From unpronounceable symbols to parentheses, Gaga's ALL-CAPS album title joins the ranks of the all-time weirdest.
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If you love to collect things, vintage or contemporary, you probably know how much fun it is to get hold of the rarest of rare collectibles. There is really a vast collection of Olympic Pins, Olympics Stamps, Olympic Mascots, Olympic Collector Plates, Decorative Symbols and Logos for Avid Collectors to choose from the online stores like Amazon and eBay.
Olympic collectibles and artifacts are a great collection that you can boast and showcase if you have started collecting earlier. If you have not, this is just the right opportunity to start accumulating the precious Olympics paraphernalia. They can be sports memorabilia, old Olympics souvenirs, vintage artifacts, figurines or any other form of collectibles. Rare Olympics mascots, pins, plates and badges can also add value to your collection.
Olympics are thought to have begun in 776 BC and the modern Olympics just some decades away. So you are not late in starting your collection. In fact you are never too late to start collecting any vintage, rare and authentic figurines and artifacts to your booty. They are a thing of joy; anew addition in your treasure and perhaps after sometime may quote in millions. Who knows, one day they may find themselves a place in a museum where people will flock to view them.
The term Olympics has its roots in Olympia, a region in Greece. The spirit of friendship truce and good-will was in a way important in making and establishing relationships amongst various states in ancient Greece. The sportsman from different countries competed in athletics, combats, archery and many other events. An apparent truce was effective during the games were played and the countries honoured their vows not to engage in combats during this tenure.
Even during the infant stage of hosting the Olympics, the games were about sportsmanship, the joy of winning laurels and the camaraderie of fellow countrymen. The games continued to establish their roots during the 6th and 5th centuries BC. The Olympics gained momentum and a key milestone when they were redefined and revived in the late 19th century thus giving a new shape to contemporary Olympics celebrated once in 5 years.
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FILE - In this Aug. 25, 2011 file photo, Gibson Guitar CEO Henry Juszkiewicz speaks about a raid by federal authorities, at the plant in Nashville, Tenn. Federal prosecutors say a deal has been reached to drop the criminal case against Gibson Guitar Corp. after the instrument maker acknowledged its exotic wood imports violated environmental laws. Republicans and tea party members rallied behind Juszkiewicz when he denounced the raids as overzealous federal regulation that threatened American jobs. (AP Photo/The Tennessean, Samuel M. Simpkins) NO SALES
FILE - In this Aug. 25, 2011 file photo, Gibson Guitar CEO Henry Juszkiewicz speaks about a raid by federal authorities, at the plant in Nashville, Tenn. Federal prosecutors say a deal has been reached to drop the criminal case against Gibson Guitar Corp. after the instrument maker acknowledged its exotic wood imports violated environmental laws. Republicans and tea party members rallied behind Juszkiewicz when he denounced the raids as overzealous federal regulation that threatened American jobs. (AP Photo/The Tennessean, Samuel M. Simpkins) NO SALES
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ? Federal prosecutors on Monday announced a deal to drop a criminal case against Gibson Guitar Corp. after the instrument maker acknowledged its importations of exotic wood violated environmental laws.
Nashville-based Gibson agreed to pay a $300,000 penalty, forfeit claims to about $262,000 worth of wood seized by federal agents and contribute $50,000 to the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation to promote the conservation of protected tree species.
"The agreement is fair and just in that it assesses serious penalties for Gibson's behavior while allowing Gibson to continue to focus on the business of making guitars," U.S. Attorney Jerry Martin said in a statement.
Gibson didn't immediately respond to messages left Monday seeking comment. The privately held company is considered one of the top makers of acoustic and electric guitars, including the iconic Les Paul introduced in 1952.
Gibson's decision to cooperate with the federal Lacey Act banning the import of endangered wood products stood in contrast to a publicity campaign mounted in protest after agents raided Gibson facilities in Memphis and Nashville.
Republicans and tea party members had rallied behind CEO Henry Juszkiewicz at the time he denounced the raids as overzealous federal regulation that threatened American jobs.
"We feel totally abused," Juszkiewicz said immediately after the August 2011 raid. He vowed at the time the company would "fight aggressively to prove our innocence." Soon afterward he was invited by House Speaker John Boehner to attend a joint session of Congress in which President Barack Obama delivered a speech on jobs.
A few weeks later a company spokesman claimed that a federal agent had "lied" in affidavits claiming the CEO knew the wood seized by authorities was illegally imported.
Those affidavits supporting the search warrant that authorized the raids alleged that shipments of imported Indian ebony and rosewood were given false labels to circumvent import restrictions.
The settlement says a Gibson employee learned during a 2008 trip to Madagascar ? the source of some of the ebony wood that was seized ? that it was illegal to import unfinished wood and sent a report about it to his superiors, including company President David Berryman.
The exotic woods used in such guitars are considered integral to the sound. And artists who have played Gibson instruments range widely from Chet Atkins and Maybelle Carter in country to Pete Townshend of The Who and Eric Clapton in rock to Larry Carlton and Paul in jazz.
George Gruhn, who owns a vintage guitar shop in Nashville, said he wasn't surprised that Gibson officials accepted the settlement.
"Regardless of the merits of the case on either side, it would have cost more than that by far to pursue it," he said. "Even if they thought they conceivably they could win, it would have probably cost more than $1 million to do it."
Gruhn said the resolution of the Gibson case doesn't ease his concerns about the Lacey Act, which initially halted the trade in endangered wildlife goods, like ivory, but in 2008 added rare woods to the import ban.
"The problem is that virtually every instrument prior to 1970 contains Brazilian rosewood," he said. "Even on a Gibson LGO, which was their cheapest student guitar."
Justice and Interior Department officials said in a September letter that those who "unknowingly possess" an instrument made from illegally imported materials don't have a criminal problem.
Last year, Blackburn and fellow U.S. Reps. Jim Cooper of Nashville, a Democrat, introduced legislation they said would protect people from charges for unknowingly possessing illegally imported wood, and would require the federal government to establish a database of forbidden wood sources.
A coalition of environmental, logging industry and musicians' groups oppose the measure.
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ScienceDaily (Aug. 3, 2012) ? A new study of North American songbirds reveals that birds that live with fluctuating weather are more flexible singers.
Mixing it up helps birds ensure that their songs are heard no matter what the habitat, say researchers at Australian National University and the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center.
To test the idea, the researchers analyzed song recordings from more than 400 male birds spanning 44 species of North American songbirds -- a data set that included orioles, blackbirds, warblers, sparrows, cardinals, finches, chickadees and thrushes.
They used computer software to convert each sound recording -- a medley of whistles, warbles, cheeps, chirps, trills and twitters -- into a spectrogram, or sound graph. Like a musical score, the complex pattern of lines and streaks in a spectrogram enable scientists to see and visually analyze each snippet of sound.
For each bird in their data set, they measured song characteristics such as length, highest and lowest notes, number of notes, and the spacing between them.
When they combined this data with temperature and precipitation records and other information such as habitat and latitude, they found a surprising pattern -- males that experience more dramatic seasonal swings between wet and dry sing more variable songs.
"They may sing certain notes really low, or really high, or they may adjust the loudness or tempo," said co-author Clinton Francis of the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center.
The Pyrrhuloxia or desert cardinal from the American southwest and northern Mexico and Lawrence's goldfinch from California are two examples.
In addition to variation in weather across the seasons, the researchers also looked at geographic variation and found a similar pattern. Namely, species that experience more extreme differences in precipitation from one location to the next across their range sing more complex tunes. House finches and plumbeous vireos are two examples, Francis said.
Why might this be?
"Precipitation is closely related to how densely vegetated the habitat is," said co-author Iliana Medina of Australian National University. Changing vegetation means changing acoustic conditions.
"Sound transmits differently through different vegetation types," Francis explained. "Often when birds arrive at their breeding grounds in the spring, for example, there are hardly any leaves on the trees. Over the course of just a couple of weeks, the sound transmission changes drastically as the leaves come in."
"Birds that have more flexibility in their songs may be better able to cope with the different acoustic environments they experience throughout the year," Medina added.
A separate team reported similar links between environment and birdsong in mockingbirds in 2009, but this is the first study to show that the pattern holds up across dozens of species.
Interestingly, Francis and Medina found that species with striking color differences between males and females also sing more variable songs, which means that environmental variation isn't the only factor, the researchers say.
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