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Vuze Platform Privacy Notice
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- Changes and Updates to this Privacy Notice
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Like most sites, We, our analytics providers, and/or our content and ad providers may set or access cookies, web beacons & pixels on your computer (including "mobile" device). We may use such, including those for Google Analytics, to obtain information about your visits to &/or uses of our sites (sometimes referred to as a Platform, and including re-direct sites) and our offerings (including offer windows or pages that may open, including when you choose to start a download &/or installation process, and which may include interstitials or offers for Programs, services, &/or products not mentioned when you choose to learn more about or initiate a download of an offer, Program, product, or service), and other sites. We consider the interstitials/offer windows to be a page that is part of our site or Platform and covered by this Privacy Policy, unless indicated otherwise in connection with an interstitial/offer. Cookies, beacons & pixels help us, Google, partners, and ad networks understand how our visitors (you) engage with our or their properties, sites, pages, or Platforms, and other sites. They may collect information and report usage data without personally identifying you to Google, such as how often you visit this site (and other sites) and open or proceed with offers, what pages you visit when you do so, and what other sites you visited or used prior to and after coming to this and other sites (including offer windows/pages). We use the information we get from Google Analytics and our cookies, beacons & pixels to improve our sites, Platforms, offerings, and attempt to serve you more relevant ads. Although Google Analytics or we may place a cookie on your web browser or device to identify you as a unique user the next time you visit this site, or our other sites, or Platforms, the Google Analytics cookie cannot be used directly by anyone but Google, which allows us to access analytical information regarding our sites or Platforms. Google Analytics has its own Privacy Policy and currently available opt-outs. You can stop cookies by disabling or removing them, however, this might log you out of websites or change website behavior. As is the case with most websites, simply visiting the website may be your consent to the automatic placing of cookies, pixels, and/or web beacons on your device, which you may clear by clearing your browser of cookies, history, etc. (Please consult the guide for your browser on how to do this.) You may read here how Google uses data when you visit or use our or partners' sites (including offer windows or pages) and apps,. More information about what may be collected, used, and stored by Us or Google may be found elsewhere within this Privacy Policy (or Privacy Statement) as well as on Google's sites (including here & here). Google Analytics can also be used, together with some of the advertising cookies (which may be described elsewhere), to help show more relevant ads on Google properties (like Google Search) and across the web.
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Vuze does not share your personally identifiable information with other organizations for their marketing or promotional uses without your express consent. Please be aware, however, that any personally identifiable information that you voluntarily choose to display on the Vuze Platform - such as when you publish video credits or profile information - becomes publicly available and may be collected and used by others without restriction.
We may disclose User information to affiliated companies or other businesses or persons to: provide web site hosting, maintenance, and security services; fulfill orders; conduct data analysis and create reports; offer certain functionality; and assist Vuze in improving the Vuze Platform and creating new services features. We require that these parties process such information in compliance with this Privacy Notice, we authorize only a limited use of such information, and we require these parties to use reasonable confidentiality measures.
Vuze may disclose User information if required to do so by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with state and federal laws (such as U.S. Copyright law) or respond to a court order, judicial or other government subpoena, or warrant. In some cases, we may make such disclosures without providing notice to Users.
Vuze also reserves the right to disclose User information that we believe, in good faith, is appropriate or necessary to take precautions against liability; protect Vuze from fraudulent, abusive, or unlawful uses; to investigate and defend ourselves against third-party claims or allegations; to assist government enforcement agencies; to protect the security or integrity of the Vuze Platform; or to protect the rights, property, or personal safety of Vuze, our Users, or others.
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You may, of course, decline to share your personally-identifiable information with Vuze, in which case Vuze will not be able to provide to you some of the features and functionality found on the Vuze Platform. You may update, correct, or delete your user information and preferences at any time by following the directions here.
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Vuze uses commercially reasonable physical, managerial, and technical safeguards to preserve the integrity and security of your personal information. We cannot, however, ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to Vuze, and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission of information, Vuze makes commercially reasonable efforts to ensure the security of our systems. However, please note that this is not a guarantee that such information may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of our physical, technical, or managerial safeguards.
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11. Effective Date, Date Last Modified:
Privacy Notice effective as of December 13, 2006.
Revised May 11th, 2016, by including clarifying information about Google Analytics, cookies, web beacons, pixels. Effective immediately.
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Celtic, Independiente and Tottenham Hotspur ended very long winless runs, while FIFA.com's latest stats review also focuses on the 11th-hour heroics of San Jose Earthquakes and two Juventus sequences.
years and 22 matches since they last won at Manchester United in the league, Tottenham Hotspur repeated the feat on Saturday. Spurs' previous victory at Old Trafford in the English top flight came when Paul Gascoigne set up Gary Lineker to score a superb, unanswered goal in December 1989, but they had since lost 18 and drawn four of their games away to the Red Devils. Jan Vertonghen and Gareth Bale – whom United manager Sir Alex Ferguson had unwittingly referred to as Christian Bale, the Hollywood actor, before kick-off – gave Tottenham a 2-0 lead to carry in at the break. Shortly into the second period, the net incredibly rippled three times inside just 139 seconds, with Nani and Shinji Kagawa on target for United either side of a Clint Dempsey effort for Spurs. And despite fierce United pressure thereafter, 3-2 is how it remained. The result left United having lost twice in their opening six matches for only the third time in Premier League history, though on the previous two occasions they went on to win the title (1992/93 and 2002/03).
away matches without victory in the UEFA Champions League – including 19 losses – was the run Celtic ended with a pulsating 3-2 success at Spartak Moscow on Tuesday. The Bhoys' only point on their travels had been due to a 1-1 draw against a Barcelona side including Xavi, Deco, Ronaldinho and Samuel Eto'o in 2004, and they had since suffered 11 successive defeats, leaving them one short of equalling the competition's all-time unwanted record, which was ironically held by Spartak, set between 2000 and 2006. An Emmanuel Emenike brace put Spartak 2-1 up – and made him the first Nigerian to score twice in Europe's top club competition since both Julius Aghahowa and Obafemi Martins did in 2004 – but Juan Insaurralde's sending-off left Celtic with a numerical advantage. Neil Lennon's team capitalised on it, with a Dmitri Kombarov own goal and a last-gasp Georgios Samaras headed snatching them victory.
second-half stoppage-time goals in 2012: that is the record for a Major League Soccer season San Jose Earthquakes reached thanks to Steven Lenhart's 95th-minute equaliser at home to FC Dallas on Saturday. The funky-haired forward had earlier put the Quakes on level terms with a superb toe-poke from outside the box – it was their 12th equaliser or match-winner after the 82nd minute this term. However, after Matt Hedges had made it 3-2 to the visitors in the 88th minute, Lenhart headed home to extend San Jose's unbeaten run at the Buckshaw Stadium to 14 matches and ensure them a three-point lead atop of the overall standings with three rounds remaining. "We expect to score late goals," said Alan Gordon, who set up both of Lenhart's efforts. "Definitely. After they scored their third, Lenny looked at me and said, 'We're going to get this.' And I was right there with him. There was not one feeling of doubt in me. It's a will to dig deep, and reach where the other team doesn't want to reach. They thought the game was over, and it was far from over." Furthermore, Lenhart's brace moved him on to ten goals and made the Quakes the first team since Colorado Rapids in 2002 to boast three double-digit marksmen in the same campaign (Chris Wondolowski and Alan Gordon have netted 22 and 12 goals respectively for Frank Yallop's side).
consecutive draws in Europe is the streak that belongs to Juventus following their 1-1 stalemate at home to Shakhtar Donetsk on Tuesday. I Bianconeri drew all six of their group games in the 2010/11 UEFA Europa League, and after sitting out of continental competition last season, they have now draw their opening two UEFA Champions League contests (Juve drew 2-2 with Chelsea first time out). Juventus have established a much longer and more positive run on the domestic front. Indeed, Saturday's 4-1 win over visiting Roma took them on to 45 matches unbeaten in Serie A.
months and 15 matches without victory was the demoralising run Independiente, the record seven-time South American champions, brought to end on Sunday. Since a 2-0 win over Banfield on 28 April, Los Diablos Rojos (The Red Devils) had lost eight and drawn seven until a double from captain Ernesto Farias secured a 2-1 success at fellow strugglers Union in Round 9 of the Apertura. Independiente, one of Argentina's 'big five' clubs and one of only two, alongside Boca Juniors, to have never lost their top-flight status, still remain in the relegation places.

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SSD manufacturer sTec on Monday unveiled an all-SSD appliance based on industry-standard components and Microsoft's Windows Storage Server 2012 operating system.
The sTec s3000 storage appliance, unveiled at this week's Microsoft TechEd conference, is a storage appliance based on the needs of customers in such areas as oil and gas, Federal government, financial, telco, and Web 2.0 companies that depend on high-performance applications, said Ali Zadeh, chief marketing officer for Santa Ana, Calif.-based sTec, which this year has been shifting focus from OEM sales to the channel.
Among those applications are transitional databases, server virtualization, the cloud, virtual desktop infrastructure, business intelligence and high-performance computing, Zadeh said.
[Related: SSD Shipments To Double This Year, Hit 40 Percent Of Hard Drive Market By 2016]
Meeting these requirements is the goal of the sTec s3000 all-SSD appliance.
"It's a solid-state unified storage platform based on Windows Storage Server 2012," he said. "Our goal is to use commodity hardware with the Windows operating system and our own solid-state storage to create an award-winning solution."
Dennis Mueller, vice president of innovation and emerging technologies at CMT, a Santa Clara, Calif.-based solution provider, said it will be interesting to see where the sTec s3000 gains traction in the face of all the potential competition.
"I could see that fitting in smaller companies, or in pure Microsoft shops," Mueller said. "But it's hard to imagine someone choosing it over a lower-end NetApp box, or over more established SSD storage companies like Pure Storage."
The advantage of Windows Storage Server 2012 as an operating system for an all-SSD appliance comes into play in all-Microsoft shops, Mueller said. "It lets customers take advantage of their Microsoft tools," he said.
However, Mueller said, there could be issues if it is not properly managed.
"Every week, we install Windows patches," he said. "With NetApp, we patch maybe once a year. And, it's not even necessary to do that sometimes. And with clustering, NetApp solutions have no downtime. You can do failovers and upgrades in real time."
Zadeh said the Windows Storage Server 2012 operating system is ideal for businesses looking to deliver both block- and file-based storage services.
"Who has the best unified storage solution?" he said. "Microsoft. Microsoft created the file-based environment and has now added dedupe and other enterprise features."
NEXT: High Availability And Scalability With The sTec s3000


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By HANK KURZ Jr.
AP Sports Writer
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Alyssa Thomas had 27 points and 13 rebounds and No. 7 Maryland used a 26-3 run spanning the halves to blow open a close game and beat Virginia 73-44 on Sunday.
Alicia DeVaughn added 14 points and Malina Howard 12 for the Terrapins (21-4, 12-2 Atlantic Coast Conference), who led 29-25 before two free throws by DeVaughn sparked the burst 3:46 before halftime.
Ataira Franklin led Virginia (15-10, 7-7) with 21 points, but the Cavaliers lost for the fourth time in five game.
Virginia missed 16 consecutive field goals tries during the drought until Franklin's 3-pointer finally dropped 6:22 into the second half. It was the first points for Virginia since Franklin's putback with 4:06 remaining in the opening half.
Katie Rutan added 11 for Maryland, which moved into sole possession of second place in the ACC because No. 14 North Carolina lost 80-73 to No. 19 Florida State earlier in the day.
For the first 13 minutes, Virginia hung with the Terps.
Virginia trailed 23-13 until two free throws by Faith Randolph sparked a 10-2 run. Telia McCall scored inside and made a 3-pointer from the top of the key, and Franklin followed with another 3 from the right corner, prompting Terps coach Brenda Frese to call a timeout with about 7 minutes left in the half.
The Terps responded, holding the Cavaliers to one basket the rest of the way in a 12-2 run that made it 37-25 at the half. Virginia missed its last seven shots and was 10 of 31 (32.2 percent) for the half.
Thomas, who had 14 points, eight rebounds and three assists by halftime, opened the second half with a driving basket and foul-line jumper. After DeVaughn scored, Thomas hit another 12-footer in the lane, Rutan made a 3-pointer from the left corner and Thomas' free throw completed a 20-0 burst.
The Terps arrived No. 2 in the nation with a plus 15.8 rebounding differential, and their size advantage was evident from the outset. They got 22 of their 37 first-half points in the paint, outrebounded Virginia 20-13 in the opening 20 minutes and shot 55.6 percent from the field (15 of 27). Maryland finished with a 40-23 rebounding edge and shot 52.8 percent overall.
Virginia shot 26 percent (13 of 50), and was just 3 of 19 in the second half.
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Borussia Dortmund boss Jurgen Klopp has hailed his side's incredible 4-1 victory over Real Madrid and has thanked the fans for creating such as brilliant spectacle.
"To turn a negative emotion into such a thing really dwarfs everything. Without the atmosphere a game like this wouldn't have been possible," he beamed post-match.
The BVB boss was quick to quash suggestions his side have done enough to reach the final, but he has reminisced on a night that he says will live long in the memory of all involved.
"We don't have the feeling we are the favourites in the second leg. We played an exceptional game against a fantastic side. Nothing has been decided yet. But there could have been worst results. Even if we get knocked out, you cant take this night away from us." Klopp continued when talking to the official BVB website.
Dortmund fans were aggrieved just before the half as they were denied what could have been a penalty, only for Cristiano Ronaldo to lead a Real Madrid and score at the other end to level the scores at 1-1. Klopp was keen to clear up the other goals from Robert Lewandowski.
"I think it was a penalty. The third goal was so brilliant that no referee would dare to take it back. Offside? I really cant remember. there were so many goals by Lewandowski…"
All eyes are now on the return leg, which will see Jose Mourinho's side chasing a three goal deficit at the Santiago Bernabeu. The Borussians coach has made it clear however that his side will be doing anything but parking the bus when they travel to the Spanish capital.
Speaking after the game he said, "My team don't want to defend a result, they always want to push forward. Today I brought on Kehl and Grosskreutz to shore up the defence- and their first contribution was in the Real Madrid box. that speaks for itself."
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Gallery: Kristen Stweart Makes Trademark Angst Face In Vogue Italia
Kristen Stewart has cornered the market on angst face. No one does it better.
And also, no one does it more often. For those who care about this sort of thing, it might be fun to see K. Stew smile, or laugh, or make any face besides the one that looks like she's constantly taking a difficult shit. Instead, in a spread for this month's Vogue Italia, our vampire-loving heroine promotes her new role as Snow White by proving once again that she is the angstiest of them all.
All images via Vogue Italia


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Pratt & Whitney Global Service Partners Begins Construction on New Seletar Aerospace Park Facility
Pratt & Whitney Global Service Partners has begun construction on the company's new facility at Singapore's Seletar Aerospace Park. Pratt & Whitney is a United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX) company.
The new, approximately 15,000 square-meter (160,000 square-foot), manufacturing facility and office building will be the latest addition to Pratt & Whitney Global Service Partners' comprehensive suite of businesses in Singapore, with an office area housing production management, various support functions and Global Services Engineering – Asia, which provides aftermarket repair design innovation to provide airline customers optimum air-worthy, high quality, cost effective material reuse solutions. The new facility will utilize some of the most advanced technologies in the world. It is expected to be ready for initial occupancy during the first quarter of 2013.
Click here to read Pratt & Whitney's press release.


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Original URL: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/07/business_of_it/
Managing tech budgets and services
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Posted in Software, 7th June 2010 10:56 GMT
Webcast A virtualised server runs applications for every department, so which one pays for it, and how? You can purchase your IT outright, finance it, outsource it or pay as you go, but which offers the best return on investment? Does the cheapest licensing strategy always make the best financial sense?
As your employer looks to stay competitive while cutting costs, the IT department needs to justify its investments at exactly the time that the existing models of return on investment are becoming obsolete, along with the traditional methods for extracting budget for projects.
The IT department needs to identify new ways to cost-justify what it does. It can't fudge the figures or wait until it is forced to adapt. This change isn't going away, and so we need to discover new ways to budget, cost and pay for tomorrow's IT.
All of these questions and many more besides will be the feature of our latest webcast – beaming live to your desktops on 10 June at 11am.
Hosting the event will be The Register's own Tim Phillips, joined by Martin Atherton from Freeform Dynamics and Mark Taylor from Microsoft. The trio will look at how to stay competitive in an increasingly fast-moving business environment and maximise efficiencies in uncertain economic times. At the same time, they'll consider how factors such as the decoupling of hardware and software driven by virtualisation technology, and emerging financing and payment models are influencing the choices we have to solve business problems and challenging the ways we have approached technology in the past.
If you're wondering what these new technologies and services can deliver to your budget, join us. You can register for free right here.
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A friend and I are making a website for a high-school project that we could hopefully use in the future. It's a digital portfolio for our illustration and concept art. We had an idea to do this for our website, but we have no idea how. We have basic knowledge of HTML & CSS, but haven't learned Java, so we have no idea how complicated it is to do this.
Basically, I want there to be a frame, 500 x 500, for example. There're are two buttons. One of the buttons when clicked, will have content that you can scroll through fly into the frame from the right. The other button will do the same, but fly in from the left. If it helps at all, the content is going to be our art pieces, so images.
I animated the framework incase my explanation isn't helpful. Here's a gif:
I'd really appreciate at least some feedback on this. I'm not asking for the code to do it, but a general direction on how to get started with this, or if something like this already exists.


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WALNUT — Walter James Brasen, 68, of Walnut died Monday, Feb. 25, 2013, at his home in Walnut.
He was born July 9, 1944, in Chicago to Walter W. and Helen E. (Sawyer) Brasen.
He worked at ALM as an assembler until his retirement.
Surviving are two brothers, James (Kathryn) Brasen of Nashville, Tenn., and Robert (Donette) Brasen of Walnut; and several nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his parents.
Cremation rites were accorded. A memorial service will be at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Garland Funeral Home, Walnut, with the Rev. Eldon Cook, pastor of the Walnut Community Bible Church, officiating. Burial of cremains will be at 1 p.m. March 7 in Fairview Memorial Gardens in Northlake.
A time of sharing will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home.
A memorial has been established in his memory.


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RENO, Nev. -- "GO KAP," says a little boy at Silver and Blue Outfitters checkout counter.
He along with his dad, and others, waited in line patiently for their copy of the Kaepernick Edition of ''Sports Illustrated."
"We watched Kaepernick since he was a freshman. I'm a season ticket holder and he's phenomenal," says Mary Grewe, a Kaepernick fan.
"He's awesome, he's just unbelievable just the real deal," says Bunny Clark, another Kaepernick fan.
The owners of Silver and Blue say they were at a convention in Las Vegas, and while passing through the airport they saw the newest Sports Illustrated on the rack, they picked up all 60-of them.
"And we Face Booked and Tweeted, and told people we would have copies here at the store today," Mark Glodowski.
With a two-limit maximum the store nearly sold out of their copies in less than an hour.
In Reno most places have sold out of the Kaepernick Sports Illustrated.
At the airport they will get a limited shipment in on Tuesday.
Some people in town who have the magazine mailed to them swear someone is stealing it from their mailboxes.
At CBS Sports Talk Radio, host Panama says Colin Kaepernick is all anyone wants to talk about locally.
He and his friend Trey Valentine wrote a song about it.
The music is from Ted Nugent's "Cat Scratch Fever."
The words are Panama's and Valentine's.
"He's done Reno so proud, because he's just a good kid, his game is off the charts," says Panama.
And just like this year's flu, Panama predicts Kaepernick Fever will spread even farther right after the 49ers win on Sunday.


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(CNN) -- By now, both the rules and deadly consequences of NekNominate -- the online drinking game of one-upmanship that has already resulted in at least five deaths -- have gone viral. The game has players sharing videos of themselves downing boozy concoctions, usually mixed with something daringly repulsive, and challenging their friends to top the result.
In recent weeks, a new version of NekNominate has started to make the rounds, this one inviting people to do an act of good will. It has gone under many headers; some folks have reappropriated NekNominate, others call it RAKNominate (for Random Acts of Kindness). The charity-driven trend originated in South Africa, where a handful of people horrified by the drinking game decided to give it a new slant.
One of those who started the trend was Brent Lindeque, a brand activation specialist who was NekNominated by a friend. Rather than getting drunk, he decided to use his nomination to feed a homeless person.
"I'd only viewed two [NekNominate] videos. One was of a gentleman from England urinating into a cup. He added beer and drank it all down. The second was of an aggressive man who bit the head off a chicken -- a baby chicken -- and swallowed it before he drank his beer. I couldn't understand why people were putting something so ridiculous online," he recalls.
"When I was NekNominated, I wanted to do something different that could be filtered into my circle of friends. If I fed one person, hopefully the people I NekNominated would do the same," he adds.
He didn't imagine the video would get much traction beyond his circle. He was wrong. Since posting it on YouTube last month, Lindeque's video has garnered over 755,000 views. He has also attracted an additional 7,000 Twitter followers. He has since used the video as a launchpad for a social media campaign (#changeonething), a weekly radio segment and, perhaps soon, a charity foundation.
"The foundation will hopefully go live in March. It's kind of a dating site for charities, where they can have a profile and list their needs on a micro level," he explains.
So far, thousands have been inspired by his video (he estimates that he has already received over 100,000 emails from people who have continued what he started). Big brands, including Nandos and South African Breweries, have also followed suit.
"One beautiful story I was sent was from a man in England who went into a grocery store and bought a bunch of food. He saw a homeless man and gave him the food, then asked him to hold the camera while he took off a jacket his father had given to him and gave it to the man," he recalls.
The movement has struck a particular chord in South Africa, where others, oblivious to Lindeque's efforts, have taken a similar stance with NekNominations. Ashton Hayes, a digital marketing strategist, decided to use the concept to help rebuild his neighbor's house after a fire incinerated the roof.
"The fire happened in December, and by January, nothing had been done. There were a few funds that had been raised, but not enough to repair the roof, which had burned. That's when the idea came to NekNominate and help her out that way," he recalls.
He created a video profiling his neighbor, Elizabeth, who also looks after 14 orphaned children in her Cape Town home. At the end, he NekNominated all of South Africa to do their part. In two days, he'd raised the required funds -- $4,000.
One of the most touching stories he heard was of a 10-year old boy who donated the money he was saving to buy a Lego set to help Elizabeth rebuild her home. Local store Builders Warehouse was also nominated to chip in, and they responded by donating the tools to get the job done.
"The reason this works so well in South Africa is because there's so much need for this sort of thing," Hayes speculates.
"People here are looking for ways to help out, and the answers aren't always right in front of them. This gives them an excuse, and there's also a sense of urgency about it, because they have to complete the nominations within 24 hours," he says.
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DETROIT – The Wings have liked what they've seen from rookie defenseman Brian Lashoff so much that they signed him to a one-way deal for all three years at $725,000 a season.
"He's played 18 to 20 minutes a night and a lot of nights he's playing against the other team's best players," Wings general manager Ken Holland said in a phone interview. "He's been on the penalty kill. We like him. He's rangy. He's 6-foot-2, he competes hard. He's got the ability to make good outlet passes and he's 22 years of age."
He's in the final year of a deal worth $524,000 and was set to become a restricted free agent in July.
"We think he's played well enough that we see him as an NHL defenseman, certainly going forward starting next year," Holland said. "He's in the NHL this year, but he's on the last year of his entire level contract. This deal gives him some security and us a young defensemen locked up for three years that we feel is only going to get better."
Lashoff, 22, was supposed to spend the entire season in Grand Rapids, but when the blue line got decimated with injuries – Jonathan Ericsson, Jakub Kindl, Carlo Colaiacovo and Ian White – he was recalled from the Griffins on Jan. 21.
He scored a goal in his NHL debut against Columbus.
Lashoff was told earlier this month by Wings coach Mike Babcock that they had planned on sending him back to Grand Rapids, but when another injury popped up along the blue line – Brendan Smith – that decision was put on hold.
"He's well positioned," Holland said. "He makes young mistakes, but that's part of having young people. They make mistakes and they have to learn from it. We feel like he has potential."
Lashoff, who's 6-foot-3, 212 pounds, has a goal and two assists this season with four penalty minutes and a minus-4 rating in 15 games.
Lashoff, who was undrafted, played his way onto the 2010 USA World Junior team that won a gold medal.
"We invited him to training camp on a tryout," Holland said. "He kind of bounced around his first year pro between Toledo and Grand Rapids on left wing and defense.
"Last year as a second year pro he established himself as a real legitimate American League defenseman," Holland continued. "This year the plan was for him to spend the entire year in the American League, but with injuries. The good thing for us, with the work stoppage he got another half year of pro and he stepped into the NHL and has done a real great job for us."
Helm see specialist
Darren Helm saw a back specialist in New York on Monday, who thinks he may have seen something different on the MRI.
"He gave him some medication," Holland said. "We're going to see where he's at 4-5 days. When we're back in town we'll see how he's responded to the medication, Friday or Saturday."
Helm, who has played one game this season, has been on the wrong end of a rash of injuries even before the season began.
He missed the Wings' week-long training camp with a back injury.
He hit by a puck on Nov. 2 during an informal skate in Troy, breaking an orbital bone.
On March 17, he missed the final 10 regular season games with a sprained MCL. Then, in his first game back, the playoff opener against Nashville, he had tendons in his forearm sliced by a skate.
The Wings have missed Helm's speed and last season Babcock called him the best third-line center in the league.
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ATLANTA--Kayla Nolan notched her second career double-double with 10 points and 11 rebounds to lead a balanced effort as Georgia State defeated Morehead State, 61-47, Sunday at the GSU Sports Arena.
Tiffany Anderson contributed 11 points and six rebounds for the Panthers, who improved to 6-2 on the season. Cody Paulk added nine points, seven boards, three steals and two blocked shots for GSU.
"Tiffany Anderson really showed a lot of leadership today," said GSU assistant coach Adrienne Shuler. "She was aggressive, offensively and on the boards, and that generated a lot of second and third opportunities. When she plays like that, she is huge for us."
Shuler served as head coach for this game with GSU head coach Sharon Baldwin-Tener serving a one-game suspension, per Colonial Athletic Association policy, after she received two technical fouls in the Panthers' last game.
Georgia State used aggressive defense to force 21 Morehead State turnovers and limit the Eagles to 28 percent shooting from the field, including just 6-for-36 from three-point range. The Panthers also held the advantage on the boards, 50-37.
GSU led 28-18 at the half after holding the Eagles to just 6-for-29 shooting from the field and forcing 16 MSU turnovers. The Panthers led 24-8 with seven minutes to play in the first half before allowing Morehead State to close the gap with a 9-4 run.
Early in the second half, Morehead State pulled within six points at 33-27, but Georgia State quickly responded with eight straight points in less than a minute to reestablish a 14-point lead. The run was fueled by back-to-back steals in the backcourt by Kendra Long and Miranda Smith that produced easy layups. The Panthers maintained their double-digit advantage the rest of the way.
Terrice Robinson led Morehead State with 10 points, and Casey Ryans added nine points and rebounds but the Eagles fell to 1-9.
Georgia State returns to action Friday, hosting Western Carolina in a 7 p.m. tipoff at the GSU Sports Arena. To purchase tickets, call 866-GA-STATE or visit GeorgiaStateSports.com.
- The 28.1% defense today marked the fifth game of the eight this year that GSU has held the opponent under 30% shooting. GSU was No. 8 in the NCAA last Monday at 31.1 for the season and is now at 32.7 this week.
- The 47 points is the second lowest allowed this season and the fifth time GSU has held its opponent to 50 points or less.
- The Panthers are still a perfect 5-0 at home this season.
- GSU held Morehead State to 16.7 percent outside the 3-point line to lower the season average outside the arc on defense to 21.2.
- The 50-rebound game was GSU's third this year with 50 or more, upping the season average to 45.8. GSU has a +7.1 rebound advantage.
- GSU's 12 steals today are a fifth with 10 or more this year and keeps the season average in double figures at 10.4 per game.
- Andrson's double-figure game was her 14th of her career.
- Paulk's two blocked shots were No. 154 and 155 for her career as she needs just seven more to crack the Top 10 in CAA history and 11 more to tie the GSU school record for a career.
- Nolan's double-figure scorng game makes it 7 times in the 8 games this year to reach double digits. Her 11 rebounds were one shy of her personal-best 12 in the season opener at UCF this year.
- The Panthers six blocked shots today were a fifth game this year with five or more and upped the season average to 5.5 per game as GSU was in the Top 25 in the NCAA in this category, too.
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Evolution Hoax
Allah and His angels call down blessings on the Prophet. You who believe! call down blessings on him and ask for complete peace and safety for him. (Surat al-Ahzab, 56)
That means they protect him, support him, show him courtesy and love. The believers should send their blessings on him with absolute submission, trust, real love and without any doubt in their hearts, because he is a very wise and valuable human being. If someone wants to give the Prophet (saas) advice with his little wisdom, that would be an abnormal behaviour. Since he acts upon revelation and you act upon your own mind.
Allah says "Follow the Prophet." How can you feel any resistance? How can you doubt? ." The abjad calculation of this verse shows the year 1986. This is the period of Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh). Something must have happened in 1986, because the Qu'ran points out to help and support him. That means these are difficult years of Mahdism.


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|Vision Quest
|Tuesday, 01 June 2004
On the one hand, 'Vision Quest' could hardly be more formulaic or predictable. On the other hand, it is breezy and well-made, sort of like a decent TV-movie with excellent photography and an '80s all-star pop/rock soundtrack.
Louden Swain (Matthew Modine), an Oregon high school wrestling star, has just turned 18 and decides that he wants to go up against the undefeated state champion. Louden's problem is that he has to drop 23 pounds in order to be in the right weight class. At the same time, fate lands the gorgeous, tough-talking 21-year-old out-of-towner Carla (Linda Fiorentino) virtually on Louden's doorstep--at least until she can make enough money to get her car fixed. Louden becomes as fixated on Carla as he is on his wrestling goals.
That's all there is to Darryl Ponicsan's screenplay, based on a novel by Terry Davis. Although Louden's "vision quest" is ostensibly inspired by both his interest in alternative traditions (the "vision quest" is a Native American concept) his continuous search for deeper existential meaning, the characters never seem to have much originality. However, they are all oddly likable, and director Harold Becker gets consistently persuasive, agreeable performances from all members of the cast. Modine is convincingly callow yet unswervingly determined, Fiorentino is profoundly sexy (though the sex scenes themselves are virtually done in discreet silhouette) and Daphne Zuniga and Forest Whitaker both show up as two of Louden's fellow students.
Owen Roizman's camerawork is really lovely, with particularly highlights being the sepia-toned color in his shots of rivers and bridges in the opening credits montage in Chapter 2, accompanied by Journey's "Only the Young," and some magical work with reflections when Louden is on heartbroken walkabout in Chapter 24. The Tangerine Dream score registers effectively, with well-mixed songs by Foreigner, John Waite, Dio, Sammy Hagar, Quarterflash, REO Speedwagon, Red Rider, the Style Council, Don Henley and Berlin all used throughout as audio mood-setters.
One of 'Vision Quest''s greater claims to fame is the first big-screen appearance of Madonna, who shows up in Chapter 11 as a bar band chanteuse crooning two songs--"Gambler" and "Crazy for You"--at the mike while Louden's love for Carla intensifies. It's startling to see her in performance before fame and confidence took over, and it's intriguing to ponder how the entertainer's career might have gone had she let herself stay a little longer with the unfamiliar onstage persona she displays here. As for the song "Crazy for You" itself, it's repeated so much (both with and without vocals) throughout the rest of 'Vision Quest' that by the end, you may feel a bit crazy from it. The DVD has no supplemental materials, though the chapter listings on the packaging include information on where some (but not all) of the songs can be found within the film.


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2011-12: Went a career-tying four-for-six in three-pointers, finishing second in scoring against Montreat with 18 ... Scored in double-figures for the second game in a row with 14 against Western Carolina ...Was a season-high six-for-six from the free throw line against the Catamounts ... Hit a career-high 25 points off a best 11 field goals, including the gamewinning three-pointer with 7.6 seconds at Cincinnati ... Led the team in scoring against Winthrop (14) with his fifth straight double-figure scoring game ... Posted a team-leading 15 points at South Carolina ... One shy of his career-high with 24 points at VMI ... Scored 20 against High Point and 23 against Coastal Carolina ... Tied his career-high with four three-pointers against the Chanticleers ... Posted 20 points against VMI ... Started in all 29 games and was second on the team in scoring wiht 13.7 ... Earned Big South Player-of-the-Week honors Nov. 21 ... 15th in the league in scoring, 11th in field goal percentage (.439) and first in minutes played (36.38) ... Moved up to second in the PC Division I era record books in points (1,075) scoring average (11.8), free throws (193) and assists (204) ... He is in the top five in three-pointers (98), rebounds (290), steals (99) and games started (90) ...
2010-11: Started in all 31 games for PC on the season...Averaged 13.5 points while playing 1,205 total minutes, breaking his own PC Division I record for minutes in a season...Finished ranked first in the Big South Conference standings for minutes played...Led PC in scoring nine times on the season and tallied 25 double-figure scoring games, including three games with over 20 points...Scored a career-high 25 points against Winthrop on Jan. 29...Tallied 24 points in the loss against Charleston Southern on Jan. 13, including 20 second half points and three consecutive three-pointers in the last two minutes...Scored 17 points in the win over Auburn, followed by 14 points in the win over Wake Forest...Recorded a career-high seven assists at VMI on Dec. 4...Went 6-7 and shot 85.7 percent from the field at VMI on Dec. 4 and scored 22 points
2009-10: Played in all 31 games, earning 30 starts ... Finished third on the team, scoring 8.4 points per game ... Grabbed 100 rebounds and dished out 74 assists on the season ... Played a PC Division I record 1,090 minutes, playing the entire game on six occasions ... Tallied nine points and had six rebounds at Furman ... Scored 13 points and dished out a career-high six assists at Bradley ... Dropped in double figures in the win over Montreat with 11 and against High Point with 10 ... Scored a career-high 14 points at Marquette ... Had a double-double with 11 points and 10 rebounds at Coastal Carolina ... Tied his career high with 14 points at UNC Asheville ... Netted 12 points at VMI ... Scored 10 points and had a block at Winthrop ... Totaled 14 points against Gardner-Webb and 10 at High Point.
High School: Played for Peachtree Ridge H.S. ... Led his team to the Sweet 16 in the state tournament as a senior ... Helped the squad earn its second-best record in school history while averaging 20 points, eight rebounds and four assists per game during his senior campaign ... Three-year varsity memeber ... Named to the Gwinnett all-stars team his senior season ... Honorable mention all-state accolades ... Became the third student-athlete to score 1,000 points in the school's history ... Selected to the Deep South Classic all-tourney boys team as a senior ... Garnered a spot on the Boys Basketball Super Six by Gwinnett Daily Post ... Earned second-team all-region honors as a junior ... Won the Gwinnett County scholar-athlete award as a senior.
Personal: Khalid Angelo Mutakabbir was born May 20, 1991 in New York City, N.Y. ... Son of Abdul Mutakabbir and Odette Russell ... Has a sibling, Kinyumba ... Has not declared a major.
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Beginning March 12, the ACE Lines will be effected from10 p.m. until 5 a.m., suspending Eighth Avenue service between 59th Street-Columbus Circle in Manhattan and Jay Street-MetroTech in Brooklyn in both directions for four consecutive weeknights.
"With three FASTRACK's under our belts so far, we are getting a real feel for just how valuable this process is for our customers and our employees," said NYC Transit President Thomas Prendergast. "Riders see a visible difference in cleanliness along the trackway and in the stations and our workers are performing their tasks more efficiently and in a safer environment," he added.
By providing a more productive work window, Transit employees will be safer by avoiding the interruptions of repeatedly having to "clear up" for trains going by.
The next FASTRACK overnight closure will be on the Seventh Avenue 123 lines from 34th Street-Penn Station to Atlantic Avenue for four consecutive nights beginning April 9.


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Hi, there are a method that can report an error accured when a JS script is executed?
For exemple, following the Javascript: Complete Guide book, i've tryed this snippet for make practice:
var clock = document.getElementById("clock"); // The clock element
var icon = new Image(); // An image to drag
icon.src = "clock-icon.png"; // Image URL
// Display the time once every minute
function displayTime()
{ alert('lol')
var now = new Date(); // Get current time
var hrs = now.getHours(),
mins = now.getMinutes();
if (mins < 10) mins = "0" + mins;
clock.innerHTML = hrs + ":" + mins; // Display current time
setTimeout(displayTime, 60000); // Run again in 1 minute
// Make the clock draggable
// We can also do this with an HTML attribute: ...
clock.draggable = true;
// Set up drag event handlers
clock.ondragstart = function(event)
var event = event || window.event; // For IE compatability
// The dataTransfer property is key to the drag-and-drop API
var dt = event.dataTransfer;
// Tell the browser what is being dragged.
// The Date() constructor used as a function returns a timestamp string
dt.setData("Text", Date() + "\n");
// Tell the browser to drag our icon to represent the timestamp, in
// browsers that support that. Without this line, the browser may
// use an image of the clock text as the value to drag.
if (dt.setDragImage) dt.setDragImage(icon, 0, 0);
#clock { /* Make the clock look nice */
font: bold 24pt sans; background: #ddf; padding: 10px;
border: solid black 2px; border-radius: 10px;

Drag timestamps from the clock

<textarea cols=60 rows=20></textarea>
(it's not necessary to read the code)
The problem that i had was that the code was executed once opened the page, while the document was not fully loaded and "clock" object doesn't exist... So it didn't work
After i've understand that i should insert a script that launch the function once the document is ready! This means that without this function, i get into an error such "the object doesn't exist" (or something of genre), but how keep trace of it?


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Two Newfoundlanders were looking at a Sears catalogue and admiring the models.
One says to the other, 'Have you seen the beautiful girls in this catalogue?'
The second one replies, 'Yes, they are very beautiful.. And look at the price!'
The first one says, with wide eyes, 'Wow, they aren't very expensive. At this price, I'm buying one.'
The second Newfie smiles and pats him on the back. 'Good idea! Order one and if she's as beautiful as she is in the catalogue, I will get one too.'
Three weeks later, the one Newfie asks his friend, 'Did you ever receive the girl you ordered from the Sears catalogue?'
The second Newfie replies......
'No, but it shouldn't be long now. I got her clothes yesterday!'


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What's In a Name?
Check out the woahhh name video…The question "What's in a Name?" has been posed many times since Shakespeare's star-cross'd lovers dabbled in puppy love philosphy centuries ago. The answer to this age-old question tends to lie halfway between "Not Much," and "Everything." It really depends on who you ask. So when it came time to name the White Oaks Resort [...]Read more ›


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Dani Alves has claimed that Bayern Munich would have wanted to avoid Barcelona in the Champions League semi-final draw and says the teams are well matched ahead of the tie.
Barcelona will be up against a formidable foe in the form of Bayern Munich. The German giants have already won the Bundesliga with a record six games to spare, and apart from the second leg loss against Arsenal, have cruised through the qualifying stages of the esteemed Champions League.
By contrast, Barcelona have not been playing at their usual standards in recent weeks and, incredibly, will go into the match as underdogs.
The Catalan club are however also on the brink of tying up their domestic league and Alves is confident about the game at the Allianz Arena.
He told Spanish newspaper El Pais: "The people are scared but I like difficult things, I like to face the best.
"The goal we have is to reach the final and we need to show that we deserve it. If we don't, we will be out.
"We are going to have a very difficult rival in front of us. But, without doubt, if you asked them they would not have chosen Barcelona. We are equal."
Alves also remarked on the fatigue that impacts on a team after having to compete domestically in La Liga and on the European stage, especially for a club like Barcelona where only the best is accepted from players.
"The wear of playing all the games takes its toll. The physical and mental demands are huge and you arrive at the point when you are a little below your normal level.
"What we can't ever do is doubt our own chances, because at the end of the day it is everyone against Barca.
"Barca have extended a little more the greatness of this side. At the slightest opportunity everyone is waiting to say that the cycle has ended.
"If we hadn't won anything, no one would speak. But we have become a great side, one considered to be the best of the decade.
"This bothers people. Now we need to keep going because we are the ones who have achieved it and are happy."
Lionel Messi is set to play in the fixture and could make all the difference for the Catalans. Messi has not played since coming off the bench to lead Barcelona to a victory over Paris St-Germain but has travelled to Germany with the team.
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When De'ontae Smith was fatally stabbed and two friends were injured three blocks from the route of the Ravens' Super Bowl victory parade, police initially said the celebration was unrelated to the violence. As it turned out, the teen had cut school to cheer on the team.
Officials have since said they didn't know enough at the time to conclusively link the events.
The Baltimore Sun wanted to know: How were various city agencies talking about the stabbing in the minutes and hours after it took place? Were their behind-the-scenes discussions any different than their public pronouncements?
In a public records request, The Sun requested all written correspondence between the mayor's office, police and fire officials on Feb. 5. On March 8, the city sent back 89 pages of mostly emails traded between the offices.
They show a few brief exchanges between emergency responders and Mayor
Exempted from review by law, Baltimore assistant solicitor Mark J. Dimenna said, was any communication that contained "confidential opinions, deliberations, advice or recommendations" that might help city officials make decisions.
At 2:28 p.m. Feb. 5, mayor's spokesman Ryan O'Doherty asked police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi and Baltimore City Fire Department spokesman Chief Kevin Cartwright to "coordinate all incident communications" through Baltimore police's "JIC," or joint information center.
The joint information center, as defined by the Fire Department, is a clearinghouse where the city's various public information officers or spokespeople coordinate their messages to the public and media during emergencies.
It's clear that city spokespeople and police were talking to each other. O'Doherty was present with Guglielmi during the initial news conference just after the stabbing.
In subsequent emails the Sun reviewed, Baltimore police spokesman Detective Jeremy Silbert sent O'Doherty and Guglielmi news stories that began appearing online immediately after the stabbing was reported. In one of those emails, Silbert wrote of a Sun story, "This article is not correct. It says large crowds gathered downtown at the time of the stabbing for the parade. In fact, the parade had been over for awhile."
Using images from the scene and interviews with people who were nearby, The Sun reported that many who had attended the parade and subsequent celebration at M&T Bank Stadium were streaming through downtown at the time of the stabbing. The Sun's initial reports did not say the stabbing was related to the parade; once city officials made that link, The Sun reported it.
Baltimore police and the city have strongly denied any effort to play down Smith's death or distance the murder from the parade.
Cartwright reiterated that point Friday.
"I never got any specific direction or message as far as what our public affairs folks had to say to address any specific incident," he said.


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Its all about the next 2 games. Win the next 2 and we'll make the playoffs.
But to go anywhere in the playoffs, we need to close out the season with at least 2 wins.
In short, if we are serious, we need to run the table from here......
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The operative word is ambitious. The result has been nothing less than extraordinary. Launched in the spring of 2010, Children's Hospital of Orange County created a fundraising campaign with the goal of raising $125 million to fund the remodel and restoration of Orange County's premiere pediatric health facility. Last Saturday evening in Newport Beach, close to 500 guests converged upon the Island Hotel for the fifth annual CHOC Cherishes Children gala, raising some $900,000 toward the ultimate campaign goal. Despite economic concerns, the figure is up from $600,000 raised from 2011 at the gala, an astounding increase.
The new health facility is set to debut Feb. 2 in Orange and open officially late in the spring. CHOC authorities are calling it "seven stories of cutting-edge care." The new children's hospital will serve the Orange County family as one of the most advanced pediatric-care centers in the nation. In addition, the fundraising campaign, which runs through June of this year, has as part of its goal establishing an endowment that will be used to recruit the top pediatric experts in both clinical research and patient care, in affiliation with the UC Irvine School of Medicine.
The 2013 gala was chaired by Heather Madden. Heather and her husband, Jim Madden, were among the premiere underwriters for the evening, joining major corporate sponsors Disneyland Resort and Harry Winston. As an aside, the big society news in the luxury diamond world this week concerns the purchase of the Harry Winston Diamond Corporation by the Swatch Group for a reported $1.2 billion. That's a lot of sparkle.
On hand to welcome the upbeat crowd was CHOC President and CEO Kimberly Cripe, making a major announcement concerning a $27-million gift from Newport Beach resident and retired businessman Bill Holmes. CHOC will name the new tower in honor of the gift. Spotted in the crowd were executive committee members Jill Bolton, Christine Bren, David Willis, Marsha Willis, Monica Furman, Kathryn Glassmyer Cenci and Kristina and Larry Dodge. The very philanthropic Dodge family has been in both the business and social news this month facing serious financial challenges. Despite these difficulties, both Kristina and Larry were front and center supporting the goals of CHOC, as they have always championed both the health and welfare of children in the community.
The gala evening at the Island Hotel presented a lifetime achievement award to the Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange, as well as the St. Joseph Hospital of Orange. Cripe expressed heartfelt gratitude for the dedication of the sisters, who have played a pivotal role in CHOC's history over decades, supporting not only the health of sick children seeking care at the hospital but also their families at a time of tremendous need. Joining in the celebration were Janet and Carl Nolet, Geri Kate and Frank Pearce, Sandra Segerstrom Daniels, Jennifer and John Condas, Leyla and Manny Khoshbin, Stephanie Argyros and Nicole and Reed McMackin.
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Au Gratin Garlic Potatoes Recipe
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- 1/2 cup milk
- 1 can (10-3/4 ounces) condensed cheddar cheese soup, undiluted
- 1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, cubed
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1/8 teaspoon pepper
- 2 pounds potatoes, peeled and sliced
- 1 small onion, chopped
- Paprika, optional
- In a large saucepan, heat milk over medium heat until bubbles form around side of saucepan. Remove from the heat. Add the soup, cream cheese, garlic, nutmeg and pepper; stir until smooth.
- Place the potatoes and onion in a 3-qt. slow cooker. Pour the milk mixture over the potato mixture; mix well. Cover and cook on low for 6-7 hours or until potatoes are tender. Sprinkle with paprika if desired. Yield: 6-8 servings.
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"Bland. Funny texture. I've got better potato recipes. I won't be using this one again. Had to throw the whole thing out."
"This is an awesome recipe! I love the ease of it, and the ability to keep the oven free. I definatly would make this again. My only thing I have done differently is A) more pepper B) microplaned the garlic and C) to speed up cooking time I have boiled the potatoes a few minutes to get the cooking process started."
"I added ham to the layers for a main dish. Turned out a little dry, so the next time, I'll increase the milk to 1 cup."
"This was very bland. Really needs to be spiced up."
"I was not at all impressed with this. I followed recipe as written - bland city! Thank goodness, I had some shredded cheddar cheese on hand - it saved the day."


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Struggling with a voice hoarse from days of nonstop campaigning, former President Bill Clinton delivered a spirited argument for re-electing President Barack Obama, telling an audience at Scranton High School only the president's policies will create the jobs that Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is promising.
"I'm telling you, Scranton, you better listen to me," Clinton told the 2,000 gathered on the eve of Election Day. "I'm for Barack Obama, and you should be too."
Clinton arrived in Scranton after stops in Pittsburgh, Blue Bell and Philadelphia. Large numbers of Democrats live around all four stops, and Clinton was dispatched to Pennsylvania to stir up Democratic voters whose turnout is key if Obama is to make his long-standing polling lead in the state hold up today.
An Allentown Morning Call poll of voters over a three-day period ending Saturday found Obama with the support of 49 percent of likely voters and Republican nominee Mitt Romney with 46 percent. The poll surveyed 430 likely voters and has a margin of error of plus or 5 percentage points.
Clinton arrived in the school gymnasium like a conquering hero, as popular as if he were still president, but focused on re-electing the man who has the top job. Several speakers took the stage before Clinton did, but none lit up the crowd the way he did.
Clinton said he volunteered to do whatever the Obama campaign wanted, but wanted to end in Pennsylvania with the last stop being Scranton.
He stood in a gymnasium where his wife, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, spoke more than 4½ years ago during her bid for the presidency against Obama. He joked that Obama has "got a heck of a Secretary of State."
He praised Obama's response to Hurricane Sandy, saying he knew Obama had "grasped" the job of president.
Obama left the campaign trail last week to deal with the hurricane's aftermath.
"When something like this happens, we all know, 'We're all in this together' works a lot better than 'You're on your own,'" he said.
Clinton portrayed Romney as a flip-flopper, invoking the name of former President George W. Bush.
After a few boos, Clinton said he and Bush have become friends.
"He and I have these huge arguments, but I don't have to worry about him changing his position in mid-sentence," Clinton said.
He recalled Bush once saying the president is the "decider in chief." When he heard Bush say it, he knew ridicule would follow, but Bush was right, he said.
"I want Barack Obama to be the decider in chief," Clinton said.
He scolded Romney as someone who makes the wrong decisions, like saying the president should allow General Motors and Chrysler to go bankrupt and consciously running a television commercial in Ohio saying the auto bailout meant Jeeps would be built in China. After Jeep officials denied the claim, Romney claimed Obama is working with "the Italians" to move jobs to China, Clinton said.
"I'm telling you, Scranton, you better listen to me. We better defeat him because in the week after the election, he'll start coming out at the Irish and we'll be toast," he said to loud laughter.
Lines of chilly people with Obama stickers and pins stretched from the school doors to the sidewalks along Providence Road, waiting to get in to see Clinton.
Scranton resident Russell Richardson, 57, was joined by his wife, Rhonda, and 6-year-old daughter Shaela. The elder Richardsons plan to vote for Obama today, partly because he succeeded in passing health care reform.
Like many around them in line, they felt Obama needs more time to restore the economy.
"I don't know of any president in my lifetime who has been able to accomplish what they said they would in the time frame they said they would," Russell Richardson said with a smile.
"I feel he's more for the people," Rhonda Richardson added.
Archbald resident Amy McBride listed the environment as her top priority, pointing out that Hurricane Sandy shows climate change must be taken seriously.
"He at least talks about it," she said of Obama. "Romney just ignores it. ⦠I wanted Hillary to clean up the last jokester's mess, but Obama will do."
Not every person outside the school supported Obama.
Three women near the front doors quietly held signs supporting Romney. One sign stated: If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention.
One of the women, Colette Hughes, 60, of Scott Township, who owns a janitorial staffing company, said her business is why she backs Romney, who has vowed to repeal Obama's health care reform law, a big issue for her.
"Under Obama I have to be mindful of a certain cap on the number of employees and my total income," she said, referring to provisions under the law when she'll begin to pay higher costs. "(Obama) also says I am one of those who should pay my fair share."
"I feel very empowered at this stage in my life to vote for a candidate that believes in the constitution," she added, of Romney.
Clinton's visit closed a fall presidential election campaign that for the first time in memory brought none of the major presidential contenders to Northeastern Pennsylvania.
Vice President Joe Biden had been scheduled to appear last Thursday, but his visit was scrubbed amid concerns about Hurricane Sandy. Obama did not visit the region at all this year. Romney campaigned for a day in April when the outcome of the Republican primaries was still in doubt. Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan never campaigned here. Biden campaigned the day before Independence Day.


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The preliminary investigation points to speed as a contributing factor of the crash. The track where the derailment occurred has a six-degree curve and a speed limit of 30 mph. NTSB says the train speed at the time of the accident was 82 mph.
NTSB's inspection and testing of the signal system, train brakes, other mechanical equipment, as well as the track infrastructure did not identify any anomalies.
The derailment resulted in four deaths, 59 injuries and a damage estimate of $9 million. NTSB will continue its investigation and notes that the information in the preliminary report will be supplemented or corrected during the course of the investigation.


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MaryAnn wrote:Thanks for posting in memory of Stan the Man, Blue River. He was a very special baseball player and a very special man.
St. Louis has been in mourning ever since word of his passing was announced. The mood here is one of fond remembrance for all of the great memories he gave us and joyful celebration of a life well-lived!
Stan's lovely wife, Lillian, passed away at age 91, on May 3, 2012; their marriage had lasted for almost 72 years. It is nice to think that they are together again.
Also, thank you for posting the YouTube clip of Harry Caray's call of Stan's last game (1963). I was at that game in the left-field bleachers.
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L'ISLE-VERTE, Que. — Jean-Eudes Fraser did all he could to save his mother from a nursing home inferno on Thursday, but it wasn't enough.
The roof collapsed on Angeline Guichard before he could reach her, he told QMI Agency.
Four others are confirmed dead and 30 more are missing.
His mother had called him at 12:30 a.m., which was unusual.
"She said 'Come, Le Havre is on fire, I'm outside on the patio, I can't go inside, there's too much smoke. I'm outside on the patio, without my coat, I'm cold.'"
Fraser, who lives a kilometre away in this small town northeast of Quebec City, grabbed a coat for his mother, plus a stepladder.
When he arrived, he saw his mother on a third-floor balcony but his ladder only reached the second floor.
He scaled the rest of the way himself.
As smoke whirled all around them, Fraser's mother said "We'll die here."
He considered staying on the balcony to die with her.
But instead he decided to scale back to the ground because a bigger ladder had arrived — too late.
"As I went back up, the edge of the roof and the electrical wire fell on the patio," he said, breaking out in sobs.
"I couldn't save her, I couldn't save her."
Fraser blames himself.
"I should have brought my ladder and harness," he said. "I'm trained for it...but my equipment stayed in the garage."
Fraser's wife disagrees as she leans over to kiss him.
"He put his life in danger to save his mother."


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Steve Jobs and governator tout transplant reform
'I could have died'
The über-private and über-reclusive Apple CEO Steve Jobs made a rare non-keynote public appearance on Friday, joining California governor and action-film hero Arnold Schwarzenegger to promote organ-donation legislation.
The San José, California Mercury News reports that the tech world's most famous transplant recipient joined the governator at Palo Alto's Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, a few miles north of One Infinite Loop.
According to the Merc, Jobs said he had been lucky to fly to the Methodist University Hospital Transplant Institute in Memphis - presumably in his private Gulfstream V executive jet - "within a four-hour window" to receive his donated liver.
When Jobs returned from his medical leave and appeared at a September 2009 gathering of the Apple faithful in San Francisco, he said that transplant had been donated by a person in their mid-20s who had died in a car crash. At that event, he thanked the donor for "their generosity".
The Merc reported Jobs as saying in Palo Alto on Friday: "Last year, 400 other Californians died waiting. I could have died." ®
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BEVERLY — While most Australian boys grow up dreaming of rugby and cricket, Lachlan Magee, 23, grew up hoping for a chance at college basketball. This holiday season, he will be finishing that dream, playing basketball for a fourth year at Endicott College in Beverly.
Originally from Melbourne, Magee came to Endicott as a freshman in the fall of 2010. With the college credits he had earned in high school, he was able to graduate early with a business degree in May 2012.
But in order to play one final season, and to prepare for a professional life as a businessman, he immediately enrolled in Endicott's 12-month, full-time MBA program.
Between classes and the court, Magee maintains a schedule far busier than that of most college students. In his last semester as an undergraduate, he even managed to maintain an internship at a private equity firm, write a senior thesis, and work as a tutor in Endicott's writing center.
"Being a student athlete is a big commitment," said Magee. "But playing basketball has helped me learn how to manage my time well. It's given me many important skills to succeed in everything from academics to my professional life."
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A home that was formerly used as a grow house in Golden Gate Estates is now a total loss after a fire ripped through its structure Thursday.
Officials we spoke to say the home at 4880 4th Avenue SE is abandoned and nobody was inside. They could not say whether any plants were growing in the house when the fire started.
They said the home was so far back into the woods, trucks could not get back there and fire crews had to watch as the home burned.
Crews have not yet said what the cause may have been.
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Amy Hattan leads Thornton Tomasetti's corporate sustainability department, which includes meeting responsibilities of the AIA 2030 Commitment. Previously, she was COO of Fore Solutions, a green building consulting firm acquired in 2012 by Thornton Tomasetti. Amy has more than 15 years of experience managing programs and projects in the sustainability field, and in environmental communications. Previously, she was the Director of Strategic Initiatives at Second Nature in Boston, where she developed a national capacity-building program funded by the Kresge Foundation to advance green building in higher education. At Second Nature, Amy supervised the development of the award-winning web site, The Campus Green Builder. Amy was integral in the development of the Office of Sustainability at the University of New Hampshire, and served as the Campus Sustainability Coordinator for Middlebury College.
Amy has published numerous magazine articles about earth-friendly green initiatives from simple at-home tips to on-campus composting alternatives, and co-authored a guidance document with the U.S. Green Building Council on green building education. She holds a bachelor's degree in environmental conservation from the University of New Hampshire, a master's degree in journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and also a master's degree in public administration from Harvard University.


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EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. (AP) — There is one game left in the regular season for Adrian Peterson, and so much remains on the line.
First and foremost, a win on Sunday against the Green Bay Packers would put his Minnesota Vikings into the playoffs for the first time since the 2009 season.
The hallowed milestones of 2,000 yards rushing, and Eric Dickerson's single-season mark of 2,105 yards, are within reach as well. Peterson is 102 yards away from 2,000 and needs 208 against the Packers to break Dickerson's record.
He is also in the mix to become the first non-quarterback to win the MVP award since LaDainian Tomlinson in 2006, and Peterson is confident that he's going to be the one to do it.
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Esco is back after a brief hiatus. Hello everyone! While I was away, tending to the side inconvenience that is my private life, there have been a lot of speculations, accusations, counters and chat on the grapevine.
I have received emails, and tweets , asking about my whereabouts, egging me to write new articles. Stuff like, Esco where are you. Are you still alive? There are reports that someone fitting you description was seeing boarding an aircraft with a one way ticket out of blogsville.
Some of the questions I have been asked are more left-field. Stuff like: Are you stories real or fables plucked from Tales by Moonlight. How do you come up with the material? What are your plans for the future? Is this blog's relevance tied to the Nigerian nationhood experiment? Why do you put rap lyrics after each post? Why don't you the lyrics of Nigerian artists like Lord of Ajasa or Eddy Remedy? If this is a Nigerian blog, you should have used an agama lizard on your blog mast instead of an albino lion. Why use black soil for the background instead of Ankara (or Aso-ebi).
Has Esco abandoned this blog because I hear he is now the Personal Advisor/ Assistant on Blog Affairs to a State Governor, and so he is cleaning out. He has even put up a house in Lekki Phase 1 and even twitted the picture, and it trended like pictures of Cossy's boobs. In fact Esco has reportedly abandoned this blog, in search of Rueben Abati money.
Some many questions. Thank you, thank you. I will give a brief statement:
I had some much going on privately. I had actually typed out drafts for 4 super articles on my phone. However while I was downloading the twit picture of Cossy Ojiakor's bobby taylors when my phone crashed completely on me. The memory got wiped out along with the articles.
One reader had even abused me for supposedly catching the Nigeria malaise of never keeping up a good thing. True, most Nigerian businesses start misbehaving once they start raking in customers. Customer service falls and the business usually goes south. I remember a mama put place that used to be the bees' knees. The food was awesome – their stew was a work of art. Bouncy grains of rice, chunks of goat meat in a deep fried tomato broth. The owner of the business personally cooked the dishes and served the punters. She even knew all her customers by name, and even befriended their wives and girlfriends. On some days, a few regular could ask for extra meat on credit, and pay at month end. Then the Lagos massive discovered the place. The woman started raking in serious cash, and then her true colors came out. She became cocky and abrasive. She stopped cooking the food personally and hired cooks instead, as she could not bear palm-oil stain on her lace jacquard. She would seat at a corner of the joint with a tooth-pick in her mouth, counting the takings.
When I now walked in and greeted her "Madam how you dey?", she barely grunted an answer. I stopped going there, because the last time I was there, customers were fighting to wash their own plates so they could buy food. Na so?
As regard my abandonment of the blog, my answer is "never that." If I ever became a Big Time Charlie, raking in that kind of dough, I would purchase the technology to make this blog world-class. I would buy cartoon drawing equipment, as I yearn for the days of Papa Ajasco and Benbella type comics. Comic and cartoon strips would better illustrate the story of Nigeria.
Are the stories in this blog real? I refer you to the "Caveat" section of the Blog. Please peruse and revert. I will say this – the stories are based on real life, but the names have been change to protect the innocent, but shame the guilty.
Why the delay between posts? Abeg no vex. As the articles on this blog are original material, my thought processes and private life determines my output. If I have a shit day or writer's block or if the price of garri and fuel goes up, there goes any postings. Maybe I should start doing fashion, music and entertainment like all others. Ha ha.
Going forward, I require the services of blog consultants as I need advice on how I can turn this blog into a financing business. 419ers and scammers please stay away, or I will wake up at midnight to pray against you. Please any do-gooders or people with knowledge about blog marketing should hit me up via email or twitter. All suggestions are welcome. Yahoo yahoo folks please stay away.
The next questions are the ones I want to ask you, so I can get to know you better. I have a few regular readers/ commenters. Please take a sec to answer a few of the below questions.
- How did you find out about this blog? Referral, internet search or just cyber busy-body? Please expatiate.
- How often do you check for new material.
- What do you like about Literati: Satires On Nigerian Life. What pisses you off about the blog (apart from the apparent laziness of Esco)
- Where are you based? Please name country, city, state, hamlet etc. etc. (this is for marketing/ affirmative action purposes. Don't worry, I wont divulge your location to EFCC or anything)
- What is your favourite post/article so far. Why?
- If you were president of Nigeria for a day, what would you do?


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