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Time-Rite Arm and Scale Accessories If the item that you are trying to ship is deemed Hazmat you may have an additional fee added to your order when you check out. Items are deemed Hazmat as per the Section 14 Transport Information located in the item's Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS). Sorry, but things that can go "boom" are hard to ship and we have to pass on our fees. Flammable or explosive items such as Fire Extinguishers, MEK, Toluene, Paint Thinner, etc. are subject to a $25.00 Hazmat fee via ground shipping methods. However, the majority of Hazmat items have no fee when shipping with a ground method. Most Hazardous Goods are subject to air and international transport fees. This fee is $40 for domestic air shipping methods and $80 for international shipping methods. TO RECEIVE A SPOT MAIL-IN REBATE: Purchase a SPOT 2 Satellite GPS Messenger from SkyGeek.com between now and 12/31/2011. Download, Read, and fill out the SPOT-2 Mail-In Rebate Form completely. Incomplete forms will not be accepted by SPOT. Mail the completed form with the original UPC code from the product package and a copy of your sales receipt with the eligible product circled postmarked no later than 1/1/2012. Service activation is required; mail in one of the following options as proof of service activation: Copy of your activation confirmation email (provided after you activate service). Copy of the sale receipt for a SPOT service certificate (available at www.findmeSPOT.com). Promotion #37761, SPOT 2 NATIONAL REBATE PO Box 22092, Tempe, AZ 85285-2092.

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I want a giclee on archival paper. I want a giclee on canvas. Note: Print will be cropped to image and the white border will not show (unless requested otherwise). Our custom framers are certified professionals with the experience to quickly and accurately frame your art print. Your order will be expertly packaged for safe shipping. Please allow 10 to 15 business days for a framed order to ship.

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Quarter Turns Over A Living Line ReviewsMar 24, 2015 Stacked on top of a remix and a shorter experimental piece, there is really only one serious track on Bottom Out, but it's an interesting cu... ReviewsMar 20, 2015 Paul Rose is one of the last remaining purists in a genre was once known as dubstep. As many of his contemporaries (SBTRKT, Rustie) have mov... ReviewsMar 19, 2015 Build BuildingsA Generation of Books In 2001, Christian Fennesz released Endless Summer, a magnificent representation of electronic music crafted from bits of processed guitar. ... ReviewsMar 17, 2015 CamboPatronage & Pork Brooklynites Cambo (a.k.a. Cam Curran) and Phil "PT" Tortoroli curate Styles Upon Styles, one of the freshest underground labels in the land...

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Dadgum bumblebee-belchin’ hoopdy bumbler mcdoo Fred Thompson, the former Senator who was convinced to “run for president” in 2008 because he drove a pick-up truck, has finally weighed in on the issue of Mitt Romney’s undisclosed tax returns. Writing at National Review, which is trying to reestablish its cred after publishing that editorial a few weeks ago telling Romney to release his returns, the ol’ derper says, shucks, well I says, I says don’t release those taxy money-papers to the presscritters — just ignore those dumblydoodlies; they don’t deserve nothin’ so much in the way of informinatin’ and such like. The whole media sitchee-ation’s a lot like pornography, what with the watchin’, and the frownin’, and the no-goodin’. (Fred Thompson has written a poor column.) Starting with the second paragraph: These tax-return demands are just one of the ways politics gives us an excuse for doing what we could not otherwise get away with. An adult watching movies every day during daylight hours would be frowned upon (unless he were a movie critic). A middle-aged man poring over reams of pornographic material would be ostracized (unless he were a judge hearing a case about that subject matter). But a political race allows us, as “concerned citizens,” to consume information about what a candidate did with his lunch money in junior high, as well as whom his wife dated when she was a teenager. As far as perennial guilty political pleasures go, none has achieved a greater and more predictable status than reviewing the tax return. Thank god he put in those parenthetical caveats, otherwise Fred Thompson might have been in danger of writing stupid analogies! (This deserves further consideration: “A middle-aged man poring over reams of pornographic material would be ostracized”? Fred, writing columns in a major political media outlet hardly counts as ostracism. Another reason that this doesn’t stand up is that there are more than zero middle-aged men in the world who have not been ostracized.) Oooh, now he’s going to teach us about retirement contributions: Oftentimes, the more successful a person has been, the longer and more complicated his or her tax return will be. It is, therefore, that much more target-rich for the opposition. The thought of the selective and misleading use of a “rich guy’s” tax return makes the political ad man’s mouth water. A small example: There is a provision in the tax law that allows a business owner, large or small, to set up a retirement account and not pay taxes on income that goes into that account until the money is drawn out, possibly years later. You must include and set aside money for your employees, too, although you can have as few as one employee. This deferral of taxes on the retirement contribution, of course, makes your taxable income less. This in turn lowers the current percentage of taxes paid on gross income. In everyday life, such retirement accounts are considered sound and responsible. In the political world, such retirement planning is tailor-made for the 30-second unscrupulous ad. Indeed. In everyday life, it is considered sound and responsible to put away $6,000 each year towards one’s retirement. That’s why most retirees have 100 million dollars now.

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Imagine that instead of estimating a single population mean μ, you wanted to estimate the difference between two population means μ 1 and μ 2, such as the difference between the mean weights of two football teams. The statistic has a sampling distribution just as the individual means do, and the rules of statistical inference can be used to calculate either a point estimate or a confidence interval for the difference between the two population means. Suppose you wanted to know which was greater, the mean weight of Landers College's football team or the mean weight of Ingram College's team. You already have a point estimate of 198 pounds for Landers's team. Suppose that you draw a random sample of players from Ingram's team, and the sample mean is 195. The point estimate for the difference between the mean weights of Landers's team (μ 1) and Ingram's team (μ 2) is 198 – 195 = 3. But how accurate is that estimate? You can use the sampling distribution of the difference score to construct a confidence interval for μ 1 – μ 2. Suppose that when you do so, you find that the confidence interval limits are (–3, 9), which means that you are 90 percent certain that the mean for the Landers team is between 3 pounds lighter and 9 pounds heavier than the mean for the Ingram team (see Figure 1). Figure 1.The relationship between point estimate, confidence interval, and z‐score, for a test of the difference of two means.

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Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper on Wednesday vowed to listen more to the concerns of people in Weld County and other northern Colorado communities, but his attempt to offer an olive branch of sorts fell on a great deal of scorched earth. During a town hall-style meeting with about 30 local and elected officials at the University of Northern Colorado, Hickenlooper said he would visit the area more often and dedicate more staff to northern Colorado. But faces grew red and some had sharp retorts when the governor outlined his stance on some of the issues cited by Weld County commissioners as reason to secede from the state. Hickenlooper first gave a short update on flood repair efforts, then talked about his side on “sore spot” issues such as the recent gun control and rural renewable energy laws, the temporary reprieve he granted to the killer Nathan Dunlap and his stance on Amendment 66. “I’m not thinking I’m going to change a lot of minds here, but I want to make sure people understand,” he said. “We didn’t do a good enough job of making sure the people got the facts.” Comments from across northeastern Colorado have abounded that the state does not offer those communities a place at the table in negotiating new regulations and legislation. “If that many people feel that we didn’t pay attention, then shame on us. Maybe we didn’t pay attention,” Hickenlooper said. Commissioner Barbara Kirkmeyer was one of those who took issue with Hickenlooper’s comments, saying he appeared to “revel” in the fact that he had angered so many people at a meeting earlier this year. “I don’t think I ever reveled in that fact,” Hickenlooper said. “If I appeared that way, maybe I was taking on a good face — which I sometimes do.” Hickenlooper explained his stance on the gun control laws, saying 38 people convicted of homicide, 100 sex offenders and 420 people with judicial restraining orders in Colorado have been stopped from purchasing a gun through the law that mandates background checks. He said he has pushed for water conservation and increased rates for Denver water customers to help farmers in eastern Colorado. Just like water is a rural issue, he said gun rights tend to cause more issues in urban areas. Hickenlooper said SB 252, the renewable energy bill, includes a 2 percent cost cap, and the state is doing many things in renewable energy that will provide jobs. In the Dunlap case, he said new information came about that Dunlap was severely bipolar and four of the original jury members said the information would have swayed their verdict. He said Amendment 66 would provide more funding to the most at-risk students to ensure they graduate from high school and would give more money to rural school districts. Following his remarks, state Rep. Lori Saine, R-Dacono, told Hickenlooper she felt the town hall meeting should have focused more on flood recovery efforts instead of bringing up bills that are “black eyes” for the governor’s office. “We know his side of the story,” Saine said after the meeting. “We don’t need to hear about it again and again.”

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Chenille Pins - Chenille Pins are most often used by schools and sports team to reward participants and to designate the sports or activities a person has participated in. Chenille pins differ from standard pins because they use an extra long post and clutch so that the pin can easily be worn on a jacket, sweater, or chenille letters. Our chenille pins are die cast from metal and finished with a gold tone. Don't see what you need? Check out our School Pins, Academic Pins, or Mascot Pins categories for even more lapel pin designs. With 34 categories and over 2 million pins in stock you are sure to find what you need at PinMart.

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Tablet Usage: Size Does Matter January 22, 2013 | 11:00 am By Juli Monroe Until recently, I’ve been using an iPad 2 as my sole tablet. I like the iPad. I use it for four main functions: writing, browsing, video and reading. The 10-inch size is perfect for the first three, but it was a bit too large for the last. Because I also use my tablet for scheduling and task management, I tended to take it with me to networking events and client meetings. I always felt a bit silly pulling out such a large device to schedule a meeting or jot a quick note. About a week ago, I bought a Nexus 7 tablet, and it’s changed some of my routines. I don’t use it for writing. The screen is just too small, especially for my older eyes. Video is gorgeous on it, better than on my iPad 2, but again, I prefer the larger screen, especially when I’m on the exercise bike. Web browsing depends. For a quick Google or Wikipedia search, the Nexus 7 is fine, but for anything more, I still prefer the larger screen. Where the Nexus 7 shines is in portability. It’s the device that goes with me on client calls. Pocket Informant for Android doesn’t have all the features of the iPad version, but it’s good enough. I can take quick notes in Evernote without taking up too much room at a tiny table at Starbucks. Best of all, I love it for reading. It’s the perfect size for my hands, and the screen resolution is gorgeous. So tablet manufactures are probably very happy with this post, because I think the well-equipped techie really needs both a 10-inch tablet for serious work, and a 7-inch for easy portability and quick trips. Yes, that’s my story, and I’m sticking to it.

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My stepdaughter Natalia, 15, graduated last week from Antonia Palomares school in Jocotepec, on the north shore of Lake Chapala, in Jalisco, Mexico, where I live. Inevitably the parents held a monster fiesta. Mexicans seem to have a genetic predisposition toward fiestas, having one at any provocation. The hall they rented was just a very large room with tables and a bandstand but space to dance. That’s what counts hereabouts. My wife Violeta and I showed up with Natalia, a bottle of tequila, mixers, and suchlike paraphernalia of gaiety, and greeted friends at our table. Things got rolling after 10. The lights went down and the band cranked up and lit into an hour and a half of nonstop cumbias, salsa, and banda. Conversation was impossible, but you don’t come to a fiesta to talk. You can do that anywhere. You come to dance, which everyone proceeded to do. Mexicans approach dancing a bit differently than Americans. A couple of large circles coalesced on the floor, everyone moving to the music. One after another, a dancer would go to the center of the circle to strut his (or, most assuredly, her) stuff and retire to the circumference to applause. When Vi and I reached the line, a mob of teenage girls pushed us into the center. Resistance was futile. The young ladies had a sample gringo and meant to make the most of it. At these things, I usually constitute the entire Nordic presence, there being little real contact between Americans and locals. We lit into a fast double-step jitterbug to everyone’s satisfaction. The horns squonked and blared and the rhythm pounded, and when anyone especially good was in the center, everyone clapped to the beat and hollered “Hey! Hey! Hey!” I found myself thinking, “This really, truly isn’t Kansas, Dorothy.” Americans don’t quite know what’s down here. We think of Pedro and his burro sleeping under the cactus or illegals tunneling under the border. Well, yes, sort of, but no, not at all. There’s an actual country here, a hundred million souls, Latin to the marrow, and below a whole Latin world stretching to Tierra del Fuego. The poor in Mexico try to go to the U.S. because that’s where the money is. The rest aren’t interested. They’re Mexican, and they like that just fine, thank you. Though they seldom say it, being considerate, we seem cold and isolated to them. Vi and I took a break for tequila and Squirt—that, not the margarita, is the Mexican national drink. I watched Nata’s classmates, their big sisters, their moms, and thought how endlessly pretty Mexican women are, how naturally they dance. (A friend of mine insists that Protestants can’t dance because they don’t have hips. He swears it’s in Gray’s Anatomy.) The almost universal response of unmarried American men to the circumambient femininity is, “Hoo-ah! What everlovin’ honeys!” The appreciation is only partly of physical prettiness. In the U.S. this would be regarded as sexist. In Mexico, culturally committed to a policy of sexual dimorphism, it is a compliment and a truism. These girls are not going to lead their parents’ lives. Mexico is changing, fast. The birth rate falls like a rock. It is not uncommon for a woman in her late 30s to have eight or ten brothers and sisters but only two kids of her own. Machismo, if not dead, looks to have a sliderule’s future in Palo Alto. Many of Nata’s classmates plan on university. Female dentists and lawyers are common. Carrie Nation would find the going rough here. Natalia, lovely in a black dress, chattered with friends during a break and drank a tequila and Squirt. I think it’s illegal, but Mexicans tend to ignore laws when they make no sense, and the occasional drink is held not to damage those verging on adulthood. Parenthetically, I might add that the northern notion of the submissive Mexicana is overdrawn. They aren’t coiled to strike, but submissive, no. For example Natalia, when seriously crossed, exhibits a fawnlike timidity that I associate with the Wehrmacht in Poland. She has teeth. She isn’t looking for a chance to use them. Mexico is less edgy than America. Mexicans have their own ideas about what I suppose might be called age-appropriateness. Early in the evening a woman walked across the floor leading a little girl, who looked to have learned to walk last week. She will grow up thinking that fiestas and dancing are reasonable. Several boys of maybe 10 ran around and occasionally joined the circle. Mothers danced with their kids, a thing unimaginable in my high-school years. People here regard it as normal. If you asked them about it, they would look puzzled and say, “Why not?”

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Monday Night Raw | May 7 2007 | Louisville KY Open up, backstage, where Eric Bischoff is stood (in his office?) with a big smile on his face. Eric Bischoff: Good evening. Tonight, I, Eric Bischoff will lead Monday Night Raw into a new era … a Vince McMahon-less era. Last Monday was the very last time you’ll see our dearly beloved Chairman on television … but please, don’t shed any tears, because tonight, to help you over this time of mourning, tonight, Eric Bischoff presents… Camera pans out to show the roulette wheel, with Bischoff giving it a hearty spin. Eric Bischoff: RAW … ROULETTE!!! The camera shows the wheel spinning, as we fade to black… Jim Ross: Freedom Hall is filled to the rafters, the anticipation has been building all week and rightly so!! Tonight, Eric Bischoff brings back the legendary Raw Roulette for only the fourth time in WWE history; with two championships at stake, and one heated rivalry set to explode before our eyes, there is a very, VERY special feeling this week on Monday Night Raw!!! I’m Jim Ross, joined as always, by The Coach. The Coach: If this was anything other than Raw Roulette tonight, I wouldn’t be here old timer - not after last weeks shenanigans. But, unlike some of the broadcast team, I’m a real professional. And besides, what would Raw Roulette be, with The Coach?? Jim Ross: I can only imagine… but Coach, whether you’re here to work or not, John Cena WILL meet Kurt Angle, Melina WILL challenge Alexis Laree for the Womens Championship, and Christian WILL defend the World Heavyweight Championship against the Intercontinental Champion, Shelton Benjamin. All those contests will be held with different rules, different methods of victory, all of which will be decided by the spin of the roulette wheel. It promises to be one of the most exciting episodes of Raw in recent memory!! We get a look at a specially placed Roulette wheel on the side of the stage, with Raw divas, Candice Michelle and Maryse standing either side, ready to spin. **MY TIME IS NOW** Jim Ross: And it is kicking off in style!! After closing last weeks show, John Cena is kicking it off this time around. The former three time World Heavyweight Champion looks pumped as he enters, and salutes the fans, before making his way to the ring. Jim Ross: Fifteen days ago at Backlash, John Cena sent shockwaves around the wrestling world, as he defeated Kurt Angle to consign the egomaniacal Mister McMahon to a lifetime off screen. Tonight though, Cena could well face a backlash of his own, with Kurt Angle desperate to get even. The Coach: And Kurt Angle WILL get even, J.R, of that, there is no doubt!! Cena reaches the ring, and chucks his cap and shirt to the fans, geared up and ready to roll. Kurt Angle steps onto the stage looking pent up, but keeps his cool, despite showing a lot of intensity, roaring as he stops at the top of the ramp, deciding not to run like a madman. Jim Ross: He’s been disgusted by the privileges awarded to John Cena in recent weeks; first, Cena was appointed General Manager for a night, and last week, Cena was allowed to preside over the farewell address to Mister McMahon. The Coach: And he’s got every right to be, J.R. Cena has been rewarded for ousting the greatest boss in the world. Kurt Angle has every right to be aggrieved!!! If he wasn’t stepping up to take on that idiot in the ring, I’D DO IT!!! Jim Ross: Oh, what I wouldn’t give to see that. As Angle paces down the ramp, Bischoff appears on the titan tron… Eric Bischoff: Just a second, just a second. Boos from the fans initially, as all eyes turn to the GM. Eric Bischoff: Before you get into that ring, Kurt … I think we’d all like to know just what type of match you’re about to compete in. Ladies?? Pop, as Bischoff fades from the screen, and attention turns to Candice and Maryse. Maryse stands and looks pretty, as Candice spins the wheel, with some excited hush inside Freedom Hall … until the wheel stops … … AT FIRST BLOOD!!! There is a decent pop from the fans for the match, whilst Angle shows a smile, and Cena nods knowingly. Jim Ross: How fitting!! Given the intense dislike running between Cena and Angle, how fitting is it, that to win the match, you need to made your opponent bleed!! The Coach: I cant wait to see Cena bleed like a stuffed pig, baby boy!!! Jim Ross: AND HERE WE GO!!! Match 1 | FIRST BLOOD MATCH: Kurt Angle vs. John Cena Angle doesn’t wait another second, getting right into the ring, and the two men trade blows, dead centre in the ring, with Angle overly aggressive, surprisingly winning the fist fight, backing Cena into the ropes, and sends him off … BUT CENA BURSTS BACK WITH A FLYING SHOULDER RIGHT OFF THE BAT!!! Kurt stumbles up, and Cena bundles him over the top rope, quickly following out himself, as the match kicks off in frantic fashion. The two men continue to wage war on the outside, both looking for impact blows to the head in order to draw blood, bouncing one anothers heads off the steel steps, ram each other into the steel ring posts, and after catching Cena with a Belly to Belly on the mats, Angle introduces a trashcan, but after a hat trick of shots, he fails to bust his rival open. The Olympian then wails on Cena at the guard rail, delivering successive blows to the skull, but as he backs up to charge at Cena, the Bostonian has a counter, and back body drops Angle over the railing, and into the crowd, we go to the first commercial of the evening… We return, with both men surrounded by the fans, having spent the entire commercial break brawling through them, with Cena now the aggressor, beating Angle to the punch, and going as far as to deliver a body slam, impacting the notoriously weak neck of Angle. With Kurt at his mercy, Cena has his way, slamming the Olympians head off the upright chairs in the crowd, before ending up back at the guardrail, with Cena sending Angle over with a clothesline. Cena then looks to send Kurt into the steel steps … but at the last moment, Angle is able to reverse the whip, sending Cena instead, and over the steps, hitting them knee first. Angle doesn’t have time to get himself together, and gets on Cena while he can, grabbing the legs of his foe, and catapults him into the ring post!!! Cena staggers from the post … but hasn’t been busted open. With Angle in the ascendancy, he gets Cena back inside, and looks to wear him down further, hammering his enemy in the corner, pounding him down, looking to draw blood, but fails to do so, which seems to anger him further. The Gold Medallist grabs Cena by the face, demanding that he bleed, and refers to Cena as a ‘son of a bitch’, before hauling him from the corner, and delivering a Belly to Belly suplex again. Kurt exit’s the ring, looking under the apron, and gets himself another trashcan, placing it on the apron … AS CENA BASEBALL SLIDES THE CAN … INTO THE UNSUSPECTING ANGLE!!! There’s still no blood though, as Cena begins to mount a comeback, delivering an axe handle off the apron onto Angle, before picking up the steps, and LAUNCHES THEM AT KURT … BUT HE DUCKS!!! Angle avoids the steps, but doesn’t avoid a Throwback, with Cena quickly rethinking the game plan to keep Angle at his mercy. Now, Cena gets to his feet with a wild look in his eye, pointing toward the announce table, with the fans rabidly willing him on to use it. He then strips the table down, throwing off the cover, and removing the monitors … but while he does this, Angle gets back to his feet, and he now has the steps in his possession, waiting for Cena to turn back around … and he comes at Cena as he turns … BUT CENA REACTS … AND DROP TOE HOLDS ANGLE … WHOSE HEAD BOUNCES OFF THE STEPS … BUT NO BLOOD!!! He dodges the bullet, but Angle is on dream street now, which can only bode well for Cena … AND CENA GETS ANGLE UP … AND WITHOUT HESITATION HE SENDS THE OLYMPIAN THROUGH THE ANNOUNCE TABLE!!! It’s pandemonium in Freedom Hall, with Raw kicking off in spectacular fashion, with nothing being held back by these two rivals. Angle lays in a heap on the rubble left by the table, as Cena takes the chance to catch his own breath. After watching Angle writhe for a moment, Cena grabs a monitor, and lies in wait, taking a moment to turn and pander to the fans, pointing down at Angle, and raising the monitor. Angle crawls along the ground, toward the timekeepers position, with Cena now closing in, waiting for Angle to pull himself to his feet. The Olympian - out of sorts - has to pull himself up, using the legs of the timekeepers, and gets to a vertical position … QUICKLY PULLING LILLIAN GARCIA IN FRONT OF HIMSELF!!! Angle uses Lillian as a shield, knowing Cena was closing in, and knowing better still that Cena would hesitate with a woman in the mix. Cena does stop, and helps get Lillian Garcia out of the way … but as he turns back around to Angle … HE GETS NAILED WITH THE RING BELL!!! Cena goes down, as does the groggy Angle again, with the referee getting a look at both men … AND SPOTS JOHN CENA IS BLEEDING!!! Instantly, he calls for the bell, ending the match!!! Winner: Kurt Angle @ 11:25 It’s redemption for Angle, who has his arm raised whilst trying to reach his feet again, looking dazed, having looked to be out on his feet at the tail end of the contest, appears relived. But as he regains his footing, Angle looks down at Cena, who is slowly coming around … AND CONTINUES THE ATTACK!!! Jim Ross: WHAT THE HELL IS THIS ABOUT!!! YOU WON THE DAMN MATCH, KURT!!! Angle hunches over Cena, pounding at the bloody forehead of his adversary, then gets off, going back for the ring bell, then changes his mind, spotting a cameraman, and demanding his camera. The worker puts up a bit of a struggle, but Angle aggressively rips it from him, AND NAILS THE WORKER WITH IT FOR HIS TROUBLES!!! Jim Ross: HAVE YOU LOST YOUR DAMN MIND, KURT!!?? Angle then turns, camera in hand, looking to attack Cena … but as he turns around … CENA TACKLES HIM DOWN!!! Cena bursts, pounding Angle, with Kurt turning him over, as the two trade blows on the floor … AS REFEREES AND AGENTS RUN DOWN THE AISLE TO PUT A STOP TO THE MADNESS!!! The Coach: Cena just got lucky, J.R!!! His friends just came to save him!!! Jim Ross: I think they’re being saved from each other, Coach!! This issue hasn’t been solved here - I think it just got worse!!! As referees and agents struggle to break the two men up, a handful of security guards also arrive on the scene, with Cena and Angle being pulled apart in the end, with Cena still bloodied, and both trying to break free to get at each other. Jim Ross: This aint over, Coach. It aint over. Not by a long shot. Angle is restrained at ringside, still yelling toward Cena, with Cena being hauled out of view, up the aisle and behind the curtain, as we go to a commercial. Jim Ross: Welcome back to Monday Night Raw, and if you are just joining us, you have missed an explosive start to this weeks show. We promised it would be unmissable - and by Gawd, we weren’t wrong. John Cena and Kurt Angle just beat the holy hell out of one another. The Coach: Typical, J.R. That’s just typical. Not a single mention of the fact that Kurt Angle just made John Cena taste his own blood!!! You say you’re impartial, but you cant even bare to acknowledge that Angle won the match!! Jim Ross: Kurt Angle won the match, Coach - but the issue is far from settled. The Coach: Why?? Because Cena lost?? Jim Ross: No!! Because Kurt Angle couldn’t settle for just winning the match, Coach - he wanted to inflict as much pain and suffering on John Cena as he possibly could!! Attention then turns to the ring, where William Regal is stood, looking awfully disgusted, as Scotty Too Hotty (yep, he’s still around) stands by his side. Jim Ross: Folks, as you can see right now, William Regal has been joined in the ring by Scotty Too Hotty. The reason?? Well, during the commercial break, William Regal was on his way to the ring, set to compete against young Cody Rhodes, but the spin of the Roulette wheel threw up a Strange Bedfellows match, and as a result, Eric Bischoff has decided to pair up the prim and proper English gentleman with the outgoing and off the wall, Scotty Too Hotty. **OUT TO KILL** Cody Rhodes enters, to little reaction, focusing on the ring, wasting little time to motion to the fans. Jim Ross: Cody Rhodes of course, much like William Regal, will be one of the sixteen Raw superstars entered into tomorrow nights draw for the King of the Ring tournament on Superstars. A win tonight could really help the confidence of the second generation superstar. The Coach: And after the recent tutelage of Goldust - who for some reason has taken a shine to young Cody - this kid should be in prime condition for the gruelling King of the Ring tournament. Jim Ross: Yeah … I’m not so sure that training regime has done him any help. Cody waits on the aisle, looking up to find out who he partner is … Oh dear. The lights turn gold, as the Bizarre One enters to a modest pop. Jim Ross: Well I never. The Coach: This is an unfair advantage. How can Cody and Goldust - given their friendship over the last few weeks - be called strange bedfellows!!?? Jim Ross: Yeah … Shaking his head in disgust, Cody watches as Goldust strides down the aisle, joining Cody, as they get to the ring. Then, as Goldust enters, Regal decides he’s waited long enough, and jumps the bell. Match 2 | STRANGE BEDFELLOWS MATCH: William Regal & Scotty Too Hotty vs. Cody Rhodes & Goldust A nothing match, simply here to calm things down after the intense opener, and to give J.R and Coach an opportunity to discuss the upcoming King of the Ring tournament, in which Regal and Rhodes will both compete. The match itself is nothing to write home about, with both Regal and Rhodes not overly happy tagging with guys that are either on a different wavelength … or a different planet. Goldust and Scotty try to add an element of fun to the match, with Scotty setting Goldust up for The Worm, going as far as to get the fans worked up with the W-O-R-M portion … but Regal orders him not to do the ridiculous move. That distraction for Scotty costs him, as Goldust fights back, even managing to hit the Shattered Dreams kick in the corner, then tags in Cody, but as Cody gets Scotty in position for Cross Rhodes … Goldust puts him off inadvertently, shouting to him ‘REMEMBER THE TRAINING’. Rhodes looks confused, as Scotty slips out, getting a tag to Regal, and another shout from Goldust of ‘WATCH OUT’ distracts Rhodes, allowing Regal to take him down with a clothesline. The British veteran then softens up Cody with a butterfly suplex, and finishes him off with the Knee Trembler, as Goldust merely watches on in horror, yelling for Cody to ‘KICK OUT’, as the cover is made, 1...2...3!!! Winners: William Regal & Scotty Too Hotty @ 03:18 It’s a win for Regal, rebounding after losing to Mister Kennedy. The Englishman has his arm raised, with Scotty alongside him, and looks down his nose at the jobber (who probably doesn’t remember the last time he won a match), whilst Goldust tries to help Cody up, but Cody pushes his brother mentor away. Jim Ross: Well, tomorrow night, both William Regal and Cody Rhodes could be paired together in the first round of the 2007 King of the Ring tournament. The Coach: I love the King of the Ring, J.R. Suddenly, the action turns backstage, WHERE JOHN CENA AND KURT ANGLE have managed to find each other … AND THEY ARE BRAWLING ALL OVER THE PLACE AGAIN!!! This time, officials and road agents are beaten away as they try to intervene, with Cena and Angle determined to beat the holy hell out of one another. They crash into a table of cables, with the force of the two men breaking the table - but neither man stops - and the fight continues!! Security enter the fray, along with Eric Bischoff now joining the scene, watching as the two men are pulled apart once more, having to be restrained - desperate to settle the score with one another. Eric Bischoff: THAT’S ENOUGH!!! Neither man listens, as both try to struggle free, with more referees now helping security to control them. Eric Bischoff: Alright, that’s it. Security?? I want these men OUT of the building. NOW!!! Bischoff shakes his head, before storming off, as Cena and Angle, despite trying to kick free, are led off in opposite directions, hurling verbal abuse at one another, most of which is based around ‘THIS AINT OVER’. Backstage, Todd Grisham is standing by with The Brotherhood. Todd Grisham: Ladies and Gentlemen, please welcome, my guests at this time, led by Theodore Long, The Brotherhood. The group nod, with JTG blurting out ‘CH’YEAH’. Todd Grisham: Tonight, gentlemen, is undoubtedly the most important night in the history of your group, as, for the first time ever, the opportunity to challenge for the World Heavyweight Championship has arisen. Theodore smiles proudly, jiving his arms in excitement, taking the mic from Todd. Theodore Long: TODD … for years, this group of under-appreciated, under-valued, underestimated athletes have had to scratch and claw for recognition. Now, Todd, over those years, in order to reach this moment, The Brotherhood has had ta make a few changes, ya dig?? Well playa … after all of tha sacrifices we’ve made … it’s come full circle. T’night, Tha Black Diamond- Long brings the Intercontinental Champion forward, putting his arm around Shelton Benjamin. Theodore Long: T’night playa, Tha Black Diamon’ will take us to the place ‘the man’ said we couldn’t reach. T’night, Tha Black Diamond is goin to take us to the place we deserve to be. T’night Tha Black Diamond takes us … to the promised land!!! T’night, Tha Black Diamon’ will put The Brotherhood at the top of whiteys mountain, ya feel may?? Theodore pats the shoulder of Shelton, who nods. Theodore Long: So Christian … lemme holler at ya playa!!! Let me give you the chance to look, look at the man who is endin your time on the top. Let me give you the chance to look, look at a man that is more gifted, with more athleticism, and more talen-ted than you could ever dream of being, ya feel?? The other members of the group pat Benjamin on the back now, with JTG chipping in with another ‘CH’YEAH’. Theodore Long: Forget the trials and tribulations you’ve been through Christian, because t’night, it’s not Triple H, and it’s not John Cena playa … t’night it’s Shelton Benjamin, it’s Tha Black Diamon’, and t’night this man right here will show the entire world that it is not hot air … it’s not hype … instead … it’s a man, representin’ an entire band of brothers that have been held down for far too long … BUT NO LONGER WILL THEY HOLD US DOWN!!! The group collectively nod, in agreement with the mouthpiece. Theodore Long: And t’night the world will find out what Tha Brotherhood has known for the past twelve months … Christian?? You’re just the great white hype, playa. But Shelton Benjamin?? HE … is the great … black … hope!!! Long puts his arm on the shoulder of the Intercontinental Champion again, looking at his prize possession with pride. Theodore Long: No more holdin The Brotherhood down … no more. T’night, Tha Black Diamond, Shelton Benjamin … shines bright. ‘CH’YEAH’ from JTG. Theodore Long: HOLLA HOLLA HOLLA!!! The group ‘holler back’ at Long, with a lot of high fives and back slapping, as we fade away… Back to ringside… Jim Ross: Coach, I can tell you’re excited. The main event tonight sees your boy, Shelton Benjamin challenge for the World Heavyweight Championship, with the opportunity to become a dual champion - and only the second man to ever hold a World Championship whilst being the Intercontinental Champion!!! Theodore Long sounds confident … are you?? The Coach: Not only am I confident, J.R … I’m convinced!!! Shelton Benjamin is walking out of Louisville tonight with the World Heavyweight Championship finally in the possession of The Brotherhood!! It’s long overdue, baby boy. Jim Ross: Well, still to come, we are waiting for the arrival of The Game, Triple H, for the first time since Backlash - and Coach, it’s a surprise to me that Triple H will even be here tonight, after the comments of his wife two weeks ago. The Coach: Yeah, Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley pretty much said that her husband wouldn’t be back for a long time after the sledgehammer shot he received at point blank range at Backlash … but we’re expecting him tonight. **LIVE FOR THE MOMENT** Matt Hardys music gets a good reaction from Freedom Hall, as he comes onto the stage for this next match. Jim Ross: All that is to come later, but right now, Matt Hardy looks to impress, as he takes on Tyson Tomko. What match will the Roulette wheel throw up for this one?? The Coach: This is a big opportunity to shine for Matt Hardy. But it’s a big chance for Tyson Tomko to get himself back on track too. Since the evaporation of the McMahon Family Empire, Tomko has been like a lost soul on Raw. But tonight, he has requested this match, in a bid to get back to winning ways, having lost to Hardy two weeks ago. Jim Ross: I’m looking forward to this match, Coach. Two of the stars of Monday Night Raw with big aspirations, two men, hungry for success, and Coach, there is no substitute for hunger. The Coach: I’ll take your word for it, big guy. Tyson Tomko makes his way out, fully focused on the ring, as Hardy awaits his opponent. Jim Ross: Well Coach, Candice and Maryse are standing by, waiting to spin the wheel, and decide the fate of these two men. Tomko reaches the ring, with attention turning to the stage, and Maryse spins the wheel this time … as we wait for it to slow … and then to stop … … FALLS COUNT ANYWHERE!! Jim Ross: OH MY!! Falls Count Anywhere!! Folks, we will be back in just a few moments for a match up, that could literally end up anywhere!! Match 3 | FALLS COUNT ANYWHERE: Tyson Tomko vs. Matt Hardy Joined in progress from the break, and surprisingly, despite the stipulation, the action stays in the ring for the opening exchange, with Tomko ultra aggressive, but Hardy standing firm, fighting just as hard, although the big man scores the first near fall off a power slam. Hardy then finds himself on the back foot, with Tomko piling the pressure on, but unable to put Matt away with a big clothesline. The Problem Solver takes the action to the outside, with Matt coming back, using his stiff right hands to fight off Tomko, and knocks the big man down with a big Discus punch!! Hardy then delivers a suplex on the steel ramp, going for a cover to make the most of the stipulation, but only gets a two. Hardy looks to keep Tomko at bay, using those big right hands again, then looks to deliver the Side Effect, but Tomko elbows free, and hip tosses Matt on the steel ramp!! He goes for a cover, 1..2...NO!!! The big man shakes his head, surprised by the kick out, but keeps on Hardy, dragging him up, and leading him to the top of the ramp, and looks to deliver the Pumphandle Slam … but Hardy slips off just in time, and runs Tomko into the steel structure at the entrance, before hitting a side suplex, getting himself another two count!!! The two then brawl through the curtain to the backstage area, with Matt on top, but as he looks to have Tomko in trouble, the Problem Solver catches him with a kick to the gut, then hurls him through a door!!! Tomko takes a moment to get his senses together, then grabs a wooden board, looking to smash it over the head of Matt Hardy, but Matt JUST avoids it!!! The board breaks on the floor, with Tomko selling pain from his hands, then turns to come back after Matt … BUT GETS SPRAYED WITH A FIRE EXTINGUISHER!!! Matt then grabs a trashcan, chucking the contents at Tomko, putting the object over his opponents head … and sends him sprawling over a table, sliding down and crashing onto the floor again. Tomko struggles up, still with the trash can on his head, as Matt comes at him, kicks him in the gut … AND SCORES WITH THE (awkward looking) TWIST OF FATE!!! He covers, 1...2...3!!! Winners: Matt Hardy @ 05:32 Hardy rolls off Tomko, and has his arm raised by the referee, earning a hard fought victory tonight, whilst the pain continues for Tomko… Jim Ross: A Herculean effort from Matt Hardy tonight, Coach. A tough, gruelling contest with Tyson Tomko, that took full advantage of its Falls Count Anywhere stipulation. The Coach: I feel for Tomko, J.R. The guy has been on a downward spiral since Backlash, when he had his closest allies ripped away from him. Jim Ross: Allies he obtained after stabbing his supposed best friend in the back, Coach. The Coach: That’s ancient history old timer. Forget the past. Jim Ross: You- forget it. The fact remains, Matt Hardy continues to roll on Raw, and tomorrow night on Superstars, he will find out just what path he’ll need to follow if he is to become the 2007 King of the Ring. Backstage, we see the greasy Italian, Santino Marella, enjoying a joke with his two meal tickets, the 2005 & 2006 Diva Search winners, Leyla M and Layla L. Santino Marella: Jussa like I say, when I flicka my fingers, people do as I say. The two divas smile, as the audience misses what the funny bit was, but the smiles drop, as Eric Bischoff appears behind Marella. Leyla & Layla motion to Santino to look behind himself, which he does, with Eric showing a fake smile. Eric Bischoff: Ah … Santino Marella. Marella puffs his chest out, looking proud that Bischoff knows his name. Eric Bischoff: Santino, I just cant make my mind up about you. I cant tell whether you really want to be part of the Raw roster, or if you’re just looking to grab yourself an easy contract here. I mean, you first arrived here posing as a doctor. Then, after you ran that well dry … you turn up with these two. Bischoff motions toward the two consecutive Diva Search winner. Eric Bischoff: So, now that you’re using Leyla and Layla as your meal ticket, I get the impression that you’re happy enough to mooch off them, and just turn up here, week in, week out, without a contract. Marella shrugs, as if to say ‘That can work’. Bischoff smiles, but shakes his head. Eric Bischoff: I don’t think so. Eric Bischoff: Y’see, there’s enough people running around here, and I don’t need anyone getting in the way, so here’s what’s going to happen. Tonight, you’re going to have a match. If you win?? Congratulations, you’ll be part of the Monday Night Raw roster, contract an’ all. Marella smiles proudly, looking to his two diva compatriots, and tilting his head toward Eric. Eric Bischoff: But, here’s the best bit. If you lose?? Then you’re gone … FOR GOOD!!! The smile fades from Santino. Eric Bischoff: No more turning up, and using these two to get a backstage pass … no more hassling people for contracts … you vanish. Marella tries to get a word out, but simply stutters, whilst Layla and Leyla look concerned. Eric Bischoff: So … with that, I guess I just need to inform you of your opponent tonight … Rey Mysterio. Pop in the background, as a smile appears on Santinos face, fancying his chances against the minute luchador. Eric Bischoff: I suggest you go and get yourself ready, Santino, and take this as seriously as anything you ever had. Your career depends on it. Bischoff smiles, as the realisation that he HAS to win, dawns on Marella. Eric walks off, as we fade out, with Layla and Leyla comforting Marella, who mutters ‘Mama Mia’. SUPERSTARS PROMO - TOMORROW NIGHT FEATURING A NUMBER ONE CONTENDERS MATCH FOR THE WORLD TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS; THE FORMER CHAMPIONS MNM TAKE ON THE UP AND COMING DUO OF THE BRITISH LIONS. Back into the arena, where MIKE KNOX is awaiting his opponent. Jim Ross: It’s been quite some time since we’ve seen Mike Knox here on Raw, but now that he is flying solo, this big mammoth of a man has a chance to make an instant impact, facing a living legend tonight… The fans rise to their feet, as Shawn Michaels enters for action!! Jim Ross: Once again last week, Shawn Michaels was the victim of a sneak attack from the current holder of the Money in the Bank briefcase, Umaga. That’s right folks, Umaga - that three hundred and fifty pound Samoan Bulldozer, has had to resort to cheap assaults, rather than face his enemies man to man. The Coach: Don’t try and make Umaga out to be some kind of coward, J.R. You and I both know that Umaga can take out Shawn Michaels at the click of Armando Estradas fingers. As he proceeds down the aisle, Michaels has to take a look around, making sure he isn’t jumped from behind by Umaga. Jim Ross: Well we don’t know, Coach. Because up until now, Umaga has simply attacked Shawn Michaels when his back has been turned!! Sounds pretty cowardly for a monster if you ask me. The Coach: It’s all for good reason, Jimbo. Shawn Michaels has been asking for Umaga to come face him, man to man, but Armando Estrada wants to play with HBK for as long as possible. He wants to make him wait. They’re toying with Michaels right now. HBK reaches the ring, staring across from Knox, as we await the spin of the wheel. Attention turns to the two divas at the top of the ramp, with Candice on spinning duties this time around. The wheel spins … slows down … and lands … on … … A BLINDFOLD MATCH!!! Jim Ross: You have GOT to be kiddin me. HBK looks far from amused, with Knox hardly overjoyed at the thought himself. Jim Ross: Folks, I think I can count on one hand, the amount of blindfold matches in WWE history. And there’s a reason for that- The Coach: Yeah, they suck. Jim Ross: Well … there is that … Quickly, a runner comes to the ring with the hoods, passing them to the official, who quickly places the ‘blindfolds’ over the competitors heads, before ringing for the bell. Match 4 | BLINDFOLD MATCH: Shawn Michaels vs. Mike Knox It’s exactly what you’d expect. Both men tentatively move forward … reaching out … and excruciatingly just pass one another in the ring. Michaels then points to various places in the ring, hoping for a reaction from the fans, and gets help, with a big ‘NO’, as he points into space, then gets a ‘YEAH’ as he points toward where Knox is … as HBK slowly moves forward … UNTIL UMAGA HOPS OVER THE BARRIER, AND SLIDES INTO THE RING … RUNNING THROUGH A DEFENCELESS SHAWN MICHAELS!!! Winner: Via Disqualification - Shawn Michaels @ 00:57 The match is instantly thrown out, as HBK lays flat out in the ring, with Umaga standing over him … AGAIN!! Knox curiously takes off his hood, having heard the bell, and makes a quiet exit, not looking to end up on the receiving end of whatever Umaga is dishing out. AAE now enters the ring, carrying the briefcase, as Umaga drags the blindfolded Michaels to the corner, looking to his handler for approval, before racing across the ring … RUNNING BUTT SPLASH CONNECTS!!! Shawn Michaels is slumped in the corner, as Umaga stands tall, looking into the sea of fans, who give the Samoan Bulldozer ungodly heat for his actions. Meanwhile, Estrada makes his way toward Michaels in the corner, ripping off the hood, and grabbing HBK by the face, and cockily talks trash, knowing HBK is in no condition to teach him a lesson. “JU WANTED THE SAMOAN BULLDOZER FACE TO FACE … JU JUST GOT THE SAMOAN BULLDOZER FACE TO FACE, PERO” Estrada then stands upright again … BEFORE SMASHING THE BRIEFCASE IN THE FACE OF MICHAELS!!! The cowardly Cuban unleashes his own assault on Michaels, with The Showstopper in a bad way - in no condition to put up a fight against him. The heat worsens, as the smiling Estrada grabs the arm of his Samoan Bulldozer, raising it in the air, as Mister Money in the Bank leaves Shawn Michaels laying … AGAIN!!! The music of Umaga plays, as the dastardly Estrada leads his carnivore from the ring, whilst HBK remains slumped in the corner. Jim Ross: Sickening. Absolutely, sickening. When will Umaga REALLY go one on one with Shawn Michaels?? What the hell is he afraid of?? The Coach: Afraid?? Please, what could Umaga possibly be afraid of?? Fear runs from Umaga, J.R. Fear is afraid of the Samoan Bulldozer. Didn’t I already explain it?? That man right there, the genius, Armando Estrada, is pulling the strings - he’s callin the shots baby boy. He don’t march to Shawn Michaels beat. When the time is right for Armando, he’ll put HBK out of his misery. Jim Ross: I’m not buying it Coach- The Coach: I aint selling it old timer. It’s a statement of fact. In the ring, two trainers tend to HBK, who rises to his feet, but looks groggy, and has a far away look in his eyes, after suffering another attack at the hands of Umaga. We then cut backstage … AND SEE TRIPLE H!!! There is a big pop initially for The Game, but plenty of boos to override it, as the former ten times World Champion walks down the hallway, in his regular street gear, including leather jacket, and sporting dark sunglasses, as it appears Triple H is on his way to the ring … Jim Ross: The Game is here, Coach. Fifteen days after being wheeled out of Hell in a Cell, Triple H IS HERE!!! What will he have to say … where does his future lie?? We’ll find out … NEXT!! **TIME TO PLAY THE GAME** Freedom Hall rises to it’s feet, as the all too familiar sound of Motorhead fills the arena, and slowly, Triple H enters, to a firm initial pop, before boos descend over the arena, as The Game walks down the aisle, showing little emotion, not even spitting any water this evening, keeping focused on the ring. Jim Ross: Fifteen days ago, Triple H was wheeled out of the Bell Centre in Montreal, after a devastating, horrific loss inside the demonic Hell in a Cell, after being knocked out at close range by his trusty sledgehammer, courtesy of Christian. To say this appearance has taken us all by surprise, would be an understatement. The Coach: But it shows just how tough The Game is, J.R!! Jim Ross: Two weeks ago on Raw, his own wife, Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley admitted that after the shot to the head at Backlash, the injuries he suffered, that retirement might just be the next step for Triple H. The Coach: Does he look like he’s ready to retire, J.R?? Jim Ross: No. No, he doesn’t. The Game stands in the ring, mic in hand, patiently waiting, looking around the arena, as some fans show their respect for the ten times champion, but most give the Cerebral Assassin the heat he deserves. Triple H: It takes a man to admit when he was wrong… and as sure as I‘m standin here, at Backlash, I was proven wrong. Triple H stops, peering into the audience, as the fans cheer. Triple H: For weeks, I preached. For weeks, I’d tell anyone that’d listen. For weeks, I was convinced that Christian didn’t have what it took to succeed inside Hell in the Cell … I announced to the world … that Christian didn’t have ‘the killer instinct’. Pop for Christian. Triple H: I said that when it came down to do or die … when it would come down to a case of kill, or be killed … that he couldn’t finish the job. I said he didn’t have the cold, ruthless, mean streak that’s required … but he did. Another pop for Christian. Triple H stops, and looks out to the fans again, allowing them to cheer their favourite. Triple H: And at Backlash … I learned the hard way. Once again, a pop from the fans, enjoying seeing Triple H admitting he was wrong. As the cheers die off, The Game slowly takes off his sunglasses … showing a fading remnant of a severely blackened eye. The fans cheer again (sick bastards) as the camera gets a close up of the eye. Triple H: After six days in a hospital bed … you’re damn right I learned the hard way. Christian- Another small pop for the mention of the champion. Triple H: It tears me apart to say it … but I’m man enough to tell ya … you proved me wrong. Triple H: And although it’ll not make you feel any better, and it wont mean a thing to ya … I want you to know … for doing what you did at Backlash … for proving me wrong … The Game looks around for a moment, before spitting out what he wanted to say. Triple H: You earned my respect. Respectful pop for the veteran. Triple H: And while it may seem strange to you people, considering I spent nearly a week in a hospital bed because of the guy … but no one has ever done that to me. No one has ever laid me up in a hospital bed for that long. Not Austin, not The Rock, not Shawn Michaels, not Mick Foley … NO ONE. Triple H: And for that feat alone, Christian … I take my hat off to ya. The fans pop, but Triple H remains stony faced. Triple H: And make no mistake about it, I didn’t take him lightly. I may have written him off prior to Backlash, I may have been certain he didn’t have the mean streak to take me out … but I went into Backlash with just as much preparation as I ever have for a title match. On the night … the best man won. Big pop. Triple H waits for the cheers to die down, waiting for silence, before delivering his next line. Triple H: And that seems to be a growing trend. Silence. Triple H kills the crowd dead, with an intriguing follow up line, after his endorsement of the champion. Triple H: Over the past twelve months, I’ve lost more matches than I care to remember. To win the World Heavyweight Championship in October, I needed the help of the McMahon Family. To keep the belt … I needed the help of the McMahon Family. Heat for The Game, but he holds his hand up, indicating he hasn’t finished, with more info to input. Triple H: Sometimes … even they weren’t enough. I needed a crazed Mick Foley to save the title at the Survivor Series against Shawn Michaels … I needed Brock Lesnar of all people to help me see off John Cena … and once I had to go it alone at SuperBrawl?? I lost. Triple H: And while I tried to convince myself that John Cena just got lucky in the Iron Man Match … a match he had no right to compete with me in … the fact is … the best man won. Few more cheers, but some boos for the endorsement of Cena. Triple H: And yeah … at WrestleMania, despite having the entire McMahon Family Empire in my corner … I still lost to the better man in Brock Lesnar. Big pop for Lesnar. Triple H: See a pattern?? The Game pauses again, composing himself, before continuing. Triple H: For damn near a decade, I’ve been everything I said I was. I wasn’t called ‘The Game’ because it sounded good, or because it would sell t-shirts. They called me ‘The Game’, because I WAS THAT DAMN GOOD!!! Mixed response. Triple H then turns, and points to J.R on commentary. Triple H: That man, right there, Jim Ross, he gave me the moniker of ‘The Cerebral Assassin’. You wanna know why?? Because I was the smartest, because I was the best. I used my brain, and I could get the job done, anyway possible. The Game turns from the ropes, and addresses the audience solely. Triple H: You don’t just get called ‘The King of Kings’ without doin something to earn it. This entire decade, I’ve sat on top of the throne, I’ve headlined countless WrestleManias … and I’ve walked out of countless WrestleManias AS THE MAN!!! Triple H: And you sure as hell don’t become a TEN TIME World Champion if you’re not the best this industry has to offer. Small amount of heat. Triple H calms now, and softens his tone. Triple H: But despite all that … I’ve started to become second best. For these last six months, it’s slowly dawned on me. Triple H: And after Backlash … after SIX DAYS in a hospital bed … I’ve had a lot of time to think … maybe- Triple H stops himself. There are a few cat calls from the fans, as The Game ponders over the mic for a moment. Triple H: I’ve had a lot of time to think over these last two weeks. I’ve had time to talk with my wife, time to talk with my family, and time to spend with my daughter. Deadly silent inside Freedom Hall. Triple H: And after discussing my future … I’ve had to make the hardest decision of my career. And that decision … The Game pauses again, putting his head down, then looking back up, with a lump in his throat. Triple H: It’s time to take a step back. A heavily mixed reaction from the fans, as Triple H rubs his face, showing the anguish he’s went through to make the decision. Triple H: Right now, I’ve decided it’s in my best interest for me to step away, go home, and spend time with my infant daughter. He stops again, head lowered, shaking his head, still struggling with the decision he’s come to make. Triple H: Because if I cant be the best in the business, if I cant compete with the very best there is to offer- if I cant be ‘The Game’ … then I cant be here. Triple H looks around, getting little consolation. Triple H: Now … I don’t know whether I’ve lost a step, I don’t know if I just cant cut it anymore, or if I just need time out of the spotlight … but soon enough?? We‘ll find out whether I am still The King of Kings. The camera closes in, as Triple H puts his intense face on. Triple H: BECAUSE YOU CAN BET YOUR ASS THAT THE GAME IS FAR FROM OVER!!! Triple H: The Game aint over. The Game … is simply on hold. Because let me assure you all, while I may be stepping away for now … I can guarantee I WILL be back. And you wanna know why I’m so sure?? Well, there’s one guy out there that’s gonna drive me to come back. Triple H shakes his head, ignoring a shout from a member of the front row. Triple H: Not Christian. That issue’s over. No. There’s one guy runnin around out there that I haven’t forgotten … Triple H: Brock Lesnar. Huge cheer for ‘The Iron Man’. Triple H: LESNAR?? You may think you’ve escaped me by endin up on Smackdown … but you can bet your ass I haven’t forgotten about ya. You didn’t think I’d just forget about your hand in proceedings at Backlash, did ya?? You didn’t think I’d just forget that you had a deciding hand in banishing Vince McMahon from television, and let it slide, did ya?? And considering what went down at WrestleMania … We’ve got a lot of unfinished business, pal … and when the time is right … I’m comin for ya. Pop for the possibility of a Triple H/Brock Lesnar rematch. Triple H: But until that time, Brock?? You’d better grow eyes outta the back of your head. Triple H: Like I said … The Game isn’t over. It’s simply on hold. **TIME TO PLAY THE GAME** Triple H stares into the camera, before slipping the shades back on, and leaving the ring. Jim Ross: I’m not sure I can believe what we’ve just heard, Coach. I’ve never saw Triple H look like such a defeated man, devoid of confidence, stripped of that bravado we’ve witnessed for the last decade- The Coach: What in the hell are you on?? Did you not see the fire in that mans eyes when he got on to Brock Lesnar?? Jim Ross: It wasn’t the same, Coach. Sure, there’s issues there … but I have never saw Triple H so downbeat on himself. And while he has promised to come back, and settle the score with Lesnar, I cant help but wonder … is The Game we all know, The Cerebral Assassin we’ve all come to expect … is that guy finished?? The Coach: No way, J.R. The man said it himself, The Game is far fr- Here’s a surprise. The fans come rise up, interested to see what’s going on, as Mister Kennedy, bold as brass, strolls onto the stage, gate crashing Triple H’s walk up the aisle … and IGNORES Triple H, passing him by on the ramp, as The Game slowly turns, taking off his glasses, eyes narrowed, shocked by the complete lack of respect from Kennedy. Jim Ross: What the?? The Coach: I LOVE IT J.R!!! Kennedy isn’t waiting for anyone to move aside!!! Kennedy confidently steps through the ropes, and into the ring, quickly demanding a mic. On the ramp, Triple H shakes his head, before turning, and leaving through the curtain, unable to process the disrespect from Kennedy. In the ring, Kennedy waits for his music to stop, chewing on his gum, leaning on the ropes, taking a glance up the aisle to see if Triple H has left. The music dies off, with Kennedy speaking up. Mister Kennedy: Stop … wasting … MY AIR TIME!!! Kennedy looks up the aisle, as if to suggest his point was made toward Triple H. Mister Kennedy: If you cant make your point in a concise manner … if you don’t have something worth talkin’ about … then just don’t bother. Again, Kennedy stares up the aisle. Mister Kennedy: Seriously. Hands up if you give a rats ass that Triple H is taking time off?? Kennedy barely gives the fans a chance to respond. Mister Kennedy: I sure as hell don’t. Fact is … if you cant handle the heat, get out of the kitchen. Don’t let the door hit ya. Take that ball o’ yours, and head on home. Just don’t broadcast it, don’t look for sympathy … JUST … GO. Mister Kennedy: And maybe, just maybe … when you go home and play housewife, wearing a little apron, whilst that wife of yours wears the trousers and brings home the bacon … you’ll come find yourself where you belong, and you wont need to waste our time by coming back again. Mister Kennedy: It’s become plainly obvious that you don’t cut the mustard anymore. But unlike The Rock and Stone Cold … you outstayed your welcome. What you shoulda done, was get out while the goin was good. But hey … better late than never. Kennedy smiles again, cockily chewing his gum. Mister Kennedy: Like I said two weeks ago … it’s time to clear out the old, and bring in the new. Lets forget the past, and focus on the future, huh?? Triple H?? Good knowin ya, but I‘ve wasted enough time on ya already. Ciao. Kennedy pauses, then decides to continue. Mister Kennedy: But since Triple H has finally climbed off that perch of his … that means a spot has just opened up … Mister Kennedy: I’m not eyeing it. I’m definitely not gonna ask for it. Naw, naw, naw. ERIC BISCHOFF?? I’M TAKING IT!!! Mixed reaction, as the camera gets an extreme close up of Kennedy. Mister Kennedy: And since after tonight there’s a spot opening up for a new Number One Contender … He looks around for some sort of acknowledgement. Mister Kennedy: You need not look any further than your JUGGERNAUGHT!!! Kennedy walks to the ropes, leaning on them, and looking up the aisle, before proceeding on. Mister Kennedy: C’mon Eric. How about it?? I don’t want a sit down meeting in your office … I don’t want a phone call … let’s discuss this … RIGHT HERE … RIGHT NOW!!! Kennedy pushes off the ropes, looking up the aisle, outstretching his arms, waiting. After a moment or two of waiting, the General Manager of Raw walks onto the stage, not looking particularly pleased about being called out. Eric rushes down the aisle, whilst Kennedy backs to the opposite ropes, giving the GM space to breathe as he steps into the ring. Bischoff steps inside, shaking his head in the direction of Kennedy, as the music dies down, and he calls for a mic. Eric Bischoff: First things first. I don’t take too kindly to being called out on my show. Mister Kennedy: And I don’t take too kindly to being overlooked on MY SHOW. Kennedy gets the ‘Oh, really?’ look from Bischoff. Mister Kennedy: Two weeks ago, Eric, you made it clear that it was time for a change on Monday Night Raw … you laid down the law in no uncertain terms that you had no time for prima donnas. Yet, Eric … all I see around here … is you running the coattails of Kurt Angle. Mister Kennedy: And if ever someone was behaving like a spoiled brat … it’s our Olympic Hero. Kurt Angle has done NOTHING … ABSOLUTELY NOTHING … but stamp his feet, and cry like a whiny bitch … yet still … you’re trying to cater to all his needs. Bischoff puts his hand up, looking to stop Kennedy, but Kennedy scoffs at the attempt to be silenced. Mister Kennedy: Put it down, cause I havent finished. Pop for Kennedy, whilst Bischoff raises his eyebrows again. Mister Kennedy: Forget Kurt Angle, he’s had his time. He’s had more than enough chances over the years. You call yourself a revolutionary?? You want to do what’s best for Raw?? Why not do something different … why not give that ball … TO ME??? Kennedy walks around the ring, whilst Bischoff allows Kennedy to make his point. Mister Kennedy: I’d hate to be a hypocrite, and start talking about the past … but I think the fact speaks for itself that in eighteen months on Raw … I’ve had, uh … how many title shots?? Kennedy overacts his thought process for a moment. Mister Kennedy: Oh, that’s right … NONE. Kennedy gets in Erics face, with the GM turning his face away. Mister Kennedy: Despite being the 2006 King of the Ring, despite being a former Intercontinental Champ - all within a year of my debut - and having not been pinned to the mat since February … I’m still waiting for my shot. So, Eric … how about it?? The bleach blonde superstar outstretches his arms, waiting for something from Eric. Bischoff nods, and readies himself. Eric Bischoff: Alright. You want to know where you stand in the pecking order on Raw?? Not too high. Mixed response. Now, it’s Kennedy’s turn to respond with an ‘Oh, really’ look. Eric Bischoff: Y’see, guys like you Ken?? Dime a dozen. All hot air, no end product. But that’s just my opinion. Mister Kennedy: That’d mean so much more Eric. It really would … but since you’re the guy that didn’t see the big deal about Steve Austin and fired him … your opinion doesn’t worry me. Bischoff fakes a clap for that one. Eric Bischoff: Very cute. But honestly Ken?? This isn’t the road you want to take. Scoring points on the guy that has your career in his hands?? Not very smart. If I were you, I’d be very, very, careful with how you address your boss. And while my opinion doesn’t mean a lot to you, it’s still extremely important for your future. And frankly, I’m a little bored with your weekly rants, and pleas for “the ball” … so y’know what?? I’m prepared to give you the chance to put up … or shut up. Eric smirks, whilst Kennedy leans up at the turnbuckles in the corner. Eric Bischoff: First of all … you touched on being the 2006 King of the Ring. Now, there’s still one spot remaining on the Raw side of the draw for tomorrow night. How’d you like the sound of attempting to become the first man to ever retain the King of the Ring?? Mister Kennedy: Does it give me a shot at the World Heavyweight Title?? Bischoff shakes his head. Mister Kennedy: Then, no. As much as that King of the Ring meant to me … it was last year. It’s in the past. Time to move on, don’t’cha think?? Eric, I want to make this crystal clear … unless you’re prepared to offer me the chance to challenge for the big gold belt … I’m not interested in anything you’re offering. Eric Bischoff: Then you’re in luck. Next week on Raw, I’m introducing a new concept to the WWE that’s NEVER been seen before. And it’ll determine the next Number One Contender, at our next Pay Per View event on June 17, called Vengeance. Kennedy mouths ‘I’m listening’. Eric Bischoff: And the concept is called … The Beat the Clock Challenge. Little bit of excitement from the unknowing fans. Eric Bischoff: Over the course of the evening, there’ll be a series of matches, and the man that can win his match in the shortest time possible will challenge either Christian or Shelton Benjamin at Vengeance. Another pop. Kennedy again doesn’t like the fan backing, and turns to the fans, mouthing at a few to ‘shut it’. Eric Bischoff: And Ken … you WILL be one of those men vying for the title shot. But I want to be crystal clear here myself. This is going to be your one and ONLY opportunity to challenge for the World Heavyweight Title. Because frankly, I don’t care for your attitude … and I don’t think you’re half as good as you think you are … so make the most of the opportunity next week. Mister Kennedy: You done?? Mister Kennedy: Good. I got what I came for, and now I’m leavin. Kennedy chucks the mic, and gives Eric a stern look, before exiting the ring, and proceeding up the aisle, with Bischoff watching on, as we cut off after a very long segment. Jim Ross: Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome back to Monday Night Raw, and folks, I’m still tryin to catch my breath. It’s been an explosive night, and we’ve still got a long way to go. Just moments ago, we found out that The Game, Triple H will be taking a leave of absence for an unspecified amount of time- The Coach: Which has left the door open for my pick in next weeks Beat the Clock Challenge to meet the NEXT World Champ, Shelton Benjamin, at Vengeance - that man being Mister Kennedy. Jim Ross: Indeed, next week, we will witness the first ever ‘Beat the Clock’ challenge, which will determine who challenges the World Champion at Vengeance, and Coach, it may indeed be your boy, Shelton Benjamin, as he faces Christian tonight in a match that has yet to be decided by the Roulette wheel. The Coach: It doesn’t matter what match it is, old timer, Shelton Benjamin is leaving this hell hole with DOUBLE GOLD BABY!!! Jim Ross: We’re little over half way in this broadcast, but already, Kurt Angle and John Cena tore the house down at the TOP of the show in a shocking First Blood match which Kurt Angle won, but that wasn’t the end of the story- The Coach: No, you’re right baby boy. Kurt Angle beat the living daylights outta Cena too!!! Jim Ross: That’s a selective memory, you’ve got there Coach. The two men brawled all the way out of the arena, and you can bet your bottom dollar that that issue is far from over. And how about another heinous assault from Umaga on a blindfolded Shawn Michaels!! The Coach: I know, I thought it was genius too!! Jim Ross: I sure as hell did not, Coach. For a massive man mountain, for a behemoth like the undefeated Samoan Bulldozer, he’s one gutless coward!!! And he’s not the only one, as we’ll see in just a minute when Melina challenges Alexis Laree for the Womens Championship. The Coach: How can you call Umaga a coward?? You just don’t understand the brilliance of Armando Estrada!!! And you talk about cowards?? That little secretive hussie Alexis Laree personifies the term!! The sight of the red carpet and photographers is met by round boos, as Melina struts onto the stage, looking overly confident, ahead of her challenge for the womens title. Jim Ross: This- this, she-devil has taken great pride and joy out of making Alexis Larees life a living hell in recent weeks. For the last month, Melina has been claiming to have sources of information from a woman named ‘Beth’, deep, dark secrets about the Womens Champion, Alexis Laree. The Coach: And you say it’s like a bad thing. Melina is doing the world a favour, and she’s been kind enough to give Alexis the opportunity to keep it a secret. Jim Ross: Everybody has a past Coach. Everyone has secrets- The Coach: Not like Laree though, Jim. Jim Ross: But how do we know?? How do we know how severe these secrets are?? The Coach: Have you seen Alexis Laree lately, J.R?? I think it’s safe to say her past is something she wants kept hidden. Melina waits in the ring, having went through the leg-split ring entrance. Looking subdued, Alexis Laree makes an understated entrance. No hopping in excitement, no smiles. The champion looks down to the ring, where Melina is holding up the ropes with a broad smile on her face. Laree looks around at the fans, then her belt, before putting her head down, and proceeding down the aisle, looking beaten before even making it to the ring. Jim Ross: This isn’t right, Coach. How can this be allowed to happen?? The Coach: What do you mean?? Melina won this title shot fair and square. Jim Ross: She’s got the title shot because she’s blackmailed the champion into submission. And she’s going to walk out of here with the title for the exact same reasons!!! The Coach: Hey, she doesn’t have to lay down, y’know. Jim Ross: What other choice does she have?? Laree steps onto the apron, not getting into the ring just yet, as Melina keeps the ropes opened for her, but Laree ignores the phony sportswomanship. Attention turns to the stage again now, as the Roulette wheel is spun once more … … and lands on … … STRAP MATCH … Quickly, a runner sprints down the side of the aisle, with the strap in hand, passing it to the official, as Laree looks to the heavens, before stepping inside the ring, with the cocky challenger applauding the champion. The two are then strapped together, with Melina not taking her gaze off Alexis, showing that shit eating grin - that knowing grin, that Alexis has NO choice. Match 5 | WOMENS CHAMPIONSHIP | STRAP MATCH: Alexis Laree vs. Melina The bell rings, but, just like last week neither female moves. Melina shrugs, as she moves forward, with a sinister smile etched on her face, and walks into the space of the champion, and points to each corner, and motions to Laree to simply stand still. The challenger twirls around, and prances to the opposite corner, simply tapping the buckle, before tiptoeing to the next corner, making a mockery of Alexis, who looks emotionally fraught - standing still, watching Melina dance her way to the title. Melina then reaches the third corner, but as she gets there, Alexis makes a move … but stops herself, much to the annoyance of the fans. Melina laughs, and sarcastically points to the corner, as if to offer Laree the chance to stop her. The champion merely puts her head down … all but accepting defeat, all just to keep her secrets hidden away, as Melina finally touches the third turnbuckle. Then, Melina turns to move toward the final corner … BUT SUDDENLY THE STRAP IS YANKED BACK … AND MELINA IS FLATTENED WITH A CHICK KICK!!! Freedom Hall ERUPTS!!! Melina lays out on the mat, as Laree LOSES CONTROL completely!!! Laree kneels down, and HAMMERS Melina, finally cracking after weeks of torment, with a sickening array of right hands, most unbecoming of a woman, before getting up, and letting out a massive roar, which is greeted by cheers from the fans. The champion wraps the leather strap around the throat of Melina, choking the life out of the challenger, with referee Nick Patrick having to literally pull her off, with Laree seemingly intent on choking Melina to death!!! Alexis finally lets go, and drags Melina up, hooking her into position, and leaps up … DELIVERING A STUNNING LAREE-D-T!!! Melina has no chance of recovery now, as Laree quickly hits each corner, and as she reaches the fourth, she looks back around at Melina, who is slowly beginning to stir, and makes sure the A-Lister watches, as she defiantly smacks the final corner, winning the match!!! Winner: And STILL Womens Champion - Alexis Laree @ 03:27 Alexis retains the title, having been pushed over the limit by Melina!!! She takes the strap off, and begins to whip Melina like a government mule, according to J.R, with the A-Lister rolling out to safety, as Alexis roars from the ring, ‘I’VE HAD ENOUGH’. Melina, eyes wide, looks damn scared, pushing herself up the aisle on her ass, having witnessed Alexis Laree go straight over the edge tonight. Jim Ross: GOOD FOR YOU!!! GOOD FOR YOU ALEXIS!!! By Gawd, tonight, Alexis Laree simply reached a breaking point!!! And it wasn’t a moment too soon!! The Coach: But what does this mean for her future?? She didn’t go with what Melina wanted, J.R … I think Alexis Laree has just opened Pandora’s box. Jim Ross: Right now, Coach, I don’t think it matters!!! Tonight, that young woman proved to Melina that blackmail gets you absolutely nowhere!!! The Coach: But did she have to be so violent?? Very unladylike if you ask me. Jim Ross: I’d say it was justified Coach. Melina pushed the champion too far. And yeah, there could be consequences, but the point was proven, the womens champion wont cower from any secrets in her past!!! And who knows, Coach, perhaps after this lesson, Melina might think twice about crossing Alexis Laree!! The Coach: Don’t count on it, J.R. Clip of Bret Hart rolling up Bam Bam Bigelow to win the King of the Ring tournament in 1993. “I‘M THE BEST THERE IS, THE BEST THERE WAS, AND THE BEST THERE EVER WILL BE” Narrator: It has given the platform for champions to establish themselves. Clip of Owen Hart being crowned King of the Ring in 1994, as we hear him yell over it. “I‘M THE KING OF HARTS!!!” Narrator: It has immortalized greats forever. Clip of Stone Cold Steve Austin winning the 1996 King of the Ring tournament, with the sound bite over it. “AUSTIN THREE SIXTEEN SAYS, I JUST WHIPPED YOUR ASS” Narrator: It ushered in the birth of a new attitude. Clip of Triple H having his hand raised in 1997. “THE KING OF THE RING!!!” Narrator: Stars have been born. Clip of Kurt Angle dropping to his knees in victory in 2000. “IT‘S TRUE, IT‘S TRUE” Narrator: Legends have been made. Clip of Brock Lesnar having his hand raised in 2002, as we hear Paul Heymans voice over the top. “THE NEXT BIG THING, BRRRRROCK LLLLLESNARRRRR” Narrator: Careers have skyrocketed. Clips of Mister Kennedy with the crown last year, and Edge with his trophy in 2001 Narrator: The King of the Ring tournament has provided some of the most memorable moments in sports entertainment history, and on Saturday, June 23, 2007 … the King of the Ring lends itself to another staple in the illustrious history of the WWE … Saturday Nights Main Event. Clips of current superstars, Shelton Benjamin, MVP, Matt Hardy, Jeff Hardy, Straight Edge, Brian Kendrick, Paul London, MNM, Carlito and Brent Albright. Narrator: The year, the King of the Ring tournament climaxes on NBC, with quarter finals, semi finals and the grand final, on the most special edition of Saturday Nights Main Event in history!!! Quick clips again of the prominent former winners. Narrator: Which superstar will use the King of the Ring tournament to follow these legends, icons and immortals into the pantheon of greatness?? ~ THE 2007 KING OF THE RING TOURNAMENT ~ !! LIVE ON SATURDAY NIGHTS MAIN EVENT ON NBC !! JUNE 23 | THE PYRAMID, MEMPHIS TN We return, backstage, where Kelly Kelly is standing by… Kelly Kelly: Guys, moments ago, Alexis Laree successfully defended the Womens Championship against Melina, despite the promise made by Melina that she would unearth the deep, dark secrets that Alexis has kept hidden for years. Right now, I’m about to try and get a word from Melina, and see just where she goes from here. Kelly turns, and walks a short distance to the trainers room, opening the door, and we see Nitro and Mercury standing by Melina, who is feeling her ribs, muttering ‘it really stings’. Kelly Kelly: Melina, I’m sorry for disturbing you, but I have to ask. After- Melina: I know exactly why you’re here, Kelly. Melina winces, with the pain stopping her from speaking for a moment. Melina: (Continually wincing) And while right now, I don’t feel like talking … next week on Raw … I’ll have plenty to say. And the world will know the truth about “Alexis Laree” Melina does the air quotes, before turning, and allowing the trainers to try and soothe her welts, as Kelly turns to leave. Kelly Kelly: There you have it. I would appear that Melina will reveal all … next week on Raw. Back to ringside… Jim Ross: I do not like the sound of this, Coach. The Coach: It wasn’t like Laree - if that is her real name - wasn’t warned. She had the chance to keep those secrets locked away for good, she had the chance to- Jim Ross: But for how long?? How long would it have remained a secret?? Sooner or later, Melina was always gonna do this. It would always lead to next week. I just hope someone steps in, and stops Melina before she goes too far. The fans pick up their spirits once more, as Rey Mysterio bursts into view, ahead of his match with the irritating Santino Marella. Jim Ross: Folks, in just a moment, that man, Rey Mysterio could well put the final nail in the coffin of Santino Marella, because of Marella loses this match, he can never show up on Raw again. But, if he can somehow defeat the Master of the 619, Marella will be granted a contract!! Join us, when we come back. We return with Santino now in the ring, joined by the lovely pair of Layla and Leyla, as we wait for the spin of the Roulette wheel… … which slows … … and lands on … … TABLES MATCH … Match 6 | TABLES MATCH: Rey Mysterio vs. Santino Marella As soon as the bell rings, Marella charges at Rey, but Rey leaps over him, and delivers a variety of stiff kicks to the legs of the Italian, with Santino swinging his arms wildly, missing by a distance, as Rey picks up some speed, running off the ropes, and catching Marella with a head scissors. The force of the move sends Santino tumbling out of the ring, onto the floor, with his two valets quickly tending to him, but Mysterio isn’t waiting, and runs across the ring, AND LANDS WITH A SENTON ON SANTINO!!! The fans pick up for the high risk offence, as Rey picks himself up, and goes looking for a table, dragging one from under the apron, and slides it inside the ring. As he turns around though, Marella charges at him, and forces Rey into the ringpost!!! All of a sudden, Marella seems to think he’s got the match won, and starts to celebrate, flexing his muscles, and wiping his hands as if to signify it’s over. He grabs Rey and rolls him back inside, then looks under the apron, getting another table out, but once it’s been pulled out and Santino stands up straight … REY CATCHES HIM WITH A BASEBALL SLIDE!!! Santino falls into the barrier, with Rey coming back out, and rolls his opponent inside, before setting the table on the outside up, and getting back inside himself. Rey looks for an Irish whip, but Santino reverses, and then does the splits as Rey bounces back, getting a few laughs from the fans. Mysterio then comes back again, and is caught with a reverse elbow, which allows Marella to run off the ropes, but as he returns, Mysterio surprises him with a Monkey Flip … and Santino bounces into the ropes … PERFECT POSITION … AND THE 619 CONNECTS!!! Marella staggers around the ring after impact, as Mysterio looks to dumps him out of the ring, over the top … BUT LAYLA AND LEYLA MOVE THE TABLE … AND SAVE SANTINO!!! Mysterio looks out at the two divas, holding his arms up, asking why (even though it’s obvious) and shakes his head in disappointment, as Santino crawls on the floor below, after impact. In the ring, Rey gets the table he slid in earlier, and sets it upright in the corner, taking his time, knowing Marella isn’t going anywhere quickly … but strangely, a sudden buzz comes over Freedom Hall … and as Mysterio turns around, we find out why … AS HE IS GORED THROUGH THE TABLE!!! IT’S RHYNO~!!!!! Winner: Santino Marella - Earns WWE Contract @ 01:37 In the ring, Rhyno crouches down by the broken down Mysterio, as we see Layla and Leyla help Marella to his feet on the outside, with the dazed Italian still unaware he’s won the match!! I CANNOT BELIEVE MY EYES, COACH!!! That- That’s RHYNO!!! The Man Beast is back, baby boy!!! He- he’s been on the sidelines for nearly six months, Coach!! But why return now?? And why did he target Rey Mysterio?? I can think of a couple dozen reasons. No one likes Mysterio, J.R. What?? Folks, amongst the chaos here, we’ve not had a chance to mention the fact that by virtue of his win here … Santino Marella is now officially a WWE Superstar!!! On the outside, the two Diva Search winners explain to Marella that he WON the match, and as the realisation sinks in, Santino begins to jump on the spot, delighted in his ‘victory’, and he dances up the aisle, raising his arms in victory, with Layla and Leyla following him. Meanwhile, in the ring, Rhyno continues to stand over Mysterio, who is folded up in the rubble of the table, with the returning Man Beast pounding his chest, and posing, as the fans give him a smattering of heat. I just don’t get it, Coach. I do. It’s a statement!!! The Man Beast IS BACK!!! Without a doubt, but Coach, I just don’t understand why Rhyno would come back and go straight for Rey Mysterio!!! Can we get some answers?? Do you wanna go and ask him?? Go ahead, I’d like to see it. That wouldn’t be a good idea right now for anyone, Coach. But we need to find out what has possessed Rhyno to attack Rey Mysterio. I’d love to say it’s great to see Rhyno back, but not under these circumstances, Coach. Not like this. To be honest, I didn’t think I’d be delighted to see him … but what’dya know, after what he just done, I’m trying to remember how I got through the last six months without him!! Well, I’m sure there is still a lot more to come from this issue, but we have to move on here. Folks, we are just minutes away from our main event- And The Coach cant wait, baby boy!!! The Black Diamond is about to shine through!!! We get another shot of a rabid Rhyno, as Mysterio lays in the pieces of crumbled table in the corner, before fading to a commercial. We return, backstage, where Christian is seen doing some last minute preparations, stretching out, as Jim Ross speaks over the footage. Well right now, lets send it up to Candice Michelle and Maryse, who are about to spin the wheel, and reveal the fate of Christian and Shelton Benjamin ahead of the main event… Cut to the stage, and the wheel spins … … and spins … … and slows … … and grinds to a halt … … on … … yep, you guessed it … … LADDER MATCH … The fans pop in major fashion, as we get a major match for the main event, with the two men involved well versed in ladder matches. BUSINESS HAS JUST PICKED UP COACH!!! Understatement, baby boy. And how fitting will it be when Shelton Benjamin climbs the ladder, like he has done on Raw since joining The Brotherhood, and finally reaches the pinnacle … and becomes only the second ever man to hold a World title and the Intercontinental title at the same time!!! You sound awfully confident, Coach. Shelton has never challenged for the World Championship before - he has got to be nervous, he has got to have all kinds of thoughts running through his head right now- Yeah, thoughts like “How great will it be to hold two titles”, and “I‘m gonna need someone to carry these belts for me”. Don’t dare say he’s nervous. The Black Diamond has been ready for this opportunity for the longest time. This title shot is overdue. Backstage, we cut to the locker room, where Tyson Tomko is sat, stuffing his clothes into his bag, shaking his head, having suffered yet another loss. Don’t sweat it. Tomko looks up, and as he spots the person speaking to him, he looks a little surprised. The camera pans out, and shows … X-PAC?? Bro, you’ve just hit a rough patch. It’s been a hard month. The Problem Solver tuts, and looks away, continuing to sort his bag, and mutters ‘that’s an understatement’. Hey, look. Right now, you’re the one with problems. And I’m here to solve ‘em. Cheesy. X-Pac walks toward the big man, sitting beside him. Listen, I’ll level with ya. I’m in the last chance saloon here. I sure as hell didn’t expect to get another go around at this place, but I’m back. And I wanna help ya out. Hear me out, big guy. You’re just about to hit the skids. You lose many more matches?? You’re headin for the exit door. You’ve not got the McMahons to back ya anymore, and you’ve burned your bridges with Christian- I’m NOT interested, okay?? Look, I’m just tryin to help ya out, and yeah … I’m tryin to do myself a favour too. If you think I’m tryin to talk ya into being my muscle … that’s not it. You’ve been that guy for too long. I wanna guide ya, big man. Fifty-fifty. My experience, my smarts … and your strength and power … it’s a lethal combination, bro. Tomko looks up, and sighs. Pac shakes his head, and gets to his feet. Just think about it. X-Pac then walks out, as Tomko lifts his head, and watches the veteran exit, before sighing again. Elsewhere, we now see Shelton Benjamin, carrying the Intercontinental Championship, with Theodore Long and the rest of his brethren in The Brotherhood following behind, as Long gets in the ear of his golden meal ticket, giving him some last minute words of advice. Ladies and Gentlemen, the time is almost upon us … the main event - the ladder match, for the World Heavyweight Championship, is next!!! Back into the arena … **SOMEBODIES GONNA GET IT** We return, and it is truly main event time. The Intercontinental Champion enters the arena, followed by his entourage of Theodore Long, JTG, Monty Brown and Mark Henry. If he’s so good Coach, why does he need The Brotherhood by his side, huh?? Pfft, they’re here to join the celebration, baby boy. The Brotherhood are here to witness, first hand, the crowning achievement in their history!!! We’ll see how long this moral support lasts. I don’t like the look of this, not one bit. The group reach the ring, with Theodore Long looking highly excited, doing a bit of jiving, brimming with confidence, but that wont last for long, as Lillian Garcia speaks… Ladies and Gentlemen, I have just been informed that per orders of Eric Bischoff, that The Brotherhood MUST leave the ringside area … IMMEDIATELY!!! A huge pop descends over Freedom Hall, as Theodore Longs eyes bug out, and Shelton Benjamin throws a strop, whilst JTG, Monty Brown and Mark Henry all look furious at the ruling, surrounding the referee. THIS IS ABSOLUTELY DISGRACEFUL!!! There’s an agenda against The Brotherhood, and it makes me sick!!! But I thought they were only here to offer moral support?? Surely it cant be that big of a blow?? Shut up J.R!! You don’t understand. Eventually, the members of The Brotherhood leave the ring, but argue back toward the ring as they leave, shaking their heads in disgust, whilst Theodore Long offers his prize asset one more final piece of guidance, before wishing him luck, and leaving the ring, but not before giving Mike Chioda a piece of his mind. He leaves, shaking his head in fury, and looks to join up with his other men… **JUST CLOSE YOUR EYES** Entering the stage with a purpose, The World Heavyweight Champion shows no fear of The Brotherhood, passing by the group on the stage with a smirk, before waving as he passes an incensed Theodore Long. Ladies and Gentlemen, we are just about to take our final commercial break of the evening - our main event will come to you COMMERCIAL FREE in it’s entirety, when we come back!! Main Event | WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP | LADDER MATCH: Christian vs. Shelton Benjamin The contest starts rather slowly, as the two look to build toward the excitement. In the early stages, the ladder plays very little part, as both take the option to try and incapacitate the opposition, before making a beeline for the object for victory. Despite Benjamin being able to hit his suplex into a neck breaker move, its the champion that has the better of the early exchange, but Shelton doesn’t fold easily, and remains confident in himself, despite finding himself second best early on. And, the effort pays off, as Benjamin plays possum, staying down after a dropkick, with the champion thinking he has time to climb the ropes, and perches himself onto the top turnbuckle … AS BENJAMIN LEAPS TO LIFE … AND LEAPS UP … SUPERPLEX CONNECTS!!! With that, The Black Diamond believes it’s time to introduce the ladder, and goes to the outside, grabbing the key to victory, which brings a pop from the fans, and slides it inside the ring, picking it up, and sees Christian pulling himself up in the corner … and seemingly has an idea … picking up the ladder, and racing across the ring … LOOKING FOR A STINGER SPLASH WITH THE LADDER … BUT CHRISTIAN SPINS INTO THE ROPES … SEESAW KICK INTO THE LADDER INTO BENJAMIN!!! The fans come alive, as the use of the ladder backfires on Shelton, with the IC Champ tumbling into the ropes, dropping the ladder, as Christian follows up, delivering a clothesline that sends Benjamin out of the ring. Now having a clear run, Christian sets the ladder up, and proceeds up, making the first move toward his title belt … but Shelton quickly gets his senses back, and gets back inside, TIPPING THE LADDER OVER!!! Christian falls from the ladder, and into the ropes - throat first - as Benjamin seizes the opportunity … AND STRIKES WITH THE FROST KICK!!! The Intercontinental Champion then sets Christian in the middle of the ring, placing the ladder upright over him … trapping the champion, as he ascends the ladder … but the plan to neutralise the champion doesn’t pay off … as Christian manages to shake the ladder from the bottom, and Benjamin loses his footing, and slips off the ladder, but doesn’t have a hard landing. Benjamin gets right back on Christian, and the two trade blows, until Benjamin looks for a kick, only to have his boot caught by the champion … BUT BENJAMIN SURPRISES HIM WITH THE DRAGON WHIP!!! The move puts Christian down, as the challenger tries to think whether or not he should go for broke, and try to capture the belt at this moment. Seeing Christian moving already, he decides against going for the win, and sets the ladder upright in the corner, with something dastardly planned, before getting back on the champion, not allowing him to recover. After pounding Christian in the corner, the Black Diamond attempts an Irish whip to the opposite corner (where the ladder is set) … but Christian reverses … AND BENJAMIN LOOKS TO BE HEADING TOWARD THE LADDER … BUT HE LEAPS UP … LANDING ON ONE OF THE RUNGS … AND SPLASHES BACK AT CHRISTIAN!!! A massive show of respect comes from the fans for the exceptional athleticism from Benjamin, taking Christian by surprise. Benjamin takes a moment to catch his breath, then picks up the ladder, waiting for Christian to get to his feet … and as he does … BENJAMIN CHARGES WITH THE LADDER LIKE A JOUST … AND CRACKS CHRISTIAN … SENDING CAPTAIN CHARISMA OUT OF THE RING!!! It sets the challenger with a free run to the title … but the ladder slipped from his grasp, and fell to the outside with Christian. That sets Shelton back for a moment, as he needs to exit the ring and retrieve the ladder, quickly getting back inside, and Benjamin sets the ladder up … before climbing, albeit at a slower pace than previously … but the delay has possibly cost him … as Christian crawls back inside the ring, and climbs up the ladder behind Benjamin, who hasn’t realised that he has company. He soon does though, as Christian pounds the back of his challenger, eventually gripping him, and hooking him into position … AND DELIVERS A SCINTILLATING REVERSE DDT OFF THE LADDER!!! A smattering of ‘HOLY SHIT’ chants are heard inside Freedom Hall, as both men stay down for the time being, selling the effect of the fall. But it’s Christian to move first, and slowly, the champion crawls to the ladder, grabbing on the bottom rung, and at a snails pace, begins to climb. He eventually reaches halfway, but spots his opponent beginning to stir, and switches the gameplan, now waiting for Benjamin to reach his feet, and as he does … CHRISTIAN FLIES OFF THE LADDER WITH A REVERSE ELBOW!!! Not exactly a big, highlight reel type stunt, but it’s effective. Christian gets back to his feet, and now looks to finish off Benjamin, setting the ladder down, and placing Benjamin on top with a slam, before climbing the ropes … AND ATTEMPTS A FROG SPLASH … BUT BENJAMIN ROLLS OFF … AND CHRISTIAN LANDS ON THE LADDER!!! Another small ‘Holy Shit’ chant can be heard, as Shelton stirs, slowly reaching for the ropes, pulling himself up, and looks down at Christian who is still squirming after his crash landing. Benjamin, looking groggy, sets the ladder up, but staggers around, slowing himself down, but eventually begins to try and climb, but as he does, the fighting champion makes a move too, crawling toward the ladder himself. Christian is behind, but Shelton cant shake the cobwebs, and takes too long to scale the object, as Captain Charisma catches up … and the two warriors trade blows, back and forth … as the ladder begins to shake … and eventually BOTH MEN TOPPLE OFF THE LADDER … AND TO THE OUTSIDE!!!!! Both men stay down, as the fans pick up in voice again. After a rest period for both, they begin to stir, and reach their feet. Christian gets the better of Benjamin, and then takes a backward step, before coming at Shelton … BUT THE BLACK DIAMOND EXPLODES WITH PAYDIRT!!! Benjamin delivers his finishing manoeuvre ON THE OUTSIDE!!! Despite taking his time to get back up, Shelton is in control, with the champion OUT. The challenger crawls back inside the ring, and sets the ladder up, climbing ever so slowly, with Christian now facing a race against time to save the title, slowly recovering on the outside. Benjamin looks to be nearing the title, but doesn’t see what’s going on behind himself, as Christian has a ladder on the outside … AND USES IT AS A JAVELIN … INTO THE BACK OF BENJAMIN!!! Christian now re enters the ring, and positions himself to power bomb Shelton off the ladder … AND ATTEMPTS TO POWERBOMB SHELTON OUT OF THE RING … BUT THE CHALLENGER COUNTERS WITH A HURRICANRANA … AND BOTH GO OVER THE TOP ROPE, AND ONTO THE FLOOR!!! Again, both are slow to recover, as the match takes it’s toll, and they both move at the same rate, reaching their feet, as Benjamin drives a knee to the gut of the champion, before looking to deliver the T-Bone Exploder … BUT CHRISTIAN LANDS ON HIS FEET … AND TURNS SHELTON OVER … GOES FOR THE UNPRETTIER … BUT THE CHALLENGER RUNS CHRISTIAN INTO THE RINGPOST!!! Christian staggers from the blow of the post, as Benjamin scoops him up onto his shoulders, AND DELIVERS A SAMOAN DROP … ONTO THE LADDER THAT CHRISTIAN HAD INTRODUCED MOMENTS AGO!!!!! The champion lies flat out on the ladder, as Benjamin composes himself, and re enters the ring, slowly climbing the ladder. The Black Diamond is getting closer … and reaches up, but is just too far still from the belt. He takes another step, and looks to reach up again … BUT CHRISTIAN IS BACK!!! Christian grabs the leg of Benjamin, dragging him off the ladder, pounding his challenger, then runs off the ropes … BUT IS CAUGHT WITH A BELLY TO BELLY OFF HIS RETURN … INTO THE LADDER!!! The Champion crashes and burns into the steel, as Benjamin watches. The challenger picks himself up, and shoves Christian into the corner, then THROWS THE LADDER AT HIM!!! With that, Benjamin now charges across the ring … AND DELIVERS A STINGER SPLASH TO THE LADDER … ONTO CHRISTIAN!!! The fans pop, as Christian slumps down in the corner, with Benjamin now in the ascendancy, looking favourite to win the match. The Black Diamond decides to go for broke, and grabs the ladder, setting it up, and slowly pulls himself up, getting closer to the title belt, but with Christian reaching his feet, Benjamin wont get to the title belt in time … AS CHRISTIAN PUSHES THE LADDER OVER … BUT SHELTON LANDS ON THE ROPES, STILL ON HIS FEET … and smiles at his awesome athleticism … UNTIL CHRISTIAN SHOVES THE LADDER AT HIM … AND SHELTON FLIES OFF INTO THE BARRIER!!!!!! Christian now sets the ladder up, and begins to climb, with Benjamin out of commission on the outside … but as he reaches the top and reaches for the championship … BENJAMIN COMES FROM NOWHERE!!! The Black Diamond leaped from the ropes, onto the ladder, and races to the top, as he and the amazed champion trade blows … WITH BENJAMIN WINNING THE EXCHANGE … SLAMS CHRISTIANS HEAD OFF THE TOP RUNG … AND KNOCKS CHRISTIAN OFF!!! Christian lands on the ropes, with BENJAMIN REACHING UP … TOUCHING THE TITLE … BUT CHRISTIAN PUSHES THE LADDER OVER … AND BENJAMIN SEES THE TITLE SLIP AWAY … AS HE CRASHES AND BURNS INTO THE ROPES … CATCHING HIS LEG … TRAPPED!!!!! Christian JUST saves the title, and with Benjamin tied up in the ropes (ala WrestleMania X) Christian climbs the ladder … showing the tiredness, but Benjamin CANT break free from the ropes … AS CHRISTIAN REACHES UP … AND GRABS THE TITLE!!! Winner: Christian @ 17:02 Shelton Benjamin frees himself - but it’s too late. His valiant effort is for nothing, as the champion retains the title, with Benjamin looking up, before putting his head in his hands, distraught with his ‘close, but no cigar’ performance. Christian holds the belt aloft, standing atop of the ladder, emphatically proving his standing as the man at the top of the ladder, literally!!! He may not have won, Coach … but by Gawd, Shelton Benjamin just proved to the world that on his day, he can compete with anyone. I’m in shock, J.R. Shelton Benjamin had the championship in his grasp … if Christian had been one second later, we’d be looking at a new World Champion … we SHOULD be looking at a new World Heavyweight Champion. But mark my words old timer, Shelton Benjamins time WILL come. After tonight’s performance, I don’t doubt it. Shelton Benjamin, without the aide of his brethren, has undoubtedly proven his credentials. But the fact remains, Captain Charisma has retained the championship tonight - he is STILL THE MAN!!! The show closes, with Christian still on top of the ladder, holding the title high, as we fade to black. END OF SHOW

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There is really no bad time of year to visit New Mexico. Each season brings unique festivals, experiences, and opportunities for every traveler. Winter is just around the corner, and the busy holiday season is fast approaching. For most of us, it can be hard to slow down the fast pace of life enough to enjoy and savor in the delights of the Holiday season. If you’re looking for a unique holiday experience, then look no farther. Spend a New Mexico Christmas with us at Hacienda Vargas, where you will find privacy, relaxation, history, and charm, all within half an hour’s drive to the cultural centers of Albuquerque and Santa Fe. Relax to your hearts content at our quiet bed and breakfast, and when you’re ready, head out for more unforgettable adventures in neighboring cities. In a land with over 300 days a year of sunshine, the world’s finest visual and performing arts, and a thriving culinary scene, New Mexico is the perfect destination for a winter retreat. Hacienda Vargas’ central location will allow you to experience the holiday festivities found in both cities, all the while savoring your quiet, beautiful New Mexico Christmas here. New Mexico Christmas Activities December is among one of the most festive and magical times of the year to visit Santa Fe. Historically, Santa Fe is known as a legendary trading center, filled with exquisite and unique shops and galleries. Find the perfect gift for those you love along the streets of Santa Fe, or at the annual SWAIA Indian Market, which starts the weekend after Thanksgiving. The holiday season in Santa Fe officially begins on November 29th at the historic Plaza, when residents and visitors gather for the 29th annaul Christmas at the Palace. If you do find yourself in New Mexico for Christmas, then don’t miss Santa Fe’s Farolito Walk on December 24th. Here, you’ll walk the streets of Canyon Road in Santa Fe, amongst thousands of farolitos glowing at your feet, singing Christmas carols to your hearts content. The Farolito Walk is a New Mexico Christmas celebration you won’t want to miss. Albuquerque also has its own unique and wonderful New Mexico Christmas traditions worth seeing or doing. Check out the unique Albuquerque shopping scene at the 14th annual Rio Grande Art & Crafts Festival. At this lively festival, shoppers are sure to find the most memorable and original gifts for everyone on their list. If more traditional holiday fun is on your agenda, Albuquerque’s BioPark Botanic Garden hosts the River of Lights, where you can enjoy the sparkle of New Mexico’s largest collection of walk-through holiday lights, live music, a miniature railroad, hot food and drinks, Supper with Santa and Holiday Nature Crafts. As you can see, no matter what a perfect New Mexico Christmas holiday looks like for you, you’re sure to find it when you stay at Hacienda Vargas Bed and Breakfast. We look forward to helping you create holiday memories and traditions that will last a lifetime. Tags: Albuquerque, BioPark Botanic Gardens, Canyon Road, Christmas at the Palace, Farolito Walk, New Mexico Christmas, Palace of the Governors, Rio Grande Arts & Crafts Festival, River of Lights, Santa Fe, SWAIA Indian Market

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Poetic Waxing from Bliss- though now they make a container that is microwave safe, so no more stovetop for me. Believe me, if you think it's bad when they're dark, it is so much worse if they turn white. I have no grays on my head, but my eyebrows, chin, and neck are covered. They are even more wirey and coarse than the dark hairs. They stick straight out. I had laser treatments about seven years ago, which helped while I was on BC, but when I went off it, a thousand new hairs came and replaced them. I can't be on hormonal BC anymore, so there's nothing I can do but wax and pluck like a fiend. I am not going to have any eyebrows left by the time I hit 45 at the rate I am going. Better sit down and have my mom show me how she draws hers on I guess!

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New Yorkers are always on the run. Bankers rush from Wall Street to Midtown; harried shoppers tear through the narrow streets of NoLita and SoHo. Travelers may find it hard to keep up with the pace — unless they bring their running shoes and join the race. City Running Tours has guided joggers through the Big Apple's hectic streets for five years. Clients traveling solo, in pairs or in groups can book a personalized tour. A guide will meet you at your hotel lobby, subway stop or nearest landmark, then run at your pace for the distance you choose. He'll also carry your water and explain the history of each neighborhood you run through. My guide, Karl Pawlowicz, met me at my Upper West Side subway stop on a brisk Saturday morning. I had booked a five-mile tour of downtown Manhattan, an area with a tangle of streets that didn't seem designed for running. Pawlowicz proved me wrong as we hopped the subway to the Broadway/Lafayette stop, then effortlessly glided past the giant billboards of SoHo's northeast corner. A hard right off East Houston Street took us south on Mulberry Street, past NoLita's Young Designers Market and into Little Italy. The red-and-green bunting strung between its buildings gave the street a warm holiday atmosphere. By the time we crossed Canal Street into Chinatown, I'd entered my fourth neighborhood in 20 minutes. "The neighborhoods are such a great distraction," Pawlowicz said. "Running in the city keeps you interested from block to block." From tiny Bayard and Pell streets, we wove our way around the Financial District and then northeast to Henry Street and the Lower East Side. Running parkour-style around delivery vans, boxes of produce and bikes chained to scaffolding, Pawlowicz described the layout of Manhattan from a runner's perspective. Though just 13 miles long and 2 miles wide, the city offers more than 90 miles of running paths. Favorite routes, he said, include Central Park's four- and six-mile loops and its Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir track. Riverside Park along the Hudson River, Battery Park and its views of the Statue of Liberty, and East River Park are linked by the city's Waterfront Greenway — 32 miles of pedestrian and cycling paths around Manhattan. Except for breaks at the Harlem River and the East Side between 23rd and 63rd streets, which require runners and cyclists to rejoin the roads, you can circumnavigate the island on dedicated pedestrian paths. On Orchard Street, I slowed for the first time to check out an eclectic row of boutiques and accessory shops. In 1900 the block was the most populated place on Earth with more than 2,000 people crammed into two acres of dilapidated tenements. The narrow six-story brick buildings are still there but now host businesses such as the retro fashion store-cum-gallery Pilgrim and Moo Shoes, which sells vegan-friendly footwear. The area's celebrated nightlife had long since gone to bed, but as we passed the popular Stanton Social restaurant, Pawlowicz did have some advice for how to spend an afternoon. "Go for a run, then go for the mimosa brunch at the Essex, shop until you're hungry again and then go for pickles," he said as we passed the much-regaled Katz's Delicatessen on Houston Street. The deli is famous for Sally's outburst in "When Harry Met Sally …," but Pawlowicz said it "does good pickles" too, a testament to the neighborhood's Eastern European roots. With energy flagging, we made a welcome left turn off the windy East River Park into the East Village at 10th Street. We jogged through tranquil Tompkins Square Park, surrounded by chic speakeasies such as Cienfuegos on East 6th Street. A little more than an hour after we'd started, we headed south to the Broadway/Lafayette subway station, a little less than six miles gone in a flash. Even without a guide, running solo in New York is easy. It's hard to get lost on the numbered streets above 14th Street, and downtown there are several major transverse roads, such as Houston and 14th Street, that can help runners get their bearings. Joggers flock to Central Park after work so you'll have company on its main roads until early evening. To orient yourself inside the park, note the numbers on streetlights that indicate the nearest cross street. Wherever you go, it's wise to bring taxi fare and a Metro card with you. This year, City Running Tours also started scheduling weekend group runs. These five-mile tours of Williamsburg, with a brief stop at the Brooklyn Brewery, Governors Island and other New York neighborhoods, are designed for local runners as well as visitors who want to keep up their training while in town. Even locals get a buzz out of a run in the Big Apple, Gabrielle Rubinstein said of her social running group, Team Joe, when I joined them one Sunday. This two-time marathoner and part-owner of Joe Coffee fits in about four miles before or after work most days. "My favorite route from my home in Brooklyn Heights is over the Brooklyn Bridge, through Tribeca and SoHo to my Greenwich Village shop," she said. "It makes me feel like an urban superhero, owning the streets."Copyright © 2015, Chicago Tribune

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Did Chadwick discover the neutron? 2 Answers | Add Yours The answer to your question is yes. James Chadwick was an English physicist in the early 20th century. In fact, he won the Nobel Prize fo physics in 1935 for the discovery of the neutron. The neutron was first postulated by Ernest Rutherford, an eminent nuclear physicist that Chadwick studied under early in his career. Rutherford saw that there was a discrepancy between an atom's atomic number (number of protons) and its atomic mass. He thought there might be some sort of neutral particle in the nucleus that adds to the mass but he could not prove it. Chadwick later performed a series of experiments which concluded that there were additional subatomic particles in the nucleus with the approximate mass of a proton but no electrical charge. These particles were eventually called neutrons due to their neutral charge. The existence of a "neutral element" within the atom was suggested by Ernest Rutherford in 1920, though it was the British experimental physicist James Chadwick who discovered the neutron in 1932. Of the three fundamental particles that make up atoms, the electron, the proton and the neutron, the neutron was the last to be discovered. It's lack of a charge made it more elusive than its companions. Join to answer this question Join a community of thousands of dedicated teachers and students.Join eNotes

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No Benitez change over Lampard Rafael Benitez has responded to Petr Cech's suggestion that Frank Lampard may yet have a future at Chelsea by indicating he will still leave Stamford Bridge at the end of the season. - Related Content 18. Frank Lampard The Blues have refused to extend Lampard's contract, which expires in May, despite his strong form which has seen him eclipse Kerry Dixon to become the club's second highest scorer with 194 goals. The 34-year-old is only eight short of Bobby Tambling's record, a milestone he is on course to surpass at his current rate, and Chelsea's insistence on his departure has baffled fans and observers. Cech declared after Sunday's 4-0 victory at Stoke that he believes there could yet be a twist in the saga, but Benitez signalled once more that there would be no reprieve. "We know Frank is doing well in training and is playing well. Everyone can see he is doing well and the rest of the team is doing well at the same time," he said. "Maybe that was what Petr was trying to say - Frank can play at a good level and hopefully he can continue until the end of the season." "I have to bring the best out of him and I'd be delighted if he scores 15 goals from now until the end of the season. I have to keep him fit." Benitez accepts that scoring opportunities for any Chelsea player will be at a premium tomorrow night when Southampton visit Stamford Bridge. The Blues have struck 17 times in their last five away matches, but have lost twice - against QPR and Swansea - and failed to score on both occasions in their two most recent home games. Benitez admits they must find a way to break down opposition who arrive in west London with limited attacking ambition. "We are doing well away but at home other teams play deep and wait and there's less space," he said. "We are still creating chances but the main thing is to be more clinical." "If we take our chances it will be totally different because the teams we play will be more open and we will have the space we're looking for." "But if that's not the case, as in the last two games, it is more difficult. "When you play away there is more space, the players we have can make a big difference." "If you have 11 players behind the ball you have to find the space and be more precise." "We have confidence that we can do well. We scored many goals against Aston Villa and Nordsjaelland." "The last two games were more difficult because they had 11 players behind the ball and we have to find a way to overcome that." Chelsea will reduce the gap between themselves and Premier League leaders Manchester United to 11 points if they defeat Southampton, but Benitez is refusing to look at the table. "I don't like to see the table every weekend. It's important that we keep winning games and we do that by playing well and scoring goals," he said. "The stats are quite good - we are scoring a lot of goals and not conceding too many. That is the balance we were looking for." "We want three points from every game and then we'll see where we are in a few weeks."

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- Marzocca, Paccione named Player of the Week, Anderson and Weingarten earn Rookie honors - New York, N.Y. - The Skyline Conference released the Spring weekly report #6 on Monday, April 8th, including Player of the Week, Rookie of the Week, Pitcher of the Week, Honor Roll and Conference statistics. Men's Tennis Update (5-0, 2-0 Skyline) - Full Report The Rams posted a pair of victories this week with 9-0 shutout wins over Brooklyn College and Yeshiva University. Sophomore Justin Vijungco (Forest Hills, N.Y.) went 2-0 at No. 1 singles and first doubles and was named to the Skyline Conference Player of the Week Honor Roll. This week Farmingdale State will travel to Purchase on Wednesday, April 10th at 5:00 p.m., host NYU-Poly on Saturday, April 13th at noon and finish the week with a road match at Sage on Sunday, April 14th at noon. Women's Lacrosse Update (9-2, 7-0 Skyline) - Full Report The women's lacrosse team won two Skyline games with victories over Kean and St. Joe's. Sophomore attack Nicole Marzocca (West Babylon, N.Y.) was named Skyline Player of the Week. Marzocca tallied 11 goals on 15 shots and added three assists last week. She recorded seven draw controls, five caused turnovers and four ground balls in the two games. Marzocca scored five times against Kean and then posted six goals, two assists and five draw controls versus St. Joe's. This week the Rams travel to New Paltz State on Tuesday, April 9th at 3:00 p.m. and host Montclair State on senior day on Saturday, April 13th at 1:00 p.m. Baseball Update (14-9, 7-1 Skyline) - Full Report Farmingdale State posted a perfect 4-0 record last week. The Rams swept both Mount Saint Mary and Maritime in Skyline Conference doubleheaders. Junior infielder Daniel Paccione (Commack, N.Y.) earned Player of the Week honors. Paccione collected seven hits in nine at-bats (.778) with seven runs scored and 7 RBI. He slugged two home runs, two triples and a double, while having three multi-hit games. Paccione had two home runs and 7 RBI in a doubleheader sweep (16-9, 10-6) of Maritime. Freshman pitcher Alex Weingarten (East Rockaway, N.Y.) was named Rookie of the Week. Weingarten had his bid for a no-hitter broken up with two outs in the seventh inning on April 6th as Farmingdale State recorded a 10-1 win over Mount Saint Mary. He allowed an unearned run on one hit with one walk and four strikeouts. This is the second time this season he earned Skyline Rookie of the Week honors. The Rams will host New Jersey City in a 9-inning game on Tuesday, April 9th at 7:00 p.m. and then travel to St. Joe's on Saturday, April 13th at noon and host NYU-Poly on Sunday, April 14th at noon. Softball Update (12-12, 5-3 Skyline) - Full Report The softball team played four Skyline games last week and lost both to NYU-Poly before sweeping Sage. Freshman catcher Meagan Anderson (Patchogue, N.Y.) was named Skyline Conference Rookie of the Week. Anderson collected 10 hits in 22 at-bats (.456) with 6 RBI and five runs scored over six contests. She hit safely in all six games and added a pair of walks. Anderson is currently riding a 10-game hitting streak and was named the Skyline Rookie of the Week for the third time this season. Sophomore center fielder Michelle Mongiello (Elmont, N.Y.) was named to the Honor Roll. Mongiello collected eight hits in 20 at-bats and had the game-winning RBI in Farmingdale State's wins against Baruch and Sage. This week Farmingdale State plays three road conference doubleheaders. They face Purchase on Wednesday, April 10th at 3:30 p.m., Mount Saint Mary on Saturday, April 13th at noon and Mount Saint Vincent on Sunday, April 14th at noon. Men's Lacrosse Update (6-5, 3-0 Skyline) - Full Report The men's lacrosse team was 1-1 in a pair of games last week. The Rams fell to Wesleyan and defeated Mount Saint Mary 12-3 on senior day. Sophomore attack Matthew Finn (Huntington Station, N.Y.) was named to the Skyline Honor Roll after scoring six goals and adding three assists on the week. Farmingdale State will host Kean on Wednesday, April 10th at 4:00 p.m. and then travel to Mount Saint Vincent on Saturday, April 13th at 1:00 p.m. Men's Golf Update The men's golf team opened their spring season with a runner-up finish at the Farmingdale State Invitational at the Bethpage State Park - Red Course. Junior Adam Larkin (Bellmore, N.Y.) led the way for the Rams with a third place finish after shooting rounds of 77 and 73. This week Farmingdale State will travel to Lyman Orchards Golf Club in Middletown, Conn. for the Manhattanville Spring Invitational on April 13th & April 14th.

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The screw thread is said to have been invented c.400BC by Archytas of Tarentum, then developed by Archimedes who developed it to lift water. The Industrial Revolution of the 18th century required precision threads and the first screw-cutting lathe was made by Jesse Ramsden in 1770 – but until just over 150 years ago there were no standard threads and, when you wanted a bolt to secure two items together, you made your own and the thread you used probably wouldn’t fit anything else. Standardization of bolts and screws was obviously crucial to industrial development and Sir Joseph Whitworth brought the solution, proposing the world’s first standardised thread in 1841, where the angle of the thread flanks was set at 55˚ and the number of threads per inch standardised for various diameters; this came to be used by all UK railway companies and was later, in 1908, adopted as a British Standard alongside BSF (British Standard Fine). The Whitworth, or BSW (British Standard Whitworth), thread is specified at BS84:1956 and revolves around a 55˚ angle between the flanks, with rounded (radiused) roots and crests. Outside diameters of the bolts begin at 1/8in and the number of threads per inch is specified in whole numbers. The radius and depth relate to the pitch (pitch is the distance between each thread) as follows: Depth = 0.640327 Pitch, Radius = 0.137329 Pitch. You will find Whitworth nuts and bolts on many British classic cars up to the 1950s, especially for larger components like bumper and engine mountings where coarser threads are appropriate. Whitworth threads are still widely used in Australia and are also found in non-automotive forms such as British Standard Pipe and British Standard Copper. Inevitably, while Whitworth came to be widely adopted in Britain for components where a relatively coarse thread was acceptable, in other countries and industries different thread standards were springing up, such as the Edison, Lowenherz, Bodmer, PG, Siemens & Halske, Sewing-machine, Valve, CEI, VDI, French, Knuckle, Buttress and Trapezoidal threads. Thankfully few of these are found on cars, though if veteran cars are your speciality you have to be prepared for anything and have your own screw-cutting lathe to make up nuts and bolts if you want to match what is there… In the USA in 1864, William Sellers proposed a standard based on a 60˚ angle with set thread pitches for various diameters, which became the American Standard Coarse (SC) and Fine (NF) series. It had flat roots and crests and so was easier to make than the rounded Whitworth form. At the same time in Europe, Metric standards evolved, with angles as tight as 47.5˚ for the Swiss Thury thread. Eventually German and French standards converged in 1898 on the Système Internationale (SI) standardised international Metric thread, based on a 60˚ angle with flat crests and rounded roots. The BA (British Association) thread was established for small-diameter bolts (below 1/4in) and was commonly used into the 1960s and beyond on ancillary components on cars, such as Lucas electrical and SU/Solex carburettor parts. It is still used on some precision machinery. It is a fine thread with 47.5˚ angle, radiused roots and crests and sizes from BA 0 (6mm diameter, 1mm pitch) to BA 23 (0.33mm diameter, 0.09mm pitch). Ratios are D=0.6P, R=2P/11. BSF (British Standard Fine) has the same thread angle as Whitworth but a finer pitch and smaller thread depth. Like Whitworth, it can be found on many British cars up to the 1950s, especially on precision components in the engine and gearbox. BSC (British Standard Cycle) was established in 1902 for bicycles and motorcycles; it uses a 60˚ thread angle with very fine thread pitch. BSP (British Standard Pipe) evolved for the plumbing industry, still using the Whitworth principle; though naturally not widely used on cars, BSP threads can be found on water pumps and some SU carburettor/fuel pump components! All the British Standard forms (Whitworth, Fine and Cycle) use the same set of spanners, generally marked just as Whitworth, though historically the size markings of BSF spanners were one smaller than Whitworth. In November 1948, after experience of interchangeability problems during wartime, the UK, USA and Canada agreed on a standard Unified thread for all countries using Imperial measures (inches). Based on the Sellers thread, it used a 60˚ angle. The Unified Thread Standard (UTS) comprised UNC (coarse), UNF (fine, also sometimes called SAE for Society of Automotive Engineers) and, though seldom seen on cars, UNEF (extra fine). Just to complicate matters, there is also a UNS (special) designation for specialist applications, which can include automotive. Most UK and US car manufacturers switched to these over the next few years, though, where specific threaded components were carried over in production to later models, older threads continued to be used; this is especially common on long-lived models such as Land Rovers and Morgans. At much the same time, the International Organisation for Standardization agreed the ISO Metric screw thread in ISO 68-1. ISO Metric threads have flat crests and radiused roots, and are simply designated by the major diameter followed by the pitch, i.e. M10x1.0 means the diameter is 10mm and pitch 1.0mm. Coarse threads are indicated by no pitch specification, so M10 = 10mm diameter, 1.5mm pitch. Formulae are D=0.54127P, R=0.14434P. To cater for all needs, there are also MF (Metric Fine) and MS (Metric Special) standards. In 1965 the British Standards Institution declared BSW, BSF and BA obsolete, recommending use of the ISO (International Standards Organisation) Metric thread, or the ISO Unified thread, in their place. AF is a common designation for spanners that actually denotes the width of the head of the bolt (across flats), not the diameter of the bolt itself. It is used for all Unified (UNF etc) thread bolts and nuts. Tolerances are required, of course, in manufacture; basically bolt threads will always be equal to or smaller than the spec profile, nut threads will be equal to or greater than spec. There are, in fact, standards for this too, classed 1, 2 and 3, with 3 being the closest tolerance for maximum quality/strength, 2 being more commonly used and 1 relatively loose, for easy assembly and use in a dirty environment. The end result of all this development and standardization is that for classic cars the range of tools required can be far greater and more confusing than the standardizers intended. Where some components have continued in production from much earlier models, it is possible to find Whitworth, Unified and Metric threads all on the same car, which therefore requires the use of three sets of spanners. The answer is to keep a tool kit for the car that only contains the actual spanners you have previously needed to use on that car, rather than three complete sets of sockets and spanners – plus a couple of good-quality adjustables just in case you’ve missed one!

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Counties support bill pre-empting local GMO controls A group representing Oregon counties has asked state legislators to prohibit them from regulating genetically modified organisms. Representatives of the Association of Oregon Counties said the group supports a proposal that would preempt local governments from banning biotech crops or other agriculture practices. “Counties don’t have the expertise or the staff or the money,” said Mary Stern, the group’s president, during a Sept. 26 legislative hearing. The proposal is included as part of a broader legislative package aimed at state pension reform and school funding that will be considered at a special session that Gov. John Kitzhaber said he will convene on Sept. 30. Stern admitted that it’s rare for counties to advocate for less local control, but she said it’s unrealistic to expect counties to find and hire experts who can oversee biotech regulations. It has been four months since the USDA announced that unauthorized biotech wheat was found growing in eastern Oregon, but investigators still haven’t resolved how the release occurred, she said. If the USDA has trouble resolving such issues, then county governments would have even greater challenges regulating genetic engineering, Stern said. “This bill is about government. It’s not about Monsanto,” she said, referring to a major biotech developer. “Please don’t let cities and counties provide this regulation. We can’t do it.” Gov. Kitzhaber also testified during the hearing, saying there is “no question” that the biotech preemption bill was outside the framework of the legislative session, but it’s necessary to prevent a patchwork of county-by-county regulations. “This is about whether we should have 36 different GE policies or one state policy,” he said, referring to the number of counties in Oregon. Opponents of the proposal — which passed the Senate as Senate Bill 633 earlier this year but died in a House committee — testified that it should not have been revived. Ivan Maluski, policy director at Friends of Family Farmers, said the bill shouldn’t be included in a package of unrelated pension and tax proposals. “It takes away local control” without establishing a statewide system of regulating biotech crops, he said. Maluski said federal and state agencies were not doing their job in regulating biotech crops, as evidenced by unauthorized biotech wheat in eastern Oregon, which is why counties must step up to the plate. Others who testified offered a variety of viewpoints on genetically modified crops. Aiden Humphrey, a resident of Lancaster, Ore., said the “biotech fumes” in the countryside around his home were sometimes so strong that his family has to drive around in their car to get fresh air. He urged legislators not to pass the pre-emption bill. “It strips away any local control of our food supply,” Humphrey said. Supporters of the bill also testified during the hearing, saying it will prevent onerous new regulations for farmers who produce crops in more than one county. Brenda Frketich, a Willamette Valley farmer, said county-by-county biotech rules would create a “logistical disaster,” as you can’t contain pollen within county lines. “I think we will be faced with impractical laws on what we can grow based solely on fear and emotion,” she said. Rodney Hightower, a farmer near Junction City, Ore., said genetically engineered crops like sugar beets can be grown responsibly without harming organic farmers. “It’s not a pest,” he said. “It’s not a boogey man.”

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Based on 1 Review JennaLove. Absolutely Love.This color is perfect for fall and it is so shiny...even a few days after I painted my nails! I used one coat and it applied evenly, dried relatively quickly and it looks amazing! I will definitely be purchasing more colors.4 out of 4 shoppers thought this review was helpful. Was this post helpful?YesNoposted Oct 23, 2012Link to this post Use this link to send this review via e-mail, Twitter, or to post to your blog.Close Write Your Own Review Have you tried this product? Help out by sharing what worked (or didn't)!Write a Review Seche Vite One Coat Lacquer- Porcelain II it brushes on beautifully with one-coat coverage and dries amazingly fast!Old Price: $8.00New Price:50% OFF

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The German international, 27, netted his 10th goal of the season against Swansea last weekend - despite operating on the left wing since joining from Cologne in the summer for an undisclosed fee. Podolski told the Arsenal's Official Matchday Programme: "It's been a good half-season for me - I'm happy. "I've come to a new league, a new country, and I think things have gone OK. Then again, I've been a professional footballer for 10 years so it's not as if my environment has changed at a very young age. I'm 27 and have won a lot of caps for Germany, so I expected to come here and adapt. "I now have 10 goals and seven assists, and I think these are good figures. It could be better - you can always be better - but I think it's decent because I'm playing more as a left-sided midfielder than as a striker. "When you play up front or in the number 10 position, like Santi, you have more chances to score. I think I've done well on the left and feel good about how things have gone."

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- Special Sections - Public Notices Elizabethtown soon could be extending its wastewater treatment beyond city limits. The city has prepared a memorandum of understanding with Hardin County Water District No. 2 to create a perimeter program that would expand the city’s wastewater services to properties outside of city limits but within its wastewater planning area. If you currently subscribe or have subscribed in the past to the The News Enterprise, then simply find your account number on your mailing label and enter it below. Click the question mark below to see where your account ID appears on your mailing label. If you are new to the award winning The News Enterprise and wish to get a subscription or simply gain access to our online content then please enter your ZIP code below and continue to setup your account.

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UA Best Buy Scrubs TALL Moderate Flare Leg Drawstring Scrub Pant This tall pant sits just below the waist, has a contoured hip fit and slightly flared legs. Features a color match twill tape drawstring, 2 side pockets and 1 back pocket. Easy care 65/35 Poly/cotton. The approximate inseam for size medium is 33". Also available in Regular and Petite length.

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The thought of making a self-drafted pattern scares the bejeezus out of me… this is the closest I’ve come. And by self-drafted, I mean I folded over my fabric, traced a top that I like, sewed up the side seams, cut a hole for the neck, and finished the neck and arm holes with bias binding (is that what you call it?) Other notes… I traced the shirt with a little bit of waist shaping create a little sleeve, and folded the fabric so that the back is a little longer than the front, with a little split at the sides of the hem. There are no shoulder seams – I thought this would make the shirt slip to the back, but it worked out OK… The fabric is sheer, but has a nice drape to it, it’s heavier than you would expect. AND it was in the 2.99/yd remnants at G Street. And there you have a $2.99 “self-drafted” (ha!) shirt right here, folks. (On Burdastyle here).

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I have 28 f & 30 rear, for 80% bitumen 20% dirt roads - great on the black top and acceptable on the dirt. But my bike weighs about 330 kg with a full tank and me aboard, and I dont push things on the dirt. I would start there , then try reducing the pressures a couple of lbs at a time until you find something that suits you. Adelaide Hills, Australia. 93 R100 GS, 77 R75/7 ,70 BSA B44VS, , 86 R80 G/S PD, 95 BMW Funduro F650 ST

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Well you guys are just too convincing and I am just too weak! I just ordered the 135L from BH... My new revised weather isolation technique which shall be named "Breakfast Bag" finally reached its ultimate form. You can only hardly distinguish it from a non-isolated 135L. My absolute fav lens period !!! Colors, speed, bokeh smoothness, sharp as a tack everything about it is just killer. First 6 months I had it never left my camera. Its still my go to when i can only take one lens with me. Great street/Cinematic lens as well. http://www.flickr.com/photos/psquaredpics/ Quote from: florianbieler.de on February 13, 2013, 04:42:15 PMMy new revised weather isolation technique which shall be named "Breakfast Bag" finally reached its ultimate form. You can only hardly distinguish it from a non-isolated 135L.Spiffy idea. But be sure not to store your lens like that. The plastic will prevent any humidity & condensation trapped in there from drying out, which could lead to rust, fungus, etc. over time. Especially if you go from cold winter outdoors to a hot humid place like a crowded restaurant, it'll probably be kinda soggy inside if you don't leave the camera in the bag & let it warm up gradually over time.

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Visit our other Wisconsin Historical Society websites! Refine or narrow your results by clicking any term in the gray boxes below. Expand your results by removing any breadcrumb in a gray outlined box above. Click on the blue "X" to remove the term. Narrow your results by entering a keyword into the search box above. Then click the "Search Within" checkbox, then click on the orange "Search" button. If you did not find what you are looking for or you did not get any results, try changing your search term(s). See our Search Help page for more tips. Description: This barn, owned by Susan Keller, is located at W1363 Zion Church Road (Section 33). The property was purchased 31 years ago on June 15, 1973. Date: 1909 ca. Description: Colorized postcard view down the unpaved street, with the city hall building on the corner on the right. Description: Mark and Vicky Kletzien, with their children, Ben and Mindy, live at N9742 Cty Road. AY. Just a bit north of the Theresa Township line. Description: "This view is from St. Theresa Catholic Church. Looking north toward Zimmel Implement." Description: The ruins of this home and barn were once the property of Matt Leichtle. It is currently owned by Paul Christian. Description: "Today we visit Cinder's in Farmersville. Their address is N10113 Hwy Z, Mayville, WI." Description: Elevated view of the milk wagon that was once used to bring milk from the Wm. Beck Farm to the Widmer Cheese Factory. Date: date unknown Description: Colorized postcard view down center of the street in the central business district. Horses and buggies are parked along the curbs, and pedestrians are on t... Description: Mindy Kletzien, an animal lover, raises Nigerian Dwarf Goats. She competes at fairs in and out of the state. Description: "Members of American Legion Post 270, present a Centennial Flag. Oliver Krueger is at the flag pole." Description: "Theresa Waste Disposal System. Village man, Jim Zillmer, checks out sprinkler system." Date: 1921 ca. Description: Colorized postcard view down the center of a busy street in the central business district. Many cars are parked at an angle along the curbs. Lampposts line... Description: "Road work is in progress on Highways 28 and 67 (Mayville Road)." Description: This map is paint and ink on board with relief shown pictorially. The map was planned by Alfred Ames, drawn by one daughter and painted by another daughter... Description: Tom and Norma Jaster have this barn on their property at N8860 North Pole Road. Description: Stereograph view of the exterior of Assembly Presbyterian Church, surrounded by trees. Description: Elevated view of the town's elaborate brick church featuring a central steeple. Description: "On Good Friday our group elects to dine in Theresa, at St. Theresa's Parish Hall. Once or twice a year a fish fry is featured at St. Theresa's Catholic Ch... Description: "A workman was photographed as final touches were being completed on the reshingled roof of the Solomon Juneau Home." Description: "The tornado destroyed the Martin & Marcella Enderle home." If you didn't find the material you searched for, our Library Reference Staff can help. Call our reference desk at 608-264-6535 or email us at: © 1996-2015 Wisconsin Historical Society, 816 State Street, Madison, WI 53706

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Will this year's Leonid meteor shower roar like the lion constellation it's named for or meow like a kitty cat as it sometimes does? Stargazers who stay up late Saturday night or get up early Sunday morning can judge for themselves. The annual meteor storm is known for sometimes producing as many as a thousand fireballs per minute, as it did in 1966, but astronomers say this year sky-watchers are likely to see maybe 20 per hour. The peak will begin building late Friday night into Saturday morning and continue through early Sunday morning, says Ben Burress, an astronomer at Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland. The Leonid meteors aren't really associated with the constellation Leo, they just appear to come from the same place in the sky. The Leonids are actually tiny pieces of the comet Tempel-Tuttle, which orbits the sun in a large ellipse. "A comet is a often called a 'dirty snowball,' as it's made up of pieces of rock held together by ice. As a comet orbits the sun, it heats up and some of the ice is vaporized, releasing bits of rock along the orbit," says Rebecca Johnson of StarDate magazine. Tempel-Tuttle orbits the sun in an ellipse. Each year as the Earth moves around the sun, it encounters the trailing tail of debris the comet leaves in its wake. Once every 33 years, Tempel-Tuttle comes close to the Earth as it whizzes by in its orbit. In those years, the debris trail Earth travels through is especially thick, and the resulting meteor showers can be spectacular. Burress says his grandfather saw the 1933 shower. "There were thousands of meteors per hour," he says. This year's Leonids aren't expected to be that spectacular because the comet last passed close to us in 1999. The expected 10 to 20 meteors per hour isn't bad, Burress says: "That gives you a good chance of seeing one every five or so minutes." By comparison, the big Perseid meteor shower in August typically rains about 50 meteors an hour down on the Earth. This year should be good viewing, because the moon will set around 10:30 p.m. Saturday in each U.S. time zone. "So Sunday morning anywhere from midnight to 3 or 4 a.m. is the prime window," Burress says. With the exception of the Southeast coast, most of the USA east of the Rockies should have ideal weather for watching the meteor shower Friday night and Saturday morning, according to AccuWeather meteorologist Kristina Pydynowski. However, she says, clouds could prevent anyone from Florida to the eastern Carolinas from seeing it. For Saturday night's viewing, though, the clouds will clear for most of the Southeast. Much of the far West will be poor for Leonid-viewing through the weekend, Pydynowski says, because of a pair of Pacific storm systems that will bring clouds streaming across the West Coast and toward the Rockies Friday and Saturday nights. Clear skies should make for great viewing in the Northeast, Midwest, lower Mississippi Valley and most of the Plains states. Contributing: Doyle Rice Copyright 2015 USATODAY.com Read the original story: Leonid meteor will put on a show this weekend

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The Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft with the international trio onboard, Gennady Padalka and Sergei Revin, as well as NASA astronaut Joseph Acaba, who have spend more than 4 months has landed in Kazakhstan. Expedition 32 Commander Padalka ceremonially handed over control of the space station to Expedition 33 Commander Sunita Williams in the Destiny laboratory on Saturday afternoon during the traditional Change-of-Command Ceremony, NASA reported. Police in South Africa have blocked a miner protest after a security crackdown following turbulent strikes in August in the country's platinum-rich northern region. No clashes or injuries were reported after bulletproof trucks and riot police prevented the demonstration's movement on a police station, a day after officers used rubber bullets to disperse workers in the nearby strike-hit Lonmin mine, where several people were injured. Following government orders to stop the strikes, police and the army raided residences, confiscating piles of weapons. Sunday marked a month since the deadly bloodshed at Lonmin, in which a total of 45 people were killed. Lonmin executives are due to resume talks on Monday with strikers who rejected a pay rise offer last week. An Egyptian soldier has been killed and eight people injured as Islamic militants attacked Egypt’s security headquarters in northern Sinai on Sunday with mortar bombs and machine guns. There were also clashes with police elsewhere in the desert region, which wounded three conscripts. Ten militants were arrested by the government forces. Egyptian forces last month began their biggest security sweep in decades in Sinai after militants killed 16 border guards on August 5. Syria has accused Turkey of allowing thousands of Muslim extremists to cross the border into the country. In a letter sent to UN Security Council and Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, Syria's Foreign Ministry said Turkey let "thousands of al-Qaeda, Takfiri and Wahhabi terrorists" enter Syrian territory to "kill innocent Syrians, blow up their properties and spread chaos and destruction." Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras says Athens would benefit if the crisis-stricken country were allowed four years instead of just two to implement further austerity measures. "We are talking about an extension to 2016," he told the Washington Post. Samaras stressed that exiting the eurozone would be a “catastrophe” for Greece. Athens is yet to finalize spending cuts worth 11.5 billion euro ($15.1 billion) intended to take place over the next two years. This is required for the EU country to qualify for the next 33.5-billion euro installment of its second 130-billion euro bailout. Hassan Skeikh Mohamud was inaugurated Sunday in Mogadishu, the Somalian capital, four days after surviving an attempt on his life. In his inauguration remarks, Mohamud pledged a democratic course for the country, but stated that security remains Somalia’s paramount issue. Mohamud won a general election the previous week, beating outgoing President Sheik Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, who had been leading a transitional government for the past three years. The election results were condemned by Islamist militants, who said it was manipulated by the West. The al-Shabab group, which is affiliated with al-Qaeda, claimed responsibility for the failed suicide bombing whose planners had hoped would kill Mohamud. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in an interview with NBC on Sunday that by mid-2013, Tehran will have 90 percent of the enriched uranium needed for an atomic bomb. Netanyahu again urged the US to set a clear "red line" for Iran's nuclear program, “before it is too late.” President Barack Obama has refused to meet with Netanyahu later this month, citing the upcoming November elections. US authorities believe Iran needs at least another year before it can build a nuclear bomb; there are also no reports that Iran has made the decision to move towards 'breakout' capacity for such weapons. Libyan authorities arrested some 50 people for the killing of US ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans during an assault on the US consulate in Benghazi last week. The head of the Libyan parliament said that several of those arrested were foreign nationals from Mali, Algeria and other countries. Others were affiliates and sympathizers. Libyan officials claimed that the attack was planned by people “who entered the country a few months ago,” and that the amateur US-made anti-Islamic film 'Innocence of Muslims' was used as a pretext for the attack. Air traffic controllers at Libya's Tripoli International Airport staged a strike over wages Sunday, delaying flights in the capital and other cites, the airport’s director told Reuters. The strike affected the airports in both Tripoli and the eastern city of Benghazi, where some flights receive directions from Tripoli's air traffic controllers. A Qatar Airways flight en route to Benghazi was diverted to Alexandria, Egypt, as a result of the strike. The airport director said that negotiations with the striking workers are currently underway. The strike came after Benghazi's airspace was briefly closed for security reasons on Friday, following an attack on the US consulate earlier in the week that killed the US ambassador to the country and three other Americans. Tehran may leave the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) if it is targeted for military action, General Mohammad Ali Jafari, the commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guard said Sunday. Jafari also made it clear that this was his personal opinion. “Iran may leave the NPT – but it would not mean a dash towards a nuclear bomb because we have a religious edict from the supreme leader,” he said. The NPT is meant to prevent the development of nuclear weapons, but permits atomic energy. Jafari also said that in the event of an Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities, Tehran could strike targets in Israel, close the Strait of Hormuz, a major shipping lane for Gulf oil, and attack US bases in the Middle East. The most senior female member of the Khmer Rouge, Ieng Thirith, was freed by a UN-backed war crimes tribunal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, after it was determined she was not fit to stand trial. Doctors said that Thirith, 80, suffers from Alzheimer's Disease. Court spokesperson Yuko Maeda reported that Thirith was released "to her family." The former social affairs minister and sister-in-law of regime leader Pol Pot was accused of authoring some of the Khmer Rouge’s must extreme policies, which resulted in up to two million deaths during its 1970s reign. Thirith's husband, former Foreign Minister Ieng Sary, remains on trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Canada closed its embassies in Libya and Sudan on Sunday morning, citing continued safety concerns over violent anti-US protests in the countries. The missions may resume operations on Monday if the levels of violence decrease. In many Muslim countries, Sundays are work days. In Egypt, where the weekend takes place on Friday and Saturday, the Canadian embassy has been closed since Wednesday. The country is also considering suspending operations at its embassy in Tunisia. The decision to close the missions was made hours after the US announced it was evacuating its embassy in Tunis of all nonessential personnel and family members. An elderly man visiting Moscow's Christ the Savior Cathedral doused one of the church's icons in ink. The cathedral is a major place of worship for Russian Orthodox Christians, and became part of international headlines after punk band Pussy Riot's infamous performance at the church. The man, who was born in Russia but resides in Germany, told police he is mentally ill. He claimed that the act of vandalism was revenge for the three members of Pussy Riot sentenced to jail for their February 'punk prayer' in the cathedral. It was not immediately clear which icon was desecrated, or how much damage was inflicted by the ink. Eight Turkish police officers died in a roadside bomb explosion in the country's southern province of Bingol, officials said. Nine officers were also wounded in the blast, which struck a police service bus in the Karliova district. Sources claimed that Turkey’s separatist Kurdish Workers’ Party (KKP) was responsible for the attack. More than 1,000 workers protesting low wages and substandard conditions at a South African mine were peacefully dispersed by police. The strikers gathered outside the Marikana mine in the town of Rustenburg, but were prevented from demonstrating by a row of armored police trucks. The incident came amid a month of protests that began when police shot and killed 34 striking workers at the mine. Fifteen people were killed, including two children, and 12 others were wounded when a roadside bomb struck a van in Pakistan's northwestern region of Jardol near the Afghan border. The vehicle was headed from a border village to the town of Munda. Roadside bombs are often used in Pakistan's tribal regions, where militants can easily cross the country's border with Afghanistan. It is unknown why a civilian vehicle was targeted in the attack. The US State Department evacuated its embassies in Tunisia and Sudan and ordered all nonessential personnel to leave, citing security concerns over rising anti-US violence in the Muslim world. Washington warned American citizens in Tunisia to use extreme caution and avoid protesters. The State Department also deemed the terrorism threat in Sudan “critical,” and is requesting that US citizens travel in armored vehicles and ask for permission to go anywhere outside the capital of Khartoum. Renegade Afghan police officers killed four NATO troops in an attack in the country’s South, alliance forces reported. The attack occurred early Sunday morning and was "suspected to involve members of the Afghan police." Eight alliance servicemembers died over the weekend in so-called ‘green-on-blue’ killings. China "must strictly be on guard to prevent harm to Japanese citizens and companies", Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda told Fuji TV on Sunday, as anti-Japanese protests swept the mainland for the second day. The protests erupted Saturday after the Japanese government decided to buy the disputed Senkaku islands in the East China Sea from a private Japanese owner. China, Japan, and Taiwan have all claimed the island territories, which may contain oil reserves. Twelve people died when a roadside bomb struck a truck carrying villagers to a market in northern Pakistan near the Afghanistan border, police officials reported. Women and children were among the dead and seven more people were injured in the incident, which took place in Pakistan's Lower Dir region. The army has stepped up its presence in the area since 2009, but the border zone remains a hotbed for insurgent attacks. Six Harrier fighter jets were destroyed during a Taliban attack on military airfield in Afghanistan on Friday, the UK Defense Ministry reported. The insurgents wore US Army uniforms and were armed with automatic rifles, rocket-propelled grenade launchers and suicide vests. The attack also reportedly destroyed three refueling stations and damaged the hangars housing the aircraft. Earlier reports indicated that two US Marines were killed in the attack. Peaceful methods of restraining Iran will not work, because Tehran is “guided by a leadership with an unbelievable fanaticism,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in an interview with NBC. "You want these fanatics to have nuclear weapons?" he asked, reiterating the theory that Iran is close to acquiring a nuclear bomb. In the last few months Washington and Tel Aviv have split over whether to give economic sanctions and diplomacy time to work before attacking Iran. More than a dozen people have been taken into custody at an Occupy Wall Street march in New York. Around 300 people took the streets of lower Manhattan to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the movement. The march came on the first of three days of planned events. The official anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement is Monday, September 17th. Massive demonstrations against Japan over its control of disputed East China Sea islands hit more than two dozen cities in China, occasionally turning violent. Protesters burned Japanese flags and clashed with paramilitary police at the Japanese Embassy. The angry mobs threw rocks, bottles, eggs and traffic cones at the embassy. Many fear that the increased violence could backfire ahead of a Communist Party leadership succession. Roughly 120 demonstrators have been arrested during an anti-US protest in the Belgian city of Antwerp, local police said. Violence erupted after police blocked protesters from the city’s main road. Authorities had to use “pepper spray and batons, but no one was injured,” a police spokesman told the Het Laatste Nieuws daily. Those arrested had been taken to police stations for identity checks and were later released. Earlier on Saturday, 150 protesters were detained for identity checks after they staged a protest near the US Embassy in Paris.

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Baladarry Inn A Civil War Haunt In Gettysburg This place is sooo haunted, The Travel Channel was there doing a ghost hunt! Take a look at the photo gallery and look for: The Gazebo (they say a Union soldier appears sometimes at night looking for something) and The Blue Room (is where a man appears apparently looking for, a lost blonde haired love). The Inn was a Civil War hospital, during the battle of Gettysburg. When I stayed there, no ghosts were found:)

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BASF Invests in U.S.-Based Advanced Materials Company 6:23 AM MST | February 1, 2012 | Sotirios Frantzanas BASF Venture Capital, a BASF subsidiary, says it has participated in a $27 million financing round by investing $5 million in Solidia Technologies (Piscataway, NJ), a start-up company developing a technology for converting waste into building materials, including concrete. Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers; BP Ventures and Bright Capital; and the venture arm of Ru-Com Corporation also participated in the financing round. Solidia is using a technology named Low Temperature Solidification (LTS), which enables the production of building and... Already an IHS Chemical Week member? Login here Forgot your user ID or password? Click here to have it sent to you. Click here for 6 months access to the lates news, data and statistics on sustainability. PLUS all the news and analysis from the Chemical Week editorial team updated everyday on IHS Chemical Week

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Locks- don't bother. If any of the luggage handlers wanted into your suitcase they could use the universal suitcase key. So you are not going to prevent much that way. As Annies pointed out DO NOT put any valuables into your checked luggage. We take one or two carry ons for any camera's, jewlery and travel docs (passports etc) so that we don't have to worry about the checked luggage. They are not going to steal your clothes. In those same carry on's pack a swimsuit and a change of clothes for the first dinner since your luggage may not get to your room until late AND you may want to change for dinner or hit the pool if it doesn't come early. Cell phones- No, you can not use them on the Ecstasy yet. not sure why you would want to. You can use them while in port in Galveston and for a little ways out into the gulf. But that's it. You can use them again in port in Cozumel and Progresso, but beware the international roaming costs (you may want to call your cell service provider and see what the charges would be.) Carnival Cruise Lines: Fantasy 90, Celebration 95, Victory 05, Conquest 05, Spirit 6/06, Freedom 6/08, Holiday 7/08, Victory 6/09, Valor 9/09, Dream 6/10, Splendor 8/10,Conquest 8/11,Magic 11/11,Triumph 4/12,Spirit 7/12,Freedom 11/12, Triumph 2/13 - The fire cruise, Magic 1/14, Freedom x 2 6/14 NCL Dream October 2006, RCCL Mariner OTS June 2007, Celebrity Silhouette 2013

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Converse Jack Purcell Strawberry Printed Helen Sneaker - Womens Looks like you've got more shoe shopping to do - have fun! UPC # 886951880904 Be the woman of the club in these sweet and fun Converse® Jack Purcell® Strawberry Printed Helen sneakers! This low-top sneaker will give your outfit a delicious addition to your casual look. You might not be the World Badminton Champion, but you can let the Jack Purcell® legacy live on and wear the telltale smile on your toecap today. - Low-top strawberry printed fabric upper with contrast stitching - Rubber cap toe - Padded insole - Rubber sipped sole

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Vote in the International Photo Contest Join the Office of International Services on a journey around the world with our global Billikens and vote for your favorite in the first annual international photo contest. With more than 100 submissions representing more than 20 countries and six continents, these photos represent the international experiences of Saint Louis University students studying abroad and international students studying in the United States. This is a great opportunity to see amazing photos from our global Billikens and get a glimpse of the lands they explored. Photos may be viewed and voting will take place at the Study Abroad website. The categories for voting are cityscape, landscape, SLU spirit, unique cultural experience and wildcard/funny moment. Voting ends Friday, Oct. 7, and the winners will be announced Monday, Oct. 10. The winning photos will be displayed in the Office of International Services located in Des Peres Hall for the remainder of the academic year.

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A study by scientists at Columbia University is the latest to suggest deep, hot magma can set off an eruption fairly quickly, a university release said Wednesday. That finding, from a study of Costa Rica's Irazu volcano, could potentially provide another tool for detecting an oncoming volcanic disaster, the researchers said. "If we had had seismic instruments in the area at the time we could have seen these deep magmas coming," said study lead author Philipp Ruprecht, a vulcanologist at the university's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. "We could have had an early warning of months, instead of days or weeks." The 10,000-foot Irazu volcano erupts about every 20 years or less. While most vulcanologists have long assumed mantle magma feeding eruptions rises and lingers for long periods of time in a mixing chamber several miles below a volcano, a study of Irazu's eruption history suggests some magma may travel directly from the upper mantle, covering more than 20 miles in a few months, the Columbia researchers said. "There has to be a conduit from the mantle to the magma chamber,"study co-author Terry Plank, a geochemist at Lamont-Doherty, said. "We like to call it the highway from hell." Chemical studies of ashes from Irazu eruptions showed the erupted magma was so fresh it had to have come directly from the mantle without a long period of collecting in chambers below the volcano. "The study provides one more piece of evidence that it's possible to get magma from the mantle to the surface in very short order," said John Pallister, who heads the U.S. Geological Survey Volcano Disaster Assistance Program in Vancouver, Wash. "It tells us there's a potentially shorter time span we need to worry about."

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Hedgehog duo and pigeon squabs! I was watching the night camera last night, waiting for my hedgehog to appear. I have been wondering if I may have more than one, but difficult to tell on the IR camera…. then just as one started munching on the evening’s offerings … another appeared! At least now I know I have at least two…. may be a pair? Two of the fox cubs fed right next to the hedgehog again…. often trying to take the food that the hedgehog is eating!….. Now for pigeon news. My pigeon seems to have hatched her eggs, but her chicks are difficult to see from the camera. They actually show up better when the IR is on, at night. The female is chasing the magpies who come to feed from the fox food, which is quite funny to watch! As soon as she chases one off, another two appear in their place. In an open nest box like that I suppose her chicks are pretty vulnerable.

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...on my way, to where the air is sweet... Can you tell me how to get, How to get to Sesame Street? Today, we're getting to Sesame Street via cookies. I think this guy would approve: Sesame Street premiered in 1969...the same year I was born. Cookie Monster was born; Bridget was born. Coincidence? Separated at birth? Anyhoo...I love Sesame Street. I hear they're making Cookie eat vegetables these days. I really don't want to believe that. I would have substituted the Elmo cookie cutter for Grover. Or Count. Or Bert. Or Big Bird. (I'm old.) Speaking of Grover, please tell me you have this book for your kids. To this day, it is one of my favorites. ***Keep in mind, if you are making these for a party, you might want to stick with 1 or 2 characters. For these 3 guys, I needed to make 10 different icing colors.*** The cookies here are a new recipe. Are you ready? They're CHOCOLATE HAZELNUT CUT-OUTS. As in, Nutella Cut-Outs. You can find the recipe here, in the book!!! Since the cookies are a deep, dark brown, there was no need to use black icing to fill in the mouths on Cookie Monster or Oscar. How'd you like a set of these for your own? It seems only appropriate for the week of Jim Henson's birthday. ♥ Kiddo is convinced that "only people with little kids" will enter. I had to remind him that his 42-year-old mother made a special trip to the mall just to purchase these...for HERSELF. ;) a Rafflecopter giveaway Who is YOUR favorite Sesame Street character?

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The Wolverines are ready to play under any weather condition, but are you? When the temperature drops, you need to be prepared to keep on cheering in the stands, even if it’s snowing! This Snowy toboggan-style knit beanie from Top of the World will make sure you are warm while showing your team pride. It features a woven flourish and line pattern, embroidered Wolverines logos and braided tassels on the earflaps, and a soft pom to top it all off. You will look and feel comfortable while you cheer on Michigan to another great victory. Special event items are produced by manufacturers only after the outcome of a game or event. These are advanced sale items and will ship immediately after they are received in our warehouse. Manufacturer direct items are shipped directly from the manufacturer. These items are not available for international or expedited shipping. Customized items can be personalized with options such as your name, your favorite number, and/or designs. Some options may be limited by league rules. Top_of_the_World_Michigan_Wolverines_Snowy_Knit_Beanie_-_Navy_Blue/Grayhttp://images.fanatics.com/lfhttp://dmimages.ff.p10/chains/976918.txtfalseWe are unable to customize this item with the text you have entered. Please try a different entry again.Your current entry cannot be processed due to guidelines for past and present player names. Please create a new entry.

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Forget all the controversies surrounding the Travers Stakes (gr. I). The two primary antagonists, Will Take Charge and Moreno, who finished one-two, respectively, in the Midsummer Derby, will lock horns once again in the $1 million Pennsylvania Derby (gr. II) at Parx Racing Sept. 21. Although a field of eight was entered in the 1 1/8-mile race, all eyes will be on Will Take Charge and Moreno, who finished noses apart in the Travers, with the former just getting up with a dramatic late surge to nip the vastly improved Moreno, who had set all the pace, turning back the challenges first of Verrazano and then Orb . Despite the contention by Moreno's trainer Eric Guillot that Will Take Charge's jockey Luis Saez used an electrical device on his horse, the Pennsylvania Derby should be a tremendous showdown between the two colts, with virtually no one in the field seemingly capable of running with Moreno early and Will Take Charge at the top of his game following an up-and-down winter and spring campaign. Both colts have gotten here by taking totally different paths. Moreno, who drew post 3 with Jose Ortiz in the saddle, didn't break his maiden until his 10th career start for owner Southern Equine Stable after being helped dramatically by the addition of blinkers. Since blinkers were added, the son of Ghostzapper —Danceinthesunlight, by A.P. Indy, broke his maiden by 6 1/4 lengths before winning the Dwyer Stakes (gr. II) by seven lengths. Although he finished a solid third in the Jim Dandy Stakes (gr. II) behind Palace Malice and Will Take Charge, he was ignored at 31-1 in the Travers. Willis Horton's Will Take Charge, on the other hand, is one of only three horses this year to have competed in all three legs of the Triple Crown, and many felt he would have been first or second in the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I) had he not gotten stopped cold while rallying stride for stride with eventual winner Orb. Following a freshening, the son of Unbridled's Song—Take Charge Lady, by Dehere, returned with a fast-closing second in the Jim Dandy before winning the Travers. By winning a grade I, Will Take Charge will carry co-topweight of 124 pounds, along with Toyota Blue Grass (gr. I) winner Java's War, and will give two pounds to Moreno and five to seven pounds to the remainder of the field. Will Take Charge will break from the far outside in post 8 and again will be ridden by Saez for trainer D. Wayne Lukas. Darley Stable will return with their two-pronged attack, looking to avenge the Travers defeats of Romansh (fifth), trained by Tom Albertrani, and the Kiaran McLaughlin-trained Transparent (ninth), who gets Lasix for the first time. This will be the third time the two Darley colts will face each other, having finished one-two in the 1 1/8-mile Curlin Stakes at Saratoga, with Transparent finishing first only to be disqualified and placed fifth, with runner-up Romansh moved up to first. Irad Ortiz Jr. will be back aboard Transparent, who breaks from post 2, but Romansh (post 7) will get a new rider in Rajiv Maragh. Shipping in from New York will be the Todd Pletcher-trained Battier, fourth in the Smarty Jones at Parx, and Java's War, who recently was turned over to Barclay Tagg by owner Charles Fipke after being trained earlier by Kenny McPeek. From California comes Fury Kapcori from the always dangerous Jerry Hollendorfer barn. The son of Tiznow captured a stakes at Fresno in his only dirt start and is coming off a gutsy second, beaten a head, in the El Cajon Stakes at Del Mar. Mike Smith gets the mount. Finally, there is Speak Logistics, who ships in from Monmouth Park for trainer Eddie Plesa. Earlier this year, the son of High Cotton finished third in the Besilu Stables Fountain of Youth Stakes (gr. II) and second in the Calder Derby. He breaks from the rail under Paco Lopez. Although Moreno set leisurely fractions in the Travers, much to the surprise of most people, he possesses a good deal of speed and can carry it a distance, which will make him all the more dangerous. Look for Will Take Charge to be closer to the pace than usual, especially breaking from the outside post. Saez will be hoping Romansh, who was close up in the Travers, takes up the chase from the 7 post. $1,000,000 Pennsylvania Derby (gr. II, Race 11, approximate post time 5:45 EDT), 3YOs, 1 1/8 miles 1. Speak Logistics (FL), P Lopez, 117, E Plesa, Jr. 2. Transparent (FL),I Ortiz, Jr., 117, K P McLaughlin 3. Moreno (KY), J L Ortiz, 122, E J Guillot 4. Battier (FL), A Castillo, 117, T A Pletcher 5. Java's War (KY), J R Leparoux, 124, B Tagg 6. Fury Kapcori (KY), M E Smith, 117, J Hollendorfer 7. Romansh (KY), R Maragh, 119, T Albertrani 8. Will Take Charge (KY), L Saez, 124, D W Lukas

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E3 Coverage: Sammy Studios Watch out gaming world, Sammy Studios is in the house and it has something to prove. Forget about the publisher of third party titles that you used to know, this formidable studio has opened up a number of studios on the west coast with a new commitment towards developing quality in-house titles. We were able to sample a few of them at the show, a couple of which were real show stoppers. I know, I know, the story of a vampire cowboy who sets out to destroy legions of zombies in the old west isn’t exactly the most original idea on the planet, but Sammy is adding just enough to this wrought and clichéd genre to separate itself from the hordes of look alikes on the market. Darkwatch has a significantly darker tone to it. In it you play as the cowboy Jericho who was bitten by a bloodthirsty vampire. He survives the attack but finds that Hangtown is being overrun by a number of zombies and sets out to save the townspeople. We were given a demo of what to expect from the finished product and although it was brief, we can wholeheartedly say that it was one of the show’s biggest surprises. While everyone was showing sequels to yesterday’s most beloved titles Sammy decided to show off the theme of tomorrow. This shooter features all of the elements that everyone was touting at the show but in a significantly varied setting. You’ll have a number of different and entertaining weapons to utilize as well as a number of vampiric enhancements. Some of the neat ones that we saw was an alternate viewing mode that caused your enemies to glow brighter and another which allowed you to jump farther than usual. Not to be outdone, Darkwatch also features this year’s biggest theme, physics. Instead of going the easy route and incorporating Havoc 2 like everyone else Sammy has created its own physics system from the ground up. Calling it impressive would be an understatement. Havok is nice but it generally only affects objects in the near vicinity of the action. So if you throw some dynamite into a pile of boxes you’ll see them scatter realistically, but what about that light fixture up above? Sammy’s physics engine takes this into account, so while you’ll still see the boxes scatter you’ll see the chandelier sway in a realistic manner as well. This is evident throughout the town of Hangtown as you’ll the bodies hanging from the railings sway as they come in contact with your actions. In addition to the technology the action seems to be up to snuff as well. There is a healthy amount of action to be had here including a third-person horse-mounted element. If the action can keep up with the technology Sammy will be winning plenty of awards with this title come 2005.The Shield Ever heard of FX’s award-winning police drama? Well apparently so have the folks at Sammy because they’ve green lighted a video game based on one of their favorite programs. At first we were expecting to see a mediocre game that was hoping to succeed on the basis of the license, but as we watched the demo we realized that it was a game destined to stand on its own merits. From what we’ve seen, The Shield would be a fun game even if it were to lack the blockbuster license. It has a number of very interesting gameplay mechanics that we’ve yet to see in this type of game such as the interrogation system. So let’s say some punk is giving you a hard time. You look down and realize that you’re wearing a pair of steel toed boots so you “negotiate” the information out of him by giving him a swift kick to the midsection. You’ll have two bars to watch out for, the interrogation and the health meter. The key to success is to break the NPC’s will without killing him. Go too far and you risk compromising the mission. Since you’re a cop killing an innocent will result in failure so finding a good blend is the key to success here. You’ll play as a number of the game’s different characters but the main focus will be on Mackey (whose voice and likeness is also featured in the game). Our demoer showed us an extremely impressive build of an adult toy store that featured some excellent texture work and architecture. We were told the build was pre-alpha but the quality of the level was that of a near final build. All of the textures, design elements and animations were practically in place; including the gunplay and hand-to-hand elements. Even at this early stage the combat was fun and engaging, the developers are currently planning on adding in a ground grappling system before the game ships. Other elements planned for the game also correspond with the themes of the show. So while you may participate in a traditional 3rd person assault to nab your perp the next scene may shift to an interrogation setting with the department’s other officers. It looks to have plenty of depth and the project is shaping up quite nicely. Quick Takes Guilty Gear is shaping up quite nicely for the PS2 with four-player simultaneous support and some additional characters thrown into the fray. If it sounds frantic it’s because it really is, but it’s also a hell of a lot of fun. It’s kind of like Smash Bros. with some depth and strategy and that’s all right with us. Admit it, the stealth-action title is getting pretty stale. For every Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow you get two Mission Impossible: Operation Surmas. Sammy sees it this way too, that’s why it’s unleashing Spy Fiction upon an unsuspecting populous. It takes everything that you love about the genre and builds upon it with cool new gadgets like the stealth suit which makes you invisible for a limited about of time. This game ships soon so we’ll hold off on further comments until we get the final build. The last title on display was Iron Phoenix, an Xbox Live-enabled martial arts brawler. We saw it last year but it’s come a long way from the days when it was positioned in the back of Kentia Hall. Sammy has taken the game under its wing and slapped on a fresh new coat of paint to really beautify the game. It runs much smoother now and the look and feel of the game is much more professional. Iron Phoenix also drew large crowds thanks in large part to its tournament-like atmosphere. * The product in this article was sent to us by the developer/company for review. Gaming has been a part of my life for as long as I could remember. I can still recall many a lost nights spent playing Gyromite with that stupid robot contraption for the old NES. While I'm not as old as the rest of the crew around these parts, I still have a solid understanding of the heritage and the history of the video gaming industry. It's funny, when I see other people reference games like Doom as "old-school" I almost begin to cringe. I bet that half of these supposed "old-school" gamers don't even remember classic games like Rise of the Triad and Commander Keen. How about Halloween Harry? Does anyone even remember the term "shareware" anymore? If you want to know "old-school" just talk to John. He'll tell you all about his favorite Atari game, Custer's Revenge. It's okay though, ignorance is bliss and what the kids don't know won't hurt them. I'll just simply smile and nod the next time someone tells me that the best entry in the Final Fantasy franchise was Final Fantasy VII. When I'm not playing games I'm usually busy sleeping through classes at a boring college in Southern Oregon. My current hobbies are: writing songs for punk rock bands that never quite make it, and teasing Bart about... well just teasing Bart in general. I swear the material writes itself when you're around this guy. He gives new meaning to the term "moving punching bag." As for games, I enjoy all types except those long-winded turn-based strategy games. I send those games to my good pal Tyler, I hear he has a thing for those games that none of us actually have the time to play. When I'm not busy plowing through a massive pile of video games I spend all of my time trying to keep my cute little girl fed. She eats a ton but damn she's so hot. Does anyone understand the Asian girl weight principal? Like they'll clean out your fridge yet still weigh less than 110 pounds. Currently I'm playing: THUG, True Crime, Prince of Persia, Project Gotham 2 and Beyond Good & Evil. View Profile

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09 January 2013 12:54 [Source: ICIS news] LONDON (ICIS)--Reliance Industries has held a sales tender for 25,000 tonnes of granular sulphur, a trader said on Wednesday. The India-based petrochemical major closed the sulphur tender on 9 January, the trader added. The cargo is for 5-11 February loading from the Indian port of Sikka. The sulphur producer last sold an export cargo at $150/tonne (€114/tonne) FOB (free on board) to a trader under its 6 December 2012 sales tender for shipment to the port of Richard’s Bay, South Africa in January 2013. Sulphur prices from Sikka have been steadily declining for months on the back of global weakness. ($1 = €0.76) For the latest chemical news, data and analysis that directly impacts your business sign up for a free trial to ICIS news - the breaking online news service for the global chemical industry. Get the facts and analysis behind the headlines from our market leading weekly magazine: sign up to a free trial to ICIS Chemical Business. |ICIS news FREE TRIAL| |Get access to breaking chemical news as it happens.| |ICIS Global Petrochemical Index (IPEX)| |ICIS Global Petrochemical Index (IPEX). Download the free tabular data and a chart of the historical index| Asian Chemical Connections

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Tom Kaluzny takes rehab service’s demonstrative model “Josephine Bone-Apart” by the hand. Tom Kaluzny walks through the halls of the new Rehabilitation Services office on the lower floor of Providence Mount Carmel Hospital. Doctors stop in to talk with receptionists and refer patients for physical therapy. It’s just another day on the job for hospital employees and not necessarily the scene of great drama, but the fact that the doctors are actually able to walk to the office and confer with employees in rehabilitation is no small feat. Until March of this year, Mount Carmel’s rehabilitation services were located in the basement of the Town Center Building in downtown Colville. “We were there for about 27 years,” says Kaluzny. “It wasn’t a bad space, but we were always separated from the main hospital, plus we had a small amount of treatment space for our patients. This way, it is much easier for us to treat patients and build that rapport with them and their doctors.” With currently over 200 patients using rehabilitation services, the move has been a long time coming. The new space is 5,000 square feet with six treatment rooms that cater to patients from infancy all the way to senior citizens. There are seven physical therapists, with one occupational therapist and one speech therapist. They treat everything from joint skeletal and muscle injuries to stroke victims and even autism. A Balance Master, only one of three in Eastern Washington, is on hand to provide a computerized evaluation for the patient on their points of balance and what they can improve on during therapy. A swing hangs in the children’s therapy room, donated by the Children’s Miracle Network, that assists in treatment of autistic children. A full kitchen is available to help those who have suffered a stroke or traumatic brain injury get back on the road to recovery and independence by relearning how to take care of themselves. “We also have plans to set up a medical massage program and a bowel and bladder program,” says Kaluzny. “Of course, the goal with any patient is to get them as close to functioning how they normally did before they sustained an injury, had a stroke, etc.” Other long-term goals include a therapy swimming pool heated at 94 degrees so arthritic patients can utilize it as well. Currently, aquatic physical therapy sessions are held at Benny’s Colville Inn pool. An Open House for the Providence Mount Carmel Rehabilitation Services will be Thursday, April 19 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. The public is invited to attend. “We do what we do because we love being able to work with people,” says Kaluzny. “Physical therapy is a helping profession. We’re very glad to be here to do that.”

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his first state visit to Israel as president of the United States. Israeli practice is to give a VIP guest making a state visit the highest honor the country can bestow: the right to address the Knesset, the people's representatives, in the institution that symbolizes Israeli democracy. Obama, however, has chosen to break with tradition and boycott the Knesset during his visit. It's strange that the U.S. president has relinquished this honor, especially since this Knesset is newly elected, fresh and interesting, with dozens of new MKs who have entered politics for the first time. Instead, he intends to give a speech at the Jerusalem International Convention Center. To explain this puzzling conduct, it has been claimed that Obama wishes to "talk to the people," as he did when he visited Egypt at the beginning of his first term in office. Other explanations have been offered that don’t bear repeating here because they are an insult to one's intelligence (forgive me for the undiplomatic remark). It's simply hard to understand that America’s No. 1 citizen does not see the members of Knesset as the Israeli people's representatives. On Obama’s previous visit to the region he also asked to speak to the people directly, and to "extend America's hand” to the Egyptian people as well as to the Arab-Muslim world. Such a tactic could perhaps be understood in Egypt, where Hosni Mubarak's tyrannical regime was still in place, but does anyone in the American administration compare Israeli democracy to Mubarak's Egypt? And how is it that there’s no one in the Israeli administration who can tactfully and intelligently inform the eminent guest’s representatives what is acceptable on a state visit to Israel? This is not the first state visit a U.S. president has made to Israel, but Barack Obama is the first president who has refused to address the Knesset. It could be that in doing so, he is setting a precedent that could affect the Knesset's standing and Israel's position in the world. Obama may be the first head of state to refuse to address the Knesset, but will he be the last? Bill Clinton's impressive speech in the Knesset, on his first visit to Israel after the peace treaty with Jordan had been signed, had many uplifting moments. True, compared to Yitzhak Rabin's time, the political situation now is less optimistic (to say the least), but this can only be addressed by dealing with the Israeli people and their elected representatives. The first media report about Obama's visit to Israel said that a delegation from the Prime Minister's Office was to travel to Washington to prepare for the president's arrival. Although the foreign affairs portfolio is the prime minister's responsibility since Avigdor Lieberman resigned as foreign minister, since when has a delegation from the Prime Minister's Office been sent abroad to deal with a visit to Israel? If one of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s diplomatic advisers had been sent to Washington, fine. But a delegation? Is there no embassy in Washington to handle the visit? There’s also an American Embassy in Israel, and in general, in international relations the custom is that arrangements for high-level visits are made in the host country. And what of the waste of public money involved in sending a whole delegation to Washington? Is this the embarrassing result of ignorance of the protocol for a state visit, or of simply kowtowing to the Americans? To avoid embarrassment and misunderstanding on the part of both guests and hosts, there are accepted, mandatory rules of protocol in state relations. The rules in Israel are similar to those in European democracies and in most countries of the world. But under Lieberman’s leadership, the Foreign Ministry has seemingly been relieved of its responsibilities. Of course, the prime minster has always been at the forefront of the relationship with the White House and there have always been arguments and tensions, particularly over such important events as a visit by a U.S. president. When Clinton visited, then-President Ezer Weizman saw himself as the official host, and the Foreign Ministry had to maneuver carefully between him and Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Clinton’s friend and partner. We proved up to the task. Ever since the state's early days of David Ben-Gurion and Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett, the relationship between the prime minister and the foreign minister has been complex, but the Foreign Ministry’s status has never reached the nadir it fell to under the outgoing government. Diplomacy isn’t cocktail parties, it’s a profession. Diplomacy also means knowing how to navigate correctly so that things don’t deteriorate to the point that the Israeli Knesset is boycotted by the president of the United States. A new foreign minister should be appointed who can lead the Foreign Ministry toward the goals for which it was created: to cultivate and develop Israel’s ties with the peoples of the world. Nowadays interpersonal relations between leaders are crucial. To once again choose Lieberman, who is not accepted in most of the world’s important capitals because of his defiant statements, doesn’t serve Israel’s interests. Both defiance and obsequiousness have led to the unfortunate situation facing the Israeli Knesset today.- Haaretz, Obama's First Visit to Israel Share, PDF Download and Print ►

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More consumers than ever before are searching the Internet for medical information and using mobile devices to manage their healthcare. A mobile study released last week by comScore found that 90 million people in the U.S. owned smartphones, up from the previous quarter. Hospitals, urgent care centers and physicians are connecting with patients through the mobile technology of iTriage®, allowing them to quickly and easily take a proactive approach when it comes to making critical healthcare decisions. The following healthcare providers recently partnered with iTriage to bring detailed information about their facilities and specialties to the patients in their communities: New England Urgent Care – West Hartford, CT – Patients can access holiday hours, information about facility services, and turn-by-turn directions, all from the palm of their hand. Greater Mobile Urgent Care – Mobile, AL – Three convenient locations in greater Mobile allow patients to pre-register for their visit directly from their smartphone, alerting urgent care staff of an impending arrival. St. Peters Bone & Joint Orthopaedic Quick Care – St. Peters, MO – “Sprains, strains and broken bones require immediate medical attention,” said Brandon Larkin, MD, SPBJ’s primary sports medicine specialist. “Our partnership with iTriage provides us with the resources and technology to connect with our patients when unexpected injuries occur and at their exact time of need.” East Jefferson General Hospital – Metairie, LA – Providing the highest quality care through innovation to the residents of Jefferson Parish, EJGH is a state-of-the-art hospital with more than 420 beds and 650 physicians. Wuesthoff Health System – Rockledge, FL – Offering patients mobile pre-registration at both the Rockledge and Melbourne Medical Centers helps streamline the intake process by allowing patients to fill out forms prior to arrival, and notify hospital staff in advance of any special medical needs. Doctors Hospital – Sarasota, FL – Improving the patient experience by posting Average ER wait times as well as offering the “I’m on my way” mobile pre-notification system. “Allowing patients to use the pre-registration feature through iTriage lets our staff prepare in advance for their visit and provide a patient experience that exceeds expectations,” said Robert Meade, CEO. To learn more about Symptom-to-Provider™ pathway of iTriage, visit http://about.itriagehealth.com.

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Briercrest seeking new basketball coach <strong>Briercrest College & Seminary Head Coach Women’s Basketball</strong> Briercrest College & Seminary is seeking a dynamic coach to lead its Women’s Basketball program to the next level. As the head coach, your mission will be to develop an elite, post-secondary program that consistently performs in five Key Result Areas: 1) Recruiting and Retention – A team filled with players that exemplify the “Total Champion Way” (aligning with our core values). 2) Spiritual Formation – A team that demonstrates passion and discipline for their sport and a devotion to love and serve their teammates that comes from a growing relationship with Jesus. 3) Leadership Development – A team that will embrace the challenge of becoming women built for others: taking responsibility, doing productive things, making tough decisions, serving others & training others to take your spot. 4) Perennial Champions – A team that will earn ACAC play-off medals and CCAA National Championship berths and medals. 5) Alumni Relationships and Fund Raising – A program that engages alumni and friends of the women’s basketball team to support, encourage and give to build a program that reflects the purpose, values, vision, strategy, success factors and goals of Briercrest Athletics. Briercrest Athletics has an excellent, very supportive staff team. Briercrest College & Seminary and the athletic program has taken great strides forward over the last number of years to fulfill their mission through developing a focus in five strategic areas: 1) The “Briercrest Experience” 2) Rigorous Learning 3) Athletic Excellence 4) Community Service 5) Vocational Pathways Briercrest College & Seminary offers a wide variety of high quality educational programs and features a very competitive athletic and academic scholarship program. You will be encouraged to pursue some very talented mission fit student-athletes to build your championship caliber team and you will have the resources and programs to recruit and retain them. The ideal candidate for this position must be a Christian. The candidate must have at minimum a Bachelor’s degree and preferably a Masters degree. The candidate should have NCCP Level 2 coaching certification and working towards NCCP Level 3 coaching certification. The candidate should have experience successfully coaching basketball at an elite level. Previous experience coaching at the post secondary level would be a definite asset, but quality high school coaches may also apply. The position will remain open until a suitable candidate is found; however, applicants who apply by <strong>February 18, 2011 </strong>will be given preference. Submit your resume to: Director of Athletics Briercrest College & Seminary 510 College Dr Caronport, SK S0H 0S0

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Charity auction is among winemaker’s successes "I clearly think I was the luckiest guy ever to get into the wine industry," said Shoup, chief executive for Long Shadows Vintners in Walla Walla. Shoup came to Washington in 1980 to work at what is now Ste. Michelle Wine Estates. Prior to that, he worked for Max Factor, the cosmetics company, and before that he was with E&J Gallo, the world's largest wine producer. Before he retired as CEO from Ste. Michelle in 2000, Shoup's accomplishments there were many, not the least of which was helping to launch the Auction of Washington Wines in 1988. This year, Shoup is the honorary vintner. "Of all the lucky things I've been affiliated with in my lifetime, this is one I hold most significant," he said. "It was truly an opportunity to give back and an opportunity for our entire industry -- which has so much to be grateful for -- because there's probably not a person in Washington who has been here a while who doesn't know someone who's benefited from the services of Children's Hospital." Shoup and a couple of friends came up with the idea of the auction, hoping it could generate perhaps $100,000 to $200,000 per year. To date, it has raised nearly $30 million, including nearly $2 million last year. The honorary chairman of this year's auction is Harvey Steiman of Wine Spectator magazine. And Kent Waliser, partner and general manager of Sagemoor Vineyards north of Pasco, is the honorary grape grower. The auction started Thursday with a picnic at Chateau Ste. Michelle in Woodinville. The big auction, filled with patrons willing to spend $500 per ticket and perhaps thousands on various bids, was Saturday evening at Ste. Michelle. Nearly 50 wineries presented their wines at the auction. When Shoup arrived at Ste. Michelle, he never would have thought the auction -- or the industry -- would be what it is today. Back in the early 1980s, Washington was a bit of a winemaking backwater. But he was a dreamer. Ste. Michelle's collaboration with the Antinori family of Italy in 1995 became Col Solare, which now has a grand winery on Red Mountain east of the Cascade Mountains. That was inspired by Opus One, the joint venture between Robert Mondavi and Baron Philippe de Rothschild. Shoup said the advent of Opus One in the late 1970s helped propel California as an important wine industry back when Napa Valley wines were generally unavailable on the East Coast. Mondavi was a close friend and mentor to Shoup for decades. "He had so much influence over me in so many ways," Shoup said. "He was like a second father." When Shoup decided to launch Long Shadows Vintners after leaving Ste. Michelle, Mondavi was an early supporter and even planned to be a partner, but he became ill and died in 2008 at the age of 94. Shoup gave the eulogy at his funeral. At Long Shadows, Shoup has taken the Opus One idea and given it a twist. He has seven international partners who make a single Washington wine using a grape variety they excel with. His partners come from California, Germany, Australia, France and Chile. Now nearly 70, Shoup shows no sign of slowing down. "I'm trying to see if we can't go up one more plateau in Washington in terms of building the learning curve, to get to the point where nobody in the world questions our position among the premier viticulture regions." Eric Degerman and Andy Perdue run Great Northwest Wine, a news and information company. Learn more about wine at www.greatnorthwestwine.com. Most recent Northwest Wines posts Our new comment system is not supported in IE 7. Please upgrade your browser here.

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WCHS plays Portland at Vandy Monday The District 9-AAA baseball game between Gallatin and Mt. Juliet has been moved from Tuesday to Monday, 7 p.m. at Mt. Juliet. Officials are concerned about threatening weather on Tuesday. Coach Jim Carter's Golden Bears improved to 9-2 on the season with a sparking 4-0 run in the Wilson County Invitational, outscoring their opponents 44-7. LEBANON -- Anthony Gomez retired the final 19 batters of the game, tossing a two-hit shutout with six strikeouts, helping 10th-ranked Cumberland to a 9-0 victory and a doubleheader split against Campbellsville University Saturday at Ernest L. Stockton Field. LEBANON -- Senior Eddie McDaniels threw a complete game four-hitter to lead Lebanon to a 9-0 victory over Eagleville Saturday in the Wilson County Invitational at Brent Foster Field. McDaniels (1-1) struck out four and walked just one batter as the Blue Devils won their fifth consecutive game, improving to 7-3 on the season.

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Stanczyk noticed yesterday (18-JUNE-2014) that Metryki.genebaza.pl had some additions. The Polish Archive from Gdansk (AP_GDANSK) was added to Genbaza.pl late on Wednesday. So now when you click on the above link, you should see: The top archive, AD_Kielce, is a Diocessan archive, the church archive from Kielce Diocese (Stanczyk’s ancestral diocese). The new archive is second in this list, AP_GDANSK. The church archive and the bottom four archives were already there. If you click on the AP_GDANSK, then you will see five research collections (aka fonds). One is an evangelical parish from Krokowa and there are also four USC (civil registration offices, similar to the USA’s county clerk) fonds with vital records. I looked at two of the USCs (Sopot – a very nice resort town on the Baltic and Kamienica Szlachecka). Their data started at year 1874 and each link was either a Birth or a Marriage or a Death metrical book. Each vital record type was a separate unit. So you had three units per year. My early searches did not locate any alegata in 1874 Sopot. As you may have surmised this is Prussian-Poland partition data and as such is in the common German long-form birth (or marriage or death) certificates (not the Napoleonic Codex paragraph form of Russian-Poland nor the Latin Box format so prevalent in Austrian-Poland partitions. The form’s text are in German. The first birth record I saw was in 1874 Kamienica Szlachecka Births (#1), was Otto August Carl Mark (son of Ferdinand Mark & Amalie Mark nee Gohrbanet).

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Novell SecureLogin is a single sign-on application. It consists of multiple, integrated security systems that provide authentication and single sign-on to networks and applications. It provides a single entry point to the corporate network and its user resources, increasing security while enhancing compliance with corporate security policies. Novell SecureLogin also eliminates the requirement for users to remember multiple usernames and passwords and automatically enters them for users when required. This document provides you with an introduction to the new features introduced in this version of Novell SecureLogin and also lists the issues related to administration, functioning, and other aspects of Novell SecureLogin. For detailed information on Novell SecureLogin, visit the Novell SecureLogin product Web site.. SLLogging Manager and TLaunch need administrator privileges to run on the Microsoft Windows Vista or Windows 7 operating systems. Before installing SecureLogin on a Windows Vista machine, ensure that the operating system is updated with the latest security and service patches or with Microsoft redistributables (32-bit or 64-bit). Otherwise, the SecureLogin installation fails and shows the error message: NSL Event Service failed to start. With the release of Novell SecureLogin 7.0 SP2 Hotfix 7, you can use slaptool to backup and restore credentials. With the release of Novell SecureLogin 7.0 SP2 Hotfix 5, Mozilla Firefox 6.0, Mozilla Firefox 7.0 and Mozilla Firefox 8.0 are supported. With the release of Novell SecureLogin 7.0 SP2 Hotfix 4, Novell Terminal Launcher application queries and verifies the validity of an IBM Personal Communication emulator session before connecting to it. With the release of Novell SecureLogin 7.0 SP2 Hotfix 3, Mozilla Firefox 4.0 and Mozilla Firefox 5.0 are supported. In SecureLogin 7.0 SP2 Hotfix 3, scripting of web page content displayed outside of the standard browser windows, that is modal and modeless dialog boxes and popups, is supported. To enable this, set the DWORD registry key WEBSSO_DHTML to 1 under HKLM\Software\Protocom\SecureLogin. In SecureLogin 7.0 SP2 Hotfix 3, when the user logs in using NESCM (Novell Enhanced Smart Card Method) in eDirectory mode and the user’s password is expired, SecureLogin detects the expired password and changes it automatically on behalf of the logged in user. For more information, see Novell Administration Guide. SecureLogin 7.0 SP2 Hotfix 2 supports Internet Explorer 9. With the release of Novell SecureLogin 7.0 SP2 Hotfix 2, the Limit Concurrent Connection feature is implemented in the nwgina of Novell SecureLogin. SecureLogin 7.0 SP2 Hotfix 1 supports Citrix XenApp 6. With the release of Novell SecureLogin 7.0 SP2, the LDAP Contextless Search feature has been enhanced to enable the LDAPAuth component to perform a search even when anonymous bind is disabled. With the release of Novell SecureLogin 7.0 SP2, the SLManager feature has been enhanced so that you can to query user objects and perform administration operations on directory objects even when LDAP anonymous bind is disabled. In Windows Vista and Windows 7, password recovery support is available for graphical authentication interfaces such as the Credential Provider for LDAP clients and the Novell Client. In the absence of these clients, password recovery support is provided by the default Micorsoft Credential Provider implemented by the Client Login Extension. For more information, see the Novell Client Login Extension Guide. SecureLogin 7.0 SP2 increases One Time Password (OTP) functionality by enabling SecureLogin to expand the SSO support to applications configured to use OTP. Now, Novell SecureLogin automatically generates the OTP by using the previously configured information for the application and also fills in the credential field; thereby providing a seamless SSO experience. SecureLogin 7.0 SP2 supports Flash applications. SecureLogin 7.0 SP2 supports the \n and \t formats in the Messagebox. SecureLogin 7.0 SP2 supports smart card authentication for Athena Middleware. In Active Directory mode, by default SecureLogin uses the workstation logged in session to log in to SecureLogin. Users can also update the registry setting to log in to SecureLogin if they want to use different credentials. The issue with the PressInput command executing thrice everytime it is called is now fixed. The issue with SecureLogin crashing in either SLBroker.exe or Iexplore.exe, when accessing web pages with multiple frames is now fixed. The issue with the LDAP login dialog not showing the name of the last user logged in to the workstation is now fixed. The issue with Lotus Notes Single Logon service not working after installing SecureLogin is now fixed. The issue with the user not finding the stored login credentilas when a workstation does not have a primary attachment to the server running SecretStore is now fixed. The issue with SecureLogin in offline mode not being seamless in certain scenarios is now fixed. The issue with Lotus Notes accepting the old password even after the password is changed is now fixed. The issue with the schema extension considering the Protocom-SSO-ConnectionTimeToLive attribute as invalid since it has more than 32 characters is now fixed. The attribute is now named Protocom-SSO-ConnectionTTL. The issue with TLaunch on Windows XP applying excess load on Remote Procedure Call service (RPCSS) and causing RPCSS to leak memory, crash and requiring the Windows host to reboot is now fixed. The issue with the Matchform command failing intermittently to match certain webpages is now fixed. The issue with SecureLogin not recognising the Embedded Oracle login forms is now fixed. The issue with Limit Concurrent Connection not clearing the obsolete IP addresses is now fixed. The obsolete IP addresses stored in the attribute Prot:SSO Connections is cleared in the following scenarios: Time-to-live parameter expires. The system crashes. SecureLogin session terminates. The issue with SecureLogin wizard actions such asand not functioning properly on .net applications is now fixed. The issue with the LDAP queries getting a slow response from the directory is now fixed. Changes have been made to LDAPQuery so that it does not dereference alias objects. The issue with slproto /runstartup command not executing properly is now fixed. The issue with SLAP tool not running on a client where SecureLogin is not running is now fixed. SLAP tool is now marked as a primary launching application so that it can run the broker if it is not already started. The issue with SecureLogin seamless login to offline mode not working when bothis set to and is set to 1 is now fixed. Internet Explorer crashing due tois now fixed. SecureLogin not starting due to SLbroker application error is now fixed. Internet Explorer crashing when web applications are opened in many tabs is now fixed. SecureLogin user prompted twice to login to the LDAP server is now fixed. The issue with application objects with space characters in the name not getting created on an iManager SSO plugin is now fixed. The issue with the browser crashing when dialog boxes such asand are displayed is now fixed. The issue with accessing theoption without having to open the tab is now fixed by creating the option on the main login screen of Novell SecureLogin. The issue of SLbroker crashing when multiple API connections or disconnections are made to the broker is now fixed. The issue with the site command being empty when converting the wizard script for logon notification is now fixed. The issue with detecting theform in the IBM Maximo Web application is now fixed. The issue with the SSO failing on relaunch for the aSNAP and Maximo pop-up windows in Internet Explorer 8 is now fixed. The Web page Java script that limited the processing time of the onBeforeNavigate function, and prevented the user from navigating to the next page after clicking the button is now fixed. The issue with cross thread failures that might hamper the functionality of IESSO is now fixed. The issue of SLManager crashing when the filtered search returned more than a thousand objects is now fixed. The issue of manually entering the base DN and filter in SLManager is now fixed. SLManager now saves up to 20 base DN and filter entries. The issue with the Flash WindowFinder file having the wrong file extension format is now fixed. The issue with the failure of import in the iManager SSO plug-in when the application name contained a / is now fixed. The issue with the TLaunch not terminating when its associated emulator sessions were closed is now fixed. When a Web page could not send information to SecureLogin by using a different method, the following error message is shown: Unable to instantiate scriptbroker module: 80070005 To resolve this error, uninstall SecureLogin, delete its installation directory, delete the registry hive hklm/software/protocom, then reinstall SecureLogin. This workaround resolves this error for all Web pages, including the Web page that showed this error. If the problem persists, re-register the following SecureLogin DLL files: regsvr32 "C:\Program Files\Novell\SecureLogin\iesso.dll regsvr32 "C:\Program Files\Novell\SecureLogin\slbroker.dll regsvr32 "C:\Program Files\Novell\SecureLogin\slcaptain.dll If you are using smart card authentication for the Citrix login prompt, enter the smart card PIN manually, because the PIN is not cached for the Citrix server authentication. Novell SecureLogin in the LDAP GINA mode with eDirectory does not work while setting a passphrase for a new user if the fully distinguished name (FDN) of the eDirectory user has 128 characters or more. In Microsoft Windows 2003 configurations, users might be able to log in to their workstations by using the old password. Because the user has logged in successfully, Novell SecureLogin loads. A Windows 2003 server attribute (the password lifetime period) allows the reuse of an old password. To disable an old password as soon as a password change occurs: Update the domain controller registry setting with the following value: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa Create the new DWORD value OldPasswordAllowedPeriod. Set this value to 0. For more information, see the Microsoft Web site.. If password policies already exist, ignore the incorrect error message 0 password policy, which is shown when restoring user data. The memory used on the workstation by sldotnetsso64 increases from approximately 15 MB to 142 MB. When you are installing the NMAS client on a Windows 2003 R2 64-bit machine, the following error message is shown: Windows Vista or later required. You get this error because the NMAS client is not available for a Windows 2003 R2 64-bit machine. Securelogin allows single sign-on for web applications in Mozilla Firefox even whenpreference is set to . When you create a new NSLADSAuth in HKLM\Software\Protocom\SecureLogin\ and set the value of NSLADAuth as 1, then the multiple SecureLogin tray icons are displayed when you cancel the login operartion.as Mouse over the SecureLogin system tray icons, to clear the SecureLogin system tray icons. The DAS schema extension fails to extend correctly through iManager because of a defect in the Import Conversion Export utility of eDirectory. Use one of the following workarounds to resolve the issue. Using ConsoleOne: Browse to> > > . Specify the attribute information. Using the ndssch Command Line Utility: Use the ndssch utility to extend the schema. The utility is bundled with eDirectory.Use the -h option, then specify the IP address of the NetWare workstation where you want to extend the schema. NOTE:You can use the utility from any workstation on which eDirectory is installed. On Windows 7 and Windows Vista, the log file for the DAS feature does not store the DAS data when UAC is enabled. Changing the DASLog.txt file path from the installation location to C:\ enables the log file to store DAS data. You can use the SecureLogin wizard to, configure a .NET application in the LDAP mode for its login credentials, change the password option, change the password notification, and so on. The performance of the configured application depends on its size and the number of associated controls. If the size and number of controls occupy a large amount of space in the system, the application fails to load on the next login attempt. You should convert the application into an application definition, then reduce its size before logging in. If an anonymous bind is disabled and the registry is not set in the workstation for the bind, then a concurrent connection is established with a full DN. After thecheck box is selected and the user logs in to the workstation, the IP address entry is not removed from the iManager connections field. The pcProx identification fails in the Novell Client on Microsoft Windows 2008 and Windows 7, on the first attempt for a new user. An error message indicating that the system cannot log in to the network appears and prompts the user to verify the credentials. To fix the problem use the NMAS pcProx sequence during the first attempt to log in to the Novell Client. pcProx identification happens correctly in the subsequent logins. Unlocking a Citrix session by using the NMAS pcProx sequence does not work, that is, if a remote Citrix session is locked by using the Secure Workstation QLL GUI or by using the Windows screen saver option, the unlock operation through the NMAS pcProx sequence does not function. When an administrator logs in to a workstation on which User Access Control is enabled, the Secure Workstation Session Management Process is blocked and an error message is shown. On Windows 7, the workaround is to manually run the process. On Windows Vista, directly unblock the process from the taskbar. If the process is not unblocked, you cannot log in by using the NMAS secure workstation sequence and you see the error message: Error 740: Secure Workstation Session Management Process is blocked. Unblock to continue. This error occurs only for a user with administrator privileges and not for a user with non-administrator privileges; that is, a standard user. For detailed information, see the Microsoft Developer Network Web site.. On a Microsoft Windows Vista desktop, when the administrator uses the NMAS login with the Secure Workstation sequence without unblocking the Secure Workstation session management process (wsaccsmp), the NMAS login fails with error code 740. The issue exists when the NMAS login is used with the Novell Client or the Novell SecureLogin-LDAP Client. The Secure Workstation policy fails when it is set through iManager because the post-login method fails for NMAS Server version 3.1.0. To resolve this issue, upgrade to the latest NMAS server version that SecureLogin supports . If a user logs in without a smart card when thepreference is set to and the preference is set to , the user is not prompted for the smart card. Instead, the user gets an incorrect message: The smartcard does not contain any certificates that match the certificate selection criteria. Novell SecureLogin fails to launch using the smart card authentication without the User Principal Name, whenis set to . This problem can be resolved if you use any of the following options: preference is set to . The smart card must be configured with a User Principle Name. When user logs in with NESCM and SecureLoginis set to yes, then the user cannot unlock the system tray icon using the Smart Card PIN. To resolve this issue, use the eDirectory password to unlock the system tray icon. The ChangePasswordOnExpiry feature does not work when Securelogin is installed in SecretStore mode. When you upgrade to 7.0 from a customized version of Novell SecureLogin (customized bitmaps, LocalHero.dll, and similar files), the new version replaces the customized file with the standard files. To retain the customized settings, do one of the following: Replicate the customized settings on Novell SecureLogin 7.0 MSI. Create a backup of the customized file, then apply it after the upgrade. If you have installed Novell SecureLogin in LDAP mode on a Microsoft Windows Vista machine, you are prompted to close the Windows Explorer, Windows installer and so on during upgrade from version 6.1 or 6.1 SP1 to 7.0 SP2. Clickto proceed with the upgrade. When upgrading from SecureLogin 6.0 to SecureLogin 7.0, SLMANAGER.EXE is automatically installed. There is no option available to stop the installation of SLMANAGER.EXE during the upgrade process. To work around this issue, create a .bat file with the following lines to manually delete SLMANAGER.EXE: @echo off del "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Novell SecureLogin\SecureLogin Manager.lnk" del "C:\Program Files\Novell\SecureLogin\slmanager.exe" During the upgrade from Novell SecureLogin 6.1 to 7.0, if theicon preference is enabled, the users are prompted to provide the network password. To work around the issue: Stop Novell SecureLogin manually before starting to upgrade. Run slproto/forceshutdown from the command line to shut down Novell SecureLogin If you stop SecureLogin manually, you are prompted to specify the password. If you use the slprotoc/forceshutdown command, you are not prompted to specify the password. Start the upgrade. Specify the correct credentials. Web applications directly accessed through Internet Explorer on a Microsoft Windows 2000, 2003 or 2008 server might not work correctly until theoption is disabled on the server. Alternatively, you can go to > , then enable the third-party Web browser extensions. This does not impact the clients connected to a Microsoft Windows 2000, 2003, or 2008 server. Start Mozilla Firefox at least once before installing Novell SecureLogin. Otherwise, a message prompting you to import Internet Explorer settings is displayed during the Novell SecureLogin installation. If this happens, clickto import the Internet Explorer settings or click to cancel the import. The Novell SecureLogin installation proceeds. When a DHTML-enabled Web application is started, SecureLogin fails to prompt for entering the credentials. The error occurs when SecureLogin fails to run the predefined application definition to enable single sign-on for the site. To resolve this issue close the browser session and relaunch the Web application. Novell SecureLogin 7.0 SP2 supports Web-enabled Oracle form applications. Therefore, Oracle JInitiator and JRE should be available in the system where Novell SecureLogin 7.0 SP2 will be used. If they are not present on the machine where Novell SecureLogin is already running, add the missing Java components in the machine, and then run the repair option available with the SecureLogin installer. The repair option of the installer adds the new Java component to be used for Oracle form applications. Clicking thebutton shows authentication fields in an application being defined in the Application Definition Wizard. When you define an Oracle form that is run from a browser, the identified fields might show on the Oracle form and on the browser. You can ignore this behavior. The Java component assigns a name taken from the title field of the innermost container to an Oracle form application. If the innermost container is not assigned a title when the forms are created, the wizard cannot assign a name to the Oracle form application. Loading Oracle components requires some time before an application definition for an Oracle form is started. Therefore, the Wizard takes some time when starting the application definition for an Oracle form. You can use the Client Login Extension tool to specify the text to be shown when a user clicks the Did you forget your Password ? link. However, the text specified for the Novell Client is not shown when the link is clicked. Using the Forgotten Password link to recover the password forgotten for a locked workstation does not work on Microsoft Credential Provider for Novell Client. SecureLogin does not support any wizard for Flash applications. SecureLogin does not recognize the Title command for NSL Flash scripts. Use the ctrl command to match the window title. The NSL script Select command does not work for Flash applications. If the window size is changed or the mouse control is pointed to another window, the NSL Flash script execution might not work as expected. There is a small memory leak of about 20-40 KB every time the NSL Flash script is executed. The full product documentation is available at the Novell SecureLogin 7.0 SP2 Documentation Web site. Novell, Inc. makes no representations or warranties with respect to the contents or use of this documentation, and specifically disclaims any express or implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for any particular purpose. Further, Novell, Inc. reserves the right to revise this publication and to make changes to its content, at any time, without obligation to notify any person or entity of such revisions or changes. Further, Novell, Inc. makes no representations or warranties with respect to any software, and specifically disclaims any express or implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for any particular purpose. Further, Novell, Inc. reserves the right to make changes to any and all parts of Novell software, at any time, without any obligation to notify any person or entity of such changes. Any products or technical information provided under this Agreement may be subject to U.S. export controls and the trade laws of other countries. You agree to comply with all export control regulations and to obtain any required licenses or classification to export, re-export, or import deliverables. You agree not to export or re-export to entities on the current U.S. export exclusion lists or to any embargoed or terrorist countries as specified in the U.S. export laws. You agree to not use deliverables for prohibited nuclear, missile, or chemical biological weaponry end uses. Please refer to the Novell International Trade Services Web page for more information on exporting Novell software. Novell assumes no responsibility for your failure to obtain any necessary export approvals. Copyright © 2005-2012 Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, photocopied, stored on a retrieval system, or transmitted without the express written consent of the publisher. For Novell trademarks, see the Novell Trademark and Service Mark list. All third-party trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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« Suggestion for media accountability | | Why do they hate us? » BBC denies banning 'terror' The Guardian gave op-ed space to the head of BBC Television News, who discusses covering last week's London bombings. At the very end, Roger Mosey addresses the way the network handled the word “terror.” Then there has been a controversy about our use of language - particularly the question of whether the BBC banned the word "terrorist". There is no ban. It's true the word is contentious in some contexts on our international services, hence the recommendation that it be employed with care. But we have used and will continue to use the words terror, terrorism and terrorist - as we did in all our flagship bulletins from Thursday. But Mosey contradicts BBC guidelines, and he fails to answer specific criticisms detailed here and here. TrackBack URL for this entry: Listed below are links to weblogs that reference BBC denies banning 'terror':

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More of the 2% from commenters. And here is RAGE AGAINST THE EQUIPMENT rapping about how rebellious they are and telling you why you should love them. I'm taking their words for it but am wondering who else agrees. Here's my pick: Now that was talking too, not singing either, but it was clear, stylish and rhythmic. And the band could actually play. For the few of you who still haven't heard what singing really is, I'm gonna put up a post in a bit.

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News | Stats | Stat vs. Team | Targets | Injury | Depth Chart | Roster Week By Week Sun, 25 Aug 2013 14:33:46 -0700 The New York Giants cut LB Aaron Curry, FB Benjamin Guidugli, WR Brandon Collins, WR Terrell Sinkfield, TE Jamie Childers, TE Chase Clement, OL Michael Jasper, OL Austin Holtz, LB Jake Muasau, LB Etienne Sabino, DT Frank Okam, FS Laron Scott, CB Junior Mertile and FS Alonzo Tweedy. S Stevie Brown (knee) was placed on Injured Reserve. Thu, 15 Aug 2013 11:36:35 -0700 New York Giants special teams coordinator Tom Quinn said the team's competition for the punt returner job is wide open. Quinn mentioned WR Rueben Randle, CB Jayron Hosley, WR Jerrel Jernigan, WR Kevin X. Hardy, FS Laron Scott and CB Charles James as candidates for the role. Wed, 02 Jan 2013 12:29:54 -0800 The New York Giants have signed TE Larry Donnell, OG Stephen Goodin, OT Levy Adcock, OT Matt McCants, DE Matt Broha and FS Laron Scott to futures contracts. Terms of the contracts were not disclosed. Sat, 01 Sep 2012 10:20:13 -0700 The New York Giants released CB Dante Hughes, OL Chris L. White, QB Ryan Perrilloux, CB Laron Scott and OL Stephen Goodin. Thu, 16 Aug 2012 07:20:51 -0700 The New York Giants have signed free-agent S Laron Scott (Saints). Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Tue, 01 May 2012 20:08:05 -0700 The New Orleans Saints signed undrafted college free-agents WR Malcolm Beyah, DL Braylon Broughton, TE Jake Byrne, DB A.J. Davis, C Brian Folkerts, WR Chris X. Givens, S Jose Grumbs, WR Kevin X. Hardy, OT Dan Hoch, LB Stephen Johnson, S Jerico Nelson, S Laron Scott, OT Aderious Simmons, LB Aaron Tevis, S Johnny X. Thomas and DL Tyrunn Walker. More player news ... 08/16 - Fantasy football players in the news

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50.B Requesting the Approval to Hire the Law Firm of Kirbey Harrington LLP as Outside Counsel to Negotiate the Renewal of the City's Comcast Licence and Proposed Transfer of the RCN Licencse. To the Honorable Board of Aldermen: I hereby respectfully request approval to hire the legal firm of Kerbey Harrington LLP as outside counsel in our pending cable license renewal negotiations with Comcast, Inc., and to address the proposed transfer of the RCN license. Additional information from Matthew Buckley, Assistant City Solicitor, is attached. Thank you for your consideration. |RESULT:||REFERRED TO COMMITTEE| |RESULT:||APPROVED BY VOICE VOTE|

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Aston Martin Through The Years Their first car was to be produced in 1915, but World War I postponed production. Both Martin and Bamford joined the military and their machinery was sold to an aviation firm. After the war ended, Martin and Bamford reopened Aston Martin. By the 1920s, Aston Martin began to gain popularity as a racing car manufacturer, although it declared bankruptcy several times during the next decade. Aston Martin models competed internationally in races, including the French Grand Prix and the epic Le Mans. By the 1930s, despite having seen several new owners come and go, Aston Martin was still a popular brand. The sleek 1934 Ulster was a particularly popular car. Following World War II, several new models were launched. The DB1, DB2, and DB3 were named after the company's new owner, industrialist Sir David Brown, who bought Aston Martin in 1947. Then in the 1950s, Aston Martin experienced even more racing success in the DB2 at Le Mans. Another new model, the DB4, was launched and took several racing titles: the RAC Tourist Trophy, the Nürburgring, and the World Sportscar Championships. In the 1960s, a very famous motorist started driving the new Aston Martin DB5: Sean Connery as James Bond. The car made its Bond debut in Goldfinger in 1964. By the end of the decade, Aston Martin's first four-seat car was produced, the DB6. Despite the increasing fame of the brand, the company continued to be plagued with financial problems, again going bankrupt and changing hands several times. Aston Martin in America After one of its several periods of bankruptcy, North Americans Peter Sprague and George Minden bought Aston Martin in 1975. Then, in 1987, the Ford Motor Company purchased Aston Martin. Ford's efforts to redevelop Aston Martin led to a series of successes that started with the debut of the very popular DB7 in the 1990s, and continued into the new millennium with the V12 Vanquish, the DB9 and the V8 Vanquish. Ford eventually sold Aston Martin to a group led by Prodrive chairman David Richards in 2007. Prodrive was not financially involved, but the group included Aston Martin collector John Sinders and two Kuwaiti investment companies (Investment Dar and Adeem Investment Co.) Today, Aston Martin is a well-respected prestige brand throughout the United States, as well as the rest of the world. Aston Martin Models Today's Aston Martin models make up a small line of highly desirable and extremely well-regarded cars. The current models are the V8 Vantage, the V8 Vantage Roadster, and the V12 Vantage; the Aston Martin DB9 and the DB9 Volante; the Aston Martin DBS V12 and Volante; the Rapide sedan; the Toyota iQ-based Cygnet; and the Virage. Other models from the past decade include the Aston Martin V8 Coupe, the Aston Martin DB7 Zagato, the Aston Martin DB AR1, the Aston Martin One-77, the Aston Martin V8 Vantage N400, the Aston Martin V12 Vantage Carbon Black Edition and the Aston Martin DBS Carbon Black Edition. Aston Martin expanded internationally over time. The four-door Aston Martin Rapide is manufactured in Graz, Austria, in the Magna Steyr factory. Design and engineering, however, still take place in the United Kingdom. Aston Martin Products and Technologies Aston Martin offers a line of sleek and highly specialized sports cars. The brand is recognized worldwide as a top manufacturer of prestigious performance vehicles. Aston Martin provides a range of heritage services, which range from restoring historic vehicles, to upgrading and modernizing vehicles without compromising their style. Traditional methods are used to ensure authentic Aston Martin workmanship and heritage are retained. One of the most popular features is the addition of air conditioning, with well-hidden controls to retain the vintage feel but give a bit more comfort. Other popular upgrades are the conversion of classic vehicles to unleaded fuel, and improvements to braking and road-gripping to increase performance. Alarms and immobilizers can be also added, as can electronic ignition, and headlamp upgrades. Even Bluetooth-compatible sound systems, reverse-view cameras, and satellite navigation can be retrofitted to the iconic models. Aston Martin Works Service Heritage conducts all repairs and upgrades in-house, whether its exterior fixes to damaged paintwork or body panels or careful alterations to the classic interiors. A fully equipped Trim Shop provides a bespoke stitching service to customize your leather interior. Also available are branded accessories, ranging from luxury luggage to protective car covers.

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Years ago, the amount of manufactures producing cigars in Nicaragua could be counted on one hand. Now you’d be hard pressed to count them on all your fingers and toes. The reason? Nicaragua has quickly become known for producing some of the best tobaccos in the world. The nutrient rich volcanic soil, paired with the ideal weather conditions, has created lighting in a bottle. And naturally, everyone wants in on the action. Rivaling the quality and characteristics of Cuban tobacco, Nicaraguan cigars have made huge waves in the industry. The list of brands produced here reads like an all-star team lineup. Brands like Rocky Patel, Perdomo, Drew Estate, Joya de Nicaragua, AJ Fernandez, Padron, Oliva, Don Pepin Garcia, and CAO, just to name a few. Don’t get caught up in all the hype of cigars from the ‘forbidden’ island. Nicaragua is the new king.

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Pensioner Margaret Mitchell has written letters of complaint to local authorities after waking to find her house filled with a strong smelling gas. Mrs Mitchell, of Brook Way, Calne, detected the gas in her home on March 1, at 7.30am, and also in the mornings and evenings between March 2 and March 5. The 74-year-old, who lives near the Viridor landfill site, in Sandpit Road, was so cross about the smell she wrote to Wiltshire Council and Calne Town Council. Her neighbour, who is asthmatic, also noticed gas and rang the gas company to complain, after finding it difficult to breathe. Mrs Mitchell said: “On March 1, my German shepherd woke me at 7.30am. My bedroom was redolent with the smell of gas. “On opening the door to the rest of the house, the smell was so bad that it caught the back of my throat and sent me into a coughing fit. “The gas board arrived to check matters in the Brook Way area. They received more than 20 complaints and had been called to The Pippin area of Calne and Sainsbury’s. “It does beg the question, should permission have been granted for so many residential properties to be built within such close proximity to a large-scale landfill site?” Mrs Mitchell’s complaints are being investigated by the Environment Agency, which has spoken to Viridor. Mike Dunning, of the agency, said the smell could have been a trace gas, which has a distinctive scent and to which the human nose is very sensitive. He said: “We have had a few more complaints about odours recently, but not a huge number. “We have spoken to the site operators and we have monitoring equipment which shows there has been no build-up in levels of gas above what it should be.” On landfill gas seeping into homes, a Viridor spokesman said: “We can assure you this is not possible, given the control measures in place and local geology. “A localised issue with a small section of the gas field at the site was identified and repaired on March 5. “Additional odour reports have been received later in the month. We have not been able to attribute these to our landfill activities.” To report gas leaks to the Environment Agency, call 0800 807060.

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Tired of waiting? Click here to disable ads! You are not logged in. If you sign up for an account, you can gain additional voting power over time, allowing your vote to have an even greater impact on submission scores! Full name, River City Ransom: The Quest For Nirino. -I'm so hyped about all of you liking this movie that I have started to make the second one now! I have also taken to thought what you have said in the reviews. -Thanks for the good feedback guys, Man being under judgement is weird my score went from 3.32 to 3.40 all the way to 3.09 then to 3.01 then to 3.07 again WHATS GOING ON?!!! Hi I have spent a lot of time on this, so please enjoy. Also try and leave a review of what you thought and how I could improve it. READ WAT IVE SAID I love the logo haha it pwnz >:( Everyone likes the freakin' logo! My next movie will be "David and the SpriteCorp Logo!" Thx for the review. Blue boy meets his lovely neighbor! in da othawurld In collaboration with Earth Hour 2015 and Pocoyo newgrounds.com — Your #1 online entertainment & artist community! All your base are belong to us.

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Cole was presented on the show by Eagles head coach Andy Reid, who drafted Cole in the fifth round of the 2005 NFL Draft. "You talk about motors," said Reid. "You take your greatest motor that's ever been made and that's what Trent is ... One speed, and that's 110 miles-an-hour. "He's the only player that's come to me, in tears, and told me, 'Don't ever take me out of a game.'" But while it's notable for Cole to be named among the top 75 players in his sport, it's also fair to question whether the Cincinnati product deserves to be even higher on the list. Consider that Cole, who happens to be third on the Eagles' all-time sack list with his 57.0 in six seasons, is also third among all players in the league with 52.0 sacks since 2006. And only one of the two players with more sacks since 2006, Jared Allen of the Minnesota Vikings, is a 4-3 defensive end. Meanwhile, Mario Williams of the Houston Texans, another 4-3 defensive end and a former No. 1 overall draft pick, came in two spots ahead of Cole at No. 71. But Williams hasn't recorded a double-digit sack season since 2008 and only has 17.5 sacks over the last two seasons, five fewer than Cole has put up in that period. And those are just the pass rush numbers. Cole is also widely said to excel as a run defender in addition to his exploits getting after the quarterback. In fact, ProFootballFocus.com, a website that charts every play in the league during the season has ranked Cole as the No. 1 defensive end in football against the run in both of the last two seasons. This year, Cole's overall rating of 46.1 on ProFootballFocus meant he was the league's second-highest graded defender in the league. Only Tamba Hali of the Kansas City Chiefs topped Cole in those rankings. "Against the run and pass, he can play both equally well. He can do everything he's supposed to do and a little bit more," said Reid. "With age and experience, he's gotten better. He knows all the tricks." But while Cole's game is anything but quiet on the field, the Eagles' defensive end prefers to spend his time off the field hunting and fishing rather than self-promoting, so he's not as much of a household name as he probably should be. There's also a chance that despite his sustained record of excellence, Cole could be in line for the best season of his career. Under new defensive line coach Jim Washburn, Cole will be given more leeway to attack and with Washburn's track record, no one would be surprised see Cole atop the league leaders in sacks in 2011. With 70 players still to be revealed in NFL Network's rankings, which of Cole's teammates have a chance to be mentioned? Figure that

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It's no secret how much we love Victoria Beckham — plus her gorgeous hubby and adorable kids — and in her interview for the August Allure she once again shows off her funny personality. Posh takes a look at a series of photos of herself in the past years and reveals what she thinks about her family, fashion, and why she gets a reputation for never smiling. Here are highlights: - On her family life: "At the moment, we're fine, the five of us. At some point, I'd love to have a girl, you know – just for all the clothes I've got to hand down. It would be tremendous fun. I've got great girlie advice that I can share." - On her looks: "I just make the best out of what I have. I'm not out-of-the-ordinary-looking at all. I'm incredibly ordinary" - On her non-smiling Posh persona: "I kind of created this character at the beginning of the Spice Girls. I didn't smile very much; it was quite pouty. I was famous for wearing a little black Gucci dress. [Except] it wasn't a little black Gucci dress, it was a little black High Street dress. It was incredibly cheap. I just accessorized it well and had the pose that went with it. [...] Of course I smile. It's just that they don't use those pictures. It's a better story to say that I'm a miserable cow. I get it." To see what Posh has to say about Project Runway, her past looks and her beauty routine just read more. - On Project Runway: "[It] shows how hard you have to work in fashion. These designers don't have money. They don't have huge budgets. Some of the challenges are there just because they're fun for TV. Is anybody ever going to be asked to make a dress out of candy? Of course not. But it makes good viewing. I see Heidi quite a lot, and her kids. Really lovely family." - On a 1997 photo of her with the Spice Girls: "You know, fashion changes. Rather than ever looking back at my clothes and cringing, I look back at the makeup and cringe. It looks like someone beat me up and pushed me onto the stage." - On her personal style: "If I'm going to an event, it takes me about an hour and a half to put my hair up and have some makeup put on … I don’t have a stylist. I deal with that side of things myself. [...] I have a photographic memory [for clothes]. I can remember what everybody wears, all the time."

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This question is from a Group Therapy post in our community. Add your advice in the comments! I have had a guy in my life for maybe 4-5 years. We have dated for 2 of them and were best friends before that. It started out well: pampering and sweetness. The honeymoon phase you can say. Now I read our old chats and I see how insecure I was. He was sweet, and I was, well, always asking "what are you doing," "who are you talking to," "why are you so close to her," "you never text," "you never replied," and he started drifting away. He gave all passwords and kept everything open but I never met his friends much — he never let me. I felt so broken and used that at the time, doing everything to please him, not caring about my life. It disgusts me now. I had a bad experience in a relationship before and I never realized the after-effects have stayed. Now we are in a phase that we broke up months ago due to my nagging and him taking me for granted, but we meet often, talk late nights and hug tight, and there are moments where we stop and say "we are just friends." Once or twice we even ended up in bed, and it feels so different than friends. The insecurity has grown even more now. I can't see him as just friend and neither can he, but neither of us are wanting a relationship at the moment. I need to work on me. I have a shattered self esteem, confidence, and it's worsening every phase. But I can't cut him out . . . I can't. I have tried. Neither can he. We come back after a day or two. There are so many female friends in his life, and especially a new one. She saw him at a friends party and acquired his number to text him, and now she texts him all day and calls him to cry about how her guy is messing her life and whatnot. It's not even been a month and she's all over facebook about the "special bond" they have. I know him. He isn't the "bond" and "bff" type, and he keeps telling me he doesn't want to date her. He just wants to talk, but I'm scared. I feel hatred for this girl. I know I shouldn't, but sometimes I just want to tell her to back off! I have always had problems if girls come too close to him, especially the ones who randomly meet and give their numbers. I know I need to cut that jealousy, but it's so hard. I've told him to draw a line with her, and he said he understands but . . . Please tell me, am I wrong? What should I do? Have a dilemma of your own? Post it anonymously in Group Therapy for advice.

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Community Christian Church has a new music director, whose arrival isn't music to Haley Cartwright's ears. Despite her efforts to block Matt Brandon at every turn, he finds great success, and Haley wonders about her place at the church. Yet, she can't deny her attraction to Matt, and with some help from the pastor, they are thrown together to work out a compromise. Can Haley let go of her fears and accept the love that Matt offers? Felicia Mason's SWEET ACCORD (2) has enjoyable dialogue and a great hero, but the heroine isn't endearing.

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powered by AFI During the annual fair in the animal village of Champfleury, a good fairy's magic wand is stolen from its caretaker, Chassidou (a white Persian cat), by the wicked Black Genie (a monkey). The Black Genie becomes master of the elements, takes the fairy prisoner, and petrifies Barbara (a duck), the animal tamer. Saturnin (a duck), who is Barbara's lover, and Chassidou embark in a balloon, parachute to safety when shot down by the Black Genie, and, after overcoming many perils, arrive in the Land of the Doves, where they are immunized against the petrifying power of the wand. Enraged when his magic fails against the two, the Black Genie is accidentally petrified when he touches himself with the wand. The wand is recaptured, and happiness is restored in Champfleury.

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Hello,This is difficult to explain, bear(sp) with me please. I got an alert for a new program trying to access the internet. Knowing what it was I allowed it. After that program was closed, there is still a Zone Alarm Alert on the task bar to the left of the running programs, like there is when there is a window open such as now, the Internet Explorer New Message is there because that is the window that is open while I'm typing this. When I hover the mouse over it it says Zone Alarm Security Alert. When I click or double-click or right-click it , nothing happens. Is this just stuck there from the new program alert? Or is there some way to see what this is? Operating System:Windows XP Home Edition Product Name:ZoneAlarm (Free)

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Today, just after the sunrise, a group of motorcycle riders met at a truck stop in West Monroe, La., to ride our Harley Davidson bikes down to New Roads, La., a historic district just outside of Baton Rouge, about three and a half hours away. Across the bridge in Monroe, a group of ladies gathered to play bridge from morning to night. You might be wondering what these two seemingly unrelated events have to do with each other. It all started with an unexpected phone call I received two months ago from Martha Young. She is from the Bridge Club in Monroe, La., and she was calling me because I’m the director of the Bleu Bayou Harley Owners Group, which is our local chapter of Harley Davidson motorcycle enthusiasts. Now, there’s a bridge that connects the town of Monroe to West Monroe, where I live, so I thought Martha was saying that she belonged to another motorcycle club in Monroe. Turns out, she is with the Monroe Duplicate Bridge Club, which is a group of women and men who actually play bridge. I’m thinking, why is this lady from the bridge club calling me? Martha said the ladies in her bridge club wanted to challenge the members of my motorcycle club to participate in The Longest Day. Now, before I got this call, I had never heard of The Longest Day and didn’t even know about the Alzheimer’s Association. But I felt like this call happened for a reason. You see, my mother had multi-infarct dementia, which is dementia brought on by a series of mini-strokes. She suffered from this condition for 11 years before she died from complications of the disease in 2008. So when Martha called to ask us to participate in The Longest Day to help raise awareness and money for the Alzheimer’s Association, it wasn’t hard for me to say yes. We carefully mapped out the route, avoiding the interstate highways and taking the back roads so that we could make a successful ride for a good cause. And we did just that! The ride down here today, although hot with temperatures approaching the 90s, was very nice. We had the bayous on one side of us and the cedar and cypress trees with Spanish moss hanging from them on the other side. This is what we in the South like to call true country living, with the good smells of the trees and grass with the occasional bad smells of the chicken houses. My wife, Teresa, and I are both wearing our purple Alzheimer’s Association T-shirts today that the bridge ladies gave us. I hope their all-day bridge marathon is just as enjoyable as this charity ride has been for us. Martha is already talking about getting many more groups of people involved from the Twin Cities in The Longest Day next year. Who knows? Maybe if we make this event big enough in the years to come, West Monroe will be known for being more than the home of Willie Robertson and his A&E reality TV show “Duck Dynasty”! About the Author: Chuck Adams, 54, is the owner of Tempco Insulation Inc., a commercial and residential insulation company in West Monroe, La. He is participating in Alzheimer’s Association The Longest Day® for the first time.

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For anyone who may have missed it, Stormy Kromer was included in Esquire Magazine’s list of “Great American Things” in their December 2012 issue. Number 17 on the list was the Stormy Kromer Night-Timer. The full list of “Great American Things” can be seen at the Made Collection’s website – where you can also shop! Please consider supporting American manufacturers this holiday season, and the Made/Esquire Shop is a great place to do so! What are you buying American this holiday season?

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Washington (CNN) – The nation's largest pro-gun lobby is set to prominently return to the debate over gun rights and restrictions this week when it unveils the conclusions of its school safety initiative in Washington on Tuesday. The National Rifle Association first announced the National School Shield Program in December as its response to the Newtown, Connecticut, elementary school shooting a week earlier. It posted a bare-bones website and pledged to report back with a set of school safety proposals. On Tuesday the NRA will announce its own findings and issue a report on how they believe schools can prevent future gun violence similar to the Newtown tragedy. The National School Shield Program will present to lawmakers, law enforcement, school officials and the public a combination of policy proposals and resources to implement its recommendations, CNN has learned. The NRA is expected to give Congress legislative proposals in the Tuesday report. Law enforcement officials will find training recommendations to prepare the armed guards who the organization believes should be available to schools. State and local officials will find guidelines on how to alter their ordinances to permit the armed guards. Immediately following the Sandy Hook Elementary tragedy, NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre told reporters, supporters and a few vocal protesters, "The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun." "Why is the idea of a gun good when it's used to protect our president or our country or our police, but bad when it's used to protect our children in their schools? They're our kids," he said. LaPierre, the longtime face of the organization, stood firm to that position and hasn't wavered despite immense criticism and pressure. Some lawmakers in several states have considered proposals to arm and train teachers. While the Obama administration hasn't ruled out some form of armed protection on school property, Vice President Joe Biden made it clear the idea wasn't his top priority. In a conference call last week with supporters, Biden indicated he preferred background checks be performed on all gun sales and took issue with the idea of arming legislators. "The last thing we need, and ask any teacher, is to arm teachers ... Turn schools into armed camps," he said. "But what does make sense is if a school decides they want to have a school resource officer - that is a sworn shield, someone who is a sworn police officer, in or out of uniform, armed or unarmed, depending on what the school wants - in the school to be able to have contact with and build relationships with not only the staff but the students in that school," he said. Schools that do not want the dedicated police officer might use the funds on an additional counselor, he suggested. Biden's position suggests he and the NRA may share some common ground on the issue. Both appear to agree that schools need to be empowered to have armed guards if they want them and that infrastructure needs to be in place to train those guards. Funding such programs remains a key sticking point between the White House and the NRA, including how lawmakers would dole out the grant money to local schools. The Tuesday announcement is expected to heat up the contentious debate between the two sides. It comes shortly before the Senate is expected to take up a measure to expand the scope of background checks and further criminalize gun trafficking. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid proposed the legislation and says it also addresses school safety. Although it does not include the assault weapons ban and restrictions on gun magazine size, Reid indicated the law would be open to amendments. Since the days immediately after the school massacre, polls including CNN/ORC surveys have shown declining support for strict gun regulations.

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2015-04-01T22:46:38Z

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Two weeks ago, while waiting for my flight to San Francisco at an airport in Paris I stumbled on a coding challenge by NASA to optimize the solar arrays of the International Space Station. I’ll let the video explain: Being very interested in Optimization for my soon-to-be-unveiled new startup, I was quite excited and promptly downloaded all the required material to spend my 10-hour flight hacking ;-) Disclaimer: Shortly after landing I was the top Python solution and 10th overall but I couldn’t spend enough time on my code while abroad to stay that high in the charts. Final rankings are due this Friday so this is not a post describing the optimal solution but I hope it will be somewhat entertaining for Python coders and others. TopCoder made a Java simulator available along with the detailed description of the problem. The space station has 10 joints that can be rotated so all your program had to do was to output 10 angles and speeds for each of the 92 minutes of the ISS orbit, which would be visualized like this in the local tester: The goal of the contest was to maximize the total power output of the station over the whole orbit (In the screenshot above I’m at 163kW on the 69th minute of the orbit) while respecting a couple of hard limits like the maximum speed & acceleration of each rotary joint, minimum power output for each panel and shadowed ratios on some parts like the longerons to avoid breaking due to heat expansion. So the whole contest was basically about minimizing the shadows cast by the front solar arrays and the station itself. TopCoder made the 3D model of the station available so theoretically (and that may be what the winner does) you could build an exact mathematical model of all the shadows and minimize that. However this was completely out of scope for my 10 hour flight so instead I decided to use a mixed approach based on both mathematical modelling and numerical optimization. The plan was to do most of the maths offline in the plane and then run a couple VMs over the following week that would optimize the parameters of my simplified model without oversight. Pointing to the sun The first task was to align the panels at all time to the normal vector of the sun. That was made easy by the simulator that showed the viewpoint from the sun on the right. The hardest part there was to remember (or rediscover) all the formulas for cartesian/spherical conversions ;-) One early optimization was to deviate from that sun angle so that the backpanels (in red) would have minimal shadowing. That was by far the most important gain and I built an almost-exact model of the sun angles on these panels to find the optimum (check nabuk’s schema). Minimizing the station shadows In order to point to the sun at all times, the panels have to do one full rotation per orbit (check the video at the end of this post). Which means that 2 times per orbit, a large part of the back panels will be heavily shadowed by the station. You can see on the right a screenshot at minute 82, one of the worst times of the orbit. So the second biggest but perhaps most difficult gain was to accelerate the rotation of the panels when they were passing behind the station in order to minimize these bad angles. There were 2 constraints: the hard limits on joint speed and acceleration, and the fact that any deviation from the “optimal” sun-pointing angle was reducing the potential power of the panels. There was definitely a middle ground to be found between potential power and shadowing but given the complex shape of the station I wasn’t going to find it by an exact formula in a few days, let alone hours. So I decided to approximate that function associating each angle with the optimal amount of deviation by numerical means, namely Global Optimization. Python is one of my languages of choice not only because I love its syntax but because it has a mature ecosystem. Among the many availables modules are powerful scientific libraries like SciPy and OpenOpt. OpenOpt is a suite of tools and optimization algorithms for solving both Linear and Nonlinear problems, supporting a large number of solver backends and (sometimes confusing) interfaces. There may have been better frameworks for my problem but I downloaded it in a rush just before my flight was departing as it seemed the most comprehensive and experimentation-friendly with its multiple algorithms. Some optimization problems can make use of Vectorization, meaning that OpenOpt can build an internal model of their result function in order to speed up the process and make some assertions on the optimal result. However that is not the case for this problem: I had to consider the local ISS simulator as a black box that had about 92*20 input variables and one result, the total power output (which was the challenge score before maluses). OpenOpt has several algorithms available for Global Optimization that can converge towards the best solution when there are many variables and multiple local optima. After some tinkering I settled on Differential Evolution (DE), a kind of genetic algorithm that was bundled in OpenOpt. The biggest issue for this kind of numerical optimization was that the downloadable Java tester was very slow. Supposedly because it had to calculate all the exact shadows it took about 10 seconds to run on my MacBook Pro. Moreover, the contest specified 6 different beta angles which meant about 1 minute was required to evaluate the performance of one set of input values. 1 minute is an extremely high amount of time for algorithms like DE that require a large population of input candidates to be tested at each step of the evolution process. I guessed I would need about 6 (beta angles) * 50 (evolution steps) * 100 (population size) * 10 (different input sets) evaluations to have a good enough solution, which meant 35 days of my CPU time. That was obviously not going to be possible so after landing I decided to launch about 50 EC2 spot instances where I could run DE in parallel, have them send the results to a free MongoHQ database and just merge them together before submitting my solution. Parallelization was made easier by the fact that there was several independent variables like the beta angle that could just be split among instances. Spot Instances are great because they are often 10 times cheaper than regular ones. Their downside is that they can be terminated at any time by Amazon if their market price exceeds your initial bid but that wasn’t going to be an issue for this kind of computation. My final bill was about $50. I want to pause there for a second and pay my respects to the AWS team that makes this possible. When you think about it, bidding for CPU time from your command line is insanely cool ;-) And when it’s for optimizing the space station, I guess that’s geek heaven. Anyway, my biggest issue with Spot Instances was their launch time. You have to submit a bid that is evaluated for some time before AWS decides to allocate you the actual instances. That delay was at times as high as 10-15 minutes. I also ran into a known bug where the quota of spot instances wasn’t freed after them being terminated. Putting it all together There were a couple other numerical parameters (like station yaw) and approximations I optimized for in my solution but they yielded limited gains compared to the above. This is a video of my solution for beta=75: That’s it! I really enjoyed this challenge. The TopCoder rules were a bit weird at times but kudos to them and NASA for getting people involved and sharing some of their daily challenges. However I’m quite sure NASA has a whole team dedicated to this kind of optimizations and no significant improvement over their own solution will be made here, unlike the Netflix Prize. I’m also sure I won’t be #1 but regardless, it was by far the coolest time I ever had on a plane ;-)

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2015-04-01T22:28:39Z

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We plead, explain, cajole, he enlists the police and we’re going nowhere; c’est la vie en Tour de France! It’s never a dull moment… We were desperate for a pizza last night; but the Vietnamese restaurant in Laragne was cool. Martin pleads his case with the local gendarme while the lad just laughs. At breakfast there was French accordion music on the stereo, to get us in the mood for our first ‘real’ day on the race, it almost made us forget how bad the coffee was. We picked up L’Equipe en route to the start; “Cavendish quitte le Tour” said the one headline – expected, and he’ll have more glory days to come. But another said; “Barloworld quitte le cyclisme” – terrible news. Credentials; the nightmare continued; “we have your badges, but no car stickers!” but once we got hold of ASO’s Stephanie and Dominik, things were sorted out and we had those precious pieces of plastic and strips of vinyl for the Volvo; that’s what we thought, anyway! “Ca va, Claudio?” Corti managed a smile and a hand shake, despite his woes, and then it was time to go. It was raining when we left Embrun, sodden A class roads eased gently up the Alpine valleys, but all around the Alpes rear, jagged and grey. At 14.5 k it’s the first PMU sprint, uphill, but at least the sun is out. This is the Route des Grandes Alpes – encouraging for the sprinters! At 32 K there’s the first hairpins and it’s not far to Italia – and the serious climbing. The Col d’Agnel – the third highest tarmaced pass in Europe, it’s not the steepest, but it’s long, long, long. A guy waves two damp Luxembourg flags at as – maybe it’s Andy’s day? At 43 K, well into the climb, the skies open, just as we spot former British pro champion, Tim Harris – he drives VIP’s for Skoda these days; “with this weather it’s going to be a very hard stage, it’ll be freezing coming down of this col, then they have that climb to Prato, it could be snowing up there!” The scenery is ever more rugged, the higher we climb, the rain comes and goes, but the sky is angry and there are patches of snow still on the mountainsides. It’s blowing a gale now, but it’s a tail wind, that’s something, at least – and then we met Jean-Paul It’s plan ‘B’ now, watch the race and take it from there; “plans have to be flexible, when you’re a journalist.” Three distinctly dodgy kangaroos are on our patch; “yell for Cadel!” they implore all and sundry as they hop around, high on red wine. It’s cold and windy as we await the race, more like the Scottish Hill Climb Championship in October than le Tour in July. Meanwhile, the cop keeps a weathered eye on us to ensure we don’t do a runner. It’s bitterly cold as a group of four remind us that this is a bike race and there’s a stage to be fought for. Simon Gerrans (CA), Egoi Martinez (Euskaltel), Jose Luis Arrieta (AG2R) and a Garmin, whose number we miss, but turns out to be Danny Pate. The gap is huge, ten minutes plus back to the peloton, which we can see winding up the valley floor below us, like a colourful furry caterpillar. Lampre ride tempo, Cunego must get a stage win from this race, he sacrificed the Giro for it; maybe today is the day. The further back the bunch, the more pain there is in the faces. Robbie McEwen is off the back; “get out the f***ing way!” he yells at a motorcycle camera. A Francaise des Jeux is last on the road, Sebastien Chavanel, his face shows desperation. He knows that if he let’s the gap get too big, he won’t make it back on the descent and there are 60 fast kilometres from the bottom to the start of the final climb. We jump on to the tail of the race convoy as soon as the break down truck passes; if we let a gap open, then fans on bikes and cars will fill the spaces and we’ll get snarled up. We’ll have to sort out those damn credentials again at the finish today and we’ll need all the time we can get. At the summit the wind is gale force and it’s hailing, I open the Volvo window to take a pic and it’s like someone is throwing gravel in my face. The descent is wild, maniacs on mountain bikes infiltrate the convoy as we drop down, down, down at crazy speeds on the slick, wet tar. On a right hand hairpin, the traffic suddenly tails back and stops in front of us, the smell of frying disc pads fills the air. I jump out for a look – it’s a crash, a bad one. Caisse D’Epargne rider and former Tour winner, Oscar Pereiro is the victim; he’s gone over the edge of the hairpin and landed on the road, maybe five metres below, he’s lying prone, with a medical team around him. There’s movement in his face and hands, thank God, but it doesn’t look good. I’m not entirely comfortable with what I’m doing, but I start to take pictures. This is horrendous, but it’s part of le Tour and our readers have to see what a dangerous sport this really is. The motor bike camera guys have no such ethical dilemmas, one tries to push me out of the way, another tramples on my toes. Click, click, click, click, their five thousand euro cameras rattle off hundreds of shots. The medical team are oblivious; they have a neck collar on the rider, a vital signs monitor on his arm and a nurse carefully holds the plasma bag from which a drip leads into his tanned and badly grazed arm. There’s grace in her movements as she allows everyone to work around her, moving this way and that as bandages are applied and a pulse is taken at the wrist and neck. They ease him on to a flexible stretcher before getting him on a rigid stretcher and sliding it in to the back of the ambulance. Back on the road, the blue lights of the ambulance flash, a few cars ahead as we realize that having the wrong stickers on the car isn’t that big a deal. The roads are dry now and it’s 20 degrees, it was around freezing, with the wind chill, at the top. We’re a bit subdued in the car, we just hope Oscar will be OK, that’s the worst crash I’ve ever seen. The second hot spot, there’s still 70 K to go, although we don’t know how far ahead the race is, we think it would be bad form to pass the ambulance. The roads are pan flat now, we’re on the flood plain of the river Stura di Monte; it reminds me of the opening phase of Milan – San Remo, across those endless plains. Al emails from Espana to say that Pereiro has a broken wrist and collar bone – it looked worse than that to us, but let’s hope that’s all that’s wrong. The mountain are rearing again, just ahead, as a few cars in front, the F des J car shepherds one of their riders; he must be way, way behind the peloton. We think it’s Chavanel who was last up the Agnel, he’s certainly got spirit, but we just can’t see him beating the time cut, despite his 40 kph average. We’re on the second last climb of the day, Colle del Morte. After a long, flat slog across the plains it rears up abruptly, straight and steeply. We have to stop for diesel fuel, but can imagine that Chavanel will be hurting up here. By the time we get out of the gas station, the road is open and it’s chaos. We start the climb to Prato Nevoso as the camper vans thunder down towards us. It’s a brute with steep ramps leading from one hairpin to the next. Far above us, Gerrans wins and Schleck takes yellow. The guy with the Luxembourg flags got it right and the alcoholic kangaroos got the stage winner right, at least; but maybe not enough folks; “yelled for Cadel.” We’ve re-caught the tail end of the race, and Chavanel is still battling. You know you’re in Italy when… It’s crazy as fans on foot, on bikes, in cars, with prams even, try to get off the hill – meanwhile the pros have the same idea.Dario Cioni remonstrates with a couple of drunken fans who nearly deck him. And here’s McEwen, they better not have a go at him, or they’ll be on the deck! Eventually we battle through to the top and it’s time to start work. Oscar? “Les premieres radiographies ont confirmк la presence d’une fracture complexe de l’epaule gauche,” that’s left shoulder – he’s a lucky guy! And Chavanel? He finished 153rd at 42:59 – now that’s what you call; “a day’s work.”

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2015-04-01T22:43:21Z

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When I'm serving a morning crowd, strata is usually part of the meal. This simple bread-and-custard breakfast casserole appeals to a wide swath of diners, especially if flavorings are kept to a minimum (with breakfast meat on the side). And you can make and bake it ahead of time. Strata can be savory or sweet. I usually opt for savory because of all the sugar, butter and heavy dairy in the sweet versions, but I decided to see if I could make sweet strata a little less naughty. I was able to cut back on some of the sugar and fat and still deliver strata worthy of a celebration. Many strata and other sweet breakfast casserole recipes call for anywhere from one to two sticks of butter — that's eight to 16 tablespoons! Mine requires just six tablespoons, and I feature it in the crumble topping. I concentrated the sugar in the topping, too. Similar recipes include sugar in both custard and topping, as well as a dousing of syrup, but I've found that if the sugar sits on the surface it's more prominent and you need less. I also offer a lightly sweetened fresh-strawberry sauce instead of straight syrup. My custard is simple — eggs, vanilla and evaporated milk rather than the usual half-and-half or heavy cream. Scotch eggs are perfect for this time of year. Rather than blanket them with pork sausage, try chicken sausage. Depending on your crowd, you might use a spicy chorizo or Andouille. Add to that a seasonal grated-carrot salad in butter lettuce "nests." This is not the typical raisin-studded, mayonnaise-dressed salad. It's fresh and flavorful, with parsley and a bright kefir-based dressing. Kefir — with the taste and texture of buttermilk and high levels of good bacteria — has all the health benefits of yogurt and is worth seeking out. You should be able to find it in a well-stocked grocery store; if not, substitute buttermilk. There's a time to eat healthy — and that's most of the time — but there's a time to indulge a little too. Enjoy. Scotch Eggs With Chicken Sausage Makes 8 eggs Use your choice of sausage, but if using denser pork sausage, you'll need a little more than a pound. I used — and loved — chicken chorizo sausage. - 1 pound bulk chicken or turkey sausage - 8 large hard-boiled eggs, peeled - 3/4 cup crushed saltine crackers - 2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley - 2 teaspoons olive oil Adjust oven rack to lower-middle position and heat oven to 350 degrees. Divide sausage into 8 equal portions. Working one at a time, press a portion of the sausage mixture into a patty. Set egg in patty and work sausage around it to completely enclose. Mix cracker crumbs and parsley; dredge each egg in cracker crumbs and place on a small, rimmed baking sheet. Repeat with remaining sausage, eggs and cracker crumbs. Drizzle with olive oil. Bake, turning every 15 minutes, until golden brown, about 45 minutes. Cool 5 minutes, and serve.

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2015-03-27T17:37:23Z

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They’ll roll out the barrels for this fest — or at least the beer — inside a 30,000-square-foot, air-conditioned tent. It’s time to polka, chow down on sausage and strudel, do the Chicken Dance, sip a few Spaten and Franziskaner beers, take a spin on a carnival ride, cheer for the dogs in the dachshund parade and race, attend a German spelling bee and a yodeling competition, and more. Prost! Sept. 21 from 6 p.m. to midnight, Sept. 22 from noon to midnight., Sept. 23 from noon to 5 p.m. at Addison Circle Park, 4970 Addison Circle Drive, Addison. Ages 4 and up: $10 on Sept. 21; $5 on Sept. 22 before 5 p.m., $10 after 5; $5 on Sept. 23. Free for kids 3 and younger. addisontexas.net. ADULT NIGHTS: ‘STAR WARS’ AT LEGOLAND DISCOVERY CENTER A grownups-only Legoland night out is held the last Monday of each month. This time around, take part in activities and presentations as part of the Star Wars weekend as well as a scavenger hunt, and take your own Star Wars models made with Lego bricks to be put on display throughout the night. Go dressed as a Star Wars character to receive $3 off admission. Sept. 24 from 7 to 9 p.m. at Legoland Discovery Center, 3000 Grapevine Mills Parkway (in Grapevine Mills mall), Grapevine. $12.99 online, $15 at the door. For ages 18 and up. 469-444-3050. legolanddiscoverycenter.com. AMBER DOES DALLAS PRESENTS ‘THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW’ This shadow-cast production is in keeping with a decades-long tradition surrounding this cult movie. If you’re not familiar with the show, here’s how it works: Performers bring the far-fetched, freaky and fetish-filled story to life, acting out the roles as the movie is shown behind them. Riffers — that is, other actors planted in the audience — rouse those in attendance, many of whom are dressed outlandishly in character, to shout and throw stuff on cue. It sure beats sitting at home on the couch and watching the movie on DVD. Sept. 22, Oct. 12 and Oct. 26 at 11 p.m. at the Lakewood Theater, 1825 Abrams Parkway, Dallas. $11. 214-821-7469. amberdoesdallas.com. DAY IN THE DISTRICT FREE For one day, nine Fort Worth Cultural District venues will open their doors to the public without charge. Many of the city’s cultural and arts groups will also offer free performances, art exhibitions and family activities in and around the sites. Participants include the Fort Worth Botanic Garden, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, Kimbell Art Museum, Log Cabin Village, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame, and Botanical Research Institute of Texas. Sept. 22 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at various Fort Worth cultural destinations, including the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, 3200 Darnell St. Free. 817-738-9215. fwdayinthedistrict.org. INTOUCH CREDIT UNION PLANO BALLOON FESTIVAL The bright balloons are the big attraction at this long-running fest, whether they’re soaring in the sky or tethered for nighttime balloon glows. Other attractions include skydivers, children’s activities, a Sept. 22 fireworks show, concessions and shopping. Sept. 21 from 4 to 10 p.m., Sept. 22 from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m., Sept. 23 from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. at Oak Point Park, 2801 E. Spring Creek Parkway, Plano. $5 for adults, $4 for ages 65 and up, free for kids 36 inches and shorter. Parking costs $5-$10. planoballoonfest.org. The rock stars of the foodie world will converge as the Metropolitan Cooking & Entertaining Show, a.k.a. MetroCooking, arrives for its first local stint. Food Network darlings Paula Deen and Bobby Flay, along with a bevy of locally adored chefs including Stephan Pyles, will appear. The Dallas Morning News is the presenting sponsor of the event. MetroCooking has partnered with the James Beard Foundation to present a rotating roster of Texas talent on the Weir’s Furniture Cooking Stage. Organizers also tout the show as a great place for shopping, with a happy maze of booths with samples (yes!) and wares from more than 150 vendors. Along with Pyles, other James Beard-affiliated local chefs are scheduled to dazzle and amaze with their knives and pans. Sept. 22 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Sept. 23 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Dallas Convention Center, 650 S. Griffin St., Dallas. $24.50 general admission, $12.50 for children 4-12, free for children under 4 for either day. Parking costs extra. Tickets include entrance to demos, presentations and vendor booths on the exhibit hall floor. For a full schedule and ticket prices, visit metrocookingdallas.com. The MetroCooking Dallas office line, 214-853-8000, will be operating Sept. 21-23. Additional tickets are required for presentations by headliners Deen (Sept. 22 at 1:30 p.m. and Sept. 23 at noon) and Flay (Sept. 22 at 11 a.m. and 4 p.m.). VIP meet-and-greets and other chances to interact with Deen and Flay also available. $65-$400. MUNGER PLACE DAYS This weekend celebration showcases a lovely old East Dallas neighborhood, Munger Place. The two-day Home Tour offers a sneak peek at six renovated prairie-style homes, including one that’s supposedly haunted by the ghost of Robert Munger, the renowned developer. Those who attend the Sept. 21 Wine Walk will also have the chance to preview an additional home on the tour while sipping wine and Champagne and savoring small bites. This is the first year for the Sept. 23 Street Festival and Art Fair, which will feature some 50 art vendors, four live musical acts, children’s mini classes and six food trucks. Proceeds from the event will benefit the historic district and local charities. Wine Walk: Sept. 21 from 5 to 8 p.m. at 4938 Tremont St., Dallas. $30 at the door; free for accompanying children 10 and under. No reservations required. 214-823-2843. mungerplace.com. Home tour: Sept. 22-23 from noon to 6 p.m. at 4938 Tremont St., Dallas. $15 at the door; free for children 10 and under. Street Festival and Arts Fair: Sept. 23 from noon to 6 p.m. at the Munger Place Historic District in the 4900 block of Tremont Street between Collett and Fitzhugh streets. Free. 214-823-2843. mungerplace.com. ROCKWALL RUBBER DUCK REGATTA & DUCK FEST This “ducky” event raises funds for the Boys and Girls Club of Rockwall County and Meals on Wheels of Rockwall County. It starts with the Family Walk & Waddle and 5K Duck Dash along the shores of Lake Ray Hubbard and continues with all-day entertainment, including a corporate duck beauty pageant and duck race, Ducky Dog Days with canine contests and demonstrations, vendors and family activities. The main event is the Rubber Duck Regatta, during which 5,000 yellow ducks race down the fountains while their hopeful sponsors cheer them on to win prizes. Sept. 22 (dash at 8 a.m., fest activities from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., regatta at 3 p.m.) at the Harbor Rockwall, 2047 Summer Lee Drive, Rockwall. Free general admission; $5 sponsorship per duck. rockwallduckrace.org. ROPES COURSE ADVENTURE DAY Try a ropes course program and zip line at this event (the attractions are usually open only to groups). The program will include low and high rope initiatives, including the team power pole and tree climb, and a chance to soar down a 750-foot-long zip line. Participants must fit into the provided harnesses; the average minimum age to fit the harnesses is 8 to 9 years old. Wear closed-toed shoes and appropriate clothes for the weather and climbing, and take a water bottle. Sept. 23 from 1 to 5 p.m. at the Heard Natural Science Museum & Wildlife Sanctuary, 1 Nature Place, McKinney. $35; no charge for nonparticipating family members. Nonparticipating children must be supervised at all times. Reservations required. 972-562-5566. heardmuseum.org. TEAMQUEST URBAN RACE FOR HOPE It takes brains and brawn to win this scavenger hunt, benefiting the Mary Crowley Cancer Research Center. Teams of two traveling by foot, train or bus within a 3- to 5-mile radius of downtown must conquer physical challenges and use 12 clues to find checkpoint locations with the help of a ground crew and technology. Participants should wear comfortable running shoes and matching outfits and can compete in the costume contest, too. Sept. 22 at 8 a.m. at Dick’s Last Resort, 2211 N. Lamar St., Dallas. $75 per person ($150 per team) on the day of race. 214-502-8789. teamquestrace.com. THE 2012 ART UPRISING IN WEST VILLAGE FREE West Village is celebrating and raising awareness for the Dallas art community in its first-ever two-day juried arts festival. It kicks off with a pre-fest art walk and auction featuring local art donated to benefit the Emergency Artist Support League. Enjoy light bites and drinks, and bid on the art as you wander from store to store. The next day is the beginning of the festival. Hang out to shop and enjoy the local art and live music, food and drinks (including beer and wine). The third day adds family-friendly activities, such as face painting and Hula-Hooping with the Cirque du Soleil Kooza promo squad, to the mix. Art walk Sept. 21 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.; festival Sept. 22 from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Sept. 23 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., at West Village, 3699 McKinney Ave., Dallas. Free. 214-219-1144. westvillagedallas.com. The science fiction and fantasy literary and filk (science fiction- and fantasy-themed music) fest features a costume contest, a speech by astronaut Stanley G. Love, vendors, a video room, an art show, gaming, children’s programming and more. Sept. 21-23 at Crowne Plaza Hotel North Dallas, 14315 Midway Road, Addison. Events take place at various times, with most programming scheduled Sept. 21 from noon to midnight, Sept. 22 from 10 a.m. to midnight and Sept. 23 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Adults 22 and up: $45 for all three days, $20 Sept. 21, $25 Sept. 22, $20 Sept. 23. Children 6-12: $5 any day. Ages 13-21: $10 Sept. 21-22, $5 Sept. 23. fencon.org. HOT IMPORT NIGHTS Check out the Xtreme Drift Circuit National Drifting Competition on Sept. 21-22. During a Sept. 22 car show, expect to see hundreds of customized rides, DJs, a go-go competition, auto aftermarket exhibitors and more. Sept. 21 from 3 to 7 p.m. (drifting only), Sept. 22 from 3 to 10 p.m. (drifting finals and car show) at Texas Motor Speedway, 3545 Lone Star Circle, Fort Worth. $10 Sept. 21, $20 Sept. 22, $25 for both. hotimportnights.com. THE SALUTE TO ‘SUPERNATURAL’ CONVENTION Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki, the stars of the WB’s Supernatural, return to their home state for an appearance at this three-day celebration of the show (they’re scheduled to be on hand Sept. 23; check the website for the schedule). In addition to chances to see about a dozen actors from the show, there’ll be costume and trivia contests, auctions, behind-the-scenes presentations, and previews of upcoming sci-fi movies and TV shows. Sept. 21 from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., Sept. 22 from 9:30 a.m. to 7 p.m., Sept. 23 from 10:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. (hours are subject to change) at Westin Park Central Hotel, 12720 Merit Drive, Dallas. $30 Sept. 21-22, $50 Sept. 23. creationent.com. THE ISLAMIC ART REVIVAL SERIES EXPERIENCE 2012 The event features hands-on art activities (henna art, calligraphy and more), opportunities to try on ethnic costumes, an Islamic art fair, art lectures, storytelling, singing, drumming, a puppet show and more. Islamic Art Revival Series, Texas Muslim Women’s Foundation and Aramco Services Company have teamed up to put on the event. Sept. 22 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Eisemann Center, 2351 Performance Drive, Richardson. $8.50 for adults, $6 for students and seniors, $3 for children 3 to 12, free for children 2 and under. Children’s tickets include some activities and babysitting services. 972-744-4650. eisemanncenter.com. Compiled by Ellen Ritscher Sackett, Joy Tipping and Ann Pinson

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So, I guess Treos will now be known as ACCESS Powered Palm devices running Garnet OS. Thanks to PalmInfocenter for the news. USER COMMENTS 7 comment(s) |This appears to be an unwise decision (11:19am EST Fri Jan 26 2007) Palm is known, it is recognized. They are taking years worth of marketing, and good will and tossing it away. They aren't selling it, they are throwing it out. This would be similar to Coke changing the name of their product to Bleepie. Stupidity should be painful. - by Hodar |Yep (1:49pm EST Fri Jan 26 2007) Couldn't agree with you more… Why?!?!?! This is such a stupid move.. If anything just change the version number to denote a major change. - by joeinazusa |more importantly… (2:08pm EST Fri Jan 26 2007) …. why not actuall update the OS to make it a bit more relevant to this decade. I used to be a PalmOS fan (user and developer) but I became disheartened watching them fritter away a market leading platform to the point where the alternatives (Windows Mobile, Symbian, Linux, even LeapPad!) were more advanced. Their total loss of (OS) direction has allowed Palm to dump the millstone and move on to better things – Treos running WM5 for instance. I wonder if Apple considered for one millisecond using PalmOS, sorry GarnetOS, for the iPhone?! - by offbeatmammal |Uh… (11:00am EST Sat Jan 27 2007) >>> This would be similar to Coke changing the name of their product to Bleepie. I drink and enjoy Bleepie soda. I doubt that Coca Cola could just take over the name from Bleepie Corp. |Royalties (2:01am EST Sun Jan 28 2007) If Access kept the Palm OS name, they would have to continue paying royalties to Palm forever — if Palm would even agree to that. They had to change the name sooner or later. - by Capitalist |Move on (8:11am EST Mon Jan 29 2007) The time for Palm OS has come and gone. It was designed to run efficiently on less powerful hardware and suffered from some rather basic limitations as a result. Many of the products currently being designed demand more flexibility and capability than it can easily provide. In other words, it's obsolete. Sad but it happens to lots of technology. Get over it and move on. - by JQP123 |Name Change (5:44am EST Tue Jan 30 2007) “So, I guess Treos will now be known as ACCESS Powered Palm devices running Garnet OS.” Wrong. Palm bought the rights to use Palm OS back from Access, meaning that they are free to continue updating it for their own needs. They are also free to continue calling it Palm OS, meaning that Treos will still be “Palm devices powered by Palm OS”.

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As more and more products come to market, and as the recession weakens consumer enthusiasm, the major OEM’s are lowering prices in the hope of attracting new buyers. But will this new pricing strategy be enough to attract you the consumer? According to a recent article at the Wall Street Journal they suggest that these price cuts will continue through out 2009 and that some OEM’s like HP and Dell will be the price cut leaders. According to the article it states that: NPD analyst Stephen Baker says these prices are record lows for the PC industry. He adds that he expects PC makers to enter a “race to the bottom” as they add more capabilities to ever-cheaper notebooks, and predicts prices could drop another 10% between now and the end of the year. This is interesting because in November I will be in the market for a new laptop. My wife’s lappy will be 3 years old and I will be giving her my new laptop and buying myself a new one. I am hoping that by November Microsoft’s Windows 7 will be available and that the decline in pricing will continue. But will this be enough for all consumers to decide to upgrade? What about you? Is there a new laptop or netbook in your future for 2009? Share your thoughts,

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FORT MYERS, Fla. -- For those wanting to see what the 2013 Pirates will look like, Wednesday's lineup against the Red Sox came a lot closer to what the real deal will be on Opening Day than just about any lineup thus far in the Grapefruit League season. The Pirates had what could be seven regulars in the starting lineup to face Red Sox lefty Jon Lester. The only exceptions were Michael McKenry behind the plate and Brandon Inge as the designated hitter. Expected starting catcher Russell Martin has been limited to DH duties because of a sore right shoulder. The first six batters on the field at JetBlue Park could be what Pirates fans see at PNC Park regularly, with Starling Marte and Travis Snider hitting in front of Andrew McCutchen. Pedro Alvarez, Neil Walker and Garrett Jones started in the Nos. four, five and six spots, respectively, as they often did in 2012. Prior to this game, McCutchen had picked up just seven official Spring Training at-bats as the Pirates, like many teams, are trying to pace their everyday players with the World Baseball Classic adding length to the spring schedule. "It's good," McCutchen said of making the trip with a bus full of regulars. "We have everybody we normally put in the lineup. It's nice to be able to show up, to play a game on the road and get back into the swing of things." Starting seven players who should see regular playing time -- Clint Barmes was the shortstop, hitting ninth -- is something that is going to start happening with more frequency as the calendar creeps towards Opening Day. "We think it's time," manager Clint Hurdle said after the Pirates' 9-3 victory. "We'll start backing these guys up, bundling some games for them. Some of the guys who were out there [on Wednesday] will start again [on Thursday]. We'll get most of them back-to-back starts, then a day off. "Spring Training is a little more complicated than when I played. Now we have night games, day games after night games, more split-squad games, but we're definitely going to start getting our guys out there that we need to get more reps from."

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**Call for Papers Proposed Special Session for South Atlantic Modern Language Association Convention (Nov. 4-6, 2005, Atlanta, GA) "Southward the Course of Empire" This panel will address various connections among the U.S. South, its literary and cultural productions, and U.S. imperialism. Papers may be from any historical period and address a range of subjects; for example: - how images of the South as colonized by the North are complicated by the South's own imperial histories, antebellum as well as postbellum. - how discourses surrounding race, gender, or nationality link southern texts with broader U.S. imperial movements. - how southern writers have addressed such subjects as frontier Manifest Destiny, and the civilizing mission. - how southern texts have circulated in imperial contexts. Please send 300-word abstracts and a brief vita by March 1, 2005 to Assistant Professor of English Southern Illinois University Office: Faner 2282; phone: 618-453-6844

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|Oct 31, 2011, 07:42 PM| Joined Oct 2011 Program Futaba CAP 9 to independently control 3 motor escs? I have an old CAP 9 transmitter with 50MHz PCM 9ch receiver that I've only ever used to fly a slow stick. Over kill right? I'm trying to build an underwater ROV and wondered if I could program the CAP9 to control three independently/ with mixing. Basically I have three bilge pump cartridges with 50mm boat propellers on them. Each has an ESC w/BEC attached. I'd like to connect all 3 ESCs to the 1 receiver. For stick control I am thinking that the left stick controls the down motor. ROV will be slightly positive and this motor will be used to go down. The Right stick will control 2 horizontal thrusters, left and right. Forward, both go forward at the same speed, left and right mixes the speeds to control turning. Hopefully that makes sense. If I get this working with my old single direction ESCs, I'll try to find a couple of old DC boat ESCs with F/R. Can anybody point me in the right direction to get me started? |Category||Thread||Thread Starter||Forum||Replies||Last Post| |Sold||Mcpx Flybarless 3-n-1 Control Unit,RX/ESCs/Gyros: mCP X [BLH3501]||wbrannies||Aircraft - Electric - Helis (FS/W)||4||Sep 28, 2011 04:42 PM| |For Sale||Hanger 9 Cap 232 1/3 Scale 3D ZDZ 80cc||WWIIPLANEBUFF||Aircraft - Fuel - Airplanes (FS/W)||16||Apr 06, 2011 07:28 AM| |For Sale||Hanger 9 Cap 1/3 Scale Full 3D ZDZ 80cc Twin||WWIIPLANEBUFF||Aircraft - Fuel - Airplanes (FS/W)||0||Apr 05, 2011 09:24 AM| |Sold||Futaba 9 Cap super airplane version for sale or trade for dx7||Tyler318||Aircraft - General - Radio Equipment (FS/W)||3||Mar 28, 2011 09:20 PM| |Discussion||Mixing ESCs for 3 motor control...||Jim Duda||Dock Talk||8||Jul 01, 2006 09:01 PM|

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Here's a little five minute vacation for your brain. Check out these gorgeous images from Polish photographer Boguslaw Strempel, who rises early to catch the stunning morning scenes pictured here. Captured in the rolling mountains of Poland and the Czech Republic, jaw dropping doesn't begin to describe them. Writes Eugene at My Modern Net: It appears that [Strempel] takes long exposures to capture the movement of the clouds and fog, along with the density of the sun's rays. Although the still images are magnificent in their own right, one can only imagine the extremely gorgeous views Strempel experiences in person as he breathes in the brisk mountain air. [Spotted on COLOSSAL]

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Blogger.com to Censor my Site (Tom MacMaster, "Amina Arraf" & "Miriam Umm Ibni". Credit: Alexander Christie Miller.) On Friday, I received two notices from Blogger.com regarding a post of mine about the Gay Girl in Damascus hoaxer Tom MacMaster and how he tried to secure a book deal posing as Amina Arraf. The post relayed info I had found on Minal Hajratwala's blog and I quoted an email she had received from MacMaster posing as Arraf. His email was under 30 words. Blogger.com appended this note to my dashboard, bolding in the original: We have received a DMCA [Digital Millennium Copyright Act] complaint for your blog, Petrelis Files. An e-mail with the details of the complaint was sent to you on Jun 24, 2011 , and we reset the post status to "Draft"; you can edit it here. You may republish the post with the offending content and/or link(s) removed. If you believe you have the rights to post this content, you can file a counter-claim with us. For more on our DMCA policy, please click here. Thank you for your prompt attention. Notice that it says nothing about what exactly in my post is a supposed violation. I filed a counter-claim stating I needed know which words had to be altered. To make sure I got the message, Blogger.com also emailed me a longer version of the note, which again omitted reference to the specific text that prompted the complaint. Suspecting the complainant was MacMaster, I emailed him and asked for an explanation and have not heard back from him. Very sorry to see him use Blogger.com to censor my site, but he's man without integrity or scruples so it's not surprising censorship is one of his tools in attempting to restore his tarnished reputation. My post in question is in draft mode and I will not be amending it in any way until I hear back from Blogger.com or the Electronic Frontier Foundation. I filed a complaint with the EFF and hope to receive advice from them about challenging the copyright violation claim. In other news on MacMaster, it appears as though he's created a second female Syrian on at least one web site, MondoWeiss. Click here to read the post that generated a note from the alleged female Syrian, a reply from another commentator who found MacMaster's fingerprints on the female Syrian's note and then an admission by the hoaxer that a "friend" wishing to defend his actions has used his computer to post the note and wished to remain nameless. Over at the Guardian's web site, Esther Addley, who has been following MacMaster and his hoax, write an excellent piece about his latest act of b.s. on the web. Addley writes: The Guardian has seen screengrabs of the IP data, emailed by one of the site's hosts Adam Horowitz, that show the post originated from the address 184.108.40.206. Journalists, bloggers and web users unmasked MacMaster earlier this month as the unlikely hoaxer behind the Amina blog, in part after its posts were traced to the address. In an email, later posted on the site, MacMaster acknowledged that "Miriam Umm Ibni" was a fake identity, but denied being behind it, saying a "friend of mine who would really like to remain nameless" had posted the comment in his defence. It came from the same IP address because she had been staying with his wife and him, he wrote. ... How many sockpuppets has MacMaster created and when will he stop putting out the lamest of excuses for his stupidity? He should get a clue as to how many folks around the world are tracking his online efforts and also know how to detect his fingerprints on his "friends" messages left at various blogs.

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Maybe His Name Should Be Dumb-erville? [VIDEO] BRONCOS DUMERVILLE ARRESTED!Broncos defensive end Elvis Dumervil was arrested Saturday in Miami. He is accused of felony aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. The incident was reportedly over a parking spot dispute. His bond was set at $7,500. His attorney says it’s likely no charges will be filed. The Broncos are scheduled to open training camp in less than two weeks. This man is supposed to be a role model, and for the most part he is. But seriously, an argument over a parking spot should not end up making national headlines…Right?

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Wednesday, September 12, 2012 Does Listening to Music While Working Make You Less Productive?By: Time.com In a previous column about the stress of working in an “open” office, I suggested that the popular practice of listening to music with earbuds or headphones not only cuts down on background noise but may also give employees a sense of control over their aural environment. But does having a constant soundtrack to your day also distract you from the task at hand? That depends on the task. Research shows that under some conditions, music actually improves our performance, while in other situations music makes it worse — sometimes dangerously so. Absorbing and remembering new information is best done with the music off, suggests a 2010 study published in Applied Cognitive Psychology. Adults aged 18 to 30 were asked to recall a series of sounds presented in a particular order. Participants’ performance suffered when music was played while they carried out the task as compared to when they completed the task in a quiet environment. Nick Perham, the British researcher who conducted the study, notes that playing music you like can lift your mood and increase your arousal — if you listen to it before getting down to work. But it serves as a distraction from cognitively demanding tasks. That finding is key to understanding another condition under which music can improve performance: when a well-practiced expert needs to achieve the relaxed focus necessary to execute a job he’s done many times before. A number of studies have found, for example, that surgeons often listen to music in the operating room and that they work more effectively when they do. A study in the Journal of the American Medical Association reported that surgeons carrying out a task in the laboratory worked more accurately when music that they liked was playing. (Music that they didn’t like was second best, and no music was least helpful of all.) The doctors listening to their preferred music were also the most relaxed, as revealed by measurements of their nervous system activity. Still, surgeons might want to ask others in the operating room for their opinions on playing music: one survey of anaesthetists found that about a quarter felt that music “reduced their vigilance and impaired their communication with other staff,” and about half felt that music was distracting when they were dealing with a problem with the anesthesia. (And who would want to be the patient in that situation?) Research suggests that singing along might even heighten the distraction. A study presented earlier this month at the International Conference on Traffic and Transport Psychology, reported that singing along with music in a car may slow drivers’ responses to potential hazards. Christina Rudin-Brown, a Canadian researcher who studies the role of “human factors” in traffic snafus, asked the participants in her experiment to learn the lyrics to “I’m a Believer,” as performed by the band Smash Mouth, and “Imagine,” as performed by John Lennon. Singing these songs while operating a simulated car increased drivers’ mental workload, leading them to scan their visual field less often and to focus instead on the road right in front of them. Other iPod rules drawn from the research: Classical or instrumental music enhances mental performance more than music with lyrics. Music can make rote or routine tasks (think folding laundry or filing papers) less boring and more enjoyable. Runners who listen to music go faster. But when you need to give learning and remembering your full attention, silence is golden. Join Our Weekly Or Daily Newsletters! Entertainment - 11:00 AM Nicky Banks from Fresh Prince is ALL grown up! See what he looks like at 25! Entertainment - 1:00 PM Jussie's new man has been REVEALED! Can you believe this whole time he's been dating our boy... Entertainment - 9:00 AM This casting news is going to upset so many fans! Cynthia confirms that she probably WON'T be... Entertainment - 8:00 AM Steve Harvey's Daughter Lori is ALL grown up! See what she looks like at 18! Entertainment - 10:00 AM Feud alert! Nene Leakes CURSES OUT Kandi and totally DRAGS her. Just wait until you find out why... Entertainment - 11:00 AM K. Michelle throws some MAJOR SHADE back at Tamar! We felt the burn from a mile away! Entertainment - 10:30 AM OMG..What Tha What? Is Laura Govan Homeless and Ringless? FRI, JUN 19TH 2015 Silver Lake Marina FRI, APR 3RD 2015 Irving Convention Center at Las Colinas FRI, APR 3RD 2015 Parties/ Happy Hours Pho House Dallas SAT, APR 18TH 2015 Charity & Outreach ST PHILIPS SCHOOL & COMMUNITY CENTER Send To Friends

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2 of 3 wrote:Probably not. Of course if you can find some organic milk, you MAY, be able to avoid all the antibiotics and steroids and hormones and other chemicals they cram down the poor animals throats in order for them to produce more milk per cow. That's why I get my milk delivered from the farm down the road. Keeps it nice and drug free. Unless I decide I want to mix some drugs with it, which I doubt I'll decide to do.

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Taxpayers across the country are subsidizing the manufacturers of assault rifles used in multiple mass killings, including the massacre of 20 children and six adults at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn. last month. A Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting examination of tax records shows that five companies that make semi-automatic rifles have received more than $19 million in tax breaks, most within with the past five years. “I feel horrified at the power of the gun industry over our political system, that it could exert such influence,” said Newtown resident Barbara Richardson, who lives between the homes of one of the 6-year-old victims and the shooter. Saying she respects hunters who are ethical and good neighbors, she “absolutely [does] not” support taxpayer subsidies to help manufacture assault rifles: “They’re weapons of mass destruction.” Any new jobs due to tax subsidies are “not worth it,” said Richardson, a nurse whose first patient ever was a 19-year-old accidentally shot by his 13-year-old brother with their father’s gun. The states providing the subsidies since 2003: Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York and Oklahoma. Officials point out that such tax breaks are generally given to a range of businesses, not only to gun manufacturers, in the belief by state legislators and governors that they will attract industry or create or retain jobs. One of the tax breaks that went to a Smith & Wesson plant in Maine was based on a program initiated by then-Gov. Angus King, now the senator-elect from that state. King, in an email to the center, said, “Various tax incentive programs have been enacted over the years in Maine and virtually every other state to encourage and support job creation, particularly in the manufacturing sector. No one suggested at the time these programs were created—or since, as far as I know—that the government should decide which particular businesses within broad categories would be more or less desirable.” Yet many economists have thrown cold water on the idea that these programs create any net new jobs. Kim Rueben, an economist with the Tax Policy Center in Washington, said, in most cases there is no increase in the numbers of jobs; instead, she said, such programs encourage businesses to move to the state with the best subsidies. Sen.-elect King pointed out that the Maine Smith & Wesson plant doesn’t make semi-automatic rifles (it does make semi-automatic handguns). But Rueben, the economist, countered that any savings, such as tax reductions, “go to the bottom line” of a publically-held company such as Smith & Wesson, regardless of the origin of the subsidy. The vast majority of the subsidies went to two of the largest and most recognized arms makers in the country’s history: Remington, which got $11.9 million from four states, and Smith & Wesson, which got more than $6.7 million from two states. How many assault-style rifles the two manufacturers make is unknown because they do not break out statistics for assault rifles from other rifles, according to a declaration in a 2009 civil case by a research coordinator for the National Rifle Association. However, Mark Overstreet characterized Remington’s and Smith & Wesson’s assault rifle production as “prolific.” Overstreet testified that the dozen manufacturers that did break out their numbers had made 1.6 million assault rifles between 1986 and 2007. The other assault rifle makers that got state tax subsidies were Sturm, Ruger; Kel-TecCNC Industries; and Bushmaster, which police say was the make used in the Newtown shootings. The types of subsidies include tax credits, grants, rebates, reimbursements for training and property tax abatements. “I think it would be disturbing to people to know that they are essentially subsidizing the manufacture of these guns,” said Cathie Whittenburg, the Maine-based spokesperson of States United to Prevent Gun Violence, a national non-profit organization. “It’s certainly not something I want to be doing.” Ladd Everitt of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence predicted that the public will “react very angrily to” taxpayers subsidizing assault weapons. “Finally, after decades, we are having a serious conversation, and with this conversation is coming invaluable education about what politicians are actually doing,” said Everitt. The Center’s findings are based on a comparison of the known makes of semi-automatic rifles with state records and the “Subsidy Tracker” data base compiled by the Washington-based organization Good Jobs First. A Good Jobs First spokesman said while its data base is the most extensive available, it is not comprehensive. Semi-automatic rifles, often also referred to as AR-15s, were used not only by Adam Lanza at the Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14, but also in the Christmas Eve shooting in Webster, NY by William Spengler, a 62-year-old ex-con who killed two firefighters and wounded two others. Both Lanza and Spengler also killed themselves. Excluding the recent New York shooting, Mother Jones magazine has reported that since 1982, there have been at least 62 mass murders using firearms in the country, in 30 states. Assault weapons like the AR-15s were involved in more than half of those shootings. Smith & Wesson, one of the two largest recipients of state tax subsidies, did not respond to repeated requests for comment about the subsidies granted to the company. Remington Arms, the other large recipient of subsidies, responded through a spokesman for its owner, the Freedom Group, by emailing a link to a publication, “Firearms and Ammunition Industry Economic Impact Report 2012.” The publication was produced by the gun industry’s trade association, the National Shooting Sports Foundation. “For your story, you may want to include the following firearms industry economic impact data,” wrote Teddy Novin, Freedom Group’s director of public affairs. The study details the industry’s jobs numbers for 2011: 98,752 employed by gun manufacturers, with an additional 110,998 jobs in “supplier and ancillary industries.” “In fact, in 2012 the firearms and ammunition industry was responsible for as much as $31.84 billion in total economic activity in the country,” write the study’s authors. Maine senator: no red flag In Maine, Smith & Wesson has received two types of tax subsidies. From 2008-2010, it received $107,120 from the Employment Tax Increment Financing (ETIF) a program the state says encourages businesses to hire new employees by refunding from 30-80 percent of the state withholding taxes paid by the business for up to ten years. Smith & Wesson’s plant in Houlton also received $51,671 in abatements for property tax on its equipment under the Business Equipment Tax Reimbursement program, initiated by King. The Bangor Daily News recently reported that Smith & Wesson officials say it has invested $3.3 million in the past three years in its Houlton plant and the payroll has grown to $4.2 million. Bushmaster, maker of one of the most well-known assault rifles, was located in Windham. The plant closed in March 2011, when its owner, Freedom Group, moved the operation to New York. Freedom also owns Remington. In 2010, Bushmaster was exempted from paying $2,405 in taxes on its business equipment under BETR. State Rep. Adam Goode, D-Bangor, co-chair of the legislature’s taxation committee, said, “There are lots of different tax breaks and credits that … lots that people may be outraged about. My goal … would be for the legislature to have a conversation about tax breaks and how we evaluate them and how effective they are.” The Senate co-chair of the committee, Anne Haskell, D-Portland, said the state police purchased Bushmaster rifles from the company when it was based in Maine. “The fact that we’re providing a tax break to a company that’s providing jobs and high quality firearms to our state police doesn’t raise a red flag for me,” Haskell said. Massachusetts’ $6 million deal In 2010, Massachusetts approved $6 million in tax breaks to Smith & Wesson, which announced it would move its Thompson/Center hunting rifle division from New Hampshire to Springfield. The move meant an expansion of the firm’s Springfield headquarters and the addition of 225 jobs there. James Debney, president of Smith & Wesson, said the company chose the Bay State over several other states because local and state officials, including Gov. Deval Patrick, “collaborated … to make our choice clear.” Locally, the company got a $600,000 tax break from Springfield on top of the state’s $6 million. “It’s a big win for the city – 225 jobs and $14 million (in investments) this year alone,” John D. Judge, the city’s chief development officer, told the Springfield Republican. New York: public good? Remington Arms received $5.5 million in New York subsidies and grants since 2007. The company was founded in Ilion, NY in the early 1800s and its purchase by Cerberus Capital Management, which owns the Freedom Group, was announced in April 2007. Almost $4.5 million of the subsidies were targeted at luring 200 jobs to Ilion from Remington and Cerberus-affiliated manufacturing plants in Massachusetts and Connecticut. The subsidies became an issue in 2012 when Remington and another subsidized New York gun manufacturer, Kimber Manufacturing, fought against proposed state legislation that mandated microstamping for bullet casings, which gun control advocates and police said would help solve gun crimes. The gun-control advocacy group New Yorkers Against Gun Violence (NYAGV), said that the gun companies’ opposition to the legislation meant they weren’t serving the public interest. Jackie Hilly, executive director of NYAGV, said, “I do have a problem with people who are taking money from the state … and then flatly refusing to serve some sort of public good. That’s public money that’s being used, and I think there should be some kind of public good that comes out of it.” Kentucky: 100 new jobs Kentucky granted Smith & Wesson $6.1 million in subsidies since 1998, including, $4.5 million to subsidize the expansion of the company’s Graves County facility, where it planned to add 100 jobs. Gov. Steve Beshear’s office did not return phone calls asking for comment on the subsidies. But at the time the grant was made, Beshear said, “The creation of 100 new jobs and a $5 million investment in the Commonwealth will have a tremendous impact and is a testament to our ongoing commitment to support our existing industries.” Newtown: shift in thinking A college student having coffee at Starbucks in Newtown last week said that while she doesn’t like subsidizing assault-rifle makers, she knows there are other Americans who don’t like funding programs she and her friends care about. “I don’t understand someone’s need to own an assault weapon,” said Mary Hamula, 18, of Newtown. “If this hadn’t happened, I wouldn’t have a huge problem with tax subsidies. I’m a big proponent of government-subsidized healthcare.” But she felt that public opinion might shift support away from tax subsidies for assault weapons. “I think with everything that happened in Newtown, I think the culture around guns is going to change. If something positive comes out of it, that’s all we can ask for,” she said. “It did break us. Nobody here wants that to happen to another community.” The Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting is a nonpartisan, non-profit news service based in Hallowell, Maine. Email: [email protected]. Web: pinetreewatchdog.org. John Christie and Naomi Schalit are senior reporters with the center. Nathaniel Herz is a reporter with The New York World. Theresa Sullivan Barger is a freelance writer in Connecticut.

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This will come as no surprise to anyone over the age of 50, but may well be hard to believe for young people: I’m 29. Yup, 29 years of age. Well, not 29 if you add up the candles on my cake, or if you ask me what I think of the latest meme or my favorite line from the Princess Bride, mostly because I won’t have a clue, but as far as how I picture myself in my mind, I am definitely 29. WTF? Abby Rodman explains. She found herself in an elevator with a bunch of drunk 25-year-olds. One of the young men was particularly loud and sloppy. The others, aware of my presence, seemed a bit embarrassed by their friend’s antics. “Where are the lay-dees? Wherecanwefinethuhladies?” he slurred as part of his running commentary. Rodman was in the elevator, but she, at age 50, was invisible to the drunken kid. Another, who was somehow capable of seeing her, softly asked her how that made her feel. First, how I see myself isn’t necessarily how others see me. Most of us, even as we age, still feel young. And then, seemingly suddenly, our outsides and insides no longer match, like one of those unexceptional movies in which the personality of a 13-year-old girl invades her mother’s body. So, no matter how much Botox you inject or how many Pilates classes you attend, you’re still the age you are and everyone else can see that. Even if you look good. Even if you look great. You’re still a 50-year-old woman to a 25-year-old guy. Or a 50-year-old man to a 25-year-old guy. Granted, when we wake up in the morning, parts of us hurt that we didn’t even know we had. The body is weak, and age takes a toll. But the mind is a different story. What young people often fail to understand is that we remember what it was like to be young. We did it. We were there. We enjoyed the things young people enjoy, and experienced young people experiences. They don’t disappear with each passing birthday. Second, I remembered how I felt at their age about people my age. They were old. Even if they weren’t. A college professor of mine had a very beautiful, sexy wife (I only realize now) who was probably no older than 35 but, to my college-aged self, she was ancient. The same follows for the elevator guy and me. And just as my youthful opinion of the professor’s wife had no bearing on her life or self-image, nor does the drunken guy’s have any on mine. I’m old to him and that’s just fine. What changes is our relative perception of things. When we were young, our parents were old. Their friends were old. We knew what old looked like, and they were definitely old. Looking back now, however, we realize that the bodies aged while the mind hung in there at a somewhat amorphous stage of youth, tempered by the experience gained in the interim. You see, I’m still 29, but with a lot more experience. I can still laugh at funny things, and appreciate new music and art. Granted, I don’t spend as much time keeping up on the latest of, well, anything, but I get there eventually, at least to a small degree. When I go shopping, I don’t go to the fuddy-duddy department to find a new pair of spats or garters. Being here, and the internet still being mainly populated by digital natives, I am regularly subjected to the worldview of people far younger than my chronological age, who explain to me how and what I think. Most of the time, they are so wildly off-base as to give me a damn good laugh. I remember trying to understand old folks when I was young. I thought I got it. I was sure of it. I was totally wrong. It was a child’s grasp of how old people saw the world, but as a child, I had no breadth of experience. I could see what they did outwardly, but I forced it into the pigeonhole of my limited understanding. Their actions, but my grasp. I was such a dope. So too are many of you, thinking that you understand what goes through my head. You don’t have a clue. Third, I’m happy to be in this phase of life. Youth may be wasted on the young but it also belongs to them in both its splendor and struggle. I look at younger women and not for a moment do I wish I could turn back. No. Thank. You. Sure, I would love to have the vim and vigor of 29 back. I sometimes bend over to lift something, then realize that if I do, chances are good that it will be the last thing I do before spending the next week in bed nursing my back. It was good to be strong. It was good to be thinner. At least I have a full head of hair, which is one of the few legacies my father was kind enough to leave me. But I don’t want to go back to that 29-year-old dolt, who thought he knew everything and understood it all when the best he could muster was projecting his own childish grasp of the world on others. I was so certain then. It took experience to learn better. So here I am, a seasoned 29-year-old with back pains, an unpleasant girth and, did I mention this?, reading glasses. Yet, my 29 has a whole lot more experience than your 29. I can do what you do in a tenth of the time, and get it right, because I’ve been there, done that. I am way past your fears, whether of failure or loss of self-esteem. And your infantile attempts to throw barbs at me can’t make me lose a minute of sleep. My 29-year-old isn’t vulnerable to the things that hurt your 29-year-old feelings. Mine has already done the things you still dream about. They don’t go away because you don’t know what they are. Yeah, I love being 29 years old, and I plan to stay 29 for the rest of my life. It may have had its struggles the first time around, but it’s a lot better now. And I don’t think less of you for being on your first go-round at 29, because I know that some day, you too will be 29 like me. It just takes time and experience, but you’ll get here.

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Through Girl Scouts, girls discover the fun, friendship, and power of girls together. Whether you’re a girl who wants to be a Girl Scout, a college student working on a community service project, a parent ready for an outdoor adventure with your child’s troop, or an adult—female or male—looking to make a difference in a girl’s life, there’s something for you in Girl Scouts. The possibilities are endless! Find out more about the different types of membership below. - Share the Girl Scout Promise and Law - Follow safety guidelines - Pay annual membership dues of $25 per girl or $15 per adult.* Dues enable girls to enjoy every aspect of the Girl Scout program. Additional fees for individual events may apply. * Financial Assistance is available for membership dues.

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Though the trademarks of the library profession like bridging the digital divide for children and adults, protecting freedom of information and promoting literacy, connect directly to service-learning, many LIS programs do not have a service-learning component. Service-learning programs connect LIS students with schools, libraries and other social service agencies to provide volunteer services to the community. In addition to providing volunteer services, students are able to reflect on and evaluate their experiences and create personal best practices for future employment. Students are usually able to earn school credit through service-learning projects, or can use it as a component of a LIS class. Here is another great explanation of service-learning. Service-learning was an important part of my undergraduate education and in many ways was something that gave me the experience to know I wanted to be a school librarian. Is service-learning something that should be a part of more Library and Information Science program curricula? The pluses of service-learning for the community are obvious. It supports positive relationships between the school and its community. LIS students provide technology training, literacy programs or other necessary services for neighborhood agencies at no cost. Many organizations depend on volunteer work so service-learning programs encourage the bond between these organizations and dependable volunteers. For those of us in online programs, it gives community based organizations in the places where we live the opportunity to benefit from our skills. In addition to helping the community, service-learning at its best is mutually beneficial for the participating students. In my experience, service-learning projects usually give more freedom than an internship to create and implement projects of personal interest, in conjunction with the needs of the community organization. Service-learning also creates the opportunity to resume build and gives that all-important prior experience when applying for jobs. Because service-learning projects are not usually as formalized as an internship, it also makes it easier to experiment with different types of librarianship, especially for those of us who haven’t chosen what to specialize in yet. Evaluation and reflection are an important component of service-learning, which helps us develop real-world skills in assessing the impact of a program or service. The biggest barrier to participating in service-learning programs seems to be time. Just thinking about trying to fit an on-going volunteer position into my already busy day makes me exhausted. With the option of an independent study that could be tailored toward service-learning, or the choice of where to do an internship, is a service-learning program necessary? Have any of your classes had a service-learning component? What was your experience? Is it something you would recommend for others? In addition, here are some great resources that I found about service-learning in LIS programs and the connection between librarianship and social justice in general: Service Learning Librarian blog, The Social Justice Librarian blog and This Book is Overdue by Marilyn Johnson (especially the chapters titled How to Change the World and To the Ramparts!)

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Wings of Desire Perhaps that’s all there is, wings of desire: the girl on the swing, and what the dead are up to And when we do these things, it’s a gesture. It’s the trees and sometimes sun. “Art is beautiful but it is hard, like a religion without a purpose.” — GUNTER BRUS Well, that presupposes that religions actually have a purpose beyond the purposeless purpose of art, of which, personally, I’ve yet to be fully convinced. But, taken on (ahem) faith, there’s still this other question, “hard” in what way specifically? The need to constantly create? The need to constantly push against some boundary of some sort? the constraints of echoes that surround all new art? The need to encounter the presence, the IS, but to allow desire, the reality, to rise? Perhaps all these, and more? It's kind of a brainstorm, perhaps, but instead of trying to compose a poem, I’m wondering if it might be profitable to think about it as composing a stance, some hypothetical (possibly real and believed as well) way the world beings itself forth. In this contemplating of the stance, it’s not the object, not the thing itself, that’s the question, but the positioning of the artist in relation to all things in the presence of the object, the thing itself, that forms the poem, so that the poet is already half ready to compose the poem, as the stance and the world are already in play, just waiting for the object to arrive. Perhaps, in this conceptualizing of it, sentences and poems will come more readily, unbidden even. It's the project of being rather than of a trying to write poems. Is there any clarity to this? I don’t know. I’ve always thought of the THING as paramount, and that the poem begins in attention, in attending, the thing. I still do think this, but perhaps, rather than thinking of the attention toward the thing, perhaps what I should be thinking more about is the preparation of the artist to receive the thing. Ok, so I was raised Catholic, what can I say. “I don't develop; I am.” “I produce music as an apple tree produces apples.” — CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS According to Picasso and Saint-Stevens, it seems the artist should not try, but be, so that the artist embodies the art. It’s always conceptual, in this way. It’s always periods, seasons, and it’s rarely what we say it is when we speak about it. It’s really about creating a metaphor for our primary relation to it. Where “it” is always indeterminate. To the tree, the apples are not a question, they simply are. It seems a beautiful almost one-ness, so there is no question of attending, as the attending is a natural outcome of one being fully who one is, in and with, the world. “The artist need not know very much; best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks.” — EMIL NOLDE So then it’s a call away from intention and even attention, and toward the body and the livingness of the artist. The being in the world, and the totality of the possible. But how can the artist be ready for totality when the artist is always going to be only capable of what the artist is capable of? “The nature of the work is to prepare for a good accident.” — SIDNEY LUMET Because we’re really just looking to position ourselves for a happy accident. Because if what the artist produces is from the planning mind of the artist it will not rise above what the artist knows. The little the artist knows will become all there is, then, and the work will be unable to be more than the artist. Are these contradictory impulses, the “apple tree” above and the “good accident” here? “Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” “The triumph of anything is a matter of organization.” — KURT VONNEGUT “Sanity is perhaps the ability to punctuate.” — PARRY IDRIS That seems a healthy mixture of the two impulses. One doesn’t reductively plan, one produces art like an apple tree produces apples, while hoping for the good accident, the mistake that is more than what the artist brings to the composition, and then the artist must be positioned to understand what has just happened, the artist must organize the accident back into the artist’s conception. And the form, the punctuation, brings the thinking mind, the sanity, back to the accidents, which allows for this next thing to make sense, both for the artist and the person receiving the art: “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” — THOMAS MERTON But practically, though, what is to be taught in such an economy of apples and accidents? How does one cultivate a stance, and what is a stance anyway? This idea that keeps creeping up around art, this finding and losing at the same time (or better, losing and finding at the same time, but perhaps that's splittinf hairs) sounds nice, but what do we actually take back to the composition from it? Is this just another way of saying that we should strive for the accident (getting lost) and the unification of composition (being found)? I suppose, together, we're called to a place, a stance, or the getting to a place or stance, where whatever one does is art, through a certain attention to collage, through chance operations, through the happy accidents of context and random selection perhaps, if not to become the art, to at least texture or influence the art. “Which country is real, mine or the teacher's? My wish is that we might progressively lose our confidence in what we think we believe and the things we consider stable and secure, in order to remind ourselves of the infinite number of things still waiting to be discovered.” — ANTONI TAPIES “Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.” — EDGAR DEGAS So we often say things like, “Art cannot be taught but it must be learned,” etc. When what we really mean is, “I’m really not sure how it all works but I sure do like sitting around talking about art all day and getting paid for it.” Maybe it’s as simple as saying that we can teach the forms of art all day, but if you’re not getting the stance, the learned / unlearned stance, the Apollonian / Dionysian stance, or the wallowing in uncertainties stance, whatever, the forms will have nothing to hold onto. It’s this half-goofy, half-religious, stance that allows for the productivity of learning to unlearn. “Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.” — JALAL UD-DIN RUMI “I'm afraid that if my devils leave me, my angels will take flight as well.” —Rainer Maria Rilke And then we have the life surrounding the stance, the artist perusing obsessions. The artist, in preparing a stance of open possibility, who is aware that any “no,” healthy as it may be to the life, is anathema to the art. How valid is this? How open should our open possibilities remain? At the very least, this seems true to me: “Talent's like a baby. Wrap it up in wool and it goes to sleep.” And there’s a wrapped in wool aspect to a lot of our lives. How hard should we be on talent? How many demons and angels should we wish upon ourselves and each other? Perhaps no more than each of us already has, but, rather than ignore them, as we’re taught to do, we could word them. If that might be the case, what do we have, or what can we have, to bring to the art? “Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don’t live it, it won’t come out your horn.” — CHARLIE PARKER So one is to be in constant awareness of one’s life, one must attend one’s life, but what does this mean, really? Certainly not simply the facts of one’s life. Facts are as cheap as the visible. Facts are not reality, they are just the trace reality leaves in passing. So what is it one must attend? This seems to be an integral unifying force to the stance. It is the experience of living a life that brings the apples and accidents under one umbrella. That makes them coherent. There is, therefore, no such thing as inspiration in this way of conceiving of things. There is no pool you draw from, as pools imply depletion and recuperation, and in this conception, the only lessening would be when one stops the unifying of apples and accidents, when one feels one has answered something, when one feels these are no longer open questions. The fear is becoming one who stays at home in mind and spirit: “There are so many dreams beyond your night, and so much sunshine beyond your grey walls. But you can't see it because you stay at home. There is so much sky above your roof. Is your door so old that it won't open, or are you staying at home because you're afraid of catching a chill.” — FRANCOISE HARDY On the other side of this equation then, is the conception of the fearless artist: “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” — ANAIS NIN Is the fearless artist a cliché? And since we’re dealing with Anais Nin, is courage equated with sex? That sounds nice, doesn’t it? But the courage seems to be less about the sex itself, the tying someone down with neckties, than it does the writing about it. The courage is less about action in life than it is action on paper. Hopefully we’re all courageous in life already. It makes for a more interesting world that way, as it bangs along. And if one can imagine it, why not imagine it? But artists go further than this: “Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.” Ah, Rumi, what a punk. But why is it that this sort of advice keeps popping up? How closely do artists align the possible to do with the possible to say or depict? Or, in another way, what is the possible artistic benefit in destroying one’s reputation, of being notorious? Is this simply a call to be restless, or is this a call to truly live a dangerous personal life? Do artists let themselves off the hook too easily with conceptualizations such as this? Is too much freedom too much freedom? Where is the control in all this? “Each one of us, in his timidity, has a limit beyond which he is outraged. It is inevitable that he who by concentrated application has extended this limit for himself, should arouse the resentment of those who have accepted conventions which, since accepted by all, require no initiative of application. And this resentment generally takes the form of meaningless laughter or of criticism, if not persecution. But this apparent violation is preferable to the monstrous habits condoned by etiquette and estheticism.” — MAN RAY It’s about limits and outrage. I can see that. Art is never (at least that I can think of) outrageous or aggressive. It doesn’t actually reach out and punch you. It’s the person receiving it that invests it with the power to be aggressive or outrageous. So what should we, as artists, strive to do? Should we really go live in a dangerous place and do outrageous things? For me, this has more to do with the conventions of thought and expression than it does with actual behavior. Still, I suppose I’ve been mildly scandalous from time to time, as we all have been, or are. But mostly I just sit here writing. This always makes me think of Wallace Stevens, the poster child for an extreme imagined existence and the ultimate in safe, comfortable, reduced of possibility personal lives. His work though, is a constant attempt, a constant wording of his desire to live in the abstract, futile and beautiful as that is. His limits were existence itself. But if one can’t conceive of breaking limits, then it’s possible that one’s art will be reduced by cultural norms. This much seems reasonable. Art is a field of possibility, and to limit that possibility by proper behavior, damages the possibility of art. As they’re always saying, the outrageous of one age is the norm of another. So maybe artists conflate the life of creation with the living life a bit too much, but I’d rather err on the side of bad behavior than be reduced by convention. What do you say let’s all go do something scandalous then? Meet me by the water tower at midnight. Bring a typewriter and a bottle of vodka. Wear nothing but a smile. Forget the paper, I’m crazy about you. “Lesson Six: Build Yourself Wings. Fly straight ahead. Walk a straight line. Visit. Leave a special sign on the door. Make a gift of words. Mark your path with books. With clothes. With food. Join two distant places. Two rocks. Two people. Bridge a river. Build a city of sand. Raise up a mound.” — MILAN KNIZAK

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There’s still more news coming from Disney’s American Idol Experience this week. A commercial for the attraction ran during tonight’s airing of American Idol. The tagline was “You can be part of the next Cinderella Story”, which is the same message they’re using on billboards around town. I like the theme of the commercial, although I found some of the technical parts of it less than inspiring. I’m expecting dozens of people lining up each morning for expressly to have a chance at their Cinderella story in the attraction. A Winners List Tonight marked the fourth night of public performances of the show and the fifth Dream Ticket awarded. I have the names of three of those Dream Ticket holders and have started a list in an attempt to collect all of them going forward. If the winner so chooses, they can then provide me links to their YouTube, MySpace, or other internet pages for a chance at growing a following before they even get to the real auditions for the television show. I’m counting on you readers to help me build this list as I can’t be there every night (although it may seem that way sometimes). The winners name and their song would be excellent. The F. A. Q.’s Finally, click below the link for a great list of Facts and Trivia from The American Idol Experience In addition to being the first-of-its-kind attraction in the world to be based on the TV show “American Idol,” “The American Idol Experience” at Disney’s Hollywood Studios theme park offers a variety of fast facts. BORN TO BE WIRED: The high-tech theater is wired with more than 76 miles of cable and 25 miles of conduit. LIGHT ON: Lighting gives TV’s “American Idol” logo and signage its iconic look. Without sacrificing dazzle, Disney’s lighting team gave “The American Idol Experience” set a low-voltage treatment, installing energy-efficient LED (light emitting diodes) fixtures. SPACE JAM: The attraction has 25,000 square feet of indoor space, which includes the giant replica stage/set and 1,000 seats for audience members. “The American Idol Experience” stage alone measures more than 3,000 square feet. YOU BETTER SHOP AROUND: The opening of “The American Idol Experience” also brings a star-studded premiere of attraction-exclusive merchandise. Mickey Mouse takes center stage on a T-shirt where he is simply proclaimed the “American Idol” while Minnie Mouse offers an enthusiastic encouragement of “Good For You!” on another. Donald Duck is his typical grumpy self as he proclaims a performance as dreadful. Goofy, forever the hip pup, gives a shout-out with “What’s up dog?” Other popular items include a light-up dog tag emblazoned with the new attraction’s logo, screen-printed drumsticks, T-shirts that proclaim “Vote for Me!”, luggage tags, electronic games, ball caps, collectible pins and more. One signature item is a small statuette that features Mickey Mouse’s hand holding a microphone, which can be personalized with a message for a special occasion during Disney Parks’ “What Will You Celebrate?” HERE COMES THE JUDGE: The judges in “The American Idol Experience” are all industry professionals who bring an expertise of music, showmanship and what it takes to have that “star quality.” Coast-to-coast auditions were held to find individuals who possess a deep knowledge of show business and can share that knowledge with attraction guests. Past showbiz experience among the team of judges includes: professional choreographers and dancers; actors and actresses from stage, screen and television projects; professional musicians; professional improvisation actors and actresses; television show hosts; and, even a former Rockette. PICTURE PERFECT: The live show features a wide array of cameras including: one Steadicam operator shooting the action onstage and in the audience; a robotic camera mounted on the theater wall for audience shots; a camera at the back of the house for wide shots and one roaming, handheld camera. GO WITH THE FLOW: Complementing the shots and angles captured live by the camera crews, a complete crew of video editors and producers works inside the HD production studio to make each show flow. DO YOU HEAR WHAT I HEAR?: There are 113 video screens and 105 audio speakers installed throughout the theater’s show and audition spaces. THE WALL: “The American Idol Experience” features the largest curved video wall at Walt Disney World Resort, measuring 35 feet wide and more than seven feet tall. SEEING STARS: Fans will recognize many famous faces throughout “The American Idol Experience.” “American Idol”-related stars making exclusive video appearances in the attraction include Ryan Seacrest, David Cook, David Archuleta, Jordin Sparks, Justin Guarini, Brooke White, Syesha Mercado and Jason Castro.

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Howard Bancorp, Inc. Announces Third Quarter 2012 Growth in Loans, Deposits and Net Income ELLICOTT CITY, Md. -- October 30, 2012 Howard Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ: HBMD), the parent company of Howard Bank, today announced its operating results through September 30, 2012 with the following *Successfully raised gross proceeds of $10.2 million in common stock via offering which closed in third quarter of 2012. *Applied for, and was accepted for shares to trade on NASDAQ Capital Market *Total Assets grew to $368 million at September 30, 2012, representing growth of $47 million or 15% over same period of 2011. *Total Loans increased by nearly $28 million or 10%, to $299 million, when comparing third quarter of 2012 to third quarter 2011. *September 30, 2012 deposits increase to $287 million from $251 million, representing growth of over $36 million or 15%, of which noninterest bearing deposits grew by over $22 million or 39% for the twelve months ending September 30, 2012. *Net income for the nine months ended September 30, 2012 was $1.2 million, which compared to $1.0 million for the same nine month period in 2011, reflecting net income growth of 15%. Through the first nine months of 2012, net income was $1.18 million, versus net income of $1.03 million for the nine month period in 2011 representing a 15% increase in net income. For the three months ended September 30, 2011, the company reported net income of $387 thousand compared to net income of $337 thousand for the third quarter of 2011, an increase of $50 thousand or 15%. Through the nine months of 2012, net interest income was $10.0 million compared to $9.3 million for 2011, an increase of nearly $700 thousand or 7%. Noninterest income also increased to $549 thousand during the nine months of 2012 as compared to $503 thousand for the same period of 2011. Year to date total noninterest expenses of $7.8 million represented an increase of $0.5 million or 7% compared to total noninterest expenses for the first three quarters of 2011. Expenses during 2012 included increased compensation costs due to the opening of our fifth branch location, and also continued investment in our talent infrastructure to keep pace with the needs of a growing organization. Included in 2011 noninterest expenses was approximately $393 thousand in valuation adjustments on the carrying value of certain Other Real Estate Owned (OREO) properties, while similar costs for 2012 were reduced to only $48 thousand. When comparing the results for the third quarter of 2012 to the same period in 2011, net interest income of $3.4 million for 2012 also showed positive momentum, increasing by nearly $220 thousand or 7% compared to net interest income of $3.2 million in 2011. For the three months ended in September, noninterest income was $217 thousand for the third quarter of 2012 versus $139 thousand for the same period of 2011. The provision for credit losses for the third quarter of 2012 was $308 thousand compared to $558 thousand for the third quarter of 2011, a decrease of nearly $250 thousand or 45%. Total expenses for the third quarter of 2012 were $2.7 million, which reflected an increase of nearly $500 thousand over the $2.2 million in expenses for the third quarter of 2011. The primary increase in expenses related to operating our most recent branch addition in Annapolis which opened in the second quarter of 2012. The remainder of the increase was largely due to professional fees relating to expansion plans and other strategic projects. The improvement in net interest income and overall revenues for 2012 was primarily the result of continued balance sheet growth and decreases in the cost of funding our asset growth. At September 30, 2012, total assets were $368 million, an increase of $47.2 million or 15% over total assets of $321 million at the same point in 2011. Total loans ended the third quarter of 2012 at $299 million, an increase of $27.6 million or 10% over 2011, and total deposits increased by $36.5 million or 15% to end the third quarter of 2012 at $287 million. Included in the growth in deposits was an increase in noninterest bearing deposits of $22.3 million, which represented year over year growth of nearly 39%. At September 30, 2011, Howard Bancorp, Inc. had total capital of $46.3 million representing 12.57% of period end total assets. This is an increase of $9.9 million or 27% over total capital of $36.4 million or 11.34% of total assets at September 30, 2011. The majority of the increase in capital was the common stock offering which closed during the quarter. In addition to the strengthening of our capital base, our asset quality measures continue to improve. As of September 30, 2012 the bank had non-accrual loans totaling $2.6 million, representing less than 1% of total loans. The total of nonaccrual loans and OREO totaled $5.5 million at September 30, 2012, which represented 1.51% of total assets, while this same measure at the end of the third quarter of 2011 was 2.58%. Chairman and CEO Mary Ann Scully stated, “We are always pleased to be able to report progress on our goals of growth- in shareholder value, in earnings, and in customer loans and deposits. This third quarter provided us with good news on all those fronts. Today, many in our industry must follow a holding strategy either because of capital scarcity, unattractive markets or economic uncertainty, Howard Bancorp has made the decision to move forward. The successful capital raise completed in the third quarter following the opening of our newest branch in Annapolis and the creation of our Baltimore focused relationship team are the end results of this commitment to our marketplace and our belief in its strong opportunities. We believe that, in turn, it reflects, our customers’ and shareholders’ faith in us.” This press release contains statements that are forward-looking, as that term is defined by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 or the Securities and Exchange Commission in its rules, regulations, and releases. The Company intends that such forward-looking statements be subject to the safe harbors created thereby. All forward-looking statements are based on current expectations regarding important risk factors, including but not limited to real estate values, local and national economic conditions, and the impact of interest rates on financing. Accordingly, actual results may differ from those expressed in the forward-looking statements, and the making of such statements should not be regarded as a representation by the Company or any other person that results expressed therein will be achieved. The Company does not undertake, and specifically disclaims any obligation, to publicly release the result of any revisions that may be made to any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date of such statements or to reflect the occurrence of anticipated or unanticipated events. Howard Bancorp, Inc. thousands, Nine Months Ended Three Months Ended except per share September 30, September 30, September 30, September 30, 2012 2011 2012 2011 Net interest $ 9,957 $ 9,318 $ 3,412 $ 3,192 Provision for 650 740 308 558 Noninterest 549 503 216 139 Noninterest 7,843 7,357 2,659 2,212 Pretax Income 2,013 1,724 661 561 Income tax 831 693 274 224 Net income 1,182 1,031 387 337 Preferred (471 ) (278 ) (157 ) (115 ) available to $ 711 $ 753 $ 230 $ 222 Per share data Net income per $ 0.24 $ 0.29 $ 0.06 $ 0.08 Book value per common share $ 8.36 $ 9.04 $ 8.36 $ 9.04 shares 3,012,288 2,637,829 3,748,248 2,639,780 outstanding at 4,036,628 2,640,264 4,036,628 2,640,264 Total assets $ 368,481 $ 321,350 $ 368,481 $ 321,350 Loans and leases 298,814 271,209 298,814 271,209 Allowance for (2,733 ) (4,016 ) (2,733 ) (4,016 ) interest-earning 43,635 19,291 43,635 19,291 Total deposits 287,426 250,972 287,426 250,972 Borrowings 33,619 33,181 33,619 33,181 Shareholders’ 46,322 36,432 46,322 36,432 Common Equity 33,760 23,870 33,760 23,870 Return on 0.45 % 0.46 % 0.26 % Return on 3.98 % 4.59 % 2.09 % 4.35 % Net interest 4.00 % 4.37 % 3.94 % 4.37 % loans to gross 0.89 % 1.42 % 0.89 % 1.42 % credit losses to 0.91 % 1.48 % 0.91 % 1.48 % loans and leases assets to total 1.51 % 2.58 % 1.51 % 2.58 % equity (TCE) 9.16 % 7.43 % 9.16 % 7.43 % Total risk-based 15.83 % 14.38 % 15.83 % 14.38 % risk-based 14.95 % 13.13 % 14.95 % 13.13 % Leverage ratio 12.79 % 11.78 % 12.79 % 11.78 % Additional information is available at www.howardbank.com. Howard Bancorp, Inc. George C. Coffman, 410-750-0020 Chief Financial Officer Press spacebar to pause and continue. Press esc to stop.

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Hi everyone...this is Otie. I can’t tell you how happy I am to be here. Miracles do happen, and I am a believer. My mom and I got together six years ago when my first family broke up. No one seemed to have any time for me, so this lady shows up at the door, checks me out and tells me to hop in the car. She looked nice and I would go for a ride with anybody. Little did I know I had a new home with someone who really wanted me there. She bought me new stuff, let me snuggle with her, play with her, she fed me treats, and showed me off to the neighborhood. I am a star! She is known as the Bulldog lady around these parts (way better than being a cat lady). All she asked of me is to love her, which we know is what we bullies do best!!!!! I am a champ at that. She says she loves the way I tilt my head when she talks to me, the way I get excited to ride in the car or go for a walk, the way I follow her around the house just so I know she is close. Most of all, she loves how I just want to be with her. She constantly tells people that I make her laugh every single day. I must be REALLY funny. Her patients at work see my pictures on the wall and ask about me and my brother all the time. All I can really say, is that we are so lucky to have found each other. I love my brother, Apollo, and we hang together while mom is working. She loves how we are waiting for her at the door when we hear the garage door open. Being a bulldog is awesome. Being a part of BDW is out of this world! Thanks for the honor.....I wear it proudly! Thanks for being our friends! Vicky and Otie *PS: It's with a sad heart that we have to pass along the sad news that Otie passed away on July 29, 2013. He will be missed by his loving family and all of us here in the Bulldogsworld community. RIP Otie - you are much loved.

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Developments in information technology affect every nook and corner of the business world – creating leading trends that dictate business discourse and atmosphere. Every advancement – in terms of new software, increased processing speed, greater storage capacity, and so on – enables corporate employees to heighten their work experiences. These IT-enabled business trends also affect learner preferences for ways to access and consume workplace learning. Here are the reigning IT-enabled trends that are defining corporate training today: It’s All Social The greatest of all trends – the trend that’s reigning supreme in corporate circles – is the power of social media. According to a journal published by the McKinsey Global Institute, it took commercial television 13 years to reach 50 million households worldwide. The internet too, for all its popularity, took 3 years to acquire the 50 millionth subscriber. However, it took Facebook a mere year and Twitter even less time to reach the ‘50 million’ milestone. This truly demonstrates the power of social media as a platform of communication. The benefit of social media for corporate learners was a matter of debate a couple of years ago. But today, all forward thinking organizations are open to harnessing the immense potential of social media platforms to increase the effectiveness of their learning solutions. Learning Management System can now connect directly to social media – to offer learners the opportunity to reach out to peers or experts and open the avenues of collaboration. For instance, we developed a learning portal that allows learners of a soft-skills training company access to short learning modules on the device of their choice. In addition to the various panels on the home page, we also created a social media panel that could connect the learners to their LinkedIn group where they could post queries and share achievements or simply reach out to fellow learners. Our activities in the workplace – and at home and elsewhere – have become more digital, leading to an abundance of data. The data is now analyzed in real time to create insights into business and performance. In corporate training as well, the extent and impact of learning is awaited for every learning endeavor – more so for technology-enabled learning initiatives. Modern LMSs thus have advanced reporting structures – which have multiple report formats to meet the diverse needs of their client. Report formats can also be created and generated automatically at regular intervals – as prescribed by the LMS administrators. The data captured in these reports are also rich and varied – from usage data to insights like ‘time-spent’ on certain sections within a course – which can be utilized to understand the preferences of learners. Dashboards are also created within the LMS to present the analytics in a simple, visually attractive and accessible manner. These dashboards are visible on the learner interface and are updated automatically. Learners and mangers do not have to search the reports to dig out insights. The Power of Service More and more organizations are realizing the benefits of being ‘asset-light’ and they prefer the pay-as-you-go models. This trend is especially beneficial when procuring software solutions or IT infrastructure – including e-learning platforms. Cloud LMSs have made it possible to create a learning platform within an organization without a whopping initial capital expenditure. The learning platform can be run on operating costs, and the flexibility of Cloud solutions make sure that the demand can drive the consumption. Learners can log on to the LMS from multiple locations as per their ease – ensuring maximization of system utilization and increase in learning uptake. There are some skeptics who question the security of data residing in the Cloud LMS, but modern systems have multi-layered firewalls and advanced network design which ensure that only authorized entries into the Cloud LMS are allowed. Additionally, access to sections within the LMS can be restricted to administrators or managers who need to log in to keep an eye on learner progress. Personalization of Knowledge Today, employees need much more knowledge – in addition to domain knowledge –to do their jobs well. A growing preference among the majority of learners is to personalize this knowledge to their specific needs. This can now be achieved with technology. Technology has now created avenues for personalized learning within the enterprise LMS. The structure of the learning platform can be customized to compartmentalize learners as per their specific job-roles within the organization. Once the learner logs on to the system with the relevant details, the system can identify him and he can then be directed to the relevant content as per the demands of his job. In addition, for learners who prefer to choose from the available learning content, most modern LMSs have a catalogue structure and ‘search’ feature which makes finding a particular course within the LMS very easy and quick. Pronounced Digital Experiences The virtual world is coming closer to the physical world with the advancement of technology. In the workplace too, the line between the two words is slowly blurring. Customers are shopping online and employees are meeting more on virtual spaces. Most organizations are exploring the digital world to improve productivity and sales and to use it as a platform for training as well. With the proliferation of mobile devices, including smartphones and tablets, delivery of mobile-enabled content is on the rise. This provides the opportunity for delivering just-in-time training for maximum impact and real-life application of the knowledge gained. Mobile-enabled solutions are especially useful for employees on the move – such as sales personnel. For a long time, hand-held devices were provided to sales personnel to carry documents or literature needed to make a successful sale. The trend now is to provide on-the-job training as well – by using the mobile device to deliver short videos or audio bits, which can be consumed quickly and applied instantly. To deliver a more life-like experience, we can also harness motion-sensing technology, such as Kinect in Xbox 360, Leap Motion, Tobii, etc. By making learning ‘motion-based’ we can teach physical skills in a virtual environment, with ample room for mistakes, re-tries and practice. We can use this technology to create different types of learning solutions – catering to different organizational needs. Read our post on Motion-Based Learning Solutions to get the details. Advancements in technology are continuous as they are rapid. The above trends define how corporate learning will evolve in the present decade – with more trends adding on every year. Do you want to map your learning needs with the leading technology trends of today? Write to email@example.com or fill the form below and we will be happy to guide you. ‘Suggested Further Reading- Ten IT enabled business trends for the decade ahead by McKinsey Global Institute’

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In his article, “The Death and Life of the Book Review,” from the June 21, 2010 issue of The Nation, John Palatella argues that, for all its crowdsourcing, shovelware and sock puppetry, the Web is nothing more than a postmodern throwback. Although 75 percent of online news consumers get their news through email and social networking sites, and 52 percent forward and share news themselves (Purcell et al., 2010), Palatella (2010) argues that the institution of journalism has not been transformed, but “restored to a ghostly, hyperactive version of the newspaper world of the early twentieth century” (p. 30). However, what has certainly, and perhaps seemingly, been transformed by online news is the relationship between journalists and editors and their audiences, and more fundamentally, the nature of gatekeeping. While the enormity of the Web allows for even the most specialized user to find an audience, finding that information can be daunting, especially for first-time or inexperienced users. Even more daunting can be sorting through a mass of information about the same thing, and more daunting still, deciding which of that information is worth reading. In traditional media, these tasks have fallen on the gatekeeper. On the Web, although the gatekeeping role is unclear, the term is used quite commonly, but without a corresponding theoretical framework to explain its dynamics. Research on traditional gatekeeping has mostly focused on the role of editors, journalists and news organizations, not that of newspaper readers. On the Web, however, these roles are interchangeable. While there may be less need for traditional gatekeeping and editorial authority as users of news portals, social networking sites and wikis are more able to create and disseminate their own content on the Web, Barzilai-Nahon (2008) argued that although “network gatekeeping” can occur at formal, structural or community levels, the process is similar to that in traditional media, in that access to information is regulated by those who control it. Nevertheless, traditional notions of hegemonic gatekeeping have been transformed by dynamic online environments, and even if there was editorial control in the supposedly utopian Web, when any user is given the “power or social capital to make authoritative decisions, then the community is effectively substituting the old elite gatekeepers from traditional media with new elite gatekeepers” (Keegan & Gergle, 2010, p. 132). Doctor (2010) posits that “we’ve become our own and each other’s editor” and that “gatekeeping is now a collective pursuit… that has “shifted from ‘us’ to ‘them,’ where ‘them’ includes a lowercase version of ‘us’ too” (para. 3).Whereas news aggregate sites and journalistic blogs rely on the “involvement of a loyal audience with a lot of enthusiasm and expertise,” the in-depth, investigative and thought-provoking reporting of print newspapers and magazines has not gained a following in the “rapid, superficial, appropriative, and individualistic” Web community (Palatella, 2010, p. 31). One reason has been the diminishing of journalistic standards online where, according to Palatella (2010), “quantity beats quality, being first beats being the best…speed is confused with timeliness, and the value of timeliness is debased by speed” (p. 26). Whether, in this environment, news is selected by new media gatekeepers for its news value or its tabloid-like absurdity will determine the future credibility of online news, no matter how much we use it.

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JERRY GLENN JENSEMA, 61 BOONE COUNTY - Jerry Glenn Jensema, 61, of Boone County died Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013, at home. Born Sept. 7, 1951, in Sheboygan, Wis., the son of Lamont and Marlys (Rauwerdink) Jensema. Graduate of Oostburg High School, class of 1969 and UW-Whitewater, class of 1974, with a B.S. in Occupational Safety and Health. Served in the U.S. Army Reserves during the Vietnam War. He was later employed by several companies in his field and was a member of the American Society of Safety Engineers and the National Hearing Conservation Association. He came to Rockford in 1988 to work at Health Conservation Inc. (HCI), where he enjoyed a long and distinguished career in an industry he helped build until his retirement as a principle/co-owner in 2012. He was an avid traveler and loved sports, the outdoors and nature. He especially loved golf and fishing and the greatly anticipated annual fishing trips with his buddies. Jerry had a generous nature and was a friend to many. He is predeceased by son, Nicholas Glenn, with whom being united in spirit will bring him great joy. He is survived by parents; daughter, Krista Ann; Krista and Nicholas' mother, Kathleen Gross; sisters, Judy (Burt) Ten Pas, Joan Jensema (Linda Peel) and Jill (Mike) Posewitz; nieces and nephews, Melissa (Jason) Stephen, Jamie (Tanya) Ten Pas, Kami (Brian) Hagel, Jaslyn, Camber and Blake (Godson) Posewitz. Jerry will be greatly missed, may he rest in peace. A memorial service will be held at noon, Saturday, Feb. 16, at Fitzgerald Funeral Home & Crematory, Mulford Chapel, 1860 S. Mulford Road. Visitation from 10 a.m. to service time. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the . Express condolences and share memories at www.fitzgeraldfh.com. 6 entries | 1 photo The Guest Book is expired. Fitzgerald Funeral Home & Crematory - Rockford 1860 S. Mulford Rockford, IL 61108 Published in Rockford Register Star from Feb. 11 to Feb. 12, 2013

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Wild and Woolly Video, along with independent video rental stores across the U.S. and Canada, are banding together to promote Video Store Day on Saturday, Oct. 15. Join the party that day and enjoy: * One free 3 night catalog (not new release) rental per customer * Mr. Twist will be here making balloon animals and more (www.magicaltwists.com) * free fresh-popped popcorn, drawings, and more! We're celebrating the long history of indie video stores and the fact that some of us are still around - stores owned and staffed by human beings who can be relied upon for reviews and recommendations and who truly love what they do. Thanks for keeping us around, 14 years and counting. - Wild and Woolly Video - 1021 Bardstown RoadLouisville, KY 40204 - Saturday 15th, October 2011 - 11:00 AM — 11:00 PM

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In the woods and on the water of Minnesota's Arrowhead region, solitude reigns supreme. Voyageurs National Park (pictured) hugs the Canadian border—a 218,000-acre, 30-lake wonderland without roads. In the million-plus acres of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, visitors travel by paddle and portage their canoes. Bikers traverse the Mesabi Trail, which stretches from Grand Rapids toward Ely. Even when snow blankets the region, travelers explore on skis, snowmobiles and dogsleds. In the Mesabi Iron Range, Minnesota's mining lives on. Many of the miners were immigrants, and communities here show their strong ethnic roots in crafts, architecture, stories, festivals and foods. You can see a working mine at Hull Rust Mahoning Mine and travel deep into the earth at Soudan Underground Mine State Park. Click ahead for details on these experiences and other destinations in Minnesota's North Woods. Want to share your favorites? Leave a comment below! More information: (800) 362-7405; visitcranelake.com | (800) 777-7281; ely.org | (218) 262-3895; hibbing.org | (800) 777-8497; ironrange.org | (800) 524-9085; kabetogama.com | (800) 325-5766; rainylake.org At the northeastern tip of Minnesota, the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness qualifies as a backpacker's paradise, where paddles and boots replace motors, campfires replace ovens, and loons provide the background music. Travelers paddle from lake to lake, portaging gear in between. Solo trips are common, but outfitters in getaway towns, including Ely, Crane Lake, Grand Marias and Tofte can provide able guides and supplies to orchestrate the trip. Sharp-eyed visitors spot moose, black bears and bald eagles. (218) 626-4300; fs.usda.gov How do you get around a 218,000-acre national park that doesn't have any roads? The answer is the main reason people visit this park on the Canadian border: boats. To explore Voyageurs' 30-some lakes (Rainy and Namekan are the biggest) and find the solitude this park is famous for, you need something that floats. Some folks spend a day on a guided walleye-fishing trip and stay at a resort in one of the shore towns of International Falls (population 6,357) or tiny Ranier (population 606). Others motor around on houseboats, watching for moose by day and anchoring at a different island each night for sunset and a campfire. Pictured: Rainy Lake's numerous bays and islands provide plenty of private berths for houseboats and campers. Minnesota's largest known bear and several other big 'uns reside at the North American Bear Center in a forest setting in Ely. Observe the bears; also, explore myths and truths through interactive exhibits. Experience a bear's strength, study a bear skeleton, and watch videos of bears playing, digging a cave and hunting for food. (877) 365-7879; bear.org The "Grand Canyon of the North" in Hibbing shows the scale of mining on the Mesabi Iron Range. At Hull Rust Mahoning Mine, visitors see what is billed as the biggest operating open pit iron ore mine in the world -- more than 3 miles long, 2 miles wide and 535 feet deep. A walking trail, observation building and mine exhibits round out the experience. Free. (218) 262-4166; ironrange.org This impressive interpretive center near Ely lets you watch the resident pack up close. Observation windows at the International Wolf Center allow you to look into a 1.25-acre enclosure that serves as the wolf pack's home. Because the wolves are accustomed to visitors, they often come up to the glass. The center also offers great programs (learn how to howl!) and learning vacations. (218) 365-4695; wolf.org A rail-trail conversion through the Iron Range mountains, the paved Mesabi Trail starts at Grand Rapids and runs toward Ely through communities such as Keewatin, Hibbing, Chisholm, Mountain Iron and Virginia. When completed, it will connect more than 25 communities along 132 miles. It's designed for hiking and biking; some sections are open in the winter for snowmobiling. Check the website for the current status of trail construction and for a list of nearby activities. (877) 637-2241; mesabitrail.com The park, 20 miles southeast of Ely, offers two rare and fascinating tours: Underground Mine and the University of Minnesota's High Energy Physics Lab. Venture by elevator as you descend 2,341 feet below ground and then ride a battery-operated train to visit the Soudan Underground Mine, the first, deepest and richest iron-ore mine in Minnesota. The physics lab tour takes you to a football field-size cavity where high-energy experiments are conducted. (218) 753-2245; dnr.state.mn.us/state_parks This museum and cultural center celebrates Iron Range history and the heritage of its miners' home countries. Learn about taconite mining, hear stories of miners' working conditions and see a Depression-era shanty. The Iron Range History Players at the Minnesota Discovery Center give 20-minute interactive presentations on the history of northeastern Minnesota on summer Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. Also in the summer, antique trolleys (pictured) circle the rim of Glen Mine, now a deep, spring-fed canyon. (218) 254-7959; mndiscoverycenter.com This little Ely attraction pays tribute to one of the area's legends: The Root Beer Lady. Dorothy was the last resident of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and was known for offering root beer and first aid to travelers. (218) 365-4451; rootbeerlady.com

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With margins always a concern for Amazon investors, the company can ill afford to lose market share for the Kindle Fire, the product designed to tie everything it does together. But it looks like the tablet could have its flame extinguished if Amazon fails to keep pace with the competition on innovation. A new survey by research firm IDC estimates the Kindle Fire lost significant market share in the first quarter, dropping down to 4 per cent from 17 per cent in the fourth quarter. Apple was the main winner here, taking 68 per cent market share, up from 54.7 per cent in the fourth-quarter of 2011. As tablet sales overall slowed in the first quarter of 2012, Apple continued to dominate the market profoundly, and this could potentially be the beginning of the end for Amazon, if it fails to innovate. One hedge fund analyst, who declined to be named, expects Amazon to release another one or two versions of the Kindle Fire to try to get it right, but if they don't, Amazon could be in big trouble. “Game over,” he said, when asked if Amazon was in trouble. “Apple reasserted its dominance in the market this quarter, driving huge shipment totals at a time when all but a few Android vendors saw their numbers drop precipitously after posting big gains during the holiday buying season,” said Tom Mainelli, research director, Mobile Connected Devices at IDC in the press release. “Apple's move to position the iPad as an all-purpose tablet, instead of just a content consumption device, is resonating with consumers as well as educational and commercial buyers.” A major factor in Apple reasserting its dominance appears to be lowering the price on its iPad 2 to $399 from $499, which it did when it announced the new iPad in March. “And its decision to keep a lower-priced iPad 2 in the market after it launched the new iPad in March seems to be paying off as well,” said Mainelli in the release. The complaints about the Kindle Fire include a lack of features and shoddy Internet browsing, and perception of the product is such that rivals feel comfortable getting in little digs. Barnes & Noble CEO William Lynch said on the company's fourth-quarter conference call he had heard about some “quality issues with our biggest competitor” on their new product, with most presuming this to be the Kindle Fire. Lynch said he heard of return rates between 15 per cent and 25 per cent for the tablet. Barnes & Noble recently announced a deal with Microsoft to expand its tablet offering, the NOOK. Another hedge fund analyst, who is short Amazon, believes the company is out of its league when it comes to the competition in the tablet space. “The Kindle Fire is behind. [Amazon]is competing with engineering companies, like Apple. Getting kicked out of Target was a big deal with Target fighting back on show-rooming. It could come out of a lot of retail destinations,” she said over the phone. Amazon has to get the Kindle Fire strategy right because the tablet, which it sells below cost, is supposed to be the main driver for growing media sales, currently 30-40 per cent of its overall revenue. The company won't be able to deliver revenue growth of 20 per cent year-over-year if media is falling, the hedge fund analyst said. “It's still crucial to their success,” she said. As rumours of a mini-iPad swirl, Amazon may have to announce a larger product to keep Apple from taking even more market share than it already has. IDC's Mainelli said that he expects a “new larger-screened device from Amazon at a typically aggressive price point,” otherwise Apple may wind up completely shutting Amazon out. The hedge fund analyst who is short Amazon put it best. “If Apple has a $299 offering for Christmas, I don't think a $100 difference will hurt Apple. Why would anyone buy Amazon when you can buy Apple?”

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For many years, we’ve been writing helpful little tools for Visual Studio called PowerToys. The history has been that we design and write these tools internally, and then share out to the community. Now we want to take it up a notch and work directly with you to write these tools for the Visual Studio 2005 release. If you haven’t checked out VS 2005 yet, what are you waiting for? =) We want your feedback at Day 0 on how you want the tool to work, look, and feel. And we want your help in the tool’s production by contributing to the source code. We’re here to write tools for you, with you. Okay, that’s my attempt at marketing. I know where my marketing skills stand. =) Just ask me about my little high school business “Squirt <comma> the Clown”, but that’s another story not to be told at any time… We just thought it would be a cool idea to try working more closely with customers in creating PowerToys, and what better way to work more closely than to participate in the design and in the production of the Powertoy with you. Josh has given me his gotdotnet team’s website for this program, so you’ll find more information and details at Visual Studio Core Community PowerToys My vision is that this site will become a home page for the VS Core Team, including links to PowerToys we ship, the Nightly scenarios we’re posting on the web for review, links to team blogs, and so on and so forth. I currently have 2 project ideas that we can start designing. If interested, sign up on the workspace. If you have strong feelings about one tool over the other, let me know. My personal bias is towards the VS Editor Zoom control, because I’ve wanted an easy way to increase the font size during presentations or code reviews. Update 2/8/2005 - fixed the link for the VS Editor Zoom workspace. Let me know if you have any suggestions or ideas for PowerToys. The ideas do not have to be restricted to add-ins or macros. So, if you know of a cool tool for running outside VS, let me know your ideas. And lastly, when either of these two tools “ship” (that is, the workspace owner declares it completed), those who contributed source code will receive an “I love Visual Studio Core” t-shirt as a thank-you from the team.

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Asthma is something that I was not familiar with until Davis came along. When I think of asthma I am taken back to elementary school and a girl who was in my class who couldn’t even participate in PE without having to be on the nebulizer. Little did I know that there are all different types of asthma and symptoms. Lucky for us, Davis really doesn’t have problems unless he is getting sick. Things just tend to go straight to his lungs making his little life so much harder! So, we have discovered a few things along the way that have helped him. One of those things is a humidifier. We had one that looked like it was straight from the 1980’s even though we bought it brand new. It had fake wood paneling and all. Oh, and did I mention that it was a monstrosity? It was HUGE! I know that looks shouldn’t matter that much when it comes to a humidifier, but when it is for most of your house, takes up most of your house and you have it on display for the world to see it starts to matter! Our new cool mist humidifier quickly found itself in the bathroom corner when summer rolled around which wasn’t doing anyone any good at all. Ya’ll, it had to go! A few weeks ago Luma Comfort contacted me and when I saw their gorgeous cool mist humidifier I truly wanted to jump for joy! This was the answer to our household dilemma as well as our dry and itchy winter skin. Our heat and air guy also told us that running a large cool mist humidifier would help cut the costs of your heating bill! We were winning all over the place! What I love about the Luma Comfort Ultrasonic Cool Mist Humidifier is that it is silent! It will run and the only way you will know it is working is because of the gentle mist you see coming out of the top. You can also adjust the height with the included toppers. It really just depends upon where you are putting it and how it fits in decor wise. This humidifier also lasts a long time before you have to fill it. Ours is generally good for 2 days without being turned off. It produces approximately 2. 5 gallons of mist daily and covers about 650 square feet! We honestly could not be more pleased with this new find! If you are in the market it will be the best $139 you’ve spent in my opinion.

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LAS VEGAS (AP) — In a deal that would more than double its size, Pinnacle Entertainment said Friday that it will buy rival Ameristar Casinos for about $869 million, plus take on $1.9 billion of its debt. Pinnacle owns seven U.S. casinos and a racetrack, and is developing another gaming property. Ameristar has eight casinos in the United States. The company said buying Ameristar could help it become a bigger player in the gaming industry, while trimming some costs. U.S. casinos have struggled to recover from the recession as consumers watch spending. Larger U.S. casino companies have increasingly relied on their properties in Asia for profits. If the deal is approved by shareholders and regulators, Pinnacle will pay $26.50 for each share of Ameristar Casinos Inc. That's a 20 percent premium over the company's Thursday closing stock price of $22.07. It's also gaining $116 million of the company's cash. Ameristar shares jumped 20 percent to close at $26.50 Friday, while Pinnacle shares rose 21.3 percent to $16.20. Continue reading this story on the...

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