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Constructed using high-grade, ultra-lightweight special titanium alloys – with parts cast in Akrapovič’s in-house foundry – providing a weight reduction of 35.2% over the stock exhaust. Larger-diameter tubes assist airflow and a different system configuration lowers backpressure to increase performance and power outputs. It is ECE type-approved and comes with easy-to-install instructions. It is finished with a carbon-fibre outer sleeve on the tailpipes. Especially when combining the Slip-On system with the optional stainless-steel link pipe sets with or without catalytic converters, it emphasizes the character of the Ferrari V8 (flat-crank engine) sound with the unique Akrapovič note.
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The optional Akrapovič Sound Kit enables owners of selected Akrapovič car exhausts to control the sound of the system from the cockpit of their machine. Using Akrapovič technology, drivers can easily switch between the quiet mode and a sportier sound. With the use of a receiver to drive the actuators that open or close the valves at the end of the exhaust system, drivers can use the Sound Remote Controller or the new smartphone app (for iOS and Android) to regulate the valves. In this case, the ECE homologation is not valid anymore.


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Re: Interest in Fourtheye shirt
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The design will go up before the shirts are made, but the design is at an early stage, so not ready to be shown off yet. I can't say when this will be, but I doubt this artist is as slow as Tool.
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As a music mixer her musical ensemble consists of classic 80’s and Motown tunes. Sounds of her melodic footprint can be heard under Music & Mixes. When she’s not brewing up a new mix, she oversees campaigns at HyPursuit and the daily operations of A&M Entertainment. By Keetria Garner-Chambers Google+


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Natasha Paremski started playing piano when she was 3. A year later, she began lessons. She played with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at age 15 and recorded her first CD the same year. Between now and July 6, she’ll play for you, at the Sitka Summer Music Festival. Hear her talk about music, Sitka and her love of the piano.
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As part of the last event’s Road Worker Safety Showcase, visitors were able to witness how the ingenious design of the new WJ Group’s Guardian system allows the complete road stud installation process to take place, whilst protecting operatives within an integrated safety cell of an 18-ton truck. The demonstration featured WJ’s new Allux prismatic road stud but the concept can be used for installation of all types of road studs.
Next in the lineup, visitors were able to jump into Highway Care’s Barrier Transfer Machine (BTM) and experience for themselves how quick it is to move a positive barrier from one lane to another with the QuickChange Moveable Barrier (QMB). Those test driving the machine were scored and the winner received a pair of Hospitality tickets to the 2017 Mini Challenge races. Sponsored by Highway Care, Mini Challenge Champion Charlie Butler Henderson also demonstrated his driving skills by taking a spin on the QMB.
Also as part of the mock road worker site, Highway Care featured their portable BarrierGuard 800 as a secure steel barrier in addition to their latest highways innovation, the SOSEC Mobile Highways Access Gate – the first solar powered barrier access gate.
As an apt finish to the Road Worker Safety Showcase, visitors were treated to an insightful Road Worker Speed Awareness experience highlighting the vulnerability of road workers and the need to drive at mandatory speed limits through roadworks.

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Texas Tourism brought three of its regional partners to Vancouver to share destination knowledge with members of the media at the Rosewood Hotel Georgia last week. Represented in Canada by VoX’s International, the luncheon was hosted by Rosalyn Hunter, director of communications based in Toronto.
“Texas is a diverse destination. We have seven regions for visitors to explore and we have everything from cuisine, wine, shopping, birding, cruising, the great outdoors, and of course the cowboy country,” Hunter explained in her presentation entitled “What I Like about Texas”. There is good value for money - hotels are competitively priced, there are free days at many museums, and our City Pass programs offers discounts at many attractions.”
Although 2017 numbers are not yet finalized, Hunter did share 2016 statistics - 498,500 Canadians visited Texas, representing a 10 per cent increase over 2015, with Ontario, British Columbia and Alberta being the top markets. Chances are, many more Canadians will be heading to Texas on Air Canada, as shown in the slides of Chris Geraghty, AC’s Key Account Manager.
With close to 9,000 air seats per week, AC operates the most flights between Canada and Texas - from Montreal, Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver. Up to 15 flights depart for Austin, Dallas, Houston and San Antonio on a daily basis. The Vancouver-Dallas route is served by a daily flight on the CRJ-900 aircraft, with an afternoon departure and an early morning return, making it a perfect long weekend getaway.
In her presentation, Celia Morales of Visit Houston confirmed that it is business as usual after hurricane Harvey in late August 2017. “The attractions and hotels in Houston were not severely affected by Harvey. Everything is back to normal, and we are asking you to keep your business in Houston.” By “business”, Morales means the variety of offerings the fourth largest American city has to offer - 18 museums close to downtown, a 10,000-restaurant culinary scene, tax free shopping for visitors, NASA Space Center, Galveston cruise port, and the world’s largest rodeo. “Houston is a city that inspires you.” Morales added.
Sean Doerre introduced the group to Fredericksburg - a community with Texas heart and German soul, as it was settled by Germans in the 1840s.
In Texas Hill Country, Fredericksburg is one hour from Austin and San Antonio. Its main street has over 150 shops, galleries and restaurants serving regional cuisine to German and Bavarian specialties.
The historic district encompasses over 700 preserved structures and features a Pioneer Museum Complex highlighting its German heritage and history. Wine is also a big attraction in the little town of 12,000. Texas has been making wine 150 years longer than California, and Fredericksburg celebrates this fact with 45 vineyards within a short drive, offering tours, tastings and visits with winemakers. Outdoor enthusiasts can visit the Enchanted Rock State Natural Area, located 17 miles out of town.
With a pink granite outcrop rising 1,825 feet above sea level - the second largest in the United States - hiking and rock climbing are popular activities, with spectacular wildflowers covering the hills in Spring time. Website: VisitFredericksburgTX.com
Katherine White represents another hidden Texan gem - Lubbock. Known most famously as the birthplace of Buddy Holly, the city is currently building a 220,000 square-foot center of performing arts campus named after the late rock and roll legend, which is scheduled to open in 2020.
Music is certainly big in Lubbock - the city has more live music venues per capita than anywhere else in Texas - but agri-tourism here is just as impressive. 90 percent of Texan wine grapes are grown within 100 miles of Lubbock, as is close to 25 percent of the country’s cotton. This combination of arts, entertainment, farming and ranching makes Lubbock an interesting weekend getaway. Website: VisitLubbock.org
Other notable events in Texas include the tri-centennial celebration of San Antonio, with events and festivals throughout the year(sanantonio300.org), and the 40th anniversary of Dallas TV series which will host exclusive fan events in Dallas and Southfort Ranch.
More information on Texas can be found at www.traveltexas.com.

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So what's Kim Kardashian planning on doing after giving birth to her first baby? Have a tummy tuck, apparently!
The 32-year-old, who is set to have her first child in early July with boyfriend Kanye West, is said to be considering having surgery to help her regain her pre-pregnancy figure as soon as possible.
The reality TV star's aunt Joan Kardashian told Now magazine in Toronto, Canada: ""[Kim Kardashian] can have a tummy tuck, which will take care of most of her weight fears. Other than her belly, which is rather flat, every other part of her body has ballooned. And this is Kim holding to a strict diet. Imagine if she let herself go? The family's trying to convince Kim to relax and worry about losing the weight months from now."
Kim previously admitted she expects to put on significant amount of weight during her pregnancy but she insisted she has been feeling good despite experiencing some pain recently, which led her to seek medical treatment.
She recently said: "It's a little painful at times. I've gotten sick a couple of times and that puts you out especially when you travel. It's getting a little more difficult."
It was recently revealed Kim's boyfriend Kanye West and mother Kris Jenner have been urging her to slow down during her pregnancy, during which she has been working out almost daily.
The rapper, 35, who has been dating Kim for almost a year, is a huge fan of her growing curves and just wants her to be healthy.
An insider said: "He loves it. He loves everything about Kim - pregnant, not pregnant, skinny, big. There isn't one thing about her that he doesn't love."

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CNC machining, or Computer Numerical Control machining, is a modern manufacturing method that is widely used in the manufacturing industry. It is considered as a huge breakthrough in this business. With this technology, computer control machines have replaced traditional machines including center lathes and vertical millers, which are mainly operated by engineers and machinists, increasing working efficiency greatly. However, as everything in this universe has advantages and disadvantages both, CNC Machining also included in this. Let’s take a look at some of the pros and cons of this technology.
CNC machines are able to operate constantly 24/7, which means you can use them in the workplace for days without taking a break. It needs to be turned off only for an occasional maintenance check. Compared to other machines that involve many trained machinists or engineers, it is a great feature that effectively keeps the production cost down.
CNC machining is designed and pre-programmed by computers. Therefore, these machines have the ability to replicate every detail of the original design with high precision. You can always manufacture exact duplicates that remain true to the product design. To improve reliability, you can also update the software on a regular basis.
4 Important Elements of a Rugged Tablets Manufacturer
Since the competition in China’s consumer-grade tablet market is getting fiercer, more and more tablet manufacturers start to march in rugged tablet market. But they vary in scale and quality. Some are the small workshops that have only one assembly line and dozens of workers, some are relatively larger manufacturers that have hundreds of employers on their production line. But how can we identify the quality and strength of the rugged tablet manufacturers? Here we have summarized 5 important elements for you to have a quick understanding of the company when you visit a rugged tablet factory.
The Differences between Scanning Apps and Book Scanners
In the nowadays Digital Age, people’s desire for information acquisition has substantially increased. The reading, which remains the major mean of learning, has derived a new reading approach–digital reading. It soon becomes a new trend due to its convenience and efficiency. Consequently, book scanners have come into being and is fast developing. But before we have some insight into book scanner, let’s discuss some replacement questions first, which is can scanning apps or digital camera replace book scanner?
The answer is of course NO.
- Curved Surface
Since the book’s surface is not flat, it is necessary to adjust the focal length to stay in focus. Although the book can be posed as V shape, a digicam can only take pictures of a flat document with clear and legible text.
- OCR Function
By far, OCR Function (Optical Character Recognition Technology) is not supported in digital camera and most of the scanning apps to convert the scanned documents into editable Word, PDF, TIFF, and Excel. Even now some apps can process the image and recognize the text, it has the risks that words are wrongly written or character missing.
- Scan Quality
There is no doubt that the resolution and sensor of mobile phones are not as professional as those of digicam and book scanner. Book scanner often adopts industrial-grade sensor and picture processor that will greatly improve scanning quality. Besides, with no algorithm to optimize the content, it will be an annoying process to deal with the disturbing factors like the uneven height of the book, the edge, the lighting, and paging.
The efficiency of a book scanner is much better than apps and digicam. With fast processing CMOS chip, the scan speed of a flat single page can be as fast as 1.5s-3s/page and the speed of scanning books is 1.5s-3s/dual pages, far surpassing the speed of apps and digicam.
Other than these four reasons, there remains a lot of differences in specs and setup. Theoretically, if given the professional equipment, one may replace document scanner at the expense of time and constant setup. Just as smartphones cannot replace digital SLR camera, scanning apps can not replace professional book scanner.
The Food Industry -Blockchain Applications
Err.. not really first thing that occurs to you when you think of ‘blockchain applications’, now is it?
But, the fact is that many big shopping chains like Walmart are teaming up with IBM to integrate the blockchain in their food management system.
With blockchain technology, the web increases a new layer of features.
Already, users can work directly with one one more Bitcoin transactions inside 2016 averaged over one hundred dollar, 000 US each day. Together with the added security through the blockchain new internet business are on track to be able to unbundle the traditional establishments of finance.
Goldman Sachs believes that blockchain technological innovation holds great potential specially to optimize clearing and settlements, and could represent worldwide savings of up to $6bn each year.


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Apply these o rings to your inner barrel and slide them down u till they make contact with your hop up unit. They key is to install enough o rings until you can not close your front body pin, from there remove one O ring at a time until you can close the front body pin. at this point you will have the perfect amount of O rings to properly seat and seal your hop unit to your gearbox.
By installing these o rings you are
- Firmly pressing your hop unit up against your gearbox shell eliminating excess vibrations and removing any movement of the hop unit.
- Increase consistency in feeding
- Increased FPS consistency
- Seals any air that would escape between the hop unit and the gearbox as well as any air that would leak around the brass collar sleeve that slides on to your inner barrel in front of the C clip.
Common issues found is AEGs that are misfeeding is that there is play within the hop up unit. It moves and jumps around with each cycle. Your nozzle is trying to chase your bucking. By installing these O rings you are eliminating these variables and locking your hop up unit into position.
Such an underrated addition to your personal build(s).
this is so true, such a small detail, cheap part, but makes a significant impact in the consistency of the build. Glad you are using them!
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It’s hard to believe that it’s been two months since our last Style Saturdays installment. It’s also hard to […]
The Daily Ant is excited to report that Pulitzer-prize winning journalist and prominent leftist critic Glenn Greenwald visited the Field Museum’s AntLab midday on Tuesday, participating in a special tour arranged by our very own editor-in-chief, Benjamin Blanchard.
Although in Chi-Town for a speaking and book signing event at the University of Chicago, Greenwald, who is also a co-founder and editor of the media outlet The Intercept, heroically arranged his time in order to fit in the hour-long tour at the Museum. Meeting Blanchard and his advisor, Dr. Corrie Moreau, at the steps of the Museum’s expansive South Entrance, the journalist confessed to Moreau that he calls Blanchard “the nation’s most enthusiastic ant fan”.
The Daily Ant is thrilled to announce that we will be conducting a video interview with none other […]
We start this post with an unusual sentence: A recent headline in New York Daily News caught our attention. […]
Poet John Ashbery died late Sunday, at the age of 90. In honor of the polarizing poet, we […]
The Daily Ant is thrilled to report that the American Museum of Natural History is poised to truly […]
My antrepid readers will have noticed that Style Saturdays took a brief summer hiatus; I took a break […]
Very few things have nothing to do with ants, and Anthony Scaramucci (or, as he is known in the adult cartoon we call reality, “The Mooch”) is no exception.
Many readers will have only just recently learned their Moochian Myrmecology from intrepid journalist and gleeful polemicist Matt Taibbi. Who is Matt Taibbi? Well, let me put it this way. In 2005, Matt Taibbi wrote an essay called “The 52 Funniest Things About the Upcoming Death of the Pope” which, like Donald Trump, earned condemnation from both Hillary Clinton and Anthony Weiner. In 2012, he wrote this touching eulogy on the occasion of the actual death of Andrew Breitbart. In the very same year, he also wrote this love letter to David Brooks. (Which reminds me, I swear I once heard Ann Coulter describe David Brooks as the “Elisabeth Hasselbeck of the New York Times,” but I can’t find the reference.)
Liu Xiaobo once wrote that “life is priceless, even to an ant.” We are thus very sad to […]
Remember, dear readers, to stay vigilant against mainstream vertebrate bias, which takes many forms (really!). Pedagogical Correspondant Anna […]
In fact ants, to cite just one example, work unselfishly for the community; we humans sometimes do not […]
Benjamin Wittes, editor-in-chief of the Lawfare blog, understands what is truly the best thing ever: Ants! — Benjamin […]


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This is the sequel to 'Firelord,' but, unlike many sequels, I thought it was a much better book. Where 'Firelord' spent a lot of time working in elements of the traditional story, this tale of Guinevere leaves what we 'knew' behind as it creates a rich historical fiction of what may have happened in Britain after Arthur's death.
While Guinevere in 'Firelord' may have seemed scheming, jealous and cruel (although a brilliant politician), here in this story told from her point of view, her character comes alive, and we can fully understand her motives and emotions.
We also see the 'other side' of the story - as Guinevere fails in her efforts to keep the warring tribes of Britain together, and falls in the chaos to slavers... but over time comes to grow as a person and come to a greater understanding of those who were 'her' people. We get to see the perspective of the foreign 'invading' tribes, and the point of view of the peasants who struggle only to survive as lords battle... Godwin does inject a political, pro-democracy slant that rings a little bit false for its historical setting, to me, but overall, I enjoyed the book.
Different cover. Guenevere (author spelling) after the death of King Arthur. Well written
King Arthur is dead. Surrounded by traitors and usurpers, Guenevere must defend the empire. Aidedby Bedivere,Gareth, Lancelot and others from Arthur's reigh, she stives to settle her uneasy nation. But when faced with unthinkable treachery, Guenevere is swept into a life she never understood-driven to the depths of servitude to a bold Saxon thane who is unaware of her true identity. He is an idyllic dreamer with a magnificent mind, so like Arthur.Through him, she will discover more of humanity than she ever imagined. She will toil for him, take up arms for him and challenge his very soul with her indomitable spirit, and infinite mystery. For she is Guenevere: brilliant, shrewd, passionate, bold- and always , always a queen.


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Taylor Swift Adds 8 Dates to 'The Eras Tour' and Shares Snippet of Exclusive Track "Hits Different"
The song is only featured on the Target ‘Midnights’ CD edition.
Taylor Swift has blessed fans with lots of exciting updates on Friday, November 4. The singer-slash-songwriter took to social media to reveal she has added eight dates to The Eras Tour, which she first announced earlier this week. Minutes later, she shared a snippet to her Target-exclusive Midnights track “Hits Different.”
“UM. Looks like I’ll get to see more of your beautiful faces than previously expected … We’re adding 8 shows to the tour,” Swift tweeted, alongside a tour poster, highlighting the new dates in Tampa, FL, Nashville, TN, Philadelphia, PA, Foxborough, MA, East Rutherford, NJ, Seattle, WA, Santa Clara, CA, and Los Angeles, CA.
As for the song “Hits Different,” she shared a video of her lip syncing along to the track. “‘Hits Different’ really hits different, plus it’s got one of my fav bridges,” she captioned the clip. “It’s only available on the Target CD, so feel free to scamper over to the nearest store!”
Check out dates for The Eras tour and listen a snippet of “Hits Different” below.
— Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) November 4, 2022
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Russia has started making arms shipments without receiving payment due to the US sanctions that prohibit dollar transactions for Russia’s defense-related export company, Rosoboronexport, finanz.ru reports.
The Russian Federal Customs Service’s (FCS) final statistics for 2018 appear to indicate that some of Russia’s weapons are being sold abroad for free, according to a review by Raiffeisen Bank analysts.
By the end of the year, Russia’s export revenue had grown by 25.8% to $443 billion, which is nearly entirely due to the jump in the prices of oil, gas, and oil products, which account for two thirds of the Russian economy’s earnings.
Physically, the country’s exports grew by a total of 4.8%, with machines and equipment contributing the most (2 percentage points).
In this category, which includes military equipment, the FCS recorded an 11.1% increase in export shipments. However, paradoxically, these shipments yielded virtually no additional revenue.
“The significant growth in the sale of machines and equipment (especially in conjunction with the significant decline in the export prices for them) looks unusual. One possible explanation is that the equipment, especially the military equipment, is being delivered at low prices or even for free,” Raiffeisen Bank concludes.
Rosoboronexport has been under US sanctions since November 2017. Since the start of January last year, the US Treasury Department has had the right to impose sanctions on any organizations that are involved in “significant deals” with the Russian defense-industry complex. This includes both the buyers and the banks that facilitate the transactions.
At the start of 2018, the US State Department estimated that the US had managed to block 20% of Rosoboronexport’s deals (approximately $3 billion worth).
Over the course of the year, the effect of the sanctions grew more intense. India, which was the world’s largest buyer of Russian weapons in the 2000s, stopped paying Rosoboronexport for its active contracts and refused to sign new ones, for example, to buy fighters and S-400 aerial defense systems.
Payments from the Indian government stopped arriving in April 2018, a source in the Russian defense-industry complex told Vedomosti. Indian banks started blocking the transactions out of fear of falling under secondary sanctions, which the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA) stipulates for all parties involved in dealings with Rosoboronexport, even indirectly.
Russia did not receive a cent for the eleven Su-35 fighter jets it sold to Indonesia. Due to the sanctions, Russia had to agree to receive batches of palm oil, crumb rubber and other Indonesian goods in exchange for the fighters, which are the closest thing Russia has to 5th generation aircraft.
According to Jane’s, in 2018 Russia earned $8.48 billion from weapons sales, coming second only to the US ($32.75 billion). By 2020, Jane’s predicts that Russian weapons will lose roughly 17% of their current market share, with sales falling to $6.85 billion. Russia could lose its position as the
world’s second largest weapons exporter to France, whose earnings could grow to $6.96 billion by selling Rafale fighters to India and Qatar, and due to the increased demand for helicopters.


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Davisville, RI: U.S. Naval Construction Training Center, Camp Endicott, 1945. Limited Edition. Stapled Wrap. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Near Fine / No Dust Jacket as Issued. Item #010562
4to., 18pp. Official document during wartime operations for the Officers of the Naval Construction Training Center, with announcement notice, signed and dated by Lt. (jg) Joseph S. Durso. Apparently, high grade sheets, with official water mark, and bound in light tan stiff paper wraps.

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I'm experiencing similar problems to many other users with there being delays between someone ringing the doorbell and hearing the chime, or seeing the visitor on the app.
I'm hoping that moving the chime closer to the door might help. We could connect it to the mains by the front door, but the wifi router is at the other end of the ground floor.
Is there some kind of solution? Could I buy a secondary wifi extender hub with an ethernet port which would connect to our main wifi router wirelessly and then place it by the front door and connect the chime to that instead?
Has anyone tried anything similar? Any ideas about what kind of device I'd have to purchase (i.e. does the device I've described even exist?)


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Delicious! An amazing blend of garden fresh tomatoes, garlic, onions, coupled with a perfect blend of basil, oregano and other spices. Tastes just as good as homemade, without all the trouble! Just add fresh seafood!
Tip: Cioppino is messy… it’s eaten both with a spoon and with the fingers. Seafood taken out of their shells is put directly into the mouth and the shells discarded. Wear a bib!
Shane recommends his recipe which is to add to two jars Cioppino : 1 cooked crab legs (crack it and throw it in it’s shell is fine!), 1 lb. cooked picked *crab meat, 1 1b. uncooked *Rock Cod fillet chopped, 1 1b. each uncooked clams, mussels, *prawns & *scallops.
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Cioppino is really a Fisherman’s Wharf tradition, originating in San Francisco. The story of how Cioppino got its name is one of our favorites. A Fisherman’s Tale: “The origin of both the dish and the name came from the Italian fishermen in the early 1900’s. Someone would make the rounds of the moored fishing boats, calling out for for contributions to a common, festive stew. One fisherman would toss a nice, fat fish into the bucket, another would drop in a succulent Dungeness crab, another some herbs and vegetables. The cry that prompted each contribution was ‘Chip In!, Chip In!’ But coming from an Italian throat, this American slang had to end in a vowel. And the ‘in’ was, of course ‘een.’ So ‘Chip-een-o’ was born.”

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Phillippe Aumont moved a step closer to returning to the IronPigs Saturday afternoon when he threw a two-inning simulated game prior to batting practice.
The 6-foot-7, 255-pound right-hander, who has a 3.52 ERA in five appearances since coming up from Reading on June 16, went the disabled list July 10 with a shoulder strain.
"Everything was good," said Aumont, who said he threw between 30 and 40 pitches to Rich Thompson and Kevin Frandsen.
"He threw good," hitting coach Sal Rende said. The key will be tomorrow to see how he feels."
Aumont went on the DL when he had trouble getting loose prior to warming up.
"When I was playing catch it took forever to get that comfortable feeling," said Aumont, one of three prospects obtained from Seattle in the controversial Cliff Lee trade two winters ago. "Once I got in the bullpen and in the games it felt fine."
Aumont said MRI exams showed no problems with the rotator cuff or labrum, 'So that's positive news for me."
Rende filling in: Saturday is the third of the IronPigs four games under Rende while Ryne Sandberg is in Cooperstown for Sunday's Hall of Fame Induction Ceremonies.
The 55-year-old Rende managed 12 years in the minors, seven of them at Triple-A, and has an 857-778 career record. His last year was at Charlotte in 1996 where he was 62-79.
"I miss it to a point," said Rende, who has been a minor league coach or hitting instructor since. "Once you manage it kind of gets in your blood. But that aside, I like the hitting side of it too, so … "
Rende is in his first year on the IronPigs staff after serving as the Phillies minor league hitting coordinator for three years. He was on John Russell's staff in the Phillies' only year in Ottawa and was considered but never interviewed to replace Russell as the first manager of the IronPigs after Russell left to become the manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates. He instead was named the hitting coordinator after Don Long went with Russell to the Pirates.
Injury report: Jeff Larish announced on his Facebook page this week that he will undergo surgery soon on his broken right leg suffered July 14
"I broke my fibula and tore ligaments on the inside of my ankle. Surgery requires a metal plate to be inserted, as well as having my fibula and tibia tied together. In a cast for 6wks, a boot for 4wks, 8wks of rehab," wrote Larish, who hit .237 with 13 homers and 40 RBIs in 75 games.
Larish is the second IronPig to suffer a season-ending injury this year. Veteran pitcher Eddie Bonine underwent Tommy John surgery earlier this summer. He was 3-4 with a 5.16 ERA in 11 games before going on the disabled list on June 2 with a right elbow strain.
Hall of Fame night: Sandberg won't be the only Hall of Famer in the house Tuesday night.
Former Phillies general manager Pat Gillick, who will be inducted into baseball's Hall of Fame Sunday afternoon, will throw out the first pitch before Tuesday's game with Pawtucket on the same night the first 3,000 people in the park receive a Pat Gillick bobblehead in his honor.


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Bud Light set to get blasted by Costco's "Death Star," pointing to galactic trouble for the embattled beer
It has been over three months since Bud Light thought controversial titface performer Dylan Mulvaney, the Jar Jar Binks of TikTok ingénues, would be a good spokesman for them. Now, it's as if millions of bottles suddenly cried out in terror and were silenced. If these viral photos are any indication, big box store Costco is about to blow the water that identifies as beer off the shelves with its DEATH STAR.
Or, its "star of death." But you thought the same thing I did when you read it.
According to viral photos on the bird app, Bud Light has been marked with the "star of death." Newsweek says the small asterisk at the top right-hand corner of items' price tags is a signal the product will no longer be restocked once it is sold out. It is unclear what Costcos these photos are from.
I've never been a big box store guy. Growing up in the olden days, you could only get membership depending on what company you worked for. I know people are obsessed with Costco's hot dogs. And it makes me giggle that the BJ's by me is next to a Hooters. But can you imagine any store deciding to no longer carry Bud Light? Let alone a major retailer like this? That is how bad and how much of a colossal f*ck up this has been for the company.
If true (the company didn't respond to Newsweek and I'm just here for the content), Bud Light has gone from being the most iconic beer in America to no longer being sold in stores. Costco thinks the real estate would be more profitable if they replaced Bud Light with a 96-pack of mac and cheese or a box of those cheap sweatshirts.
All because a now-disgraced marketing elitist lashed out at Bud Light customers as "fratty" and "out of touch. It was more important to appeal to consumers who don't drink Bud Light out of hatred of the kinds of people who do drink Bud Light. This was three months and over twenty-billion dollars ago.
Now the beer is being removed from shelves because executives are too busy sticking their noses up at middle-class, blue-collar, rube America to say "whoops, we f*cked up."
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Three members of Northmor’s two-time league champion boys’ basketball team recently made their college choices official.
Both Kyle and Tyler Kegley announced they would attend Lourdes University, a NAIA school in Sylvania. Brock Pletcher will also stay in-state, as his pick was Division III Wilmington College.
While the two Kegleys will continue to play as teammates at Lourdes, Tyler noted that wasn’t an immediate goal when the two started their searches.
“Our recruiting processed differently,” he said. “Several schools I got recruited by, he didn’t and the schools he got recruited by, he didn’t.”
But when it came to Lourdes, both of them found many things to like about the school.
“I basically fell in love with it at the beginning,” said Kyle. “The coaches gave us the best opportunity at the beginning and the academics. Basically, I couldn’t get enough of it.”
Kyle noted that the coaching staff played a big role in his decision.
“Just how they handle everything and interact with players,” he said in describing what he liked most about the coaches.
Tyler also had positive impression of the school. “Lourdes is not an overwhelmingly big campus,” he said. “It’s the right size, the dorms are the best I’ve seen and the basketball players and coaches are awesome.”
Tyler, who also cited the school’s academics as a positive, is planning to major in pre-med or biology and then eventually transfer to another school, preferably Ohio State, for optometry. Kyle is majoring in early childhood education.
Both players noted that the coaching staff found a lot to like about their potential.
“We haven’t really talked about expectations,” said Kyle. “The coaches want me to add on weight — that way I’ll be somewhat ready for it. (They liked) Probably how tall I am and can dribble, shoot — anything a 1-to-5 man can do.”
Tyler noted that versatility was a part of his game that also appealed to the Lourdes staff. “My versatility and being able to stretch the floor out,” he said. “They liked my aggression and energy.”
After a four-year stretch at Northmor that ended with a pair of conference and sectional titles, as well as both Kegleys being named second-team picks in the KMAC and honorable mention district selections as seniors, the two had a lot of good memories about playing for the Knights.
“Just the community,” said Tyler. “It’s a small kind of community with good fans and support. “There’s nothing like high school basketball when the gyms sell out.”
“Just playing basketball with the team and winning back-to-back conference and sectional titles and enjoying the team play here,” added Kyle.
Now that they’re preparing to take the next step, both are looking forward to the step up in competition at the next level.
“Definitely the challenge of playing college basketball,” said Kyle. “I just can’t wait for it.”
Tyler added: “It’s a whole new type of speed and competition. The best of the best high school players against each other.”
Pletcher also finished his senior season at Northmor with plenty of accolades, as he was a first-team pick in the league, a second-team selection in the Central District and an honorable mention All-Ohioan.
While a number of schools were interested in obtaining his services, the Knight senior noted that Wilmington was his front-runner throughout the majority of the recruiting process.
“There were a few, but I had it narrowed down pretty quick,” he said. “Wilmington was at the top most of the way.”
Pletcher, who plans to major in business administration, said that he and the school have similar up-tempo styles of playing, which helped make it an easy selection.
“They liked the way I played, pushing the ball and taking lots of shots, and they liked my size and athletic ability,” he said.
To be a contributor for Wilmington, Pletcher noted that he’ll have to work to improve certain facets of his game, as well as simply get used to the competition at that level. “I could use some work on my handle a bit,” he said. “And get experience and used to the speed.”
Much like his teammates, Pletcher could think of a lot of positive memories with the Northmor program, in particular his senior season.
“I definitely think my favorite memory would be this past season,” he said. “I love how we did it the right way. Through third grade, most of us played together.”
Now, he’s looking forward to the competition at the next level, noted that virtually anyone he’ll go against has similar credentials to him at the high school level.
“I think I’m looking forward to the next level of competition,” he said. “The athletes are all the top players at their high schools.”


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Article by Joelle Kovach, The Peterborough Examiner
The province has announced that Peterborough and Lindsay are each getting a government-run standalone marijuana store in July.
Although city CAO Allan Seabrooke told The Examiner on Friday that a pot shop is coming to Peterborough this summer, the provincial government confirmed it with an announcement on Tuesday.
Peterborough and Lindsay were both on a new list of 15 Ontario cities that are getting standalone cannabis retail stores.
The stores will sell marijuana for recreational use. They will be open in July, the same month the federal government plans to legalize cannabis.
In early November, a list of 14 cities had been announced, and Peterborough was not on it. But on Tuesday, the list was expanded to include 15 more cities.
That means 29 municipalities have been selected by the provincial government as hosts for pot shops. The plan is to open about 150 stores by 2020, across Ontario.
No exact location for either the Peterborough store or the Lindsay store has been chosen yet, but the province has said it won’t allow the stores to be located near schools.
The LCBO website – www.lcbocannabisupdates.com – allows the public to write anonymously to the provincial officials to speak up about having a pot shop in Peterborough.
Communities won’t be able to opt out of having a government-run pot shop if they’ve been identified by the province as a host city, though. Communities can delay the opening of a shop, but they cannot opt out altogether.
Meanwhile, the province has also decided that customers must be 19 to buy cannabis, and that pot can only be consumed in private residences – not in public or in workplaces.


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Stan Collymore in Twitter racial abuse claim: Man charged
A 21-year-old man has been charged with racially abusing ex-footballer Stan Collymore on Twitter.
Police said Joshua Cryer, of Jesmond, Newcastle, was charged with "a Section Five racial public order offence and a Section Five public order offence".
Collymore had contacted Staffordshire Police who passed on the complaint to Northumbria Police.
The 40-year-old, originally from Cannock, Staffordshire, played for a string of top clubs in his career.
He now works as a broadcaster for talkSPORT.
Northumbria Police said Mr Cryer would appear before Newcastle magistrates on 23 January.
The force began an investigation in the early hours of Saturday after receiving a complaint of racist comments that had been made on Twitter.
Collymore campaigns against racism and is a supporter of the charity Depression Alliance.


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The answer, it appears, is very little. He followed her from the 20’s through the 40’s, across the 60’s and eventually into the 1980’s in his quest for that recognition. For some acknowledgement , and hopefully the return of his affection. Check out what happened below, in our first guest directed film, by Andrew Amine.
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I spent three days last week at the Stampin’ Up! Convention where each day I was drooling over the new products in our holiday catalog which will be released September 1. It seems a little (actually REALLY) strange that I am saying this, but it totally got me in the mood for Christmas! Believe you me, I am usually the girl who is super-anti-anything Christmas until the day after Thanksgiving. But here I am, ready for some Christmas cards. No music or decorating yet, but I’m ready to make some cards.
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Whether it’s computer recycling or old cell phone recycling, recycling old electronics is becoming increasingly more important as new devices are created in place of the old. Where do all those devices go when they get thrown away?
According to one report, it’s estimated that nearly 75% of old consumer electronics are stored by their owners because of a lack of convenient recycling options. It’s important to know that these electronics shouldn’t be going into landfills because they contain toxic materials.
The infrastructure set up to safely recycle old electronic materials is currently on the rise due to increased attention from consumers, industry and policy. This is good for the consumers who don’t all necessarily know how to deal with unwanted electronics.
What Happens to E-Waste
Old waste electronics is also known as e-waste, which can include anything from computers, stereos, televisions, and phones. While many of these things can be refurbished or recycled properly, many of them end up in landfills. Sadly, only 20% of global e-waste is recycled, while the remainder gets incinerated or dumped. Much of the e-waste in the U.S. is shipped overseas for recycling or dumping.
The Importance of Recycling
Because the electronics industry is growing so fast, the product life cycle has become shorter. This leads to an increase in the generation of e-waste and will continue to do so unless the consumers, producers, and policymakers do something to enact change.
Because old electronic devices contain harmful substances such as mercury, lead, cadmium and chromium, it is essential that the material is handled properly and safely so that the environment doesn’t suffer. It is becoming increasingly problematic to find new and better ways to recycle old electronic units because there is no control over the movement of e-waste internationally.
How to Recycle Old Electronics
Currently, the best way to recycle your electronics is to donate the equipment for refurbishment or reuse. Other options include sending your device to authorized recyclers that can make sure they dispose of your device correctly while maintaining your privacy. Please note that you are not allowed to throw electronic devices directly into the trash.
Now that you know a few things about how to recycle your old electronics properly and the background associated with that, you will be able to make better and smarter choices when it comes time to throw your old devices away. Take heart in the fact the U.S. now has 26 states that have mandated electronics recycling.


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Post Malone is the 23-year-old white rapper who broke out with his 2015 single “White Iverson.” His second studio album Beerbongs & Bentleys was nominated for Album of the Year at the 2019 Grammy Awards. He’s easily identified by the tattoos on his face including the words “always” and “tired” under both of his eyes, among others.
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Residents of Emjindini Trust in Mpumalanga will no longer have to travel long distances to fetch water.
Ehlanzeni district municipality (EDM) executive mayor Constance Mkhonto today officially opened taps in their area.
For as long as they can remember, the residents of Emjindini have had to travel long distances to fetch water from rivers or buy it from neighbouring villages.
Access to clean water had always seemed like a dream for this poor community. A milestone has now been reached for the first time in the history of the village with the district munici- pality providing the basic service to 121 families.
"Water has always been scarce in the Ehlanzeni area. The link between social and economic progress and the supply of safe drinking water is clear," said Mkhonto.
"Our ability to manage our water resources in support of the much-needed social and economic development will determine whether we succeed in bringing prosperity and creating a better life for our people."
The project includes two individual water supply systems for the villages of Emjindini Trust and Rimers Creek.
Emjindini Trust Water Supply cost R5million to construct while the Rimers Creek Pipeline was completed at a cost of R3442 262.
The projects were funded through the municipal infrastructure grant (MIG).
Mkhonto was joined by Umjindini's acting executive mayor Derrick Ndlovu and hundreds of local residents.
"We can only thank the Lord and our government for bringing clean, safe drinking water to us and our children," said an overjoyed resident.
"This happened because of God's will."
Mkhonto urged residents to use water wisely and sparingly. She also urged them to pay for the service, especially if they exceeded the free monthly 6000litres provided by the government.
She said government was on track to wipe out the backlog in the infrastructure for basic water supply by next year and for sanitation by 2010.
"It also means that the risk of water-borne diseases can be eliminated because the community now has clean water for cooking, washing, drinking, as well as adequate sanitation."

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Hung-Hsi Wu, a professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley, explains why instruction on fractions, which he calls "the backbone of school mathematics," needed to change.
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Does it ever seem that teenagers can’t go anywhere without their mobile phones? Does it ever appear that whenever you see teenagers, they seem to be looking down at their gadgets while moving their thumbs at a feverish clip? Indeed, does it seem that their smart phones appear to be permanently attached to their hands as additional body parts?
Well, if these are your perceptions, a recent study supports what you have been perceiving. The Pew Research Center has released a study that addresses teen use of social media technology. According to that study, a robust 73% of American teenagers have access to a smart phone. And 88% of American teenagers have access to a mobile phone of some kind, whether a smart phone or not. Continue reading Teens Addicted to Their Phones
Once upon a time, shopping was a time-consuming endeavor. We had no choice but to actually get out of the house and physically travel to different stores to buy what we needed.
Then, the online shopping revolution occurred. Rather than traveling out of the house, all we now need to do is move ourselves up to our computers, and the shopping world is at our fingertips. Practically anything can be purchased over the Internet from a multitude of different Web sites. And Amazon, for example, has sought to be a one-stop shopping site, where countless thousands of items are available for purchase at any given moment, from books, to apparel, to electronics, to furniture, to food, to toys — and the list goes on and on.
Continue reading Your Shopping Experience Is About to Get Even Easier
We live in the digital age, with the Internet growing exponentially and with our lives becoming more online every day. It is easy to believe that the development of technology has happened primarily in recent times, given this explosion of information technology.
However, that is far from the truth. Indeed, technology, in all of its various facets, has been emerging over the course of millennia. Let’s take a look at just some key technology invention dates from earliest to most recent: Continue reading The History of Technology — Past, Present and Future
Before the explosion of online communications, our world necessarily was smaller and who we came in contact with tended to people we already knew. Then our ability to reach out and communicate with others expanded dramatically and exponentially as we all started traveling at warp speed down the information superhighway.
We learned that not only could we interact with people locally, but with a few keystrokes and mouse clicks we could be communicating with people across the country and even in countries on the other side of the globe. Part of the fun was our ability to communicate anonymously, using pseudonyms.
We could be informal, we could be creative, and we could reinvent ourselves. Indeed, most of us probably remember the cartoon with a dog in front of a monitor and a keyboard that had a caption which read: “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.” Case law developed making clear that First Amendment protections extended to the right to speak freely and even anonymously on the Internet.
All well and good, right? Perhaps for the most part. The Internet has provided a medium that has led to many beneficial communications and interactions for personal, business, and other purposes. However, human nature is not always pure. From the beginning of human history, it seems there always have been some people intent on mischief and even violent behavior. And unfortunately, with the increased ability for people to contact others via the Internet, there also is a heightened possibility for such contacts to lead to terrible results.
Continue reading Be Afraid, Very Afraid Of Who You Meet Online?
It’s baaaack. Florida, that wacky state that brought us hanging chads and other irregularities during the 2000 Bush v. Gore presidential election, has returned full force with some new controversy.
Indeed, while the great weight of scientific evidence has persuaded the vast majority of scientists skilled in the field that global warming is real and a looming danger for the planet, government officials at the primary environmental agency in Florida have been prohibited from using the words “climate change,” according to Time.com.
The Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) issued an unwritten directive to not use the words “climate change” or “global warming” in official reports and communications, claims the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting (FCIR).
Christopher Byrd, an attorney in the DEP’s Office of General Counsel from 2008 to 2013, informed FCIR that “[w]e were told not to use the terms climate change, global warming or sustainability,” and that “that message was communicated to me and my colleagues by our superiors in the Office of General Counsel.”
Moreover, additional former DEP personnel reportedly told the FCIR that this unwritten directive was put in place after Rick Scott, who has rejected the argument that climate change has been caused by humans, took the helm as the governor of Florida in 2011. Continue reading Fla. Agency Bans the Words ‘Climate Change.’ Really?
Once upon a time, frankly not that long ago, a telephone was something that was tethered by a wire to a phone jack and that enabled people to make telephone calls — nothing more. A home had one phone line, and perhaps multiple phones for that line.
Things became just a bit more interesting later when a home had more than one phone line. That meant, for example, that a teenager could stay up all night gabbing on the teenager’s phone line without interfering with the ability of family members to make a phone call on another home line.
This still was a fairly simple situation. When we were out and about in the world, our phones did not follow us. Our communications tended to be more in-person, and perhaps we observed what was happening in the world around us with a bit more of a keen sense, without any technological distractions.
In the late 1980s, we witnessed the first “mobile” phones. These phones were behemoths. Such a phone and its battery pack literally took up a large briefcase to carry around. Other than the cachet of parading the fact of owning the behemoth mobile phone, it honestly was easier to use a pay phone when out of the home or office.
But in the 1990s and thereafter, mobile phone technology developed exponentially in terms of size, functionality, and convenience. And now, in a small device about the size of a pack of cards, or smaller, we literally have the world at our fingertips.
Continue reading Smartphones Can Do Anything, Right?
Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA) generally affords immunity for Internet Service Providers (ISPs) with respect to content posted by users on their websites. There have been various efforts by plaintiffs in lawsuits to chip away at this immunity, most of which have failed. Now along comes Doe v. Internet Brands, in which the plaintiff sought to convince the Ninth Circuit to circumvent CDA Section 230 immunity under a “duty to warn” theory.
The anonymous plaintiff, Jane Doe, alleged that she was a model who was enticed to travel to Florida by two men. The men drugged her, raped her, and then displayed this horrid event in a pornographic video.
Doe alleged that the two men initially found her by way of the website Model Mayhem, which she’d joined as a member. She asserted that Model Mayhem is a site that profiles hundreds of thousands of models, and that the owner of the site, Internet Brands, allegedly knew of the illegal scheme by the two men but nevertheless neglected to warn her of the potential harm. Continue reading 9th Circuit Resisting Efforts to Dilute CDA Section 230 ISP Immunity?
Hack attacks have been in the news for a while. But the most recent headlines seem to indicate that hackers are far outpacing security efforts to contain them.
In the last week, we have learned that a major health insurer was compromised, possibly exposing the data of 80 million health accounts. Data relating to medical patients is very sensitive, and the number 80 million is staggering in scope. And there have been indications that other health insurers might be vulnerable, meaning that 2015 could be the year of health insurance hacks.
On top of that, we just learned that “Anonymous” hackers have attacked the website of the President of the European Parliament. So, this tells us that not only is medical information unsafe, but government officials are not able to protect themselves from hackers. Continue reading Getting Serious About Cybersecurity
Do you ever get up in the morning, feeling sluggish and just not up to the tasks that await you? For most of us, the answer is yes, at least once in a while.
And does it ever seem that your Internet connection is having a bad hair day? Specifically, does it feel like it takes forever for Web pages to download, reminding you of the days of 32k and 56k dial-up modems?
If so, do you just sit there passively and hope and pray that the connection will improve? Well, there might be something you can do to give your Internet connection that coffee jolt that it needs to step up its game.
Case in point: There I was, trying to open Web pages so that I could accomplish work tasks remotely from my home computer last week. I kid you not, everything online was taking forever! Continue reading The Need for Speed Online: Don’t Just Sit There!
While the Internet provides many obvious advantages to people in this digital age, it can also enable a dark side for those intent on mischievous and criminal online behavior. “Revenge porn” is part of that dark side.
So, what is revenge porn? It usually consists of a nude photograph or video which is publicly shared online (most frequently by an ex-lover of the nude subject) for the purpose of spiteful humiliation.
The nude photograph or video generally is recorded when the couple is in a positive relationship, and then later is shown to the world on the Internet after the relationship has crumbled, most often by the male posting nude content of his female ex.
There also are revenge porn ransom websites. Specifically, such a website posts nude photos and videos provided by ex-lovers of their former lovers, and then offers to take down the content if paid a certain amount of money. The Federal Trade Commission has been seeking to root out these types of websites.
Continue reading FTC Seeks to Thwart ‘Revenge Porn’


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(CONCORD) State efforts to boost retail sales by temporarily suspending state sales taxes don’t work, according to an updated study from the Tax Foundation. 19 states held Sales Tax Holidays in 2010, and 16 plan to do so this year, waiving state taxes on some or all products for a period of two days up to over a week. Six states plan multiple sales tax holidays in 2011. The recently published report finds no evidence that sales tax holidays boost actual sales.
Sales tax holidays do not promote economic growth or significantly increase consumer purchases; the evidence shows that they simply shift the timing of purchases. Some retailers raise prices during the holiday, reducing consumer savings.
The study’s authors, Mark Robyn, Micah Cohen, and Joseph Henchman, conclude that sales tax holidays are a political gimmick that distract policymakers from real tax reform, and that having to suspend the sales tax to attract customers is a sign of an uncompetitive retail climate.
Massachusetts has held six sales tax holidays in the last seven years, and the Boston Globe reports lawmakers are considering another one for August. New Hampshire is one of only five states without a broad-based sales tax.
Read the full report on Sales Tax Holidays.
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The piece below was originally published on February 8, 2014, on Anthony Opal’s old website, the Weekly (since kaput). In reprinting it, we have only changed the very end of the “Afterword,” so that now you can simply click on a hyperlink to access additional (and extremely precious) information.
A detail of Nancy Ekholm Burkert’s illustration for Edward Lear’s “The Scroobious Pip.”
In early 1872, Edward Lear left a poem unfinished. It was very nearly complete: all it lacked of its intended five rhyming subsections were two lines and two words (not at the end). Lear left blanks in the manuscript, and it’s clear he intended to supply the missing bits at some later time. No one knows why he never did so.
The piece is called “The Scroobious Pip,” and it is good. It’s right up there with the best material Lear included in Laughable Lyrics, which came out roughly five years later (December 1876). But, because he never finished it, it remained unpublished during his lifetime. Indeed, the piece first saw the light of day in 1935, in the back of what was essentially a small collectors’ edition—950 copies, each one numbered. (My copy is #237.)
In 1954, Harvard University Press published a thin (sixty-four-page) book called Teapots and Quails, a very valuable document for Lear enthusiasts insofar as it made many previously uncollected or very hard-to-get pieces available—including ten limericks with accompanying illustrations. “The Scroobious Pip” appears on pages 60 through 62. The lacunæ in the manuscript are rendered either as blanks or as strings of dots. Read More

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Raleigh, NC, August 22, 2008 --(PR.com
)-- Eb Moore, CEO of Coldwell Banker Howard Perry and Walston (www.hpw.com), has announced that the firm will be handling the sales and marketing for Terrington, a luxury home neighborhood located in southeast Cary. Terrington is a neighborhood comprised of 31 acres and 22 home sites, located on Campbell Road, one mile south of the Swift Creek Shopping Center. The neighborhood is located near schools, shopping, entertainment venues and dining, and features creeks, ponds, woodlands and a private nature preserve. Terrington homebuyers will have the opportunity to collaborate with American Heritage Homes, Inc., the exclusive home builder and designer of the community. Glenn Weeks of the Coldwell Banker Howard Perry and Walston Kildaire office will be the agent for the community. Prices for home sites start at $240,000, and prices for homes range from $800,000 to $3 million. For more information, visit the Web site at www.terrington.us.
“We are delighted to handle the sales and marketing for Terrington,” said Moore. “It is a beautiful community that offers homebuyers luxury custom homes, a beautiful natural setting and quick access to great shopping, dining and major highways.”
About Coldwell Banker Howard Perry And Walston:
Howard Perry, an established builder, and Don Walston, a real estate entrepreneur, formed Coldwell Banker Howard Perry and Walston in 1972. Today the company has more than 800 real estate professionals, 13 sales offices, the area’s premier new homes division, a mortgage company, insurance services division, title company, an award-winning relocation division, a growing concierge home services division, the area’s No. 1 real estate school, and one of the state’s top real estate Web sites. The company has become one of the largest full-service residential real estate company in the Triangle and one of the leading realty firms in the nation, with more than 11,000 transactions a year and almost $2.5 billion in sales. In 2006 and 2007, Coldwell Banker Howard Perry and Walston was recognized as one of the 50 fastest growing private companies in the Triangle by the Triangle Business Journal. In 2007 they were named the #1 Best Place to Work in the Triangle by the Triangle Business Journal and named the #1 Coldwell Banker Company in North Carolina. In 2008, the firm received the National Coldwell Banker Golden Hammer Centennial Award for their commitment and work with Habitat for Humanity. For more information about Coldwell Banker Howard Perry and Walston visit their Web site at www.hpw.com.
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The temporary closure of a Muslim free school has raised serious questions about ministerial oversight of the creation of the Government's flagship institutions, Labour has said.
Shadow education secretary Stephen Twigg said swift answers were needed about the Al-Madinah school in Derby, and that the situation must be "clarified urgently in order to reassure the public".
The school opened in September last year but closed its doors temporarily on Tuesday over a health and safety issue just hours after Ofsted began an inspection.
It follows claims that female teachers at the school - which claims a "strong Muslim ethos" - were forced to wear hijabs even if they were not Muslim.
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River Ness, Inverness
The Rest Spaces project is part of a wider public art programme, 'River Connections: Art & The River Ness', that seeks to explore the River Ness’ ecology and vibrant wildlife. The River Ness flows for seven miles from Loch Ness to the Moray Firth. It is an asset that contributes to the unique character of the city and is distinctive for the rich natural environment along its length. The River Ness is one of the most significant features of the city and much of its biodiversity, history and cultural impact remain to be discovered. The river requires practical flood alleviation works which provide a unique opportunity to for public art to enhance the works and associated streetscaping.
Rest Spaces is one of a series of art initiatives to encourage people – locals & visitors alike – to experience and engage with the river as it flows through the city.
Dress for the Weather are currently developing designs that focus strongly on connecting people with the river by providing opportunities for individuals, couples and groups to stop and dwell along the banks of the River Ness. The concepts behind the different types of rest spaces are inspired, partly, by the wildlife local to the river by suggesting interventions that encourage people to stop and enjoy the river in a variety of ways: to perch, to explore, to bask, to gather. The material palette is proposed to be simple, comprising of local stone and formed metal for handrails and frames.


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Fabrics are the automotive future
Seats, airbags, hoses, head linings and foot mats prove it: fibres are an integral part of modern cars. Nevertheless, the textile industry is not sitting back. At Techtextil, suppliers present the latest material and product visions for tomorrow’s (e-)car, including operating elements made of fabric, embroidered charging coils and knitted heating systems.
For example, Tübingen-based textile supplier Rökona presents two new developments, ‘Interfabrics’ and ‘Lumi Fabrics’. The company, which makes interlaid scrims for head linings and vehicle pillars on behalf of automobile manufacturers and suppliers, aims to introduced textile lighting effects and functions into car interiors. “Cars have lots of textiles that can be activated for interactive purposes”, says Rökona CEO Arved Westerkamp. If it was up to him, the mirrors, windows and lighting of tomorrow’s cars would be operated via textile surfaces.
Textile induction charging
Developed together with partners, such as Daimler, BASF and Bosch, the German Institutes of Textile and Fibre Research Denkendorf (DITF) are showing embroidered induction-charging coils in Frankfurt. Although contactless induction charging is extremely important for future electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles, there is only limited space under them, which makes it very difficult to design compact induction-charging systems with high power densities. “We have developed an embroidery process to produce an inductive charging coil”, says DITF researcher Sathis Kumar Selvarayan. In this way, it is possible to apply complex and exacting designs to a based fabric in a space-saving way. Using the scalable and automatable process, copper strands are fixed with polyester fibres with the embroidered coil subsequently being cast like a fibre composite in plastic.
Knitted heating systems for electric vehicles
A knitted heating system for electric-vehicle interiors is being shown by Balingen-based Roma-Strickstoff-Fabrik Rolf Mayer at Techtextil. Fitted in doors, seats and foot mats, the new system heats electric cars more efficiently and, therefore, with less drain on the battery. The results of a preliminary study by the Research Institute of Automotive Engineering and Vehicle Engines Stuttgart (FKFS) are encouraging. With the knitted heating system, the energy consumption of a vehicle can be cut by a kilowatt (approx. 45 percent) with no loss of comfort. This is equivalent to increasing the range of a two-seat electric car by 19 percent (CADC rural driving cycle) in comparison to a conventional fan heating system. Although the project from 2012 never really took off due to a lack of funding, “We have registered a significant increase in interest in textile heating elements in the wake of recent upheavals in the automobile sector”, says Jürgen Reichart, the Head of Roma’s Technical Textiles Division. Accordingly, he is showing the current state-of-the art in terms of fibre heating at Techtextil. After all, “Engineers from automobile manufacturers and suppliers are regular attendees of the fair.”
“Almost half of the around 1,500 exhibitors present new products, materials, processes and research results relevant to cars and trucks, as well as emergency and safety vehicles”, says Techtextil Director Michael Jänecke. Researchers, developers, designers and buyers from the automobile sector come to the fair to find innovations and ideas for tomorrow’s vehicles. According to the Association of the Finishing, Yarns, Woven Fabrics and Technical Textiles Industry (IVGT), there are over 40 textile applications in modern cars. And it will not be long before there are several more.
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Seven Stars Resort in Turks and Caicos recently introduced a program of complimentary beach services and experiences to make a relaxed day spent along the world’s best beach, even better.
The services include sunglasses cleaning, chilled scented towels, chilled water, Evian misting, margarita shots, towels service, beach volleyball and such non-motorized sports as kayaking, surfboarding, snorkeling and more.
Seven Stars’ line up of daytime beach experiences also features concierge-like food and beverage service delivered right to your clients’ lounge chairs.
Daytime beach fun transitions into evening excitement under the stars on Sundays as guests are treated to the new “BBQ & Bonfires” experience from 7-9 p.m. on The Deck. This beach barbecue and bonfire party invites guests to dance in the sand to live entertainment, while enjoying signature drinks and tantalizing menu items.
Recently expanded and upgraded, The Deck sits right along the beachfront with plush seating, overhead umbrellas and views of the sun set.


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As a casual observer, you would be forgiven for thinking that Robert Pattinson has deliberately chosen challenging roles to dissociate himself from his teen-friendly origins.
“I genuinely choose [my roles], because that’s the only jobs I get [offered],” explains Pattinson in our interview for his new film ‘The Rover’ above.
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Record breaking design.
The Campagnolo Super Record 12 speed Crankset has been made lighter, stiffer, and stronger than ever, now accommodating a 2x12 drivetrain. Featuring a carbon fiber construction and Campagnolo's Hollow technology, the Super Record Crankset uses the Ultra-Torque bracket system with a titanium axle to transfer all of the force the athlete applies to the pedal to the drivetrain. The new Super Record™ 12x2 Speed crankset can be installed on any type of frame, whether or not it is being used with disc brakes because it optimises the chain line on the frame with a rear hub flange measuring 130, 135 or 142 millimetres, without affecting the Q factor, which remains constant at 145.5 millimetres thanks to the new hand crank design.
The innovative design of the outer chainring ensures faster, quieter derailing owing to the contoured pin. The symmetrical design of the inner chainring teeth allows improved stability with chain crossovers. The double wheel sizing standards (112 and 145 millimetres) combined with the eight fixing screws, optimises weight and stiffness through the increased use of carbon fibre. The varying number of pins for each of the three chainring combinations (34/50, 36/52, 39/53) facilitates upshifting due to the optimised free strokes associated with each combination. The special drains on the inside of the outer chainrings optimise performance when downshifting in dead spots.
- Revolutionary new redesign delivers Super Record performance and a 2x12 drivetrain.
- Universal compatibility with all frame systems, regardless of rear chainstay width.
- Unidirectional carbon fibre hand cranks, steel axle and aluminium chainrings for stiffness and power transfer.
- Symmetrical inner chainring teeth for fluid, precise shifts with greater crossover.
- Optimized design for every chainring combination delivers the maximum performance.
- Durability-enhancing superficial treatment on chainrings for longer lifespan.
- Compatible with Ultra-Torque bottom brackets (sold separately).
- Eight fixing screws for increased stiffness.
- Claimed weight: 618g (172.5mm, 34-50).
- Includes Ceramic Cult bearings.