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New Indie Boxing Film 'The Championship Rounds' Needs Your Support

I learned about a compelling project recently and found it important enough to share with this audience.  The Championship Rounds is the story of a young, deaf, African American boxer and single father of a 6 month- old son whose life is against the ropes on the brink of homelessness.   After being stricken with tragedy, James receives an unlikely shot at redemption, and now his very survival is dependent on his faith and his decision to seize the moment.

Right now they’re raising funds to shoot a short version of the film in order to woo investors. Written and produced by MD Walton and directed by Daniel Stine, the film will star Michael Spady, Harold Perrineau Jr. (The Best Man, ‘LOST’ ), Larry Gilliard Jr. (‘The Wire’, Brother To Brother), Linden Ashby and Peter Jae. Producer Derrex Brady expands on the plot, “One of the elements of this story that is so compelling is not only James Jr. fighting is way out of poverty while trying to raise his six month old son; he is trying to fight to break the cycle handed down in his family and be the father to his son he never had. This is a rare story that provides hope in so many different ways.”

On film lead Michael Spady, the producers remark this is the first time that a deaf, African-American male actor is the lead of a film, “There have been numerous actors/actresses who are African American and deaf that have played a plethora of roles on the Independent feature and short film level and also television.  However, most of these films sadly go unrecognized or don’t get a large theatrical release.  We have garnered interest from different celebrities regarding starring in the film and creatively the momentum has been nonstop.”

To portray the character James and his situations accurately, the film has taken on deaf actor CJ Jones as their consultant.  S&A fans as well as hardcore Black television junkies may recognize Jones as the deaf comedic actor who co-starred in a February 1991 episode of ‘A Different World’, one of those episodes where they got righteous about the cast/students educating kids, and in this case creating a tolerance for deaf people.

To support The Championship Rounds, and to see more about the film and their celebrated cast and crew, go to their IndieGoGo page – –

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There are many separate hockey organizations, called leagues, around the world. The leagues organize teams of players and schedule games between teams. Leagues are either amateur or professional. Many amateur players hope to build their skills in order to eventually qualify for a professional position. The pinnacle of professional hockey is the National Hockey League which is comprised of 30 teams in the United States and Canada. This league attracts many of the best players in the world who become top ranked stars for their play. Countries such as Sweden, Finland, Russia, Czech Republic, German, Canada, the United States, and more, have provided citizens who have made impressive showings in the National Hockey League. Most leagues have the teams play during a regular season and then a playoff to decide the overall champion. The National Hockey League teams playoff for the championship. The winning team is awarded the Stanley Cup, which is one of the oldest prizes in team sports. It was established in 1892 by then Governor General of Canada the Lord Stanley of Preston. The Stanley Cup is regarded as the highest award a hockey team can attain. Players on the winning team have their names inscribed on the Stanley Cup. The trophy is held by the winning team until the subsequent year's champion is determined. The other notable championships includes the World Cup of Hockey and the Winter Olympics where teams from various countries play for the top position.

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Hockey is a game which requires particular skill to be played well. At the top of the hockey establishment, hockey players are professionals who play the game for a yearly salary. The highest skilled players command salaries in the millions of dollars. Because of the difficulty involved in skating well, handling the puck deftly with a hockey stick and scoring goals while opponents attempt to stop them, good hockey players are rare. The required skills are usually developed over many years through instruction and practice. Regardless of the effort expended, many players are never capable of advancing to a skill level necessary to play professional hockey.

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Hockey players are organized into various positions on a team. At the goal, the "Goalie" represents the last defense for a team. The goalie will use his equipment to catch, deflect or shot the puck away from the goal. Since the opposing players can propel the puck toward the goalie at great speed, most goalies are given extensive protection. They will often wear pads to cover most of their body. These are designed to absorb the force of impact should the puck strike the goalie's body. Goalies are generally confined to their end of the ice rink, but they can occasionally venture outwards.
Two defensemen play in front of the goalie. They are mobile skaters that attempt to stop advancing opponents. Defensemen are also vulnerable to impacts from the puck so they typically wear significant padding as well. They usually play in a position quite near their goalie, but they are not obligated to. It is fairly common for a defenseman to take the puck to the opposite end of the rink and attempt to score himself.
Two wingers play in front of the defensemen, one on each side of the rink, although they are not restricted to a set area.
They flank the Center player which is often the lead for offensive moves into the opponent's end of the rink. During the course of play, the wingers and center will roam about the ice surface. They will assist the defensemen in clearing the puck from their end of the rink and advance it to the other. They are generally concerned with scoring goals but they do attempt to block opposing goals whenever possible.

Referee and Linesmen
Modern hockey is played with a set of rules that are administered by a referee. The referee is outfitted with skates as well. He roams the playing surface watching for rule infractions by any of the players, intentional or accidental. The referee assesses penalties for such infractions. These range from having a team play without the offending player for two or more minutes to complete ejection of the player from the game. The referee must watch for infractions that are increase danger to the players or result in an unfair advantage to a team. Should a player trip, unfairly impede, injure, or otherwise affect an opposing player during the play, a penalty is assessed. Such infractions, however, must be witnessed by the referee. In many hockey organizations, there are two referees who administer each game. These may be assisted by one or two linesmen. The linesmen judge less serious infractions such as advancing into an opponent's territory prior to the travel of the puck. Some hockey leagues allow the linesmen to advise the referee on serious infractions such as striking a player with a hockey stick with excessive force. This results in a penalty for the infraction and is designed to reduce the chance that a player is able to escape punishment for undesirable actions. Linesmen also allow the resumption of play after a stoppage. They assemble the players on opposite sides of a faceoff circle. This is a painted spot on the surface of the ice. The linesman drops the puck in the circle which signals that the two players facing off can attempt to gain possession of the puck. They they resume the objective of scoring into the opposing team's goal.

Video Replay
The National Hockey League uses a video replay to determine the validity of scored goals. In many cases, there can be considerable doubt about whether a goal was legally scored or invalidated due to an infraction of a rule. Video cameras are positioned to view each hockey goal from several angles. In the event of a goal scoring question, league officials review the camera recordings to make a determination about the goal. Play is stopped while the video is reviewed. When a ruling for or against a goal is made, the game referee announces the result. If a goal was scored, the fact is recorded. If not, play resumes from a faceoff.

Hockey is a popular spectator sport. Many of the games attract thousands of paying fans to the hockey arenas where they watch the game live. The highest attendance figure for a live hockey game was over 71 thousand. Millions more often watch hockey games that are broadcast on television. While the highest number of viewers are for championship games, especially the final playoff series in the National Hockey League, regular season games often have 10,000 to 17,000 or more spectators in the arena and high numbers of television viewers. While hockey has the smallest fan base of the four major professional sports, in Canada it is very popular, outranking the other three sports in that country. Since it is a winter sport played on ice, the hockey season is usually in the northern winter. Due to the number of games, the final championship games, especially in the National Hockey League can occur in the early summer.


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Inbred Strains of Mice and their Characteristics

This is an up-date of the last listing published in Mouse Genome 94(3) (September 1996). A total of 478 strains are listed, though many of these must be extinct. If anyone knows of such extinct strains, please let me know. In a few cases data on extinct strains is given but the fact that it is extinct is noted. About 150 new references have been quoted.

Note that the strains are listed in order according to the ASCII code, with strains having a numerical designation such as 129 listed before strains with an alphabetic designation such as A. Special characters such as a slash (/) also come before alphabetic ones.

Some of the more widely used strains have become divided into substrains among which there are detectable genetic differences. This is likely to accelerate as we learn more about such differences using the very wide range of genetic markers which are now available. Two extensive studies on the 129 strain have recently been published, and the nomenclature of this family will be revised in due course. A similar study on the SL family has also clarified the relationships between existing substrains.

Many of the strains are related, having come from the same outbred colony, or having some other form of common ancestry. Other strains are derived directly from wild mice. There is increasing evidence that laboratory mice have been developed with contributions from more than one species/subspecies of wild mouse. For example, some strains carry the Mus musculus domesticus Y-chromosome, while others have the M.m. musculus type. Thus, Nishioka (1987) found the following: \par

M.m. musculus type

A/J, AEJ/Gn, AU/SsJ, BALB/cJ, BDP/J, BXSB/MpJ, CBA/J, CE/J, C3H/HeJ, C57BL/6J, DA/HuSn, DBA/2J, HRS/J, HTG/Go,, I/Ln, LP/J, NZB/BlN, NZW/Lac, P/J, RIIIS/J, SB/Le, SEA/Gn, SEC/1ReJ, SF/Cam, SK/Cam, SM/J, WB/ReJ, WC/ReJ, YBR/Ei, 129/J. \par

M.m. domesticus type

AKR/J, BUB/J, MA/MyJ, PL/J, RF/J, SJL/J, ST/bJ, SWR/J, SWV. \par

The number of generations of full-sib mating is given for each strain, but this should be regarded as an approximate figure, as it varies considerably between colonies, and it is very difficult to keep it updated. In any case it is doubtful whether the exact figure has much significance once 30-40 generations have been completed, except possibly in studies of substrain differentiation.

In the case of quantitative characteristics strains have been ranked, and approximately the top and bottom quarter of the strains have been ranked as `high' and `low' ,respectively. Thus, `low intra strain aggression (13/14)' indicates that in a study of intra-strain aggression the strain in question ranked thirteenth out of fourteen strains being tested. These strain rankings should be treated with some caution, as they depend on exactly which strains happened to be chosen for the study, and the rankings could be altered by environmental influences. In some cases it will be noted that studies by different workers are contradictory. In the case of qualitative characteristics a `cf'. (compare) precedes the number responding out of the number tested. Thus good immune response to X antigen (cf. 4/8) means that the strain was one of four responders out of eight tested. Several papers describe pairs of strains which are known from previous work to differ. In this case the paper is quoted and the contrasting strain is noted in parenthases.

Where a substantial amount of information is available for a given strain this has been classified into `Behaviour', `Life-span and spontaneous disease', etc. The heading `Drugs' refers to response to any xenobiotic such as chemicals and drugs, and also includes response to irradiation. \par

In compilations of this sort, substrain differences present a problem. Where there are major substrains of an inbred strain, an attempt has been made to show which one was involved in each study. However, references have been given, and where necessary the original article should be consulted. \par

I would appreciate it if people could send me reprints and other information which describe strain characteristics which are not listed here, and bring any inaccuracies or omissions to my attention. The previous listing is already available on-line in a searchable database which can be accessed via the Jackson Laboratory (see contribution by Dr. Janan Eppig in this issue). This updated version will be put on line as soon as possible. I would like to take this opportunity of thanking the Jackson Laboratory for providing this service. \par

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In most Oakland car accidents, a CHP officer or police officer will make an accident report. The report will identify the drivers, the vehicles and the causes of the accident. The reports also refer to California Vehicle Code section(s) broken by the party or parties responsible for the car accident.

There are some cases where the driver liable for a car accident has run a red light, or where he or she has made an illegal turn in an intersection. In those car accidents, the reporting officer can simply refer to the section which makes it illegal to run a red light, or make an illegal turn. But what does the reporting officer do when there is no clear-cut rule that was broken and one of the drivers was just driving dangerously, causing a car accident? One Vehicle Code section they can turn to is 22350. That section provides:

No person shall drive a vehicle upon a highway at a speed greater than is reasonable or prudent having due regard for weather, visibility, the traffic on, and the surface and width of, the highway, and in no event at a speed which endangers the safety of persons or property.

This is most often seen in the case of a rear-end car accident like those that happen every day on highway 880 or highway 580 in Oakland. Often the person at fault for the car accident was not driving over the speed limit, but was just driving too fast for the prevailing conditions. In such a case, party causing the rear-end collision can be said to have been driving without due regard for the traffic on the road.

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Is This 3-Month-Old Baby Really Talking?! Watch Him Tell Dad: 'I Love You!'

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Is this three-month-old baby really saying, "I love you"?

In a YouTube video posted by user Ted Moskalenko, his son Ben mimicked him, saying what sounds like "I love you." The video by Moskalenko, who lives in North Carolina, is triggering a national debate: did he, or didn't he?

Read: Dad Breaks Down When Son Surprises Him With a House

"It was an utter shock to me because it was really, I guess his first words," his dad told INSIDE EDITION. "Seeing him mimic me was just unbelievable."

Speech patholgist Stacey Miller added: "Typically, we don't see speech and verbal speech until around 18 months. This could have just been an imitation. It could have just been he heard it a lot."

Proud parents Ted and Michelle are convinced little Ben is talking.

"He paused, and looked at me and repeated the words," Ted said. "He doesn't know what they mean yet, it's not like he can talk, but the fact that he was able to reproduce [the sounds] was impressive."

Read: See Tot Covered Head to Toe in Paint; Parents Now Raising Money for Autism

INSIDE EDITION tried to get Ben to repeat it for viewers, but it was a no go.

It's not just proud parents of babies who are boasting their talking tots. The owners of Mishka the husky think he talks, too. In one video, it sounds as if the dog is also saying, “I love you.”

Check out the baby video and decide for yourself!

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Robin van Persie-Wayne Rooney Combination Fires Manchester United to Success Against Cluj

Wednesday, 3rd October, 2012

Manchester United displayed great spirit last night when coming from 1-0 down to beat Romanian outfit CFR Cluj in the Champions League.

The Red Devils fell behind to a strike from Greek forward Pantelis Kapetanos in the 14th minute, but did not have to wait too long to get back on level terms, with Robin van Persie scoring in the 29th minute.

Van Persie had been set up for his first goal by fellow striker Wayne Rooney, and it was Rooney again who turned provider just into the second half, to help the Dutchman grab his second.

That put Manchester United 2-1 ahead and it was an advantage Sir Alex Ferguson’s men never relinquished, claiming three valuable points in Romania.

Ferguson’s side dominated possession, enjoying 67% of the ball on the night, while they also registered more shots on goal than Cluj.

Even so, the Red Devils may feel they could have produced a better display, especially with the talent they had on the pitch.

Elsewhere in Group H, Portuguese side Braga bounced back from an opening group game defeat to Cluj by visiting Turkey and beating Galatasaray 2-0.

The result opens up the race for second place in the group, while Manchester United are firmly in charge on top with six points.

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I don't understand why people are so high on Stephen Curry... what position is going to play in the NBA?? Does anyone actually think he can run an NBA team at the point, or even guard ANYONE at either PG or SG??

My NBA comparison for him is Eddie House

He can shoot. The NBA always can use another shooter. And at 6'3"... I don't think he'll be terrible guarding PGs. He will play PG, and would be best suited on a team where he is the second option (BTW: news flash, Mo isn't a natural PG either).
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There is no doubt that some hedge funds’ 13F filings disclose rich trading ideas, but these filings are generally considered delayed and irrelevant. Nevertheless, the research conducted by Insider Monkey provides evidence that these public filings can offer high-potential trading opportunities despite their supposed limitations (i.e. do not reveal short positions, filed within 45 days from the end of each quarter). That said, hedge funds’ 13G and 13D filings can provide more up-to-date insights on top money managers’ most prominent stances and their positions on certain stocks. With this in mind, let’s proceed with a discussion of three 13G filings submitted with the U.S Securities and Exchange Commission by several hedge funds tracked by our team.

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Let’s first take a step back and analyze how tracking hedge funds can help an everyday investor. Through our research we discovered that a portfolio of the 15 most popular small-cap picks of hedge funds beat the S&P 500 Total Return Index by nearly a percentage point per month on average between 1999 and 2012. On the other hand the most popular large-cap picks of hedge funds underperformed the same index by seven basis points per month during the same period. This is likely a surprise to many investors, who think of small-caps as risky, unpredictable stocks and put more faith (and money) in large-cap stocks. In forward tests since August 2012 these top small-cap stocks beat the market by an impressive 53 percentage points, returning 102% (read the details here). Follow the smart money into only their best investment ideas all while avoiding their high fees.

In a freshly-filed 13G, Ricky Sandler’s Eminence Capital L.P. reported owning 7.03 million shares of HomeAway Inc. (NASDAQ:AWAY), up by 3.00 million shares from the position disclosed through the 13F filing for the September quarter. The newly-upped stake accounts for 7.3% of the company’s outstanding common stock. Earlier this month, Expedia Inc. (NASDAQ:EXPE) and HomeAway entered into a definitive cash-and-stock agreement, under which Expedia is set to acquire the operator of the nation’s largest vacation-home rental site for approximately $3.9 billion. If the aforementioned acquisition gets approved, each shareholder of HomeAway Inc. (NASDAQ:AWAY) will receive $10.15 in cash and 0.2064 of an Expedia common share per each HomeAway share owned, which yields a return of roughly $35.47 per share at the time of writing. It is anticipated that the deal will result in strong long-term earnings growth should the shareholders of HomeAway approve the acquisition.

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The number of smart money investors within our database that owned HomeAway’s stock at the end of the second quarter stood at 31, compared to 32 at the end of the first quarter. These hedge funds accumulated 19.10% of the company’ shares on June 30, while their investments in HomeAway climbed to $563.58 million from $362.49 million during the three-month period. Brian Bares’ Bares Capital Management cut its position in HomeAway Inc. (NASDAQ:AWAY) by 369,231 shares during the September quarter, remaining with 2.69 million shares.

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How do you pick the next stock to invest in? One way would be to spend hours of research browsing through thousands of publicly-traded companies. However, an easier way is to look at the stocks that smart money investors are collectively bullish on and going from there. Hedge funds and other institutional investors usually invest large amounts of capital and have to conduct due diligence while choosing their next stock pick. They don’t always get it right, but, on average, their stock picks historically generate strong returns after adjusting for known risk factors. With this in mind, let’s take a look at the recent hedge fund activity surrounding Depomed Inc (NASDAQ:DEPO).

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In the eyes of most market participants, hedge funds are viewed as unimportant, outdated investment tools of the past. While there are more than 8,000 funds trading today, Insider Monkey looks at only the crème de la crème of this club, approximately 700 funds. It is estimated that this group of investors command the bulk of the smart money’s total asset base, and by tailing their top picks, Insider Monkey has come up with a number of investment strategies that have historically outpaced Mr. Market. Insider Monkey’s small-cap hedge fund strategy beat the S&P 500 index by 12 percentage points per year for a decade in its back tests.

With all of this in mind, we’re going to take a peek at the fresh action regarding Depomed Inc (NASDAQ:DEPO).

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At the end of the third quarter, a total of 32 of the hedge funds tracked by Insider Monkey held long positions in this stock, an increase of 45% from one quarter earlier. With hedge funds’ positions undergoing their usual ebb and flow, there exists a few key hedge fund managers who were increasing their holdings significantly.

According to hedge fund intelligence website Insider Monkey, Richard Mashaal’s Rima Senvest Management had the most valuable position in Depomed Inc (NASDAQ:DEPO), worth close to $51.9 million, comprising 3.7% of its total 13F portfolio. The second-most bullish hedge fund manager was TIG Advisors, led by Carl Tiedemann and Michael Tiedemann, holding a $48.5 million position; the fund had 2.2% of its 13F portfolio invested in the stock. Remaining peers that were bullish contained Thomas Steyer’s Farallon Capital, Matthew Mark’s Jet Capital Investors, and Curtis Schenker and Craig Effron’s Scoggin.

As industrywide interest jumped, some big names have jumped into Depomed Inc (NASDAQ:DEPO) headfirst. TIG Advisors initiated the most outsized position in Depomed Inc (NASDAQ:DEPO) through the aforementioned holding. Farallon Capital made a $30.3 million investment in the stock during the quarter. The following funds were also among the new DEPO investors: Jet Capital Investors, Scoggin, and Alec Litowitz and Ross Laser’s Magnetar Capital.

Let’s also take a look at hedge fund activity in other stocks similar to Depomed Inc (NASDAQ:DEPO). These stocks are MRC Global Inc (NYSE:MRC), AVG Technologies NV (NYSE:AVG), Acorda Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:ACOR), and CYS Investments Inc (NYSE:CYS). This group of stocks’ market caps are similar to DEPO’s market cap.

Ticker No of HFs with positions Total Value of HF Positions (x1000) Change in HF Position
MRC 24 332103 -3
AVG 20 92654 -2
ACOR 17 203130 1
CYS 8 5038 0

As you can see, Depomed is quite a bit more popular than its peers and investors are overweight the stock, holding 23.30% of its common shares. Coupled with soaring sentiment, Depomed is certainly a stock that smart money is high on at the moment, which could indicate near-term tailwinds.

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Okay, I have been dying for a stylus of some sort, but I can't buy one and apparently all the really good homemade ones need conductive foam, which I don't have, and can't buy. So I looked on the Internet to see how to make one, and they're pretty simple-with one problem. They don't seem to work, at least not on my IPod touch, so I decided to improvise and try some stuff out. I remembered my friend saying that the reason why the IPod/IPad styluses work was because they needed to be a bit soft, like our skin, while online sources explain the electron stuff. So, for an even better outcome, commen sense told me to combine the two elements together.

Step 1: The Materials

You need: Ã¢ÂÂ¢Aluminum Foil/Tinfoil (whichever people call it) Ã¢ÂÂ¢cloth* Ã¢ÂÂ¢thread** Ã¢ÂÂ¢scissors Ã¢ÂÂ¢a pen*** Ã¢ÂÂ¢tape *For the cloth, it needs to be thin. I used the inside of a recently washed old swimsuit, as swimsuits have a soft thin inside cloth layer which has enough strength to stay together. **It must be thread, yarn is way to thick ***This stylus is rather reserved for which pen to use. It must unscrew only the tip of the pen, there must be a spring, and the ink barrel must fit through the hole in the tip of the pen but does not fall out of the pen due to the design. The barrel widening or 2 little nubs of plastic sticking out are some things that keep the ink barrel from falling out.

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Here you will need just the pen and maybe a pair of pliers. Unscrew the pen, and take out the spring and ink barrel. Then, place the spring back in first. This will cancel out any barrel movement when one pushes the button normally used to push the internal pen out. For the ink barrel, you will have to remove the ink dispensal section. This is where pliers may help. Also, it is best if your ink barrel has dried up, because then there will be less complications. There is no picture for this step because that section had already been removed. Once you are done with removing the ballpoint section, place the ink barrel back in FRONT of the spring. Screw the point back on. A part of the barrel should be sticking out the point of the pen.

Step 3: Finger Representation

This is where the scissors, cloth, and thread come in. Using the scissors, cut a 1 inch diameter circle (It doesn't have to be exact). Then, place a few scraps inside. Too little, it won't work, too much, it will become a hindrance and may fall off. Also, cut a long piece of thread, making it around 8-10 inches. Set aside for later use. Then, place the pen point (which is now the barrel part that sticks out) in the middle of the scrap pile, making sure it is on a slightly thicker spot. Then, using the cloths bits that surround the scraps, pull it so that it covers the pen. You should see a nicely sized bulge where the pen point is. Now, here is the part where you need intense focus and patience. Using the thread, wind it tightly beneath the bulge. After winding it several times, you should have at least 1 and 1/2 inches of thread left on each side. Tie the ends together twice. If you wish, you may tie some more knots for extra security.

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Next, cut out a roughly 2 by 2 inch square of foil. Then, cut about a third of it off in the form of a trapezoid. Cut another strip of foil from the leftovers. Wrap the square-like foil around the point of the pen. Before you secure it with tape, slide one end of the foil strip under the covering to help conduct the electrons. When you tape the foil together, on the strip, only tape the edges. Leave the middle exposed so that the electrons in you fingers with be conducted. Now, you have made a very nice stylus, so go test it, and once you've confirmed it works, enjoy! I have done the last two steps on a few different things (bamboo skewers, a chopstick) to see the outcome, and they all turned out fine. If you need to modify the steps a little, go ahead. Also, you might need to find a "sweet spot", a place where it always works for this stylus as to guarantee that it will work.
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originally, this was going to be a messenger bag, but before I was even half-way through, I realized that I didn't have nearly enough yarn. so, I bound off and sewed it together as a purse. The reason I had started making this purse, was because i wanted a excuse to make an I-cord for the strap of something. After I bound off and sewed the purse together, I realized that I didn't even have enough yarn for an I-cord strap. So i finger wove the strap using two fingers instead of four. I then crocheted the strap into the purse. At several points of the making, I was tempted to just throw it out. I had never done anything that big before. But, I stuck with it, and finally finished it on January 13th this year.
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Inflows to gold-related exchange-traded funds (ETFs) trading in the U.S. were solid in the first quarter, but data suggest that overall global bullion demand was lethargic in the first three months of 2017. Year-over-year comparisons were bound to be difficult to top for gold because the first quarter of 2016 represented record investor demand for the yellow metal. Global central banks played a role in sluggish first quarter demand this year.

"The 18 percent year-on-year decline suffers from the comparison with Q1 2016, which was the strongest ever first quarter," said the World Gold Council (WGC). "Inflows into ETFs of 109.1 tonnes, although solid, were nonetheless a fraction of last year's near-record inflows. Slower central bank demand also contributed to the weakness. Bar and coin investment, however, was healthy at 289.8 tonnes (+9 percent year-on-year), while demand firmed slightly in both the jewelry and technology sectors." (See also: Top 10 Countries With the Highest Demand for Gold Jewelry.)

Even as the Federal Reserve raised U.S. interest rates in March, marking the third time in 15 months it did so, investors poured nearly $458 million in new assets into the SPDR Gold Shares (GLD), the world's largest gold ETF, in the first three months of the year. Gold typically loses allure among investors when interest rates rise because bullion does not pay dividends or interest. Additionally, the dollar usually strengthens when rates rise, weighing on dollar-denominated commodities. However, the dollar has been flat this year, helping buoy gold in the face of rising rates. (See also: The Effect of Fed Fund Rate Hikes on Gold.)

European investors displayed enthusiasm for gold ETFs in the first quarter. "Although inflows were just one-third of the extraordinary levels seen in Q1 2016, demand was firm. European-listed products were the most popular, due to continued political uncertainty in the region," said the World Gold Council.

In the first quarter, investors were enthusiastic about gold miners, namely the VanEck Vectors Gold Miners ETF (GDX) and the VanEck Vectors Junior Gold Miners (GDXJ). GDX and GDXJ, the two largest gold miners ETFs, saw combined first quarter inflows of over $2.6 billion, but that situation is reversing in the current quarter. With gold prices recently retreating, investors have yanked over $2.1 billion combined from GDX and GDXJ this quarter.

Investors are departing GDX and GDXJ even as they add money to GLD. GLD has seen second quarter inflows of nearly $870 million. After a slow first quarter, central banks could boost bullion going forward. "Central banks showed a diminished appetite for gold purchases; China's purchasing program was on pause during the quarter as its foreign exchange reserves remained under pressure. Sales, once again, were sparse," according to the World Gold Council. (See also: What Drives the Price of Gold?)

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Large cap companies are usually the best-known companies traded in the public markets.  Some of these companies include Apple, Exxon-Mobile, Wal-Mart and Ford Motor Company.

Assume Conglomo Inc. is a publicly traded company. Its current stock price is $125 per share, and there are 200 million shares on the market.  Conglomo’s total market capitalization is:

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The murder of a 10-year-old boy whose throat was slit in a playground in Taiwan over the weekend has reignited a debate over the death penalty after the suspect reportedly said he would get away with a life sentence.

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Public anger mounted after the 29-year-old suspect was quoted in the media as saying he would get a life sentence at most “even if he were to kill two or three persons” and that he wanted to go to jail to avoid having to worry about living expenses.

Protesters, who were also outraged over reports the suspect said he “targeted kids because they were less likely to fight back”, gathered outside the justice ministry on Thursday to demand the execution of the island's death row inmates.

There are currently 61 death row inmates in Taiwan, caught in limbo partly by a lengthy legal process and partly by a virtual moratorium on executions. The longest-serving of them has been waiting to be executed for 25 years.

“We demand the government abide by the law and enforce capital punishment to maintain law and order in our society. We oppose abolishing the death penalty,” said Angela Wang, head of a child welfare promotion association.

As the government has not carried out any execution in nearly two years, some criminals are getting the impression that they will avoid the death sentence even if they commit murders, Wang said.

Taiwan reserves the death penalty for serious crimes including aggravated murder, kidnapping and robbery, but the political elite is divided about whether to maintain it.

A lingering debate on abolishing the death penalty was renewed recently, particularly after judicial and military authorities came under fire over the execution of a soldier wrongly convicted in a child murder case.

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        /// Convert a given DateTime object to a user's local time,
        /// taking into account changes in TimeZone rules.
        /// For example, if you were to perform this operation on
        /// a time now, during EST Daylight Saving, and that time falls
        /// outside the scope of Daylight Saving time, the rule will adjust accordingly.
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        /// <param name="dateTime">The DateTime object</param>
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        public static DateTime ConvertToLocalDateTime(this DateTime dateTime, int offset)
            TimeZoneInfo destinationTimeZone = TimeZoneInfo.GetSystemTimeZones()
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            var rule = destinationTimeZone.GetAdjustmentRules().Where(x =>
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            TimeSpan baseOffset = TimeSpan.Zero;
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                baseOffset -= destinationTimeZone.IsDaylightSavingTime(dateTime) ?
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            DateTimeOffset dto = DateTimeOffset.Parse(dateTime.ToString());
            return new DateTime(TimeZoneInfo
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Sherkin Island is located off the mainland of County Cork and is accessible by a ferry that leaves from Baltimore. In the mid-15th century, a friary was founded on the island, and it was both a place of worship and centre of learning.

The historic Sherkin Island can be reached by a 15-minute ferry ride from Baltimore, County Cork. The island is home to the ruins of a Franciscan friary established in the mid-1400s as a centre of both religion and learning.

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There was good news and bad news for Irish leader Enda Kenny in the latest opinion poll taken at the weekend by the Sunday Independent.

With about five months to an election the poll showed his Fine Gael Party streaking ahead reaching 29 percent their highest in a few years.

The bad news however is that the coalition partner Labour were hopelessly mired around seven per cent in the polls which makes it very difficult to see them returning to power with Fine Gael unless a slew of unruly independents are included.

Fianna Fail continued their steady climb back from oblivion after the financial crisis at 24 per cent while Sinn Fein polled an impressive 21 per cent despite continuous media barrages against them.

Independents were at 19 per cent but represent such diverse views that it is impossible to see them as a coherent unit.

Fine Gael plus Labour amount to only 36 per cent in the poll leaving it clearly apparent that, barring a miracle turnaround, the same combination will not be in power after the next election.

Labour knew the risk going into power, the reality has been that every minority party in recent coalition governments have been savaged by the electorate.

Indeed the Progressive Democrats are no more, the Green Party do not have a single member of the dial and Labour under one scenario could end up with exactly the same result -- i.e. wiped out.

The question then is who will FIne Gael coalesce with or will Enda Kenny seek to run a minority government and dare the other parties to bring him down and destabilise the political equation?

There are other possibilities of course, Fine Gael and Fianna Fail would easily form a government together but that would represent such a radical departure given that Irish politics since 1921 has been based on the enmity between both sides.

Then there is a possible Fianna Fail/Sinn Fein coalition which would come close enough under this current poll that it could likely govern with a few independents.

Lastly there is a Fine Gael/Sinn Fein government, the strangest bedfellows of all, but one that would be no stranger than avowed Haughey hater and Fianna Fail party reject Dessie O'Malley agreeing to coalesce with Haughey and Fianna Fail when he formed the Progressive Democrats.

Even the Irish bookmakers seem confused with the Fine Gael/Fianna Fail combination favorite at even money, no bargain that.

Such a government would likely reorient Irish politics for ever into the traditional right/left division with Sinn Fein becoming the main opposition party.

That might well suit them best too as they seek to align their prospects North and South.

Sinn Fein play the long game better than any other party especially when you consider just a few years back they enjoyed only 2 per cent or so support North and South.

By 2020 or so it is likely Sinn Fein will be aiming full bore at getting into government in the Irish Republic but this 2016 election may be coming too soon.

Either way it will be guessing game until the day after the election when Ireland's complicated system of proportional representation may lead to a gap of several days before we know who is elected.

It is also worth noting that polls generally have become far less reliable lately as in the British election when none predicted the Tory clear cut victory nor did they predict when an utter outsider Jeremy Corbyn won the Labour Party leadership.

All to play for then and only months to go. Rarely has an election shaped up to be so full of surprises as this one. Like electorates everywhere there is a volatility that is very hard to predict. This one promises to throw up its share of shocks too.


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The loss of prized recruit Matt James has already revived talk of the Notre Dame head coach curse, which allegedly dates back to when Gerry Faust, a complete bust, was signed as head coach.

"He was the start of the curse of the modern Notre Dame program – they’re good at a lot of things in South Bend but hiring coaches isn’t one of them." wrote Dan Wetzel at Yahoo sports.

The tragic death of his top recruit is obviously going to revive talk about Brian Kelly being cursed too The young man fell to his death from a balcony during an outing in Panama City Florida.

With him went a huge part of Kelly's pans to plug the holes in the offensive line from last season.

But look to Kelly to put all talk of a curse behind him and dedicate this year to the fallen freshman and motivate his players accordingly

"Six-foot-eight, 290-pounds and a big ol' teddy bear," said Kelly said remembering James, who he knew for years.

"He came to Notre Dame because of his personality. He wanted to make a difference. He wanted to stand out. That's the kind of kid he was. That's what I'll remember about him."

The team seem to be taking the loss of James to heart also.

"Words can't express the feelings that have flown through the locker room," Irish quarterback Dayne Crist said. "Matt James was just an incredible person. Forget football. He was just a great person. He'll definitely be missed and he'll definitely be with us from here on out."

"Everybody on the team feels like we lost a brother," Kyle Rudolph said. "There's nothing not to like about Matt. You hear people describe him, and no matter who you talk to, you get the same response — he's just a gentle giant, never would hurt a fly. He's one of us for sure."

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Argentina’s Ezequiel Morales let his feet do the talking at the Ironman 70.3 Brazil today while winning the fifth edition of the Ironman 70.3 Brazil in Penha, Brazil.

Morales ran more than eight-minutes faster than his closet rival and second place finisher, Igor Amorelli, after starting the run over six-minutes in arrears to Brazil’s Reinaldo Colucci.

Explaining his race, Morales said: "It was a tough race. I got out of the swim very well, concentrated on the bike portion and the first lap of the run. I felt like I could win, even though Igor and Colucci kept a good pace. I just felt tired in the last lap."

Brazil’s Reinaldo Colucci, who eventually finished third, lead the men’s field from the sound of the starting cannon and onto the run, but succumbed to the running strength of Morales just before the 10 km point.

"I really felt tired in the end. I already knew it would be difficult. I’m very happy with this place, specially considering that the other two athletes are fantastic," said Colucci, who was successful in obtaining his goal for this race which was to secure a spot for the Foster Grant Ironman World Championship 70.3.

1. Ezequiel Morales 00:25:51 02:12:29 01:13:39 3:52:18
2. Igor Amorelli 00:24:12 02:09:04 01:21:14 3:54:29
3. Reinaldo Colucci 00:23:31 02:09:44 01:22:49 3:56:02
4. Santiago Ascenço 00:25:56 02:11:32 01:21:48 3:59:15
5. Guto Antunes 00:25:49 02:12:23 01:20:17 3:59:28

In the women’s race, Brazil’s Vanessa Gianinni successfully defended her title with a wire-to wire win that saw her establish a new course record of 4:22:21.

Gianinni credited the win to a great bike ride that left her well ahead of Argentina’s Maria Soledad Omar. "I got to race the race with no threats. Only in the last five kilometers of the race did I feel tired, but I didn’t fail," said Gianinni.

1. Vanessa Gianinni 00:26:40 02:25:22 01:30:18 4:22:21
2. Maria Soledad Omar 00:28:26 02:28:32 01:33:25 4:30:25
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A-V septal defect (AVSD)

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A rare abnormality associated with right aortic arch wherein the sequence of arteries arising from the aortic arch is: right carotid artery, right subclavian artery, then (left) innominate artery. The latter passes behind the esophagus. This is in contrast to the general rule that the first arch artery gives rise to the carotid artery contralateral to the side of the aortic arch (i.e.: right carotid artery in left aortic arch and left carotid artery in right aortic arch). syn. retro-esophageal innominate artery.

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Left aortic arch with minor branching anomalies; Left aortic arch with retroesophageal right subclavian artery.

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Concerning efforts of the negotiating team, the spokesman reminded that all works done concerning nuclear talks should be seen realistically and in its size and capacity.

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 Computers In this four part narrative model, a story begins with an orientation, that details the event type and the major actors in the story,such as family with a newborn infant.

The third part suggests a strategy to counteract that threat, like a parent’s attempt to define how to avoid vaccinating.

Actually the resolution of the story evaluates the success of the strategy in dealing with the threat. I know that the second part, referred to as the complicating action, presents a threat, like the perceived threat to the infant’s health posed by vaccination. Whenever making that model a key part of the computational framework, for the study, and depending on his past scholarship in Danish folklore, Tangherlini and his colleagues came up with a broadly defined model of narrative.

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 Computers Whenever using natural language processing methods, were able to identify characters and the relationships between those characters, discovering the core of the underlying narratives, they aligned this narrative model with nearly two million pieces of aggregated content from the parenting sites.

Whenever using identical extensive online advertising infrastructure currently used by the likes of Google, Facebook and Amazon, users exposed to particular ‘antivaccination’ narrative going to be presented with alternate narratives, on the basis of ‘well tested’ public health paradigms.

Roychowdhury says the way we learn about how stories take shape around any given pic can be applied to targeted messaging like advertising or fighting misinformation by allowing machine learning to automatically decipher false narratives as they proliferate. Researchers said their success at managing largescale data in this way highlights the overarching potential of machine learning, and demonstrates the capability to introduce counternarratives into internet interactions, break up echo chambers and one day potentially help root out fact from fiction for social media users. They examined posts on a site known to be a hub of antivaccine sentiment and another parenting site where opinions on vaccinations were more varied. On p of this, those posts came from 40056 users and were viewed 20 dot 12 million times over a period of nearly nine years ending in Most users on both sites identified themselves as a mother.


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Open-source developers have warned of serious security holes in two Linux components that could allow attackers to take over a system by tricking a user into viewing a specially-crafted image file or opening an archive. Patches exist for the bugs, which affect LHA and imlib.

Imlib, a library for graphics-viewing applications used in the Gnome graphical user environment, contains a bug that could allow the execution of malicious code when a user views a specially crafted bitmap image file, according to Marcus Meissner of Novell Inc.'s Suse Linux. The vulnerability is due to a boundary error in the decoding of runlength-encoded bitmap images, which can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow, according to an advisory from Danish security firm Secunia, which maintains a vulnerabilities database.

Gentoo, MandrakeSoft SA and other Linux vendors have begun distributing fixes for the bug, and a patch is also available from the Gnome project. Imlib 1.x and imlib2 1.x are affected.

The vulnerability is related to last month's BMP-decoding flaw in Qt, a software toolkit used in writing graphical user interface applications using the X Window system in Unix and Linux, Secunia said.

Linux vendor Red Hat Inc. warned of three security holes in LHA, an utility for compressing and decompressing LHarc-format archives. The bugs, affecting all versions up to and including 1.14, could allow the execution of malicious code if a user were tricked into extracting or testing a malicious archive or passing a specially crafted command line to the lha command. The third bug could allow an attacker to create a directory with shell meta characters in its name which could lead to arbitrary command execution.

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family
Animalia Chordata Mammalia Rodentia Muridae

Scientific Name: Mus cookii
Species Authority: Ryley, 1914
Common Name(s):
English Cook's Mouse, Ryley’s Spiny Mouse
Paruromys dominator (Thomas, 1921)
Taxonomic Notes: This is likely to be a species complex (Musser and Carleton 2005). While Mus nagarum (from northeastern India) is considered a synonym of Mus cookii (Musser and Carleton 2005), and it is genetically very similar, it shows many morphological differences from the disjunct population in southeast Asia (K. Aplin pers. comm.).

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Red List Category & Criteria: Least Concern ver 3.1
Year Published: 2016
Date Assessed: 2016-08-05
Assessor(s): Aplin, K., Lunde, D. & Molur, S.
Reviewer(s): Amori, G.
Listed as Least Concern in view of its wide distribution, presumed large population, it presumably occurs in a number of protected areas, has a tolerance of a degree of habitat modification (most especially the western population), and because it is unlikely to be declining fast enough to qualify for listing in a more threatened category.
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Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:This species is found in two distinct populations, one centered on northeastern South Asia (Bangladesh, Bhutan, northeastern India and Nepal [Molur et al. 2005]) and northwestern Myanmar, and a second ranging through central and eastern Myanmar, southern China (Yunnan, west of the Salween River [Smith and Xie 2008]), Thailand, Lao PDR and Viet Nam. Both populations are widespread but patchily distributed. The northwestern population ranges from around 50 to 2,500 m asl (Molur et al. 2005), while the southeastern population occurs from about 200 to 1,500 m asl.
Countries occurrence:
Bangladesh; Bhutan; China; India; Lao People's Democratic Republic; Myanmar; Nepal; Thailand; Viet Nam
Additional data:
Estimated area of occupancy (AOO) - km2:>2000
Lower elevation limit (metres):50
Upper elevation limit (metres):2500
Range Map:Click here to open the map viewer and explore range.

Population [top]

Population:The species is abundant.
Current Population Trend:Stable
Additional data:
Population severely fragmented:No

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:It is present in a wide variety of primary and secondary forest types. In South Asia it is found in subtropical dry deciduous forests, shola grasslands,temperate coniferous and broadleaved forests, and has been found to occupy arable land near Lantana bushes (Molur et al. 2005). In Southeast Asia it is only found in forested areas and occasionally in moderately disturbed areas such as upland gardens in forests. In China, it has been reported from upland rice fields and other disturbed habitats (Smith and Xie 2008).
Generation Length (years):1-2

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s): There are no major threats to the species.

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Conservation Actions: It is presumed to be present in many protected areas. It is possibly present in some protected areas in northeastern India (eg. Namdhapha National Park, Arunachal Pradesh), and is almost certainly present in some protected areas in Southeast Asia. It is categorised as a vermin (Schedule V) of the Indian Wildlife (Protection) Act. No direct conservation measures are currently needed for this widespread and adaptable species. In South Asia, general taxonomic research, field surveys, and monitoring of populations are recommended for this species (Molur et al. 2005).

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Errata reason: This errata assessment has been created because the map was accidentally left out of the version published previously.

Citation: Aplin, K., Lunde, D. & Molur, S. 2016. Mus cookii. (errata version published in 2017) The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T13958A115116516. . Downloaded on 24 May 2017.
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