Twitter, founded by Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams in March 2006 (launched publicly in July 2006), is a social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to post their latest updates. An update is limited by 140 characters and can be posted through three methods: web form, text message, or instant message. http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/10/in-battle-over-the-tweet-trademark-twitter-sues-twittad/

Twitter owns a family of TWEET marks — cotweet, retweet, and tweetdeck — but in December 2010, its application to register the famous TWEET mark itself was denied. Why? In October 2009, the PTO granted registration of LET YOUR AD MEET TWEETS to Filmfitti, LLC, who assigned it to Twittad, a provider of online advertising. In the PTO’s denial of Twitter’s application, they cited a conflict with Twittad’s registration as LET YOUR AD MEET TWEETS and TWEET would be too similar from the consumer’s perspective. After some ineffective attempts at resolving this dispute, Twitter has filed a complaint with the United States District Court in Northern California for the cancellation of Twittad’s registration under 15 U.S.C. §1119, which holds that “in any action involving a registered mark the court may determine the right to registration [and] order the cancellation of registrations, in whole or in part.” In suing Twittad under the Lanham Act, Twitter alleges a dispute of the validity and “registerability” of Twittad’s mark. As the registration was issued less than five years ago, there are no available claims of incontestability to the petition to cancel a registration. 15 U.S.C. §1064(1) (2006).
http://sips.blogs.wm.edu/2011/09/21/twitter-inc-v-twittad-llc/

The simple CARDINAL NUMERALS are:
0 zero
1 un 10 dece
2 duo 20 vinti
3 tres 30 trenta
4 quatro 40 quaranta
5 cinque 50 cinquanta
6 sex 60 sexanta
7 septe 70 septanta
8 octo 80 octanta
9 nove 90 novanta
Note: From cinquanta on the tens are regularly derived from the ones by means of the suffix -anta.
Find about the the suffix -illion, examples, and the ordinal numerals at: http://members.optus.net/~ado_hall/interlingua/gi/parts_of_speech/numerals.html

Sabermetrics is the specialized analysis of baseball through objective, empirical evidence; specifically baseball statistics that measure in-game activity. Industry-based statistics, such as attendance, are not used in sabermetrics. The term is derived from the acronym SABR, which stands for the Society for American Baseball Research. It was coined by Bill James, who is one of its pioneers and is often considered its most prominent advocate and public face. Sabermetricians frequently question traditional measures of baseball skill. For instance, they doubt that batting average is as useful as conventional wisdom says it is because team batting average provides a relatively poor fit for team runs scored. Sabermetric reasoning would say that runs win ballgames, and that a good measure of a player's worth is his ability to help his team score more runs than the opposing team. This may imply that the traditional RBI is an effective metric; however, sabermetricians also reject RBI, for a number of reasons. Rather, sabermetric measures are usually phrased in terms of either runs or team wins. See examples of sabermetric measurements at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabermetrics

Search pasta design in your favorite search engine or see fantastic pictures at the two following sites:

The Geometry of Pasta by designer Caz Hildebrand and chef Jacob Kenedy
http://www.theimport.co.uk/2010/05/the-geometry-of-pasta/

Pasta by Design by London-based architect George L. Legendre
http://www.dezeen.com/2011/08/16/competition-five-copies-of-pasta-by-design-to-be-won/

Everything you see I owe to pasta. Sophia Loren (b. 1934) Italian actress