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File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1995, in _prepare_split_single
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Spectre has the specs but it'll cost Stuart Kennedy road tests HP's upmarket ultrabook and finds plenty to like. The Spectre Pro range-topping review unit had just about everything, bar the $2499 price tag. Lesser models start at $1599. Source: TheAustralian HP has come up with a cracker of an ultrabook with its touchscreen-equipped Spectre 13 Pro, although you must spend up big to get all the goodies. The ultrabook story was cooked up several years ago by Intel and the Windows notebook vendors to try to stem the flood of people swapping their notebooks for either a tablet or the thin and pretty Macbook Air. The idea was to rev up interest in light, thin and sexy Windows notebooks, but there was vendor confusion for a while as the ultrabook tag ended up on everything from budget fodder to top-end gear. Meanwhile, the advent of Windows 8 confused matters further as it became apparent that you really needed a touch screen to make driving Win 8"s interface a pleasure rather than a frustrating chore. The past 12 months have seen some very good Windows ultrabooks that combine sleek design with decent touch screens although they tend to inhabit the high end of the market. The HP Spectre Pro sits at the expensive end of the ultrabook line and it does deliver. The Spectre Pro range-topping review unit had just about everything I could want in a Windows notebook, bar the $2499 price tag. Lesser models start at $1599. It had plenty of grunt courtesy of a 1.8Ghz-3.0 Ghz Intel Core i7 4500u processor coupled to 8GB of system memory. A quick 256GB SSD drive (128GB on lesser models) provided the storage. The meaty processor and memory made the Spectre quick, responsive and good for power- sapping tasks like video editing. It will play games OK as well, although the Intel HD 4400 graphics dictate keeping the screen quality settings moderate. When pushed, the Spectre's fan is a little noisy and there's a slight hot spot around the middle of the base. The chassis is brushed aluminium and the build quality is excellent. Around the edges are two USB 3.0 ports, an SD card slot and HDMI out. HP calls the colour of the back plate truffle brown, although under light it had a purplish hue to my eye. The review unit came with the optional 2560 by 1440 pixel Quad-HD touch screen as opposed to the 1920 by 1080 pixel standard touch screen. It's a pretty display with punch colour and detail you would expect from all those pixels, although I suspect that by the end of the year, true 4K screens will be the expected resolution on $2000-plus notebooks. HP has kept the Spectre quite light at 1.5kg. While the touch pad looks strangely wide, it incorporates a neat feature that HP dubs the Control Zone. The left and right edges of the touch pad have a slightly different finish to the rest of the pad and they act like the edges of a Windows touch screen. Swipe in from the left edge and the Windows Charms bar appears. Swiping up and down moves through the Charms choices and pressing down selects it. Swipe from the right and it switches between open applications. The Chiclet style keyboard is backlit and pleasing to type on, although I found the blue key labels hard to make out under some lighting conditions. Battery life was OK but I suspect the model with the more modest Core i5 processor would do better. With all the radios switched on, performance mode selected and the screen brightness on full, I got more than five hours of operation running a looping video. Sound is by BeatsAudio, which you expect to be good, but I found the speakers on the Spectre were just average. Overall, the Spectre 13 Pro is a great high-end ultrabook, although I would probably save myself a grand and go for the lower specification model, although it would be hard to give up the 2560 by 1440 screen.
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How do freelancers get a mortgage? Once upon a time, all you needed to get a mortgage was a trio of wage slips. Since the credit crunch lenders have become more cautious and things are not quite so easy. The mortgage market review, which came into effect in April, has set some of that caution in stone; now you have to prove not only your income, but your ability to sustain mortgage payments alongside your day-to-day lifestyle should interest rates rise. Changes in the mortgage market have made things even harder for freelancers whose income may well fluctuate month to month. In theory, self-employed workers should have access to the same mortgage deals as anyone else, provided they can produce two to three years" worth of accounts (if they're registered as a limited company) or SA302s (HMRC forms proving tax payments, for sole traders who compete an annual self-assessment return). The reality, however, is rarely so straightforward. One complication comes from the variety of ways someone can set themselves up in self-employment: sole traders, company directors and contractors are each assessed in a different way. Contractors, for example, can be assessed using a bespoke underwriting process that calculates annual gross earnings from a day rate, assuming the individual meets certain criteria, including having a contract lasting at least three months. As a company director, you will most likely be assessed on the wages and dividends you draw, which could put you at a disadvantage if you're leaving the majority of your profits in the company account to reduce your tax bill. In that case you need to find a lender who will agree to assess you based on the company's net profits. "What we have is different lenders assessing self-employed company directors in different ways," says John Yerou, managing director of Freelancer Financials, a specialist mortgage brokerage service. "So one lender will give you more than the other because they have a different underwriting process to assess your affordability. There are only about five or six high street banks that will look at net profits." The fact that branch advisers are more used to dealing with employed people than those who are self-employed is another potential roadblock for freelancers to navigate, says Yerou. Isabel Thomas experienced this when she tried to move home with her existing lender in 2012, having gone freelance as a children's writer since securing her original home loan in 2011. "The guy we dealt with in the branch didn't seem to know what would or wouldn't be acceptable," she says. "It felt like no one really knew what was going on and it was hard to get people to look logically at your situation. It just added this huge amount of extra stress." Despite having three years" worth of records, Isabel and her husband still ran into problems. "For the first three months we were house hunting with £50,000 more in mind than we could actually get," says Thomas. "Instead of averaging over two years, which they said was their policy, the reality was that if the most recent year is lower, they will go with that. Because I had just had a baby and earned a third of what I would usually earn, I was really penalised." In the end, the couple had to start their house search again, with a reduced budget. PR professional Ruth Wilson ran into difficulties when she attempted to remortgage last year. Having taken out her original loan with Chetenham & Gloucester during the housing boom, when she was employed, she went on to set herself up as director of her own limited company in 2012. "When we first approached our bank they said it would be fine but I didn't have two years of books," she says. "I had one year's books but that wasn't enough for the mainstream lenders. We were able to show clearly that the income was coming in, but a few of the main lenders closed their doors to me. We could have gone with a couple of others but the interest rates were incredibly high." In the end, Wilson was referred by a fellow freelancer to a mortgage broker specialising in securing mortgages for freelancers and contractors. The situation is even tougher for those who are new to the freelance market. With less than a year's books it's unlikely you will qualify at all, though there are some lenders who will consider you after your first 12 months in business. Halifax mortgages director, Craig McKinlay, says it reviews each case on an individual basis and that applicants with less than three years" accounts are referred to an underwriter for assessment. "As long as they can see some evidence that you can afford the mortgage going forward, then that could be fine," he says. "They're looking at things like the accounts being stable, no big losses, making sure your business is not about to fail. We're just trying to make sure people have got sustainable income." | 999 | -8,538,286,958,018,171,000 | 2014-12-31 00:00:00 | null | null | null | null |
"Sometimes we feel they are luckier," she said. "We are not that rich."
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Massachusetts rallies to beat James Madison 21-14 AMHERST, Mass. (AP) - Jonathan Hernandez carried 28 times for 137 yards and Kyle Havens threw two touchdown passes as Massachusetts beat James Madison 21-14 on Saturday after trailing 14-3 at halftime. Two first downs by Hernandez started the Minutemen (5-3, 3-2 Colonial Athletic Association) on a 14-play, 69-yard third-quarter drive that led to a 25-yard Caleb Violette field goal. After the Dukes (4-4, 1-4) punted, Anthony Nelson's 53-yard return put Massachusetts at the James Madison 17, leading to Havens' 2-yard TD pass to Julian Talley. A 2-point conversion pass to Dan Sheeran tied it. The Minutemen forced another punt and started their next drive at the Dukes' 48. Four carries by Hernandez gained 42 yards before Havens, who was 15 of 19 for 163 yards, found Andrew Krevis for a 1-yard score and the lead. The Dukes' Drew Dudzik was 13 of 25 for 179 yards and ran 12 times for 98 yards. Copyright 2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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Police: Mexico Beauty Queen Had Gunpowder on Hands A federal prosecutor says a Mexican beauty queen killed in a shootout between suspected drug traffickers and soldiers likely fired a gun during the clash in the Pacific coast state of Sinaloa. Authorities had said that Maria Susana Flores Gamez was likely used as a human shield and that an automatic rifle had been found near her body. Federal prosecutor Enrique Fedegrino said Tuesday that tests indicate there was gunpowder residue on her hands. He said authorities are still investigating if she shot at soldiers. Flores was crowned 2012 Woman of Sinaloa in February. The slender, 5-foot-7-inch woman had competed with seven other contestants for the more prestigious state beauty contest, Miss Sinaloa, but didn't win.
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Texas Teen Describes Slayings to 911 Operator During a nearly 25-minute call to 911, a 17-year-old calmly describes shooting his mother and younger sister to death in their North Texas home. Jake Evans told the Parker County 911 operator early Thursday morning, "It's weird, I wasn't even really angry with them." Authorities say he shot his mother, 48-year-old Jami Evans, and his 15-year-old sister, Mallory, at the family's upscale home near Aledo, about 20 miles west of Fort Worth. He told the operator it "just kind of happened," and said he'd "been kind of planning on killing for a while now." When the operator asked if he'd planned on killing them or "just anybody," Jake Evans replied, "Pretty much just anybody." The teen has been charged with capital murder and is jailed without bond.
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At least three killed in Italy after ship crashes into port
ROME (Reuters) - At least three people were killed and six injured when a container ship rammed a control tower in the northern Italian port city of Genoa late on Tuesday, harbor officials quoted on local television said. Seven people were also reported missing after the accident. "It is a terrible tragedy," the head of the Genoa Port Authority Luigi Merlo told local Genoa television station Primocanale. "At the moment there is no explanation for the accident." Two of the dead were harbor officials and the third was one of the pilots, local Primocanale quoted officials as saying. According to the website of Il Secolo XIX, a local Genoa newspaper, two of the dead were men and the third was a woman. The huge control tower, which reports said was more than 50 meters (160 feet) high, was destroyed by the impact. The accident happened just as staff were changing shifts, meaning more people than normal were in the tower. Three people were believed to have been trapped in the lift of the control tower and may have fallen into the sea. Television pictures showed the area around the crash lit up by floodlights as rescue services searched the water near the tower for survivors or bodies. The incident occurred at around 11 p.m. (2100 GMT) in calm conditions as the ship, the Jolly Nero, owned by a local fleet operator Ignazio Messina and Co, was maneuvering out of the port with the assistance of tugboats, under the control of two pilots. "A thing like this has never happened, we are devastated," said Stefano Messina, one of the directors of the family-owned company, who spoke in tears near the crash site. The Jolly Nero is a 238-metre-long (781-foot-long) container ship with a gross tonnage of 40,594 tonnes, according to the company's website. Prosecutors boarded the vessel and have opened an investigation into the accident, according to Il Secolo XIX. (Reporting By James Mackenzie; Editing by Mohammad Zargham)
| 449 | 7,779,731,928,131,462,000 | 2013-12-31 00:00:00 | null | null | null | null |
Mij may refer to:
Mij, Iran (disambiguation)
An otter character in the book Ring of Bright Water by Gavin Maxwell, and the subsequent film
Jim Holmberg, American singer-songwriter who recorded under the name Mij
==See also==
MIJ (disambiguation) | 69 | null | null | 580,679,187 | "2013-11-07T23:57:41" | Mij | 2,014 |
==To do to improve==
in-line citations
much more references
photograph
what influenced him in forming his ideas... both the blunt realities he posed and the controversial ones
more on his impact as the Executive Director of the National Congress of American Indians
more on his influence as professors at the University of Arizona and the University of Colorado
Please cross off the list as they have been completed. Thanks. CJLippert
Confirm or complete merge from other related pages
Etbnc
==Themes, approach, writing style==
I suggest adding a section to the article to summarize some of the major themes of Deloria's work, and his distinctive approach to writing. There's some of that in the bio summary now, but pulling it out separately might help to create a clearer context for criticism. Some thoughts:
Deloria consistently wrote with a noticeable Native American Indian point of view (a very strong and distinctive author's voice)
role of Coyote / Trickster (with link to WP article about Coyote Trickster)
prose style freely mixes documented and cited research with personal opinion, dry wit, even sarcasm
criticized behavior of scientists as well as some ideas considered scientific
Thoughts? Etbnc
==Merge==
Looks to me as if the requested merger has been completed. (But sometimes WP seems like spaghetti to me; maybe I got tangled in a tangent.) Confirmation? Is there anything left to merge from elsewhere? Etbnc
Be bold and do it! Doesn't really need discussion as these are two pages on the same person. Don't envy you having to do the merge, though. Vizjim
Sure thing, I may very well do so - but I placed the merge template there to bring it to others' attention if I didn't, which I'm assuming is appropriate.... Outriggr
==Creationism, science, etc.==
I don't know enough to write something accurate on the subject, but my impression is that Deloria is known, especially in his later writings, for strong attacks on many widely-accepted scientific theories, such as evolution and the view that early Americans crossed the Bering land bridge from Asia. Needless to say, this has caused some controversy. I'm thinking in particular of his 1995 book Red Earth, White Lies: Native Americans and the Myth of Scientific Fact. We do have a separate article on that book, but don't really discuss the issue here. I included a couple of sentences (citations included) on Deloria's take on contemporary Science. I think this will help lay a reason behind his argument toward creationism and away from the scientific explanation of origins. — Preceding unsigned comment added by JasonTCole (talk • contribs)
Nice job on the addition of Deloria's views on science. Interesting that Deloria took such a strong position on creationism and even pushed against science so passionately. Your addition was clearly articulated and easy to understand. It was also well justified with the references/citations provided. Dkong015 (talk)
Minor note. After Jason's edit I noticed that he hadn't realised that he was using a summary of a chapter and that the author of the chapter was not the person who wrote the summary - an easy thing to miss, so I fixed that and changed the text into a quote as it was too close to the original to use otherwise. Dougweller (talk)
==Criticism?==
There are footnotes and but now reference at the end
of the article. Even more disturbing because the criticism claims
some strange things about Deloria. So if you read his writings you
can find many humorous remarks, that is why I don't think - even if
one can find these remarks in his writings - you should take them
serious. Therefor I'll cut and paste this part on this discussion page until
we have some verified references:
Deloria was widely criticized for his embrace of pseudoscience. For example, Deloria argued that white people were created by space aliens from the planet Nibiru, and that dinosaurs and humans lived at the same time. The Rocky Mountain News excoriated Deloria for the "the utterly wacky nature of some of his views,” and “his contempt for much science." I hid part of this comment on the page for the time being, partly because no page numbers were cited, just books, and partly because...well, I've read "God is Red", and Deloria's claims about aliens are nowhere near as batshit crazy as this makes them sound. | 1,004 | null | null | 617,302,410 | "2014-07-17T11:28:56" | Vine Deloria Jr. | 2,014 |
==Information Request==
I started this page and I hope that people familiar with Metamora will take charge and fill in the details. Thanks chris4682 | 35 | null | null | 586,893,933 | "2013-12-20T03:44:17" | Metamora, Indiana | 2,014 |
Some Insurance Companies Ask Customers to Cross the Border for Care Before dawn on a Wednesday in January, Cesar Flores, a 40-year-old employed by a large retail chain, woke up at his home in Chula Vista, California. He got in his car and crossed the border into Tijuana. From there, he headed for a local hospital, where he got lab tests - part of routine follow-up to a kidney stone procedure. He had his blood drawn and left the hospital at 7:30. He arrived home before 10. Uninsured Americans have long known that seeking medical care abroad is often more cost-effective than seeking it at home. Even after you factor in travel expense and time off work, you still often come out ahead. A hip replacement that would cost $75,000 for an uninsured patient in the U.S. is $9,000 in India. A heart bypass in the U.S. runs about $210,000; in Thailand it's $12,000. According to Patients Beyond Borders, a company that facilitates medical tourism, those savings drove about 900,000 Americans to leave the country for medical procedures last year - a number they estimate is growing by 15 percent per year. But Flores's situation isn't medical tourism as we know it. Flores has insurance through his wife's employer. But his insurer, a small, three-year-old startup H.M.O. called MediExcel, requires Flores to obtain certain medical treatment at a hospital across the border. In part due to cost-pressures generated by the Affordable Care Act, other sorts of plans that require travel have the potential to expand. With this prospect looming, it's important to ask: What's the impact on patients? Are these insurance plans regulated? And, perhaps most importantly, are they ethical? The phenomenon first took off in California because of its proximity to much less expensive Mexican providers and because of the cultural connections of the large Chicano population. In 1998, California became the first state to pass a law accommodating cross-border care. American employers wanted to provide health insurance for Mexican working along the border, and it made sense to offer them care where they lived or felt most comfortable. California lawmakers weren't trying to pioneer a cost-saving measure: The law requires that Mexican health plans be "exclusively for the benefit of Mexican nationals." But this requirement has not been strictly followed. MediExcel determined it would violate anti-discrimination laws to offer the plan only to Mexicans, and a spokeswoman for a much larger Mexican insurer for U.S. workers, SIMNSA (40,000 insured) said the provision has been "widely interpreted." An executive at Flores's wife's employer, Medical Center Pharmacy, was not even aware of the Mexican residency requirement. She said that only about one-half of MediExcel employees who have Mexican insurance are Mexican nationals, and one-third are not even Mexican-American. And if it weren't clear enough that these plans are no longer just about convenience for border-residents, in 2008, a MedExcel executive founded a (now defunct) company with no connection to the border at all: It contracted to send patients to a hospital in Monterrey, a northeastern Mexican city over 1,000 miles from California. Other plans have arisen, too - outside California and offered by U.S. insurance companies. Nathan Cortez, a law professor and one of the leading scholars of medical tourism, writes that the four biggest insurers in the United States (Aetna, Humana, UnitedHealth, and WellPoint) are already experimenting with cross-border plans - all in the absence of state and federal law directly addressing the phenomenon. BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina has contracted with providers in Thailand, Singapore, Ireland, Turkey, and Costa Rica for its high-deductible, low-premium plans, which tend to be used by cost-conscious employers for lower-wage workers. (Other than California, only Texas, under pressure in 2007 from a powerful medical lobby, has addressed the issue head-on, banning any plan that requires patients to leave the country.) Given the likelihood that more companies will notice the potential cost-savings of mandatory cross-border care, this is an important moment to ask: Is care across the border essentially a cheaper version of what patients would get at home? | 897 | 4,274,044,055,468,036,600 | 2014-12-31 00:00:00 | null | null | null | null |
As for Dynamic IP, at least the different IPs would be w/n the same domain. But, while CommieCast has dynamic IPs, I've had the same IP for the past 21 months. Can't say much about "open proxies." At least this is educational. Delete. GRider\talk
Keep. I don't see anything in the deletion criteria to justify a delete. User's first edit. —Korath (Talk) 05:21, Jan 6, 2005 (UTC)
Keep. TKurtBond
User's first edit. —Korath (Talk) 13:32, Jan 6, 2005 (UTC)
Delete as entirely non-notable except by one person and a bunch of sockpuppets. DreamGuy 22:09, Jan 6, 2005 (UTC)
Sockpuppets? That's a load of bull. You'd think if I were using sock puppets I'd have had more votes. I take that as an insult. Delete unless article establishes notability. Tuf-Kat 00:17, Jan 7, 2005 (UTC)
Delete. Non-notable except to author and sockpuppets. Jayjg | (Talk)
Delete. Xezbeth 06:44, Jan 7, 2005 (UTC)
Delete Abusive, and pathetically non-notable. Death to sockpuppets! Minor point. I had somebody privately inform me that it is more commonly called "Lexicon Game" as opposed to Lexicon RPG. When googling on that criteria, there are more accurate hits. Also, I have been told that googling "Lexicon Neel" is also an effective way of finding Lexicon pages. So, earlier assessments from a google on variations of Lexicon RPG are a bit skewed. Perhaps, also, this should be recategorized from RPG to games, or maybe wiki-games? Please note that Ben Wilson has now created LexiconGame, a fork of this article, which I have listed for VfD below. RickK 23:40, Jan 6, 2005 (UTC)
I did so only because that is a more appropriate name than LexiconRPG, as I have been told by several people. Not to circumvent the process. If this page had been deleted, I would have moved for that one to be immediately deleted as well. Delete. Wile E. Heresiarch
Different. Interesting. Completely unknown. Delete. hfool/Roast me
Delete. Not notable. Indrian 04:09, Jan 9, 2005 (UTC)
Del. NN. This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like some other VfD subpages, is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion or on the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages. Please do not edit this page. | 662 | null | null | 357,554,866 | "2010-04-22T04:24:59" | Articles for deletion/LexiconRPG | 2,014 |
Buehrle helps Blue Jays' offence bust out of slump in win over Angels For a while, Luis Rivera was the loneliest man in baseball. There was the Toronto Blue Jays third base coach, on the field at Rogers Centre, all ready to hit some ground balls, perhaps even throw a little batting practice, in advance of Monday night's game against the Los Angeles Angels. Trouble was, none of the Blue Jays bothered to show up, and that was kind of shocking given the pathetic way the Blue Jays have been performing of late. Maybe Rivera didn't get the memo. Toronto manager John Gibbons, perhaps in a moment of pity for a team that had looked miserable in losing the first three games of the series against L.A., decreed that batting practice would be an optional affair. Two minutes after the appointed hour that optional BP was supposed to begin, with nary a would-be Blue Jay batter in sight, Rivera hoisted the big blue bag filled with baseballs and slowly headed off the field. The veteran coach had that look of a kid, the one who owned the net, who gets summoned to dinner during a robust game of road hockey. Gibbons's largesse proved just the tonic the Blue Jays (19-20) needed to shake out of their recent funk, their offence picking up steam behind a solid start from Mark Buehrle to earn a 7-3 win over the Angels (19-18) to avoid a four-game sweep by the visitors. Jose Bautista and Brett Lawrie both knocked home runs to pace the Toronto offence while Buehrle delivered another solid outing, going six-plus innings to raise his record to a delightfully surprising 7-1 on the season. Prior to the game, the Blue Jays announced that they have recalled righthanded pitcher Chad Jenkins and infielder Jonathan Diaz from their Triple-A affiliate in Buffalo. This comes after the team placed reliever Sergio Santos on the 15-day disabled list with a right elbow strain that the team says will require an MRI. Diaz got the start at shortstop on Monday in place of Jose Reyes, who has been heating up of late, batting.400 (6-15) over his last four games. Gibbons said that Reyes just needed a day off, nothing more. And the Blue Jays also welcomed Lawrie back to the lineup, the third baseman who missed the previous six games resting a sore hamstring. Lawrie seemed A-OK in the first inning, ranging far to his left to snare a bounding ball off the bat of Albert Pujols and then delivering a dart to first base for the third out. And Lawrie showed that his bat speed was still in good order, hammering a first-pitch offering from C.J. Wilson in the sixth inning, to the second deck in left field, for a two-run homer that boosted Toronto's lead to 5-2. For Lawrie, it was his seventh home run of the season and just his second off a lefty. The Blue Jays were in desperate need of a spark heading into a game, something to rejuvenate some life into an attack suddenly gone sour after a season-high five-game winning streak. During that run the Blue Jays had happy bats, hitting a collective.307, cranking out 13 home runs and averaging 7.6 runs per contest. In the first three games against a tough pitching L.A. squad, Jay batters were hitting a lowly.192 with just one home run and 22 strikeouts while averaging just three runs per game. Someone needed to step up and in the first inning on Wednesday it was Bautista, who laced a 2-1 changeup into the second deck in left, a three-run homer that provided Toronto with a confidence boosting 3-0 lead. L.A. star Mike Trout brought L.A. back in the third, stinging a line drive off Buehrle that carried over the head of Colby Rasmus in centre for a double that scored two and cut Toronto's lead to 3-2. Buehrle came into the contest with a sparkling 6-1 record - his six triumphs tying the crafty veteran with Zack Greinke and Adam Wainwright for the most in the majors. And while Buehrle's pinpoint control was not what it usually is - his five walks over six-plus innings of work were two over his season high - he was able to get the big outs when needed. C.J. Cron hit a solo home run shot off Toronto reliever Steve Delabar in the eighth to close the gap. But a two-run single by Juan Francisco in the eighth provided the Blue Jays with more than enough breathing room. | 993 | -1,452,153,885,881,007,000 | 2014-12-31 00:00:00 | null | null | null | null |
Buddhist wonks? No, Buddhist Geeks Vincent Horn opened his eyes after a moment of meditation, scanned the room and smiled. About 150 other people were emerging from their own states of dead-silent, self-induced tranquillity. They shuffled a bit in their seats. "Hello, Buddhist geeks!" Horn said from his perch onstage. "This is the most geeks I've seen in one place, I think, ever." His statement brought to mind a moment in the documentary "Woodstock," when folk singer Arlo Guthrie takes in the crowd of several hundred thousand young people and cackles, "Lotta freaks!" But this was a very different time and place. Horn, a 28-year-old podcaster, blogger and meditation teacher, is a new kind of American Buddhist, young and U.S.-born, a convert to Buddhism as a teenager who has intertwined his religious practice with a certain 21st century techie sensibility. There are plenty more like him, as a spin through the Buddhist blogosphere will confirm - and as the first Buddhist Geeks Conference last weekend demonstrated. The conference - organized by Horn, sponsored by the Santa Monica-based InsightLA organization and held at the Buddhist-affiliated University of the West in Rosemead - brought together bloggers, tweeters, scholars, teachers and just plain Buddhist practitioners for two and a half days of talk about such topics as "the science of enlightenment," "the emerging face of Buddhism," and "the Dharma and the Internet." The themes were characteristic of those Horn has discussed in his popular Buddhist Geek podcasts since the beginning of 2007 and reflect the concerns of at least one slice of young American Buddhists. There was talk at the conference of the ways in which the digital revolution has helped spread the teachings of the Buddha, once accessible to Americans only through pilgrimages to Asia. There was talk about how science is being used to measure the effectiveness of Buddhist mindfulness practice (i.e., meditation), and how that practice has continued to spread, often along a secular path, to society as a whole. There was talk, too, of a generation gap that has emerged between older and younger American Buddhists - between the "pioneer" generation of native-born Americans who turned to Buddhism in the 1950s, '60s and '70s, and the Gen X and Y acolytes like Horn who bring slightly different values and worldviews to the sangha (a Buddhist community). Besides Horn, the younger generation was represented by people such as computer game designer Jane McGonigal, who described herself as "23% Buddhist, 77% geek," and compared Buddhist "awakening" to an "epic win" in a video game. The older generation was represented in part by Jack Kornfield, a teacher in Northern California who admitted being "in a little bit of a remove" from the digital world. "It's not my language," he said. One issue, Horn said in an interview after the conference, is that the older generation came to Buddhism through the counterculture of the time, and many younger Buddhists see themselves as part of mainstream culture. Less discussed at the conference was the gap between immigrant and non-immigrant Buddhists, or that between new converts and Asian Americans whose Buddhism is part of a family heritage. Charles S. Prebish, a scholar whose books include "Luminous Passage: The Practice and Study of Buddhism in America," said he sees Buddhist Geeks as part of a popular movement built around speakers "who are on what I'd call the pro tour of Buddhism," not all of whom have serious scholarly credentials. Still, Prebish, who did not attend the Buddhist Geeks conference, said he was impressed by the names of some speakers at the gathering and agreed that a generation gap exists among American Buddhists. He also spoke about the importance of technology to shape the future of the religion. "I used to say I was a sangha of one, because there's no Buddhist community here," said Prebish, a professor emeritus at Penn State who lives in State College, Penn. Now, he said, "technology has enabled us to connect to other Buddhists; it's enabled us to connect to Buddhist teaching online... and that changes everything."
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Associated Press FILE - This Nov. 17, 2011 file photo shows singer Usher Raymond at the "Pencils Of Promise" inaugural gala in New York. Usher is stepping into the boxing ring to portray Sugar Ray Leonard in the new film "Hands of Stone." Usher says he has spent more than a year preparing to play Leonard, who was known for his fast hands, quick feet and wide smile. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, file) FILE - This Nov. 17, 2011 file photo shows singer Usher Raymond at the "Pencils Of Promise" inaugural gala in New York. Usher is stepping into the boxing ring to portray Sugar Ray Leonard in the new film "Hands of Stone." Usher says he has spent more than a year preparing to play Leonard, who was known for his fast hands, quick feet and wide smile. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, file) NEW YORK (AP) - Usher will be the spark for Macy's 4th of July fireworks show. The Grammy-winning singer will collaborate with Macy's to curate the concept, music and design for the fireworks, which will be launched from barges off Manhattan. It's the first time the company has worked with an artist on the concept for its annual show, Macy's said Thursday. Usher will score the music for "It Begins With a Spark," which will feature his songs, as well as songs and hits from Rihanna, Swedish House Mafia, Jimi Hendrix and Frank Sinatra. He will also provide visual design cues and direction for the pyrotechnics that are choreographed to the musical score. The 37th annual Macy's 4th of July Fireworks display will air after the annual concert on NBC. Performers haven't been announced.
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Seven reported Chris Reason with police sniper during siege Seven News journalist Chris Reason investigates the events that unfolded over the Martin Place hostage siege that gripped Sydney and Australia. Courtesy: Seven News VETERAN Seven reporter Chris Reason, who held an all-night vigil in the network's studios across from the Lindt Café with a police sniper, said gunman Man Haron Monis became agitated prior to the shootout and may have panicked when hostages tried to escape. Reason said he saw movement about 1.50am as the hostages were shuffled from one end of the cafe to the other. Channel Seven news reporter Chris Reason. Picture: Twitter Source: Twitter "The gunman appeared agitated, he didn't know what to do with them,"" he told Seven's Sunrise show today. "He was sort of corralling them down one end and then down the other and moving around sort of randomly."" The veteran reporter said it was difficult to tell what was going on in the cafe but as one group of hostages was moved to one end of the cafe a second group were left behind at the other. "And they were the group that made the initial break for freedom at three minutes past two this morning,"" he said, adding that he had counted seven hostages making a break for it. "Shortly after that several minutes passed of silence - nothing going on - and then we heard a loud shot ring out,"" he said. A hostage runs from the Lindt shop in Martin Place at the end of the siege. Picture: Gordon McComiskie Source: News Corp Australia Police throw flash grenades and shoot at the gunman. Picture: Gordon McComiskie Source: News Corp Australia An unconscious person and a conscious person are removed from the Martin Place Siege. Picture: Gordon McComiskie Source: News Corp Australia Reason said he was ensconced in the Seven offices with the sniper and several other police logistics and technical people who were monitoring Seven's cameras as they watched through the cafe's four windows.
Special operations police prepare to go in. Picture: Gordon McComiskie Source: News Corp Australia Originally published as Seven reporter with police sniper during siege end
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Obama to discuss al Qaeda, drones, Guantanamo Bay in Thursday speech By Steve Holland
ATLANTA (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, under fire for security lapses at a U.S. mission in Libya, will in a speech on Thursday lay out his wide-ranging counter-terrorism policy, from the controversial use of drones to efforts to close the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Obama's use of military drone aircraft to attack extremists has drawn fire and increased tensions in countries like Pakistan and been criticized by human rights activists in the United States. His inability to follow through on a 2008 campaign pledge to close the Guantanamo Bay prison has been dramatized by a hunger strike among many of the terrorism suspects being held there. And the resurgence in recent weeks of questions surrounding the deaths of U.S. ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens and three other Americans in an attack on a U.S. facility in Benghazi, Libya, last year has put Obama on the defensive. In his State of the Union speech early this year Obama pledged to work with Congress to make certain that the U.S. targeting, detention and prosecution of terrorism suspects was consistent with U.S. law. A White House official said Obama would address these issues in a speech on Thursday at the National Defense University in Washington. He will say that al Qaeda has been significantly degraded but remains a threat, along with its affiliates, the official said on condition of anonymity. "He will review the state of the threats we face, particularly as al Qaeda's core has weakened but new dangers have emerged," said the official. Obama also will discuss the policy and legal framework under which the United States acts against terrorism threats, including the use of drones. "He will review our detention policy and efforts to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, and he will frame the future of our efforts against al Qaeda, its affiliates and adherents," the official said. (Reporting By Steve Holland; Editing by Paul Simao)
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Russian takeover of Crimea 'is not a done deal,' U.S. official says WASHINGTON -- The United States would not recognize a referendum by Crimea to leave Ukraine, and a shift of that region to Russia "is not a done deal," a top Obama administration official said Sunday. "If there is a referendum and it votes to move Crimea out of Ukraine and to Russia, we won't recognize it and most of the world won't either," deputy national security advisor Tony Blinken said on NBC's "Meet the Press." "Were that to happen, the isolation of Russia, the cost that it would pay, would increase significantly from where they are now," he said. Russia has shown no signs of backing down over the Crimea crisis in the face of economic sanctions from the U.S. and its European allies. The sanctions came after Russian troops seized control of the Crimean peninsula, which has a Russian-speaking majority. Moscow claims that the takeover of key facilities there in late February was the work of local pro-Russian militias. A referendum organized by pro-Russian members of Crimea's regional assembly is scheduled for March 16. Blinken, who was traveling with President Obama this weekend in Florida, said sanctions have taken an economic toll on Russia and that the dispute still could be resolved. "We've seen Russian markets go down substantially, the ruble go down, and investors sitting on the fence. So Russia's paying a price for this," Blinken said on CNN's "State of the Union." "It's not a done deal," he said of Crimea seceding from Ukraine to join Russia. "I think the door is clearly open to resolving this diplomatically." The White House announced Sunday that Obama would meet with new Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk in Washington on Wednesday to "discuss how to find a peaceful resolution to Russia's ongoing military intervention in Crimea that would respect Ukrainian sovereignty and territorial integrity." But former Obama administration Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said he did not foresee Russian President Vladimir Putin backing down. "I do not believe... that Crimea will slip out of Russia's hands," Gates said on "Fox News Sunday." Top Republicans reiterated their view that Obama has been weak on foreign policy and that emboldened Putin to move to seize Crimea after Ukraine's government collapsed in the face of massive protests last month. "A critical reason for Putin's aggression has been President Obama's weakness, that Putin fears no retribution," Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said on ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos." Cruz cited the lack of retaliation by the administration for the deadly 2012 attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, and for the alleged use of chemical weapons by Syria in its civil war. Former Vice President Dick Cheney, appearing on CBS" "Face the Nation," echoed those comments. "I think there's no question but he believes he is weak," Cheney said of Putin's view of Obama. Obama should be doing more to flex U.S. military muscle, Cheney said. The former vice president under President George W. Bush suggested conducting joint military operations with NATO countries that border Russia, offering equipment and training to Ukraine and reinstating the ballistic missile defense system that was planned for Eastern Europe but scrapped by Obama in 2009. Russia had opposed the deployment of the system in Poland and the Czech Republic. It was designed to shield European allies from Iranian missiles.
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Singler leads Blue Devils past Owls DURHAM, N.C. -- Kyle Singler broke out of a slump by scoring 28 points to lead No. 1 Duke past No. 24 Temple 78-61 on Wednesday night. Nolan Smith finished with 15 points and Mason Plumlee added 13 rebounds to help the ACC-leading Blue Devils (26-2) dodge a late-season nonconference letdown and pick up a significant victory in their return to the top spot in the national rankings. Duke used a huge run that bridged the halves to win its eighth straight overall and extend a pair of notable winning streaks at Cameron Indoor Stadium. Lavoy Allen scored 17 points, but Temple (21-6) had its eight-game winning streak snapped. Singler was 10 of 19 in his most productive game since matching a career high with 30 points against Oregon. He helped Duke win its 35th straight game at Cameron and its 86th in a row against nonconference teams - both NCAA bests. The senior had labored through a few recent pedestrian performances - at least by the lofty standards that come with being the Most Outstanding Player at last year's Final Four. Singler, who averages 16 points for his career, was held to 3-of-17 shooting two weeks ago by rival North Carolina. Most recently, he had a career-worst 2-point outing last week against Virginia, and was just 5 of 14 last time out against Georgia Tech. But by the time he checked out of this one in the final 2 minutes, the Cameron Crazies were chanting his name. His big night came at quite the opportune time, in the next-to-last home game of his storied career and with the Blue Devils playing for the first time since reclaiming the No. 1 ranking they relinquished in mid-January. For about a half, their nearly 11-year winning streak against non-ACC teams at Cameron was put to the test by a Temple team that frustrated Duke with tough team defense that in particular seemed to frustrate Smith, the ACC's leading scorer who was held to 5-of-17 shooting. Seth Curry's 3 with 1 second left before the halftime buzzer started the 23-11 run that gave the Blue Devils their first double-figure lead, then put them in total control. Curry connected from long range 1 1/2 minutes into the second half to make it a 10-point game, Smith followed with five consecutive points and Plumlee finished the burst with a dunk in the post and an alley-oop from Curry to stretch the lead to 51-35 with 12 1/2 minutes remaining. Temple didn't get closer than 12 after that. Rahlir Jefferson added 11 points for the Owls, who once again played without forward Scootie Randall - who missed his second straight game with an injured right foot after averaging 18 points in his previous six games. That's in addition to the absence of 6-foot-11 big man Micheal Eric, who's lost for the season with a broken right kneecap. Singler scored 12 points during a first half in which neither team led by more than seven and the Owls forced Duke to go more than 5 minutes between field goals. Curry put the Blue Devils up 31-24 at the break when he rattled in a 3 off a pretty kick-out from Smith.
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Seth Lakeman, Tales From The Barrel House, CD review If Seth Lakeman were sold as a supermarket product, he would be labelled as a maxi-multi-instrumentalist. To say the 35-year-old from Dartmoor had complete artistic control over his album Tales From The Barrel House would be an understatement. He wrote/adapted/played on/sang/mixed/and produced the record. He may even have made the tea. The album was originally issued as a strictly limited website release last November and now gets its national release and distribution. Tales From The Barrel House is like an extended, tender, love song to a lost age. There are laments and tributes to blacksmiths, carpenters, fishermen, tin miners, cider-makers. In tone, it's about as far from glossy folk-pop as you could get. More Than Money, a song about copper miners, was recorded down the George and Charlotte mine of Morwellham (once the greatest copper port of the British Empire). The rest of the album was recorded in a cooperage and the atmosphere of raw and simple folk permeates every track. As well as the cello, banjo, guitars, bouzouki and viola, there are the unusual sound effects of a Salvation Army drum, clanking chains, bellows and a railway track being thumped on an album where fast songs such as More Than Money sit happily alongside slow, seductive tracks including Apple Of His Eye. The album may make you sentimental about a lost age of craftsmen and, in his song about carpenters, The Artisan, Lakeman sings: His truth to be humble, and fashion into tools,
Tables and benches, kind words from his youth,
Draw those even lines,
Share his peace of mind,
As the artisan shines. The music is an acquired taste but Tales From The Barrel House is certainly a modern musical artisan at work. Seth Lakeman: Tales From The Barrel House (Honour Oak Records)
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Abuja courts London for oil reforms ABUJA, Nigeria, Jan. 19 (UPI) -- Energy officials in Abuja kicked off a summit with the British government to build the capacity of the Nigeria oil sector, the Nigerian oil minister said. Rilwanu Lukman, the Nigerian oil minister, said bilateral energy cooperation with London would "go a long way to accelerate and sustain the success of the transformation process." British exports to Nigeria in 2009 passed $2 billion, with oil exports making up $325 million of that total. Lukman said the British experience with privatization could provide a solid working model for reforms in the Nigerian energy sector, Nigeria's Next news agency reports. Several international oil producers announced major finds in the oil-rich Niger Delta region. Resurgent militant activity in the Niger Delta, however, threatens to derail an October cease-fire that brought optimism to the oil sector. The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, the main militant group in the region, claimed responsibility for strikes on oil pipelines recently because the government was slow to react to demands for allocation of the country's oil revenue and other concessions. Talks with oil producers on extended contracts are overshadowed, meanwhile, by lingering health concerns for the Nigerian president and renewed security issues stemming from a failed Christmas Day bombing of a U.S. passenger jet blamed on a Nigerian national.
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He told me that it was not his original intention to delve as deeply into biographical details as he did. But news events demanded it after The Dallas Morning News published an article pointing out discrepancies in the life story at the core of her campaign's narrative - as Mr. Draper puts it, the "bootstrapping tale of how a single teenaged mother went from a Fort Worth trailer park to graduating cum laude from Harvard Law School." "I felt duty-bound to examine that story as her campaign was telling it since, as Davis herself had acknowledged, the original version contained inaccuracies. But even as I did so, I was acutely conscious of the gender-specificity of such inquiries." Mr. Draper also noted that criticism of the piece has come from all directions: Some conservatives have accused him of being too kind to Ms. Davis, giving her a free pass, as they see it, on her personal history because she is a woman. The article itself has much to commend it: engaging writing, thorough reporting and a native Texan's understanding of his subject matter. It mostly steers intelligently and perceptively through the gender issues, but when it picks apart her history as a mother so insistently, it veers off the road. Reportorial due diligence is one thing; reinforcing a sexist standard is quite another. I'm not sure what The Times's next major article on a female politician will be. But I'm hopeful that not only will it avoid strange planetary depictions and "70s-era catchphrases, but also that it will rise above gender-based double standards, leaving them where they belong: in the dust of history. Correction: February 22, 2014 An earlier version of this column misspelled the surname of a writer who posted on Twitter about The New York Times Magazine. She is Katha Pollitt, not Pollit.
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Thank you, DWB. I'm putting this nomination on hold until after the new year when I'll have more time to address the above concerns. ::That's fine, enjoy yourself 3T. DWB (talk) / Comment on Dredd's FA nom! :::It seems that took care of most of these. Are there any additional concerns? ::::Still:
::::*The final sentence of the lead needs rewriting, it assumes it was a success by multiplying the gross against the budget, but the budget is estimated and does not include things like marketing/distribution/actor deals. Say it made money, but don't say it made money by multiplying its budget. ::::*The Infobox is for the original release, the extended cut running time doesn;t belong here and needs to be removed. :::::*. Anything else? :::::*Thank you DWB for the time you put in to review this nomination. ===Comments by 991joseph===
I moved these down here for easier reading as they will break the GA review otherwise. DWB (talk) / Comment on Dredd's FA nom! The Infobox is for the original release, the extended cut running time doesn;t belong here and needs to be removed. The final sentence of the lead needs rewriting, it assumes it was a success by multiplying the gross against the budget, but the budget is estimated and does not include things like marketing/distribution/actor deals. Say it made money, but don't say it made money by multiplying its budget. Magneto: I'll wait. Wolverine: What do you want? Magneto: There are dark forces, Wolverine. Human forces building a weapon...that could bring about the end of our kind. What do I want? I want your help. Wolverine: Why would I trust you? Magneto: You wouldn't. Professor X: Hello, Logan. Wolverine: How is this possible? Professor X: As I told you a long time ago...you are not the only one with gifts. I have also made some additional touch ups on your edit. DWB (talk) / Comment on Dredd's FA nom! | 785 | null | null | 588,853,142 | "2014-01-02T19:06:41" | The Wolverine (film)/GA1 | 2,014 |
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Steven Tyler happy to 'walk around naked' in Hawaii after bill's passage Oskar Garcia / AP Steven Tyler testifying on celebrity privacy in Honolulu. By Bruna Nessif, E! Online Steven Tyler is more than pleased that his proposed bill, named the "Steven Tyler Act," has passed in Hawaii, and now he's excited to just let it all hang out while on vacation. The Aerosmith frontman expressed his joy to Billboard about Hawaii's senate approving the measure -- which protects celebrities from paparazzi and giving stars the right to sue over unwanted photos and recordings taken of them on the islands -- and shared his future plans to celebrate. "Now at least Joe (Perry) and I can go to Maui and walk around naked in the back lawn and write some crazy songs," he joked. At least we think he's joking. Hawaii passes Steven Tyler Act On a serious note, Tyler mentioned that, " (In Hawaii), they are allowed in with their lenses and they get the most intimate of shots, which is what they are really looking for to make money. Not on my watch! "It's really about privacy at its utmost -- when you're inside and the doors are closed.... They chase my kids and get in the way of traffic. We almost got in an accident, and so before it happens, you want to do something about it. They're just looking for a taste of blood. They're not gonna get it." Perry was proud of Tyler's legal achievement and predicts that this is just the beginning. "The great thing is now that it's passed, people can bring it to the courts in other states," Perry said. "It's going to snowball, I bet, because it's not just a problem in Hawaii. It's here. It's there. It's everywhere." Let's face it, the paparazzi can get a little pesky from time to time Related content:
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Google to restore all Gmail accounts after bug Google said Monday it expected to restore all Gmail accounts after a bug in a storage software update wiped out the email messages of a small number of users of the free Internet service. "The good news is that email was never lost and we've restored access for many of those affected," Google engineering vice president Ben Treynor said in a blog post. "Though it may take longer than we originally expected, we're making good progress and things should be back to normal for everyone soon." Google said it expected to fully restore the Gmail accounts of users who saw their emails deleted from their inboxes over the weekend. "To protect your information from these unusual bugs, we also back it up to tape," Treynor explained. "Since the tapes are offline, they're protected." However, because the back-up messages are stored on tape, it takes longer to get them back into people's Gmail accounts, he added. Google has meanwhile stopped installing the troublesome storage software update and reverted to the previous version, Treynor said. Google said that 0.02 percent of the users of the free Web-based email service had been affected by the problem, fewer than previously reported. Google does not release official figures for the total number of Gmail users but they are estimated to number around 200 million. Gmail disruptions, while rare, are seen by some industry analysts as a setback to the Mountain View, California-based Google's efforts to promote email and other Web-based services to businesses.
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Do you know what national means? It means country level. RS is certainly not a country. Thanks, Vseferović
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Slowest living standards growth in 'our lifetimes' Slowing but still growing: Australian living standards. Photo: Bloomberg Australians" living standards are set to grow at a ""significantly slower"" pace over the next decade than in the past five decades, a senior Treasury official says. While the growth of household income has risen by about 2 per cent each decade, the next 10 years could see living standards expand at just under 1 per cent, the Treasury's chief economist David Gruen said at a conference in Sydney on Thursday. ""You are dealing with a world in which living standards are going to grow significantly slower than anything we've seen in our lifetimes,"" Dr Gruen said at the Australian Business Economists" annual conference. ""Our estimates say that if we achieve productivity growth similar to its long run average, the next decade will see the slowest income growth in Australia for half a century by a lot."" Advertisement The fall off in income growth is likely to be partly driven by a slide in export prices, which is leading to a decline in Australia's terms of trade, Dr Gruen said. Export prices are expected to decrease as commodity prices come off their recent highs, although they remain elevated compared to historical levels. At the same time, the baby-boomer generation was reaching retirement age or moving towards part-time work, which would lower the amount of labour input into the economy. From the 2000-01 to 2011-12 financial years, Australians" disposable income rose from $40,600 per person to $51,800 per person in 2010-11 dollars, Bureau of Statistics data showed. The growth each year was about 2 to 3 per cent, except from 2009-10, which saw disposable income fall by 2 per cent. Dr Gruen said that while the slowing growth painted a sombre picture for the future, he did not see a need for there to be absolute declines in living standards over the next decade, a scenario that has been put forward by leading economist Ross Garnaut in his new book Dog Days: Australia after the Boom. The slowdown in income growth was also highlighted by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) late Wednesday. The global financial body said labour productivity needed to rise significantly to maintain the historical growth in living standards. ""While productivity in the mining sector should improve as the investments begin yielding results, productivity growth in other sectors will also need to increase,"" the IMF said. ""Since Australia has already benefited from sizeable productivity improvements following substantial structural reforms in the 1990s, finding further scope for improvement will not be easy. In this regard the government's focus on productivity, including the aim to address infrastructure bottlenecks, is welcome."" Dr Gruen said that labour productivity growth of about 3.2 per cent each year, a level not experienced in any of the past five decades, would be needed for household incomes to continue growing at the aggregate of 2 per cent over the next decade. The federal Treasurer Joe Hockey said on Thursday that the Coalition government would look at reducing infrastructure bottlenecks as it seeks to raise labour productivity.
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£30,000 needed for Loch Ness lighthouse restoration 11 July 2013 Last updated at 12:14 A fund to raise money for the restoration of a small historic lighthouse at Loch Ness is £30,000 short of its target. Scottish Canals and national heritage company Vivat Trust announced a plan three years ago to conserve Bona Lighthouse. So far £300,000 has been raised towards the project. Built in the 1800s to serve the Caledonian Canal, it will eventually be opened as a holiday cottage. The building was at one time the smallest manned lighthouse in Britain. It was believed to have been constructed to a design drawn by a superintendent of famous engineer Thomas Telford. Iain Fraser, of Vivat Trust, said the lighthouse was in a poor condition. He said: "It has water coming in at various places and part of the roof is in disrepair." Mark Smith from Scottish Canals said it was hoped to make the building available to the public by holding open days.
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Dogs are smarter than cats: feline friends disagree Beth Skillings, Clinical Veterinary Officer of Cats Protection, a group the campaigns for cats, says, "The domestic cat is highly intelligent thanks to its wild ancestry. Unlike dogs, they are smart enough to hunt alone and don't have to depend on others. "Instead of waiting for hunger to strike, they frequently play and exhibit hunting behaviour so that they can be sure to have enough to eat, as each hunting trip does not result in a successful catch. "By being a solitary hunter, they've also developed clever means to control their environment. For example, by using a well adapted scent communication system, they are able to leave messages for themselves and other cats without coming into contact with others and thereby avoiding possible conflict. "Adapting their clever behaviour to the home, cats are very successful at subtly training their owners by purring, miaowing and sitting pitifully by their food bowl! They can also learn to manipulate feeding balls and owners can successfully clicker train their cats. "The intelligence of cats cannot be disputed - they were revered as Gods in Egyptian times and they have never forgotten it! Cats chose to live alongside man, exploiting the rodent opportunities our farming systems brought and, unlike dogs, they still enjoy their independence.
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Afghan refugee jailed for 'evil act' AN Afghan refugee who strangled his wife with her scarf in a fit of rage because she wanted a divorce has been jailed for 20 years. Soltan Azizi, 48, has twice been found guilty by Victorian Supreme Court juries of brutally beating and strangling 33-year-old Marzieh Rahimi in their Hampton Park home in November 2007. He immediately admitted killing her, holding out his hands and telling police he was "ready for the handcuffs" but later claimed he accidentally strangled her in self defence after she physically assaulted him and one of their children. Justice Stephen Kaye said Azizi's account was totally unconvincing. He said the couple's relationship had been hostile and strained and that Azizi had killed his wife in an uncontrollable fit of rage during an argument about her rights. The court heard Azizi had told Marzieh's sister that she had changed religion and become Australian. Marzieh had told several people she was frightened of her husband and wanted a divorce. Justice Kaye told Azizi his wife had every right to expect his care, respect and protection. "No husband has the right to strike or treat his wife in that way at all," he said. "In her last moments Marzieh must have been truly terrified, being battered and then strangled to death by the one person to whom she ought to have been able to look for support and protection. "What you did was a singularly evil act." Justice Kaye said Azizi and Marzieh came to Australia as refugees in 2005. Azizi had worked for the Afghan police but became the target of violence after the government fell. His mother and sister were bombed to death in their home, his brother was tortured by the Taliban and shot dead in their home, along with Marzieh's three-year-old daughter. Azizi was initially found guilty of his wife's murder in 2010 but won a retrial after the Court of Appeal ruled that some of the evidence was inadmissible. Justice Kaye said it caused Azizi considerable anguish that he was separated from his five children who were now in foster care. He said Azizi was socially isolated in prison because no inmates spoke his language. Azizi was jailed for a minimum 16 years and has already served 1908 days.
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NASA confirms'super-Earth' that could hold life In another step toward finding Earth-like planets that may hold life, NASA said the Kepler space telescope has confirmed its first-ever planet in a habitable zone outside our solar system. French astronomers earlier this year confirmed the first rocky exoplanet to meet key requirements for sustaining life. But Kepler-22b, initially glimpsed in 2009, is the first the US space agency has been able to confirm. Confirmation means that astronomers have seen it crossing in front of its star three times. But it doesn't mean that astronomers know whether life actually exists there, simply that the conditions are right. Such planets have the right distance from their star to support water, plus a suitable temperature and atmosphere to support life. "We have now got good planet confirmation with Kepler-22b," said Bill Borucki, Kepler principal investigator at NASA Ames Research Center. "We are certain that it is in the habitable zone and if it has a surface, it ought to have a nice temperature," he told reporters. Spinning around its star some 600 light years away, Kepler-22b is 2.4 times the size of the Earth, putting it in class known as "super-Earths," and orbits its Sun-like star every 290 days. Its near-surface temperature is presumed to be about 72 degrees Fahrenheit (22 Celsius). Scientists do not know, however, whether the planet is rocky, gaseous or liquid. The planet's first "transit," or star crossover, was captured shortly after NASA launched its Kepler spacecraft in March 2009. NASA also announced that Kepler has uncovered 1,094 more potential planets, twice the number it previously had been tracking, according to research being presented at a conference in California this week. Kepler is NASA's first mission in search of Earth-like planets orbiting suns similar to ours, and cost the US space agency about $600 million. It is equipped with the largest camera ever sent into space -- a 95-megapixel array of charge-coupled devices -- and is expected to continue sending information back to Earth until at least November 2012. Kepler is searching for planets as small as Earth, including those orbiting stars in a warm, habitable zone where liquid water could exist on the surface of the planet. The latest confirmed exoplanet that could support life brings to three the total number confirmed by global astronomers. In addition to French astronomers' confirmed finding of Gliese 581d in May, Swiss astronomers reported in August that another planet, HD 85512 b, about 36 light years away seemed to be in the habitable zone of its star. However, those two planets are "orbiting stars smaller and cooler than our Sun," NASA said in a statement, noting that Kepler-22b "is the smallest yet found to orbit in the middle of the habitable zone of a star similar to our Sun." "The Europeans have also been very active, actively working on confirming our candidates," said Natalie Batalha, Kepler deputy science team lead at San Jose State University. "They have already confirmed two that are published and they have got another batch that are on the preprint servers so those will be, I'm sure, in the published literature soon," she added. "So we are just thrilled about this. We need all telescopes observing these candidates so we can confirm as many as possible." A total of 48 exoplanets and exomoons are potential habitable candidates, among a total of 2,326 possibilities that Kepler has identified so far. The top rankers are listed in an online catalog that indexes bodies outside our solar system, available online at http://phl.upr.edu. Copyright AFP 2008, AFP stories and photos shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium
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Lionel Shriver: I was poor but I was happy In my country, we're sufficiently consumed by the concept of happiness that the right to its pursuit is enshrined in the Declaration of Independence. But what is happiness? I fear that for too many people the word conjures "a condition of ceaseless ecstasy and perfect self-actualisation (whatever that is) experienced by pretty much everyone but me." When we conceive of happiness as a static state, effectively a place toward which we are aimed but at which most of us will never feel we've quite arrived, then the vision becomes exclusionary. Before us lies Alice's tantalising garden, and we're too gangling to fit through the door. Happiness-as-mythic-Valhalla cultivates envy and disgruntlement. The suspicion grows that everyone else is in on some secret that eludes us, that everyone else is sipping cocktails at a party to which we're not invited, that everyone else is having a fabulous time while our life sucks. But maybe the solution to this sense of being shut out is to shift the paradigm - to re-conceive what happiness means. What if contentment isn't a state, a place, an emotional location that so many of us will never feel we've reached? What if instead of this process of trying to get there, this trudging towards the distant light, this often frustrated battling from Point A to Point B, only to find that Point B is fraught with just as much travail and turmoil and sorrow as A, so we have to keep slogging towards Point C... What if that whole ceaseless cycle of exertion and exasperation, of failure, of try-try-and-try-again, is happiness? I've had to revisit a whole era of my own life, during which I imagined I was miserable. I was living in Belfast, and my career was on the rocks. Over this period, I lost my American publisher, and two novels thereafter were released exclusively in the UK. Reviews were agreeable, but sales meagre. I was skint. I had to field dozens of rejections ("We simply didn't find Ms Shriver's characters attractive"). When yet another novel finally secured an American publisher, that book bombed commercially, too. The future looked bleak. If my novels continued to lose publishers money, the day was bound to come when I couldn't get into print. Late at night, on a second glass of wine - Bulgarian swill - I was prone to get morose. This is going to sound a stretch, but: those 12 years in the literary wilderness as a nobody, with a horribly high likelihood of getting nobodier? I think I was happy. I'm serious. I was productive. The rejections were no picnic, but I relished writing the books themselves. A manuscript under way always gave me something to do; only while enduring the aimlessness between books was I truly glum. Otherwise, I had a sense of purpose. I knew what I wanted, which may have been more important than getting it. Furthermore, I belonged to a tennis club (in Belfast, then dirt cheap), and tennis makes me happy. Tennis acts as an example in miniature here, as it meets all the requirements for bliss: the sport is hard. I am mediocre. Thus on court I always have a sense of purpose, and I am never confused about what I want: to get better. I will never arrive and possess a perfected game like a trophy. A higher level eternally beckons, just as I will eternally remain a hack. Brilliant. Add the magic ingredient: during those struggling years in Northern Ireland, I fell properly in love at last. A raft of asymmetric romances with disastrous boyfriends beforehand didn't count, because you only experience real love when the feeling is roughly reciprocal. I may have thought I was miserable, but misery does love company. I loved company. Stepping back, I might prefer career catastrophe with a hand to hold to a lonely success. In sum, I was engaged with my work. I had a complex relationship to my environs (I adored Belfast; the town also drove me crazy). My emotional life may have been turbulent, but at least I had an emotional life. If I got mostly bad news, I did get news - which dangled the possibility of felicitous news in due course. I was making an effort, which must be a more considerable aspect of the kind of happiness I'm talking about than whether the effort pays off. The fact that my fortunes on the fiction front have now improved does not, I hope, excessively colour my retrospective assessment that all those setbacks in Belfast took place over some of the happiest years of my life. | 980 | 7,641,163,988,672,406,000 | 2014-12-31 00:00:00 | null | null | null | null |
I have read and made changes according to the reviewer's comments. Some of the comments are very helpful and made our article easier to browse through.Luyao Kevin Xu (talk)
== Review by Neelix ==
You have done a lot of great work on this article. Here are some recommendations for how to improve the article further:
The lead should explain the meanings of the terms "histone" and "acetylation". All paragraphs should consist of more than one sentence, and all sections should consist of more than one paragraph. There should be no links or bracketed abbreviations in section headings, nor should there be capitalization of common nouns (ex. "Mechanism of Action" should read "Mechanism of action"). There is no need to repeat the article title in section headings; "Histone Acetylation/Deacetylation and Human Diseases" can be simplified to "Human diseases". Be careful to avoid allcaps, even in the "References" section. If this article isn't linked in a navbox, then that navbox shouldn't be included in the article. There is no need to duplicate citations in a paragraph in which adjacent sentences derive their information from the same source; a single citation at the end of the last of these sentences covers all of the preceding sentences leading back to the previous differing citation or the beginning of the paragraph (whichever is closest). I'm impressed by your progress with this article. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions about the suggestions above. Neelix (talk)
Hey Neelix! Thanks so much for the advice on the article and for the kind words! I put a small bit of info into the lead section on histones and acetylation. I also changed the capitalization of some of the section headings. I do have a question about your third point. Should i not link HDAC1 through 11 to their respective pages in those titles? Just in case, i made these changes. I also edited some of the section titles to reduce the amount of redundancy. Also, you mention that we used allcaps. Could you let me know where you saw that? I couldn't find it and i'd definitely like to fix that. I'll also be fixing the citation markings during the day tomorrow. I just wanted to give you a heads up and let you know that i'm in the process of taking care of your suggestions. They're all valid points and i'll definitely try to fit in fixing them all before the deadline tomorrow night. Thanks for your time!BigA726 (talk)
Thanks for the feedback Neelix, your suggestions are very helpful for us. The last section is still under construction, but I will be filling it up as I have more information to put in. I will look at the reference section a little bit closer to avoid duplications.Luyao Kevin Xu (talk)
== Review from Tmo32 ==
Overall, I don't have any substantial changes to your content, just a few tweaks here and there to make it an easier read. Content Coverage
The article is well written and very informative. It is a vast improvement on the content that was there previously. Nicely done. Wikilinking
Decent job of wikilinking so far, but more wikilinks could be included. There is a lot of complex material throughout, but paragraph after paragraph with no wikilinks. Consider including wikilinks for words like "nucleosome", "Lysine", "N-terminus", "condensation", "methylation", "double-stranded DNA", "minor groove", "phosphorylation", etc. Referencing
I agree with the previous reviewers that more references should be added. There are long stretches of information with no sources provided. Writing categories
To make it an easier read, be mindful of consistency in defining subjects as plural or singular. For instance, you describe histone acetylation and deacetylation as "processes" (plural) in the opening paragraph, but refer to them as "it" (singular) in the next paragraph and then again as "these reactions" (plural) in the next sentence. In the HAT section, change affects to effects in the following sentence, "The affects of acetylation lead to a major change in the overall charge of the histone tails." Illustrations
Good use of images. Again, no substantive changes, but why fix it if it isn't broken? Great job! Tmo32 (talk)
Hey Tmo32! Thanks so much for the review. | 1,004 | null | null | 607,726,490 | "2014-05-09T03:35:21" | Histone acetylation and deacetylation | 2,014 |
== Maximilian Kolbe ==
I see you were one of the major contributors to this article. I am currently finishing a rewrite, and I hope to nominate this for GAN. One of my major weaknesses is that I am not an English speaker, so the article could use some copy editing. I am also not an expert on Christian topics, so I'd appreciate if a person more familiar with this area could ensure any terminology and such is correct. Would you be able to help? == Christmas and new year wishes ==
:::May your Christmas be happy and your new year be blessed. Esoglou (talk) | 134 | null | null | 639,377,165 | "2014-12-23T19:36:07" | Marauder40 | 2,014 |
Associated Press Michigan forward Mitch McGary (4) celebrate after a play during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game against Northwestern in Ann Arbor, Mich., Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio) Michigan forward Mitch McGary (4) celebrate after a play during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game against Northwestern in Ann Arbor, Mich., Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio) Northwestern guard Alex Marcotullio, right, reaches in on Michigan guard Nik Stauskas (11) during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in Ann Arbor, Mich., Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio) Northwestern center Alex Olah (22) is defended by Michigan forward Mitch McGary during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in Ann Arbor, Mich., Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013. Olah led Northwestern with ten points. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio) Michigan guard Trey Burke (3) drives to the basket during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game against Northwestern in Ann Arbor, Mich., Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio) Michigan guard Trey Burke (3) looks to pass around the defense of Northwestern forward Mike Turner (10) during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in Ann Arbor, Mich., Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio) ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) - Trey Burke raised his eyebrows in disbelief when asked about Michigan's most remarkable stat of the night. "We only had two turnovers as a team?" Burke said. The top-ranked Wolverines were nearly flawless at the start Wednesday night, and they went on to an easy 68-46 victory over Northwestern. Burke had 18 points and eight assists in Michigan's first game since taking over the top spot in the AP poll for the first time since the 1992-93 season. The Wolverines (20-1, 7-1 Big Ten) made 10 of their first 11 shots and went the entire first half without a turnover. They didn't commit a foul, either, until the final minute of the half. Michigan's two turnovers for the game equaled a national low for any team this season, according to STATS. "There's been times we had two turnovers... in the first minute," coach John Beilein said. "We'll take it, and we'll move on." The Wolverines can now prepare for Saturday night's showdown at No. 3 Indiana. Michigan fans began chanting "Beat the Hoosiers!" toward the end of Wednesday's game. Michigan played without forward Jordan Morgan, who sprained his right ankle last weekend. Jon Horford started in Morgan's place and finished with 10 points and seven rebounds. Although Northwestern also shot well at the beginning, the Wolverines were relentless. Some of their points came easily, such as an alley-oop from Burke to Glenn Robinson III in transition. But Michigan was also sharp from the outside. Nik Stauskas made a 3-pointer and Robinson added a layup, causing Wildcats coach Bill Carmody to call the first of two early timeouts. Stauskas added another 3 to give the Wolverines a 15-9 lead, and Michigan led by as many as 16 later in the half. It was 36-21 at halftime. The Wolverines didn't have any turnovers until 6-foot-10 freshman Mitch McGary tried to start a fast break himself by dribbling up the court and lost the ball with less than 12 minutes left. "It's a very good passing team, especially with Burke," Carmody said. "They don't make mistakes. It's a good team. They can make you look pretty bad sometimes." Alex Olah scored 10 points for Northwestern (12-10, 3-6). "You have to approach every team the same, but we know that's the best team in the country, and Trey's one of the best players in the nation," Olah said. "Even if you make him give up the ball, they've got so many other guys who can score." Northwestern looked ready to make a game of it when Dave Sobolewski was fouled shooting a 3-pointer with 15:37 to play and the score 40-31, but the sophomore guard missed all three free throws. A three-point play by Horford made it 50-33. Michigan finished at only 51 percent from the field, but Northwestern never really recovered from the early flurry. Although Beilein has done his best to downplay the No. 1 ranking, there was a slightly different vibe before this game in Ann Arbor. Courtside fans were given big foam fingers to hold. | 1,012 | 5,068,306,705,883,275,000 | 2013-12-31 00:00:00 | null | null | null | null |
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The Semantics and Statistics of Santorum's Win in Iowa Amid the swirl of developments on Thursday came word from the Iowa Republican Party that it had certified the results from the state's Jan. 3 caucuses - and that Rick Santorum, not Mitt Romney, had gotten more votes. Mr. Santorum received 29,839 votes in the state's certified tally, 34 more than Mr. Romney, who had 29,805. Iowa Republicans were hesitant to deem Mr. Santorum the winner, however. Early Thursday morning, the state party chairman, Matt Strawn, instead described the result as having been "too close to call." Later, Mr. Strawn was somewhat clearer. "One thing that is irrefutable is that in these 1,776 certified precincts, the Republican Party was able to certify and report Rick Santorum was the winner of the certified precinct vote total by 34 votes," he told reporters, He cautioned, however, that there was ambiguity in the outcome because the results from eight other precincts were unaccounted for and had never been certified. How safe is it to assume that Mr. Santorum in fact won? And does any of this matter, other than to historians and data geeks? There is a series of roughly six questions that are pertinent to the vote count. Some of them cannot be answered definitively, but we will give it our best shot. Just how much doubt is there about the real winner of the caucuses? Here is one way to think about the outcome: although the certified vote totals showed an extremely close results, it was not quite as close in percentage terms as some other famous elections, including one that determined the winner of a presidential election. According to the state's certified results, Mr. Santorum won by 34 votes out of 121,503 ballots that were tallied - a margin of victory of 0.028 percent. By contrast, George W. Bush's victory margin in Florida in 2000 is officially listed at 537 votes - but this was out of nearly 6 million votes cast. In percentage terms, Mr. Bush won by 0.009 percent, making it about three times as small. Al Franken's victory in the 2008 Senate race in Minnesota, meanwhile, came by 215 votes out of about 3 million ballots cast, for a margin of 0.007 percent. That said, both the Florida and Minnesota votes were subject to recounts, albeit exceptionally controversial ones. There was no such recount in Iowa: the results changed as individual precincts double-checked their accounting of the results, but there was no process of physically counting the ballots a second time. Nor, for that matter, would this have been possible, since the votes are cast by a show of hands in some precincts rather than by paper ballots. It's certainly well within the realm of possibility that more people left their caucus sites on Jan. 3 thinking they had voted for Mr. Romney. What about the "missing" precincts? On the other hand, Iowa's stated reason for being reluctant to declare a winner - the ballot counts from eight precincts could not be certified - is somewhat dubious. Had those ballots been counted, Mr. Santorum would probably have won by a larger margin. Although the results from those precincts were not certified, they were included in a spreadsheet that the state party produced and continually updated on caucus night. And based on the unofficial results from these precincts, they were generally strong ones for Mr. Santorum. Based on the unofficial results, a total of 269 votes were cast in these precincts. Mr. Santorum won 81 of these votes to Mr. Romney's 46. If they were included in the total, Mr. Santorum's margin of victory would roughly double to 69 votes from the 34-vote lead that he officially holds. The 69-vote lead is noteworthy because it exceeds the magnitude in any identified vote-counting error. (In a precinct in the town of Oelwein, Mr. Romney was originally listed as having 54 votes when he actually had 4 - a discrepancy of 50 votes.) Thus, while the winner might have changed if a thorough recount had been conducted, and although there are inherent ambiguities when the margin of victory is so small, the outcome is extremely unlikely to have changed based on the missing precincts alone. Instead, Mr. Santorum would almost certainly have had a larger lead had they been included in the total. How cautious was the news media in describing the initial results? Although the news media, following Mr. Strawn, have been cautious about declaring Mr. Santorum the winner now, they were less so after caucus night, when Mr. Romney unofficially held an eight-vote advantage. According to a count of Lexis-Nexis citations in press accounts from Jan. 4 through Jan. 18, there were 1,739 instances in which Mr. Romney's name was used within five words of the term "Iowa" as well as one of the following five terms: "win," "wins," "won," "winner" or "victor." | 1,020 | 225,660,879,108,465,600 | 2012-12-31 00:00:00 | null | null | null | null |
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When I got my diagnosis of breast cancer [in late 2012] I became obsessed with the thought that I must have eaten something that caused this, and started reading a lot about what I shouldn't and should eat, although now I'm relaxing a bit more. I had terrible, terrible nausea from the first three chemo treatments and afterwards couldn't taste anything - even water - and then everything tasted wrong. The illness made me a lot more aware of how enjoyment of this precious life boils down to simple things like being able to taste and enjoy food. Making [the upcoming TV drama] Fortitude we stayed in the very far east of Iceland in a small, small town called Reyðarfjörður and thought, "What are we going to do here?" But it had the most amazingly wonderful restaurant called the Farm, which had its own cows, sheep and chickens - and homemade ice-cream - and was located by the fjord with breathtaking views. I couldn't close my trousers when I had to go home. The only actor who cooked was Stanley Tucci, whose trailer kitchen was full of food. I really enjoyed his frittata. I find it funny that, in Denmark, what Brits call a Danish pastry is known as Wienerbrød - meaning bread from Vienna. I don't know why no one will claim ownership, because they're lovely. In Denmark we call the one with yellow curd in the middle bager dårlige øje - meaning baker's bad eye, which isn't kind to bakers either, I think. But we have the eating word Velbekomme (meaning "I hope the food serves you well") which you lack an equivalent to. There is an extremely popular, indulgent cookery show in Denmark presented by the Price brothers, one of whom wrote Borgen. But my favourite broadcast in Denmark was your Two Fat Ladies. Holburg 19 is my local cafe - a very lovely, very relaxed place. I live beside the Royal Danish Theatre [in Copenhagen], and have views across the harbour to [the restaurant] Noma. People travel from Britain to eat there, while I'm standing watching it every day but have still never been there. I really should because it's elevated our traditional peasant food of cabbage and porridge to an art form. Sofie Gråbøl is in the James Plays at the National Theatre, London from September
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Gidley injured as Broncos finals hopes end
The sight of Newcastle talisman Kurt Gidley being stretchered off could not break the spirit of Newcastle as they ran out 26-18 NRL winners over Brisbane at Suncorp Stadium on Friday night. However, the same could not be said for Brisbane after they finally had the finals door slammed shut in their face in their second-straight loss. Brisbane arrived at their home ground on Friday night just one point outside the top eight but at 13th spot on a congested NRL ladder, knowing they could not let their guard slip again following last round's 28-12 loss at Penrith. They appeared on track to keep their faint finals hopes alive when they led 14-6 at halftime in front of a 27,601-strong crowd. Advertisement And Broncos fans would still have been rejoicing when main threat Gidley was taken off in the 48th minute with a suspected left ankle injury, even after crossing to cut the second half deficit to 14-12. But from there it was one way traffic as Newcastle piled on three of the next four tries - including a double to fullback Darius Boyd - to finally extinguish any hope Brisbane could make the top eight. It ensured six-time premiers Brisbane will miss the finals for the second time in four seasons. Needing to win their final two games to stay in the top eight hunt, the Broncos came out swinging against the No.7-ranked Knights and quickly turned pressure into points. Broncos lock Corey Parker opened up the scoring in the 10th minute before hooker Andrew McCullough made Newcastle pay for a turnover by ex-Bronco Dane Gagai by crossing just four minutes later. And a 23rd minute penalty kick by Scott Prince made it 14-0 to the hosts. Newcastle would have been forgiven for thinking it was not their night when flying winger Akuila Uate pounced on a Jack Reed error and raced 80m, only to knock-on as he tried to ground the ball in the 24th minute. But they finally got on the board when the Knights chanced their arm, spun it left and two-try centre Joey Leilua finally opened his account on the stroke of halftime. Knights coach Wayne Bennett also had cause for concern after David Fa'alogo was placed on report for a shoulder charge on McCullough in the 56th minute. Bennett ruled out a recurrence of the right foot injury that had plagued Gidley last year. He said he would not know the extent of Gidley's left ankle complaint by Monday but admitted it was "obviously serious." "But to their credit tonight they played on without him. They have played a lot of last year without him so it is not something that we are unaccustomed to," Bennett said. The poker faced Knights mentor - who steered Brisbane to six titles - credited self belief with getting the visitors home against the odds on Friday night. "At 14-0 down, it can be 20-0 pretty quickly or you can make a stand," he said. "I might not look happy but I am." In contrast, Broncos coach Anthony Griffin wondered what might have been after Brisbane lost their composure in the second half ensuring they missed the finals for the second time in 21 years "I am very disappointed and frustrated. We thought we had a chance to win the game," he said. In another worry for Griffin, Parker (27th minute), Dunamis Lui (30th) and Peter Wallace (45th) were all placed on report.
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6. Blast your biceps
To hit all the muscle fibers in your biceps, you need to either lift max weight or lift at max speed - which nobody does when they work their biceps, says Chad Waterbury, M.S., the author of Huge in a Hurry. The next time you do curls, use a weight you think you can lift just six or seven times. Bang your reps out as fast as you can while maintaining good form. That means lifting the weight quickly, lowering it at a normal speed, and immediately starting the next rep. Stop the set when one rep is clearly slower than the others. You may pull off four or five reps on your first set, and fewer on later sets. Rest for 45 seconds between sets, and shoot for 25 reps total. 7. Trick out your triceps
Waterbury recommends jackknife pushups as a triceps-building companion for the high-velocity curls. Assume a pushup position but place your toes on a bench; keep your hands on the floor, thumbs six to 12 inches apart, and hips up. (If you feel the blood rush to your face, you're in the correct position.) Do pushups as fast as you can without rearranging any of your favorite facial features. (That is, don't hit the floor.) Go for 35 reps total, with seven or fewer per set. Click here to learn more ways to reliably build your muscles from Men's Health.
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A Presto, Change-O Opening Night at SXSW AUSTIN, Tex. - Magic was on the streets and on the screen here in Austin on Friday at the opening night of the South by Southwest film festival. This year's selection, "The Incredible Burt Wonderstone," featured a starry cast in telling its story about a Vegas-performing magic duo (Steve Carell and Steve Buscemi) and a new kind of magician (Jim Carrey) who threatens to steal their thunder. Olivia Wilde also stars as a magician's assistant aspiring to be a bigger part of the act. The film, with its mixture of broad, traditional, sometimes subtle and other times gross-out humor played big to the audience at the Paramount Theater. A film about magicians and their different styles proved to be an interesting way to showcase the divergent comedy styles of Mr. Carrey, Mr. Carell and also Alan Arkin, who appears as a legendary magician. Mr. Carell, Ms. Wilde and Mr. Carrey attended the screening, and while they were on the red carpet, a man was performing magic tricks steps away on the sidewalk. A few more aspiring magicians were in the audience, at least as seen by a show of hands during the lively, and also quite funny, post-screening question-and-answer session with the cast and some crew. One audience member asked Ms. Wilde about her work on the television series "Continuum," a show on which she does not appear. That show stars Kiera Cameron, but the embarrassing identity mix-up was fodder for a number of jokes throughout the session. Another audience member asked Mr. Carell and Mr. Carrey what they thought their funniest facial expressions were and if they could perform one onstage. "This is the most risky face that I do; just the normal one," Mr. Carrey replied. "But thank you for the challenge." Mr. Carell was asked about the extreme tan his character maintains in the film. "I got sprayed every week," he said. "What I didn't realize until the last two days of shooting is you only see my face and my chest. But I had a head-to-toe tan, for really no reason whatsoever." When a woman, and aspiring magician, from the audience asked Ms. Wilde what it was like working in a male-dominated cast, Mr. Carell comically whispered to Ms. Wilde, "Say what I told you!" Her answer: "The way Hollywood has changed dramatically recently with women opening movies to huge box office numbers and allowing the studios to realize women can open comedies, women can open action movies. That paved the way for the rest of us. And the same things needs to happen in magic." "The Incredible Burt Wonderstone" opens in theaters nationwide March 15.
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Andy Murray Cromlix House plans hit heritage snag ANDY Murray's new hotel has hit a snag after conservation groups raised concerns about his refurbishment plans. The tennis ace bought Cromlix House in Kinbuck, five miles from his home town of Dunblane, Stirlingshire, in February for £1.9 million. The world No 2 tennis star wants to transform the 15-bedroom property into a five-star hotel, creating 40 jobs. However, plans to relocate a historic 400-year-old stone sundial and gate posts which sit in the hotel's grounds have attracted the attention of heritage groups. Historic Scotland have said they are "disappointed" with the lack of detail in a planning application submitted to Stirling Council. They said the structures are of "national significance" and have asked for a report from a stone expert before giving their approval to the plans. The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland have also said that by law they have a right to inspect the site for at least three months before work on moving the pieces can go ahead. Stirling Council is set to rule on whether the renovations can go ahead next month and work was expected to start within weeks. However, the interventions could see delays in the timescale for work in the grounds. In a letter to the local authority, Simon Montgomery, a senior heritage management officer at Historic Scotland, said: "We appreciate that there is a significant urgency to getting this venture up and running as soon as possible and we hope we can be of assistance in resolving any significant planning issues quickly. "We are therefore rather disappointed to see that the drawings for this application really appear to be drawings for the new access and car parking which therefore simply act as a location plan in our view. "We would really be seeking a report from a stone conservator with experience in conserving the likes of ancient carved stones and memorials which confirms that dismantling and rebuilding will be possible without causing damage to them and the specification and new location will ensure their long-term future is secured. "The stones are A-listed which identifies them as being of national signifigance and therefore we feel it is reasonable to ask for this information despite the tight timescale of the development." The sundial was put up at the hotel around 1920 and used to stand near Dunblane's old police station. The sundial and the gateposts are to be moved to make way for new parking facilities at the hotel. Murray also wants to build a new tennis court and conservatory at the site. Hotel group Inverlochy Castle Management International (ICMI) will manage Cromlix House on behalf of Murray. It is hoped the Victorian property, where Murray's older brother Jamie married Alejandra Gutierrez in 2010, will be open in by April next year. Norbert Lieder, managing director of ICMI, said: "Cromlix has been unoccupied for over a year and the building and grounds are in need of investment. "The refurbishment plans proposed by the Murray family aims to preserve the historical structure of the hotel while creating an exclusive five-star 15-room hotel that brings significant benefit to the local community. "Our planning application includes a proposal to reconfigure the entrance and parking to allow for anticipated customer demand. "As part of this we propose moving the listed sundial and gate piers elsewhere on the property, where they can continue to be enjoyed by customers and the community. "Our plans have not received any formal objections and we hope to work closely with both Historic Scotland and The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS) to ensure we satisfy their requirements." Last month, Murray's grandmother said she was overjoyed the tennis star would re-open the hotel, because it has played a big part in their family life. Shirley Erskine said: "I think it's great that Andy is back making links with his hometown. "We had our silver wedding anniversary at Cromlix way back when it first opened as a hotel and my husband Roy was the optician in the town. We went back and we had our golden wedding there too. Then Jamie got married there. "Even now we walk our dog in the grounds to enjoy the beautiful surroundings. It's a vast estate on our doorstep, and you just feel away from it all. "Never in our wildest dreams did we ever think it would be in the family. It's lovely. We have so many happy memories of the hotel. Now I'm sure there will be many more."
• Brides left in lurch as hotel shuts days after hiring staff • Andy Murray buys luxury hotel near Dunblane
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Under shadow of Japan, $1 billion sought for Chernobyl KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine looks to the world on Tuesday to pledge more funds to help it contain the consequences of history's worst nuclear accident, but donors seem likely to put up less than the 740 million euros (more than $1 billion) it seeks. Leaders from the Group of Eight industrial powers and the European Union are gathering in Kiev for a conference marking 25 years since the Chernobyl disaster, which has been brought into sharper focus by the nuclear crisis at Fukushima in Japan. A European-backed venture foresees construction of a new shell over Chernobyl's No. 4 reactor, which blew up in April 1986, to contain radioactivity leaking through a makeshift shelter from hundreds of tons of radioactive material inside. European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said on Monday that the Commission would allocate an extra 110 million euros toward this and allied Chernobyl projects. "We hope our key partners will also step up their contributions in order to complete the works of the shelter by 2015," he said. G8 countries were expected to put up a total of 332.8 million euros, diplomatic sources, quoted by Interfax news agency, said. But a Commission official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said total pledges were likely to come far below the 740 million euros that Ukraine sought. "If we get more than 500 million euros we will regard it as a success," the official said, adding that there was a question mark over the contribution from Japan, normally one of the main donors on Chernobyl. "They are now looking to see how much money there is to solve their own problems," the official said. Two hours before Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich was scheduled to open the event in central Kiev, nine women staged a bare-breasted demonstration in front of the conference hall, accusing his administration of undemocratic practices. The women, of the Femen protest movement, held up placards and chanted slogans like "Political Chernobyl" and "Yanukovich is worse than radiation." [ID:nLDE6AC094] They were arrested.
Tuesday's "donors' conference" launches a week of commemorations in Ukraine marking the Soviet-era explosion and fire at the Chernobyl plant, located on Ukraine's northern border with Belarus. A prevailing southeast wind carried a cloud of radioactivity over Belarus and Russia and on into parts of northern Europe. The official short-term death toll from the accident was 31, but many more died of radiation-related sicknesses such as cancer. The total death toll and long-term health effects remain a subject of intense debate. Prypyat, the town closest to the site, is now an eerie ghost town at the center of a largely uninhabited exclusion zone with a radius of 30 km (19 miles). A makeshift shelter or'sarcophagus' erected over the damaged reactor within eight months of the accident has developed cracks and holes, and is no longer considered reliable. The new containment projects foresee construction of a convex structure more than 100 meters high that will slide into place over the damaged reactor, sealing it at least until the end of the century. During that time, work can be undertaken to dismantle the present shelter and move radioactive material to a safer place. World leaders attending the conference include French Prime Minister Francois Fillon, whose country is current chairman of the G8, and U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. Some leaders may visit the Chernobyl site itself, about 110 km (70 miles) north of the capital. Chernobyl has remained the benchmark for nuclear accidents. On April 12 Japan raised the severity rating at its Fukushima plant to seven -- the same level as that of Chernobyl. (Editing by Richard Meares)
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Prometheus sees Ridley Scott return to Alien world
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BBC Cymru Fyw - Y Bala yn croesawu'r Eisteddfod 26 Mai 2014 Diweddarwyd 06:58 Rhannu Bydd dros 15,000 o blant a phobl ifanc yn cystadlu yn yr Eisteddfod dros yr wythnos Mae disgwyl i ryw 100,000 o ymwelwyr ddod i stad Rhiwlas, Y Bala yr wythnos yma wrth i Eisteddfod yr Urdd gychwyn. Cafodd y cyngerdd agoriadol ei gynnal nos Sul gyda nifer yn perfformio gan gynnwys y delynores Catrin Finch, yr actor a'r diddanwr Eilir Jones, y canwr Luke McCall a dawnswyr Adran Amlwch a Choedpoeth. Ymhlith y grwpiau oedd yn cymryd rhan oedd Swnami, Jessop a'r Sgweiri a Gai Toms a'r Band. Yn ystod y noson roedd rhagflas o'r sioe 'Paid a Gofyn i Fi' sydd yn cael ei pherfformio gan blant ysgolion cynradd. Mi fydd y sioe yn cael ei chynnal o nos Lun tan nos Fercher. Mae dros 15,000 o blant a phobl ifanc yn cystadlu yn ystod yr wythnos ar ôl bod yn llwyddiannus yn yr Eisteddfodau Cylch a Sir. Eleni mae'r babell wyddoniaeth yn fwy nag oedd hi yn y gorffennol ac mi fydd yna lwyfan ar gyfer cyflwyniadau ac ardal creu aps a chodio cyfrifiadurol. Roedd Catrin Finch a Luke McCall yn perfformio yn y cyngerdd agoriadol nos Sul Mae'r datblygiad yma yn dod ar ôl i weithgor Eisteddfod yr Urdd adolygu'r wŷl y llynedd. Pabell dechnoleg oedd un o'r argymhellion. Yn ystod y diwrnod mi fydd baton Gemau'r Gymanwlad yn cael ei gario o gwmpas y Maes. Hwn fydd y trydydd diwrnod wrth i'r baton fynd ar daith o gwmpas Cymru. Bydd ymwelwyr yn medru gweld y baton ar lwyfan agored yr Urdd ac yn ystod y Seremoni Agoriadol yn y bore. Bydd ras gyfnewid hefyd yn digwydd gyda'r rhedwr Iwan Thomas yn dechrau'r ras. Diolch i bobl leol Tra bod ap yr Urdd ar gael eto y tro yma mae ap newydd hefyd yn cael ei lansio gan S4C. Nod ap 'Cyfri gyda Cyw' yw helpu plant o dan 7 oed i gyfri. Dywedodd Sioned Wyn Roberts, Comisiynydd Cynnwys Plant S4C: "Mae'n bleser cael cyhoeddi App Cyfri Cyw fydd yn cael ei lansio heddiw. Dyma'r ail mewn cyfres o appiau sy'n helpu plant i ddysgu wrth gael hwyl. "Mae app Cyw a'r Wyddor eisoes yn hynod o boblogaidd gyda'r gynulleidfa a'r gobaith yw y bydd plant wrth eu boddau gyda App Cyfri Cyw yn chwarae gemau, cyfri a dysgu rhifo. " | 971 | 4,278,742,059,727,398,000 | 2014-12-31 00:00:00 | null | null | null | null |
White night may refer to:
White Night (band), southern California mutants
White night, a night of the midnight sun on which it never gets completely dark
White Night festivals, all-night arts festivals held in many cities worldwide in the summer
White Night riots, violent events in San Francisco, California, United States in 1979
White Night (The Dresden files), a 2007 book in Jim Butcher's The Dresden Files series
White Night 2004 novel by Keigo Higashino
White Night (film) is a 2009 South Korean mystery thriller film
White Night (Baekya), a 1968 South Korean film
a "white night" might also refer to a night where one laid sleepless in bed all night long, see The Blue Castle. White Nights may refer to:
White Nights (1916 film), directed by Alexander Korda
White Nights (1957 film), by Luchino Visconti
White Nights (1985 film), a 1985 film starring Mikhail Baryshnikov and Gregory Hines
White Nights (radio), 2006 series
White Nights (short story) by Dostoevsky
White Nights Festival, an annual arts festival in St. Petersburg, Russia during the season of the midnight sun
White Nights, practice at Jonestown, Guyana
"White Nights" (song), a 2011 song by Oh Land
White Nights (book), an autobiographical memoir by Menachem Begin, the sixth Prime Minister of Israel
==See also==
Nuit Blanche, an annual all-night or night-time arts festival
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Romney, Gingrich Score Super Tuesday Victories Evan Vucci / AP Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich pauses during a campaign stop at Food City March 5, 2012, in Chattanooga, Tennessee. (WASHINGTON) - Mitt Romney scored an easy primary victory in Virginia, seized the advantage in Vermont and had a home-state Massachusetts win in his pocket in the 10-state, Super Tuesday battle in the race for the Republican presidential nomination.Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich countered with a home-field win in Georgia, while Rick Santorum and Ron Paul looked elsewhere for triumph - and Republican National Convention delegates - on the busiest night of the race to pick a rival to Barack Obama. The featured race of the night was in Ohio, where Romney and Santorum dueled in a second industrial state showdown in as many weeks. In line with states that held contests earlier in the year, a plurality of Ohio primary voters interviewed as they left their polling places said an ability to defeat Obama mattered most to them when it came time to choose a candidate. Not surprisingly, the economy was the No. 1 issue in a state where unemployment was measured at 7.9 percent in December.In all, more than 400 delegates were at stake on the night, with primaries in Tennessee and Oklahoma as well as Virginia, Vermont, Ohio, Massachusetts and Georgia. Caucuses in North Dakota, Idaho and Alaska rounded out the calendar. Gingrich's victory was his first since he captured the South Carolina primary on Jan. 21, and the former House speaker said it would propel him on yet another comeback in a race where he has faded badly over the past six weeks.
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Dundee United hold out and reject Rangers' £1m David Goodwillie bid DUNDEE United last night rejected a £1 million-plus bid from Rangers for striker David Goodwillie. Rangers manager Ally McCoist moved for 22-year-old Goodwillie yesterday after United chairman Stephen Thompson revealed that no contact had taken place between the clubs since the Ibrox club's initial interest on 20 June, with the Ibrox club also believed to have made a fresh bid for Hearts defender Lee Wallace. That prompted the Ibrox side to mobilise in an attempt to beat off competition from Cardiff and Blackpool, who have both also held negotiations with United about the Scotland international. McCoist is understood to have offered the Tannadice side a package which would be worth over a million, although that still falls well below United's valuation of their player. Thompson initially quoted Rangers £2 million for Goodwillie, who is with his team-mates in Dublin after Tuesday's friendly draw with Bohemians, but that figure was dismissed last week by new Ibrox owner Craig Whyte. With Cardiff and Blackpool still firmly in the frame, United are confident they will get what they are looking for so knocked back Rangers first firm bid and are waiting to see if they return with an improved offer. Hearts turned down an offer of £300,000 for Wallace last week, but it is understood Rangers have made an improved bid for the 23-year-old. Speaking on Monday, McCoist confirmed Wallace was a target. "I make no secret of the fact that the first bid has been rejected and Lee is a player we would be keen to get here," he said.
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Angelina Jolie has chickenpox and can't do publicity for Unbroken Angelina Jolie has had to pull out of her press engagements for the film 'Unbroken' due to a bout of chicken pox. Courtesy Universal Pictures ANGELINA Jolie is reluctantly calling in sick for Unbroken promotional duty. Universal Pictures said Friday that Jolie is suffering from "a mild bout of chickenpox" that will keep her from making public appearances in the coming days to support the film, which she directed. Unbroken, about former Olympian Louis Zamperini, is set to premiere in Los Angeles on Monday. Angelina Jolie death stares Sony executive behind "spoiled brat" emails Director and actor Angelina Jolie poses on the red carpet for the UK premiere of the film Unbroken in London in November before she came down with chickenpox. Picture: AFP Source: AFP Universal said Jolie's children and her husband, Brad Pitt, will represent her at the premiere. The studio added that she's "in very good spirits" regardless. Angelina Jolie has just found out she has chickenpox. Picture: Screen shot YouTube. Source: Supplied The actor, appearing pale and drawn, also explained her plight in a YouTube post. In the video Jolie seems to be in goods spirits but is clearly covered with red spots from chickenpox. Picture: Screen shot YouTube Source: Supplied "I will be home itching and missing everyone," she says in the video. "I can't believe it, because this film means so much to me... But such is life. There it is." Jolie's illness comes days after she was maligned by top Hollywood executives in private emails made public by the Sony cyberattack and her film was ignored by the Screen Actors Guild and Golden Globe awards. Originally published as Angelina Jolie's video "confession"
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Injured Adelaide Crows captain Nathan van Berlo holds on to hope of 2014 return Crows captain Nathan van Berlo is running again. Picture: Sarah Reed Source: News Corp Australia Despite their win over an out of sorts North Melbourne head coach Brenton Sanderson says he won't be satisfied until the Crows sort out their inconsistencies CROWS skipper Nathan van Berlo has taken heart from the strong return of Kangaroos counterpart Andrew Swallow from an Achilles injury and maintains hope of playing this season. Van Berlo ran unassisted for the first time last week since having surgery to repair his achilles, which was ruptured when a runaway sled cut him down at pre-season training five months ago.
He hasn't set a return date but has been boosted by a recent conversation with Swallow, who is averaging 20 disposals per game since returning in Round 9. "Speaking to Andrew, he felt a bit off the pace the first couple of games back but has been in pretty good shape the past few weeks. It's a positive sign," van Berlo said in an interview posted on the Crows website. "The best thing is that he says his Achilles hasn't held him back at any stage in games." Van Berlo and forwards Lewis Johnston and Jared Petrenko are the only players still facing lengthy stints on the Crows" injury list following the return of Ricky Henderson and Brad Crouch in recent weeks. Adelaide's Eddie Betts has kicked a goal worthy of goal of the year in the Crows' clash with North Melbourne. But the exact timing of van Berlo's return remains a guessing game. "We haven't got to the stage where we've put a date on my return or even a roundabout date. It's basically dictated by how I pull up and how my Achilles tendon is feeling," he said. "So far, it's been pretty good. It was a bit stiff and sore the first couple of days of running, but it is getting gradually better... "There's always been that little light at the end of the tunnel (for a return this season) which has made it that much easier to get through my rehab. Speaking to the surgeon, he said if everything goes to plan and I'm able to progress as we'd like then there's certainly light at the end of the tunnel for this year. "If the boys are good enough to play finals footy, that would be awesome and might buy me a few extra weeks to give myself a chance to get back. It gives me something to strive for and I'll hang on to it for as long as it's there."
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There are some areas of it that still need work, and I hope to be able to upload some more pictures for it soon, but it's the most substantial thing I've done on Wikipedia and I'm really really proud of it. Another contribution I'm particularly pleased with is the image I added to Fork in the road. Maybe that's an odd thing to be pleased with, but I like it anyway. Have you been in any conflicts over editing in the past or do you feel other users have caused you stress? How have you dealt with it and how will you deal with it in the future? I don't think I've really been in any major conflicts; but I have been trying to help out with other people's conflicts like the one at Charun and the one at Pocket PC. This is really why I'm requesting this editor review, to try to get some feedback about the way I handled those, especially since I don't feel like I was really able to help in those situations. I don't think anything on Wikipedia could really cause me stress. I have a new opinion of stress after having to move house 3 times in 2 weeks and wrecking 2 cars in the same 2 weeks last year. Compared to those 2 weeks, there is nothing on the internet that could really cause me stress. However, there have been things on Wikipedia that have annoyed me or gotten on my nerves. I deal with minor things like that by doing something else for a while. I go for a walk if it's nice out, or I read my book, play a video game, work on a puzzle, take a bubble bath... basically get off the computer and do something else. Then I come back later when I'm calmer and better able to think clearly. I imagine that's how I'll continue to handle situations like that in the future. | 387 | null | null | 82,437,678 | "2006-10-19T15:38:55" | Editor review/ONUnicorn | 2,014 |
A married royal princess is not going to sleep with a servant! Catherine of Valois and Jacquetta of Luxembourg were widows! Their alliances (note: after their husbands were dead!!) were allowed purely because their lovers were nobodys and if children were produced they wouldn't be a direct threat to anyone important! Can it not be understood that some people are capable of keeping their pants and knickers on?! Not everyone is desperate for sex! Johnpretty010 (talk)
==POV?==
OK, I'm certainly no historian, but I'd like to query the neutrality of the "Consequences of illegitimacy" section. This section presents a rebuttal of the claims of a TV programme, and presents the rebuttal as fact. Quotes: "the documentary is factually inaccurate", "the programme suddenly rushes into stating (wrongly) that...", "The reason the makers of the documentary go down the wrong track...", "This is where the programme appears to neglect important facts." and so on. I see two cases. (1) The position advocated by the documentary has so few adherents that there is no dispute that needs to be NPOV'd. In which case there is also no need for a nine-paragraph rebuttal of a position that nobody holds. So I presume (2), that the position advocated by the documentary is held by (at least) a non-negligible minority, in which case we need to reword for NPOV. Does this seem reasonable? — Matt
I agree. The section on the possible illegitimacy of Edward is far too long. The problem, I feel, (dare I say this?) is that this article has been "got at" by the Ricardian element. Because of an earlier debate as to whether Richard III claimed Edward IV was illegitimate in making his own claim on the throne, someone tried to prove that Edward IV had been illegitimate in order to vindicate Richard, and then someone else spent an inordinate amount of time trying to prove the opposite, possibly with a similar aim. This is one of those historical mysteries, a bit like "Did George III marry Hannah Lightfoot? ", on which too much time has been spent - or at least, too much for an encyclopedia. But take care when you attempt to NPOV, because there are a lot of people out there with axes to grind. The rebuttal is presumably presented as fact because it is fact, as it's simply a matter of law. I'm sure many people who watched the television programme believed it, which is why a lengthy rebuttal is useful (if not necessary), but NPOV only applies to opinions, not legal facts. The claims made in the programme are effectively "pseudo-law", which any real lawyer in Britain will tell you is utter nonsense. (And the fact remains that, regardless of the exact nature of the law concerning legitimacy, the current occupant of the Throne is determined by the Act of Settlement 1701, not by legitimate descent from mediaeval kings.) Proteus (Talk)
OK, but have a read of this section from NPOV:
If we're going to characterize disputes fairly, we should present competing views with a consistently positive, sympathetic tone. A lot of articles end up as partisan commentary even while presenting both points of view. Even when a topic is presented in terms of facts rather than opinion, an article can still radiate an implied stance through either selection of which facts to present, or more subtly their organization
We should, instead, write articles with the tone that all positions presented are at least plausible. Let's present all competing views sympathetically. We can write with the attitude that such-and-such is a good idea, except that, on the view of some detractors, the supporters of said view overlooked such-and-such a detail. If we can't do that, we will probably write stuff with so much contempt that subsequent edits are going to have a hard time doing anything but veiling it. Do you believe that the "Consequences of illegitimacy" section presents the competing views sympathetically? — Matt
It could probably do with being less condescending and more objective, but to present this "hypothesis" as anything other than utterly wrong would be misleading to the reader. Proteus (Talk)
: It would, however, be NPOV. — Matt
::Stop being so ridiculous. Many people in the UK believe that Arson in Her Majesty's Dockyards and Treason are capital offences. They aren't. The death penalty for those crimes has been abolised. It is not POV to state this in an article - it's simply the truth. | 1,019 | null | null | 602,395,248 | "2014-04-02T09:47:03" | Edward IV of England | 2,014 |
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Los Angeles County authorities say the week's fourth rainstorm is likely to cause significant debris and mud flows and everyone who has been ordered to evacuate should now leave. Officials say no major incidents have occurred as of Thursday morning but many of the flood-control debris basins protecting homes below wildfire-scarred mountains are now full. Fire Department Chief Deputy John Tripp used a televised press conference to warn people who have failed to evacuate that if an incident occurs rescuers would likely not be able to reach them. More than 1,200 homes have been ordered evacuated in foothill and canyon communities along the San Gabriel Mountains. The new storm is expected to reach the area at midmorning.
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Statistics of Liberian Premier League in season 2000/2001. ==Overview==
It was contested by 18 teams, and Mighty Barrolle won the championship. ==Group stage==
===Group A===
===Group B===
==Final==
==References==
Liberia - List of final tables (RSSSF)
Football competitions in Liberia
2000 in Liberia
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At the request of Lindsey Marsh IDB, a small team of volunteers began to restore the station and the engines in 1994, and the site is opened for visitors three times a year. The restoration has enabled the station to be used twice in 2000 and once in 2004, when power failure prevented the electric station from operating, and during the floods of 2007, both engines ran to assist the electric pumps. The team of volunteers was led by Dennis Quincey, and following his death in 2002, the Drainage Board renamed it Quinceys Pumping Station. In the medieval period, Wainfleet was an important port, and had a thriving salt industry, extracting salt from sea water. The town was much closer to the sea at that time, but the gradual silting of the channel and the enclosure of land on both sides of it saw the demise of the port, with its function taken over by Boston. The channel, known as Wainfleet Haven, was still used by shipping, although larger ships unloaded cargo into river barges close to Gibraltar Point, from where the barges travelled up the river to Wainfleet. Commercial use of the Haven by boats ceased in the 1920s. ==Points of interest==
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Is WiFi on a flight a good idea for the travelling worker?
Last week, the Federal Aviation Administration released a draft report suggesting that it may relax the ban on using some types of electronic devices on flights. Staying switched on may be good for an employer but is it good for the employee?
The executive: Andrew Grill How ironic that a request to contribute to this week's Judgment Call was received on an iPad at 36,000 feet travelling over Canada en-route to San Francisco. This is the first time I have been able to access WiFi on an international flight. After I had tweeted, updated my Facebook and Google Plus status, the utility of being able to use my devices mid-flight came into play. Already on this flight, I have organised a conference, prepared a PowerPoint deck and reviewed it with my team, as well as caught up on family errands requested by my wife from London. In-flight WiFi allows you to be even more productive and that benefits the team and your clients. The writer is chief executive of Kred and blogs about social business and new technologies
The tech expert: Jakob Nielsen It's good to be connected, and it's good to communicate with colleagues and clients - but not every minute of the day. Switching off does you good, because it gives you a block of time to devote to deep thinking. One of the worst ways of prioritising is to change direction every two minutes as a reaction to email or tweets to you. You cannot let the flow of small and large issues take your time hostage. Yet this is exactly the outcome of an overconnected lifestyle. Connected yes; always connected no. Don't be reactive; be strategic. Have the courage to go off grid an hour per day. An aeroplane ride is an opportunity to lean back and think. The writer is principal of Nielsen Norman Group, a research and consulting firm specialising in how people use technology
The academic: Cary Cooper For many frequent fliers, the plane has been the last sanctuary for calm and reflection before the next onslaught of meetings. They're WiFi-ed on the train, in hotels and even in the back of chauffeur-driven cars. But is this good for the health and wellbeing of business leaders? No. Research has shown that working longer and longer hours can damage your health. Remember, humans are biological machines, and need regular maintenance and down time. As John Ruskin wrote in 1851: "In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it." The writer is professor of organisational psychology and health at Lancaster University Management School Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2013. You may share using our article tools.
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Olivia Wilde Defends Kim Kardashian's Divorce
Kim Kardashian (left) has support in Olivia Wilde (right). Olivia Wilde does not judge Kim Kardashian for her 72-day marriage. The "Butter" star finalized her own high-profile divorce from Italian aristocrat Tao Ruspoli in October. Wilde said at a New York afterparty for "Another Happy Day," "I empathize. It's not easy. It's the hardest thing in the world."
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"I'm Gonna Hire a Wino to Decorate Our Home" is a song written by Dewayne Blackwell and recorded by American country music artist David Frizzell. It was released in April 1982 as the first single from the album The Family's Fine, But This One's All Mine. "I'm Gonna Hire a Wino to Decorate Our Home" would become David Frizzell's only number one on the country chart as a solo artist. The single went to number one for one week and spent a total of 14 weeks in country music's top 40. The song also became an unexpected mainstream pop hit in Canada, peaking at No. 20 on the RPM Top Singles chart (in addition to peaking at No. 3 on the magazine's Top Country Tracks chart). ==Song content==
The song talks of a wife who grows tired of her husband's barhopping (and spending his entire paycheck doing so). But instead of ending the marriage, she comes up with a unique plan – she decides to redecorate their house into a bar, and play the part of bartender/waitress as an inducement to get her husband to stay at home (and possibly bring his friends along with him, so they can spend their paychecks). While he recovers from his hangover the following morning, she will deposit the proceeds in their bank account. ==Chart performance==
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==References==
==External links==
1982 singles
David Frizzell songs
Songs written by Dewayne Blackwell
Song recordings produced by Snuff Garrett
Billboard Hot Country Songs number-one singles
Warner Bros. Records singles
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L'annonce de la convocation du corps électoral doit se faire 90 jours avant les élections et les candidats doivent se faire connaître au plus tard 45 jours avant le scrutin. Cela laisse un mois et demi au président algérien pour annoncer, ou pas, sa candidature. Une douzaine de personnes ont déjà annoncé la leur, mais l'arène politique paraît paralysée en l'absence d'assurances sur les intentions du président sortant. Dimanche prochain, l'un des plus populaires des responsables historiques algériens, Ali Benflis, devrait annoncer sa candidature à la magistrature suprême. Cet ancien Premier ministre d'Abdelaziz Bouteflika avait entamé une longue traversée du désert après avoir fait campagne en 2004 contre lui à la présidentielle, ce que, selon les analystes politiques algériens, le chef de l?État ne lui a jamais pardonné. Depuis quelques semaines, des comités de soutien à sa candidature se créent un peu partout dans le pays, mais les dés ne seront véritablement jetés que lorsque Bouteflika se sera prononcé. Au pouvoir depuis 1999, il achève là un troisième mandat qu'il avait pu briguer en modifiant la constitution. M. Bouteflika avait promis une réforme constitutionnelle en avril 2011 en annonçant des réformes pour parer à un Printemps arabe en Algérie, suite à des émeutes sanglantes et manifestations dans son pays. S'il a fait voter une série de changements depuis, vivement critiqués par l'opposition qui n'y a vu que du vent, sa réforme constitutionnelle pourtant rédigée par un comité nommé à cet effet n'a jamais été rendue publique ni discutée. Aucune source officielle n'a précisé si ce texte serait voté avant ou après la prochaine présidentielle ou s'il finirait aux oubliettes. En attendant, c'est le suspense. Toute la vie politique fonctionne au ralenti tandis que le Premier ministre Abdelmalek Sellal occupe le devant de la scène parcourant le pays à l'écoute des doléances de la population et promettant de répondre à leurs demandes au nom du président Abdelaziz Bouteflika. Copyright © AFP 2014. Tous droits réservés. Plus "
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Shelley Powers is an American author, web developer and technology architect. She works with and writes about open source, LAMP technologies and web service development, CSS/XHTML design, web graphics and the use of these technologies in the semantic web. For her work as an author and her long-running tech weblog Burningbird, Powers was called "one of the more visible women in technology" by Virginia DeBolt of BlogHer in 2008. She has been an advocate for women in computing. She told the BlogHer interviewer, "Women are making great strides in every field of science and technology, except computers and engineering. Our numbers are decreasing every year
==Personal life==
Powers lives in St. Louis, Missouri. She graduated from Central Washington University with a B.S. in Industrial Psychology and a B.A. in Computer science. Her career as a computer book author began when she was working as a Powerbuilder developer in the 1990s and posted on help forums. An editor for Waite Group Press saw her posts and asked her to co-author a book on the software. ==Bibliography==
Learning Node (O'Reilly, 2012) ISBN 1-449-32307-3
HTML5 Media (O'Reilly, 2011) ISBN 1-449-30445-1
JavaScript Cookbook (O'Reilly, 2010) ISBN 978-0-596-80613-2
Learning JavaScript, 2nd edition (O'Reilly, 2008) ISBN 0-596-52187-1
Painting the Web (O'Reilly, 2008) ISBN 0-596-51509-X
Adding Ajax (O'Reilly, 2007) ISBN 0-596-52936-8
Practical RDF (O'Reilly, 2003) ISBN 0-596-00263-7
Unix Power Tools (O'Reilly, 2002) ISBN 0-596-00330-7
Essential Blogging (O'Reilly, 2002) ISBN 0-596-00388-9
Developing ASP Components (O'Reilly, 2001) ISBN 1-56592-750-8
==References==
== External links ==
Powers' Burningbird website
O'Reilly profile
American technology writers
American bloggers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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To keep eye on ball, batters mostly use heads Jan. 7, 2014 - Baseball players at bat follow coaches' advice to "keep your eye on the ball" -- but head movements play a surprisingly important role in tracking pitches, suggests a study in Optometry and Vision Science, official journal of the American Academy of Optometry. The journal is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health. The findings lend new insights into how batters accomplish the complex task of tracking a pitched ball -- and might even lead to new strategies designed to improve their ability to see pitches, according to the study by Nicklaus F. Fogt, OD, PhD, FAAO, and Aaron B., Zimmerman, OD, MS, FAAO, of The Ohio State University College of Optometry. Here Comes the Pitch -- Where Are the Batter's Eyes? Drs Fogt and Zimmerman designed an experimental setup to monitor eye and head tracking movements in a group of 15 Division I collegiate baseball players. The players tracked, but did not swing at, a large number of balls pitched by a pneumatic pitching machine. Eye and head movements were synchronized with trajectory of the pitches. "On average, eye gaze position matched the target position well throughout the trajectory," according to the researchers. But most of the time the ball was in the air, the players tracked it with their head -- they moved their eyes very little until late in the pitch trajectory. The pitches took about 400 milliseconds (ie, four-tenths) of a second to complete their trajectory; the players did not move their eyes until between 340 and 380 milliseconds. Although head movements varied between players, they seemed to follow a common strategy of "neural coupling" between eye and head movements. Experiments included a task in which players were to call out colors (red or black) and numbers written on the pitched balls. However, their performance in calling out the correct colors and numbers was not significantly better than chance. Surprisingly, the players' static visual acuity (as measured on an eye chart) averaged slightly less than normal. Possible Implications for Vision Training in Baseball Players The findings are consistent with a previous study of pitch tracking in a Major League Baseball player. But they contrast with studies of fielders, who primarily track fly balls to the point where it will land, but move both their eyes and head when attempting to catch the ball. "Hitting a baseball is a remarkably difficult task," Drs Fogt and Zimmerman write. For a pitch traveling 90 miles per hour, the batter has only about one-fourth of a second to decide "when and at what location the ball will arrive and whether to swing the bat." The new study was designed to assess the eye and head movement strategies used in tracking pitched balls, and whether they were consistent between players. In the new study, "Division I college baseline players applied a strategy in which the eye was moved very little with any correctional eye movements until late in the pitch trajectory while the head was aimed at the ball," according to the authors. They add, "It will be interesting in the future to compare tracking strategies to hitting success, and tracking strategies of elite players to those of novice players." It's unknown whether vision training can lead to improved on-field performance -- although Drs Fogt and Zimmerman note that one collegiate baseball team reported a large increase in batting average after incorporating a vision training regimen into their practice. The researchers conclude, "By better identifying the physiologic capabilities and gaze behaviors of baseball players, it may become possible to develop more precise vision training strategies for players of all calibers."
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Hello, I am a first year student from University College London Bsc Statistics and Management for Business. As part of the assignment of Information world course, we need to edit one of the articles on wikipedia. | 44 | null | null | 630,104,386 | "2014-10-18T13:46:57" | Mengyingzhao | 2,014 |
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:PS. There are many students taking abstract algebra that make the mistake non-zero det
==Chinese Linear Algebra side note==
I was reading my linear Algebra book for class (Otto Bretsher's Linear Algebra with Applications. 3 edition. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson Education, 2005) when I came across something interesting on page 8:
"When mathematicans in ancient China had to solve a system of simultaneous linear equations such as\mathbf{} = \begin{bmatrix}
3x & +21y & -3z & =0\\
-6x & -2y & -z & =62\\
2x & -3y & =8z & =32\end{bmatrix},
they took all the numbers involved in this system and arranged them in a rectangular pattern (Fang Cheng in Chinese as follows:
\mathbf{A} = \begin{bmatrix}
3 & 21 & -3 & 0 \\
-6 & -2 & -1 & 62\\
4 & 9 & 2 & 32\end{bmatrix}
All the information about this system is conveniently stored in this array of numbers. The entries were respresented by counting rods; the equations were then solved in a hands-on fashion, by manipulating the rods"
I did some googling and found out that how Fang Chang is Chapter 8 in a book called Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art which shows how almost 2000 years ago Chinese had a method similar to Guassian Elimination for solving linear equations even though they didn't call it Linear Alegbra. I thought it would be an interesting side note to add to the history section. the link about the book is here Nine Chapters on wiki and here Nine Chapters on google books —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.61.43.160 (talk)
== Boy, does this page need changes ==
I agree with people elsewhere on this page who feel that this entry is in need of major rewriting and changing. I have just made a dent in this. I began by tweaking the "history" section slightly (to treat the history of linear algebra as synonymous with the history of "abstract", ie, post-1850s linear algebra, is inaccurate) and removing a good chunk of stuff about quaternions. (Although it is certainly related to linear algebra, so are vectors
The statement that the use of Cramer's rule (which dates to the 1700s, mind you, not the 1850s) to solve partial differential equations led to the introduction of linear algebra to the math curriculum is, to this reader, laughable, and as it was not sourced in a way that makes sense to me I took it out. Copson's quote seems to have much more bearing on the difference in education between two universities, one English and one Scottish, in the beginning of the 19th century, than it does on anything specific to linear algebra. (In any case, the quoted portion of Copson does not say anything about the role of Cramer's rule in partial differential equations.) Frankly, the article in its current form reads like a mish-mash of submissions by beginning students of linear algebra, well-intentioned people relating the observations of third parties (e.g. footnotes in general science works, or introductory paragraphs in introductory textbooks), and people too inclined to include abstract technical detail that is probably better left to more specific entries than "linear algebra". In my very humble opinion. 75.167.204.90 (talk)
== Changes ==
I've started a revamping of the article, which was long overdue. In the first installment, I've replaced a rambling and incoherent section Elementary introduction with a synopsis of the first few chapters in a standard linear algebra text. The section on history needs to go, too: there is no excuse to having such poor quality material, especially since a very good historical account is contained in the article on vector spaces (and, perhaps, elsewhere on wikipedia). It seems unwise to fork the content, especially from the maintenance point of view. I also feel that the list of results doesn't add much, but if anyone has ideas about how to incorporate some of them into the narrative, please, share them here or implement them yourself. Arcfrk (talk)
== The article ==
This article must speak to the non-mathematical reader and to students. Mathematicians already know linear algebra and do not need to read about it on Wikipedia. Every line of the article should pass two tests. It should be mathematically accurate. And it should be readable by someone who is not a mathematician. | 1,014 | null | null | 632,506,810 | "2014-11-05T02:58:02" | Linear algebra | 2,014 |
U.S. could earn a ticket to Brazil this week The team Juergen Klinsmann called up for the next round of World Cup qualifiers is arguably among the best in U.S. national team history. And if things break right for the Americans on Friday in Costa Rica, the U.S. team could make history of another sort by earning a World Cup invitation with three qualifying matches left to play. That hardly seemed likely 10 months ago, when the U.S. was a loss away from elimination in an earlier round of qualifying. But with a victory in Costa Rica, combined with a tie between Mexico and Honduras and a Jamaican win or draw at Panama, the U.S. would become the sixth nation to guarantee itself a berth for next summer's World Cup in Brazil. What a change from February, when Klinsmann's future seemed in jeopardy after his sluggish team played a scoreless draw with Canada and managed only one goal in a loss to Honduras. Now the U.S. is riding a record 12-match winning streak and averaging more than three goals a game, while climbing back into the top 20 in the FIFA world rankings for the first time in 21/2 years. "We've done really, really well throughout the entire year, but now it's all about finishing things off," Klinsmann said. "The good part about all of our work over the last six, eight months is we deepened our roster, we deepened our possibilities in selecting specific players and all the players not called in to Costa Rica are still in the loop going forward." Credit much of that change to the spirit of constant competition that Klinsmann has engendered on his roster, in which no player's job is safe but no one's ever completely out of the picture, either. Consider that six Americans called up for the Costa Rica match and the Sept. 10 qualifier against Mexico in Columbus, Ohio, were not on the U.S. team for the first six World Cup qualifiers this season. And seven players who were in uniform for the last round of qualifiers in June aren't on the team this time. Among the additions is the Galaxy's Landon Donovan, who had to earn his way back after taking a three-month break from soccer over the winter. Donovan proved his form with a spectacular July, in which he scored seven goals with seven assists in seven games while leading a U.S. B team to the Gold Cup title. That leaves Klinsmann with the pleasant challenge of finding playing time up front for both Donovan and forward Jozy Altidore, who has scored in five consecutive games. Plus, Klinsmann has on his roster the Seattle Sounders' Eddie Johnson, who has scored in three of his last four matches, and Aron Johannsson, a dual U.S.-Icelandic citizen who made his national team debut in last month's friendly with Bosnia-Herzegovina. "Now it's all about putting pieces together," said Klinsmann, who will begin gathering his team in Miami on Sunday before their flight Tuesday to Costa Rica. "Once we have them in camp we'll see how they are doing and how the pieces will fit. "Having Landon back in the picture is another really good option for us so we're looking forward to it." If Donovan starts, it probably will be in place of Graham Zusi or Clint Dempsey, who both came to camp with questions about their fitness. There are likely to be few changes on defense, though, with the Galaxy's Omar Gonzalez anchoring a back line that has given up only one score in its last five qualifiers. But not all the numbers favor the U.S. The Americans have never won a World Cup qualifier in Costa Rica, and this time they'll be facing a team bent on avenging a controversial loss. Playing in a blizzard in Denver, the U.S. beat Costa Rica, 1-0, in March in a match the Central Americans felt should have been stopped. Without that victory, Costa Rica, not the U.S., would be atop the table in the six-team regional qualifier, and it would be Costa Rica, not the Americans, playing to clinch a berth in Brazil this week. "There will be a lot of tension," Klinsmann conceded. "They thought the 'Snow Game' shouldn't have been played, but we feel that we would have won by an even wider margin if there wasn't snow." The U.S. can't afford to be drawn into a physical match against Costa Rica because eight American players - including Altidore, Dempsey, midfielder Michael Bradley and goalkeeper Tim Howard - are carrying yellow cards. A second caution will result in a suspension from the game against Mexico. "Overall I think the guys need to be very disciplined and focused," Klinsmann said. "We hope to get through that game, but by no means are we going to hold back." | 1,021 | -4,538,767,001,795,457,000 | 2013-12-31 00:00:00 | null | null | null | null |
Mauritania fatwa bans female genital mutilation But that message has been slow to filter down in parts of north, east and west Africa where the practice is still widespread. Health campaigners estimate that more than 70 percent of Mauritanian girls undergo the partial or total removal of their external genitalia for non-medical reasons. The World Health Organisation says there are no health benefits and many potentially damaging consequences, from severe pain and blood loss to recurrent infections, infertility and an increased risk of complications in childbirth. Taboo'smashed' Mutilations are carried out for a mix of cultural and social reasons, and many believe the practice has Islamic religious support, even if this isn't always the case. A law professor at Nouakchott University said the collective fatwa would greatly reduce female genital mutilation in Mauritania because it would remove what he called the religious mask that the practice hides behind. Mauritanian women in Nouakchott also welcomed what one said was the smashing of a religious taboo. However, others have cautioned that a publicity campaign will now be needed if the fatwa's message is to be spread into outlying areas where genital mutilation is most common.
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==Awards==
Kerala State Film Awards:
1974: Best Actor – Chattakkari (directed by K. S. Sethumadhavan)
1979: Best Actor – Cheriyachante Krura Krithyangal (directed by John Abraham)
1984: Second Best Actor – April 18 (directed by Balachandra Menon)
==Filmography==
=== As actor ===
Thiramaala (1953)
Muhjijhthran (1961)... Krishnan Nair
Gnana Sundari (1961)
Viyarpintae Vila (1962)
Velu Thampi Dalava (1962)
Bhagya Jathakam (1962)
Sathyabhama (1963)
Ninamaninja Kaalpaadukal (1963)
Moodupaddam (1963)
Chilamboli (1963)
Ammaye Kaanaan (1963).... Sangameshwara Iyer
Thacholi Othenan (1964)
School Master (1964)..... Appunni Nair
Orral Koodi Kallanaayi (1964).... Panikkar
Kutti Kuppayam (1964).... Chekunju
Kudumbini (1964)... Kelu Nair
Karutha Kai (1964).... Soman
Kalanju Kittiya Thankam (1964).... K.P.Nair
Devaalayam (1964)
Bharthavu (1964)
Bhargavi Nilayam (1964).... Cheriya Pareekanni
Atom Bomb (1964)... Paachu
Althaara (1964)
Aadhiya Kiranangal (1964)..... Krishnan Ashan
Thommantae Makkal (1965)
Thankakudam (1965)
Shyamalachechi (1965)
Shakuntala (1965)
Sarppakavu (1965)
Rajamalli (1965)
Porter Kunjali (1965).... Aboobakkar Mullakka
Pattuthoovaala (1965).... Dr Gregory
Odayil Ninnu (1965).... Velu
Muthalali (1965)
Murappennu (1965).... Shanku
Mayavi (1965)
Kochumon (1965)
Kavya Mela (1965).... Vikraman
Kattu Thulasi (1965)
Kattu Pookkal (1965).... Pankan
Kathirunna Nikah (1965)
Kalyana Photo (1965)
Kadathukaran (1965)
Jeevitha Yaathra (1965)
Inapravugal (1965)
Devatha (1965)
Chettathi (1965)... Bhargavan
Bhoomiyile Malakha (1965).... Pothen
Ammu (1965)
Tilottama (1966)
Tharavatamma (1966).... Paramu Kuruppu
Sthanarthi Saramma (1966).... Sasthrikal
Station Master (1966)
Rowdy (1966)
Priyathama (1966)
Poocha Kanni (1966)
Pinchu Hridhayam (1966)
Pakalkkinavu (1966)
Mayor Nair (1966)
Kusruthy Kuttan (1966)
Kunjali Marakkar (1966)
Koottukar (1966)
Kayamkulam Kochunni (1966)
Karuna (1966)
Kanmanikal (1966)
Kanaka Chilanga (1966)
Kalyana Rathriyil (1966)
Kallipennu (1966)
Kalithozhan (1966)
Jail (1966)
Iruttinte Athmavu (1966).... Guru Kunjichaathu
Archana (1966)
Udhyogastha (1967)
Swapna Bhoomi (1967)
Sahadharmini (1967)
Ramanan (1967).... Poojari
Post Man (1967)
Pavappettaval (1967).... | 916 | null | null | 640,323,444 | "2014-12-31T02:01:04" | Adoor Bhasi | 2,014 |
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Iraq crisis: rebranded insurgents gain whip hand on streets of Baghdad For the past week the young and old of the Mahdi army had been preparing. New recruits, only children the last time the Shia militia all but ran Iraq, had been learning how to march and to clean weapons. Veterans of the insurgency against US forces and civil war that followed had been signing up cadres and receiving bodies from battlefields. On Baghdad's streets, battered pickups shuttled weapons from depots to mosques where the rapid rearming has transformed the already militarised capital into a war zone in waiting. With the mobilisation complete, the now battle-ready militia presented itself to Iraqis once more on Saturday, staging a series of parades in Baghdad and the south that made an emphatic statement of its readiness and intentions. One of the most feared names in Iraq was back in business, even if it was fighting under a different banner. This time around, the Mahdi army will be called the Peace Brigades, after its leader, Moqtada al-Sadr, decided that a rebranding might shake it free from its infamous past. But military marches are hardly peace offerings. And the rally through the Sadrist heartland of Sadr City was no different. Columns of fighters carrying rifles, trucks laden with rockets and men in white wearing mock suicide vests were on the move through the former slum-turned-battlefield soon after sunrise in a futile attempt to beat the blazing midsummer heat. Up to 20,000 men, many of whom quit jobs last week to join the militia, responded to the call to arms from al-Sadr and from Iraq's highest Shia authority, Ayatollah al-Sistani. Chanting battle hymns, they jogged past buildings still pockmarked by clashes with US forces who occupied the area in 2008 and had fought running battles with the Mahdi army for most of the nine years that they remained in Iraq. "See that building over there?" asked one homeowner, Abu Enas, as he pointed to a cluster of low-set homes across the road. "That's where they were when they destroyed my home. This whole street was a no-go zone." Much of the vast, sprawling neighbourhood in Baghdad's north-east has been rebuilt in the years since the Americans left. But it still gets bombed by a foe common to both, the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Isis), which over the last 10 dramatic days overran the north of the country and vowed to splinter it along sectarian lines. Clashes here with US forces were such a centrepiece of the Iraq war that the prospect of the US air force now giving cover to the group in coming weeks seemed unfathomable for many of those on the sidelines of Saturday's parade. "There is no way we can accept this," said Sayed Ibrahim al-Jabari, a senior representative of the Sadrist movement in Sadr City. "We have the military that can finish the job against Isis and we reject any foreign intervention, whether that be Iranian, Saudi, American, or Qatari." But such is the perceived threat posed by Isis, that many Mahdi army members are quietly hoping their former enemy goes after the group sooner rather than later. "Look, if the Americans want to go after (Isis), then let them," said one member, a police officer during breaks between wars. "But someone must stop them going after the Sunni communities, the Christians, or any other community." Others say they remain ambivalent, but will not protest loudly if the US decides to attack. "If they are fighting with us now, that just proves we were on the right side all along," said Zaid Qhalafi, another militia member. "We are the protectors of the Imam (Mahdi), and they have come around to our way." Saturday's parade was billed by those present as a nation-building event which would reassure Iraqis that the reinvented Mahdi army would act as custodians of the nation. The vivid Shia iconography, green and yellow flags and blaring hyms, might make that a tough sell with Sunnis who are yet to bury the ghosts of such a painful, recent past. Iraqi banners were few and far between. And, here, as elsewhere in Baghdad, the Mahdi army clearly held primacy over state institutions. A police patrol in a giant green pickup truck, which was carrying the Observer to the main parade area, was twice refused entry by Mahdi army members at checkpoints. The officers outranked the militiamen, but were not prepared to take them on, simply backing up their truck and leaving. | 966 | 6,592,740,149,112,287,000 | 2014-12-31 00:00:00 | null | null | null | null |
Gaza Vittorio Arrigoni murder: Four Palestinians jailed
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The following dataset is constructed using entirely historical data up to the cutoff date "31-12-2014". The data comes from the WMT News dataset (https://data.statmt.org/news-crawl/en/) and Wikipedia. This dataset is the training dataset for a GPT-2-small-based model, and is available on Huggingface at the following location: "TiMa/TiMaGPT2-2014".
The dataset uses the same license as the WMT News dataset (https://data.statmt.org/news-crawl/README) as this is the less permissive license of the datasets that create this training dataset, further details are outlined in the paper.
Please refer to and cite the following paper when using this dataset in any downstream applications:
@inproceedings{drinkall-tima-2024, title = "Time Machine GPT", author = "Drinkall, Felix and Zohren, Stefan and Pierrehumbert, Janet", booktitle = "Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2024", month = june, year = "2024", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics" }
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