Hey there, SugarPea Designs friends!
How about the new June release? Pretty amazing, yes?!
I grabbed some of the new SPD goodness to whip up a birthday card. No stamping today...instead, using only festive paper and die cuts!
First off, I started by choosing some fun papers from the new It's a Celebration Patterned Paper Collection and cut a whole kit 'n kaboodle of layers using the new Stitched Note & Gift Card Holder, Birthday Journal Card and Party Banner Duo.
It's the day you've been waiting for...the final peek day and shopping day! Woot!
WELCOME TO DAY 5 OF OUR JUNE PRODUCT RELEASE!
Our entire June Product Release will be available for purchase starting this Friday, June 24th at 6PM EST in the SPD Store.
Today we are showcasing Gift Greetings and the brand new Gift Card Holder die cut! Now you will be able to make some cute Gift Card holders!
Here's a shot of the inside!
This gift card holder is going to be incredibly handy...so many occasions to use it! The little stamped card on the inside was cut from the previously released Zig Zag Stitched Rectangles...you know I use those on EVERYTHING! The balloons on the front are cut from the new Celebrate Card SugarCuts.
I have plans to use this SugarCuts as a layer on some future cards, too!
Would you like to win the new Gift Greetings stamp set? All you need to do is leave a comment the SugarPea Designs blog! It's THAT easy! You have all week to comment! Winners during our June Product Release will be announced on Sunday, June 26th.
Our team has some amazing creative inspiration for you using the products featured here today. You can visit each of our designers blogs below for details on their projects. And while you're there be sure to leave a sweet comment for them, giving you an extra entry to win today's giveaway prize.
You're going to fall in birthday love with the fun stamps and dies we are showing off today!
WELCOME TO DAY 4 OF OUR JUNE PRODUCT RELEASE!
Cake is always tasty and this new stamp set will help you to create some mouthwatering birthday concoctions! Trendy and graphic, this new stamp set is a bold way to express birthday greetings! We are also showcasing the new stamp set called HB2U!! This pretty sentiment is perfect for a quick and pretty card front!
Here's a closeup at that AWESOME birthday sentiment!!! How beautiful is that font?! I added several layers from the previously released Zig Zag Stitched Circles SugarCuts and the new SugarCuts. The scalloped rectangle, stitched rectangle and balloon/bow are going to get LOTS of use! Did you notice the confetti stamped over the balloon and rectangle?! So FUN!
Would you like to win the new Bring on The Cake stamp set? All you need to do is leave a comment the SugarPea Designs blog! It's THAT easy! You have all week to comment! Winners during our June Product Release will be announced on Sunday, June 26th.
Tomorrow is the last day of peeks and SHOPPING DAY! Yay!
Cat lovers will be meowing and purring over today's peeks!
WELCOME TO DAY 3 OF OUR JUNE PRODUCT RELEASE!
The snuggle IS real! Today we are showcasing an adorable set for all you Cat Lover's out there! It has some clever sentiments and fun "design" elements to make your Cat Loving family or friend that PURRfect project!
Lots of layers for this fun card! I used the previously released Zig Zag Stitched Rectangles SugarCuts along with new goodies on my card today!
Would you like to win the new Smitten Kitten stamp set? All you need to do is leave a comment the SugarPea Designs blog! It's THAT easy! You have all week to comment! Winners during our June Product Release will be announced on Sunday, June 26th.
See you tomorrow for more peeks!
Hey again, SugarPea Designs fans!
Today's peeks are sure to make you crave a sweet, cold treat!
WELCOME TO DAY 2 OF OUR JUNE PRODUCT RELEASE!
Today we are thrilled to introduced a "Sweet" new addition to our stamp and die line! Summer Scoops is a tasty and fun new set that allows you to create "cool" cards for those wonderful people in your life!
Here's a closeup of the sugary goodness on my card! What a fun card to make! I stamped the popsicles and ice cream cone with some yummy colors, stamping off for the lighter of the shades.
The sentiment is displayed in contrasting black ink and placed over lots of SugarCuts layers! I used the previously released Zig Zag Stitched Rectangles, Zig Zag Stitched Circles and Chatterbox Journal Card SugarCuts then added some sequin sprinkles to finish it off.
Would you like to win the new Summer Scoops stamp set? All you need to do is leave a comment the SugarPea Designs blog telling us your favorite flavor of ice cream! It's THAT easy! You have all week to comment! Winners during our June Product Release will be announced on Sunday, June 26th.
See you tomorrow for more SPD new release goodies!
Today marks a new challenge over at The Cat's Pajamas!
This time we are challenged to create a project using Red, White, Blue Sparkle! Just in time for the 4th of July in the USA!
I grabbed a couple of products from The Cat's Pajamas that reminded me of the holiday coming up...a 4th of July party usually calls from lemonade and vodka, right?!
I stamped the two phrases from the Lemons stamp set to create the focal panel and accented with a couple of sparkly Comic Balloons explosions!
Are you ready for an AWESOME week of SweetPeeks at SugarPea Designs New June Release?!
Hold on to your sweet socks, because this one's a home run!
WELCOME TO DAY 1 OF OUR JUNE PRODUCT RELEASE!
We are delighted to share with you some new SugarPea Designs Stamps, SugarCuts and Designer Paper!
Today we are showcasing a pretty new sentiment set; perfect for birthdays and other celebrations! We are also showcasing two new dies and a brand new paper pad!
All of these new items go together effortlessly to make adorable and festive celebration projects!
Here's a closeup shot of my card! I had a ball using all of the new goodies! That new paper pad, It's a Celebration, is utterly ADORABLE! Of course, I had to use some of that!!!
After cutting a couple of the previously released Zig Zag Stitched Rectangles SugarCuts, I added the new stuff! The Party Banner Duo SugarCuts is SO MUCH FUN...it's displayed above the panels over the Celebrate SugarCuts and a sentiment from the Celebrate All Things stamp set for a little word play.
Would you like to win the new Celebrate All Things stamp set? All you need to do is leave a comment the SugarPea Designs blog telling us about a special birthday memory! It's THAT easy! You have all week to comment! Winners during our June Product Release will be announced on Sunday, June 26th.
Our team has some amazing creative inspiration for you using the products featured here today. You can visit each of our designers blogs below for details on their projects. And while you're there be sure to leave a sweet comment for them, giving you an extra entry to win today's giveaway prize!
See you tomorrow for more the June SPD Release SweetPeeks!
Hey there, Verve fans...and COFFEE fans!
I whipped up a new summer/coffee card to play along the new Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop using some Verve Stamps goodness!
After I found some fun summery paper, I picked out some super fun Verve from my stash. I paired up two fabulous COFFEE-themed stamp sets, Coffee and Get Together. The dies that I used from Verve Stamps are Cuppa Joe Die Set, Stitched Pennants Die Set and Partly Cloudy Die Set.
There are a couple of amazing sales at the Verve store that you won't want to pass up!
Here is a closeup shot of my SUMMER/COFFEE card.. LOVE that pennant, sun and coffee cup cluster...no matter how hot the summer gets, I gotta have my morning (and afternoon) coffee!
I was in the mood for a crisp and clean card using lots of white with a splash of color. My SugarPea Designs goodies were perfect to whip up the look I was going for.
I used all of these SPD goodies on my card today!
After cutting the paper down a quarter inch to use as the card background panel, I cut some vellum circles, a pineapple, "hugs" word, and a banner. The sentiment was stamped over the vellum using some pigment ink...works great on vellum! Once all the main elements were placed, I finished it off with some baker's twine and a sprinkling of sequins.
Head over to the SPD Blog to see what the other SugarChics whipped up for you today!


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We demonstrate effective control of the morphology, defect content and vertical alignment of ZnO nanorod (NR) arrays grown by a solution method by simply varying the hexamine concentration during growth. We show that the amine acts both as a growth 'stabilizer' and 'surfactant' and controls both Zn release for ZnO formation and caps non-polar planes, respectively. Competition between these 'stabilizer' and 'surfactant' roles facilitates morphology, alignment and defect content control of 1D ZnO NR arrays. Well aligned, prismatic, defect (Zn interstitial) controlled ZnO NR arrays grown with a 1M amine concentration show higher photocatalytic degradation of Methylene Blue dye solutions under UV irradiation. Shallow donor zinc interstitials readily supply electrons which may increase the space charge near the nano-catalyst surface. The increased band bending associated with the interfacial electric field in the space charge region may then better facilitate the separation of photogenerated carriers and thus enhance the photocatalytic performance. Understanding the role of amine in the solution growth of 1D ZnO NR arrays holds great promise for tailoring ZnO NR functionalities for various potential applications.


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The reason why small balls on a hot plate bounce and scream
Mechanical Metamaterials
Water droplets float in a hot pan because of the so-called Leidenfrost effect. Now physicists from AMOLF and Leiden University have discovered a variation: the Elastic Leidenfrost effect. It explains why so called hydrogel balls jump around on a hot plate making high pitched sounds. The explanation appears in Nature Physics on July 24.
Most of the time, research arises through the gradual advancement of science. But sometimes research projects emerge from watching a YouTube video and a sudden strike of curiosity. Physicist Scott Waitukaitis (Leiden University / AMOLF) stumbled across a video of bouncing hydrogel balls on a hot plate and got so inspired that he decided to write an NWO Veni grant proposal. A year ago he was awarded the grant.
The funny dance of water droplets in a frying pan is a well-known phenomenon. There is even a name for it: the Leidenfrost effect. The warm underbellies of the droplets vaporize so quickly that they float around on a cushion of vapor. In striking contrast, hydrogel balls exhibit sustained bouncing motion instead of gentle floating. What's more, they scream while they bounce—seemingly pleading to escape the hot pan. Why and how do they do this? Waitukaitis and group leader Martin van Hecke (Leiden University / AMOLF) discovered that an unknown effect underlies the bouncing and screaming: the elastic Leidenfrost effect, which they describe in a publication in Nature Physics on July 24th.
Elastic Leidenfrost
First of all, hydrogel balls are elastic spheres that are mostly (98%) water—there is no shell. Water is trapped in a polymer network that fills up the entire sphere, much like a sponge will hold water. When the balls touch the hot plate, a small amount of water vaporizes, as happens with regular water droplets. Using high-speed videography to scrutinize the vaporization process at the interface between the sphere and the hot surface, Waitukaitis discovered that the released vapor interacts with the squishy sphere to create rapid oscillations in pressure and deformation. The movement that follows injects energy into the sphere, leading to a sustained bouncing. 'These oscillations happen rapidly, at a frequency of a few thousand cycles per second, causing the high-pitched sounds,' says Waitukaitis.
Soft Engine
The phenomenon brings to light a useful concept. 'Effectively, the sphere acts like an engine in the way that it harnesses energy from the surface, 'he says. 'What's incredible, however, is that all of the components of an engine, such as the fuel, the piston mechanism, and the mechanical output, are embedded in a single hydrogel ball.' Given that the mechanism explicitly requires the object to be squishy, the researchers call this a soft engine. The idea could be useful in other fields as well. 'One could take advantage of this idea in soft robotics. You could, for example, run a set of wires through the arms of a hydrogel robot and heat them where you want movement.'
Despite what its name suggests, the original Leidenfrost effect was not discovered in Leiden. It is named after its discoverer Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost who lived in Germany in the 1700s. People will not be able to make the same wrong presumption about the origin of the new elastic Leidenfrost effect, as it was actually discovered in Leiden.
Hydrogel balls are often found in vases: as a water reservoir and for decoration.
Scott R. Waitukaitus, Antal Zuiderwijk, Anton Souslov, Corentin Coulais and Martin van Hecke, Coupling the Leidenfrost Effect and Elastic Deformations to Power Sustained Bouncing, Nature Physics, doi: 10.1038/nphys4194
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The elastic Leidenfrost effect on the cover of Nature Physics 13 (2017)
These bouncing balls on a hot pan led to a new physics discovery
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Screaming gel balls reveal a way to power soft but noisy robots
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Advanced training [12h] for Macrobiotic course holders (3 years).
A theoretical and practical approach to the view of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) versus that of Macrobiotics.
It is intended that at the end of this training, the students have consolidated knowledge that they can integrate in their day to day.
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Macrobiotics has been known and disseminated in Portugal since 1975 and there has been regular information and training since 1985, which represent some thousands of people with this particular knowledge. But, who are these people? Do they practice the standard Macrobiotic diet? How do their families accept it? Do they use their knowledge on Macrobiotics as a source of income? What is the impact of Macrobiotics on the Portuguese society?
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Le Hilton Chicago est un célèbre hôtel de luxe de Chicago (États-Unis). L'hôtel se situe dans le secteur du Loop, au 720 S. Michigan Avenue juste à côté du Blackstone Hotel, un autre hôtel prestigieux de la ville. Le Hilton est un point de repère qui domine Grant Park, le lac Michigan, et le Museum Campus. Il est le troisième plus grand hôtel de Chicago par le nombre de chambres et possède la plus grande salle de réunion de tous les hôtels de la région de Chicago.

L'hôtel est de style Beaux-Arts et fut conçu par le cabinet d'architecte Holabird and Root.

Il possède  chambres dont 90 suites et trois restaurants.

Le Hilton Chicago a abrité tous les présidents des États-Unis depuis son ouverture en 1927. Il a abrité également de nombreuses célébrités telles que Tony Blair, Ray Charles, Cher, Joe DiMaggio, Alan Greenspan, Bob Hope, James Earl Jones, Luciano Pavarotti, Frank Sinatra, John Travolta ou encore Hu Jintao.

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Thursday July 05, 1990
Tags dinosaurs, babysitter, dinosaur, emergency, scenarios, burglary, injury, poinsoning, dial 911, complete, blank, here
Bob the Dinosaur sits across from a man and a woman who are interviewing him. The man says, "Before we hire you as our babysitter, we want to test how a dinosaur like you would respond to a variety of emergency scenarios." The man asks, "What if there's a fire?" Bob replies, "Dial 911." The man asks, "Burglary?" Bob answers, "Dial 911." The man asks, "Injury?" Bob replies, "Dial 911." The man asks, "Poisoning?" Bob replies, "Dial 911." The man asks, "Giant asteroid collides with earth and triggers an ice age?" Bob says, "Oh, wow . . . I'm drawing a complete blank here . . ."
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Tags Dilbert, campaign, censor, opera, forms, art
Dilbert asks Dogbert, ". . . What if you succeed in your campaign to censor opera?" Dilbert continues, "Before you know it, somebody will try to censor other forms of art." The text balloons above Dilbert's and Dogbert's heads are blank.
Tags Dilbert, Dogbert, chool, self-service, gas, station, attendants, thoughts, minds, easy
The caption says, "Second day: Dogbert's School for Self-Service Gas Station Attendants." Dogbert says, "You must learn to relax . . ." Dogbert continues, "I want you to clear your minds of all thoughts." The three students sit limply in their chairs with blank looks on their faces. Dogbert thinks, "That was too easy."
Tags Dilbert, baby, pregnancy, maternity leave, xerox, machine, copies, deliver, worker's rights
Dilbert asks Alice, who is pregnant, "When's the baby due?" Alice replies, "Any minute now." Alice continues, "This company has no maternity leave policy, so I'm going to deliver by the Xerox machine and keep working." Dilbert says to a man, "That doesn't seem fair." The man replies, "Yeah, especially if you need to make copies."
Tags Dilbert, suggestions, report, ridiculous, spit, woman, carol, assistant, violent
Dilbert tells a woman, "Carol, If you have any suggestions on my report, let me know." Carol looks at the document and asks, "What kind of ridiculous tripe are you pushing??" Carol says, "I spit on your report!" Carol lights a match and says, "I should burn it to ashes, but I won't . . ." Carol cries, "Because I'd rather dance on your grave after people read this!" She laughs. Carol throws the document at Dilbert and says, "Crawl back into your hole, you fly-infested bucket of dead carp!!" Dilbert walks away as Carol shouts, "Die! Die! Die!" Dilbert tells Wally, "Next time I'm just gonna say 'Carol, make some copies.'" Wally says, "The secretaries here have way too much power."
Saturday August 29, 1992
Tags the boss, unimportant, requires, action, route, subordinate, inflating, perceived, importance, destroying, morale, productivity, luck, copies
The Boss sits at his desk looking through a stack of documents and thinking, "Here's something else that's totally unimportant yet requires action." The Boss thinks, "I'll route it to a subordinate, thus inflating its perceived importance and destroying both morale and productivity." The Boss thinks, "What luck, I got two copies!"
Tags the boss, Dilbert, alice, table, introduce, afraid, forget, integrated, work, remember, drawing, norwegian
The Boss, Dilbert, Wally and Alice sit at a conference table. The Boss says, "I see some new faces. Let's go around the table and introduce ourselves." Dilbert thinks, "I hate this. I'm always afraid I'll forget my name when the pressure is on me." The man next to Dilbert says, ". . . And I've been in the Integrated Design District for four years." Dilbert thinks, "Uh-oh." Dilbert thinks, "People are saying where they work. I can't remember the name of my district." The man concludes, ". . . And there you have it! Ha ha!" Dilbert thinks, "Aaagh! Now they're adding witty comments." Dilbert thinks, "I'm drawing a blank. My only chance is to pretend I only speak Norwegian." Dilbert says, "Norna borna corna dorna fiord cajorda. Ha ha ha!" Back at home, Dilbert tells Dogbert, "The amazing thing is that I get paid the same no matter what I do." Dogbert replies, "Thank God for that."
Tags Dilbert, the boss, statistics, productivity, computers, software, program, conclusion, produced, impressive, crashed, decline, responsible, scapegoat
Dilbert stands across from the Boss's desk and says, "Government statistics show that office productivity went DOWN as computers became widely used." Dilbert continues, "But I didn't believe it." Dilbert says, "So I wrote a little software program to test that conclusion." Dilbert continues, "It only tood a month, but it produced some impressive data." Dilbert continues, "In fact, it was so impressive it took a week to figure out how to print it." Dilbert continues, "But before I could print, my computer crashed and I didn't have backup copies." Dilbert concludes, "So, it seems the government was right; computers are to blame for the decline in productivity." The Boss asks, "Do you think the employees could be partly responsible?" Dilbert replies, "Sure, find a scapegoat."
Tags company, headquarters, plan, employees, offer, deceptively, retire, Wally, alice, calculate, cosine
At company headquarters, someone asks, "Does anybody have a plan for getting rid of the employees?" Another person answers, "Well, they're bad at math; we could offer deceptively small sums of money to people who retire." Dilbert, Wally and Alice read copies of a document. Dilbert says, "Hey, this could be good." Wally says, "It's been a long time since I had to calculate the cosine of anything."
Tags Dogbert, the boss, job security, psychic
Dogbert, who is wearing a sorcerer's hat, tells the Boss, "I'll use my powers to read the minds of your employees and get ideas for improving morale." Dogbert says, "Hmm . . . All they care about is romance, ski trips and 'Star Trek.'" The Boss asks, "How about if we give the high performers little key chains with the company logo?" Dogbert says, "I'm getting a blank from this direction."


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Futures Contracts. You can purchase derivatives such as oil and gasoline futures contracts; these, however, can be dangerous, since futures contracts can and do regularly expire with no worth.
Small or Micro-cap Stock and Limited Partnerships. If you wish to take a more direct equity position in a smaller business or job, you might think about making a play further down the oil and gas market "food chain" into a little or micro-cap stock, or perhaps a minimal collaboration that focuses on oil and gas. This is a more specialized field of investing, and if business is not publicly traded, you will generally need to engage the services of a broker who concentrates on this market for access to these type of services. Or if you have a considerable quantity you can invest, you can deal with the company's management directly for a personal placement chance.
As oil rates continue to stay above $50 a barrel and oil & gas pro's feel the worst is behind us. Increasingly more Oil and gas investment opportunities are showing up. A fast interview with Derrick Hale, VP of Business Advancement for Energy Funders state's job deal circulation has gotten x 3 since last year.
That being said, it's more important now than ever to have a good due diligence process in order to avoid the inexperienced, the Crooks and the Promoters.
Bet on the Jockey, not simply the Horse: We have all heard it before, but it truly does matter to whom you work with. The oil and gas business is tough enough already, now include somebody that does not have experience. This is a recipe for a lost financial investment.
Information, Data and More Information: Data is crucial for a knowledgeable Tank Engineer to assess logs, balancing out production, decrease curves and far more to ensure you have a decent opportunity to make oil. Make certain that the people you are working with supply excellent data and it is evaluated by a first class third party.
Intangible Drilling Costs: These include whatever however the real drilling equipment. Labor, chemicals, mud, grease and other miscellaneous items required for drilling are considered intangible. These expenditures usually make up 65-80% of the overall cost of drilling a well and are 100% deductible in the year sustained. For example, if it costs $300,000 to drill a well, and if it was figured out that 75% of that expense would be thought about intangible, the financier would get an existing deduction of $225,000. Additionally, it doesn't matter whether the well really produces or perhaps strikes oil. As long as it starts to operate by March 31 of the list below year, the deductions will be enabled.
Tangible Drilling Costs: Tangible costs refer to the real direct expense of the drilling equipment. These expenses are likewise 100% deductible but needs to be diminished over seven years. Therefore, in the example above, the staying $75,000 could be written off inning accordance with a seven-year schedule.
Active vs. Passive Earnings: The tax code specifies that a working interest (rather than a royalty interest) in an oil and gas well is not considered to be a passive activity. This suggests that all net losses are active income incurred in conjunction with well-head production and can be offset versus other types of income such as earnings, interest and capital gains.
Small Producer Tax Exemptions: This is possibly the most attracting tax break for small producers and investors. This reward, which is commonly referred to as the "depletion allowance," excludes from taxation 15% of all gross income from oil and gas wells. This unique benefit is restricted entirely to small companies and investors. Any company that produces or fine-tunes more than 50,000 barrels of oil daily is disqualified. Entities that own more than 1,000 barrels of oil daily, or 6 million cubic feet of gas daily, are left out as well.
Lease Costs: These include the purchase of lease and mineral rights, lease operating expense and all administrative, legal and accounting expenses. These expenses need to be capitalized and subtracted over the life of the lease through the depletion allowance.
Alternative Minimum Tax: All excess intangible drilling costs have been specifically excused as a "choice item" on the alternative minimum tax return.


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We wanted to hear your responses and we hope you like it!
It's rich, full, and has different feelings throughout the song. Plus, different kinds of instruments really bring a lot of excitement to it. This is exactly what I'm looking for. You get my rare 10 stars! I'd surely listen to it in my iPod Touch regularly for sure.
I like the flow of the music and the fast beat. However the whistle thing from 1:20 to around 2:36 got a bit annoying after a while.
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AutoNation Announces Second Quarter Earnings Conference Call and Audio Webcast Scheduled for Thursday, July 28, 2005 at 11:00 A.M. Eastern Time
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., July 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- AutoNation, Inc. (NYSE: AN), America's largest automotive retailer, announced today that it will release its financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2005 on Thursday, July 28, 2005 before 7:00 a.m. Eastern Time. Mike Jackson, chairman and chief executive officer; Mike Maroone, president and chief operating officer; and Craig Monaghan, chief financial officer, will discuss these results and information regarding the Company's business and operating environment during a conference call and audio webcast that same morning at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time.
The conference call may be accessed by phone at 800-762-7141 or via the Internet (audio webcast) at http://www.AutoNation.com by clicking on the "About Us" link, then clicking on "Investors" and then "Webcasts". A playback of the conference call will be available after 2:30 p.m. Eastern Time July 28, 2005 through August 8, 2005 by calling 800-475-6701 (access code #789179).
AutoNation, Inc., headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., is America's largest automotive retailer. A component of the Standard and Poor's 500 Index, AutoNation has approximately 27,000 full-time employees and owns and operates 352 new vehicle franchises in 17 states. For additional information, please visit http://corp.AutoNation.com or http://www.AutoNation.com , where more than 100,000 vehicles are available for sale.
Certain statements and information included in this release constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Federal Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of the Company to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied in such forward-looking statements. Additional discussion of factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from management's projections, estimates and expectations is contained in the Company's SEC filings. The Company undertakes no duty to update its forward- looking statements, including its earnings outlook.
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Deployed soldiers face punishment for their 'message to liberals' video
Two soldiers from the Michigan Army National Guard's Company A, 3rd Battalion, 126th Infantry, face discipline after posting a politically charged "message to liberals and Democrats." (YouTube screenshot)
Two deployed Michigan Army National Guard soldiers who in September posted an obscenity-laced TikTok video of themselves, armed and in uniform, chiding "liberals and Democrats" for being "crybabies and snowflakes" now face disciplinary action following an investigation.
The two soldiers are assigned to Company A, 3rd Battalion, 126th Infantry Regiment, which is deployed under U.S. Army Central Command, according to Air Force Capt. Andrew Layton, a Michigan National Guard spokesman. Neither the Michigan Guard nor U.S. Army Central would share the names of the soldiers, whose nametapes are not visible in the video.
"We are aware of the video posted to TikTok by two U.S. Army Soldiers on Sept. 15, 2020 in the CENTCOM" region, said U.S. Army Central spokesman Col. Armando Hernandez in an email to Military Times. "The video was removed from TikTok, the incident was investigated, and appropriate action is being taken."
The Michigan Army National Guard said it is taking disciplinary action against the two soldiers.
"Unit leadership is aware of this video and disciplinary action is presently being taken," said Layton in a statement to Military Times. "Regardless of the video's origin, the reprehensible comments made in the video are unacceptable and inconsistent with professional military values."
Layton declined to say exactly what rules the soldiers broke or what punishment they received.
One expert contacted by Military Times said the soldiers appeared to violate rules prohibiting wearing the uniform in a situation that could "discredit" the military, as well as one banning uniform wear related to political activities.
"This case is egregious and clear-cut," said Jim Golby, a civil-military relations expert and senior fellow at the University of Texas at Austin's Clements Center for National Security,
Army officials say the soldiers also may have violated security rules by using a personal device.
The video has gone viral since it was originally posted to TikTok, subsequently deleted and then partially re-uploaded to to the Art TakingBack YouTube channel as "Two Soldiers Overseas Have A Message For Liberals." In it, the two soldiers address the camera as if they were speaking directly to "liberals and Democrats."
Army officials learned of the video and its origins in late September, according to a defense official.
The channel, which was created in early September, has more than 13,000 subscribers, but does not appear to create its own content. It contains numerous pro-Donald Trump and anti-Democrat and anti-left-wing activist videos. A Google reverse image search of the channel's icon shows a Twitter account called Art TakingBack, with more than 115,000 followers and a description that reads, "I'm here to support my President #Trump #MAGA #TRUMP2020 #WalkAway."
The soldiers recorded the video with a personal device while on duty, explained Hernandez, the ARCENT spokesman. "Using a personal device and social media platform while on duty presents a security concern," he said in a statement to Military Times. The Army banned TikTok from Army-issued mobile devices in January, citing data security concerns.
Both soldiers were wearing body armor, and they had their rifles slung throughout the video.
The soldier on the left, a specialist speaking through a mouthful of chewing tobacco, refers to "crybabies and snowflakes burning our f---king country down."
"Is that guy drinking unicorn semen?" said the soldier on the right, a staff sergeant. He also encouraged his imaginary audience to "strap your balls on, you know, and be a f---king man. Move out of your mom's basement and stand up for something."
Golby said the comments appears to violate Defense Department rules prohibiting "any activity that may be reasonably viewed" as linking the DoD with a partisan political stance."
Videos such as this can also have a negative impact on perceptions of partisanship in the military, explained Golby, who has been studying the partisan activities of troops with Peter Feaver, who served as a White House advisor to former President George W. Bush and is now a political science professor at Duke University.
"My research with Peter Feaver shows that partisan activity by servicemembers undermines trust and helps polarize the public's confidence in the military," Golby said. "A viral video like this one that includes negative and vitriolic partisan attacks is likely to be extremely damaging and could even have longer term impacts on recruiting."
The bottom line is that troops must remain apolitical, said a spokesman for the two soldiers' higher headquarters.
"Soldiers are public servants who have taken an oath to defend the principles of the U.S. Constitution while upholding DoD's tradition of remaining apolitical," said Hernandez, the U.S. Army Central spokesman.
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Vehicle Insight: Ford Fiesta 1.0I ST-LINE E/BOOST S/S 5DR 125PS 6 speed
By Steve Davenport
At the end of September, Ford had registered 79,416 new Fiestas in the UK so far this year, making it the best-selling car, ahead of the Golf by almost 50%. To understand why, I tried the ST-Line at RRP £17,165, the middle of the price band for the model range.
The ST-Line is the ′lite' version of the two sport models, the hotter being the ST. It is also in the middle of the range of eight engines, being a 1.0 litre 3 cylinder turbo producing 125bhp and 170 lb/ft of torque in this state of tune. Ford claim between 48 and 67 mpg for this engine. The ST-Line has its own front and rear styling treatment, with different grille, fog lights, bumpers and wheels, in this case 17″x7″ with 205/45 R17 tyres. Surprisingly, the three and five door models are exactly the same length at 4.065m.
The car is very well-equipped, with automatic headlights which are full LED with dynamic levelling and scrolling LED turn indicators. It has a heated windscreen but no auto wipers at this trim level. It has the same three spoke, leather-trimmed flat bottom steering wheel as the ST, which I found rather on the large side and festooned with no less than 13 control buttons. The S-Line also shares the ST's leather trimmed gear lever with aluminium insert ′sport pedal set' with stainless steel cappings and rubber inserts. At this trim level you have to make do with manual aircon, there is no automatic climate control.
All models have an ′NCAP Technology Pack', comprising lane-keeping alert and aid, adjustable speed limiter, rear seatbelt reminder, and rear centre headrest. Additional safety features are optional but were not fitted to the test car. The ST-Line features a DAB radio with 6.5″ TFT touchscreen display with very large graphics making it easy to read, four front and two rear speakers, remote audio controls on the wheel, voice control, Apple CarPlay, Android Auto, Emergency assistance, hands free calling, GPS, Bluetooth, and USB connection. The central touchscreen display is incongruously tacked on like an afterthought, and not angled towards the driver, which is slightly annoying especially as the ″home″ button is on the far side on right-hand drive models.
Externally, the Fiesta is a good looking car, with its front grille giving a more than passing resemblance to Aston Martin's (and there the similarity ends), grey finished alloys, blacked out rear side windows and shapely rear. I did notice however some large panel gaps especially between the front panel and the leading edge of the bonnet.
And so to the driving. The car has excellent low speed acceleration as a result of its high torque figure, and feels light and nimble with sharp steering and grippy, poised handling. Sixth gear is very much a cruising gear, and the car needs to be over 55 mph to feel comfortable in it. The Fiesta has a nice slick gearchange but it is not as satisfying as it should be because the engine's pronounced flywheel effect makes it hang on to revs and either slows down the changes or leads to a jerk when you change up quickly.
The engine is quite refined and has a nice three-cylinder thrum that is not intrusive. There is a fair level of tyre and road noise, which I think you expect in a car at this level, accompanied by noticeable wind noise at motorway cruising speeds such that you no longer hear the engine.
The brakes are light but strong, progressive and positive. Unfortunately the seats were not very comfortable, pinching my shoulder blades, and I am not a large build. And whilst we're being grumpy, the ride is pretty jiggly in ST-Line spec, both around town and also at speed. I suspect the non-sports models with smaller wheels are better in this respect, although the excellent handling and cornering agility are always going to compromise the ride quality.
Overall, I can see why the Fiesta is popular, and deservedly so, but my advice would be to go for a lower level version with smaller wheels as I just wouldn't be able to accept the jiggly ride and the pinching in the shoulder blades.


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The Walking Dead Offers Father's Day Reminder That Rick Grimes Rules
by Ray Flook
There's no one more deserving of a "The Best Dad Ever in a Walker Apocalypse" (sorry, The Walking Dead: World Beyond, but you're going to have to do more to get us to buy into "empties") mug on Father's Day than Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln). Spending most of his nine seasons on the mothership series as a single parent (we're not having that Lori (Sarah Wayne Callies) conversation right now), he's had to keep his real and extended family alive while warding off the undead, megalomaniac, and a bats**t crazy baby-daddy. Though he lost Carl (Chandler Riggs) along the way, his "legacy" lives on through "she's-too-much-a-Grimes-to-be-a-Shane" Judith (Cailey Fleming), and the son he had with Michonne (Danai Gurira) but never "lived long enough" to meet, Rick "RJ" Grimes, Jr. (Antony Azor).
Rick and Carl in The Walking Dead (Image: AMC)
In case you forgot and were wondering why I'm using so many quotation marks, there's that whole "CRM helicopter" thing going on where we're going to see what happened to Rick in what we're assuming is still going to be a trilogy of films. Whether it happens there or back on The Walking Dead proper, there will be a ton of eyeballs ready, willing, and able to witness a reunion between Rick and Michonne. Adding to that, can you imagine that moment when Rick and Judith can first talk? Or the first time he sees his son? If you're AMC and Skybound, there are two words that should be springing to mind: ratings gold. But before we get too ahead of ourselves (and start to turn this pleasant conversation into something a little too cynical), the fine folks at The Walking Dead are offering fans a look back at some heart-crushing kicks to "the feels" to remind us why Rick Grimes is a TV dad standard-bearer:
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Moon Knight star Gaspard Ulliel (Anton Mogart aka Midnight Man) has reportedly been hospitalized after a "serious ski accident" in the Alps.
The Cuphead Show! Preview Images: Cuphead, Mugman, King Dice & More!
With the animated series set to premiere on February 18, Netflix released a new set of preview images for The Cuphead Show!.
Walker Star Jared Padalecki on Emotional Lindsey Morgan Goodbye & More
Walker star Jared Padalecki discusses Lindsey Morgan's (& Micki's) emotional goodbye & what one of the biggest changes in the show has been.
The Boys' "Diabolical" Laser Baby Intro; Goldberg & Rogen Talk Series
Premiering on March 4, The Boys Presents: Diabolical introduced viewers to Laser Baby; Evan Goldberg & Seth Rogen on what we can expect.
Saturday Night Live Taps Willem Dafoe & Katy Perry to Wrap Up January
Saturday Night Live has tapped Spider-Man: No Way Home star Willem Dafoe to host (with musical guest Katy Perry) for the January 29 episode.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer & Angel star Charisma Carpenter took to social media to offer a response to yesterday's Joss Whedon article.
Latest in TV
After suffering head injuries from a ski accident in the Alps, Moon Knight star and French actor Gaspard Ulliel has passed away, age 37.
American Detective Season 2 Brings Lt. Joe Kenda Back To Discovery+
On January 26th, Lt. Joe Kenda returns to Discovery+ for a second round of logic-defying cases with American Detective Season 2.
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POLITICAL activists in St Ives have been told not to replace election posters at the roadside.
As highway authority for roads in the area, Cambridgeshire County Council also owns the verges. It must remain politically neutral at election time.
Most roadside advertising, even on private land, requires a form of planning consent. But election posters are exempted from fly-posting laws, though they must be removed within 10 days of the announcement of the election result, HDC elections manager Laura Lock said.


Rauru is a form of weaving pattern where three ropes are twined into one, typically a spiral pattern. It is also the Māori word for umbilical cord, specifically the part connected to the mother.
Written by Cian Gardner and Karina Nathan and directed by Kathleen Christian, Rauru explores concepts of family, identity and loss through the story of Ruby, Ata, and their ailing grandmother.
Preparing for a Tangi, family secrets are uncovered, and old wounds are opened as the women straddle dual cultures and battle ghosts from their past. The family home welcomes some, and repels others. The relationship between the three Māori women is fraught, honest, loving and real. None of them perfect, all very different, but all indelibly connected to each other.
Presented by Cove Theatre, Rauru is a story told with gentleness, humour and compassion about people you will recognise, maybe even within yourself.
Cove Theatre is a newly formed company which is aimed at creating theatre which stages Māori and Pasifika stories onstage. Standing on the grounds of inclusion and authentic storytelling, our kaupapa is to create a sense of belonging for performers and audience members – where we empower stories that are not always told.


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What Is The Doppler Effect?
The Doppler Effect describes how the frequency of a wave changes depending on the motion of an object relative to your position. The Doppler Effect will apply to any wave, including both sound waves and electromagnetic waves. One of the best ways to visualize the Doppler Effect is to imagine a police car with its sirens on speeding past you. As the police car gets closer, the pitch of its siren increases. When it passes you and begins speeding away, the pitch of its siren decreases. This is because as the police car approaches you, its speed and motion are compressing the sound waves in front of, and when it starts speeding away, its sound waves are being stretched. By compressing sound waves, the distance between crests is decreasing, and thus the frequency of the waves are increasing, in turn causing an increase in pitch. When sound waves are stretched, the distance between wave crests is increasing, and both frequency and pitch decrease as a result.
Doppler Effect and Electromagnetic Radiation
Visualization of the Doppler Effect
The Doppler Effect is most easily visualized by its effect on sound waves, yet the exact same principle always applies to light waves. Light itself is a wave, and so the Doppler Effect also applies to waves of light. However, the Doppler shift of light can only really be seen when an object is moving at extreme velocities at or near the speed of light. Although sensitive equipment can observe a Doppler shift at much lower velocities, our eyes simply cannot see it.
Imagine that same police car from the previous example. Rather than focusing on the siren, we will now focus on the car itself. Let's assume that the police car is moving at 99% the speed of light. Now as it speeds towards you, light waves are being compressed and blue-shifted. When it passes you and starts speeding away, light waves are stretched and red-shifted. As was the case with sound waves, light that is blue-shifted has a higher frequency, while light that is red-shifted has a lower frequency. Interestingly, with electromagnetic radiation, this also translates to the light's energy, as higher frequency light is more energetic than lower frequency light.
Use in Astronomy
The Doppler Effect is used to determine how fast galaxies are moving. Image credit: NASA/ESA
Since the Doppler Effect influences light waves, it has profound applications for the science of astronomy. The Doppler shift of light is dependent upon an object's velocity relative to us, and so it can be used to calculate how fast an object is moving in space. The Doppler Effect has been used to calculate how fast other planets rotate, how fast stars move, and the rate at which the universe is expanding. The Doppler Effect has also been used in discovering planets around other stars by measuring the Doppler shift of a star caused by the gravitational pull of an orbiting planet.
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Wheat outlook - pants
Posted by Nogger - a legend in his own mind at 23:32 | Categorized as pants,wheat
Wheat markets came under continued selling pressure last week, with new crop futures prices losing $.78 in Minneapolis, $.82 in KC and $.70 in Chicago. Improving crop prospects around the Northern Hemisphere have moved several countries to increase their production estimates; and so this developing record crop just keeps getting bigger.
In the US, KC was the biggest loser for the week despite a forecast for frost dipping into Kansas/Colorado over the weekend; the market obviously wasn't worried about significant damage. Indeed, temps did reach as low as 24 F in western KS and 22 F in eastern Colorado, enough to do minor damage but much of that wheat was already seriously stressed from dry conditions so overall market impact will be little if any.
So far this growing season, the only notable production problems have been in the far westcentral and southern Plains. The northern Plains and Canadian prairies also have dryness issues, but the season is very early. The eastern half of North Dakota has been getting moisture along with some regions of the western half of the state. The far west and north of the northern Plains do have some drought issues, making spring wheat and durum production still uncertain despite an increase in acres.
However, the rest of the Northern Hemisphere continues to look very good. Rains have been falling in key areas, giving the wheat crop a solid start with plenty of subsoil available in most areas. China's biggest producing provinces of Henan and Shandong both project record production after recent rains; together, those two provinces produce about 35% of China's total winter wheat. India also raised their production estimates by 2 MMT over last month to a record 76.8 MMT, and then cancelled an import call option tender, suggesting that their importing days are over for at least this year.
The EU also raised its production estimate to 128 MMT, up 17 over last year. Just in the last month, the world production estimate has increased about 20 MMT, taking it to 60- 65 MMT over last year to a record 665 - 670 MMT, a 10% increase.
Adding to the bearish sentiment was the Ukraine lifting their export ban and immediately confirming a sale to Algeria for 200 TMT. Ukraine then increased the amount available for export by another 1 MMT, saying that they were comfortable with their domestic stocks and the outlook for this year's production. Keep in mind, it was just a few weeks ago that Russia suggested the Black Sea region would export more wheat this coming marketing year than the US. That will certainly be a number to watch.
Australia continues to make news as abundant rains have set the stage for record wheat plantings and production. While their harvest is a long way off, it is not lost on the trade that the world's usually second largest exporter could be a major player again this winter.
I think that this wheat market will continue to struggle as we move forward as fundamentals are increasingly bearish. However, we could still get rallies but will likely be disappointed in those rallies. We are currently at a key support zone, the old double-top high from Dec/Jan, which could hold this market temporarily, but odds are very high that ultimately we'll see another $1 - $1.50 lower into the harvest.


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"You don't have to be British to lose your composure and howl with laughter at THE EXPLORERS CLUB a witty spoof of all those bold Victorian adventurers who ravaged foreign lands and annihilated indigenous cultures in the name of science." —Variety. "[T]he title location is where Victorian men of science ponder the mysteries of nature while genteelly getting blotto…But the most impressive act of mixology belongs to playwright Nell Benjamin, whose comedy recipe goes a little like this: two parts Blackadder, one part Monty Python, a dash of Shaw, shake wildly and garnish with fresh feminist ire." —Time Out NY. "The jokes come barreling fast and furious…but, like most farces, the effect is cumulative. By the time all the various comic strands start weaving together in the second act, the silliness has gotten contagious." —Entertainment Weekly. "In her hijinks-happy cocktail THE EXPLORERS CLUB, Nell Benjamin follows this recipe: To a starchy bunch of science geeks bemoaning the worst barkeep in London, add a plucky adventurer and her discovery, a trouble-making tribesman. Then shake, stir, serve in an eye-catching vessel, and brace for laughter." —NY Daily News.


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IBM ViaVoice Enhanced Edition
By IBM | May 22, 2001
ViaVoice for Macintosh, Enhanced Edition continues the success of the best-selling, award winning ViaVoice for Mac, Millennium Edition. IBM's newest continuous speech utility for the Macintosh OS offers new features and increased functionality that build on and complement the features found in the original product. Features such as Direct Dictation, which allow users to dictate and edit speech directly into supported applications, voice commands that allow Internet browser navigation and chat interaction, Universal Serial Bus (USB) support and customized language models are included. For the first time, ViaVoice for Macintosh, Enhanced Edition delivers a complete solution that provides users the ability to dictate, edit and correct text within an application. Communicate by dictating in applications such as Internet Explorer, Microsoft Word and Outlook Express using a natural speaking voice - it can't get any easier than that.
Macintosh, Mac OS Classic


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Q: Explanation of PDU size in Bluetooth Low Energy 4.2 In Bluetooth Low Energy 4.0 and 4.1, the max PDU of an OTA packet is 39 bytes (47 bytes with preamble, access address and CRC) and was increased to 257 bytes in version 4.2.
The reason of short packet is stability of the radio, long packets heat up the silicon and extra circuitry to be added to keep the frequency stable.So, in BLE 4.1, the longest possible packet is 376 microseconds to avoid heating effect. As the data rate is 1Mhz, 376 microseconds is 376 bits = 47 bytes so the size of PDU is explained. But in the version 4.2, the longest packet is 2120 bits, so 2.12ms and I read 3ms packets in bluetooth classic are long enough to cause problems. So my question is: Why and how did SIG succeed to increase the PDU in version 4.2 know some semiconductor companies state the hardware is the same for all the versions. What did lead to this new PDU length?

A: In 4.[01], 39 bytes is the maximum LL PDU size reached for advertisement packets (2 bytes of header, 6 bytes of device address, 31 bytes of AD).
For data packets, max PDU size is 33 bytes (2 Header + 4 L2CAP + 23 ATT + 4 MIC).
Note Data channel header counts the PDU size without the header, so this makes the data channel payload size go up to 31 bytes. This is the number that got enlarged in 4.2 (the actual minimal value is 27 bytes if crypto is not supported, because 4-byte MIC will never appear in the packet).
The new data channel payload size defined in 4.2 is the maximum possible value protocol can support, so it's a value a chip may support rather than an absolute packet size every chip must support.
Actual data channel payload size is negotiated with LL_LENGTH_REQ and LL_LENGTH_RSP between the two involved radios. They may negotiate any length from 27 up to 251 bytes (at the payload level) (See Core_v4.2 6.B.2.4.2.21).
In first release of the BLE spec, packet absolute max size was 27 bytes (data payload, without MIC). Spec used a 5-bit field for LL packet size, 3 other bits of this header byte were RFU. It eventually got enlarged to 8-bit with full backward compatibility in 4.2, but there are no more contiguous bit available in the header. To me, this explains why limit is around 256 bytes (give or take because of fixed header sizes that are not part of the byte count): it gives a reasonable extension without changing the protocol much.

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