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  • NTAN Offline
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    <p>New Fury Road Trailer :</p>
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    <p>Is that going to be good? I want it to be, but i have a feeling it will disappoint</p>

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    <p>I'm liking the trailers. I'm not getting my hopes up though as if you set them too high you're bound to be disappointed.</p>

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    <blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Tim" data-cid="482922" data-time="1427839048">
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    <p><strong><a class="bbc_url" href="http://dangerousminds.net/comments/on_a_scale_of_one_to_all_of_the..._how_much_cocaine_is_the_singer_of_kansas">On a scale of ‘one’ to ‘all of the’... how much cocaine is the singer of Kansas on here?</a></strong><br><br><img src="http://i.imgur.com/tZeexL1.jpg" alt="tZeexL1.jpg"><br><br>

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    (highlights at 1:46 and 3:39)<br>
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    <p>The tube socks are a hoot. At least no headband in any of those shots.</p>
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    <p>My Pappy always told me to mistrust a band with a lead violinist, but for all that I quite liked them. Like Journey if Ross Geller wrote their songs.</p>

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    <a class="bbc_url" href="http://concreteplayground.com/auckland/design-style/technology/elon-musk-is-now-actually-testing-hyperloop-transport/">http://concreteplayground.com/auckland/design-style/technology/elon-musk-is-now-actually-testing-hyperloop-transport/</a><br><br>
    San Fran to LA in 35 mins on Elon Musks proposed hyperloop

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    <span style="font-size:24px;">How did Aaron Hernandez not fail NFL drug tests?</span>
    

    <p><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:16px;">[T]he most eye-opening testimony came from </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:16px;">Hernandez’s close friend who lost an eye in a separate shooting incident with Hernandez. Bradley testified that Hernandez bought 1 to 4 ounces of marijuana at least once a week from Bradley, and that <strong>Hernandez was a “chain smoker” who could smoke as much as an ounce in a day</strong>.</span></p>
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    <p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/2015/04/04/how-did-aaron-hernandez-not-fail-nfl-drug-tests/NXI7edYeTLKFhJIyfe0s1M/story.html'>Boston Globe</a></p>

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    <p>When it comes to showing willing to turn up to "arty" events, I'd always choose the ballet - but, this is ridiculous! </p>

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    <p>Mightily impressive but owes more to gymnastics than ballet.</p>

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    <blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Catogrande" data-cid="484208" data-time="1428529181">
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    <p>Mightily impressive but owes more to gymnastics than ballet.</p>
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    <p>Yeah - it's the circus not the ballet company! This girl wasn't good enough to get in the ballet...</p>

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    <blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Chris B." data-cid="484209" data-time="1428529568">
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    <p>Yeah - it's the circus not the ballet company! This girl wasn't good enough to get in the ballet...</p>
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    <p> Do'h! I missed that slight hint!</p>

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    <p><img src="http://i.imgur.com/uH6kelG.gif" alt="uH6kelG.gif"></p>

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    <p>as the boat race is on -</p>
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    <p>Matt Berry is a great man.</p>
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    <p>The King of Bavaria.<br><br><img src="http://i.imgur.com/jDWXJ0J.jpg" alt="jDWXJ0J.jpg"><br><br>
    Dr. Erik Brandenburg.<br><br>
    OHHHHHHHH YEAH<br><br>
    OOH OOH OWW OWW</p>

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    <p><span style="font-size:18px;"><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://deadspin.com/alex-rodriguez-is-one-homer-closer-to-costing-the-yanke-1696957749'>Alex Rodriguez Is One Homer Closer To Costing The Yankees $6 Million</a></span></p>
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    <p><span style="font-size:18px;">...</span></p>
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    <p><span style="font-size:18px;"><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://deadspin.com/yankees-still-pretending-alex-rodriguezs-milestone-isnt-1697581526'>Yankees Still Pretending Alex Rodriguez's Milestone Isn't A Milestone</a></span></p>

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    <p>This whole A-Rod v The Yankees (and baseball I guess really) is equal parts fascinating and disgusting. He's got some balls on him A-Rod, considering what he is holding out for given what he has just been through. No one likes the Yankees, but I bet there most people are sympathetic to their cause here.</p>
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    <p>That said, I am not sure if you can just pretend something isn't a milestone just be not calling it that. Good luck with that fight. Who the fuck takes their employer to court in the middle of their contract, and (I assume) intends to stay there afterwards. Baseball is a strange sport.</p>

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    <p>That was a pretty amazing game a couple of days ago - 19 innings over 7 hours. I watched the last 3 hours worth of it, and I think both Yankees and Red Sox were both down to their last pitchers, both looking really stuffed by the end.</p>

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    <p>Probably not awesome, more in the WTF file...I mean why not try bacon first, seriously!! </p>
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    <p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11432645&ref=rss'>http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11432645&ref=rss</a></p>
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    <p style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Calibri, Candara, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Optima, Arial, sans-serif;">An heir of one of the world's richest families is banking on 3D "printing" of meat as the next big industry of the future.</p>
    <p style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Calibri, Candara, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Optima, Arial, sans-serif;">Justin Rockefeller, a great-great-grandson of Standard Oil founder John D. Rockefeller, is "a relatively small investor" in New York-based Modern Meadow, which has created a "steak chip" by growing animal tissues in a laboratory and then using a 3D printer to build up layers of meat into the size of a potato chip.</p>
    <p style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Calibri, Candara, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Optima, Arial, sans-serif;">"I have eaten a steak chip," Mr Rockefeller said in Auckland, where he will speak at a Philanthropy NZ conference today. "It tasted like a salty steak chip. It was delicious."</p>
    <p style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Calibri, Candara, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Optima, Arial, sans-serif;">The technology is still in its early stages. Modern Meadow co-founder Andras Forgacs has said that it costs thousands of dollars to make one pound (0.45kg) of meat.</p>
    <p style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Calibri, Candara, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Optima, Arial, sans-serif;">But he says the cost will come down dramatically when production ramps up in factories that he likens to micro-breweries, multiplying meat cells taken from a cow or a sheep in much the same way that brewers ferment a biological source such as barley to make beer.</p>
    <div style="margin:0px 0px 12px 20px;font-size:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Calibri, Candara, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Optima, Arial, sans-serif;"></div>
    <p style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Calibri, Candara, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Optima, Arial, sans-serif;">The time scale for artificial meat would be "in the order of decades", Mr Rockefeller said. Modern Meadow is starting with artificial leather on the theory that it will be easier to get people to buy car-seats or handbags made of artificial leather than to start eating artificial meat.</p>
    <p style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Calibri, Candara, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Optima, Arial, sans-serif;">"Meat will probably come after that," he said.</p>
    <p style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Calibri, Candara, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Optima, Arial, sans-serif;">"Every major idea seems crazy at first. Even mobile telephones used to look like giant bricks and cost $5000 each in the early 90s, but visionary people imagined a world in which every single person on the planet has one of these mobile devices and they fit in your pocket."</p>
    <p style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Calibri, Candara, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Optima, Arial, sans-serif;">Mr Forgacs and his father, University of Missouri Professor Gabor Forgacs, have already founded another company, Organovo, which has multiplied human cells and then used 3D printing to create tissues of human kidneys and other organs, initially for testing new medicines. It is valued on the New York Stock Exchange at US$379 million ($507 million).</p>
    <p style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Calibri, Candara, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Optima, Arial, sans-serif;">Modern Meadow is still privately owned but was valued last year at US$60 million ($80 million).</p>
    <p style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Calibri, Candara, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Optima, Arial, sans-serif;">"I would put this in the category of high-risk, high-return, high-impact," Mr Rockefeller said.</p>
    <p style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Calibri, Candara, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Optima, Arial, sans-serif;">He has co-founded a non-profit body called The Impact for investors who pledge to use their money to generate both a financial return and a social impact. He helped persuade the family-owned Rockefeller Brothers Fund to stop investing in fossil fuel industries last year - despite the fact that the family fortune comes from oil.</p>
    <p style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Calibri, Candara, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Optima, Arial, sans-serif;">"We embrace the irony," he said.</p>
    <p style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Calibri, Candara, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Optima, Arial, sans-serif;">Instead, he sees Modern Meadow as both a good financial bet and having a huge positive social impact if it can reduce global warming. Livestock account for 18 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions.</p>
    <p style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Calibri, Candara, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Optima, Arial, sans-serif;">However, Otago University scientist Dr Tim Woodfield, who leads a team using 3D printing to develop human tissue implants, said it was not clear how Modern Meadow could multiply living cells without using animal products, because most tissues were grown in media such as blood serum.</p>
    <p style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Calibri, Candara, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Optima, Arial, sans-serif;">"I have met Gabor Forgacs," he said. "The research community is somewhat sceptical, but it's very difficult to know what sort of basis this comes from."</p>
    <p style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Calibri, Candara, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Optima, Arial, sans-serif;">Beef + Lamb NZ chief executive Scott Champion said synthetic meat was still a long way from reality.</p>
    <p style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Calibri, Candara, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Optima, Arial, sans-serif;">"Consumers are telling us naturalness of product is very important to them," he said.</p>
    <p style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Calibri, Candara, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Optima, Arial, sans-serif;">Geoff Simmons of Gareth Morgan's Morgan Foundation said he would bet on NZ scientists finding ways to reduce methane emissions from livestock long before 3D printing of meat became viable.</p>
    <p class="" style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Calibri, Candara, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Optima, Arial, sans-serif;">- <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.nzherald.co.nz/'>NZ Herald</a></p>

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  • TimT Away
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    I already have a self regulating, self reproducing meat machine. It runs on the cheapest substrate around, high cellulose content and everything. You don't even need to process the feedstock with enzymes before bioconversion. <br><br>
    It's a fucking cow.

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