of fiction for the game and really pushed the boundaries on the violence, gore and psychological terror needed to produce a high quality horror entertainment product. We think that people will love the universe that we created and have a lot of fun with strategic dismemberment. You can even dig deeper into the Dead Space universe with our 6-book comic series, the animated feature Dead Space Downfall, and the interactive web series No Known Survivors."
Set five hundred years in the future, Dead Space follows the story of Isaac Clarke, a normal systems engineer, who is sent with a small repair team to restore communications aboard an immense mining ship, the USG Ishimura. Once onboard the vessel, Isaac discovers that the crew has unearthed an ancient and malevolent alien presence far beneath the planet's surface and brought it onboard. It's a living nightmare onboard the Ishimura, which has turned into a floating bloodbath, as the crew has been unspeakably mutilated and infected by an ancient alien scourge. Clarke's repair mission becomes one of survival as he fights not just to save himself, but to return the artifact to the planet at any cost.
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Fort Worth, Texas, In a ruling in Chicago, a federal judge has ruled that several hundred RadioShack Corp. store managers are entitled to overtime pay. A class-action lawsuit was filed in 2003 against the Fort Worth, Texas-based electronics retailer, alleging that employees classified as exempt from overtime pay were, in fact, not exempt.
Even with this current ruling, the case is far from over. Another suit, also involving overtime nonpayment allegations, is pending, and an attorney for the plaintiff group said the number being carved out is "in the hundreds" and the amount due them is "in the millions."


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Here's a great video review of the nifty little SR40C from Ruger by none other than Hickok45 (check out his close-up review of this pistol). These are really nice compact handguns and perfect as a CCW (concealed carry weapon) choice. Much like the SR9C, the .40S&W version has a nice slim grip, ambidextrous safety, trigger […]Read More...
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PARIS — French director Claude Chabrol, one of the founders of the New Wave movement whose films probed the latent malice beneath the placid surface of bourgeois life, died Sunday (Sept. 12, 2010). He was 80.
A prolific director, Mr. Chabrol made more than 70 films and TV productions during his more than half-century-long career. His first movie, 1958's Le Beau Serge, won him considerable critical acclaim and was widely considered a sort of manifesto for the New Wave, or Nouvelle vague movement — which reinvented the codes of filmmaking and revolutionized cinema starting in the late 1950s. The vastly influential movement also included directors like Francois Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard.
Mr. Chabrol's movies focused on the French bourgeoisie, lifting the facade of respectability to reveal the hypocrisy, violence and loathing simmering just below the surface. Often suspenseful, his work drew comparisons with that of Alfred Hitchcock.
He worked at a fast clip, churning out about a film every year. He wrote some original scripts, but also adapted classics of French literature, including Madame Bovary (1991) and stories by Guy de Maupassant, for the cinema and for television.
Mr. Chabrol's top films included Les Biches, or Bad Girls, from 1968 and 1970's The Butcher, as well as the 2000 mystery Merci pour le chocolat, with Isabelle Huppert, one of his favorite actors.
His last feature film, Bellamy — featuring another giant of French cinema, Gerard Depardieu — came out last year.
Mr. Chabrol was born in Paris on June 24, 1930. The son of a pharmacist, he said he "completely" belonged to the sort of bourgeois social milieu that would become the fodder for his films — "otherwise I wouldn't have dared" depict it, he said in 1987.
He also acted, making Hitchcock-style cameos in many of his films, as well as those by other directors. In 2004, he was awarded the European Film Award for the body of his work and a year later received a top honor from the Academie Francaise.


text: Politics 25 July 2013 NHS horror stories, my life as a Twitter fogey, and cricket's robot generation Peter Wilby's "First Thoughts" column. Sign up for our weekly email * Print HTML Horror stories about the National Health Service come thick and fast, conveniently for a government that wants to hand it over to private capital. One week, it is chaos in A&E; the next, substandard care at 14 hospital trusts and old folk being ushered to an early grave by the Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP). We should treat these stories with scepticism even when they are apparently validated by official inquiries. With all the talk of "excess deaths", you would think that our hospitals had become killers. Yet, as the NHS medical director for England, Bruce Keogh, observes in his report on the 14 "failing" trusts, overall mortality in hospitals has fallen by about 30 per cent over the past decade. Inquiries, however, rarely conclude that the problems they were set up to address don't exist and they would be dismissed as whitewashes if they did. Given the emotion and fears surrounding serious illness and particularly death, it's easy to find allegations of medical neglect. Julia Neuberger's report on the LCP is replete with phrases such as "some people", "many people" and "all too often". There are no references to randomised sample surveys. The inquiry invited submissions from the public (it received 483), talked to 113 people at meetings and looked at hospital complaints. Such evidence should not be ignored but it is naturally biased towards those who suffered bad experiences. No institution is perfect and anything involving medicine, which is as much an art as a science, will be more imperfect than most. What we don't know is whether a health service run by private providers would be better. I offer this snippet: in 2010, the US health department's inspector general reported that 13.5 per cent of Medicare hospital patients suffered "harm" from "adverse events", nearly half of them because of care failures. British newspapers love to highlight cases of "wrong-site surgeries", in which ovaries are taken out instead of the appendix, for example. The United States has 40 of those a week; the UK has about 60 a year. The NHS has failings but they seem relatively few and, by international standards, very cheap. Guilt by association What's in a name? The Neuberger report acknowledges that "many relatives" of patients on the LCP felt their loved ones had had "good deaths". Yet it recommends dropping the term. "Pathway", it argues, suggests patients being speeded directly to their coffins. I wonder if "Liverpool" isn't the greater problem. Thanks partly to the Sun and Boris Johnson, the city has acquired negative associations in the past 25 years. Mention Liverpool and people think of poverty, unemployment, riots, too much drink and a declining football team. Seen but not heard The BBC's director general, Tony Hall, says that he intends to stop actors muttering in the corporation's dramas. If so, he will be performing a service to theatregoers as well as TV viewers. Actors, it seems, are no longer being taught to articulate their lines clearly and "throw" their voices, largely because the big money is now in TV, where authenticity is thought more important than audibility. Being deaf, I nearly always buy front-row seats at the theatre, but in the West End recently, we sat in the grand circle and my wife, whose hearing is perfect, complained that she couldn't hear, either. Theatregoers should start a campaign and, at an agreed signal, stand in unison and shout: "Speak up!" Social outcast We hear much about how social media companies hold extensive databases on us that could be exploited by governments and corporations. We also hear about their inadequate controls over insulting comments. But I have not noticed discussion of their arbitrary power over users. I returned from holiday to find my Twitter account "suspended", without warning or explanation. After a polite, emailed inquiry, I was told to look at the rules. I replied I couldn't see how I had broken them. Two weeks later, someone at Twitter emailed me, saying, "It's been awhile since we've heard from you," and that "hopefully" the matter had been resolved. It certainly hadn't, I replied. The account was restored a few days later, still without explanation or apology. Being an old fogey, I use Twitter spasmodically and was not greatly inconvenienced by its loss. To some users, however, it has become an essential working tool. In a telling example of how technology can restrict rather than widen choice, many feel they must use it because their professional peers do so. We should know more about the Californian geeks who run social media and what redress they offer to those arbitrarily blackballed. Analyse this How could Ashton Agar, a 19-year-old cricketer playing his first Test and batting at No 11, make 98, the highest score of Australia's first innings against England at Trent Bridge? The answer is that, since Agar had played only 16 unremarkable first-class innings, the England coaches, lacking videos of him, could offer bowlers no plans for getting him out. International sides now analyse opponents exhaustively. They produce pie charts, spreadsheets, graphs and other statistical paraphernalia, searching for a batsman's weakness as assiduously as physicists searched for the Higgs boson. Even the best modern bowlers are robots, programmed by back-room boffins. Without the usual input, they malfunction. › How we are gentrified, impoverished and silenced – if we allow it What redress does Twitter offer to the arbitrarily blackballed? 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A Virginia State Trooper was injured Saturday when the patrol car he had pulled over to protect a tow-truck driver operating on the Beltway was struck by an intoxicated driver, police said.
Trooper K.S. Fleenor and the tow-truck driver were both treated at Fairfax Inova Hospital and released, Virginia State Police said..
The incident occurred early Saturday on the Inner Loop near Tyson's Corner. Fleenor had positioned his car in a northbound travel lane to shield the tow truck driver as he hooked up a vehicle damaged in an earlier crash, police said. They said Fleenor was seated in his car with its lights flashing when it was rear-ended by a 2000 Oldsmobile Intrigue, pushing the patrol car into the previously damaged vehicle, which then struck the tow truck.
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LOS ANGELES — Among the oft-repeated predictions of Albert Einstein's famous theory of relativity is that if a twin travels through the cosmos on a high-speed rocket, when he returns to Earth he will be noticeably younger than the twin who stayed home.
Now physicists have demonstrated that the same is true even if the traveling twin is merely driving in a car about 20 mph. But in that case, when the twin gets home from the grocery store, he is only a tiny fraction of a nanosecond younger, according to a report in Friday's edition of the journal Science.
"During your daily life, you experience relativity," said James Chin-Wen Chou, a postdoctoral researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colo., who led the experiments. "This (makes) science resonate with regular people."
In the past, the phenomenon known as time dilation has been proven by studying what happens to clocks strapped aboard jets streaking across the sky or perched on rockets above Earth.
But the rules of relativity are always in force, even over the smallest distances and at the slowest speeds. The difference is that the effect is infinitesimal.
In their paper, the NIST team reported that the second hand of a clock positioned about two-thirds of a mile above an identical clock near the Earth's surface will speed up only enough to tick out three extra seconds over the course of a million years.
Chou and his colleagues were able to observe an even smaller time dilation — in clocks separated by a just a foot — because they built a precise timepiece.
Their atomic clock, which fills a large dining room table, works by calibrating the frequency of a laser to that of an aluminum ion. The oscillations of the laser are the equivalent of a traditional clock's ticks, but they occur far more rapidly — over a million billion times per second.
That's about 100,000 times faster than the tick rate of the microwave-based atomic clocks that currently set the time standard in the United States.
"We are able to divide time into finer chunks," Chou said.
In the elevation experiment, the aluminum-based atomic clocks let the researchers measure a difference of approximately 90 billionths of a second over a human's 79-year lifetime.
Sean Carroll, a professor at the California Institute of Technology who studies theoretical physics and cosmology, said the observations of time dilation were "cool, but the underlying advances in technology that let this happen" were more significant.
If improved, Chou said, the clock might be able to help scientists perform a variety of tasks, including measuring the changes in the Earth's gravitational field at different places on the planet.


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He specialises in conflict and post-conflict issues in Africa. His research addresses the history and politics of the Great Lakes region, focusing on causes of and responses to genocide and other forms of mass violence.
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Arian Foster was paid at Tennessee, he says, and he doesn't sound too broken up about it.
With absolutely no shame or regret in his voice, Foster says in an upcoming documentary that he took money during his senior season at Tennessee. It was not a lot of money, he says, but just enough to put food in his dorm room fridge.
"I don't know if this will throw us into an NCAA investigation — my senior year, I was getting money on the side," Foster says in Schooled: The Price of College Sports. "I really didn't have any money. I had to either pay the rent or buy some food. I remember the feeling of like, 'Man, be careful.' But there's nothing wrong with it. And you're not going to convince me that there is something wrong with it."
Foster recalled several times in his career where he would rush for more than 100 yards and a couple of touchdowns, soak in the cheers of adoring fans, and feel like he had already made it big.
"Then I walk back, and reality sets in," Foster says. "I go to my dorm room, open my fridge, and there's nothing in the fridge. Hold up, man. What just happened?"
"I'm a firm believer that an employee should get paid for his work," he adds. "And, 100 percent, I see student-athletes as employees. Hiding from it is just cowardly."
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Do you like your chocolate shaped into 3D forms? If so you're in luck. A 3D printer for chocolate, developed at the University of Exeter, has gone on sale. Create your own chocolate castles! Next question, does it work with white chocolate?
The above video is the third in a series demonstrating the MorpHex morphing ball robot by Kåre Halvorsen (aka Zenta), whose day job is
as a consultant engineer at the Assistive Technology Centre for Rogaland (a part of the Norwegian Welfare Services). As with his earlier, ant-like project, the A-Pod, which is available from Lynxmotion as a kit, the MorpHex has many degrees of freedom and moves more like an organism than most robots. More videos of Zenta's work are available on YouTube.
A video on Vimeo (not embeddable here), from a user identified only as Amanda Erickson, models what appears to be an uncontrolled, multi-lane intersection with most or all of the vehicles passing through it independently computer controlled, although perhaps with better information about other vehicles in the intersection than could be accounted for by on-board sensors alone. The priorities implicit in the rules being applied appear to be collision avoidance first, followed closely by minimization of the delay caused by passing through the intersection (throughput).
While some contextual details, such as the name of the institution within which the project took place, are missing from the above video, which shows the design, construction, and initial use of a remote-controlled vehicle with 3.5 G cellular connectivity, it seems worthy of attention, both for the project itself and for the visual experience of the video, which transforms a limitation of the hardware (a low dynamic range camera that overexposes bright areas against a darker background) into an artistic advantage. A second, longer video shows the reactions of people in the street to the presence of the vehicle. In other news, Automaton has the official word on DARPA's humanoid Grand Challenge. The first running of this Grand Challenge is expected to occur in late 2013 or early 2014, with the second running to take place one year later. And finally, while the HUBO might possibly form the basis for one or more entrants in DARPA's humanoid Grand Challenge, the HUBOs are currently otherwise engaged. A recently posted video shows four of them playing "Come Together", by the Beatles. (video after the break)
In episode #101, Robots Podcast revisits the foundations of the field of robotics and peeks into the future with pioneers George Bekey and Rodney Brooks. Bekey, whose background was in engineering and computing, had his first brush with robotics in the 1960s. He returned to the field in the 80s and founded the Robotics Research Laboratory at the University of Southern California, now part of the Center for Robotics and Embedded Systems. Brooks received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1981 and then held research positions at Carnegie Mellon and MIT before joining the faculty of MIT in 1984. He became Director of the MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), continuing in that post until 2007. He was also a cofounder of iRobot, and has since become the founder, chairman and CTO of Heartland Robotics.
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Researchers may finally have uncovered the brain mechanism for storage of long term memories. It's long been suspected that synaptic connections between neurons were part of the mechanism. But somehow our memories survive while individual neurons die and are replaced. There's a new paper on the subject by Travis J. A. Craddock, Jack A. Tuszynski, and Stuart Hameroff, titled "Cytoskeletal Signaling: Is Memory Encoded in Microtubule Lattices by CaMKII Phosphorylation?" The researchers describe complex electrostatic interactions between CaMKII, tubulin protein compounds, and microtubule protein structures inside the neurons. It turns out this may be the process used to read and write long term memories into an information storage lattice, as well as perform a variety of biocomputation based on traditional logical operations such as AND, XOR, NOT, and OR. The researchers summarize their discoveries this way:
"We demonstrate a feasible and robust mechanism for encoding synaptic information into structural and energetic changes of microtubule (MT) lattices by calcium-activated CaMKII phosphorylation. We suggest such encoded information engages in ongoing MT information processes supporting cognition and behavior, possibly by generating scale-free interference patterns via reaction-diffusion or other mechanisms. As MTs and CaMKII are widely distributed in eukaryotic cells, the hexagonal bytes and trytes suggested here may reflect a real-time biomolecular information code akin to the genetic code."
There are several theories about the low-level structures. Each storage lattice could be binary or trinary and store as little as 64 bits or as much as 5281 unique states. The article includes estimates of the brain's energy consumption rate for various data encoding rates. This new research suggests current neural network models may be woefully inadequate for artificial intelligence. In addition to implications for AI, the research suggests possible routes toward improving and even repairing memory function in human brains suffering from neuro-degenerative diseases such as Alheimer's. For more see the University of Alberta news release.
According to Hizook, DARPA will soon be announcing another Grand Challenge, this one focused on humanoid robots. To win the competition, a robot will have to climb into an open vehicle, drive to a designated building, enter the building using a key, navigate a 100 meter, rubble-strewn hallway, climb a ladder, locate a leaking pipe and stop the leak by closing a nearby valve, and then replace a faulty pump, all semi-autonomously. This challenge will be run for two successive years, as it is not expected any team will be able to build a machine that can accomplish all this the first year. Teams will be divided between hardware and software, and there will be both funded and unpaid teams in both categories, with the potential for unpaid teams doing excellent work to displace funded teams showing less promise. More details to be forthcoming when the formal announcement is made.
GarabatoBOT (in English DoodleBOT) is a little robot that can make simple doodles on a vertical white-board. Its five custom components, a central body, two arms, and two pulleys, are fabricated by deposition, using a MakerBot. (Designs are available from Thingiverse.) Aside from those it consists of two stepper motors, a corresponding power driver, an Arduino Pro Mini microcontroller, and a Bluetooth modem. The pulleys are press-fit on the stepper motor shafts, and are used to reel in/out strings or thin cables which attach to the upper corners of the whiteboard, or at least to points which are widely separated. The DoodleBOT is suspended on those strings/cables and moves about as their lengths are adjusted.
MIT Professor Daniela Rus and her student Kyle Gilpin have co-authored a paper on smart sand, and the robot pebbles they are currently using to develop the concept. They will be presenting this paper at the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), to be held May 14th through 18th in St. Paul, Minnesota. Robot Pebbles are cubes, 12mm on a side, containing rudimentary microprocessors and four electorpermanent magnets each. Through these magnets they are able to communicate and transfer power, as well as using them to bond together. Rus and Gilpin have developed an algorithm that enables a pile of robot pebbles to duplicate the shape of any object placed into it. The copy is made up of robot pebbles, and all the other pebbles in the pile simply fall away when it is removed.
There has been more news than we've had time for lately. The Tek Robotic Mobilization Device (RMD), developed by Turkish R&D company AMS Mekatronic, allows users lacking use of their legs to stand upright, and to move about while in a standing position (via The Verge). Boston Dynamics has recently posted videos (after the break) of their RHex robot, designed to scramble over rough terrain, and their Sand Flea robot, which can jump as high as thirty feet. The Human Centered Robotics Laboratory at UT Austin has posted a video (after the break) of Hume, a bi-pedal robot they've designed in cooperation with Meka Robotics,
to achieve the skill of Human Centered Hyper-Agility (HCHA), with particular focus on running. DARPA has posted video (after the break) of their tank-like Robotic Suspension System, which can level out small irregularities in the terrain it crosses, much as the suspension system of the M1 Abrams provides a stable platform for its main gun. The Robotics Suspension System was develop as part of the Maximum Mobility and Manipulation (M3) program. A video from Aalborg University (after the break) shows a time-lapse view of a student of Manufacturing Technology assembling Little Helper++, a single robotic arm mounted on a mobile base.
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A good name is like Cinderella's shoe: It fits perfectly. This year, parents rose to the challenge – finding inspiration in everything from the Wild West to the Bible to proper English gents. Everything old is new again. The top 10 list of boy names didn't change at all in 2008 – Aiden has topped the charts four years running – but more often than not, there's a twist. Classics are refreshed with new spellings; last names are used as firsts. And when any old name just won't do, parents looked to sounds and places, even music theory – Cadence, anyone? – for ideas. Clearly, inspiration lies everywhere.
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Moms and dads are reaching back – sometimes way back – to their teen years for inspiration. Names from long-gone but still-beloved teen shows are in vogue once more. One Tree Hill, which began airing in 2003, can be credited for a handful of the favorites: Haley, Lucas, Cooper, Brooke, Rachel. So can the cult hit Gilmore Girls (2000-2007): Alexis, Lauren, Luke, Emily, Logan. And the angst-ridden Party of Five (1994 to 2000): Bailey, Charlie, Will, Julia, Sarah. Some parents are channeling their former comic-book-loving selves through a handful of boy names: Xavier, Logan (X-Men); Parker (Spiderman); Ben (The Fantastic Four); and Jordan (Green Lantern).


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In Shannon v Clifton House Residential, the Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that an on-call night care assistant is only entitled to be paid the NMW for the hours during which he is awake and working.
Shannon lived in an on-site flat and was paid a weekly rate. As part of his job he had to be in the flat nightly from 10pm until 7am and although he was free to sleep during those hours, he had to respond to any requests for support from the night workers on duty. It was noted that in practice, he was not asked to assist very often.
Although Shannon received a weekly payment in respect of these 'sleep-in' shifts, this amounted to significantly less than the National Minimum Wage (NMW). Shannon asserted that the 'sleep-in' shifts were working time for the purposes of NMW legislation. For clarification, working time is defined as 'any period during which a worker is working, at his/her employer's disposal and carrying out his/her activity or duties'.
His case had significant implications in that he was claiming nearly £240,000 for his full nightly on-call hours from the time the National Minimum Wage Act came into force in 1999 to the date of his dismissal.
The Employment Tribunal (ET) concluded that Shannon was not working throughout each night shift, only on the rare occasions when he was called upon to do so by the night care worker on duty. As he was paid NMW for these occasions, his claim for 'sleep-in' time he was actually sleeping, was rejected.
The EAT agreed with this and found that Shannon fell within the exception under Regulation 16(1A) of the National Minimum Wage Regulations 1999 because 'he lived in the residential home where he was employed'. We feel this is a very significant part of this case. Other factors taken into consideration were that he did not have to travel to his work to be able to complete his "sleep-in" shift and his presence was not required to meet the Home's statutory obligations. There was another night worker on duty and in practice the Claimant was rarely called upon to support the night staff.
So it is likely that those employees who have to travel to work to 'sleep-in' may be viewed differently.
The key difference between this case and previous cases is that there is now some clarification that a) whether the employee lives on site is relevant and if so, b) only time spent when the worker is awake for the purpose of actively working counts as salaried hours. Therefore, presence alone does not necessarily entitle a worker to the NMW for the complete shift.
By comparison in a 2014 case, it was determined that paramedics who were on-call were entitled to NMW for the time on-call. They were referred to by the EAT as being 'shackled' to the employer when they were on-call (even if they were, for example, in the cinema) and therefore entitled to be paid the NMW! The case (Truslove v Scottish Ambulance Service) differs from the above case of Shannon v Clifton House in that it focused on the status of on-call workers, but it is another example of where the courts and tribunals appear to be widening the scope of what constitutes 'working time' and for which at least the NMW should be paid.
It is important to state, however that there is no simple way of determining whether any exemption applies and employers do need to think carefully about the calculation of NMW for any 'sleep-in' workers.
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Accountability watchdog, Revenue Watch International, RWI, has requested an audience with oil and gas industry regulator, Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, to discuss industry related issues.
The meeting, scheduled to hold on June 17, at the DPR Corporate Headquarters in Lagos, will be the first of its kind by Revenue Watch, a non-profit policy institute that promotes the effective, transparent and accountable management of oil, gas and mineral resources across the globe.
Speaking more about the proposed visit, DPR told Vanguard in Lagos that as the regulator of the Nigerian oil and gas sector, it "welcomes and wholeheartedly supports the RWI initiative as it is for public good," adding that "This is in line with the transparent and open policy stance of DPR management policy in conducting regulatory business in Nigeria."
The industry regulator also reiterates its "readiness to cooperate with other agencies, local and international in other to achieve government's aspiration for a more transparent and accountable oil and gas industry."
To underscore its role, the DPR noted that parts of its functions also include the collation of production data from oil and gas activities in the country; monitoring of crude oil lifting at the terminals; generation of revenues for government through collection of royalty for oil production and gas sales, operational fees and signature bonuses during licencing rounds as well as enforcement of operational standards in the industry.
Specifically, the regulator explained production figures are usually reconciled at the end of every month, but retains the maximum allowable production granted to companies until figures are reconciled.
It also noted that the Department has in place a transparent system, which captures crude oil lifted from the terminals, and monitors hydrocarbon mass balance of the various oil companies.
With regard to enforcing standards, the regulator said it takes "utmost interest in the fiscal metering systems in the Upstream and Downstream sectors of the industry by monitoring and supervising the engineering designs, construction and site acceptance tests and installations at operational locations."


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Bug Game Beta 1.2.1 (Old Version - see notes)
Version: Beta 1.2.1
Latest Version: Beta 1.3 http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/Splodgey/2340521
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Comment your Score! Report Bugs! (glitch bugs that is - You gain score by surviving bugs, surviving for longer and staying close to the blue bugs)
1. uzay 64519
2. Me 62810
4. texjdsimon 8965
5. PaddyHammer 8781
6. Username_istaken 6765
7. coolhogs 6330
8. ulus 2984
9. zach229 2012
10. Yoshi789 1743
Arrow Keys to move. P to pause/play.
A game where you must dodge the blue bugs on the floor. Randomly, A bug may appear on your head. These bugs have effects that may cause you to touch the blue bug. Different coloured bugs have different effects.
List of effects:
Hypnobug (red) Hypnotises the player causing him/her to travel into the blue bug
Reveresed Controls Bug (blue) Reverses the Controls, Left arrow goes right, right arrow goes left and down arrow jumps
Slipperbug (light blue) The player will not slow down when neither the left nor right arrow keys are pressed
Growth Bug (Yellow) Causes the player to grow twice it's size.
Mouse Bug (Gold) The mouse moves the scratch cat instead of the arrow keys
Dark Bug (Black) Makes the screen black
Levibug (Grey) Lifts the player into the air and hovers over one of the little blue bugs then drops you
There are other bugs that may randomly appear somewhere. Some of them are good, others are bad.
Here's a list of those bugs:
Light Levibug (Light grey - Good bug) the player can ride on it's back and when it's clicked, It will jump on the players head, allowing the player to fly by holding up. Holding down will stop you from falling fast. This is the 2nd most common bug to randomly appear.
Green Hypnobug (Green - Good bug) when clicked it will jump on the player's head. If you click on a blue bug with it you will be able to control that bug. if you make the 2 blue bugs touch, they will turn upside down. If you jump on them when they're upside down you will get a points bonus of 5000. This is the 3rd most common (or 2nd least common) bug to randomly appear.
StriperBug (Red and Yellow Stripes - bad bug) randomly Woners around. If he spots he, he wil charge... The is the most common bug to randomly appear.
TeleBug (Mixed Shades of Blue - bad bug) also randomly wonders, and randomly teleports. It will always teleport if it sees you looking at you it will also teleport. This is the rarest bug to randomly appear.
You can also save/load your progress (which would obviously work better downloaded) Press O to save, and L to load. Loading will set everything to how it was when you saved.
Bug fixes and changes for beta 1.2.1:
*"Spawnable" Bugs appear when loading.
+added pausing. Pressing "p" will pause/play
*Changed the colour of the version text so you can't walk on it
*Telebug now has less chance of teleporting when clicked
*Levibug Can no longer chill out in the floor
Known Bugs:
*Hypnotising both bugs is weird
*You sometimes get stuck in the ground by getting a bug while dying.
*Hypnotising sometimes doesn't work


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Bahrain Grand Prix cancelled as bosses blame Bernie Ecclestone
Bahrain Grand Prix organisers have accepted the cancellation of their postponed Formula One race after teams objected to it being rescheduled in October.
F1's governing body, the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) has blamed now commercial chief Bernie Ecclestone for the row surrounding the ill-fated event.
The teams, whose unanimous written agreement is needed for any change to the schedule, have ruled out going to Bahrain on October 30 or competing in December, ending any chance of the race happening this year.
Bahrain had initially been scheduled as the first race of the season but was postponed when the Gulf state was engulfed by civil unrest.
In a letter to the Formula One teams body Fota, FIA president Jean Todt made clear Ecclestone was responsible for setting the calendar.
He suggested Ecclestone submit a fresh calendar to satisfy the teams.
âIt is the responsibility of the commercial rights holder to perform all necessary prior due diligence in order to secure his calendar proposal to the World Motor Sport Council,â he said.
He also pointed out the Bahrain issue had been on the agenda since March 8 and that the delegate of the F1 commission â representing all the teams â had approved the decision that is now being challenged.
But he said the FIA was prepared to address issues, however difficult, âin a constructive mannerâ.
âI have listened to your last-minute objections and asked the commercial rights holder to re-examine his calendar proposal and, if necessary, re-submit a revised proposal,â Todt added.
âI hope a solution satisfactory for everybody can be promptly reached.â


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Dallas/Ft. Worth International Airport
They say everything in Texas is bigger and The Club at DFW is no exception. The lounge welcomes passengers with its modern and open environment, providing multiple spaces for catching up on work, checking email, reading a book or simply relaxing. The lounge design is purposeful in its intent, promoting a feeling of spaciousness enhanced by the natural light from the large panoramic windows overlooking the airport runways. The modern Scandinavian style look of the lounge is further enhanced through the clean cut design lines, extensive use of light colored flooring, wall coverings, accent lighting, natural wood paneling and stylish granite topped service areas.


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Greek rhypos 'filth'
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By Alex Byington and Nick Talbot
Killeen Daily Herald
AUSTIN - As he crossed the finish line, Hector Hernandez notified everyone in the packed Mike A. Myers Stadium who was the top 800-meter runner in Texas.
Lifting his right arm towards the sky, the Ellison senior distance runner extended his index finger to simply indicate No. 1. It was in stark contrast to friend and former Harker Heights rival Kyle Thompson, who last year flashed the "Hook 'em, Horns" signal when he finished first in the same race just ahead of Hernandez.
"Before the race I was thinking, 'What if I get second place? I already have one of those, I kinda wanted the first-place (medal),'" Hernandez said. "And you know, I got it, and it just feels really amazing to be able to say you won state."
Fighting off two oncoming challengers down the final 200 meters, Hernandez won the boys 5A 800 with a personal-best time of 1:49.33 Saturday at the UIL State Track and Field Championships.
But seconds after raising his arm in celebration, Hernandez's body gave out half-way up the concrete stairs leading from the track to the medal stand, as the Texas A&M-signee couldn't make it any further.
Leading throughout, Hernandez faced his first challenge from DeSoto's William Stovall, who came on strong coming around the final curve. Shifting into gear, Hernandez was able to maintain his advantage, until his second challenger, Xavier Moss of Houston Westside, made his charge coming down the final straightaway.
"At about the 75 (meters to go mark), I felt like (Moss) was right next to me, so I just tried to go as fast as I could," Hernandez said. "It was whatever you had left. It wasn't much, just whatever you had left."
Hernandez's 1:49.33 is currently second in the nation behind Drew Magaha of Upper Moreland (Pa.), who has run 1:48.82 this season.
Hicks doubles up on silver
While everyone else was spinning in circles, Cion Hicks took two pretend dribbles and then imagined sinking an easy jumper.
Then the Shoemaker junior stepped into the discus ring and unleashed her best throw of the day - 160 feet, 10 inches - that earned her a silver medal in the 5A girls discus.
"My first sport was soccer and then it was basketball," said Hicks, who also placed second in the shot put. "Acting like I am shooting a basketball just calms me down. I am not spinning and worrying about my technique. I know what I have to do and if I just clam down, I will just do it automatically."
Hicks' final throw, though, left her 27 feet from a gold medal. Shelbi Vaughan of Mansfield Legacy broke the state meet record by nearly the same margin, throwing 187-10. Hicks' shot put throw of 43-10¾ was more than six feet behind Vaughan (50-1 ¼) in the shot put, too.
For Hicks, though, getting a pair of medals was redemption. Last year at the state meet, Hicks finished last in the discus and didn't even qualify in the shot put.
"Really I just took my experience from last year and how the ring was set up," Hicks said. "I was working hard throughout the whole year and what I had to do here was think it was just a regular track meet."
Jordan's fourth try the charm
Levi Jordan was getting frustrated.
The Belton senior just wanted to make a good throw. He had scratched on his first two attempts and his third - an attempt just to make it to the finals - only went 147-4. On his fourth try, Jordan did what he came to the state meet to do - win a medal.
"I was disappointed with the distance on the throw, but not the place I got," Jordan said. "I was 6 or 7 feet short of my personal record, but I was fortunate to get a silver (medal) today."
With a throw of 171-1, Jordan placed second in the 5A boys discus, behind Zac Weatherly of Amarillo Tascosa. Weatherly outdistanced the field, throwing 189-5 on his first attempt.
"I was throwing good throws. I was just scratching," Jordan said. "You just have to sit down and figure it out and then go out and get a better throw. Once I got it figured out, it was real easy."
Canete ties for 3rd in high jump
So far this season, Qiana Canete has far exceeded all expectations.
Improving with each meet, the Copperas Cove sophomore surprised herself just by making it to state.
That's why it's easy to understand her taking a step back, finishing tied for third in the 5A girls high jump with Sadalia Ellis of Houston Cy Falls at 5-foot-4, three inches off her personal best height set at the Region II-5A meet two weeks ago.
"Maybe it was the stadium, I've never been here before, (but) I came in here really, really nervous," Canete said. "I'm just happy I got this far."
After clearing her first two heights with ease, as did Ellis, neither could get over 5-6.
"Usually they jump off for third, but I'd rather tie for third any day then jump off," she said. "I'm just happy I got a medal."
Hill gets pair of 6s in state debut
Making his first appearance at state, Brandon Hill was overwhelmed by the sheer size of it all - the stadium, the wall-to-wall crowd, the elite level of competition.
After the starter's gun went off twice for improper starts in the 5A boys 100-meter dash, Hill struggled out of the blocks on his third attempt and never recovered, finishing sixth in both the 100 (10.61) and 200-meter dashes (21.22).
"In the 100, my first start was great, my second start was pretty good, my third start was terrible," Hill said. "I didn't think it'd throw me off that bad, especially when I got in the blocks for the third time … but that start was so slow I was pretty much playing catch-up the whole race."
South Grand Prairie senior Abraham Hall easily won the 200 with a time of 20.58 after also winning the 100 at 10.19.


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Don't Hoard Your Free Agent Budget
One of the most important skills a fantasy player can develop is the ability to manage his Free Agent Acquisition Budget (FAAB). Fantasy players put a lot of emphasis on the draft—and rightfully so—but FAAB bidding often gets unduly overlooked.
I bring up this topic today because, despite our being less than a week into the season, there is an important decision facing fantasy owners. On Saturday night, the speculation over who would win the White Sox-closer gig came to an end, when manager Robin Ventura handed the ball to rookie reliever Hector Santiago in the ninth inning with the team up 4-3. And if there was any ambiguity left, Ventura confirmed verbally that Santiago was indeed the team's sole closer.
So how are fantasy owners to respond to this? One of the most important tenets of FAAB bidding, at least in my mind, is to be aggressive early in the season, particularly if your league allows FAAB dollars to be traded.
Let me pose a hypothetical question to you. You're playing in an NL-only league, and I'm going to give you, free of cost, either Freddie Freeman now or Joey Votto in July. Who do you want? I'd bet that many of you would take Votto (or would at least seriously consider it); he is the far superior player, after all. The problem is, you'd likely be better off taking Freeman. In LABR and Tout Wars, Votto went for $40 and $41; Freeman went for $22 in both. Because you will be getting only a half-season of Votto, however, you have to cut the price in half to $20, which makes him worth less than Freeman. (Yes, there's the value of the guy who'll play 1B for you until you get Votto to consider as well, but in a deep league that value will be minimal, so let's ignore it for the sake of simplicity.)
I pose this question because it really gets to the heart of the "spend now or spend later" FAAB quandary that fantasy players face. Simply put, if you spend your money now, you're going to get a player for a larger portion of the season. That will lead to more at-bats, more counting stats, and more ability to move ratio stats. Even if the player is slightly worse than someone you could get later, there is value in bulk.
There are some fantasy owners who believe it best to hoard their FAAB in case someone better comes along later (such as a trade deadline AL/NL league changer), but that's always a big gamble. There's a lot that can go wrong with a plan like this. For one, if you wait around in the hopes that a guy like David Wright is traded to the American League, the soonest that would happen is July, meaning you'd only get two-plus months of stats, which immediately cuts into his potential value. Then you have to take into account the possibility that such a player isn't traded across leagues (big name players don't change leagues every year, after all) plus the possibility that somebody else places a larger bid than you.
If we put together some reasonable numbers, let's say we're hoping that a $40 player changes leagues. First, discount him 60 percent for the time you'll be without him (until July), then another 60 percent in case such a player isn't traded, then another 25 percent in case you don't win the bidding. In terms of expected profit, that $40 superstar player is now worth about $5 to you—or one Freddy Sanchez. Is it really worth forgoing bidding on solid players that you'll be sure to add to your lineup immediately for the mere chance at a superstar?
For all of these reasons, I like to spend my FAAB early and often. Sometimes it doesn't work out (see my huge Jerry Sands bid in LABR NL last year), but usually I wind up with something of value. Fellow Tout Wars competitor Scott Swanay penned a great article a few years ago where he put together a proposed FAAB spending budget based on the amount of time you'd get to have a player on your roster for:
Obviously this doesn't have to be followed to the letter. When a potential impact player comes along, make the appropriate bid and then readjust. The larger point is the important one, that spending early is in your best interest. If you look at Week 25, Swanay recommends a bid of just 0.3 percent of your seasonal allowance since whomever you acquire, even if it's a guy like Joey Votto, will have a minimal impact on your team.
Everything considered, I believe a sizeable bid on Hector Santiago is warranted. He's a fairly talented player with sole possession of the closer's gig (extremely important). There are only 30 closers in baseball at any one time, putting a premium on the saves they produce. At this point, Santiago is a good bet for a lot of saves, which makes him worth a big bid.
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Everytime I read an article like this, I hope that none of my leaguemates are subscribers yet. Good stuff. ;)
Apr 09, 2012 06:09 AM
I plan on talking more about determining the proper bid on Thursday, but in your case, I wouldn't have a problem with a MUCH higher bid than that. Obviously it depends a lot on league tendencies -- you don't want to spend more than you have to, even if he's worth it -- but I might go up to $40 or $50. Of course, it seems like your league doesn't see bids like that, so maybe $15 or $20 will win him.
Apr 09, 2012 11:07 AM
Think Wade Miley and Justin Maxwell are worth bids in an 11-team NL league? And does anyone think Miley could get first crack at a rotation spot if one becomes available, ahead of the studs in AAA?
Apr 09, 2012 06:41 AM
Maybe dollar bids, if you have empty spots. Maxwell maybe $2 or $3. As for Miley, I think it'll depend how Bauer and Skaggs perform. If the team thinks they need more seasoning, Miley could get the call first. But if either are dominating, it seems they'd be ahead of him.
Apr 09, 2012 11:09 AM
First, I think using the Votto/Freeman example is misleading in the Santiago context. Santiago's fantasy value is almost entirely derived by a relatively arbitrary rookie managerial decision that could just as easily be reversed next week. As Ron Shandler might say...pay for talent, not role. Santiago is a big risk. In the Votto/Freeman situation, you know what you are getting with Freeman up front, barring injury.
Apr 09, 2012 11:11 AM
Yes, there may be more variance with Santiago than with Freeman, but the average expected value is still quite high.
Apr 09, 2012 13:32 PM
Agree with vvn8bs here. I think a highly aggressive bid on Santiago is a very risky play. He has no track record, no experience, and there are 2 other guys (Reed, Thornton) who could likely step into that role in a moment's notice and do quite well.
Apr 09, 2012 13:14 PM
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ONEONTA, N.Y. -- Governor Eliot Spitzer has announced the
appointment of Joseph A. Bernier to the College Council of the SUNY College
at Oneonta. Bernier, the Community Development Director and Engineering
Administrator of the City of Oneonta and the Chair of the Otsego County
Industrial Development agency, replaces Dennis Smith, whose term expired
recently. Bernier served previously on the SUNY-Oneonta College Council from
1987 to 1997.
A long-time area resident and a 1972 graduate of the College, Bernier
holds a master's degree in public administration from the Nelson A.
Rockefeller School of Public Administration and Policy at SUNY-Albany. He
served as President of the SUNY-Oneonta Alumni Association from 1977 to 1979
and received the Distinguished Alumni Service Award from the SUNY
Confederation of Alumni Associations in 1985. He also received the Community
Service Award from the College's Faculty Association in 1978.
Highly involved in the community, Bernier founded the Mayor's Cup Soccer
Tournament in 1976 and continues to serve as its co-chair. He has served as
President and Vice-President of the Oneonta YMCA Board of Directors, and he
continues to serve as President of the Academy Arms Housing Development
Company. Bernier is a board member of the Otsego County Industrial
Development Agency and the Southern Tier East Regional Planning and
Development Board. He has also served on the boards of the Bugbee Memorial
Foundation and the Otsego County Civil Service Employees Federal Credit
Union. He has served as Commissioner of the Oneonta Youth Soccer Association
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Bernier was named Citizen of the Year by the Oneonta Jaycees in 1978 and
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representative, who is elected by the student body.
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Notre Dame vs. Providence: Twitter Reaction, Postgame Recap and AnalysisFebruary 16, 2013
A week after pulling out a thrilling five-overtime upset victory over Louisville, the No. 21 Notre Dame Fighting Irish found out what it was like for the shoe to be on the other foot on Saturday.
Notre Dame fell to Providence, 71-54, in a contest that gave the Friars their first four-game winning streak in the Big East since 2004.
Forward Kadeem Batts led the way with a dominant performance inside for Providence. The junior scored 20 points on 10-of-16 shooting and added six rebounds, helping his team control the pace of the game throughout.
Batts was joined by point guard Bryce Cotton, who scored 19 points and was Providence's most consistent outside option. Saturday's game ended a recent cold streak for Cotton, as he had shot just 5-of-21 over the Friars' last two contests.
Those numbers look awfully familiar for the Irish, who struggled with their shots throughout the game.
Although the final score suggests Providence would have won no matter how rested the sides were, one has to wonder whether the clock finally came back to bite the Irish. Notre Dame battled hard-fought overtime victories in its past two contests, and the players' fatigue showed in the second half.
After trudging through the first 20 minutes ahead just eight points, Providence opened up the floodgates following the break. Running a slick inside-out game, the Friars stretched the lead all the way to 24 points at the second half's midpoint.
Point guard Vincent Council dished out four assists in those first 10 minutes, with Providence taking advantage of missed shots on the outside to run its fast-break offense. Notre Dame's struggles were so vast from the outside that it didn't knock down a three-pointer until 9:07 remained.
The Irish went just 1-of-14 from distance, which could be seen as another sign of fatigue. They tried slowly chipping the game back to respectability, but it was to no avail. Providence had the momentum from start to finish, putting Notre Dame in a hole far too big to climb out of.
Although an understandable schedule loss, getting blown out by an unranked squad isn't going to help the Irish's tournament chances. They are still likely a shoo-in for an at-large berth, but with a difficult upcoming schedule, this was a loss Mike Brey's team could not afford.
Meanwhile, it's celebration time in Providence. The Friars aren't tourney-bound unless they win the Big East tournament, but this is a good sign for the budding program.
Twitter Reactions
ESPN's Dana O'Neil wonders whether Saturday's game could be indicative of two teams on far different trajectories:
Dana O'Neil @DanaONeilWriter
Providence getting better and Notre Dame heading to late season swoon.2013-2-16 18:05:45
CBS Sports' Jeff Borzello kept the positive vibes going for the Friars. With a young group of players, he wondered just how good this team will be in 2013-14:
Jeff Borzello @jeffborzello
Providence is up 21 on Notre Dame. Would be four wins in a row for the Friars. They're gonna be good next year, man.2013-2-16 18:31:09
To put it mildly, Brey was not happy with the performance of his team versus Providence. The Chicago Tribune's Brian Hamilton noted the dismay of the Irish head coach:
Brian Hamilton @BrianHamiltonSI
Mike Brey calls last TO for #NotreDame, down 21, to yank regulars/wave white flag. Brey sits on bench, shaking head. That's about right.2013-2-16 18:49:17
There is plenty of good reason for Brey to be unhappy. As the South Bend Tribune's Tom Noie reports, this is Notre Dame's most lopsided in-conference loss since last February:
Tom Noie @tnoieNDI
Most lopsided #BigEast loss for #NotreDame since being beaten by 18 points last February at Georgetown.2013-2-16 18:54:42
If the Irish would have listened to CBS Sports' Jon Rothstein, perhaps they would have known such a tough game was on the way:
Jon Rothstein @JonRothstein
Have felt for a few weeks that Providence would be a nuisance down the stretch in the Big East. Friars can really score. Batts underrated.2013-2-16 18:42:51
Regardless of the ultimate result, Notre Dame will have to pick itself up quickly with a road tilt against Pittsburgh coming Monday.