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Noodles! Roamin' Off! (ロケット団解散!? Team Rocket Breakup?!) is the 13th episode of Pokémon: DP Galactic Battles.
Episode plot
The heroes continue their journey. Dawn is hungry and Brock looks on the map there is a city nearby. Team Rocket ambushes them, though the heroes tell they are in a hurry and Pikachu electrocutes them enough for a blast off. They land in the sea and get the seaweed off. Jessie confesses these blast offs are getting old, though James knows they need a different plan - to get to the town before the twerps do. Though they did arrive, Jessie and Meowth do not believe in James' plan. Suddenly, they all smell some delicious food. Though they have no money, they still go to eat the noodles. They eat two portions, though Meowth had to cool his noodles down.
James warns Jessie they have no money to pay, so they are going out of the restaurant. Seeing the twerps, they hide and soon, the cook drags them to the kitchen. A man is pleased to see them as mentors and they remember, his name is Christopher, a former member of Team Rocket. When he tasted the noodles from them, he began his career to make noodles in Sinnoh and soon, many shops opened. Thanks to them, Christopher is successful and offers them as many noodles as they can eat. The cook drops the noodle ball and Meowth senses it, so he uses Fury Swipes to cut it. Christopher is amazed by this and offers him a job as a slicer. Meowth thinks he would be rich and surrounded by many Pokémon of his liking. James and Jessie tell Christopher Meowth is part of them and Christopher bids their words, so Meowth's chance is ruined.
As the heroes go to Snowpoint City, Team Rocket use their robot to capture Pikachu. Pikachu uses Thunderbolt, as Meowth did not put insulation. Team Rocket blasts off in the sea and get the seaweed off them. Jessie thinks James failed again, but he tells Meowth should have put insulation. When they are to go, Meowth declares he will go back to the noodle shop and become the noodle master, as it seems it is what he does best. James recalls they are a team, but Meowth runs away. James goes to get him, though Jessie stops him and tells that if Meowth wants to be a noodle master, so be it. James feels lonely without Meowth, while Jessie, upon seeing her two ribbons, knows they should separate to follow their dreams. She tells James to go after her fiancée and upon wearing her Contest dress, she goes away as well.
The night is here and James feels much more sad, even seeing Meowth and Jessie when looking to the stars. He hears the twerps and douses the fire, then overhears a shiny Metagross lives on a nearby mountain. He goes towards there, hoping to get a lot of money when bringing it to the boss. What he did not hear from them is that the Metagross is very aggressive and will likely hurt anyone. He arrives to the mountain and climbs it, thinking the boss would promote him, Jessie and Meowth for this, enough to get them back. Jessie sends Yanmega and trains with it. Thinking she will win, a man says that is impossible. Jessie is angry, but hears that people that battle the Metagross can vanish. The men also recall that the man who was climbing the mountain had a red R. This causes Jessie to hear out everything what they saw.
James came atop and yells to get Metagross' attention. Jessie runs to the restaurant and sees Meowth slicing the noodle ball. He hears that Jessie is dragged away by Christopher, who does not believe she is Jessie. When explained, Christopher apologizes himself and tells Meowth Jessie would like to speak to him. When she mentions James, Meowth does not want to hear her anymore, as the Meowth she knew is gone - he found respect at this new job. Jessie knows this and respects him, then runs away. Meowth hears what she says and watches as she runs away. James has encountered Metagross and sends Mime Jr. Metagross uses Psychic, though Mime Jr. uses Teeter Dance to confuse it. This causes the rocks affected by Psychic to levitate around, so James grabs Mime Jr. and goes to the end of a rock. Metagross is not confused and goes after James. James sends Carnivine, who uses Vine Whip, though Metagross uses Psychic to bind them. Metagross uses Psychic on them, but Yanmega prevents this. Seviper uses Poison Tail to hit Metagross, pushing it off the cliff.
James sees Jessie came back. James tells her that he does not need any help, as she went to become a Top-Coordinator. Jessie tells him to admit that he is happy to see her, which he does indeed. She offers to get the Metagross for the boss. Metagross recovered and uses Psychic, though Wobbuffet counters and hits Metagross back. Metagross is super-angry and calculates where it needs to hit them badly. It uses Psychic, controlling the rocks and hitting Jessie and James side by side. They run, only to be chased by the Metagross. Jessie and James call their Pokémon back and get afflicted by Psychic. James apologizes to Jessie to have her dragged into this, though Jessie recalls they are a team. As Meowth cuts the noodles, he remembers the times he was with Jessie and James, though he is happier with this job. He hears the men talking Jessilina came to get Metagross, so he asks them about this.
Metagross is about to use Hyper Beam. Jessie and James know this is the end, but a rocket hits Metagross. Jessie and James are surprised to see Meowth, but hop into the balloon. Meowth wants to get back to Team Rocket, but Jessie and James tell he has always been a member of the team. They hug, but fly away when Metagross uses Gyro Ball. It manages to blast them off, and though James is sad they did not get Metagross, Jessie reminds them a Pikachu is waiting to be captured. Dawn sees them as a shooting star and has a wish. Ash and Brock think it was Team Rocket that got blasted off by the Metagross. Dawn tells Ash to wish to win the Snowpoint Gym Battle, but Ash does not want to, because he knows he has the skill and the power to do so.
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|Other series: The Beginning · Gold and Silver · Ruby and Sapphire · Black & White · XY and XYZ · Sun & Moon · Journeys


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From 1971 onwards, "The Sound Of Philadelphia" dominated black American popular music in much the same way as Motown had done for most of the previous decade, until it moved out of Detroit at the end of the 1960s. Created by a select group of hightly gifted musicians, producers and arrangers, it seemed to arrive from out of nowhere to stamp its influence on all that succeeded it, right up to the end of the 1970s when real musicians suddenly began to find themselves playing second banana to drum machines and/or string and horn sections that could be played on synthesiser keyboards.
Of course, nothing arrives completely out of nowhere, and the Philly Sound was actually a slow builder that had its genesis in the mid 60s with the early success of the Intruders. But it was the early records of the Delfonics, arranged and orchestrated by musical genius, Thom Bell, which really began to push the envelope and expand the boundaries of musical creativity in the City Of Brotherly Love.
Led by the unique, soaring tenor of William Hart, the Delfonics looked back simultaneously to Philly's rich doo wop history, and forward to the 'symphonic soul' that Thom Bell would continue to create in the next decade, with the Stylistics and the Spinners. The Delfonics' first Philly Groove hit, La La Means I Love You was the first really big hit to embrace the new sound – and the first of its kind to reach the top three of the US Hot 100. Follow-ups, such as the wonderful Break Your Promise and the still-ahead-of-its-time Ready Or Not Here I Come, saw them and their arranger-producer Bell reach hitherto undreamed of heights of soulful creativity. It was a sad day for soul lovers everywhere when that creative partnership ceased in 1971, not long after they made the record by which all future examples of group soul would be judged – Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time).
The two albums on this new Kent CD are the first two of the three that the Bell-Delfonics partnership forged in nearly four years of working together – the third, plus their first (excellent) post-Thom Bell set, will be released on Kent in 2008. Their generous blend of hits, should-have-been-hits and expertly chosen revivals is forever enthralling, and will help those who only caught on to the Philly Sound in later years to understand why the Delfonics will always be among the two or three most important acts to ever represent it.
Remastered from the original Philly Groove production tapes, and with the bonus of a non-album single, You Got Yours And I'll Get Mine, which became one of their biggest ever Pop and R&B hits, it's a set that no true soul harmony fan should ever be without.
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Was there something in the water? Back in Q3 1999, the Internet saw an explosion of sites based on the concept of knowledge sharing. At a rate of more than one startup a month, investors and entrepreneurs pumped tens of millions of dollars into this new category, in which a Web company functions as a forum - sometimes a broker - for the exchange of expert or everyday wisdom. These sites definitely draw people in (several are already counting more than a million unique visitors a month), proving that there's a huge audience for the facts, opinions, and miscellaneous dust balls cluttering our cranial attics. Making these mental swap meets pay off is another matter. Most of the sites are selling advertising against the content, some are licensing the expertise to others, and some take a cut of sales generated on sites that the content links to. However each business model plays out, the point is to get legions of enthusiasts talking, and make a buck off their pontifications. Here's a sampling of startups based on the egoboo model of ecommerce, along with a tally of who stands to prosper - and how they'll do it.
Gist The rawest and most homespun of the sites - and the first of the genre - Allexperts features a whopping 2,300 categories (ExpertCentral has fewer than 300), including an entertainment section that breaks down into expert Q&As about individual actors (and that means Calista flockhart). Conceived of and built by one guy, New York-based Steven Gordon, the site's raison d'être really isn't money but the thrill of watching itself grow.
Spin "The oldest and largest" (i.e., the rest are copycats).
Worker bees 10,000 - many of them fancy professionals - each screened and hand-picked by Gordon, who has signed up "opthalmologists from Yale, cardiologists from Johns Hopkins, hypertension specialists from the University of Pennsylvania!"
Paycheck Pure egoboo, pegged to special qualities: "knowledgeability, clarity of response, politeness, prestige, and timeliness." Participating experts can view bar charts and line graphs that track their performance. A top expert is chosen and showcased each month.
Business model Practically nonexistent. Ad banners, an afterthought, pay the bills.
Gist Slick, and growing: This Seattle company of 60 was founded by former Microsofties. The site claims 2.4 million unique visitors each month; its most popular categories include technology and homework assistance.
Spin Real folk, sharin' their wisdom.
Worker bees 60,000 - and they crank. The top 10 crankers answer about 1,200 questions in three months, with an average response time of eight hours.
Paycheck Egoboo, by way of gold stars, rankings, and points. (Contributors can also score score $25 to $500 each month in reward for being the highest-ranked members in their category.)
Business model Ad banners, affiliate programs, and what Askme terms "syndication": licensing the tech, the experts, and their answers to other sites.
Gist Witness the wonders of the human psychodrama. Though Epinions won't disclose its membership numbers, a fair estimate is that they're small - small enough to breed cliques and infighting. But on the biz-building front, the Mountain View-based team seems to be doing everything right: funding from Benchmark and August Capital, principals from AOL and Yahoo!, press attention up the wazoo.
Spin Peace, love, and brutal honesty.
Worker bees Undisclosed.
Paycheck Anywhere from a penny to 3 cents per read (reviews are read by users, who pay nothing to subscribe). Epinions reserves the right to rejigger this fee structure at will. But, it promises, it'll always deliver loads of egoboo.
Business model Ad banners, revenue sharing, and content-license agreements. As in: "You automatically grant to Epinions.com ... a nonexclusive, royalty-free license to use, modify, copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, publish, adapt, create derivative works of, distribute, transfer, or sell any such Content ... without any compensation to you."
Gist With $29 million in venture capital to work with this year, Exp has built a busy, usable site with particularly active Business Services and Internet & Technology sections. Exp is planted in the heart of it all, Silicon Valley's Menlo Park, and its smart, unfussy design reflects its considerable Web know-how.
Spin "The convenient way to get expert advice and services."
Worker bees 50,000, all screened. Exp.com, which validates degrees and licenses, is shooting for "quality."
Paycheck Money! Not much egoboo to be had here - there's no Hall of Fame, and evaluations are limited to a simple 1 through 5. Instead, the site helps its experts expand their cottage businesses by drawing in new customers from all over the Net.
Business model Category ad sponsorships, plus revenue-sharing with small-business-oriented portals and a 20 percent cut of its experts' fees.
Gist A people-oriented site ("testimonials" from happy users perpetually scroll in a corner of the homepage) based in Newton, Massachusetts, with a fat, 250,000 registered-user base to date. Top categories are computers and the Net, health and fitness, and automotive.
Spin High-quality professional advice: "The search is over."
Worker bees 7,000 qualified professionals - most recruited by the site - each with a detailed c.v.
Paycheck "Honor, recognition, and success" - in a word, egoboo. Money, a secondary concern, comes in the form of the long-term professional relationships that develop online. Also, cash prizes here and there.
Business model Ad sales, 15 percent commission on paid advice, and a cut of sales made through the site's referrals.
Gist Though it says it's for everyone, this site's top categories - Visual Basic, Delphi programming, Win98 - would suggest otherwise. But, hey, the San Luis Obispo, California-based startup is working on it. This clean, easy-to-use site has an impressive 350,000 registered users.
Spin The "number-one knowledge sharing community on the Web."
Worker bees 57,000 experts: A typical Hall of Famer has answered 1,300 questions and asked 20; the site's experts crank out answers in a speedy two hours.
Paycheck Egoboo - aka "satisfaction grades" or membership in the Hall of Fame - plus prizes (scanners, PDAs, T-shirts).
Business model Ad banners.
Gist With a click of the mouse, you're on the phone - that's Keen.com's uniqueness. The site, an all-around advice-giving service, is the first to use the technology, which allows users to research available experts and click on a selection, thereby dialing the "KeenSpeaker" on the phone. (If you've got only one phone line, the system will wait until your line is open to dial in.) Keen, based in San Francisco, is generously backed by eBay, Benchmark Capital, Microsoft, and Integral Capital, among others.
Spin Say it, don't type it.
Worker bees 35,000: The hardest-working KeenSpeaker answered 494 questions in two and a half months.
Paycheck Money! Egoboo ops are scanty, though bees get a per-minute fee for each successful phone transaction.
Business model A 30 percent cut of the per-minute fees.
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Updated in the final paragraph to include positive analyst sentiment and Pandora's Wednesday stock action
) -- That's a
exchange I had midday Wednesday. Thanks to "Fitz Hugh Ludlow" for passing on the information.
I didn't see the
treatment of the story, but I hope it was more complete than everything else that has been done on the topic over the last year or so. In case, you don't know what we're talking about, allow me to refresh.
You have probably seen this headline or something like at some point in the last 24 hours or so:
Pandora Users Played David Lowery's Song a Million Times and All He Got Was $16.89
What have I been bitching about for months? Context. Media outlets pick up these
tidbits and uncritically turn them into stories, but very few, if any, even huge music and tech publications provide the necessary context. Talk about irresponsibility and injustice.
But, I digress.
At his blog,
, Michael DeGusta does an excellent job setting the record straight and putting Lowery, who is complaining about how much he made off of
hit "Low," in his place.
While I have not yet gone through DeGusta's numbers with a fine tooth comb, at a glance, they seem accurate, even if off by a percentage point here or there. I'm quite confident, however, that if there are errors, they do not detract from the must-see numbers
the must-read analysis DeGusta provides.
Chest bumps and fist pumps to DeGusta, who astutely states:
None of this means Pandora ought to pay less in royalties. On the contrary, it seems quite likely that others should be paying more. And perhaps the non-artists involved in the transaction shouldn't be taking 53% of the total for their services. But attacking Pandora with intentionally misleading statistics just undermines the credibility of the argument.
Bingo. The system's broken. That's not Pandora's fault, but, of course,
there are moves Pandora can make
to take the high road and move this whole chaotic conversation forward to a sound resolution.
Update: Despite
(MSFT) - Get Report
entry into streaming Internet radio
, Pandora shares held up today, likely on the back of DeGusta's rebuke of Lowery, but more so on positive notes from Wall Street brokerages
Cowen and Company
. The firms, respectively, rate Pandora "buy" and "outperform" with price targets of $20 at Stifel and $22 at Cowen. Shares of P closed Wednesday's session up roughly 8% at $17.73. That's a 52-week closing high for the stock.
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In many ways, childhood obesity is a puzzling disease. Doctors do not fully understand how the body controls weight and body fat. On one hand, the cause seems simple. If a person takes in more calories than he or she uses for energy, then he or she will gain weight.
But a teen's obesity can be caused by a combination of things. It can be linked to:
Some endocrine disorders, diseases, and medicines may also have a strong effect on a child's weight.
Things that may put your teen at risk for obesity are:
Too much body fat is the main symptom of obesity. But it's hard to directly measure body fat. A guideline called the body mass index (BMI) is used to estimate it. The BMI uses a teen's weight and height to come up with a result. The result is then compared with standards for children of the same gender between the ages of 2 and 20.
A teen who is overweight has a BMI between the 85th and 95th percentile for age and gender. He or she is obese if the BMI is greater than the 95th percentile for age and gender.
Obesity is diagnosed by a healthcare provider. BMI is often used to define obesity in teens. It has 2 categories:
Treatment depends on your teen's symptoms, age, and health. It also depends on how severe the condition is.
Treatment for obesity may include:
Treatment often involves the help of a nutritionist, mental health professionals, and an exercise specialist. Your teen's treatment goals should be realistic. They should focus on a modest cutting back of calories, changing eating habits, and adding more physical activity.
Obesity can affect your teen's health in a number of ways. These include:
Young people often become overweight or obese because they have poor eating habits and aren't active enough. Genes also play a role.
Here are some tips to help your teen stay at a healthy weight:
Tips to help you get the most from a visit to your child's healthcare provider:
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Ilmenau is a town located in the district of Ilm-Kreis, Thuringia, Germany. Ilmenau is situated in the valley of the Ilm river, at an altitude of 431 metres (1,415 feet) above sea level,[2] and is the biggest town in Ilm-Kreis district, with 6,200 students studying at the Technische Universität Ilmenau. The surrounding area is marked by the Thuringian Forest and its mountains. The highest mountain of Ilmenau is the Kickelhahn (German for rooster, which is also found in the coat of arms of Ilmenau), with a height of 861 metres. The highest mountains of the Thuringian forest are the Schneekopf (meaning snow-head) with a height of 978 metres and the Großer Beerberg (982.9 meters), a few kilometres to the south-west of Ilmenau. Goethe also enjoyed staying in Ilmenau, mostly on holiday.
Germany? Before the beginning there was Ginnungagap, an empty space of nothingness, filled with pure creative power. (Sort of like the inside of my head.)And it ends with Ragnarok, the twilight of the Gods. In between is much fighting, betrayal and romance. Just as a good Godly story should be.Heroes have their own graveyard called Valhalla. Unfortunately we cannot show you a panorama of it at this time, nor of the lovely Valkyries who are its escort service.Hail Odin, wandering God wielding wisdom and wand! Hail Freya, hail Tyr, hail Thor!Odin made the many lakes and the fish in them. In his traverses across the lands he caused there to be the Mulheim Bridge in Cologne, as did he make the Mercury fountain, Mercury being of his nature.But it is to the mighty Thor that the Hammering Man gives service.Between the time of the Nordic old ones and that of modern Frankfort there may have been a T.Rex or two on the scene. At least some mastodons for sure came through for lunch, then fell into tar pits to become fossils for us to find.And there we must leave you, O my most pure and holy children.Text by Steve Smith.


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On February 4, the San Francisco Police Commission will hold the second of three planned community meetings to gauge support for a pilot program to arm 100 SFPD officers with Tasers. The controversial proposal pits police Chief Greg Suhr, a proponent, against civil liberties organizations and homeless advocates who are mobilizing public opposition to the Taser initiative.
Shortly after being appointed police chief in 2011, Suhr said arming the SFPD with Tasers would not be a top priority. But following the police shooting of a mentally ill man last July, Suhr has pushed the Police Commission to allow members of the cities Crisis Intervention Team (CIT)—who receive special training to deal with the mentally ill—to carry Tasers.
Since the shooting, Suhr has repeatedly argued that Tasers would help save lives and reduce instances of gun use. "You do have to have as many tools in the tool box before you go to guns," he said at the first community forum.
The ACLU and local homeless advocates disagree.
"Every time there is an officer-involved shooting, the department uses it as an excuse to outfit officers with Tasers," ACLU attorney Micaela Davis told the Guardian. "We continue to believe that Tasers are not a good alternative to firearms and we fear that officers run the risk of going to Tasers too early in a confrontation instead of using de-escalation techniques."
Equipping CIT officers with Tasers would inject the controversial stun guns into already tense confrontations between the mentally ill and the SFPD.
Lisa Marie Alatorre, an organizer with the San Francisco Homelessness Coalition, argues Tasers could have a devastating effect on the city's homeless population. "The CIT typically deals with people in crisis, people who are mentally ill, and people who are currently destitute and have nowhere to live," she told the Guardian. "The use of Tasers in the midst of a crisis will cause severe trauma and could inflict significant psychological damage."
Both the Coalition on Homelessness and the ACLU charge that the SFPD has dragged its feet in implementing the nonviolent components of the CIT program. Less than 75 officers have been trained in nonviolent confrontational strategies since the program's adoption last summer, and Alatorre charges SFPD has yet to implement protocols that would bring the program to fruition.
Police Commissioner Angela Chan, a longtime proponent of the CIT program, echoed these concerns. "We need to improve our de-escalation tactics with regards to crisis intervention. Many of the steps to train and implement CIT have not yet been implemented and that's where we need to focus our energies," she told the Guardian.
Despite strong local opposition to Tasers, they are becoming standard equipment for police departments across the nation. SFPD officers are hopeful that public opposition does not kill this pilot program, like similar attempts before it.
Sgt. Michael Andraychak, a spokesperson with the SFPD, argued that equipping CIT officers with Tasers would give police more flexibility to use force without engaging their firearms.
"On the street, not every situation can be managed in a nonviolent fashion," he told the Guardian. "CIT is a great program, and the implementation of Tasers would give those officers an additional tool to use before they have to escalate to deadly force."
Police commissioners will make a final decision about Tasers after the third community meeting, which is scheduled for Feb. 11 at the Bayview Opera House.
The next community forum on the SFPD Taser pilot program will be held on Feb. 4 from 6-8pm at the Scottish Rite Center, 2850 19th Ave, in SF.


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Directed by Hwang In-hyeok (황인혁), Shin Chang-seok (신창석)
Screenplay by Kang Yeong-ran (강영란), Lee Sang-min (이상민), Son Yeong-mok (손영목)KBS | Airing dates : 2009/01/03~2009/09/27
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Alternative title : "Empress Cheon Chu", "Empress Cheonchoo"
The stereotypical view of womanhood on screen is changing.
Different from the past which used to show the passive and modest nature of female, recent dramas illustrate women with grand authority and active spirit. However, most of the historical dramas are still presenting the submissive images of female; woman as a subordinate who gives birth to children to carry on the family lineage, or a political tactician who takes part in conspiracies and causes internal wars in the palace.
Now we are talking about the empress who is incompatible from the previously known images of female in history. The Iron Empress is the granddaughter of Wang Gun, the first emperor of Goryeo. She has inherited her grandfather´s vision as well as his Great Spirit. The empress fights against the enemies trying to collapse Goryeo, and called as The Iron Empress who gets rid of her brother, son, and even her lover, for the good of the empire. During the Goryeo period, women had the firm statue and their power was high as that of men. Introducing the legendary heroine, The Iron Empress would bring hopes and dreams to the women living in this era.
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PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Energy Forward opened voting for college football fans in Idaho as part of the "Are You Fan Enough" campaign, encouraging Northwest residents to look for the "Most Efficient" sticker when shopping for new TVs. Energy Forward is an initiative of the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) in collaboration with Northwest utilities, ENERGY STAR and retail partners.
By entering "Are You Fan Enough" on Facebook or at Best Buy and Sears retail locations, consumers have the chance to win one of four ultimate VIP college football tailgate packages or an Energy Forward 47-inch TV. VIP tailgate packages include 10 tickets to see the winner's favorite college team play a home game in Idaho, Montana, Oregon or Washington and a tailgate party featuring Energy Forward TVs and an Energy Forward RV catered with food, refreshments and Snuggies®. The Idaho Matchup of Moscow vs. Boise launches with voting on Facebook at http://bit.ly/areufanenough starting 12:01 AM MDT on October 8, 2012 and ending at 11:59 PM MDT on October 22, 2012.
"The 'Are You Fan Enough' campaign is a fun way to help consumers learn about TVs that are engineered to provide the best performance while also saving energy--a winning combination for any sports fan," said Ty Stober, market transformation initiative lead at NEEA. "The Northwest Power and Conservation Council estimates some of the biggest energy savings over the next 20 years could come from more Northwest residents choosing super-efficient televisions."
Consumers can enter "Are You Fan Enough" by "rushing" to the campaign Facebook page at http://bit.ly/areufanenough or by scanning a QR code located in electronics departments at Northwest Best Buy and Sears locations. Entrants can vote for a tailgate party at one of two universities located within each of the four Northwest states. Voting for each of these matchups will last two weeks during the months of October and November. At the end of each of the four voting periods, one winner who voted for the team that received the most votes in each state matchup will be randomly selected to win a grand prize VIP tailgate package. Every entrant will also be entered to win additional prizes, including one of four Energy Forward TVs or additional game tickets.
The goal of Energy Forward is to accelerate market adoption of advanced energy-efficient televisions by incentivizing retailers to stock and sell TVs that are engineered to be the most efficient of ENERGY STAR. These TVs are at least 20 to 35 percent more efficient than other energy-efficient products and are marked with a "Most Efficient" sticker at Best Buy, Costco, Kmart, Sam's Club, Sears, Target, Walmart and independent electronics stores throughout the Northwest. According to the Northwest Power & Conservation Council, a region-wide shift to the most efficient TVs has the potential to save enough energy to power more than 290,000 homes each year.
"Northwest utilities are the real heroes here," continued Stober. "They are leading not just the region, but the entire nation by collaborating on energy efficiency efforts like Energy Forward."
Since the Energy Forward TV initiative launched in the Northwest in 2009, TVs are now almost 60 percent more efficient.
Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington residents can vote in any one of the four state matchups. Voting in the "Are You Fan Enough" campaign will continue in Washington and Oregon during October and November.
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The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) is a non-profit organization working to accelerate energy efficiency to meet our future energy needs. NEEA is supported by and works in collaboration with the Bonneville Power Administration, Energy Trust of Oregon and more than 100 Northwest utilities on behalf of more than 12 million energy consumers. NEEA uses the market power of the region to accelerate the innovation and adoption of energy-efficient products, services and practices. Since 1997, NEEA and its partners have saved enough energy to power almost 600,000 homes each year. Energy efficiency can satisfy more than half of our new demand for energy, saving money and keeping the Northwest a healthy and vibrant place to live. www.neea.org
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Celebrating Valentine's Day With a Box of Chocolates
Conversation hearts, truffles galore and heart-shaped boxes of chocolates—these are the symbols of Valentine's Day for many lovers around the world. But why do we have a "sweets to the sweet" tradition every February 14? While the roots of Valentine's Day go all the way back to Roman times, candy gift giving is a much more recent development. Is it because of chocolate's reputed aphrodisiac qualities, or just a way for candy companies to sell more sweets in the lull between Christmas and Easter? Whatever the reason, those ubiquitous little red boxes flood shelves every year, and this week we're taking a look at the reasons why.
Valentine's Day is actually named for two different Roman saints, both called Valentine and both utterly unconnected to romantic love. Though legend persists that the original St. Valentine was a priest who performed illegal marriages for the Emperor Claudius' soldiers, there's no evidence to suggest this ever happened. The first mention of St. Valentine's Day as a romantic holiday appeared in the writings of Chaucer in 1382. With the medieval period came a new focus on illicit but chaste courtly love, and it is here that we see some of the familiar iconography begin to appear. Knights would give roses to their maidens and celebrate their beauty in songs from afar. But sugar was still a precious commodity in Europe, so there was no talk of exchanging candy gifts.
By the 1840s, the notion of Valentine's Day as a holiday to celebrate romantic love had taken over most of the English-speaking world. It was Cupid's golden age: The prudish Victorians adored the notion of courtly love and showered each other with elaborate cards and gifts. Into this love-crazed fray came Richard Cadbury, scion of a British chocolate manufacturing family and responsible for sales at a crucial point in his company's history. Cadbury had recently improved its chocolate making technique so as to extract pure cocoa butter from whole beans, producing a more palatable drinking chocolate than most Britons had ever tasted. This process resulted in an excess amount of cocoa butter, which Cadbury used to produce many more varieties of what was then called "eating chocolate." Richard recognized a great marketing opportunity for the new chocolates and started selling them in beautifully decorated boxes that he himself designed.
From that point, it was a quick jump to taking the familiar images of Cupids and roses and putting them on heart-shaped boxes. While Richard Cadbury didn't actually patent the heart-shaped box, it's widely believed that he was the first to produce one. Cadbury marketed the boxes as having a dual purpose: When the chocolates had all been eaten, the box itself was so pretty that it could be used again and again to store mementos, from locks of hair to love letters. The boxes grew increasingly elaborate until the outbreak of World War II, when sugar was rationed and Valentine's Day celebrations were scaled down. But Victorian-era Cadbury boxes still exist, and many are treasured family heirlooms or valuable items prized by collectors.
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Food Industry does not only mean food processing, but also sorting, storage and transport of packed goods. So next to the ultra-hygenic products like our certified drum motor, the Interroll 24 technology conveyor and Crossbelt sorter offer highly efficient, zero maintenance solutions for distribution.
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The food processing industry has to balance high efficiency and low cost simultaneously: It complies with strictest hygienic requirements and regulations. At the same time, companies in the food sector have to minimize their operating costs, for example by reducing energy consumption.
The Interroll solutions for food industry help strengthening the competitiveness of companies in their global marketplace. Interroll has a proven track record of supporting big names in the global food industry by providing efficient products and solutions such as hygienic drum motors, superior space-saving and energy-saving Dynamic Storage system as well as highly efficient and safe conveyors with 24 Volt technology. Among our customers are companies like:
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The Interroll Drum Motors have been specifically designed for belt conveyors and associated material handling equipment. This means that we take the worry and hard work out of your drive systems, leaving you to do what you do best, designing the best conveyor for the application. We have over 50 years of experience in the food processing industry and other extremely demanding industrial applications which we are happy to share with you. There is no doubt about it; the Interroll drive provides a quick and easy way of building maintenance-free, hygienic and energy-efficient belt conveyors. What more could you ask?
The motor, gearbox and bearings are totally enclosed and sealed inside a shell, therefore they are unlikely to fail due to harmful environmental conditions such as dust, liquids etc. Because all components are located inside the shell, drum motors take up much less space than conventional drives.
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Interroll Center of Excellence - Dynamic Storage (in La Roche sur Yon near Nantes, France) specializes in conveyor modules used in pallet and container flow storage areas for rapid-turnover products.
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A generally anonymous user at Wikipedia instigated a deletion of the Family Forest® page which had been up since January of 2007 at Wikipedia, and it feels like a malicious attack. So why now and what was the motivation?
What was the real agenda of this person? It appears that he or she doesn't know what the Family Forest® is, but was sure that it doesn't deserve recognition. Or could he or she have known what the Family Forest® is, and was carrying out sabotage orders?
Allegedly the Family Forest® fails Wikipedia's Notability test. Doesn't it seem that a system of digital links which can generate tens of billions of pages of high quality ancestral history charts, ebooks, and reports should be considered notable, and a system of digital links which can map out a larger portion of the early ancestral pathways than they can see anywhere else for at least one out of three people on the planet should be considered notable?
In the deletion discussion (which I did not know was going on at the time) I was dismissed as just a genealogy hobbyist. On a typical day now, I can substantially improve the assembled ancestry of tens of millions of living people. This is possible only with the proprietary digital resource (the Family Forest®) I have spent tens of thousands of hours developing.
Someone who has spent 40 to 80 hours per week almost every week for 16 years digitally indexing human history in lineage-linked format should not be dismissed as just a hobbyist.
One of our investors recommends legal counsel (and possible action) to find out if this anonymous, mean-spirited, and unfounded attack, and Wikipedia's decision to delete the entry without bothering to make any notification to either the individual who wrote and updated annually the entry on the Family Forest®, nor to the company, which is easily contacted from the FamilyForest.com website, is actionable in a court of law as it is quite damaging to the company, scurrilous, and possibly backed by some would be competitor seeking a corporate advantage.
We don't want to do that. We don't want to counterattack. There's a lot I like about Wikipedia, and I have trouble believing that most of the people behind Wikipedia would sanction the wrong that was done to us.
So here is an offer I presented to Wikimedia last week for a win-win solution. If they will reexamine the Family Forest deletion decision, for the next 120 days they can make the following available at Wikipedia.
Every person who contributes $25 to Wikipedia will receive a complimentary $49 download of the 10,142 page Family Forest® Descendants of King Edward III of England eBook.
Exploring this one huge eBook should convince almost anyone that this one title by itself is notable. Since it is like but one grain of sand on the beach compared to all of the titles the Family Forest® can generate, it should be obvious that the Family Forest® should easily pass Wikipedia's Notability test.
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he's another picture showing wraith armor it's clearly very thick...
we can see the armor clearly in this picture, so yes the armor is very thick in places in other places it's not so thick byt over the main body where the majority or Ori hits will be the armor is thick...
firstly the deadalus isn't 1/1000th of it's size and secondly it's irrelevent...Did you neglect that part where the Daedalus is less than 1/1000th its total size?
despite what you say shrod we've never seen this happen in stargate and the fact that we've seen many different sizes of wraith bolts is proof enough of varying firepower...The hive blasts have a matter component, proven by the fact that it has an explosion on shields. The only type of matter that maintains its shape in a vacume is solid matter. Just out of curiousity, what would proof of this look like, other than hive balsts looking large after being fired from considerable distance?
the distance they were fired from is no larger than any other time we've seen them and the fact remains we've never seen any energy bolt change size after being fired...
it will cause damage but it will take several shots to get there...And what happens when the Ori beam makes it's way inside?
or maybe they hit the same weak stop? your argue is ridiculas even you must see it, like i said if the weak spots are so comon we'd see explosions from rail guns hitting them...Ever hear of a sample size? If just plants 5-10 blocks of C4 with an extremely short range of less than 10 feet, and hits 3 weak points, then that tells me that weak points must be VERY common to have such good odds. Presumably, the opposing hive ships would have better knowledge of where the weak points are than John did.
we've never seen the same sized bolt hit both a hive and the deadalus so your argue meant is moot, the bolts that hit the deadalus have been consistantly smaller than the ones hitting hive ships...Wraith blasts consistently show much larger explosions when they hit Wraith armor than when they hit anything else (unshielded Daedalus, shielded Daedalus, etc.), even in the same frame of the same episode. Further, we have one AMRAM hitting the hive hull in "Allies," which results in a VERY large explosion.
the amram impact in no mans land caused a secondary explosion after it hit the hyperdrive...
primary detonation
secondary explosion
the fact of matter is that internal explosions cause far more damage than external ones, if you stuck a piece of C4 to the side of a hive ship it would do nothing...No, but Daniel and Vala have, plus they had Carter for guidance.
1)the absense of visable armor is proof enough and the fact it is a known weak stop...1) You have no proof that the specific areas were unarmored.
2) Just how strong are the railguns to begin with? For instance, the SGA crew had no problem dealing with the recoil from the railguns meant for the Prometheus, despite Newton's third law of every action having an equal and opposite reaction.
2)they fire slugs at mach 5 so they'd have pretty good armor piercing abilities
the fact remains the hive thought they were under attack from a rival hive and reacted accordingly they weren't threatened by the single dart but by the hive ship on it's side...Not if I was behind an armored wall and knew they couldn't get to me.
when the Z.P.M is that low on power anything you do drains years off the shield life, the Z.P.M in siege was pretty fullHe said that the shield could have lasted another hundred years if they hadn't arrived and turned on all the lights. What's your point?
i haven't brought up misbegotten once and you haven't debunked anything so far...If you want to focus on the other explosions, then focus on the other explosions. But if you keep bringing up "Misbegotten," then I'll keep on debunking it.
he would be saying they have external weaknesses if the whole ship was just as weak use your head...Nope. The rest of the ship could easily be just as weak, the only difference being that the external weakness also has a major system that you can harm in the process. Hive ships are incredibly large, and have a tendency to boune back. However, some systems won't be as easy to bounce back from than others. In fact, here's Zelenka's exact statement:
ZELENKA: Well, the ships are massive, (he shoves himself across the floor on his chair to another computer) but because of their mainly organic design, they have a number of external weaknesses.
there's so much wrong with that. Firstly if rail guns could simply pass through hive ships the ships would be beaten very quickly seeing as a single lucky hit could destroy them, do you even believe half the stuff you right?Note the adjective. The biggest thing that the Hive ship going for it is its size, not it's toughness. Shooting it up with a railgun would be like jamming a needle through an actual beehive. Sure it can probably pass through, but it won't do you much good, since the size of the needle is insignificant compared to the size of the hive, it's unlikely that you'll hit anything important, and the attack is easily avoided in general. Or, think of it like a zombie movie, where it takes the characters forever to realize that they should shoot the zombies in the head. The head is the weak point, even though the bullets will still pass through just about anywhere.
thats completely irrelevent seeing as i was talking about wraith blasts in a vacuum...Here's a shot of a lightning strike from an amateur photographer:
And here's a shot of a lightning strike from space:
Wow, common sense must tell you that the lightning bolt in the second picture must be a billion times bigger than the lightning bolt from the first picture, right? It's not like it could simply be the fact that in one picture, you're observing the strike directly, where as in the second you're seeing the resulting light as it gets absorbed by atmospheric particulate. No, obviously, they must be completley different types of lightning altogether.
basically you've seen sateda and despite the huge amounts of evidence showing much higher yields you've decided sateda is completely unfallable and is more credible than all the evidence we've put forward against it...


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7 Things You Need To Know About The #French #SalarySlip
If you have just started working for a French employer, you may be a little confused when you receive your first salary slip. This is no simple pay slip and should really come with its own instruction manual. Here you'll find some insight into those strange deductions and ambiguous terms.
1. Layout Of Your #Payslip
Let's start with the layout of your salary slip. There are so many sections, you might be sent into a blind panic before you even start to read the details. The good news is that most of these sections are clearly explained or are self explanatory.
● The heading of your salary slip will include the name of your employer, their address, the date and any specific administrative numbers relating to your employer.
● You will then see a number of columns below the heading that list your hours worked, your net income and then the various taxes and other deductions that have been taken from your gross income.
● And at the very bottom of the salary slip will be a summary showing the sums you have paid in deductions and tax.
2. #Health Schemes And #Insurance
In many countries around the world you will be expected to make a contribution to a national health scheme and other insurances. France is no exception. Depending on your particular circumstances, you could see the following details listed on your slip:
● Veuvage - Insurance for widows and widowers paid by the employee.
● Maladie- Your contribution to the National Health insurance scheme.
● Accident du travail - This is insurance that is paid by the employer and covers accidents at work.
3. #Retirement And #Pension Contributions
Preparing for retirement may not be something you are thinking of if you are young and have just started work, but you can never start too early. Depending on whether you have opted into a pension scheme with your employer, you pay see the following on your salary slip:
● Vieillesse - This is paid by both the employee and the employer but not usually in the same amounts. These contributions will be used towards the general retirement fund.
4. #Unemployment Insurance
● ASSEDIC - this unemployment insurance is paid for by your employer.
● FNGS (Fonds National de Garantie des Salaires) - This type of insurance covers the employee should the employer stop paying them and is paid for by the employer.
● AGS (L'Assurance Générale des Salaires) - Should the company go out of business, this insurance protects the employee. The employer picks up the bill for this one too.
● APEC (l'Association Pour l'Emploi des Cadres) - This is unemployment insurance for managers and is paid by your employer.
5. #Taxes
Of course, you cannot have a blog post explaining a #Payslip without mentioning taxes. There are a number of tax deductions and additions you may find on your wages slip and it is important to understand each of them.
● Impôt sur le revenue - Quite simply, this is income tax.
● FNAL - Housing tax - this is a common allowance given to families to put towards rent payments
● CSG - This tax is paid towards the general welfare fund.
6. Other Entries You May See On Your #SalarySlip
● Prime transport - If you use a company car or another commercial vehicle, your employer may pay an allowance. This is non-taxable.
● Frais repas - These are payments from your employer for the use of the company restaurant.
7. How To Get The Most From Your #French #Salary
If you need to send money back home or transfer money to a bank account outside of France, it is important to look into the best money transfer deals. By using an FCA authorized foreign currency specialist instead of your high street bank, you can make your money go so much further.
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As one who's dropped his iPhone face down on a marble floor, I can attest to the necessity of an iPhone case. But everyone's got those rubber things. Wouldn't it be nice to have a case that constantly reminded you that the engine in your garage isn't going to rebuild itself?
Check out id America's Gasket Brushed Aluminum Case. (We're just calling it the "gasket case." The design firm says it's inspired by the shape of a head gasket on a performance engine. And, lo, it does resemble one of those, doesn't it?
It's made from brushed aluminum with a suede inner lining. BUT WAIT. For your $29.99. You also get protective film, an "installation squeegee" and, because they come with everything these days from TVs to Big Macs, a microfiber cleaning cloth.


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WASHINGTON — — Maryland's congressional delegation continued to press the Obama administration Friday to reconsider its decision to deny federal aid to Eastern Shore families hurt by superstorm Sandy as state leaders encouraged victims to report damage.
In a letter Friday, Sens. Barbara A. Mikulski and Ben Cardin asked FEMA administrator Craig Fugate to "exercise flexibility" in determining whether residents in Somerset, Worcester and Dorchester counties should be eligible to apply for federal housing aid.
Federal Emergency Management Agency officials determined this week that the damage in Maryland from the Oct. 29 storm was not extensive enough to justify assistance for several hundred families whose homes were affected. Gov. Martin O'Malley's administration has vowed to appeal that decision.
"There are more resources required — particularly on the Lower Eastern Shore — where there are serious and significant unmet needs," the senators, both Maryland Democrats, wrote. "This region is already facing tough economic times."
State officials, meanwhile, are reassessing the storm's impact as they prepare the appeal. The Maryland Emergency Management Agency activated a toll-free telephone number Friday that residents may use to report damage to their property. Officials hope that a more thorough accounting of the storm's impact will help the state meet damage thresholds required for the assistance.
They also added another county — Wicomico — to the list for which they are seeking damage reports.
"There is no guarantee that the individual assistance denial will be reversed, but we are making every effort to gather enough information to show the scope of damages in these counties," the state agency wrote in its announcement.
It is not clear how much flexibility FEMA has in reviewing the appeal. The agency uses a formula that is based partly on the extent of damage but also on the state's capacity to help its residents absent federal involvement. The final decision rests with the White House.
Minnesota and Illinois faced similar denials this year. Both lost their appeals.
To report damage
Maryland officials are asking residents of Dorchester, Somerset, Wicomico and Worcester counties who sustained damage to their home or business during Sandy to contact the Maryland Department of Human Resources relief hot line at 888-756-7836.
WASHINGTON — — Maryland's congressional delegation continued to press the Obama administration Friday to reconsider its decision to deny federal aid to Eastern Shore families hurt by superstorm Sandy as state leaders encouraged victims to report damage.


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Governmental weather modification programs may well have been going on since Vietnam when back-to-back monsoons were created in the 1970s to flush out the Vietcong. The vid. below discusses government documents that have been released to the public.
So, the first condition needed for hurricanes is warmer waters in the Atlantic Ocean, which cause a number of other conditions favorable to hurricanes.
"When the waters are warmer, it tends to mean you have lower pressures. It means a more unstable atmosphere, which is conducive to hurricanes intensifying," said Phil Klotzbach, an atmospheric scientist at Colorado State University. "These thunderstorms, which are the building blocks of hurricanes, are better able to organize and get going."
Another key factor: wind shear, or the change in wind direction with height into the atmosphere, Klotzbach said.
"When you have a warm tropical Atlantic, you have reduced levels of wind shear," Klotzbach told Live Science. "When you have a lot of wind shear it basically tears apart the hurricane."
(Storms that form on different sides of the equator have different spin orientations, thanks to Earth's slight tilt on its axis, according to NASA.)
The individual ingredients for hurricanes, however, don't pop up at random; they are guided by larger weather systems.
"There are two dominant climate patterns that really control the wind and pressure patterns across the Atlantic," said Gerry Bell, the lead seasonal hurricane forecaster for NOAA's Climate Prediction Center in Washington, D.C.The first is the El Niño/La Niña cycle. During an El Niño, in which ocean water around the northwestern coast of South America becomes warner than usual, Atlantic hurricanes are suppressed, while La Niña creates more favorable conditions for hurricanes, Bell said.
The second climate pattern is the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO), which is, as the name implies, a trend that lasts anywhere from 25 to 40 years and is associated with warmer waters in the Atlantic and stronger African monsoons, Bell said.
"When this pattern is in its warm phase, or a warmer tropical Atlantic Ocean, we tend to see stronger hurricane patterns for decades at a time," Bell told Live Science.
A warm-phase AMO conducive to hurricanes prevailed between 1950 and 1970 and since 1995, Bell said. https://www.livescience.com/57671-hurricane-season.html
For the 2017 hurricane season, the following hurricane names could come into play in the North Atlantic, Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico, according to the WMO:
As far as predictions about tropical storms and hurricanes are concerned, I believe Katia or Lee should round out the 2017 season, but will that be the case?
What is the purpose of weather engineering programs? Some say it's for wartime advantages, some for profiteering off of tragedies, some say its to protect people from ozone issues...I don't know, but I no longer doubt that what I see occurring in the skies over where I live, the chemtrails, to be normal noxious gas residues of normal smoke escaping from jets. There is a difference between a 100 feet contrail of normal smoke from jet fuel that disperses and the abnormal criss-cross patterns of chemtrails that stretch for thousands of feet and hang in the air like a haze without dispersing.
When MDs and various research scientists worry about the health and safety of the general public, I listen to what they have to say. Aerosolized aluminum nano-sized particles sprayed in the chemtrails to engineer the weather for more rain, for cutting down on ozone exposure so the governments says using the aluminum particles that the government knows is hazardous to all life (human, animal, plant) in the USA. Criminal acts carried out unbenownst to the public at large.
An old ILP thread regarding hurricane Sandy and weather engineering was discussed.
Okay USA skeptics, what have you got?


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Not sure if anybody saw this yet:
SSchmidt wrote:I want that panda now!!!! This is a pretty good set. It looks good at the moment, but i'm sure my feelings toward it will change. All the zombie figures are nice. Shakespeare is sweet too.
Bruce N H wrote:Hey,
In addition to releasing the picture of the collectible figs, LEGO also released a picture of this set from the movie:
To me it looks like something from the Sugar Rush game in Wreck-It Ralph. BTW, note that the two protagonists are being chased by some robot/zombie guy, so presumably these, of which there are three in the collectible series, are going to be the antagonists for much of this movie.
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Medford Knife and Tool – Amazing!
We've had Medford products for several weeks now and I haven't gotten around to a Blog post- because they have been coming and going out in a fast and furious fashion. These combat knives and folding knives are amazing– they are strong, well made and well designed and not inexpensive- and the public loves them. We ordered them back in January and they finally arrived in July, and this is the typical lead time on these items. They are absolutely worth the wait. The whole operation is a reflection of the creators, Greg and Amy Medford in Phoenix, AZ. These two are dynamic, high spirited, fun and creative individuals with a real passion for the product and the business. They have an amazing process for each knife that includes fully hand grinding each blade and fitting each knife together to the utmost perfection. The fit and finish on these workhorse big, honkin' knives is superb. The materials are great and the the packaging is super professional. We see a lot of products come through the Knifecenter, but the Medfords have really raised the bar in all these respects. Look for great things in the future with a quicker production cycle, but the knives will never be better than they are now. They may have automatic grinders in their production down the road, but now everything is ground by hand. You may regret not getting these early models.


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Abbott Laboratories said Monday that its experimental hepatitis C drug regimen cured 99 percent of patients in a midstage study with the most common and hardest-to-treat type of the disease.
Patients who took a three-drug regimen and the drugs Ritonavir and ribavirin had undetectable virus levels after 12 weeks of treatment. The North Chicago, Ill., company, parent of Abbott Bioresearch Center of Worcester, says it observed a 93 percent cure rate in a group of patients who were not helped by other treatments.
Patients in the trial had genotype 1 hepatitis C, which is the most common type in the Western world and the hardest to treat. The regimen did not include interferon, a standard component of hepatitis C therapy that causes flu-like side effects that can last for months.
The study included 77 patients who hadn't been treated before and 41 patients who were not helped by other treatments.
Abbott shares rose $2.77, or 4 percent, to close at $72.05 Monday. The stock rose to all-time high of $72.10 earlier in the session.
Shares of Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. also traded higher on promising data for a hepatitis C regimen. The company said 94 percent of patients who took a combination of three experimental drugs, daclatasvir, asunaprevir, and BMS-791325, were cured in a 12-week study. Those patients did not take interferon or ribavirin.
The company has a manufacturing plant in Devens, which employs 300 people.
Shares of Bristol-Myers Squibb rose 84 cents, or 2.5 percent, to $33.93.
Hepatitis C is a virus that can lead to life-threatening liver damage and is the main cause of liver transplants in the U.S. Analysts say the market for treatments is potentially lucrative for drugmakers. More people are expected to be diagnosed with the tough-to-treat disease as the baby boomer generation ages.
After a two-decade drought, two new hepatitis C drugs were approved last year: Merck & Co.'s Victrelis and Incivek from Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Johnson & Johnson. Both significantly improve the cure rate over what has long been the standard of care, a mix of injections and pills with nasty side effects that takes several months and still doesn't cure many patients.
Citi Investment Research analyst Yaron Werber said the study results were strong, particularly in newly diagnosed patients. However he said the regimen is complicated because it includes five different types of pills, and Ritonavir can cause serious side effects when taken with some other medications. Werber said he believes a regimen being studied by Gilead Sciences Inc. could produce similar cure rates with fewer pills.
Gilead's approach uses two experimental pills, including its drug candidate sofosbuvir, as well as ribavirin.


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Loaded: Paramount asks to co-opt spaces
A row of empty spaces at Court Square reserved for police in 2003 pushed downtown resident Jock Yellott to appeal to City Council.
The result: A new parking ordinance that mandates the city must post any proposed changes to existing parking and allow public comment for 14 days.
The Paramount Theater is the first to take the heat for requesting its own exclusive 24-hour loading zone on Market Street.
"Before, someone would have whispered in a bureaucrat's ear and gotten it done," says Yellott. "I'm awfully glad we're giving people the opportunity to comment."
Yellott took advantage of the new parking ordinance to weigh in with his own comments. He calls the would-be loading zone spaces across the street from the library "some of the most precious spots in the city" because of their proximity to banks, restaurants, and the Downtown Mall.
"A loading zone would make the theater's interest exclusive, and, well paramount," writes Yellott to traffic engineer Ken Keena.
"Nothing short of criminal" is how Mary Cockerille describes the plan in an email to City Hall.
Nor are the Paramount's neighbors on Third Street who suffered during the two years of construction particularly sympathetic to the renovated theater's request for its own 24-hour loading zone.
"That's ridiculous," says Mike Rodi, co-owner of Rapture. "On the one hand, they do obviously need immediate access for loading. On the other, so do we all."
Rodi has had contractors cancel maintenance because they couldn't find a place to park.
"We don't have a loading zone," says Third Street salon-owner Tee Tee Jackson. "Our suppliers can't get down here. They have to walk."
Paramount executive director Chad Hershner must see that shows go on, and he has had to deal with the panic of "a 53-foot tractor-trailer and tour bus" arriving with no place to park.
"This is truly just for loading and unloading for the shows we have," he says. "Sometimes that's six days a week." And he stresses that the spaces are not for employee parking.
Rodi predicts that if approved, the loading zone will be unused 50 percent of the time, especially when the theater season ends in May.
But Hershner foresees renting the Paramount out in the summer. For instance, Monticello High School plans to have its prom on the Paramount stage.
Jefferson-Madison Regional Library Director John Halliday is unperturbed by the Paramount's loading zone bid. He says the Paramount is a "terrific neighbor" and that library patrons can get parking validated for two hours at the city garages on Market and Water streets.
Cockerille doesn't think that plan works for older people who may not easily be able to walk several blocks from the parking garage. "It's a schlep also for a person with small kids," she adds.
"As a library patron, I find it disheartening that the Paramount is big enough to ask for something and probably get it," she says. She's so galvanized by the loading zone request that she's been distributing flyers around town and is forming a group, Citizens for Public Access in Charlottesville.
Cockerille also would like to see some changes to the new parking ordinance. "The public forum for parking changes was not widely publicized," she says. "The only way to know is to walk up and see them. People who are driving by can't see them."
The petitions to change parking are posted on the city's website– but they're buried about four screens in from the home page.
"To be honest, I'd like to see something up front with all public notices," says traffic engineer Keena, to whom falls the task of reviewing all petitions to change parking.
The public's 14 days on this change last until February 22. And, reminds Yellott, "The ordinance invites notice and comment, but it's not like a referendum where the majority wins. The traffic engineer has the final decision. Regardless of what you or I think is a good idea, he can go ahead and do what he thinks is a good idea."
Actually, says Keena, his decision can be overturned by the city manager. And he acknowledges the high profile nature of this request.
Several citizens propose that the prime street real estate remain two-hour parking, and that the Paramount– like funeral homes and Starr Hill– reserve the spaces when needed.
"That's what we've been doing up to this point," says Hershner. But not everyone honors the cones put out to reserve the spaces, he says.
Parking woes aside, Hershner reports that Paramount ticket sales have far exceeded expectations, and at press time, 17 shows have sold out.
Now if he can just find a place to park those tractor-trailers and tour buses.
Now citizens can comment on parking changes– if they happen to walk by and see the notice.
The Paramount wants nearly half the block behind it on Market Street for a loading zone. Other local businesses would like to have their own loading zones, too.


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Citigroup chief executive Michael Corbat has wasted little time in cost cutting since taking over the helm of America's third-largest bank from Vikram Pandit in October.
The New York-based firm has announced plans to eliminate 11,000 jobs worldwide, about 4 per cent of its workforce, and will take a US$1 billion charge in the fourth quarter. Investors cheered the news, sending the shares up 6.3 per cent on the New York Stock Exchange
More than half the cuts will come from Citigroup's global consumer-banking business in countries ranging from Pakistan to Uruguay.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rallied almost 1 per cent, snapping a two-day slide, and the Standard & Poor's 500 Index gained 0.6 per cent. Investors said equity markets are still beholden to stalled fiscal cliff talks in Washington though with a drop of optimism both sides could be softening.
Plains Exploration & Production jumped 25 per cent and McMoRan Exploration soared about 83 per cent after Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold agreed to acquire them for about $9 billion. Freeport dropped 13.4 per cent as some analysts questioned the wisdom of merging a miner with an energy company.
Apple fell 4.2 per cent after reports that a clearing house, COR Clearing, had raised its margin requirements for Apple to 60 per cent from 30 per cent because of what it called "high concentration." Facebook slipped 0.3 per cent as Nasdaq OMX Group said the social media company will replace Infosys on the Nasdaq 100 Index on December 12.
Helping lift stocks, a gauge of services industries in the US rose faster than expected last month.
The Institute for Supply Management's non-manufacturing index rose to 54.7 from 54.2 in October, surprising economists who were projecting a decline. Still, the employment gauge fell to 50.3, the lowest since July, though still indicating expansion.
Another report showed the US companies added fewer workers in November though this can be put down to the disruption from Hurricane Sandy.
Employment rose by 118,000, less than the 125,000 estimate in a Bloomberg survey and down from 157,000 the previous month, according to the ADP Research Institute. Storm disruptions probably reduced payrolls by 86,000.
The data provides a clue to the private hiring component of the Labor Department's non-farm payrolls survey tomorrow, a key measure of employment growth. The jobless rate is expected to have held unchanged at 7.9 per cent.
The euro fell from a seven-week high after against the greenback after the indebted nation sold fewer bonds than it had targeted, stoking concern a further request for euro financial aid could come sooner rather than later.
Spain sold 4.3 billion euros of debt, missing the top end of the 3.5 billion to 4.5 billion euros it targeted.
The euro traded recently at $1.3082, having earlier reached a session high of $1.3126 according to Reuters data, the highest since Oct. 18.
Services and manufacturing output contracted for a 10th straight month in November, according to Markit Economics' composite index of purchasing managers, which edged up to a still-negative reading of 46.5 from 45.7 a month earlier.
Finland became the latest European nation to slide into recession, with its economy contracting 0.1 per cent in the third quarter, following a 1.1 per cent contraction three months earlier. Economists had expected growth in the third quarter.
Poland, which is hoping to avoid recession, cut its seven-day reference rate a quarter point to 4.25 per cent, the second reduction in as many months.


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