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itwbennett writes: "In an emailed statement, Samsung offered its 'sincerest apology' for the sickness and deaths of some of its workers, vowing to compensate those affected and their families. So far there have been 26 reported victims of blood cancers who worked in Samsung's Gi-Heung and On-Yang semiconductor plants. Ten have died. Other alleged workplace-related illnesses include miscarriages, infertility, hair loss, blood disorders, kidney troubles and liver disease."


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Jóvenes y Sexys - Bruno Remixed
Hey everybody, we're coming very close to the end of our netlabel & Blogspot "era". That sounds pretty wicked, right? Well, it is. But don't mind that, for we have an entirely better and rather more interesting surprise for you guys. Oh, don't worry. We will tell you all about our "good bye" within the third surprise we have planned for you, but before that (again), let's go back to the true meaning of this post.
Our Venezuelan "panitas", Jóvenes y Sexys, are back. Were they ever gone? Not really, well, in a way, yeah. But don't get shaky, here's the update: After their "Bruno EP" release, Cheky & Loo came to Mexico, met a bunch of talented people, and somehow, they did not only end up appearing in two soundtracks (for the Mexican films "Rudo y cursi" and "Voy a explotar"), in case you were wondering, JYS just got back home from playing a few gigs in Brazil a few days ago.
Remember their last release? Well, María y José (Tijuana), pepepe (Guadalajara) and Nuuro (New York) certainly do. Don't worry if you don't. We're done with the words, anyway. All you have to know from now on is that, because of artists like Jóvenes y Sexys, we have decided to take Poni Republic to a whole other level. But please, remain tuned. Don't drop out!
Anyways, starting from this release...
Well, kind of...
OK, OK. We hate surprises; so let's just say we sort of have another Venezuelan release ready for you to enclose our official "farewell", but before that, please, go ahead and enjoy these fine tunes (and artwork)…
01 - El Reloj (El Tiempo Se Nos Va María y José Remix) DOWNLOAD
02 - Suerte, pt. 2 DOWNLOAD
03 - Gold Day (Pepepe Remix) DOWNLOAD
04 - Divine Hammer (Nuuro Re-Remake) DOWNLOAD
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This is a remix EP based on the songs originally released on "Bruno EP" (The Poni Republic, 2008).
All songs written by Ezequiel Bertho and Lorena Orlando, except "Gold Day", written by Ezequiel Bertho, Lorena Orlando & Clément Marion, and "Divine Hammer", javascript:void(0)written by Kim Deal.
Track 1: Remixed by María y José
Track 3: Remixed by Pepepe
Track 4: Reworked by Nuuro
The cover image is an intervention of the original artwork by Loocila, made by Juan José Quintanillo (San Francisco, Venezuela).
Credits for the other images:
001, 002 by Alejandro Díaz (Caracas, Venezuela)
003, 004, 005 by Andros Leal (Mexico DF, Mexico)
006 by Carmen Finol (Maracaibo, Venezuela)
007 by Demon Balooni (Soledad, Colombia)
008 by Javier Otero (Caracas, Venezuela)
009 by Juan Carlos Linares (Caracas, Venezuela)
010 by Linda Meléndez (Maracaibo, Venezuela)
011 by Luiz Méndez (Mexico DF, Mexico)
012 by Néstor Montiel (Maracaibo, Venezuela)
013 by Nicasio Andrade (Maracaibo, Venezuela)
014 by Nileida Tovar (Caracas, Venezuela)
015 by Reynaldo V. Rodríguez (Caracas, Venezuela)
016 by Rie Sánchez (Caracas, Venezuela)
017 by Stuart Haussmann (Flower Mound, Texas, USA)
018, 019 by Uxío Broullón (Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, España)
020, 021, 022 by Valentina Alvarado (Maracaibo, Venezuela)
Thanks to Antonio Jiménez, Carlos Pesina and Alex Ghersi, and to all the people who made interventions for this project, you guys rock.
Contact: firstname.lastname@example.com
Twitter: @jovenesysexys
Some rights reserved. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 2.5 License. The Poni Republic, 2010.
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This week I step out of a vehicle I loved into one of the top-selling SUVs on the market, and a vehicle that has already won a bunch of awards despite just recently going on sale. That vehicle is, of course, the 2013 Hyundai Santa Fe. My tester is the "Sport" model, which is equipped with the 2.0L turbocharged four-cylinder direct injected gasoline engine.
Also standard on the 2.0T SE Santa Fe Sport is all-wheel drive, something most SUV/crossover shoppers are looking for. The all-wheel-drive system in the Santa Fe also features a manual lock override that forces the system to stay in a 50/50 torque split; more on that later in the week.
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Drive is provided by a standard six-speed automatic transmission that offers a manual mode for added control. For most consumers, the real meat is in standard features that coddle the driver and passengers, and the Santa Fe Sport has those in spades.
Standard equipment includes black leather seating, heated front and rear seats, a heated steering wheel (which works wonderfully, by the way), dual-zone climate control, a rear-view camera, panoramic sunroof, Bluetooth, and more.
On the outside, 19-inch wheels, a front windshield wiper de-icer, twin-tip chrome exhausts and side mirror–mounted turn signal indicators finish off the Santa Fe's aggressive looks nicely.
MSRP as tested (including destination): $37,059
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Tintri Intros New VMstore Appliances
Storage startup Tintri, a developer of hybrid flash and disk appliances aimed at VMware environments, unveiled new versions of those appliances for enterprise and entry-level workloads on Tuesday. The company will start shipping its new VMstore T600 series in the fourth quarter, said Geoff Stedman, vice president of marketing for the Mountain View, Calif.-based company. The company also introduced the Tintri Global Center, a single-pane-of-glass management software for managing multiple virtual machines as one.
Tintri currently supports more than 200 customers who have over 80,000 virtual machines running on the company's hardware, according to Stedman.
"We provide storage products with zero management," he said. "We eliminate the tuning, LUNs, and so on. We let customers manage their virtual machines, and not their storage."


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October 4, 2011 > Controlled levee breach opens 630 acres to the Bay
Stimulus-Funded South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Created 40 New Jobs in San Francisco Bay Area
The California Department of Fish and Game (DFG) marked a major milestone on September 13, 2011, in the decades-long effort to restore wetlands in the San Francisco Bay. DFG's contractor conducted a controlled levee breach, the first of eight, in the Eden Landing Ecological Reserve to allow Bay waters, fish and other wildlife to return to 630 acres of former wetlands along the shore of Hayward and Union City."We've lost the overwhelming majority of our wetlands here in California. It's our responsibility to protect and restore the areas we have," said California Secretary for Natural Resources John Laird. "This project is a great example of what can be accomplished with cooperation and long-term vision. The restoration of these wetlands will provide much needed habitat for birds, fish and other wildlife, while moving California toward a healthier ecosystem."The breach of this levee, along with seven that will follow in coming weeks will open earthen berms built by salt-making companies and flood-control projects in the 19th and 20th centuries. As excavators take the last bite out of a berm along Pond E8A, inundating it, they will lay the groundwork for the re-establishment of tidal salt marshes that were eliminated by the construction of the levees.Bay waters and adjacent creek inflows introduced in September 2011 are expected to bring fish, crabs, harbor seals and other marine life as well as multitudes of native and migratory birds back into previously diked ponds. The water will also bring sediments that will settle into the pond and provide a bed for the regrowth of pickleweed, marsh gumplant, saltgrass and other native tidal marsh plants that provide habitat for the endangered California clapper rail and salt marsh harvest mouse.The opening of Ponds E8A, E9 and E8X - three former salt evaporation ponds in Eden Landing - marks the first South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project construction project completed on state-owned lands.Restoration efforts on the 630 acres were partly funded by American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) grants through the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The Eden Landing construction project created 40 jobs in addition to making a significant step toward wetlands restoration in the Bay.As of the completion of this work, the South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project has restored nearly 3,000 acres of salt ponds to tidal action in the South Bay. The project is the largest tidal wetland restoration effort on the West Coast. Its goal is to restore at least 7,500 acres to tidal marsh habitat, while also enhancing pond habitat, expanding Bay access and recreation and improving flood protection."This marsh restoration project doubles the area of the Reserve now open to the tides," said John Krause, the DFG Wildlife Biologist who manages the Reserve. "It's a very different landscape compared to five years ago."The work at the three ponds was conducted through a collaborative partnership between by DFG, NOAA, the State Coastal Conservancy, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), the Alameda County Flood Control and Water Conservation District and other local partners.NOAA has provided a total of $7.4M in ARRA funds to the South Bay Salt Pond Project to create jobs and restore habitats in and around the Bay. The funds helped not only the 630-acre Eden Landing restoration, which received $3.2M in grants but a total of 2,360 acres of project restoration work, as well as contributing to the battle against invasive Spartina, a non-native cordgrass that degrades marsh and mudflat habitat.For more information about the South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project, visit www.southbayrestoration.org.


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Gray drops first on road in loss to Orioles
BALTIMORE -- Sonny Gray rarely loses, which is why his manager isn't concerned when he does.
"I think we hold him to such a high standard that we expect him to go out there and throw a shutout almost every time," said Bob Melvin.View Full Game Coverage
BALTIMORE -- Sonny Gray rarely loses, which is why his manager isn't concerned when he does.
"I think we hold him to such a high standard that we expect him to go out there and throw a shutout almost every time," said Bob Melvin.View Full Game Coverage
On Saturday, Gray surely didn't look himself, and his A's teammates appeared out of sort, too, in a 6-3 loss to the Orioles at Camden Yards.
It was just the second loss of the season in 13 starts for the right-hander and first since April 23. It doubled as his first road loss.
Oakland's ace issued a season-high-tying four walks in a season-low 5 1/3 innings, along the way allowing a season-high five runs on just four hits.
Gray has allowed 12 earned runs in his last 18 innings. He gave up just 17 in his first 68 innings.
"I felt really good early in the game," Gray said, "And four or five hitters there, the game just kind of blew up on me. I started throwing balls, and I don't know why. I got behind a lot of hitters that inning. I basically just wasn't throwing enough quality strikes."
Gray allowed a first-inning homer to Adam Jones and was touched for three more runs in the fifth, his night ending following a one-out walk to J.J. Hardy in the sixth.
Righty Jim Johnson, pitching in Baltimore and facing his former team for the first time since being traded, proceeded to allow a two-run homer to David Lough, giving the Orioles a 6-1 lead.
"Sonny got out of his mechanics a little bit tonight and was falling real bad to the first-base side, just kind of falling off his pitches," said catcher Stephen Vogt. "He's aware of where it went wrong, and I think he'll make the adjustment and be right back on it five days from now.
"The thing is, when it goes bad for Sonny, it's still pretty good. He just lost his command for a little while there in the middle innings, and they got him, and we weren't able to recover offensively. He's a fighter and a perfectionist, so he's going to want to be that much better next time."
Gray's uncharacteristic outing coincided with a dreary offensive day for Oakland's lineup, which managed just one run in the first seven innings in advance of Kyle Blanks' pinch-hit, two-run single off righty Darren O'Day in the eighth.
But against Kevin Gausman, making just the second start of the season and seventh of his career, the A's only got a third-inning homer from Coco Crisp, collecting just three other hits in seven innings off the righty.
Crisp finished a triple shy of the cycle. Elsewhere, though, Josh Donaldson suffered the first four-strikeout game of his career, and Brandon Moss struck out twice in three hitless at-bats.
Twice the A's boarded two runners with no outs, both times coming up empty.
"You always look at those, but their guy pitched pretty well," said Melvin. "Hit 99 and started mixing up, pitching a little differently. His two-seamer is significantly different from his four-seamer in velocity and movement, and then he started throwing his slider for strikes and putting away his splitter, so you have to give him some credit."
"He was keeping us off-balance, keeping his fastball down in the zone and throwing that good split-finger off of it," added Vogt. "He got a lot of just-misses by our hitters tonight and also got us to chase, myself included."
The A's went 1-for-7 with runners in scoring position behind Gray.
"You're so used to him just putting up zeroes all the time," said Melvin. "He just got nicked up on a couple bad pitches."
Lefty Jeff Francis, pitching for just the second time since being claimed off waivers by the A's, allowed just one hit and struck out three in two innings of relief.
Jane Lee is a reporter for MLB.com. Read her blog, Major Lee-ague, and follow her on Twitter @JaneMLB.


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Though much of the natural world is discovered and understood, a few great mysteries remain. Consider the eel -- snakelike and slimy, with a row of jagged teeth. Yet aside from these fearsome qualities, we know little about its life. Where it goes, what it does, and how it dies, nobody knows. Hailed by poets as the "siren of the North Sea" and "love's arrow on Earth," this shadowy creature has fascinated researchers for centuries. And now James Prosek, artist, writer, and eminent naturalist, takes on the mystery of the eel himself, shedding light on the animal and the strange behavior it inspires in those who seek to know it.
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'Romeo and Juliet' to be Performed at Falls Park in Sioux Falls
William Shakespeare is once again bringing a classic tale to the Queen Bee Mill at Falls Park. Sioux Falls Parks and Recreation will be hosting performances of 'Romeo and Juliet'.
The play, recognized as one of the greatest tragedies of all time, will be performed by the Bare Bodkins Performance Company. The play tells the tale of two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families.
Romeo and Juliet will be performed nightly at 7 p.m. at the ruins of the Queen Bee Mill at Falls Park, July 5 through 12, 2013. All tickets are free and will be handed out each night beginning at 6 p.m. Seating is on metal bleachers and is limited. All performances are weather permitting.
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College: Claremont McKenna College
Major: Management-Engineering
Greatest Area of Academic Interest: Accounting and Math
Favorite Class in College thus far: Economics 86: Accounting for Decision Making with Professor Massoud
Why She Chose CMS Softball: The program is better than most D1 softball teams and the team is my family.
Club Softball Team: Strike Force
Favorite Book: Freakonomics
Favorite Movies: Forrest Gump, Benchwarmers, White Chicks
Favorite Quotes:
"Love the Lord with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind; Love your neighbor as yourself." –Matthew 22:37-39
"The key to life is accepting challenges." – Bette Davis
Three People She Admires: My Mom, My Nana, and My Dad
One Dream She Cherishes: Live out this poem:
"To laugh often and much;
To win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children;
To earn the appreciation of honest critics
and endure the betrayal of false friends;
To appreciate beauty,
to find the best in others;
To leave the world a bit better,
whether by a healthy child,
a garden patch
or a redeemed social condition;
To know even one life has breathed easier
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Mila Kunis, Rachel Weisz and Michelle Williams are witches. But they insist that's only for the cameras, in the fantasy drama Oz the Great and Powerful.
''Michelle plays my enemy but we had kids the same age so they had play dates, and Mila was a real firecracker, entertaining all of us between takes,'' says Weisz, 42, who is married to 007 star Daniel Craig and has a six-year-old son, Henry, from her previous relationship with director Darren Aronofsky. ''It was funny because my character hates Michelle's character so much and I'd be torturing her and they'd yell, 'Cut!' and then we'd all be sitting together laughing!''
Inspired by L. Frank Baum's 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (and the classic 1939 movie starring Judy Garland), the prequel stars James Franco as Oscar ''Oz'' Diggs, a small-time circus magician with dubious ethics who is hurled away from Kansas in a hot air balloon and ends up in the Land of Oz. When smitten young witch Theodora (Kunis) finds him and brings him into Emerald City, he meets her menacing sister Evanora (Weisz) and is forced into a battle between good and evil when they turn against him and try to trick him into killing their sister, Glinda the Good Witch (Williams).
Director Sam Raimi - best known for The Evil Dead and the previous Spider-Man franchise - admits finding Glinda was his toughest casting challenge. ''We had to believe she truly was a good soul because the audience is so smart, you can't fake that,'' he says. ''But when you meet Michelle, you look right into her eyes and you can see she has a pure heart and soul.''
The books and the characters are in the public domain, prompting Disney's ambitious attempt to launch a new franchise if this investment, estimated at $US200 million, pays off.
The blockbuster was mostly shot on soundstages in Detroit, Michigan, where elaborate sets were built to create the magical worlds of Emerald City and the Land of Oz, and the women were all strapped into harnesses at various points to fly on zip-lines. Weisz can't help smiling as she talks about playing such an over-the-top role. ''[I] thought it would be fun to be a bit more flamboyant,'' says Weisz, who won a best supporting actress Oscar in 2006 for her role in the drama The Constant Gardener. ''My mum was a really big Joan Crawford, Bette Davis and Barbara Stanwyck fan, so as a kid I saw a lot of those movies and love watching women being really fabulous villainesses.''
Williams, 32, says she wanted to find a more three-dimensional take on Glinda. ''I did a lot of geeky research,'' explains the actor nominated for three Oscars (for Brokeback Mountain, Blue Valentine and My Week with Marilyn). ''I read what Frank Baum was reading when he wrote The Wizard of Oz series and sometimes these things give you really useful information about who he was basing characters on - like his mother-in-law was one of the early suffragettes fighting for the right for women to vote. So I don't have to think Glinda is fighting to liberate Munchkins and Quadlings when I'm playing her, but when I think about trying to liberate a group of people who have a personal connection to the author, then it comes alive.''
Kunis, 29, is a little less enthusiastic talking about her inspiration for playing arguably the flashiest witch in the story, transforming midway in the film into the green Wicked Witch of the West. ''You've got to … remember you are doing an over-the-top movie and it's not like we're making Schindler's List here,'' shrugs the actor, who was nominated for a 2010 Golden Globe for her chilling supporting role in Black Swan.
''You ask me how I acted her good and bad, but it's the same person. Take the green away and she's just a woman scorned.''
In the primate of his career
Zach Braff is exactly the explosively enthusiastic and highly amusing big kid that you expect. It is a reputation that landed him his role in Oz the Great and Powerful as Finley the flying monkey sidekick to James Franco's Oz.
"Some days the phone rings and it says, 'Sam Raimi wants to speak to you in his office,''' Braff says. "That's what happened to me. I didn't even know this movie was happening. I went to his office and he said, 'I think you're funny. I need someone who can improvise.' He put on the screen a rudimentary animatic and I started riffing as the monkey. Making him a little wise-ass, making him a little funny.
''Sam started cracking up and I was like, 'This is good, keep going,' and I started improvising little quips and he hired me. Then I got to go to Oz for six months, which is really Detroit."
The comedic actor, best known for his work on hospital comedy-drama Scrubs, is more than just a joker. He directed the acclaimed indie film Garden State, and won a Grammy Award for its soundtrack. He is rather professional about being funny.
"Those people who are 'on' all the time drive me nuts," he says. "But when its time to, on set, I love to. I'd say to Sam, 'I'm going to tell you every funny thing that comes into my brain. It'll probably some days annoy you, but take what you like.' Sometimes he'd laugh his ass off … sometimes he'd be like, 'Zach, the movie's not called Finley the Great and Powerful.'"
Braff is also a self-professed film geek. "Walking on the yellow brick road was pretty cool. There were so many of those moments, where you're kind of like, 'I can't believe I'm in a ''Wizard of Oz'' movie!' I would walk around the sets while the crew was still building them because I was in geek heaven."
And like all good geeks, Braff wanted a collector's item. "I wanted that monkey puppet so bad, but I'm not going to get that," he says. "I did get a yellow brick from the road, though. They had a truck load, as you can imagine." Giles Hardie
GENRE Fantasy drama.
CRITICAL BUZZ Big stars, big budget and revamp of iconic story should attract a big crowd.
STARS James Franco, Mila Kunis, Rachel Weisz, Michelle Williams.
DIRECTOR Sam Raimi.
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- La Liga
Ronaldo spares Real blushes
Cristiano Ronaldo scored a 94th-minute penalty as Real Madrid survived a major scare to beat struggling Elche 2-1 on Wednesday night.
The Alicante side had the better of the first half but could not make the breakthrough and a Ronaldo free-kick just after half-time saw them trail. Madrid looked set to be denied right at the death though as Richmond Boakye headed winless Elche level in stoppage-time at the end of the game.
However, there was still just enough time for the visitors to find a winner and Carlos Sanchez's foul on Pepe gave Madrid the chance to do just that from the spot. And Ronaldo, who now has nine goals in his past five games, made no mistake to secure the win that sees Carlo Ancelotti's men move to within two points of joint Primera Division leaders Barcelona and Atletico Madrid.
Also on Wednesday, Sevilla eased the pressure on coach Unai Emery with a 4-1 victory over nine-man Rayo Vallecano that lifts them off the foot of the standings.
Ivan Rakitic's 17th-minute penalty put the hosts ahead and the Croatia international doubled Sevilla's advantage eight minutes into the second half as the Andalusian side chased a first league win of the season.
Rayo pulled a goal back two minutes later through Adrian Gonzalez but their hopes of getting back on terms suffered a blow in the 66th minute when they lost Alejandro Galvez to a second yellow card.
There was no way back for the visitors after that and Sevilla wrapped up the points with two goals from substitute Carlos Bacca in the final nine minutes, the second of which came against nine men after Rayo had seen Jonathan Viera shown a straight red card.
Valencia coach Miroslav Djukic also found himself in the firing line following a recent run of four successive competitive defeats but his side were celebrating back-to-back league wins after clinching a last-gasp 1-0 victory at Granada. With a disappointing game seemingly drawing to a limp conclusion, Brazilian forward Jonas struck with almost the last kick of the match as Valencia followed up their 3-1 triumph over Sevilla with another victory.
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The Butler County Commissioners on Tuesday held a work session with Juvenile Justice Administration (JJA) Administrator Ann Carpenter to discuss the cost of detaining juveniles.
The Butler County Commissioners on Tuesday held a work session with Juvenile Justice Administration (JJA) Administrator Ann Carpenter to discuss the cost of detaining juveniles.
"We are approaching 40 percent of our annual budget," said Carpenter. "We have some long term youth who are in detention."
The department's 2013 budget is $75,000.
"The first three months have been pretty ugly from a financial standpoint," said Butler County Administrator Will Johnson.
The cost of holding a juvenile in detention is around $141 per day. Since Butler County does not have a facility to hold juveniles, the county contracts with Reno County to house juvenile offenders.
Carpenter said her office works to help ensure only juveniles who really need to be placed in detention are held. She said the juveniles who are being placed in detention have severe problems.
"The victims are more likely in the home," she said. "You cannot place a juvenile back in the home when the victim resides there."
Carpenter said her department does what it can to keep juveniles out of detention if possible.
In other business, the commissioners:
• approved an amendment to the City of Douglass Neighborhood Revitalization Plan. The NRP was extended through Dec. 31, 2015.
• received Shelly Hammond and Mike Lowry of Allen, Gibbs & Houlik, L.C. for the 2012 audit review.
• approved a proposal to KDOT for weed spraying in State highway right-of-way.
• held a brief work session to discuss bridge project proposals and priorities.
• approved appointments for Term A positions and for vacant Term B and C positions on the Solid Waste Management Planning Committee.
• authorized the Department of Public Works to solicit an engineering proposal for consulting services to provide the mandatory 5-year update to the Butler County Solid Waste Management Plan.


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The snow is coming, but the Celtics won't chill.
Down two key players, including its All-Star point guard, this reinvented team has faltered but not failed — not yet. Instead, it only seems to burn hotter and brighter and become better and stronger.
Behind a raucous Garden crowd that raised the decibels to jet-engine levels, the Celtics butchered their archrival Lakers, 116-95, to win their season-high-tying sixth consecutive game Thursday.
Once again, the Celtics played unselfishly, moved the ball brilliantly and received strong nights from their veterans. Paul Pierce led the onslaught with 24 points and Kevin Garnett scored 15 points and became the 16th player in NBA history to reach the 25,000-point plateau.
"We're playing selfless and free; that's how we have to be," coach Doc Rivers said.
Boston essentially ended the game in the third quarter, when it made 16 of its 21 shots and scored 37 points, which tied its season-high mark for points in a quarter.
"Ball movement," Garnett explained. "Guys taking shots with confidence. Multiple guys touching the ball . . . We weren't thinking, we were just hitting on all cylinders. We were on attack mode that whole quarter."
The Celtics (26-23) closed that frame on a 23-7 run and entered the fourth quarter leading, 95-69, behind a roaring Garden and with a national television audience watching.
"I like these types of games," Pierce said. "You have a game that has a playoff feel to it. There's always a little extra mustard you're going to put out there when this type of setting is set up for you."
Indeed, the game had a playoff feel, of one that happened in the very same building: 2008, NBA Finals, Game 6.
In that contest, the Celtics routed the Lakers by 39 points. In this one, the Celtics led by as much as 32.
"I didn't realize we were up by so much until the end when I looked up," Pierce said.
The Lakers thought they were going to be buoyed by Dwight Howard, who started after missing three straight games with an injured right shoulder, but the All-Star center wasn't his usual self — or anything close.
He finished with 9 points and nine rebounds and fouled out in the fourth quarter.
Kobe Bryant put up a fight, with 27 points, but the game amounted to one-on-five, and even he couldn't overcome that. The Lakers clearly missed forward Pau Gasol, who is out indefinitely after tearing the plantar fascia in his right foot.
The Lakers (23-27) entered the game hot, having won 6 of 7 despite injuries and infighting. Any momentum they had ended early, when Boston built a 16-point lead in the second quarter.
Boston had six players score in double figures, including two off the bench: Jeff Green (19) and Jason Terry (15).
There's no doubt that the Celtics are becoming more comfortable in the share-the-ball, run-and-gun style they adopted with Rajon Rondo out for the season.
"When you sit back and Rondo does so many different great things for this team, you can kind of get lackadaisical, if you will," Garnett said. "It's very similar to if you have someone cooking for you and you're expecting it every day.
"[Then] all of the sudden, that someone is not there, obviously, to do that, and it's up to you to feed yourself. And all of the sudden you start making these gourmet dishes and then you have some more people over to the house, more people eating.
"[But] you never know you possessed that, unless you lost that person who was cooking.
"It's kind of like that, you know what I mean."
The Celtics built a 16-point lead in the second quarter behind ball movement and bench play.
By halftime, Boston's lead stood at 14, and the Celtics kept the margin around double digits from then on, even with Bryant pouring in points.
"It's typical Celtics basketball," Bryant said. "They all just put their hard hats on and they go out and go hard and figure things out. It always just seems like whenever their backs are against the wall, you know that's when you really see the best from them."
The Celtics had an answer for nearly every Lakers bucket, and those answers often came in the paint, where Boston held a 58-36 scoring advantage.
Rookie big man Fab Melo checked in late and scored his first bucket, and not long after, it was "Gino Time," with Garnett dancing from the bench, his night done.
The fans who yelled their throat raw started to file out just a few minutes before it ended, and the players headed toward the locker room again wearing smiles.
"Our guys just think they're good, and they're going to keep playing," Rivers said. "They didn't doubt themselves. Others did, and they should've. When you lose guys like Rondo and [Jared Sullinger], I get that.
"But the guys in the locker room, they like what they are."
What they are is a team on a roll, picking up steam and confidence. A team that reinvented itself and revived its season, one whose prospects become brighter with every game.Baxter Holmes can be reached at email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter at @BaxterHolmes.


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Rangers Sign Shin-Soo Choo
By Jeff Todd [December 21 at 11:13am CST]
TODAY, 11:34am: Choo's deal includes no opt-outs or options, tweets Jeff Passan of Yahoo Sports. It does contain a limited no-trade clause, however.
TODAY, 11:32am: Choo's deal is worth $130MM, tweets Heyman. Evan Grant of the Dallas Morning News first reported (via Twitter) that the deal was expected to land in that range.
TODAY, 11:13am: Outfielder Shin-Soo Choo has reached agreement with the Rangers on a seven-year deal for $130MM, reports Jon Heyman of CBSSports.com (via Twitter). Choo, 31, is a client of the Boras Corporation.


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Unbeaten Lookin At Lucky seeks his fourth consecutive win for trainer Bob Baffert and a spot in the starting gate for next month's Grey Goose Breeders' Cup Juvenile (gr. I) when he faces 11 juvenile rivals in the $300,000 Norfolk Stakes (gr. I) at Oak Tree's Santa Anita meet Oct. 4.


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Hi folks,
In the next few weeks I'll be buying a new laptop, it will almost certainly come with WIndows 8 'cos that's what they sell. I'd like to have it dual boot Linux & Windows; the last time I did this was back in the XP days and it was easy, but I'm wondering how easy it will be with a new bit of kit; is UEFI going to cause me grief?
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The Dysart Lions will be dedicating the "Lion in the Park" this Sunday, June 23, with a ceremony starting at 4:30 0.m. The new drinking fountain was the idea of Lion Dennis Tompkins, who saw an ad in the Lions International magazine and communicated to the board of directors that he felt the Dysart Lions should look into this for a project to provide a drinking fountain close to the playground and open shelter house.
The base cost of the Lion was $4,300 plus the plumbing and the cost of a cement pad to set it on. Lion Tompkins started the project by writing grant applications and calling on contractors to help with the project. In the end, he secured $4,300 in grants and donations from the Tama County Community Foundation, the Dysart Community Foundation, Iowa Network Services, and the Farmers Co-operative Telephone Company. Dennis also received in-kind donations from John's Landscaping to dig in the waterline to the fountain and E.C. Concrete formed and poured the cement pad for the location. Members of the local club set the Lion in place and hooked up the line to the fountain while some young playground users watched them work. As soon as the work was completed, the kids were ready to stick their heads in the Lion's mouth and have a cool drink of water!
Lions International Director Judy Hankom and District Governor-elect Donald Maynes will be on hand for the dedication ceremony as well as Mayor Pamela Thiele, members of city council and local members of the Dysart Lions Club. The public is welcome to attend this ceremony.
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The new Lions fountain complements other additions to the Dysart City Park from the Dysart Lions Club including two shelter houses, the tennis court, and the new concession stand and youth athletic equipment storage building now in use.
Following the dedication, there will be Music in the Park with Kent Aschenbrenner and the Getaway City Band. The Lions concession stand will be open with hamburgers, brats and hot dogs being grilled for this special occasion.
The cost of a delicious meal is just $5 and includes a cold drink. The meal will last from 5 to 6:30 p.m.


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Dennis Patton, horticulture agent with the K-State Johnson County Extension Service said pruning is part of an overall plant health maintenance program for trees and is good for their overall health. But contrary to popular belief, now might not be the time to prune. He answers questions about pruning in this 5 Questions.
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Just when you thought summer was over, a lovely three-day Labor Day weekend appears on the calendar to treat you to some much-needed play time.
Just when you thought summer was over, a lovely three-day Labor Day weekend appears on the calendar to treat you to some much-needed play time.
Can't get out of town?
There are some fun ways to spend a day without straying too far.
Here are a few ways for families with kids - tots, tweens or teens - to spend a holiday weekend day and still get back home in time to fire up the barbecue.
This is the ninth annual fundraiser to Support Children's Hospital Central California. The hot air balloon festival can be quite a distraction for drivers heading south on Highway 99. So, pull off, and enjoy everything this two-day event has to offer.
"We have 23 hot air balloon pilots registered so we are launching most of them and we are keeping a couple of them on the ground for tethered balloon rides," Jessica Coleman, founder of Color the Skies. "We are getting forecasts of a little bit of a Delta breeze but our pilots say it shouldn't be a problem."
But get there early Sunday for the balloon launch.
"I would suggest people get here no later than 6:30 a.m. if they want to see the balloons launch," she said. "If they want to get parked, see the balloons inflate and witness the launch, I would say 6:30 a.m. We actually open at 6 a.m."
In addition to colorful balloons dotting the skies, there will be skydivers, a synchronized kite show, onstage entertainment, a pancake breakfast, train rides, carnival rides and games.
When: 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. today and Sunday
Where: Jack Tone and River roads, Ripon
Admission: free
Parking: $5.
Information: colortheskies.com
The Stockton Community Pow-Wow Committee in Association with the University of the Pacific's Multi-Cultural Department & Native American Student Association are proud to host the 31st annual Labor Day weekend Pow-Wow event with plenty of American Indian dancing - and elaborate costumes - along with live music.
"There are many dancers competing in a dance competition. There will be some special events on Saturday such as memorials, honoring elders, a traditional meal where everyone is fed for free," said chairwoman Kandi Vargas. "Then they choose the winners of the dance competition and crown the pow-wow princess."
When: 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. today, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday
Where: University of the Pacific, 3601 Pacific Ave., Stockton
Admission: Free
Information: (209) 808-2782
Hip-hop fans will love this concert featuring New Boyz, Baby Bash, DJ Skee, MC Magic, Young Dizzy, Tino Cochino and Amanda Perez. Originally scheduled to take place at the San Joaquin County Fairgrounds at 4 p.m., the venue has been moved. The event is now taking place at 5 p.m. in the venerable Bob Hope Theatre in downtown Stockton. Tickets are still available and are on sale today at the theater box office.
When: 5 p.m. today
Where: Bob Hope Theatre
Admission: $30-$50
Information: summerfest2012.net or stocktonlive.com.
There's fun in the foothills today with the fifth annual Soap Box Derby and Fun Fair. Race cars are provided and anyone - that means kids AND adults - is allowed to participate. Registration fees go directly to the nonprofit Bear Valley Parents Group. The event also includes a petting zoo, bungee jump, climbing wall, water balloon wars, and lots of other activities for the kids. It concludes in the evening with an awards dinner. Proceeds benefit community programs.
When: 10 a.m. today
Where: Creekside Drive, Bear Valley
Admission: There is a $50 fee per person to race or $100 per family
Information: (209) 753-2334 or bearvalleysoapboxderby.com
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Earning the ENERGY STAR for 2345 Grand required significant retrofitting of building infrastructure, as well as aggressive hands-on management of the property's energy consumption. Variable frequency drives (VFDs) on all of the property's air handling units allow their operation to coincide closely with actual demand, while outside air economizer capabilities enable 2345 Grand to utilize outside air for cooling when conditions permit. In addition, lighting in the building and its parking structure has been converted to high-efficiency T-8 lamps with electronic ballasts. On the management side, a building management system allows the control and daily monitoring of electricity and chilled water usage, and a direct digital control system gives property management the ability to control specific HVAC functions--for example, the use of a pressurization system to warm the building in cool weather.
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Los Angeles Times: Housing bill heads to Senate; Bush withdraws veto threat
By Richard Simon
WASHINGTON — The House approved a sweeping plan Wednesday to ease the country's most serious housing crisis since the Great Depression by providing aid to homeowners facing foreclosure and a federal backstop for struggling mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
In a sign of election-year anxiety over the economy, the White House dropped its veto threat and signaled that President Bush would sign the bill, despite his opposition to a provision to provide $4 billion to communities to buy and fix up vacant properties.
Senate approval could come by the end of the week.
'This is the most important piece of housing legislation in a generation,' said Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.).
The measure seeks to stave off foreclosure for 400,000 or more homeowners in part by allowing them to refinance into lower-cost government-insured mortgages, provided lenders agree to take a loss.
It also includes a plan by Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson to bolster confidence in Fannie and Freddie by allowing the government to temporarily increase its lending to the federally chartered companies and to buy their stock, if necessary.
Another provision seeks to stimulate the housing market with about $15 billion in tax breaks, including a tax credit of as much as $7,500 for first-time home-buyers.
Of interest to California and other areas with high housing costs, it would permanently raise the cap on mortgages that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac can buy or guarantee to $625,500.
'This will begin to lay the groundwork for a turnaround in the housing market and hopefully in the broader economy as well,' said House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.), a chief architect of the bill.
The 272-152 House vote came a day after a report that a record number of Californians lost their homes in foreclosures in the last three months.
The economy has become a top presidential campaign issue. Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain each expressed support for the housing bill.
Obama said the bill should be followed by approval of a second economic stimulus measure of 'at least $50 billion.' McCain economic advisor Douglas Holtz-Eakin said the housing bill wasn't ideal, but 'the need for timely action is clear.'
The vote laid bare divisions among Republicans as members came under pressure from the White House and business groups to support the measure and set aside their concern about its potential cost to taxpayers.
Among House Republicans, 45 voted for the bill and 149 against it. All but three Democrats voted in favor.
'Just because the housing market has tumbled doesn't mean we should capriciously finance a big fat government bailout,' said Rep. Sam Johnson (R-Texas).
House Republican leader John Boehner of Ohio expressed disappointment that the president would sign a 'multibillion-dollar bailout for scam artists and speculative lenders.'
But Rep. Gary Miller (R-Diamond Bar), who supported the bill, said it would counter perceptions that Freddie or Fannie is in trouble.
'We needed to eliminate any perception of risk associated with those entities,' he said. 'I don't think they're ever going to need the help, but we're there if they do, and if they do, they've got to pay us back.'
'The cost of inaction is far too great,' said Rep. Mary Bono Mack (R-Palm Springs), who also voted for the measure.
The other California Republicans who voted for the measure are Ken Calvert of Corona, John Campbell of Newport Beach, David Dreier of San Dimas, Elton Gallegly of Simi Valley, Duncan Hunter of Alpine, Jerry Lewis of Redlands, Dan Lungren of Gold River, and Howard P. 'Buck' McKeon of Santa Clarita.
All of the California Democrats supported it.
The Congressional Budget Office has said that Fannie and Freddie stand a "significant chance — probably better than 50%" of weathering the housing crisis without resorting to the government rescue plan, but that if there is a bailout, it could cost taxpayers $25 billion.
A memo issued by the office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) warned of dire consequences if Fannie and Freddie failed.
'Money for new mortgages would dry up,' the memo said. 'Home prices, already falling, would collapse. More homeowners would default.' It also could lead to new bank failures and a 'deep recession,' the memo said.
'I must commend the president — I've never thanked him for anything,' said Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Los Angeles), praising Bush for withdrawing his veto threat.
The White House had objected to the $4 billion slated for communities to buy foreclosed property, calling it a bailout for lenders and speculators. But the provision's supporters said it would prevent neighborhood blight that can drive down housing prices and reduce tax revenue.
However, Bush dropped his opposition to that provision after concluding that the need for action is urgent, White House officials said.
The bill would create a new regulator, the Federal Housing Finance Agency, to oversee Fannie and Freddie. It would have the power to limit the compensation of the companies' executives, a source of congressional anger.
Fannie Mae's chief executive and president, Daniel Mudd, last year received compensation valued at $12.2 million, including a $2.2-million bonus. Freddie Mac Chief Executive Richard Syron received $10.5 million last year, including salary, stock, options and bonuses. The companies, though federally chartered, are private entities.
Industry executives applauded the House action, but cautioned that it wouldn't solve all problems.
Kieran P. Quinn, chairman of the Mortgage Bankers Assn., said the measure would 'help stabilize the mortgage market, stop the downward spiral of home prices in parts of this country and provide additional tools for lenders to work with borrowers to avoid foreclosure whenever possible.'
Mick Pattison, chief executive of Barratt American, a home builder based in Carlsbad, said 'anything to stop foreclosures' would be a welcome move, but the relief would be late arriving to a market that has struggled for months.
'Quite honestly, it should have been done a year ago,' he said.
Pattison emphasized that the near-term outlook remained grim. 'Nobody has confidence when gas is $5 a gallon and the value of your house is going down every month.'


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Hey again, guys. It's been QUITE some time since I last posted here. Sorry, had been busy with quite a lot of things lately. I did drop by at times but rarely ever posted. Sorry about that..
Well, the news about One Down, isn't a good one. He's growing old and got sick a lot lately. In the beginning of summer, he had tumor like thing on the side of neck and bled profusely. He visited the vet quite a lot. His healing was slow because of the humid and hot weather. He wouldn't let the bandage stay on. After he finally recovered properly, he became the same old playful One Down again. But, then yesterday, our manservant went into the balcony and found One Down bleeding from the side of his neck. There was a hole like wound. One Down wouldn't let himself be touched. He soon became weak and was taken off to the doctor as soon as it could be possible. I had to attend a language class and then when I returned home, I was studying with my mother when One Down returned from the doctor. My cousin called me and asked me how I was and stuff like that. Her chicken had to visit the doctor so it went along with One Down, so, my cousin knew what One Down's reports were. She then told me One Down wasn't going to survive and that he had cancer and so she was like "Aren't you going to cry?" and "What're you going to do now?" At first I thought she had heard some exaggerated news. After the phone call, I rushed outside and went through his reports. He had some cancer or tumor or something of the jaw, I couldn't quite understand it. but, it said that the chance of survival was 20%. :'( T_T At first I couldn't quite absorb what I had read, but, after thinking a little deeply, and realizing there won't be a goofy eared little munchkin around soon, I burst into tears. There won't be that cute little doggy on the other side of the window door, giving me a high five with his wee little paw. :( :( There are tears in my eyes even now. I've been in a bad mood lately and couldn't even study properly. But, I'll keep on praying with all my heart because there is still a 20% chance of survival. There is still hope, so, please pray for One Down's health and life as well. God bless this dear one. Aameen!! :love:
Sorry for not posting at all for so long and then coming back with such bad news. :( I'll try coming online whenever possible and will try posting more often as well..


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History Day to be discussed on KZOO radioUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
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Posted: Feb 2, 2010
History Day will be the topic of discussion on "Thinking Out Loud," an issues-oriented talk-story community forum on AM 1210 KZOO. The show airs on Monday, February 8, 2010, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Host George Tanabe, Emeritus Professor of Religion, University of Hawaii at Mānoa, and Jane Silva, Hawaii History Day Coordinator, will talk about History Day, a program of the Hawaiʻi Council for the Humanities, that brings history into the classrooms for students in grades 4 through 12 as they do research and develop essays, displays, documentaries, living history presentations, and websites.
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Gianni is sixty. He is retired but has not become lazy for all that. In fact he is a helpful fellow who gives a hand to all those who need one: shopping for his wife, walking the pretty neighbor's dog, and so on. Everybody likes Gianni, but is it for the right reasons? Doesn't his wife profit by the situation (she still works so it is only logical that Gianni do all the chores)? Isn't he subject to the excruciating whims of his rich mother?… Sure, everybody LIKES Gianni, but who LOVES him? Agreed, being kind to them, he is the ladies pet, but he does not attract them anymore. That is why, when his macho lawyer friend Alfonso blames him for not having young mistresses "like every other senior Italian male", Gianni, who is beginning to ask himself questions about what it is like to become old, starts chasing dames.


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Just listened to the podcast on WTKA recruiting roundup.... and Sam Webb said to remember what he saying that there is a good chance there will be a surprise top recruit next few weeks showing up to the game, that would "shock" everyone. He went on to say that he is not allowed to disclose who it is, at the behest of the recruit himself. Sam said it is not Sammy Watkins.
And if I recall, that Clinton-Dix accompanied Hart on his last trip to Ann Arbor, that Dix would not give permission to beat writer (I forgot who it was but I think it was Sam again) something along the lines of ''you better not report i'm here".
Putting two and two together, my money would be on Clinton-Dix who is this recruit Sam is not allowed to reveal.


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For a small venue, Northampton's Pleasant Street Theater certainly manages to get a lot done. With just two theaters—and one of them with fewer than 50 seats—the venerable house still manages to squeeze in midnight shows, baby-friendly matinees, and special screenings among the usual fare: those hard-to-find independent and studio releases that have provided the neighborhood theater with an enthusiastic audience for decades. If anything, the theater has only continued to expand its offerings.
This week Pleasant Street brings a lot to the table, but first, a mea culpa: when we went to press last week, I fully expected We Need To Talk About Kevin—one of the year's most hard-hitting films—to be screening by the weekend. It was not. It's now due to open at Pleasant Street on March 30, and while I won't recap the story (last week's column can be found at valleyadvocate.com), the film is certainly worth seeking out. In the meantime, we look at some of the other films screening this week at the theater.
Friends With Kids is the film that is being sold—rather misleadingly—as a follow-up to Bridesmaids. While it does reunite a good chunk of that film's cast (Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Jon Hamm, and Chris O'Dowd are all on board), it is a film all its own. Written and directed by Jennifer Westfeldt (who played the title role in Kissing Jessica Stein a decade ago), it spins a modern tale of love, friendship, and family that finds a social circle's last unwed pair deciding to have a child together—but still date other people.
In Darkness, from Polish director Agnieszka Holland, is a more somber offering. Based on the true story of Leopold Socha, it shares a remarkable history from one of our darkest times. Socha, a sewer worker and small-time criminal in Nazi-occupied Poland, stumbles into what he at first views as merely a money-making scheme: hiding the ghetto's Jews in the maze of the sewer network. But great evil can breed unlikely bonds, and it isn't long before Socha finds himself protecting the hunted for more noble reasons.
Also at PST is Pariah, a coming-of-age story co-presented by the Out! For Reel LGBT Film Series. Director Dee Rees' film focuses on a young African-American woman living in Brooklyn with her parents. A good student and a budding poet, Alike (Adepero Oduye) is balancing two shifts in her family's landscape: the strained state of her parents' marriage, and her own embrace of a lesbian identity. Pushed by her mother to befriend a colleague's daughter, Alike finds herself wondering who will make the best confidante.
And finally, Pleasant Street's Midnight Movie series continues with The Beyond, a classic of the Italian strain of horror films. From director Lucio Fulci—he also made, I kid you not, an earlier film called Don't Torture a Duckling—this film is about a New Orleans hotel built upon one of the "seven doors of death," which is a decided downer from a real estate point of view. Murders and other mayhem ensue, along with a spine-tingling soundtrack from Fabrio Frizzi.
Also this week: the Pioneer Valley Jewish Film Festival wraps up for another year with a pair of films showing on Thursday, March 29. At 7 p.m. in Smith College's Wright Hall, Avi Nesher's The Matchmaker screens. The "dramatic comedy" follows young Arik through Haifa in 1968 as his work for a local matchmaker introduces him to a colorful cast of characters.
At 7:30 the same day, the 2010 film Sarah's Key screens at Springfield College's Marsh Chapel. Julia Jarmond stars as an American journalist writing about an infamous mass arrest of Jews in Nazi-occupied France: the "Vel' d'Hiv Roundup" of 1942. In the course of her research, she discovers that the apartment she and her husband plan to inhabit was originally acquired by his family when its Jewish owners were deported decades earlier. Wrestling with her conscience, she resolves to discover the fate of the original occupants—whatever the result.
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Shakespeare's Henry V
The Middletown Township Public Library will host the Next Stage Ensemble production of Henry V on Saturday, July 27, 2013, beginning at 2:00 p.m. The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey's Next Stage Ensemble fosters the work of early career actors and trains them in ensemble-based performance techniques. Participants work on a fully developed production of an abridged classic play. Acting as "ambassadors" of The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey during the summer months, the Next Stage Ensemble brings theatre to communities throughout New Jersey, including libraries, retirement homes, and community centers. Shakespeare's Henry V, written around 1599, tells the story of King Henry V of England, focusing on events immediately before and after the Battle of Agincourt (1415) during the Hundred Years' War. Victory looks uncertain, and the young king's heroic character emerges in his decision to wander around the English camp at night, in disguise, so as to comfort his soldiers and determine what they really think of him. He agonizes about the moral burden of being king, noting that a king is only a man. Before the battle, Henry rallies his troops with the famous St Crispin's Day Speech. The play will be performed in the library's Community Room at 55 New Monmouth Road, Middletown, NJ 07748. Funding for library programs comes from the generous support of the Middletown Township Public Library Foundation, Inc.
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Through their involvement in a variety of outreach programs and non-profit organizations, Angels Baseball has proven to be a valuable member of the surrounding community. From laying down the foundation one brick at a time with the Angels Brick Program to helping fund local and national youth organizations, the Angels Baseball Foundation focuses on initiatives aimed to create and improve Education, Healthcare, Arts & Sciences, and Community related youth programs throughout the region, in addition to providing children the opportunity to experience the great game of baseball and its countless positive attributes.
Since its inception in 2004, the Angels Baseball Foundation has awarded many grants to worthy organizations throughout the community, ranging from music programs to at-risk youth shelters. In 2006, the Angels Baseball Foundation established the Angels Scholars program and annually provides partial scholarships to academically talented, financially disadvantaged public middle school students in Orange County upon their acceptance into a four year college.
The Angels work with various groups that promote the health of the community through awareness, treatment and research programs. The club teams with many healthcare organizations with a common goal of improving the lives of others. The Foundation also takes great pride in supporting nation-wide youth programs such as the Boys & Girls Clubs as well as providing financial assistance to youth baseball clinics, camps and recreational programs that promote the game of baseball and softball. Together with the Angels Baseball Foundation, these local and national organizations help shape the lives of thousands and, in many cases, help nurture the hopes and dreams of the countless youths involved.
The majority of the funding the Angels Baseball Foundation receives comes from team fundraisers and donations from local citizens and private organizations. By simply donating $35 to the Angels Baseball Foundation, fans have the opportunity to post a birthday, anniversary, or welcome message during a game on the Angel Vision Board. One can become a permanent part of Angel Stadium of Anaheim by purchasing a personalized brick for $104 that will be placed at the stadium's main entrance.
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What's in the Water? State Monitors Aquatic Life
Valley City's upgraded water treatment plant will eliminate sulfates from the city's drinking water, but state officials are still monitoring aquatic life in the Sheyenne River.
Gov. Jack Dalrymple recently suspended the sulfate limits in the Sheyenne River to allow the newly constructed Devils Lake East-End Outlet to operate, draining high sulfate water into the Sheyenne River. Devils Lake has grown from approximately 44,000 acres in the early 1990s to over 200,000 acres over the past two decades.
State Engineer Todd Sando said the state has been conducting water testing since the East-end Outlet project began.
"We tested to make sure the water quality in East Devils Lake would not affect the aquatic life in the Tolna Coulee and Baldhill Dam," Sando said. "It's ongoing, what we're taking looks at. The biggest thing is monitoring the water quality and all the chemistry and really set some guidelines for aquatic life."
Dalrymple said the state has done past studies on fish, mussels and other various types of aquatic life and how they respond to different levels of sulfates.
"A lot of study has gone into this, but basically our health department – people who are very responsible and very technical – and EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) say that for shorter periods of time, like a few years, 750 will not have a significant adverse effect on the river and on aquatic life," Dalrymple said. "A permanent level like that eventually has long-term effects but in the short term, you would not have severe damaging effects."
Sando said the Sheyenne River historically has had sulfate levels in the range of 250 to 300 milligrams per liter. Last year the Governor had extended the sulfate limits to 750 mg/l and the state provided funding for the $21 million water treatment plant, as Valley City relies on the river for 60 percent of its drinking water. The naturally occurring pollutants have a laxative effect on humans when ingested.
The Governor said years of flooding in the Devils Lake region have devastated thousands of people, and if the lake were to overflow catastrophically, the effects downstream would be disastrous.
"Last year, about this time of year, June of 2011, we really had to make it clear that we were within one wet season of Devils Lake potentially over flowing, and after talking about that for 10-20 years, we felt that we were at that point where that was a realistic possibility," said Dalrymple.
Devils Lake's elevation has reduced from its June 27, 2011 peak of 1,454.4 feet above mean sea level to 1,452.4 feet, but Dalrymple said more water needs to come off the lake to provide freeboard for= a possible surge of water from the upper Devils Lake Basin.
"That's a huge, huge improvement; that's a tremendous amount of water and everybody's beginning to breathe a little bit easier, But, never the less, at 1,452.4, we are still within a couple of big wet years from being back at that overflow level – not low enough yet to relax," said Dalrymple.


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By Toni Clarke
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Tuesday it has approved Bayer AG's drug to treat two types of pulmonary hypertension.
The drug, Adempas, also known as riociguat, is designed to treat thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension, a rare disease typically caused by blood clots that restrict the flow of blood from the heart to the lungs.
It is also designed to treat pulmonary arterial hypertension, in which arteries of the lungs constrict, forcing the heart to work harder. Symptoms of both conditions are similar and include shortness of breath, fatigue, weakness and potential heart failure.
The drug will carry a boxed warning, the most serious possible, against use in pregnant women due to the risk of harming the fetus. All female patients must be enrolled in a risk mitigation program, comply with pregnancy testing and be counseled on the need for contraception.
Prescribers will be required to be certified by enrolling in the program, and pharmacies will only be able to dispense Adempas to patients eligible to receive it under the risk mitigation program.
Adempas belongs to a class of drugs known as soluble guanylate cyclase stimulators that help arteries relax to increase blood flow and decrease blood pressure. It is designed to improve the ability of patients to exercise.
The FDA had initially suggested the drug be approved at doses lower than the maximum 2.5 milligram dose proposed by Bayer, arguing that a starting dose of 0.5 milligram and maximum dose of 1.5 milligrams three times a day would confer the same benefit as the higher dose with a reduced risk of side effects, particularly low blood pressure.
But a panel of outside advisors to the FDA disagreed and recommended approving the drug with a 2.5-milligram limit, saying they wanted as many options as possible and that decisions on dosing should be left to physicians. In approving the drug, the FDA did not restrict the maximum dose to 1.5 milligrams.
(Editing by Bob Burgdorfer)


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Melt Bar & Grilled, a Cleveland-based grilled-cheese sandwich chain with a cult following, has opened its first Columbus restaurant. Melt opened at 840 N. High St. on Friday, hanging out a shingle with its signature logo: a piece of bread with pirate-style crossbones behind it.
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Melt Bar & Grilled, a Cleveland-based grilled-cheese sandwich chain with a cult following, has opened its first Columbus restaurant.
Melt opened at 840 N. High St. on Friday, hanging out a shingle with its signature logo: a piece of bread with pirate-style crossbones behind it.
Co-owner Matt Fish said he hopes this will be just the first in Columbus, joining the four in the Cleveland area.
"I am nervous, but we had to take the plunge. That's just part of growing," Fish said. "We want to become a regional restaurant group and open a couple more in Columbus, but we have to start with one and make that one the best we can."
Melt's menu features signature grilled cheese sandwiches with exotic stuffings such as potato pirogies, fried eggs, sun-dried tomato pesto, pulled pork or spicy curry chicken. The place also serves hamburgers and desserts, and has a full bar complete with a signature cocktail list, 40 craft beers on tap and another 40 in bottles.
The Melt also offers a challenge: the monster grilled cheese, a 5-pound plate of food - more than 3 pounds of it is cheese - with 13 cheeses, three slices of bread, french fries and coleslaw. Any patron who can finish without help, or a trip to the bathroom, wins a Melt T-shirt or pint glass, a $10 gift card and gets his picture posted in the online Melt Challenge Hall of Fame.
"The menu will be exactly the same as our stores in Cleveland," Fish said.
That menu changes as the seasons change. The winter menu coincides with the Columbus location's opening, so that will serve as local diners' introduction to the chain's offerings.
Melt's grilled cheese sandwiches have garnered such a following that the chain has created a club and discount program for diners sporting a Melt tattoo. The chain's website features a gallery of more than 400 customers and their Melt tattoos. That tattoo, by the way, nets you 25 percent off for life at any Melt restaurant.
Melt had been looking for locations in Columbus for nearly three years when this space opened up, Fish said. The N. High Street location is really what persuaded Melt's owners to take the plunge.
"We'd been casually looking, then this space practically fell in our lap," Fish said. "This development at High and Hubbard was just getting off the ground, and the developers contacted us. They had gone to our restaurants and were looking for an anchor tenant, a signature place that was also homegrown."
They signed the lease six months later, which was about a year ago.
"We knew we wanted to be in Columbus and in the Short North, and this was a new building with a 240-space parking garage. We knew an opportunity like this would probably never happen again in my lifetime," Fish said.
The only hitch: The space was a raw, unfinished shell. It even had a dirt floor. Construction lasted about three months. Now, the 5,400-square-foot space seats up to 140 and looks like other Melts - cozy and lived-in, with bright walls covered in posters and photos.
If the Short North restaurant works well, Fish plans to open more in Columbus.
"I don't want to get too ahead of myself. We don't have a timeline," he said. "We are focused on making sure the first store really turns out great and impresses the neighborhood. We need to build a following, then we'll see where our customers are coming from. If they are coming from the suburbs, we'll look at bringing Melt to them. Our guests will determine where our next move is."Off the menu
The Sycamore, 262 E. Sycamore St. in German Village, opened on Nov. 1. The casual restaurant is owned by Chris Crader, the man behind Harvest Pizzeria in German Village. Crader also plans to open Harvest Bar & Kitchen in Clintonville, at the former Mozart's Bakery, 2885 N. High St., in January.Obit file
• Commonwealth Sandwich Bar, 1437 N. High St., appears to be closed. A message left at the listed phone number said the restaurant would be closed for repairs on Oct. 2, but it appears that it has not reopened. Commonwealth co-owner Lisa Edge was set to open a new restaurant, White Rabbit, this fall, which also has yet to open. The White Rabbit website still stands, but its Facebook and Twitter feeds are gone. Edge has not replied to requests for comment.
• W.G. Grinders, 250 E. Broad St., has closed. It is no longer listed on the company website, and the listed number has been disconnected.
Dispatch restaurant columnist Denise Trowbridge can be reached at email@example.com.


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Unlike the Orioles or the former Baltimore Colts, I can say something about the Washington Capitals that I literally can't say about those two Baltimore sports teams.
I've seen every member of the Washington Capitals play hockey.
That's right — since the Caps started in the NHL back in 1974-75, every single player who has ever donned the red, white and blue has been seen by my eyes.
That doesn't get me much, of course. Actually, being a fan of the Caps has produced nothing but heartache, mainly, since the team has only reached the Stanley Cup Finals once in their history and the result in the spring of 1998 was a 4-0 series whitewashing at the hands of the Detroit Red Wings.
Other than that, there's been a lot of losing, a lot of disappointment and some memorable post-season collapses.
That said — the organization has also had its fair share of outstanding players. In fact, for this week's Sweet 16 list, my job was to rank the Caps' all-time best sixteen. And doing so gave me the chance to skate down memory lane. Honestly, a few of the guys who made the list were much better than I remembered them to be.
Let's get it started by going way back in time — back when then Caps REALLY stunk. And this guy, actually, turned out to be the first REAL hockey player the Capitals ever had on their team.
16. Dennis Maruk —
He only played five seasons for the Caps, but Maruk produced 182 goals in D.C. in 343 games, averaging better than a point-per-game with 431 total points. Still ranks in the top 10 in several offensive categories including goals, points and power play goals.
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Friday, September 17, 2010
Two-Minute Drill
* Think the fight to preserve the M/OSU game was the first time Michigan fans had to rise up to strike down a bad idea? Wrong. MVictors uncovers a letter to the Daily from 1910 (yes, 1910) written by a 'Senior' upset that the band was no longer playing The Victors before each game. Great find!
* What is the UMass blogosphere saying about the game? Here you go. My favorite part -- the poll asking folks to vote for their predictions on the game tomorrow. The choices range from "Michigan by a bazillion" to "UMass by 21+." Three percent of voters picked that final box. Now, normally I would laugh and laugh and laugh. Mock, even. And while I don't think in a million years that could happen, there was this game three years ago...
* Finally, you're never too young to start getting ready for The Game...
Thanks to those already starting to email suggestions, tips, etc. to us here at MZone 2.0: The MZone Strikes Back! Much appreciated! (Plus it's a hell of a lot easier than having to come up with this crap ourselves.)
12 comments:
- CdubU said...
Have you heard this yet?
Here's to you Denard Robinson sung to tune of Here's to you Mrs. Robinson
Have you heard this yet???
- September 17, 2010 2:04 PM
- Andy said...
If we lose this game by more than 21 points, I would be in favor of shutting down the football program. Forever.
- September 17, 2010 2:13 PM
- Andy said...
Oh, CdubU. Cute song, but we don't link to the FDFP.
- September 17, 2010 2:15 PM
- MaizeNBlueJ said...
Here's a video that I made in response to "damefan1" on YouTube. I'm sure you guys have heard of him. Feel free to use it if you like:
A Humble Rebuttal to damefan1
- September 17, 2010 2:45 PM
- plooder said...
if that little girl had any integrity she would have tried knocking the wall down while the boy was watching.
- September 17, 2010 3:05 PM
- phil said...
Plooder - do not lay the blame on that brillant female genius. Seeing the boy is a tUOS fan, the block castle collapsed on its own due to the kids poor engineering skills. Too bad they cut the video before the boy set fire to a couch.
- September 17, 2010 4:21 PM
- whetstonebuck said...
My take was the Michigan kid ain't got sand.
- September 17, 2010 4:25 PM
- Mikoyan said...
I figured out why Denard is so good....He's actually a predator...Look at the dreads....He can cloak just before someone is about to tackle him...
- September 17, 2010 10:30 PM
- Yost said...
Genius, Mik. Andy, I smell Photoshop opportunity!
- September 18, 2010 12:11 AM
- Mikoyan said...
The idea isn't quite mine though. I remember when we were watching the Steelers Super Bowl a few years ago and someone made the comment that Troy Polamalu was like a predator. And if I recall Matt Hasselbeck must have felt like that.
- September 18, 2010 12:13 AM
- Mikoyan said...
A pretty cool article someone posted on a photography blog.
- September 18, 2010 12:54 AM
- ChicagoWolverine said...
Is it just me or does it sound like UMass is coming for the band and the football team is just a bonus?
- September 18, 2010 1:31 AM