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With J.D. Walton still suffering from an ankle injury and presumed replacement Dan Koppen now lost with a torn ACL, the Broncos are getting desperate.
They've filled the void created by the injury to Koppen by signing free-agent Steve Vallos. The team announced the move moments ago. He'll join the team, pending a physical.
Vallos, who entered the league in 2007 with the Seahawks, has bounced through teams over the past few years, appearing in two games last season with the Eagles and two with the Jaguars.
Look for the Broncos to scan the waiver wire and the trade market for more help. With Peyton Manning's blind side now protected via a multi-million-dollar investment in left tackle Ryan Clady, the last thing the Broncos need is to have a center who'll be shoved repeatedly into Peyton's kneecaps.
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Gary Graham portrays Ragnar, a strong, brooding freedom fighter.
Versatile actor Gary Graham is probably best known for his starring role as "Detective Matt Sikes" in the television series Alien Nation (1989-1990), which was followed by the TV movies:"Alien Nation: Dark Horizon" (1994), "Alien Nation: Body and Soul" (1995), "Alien Nation: Millennium" (1996), "Alien Nation: The Enemy Within" (1996), and "Alien Nation: The Udara Legacy" (1997).
Star Trek fans know Graham best from his four-season recurring role on Star Trek: Enterprise as Soval, the Vulcan ambassador to Earth. He also guest-starred on Star Trek: Voyager playing Ocampan spiritual leader Tanis in "Cold Fire."
He has played more than 30 TV roles, and has also been in more than 30 movies. Some of his films include "All the Right Moves," "The Last Warrior," "Robot Jox," "Hollywood Knights" and "Hardcore."
Graham is author of the book "Acting & Other Flying Lessons," a step-by-step manual on how to become a working actor in the Hollywood film industry, with anecdotes from his 25 years in the business, including his work on Star Trek.
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Leading Italian Film Producer Calls For $16 Billion Lawsuit Against Italian State For Alleged Inaction Against Piracy
from the good-luck-with-that dept
Last year we wrote about EMI suing the Irish government for having the temerity not to pass a SOPA-Like censorship law. That truly extraordinary sense of entitlement seemed to be a one-off, but The Hollywood Reporter now brings us another (via @LifeinSicily):
Italian producer Aurelio De Laurentiis has proposed a €12.5 billion ($16 billion) class action lawsuit against the Italian state for lost revenue he says movie producers have sustained because the state has done too little to combat piracy.
The justification for that rather significant sum is the following:
"The problem of piracy is very important, and I say we should ask for €12.5 billion in order to obtain at least €2.5 billion [$3.2 billion], the amount we lose each year because of piracy," De Laurentiis said.
There was no explanation of where that €2.5 billion figure came from. According to estimates quoted in Techdirt's "The Sky is Rising 2", gross box office sales for the Italian film industry were €700 million in 2011, so it seems highly unlikely that it is "losing" €2.5 billion each year. It may be significant that De Laurentiis is part of a dynasty of famous Italian film producers who can be justifiably proud of helping to create some of the greatest masterpieces of 20th-century Italian cinema. Perhaps he is still hankering for those good old days when people flocked to see the latest productions from his father and uncle.
But that was then, this is now: the Internet is having a massively disruptive effect on the film industry, just as it is on many others. That doesn't give film producers any entitlement to handouts from the Italian state for sales they claim they might have made. And notice, too, that De Laurentiis is calling for compensation for allegedly lost sales, not lost profits, which might have been minimal.
It's sad that so many in the copyright world apply their creativity to thinking up reasons why they should be protected by governments from the massive changes underway throughout the world, rather than applying that creativity to coming up with new ways of making money. They could do worse than listen to Riccardo Tozzi, president of Italy's audiovisual association, who was the co-host with De Laurentiis of the film industry symposium where the latter made his call for legal action:
Tozzi suggested a different tact: making it easier for people to legally download films, for a fee. "We should balance the threat of illegal downloads with a legal supply of films," he said. "It can be too difficult to download films legally, so there's no good alternative" to piracy.
Sounds easier than suing the Italian government....
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Senate Years of Service:1949-1973
SMITH, Margaret Chase, (wife of Clyde Harold Smith), a Representative and a Senator from Maine; born Margaret Madeline Chase, December 14, 1897, in Skowhegan, Somerset County, Maine; attended the public schools; taught school in Skowhegan, Maine 1916-1917; business executive for country weekly newspaper and a woolen company 1919-1930; secretary to husband while he was in Congress 1937-1940; lieutenant colonel, Air Force Reserve 1950-1958; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-sixth Congress, by special election, June 3, 1940, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of her husband, Clyde H. Smith; reelected to the four succeeding Congresses and served from June 3, 1940, to January 3, 1949; was not a candidate for reelection but was elected in 1948 to the United States Senate; reelected in 1954, 1960 and 1966 and served January 3, 1949, until January 3, 1973; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1972; chairwoman, Special Committee on Rates of Compensation (Eighty-third Congress), Republican Conference (Ninetieth through Ninety-second Congresses), ranking Republican member on Armed Services Committee (Ninetieth through Ninety-second Congresses), ranking Republican member on Aeronautical and Space Sciences Committee (Eighty-eighth through Ninety-first Congresses); first woman to be placed in nomination for the presidency at a major party convention 1964; visiting professor for the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation 1973-1976; awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom on July 6, 1989; was a resident of Skowhegan, Maine, until her death on May 29, 1995; remains were cremated, and ashes placed in the residential wing of the Margaret Chase Smith Library, Skowhegan, Maine.
BibliographyAmerican National Biography; Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives; Smith, Margaret Chase. Declaration of Conscience. New York: Doubleday, 1972; Sherman, Janann. No Place for a Woman: A Life of Senator Margaret Chase Smith. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2000; Hutchison, Kay Bailey. "Margaret Chase Smith." In American Heroines: The Spirited Women Who Shaped Our Country. New York: HaperCollins, 2004: 210-243.
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With Mozart comes great spatial-temporal reasoning
- Musical cube toy builds baby's brain
- Works to improve spatial-temporal tasks in infants
- 6 different instruments, 8 different Mozart compositions
We all want our infants to be geniuses right out of the womb and to be able to calculate formulas before they are out of diapers. We also want them to have fun in the process. Enter the Mozart Magic Cube which utilizes the 'Mozart Effect' - a popular theory which posits that listening to Mozart's music may improve spatial–temporal tasks involving mental imagery and temporal ordering in infants. No, it won't turn kids into baby Schrödingers, but trust us, it's better than most of the toy noise makers out there in the world.
With the Mozart Magic Cube you have five different large buttons corresponding to the different sides of the cube each of which can play a harp, flute, French horn, piano and violin. You also have an orchestra button that can play all of the instruments simultaneously using eight different Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart compositions. Your wee ones will have the capabilities to add and subtract the different instruments while the music is playing which makes the versatility of the toy more appealing to the future composer. The lights also flash to the tempo of the music adding to the overall experience. 18th century musician's wig is not included!
- For All Ages 0+
- Works to improve spatital-temporal tasks in Infants
- Plays 6 different instruments
- Features 8 different Mozart compositions
- Takes 3 AA batteries that are included
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For the second year in a row, the Excellence in Journalism Conference — a joint effort between the Society of Professional Journalists and the Radio Television Digital News Association — was an incredible success. If you attended, spoke, exhibited, performed, volunteered or followed along online, thank you for being part of the big event.
If you couldn't join us, this collection of recaps, photos, streaming audio (free to all SPJ members) and Working Press coverage is the next best thing to being there.
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Super Session with Sree Sreenivasan
Description: Sree Sreenivasan (@sree) is the first Chief Digital Officer at Columbia University, where he teaches in the digital media program. A specialist in explaining technology to journalists and the general public, he has written for The New York Times, BusinessWeek, Rolling Stone and more, and has reported for WABC-TV and WNBC-TV in NYC. He writes a social and digital media column for CNET called Sree Tips, also the name of his popular Facebook tips page. Sree was named by Poynter as one of the 35 most influential people in social media in 2010 and was on Quills 20 Journalists to Follow list in May 2010. He will speak to EIJ12 attendees about leveraging digital technology in journalism and improving their use of social media.
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A Special Edition of The Kalb Report: Why Murrow Matters
Description: Edward R. Murrow harnessed the power of both radio and television to teach, illuminate and inspire. As we blaze new trails in the digital age, how can we apply the innovation, ethics and substance of Murrows work to todays journalistic challenges?
RTDNA and SPJ are proud to present a special edition of the highly acclaimed public television and radio series The Kalb Report, moderated by legendary journalist Marvin Kalb, the last correspondent personally hired at CBS News by Edward R. Murrow. Joining Mr. Kalb are Mr. Murrows son Casey Murrow, New York Times Managing Editor and Pulitzer Prize winner Dean Baquet, ten-time national Emmy Award winning CBS News Correspondent Erin Moriarty, and public radio legend and Murrow biographer Bob Edwards.
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Big Camera Videojournalism with a Small Camera
Description: Video cameras have evolved over the years, getting cheaper and lighter. The multimedia world has evolved into using smaller cameras, whether it is DSLRs or even point-and-shoots. Many of those cameras provide high-quality images at a fraction of the cost of high-end video cameras. Yet they have drawbacks such as getting good quality audio and getting steady hand-held video. Videojournalists will learn the best way to get good video and sound with small cameras.
Trainers: Chuck Fadely, videographer, Miami Herald; G. Stuart Smith, Hofstra University
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10 Local Stories on Health Reform
Description: Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has weighed in on health reform, what stories should reporters focus on? One presidential candidate promises to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, another to enhance it. Either way, changes will affect every community in America. Where do we stand at the moment? What stories can be done before the year ends? Learn how to localize this huge story that touches everyone.
Trainers: Joanne Kenen, deputy health editor, Politico; Stacey Singer, investigative reporter, The Palm Beach (Fla.) Post
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Leading a Social Media Revolution in Your Newsroom
Description: A cant-miss for news leaders who are ready to create real results from social media. This step-by-step guide will show leaders of print/broadcast/online newsrooms how to take stock of the way their staff currently interacts with social media and then implement strategies to improve content curation and viewer engagement while setting goals for website traffic referral, fan acquisition, ratings and revenue. Walk away with a simple, executable action plan for implementing best practices, increasing accountability and limiting liability.
Trainer: Kim Wilson, founder, SocialNewsDesk
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Have Journalists Helped Create a Nation of News Illiterates? A conversation with senior adviser Eric Newton of the Knight Foundation, the leading grant-maker in journalism and media innovation
Description: Nearly 70 percent of the nation believes if the local newspaper were gone, it would not be a big deal. Should journalists be better explaining their impact? How? If they don't, who will? As a general rule, should journalists move beyond informing communities to engaging them? Again, how? Bring your ideas. The audience will drive this discussion.
Speaker: Eric Newton (@EricNewton1), senior adviser, Knight Foundation
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Description: As the Castro era ends, Cuba is changing dramatically, loosening some restrictions on citizens and property ownership and perhaps moving to a less centralized form of government. What are the changes taking place in Cuba today? Could these transform this repressive country into a more modern, dynamic nation? What do the changes mean for the Cuban people and the relationship between Cuba and the U.S.? What are the resources for covering this important story?
Speakers: John Yearwood, world editor, The Miami Herald; Mimi Whitefield (@heraldmimi), Cuba correspondent, The Miami Herald; Juan O. Tamayo, reporter, El Nuevo Herald
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Getting it All Done: Managing Your Time in the World of Real-Time Reporting
Description: Tweeting, blogging, posting online, writing for print and broadcast: just another day in the life of a journalist in 2012. But how do you get it all done in a way that best serves your audience and most efficiently uses your time? The key is picking the right way to tell each story. When you leave the session, you'll be able to do it, too. Reporters and managers will be better equipped to navigate their way through today's crunching demands, from real-time breaking news to filing a polished final product.
Trainer: Ron Sylvester, casino and gaming reporter, Las Vegas Sun
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Taking Investigative Reporting to the Next Level
Description: So you landed your dream job as an investigative reporter. What do you do now to take your game up a notch? Walk away with ideas, strategies and a cheat sheet full of links to jump start your next big project. No matter how long you've been doing enterprise work or no matter your platform, theres something here for everyone.
Trainers: Hagit Limor, investigative reporter, WCPO-TV, Cincinnati; Sally Kestin, investigative reporter, Sun Sentinel, Ft Lauderdale
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Taking Your Brand Personally
Description: All these things require your attention and a profile, but there are only 24 hours in the day. How do you manage social media accounts for your personal brand? Should you mix them with your professional brand? Get tips on combining both a professional and personal brand as well as hear time management suggestions on staying on top of all your networks. In addition, get a how-to for Twitter and Facebook, working with Google+ brand pages.
Trainer: Victoria Reitano, digital producer, LIVE! with Kelly and Michael
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The Job Hunt: 15 Things to do to beat the Competition
Description: You have a degree, now what? Its challenging to find a job, not to mention a job in journalism. But it can happen if you become proactive and prepare. Get tips on how to stand out from the competition and land a job.
Presenters: Jennifer Nicole Sullivan, copywriter, Real Simple magazine & fashion/entertainment/arts freelance writer; Lynn Walsh, investigative producer, WPTV, West Palm Beach, Fla.
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text: All Aboard the Seed Corn Supply Chain July 27, 2012 09:38 PM Tweet High-quality seed is fundamental to farmers' ability to plant, grow and harvest successful crops. Production facilities such as this one operated by Beck's Hybrids near Atlanta, Ind., play a pivotal role in the overall process. TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Sara Schafer Top Producer Editor Email Companies manage risk and needs on the production end to guarantee farmers have seed at planting Months of planning, complex logistics and many miles go into a bag of seed before it reaches your farm. One derailment in the supply chain means farmers might not be able to purchase their preferred variety or even fill their planting needs. In 2011, the U.S. seed corn crop was much smaller than expected, similar to most farmers' corn yields. "When growers get good yields on their fields, we typically get good yields on our seed fields. When a grower has less-than-expected yields, so do we," says Ben Kaehler, general manager for seed affiliates at Dow AgroSciences. Kaehler says last year was a difficult seed production year due to extremely hot and dry weather. "Our production was certainly less than expected due to the environmental conditions. It was cut shorter than we ever recall." The vast majority of seed corn is produced in the Midwest. But, in years such as 2011, seed corn production can be shifted to tropical areas, including South America, Hawaii and Puerto Rico, to reduce shortfalls in supply. Tom Burrus, president of Burrus Hybrids, says his company aims to produce its entire corn seed crop in the U.S. But 2011's high temperatures stole yields in their Illinois fields, so they had to rely heavily on winter production in Chile and Argentina. In South America, seed corn is planted in September or early October and after five months, in February or March, it is ready to be harvested and then shipped back to the U.S. After harvest, it takes about 30 days to dry and ship the seed to the U.S., Burrus says. "With early planting, it was mighty close to be able to supply the seed needed to keep the planters running," he explains. "We were able to do it. But many of the bags of seed never made it into the warehouse; they went directly onto trucks and into planters." To meet the needs of customers, Syngenta's corn genetics portfolio manager Eric Boersma says, his company uses winter production in emergency situations. "We try to do as much as we can in the Corn Belt," he says. Because it's more expensive, and has much tighter timing, Syngenta historically tries to keep winter production in South America to a smaller quantity, reserving it for brand-new genetic or trait packages. As with commercial corn production, the major wild card is weather. Unfavorable conditions at pollination, too much water, drought or damaging winds can destroy a field of seed corn. Dan Case, DuPont Pioneer supply planning manager, says his company spreads its corn seed production across more than 20 locations in the Midwest to better its odds of producing a quality crop. "One of the ways to reduce risk is to spread specific products out across multiple geographies." At the field level, he says, DuPont Pioneer agronomists work with growers to select fields that are well-drained and well-suited for seed production. "Additionally, we manage our planting timeline to avoid heat as much as possible, especially during pollination." Once the crop is up and growing, Case says, agronomists constantly monitor the crop's condition and plan for any seed shortages. "We can quickly assimilate those issues and determine the overall impact to our supply." Additionally, seed companies plant extra seed each year to help compensate for potential yield losses. "All companies try to plan for some seed to carry over. You don't start fresh with a brand-new pile every year," says Shawn Schrader, North American corn manufacturing lead for Monsanto. Most seed companies contract with Midwestern growers to produce seed. "Companies tend to produce seed in the same areas. There's a known group of farmers who are seed producers," says Dow's Kaehler. Seed Corn Production To cut down on logistical problems and cost, most seed corn is produced in the Corn Belt. Should weather rob yields, companies head to tropical climates to make up the difference. A good seed production field will yield 60 bu. to 70 bu. per acre. The farmer receives a premium for growing seed corn. "The revenue that a grower gets off those 60 bu. or 70 bu. has to be comparable to what you would get in a normal production year of typical corn. We pay a significant premium," Kaehler adds. Forecasting needs, wants. Another key challenge in seed production is predicting exactly what customers will want to plant. "Any seed business is first and foremost about inventory—what you have, how much you have and where it is," says Kevin Coey, director of F.I.R.S.T. (Farmer's Independent Research of Seed Technologies). "If you can't manage that, it doesn't matter how good your product is." Coey says companies have learned to be aggressive about producing enough units to meet customer demand. "The last thing in the world a seed company wants is to not be able to sell seed to you," he adds. Syngenta's Boersma says his company plans two years ahead of when growers are going to buy their seed, which can be tough with an ever-changing lineup of products. "This process has always been a bit difficult, but the more that traits and genetics churn within a portfolio, the more challenging it gets," he says. Companies strive to make sure parent seed isn't the limiting factor on producing a hybrid, Boersma adds. "You want to produce more than you necessarily need to make sure you meet the needs of your customer. Seed production is very complex, highly dependent on the environment, and there are a lot of moving parts." 2012 Seed Corn Outlook In early spring, seed companies, like most farmers, were feeling great about the 2012 growing season. Tom Burrus, president of Burrus Hybrids, says his company planted its corn seed crop in good time and was set up for good yields. As of early July, Burrus' production area was short on rain and high on temperature. He says a corn plant begins to extrude pollen in the morning when the dew goes off, but that process slows and stops as temperatures rise. "If you watch your thermometer, once it reaches 90°F, you know the pollination is done for the day." Many areas of the Corn Belt were reaching that pivotal temperature as early as 8 a.m. in early July, so the pollination window was dangerously small, Burrus says. Shawn Schrader, Monsanto's North American corn manufacturing lead, says his company's seed corn fields, which are located across the Corn Belt from Nebraska to Michigan, experienced challenging growing conditions at the beginning of the summer. At press time, he said it was too early to know the impact of the high temperatures on pollination. Even though the majority of Burrus' production fields are irrigated, the lack of rainfall will still hurt overall yields, he says. "If the forecast stays true, we'll need to make decisions and provisions to go back to Chile and Argentina to produce seed again this winter," he adds. Schrader says Monsanto is poised to use winter production to make minor adjustments to the total supply plan. 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Barons' Semien perfecting leadoff skills
White Sox prospect goes 4-for-4, homers, scores three times
By Jonathan Raymond / MiLB.com | July 26, 2013 8:42 PM
It's been about a decade since "Moneyball" was published and sparked debate on the merits of advanced statistics, scouting and a host of other topics.
One of the slightly more overlooked, less controversial aspects of the book was its depiction of ideal leadoff hitters. Rather than the stereotypical speedy .300 hitter at the top of the lineup, it argued that a leadoff man's primary objective was to get on base as frequently as possible.
In the subsequent 10 years, there seems to have been a proliferation of leadoff batters who get on base efficiently, if not frequently, steal bases and occasionally add a little pop -- whether they hit anywhere near .300 or accumulate 50 steals in a season.
Few prospects better embody that modern take on the leadoff hitter than Marcus Semien.
The ninth-ranked White Sox prospect flashed just about every aspect of his game on Friday night, going 4-for-4 with a homer, a walk and three runs scored in Double-A Birmingham's 8-2 victory over visiting Mobile.
"I'm just trying to do everything I can to get on base," Semien said, "getting some pitches to hit and not trying to do too much with them. That's kind of my thing. Our hitting coach talks about when you're in the leadoff spot, you get on base any way you can and try and score runs, let the game come to you."
The University of California product, taken in the sixth round of the 2011 Draft, has been very good at doing just that this year. Through Friday, he's batting at a .287/.410/.468 clip.
That on-base percentage leads the Southern League and the 22-year-old shortstop boasts more walks (76) than strikeouts (63).
"If you're hitting at the top of the order, you don't want to be striking out a lot. You want to be getting on base and if you can take your walks, you gotta take them," Semien said. "That's the most important thing -- to score runs. And when I'm scoring runs, we're usually doing well, winning games. Only good things can happen."
He's actually improved on the kinds of skills he showed last year. With Class A Advanced Winston-Salem, he batted .273/.362/.471 in 107 games, knocking 14 homers and 31 doubles. And while that power spike came in a ballpark that's fairly conducive o offense, he's maintained it in the less friendly confines of Birmingham, with 13 homers and 20 doubles in 101 games.
"It's a pretty good park to hit at in Winston-Salem, you hit some balls good to left and it'll go out, for sure," he said. "This year, I'd say straightaway left field you can get it to go here, but it's a big yard. So I'm happy with the home run numbers, but I'm not gonna say I sit there and try and hit home runs. Sometimes it happens, and I'm happy with that."
For now, Semien is content to build on one of the most advanced approaches in the Minor Leagues.
"I'm just trying to stay on top of my routine, stay focused and not give any at-bats away," he said. "Pay close attention to what pitchers are trying to do to me and let it go from there. That's really about it."
Birmingham got a boost from Dan Black, who doubled, drove in two runs and scored three times. Mike Blanke also contributed a pair of RBIs.
Jonathan Raymond is a contributor to MiLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues or its clubs.View More


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By Bryan Jackson ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. — Devin Murphy, a 2002 St. Bonaventure graduate, will present a reading as the final installment of the 2012 Writers Series at St. Bonaventure University.
Murphy's reading will take place at 5 p.m. Thursday, April 26, in the Walsh Science Center amphitheater. The event is free and open to the public.
After graduating from St. Bonaventure, Murphy earned a master's degree from Colorado State University and his Ph.D. in creative writing from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Murphy's stories have appeared in The Missouri Review, South Dakota Review and The Greensboro Review. His work has earned him numerous awards and accolades, including an honorable mention in The Atlantic's Student Writing Contest and a third-place selection in Glimmer Train Press, Inc.'s Short Story Contest for New Writers.
Murphy is the fourth writer to visit campus for the 2012 Writers Series, organized by the Department of English and funded by the Good Ideas Grants initiated by the dean of the School of Arts and Sciences. The series previously hosted poet, editor and ecocritic, Jonathan Skinner; poet, short-story writer and editor, Peter Makuck; and poet, essayist and teacher, Gregory Betts.
About the University: Inspired for more than 150 years by the Catholic Franciscan values of individual dignity, community inclusiveness, and service, St. Bonaventure University cultivates graduates who are confident and creative communicators, collaborative leaders and team members, and innovative problem solvers who are respectful of themselves, others, and the diverse world around them.
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Thursday, February 19, 2009
Couples Truffle Shuffle 5K
Todd and Holly Ragsdale
Camden and Lela Stemple
Mike Sotos
Sarah Wilson and Joseph Vaile
Justin Loftus and Jon Obesoso
John Leuthold
John and Molly Leuthold
JJ Moses
Jenn Shelton and Brian McGuire exchange just behind Zach Elliott and Kayleigh Tyerman.
Full results can be found on the Southern Oregon Runners website. More photos by Andy Atkinson can be found here at the Mailtribune.
7 comments:
- Rennaker said...
Macdog and Jenn make a sweet couple. Kind of like a reverse Harold and Maude...Good job Mcguire!
- Thursday, February 19, 2009 3:22:00 PM
- C.J. Hitz said...
Chris, I see you're signed up for Way Too Cool as well. See you in a few weeks.
- Thursday, February 19, 2009 4:23:00 PM
- C.J. Hitz said...
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- Thursday, February 19, 2009 4:25:00 PM
- Rennaker said...
@ cj,
I was signed up...got some kind of micro tears in my achilles on a friendly training run last month and I haven't been able to run since. I gave my entry to Joe Griffin.
See you at the next race!
Have fun at Cool!
- Thursday, February 19, 2009 7:00:00 PM
- C.J. Hitz said...
That's a bummer to hear Chris,
Hope you heal up soon. I'm sure the time off is having other benefits your body needs as well. I was also looking on the Cascade Crest 100 site and saw your name...is that your first 100? I'm considering doing the Burning River 100 here in OH in August as my first one.
Get well my friend,
- Friday, February 20, 2009 8:09:00 AM
- Darcy said...
CJ I'll be at Cool. It will be good to see you there. Hope your training is going well.
- Sunday, February 22, 2009 12:27:00 PM
- C.J. Hitz said...
Sounds great Darcy, looking forward to seeing you there as well. Should be a great time!
- Monday, February 23, 2009 10:37:00 AM


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The argument that ethanol is the main culprit behind higher food prices does not wash, according to a report released this week by Informa Economics. "There is little evidence of such a simplistic cause-and-effect linkage," reports Informa in Analysis of Corn, Commodity, and Consumer Food Prices. The executive summary, which was prepared for the Renewable Fuels Foundation, can be found at www.ethanolrfa.org.
Corn prices have a relatively weak correlation with food prices because the farm share is a small portion of the overall retail food dollar, reports Informa, adding that corn is only a portion of the farm value for many products.
Prices for other components in the marketing bill (the part of our food dollar not related to the farm value of raw materials) have also been increasing. This, plus inflation, has impacted food prices, Informa reports.
Informa reports there were "relatively weak correlations" between corn prices and livestock, poultry, egg and milk prices. "With these low correlations, it is statistically unsupported to suggest that high and/or rising corn prices are the only or even the main reason behind high and rising retail meat, egg and milk product prices."
"The upward trend in cattle, hog and poultry prices began in the late 1990s, well before the corn price began to increase significantly," Informa continues.
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Meanwhile, Bill Roenigk, senior vice president and chief economist for the National Chicken Council (NCC), reported this week that "Raising poultry and livestock as food for people is taking second place to putting ethanol derived from corn into America's gasoline tanks."
The NCC (www.nationalchickencouncil.com) pointed to this week's report from USDA's World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates. The NCC reports that USDA forecasts 5 billion bushels of corn will be used for feed and related purposes while 5.05 billion bushels will be used for ethanol and byproducts for the 2010/2011 crop year. The report marks the first time that ethanol usage will exceed feed usage, Roenigk said.
Government mandates for ethanol have contributed to "the skyrocketing cost of corn," the NCC stated. The WASDE accounts for the fact that ethanol produces dried distillers grains with solubles (DDGS) which can be used in livestock and poultry feed, but the NCC argues that it lacks the nutritional and energy values of corn.


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Burghley House in Stamford, Lincolnshire was the location chosen to represent Rosings, Lady Catherine de Bourgh's home in the 2005 film adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. It might at first appear to have been an odd choice. Rosings in the text is clearly referred to as a modern house-
It was a handsome modern building, well situated on rising ground
-all done no doubt to subtly throw doubt on the age of Sir Lewis de Boughs "noble" origins. Burghley is so obviously an Elizabethan house, built in the late 16th century for Queen Elizabeth I's loyal minister, William Cecil, and therefore could never have been thought of as "new" in 1796 ,when this adaptation was set.
However, it was convenient. It is to be found on the outskirts of the town of Stamford, which was the real town used as the setting for Meryton in the film (and which I have previously written about here and here)
In this first post of three about Burghley and Pride and Prejudice, I will write about one of the rooms used in the adaptation…the Heaven Room.
This was the setting for Lady Catherine's drawing-room at Rosings…
where Elizabeth is introduced to a rather formidable Lady Catherine in the company of Charlotte and Mr Collins…and unexpectedly meets Mr Darcy and Colonel Fitzwilliam , Lady Catherine's nephews, who were also staying there…
…and where after dinner, we learn that Anne de Bourgh doesn't play due to her delicate health…
But eventually Elizabeth is persuaded to play..though she does so very indifferently and with a very bad grace….not performing to strangers, indeed.
The Heaven Room,where these scenes were filmed is simply an astounding room. It is almost totally painted,
all the walls and ceiling,with roundels executed in grisaille over the entrances.
Seen in bright sunlight-as on the day I took my photographs- it all encompassing effect is almost overwhelming…
The gods and goddesses disporting themselves amidst tromp l'oeil columns and pediments, the sky seamlessly merging with the painted walls…
…a magically painted rainbow cutting through the scene on the right.
The room was painted by Antonio Verrio, the celebrated Italian muralist,who was patronised by Charles II (my hero)and James II, creating painted interiors at Windsor Castle and Hampton Court Palace but who later fell out of court favour with the accession to the throne of William III.
He stayed at Burghley for some considerable time, painting these magnificent rooms, becoming part of the 5th Earl of Exeter's social circle, even joining an informal gentleman's private drinking club known as the Little Bedlam Club, based at Burghley and whose other members included the portraitist Sir Godfrey Kneller and the Earl himself. The club was well named in Verrio's case ( the rules of the club are still on display in the Billiard Room in the House) for he was(and still is!!) known for causing havoc in the nearby town of Stamford running up tremendous bar bills and gaming debts and "wenching" in a rather George Wickham-like manner. intriguingly he included a portrait of himself in this room, and here it is in close up below….
He is shown without his usual Baroque wig , sketching while sitting in the forge of the cyclops, which you can see to the right of the centre section, shown below the falling rainbow.
Obviously it was logically too hot to wear a wig in such circumstances…
Choosing such grand and Baroque interiors certainly contributed to the impression of the grandness of Lady Catherine's social situation in this film, emphasising the social gulf between Elizabeth Bennet and Darcy's family and relations, though a modern interior for the time would have been more appropriate, in my opinion.
I should like to thank the Trustees of Burghley House Preservation Trust , Phillip Gompertz, the house manager and the room Stewards for all their assistance , kindness and for granting me permission of photograph the Heaven Room. And also for allowing me to reproduce images 2-5 in this post. Burghley is a magical house, with stunning interiors( more on these in the next post) marvellous grounds and above all a happy atmosphere throughout all the house and the parts of the estate open to the public. If you can, do go and visit, for its welcome is always warm and the contents are always amazing to see, with something new to discover on every trip.
Next in this series, The Bow Room, used as Lady Catherine's dining room.


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I went on a walk around the Waikumete Cemetery put on by the Friends of Waikumete last Saturday. I was asked by one of them why I was taking a lot of photographs (and answered, of course, that I was collecting stuff for a blog). One of the grave sites visited was that of Thelma Mareo, née Trott. You wouldn't know that by the gravestone, probably paid for by her mother after Thelma died of an overdose of veronal (and possibly also alcohol) in 1935.
Veronal in those days was one of the early barbiturates, a "sleeping draught" as such medications were once termed. Around since the turn of the century, by 1935 the NZ Government recognised the danger of a depressant which could easily and lethally be misused, and so made it prescription-only, two weeks prior to Thelma Mareo's death. Her husband Eric, an out-of-work musician and composer who had worked at the St James Theatre, was using veronal, and stockpiled when it looked like casual supplies of the drug would be limited. Not a good move when your wife was a depressive.
She died from overdose, he went to trial (twice), was sentenced to death, later commuted, served 12 years, with more years beyond that on probation, and was finally clear of the legal system just before he died. The member of Friends of Waikumete who described the case last Saturday at the graveside said firmly that it couldn't have been suicide, that it had to be murder. (No one commits suicide with poison, I believe was whaat was said. I refuted that, by reminding those there of "Rough on Rats", a common method of suicide in the early years of last century. Further reading revealed that veronal, also, had been used in at least attempts at suicide before the Mareo case.) Eric Mareo's name wasn't even mentioned.
But a third option, on reading the online copy of the book The Trials of Eric Mareo (well worth a read) comes to mind. Thelma was a mother's girl, a depressive, "highly-strung" in the old parlance. Deeply fearful of ever being pregnant, she had a marriage of convenience with Mareo, more than anything else. Her love affair with Freda Stark was never truly outed during Mareo's trial -- to have done so, in the Crown's case, would have portrayed her as a sexual pervert in those times. Thelma drank, exhibited signs of depression, and perhaps took just a bit too much of both alcohol and the veronal in the days leading up to her death. Death by accidental overdose would be the third option, here.
When Freda Stark died, she was buried with Thelma, and her "L'Etoile D'or" plaque is on the grave site. The case that they are associated with, however, continues to fascinate.


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Norma,In my original research on the PJ dough, I noted that in its promotional materials PJ went from describing its flour as a "high gluten" flour to a "high protein" flour. I took that to mean that either PJ had changed its flour or it was trying to conceal the protein content of the actual flour used. Also as part of my research, I found two earlier versions of the PJ pizza dough, one in about 2001 and the other in about 2003. The circa 2001 version was this one:Pizza Dough: Bleached, enriched wheat flour (niacin, iron (reduced), thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), malted barley flour, clear filtered water, sugar, soybean oil, salt, yeast, inactive dried yeast, ascorbic acid, (added as dough conditioner), enzymes. (https://home.comcast.net/~tfcozzo/food/PapaJohns.htm)The circa 2003 version was as follows:Pizza Dough: Unbleached, enriched flour (niacin, iron (reduced), thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), malted barley flour, clear filtered water, sugar, soybean oil, salt, yeast, ascorbic acid, (added as dough conditioner), enzymes.Fortunately, I had printed out the circa 2003 version because the link for that version, from a vegan forum, is now dead. You will note the absence of wheat starch in the above two versions. The wheat starch as an ingredient emerged sometime around 2008, when I received information from PJ on its products. You will also note that the circa 2001 version included inactive dry yeast. I believe that the inactive dry yeast was dead yeast, or glutathione. The circa 2003 version mentions only yeast, not inactive dry yeast. I think you will find the use of wheat starch in other pizza products, including frozen pizzas. Peter
Norma,As you can see from the current Pizza Dough ingredients set forth below, not a great deal changed from around 2003:Pizza Dough: Unbleached enriched wheat flour (wheat flour, malted barley flour, wheat starch, ascorbic acid, enzyme, niacin, iron as ferrous sulfate, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), water, sugar, soybean oil, salt, yeast [fungal or bacterial derivatives NO animal derivatives]. No trans fat.For some reason, the amount of enzymes were increased (it is higher up in the ingredients list). Maybe it was because of the addition of the wheat starch or possibly a reduction in the amount of damaged starch. Since the inactive dried yeast in the circa 2001 PJ pizza dough was pretty far down the list, it might have added some flavor to the finished crust but if PJ was using a high gluten flour at the time, it might also have also served to relax the dough in case it was prone to "buckiness". Tom Lehmann discussed various dough relaxers, including dead yeast/glutathione, at the PMQ Think Tank at http://thinktank.pmq.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=4311&p=23405&hilit=#p23405. For our purposes, the use of dead yeast is moot since it apparently is no longer being used in the current PJ pizza dough. Peter
Norma,As I was going through my files on the PJ dough, I found a printout of Reply 9 at http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php/topic,1786.msg16465.html#msg16465. As you will note from that post, it appears that there was yet another version of the PJ dough, as follows:Pizza Dough: Unbleached enriched wheat flour (wheat flour, malted barley flour, ascorbic acid, enzyme, niacin, iron as ferrous sulfate, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), water, sugar, soybean oil, salt, yeast, wheat starch.So, as of about August 30, 2005, it appears that PJ was using wheat starch. If the ingredients were listed by order of predominance, then the amount of wheat starch would have been fairly low. Peter
Norma,According to the article at http://www.westfalia-separator.com/applications/renewable-resources/wheat-starch-wheat-gluten.html, which I found in a footnote of a Wikipedia entry on gluten, it appears that wheat starch is produced from the starch that remains from processing a dough to make dried vital wheat gluten. Presumably, the wheat starch would contain any related damaged starch. That might help explain the addition of more enzyme (alpha amylase) to work on that damaged starch when the wheat starch is combined with flour to make the PJ dough.None of the above should be of concern to you in making the clone of PJ Cheesesticks using your proposed clones of the PJ Garlic sauce. The best we can do is try to find a flour with the desired overall protein content. Peter
Your post at Reply 9 goes back quite a while. Was it Randy's version of the American style pizza that got you interested in PJ's pizza?
How is all that going to help me find a flour that I can purchased with the desired overall protein content if I decide to make the cheesesticks to offer at market? I only have limited sources for flours and don't have access regularly to the Power flour.
Norma,Yes, it was Randy's PJ clone that prompted me to try to come up with a version that I believed would be closer to what PJ was doing. Randy's clone was perfectly fine for a home setting but I felt that his clone dough had too high a hydration and too much yeast for a real PJ clone, and also too much salt and sugar/honey, and maybe not enough oil, and too short a fermentation window. It wasn't until about 2007-early 2008 that I decided to mount a full throated effort to try to come up with a clone of the real PJ dough. You can see from Reply 19 at http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php/topic,5721.msg54842.html#msg54842 that I was already heading in that direction at the time of that post. Also, by that time, the dough calculating tools had been created, which made it much easier to conduct cloning experiments. As a practical matter what this all means is that you want to either use a single flour, preferably an unbromated flour, that has the desired protein content (e.g., 13.4-13.6%) or a flour (preferably unbromated) with a higher protein content that can be blended with a lower protein flour (unbromated). In both cases, a pinch of ascorbic acid between the thumb and forefinger can be used as a dough conditioner substitute for potassium bromate. If unbromated flours are not available, then bromated flours can be used (but without the ascorbic acid). Examples of standalone flours with a protein content of about 13.4-13.6% include the Remarkable flour (unbromated) and the Supreme flour (unbromated and with ascorbic acid) from General Mills, the Producer flour (bromated) from ConAgra (which is specified for use for making breadsticks), and the Power flour (unbromated) from Pendleton. Since you do not have ready access to such flours, in your case you might want to blend a flour with a protein content in excess of 13.4-13.6% with another flour with a lower protein content to achieve a blend in the 13.4-13.6% protein range. The higher protein flour can include the KASL flour (unbromated) from King Arthur, the All Trumps and Balancer flours (bromated) from GM, the Bouncer flour (bromated or unbromated) from Bay State Milling, and the Kyrol flour (bromated) from ConAgra. The secondary flour in the blend can be just about any flour with a protein content lower than the first flour. The secondary flour can include all-purpose flour and bread flour, in just about any brand provided that the protein content is known. The precise amounts of the two flours for the blend can be calculated using the Mixed Mass Percentage Calculator at http://foodsim.toastguard.com/. Of course, you can always go to someone like ADM and ask them for a sample of wheat starch and use that with an unbromated flour such as the KASL blended with KABF or KAAP and a bit of ascorbic acid and diastatic malt (as a substitute for fungal amylase) to create a more accurate clone of the PJ flour blend. Peter
Norma,Yesterday I found another interesting article on wheat starch, at http://www.world-grain.com/News/Archive/Wheat%20starch%20and%20Gluten%20Manufacturing.aspx?cck=1 . Although I now better know the perceived benefits of using wheat starch, I still am not sure why PJ uses it. Wheat starch imparts a lighter color to a baked good, so maybe it further complements the lighter crust color that using a bleached flour imparts. From photos I have seen of PJ's pizzas, they don't typically have particularly dark crusts. Maybe that is intentional and represents the preference of its customers.Peter.
Norma,To the extent that anyone wants to try to emulate the PJ dough without using a single flour with a protein content in the 13.4-13.6% protein range, all that is needed is a flour with a protein content above that range and a second flour with a protein content below that range.Peter.
Norma,Overall, I think that your PJ clone cheesesticks came out well. However, there are a couple of things that you might want to try next time if you feel that you would like to proceed with this matter. First, you might reduce the amount of cheese. As you can see from Reply 493 at http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php/topic,6758.msg260046/topicseen.html#msg260046, the cheese that PJ uses is not a pure mozzarella cheese such as you used. You actually might get closer to PJ's cheese by using a bagged shredded low moisture, part-skim mozzarella cheese such as sold at retail in supermarkets. As noted below, your baked cheesestick pizza weight was a bit on the high side. Reducing the amount of cheese might help bring the final weight back into balance. And it might also reduce the grease factor. Second, you might try baking the cheesestick pizza directly on the stone surface of your deck oven until you get the desired bottom crust coloration and then use one or more screens or disks to lift the cheesestick pizza off of the stone surface and try to get the desired top crust/cheese coloration. In my standard electric home oven, I really never got particularly good results baking pizzas on a screen with the screen in direct contact with the stone. I did better by using either the screen or the stone, but not both at the same time. Third, if you felt that the "butter" flavor was too much, next time you can try reducing the amount of PJ Garlic sauce to 1.50 ounces. Based on the numbers you posted, I calculated that the weight of the unbaked cheesestick pizza was (14.4 ounces x 28.25) [dough] + 2 (31.62-2.08) [PJ Garlic sauce] + (4 x 28.35) [cheese] = 580.72 grams (20.48 ounces). I believe that you meant the finished cheesestick pizza weight to be 18 ounces (1 pound two ounces) rather than 1.2 pounds, so I used the 510 grams figure as being the more probable value. On that basis, the weight loss during baking was 34 grams (1.20 ounces), or 12.18%. The last cheesestick pizza you made and discussed at Reply 14 at http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php/topic,25844.msg260886.html#msg260886 sustained a weight loss of about 13%. So, it appears that you are getting fairly consistent numbers out of your deck oven. For your information, the weight of the contents of the mini-tub of PJ's Garlic sauce is 31.62-2.08 = 29.54 grams, or 1.042 ounces. That is quite close to what is stated on the peel-off label for the PJ Garlic sauce. By any chance, did you try to convert the contents of one of the PJ mini-tubs of Garlic sauce to a volume measurement?Peter


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may be simpler when recursion is used. We illustrate this point
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recursion which the other uses explicit quantification. Notice that
with recursion, the proof goes through fully automatically; but this
is far from true with explicit quantification (especially notable is
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Vikings owners Mark and Zygi Wilf will be in the Twin Cities when the new stadium commission meets for the first time Friday, and if you want my prediction, the announcement will be made that Ted Mondale, current chairman of the Metropolitan Sports Facilities Commission (MSFC), will have a top position in helping the stadium's new governing body.
Mondale would continue the great job he did in getting the stadium bill passed by the Legislature.
The new Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority will oversee the new stadium's development and take over the job of running the Metrodome from the MSFC, which will be phased out over the summer. Michele Kelm-Helgen, an aide to Gov. Mark Dayton, was appointed chairwoman of the new panel earlier this month.
Not only will the Wilf family create new jobs with the stadium, they likely will spend a lot of money remodeling Winter Park in Eden Prairie, or building a new practice facility and team headquarters. Lester Bagley, team vice president, said the current site is no longer adequate and some moves will have to be made. They looked at possible new locations Wednesday.
Meanwhile, Mark Wilf brought good news to high school and college baseball teams when he reported that as a part of the bill, the new stadium has to be equipped for baseball.
"That's part of the requirement is that it's going to have to allow for high school baseball and things of that sort," he said.
I also got the impression from Wilf that there are not plans for a lot of other buildings, such as hotels, near the stadium site -- at least for now.
"There's a lot of work ahead of us and we're meeting, we're looking forward to it," said Wilf, who was here to watch the Vikings practice.
He added: "We have a lot of work ahead of us but we're still very excited about the great [stadium] we're going to put together. It's still -- we're in the very early stages of even setting up the planning -- so I really can't speak to what kind of features we'll have. But we're going to try, as I've always said, to make it a first-class building all the way."
There is no doubt that the Wilfs will not be satisfied with anything but a stadium that is the equal of any of the stellar ones in the NFL. That is how they have approached everything they have done since buying the Vikings.
"We're still shooting to open in 2016, that's the goal," Wilf said. And talk about the Wilfs doing good things: Once they get through playing two seasons (or fewer) at TCF Stadium, the Gophers are going to have a much more modern place to play with the improvements the Vikings will make.
As for the team, there is no doubt in Wilf's mind that the Vikings will be a lot better.
"We're excited. [We have] a lot of good, young talent," Wilf said. "I know the coaches are feeling good. We're going to be a good ballclub. I think having this offseason to allow the team to really come together is going to be a big plus for us versus last year."
Wilf has a lot of confidence in Leslie Frazier coaching the team to a winning season.
"I like our coach, I like our team. It's coming together," Wilf said. "I think the fans can't wait for that first game against Jacksonville and move forward and really be a solid football team this year."
Meanwhile, Steve LaCroix, the team's head of marketing, said that some 80 percent of season tickets have been renewed.Plans for U facilities
University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler said that plans are to work on building new facilities for non-revenue sports. The track fieldhouse might have to be replaced because a road might be built through it. The outdoor track stadium also needs a lot of work, which is why the Big Ten championship track meet that had been scheduled at the U this year was postponed until 2015. And then you have the basketball practice facility on the drawing board.Jottings
• Gophers baseball coach John Anderson said two big contributors to his program recently died -- Dave Weiner, who donated more than $100,000 for the new Siebert Field, and Dark Star, who Anderson said sent a $500 check almost every year to help the baseball program.
• Gophers football coach Jerry Kill said that lineman Ben Lauer, who played at Wayzata, "is going to be a tremendous player for us here at the U. He's a late developer, he's only 17. He was a late offer but I think one of our best offers." Originally, Lauer was not going be on scholarship this season.
• The Denver Post reported last Friday that former Gopher Adam Weber has been the No. 2 quarterback behind Peyton Manning during minicamp for the Broncos. Denver signed Caleb Hanie and picked Brock Osweiler in this year's draft, and many believed that Weber might fall on the depth chart, but so far he hasn't. Weber said he is trying to just focus on his play: "A long time ago, I made a decision that I'm not going to worry about things I can't control," Weber said. "I don't read too much into it. As long as I get an opportunity to take a snap, I've got a chance."
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The team at vouchercloud.com completed the poll as part of its ongoing research in to Britons preferences during the summer months, particularly following the recent heat wave.
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11. Wales – Fab Ice Lolly (14%)
12. Northern Ireland – Mr Frostie (12%)
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Initially all respondents were asked 'What do you find is the best way to keep yourself cool when the weather gets too hot?'
The most common responses were 'open all windows and doors' (36%), 'use a fan or air conditioning unit' (33%) or 'eat ice cream and ice lollies' (27%).
Following on from this all respondents were then asked 'On a really hot day, roughly how many ice creams will you have to keep cool?'
The majority of respondents admitting to having 'two or three' (31%), with 'just the one' (26%) and 'four or five' (13%) being the most common other responses.
All respondents were also asked 'Do you find your eating habits change when the weather gets warmer?'
Two fifths of respondents admitted they replace their typical meals with lighter snacks, and a further 27 per cent admitted they don't eat half as much, and instead focus on keeping hydrated.
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Electric vehicles and hybrids are quiet — a little too quiet for the U.S. Department of Transportation.
The agency on Monday announced proposals for minimum sound requirements on hybrid and electric vehicles. Without an internal combustion engine running, many vehicles can operate under full or partial electric power with little to no sound to warn pedestrians or cyclists, particularly the visually impaired.
"This proposal will help keep everyone using our nation's streets and roadways safe, whether they are motorists, bicyclists or pedestrians," U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said in a statement.
The Department of Transportation estimates the proposed changes to hybrid and electric vehicles would result in 2,800 fewer injuries to pedestrians and cyclists for every model year that such a system is required.
The proposed noise would be necessary only at speeds under 18 miles per hour, the agency said. At 18 mph and above, vehicles naturally make enough sound to be detected.
Automakers would have a range of choices for car noises, the agency said. The agency posted 14 samples of sounds at http://www.nhtsa.gov/SampleSounds.
Some hybrids and electric vehicles already make noise to warn pedestrians of their presence. The Fisker Karma plug-in hybrid sends out an electronic whir from faux exhaust pipes at speeds of up to 25 mph. A Department of Transportation spokesman says the Karma would not need to alter its sound to meet the suggested requirements.
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Taylor Swift wrapped up the U.S. leg of her RED Tour last month and has been hinting at new music. Today (October 21), her fans got a preview of one of the songs she's been working on.
The track, "Sweeter than Fiction" sounds like it's straight out of the '80s with its synth-heavy beats and Swift's radio friendly vocals that tell a tale of triumph that recalls, in part, the storyline of "Mean."
"I've seen you fall, seen you crawl on your knees . . . wish I could make it better/ Some day you won't remember/ This pain you thought would last forever and ever," she sings.
The song was written with fun.'s Jack Antonoff, who hints that the song is not only featured on the soundtrack for the British film One Chance, which tells the story of store clerk, Paul Potts, who goes on to win Britain's Got Talent, but was inspired by a certain well-known director from the '80s.
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