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ApeX 2.0 for Droid X Gingerbread (.596 OTA) has finally reached the Release Candidate landmark! While this new build is completely blurless and 100% AOSP unlike previous versions, the same philosophy remains. Build a fast, clean, reliable ROM that is enjoyable to use, and customizeable.
- You must be on .596 rooted or a .596 based ROM
- Kernel must be 126.96.36.199-g34b306d
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- Baseband must be BP_C_01.09.12P
Code:As always, you must take responsibility for what you do to your own phone. I have created this ROM and tested it to the best of my ability. The instructions are written to make sure that users have success installing and using the ROM. However, if anything goes wrong and your phone is damaged or rendered useless, I do not take any responsibility.
Additional Credits
I would like to especially thank kejar31 for teaching me his secret sauce technique for compiling AOSP apps for the Blur Framework. I'd like to thank jrummy16 and drod2169 for helping me on Gtalk and troubleshooting some issues, and _Mycahya_ and Mobile_Sensei for helping me fix some of the theming! Also, I'd like to thank Dr. Carpenter for making the new boot logo.
Of course, credits to P3Droid, Team Black Hat, MyDroidWorld for the Gingerbread leaks, the CyanogenMod team for many of the apps, Google for many more apps, Motorola, and all the nice brave people on Twitter for testing this for me, helping me squash bugs, and submitting beautiful wallpapers!
If I left anyone out, please let me know so I can properly credit you!
Changelog in RC2
- Completely Blurless! Pure Google Experience.
- Cleaned up framework with help from Mobile_Sensei
- CM7 style battery icons - percentages, 10% increments
- Original AOSP 2.3.3 animations and transitions (slightly faster)
- Additional ringtones and notifications from CM7
- Fixed white background when setting a Pattern or PIN/Password lockscreen
- Battery usage can now be accessed from Settings->About Phone
- Google Car Home is now included
- Updated Superuser and su binary to latest versions (thanks ChainsDD!)
- Tweaked Apex blurbs ;-)
- New Boot Logo (Google)
- Android 2.3.3 based on the Gingerbread OTA (4.5.596)
- All apps replaced with AOSP/CM7 counterparts (compiled from source for DX, by me)
- Stock Gingerbread Theme
- Bloat and Market apps removed
- Facebook for Android App syncs w/ Contacts!
- DSP Manager (visual equalizer) for headphones, phone speaker, and BT
- MusicMod with gesture controls
- Dev Tools, Spare Parts, Terminal Emulator for fun tweakin'
- ApeX wallpaper gallery with user submitted wallpapers!
- Quadrant "Turbo" Mode for mad scores
- Witty Protips (ApeX Blurbs)
- poweroverwhelming : activate Quadrant "turbo" mode
- sys : mount system r/w and r/o
Things to know
- Market apps are removed (Gmail, Maps, Voice Search, etc). Remember to re-enable Gmail sync in your account settings after downloading it.
- There is no "double lock" mechanism. If you set a pattern or PIN unlock, it's a good idea to lower timeout to 0
- Sync Facebook contacts using the official app
- If you need to activate your phone, hold down the menu button at the activation screen to bring up the keyboard.
- Changing volume during a BT phone call causes a closeout and BT to stop working until a reboot. Please don't change the volume during a BT phone call for now. I am looking into the solution.
Installation Instructions
- Meet all the requirements listed at the top of the post
- Wipe data/cache, dalvik cache (only wipe cache and dalvik if coming from RC1)
- Flash Apex
Also available in ROM manager
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The basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus) is the second largest living fish, after the whale shark, and one of three plankton-eating sharks along with the whale shark and megamouth shark. Adults typically reach 6–8 m (20–26 ft) in length. They are usually greyish-brown, with mottled skin. The caudal fin has a strong lateral keel and a crescent shape.
The basking shark is a cosmopolitan migratory species, found in all the world's temperate oceans. A slow-moving filter feeder, its common name derives from its habit of feeding at the surface, appearing to be basking in the warmer water there. It has anatomical adaptations for filter feeding, such as a greatly enlarged mouth and highly developed gill rakers. Its snout is conical and the gill slits extend around the top and bottom of its head. The gill rakers, dark and bristle-like, are used to catch plankton as water filters through the mouth and over the gills. The teeth are very small and numerous, and often number one hundred per row. The teeth have a single conical cusp, are curved backwards, and are the same on both the upper and lower jaws. This species has the smallest weight-for-weight brain size of any shark, reflecting its relatively passive lifestyle.
Basking sharks are believed to overwinter in deep waters. They may be found in either small schools or alone. Small schools in the Bay of Fundyand the Hebrides have been seen swimming nose to tail in circles in what may be a form of mating behaviour. Despite their large size and threatening appearance, basking sharks are not aggressive and are harmless to humans.
It has long been a commercially important fish, as a source of food, shark fin, animal feed, and shark liver oil. Overexploitation has reduced its populations to the point where some have disappeared and others need protection.
The basking shark is the only member of the family Cetorhinidae, part of the mackerel shark order Lamniformes. Gunneruswas the first to describe and name the species Cetorhinus maximus from a specimen found in Norway. The genus name Cetorhinus comes from the Greek ketos which means marine monster or whale and rhinos meaning nose; the species name maximus is from Latin and means "greatest". In the following centuries there were more attempts at naming: Squalus isodus, in 1819 by Macri; Squalus elephas, by Lesueur in 1822; Squalus rashleighanus, by Couch in 1838; Squalus cetaceus, by Gronow in 1854; Cetorhinus blainvillei by Capello in 1869; Selachus pennantii, by Cornish in 1885; Cetorhinus maximus infanuncula, by Deinse and Adriani in 1953; and finally Cetorhinus maximus normani, by Siccardi in 1961. Other names include bone shark, elephant shark, hoe-mother (sometimes contracted to homer), sail-fish, and sun-fish.
Range and habitat
The basking shark is a coastal-pelagic shark found worldwide in boreal to warm-temperate waters around the continental shelves, and entering into brackish waters on occasions. It prefers 8 to 14.5 °C (46.4 to 58.1 °F) temperatures, but has been confirmed to cross the much-warmer waters at the equator. It is often seen close to land, including bays with narrow openings. The shark follows plankton concentrations in the water column, so is often visible at the surface. It characteristically migrates with the seasons. The basking shark is found from the surface down to at least 910 m (2,990 ft).
Anatomy and appearance
The largest accurately measured specimen was trapped in a herring net in the Bay of Fundy, Canada, in 1851. Its total length was 12.27 m (40.3 ft), and it weighed an estimated 19 t (19 long tons; 21 short tons). Dubious reports from Norway mention three basking sharks over 12 m (39 ft), the largest at 13.7 m (45 ft), during 1884 to 1905, these are dubious because few anywhere near that size have been caught in the area since. On average, the adult basking shark reaches a length of 6–8 m (20–26 ft) and weighs about 5.2 t (5.1 long tons; 5.7 short tons). Some specimens still surpass 9–10 m (30–33 ft), but after years of large-scale fishing, specimens of this size have become rare.
They possess the typical shark lamniform body plan and have been mistaken for great white sharks. The two species can be easily distinguished by the basking shark's cavernous jaw, up to 1 m (3 ft 3 in) in width, longer and more obvious gill slits that nearly encircle the head and are accompanied by well-developed gill rakers, smaller eyes, and smaller average girth. Great whites possess large, dagger-like teeth; basking shark teeth are much smaller 5–6 mm (0.20–0.24 in) and hooked; only the first three or four rows of the upper jaw and six or seven rows of the lower jaw function. In behaviour, the great white is an active predator of large animals and not a filter feeder.
Other distinctive characteristics include a strongly keeled caudal peduncle, highly textured skin covered in placoid scalesand a mucus layer, a pointed snout—distinctly hooked in younger specimens—and a lunate caudal fin. In large individuals, the dorsal fin may flop to one side when above the surface. Colouration is highly variable (and likely dependent on observation conditions and the individual's condition): commonly, the colouring is dark brown to black or blue dorsally, fading to a dull white ventrally. The sharks are often noticeably scarred, possibly through encounters with lampreys or cookiecutter sharks. The basking shark's liver, which may account for 25% of its body weight, runs the entire length of the abdominal cavity and is thought to play a role in buoyancy regulation and long-term energy storage.
Life history
Basking sharks do not hibernate, and are active year-round. In winter, basking sharks move to depths of 900 m (3,000 ft) to feed on deep-water plankton.
Surfacing behaviours
They are slow-moving sharks (feeding at about 2 kn (3.7 km/h; 2.3 mph)) and do not evade approaching boats (unlike great white sharks). They are not attracted to chum.
Though the basking shark is large and slow, it can breach, jumping entirely out of the water. This behaviour could be an attempt to dislodge parasites or commensals. Such interpretations are speculative, however, and difficult to verify; breaching in large marine animals such as whales and sharks might equally well be intraspecific threat displays of size and strength.
Argos system satellite tagging confirmed basking sharks move thousands of kilometres during the winter, seeking plankton blooms. They shed and renew their gill rakers in an ongoing process, rather than over one short period.
A 2009 study tagged 25 sharks off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and indicated at least some migrate south in the winter. Remaining at depths between 200 and 1,000 metres (660 and 3,280 ft) for many weeks, the tagged sharks crossed the equator to reach Brazil. One individual spent a month near the mouth of the Amazon River. They may undertake this journey to aid reproduction.
On 23 June 2015, a 6.1-meter-long (20 ft), 3,500 kilograms (7,716 lb) basking shark was caught accidentally by a fishing trawler in the Bass strait near Portland, Victoria, in Southeast Australia, the first basking shark caught in the region since the 1930s, and only the third reported in the region in 160 years. The whole shark was donated to the Victoria Museum for research, instead of the fins being sold for use in shark fin soup.
While basking sharks are not infrequently seen in the Mediterranean Sea and records exist in the Dardanelles Strait, it is unclear whether they historically reached into deeper basins of Sea of Marmara, Black Sea and Azov Sea.
Basking sharks are social animals and form sex-segregated schools, usually in small numbers (three or four), but reportedly up to 100 individuals. Their social behaviour is thought to follow visual cues. Although the basking shark's eyes are small, they are fully developed. They may visually inspect boats, possibly mistaking them for other basking sharks. Females are thought to seek shallow water to give birth.
Basking sharks have few predators. White sharks have been reported to scavenge on the remains of these sharks. Killer whales have been observed feeding on basking sharks off California and New Zealand. Lampreys are often seen attached to them, although they are unlikely to be able to cut through the shark's thick skin.
The basking shark is a passive feeder, filtering zooplankton, small fish, and invertebratesfrom up to 2,000 short tons (1,800 t) of water per hour. They feed at or close to the surface with their mouths wide open and gill rakers erect. Unlike the megamouth sharkand whale shark, the basking shark does not appear to actively seek quarry, but it does possess large olfactory bulbs that may guide it. It relies only on the water it pushes through its gills by swimming; the megamouth shark and whale shark can suck or pump water through their gills.
Basking sharks are ovoviviparous: the developing embryos first rely on a yolk sac, with no placental connection. Their seemingly useless teeth may play a role before birth in helping them feed on the mother's unfertilized ova (a behaviour known as oophagy). In females, only the right ovary appears to function.
Gestation is thought to span over a year (perhaps two to three years), with a small, though unknown, number of young born fully developed at 1.5–2 m (4 ft 11 in–6 ft 7 in). Only one pregnant female is known to have been caught; she was carrying six unborn young. Mating is thought to occur in early summer and birthing in late summer, following the female's movement into shallow waters.
The age of maturity is thought to be between the ages of six and 13 and at a length of 4.6–6 m (15–20 ft). Breeding frequency is thought to be two to four years.
The exact lifespan of the basking shark is unknown, but experts estimate to be about 50 years.
Aside from direct catches, by-catches in trawl nets have been one of several threats to basking sharks. In New Zealand, basking sharks had been abundant historically, however after the mass by-catches recorded in 1990s and 2000s, confirmations of the species became very scarce. Management plans have been declared to promote effective conservations.
The eastern north Pacific Ocean population is a U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service Species of Concern, one of those species about which the U.S. Government's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has some concerns regarding status and threats, but for which insufficient information is available to indicate a need to list the species under the U.S. Endangered Species Act (ESA).
The IUCN Red List indicates this as a Vulnerable species.
Importance to humans
Historically, the basking shark has been a staple of fisheries because of its slow swimming speed, placid nature, and previously abundant numbers. Commercially, it was put to many uses: the flesh for food and fishmeal, the hide for leather, and its large liver (which has a high squalene content) for oil. It is currently fished mainly for its fins (for shark fin soup). Parts (such as cartilage) are also used in traditional Chinese medicine and as an aphrodisiac in Japan, further adding to demand.
As a result of rapidly declining numbers, the basking shark has been protected in some territorial waters and trade in its products is restricted in many countries under CITES. It is fully protected in the UK, Malta, New Zealand, Florida and USA Gulf, and since 2008, it is subject to a target fishing and landed bycatch ban within EU waters. As of March 2010, it was also listed under Annex I of the CMS Migratory Sharks Memorandum of Understanding.
Once considered a nuisance along the Canadian Pacific coast, basking sharks were the target of a government eradication programme from 1945 to 1970. As of 2008, efforts were under way to determine whether any sharks still lived in the area and monitor their potential recovery.
It is tolerant of boats and divers approaching it, and may even circle divers, making it an important draw for dive tourism in areas where it is common.
In 2015, a 6.3 meter basking shark was caught by a trawler in seas near Portland, in Southeastern Australia.
Basking sharks and cryptozoology
On several occasions, "globster" corpses initially thought to be sea serpents or plesiosaurs have later been identified as likely to be the decomposing carcasses of basking sharks, as in the Stronsay beast and the Zuiyo-maru cases.

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Letter, John Brown to Genl. J. [James] H. Lane
Author: Brown, John , 1800-1859
Date: September 16, 1857
In response to Jim Lane's September 7 call for assistance, John Brown wrote from Tabor, Iowa, on September 16, 1857: "I suppose that three good teams with well covered waggons, & ten really ingenious industrious men with about $150 in cash, could bring it about in the course of eight or ten days."
Location of Original: KSHS Call Number: John Brown Collection, #299, Box 1, Folder 27
Item Number: 102646 Number of images: 2
Keywords: Brown, John, 1800-1859; Election, Territorial Legislature, October 1857; Free state cause; Horses; Lane, James Henry, 1814-1866; Tabor, Iowa; Wagons
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- Free school meal vouchers to continue over Easter holidays
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There has been a lot of talk and speculation as to Activision Blizzard adding "premium online features" to the Call of Duty games, and whether that would mean gamers having to pay a subscription. At the same time, the publisher has been insistent gamers will never be forced to pay extra to play online or access anything that has come as standard in previous games.
Now we have it confirmed that Activision Blizzard is indeed introducing a subscription service alongside the release of Modern Warfare 3 later this year, and that it will be called Call of Duty Elite (CODE).
The subscription will offer features and content above and beyond the $60 boxed game. For example, CODE will allow access to map packs, although it isn't clear if these will be the same map packs that can be purchased as DLC or exclusive to CODE subscribers. There's also talk of a toolset allowing you to see in great detail how you performed over the course of a game. That will take the form of a set of stats giving intricate details of every aspect of your performance.
As to the question of how much CODE will cost, there is not firm price yet. However, it has been suggested the price will be below $7.99, in other words, less than other services offered through consoles such as Netflix.
Importantly, Activision Blizzard is rolling out CODE for all players to use. It will come with both free and paid-for options, with the functionality on offer limited based on which you choose to use. By doing that, the publisher surely hopes many players will make the switch and start paying for the additional content and features. The free version of CODE is expected to focus on social aspects rather than content and stats.
With E3 starting next week we could hear more details and confirmation of the service from Activision Blizzard. Modern Warfare 3 is expected to appear before the end of the year with a November launch expected. We don't doubt the game, and CODE will start being advertised heavily long before then.
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Glenturret Distillery was established on the banks of the River Turret at Hosh to the north of Crieff in Scotland's Highland whiskey region in 1775. Now one of the oldest working distilleries in Scotland and with mash in the mash tun stirred by hand using a long-handled wooden paddle and just two small stills it is also amongst the smallest. Glenturret whiskey is released in a limited range of official single malts and is available from independent bottlers including Signatory Vintage and the MacPhail's vintage Collection series. Glenturret Distillery is home to The Famous Grouse Experience.


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Jeff Fortin's commercial breeding operation in Oberlin, Kansas, is an example of a "hell-hole puppy mill" where animals were kept in appalling conditions and failed to receive adequate medical care.
So said Theresa Strader, founder of National Mill Dog Rescue, when asked to comment on the Fortin case last Friday.
Fortin's Beaver Creek Kennels in Oberlin is where 1,200 puppies had to be euthanized last December when it was determined by Kansas officials that an outbreak of deadly distemper started there.
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A flat coated retriever has claimed the coveted Best in Show prize in this year's event at Crufts.
Jet, who hails from Edinburgh, saw off a staggering 21,000 other dogs to claim the title. He first claimed first place in the Gundog category.
Queensferry dog breeder Jim Irvine, who bred Jet, couldn't believe that one of his dogs had won. He said:
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A Social Network Aims for the Business Crowd
The millions of teenagers and college students who helped build sites like MySpace and Facebook into multibillion-dollar acquisition targets will be sad to learn that social networking has sold out and gone corporate.
This week, Mountain View, Calif.-based Plaxo released the first Web-based service that allows the 9-to-5 crowd to synchronize address books and calendar data stored inside Microsoft Outlook, Google and Yahoo applications, Macs, Mozilla Thunderbird e-mail systems and even some mobile phones.
Users can then make all or parts of their calendars and contact lists available to others in their network.
Instead of friends of friends viewing your favorite TV shows or pictures from your senior prom on MySpace, colleagues of colleagues that you've never met could potentially find out which industry conferences you're attending, your mobile phone number and, most important, whether your company is hiring or if you're in the market for a new I.T. gig.
Think of it as LinkedIn—the online networking service for professionals—on steroids, with data that's constantly updated every time someone in your network changes jobs, gets promoted or commits to attend an industry event. Throw in some Flickr pictures, some links to personal Web pages and a handful of Evites for business-related functions, and you have a smorgasbord of information that headhunters, competitors and marketers would kill for.
"For CIOs, it's a real benefit to meet people that you normally wouldn't meet, and find potential resources and employees that you might not have met otherwise," says Andrew Frank, an analyst at Gartner. "Now your personal Rolodex isn't in the company directory. It's with you everywhere you go. And you can access the same for an unlimited number of other people."
Plaxo Pulse, the social networking component that augments the company's address and contact synchronization software, uses Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds to collect blog posts, contact changes, calendars, photos and even Amazon.com Wish List data, and then distribute it to approved friends and colleagues.
The Plaxo basic service is free, and it's in test mode right now at Plaxo.com. A premium version costs $49.95 per year; it offers features like automatic data recovery and the elimination of duplicate contacts.
So far, more than 15 million people have registered for Plaxo's service, and it's available in seven languages--English, French, German, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese and Spanish. The number of active users, such as those signing on at least once a week or month, is not available. To date, Plaxo has received more than $28 million in venture capital funding from backers including DAG Ventures and Sequoia Capital.
Because so much information can be shared by so many so quickly, CIOs will have to rely on individual users to exercise common sense when determining what information can be shared and with whom it can be exchanged.
"There are some people who are naturally suspicious of technology like this," Frank says. "But the uptake rate of these services, just like IM and e-mail, is extremely high. It's just one more thing for CIOs to start thinking about."
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This product contains 3843 kilocalories/kilogram or 337 kilocalories per cup ME (metabolizable energy) on an as fed basis (calculated).
Chicken meal, brown rice, rice, wheat gluten, oat, chicken fat, natural flavors, dried beet pulp, anchovy oil, tomato pomace, dried brewers yeast, sodium silico aluminate, soya oil, potassium chloride, ground psyllium husk, fructooligo- saccharides, dried egg powder, monocalcium phosphate, sodium tripolyphosphate, calcium carbonate, salt, brewers yeast extract (source of mannan-oligo-saccharides), L-lysine, choline chloride, glucosamine hydrochloride, vitamins [dl-alpha tocopherol (source of vitamin E), L-ascorbyl-2-polyphosphate (source of vitamin C), biotin, D-calcium pantothenate, vitamin A acetate, niacin supplement, pyridoxine hydrochloride (vitamin B6), thiamine mononitrate (vitamin B1), riboflavin supplement (vitamin B2), folic acid, vitamin B12 supplement, vitamin D3 supplement], marigold extract, taurine, minerals [zinc proteinate, zinc oxide, ferrous sulfate, manganese proteinate, copper proteinate, copper sulfate, manganous oxide, calcium iodate, sodium selenite], green tea polyphenols, chondroitin sulfate, rosemary extract, preserved with natural tocopherols and citric acid.
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Crude Protein (min) 28.3%
Crude Fat (min) 12.3%
Crude Fiber (max) 2.9%
Moisture (max) 10.5%
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ROYAL CANIN Veterinary Diet canine DIGEST & OSTEO DO 28 LARGE BREED PUPPY is formulated to meet the nutritional levels established by the AAFCO Dog Food Nutrient Profiles for growth and maintenance.
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This product is a veterinary diet, but is not indicated for the treatment of any disease. Rather, it is just another large breed puppy food and our comments are given on equal footing to any other comparable product with or without a 'veterinary diet' label.
The first ingredient in the food is a named meat product, in meal form. It is the sole meat ingredient in the food. Followed by four grain products ahead of the fat content, we have little confidence in the meat content of this product.
The main grains in the food are rice, wheat and oats. Rice and oats are decent quality grains, but the use of wheat is a negative. Wheat is believed by many to be the number one cause of food allegies in dogs. In gluten form, this ingredient is a low quality filler. It is the dried residue from wheat after the removal of the larger part of the starch and germ, and the separation of the bran by the process employed in the wet milling manufacture, or by enzymatic treatment of the endosperm. In plain English, that bit of the grain leftover after most of the nutritious bits have been removed.
Beet pulp is controversial filler which appears to be used in large quantities in this food. It is a by-product, being dried residue from sugar beets which has been cleaned and extracted in the process of manufacturing sugar. It is a controversial ingredient in dog food, claimed by some manufacturers to be a good source of fibre, and derided by others as an ingredient added to slow down the transition of rancid animal fats and causing stress to kidney and liver in the process. We note that beet pulp is an ingredient that commonly causes problems for dogs, including allergies and ear infections, and prefer not to see it used in dog food. There are less controversial products around if additional fibre is required. Tomato pomace and the husks of pysllium seeds are further fillers.
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Freedom, liberty and marriage
By Paul M. Weyrich
From the founding to the present, freedom and liberty have represented the North Star which has guided our country, admittedly with fits and starts, to chart its path in a world in which many countries hold contrary beliefs. However, America is not immune from some unfavorable trends. One troubling trend for our country, shared with Europe and the developed world, recently was announced by the Census Bureau.
The Census Bureau American Community Survey reports that married couples represent only 49.7% of the nation's 111 million households. This is one "first" in which our country cannot take pride. Statistics compiled by The Howard Center for Family, Religion & Society, a think-tank based in Rockford, Illinois, whose co-founder is my longtime friend, John A. Howard, Ph.D., show marriage has been in a steady decline over the last fifty years.
Married couples comprised three-quarters of American households in the mid-1950s. The new American majority consists of heterosexual and homosexual singles, unmarried couples, and, of course, those poor souls whose spouse is deceased and therefore, understandably are alone. The marked decline in married households indicates a dramatic shift in the morals and standards and ideals by which Americans live.
Howard, an educator by profession, in his paper, "Recommendations for Defending the Family Against the Gay Marriage Juggernaut," identifies how our nation and others have experienced a lost sense of purpose, visibly demonstrated by the decline of key institutions in society such as our universities, and, of course, the family. Howard writes:
America's schools, public and religious, placed emphasis upon inculcating our most important values in our young people. "The parietal rules at all the nation's colleges and universities reflected the common judgment of the American people in the approval of the natural family and the disapproval of contra-family sexual activity. The principle, here, is that the family and sexual liberation cannot co-exist," Howard maintains. That started to change in the 1960s and this lost sense of purpose continues to this day. Too many colleges and universities jettisoned sensible standards governing relations between the sexes, opting for co-ed dorms, permitting men and women to engage in sex on campus without having accepted the responsibility of marriage. The concept of the chaperone suddenly became as outdated as the horse and buggy.
So-called sexual "liberation" has changed the character of American life. Most couples wanted to get married and to remain married. They waited until marriage to have sex. Sex entailed responsibility because abortion rightfully was considered sinful. Many families stuck together through thick and thin. Teenagers could not obtain birth-control pills. Five decades ago, of every 1,000 unmarried women age 15 or older 82.4 married annually. The rate in 2000 was 47. Over three-quarters of adult males were married in the late 1950s, 61.5% at the start of this decade.
The adverse trend regarding marriage and families is even more dramatic in Europe. Our country's birth rate was higher at the start of the decade than those of such major European countries as Germany, Italy and Poland. These countries, despite their historical ties to the Catholic Church, have populations which largely have fallen away. Europe's liberalized attitude toward marriage, particularly same-sex marriage, is not beneficial to society. Stanley Kurtz, in a February 23, 2006 National Review Online column, "Standing Out," reports that the percentage of Dutch men and women who told pollsters that "marriage mattered to them" nose-dived from 68% in 1992 to 45% by 2003. Kurtz, citing the work of Dutch demographer Jan Latten, writes that the crucial alteration in Dutch family life during that period was the sanctioning of same-sex marriage. Relationships between men and women, as well as same-sex couples, are increasingly viewed as completely personal and simply not the business of the state. The result? Increases in out-of-wedlock births and unmarried parenting, and, of course, relationship breakups.
Some may say Americans retain a stronger view of marriage than Europeans, particularly those countries that have embraced same-sex coupling. Europeans can point fingers at Hollywood, complaining its values undermine marriage and morals. Many European films were more derisive of tradition and morals at a time when Hollywood studios were still churning out many relatively wholesome films. The bad obliterates the good in Hollywood's products now but some films continue to be produced about fairy-tale romances which result in men and women marrying. All well and good.
Too few Hollywood movies show the importance of faith in the lives of Americans and too few movies these days portray the give-and-take successful marriages require to endure. There is so much more to marriage than love at first sight. Fortunately, the rise of Christian independent movies provides hope that a real alternative market for faith-based entertainment will develop which can portray the true importance of faith, marriage and family. Many young Americans are desperately seeking such guidance, failing to receive it from the entertainment industry, from separated or divorced or uncommunicative parents, or from their schools.
Americans should demand more attention and thought from their leaders on how our nation can rediscover the importance of marriage and family. We must be careful. Radical proponents of feminism and homosexuality will be emboldened to hijack these efforts. A defining moment in the conservative movement came when pro-family groups rallied against the White House Conference on Families staged by the Carter Administration and dominated by feminists. Leaders such as Phyllis Schlafly of Eagle Forum, Beverly LaHaye of Concerned Women for America, and Connie Marshner, then my colleague at the Free Congress Foundation, were galvanized by the dominance of the feminists and advocates of everything but traditional marriages and families.
The 1980 election was a dramatic rejection of the radical values which had come to dominate America's left, particularly those espoused by the leaders and organizations that controlled the conference. Later, a successful conference on families was convened by the Reagan Administration and performed admirable work. The findings of the American Community Survey indicate the need for President George W. Bush to convene a new conference on marriage and family. I urge him to do so provided the right people, such as Dr. Wade Horn, Patrick Fagan, the skilled social science researcher at the Heritage Foundation, and others who understand the importance of upholding traditional marriage and the family would provide the needed strategic direction for the conference.
This conference should explore ways, particularly for religious and voluntary organizations, to reinforce traditional marriage. There is a strong role for the States to play. Divorce has become too easy due to no-fault laws. As a conservative, I take a skeptical view toward activism by the Federal Government outside its proper constitutional purview. One interesting point to consider is how the policies of the Federal Government may undercut marriage.
Consider our reliance on Federal loans for students, which saddles them with debt, causing them to delay marriage, perhaps even leading some to avoid it all together. We naturally want young Americans to achieve their potential. We need to understand that marriage assists the young to achieve that potential. This conference could examine new, innovative ways to reinforce the institution of marriage. An action agenda for States to consider regarding their own laws could be a useful product for any such conference.
Too many young Americans are growing up with a radically wrong view of life. They view marriage as a temporary bond between a man and a woman, or, I fear, increasingly, between a member of their own sex. Today's children need to have a mother and father who honor their commitment to remain united "for better or for worse" and who instill a respect for God, their religion, their family and work. That, more than just money or material goods, will provide a firm foundation for success.
Allan C. Carlson, Ph.D., President of The Howard Center, delivers an equally pointed and prescient statement. "It's married couples who have children – guaranteeing society's survival. Married couples care for the elderly and infirm. They provide most of the support for charities and civic activities. Their decline is a harbinger of atomization and fragmentation."
I know full well how important marriage is when unexpected misfortune occurs. There is no greater comfort than a loving family -- wife, children and grandchildren. My fear is that too few Americans are being reared to respect and honor marriage and the family. The wrong impression is set by their parents, the entertainment industry, their peers, even many religious and civic institutions.
Reversing the five-decade decline in marriage and families will be difficult but the rewards will be infinite. Many young Americans will be saved from lives of alienation and aimlessness. They will lead better, more vital and purposeful lives. Reinvigorating marriage and family life can help our country maintain its sense of purpose. I cannot say I am pleased by the finding of the American Community Survey. Americans can resign themselves to defeat or re-energize themselves to save the institutions of marriage and the family. I cast my lot with the latter group. Stronger marriages, stronger families, bound firmly by faith and traditional values, will provide future generations of Americans with a fighting chance to reap the benefits of freedom and liberty in this uncertain century.
Paul M. Weyrich is Chairman and CEO of the Free Congress Foundation.


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Plum Frost Pullover & Cardigan
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Back in February, I found myself playing around with some simple XOXO fair isle patterns and color fading. As soon as I swatched this one in Harrisville Designs New England Shetland, I knew I had to make myself a sweater with it. Regular readers will hardly be surprised to see me knitting yet another garment with this yarn. What can I say? It works! I carefully planned out the pattern in six sizes from start to finish. Like every other project I had going, it immediately began collecting dust when I became pregnant in March. I returned to it in August, committed to knitting up the sample in spite of my impossibly large middle. Although it hardly fits now, with the baby due in December, I hope to squeeze at least a few months of wear out of it this winter.*
I am happy to present Plum Frost Pullover & Cardigan! Knit seamlessly in the round from the bottom up, this simple, versatile, women's pullover/cardigan pattern features a classic XOXO stranded pattern in the 6-color yoke, with stars occupying the lozenge positions. The main color (charcoal) fades out to nearly white within the stranded pattern while, at the same time, a light purple darkens toward the center of the band. Hourglass waist shaping and fitted sleeves outline a flattering style to most sizes and shapes. The bottom band, button bands, neckband, and sleeve cuffs are worked in K1, P1 rib and employ tubular cast-ons and bind-offs. The cardigan version is steeked open; however, it is essentially the same pattern as the pullover, measuring 1″ wider in the body only because of the button band. The pattern is designed to fit bust measurements from 33″ to 51″ . It will be available for purchase from my Ravelry shop for $6.50 beginning Wednesday, October 7.
I could not be happier with how well this particular garment turned out. Harrisville's Shetland yarn is such a delight to use. Just as I began to find my stranding rough and lumpy, I soaked the pre-steeked version and it was instantly transformed. The yarn blooms so well, filling in errant gaps between stitches, smoothing out the yoke, and blending the colors together. I really cannot speak highly enough of how magnificently Shetland blooms: I've never experienced anything quite like it with any other yarn. While it is unmistakably a very woolly yarn, it is somehow soft enough that I can wear it next to my skin without itching all over. I have used it often in the past (e.g. Vine Lace Pullover, Scoopneck, Vespergyle Mittens, Ivy League Vest), and I will certainly return to it again. Besides, now I have leftover bits in lots of colors!
One of the things I needed in a yarn for this piece was a color choice that included three close shades of each color (i.e. gray and purple). There are only a few yarn companies that offer such thorough color palettes: Harrisville, Jamieson's and Knit Picks are ones that come to mind. I do not care for Knit Picks' Palette yarn, and Jamieson's is both out of my budget and unavailable locally. Not only that, my local yarn shop carries the full line of Harrisville Shetland – all 56 colors – on cones, which makes it quite an economical option for me. Another thing I love about all of Harrisville's yarns is that the lines and color offerings are so stable. As long as I have a color card on hand, I know exactly what I will be getting when I pick out colors. How often do other companies discontinue colors or particular yarns altogether? I still miss Magpie Aran and Skye Tweed – surely we all have our own personal, discontinued favorites. Anyway, I appreciate the wide selection and stable offering. Without it, fair isle projects would surely be much more difficult to plan!
Because I like the yarn so much and want to support their business, I contacted Harrisville Designs about this particular pattern. The company has generously offered to donate the yarn for one lucky commenter to make a Plum Frost pullover or cardigan! Please leave a comment by Wednesday, October 7 at 8 a.m. CST to be entered in the contest. I will use a random number generator to choose a winner to receive the yarn and a free copy of the pattern. I hope you will love both the yarn and the pattern as much as I do!
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Today in World Cup cricket the 24th match was played, that takes us to just past mid-way of the group matches (total being 42). There are 14 teams which have 10 test playing nations and 4 from the associations and at this stage there are only two teams who look somewhat formidable in this stage. Let us start with Group A.
Group A
Pakistan looks quite good sitting at the top of the table winning all the three matches and two of them against the minnows, but their performance against the Sub-continent side Sri Lanka was impressive – and that was not expected. However, Australia who lost one against India in the pre-cup games, is doing quite well winning 2 out of 2 but not against top sides. Their first test of the cup was against Sri Lanka, but then it was washed out. So their only next test before they get into Quarter finals will be against Pakistan late in the schedule. Until that happens no one knows where Australia will be. New Zealand seems to be doing average and most probably will qualify given Zimbabwe, Canada or Kenya wont be able to win against the Kiwis.
Group B
This is a more interesting group. Let me start in a very interesting way. India beat Ireland, Ireland beat England, England beat South Africa and South Africa beat West Indies. This does not mean that India is doing best. It simply means that this is a very open group at this point. Ireland is a surprise package, only if they would have beaten Bangladesh they had a good chance of qualify into Quarterfinals. South Africa was doing very well until they ran into spinners from England on a turning pitch. That showed how can they not play spin well. England lost to Ireland and was a surprise win over South Africa; but overall their bowling have been dis-appointing where they gave more than 290 runs in more than 2 occasions and two times it was against Ireland and Netherlands; India was the third occasion. India has not been doing very well either. Their decision to include Piyush Chawla over Pragyan Ojha or Ashwin came back to haunt them against England where he gave away 3 sixesin the penultimate over and India ended up with a draw where they could have won. And then against Ireland he was most expensive giving a boundary in every over he bowled. But, India's consolation is their batting looks like holding up very well , they are not cracking under pressure. Yuvraj is back in form and so is Sehwag and Tendulkar and Kohli. India's next big test will be in last 2 group matches against West Indies and South Africa.
For me from Group A, Pakistan, Australia, Sri Lanka and New Zealand will qualify. And from Group B it will be India, South Africa, England and West Indies. However, I do not have a prediction of who will move to the semi-finals yet. Maybe after another 2 weeks when some of the giants have faced each other is when I can make up my mind.


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Intelligent Assimilation of Satelite Data into a Forecast Model Using Sensor Web Processes and Protocols. NASA Earth Science Technology Conference (ESTC 2008) [Internet]. 2008 . Available from: http://esto.nasa.gov/conferences/estc2008/papers/Conover_Helen_A1P2.pdf.
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The PA11VW6 and CAS-AD3 Audi adapter cable provide direct connection for an iPod and an optional audio source such as satellite radio, DVD, or video game system, while retaining CD changer functions if equipped. Both the iPod and the additional audio source can be selected from the factory radio's front panel. Allows selection of tracks or playlists. Works on all new iPhone/iPod 4G/4Gos models and software upgrades. Two operating modes are available- locked and unlocked. In locked mode the controls on the factory radio will operate the iPod only, and the iPod's click wheel will be locked out for safety while driving. In the unlocked mode the iPod's controls can still be used to navigate through the iPod's menus and select songs, artists, playlists, etc. and the factory radio controls will still provide basic navigation functions including song up/down and FF/REW functions. Both modes still charge the iPod while connected, for up to one hour to prevent over-charging. Compatible with:
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Nashua World Cup Introduces New Recreational Soccer Program
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WCYS is a professionally staffed recreational soccer program open to boys and girls ages 4-7 (U5-U8) regardless of soccer experience or skill level. The program will focus on providing age appropriate soccer skills in a fun environment. The program will be run by the NWC Academy Director to ensure every team is learning and progressing.
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It Is All About BTC, LTC, ETH, ZEC mining as well as other alternative crypto currencies
The release of the new Gridseed G-Blade Miner at $3000 USD for a 5 MHS ASIC miner coinciding with the recent price drop of the Bitcoin and other crypto currencies did not make it very attractive for miners to buy. It seems however that Gridseed has figured a way to make the new mining hardware more attractive even in the current market conditions, by offering a limited number of units are a price of just $1610 USD or a little over half of the normal price. The new price finally makes the G-Blade Miner a good alternative to buying a number of the smaller 5-chip ASIC miners to get the same performance at a similar price, one of the most serious complaint from users when the new Blade Miner was initially announced with a retail price of $3000 USD.
MinerEU, Gridseed official distributor, has announced a five day (11-15 April) special promotion for the new Gridseed G-Blade Miner at $1610 USD. That is a saving of $1390 USD per miner when compared with the $3000 retail price. The stock for this promotion is limited to 2000 miners only, so hurry up and don't miss your chance. Orders will start shipping globally sometime next week, so this is pretty much the best offer for Scrypt ASIC Miners you can currently get.
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It was a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away. The Empire hadn't yet struck back, William Shatner still looked good in polyester, and most PCs ran something called CP/M.
The PC had scarcely been invented before people tried to fix it up with the telephone. One company, Convergent Technologies, hung telephones on desktop computers wired to a PBX-cum-LAN. But it turned out that computer/phone relationships require more than just a software handshake and a hardware redesign. The biggest hurdle, says telephony analyst Jeff Pulver of Pulver.com, an online community for the IP industry, has been the reluctance of Bell monopolies to make room on the public-switched telephone network (PSTN) for competitors.
But IP telephony entrepreneurs and users now have something Convergent didn't--the Internet. This alternative to PSTN has spawned a voice over IP (VoIP) industry that offers cost savings and service and productivity enhancements--and soon, it'll offer devices that provide new ways to beam up to the enterprise.
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Companies like Avaya, Cisco and Mitel have pretty much perfected the PBX/LAN concept and are delivering flexible IP-based PBXes to large and small businesses. For example, Avaya's IP Office scales from two to 256 desktops. Sales of IP PBX systems jumped 66 percent last year, reports Tom Valovic, director of IDC's IP Telephony Research, and should grow 38 percent annually through 2007.
One reason: A PBX/LAN hybrid costs about the same as a traditional PBX alone, says Chris Hannifin, administrator of a 300-plus seat Cisco AVVID network for Illumina in San Diego. A single Category 5e cable brings voice and data to the biotech company's desktops, and Hannifin finds AVVID cheaper to upgrade and easier to support than separate networks.
IP telephony also improves the productivity of both IT and non-IT workers, according to Sage Research. Easier to configure than traditional systems, IP PBXes save hours every time you reconfigure work spaces or add new employees or offices, says research director Chris Neal. They're also a better fit for digital advances such as toll-free calling over the Net.
IP handsets are virtually indistinguishable from desktop phones, and because your "phone number" is an IP address, you can get calls wherever you plug in your handset--even at home. Of course, carrying your bulky office handset past your building's security guard probably won't be your first choice.
An easier way to get cheap long distance and other VoIP benefits at home is to buy a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) phone or a device that will connect your normal PSTN phone to your PC. Individual SIP devices are still pricey, but less so when bundled with VoIP services from providers like Dialpad, Net2Phone or Vonage.
Though the shortcomings of service have been addressed, IP telephony still lacks PSTN conveniences like 911 and nationwide directory services. Those will come with more usage.
Analysts say Microsoft's just-released Windows CE.NET 4.2 embedded operating system will help by driving down development costs for a new generation of novel devices, such as Symbol Technologies' upcoming Pocket PC family. In addition to walkie-talkie features, bar code scanning and digital photography, the rugged handhelds offer wireless data and voice transmissions over different mixes of cellular, 802.11 and IP networks. Symbol already has a very portable phone that transmits over Wi-Fi LANs and IP PBXes.
Component makers like Broadcom and Intel are working on designs to bring similar capabilities to consumer markets. Someday, voice and data packets will transmit over whichever PBX, cellular network or Wi-Fi hot spot offers the best reception.
Does that mean we're headed for a be-all and end-all computer phone? Probably not--look at the lukewarm reception for smartphones and phone-equipped PDAs. Individual needs and preferences vary, and the more computing power you add for things like Net browsing, the less chance it has of fitting into the candy-bar-sized phone most people prefer.
What we can look forward to is a single transfer point for incoming voice calls, faxes, e-mail, IM and even video streams that we access using whatever device suits the occasion. The Internet is so much more efficient than PSTN that high-bandwidth applications become more viable. We may see more on-the-fly videoconferencing or voice calls telling the company server to download a price sheet or sales presentation to a client's computer, for example.
A revolution in telephony is headed our way. It just won't be arriving over PSTN.
Mike Hogan is Entrepreneur's technology editor. Write to him at email@example.com.


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Sports Leggings - Symbiosis of functionality and visual appeal
When the names Nike or Adidas come into play, normally, most people immediately think of football or other sports shoes. Tracksuits, jackets, jerseys, gym bags, or balls of any kind are also quickly associated with the names of both well-known sporting goods manufacturers. But Adidas and Nike offer still other paraphernalia from the wide world of sports. For example, Adidas leggings or Nike leggings are available from each respective label. Actually, leggings are fashion industry accessories, but in this case, it is not just a matter of the visual appearance of the chic legwear. They also feature functional qualities which lend you support during workouts through an appropriate clothing comfort, as well as through special properties of the material. A special bonus is that the styles from Adidas and Nike offer visual appeal in addition to the functionality.
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Women's sports leggings can be sexy and stylish
Even on the basis of the symbiotic connection between functionality and fashion, these types of leggings are no longer exclusively utilised for only one purpose. Nike and Adidas leggings styles are no longer simply desired as sportswear, but also in recent years as office and everyday wear with unmistakable style appeal. This development can be seen when observing showbiz and film celebrities, as well as sports stars. Whether Jennifer Lopez, Megan Fox, or, for example, the "soul diva" Tina Turner—they have all appeared in leggings, both in everyday life and on the stage. Not only these quintessential examples illustrate how socially acceptable sports leggings are now perceived. Browse our shop and see the sporty and yet fashionable styles for yourself.
Sports leggings are available in our shop in a large number of styles
Since our fashion and sport experts have an extraordinary feel for trends and contribute their extensive knowledge of both fashionable as well as sporty requests or demands to the collections mix, in our shop, you will find a variety of different styles from Adidas and Nike. Ranging from the classic sports leggings in black, to space dye leggings with a mottled pattern for less courageous women, all the way to variations with truly exclusive and edgy motifs for sports fashionistas—many tastes and needs are always taken into account in our portfolio. In fact, notably, the styles from Adidas have a reputation for focusing mainly on classic formats and an elegant style, while Nike is said to have designed its collection to have a downright flashier appearance. These are actually rather old-fashioned ideas, as a look in our shop reveals.
Adidas leggings set stylish standards
After all, the Adidas leggings that we currently offer often play with eye-catching decorations, nearly garish colour combinations, and edgy shapes and designs. For example, styles like the Adidas football leggings are rather striking, and nearly magically catch the eye with the colour combination black-multicolour. Adidas varieties such as the Bananas 3-Stripes leggings, which combine many colours into a real eye-catcher, cause quite the sensation. Additionally, we carry women's sports leggings bearing a denim or zebra-stripe appearance. The Adidas style LA Printed Skirt represents, quite well, the stylish highlight for many women with sporty interests who simultaneously concern themselves with fashion. These Adidas leggings differ significantly from the well-known shape and present themselves instead as a sporty skirt with a real coolness factor. For the very brave fans of edgy leggings, we also offer the Adidas leggings style Inj Shoes Aop tights, a version in our product assortment that looks like body painting due to its colour and motif combination.
Women's sports leggings from Nike make for surprising moments
Of course, in addition to the styles from Adidas, we also offer numerous Nike leggings with an unusual style. When you choose women's sports leggings from Nike, you should brace yourself for some surprising moments. For example, if you go for your daily run in the park wearing Nike leggings such as the style Leg A See Zebra tights, your legwear, mixed in different shades of red, will be quite the attention-getter. Even when you wear these styles of Nike leggings while out shopping or simply taking a summer walk, you just might increase your flirt factor. But naturally, Nike leggings can also look very demure and respectable, with the sporty character of the leggings highlighted explicitly.
Sports leggings continue to impress through high quality standards
At the end of the day, no matter which style you choose—from the Adidas leggings selection or from the Nike leggings range of styles—quality is always at the forefront. In the process, with these women's sports leggings, particular importance is always placed on high-quality material; cotton jersey is especially preferred for use in this regard. Also, the immaculate workmanship of the women's sports leggings which can be obtained from us always meets elevated standards. After all, with the women's sports leggings that we offer, you should not only be able to make a sporty fashion statement, but also take pleasure in their long-lasting durability.
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New Kid Quits Mid-Show: Jonathan Knight Walks Off at New Kids on the Block Concert (VIDEO)
New Kid on the Block, Jonathan Knight, has quit mid-show at an event in New York earlier this week, sparking wide criticism for letting down fans at the iHeartRadio's New Kids on the Block concert.
The April 4 concert did not go according to plan when Knight suddenly walked off stage alone mid-way through the concert. He has admitted in the past to suffering with social anxiety.
After his disappearance, the New Kid on the Block, took to his Twitter account to issue a simple apology to his fans, posting: "I'm sorry..."
Following the incident, footage emerged showing the 44 year old band member looking visibly uncomfortable throughout the period he was on stage.
Once Knight made his exit, fellow band members Jordan Knight, 42, Joey McIntyre, 40, Donnie Wahlberg, 43, and Danny Wood, 43, continued with the set and completed to concert for fans.
However, when video footage of the concert was analyzed afterwards Knight could clearly be seen hanging back while his fellow band mates all jumped around the stage energetically, putting on a good performance for the fans.
At one point Knight started looking at his cell phone in the middle of one song, and then for "Survive You," a song in which Knight is supposed to give a solo, he was unable to get his words out.
Wahlberg tried to make a joke out of the awkward situation, putting his arm around his band member and saying, "Jon, these people paid thousands of dollars for these tickets. For one reason. They heard that you're singing on this record."
Knight gave an awkward laugh and then walked off stage as he shook his head. His band members tried to remain professional and told fans that Knight would be back in stage soon, but he never reappeared despite the crowd cheering his name in support.
McIntyre also tried to make a joke to help out the awkward situation, telling fans that maybe Knight had locked himself in the bathroom.
In the past Knight has admitted to suffering from panic attacks and social anxiety. He told Oprah in an interview more than a decade ago: "The whole New Kids thing was crazy. The more it grew, the more I just felt like I was trapped. I just always had this feeling inside me of always being nervous and afraid of situations."
"From 1994 to 1997, I did nothing, I slept and slept and slept. If I was awake, I had to deal with things, I had to do things. In order to avoid that, I would just stay in bed. You go through the whole thing, too, like 'I'm weird or I'm strange,' and it just makes your whole self shrink down even more."
Knight has seemingly overcome his alleged anxiety and on Friday he appeared with his band members on the Today show to perform "We Own Tonight."
Here is video footage of the New Kids on the Block concert where Jonathan Knight walked off stage mid-show:


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«Plasticine jungle» Live wallpaperfor Android is now available at Google Play Store.
«Plasticine ocean» is beautiful Live wallpaper.
Now you can install this artwork on your Android Phone or Tablet.
Enjoy this island, marine life and nature beauty.
Aquarium ocean in plasticine style.
* Several types of fish;
* Island in the middle of the ocean;
* Flying birds;
* Elephant on the island;
* Underwater ship and castle;
Live wallpaper for android phones and tablets.


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The IRS this month will start to give the public an earlier heads-up on organizations whose tax-exempt status has been automatically revoked for failure to file an annual information return or notice for three consecutive years.
In June 2011, the IRS announced that some 275,000 organizations had lost their tax-exempt status. Since then, it has posted information about groups that are no longer tax exempt six months after revocation.
This time lag was a problem for donors who contributed to an organization before finding out it was no longer tax exempt. The donors were then unable to claim a charitable deduction.
Now, the IRS said in a recent announcement, it would begin to provide more current information about revocations by including organizations on the Automatic Revocation List within a month of their effective date of revocation.
"Because of this change," the IRS noted, "the number of organizations added to the list in March 2013 will appear higher than in other months because it includes a catch-up period of about seven months."
Organizations that have lost their tax-exempt status can apply for reinstatement, the IRS said. However, they will remain on the list because it is an official IRS record.


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StyleTM necesitaba un nuevo diseño de papelería y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 24 diseños de 13 diseñadores freelance.
Style TM
Tina Marie is a fashion consultant, personal stylist and clothing buyer for women. Tina's passion is helping women find the style, look and feel that fits them - her CLIENT'S trademark style, not Tina's or what the latest fashion magazine is touting. She helps women find the beauty that already resides within them by enabling it to come out in how they express themselves through fashion and design. She is not about taking a plastic image of what women are told they should be. She is about helping women find out who they are. "TM" has a double meaning of Tina Marie and Trademark.
Women, 30 to 65, range of professional/career, affluent and homemaker on a budget. Ability to provide a range of ideas and offerings to each demographic.
Looking to portray a simple, elegant, professional and approachable image.
The name, Style TM, may be the logo (attached file is a simplified version of the company name and contact information and possible tag line - "Trademark Your Style")
Looking for a 2" X 2" business card (sample attached of different company) with the logo on one side and the company/contact information on the back.
Need a design template to be able to take to a printer for the business cards, standard letterhead/envelope, 4 1/2" X 6 1/2" notecard/envelope. Need version(s) of the logo (.jpg) that can be used in emails, websites, etc.
Just an idea...it may be neat to have different business cards for each season (example: spring-green; summer-red/orange; fall-brown; winter-black/gray).


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|San Diego, CA, February 8, 2005 -- Researchers in California, Israel, and Germany have compared three distantly related species – baker's yeast, a worm, and the fruit fly – and reported that protein "wiring" connections in one species are often conserved in all three. This first-of-its-kind analysis of three higher level organisms published in the February 8 issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences supports both the concept of a basic wiring diagram for all eukaryotic cells, and the idea that more selective pharmaceuticals could be designed to tweak the wiring plan of human cells to more effectively treat diseases while also generating fewer side-effects.
For centuries, systematic comparisons of animal, plant, and microbial species was based on painstaking measurements of anatomic features. Beginning in the late-1970s, DNA sequencing technology permitted biologists to identify the precise subunit sequence of every gene in the genomes of everything from malaria pathogens and mosquitoes to mouse and human. Databases of genomic information have been combined with databases that list the precise subunit sequence of proteins as well. Cross-species DNA and protein comparisons have become routine for all biologists with computerized search programs, the most popular of which is called BLAST.
The wiring analysis reported in PNAS was made possible with yet another type of database called the Database of Interacting Proteins. That repository contains the results of tens of thousands of laboratory measurements of physical interactions of proteins in more than 100 species. Ideker and his colleagues developed a computerized tool called PathBLAST to search through the Database of Interacting Proteins for protein interactions that are conserved in the three most thoroughly studied species: yeast, worm, and fly.
The research team completed a rigorous statistical comparative analysis of a total of 14,145 yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae), worm (Caenorhabditis elegans), and fly (Drosophila melanogaster) proteins with 38,965 known interactions. Their PathBLAST tool generated a list of similar proteins in the three species that were involved in similar interactions: there were 183 protein clusters and 240 communication pathways conserved in all three. The finding suggests that only 0.5 percent of the protein clusters and communication pathways are conserved in the three species, but Ideker estimated that as many as 80 percent of the actual protein interactions have yet to be discovered.
"We are currently limited by the information and technology we have to date, so when we open up the hood of these three organisms we actually have selective and poor vision," said Ideker. "Nevertheless, when we found protein interactions and communication pathways conserved across all three species we were more confident that we are seeing something real."
Biologists have known for many years that in even distantly related species, nature doesn't reinvent the wheel. Similar proteins involved in essential cellular functions are often similar across species. "This new result indicates that the way in which the most functionally important proteins are assembled into machinery from one species to another is also, to a certain degree, conserved," said Ideker. "The circuitry is not exactly the same. In fact, there are striking differences that warrant more investigation."
The team included Roded Sharan, a computer scientist currently at the Tel-Aviv University in Israel; Tanja Kuhn and Peter Uetz, researchers at the Institute of Genetics in Karlsruhe, Germany; Ideker, Silpa Suthram, Ryan M. Kelley, Scott McCuine, and Taylor Sittler at UCSD; and Richard M. Karp, a computer scientist at the University of California, Berkeley.
Their analysis revealed conservation and overlap in yeast, worm, and fly in 71 distinct "network regions" that included such essential functions as protein degradation, RNA polyadenylation and splicing, protein phosphorylation and signal transduction, DNA synthesis, nuclear-cytoplasmic transport, and protein folding. Such networks enriched for several functions suggested
In contrast, the team did not find in yeast a network they found in both worm and fly that is involved in the guidance of nerve cell axons to their synaptic targets, or junctions, with other nerve cells. The process, considered an initial step in the development of the central nervous system, would not be needed by lower organisms, such as yeast, which don't have nerves.
Ideker predicted that protein-interaction studies will soon become indispensable tools for biologists seeking a better understanding of all cellular functions. He said that just as a species evolved new proteins to give it a selective advantage, it also could have evolved a new combination of existing proteins. Such novel arrangements would have generated new capabilities or changed existing ones.
Pharmaceutical companies have also not had the luxury of protein-interaction databases. They have routinely identified promising new drugs based on trial-and-error screenings of those molecules' ability to completely disable target proteins. Ideker said protein interaction information could help modify that approach to drug discovery. "Maybe the target protein has a good and necessary role in 10 interactions, but the 11th is the only one we would need to eliminate," said Ideker. "What we really want are drugs that interfere with just that one disease-causing interaction."
Systems biologists such as Ideker say their ultimate goal is a comprehensive computer model of how cells work. A description of all protein-interaction circuits would make such a model possible. "We'd like to simulate diseased cell types, such as cancer cells, and then simulate the effects of drugs on those diseased cells," said Ideker. "Ultimately, we think this kind of a systems biology approach will have a very beneficial impact on drug design and human health."


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Mike Bellotti worked at Oregon for over 20 years, both as a football coach and athletic director, but just remembered that he left his keys in an ESPN studio and won't be coming back. Gee, I wonder why that is?
Bellotti is leaving Eugene to become a college football analyst at ESPN, despite holding his athletic director job for less than a year. He swears he's not running away from the numerous paperwork headaches caused by his delinquent football team—and the basketball coach he had to fire—but there does seem to be a pattern. LaGarrette Blount, Jeremiah Masoli and LaMichael James were all recruited to play for the Ducks by Bellotti and all joined the team in 2008. After one year with them on the sidelines, Bellotti quit football to become the athletic director. Now he's quitting again "to get back into football" and not because those guys (and several others) are still driving him crazy.
Nope, not running away from anything at all. Just a "once-in-a-lifetime" opportunity to not be around Oregon football for awhile. But if the NCAA calls, you can totally give them his new email address.
Oregon's Mike Bellotti resigns as AD; will join ESPN [ESPN]
"George Schroeder: AD never wanted the gig" [The Register-Guard]
Bellotti's Resignation Not Necessarily a Sign of Anything [Conquest Chronicles]
Ducking Out: Mike Bellotti Leaving Oregon for ESPN [Sporting Blog]


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...every day. This is the goal which unites every athlete and every LÖFFLER employee. We don't take any cheap shortcuts for short-term successes. LÖFFLER develops materials and processes: Quality from Austria, high-end innovations for maximum function. We achieve all of this sustainably on-site. Enabling our customers to become better – every day."
Short transportation routes, environmentally friendly materials and regional value creation: This is what sustainability means to us at LÖFFLER. This is why we are today manufacturing from our company premises in Ried, Upper Austria – just as we did yesterday and as we will tomorrow. And this encompasses everything
from the initial design right through to final production. In the process, most of the materials originate from
our own knitting factory in Ried.
The comprehensive know-how of your employees, our outstanding technical equipment and strict quality control are the components for the premium quality of the LÖFFLER-products. The major part of our employees has been trained by our own, because training of apprentices is of great importances to us ever since.


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Tip 1624 Printable Monobook Previous Next
created 2009 · complexity basic · author Tonymec · version 7.0
It's obvious once you're shown it, so here are a few examples (to go to the second-last window):
- This does not work
$-1^Ww :$-1wincmd w
The former will act on the dollar sign without using it as a count; the latter counts
$ as the number of lines in the current buffer, and goes to the very last window if the "
$-1" count exceeds the number of windows in the current or only tab page.
- This works
:exe winnr('$') - 1 'wincmd w'
I'd like to see a use case for this, that merits its becoming a proper tip. It's a good observation, though. (Spiiph 23:55, 28 July 2009 (UTC))
- If you have no more than a handful of split-windows, you don't need this tip because you can tell at a glance the number of the wanted window (unless, of course, you want to go to the nth-from-last window from a mapping or a script). But if you have a lot of windows (in my current gvim session there are 21, opened "Rolodex style" with
:set wh=9999 wmh=0), you'd need a better counting-at-a-glance ability than most people have, even to be able to type the right number at the keyboard. But we can, for instance, create the following to always go to the second-last window by hitting F12:
:map <F12> :exe winnr('$') - 1 'wincmd w'<CR>--Tonymec 02:55, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
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