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Brecon Park is a six acre neighborhood park, situated in the southwestern portion of the Rolling Meadows neighborhood, within walking distance of approximately four hundred households. It is bordered by, and accessible from, North ... read more Canterbury Park is a four acre park located along Willis Road, by the corner of South Ann Arbor Street and Willis Road. Parking is on-street, but the Wilderness Park dirt lot is conveniently located nearby. The park is also easily ... read more Colony Park is another of the city’s many neighborhood parks. It is a six acre area constituted of two open fields, separated by a shallow elevation, and a playground area which features benches, swings, a play structure, and other ... read more At fifty acres, Curtiss Park is the second largest of Saline’s municipal parks. It is located along the South side of Michigan Avenue, across the road from Mill Pond Park and bordering Oakwood Cemetery. Access to the park is from an ... read more Marlpool Park, one of Saline’s two mini-parks, is a 0.3 acre lot found along Marlpool Drive, from which it gets its name. The park is accessible via sidewalks, within walking distance of over one-hundred houses, and there is limited ... read more Mill Pond Park, at 54 acres, is the largest of the Saline community parks. It remains an ever-popular destination in the city, hosting a multitude of events each year. The park is located on the north side of Michigan Avenue, directly ... read more People’s Park is a ten acre complex featuring sports facilities and nature trails, nestled between Monroe Street and South Ann Arbor Street. The sports facilities – two tennis courts, one basketball court and a baseball diamond – are ... read more Risdon Park, named for the founder of Saline, Orange Risdon, is one of Saline’s two “mini-parks,” an open 0.2 acre lot bordered by South Ann Arbor Street* to the West, Pleasant Ridge Drive to the South, and houses to the North and the ... read more The Saline Parks & Recreation department offers a wide variety of rec programs for the entire family. Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti, Milan, Dexter, Pittsfield Township residents are welcome to participate. We offer the fitness ... read more The Saline Rec Center is an affordable family friendly center that meets the entire family need. There is a large gym with an indoor walking track, a free weight room, a nautilus weight room, Cardio weight room, 2 pools, ... read more Stonecliff Park is a four acre plot located across the Saline River from Mill Pond Park, accessible from the end of Saline River Drive or Bannock Court in the Torwood Neighborhood. Please note that Stonecliff Park has no dedicated ... read more Tefft Park serves a unique role among Saline city parks, as it is host to the Saline Recreation Center. The park and the Rec Center are located along Woodland Drive, near to the intersection with Textile Road. Parking is readily ... read more The twenty-two acre plot which is now Wilderness Park was purchased by the City of Saline in 1973. The park, including the beautiful trail system, was developed by Max Adler, Patricia Forester and John Corrigan. The park is located ... read more Want to see more Things To Do? View all entries.

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Voting Home / Scuttlebutt Brewing Company Family owned Restaurant and Brewery in Everett, WA since 1996. We make over 20 different styles of hand-crafted beer and have a full service restaurant and bar. We are known for our fish & chips but have something for everyone- including steak, prime rib and salmon dinners. CHEERS! Boundary Bay Brewery and Bistro Boundary Bay Brewery and Bistro Bellingham, WA Big E Ales Big E Ales Lynnwood, WA Silver City Restaurant & Brewery Silver City Restaurant & Brewery Silverdale, WA Dog & Pony Alehouse Dog & Pony Alehouse Renton, WA

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May 17, 2013 36:05 | Aired on 05/17/2013 Friday: The Chew Crew reminisces about milestone meals on today's Extra Value Friday; plus, Theresa Caputo and Stephanie Izard whip up unforgettable dishes! May 16, 2013 36:04 | Aired on 05/16/2013 Thursday: Jessica Capshaw swings by to enjoy easy, portable food and a No Plate Required Battle. May 15, 2013 36:01 | Aired on 05/15/2013 Wednesday: Feast on these sinful snacks with Curtis Stone; plus, a trip to Herr's Potato Chip Factory. May 14, 2013 36:03 | Aired on 05/14/2013 Tuesday: Patricia Heaton stops by for the best desserts The Chew Crew has ever tasted. May 13, 2013 36:01 | Aired on 05/13/2013 Monday: Barbara Corcoran and Daymond John join The Chew Crew for some ultimate kitchen creations.

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App for That “The purpose of this blog is to provide sourcing for texts quoted by @Horse_ebooks and, whenever possible, provide context,” wrote freelancer Jack Stuef on a freshly-minted Tumblr conceived in the bleary midnight hours early Friday morning. Born out of that insomniac haze is “The Annotated @Horse_ebooks,” a blog devoted to teasing out nuance and substance from the glorious fountain of non-sequitors that is the Internet’s favorite Twitter account, @Horse_ebooks. “The idea to do a Tumblr just came to me, but I had looked up some of Horse’s tweets before, and sometimes the sources of those can be just as bizarre and hilarious as the tweets themselves. Or they can be incredibly dull. I thought it was interesting,” Mr. Stuef, who frequently writes for The Onion and BuzzFeed, told Betabeat via Gchat. Kickstart or Kill For every snazzy hardware idea and genuinely inspiring artistic project, there’s also a whole lot of crap clogging up crowdfunding sites. This has not escaped the attention of the acerbic wits at the Onion News Network. And so the site’s latest video turns its knives on Kickstarter, dubbing it “an insidious new Internet scam,” roping people into donating to projects that are “in actuality, just terrible useless garbage.” During lunch on Mother’s Day, my own mom had some exciting news to announce: “I’m reading the best book!” she declared, taking a sip from her sweating water glass in the building May heat. “It’s called How To Be Black. It’s excellent–hilarious, but also serious,” she insisted. I had heard of it only in passing–on Twitter, and in scant Facebook posts. It was written by The Onion‘s Director of Digital and Internet Man About Town Baratunde Thurston, and had received almost five stars–a perfect score–from users on Amazon. “There were like 56 reviews last time I checked,” Mr. Thurston told Betabeat by phone this morning. “And I’m like, ‘Who’s the asshole that didn’t put five stars?’ Clearly it’s a five-star book.” Ever since news broke last year that satirical news source The Onion was shutting down their New York office and heading to Chicago, The Atlantic reports that the core team of staffers has pursued every avenue to keep the company from heading west. One bizarre but apparently legitimate option was to have startup non-incubator Betaworks buy The Onion. In college, this reporter once took a “new media” class where the professor let loose a terrifying edict: As homework, we would not be allowed to use any Google products for the entire week. That meant no Google search, no Gmail, no Gcal… nothing. The experiment was supposed to teach us just how reliant we were upon one company for many of a college student’s basic needs, like learning, communicating and organizing. It was not the darkest hour of this reporter’s life, but it was a very, very dark one.

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Welcome to Betafreak.com! We are a game company that makes fun filled games for XBox and PC. Our current projects: - Driving Quiz: Another game for Defensive Driving School now quizzes you on your knowledge of the rules of the road. Have fun! Now available for Android and Windows Phone 7! - RoadSignz: Betafreak takes an educational turn with this new game for Defensive Driving School! Take the role of four cool cars as you fire at encroaching road signs. Made for All Audiences. Available for Free Play Online! - Eitrix: Betafreak is back with another massively multiplay game! Eitrix combines classic block clearing action with lots of powerups and up to eight players on a single Xbox! Made for All Audiences. Development currently suspended. - Furball: Whoa! Get ready for this fun filled multiplayer shooter, where the possibilities are limitless. Customize collectables, choose teams, explore dozens of ships, and play up to 16 players! Using a new innovative arrangement, players will be able to put a maximum of four people on each controller, allowing you to have fun with all your friends and family. Furball is a truly great party game that will leave you raving for more! Made for All Audiences. Available on XBox Live! - Spin: Welcome to the space police! You control a high tech heavily armed spaceship, used to patrol several crime-filled quadrants of the galaxy. Your job is to defend the traveling freighters from the numerous pirates that inhabit these areas. You must be careful though... it would be bad for you to die too! Made for All Audiences. Available on XBox Live! Please visit often to see exciting new games from Betafreak! Last Updated: 4/15/12

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" Welcome to my Site..." Services: Basic Computer Skills, Computer Repair, Computer Science - $6330 min - 0Classes Taught Over 20 years in the technology field including IT and computer engineering. I would love to aid you in your pursuit of technology. No recommendations yet

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The King Is Dead; Long Live the King May 19, 2012 So my answer to the question of my last blog post, “Has Content Been Dethroned?” has evolved. I’ve now landed on the idea that content is still king, but it’s a particular kind of content now: relationship-driven content. So it’s not that relationships are now king and content has been dethroned; it’s that the kind of content that rules the Internet has gotten more specific. Relationship-driven content is content that invites and encourages sharing, commenting, forwarding, and other forms of interaction. Content in speaking or in writing that gives the audience a voice has more power than static content. (Photo credit: Flickr user JDHancock)

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First things first, I’ll be in Garden on the 14th, so the Tater can enjoy basking in the warmth of my friendly radiation. Anyone else who wishes to bask is more than welcome to. I will caper for your amusement. Nintendo sent me an email to tell me my incentive prize was on the way. It will be here in 4 to 10 business days. That’s a pretty impressive amount of leeway. Especially considering the several days it took to process the transaction. Honestly they could have just said “We’re Nintendo. We’ll get it to you when we damn well feel like it.” It doesn’t bother me either way. At some future date I’ll have my mediocre award. That new Harry Potter movie should be out soon, if it’s not already. I’ve seen all the others in the theatre, so I’ll probably try to see this one too. Thankfully the kids that like Potter stuff have all grown along with it, so I don’t feel so creepy if I go to a movie that skews much younger than I am. Being the lone old guy at a kids movie is awkward. As an animation enthusiast it’s something I’ve had to deal with pretty much since I was a teenager. I like the new tendency for people to not grow out of things like they used to. People older than me still play video games regularly. Roleplaying games are no longer the domain of the young. Guys I went to school with never gave up on Magic: The Gathering. David Willis masturbates nightly to the Transformers wiki. I think the world is slowly becoming populated with grown children. Neverland is more than just the palatial estate of the departed king of pop. Weather that’s good for the world is debatable, but it does make a trip to the cinema easier for me. Edit: Because the universe has a sense of humor my Club Nintendo prize showed up this very day. Here it is in all its glory. The games play just like they would if they were in a game watch. Not all that entertaining, but it’s a neat little oddity for my collection.

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Little Donkey at AvondaleBricksGallery Enjoy tapas from Little Donkey, Wine Tasting by Athens Imports, Art Exhibition Opening. $15. Friday, November 30, 5-9 p.m. Visit us during the Avondale/Forest Park Holiday Crafts Bazaar at Avondale Bricks Gallery, 130 41st Street South in Avondale. Must be 21 for wine tasting. Write [email protected] for more information or questions. Thank you for joining the Revolution in Avondale.

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This is the eleventh audio message for the Heroes & Villains series. It's important to know where our responsibility ends and someone else's begins. In short, it's important to identify the boundaries in our lives. We experience an amazing amount of freedom and fruitfulness when we faithfully serve within our appropriate boundaries. When we go outside of our boundaries, by definition we encroach on others' territory. We trespass. We rob others of the opportunity for faithfulness by doing what they were meant to do. And we also abdicate our own roles, thus neglecting our own stewardships. Have you identified your roles? Do you stay within your own boundaries? Do you respect others' boundaries? Doing more than we're asked to do (by crossing boundaries) doesn't earn us bonus point; rather, it reduces our effectiveness and undermines the contributions of others. The bible.org staff and supporters share the vision to harness the Internet for God and freely provide the NET Bible and trustworthy Bible study material to everyone on earth so they become equipped for global impact, able to complete the Great Commission in one generation. Would you consider sharing your time, talents, monies, and prayers to achieve meaning to this life and in heaven receive your crowns and hearing Christ say well done….. Matthew 25:23More...

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Bible by the Beach Trust is a registered charity and the event relies on the support of sponsors, delegates, exhibitors and advertisers. We invite you to become a Friend of Bible by the Beach, to link with us prayerfully and financially, to give this event a secure foundation. God has been wonderfully faithful in providing all the resources we need to date, but costs are rising as we try to improve each year. We ask Friends to pray regularly for Bible by the Beach, and to give an annual donation. In response, we will be launching our Thank You offers to Friends at the event this year. If you would like to become a Friend of Bible by the Beach, please download and complete the attached form. A standing order form is availablehere.. Alternatively, if you would like to support the event with a one off donation, please donate here.

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Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by A Striped Armchair and Out of the Blue that encourages Bloggers to share the books they’ve checked out from the library. This weeks haul: - In Hovering Flight; Hinnefeld - Lima Nights; Arana - The Seamstress of Hollywood Boulevard; Erin McGraw - Thank You for All Things; Sandra Kring ( current read - very good) - If Today Be Sweet; Thrity Umrigar - Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing; Fogarty - The Distance Between Us; Yates - Ghost in Love; Carroll (audio) - The Story of Forgetting; Block Did you find anything that looks good at the Library this week? Post your link.

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I'm attempting to refurbish a bike that I was given, it has a (not sure what brand) coaster brake, which according to sheldon brown's site has a peculiar kind of cone nut. The wheel might be 10 years old, it's hard to say. I've been able to remove the otherwise butchered nuts (see below) using a tap & hammer and an axle vice, now that they are free I'd like to know what they are, so that I can replace them, do they have a special name? I've only ever seen mention of cone nuts resembling a regular washer, but with two flat sides (sorry for the poor explanation) - these that this bike is fitted with are something different, see below: Apologies for my dodgy graphics work, the middle is threaded, and sized to fix the (slightly larger than the wheel nut thread) centre of the coaster brake axel, the outsides smooth (very much resembling a washer) except for the two grooves. The entre part is perhaps 20mm in diameter; unfortunately my bright idea of drawing the part, and then using Google image search has failed me! In the end, I'm sure this particular bolt is a strange european relic designed as some kind of "security" bolt; not dissimilar to the Apple style 5-point start, or similar, to discourage people against fiddling with their coaster brake. But I would really like to rebuild the brake! I'm sure I could replace them with regular "cone nuts" - that is the ones with two flat sides, but the term "cone nut" seems to refer more to the purpose than the design of the nut itself. All information appreciated, thanks in advance!

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|location||England, United Kingdom| |visits||member for||2 years, 1 month| |seen||Apr 17 at 4:41| I design and develop software on a Microsoft platform for an EPiServer based media company. I spend much of my spare time researching, not just technologies - subject matters well outside computer science. I began life writing 6510 assembler then switched studies to become a professional economist, before returning to programming. |bio||website||carnotaurus.tumblr.com||visits||member for||2 years, 1 month| |location||England, United Kingdom||seen||Apr 17 at 4:41|

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Dallas Cowboy QB and former Texas A&M Aggie, Stephen McGee, along with University of Texas WR and former Brownwood Lion, Jaxon Shipley, will be the featured speakers at the Fellowship of Christian Athletes/Abilene Youth Sports Authority Awards Banquet on May 26 at the Teague Center on the Abilene Christian University campus. The banquet will begin a 6:30 p.m. Tickets for the Awards Banquet are available to the public - adults $40 and students $15 - and can be purchased by contacting the AYSA office at 325-692-2972. Table sponsorships are also available by contacting either the AYSA Office or FCA Office at 325-795-0020. Various levels of sponsorship are available for the tables of 10. McGee, who was the Cowboys pick in the fourth round of the 2009 draft, got the first win of his career in come-from-behind fashion against the Philadelphia Eagles in his first professional start. While at A&M, McGee passed from almost 5,500 yards and rushed for 1,750 more. He won FCA's prestigious Bobby Bowden Athlete of the Year Award. Shipley started five games for the Longhorns as a true freshman. The Brownwood native caught 44 passes, 3 for touchdowns. He also rushed the ball 11 times and completed 4 passes. He was the Longhorn Offensive Player of the Week by hauling in 6 passes for 149 yards against Iowa State. Stephen played high school football for Jaxon's dad Bob at Burnet HS and is close friends with Jaxon's older brother Jordan. Information about the Big Country Chapter of the FCA can also be found at www.bigcountryfca.org. Information about the Abilene Youth Sports Authority can be found at www.abileneysa.org.

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It's more about having fun- even if you don't have someone to dance with. "We don't need a partner," said Ladonna McGee. This group of senior citizens slip on their dancing shoes for their line dancing class and as a way to stay in shape. "It teaches balance, it is exercise, it keeps brain waves going and the main thing is its to socialize," said McGee. They practice twice a week and its not just country music they dance to- they also learn Latin and Classic Pop dances as well. It's all about keeping up with the beat- but no ones judging here if you fall out of step. "You just kind of know what you're doing and if not then you just fall back in you don't get worried about it," said Arlene Wuske, one of the participants. Arlene Wuske has danced for years and joined the class to ensure she maintains a healthy active lifestyle. "I'm laughing, I'm having a reason to get out of the house I'm anxious to go out and have fun and afterwards i go have a drink," said the 65 year-old. To her however, its more about the learning the steps- its about having a good time and keeping the music going in her life. "I like to stay active so that I can do everything and not hurt, never hesitate every time anybody wants to ride a bike or run up a hill or jump around, I'm ready," she said. The Rose Park Senior Center offers beginner and intermediate line dancing classes every Monday and Thursday at 1 p.m. and advanced classes at 2 p.m.

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"When Weeden was drafted, I was told by an NFL source that the Browns didn't want to 'pile on' McCoy and just release him," says Tony Grossi of ESPNCleveland.com. "They were sensitive to the fact he had gotten such a raw deal already. They would like to find McCoy a new team, a new opportunity, to spare him the ignominy of being released. They will not demand much in a trade." Browns team president Mike Holmgren said that McCoy has indeed had a rough time recently. "I think (Colt's) a wonderful young man, and a good football player," Holmgren said. "And if you are asking me to say was it fair last year? He had a tough go and he didn't get as much help as I thought he was going to get. But heck, that's football."

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There will also be a lecture by Harmon from 5:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the art center. The community is welcome and encouraged to attend both the reception and the lecture. Harmon joined the HPU faculty in August 2012, hailing from St. Louis, Mo., and is a graduate of Pennsylvania State University. He is well-traveled and well-rounded in his areas of artistry and has taught for more than thirty years. His work has been featured in exhibitions around the world and includes many different styles such as hard-edged abstraction, figurative realism and expressionism. "It is our hope that the community will take this opportunity to view Mr. Harmon's work and get to know an outstanding new addition to the HPU faculty," said Dr. Mark Tew, provost and chief academic officer. The exhibit will be open through December 5, Monday through Friday, from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. For more information, contact HPU's School of Music and Fine Arts at (325) 649-8500.

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Merkel jumped out to a 7-0 lead in the first quarter, and then the defense came up with the play. In fact it was a leaping interception by Pat Bohannan to give the ball back to the Badgers. A few plays later, quarterback Baylor Mullins would use his feet to get Merkel down the field with a 40 yard run. Comfort's defense would make a stand and get the ball back. A fumble would give it right back to the Badgers. Then Mullins would make Comfort pay for the turnover with a touchdown pass to Bohannan in the back of the endzone. Merkel would add another six points to their total in their 20-0 win over Comfort.

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|Register Now | Log in| |Home: Now Showing - The Smurfs 2 in 3D Movie Information| View Photo Gallery Remove ads with our VIP Service Ratings / Reviews Share This Page In this sequel to the hybrid live action/animated family blockbuster comedy The Smurfs, the evil wizard Gargamel creates a couple of mischievous Smurf-like creatures called the Naughties that he hopes will let him harness the all-powerful, magical Smurf-essence. But when he discovers that only a real Smurf can give him what he wants, and only a secret spell that Smurfette knows can turn the Naughties into real Smurfs, Gargamel kidnaps Smurfette and brings her to Paris, where he has been winning the adoration of millions as the world¹s greatest sorcerer. It's up to Papa, Clumsy, Grouchy, and Vanity to return to our world, reunite with their human friends Patrick and Grace Winslow, and rescue her! Starring Neil Patrick Harris, Brendan Gleeson, Jayma Mays, Sofia Vergara, Hank Azaria Directed by Raja Gosnell Genre - Comedy Opening in Theaters - Wednesday, July 31st, 2013 (74 days) This movie will be opening in theaters on Wednesday, July 31st, 2013 Related News Articles and Web Sites Alternate Versions of This Movie Looking for More Information? Search Google for more information about this movie: New Movies - Box Office - Favorite Movies - All Movies Coming Soon - Search |The BigScreen Cinema Guide is a service of SVJ Designs LLC. All graphics, layout, and structure of this service (unless otherwise specified) are Copyright © 1995-2013, SVJ Designs. The BigScreen Cinema Guide is a trademark of SVJ Designs. All rights reserved. 'ACADEMY AWARDS®' and 'OSCAR®' are the registered trademarks and service marks of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

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Food of the Gods from the Island of the Gods We work directly with over 3,000 farmers farmers on the islands of Bali and Sumatra to procure our fine cacao. The history of the Bali Cacao is linked to the history of the legendary Java Criollo, which is linked to the Philippines, which is directly linked to the cacao the Spanish brought there from the legendary Aztec cacao orchards of Soconusco, Mexico. These genetics that made their way into Indonesia were dominantly planted on old Dutch plantations found on East Java. These same genetics that were so highly regarded were also planted on the next island over, Bali. As the chocolate industry become more industrialized in the mid 1900’s and production output replaced quality of flavor, the plantations started to replace the Java Criollo with hybrids that increased the volume of cacao per hectare. Fortunately, the island of Bali was mostly ignored during the hybridization period. This is probably due to the fact that villages and small family farms populated these smaller islands, not plantations. In the mid 1900’s, Bali was nothing like it is today; it was still quite forgotten and remote. Today, many of Bali’s farms still remain as they were. The cacao is grown interspersed with other food crops such as, vanilla, exotic peppercorns, passion fruit, banana, jackfruit, palm trees and mangosteen. We refer to these as “food forests”. The Health of it All Cacao is PACKED with natural compounds called antioxidants. More than blueberries, pomegranate, cranberries and even red wine. Yet, all these fruits and drinks are great for a healthy diet and lifestyle. Promotes good cardiovascular health. Cacao is one of the best sources of natural magnesium, which is critical for a happy and healthy heart. Perhaps this is why its such a lovers food.. Promotes good blood circulation. Theobromine is a superior vascodilator, which means more oxygen gets pumped into your bloodstream, making it a great food for exercise. Lowers blood pressure. Rich in minerals. Cacao is a seed which contains many vital minerals our body needs to function optimally. There is so much more that we can go on for pages with the positive health benefits of cacao and chocolate. Yet, we are sure you know most of the good news already... you just need to get some in your mouth now!

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USE’s Sumo Carbon seatpost looks great with a smart carbon fibre weave post. USE’s own neat one-bolt clamp holds the saddle securely and doesn’t slip or creak. The Sumo one-bolt clamp gives the seatpost its name. The head and clamp pieces are forged and CNC-machined from 7075 aluminium and take 7mm rails. Clamps are also available for fatter rails. Angle adjustments are laser etched on the clamp. USE fits a 4mm Allen bolt so you need to be careful when tightening the clamp. We’d recommend using a torque wrench to avoid over-tightening it. The head is bonded to a full carbon shaft with smart printed decals. Its 400mm length is generous and should mean it will fit a raft of bikes including very compact frames that need a lot of post to get the right saddle height. It’s available in the most common sizes 27.2, 30.9, 31.6 and 34.9mm. There’s 10mm of layback but it’s a shame USE don’t offer an inline option for those that might not need that much layback. We’ve been battering the seatpost through hundreds of miles including several long distance marathon races and the post has stood up just fine. The clamp has proved solid and reliable with no saddle slippage or readjustment necessary throughout the test period. Thanks to the flex that you can build in with a carbon fibre shaft, t’s a comfortable post for long distance riding as well. That’s a unique advantage of carbon posts: try and make an aluminium post this flexible and it’ll fatigue to death in no time. It’s a good looking seatpost too which matters for an item that is on such prominent show. Weight is good at 232g for our 30.8mm sample, which isn’t far off the claimed weight. It’s far from the troubling the lightest sub-200g posts but its durability and comfort won us over. A light, strong and comfortable British-designed seatpost. Easy clamp setup There are cheaper carbon seatposts Price (for 30.8mm): £89.99 More information: USE Sumo Carbon Seat Post What USE says about the Sumo Carbon seat post The SUMO seat post is engineered to take a pounding and go the distance. The highly acclaimed, quick fitting, simple to adjust clamp design ensures the perfect saddle position. The SUMO is equally at home in Marathon events, TransMtn, Freeride (lite), as it is pounding out the cobbles in the heart of Europe. The SUMO is the first choice for riders who need a lightweight dependable seat post. The SUMO Carbon is used by World-class athletes through to amateurs in Multiple MTB World Cup events, developed for fastest, toughest riders on the planet.

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Posted by Jonathan Maus (Publisher/Editor) on January 6th, 2011 at 11:06 am many films that will screen during the Bicycle Film Festival. Get ready to be inspired and entertained by a wide variety of bicycle-themed films. The Bicycle Film Festival and Filmed By Bike are both gearing up for 2011. The Bicycle Film Festival has just announced dates and screenings for their 2011 Portland stop. This two-day festival, founded by New York City resident Brendt Barbur, celebrates its 10th anniversary this year with a mind-boggling lineup of the best bike films gleaned from around the globe. I'm looking forward to this documentary about Italian frame builder Giovanni Pelizzoli, also known as "Ciocc" (a legendary brand that my stepdad happens to be a huge fan of). Watch the trailer below... There are six different programs and the action starts on February 26th. All screenings happen at the Clinton Street Theater in Southeast Portland. Check trailers and film details at BicycleFilmFestival.com. On April 15-17th, Portland's homegrown bike film fest, Filmed by Bike will offer its legendary concoction of fun and film for the ninth year in a row. Event organizer and founder Ayleen Crotty says submissions are still coming in ahead of the January 20th deadline (you've still got time!). This year, Ayleen has been wowed by some great films already under consideration that have come in from as far away as Australia, Japan, and Spain. Even with a bit of global flair, Filmed by Bike is sure to feature many films from Portland and the Pacific Northwest. Learn more about this year's fest — and meet the esteemed jury who will select the films — at FilmedByBike.org.Email This Post Possibly related posts

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I'm @bikelady--Arizona writer and author--your word guide to adventures in self-development. This blog introduces you to the mental BIKE. I show you how to find yourBest self, access yourInner strength, tune in to your Killer instincts, and use yourExpressive voice. It's inspiring, spiritual, quirky, and it's all in your head. My first book. Just $14 on Amazon.com (click on the cover photo). Also available at a bookstore near you. Search This Blog Ph: 602-482-0409 E-mail: jackiedishner [at] msn [dot] com Twitter: @bikelady The words, photographs and any other material created on this site are copyrighted and belong to Jackie Dishner. No other site or person has the right to reproduce, copy/paste, print, distribute, or use in any other way either the words or the photographs or any other material contained on this site without my permission. Thank you.

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View Full Version : Joss tour///Rochester 03-18-2002, 08:53 PM Anybody on here going to Rochester for the $5,000 tournament,, should be the best one of the year so far with Buddy Hall,, Charlie williams,, Earl Strickland and alot of other top players going to be there,,,Dennis Hatch.. Mika Immonen.. Joe Tucker, Ginky.. should be absolutely a great turnout...............mike 03-19-2002, 02:45 PM I'll be there on Sunday probably all day. Richie did a great job with getting the big names here. The 5000 added couldn't have hurted. I'll be there both days Mike. Look for the gal handing out pecans,thats not me. 03-19-2002, 08:15 PM ANONYMOUS.... SEND ME A PRIVATE MESSAGE AND LET ME KNOW WHO YOU ARE.. I WILL LOOK YOU UP WHEN I GET THERE SAT..MIKE...........SOUNDS LIKE JT TO ME 03-20-2002, 05:43 AM Would love to catch a flight to Rochester, worked with a client there a few years back, but my NYC work schedule is getting in the way. Oh Well!!! Wonder how the pro's will feel when they get there. The Front roon has all GANDYS..with super bouncy rails and poor lighting. The back room has the brunswicks. Not that many. Interesting to see who comes out on top. Unless your used to going extra rails...The big G's will kill you. Try kicking at a ball one rail off the side rail...you can go flying off the table. Hard to kill whitey. Be fun to watch...not to play. 03-23-2002, 03:54 PM Well, Buddy pulled out at the last minute but the rest of the top players expected are there. McCready even made it out for this one. Ginky drew Charlie Williams in the first round and Charlie beat him pretty soundly. I hear Ginky is fighting with stomach flu but is out there fighting it out anyways. The top players seem to be advancing as expected with Hatch, Immonen, Santos and Garrahan all winning their first round matches. McCready pasted Robb Saez 9-2 in the second round. We have brackets as well as pics from the charity event last night and will have pics from today online tonight over at AzBilliards.com Powered by vBulletin® Version 4.2.0 Copyright © 2013 vBulletin Solutions, Inc. All rights reserved.

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The Convention adjourned from July 26th to August 6th to allow the Committee of Detail – composed of John Rutledge of South Carolina, Edmund Randolph of Virginia, Nathaniel Gorham of Massachusetts, Oliver Ellsworth of Connecticut, and James Wilson of Pennsylvania – to prepare a rough draft of a constitution, based on the series of resolutions the delegates had debated, amended, and debated again. When the Convention re-convened, the Committee of Detail presented its report, made up of twenty-three articles. The Convention spent the remainder of August reviewing and further revising these articles. We the People of… Delegates quickly agreed to accept the Committee of Detail’s preamble and Articles I and II, affirming the new government would be called the Unites States of America and consist of Legislative, Executive, and Judicial branches. This agreement masked the critical issue that the Convention had debated throughout – was this to be a union of states or of people? The Committee of Detail’s constitution began, “We the people of the States (emphasis added) of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, South-Carolina, and Georgia, do ordain, declare, and establish the following Constitution for the Government of Ourselves and our Posterity.” The Convention would not end with that language in the preamble. Representation: Who, What, and How Many? Discussion of the Committee of Detail report continued to include the structure and powers of the legislative branch. Some of the key questions included: Who can elect representatives? How many representatives will there be? What will be their qualifications? Delegates debated whether to allow non-land owners to the right to vote for House members, or reserve the franchise to property owners. Gouverneur Morris wanted to restrict voting to those with property, considering them more educated and better able to choose wise leaders. “The ignorant and dependant,” Morris stated, “can be… little trusted with the public interest.” Colonel Mason countered arguments of this kind, saying all citizens should have equal voting rights and privileges. Doctor Franklin sided with Colonel Mason believing that restricting the right to vote to land owners would cause contention among the people. In the end Morris’s proposal to restrict the franchise to property owners was defeated soundly (7-1-1). Just as the Convention rejected a plan to restrict voting to property owners, they also rejected a proposal to restrict elective office to property owners. South Carolina’s Charles Pinckney moved that “the President of the U.S., the Judges, and members of the Legislature should be required to swear that they were respectively possessed of a cleared unencumbered Estate” – in an amount to be agreed upon by members of the Convention. This proposal went nowhere. Benjamin Franklin expressed his “dislike of every thing that tended to debase the spirit of the common people,” and observed that “some of the greatest rogues he was ever acquainted with, were the richest rogues.” Madison reports that Pinckney’s motion “was rejected by so general a no, that the States were not called.” The Convention did have a sentiment in favor of strong citizenship requirements for legislators. The Committee of Detail’s report required members of the House be U.S. citizens for three years prior to election, and members of the Senate for four years. Some, including George Mason and Morris, agreed that a lengthy citizenship requirement would protect the legislature from foreign intrigue. Others, including Madison and Franklin, pointed to the number of foreign friends who had helped the states during the war for independence. Delegates sided with Mason and Morris, agreeing to requirements that members of the House be citizens for seven years and members of the Senate for nine years prior to election. On the question of how many representatives would make up the national legislature, Article IV of the Committee of Detail Report stated that the House of Representatives would initially consist of sixty-five members, and that in the future, members of the House would be added “at the rate of one for every forty thousand.” Madison, expecting the Union to grow rapidly, thought that rate would quickly lead the House to grow too large. Others thought that time would make this issue irrelevant. Mr. Nathaniel Gorham from Massachusetts asked, “Can it be supposed that this vast country including the Western territory will 150 years hence remain one nation? Mr. Oliver Ellsworth observed that “If the government should continue so long, alterations may be made in the Constitution” through the amendment process. Delegates agreed to add the language “not exceeding” to the one representative for 40,000 citizen ratio, making that a ceiling and not a floor. Controversy over this provision would re-emerge before the end of the Convention, however. The Specter of Slavery Likewise, controversy would emerge about slavery. Consideration of the apportionment of representatives raised the question of whether slaves would be included within that ratio. Morris rose on August 8 and gave a withering criticism of the institution. Moving to specify that this ratio would include only “free” inhabitants, Morris called slavery “a nefarious institution,” and “the curse of heaven”. Comparing free with slave states, Morris noted, on the one hand, “a rich and noble cultivation [which] marks the prosperity and happiness of the people,” and on the other “the misery and poverty which overspread the barren wastes of Virginia, Maryland, and the other states having slaves.” Morris’s motion was defeated 10-1, but the issue of how slavery would be addressed by the new union was by no means resolved. For more detailed information on the Constitutional Convention, please visit Prof. Gordon Lloyd’s web companion to the Philadelphia Convention. Posted in Countdown to the Constitution

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The Swedish Surfing Championships were held last week in cold and windy conditions (aka. epic in Sweden) at Toro beach outside of Stockholm. Squid lids off to these hard core and dedicated surfers for standing out in wind and rain to surf and root on their friends. Amidst the grey skies and dark seas, Swede soul surfer Pontus Hailin tells me that in the quarter-finals, “there were three colorful [Bing] sisters surfing together.” Looks like a Dharma party! Taking the title for 2012 was Freddie Meadows. Get a feel for what it’s like to surf in Sweden in the video below courtesy of Nordic Surfers Magazine. Photos by Mathieu Turries.

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Recording Frog Advertisement Calls at Mason Farm Biological Reserve (Haven Wiley Lab) Our Biology graduate programs span the breadth of biological questions and experimental systems — from evolution in viruses to cell and molecular biology in frogs and plants to bioinformatics of the human genome. Advances in genome sequencing and analysis together with rapid growth in interdisciplinary research are making the 21st century an exciting time for Biology. The University of North Carolina recognizes the importance of investing in Biology research and training and is undertaking key initiatives in the life sciences. The Biology department’s addition of the Genome Science Building and the recruitment of many new faculty make the department a vibrant place to learn and advance science. We invite you to join us in these exciting times. Our graduate students have the opportunity to become outstanding researchers in their chosen area of specialization. They learn how to conduct and analyze scientific research, give seminars, publish research papers, and write grants. Our programs allow flexibility in training for a multitude of futures, from university research and teaching, to biotechnology, to environmental conservation. Please use the navigation menu at left to explore the exciting possibilities we offer. We hope you will join us. Gregory P. Copenhaver and Karin Pfennig Directors of Graduate Studies

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That’s Random! A Look at Viral Self-Assembly It should be noted that indeterminacy does not imply that God does not have foreknowledge of future events. Christians ought not to be uncomfortable with the idea of God interacting with his creation through chance. Hydrology of the Bow River There’s a word beneath the water, and the Bow River belongs to God. Have you been listening? Denis Alexander on Understanding Creation Theology In this video Conversation, Denis Alexander asserts that contemporary Christians are not taking the early chapters of Genesis seriously enough. Evolution, the Enlightenment, and Worldviews In this video conversation, N.T. Wright discusses how the Enlightenment worldview -- which clearly separates God from the world -- has impacted our view of Scripture, and why cleaning the "spectacles" through which we view the world can help us see both Scripture and the world more clearly. Raising Children to Pursue Truth In this video Conversation, Joel Hunter articulates the importance of raising a child that can garner knowledge from a variety of sources and to be able to study science with integrity—that is, to be able to pursue the truth to where it leads. Worshiping, Growing, and Learning Yesterday, biology professors Randy Moore and Sehoya Cotner raised the concern that workshops focused on evolution-related training do not reach not reach creationism-based biology teachers. Today, we'd like to focus on BioLogos' efforts to address that divide through our Biology by the Sea workshops. Scientists Tell Their Stories: George Murphy During his seminary education, Dr. Murphy also gained a deeper understanding of Luther’s theology of the cross, and he realized that it’s really the best way to approach the science and theology dialogue. Katharine Hayhoe: Evangelical Christian, Climate Scientist As an Evangelical and a scientist, Katharine Hayhoe is already a member of a rare breed. As a climate change researcher who is also married to an evangelical Christian pastor, she is nearly one of a kind. Series: It's an Old World After All In our sixth BioLogos videocast, we take a look at the age of the Earth. We explain four methods scientists have used to determine that age: tree ring, lake varve, radiometric, and seafloor spread dating, and also offer some theological insight on how an old earth can fit with the first chapters of Genesis. Series: From the Dust In this series, Ryan Pettey offers several clips from his powerful documentary "From the Dust". This feature-length film is divided up into various sections, each of which wrestles with the difficult problems that arise when reconciling Scripture with the theory of evolution. 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Series: Shaping the Human Soul In Washington DC, Church of the Advent teamed up with The Trinity Forum to offer a series of lectures exploring the synergy between modern science and Christian Faith. This presentation by psychiatrist Curt Thompson and philosopher James K.A. Smith addressed the process of Christian discipleship and spiritual formation through the lens of neuroscience. Using Film to Catalyze Conversations on Faith and Science What are the best ways to spark productive conversations about science and faith? Certainly there are books, articles, blogs (like this one), and podcasts. But there are particular advantages to using film. Mending the Disconnect How can it be that two things we love and treasure—two things that are absolutely central to ourselves and the lives we’ve built—seem so often to be at odds with each other? 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Alas there were already Birders there when I arrived before 8 AM. One said he arrived just after 7 AM. I ended up hanging around the pond, gossiping and taking the occasional photo of a speeding Virginia Rail. The person there before me said that the Rails were nest building. I looked and indeed, saw one or more gathering material probably for a nest and carrying it from one location to another in the reeds. A heavily obscured photo as once again, the Rails did not cooperate with me. Later this person said he had seen a Rail carrying a chick on its back under its wings last year in the same area. I've never even seen a Rail chick. Maybe this year. The Rails were vociferous and one of the nesting Rails walked over to a different area and proceeded to attack another Rail, with both taking to the air briefly before disappearing into the reeds. Later we watched them foraging. We would see a black blur shoot across an open area, then disappear. Finally, though, luck blessed me and I watched a Rail come out of the undergrowth and grab a worm. The worm, though, was uncooperative and wrapped itself around a stalk, causing the Rail to slow down enough for me to get some photos. Like this from about 5 meters away: And while talking I noticed a small bird flying amongst the reeds. I wondered if it were a Marsh Wren. It seemed to have some yellow colouring on it. While I was watching a nearby RW Blackbird went after it. It flew a little towards me and landed. My first Common Yellowthroat of the year. He wasn't singing, but he had that perky look and a fresh coat of Spring colouring.

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Business Rates Deferral Scheme 2012/13 Deferred payment of 2012/13 rates liabilities The Government has decided to put in place a business rates deferral scheme which will give you the option of spreading the Retail Price Index increase in your 2012-13 bill over three years, to help businesses manage their cash flow during the downturn. You will be able to defer payment of 3.2% of your 2012-13 bill – which is equivalent to 60% of the Retail Price Index increase – until 2013-14 and 2014-15. You will then pay back the total amount deferred over the next two years. How to Apply Please read the FAQSs below and if you wish to opt into the scheme, an application form is available at the foot of this page for you to download and print off. The form simply asks for your name, the address of the property and its reference number (which can be found on your business rate bill). Just complete those details, sign and return it to the address at the bottom of the form. You do not need to pay anyone to do this for you. You can apply at any time until 31 March 2013 provided you have some of your bill left to pay. We would encourage you to apply early so that you see the reduction in your monthly instalments sooner, however, you will be able to defer 3.2% of the whole year’s bill regardless of when you apply. Provided that you return the application by 9 June, you will see the reduction in your July instalment. If you apply later than that date, you will see the reduction reflected in your next instalment or the one after that. Need further information? - Contact the business rates section for any further information on 0121 303 5510 / 0121 303 5509 or 0121 303 5511, or by email at [email protected] FAQs (Further details are available at www.businesslink.gov.uk) What’s the deadline for applying? – You can apply at any time until 31 March 2013, as long as you have some of your bill left to pay, but we would encourage you to apply early. How much of my bill can I put off paying? – You are able to put off 3.2% of the whole year’s 2012/2013 business rates bill. What if I have paid some or all of my bill? – You are able to put off paying 3.2% of the whole 2012/2013 bill, as long as you have that amount left to pay How will my payments be reduced? – The amount you are putting off paying will be spread over your remaining payments for the whole year. For example, if you can put off £100.00 and you have four payments left to make, each of those payments will be reduced by £25.00. Will I pay interest on the amount I put off paying? – No How soon will I see the benefit of making lower payments? – Provided that you return the application by 9 June 2012, you will see the reduction in your July instalment. If you apply later than that date, you will see the reduction reflected in your next instalment or the one after that. The amount you can put off paying will not change in both situations. When will I have to pay back the amount I put off? – You will pay back half the amount in 2013/14 and half in 2014/15, as well as paying your full bill for those years. Your rates bills in the next two years will include details of the amounts you have put off paying and need to pay, and your payments will be adjusted in line with this. What if I have more than one property? – If you have more than one property in the same council area, you only need to fill in one application form. You will need to give the council the address of all the properties you want to claim for. If you have properties in more than one council area, you will need to apply to each council separately. What if I stop occupying the property? – You will need to pay the amounts you have a duty to pay by law, including the amount you have put off paying. Your local authority will send you a revised bill, letting you know how much you should pay. What if I am already in arrears? – You do not automatically have the right to put off making any payments if you have already lost the right to pay your bill by instalments. You may still apply to put off making a payment, but it will be up to your local authority to decide whether or not to approve this. You may also want to talk to your local authority to discuss what other help is available. Will I be able to defer on the Business Rate Supplement element of my bill? – Yes. The deferment will also apply automatically to the BRS element of your bill (if applicable) on a pro rata basis. The only BRS in place for 2012-13 is the one levied by the Mayor of London to fund Crossrail which applies in London only at a rate of 2p on properties with a rateable value above £55,000. However, the 2p for the Crossrail BRS does not increase by inflation annually – so this element of your bill will in fact be the same as in 2011-12 if your rateable value is unchanged. What if I don’t keep up with my payments? – If you are struggling to keep up with your payments, you should talk to your local authority to discuss what other help is available. Is there any other help for businesses? – Further details of the full range of support and information available to businesses are available at www.businesslink.gov.uk. Is there any other help with rates bills for small businesses? – If you run a small business, further help may be available to pay your bills with Small Business Rate Relief. The level of Small Business Rate Relief has also been doubled for the whole of 2012-13. If you are occupying only one property with a rateable value of below £6,000 you may not need to pay any rates at all for 2012/13. Those occupying only one property with a rateable value of below £12,000 can benefit from a discount on your bill. The Government has also made it easier for eligible ratepayers with rateable values below £18,000 (£25,500 in London) to have their bills calculated using the small business multiplier. To apply for a discount, you need to contact your local authority Copyright: 2011 Birmingham City Council

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Thursday, August 19, 2010 Old painted wrought iron pieces are very common in southern yards. Granted they are not the most comfortable, but they are long on charm! I found this vintage piece at the Children's Fresh Air Farm recently. It was in a cool shady spot by a pretty little fountain near the children's garden plots.

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We continue our Nicaraguan nightmare in the thick of night back at Zappa (Zapatera). The moon hangs high while a salt and pepper haired cupcake of a man sits in the corner clutching his teddy bear and begs for team unity. "We need to come together. We need to settle our differences.", The Cuddler (Steve) laments. Lawyer Dave, however, doesn't give a fig about coming together. All he wants is to win and with that feeble-minded hippy sparrow Sarita on the tribe he fears that winning is merely but a wistful dream. You see, Sarita is one of those hot air people. They do a lot of talking but when it comes time to put those words into action, all that hot air leaks out and all you're left with is a shriveled up clump of cheap rubber with little strands of spit seeping out of it. Sarita is angry that Dave voted for her at Tribal Council. The only explanation she can come up with for his heinous act of dissension is that he's been lured over to the dark side. Really Sarita? A horned goat's head came out of the night and with a long bony finger beckoned Dave to join him in his underground lair where virgins are sacrificed and baby's blood is on the breakfast menu? Look, if that really happened that would be my Survivor fantasy come to life, but it didn't happen. Sarita sucks, Dave knows it, he's not afraid to say it and that's that. Meanwhile, The Cuddler is freaking out because his tribal unity is tainted and his lace bloomers haven't been ironed in days. Again I ask, wasn't he in the NFL for like many many years? My friend's 18 month old baby has more anger and gumption than Steve ever will. And what the hell is going on with Mike? Didn't he fight in a war for us? How is it that these paradigms of "manliness" are nothing but delicate little robin's eggs wrapped in pretty pink satin bows? Your honor, I move that Lawyer Dave is the only man on Zappa worthy of holding onto his balls. Off with the others! Over on Rhode Island (Redemption Island) a different sort of torture is taking place. Stephanie has been talking for the past 6 hours about food and the usually gentle and serene Pretty Pony (Matt) is about to cut her tongue out and feed it to the sharks. Do you remember Vanessa Huxtable's friend on The Cosby Show? The one who talked a mile a minute and made Dr. Huxtable's eyes bug out of his head? Well, that's Stephanie. "ImeantheressomanythingsIloveVietnamesefoodThaifoodChinesefoodlikeItalianfood *inhale* Idon'tevenlikesweetsbutbringitonI'mgonnahaveasliceofredvelvetfromthisbakerythatIusedtoworkat *inhale* TheweirdestthingI'vebeencravingtohavelikebananashakeswithpeanutbutterinit *inhale* Theflavorofpeanutbutterlikesnickerdoodleswithpeanutbutterontop" Poor Pretty Pony was sitting there fashioning a noose out of his buff and praying that death comes quick and painless. Suicide is a sin and I don't think it comes with a "Get Into Heaven Free" card, but Pretty Pony is willing to take that risk if it'll just make Stephanie shut the hell up. Back at Omarion (Ometepe), it's time to pick people to witness the Duel. Federal Agent Phillip announces that it's his turn to go again and upon hearing this Rob insists on attending the Duel with him. You see, Phillip is an unpredictable loose cannon. He could fire off all sorts of missiles of tribal information to the Zappa's and it's in Rob's best interest to make sure Phillip keeps his mouth shut and stays in line. Similarly, Phillip doesn't trust Rob either so he turns to his Samurai spirit guide, Miyamoto Musashi for inspiration. It turns out that Musashi was not only a psychotically unpredicatable sword wielder, but he wrote a book about 5 rings or something. I don't know about you, but when I hear "5 rings" I think of Christmas... "Fiiiive goooolden riiiings". Unfortunately, nothing about Musashi is Christmas-y. In fact, he was kind of a scary unkempt miscreant. He wandered the wilderness refusing to bathe or change his clothes because he feared being attacked while unprepared. With scars all over his face from congenital syphillis he'd challenge random people to duels for no reason at all. Once he whittled a wooden sword out of an oar and then bashed someone's head in with it. Now, I'm not a Buddhist or anything, but if it pleases the court, I move that Phillip is Miyamoto Musashi reincarnated. Both men could clearly benefit from a good scrubdown in addition to, oh I don't know, maybe a drug trial for some newfangled schizophrenia meds. Over at Rhode Island it's Duel time. Phillip and Rob are there representing Omarion with David and Rooster (Ralph) representing Zappa. In trots the Pretty Pony and I'm instantly shocked by his appearance. My normally resplendent equine loverboy is haggard and exhausted with sad little dark circles under his eyes. Frightened whiggedy whack strands of hair stick out of his usually pristine ponytail and I instantly gave Stephanie my devil death stare. Clearly, her words are poisonous little daggers of evil. She's sullied my pony! His purity is gone. The light in his eyes has dimmed. He's nothing but a damaged tattered representation of what he used to be. God cried that day my friends. God and me. We both cried. When beauty is lost all you can do is cry... or go nuts like Norma Desmond. It's up to you. *shrugs shoulders* Whatevs. Ok so this week the duel is going to test the Survivors memory. Grrrreat. Pretty Pony hasn't slept all night and his brain is filled with words and phrases like "cake" and "chocolate dipped in peanut butter". This is the worst possible time for this challenge. I hate you Dimples. Scattered in the arena are pairs of matching symbols. Each round you flip over two symbols and if they match you score a point. The first person to match five stays alive. Stephanie won the Rochambeau and has chosen for Pretty Pony to go first. You bitch! Survivors ready, go. Pretty Pony does what any good Christian does. He gives up candy for Lent, makes the sign of the cross and hopes for the best. First, he flips over a skull and I thought to myself, "It's a sign! It's a sign! This can't be good" and then he flipped over another skull. I whipped off my shirt, dipped my breasts into two conveniently placed bowls of glitter and shouted at the screen, "Suck on that Stephanie!" Those etiquette classes I've been taking are really paying off. Stephanie takes her turn and flips a crocodile. Then, she flips another fucking crocodile. Oh, come on! Here I am thinking Pretty Pony is the second coming and devil girl Stephanie pulls a magical move out of her ass as well. Pretty Pony goes again and fails to make a match. The air is tinged with evil now. Any goodness that was lingering was killed when Stephanie matched those stupid crocodiles. Flip, flip, flip Pretty Pony makes two more matches and I knew that Jesus had finally awoken from his nap. Then Stephanie makes a match, claps for herself and I threw my gin glass at the screen. I learned that in Elocution Class. Flip, flip, flip the score is now 4-3 with Pretty Pony in the lead. He flips a calendar and knows he's seen the other one before, but all that's swirling in his head, thanks to Stephanie, are visions of macaroons and hot fudge sundaes. He gets the match wrong and it's Stephanie's turn again. She, too, flips the calendar. I covered my face with my hands and said, "No match no match no match no match". Someone somewhere was listening cuz girfriend screwed up and flipped war clubs. For his next turn, Pretty Pony looks up to heaven and let's the Holy Spirit fill his soul. He flips over the war clubs and then... he flips over ANOTHER war clubs. PRETTY PONY STAYS ALIVE!!!! I cantered around the room while Boston Rob reluctantly clapped. Stephanie starts to cry and then she does what has become my favorite part of Rhode Island. She blabs all sorts of secrets and throws a tantrum like a sore loser. First, she says that there are people there that don't deserve to be there. Then, she turns to Rooster and tells him that he has to get rid of Sarita. She says that David is the only one that can do puzzles and I'm now convinced that he must have smuggled in a pocket game of Connect Four or something. Dimples pushes Stephanie to continue as he loves the spilling of secrets as much I do. She turns to Rob and tells him to watch his back and not to trust anyone on Zappa. She advises Rob to try to win Pretty Pony back and that made Matt laugh. In that moment, I knew, I just knew, that if Pretty Pony reenters the game, all hell is going to break loose. Everyone and no one is going to want him on their side. He's a number, but he's also a HUGE threat. With Jesus as his partner, I wouldn't put it past him to win Individual Immunity week after week. Does that make him the best player in the game? I don't know. Rob's been playing his game with a finesse I've never seen before. It's subtle yet skilled, psychological yet physical. Right now I'd be torn in a Pretty Pony/Boston Rob final two. There's one more little thing we have to address before we leave Rhode Island. It turns out that Phillip is a fan of the Pretty Pony as well. He starts to quote the Bushido code I mentioned in my opening paragraph only he pronounces it "Bee-shoe-doh". Dry mouth syndrome. Anyhow, he tells Pretty Pony that he is indeed a Samurai warrior. Matt laughs and thanks him, but I shouted, "No, he's not! Does he look like he has syphillis to you?! He couldn't hurt a butterfly let alone smash in some guy's brains in with a rotten old oar. You shut your face Phillip Sheppard!" I was furious Phillip dared to compare himself to that precious angel, but Rob was pissed off for another reason. He was pissed that Phillip dared to open his mouth at all. It's clear to Rob now that Phillip is ready to make a big move. He's planting seeds and gathering up an alliance. I don't know. I think Rob is giving Phillip a little bit too much credit. I think all Phillip has up his sleeves is a clam shell walkie talkie and maybe a pinecone grenade. On the way back to camp, Phillip asks Rob what they should tell the others about Rhode Island. He wonders if they should hold back intel and plan a covert operation. Apparently, Langley is waiting for word from Phillip on how to proceed. There are agents that need to be activated, fake passports to be made, interpol has to be notified. It's a whole big production and Phillip is anxious to get started. Rob quickly poo-poo's Phillip's idea to withhold info and tells him that it's best to keep their tribe strong and unified, but inside Rob was secretly celebrating. This was exactly the type of shady move he was praying Phillip would make. You see, now Rob can go back to camp and tell the others how Phillip wanted to get all Jason Bourne on everybody's ass. Mistrust is laid, Rob looks like the hero and, if Omarion loses again, Phillip is headed to Guantanamo where he'll have the best medical care the country has to offer. When they finally do arrive at camp, Rob immediately tells everyone how Pretty Pony won and Stephanie let it all hang out. Mascaroni (Andrea) stabbed her Pretty Pony voodoo doll in the face and then Rob told everyone how Stephanie said Rob is the number one target. Phillip nodded, acknowledged the tiny seashell earpiece in his ear and then went off into the woods to write a letter in invisible ink (i.e. urine). As soon as Phillip was out of earshot, Rob tells everyone about the Jason Bourne plan and assures them that as soon as they merge, Phillip's flipping. They decide then and there that if they lose the next challenge, Phillip is going home. And then Phillip fell out of a tree and tried to cover it up with a somersault. Ahem, Navy Seal training. Nothing to be alarmed at. Go about your business. Over at Zappa, The Cuddler wants to know if Stephanie said anything mean and nasty about him at Rhode Island. Did she pass any notes saying, "Steve's stinky!" or anything like that? These are things that The Cuddler is concerned with. Rooster mumbles "Yeayaw, she'n wawntin' 'em ta beet us". Lawyer Dave, on the other hand, said it really wasn't all that egregious and then Rooster wondered what 'egregious' meant. Sarita asks about the Pretty Pony and Rooster tells them that there's no way he'd flip sides at a Merge. I can see how Rooster would think that after Phillip rained down his Samurai speech on Pretty Pony, but I think Lawyer Dave may have been a tad more intuitive for he put his head down and walked away. After all, Stephanie did say to Rob that he should try to win Matt back. Rooster should have seen that as an opening to bring Pretty Pony into the fold. Instead he tells his tribe that Loy-yerr Dave will flip at the Merge which promptly sent Sarita into mom-mode and The Cuddler into a panic attack. So while Zappa was lounging around content with being uninteresting and boring, Dave suggests they go out fishing. That storm the other night must have brought in some good pickings and they should take advantage of it. Leathery ole Julie rolled over and said, "Uhhh nooooo, I think the storm brought in mud. It's nappy time." Dave then tried to explain how the currents close to the equator tend to run, what fish are migrating at that time of year in the Carribean Sea and how the high and low pressure weather systems will affect camp. In response The Cuddler grabbed his fluffy pillow and said, "But it's mucky out there." Apparently, Rooster (from Virginia not Nicaragua) said the fishing is no good and the tribe would rather believe him than Loy-yerr Dave. Then, that battered ole piece of shoe leather, Julie, said Dave was driving her crazy and she went back to stretching her skin out to dry. What the hell is wrong with this tribe?! We know that Julie and The Cuddler are useless, but what's going on with Mike? I have a feeling that he's not exactly thrilled with the direction his tribe is headed in. I'm getting this vibe that he doesn't want to play ball with the geritol crowd. I'd like to see him speak up and do something, anything. Someone wave a mirror in front of his mouth so I know he's still breathing. Mike is like Bernie in Weekend At Bernie's. Does he have a pulse or not? Over at Omarion, it's lunchtime. The rice has been cooked and Phillip is chewing with a ferocity that I can only interpret as being morse code. I'm pretty sure he can chew and send messages at the same time. *chew chew... chew... chew chew chew chew STOP chew... chew chew... chew* Translated, I think it means: "Water the marigolds. Viper is in transit. Need new panties." So everyone is happily eating their rice and Natalie has appointed herself as the Rice Hall Monitor. She's guarding the crispy rice for Rob because that's the only rice he eats. Phillip catches the name "Rob" on the wind, gets up and demands that he gets his share of crispy rice too. He's a 52 year old man not a red-headed stepchild. He should be entitled to exactly the same things Rob is entitled to. Then, Peter played ball in the house, Jan wore a wig and Phillip bellowed, "Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!" Why does Marcia (Rob) get to do everything?! All Phillip ever hears about in school is how good Marcia is at this or how great Marcia is at that. Marcia, Marcia, Marcia! Phillip is sick of being a redhead, sick of being ignored and sick of being treated like he doesn't matter. He's a senior member of this tribe goddammit. He's put in years of service and he wants his crispy rice pension now. When he signed the Constitution to be a part of Survivor it said very clearly in Article 1, Section 8: The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes and Phillip Sheppard shall have power to collect his crispy rice. It's right there in black and white. You can go down to the National Archives and see it for yourself. Now we arrive at the big Immunity Challenge. It's a challenge we've seen before and it's one I've enjoyed very much before. Any time Survivors emerge like mud people and have to hurl their bodies against walls, an angel gets her wings. Ok so both tribes have to race through a series of obstacles collecting bags of balls. Once they've cleared all the obstacles, they have to shoot their balls into a basket. First tribe to get all 6 balls in the basket wins. Since the tribes are equal now, Sarita can't be a pussy and sit out. Also, they're playing for a helicpoter ride to a picnic complete with alcoholic beverages. Survivors ready, go! Both tribes fly into a pile of hay and come tumbling out the other side. Sarita and Rob are then lifted into the air to unravel a bag of balls. Rob flings his bag around so it spins and spins and spins. Sarita limply raises her arm and wonders when this nightmare will end. Omarion gets their bag and begin crawling in the mud. Zappa finally gets their bag of balls and enters the mud. Since Julie is the same color as the mud I can only surmise that she sunk and hopefully we'll never see her again. Omarion is now at the wall of ropes where Phillip gets tangled up and kills Omarion's lead. Rob literally has to race back and carry Phillip through the last part of the obstacle. Since Sarita sucks at life, David goes up instead of her to work on the second bag of balls. Rob is also working on his balls but this time he flips them the wrong way and David pulls ahead. Zappa pulls ahead and approaches the maze of rope platforms. Sarita gets stuck and cries, "Help me! Help me!" while over at Omarion Rob is pretty much carrying on his Phillip on his back up and down all the rope ramps. Zappa gets to their third bag of balls first while Phillip is still back asking a rope where his crispy rice is. David gets the third and final bag first and Zappa races to the brick wall. The Cuddler smashes into it, falls over and dies. Over on Omarion, Grant is the designated Smasher and breaks both walls for his team to climb through. At the end, it's a race to see who'll get their balls in the basket first. Toss, toss, toss, Grant probably played for the NBA, toss, toss, toss, balls are tied, toss, toss, toss OMARION WINS IMMUNITY!!! Sarita wanders around aimlessly wondering where she is, Dave drags The Cuddler's body through the mud and off somewhere in a private corner Phillip is making out with the Immunity statue. Hot. Without further ado, Omarion is immediately whisked off in a helicopter to enjoy their Reward. The music is grand and sweeping, everyone is psyched to be in the chopper and Rob says that out of his 85 seasons of playing Survivor, landing on a volcano is the coolest Reward ever. Even Phillip is happy. Sure, he got tangled up in the ropes and sure Rob had to drag him by his panties through that entire last challenge, but the warrior inside Phillip is strong. A Samurai is nothing if not determined. Miyamoto Musashi once said, "In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined through calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. Lucky numbers: 1,14, 22, 73, 96" So while Phillip is busy musing about how much his tribe loves and cherishes him, Rob is digging yet another Immunity scroll out of a jar of spiral cookies. Since he already has the Idol and since it's pretty cool to throw stuff down into a large cavernous bubbling cauldron of scalding hot lava, he chucks the scroll without even opening it. A rock star move if ever I saw one. Back at Zappa, it's a rock star free zone. Sarita, of all people, addresses the tribe and says that Lawyer Dave isn't really all that great in challenges. Sarita, the spindly hiccup of a boil on the butt of competitiveness, thinks she's better in the challenges than Dave. I want to know where Sarita comes from because I think it would be a fun place to visit. Any place where there is LSD in the water supply has to be a good time, right? Her fingers probably make really cool trails and the trees outside probably talk to her. Book me a ticket. I like to escape reality every now and then. I usually do it with gin and a cornucopia of pharmaceuticals, but, hey, I'm up for anything. As long as I don't have to listen to the Grateful Dead and dance in Birkenstock's I'll hang with Sarita. So, Sarita is making the rounds at camp slipping blotter into everyone's canteens and trying to convince everyone that David is a buzzkill to the tribal harmony. Rooster tells her David did awesome in the challenge today and Sarita shoves a handful of magic mushrooms in his mouth and says "No, he didn't." Rooster replies, "Yeauh'n yerrn probly raght." and off she scampers to drug another unsuspecting victim. Meanwhile, Dave is lugging an entire tree and preparing to whittle a court bench and a gavel or something. I have no idea. Did you see the size of that thing? It was huge! The only conclusion I can come to is that he wants a fair trial and is prepared to carve his own jury box. Either that or he's going to burn Sarita at the stake. Personally, I'm hoping for the latter. Meanwhile Mike is all twisted up inside worrying how to vote. On the one hand, SARITA SUCKS. On the other hand, David is crafty and might be planning a Sarita barbecue. He consults Rooster and Julie which is kind of like consulting a hairball and a belt and I began to wonder if Mike is capable of making any decisions on his own. He's a strong strapping guy. He's been to war for crying out loud. Why is he being such a follower? Shouldn't he have PTSD and grumble about all the carnage he's seen? My god, he's soooooo boring. What a waste of a casting spot. And this brings us to Tribal Council. Dimples asks Rooster how he thinks the challenge went and Rooster replies, "Jayff, twas prettay close t'day. We was ahayd 'til we got ta them balls." Dimples interrupts him and says to Lawyer Dave, "Finish this sentence. Excuses are for...?" and Dave, without missing a beat, replies, "Losers." Dimples sits back very pleased with himself while Rooster says, "I'm a loser then." In that moment Julie grimaced, took her face off and made a purse out of it while Dimples took yet another opportunity to bring up Russell's name. Dave thinks the tribe lacks unity. They were all united when they got rid of Russell, but for some reason it's gone now. At one point they were all friends and shared a goal, but now there's only tension and chaos. Dimples turns to Rooster and asks him how important it is for a tribe to be cohesive. Rooster replies, "Way'll furss Jayff, I dun know what coyheesive means." *sighs* The tribe snickers to themselves and, in an attempt to simplify things, Dimples asks if he'd rather manage a group of guys who hated each other but got the job done or a group of guys who loved each other but did shit work. Rooster replies, "I disagree." *smacks self in head* It was here that it dawned on me that Rooster doesn't understand anything anyone is saying... ever. He's a local guy with local ears and the only language he understands is Virginie. Mind you, I live in Virginia, but Rooster lives in Virginie. The quorum continues and The Cuddler whined a little, Julie turned her arm skin into a leather headband and Sarita babbled some nonsense about the Oceanic Six. David continued to be a bit of an arrogant smartass, but I kind of dug it. On a tribe full of pussies you need a smartass. I wonder if I could get that handstitched on a pillow somewhere. In the end, Zappa did the right thing and Sarita is the seventh person voted out of Survivor: Redemption Island. Dumb bitch didn't even pack a bag. So, what did you guys think of last night's episode? Are you glad Sarita went home? Do you think she has any chance against the Pretty Pony? If Pretty Pony comes back, will Mascaroni stab him in his sleep? Comment it out bitches and have a great day!

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Ummm I have NO idea where either of these bands get their drugs, but they must be good… Like REALLY good. Ummm… like the kind that Charlie Sheen gets. This first guy was completely unknown to me and the minute I read his sad little bio about working in a vegan restaurant and making music with no money, I had to dig around. I watched a few things and couldn’t help thinking he is what Pedro and Napolean’s baby would look/dance/sing like. Sure, he’s scary, like weird and thinks too weird for me to comprehend-scary… but he’s damn good at making the pop musics. I like him. I just don’t … ya know… wanna eat vegan food with him anytime soon. These next guys also spend time with Charlie Sheen or his dealer … or something. You might already know them form the “Combination Pizza Hut/Taco Bell” jam. At least, that’s the presence they had until now on my iPod. I did some more digging for the blog to see if maybe that one jam wasn’t indicative of the rest of their collection. Nope, it is. They have songs like, “Chicken and Meat” that are equally as emotionally moving as the Taco Bell song. But, alas, everyone needs a laugh every now and then… why not let these guys give it to you in the form of drug fueled munchie ridiculousness? You wish you had Charlie Sheen’s dealer’s phone number now, don’t you?

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On Amazon’s peak day, Dec. 15, customers ordered a record 6.3 million items, or almost 73 items each second, the company said. Last year, the peak day was Dec. 10, when customers ordered 5.4 million items. Amazon’s press release has all sorts of entertaining factoids: the weight of all GPS devices it sold from Black Friday through December equals the combined weight of 151 Mini Coopers; it sold enough “Breaking Dawn” books that, if stacked end to end, they would reach the summit of Mount Everest eight times; and its top sellers in electronics included a 52-inch Samsung LCD HDTV and the eight-gigabyte Apple iPod Touch. But the numbers do little to tell us how good (or bad) Amazon’s season really was. The company didn’t disclose whether shoppers bought more or fewer high-priced items than in previous years or whether discounts ate into profit margins. It didn’t disclose revenue or even the total volume of products it shipped throughout the holiday season. What’s more, as consumers do more and more of their shopping online, where Amazon is the leading retailer, a “record” season at Amazon is hardly surprising. Amazon has claimed that its holidays were the “best ever” or “busiest ever” every year since at least 2002. As Douglas Anmuth, an analyst at Barclays Capital, said in a note to investors early Friday: “AMZN’s announcement this A.M. that it posted another record holiday season should not come as a surprise given the ongoing secular shift toward e-comm., along w/ AMZN’s continued mkt share gains, but it appears likely to move the stock some in the N-T [near-term] given the lack of positive retail news flow & thin overall trading.” The near-term stock gain did materialize, but it was short-lived. After the opening, Amazon shares traded as high as $53.95, a nearly 5 percent gain from their pre-Christmas close of $51.44. But shares slid throughout the day and closed at $51.78, up just 0.66 percent.

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Talk about bad luck; Baking up a storm with less than a day standing between me and the ice cream party in Brooklyn, and disaster strikes. It’s a long story, but let me just tell you that I found myself with a sink full of glass and one less baking dish in my pantry. Flooded with regret and a mild sense of panic, having just broken a dish that had been a part of our family for even longer than I had been, a stunned silence pervaded my mind as I dropped each shard of glass into the trash bin, one by one. What to do, what to do. After a few moments of spinning my wheels unsuccessfully, the truth was became evident: I needed a new baking dish, as there were simply no others big enough to accommodate this crumble. Well, I was soon to find out that this was easier said than done. Arriving at the local baking supply shop with a sense of urgency and my patient mother in tow, I searched fruitlessly for a matching dish. Employees soon came to my aide, offering up alternatives when the perfect pan didn’t present itself. A roasting pan? No, wrong shape. A jelly roll pan? No too shallow. So we departed with a bit more desperation than before, and ventured to the restaurant supply store. A myriad of fun gadgets and tools presented themselves, and I couldn’t help but poke a bit… But still, no baking dish. Off to investigate at a home supply store… but then, easily distracted as I am, I found myself in a spice shop instead. And then a Whole Foods. And then back at home, with no pan at all but plenty of groceries instead! Curse my wandering mind… Finally, after going back out a few hours later once the sun had disappeared from the horizon, I secured an acceptable substitute- The only catch was, this model was much bigger than the original, and so the recipe had to be enlarged to follow suit. I must warn you, this makes a huge helping of dessert, and I feared that I would end up taking a good bit of it back with me after the party. Much to my delight and surprise, it was actually the first thing to go, even served cold! So, if you’re hosting a crowd and want an easy dish that will leave a smile on your guests’ faces, this one’s for you. Just don’t go breaking that pan, or you might never find a replacement! Apple Crumble for an Army 1 Cup Whole Wheat Flour 1 1/2 Cups Rolled Oats 1 Cup Brown Sugar 1 Teaspoon Ground Cinnamon 1/2 Teaspoon Salt 3/4 Cup Melted Margarine or Canola Oil 1 Teaspoon Vanilla Extract 1 Teaspoon Ground Cinnamon 1 Teaspoon Ground Ginger 1/4 Cup Lemon Juice 1/2 Cup Apple Juice Concentrate 1/2 Cup Granulated Sugar 3 Tablespoons Cornstarch Pinch of Salt 12 Apples (6 tart, 6 sweet) 1 Cup Mixed Dried Fruit (Chopped into medium-sized pieces, if appropriate) 1 Cup Slivered Almonds Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Combine all dry ingredients for the topping in a large bowl and slowly drizzle in the melted margarine or oil while stirring. It will seem dry at first, but don’t be tempted to add more liquid- Soon you will have coarse crumbs that are plenty moist. Set this aside for the time being. Moving on to the filling, whisk together everything but the fruits and nuts in a 17 x 12 baking dish. I started out using a large bowl, but it wouldn’t all fit, so save yourself the trouble of another dish to wash (this is the vessel that you’ll bake the crumble in, too.) Once that’s done, start peeling, coring, and slicing the apples (I used granny smith and fuji, by the way, but any mix you’d prefer would be equally tasty.) Put the apple slices in the mixture you’ve stirred up in the pan, and toss to coat thoroughly. Make sure you don’t leave any slices high and dry. When all the apples have been dealt with in a similar manner, stir in the dried fruit so that it’s evenly distributed (go for anything you’ve got in the house, but I happened to have dates, apricots, and currants on hand). Sprinkle the almonds over the top without stirring, and then sprinkle the oat mixture over that. Slide the whole thing into the oven for 40 – 50 minutes until browned and bubbly. Wait at least 10 minutes before serving and dish it out while still warm. Serves 25 – 30

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Have you ever used a ruffle attachment on your sewing machine? I had been wanting a ruffle attachment for awhile, but never got around to ordering one. A couple of weeks ago I began researching their cost and videos on how to use them. I have a bernina so my first thought centered around purchasing a bernina ruffle attachment no. 86. I found the Bernina brand for around $100 on EBay, new and in the box, but I also found a knock off brand for $26.99! I purchased the knock off one. It arrived within a few short days and I was beyond excitement to put that baby on and begin making ruffles! Four hours later and after watching you tube videos repeatedly for the life of me I could not figure out how to attach that ruffle attachment properly. Yes, there were instructions in the box, but they were horrible and the more I read them the more I became confused. Finally after just sitting and looking at the ruffle attachment and studying how it was made I had a light bulb moment! Once I figured out how to assemble the gadget it was time to find the proper ruffle setting. That took a considerable amount of time too, but after playing with it and changing the numbers on the devise I was finally making the prettiest ruffles. In fact I do believe those ruffles are probably the prettiest ruffles I've ever seen on this side of the Missouri! I even dabbled with some hang tag making! My advise to you if you purchase a ruffle attachment... Take it slow and watch a few how to videos before attempting to assemble. I hope this gets you ruffle excited and wanting to make oodles upon oodles of ruffles! Because I believe, Ruffles are RONDERFUL! SHARE THOSE RONDERFUL RUFFLES! CLICK ON THE LINK ICON AND ADD YOUR BLOG POST. POST MUST REFLECT RUFFLES THAT YOU HAVE MADE! enjoy caring and sharing days

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TRT Holdings, parent of the Omni Hotels, has agreed to sell its stake in Gaylord Entertainment back to the company and drop its opposition to Gaylord’s plans to sell management rights to Marriott. The announcement, made early Tuesday by Nashville-based Gaylord, appears to end the feud between the two hotel companies over the future of Gaylord, which owns the Gaylord Texan in Grapevine. Irving-based TRT Holdings, owned by local billionaire Robert Rowling, had opposed a plan in which Gaylord would sell management rights and then convert itself into a real estate investment trust, retaining ownership of the four Gaylord properties. Marriott would take over operations October 1 and the company would convert to a REIT in January, according to the plan. Under the deal announced Tuesday, Gaylord is buying 5 million TRT shares for $185 million or $37 a share. The stock closed above $37 Monday. Gaylord also agreed to file a registration statement to acquire TRT Holdings’ remaining 5.6 million shares, “which would allow TRT Holdings the opportunity to exit the remainder of its position.” TRT has been the largest Gaylord share holder and its opposition to the deal represented a road block. TRT Holdings has agreed to vote its remaining 5.6 million shares in favor of the Marriott / REIT plan. Under a standstill provision in the repurchase agreement, TRT Holdings and its affiliates have agreed not to buy any of Gaylord’s securities and not to seek to influence the company’s board of directors or company policies for three years. Also, under the repurchase agreement, Gaylord, TRT Holdings, and its affiliates agree “not to disparage the other party during such three-year period,” Gaylord said. Officials with TRT could not be reached for comment Tuesday.

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2013-05-18T06:31:01Z

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STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — A company that's towing a banner over Penn State demanding the removal of a Joe Paterno statue has a history of controversy, according to aviation records. A plane licensed to Air America Aerial Ads of Genoa, Ohio, flew over State College on Wednesday with a banner saying "Take the statue down or we will," according to the Centre Daily Times. The Federal Aviation Administration grounded a plane from the same company after it towed banners taunting Tiger Woods during the 2010 Masters golf tournament. A report last week concluded that Paterno helped cover up child sex abuse allegations against former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky. A man who answered the phone at Air America declined to give his name or identify who paid for the flight, but he says they believe in free speech.

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Something went wrong! Something behind the scenes isn't working right, but it's our fault, not yours. The problem has been logged and we will be looking into it. If the problem can not be resolved immediately, rest assured it will be prioritized and fixed as soon as possible. Still seeing this message after a few minutes? If you've given it some time and you are still getting this error, please send us an email. Thanks for your patience, understanding and help.

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Skip to content Skip to navigation Black Country History Web Site Black Country History is a searchable website which allows users to find information about documents, maps, photographs, art works, objects and more held by archives and museums services within the Black Country. The eight partners involved in this website are: Dudley Archives and Local History Service Dudley Museums Service Sandwell Community History and Archives Service Sandwell Museums Service Walsall Local History Centre Walsall Museums Service Wolverhampton Archives and Local Studies Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service Contact information for accessibility help Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service Wolverhampton Art Gallery N. Hingley & Sons Ltd, Washington Street, Netherton - Ref No: p/430 - Repository: Dudley Archives & Local History Service - Date: [c1960] - Description: Goods wagon belonging to Hingley's on display in a museum. - Admin History: A forge and a small chain-making factory was founded by Noah Hingley (1796-1877) at Cradley, in the early 1800s. The company later produced pig iron for the manufacture of wrought iron. Noah Hingley leased mining areas from the Earl of Dudley in order to raise his own coal, limestone, and iron ore. Hingley's activities encompassed the Netherton Ironworks; The Harts Hill Iron Works; The Old Hill Furnaces; and various collieries. Until 1820, Noah Hingley was a nail master and maker of small chains, but by the 1830s, he had established himself as an ironmaster - manufacturing pig iron and wrought iron, before establishing his chain works at Netherton in 1837. It was one of, if not the largest cable making factory in the world. In 1848 he began making anchors and cables for the shipping industry. New extended premises were erected at Netherton in 1852. Noah Hingley died in 1877 and was succeeded by his son, Benjamin Hingley (1830-1905). He ran the company until 1895 when he was forced to retire due to a serious illness. The Company was then taken over by his nephews, George Benjamin Hingley (1850-1918), who became Managing Director, and Henry Montagu Hingley (1855-1909). George Benjamin Hingley was a long-standing member of the Midland Iron and Steel Wages Board; and served as vice-chairman of the South Staffordshire Ironmasters Association. By 1909, 90% of all Britain's production of chain took place in the Netherton and Cradley areas; and Hingley's was the largest chain manufacturer in that area, at one point, they were manufacturing some 10,000 tons of anchors and chains per year. Most of the big ocean-going liners of Cunard and other companies had anchors and chains made by Hingleys - for example in 1911, Hingley's manufactured the enormous 15 ton anchor for the ill-fated SS Titanic. The anchor was pulled through the streets of Netherton by 20 shire horses, and the townspeople turned out to watch the spectacular event. They also made the anchor for the yacht of Tzar Nicholas of Russia. Other companies were taken over from the early 20th century (some absorbed, others maintained as wholly owned subsidiaries, etc.) and further subsidiaries established. In the post-Second World War (1939-1945) era some dormant subsidiaries were revived and renamed as the group took on (albeit incompletely) a holding company-operating subsidiary pattern. Various activities were grouped (e.g. "Engineering") and in the 1960s subsidiaries and plants were rationalised. The whole group was absorbed by F.H. Lloyd and Company, Ltd. of Wednesbury in 1966 but the consequent reorganisation of management, subsidiaries and activities was not completed until 1970/71, at which time F.H. Lloyd was reconstructed as a holding company and Hingley's became one of its principal subsidiaries through which various of the old Hingley subsidiaries were controlled. - Level: Item - For more information contact: Dudley Archives

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Isn't this bike gorgeous?! Jorg & Olif has created my dream bike. thoughts + things i'm in love with the kickstand alone! i wish i could afford that :( oooh! love it! oh, it's beautiful! i have this bike! not this one but the original black one - with a lovely wicker basket. it was worth every penny. It looks alot like my Batavus Old Dutch bike. And many of the other bikes here in Copenhagen. this bike totally reminded me of a post on this website:http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com/2008/02/10/61-bicycles/its strange how transparent us "white people" are :0) its a fun daily read to nod and smile at. gorgeous. although i heard it's hard to get it fixed here bc the replacement parts are all danish... Oh I love that bike, so romantic. If only I had the ability to ride and not crash, if only. I really appreciate your thoughts and ideas, thanks for reading!

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Wednesday, July 11, 2012 10:27 PM | Posted by Admin | Edit Post Bing has announced a number of changes designed to improve the user experience for searchers. Bing said the service improvements include faster page loading times and a greater relevance in search results, as well as some cosmetic changes. My Blog List The Effects of Media and Technology on Young Children in the U.S. [INFOGRAPHIC] - As you can imagine, parents and teachers have strong opinions about the effect media and technology is having on America’s youth. About 73 percent of paren...12 hours ago Boston Marathon Suspect Texted 'lol' to Friends After Bombing - [image: Boston-bombing] [image: Feed-tw] [image: Feed-fb] Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev texted "lol," "you better not text me" and other messag...2 weeks ago Powered by Blogger.

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The Chicago Stadium Chair -- A Great Conversation Piece Sunday, 04.06.2008 / 12:06 AM / Features By Evan Weiner - NHL.com Correspondent |Former Blackhawk Darcy Rota has a Chicago Stadium seat in his home and it's a conversation starter for guests.| Both Mets and Yankees officials would do well if they were to steal a 1994 idea from Chicago Blackhawks ownership before Chicago Stadium was closed down to make way for a new arena. Owner Bill Wirtz, gave away seats from “The Madhouse on Madison” to one-time Blackhawks players. Darcy Rota, who was a member of the Blackhawks from 1973 to 1979, has a seat in his home, and the seat is a conversation starter for guests. Chicago Stadium hosted Blackhawks games from 1929 to 1994, as well the NBA's Chicago Bulls from 1967 through 1994, five United States political conventions and even an NFL playoff game in 1932 -- played on an 80-yard field. There was also a massive pipe organ built into the structure. "I am sure they sent most of the players who played for the Blackhawks the chair,” Rota said. “For me, it's been something that is a great talk piece when people come to the house. It's got my name and my number when I played for the Blackhawks and the Blackhawks logo. But it is an old rickety chair and people get quite a kick out of it. The young kids and my young kids don't know about the Chicago Stadium." Chicago Stadium had a colorful history and was unique. Players had to walk up and down a flight of steps to get to the ice surface, which was smaller than the standard 200-feet by 85-feet setup in the NHL. Therefore, there was less room between the blue lines. Plus, the place was maybe the loudest building in the NHL. |Real or imagined? The stories are great The long and storied career of Gordie Howe also is a career full of stories that may or may not be true, as Evan Weiner explains in Off the Wall. ...more But climbing up and down the steps was the biggest obstacle players had, and it was not an easy hike. "You wanted to make sure you didn't slip because you were walking down steps with skates on,” he said. “You had to be careful about that. The odd guy would tumble and fall down the stairs. Basically, you had to watch your steps as you went down." If one guy fell, it could have had a domino affect and a whole team of players could have fallen down at the same time. But during Rota's tenure, that never happened. The console of the Chicago Stadium 3,663-pipe Barton Organ, which was played for years by Al Melgard, now resides in the Las Vegas home of Phil Maloof whose brothers own the NBA's Sacramento Kings. That organ was as much a part of Blackhawks history as Bobby Hull, Stan Mikita. It was a legendary musical instrument. "That organ was fantastic and it was a very, very special place to play,” Roda said. “(The rink) was about 185 feet long or so. It was a tough place for visiting players to play. People I know found it an intimidating place to play. If you weren't ready to play a game in Chicago Stadium you were in the wrong business because of the type of atmosphere in there. I always enjoyed the ice area, it was never a problem. “Now it's a parking lot and it's unfortunate that the Stadium is no longer there." Chicago Stadium perfectly fit into its era and was vastly different from the other NHL rinks in Boston, Detroit, Montreal, New York and Toronto during the days of the Original Six between 1942 and 1967. Sign up here for your FREE Playoff Fantasy Hockey Challenge team, exclusively on NHL.com. “You couldn't hide in the some of these Original Six places because the ice surfaces were small. A lot of history, a lot of tradition. Growing up as a young boy in Canada, of course following the Original Six teams and having an opportunity to play in the National Hockey League, it was pretty exciting. A lot of old rinks with lots of character are gone (now), replaced with fancy buildings for revenue opportunities now.” The new arenas are, in some cases, too nice. The chairs are too plush and don't have the character -- or probably the stories that a chair from Chicago Stadium could tell. It is well known that Blackhawks games routinely broke city fire laws because there were more people in the building than the 17,317-seat capacity. There was the fog horn after goals, Melgard and the organ, and if the chair could talk, the stories would probably be intriguing. Author: Evan Weiner | NHL.com Correspondent

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Posts Tagged ‘ipod touch’ Apple has recently released iOS 4.2 Beta for iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 3G and iPod Touch 2G and 3G and iPad only for developers. You might want to downgrade from iOS 4.2 to iOS 4.1 / iOS 4.0.1 /iOS 4.0.2 firmware due to any problems occurring or you cannot still jailbreak iOS 4.2. Below is a simple step by step guide for both windows and Mac users to downgrade to iOS 4.1 or iOS 4.0.1 or iOS 4.0.2 from iOS 4.2. These are instructions on how to perform an untethered jailbreak on your iPod touch using the Spirit Jailbreak and Windows. To follow these instructions you must be using an activated device not stuck on the Connect to iTunes or Emergency Call screen. Any version of iTunes 9 til 9.1.1 will work. After the first fix of blackra1n with iTunes 9.1 Today I present a second Fix for resolving the conflict blackra1n with iTunes 9.1. with running the jailbreak firmware 3.1.2 iPhone and iPod Touch. The downloadable tools from here and is a French developer solves this problem. For those who do not know Apple changed the position of some DLL files in the latest iTunes 9.1, which prevented blackra1n RC3 to work properly with jailbroken (tethered) on iPhone firmware 3.1.2 The benchmark of the action-adventure games on next-gen consoles lands for the first time on your iPhone and iPod Touch. **IGN: “Assassin’s Creed looks fantastic. This is a console game for your iPhone that sacrifices very little.” **MacWorld: “One of the most ambitious titles for the iPhone yet. The game takes several hours to complete (think 6-10+) and is therefore one of the most lengthy (and challenging) iPhone games I’ve played.” **Pocket Gamer Silver Award: “Honed from an earlier release, this much improved version cuts through control problems with impressive, varied gameplay for a rousing and wholly worthwhile adventure.” Jerusalem, 1191 AD. The Third Crusade between the Crusaders and Saracens is tearing the Holy Land apart. You are Altaïr, a Master Assassin sent by the Order of the Assassins on a quest to find “The Chalice”, an object of such power that it can end the Crusades, depending on which camp owns it. Steal The Chalice from the Templars before someone offers them the right price for it. The fate of the Holy Land depends on you… Output is now the new version of Redsn0w 0.9beta3 What devices, platforms, and FW versions are supported? The beta supports: All iPhones and iPod touches except the iPod touch 3G Windows and Mac OSX (x86) Apple firmware 3.0 and 3.1.2 When it’s out of beta, it will support the iPod touch 3G, PPC OSX, and Linux. Error 1015 firmware downgrade iPhone and iPod Touch From the Apple support site: Error 1015: This error is caused by the attempt to downgrade the firware of the iPhone or iPod touch. This may occur when you try to restore an old file. Ipsw. The downgrade to a previous version is not supported. To resolve this problem, groped to restore the latest iPhone or iPod touch available from Apple. If you want to resolve the error 1015 follow this Tutorial: Proceed as follows: With the NAVIGON MobileNavigator you can transform your iPhone into a fully functional mobile navigation system that is every bit as good as the multi-award-winning personal navigation devices from NAVIGON in terms of its user-friendliness and features. Thanks to a faithful adaptation of the menu functions, the NAVIGON MobileNavigator fits in seamlessly with the operating concept of the iPhone. The application includes the latest map material from the market leader NAVTEQ. Connect your iPod to the computer with which you use it more often (the first computer with which you sync your iPod), then open iTunes. Once disconnected from the computer, the iPod is unlocked. CanihazRecover is a tool (applications) for iPhone and iPod touch, which unlocks the device if it remains locked in implementing power on the apple symbol.

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Group Petitions White House To Make May 20 “Macho Man” Randy Savage Day Randy “Macho Man” Savage is a wrestling legend, a personality unlike many others in the history of sports. From the Slim Jim commercials, to his memorable pro wrestling interviews, we all can remember a time we heard his “Ohhh Yeeeea.” Savage died tragically on May 20 2011, in a tragic car accident, and now a group at Mandatory.com want that day to be remembered and celebrated forever. Yes that’s right, they want May 20 to be Randy “Macho Man” Savage day every year. The petition reads, “Macho Man Randy Savage was a national treasure loved by everyone … no matter if you knew him from Slim Jim commercials or his wrestling career, you felt a deep connection with Savage … keep his legacy alive for future generations to appreciate and enjoy.” Randy Savage’s brother, Lanny Poffo was more than pleased by the development saying, ”The fans will never let Randy Die. He made it cool to love wrestling.” The group needs 100,000 by April 4 in order to get the White House to review it, so far it’s only got 2,425 signatures.

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March 2, 2009 being a ditto-head just got a whole lot more fun. i haven’t always been one though. i used to listen to rush for a few minutes and then get so annoyed at his bombastic hotair that i had to turn him off. but then i grew up and understood more about his teaching style. i began listening to him to learn more and more about the PRINCIPLES of conservatism and how they really are principles to live by, to govern by. and now, the uber-successful conservative radio talk show talent rush limbaugh, is arguably The One’s greatest nightmare. he was slated to speak for 20 minutes saturday night at CPAC, the conservative political action conference, in DC this weekend. rush spoke for an hour and half and even then, no one wanted him to stop. except maybe the democrats. oh and his speech at cpac? he didn’t use a teleprompter. his speech came from his core, where he really lives inside himself, his own personal belief system. obama can’t do that. the resistance is alive.

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The anger, disgust and disappointment of fellow Democrats will be felt by John Edwards as he goes on trial tomorrow for allegedly misusing campaign finance money to help keep secret his affair with another woman. Reuters reports: "Edwards is accused of accepting more than $900,000 in campaign funds from two wealthy donors, knowing the exposure of his extramarital affair "would destroy his presidential campaign," prosecutors said in a trial brief. The candidate at the time was a married father of three, whose late wife, Elizabeth, had breast cancer. Jurors will hear opening statements the federal courthouse in Greensboro, North Carolina. Edwards, 58, is accused of conspiring to solicit the money, receiving more than the $2,300 allowed from any one donor, and failing to report the payments as contributions.m He faces six felony counts, each carrying a sentence of up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Edwards admits personal failings but insists he broke no laws. Edwards' defenders say the government is overreaching with its prosecution of Edwards, the son of mill workers who earned his fortune as a trial lawyer in North Carolina before being elected as a U.S. senator from the state in 1998. His defense lawyers dispute the Justice Department's interpretation of federal election laws, arguing the donors would have given the money regardless of the campaign and did so knowing it wouldn't be used for campaign purposes. The money was not spent to influence the election but rather to conceal the affair and resulting pregnancy from Edwards' wife and children, they said. Edwards never personally received any of the payments, nor did his campaign. The money was used to cover living expenses and medical care for his mistress, campaign videographer Rielle Hunter, rather than traditional campaign activities. "This is expanding the scope of the definition of campaign contribution," said Ron Wright, a law professor at Wake Forest University who is not involved in the case. "It is an unprecedented definition." And now you know what will be on Talk Radio in the coming weeks, obliterating all other news.

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Ever just look at some girls and say “Sit on my face, right now.” or is that just me? There are just too many girls that I wanna be cute with. Fuck. I think getting nudes from cute girls is the only thing that would distract me from Halo. It’s almost Topless Tuesday. My favorite day of the week. I just wanna text a cute girl that shows her boobs. I wanna text girls that participate in Topless Tuesday. Today I won’t roll around in this Browning covered bed and get off my ass. Maybe go wash my truck, find a new girl to call mine, find a hobby. There’s gotta be more to do instead of having the don’t wants.

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I'm a fan of anime. My favorite anime shows are Clannad, Clannad: After Story and Eureka Seven. I've watched several anime shows on both English and Japanese so I'm pretty familiar with the voice actors. Bleach was the first anime I saw in an English dub. Because of my interest in voice acting I've created my own voice acting wiki along with my fellow voice acting lover A-Stone. Also I've been a Star Wars fan since I was four years old. Now I'm a Lord of the Rings fan also. My favourite Voice actors I first heard Crispin as Haldir in Lord of the Rings: Battle for Middle Earth II and when I later heard him as Holland Novak in Eureka Seven I started liking his voice very much. Now I follow a lot of series were he dubs characters among them Naruto where he voices Itachi Uchiha, Durarara!! where he provides the awesome Shizuo's voice and Code Geass where he does a good performance as Jeremiah Gottwald. James Earl Jones He doesn't need an introduction. He's Darth Vader and that's why I love his voice! He's very good as Mufasa in The Lion King too! If you've seen School Rumble you will love her forever! She does the voice of the heroine Tenma Tsukamoto. She also does splendid performances as Nagisa Furukawa and Ushio Okazaki in Clannad. Johnny Yong Bosch Obviously he is good as Ichigo but he does more awesome characters than that. Izaya Orihara in Durarara!!, Lelouch Lamperouge in Code Geass, Renton Thurston in Eureka Seven and Sasori in Naruto Shippuden. - Help:Index - useful section that gives tips and examples on how to do just about everything on the Bleach Wiki. - Help Desk Forum - a place to ask for help from other members of the Bleach Wiki's community, especially for technical matters. - You can use your user page or the Bleach Wiki:Sandbox to test out edits. - Please read our policies, as they are for the benefit of all and will be enforced. - Manual of Style - guidelines for how your edits on the wiki should look and what is acceptable practice. - Spoiler Policy - basically, do not add content from a chapter/episode until it is released in English. - Image Policy - outlines rules for uploading and using images. - User Page Policy - outlines the rules for user pages and user talk pages.

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Dwight Howard and the Biggest Posers in the NBA Before I start off this article, let me first say that I respect each and every one of these players. I admire the work they put in to get to the level they're currently at and they deserve all the credit for achieving their biggest goals and dreams. So, that makes it a lot easier to say that we're going to find and discuss the NBA's top five biggest posers. What exactly is a poser? It's a player that's either attempting to be something they're not or a player that creates more problems than solutions. Whether it's on or off the court, these five usually are attempting to put on the facade that they're a completely different person. Some are physical specimens that play small and others are small players that attempt to pass themselves off as big. Either way, they all share the same characteristic of attempting to be something they're not or completely going against the gameplan. Instead of making the necessary adjustments and sacrifices needed, after demanding a trade to that team, you may just earn yourself a spot on the league's biggest posers. We take a look at these five players and the reasons why they have ended up on this unfortunate list. Sam Greenwood/Getty Images It's become incredibly agitating seeing Dwight Howard and his latest opinion every other day. It's annoying mostly because he didn't have to be in this situation in the first place. Howard was a free agent heading into the summer, but decided to take on an opt-in clause that would allow another year for the Orlando Magic to either make a compelling trade or find the players that could help Dwight to another Finals appearance. Instead, Howard started accusing the Magic organization of blackmailing him, although it's reasonable to believe Dwight didn't know what blackmail meant at the time. This came about when Dwight was under the belief the Magic front office tricked him into staying another year. The Magic want to get rid of Dwight by this point, which is why they're listening to these awful offers from Brooklyn and the Los Angeles Lakers. They're tired of the headache their franchise center is causing and their angry that they just let go of their general manager and head coach because of Dwight, who was believed to have been behind a coup to oust Stan Van Gundy as the Magic coach. Now we continue to wait. The teams that Howard wants to go to don't have the trade chips to acquire him and every other team is backing off due to Dwight only wanting to re-sign in either L.A. or BK. So much for Dwight caring about his fans. He's completely turned the fanbase against him after the embarrassing sequence of events that have taken place over the past few months. Jeff Zelevansky/Getty Images It's beginning to be tough to believe that Carmelo Anthony is capable of leading this New York Knicks team towards a championship run. In a little over a season since he joined the Knicks, Anthony has yet to make a single adjustment. He took on the facilitator role early on and finished the season averaging only 3.6 assists per game to go along with a mere 22.6 points per game on 43 percent shooting. 'Melo's shooting and scoring were at the lowest since early on in his career. Anthony is an excellent player in an isolation setting, but he can't seem to involve his teammates. In fact, he's made Amar'e Stoudemire look worse every time they're on the floor together. There were too many instances last season where Anthony would be taking nearly three times as many shots as Stoudemire, a player who was once arguably known as the best scorer at his position. That's what Carmelo can do. He doesn't involve his teammates enough. Those one-on-one situations can only work for so long, before you have to begin involving your teammates in order to actually win games. The only way the Knicks make a breakthrough and advance themselves is if Anthony makes the sacrifice and adjustment of playing off the ball and attempting to pass more. This Knicks team is too stacked not to work. They have two excellent scorers and the league's top defender; there are absolutely no excuses for this team to get ousted in the first round. Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images I'll let Udonis Haslem handle this one: ‘I think sometimes people just use the TVs and the cameras and the crowd, you know, to put on a show. I don’t think he’s all that he shows out there on the court. I think anybody can be a tough guy with a thousand people watching on TV and referees who call fouls and stop the game and different things like that. I don’t seeing him being any tough guy that he puts on the show to be, at all … If we were playing at the park, I don’t think he’d be doing all that." The Miami Heat have had some bouts with Kendrick Perkins since his Boston Celtics days. With Dwyane Wade driving to the rim as much as he did to will his team to victory, the Celtics would utilize Perkins as the bruising center who would hack at Wade to send a message. Obviously, his longtime teammates, such as Haslem, would have something to say about it. Perkins also had something to say to LeBron James. Following Blake Griffin's tremendous poster on Kendrick, LeBron James sent out a tweet praising Griffin's dunk and downplaying the dunk he had over John Lucas that same day. Of course, Perkins had something to say to James, despite the rest of the NBA world also having something to say. Why single out LeBron? He's not even saying anything about Kendrick Perkins in the first place. Blake could have performed the same dunk over any defender and James would have said the same thing. It's just Kendrick attempting to stir up some more animosity. And the perma-scowl etched on Perkins face? It can only work for so long. Harry How/Getty Images Blake Griffin is a 6'10", 250-pound man-beast that is capable of jumping over buildings and running through brick walls. Things like this should never happen. If you're that big and constantly creating contact in the lane, your jaw running into someone's shoulder shouldn't cause you to writhe in agony for an entire possession. There's a fine line between selling the foul and making yourself look foolish, and Griffin had no trouble crossing it and establishing an entire new area of the art of flopping. Understood that a lot of star players flop, but Griffin should never be flopping over minor hits or even attempting to flop in the first place. That's not a reputation you want to build early in your career, especially when it seems that so many opponents are gunning for you. Blake's become a target of many overly-physical fouls as a result of teams attempting to send a message. The message is mostly used to keep Blake out of the lane, but it's also a message to experience contact worth complaining over. At the age of 23 and after only two years, there's no room to flop and then constantly argue for fouls. I'd say when a jump shot and some solid defense comes around, then Blake could have some reasons to run to the officials in hopes that they'll reverse their decision and make a different call, preferably in his favor. Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images This one may be surprising to some, but if you saw what I saw in the Miami Heat's series against the Indiana Pacers, you'll know exactly what I'm talking about. Danny Granger could not stop attempting to start an altercation with either Dwyane Wade or LeBron James. Numerous times throughout the series, Granger was caught annoying the two and attempting to create a situation out of nothing. Maybe once to send a message, but throughout the series? He pulled on James' jersey to create an altercation, went over the top of LeBron to start a fight, and even going after Dwyane Wade, a player who is four inches shorter than him. That's three separate altercations in a series that lasted six games, all facilitated by Granger Who is Granger attempting to fool? He's usually been mild-mannered, so why did he suddenly become this big talker in a series against the Heat? If he was trying to send a message, it obviously didn't happen because James and Wade shook off each instance. Granger was just attempting to annoy the two into playing badly, instead of utilizing his own average defensive abilities to contain either of the two. Either way, it was embarrassing; because Granger is certainly not the player who should be facilitating altercations.

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Peyton Manning: Broncos QB Should Be Considered Top 5 Fantasy Quarterback Peyton Manning is back and believe it or not, enters the 2012 underrated for possibly the first time in his career. Considering he’s learning a new offense in a new city with new teammates and coaches, fantasy owners don’t know what to expect from the 36-year-old future Hall of Famer. Oh yeah, then there is the series of neck surgeries that kept him out for the entire 2011 season. All things considered, the newest member of the Denver Broncos is going to be a fantasy risk…but it’s a risk worth taking. In his debut last Thursday against the Chicago Bears, Manning was 4-of-7 for 44 yards and an interception. The interception was off a fluky deflection that hit Brandon Stokley in the shoulders in the pouring rain. We all know you would be crazy to judge Manning on one drive in a meaningless preseason game, but it was encouraging to see him barking orders at the line of scrimmage and still possessing some serious zip on the ball. His neck didn’t appear to bother him one bit. Looking at the Broncos roster, the two candidates to help Manning’s life easier right away will be Demaryius Thomas and Eric Decker. At 6’3’’ and 230 pounds, Thomas is the perfect red-zone target for Manning and also his best deep threat. He is a budding star that can fully blossom under the tutelage of Manning. Remember, this is a guy that’s been stuck with Kyle Orton and Tim Tebow in his two seasons in the league. Collecting 1,000 yards and 10 TDs is certainly in the realm of possibilities. Then there is Decker, my pick to end up as Manning’s go-to receiver. The pair connected on a beautiful 19-yard gain Thursday when the Broncos were facing 3rd-and-17. Decker, who excels out of the slot, has the crisp route-running ability and sticky hands that have made plenty of Colt receivers millions of dollars in the past. Decker is a cerebral player who can handle the load Manning gives him. Expect their chemistry to be spectacular as the season rolls on. With a strong running game and above-average O-line, Manning has all of the tools to put up big numbers on a team with plenty of potential. The incredible stat of Manning that gets swept under the rug is his 227-game streak of consecutive starts. This guy was the symbol of consistency before suffering the neck injury. In a league where one hit can end a career regardless of who the player is, his durability over the last 13 seasons of action can’t be overlooked. Is Peyton Manning a Top-5 Fantasy QB in 2012? Don’t let his neck injury be the only reason you skip Peyton. Manning isn’t going to put up the same type of numbers that Drew Brees, Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers will in 2012, but he will be a better pick than the injury-plagued Matthew Stafford, the consistent but not amazing Matt Ryan, the turnover prone Tony Romo, and Ben Roethlisberger, who is already dealing with a slew of injuries. Manning has always been fantasy gold, and there is no reason to believe 2012 will be any different. Peyton is back and ready to play a major part in winning you a fantasy football championship. Take advantage of the suckers who overlook him. What is the duplicate article? Why is this article offensive? Where is this article plagiarized from? Why is this article poorly edited?

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MLB Trade Rumors: Alfonso Soriano and the Top 10 Moveable Players on the Market After the months of speculation leading up to July's trade deadline finally came to a head, it seemed like we could all finally breathe a bit and watch the second half of the MLB season play itself out. That notion was quickly put to rest when the waiver wire acted up in August. We saw players like Joe Blanton and Cliff Lee make news, and while a deal for Lee was never reached, that doesn't mean that others wouldn't be made. The blockbuster deal sending seemingly half of the Boston Red Sox to the Los Angeles Dodgers certainly turned the heads of the entire baseball world, and while it may be impossible to expect another trade like that, it doesn't mean that the action has ceased. 10. Travis Hafner Leon Halip/Getty Images During Travis Hafner's best days, he was one of the most dangerous hitters in the AL Central and was consistently in AL MVP consideration. He's run into issues staying on the field since then and is currently on the 15-day disabled list, but if healthy, he can still definitely be a home run threat in the Indians lineup. Either way, you would think a trade may be more likely to occur as the team has fallen back from contention in the division. For quite some time, it's looked like this would be Hafner's last season in Cleveland. 9. Andres Torres Recently placed on waivers by the New York Mets, outfielder Andres Torres isn't having an outstanding 2012 season by any means, but that doesn't mean he wouldn't be a useful target for a contending team down the stretch. The center fielder is batting just .233 this season, but a 16-homer campaign in 2010 in which he stole nearly 30 bases shows just what he's capable of when he's at his best. He'll be under team control for another season, and at just under $3 million this season, Torres wouldn't break the bank. 8. Carlos Marmol Joe Robbins/Getty Images Control is a premium for relief pitchers hoping to make a positive impact for their team, so it's no surprise that Carlos Marmol has been a disappointment on the mound in 2012. Walking nearly nine batters per nine innings, he has a WHIP approaching 2.00 and an ERA of 4.02. With the Cubs looking to rebuild in any way they can, it wouldn't be surprising to see Marmol, who recently cleared waivers, head out of Wrigley sooner rather than later. 7. Scott Hairston Jason Szenes/Getty Images Thirty-two-year-old Scott Hairston has had a relatively successful 2012 season thus far, with a batting average approaching .275 and the highest home run total (14) he's posted since 2008. The New York Mets have a lot of decisions to make this offseason, and deciding on whether or not to retain Hairston may not be one of them. The utility player was placed on waivers along with teammate Andres Torres, and as teams continue to define needs as they head into stretch runs, Hairston could pique the interest of suitors. 6. Justin Morneau Jared Wickerham/Getty Images After struggling through concussion problems and other injuries over the past couple of seasons, Justin Morneau appears to finally be hitting his stride. He's gone deep 17 times in 102 games so far in 2012. With his numbers up in virtually every category from last season, Morneau would be a great add for any team looking to bring in a home run threat. With this weekend's news, it's hard to believe the Dodgers would still be interested, but in eight games this month, Morneau is batting .333 with four home runs, 14 RBI and an OPS of nearly 1.000. He'll certainly fit in somewhere. 5. Jeff Francoeur J. Meric/Getty Images The San Francisco Giants found themselves in a serious predicament recently when they lost slugger Melky Cabrera for the rest of the season after he was handed a 50-game suspension for testosterone usage. Whether or not they look to outside sources for help in the outfield remains to be seen, but as Ken Rosenthal of FoxSports.com points out, they could look towards Kansas City Royals outfielder Jeff Francoeur as a short-term solution. 4. Jacoby Ellsbury Jared Wickerham/Getty Images The Boston Red Sox lineup card has seen some serious changes in the past handful of days, with a number of top stars making their way to the west coast. It would be hard to believe they'll continue to look to unload talent, but as Nick Cafardo of the Boston Globe noted, Jacoby Ellsbury is the most recent player in Fenway to hit the waiver wire. No suitor has been revealed, but a team like the Los Angeles Angels could benefit from a player of Ellsbury's caliber, especially as they fight for attention in the city with the suddenly-revamped Dodgers. 3. Edinson Volquez Denis Poroy/Getty Images In his first season in San Diego, Edinson Volquez has posted an 8-9 record with an ERA hovering just over 4.00. He'll be under team control for another season, but the starting pitcher has been placed on waivers, and with his name popping up in July with a connection to the Atlanta Braves, it wouldn't be surprising if he garnered some additional interest now. 2. Justin Upton Christian Petersen/Getty Images As is the case anytime the waiver wire lights up, players that almost certainly won't move are pushed out there, even if it means they'll still finish the season in the same uniform. With the mega trade that we just saw send some superstars from Boston to Los Angeles, it's clear that anything is possible. The Arizona Diamondbacks did place star Justin Upton on waivers, and while it's not clear whether or not any serious suitors could emerge, it's definitely something worth watching. 1. Alfonso Soriano Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images Earlier, we mentioned the San Francisco Giants' potential need for additional help in the outfield. While Jeff Francoeur may be a more thrifty option to bolster the lineup, adding a player like Alfonso Soriano would help the team match the wheeling and dealing of the division-rival Dodgers. Soriano is owed $18 million per season through 2014, and while he's been considered somewhat of a black hole from a salary perspective, he's been relatively consistent, going deep at least 20 times every season since 2001. This season, he has his highest batting average since 2008.

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Ranking the Pac-12's Toughest Schedules A month into the college football season, the rankings have gone through some changes. Three overrated pretenders (Michigan, Wisconsin and Arkansas) have fallen, one (Oregon State) has risen and three (Arizona, USC and UCLA) have risen and fallen only to rise again. Now, there are still a few questions about the Pac-12 that, when answered, will allow us to determine which Pac-12 team has the strongest (or scariest, depending on how your team is doing right now) schedule. First, where does Southern Cal belong? My gut says the Trojans still take the South, but the Bruins and Sun Devils may make some noise before all is done. Speaking of the Sun Devils, where does one put Arizona State in a Pac-12 power ranking? Many have ASU fifth or sixth, but the Sun Devils could easily be third or fourth. Many questions remain unanswered as the calendar flips to October. But, as of now, which teams look like they will truly run the gauntlet in Pac-12 play this year? These five teams have the toughest road to the title. 5. Washington Huskies Otto Greule Jr/Getty Images This last slot was difficult to place. I considered USC and Colorado. Both have schedules of similar difficulty. USC's is loaded with good teams at the end of the season. Colorado's is toughest in October and November. But several of its toughest opponents play the Buffaloes in Boulder. I wanted to put the Huskies lower (or higher, I suppose). They have three Top-10 teams (LSU, Stanford and Oregon) on their schedule in their first five games, and their October schedule is no cupcake buffet. But they close with an easy November that, with the early-season win over Stanford, should give them at least seven wins. Washington lost to LSU in Baton Rouge and has road games at Oregon and Arizona State. But USC and Oregon State have to visit Seattle in October and hope they don't end up like Stanford. 4. California Golden Bears Ezra Shaw/Getty Images At times, such as against Ohio State in Columbus, Cal looked like a 7-5 team, but the Bears choked against earlier and easier competition, and now they are reeling, looking for a Pac-12 win somewhere, anywhere. Their schedule, however, isn't forgiving. It has seven ranked teams, possibly eight, with Arizona State on the cusp. Only three of those games are away, which is bad. Why bad? Isn't a home game against a great opponent usually a good thing? Well, if you are the Bears and are expected to get crushed, wouldn't you rather get crushed on the road and save the games you might be able to win for home, in your brand-new stadium? Instead, the Bears' best hope of snagging that Pac-12 victory is in Pullman against Washington State on Oct. 13. What's even worse about the Bears schedule is that there are no breaks. Though they need time off, they go at it every week. The longest span between games is November 2nd to November 10th. They face the Washington Huskies and then the Oregon Ducks. 3. Stanford Cardinal Ezra Shaw/Getty Images Though they've taken a lot of heat for their lack of offense in last week's loss at Washington, I have to hand it to the Cardinal: they don't choose to take the easy road. After the first two games (easy victories over San Jose State from the WAC and Duke from the ACC), Stanford's ride is rough, with seven ranked or previously ranked opponents, split into chunks of four and three at a time. Four of those ranked games are away (Washington, Notre Dame, Oregon and UCLA) and the other three are at the Farm. They've already dropped one away from home, so the Cardinal have to hope their sputtering offense doesn't become a trend when on the road. And you know what's really annoying (for a Stanford fan, anyway) about that loss to Washington (well, other than the loss)? It feels like they wasted their off week. Now they just have to ride it out. 2. Oregon State Beavers Christian Petersen/Getty Images Not many were expecting Oregon State to make a turnaround quite as sharply as it has. Now every game on a Pac-12 schedule with the Beavers is suddenly scary. And it's not like Oregon State is rising on the backs of lesser foes. The Beavers' first big game (and really, their first game) was against the overrated No. 13 Wisconsin Badgers. But at the time, we didn't know this, at least not quite. Wisconsin had trouble the week before against Northern Iowa, as it looked like David was slapping Goliath all around the field). Next, the Beavers toppled UCLA in the Rose Bowl. Then they headed into the desert against an angry Arizona team looking to bounce back from a humiliating defeat to Oregon. The Wildcats almost won, until Oregon State QB Sean Mannion stole it from them on a stunning last drive. With so many high-profile victories, one almost forgets that they were all hard-fought, two of them on the road. But that's the way the Beavers roll, as evidenced by their roller-coaster ride of a schedule. Of their seven ranked matchups, five are away (and the Civil War with Oregon doesn't really give them home-field advantage). How long the Beavers can sustain their drive is anyone's guess. But the Pac-12 is on alert: Look out for Oregon State. 1. Arizona Wildcats Christian Petersen/Getty Images Washington and Oregon State have gotten attention for their rough September and October schedules, probably the roughest in all of college football, some pundits claim. That has to mean that no one has looked at Arizona's schedule because... well, words can't capture it. Take a look: Toledo, Oklahoma State, South Carolina State, No. 2 Oregon, No. 14 Oregon State, No. 18 Stanford, Open Date, No. 23 Washington, No. 13 USC, No. 25 UCLA, Colorado, Utah, Arizona State. That's right. In a seven-week stretch, from September 22nd to November 3rd, Arizona has six ranked teams on its schedule, three of which have been in the Top 10 (with the Beavers on the cusp), with half of those games on the road. I, for one, am impressed with how well Rich Rodriguez, Matt Scott and company have endured against such a difficult slate. One can easily imagine that if the big games were a bit more spread out, the Wildcats might have a chance to pull off upsets similar to what they did against Oklahoma State. As it is, even the open date hardly seems like enough of a buffer to regroup and heal, The 'Cats are already battered and thinned two games into this rigorous stretch. Can they keep it together to the end and earn a bowl berth, or will the gauntlet destroy them? I expect we'll know the answer by the end of this month.

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Ronaldinho: Can He Make the Brazil National Team for the 2014 World Cup? He is a player who will forever live in the hearts of football fans worldwide. Indeed, Ronaldinho's five-year spell at Barcelona last decade ranks among the greatest periods of individual brilliance ever seen in the game. He was simply untouchable. The iconic No. 10, though, has seen his career fade since his departure from Camp Nou. He failed to ignite in a two-year stint at Milan, and his return to Brazil with Flamengo was an unmitigated disaster, largely due to off-pitch incidents. After a disappointing showing against Ghana, though, former coach Mano Menezes decided that the experiment had failed—Ronaldinho was no longer able to keep pace at the highest level. Just over a year later, though, the calls for his return to the Seleção can be heard again. Following an acrimonious end to his time at Flamengo, Ronaldinho was offered redemption in the form of a short-term contract at Atlético Mineiro. The results have been impressive. The ponytailed playmaker came into the club under unusual circumstances. For the first time in his illustrious career, there had not been a clamour to secure his signature. Ronaldinho was tainted by accusations of poor professionalism, as well as a general feeling that his best days were just a distant memory. Atlético, though, gave him his chance and have been rewarded greatly for their gamble. The Porto Alegre-born star has inspired a club that was close to relegation last campaign. Alongside the likes of rising star Bernard and former Manchester City striker Jô, Ronaldinho has led a revival. Reward came this past week as, having helped the club to second place in the league, Ronaldinho was named the Brazilian championship Player of the Year. The difficulty for new Brazil manager Luiz Felipe Scolari will not be deciding whether Ronaldinho is worthy of a place to take on England in February. On current form, he could undoubtedly offer a useful contribution. The issue will be whether there is enough reason to believe that the two-time FIFA World Player of the Year will still be performing at these levels in eighteen months' time, when football's biggest festival visits Brazil for the first time since the country's famous Maracanazo defeat of 1950. Ronaldinho has undoubtedly been in fine form for club side Atlético, but his lifestyle still draws criticism. It was the main reason behind his exit from Barcelona in 2008 and remains an issue that he has never fully resolved. I want to see him behave like a player that wants to be a world champion. He needs to change a few things.—Mano Menezes, former Brazil coach told Arena SporTV in March 2012 He has enjoyed a fine season, without question, but there are legitimate concerns that he cannot maintain this form in the long run. He enjoyed a similar purple patch at Flamengo, but performance levels dropped off after a few months. That said, the club's inability to pay their player on time undoubtedly contributed to his decline in both form and professionalism. Questions should also be asked regarding his ability to transfer this recent form onto the international stage. As everybody knows, the domestic game in Brazil is an entirely different beast. In this regard, there are several factors to consider. If Brazil are to compete with the likes of Spain and Germany at the World Cup, it will not be through the sort of tactics seen in the Brasileirão. The attacking midfielders cannot simply ignore their defensive work and linger on the halfway line, waiting for the ball to be launched forward by the defence. That would be disastrous. Thus, Brazil are going to need players who will close down, track back and, when in possession, offer a dynamic presence. In Brazil, Ronaldinho is afforded space to play the game at his pace. As he found on his last attempt at international football, though, the pace of the game could be too much for him. With those arguments against his recall, what are the arguments in favour? Will Ronaldinho make the 2014 World Cup? Well, firstly, his previous working relationship with Scolari can only help. Ronaldinho helped Brazil to their fifth World Cup triumph in 2002 under the veteran manager and will hope that this relationship can earn him another shot. Scolari will not accept underperformance, but could be willing to give his former charge a chance to prove himself ahead of the Confederations Cup. Ronaldinho may not be the same player he once was, but does he need to be? With the energy of young starlets Neymar and Oscar around him, there is an argument that the former Barcelona man could be accommodated. That is something Felipão must consider. What Ronaldinho has shown this season is that he still has the skill and guile to unlock defences, even if it is now normally with a pass rather than his dribbling abilities. The Atlético star also offers more of a threat from set pieces than any current member of the squad. We are all aware that we have a dual responsibility in this tournament. The first is to present a type of football that honours our tradition.—Dilma Rousseff, Brazilian president at a press conference in December 2012. Scolari is truly in a fortunate position regarding creative options: Oscar, Neymar and Lucas Moura are all brilliant players and should still improve over the next 18 months. However, the trio will be aged just 22, 22 and 21 respectively when the tournament comes around. This is where Ronaldinho, Robinho or Kaká could have some use. Ronaldinho has enjoyed a fine campaign, Robinho is still adored in his homeland and Kaká has performed well since recall to the squad earlier this year. It would be a mistake to rely on the trio given their indifferent form in recent years, but their experience could prove invaluable as part of a very young squad. They will not all be involved, but it is likely that Scolari will look to involve one or two of the three—even if just as an option off the substitutes' bench. With Brazil hosting the tournament, the team simply have to perform, and must do so with a style and panache worthy of their traditions. Scolari now has three months to consider whether a fit, focused Ronaldinho can be the showman that the Brazilian public so desperately crave. What is the duplicate article? Why is this article offensive? Where is this article plagiarized from? Why is this article poorly edited?

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NFL Week 15 Picks: Road Warriors That Will Narrowly Defeat Home Teams We are to the point of the NFL season where teams that need victories decide to play the best football of the season. Those same teams find a way to get into the postseason and are generally the ones who make a run once they get there. With that said, here are three road teams who will find a way to get the job done in Week 15. Pittsburgh Steelers defeat Dallas Cowboys Pittsburgh and Dallas are two teams playing for a postseason berth. The Cowboys are coming off a great road victory over the scorching hot Cincinnati Bengals. The Steelers, however, are coming off one of the more disappointing performances of the season. They lost to the San Diego Chargers at Heinz Field. No, Charlie Batch wasn't in the game throwing three interceptions while looking terrible. Ben Roethlisberger was back under center and received little help from the offensive line, his running backs, Todd Haley and his receivers. Now the two will lock horns in Dallas this week with a lot on the line. Mike Tomlin and his Steelers have a way of getting up for big games. Dallas is a team that every team can get up for, and Tomlin will have his guys ready similar to what they were against the Baltimore Ravens last week. Just when Dallas has your attention, they find a way to blow it down the stretch. They will do it again. Prediction: Steelers 20, Cowboys 17. New York Giants defeat Atlanta Falcons All teams go through a funk at one point of a 16-game season. Atlanta is currently going to go through that funk. With the Giants coming into town, and with their ability to get up for games, New York and Eli Manning will find a way to get the job done in Atlanta. Atlanta's defense is average this season. Prior to Sunday's game against Carolina, the Falcons ranked 15th in passing yards allowed and 20th in rushing yards allowed. If Manning can receive time to throw the football he will carve up the Falcons' defense. Also, Matt Ryan hasn't been overly impressive since playing the Saints on Nov. 11. Since that game, Ryan has accounted for four touchdowns and seven interceptions. Against a stingy defensive front four, New York will find a way to rattle Ryan just like they did last year in the postseason. Prediction: Giants 27, Falcons 23. San Francisco 49ers defeat New England Patriots Remember when the Arizona Cardinals went to New England and defensively defeated the Patriots earlier this season? They forced a turnover, held New England to 5-of-15 on third downs and won at the line of scrimmage. San Francisco will play that same exact role in Week 15. The 49ers are another team that gets up for games when they feel disrespected. Throughout this week, San Francisco will hear its share of doubts from the analysts. With its stout defense, San Francisco will have the right remedy for Brady and the Patriots. Expect one of San Francisco's best games of the season. Prediction: 49ers 20, Patriots 17. What is the duplicate article? Why is this article offensive? Where is this article plagiarized from? Why is this article poorly edited?

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2013-05-18T06:01:52Z

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Michigan vs. Ohio State: Twitter Reaction, Postgame Recap and Analysis The Ohio State Buckeyes got off to a fast start and held on for the thrilling 56-53 win at home. The loss was the first of the season for the No. 2-ranked Michigan Wolverines. There are now no unbeaten teams in Division I NCAA basketball. The Wolverines fought back from a 20-point deficit to tie the game on two occasions late, but they didn't have the final push to pull out the tough road victory. This was a great game to watch and served as a preview of things to come in the Big Ten Tournament and March Madness in general. Here is a balanced account of what took place at the Value City Arena in Columbus, Ohio. Michigan assistant coach Bacari Alexander gave this pregame speech to his team before the loss to the Buckeyes on Sunday. The Wolverines came into the game as the nation's last undefeated team, and everyone wanted to know if this was the day the "0" would go. That includes ESPN's Jay Williams: This game had several qualities. The sweet alley-oop plays were just one aspect: The Wolverines battled back from a 20-point deficit to tie the game, and that resiliency made this a regular-season gem: And #Michigan has tied the game! WOW. We got a game!— ESPN College BBall (@ESPNCBB) January 13, 2013 ESPN's college hoops Twitter feed delivers the news: BBall (@ESPNCBB) January 13, 2013 How the Buckeyes Won This Game 16-0 Run Early in the First Half Perhaps the Wolverines were overconfident heading into this game. It is possible the speech from Alexander didn't help matters. In any case, they didn't look as though they were ready to match the Buckeyes' intensity. With strong and aggressive defense, the Buckeyes built a huge lead on a strength of a 16-0 run. After Trey Burke started the game with a three-pointer, the Wolverines found themselves down 16-3 shortly thereafter. Part of the product of the Buckeyes defense was a plethora of turnovers from Michigan. The Buckeyes harassed the Wolverines into 13 miscues, with nine coming in the first half. Coming into the game, Michigan was averaging just nine giveaways per game. Wolverines Should Have Played Zone From the Beginning The Buckeyes have only one dependable scorer in the half court, and that is Deshaun Thomas. Michigan starting the game in man-to-man coverage allowed Thomas to get off early, as they didn't have a defender who could contain him. He finished with 20 points, and the other Buckeyes who excelled offensively got most of their buckets in transition. No other Buckeye had double figures in the game. Aaron Craft and Sam Thompson each had nine points, but seven of Craft's points came in the first half. The Wolverines' eventual switch to a zone midway through the first half keyed the comeback, but the Buckeyes had already gained momentum. Heroes and Goats Heroes: Deshaun Thomas and Sam Thompson Thomas continues to prove he is a prime-time scorer and leader. He made several big shots en route to another impressive scoring performance. Thompson's energy on defense led to crowd-igniting slams and constant pressure on the ball. Goat: Trey Burke Burke's NBA draft stock took a hit in this game. He didn't display a ton of poise, struggling to get his team into the offense. He also didn't shoot well, as Craft's tenacious defense seem to bother him all game. This led to a few questionable shots. Burke finished with 15 points and four assists, but he only shot 4-of-13 from the field, and he committed four turnovers. He was not as good as his team needed him to be. Michigan showed a lot of heart in coming back, and it nearly won this game. However, the Wolverines showed that their inexperience can be their undoing. They were not prepared for the intensity this rivalry game brought, and the atmosphere consumed them early. They must grow up quickly if they plan on going deep into the NCAA tournament. The Buckeyes scored a huge win at home, but their lack of offensive options will hurt them against top teams. That will be a bigger factor when they aren't playing at home. That said, their tough defense will keep them in most any game. Follow Brian Mazique and Franchiseplay on YouTube and Twitter for reactions, analysis and news from the world of sports and sports video games. What is the duplicate article? Why is this article offensive? Where is this article plagiarized from? Why is this article poorly edited?

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Demetrious Johnson vs. John Dodson: What Went Wrong for Dodson? On Saturday night in the United Center in Chicago, the UFC flyweight championship was on the line as Demetrious Johnson defended against Ultimate Fighter winner John Dodson. The battle was fast-paced, as expected, although few would have guessed that Demetrious Johnson would be dropped three times in the opening frames of his first title defense. However, in Round 3, everything turned around for "The Magician," and 15 minutes later, he saw Johnson have his arm raised as Bruce Buffer announced "Mighty Mouse" as the bout's winner. So what went wrong for John Dodson? Lack of Killer Instinct In Round 2, Dodson scored a four-punch combination that dropped Johnson hard. All signs pointed to a new champion; however, the challenger apparently couldn't smell the blood in the water. Instead of pressing the action and unleashing a flurry of strikes on his downed opponent, Dodson allowed Johnson to return to his feet and gave him a moment to recover. Later in the frame, he landed another big shot that sent Mighty Mouse down, and this time he charged forward. However, this opening wasn't as good as the previous one, and Johnson was quickly back to his feet. If the "what if's" in your life are going to haunt you in your senior years, there is no question that Dodson will always wonder what would have been if he had put his foot on the gas at a time that demanded it. Conditioning Not Enough for Five Rounds How many pitchers do you see take the mound and throw fastballs over and over again for nine full innings? The reason that John Dodson faded after Round 3 lies in the fact that he throws a lot of haymakers. The flyweight has never had cardio issues in previous bouts, but then again, this is the first time that heavy-handed speedster went into championship rounds. When Dodson couldn't keep his foot on the gas any longer, Johnson kept the pressure at a maximum and used superior technique to do a lot of damage up against the cage. Demetrious Johnson Has Too Much Heart Some may look at Johnson vs. Dodson as a flyweight version of Frankie Edgar vs. Gray Maynard. The challenger has heavy hands and used them well in the early rounds. The champion recognizes the terrible situation that surrounds him and refuses to relinquish his belt. Anyone who witnessed Johnson's fight with Joseph Benavidez saw exactly what his determination can accomplish. Benavidez secured a deep guillotine choke that should have ended the fight; however, the pure will of Johnson gave him the strength to frantically wiggle free and save himself. That same determination saw Johnson test his own limits and drown Dodson in deep waters for the final rounds. In any event, this was a great performance for John Dodson. He represented The Ultimate Fighter well and gave reason for viewers to believe that the show can still deliver championship fighters. Unfortunately for The Magician, it was Johnson who proved himself the better man. With some quality performances in 2013 and a little bit of luck, he could find himself in title contention once again in early 2014. What is the duplicate article? Why is this article offensive? Where is this article plagiarized from? Why is this article poorly edited?

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2013-05-18T06:02:02Z

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Washington Nationals: Are They Better Than the Atlanta Braves? Patrick McDermott/Getty Images The Washington Nationals were perceived as locks to win the National League East after another strong offseason. However, after the Atlanta Braves acquired Justin Upton from the Arizona Diamondbacks, there is now a debate as to which team is better. Yet, despite the Braves' big splash, the Nationals are still the superior team. Let’s start by looking at each team’s lineups. The Braves' top of the lineup will likely consist of Andrelton Simmons, Jason Heyward and Justin Upton. This group has a lot of potential and talent, but there will be questions about consistency. The Nationals on the other hand, have Denard Span, Jayson Werth and Ryan Zimmerman leading things off. These guys have a lot of experience, but Werth and Zimmerman have been declining over the past two years. Span gives the Nationals a true leadoff hitter they’ve sorely needed. Freddie Freeman will be the cleanup hitter for the Braves, followed by B.J. Upton and Dan Uggla. The problem here is that Upton and Uggla are low-contact, high-strikeout hitters. However, with all of the opportunities they will get with men on base, expect the duo to have bounce-back seasons. The Nationals have Adam LaRoche, Bryce Harper and Ian Desmond at the four, five and six spots. Washington chose LaRoche over Michael Morse, and for good reason. In each of his last two full seasons, LaRoche has had 100 RBI and over 60 extra-base hits. Harper has the highest upside out of any National, and will look to follow a solid rookie year with an electric sophomore campaign. Desmond had his best season last year, but the Nationals have to be a little concerned about his injury problems. Who Will Win the NL East This Season? The seventh spot in each team’s lineup is rather strong. Brian McCann is widely regarded as one of the best offensive catchers in baseball, even if he had a disappointing season in 2012. Danny Espinosa strikes out a lot and has a low average, but he steals bases and has excellent power for a middle infielder. Finally, the Braves have a below-average hitter in Juan Francisco batting before the pitcher, and the Nationals have a promising catcher in Wilson Ramos. Both lineups are amongst the best in the league. But while Atlanta is more of a streaky hitting team, the evolution of Harper will make the Nationals' lineup a threat to every pitcher they face. Additionally, both teams have elite bullpens. Craig Kimbrel is one of the most dominant pitchers in baseball and is more than a formidable option for the Braves in the ninth inning. Jonny Venters and Eric O’Flaherty took a step back last year, but with the addition of fireballer Jordan Walden, the Braves' top relievers will be able to have more rest throughout the season. The Nationals already had a late-inning combination of Drew Storen and Tyler Clippard before they signed Rafael Soriano. Now they boast three great right-handed relievers. The problem with the Nationals' bullpen is that they don’t have an effective left-handed reliever, unless you want to count Zach Duke. The Braves, on the other hand, have a good mix of relievers that can handle any situation presented. However, the biggest advantage that either of these teams have on one another is the Nationals' starting pitching. Stephen Strasburg and Gio Gonzalez are already one of the top duos in the MLB; adding Dan Haren and Jordan Zimmermann to the mix gives Washington arguably the best starting rotation in the majors. The Braves have Tim Hudson as their ace. Hudson has injury concerns, but he’s been a reliable pitcher over the past couple of seasons. Kris Medlen was a force for the Braves down the stretch last year; if the Braves have any chance of winning the NL East, they’ll need Medlen to maintain a similar performance. The rest of the Braves' rotation includes Mike Minor, Paul Maholm and Julio Teheran. Those three certainly make the Braves' starting rotation weaker than the Nationals, even if Ross Detwiler is their fifth starter. The Nationals simply have more talent and depth. Even though the Braves have a better bullpen, I think that Davey Johnson will manage his pen better than Fredi Gonzalez. This division race will be close, but the Nationals will pull away in the last few weeks of September. What is the duplicate article? Why is this article offensive? Where is this article plagiarized from? Why is this article poorly edited?

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2013-05-18T07:29:25Z

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Murph Settles, Avoids Hearing Daniel Murphy has settled to avoid an arbitration hearing. He will earn slightly less than the $2.975 million midpoint of his asking price and the team's offer, a baseball source told ESPNNewYork.com. What is the duplicate article? Why is this article offensive? Where is this article plagiarized from? Why is this article poorly edited?

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2013-05-18T05:31:46Z

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Seattle Seahawks: Did Russell Wilson and Bobby Wagner Deserve ROY Awards? Over the weekend, Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III and Carolina Panthers linebacker Luke Kuechly won the NFL's Offensive and Defensive Rookie of the Year awards, while Seattle Seahawks Bobby Wagner and Russell Wilson finished in second and third place respectively in the voting done by the Associated Press. As the Seattle Times' Danny O'Neil reported: Seattle’s draft class was panned in April. In January, though, Seattle had two of the top six rookies according to Associated Press ballots. Linebacker Bobby Wagner was runner-up in Defensive Rookie of the Year to Luke Kuechly of Carolina, the No. 9 overall pick. Kuechly received 28 first-place votes, Wagner 11. Green Bay cornerback Casey Hayward finished third with six first-place votes. Quarterback Russell Wilson was third in votes for Offensive Rookie of the Year. Robert Griffin III of Washington won the award, receiving 29 of 50 votes. Andrew Luck of Indianapolis received 11 votes, Wilson received 10. The balloting by 50 designated voters concluded before the start of the postseason. Voters selected one winner. There were no second and third-place votes in balloting. While I'm not shocked that RG3 won the offensive award, I was a little surprised Kuechly beat out Wagner. In both votes what really has me scratching my head is the margin by which RG3 and Kuechly won. On the offensive side of the coin the competition was fierce between not only the No. 1 and No. 2 selections in the April draft, but the man chosen 70-plus spots following them. If you're a fan of the underdog, you will be hard-pressed to find a better story than Russell Wilson this season or most others. The undersized third-round draft choice took the city of Seattle and the NFL by storm in a story that now reads like a cheesy Hollywood script. The fact of the matter is that it was really a fairly lengthy process that began last spring and took shape over the better part of the season. Wilson painstakingly won over his coaches, teammates, fans and eventually the entire league by taking on all comers and proving the critics wrong every step of the way. Yet choosing among RG3, Andrew Luck, and Russell Wilson isn't as easy as you might imagine. Who deserved the Offensive ROY Award? As much as I love Wilson, I can understand the appeal of RG3 and how voters were amazed by him from the very beginning to the very end. Who could forget RG3's Week 1 performance when he went to New Orleans and won with a dazzling display of dominance by attacking through the air and on the ground. Fast-forward to the regular-season finale at home against the Cowboys with the division title up for grabs when Griffin once again got the job done with the help of fellow rookie Alfred Morris at running back. By the way, where were the ROY votes for Morris? A sixth-round pick from Florida Atlantic rushes for 1,613 yards with 13 touchdowns while helping his team to the playoffs and his teammate wins in a landslide while he doesn't get a single vote from the 50 writers? It all leads me to believe that Griffin's knack for drama is what has the media and fans spellbound. It also leads me to believe it's part of why he stayed in the wild-card game against the Seahawks well past the point he should have. Patrick McDermott/Getty Images Wilson, on the other hand, perhaps because he has been reminded throughout his life about his limitations, seems to have a solid grasp of what he should and shouldn't do on the field of play. That maturity came through against the Redskins as he rallied the 'Hawks back on the road and leads me to wonder how many voters would have changed their vote if they had the chance now? On the defensive side, Wagner was a second-round pick joining an already solid defense, but asked to help shore up what was arguably the team's weakest point at linebacker. Following the departure of veteran David Hawthorne via free agency, Wagner was drafted with the hopes of taking over the middle linebacker spot after the top middle linebacker in the draft was selected just a few spots ahead of the Seahawks' first-round pick. Whether the 'Hawks would have drafted Luke Kuechly is something we will probably never know, but with the Carolina Panthers grabbing him at No. 9, the brain trust of head coach Pete Carroll and general manager John Schneider adjusted accordingly and eventually found their man in the middle in Round 2. A position that going in to the season looked like a potential liability soon became a strength, with Wagner always at the center of the action while leading the team in tackles playing alongside second-year man K.J. Wright and veteran Leroy Hill. With that said, did Wagner deserve to win given his contributions to the Seahawks this season? Who Deserved the Defensive ROY Award? In Carolina this season Kuechly posted 165 tackles and took over the middle linebacker spot after veteran Jon Beason went down for the season with an injury early in the season. At the same time I don't see how Kuechly got 28 first-place votes versus only 11 for Wagner. At times like these I can imagine some fans crying about an East Coast bias within the media, but I'm not sure how much I buy that here given the fact that the Seahawks had four first-team All-Pro selections this year. Perhaps in both cases Wilson and Wagner's success was seen as a byproduct of an already solid roster built by Pete Carroll and John Schneider? Once again, we will probably never know, but by now Wilson and Wagner are likely accustomed to the critics looking past them. Either way I like to think both slights will be stowed away and some day used as motivation for Wilson and Wagner, who seem the kind of players who may forgive but will never forget. Winning rookie of the year may be nice, but I hope that both men have their sights set on something far more grandiose over the course of time, while helping lift the Seahawks to a level that no one will be able to deny them with a popular vote...a Super Bowl championship. What is the duplicate article? Why is this article offensive? Where is this article plagiarized from? Why is this article poorly edited?

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Super Ninety Nine Romps in Sloppy Southwest Super Ninety Nine rolled to an 11 1/4-length win in the $300,000 Southwest Stakes Feb. 18 for Susan and Charles Chu's Tanma Corporation, muddling the 3-year-old picture even more as the top three finishers from the Smarty Jones Stakes finished off the board at Oaklawn Park... What is the duplicate article? Why is this article offensive? Where is this article plagiarized from? Why is this article poorly edited?

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Clutch Hitting and Strong Pitching Are Keys To First-Place Padres' Success After last night’s rally and dramatic bottom of the ninth victory, the Padres (17-10) assured themselves of having another successful homestand. Winners of six of their last eight games and 11-4 at home, the Padres continue to roll. On the offensive side, the Padres are showing an ability to hit with runners in scoring position—they are second in the National League with a .293 team average. After collecting their third walk-off win of the season, they are also proving that they have the ability to come through when the game is on the line. Showing that he is a go-to-guy in the clutch, with two outs, Chase Headley, lined a 1-0 count single to the right-center gap, scoring Lance Zawadski from second base. This was Headley’s second walk-off hit of the season; the other walk-off hit for the Padres was a home run by David Eckstein. Aside from the timely hitting, strong pitching has also been a major reason for their early season success—with a 2.81 team ERA that ranks second in the NL. Last night’s starting pitcher, Wade LeBlanc, called up to replace the injured Chris Young in the rotation, allowed two earned runs over six innings, received a no-decision. In three other starts this season LeBlanc (2-0, 1.16) has only one earned run and has shown a lot of promise. LeBlanc was the pitcher of record in two of the Padres’ Major League leading six shutouts. Opening day starter and free-agent acquisition, Jon Garland (3-2, 2.06) has been a steady contributor. Veteran Kevin Correia (4-2, 3.97) leads the team in wins and strikeouts with 30. Second-year starter Clayton Richard (1-2, 3.00) is beginning to hit his stride. The only sore spot in the rotation has been 22-year-old Mat Latos (1-3, 5.47), who has given up a team-high seven home runs. All-star Heath Bell (2-0, 1.64) anchors a strong bullpen with seven saves in eight chances. It is still too early to tell if the first-place Padres have what it takes to take the division. But the middle of May just might give a clue as whether or not the Padres are true contenders. If they manage to come out with a winning record against the second-place Giants and are able to take advantage of the struggling Dodgers, who were early season favorites to win the division, then the Padres will most likely still be atop the division. And that may just be time to start taking the overachieving Padres seriously. What is the duplicate article? Why is this article offensive? Where is this article plagiarized from? Why is this article poorly edited?

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Daryl Johnston: Understanding Roles of Our FBs in the Chargers Offense I got into a little debate with a Raider fan a long time ago. The debate was based on a article I wrote awhile back appropriately named "Pick Your Poison: A Look at the 2010 Chargers Offensive Arsenal". In that article, I named Jacob Hester and Mike Tolbert as part of the Chargers offensive weapons. This Raider fan, from what I gather, didn't know much about the Chargers offense, so I decided to write this article on why these guys are weapons. If there is ever a indication of what Tolbert and Hester's worth to the Chargers offense, we'll have to take a step back in time to the first player that made that position what it is today. That player is Daryl Johnston. If it wasn't for Daryl Johnston, there would be no FB vote in the Pro Bowl today. What he did was nothing short of extraordinary as he was one of the most dynamic players in the game. Dynamic, not versatile. People get those two words confused all the time. He wasn't lined up all over the place but what he did was pass-block, run-block, run with the ball, and catch the ball out of the backfield. That's dynamic. Why can I look at Daryl Johnston as a indication of what Tolbert and Hester can hopefully be? Because the one person that orchestrated the Cowboys offense in which Daryl Johnston flourished in is none other than the current Head Coach for the San Diego Chargers. Johnston was a ordinary FB during his first two years in the NFL. Turner came in and turned him into a viable weapon in the passing game or running game whether he's the runner, pass-catching receiver, or blocker. During Turner's time as the offensive coordinator, he installed his version of the Vertical Offense. Johnston had 54 yards rushing , averaging 3.2 yards per carry, and 28 receptions for 244 yards in his first season. During his second season, he improved in the new offense with 61 yards rushing, averaging 3.6 yards per carry, and 32 receptions for 249 yards. In his third season, he went on to have 74 rushing yards, averaging 3.1 yards per carry, and 50 receptions for 372 yards. He wasn't the main weapon on the Cowboys offense, but he was the person that made everyone better. He gave the QB extra time. He helped a young Emmitt Smith gained massive amounts of yardage in the running game. He helped the Cowboys move the ball in the passing game. These are the same attributes that can be found in both Tolbert and Hester for the San Diego Chargers. If you look at what they did in a combined effort in the FB position, you can see how Turner is using them to help the Chargers offense move the ball in much of the same way Turner helped the Cowboys move the ball. Both Tolbert and Hester been in the league for two seasons, all with the Chargers. Both Tolbert and Hester combined at the FB position had 132 yards rushing, averaging 4.1 yards per carry, and 25 receptions for 262 yards in their first season. In their second season together, Tolbert and Hester combined for 222 yards rushing, averaging 4.8 yards per carry, and 26 receptions for 216 yards. Now, you can see that the Chargers FB's play a important role on the team in being very dynamic. It gives the Chargers a lot more options during a game. Defenses might look at the RB, TE, and WR of the Chargers only to neglect their FB as a viable threat to keep the drive alive. This is what the FB's can do for the Chargers. It's still early in both Mike Tolbert and Jacob Hester's career, but after seeing what Daryl Johnston did in Turner's offense, I think it's safe to say that both Tolbert and Hester are just as much weapons to their team as Johnston was to his. What is the duplicate article? Why is this article offensive? Where is this article plagiarized from? Why is this article poorly edited?

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January 13, 2010 Ken has yet to fill out a bio. Ken...I think I was telling Scotto to leave Brittney alone...But I don't have the conversation before me...so, I you will give me the exact quote< will have a better grasp of what was siad and/or meant...Okay..Thanks.. Go Blue Ken! Too bad the end didnt turn out the way we hoped, but it was a great run and an amazing feat for the program Hey Ken, Been a long time since I was on Bleacher Report. Now that Football season is starting I'll be on here more often and looking forward to your comments as usual. Anyway, good luck this Friday to your MSU team. I think they will crush Boise State!!! Go Green when they aren't playing my team and Go Blue!!!! Hi Ken, thanks for posting on my bulletin board. Sorry that I just saw this tonight. I'm not always following everything on BR these days. In any case, I've always enjoyed our trips to Michigan State. I have found the fans to be quite welcoming and friendly to Penn Staters, and the stadium atmosphere to be outstanding, albeit a bit tough to get up to that nosebleed section - 7 ramps! - where they put the away game fans these days. I also think that MSU's campus is one of the prettiest in the Big Ten. In any case I guess since now we are in different divisions we won't play one another quite as often. So when we do, it will be more special. I never hide my garb anywhere in the Big Ten, and have never really had a problem. But I understand why you go out of your way at Ohio State to hide the fact that you're from Michigan. Thanks for the message Ken. I think running those types of plays would be great. I think it's good too because it's not likely that there would be injuries to the QB. I think throwing in a play like that each quarter would be great as well. It would keep the defense honest and make passing and running plays easier for us. I think Having Denard throwing to Gardner, and Gardner throwing back to Denard on a screen would almost get a TD every time since Denard is so fast and elusive. Michigan looks great on paper. They have a ton of great players. I think they will do great under Coach Hoke and Mattison, however the schedule they play this year is brutal. If they can pull out wins on their road games, (@Nebraska, Alabama in Texas, Ohio State, Notre Dame, Minnesota, and Purdue) then I think they will have a shot at another BCS bowl game and perhaps a chance at going to the Big Ten Championship game. I sure hope you're right about this being Michigan's year. I recently came across your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I don't know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often. Essay Writing Help|Research Paper Help|Essay Writers|Cheap Essays|Help Me Write An Essay|Custom Research Paper Online Help|Free Essays Online|Order An Essay Online|Buy Persuasive Essays Online|Admission Essays Writing Service Online I def dont think ur a bad guy, lol...i spent some time looking for that quote but ill def give ur friend a shout and get the scoop...lol....roll tide!! I thought you might want to check out "The Top 25 Title Odds" story. I think you'll get a kick out of my picks to make the finals. Ken... I fully and totally understand you not wanting me to have your email address. If you want to keep in touch through B/R that is fine with me. But, if you ever want to get in touch with me on a more personal level, you can always email me at [email protected]. It is a strange time in the world right now so I won't be upset in any way, shape, or form if you would rather keep in touch through B/R. Hell...it surely is easy enough and my email alerts me any time I get any kind of message from B/R. I may be wrong, but I consider you smart,and even though you are a fan of "little brother", I consider you a friend as well. I wish all of the people at B/R were like you and the handful of friends I have at B/R. I have a couple Michigan pals, a Wisconsin buddy, you, and about a dozen Buckeye friends although they aren't very bright for the most part and DO NOT have my email address. Hahahaha. Anyway...you are now my brother whether you like it or not (I call all men, "brother"... it is a Christian thing). And on a couple personal notes... I'm 38 years old. I was born in Dayton, Ohio, just like friggin Brady Hoke, and I have lived in the Orlando, Florida area for around 30 years. My birthday is on February, 25th so I turn 39 then, In keeping with "Things about Chris"... I am married with 2 daughters (12 and 9), but I have been separated for 7 years. I live with my girlfriend, Wendy, and her 2 children. Wendy's boy has Down's syndrome and is 28. Wendy's daughter is a senior in high school and is 18. We honestly have 26 cats (no joke). We took in a couple pregnant strays and then 8 months later we went from 12 cats to 38 cats. Since we would never let someone kill our pets, we take between 1 and 4 cats to the "no kill" animal shelter every 2 to 4 weeks. We also have 2 rabbits as we are animal lovers but the cats were an accident of sorts that our laziness made things bad. Wendy and I are both plumbers that specialize in total home re-piping. But since we are in a depression of sorts, Wendy has taken a job doing housekeeping at a nearby hotel and I am doing very little part-time plumbing just to barely get by. We used to make $1200 to $2500 each weekly for a four day week, but now we are living week to week. Times have been very tough to say the least. So, now you know about my family and me. I'm just a sports freak and not too much of a weirdo. You told me about your job so I went a bit overboard and told you nearly everything about me and us. Oh... one last thing... we are Christians but we aren't Bible banging freaks. You never have to worry about me getting upset about any words you speak. I'm just a normal dude that believes in Christ but I don't attend church or practice any funky rituals. I'm a weirdo, but I'm normal at the same time. Email me through B/R or through my regular email anytime you wish. Your emails and your sports views will always be taken in pleasure. Take care, brother, I hope to hear from you before the last game of the Big Ten basketball season. See ya.

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June 3, 2010 January 25, 2010 November 2, 2009 September 27, 2009 A resident of Brooklyn, NY, Jake Rake is a graduate of the University of Maryland. His interests include baseball, rock 'n roll, and not feeling feelings. Jake is a contributor to The Onion, Mental Floss, Gelf, SNY's The Nooner and The Business Corporation, posts daily on JakeRake.com and hangs out like crazy. Cheer my buddy. We sell Levitra online. Visit us at Your last two "articles" are exactly why I left Bleacher Report...completely laughable. Sorry about slaming your Pete Rose article, but it was about the weakest argument made against a man who would have been in the HOF 17 years ago...had he not done himself in. Respectfully, your ignorance in this department doesn't speak well for UMass, either. your pete rose article is absolutely ridiculous, how can you seriously publish that and make an argument that he doesn't have HOF numbers? At least respond to comments if you make an outlandish, laughable argument I assure you this is the first link that I've posted on someone else's bulletin board... just wanted to let you know you're not the only ichiro-basher around, and I live in Seattle. I thought I'd get my 2 cents in. Your comments will be appreciated. http://bleacherreport.com/articles/226165-omar-minaya-chance-for-redemption I just came up with the list of the best current Major Leaguers wearing the numbers One thru Ten. I hope you can take a look and voice your opinion on my list. Thanks in advance, - Matthew Falkenbury I wrote a piece in May highlighting the position players that I thought should make the all star team. I started a 2-part follow up piece today focusing on starting pitchers. I started with AL. If you get the chance, I'd appreciate it if you took a look at it. Thanks Rays, Rocks preview check this out I think you may like it

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Not only is it “insensitive” for there to be an Islamic community center near the WTC site (never-mind that there was a prayer room in the WTC), it’s also apparently insensitive to show Muslims doing anything on or around 9/11: The Portland Press Herald has apologized to its readers for publishing images of Muslims celebrating the end of Ramadan, which this year coincided with the 9/11 anniversary. Noting that thousands of local Muslims marked a holy day peacefully near the anniversary of a day when a few Muslims committed a mass murder (whose victims included other Muslims) was apparently beyond the pale. The paper’s editor and publisher wrote: “We erred by at least not offering balance to the story and its prominent position on the front page.” Balance, of course, would be including something along the lines of “yeah, I know these Muslims look peaceful, but don’t forget that Muslims attacked us on 9/11/01”. Can we finally call this anti-Muslim hysteria the hatefest that it is?

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Discover Your Blip. What do you want to watch? CM Punk teaches a lesson in respect facing Jerry Lawler in a steel cage match. Also, Daniel Bryan finds himself along side Kane in group therapy. Mues looks at pop music and pro-wrestling with a cynical, yet hopeful eye in two weekly programs "MUES Reviews" and "RAW Reactions" Discover the best in original web series. © 2013 Blip Networks, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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And Now We Return to Wednesday’s Originally Scheduled Broadcast As I mentioned before, my original plan on Wednesday was to discuss some of the topics covered in Tuesday’s Winter Meeting interviews with Angels’ GM Tony Reagins and Angels Manager Mike Scioscia. That was before the Crawford deal, before the Angels signed Scott Downs, before…well, suffice to say a lot has happened in the four and a half days since those interviews, rendering much of what was said irrelevant at this point. However, a few pieces of news remain pertinent and interesting: Since about late August or so, all reports have indicated that Kendry is making great progress at or slightly ahead of schedule and that he should be able to return for the 2011 season as good as new. On the one hand, this is what you would expect the front office to say but, on the other hand, if his progress was cause for concern I tend to think the easier route would just be to avoid giving frequent updates all together. During the Tuesday interviews, Scioscia and Reagins both reiterated that Kendry is making excellent progress and let us know he has been able to resume light baseball activities in addition to the regular rehab and workouts. Scioscia also said that while they will watch Kendry cautiously in the beginning, of course, based on his current progress he should be “full-go for all drills”* by the beginning of Spring Training. Kendry Morales is one of my favorite players – a guy who can motivate the whole team with a swing of his mighty bat or a great play at first. Honestly, this news makes me happier than a big trade or signing announcement would make me…not that I didn’t want that big announcement too. I’m greedy like that. Having Kendry back in and of itself will be a huge improvement in the Angels offense, but all of the major players involved have promised us repeatedly that they would not be content with just having Kendry back in the line-up and would make one or two additional improvements for 2011. This promise has noticeably not been repeated since Crawford signed with the Red Sox and, while I sincerely hope this is not the case, I am left with one of Ash’s great lines from Army of Darkness stuck in my head. Oh that’s just what we call pillow talk, baby, that’s all. Catchers’ Tango Turned Broadway Ensemble Dance Routine Mike Scioscia said that with Kendry on the mend, Mike Napoli would be returning to his role as catcher in 2011 in the typically glowing way we have all come to expect when Scioscia talks about Napoli behind the plate. “I think he’s a catcher, and he thinks he’s a catcher. Now he needs to go out a catch like he’s a catcher.” Clearly by returning to his role a catcher, Scioscia meant returning to the two and occasionally three and even four way bare knuckled, albeit good naturedly so, brawl for a permanent position behind the plate. Of the catching position, Scioscia said, “It’s obviously an important position for us. Jeff is more skilled defensively. Bobby is a combination. Hank Conger is coming. We have some depth there.” Mike Scioscia, King of Understatement. Of course, this could also be so much pillow talk and Napoli could very well be trade bait for the bat we so desperately need. Given the fact that the Angels’ 2010 homerun leader is often, himself, the bat we so desperately need, albeit a very streaky one, unless such a trade brings additional sizable tangible benefits, this doesn’t make nearly as much sense to me as other deals might. According to Scioscia, Kaz’ new offseason conditioning program seems to be working. He is showing marked improvements in stamina and control and is still expected to be the 5th starter in 2011. This is the kind of news I really hope is true and not just the thing the team is expected to say. It’s hard not to respect and root for a player who is possibly more upset by his poor performance than even the fans and who busts his butt in the offseason to try and make sure it doesn’t happen again. If Kaz could be as good as he was for the Rays, as good as he started out for us in 2009…Wow! The Angels starting rotation would truly be a thing of beauty, wouldn’t it? * All of the interview quotations were taken from Lyle Spencer’s articles “Scioscia Sees a Bright Future for Trout” and “Lee Joins High-Profile List Linked to Angels.”

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Bloc Space is now avaliable to hire for artists’ projects, meetings, presentations and workshops, subject to availability: Please email us for more information or to make a booking. We have a range of AV equipment and technical support that can be arranged alongside hire of the space. Please email us for prices. A badge machine is also available to hire from £27 per day.

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Finding a position that’s comfortable and supportive is important for beginning meditation. Remaining completely still for any period of time is difficult for most Americans, and if you’re uncomfortable, it makes it even harder. If you’re just starting out with meditation, don’t feel like you have to twist yourself up like a pretzel. A simple posture will provide just as much benefit. In Buddhist philosophy, the mind, body, and breath are intricately connected. How you sit will affect the quality of your breathing and your mental focus. Keeping your back straight with good posture is important no matter which meditation position you choose. This allows the diaphragm to move freely as you breathe more deeply. If you are sitting on the floor, you may need a pillow (called a zafu) to raise your buttocks and help you keep your body upright with very little effort. Sitting in a chair is the simplest way to begin your meditation practice. It’s also the best option for individuals who suffer from back pain or other discomfort that makes sitting on the floor difficult. Keep your feet flat on the floor. Use a backrest if needed, but keep your body upright and your back straight. You can use a zafu pillow behind your back to help your posture, or you can sit on the front third of the zafu in the same you would use it on the floor. Sitting on the floor helps you feel more grounded and stable. Meditation cushions such as a zafu and zabuton can make sitting on the floor more comfortable. Use the zafu to raise your hips and make it easier to keep your body upright. Sit on the front third of the zafu cushion. You can either sit with your knees bent in a kneeling position with the zafu under you (seiza position) or with your legs crossed in front of you and both feet on the floor, in the Burmese position. The Burmese, half Lotus, and Lotus positions require flexibility. Only attempt to sit in these positions if you can do so comfortably. Otherwise they may interfere with your ability to meditate. Photo Credits: Kanzeon Zen Center on Flickr

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We’re having a family artists’ retreat weekend in October with tons of interactive workshops — including underwater photography, felting, succulent gardens, airbrushing, dioramas, and macramé — and activities like sunrise yoga, skateboarding 101, and music and storytelling under the stars. It’s called Crafting Community, and our friend Karen Kimmel is returning with a band of talented artists to bring you this awesome weekend. Splendid will also have a pop-up shop where you can customize your own clothing and get family portraits. Fireside s’mores, a taco dinner, and Kimmel Kids goodie bag are all part of the fun. We have a special package and rate for the event, and Karen and Daily Candy are hosting a contest to give away a package for the event.

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The concept of a numbering machine is quite simple. It consists of various wheels inside and all wheels are stamped with numbers. But, what could be done with this? Well, the wheels of a numbering machine can be set and arranged to form a date or various other numbers. Basically numbers machines are used to imprint items with sequential numbers. Over the time, people have been using this type of machine to stamp many different kinds of paperwork. By adjusting the numbers stamped on wheels, you can keep an organized record of your date paperwork and label contracts. Numbering machines are considered as an inevitable stationery in offices or corporations, especially small businesses. They are used for any paperwork that requires to be printed with unique and trackable numbers. It is a way to keep an organized record of whatever you do. There are many applications in an office set up that require sequential numbering, such as purchase orders, invoices, production orders, inventory paperwork, insurance claims, property documents, serial number tags and much more. (more…)

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Discussions about faith-work integration are on the rise, with an ever-increasing number of related books, sermons, and blog posts (ahem) appearing with every passing day. Just a cursory glance around the faith and work landscape, and you’ll find a bunch of middle class white men (with the occasional woman or Asian). So what’s going on here? Does integrating your faith and work only matter for white professionals and not African-Americans or Latinos? (For the sake of this post, you’ll have to excuse some generalizations.) After offering a brief history of 20th-century American prosperity and the widespread self-actualization that followed, Haanen offers his hypothesis: Twentieth century America did not bless all ethnic groups evenly with wealth and comfort. African Americans lived under the thumb of institutionalized racism even years after the civil rights movement, and struggled for years to acquire the kind of jobs, and thus material comfort, that their white counterparts did. Today, it’s mostly Latinos who occupy the bottom rung of the socioeconomic ladder; they make even less than blacks per capita across age groups. All that to say this: while white guys were wondering about their purpose in life, blacks and Latinos were just trying to survive. When I was a pastor of a Latino congregation, it wasn’t terribly surprising that questions of existential despair or vocational fit never arose. Dignity and providing for the family trumped “fulfilling the cultural mandate.” Getting a job and paying rent was a bit higher on the hierarchy of needs. Haanen’s point about disparate shifts in the makeup and distribution of work is an important one. The minimum-wage McDonald’s worker will likely face a host of spiritual challenges distinct from those faced by the white-collar executive. Likewise, the differences in time and comfort outside of that work will play no small part in defining that struggle. As Haanen also indicates, “intangible” factors like racism are bound to transform these struggles further, even among workers in the same job type and industry. But having recognized all of this, it’s also important to recognize that just because a worker hasn’t the time, resources, or energy for armchair theologizing on “vocational fit,” it doesn’t mean that meaning, purpose, and transcendent activity isn’t taking place amid the strenuous circumstances. Whether or not we are actively thinking and talking about “cultural mandate,” the basic dignity of our work and the basic activity of serving society and providing for one’s family is an integral part of fulfilling that mandate. At a certain level, “needs-based” work has a forceful way of tempering our individualistic inclinations, and at that level, I think we need to seriously reconsider how closely we’re aligning “vocation” with our own personal preferences or our end-game goals. Does God not also call us to that initial job or task that begins a longer trajectory filled with other more “fulfilling” things? Read more on Before and Beyond Vocation…

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Multi-Channel Retailing Today and Tomorrow February 1, 2013 Leave a comment When I attended the National Retail Federation conference a couple of weeks ago, there was a session on “Exhibitor Big Ideas” dedicated to what global consumers say they really want in a multi-channel world, based on a 2012 study by NCR. The research was very enlightening about the current state of retail and the preferences of today’s consumers. The study mapped what consumers look for and like with against retailers are actually offering and there is a lot of room for retailers to improve. In fact, retail will change more in the next five years than it has in the past 20 years. When it comes to personalized coupon offers: - 69% of consumers worldwide would welcome them. - 73% of shoppers said the availability of electronic coupons is a must-have for them. - 27% of grocery retail locations provide personalized offers. - 46% of favorite grocery retailers offer electronic coupons (“favorites” were a specific sub-set of retailers cited by respondents) - Overall, 35% of U.S. retailers offer them but 80% of American consumers want them. 2. Buy anywhere, get anywhere Shoppers expect a connected or converged experience. They want to feel like they are dealing with the same business in-store, online, in mobile apps, etc. Brick and mortar stores must embrace that consumers are using technology. For many, the internet has become the shopping channel of choice. Retail has gone from a B2C to a C2B experience. For each company, all of the pricing strategies, policies and procedures have to look and work the same. The best way to accomplish this is to put the right platforms in to manage the entire ecosystem versus managing all of them individually. - 78% of shoppers in North America want to purchase anywhere and get merchandise shipped or picked up anywhere. - 82% of favorite retailers in North America offer the option but 26% did not. There are some interesting developments happening. Retailers are creating multiple channels for returns. It’s good they are doing this because expensive or lengthy return policies and procedures were reasons for not making purchases for 76% of consumers. Retailers have to think about getting creative because there are many opportunities to think outside the box. For example, Sears had a drive-through window for returns after the holidays. 3. In-Store Self-Service Most grocery stores have some self-service options but there is opportunity to incorporate this approach across all retail categories. Even in grocery, many retailers have self-service in the front lanes but not enough help around the store. Consumers want independence and control of their shopping experience. - Nearly 20% of retailers provide in-store self-service - However, 44% of North American consumers desired increased in-store self-service options. Apple consumers can walk in, buy accessories and walk out without speaking or engaging with store associates. 4. Consumer Mobile Retailers have to do mobile right and consumers love it when they do. The experience should be clean, fast and positive. Furthermore, it has to be timely. When it works, the adoption rate will be strong and fast. From mobile apps and offers to research and payment—there is no end to the trend. Regarding mobile scan and pay: - 52% of consumers want mobile scan and pay - Only 12% of their favorite grocery stores offer (because it is tough to implement and there are operational considerations). Retailers who drive this feature early may actually get consumers to switch their loyalties. Even if retailers decide they want to hang back and join this trend late, they should start soon in the next one to three years because consumers will demand this feature. Mobile can be a win-win. - Consumers are using technology for faster checkout and personalized offers. They also use it to monitor spending. - Retailers get valuable insight into purchasing behavior, store utilization/traffic patterns and can influence shoppers at the point of decisions with targeted offers. On top of that, scan and pay is a huge opportunity. Stepping back to look at the big picture, time is the biggest problem retailers can solve for consumers. And they are getting more impatient. They digest technology really quickly. So if “Big Brother” is smart, he will be successful. Ultimately, retailers have to remember that the consumer is in charge. Purchasing used to be a straight line of activity. Now there are lines all over the place in the C2B experience. The best advice for retailers is to think of all the points of contact, look at their technology architecture and centralize to deliver what consumers want, as well as how and where they want. What makes certain retailers “favorites” for you and what multi-channel options do you value most?

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8 June 2012: A new charity to provide holidays for recovering armed service families has been launched by former Secretary of State for Defence the Right Honourable Dr Liam Fox MP. In partnership with Afghan Heroes, the registered charity set up by the mothers of soldiers killed in Afghanistan, this new initiative is called ‘Give Us Time’. The idea is to provide families of those recovering from trauma of combat to adjust in a neutral and quality environment. It will apply to those who have lost a loved one, those who have suffered physical injury and those who suffer from the mental stress of combat. Dr Fox said: “During my time as Secretary of State for Defence I was extremely heartened to see how we improved the treatment of those who had been physically injured in combat. “Medical improvements in prosthetics, better physiotherapy and improved social attitudes all contributed to a better chance of rehabilitation. In terms of psychological trauma – the invisible scars of war – we are making progress, though perhaps at a slower rate. “One of the areas where I think there remains room for improvement is the integration of service families into this equation. “As a doctor working with the Armed Forces I learned the importance of seeing our personnel, not as isolated individuals, but as members of a wider family and community dynamic. “Give Us Time has been made possible thanks to generously donated week-long holidays in second homes, holiday homes and timeshares across the UK and beyond. “We now look forward to helping those returning from active service recover through this scheme. “We are launching the property registration part of our website on Monday 11th June and we will trial the system throughout the rest of 2012, rolling it out more extensively in 2013. We aim to launch the armed service family part of the website in September this year.” Denise Harris, founder of Afghan Heroes added: “When we launched Afghan Heroes, one of our main objectives was to provide support for families of the fallen and those returning from theatre. “I know through personal experience how difficult it can be for those who have suffered loss or injury to recover. Give Us Time is a fantastic initiative and will go a long way to help those who have put their lives on the line readjust to a normal civilian life.” This launch has been made possible by various partner organisations who have kindly donated their valuable time and resources, including Serco, VenueDirectory.com, Fanatic, and Cobweb. Issued on behalf of Give Us Time and Afghan Heroes by Empica Ltd. For further information, contact Martin Powell or Laurence Phillips on (01275) 394400 or (07963) 092074.

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ABC NEWS SHARED A PRETTY GOOD RECIPE FOR A CHOCOLATE PECAN PIE. YOU COULD LEAVE OFF THE BOURBON IF YOU WANT. HERE'S THE POST. From the kitchen of Michele's Pies in Norwalk, Conn. Michele's Pies, located in heart of Norwalk, Conn., serves over 40 different varieties of pies and other baked goods. The baker behind this Norwalk shop is Michele Albano, who learned the trade from her grandmother. Before opening her store in December 2007, Ms. Albano showcased her pies at Vermont farmers' markets, visiting up to four a week. Her ingredients are always fresh and seasonal. Michele's signature pie is the "Chocolate Pecan Bourbon." GO HERE TO CHECK OUT THE FULL RECIPE AND INSTRUCTIONS.

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Two Mobile-based television stations have been off one of southwest Alabama's largest cable providers for a month now, and it remained unknown whether the underlying contractual dispute will be resolved anytime soon. At the end of August, the programming of WALA, a Fox affiliate, and WFNA, a CW affiliate, disappeared from the Mediacom cable lineup. The blackout is part of a larger dispute between LIN Media, which owns the stations, and Mediacom, which carries the programming of LIN stations in a number of markets around the country. Mediacom pays LIN for the right to rebroadcast its programming. A contract between the two companies expired on Aug. 5, and they have not come to terms on a new deal. The resulting standoff also affects several stations in Indiana, Virginia, Michigan and Wisconsin. The two companies' rhetoric, which was fairly bland as the blackout loomed, has grown somewhat more forceful in the interim. WALA's website, www.fox10tv.com, carries a statement saying that LIN has "tried hard to reach an agreement" and is "disappointed in the outcome of our negotiations, especially since we have successfully reached deals with every major cable, satellite and telecommunications company that recognizes our fair market value." Mediacom, meanwhile, offered viewers a statement that says the company "won't cave-in to demands for outrageous rate increases" by LIN and that it has "a duty to our customers" to fight for a deal that keeps costs reasonable for Mediacom patrons. The site also carried an aggrieved letter from Mediacom Chairman and CEO Rocco B. Commisso to Julius Genachowski, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, arguing that the FCC has been too passive in such disputes. Mediacom described the blackout as an uncivil "pressure tactic" that undermines good-faith negotiations. The WALA statement held that "by law, Mediacom no longer has the right to carry our programming." Despite the tough talk, representatives for both sides said Thursday that negotiations were ongoing. "We are continuing to negotiate with Mediacom and have been negotiating with Mediacom, frankly, since even before last April," said Elden Hale, general manager of WALA and WFNA, who added that he was not personally involved in the talks. He said the contract actually ended in April, but both parties had agreed to extensions through August. "We have noticed from our customers a lot of support," he said. "A lot of our viewers have told us that they are seeking alternative pay TV providers, so we've been really encouraged by the support we're seeing." Tom Larsen, vice president of legal and public affairs for Mediacom, said that on the channels where it once showed LIN stations, Mediacom has occasionally been showing free previews of the NFL Network, the Big 10 Network and Starz Family in some markets, and in some cases making other special offers to subscribers who are upset by the blackout. "We're continuing to negotiate with LIN," he said. "We sent them a proposal last week, and we're waiting on them to respond to that proposal."

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On Oct 1, 2012, the Perth Mint in Australia released the latest issue of a popular Gold bullion series: the 2013 Australian Gold Kangaroo. Much like the previous releases in this series, these Gold Kangaroos are issued as Australian legal tender and guaranteed by the Commonwealth Government of Australia. The 2013 Australian Gold Kangaroos are offered in sizes of 1/10 oz, 1/4 oz, 1/2 oz and 1 oz, as well as the larger 1 kilo size. The smaller sizes (1/10 oz to 1 oz) have limited mintages of no more than 350,000, depending on size, which gives them high numismatic value. Their worldwide distribution facilitates easy purchase and liquidation, making them good investment pieces, as well. The Australian Gold Kangaroos have been offered by the Perth Mint since 1989 and are one of the few Gold bullion coins to change its reverse design each year. This year’s issue depicts a kangaroo standing against the Australian outback. The kilo coin differs slightly, in that the image is instead a hopping Red Kangaroo. The “P” mint mark appears on the reverse of each coin, along with the inscriptions “Australian Kangaroo,” the date, size of the coin, and the purity, “9999 Gold.” The obverse of each coin shows the Ian Rank-Broadley likeness of Queen Elizabeth II, as well as the coin’s monetary denomination. The Perth Mint opened in 1899, originally serving as a branch of Britain’s Royal Mint to help supply Gold sovereigns and half sovereigns, which were used as everyday circulating coins throughout the British Empire. In 1970, control of the mint passed from Britain to the Western Australian Government, which still owns it today. To add these beautiful coins to your collection or your investment portfolio, shop APMEX’s selection of 2013 Australian Gold Kangaroo bullion coins. APMEX makes it easy to buy Gold by offering competitive Gold prices on all Gold coins and bars. Click here to view our wide selection of 2013 Australian Gold Kangaroos as well as all previous years of Gold Kangaroos:

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There are not many Thanksgiving horror movies. It’s like the forgotten holiday of spooky splatter films. We sent the SML Haunted Mansion and Blog Laboratory minions to find a Thanksgiving themed horror movie all the monsters could enjoy. We expected them to bring back “Home Sweet Home” or “Thankskilling.” But we forgot how unreliable minions can be. Instead, our underlings brought us 1972’s “Blood Freak” – a grindhouse film about a half-man-half-turkey who goes on a pot-fueled rampage against drug dealers, thirsting for their chemical-addled blood. Dear minions, we couldn’t be more proud. The movie features a Vietnam vet who returns home to get involved with a group of junkies and drug dealers. One of the girls gets him a job with her mad scientist father, who turns him into a turkey-man, and horrific hilarity ensues. The director must have been in love with the lead actor because the opening credits feature actor Steve Hawkes’ name three times. The director is easy to spot because he makes frequent cameos throughout the film. He appears in an unbuttoned silk shirt with flower print and chain smoking while giving Public Service Announcements about the dangers of drugs. You don’t see this technique used very often. We assumed the cheap Vincent Price mustache the director wore was an homage to the classic horror films of the past generation. And his heavy-handed Twilight Zone-like introduction must have been his attempt to tap into that classic television format. However, the director’s attempt to use a classic horror/sci-fi format ended there. The dialogue was riddled with groovy early 1970s slang – “right on,” “gone,” and “putting me on.” This film was not afraid to break all the taboos, like scenes where actors eat roast turkey in front of live turkeys. And real scenes of fowl slaughter. Now that’s just sad. We aren’t vegetarians, but show some class. If PETA had been around in the early 70s, we are sure they would have been calling Mister Faux-Vincent-Price director night and day. Also, a groovy chick makes love with the turkey man in the bedroom of a flophouse. Talk about being “Far Out.” Oh, and don’t worry about the man who gets his leg cut off with the power saw. He was already an amputee in real life. This movie made us realize how thankful we should be this holiday season. We are thankful that we were not born turkeys, that there is no crazed turkey man going after our chemically-enhanced blood, and that our mad scientist father works with bears instead. View “Blood Freak” with your loved ones this Thanksgiving, and next year you’ll have the holiday all to yourself. Enjoy. ~Film Review by Jim and Sarah of StuffMonstersLike.com Getting into the zombie mode? We are too. The best zombie flicks have a little bit of laughter, a lot-a-bit of gore, and maybe even a tad of social commentary. Here are some movie suggestions to watch this October before you become the living dead on October 22 at the Asheville Zombie Walk. 10) Dead Snow – Yes. This movie is Norwegian. That means there are subtitles. And yes. It is a movie about teens becoming trapped in a ski lodge and fighting off the living dead. But did we mention the zombies from “Dead Snow” are leftover Nazis? If you thought regular zombies were mean, try watching the living dead who have sworn an allegiance to the Fuhrer. 9) Fido – This movie was a total financial flop. And it’s Canadian. But it gives a fresh take on the old zombie tale by providing some “biting” social commentary via a 1950’s-esque landscape. There was a zombie apocalypse and the humans won. But in this alternative universe, sometimes the zombies are more humane than the humans. 8.) Re-Animator - A classic low-budget horror movie about a scientist who possesses the secret of life and death. If you cannot imagine a B-Movie actor more schmaltzy and over-the-top than Bruce Campbell, then this movie is for you. But be warned, this gory film is definitely not for the squeamish. 7) Return of the Living Dead – This 1985 movie is full of 1980’s hair and fashion. For some, that’s a great thing. For others, we feel it’s best forgotten. This flick features a lot of bad and unknown actors fighting against re-animated corpses. But this means they act poorly and are very good at looking confused. That’s very fitting. If anything, this movie’s claim to fame is that it started the whole trend of zombies who moan for “BRAINS.” 6) Chopper Chicks in Zombie Town – Okay. We admit it. We have never seen this movie before. But with a title like that, it has to be “awfully” good. 5) Shaun of the Dead – Usually, zombie movies and romantic comedies don’t go hand-in-hand. But this one pulls off the awkward amalgamation just fine. A bumbling store clerk loses his girlfriend and gets caught up in the zombie onslaught of his city. With help from his clueless roommate and pretentious friends, he attempts to save his loved ones from impending doom. If you haven’t seen this movie, get thee to the DVD rental store now. Your life is incomplete. 4) 28 Days Later – Some argue if this is really a zombie movie because the dead are not rising from the grave. There is an infection turning living people into zombies. Again, this movie demonstrates that sometimes, humans can be more vicious and malignant than the living dead. In America, it’s easy to kill zombies. Just grab the nearest shotgun. But this movie takes place in England where guns are banned. Uh oh. That’s a problem. Your best defense against zombies in Great Britain is running shoes. Because in 28 Days Later, the zombies can run very, very fast. 3) Zombieland – Got a craving for Twinkies? We do, and if you watch this movie, you will too. A rag-tag group bands together to battle the zombie forces destroying the Earth. The movie ends with a zombie swarm quickly taking over an abandoned amusement park. And who could forget the cameo from a Saturday Night Live Alumnus that is truly hilarious and tragic? 2) Night of the Living Dead (Original) - This 1968 movie by Director George Romero is the original, the best, the quintessential, the ultimate, the classic by which all other zombie movies are judged. It started the craze of flesh eating zombies from beyond the grave, taking movies about the living dead to new levels of terror. So, why is it number two on this list. . . ? 1) . . . Because we are having Ashtoberfest and the zombie walk at a mall, that’s why. And that brings us to our number one zombie movie: Dawn of the Dead (original). A great Romero zombie flick from 1978. Zombies take over a mall in Monroeville, Pennsylvania. There are biker battles and blood and plenty of biting. It was our inspiration for this year’s zombie swarm in Asheville. If you haven’t seen this movie, you’re missing out. The rest of us will be enjoying the awesome homage to this film on October 22 at the Biltmore Square “Maul.” ~Written by Jim and Sarah, creators of StuffMonstersLike.com

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If I hear one more time how Macs are expensive and just for fashion victims, I'll throw up. This urban myth keeps coming up for so long, that it's not really funny any more. These two statements that Macs are a) expensive and b) merely a fashion statement, are so easily debunked if one cares to look objectively for the truth that it's mind-boggling to see them come around so often. From personal experience, the (a) above is a farce. It is most ironic, that I mainly hear this from people who spend quite a lot on computers and tech gadgets in general. Like they are quite happy to shell out hundreds of euros for doubtful upgrades on PC hardware and assorted gizmos, but when contemplating a different platform altogether they become Ebenezer Scrooge. When I picked a locally-assembled PC with Ubuntu for my desktop at work, I did it for two reasons. First, to save a little extra cash, since the budget was low and second, to keep up with developments on FLOSS desktops in general, since I already had a Mac at home. Both systems would work equally well for what I do at work. Now, the purchase savings from getting the PC, amounted to what I cost the company per day. Having spent about a day fiddling with driver's and software that was not readily available through synaptic (that was in Edgy if memory serves), that advantage was gone. I pretty much knew this was going to happen from the start. However, the second reason still holds. I believe that the inevitable progress in FLOSS desktop systems is eventually going to make proprietary products pointlessly expensive. Ubuntu's polish in each new version attests to this. However we are not there yet. The "fashion" argument (b) is even worse. It might have had some merit in the nineties, when Apple was floundering and targeted mainly the publishing and multimedia markets, but as anyone can see today things have changed. Are all the Mac-carrying uber-hackers in large conferences fashion victims? Really? Those guys with the pony-tails, beards, glasses, t-shirts, shorts and slippers? Funny how they don't seem to spend much on clothes. Actually, what people like Yakov Fain are really afraid of, is change. And that's perfectly OK. I'm afraid of change, too. Otherwise I might have moved already. Or changed jobs. Or get divorced. Um, nope, scratch that one. It's just that, occasionally, I do manage to build up the courage to face something foreign and exotic and learn to live with it. And sometimes even learn to like it. For someone like Fain who has spent most of his time in the Windows world, every other world will appear difficult to learn. I have a friend (hi George!) whose first computer was a SPARCstation. When he started using Windows, years later, the experience seemed weird and clunky. It's the same thing, only on the flip side of the coin. Also, Mark Pilgrim's latest mocking of MySQL installation on Mac OS X while hilarious (which is why I like his blog), is unfair. Sam Ruby's too. Installing or upgrading MySQL on OS X is just a matter of getting the package from the vendor's site and launching it, not compiling from sources. The fact that there might be no package yet for Leopard or that the current package does not function well on it is utterly irrelevant. It will be fixed. Ubuntu is no different. I updated Firefox on my Mac at home the day 22.214.171.124 was shipped, yet one week later my Ubuntu box at work is still at 126.96.36.199. Of course, it will be fixed. This is what you lose with centralized package repositories, in order to gain consistency and ease of upgrading. I'm no stranger to this kind of thing, having used FreeBSD and Linux as my main desktop for many years now. If you think installing things in Ubuntu is always as easy as launching Synaptic, try to use Skype on amd64. Or Flash and Adobe Reader pre-Gutsy. I'm quite used to watching compiler output scroll for hours so all of it was a walk in the park for me, but I can imagine how it might have been frustrating for someone less experienced. Ubuntu's (and FreeBSD's, Fedora's, etc.) advantage over the Mac is when installing something not packaged specifically for OS X by the vendor, like mutt or nmap. That is where the value of a community-maintained repository shines. Of course you can use MacPorts / Fink / pkgsrc / whatever, but they are not integrated into the system, so you merely moved the goal post a little further. As a parting thought, I have a confession to make: I'd love to work with this guy. Interacting with human beings requires a set of skills that not many people in the technology world can brag about. Understanding how humans work and what makes them tickle is fundamentally different than being an expert with machines and software. Michael Lopp is an engineering manager at Apple. It figures, I guess. Monday, November 19, 2007 Friday, November 2, 2007 I've tried both one Scriptaculous wrapper and the gwt-fx codebase and I would wholeheartedly recommend the latter. For starters, it feels like things are done "the GWT way": a single EffectPanel to decorate the widget that will be animated, separate effect classes for the most popular effects, sequential and parallel combinations of effects, deferred binding for browser-specific functionality, Listeners and Adapters and much more. Implementing a fade effect took me about 10 lines of Java code. And we all know Java is not the most succinct girl in town, right? Furthermore, while the Scriptaculous solution worked on IE, Firefox and Opera, it would barf on Safari (version 2 if you must know). gwt-fx worked on all of them without any special-casing in my code. Also, when things don't work as expected, the author, Adam Tacy, is very cooperative and helpful. He has endured a flood of patches from me to solve some problems that I encountered, and when not satisfied with them, he implemented even better solutions after careful consideration and thoughtful reasoning. Just make sure to get the latest version (1.0.0) that has every bug I encountered so far, fixed. Adding a supported effects library in the main GWT distribution has been discussed a few times on the contributors list, but apparently it is not a high priority task at the moment. For a good reason I might add, since the release of GWT 1.5 is just around the corner, with support for Java 5 and a whole slew of compiler optimizations. However, with the recent introduction of the GWT incubator project it might be appropriate to start trying out some design ideas on such a library and see how it goes. If you care for such an outcome, don't hesitate to let the GWT developers know about it, by joining the discussion in the recent thread on the subject.

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Columbus Ohio baseball / softball players need to visit the Baseball Rampage / Softball Rampage store this fall off 270 and Roberts Road in Columbus, OH. Our fall ball specials include our wood baseball bat sale and up to 50% off our already low prices on clearance items. Columbus softball and Columbus baseball leagues and association can receive our RampageBucks team rewards to earn money towards future purchases online or in-store. Our complex has a batting cage on site for players to trial various bats prior to purchase. All gloves are in stock so you can find the perfect fit to help improve your game. Visit Baseball Rampage and Softball Rampage in Columbus, OH today and save.

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Before the season began, the BlueClaws announced the unprecedented promotion that all kids will eat for free at every BlueClaws game this season…Here are the numbers through the home games so far, come on out and help these Number of Free hot dogs, bags of chips and sodas: 9,016 If put end to end the hot dogs would stretch just shy of a mile! Hot dog buns are actually very high in calcium! 9,016 buns = 891,862.72 mg of calcium! There are an average of 21 chips per bag of potato chips…that’s 189,336 chips There are 12oz of soda in every free soda…or 108,192 oz, and 845.25 gallons of free soda!

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Goodbye dearest Joyce This past week the knitting world lost one of it’s treasures. Joyce Williams contemporary of Meg Swansen, author of Latvian Dreams and friend, passed away around noon on August 4th. If you never had the pleasure of seeing Joyce’s work, or listening to her talk then I am sorry. I’ll never forget when I met her. I was vending at Madrona Fiber Arts and went to the bar (where everyone hangs out) to get a bottle of water. There were these two women sitting on one of the sofas chatting it up in some of the most beautiful knits I had ever seen. I couldn’t resist saying hello and complimenting them on their sweaters, the next thing I knew my cell was ringing and Debbi was wondering where the hell I had gotten off to. As I excused myself, explaining about the booth and all, we realized we have never exchanged names, just had launched right into knit-communion. So I introduced myself and was making plans to meet with them again when the smaller, fiery eyed one reached out her hand,seized mine and said I am Joyce Williams. Well… you could have knocked me over with a strand the finest lace yarn you can find. Here, for almost an hour I had been sitting and casually chatting with one of the most brilliant knit minds on the planet. I do believe my jaw dropped to my chest. I should’ve known. It was then I recognized the sweater she was wearing and well worked really hard at not kicking myself all over that bar. She was beyond gracious of course. What got me thoroughly in that moment was the twinkle in her eye when she caught my eye and whispered, it is my favourite piece in the book. I fell hard and fast for Joyce right then and there. My life was enriched before meeting Joyce Williams in person because I had met her through her phenomenal designs. Meeting Joyce and getting to know and spend the little bit of time with her I have is a blessing I’ll cherish forever. I love you Joyce, you will be missed!

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So i've been sitting on my butt for 2 months now and finally recuperating from my pinched nerve in my neck. The pain in my elbow and shoulder is gone. Still have numbness in the fingertips and tingling sensations in the arm. I hit the bike 3 times last week to test it out. All went well. I think I'm ready to start the weights again...That's the good news. The bad news...I up to 238. This sucks. I could have eaten better but I just wasn't there. Now it's time to suck it up, get my eating right and pound it out folks!!!! got my morning walk at the gym followed up with 15 mins in the steam sauna. hit the gym 3 hrs later for my workout... decline smith machine: 6 reps x 2 plates (each side), 5 x 3 plates, 5 x 3 plates, 5 x 4 plates, 1 x 4 plates and a 25 flat db bench press: 6 x 80lb, 5 x 80lb, 5 x 100lb, 5 x 110lb, 5 x 120lb incline flys: 6 x 55lb, 5 x 65lb, 5 x 65lb, 5 x 80lb, 5 x 80lb 3 more weeks of lifting heavy and then back to cutting again. had a realization the other day that i'm eating too much sugar. i always thought the fruit i've been eating was much better than my fast food or other crap but now i'm at the point where i'm getting this last 20 lbs off because i need to take my nutrition to the next level. so i'm revamping and adding in my veggies and removing the fruit...gonna try the fruit right after my workouts with my protein and limit my fruit/sugar intake to that. let's see what happens. Another leg day in the books. Seems like everyone in the gym was doing legs. Hack Squats: 4 plates x 8, 6 plates x 6, 8 plates x 5, 10 plates x 5, 12 plates x 5, 14 x plates 3 Standing Calf Raises: 90 lbs x 12, 110 x 8, 120 x 5, 130 x 5, 140 x 5, 150 x 5, 160 x 5, 170 x 5, 180 x 5, 190 x 5, 200 x 5, 210 x 5, 220 x 5, 230 x 5 Walking Lunges (8 steps each leg): 25 dbs, 25 dbs, 40 dbs, 50 dbs, 60 dbs Man, hitting the 60 lb dbs on the walking lunges was brutal. Might take me 2 weeks to recover from this one. Wrapped it up with 20 mins in sauna. legs are killing me...haha, i love it. wrapped up my leg workout yesterday with walking lunges with the 55lb dbs. that felt good. i went in this morning to get some walking in trying to pump some blood through. went home for a nap. barely could get up afterwards. my legs almost talked me out of my workout today, but i decided to just get there and see what happens. jumped on the bike for 5 mins and the legs woke up. so i pounded out the chest. 45, 50, 55, 60, 65 x 6 flat flys, 75, 80, 85, 90, 100 x 6 db incline press, 225, 315, 315, 315, 315 x 6 decline press. walked on the treadmill for 10 mins and then hit the dry sauna for a 15. made it home for my protein shake. gotta go grocery shopping but i can't make it off the couch yet. i got one more and costco closes...wish me luck. haha my work schedule still sucks haven't seen the sun since sunday...seriously i work i in a bat cave. at least i made it to the gym again and hit the arms. bi's are still pumped up. hit 150 on my tricep cable overhead extensions. be back to 200 in no time!! gonna pound through today quick, that way i have some serious time for a serious leg workout. nothing like checking out someone elses workout on here to get you pump up to do some serious damage...who's ready to crawl out the gym tonight!! Living by some too short words suckas!! Man, working 14 hr days for the past 2 weeks but i'm still finding time to fit my workouts into my schedule. keep pounding it!! nope, but there's one in colorado!!!!!!!!!  tearing it up people...120's 2 x 13 on flat bench, 455 x 5 on decline bench. that's the good stuff right there. gonna have to find another 24hr in town that has 130's and 140's. off to morning cardio. have a great day everyone!!! I'M A BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  That's right people. Getting it down, pounding it out, suck it, cause there aint room for 2 beasts up in this mother!!!!!!  Ok, now that that's over with, I had a great workout. 80lb incline flyes (gonna jump to 90's next week), 120lbs x 6, 8 on flat press, 405 x 4, 3 on declines, 120 x 6, 5 on cable crossovers I feel like I could bust straight through a concrete wall right now!!!!!  No silly rabbit, concrete walls are for kids!! man i work with some children. freaking idiots sometimes. had to shove a guy today...good thing i didn't hit him. anyways great fuel for my fire tonight at the gym. raises raises and more raises then shrugs shrugs and more shrugs upto 500lbs then threw in 2 - 10 x 80 and 2 - 8 x 100 dumbell presses for fun on a side note, i was doing some lateral raises and smashed my thumb with the 40lb dumbell. didn't drop the weight at all which means my grip is getting stronger. something i've been working on i'm in the gym fooooooool!!!!! ok getting ready for the A-Team next friday, oh yeah!!!    legs today...leg day is the absolute worse. i dread it all day long. its not that i don't enjoy leg day, i do. i just know its gonna be a fight. who's gonna be better today...the weight or me. every other bodypart is gravy, like i was meant to be a beast...but legs, i have to dig deep, gotta want it, light weight - big muscles type attitude. now that fight, i'm ready for!!! here's the highlights: (for all you suckas out there, no, this is not all i did you moron)  leg extensions: 2 - 8 x 225 incline leg press: 4 x 14 plates a side (yes that means 28 plates and no, a plate is 45 lbs) walking lunges: 3 - 20 x w/ 40lb dumbells feet together squats: 6 x 315 (man, that one burned threw my butthole) topped it off with some "don't stop till they pop" calf raises - feel free to use my line!! ****ght foooools  keep pounding  man finally feeling good again...no longer good crud in my system. and yes that means i'm pounding it people. get out of my way fools!!! Man been sick since thursday. finally feeling better today. wanna hit the gym, but i'll wait until tomorrow. make sure i'm all good before i go pound it out. man definitely know i'm tired when i feel like i'm grinding through my chest and bicep workout. had to power through it. see yourself lift it and then just do it. thats what i did and thats what happened. even lasted 30 mins of jogging at 4.8 mph avg. see ya next time suckas!!!!!! so i headed to the mountains again last weekend...made it 2 miles at +10,000 ft elev in about 45 mins. (sadly enough, thats great timing for me) the first 10 steps were the worse but i powered through it...good stuff people. man, just feel like i'm tearing it up in the gym!! made it through the legs and shoulders on friday, abs on saturday, back and tris yesterday and chest and biceps today...finally having enough energy to run through these supersets and go up in weights now, cardio is still intense with only 60-90 second rest periods between supersets... tearing it up peeps

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Content tagged with 'Limbo' Video games are often regarded as a visual medium (well, there’s a clue in the name…) but as with films, sound has become a vitally important part of the production,… Read more Posted on: Tuesday, 30 Oct 2012 Categories: Home theatre, Music, Speakers Tags: 5.1 surround sound, 7.1 surround sound, Battlefield 3, Bowers & Wilkins 684 Theatre, Company of Heroes, Dead Space 2, home cinema, Home theatre, Limbo, Microsoft Xbox 360, mini-theatre, MT-60D, Sony PlayStation 3, The Beatles: Rock Band, video games, Xbox

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House Passes Continuing Resolution, Senate Expected to Vote on Omnibus On Wednesday night, the House passed a year-long continuing resolution (CR) by a vote of 212-206 that would fund all government programs at last year’s levels until the end of the fiscal year (September 30, 2011). All Republican members voted “no,” along with 37 Democrats. The plan had been for the Senate to present an omnibus appropriations bill as a substitute for the House continuing resolution. If the Senate were to get the 60 votes necessary for cloture, the bill will be sent back to the House for consideration. The omnibus bill would contain about $19 billion more in funding than the House CR and would contain congressional earmarks. However, it appears the Senate will not vote on this until next week. House Select Committee Leadership The House Republicans and Democrats on Tuesday announced new chairmen and ranking members for the slate of House committees for the 112th Congress. The chairman of the House Appropriations Committee will be Hal Rogers (R-KY), while Norm Dicks (D-WA) will serve as ranking member. As expected, John Kline (R-MN) will chair the House Education and Labor Committee and George Miller (D-CA) will be ranking member. Child Nutrition Bill Passes Congress Last week the House passed the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, which passed the Senate in August, and it now heads to the President for his signature. The goal of the bill is to improve children’s health and reduce childhood obesity nationwide by requiring school meals to meet new nutrition standards. The bill also gives the federal government the authority to apply nutritional standards to all food sold during the school day, including in vending machines, a la carte lines and other venues. There has been some concern that the new standards could impact CTE programs that sell student prepared food to raise money for their programs, but the bill does allow for an exemption for school-sponsored fundraisers that are approved by the school and are infrequent within the school.

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We had a terrific week with Bryon Shroats, the designer sent by Department 56 to dress up our village dioramas and displays – our villages are looking quite magical now! It’s amazing what you can do with some Styrofoam, a few power tools, several strands of lights, and a big bag of snow - the kind that doesn’t freeze or melt, yay! (Some light vacuuming possibly required.) We finished off the week with a tea-and-cookies reception for Bryon (see, I didn’t consume all the cookies), and we say thanks to all of you who were able to stop in and watch him work ~ and discover new display ideas for yourself. Here’s a collection of pics from the week. Making glaciers. (Use hairspray as an adhesive for glitter – less fuss.) North Pole before: North Pole after: And some pics of the Christmas in the City diorama, with a few spots waiting for new pieces still to come. Thanks to the designer’s inspiration and the creativity and hard work of our own fabulous design team here at The Christmas Place, our whole Department 56 Gallery (including Snowbabies) is looking pretty spiffy and beautiful now! We hope you’re inspired to share with us some photos of your own displays … or memories and photos of Christmases past. My mom created an entire cross-stitched village that she likes to display each December. Of course, here in the store, we carry all the accessories, trees, lights, lamp posts, figurines, fences, walls, and snow you could want for your village. We also host a Department 56 Collectors Club, membership in which comes with rebate discounts, free catalogs, and free shipping on certain orders – and access to annual limited-edition pieces in each collection that are not sold to the public. For as little as $12 a year, it’s a great deal for any collector. Whether you’ve been collecting villages for many years or you’re ready to design your first one, our experts here at the store will be happy to help you decide what next to add that will make your own collection unique and special to your home and family. It’s really all about creating precious memories for Christmas and throughout the year, memories that will last a lifetime. ~Janet @ The Christmas Place

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Gov. Rick Perry defended the state’s controversial Voter ID law Friday during on a Fox news interview when he complained about interference from the federal government. The Justice Department on Monday rejected the state’s Voter ID law because state officials failed to demonstrate the election changes would not make it harder for minorities to vote. Because of historic discrimination against minority voters, federal law requires Texas to prove its case before making any election changes. Texas is suing to overturn the 1965 law. “Here we are in 2012 and the idea that somehow or another a southern state, Texas in particular, a state that is a majority minority in our public schools now, is somehow or another being discriminatory toward minorities, I think, is a vestige of fear tactics that have been used through the years, and frankly, don’t hold water anymore,” Perry said in the interview. “This is not a Democratic or Republican issue,” the governor added. “Any person who does not want to see fraud believes in having good, open and honest elections – transparent. And one of the best ways to do that is having photo identification so you prove you are who you say you are, and you keep those elections fraud free.” The vote to pass the bill into law, however, reflected a strong partisan perspective. All 19 Texas Senate Republicans voted for it last year while all 12 Democrats opposed the bill. In the House, the key vote saw 100 Republicans and 1 Democrat supporting the bill. All 48 dissenting votes came from Democrats. Sen. Rodney Ellis, D-Houston, acknowledges that voter fraud exists. “No one disputes that. However, what every investigation has proven is that the kind of fraud voter ID laws would address — voter impersonation — doesn’t really exist. In fact, there are more UFO and Bigfoot sightings than documented cases of voter impersonation,” Ellis said. “Literally millions of taxpayer dollars have been spent in Texas, South Carolina and across the country chasing the white whale that is voter impersonation,” Ellis said. “Several years ago, Texas supporters announced there was an ‘epidemic’ of this kind of voter fraud, launched an investigation and found nothing of the sort. They found 26 cases to prosecute and two-thirds of those were simple technical violations, not fraud and not one of the 26 would have been affected by a voter ID requirement. It is just a coincidence, I’m sure, that all 26 cases were brought against African American or Hispanic voters.” Perry told his Fox news audience Texas has “multiple cases of voter fraud in various places across the state,” according to legislative testimony. But the evidence of voter impersonation, which the Voter ID law addresses, is sketchy. In the 2010 general election, the Texas attorney general’s office received 7 allegations of election law violations, according to statistics the office provided to state Rep. Rafael Anchia, D-Dallas. Four of those seven cases involved mail-in ballots, which the Voter ID law does not address. One of the 2010 general election alleged violations involved “unlawfully rejecting a voter, another involved “campaign finance violations” and the other dealt with “obtaining voter registration applications prior to being deputized, failing to timely deliver voter registration applications, false statement on voter registration and tampering with a governmental record”. Nearly 5 million ballots were cast in the 2010 general election. The 2008 election law violation allegations in the document provided to Anchia: “electioneering within 100 ft mark at a polling place,” “citizen not allowed to vote by an election worker,” “vote soliciting bribery on the internet (eBay),” “Unlawfully released police reports and narratives on one of the candidates running for sheriff (in Wichita County),” “providing false information on a voter registration application,” “ineligible to hold the office of county clerk (Terry County),” “Unlawful assistance, unlawfully influencing a voter and illegal voting,” “Unlawfully prevented from voting,” “Solicitation of campaign funds while on duty, selling of campaign fundraiser tickets while on duty and misuse of county employees while on county time,” “illegal voting,” “death row inmates registering to vote,” “non-citizen voted in election,” “election misconduct,” and “unlawful candidacy (Tarrant County).” More than 8million Texans voted in the 2008 general election. “The only thing that I can put out is that there is obviously those who would like to fraudulently impact elections and, therefore, they are against having a photo ID. Otherwise, it makes all the sense in the world. And we have put in place ways for people to get those IDs,” Perry said in the interview. The state will provide DPS voter ID cards for at least 600,000 registered voters who don’t have a Texas driver’s license. But getting those cards could be difficult for those who live in 73 Texas counties without any DPS driver’s license office – or in inner city communities that also lack access to a driver’s license office. “The sad truth is that there is now a concerted all-out assault on the right to vote in this country, and minority and elderly voters are the ones being mugged,” Ellis said.

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February 7, 2012 10:25 PM Flowers, candy, romantic dinners for Valentine’s Day? How cliche' ! Calling it “cute and red” the editors of Kelley Blue Book named the Fiat 500 Cabrio one its “10 Bites of Red-Car Candy for Valentine’s Day.” How does a car get to be named to the romantic ride roll? Kelley Blue Book’s KBB.com’s executive editorial director Jack "Some give candy for Valentine's Day, so we are continuing in that tradition by offering 10 gorgeous pieces of eye candy in the form of some of the hottest cars on the road today. While most cars come in red, only the most stunning examples of sexy sheetmetal have made our list for Valentine's Day 2012." Oh yeah! In naming the Fiat 500 Cabrio as one of its 10 Bites of Red-Car Candy, Kelley Blue Book’s editors attested to the car’s allure by gushing, “Picture glistening swaths of carbon-fiber skin stretched tight across a sinewy framework of pure Italian muscle... no, wait... this is a Fiat 500 Our hearts be still. Flowers wilt, candy is consumed, dinners are digested. The red hot Fiat 500 Cabrio is guaranteed to keep her heart fluttering every single time she climbs behind the wheel.

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Johnson made the request during Monday night's council meeting. He also invoked a little-used rule that allows council members to question the mayor's Cabinet when he asked Safety Director Martin Flask about the investigation of Patrolman Anthony Sauto. The chairman of council's Safety Committee said no review was planned. Sauto arrested Jason Ruiz and Alexander Parilla outside Velvet Dog on West Sixth Street on Aug. 21 after a confrontation as the club was closing. A videotape showed Ruiz and Parilla yelling at Sauto and jabbing fingers toward his face. The tape also shows Ruiz grabbing Sauto's arm. Ruiz later said that Sauto punched him several times in the face. Ruiz was charged with three misdemeanors. Parilla was not charged with a crime. Responding to Johnson's questions, Flask said the investigation by Police Chief Michael McGrath's office found that use of force was justified. Flask said investigators did not interview Ruiz or Parilla. He added that the two men have not filed a complaint against police. The incident became public after the men complained to the Cleveland chapter of the NAACP. Flask also said that based on the videotape, race did not play a role in the incident. Sauto is white. Ruiz and Parilla were wrong for yelling at Sauto and pointing fingers, but that did not justify Sauto punching Ruiz, Johnson said. "These are public servants trained to deal with disputes," Johnson said. "If they can't resolve disputes beyond hitting someone in the face, it's unacceptable." Johnson said there has long been a culture of insensitivity toward minorities in the Warehouse District, which is a mix of bars, nightclubs and high-end restaurants. "People don't want to deal with that," Johnson said. Councilman Kevin Conwell, chairman of council's Safety Committee, said after Monday's meeting that he did not plan to hold hearings about the police probe. "I trust the mayor," Conwell said. "I'm not going to meddle." Johnson criticized Jackson for his lack of leadership after the incident became public. Jackson could not be reached for comment after Monday night's meeting.

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We all know that Clipper Green Tea is great. After all the BBC reckons that it can block lung cancer. Wouldn’t it be great, therefore, if you could win a hamper of Clipper Green Tea. The hamper is really cool too. In other Green Tea news. Oprah is still raving about the benefits. You can check out her latest Green Tea Recipes here.

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whilst the wasatch got 7' of snow in 4 days last week i retreated to warmer climes for a cram session. it seems as though salt lake city residents rely on zion national park and the st george area as their warm weather reprive. i am now one of them. i'm growing increasingly nervous about the pocatello 50 miler (pre-run vid) on may 30th. no, not about whether i'll be beat sean, but about my well being during the race. i didn't write a blog on my experience at peterson ridge rumble 60km because i was doing all i could to forget the experience. it was a true dichotomy of feelings. getting to spend time with linda, sean, dan, ellen and the crew was awesome. but the race couldn't have been worse. my hip, THE looming issue in my running career came out in full force to remind me i'm not ok. that i've got an issue, and at some point in each race it's got to be dealt with. for peterson i took things a bit too easy. i just showed up with two bottles and some nuun. what i needed was my own gels, some sort of plan and most importantly some ibuprofen or anti-inflamatory. needless to say peterson 60km was a hit to my confidence. once back in slc i now had two good weeks of training before a two week taper. that's it. two weeks to get some good work done and find some confidence.. time to cram. so i headed to zion national park. for the first few days i was there i hooked up with a few friends down in st george for the first ever st george ironman (swim start, bike). i wanted to run the entire trans zion traverse route that jared and karl had told me about back in 2008. i made a trip down there this winter with jared and mindy that blew my mind. this time around, although i brought a mtn bike, and there are numerous other amazing trails around... i obsessed on the zion traverse. clark dropped me off to run up and out one day, 20 miles from the grotto to the wildcat trailhead (video). on my own i ran the other direction from the grotto to the east entrance and back, 23 miles (video). and left the big day for my last day in zion, running la verkin creek, hop valley and connector to wildcat (17 miles) and back again for 34miles on the day. here is a video of hop valley blowing my mind. each of these runs provided "wholly sh*t" moments where i just couldn't believe where i was running, that these types of places actually exist. the hop valley in particular for me just felt like the land of the lost. all alone in the middle of nowhere surrounded by massive sandstone cliffs. stunning. i somehow managed my biggest week in two years crammed into five days in zion, 92 miles. more importantly i'm not hurt. with care and kindness the hip seems to be playing along. also took a bit of footage for my sponsor montrail as well as some for my own annual ultrarunning video. here is just a taste of the goodness... enjoy!

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This week’s featured Cogswell Insider is Jessica Bower! Q: What is your major/program and student status (frosh, soph, jun, sen)? A: My major is DAA (Digital Art and Animation) and I’m specializing in 3D Modeling. I am a junior. Q: What student activities are you involved in? A: I am involved with Game Development Club, Women of Cogswell Club, and All-Student Board. In those clubs I am currently VP of Game Club, VP of Women’s Club, and I’m an Executive Board Member on ASB. Q: Can you tell me a little bit more about the Women of Cogswell Club? I’ve seen some of the Bake Sales as fundraising, those definitely hearken to the domesticity of the female stereotype, is this all in jest? Are there any men involved in the club, by chance? A: We are a group designed to get the women (and men) of our school together to talk about issues and host events. The posters we have up are definitely in good fun. We’re just poking fun at the typical female stereotype and it also draws attention to the club. And yes, there are quite a few men involved in the club. It’s about 50/50 when it comes to the male/female ratio. Q: What was your impression of Cogswell (classes/student body) when you started? Has it changed? A: When I first started Cogswell, I was dazzled and I still am. This school has so much to offer in the field I want to pursue, which is making video games, and my old college did not have these courses. I figured the campus, class and student wise, would be similar to my old college, but now that I’ve been here for a year, that view has definitely changed. You never know what to expect here. The people here are a unique bunch of folks. Q: As a student myself, I completely get the unique quality of the student body. What are some of the crazy quirks you’ve seen? Any crazy stories? A: It’s difficult to just point out any specific crazy quirk, and there are a lot in my opinion. However, story-wise there are plenty, but one does come to mind. It was finals week and Samantha and I needed to work on finals at school. She got the idea to build a couch fort in ASB office. We brought blankets and pillows, pushed the couch and chair in ASB together, built the fort, and slept in it till the next day. Q: What do you look forward to most in the school year? Projects? Events? A: I look forward to learning new things and building onto my current knowledge. Going to student events is the highlight of the semester when midterm and final projects start to rear their heads and most of your time is dedicated to working on them. Q: What have been the most memorable events for you? A: The most rememberable events for me would be the first student housing event I ever went to when we all went to a beach in Santa Cruz and I got buried vertically and lost my glasses in the ocean (they were found). The second most memorable would be the Global Game Jam that happened at our school in Spring 2010. Q: Have you met anyone interesting/networked with people you see yourself working with in the future? A: I have in fact! When the Global Game Jam was here [at Cogswell] in spring of 2010, I got the pleasure of working with four people in the industry. I’m horrible with names, but one I clearly remember was Rob Jagnow, Founder of Lazy 8 Studios and the sole programmer for their indie game “Cogs”. Everyone on my team was so amazing. I knew nothing about game making, but they helped teach me and we created a fun game to play! I feel that I can definitely see myself working with them when I improve my skills and the chance arises. Q: If so, how have your career plans changed since studying? Are they still on track with what you wanted when you started? A: I originally wanted to be a concept artist, but I learned that the industry has many people wanting to get into that particular profession and my drawing skills, in my opinion, are not up to par with industry standards. So, I changed to 3D modeling, because as long as I’m creating something I am happy. Thanks to Jessica for taking part in the Cogswell student series! Be sure to check back to read another take on Cogswell Student Life.

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we have crash shirts… Just add shirts and YOU. Sunday May 15th at 2p we’ll start making shirts out back. By dark we should be all cleaned up. Bring a shirt. Bring art, stencils, material, your bedazzler, paint, glitter, anyone and anything else you might want to share. Sparkle Kits will be available for purchase from our store for those wanting to blink, twinkle, and shine: http://bit.ly/sparklekit Donations are welcomed, helpful, and necessary as CRASHSpace is entirely membership/donation funded and relies on your support to keep the doors open. This entry was posted by matt on Friday, May 6th, 2011 at 11:02 am and is filed under Events. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response below, or trackback from your own site.

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By Anne M. Amato SHELTON — The condition of one of the three men injured in a house explosion earlier this week has been upgraded, according to John Cappiello, Bridgeport Hospital spokesman. He said that Randy Fera, 59, of Stratford, who was in critical condition at the hospital following the Monday afternoon explosion is now in fair condition. Fera and Gary Henry, 24, of Waterbury, both employees of Pioneer Gas and Appliance Co. were in the basement of a house at 67 Wopowog Trail on a routine job when the blast occurred. Henry, and the third victim, Luke Lauretti, 48, brother of Mayor Mark A. Lauretti, remain in critical condition, Cappiello said. A propane gas leak, caused by an unsecured gas line to a home, resulted in the explosion, according to Fire Marshal Jim Tortora. William Papale, Pioneer owner, said his employees were at the house to change over the homeowner’s service from another company to Pioneer, which is a routine job. He said there was already an existing gas system in the home and all they needed to do was put in a new propane tank. He said safety is his company’s “No. 1 concern” and that this is the first time in the 70 years the company has been in business that “something like this has happened.” Before the explosion occurred, two other occupants of the house, Debra Duguid, 53, and her daughter, were told to go outside when workers smelled gas. Duguid and her daughter were not injured in the 2 p.m. blast, but were in shock because of what happened. Neighbor Bart Bakota, 20, heard the explosion and said he saw flames shooting from the house, which is across the street from his, and then saw three men coming out of the building. “They were all badly burned,” said Bakota. “They had burns all over their face, head, legs, hands and back.” Parts of their clothes were burned off and their hair singed, he said. Police and fire officials said the main beam of the house was shattered and the basement walls were blown out.

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Addy now helps me with the dishes. She loads the silverware into the dishwasher and puts them in the drawer when they're clean. She doesn't get them in the right places usually, but at least she's willingly helping! Addy has gained an appreciation or attraction for baby dolls of late. She always wants to have one with her and won't go to sleep without at least one, sometimes three. We try to limit her to 2 babies because she just doesn't have that many arms. If she has too many at night she hits herself or does something where she wakes up. Sometimes we put Addy on our bed to sleep when she's extra grumpy. I helped her fall asleep and then later came back to find her like this. Yes, she is asleep, fast asleep. This is the only time I've found her sleeping like this. This is a picture of the supermarket at the Children's Museum. She likes being the cashier, but also likes to "eat" the food before she pays for it. That's a bad habit I caused. Sometimes when she's grumpy in the store, I open the cheese sticks or crackers before we pay for them. :) Addy loves playing on the computer. From her daddy working all day on one to her mommy surfing the internet a lot she is exposed to the computer frequently. Whenever Jordan comes out of his office to talk to me or get something to eat, Addy races past him, runs over to his chair, climbs up, and starts "programming" on the computer. One time when Jordan wasn't even logged in she opened the bios of the computer. Jordan said that's the part that tells the computer the basic functions like how to turn on and stuff. Thankfully she didn't confirm any of the changes she made. We thought the computer would be safe because there was no way she could randomly type in Jordan's password. Now we're not so sure. Here is a video of Addy being helpful. She is very good at modeling our behavior, so we have to be careful of what things we inadvertently teach her.

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As I begin this post, I am nine days, six hours and 31 minutes away from leaving a very comfortable, generously-paid job where my colleagues and leadership respect me and treat me well. In just over a week’s time, my girlfriend (and adventuring partner), Aubrey, and I will be driving off into the night, embarking on an incredible roadtrip to seek out a new home somewhere beyond the Rocky Mountains. There are no words to convey my excitement. For as long as I’ve existed, there has always been an obligation to someone else’s rules lurking just beyond the horizon. Even on vacations, where time is theoretically mine, there was the lingering, ever-present knowledge that before I knew it, I would go back to a world of obliging someone else’s whims. For the first time, I’ll escape those bonds. It’s a feeling of freedom I’ve never known. It must be stressed that while Full Sail has been a great place to work and I’m grateful for the experience, I had a job there and I have a handful of problems with working any “job,” no matter who supplies it. When I say job in this context, I mean any paid activity wherein you provide 40+ weekly hours in exchange for a regular paycheck, benefits and perhaps a reasonable approximation of social interaction. I’m a difficult, demanding, even impossible person, so these problems loom larger for me than perhaps they do you. When you arrive at your job and get down to the business of working, you are addressing problems that are not yours. These are the problems of whatever organization has hired you for your job. Depending on your level of career advancement and achievement, the problems you solve may range from the tedious (data entry) to the complicated (project or team management). No matter the complexity of your daily tasks, though, you can be assured that none of the problems they address are actually your own. While it is true that, through initiative, hard work and persistence, your handling of the organization’s problems can enrich your knowledge, experience and career prospects, this doesn’t change the fact that you’re doing someone else’s work. Unless you’re working at some sort of hippy, ultra-progressive company, you give 96% of your weeks to your job. That is a shitload of time. When I write it out like that, the egregious criminality of giving away that much of your life to someone who isn’t you seems so obvious, I can’t even come up with anything else to say. I’ve spent a lifetime resenting any condition where someone else had authority to direct the discharge of my energies. The trade you make while collecting a paycheck is that in exchange for the money, someone gets to tell you what to do with 96% of your weeks. Even with the best boss, this deal is crap: Who wants to spend this much of their lives following orders? In the typical job arrangement, I would show up each day and give a significant amount of time, energy, imagination and passion to the tasks of the organization. If I worked exceptionally hard while not being a douche and doing my best to help others be successful, I could earn promotions and more money. I would not become wealthy. Meanwhile, assuming successful management of the company, those who own the organization would increase their wealth. For many people, maintaining the wealth of others in exchange for a job’s security is a fine trade. That doesn’t work for me. If there’s anyone who should be wealthy off the sweat of my brow, I’m the first person on that list. This is also including the assumption that whomever it is who owns the company is making the right decisions, which is absolutely not a given. There’s an illusion of security in a paycheck that comes crashing down as soon as layoffs or bankruptcy are announced (hello, domestic auto manufacturers). I’d rather have control of my fate than leave it in the hands of someone else. Alignment of Interests If your company did not need you, you would not exist there. This is a simple, business-driven reality and under no circumstances would I ever begrudge any organization this simple fact. Business is not and should not be charity. Still, think about it. The interest of the business is always and will always be the business. Never you, as an individual. This is an important fact to remember as you commit 96% of your weeks to the job that has hired you. You are the only person you can trust to have your own best interests as a top priority. Rest assured, if the business felt as though it could get more of your time while paying you less, it would surely take that arrangement. It’s just business. You show up early, stay late. You take on extra projects and complete them in your spare time. You’re good to your coworkers and can always be relied upon in a pinch. Congratulations, you’re on your way to promotions and potential raises. The trouble is, if you gave this level of effort for clients instead of your boss, you’d make a whole lot more money. If you’re following the thread of my argument, you might be thinking “hey, wow, having a job is slavery and my company is screwing me over!” Two things to note: Having a job gives you incredible opportunities to learn, grow and network while giving you the stability to develop yourself over the long term. Secondly, unless you signed some sort of contract, you can leave any time you like. If you’re prepared. So prepare yourself. Maybe I’m young and idealistic, but I firmly believe that the pursuit of things I genuinely love will bring me infinitely more reward than being paid to worry about someone else’s problems. I believe that dedicating the bulk of my time to my own growth, wealth and self-selected challenges, rather than to the development of someone else’s business, is the only conscionable use of my time. I believe that investing myself in an organization whose best interest is something that isn’t me would be to ignore one simple fact: I’m going to die one day. I need to make the most of my life and working for someone else isn’t going to cut it. You may be following this, finding none of my assessments about having a job objectionable and thinking to yourself that I am, in fact, absurdly difficult and demanding. If that is so I salute you: your expectations for your life are much more easily satisfied. I’m stuck wanting something else for myself. Thankfully, I’ve got some role models to help me handle this drive for a self-directed life. I heard Adam Savage give a talk where he mentioned that his line of work is mostly freelance. This perked up my ears. If you’ve spent any amount of time watching MythBusters, you know that Adam has a singular passion for the creative work that he does. He currently has the best job in the world because he desperately, obsessively craves the joy of making things. He’s incredibly good at it. I’m certain he never could have attained his world-class skills without first loving the work to begin with. Nick Popovich, Super Repo Man If you need a defaulted plane retrieved from a deadbeat, you call this guy. Nick had some flight skills and did his first repo on a whim. Now he owns a $20 million business grabbing planes from all corners of the globe. He’s good at it and he enjoys the work. Imagine the waste of his talents if he had stuck to being a traditional pilot and never realized his unique ability to resolve impossible, dangerous situations. John is obsessive about details in design, typography, user experience and software development. He’s also obsessive about Apple. It shocks me that time and again, John is able to render completely accurate predictions about Apple’s direction and upcoming products. It’s a level of insight no one else on the web can match. It also puts professional investment analysts to shame. Is it incredible that six-figure salaried analysts can’t match the insight and prescience of a guy working from his home on a blog he maintains by himself? A little bit, but it should not be surprising at all. Only a love and passion for his subject matter could have made John the authority on all things Apple on the web. I don’t know that she feels great about me saying so here, but it’s important to the legend: my mom didn’t finish high school or go to college. She does have a GED. She’s a minority for whom english is a second language. In pretty much all the ways a single mom can have the chips stacked against her, she had. My mom loves animals – always has. It’s truly an obsession with her. In my childhood, I can recall the ownership of three ostriches, a donkey, six geese, dozens of chickens, an African Grey Parrot, dozens of dogs, some cats and multiple generations of coral reef tanks with tropical fish that made the house a viable field trip destination. When I was very young, my mom took a certificate program at the New York School of Dog Grooming. To pay homage to James Herriot, no capped and gowned don ever looked back to his years among the spires of Oxford with more nostalgia than did my mother to her two months at NYSDG. If I am difficult and demanding, then my mom truly is impossible. Nonetheless, she endured years of working for shitty bosses at shittier dog grooming shops. I don’t know how she did it, but one day, she had enough. I’m not sure where she got the funds, but she put together enough money to lease and renovate a commercial space, adding all of the kennels, baths, and other equipment necessary to provide absurdly clean, professional dog grooming services. For pretty much the rest of my childhood (and to this day), she was self-employed, her own boss. Despite the statistics for small business failure, my mom was and continues to be wildly successful at her trade without any training in business, marketing or finance. She doesn’t need it: she’s just incredibly good at what she does, wanted to provide the best possible service and has always loved her work. Not many other people can offer this. This was enough to ensure I never went hungry as a kid. The message is clear: if you love the work you do, you can become so good at it that whatever rewards you seek become attainable. I’ll say it again: I’m going to die one day. I don’t know if it’s next year or many decades from now or somewhere in between. What I do know is that expending my energies within the narrow, limiting, self-denying confines required by the traditional job is a complete waste of whatever existence I have at my disposal. Aubrey has brought many incredible gifts of insight to my life, but chief of among them is this: you shouldn’t spend any significant amount of time doing something you don’t want to do. I owe so much of my evolution to that crucial realization. I’m excited to be in business for myself. The nagging feeling that plagued me for so long, the feeling that I was somehow missing the point of life and wasting my time, is completely gone. I’ve discovered a list of things that I absolutely love to do. I’m already good at some of them while others will require years of time to develop. That’s no problem – the love makes it easier to get through the rough spots. I’ve spent years aggressively growing myself to reach this point. I had no idea where I was heading. Now I know. I can’t wait to be able to focus on what’s truly important, free from the distraction of minding someone else’s business. Leave a comment

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