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Henry Work / TechCrunch:
Who Are The Top Tech Bloggers? — We've been analyzing historical TechMeme data to dig a little deeper than the leaderboard information on the site that shows top blogs over the trailing 30 days. We're slicing the data in a number of ways and will publish in shortly on CrunchBase.
Discussion: HipMojo.com, The Last Podcast, Brad Linder's digital home and The Blog Herald
Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / HipMojo.com: Top Business Insider Executive's Blog?
Brad Linder / Brad Linder's digital home: So this is how it feels to be #26 — Anybody know where I can order …
Matt Craven / The Blog Herald: Who are the top tech bloggers?
MG Siegler / ParisLemon:
Top Tech Bloggers: #34 + #38 = #8 (Bitchmeme Watch) — TechCrunch has taken the Techmeme Leaderboard and extracted the top authors since the beginning of this year. Not surprisingly, Mike Arrington of TechCrunch is #1 with Erick and Duncan of TechCrunch coming in at #2 and #4 respectively.
Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
Trolling for links: The top tech bloggers — As we all know, the number one rule of the blogosphere is that you must write about the blogosphere (it's like the opposite of the Fight Club), and in the absence of a "bitchmeme" for this weekend — although Twitter's intermittent issues come close …
Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
My Life on Facebook as a Woman and Why Social Network Advertising Doesn't Work — Last weekend I joked around on Twitter regarding the ads I see on Facebook on the left menu. As a single man in my 30s, the ads are always sexual in nature — some examples: "Hot Singles Waiting For You" and "30s Singles Looking for Love", etc.
Discussion: HipMojo.com
Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / HipMojo.com: Are Affiliate Sales the Path to Facebook's Billions?
Charles Hudson / Charles Hudson's Weblog:
Social Networking Advertising - It Will Be Even Harder than we Think — I've had a few experiences in the past few weeks that continue to bolster my belief that monetizing social networks and communities will continue to be a lot harder than people think. — 1. I posted a question on Twitter …
Discussion: HipMojo.com and broadstuff
Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / HipMojo.com: When Will Social Media Get It?
Alan Patrick / broadstuff: THE VALUE ADS OF SOCIAL MEDIA
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Sources: Microsoft Signs Letter Of Intent To Acquire Xobni — Two independent sources tell us that the Microsoft/Xobni deal is moving along and that Microsoft signed an acquisition LOI in the last week. I have not yet been able to track down the price, but a previous offer of sub-$20 million was supposedly rejected by Xobni.
Discussion: HipMojo.com, Zoli's Blog and A VC
Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / HipMojo.com: Built to Last vs. Built to Flip
Zoli Erdos / Zoli's Blog: How to Make Outlook Cool. Actually, Kool.
Fred / A VC: Xobni is Inbox Spelled Backwards
Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
Join The Web Content Conservation Movement — The other day Erick Schonfeld wrote a post about how he's feeling even more overwhelmed by new web content steams like Twitter and FriendFeed, and how he's desperately in need of a better filter. I certainly agree with Erick's clarion call …
Discussion: TomsTechBlog.com and Mashable!
Paul Glazowski / Mashable!: Echo Versus Insight Within The World Of Blogs
Ross Mayfield / Ross Mayfield's Weblog:
Whipping up a batch of effective communications — Randall Stross in the NYTimes writes about how prominent bloggers get overwhelmed by email and how its nothing new. Of course, journalists empathize with this condition, so its perhaps over emphasized at large.
Randall Stross / New York Times:
Struggling to Evade the E-Mail Tsunami
Struggling to Evade the E-Mail Tsunami
Discussion: A VC, Andrew Lark, The Blog Herald and Valleywag
Matt Craven / The Blog Herald: New York Times talks about e-mail tsunamis, profiles Mike Arrington …
Owen Thomas / Valleywag: Michael Arrington shows messy side at Stanford
Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Recent Searches To Influence Google's Results — Danny Sullivan reported earlier this month that Google will start to personalize search results based on the previous query. "For example, if someone were to search for [spain] and then [travel] after that, BOTH the ads and the organic results …
MG Siegler / ParisLemon:
If Twitter Breaks in the Woods and No One Can Tweet About It, Is It Really Broken? — I noticed a few people thinking the same thing as me today: is everyone taking a break from Twitter? People do get burnt out from the web after all and it was a pretty nice weekend day in a lot of cities.
Discussion: The Last Podcast, Scripting News, mathewingram.com/work, Drew B's take on tech PR and The Blog Herald
Dave Winer / Scripting News: A new kind of Twitter outage
Matt Craven / The Blog Herald: Twitter having problems with updates this weekend
Jonathan Skillings / CNET News.com:
Twitter hiccups through a semi-outage
Twitter hiccups through a semi-outage
Discussion: Get Satisfaction and Mashable!
Richard Swinburne / bit-tech.net:
Inside the Eee PC 900 — I know, we've probably been all Eee'd out for a few months; well, at least until Atom gets here. But there was this niggling itch to break stuff, and it was sitting there, and this is bit-tech after all... Where can we find that extra 16GB of SSD storage?
Discussion: Guardian Unlimited, Liliputing, I4U News and Engadget
Jack Schofield / Guardian Unlimited: Bit-tech shows the Asus PC900's insides
Brad Linder / Liliputing: More topless photos of the Eee PC
Luigi Lugmayr / I4U News: Asus Eee PC 900 dissected
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget: Eee PC 900 gets dissected, looks about the same as the Eee PC 700
Ryan / Carsonified:
The problem with Web Mission — I've noticed that TechCrunch is fully supporting Web Mission '08 and I just can't hold my tongue any longer. — Web Mission exemplifies everything that's wrong with the UK and European web start-up scene. — The description from their site says:
Discussion: TechCrunch UK
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch UK: WebMission Day 1: The flight
Robin Harris / Storage Bits:
Holographic storage ships next month! — Even since astronaut Frank Bowman disconnected the HAL 9000's holographic memory in 2001: A Space Odyssey techies have been wondering when we could buy real holographic storage. Now we know: May, 2008. — Promising super-high density …
Discussion: TECH.BLORGE.com and Digg
Jonathan Schlaffer / TECH.BLORGE.com: InPhase's holographic storage device available next month
Brian Krebs / Security Fix:
When Monetizing ISP Traffic Goes Horribly Wrong — In seeking to further monetize Web site traffic on their networks, a number of major Internet service providers may be inadvertently exposing their customers to a greater risk of online attack from identity thieves, according to research released today.
Discussion: WebGuild, DSLreports, InfoWorld, toorcon, Ryan Naraine's Security Watch, Mashable! and Threat Level
Joseph Hunkins / WebGuild: Trusting Your ISP With Your Clicks
KathrynV / DSLreports: ISP Error Opens Security Holes in Web …
Ryan Naraine / Ryan Naraine's Security Watch: Major ISPs Injecting Ads, Vulnerabilities into Entire Web
Paul Glazowski / Mashable!: ISPs' Error Pages Provided Hackers Access To Outside Servers
Ryan Singel / Threat Level: ISPs' Error Page Ads Let Hackers Hijack Entire Web, Researcher Discloses
Dan Goodin / The Register:
ISP typo pimping exposes users to fraudulent web pages
ISP typo pimping exposes users to fraudulent web pages
Discussion: Security to the Core
Danny McPherson / Security to the Core: 5 Ways to Molest Internet Users


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Dear Editor:
Councilman Michael Yun of Jersey City has introduced a plan to double the salaries of the City Council to attract the best and brightest candidates. This is ridiculous and absurd. A mayoral candidate is searching and seeking the best and the brightest puppet for him or her to control with the least amount of resistance to his or her administration! The past present and most likely in the future a candidates qualifications will mirror the image of the mayoral candidate, to obey completely and most likely to bring in the highest number of votes to that ticket.
This was an unusual municipal election where (2) two candidates won seats in the City Council that ran as an independent. Does this fluke of nature guarantees more miracles in the future if the salaries are doubled? Absolutely not, and whose to say that this will enhance their prestige, intelligence, moral fiber and respect. The Jersey City Council probably has a lower rating than the United States Congress and Senate, marionettes controlled by Mayor Fulop, so does Mr. Yun actually believes that raising their salaries will miraculously overnight will give them decency and morals to do the right thing. If so, than Alice in Wonderland has finally come to Jersey City.
Bringing in more candidates doesn't mean the best. This might also open the door of having more self serving individuals enter the picture, running to just obtain leverage for an attractive job offer, by placing their names on the ballot or seeking a monetary reward if successful as sitting back for the next four years doing nothing for the people but looking to sell their vote to the highest bidder, filling their own pockets. This will obviously not correct nepotism political hacks and governmental leeches that will ask these councilmembers for so called kickbacks favors and rewards.
Mr. Yun himself won as an independent candidate with his claim to fame was an entrepreneur store owner in Ward D Heights section of Jersey City. He himself stated that he would not accept the raise if given, so what attracted him to public service, if it wasn't monetary? He contradicts his own self made philosophy.
It's true that most of our council people have duel and triple positions within the city, county, and state that places financial monetary burdens on the taxpayer, but will this ultimately cure the disease? If a these council members were given an exorbitant increase will this stop multiple government positions, even if the law past will try to restrain this fungus? How can the city dictate to the county and the state? There will always be loopholes in the law? All this Mr. Yun will do is to fill the coffers of the do nothing that wants more and more and open the door for more political handouts.
Will greed always raise its ugly head superseding honesty dignity and morals? Human nature proves greed and corruption especially in Jersey City will always win hands down!
William P. Frasca

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Some older works in the Laguna Art Museum's permanent collection of California art date from the mid 19th century.
But no special funds had ever been earmarked specifically for framing and conservation until Yvonne J. Boseker pledged a $100,000 nest egg. The funds will also underwrite the staging of exhibitions and educational programs related to early California art.
Boseker, who has homes in Laguna Beach and Santa Ana, was the first local collector executive director Malcolm Warner met after taking the museum's helm last January. "Yvonne mentioned to me that helping the museum with conservation of our collection would be close to her heart. She cares about conservation and knows the issues surrounding it," he said.
Boseker is an avid collector of the period and a museum supporter since the 1980s. She and her late husband Edward in 1986 lent several works from their collection to an exhibition titled "Early Artists in Laguna Beach." Spanning between 1856 to the 1940s, their collection of 200 works by 175 California artists has been described as encyclopedic.
Two paintings from the Boseker collection, "Dana Point," 1887 by Frank Heath and "Mexican Cattle Drivers," 1883 are on loan to the museum and on display in the current exhibition of selections from the permanent collection. Boseker also helped underwrite the recent comprehensive Clarence Hinkle retrospective exhibition, said Ed Fosmire, the museum's deputy director.
Her gift is already being put to good use, with six paintings currently at a conservator, said Fosmire, noting that conservation rarely attracts high-profile donors. "It has definitely been an area of need," he added.
"As caretaker it is our responsibility to take excellent care of [art] and to always be willing to share it with others…," Boseker said in a statement.
The museum also received a $10,000 grant from the Pacific Life Foundation and $4,000 from the Laguna Beach Community Foundation. Both grants are to support the museum's Thursday night community outreach programs. Lectures and presentations have attracted larger and younger audiences.
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Feldman misses confidant, role model on Father's Day
Right-hander celebrate's dad's memory after his April passing from brain cancer
HOUSTON -- There are times Astros pitcher Scott Feldman still wants to pick up the phone and call his father. It was a routine he kept for years, dialing up his dad after one of his starts to talk about what went right, what went wrong.
And it was the times when things didn't go quite so well on the baseball field that Feldman needed to hear his dad's voice the most.
"He would always find a positive thing or two to say," he said. "Hopefully he's watching from up above."
Feldman, signed by the Astros to a three-year, $30 million contract prior to this season, is pitching with a heavy heart this year following the death of his father two months ago. Sunday will be especially difficult -- Feldman's first Father's Day without his dad.
Marshall Feldman -- a former college baseball player, Army lieutenant and FBI special agent -- died on April 9 following a nearly eight-year battle with brain cancer.
"I still want to call him all the time to just talk about anything, really," Feldman said. "But it's been tough to not talk to him after I pitch, too. I'd call him after every start, and it was something we both really enjoyed. Even after all the brain surgeries, he was still a real sharp guy. He could do the crossword puzzle in the paper up until a few weeks before he passed."
Feldman, 31, pitched just two days following the death of his father, spinning seven scoreless innings in Arlington to beat the Rangers, the team for which he played the first eight years of his career. It was an emotion-filled few days where goodbyes were said, tears flowed and sadness set in.
There was, understandably, a sense of relief for Feldman that he wouldn't have to see his father suffer anymore. Feldman still has a difficult time talking about his father, who was a great influence in his life and career.
"I think he was a pretty solid guy to try to have as my role model," he said.
Feldman grew up in Burlingame, Calif., just south of San Francisco, as the oldest of two children. Marshall Feldman played baseball at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh and joined the Army following graduation, serving as a first lieutenant.
Marshall attended graduate school at Florida State and served as a police officer in West Palm Beach, Fla., before beginning a 30-year career as a special agent with the FBI in 1969. He was assigned to offices in Detroit, San Francisco and Hawaii, where Scott was born in 1983.
"Over the course of 30 years [in the FBI], he did just about everything," Feldman said. "He did investigations, did some undercover stuff. I have some funny pictures of him when he was probably in his late 20s and just getting started. He was an undercover hippy. He had a big Fu Manchu and long hair, which was real funny to me, because he was always really clean cut and shaved. I didn't even recognize him when I saw the pictures."
The Feldman home in Burlingame was across the street from a park, which had two big baseball diamonds -- a perfect spot for father and son to play catch. Marshall Feldman was also an avid golfer, but baseball ruled the house.
"He loved baseball probably more than anybody I've ever known," Feldman said. "He'd get off work and we'd always go over there and play catch or just do something over there, whether it was basketball, football and baseball."
After Marshall Feldman retired from the FBI in 1999, he took on the post of security representative for the NFL for 10 years, assigned to the San Francisco 49ers. Candlestick Park, home of the 49ers and Giants, was a short drive from Burlingame, so father and son sat though many cold nights at Candlestick watching the Giants.
"As I got older, they moved up to Pac Bell or AT&T [Park] now, and I spent a lot of time going to both of those places," Feldman said. "He took me to a lot of Stanford games, too, when I was really little and they were really good."
How much did his dad love baseball? When Scott was called up to the Majors in 2005, his parents made the trip to Cleveland with hopes of watching him pitch. They were waiting for a game to start when Scott called his mother, Joyce, during the national anthem and told her he was being sent down without even appearing in a game.
"She told my dad, 'We're getting out of here, he got sent down,'" Feldman said. "My dad was like, 'What are you talking about? The game hasn't even started yet. We're going to sit here and watch the game.' He wanted to stay and watch the game, and my mom had to drag him out of there."
Marshall loved baseball, but he loved his wife of 37 years even more. Baseball would wait.
It was only a year after Scott's debut that his father was diagnosed with brain cancer. Marshall still managed to live a normal life for quite some time while doing through treatments, though it became tougher for him to play golf the last two years. He would always travel to watch Scott pitch as much as he could, but he couldn't make it out to games last year.
"When he was sick, focusing on baseball wasn't too difficult, because that was what he sort of used to take his mind off his sickness, I think," Feldman said. "No matter what was going on with him from a health standpoint, he was always watching and supporting me. Up until this Spring Training, when his illness just got to be too much."
Feldman could have used some wisdom from his father after he lasted 1 2/3 innings in his start against the Twins on Saturday in Minneapolis. He wished he could have picked up the phone and talked about baseball and life.
Scott wished he could have heard his dad's voice, and in some ways, he did.
"I wish he was still here, but since he's not, I just try to think of him as much as possible," Feldman said. "If I'm struggling with anything, whether it's baseball-related or just life in general, I try to think of what he would have told me. He was the best role model for me that I could imagine."


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General news:
Approvals: Genzyme's stem cell transplant drug Mozobil; Abbott's triglyceride drug TriLipix; Eisai's Lusedra for anesthesia.
Novartis' experimental MS drug (oral) looking really good compared to competition.
Wyeth and ghostwritten articles. This is going to be ugly – Wyeth paid a company to ghostwrite medical journal articles about its hormone therapy products and seek academic scientists to sign them as authors, a U.S. senator said. Documents from lawsuits suggest the drugmaker hired DesignWrite Inc. of Princeton, New Jersey, to draft manuscripts related to the Wyeth products and breast cancer risks, according to letters released today from Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa to the companies. Wyeth makes the hormone replacement drugs Prempro and Premarin…more
Roche CEO to other pharma/biotech companies: Let's get gloomy.
More trouble for Elan/Biogen's Tysabri – Yet again, the multiple-sclerosis medication has caused a serious brain infection, the same malady that prompted the drug to be withdrawn in 2005 for about a year. A German MS patient contracted PML, or progressive multifocal leukoencephalopthy, and remains hospitalized…more When you look at the numbers, however, it's still a pretty small incidence. My question – if it weren't an exotic brain infection, would this get so much press attention??
Would you like some Ritalin with that syllabus? – "We should welcome new methods of improving our brain function," they write. "In a world in which human workspans and lifespans are increasing, cognitive enhancement tools – including the pharmacological – will be increasingly useful for improved quality of life and extended work productivity, as well as to stave off normal and pathological age-related cognitive declines. Safe and effective cognitive enhancers will benefit both the individual and society." more
Newer antipsychotics: much ado about nothing? – The common distinction between first- and second-generation antipsychotics has no scientific basis and should be dropped, according to a paper in The Lancet. A meta-analysis of 150 double-blind studies found little evidence that newer, so-called atypical antipsychotics are more effective than older drugs for symptoms of schizophrenia, MedPage Today writes…more
Choose your friends wisely-and happily – Researchers looked at the social networks of more than 4,700 people whose happiness, along with other factors, had been tracked for 20 years. Those surrounded by cheery souls were more likely to have sunny dispositions, even if they didn't known them…more
KV Pharma CEO: walked out or booted out? – This is one for the gossips. Marc Hermelin, the KV Pharmaceuticals ceo, is leaving under what could be politely called disputed circumstances. The drugmaker says he was fired, but Hermelin issued his own statement that he informed the board earlier this week that he is simply retiring, according to reports…more
J&J loses another Duragesic patch verdict, to the tune of $16.5M
Malaria vaccine one step closer – Two papers published in The New England Journal of Medicine are reporting the success of a pair of new vaccines tested in children in Africa. And experts say the results may open the door to sweeping trials of the vaccines in seven African nations by early 2009 and a completed formulation ready for approval by 2011. "We are," Christian Loucq, director of the PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative, tells Time, "one step closer to the day when malaria will join diseases like smallpox and polio." more
ImClone to cut field sales force by almost half, following acquisition by Eli Lilly.
Two blows to Avandia, one to Actos. Increased death risk: Avandia. Increased fracture risk among women: Both.
Using nicotine as a cure? Nope.
A summary of "where we're at" with MS drugs, from PharmExec.com.
Fewer sales reps? Docs are OK with that. And here's a 33-company list of where the jobs ain't (recent layoffs). Ouch.
PhRMA's beefed up drug advertising guidelines. As the pirate says, "these are more like guidelines…"
AstraZeneca's Symbicort cleared by FDA panel for asthma.
Last week was ASH (American Society of Hematology) week, so we'll feature a number of news items about blood diseases and treatments…
Encouraging blood platelet boost seen with Glaxo's oral drug Promacta – Patients treated with GlaxoSmithKline PLC's Promacta rather than a placebo were eight times more likely to have sustained increases in platelet counts, according to pivotal trial results announced by the company on Saturday…more
Zevalin – effective. You'll have to flounder through all the technical terms to grasp the details!
Encouraging CLL treatment results with Celgene's Revlimid in older patients.
Treanda may get to first-line treatment – Cephalon Inc's Treanda was as effective in treating non-Hodgkin's lymphoma as the standard chemotherapy regimen with far less toxicity, according to interim analysis of a late-stage study that could pave the way for the drug's use as an initial treatment for the disease…more
Allos experimental drug for lymphoma shows strong results – Allos Therapeutics Inc said on Saturday a small, but potentially pivotal, trial of its experimental drug pralatrexate found it helped curb cancer in 27 percent of patients with an aggressive type of lymphoma…more
Efficacy of long-term treatment with Novartis' Glivec/Gleevec – awesome. And good stuff with Tasigna in CML patients also. Staying with Novartis, results reported for its oral iron-reducing drug Exjade.
Rituxan + chemo for leukemia: yep. – A combination of Genentech Inc's cancer drug Rituxan and chemotherapy reduces by 41 percent the risk of death or cancer progression, compared with chemotherapy alone, for patients with a common form of leukemia, the company said on Saturday…more
The coming clot-busters.
On the breast cancer front:
Zometa: tumor shrinker – the osteoporosis drug zoledronic acid (Zometa) appears to shrink breast tumors in patients who undergo chemotherapy. The drug is already approved to treat breast cancer that has spread to the bone and, earlier this year, was reported to lower the risk of breast cancer recurrence in pre-menopausal women with early estrogen- or progesterone-positive tumors…more
Tykerb + Femara = survival benefit.
Hormone replacement pills: not good news – Taking the hormones for five years doubles the risk for breast cancer, according to a new analysis of the Women's Health Initiative, a large federal study, revealing the most dramatic evidence yet of the dangers of the popular pills..more


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Is the T silent or not?
That's a good question. You always ask such good questions.
The simple answer is, you can pronounce it either way. Often developed from oft, probably due to its relation to the related word seldan, which developed into seldom. Originally the T was pronounced in often, as it was pronounced in oft.
Meanwhile, around the 16th century, -en began to be added to a variety of words to make verbs, such as fasten, hasten, or soften. At first, these T's were pronounced, but at about the same time, the pronunciation of words with consonant clusters began to be simplified. Because all those consonants together can be cumbersome. This is evident in the silent letters in words like handkerchief, castle, handsome, and raspberry, as well as the words ending in -ten words above.
This is why the T in often also became silent. However, because it had so recently come into use, and people were still using oft, the T continued to be pronounced by some, as it is to this day. It's still more common to pronounce the word with a silent T, and it generally sounds a little more formal to pronounce it, but you can go with either.


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Rockies 5, Phillies 3
Todd Helton got the perfect gift on his 40th birthday.
Helton's swipe at Jimmy Rollins never connected with the runner on a close play at first, but the Colorado Rockies got the call in a big spot during their 5-3 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies on Tuesday night.
''I didn't tag him,'' Helton said. ''I tried to tag him.''
Third baseman Nolan Arenado made a fantastic backhanded stop and in-the-air throw to rob Rollins in the seventh inning. Rollins never argued the call by first base umpire Jim Wolf that stranded the potential tying runs, and Helton simply hustled off the field to sell the out.
''Jimmy said he felt something on his back,'' Phillies interim manager Ryne Sandberg said.
Replays showed the tag was never close to No. 11.
Jonathan Herrera entered in the seventh with two runners on and two outs and Rollins at bat. Rollins then sent a hard grounder down the third base line that looked as if it was headed for extra bases.
Arenado backhanded the ball, his momentum carried him into foul territory and he whirled in the air to one-hop the throw toward Helton. Helton made a sweeping tag toward the slow-starting Rollins for the third out.
''It's right up there with the other 72,'' Arenado great plays, manager Walt Weiss said. ''It's a game changer.''
Arenado shifted toward the line after a tip from shortstop Troy Tulowitzki that Rollins would try and pull the ball.
''I made a good grab,'' Arenado said. ''I think he was safe, if you watch the replay.''
Sure was.
''It was a good act by Todd,'' Arenado said.
The Rockies used Arenado's play and a little pop to snap a three-game losing streak.
Tulowitzki and Wilin Rosario homered and Jorge De La Rosa (13-6) pitched into the seventh to win his third straight start. Dexter Fowler also drove in a run to help the Rockies jump out to a 5-0 lead.
Rafael Betancourt tossed a scoreless ninth for his 16th save.
Tyler Cloyd (2-3) allowed five runs in six innings in his first major league start since June 12. Recalled after Monday night's game, Cloyd was coming off consecutive complete games in the minors.
Against the Rockies, Cloyd was hit hard from the start.
Tulowitzki's second homer in two games was a two-run shot deep into the left-field seats. Phillies outfielder Dom Brown never moved as the ball soared high over his head.
''He looks a lot more ease at up there,'' Weiss said. ''His timing looks really good.''
Michael Cuddyer followed Tulowitzki's 22nd homer with a double. He moved up on a grounder and scored on a wild pitch to make it 3-0 in the first inning.
Fowler added an RBI single in the second, and Rosario extended his hitting streak to 11 games with a two-out drive in the third.
''In the first three innings, everything was off,'' Cloyd said.
Staked to a 5-0 lead, De La Rosa allowed three runs in the third. Chase Utley had an RBI single to right and Brown added a sacrifice fly.
De La Rosa walked three and struck out three in 6 1-3 innings.
''He's been our guy,'' Weiss said.
The Phillies beat the Rockies on Monday night to snap a skid of 26 games without consecutive wins, the longest drought since a 49-game stretch in 1997. But the offensive woes that have plagued the Phillies for most of the season returned and they had only three hits against De La Rosa and three relievers.
''There are not too many options,'' Sandberg said. ''All the guys have a chance to be out there.''
NOTES: Phillies RHP Roy Halladay allowed two runs in six innings for Class-A Lakewood in his second rehab start. ... Helton made his first error of the season in the third inning. ... Phillies assistant GM Scott Proefrock said RHP John Lannan is out for the season and will need surgery on his left knee. 1B Ryan Howard (knee) can start baseball activities on Thursday. Injured pitchers Mike Adams, Jeremy Horst, Joe Savery and Mike Stutes are all making progress. OF Ben Revere (foot) is off crutches. ... Colorado sends RHP Juan Nicasio (7-6, 4.94 ERA) the mound Wednesday against Philadelphia's Cliff Lee (10-6, 3.19 ERA).


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Humanitarian message is the key to nuclear abolition
[On March 31, IPPNW co-president Ira Helfand participated in a roundtable discussion on the NPT and the humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons, co-sponsored by the Arms Control Association and IPPNW's US affiliate, Physicians for Social Responsibility. The following article is adapted from Dr. Helfand's remarks. A complete transcript, including presentations by Ambassador Desra Percaya, Mission of Indonesia to the United Nations; Gaukhar Mukhatzhanova, Senior Research Associate at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies; and George Perkovich, Director of the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace is available at the Arms Control Association website.]
By Ira Helfand
Back in the 1980s there was a very, very widespread understanding of what was going to happen if there were a nuclear war. We've lost that understanding, by and large. Certainly, in the general population, there is very little understanding about what nuclear weapons can do or even how many there are in the world.
What is really quite new, I think, is the discovery in the last eight years, starting in 2006, that even a very limited use of nuclear weapons would cause a global catastrophe. In a war in which cities were targeted with nuclear weapons, perhaps as many as 20 million people would be killed in the first week directly from the explosions, from the firestorm, from the direct radiation. In all of World War II, about 50 million people died over eight years. This is 20 million people dying in the course of a single week.
Moreover, this limited use of nuclear weapons—far less than half of a percent of the world's nuclear arsenals—causes profound global climate disruption. Temperatures worldwide drop about 1.3 degrees centigrade and this effect lasts for about a decade. As a result of that, there would also be a very significant disruption of global precipitation patterns. And as a result of these combined effects, there would be a very profound impact on food production. We issued a report in April of 2012 suggesting that up to a billion people worldwide could die of famine. Since then, new data shows that there will be widespread hunger in China as well – another 1.3 billion people at risk.
We have never had an event like this in human history where anywhere from 15 to 30 percent of the human population dies over the course of a decade. And this is a real possibility in the event of a war between India and Pakistan, which is itself a real possibility.
The effects of a large-scale war dwarf even these horrors. If only 300 warheads in the Russian arsenal detonated over targets in American urban areas, between 75 and a hundred million people would be dead in the first 30 minutes, and a U.S. counterattack on Russia would cause the same kind of destruction. In addition to killing this many people in half an hour, this attack would also completely destroy the economic infrastructure of this country.
But again, as mind-boggling as this kind of direct toll is, it is not the worst part of the story because a war between the United States and Russia also causes profound climate disruption. A hundred small warheads in South Asia put 5 million tons of debris into the upper atmosphere and dropped global temperatures 1.3 degrees centigrade. A war between the United States and Russia, using only those weapons that are still allowed when New START is fully implemented in 2017 – that war puts 150 million tons of debris into the atmosphere, and it drops global temperatures 8 degrees centigrade on average. In the interior regions of Eurasia and North America, the temperature decline is 25 to 30 degrees centigrade. We have not seen temperatures on this planet that cold in 18,000 years, since the coldest moment of the last ice age. In the temperate zones of the Northern Hemisphere, there would be three years without a single day free of frost. Temperature goes below freezing at some point every single day for three years. And that means there is no agriculture, there is no food production. Most of the ecosystems in this zone collapse. The vast majority of the human race starves to death, and it is possible that we become extinct as a species.
Now, if that is the starting point of the conversation, the next thing that flows from that is these weapons cannot exist. We know that there is a real and finite possibility every day that they will be used. And if that is true, then it is simply a matter of time until they actually are used, and that means they cannot be allowed to exist. And that is a very different starting point than where we are in the current conversation about disarmament. And that's why this argument, I think, has become so powerful.
The plans of the nuclear weapon states to maintain their nuclear arsenals indefinitely are simply unacceptable, and we need a fundamentally different new approach. They say that politics is the art of the possible. Statesmanship, I think, is clearly the art of the necessary. And it is time that we ask our leaders to act like statesmen, not like politicians. It's time that we demand that behavior of them. And I think that's what this whole movement is about at this point. It is calling the nuclear weapons states, saying that we will not accept their behavior anymore, and demanding that they change.
So the question becomes, how do we move the process forward? Well, people could just abandon the NPT, or they could try to engage in some kind of productive international diplomatic initiative to achieve the stated goals of the NPT, which is the elimination of nuclear weapons. And I think the people who have been advocating for a convention to ban nuclear weapons understand this is not the end stage; this is a way of trying to move the ball down the field, of trying to put some pressure on those nuclear weapon states that are using the NPT process, frankly, to preserve their nuclear monopoly. And there's just no patience left in this idea of acceptable nuclear apartheid.
The nuclear-weapon states can't have it both ways. They can't say "it's OK for us to have nuclear weapons because we're never going to use them" on the one hand, and on the other hand say "our policy is based on deterrence. For deterrence to work, we have to convince people that we will use them." You just can't do this. It's one or the other. You can't say we're never going to use nuclear weapons and then talk about the circumstances in which we can use them legitimately and safely and without it being a humanitarian disaster. Either you're going to say that you're never going to use them, or you're going to say that you are going to use them. And if you're going to say that you are going to use them, then if it's OK for the U.S. to use them and to have them so we can use them, then how can you tell the rest of the world that they can't? And the fact of the matter is, we have lost that argument. The rest of the world rejects that—and rightly so—because the argument is profoundly flawed.
The nuclear ban treaty that's been proposed is a political tool to try to create pressure to get to a nuclear weapons convention. What has been proposed is a treaty that bans not just use, but also possession, to make the point that these weapons should not be maintained, even when countries say they're never going to use them, because of the very clear fact that the countries that say they're never going to use them in fact do have plans for using them. If this administration in the United States, which is so allergic to the idea of a ban treaty, put forward any significant initiative at this point, I think we would all rally behind it. A ban treaty really does move things forward in a very dramatic way and I would encourage people to support that, but I think if other ideas come forward, you know, it's fine – whatever moves the ball forward. We've just got to get some movement in the right direction and we're not getting it right now.
The humanitarian message, I think, is the key. The thing that motivated Gorbachev, according to his memoirs, to take the initiatives which he took in the 1980s were the conversations he had with physicians from my organization, in which they explained to him what was going to happen if the weapons were used. And remarkably, as the head of a nuclear power, he didn't fully understand what was going to happen if a nuclear war took place. The same is true of most of the leaders of the nuclear weapons states today.
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These new objectives add additional potholes to the already-treacherous tier 3 objectives, forcing you to go even further as well! To help you out with the dastardly adventures is this weekend's promo, A Grimm Adventure, which buffs five Crusaders and has a unique chest available. Good luck!
Grimm's Idle Tales Tier 4 Objectives
Not in Kansas Anymore
- A wicked witch attacks the formation at random with different abilities.
- Reach area 800
What Big Teeth You Have
- Whenever a wolf is spawned, your gold find is reduced to 0 (and for a few seconds afterwards).
- Reach area 850
Sleeping Beauty
- A hunky prince attacks your formation, automatically killing any Crusader he reaches with his death kiss.
- Reach area 850
Down the Rabbit Hole
- The Card Minions are even more dastardly.
- Reach area 900
Let It Go
- The freezing cold slowly kills your formation over time.
- Reach area 900
I Like Potatoes
- Idols don't award bonus DPS or Gold Find, and Talents have no effect – only equipment remains.
- Reach area 300
The Lion King
- Several lion tamers spawn attempting to tame Artaxes, but he cannot be tamed.
- Reach area 950
Holiday Hoopla
- Jealous original Crusaders attack your formation with various annoying abilities.
- Reach area 950


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Microsoft will from now on be paying more attention to the icons, titles, and content of apps on Marketplace, and expects them to get more subtle and modest in the imagery used, the company said in a blog post on Monday.
The company's content policies for the Marketplace app store don't allow apps containing "sexually suggestive or provocative" images or content. But the kind of content users can "occasionally see on prime-time TV or the pages of a magazine's swimsuit issue" is permitted, according to the blog post.
Apps that go too far will have to be updated to remain in the store, according to the blog post. The toughened stance is about presenting the right content to the right customer and ensuring that apps meet its standards, it said.
Microsoft will be reaching out to a small number of developers within the next few days with more specific guidance on changes they need to make. One tip from Microsoft is to only show male or female models in silhouette.
The company is also cleaning up the use of keywords, which are used to describe apps.
Some developers have been violating Marketplace policy by entering more than the five allowed keywords, according to the blog post. Starting this week, any app that has more than five keywords will have all of them deleted. Affected developers will be notified and can then enter five new keywords in App Hub, it said.
Microsoft will also start to examine keywords for relevancy, and those that aren't deemed relevant will be deleted, as well.
Developers are also encouraged to only pick a single app category and do a little homework before submitting or updating an app to avoid trademark related trouble.
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The revolutionary poet Vladimir Mayakovsky famously proclaimed in his suicide note, 'the love boat has crashed against byt.' That the banal problems of everyday life (byt) had undermined the hopes of the Revolution has since been widely inferred in evaluations of the Soviet system.
The Hazards of Urban Life in Late Stalinist Russia: Health, Hygiene, and Living Standards, 1943-1953 / Donald Filtzer
Donald Filtzer has added another major book to his long and impressive contribution to the study of Soviet history. It is a formidably detailed analysis of urban living conditions during the late Stalinist period, from the closing stages of the Second World War to the death of Stalin in 1953. While it bears Professor Filtzer's unmistakable mark, it is also something of a new departure.
Assimilating Seoul: Japanese Rule and the Politics of Public Space in Colonial Korea, 1910–1945 / Todd Henry
History has demonstrated assimilation under colonial occupation to be a near impossible result to attain due primarily to its basic premise: the colonizers' belief in their superiority over the colonized. Furthermore, the colonizers' ambition to replace the colonized people's 'inferior' culture with their 'superior' culture further complicated this process.
In the last couple of decades, there has been a resurgence in studying the history of South Asian urbanism with a wide range of monographs and articles being published.
In Automobility and the City in Twentieth-Century Britain and Japan, Simon Gunn and Susan Townsend have written the equivalent of three books.


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Georgia's Green declares for NFL draft
Even though the decision seemed obvious, A.J. Green called it one of the most difficult he's ever had to make.
Georgia's star receiver said Sunday he'll give up his senior season to enter the NFL draft. He's projected as one of the top picks -- possibly even No. 1 after Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck decided to stay in school another year.
''The last couple of weeks were pretty hectic,'' Green said in a teleconference from his home in South Carolina. ''I was just trying to make a sound decision for my family and I. It just came down to what was best for me and them.''
Green's draft status wasn't hurt by a four-game suspension at the start of his junior season, his NCAA-imposed punishment for selling a bowl jersey for $1,000 to someone deemed an agent.
If anything, his prospects improved last week when Luck, who led Stanford to a 12-win season and Orange Bowl victory, decided to return to college next season.
Still, Green insisted that he wrestled with whether to return to Georgia for one more year.
''Oh man, this was one toughest decisions I've made,'' he said. ''Just leaving the brotherhood I have made at Georgia, the staff and all my coaches. They've prepared me for the real world. I'm really going to miss that. But I feel like they've prepared me for the real world, to be a man.''
The 6-foot-4, 205-pound Green has just about everything that's needed in a top receiver: size, leaping ability and deceptive speed. But he stands apart because of his intuitive skills when the ball's in the air, a knack of maneuvering his body into just the right position to make the catch, no matter how many defenders are trying to get in his way.
He always seems to make the reception when the ball's at its highest point, giving him a distinct advantage against mostly shorter cornerbacks.
Green is ready to take those skills to the NFL and possibly be the second top overall pick from Georgia in three years. Quarterback Matthew Stafford was taken No. 1 by Detroit in 2009 after passing on his senior season with the Bulldogs.
''This is a great opportunity for me,'' said Green, who talked with Stafford before making his decision. ''This is a long-term thing, something I've been thinking about since I was a little boy. I feel my skills are up to par to make the next jump. I feel I have proved myself as one of the best receivers in college football from Day 1. I believe I can easily make that next step to the NFL and do the same.''
Not that he doesn't have some work to do.
''I have to improve my game a lot,'' Green said. ''I have to get a little bigger, a little faster, and I have to get a little smarter. But I'm up for the challenge.''
Green said he didn't worry about the NFL's labor unrest and the possibility of a rookie salary cap -- ''if I had really thought about that, I probably would've stayed in school'' -- but he's certainly aware of the team that has the top pick in the draft: the Carolina Panthers.
That wouldn't be too far from home.
''I'm pretty sure a bunch of my family and friends could make that trip easily,'' he said.
Over a three-year college career, Green had 166 catches for 2,619 yards and 23 touchdowns. Even missing four games this past season, he led the Bulldogs with 57 catches for 848 yards and nine touchdowns.
Still, his career ends without the Bulldogs coming close to a championship. This past season, Georgia went 6-7 - its first losing season since 1996.
''It hurts,'' said Green, adding that a title ''is what I came here for. But things happen for a reason. I'll keep working, and I'll be a Bulldog for life. I'll miss the guys and the coaches.''
Green said he needs only two semesters of school to earn his degree and intends to finish his academic work even as he prepares for the NFL.
''A.J. has made an immeasurable impact on our team over the past three seasons and we wish him nothing but the best,'' Georgia coach Mark Richt said in a statement. ''I've enjoyed the blessing of working with him and getting to know his family, and we wish him all the success in professional football. Once a Bulldog, always a Bulldog.''
Georgia is still waiting for a decision from outside linebacker Justin Houston, a second-team All-American who had 10 sacks, 18.5 tackles for losses and excelled in a 3-4 scheme installed by new coordinator Todd Grantham.
Offensive lineman Trinton Sturdivant said Friday he plans to return for his senior season. He started as a true freshman in 2007 and was regarded as Georgia's rising star on the offensive line before he missed the 2008 and 2009 seasons with knee injuries.
Sturdivant returned to win a starting job in the second half of the 2010 season, but said he believes he can improve his draft status by playing another year of college.
Green is done.
''You never know with the draft, but it's going to be a fun process,'' he said. ''I'm going to work to get as high as I can.''


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Constellation Serpens And Unukalhai Star ~ Temptation
Unukalhai, is the brightest star in constellation Serpens the Snake and located at 22º Scorpio. The sun passes through these degrees around Nov 13 to 15 each year. Sometimes, it is called Cor Serpentis, meaning the Serpent's Heart. It's a 2nd magnitude, pale yellow star found in the snake's neck. According to Ptolemy, the stars of constellation Serpens are of a Saturn Mars nature which, of course, in traditional terms means an arch-villain.
Serpens The Constellation Meaning
Robson suggests that the stars in Serpens give "wisdom, craft, deceit, malice, a feeble will and danger of poison."[2] The main problem is the risk of poisoning, or intoxication through drugs or alcohol. It doesn't necessarily mean the subject will be a drug addict, rather these people are unusually sensitive to toxins and suffer more than most when exposed to smoke, heavy metals, chemicals and alcohol. However, some people do crave the very thing that they are allergic to, thus giving them a fatal attraction.
This star seems to have an extremely hypnotic effect, which then draws you in with its undulating vibration. Robson has an extremely negative view of it. He associates it primarily with violence and poisoning with a crafty, criminal, and immoral subtext. 1930's gentleman Vivian Robson used the term "evil environment" to politely imply a gay lifestyle. But for modern use, I would suggest he means any lifestyle choices that are basically anti-family values. So, that could include having multiple-marriages, being a radical feminist, bohemian, a non-conformist or a renegade.
Ophuichus the medicine man holds this snake, the 13th sign on the ecliptic that got left out. Serpens is considered a separate constellation in its own right and even more dangerous than the snake charmer – and he got a bad enough rap. The snake, like Lilith, will be the forbidden fruit of wisdom.
Ophuichus Medicine Man
The serpent revealed to Ophuichus how to bring the dead back to life, which a mere mortal was just not supposed to do. This is the real meaning of occult knowledge.
What I find really fascinating is the location of the serpent's heart being in the neck. I noticed as I was researching, so many singers! Particularly those with very hypnotic, ethereal type voices too.
The vocal chords and throat chakra are located in the neck, so if the serpent's heart is there these singers are indeed singing straight from there. The two Abba girls are a great example, Frida's Sun on Agnetha's Moon, both on Unukalhai. They did sound like one amazing voice.
Maybe some of the fear of Serpens is it's association with sex and the Kundalini, "Kundalini power, the symbol of raising energy coiled at the base of the spine upward through the spine… Repressed or coiled in a circle, she can be poisonous both to the body and the psyche, but once risen and standing upright she is beneficent.……
Bonhiem in an article on Kundalini, sees this as the primordial wave, which "developing into consciousness,…appears in the form of a snake. For what is a snake other than a single, undulating, pulsating wave motion" [1] We can see how it can hypnotise then, like trance music. When a talented vocalist sings, they produce harmonious, healing wave-forms. When repressed, Unukalhai will show its festering, poisonous side, the drug addictions and destructive, toxic relationships.
Unukalhai Keywords
Rich, successful, thieving, cunning, lying, scheming, glamorous, criminal tendencies, rule breakers, duckers and divers, forgers, fraudsters, cheeky, lovable rogues, bohemians, controversy, activists, feminists, protesters, vehemently pro or against, anti-drugs vs. drug addicts, teetotallers vs. alcoholics, eccentrics, mad hatters, shocking deaths, mysterious illnesses, recluses, co-dependant relationships, haunting voices, exquisite vocal chords, throat chakra, hypnotising, entrancing, undulating, rhythmic, kundalini, Christian vs. Agnostic, forbidden fruit, temptation, fatal attraction, poison, fumes, intoxicating, toxic love, crimes of passion, AIDS, provocative, black humour, satire, forked tongue, drunken outbursts, speeches, spin doctors, advertising, selling yourself, prostitution, adoption, abduction, domestic violence, wife beaters, pacifists, masochists, narcissists, hissy-fits, bitch-fights, divas, acrimony, bitter after-taste, healing crisis, cold turkey, reinvention, regeneration.
Unukalhai & Planet Combinations
Ascendant Unukalhai
There is no interpretation for the Ascendant specifically, but Robson gives Unukalhai generally "wisdom, craft, deceit, malice, a feeble will and danger of poison. " [2] Also immorality, accidents, violence… Wisdom or deceit rather depends on the soul's vibration and/or afflictions from difficult planets. I see evidence of wisdom, controversy, and a fascination with sexuality. Violence and deceit play out, as well. The Vatican is very interesting addition below, since quite a few Popes have allegedly been poisoned.
Singer-songwriter Lisa Scott Lee (02'), Dictator Benito Mussolini (05'), Reclusive poet Emily Dickenson (24'), Explorer and naturalist Roy Chapman Andrews (37'); Collected snakes. The inspiration for Indiana Jones. Painter Frederick Walker (34') died of TB. Madeleine McCanns Abduction (41'); Was she drugged? West Side Story composer Leonard Bernstein (47'); Social activist was blacklisted. Johann Wolfgang Goethe (55'); Writer of "Faust", Explores sexuality, metaphysics, good and evil. Artist Henri Toulouse-Lautrec; drew prostitutes. Musician Keith Richards; Has a platinum nasal septum due to his cocaine use. Singer Diana Ross, Tarzan actor Johnny Weissmuller; Five marriages, took up swimming to combat childhood polio. The Vatican.
Midheaven Unukalhai
"If with the MC and in conjunction also with 'malefics' it is damaging to the social position, often there will be many difficulties in the professional life." [3]
Maybe damaging to reputation, or I think may make someone controversial. Derek Jarman had Saturn opposed the MC, but even the homoeroticism in Caravaggio did not stop him receiving public acclaim. None of the subjects below had malefics on the MC though, but there are less celebrities here than in the other sections.
Actress Jane Fonda (27'), Singer Tammy Wynette (30'), Elizabeth Taylor/Burton Davison. Gay activist and Film maker Derek Jarman died of AIDs related illness, Barry "Dame Edna" Humphries, Actress Susan Sarandon, Talk show host Jack Paar.
Sun Unukalhai
"Many quarrels and disappointments, unfortunate life, seriously affected by death of family or friends." [2] The list below seems to show people who have had very dramatic lives often accompanied with controversial and outspoken views.
A number of their deaths have been violent or shocking, true to Unukalhai's nature and a couple were "seriously affected by a death". We even have toxic smoke inhalation as a cause of one. Heiress Barbara Hutton must have had the most unfortunate life ever, despite inheriting a huge fortune. She died with only a few thousand to her name.
I know two people with Sun Stelliums on Unukalhai. Sun/Venus/Neptune is a very rich and successful art Director, who likes a drink and has just gone through a very bitter divorce. The other with Sun/Mercury/Neptune is a violent alcoholic and cocaine addict who beat his wife while pregnant and rammed her with a car.
His children (Mercury) have been on the child protection register. I still think you can be very successful with the creative Sun here, but you will always be courting controversy. Lots of daring firsts below too, but even Whoopi Goldberg admits to have been a "high functioning drug addict" CNN and married three times.
One of the first black art directors, Georg Olden (03'); Sued his ad firm for discrimination. Shot dead by girlfriend. Virginia Mae Brown (16'); first female to head an independent federal agency. Heart attack at 67. Edward Higgins White (18'); First US Astronaut to walk in space. Killed by smoke inhalation in training. "Thinker" sculptor August Rodin (18'); Raw, expressive work controversial at the time. Hunky soap actor Dack Rambo (20'); Admitted bi-sexuality when diagnosed HIV positive. Died of AIDS.
Barbara Hutton; Woolworth Heiress, lavished her money on seven husbands who never loved her. Alcoholic, only son died in plane crash. Grace Kelly; Died in car crash age 52. Albert I Prince Of Monaco; Oceanographer, Palaeontologist and pacifist. Charles Manson; Incited people to murder on his behalf. Singer songwriter. Macabre pop bands have covered his songs. Joseph McCarthy; notorious for spreading the fear of communism. Neil Young; Singer-songwriter, outspoken environmentalist. Prince Charles; unpopular after death of Diana. ABBA singer Frida Lyngstad, Mega personality Whoopi Goldberg.
Moon Unukalhai
"Clever, evil environment, hatred of authority, involved in intrigues and plots, banished, imprisoned or hanged for crime probably by poisoning." [2] The evil environment is literal here with child-killer, Myra Hyndley and child murder victim, James Bulger. Otherwise controversy again and successful singers. Intrigues with reclusive Abba singer Agnetha and satirist Chris Morris, who also stays enigmatically out of the public eye.
Singer superstar Beyonce Knowles (04'), Two year old James Bulger (18'); Abducted, tortured and murdered by two ten year olds. Singer Agnetha Faltskog (33'); Married her stalker. Child killer Myra Hindley, Chris Morris; Creator of spoof current affairs Brass Eye special "Paedogeddon!". The most complained about TV show in British history. Singer Robbie Williams, Singer Katy Perry, Spoon bender and self-branded "mystifier", Uri Geller.
Mercury Unukalhai
"Dishonorable, accused of forgery or theft of papers, ill-health, narrow escapes" [2] Yes, there is the potential for lying and the snake's forked tongue is here. Possibly brings some misfortune with siblings or children, but equally can be about helping unfortunate kids. Comedy and singing featured with Mercury, having the ability to charm through the vocal chords.
Actor Kevin Kline (02'); Anti-Hollywood, dubbed Kevin "De Kline". Gay fashion designer Gianni Versace (03'); Shot and killed his doorstep. "Weird Al" Yankovic (22'); parody singer. Kahlia Chamberlain (43'); born in jail, mother accused of the murder of her sister in the outback. Cowboy actor Roy Rogers (45'); adopted kids and founded children's charities. Astronomer Edwin Hubble (46'); Christian turned agnostic. Opera Opera singer Jose Carreras, Australian Pro-life Politician Tony Abbott, Surreal comic John Cleese, Singer-songwriter Jeff Buckley; distinctive tenor voice, died accidental drowning. Psychedelic psychologist Timothy Leary "the most dangerous man in America". Child-killer couple Fred/Rose West Davison.
Venus Unukalhai
"Enmity, jealousy of own sex, bad for domestic matters, favorable for gain, secret death probably by poison." [2] Can make one rich through the arts, singing, drama, journalism and speaking out about women's matters. Not sure about "jealous of own sex", seems more like feminism to me. However when warped, the powerful mothering/feminine instinct becomes treacherous, both Rose West and her Davison with Fred have Unukalhai here. Can be co-dependant relationships if drugs are involved.
Joan Ganz Cooney (09'); Sesame street creator. Childless. Paid alimony to her alcoholic ex-husband until his death. Suffragette Edith Rigby (12'); founded a women's school. Jailed for arson several times. Singer Annie Lennox (13'), Child killer couple Rose/Fred West Davison (20') see Mercury. Actress Winona Ryder (24'); Shop lifting, Depression, accused of using oxycodone without prescription. Journalist Dan Rather (32'), Mesmerizing serial killer and rapist Ted Bundy (41'), Child serial killer Rose West (48'), Beach boys singer Carl Wilson (52'), Singer Dionne Warwick, Journalist presenter Janet Street-Porter, Actors Demi Moore, Leonardo DiCaprio and Denzel Washington, Richest man in the world Bill Gates, Spoon-bending Uri Geller.
Mars Unukalhai
"Violence, quarrels, lying, crime, violent death probably by poison". [2] Mars makes these people racy and again there seems to be a great deal of alcohol abuse. Although Gandhi was non-aggressive, Mars ensured violence followed him. Toxic sexual relationships here too.
Lesbian singer K.D Lang (15'); sublime voice, Soldier Roy Kyle (18'); Diary of his war experiences in Galipoli, Vocalist Milton Brown (23'); founded western swing. 1990's Photographer Herb Ritts (37'); HIV positive died of pneumonia. Feminist first lady Eleanor Roosevelt (38'); health declined rapidly after been hit by a car. Actress Sean Young (41'); alcohol problems. Actor Mel Gibson; Accused of sexism, homophobia and racism. Battling alcohol addiction. Singer John Philips; accused by his daughter Mackenzie having a drug fuelled,10 year incestuous relationship. Singer Bobby Brown; Ex husband of Whitney. Drug addiction. Poet Dylan Thomas; alcoholic. Mohandas Gandhi; The non-violent activist. Assassinated. Politician Jay Rockefeller, Grand Prix Motorcyclist Barry Sheene; Rich from endorsements. Cheeky cockney accent used to full effect. Astrologer Robert Hand.
Jupiter Unukalhai
"Hypocrisy, deceit, banishment, imprisonment or exile." [2] In low vibration, criminals. In high vibration, we get talent with the voice again, successful actors and musicians. The snake power of re-invention and regeneration is shown in Bowie, Andrews and Parker Bowles.
Nazi leader Ernst Roehm (02'); executed by rival Hitler. Actress Jackie Weaver (02'): Matriarch in Australian gangster film "Animal Kingdom", Australian "Thornbirds" actor Bryan Brown (09'), Disco drag-queen singer Sylvester (12'); Died of AIDS. Kahlia Chamberlain (13'); See Mercury. Vicious/Spungen Davison (14'); Toxic punks and heroin addicts. Singer David Bowie (18'); Master of reinvention. Bi-sexuality. "Mary Poppins" Singer Julie Andrews; Alcoholic step-dad, has "absolute pitch." Singers Jim Kerr and Sonny Bono, Composer Richard Straus, Erik Menendez; Murdered his wealthy parents with his brother. In prison. Camilla Parker-Bowles; hated for her affair with Charles, now respectable. Roy Rogers; See Mercury. Madonna/Penn Davison; Dubbed Poisons Penns for hitting out at paparazzi.
Saturn Unukalhai
"Secret insanity, drug taker, secret crime and poisoning often for no reason, shrewd, cunning, intelligent, studious, often physician or nurse, usually unmarried, may commit suicide or be confined in an asylum or prison." [2] Intelligent and studious, yes as Gates and Ginsburg proove. But the drug taker is rife here, probably because of Saturns tendency to melancholia combined with Unukalhai's acute sensitivity to toxins and…Jazz. There is willpower to beat the addiction however.
Millionaire Bill Gates (08'); See Venus. Brigadier Rich Klumpp (16'), Beat poet Allen Ginsburg (17'); Political activist, Buddhist, casual sex and sexual swearing in his work. Lesbian feminist artist Cath Philips (18'); fined for unveiling obscene art. Charles/Diana Davison (20'), Marilyn Monroe (23'); Dependant on alcohol and addicted to a cocktail of prescription drugs. Died of barbiturates overdose. Actor Bruce Willis (33'); pro-gun and action hero. Jazz innovator Miles Davis; successfully conquered heroin addiction, sombre, mysterious whispering voice. Jazz singer George Melly; Went from gay to straight. Reefer Smoker. Jazz Saxophonist John Coltrane; Heroin addict then quit. Died of liver cancer age 40.
Uranus Unukalhai
"Spasmodic insanity, wealthy and luxurious environment, often fails to obtain inheritance, bad for marriage, may commit crime, sudden death often by suicide."[2] Said to cause accidents here, or I'd say shocking happenings like Azaria. "Spasmodic insanity?" and "Bad for Marriage" for F Scott Fitzgerald, but otherwise Uranus adds inventive and original talents and wealth.
Australia's first test tube baby Candice Reed (16'), Tennis ace Venus Williams (25'), Rock heir Jack Osbourne (36'), Azaria Chamberlain (38'); Baby stolen and killed by Dingo in the Australian outback. American author F Scott Fitzgerald; Co-dependant alcoholic marriage with schizophrenic wife Zelda. Astrologer Dane Rudhyar, Psychologist Anna Freud, Footballer Michael Owen, Sculptor Michelangelo.
Neptune Unukalhai
"Shrewd, ingenious, courageous, persistent, intuitive, evil environment, often criminal, trouble through opposite sex and marriage, violent death." [2] Said to cause susceptibility to infectious diseases and poisoning. Since Neptune makes one so sensitive to drugs, then here one can be either extremely for or totally against them. Success and glamour, mixing music with visuals. Presentation and spin are strong. "Evil environment" here could be a sexually licentious, decadent or bohemian lifestyle. Or all three!
Australian politician Christopher Pyne (00'); Anti-drugs. Hollywood Madam Heidi Fleiss (11'); Substance abuse, empathy dysfunction, developed attachments to her 25 Macaws. Pamela Anderson Lee (14'); Pin-up girl, You Tube home-sex video star and animal activist. Actress Singer Nicole Kidman (26'), Singer-songwriter Jeff Buckley (26'); See Mercury. Bobby Brown/Houston Davison (42'); Co-dependant relationship, Marijuana and cocaine abuse. Gothic, kooky actress Helena Bonham-Carter. Eccentric singers Bjork and Alison Goldfrapp. UK Prime Minister David Cameron.


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There's probably a term you learn if you're an econ major to describe the point at which your product is so similar to every competitive product that you deep fry it in order to differentiate. Here it is.
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LaCie makes great portable storage stuff—hard drives, flash drives, and the like. Their little XtremKey is a stylish ruggedized redneck orange number with USB 3.0 support. It has a dumb name, but it's fast and can hold a lot of valuable things. It can also, according to this marketing video, withstand five minutes in a deep fryer. So if you're Kim Dotcom or just generally looking for a flash drive that you can also drop into boiling fat, here is one. This one does that. [LaCie]


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I've heard plenty of talk lately about certain workout classes and looked and found a Barre3 class here in our town that offers childcare for $5.
Well almost. First I had to convince myself to actually sign up for the class. I get so nervous in public settings where I'm doing movements and making faces that should only be seen by no one. Not even my own self.
So my inner 6th grader came out and I asked a friend to go with me. It's goes back to that whole "no female can go to the public restroom alone" I can't explain it, it's just something that's engrained in us. Or at least me.
And I now realize it makes no sense. If I don't want strangers to see me looking all crazy and weak why would I want someone I actually know to see me this way?
The unexplainable cannot be explained.
I woke up this morning pumped for my class. Apparently I love a good beating of my body, or I had no idea what was really in store.
I pulled up to the building and suddenly got so nervous. This is probably where anxiety meds would come in handy in my life. I saw two girls talking at the front desk and wondered if they would judge me, how I looked and how I had NO IDEA what I was doing.
Which in retrospect was just silly cause the girls that I saw as peers were probably 21 and saw me as nothing more than an old mom trying desperately to get her pre-baby body back. It's hard getting old.
I have to say that I fully enjoyed the class. It went by faster than Jillian Michaels yelling at me in my kitchen usually does. Plus the girl leading the class had the sweetest, soothing voice and it was the first time in a week when someone told me to focus on all the parts of my body, instead of throwing their grilled cheese at me yelling "NOOOO EAT".
There was only one time when I thought I was going to die. Well actually two. The first was when my whole body started shaking so much I thought I was either going to die or break my position, and I couldn't figure out which would be more embarrassing. I didn't want to be a complete failure on my first day and break one of the workout positions which I can only explain as a mix between yoga and hell.
The second time I got embarrassed was when I was pretty sure the instructor laughed at me. I did this thing where I just laughed with her in case she was laughing at me. That way I turned the situation around and we were laughing together instead of her laughing at me. See what I did there?
And then there was the moment when I realized my pants were on inside out. It was during a time of "feeling every vertebrae in our back touch the mat" and then coming back up, I realized that for some reason I could see the seams on my pants that are usually on the inside.
And suddenly all my concerns of perfecting the right position didn't seem so big when I just hoped nobody noticed the TAG OF MY PANTS hanging out.
There was also a moment, during a peaceful-focus-on-yourself-stretching-moment when I could hear Eli yelling at another kid in the childcare area that reminded me of my true position in life.
It interrupted my thoughts of a stack of pancakes with melted butter and hot maple syrup that flooded my brain throughout the entire workout.
Does anybody else only think of food when working out?
The class ended just when I was sure my legs were going to turn to noodles and I was surprised to see that I was not long and lean like my precious instructor, nor was my mom-pooch gone.
What the heck?
Obviously I signed up for more classes. An hour session of focusing on my body and somebody in a soothing voice telling me to focus on myself? Sounds good. Even if it involves my muscles cramping up so much I want to scream out in pain.
However if it doesn't work I could always take up prancercise. I'm sure it would have the same affect:


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In the early 1980s, while planning a vacation in Latin America, I went to bookstores to look for histories of the region. All I could find were Marxist tracts arguing that "the people" were exploited by greedy corporations and military dictators, all propped up by the United States.
Available literature on Latin America today includes much more sensible accounts. But some people, including Barack Obama, whose college thesis written in those years has never been made public, seem stuck in a time warp in which the United States is the bad guy.
That, at least, seems to explain Obama's latest foreign policy moves, starting with Honduras, where the president was ousted by the country's supreme court for violating a constitutional provision that forbids any moves to seek a second term. (Other Latin countries, notably Mexico, have similar constitutional prohibitions.)
The White House immediately interpreted this as a military coup and decided that, this time, the United States would come out on the side of "the people." In fact, we find ourselves siding with a friend of the Iranian mullahs, Hugo Chavez, who swept aside similar constitutional limits in Venezuela, and opposing the elected congress, courts and civil society of Honduras.
Honduras is not the only or, sad to say, most important example of where this administration has come out on the side of our enemies and against our friends. Israel has been told that it must stop all settlement construction, even the adding of spare rooms for newly arrived infants, while nothing is asked of the Palestinians.
In Eastern Europe, Obama acknowledged last spring the importance of placing missile defense installations in our NATO allies Poland and the Czech Republic, then reversed himself this month and cancelled the program.
The president of Poland, which has sent brave and effective troops to Iraq and Afghanistan, was given an after-midnight phone call, which he declined to take. The president of Russia, which has refused to aid our efforts to stop the Iranian nuclear weapons programs, expressed his delight -- and pointedly made no concessions in return.
Neither has Russia made concessions in return for Obama's announced plans to cut back sharply on our nuclear stockpiles. The idea behind this is either that others will make similar cutbacks out of gratitude for our example or, more worryingly, that the possession of so many nukes by the United States is somehow a bad thing.
Then there is Afghanistan. In March, Obama said we must persevere in the struggle there to protect ourselves against terrorists and installed a new general, ahead of schedule, to come up with a counterinsurgency strategy. That general delivered a report on Aug. 30 strongly implying that we must increase troops commitments. But as of Sept. 21, Obama has held only one meeting on the subject, according to The Washington Post's Bob Woodward.
On the Sunday talk shows a day before Woodward's story appeared, Obama said he had not yet decided on a strategy in Afghanistan. "I'm certainly not one who believes in indefinite occupations of other countries," he said on NBC's "Meet the Press," as if the U.S. were occupying a country against the wishes of most of its inhabitants to the detriment of "the people." Shades of those early 1980s Marxist Latin America tracts.
The reaction to the most recent moves has been harsh, and from unexpected quarters. Leslie Gelb, former head of the Council on Foreign Relations, and the editorial writers of The Washington Post have expressed astonishment at Obama's apparent switch on Afghanistan. Edward Lucas, former Eastern European correspondent for The Economist, wrote in the Telegraph of London: "The picture emerging from the White House is a disturbing one, of timidity, clumsiness and short-term calculation. Some say he is the weakest president since Jimmy Carter."
The influential blogger Mickey Kaus argues that "anti-Obama anger" is caused not by his race, but "because he's a relative newcomer, as presidents go -- an unknown quantity, an enigma, with a short track record and patches of that record left fuzzy."
But on foreign policy as his record emerges -- as he reverses himself on missile defense and perhaps on Afghanistan -- his motivating principle seems rooted in an analysis, common in his formative university years, that America has too often been on the side of the bad guys. The response has been to disrespect those who have been our friends and to bow to our enemies.


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This Is How Fashionistas Think Bloggers Dress
Behold, the "Blog Writer Dress" and "Blog Editor Dress," from a store that also sells a "Literary Arts Dress," "Journalism Dress," and "Texture Message Dress." By assessing these outfits' relative cuteness, we can figure which kind of writing is best.
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Conclusion: Artsy writers are bright and desirable; blog writers are boring frumps (their editors are OK, though); and text messaging is medium of choice for cheap skanks. Yeah, that sounds about right. [ModCloth.com]


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5 Extremely Effective Content Marketing Formats
One won't better than the others, so it's important to test them all to find a sweet spot.
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.
There are two approaches when it comes to content marketing. You can throw a bunch of crap against the wall and hope that some of it sticks, or you can create well thought-out content that connects with your audience and results in organic sharing as well as new customers.
It is important that you know what type of content your target audience will respond to. For example, if you are targeting business decision-makers, a creative video may draw in younger executives, while a detailed case study may work better for the older crowd.
There isn't one particular content format that will outperform the others in every situation. It requires testing to find the sweet spot. Here are five extremely effective content formats to consider.
1. Case studies
If you want your audience to know why your product or service is the answer to their problems, then a case study is a great way to deliver that message. Not only can case studies help draw your target audience in, but they are also a great way to attract press, links and additional traffic from other credible websites.
Related: 5 Steps To Build Trust Using Content Marketing
2. E-books
An e-book is a digital publication that is downloadable as a PDF (portable document format). If you create an e-book, make sure there is some meat to it. For example, the eBook my company gives away on our site is more than 80 pages.
Make sure that there is some substance to it, and don't just throw it together quickly for the sake of offering an e-book. This is a good way to build early-stage business relationships. An e-book isn't shared the same way a blog post or infographic is, but you can be certain readers will recommend it to others if they deem it informative.
3. Podcasts
This a very unique way to connect with your target audience. You can create an informational resource similar to an e-book, but record it and offer it as a digital audio download. You can also take it a step further and create a weekly or monthly podcast series.
The biggest benefit of podcasts is the convenience factor they offer your listeners. I personally have a few that I listen to each month. I download them onto my iPod and listen to them while doing cardio at the gym or while driving.
Related: Show Off Your Business Skills in Online Videos. (Really It's OK.)
4. Videos
It is no secret that consumers love videos, and this gives you a great opportunity to present your message in a way that consumers will identify as fun and unique, instead of the same thing every other company is putting in front of them. Companies such as The Dollar Shave Club and Poo-Pourri used clever viral shock-video marketing to create a huge social buzz for their brands.
Videos are quite easy to share. Take a look at your Facebook newsfeed and you will most likely see a video within the first few posts. Creating a clever, yet informative video is a great way to deliver a message.
5. Infographics
An infographic is a great way to combine interesting facts and statistics along with a visually-appealing design to capture the attention of your audience. It is no secret that infographics generally receive a lot of social media love, and a successful infographic will introduce a wide range of consumers to your brand.
You can also use infographics as link bait. Reach out to major online publications within your industry when you publish a successful infographic and simply ask them if they would like to take a look at it. If they respond, send them a link and offer to write an introductory paragraph if they would like to publish it on their website. This is another great way to earn links and drive more traffic back to your site.
Have you had favorable experience with additional content formats? If so, let us know about them in the comments below.


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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Navy built the biggest turnaround of any team in college football this season by relying on the nation's most prolific rushing attack.
So, naturally, the 21st-ranked Midshipmen won the Liberty Bowl on Tuesday by completing a fourth-down halfback option pass in the final minute.
CJ Williams' 41-yard completion to Chance Warren on fourth-and-3 gave Navy first-and-goal from the 5-yard line. After quarterback Malcolm Perry spiked the ball, Bijan Nichols kicked a 23-yard field goal with two seconds remaining to give Navy a 20-17 victory over Kansas State.
"Sometimes you just go with your gut," Navy coach Ken Niumatalolo said. "You have all this analytics stuff and all these sheets, but sometimes you've got to go with your gut and roll with it."
Perry was named the Liberty Bowl most valuable player after rushing for 213 yards and throwing a touchdown pass.
Perry ran for 2,017 yards this year to set a Football Bowl Subdivision record by a quarterback. The mark had been owned by Jordan Lynch, who ran for 1,920 yards for Northern Illinois in 2013.
"I still really can't believe it," Perry said.
But the ball was only briefly in Perry's hands on the play that mattered most of all.
Twenty-nine seconds remained when Navy (11-2) snapped the ball at the Kansas State 46. Perry pitched right to Williams, who found Warren racing wide open down the right side of the field.
"The corner was really aggressive, ran right past me, so I knew I'd be wide open," said Warren, who also scored on a 20-yard reverse in the third quarter. "I just tried to make a play on the ball, come down with it and set the team up for success."
That big play left things up to Nichols, who missed a 38-yard field goal earlier in the fourth quarter. This time, Nichols stayed poised and made the kick even after Kansas State (8-5) called three straight timeouts in an attempt to ice him.
"Obviously you never want to miss," Nichols said. "But when you do, you need to make sure you bounce back, so I was glad to have another opportunity to do that."
A most fitting way to end a bounce-back season.
After going 3-10 last year, Navy matched the second-biggest season-to-season improvement in win-loss record of any team in Football Bowl Subdivision history. Hawaii went 9-4 in 1999 after finishing 0-12 in 1998.
Navy tied a program record for wins. The Mids also went 11-2 in 2015.
"Everything that's happened this year is not surprising to me because they did the work, they paid the price," Niumatalolo said. "They did everything that was asked of them. I couldn't be more happy for a group of young men."
Navy outgained Kansas State 421-170 but wasted a couple of opportunities to put the game away. The Mids led 17-10 late in the third quarter when a holding penalty wiped out a 31-yard run by Perry that would have given them first-and-goal at the 2. Navy ended up punting.
Nichols then sent his 38-yard field goal attempt wide left with 8:26 left in the game.
Kansas State finally got its offense going at that point, as Skylar Thompson connected with Wykeen Gill on a 15-yard completion and a 42-yard pass on back-to-back plays. Those long gains set up Thompson's 1-yard sneak that tied the game with 5:14 left.
Then came Navy's dramatic winning drive.
"I thought we did a really nice job of slowing them down in the red zone," Kansas State coach Chris Klieman said. "Give them credit. They pulled out a couple of trick plays at the right time, and they made those plays."
Navy: The Mids set a school record by rushing for an FBS-leading 4,687 yards this season, but they also had a vastly improved defense that held Kansas State in check for much of the day. Kansas State's offense didn't reach the end zone for the first 54 1/2 minutes of the game. The Wildcats' first touchdown came on a 66-yard punt return by Phillip Brooks, who also dropped a potential TD pass on the opening series.
Kansas State: The Wildcats ranked fourth nationally in time of possession during the regular season but couldn't keep their offense on the field Tuesday as Perry controlled the clock. Kansas State still has reason to feel good about itself. Picked before the season to finish ninth out of 10 teams in the Big 12, the Wildcats instead won eight games and stunned eventual Big 12 champion Oklahoma in Klieman's debut season.
Perry's 213 yards rushing represented the second-highest total in the Liberty Bowl's 61-game history. Colorado's Bob Anderson rushed for 254 yards in a 47-33 victory over Alabama in 1969. ... The announced attendance of 50,515 represented the smallest Liberty Bowl crowd since 1997.
This victory ensured that Navy will finish a season in the AP Top 25 for just the third time in the last 56 years. Navy finished 18th in 2015 and 24th in 2004.
Navy will head overseas to open the 2020 season Aug. 29 by facing Notre Dame at Dublin, Ireland. The Mids will have a tough time matching Perry's production. Freshman Perry Olsen backed up Perry this season.
Kansas State opens its 2020 season Sept. 5 by hosting Buffalo. The Wildcats return Thompson and first-team all-Big 12 defensive end Wyatt Hubert but must replace graduate transfer running backs James Gilbert and Jordon Brown as well as their entire starting offensive line.
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