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<I>Spider-Man</I> Swings Top Sales and Rental Honors

7 Nov, 2002 By: Melinda Saccone

Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment's Spider-Man dominated the home entertainment scene for the week ended Nov. 3. While the actioner wasn't released until Friday, giving it only two days on rental and sales shelves, the $403.7 million box office blockbuster took top honors on both the sales and rental fronts.

According to Nielsen VideoScan First Alert data, Spider-Man was both the top-selling disc and the top-selling cassette for the week ended Nov. 3. On disc, Spider-Man outsold the No. 2 seller for the week, Paramount Home Entertainment's The Sum of All Fears, by a margin of 4.6 to 1. On VHS, the margin was slightly smaller, with Spider-Man beating Cloud Ten Home Entertainment's Left Behind II -- Tribulation Force by a margin of 3.8 to 1.

Spider-Man's sales success did not seem to hinder its performance at the rental counter. In just two days on rental shelves, Spider-Man amassed an astounding $15.6 million in VHS and DVD rental revenue. By comparison, Warner Home Video's Scooby-Doo, also released on a Friday (Oct. 11), debuted with $3.89 million.

In second place for the week was Paramount's The Sum of All Fears, based on the Tom Clancy novel. The actioner earned $11.4 million in combined VHS and DVD rental revenue in its first five days of release.

While five other new releases were among the top 50 rentals for the week, Warner's Eight Legged Freaks was the only other new release to break into the top 10. Freaks debuted at No. 10, with $3.1 million in rental revenue.

Thanks to new releases, rental spending for the week ended Nov. 3 jumped 16.4 percent from the previous week, to $161.1 million, as the fourth-quarter heavy-hitters began to debut. However, rental spending continues to lag last year's: The week's total trailed last year's comparable week by 10.3 percent.

So far this year, consumers have spent $7.37 billion on disc and cassette rentals, down 10.6 percent from the $8.2 billion spent during the comparable period in 2001.

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The KLAA Conference title is on the line Friday as Canton rolls into South Lyon.

The Chiefs bring a 6-1 overall record and want a clean 5-0 in the rugged KLAA South Division to win the title. South Lyon is also 6-1 and suffered its lone loss in the Central Division to Novi.

"This is another game to show 'How good are we?' It's a reward for being good," South Lyon coach Mark Thomas said. "It's a big game and it's someone we don't play regularly. It's like David and Goliath just in sheer numbers in the schools."

Canton makes no bones about what it wants to do – run, run and run some more. The Chiefs will pass occasionally, but the heavy lifting is done on the ground.

"They're good at what they do. They've been running the same thing for years and years," Thomas said. "If it's not broke, you don't fix it."

The onus will be on the Lions' defense to prove it can slow down the running game.

"We need to do our assignments and stay low, so you don't get blown off the ball," Thomas said.

The Lions will have their hands full, but the offense is a good way to play defense. South Lyon will need to finish drives and put up points to help out the defense.

While the season has been everything Thomas and his coaches could have hoped for so far, they are not content.

"Winning this is one of our goals. We've achieved some of them, but we're not done yet. We still have a couple of more goals we want," Thomas said. "We have to go after them with enthusiasm. The good thing is, we are playing at home. I think that is going to help us."


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When Plymouth Whalers hockey fans attend Saturday's "Pink Out!" for breast cancer awareness game against Kingston they will notice something quite different.

The Compuware Arena ice will be pink, the first time that has ever happened since the building opened in 1996.

Hines Park Lincoln (40601 Ann Arbor Rd, Plymouth) is responsible for underwriting the cost of the pink ice.

General Manager Ryan Kolb dyed his hair after 100 percent of his staff donated to reach his challenge. They did it, now he's in the Pink.

The pinking of the ice is also the first of several events surrounding the game on Saturday (7 p.m. puck drop).

The Whalers will have pink hair all week in a not-so-subtle show of support towards Breast Cancer Awareness — up to and including playing in Pennsylvania on Thursday against the top-rated Erie Otters.

On Monday, the Whalers unveiled their distinctive pink jerseys at Hines Park Lincoln.

The pink jerseys will be auctioned off after Saturday's game with proceeds donated to Karmanos Cancer Institute.

KITCHENER 5, PLYMOUTH 3: Sonny Milano scored his first OHL and Plymouth Whalers goal Saturday night, and assisted on two other goals, but his offensive output wasn't enough.

The loss evened Plymouth's record at 6-6-1 entering Thursday's game at Erie.


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Assembling an Egger Bahn 101 Diesel locomotive

A box containing lots of nicely sorted bags with various parts arrived recently, this was supposed to assemble into an Egger Bahn 101 Diesel locomotive.

In the picture I have removed the anchor from the motor as there was some binding inside.

If you need to remove the worm, the best approach is to remove the top from the motor and then push the axle thru the worm with a small screwdriver or something similar. Do not try to remove the plastic worm with pliers as it will damage it. If the brass cover is still in place on the gearbox it can be removed by carefully jacking it up a bit in the rear end with some sharp tweezers and sliding it backwards

Make sure that the upper supports of the motor are straight to ensure no binding.

I also cleaned the collectors with a small “wiper” cut from a non abrasive eraser and removed dirt between the collectors with a dull needle.

Installing the brushes and springs can be a bit tricky, but luckily I had disassembled a Microperm motor some years ago and finally remembered how it went together. Make sure you have a good grip on the springs as they have a tendency to fly into the air – never to be seen again..

Another view of the spring:

I polished the pickups before assembly, then cleaned the brushes and wheels with alcohol. From my experience the pickups should be straightened and given a small angle downwards before assembly.

Assembly is straightforward from now on, but be careful with the pickups and make sure the motor is properly aligned with the chassis.

The socket for the body screw is very brittle and often suffers from small cracks, so I added some thin CA glue here and let it dry before continuing.

Make sure the glue is completely dry before assembly or the screw will sit there forever. Also use care when tightening the screw or the socket may break. If the socket is gone, a nut can be glued on, but this requires some careful positioning.

The noise reducing coils going down on the sides of the motor can be tricky to place properly, they should be put on the outer “corners” of the motor. If they are misplaced you can risk cracking the brittle cab.

Now time for a break…

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Timberwolves Unveil ‘Light Out’ Uniform

New uniforms invade the NBA.

HoopsVibe's Very Quick Call: So who co-signed that we all like short sleeves on uniforms anyway?

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The Minnesota Timberwolves unveiled their new “Lights Out” alternate uniforms that will be worn for 10 games throughout the 2013-14 season. The uniforms debuted on-court at home against the Denver Nuggets and yes, we've got more short-sleeved NBA uniforms. I guess the feedback NBA representatives are getting about short sleeved uniforms is different that what everyone at HoopsVibes thinks. For the record, we're not a fan.
Designed by adidas, the black short-sleeve uniforms are inspired by the rich, sophisticated nightlife of Minneapolis and continue the black uniform tradition the team began in 1996. It features side panels with repeated “M” and “W” patterns to represent the team name. Timberwolves players were involved throughout the design and evaluation process.
“We think our fans are going to really embrace these new uniforms,” said Timberwolves CMO and Sr. VP of Marketing and Communications Ted Johnson. “As we continue to build our brand, it’s very important that we keep giving our fans fresh new looks and opportunities for them to identify with us.”
The jerseys are available for the public to purchase at, the official team shop and merchandise outlets at Target Center, and
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Puppy Training For The First Week

Puppy training is only as hard as you want it to be. Learning how to properly train you puppy is almost a necessity when you first get one. Puppy training during the first week of getting your pet is critical. You definetly need to have certain items such as dog beds, collars, toys, and food and water bowls in place before bringing that new puppy home. Getting your family members involved with certain rules, routines, and responsibilities is just as important. The very first week is the most important of all.

Everybody's emotions about the new pet are on high octane. Enthusiasm levels are just soaring through the roof with your new puppy. Those rules that you set are going to be easily broken with the new puppy. One rule that is always broken, usually by kids, is that you all agreed that the puppy would sleep in the dog bed. Go ahead and try convincing your kids not to sleep with the gentle pet. After that first night you will agree that the puppy must sleep in their own bed.

What you are going to deal with now is barking, whimpering, howling, etc. The puppy is alone and does not want to be. A good rule to have is to play with the puppy gently and quietly. If the puppy looks tired then leave them alone so they can sleep. This will help break them in, so you can sleep better at night. Puppies usually need lots of sleep so do not flood the dog with non-stop attention.

You have covered the sleeping part, now you will need to concentrate on the feeding of the puppy. Decide who is responsible and at what time to feed the puppy properly. Do not have anyone deviate from your plans. That puppy needs a routine and needs to stick to it.

By breaking the routine, you are giving the puppy the wrong impression. Puppies are very impressionable, and deviating from the schedule will only encourage them from sticking to it. Since puppies are so impressionable, it is important to begin explaining the rules right away. Don't give them special license to get away with anything just because they are a puppy. If you allow them to have their way about certain things now, they will only be confused later when you decide to change the rules.

Puppies learn very quickly with proper instruction. Never hit your puppy or give harsh reprimands. They don't mean to misbehave - they are just doing whatever comes naturally. Instead, show your puppy what kind of behavior you want. Teach them to play with their toys. Make them fun and exciting.

Let them know how happy you are and how good they are when they chew them.The only way you can instruct your puppy is to be there. If you can't be there, don't allow them to have access to places where they can get into trouble.

Your puppy's emotional and mental health is just as important as their physical health. When you schedule your puppy's first veterinary visit, also schedule them into a puppy socialization class. They may not be able to attend yet, but reserve your place now so you don't miss out. Puppy socialization classes give your puppy an opportunity to meet a variety of people and dogs in a controlled situation.

If your puppy is to be a well-adjusted adult dog, they need to learn how to act properly around other dogs and people. Dogs that are not socialized frequently grow up to be aggressive and excessively fearful. Last but not leastyou need to schedule an appointment with your veterinarian immediately. Discuss your puppy's vaccination schedule and when they will be allowed outside. Puppies are susceptible to many canine diseases until they are fully vaccinated; so don't take your puppy outside until your veterinarian says it is OK.

Ralph Ruckman owns a weblog on puppy training. For more information you can visit the blog at: Puppy Training

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Adhesive Brass Engraved Plate - Horse Designs 2

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  • Horse design 2 ornamental engraved brass nameplate with adhesive back. Good for picture frames, pet memorials and much more.
  • Horseshoes, Black Stallion, Equestrian, Running Horse, Rearing Horse, Trotting Horse, Galloping Horse, Prancing Horse, Horse and Rider
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Horse Design 2 Engraved Ornamental Brass Plate Adhesive Back

Solid satin brass nameplate .020" thick includes up to 2 lines of engraving and 2 images. Max 14 characters per line. Nameplate comes with an adhesive back. Just peel off top layer and stick to your item. Choose your font and enter your engraving information above. Make sure to choose the image you would like engraved on your brass nameplate.

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Small $7.95 - 2 1/2" x 3/8"
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** Design Selection: The best design option for this nameplate is a design that is wider than it is tall if you are entering a single or short name. If you are entering a large amount of text we do not recommend adding a design to the plate as the design and text will be very small and hard to read. If choosing a design that is taller than it is wide please consider the height of the nameplate as it may not show up very large on the plate. If you have questions about the best design selection to make for your plate please email us before placing your order as personalized items are non-returnable.

* Layout: We will layout your nameplate to work best with the text you enter and the design you choose.

* Font Information: We will engrave your text EXACTLY how you type it in on your order. So if you use upper and lower case letters that is how it will be engraved. If you use all CAPITAL letters that is how it will be engraved. Except for cursive, tango, edwardian script and script as they are only available in Upper and Lower case. So no matter how you type those fonts they will be engraved in upper and lower case. Again we engrave EXACTLY how you type it in! Feel free to email us with any questions. To view font options and image options please click the image below the main product image above.

**  Font Style Fiolex Girls: This font automatically places 1 - 2 engraved hearts over every capital letter and over all the lower case i letters. So if you use all capital letters there will be hearts for each letter. If you enter Upper and Lower case the upper case letters will have hearts and any lower case i. Look carefully at the font image above to see how the font looks with the engraved hearts.

This engraved nameplate is perfect for use on frames, pet memorials, wood grooming totes, tack trunks, doors...pretty much any where you can stick a brass plate. The possibilities are endless. If you have that perfect picture from your last horse show frame it and then order an engraved nameplate for it. You could put your horses name in the first line of text and then the horse show name and placing in the second line of text. So you will always remember that special horse show.

*If you are looking for a similar sized brass plate that can be attached to a leather item such as a bridle, dog collar, leather belt, etc. Please look for the appropriate plate as this plate does not come with drilled holes, it has an adhesive back.

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I have always loved Groupon. From trying out new restaurants, to going to new places and to some of my favorite tea salons or having much needed spa days, I have had many amazing experiences through Groupon. I was pleased to learn about Groupon Coupons! I’ve found many hidden gems that I can use for places that I already am going to anyways. For me this means I get to save some money for things I was already planning on buying and can put this money towards other fun things I love to do, like travel. 😉

Groupon Coupons is one of those places you will want to check out before traveling or going out  shopping. You can look up the latest offerings by location if you want to see what’s near you or to a destination you will be traveling to. You can also search by category; Food & Drink, Beauty & Spas, Travel, Electronics, Things to Do and more. With Groupon Coupons, you can save on more than just events and experiences!  You can find coupons that work and are verified from lots of your favorite retailers. I’ve loved using Groupon in the past and now I can use it even more!

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Harrington Hall, Dublin

Located in the heart of Georgian Dublin is the Harrington Hall, which is perfect for the business and leisure traveller alike to enjoy the surrounding galleries, museums, cathedrals, theatres, fashionable shopping streets, restaurants and pubs.

The hotel is family run and is located in two magnificent Georgian houses, and retain many of their classic features including their magnificent marble fireplaces and breathtaking ceilings and plasterwork. All thirty of the beautifully appointed en suite rooms include direct dial telephones, optional fax facilities, modem ports, tea and coffee making facilities, remote control multi channel televisions, and much more. The hotel also offers a number of junior suites.

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The hotel's restaurant provides a high standard of food and drink, and offers both a la carte and table de hote menus. A full Irish breakfast is included in the basic rate for each occupant.The hotel is situated on Harcourt Street, just a two minute stroll from beautiful St. Stephens Green, and cosmopolitan Grafton Street with its exclusive selection of shops, bars and clubs. Just five minutes stroll from the hotel, visitors will find The National Gallery, Government Buildings and The Natural History Museum.

Located within ten minutes walk are the fashionable Temple Bar with its fantastic and varied selection of Bars and Restaurants, the Olympia theatre which is very a popular concert venue, and of course O'Connell Street, Dublin's main street with its excellent shopping facilities. The hotel is located in the heart of one of Dublin's business districts, and the International Financial Services Centre (IFSC), in Dublin's docklands is located just a 15 Minute stroll away.


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The Best Exercises & Diets According To Body Structure

Everybody is different and everyone should “put in order” different stakes body. We all have a different body type. There are the best exercises for body structure, however, just as important, what they should eat.
In relation to how you are built, there are generalized rules of what is desirable to eat, and what you should avoid.
Get the details below and try to apply in practice!

Body Type & Diets! The Best Exercises & Diets According To Body Structure!

Body type without pronounced curves

Your training should be intensive and pay attention to every muscle.
Concentrate on exercises that will shape the waist, as well as the muscles. Also, they are very important exercises for the stomach.
Breakfast should be your largest meal while it is good to reduce the amount of food for lunch and dinner.
Eat more carbohydrates and less protein. Reduce intake of dairy products, baked goods, candy and raw foods.

Pear body type – smaller breasts, wider hips

If you have a pear body type, for you are the ideal training exercises that involve endurance.
It would be best to practice or early morning or late afternoon.
Eat more fruits, vegetables, and lean protein.
Avoid butter, sauces, pasta, flour, vinegar and chocolate.

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The figure as hourglass

Do you have a great figure and it would be good to keep training activities such as dance group or any group sport.
It would be best to practice late in the afternoon.
Consume plenty of green vegetables, dairy products, and animal protein is low-fat.
Fruit, bread, sugar and caffeine eat very sparingly.

Apple body type – expanding above a narrow lower body

Swimming is great for you to sculpt the body, but does not increase muscle tone.
Besides swimming, pay attention to running, brisk walking and aerobics.
Therefore, If you are on a diet, choose one which would comply with vegetarians.
Avoid sweets, sour cream, and butter.
Fit exercise and diet yourself to look really the best possible!

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Pop Rocks: Fantasy Football For (Immature) Dummies

Pop Rocks: Fantasy Football For (Immature) Dummies

Football season is almost upon us. For many people, this time of year offers renewed hope for the future, ranging from the merely possible (can the Saints repeat?) to the improbable (will the Texans make the playoffs) to the "You gotta be fucking kidding me" (Kris Brown kicks a last-minute field goal to win the Super Bowl).

For fantasy sports enthusiasts, the new football season brings an entirely new set of expectations. Namely, the potential for a healthy financial windfall and a whole spring/summer's worth of trash-talking, all based solely on whether you were lucky enough to start Jay Cutler during one of the three games he throws more TDs than picks.

Fantasy football has exploded in popularity in recent decades, and some people -- including a few yours truly competes with -- take this shit seriously. Some of us, on the other hand, have a different perspective on the fantasy draft. Specifically, I like to draft players with the dirtiest sounding names.

The All-Beavis Draft, so named for its potential to make grown men giggle like junior high kids, has a long and storied tradition dating back to last Thursday night when my friend TK and I came up with the idea at our own league draft. Let's get to it.

1. Chris Johnson, RB (TEN) -- Happily, this one actually coincides with the consensus #1 overall pick in most drafts. He's a threat to break the single season rushing record, and his last name is another term for a guy's schlong. Talk about an all-around player.

2. Roddy White, WR (ATL) -- The Falcons' passing game looks to open it up even more this season, and "Roddy," like "Johnson," is delightfully easy to associate with genitalia. Not that I'd say that to either dude's face, of course.

3. Mark Sanchez, QB (NYJ) -- The least the Jets' starting quarterback could do for his more childish team managers (and I counted at least 20 "dirty Sanchez' references at our draft alone) is grow a little mustache. Is that so much to ask?

4. Jerricho Cotchery, WR (NYJ) -- It's rarely advisable to have your starting QB and wide receiver from the same team. Bye weeks are a bitch, and if either goes into a slump, the corresponding point losses can be significant. And I know there's no 'R' at the front of his surname, but two beers in and I'm willing to let it slide.

5. Reggie Bush, RB (NO) -- Bush doesn't deserve a sniff in the early rounds, as he's just one of many options the Saints have, whether they want to hit it hard or go deep inside.

That's not how I remember that tape.
That's not how I remember that tape.

6. Montario Hardesty, RB (CLE) -- We thought about putting Colt McCoy on the list (no other player so eerily sounds like a '70s porn star), but Hardesty (snicker) is the Browns rookie with the biggest chance to make an actual impact.

Heh heh..."Hardesty."

7. Dexter McCluster, WR (KC) -- Somebody better keep Dan Dierdorf away from the schnapps on game day this season, or the network that only recently dug itself out from Janet Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction" is going to have a couple drunkenly dropped "McCluster fucks" to deal with when the Chiefs' season inevitably goes south.

8. Alge Crumpler, TE (NE) -- The former Atlanta standout is now relegated to the backup tight end role in New England. More importantly, his name sounds like a contorted sexual position performed in the middle of a red tide bloom.

9. Packers Defense -- Your team needs a D/ST unit, and as a Bears fan with a seemingly unending array of infantile variations on the word "packer," they're my first choice.

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10. Neil Rackers/Ryan Longwell, K (HOU/MIN) --You never draft a kicker before the last round. Especially one that sounds like he could send your testicles into orbit/have his accomplished-and-Tantric way with your girlfriend.

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10 Acts to Watch at Yes, Indeed! Fest 2014

By Chris Gray and Matthew Keever

Weekends that go by without another multi-stage festival setting up shop somewhere in Houston are getting pretty scarce, but Yes, Indeed~ has a definite leg up due to its track record and homegrown appeal. For its third edition, the nine-hour event relocates to mid-Main and expands to a nine-hour, four-stage musical feast unfolding at the Continental Club (plus patio), Big Top and Alley Kat, all within stumbling distance of one another if need be.

With almost 30 acts in all, Yes Indeed's backbone remains Houston's vibrant indie scene, but you'll find bands as far away as Kansas City, Canada and neighboring Louisiana, as well as a handful from Austin. To help you sort through the schedule (which you can find here), Rocks Off picked out ten acts we think are especially worthy of your attention. With tickets a mere $12 in advance (so get 'em now), whoever you choose will be quite a bargain.

10 Acts to Watch at Yes, Indeed! Fest 2014
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ROBERT KUHN Galveston-based Kuhn is a spongy singer-songwriter, whose music mingles his absorption of philosopher-poets like Jeff Tweedy or Leonard Cohen with his extensive travels in Latin America. Featuring Little Joe Washington on three songs, his 2014 full-length Everybody Knows (see, Cohen?) is a little more AvantGarden than Anderson Fair. (5:15 p.m., Pachinko Hut)

AFTER NATIONS Wild and wooly prog-rockers from Kansas City who will scratch that nagging Mars Volta itch. Songs like "Gilgamesh III" and "Blackout, Relapse" swirl through patches of reflective calm and angular agitation. (7:30 p.m., Big Top Lounge)

POOR PILATE These Houston rockers do things to a piano that Billy Joel never intended, but your mom might still like 'em. Front man David Lascoe seems to be going more for a Warren Zevon type of thing, where cynicism fights a valiant, often losing (and often pretty) battle against sentimentality. (8:30 p.m., Big Top)

Electric Attitude
Electric Attitude
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OTIS THE DESTROYER If the Black Angels are too damn dark and droney for you, give Otis the Destroyer a whirl. The Austin four-piece adds a note of pop innocence to squally psych-rock, resulting in a sound Radiohead fans will approve of as well. (9:30 p.m., Big Top)

WE WERE WOLVES Sweaty-ass Beaumont transplants who sound like Molly Hatchet had a baby with Queens of the Stone Age (or something like that). Released unstable full-length debut Wolf House in December 2013. (10 p.m., Continental Club)

ELECTRIC ATTITUDE Collaborating between seven band members, Electric Attitude may have found the perfect blend of funk, soul, jazz and even a little disco. One of the most diverse bands in Houston is also the most easily accessible on first listen. If you haven't already, you really should buy their latest album, Skintight & Solid Gold. Funk for days. (10:45 p.m., Alley Kat)

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10 Acts to Watch at Yes, Indeed! Fest 2014
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ANOTHER RUN Another Run uniquely merges indie rock with soulful melodies, catchy enough to make pop artists jealous. The band has managed to carve a spot for themselves in the Houston music scene, owing much to their renowned live performances. With plenty of new material from an upcoming album, they are not an act be missed. (11 p.m., Continental Club)

10 Acts to Watch at Yes, Indeed! Fest 2014

BLSHS Shortly after the release of their debut album, Abstract Desires, BLSHS became the Houston music scene's latest darlings. And rightfully so. Allow Michelle Miears' seductive vocals and her bandmates' synthetic drum tracks and haunting keyboards to sink in, and let yourself go. It's an eerily good time. (11:45 p.m., Alley Kat)

BLACK PISTOL FIRE This Toronto/Austin duo are as likely to put Little Richard's "Long Tall Sally" through a garage-punk wringer as to take, er, Little Richard's "Keep a Knockin'" out for a ride in Jed Clampett's bluegrass jalopy. Besides their excellent taste, though, originals like crunchy country-rocker "Crows Feet" or electric-blues hammer "Jezebel Stomp" generally slay, too. (12 a.m., Continental Club)

THE TRIMMS Reminiscent of rawk giants from Zep to the White Stripes, the Trimms know how to bring the heavy. Great choice for Yes, Indeed! mop-up duty.(12:30 a.m., Big Top Lounge)

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"Just 10 more years of this and I'm free"
"Just 10 more years of this and I'm free"

Al & Tipper: Five Political Marriages We Thought Would End Before Theirs

If you've been wondering why the internet is full of awful global-warming related puns today, it's because Al and Tipper Gore have announced that, after 40 or so years of marriage, things are just not going to work out.

We're guessing there are some shoes about to be dropped, but what do we know? After all, we would have bet big money that any one of these five political marriages would have busted up long before the Gores:

1. W & Laura
As everyone knows when there's a Democratic politician on the cover, the National Enquirer is full of rock-solid reporting on domestic scandals. It's only because the liberal mainstream media is in the tank for Obama that they're not reporting on the Enquirer's recent scoop on the president's mistress.

Except we used to see, seemingly every couple of months, an Enquirer cover on the checkout line screaming that W was back on the booze and Laura was saying it's over. So we just assumed that once they left the White House, the two would go their separate ways.

Maybe they're waiting until their books are in paperback.

2. Bill & Hillary
Come on, no one had the Gores in the year 2000 version of "Which marriage lasts longer -- the Clintons or the Gores?" It was the equivalent of asking "Who wins a Super Bowl first -- the Texans or any other NFL team?" in 2004.

Yet the Clintons endure, while the Gores split. Make of that what you will, and we're guessing what you'll make of it is not "The Clintons have a wonderful, monogamous relationship."

3. Dennis & Elizabeth Kucinich
Because....well, just because. Unless Dennis makes Ron Jeremy jealous.

4. James Carville & Mary Matalin
Please, get this couple off our TV screen. Carville is entertaining, Matalin is whinier than Debbie Downer, and our mind is permanently injured from the thought of them talking to each other. (We refuse to countenance the idea they actually have sex.)

Anyway, if two people disagree so vehemently on the subject they are most passionate about, either they don't really believe what they say on TV or they have the best elephant-in-the-room-ignoring abilities outside of....Hillary Clinton, we guess.

5. David Vitter & Whomever He's Married To
David Vitter is a senator from Louisiana. He's also a guy whose name tends to show up in stories that use the word "madam," normally not a good thing for a marriage.

When you've been going to prostitutes as a married man -- when googling your name and "diapers" doesn't bring up parenting tips -- we're not going to have your name down on our "most likely to last" marriage list.

But power is a wonderful thing, the diaper charge was never proven, and you've asked God for forgiveness. So maybe you've never cheated on your wife again, and that's why she stays with you.

We just never figured on you outlasting the Gores.

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Andres Martinez, multi-tasker.
Andres Martinez, multi-tasker.
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Andres Martinez: Driving While Rolling Joint, Almost Hits Cop, Cops Say

You're leading police on a low-speed chase and notice they've laid a spike strip across the road ahead, so you swerve around it.

Unfortunately, you almost hit a cop, making him jump for his life.

Bad driving? No -- amazing multi-tasking, if what KHOU reports is true. Andres Martinez told cops "he wasn't attempting to hit the officer, he was rolling a joint and trying to call his 'peeps' to tell them he was going to jail," the station reports.

Now that's a dude with a lot on his plate, and who can blame him if his spike-strip-avoidance skills suffered somewhat?

The court documents connected to the arrest do not mention his reported explanation, they simply charge Martinez, 24, with evading arrest and attempted intoxication assault.

The chase occurred early Sunday morning on the Gulf Freeway.

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Rice's road to Omaha begins in Austin
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Mike Ojala And Rice Try To Ignite A Run To The College World Series

So it's off to Austin Regional that the Rice Owls go, and this afternoon at 1 p.m., the Owls (38-21) will begin their quest to return to another College World Series.

The Owls are the number-two seed in the regional, behind the number-one seed Texas Longhorns (46-11). The number-three seed is Louisiana-Lafayette (37-20) and the number-four seed is Rider (36-21). As always, the regionals are played as a double-elimination tournament, with a team being eliminated upon getting its second loss.

Today the Owls take on Louisiana-Lafayette. Texas will take on Rider in the nightcap, and the winners will face off tomorrow night while the losers face off tomorrow afternoon. The regional championship game should be Sunday with another game, if necessary, ready to be played Monday for the right to advance to the Super Regionals. But if the Owls do everything right, then Monday's game won't be necessary.

While it will be important that the Owls continue to hit the ball, it's doubtful that they will be able to continue hitting it at the rate they were hitting the ball last week when they scored double-digit runs in three of the four Conference USA tournament games, and in which they batted around at least once in each of the first three games.

What will be important for the Owls is the team's pitching and defense, for though the team lost the title to Southern Miss by a score of 7-4 last Saturday, the loss might not have happened were it not for poor pitching and poorer defense.

The given with the Rice pitching will be Mike Ojala, the team ace who came on strong to end the season after spending most of the past year rehabbing from Tommy John surgery. Ojala's confident in his abilities, and he wants the ball. But more important, the team's confident in Ojala, and even more important than that, Rice coach Wayne Graham is confident in Ojala.

"Ojala's a good pitcher," Graham said. "He's always going to give you a quality game. We're counting on him in the Regionals for sure."

Jared Rogers gave the team a series of strong performances to close out the season, and he appears to be getting his game together at just the right time. The problem appears to be Taylor Wall. Wall has the stuff to be an ace, and there were games earlier in the season when he just dominated the opposition -- see for instance Rice's 6-0 victory over the Cougars on April 1.

But Wall appears to have lost his confidence, and Graham wasn't thrilled by Wall's performance in the team's 11-3 win over ECU. Graham liked the attitude he saw Wall several times when Wall got in trouble, but Graham didn't like that Wall wouldn't pitch inside.

"He's got to get inside," Graham said, and that was just something that Wall didn't appear to want to do. But for Rice to have any chances this weekend, Wall's going to need to pitch inside.

As for the defensive lapses that plagued the team last Saturday, perhaps the game plan followed by senior catcher Diego Seastrunk will be best for the team. "I'd like to say [we use] the same mindset we had coming into this [tournament]," Seastrunk said. "Trying to shrink the game a little bit. Go pitch by pitch and try to win every inning."

Focus did appear to be a problem for the Owls in the loss, and maintaining focus, going pitch by pitch, was a mantra repeated by the team after all of their wins last week.

The only team in the Regional that Rice has faced this year is Texas, and the Horns have won two of the three games, including a 2-1 thriller at the Houston College Classic back on March 5. But the Horns haven't faced the Owls since the moment when everything just seemed to click into place and the team went on a finishing kick that saw the team go 26-11 for its last 37 games. The players have been unable to say just what is that happened, but in that span, they've become an offensive force featuring one of the best player's in the game, Anthony Rendon, Diego Seastrunk, Rick Hague, Chad Mozingo, and Jimmy Comerota.

If that Rice team shows up this weekend and plays with the focus they demonstrated last week and couples it with some strong pitching, then this Owls team could easily be on the way to next week's Super Regionals.

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05/27/2015 12:18 EDT | Updated 05/28/2015 09:59 EDT

Cher Is The New Face Of Marc Jacobs' Fall 2015 Campaign

Supermodels ain't got nothing on Cher.

The 69-year-old diva is the new face of Marc Jacobs and the first image is amazing. Seriously, we can't even deal. If we could turn back time, we'd feature Cher in every one of the designer's campaigns.

In the shot, which was photographed by David Sims and styled by Katie Grand, the "Believe" singer is seen sitting on a chair while dressed in a Morticia-esque black pleated maxi dress, with a matching jacket and a pair of leather gloves. Her long black locks are brushed out on the bottom adding some serious volume.

Marc Jacobs shared the snap with followers on Instagram Wednesday morning.

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Earlier this month, the fashion icon walked the Met Gala red carpet with the American designer, which was perhaps the duo's way of telling us a collab was in the works. (How did we not see it coming?!)

The icon replaces the troop of models (including Kendall Jenner and Adriana Lima) featured in Jacobs' last campaign. She's also the latest in a slew of famous women over 50 being cast in designer campaigns (read: Joan Didion for Celine, Joni Mitchell for Saint Laurent and of course, Jessica Lange for Marc Jacobs Beauty).

We can't wait to see who else appears in the new ads!

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Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond And James May Debut New Teaser For Amazon Prime Series

'I'm going to have... a Custard Cream.'

All the ol’ gang are back together in the latest teaser for Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond’s new Amazon Prime series.

The former ‘Top Gear’ trio appear together in a new clip, where it becomes evident pretty quickly they’re still struggling to come up with a name for the new show, due to begin streaming on the service later this year.

In the new clip, which is sure to go down well with fans of the team’s tenure as presenters on ‘Top Gear’, Jeremy lists his favourite names for rivers, Richard laments about his Internet browsing history and James tucks into a custard cream, … but one thing they do not do is come up with a name.

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Strictly Come Dancing's Laura Whitmore Clears Up Ed Balls Text Confusion

'Was he being inappropriate? Not at all!'

‘Strictly Come Dancing’ contestant Laura Whitmore has insisted there was nothing inappropriate going on when Ed Balls sent her a text offering to rub her ankle.

Let’s go back to the beginning, shall we?

So, as ‘Strictly’ fans might recall, a couple of weeks ago Laura was forced to miss a week of live shows when she sustained a serious ankle injury, meaning she was automatically put through that week, as per the rules of the show.

Earlier this week, Laura revealed she’d revealed a cheeky message from Ed Balls, offering to “rub her ankle” while she recuperates, should she need it.

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This has been ever so slightly blown out of proportion in certain quarters of the media, with headlines ranging from “Ed Balls Offered To Give Laura An Ankle Rub ‘Any Time’ In Flirty Text” to “Ed Balls Strictly ‘Sexting’ Shock”.

Laura has now set the record straight over the messages, which were sent publicly in a WhatsApp group with all of this year’s contestants, adding that she sent a jokingly flirtatious message to him first.

When the ‘Loose Women’ panel asked whether she felt Ed had been inappropriate in Thursday’s (3 November) show, she insisted: “Not at all! We have this WhatsApp group.

“I don’t know what it’s like other years, but this year we’re so close. If it wasn’t for everyone still in that competition, I wouldn’t be here because you have low points. I’ve never cried so much in my life. I cry all the time. I cry at ads on television. I cry when I can’t do a step. I can’t stop at the moment!

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“We all help each other through. We have this WhatsApp group and we talk about everything on it… I saw that one of the magazines has a ‘Column of Lust’, and I saw that he was number three in the ‘Column of Lust’.

“So, I just sent that picture through, and I said, ‘you should have been number one’ but he messaged back - because I was injured at the time - ‘Well, if you ever want me to rub that ankle back to health!’”

Both Laura and Ed will be back on the ‘Strictly’ dance floor this weekend for Saturday night’s (5 November) live show - and let’s just hope the judges are feeling a little bit more generous with their points than they were last week.

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There's Nothing Sexy About 'Convention'

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Currently a bill is being passed through parliament, and it wants to control your sex life. The Digital Economy bill, widely touted as a means to limit children's access to online pornography, faces its third reading on Monday, 28th November - the final stop before it becomes law. On the surface, a bill that protects children from violent and abusive sexual imagery is clearly important. But has this bill missed it's target? And, in reality, is it actually going to do far more damage, than good, to our sexual culture?

The last thing this country needs, in the face of increasing issues surrounding sexual consent and coercion, is a restriction of sexual knowledge. There is no such thing as 'conventional' sex. Sex should never, and must never, be standardised. But that is exactly what this bill seeks to do. It wants to stop you from being able to access any form of sex that the government regards as 'non-conventional'. Whipping, spanking, female ejaculation, menstruation, images of all of these things will be banned or blocked if the bill becomes law. David Cameron had already succeed in banning acts like this, along with certain depictions of oral sex performed on women, from being filming by the UK porn industry, since 2014. Now, the government wants to place the same regulations on the internet, by limiting your access to sexual knowledge.

The Digital Economy bill is an incredibly dangerous form of sexual censorship, because it sets a precedent that the government has a right to interfere and control your personal sexual identity. Let's be clear, many of the images the government is attempting to ban form part of consenting and healthy sexual relationships between adults. So what does conventional (supposedly 'normal') sex actually mean? I am unsurprised that yet again the Conservative government's sexual legislation targets the BDSM community - typically a culture that actively promotes consent first, and the sex act second. In the past, BDSM and fetish, alongside trans bodies, disabled bodies, and queer bodies, have been depicted as 'non-conventional'. Yet, rather than pornography, it is the government definition of 'conventional' sex which has always caused the most harm to our society. 100 years ago, a belief in 'conventional' or normal sex meant that simply being gay made you a criminal. Only twenty-five years ago 'conventional' sexual attitudes meant it was legal to rape your wife. Currently, we don't teach consent in Sex Education, but if this bill becomes law, then we'll happily criminalise sexual cultures, like BDSM, that promote consent as good sexual practice, ironically only aiding a growing lack of sexual awareness and absence of sexual knowledge in our society.

Currently, we have heavily sexualised images in adverts, films, television and pornography that are presented with little context or dialogue. Our culture also struggles with an inability to discuss sex without idiotic binary arguments, such as men having higher sex drives than women, that women are not sexually adventurous, this sex is good, that sex is bad etc. None of these definitions give an accurate depiction of sex, and in a culture of censorship there will only ever be a limitation of Sexual Awareness. Pornography is not the problem, instead it's our lack of sex education and sexual communication that needs to be challenged. And unless we defy convention, our sexual culture is never going to get better.


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Not only did the Cougars drop a straight-set match to perennial power Centralia, but they also watched top hitter Laura Patrick go down with a sprained left ankle early in that match.

But Patrick recovered and so did the Cougars as they won their final two matches to advance to today's semifinals at 2 p.m.

"Our goal this year was not only to get to state, but to play on the second day," said Patrick, a 5-foot-10 junior middle hitter. "We get to do that."

Central Christian (40-4), which is in the semifinals for the first time, will play last year's Class 2A state runner-up St. John (41-2) in the semifinals. The semifinal matches Centralia (40-6) against Pratt Skyline (41-4).

After splitting matches with Centralia and Hoxie, Central Christian's tournament came down to a match with Weskan, which entered the day 43-0 on the season, but it also lost to Centralia.

After winning the first set 25-19, Central Christian had two match points in the second set at 24-23 and 25-24. Both times Weskan came up with a kill and then won the set 27-25 on a Central Christian hitting error.

The Cougars, though, got the momentum right back, jumping to a 12-4 lead in the third set. Patrick had five kills during that span.

But like the second set, Weskan rallied - this time from a 22-15 deficit to tie it at 23-23. But a Patrick kill give the Cougars the lead and a Weskan hitting error ended the match.

Laura Patrick had nine kills in the third game, while freshman Jamie Patrick added five.

"We went to our power - the middles - in that game. And we were digging (on defense)," Central Christian coach Erin Patrick said. "I'm proud of how hard the girls played."

Laura Patrick said she had doubts about how effective she would be after rolling her ankle. But in the Hoxie match, Central Christian used a balanced attack with the Patricks, Leigh Ann Echols and Amy Morrison all picking up kills at the net.

Patrick's ankle started to loosen up against Weskan.

"And when you're competing, you don't feel the pain," coach Patrick said.

St. John and Skyline each secured semifinal berths before squaring off in their final pool-play match. St. John, which got better as the day went on, defeated the Thunderbirds 25-9, 25-15.

St. John, which got better as the day continued, also beat Frankfort 25-22, 25-21 and Goessel 25-19, 25-10.

"We had weak communication at the start of the day. But we settled down and played well," St. John coach Trish Wade said.

In its first match, Frankfort stayed close to St. John before the Tigers pulled away at the end. Frankfort led 20-19 in both sets, but St. John closed strong in both sets. St. John scored the last five points of the match on kills - three by Alisha Fanshier and two by Beth Cornwell.

Cornwell then dominated the net against Goessel as she finished that match with 13 kills and two ace blocks. St. John won 10 of 11 points early in the match to win the opening set, then took an 8-2 lead in the second set.

The Tigers led big early in the first set against Skyline, then scored 14 of the match's final 19 points to close it out.

In Skyline's two earlier matches, the Thunderbirds defeated Goessel 25-18, 14-25, 25-13 before holding off Frankfort 25-13, 25-21.

After splitting the first two sets with Goessel, the Thunderbirds scored seven straight points for a 15-5 lead in the third game and held a comfortable lead the rest of the way.

Skyline then was in control against Frankfort most of the match as the Thunderbirds led 21-11 in the second set. Frankfort, however, cut its deficit to 22-20, but Skyline ended the match on back-to-back kills by Jordan Gilleece and Natali Jones.

"Natali is a huge force on our team," Skyline coach Summer Younie said. "And Jordan has picked it up as an outside hitter and hit aggressive."


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How To Master Hydraulic Troubleshooting

hydraulic simulation softwareTroubleshooting is an inferential process. So to become an effective troubleshooter, you must have a solid PROCESS. But you also need relevant KNOWLEDGE. Consider the old Indian Monkey Trap, for example:

The trap consists of a hollowed-out coconut chained to a stake. The coconut contains rice which can be accessed through a hole in the coconut’s shell. The hole is just big enough to allow the monkey to get its hand in, but too small for the monkey’s clenched fist, full of rice, to come out.

The monkey reaches in, grabs a handful of rice and finds himself trapped. The villagers are coming to get him… They’re getting closer every minute… The monkey panics and starts yanking on his arm. But it’s no use.

The monkey’s freedom is now totally dependent on his troubleshooting ability. And his troubleshooting ability depends on the process he uses – because the monkey doesn’t understand how the trap works. He lacks essential knowledge. And without a reliable process he’s got little chance of discovering this knowledge. So he may as well keep yanking on his arm.

You need ’em both to become a reliable and effective troubleshooter. And both have to be learnt. Which is why the man who can cast his eye over a hydraulic machine and quickly zero-in on the fault is ‘Top-Gun’ in the hydraulics world.

He’s admired by most. Envied by many.

The good news is, it’s never been easier to join the ranks of this elite and highly-paid group. Because just as hydraulic systems are becoming more sophisticated, so too are the tools available to analyze and troubleshoot them. These days in fact, with the right tools and tuition, you can slash the time is used to take to become a troubleshooting wizard. I demonstrate this here with an instructive video.

With limited knowledge AND no reliable process, the monkey’s situation is hopeless. If only he knew how simple it was to secure his freedom. (Hint: all he has to do is employ the troubleshooting technique known as backing-out).

Unfortunately, failing to follow proven principles when troubleshooting usually results in costly mistakes. And to discover six other costly mistakes you want to be sure to avoid with your hydraulic equipment, get “Six Costly Mistakes Most Hydraulics Users Make… And How You Can Avoid Them!” available for FREE download here.

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Report: Over 200mil VR headsets sold by 2020

Press release: More than 200 Million Virtual Reality Head-Mounted Displays to be Sold by 2020, According to Tractica

Fueled by Gaming, Virtual Reality Adoption Will Also Drive Sales of 52 Million Accessory Devices during the Next 5 Years

BOULDER, Colo. — While virtual reality is not a new technology in concept and can trace its origins back to the 1950s, the past few years have witnessed a golden era of investment and product development in the sector, and highly-capable head-mounted displays are now on the verge of commercial deployment. Virtual reality offerings from Oculus, HTC, and Sony took the recent CES show by storm and are some of the most hotly anticipated new consumer technology products of 2016. Hardware and content companies alike are banking on strong consumer interest in virtual reality over the next several years, driven in large part by gaming applications.

Oculus Rift consumer version is due out in 2016. (Image courtesy Oculus VR.)

Oculus Rift consumer version is due out in 2016. (Image courtesy Oculus VR.)

According to a recent report from Tractica, cumulative worldwide sales of virtual reality head-mounted displays will reach 200.1 million units during the period from 2015 through 2020. By the end of that period, head-mounted display shipments are forecast to reach 76.7 million units annually. The market intelligence firm also forecasts that an additional 52.2 million virtual reality accessory devices will be shipped during the same timeframe, with such products including gamepads and virtual reality-specific controllers, hand tracking devices, locomotion devices, and virtual reality vests and suits.

“The second coming of virtual reality is upon us, and industry participants are keen to ensure that products are fine-tuned prior to release in order to avoid a disappointment in this high-potential new category,” says principal analyst Craig Foster. “Content is being slowly pushed out and we are seeing a number of games being developed especially for virtual reality. Some publishers have embraced the new medium is its entirety, while others are watching the space cautiously to determine the appropriate level of investment.”

Tractica’s report, “Virtual Reality for Consumer Markets”, provides a comprehensive analysis of the market dynamics, technology issues, and competitive landscape for consumer virtual reality hardware and content. The report features global market forecasts for annual unit shipments and associated revenue during the period from 2014 through 2020. An executive summary of the report is available for free download on the firm’s website.

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Tractica is a market intelligence firm that focuses on human interaction with technology. Tractica’s global market research and consulting services combine qualitative and quantitative research methodologies to provide a comprehensive view of the emerging market opportunities surrounding User Interface Technologies, Biometrics, Digital Health, Wearable Devices, and Automation & Robotics. For more information, visit

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2016 – Forget Trump, it was Einstein’s year

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Somewhat predictably Time magazine named Donald Trump as their person of the year. I understand the reasoning, but cannot agree. The year undoubtedly belonged to Albert Einstein, but to understand why, we need to understand the deep importance of his theories and the effect they have on our everyday lives.
Two stories stand like book ends to the year; seemingly unconnected, but that is wrong. They are connected by the work of Albert Einstein.
The first was the announcement in February of the discovery of Gravitational Waves. Confirmation from the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) of the capture of the signal on Sept. 14, 2015, caused quite a stir worldwide. Some described it as one of the greatest scientific discoveries of the last 100 years. Why? In essence, it gives us the ability of seeing the universe in a whole new way. Suddenly we are not only able to see the Universe, but now hear it. Whereas before we were deaf to space, now we can hear its music. And what will this mean? Ultimately it will take us all the way back to the start – back to the big bang. The very act of creation may be opened to us.
The second story was the December story that Uber was to use driverless cars in San Francisco. To be fair, it was short-lived. California officials ordered a shutdown after concerns of the cars running red lights. However, surely this is the thin end of the wedge. Driverless cars are here to stay and are set to revolutionise the transportation industry, the insurance industry and all service industries that employ drivers. We are on the verge of a huge shift in how we use the car.
What links these two stories? The General Theory of Relativity (GTR). Einstein’s 1916 masterpiece. Gravitational waves were predicted by Einstein as a consequence of the theory. No theory – no gravitational waves. And for driverless cars? One of the essential elements of the whole system is GPS. Without it, there could be no driverless cars and without the GTR there could be no GPS system. The network of satellites that provide GPS have to constantly take account of the effects of the GTR. If the adjustments were not made then every day the GPS system would be thrown out by miles, rendering it useless.
These stories are a reminder of Einstein’s legacy and our dependence on it. Long after The Don has gone, Einstein will still be influencing and remaking our world and our understanding of the universe. So whilst today’s news cycle may be dominated by Trump, when we look back to 2016 in a hundred years time it will be Einstein people will talk about.

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At various times I like to take a look at how and where Albert Einstein is appearing in the news or media. It is an interesting snapshot of his enduring legacy and the continued interest in him and his scientific achievements.

In the past few weeks I have spotted and viewed the following. I’m sure there are many more and if you have seen any of interest, I’d be delighted for you to forward a link.

    1. In May, the World Science Festival held its annual festival. It featured this wonderful panel discussion hosted by Brian Greene entitled Reality beyond Einstein. It traversed the expanding universe, the Big Bang, inflation, dark energy, black holes, string theory and many more subjects, all of them arising from Einstein’s General Theory of relativity.
    2. Science Vine in The Guardian published “How do solar panels work?” It is a concise and easy to understand explanation of the science and technology behind sonar panels. As the article points out, Albert Einstein provided the real breakthrough for modern photovoltaic technology in 1905, when he described the nature of light and used this to explain the nature of the photoelectric effect. It is a concise explanation of how important Einstein is to solar energy and one of the possible answers to future energy needs and sustainable energy production.
    3. The Guardian also published an article “Five reasons we should celebrate Albert Einstein”, by the writer Steven Gimbel, who has recently published a new biography “Einstein: His Space and Times”. I particularly enjoyed his fifth reason – His meaning as a cultural symbol of modernity and his conclusion that Einstein “gives us pride in ourselves as individuals who can make a difference; we can revel in free thought, but there is no need in doing so to reject our shared humanity”.
    4. In the “All About History Annual Volume Einstein appears in the 50 Events that changed the World (1905 – the laws of physics rewritten) and 21 Discoveries that changed the World (E=mc2. The equation that rewrote physics). Neither articles are in depth and neither list is numbered, but they are interesting in how his discoveries are viewed as part of our history.
    5. And finally, from the Perimeter Institute for theoretical physics a talk by Jurgen Renn of the Max Plank Institute entitled “The genesis and renaissance of relativity”. I wonderful talk on Einstein’s discovery of the theory and its underpinning of all of our astrophysics and cosmology.

In some respects it is unsurprising that this year there is attention on Albert Einstein, it is, of course, the 100th anniversary of the publication of his General Theory of Relativity. However, it is inescapable to see the sheer range and breadth of the ways in which he continues to appear in our culture. Einstein continues to be the torch bearer and touchstone of the general public’s engagement with science and the way science shapes our technology and society.

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Einstein’s Laser World

Posted April 27, 2015 By admin

The laser is ubiquitous in our world, so much so that we take it for granted. Yet it lies at the heart of much of what we consider as modern. Lasers are a direct consequence of the pioneering work of Albert Einstein into Quantum theory and are an important component of his legacy and why I say we live in the world he created.

In 1917 Einstein published an article in Physikalische Zeitschrift that proposed the possibility of stimulated emission. This article showed that the statistics of absorption and emission of light would only be consistent with Planck’s distribution law if the emission of light into a mode with n photons would be enhanced statistically compared to the emission of light into an empty mode. Simply put it explains how one photon induces an excited atom to emit an identical photon. The physical process described and explained, led directly to the Maser and then the Laser in 1960.

So how is the laser so fundamental to our modern world? Here are some highlights:

  • HeNe lasers and then diode lasers form the basis of all bar code scanning technology, which as anyone who buys anything knows is used by every supermarket and just about any shop you care to name. There are literally billions of scans every year and there could only be a guess as to how many billions are saved every year for consumers, retailers and manufacturers. The bar code is at the center of our shopping and commercial experience.
  • Communications and information. Lasers connect millions of computers around the globe by flashing binary bits into networks of pure glass fibre optics. This global web across land and under sea is activated by laser diodes. In this role, lasers have become integral and essential to our interconnected, internet dominated world.
  • Carbon-dioxide lasers are used for industrial cutting and are essential for remote welding in the automobile and other industrial tasks.
  • The entertainment industry has been completely revolutionized by the laser. First there was the CD, then the DVD and Blu-ray and now they carry via the internet and telecoms music, film and every other form of entertainment to our electronic devices. The laser has also had a visual impact on art and music through art forms and performances enhanced by laser light shows.
  • War – although the star wars initiative, which was based on laser destruction of intercontinental missiles, was never developed, the laser is an essential ingredient in modern warfare, a number of weapons systems dependent on laser guided delivery.
  • Medicine has greatly benefitted from lasers. They are used in a variety of ways such as tumor destruction, diagnosis, LASIK (cornea correction) dermatology, treating the inaccessible, reconstruction and treatments.
  • Applied research projects such as the NIF use lasers in nuclear fusion research, a project that may bring limitless energy and help keep fossil fuels in the ground.
  • The laser continues to contribute across the board to a number of scientific research projects from the first Bose-Einstein condensate, to applications in spectroscopy, adaptive optics and astronomical telescopes.

These are just a few of the examples of the laser at work in our world. In just fifty-five years the laser has become an essential to the way we live and work. The technology is only likely to blossom. All of these uses are a direct gift of Einstein and his 1917 work on early Quantum Theory and reveal how much of our world is constructed and reliant on his work.

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Einstein’s Quantum Contribution

Posted August 30, 2014 By admin

There is standard potted story about Albert Einstein and Quantum Theory. It goes something like this. Einstein is famous for his theory of relativity, but he had a lot to do with the discovery of quantum theory and in fact he actually won his Nobel Prize in 1921 for his photoelectric theory of 1905. However, as the theory developed he abandoned his work in it and came to oppose the theory, which was summed up in his quote “God does not play dice”. The quote is one of his most famous.

However, this oversimplified story fails to realistically reflect Einstein’s view on the theory and this standard bland representation fails to recognize his contribution to the Quantum revolution.

Why is it important?

For me it helps us to appreciate how important Einstein is and how he fundamentally influences the world in which we live because Quantum theory underpins our modern technology. As Margaret Wertheim says in Pythagoras’ Trousers “No theory in the history of science has been more empirically successful than quantum mechanics. On the strength of quantum mechanics, humanity has built the microchip industry, and hence the computer industry. An understanding of the quantum realm has also given us the laser, and hence fiber-optic communications. CD players, bar code readers, laser surgery, laser guided weapons, and in the future probably also optical computing.”

Einstein’s contribution to quantum theory is discussed in a new book ‘Einstein and the Quantum’, by A. Douglas Stone. In a wonderful summary of the creation of the theory he sets out how Einstein made the fundamental contributions to the conceptual pillars of Quantum theory. Those contributions were:

  • Quantization of energy
  • Force carrying particles (photons)
  • Wave-particle duality
  • Intrinsic randomness in physical processes and stimulated transitions (the basis of the laser)
  • Indistinguishability of quantum particles
  • Wave fields as probability densities

What stands out in the book is the breadth and depth of Einstein’s contributions to the Quantum theory and though it is contributions to our modern world, which is to a great degree built on the success of the theory.

In contrast to the simplified story at the beginning of the article, where Einstein is painted as the opponent of the theory, in truth his contribution to Quantum theory was deep, rich and fundamental. He did oppose its intrinsic randomness, but that crude tale should not be allowed to detract from what he achieved in the field.

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Is Einstein Energy Close?

Posted August 28, 2011 By admin

Einstein energy is Fussion energy.

This is a great article in the Guardian Newspaper on the current state of fussion power. I thought it well worth sharing.

The fusion reactions at the heart of fussion power are E=mc2 factories. Without the theory we would lack the theoretical understanding of how fusion and hence, our stars work. We have Einstein to thank for the underpinning of fussion theory and the possible answer to our future energy needs. This is a very important link to understanding how Albert Einstein made and continues to make our world.

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University of California, Santa Barbara

September 22, 2011

Tropical and Temperate Forests Are More Similar Than Previously Believed, Scientists Say

Gail Gallessich

Brian Kladko

Santa Barbara, Calif. –– The temperate forests of Canada or Northern Europe may have much more in common with the tropical rainforests of Southeast Asia or South America than previously believed, according to a research group sponsored by UC Santa Barbara's National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS).

The findings are published this week in the journal Science. The authors focused on the concept of "beta-diversity," a measure of the change in species composition between two sites, such as neighboring patches of forest. High beta-diversity means that two given sites have few species in common.

Typically, beta-diversity increases as one moves from the poles toward the equator, which has caused many ecologists to conclude that there is something inherently different about the ecology of the tropics that leads to greater turnover of tropical species from place to place.

The NCEAS team challenged this interpretation, using an extensive dataset of tree inventories from around the world, archived at the University of Arizona. Using computer modeling, they demonstrated that current patterns of beta-diversity, both in the tropics and the temperate zone, are much more similar than ecologists once thought.

"This study demonstrates how new insights into ecological communities can be found when synthesizing and re-examining existing datasets that have been made publicly available," said Liza Comita, second author and assistant professor at Ohio State University. Comita recently completed a postdoctoral fellowship at NCEAS.

The researchers found that the crucial factor in shaping beta-diversity at large scales is the number of species present in the region in the first place. Once they accounted for these differences, the resulting beta-diversity patterns were the same in forests at tropical and temperate latitudes. They also found the same consistency between high and low elevations in mountain regions.

"It was believed that something ‘extra' must be going on in the ecology of the tropics to produce greater beta diversity there," said Nathan J.B. Kraft, first author and postdoctoral fellow at the University of British Columbia's Biodiversity Research Centre. "We now see that the patterns can all be explained, not by current ecological processes unfolding over one or two generations, but by much longer-term historical and geologic events.

"We were surprised to see that the causes of these patterns might actually be a lot more simple, and share a lot more in common, than we first thought," said Kraft. "For decades now, ecologists have gone to the tropics to try to explain the often incredibly high diversity found there. But what our results show is that the same ecological mechanisms might operate in similar ways in Costa Rica and Calgary."

The research group included scientists from institutions in the U.S., Canada, Panama, and New Zealand.

The National Science Foundation is the primary funder of NCEAS.

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David L. Moore (
Wed, 30 Oct 1996 12:49:34 -0500

At 08:22 AM 10/30/96 -0500, FRED HALTOM wrote:

>I'm new to this list and would like to say Christian greetings. One
>question, what PC Greek font works well? I'm a MAC man, and
>Central Bible College here in Springfield put PCs in our offices-
>where I'm at now. Thanks for any help.

Thank you for your greeting, and welcome to b-greek!

I realize it must be traumatic for "a MAC man" to change over to a
Windows platform, but I hope you find some applications you like so as to
make the changeover worthwhile.

There are a number of Greek fonts available for Windows. Some of
them are freeware, and some shareware or retail software. From time to
time, on b-greek, I have recommended WinGreek which is shareware and may be
downloaded and tried before purchase.

WinGreek has one signal advantage over other Greek font packages for
Windows that I have tried: it allows an easy way of entering accents and
other diacritical marks. The fonts come with a terminate-and-stay-resident
(TSR) program that allow these marks to be entered automatically (a single
keystroke per mark) by most Windows word processors. Other pluses are an
included program that can convert CCAT Greek files to the WinGreek format, a
Hebrew font with capacity to enter text from right to left, and the ability
to enter accents for other foreign languages with the same TSR program that
correctly places the Greek diacriticals.

The quality of the output to a laser or inkjet printer is crisp and
well proportioned, and since Postscript (Type 1) and True Type are both
supported, text in the WinGreek font may be integrated into any Windows
document that supports multiple fonts.

David Moore

David L. Moore Director
Miami, Florida, USA Department of Education Southeastern Spanish District of the Assemblies of God


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February 12, 1945

New York Times.

In my budget message of Jan. 9 I called attention to the need for immediate action on the Bretton Woods proposals for an international monetary fund and an international bank for reconstruction and development. It is my purpose in this message to indicate the importance of these international organizations in our plans for a peaceful and prosperous world.

As we dedicate our total efforts to the task of winning this war we must never lose sight of the fact that victory is not only an end in itself but, in a large sense, victory offers us the means of achieving the goal of lasting peace and a better way of life.

Victory does not insure the achievement of these larger goals-it merely offers us the opportunity-the chance-to seek their attainment. Whether we shall have the courage and vision to avail ourselves of this tremendous opportunity-purchased at so great a cost-is yet to be determined. On our shoulders rests the heavy responsibility for making this momentous decision. I said before, and I repeat again: "This generation has a rendezvous with destiny."

If we are to measure up to the task of peace with the same stature as we have measured up to the task of war, we must see that the institutions of peace rest firmly on the solid foundations of international political and economic cooperation. The cornerstone for international political cooperation is the Dumbarton Oaks proposal for a permanent United Nations.

International political relations will be friendly and constructive, however, only if solutions are found to the difficult economic problems we face today. The cornerstone for international economic cooperation is the Bretton Woods proposals for an international monetary fund and an international bank for reconstruction and development.

These proposals for an international fund and international bank are concrete evidence that the economic objectives of the United States agree with those of the United Nations. They illustrate our unity of purpose and interest in the economic field. What we need and what they need correspond-expanded production, employment, exchange and consumption-in other words, more goods produced, more jobs, more trade and a higher standard of living for us all.

To the people of the United States this means real peacetime employment for those who will be returning from the war and for those at home whose wartime work has ended. It also means orders and profits to our industries and fair prices to our farmers. We shall need prosperous markets in the world to insure our own prosperity, and we shall need the goods the world can sell us. For all these purposes, as well as for a peace that will endure, we need the partnership of the United Nations.

The first problem in time which we must cope with is that of saving life and getting resources and people back into production. In many of the liberated countries economic life has all hut stopped. Transportation systems are in ruins and therefore coal and raw materials cannot be brought to factories.

Many factories themselves are shattered, power plants smashed, transmission systems broken, bridges blown up or bombed, ports clogged with sunken wrecks, and great rich areas of farm land inundated by the sea. People are tired and sick and hungry. But they are eager to go to work again, and to create again with their own hands and under their own leaders the necessary physical basis of their lives.

Emergency relief is under way behind the armies under the authority of local Governments, backed up first by the Allied Military Command and after that by the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. Our participation in the UNRRA has been approved by Congress. But neither UNRRA nor the armies are designed for the construction or reconstruction of large-scale public works or factories or power plants or transportation systems. That job must be done otherwise, and it must be started soon.

The main job of restoration is not one of relief. It is one of reconstruction which must largely be done by local people and their Governments. They will provide the labor, the local money and most of the materials. The same is true for all the many plans for the improvement of transportation, agriculture, industry and housing, that are essential to the development of the economically backward areas of the world.

But some of the things required for all these projects, both of reconstruction and development, will have to come from overseas. It is at this point that our highly developed economy can play a role important to the rest of the world and very profitable to the United States. Inquiries for numerous materials and for all kinds of equipment and machinery in connection with such projects are already being directed to our industries and many more will come. This business will be welcome just as soon as the more urgent production for the war itself ends.

The main problem will be for these countries to obtain the means of payment. In the long run we can be paid for what we sell abroad chiefly in goods and services. But at the moment many of the countries who want to be our customers are prostrate. Other countries have devoted their economies so completely to the war that they do not have the resources for reconstruction and development.

Unless a means of financing is found, such countries will be unable to restore their economies and, in desperation, will be forced to carry forward and intensify existing systems of discriminatory trade practices, restrictive exchange controls, competitive depreciation of currencies and other forms of economic warfare. That would destroy all our good hopes. We must move promptly to prevent its happening, and we must move on several fronts, including finance and trade.

The United States should act promptly upon the plan for the international bank, which will make or guarantee sound loans for the foreign currency requirements of important reconstruction and development projects in member countries. One of its most important functions will be to facilitate and make secure wide private participation in such loans. The articles of agreement constituting the charter of the bank have been worked out with great care by an international conference of experts and give adequate protection to all interests. I recommend to the Congress that we accept the plan, subscribe the capital allotted to us, and participate whole-heartedly in the bank's work.

This measure, with others I shall later suggest, should go far to take care of our part of the lending requirements of the post-war years. They should help the countries concerned to get production started, to get over the first crisis of disorganization and fear, to begin the work of reconstruction and development; and they should help our farmers and our industries to get over the crisis of reconversion by making a large volume of export business possible in the post-war years.

As confidence returns private investors will participate more and more in foreign lending and investment without any Government assistance. But to get over the first crisis, in the situation that confronts us, loans and guarantees by agencies of Government will be essential.

We all know, however, that a prosperous world economy must be built on more than foreign investment. Exchange rates must be stabilized and the channels of trade opened up throughout the world. A large foreign trade after victory will generate production, and therefore wealth. It will also make possible the servicing of foreign investments.

Almost no one in the modern world produces what he eats and wears and lives in. It is only by the division of labor among people and among geographic areas, with all their varied resources, and by the increased all-around production which specialization makes possible, that any modern country can sustain its present population. It is through exchange and trade that efficient production in large units becomes possible. To expand the trading circle, to make it richer, more competitive, more varied, is a fundamental contribution to everybody's wealth and welfare.

It is time for the United States to take the lead in establishing the principle of economic cooperation as the foundation for expanded world trade. We propose to do this, not by setting up a super-government, but by international negotiation and agreement, directed to the improvement of the monetary institutions of the world and of the laws that govern trade.

We have done a good deal in those directions in the last ten years under the Trade Agreements Act of 1934 and through the stabilization fund operated by our Treasury. But our present enemies were powerful in those years too, and they devoted all their efforts not to international collaboration, but to autarchy and economic warfare. When victory is won we must be ready to go forward rapidly on a wide front. We all know very well that this will be a long and complicated business.

A good start has been made. The United Nations monetary conference at Bretton Woods has taken a long step forward on a matter of great practical importance to us all. The conference submitted a plan to create an international monetary fund which will put an end to monetary chaos. The fund is a financial institution to preserve stability and order in the exchange rates between different moneys. It does not create a single money for the world; neither we nor anyone else is ready to do that. There will still be a different money in each country, but with the fund in operation the value of each currency in international trade will remain comparatively stable. Changes in the value of foreign currencies will be made only after careful consideration by the fund of the factors involved.

Furthermore, and equally important, the fund agreement establishes a code of agreed principles for the conduct of exchange and currency affairs. In a nutshell, the fund agreement spells the difference between a world caught again in the maelstrom of panic and economic warfare culminating in war-as in the Nineteen Thirties-or a world in which the members strive for a better life through mutual trust, cooperation and assistance. The choice is ours.

T therefore recommend prompt action by the Congress to provide the subscription of the United States to the international monetary fund and the legislation necessary for our membership in the fund.

The international fund and bank together represent one of the most sound and useful proposals for international collaboration now before us. On the other hand, I do not want to leave with you the impression that these proposals for the fund and bank are perfect in every detail.

It may well be that the experience of future years will show us how they can be improved. I do wish to make it clear, however, that these articles of agreement are the product of the best minds that forty-four nations could muster. These men, who represented nations from all parts of the globe, nations in all stages of economic development, nations with different political and economic philosophies, have reached an accord which is presented to you for your consideration and approval. It would be a tragedy if differences of opinion on minor details should lead us to sacrifice the basic agreement achieved on the major problems.

Nor do I want to leave with you the impression that the fund and the bank are all that we will need to solve the economic problems which will face the United Nations when the war is over. There are other problems which we shall be called upon to solve. It is my expectation that other proposals will shortly be ready to submit to you for your consideration.

These will include the establishment of the food and agriculture organization of the United Nations, broadening and strengthening of the Trade Agreements Act of 1934, international agreement for the reduction of trade barriers, the control of cartels and the orderly marketing of world surpluses of certain commodities, a revision of the Export-Import Bank, and an international oil agreement, as well as proposals in the field of civil aviation, shipping and radio wire communications. It will also be necessary, of course, to repeal the Johnson Act.

In this message I have recommended for your consideration the immediate adoption of the Bretton Woods agreements and suggested other measures which will have to be dealt with in the near future. They are all parts of a consistent whole.

That whole is our hope for a secure and fruitful world, a world in which plain people in all countries can work at tasks which they do well, exchange in peace the products of their labor and work out their several destinies in security and peace; a world in which Governments, as their major contribution to the common welfare, are highly and effectively resolved to work together in practical affairs and to guide all their actions by the knowledge that any policy or act that has effects abroad must be considered in the light of those effects.

This point in history at which we stand is full of promise and of danger. The world will either move toward unity and widely shared prosperity or it will move apart into necessarily competing economic blocs.

We have a chance, we citizens of the United States, to use our influence in favor of a more united and cooperating world. Whether we do so will determine, as far as it is in our power, the kind of lives our grandchildren can live.

February 12, 1945.

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A shipwreck loaded with silver worth more than £130million has been discovered at the bottom of the Atlantic. Odyssey Marine Exploration has confirmed the identity and location of the shipwreck site of the SS Gairsoppa, nearly 4,700 meters below the surface of the North Atlantic, approximately 300 miles off the coast of Ireland in international waters.

The SS Gairsoppa was a 412-foot steel-hulled British cargo ship that was torpedoed by a German U-boat in February 1941.

The ship was carrying £600,000 worth silver, including over 3 million ounces of private silver bullion.

"We've accomplished the first phase of this project - the location and identification of the target shipwreck - and now we're hard at work planning for the recovery phase," said Andrew Craig, Odyssey Senior Project Manager.

Odyssey CEO Greg Stemm said: "We were fortunate to find the shipwreck sitting upright, with the holds open and easily accessible. This should enable us to unload cargo through the hatches as would happen with a floating ship alongside a cargo terminal."

Earlier, the Odyssey team conducted ROV (Remotely Operated Vehicle) operations from the RV Odyssey Explorer to inspect the site. The video and photographs acquired during the exploration of the shipwreck were reviewed and analyzed at length to confirm the identity of the shipwreck as that of the SS Gairsoppa.

The expedition and resulting data was also used to evaluate the condition of the shipwreck and to begin planning for recovery operations.